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Lake Forest, Ill – Philip A. Kuhn, the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, will present a lecture entitled, "A Stateless Expansion: Five Centuries of Chinese Emigration." The event will take place on Thursday, October 3 at 8 p.m. in the Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel located on the campus of Lake Forest College. The program is free and open to the public. Professor Kuhn is considered one of the West’s leading premier Chinese historians. His novels include Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 1970), Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1786 (Harvard, 1990) and Origins of the Modern Chinese State (Stanford, 2002). Soulstealers won the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies in 1990. Kuhn has held academic posts for many professional committees since 197, including director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University, and chairman for the Council on East Asian Studies at Harvard. He has served as a member of the Committee for Scholarly Communication with China at the National Academy of Sciences, and as chairman of the Department of Far Eastern Languages at the University of Chicago. The event is underwritten by the Freeman Grant for East Asian Studies at Lake Forest College in cooperation with the College’s Asian Studies Program, Asian Center and the James S. Kemper Foundation. For more information call (847) 735-6010. Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,300 students representing 45 states and 43 other countries.
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