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Seminars
2009
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23.10.2009 |
The Discourse of “Illegal Casting” in Tang Dynast
Professor Wei Mingkong, Professor，Institute
of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Science
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23.10.2009 |
Revisiting a Dramatic Triangle: State, Villagers,
and Social Activists in Chinese Rural Reconstruction
Projects
Professor
Stig Thøgersen,
Department of History and Area Studies, Aarhus
University, Denmark
(Jointly
organized by Division of Humanities and Social
Sciences, Office of the Deputy President (Research
and Technology), Department of Chinese Studies and
East Asian Institute, NUS) |
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19.10.2009 |
Zhuangzi's Wu-wei
Dr Park So Jeong, Visiting Scholar, Department of
Philosophy, NUS |
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28.08.2009 |
Social Life and Culture During the Ming Qing Period
1
The Dialectic of Connoisseurship and Vulgarity: The
Mingle of Ming Literati’s Art of Leisure and
Literati- Merchant Culture
Professor Wang Hung Tai,
Department of History,
National
Chi Nan University
2 2 How does a Picture Reflect History – Seeing History and
Historical Memories of Southwestern China during the
Qing from a Stone Carving
Professor Zhao Shiyu,
Department of History,
Beijing
Normal
University
3 The Interactions between Confucians and Jingmingdao
during the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
Dr. Zhang I-His, College of Hakka Studies,
National Chiao Tung University
(Jointly
organized by Department of Chinese Studies and The Ming-Qing
Research Group,
NUS)
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08.07.2009 |
On Semantic Harmony
Professor Lu Jianming, Department of Chinese,
Beijing University |
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03.07.2009 |
Shanghai as a Global City: Historical,
Theoretical and Comparative Issues
Dr Jeffrey Wasserstrom,
Professor of History, University of California
(Jointly
organized by
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Research
Cluster and The Department of Chinese Studies, NUS
) |
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20.04.2009 |
Ideas of Dealing with National Disasters in Pre-Qin
Times
Profess Tan Jiajiang, China Academy of Social Science, Institute
of Literature
(Jointly
organized by The
Chinese Library and The Department of Chinese
Studies, NUS
) |
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27.03.2009 |
The Study on the Chinese Weeskamer of Batavia:
Focusing the Gong An Bu
Dr Weng Pin,
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Chinese Study, NUS |
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09.03.2009 |
Game-Changers: Toward a Theory of Literary Studies
Professor Michelle Yeh, Department of East Asian
Languages and Cultures， University of California at Davis |
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13.02.2009
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The Contribution of late Imperial and Early
Republican Chinese Thought to “Comparative
Political Theory”
Dr
Leigh Jenco,
Department of Political Science, NUS
|
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11.02.2009 |
Dao'an, Huineng, and the Monkey King: The Birth
of the Genealogy of Chinese Buddhist Patriarchs
Dr Lu Yang, Department of History, University of
Kansas |
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19.01.2009
|
Immoral Women and Chaste Husbands: Case Studies
in the History of Gender in China
Dr Yi Jolan, Department of History, National
Taiwan University |
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2008
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11.12.2008 |
The Thoughts of Chen Yinque on Chinese Scholarship
Professor Luo Zhitian,
Department of History, Peking University |
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28.11.2008 |
On the Art of Translation
Professor Göran Malmqvist, Stockholm University,
Swedish Academy |
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05.11.2008 |
Sherlock Holmes Came to China: Detective Fiction
During the Late Qing Era
Ms Vivien Yan Wei，PhD
Candidate, Harvard University |
|
30.10.2008 |
A View on
Singapore’s Education
Madam Poon Sing Wah |
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16.10.2008 |
Interpreting Collective Violence During the Chinese
Cultural Revolution
Dr Yang Lijun，Visiting
Fellow of Department of Chinese Studies and EAI
Research Fellow, NUS |
|
24.09.2008 |
Confucius and the Qi-Lu Region
Professor Wang Zhimin, Vice-President, Shandong
Normal University and Director of Qi-Lu Cultural
Center |
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22.08.2008
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Talk on Translation & Interpretation
