Berea College professor of Chinese, Jianfen Wang, will share reflections on how rural Chinese women’s lives changed as a result of the end of liberalizing reforms introduced from the late 1970s through the early 1990s.
North Carolina State University professor of history, Xiaolin Duan, will share her research on how ebbs and flows in Chinese silk production impacted global trade and politics between the 16th and 18th centuries.
Berea College professor of art, Michael Litzau, will discuss the relationship between Japanese-American identity and art in his artistic work.