From Native Pesticides to Chinese Medicine Agriculture: Traditional Chinese Agricultural Knowledge in the 1950s and Today
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Date
18 Sep 2023
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Organiser
Research Centre for Chinese History and Culture
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Time
19:00 - 20:30
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Venue
Zoom Meeting
Speaker
Professor Sigrid SCHMALZER
Summary
Date: 18 September 2023 (Monday)
Time: 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm (HKT)
7.00 am – 8.30 am (EST)
Speaker: Professor Sigrid SCHMALZER
Department of History, College of Humanities & Fine Arts
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Mode of presentation: Zoom
Registration url:
https://polyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqfu6rrjMrGtV0ajBqIi9S7YugR2V2eCQ1#/registration
Keynote Speaker
Professor Sigrid SCHMALZER
Department of History, College of Humanities & Fine Arts
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sigrid Schmalzer is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches Chinese history and the history of science. Her publications include The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China (Chicago, 2008), The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China (Chicago, 2016), and a children's picture book on the insect scientist Pu Zhelong titled, The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China (Tilbury House, 2018). She is a founding member of the Critical China Scholars group and the revitalised Science for the People, and a vice-president in her faculty union.
