BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//IHSS - ECPv6.17.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:IHSS X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ihss.hku.hk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for IHSS REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Hong_Kong BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:HKT DTSTART:20170101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180424T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180424T130000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031750 CREATED:20240725T173851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102420Z UID:86772-1524571200-1524574800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Gratitude Betrayed and Forgotten: Pearl Harbor and America’s Humanitarian Moment with Japan in 1923 DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/gratitude-betrayed-and-forgotten-pearl-harbor-and-americas-humanitarian-moment-with-japan-in-1923/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180420T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180420T133000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031750 CREATED:20240725T174358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102420Z UID:86779-1524225600-1524231000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Daoist Patronage and Practices of Arts\, Literati Culture\, Local Politics and Society in Late Qing and Early Republican Nanyang DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/daoist-patronage-and-practices-of-arts-literati-culture-local-politics-and-society-in-late-qing-and-early-republican-nanyang/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180417T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180417T180000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031750 CREATED:20240725T175517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102421Z UID:86793-1523982600-1523988000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Digging Deep: Anthropological Encounters with the Zambian Copperbelt DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/digging-deep-anthropological-encounters-with-the-zambian-copperbelt/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/lecture-by-professor-ellen-hertz-20180417-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180410T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180410T180000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031750 CREATED:20240725T174818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102420Z UID:86786-1523377800-1523383200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Acting for the “Public Good” and Tributary Social Reproduction in a Former Emigrant Village of Shenzhen DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/acting-for-the-public-good-and-tributary-social-reproduction-in-a-former-emigrant-village-of-shenzhen/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180322T180000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180322T193000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031750 CREATED:20240725T180210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102421Z UID:86809-1521741600-1521747000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Why Empire? Empire as a Topic in World History DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/why-empire-empire-as-a-topic-in-world-history/ CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180322T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180322T120000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T181253Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102443Z UID:86823-1521712800-1521720000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Egg and Stone (雞蛋和石頭) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/egg-and-stone-%e9%9b%9e%e8%9b%8b%e5%92%8c%e7%9f%b3%e9%a0%ad/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screening-of-egg-and-stone-20180322-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180321T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180321T183000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T180629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102441Z UID:86816-1521651600-1521657000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:“Suicide” or Salvation: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Debate in Interwar Hong Kong DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/suicide-or-salvation-margaret-sanger-and-the-birth-control-debate-in-interwar-hong-kong/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180320T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180320T180000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T181817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102443Z UID:86836-1521563400-1521568800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Politics and Scientific Change in Dynastic China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/politics-and-scientific-change-in-dynastic-china/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mmea-lecture-by-professor-dagmar-schaefer-20180320-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180320T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180320T130000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T182328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102444Z UID:86855-1521547200-1521550800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:“Ordinary Language” as Legal Fiction DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/ordinary-language-as-legal-fiction/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180313T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180313T130000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T182847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102444Z UID:86862-1520942400-1520946000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Sexuality\, Intimacy and Venereal Disease Control during the Occupation of Japan\, 1945 – 1952 DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/sexuality-intimacy-and-venereal-disease-control-during-the-occupation-of-japan-1945-1952/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180228T173000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180228T190000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T183656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102444Z UID:86870-1519839000-1519844400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Ethics of Mastery in Global Perspective: Skill and Trust among Artisans in Bangkok DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-ethics-of-mastery-in-global-perspective-skill-and-trust-among-artisans-in-bangkok/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mmea-lecture-by-professor-michael-herzfeld-20180228-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180226T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180226T173000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T184700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102445Z UID:86893-1519660800-1519666200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-world-in-guangzhou-africans-and-other-foreigners-in-south-chinas-global-marketplace/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180213T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180213T130000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T184256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102445Z UID:86886-1518523200-1518526800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Unconditional Hospitality? Translation\, Travel and Telling Tales DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/unconditional-hospitality-translation-travel-and-telling-tales/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180212T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180212T130000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T185509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102445Z UID:86900-1518436800-1518440400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Interactions Between Christianity and Local Folk Religions in 19th and 20th Century China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/interactions-between-christianity-and-local-folk-religions-in-19th-and-20th-century-china/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180130T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180130T130000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T190549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102446Z UID:86907-1517313600-1517317200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Industrializing the Chinese Countryside in Representational and Aesthetic Forms: A Socialist Fantasia of Human Creativity DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/industrializing-the-chinese-countryside-in-representational-and-aesthetic-forms-a-socialist-fantasia-of-human-creativity/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180123T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180123T173000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T191933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102446Z UID:86916-1516723200-1516728600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Spiritual Practice of Orthodoxy (東正教的靈修傳統) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-spiritual-practice-of-orthodoxy-%e6%9d%b1%e6%ad%a3%e6%95%99%e7%9a%84%e9%9d%88%e4%bf%ae%e5%82%b3%e7%b5%b1/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180117T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180117T183000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T193708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102446Z UID:86923-1516208400-1516213800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Controlling