Lecture | February 18 | 5-6:30 p.m. Pacific Time | Remote Event
Speaker: Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor, Harvard University
Panelist/Discussant: Puck Engman, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Sponsors: Li Ka-Shing Foundation Program in Modern Chinese History at Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies
https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/History.html?event_ID=138128&date=2021-02-18&filter=Secondary%20Event%20Type&filtersel=&fbclid=IwAR34lDqSeAFglK4YlZMS6_7nE5ayP7Y6yIFv0n7BC3jx0VJyinIb0tZ1HM8
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https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMud-GsrT8rGNIQ3BI_HJLQ9CuPuSicPe3C
Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China
By Arunabh Ghosh
A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the People’s Republic of China
Arunabh Ghosh is associate professor of history at Harvard University.