Presentations during 2003-2004
Past papers are available to the registered members and associate members of the seminar (please write to the co-chairs for password). Non-members should make their requests directly to the speakers.
September 20, 2003
Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania): "Animals and Values in Early Chinese Ideology."
November 22, 2003
Christopher Beckwith (Indiana University): "The Japanese-Koguryoic Peoples and Early China."
David Branner (University of Maryland): "On the
A/B Distinction in the Early Chinese Lexicon."
January 24, 2004
Miranda Brown (University of Michigan): "Friends
or Subordinates? Political Association and Mourning in the Eastern Han."
Guolong Lai (Columbia University): "The Jing /Ji /Zhuan
Structure of the Sangfu: A New Approach to the Dating
of Ritual Texts."
March 27, 2004
David Pankenier (Lehigh University): "A
Brief History of Beiji (Northern Culmen),
with an Excurses on the Astral Origins of Di."
Huang Xiaofen (
Andrew Meyer (
May 15, 2004
Xu Shaohua (Wuhan
University): "A
New Exploration on the Establishment and Development of the System of
Prefecture and County in the South Region of Yangtse
River from Excavated Materials."
Barry Blakeley (Seton Hall University): "On
the Authenticity and Nature of the Zuozhuan"
Revisited."
Susan Weld (The U.S. Congress): "Coping with Official Corruption and
Malfeasance in Early China: Examples from Excavated Texts."