Dr. Rowena He - The Betrayal of Loyalty: From Tiananmen to Hong Kong

Thursday, April 13, 2023

University Center Ballroom

7:30 p.m.

This is the 2023 Lucile Speer Memorial Lecture and is co-sponsored by the Mansfield Center.

The event is free and open to the public. Seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Biography

Rowena He is an Associate Professor of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and currently a Luce East Asia fellow at the National Humanities Center (2022-23). Her first book, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China was named one of the top five China books in 2014 by the Asia Society’s China File. The book has been reviewed in the New York Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New Statesman, Spectator, China Journal, Human Rights Quarterly, and other international periodicals. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. For teaching, she received the Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence for three consecutive years, and the CUHK Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award for 2020 and 2021.

Professor He publishes and speaks widely beyond the academy. Her op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, and the Wall Street Journal. She has testified before a US Congressional hearing and delivered lectures for the US State Department and the Canada International Council. Her scholarly opinions are regularly sought by international media outlets including ABC (Australia), AI Jazeera, Associated Press, BBC, CBC, CNN, CTV, Financial Times, Globe and Mail, Guardian, Inside Higher Education, Le Monde, NPR, NBC, the New York Times, Reuters, Time, and Times Higher Education. She was designated among the Top 100 Chinese Public Intellectuals 2016.  Born and brought up in China, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.