BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//School of Public Policy and Global Affairs//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sppga.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:School of Public Policy and Global Affairs - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20241206T0200Z-1733450423.2919-EO-51760-5@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260711T142525Z CREATED:20241206T003517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250107T182933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250106T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250106T193000 SUMMARY: Rethinking Wartime Yan’an – Toward a Social History of China’s Hol y Land DESCRIPTION: CCR is excited to present a talk by Professor. Joseph Esherick focusig which delves into his new book titled "Accidental Holy Land". X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Centre for Chinese Research is excited to present a talk by Professor. Joseph Esherick (Professor Emeritus of His tory\, University of California at San Diego).

About The Talk:

In his book Accidental Holy Land\, Prof. Joseph Esherick examined the rise of the Communist movement in Northwest China. After arriving in S haan-Gan-Ning in 1935\, the Communist Center transformed a ragtag guerrilla movement into a powerful political-military force that by the end of World War II was able to defeat Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government and rul e China since 1949. All accounts agree that the Yan’an years were critical to the Communist victory\, but what exactly was Yan’an like during the eigh t-year War of Resistance? Most accounts have focused on the rise of Mao Zed ong and the rectification movement of 1942-44\, but what about the years fr om 1937 to 1941? Can social history get beyond tired conventions of cave li ving and millet gruel? What exactly was the socio-political process that tr ansformed Yan’an and eventually China?

About the Speaker:

Joseph W. Esherick received his B.A. from Harv ard in 1964 and his PhD from Berkeley in 1971. His scholarship has focused on the last years of the Qing dynasty and the social and political transfor mation of modern China. His dissertation and first monograph\, Reform and Revolution in China: the 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei explored the social background of China’s republican revolution. His book on The Origins of the Boxer Uprising won the John K. Fair bank Prize of the American Historical Association and the Joseph R. Levenso n Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. Ancestral Leaves explored the tumultuous history of nineteenth and twentieth-century China through the l ives of successive generations of one family. His new monograph\, Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China\, is a study of the founding of the Shaan-Gan-Ning border region of northwest China. In edited volumes\, Esherick has analyzed Chinese local e lites\, the transformation of Chinese cities\, American policy toward China during World War II\, the Cultural Revolution\, and the transition from em pire to nation in comparative perspective\, and the year 1943 in China. Aft er forty years of teaching at the University of Oregon and the University o f California at San Diego\, Esherick retired in 2012 and now lives in Berke ley\, California.

 

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