China Humanities Seminar

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.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023, 4:00 P.M. EST

"Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China"
CHARLES HARTMAN
UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY, EMERITUS


OCTOBER 16, 2023, 4:00 P.M. EST

"What Handscroll Landscape Painting Could Convey:
Format, Structure, and the Discourse on Huayi in the Late Northern Song Dynasty"
CHENG-HUA WANG
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY


NOVEMBER 13, 2023, 4:00 P.M. EST

"Forging a New Sino-Inner Asian Order:
The Brotherly Relations Between the Shatuo Turks and Kitans (907-979)"
SOOJUNG HAN
SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY


DECEMBER 4 , 2023, 4:00 P.M. EST

"Rethinking Early Huaben Stories: Fiction Miscellanies and A Spatial Experience of Reading"
XIAOQIAO LING
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

 


All talks will be held in the Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, and on Zoom