Session One—The Qing State and Its Administrative Revolution

• Maura Dykstra (Caltech)
• Moderator: Guo Qitao (UCI)
• Discussants: Kathryn Edgerton Tarpley (SDSU) and Ian Coller (UCI)

Session Two—The Mao Era: Revolutions in Culture and on the Tibetan Frontier

• Denise Ho (Yale) and Benno Weiner (Carneigie Mellon)
• Moderator: Micah Muscolino (UCSD)
• Discussants: Jamie Kwan (Wende Museum), Catherine Clark (MIT), Jeremy Murray (CSUSB), and Nivedita Nath (UCI)

Session Three—Roundtable: A Long Century of Revolution

• Jeffrey Wasserstrom (UCI), Kaming Wu (CUHK), Karl Gerth (UCSD), Shiqi Lin (UCI)

 
This public symposium will use recent books by the main presenters as jumping off points for discussion. For each of the first two sessions, a China specialist and a comparativist will comment on the book presentations. The final session will be a roundtable that will bring in other periods. It will also bring in perspectives from ethnography and comparative literature to complement the focus on history and to a lesser extent art history in the first two sessions.