From Qing to China:

Rethinking the Interplay of Tradition and Modernity, 1860-1949

International Conference

20-22 May 2012, Tel Aviv University, Gilman 496

Organizers: Ori Sela and Asaf Goldschmidt (Tel Aviv University)

 

Program                           Color Program

 

List of Participants and papers

 

 

 

 

“Carrying a [paper] funeral car,” [item 395-2266, photograph taken between1924-1927] courtesy of Sidney D. Gamble Photographs, Archive of Documentary Arts, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), an avid amateur photographer, began taking pictures in China during his first trip to the country with his family in 1908. He returned three more times between 1917 and 1932 and continued photographing the daily life of Chinese citizens.

 

The conference was made possible by generous contributions from:

The Israeli Science Foundation; The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation; The Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University; The Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law, Tel Aviv University; The David Berg Institute for Law and History, Tel Aviv University; The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies, The Hebrew University; Tel Aviv University; The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University; and The Shoul N. Eisenberg Chair for East Asian Affairs. We are grateful to these institutions and the individuals therein for their support.