Robert Fleming - China’s Relationship with the West in the World Wars and its Legacy – Thinking Chinese Conference, UCL, 31st March 2015
Robert Fleming (National Army Museum) presents an introduction to the relationship between China and the West throughout the 19th and 20th Century. This discussion commences with the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) and the impact of the Anglo-Chinese Opium Wars (1839-60). Other particulars include the Warlord Era (1916-28) in mainland China. This talk also considers China's significant contribution during both World Wars (1914-18/1939-45). Key milestone dates for British Hong Kong are explored and the circumstances behind the UK handover (1997) considered. The discussion closes by outlining the situation of China's military power at the beginning of the 21st century.
Speaker Biography:
Robert Fleming is the Information and Community Outreach Curator of the National Army Museum. He studied Arts/Law at the University of Tasmania, and History and Archaeology at the University of Sydney. Robert specialises in new imperialism, decolonisation and post-colonial society, and the military history of British colonial and Commonwealth forces. He also has an interest in wider Australasian history, including post-contact and the ethnography of the indigenous cultures of Oceania. He regularly gives public lectures, and has published journal articles on related subjects, as well as two books, one on the Australian Army in World War I, and one the Posters of the First World War.
About the Conference:
Thinking Chinese 思華 - 華思 was a collaborative project between the UCL History Department, China Centre for Health and Humanity and Ming-Ai (London) Institute. This series, including exhibition, conference, participatory arts project and other events, formed the final exhibition and event of the British Chinese Workforce Heritage oral history project ([ Ссылка ]).
The conference took place at UCL on 31st March and 1st April 2015 and brought together academics, heritage professionals and community members to explore British Chinese history and exchange of ideas and technologies as well as thinking about Chineseness, from UCL Eugenics, to modern and historical representations of Chinese in the media, in the arts and by those with a Chinese heritage themselves.
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