Date:
Monday, November 27, 2006.
12:00 PM.<BR/>
Location: Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall, 3rd Floor<BR/><BR/>
<p><font size="h3"><i>Center for East Asian Studies <br>China Brown Bag</font></i></p>
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<p>Thomas S. Mullaney, Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History, Stanford University</font></p>
<p>In their consolidation of state power in the early 1950s, Chinese Communist authorities relied heavily upon experts in the social sciences to acquire demographic data and help guide the young state's colossal social engineering projects. Prof. Mullaney explores two prime examples of the relationship between social science and state power in the Chinese context: the Ethnic Classification Project, in which Chinese ethnologists and Party cadres categorized the country's minority peoples into discrete ethnic groups; and the classification of China's population into discrete class categories. Under Mao, Communist authorities pressed scholars to eschew the Euro-American preoccupation with value-neutrality and dispassionate research, and adopt instead an unabashedly interventionist, or "disobedient," approach to the social world. The key aspects of this new "socialist science" will be discussed.</p>
<p><b>Thomas S. Mullaney</b> received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His research deals with the role of the social sciences in the history of state- and nation-formation, ethnic and racial identity, state and social scientific practices of individual and collective identification, classification theory, and transnational and comparative world history. Professor Mullaney strongly encourages anyone interested in socialism, history of science, governmentality, and/or Diana Ross and the Supremes to attend this talk.</p><BR/>
Monday, November 27, 2006.
12:00 PM.<BR/>
Location: Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall, 3rd Floor<BR/><BR/>
<p><font size="h3"><i>Center for East Asian Studies <br>China Brown Bag</font></i></p>
<p><font color="8B0000" size="h4"></p>
<p>Thomas S. Mullaney, Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History, Stanford University</font></p>
<p>In their consolidation of state power in the early 1950s, Chinese Communist authorities relied heavily upon experts in the social sciences to acquire demographic data and help guide the young state's colossal social engineering projects. Prof. Mullaney explores two prime examples of the relationship between social science and state power in the Chinese context: the Ethnic Classification Project, in which Chinese ethnologists and Party cadres categorized the country's minority peoples into discrete ethnic groups; and the classification of China's population into discrete class categories. Under Mao, Communist authorities pressed scholars to eschew the Euro-American preoccupation with value-neutrality and dispassionate research, and adopt instead an unabashedly interventionist, or "disobedient," approach to the social world. The key aspects of this new "socialist science" will be discussed.</p>
<p><b>Thomas S. Mullaney</b> received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His research deals with the role of the social sciences in the history of state- and nation-formation, ethnic and racial identity, state and social scientific practices of individual and collective identification, classification theory, and transnational and comparative world history. Professor Mullaney strongly encourages anyone interested in socialism, history of science, governmentality, and/or Diana Ross and the Supremes to attend this talk.</p><BR/>