the Population: From Family Social Science to Family Planning in 20th Century China\, Taiwan\, and Korea DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/controlling-the-population-from-family-social-science-to-family-planning-in-20th-century-china-taiwan-and-korea/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180116T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180116T153000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T194433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102447Z UID:86929-1516104000-1516116600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Chinese-Style\, Japanese Green Tea for Americans: Japanese Tea Exports to the United States\, 1860 to 1890 DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/chinese-style-japanese-green-tea-for-americans-japanese-tea-exports-to-the-united-states-1860-to-1890/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180113T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180113T110000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T195221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102447Z UID:86935-1515837600-1515841200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Past Knowledge\, Present Status and Future Threats: A Personal Reflection of the Status of Coastal Biology in China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/past-knowledge-present-status-and-future-threats-a-personal-reflection-of-the-status-of-coastal-biology-in-china/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS,IHSS Public Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171207T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171207T103000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T222033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102447Z UID:86949-1512637200-1512642600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:How History of Technology Can Point to New Forms of Innovation Policy — Two Indian Cases DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/how-history-of-technology-can-point-to-new-forms-of-innovation-policy-two-indian-cases/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mmea-lecture-by-wiebe-bijker-20171207-960x1024-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171207T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171207T110000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T222756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260420T102122Z UID:86969-1512637200-1512644400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of Everyday Life\, 19th – 21st Centuries DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/making-modernity-in-east-asia-technologies-of-everyday-life-19th-21st-centuries/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/banner-mmea-plenary-conference-1800x577-768x246-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171130T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171130T130000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T223431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102448Z UID:86989-1512043200-1512046800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Radical Roots of Love: Christianity\, Communism\, and the Politics of “Love” in Modern China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-radical-roots-of-love-christianity-communism-and-the-politics-of-love-in-modern-china/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171128T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171128T130000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T224017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102448Z UID:86998-1511870400-1511874000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:How Finance Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Soviet Union DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/how-finance-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-soviet-union/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171123T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171123T180000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T224516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102448Z UID:87006-1511454600-1511460000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:How Indigenous Industrialization Began in Postwar Taiwan DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/how-indigenous-industrialization-began-in-postwar-taiwan/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mmea-lecture-by-professor-wan-wen-chu-20180223-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171117T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171117T170000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T225045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102449Z UID:87018-1510934400-1510938000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Murmuring Days (日日喃喃) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/murmuring-days-%e6%97%a5%e6%97%a5%e5%96%83%e5%96%83/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screening-of-murmuring-days-20171117-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171115T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171115T183000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T225719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102449Z UID:87028-1510765200-1510770600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Masculine Compromise: Migration\, Family and Gender in China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/masculine-compromise-migration-family-and-gender-in-china/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171114T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171114T130000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T230943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102450Z UID:87048-1510660800-1510664400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Building the Design and Architecture Collection at Hong Kong’s M+ Museum DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/building-the-design-and-architecture-collection-at-hong-kongs-m-museum/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171108T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171108T190000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T230324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102450Z UID:87036-1510160400-1510167600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Death by Design (科技代價) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/death-by-design-%e7%a7%91%e6%8a%80%e4%bb%a3%e5%83%b9/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/20171108-contemporary-chinese-documentary-series-meet-the-director-death-by-design-by-director-sue-williams-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171106T183000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20171106T200000 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T231740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102451Z UID:87064-1509993000-1509998400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:China’s Religious Revival DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/chinas-religious-revival/ LOCATION:MWT4\, 1/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171107 DTSTAMP:20261109T031751 CREATED:20240725T231353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102451Z UID:87055-1509926400-1510012799@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Science and Humanities in the 21st Century DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n September 11\, 2014 6:30 pm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n This lecture explores the growth of the Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. (Weiqiao Chuangye Jituan Youxian Gongsi)\, from a small cotton ginning factory to an industrial conglomerate with over 150\,000 employees. The group is one of the primary movers behind the rapid population growth and urbanization of the town of Zouping\, Shandong Province. The lecture looks at the company from three points of view defined by three different groups of sources. The first group of sources include ethnographic observations\, interviews with company officials and the official statistics that document the company’s growth. The second group of sources include rumour and business reportage about the leading personnel of the company. The third derives from the internet coverage of major industrial accident that occurred in Zouping in 2007. The second and third perspectives provide critical lenses onto the more hagiographic portrait derived from the first group of sources. Together\, the three sources demonstrate the tensions between Capital’s unending drive for profit and the company’s embeddedness in local society. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Andrew Kipnis’s research involves social\, cultural and political change in contemporary China. He is currently working on several projects\, including a comparative study of urbanization\, kinship and the commercialization of ritual and a book on urbanization in a mid-sized city in Shandong. Professor Kipnis has recently completed an edited volume titled Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche and a textbook on Contemporary Chinese Society. He has also written books on educational desire and governing\, a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states and a book on patterns of gift giving and social exchange in rural China. He is also co-editor of The China Journal. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Contemporary China Strategic Research Theme\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/science-and-humanities-in-the-21st-century/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR