Surprising (and pleasing) is the fact that the formidable Linda Cooke Johnson - the author of two indispensable books, Shanghai: From Market Town to Treaty Port, 1074-1858 (1995) and Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China (1993) - started her academic career in Chinese history quite late...

Linda Cooke Johnson

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CfP: "Worlds Apart? Futures of Global History" (Conference, Vienna, 25/26 May 2023) - link

Global history has come under scrutiny in recent years. Critics have bemoaned the field’s failure to overcome colonial attitudes and Eurocentric perspectives. Originally intended as a corrective to the shortcomings of Western scientific thought, the field has ( Read more... )

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Wang Zhicheng (汪之成, Ван Чжичэн) is the author of books on the Russian culture, such as “История русской эмиграции в Шанхае // 上海俄侨史” and the bilingual “Карта русской культуры Шанхая // 上海的俄国文化地图”.



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There is no China studies shelf without Jonathan D. Spence’s books. He was a star - and even looked like one. I was still years away from setting my foot in China when The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci (1985) appeared on my graduate school’s curriculum (a class on semiotics!). The Question of Hu (2011), The Death of Woman Wang (1979) and God’s ( Read more... )