Speaker: Tamara Chin, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University The study of ancient language contact traditionally lacked prestige in both Confucian classical studies and European philology.  This changed somewhat in

Speaker: Robert Campany, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities; Professor of Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University Liexian zhuan, plausibly attributed to the late Western Han scholiast and court official Liu Xiang

Speaker: Zhuming Yao, Assistant Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature at Boston University Many poems in the Shijing 詩經 feature a lyric “I,” a first-person voice speaking about intense emotions.

Speaker: Lili Xia, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College. The geocultural significance of the “North” was crucial to the competing claims to China between the

Speaker: 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