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
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
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/
Call of Applications: MA in Modern China Studies, University of Freiburg (+ Zoom info session details)
Dear all:
I am planning to hold two info sessions on Zoom about our MA program in a few weeks (see below). I would appreciate it if you could pass along this info to any students you might have who are looking for an affordable MA program in our field!
All best,
Amanda
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Call for Applications: MA in Modern China Studies, University of Freiburg (Germany)
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. Siting Jiang reviews Andrew Jones's Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s (Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 2020), with a response by the author. http://prchistory.org/the-prc-history-review/
New Issue of Revisiting the Revolution
The PRC History Group and History Labs are delighted to announce the December 2022 issue of Revisiting the Revolution. In this issue, Morgan Rocks (College of the Holy Cross) and Jiaqi Yao (UBC) translate Song Shaopeng’s “Gender and Class in the Soviet Area Women’s Movement.”
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. Sarah Chang reviews Jason Kelly's Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021), with a response by the author. http://prchistory.org/the-prc-history-review/