How Ancient Chinese History can Inform our Understanding of Contemporary China (April 8, 2021)
Professor Hansen a star professor at Yale University, has taught there since 1988. She currently teaches three lecture courses: China Present to Past (with Peter C. Perdue); The World Circa 1000 (with Anders Winroth); and The Silk Road Rediscovered and the following seminars: Social History of the Chinese Silk Road, Issues in Tang, Song, and Yuan history, Documents of the Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties. Hansen has published 5 books, the most recent one being: The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began, which explains how a new system of global pathways formed in the year 1000 following the Vikings’ arrival in northeastern Canada.
This fascinating conversation highlights the influence of early Chinese civilisation on contemporary China and beyond, as well as how foreign influences have been absorbed into the Greater Chinese cultural indentity.