HS12: Legitimating the State: International Orders and Political Imaginations of China, 1300-present
About
This Working Group brings together three historians who study Northeast Asia from the Mongol period to the present, with a particular focus on the changing concept of “China” in the context of political legitimation and international engagement.
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Active since: 2021
Collaborative Goals
Collaborative Goals:
- Increasing understanding of each other's research, and organizing new events for next year; and
- Inviting an expert whose research speak to our shared interest, and developing our respective book projects through intellectual exchange with each other and with the invited guest.
For 2021-2022, we had two Zoom meetings to update one another about the latest development of our research. Additionally, we invited Timothy Brook for a public-faced roundtable around the theme of the Corridor Group: Legitimating the State, International Orders and Political Imaginations of China.
Group Organizers
David Robinson
Robert H.N. Ho Professor in Asian Studies and Professor of History, Colgate University
Activities
HS12 Initial Meeting
Oct. 13, 2021, 2 p.m.
Internal Meeting on Reorienting the Working Group and Funding Application
March 11, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Political Crimes and International Law in the Late Qing
Nov. 18, 2022, 2 p.m.
Group Outcomes
- Through the two Zoom meetings the three group members had in Fall 2021 and Spring 2022, we got to know each other's research, set up the public event, and worked out plans moving forward.
- We secured Corridor funding for two workshops our group plans to have for 2022-2023, one at Skidmore College and one at Colgate University.
- We had a public-faced roundtable at Cornell University with Timothy Brook, one of the most prominent expert on sovereignty and China's international relations in the early modern and modern period. The event attracted 50 attendants from the Cornell community and other institutions. The intellectual conversation helped the three members to further develop the frameworks of their current book projects, and stimulated a fruitful conversation with the audience.
Legitimating the State: International Orders and Political Imaginations of China,1300-present
This round-table includes Professor Tim Brook of the University of British Columbia, Professor David Robinson of Colgate University, Professor Jenny Day of Skidmore College, and Mara Yue Du of Cornell University. Panelists discuss the evolving meaning of "China" and how the self-legitimating state in China interacted with changing domestic and global conditions from the Mongol period to the present.
See the time-stamps for the various sections and panelists below:
- Introduction: 03:08
- Timothy Brook: 06:52:08
- David Robinson: 25:15:02
- Jenny Day: 35:54:24
- Mara Yue Du: 48:53:02
- Q and A: 01:12:45:19