Posted in Presentations on Jun 1st, 2009
Co-sponsored by the Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia Workshop.
4:30PM | CWAC | Room 152
Yuhang Li
PhD Candidate, EALC, University of Chicago
“Communicating Guanyin with Hair: Hair Embroidery in Late Imperial China”
Abstract: Hair embroidery is a particular technique practiced by lay Buddhist women to create devotional images during late imperial China. The embroiderers used their [...]
Posted in Presentations on May 1st, 2009
2:30pm | Rosenwald | Room 405
Rivi Handler-Spitz
(Ph.D., EALC, University of Chicago)
“Judgment and the Creation of Participatory Readers in the Sixteenth Century: Li Zhi and Montaigne”
Posted in Presentations on Apr 21st, 2009
4:40pm | Stuart Hall | Room 105
Joseph Lam
(Professor of Musicology, University of Michigan)
“Kunqu, the Classical Opera of Globalized China“
Abstract: Kunqu, a 600 years-old genre of Chinese opera, faced threats of extinction more than once in its long history. It has, however, not only survived, but continued to grow. In fact, kunqu now appeals to an ever-expanding [...]
Posted in Presentations on Mar 15th, 2009
To download the paper, please click: guo-yingde_mudan-ting
3:30pm | Harper Memorial Hall | Room 103
Guo Yingde 郭英德
(Visiting Professor, Washingtong University at St. Louis; Professor of Chinese Literature at Beijing Normal University.)
“点铁成金：汤显祖《牡丹亭》的改写策略”
(From Mediocre Short Story to Famous Play: Tang Xianzu’s Transformation of The Peony Pavilion from Fiction to Play)
Professor Guo has been on the faculty of Beijing [...]
Posted in Presentations on Mar 2nd, 2009
4:40pm | Harper Memorial | Room 145
Xu Peng
(PhD Candidate, University of Chicago)
“The ‘Misplaced’ Book: Kunqu Singing in the Late-Ming Print Culture”
Abstract:
The paper attempts to trace the emergence of the tradition of judging singing by bookish standards in late Ming China. It argues that the universal acceptance of such standards in the singing [...]
Posted in Presentations, Screenings on Feb 25th, 2009
3:30pm | Regenstein Library | Room 523
Screening: Shajiabang
(1971, model opera, dir. Wu Zhaodi, Ma Erlu, Jiang Shusen, starring Tan Yuanshou, Hong Xuefei)
Guest speaker: Isabel Wong
Isabel Wong, an ethnomusicologist specializes in the music and theater of China, is a professor emeritus of the School of Music of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before her [...]
Posted in Presentations on Jan 21st, 2009
To download the outline of the talk, click here: the-cultural-significance-of-peking-opera-and-mei-lanfang
4:30pm | Harper Memorial | Room 145
Fu Jin 傅谨
Visiting Professor at the department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Professor in Chinese music drama at the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts 中国戏曲学院
“京剧与梅兰芳的文化意义”
(“The Cultural Significance of Peking Opera and Mei Lanfang”)
Posted in Presentations on Jan 14th, 2009
To download the paper, click here: widmer_jan-20
4:40PM | Regenstein Library | Room 523
Ellen Widmer
(Professor at the Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Wellesley College)
The Saoye Shanfang of Suzhou and Shanghai:An Evolution in Five Stages
Abstract: The paper details the evolution of a Suzhou bookshop, Saoye shanfang 掃葉山房, through four main stages. Saoyeshanfang started in late [...]
Posted in Presentations on Jan 14th, 2009
4:00pm | CWAC | Room 156
Quincy Ngan
(Ph.D. student, Art History Department, University of Chicago)
“Eating Azurite and Malachite: The Age-Defying Connotation of the Blue-and-Green Style”
Abstract:
I look at paintings which represent “the realm of the immortals” and, interestingly, all are painted with azurite and malachite, the two pigments which constitutes “the “blue-and-green style.” My presentation questions why [...]
Posted in Presentations on Dec 1st, 2008
12:00pm | WB Hall | Room 207
Rivi Handler-Spitz
(PhD Candidate, Comparative lit., University of Chicago)
“Book Proliferation, Fluctuation, and Falsification in Sixteenth Century China and France Viewed Through the Works of Li Zhi and Montaigne”
* This is part of Chapter 2 of her dissertation, which is tentatively entitled “Diversity, Deception, and Discernment in the Late Sixteenth Century: A Comparative Study [...]
