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Event Details
April 26, 2011
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Brown University
Smith-Buonanno, Room 201
95 Cushing Street

Providence, RI
United States

Public Talk - Providence, RI

Making a Living in Nineteenth-Century China: Three Episodes from the Life of a Huizhou Peasant

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Drawing on a recently discovered cache of diaries written by members of a peasant household in central China, Professor Younghua Liu (Xiamen University) will discuss the changes in peasant family life during one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history, from the Opium War to the Boxer Uprising.