Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Shang and Zhou Concepts of Family and Lineage”Speaker: Maria Khayutina, Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichTime: October 8, 2021 (9:00-11:00 AM EST)The event will be held via Zoom. Please click on "Request Pre-circulated Paper" to register for the event. Anthropologists who explored and compared kinship structures around the … [Read more...]

Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Collecting and Disseminating Technical Knowledge”Speaker: Rens Krijgsman, Tsinghua UniversityTime: November 19, 2021 (8:00-10:00 PM EST)The event will be held via Zoom. Please click on "Request Pre-circulated Paper" to register for the event. This paper analyses technical collections for traces of selection processes and how they … [Read more...]

Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “The Han River as the Central Axis and the Predominance of Water: Questioning the Claim of “No Chu-related Traits” in the View of Terrestrial Space in the Rong Cheng shi Manuscript (4th c. BCE)”Speaker: Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, French National Centre for Scientific Research / Max Planck Institute for the History of ScienceTime: … [Read more...]