Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 Thinking through Confucius at a Time of Crisis: The Diary of Jin Yufu, 1937-1957

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Tuesday, April 27, 20101:30PM - 3:00PMSeminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place

Description

Jin Yufu (1887-1962) was one of the foremost historians of twentieth-century China and was closely associated with the region of Northeast China. Prof. Annping China will examine his what his diary can teach us about how such a man contended with such events as the anti-Japanese War, the rise of the Chinese Communists, and the anti-Rightist campaign.

Annping Chin received her PhD from Columbia University in 1984. She has taught at Wesleyan and now Yale University. Among her books include:

Children of China: Voices from Recent Years (1989)
Tai Chen on Mencius (1990)
Chinese Century: A Photographic History of the Last Hundred Years (1996)
Four Sisters of Hofei (2002)
The Authentic Confucius: A Life of Thought and Politics (2007)


Speakers

Annping Chin
Department of History, Yale University


Sponsors

York University's East Asian Studies Program

York Centre for Asian Research

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