Professor Li Huaiyin from the University of Texas Lectured on Modern China Transformation

    On July 2, Professor Li Huaiyin from the department of history of the University of Texas at Austin visited our School of History, and presented a lecture entitled Geopolitical Structure, Fiscal Structure and Political Identity: China’s National Transformation during the 17-20th Century.

    Professor Li introduced his monograph entitled Remarking China: geopolitics, fiscal-military strength, and state transformation,1600-1950 which is currently under composition. Professor Li elaborated on the important role three elements, namely geopolitical structure, fiscal structure and political identity, played in modern China’s transformation, and came to the conclusion that from the perspective of geopolitics, China moved from inland to marine, from frontier defense to maritime defense; from the perspective of fiscal structure, China moved from low equilibrium to high imbalance; from the perspective of national structure, China moved from a three layers dualistic country to a sovereign state. (School of History  WangYating)