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Doubts about the Chinese current of “doubting antiquity” and its critics
Doubts about the Chinese current of “doubting antiquity” and its critics
Speaker: Rudolf G. Wagner Fairbank Center Associate at Harvard University, and Cluster Asia and Europe Associate at Heidelberg University, Germany. This is a study of the background, impact, and cost of the “doubting antiquity,” or yigu, current associated with the Gushi bian collection that followed a strong political agenda of undoing the authority of the orthodox view […]
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Modern China Lecture Series: The Significance of the Frontier in Twentieth Century Chinese History
Modern China Lecture Series: The Significance of the Frontier in Twentieth Century Chinese History
Speaker: Shellen Wu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville The 1890s set off an unprecedented rush for the last remaining unclaimed lands around the world. Developments in the preceding century saw the social sciences and disciplines like geography and agronomy connecting Europe, the Americas, and Asia. The educated elite from around the world increasingly spoke a common […]