“China, 1854 to the Present: Radical Transformations"
Speaker: Douglas R. Reynolds, Professor of Chinese and Japanese History Georgia State University Sunday, May 18, 2014, 4:30 p.m.
Location: Agnes Scott College, Teasley Lecture Hall, Mary B. Bullock Science Center, E. Dougherty Street, Decatur, GA 30030
Doug Reynolds has taught at Georgia State University since 1980. He is the author of China, 1898-1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan (1993), and has lived in China, Taiwan and Japan for some twenty years. His new book – based on forty years of research starting with Carol Reynolds’s doctoral dissertation (Columbia University, 1976) – if entitled "East Meets East, Chinese Discover the Modern World in Japan, 1854-1898: A Window on the Intellectual and Social Transformation of Modern China" (March 2014). At the forum, Reynolds will talk about China in four parts: 1) 1854: why begin in 1854? 2) 1868-1898: Chinese discover a modern world in Japan – one filled with surprises; 3) intellectual and social changes inside China before 1898 –more surprises; and, finally, 4) China today – yet more surprises.
Follow the “US-China Special Event” signs to the lecture hall. Parking is available off Dougherty Street, in the parking deck on the west side of the campus and perhaps on the front circle.
Quarterly essays on greater China by scholars who study the region closely, plus notice of our Atlanta events. Published continuously since 2002.