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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Yuri Pines - The Great Unity (da yitong 大一統) Ideal: The Key to China's Imperial Longevity?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yuri Pines\, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem \nOne of the most notable features of imperial China is the exceptional durability of the imperial political system. Having been formed in the aftermath of Qin 秦 unification (221 BCE)\, this system lasted intact for 2132 years\, until the abdication of the child emperor Puyi 溥儀 on February 12\, 1912. For sure\, the empire was not indestructible —to the contrary\, it underwent manifold crises\, including longer or shorter periods of political disintegration. Yet\, remarkably\, the unified empire was repeatedly resurrected at the very least in “China proper” (roughly comparable to the territory under the control of the founding Qin dynasty). Such repeated resurrections of a huge territorial entity spanning more than twenty centuries are not attested to elsewhere in world history.In my talk I want to argue that the key to understanding the reasons for the imperial resurrections lies within the realm of ideology and the dominant political culture. The idea that peace and stability in “All-under-Heaven” is attainable only in a unitary state ruled by a single omnipotent monarch was formed in the centuries preceding the Qin unification\, at the apex of political fragmentation of the Warring States period (Zhanguo 戰國\, 453-221 BCE). Having become the common desideratum of the competing “Hundred Schools of Thought\,” the ideal of “Great Unity” remained fundamental to Chinese political culture for millennia to come. By denying legitimacy to any but unifying regimes\, this ideal facilitated common quest for reunification during the periods of fragmentation. The notion that “Stability is in Unity” became China’s foremost self-fulfilling prophecy.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-yuri-pines/
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Ronald Egan - Su Shi Beyond Poetry: The Invention of a New Kind of Informal Prose
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ronald Egan\, Stanford University \nSu Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101) is remembered first as a poet in various forms (shi 詩\, ci 詞\, and fu 賦) and only then as a prose stylist. Even among his prose writings Su Shi is remembered primarily\, to judge from modern selections of his works\, for his output in the traditional literary prose genres (ji 記“record\,” xu 序 “preface\,” lun 論 “essay\,” etc.). Almost completely overlooked in this hierarchy of forms is his achievement in the less prestigious prose genres\, such as the informal letter (chidu 尺牘)\, colophon (tiba 題跋)\, accounts of outings (youxing 游行)\, and miscellaneous records (zaji 雜記). This talk looks at his writing in these forms\, calling attention to its striking quantity\, the porousness of genre distinctions within it\, and Su’s innovative use of this writing for kinds of expression that would not go easily into poetry. Also broached is the chronology of Su’s turn to these “lesser” forms and its connection to his periods of exile.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-ronald-egan-su-shi-beyond-poetry-the-invention-of-a-new-kind-of-informal-prose/
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