China Research Seminar

Easter Term, 2022

Unless online or noted otherwise below, seminars will be on Thursdays starting at 2pm London time in the Runcie Room at the Faculty of Divinity on the Sidgwick Site.

The format (in person or via Zoom - registration required) will be indicated for each seminar. Advance registration for online events is required in order to receive joining information.

• Thursday, 28th April, 2022 via Zoom
  On Translation, Rewriting, and the Dynamics of Yanyi (演義): A Perspective from Yu Xuelun’s Xixiang ji yanyi (喻血輪著《西廂記演義》) (1918)
  Dr Barbara Bisetto, University of Verona 

• Thursday, 5th May, 2022 in-person in Room G21, Faculty of Classics
  *** Please not the different venue for this event ***
  Minority Warfare: The Late Tang Border Conflict with Nanzhao and the Rise of Vietnam
  Prof. Franciscus Verellen, École Française d’Extrême-Orient 

• Tuesday, 10th May, 2022 in-person at 5pm (venue to be confirmed)
  First 2022 Chuan Lyu Lecture in Taiwan Studies:
  Religious Museums in Taiwan: Intermediate Spaces between Sacred and Secular Spheres?
  Prof. Phillip Clart, Leipzig University 

• Thusday, 12th May, 2022 in-person
  Second 2022 Chuan Lyu Lecture in Taiwan Studies:
  The Gods as Agony Aunts: Divination, Individual Problem-Solving, and Popular Religion in Contemporary Taiwan
  Prof. Phillip Clart, Leipzig University 

For further information, contact:

Prof. Adam Yuet Chau
Professor of the Anthropology of China
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

E-mail: ayc25@cam.ac.uk

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