FREE lecture at Swarthmore College

Author and Historian Sucheta Mazumdar to Present Genevieve Ching-wen Lee ’96 Memorial Lecture at Swarthmore College 

Swarthmore, PA (February 1, 2011) – Sucheta Mazumdar author of Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology and the World Market and associate professor of history at Duke University will present the 2011 Genevieve Ching-wen  Lee ’96 Memorial Lecture in Asian American Studies at Swarthmore College on Mon., Feb. 28 at 4:30 p.m.in the Science Center 199. Her talk, “A History of One’s Own: Asian Americans in the Global Age” will discuss the diverse voices of Asian America, the ways in which new global migration changed the landscape of Asian America, and Asian Pacific American political and social activism today. The lecture is FREE and open to the public.

 

At Duke University Mazumdar teaches a wide range of courses from Chinese antiquity to the modern period as well as comparative Asian history and Asian American history. She received the 2009 Blue Ribbon Diversity Award from Duke University for recognition of service, promotion of diversity and cross-cultural communications, and developing Asian American Curricula and Programs at Duke.

 

Her first book, Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology, and the World Market (Harvard University Asia Center, 1998), explored the Chinese history of a global commodity. She coedited Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation (Duke University Press, 2003) and wrote the introduction to Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings by and About Asian American Women (Beacon Press, 1989). Her current project, “From the Slave Trade to the Opium War: The China-America Trade,” brings together her research interests to reframe Atlantic-Pacific global history. Her forthcoming work is Global Connections: Women in the Making of the Modern World (Norton Press).

 

The Genevieve Ching-wen Lee ’96 Memorial Lecture was established in 1996 by her family to promote awareness of and research on Asian American issues. Each year the College welcomes to campus a leading scholar in the field.