BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \; East Asia Program p resent Chinese Cities and City People During and After World War II A  \;Talk by \nKristin Stapleton\, Professor\, History Department\, Universit y\nat Buffalo\, SUNY The\neffects of World War II on Chinese cities were t ransformative. In addition to\nhorrendous devastation\, the war years were marked by significant cultural\nexchange\, the reconfiguration of social hierarchies\, and experiments in governance.\nAll of these phenomena shape d the subsequent establishment of the new Communist\nregime in Chinese cit ies beginning in 1949. Drawing on a novel set in a wartime\nprovincial cap ital\, Li Jieren’s Dance of the Heavenly Devils\, this talk\nexplores the transformation of Chinese cities as a result of the war\, with\nparticular emphasis on changes in the way families worked and lived in cities. \ ;Kristin Stapleton is Professor of History at the\nUniversity at Buffalo\, SUNY. \;A native of Michigan\, she studied at the\nUniversity of Mich igan\, Harvard University\, National Taiwan University\, and\nSichuan Univ ersity. Earlier this year\, she completed a five-year term as editor\nof t he journal Twentieth-Century China\,\nand she has long served on the edito rial board of the journal Education About Asia. Her research\ninterests in clude Chinese and comparative urban administration\, the history of\nChine se family life\, and humor in history. She is the author of Civilizing Che ngdu: Chinese Urban Reform\,\n1895-1937 (Harvard Asia Center 2000) and Fac t in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family (Stanford 2016).\nHer curren t research concerns Chinese cities during WWII and Sino-Soviet\ncooperatio n in designing and managing “socialist cities” in the 1950s. She is a\nfel low in the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on\nU.S. -China Relations and an avid tennis player. \;Sponsored by Moynihan In stitute of Global Affairs\, and East Asia Program Contact Havva Karakas-Ke les for more information: hkarakas@syr.edu DTEND:20200206T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260511T231222Z DTSTART:20200206T170000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Chinese Cities and City People During and After World War II UID:RFCALITEM639141235425592917 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;

East Asia Program

present

Chinese Cities and City People During and After World War II

A \;Talk by \nKristin Stapleton\, Professor\, History Department\, University\nat Buf falo\, SUNY

The\neffects of World War II on Chinese cities were tra nsformative. In addition to\nhorrendous devastation\, the war years were m arked by significant cultural\nexchange\, the reconfiguration of social hi erarchies\, and experiments in governance.\nAll of these phenomena shaped the subsequent establishment of the new Communist\nregime in Chinese citie s beginning in 1949. Drawing on a novel set in a wartime\nprovincial capit al\, Li Jieren’s Dance of the Heavenly Devils\, this talk\nexplores the transformation of Chinese cities as a result of the war\, with\nparti cular emphasis on changes in the way families worked and lived in cities.& nbsp\;

Kristin Stapleton is Professor of History at the\nUniversity at Buffalo\, SUNY. \;A native of Michigan\, she studied at the\nUniver sity of Michigan\, Harvard University\, National Taiwan University\, and\n Sichuan University. Earlier this year\, she completed a five-year term as editor\nof the journal Twentieth-Century China\,\nand she has long served on the editorial board of the journal Education About Asia. Her research\ninterests include Chinese and comparative urban administrati on\, the history of\nChinese family life\, and humor in history. She is th e author of Civilizing Chengdu: Chinese Urban Reform\,\n1895-1937 ( Harvard Asia Center 2000) and Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family (Stanford 2016).\nHer current research concerns Chinese cities during WWII and Sino-Soviet\ncooperation in designing and managing “socia list cities” in the 1950s. She is a\nfellow in the Public Intellectuals Pr ogram of the National Committee on\nU.S.-China Relations and an avid tenni s player. \;

Sponsored by Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs\, and East Asia Program

Contact Havva Karakas-Keles for more informa tion: hkarakas@syr.edu

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