The Rise of China and the End of the World as We Know It

  • CECIL AND IDA GREEN LECTURE
    Arif Dirlik, Independent Scholar, Eugene, OR, USA/Professor of History and Anthropology, Duke University, 1971-2001
    Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC
    Saturday, February 27, 8:15-9:30 pm
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    The Vancouver Institute Lectures
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  • Arif Dirlik

    Professor Dirlik, born in Turkey, is a former professor of Duke University, recently retired as ''Knight Professor of Social Science'' from the University of Oregon. He is a renowned sinologist as well as an accomplished social theorist. He is versed in the Chinese language and history as well as Marxism and postcolonialism. Professor Dirlik has long been devoted to research on modern Chinese history, especially Chinese revolution history. His works such as Revolution and History: Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919-1937, The Origins of Chinese Communism and Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution laid the foundation for Professor Dirlik to become a Chinese research authority in the Western academic field.

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When
February 27th, 2016 from  8:15 PM to  9:30 PM
Location
Lecture Hall No. 2
2194 Health Sciences Mall
Woodward Instructional Resources Centre
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
Canada
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