Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/29/2013
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
SMSU 238
1825 SW Broadway --Portland
In his lecture, Professor Sherman Cochran will discuss family survival strategies and decision making based on a new book that he and his co-author, Professor Andrew Hsieh, have recently published, The Lius of Shanghai (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013). In their private correspondence, the parents and their twelve children in the Liu family discuss sensitive political issues – should they collaborate with the Japanese occupiers of China? should they flee after the communist takeover of the country? – as well as intimate matters like marital infidelity.
Sherman Cochran, received his Ph.D. from Yale University. He taught at Cornell University for thirty-nine years, becoming the Hu Shih Professor of Chinese History in 2004; he retired from teaching in 2012. In his scholarly work, he has concentrated mainly on Chinese business history.