EVENT DETAILS

A China and the World Workshop: Myths, Machines, and Modernity - A Two-Part Presentation Followed by Discussion

Act One: Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s “Remembering, Forgetting, and Imagining the Boxer Crisis of 1899-1901”

Act Two: Thomas Mullaney’s “The Global History of the Chinese Typewriter”

A public event sponsored by the UCI Humanities Collective, the UCI History Department, and the UC System’s World History MRU

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is the author, most recently of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (OUP 2010), Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies, and Chair of the UCI History Department.

Thomas Mullaney is the author of Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China (UC Press 2010), Winner of the Best First Book Award of the Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA, and an Assistant Professor at Stanford University.

(Dr. Mullaney’s visit to Southern California is made possible in part by support from the Bowers Museum and the Huntington Library, where he will also be speaking while in the area.)

For information and further details, email jwassers@uci.edu.