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For Immediate Release:	October 9, 1998
Contact: David Beasley, Center for Chinese Studies ph 956-2691; fax 956-2682

UH Manoa's Ned Davis will speak on "Rescuing History from Civil Society in Modern and Pre-Modern China" A free seminar Wednesday, Oct. 21, noon-1:30 p.m. in the Tokioka Room (Moore 319) at UH Manoa will examine the most important current debate among historians of modern China: the presence or absence of a civil society in China before the revolution and the implications of these conditions for China's future. Guest speaker for the seminar is Edward L. Davis, assistant professor of history at UH Manoa. Davis is a specialist in the history of the Sung dynasty and in the history of Chinese religions (Taoism, Buddhism, and Chinese popular religion).

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