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SUMMARY: Bo Xilai and the Cultural Revolution
DESCRIPTION: Since the trial of Bo Xilai in 2013\, there has been no offici
 al discussion in China on the possible differences in political strategy wh
 ich might exist between Bo Xilai and Xi Jinping. This presentation will ana
 lyze Bo Xilai’s Cultural Revolution experience as well as the discussions o
 n various Chinese blogs to test the hypothesis that […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p>Since the trial of Bo Xilai in 2013\, ther
 e has been no official discussion in China on the possible differences in p
 olitical strategy which might exist between Bo Xilai and Xi Jinping. This p
 resentation will analyze Bo Xilai’s Cultural Revolution experience as well 
 as the discussions on various Chinese blogs to test the hypothesis that Bo’
 s strategy is based on an assessment of the Cultural Revolution which is di
 fferent from mainstream discourse in the PRC.</p><h2>Speaker</h2><p><strong
 >Professor Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (University of Vienne)</strong></p>
 <p>Professor of Sinology at the Department for East Asian Studies of the Un
 iversity of Vienna\, Austria\, since October 2010 Dean of the Faculty for P
 hilological and Cultural Studies. Her work in on Chinese historiography foc
 uses on the political and intellectual situation in the Chinese world\, as 
 well the official and the unofficial historiography of the Cultural Revolut
 ion. Publishes in German\, Chinese and English on CCP Party history writing
 \, Chinese historiography\, and politics and memory in China\, including  <
 em>Post-Cold War History and Identity in Europe and East Asia</em>\, “Re-Im
 agining the Chinese Peasant: The Historiography on the Great Leap Forward” 
 and <em>As China Meets the World. China’s Changing Position in the Internat
 ional Community.</em></p><h2><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/q75tKpPnptruzHgp
 2">RSVP</a> | <a href="https://ccr.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2017/03/0313-Susa
 nne.jpg">POSTER</a></h2>
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