Fabio Lanza: 2 books
Behind the Gate
Inventing Students in Beijing
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
On May 4, 1919, thousands of students protested the Versailles treaty in Beijing. Seventy years later, another generation demonstrated in Tiananmen Square. Climbing the Monument of the People's Heroes, these protestors stood against a relief of their predecessors, merging with their own mythology...
The End of Concern
Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
In 1968 a cohort of politically engaged young academics established the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS). Critical of the field of Asian studies and its complicity with the United States' policies in Vietnam, the CCAS mounted a sweeping attack on the field's academic, political, and financial...