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Upcoming
by T'ang Studies Society 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Dear Members and Friends of the T'ang Studies Society, Professor Tian Xiaofei sent the announcement below about an upcoming seminar talk at Harvard University next Monday by Prof. Lucas Bender as part of its China Humanities Seminar. The event will clearly be of interest to our community. Best, Tony Anthony DeBlasi President T'ang Studies Society Dear Friends, This is an invitation to the fourth Harvard University China Humanities Seminar talk of AY2020–2021, to be held next Monday (Nov.2nd), 4:00-5:45 pm (ET). To attend the talk, please register at: [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin… | https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrc-yvrD8oH9KrvPpFFw9ytwB2Uicb5h… ] . After registering, you will immediately receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom link to the talk. The China Humanities Seminar is pleased to present: Lucas Rambo Bender Yale University The Eternal Frontier of China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: Changing Attitudes Towards Ethnocultural Others in Tang-Dynasty Texts Date: Monday, November 2nd, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:45pm (ET) The seventh and early-eighth centuries have often been considered the period of “China’s Cosmopolitan Empire” on account of their relative tolerance of religious and ideological diversity, their acceptance of significant “foreign” populations in the capital and on the borderlands, and their active recruitment of non-“Han” ethnicities into the military and civil ranks. At the same time, however, surviving texts from this period also evince attitudes no less xenophobic than those found in texts from the ninth through eleventh centuries, when scholars have often claimed that China became less open to ethnocultural others. This talk will argue that what changes between these periods are not, in fact, contemporary attitudes towards “the barbarians,” who were almost universally reviled in surviving texts from throughout the Tang. Instead, changing ideas about texts themselves, and about the ways that texts should ideally operate within the world, produced a transformation in how longstanding and relatively unchanging tropes about ethnocultural others were understood and deployed. The apparent decline of elite “cosmopolitan” attitudes from the seventh century to the tenth thus reflects, in significant part, a shift in literary theory. Lucas Rambo Bender is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures at Yale University. He graduated from Harvard's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 2016. His book on the great Tang-dynasty poet Du Fu is forthcoming in the summer of 2021 from the Harvard University Asia Center Press, and he is currently at work on a second project, about the oft-remarked but rarely-interrogated "pluralism" of the late Chinese middle ages. Please note that Professor Bender's talk will be recorded and archived on the MHC and EALC website. If you do not feel comfortable being recorded, please disable video for yourself. The Q&A session will not be videotaped. This event is generously sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. For questions, or to unsubscribe from the CHS mailing list, please e-mail Nichimin Lu at [ mailto:nichiminlu@g.harvard.edu | nichiminlu(a)g.harvard.edu ] . We look forward to seeing you at the talk! All the best, Nichimin Lu

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Announcement: 2020 WBAOS Annual Meeting, Nov 6/5-8/7 (HK/US)
by Skaff, Jonathan 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Dear Friends and Members of the T’ang Studies Society, See the announcement of the virtual WBAOS Annual Meeting below from TSS member, Alexei Ditter. The program is attached. Many papers will be of interest to the T’ang Studies community. Best regards, Jonathan Skaff Secretary T’ang Studies Society http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Alexei Ditter <dittera(a)reed.edu<mailto:dittera@reed.edu>> Date: Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 8:48 PM Subject: Announcement: 2020 WBAOS Annual Meeting, Nov 6/5-8/7 (HK/US) To: Alexei Ditter <dittera(a)reed.edu<mailto:dittera@reed.edu>> Dear Members of the WBAOS mailing list, I am delighted to be able to send to you the program for the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Western Branch of the American Oriental Society, which will be hosted online by the University of Hong Kong and the University of Colorado Boulder from November 6-8 (HK dates)/November 5-7 (U.S.). The meeting will feature eight panels of papers and a keynote address by Professor Joseph Allen, titled "Desperately Seeking Nana Hsu: A Meta-Story of Literary Research." Registration in advance of the Annual Meeting is required and may be completed at the following link: https://forms.gle/XfPHTiThjpsPcSxD8. No registration fee is required. All panels and the keynote address are open to the public; the business meeting held on the second day of the meeting is restricted to current members of the WBAOS. Cheers, Alexei Ditter Secretary-Treasurer, WBAOS __________________ Alexei Ditter Associate Professor, Chinese Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Boulevard Portland, OR 97202 Tel: 503-517-7348 Email: dittera(a)reed.edu<mailto:dittera@reed.edu>

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Final Reminder: DEADLINE EXTENDED to Oct. 30: T’ang Studies Society Panel Sponsorship Program for AAS 2021
by T'ang Studies Society 17 Oct '20

17 Oct '20

Dear Friends and Members of the T'ang Studies Society, Please accept a final reminder that the T’ang Studies Society will sponsor one or more deserving panels that addresses topics related to the study of the Tang dynasty at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies planned for Seattle, WA. The sponsorship includes small subventions for individual panelists, including travel and registration expenses. Panels may be presenting on site or virtually. EXTENDED APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 30, 2020. Recipients will be notified by November 30, 2020. Applicants for panel sponsorships are also eligible to apply for the society's grants. For full details, see the society's Announcements webpage: [ http://tangstudies.org/Announcements.html | http://tangstudies.org/Announcements.html ] All participants in the panel application must be T’ang Studies Society members in good standing at the time of submission. Information on membership can be found on the Society’s website: [ http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html | http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html ] Sincerely yours, Jonathan Skaff Secretary T'ang Studies Society http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html

