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西伯利亞的紅巫女 Red Witches in Siberia
張安德講堂 (LT-E)
氣候變遷和全球暖化在西伯利亞引發的許多症候，包括巨型野火和永久凍土層解凍，帶來許多後果尚難預料的新發展，歷史學家由此可以反思許多時間深處的問題，例如沉睡的病毒和細菌。 READ MORE...
H. G. Wells in search of China: Chinese intellectuals and the making of a universal history, 1919-1935
Room 3401 (Lift 2 / Lift 17-18)
The Outline of History by the English writer H. G. Wells (1866-1946), first published in 1920, was a bestseller and a cultural phenomenon during the interwar period. As a disciple of Thomas Huxley and Darwinism, Wells narrates a universal history from the origin and evolution of life and mankind to the aftermath of the Great War. The popularity of the Outline was not only a Western phenomenon. It also received widespread attention and popularity among Chinese readers. Although Wells had never been to China, he acquainted and interacted with several Chinese intellectuals, including Liang Qichao, Ding Wenjiang, Fu Ssunien and Chen Yuan, during his writing. They criticized, helped, and influenced Wells’s writing about China in the bestseller. In this presentation, I will use archival materials from the University of Illinois Library collections, such as correspondence between Chinese intellectuals and Wells, to reconstruct the details of interactions between Wells and his Chinese friends. They also reveal Well’s evolutionary epic of human history and cultural legacy in a wider global context. READ MORE...