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China Humanities Seminar
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Nathan Vedal — The Art of (Tested) Translation: Manchu Exams in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Nathan Vedal, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto; Former Fairbank Center Graduate Student Associate This talk, introducing a forthcoming monograph (Translation, Emulation, and Manchu Literary Culture), will consider the institution of a civil service translation examination during the Qing dynasty, as well as the Manchu translation program in the elite
