Modern China Lecture
Modern China Lecture: Varieties of Chinese Utopianism, 1900-1940
Speaker: Peter Zarrow, University of Connecticut Utopianism was a major motif in early twentieth century Chinese political thought. Utopianism was not only widespread, it became constitutive of political thought. Utopianism did so in the form of the utopian impulse rather than full-fledged utopianism. The “utopian impulse” is revealed in the context of generally non-utopian ideas. While not […]
The First World War and the Idea of “China”
CGIS Knafel, K050 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis lecture will focus on the meaning of the First World War to China and China's role in the Great War. It will pay special attention to the issue how the Great War and its aftermath provided a momentum for the Chinese and the world to think about the ideas of China and Chineseness. Most importantly, this talk will explain why and how the Chinese seized the Great […]
Modern China Lecture Series: Collecting and Using Diaries and the Writing of PRC History
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Fan Shitao, Beijing Normal University
Doubts about the Chinese current of “doubting antiquity” and its critics
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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 […]