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Bernard Gallin, MSU Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, specializes in China and Taiwan studies. He has carried out field work over the last 50 years in Taiwan as well as comparative research in the PRC, the China Mainland. He and his wife, Professor Rita S. Gallin, first lived in Taipei and then in a rural Taiwanese agricultural village for two years in the mid-to-late 1950s. He carried out the first long-term study of Taiwanese rural life: its socioeconomic, political and cultural life, examining its interrelationship with the larger area and society. On numerous field trips during the last five decades, he has followed the village and area people’s rural-to-urban migration to Taipei and other Taiwan cities. During more recent years, he has also observed Taiwan's growing economic and religious relationships with the People’s Republic of China, on the Chinese mainland. Gallin has published and lectured on his research findings at universities in Taiwan, the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia as well as in the U.S. His talk will focus on the relationship between China and Taiwan.

P.S. Refreshments will be served at 2:00 pm