Nudes in Early Republican China: Editorial Agency, Popular Press and Transcultural Production 　　  　  Thursday, October 01, 2015 　　 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM 　　 Bunche Hall 11372 　　 Lecture by Liying Sun, University of Heidelberg 　　  In the past ten years, art historians have researched Chinese “tastes” surrounding luoti （literally：“unclothed bodies”）in Early RepublicanChina, mainly  focusing on the visual representations of nudes in fine art, as well as the related history of Western artistic education in the Shanghai area. 　　 Many scholars have noted that nudes, especially “Western” female nudes, 　　 appeared frequently in print media; however, existing studies have not 　　 yet provided satisfying answers to several fundamental questions. For example, how was the concept of luoti understood in the Republican Era? From where did these “Western” nudes “flow” to China, eventually appearing in 　　 Chinese media? Who produced the nudes? This talk will explore these 　　 questions by showcasing examples from illustrated newspapers and magazines of the 1920s-30s, such as Beiyang huabao 北洋畫報（“Pei-yang Pictorial News,” 1926-1937）, Sheying huabao 攝影畫報 （“Pictorial Weekly,” 1925-1937）and Linglong 玲瓏（“Linloon Magazine,” 1931-1937）. These examples illustrate the（often Western）origins and trajectories of the dissemination of nude 　　 photographs, and the editorial strategies aimed at incorporating nudes into periodical publications.   　　 LIYING SUN is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Heidelberg, Germany. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Nankai University, China, and her Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg. Her dissertation is entitled “Body Un/Dis-covered：Luoti, Editorial Agency and Transcultural Production in Chinese Pictorials（1925-1933）.” Her research interests cover print culture, visual culture, and body culture, and silent films in early Republic of China.  　　 　　 The Afterlives of Han Historiography Ethnic Formation and Silk Road Invention 　　  Friday, October 02, 2015 　　 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM 　　 Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room 　　 Taiwan Studies Lecture Series 　　  Chinese classical texts have long provided a repertoire of narratives, arguments, and logics from which later perspectives on people and places have been constructed. Issues of social identity within China and the country’s relationships to spaces through which its borders have been drawn have been important projects that have accompanied the more familiar construction of national identity and territory. Presentations by Tamara Chin（Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University）and by Michael Wang（Distinguished Research 　　 Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica）offer examples of the use of Han historiography to locate minority people within the nation and places within and beyond China as constituents of a larger world in which China figures prominently. The discussion will be moderated by Richard Von Glahn（Professor of History, UCLA）. 　　  　 Han Historiography in the Modern 　　 Construction of the Silk Road 　　 By Tamara Chin, Brown University 　　 　　 The Legend of Panhu：Representation and Reality 　　 By Michael Wang, Academia Sinica 　　 Sponsors：Center for Chinese Studies, Asia Institute, Program on Central Asia, UCLA Dean of Humanities, Taipei Economic and Cultural Organization in Los Angeles 　　  　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 Happy Fall quarter!

Below is a list of our upcoming events for Fall.

（Event times and locations could change, please check our website or individual event email notice for the most current information.）

9/28/2015
 2pm - 4pm
 Academic Salon for Chinese Studies – Weekly Presentation by CCS Visiting Scholars
 Bunche Hall 11372
 Peiguo Zhang, Institute of Anthropology and Folklore, Shanghai University
 
10/01/2015
 4pm - 5:30pm
 Nudes in Early Republican China：Editorial Agency, Popular Press and Transcultural Production
 Bunche Hall 11372
 Liying Sun, University of Heidelberg, Germany
 
10/02/2015
 2pm - 4pm
 The Afterlives of Han Historiography
 YRL Presentation
 Tamara Chin, Brown University and Michael Wang, Academia Sinica
 
10/08/2015
 4pm - 5:30pm
 The Politics of Defense：Lawyers and Criminal Justice in China
 Bunche Hall 10383
 Sida Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 
10/13/2015
 4pm - 5:30pm
 Taiwan Studies - A Cultural Turn：Diary Studies, Everyday Life, and the Issues of the “Colonial Modern”
 YRL Presentation
 Caroline Hui-yu Tsai, Academia Sinica
 
10/15/2015
 1pm - 5pm
 Hou Hsiao-hsien 侯孝賢 Film Screening & Conversation
 TBA
 Film Director Hou Hsiao-hsien 侯孝賢
 
10/22/2015
 4pm - 5:30pm
 Deviant Writing and Youth Identity：Representation of Dialects with Chinese Characters on the Internet
 Bunche Hall 10383
 Jin Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology
 
10/29/2015
 4pm – 5:30pm
 Writing and Rewriting Tang Literati Lives：Portraits of Writers in the Old and New Tang Histories
Bunche Hall 10383
Anna Shields, Princeton University
 
11/06/2015
 2:30pm – 4:30pm
 Sammy Yukuan Lee Seminar
 Bunche Hall 10383
 Qianshen Bai, Zhejiang University, China
 
11/07/2015
 2pm – 4pm
 Calligraphy and Everyday Life among Late Qing Officials
 Lenart, Fowler
 28th Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art
 
11/12/2015
 4pm – 5:30pm
 Split Enforcement：How Central Local Relations Affect Pollution Law Enforcement in China

Bunche Hall 10372
 Benjamin van Rooij, UC Irvine

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