Trans-Pacific: From China to Mexico in Early Modernity - A talk by Dana Leibsohn October 22, 2010

Please join the Center for Early Modern History in 1210 Heller Hall for a lecture by Dana Leibsohn of Smith College entitled, "Trans-Pacific: From China to Mexico in Early Modernity."

In what ways was “China” meaningful to people living in Spanish America? In the16th-18th centuries, in places like Manila and Puebla, Acapulco and Mexico City, how did the geography of the foreign and exotic take form? To answer these questions, this presentation explores not only economic desire and ethnography, but also images and words, and the materiality of things. Because early modern and contemporary geography are comprised of both lived realities and imagined experiences, Prof. Leibsohn also considers the borders of modern history and interpretive practice.

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