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Media Library

Oct 2015
Interview with Professor Li Feng and Dr. Agnes Hsu-Tang at New York Lounge, Sinovision.

Oct 2016
Columbia Archaeology Delegation at Jilin University


April 1, 2024 - CCK Visit

Meeting with Prof. Chun-i Chen

Prof. Chun-i Chen and Prof. Li Feng
2023 Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Awards - We’re thrilled to share the good news that Dr. Agnes Hsu-Tang, co-founder of the Tang Center, is the honoree of the 2023 Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Awards! An awards ceremony on Ellis Island was hosted by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation on Thursday, May 25 to celebrate Dr. Hsu-Tang along with her fellow honorees […]
November 14-15, 2019 - Ceramic Anthropology Workshop

Integrative Approaches to Ceramic Anthropology in Early China: New Directions in Pottery Research

Participating scholars: Andrew Womack, Camilla Sturm et al.
April 12-14, 2019 - Zuozhuan Workshop

Workshop on the Grammar, Syntax and Rhetoric of the Zuozhuan

Participating scholars: Christoph Harbsmeier et al.
April 27-28, 2018 - The Greater South China Sea Interaction Zone

A Workshop to Explore Interdisciplinary Interventions into the Study of the Ancient East Eurasian South

Participating scholars: Erica Brindley et al.
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 28-29, 2017 - Zoumalou Workshop

Zoumalou Administrative Documents

Participating scholars: Brian Lander et al.
April 22, 2017 - The Exhibition Symposium

“Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia”

Participating scholars: Bryan Averbuch et al.
April 14, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series

“Gender and Economic Productivity in Han China”

Speaker: Tamara Chin, Brown University
April 3, 2017 - Tang Special Lecture

“The Painted Pottery of the Miaodigou Culture and the Rise of Civilization in China: The Excavation at Yangguanzhai and Its Significance”

Speaker: Wang Weilin, Shaanxi Museum of History
April 1, 2017 - Tang Special Annual lecture in Archaeology

The Excavation of the Haihunhou Tomb

Keynote Speakers:
Yang Jun, Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology
Zhang Zhongli, Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology

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
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
April 8, 2016 - Tang Special Lecture

“Hollow and Useless Luxuries: Asian Trade in the Age of Sinbad the Sailor”

Speaker: John Guy, FSA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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
October 3, 2015 - Inaugural Tang Special Annual Lecture in Archaeology

Realm of God and King – Recent Discovery of the Liangzhu City and Rise of Civilizations in Southern China

Keynote Speaker: Professor Liu Bin, Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Archaeology
October 2, 2015 -

Inaugural Ceremony of the Tang Center for Early China

September 30, 2015 -

Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony of the Tang Center for Early China

July, 2015 -

Signing Ceremony of the Tang Center for Early China

Announcement

April 11, 2025 – Online
Early China Seminar – Noa Hegesh
New Publication – Tang Center Series in Early China
Remembrance in Clay and Stone – Hajni Elias

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