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Please join us in welcoming Peter C. Perdue, Professor of History, Yale University, who will deliver the 2018 John Lax Memorial Lecture. The title of his lecture is “From Paris to Beijing in 1900: A Global Moment?” The event is free and open to the public.
In his lecture, Professor Perdue will discuss how the year 1900 was not only pivotal in the history of China, but also significant for the world of imperial powers: “Early in the year, the Paris exhibition displayed in its pavilions the marvels of modern technology, the dramatic new forms of Art Nouveau, and the cultural riches of the imperial colonies. Later in the year eight armies of the great powers converged on Beijing to relieve the siege of foreign legations imposed by the Qing dynasty and the Boxer peasant rebels. At the same time the U.S., Britain fought against guerrilla warriors in the Philippines and South Africa, while anarchists wandered the globe. In this talk, I will draw together some of the threads that connect these global events and examine their implications for the future of empire, the rise of nationalism, and the struggles for and against global capitalism.”
About the speaker:
Professor Perdue is the author of China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (2005) and Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850 A.D. (1987), co-editor of two books on empires: Imperial Formations (2007) and Shared Histories of Modernity (2008), and a co-author of Global Connections, a world history textbook, and of the three-volume Asia Inside Out (both forthcoming). His current research focuses on Chinese frontiers, Chinese environmental history, and the history of tea.
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