Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations

Date: 

Mon - Wed, May 1 to May 3, 4:00am - 6:00am

Location: 

Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Annual Edwin O. Reischauer Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the Asia Center, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Korea Institute
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Odd Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard University

Lecture 1 (May 1, 4:00 pm): “China and Korea from 1392 (The Beginning of the Choson State) to the Late 19th Century”
Discussant: Kirk Larsen, Associate Professor, Department of History, Brigham Young University
Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street

Lecture 2 (May 2, 4:00 pm): “China and Korea in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”
Discussant: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University
Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street

Lecture 3 (May 3, 4:00 pm): “Contemporary China and the Two Koreas”
Discussant: Sung Yoon Lee, Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor at The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street