金九论坛:

Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750

主讲人: 著名历史学家，哈佛大学文安立教授（Odd Arne Westad)

主持人: 王栋

地点: 必赢242net官网，C104

时间: 3月18日，16:00-18:00pm，星期五

语言: 英语

本次金九论坛讲座中，文安立教授将与我们分享他的近著《躁动的帝国》（Restless Empire),该书荣获2013年亚洲协会伯纳德·施瓦茨最佳图书奖。

Odd Arne Westad FBA (born 5 January 1960) is a Norwegian historian specializing in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history. He is the ST Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations at Harvard University, teaching in the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Westad is also a Senior Scholar at the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies. Previously he was School Professor of International History at LSE, where he also served as director of LSE IDEAS.

Westad is also known for his work on Chinese and East Asian history and contemporary international affairs. In his books, he stresses the links between China and the outside world, noting that China's opening to the outside is not a new phenomenon. He often speaks of contemporary China, more than most countries, as a hybrid society, consisting both of Chinese and foreign elements. He has been critical of current Chinese foreign policy, which he sees as too nationalistic, although he is in favor of other countries working with China rather than trying to contain it.

Westad's book, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, won the 2006 Bancroft Prize, the Michael Harrington Prize of the American Political Science Association, and the Akira Iriye International History Book Award. It was also shortlisted for the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Award for the best book published in the last two years on international affairs. Westad is a fellow of the British Academy and of the Norwegian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Restless Empire won the Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz Book Award for 2013