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.
Veined marble landscape by Ruan Yuan
Tang Center Lecture Series
April 12, 2016
Robert E. Harrist, Jr.
Columbia University
Stone Paintings and Landscapes Made by Chance
5 00 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Robert E. Harrist, Jr.
Detail of Tale of Genji handscroll
Graduate Student Symposium
February 27, 2016
Images and Codes

The Problem of Reading Art

Zashikimochi “suite holders”. From Selections of Famous Splendid Blossoms. Vol. 2 Autumn section
Lecture
February 27, 2016
Julie Nelson Davis
University of Pennsylvania
Reading Bijinga: Pictures of Beauties in Context
9 30 am
101 McCormick Hall
Items from the Rare Book Collection of the East Asian Library
Symposium
January 15–17, 2016
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures
Mogao Cave 251, Dunhuang
Symposium
November 13–14, 2015
Visualizing Dunhuang
Mogao Cave 285, east wall, north side. Preaching scene.
Lecture
November 13, 2015
Mimi Gardner Gates
Dunhuang Foundation
What Is Dunhuang?
4 30 pm
McCosh 50
Photo of the Mogao cliff, southern caves, 1963–66
Lecture
November 13, 2015
Fan Jinshi
Dunhuang Academy
My Experiences at Dunhuang
4 30 pm
McCosh 50
Mogao Cave 251, central pillar and gabled ceiling (viewed from below)
WORKSHOP
Fall 2015
Lo Archive

Principal organizer: Dora C. Y. Ching

Mogao Cave 285, west wall. Niche lintel
Lecture
November 10, 2015
Roderick Whitfield
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Dunhuang: Global Gallery of Art and Faith
6 30 pm
Princeton Club of New York
Cosponsored by the Princeton Club of New York, the Dunhuang Foundation, and Princeton University's Office of Alumni Affairs
View of the Northern Caves at Dunhuang
Lecture
October 22, 2015
Hsueh-man Shen
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Creating and Re-creating the Mogao Grottoes at Dunhuang
5 00 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum and Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation
Installation view of “Sacred Caves of the Silk Road”
EXHIBITION
October 3, 2015 – January 10, 2016
Sacred Caves of the Silk Road

Ways of Knowing and Re-Creating Dunhuang

Mogao Cave 158. Reclining Buddha, Parinirvāṇa scene. West wall.
EXHIBITION
July 20, 2015 – February 26, 2016
Dunhuang, through the Lens of James and Lucy Lo

In conjunction with the  Princeton University Art Museum exhibition Sacred Caves of the Silk Road: Ways of Knowing and Re-creating Dunhuang (October 3, 2015–January 10, 2016)

Silk mouth cover for Chigusa
WORKSHOP
Spring 2015
Workshop on Chigusa

Principal organizers: Andrew M. Watsky and Dora C.Y. Ching, Princeton University, with Louise Cort, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Portrait of Zeng Jing
Lecture
April 29, 2015
Sarah Kile
University of Michigan
Thinking with Lenses: Optical Technology in Literature and Visual Culture in Seventeenth-Century China
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature
Artwork by: Unknown Artist . Artwork title: Jade object
Lecture
March 3, 2015
Lillian Lan-ying Tseng
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
Immortality in a Global Context: The Tomb of the King of Nanyue in Early China Revisited
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Department of Art and Archaeology
Portrait of Lady Wanyan
WORKSHOP
Spring 2015
At Work with Artwork
Museum Curators

Jan Stuart, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Rubbing of the Shi Qiang pan
WORKSHOP
Spring 2015
Chinese Paleography

Guolong Lai, University of Florida

Organized by Kent Cao, Princeton University

Artwork by: Mang Huli. Artwork title: Seated Lady Holding a Fan
Lecture
November 19, 2014
Hiromi Kinoshita
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Building and Display: The Chinese Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Chigusa dressed in its net bag and mouth cover
Symposium
November 7–8, 2014
Chigusa in Context

In and Around Chanoyu in Sixteenth-Century Japan

Tea leaf storage jar called "Chigusa" dressed with silk cord and mouth cover
Lecture
November 7, 2014
Takeuchi Jun’ichi
Eisei-Bunko Museum, Tokyo
The Art of Tea in Sixteenth-Century Japan
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology, the Princeton University Art Museum, and the Program in East Asian Studies
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