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 Legitimacy of Miaohui and the Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Myth: A Field Study of the Transformation of Myths in Contemporary China
A talk at UCLA by Yang Lihui (Beijing Normal University)
When:
April 24, 2007 12:00am
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA 11377 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies
Scholars usually pay attention to the classical myths recorded thousand of years ago in ancient China, while often neglect those myths that spread in contemporary China. Professor Yang’s paper investigates the questions of why the Chinese still tell those old myths today, how mythtellers actively utilize myth in the current social life, and how the transformation of myth relates to the social and cultural change in contemporary China?
Professor Yang’s paper is based fieldwork in two villages concerning miaohui (lit. temple get togethers): events in which people come together at a certain date (sometimes a miaohui begins at a certain date and lasts for several days or even one or two months) to worship the god(s) in temples.
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Yang Lihui, is Professor of Folklore and Mythology, Institute of Folklore and Cultural Anthropology, Beijing Normal University. She has been a Research Associate of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department, Indiana University (2000-2001), and is currently a Associate of the Harvard-Yeching Institue, Harvard University (2006-7). Here main research interests are Chinese folklore, mythology, and popular religion.
For more information please contact
Richard Gunde
Tel: 310 825-8683
gunde@ucla.edu
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