Sino-Soviet Relations & the Making of Modern Xianjiang

press release: We welcome you to the 2016 CESSI Summer Lecture Series! All lectures are free and open to the public and will be held on Tuesdays at 4pm in 1651 Humanities.

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About the talk: This talk will focus on the centrality of the Soviet Union's role in shaping modern Xinjiang. Based on Professor Kinzley's forthcoming book, this talk will show the power of Soviet resource extraction enterprises in molding Chinese state institutions, patterns of central government investment, and Han-Uyghur relations. Professor Kinzley will conclude by offering new ways of thinking about the connection between natural resources and the  development of China's multi-ethnic border regions.

About the speaker: Judd Kinzley is a  historian of modern China with research and teaching interests that include environmental history, state power, industrial development, and wartime mobilization. His research tends to center around understanding the connections that exist between state power and the natural world in various Chinese peripheral and border regions. Kinzley is currently working on a manuscript on mining and the extension of the Chinese state into Xinjiang province in China’s far west during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.