Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Routes of Communication between Erlitou Culture and the Southern Region in Bronze Age China”  Speaker: Pang Xiaoxia, Tang Center for Early China; Institute of Archaeology, CASS Time: December 19, 2018 (10:00 am -12:00 pm) Location: 403 Kent Please click on the button to RSVP by December 14, 2018  Communication … [Read more...]

Early China Seminar Lecture Series (Change of Speaker) Title: “New Discoveries at Taosi and the Study of State Formation in Early China” 陶寺遗址近年新发现与中国早期国家研究 Speaker: Gao Jiangtao 高江涛（Associate professor, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Presentation in Chinese Location: Faculty House *please check the announcement board in the first-floor … [Read more...]

Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “‘Classical Chinese’ and its Discontents: What, if anything, was yăyán 雅言 ('refined language')?” Speaker: Wolfgang Behr, University of Zürich Time: November 2, 2018 (4:30-6:30 PM) Location: Garden Room 1, Faculty House  The language of pre-imperial China is usually presented as if it was an entity isolated from external … [Read more...]

Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought” Speaker: Michael Ing, Indiana University Time: October 12, 2018 (4:30-6:30 PM) Location: 306 Milbank Hall, Barnard College This presentation will examine a rich debate among early Confucian texts about the necessity and even value of vulnerability in human experience. … [Read more...]