Dear colleagues,
If you happen to be in Seattle on August 12, China Studies Program and the Department of History, University of Washington, will host an in-person Symposium on Middle Period China in celebration of Patricia Ebrey's illustrious career on the occasion of her retirement:
https://jsis.washington.edu/china/events/?fbclid=IwAR2lhBKE2uePreCobGN_nkcBLnnTFH5ChyGwB3ooqwKjI6VYYFuugaelyCk&trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D160232914
9:00-11:50 - Morning Session
Chair, Patricia Ebrey
9:00 - Yao Ping, California State University at Los Angeles
“The Copying of Scriptures at Dunhuang”
9:50 - Sumei Yi, Zhongshan University/UC Davis
"State and Market: A Study of the Law on Fornication"
10:40 - Break
11:00 - Hsiao-wen Cheng, University of Pennsylvania
"Writing a History of Sexuality for Premodern China: Some Methodological Reflections"
11:50 - Lunch break
1:30 – 5:10 - Afternoon Session
Chair, Kent Guy
1:30 - Cong Ellen Zhang, University of Virginia
“Han Qi on Song-Liao-Xia Relations (1036-1043)”
2:20 - James Anderson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
"The An Nam Chí Lược 安南志略 as Common Ground: Lê Tắc's 黎崱 (ca. 1260s-1340s) Private History and its Sino-Vietnamese Audience"
3:10 Break
3:30 Xiaolin Duan, North Carolina State University
"Place Branding and Advertisement in Middle Period China"
4:20 Shih-shan Susan Huang, Rice University
“Dynamic spread of Buddhist Print Culture: Networks and Book Roads in China and its Neighbors, 850-1450”
5:10-5:20 Concluding Remarks
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Hsiao-wen Cheng
Associate Professor of East Asian Religions,East Asian Languages and Civilizationshttps://ealc.sas.upenn.edu/people/hsiao-wen-cheng
Core Faculty, Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies / Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Author of Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women without Men in Song Dynasty Chinahttps://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295748320/divine-demonic-and-disordered/