#  China Humanities Seminar 

 



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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](https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/), [Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies](https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/), and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

[Watch past lectures on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/showcase/chinahumanities)

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Lecture Series page [HERE](https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/category/china-humanities-seminar/list/?eventDisplay=past).

## 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