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April 23, 2021 – cancelled

Early China Seminar Lecture Series

Title: “Reconsidering the Significance of Chu Antlered Sculptures: A Regional Perspective”
Speaker: Cortney E. Chaffin, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Time: April 23, 2021 (4:30-6:30 PM EST)
The event will be held via Zoom. Please click on “Request Pre-circulated Paper” to register for the event.

Scholarly studies on the function and significance of Chu antlered sculptures, traditionally referred to as zhenmushou 镇墓兽, or “protecting tomb beasts,” have focused on the images as a widespread category of Chu sculpture, including three-dimensional bronze bases (tenuously associated with deer antlers), lacquered wooden antler stands, and fully representational sculptural images of antlered and tongued hybrid creatures. The latter category is especially complex and includes a wide regional variety of representations of antlered and tongued hybrid creatures excavated from tombs from across the vast Chu kingdom in modern-day Henan, Hubei, and Hunan provinces. This study argues for an alternative approach to understanding the meaning of these distinctive and diverse images, one that is sensitive to both their temporal and stylistic evolutions, as well their regional and archaeological contexts. Specifically, this paper will examine sculptures excavated in the Hanxi region of modern-day Hubei province, where the majority of these images have been excavated, with the hope of lending new insight
to our understanding of the meaning of these powerful images.

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May 6, 2022 
Early China Seminar – Erica Brindley
Publication in the Tang Center Series in Early China 
Worlds Under One Heaven: Material Culture, Identity, and Power in the Northern Frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045–771 BCE – Yan Sun
Forthcoming 
Mediation of Legitimacy in Early China: A Study of the “Neglected Zhou Scriptures” and the Grand Duke Traditions – Yegor Grebnev

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