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Noon Lecture Series: U-M Center for Chinese Studies.
Feb. 7 & 21 Talks by visiting scholars. Sandwiches, cookies, & coffee served. Feb. 7: Hebrew University Jerusalem Buddhist studies professor Ian MacCormack on “Making a Buddhist State: Productivity as a Political Value in Early Modern Tibet.” Feb. 21: Yale University law professor Taisu Zhang on “The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation.” Noon–1 p.m., 110 Weiser Hall, 500 Church. Free. 764–6308.