100 Years of Communism with Chinese Characteristics

In November 2021 the Chinese Communist Party passed a new resolution on its own history. As a part of the party’s 100-year anniversary, past events were brought closer to the present and to Xi Jinping’s leadership. How large is the gap between the way the CCP understands its own history and the way international historians describe it?

Featuring:
Tony Saich
Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University.

Bruce Dickson
Chair of the Political Science Department, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University.

Timothy Cheek
Professor, Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research, Director of the Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia.

Rebekka Åsnes Sagild
PhD in Modern China Studies from the University of Oslo. She will chair this seminar.

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