Interdisciplinary Lunchtime Seminar

From the Hills of China to the Streets of Europe: Southern Zhejiangnese Emigration in the Twentieth Century

In-person & Zoom
2023-03-21 12:30:002023-03-21 13:30:00Asia/Hong_KongFrom the Hills of China to the Streets of Europe: Southern Zhejiangnese Emigration in the Twentieth Century

Interdisciplinary Lunchtime Seminar
From the Hills of China to the Streets of Europe: Southern Zhejiangnese Emigration in the Twentieth Century

Dr. Xiaoxuan Wang
(Assistant Professor, Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Date/Time: March 21, 2023 | 12:30 – 1:30 pm (HK Time)
Venue: Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong, or Via Zoom
Language: English
Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk

    2023-03-21 12:30:002023-03-21 13:30:00Asia/Hong_KongFrom the Hills of China to the Streets of Europe: Southern Zhejiangnese Emigration in the Twentieth Century

    Interdisciplinary Lunchtime Seminar
    From the Hills of China to the Streets of Europe: Southern Zhejiangnese Emigration in the Twentieth Century

    Dr. Xiaoxuan Wang
    (Assistant Professor, Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

    Date/Time: March 21, 2023 | 12:30 – 1:30 pm (HK Time)
    Venue: Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong, or Via Zoom
    Language: English
    Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk

      Overview

      Title:

      From the Hills of China to the Streets of Europe: Southern Zhejiangnese Emigration in the Twentieth Century

      Speaker:

      Dr. Xiaoxuan Wang (Assistant Professor, Centre for China Studies, CUHK)

      Date/Time:

      March 21, 2023 | 12:30 – 1:30 pm (HKT) / March 20, 2023 | 9:30 – 10:30 pm (PDT)

      Venue:

      Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong (Map), or
      Via Zoom

      Language:

      English

      Enquiry:

      Title:

      From the Hills of China to the Streets of Europe: Southern Zhejiangnese Emigration in the Twentieth Century

      Speaker:

      Dr. Xiaoxuan Wang (Assistant Professor, Centre for China Studies, CUHK)

      Date/Time:

      March 21, 2023 | 12:30 – 1:30 pm (HKT) / March 20, 2023 | 9:30 – 10:30 pm (PDT)

      Venue:

      Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong (Map), or
      Via Zoom

      Language:

      English

      Enquiry:

      Abstract

      In this talk Dr. Xiaoxuan Wang will present preliminary ideas and findings from his ongoing project. This project explores the formation of European Chinese communities, focusing on people of southern Zhejiang origin, who make up the lion’s share of Chinese in continental Europe today. The project asks: If the construction of southern Zhejiang European communities underline efforts to construct a transnational life beyond the nation-state, what role did the Chinese state, especially the Republican and PRC governments, play in the transnationalism of southern Zhejiang people? The experience of European Chinese, especially its history, has been far less explored and understood than that of Chinese in Southeast Asia or America. The project hopes to provide a unique perspective on the intricate relations between transnationalism, localism and the state that have made and continue to make the Chinese overseas in the modern day.

      About the Speaker

      Xiaoxuan Wang is a social historian of modern China. He is broadly interested in the question of how China’s modern encounter with the West and the ensuing reforms and revolutions have transformed the ways that ordinary Chinese people live, move, organize and interact with the state. His first book, Maoism and Grassroots Religion, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. His latest project concerns the history of Chinese emigration in the twentieth century.

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