China’s Encounter with the West: A History Institute for Teachers

Co-Chaired by David Eisenhower and Walter A. McDougall

Sponsored by FPRI’s Wachman Center
and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Asia Program

China and the West in Historical Perspective

Warren I. Cohen

Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. This was the keynote lecture at China’s Encounter with the West: A History Institute for Teachers, held on March 1–2, 2008. The event was sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Wachman Center and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Asia Program, and held at UTC.


FPRI’s History Institutes are made possible by generous support from the Annenberg Foundation. Additional funding for specific programs has been contributed by W. W. Keen Butcher, Bruce H. Hooper, John M. Templeton, Jr., the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation