A Conversation Between China and the West
I first visited China in 1992. Studying in the Manchurian city of Harbin, I saw a grim, post-industrial present but a remarkably vibrant past that opened windows onto the ways that Chinese and western cultures had influenced one another to create something unique.
I went to graduate school not only to study the history of China, but to learn how to find, research, and share stories that shed light on China’s past. Since my time at Yale, and in my work as a professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, I’ve focused on the interaction between China and the West by writing, teaching, and researching smaller moments that illuminate the big story of Chinese-Western relations. These stories have included the travels of a Buddhist monk around China, from Manchuria to Hong Kong, basketball games turned violent at the Harbin YMCA in the 1920s, and most recently, the Shanghai Champions’ Stakes of 1941.
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