Title: How to Approach the Yuan Dynasty?
Lecturer: ZHANG Fan (Professor and Director of the Department of History at Peking University)
Chairperson: HUANG Chunyan (Professor, Department of History at East China Normal University)
Date: 3 pm, November 18th, 2019 (Monday)
Venue: Room 5303, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
Among China’s ancient dynasties, the Yuan dynasty was the only one established by a northern nomadic people to rule over the whole of China, and could be seen as the most impressive and controversial dynasty in Chinese history. This lecture hopes to discuss the following contested topics among professional researchers: 1. Is the Yuan Dynasty a Chinese dynasty? 2. How should we evaluate the rule of the Yuan Dynasty? 3. How to view the historical role of Genghis Khan? 4. How to understand the mass massacres in the Mongolian conquest wars?
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Zhang Fan, born in 1967, holds a doctorate in history. He is currently the chairperson of the History Department at Peking University and the president of the Chinese Yuan History Research Association. He is the author of Yuandai zaixiang zhidu yanjiu元代宰相制度研究 [The grand councillor system in the Yuan], Zhongguo gudai jian shi中国古代简史 [A Brief Chinese History until 1840].