Mr Lee Seng Giap,
Lecturer, Graduate Diploma in Translation &
Interpretation, NTU
(Jointly
organized by the Department of Chinese Studies and
Alumni Association of Chinese Studies, NUS) |
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02.06.2008 |
Hong Kong Writers’ forum |
|
14.05.2008 |
Allusion in Han Dynasty Literature – the Jiaoshi
yilin
焦氏易林
as an example
Dr. Zeb Raft, University of Alberta, Canada |
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14.04.2008
|
The Transformation and Dilemma of Chinese
Scholarship In the Twentieth Century: Starting from
Tsinghua Institute of Traditional Learning
Professor Zhang Guogang, Professor and Chair of the
Department of History and Director,
Institute of Thought and Culture, Tsinghua
University
(Jointly organized by the Department of Chinese
Studies and Island Society) |
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07.04.2008 |
The Basic Organization and People’s Life in the
Countryside in the Tang Dynasty
Professor Zhang Guogang, Professor and Chair of the
Department of History and Director,
Institute of Thought and Culture, Tsinghua
University |
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04.04.2008 |
The European View on China in the Age of
Enlightenment: A Historical Tour and Introspection
Professor Zhang Guogang, Professor and Chair of the
Department of History and Director,
Institute of Thought and Culture, Tsinghua
University |
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20.03.2008
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Trades and Smuggling Activities of Tea Leaves and
Horses in Northwestern China in the Ming and Qing
Period
Professor Wei Mingkong, Professor，Institute
of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Science
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14.03.2008
|
Property Rights, Space, Marriage: Hakka Women in
Historical Anthropological Perspectives
Professor Fang Xuejia, Vice Dean, School of Hakka
Studies and Director, Institute of Hakka Culture,
Jianyin University, China |
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01.02.2008 |
How the Steel was Translated: Cultural Exchange, the
Socialist World, and 'New China'
Dr Nicolai Volland，Department
of Chinese Studies, NUS |
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2007
Date
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Topic/Lecturer
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| 22.11.2007 |
Geography, Biography and
Chinese History
Professor
Peter Bol, East Asian Languages and Civilizations，Harvard
University
|
| 15.11.2007 |
How Can We Not Recall Jiangnan?
The Jiannan Identity in Chinese Literature
Professor Hu Xiaoming, Department
of Chinese Language and Literature, Huadong Normal
University
|
| 02.11.2007 |
Going Gaga: Early Semantic Development
of Mandarin-speaking Children and the Natural
Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)
Dr Adrian Tien,
Department
of Chinese Studies, NUS |
|
19.10.2007 |
The Newly Rising Merchant: A
Study on Mu Ouchu
Dr Gao Jun,
Postdoctoral Fellow of Department of Chinese
Studies, NUS |
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19.10.2007 |
A Study of Topicalization and
Syntactic Type in Chinese Dialects: A Comparative
Study of Topicalization Between Xiang Dialects and
Wu Dialects
Dr
Lin Su’e,
Postdoctoral Fellow of Department of Chinese
Studies, NUS |
09.05.2007 |
Musiking in the Male-Dominated Society of the Late Ming
Professor Joseph S. C. Lam, Professor of Musicology and Director of the Stearns Collection, University of Michigan, USA
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23.04.2007 |
Xu虚 in Jia Yi 贾谊 Xinshu 《新书》：Preliminary Remarks
Dr Elisa Sabattini
(Jointly organized by Department of Chinese Studies and Department of Philosophy, NUS)
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16.04.2007 |
The Contradictions of Chinese Revolutionary Modernity： An Investigation on the Land Reform in Northern China（1946-1948）
Mr Li Fangchun, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California at Los Angeles
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12.04.2007 |
A Model for L2 Learning
Mr Xu Zheng, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Linguistics, State University of New York at Stony Brook
|
09.04.2007 |
From Père Goriot to Gao Laoda - Cultural Exchange, Translation Literature and Political Language
Dr Nicolai Volland, Post-Doc of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinic, Taiwan
|
29.03.2007 |
A Lingering Debate-The Issue of “Landlord System” in the Economic History of Ming and Qing
Professor Chen Zhiping, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities,
Ximen University, China
|
23.03.2007 |
Long March: History, Myth, and Collective Memory
Ms Zhang Enhua, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, USA
|
22.03.2007
|
