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.
Planning of Imperial Mausoleums
Professor Yang Zhefeng gives a lecture on the "new discovery" of the planning of imperial mausoleums.
When:
April 7, 2009 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Where
The Western Han dynasty (206BC-8AD) left nine huge imperial mausoleums to the north of its capital Chang’an （长安）. Some scholars believe that the distributional pattern of these mausoleums reflects, totally or partially, the application of the Western Zhou Zhao-mu principle (昭穆制度); other scholars believe that their locations were randomly chosen. Few scholars, however, have carefully examined the spatial arrangement of these mausoleums. Using the contemporary geographic and topographic coordinate system, Professor Yang Zhefeng has found a baseline in the planning of these imperial mausoleums. This talk will present this “new discovery”, the original vision and ritual-related considerations.
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Professor Yang Zhefeng is a Han archaeologist teaching at the Department of Archaeology, Beijing University. He is currently a Harvard-Yenching visiting scholar.
Cost:
Free
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