Publication ann: A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination
I'm pleased to announce the publication of my new book, A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2023).
H-PRC is the H-Net presence of the PRC History Group, a network of scholars with interests in the history of the People’s Republic of China. We define history broadly, to encompass a wide variety of disciplinary approaches, and we understand the history of the PRC to include eras prior to the official change of state power in 1949.
Recent Discussions
Online Lecture: Red Sun, Red Star, Red Cross: Japanese Nurses and Doctors in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army
The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes Dr. James Stone Lunde for a lecture on the experiences of Japanese members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. When WWII ended in Asia, millions of Imperial Japanese settlers, soldiers, and civilians were evacuated from the former Japanese colonies. With US assistance, the former colonists undertook the perilous journey back to the home islands of Japan in one of the largest refugee operations in history.
New Issue of Revisiting the Revolution
The PRC History Group and History Labs are delighted to announce the April 2023 issue of Revisiting the Revolution. In this issue, Mark Czellér translates Li Fangchun’s “What Is It to ‘Explain Antiquity’? On the Classics, History, and Dao of the Chinese Revolution.”
Announcing two new collections in the Maoist Legacy Database
Dear PRC History community,
In the last few months, we've added two new collections to the Maoist Legacy Database! Descriptions are below. Both collections can be accessed by logging in to the main site (www.maoistlegacy.de) and choosing them from the "Collections" menu.
The Andew G. Walder Hong Kong Interviews (86 items)
Book Talk: Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China
The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes John Delury for a discussion on his book
AAS Boston Pre-session Breakfast and Roundtable
If you are in town, I would very much like to invite you to our pre-session breakfast social 7:30am-8:30am on
New Issue of Revisiting the Revolution
The PRC History Group and History Labs are delighted to announce the February 2023 issue of Revisiting the Revolution. In this issue, Jonathan Henshaw (Academica Sinica) and Shi Yifan (East China Normal University) translate Li Gongzhong’s “Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum: The Making of a Political Symbol in Modern China.”
Call for Papers – Chinese Science Fiction Cinema A special issue of Journal of Chinese Film Studies（De Gruyter）
Guest editor: Professor Carlos Rojas, Duke University
Special Issue of the PRC History Review Book Review Series
The PRC History group is pleased to announce a new special issue of the PRC History Review book review series. In his review essay, “What Was the Cultural Revolution?”, Christopher Connery examines Alessandro Russo’s long engagement with the politics of the Cultural Revolution, focusing on his recent book, Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture (Duke University Press, 2020).
New Issue of the PRC History Review Book Review Series
The PRC History Group is pleased to announce a new issue of the PRC History Review Book Review Series. Mei Li Inouye reviews Lingchei Letty Chen's The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2020), with a response by the author. http://prchistory.org/the-prc-history-review/