Chinese Reforms in Historical and Comparative Perspective

Colloquium | November 12 | 4-6 p.m. | Faculty Club, Heyns Room

Speaker: Prasenjit Duara, Raffles Professor of Humanities, National University of Singapore

Sponsors: Chinese Studies, Center for (CCS), Elvera Kwang Siam Lim Memorial Lecture

A look at the last 30 years of reform in China in both a global, comparative perspective and a Chinese historical one. The speaker will explore the long-term role
of the cultural nexus of power in creating an entrepreneurial local culture as well as long-term patterns of state-society relations.

Event Contact: Elinor Levine, ccs@berkeley.edu, 510-643-6321