By: Dr. Timothy Cheek (UBC), Dr. Josephine Chiu-Duke (UBC), Dr. Timothy Brook (UBC), Dr. Jeremy Brown (SFU), Dr. Christopher Rea (Chair)
About the Event
About the Author
Timothy Cheek is Professor and Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research at the Institute of Asian Research and Department of History at the University of British Columbia and Senior Fellow at St. John’s College. His research, teaching and translating focus on the recent history of China, especially the role of Chinese intellectuals in the twentieth century and the history of the Chinese Communist Party. His other books include Living with Reform: China Since 1989 (2006), Mao Zedong and China’s Revolutions (2002) and Propaganda and Culture in Mao’s China (1997), as well as edited volumes, Mao’s Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-1949, Vol. VIII with Stuart R. Schram (2015), A Critical Introduction to Mao (2010), New Perspectives on State Socialism in China (1997), with Tony Saich, The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao (1989) translated and edited with Roderick MacFarquhar and Eugene Wu, and China’s Establishment Intellectuals (1986), edited with Carol Lee Hamrin. In recent years Cheek has been working with some Chinese intellectuals to explore avenues of collaborative research and translation.
Dr. Jeremy Brown, Associate Professor, Department of History, SFU
Dr. Josephine Chiu-Duke, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, UBC
Dr. Timothy Brook, Professor, Department of History and Institute of Asian Research, UBC
Dr. Christopher Rea (Chair), Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies; Director, Centre for Chinese Research, UBC
The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History (Cambridge University Press, 2015) can be purchased at UBC Bookstore with 20% discount using provided sales form. The electronic version is also available in UBC Library.
Please RSVP here. Light refreshment is provided for registered participants. Book discount form can be downloaded here.
