Lecture: Prof. Eric Vanden Bussche (Tokyo University): The Global 19th Century: Networks of Knowledge, Migration, and Empire
Abstract: This lecture investigates how transnational scientific and geographical exchanges between China, Brazil, and British Burma contributed to the dual processes of nation-building and empire-building in the nineteenth century. Drawing on archival sources from China, Brazil, Myanmar, and Great Britain, it centers on two interconnected case studies: Fu Yunlong’s intelligence-gathering mission to South America and […]