Seminars

Early China

  • Founded
    2002
  • Seminar Number
    691

The seminar focuses on early Chinese civilization from the Neolithic Age to the Han Dynasty and brings together scholars from all Early China related fields: history, archaeology, art history, literature and language, religion and philosophy. The seminar will facilitate interregional exchanges by inviting distinguished Sinologists from other parts of the country, and will publicize new archaeological discoveries.

Seminar Website

Co-Chairs
Professor Glenda Chao
gchao@ursinus.edu

Professor Jue Guo
jguo@barnard.edu

Rapporteur
Chris Kim
cfk2123@columbia.edu

All seminars will meet over Zoom for the 2020-2021 academic year. Meeting links provided upon RSVP. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. 

Meeting Schedule

09/25/2020 Online Meeting
9:00 AM
What were the Prime Movers for the Transition to Agriculture: Insights from Archaeological Research in Northeast China
Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)




10/23/2020 Online Meeting
4:30 PM
Understanding Hongshan Core-Zone Households and Communities
Christian Peterson, University of Hawai’i at Manoa




11/06/2020 Online Meeting
7:00 PM
Good Wives? Jealousy and Domestic Violence in Marriages in Early China
Olivia Milburn, Seoul National University (South Korea)




11/20/2020 Online Meeting
9:00 AM
Communities and settlement in hunter-gatherer societies in Northeast China
Pauline Sebillaud, French National Centre for Scientific Research and Jilin University (China)




12/11/2020 Online Meeting
8:00 PM
Water Management in Prehistoric China: A Case Study of the Jianghan Plain (6000-4000 BP)
Jianguo Liu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences




02/19/2021 Online Meeting
4:30 PM
Charting the Early Chinese Oikumene
Min Li, University of California, Los Angeles




03/12/2021 Online Meeting
9:00 AM
Fields, Markets and Trees: contending paradigms of growth in Early China
Romain Graziani, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France)




03/26/2021 Online Meeting
4:30 PM
Feasts and Gifts: Food Redistribution in Early Imperial China
Moonsil Lee Kim, Rhode Island College




04/23/2021 Online Meeting
4:30 PM
Reconsidering the Significance of Chu Antlered Sculptures: A Regional Perspective
Cortney Chaffin, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point