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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Nicholas Standaert - The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early Qing Dynasty
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nicolas Standaert\, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) \n\n\n\nThe Chinese gazette as a publicly available government publication was distributed in a variety of formats since the twelfth century. Little is known\, however\, about its form and content before 1800. By looking at European sources\, this presentation shows how they offer a unique way of expanding the knowledge about the gazette of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its interconnected history illustrates how the Chinese gazette\, as translated by European missionaries\, became a major source for reflections on state and society by Enlightenment thinkers. It thus joined a global public much earlier than so far assumed. \n\n\n\nNicolas Standaert is Professor of Sinology at KU Leuven (Belgium) (1993-) and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium (2003-). His major research interest is the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this field he has led multiple research projects on rituality\, visual culture\, historiography\, and print culture. He is the author of The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early and Mid-Qing Dynasty (Brill\, 2022); The Intercultural Weaving of Historical Texts: Chinese and European Stories about Emperor Ku and His Concubines (Brill\, 2016); Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: Travelling Books\, Community Networks\, Intercultural Arguments (Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu\, 2012)\, among many others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-nicholas-standaert-the-chinese-gazette-in-european-sources-joining-the-global-public-in-the-early-qing-dynasty/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Meimei Zhang - Immortalizing the Ephemeral: Qin Inscriptions from the Song Dynasty (960-1279)
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Meimei Zhang\, Occidental College \n\n\n\nThis paper examines the Song dynasty literati’s ming 銘 inscriptions on the qin 琴\, a seven-string plucked instrument that is also known as zither or guqin. The tradition of inscribing musical instruments can be traced back to bronze bells and chime stones in the Shang and Zhou dynasties\, which bore pithy messages primarily functioning as historiographical and musicological records. From the Tang dynasty onward\, with the qin featuring prominently in the private sphere of literati\, inscriptions on the qin became a form of literary marginalia—an innovation that they used to test literary skills\, engage with the material contingency of the instrument\, and inquire into the essence of music and sound. By mapping out the thematic and stylistic typology of these writings\, this paper argues that qin inscriptionsconstituted a site in which theorizations and interpretations of the core discourses on music and its connoisseurship\, zhiyin (one who knows the tone) and ganying (correlative resonance)\, were made available from the variegated perspectives of inter-human\, human-object\, object-cosmos\, or human-cosmos relationships. By employing and playing with a repertoire of literary rhetoric and philosophical discussions\, Song authors celebrated qin’s distinctive musicality and materiality in inscriptions not only as public implements\, but also as biographical objects\, music relics from the high antiquity\, and philosophical emblems that specified ways of thinking with the qin and its sound. \n\n\n\nMeimei Zhang is Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at Occidental College. Her research interests include literary representations of music and sound\, social and cultural history of musical instruments\, poetics of money\, and the intersections of literature and Buddhism. She is currently preparing a monograph\, tentatively entitled The Qin and the Changing Literati Soundscape of Song Dynasty China\, which employs an interdisciplinary range of object\, sound\, and literary theories to investigate the Song literati’s literary representation of the qin (the seven-string Chinese zither)\, and how thinkers during this period shifted their world engagement with questions of perception\, embodiment\, and sociality away from the dominant paradigm of vision towards a thinking of circulation and shared atmospheres of sound. Her writings will be featured in the forthcoming Journal of Song-Yuan Studies and the Journal of American Oriental Studies. Her work has been supported by the CUHK-CCK Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies\, etc. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctceqgqz0qE9wWndTTTCWX-cSb1WQkEXT8 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-meimei-zhang-immortalizing-the-ephemeral-qin-inscriptions-from-the-song-dynasty-960-1279/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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