Date: Thursday 9 June 2022
Time: 5.30-7.00pm
Location (hybrid): Online & Seminar Room, China in the World Building (188), Fellows Lane ANU
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About the event:
Research on Chinese elite politics has never been easy – not only have outside observers often struggled to accurately grasp the nature of Chinese politics, but even the highest-ranking Chinese officials have commonly misunderstood each other’s intentions. Now, Chinese President Xi Jinping sees competing narratives about the CCP’s past as existential threats to regime security. Yet, counterintuitively, the field remains far behind exploiting the sources that are now available for studying the history of Chinese elite politics. In this talk, Torigian will explain how collections of primary sources at American and Australian libraries, digital databases, party history journals, books published outside of censorship in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and a variety of other sources make research into Chinese leaders possible even now.
A professional association for China specialists and post-graduate students in Australia
