Workshop: Elites, Knowledge, and Power in Modern China, 7-9 October 2019

International Workshop Conveners: Christian Henriot (IrAsia, Aix-Marseille University), Sun Huei-min (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica), Cécile Armand (IrAsia, Aix-Marseille University) In the century that followed China’s forced entry into the world order shaped by the advancing Western empires (1832-1949), the nature of elite groups in China experienced a tremendous and radical transformation. The ruling group that had dominated the country for a millennium — a narrow elite..