Jottings from the Granite Studio

Professor Li Xiaojiang, of Zhejiang University, is a pioneer of women’s and gender studies in the PRC. She published Renlei jinbu yu funu jiefang (”Human progress and women’s liberation”) in 1983, one of the first scholarly articles in her field ever published in the PRC. In 1988, Professor Li wrote an essay analyzing the situation [...]

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This installment of History Lectures Online features a lecture given last year by Tsering Shakya (Tibet: Does history matter?) as part of a conference on Tibetan history sponsored by the Center for Buddhist Studies, the Center for Chinese Studies, and the Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. Professor Shakya is a professor of [...]

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