Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Charting the Early Chinese Oikumene”Speaker: Min Li, University of California, Los AngelesTime: February 19, 2021 (4:30–6:30pm EST)The event will be held via Zoom. Please click on "Request Pre-circulated Paper" to register for the event. Yugong (Tributes of the Great Yu) presents an influential conceptual framework of … [Read more...]
Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Reconsidering the Significance of Chu Antlered Sculptures: A Regional Perspective”Speaker: Cortney E. Chaffin, University of Wisconsin-Stevens PointTime: 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 … [Read more...]
Material Culture, Identity, and Power in the Northern Frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045–771 BCE Yan SunColumbia University Press In the mid-eleventh century BCE, the Zhou overthrew the Shang, a dynastic power that had dominated much of northern and central China. Over the next three centuries, they would extend the borders of their political control significantly … [Read more...]
Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Communities and settlement in hunter-gatherer societies in Northeast China”Speaker: Pauline Sebillaud, French National Centre for Scientific ResearchTime: November 20, 2020 (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. This research explores … [Read more...]
Court Art and Materiality in Han China Allison R. Miller Columbia University Press The Western Han dynasty (202 BCE–9 CE) was a foundational period for the artistic culture of ancient China, a fact particularly visible in the era’s funerary art. Iconic forms of Chinese art such as dazzling suits of jade; cavernous, rock-cut mountain tombs; fancifully ornate wall … [Read more...]
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