New Oriental Vision Overseas Fair Ningbo

Adam Brookes will discuss researching and writing his new book Fragile Cargo: China’s Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City, and the challenges of uncovering stories from China’s Second World War.

This seminar explores the largely forgotten scientific and historical writings and translations of Huang Xuelou, and his collaborations with his even more forgotten Batavian Sino-Malay wife Lin Jie, as a window into the contradictory encounters of Chinese émigré intellectuals with the Nanyang (Southern Seas) during the May Fourth era.

This panel discussion will examine China under Xi Jinping since the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.