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Travel in China

bulletDr.  Kathryn Edgerton received an National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend this summer for conducting research in China. She spent from May 17th through July 15th of 2004 in China. This summer was her 4th research trip to China since 1999.  This summer she spent most of her time in Beijing, where she conducted archival research at the First Historical Archives of China for her book manuscript on cultural responses to and depictions of the North China Famine of 1877-1879. She also spent one week doing follow-up local-level research on how the famine is remembered in folklore and popular culture in Shanxi Province, where the famine was most severe. And she visited Qufu and Zouxian in Shandong Province in order to see the birthplaces of Confucius and Mencius. Finally, she spent one week traveling through Mongolia with her husband.  They visited Ulaanbataar and Karakorem.

 

(at the home of Mencius in Shandong this summer)

 

 

The Confucian (Kong) family cemetary in Qufu, Shandong.  The grave stone of Confucius.  Summer 2004.

 

 

conducting oral history interviews about famine folklore with an elderly woman in rural Shanxi.  (March, 2001).

 

 

 

A re-enactment of a Qing-dynasty magistrate's rain prayer during the great North China Famine of 1876-1879 that I research.  Pingyao, Shanxi Province.  Summer 2004.  (Shows present-day Chinese memories of that famine).

 

interviewing the actors in the rain prayer re-enactment.  Pingyao, Shanxi.  Summer 2004.

 

For more information.  Contact Dr. Kate Edgerton <edgerton@mail.sdsu.edu>

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