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.
Procession of Nineteen Disciples of Confucius
Symposium
April 30 – May 1, 2005
Recarving China's Past

The Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the “Wu Family Shrines”

Calligraphy
Lecture
April 13, 2005
Qianshen Bai
Boston University
The Cultural Climate of Late Ming–Early Qing China and Play with Strange Characters
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
diagram
Lecture
February 14, 2005
Stanley Abe
Duke University
Authenticity and Connoisseurship: Making Chinese Sculpture Art
3 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program Art
Royal tomb of Sinmun of Silla (r. 681–92). Gyeongju, South Korea
Lecture
December 2, 2004
Bong Won Kang
Visiting professor, Kyongju University, Korea
Mortuary Practices during the Three Kingdoms Period in Korea
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Belt clasp
Lecture
November 15, 2004
James Trilling
Independent Scholar
Cultural Boundaries and Artistic Fusion: Eurasian Art of the First Millennium, AD
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Detail of Landscape Map of Mongolia
Lecture
November 12, 2004
Lin Meicun
Peking University
Mongolian Landscape Map: A “World Map” of Middle Age Newly Discovered in Japan
3 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Painting attirbuted to Dong Yuan
Symposium
November 6–7, 2004
The Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture
Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yiheming)
Lecture
November 1, 2004
Robert E. Harrist, Jr.
Columbia University
Big Writing: The Monumental Sutras of Shandong Province and the Question of Scale in the Visual Arts
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop
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
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