​China’s Last Imperial Frontier:
Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan’s Tibetan Borderlands 
Xiuyu Wang, PhD
15 October, 2022          
​9:30 am - 11:00 am 

​Come join First Saturday PDX  and the author of this book, Dr Xiuyu Wang as he speaks to us on Qing China’s attempt to integrate eastern Tibet at the turn of the nineteenth century.  Dr Wang draws on archival and ethnographic research to analyze the interactions between local authorities in Eastern Tibet and Qing imperial officials during the region's incorporation in the 19th and 20th centuries.  Copies of this book will be available on site for purchase.

​About the speaker:
​Dr. Xiuyu Wang is an Associate Professor of History at Washington State University, in Vancouver. Gaining a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006, he has taught courses on Chinese, East Asian and World History. Dr Wang's teaching and research interests focus on how the larger processes of nationalism, ethnicity and imperialism engage regional issues of cultural diversity and developmental unevenness.

In addition to China’s Last Imperial Frontier: Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan’s Tibetan Borderlands, other published works include “Tibet and Modern China.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Oxford University Press, 2020. More information on Dr Wang's recent publications can be see​ HERE

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