Print, Anthologies, & the Shape of Knowledge in Late Imperial China

Print, Anthologies, & the Shape of Knowledge in Late Imperial China

A day-long conference

Saturday, October 19, 2002
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
UCLA

10 am   Morning session

Stephen West (East Asian Languages, UC Berkeley)

Leishu (Encyclopedias) & the Textualization of Quotidian Life in the 12th Century

Hui-shu Lee (Art History, UCLA)

Tu & Hua: The influence of printed maps on pictorial conventions & subject matter in the Southern Song (1147–1279)

Pauline Yu (Dean of Humanities, UCLA), Commentator

 

1:30 pm    Afternoon session

David Schaberg (East Asian Languages, UCLA)

Remastering the Tradition:  On philosophical texts in prose anthologies

Kathryn Lowry (East Asian Languages, UCSB)

The Aesthetic Turn: Editing & publishing letters at the turn of the 17th Century

Shang Wei (East Asian Languages, Columbia University)

Riyong leishu (Encyclopedias for Daily Use) & the Narrative of Jinping mei (Plum in a Golden Vase)

 

William B. Warner (English, UCSB), Commentator

 

For more information please contact

Richard Gunde
Tel: (310) 825-8683
gunde@ucla.edu

Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Santa Barbara East Asian Center