East Asian Studies

Members, 2018-2019

▲ = first term only  ● = second term only

Stephen Bokenkamp ▲

Arizona State University

Medieval Chinese Religion and Literature

Hilde De Weerdt ●
Leiden University

Chinese Medieval History

Karl Gerth
University of California, San Diego

History of Modern China

Yuming He ▲
University of California, Davis

Early Modern Chinese Cultural History

Akinobu Kuroda
The University of Tokyo

Chinese and Global Monetary History

Lydia Liu
Columbia University

Global History and Modern History

Dagmar Schaefer ●
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

History of Science in China

Eric Schluessel
University of Montana

Early Modern Chinese and East Asian History

Brian Steininger ▲
Princeton University
Japanese History

Louise Young ▲
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Modern Japanese History

2018-2019 Calendar of Events

FALL 2018 SEMINARS

October 15
Akinobu Kuroda, IAS, The University of Tokyo
“Another Monetary Economy: A History of Chinese Currencies”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room

October 29
Brian Steininger, IAS, Princeton University
“Reading, Rhyming, and Recursion: Considering the Function of Print in Fourteenth-Century Japan”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room

November 5
Stephen R. Bokenkamp, IAS, Arizona State University
“Buddhism and the Chinese Discovery of Religion”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room

November 12
Lydia Liu, IAS, Columbia University
“仁：The Question of the One and the Many in Historical Analysis”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room

December 3
Louise Young, IAS, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Rethinking Japanese Imperialism, 1930s-1970s: lessons from imperial and post imperial Japan”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room

December 10
Yuming He, IAS, University of California, Davis
“Illustrating Knowledge: Mundane Reading in Late-Ming China”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room

SPRING 2019 SEMINARS

January 28
Karl Gerth, IAS, University of California, San Diego
“Unending Capitalism: State consumerism and the Negation of the Chinese Socialist Revolution”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room

February 11
Eric Schluessel, IAS, University of Montana
“Marketing and Social Structure in Qing Xinjiang”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room

February 25
Dagmar Schaefer, IAS, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
"Twisted and Reeled. Silk in the premodern world: a comparison between China and Italy"
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room

March 4
Hilde De Weerdt, IAS, Leiden University
“Considering Citizenship in Imperial Chinese History”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room

April 1
Ji Li, IAS, Rutgers Law School
“Lawmaking in China: From the End of the Cultural Revolution to the Present”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room

April 8
Wendy Swartz, IAS, Rutgers University
“Chinese Theories of Literary Creativity”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room

Past East Asian Studies Events

For further information, please call or e-mail: Brett Savage, 609.734.8313, bsavage@itg.ias.edu.