主讲人：Colin Mackerras
主 题：Western Images of China since the 1980s: A Historical,Cultural, Sociological and Philosophical Perspective
主持人：经贸外语学院 郭洋生教授
时 间：2013年5月24日（星期五）早上 09：00
地 点：通博C407
主 办：经贸外语学院、科研处
主讲人简介：
Colin Mackerras (FAHA, AO) has a PhD in China studies from the Australian National University. He worked at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, from 1974 to his retirement in 2004. He is currently chair professor at Renmin University of China and professor emeritus at Griffith University in Australia.
His many research areas include Chinese modern history, theatre, ethnic minorities, past and present, Western images of China and Australia-China relations, and he has written widely on all of these.
His many books include Western Images of China, Revised Edition (Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1999), China’s Ethnic Minorities and Globalisation (Routledge Curzon, 2003), China in Transformation 1900–1949, 2nd Edition (London and New York, 2008), and 《马克林, 我看中国: 西方人眼中的中国》 (中国人民大学出版社, 2013), a Chinese translation of a book on Western images of the People’s Republic of China. He is a fellow of the Academy of the Humanities of Australia and an Officer in the Order of Australia.
FAHA: Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (澳大利亚人文科学院院士)
AO: The Order of Australia (澳大利亚国家勋章)
内容摘要：
The talk covers the period from the 1980s to the present. It discusses how the West has seen some selected phenomena in China. These include:
a)some long-term trends such China’s economic and strategic rise and its growing influence in the world;
b)some cultural issues, such as the one-child-per-couple policy and its attitude to ethnic minorities; and
c) some specific events, such as the Beijing Olympics and other.
The basic argument of the lecture is twofold.
(i) Western images are as much a function of Western politics as of realities in China itself.
(ii) As a result, there is an inherent bias against China, at some times this is more serious than at other times, but it is more or less always present.
