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Montag | 14.00 Uhr | Taiwan Lecture Series, Part I: Cosmologies of Difference on the Taiwan Frontier: Chinese Colonial Discourse in Comparative Perspective: Chinese Taxonomies of Difference: Arguing For and Against Territorial Expansion in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Part 2 Leigh Jenco (London School of Economics) This lecture and reading session continues the work of the first lecture by examining in more detail the tensions of these colonial discourses. Here we focus on some of the adherents of the “materialist/separatist” view, such as the Ming-Qing transition intellectuals Gu Yanwu and Wang Fuzhi. What is the alternative vision of social order they advance, and how is it tied to their critique of Manchu rule? For these separatist views, perceived difference led to indifference toward non-Chinese populations, not their transformation through colonial intervention. In general, the greater the difference claimed to exist between Chinese and non-Chinese, the greater the indifference—and vice-versa. In this lecture, we test this observation by examining the policy suggestions of a well-known frontier general who also happened to become one of the most influential thinkers of the late imperial period: Wang Yangming. Wang’s ideas are of particular interest here because his sophisticated defense of a shared universal human nature (ben xing) appears to contradict comments he makes about the animal natures of the indigenous peoples subject to the pacification campaigns he commandeered in southwestern China in the early sixteenth century. I argue that his seemingly contradictory comments reveal the tensions of the “assimilative” and “materialist” position: specifically, Wang is poised between a commitment to a universal human nature which implies a deeply interventionist civilizing project, on the one hand, and a belief that the non-Han indigenous peoples of the southwest are somehow not quite human and therefore incapable of inclusion within Chinese civilization, on the other. Perhaps not surprisingly, Wang’s pacification campaigns ultimately strengthened a hybrid form of colonial governance shared between indigenous military leaders (tusi) and Chinese civil officials (guan) appointed by the imperial center. Adresse Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) CATS 010.01.02 Voßstrasse 2 69115 Heidelberg Homepage Veranstaltung https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/research/tls/taiwanlec19s_de.html Veranstalter Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) Homepage Veranstalter https://www.cats.uni-heidelberg.de Kontakt contact@cats.uni-heidelberg.de Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Taiwan Lecture Series, Part I: Cosmologies of Difference on the Taiwan Frontier: Chinese Colonial Discourse in Comparative Perspective': This year’s Taiwan Lecture Series offers object lessons with objects from Taiwan in the Museum of Ethnology (Seeing Taiwan), a lecture series with renowned LSE Historian Leigh Jenco on colonial Taiwan (Thinking Taiwan), and finally a workshop and concert with Taiwan composer Chen Shih-hui and famous Sheng-Player Wu Wei (Hearing Taiwan). Students who would like to take this class for credit will participate in all activities related to the class. They will each analyze and introduce one object, and they will prepare abstracts of the readings for the lecture series and the music workshop. At the end, students will write a seminar paper. Montag, 22. Juli 2019, 10.00 Uhr Leigh Jenco (London School of Economics) Montag, 22. Juli 2019, 14.00 Uhr Chinese Taxonomies of Difference: Arguing For and Against Territorial Expansion in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Part 2 Leigh Jenco (London School of Economics) Dienstag, 23. Juli 2019, 10.00 Uhr Chen Di’s Record of Formosa (1603): A Chinese Anti-Imperial Text in Global Perspective Leigh Jenco (London School of Economics) Dienstag, 23. Juli 2019, 14.00 Uhr The Dangers of Republican Freedom in Dutch Colonial Formosa, 1624-1662 Leigh Jenco (London School of Economics) |