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Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Yixin Chen — Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1959-1960.
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, CambridgeSpeaker: Yixin Chen, Professor of History, University of North Carolina Wilmington. This talk explores why numerous cases of counterrevolutionary groups emerged in rural China during the Great Leap Forward famine of the late 1950s, despite the brutal and large-scale Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries campaigns earlier that decade. Focusing on the case of the “Chinese People’s Life-Saving
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Selda Altan — Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan–Indochina Railway
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, CambridgeSpeaker: Selda Altan, Assistant Professor of History, Randolph College This talk explores labor conflicts during the construction of the French railway between China and Vietnam (1898–1910) as an episode in the emergence of Chinese workers as a global working class. Drawing on Chinese, French, and English sources, the discussion reveals how inter-colonial competition for cheap
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Janet Chen – Medium or Message? The Politics of Language in Broadcasting in Taiwan, 1945-1975
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, CambridgeSpeaker: Janet Y. Chen, Professor of Chinese History; Director, East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University At the end of 1975, the KMT government in Taiwan passed the Radio and Television Law, designating Mandarin as the “primary language of broadcasting” and mandating the reduction of dialect. This legislation, which took effect in January 1976, was the