【讲座预告】China Talks: History and Memory

China Talks public lecture series

Tonight's China Talks public lecture will examine how history, and its interpretation, has shaped what it means to be Chinese. It will explore how this history has been constructed and how the notion of China's ‘5,000 years of history’ has come to be.

6pm, XJTLU Museum, Central Building. Come and join us!

Today's speaker, Ines Eben von Racknitz has taught in Germany and China. Her doctoral thesis, which was published as a book in 2012, investigated the allied British-French expedition of 1860 to China and the looting and burning of The Summer Palace in Beijing by British and French troops.

Her current research focusses on social and cultural history of late imperial China, investigating questions of colonialism and military history.

Date/Time: Wednesday 28 October 2015, 6pm (40 minutes lecture, 20 minutes Q&A)

Venue: Central Building, First Floor, XJTLU Museum, Room 123W, Xi’an Jiaotong-liverpool University

The lecture will be in English. For more information about the China Talks series visit www.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/events/chinatalks

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