Past Events
Commodore Perry’s Expedition as a Shopping Trip: The First Japanese Books in America
Professor Emeritus Peter Kornicki, University of Cambridge
What was Perry’s crew doing while he was negotiating, and what was everybody, including Commodore Perry himself, doing when the ships visited Shimoda and Hakodate? They were shopping! They…
More than "A Feeling of Beauty": Aesthetics in Natsume Sōseki’s Early Literary Thought
Professor Anri Yasuda, The George Washington University
Natsume Sōseki, perhaps the most renowned writer of early-twentieth century Japan, stated that his aim in writing the novel Kusamakura (1906) had been purely aesthetic: “I would be satisfied if a kind of…
"THE GREAT UNITY IDEAL: THE KEY TO CHINA'S IMPERIAL LONGEVITY?"
Dr. Yuri Pines, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
One of the most notable features of imperial China is the exceptional durability of the imperial political system. Having been formed in the aftermath of Qin 秦 unification (221 BCE), this system lasted intact amid…
How Not to Rectify Names
Bryan Van Norden, Yale University
Dr. Van Norden discusses Analects 13.3, the locus classicus for the expression zhèng míng 正名 (commonly translated “rectifying names” or “correcting terms”).
AVATARS OF LI BAI
Anna M. Shields, Princeton University
In the centuries after the fall of the Tang dynasty, readers and scholars shaped the literary legacy of the Tang into new and durable forms that were printed, widely circulated, and influential for centuries. My talk…
Script and Sound in Old Chinese
Please find program and talk abstracts here.
Material for talks and the reading session can be found…
Royal Authority and Heaven's Mandate in the Spring and Autumn Period 春秋時期的王權和天命
Dr. Xinhui Luo, Beijing Normal University
A light luncheon will be served. Please rsvp to lmgreene@sas.upenn.edu
BODIES AND BORDERS: Inclusion, Exclusion and Excision in East Asia
Keynote Speaker: Hentyle Yapp, New York University
Second annual graduate student conference on East Asia at the University of Pennsylvania
The conference is presented by the Graduate Student Research Colloquium of the Department of East Asian Languages and…
NAKED TEXT - Revealing Layers of Textual Composition in China
Timothy Clifford, Constance A Cook, Huang Guohui, Paul R Goldin, Maddalena Poli, Adam D Smith, Ori Tavor
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"Why Chu: A New View of Chinese Complex Silk Weaving by the 2nd century BCE"
Angela Sheng, McMaster University
Symposium on Gender, Embodiment, and Asian Religions
Visit the conference website at http://web.sas.upenn.edu/gear/
Speakers:
Angela Zito (New York University), author of Of Body and…