Historians and Chinese World Order: Fairbank, Wang, and the Matter of ‘Indeterminate Relevance’
Paul Evans, Liu Faculty, UBC
June 12, 2009
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It is a great honour and daunting prospect to take part in this special event celebrating the career of a gifted and influential historian and academic superstar who I have admired, mainly from a distance, for many years. It has been said that the great issues the world faces are too important to be left to historians and too difficult to be left to political scientists. In my own case as someone operating at the outermost margins of both disciplines, it is a challenge to contribute to the discussion of where Chinese history, diplomatic practice and international theory intersect.
