Event
Annenberg Seminar in History (Virtual)
Mengliu Cheng, University of Pennsylvania, Shang (Kaho) Yasuda, University of Pennsylvania, Moderator: Daniel Richter, University of Pennsylvania
Graduate Work in Progress
Virtual-Link https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95486066122
Mengliu Cheng (UPenn) - “Enlightening the Farmers”: Nanking University and Agricultural Extension Works in Early Republican China (1917 to 1937)”
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Mengliu Cheng is a second-year Ph.D. student in History specializing in China in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century. She is working on Chinese modernization and transnational/transpacific interactions in the early twentieth century, with a focus on technology and science. Her interests also include transnational flows of culture, especially those embodied in translations, travel literature, and advertising.
Shang (Kaho) Yasuda (UPenn) - “I Still Know Who I am: Politics of Memory Among Han Taiwanese and Indigenous Veterans of the Japanese Imperial Army”
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Shang Yasuda is a Ph.D student in History at Penn. Her research revolves around the legacies of, and interactions between the Japanese and U.S. empires in Asia in the twentieth century, with a focus on how colonial subjects functioned and negotiated their place within these empires. Thematically, she is interested in colonialism, migration, diaspora, race, identity, and war.
Moderator: Daniel Richter (UPenn)