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Special Presentations
The Center for Chinese Studies occasionally hosts speakers and events that are open to the public and highlight a number of diverse topics related to the study of China. Most special presentations are held at 4:00pm in the afternoon and schedules for individual presentations can be obtained from both the China Center and the CCS website by month.
November 4, 2009
06:30 PM - 08:30 PM, U-M Museum of Art,
525 S. State St.,
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1354
Dr. Melissa Chiu, Museum Director and Vice President of Global Art Programs, Asia Society Museum, New York
December 3, 2009
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM, 6:00pm: Reception in 4th floor Rackham Assembly Hall
7:00pm: Talk in 4th floor Rackham Amphitheater
CCS Special Presentation: "China as a Eurasian Subcontinent: Perspectives on the Past and Future"
James A. Millward Associate Professor of History, Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University
November 2009 Events
December 03, 2009
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM, 6:00pm: Reception in 4th floor Rackham Assembly Hall
7:00pm: Talk in 4th floor Rackham Amphitheater
CCS Special Presentation: "China as a Eurasian Subcontinent: Perspectives on the Past and Future"
Further Information:
Though often treated as exceptional and isolated from the broader developments of Eurasian history, China is and has always been linked to the rest of Eurasia more closely than is often thought. From contacts with Indo-European- and Altaic-speaking peoples and trans-continental exchanges of ideas and things, to imperial expansion deep into Central Eurasia, to today's tightening economic and political ties with Central Asia, the continental dimension of China's international relations has been and continues to be highly significant to China, the world, and China's position in the world—in ways often neglected when China is framed as an isolated civilization or exclusively as part of "East Asia." In his talk, Professor Millward will consider what China's historical relationship with continental Eurasia means both for our understanding of China's past and with regard to China today and in the future.
Description:
James A. Millward
Associate Professor of History, Walsh School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University
