The Institute for Chinese Studies, in partnership with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, presents our local speaker of the 2018 CHINA Town Hall::
Kristin Stapleton
Professor, Department of History
University of Buffalo, SUNY
"Some Good Persons of Sichuan: A Provincial Perspective on Twentieth-Century Chinese History"
Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 5:00-6:00 pm
McPherson Chemical Laboratory, Room 1015
140 W 18th Avenue
Abstract: If Sichuan were a country, it would be the eighteenth most populous in the world today (provided several other Chinese provinces and some Indian states weren’t also added to the list). Its fascinating history, however, has not received proportionate attention, even within China. This talk offers an overview of Sichuan’s twentieth-century history, focusing on divergences and convergences with conventional narratives of Chinese national history and the experiences of other parts of China. It will focus on the lives of several interesting—if not necessarily good—Sichuan natives to raise questions about the importance of provincial and regional identities across the last 120 years.
Bio: Kristin Stapleton teaches history at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and edits the journal Twentieth-Century China. She is the author of two books on the west China city of Chengdu, most recently Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family (Stanford 2016). She is a long-time contributor to and editorial board member of Education About Asia, the teaching journal of the Association for Asian Studies, and a member of the first cohort of the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
Photo: Chengdu, Sichuan, in the 1920s. Photograph courtesy of the Mullett family.
Professor Stapleton's lecture is followed by the second part of the CHINA Town Hall, NCUSCR's interactive, national webcast at 6:00-6:45 pm:
National Webcast Speaker: The Honorable Condoleezza Rice, 66th U.S. Secretary of State
- Interviewed by Mr. Stephen A. Orlins, President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 6:00-6:45 pm
McPherson Chemical Laboratory, Room 1015
140 W 18th Avenue
Condoleezza Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States, the second woman and first African American woman to hold the post. She also served as President George W. Bush’s Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) from January 2001 to 2005, the first woman to hold the position.
Secretary Rice is currently the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, and professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is also a founding partner of RiceHadleyGates, LLC.
The Institute for Chinese Studies at The Ohio State University is a local partner for the two-part event of the 2018 CHINA Town Hall:featuring a local speaker, Professor Kristin Stapleton, and a national webcast speaker for discussion and Q&A on the complex Sino-American relationship, Former Secretary Condoleezza Rice. The national webcast reaches audiences at the local venue in Columbus, Ohio, and at 70+ more locations across the United States.
This fall is the ninth year that the Institute for Chinese Studies at The Ohio State University has been a local partner of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (NCUSCR) in sponsoring their annual CHINA Town Hall - Local Connections, National Reflections.
Free and Open to the Public
This event is sponsored in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.
