China Research Seminar

Lent Term, 2023

Unless online or noted otherwise below, seminars will be on Thursdays starting at 2pm London time on in Room LG18, Faculty of Law, 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.

• Thusday, 26th January, 2023  (in-person)
  Reading the Sky Divining the Flood: Predicting the Weather in Late Imperial China
  Dr Erling Agøy, Needhgam Research Institute, Cambridge 

• Thursday, 16th February, 2023 (in-person)
  Li Bai and Du Fu: A Challenge Left Unfulfilled
  Professor David L. McMullen, Emeritus Professor of Chinese, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge

• Thursday, 23rd February, 2023 (in-person)
  Smelly Ghosts and Mutton-Reeking Barbarians: the Olfactory Imagination of the Other in Medieval China
  Dr Flavia Xi FANG, Needham Research Institute and Robinson College, Cambridge 

• Thursday, 2nd March, 2023 (in-person)
  United Fronts and the Second World War
  Professor Hans van de Ven, University of Cambridge

• Thursday, 9th March, 2023 (in-person)
  Xiyou ji (西遊記) and the Netherworld
  Professor Vincent Durand-Dastès, l’Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris

• Thursday, 16th March, 2023 (in-person)
  The Making of ‘Public Opinion’ — Media and Open Diplomacy in China’s Strategy at Versailles and the May Fourth Movement
  Dr Rong WU, University of Cambridge

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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