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Burying “Nie Zheng’s Bones”: The Making of Martyrs in 1911 China
March 3, 2015 @ 12:00 am
Ying HuAssociate Professor, East Asian Languages & Literature
University of California, Irvine
About the Talk:
This talk examines two cases of martyr-making, that of Qiu Jin (1875-1907), an anti-Qing revolutionary and beheaded for her involvement in armed uprising, and that of Liangbi (1877-1912), Manchu loyalist, commander of the Qing Palace Guard, whose assassination in January 1912 sealed the fate of the Empire. As canonization typically involves immediate associates, local elites and the state, the process, whether successful or not, gives us a privileged window for viewing different conceptions of virtue and community as well as divergent ways of writing history.
Organized and sponsored by the East Asia Center, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies.
Co-sponsored by the Department of History & the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
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