Modern China Lecture
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Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Jennifer Altehenger – When Folding Chairs Became Bestsellers: The Revolutionary Roots of China’s Furniture Exports
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jennifer Altehenger, Jessica Rawson Fellow in Modern Asian History, Associate Professor of Chinese History, Merton College, Oxford The People’s Republic of China is one of the world’s leading furniture
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Shellen Wu – Writing Global History from an Asian Perspective
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Shellen X. Wu, Associate Professor and L.H. Gipson Chair in Transnational History, Lehigh University Global history has drawn criticism for its lack of diversity among its practicing ranks and
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Kelly Hammond — Chinese Ethnopolitcs and State-Building: The Case of Muslim General Bai Chongxi
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Kelly Hammond, Associate Professor of East Asian History, Department of History, University of Arkansas Bai Chongxi’s life spanned the Late Qing, the founding of the Chinese Republic and its
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Fa-Ti Fan – Disaster Governance and Political Participation in China: From the Mao Era to the Present
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Fa-Ti Fan, Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York This talk discusses the modes of disaster governance and crisis management in China from the early Mao
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Christopher Courtney – Heat and the Urban Environment of Modern China
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Christopher Courtney, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Durham University Throughout history, people living in Chinese cities have often had to contend with extreme heat. Although this is natural
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Modern China Lecture featuring Uluğ Kuzuoğlu – Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, Assistant Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the
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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 StatesSpeaker: 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
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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, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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
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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, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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
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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, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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