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 Mosque in China
This talk examines the oldest mosques and selected famous ones through extant buildings and textual records in China, demonstrating their uniquely Chinese architecture.
When:
February 26, 2013 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Nancy Steinhardt, Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
The first Muslims came to China in the Tang dynasty (618-907) and mosques were built at the same time. China’s oldest mosques survive in coastal cities populated by Muslim traders in the Song dynasty.
This talk examines the oldest mosques and selected famous ones through extant buildings and textual records. It will demonstrate that even though every necessary feature for Muslim worship is present in the mosques, they are almost purely Chinese building complexes. It will be suggested that the ability of mosque and Chinese architecture to converge without compromising the beliefs of the one or the structural principles of the other was a major reason for the survival of both through thirteen centuries.
ieas@berkeley.edu, 510-642-2809
Cost:
Free
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