Topic:
Building the Nation the Chinese Way
Speaker:
Prof Wang Gungwu
University Professor,
National University of Singapore
Emeritus Professor,
Australian National University
Date & Time:
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
3:30pm – 5:00pm (Singapore Time)
On-site Venue:
Seminar Room 3-1
Manasseh Meyer Building, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
NUS Bukit Timah Campus
469C Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259772
Registration is required:
https://forms.office.com/r/JUC7EkRXG5 (or scan the QR code in the poster above)
Synopsis:
The Kuomintang Nationalist Party that was the victor when the new world order of Nations was created in 1945, lost to an army of peasants led by the Chinese Communist Party. The social and cultural revolutions that followed rejected traditionalism, capitalism and Sovietism to find its own way. When that failed, the country turned to Marxist reforms and chose continuity to link its future to a 5,000-year past. This reaffirms commitment to globalized progress and also gives meaning to the zhonghua minzu 中华民族, the modern name for the Chinese Nation. What does this mean for the Nations-based World Order? How does it affect the minorities within China and those elsewhere who identify and are identified as Chinese?
Note:
Registration is required for this seminar.
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