Principal speaker
Gary Sigley
Historically, the Chinese imagination understood the regions of Yunnan and Xinjiang as the edge of civilisation. Consequently both have been frequently conceived as the frontier: buffer states that represented the transition between civility and barbarism—sometimes under Chinese sovereignty, sometimes not. For the literati they were always places of exile and ruin. Yet at the same time, they played crucial roles as important commercial and cosmopolitan hubs, intimately involved in the transmission of goods, peoples and ideas between China and its west and southwest. This traffic was crucial for China’s ongoing development. These two regions are again taking a more central role in Chinese thinking about domestic and international politics. This workshop considers the changing identity of these two frontiers and the roles they play as subnational actors in both policing their borders and reaching out to near neighbours. It will also highlight how these historical legacies are being reinterpreted into new politico-economic and foreign policy strategies encapsulated in the political rhetoric of ‘bridgeheads’ and ‘gateways’
- Wednesday 17 July 2013
- Level 7, Board Room, Webb Centre Building
- Griffith University South Bank campus
- 10:00am- 3:00pm
Places are limited and reservations are essential, please contact Natasha Vary on (07) 3735 5322 or n.vary@griffith.edu.au by 5.00pm Friday 12 July 2013.
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