Work Shop: The Discourse of Civilization in Global History
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Opening Remarks: Lydia H. Liu (Columbia University)
Panel One: The Making of the Modern World in the Discourse of Civilization
Chairperson: Wang Hui (Tsinghua University)
Tang Xiaofeng (Peking University): Age of Discovery, the Discourse of Civilization, and National Territory
Cheng Danyang (Peking University): The Discourse of Civilization, Nationalism and the Remaking of Modern Conception of Geography in Modern China
Lydia H. Liu (Columbia University): The Discourse of Civilization and International Law
Panel Two: The Discourse of Civilization and Colonial Historiography
Chairperson: Li Tuo (Columbia University)
Guo Shuanglin (Renmin University): The Dissemination of the Western Discourse of Civilization in Modern China
Luo Gang (Tsinghua University): The Making of Classics in Wang Guowei's Renjian cihua
Liu Daxian (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences): The Historical Transformation of the "Other" and Chinese Anthropology
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Panel Three: The Cognitive Mechanism of the Discourse of Civilization
Chairperson: Lin Chun (London School of Economics)
Jing Jiang (Reed College): The Modern Visual Mechanism and the Discourse of Civilization
Liang Zhan (Beijing International Studies University): Body and the Hierarchy of Civilizations: Anatomy, Foot Binding and the West's Colonial Imagination in the 19th Century
Zhao Jinghua (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences): The Production of Knowledge on China and the "Orient" in Modern Japan
Roundtable Discussion:
Chair: Wang Zhongchen (Tsinghua University)
