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Steam Locomotive Railway at Yokohama Seaside (横浜海岸鉄道蒸気車図
Yokohama Kaigan Tetsudo Jokisha Zu), drawn by Utagawa Hiroshige III (三代歌川広重), 1874. |
Douglas R. Reynolds’s new book -
after forty years of research starting with Carol Reynolds’s doctoral
dissertation (Columbia, 1986) - has a long and layered title, East Meets East, Chinese Discover the Modern
World in Japan, 1854-1898: A Window on the Intellectual and Social
Transformation of Modern China (March 2014). At USCPFA’s Spring Forum, Doug
will talk about China in four parts: 1) 1854: why 1854? 2) 1868-98: Chinese
discover a modern world in Japan – filled with surprises; 3) intellectual and
social changes inside China before 1898
– more surprises; and, finally, 4) China today – more surprises yet.
Douglas Reynolds (Ph.D., Columbia University,
1976) is professor of Chinese and Japanese History at Georgia State University,
where he has taught since 1980. He is author of China, 1898-1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan (1993), and has
lived in China, Taiwan, and Japan for some twenty years. He has been a member
of USCPFA since 1974-75.
“Reminiscent of Teng and Fairbank’s classic China’s Response to the West, East Meets East introduces the reader to first-hand accounts of Japan up to the Sino-Japanese War by contemporary Chinese diplomats and other visitors. As such, it will be of interest to students in at least the three fields of Sino-Japanese relations, China’s Self-Strengthening Movement (its achievements and shortcomings), and, not least, the changing social composition of the Chinese scholar-official elite as exemplified by the authors of these accounts. The analysis is detailed, almost encyclopedic, and firmly rooted in current Chinese and Japanese scholarship.”
— Edward Rhoads 路康樂 Emeritus Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin
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Dr. Doug Reynolds, Yuntai Mountain Park
( 云台山园), Henan ( 河南), China |
Sunday, May 18, 2014 4:30PM
Agnes Scott College, Teasley Lecture Hall
M. Bullock Science Center, E. Dougherty St.
Decatur, GA, 30030
Look for the US-China Special Event Signs on Campus. Parking is available off Dougherty St.
For more information email shkkse@yahoo.com or call 770.949.5112
See the book cover details and come prepared! Purchase the book at this link.
