Dear all,
The lecture titled A Globalised Professionin a Divided World:Seamen and the Cold War will be hosted at 10:00 on Monday, September 15th, in Room E200, East SCA Building. Welcome!
Speaker: Qingfei Yin, Ph.D. from George Washington University, is an associate professor in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on the history of the People's Republic of China's foreign relations and the international history of the Cold War. She is the author of State Building in Cold War Asia: Comrades and Competitors on the Sino-Vietnamese Border (Cambridge University Press, 2024). She is currently conducting research on Chinese seafarers during the Cold War and the history of China's ocean shipping industry in the People's Republic of China era.
Abstract: Merchant mariner is arguably the first globalised profession because of the multinational sources of labour and the global reach of commercial shipping. While seamen operated in a profession that transcended national boundaries, they were caught in a world sharply divided by ideologies and political blocs in the second half of the twentieth century. This talk focuses on two groups of merchant mariners during the early Cold War—foreign seamen who called at Chinese ports and Chinese seamen working on British commercial vessels. It argues that ports became an important venue for the people-to-people diplomacy, and the Cold War further securitised commercial ships.
Host: Fan Xin, Professor of Institute of Humanities, ShanghaiTech University.
Registration link:https://wenjuan.shanghaitech.edu.cn/vm/exItBlo.aspx