China Humanities Seminar
Andrew Chittick – The Resistant South: Sketching a History of the Wu People in the First Millennium CE
Speaker: Andrew Chittick, Eckerd College The history of East Asia in the first millennium CE is ordinarily framed as the successive “fragmentation” of China under the Han dynasty, and its “reunification” […]
Meow Hui Goh – Fake News, Genuine Words: The Power Dynamic of Literature in Early Medieval China
Speaker: Meow Hui Goh, Ohio State University As we grapple with the consequences of fake news, disseminated across the globe in high-speed internet to impact countries and communities on issues as grave as presidential election, gender discrimination, and ethnic cleansing, it might feel as if our world is treading on unchartered territory. But viral misinformation is […]
Matthew Wells – The Vision to Restore the Empire: Manufacturing Monarchy and Empire in the Early 4th Century
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Matthew Wells, University of Kentucky This presentation will discuss part of an ongoing project that attempts to explain how the early leaders of the Eastern Jin understood and executed what Dennis […]
Wei Shang – “The Story of the Stone” and the Visual Culture of the Manchu Court
Speaker: Wei Shang, Columbia University This talk addresses The Story of the Stone (otherwise known as Dream of the Red Chamber, Honglou meng 紅樓夢), authored by Cao Xueqin (ca. 1715--ca. […]
Jon Felt -Postimperial Metageographies of Early Medieval China
Speaker: Jon Felt, Brigham Young University For a long time the imperial metageography has been the dominance spatial framework though which people have studied the history of China. This metageography […]
Anthony DeBlasi – The Anomaly of Tang Zhongzong 唐中宗 (r. 684 and 705-710) and the Dynamics of Tang History
Speaker: Anthony DeBlasi, University at Albany, State University of New York Most accounts of the life and reigns of the Tang emperor Zhongzong have portrayed him as an addendum to […]
Christian de Pee – Losing the Way in the City: Cities and Intellectual Crisis in Eleventh-Century China
Speaker: Christian de Pee, University of Michigan During the eleventh century, literati endeavored for the first time to write the commercial streetscape. Literati of previous centuries had written the city in […]
April Hughes — Apocalyptic Saviors, Terrestrial Utopias, and Imperial Authority: The Reign of Empress Wu Zetian (690-705CE)
Speaker: April Hughes, Boston University This talk examines the association between Wu Zhao of Great Zhou (Empress Wu Zetian) and Maitreya Buddha in a commentary on the Scripture of the Great Cloud (Dayun jing 大雲經, T. […]
Zeb Raft – ‘Echoes’ in the Shishuo Xinyu: Repetition and its Significance in Early Medieval China
Speaker: Zeb Raft, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica The Shishuo xinyu, the fifth-century collection of anecdotes, is full of echoes. Stories can be repeated, in somewhat different form. Individual […]
Paize Keulemans – Acoustic Immersion and Iconic Extraction in Three Kingdoms History, Fiction, and Videogames
Speaker: Paize Keulemans, Princeton University What are the ludic attractions of a fifteenth-century novel? What role is played by historical narrative in a twenty-first-century game? How is a character developed in […]
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite – “The 18th Brumaire of Yuan Shikai,” By Mao Zedong: History, Classical Commentary, and Politics.
Speaker: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University Taking a small comment by the young Mao Zedong in his "Classroom Notes" as its point of departure, this talk revisits the very […]
China Humanities Seminar Featuring Tina Lu – The Politics of Li Yu’s Xianqing ouji (Casual Expressions)
Speaker: Tina Lu, Colonel John Trumbull Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University When it comes to an understanding of the politics of literature and literary production, our […]