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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Asia: 14 April - 21 April

H-Net Job Guide •04/21/2025 Announcement
Home Office Notices
Date
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Subject Fields
Film and Film History, Humanities, Languages, Research and Methodology, World History / Studies

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 14 April to 21 April. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the network editors for H-Asia. See the H-Net job guide web site at https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 AM and 5 PM US Eastern time.

Announcement Type
Seminar
Subject Fields
Asian History / Studies

Freedom to Engage & Discuss North Korea

April 30 Wed 9pm ET | 6pm PT (US)

May 1 Thursday 10am KST (Korea)

Gabe Segoine (Love North Korean Ministries), Kim Inah 김인아 ‘Tina’ (NK Reconnect), Austin Headrick (American Friends Service Committee).

We encourage participants with diverse viewpoints on supporting the freedoms of North Korean people, and the freedoms of South Koreans and others to engage and discuss North Korea.

Recent Reviews

Author
He, Qiliang
Reviewer
Tan, Guanhua

He, Qiliang. The People’s West Lake: Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao's China, 1949-1976. : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2023. 201 pp. 28ドル.00 (paper), ISBN 9780824895594.

Reviewed by Guanhua Tan (UMass Amherst)
Published on H-Asia (April, 2025)
Commissioned by Jenny H. Day (Skidmore College)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=61731

Author
Major, Philippe
Reviewer
Hsu, Hu

Major, Philippe. Confucian Iconoclasm: Textual Authority, Modern Confucianism, and the Politics of Antitradition in Republican China. : State University of New York Press, 2023. xi + 278 pp. 99ドル.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781438495484.

Reviewed by Hu Hsu (University of California, Berkeley)
Published on H-Asia (March, 2025)
Commissioned by Jenny H. Day (Skidmore College)

Recent Threads

Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Joker: The Flip Side of Ancient Chinese Cosmology and Science in Hecun

Speaker:
Nie Youping (PhD candidate in Anthropology at CUHK)

Host:
Prof. David A. Palmer (HKIHSS & Sociology at HKU)

Date: April 28 (Mon), 2025
Time: 12:30 – 13:45 (HK Time)
Venue: Room 201, 2/F, May Hall, HKU
Mode: Hybrid
Register for IN-PERSON Participation : https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9yjCPquwFMkuajA
Register for ONLINE Participation : https://hku.zoom.us/meeting/register/hqokJ73PQaS1-S8NBJaAEg#/registration

ABSTRACT
Drawing on 16 months of fieldwork and

Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Interdisciplinary Research Webinar
Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China

Professor Micah S. Muscolino
University of California, San Diego

Date and Time: April 29, 2025 (Tue) 09:00-10:00 HKT (April 28, 2025 | 18:00-19:00 PDT)
Register now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2CvcBJiyTCmU5tqOaklZNg#/registration

Abstract
From the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures transformed both the arid, erosion-prone environment of China’s Loess Plateau and the lives of rural people.

Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Chinese Business History Webinar Series
Volkswagen and China’s Early Reform Era, 1978-1991

Professor Chen Tao
Tongji University

Date and Time: April 18, 2025 (Tue) 09:00-10:00 HKT (Apr 17, 2025 | 18:00-19:00 PDT)
Register now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZnjOTrPcSHaYNYOLV0jzjQ#/registration

Abstract
"VW’s destiny will be shaped by the Chinese market," predicted Herbert Diess, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Group, in early 2019 amidst escalating geopolitical tensions between China and the West. As the largest