'RACE AND RELATION: CHINA AND THE GLOBAL 60S' IS TOPIC OF NEXT CSUSB MODERN CHINA LECTURE

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – UCLA professor Shu-mei Shih will discuss “Race and Relation: China and the Global 60s” at Cal State San Bernardino’s Modern China Lecture Series presentation on Friday, Jan. 29.
Shih’s talk will take place in the John M. Pfau Library room PL-4005 from noon-2 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public; parking at CSUSB is $6 per vehicle.
This lecture will critically examine China’s role in the racial formation of the world during the so-called “Global 60s,” when Afro-Asian solidarity as well as Third World alliance were widely celebrated.
“This is an opportunity to hear from one of the preeminent scholars of Chinese literature,” said Jeremy Murray, coordinator of the lecture series and an assistant professor of history at CSUSB. “She is a leading voice in the field, and we’re very excited about her visit.”
Shih, a professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature as well as Asian American Studies at UCLA, has published several works. She is the author of “The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937” (2001), “Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific” (2007), editor of the special issue “Comparative Racialization” for PMLA (2008), co-editor of “Minor Transnationalism” (2005), “The Creolization of Theory” (2011), “Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader” (2013), and “Comparatizing Taiwan” (2015).
The Modern China Lecture Series was initiated to promote awareness of important issues related to China for those on the CSUSB campus and in the community. In 16 lectures, workshops, and roundtable forums since January 2014, China scholars from UC San Diego, UC Riverside, the Claremont Colleges, UCLA, and other institutions have visited the CSUSB campus to share their expertise and opinions.
Speakers have included specialists in history, economics, political science, philosophy, finance, security studies, literature, anthropology, and other fields.
The Modern China Lecture Series is sponsored by the CSUSB History Club/Phi Alpha Theta Chapter, the CSUSB Department of History, the Intellectual Life Fund, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the College of Extended Learning, the John M. Pfau Library, the College of Business and Pubic Administration, the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology, and the University Diversity Committee.

For more information on the Jan. 29 event or the Modern China Lecture Series, contact Jeremy Murray, assistant history professor, at (909) 537-5540 or jmurray@csusb.edu.

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