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DESCRIPTION:Please join us in welcoming Peter C. Perdue\, Professor of Hist
 ory\, Yale University\, who will deliver the 2018 John Lax Memorial Lectur
 e. The title of his lecture is “From Paris to Beijing in 1900: A Global 
 Moment?” The event is free and open to the public.\n\nIn his lecture\, P
 rofessor 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 th
 e marvels of modern technology\, the dramatic new forms of Art Nouveau\, a
 nd the cultural riches of the imperial colonies. Later in the year eight a
 rmies of the great powers converged on Beijing to relieve the siege of for
 eign legations imposed by the Qing dynasty and the Boxer peasant rebels. A
 t the same time the U.S.\, Britain fought against guerrilla warriors in th
 e Philippines and South Africa\, while anarchists wandered the globe. In t
 his talk\, I will draw together some of the threads that connect these glo
 bal events and examine their implications for the future of empire\, the r
 ise of nationalism\, and the struggles for and against global capitalism.
 ”\n\nAbout the speaker:\n\nProfessor Perdue is the author of China March
 es West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (2005) and Exhausting the Ea
 rth: State and Peasant in Hunan\, 1500-1850 A.D. (1987)\, co-editor of two
  books on empires: Imperial Formations (2007) and Shared Histories of Mode
 rnity (2008)\, and a co-author of Global Connections\, a world history tex
 tbook\, and of the three-volume Asia Inside Out (both forthcoming). His cu
 rrent research focuses on Chinese frontiers\, Chinese environmental histor
 y\, and the history of tea.
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LOCATION:Mary Woolley Hall\, New York Room
SUMMARY:John Lax Memorial Lecture 2018
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 2018
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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