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Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs
by T'ang Studies Society 10 Oct '20

10 Oct '20

Dear Friends and Members of the T'ang Studies Society, Please see below for information on the upcoming virtual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. Best regards, Jonathan Skaff Secretary T'ang Studies Society http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html Begin forwarded message: From: "Brose, Michael" < [ mailto:brosemc@iu.edu | brosemc(a)iu.edu ] > Subject: [mem_easc_full-l] online Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs Date: September 24, 2020 at 7:02:31 PM EDT To: "' [ mailto:mem_easc_full-l@list.indiana.edu | mem_easc_full-l(a)list.indiana.edu ] '" < [ mailto:mem_easc_full-l@list.indiana.edu | mem_easc_full-l(a)list.indiana.edu ] >, EASC < [ mailto:easc@iu.edu | easc(a)iu.edu ] > Reply-To: [ mailto:mem_easc_full-l@list.indiana.edu | mem_easc_full-l(a)list.indiana.edu ] 4-weeks to MCAA! 2020 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs Co-hosted by a consortium of MCAA-affiliated Midwestern universities October 16 - 18, 2020 The 69th MCAA will be held in a fully virtual format. The conference will similarly feature a keynote speaker session, a special panel session, and panels of paper presentations. Registration is available now and will remain open throughout the conference dates. Michigan State University Asian Studies Center is pleased to co-host and manage the MCAA 2020 Online Conference site (through Whova). For more information regarding the conference format, please see the [ https://asia.isp.msu.edu/mcaa/ | MCAA 2020 Virtual Conference Guide ] on the MCAA web site. Click below for the MCAA 2020 registration page [ https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.eventbrite.com/e/2020-midwest-confer… | REGISTER ] [ https://asia.isp.msu.edu/mcaa | MCAA WEBSITE ] [ https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/whova.com/embedded/event/mcaa1_202010/?u… | MCAA AGENDA ] This email was sent by Michigan State University - Asian Studies Center. Our mailing address is: Asian Studies Center International Studies and Programs Michigan State University International Center 427 N. Shaw Lane, Room 301 East Lansing MI 48824-1035 Please contact us at [ mailto:asiansc@msu.edu | asiansc(a)msu.edu ] if you would like to opt out of receiving future MCAA Notification emails. 427 N. Shaw Lane, Room 301 East Lansing MI 48824-1035 Please contact us at [ mailto:asiansc@msu.edu | asiansc(a)msu.edu ] if you would like to opt out of receiving future MCAA Notification emails. BQ_BEGIN BQ_END

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Harvard University Event Announcement
by T'ang Studies Society 05 Oct '20

05 Oct '20

Dear Friends of Tang Studies, My apologies for getting this to you late. Nick Tackett will be speaking via Zoom today at Harvard. I don’t know how long the registration system will be open, but I thought you would all like to know about the event. See the details from Tian Xiaofei below. All best, Tony Anthony DeBlasi President T'ang Studies Society *** Dear friends and colleagues , You are cordially invited to attend the second Harvard University China Humanities Seminar talk of 2020-2021, to be held virtually [ x-apple-data-detectors://1 | next Monday (Oct. 5th), 4–6pm ] (US Eastern Time). To attend, please register at: [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin… | https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuf-uqrz8uGNdQbNpKcTEXXRzRvo5dR5… ] . The China Humanities Seminar is pleased to present: Nicolas Tackett University of California, Berkeley The Mechanics of Cultural Change in China in a Period of Disunity Date: [ x-apple-data-detectors://4 | Monday, Oct. ] [ x-apple-data-detectors://4 | 5th, 2020, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm (EDT) ] Situated at the epicenter of the “Tang-Song Transition,” the tenth-century interregnum between the Tang and Song dynasties was a period of rapid change. This talk will focus on the dramatic evolution of Chinese political culture, as reflected in new political ideals, new ideas of Chinese space, and a new elite sense of identity. What underlying mechanisms account for these developments? Datasets and examples taken from an on-going book project suggest that cultural change was spurred by the particularities of the tenth century as a period of disunity. Although Chinese civilization has evolved continuously throughout its long history, change during periods of disunity was driven by distinct causative factors, which included political instability, inter-regime competition, elite migrations, not to mention the process of reunification itself. Nicolas Tackett (B.S., Stanford University; Ph.D., Columbia University) is Professor of History at U.C. Berkeley. He is the author of two books. The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy (2014) examines how a network of powerful families survived at the pinnacle of political power for centuries only to disappear into oblivion suddenly and completely at the turn of the 10th c. The Origins of the Chinese Nation (2017) argues that a national consciousness emerged in China in the eleventh century (i.e., much earlier than typically assumed), and explores how this new consciousness was a product of the diplomatic environment of 11th-c. Northeast Asia. This event is generously sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center and Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. Please note that Professor Tackett’s talk will be recorded and archived on the MHC and EALC website. If you do not feel comfortable being recorded, please disable video for yourself. The Q&A session will not be videotaped. For questions, or to unsubscribe from the CHS mailing list, please e-mail Nichimin Lu at [ mailto:nichiminlu@g.harvard.edu | nichiminlu(a)g.harvard.edu ] Xiaofei Tian Professor of Chinese Literature, EALC, Harvard University [ http://scholar.harvard.edu/xtian/ | http://scholar.harvard.edu/xtian/ ]

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