Series
LIAS China Seminar
The China Seminars are organized throughout the academic year.
Previous seminars
Daoist Lived Religion from Epigraphic and Archeological Materials
Graduation Pieces: Studying at the Hangzhou National Art School, 1928–1937
Women Artists in Twentieth-Century China: A Prehistory of the Contemporary
Demons, Monks, and Merchants: Fate and Individual Agency in Ming Vernacular Short Stories (huaben)
The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China
The Assemblage of Social Death: Digital Vigilantism and Cancel Culture in China
"We are new farmers": How do e-commerce streamers perform authenticity in rural China
Roundtable Digital Society in Contemporary China
The Most Popular Buddhist Illustrated Book of circa 1450
Legitimation and nationalism in official Chinese Television Documentaries
From Disappearance to the End Game: Reflecting on the Politics of Decolonization in Hong Kong
Memory, Activism and Social Justice: Kao Jun-honn’s Great Leopard Project
The Ten Kings of Earth Prisons: Theatricality of Death in Late Imperial China
The Making of a Standard Mountain
A Waste of Woodblocks: Publishing Humour in Late Ming China
A Global South Divided: Rising Powers in International Environmental Politics
Dr. Carwyn Morris: "The Digital Geographies of Secrecy"
Prof.em. Craig Clunas: "Is 'Great Ming' a Dynasty?"
Dr. Vincent Chang: "The Revival of World War II in China: Multiple Histories, Malleable Memories"
Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen: "From Zero to Hero: Coloring the Narrative of the Siege of Yanmen"
Paul van Els: "Confucius Speaks"
Ronald C. Po: "The Fusheng Quanty: An Exceptional Maritime Painting in Nineteenth Century China"
Federico Picerni: Margins and Recognition(s) in the Practice of the Picun 'New Workers' Literature Group
Dawid Rogacz: "The Concept of Public Interest (gong) in the Chinese Philosophy of Law and Politics"
Prof.dr. Anne Gerritsen: "Shards for Sale: The Jingdezhen Shard Market and Writing New Histories of the Ceramics Industry"
Dr. Casper Wits: "The Xinhua News Agency and Chinese Foreign Policy in the Cold War"
Fresco Sam-Sin: "Qing Things Talking With and Against Text"
Dr. Beatrix Campbell & Dr. Jue Wang: "Is There Such a Thing as a Confucianist Chinese Foreign Policy? A Case Study of the Belt and Road Initiave"
Jingjing Li: "Walking on Thin Ice: The Biography of Nadi, and the Tension between Buddhism and the State in Early Tang"
Prof.dr. Joel Andreas: "Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China"
Dr. Rosa Vieira de Almeida: "Eurasian Extinction: Miscegenation and the Question of the Native in Macau Literature"
Prof.dr. Maghiel van Crevel & Dr. Marc Gilbert: "From China with Love"
Prof.dr. Sarah E. Fraser: "Chinese Russian, and German 20th-century Expeditions in Central Asia: Politics, War, and Archaeology"
Dr. Stephen H. Whiteman: "Art History and the Question of Early Modern Cosmopolitanism in the Qing Era"
Prof.dr. Man-houng Lin 林滿紅: "The Gradually Emerging Pacific: My Maritime History Studies"
Ms. Li Ang 李昂: "Politics and Gender"
Prof.dr. Douglas Berger: "Mohist Forms of Argument in Ancient China: Influences and Evaluations"
Dr. Ching-Ling Wang: "Praying For Myriad Virtues: On Ding Guanpeng’s The Buddha Preaching in the Berlin Collection"
"Framing Margins: Mao and Visuality in Twentieth-century India"
Prof.dr. Ann Heirman: "Insects and Other Annoying or Dangerous Creatures in Buddhist Monasteries: Vinaya from India to China"
Xiong Xiong: "Visible Leisure, Invisible Demands: The Daily Life of Imperial Library Officials in 12th-13th-century China"
Dr. Jiyan Qiao: "Unifying Values by Transforming Human Nature: Wang Anshi's (1021-1086) Philosophy and the New Policies Governance"
Dr. Paul Vierthaler: "Experiments in Tracing the Origin of Quotes through Late Imperial Chinese Corpora"
Dr. Ting-Fai Yu: "Reconfiguring Queer Chineseness: Hong Kong as Method"
Dr. He Bian: "'Not a Local Product Here': Materia Medica and the Spatial Politics of Material Resources (wuliao) in Ming China"
Dr. Limin Teh: "Mining the Dragon Vein: Coal Extraction, and Secular Power in Northeast China, 1895-1912"
Dr. Fan Lin: "Imaging the Porcelain Pagoda of Nanjing in Late Imperial Chinese Gazetteers and European Travelogues"
Dr. Lai Yu-chih: "Manchu Roots: Imperial Politics, Image Discourse, and European Botanical Studies at the Qianlong Court"
Dr. David A. Palmer: "The Aporia of Chinese Volunteers: Moral Breakdown and Ethical Moments"
Dr. Griet Vankeerberghen: "What's in a Name? Sub-elites of Western Han Chang'an"
Prof.dr. Maghiel van Crevel: "Misfit: The Poetry of Xu Lizhi"
Dr. Ching-Ling Wang: "On a Newly Discovered See Fish Album (Haiyu tu, 1736) and the Formation of Knowledge in 18th-century China"