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Date: 18th February, 12:30 to 14:00 in A21 Si Yuan, The University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus. Title: After the great divergence: how does China fit into the history and future of global capitalism Abstract: Since the publication of Kenneth Pomeranz’s The Great Divergence economists and historians have debated anew the causes for different dynamics of economic change in China, Europe and the global economy. In this presentation, I will pose questions about how the possible futures of China in global capitalism might inform our approaches to explaining economic change after the disruption and divergence of the nineteenth century. Speaker: R. Bin Wong, Director of the UCLA Asia Institute and Distinguished Professor of History, is the author of China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience (转变的中国) and co-author and editor of several other volumes. Wong has also written or co-authored more than eighty articles and book chapters published in North America, East Asia and Europe, published in Chinese, English, French, German and Japanese in journals that reach diverse audiences within and beyond academia. His most recent book, co-authored with Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, is Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe (Harvard University Press, 2011); Chinese, French and Japanese translations are being made. He has been a visiting professor and researcher at institutions in China, France, Japan, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. Since 2009 he has been a Distinguished Guest Professor at the Fudan University Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences. Spaces on a first come, first served basis. This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.