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Maritime Beijing: Oceans and Empire in the Monuments of the Capital
UCLA presents a lecture by Jonathan Hay on Chinese Archaeology and Art.
When:
November 5, 2011 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Where
This lecture will adderss a surprising dimension of the pre-Qing history of Beijing--the role that an oceanic imaginary played in the city's urbanism and in the symbolism of its imperial monuments. This imaginary brought into play cosmology, politics, and commerce, articulating imperial attention to the oceans that separated China from a larger world. Much of the lecture will explore the hypothesis that the initial construction of Ming Beijing from 1403 onwards was marked by the great maritime expeditions undertaken by Zheng He between 1405 and 1433.
About the Speaker
Jonathan Hay (born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1956) has taught at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, since 1990. He is the author of two books, Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China (2001) and Sensuous Surfaces: The Decorative Object in Early Modern China (2010). He writes on a broad range of topics and periods in Chinese art history, as well as on the general theory of art history.
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(310) 825-4361
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