[Anthropgrad] Fwd: Key Thinkers Seminar Series - G Barne & G Davis - 15th April

[Jodi Parvey]

>The Research School of Humanities presents,
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>Inaugural Key Thinkers lecture,
>Tuesday 15th of April, 5-6.30pm, Theatrette, Old Canberra House, ANU.
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>Of a Mind: Mao Zedong and Lu Xun
>Geremie R. Barmé and Gloria Davies
>The Australian National University and Monash University.
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>Expressing reverence for exemplary minds was a 
>vital aspect of elite culture in traditional 
>China. This practice generally took the form of 
>invoking, commemorating and emulating the 
>textual legacies of intellectual masters through acts of writing and speaking.
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> From the early twentieth century, those 
> regarded as having made a significant 
> contribution to China’s 
> modernization/revolution have become exemplars. 
> Of the pantheon of modern masters, Mao Zedong 
> and Lu Xun were, and in complex ways remain, particularly revered.
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>In life, the two men responded to the reverence 
>they were shown in starkly different ways. This 
>difference is also reflected in their 
>substantial posthumous legacies. In death, Mao 
>has attracted conflicting assessments and 
>continues to this day to generate controversy. 
>Lu Xun, however, has remained consistently 
>revered as a role model for critical dissent. By 
>discussing Mao Zedong and Lu Xun together­Mao, 
>after all, once observed that he and Lu Xun 
>‘were of a mind’­we seek to highlight the 
>complex ramifications for Chinese intellectual 
>and political life of revering exemplars.
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>Geremie Barmé is Professor of Chinese history in 
>the Division of Pacific and Asian History, 
>Australian National University. He was awarded 
>the Joseph Levenson Prize for Chinese Studies in 2004.
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>Gloria Davies is Associate Professor of Chinese 
>at Monash University. She and Geremie are 
>currently writing a book, Spectacles of 
>Disagreement: Media and Contestation in Modern 
>Chinese Thought, appearing in 2008.
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>Geremie Barmé would like to acknowledge his ARC 
>Federation Fellowship in contributing to the event.
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>Convenor: Ned Curthoys – 
><mailto:ned.curthoys at anu.edu.au>ned.curthoys at anu.edu.au
>For general enquiries please contact:
>Phone: 6125 2434
>Email: <mailto:administration.rsh at anu.edu.au>administration.rsh at anu.edu.au
>Web: <http://rsh.anu.edu.au/>http://rsh.anu.edu.au/
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