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SUMMARY:China's Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II
LOCATION:Mortara Center\, Georgetown University\, Washington\, DC
DESCRIPTION:In early 2017\, China's Ministry of Education announced that s
 econdary school history textbooks were required to change the timeline as
 sociated with the War of Resistance against Japan (China's World War II) 
 from eight to fourteen years\, pushing the starting date from the 1937 Ma
 rco Polo Bridge Incident back to the 1931 Mukden Incident. More than simp
 ly a top-down decision from Beijing\, however\, the 2017 decision was als
 o influenced by decades of Manchurian scholarship. In her book China's Da
 te Debate\, Dr. Emily Matson recenters these scholars and their participa
 tion in the subsequent "date de…\n\nhttps://askalice.club/events/457470ea
 -e543-463a-a5cb-88a1cf96f4d9
URL:https://askalice.club/events/457470ea-e543-463a-a5cb-88a1cf96f4d9
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