University of California Irvine and UCI Center for Asian Studies Kiang Lecture
Reflecting on the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party: “From the Forgotten to the Monumental: Early Communism in Republican China”
Join UCI Irvine Centre for Asian Studies on May 13, 4:00-5:30 pm (PDT) for “From the Forgotten to the Monumental: Early Communism in Republican China” with speaker Dr. Wen-hsin Yeh (@UCBerkeley) and discussant Dr. Timothy Cheek (@UBC_History).
Date & Time: May 13, 4:00-5:30 pm (PDT)
Further Info: https://mailchi.mp/f1d985c33130/asia-6268042
Speaker & Discussant Bios:
Speaker
Wen-hsin Yeh is the Richard H. and Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. A socio-cultural historian of modern China, her books include Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), Provincial Passages: Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism, 1919-1927 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), and The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China, 1919-1937 (Council on East Asian Publications, Harvard University Press, 1990).
Discussant
Timothy Cheek is a social and intellectual historian of modern China and Director, Institute of Asian Research, at the University of British Columbia. Among his publications are The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), A Critical Introduction to Mao (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), and Propaganda and Culture in Mao’s China: Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).