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2014-2015 Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture - Benjamin Elman

dc.contributor.authorElman, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorTong, Nguyet
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-19T17:48:33Z
dc.date.available2017-06-19T17:48:33Z
dc.date.issued2015-04
dc.descriptionvideo of lecture with presentation slides edited into video.en_US
dc.description.abstractInaugural Hu Shih Distinguish Lecture given by Professor Benjamin Elman (Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University) - "The Great Reversal: China, Korea, and Japan in the Early Modern World" April 10, 2015 The “rise of Japan” and the “fall of China” in the late 19th century are story lines that dominated Sinology and Japanology in the 20th century. In the inaugural Hu Shih Lecture, Benjamin Elman uses Japan’s victory in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 to indicate that in the 21st century we are entering new historical terrain vis-à-vis “modern” China and Japan. Wars and cultural history are inseparable. The competing/complementary narratives constructed by the victors and the losers of wars on the ground and at sea enshroud the past in a thick ideological fog. Seeing through the fog created by the “First” (or was it the “Second”? the “Third”?) Sino-Japanese War in 1894-95 allows us to place Sino-Japanese cultural interactions before 1894 in a new light with less teleology and fewer blind spots. The Meiji “rise of Japan” as event and narrative empowered uniquely “modernist” critiques of the “decadence” of Chinese art, traditional Chinese history, and conveniently provided Chinese revolutionaries with a “failed China” in a post-war East Asian world. For more information: eap.einaudi.cornell.edu/2014-2015-benjamin-elmanen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipCornell East Asia Programen_US
dc.description.viewer1_tc4plqe0en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/51494
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://vimeo.com/136342943en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/*
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.subjectJapanen_US
dc.subjectKoreaen_US
dc.subjecthistoryen_US
dc.subject19th centuryen_US
dc.title2014-2015 Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture - Benjamin Elmanen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Great Reversal: China, Korea, and Japan in the Early Modern Worlden_US
dc.typevideo/moving imageen_US

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