China Research Center Annual Lecture:
Dr. Tani E. Barlow, T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Asian Studies, Rice University, will present
“China in the World, and the World in China,”
Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, 7:00 pm, at Agnes Scott College, Lower Evans Hall.
This event is free and open to the public.
In this presentation, renowned China scholar Tani Barlow will share her insights into questions of leadership and inequality in China today, paying particular attention to the geopolitical frameworks commonly invoked to explain China’s place in the world, such as the Washington Consensus and the Beijing Consensus. This discussion will aim to help the audience understand the limitations of global-scale geopolitics. By using film clips and statistics, she will demonstrate both the depth of the problems facing the People’s Republic of China and the fascinating way in which the government infrastructure plans for the future and recruits proficient officials at every level. In conclusion, she will discuss the world-scale nature of problems in China, arguing for the need of people in the United States to grasp the extent of these problems and the range of solutions being put forward.
Dr. Tani Barlow has a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Davis. Her areas of interest include Modern Chinese Intellectual History, feminist theory and gender and social science. She taught at the University of Washington for many years before joining the faculty at Rice University and assuming the leadership of the Chao Center for Asian Studies. Her many publications include The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism (Duke University Press, 2004); “Event, Abyss, Excess: the Event of Women in Chinese Commercial Advertisement, 1910s-1930s,” in differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies, 24:2 (2013); and “Wanting Some: Natural Science, Social Science and Consumerism,” in Women in China: The Republican Period in Historical Perspective, Mechthild Leutner and Nikola Spakowski, eds. (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2005).
Dr. Barlow’s lecture is the keynote speech for the Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2014 program: “China: Tradition and Transformation: A Joint Conference of Agnes Scott College & Emory University”; Keynote Thursday evening, panels Friday and Saturday.
Conference information: Conference Flyer; CI Conference Program Public
