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)

 

List of Participants and Titles (Papers are password protected):

·        Zvi Ben-Dor Benite (NYU): "How and Why did Muhammad 'Abduh come to China: Education, "Theology," and "Philosophy," from the Empire to the Republic"

·        Cynthia Brokaw (Brown): “The Persistence of “Tradition” in the Modern Chinese Print Culture

·        Janet Chen (Princeton University): "Beggars and Vagrants from Qing to China: Law and Morality in the Early Twentieth Century"

·        Paul A. Cohen (Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University) - Comments

·        Benjamin A. Elman (Princeton University)

·        Fa-Ti Fan (Binghamton, SUNY): "Circulating Material Objects: the International Controversy over Antiquities and Fossils in Twentieth-Century China"

·        Joshua Fogel (York University): "Toponyms and Coming of Age in China: From Qing to “ China,” Literally"

·        Natascha Gentz (The University of Edinburgh): “Revisiting the “New” and “Foreign” in Late Qing Chinese Journalism

·        Asaf Goldschmidt (Tel Aviv University): “Imperial, Local, Modern, and Traditional? The Characteristics of the Public Pharmacy (惠民藥局) during the Southern Song and Yuan

·        Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University): Hanson Project Cover Letter (Marta asked to read this first)  +

Visualizing the Geography of Diseases in China, 1870s-1920s  +   Hanson Slides

·        Joan Judge (York University): "The Early Republican Information Regime: Wanbao quanshu 萬寶全書 (Complete Compendia of Countless Treasures) in the New Global Order"

·        Joachim Kurtz (University of Heidelberg): “From Imperial Doctrine to National Philosophy: The “Self-Assertion” of Confucian Thought in Twentieth-century China

·        Eugenia Lean (Columbia University): "Marking and Copying from Qing to China: Late Imperial Copy Culture in Trademark Infringement Cases of the Early Twentieth-century China"

·        Sean H-L Lei (Academia Sinica): "Qi-Transformation and the Steam Engine: Visualizing the Body and Characterizing Chinese Medicine, 1880s-1920s"

·        Assaf Likhovski (Tel-Aviv University)

·        Shakhar Rahav (Haifa University)

·        Ruth Rogaski (Vanderbilt): "Energy Crises," 20th Century Stress, and the "Qi Illnesses" of Zhang Xichun

·        Dagmar Schaefer (The University of Manchester): “Designs of Empire: Samples, sketches and scaled models at the Qing Court

·        Ori Sela (Tel Aviv University): "To Feel at Home in the Modern World: Turn of the Twentieth-Century Chinese Historiography and Qing (1644-1911) Intellectual History"

·        Aron Shai (Tel Aviv University)

·        Miri Shefer-Mossensohn (Tel Aviv University)

·        Yitzhak Shichor (Hebrew University and Haifa University)

·        Joanna Waley-Cohen (NYU)

·        Ido Yavetz (Tel Aviv University)

·        Madeleine Zelin (Columbia University)