RCC Staff and Fellows in China
Opening of the Center for Ecological History, Beijing
06.07.2012
RCC staff and Carson fellows traveled to Beijing, China in June 2012 for the opening of the new Center for Ecological History at Remin University. The Center's director is Mingfang Xia, senior professor of the Institute of Qing history, and the deputy director is Carson Fellow Shen Hou, assistant professor in the Department of History. Carson Fellow Donald Worster will serve as honorary director and part-time resident teacher and advisor. The mission of the Center is to promote ecological and environmental work in Chinese and world history and to establish better communications with scholars in other countries. On 23 May 2012, the Center celebrated its opening with a day-long conference featuring some of China's leading environmental and ecological historians, including Wenhai Li, Xueqin Mei, Lihua Wang, Jiange Wang, and Gao Gourong, International visitors included Christof Mauch, co-director of the Rachel Carson Center and president of the European Society for Environmental History, and Nancy Langston, editor of Environmental History and former president of the American Society for Environmental History.
The Center welcomes scholars from all over the world to come and present their work to our researeh community and learn more about China's long and rich history of human-environment interactions.