Spotlight on China

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The Great Reversal: The "Rise of Japan" and the "Fall of China" after 1895 as Historical Fables	The 2011 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures Undoing/Redoing Modern Sino-Japanese Cultural and Intellectual History, Benjamin A. Elman, Princeton University From Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies watch a lecture on the "rise of Japan" and the "fall of China" in the late nineteenth century are story lines that dominated Sinology and Japanology in the twentieth century. In the first lecture, Benjamin Elman will use a 2006 website controversy concerning Japan's victory in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 to indicate that in the twenty-first century we are entering new historical terrain vis-à-vis "modern" China and Japan. Wars and cultural history are inseparable. The competing/complementary narratives constructed by the victors and the losers of wars on the ground and at sea enshroud the past in a thick ideological fog. Seeing through the fog created by the "First" (or was it the "Second"? the "Third"?) Sino-Japanese War in 1894-95 allows us to place Sino-Japanese cultural interactions before 1894 in a new light with less teleology and fewer blind spots. The Meiji "rise of Japan" as event and narrative empowered uniquely "modernist" critiques of the "decadence" of Chinese art, traditional Chinese history, and conveniently provided Chinese revolutionaries with a "failed China" in a post-war East Asian world.	4015 views
The Politics and Ethics of the Rise of China: David Kang	This is a lecture from the lecture series The Politics and Ethics of the Rise of China hosted by the Ethics and Public Life program of Cornell University. More information can be found at: http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/rwm5/riseofchina/ David Kang (University of Southern California) lectures on the Impact of China's Rise on International Relatons and Regional Stability. This lecture took place at Cornell University on January 30, 2012.	764 views
Learning About Chinese Politics: Area Studies, Theory and Local Knowledge	Producing Knowledge about China: Social Science Perspectives Roundtable: Learning About Chinese Politics: Area Studies, Theory and Local Knowledge Moderator: Wen-hsin Yeh, Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, Haas Chair in East Asian Studies, Morrison Chair in History, University of California, Berkeley The Peephole Method: Producing Ethnographic Knowledge about Rural China Hans Steinmüller, Research Fellow, Department II Socialist and Post‐Socialist Eurasia, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Local People Producing Local Knowledge John Kennedy, Associate Professor, University of Kansas, and co-director of the Northwest Socio-economic Development Research Center (NSDRC), Xian, China Studying Chinese Politics in an Age of Specialization Kevin OBrien, Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies & Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley This event was sponsored by Institute of East Asian Studies and Center for Chinese Studies http://bci.berkeley.edu/	1809 views