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| < Back to Newsbyte Headlines | | Charles Desnoyers Presents at Yale Seminar | | Dr. Charles Desnoyers, Associate Professor of History, delivered a paper entitled "China's Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) and the Question of the Modernity of Genocide” on October 1 at Yale University's Fall Seminar on Genocide, Modernity, and Resistance. Desnoyers’ paper explored the question of the relationship between genocide and modernity as reflected in the ideology and carnage of China's Taiping Rebellion, arguably the world's bloodiest human conflict until World War I. The paper included newly translated material from the memoirs of a Taiping captive, Li Gui, the subject of Desnoyers 2004 book, A Journey to the East. Yale and Columbia graduate students as well as Yale history faculty attended the seminar and offered commentary on Desnoyers’ paper. Also in attendance were two documentary film makers and Verlyn Klinkenborg of the New York Times. |
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