Backward Toward Revolution: A Festschrift to Celebrate the Scholarship of Professor Edward Friedman
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday, October 24, 2009 | 8:45AM - 5:30PM | The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place |
Description
Detailed program and papers are available on event website.
Edward Friedman is one of the world’s foremost scholars on the politics of China and Asia. Throughout a half century of publications, lectures, speeches, and research projects, Professor Friedman has profoundly influenced the intellectual lives of countless people, and made a major mark on the politics of China and Asia. This event will offer friends and colleagues an opportunity to celebrate Friedman’s career of scholarship and to join together to consider the enduring themes that his work addresses. The festschrift will take place over a day-long conference at the Asian Institute of the University of Toronto. Speakers and participants will be coming from across Canada, the US, Asia, Europe and Australia.
Edward Friedman is the author of over one hundred articles and book chapters. He has also published over a dozen books, including Backward Toward Revolution: The Chinese Revolutionary Party (California); Ascent and Decline in the World System (Sage); Chinese Village, Socialist State (Yale; winner of the AAS award for best book on modern China); Revolution, Resistance and Reform in Village China (Yale); National Identity and Democratic Prospects in Socialist China (M.E. Sharpe); among many others. Professor Friedman’s writings are controversial, and this festschrift is intended to be a critical celebration of his works, an opportunity to engage the big and important questions he has constantly asked, and the answers that he has given. The thematic focuses of the conference comprise: (i) Maoism, Revolution and the Rural; (ii) Party and the State; (iii) Nationalism and National Identity; (iv) Taiwan; and (v) Democracy.
Speakers to include:
David Bachman
Jean-Pierre Cabestan
Tun-Jen Cheng
Yinghong Cheng
John Coleman
Sam Crane
John Dower
Chongyi Feng
Lisa Fischler
Susan Stanford Friedman
Bruce Gilley
Jian Guo
Rowena He
Timothy Hildebrandt
Richard Kagan
Daniel Lynch
Stephen Manning
Barrett McCormick
Phil Midland
David Ost
John Rapp
Shelley Rigger
James Scott
Sarah Swider
Michael Szonyi
Ralph Thaxton
Steve Tsang
June Teufel Dreyer
Vincent Wang
Joseph Wong
Suisheng Zhao
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