Speakers:Chia Joo-ming, Writer, Sinagpore Ko Chia-cian, National Taiwan University Liu Hsiu-mei, National Dong-hwa University Organizer: David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Venue
Speaker: Ronald Egan, Stanford University Su 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.
Speaker: Yuri Pines, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem One of the most notable features of imperial China is the exceptional durability of the imperial political system. Having been formed in the aftermath
Speaker: Yiqun Zhou, Stanford University This talk examines the role that Dream of the Red Chamber played in the life and work of Wu Mi 吳宓 (1894-1978), a pioneer in the study
Wilt Idema, Professor of Chinese Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, introduces his translation of the Precious Scroll of the Rat Epidemic (鼠溫寶卷 Shuwen baojuan), published in Shanghai in 1911.
Wilt L. Idema and Xiaofei Tian introduce the Fairbank Center’s latest exhibition of eclectic treasures from Chinese history.
Joshua L. Freeman, Ph.D. Candidate in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University, introduces and presents a translation of Uyghur poet Perhat Tursun’s “Elegy.”
Jasmine Hu, Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature at Harvard University, examines recent female performances of ci poetry on Chinese television and the relationship between gender and genre.
Lei Ying, Graduate Student Associate at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, examines the influence of Buddhist texts on Chinese canonical writer Lu Xun.
As part of the Fairbank Center’s exhibition of dazibao (大字报 “big-character posters”) and woodcuts from 1960s China, we present a four-part series on Cultural Revolution-era artworks. Jie Li, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, presents part 3 on the exhibitionism of dazibao.
