Date: Wednesday 2 November 2022
Time: 12.30 – 1.30pm AEST
Location: Online and In-Person at the China Studies Centre, Level 7, Jane Foss Russell Building (G02), The University of Sydney, 156 City Road, Darlington NSW 2006
The Bookworm Series by the China Studies Centre
About this event
Frontier Fieldwork: Building a Nation on China’s Borderlands, 1919-45
Frontier Fieldwork explores the work of social scientists, agriculturists, photographers, students, and missionaries who took to the field on China’s southwestern border at a time when foreign political powers were contesting China’s claims over these frontier regions. In the early twentieth century, when the threat of imperialism loomed large in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands, these fieldworkers undertook a nation-building exercise to unite a disparate, multi-ethnic population at the periphery of the country. Drawing on Chinese and Western materials, Andres Rodriguez exposes the transformative power of the fieldworkers’ efforts, which went beyond creating new forms of political action and identity.
About the speaker
Andres Rodriguez is lecturer in Modern Chinese History at the University of Sydney.
Find out more about the book and get your copy here.