Inaugural Conference of the Forum on Chinese Poetic Culture - Stories of Chinese Poetic Culture: Earliest Times through the Tang
Sponsor This conference is kindly funded by the Chiang-ching Kuo Foundation - Co-hosted by EALC and CEAPS
Friday October 19
Welcoming Remarks (Zong-qi Cai), 9:00
Panel 1 Poetry and Politics (Chair: Kai-wing Chow, UIUC)
9:05 Wai-yee Li (Harvard University), “Poetry and Diplomacy in Zuozhuan”
Discussant: Jianguo Cao (Wuhan University)
9:20 Yu-yu Cheng (National Taiwan University), Gregory Patterson(Columbia University), “The Discourse of Tianxia in Sima Xiangru’s fu”
Discussant: Wai-yee Li
Panel 2 Poetry and Ideology (Chair: Wai-yee Li)
10:30 Zong-qi Cai (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Poetry and State Ideology: the Canonization of the Book of Poetry during the Han”
Discussant: Jianguo Cao
10:45 Manling Luo (Indiana University, Bloomington), “Poetry and Tang Civil Service Examinations: Talent, Competition, and Community”
Discussant: Yu-yu Cheng
Panel 3 Poetry and Heroes (Chair: Yu-yu Cheng)
1:15 Xinda Lian (Denison University),“Heroes from Chaotic Times: the Three Caos”
Discussant: Tsung-Cheng Lin
1:30 Tsung-Cheng Lin (University of Victoria), “Poetry and Knight-Errantry: Tang Frontier Poems”
Discussant: Kevin Tsai
Panel 4 Poetry and Literary Coterie (Chair: Chen Yin-chi)
2:30 Stephen Owen(Harvard University), “Poetry and Authorship: Chuci”
Presenter and Discussant: Robert Ashmore (University of California, Berkeley)
2:45 Nanxiu Qian (Rice University), “Poetry and Wei-Jin Xuanxue: Ji Kang (223-262) and other Worthies of the Bamboo Grove”
Discussant: Xinda Lian
3:30 Ao Wang (Wesleyan University), “Poetry and Literati Friendship: Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen”
Discussant: Manling Luo
4:00 Reception at Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB
Saturday October 20
Panel 5 Poetry and Women (Chair: Paula Varsano)
9:00 Olga Lomova (Charles University), “Poetry and Han Ballads: “A Peacock Flies to the Southeast” and Other Works”
Discussant: Cheng Yu-yu
9:15 Ping Wang (Princeton University), “Beautiful Women and Historic-Poetic Imagination”
Discussant: Maija Bell Samei
9:30 Maija Bell Samei (Independent Scholar), “Poetry and Women in the Tang: Women at the Public/Private Divide”
Discussant: Wang Ping
Panel 6 Poetry and Daily Life (Chair: Olga Lomova)
10:45 Alan Berkowitz (Swarthmore College), “Poetry and Reclusion: Tao Qian”
Discussant: Qian Nanxiu
11:00 Paula Varsano (University of California, Berkeley), “Poetry and Wine-Drinking: Li Bai”
Discussant: Jack Chen
Panel 7 Poetry and Religion (Chair: Robert Ashmore)
1:45 Meow Hui Goh (Ohio State University), “Poetry and the Buddhist Mind: -the Story of Shen Yue (441-513)”
Discussant: Chen Yinchi
2:00 Chen Yinchi (Fudan University), “Poetry and Buddhist Enlightenment: Wang Wei and Han Shan”
Discussant: Meow Hui Goh
Panel 8 Poetry and Reality/Imagination (Chair: Alan Berkowitz)
3:15 Jack Chen (University of California, Los Angeles), “Poetry, Historical Witness, and Moral Suasion: Du Fu’s “Three Officers” and “Three Partings” Poems”
Discussant: Paula Varsano
3:30 Robert Ashmore (University of California, Berkeley), “Poetry and Morbid Imagination”
Discussant: Alan Berkowitz
4:30 General Discussion
6:00 End of Conference Sessions