Part 3: Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations

The Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies presents the 2016 Reischauer Lecture with speaker Odd Arne Westad (Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government).

Part Two focus: China and Korea in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Speaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government. He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region.

Before coming to Harvard in 2015, Westad was School Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). While at LSE, he directed LSE IDEAS, a leading center for international affairs, diplomacy and strategy.

Professor Westad won the Bancroft Prize for "The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times." The book, which has been translated into fifteen languages, also won a number of other awards. Westad served as general editor for the three-volume "Cambridge History of the Cold War," and is the author of the "Penguin History of the World" (now in its 6th edition). His most recent book, "Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750," won the Asia Society’s book award for 2013.

Discussant: Sung-Yoon Lee, Tufts University

Moderator: Michael A. Szonyi, Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Professor of Chinese History