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China Humanities Seminar featuring Robert Campany — Traditions of Exemplary Transcendents (Liexian zhuan 列仙傳): A Reading

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Robert Campany, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities; Professor of Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University Liexian zhuan, plausibly attributed to the late Western Han scholiast and court official Liu Xiang 劉向 (79-8 BCE), is the earliest extant collection of anecdotes about individuals deemed to have transcended the limits of the human condition to become beings […]