【Chinese Culture Colloquium】The Huanghe River and Chinese Civilization

September 05, 2025 Upcoming

Topic: The Huanghe River and Chinese Civilization

Speaker: Ge Jianxiong

Date: Friday, September 5, 2025

Time: 4:00 p.m. -5:30 p.m.

Venue: SIN Wai Kin International Conference Centre (W201), Administration Building

Language: Chinese

Live Stream:?https://appvooreoekjpsi.snet.vzan.com/sl/47c31809d672052b56349ff849dcc971

Abstract:

Chinese civilization, with its five millennia of continuity, formed its core in the Central Plains region in the middle and lower reaches of the Huanghe River approximately 3,800 years ago, from where its influence began to spread. The Huanghe River embodies the soul and root of the Chinese nation. Together with the Yangtze River, it has nurtured the perennial vitality of Chinese civilization—a vitality that is poised for renewal amidst the nation's great rejuvenation.

Speaker:

Ge Jianxiong is the University Librarian of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, a Distinguished Senior Professor in humanities and social sciences at Fudan University, a Member of the History Division of the Social Sciences Committee of the Ministry of Education, and a Fellow of the Central Research Institute of Culture and History. He formerly served as the Director of the Institute of Chinese Historical Geography, and as the University Librarian at Fudan University. He has also held positions as the Director of the Historical Geography Committee of the Geographical Society of China and the Vice President of the Society of Qin and Han History Studies.

His research focuses on historical geography, Chinese history, historical demography, migration history, cultural history, and environmental history. He is the author of dozens of monographs, including A Concise History of China's Population, A History of Migration in China, Unity and Division - Implications of Chinese History, and What Makes China. His book, Huanghe River and Chinese Civilization, published by Zhonghua Book Company in 2020, was honored with the "Outstanding Popular Reading Award" in Humanities and Social Sciences by the Ministry of Education.