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SUMMARY:Blood Dawn Book Launch : Hans van de Ven in-conversation with Brendan Simms
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text css=””] \nAbout the Book\nIn the early twentieth century\, from India to China\, Western imperial powers dominated Asia. Then\, in the 1930s\, Japan began to tear down this old order in pursuit of its own imperial ambitions – first by invading China\, and then by launching its assault against British\, Dutch\, and American outposts across Asia and the Pacific in December 1941. \nAs Japanese forces seized vast swaths of territory and pressed toward India\, the brutal fighting cost millions of lives across the continent. Simultaneously\, the war’s chaos and suffering supercharged anti-colonial movements from British India to Dutch Indonesia. Ultimately\, it was the charismatic leaders of these movements – Mao\, Nehru\, Sukarno – who built the new Asia of independent nation-states that emerged in the war’s bloody wake. \nDrawing on deep archival research across continents\, leading historian Hans van de Ven tells the dramatic story of how Asia’s people mobilized to defeat both Japanese aggression and European imperialism\, forging modern Asia in the process. \nHans van de Ven urges readers to see the Asia as absolutely central to World War II\, rather than a peripheral (to Europe) battle zone. He argues that the real dates of WWII were 1937 (outbreak of Japan-China war) and 1955 with the conference at Bandung. \nHe shows how a modern Asia of sovereign nation-states came into being during and after WWII\, how the fight against colonialism was tightly bound to the war\, ultimately breaking European hegemony; and how it established the US as a vital power in the Pacific. \n  \nAbout the Author\nHans van de Ven is a professor of modern Chinese history at Cambridge University and a visiting chair professor in history at Peking University. He is the author or editor of ten previous books on Chinese history and the history of warfare. A fellow of the British Academy\, he lives in Meldreth\, UK. \nBrendan Simms is a professor in the history of international relations and fellow at Peterhouse College\, Cambridge. He is the author of nine books  including Hitler’s American Gamble and Europe. His most recent publication\, entitled The Return of the Great Powers\, is a sweeping study of the past\, present\, and future of the Great Powers\, revealing the new rules of global leadership. He lives in Cambridge\, UK. \n  \nFree and open to all. In-person and online. \nRegister here to join online.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:John Guy - The Buddha and the Jewel-Filled Casket: Piprahwa and Relic Practices in Early North India
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text css=””] \nAbout the Talk\nThe excavation of the Piprahwa relics in January\, 1898 – the most important Buddhist relic deposit ever recovered in India – immediately sparked enormous interest across the Buddhist world. Piprahwa stupa is located in northern Uttar Pradesh close to Lumbini\, the site of the historical Buddha’s birthplace in western Nepal.  The Piprahwa relics included the first reliquary inscription to credibly claim that it contained the remains of Sakyamuni Buddha. The speaker will examine this unique cache of sacred objects in the context of early Buddhist relic worship and emerging pan-Indian practices of honoring the Buddha. \nAbout the Speaker\nJohn Guy is the Florence and Herbert Irving Curator of the Arts of South and Southeast Asia at The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York\, an elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries\, London (2003) and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016). He served as Senior Curator for South Asia at the Victoria & Albert Museum for 24 years before joining The Met in 2008. He has curated numerous international exhibitions and has published widely\, including The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India (co-curator\, LACMA-V&A\, 1994)\, Chola\, Sacred Bronzes of Southern India (co-curator\, Royal Academy\, 2006)\, Temple Sculpture of India: The Art of Devotion (La Caixa Foundation\, Barcelona\, 2007)\, Shipwrecked. Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds (co-curator\, Smithsonian D.C.\, 2010)\, and a suite of major international exhibitions and accompanying publications at The Met: The World of Kubilai Khan. The Art of Mongol China (co-curator 2010)\, Wonder of the Age: Master Painters of India (2011)\, Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade 1500-1800 (co-curator 2013)\, Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia (2014) and Tree & Serpent. Early Buddhist Art in India\, 200 BCE – 400 CE (2023). \nFree and open to all. \nTo join online\, register here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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