China and Strategic Competition: Some Historical Foundations
This lecture presents an overview of China’s history since the early nineteenth century, with the purpose of helping members of the audience better understand why Chinese President Xi Jinping and other high-level leaders in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) respond the way they do to international and domestic events. Dr. Mulready-Stone will delve into the Century of Humiliation and what that period means to both the PRC government and the Chinese people. Building on this foundation, she will present a series of photographs that visually represent the massive economic growth in China since the 1990s. Mulready-Stone will use these photos to reflect with the audience on how economic development—combined with the government’s expansion and contraction of human rights in the same period—has shaped the Chinese people’s view of freedom and China’s position in the world.
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