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.
Technical Arts and Historical Writing in Early China
At UC Berkeley, scholars from the US, Europe, and Asia discuss the relationship between technical arts and historical writing in China.
When:
November 6, 2014 9:00am to November 7, 2014 4:30pm
Where
While historical writing is often imagined as process of transcribing political events and editing documentary sources, the standard histories of China’s early imperial period show that politics was closely connected to a variety of technical arts including astronomy, calendrics, and omenology. Early historians were adept at these arts, and they are not only at the center of the genre of “treatises” but also inform the structure and sensibilities of these foundational historical works. These issues are discussed by scholars from the US, Europe, and Asia.
Papers will be presented in English or in Chinese, without translation.
Conference Schedule:
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Morning session 9-12, Dwinelle 3335
• Michael Nylan, UC Berkeley: On Omens and Authorship in the Hanshu “Wu xing zhi”
• Karine Chemla, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS): Abstraction in the early mathematical texts
• Jesse Chapman, UC Berkeley: The historical exegesis of celestial signs in the Shiji and the Hanshu
Afternoon session 1:30-4:30, Dwinelle 3401
• Poo Mu-chou, Chinese University of Hong Kong: The ding tripod in the histories and notions of the past
• Scott McGinnis, UC Berkeley: The “Lüli zhi” in the larger context of the technical literature
• Mark Csikszentmihalyi, UC Berkeley: Precedent and the efficacy of sacrifice in the Han
Opening keynote 5:30, Art History Seminar Room, East Asian Library
• Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania: The Place of the Han Period in the History of China’s Technical Arts
Friday, November 7, 2014
Morning session 9-12, Dwinelle 3335
• Lü Shih-hao, National Taiwan Universtiy: The different timelines between the Tables of the feudal lords in Shiji and Hanshu
• Lee Chi-hsiang, Foguang University: The transfer of the capital eastward to Luoyi, as presented in the “Treatise on Geography” in the Hanshu, with reference to the Han dynasty Prefaces to the Documents
• Tian Tian, Beijing Normal University: Taiyi Sacrifice in the Western Han
Afternoon session 1:30-4:30, Dwinelle 3401
• Liu Tseng-kui, Academia Sinica: Commentaries by Yi Feng as they relate to the histories
• Guo Jue, Barnard College: Contextualizing the “Biography of Turtles and Yarrow Stalks” in the Shiji
• Miranda Brown, University of Michigan: Who was Hua Tuo? Reflections on Medicine as an Art without a Role
Saturday, November 8 2014
Morning session 8:30-9:30, Dwinelle
• Luke Habberstad, University of Oregon: Dyke or Dredge? Technical Knowledge and the Body Politic in the Early Water Control Treatises
Closing keynote 10-11 a.m., Art History Seminar Room, East Asian Library
• Michael Loewe, Cambridge University: The Standardisation of Weights and Measures in China’s Early Empires
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