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還我河山 Return Our Mountains and Rivers: Manchurian Scholars and China&#39;s New World War II TimelineAug 18, Tue, 6:00-7:30pm, JF BooksIn English As of 2017, the official timeline for the War of Resistance against Japan (China&#39;s World War II) in the People&#39;s Republic of China was set at 14 years, beginning with the Mukden Incident (September 18, 1931) instead of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident (July 7, 1937). Although tempting to view this as a top-down decision from Beijing, the 2017 decision was influenced by decades of Manchurian scholarship. In her book China&#39;s Date Debate, Dr. Emily Matson recenters these scholars and the &quot;date debate&quot; amongst Chinese historians over the war timeline. Furthermore, her work recenters Manchuria and this new World War II timeline as critically important for both the Chinese Communist Party&#39;s domestic legitimacy and global image. Dr. Emily Matson is an adjunct professor in Georgetown University&#39;s Department of History and received her PhD in modern Chinese history from the University of Virginia. She spent several years living in Beijing and Shanghai, where she studied Mandarin Chinese and conducted fieldwork for her dissertation. Dr. Matson&#39;s research interests include Manchuria, World War II, nationalism, and Sino-Japanese relations, and she was recently a fellow with the University of Pennsylvania&#39;s Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations

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還我河山 Return Our Mountains and Rivers: Manchurian Scholars and China's New World War II TimelineAug 18, Tue, 6:00-7:30pm, JF BooksIn English As of 2017, the official timeline for the War of Resistance against Japan (China's World War II) in the People's Republic of China was set at 14 years, beginning with the Mukden Incident (September 18, 1931) instead of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident (July 7, 1937). Although tempting to view this as a top-down decision from Beijing, the 2017 decision was influenced by decades of Manchurian scholarship. In her book China's Date Debate, Dr. Emily Matson recenters these scholars and the "date debate" amongst Chinese historians over the war timeline. Furthermore, her work recenters Manchuria and this new World War II timeline as critically important for both the Chinese Communist Party's domestic legitimacy and global image. Dr. Emily Matson is an adjunct professor in Georgetown University's Department of History and received her PhD in modern Chinese history from the University of Virginia. She spent several years living in Beijing and Shanghai, where she studied Mandarin Chinese and conducted fieldwork for her dissertation. Dr. Matson's research interests include Manchuria, World War II, nationalism, and Sino-Japanese relations, and she was recently a fellow with the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations

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