A joint initiative between the University of Bergen
and CMI – Chr. Michelsen Institute
Welcome to a guest lecture on the modern Muslim encounter with China.
Photo: Mīrzā Mohammed Malek al-Kuttāb Shīrāzī, Ketāb Mirāt al-Zamān dar Tārīkh-e Chīn va Māchīn va Japān, Bombay: Dut Prasad Press, 1893. How in modern times did the Muslims of India and the Middle East understand China? What enabled such inter-Asian understanding? And what were the barriers, and misapprehensions?
This lecture with Nile Green addresses these questions by looking at the century between around 1840 and 1940, when empire, steam, and print brought these different regions of Asia into closer contact than ever before. This richly illustrated lecture draws on his book How Asia Found Herself, which recently won the World History Association’s Bentley Prize.
Light snacks will be served.
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Nile Green holds the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at UCLA. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of nine monographs and seven edited volumes, most recently How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding (Yale, 2022).
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Nile Green holds the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at UCLA. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of nine monographs and seven edited volumes, most recently How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding (Yale, 2022).
Bergen Global is a joint initiative between the University of Bergen and Chr. Michelsen Institute that addresses global challenges.
