CCS News and Activities(Vol.37 No.2)

CCS Seminars Visiting scholars completing their students at the Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) delivered lectures at seminars on March 30 and April 7 this year. The keynote speaker at the first seminar was Ostubo Yoshiyuki, a doctoral candidate at Japan’s Osaka University. His paper was entitled: “Political Decision Making in the Qing Court from the Perspective of the Issues Facing the Guangxu Emperor at Personal Assumption of Power.” The seminar was hosted by Prof. Wu Chih-keng of the Department of History at National Taiwan Normal University. Mr. Otsubo’s study covered a period from the announcement in the 12th year of the Guangxu imperial reign that the young emperor would personally assumed the reins of government from his mother Empress Dowager Ci Xi, through the request by the Grand Ministers of the court that the Empress Dowager continue to administer the state from behind the scenes