London, UK
29–30th Nov 2018
2019 will mark the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, the world’s largest socialist society. Although popularly perceived as a rupture, historians have increasingly emphasised continuities across the 1949 divide, making the end of the Maoist system in 1978 a much more striking transition. The picture that emerges from the early PRC is one in which China is not a top-down totalitarian regime, but one enabled by ordinary people wishing to secure their place, including scientists, farmers, artists, and religious officials. By engaging with historians of the USSR, this conference will gather scholars of China offering new perspectives on the revolution, life under socialism, and the establishment of a new political order.
Conference convenors:
Professor Aaron William Moore, University of Edinburgh
Dr Jennifer Altehenger, King’s College London
Speakers and Discussants include:
Professor Jochen Hellbeck, Rutgers University
Professor Michael Schoenhals, Lund University
Dr Mary Augusta Brazelton, Cambridge University
Dr Robert Culp, Bard College
Dr Christine I. Ho, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Tickets are available to purchase through our website at britishacademy.ac.uk/conferences, with undergraduate and postgraduate students able to purchase tickets at the concessionary rate.