Liu Wenming
Liu Wenming (刘文明) is a Professor of World History at the Institute of Global and Area Studies and Director of Global History Centre, Capital Normal University in Beijing. His academic interests focus on global history, the history of interaction between Chinese and Western civilizations, and gender history. His published works include The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 in a Global Public Sphere (2024), An Introduction to Global History (2021), Global History Theory and the Study of Civilizational Interaction (2015), God and Women: Western Women in the Context of Traditional Christian Culture (2003), and Roman Women in Cultural Transformation (2001), etc. He is one of the editors-in-chief of the journal Global History Review.
Capital Normal University
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This panel examines cross-border encounters, entanglements, and comparisons between China and the West from historical, conceptual, and social perspectives. Bringing together research in intellectual history, comparative politics, global history, art history, and migration studies, the panel explores how ideas, institutions, and practices have circulated across different regions and periods. The papers address the cross-cultural interpretations of the ancient Chinese “Chaogong” in Western scholarship and reflects on the concept of the “tribute system”, contrasting trajectories of nation-building in China and the Balkans, mutual learning between China and Yugoslavia, the exhibition of Chinese art through UNESCO during the Cold War, and Chinese migration to Italy in relation to labor, family, and community formation. Taken together, the panel highlights the interconnected and relational character of China–West interactions, and shows how comparison, exchange, and mutual perception have shaped broader historical processes across political, cultural, and social domains.