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Wednesday | 04:00 PM | Return to Communism? The Advent of the Xi Jinping Era in China Prof. Dr. Steve Tsang, SOAS University of London (UK), China Institute Unlike his two immediate predecessors Xi Jinping has made it clear he takes Marxism seriously. By ushering in Xi Jinping Thought on Chinese socialism for a new era, Xi has signalled that China under his leadership will be made great again. This is to be achieved by revitalising the Communist Party so that it will give leadership in every corner of China and across every policy areas. This talk will focus on the direction of travel Xi has set for China and whether this involves taking China back on a Communist path. Homepage Event https://www.cats.uni-heidelberg.de/medien/lsm.html Organizer Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) Homepage Organizer https://www.cats.uni-heidelberg.de Contact contact@cats.uni-heidelberg.de Registration E-Mail livingthesocialistmodern@gmail.com Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Living the Socialist Modern: The Chinese Communist Party at 100—Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives ': 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. What did it mean to “live with the Specter”, to experience what one might call the making of the “Socialist Modern” that found a first point of culmination with the foundation of the CCP in 1921? Wednesday 14th April 2021, 06:00 PM Young, Marxist, and Martyred: The First Movers of Chinese Communism Wen-hsin YEH, University of California, Berkeley (USA), Department of History Wednesday 21st April 2021, 06:00 PM Plutarch and Transcultural Life Narratives: Analyzing Early CCP Leaders, Cai Hesen and Zhao Shiyan Marilyn LEVINE (Central Washington University) Wednesday 28th April 2021, 06:00 PM Prof. Dr. Hans van de Ven, University of Cambridge (UK), Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Wednesday 05th May 2021, 02:00 PM Living as a Cog in the Machine Prof. Ishikawa Yoshihiro, Kyoto University (Japan), Institute for Research in Humanities Wednesday 12th May 2021, 06:00 PM Living the Socialist Modern in 1941 Prof. Dr. Timothy Cheek, University of British Columbia (Canada), Department of History Wednesday 12th May 2021, 06:30 PM Prof. Dr. Ban Wang, Stanford University (USA), Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages Wednesday 26th May 2021, 04:00 PM 1951 - A “Truth Regime” in the Making Prof. Dr. David Wang, Harvard University (USA), Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Wednesday 26th May 2021, 04:30 PM Singing, Recording, Promoting – New Sounds for New China Prof. Dr. Andreas Steen, Aarhus University (Denmark), School of Culture and Society Wednesday 02nd June 2021, 04:00 PM Socialist Transformation of Man Dr. Xiaohong Xiao-Planes, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Department of Chinese Studies, Paris (France) Wednesday 09th June 2021, 06:00 PM A Peripatetic Revolutionary in the 1950s Prof. Dr. Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz (USA), History Department Wednesday 09th June 2021, 06:30 PM Performing New China through Campaigns and Consolidation: The View from 1951 Prof. Dr. Julia Strauss, SOAS, University of London (UK), Department of Politics and International Studies Wednesday 16th June 2021, 06:00 PM New Cultural Workers and their Self-Identities: The View from 1961 Prof. Dr. Xiaomei Chen, University of California, Davis (USA), Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Wednesday 16th June 2021, 06:30 PM Fighting against Mao with words Prof. Dr. Anne Kerlan, L'Ecole des Haute Etudes ein Sciences Social, Paris (France), Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine Wednesday 23rd June 2021, 06:00 PM 1961, a year of not enough significance? Prof. Dr. Karl Gerth, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla (USA), Department of History Wednesday 23rd June 2021, 06:30 PM Chinese Socialism after the Loss of the Communist Horizon Dr. Puck Engman, University of California, Berkeley (USA), Department of History Wednesday 30th June 2021, 04:00 PM Prof. Dr. Dayton Lekner, Universität Freiburg, Institut für Sinologie Wednesday 30th June 2021, 04:30 PM 1971 - Listening to Enemy Radio in the Socialist Media Ecology Prof. Dr. Jie Li, Harvard University, Cambridge / Massachusetts (USA), Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Thursday 01st July 2021, 04:30 PM The Studying Party History Small Group Wednesday 07th July 2021, 06:00 PM The CCP Goes Global: International Legacies of Cultural Revolution Maoism Prof. Dr. Julia Lovell, Birkbeck, University of London (UK), Department of History Classics and Archaeology Wednesday 27th October 2021, 06:00 PM Forms of Credibility, Patterns of Identification Prof. Isabelle Thireau, L' École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris (France), Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine Wednesday 27th October 2021, 06:30 PM 1981 - The Chinese Communist Party and the Search for Historical Justice Prof. Dr. Daniel Leese, Universität Freiburg, Institut für Sinologie Wednesday 03rd November 2021, 06:00 PM Modular Socialism - Interior Design for Everyday Life in 1980s China Prof. Dr. Jennifer Altehenger, Oxford University (UK), Faculty of History Wednesday 03rd November 2021, 06:30 PM Restoring the Food industry in Reform Era China Prof. Dr. Francoise Sabban, L' École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris (France), Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine Wednesday 10th November 2021, 06:00 PM The Imprint of Maoist Socialism on Private Life in urban China - Shanghai in the 1980s Prof. em. Dr. Deborah Davis, Yale University, New Haven / Conneticut (USA), Department fo Sociology Wednesday 17th November 2021, 06:00 PM Zhao Ziyang and the Voices for Reform Prof. Dr. Klaus Mühlhahn, Präsident der Zeppelin Universität, Friedrichshafen Wednesday 17th November 2021, 06:30 PM Radio Audiobooks in Reform Era China Prof. Dr. Paola Iovene, The University of Chicago (USA), Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Wednesday 24th November 2021, 07:00 PM The CCP Faces a Second Undulation of the Democracy Movement Prof. Dr. Perry Link, University of California, Riverside (USA), Department of Comparative Literature and Languages Wednesday 01st December 2021, 04:00 PM Return to Communism? The Advent of the Xi Jinping Era in China Prof. Dr. Steve Tsang, SOAS University of London (UK), China Institute Wednesday 01st December 2021, 05:00 PM Living in the Emergent Techno-Developmental State Prof. Dr. Ya-wen Lei, Harvard Uniersity, Cambridge / MA (USA), Department of Sociology Wednesday 08th December 2021, 06:00 PM On the Edge - Feeling Precarious in China Prof. Dr. Margaret Hillenbrand, University of Oxford (UK), Faculty of Oriental Studies Wednesday 15th December 2021, 06:00 PM From Anti-Imperialist Coalitions of the Past to Today's Milk Tea Alliance Prof. Dr. Jeff Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine (USA), Department of History |