Understanding China: A History Institute for Teachers

Classical Chinese Thought and Culture, and Early Chinese History

Victor Mair

October 21–22, 2006

Todd Wehr Center, Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Victor Mair is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World (University of Hawaii Press, 2006). Prof. Mair's remarks are preceded by a welcome by Arthur Cyr, A. W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished of Political Economy and World Business at Carthage College, and Walter A. McDougall, Co-Chair of FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers.

This lecture was part of Understanding China: A History Institute for Teachers, a weekend of discussion on teaching about China sponsored by FPRI’s Wachman Fund. Fifty teachers from 26 states across the country participated. The History Institute was co-sponsored by the Clausen Center for World Business, Carthage College.

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