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: The main chamber of Xi'an Jiaotong daxue tomb
Lecture
October 12, 2004
Lillian Lan-ying Tseng
Yale University
Art, Science and Religion: The Painted Han Tomb at Xi’an Jiaotong University
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Artwork by: . Artwork title: Untitled (Blank)
Lecture
May 1, 2004
Richard M. Barnhart
Yale University, Emeritus
Region, Identity, Boundaries, and Influences: Personal Reflections on Art and Life
9 30 am
101 McCormick Hall
Outer coffin endboard from the 10th–early 11th century
Graduate Student Symposium
May 1, 2004
Connections

Boundaries and Border Crossings in East Asian Art

Yulin Cave 25, south wall (detail)
Lecture
April 12, 2004
Puay-peng Ho
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Constructing the Pure Land: Architecture in Dunhuang Wall Paintings
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop
Mogao Cave 217, south wall
Lecture
March 30, 2004
Eugene Wang
Harvard University
Grotto, Mirror Hall, and Phantasm—A Dunhuang Cave and Medieval Chinese Visual Culture
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Artwork by: Guo Xi. Artwork title: Old Trees, Level Distance
Lecture
February 24, 2004
Heping Liu
Wellesley College
Old Trees and Wintry Forests: Searching for an Ecological Landscape in Eleventh-Century Song China
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Splashed-Color Landscape
Tang Center Lecture Series
February 16, 2004
Wen C. Fong
Princeton University
Eastern Art with a Western Face
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Wen C. Fong
Scroll for Zhang Datong
Tang Center Lecture Series
February 12, 2004
Wen C. Fong
Princeton University
Calligraphy and Painting as One
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Wen C. Fong
Detail of Zhao Mengfu handscroll
Tang Center Lecture Series
February 10, 2004
Wen C. Fong
Princeton University
Chinese Art as Cultural History
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Wen C. Fong
Guqin (zither)
Lecture
November 13, 2003
Bell Yung
University of Pittsburgh
Hearing with the Mind and Touch: The Private Music of the Chinese Qin
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Meiji architectural model in the British Royal Collection
Lecture
October 14, 2003
William Coaldrake
University of Melbourne
Meiji Architectural Models and the Rebirth of the Taitokuin Mausoleum
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Detail of warrior on top of bronze drum, Dian Culture
Lecture
April 3, 2003
Robert Murowchick
Boston University
Bulls, Snakes, and Drums: Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Dian Culture in Yunnan, Southwest China
3 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Artwork by: Tsuchida Bakusen. Artwork title: Women of Ōhara
Lecture
March 26, 2003
Doris Ledderose-Croissant
University of Heidelberg
Icons of Femininity: Tsuchida Bakusen (1887–1938), Japanese National Painting and the Parodox of Modernity
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Wu Liang Shrine rubbing
Lecture
March 4, 2003
Xin Lixiang
National Museum of Chinese History
The Relationship between the Images of Han Dynasty Offering Shrines and Tomb Imagery
3 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Co-sponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum and the East Asian Studies Program and underwritten in part by the Getty Grant Program
Wu Liang Shrine rubbing
Lecture
March 4, 2003
Jiang Yingju
Honorary Director of the Shandong Stone Carvings Museum
Han Dynasty Pictorial Stone Carving
5 00 pm
202 Jones Hall
Co-sponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum and the East Asian Studies Program and underwritten in part by the Getty Grant Program
Xu Bing Book from the Sky
Symposium
February 15, 2003
Persistence | Transformation

Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing

Beautiful Woman in Her Boudoir
Lecture
November 14, 2002
James Cahill
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Passages of Felt Life: Paintings for Women in Ming-Qing China?
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Finches and Bamboo
Lecture
October 23, 2002
Maggie Bickford
Brown University
Emperor Huizong’s Paintings: Works of Art as Works of State
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
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