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Westerners & the Qing Imperial Court Symposium
October 17-19, 2008
Beijing, China
The Ricci Institute is
pleased to announce its upcoming symposium, “Interaction and Exchange
at the Imperial Court: Westerners and the Qing (1644-1911),” to be held
in Beijing at Renmin University on October 17-19, 2008. The symposium
will provide a forum for an interdisciplinary examination of the
interaction between Westerners and the Qing court with the aim of
creating a more nuanced and balanced reconstruction of this historical
contact. The symposium is intended to broaden our understanding of the
breadth of Westerners interacting with the Qing court as well as the
perspectives of all of the historical actors involved, both Chinese and
Western. Topics addressed at the conference will include: scientific
and artistic exchange, gender, social class and status groups, race and
ethnicity, diplomacy, transmission of knowledge, rituals and ceremony,
material culture, economics, imperialism and semi-colonialism, etc.
Ultimately, the project will add to our knowledge of cultural
interaction during the late imperial period in China.
Cosponsored by
the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the
University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim, the Qing
History Institute, Renmin University, China, and The Beijing Center for
Chinese Studies.
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