May 20, 2021 Talk @dangzhengban 党政办

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Moral Administration and Disciplines - From empires to the party-states

May 20
Berlin 16:00 London 14:00 New York 10:00

Language: 中文 and English

Open room 

Topics:

  • Why were Confucian texts a key ingredient in political communication in Ming court?
  • Why is historiography a necessary conduit for power struggles in the high court of the 17th century as well as the 20th?
  • Is it possible to conduct meaningful comparisons of China's disciplinary regimes at different times of history?

Speakers:

Patricia THORNTON (University of Oxford)

Ying ZHANG (The Ohio State University)

Ling LI (University of Vienna)

Moderator:

Sida LIU ((Toronto University)

Discussants:

Juan WANG (McGill University)

Grace MOU (University of London)

Literature under discussion:

Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence and State-making in Modern China (Harvard, 2007)

Confucian Image Politics: Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China (University of Washington Press, 2016)

The ‘Organisational Weapon’ of the Chinese Communist Party - China’s disciplinary regime from Mao to Xi Jinping in Law and the Party in China (Cambridge University Press)


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