Carl Kubler
Carl Kubler is a global historian of modern China and peoples of Chinese descent. His scholarship and teaching sit at the intersection of Chinese history, Asian American history, and diaspora studies and center on how the forces of trade, migration, and cross-cultural encounter shape everyday life, with particular emphasis on the history of contact between China and the West. Kubler’s research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Science Research Council, Mellon Foundation, Fulbright Program, Henry Luce Foundation, and Association for Asian Studies, among others.
Session
Stefan Tanaka's book History without Chronology (Open Access: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11418981) emerged from his recognition that the writing of histories of non-Western places are handicapped, if not predetermined, by the linearity of history. HwC then argues that other understandings of time, history, and change are possible, indeed necessary if we are to achieve a respect for heterogeneity. This panel will explore the merits of the argument, its implications, and the possibilities for another understanding of history.
Shellen Wu, Lehigh University
Emily Mokros, University of Kentucky
Stefan Tanaka, University of California, San Diego
Carl Kubler, Carnegie Mellon University
Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University