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Dangerous Belief? Xin in Occult Anecdotes in Tang and Song China

The UC Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies will host Robert Hymes, Professor of Oriental Studies at Columbia University, for one of the University's Public Theology Lectures.

When:
April 6, 2017 5:00pm to 7:00pm
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Speaker/Performer:  Robert Hymes, Carpentier Professor of Oriental Studies, Columbia University
 
Sponsor:  Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion
 
Robert Hymes received his B.A. from Columbia College (1972), and his M.A. (1976) and Ph.D. (1979) from the University of Pennsylvania. His work so far has focused on the social and cultural history of middle period and early modern China, drawing questions and sometimes data from cultural anthropology as well as history, and using the methods of the local historian to study elite culture, family and kinship, medicine, religion, gender, and (currently) the changing role and form of Chinese social networks from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries. His publications include Statesmen & Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou, Chiang-hsi, in Northern & Southern Sung (Cambridge, 1987); Ordering the World: Approaches to State & Society in Sung Dynasty China (Berkeley, 1993, co-edited with Conrad Schirokauer); and Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China. Both Statesmen and Gentlemen and Way and Byway won the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the best book on pre-1900 China in their years of publication.
 
Event Contact:  510-642-1328
Cost: 
Free
Phone Number: 
(510) 642-1328