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.
What Makes a Falsified Text Popular? Writing the 1402 Usurpation in Seventeenth-Century China
The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies will host a Taiwan Studies Lecture by Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu, Academia Sinica.
When:
May 18, 2017 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Where
This talk will be about a current book project, which examines how the 1402 Usurpation, a four-year civil war fought in the early Ming Dynasty, had continued to be reshaped and reinvented in unofficial histories, novels, drama and Confucian textbooks during the 15th and 17th centuries. In particular, it will focus on a pair of accounts of the defeated Jianwen Emperor’s exile, which, despite contemporary and modern historians’ denunciation as “falsified history,” was popular and instrumental in reshaping the late Ming collective memory of this civil war. The talk will analyze the cultural context, memory politics and literary sensibility at work in the late Ming Jiangnan society that effected the fervor for recalling the 1402 Usurpation and discuss the broader implications of such a case study in the field of pre-modern Chinese culture and literature.
The UCLA Taiwan Studies Lectureship is a joint program of the UCLA Asia Pacific Center and the Dean of Humanities and is made possible with funding from the Department of International and Cross-Strait Education, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, represented by the Education Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles.
Cost:
Free
Event Website URL:
Phone Number:
(310) 825-8683
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