The China Humanities Seminar (CHS) is a long-standing lecture series on topics in Chinese art, history, literature, thought, and religion, with a primary focus on the premodern period. It is sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
January 30, 2023, 4:00 P.M. EST
Water Transformation: Buddhist Meditation and Pure Land Art in Tang China
Anne Feng
Boston University
February 13, 2023, 4:00 P.M. EST
Curating a Museum of Stones: The 'Forest of Stelae' (Beil in) and the
Politics of the Past in Middle Period China
Xin Wen
Princeton University
*This talk is co-sponsored by the Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Program*
March 6, 2023, 4:00 P.M. EST
Every Man a Merchant: Plays of the Suzhou Circle and the Making of an
Early Modern Economic Subject
Ariel Fox
University of Chicago
April 10, 2023, 4:00 P.M. EST
The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early Qing Dynasty
Nicolas Standaert
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
April 24, 2023, 4:00 P.M. EST
Title TBA
Meimei Zhang
Occidental College