Prof. John Y. Wong will conduct a lecture “Re-tracing the Footsteps of Sun Yat-sen in Macao, 1892-1893” at the University of Macau (UM) on 1 November 2011, at the invitation of the Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UM.

Prof. Wong is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. His life-long research on British imperialism is showcased in his Deadly Dreams: Opium, Imperialism, and the ‘Arrow’ War (1856-1860) in China (Cambridge hardback 1998, Paperback 2003 and 2008). The impact of British imperialism on China's fate will be crystallized in his forthcoming four-volume tome Sun Yatsen in a Rapidly Globalising World. Prof. Wong's lecture aims to challenge the claim, which is very influential in China, that Sun Yatsen simultaneously fomented the revolution against the Qing dynasty, edited a Chinese newspaper, and practiced medicine while in Macao from 1892 to 1893. Prof. Wong’s reasoning is that if this claim is true, then the sanctified Father of the Republic must have been near-omnipotent.
 

The lecture will take place in NILG128 at UM Library between 16:00-17:30, and it will be conducted in Mandarin.

All are welcome. For more information, please refer to Chinese-language webpage.