Time
16:00-17:30, September 19th, Thursday, 2024

Venue
Zoom (Register here) or Meeting Room No.1, IASA bldg, UTokyo

Language
English

Lecturer
Prof. Kai Vogelsang (University of Hamburg)

Title
Beijing: A City Between the Ages

Abstract
The lecture presents Beijing in the Republican period as a city between tradition and modernity, in which the centuries-old structures of the imperial era – the city walls, gates, palaces and temples – are still clearly recognizable, but at the same time are overshadowed by the messengers of modernity – cars, trams, banks and telegraph poles. But, perhaps more importantly, the transformation from pre-modern to modern also becomes apparent in the changing ways of living, traveling, and communicating in Beijing. It is these subtle changes that the lecture traces: they reflect not only the transformation of a city but the turning point of an entire society.