China Humanities

CHINA HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Shoufu Yin, University of British Columbia What could China—or the entire world—have been? Starting in the fourteenth century, hundreds of thousands of individuals in present-day China, Korea, and Vietnam were ruminating on this...

CHINA HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Matthew Wild, Harvard University Please note that this talk has been rescheduled on September 30. This talk examines the poetics of time at the height of Qing empire. It offers a new approach to the work of the Qing poet Huang...

CHINA HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Franciscus Verellen, École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Emeritus The understudied end phase of the Tang dynasty (618–907) is mainly known through official accounts dating to the tenth and eleventh centuries. This lecture...

CHINA HUMANITIES SPEAKER: John Kieschnick, Stanford University Drawing on newspapers, essays, memoirs, correspondence and Buddhist journals, this talk will outline the major trends in Chinese vegetarianism from 1900-1950, attempting to capture the diverse...

CHINA HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Michelle Wang, Reed College Michelle H. Wang is Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities at Reed College. She specializes in art and archaeology of tenth century BCE to third century CE China, with an emphasis on early...

CHINA HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Xiaoqiao Ling, Arizona State University This paper investigates ways in which the proximity of texts in literary environments complicate our understanding of invention and creation in the late Ming narrative tradition. Early...

CHINA HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Soojung Han, Southwestern University Following the collapse of the Tang dynasty and before the rise of the Song dynasty, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (907–979) is known to have been one of the most chaotic periods...

CHINA HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Cheng-hua Wang, Princeton University Focusing on landscape paintings in the handscroll format from the tenth to the twelfth century, this talk aims to present two structural innovations that took place in the late eleventh...

CHINA HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Charles Hartman, University of Albany (Emeritus) This lecture will introduce my recent book, Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China 960-1279 CE (Cambridge, 2023). Together with its historiographical prelude, The Making of...

CHINA HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Meimei Zhang, Occidental College This 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...