Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of History, University of Pittsburgh

Moving from nation to region:Moving from nation to region: China in Northeast Asian HistoryChina in Northeast Asian History

In this lecture, Professor Rawski will recount her recent attempt to incorporate China into regional and world history, and in the process review the different historical perspectives from which Chinese history has been viewed, both in “traditional” and modern times. The talk concludes with a brief survey of current developments in history writing, and their linkage to contemporary geopolitics in Asia.

Evelyn S. Rawski holds a Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University. She has published books on sixteenth and eighteenth-century Chinese agricultural development, elementary literacy, and the emperors and imperial institutions of the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1911. Her most recent book, Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives uses Chinese, Japanese, and Korean primary sources and secondary literature to analyze China’s geopolitical, diplomatic, and cultural relationships with Japan and Korea in the 1500-1800 period.

LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Cornell East Asia Program (607) 255-6222 | cueap@cornell.edu eap.einaudi.cornell.edu

THURSDAY

OCT 1, 2015

4:45pm-6:00pm

120 Physical Sciences Building

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