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Early China Seminar Program Archive

2014-2015
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
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2024-2025
September 27, 2024 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“History and Lore: Interpretive Emplotment and 'Empty Writing' in the 'Hereditary House of Zhao'”

Speaker: Amelia Ying Qin, California State University, Sacramento
October 11, 2024 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Localizing Sagehood: Cultural Memory of Yao, Shun, and Yu in Shanxi”

Speaker: Jae-hoon Shim, Dankook University
November 8, 2024 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“A Deep History of Human Activity in the Jiuzhaigou National Park”

Speaker: Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, University of Washington
December 6, 2024 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“A World without Hope: Putting an End to Luck in Early Chinese Thought”

Speaker: Trenton Wilson, Princeton University
March 28, 2025 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

"Aristocratic Lineage Structures in Western Zhou"

Speaker: Tao Duan, Fudan University
2014-2015
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023
2023-2024
2024-2025
April 19, 2024 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Remembrance in Clay and Stone: Early Memorial and Funerary Art of Southwest China”

Speaker: Hajni Elias, University of Cambridge
March 29, 2024 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Local Administrative Centers and their Transitions during the Warring States and Qin-Han Period”

Speaker: Tao Guo , Central China Normal University (China)
February 2, 2024 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Tracing the Origins and Evolution of the Signature System in Early Imperial China”

Speaker: Hsinning Liu, Academia Sinica
December 8, 2023 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“On the Newly Identified Phrase ‘Worry is gone’ yōu wáng 憂亡, in the Shāng Oracle Bone Inscriptions”

Speaker: Adam Schwartz, Hong Kong Baptist University
November 10, 2023 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Hepu and the Maritime Silk Road”

Speaker: Francis Allard, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
October 20, 2023 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Hunting and Warfare: History of Shi 勢 in Early China”

Speaker: Boqun Zhou, University of Hong Kong
September 29, 2023 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Stirrings of the Heart, Stirrings of the Cosmos: The Worlds of Classical Chinese Aesthetics”

Speaker: Paul R. Goldin, University of Pennsylvania
2014-2015
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023
2023-2024
2024-2025
May 5, 2023 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Long-term Perspectives on Deer Management in China”

Speaker: Katherine Brunson, Wesleyan University
April 14, 2023 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Yueling and Yueling Commentary during the Han in Light of Xuanquanzhi”

Speaker: Charles Sanft, University of Tennessee
March 31, 2023 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Fall of the Scribes and the Rise of Han Literati”

Speaker: Christopher J. Foster, University of London
March 3, 2023 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Art and Technology: Early “Animal Style” Gold Artifacts Found in Northwest China and the Eurasian steppes”

Speaker: Yan (Fiona) Liu, Columbia University / Northwestern Polytechnical University (China)
February 10, 2023 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“What Were They Thinking? History Making in the “Command to Yue” 說命 Chapter of the Exalted Writings (Shangshu 尚書)”

Speaker: Maddalena Poli, Pomona College
December 9, 2022 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Parallel Lives: Yi Yin, Fu Yue, and the Duke of Zhou”

Speaker: Kuan-yun (Kevin) Huang, National Sun Yat-sen University
November 18, 2022 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“King Wen’s Just War: The Conquest of Chong in Early Chinese Discourse”

Speaker: Nicholas Vogt, Indiana University
October 21, 2022 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“From Gansu to Stockholm: Combining Excavations and Collections to Explore Interregional Interactions in Neolithic Northwestern China”

Speaker: Andrew Womack, Furman University
September 30, 2022 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Jerry Norman’s Ideas on the Reconstruction of Chinese”

Speaker: David Branner, Independent Scholar
2014-2015
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023
2023-2024
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May 6, 2022 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Engineering and Defense in the Later Mohist Military Chapters: The Organization of People, Objects, and Landscapes”

Speaker: Erica Brindley, Pennsylvania State University
April 15, 2022 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Revisiting the Syntactical Functions and Semantic Features of the Universal Quantifier tun屯 in Early Chinese Texts”

Speaker: Huaqiang Song, Wuhan University
April 8, 2022 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Stele-statues and Manuscripts: Exploring the Buddho-Daoist Stelae of the Northern Dynasties”

Speaker: Gil Raz, Dartmouth College
March 11, 2022 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“What is Early Chinese Religion”

Speaker: Ori Tavor, University of Pennsylvania
February 18, 2022 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Copper Mining and Bronze Production in Shandong Province: A New Perspective on the Political Economy of the Shang State”

Speaker: Qingzhu Wang, Columbia University
February 11, 2022 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Early Chinese Thought via Shijing 詩經”

Speaker: Mick Hunter, Yale University
December 10, 2021 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“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
November 19, 2021 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Collecting and Disseminating Technical Knowledge”

Speaker: Rens Krijgsman, Tsinghua University
October 8, 2021 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Shang and Zhou Concepts of Family and Lineage”

Speaker: Maria Khayutina, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
2014-2015
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023
2023-2024
2024-2025
March 26, 2021 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Feasts and Gifts: Food Redistribution in Early Imperial China”

Speaker: Moonsil Lee Kim, Rhode Island College
March 12, 2021 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Fields, Markets and Trees: Contending Paradigms of Growth in Early China”

Speaker: Romain Graziani, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
February 19, 2021 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Charting the Early Chinese Oikumene”

Speaker: Min Li, University of California, Los Angeles
December 11, 2020 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Water Management in Prehistoric China: A Case Study of the Jianghan Plain (6000-4000 BP)”

Speaker: Jianguo Liu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
November 6, 2020 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Good Wives? Jealousy and Domestic Violence in Marriages in Early China”

Speaker: Olivia Milburn, Seoul National University
October 23, 2020 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Understanding Hongshan Core-Zone Households and Communities”

Speaker: Christian E. Peterson, University of Hawaii at Manoa
September 25, 2020 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“What were the Prime Movers for the Transition to Agriculture: Insights from Archaeological Research in Northeast China”

Speaker: Gideon Shelach-Lavi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2014-2015
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023
2023-2024
2024-2025
February 21, 2020 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Cheap Substitutes or Fashionable Luxuries? The Use of Iron Mirrors in the Eastern Han”

Speaker: Yanlong Guo, Smith College
February 7, 2020 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“The Material Culture of Personal Adornment in Ancient China”

Speaker: Sheri Lullo, Union College
November 22, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Spring and Autumn Historiography: Formulaic phrasing and hierarchical display in Spring and Autumn records”

Speaker: Newell Ann Van Auken, University of Iowa
October 18, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“The Inner Asian Frontier Re-examined: Shaping the Study of Artifacts and Mental Boundaries”

Speaker: Yan Sun, Gettysburg College
September 20, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Coining Chinese Civilization: The Emergence of Civilizational Consciousness in Early China”

Speaker: Uffe Bergeton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2014-2015
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023
2023-2024
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May 3, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Ornament, Text, and the Creation of Sishen Mirrors in Western Han China”

Speaker: Jie Shi, Bryn Mawr College
April 19, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Material Culture, Identity, and Statecraft in the State of Zhongshan, Warring States Period”

Speaker: Xiaolong Wu, Hanover College
March 29, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Bronze-vessel Casting Industry and Regional Center of the Huai River Valley during the Shang (ca. 1400–1200 BC)”

Speaker: Xiaolin He, Wuhan University
March 8, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“The Wind that Shakes the Barley: Consequences of the Food Globalization in Prehistory”

Speaker: Xinyi Liu,Washington University in St. Louis
February 22, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Rewriting Early Chinese Technical Literature for the Age of Empire”

Speaker: Ethan Harkness, New York University
February 1, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Approaching Chinese Shamanism through a Comparative Context, With Assistance from the Early Chinese Song Cycle called 'The Nine Songs'”

Speaker: Thomas Michael, Beijing Normal University
January 25, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“State and Environment in China's First Empire: A Political Ecology of Qin”

Speaker: Brian Lander, Brown University
December 19, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“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
November 16, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“New Discoveries at Taosi and the Study of State Formation in Early China”

Speaker: Gao Jiangtao, Institute of Archaeology CASS
November 2, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“‘Classical Chinese’ and its Discontents: What, if anything, was yăyán 雅言 ('refined language')?”

Speaker: Wolfgang Behr, University of Zürich
October 12, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought”

Speaker: Michael Ing, Indiana University
September 28, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Researching the Cultural History of Xiangyang through Archaeological Remains”

Speaker: Glenda Chao, Ursinus College
2014-2015
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023
2023-2024
2024-2025
May 4, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Divination and the Body in Ancient China”

Speaker: Constance A. Cook,  Lehigh University
April 20, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“On the Creation of the Warring States: An Exploration of a Historiographical Staple”

Speaker: Miranda Brown,  University of Michigan
March 23, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Technological Changes on the Proto-Silk Roads: The Tao River Archaeology Project, Gansu, China”

Speaker: Rowan Flad, Harvard University
March 02, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Notes on the Note (ji 記) in Early Chinese Manuscripts: Between Administration and Affect”

Speaker: Luke Habberstad, University of Oregon
February 09, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“How Classical Chinese Grammar Looked to Its First Native Students”

Speaker: David Prager Branner, independent scholar
November 17th, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Communities and Practice in Early China – Social Action in the Zhou World”

Speaker: Yitzchak Jaffe, ISAW, NYU

October 27th, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Reading Shi Ji without the Biographical Fallacy”

Speaker: Yang Lei, Carleton College

October 6, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Fleshing out the Social Identity of Human Sacrificial Victims in Late Shang, China”

Speaker: Daniela Wolin, Yale University
2014-2015
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023
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May 5, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Early Chinese Medical Literature before the Huangdi 黃帝 Classic: New Manuscripts from Laoguanshan 老官⼭ Tomb 3, Sichuan”

Speaker: Donald Harper, University of Chicago
April 14, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Gender and Economic Productivity in Han China”

Speaker: Tamara Chin, Brown University
March 31, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Who is the Barbarian in Zuozhuan?”

Speaker: Wai-yee Li, Harvard University
February 17, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Beyond the Five Colors: Reconsidering Purple and its Sources in Ancient China.”

Speaker: Allison Miller, Southwestern University
January 27, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“The Emergence and Development of Mechanical Duplication Technique in the Casting of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions”

Speaker: SAKIKAWA Takashi, Jilin University
December 9, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Understanding Xunzi and Zhuangzi through Hui Shi”

Speaker: Annping Chin, Yale University
November 11, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Investigating the Anyang Bone Industries: Technologies, Standardization, and the Missing Royal Workshop”

Speaker: Yung-Ti Li, University of Chicago
October 14, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“The Anthropocene Is A Process Not An Event: China from the Late Neolithic to the Song Dynasty”

Speaker: Tristram Kidder, Washington University in St. Louis
September 9, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Xiaoyao and shuchi : Some Special Uses of Alliterative and Rhyming Binomes in the Transmitted and Excavated Documents”

Speaker: Chen Zhi, Hong Kong Baptist University
2014-2015
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023
2023-2024
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May 17, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“The First Emperor’s Mausoleum: New Discoveries and New Interpretations”

Speaker: Cao Wei, Shaanxi University, China
April 15, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Picturing Political Abstractions in Han China”

Speaker: Martin Powers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
March 11, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Idlers on the Southwest Frontier: Native Continuities or Evasions of Han Imperial Time”

Speaker: Alice Yao, University of Chicago
February 28, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“The History of the State of Zeng through New Archeological Discoveries”

Speaker: Fang Qin, Hubei Provincial Museum and Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
February 26, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Dependency vs. Vulnerability in Early China-Steppe Interaction: New Data for Old Problems”

Speaker: Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study
January 29, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Urban Neighborhoods: Social and Spatial Organization of the Great Shang Settlement”

Speaker: Jing Zhichun, University of British Columbia
December 11, 2015 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Rethinking ritual and the excavation of special deposits at Shang sites”

Speaker: Katrinka Reinhart, San Francisco State University
November 13, 2015 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Recent Discoveries on Old Chinese and Pre-Qín Documents”

Speaker: William H. Baxter, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
October 16, 2015 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Excavated Legal Cases from Ancient China and Egypt”

Speaker: Professor Anthony Barbieri-Low, University of California, Santa Barbara
2014-2015
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
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2014 – 2015 Academic Year
Speaker: Chen Jianing 陈家宁, Visiting Scholar, EALC, University of Pennsylvania Date: May 8, 2015 Presentation: “The Evolution of Xiwangmu (Queen Mother of the West) and Dongwanggong (King Father of the East) in Archaeological Records” 西王母、東王公源流考——以先秦兩漢考古資料為中心
Speaker: Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of California, Berkeley Date: April 3, 2015 Presentation: “Crooked and licentious cults: Han popular movements seen through religion’s double lens”
Speaker: Vincent Leung, ISAW, NYU (2014 – 2015); University of Pittsburgh Date: March 6, 2015 Presentation: “Why History Mattered? On the Politics of the Past in Early China”
Speaker: Gopal Sukhu, Queens College and Columbia University Date: February 6, 2015 Presentation: “Translating the Tian wen: Where is the Irony?”
Speaker: Guolong, Lai,  Institute for Advanced Study (2014 – 15); University of Florida Date: December 5, 2014 Presentation: “ ’Rabbit (Tu) and ‘Rat’ (Shu) in Chu Manuscripts: The Contact and Impact of the Linguistic Substratum on Old Chinese”
Speaker: Jessica Rawson, Oxford University Date: November 7, 2014 Presentation: “Why did the Chinese make Bronze Ritual Vessels: Origins and Outcomes”
Speaker(s): Chen Wei 陳偉, Wuhan University; Yang Hua 楊華, Wuhan University;  Li Tianhong 李天虹, Wuhan University Date: October 27, 2014 Presentations:
  • Chen Wei: “秦簡牘所見的文書制度”
  • Yang Hua: “上古中國的‘夜禱’:兼談原始巫術與儒家禮儀的關係”
  • Li Tianhong: “文峰塔一號墓曾侯  編鐘的發現及其初步研究”

Speaker: Ken Brashier, Reed College Date: October 3, 2014 Presentation: “Wen, Wu, and me, too: A hypothesis on public memory construction in early China”

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