Happy Lunar New Year from the USC US-China Institute!
Tea and Chinese Cultural Aesthetics
Pei-kai Cheng will examine how aesthetic appreciation and choice of wares for tea ceremony influenced the development of Chinese porcelain-making technology.
When:
October 24, 2009 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Where
Pei-kai Cheng, founding director and professor of the Chinese Civilisation Centre at the City University of Hong Kong and author of the recent two-volume publication, The Complete Annotated Collection of Chinese Tea Books, explores the cultural significance of tea drinking during the Tang period (618–907 CE). Cheng discusses the change and continuity of “The Way of Tea” (chado) from the Tang-Song period to the Ming-Qing period, revealing the cultural diversity of the tea-drinking ceremony as influenced by various social entities and institutions and by agronomical and technological advances.
The UCLA Asia Institute is pleased to sponsor the Fowler OutSpoken Lecture Series in conjunction with the exhibition Steeped in History: The Art of Tea, on view at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, August 16 through November 29, 2009.
For more information please contact
Nick Menzies
Tel: 310-825-0007
nmenzies@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/asia
Cost:
Free
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