When Diaspora meets the Motherland
Lim Boon Keng and Lu Xun at Amoy University, 1926-27
Event Details
Date
Monday, April 16, 2012
Time
12 p.m.
Location
336 Ingraham Hall
Description
Shelly Chan Brown Bag. Assistant professor of history at UW-Madison. The talk revisits the famous conflict between diasporic intellectual Lim Boon Keng and May Fourth iconoclast Lu Xun while they were at Amoy University in Xiamen, China. A Straits Chinese, Lim was an Edinburgh-trained medical doctor who had led a Confucian revival movement in Singapore before becoming president of Amoy University.
Cost
Free
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