Modern China Lecture
Events
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xu Guoqi — What do we mean by “China?”
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Xu Guoqi, David H. Y. Chang Professor of Chinese History; Founding Director, Institute of Transnational History of China, University of Hong Kong Professor Xu Guoqi was born in China and taught both in Asia and the USA before joining the University of Hong Kong’s History Department. He writes and has published widely in both
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Fei-Hsien Wang — Modernization Theory and Historical Knowledge in Cold War Taiwan
Room K354, CGIS Knafel 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Fei-Hsien Wang, Associate Professor, Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington In 1973, the Institute of Modern History (IMH) at Academia Sinica launched an ambitious collaborative project to examine late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China through the lens of modernization theory. Over the next sixteen years, seventeen historians participated in “Modernization in China: A Regional