China, Tibet and the Colonial Question

China sees itself as a victim of imperialism and colonialism. The modern Chinese nationalism, including the one adopted and promoted by the Chinese Communist Party, is defined through this. International scholarship on China often takes this narrative of China as anti-imperialist for granted. Professor Dibyesh Anand (University of Westminster, London) interrogates this narrative and argues that there is a fundamental disjuncture at the heart of the modern nation-state project in China. For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/assoc_professor_dibyesh_anand.shtml