Lectures

The Tang Center Lecture Series was inaugurated in 2003 as a forum for eminent scholars to present their current research, first in lectures and then in a published volume. The Tang Center invites renowned scholars from around the world to deliver a series of lectures on a topic in East Asian art history.
Left: Forbidden City, aerial view (Google Earth); right: Song dynasty Huizong 徽宗 emperor’s seal 內府圖書之印 in “nine-folds” 九疊 script (PUAM1998-40 detail) 
TANG CENTER LECTURE SERIES
Fall 2026
Cary Liu
Princeton University Art Museum
(curator emeritus)
The Priority of Time and Timeliness in the History of Chinese Architecture