Speaker: 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, …
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Speaker: Yajun Mo, Boston College When and under what circumstances did modern tourism infrastructure emerge and expand in China? How did the development of tourism shape print media and travel …
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Assistant Professor of Asian History, Simmons University
Endymion Wilkinson’s bestselling Chinese History: A New Manual has been continuously in print for fifty years, growing from a modest research guide to Chinese imperial history into an encyclopedic, 1.7-million-word introduction to Chinese civilization and the primary and secondary resources and research problems for all periods of Chinese history.
Martin K. Whyte and Mary C. Brinton’s book contains fond reminiscences from 155 diverse individuals to convey what was so extraordinary about the character and life of the late Ezra Vogel, a professor of Chinese Studies at Harvard.
Maura Dykstra’s book, Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine, investigates the administrative revolution of China’s eighteenth-century Qing state.
Lawrence Zhang’s groundbreaking study investigates how observers and critics of the Qing’s purchase system informs the questionable view that it was anti-meritocratic.
2022-23 Visiting Scholar; Professor, Sanya University