Presentations Scheduled for 2005-2006

 

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 24, 2005

*  Annping Chin (Yale University): 

“Understanding yangong 言公 in Two Ways: Lessons from the Xunzi and the Guodian Bamboo Texts”

*  Hwang Ming-chorng (Academia Sinica):

          “Reconstruction of the Shang Kinship Terms and Kinship Systems from the Bronze Inscriptions: Methods and Results”      

November 12, 2005

        *  Paul Rakita Goldin (University of Pennsylvania):

           “The Myth That China Has No Creation Myth; Or, How Not to Compare China and the West”

        *  Gopal Sukhu (City University of New York, Queens College): 

           “Liu XIN and the "Discovery" that Yao was the Ancestor of the Han Imperial Family”

December 3, 2005

        *  John Major (China Institute, New York): 

           “Tool Metaphors in the Huainanzi”

        *  Lian Haiping (Shanghai Museum):    

           “The Casting Techniques of Bronze Weapons and Vessels in the States of Wu and Yue during the Eastern Zhou Period”  

            Glossary 

February 4, 2006

        *  William Boltz (University of Washington, Seattle): 

            “Archaeology and Writing”

        *  Takashima Kenichi (University of British Columbia):

            “Some Linguistic Aspects of the Shang and Early Western Zhou Bronze Inscriptions”      

April 22, 2006

 *  David Schaberg (University of California, Los Angeles):

     “Oratorical Training in Early China”

 *  Agnes Hsu (Brown University)

     “Revisiting the Mawangdui Maps: A GIS Approach”

 *  Jiang Bo (Institute of Archaeology, CASS)

     “Ceremonial Buildings in Chang'an, Capital of the Western Han Dynasty”