Title: The Images of Mao Zedong Before Red Star over China
Lecturer: Ishikawa Yoshihiro (Professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities in Kyoto University, Japan)
Chairperson: YANG Kuisong (Fellow of Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, and Professor of Department of History, East China Normal University)
Date: 2 pm, December 5th, 2014 (Friday)
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:
Red Star Over China, a 1937 book by Edgar Snowhas exercised a commanding influence on the images of Mao Zedong ever since its publication. However, little is known about his revolutionary images before it. In this lecture, I show some overseas press reports on the Chinese revolutionary movement in the first half of the 1930s in order to shed new light on the unknown early images of Mao Zedong.
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Ishikawa Yoshihiro (born 1963) is now a professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities in Kyoto University, Japan. In addition to his research on the history of the Chinese Communist Party, he has followed the emergence of the social sciences in China and is currently investigating socialist culture in post-1949 China.