Modern China Lecture featuring Philip Thai – Communist China’s Capitalist Front: The China Resources Company in Cold War Hong Kong
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Philip Thai, Northeastern University The China Resources Company is a Hong Kong-based, Chinese state-owned conglomerate with diverse businesses interests in real estate, retail, pharmaceuticals, energy, and other industries. Today, …
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taisu Zhang: The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions
Room S030, CGIS South 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MassachusettsSpeaker: Taisu Zhang, Professor of Law and History, Yale UniversityHow states develop the capacity to tax is a question of fundamental importance to political science, legal theory, economics, sociology, and …
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Benno Weiner – This Absolutely is not a Hui Rebellion! The Ethnopolitics of Great Nationality Chauvinism in Early-Maoist China
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Benno Weiner, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon UniversityDr. Weiner is a historian of Modern China, Tibet and Inner Asia. His research revolves around China’s contested and possibly incomplete transition from …
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Linh Vu
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Linh Vu, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University Linh Vu is an assistant professor of history in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University, Tempe, …