China and the re-centering of East Asia: A special lecture series

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China’s emergence in this century is historic in two senses. It is currently transforming international relationships, especially in East Asia. Secondly, these developments have deep resonance with the central role of China in the pre-modern era. Understanding future global prospects requires an appreciation of the continuities of East Asian geopolitics as well as the changing structure of current relationships.

The University of Virginia is sponsoring a special series of four lectures by Professor Emeritus Brantly Womack that will present a comprehensive analysis of China’s once and future centrality in East Asia. Watch past events in the series here.

September 16: Introduction and China’s Premodern Centricity

September 23: Modernization and the Decentering of Asia

September 30: Convergence and Asian Recentering

October 7: China, East Asia, and the Reconfiguration of a Multinodal World

After each lecture there is commentary by a distinguished Asian scholar: Wang Gungwu of National University of Singapore; Wu Yushan of Taiwan’s Academia Sinica; Qin Yaqing of Shandong University; and Evelyn Goh of Australian National University. The commentaries are followed by audience Q&A.

This is the last event in the series, all of which have been held on Grounds as well as on Zoom and YouTube Live. The Asia-based commentators have presented their remarks on livestream. 

This is a program of the UVA East Asia Center co-sponsored by the Miller Center.