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四月十九日下午，葛兆光教授将在哈佛大学费正清中国研究中心做一场讲演，题目为A Vietnamese King’s Homage to the Qianlong Emperor in 1790: Pictorial Documentation, Ritual Implication, and Sartorial Culture。讲演由费正清中国研究中心、艺术与建筑史系洛克菲勒东亚艺术基金及东亚语言文明系合作举办。
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies | Harvard University
Ge Zhaoguang, "A Vietnamese King’s Homage to the Qianlong Emperor in 1790: Pictorial Documentation, Ritual Implication, and Sartorial Culture" in Special Lecture
This lecture will be in Chinese, with English summary provided.
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 4:30pm
Location: CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), 1730 Cambridge St.
The Qianlong emperor celebrated his eightieth birthday in 1790. Vietnam, Korea, Ry奴ky奴 Islands, Burma, and Mongol sent their delegates to the imperial summer resort at Chengde to pay their homage. Curiously, the Vietnamese king who had just defeated the Qing army offered to appear in Qing costume and kowtow to the Qing emperor. The unusual act pleased the Qianlong emperor and infuriated the Korean and Ry奴ky奴 delegates. What did the costume and ceremonial manner mean in the context of the East Asia political and cultural order? Why did the British embassy to China led by Lord Macartney three years later cause friction with regards to the sartorial and ceremonial manners? Professor Ge’s lecture will address these questions.
Ge Zhaoguang is professor of history and the director of the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai. He has published numerous books on Chinese intellectual history, Daoism, and Chan Buddhism. His most recent book, I Have Thus Possessed the Middle Kingdom: Reconstructing "China" in Historical Perspective (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2011), addresses the key questions of what is "China" in view of cultural identity and political and geographic mapping, and how China was viewed by its neighboring countries and cultures.
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center, Rockefeller Fund for East Asian Art of the Department of History of Art and Architecture, and Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
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