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China Humanities Seminar featuring Xin Wen – Curating a Museum of Stones: The “Forest of Stelae” (Beilin) and the Politics of the Past in Middle Period China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MassachusettsSpeaker: Xin Wen, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University Chang’an, the capital of the Tang dynasty (618–907), was the largest city in the medieval world. The walled area of the city measured 84 square kilometers and the population likely reached one million. Unlike other pre-modern cities such as Rome and Tenochtitlan …