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SUMMARY:‘Towards a History of Natural Disasters in China: the Case of Li
 nfen county (Shanxi)’ - Dr. Andrea Janku\, SOAS
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CONTACT:Dr. Barak Kushner
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Andrea Janku is a lecturer for the History of China at SOA
 S. She completed her Ph.D. on political editorials in the late Qing press 
 in Heidelberg. This was part of a larger project on the development of a m
 odern public sphere in late imperial and modern China. After completion of
  her Ph.D. she held a position as an assistant professor (Classical Sinolo
 gy) at the Institute of Chinese Studies in Heidelberg.  Dr. Janku’s curr
 ent interests include the environmental history of China\, the history of 
 famine\, and the history of social and political communication.  Her publi
 cations include a monograph\, Nur leere Reden: Politischer Diskurs und die
  Shanghaier Presse im China des späten 19. Jahrhunderts* (Wiesbaden: Harr
 assowitz\, 2003)\; and many articles\, including: “Preparing the Ground 
 for Revolutionary Discourse: From the Jingshiwen Compilations to Journalis
 tic Writings in Nineteenth Century China\,” T'oung Pao 90 (2004.1-3)\; 
 “Sowing Happiness: Spiritual Competition in Famine Relief activities in 
 Late Nineteenth Century China\,” Minsu quyi\, No. 143 (March 2004)\, spe
 cial issue on "Disasters and Religion\," edited by Paul Katz. Another arti
 cle\,  "Heaven-sent Disasters in Late imperial China: the Scope of the Sta
 te and Beyond." In Christian Pfister and Christoph Mauch\, eds. Natural Di
 sasters\, Cultural Responses: a World History\, is forthcoming.
LOCATION:Common Room\, Faculty of Oriental Studies
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