Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
The Great Wall of Europe: European Views of China before 1750
Michael Keevak examines European views of China from the period of 1600 - 1750.
When:
November 20, 2007 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Where
This talk will provide three examples of a certain kind of blindness with regard to the European understanding of China (and Formosa) between 1600 and 1750: (1) the Formosan imposture of George Psalmanazar, (2) the discovery of the Nestorian monument in Xi'an in 1625, and (3) descriptions of the Chinese before they were yellow.
Michael Keevak is a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University. He has published two books, "Sexual Shakespeare: Forgery, Authorship, Portraiture" (2001), and "The Pretended Asian: George Psalmanazar's Eighteenth-Century Formosan Hoax" (2004) (both from Wayne State University Press), as well as a book now in press: "The Story of a Stone: China's Nestorian Monument and Its Reception in the West, 1625-1916." His current project is a book on how the Chinese got to be yellow.
Co-sponsored by the UM Center for European Studies.
Cost:
Free
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