“In search of modernity: Chinese visiting Europe, 1870 to 1940”
an RASBJ Zoom talk by Ines von Racknitz, followed by QA.
Moderated by Katrin Buchholz.
WHAT: “In search of modernity: Chinese visiting Europe, 1870 to 1940”, an RASBJ Zoom talk by Ines von Racknitz, followed by QA. Moderated by Katrin Buchholz.
WHEN: Mar. 17, 2021. Wednesday 7:00-8.00 PM Beijing Standard Time.
MORE ABOUT THE EVENT: Around the turn of the 1900’s, Chinese students, reformers and revolutionaries, artists, scientists and writers discovered Europe for themselves, in search of their own and their country’s identity. They toured various European countries Germany, Belgium, Austria, Italy, France, settling there temporarily to study, work, write, or even to pass time in exile, as Zhou Enlai did. In Europe, the travellers from China were met with a mixed welcome: open, racist rejection on the one hand, but also an interest in them as descendants of an ancient foreign culture and represe