Presentations during 2004-2005

 

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 25, 2004

 

* ZHENG Ruokui (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences):

   “The Three Gorges Archaeology: New Discovery of the Ba Culture”    

* Elizabeth Childs-Johnson (Independent Scholar):

   “The Royal Tetrapod Ding and the Royal Ding Sacrifice”

 

November 13, 2004

 

* Mark Byington (Harvard University):

   “Han’s Xuantu Commendery and Its Relations with Puyo and Koguryo”

* William H. Baxter (University of Michigan):

   “Old Chinese Reconstruction and Recently Excavated Texts”  

* Magnus Fiskesjo (Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm):

  “China before China: The Discovery of China’s Prehistory and the Founding of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquity”

 

January 22, 2005

 

* Jason Sun (Metropolitan Museum of Art):

   “The ‘Zhang’ Blades in Early Chinese Cultures”

* Yan SUN (Gettysburg College):

   “Yan’s Cultural and Political Control in North China during the Early Western Zhou Period”

 

March 12, 2005

 

* Edward Shaughnessy (University of Chicago):

   “A First Reading of the Shanghai Museum Bamboo-Strip Manuscript of the Zhou Yi”

    * Moss Roberts (New York University)

       “Some Semantic Ramifications of the Word chen-Vassal”  

 

May 7, 2005

 

   * Anne Kinney (University of Virginia):

      “Explicating Narrative in the Lienü zhuan”

*  Fang-yi Chao (University of Colorado):

   “The Second-Final Wei in Classical Chinese”