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Noon Lecture Series: U-M Center for Chinese Studies
Every Tues. Talks by visiting scholars. Sandwiches, cookies, & coffee served.
Feb. 4: Johns Hopkins University Chinese studies professor Andrew Mertha on “Studying China in the Absence of Access: Relearning a Lost Art.”
Feb. 11: Rice University Asian studies professor Chang Xu presents “A Pointless Arrow to the Border: Investigating Sa Arrow Poison in Eighteenth-Century China,” a talk on the Qing dynasty court’s failure to decipher and deploy a poison-tipped arrow used by the Miao ethnic minority.
Feb. 18: Harvard University Chinese studies professor Susan Greenhalgh on “Did Coca-Cola Outsmart China? The Scientific Secrets behind Coke’s Success in Shaping China’s Obesity Policies.”
Feb. 25: Stanford University sociology professor Xueguang Zhou on “Between Structural Stability and Personnel Fluidity: The Chinese Party-State in Light of Organizational Mobility.”
Noon–1 p.m., Weiser Hall, 10th fl., 500 Church. Free. 764–6308.
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