The Application of Modern Theories of Phonetics on Chinese Phonology
Dr Chung Raung-fu, Lecture Professor, Southern Taiwan University, Taiwan
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19.03.2007
|
Three Elements in the Definition of Hakka Ethnicity: Origins, Culture and Utility
Professor Chen Zhiping, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Ximen University
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19.03.2007
|
Between Life and Death: A Study of Singapore Kwong Wai Siew Peck San Theng
Professor Zen Ling, Department of History, Xiamen University
|
16.03.2007 |
Women, City, and History: Shanghai and Hong Kong in Contemporary Chinese Novels and Films
Dr Vivian Lee Pui Yin, Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria at Canada, Canada
|
09.03.2007 |
Issues of Sentence and clause in Modern Chinese
Professor K.K. Luke, Chair of the Department of Linguistics,
The University of Hong Kong
|
07.03.2007 |
How to Write an Essay on Literature
Professor Cao Xu, Professor and Director of Shanghai Normal University Library , Shanghai Normal University, China
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2006
Date
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Topic/Lecturer
|
23.11.2006 |
Some Ideas about Ming Studies
Professor Chu Hung, National Taiwan Normal University
|
23.11.2006 |
Research on Emotions and States of Mind of the Ming Qing Period
Professor Paolo Santangelo, University of Rome & University of Naples, Italy
|
27.10.2006 |
Research on Emotions and States of Mind of the Ming Qing Period
Professor Paolo Santangelo, University of Rome & University of Naples, Italy
|
26.10.2006 |
Loanword in Mandarin
Professor Zhu Qingzhi, Department of Chinese, Beijing University, China
|
05.10.2006 |
On the Origin of Confucian and Taoist Thought – An Observation from the Book of Changes
Professor Dennis Cheng Chi-hsiung, Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University
|
15.09.2006 |
The Inauguration of the Ming Dynasty: A Reappraisal of the Origin of
the Dynastic Name and Related Fire Cosmic Symbol
Professor Chan Hok Lam, Professor in Chinese History,
Department of Asian Languages and Literature,
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
(Jointly organized by Department of Chinese Studies and Asia Research Institute)
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29.08.2006 |
In Search of the True Confucian: The Process of Enshrining Xue Xuan (1389-1464) in the Temple to Confucius
Dr Koh Khee Heong, Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Studies, NUS
|
12.04.2006 |
The Position of Jin Dialects
Dr. Xiang Mengbin, Associate Professor, Dept of Chinese, Peking University, China,
Visiting Fellow, Dept of Chinese Studies, NUS
|
07.04.2006 |
The New Thinking and Developments of the Intellectual History of
the Qing Dynasty
Professor Zhou Jiming, Vice President, Hubei University, China
|
30.03.2006 |
Islands on the Front-line: Militarization and Jinmen (Quemoy) Society, 1949-1992
Professor Michael Szonyi, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University, USA
|
10.03.2006 |
A Passionate Conscience of the Time: Ba Jin’s Personality and His Works
Dr Lin Pei Yin, Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Studies, NUS
(Jointly organized by Chinese Library, NUS, Department of Chinese Studies and Temasek Hall Chinese Drama Team)
|
03.03.2006 |
Zhuang Zi and Music
Professor Lin Shuen-fu, Professor in Chinese Literature,
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures,
University of Michigan, USA
|
01.03.2006 |
Creating a Larger Artistic Totality: The Integration of Poetry and Painting in the Chinese Tradition
Professor Lin Shuen-fu, Professor in Chinese Literature,
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures,
University of Michigan, USA
|
08.02.2006 |
Higher Education in Contemporary China
Professor Xie Weihe, Vice President of Tsinghua University, China
|
08.02.2006 |
China in the Process of Economic Globalization
Professor Li Bozhong, Chairman of History Department, Tsinghua University, China
|
24.01.2006 |
The Power of Hair in Chinese Society, 1500-2000
Dr Lai Chi Kong, Senior Lecturer,
School of History , Philosophy Religion and Classics,
University of Queensland, Australia
|
18.01.2006 |
The Dilemma of Chinese Overseas in Singapore and Malaya：Their Relationship with the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party, 1937-1955
Professor Lee Yinghui, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
(Jointly organized by Department of Chinese Studies and Asia Research Institute)
|
17.01.2006 |
On Lu Xun Studies in the Past Six Years in Japan and Lu Xun’s Short Stories, Father’s Illness
Professor Fujii Shozo, The Graduate School of Chinese,
Arts and Social Research Branch, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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