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SUMMARY:Michurin-Lysenkoism and the Politics of Grafting in Early PRC
LOCATION:Rockefeller Hall 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)\, Central Campus
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ying Qian\, Associate Professor of Chinese Cinema and
  Media\, Columbia University\n\nTitle: Michurin-Lysenkoism and the Politi
 cs of Grafting in Early PRC\n\nAbstract: This paper is an exploration of 
 grafting 嫁接\, a technique with a long history in Chinese horticulture and
  further popularized in the early 1950s as part of Soviet Michurin-Lysenk
 oist agrobiology. I show that agricultural and horticultural technique su
 ch as grafting\, transplantation\, and environmental conditioning\, when 
 practiced by amateur groups\, state farms and educational institutions ac
 ross the country\, provided models for envisioning and cultivating social
 ist collectives that emphasized interdependence and adaptation\, while al
 lowing for the persistence of difference. This paper treats Michurin-Lyse
 nkoism not as discredited\, faulty science\, but as specific understandin
 gs of organism-environment relationship and heredity\, with a critical di
 stinction between Michurin’s localized and specific practices and Lysenko
 ’s hegemonizing and encriminating theorization. Taking “grafting” to mean
  broader techniques of suturing\, assemblage and fitting\, this paper dis
 cusses biological sciences’ constitutive influence in political and socia
 l imaginations in socialist China.\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/f929a4d
 9-7c3d-4a0b-869d-907f43408d13
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