Theme: African in the Course of World History

Speaker: Li Anshan

Time and Date: 16:20-18:00，November 4, Wednesday , 2020

Location: Online（Tencent Meeting）

Sponsors: Center for University Student Cultural Education of UESTC

Organizers: Center for West African Studies of UESTC

    LI Anshan (PhD. Toronto), Adjunct professor of UESTC and professor of School of International Studies at PKU. He is Chair of Chinese Society of African Historical Studies, Vice Chair of International Scientific Committee of UNESCO General History of Africa (Vol. IX-XI), Vice Chair of Chinese Association of African Studies, member of international editorial committees of Insight on Africa in India, Legon Humanities in Ghana, Brazilian Journal of African Studies, etc. Besides publications in Chinese, he also has various publications in English, Forum on China-Africa Cooperation（Pretoria, 2013），FOCAC 2015(Pretoria, 2015), A History of Overseas Chinese in Africa to 1911 (New York, 2012) , Chinese Medical Cooperation in Africa (Uppsala, 2011), British Rule and Rural Protest in Southern Ghana (New York, 2002), etc. He gave speeches on China-African relations in various countries and lectured on African history to the top leaders of Chinese Communist Party and was commissioned to visit African countries for the assessment of FOCAC follow-up action. He was invited as distinguished guest at the first FOCAC--Beijing Ministerial Conference, Sino-African Education Ministers Forum and FOCAC-Beijing Summit.