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 Ethan Harkness
harkness@nyu.edu

Rapporteur
Crismon Lewis
csl2179@columbia.edu

Meeting Schedule

10/08/2021 Online Meeting
9:00 AM
Shang and Zhou Concepts of Family and Lineage
Maria Khayutina, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany)




11/19/2021 Online Meeting
8:00 AM
Collecting and Disseminating Technical Knowledge
Rens Krijgsman, Tsinghua University (China)




12/10/2021 Online Meeting
9:00 AM
The Han River as the Central Axis and the Predominance of Water: Questioning the Claim of “No Chu-related Traits” in the View of Terrestrial Space in the Rong Cheng shi Manuscript (4th c. BCE)
Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, National Centre for Scientific Research (France) and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Germany)




02/11/2022 Online Meeting
4:30 PM
Early Chinese Thought via Shijing 詩經
Mick Hunter, Yale University




02/18/2022 Online Meeting
4:30 PM
Copper Mining and Bronze Production in Shandong Province: A New Perspective on the Political Economy of the Shang State
Qingzhu Wang, Columbia University




03/11/2022 Online Meeting
4:30 PM
What is Early Chinese Religion?
Ori Tavor, University of Pennsylvania




04/08/2022 Faculty House, Columbia University
4:30 PM
Stele-statues and Manuscripts: Exploring the Buddho-Daoist Stelae of the Northern Dynasties
Gil Raz, Dartmouth College




04/15/2022 Faculty House, Columbia University
4:30 PM
Revisiting the Syntactical Functions and Semantic Features of the Universal Quantifier tun屯 in Early Chinese Texts
Huaqiang Song, Wuhan University (China)




05/06/2022 Faculty House, Columbia University
4:30 PM
Engineering and Defense in the Later Mohist Military Chapters: The Organization of People, Objects, and Landscapes
Erica Brindley, Pennsylvania State University