Calendar of Events

Tang Center events are free and open to the public, but advance registration is recommended for some events, where noted. Reservations will be accepted in the order they are received. Register for events here.
Artwork by:   . Artwork title: Untitled (Blank)
Lecture
April 8, 2010
David Schaberg
University of California, Los Angeles
Purposes of The Discussions on Salt and Iron
4 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Record of the Miaoyan Monastery
Graduate Student Symposium
February 27, 2010
Hierarchies
Artwork by:  Unknown . Artwork title: Portrait of Priest Daquan with Beads
Lecture
February 27, 2010
Marsha Haufler
University of Kansas
Views from the Back of the Book: Monks, Women, and Foreigners
9 30 am
101 McCormick Hall
Tsongkhapa
Lecture
February 16, 2010
Patricia Berger
University of California, Berkeley
Precious One: Transformative Arts and Technologies in Eighteenth Century Asia
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Artwork by:   . Artwork title: Shadow Figure of White Snake, head and body
Lecture
November 12, 2009
Mary Hirsch
Independent Scholar
1,001 Heads: Animating the Universe and Mimicking the Neighbors
4 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Artwork by:  Hei Ming. Artwork title: Iron Rice Bowls
Symposium
October 24, 2009
China Seen by the Chinese

Documentary Photography, 1951−2003

Mahamuni Buddha Temple
Lecture
April 27, 2009
Boreth Ly
University of California, Santa Cruz
Circles of Power: The Political Palladia of Southeast Asia
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop
New Moon over a Brushwood Gate
Symposium
April 18–19, 2009
Friends at a Brushwood Gate

A Symposium on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu

Artwork by:  Zhang Hongtu. Artwork title: Fish
Symposium
March 7, 2009
ARTiculations
Installation view of Outside In exhibition
EXHIBITION
March 5 – June 7, 2009
Outside In: Chinese × American × Contemporary Art

Co-organized by the Princeton University Art Museum and the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University

Shitao handscroll entitled Searching for Plum Blossoms
Lecture
December 2, 2008
Wu Hung
University of Chicago
Shitao (1642−1707) and the Traditional Concept of Ruins
8 00 pm
McCosh 10
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Zhang Hongtu - Self-Portrait in the Style of the Old Masters
WORKSHOP
Fall 2008
Artist’s Workshop: Zhang Hongtu

Re-painting Two Portraits: Shen Zhou and Mona Lisa

Workshop with Zhang Hongtu, Fellow in The Council of the Humanities and the Tang Center for East Asian Art

Seitaka Dōji
Tang Center Lecture Series
October 16, 2008
John Rosenfield
Harvard University
The Very End of the Law
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Luohans Viewing an Image of Buddha Amitabha (from Five Hundred Luohans, a set of 100 paintings)
Tang Center Lecture Series
October 15, 2008
John Rosenfield
Harvard University
Japan and China
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Artwork by:  Kaikei . Artwork title: Amitabha Triad
Tang Center Lecture Series
October 13, 2008
John Rosenfield
Harvard University
Bloody Mayhem
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Illustration of Meditation Sutra
Lecture
April 28, 2008
Youngsook Pak
School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, and Yale University
Patronage and Pure Land Paintings in Koryŏ, 13th and 14th Centuries
4 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Co-sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop
Jue from Lijiazui Tomb 1
Symposium
April 26–27, 2008
Art and Archaeology of the Erligang Civilization
Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword
Lecture
April 22, 2008
Joseph Earle
Japan Society
From Form to Picture: Japanese Sword Fittings in an Age of Peace
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
The Eavesdropper", Folio 47r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Lecture
April 15, 2008
Bo Lawergren
Professor Emeritus, Hunter College
with Tomoko Sugawara, harpist and kugo player
The Ancient Asian Harp Reborn: An Illustrated Lecture and Musical Demonstration
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program and Department of Music
Bird-Man Creature Tending Sacred Fire
Lecture
April 10, 2008
Annette Juliano
Rutgers University
Intersections: Defining the Cultural Dynamic of North China in the Sixth Century
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology