Early China Seminar Program Archive

"Master, State and Patron"

"The Paradox of Hegemony"

“Subtle Politics: The Case of Ritual Music in the Northern Zhou”

"Aristocratic Lineage Structures in Western Zhou"

“Staging the Corpse: Performativity and Materiality in Northern Wei Mortuary Art”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Hepu and the Maritime Silk Road”

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

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

“Long-term Perspectives on Deer Management in China”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“What is Early Chinese Religion”

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

“Early Chinese Thought via Shijing 詩經”

“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)”

“Collecting and Disseminating Technical Knowledge”

“Shang and Zhou Concepts of Family and Lineage”

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

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

“Charting the Early Chinese Oikumene”

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

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

“Understanding Hongshan Core-Zone Households and Communities”

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

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

“The Material Culture of Personal Adornment in Ancient China”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Routes of Communication between Erlitou Culture and the Southern Region in Bronze Age China”

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

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

“The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought”

“Researching the Cultural History of Xiangyang through Archaeological Remains”

“Divination and the Body in Ancient China”

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

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

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

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

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

Speaker: Yitzchak Jaffe, ISAW, NYU

“Reading Shi Ji without the Biographical Fallacy”

Speaker: Yang Lei, Carleton College

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

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

“Gender and Economic Productivity in Han China”

“Who is the Barbarian in Zuozhuan?”

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

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

“Understanding Xunzi and Zhuangzi through Hui Shi”

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

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

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

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

“Picturing Political Abstractions in Han China”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Excavated Legal Cases from Ancient China and Egypt”