Handling ‘lingering historical issues’: Using the Maoist Legacy database to examine justice in the post-Mao era

CrossAsia Talk #19
April 18, 2024, 6pm CET
Amanda Shuman (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg): “Handling lingering historical issues’: Using the Maoist Legacy database to examine justice in the post-Mao era”

On April 18, starting at 6 pm (CET), Amanda Shuman (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) will present the „Maoist Legacy Database“ project in her online lecture „Handling „lingering historical issues“: Using the Maoist Legacy database to examine justice in the post-Mao era„. She will focus in particular on the potential uses of the existing database.

The Maoist Legacy Database (MLD) was initially created as part of the ERC-project, „The Maoist Legacy: Party Dictatorship, Transitional Justice, and the Politics of Truth,“ directed by Daniel Leese at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Over the course of 5 years (2014-2019), the project team collected and curated documents for the database related to the research topic and beyond. This talk will introduce the kinds of materials in the database and research possibilities through a discussion of the primary resulting research projects, three outstanding PhD dissertations, a monograph, and two groundbreaking co-edited volumes examining top-down and bottom-up efforts at justice in the post-Mao years. It will highlight the breadth of what’s available and  discuss how scholars around the world are now using the database, both for their research and as a teaching tool.

The lecture will be held in English. If you have any questions, please contact us: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de.

The lecture will also be streamed via Webex. You can take part in the lecture using your browser without having to install a special software. Please click on the respective button “To the lecture” below, follow the link “join via browser” (“über Browser teilnehmen”), and enter your name.

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You can find all previously announced lectures here. We will announce further dates in our blog and on X and Mastodon.

If you would like to find out more about the project and the database before the presentation, please click here. All information on the cooperation between the Maoist Legacy Collection and CrossAsia can be found in this thematic portal.

Contact
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK 
Ostasienabteilung | CrossAsia
Potsdamer Str. 33 
D 10785 Berlin
ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de
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