USCPFA South Bay Chapter
The 1990 Institute
Castilleja School
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford
Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford
together sponsor a talk by
HELEN PRAEGER YOUNG
Visiting Scholar at the Center for East
Asian Studies, Stanford University
and author of Choosing Revolution: Chinese
Women on the Long March
Chinese Women from the Long March to
Today
Sunday,
February 17, 2013
6:15 – 9:00 PM
St.
Jude’s Episcopal Church, Parish Hall
20920
McClellan Rd., Cupertino
6:30 – 7:15 PM Potluck Dinner – optional
7:30 – 8:30 PM Speaker
Helen
Praeger Young is
a Visiting Scholar at the Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University
and author of Choosing Revolution:
Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March.
Her academic interests are in modern Chinese women’s history. She returned to school after having a family
and received her BA from Antioch College and two MA’s from Stanford, one in
East Asian Studies (Modern Chinese History) and one in Education. She lived and
worked in China for 13 years, first training undergraduates to be English
teachers at the Beijing Broadcasting Institute from 1975 – 1985, and then teaching
U.S. Social History and U.S. Women’s History to graduate students in the
American Studies Program at Beijing Foreign Studies University 1985 – 1992.
Helen is president of the Mid-peninsula Chapter of the
United Nations Association (UNA) and lives in Palo Alto.
RSVP to Dana Eaton, USCPFA South Bay Chapter
by Wednesday, February 13,
2013
