Big Questions about Chinese History, a lecture with Professor Patricia Ebrey

Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 12pm PST
Why has China been the most populous country in the world for most of its recorded history? How did Chinese states manage to reunite north and south China so many times after periods of division? Satisfactory answers to these big questions must bring in more than geography, language, or ideas to include statecraft and the movement of people.
Patricia Ebrey is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Washington. Her best-known books are the Cambridge Illustrated History of China, the Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Women in Sung China, and Emperor Huizong.
For more information about Dr. Ebrey, find her faculty profile here:
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And for more information about upcoming and past lectures in this series, see this slideshow: docs.google.co...
Find a sampling of Dr. Ebrey’s many publications linked here:
Emperor Huizong (Harvard, 2014).
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Cambridge Illustrated History of China, Second Edition (Cambridge, 2010).
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The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period (UC Press, 1993). Levenson Prize Winner, www.ucpress.ed...
Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong (U Washington Press, 2008)
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Winner of the Smithsonian’s Shimada Prize for Outstanding Work of East Asian Art History
Women and the Family in Chinese History (Routledge, 2002).
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Presented by the CSUSB History Department, the History Club/Phi Alpha Theta, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Intellectual Life Fund. Please contact Jeremy Murray ([e-mail]) with any questions.