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SUMMARY:The Failure of a Concept: The Use and Abuse of Sovereignty in Chinese History
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 Part of the Asian Studies Center Colloquium on 
 Transnational East Asia\n
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 In Chinese historiography, 
 "sovereignty" is often employed as 
 a placeholder for a number of related, yet discrete, 
 ideas of\n
 state power. As a result, 
 the idea of sovereignty in Chinese history has 
 become increasingly unmoored from the original 
 context in which it was formulated and often 
 obscures as much as it explains our understanding 
 the emergence of the modern Chinese 
 state. This talk will summarize recent advances 
 in the study of sovereignty in the social 
 sciences and attempt to create some clarity in 
 the increasingly confusing sub-field of "sovereignty 
 studies" in Chinese history.\n
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 Pär 
 Cassel is an associate professor of history 
 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and 
 the associate director of the Lieberthal-Rogel 
 Center for Chinese Studies. He specializes 
 in the legal and political history of the late 
 Qing and early Republican period in Chinese 
 history and is the author of "Grounds of Judgment: 
 Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power 
 in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan" (Oxford 
 UP, 2012).\n
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 Sponsored by: Asian Studies 
 Center\n
 Co-sponsors: Asian Pacific American 
 Studies Program, Department of History, Department 
 of Religious Studies, Global Studies 
 in the Arts and Humanities and Japan Council\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Asian Studies Center\n
 Contact email: asiansc@isp.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://asia.isp.msu.edu/index.php?cID=332\n
LOCATION:115 International Center
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