An exhibition in Hong Kong recalls the southern Chinese women, often forgotten today, who chose not to marry and instead became carers for the children of families in the city, in Singapore and elsewhere.
A compelling way to renew the study of our collective past. In the spring of 1979, in my second semester of college teaching (as a visiting assistant professor of history at Oberlin), an absolutely brilliant undergraduate wrote a scathing critique of dependency theory. That theory, associated with the German American economic historian Andre Gunder Frank, the Guyanese historian Walter Rodney and the Argentine and Brazilian economists Raúl Prebisch and Celso Furtado, among others, emphasized the historical role of colonialism and imperialism in creating unequal economic relations between countries.
Multiple reviews accuse Maura Dykstra, an assistant professor of history, of misrepresenting and mistranslating key sources and documents in her first published book. In response, Dykstra defended her work and called the criticisms “patently false.”
Following the work of Sinologist Joseph Needham, this talk by John Bellamy Foster illuminates the conceptual linkages between the ancient Greek and Chinese…