"Chinese Women from the Long March to Today"--Talk by Helen Praeger Young

USCPFA South Bay ChapterThe 1990 InstituteCastilleja SchoolDepartment of East Asian Languages and Cultures at StanfordCenter 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

dana@eatonstudios.com

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