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Please Don’t Laugh: Learning to Speak ‘Mandarin’ in 1950s China (Janet Chen, Princeton University)
Tuesday, December 10, 2019, 12:00pm
 
Contact Natalie Tuseth (848-932-8413)

This talk is jointly sponsored by Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research (IFH) and Department of History

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Janet Chen is a historian of modern China, specializing in the twentieth century. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University and a B.A. from Williams College. She joined the faculty of the Princeton History Department in 2006, and she is also a member of the East Asian Studies Department.

Professor Chen’s first book, Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953 (Princeton University Press, 2012), is a study of the destitute homeless during a time of war and revolution. Focusing on Beijing and Shanghai, the book considers how the advent of workhouses and poorhouses in the early twentieth century represented a fundamental reordering of the relationship between the state, private charity, and the neediest members of society.

A new project underway, provisionally titled The Sounds of Mandarin, will investigate the history of China's spoken national language.

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Location  112 Paterson Street, 1st floor conference room