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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">You are warmly invited to the following Distinguished Lecture Series event held by Scottish Centre for Korean Studies on Tuesday 13<sup>th</sup> February, 2024 at
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b> Distinguished Lecture Series</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>Dr Adam Cathcart</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>Abstract:
</b>The research in this presentation seeks to document the impacts of the Great Leap Forward in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in northeast China. It does so using publications from local governments and archives in Yanji, Changchun, and Wangqing,
and leverages recent scholarly advances in the history of the region. In so doing, the research</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">explores the linkage of general</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Great Leap Forward literature to a specific region. Should scholars place the PRC Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region within the same scope of harshness and depravation
as other parts of China during the Great Leap? This research attempts to balance and bring into dialogue the debate amongst Sinologists about the impact of Maoism while leveraging local sources or PRC sources on a relatively neglected era in the study of the
Korean minority in China. Engagement with the work of Jaeeun Kim, Hyun Ok Park, and Dong Jo Shin, allows for the combination of merging of Korean Studies discourse with questions and data rooted in more conventional food- and economy oriented studies of the
Mao era.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>Bio: Adam Cathcart
</b>is associate professor of East Asian history at the University of Leeds. His most recent book,
<i>Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands</i>, was published by Amsterdam University Press. He is currently writing up a new monograph on China-North Korea relations from 2010-2020. Adam Cathcart's recent peer-reviewed articles investigate early PRC grain
markets (<i>Chinese Historical Review</i>), the US/UN occupation of DPRK (<i>North Korean Review</i>), and the careers of Japanese geographers in Korea, Inner Mongolia, and Manchuria (<i>Journal of Historical Geography</i>, with Robert Winstanley-Chesters).
He is the editor of an online scholarly collective (Sino-NK), supervises a cohort of seven PhD researchers, and runs modules at Leeds about the Korean War, Maoist China, and mid-20th century Japan.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">We look forward to seeing some of you there.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Best wishes,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Robert Winstanley-Chesters, Teaching and Research Fellow in Korean Studies, University of Edinburgh</span></p>
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