May 16
Ott Family Lecture: Prof Ying Jia Tan, Electrifying China
The History department is pleased to present the third Ott Family Lecture:
Local Elite Re-empowered: Electrification and the Transformation of State-Gentry Relations in the Republic of China, 1927-37, to be presented by Professor Ying Jia Tan, History and East Asian Studies departments, Wesleyan. Professor Tan's talk will focus on the privatization vs nationalism debate in China's electrical power industries. His research involves the current technocracy of electric companies in China, the electrification of revolutionary China, early militarization of China's electrical power, mechanizing textile production and hydro-power development, regional industrialism and the growth of small-scale ammonium synthesis plants, peak-load energy management, and environmentalism. His campus visit is sponsored by the Ott Family Lecture program, established to benefit the Carleton student academic experience by bringing outstanding speakers to campus to lecture on topics highlighting the intersection between economics and history. The Ott Family Lecture program is intended to encourage sustained interaction between the speaker, students, and faculty in both economics and history.
Everyone is welcome to attend. Refreshments will be provided.