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Week of Events
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Victor Seow, “The Human Factor: Work as Science in Twentieth-Century China”
Victor Seow, “The Human Factor: Work as Science in Twentieth-Century China”
In 1935, the Commercial Press in Shanghai published a modest-sized volume on a subject most of its readers likely never heard of. Titled An Overview of Industrial Psychology (工業心理學概觀), this text was written by a young psychologist who was trained in and recently returned from Britain. It was the first in Chinese on the titular […]
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Charles-François Mathis, “British Energy History from a French Perspective: A “Coal-Minded” Society”
Charles-François Mathis, “British Energy History from a French Perspective: A “Coal-Minded” Society”
Professor Charles François Mathis, Professor of Contemporary History (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) and author of numerous works on European environmental history, will address two of his important new publications in his talk, generously funded by the French consulate in Los Angeles. In La Civilisation du Charbon (2021), set to appear from Bloomsbury in […]