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Talk on Boxer Rebellion soldier’s memoir

1:16 p.m., Sept. 26, 2006--Anand A. Yang, Golub Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington, will give the 2006 Bosley Warnock Lecture, sponsored by the history department in conjunction with UD’s East Asian Studies Program.

Yang will speak on “(A) Subaltern(‘s) Boxers: An Indian Soldier’s Account of China and the World in 1900-01,” at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 28, in Bayard Sharp Hall.
The lecture will be based on the memoir, which Yang discovered, of an Indian subaltern who served in the international force during the Boxer Rebellion.

Yang, the director of the Henry Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, also serves as president of the Association for Asian Studies.

He has published works on British colonial history, peasant society, crime and criminality, colonial law and punishment and world history. His works include The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793-1920; Bazaar India: Markets, Society and the Colonial State in Gangetic Bihar; and an edited volume on Crime and Criminality in British India.

The free lecture is open to the public, and light refreshments will be served afterwards on the first floor of Munroe Hall.

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