• Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History

    Presented via Zoom

    Speakers: Emily Baum, Professor of History, University of California, IrvineAlbert Wu, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Chair: Michael Puett, Victor and William Fung

  •  The Presence of Peach Spring: Daoism, Ritual, and Locality

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Mark R. E. Meulenbeld, Associate Professor, School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong The Presence of Peach Spring radically breaks with conventional interpretations of medieval luminary Tao Qian’s