Title:Racism and the West in Modern History: A Brief Introduction
Lecturer: Yinghong Cheng (Professor, Department of History, Delaware State University)
Chairperson: Huajie Jiang (Research Fellow, Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, East China Normal University)
Date: 2 pm, June 8th, 2017 (Thursday)
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:
Racism has always been an important subject in international academia particularly in relation to such discussions as on imperialism, colonialism, genocide and holocaust, as well as nationalism and ethnicity. But racism has long been overlooked by academic discussions in China. The concepts and theories of racism and their relationship with modern Western intellectual history have never been explored and explained. There might have a few research articles but no substantial monographs ever produced. This lecture attempts to draw a sketch of racism, its history and its relationship with some major intellectual/historical trends in modern world history to illustrate its significance.
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Yinghong Cheng is now a professor at Delaware State University, US. He publish his book Creating the New Man: from Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities in 2009 (University of Hawaii Press), he also has published more than ten papers in many top-ranking Journals, such as Journal of World History, The China Quarterly.