May 20, 2021 Talk @dangzhengban 党政办
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...
