Happy Lunar New Year from the USC US-China Institute!
Free One-Day Workshop: Illuminating Modern Chinese History through Biography
Session(s) date
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 5pm on Tuesday, April 17
Join us at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival for a workshop focusing on how biographies and collective biographies can illuminate important moments and issues in China’s modern history. Eileen Cheng will discuss the work and impact of noted Chinese writer and critic Lu Xun. Brett Sheehan will examine the industrial utopia the entrepreneurial Song family hoped to build. Xiaowei Zheng will examine the experiences and legacy of the millions of educated youth sent to work in the countryside during China’s Cultural Revolution.
The session will meet at USC on Saturday, April 21, from 9am to 3:30pm. Complimentary on-campus parking, breakfast, lunch, and refreshments will be provided.
Brett Sheehan is professor of Chinese history at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 1997. He is also the author of Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banking and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin, 1916-1937 (Harvard University Press, 2003) and numerous articles and book chapters.
Eileen Cheng is an Associate Professor of Chinese at the Pomona College. Her current research focuses on Lu Xun (1881-1936), known as the father of modern Chinese literature, and his reflections on the effects, both intended and unintended, of importing Western thought and theories on Chinese culture.
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REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 5pm on Tuesday, April 17
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