#  Workshop: Chinese Food - Culture, Economy, Ecology 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 27 - April 28, 2018** 

 All day 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge**  



 

 



 

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Part of the Fairbank Center’s “Environment in Asia” series:

[CHINESE FOOD - Culture, Economy, Ecology](http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/workshop-chinese-food-culture-economy-and-ecology/)

**April 27,** 8:30am-6:30pm, CGIS South Room S153  
**April 28,** 8:30am-3:30pm, CGIS South Room S250

**Organizer:** Ling Zhang (Boston College); Elizabeth Lord (Harvard University)

**Sponsors:**  
Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  
Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment (Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)  
Boston College Institute for the Liberal Arts

**Conference Program**

April 27, Friday

8:45-9:15 **Opening**  
Ling Zhang (Boston College)  
Elizabeth Lord (Harvard University)

**Panel One: Food and Knowledge**  
9:30-10:15

E. N. Anderson (University of California, Riverside)  
“Learning Is Like Chicken Feet: Medieval China Studies West Asian Foodways in the Emerging Asian World-system”

Abigail Coplin (Yale University)  
“The East is ‘Scientific’: Scientists, the State, and Credibility Crises During China’s GMO Controversy”

10:15-10:30 **Coffee Break**

10:30-12:30 Robban Toleno (Columbia University)  
“Buddhists, Meat Analogues, and the History of Vegetarianism in China”  
Discussion: Peter Perdue (Yale University)

12:30-13:30 **Lunch**

**Panel Two: Political Economy and Ecology**

13:30-14:15  
Mindi Schneider (Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities)  
“Food and Power: A Food Regime Analysis of Contemporary China”

Mark Frank (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  
“Food and Accommodation: Chinese Grain Governance in Eastern Tibet, 1908-1940”

Brendan A. Galipeau (Rice University)  
“Free in the Mountains or Home in the Vineyard: Resisting Plantation Labor on a French Vineyard in Tibet through Valuable Fungi Collection”

15:30-15:50 **Coffee Break**

15:50-18:30  
Elizabeth Lord (Harvard University)  
“Making Pollution Invisible — An Exploration of Soil Surveys in Contemporary China”

Alexander F. Day (Occidental College)  
“The Political Economy of Socialist Food Production: The Work of Labor and Fertilizer on a State-Owned Tea Farm”

Discussion: Ellen Oxfeld (Middlebury College, 20 minutes)

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April 28, Saturday

**Panel Three: Materiality, Culture, and Identity**

9:00-9:45  
Miranda Brown (University of Michigan)  
“On Bird’s Nests and Bean Curds: Reflections on the Rise of Tofu Connoisseurship”

Caroline Merrifield (Yale University)  
“Jiangnan Luxe”

9:45-10:00 **Coffee Break**

10:00-12:00  
Jin Feng (Grinnell College)  
“The Battle of Noodles”

Benny Shaffer (Harvard University)  
“Shapeshifting Fields: The Moving Image Work of Mao Chenyu”

Discussion: Eileen Chow (Duke University)

12:00-13:00 **Lunch**

13:00-15:00 **General Discussion and Conclusion**

See also: [Economy](https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/research-area/economy), [Symposia / Conference](https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming/event-type/symposia-conference), [Spring 2018](https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming/semester/spring-2018), [Economy and Policy](https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/corresponding-research-pages/economy-and-policy)



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Economy and Policy ](/corresponding-research-pages/economy-policy)
- [ 座谈会 / 会议 ](/event-type/symposia-conference)
- [ 政策 ](/research-interests/policy-cn)
- [ 2017-2018学年 ](/semester/academic-year-2017-2018)
 
 

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