Lectures in Traditional Chinese Culture: A Double Bill
Talks by Poo Mu-chou and Philip Hu
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Justice, Morality, and Skepticism in the Ghost Stories of the Six Dynasties Period
POO MU-CHOU
Poo Mu-chou (Ph.D. in Egyptology from Johns Hopkins University) is Professor and Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Among his publications are Enemies of Civilization: Attitudes toward Foreigners in Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China (SUNY Press, 2005), Ghosts and Spirits: Sketches in Chinese Popular Culture (in Chinese; Maitian Press 2005), In Search of Personal Welfare: A View of Ancient Chinese Religion (SUNY Press, 1998), A History of Chinese Culture (in Chinese; coauthored with Hsiung Ping-chen; Taiwan Donghua shuju, 1997), and Wine and Wine Offering in the Religion of Ancient Egypt (Kegan Paul, 1995).
Visiting a 17th-century Garden Through a Painting: Mi Wanzhong's Shaoyuan
PHILIP HU
Philip Hu, adjunct professor of art history at New York University. His special interests are in the history of Chinese painting, calligraphy, artistic patronage, garden culture and the print culture of the Ming and Qing periods
For more information please contact
Richard Gunde
Tel: 310 825-8683
gunde@ucla.edu
Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies
