China and Ireland – Partners in Crimes of History

Gregory B. Lee (1)

1 IETT - Institut d'Etudes Transtextuelles et Transculturelles

This paper examines the historical relations between two emrgeing nation-states in the 19th and 20th centuries and analyses in particular the place of Ireland in the Imaginary of Chinese intellectuals.

Mots clés: China; Ireland; Imaginary; Colonialism; 19th - 20th century

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Histoire; Littératures; Science politique

Gregory B. Lee. China and Ireland – Partners in Crimes of History: Opening Plenary Paper. Third Annual Conference of the Association for Chinese Studies in Ireland “China and Ireland: Old Countries, New Dreams ”, The Irish Institute for Chinese Studies at University College Dublin and UCD Confucius Institute for Ireland, Apr 2010, Dublin, Ireland. ⟨hal-02185977⟩