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Alan Macfarlane (Cambridge), Tocqueville on China and America, Apr 29

Alan Macfarlane, a leading theorist of modernization, compared America and China through the eyes of Tocqueville, in an event co-sponsored by the Dickey Center.

Thursday, April 29, 2021
12:30pm – 1:45pm
Zoom Webinar
Intended Audience(s): Public
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In his classic work Democracy in America, the French observer Alexei de Tocqueville offered a prophetic comparison between Russia and the United States. In this talk, the historian and anthropologist Alan Macfarlane, one of the world's most influential theorists of modernization over the past fifty years, updated the comparison based on his travel to and study of China.

To see a YouTube video of his talk, click here.

 

For more information, contact:
Henry Clark

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.