The second lecture in the Global China: New Approaches lecture series will take place next week on Wednesday, Feb. 25th. The lecture is by Pamela Crossley (Dartmouth College) and is titled “China as the Measure of Eurasian Chronology”. The video lecture will begin at 4:15 p.m. in Gisbert Kapp N123 on the Edgbaston Campus of University of Birmingham. The lecture will be followed by a discussion in video conference format. Please see below for further details. All are welcome.
Abstract: Global historians have ostensibly rejected the normative paradigms used from Marx to Wallerstein to measure change outside Europe against European historical time. This leaves global historians with the challenge of constructing a clock of truly global change. This paper suggests that such a paradigm cannot be constructed without centering the experience of Eurasian continent, and that the paradigm of historical change for Eurasia as a whole is best exemplified by China – not because of the distinctive aspects of the Chinese experience, but because of the ways in which Chinese development is representative of the larger trends of Eurasian history during the past four thousand years.
Speaker Bio: Pamela Crossley, Collis Professor of History, Dartmouth College. Author of Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World (Princeton University, 1990); A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology (University of California Press, 1999); The Manchus (Blackwell Publishers, 2002); What is Global History? (Polity, 2008); The Wobbling Pivot: China since 1800, An Interpretive History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
The third lecture in the Global China lecture series will be delivered by Ien Ang and take place on Wednesday, May 6th also at University of Birmingham. The title of the lecture is “Chinatowns and the Rise of China”.
The final three lectures in the series will be hosted at University of Cambridge:
Angela Leung, “Glocalizing medicine in the Canton/Hong Kong region in late Qing China (ca. 1840-1911)” in May 2015
Eugenio Menegon, “A Micro-Historical Approach to Global China: The Daily Life of Eropeans in Beijing in the Long 18th Century” in June 2015
Shu-mei Shih, “From World History to World Literature: China, the South, and the Global 1960s” in June 2015
Bursaries are available for student attendance of the lectures. Please contact Shirley Ye at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> for further details.
For more information on the lecture series, please visit: http://globalchinalectures.wordpress.com
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