CCS Special Presentation: "China as a Eurasian Subcontinent: Perspectives on the Past and Future"
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
Host Department: Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
James A. Millward Associate Professor of History, Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University
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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.
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