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Global China Humanities Series
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The Center launches its inaugural Global China Humanities Lecture Series in February 2021. We invite internationally renowned scholars and young, first-book authors to discuss their latest works on topics ranging from Cold War history, diaspora studies, global medicine to literature. READ MORE...
Global Hong Kong Speaker Series: Undongkwŏn as a Counterpublic Sphere in the South Korean Minjung Movement
Zoom
Looking at the South Korean student movement within the larger context of the minjung movement, this talk will focus on discursive strategies that constituted undongkwŏn (“the movement sphere”) as a counterpublic, the process through which an ordinary student entered the realm of undongkwŏn, the ways in which the undongkwŏn culture was created and maintained, and how the counterpublic sphere is related to the process of larger societal transformation. READ MORE...