Events

Modern China Lecture Series featuring Rebecca Nedostup – “War Being” in Mid Twentieth Century China and Taiwan

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Rebecca Nedostup, Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Brown UniversityTwo decades of intense hot and cold war in China and Taiwan between the 1930s and 1950s produced not only significant economic, political, and environmental changes, but notable consequences for the epistemological structuring of everyday experience. Using examples of shifting conceptions […]

Modern China Lecture Series featuring Janet Chen

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Janet Y. Chen, Professor of Chinese History; Director, East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University Janet Chen is Professor of History and East Asian Studies, specializing in twentieth-century China.  Her first book, Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953(Link is external)(Princeton University Press, 2012), is a study of the destitute homeless during a time […]