標題:
【演講】Neil J Diamant:Talking about the Revolution: The Draft Constitutional Discussion of 1954
時間:
2016年7月14日(週四)16:00-17:30
地點:
Seminar Room A, China in the World Building (188), Fellows Lane, Australia's National University(Building 188, Fellows Lane The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia)
主辦單位:
China Institute, Australian Centre on China in the World, Australia's National University
主講人:
Neil J Diamant(University of Sydney)
聯絡人:
E-mail: jasmine.lin@anu.edu.au
內容簡介:
【ANU China Seminar Series】
During the 1954 campaign to ‘Discuss the Draft Constitution’, Chinese officials and citizens engaged in a surprisingly frank and wide-ranging deliberation about political and social rights, the obligations of citizenship, conscription, state symbols, religion, political institutions and Marxist ideology. After several years of political upheaval, many asked wise-cracking, penetrating, and prescient questions about law, class, and political power. There were also provocative suggestions for revising this foundational document. Using records of these meetings in archives and internal CCP publications, this talk will focus on the content of these discussions. It will assess their implications for the conventional historiography of the Mao era, and it will ask how they might help us to rethink the origins of popular constitutionalism in the PRC.
About the Speaker
Neil J Diamant is Professor of Asian Law and Society and Chair of the East Asian Studies Department at Dickinson College, USA. He is author of Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968 (2000); Embattled Glory: Veterans, Military Families and the Politics of Patriotism in China, 1949-2007 (2009); and co-editor, with Kevin J O’Brien and Stanley Lubman, of Engaging the Law in China: State, Society and Possibilities for Justice (2005) His articles on various aspects of Chinese law and society have appeared in The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Modern China, The China Journal, The Journal of East Asian Studies, Politics and Society, Armed Forces and Society, Frontiers of History in China, The Law and Society Review and The China Quarterly, among others. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to his work on popular constitutionalism in the Mao era, he is continuing his research on political activism among PLA veterans (including lawsuits, petitions, mass protests and online blogging).
Before joining the Dickinson faculty in 2002, he taught at Tel Aviv University in Israel, where he grew up on a kibbutz and served in the Israeli Defense Forces (1982-5).
After the Seminar
To allow for informal discussion, the seminar will be followed by a dinner with the guest speaker at 6:15pm. The location of the restaurant will be announced at the seminar. All are welcome, though those who attend will need to pay for their own food and drinks. As reservations must be made at the restaurant, please RSVP by noon of the day before the seminar to jasmine.lin@anu.edu.au
The ANU China Seminar Series is supported by the China Institute, the Research School of Asia and the Pacific, and the Australian Centre on China in the World at The Australian National University.
系統號:
A-007735