Tag: Confucius Institute

Flyer for Zoom talk "Creating Virtual Reality in 18th Century in 18th Century Chinese Painting and Prints" by Kristina Kleutghen on 3/9 at 2PM

Creating Virtual Reality in 18th-Century Chinese Painting and Prints by Dr. Kristina Kleughten

“Creating Virtual Reality in 18th-Century Chinese Painting and Prints”
Tuesday, March 9, 2021    2:00pm (PST)
tinyurl.com/VRin18thC (Zoom: 846 6268 232)
Virtual reality was an essential component of eighteenth-century Chinese art, particularly in paintings and prints that evolved out of the artistic and cultural exchanges between China and Europe. These works created visions of extended realities for both imperial and popular consumption. Although on the surface they seem to have little in common, when we examine them side-by-side, we find a shared fascination at opposite ends of the social spectrum with transforming two-dimensional works of art into three-dimensional multisensory experiences.
Kristina Kleutghen (Harvard PhD) is the David W. Mesker Associate Professor of Art History at Washington University in St. Louis and a specialist in Chinese art, particularly of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Focusing on early modern, modern, and contemporary Chinese art, her research investigates Sino-foreign interaction, the imperial court, optical devices, and connections to science and mathematics. Professor Kleutghen’s first book, Imperial Illusions: Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces, was recently published by University of Washington Press.
Flyer for "Eulogy for Burying a Crane: Monument, Landscape, and Calligraphy in Sixth Century China" featuring Professor Lei Xue on 1/28 from 5-6PM

Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yihe ming): Monument, Landscape, and Calligraphy in Sixth-Century China by Lei Xue

On Thursday, January 28, 2021, at 5:00pm (Pacific Time) Prof. Lei Xue of Oregon State University will deliver a lecture on the mysterious Yihe ming 瘞鶴銘 (Eulogy for Burying a Crane) and its significance to the history of Chinese calligraphy. The talk is coordinated with Prof. Peter Sturman’s “Chinese Calligraphy” course (Chinese / Art History 134K) but open to all. Please join us via Zoom at tinyurl.com/eulogycrane.

Poster for lecture, "Digitizing the Tracks of Yu" by Dr. Ruth Mostern

Digitizing the Tracks of Yu: GIS and Data Analysis for Yellow River History by Ruth Moster

Please join us for a lecture with Dr. Ruth Mostern to learn about GIS and data analysis for Yellow River history.
“Digitizing the Tracks of Yu: GIS and Data Analysis for Yellow River History”
Thursday, February 18, 2021    2:00pm (PST)
tinyurl.com/Tracks-of-Yu (Zoom: 894 2595 8266 passcode: 719417)
Since the publication of The Yellow River Annals (Huanghe nianbiao 黃河年表) by Shen Yi 沈怡 in 1935, historians of the Yellow River have routinely used the catchphrase “1,500 floods and over thirty course changes” as a shorthand to describe the long-term and large-scale history of that volatile watercourse.  The Annals collates information about the Yellow River from historical sources and includes details about the type, location, and source of each event in river history of the.  Inspired by the extraordinary accomplishment of the Annals, I have developed a data system called the Tracks of Yu Digital Atlas (TYDA), named for the legendary Yu the Great (Da Yu 大禹), the mythical culture hero who is said to have channeled the rivers of the realm and inaugurated dynastic rule. The TYDA integrates information from the Annals and other similar compilations of records about the history of disasters and management on the Yellow River. The TYDA also includes information about the settlement history of the Loess Plateau, which is the upstream origin of the eroded sediment that leads to floods and course changes on the alluvial plain. In addition, the TYDA includes contextual information: annual moisture data from the Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas, the beginning and ending dates of regimes, the biomes that constitute the Yellow River watershed, and more.  This talk introduces the TYDA and the historical event concept. It also summarizes the conclusions that I have reached about Yellow River history by analyzing the TYDA, which appear in my forthcoming book, The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press, 2021).