China Humanities Seminar
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Rebecca Doran — Dress Regulation, Dynastic Image-Building, and Geopolitical Competition in Early Medieval China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., CambridgeSpeaker: Rebecca Doran, University of Miami The various regimes that emerged during third through sixth centuries grappled from different perspectives with the establishment of dynastic dress regulations, meant to promote hierarchical order at home and project legitimacy and strength abroad. This form of conveying authority was complicated by geopolitical developments, including regime changes and tensions
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., CambridgeSpeaker: 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
China Humanities Seminar featuring Matthias Richter — Early Chinese Texts Between Oral Instruction and Written Literature
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., CambridgeSpeaker: Matthias L. Richter, Associate Professor of Chinese, University of Colorado at Boulder Audiences in early China were probably more aware of technicalities in texts than we are today, since they had first-hand experience of a predominantly oral textual culture and the management of cognitive load it required. Conventions of structuring texts rooted in this