Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Ornament, Text, and the Creation of Sishen Mirrors in Western Han China”Speaker: Jie Shi, Bryn Mawr CollegeTime: May 3, 2019 (4:30-6:30 PM)Location: Faculty House (*please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information) While Chinese mirrors cast before the mid-first century BCE were decorated with … [Read more...]

Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Material Culture, Identity, and Statecraft in the State of Zhongshan, Warring States Period”Speaker: Xiaolong Wu, Hanover CollegeTime: April 19, 2019 (4:30-6:30 PM)Location: 403 Kent Hall This talk gives a synopsis of a comprehensive and in-depth study of the Zhongshan state during China’s Warring States Period (476–221 … [Read more...]

Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Bronze-vessel Casting Industry and Regional Center of the Huai River Valley during the Shang (ca. 1400–1200 BC)”Speaker: Xiaolin He, Wuhan University (Visiting Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University) Time: March 29, 2019 (4:30-6:30 PM)Location: Faculty House *please check the announcement board in the first … [Read more...]

Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “The Wind that Shakes the Barley: Consequences of the Food Globalization in Prehistory”Speaker: Xinyi Liu, Washington University in St. LouisTime: March 8, 2019 (4:30-6:30 PM)Location: 403 Kent Hall In the context of recent conversations on food globalisation in prehistory, there has been growing scholarly interests in … [Read more...]

Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Rewriting Early Chinese Technical Literature for the Age of Empire”Speaker: Ethan Harkness, New York UniversityTime: February 22, 2019 (5:00-7:00 PM)Location: Faculty House *please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information This paper presents an in-depth study of a constellation of … [Read more...]