Topic:A New Explorationto the Issue ofChinese discovering the Americas
Time:7:00 pm, May 18 (Friday), 2018
Venue: Room 217, Teaching building of School of Law and Humanities, East Campus
Lecturer: Chen Zhongping
Lecturer introduction:Chen Zhongping receivedhis BAandMAdegrees in history from Nanjing University in 1981 and 1984respectively. He has studied economic history in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and published more than 20 papers. In 1987, he received the first Youth Social Science Research Fund from the State Education Commission. After receivinghisPhD from the University of Hawaii in 1998, he taught at McGill University andthe University ofToronto in Canada. In 2002, he began teaching at the History Department of Victoria University, where he is now a professor and doctoralsupervisor.
Hismain researchinterests involvethe socio-economic history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the socio-political history of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and the general history of global Chinese immigrants.
The main academic achievements include dozens of academic papers in English and Chinese, one each in Chinese and English (co-editors),books bothin Chinese and English, includinghisrepresentativeswork:Modern China's Network Revolution: Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century (Stanford University Press, 2011). In recent years,he aseditor-in-chief has written the book "Toward a Multicultural Global History: Zheng He's Western Journeyand the Relationship between China and the Indian Ocean" Published by Beijing Sanlian Bookstorepublisherin 2017.
Lecture Introduction: This lecture systematically examines and reviews past issues of Chinese and Western scholars through North American inscriptions and Chinese and foreign documents to examine the issue of Chinese discovering the Americas prior to Columbus from the pre-Qin period to the early-MingDynasty, and emphasizes on theanalysis and reflection onthe contribution and influence of the history of the globalization of the old and the new continentfrom the perspective of the new network theory.
All are welcome!
School of Law and Humanties
May 16, 2018
[Translated by Lv Bo]
