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Of Concepts and History: Critiques of the Economic in 1930s-1940s China

Talk by REBECCA KARL (New York University)

Thursday, January 07, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA United States

Rebecca Karl (Associate Professor of History, New York University) received her PhD in History from Duke University in 1995. Her Research includes a completed book project on modern Chinese intellectual history, with a focus on nationalism at the turn of the twentieth century; and ongoing projects on gender and citizenship at the turn of the twentieth century; contemporary Chinese film, historical consciousness, and historiographical debates; issues in contemporary Chinese intellectual and social life; 1920s and 1930s Chinese economic thought and the problem of "semi-colonialism"; contemporary critical theory; comparative history. All of the work highlights the various global contexts--economic, intellectual, cultural--of modern and contemporary China and is intended as an extended working out of the relationship between critical theories of modernity and modern Chinese history.
 

Among Professor Karl’s publications are:

Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2002.

Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Modern China, co-editor (with Peter Zarrow); Harvard University, Council on East Asian Publications 2002.

Marxism beyond Marxism, co-editor (with Saree Makdisi and Cesare Casarino), Routledge 1996.