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A ‘Lifeline’ for China: Building the Burma Road and Wartime Connectivity (1938-1942) (🌐 Online Event)
💻 Talk: A ‘Lifeline’ for China – Building the Burma Road and Wartime Connectivity (Online)
📅 Date: Friday, September 26, 2025
🕒 Time: 4:00 AM – 5:00 AM CEST
📍 Location: Online
🌐 Organizer: China Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Languages: English
Registration & Info: Free – online registration required
🏷️ Description:
As part of the Talks in Chinese Humanities series, this lecture examines the Burma Road (1938–1942) as a critical wartime supply line between British Burma and China during the Sino-Japanese War. Historian Andres Rodriguez explores how this route reshaped ideas of regional connectivity, positioning China’s southwest as a geopolitical and logistical hub linking the country to Southeast Asia, India, and beyond.
👨🏫 Speaker:
Dr. Andres Rodriguez – Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at the University of Sydney, and author of Frontier Fieldwork: Building a Nation in China’s Borderlands, 1919–1945.
Presented in collaboration with the Australian Society for Asian Humanities and the Discipline of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney.
Topics: Modern Chinese History, Infrastructure, WWII, China–Southeast Asia Relations, Mobility