History in focus
| Plaques of the champion scholar, the runner-up scholar and the third in the imperial examination. Provided to China Daily |
In the presentation Rethinking Sino-European Comparative History, Dr. Hilde de Weerdt discusses the representation of Chinese history in comparative studies of pre-eighteenth-century empires.
After a critical overview of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary trends, she will focus on three methodological problems in the comparative history, historical sociology, and political science of pre-industrial empires.
De Weerdt teaches Chinese and comparative history at King's College London. Her past and current research focuses on imperial Chinese political culture, information technologies, social networks, and intellectual history.
Her publications include Competition Over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127-1276) (Harvard University Asia Center, 2007) and Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print--China, Tenth-Fourteenth Centuries (with Lucille Chia, Brill, 2011).
Date: Feb 25
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings Room: G50, University of London
Website: www.soas.ac.uk
(China Daily 01/18/2013 page31)
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