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.
Vying for the Prize-Marker at Jinming Lake
Lecture
October 4, 2012
Ari Levine
University of Georgia
Read-Write Memory: How to Translate Images of Early Modern Chinese Cityscapes into Texts (and Back Again)
4 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Cosponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies
Romance of the Western Chamber
Tang Center Lecture Series
April 19, 2012
Claudia Brown
Arizona State University
Scholar Zhang Peeks at Yingying: How Printed Books Inspired Painters of the Qing Dynasty
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Claudia Brown
The Qianlong Emperor Viewing Paintings
Tang Center Lecture Series
April 17, 2012
Claudia Brown
Arizona State University
The Emperor Commissions an Inventory: The State of the Field of Qing Painting Studies
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Claudia Brown
Detail of Southern Inspection Tour handscroll by Wang Hui
Tang Center Lecture Series
April 16, 2012
Claudia Brown
Arizona State University
Proceeding Down the Grand Canal: The Qing Emperors' Maps and Topographical Paintings
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Claudia Brown
Gu Wenda Free Expression
Lecture
April 13, 2012
Wenda Gu
Artist
Global Art and Chinese Culture: A Conversation with Wenda Gu
7 00 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Princeton University Art Museum, and the Program in East Asian Studies
Ikarugadera, Buddhist temple in Taishi, Hyōgo Precture, Japan, founded by Prince Shōtoku in 606
Lecture
March 3, 2012
Donald McCallum
University of California, Los Angeles
Asuka Myths and Orthodoxies: Ikarugadera – Umayado no ōji – Hōryūji
9 30 am
101 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum
Sutra from Jingoji Temple
Graduate Student Symposium
March 3, 2012
Myths and Orthodoxies in East Asian Art and Art History
Erlang and His Soldiers Driving Out Animal Spirits
Lecture
November 30, 2011
Carma Hinton
George Mason University
Tethered Tiger, Captured Dragon: Clearing Out Demons from Mountain Woods
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies, the Department of Religion, and the Princeton University Art Museum
Buddha in Karachi
Lecture
October 10, 2011
Rhi Juhyung
Seoul National University
Does Iconography Really Matter? Iconographic Specification of Buddha Images in Pre-Esoteric Buddhist Art
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop
Celadon ewer, melon shape with lotus-flower design
Lecture
October 6, 2011
Robert D. Mowry
Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University
First Under Heaven: Korean Ceramics of the Goryeo Dynasty (918–1392)
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Auspicious Images (ruixiang). Mogao Cave 237
Lecture
April 14, 2011
Roderick Whitfield
Professor Emeritus, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University
Ruixiang: The Replication of Notable Buddhist Images From India and Central Asia in Chang’an and Dunhuang
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Mogao Cave 267, north wall and ceiling, seen from Cave 266
WORKSHOP
Spring 2011
Lo Archive Project and Dunhuang

Principal organizers: Jerome Silbergeld and Dora C.Y. Ching, Princeton University

Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan province, China
Lecture
April 13, 2011
Sonya Lee
University of Southern California
New Faces of Nature: Leshan and Colossal Buddhas of Sichuan
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Yuanan Lying in Snow
Lecture
February 17, 2011
Ronald Egan
University of California, Santa Barbara
Banana Tree in the Snow: Exploring Key Concepts of Song Dynasty Aesthetic Thought
4 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Co-sponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies
Portrait of Wang Du with the clay model
Lecture
December 9, 2010
Jane DeBevoise
Independent Scholar and Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Film and Introductory Lecture on “Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Contemporary Cantonese Art of the 1980s”
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum and the Program in East Asian Studies
Artwork by: . Artwork title: Guanyin
WORKSHOP
Fall 2010
An Investigation of Late Imperial Liuli Glazed Ceramics

Principal organizers: Susan Naquin, Ben Elman, and Cary Y. Liu, Princeton University

Okinawa, Okinawa, Okinawa
Lecture
October 19, 2010
Jonathan M. Reynolds
Barnard College
Paradise Lost-Paradise Regained: Tōmatsu Shōmei’s Photographic Engagement with Okinawa
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department in Art and Archaeology
Statue of Jizō, Bodhisattva of the Earth Store
Lecture
October 12, 2010
Helmut Brinker
Professor Emeritus, University of Zurich
The Iconic Body as Insight into Japanese Buddhist Practice
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop
Round Fan of Birds and Flowers on Waves from Screens with Miscellaneous Fan Paintings
Lecture
April 13, 2010
Matthew McKelway
Columbia University
Invention and Inversion in Momoyama Painting: Fans from the Nanzenji Screens
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Artwork by: . Artwork title: Nao
WORKSHOP
Spring 2010
Ancient China as a Culture of Bells

Organized by Robert Bagley, Princeton University

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