Travels on the Revolution’s Edge: The Life and Times of Xu Ming (1920-2014)
Location
Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery
Date & Time
April 2, 2025, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Description
The Asian Studies Program presents
Travels on the Revolution’s Edge: The Life and Times of Xu Ming (1920-2014)
Xu Ming had many identities: coddled son of an elite family, patriotic activist,
underground Communist organizer, Clark University graduate student, New York-based journalist, land reform cadre, Korean War negotiator, diplomat, politically disgraced Rightist, rural laborer, small-town junior high basketball coach, globe-trotting government economic advisor, and eyewitness to the 1989 Tiananmen suppression.
This talk explores what we can learn from the life of a single individual about a canonical event of Big History: the Chinese Communist revolution.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of History.
This event is open for full
participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion,
sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable
federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.
Gail Hershatter is a Research Professor and Distinguished Professor Emerita of History at UC Santa Cruz and a former president of the Association for Asian Studies. Her books include The Workers of Tianjin (1986), Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (1997), The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past (2011), and Women and China's Revolutions (2019).
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