Peter Perdue 12:30 p.m. Lunch Talk and 4:00 p.m Workshop
Peter Perdue 12:30 p.m. Lunch Talk and 4:00 p.m Workshop
During the month of February, the UMD Department of History will be conducting a series of interviews to hire a historian of pre-modern China. To learn more about the state of the field in Chinese History, the Department is inviting noted historian of China, Peter Perdue, to campus on February 3rd.
At 4:00 p.m. in Taliaferro 2110 Professor Peter Perdue (Yale) will present a paper titled "Transnational History and Comparative Imperial History: Ships Passing in the Night?" (PDF attached below). Professor Sarah Cameron will provide comments.
There will also be a lunchtime workshop for faculty and graduate students 12:30 noon-2:00 p.m. to discuss the state of Chine Studies in KEY2120 (the Merrill Room). To reserve lunch, rsvp to millercenter@umd.edu.
Peter Perdue focuses on East Asian environmental and frontier history. He is the author of Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850 A.D. (1987); China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (2005); and he is coeditor of two books on empires: Imperial Formations (2007) and Shared Histories of Modernity: China, India, and the Ottoman Empire (2008). His research interests lie in modern Chinese and Japanese social and economic history, history of frontiers, and world history. He is a recipient of the 1988 Edgerton Award and the James A. Levitan Prize at MIT. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.
Interview with Peter Perdue conducted by Yale's MacMillan Center
Amazon reviews of China Marches West
Harvard Press' website for China Marches West
Review of China Marches West by L. J. Newby in the Times Higher Education