2025-07-142025-07-14http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/11197This proposed project aims to re-examine China as a historical reality—no matter how fluid and malleable—against the rising tide of deconstructionism. It takes the form of an intellectual conversation among internationally renowned scholars from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, England, and the United States, who will have an in-depth discussion of the changing nature of China as a viable historical entity as well as a modern state. The contributors to this project will engage in a discussion of historical China and the discourses of China from different angles and in different contexts. The participants will examine how contemporary China has effloresced from a historically transformative imperial, cultural, or spatial framework with both inheritances and ruptures. This project will organize a two-day international conference in 2025 on the campus of Hong Kong Shue Yan University that is open to both academics and the public.