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\nHands on History talk with C\u00e9cile Armand<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this presentation, C\u00e9cile Armand<\/strong>, visiting researcher at the C\u00b2DH, introduces her ongoing research on Chinese students educated in the United States between the Opium Wars and the early years of the People\u2019s Republic of China (1850\u20131950). The project aims to reconstruct their careers and networks from a transnational and multigenerational perspective, while also mapping the ideological discourses surrounding them. To do so, it draws on both untapped digitized corpora (Who\u2019s Who directories, student journals, newspapers) and born-digital sources such as Wikipedia and Baidu, using computational methods to extract biographical information and identify discursive patterns at scale. This data-rich approach seeks to move beyond hagiographic portrayals of exemplary figures and to challenge the dominant view of overseas study as primarily a nation-building enterprise. The presentation will outline the research context, present preliminary findings from pilot studies, and discuss future directions for scaling up the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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