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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xiaobo Lü — Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xiaobo Lü\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, University of California\, Berkeley \n\n\n\nExamining the miraculous rise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the surprising downfall of the Kuomintang (KMT) in the early twentieth century\, I reveal that domination and mobilization are key for authoritarian parties to seize state power\, challenging the prevailing wisdom on power-sharing and emphasizing the importance of dominant party leaders for organizational strength and resource mobilization. I argue that the CCP’s mass mobilization infrastructure\, initially seen as a disadvantage before the Sino-Japanese War\, became a powerful asset during the war and led to its victory. The KMT’s elite mobilization infrastructure\, conversely\, was decimated by the war\, and its lack of a strong leader prevented a successful shift in party-building strategy. Party building subsequently played a pivotal role in shaping the successes and failures of resource mobilization for both parties. The book sheds new light on the origins of the CCP and the inner workings of revolutionary parties\, making in a landmark study in Chinese politics.Xiaobo Lü is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research explores the relationships between fiscal policies\, party-building\, and state-society relations in authoritarian regimes\, particularly in China. He is particularly interested in the formation and functioning of political parties and institutions in authoritarian regimes across both historical and contemporary contexts. Xiaobo Lü earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2011. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-xiaobo-lu-domination-and-mobilization-the-rise-and-fall-of-political-parties-in-chinas-republican-era/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:FCCS Modern China,Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xu Guoqi — What do we mean by “China?”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xu Guoqi\, David H. Y. Chang Professor of Chinese History; Founding Director\, Institute of Transnational History of China\, University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nProfessor 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 Chinese and English on various topics. \n\n\n\nProfessor Xu is a leading authority of transnational and shared history of modern China and the world. His research topics include First World War Studies\, roles of Sports in China and the world\, history of US-China relations\, the idea of China\, among many others. He has served as a visiting professor at many prestigious institutions such as Harvard University\, Yale University\, Cambridge University\, the University of Melbourne\, and King’s College London. He has received many awards such as the Shigemutsu Fellowship for scholarship in global cultural affairs from the Global Culture Center of the Japan Society of Boston and the best book award from the International Society of Olympic Historians. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-xu-guoqi/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Fei-Hsien Wang — Modernization Theory and Historical Knowledge in Cold War Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fei-Hsien Wang\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, Indiana University Bloomington \n\n\n\nIn 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 Study” (中國現代化的區域研究)\, each focusing on a particular province or region. Although one of the largest and best-funded collaborative projects in the field and later celebrated as a defining legacy of the IMH\, more than half of its studies were never published. Some participants subsequently described the undertaking as a “completely pointless” endeavor. \n\n\n\nWhy did historians working at the margins of an American-centered field of China studies initially embrace modernization theory\, yet ultimately leave much of their research unpublished? This talk situates the project within the broader landscape of Cold War knowledge production in East Asia. It argues that the project’s ambitions and frustrations emerged from the interplay of Taiwan’s political and institutional environment under martial law\, changing geopolitical relations\, and shifting intellectual trends in American and Taiwanese academia from the 1970s to the early 1990s. \n\n\n\nRather than viewing the project as either an extension of American intellectual hegemony or a failed adoption of modernization theory\, I examine how IMH historians appropriated a transnational framework to pursue their own intellectual and institutional agendas while navigating epistemological and political constraints. Their experience invites us to reconsider how scholarly knowledge travels across unequal academic hierarchies—and what constitutes the “success” or “failure” of a research project. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-fei-hsien-wang/
LOCATION:Room K354\, CGIS Knafel\, 1737 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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