The Chinese Medieval Studies Workshop is now at Rutgers University. The 10th Annual Meeting will be held on May 3, 2014. This workshop, founded and organized by Professor Wendy Swartz and funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo (CCK) Foundation, is a major academic forum for the exchange of ideas and the advancement of scholarship. Distinguished scholars from across the United States working on medieval Chinese literature, history, religion, and visual culture, have been meeting annually in this forum since 2003 to discuss their current research. Ground-breaking research and methodology first presented at these workshops have found their way into notable books and journal articles.
Schedule:
9:30 – 10:00— Welcome Remarks and Breakfast
10:00 – 11:00— Matthias Richter, “Reading Mengzi's "Flood-like Qi" as Part of a Composition”
Discussant: Michael Puett
11:10 – 12:10— Robert F. Campany, “‘Buddhism Enters China’ in Early Medieval China”
Discussant: Eugene Wang
12:15 – 1:30— Lunch
1:40 – 2:40— Antje Richter, “Letter or Essay? How the Genre Shapes the Message”
Discussant: Tian Xiaofei
2:50 – 3:50— Goh Meow Hui, “Generational Remembrance (and Forgetting) of the Late Han Chaos in the Cao Courts”
Discussant: Chris Nugent
4:00 – 4:30— Coffee Break
4:30 – 5:30— Wendy Swartz, “How Xi Kang Quarreled with His Elder Brother: His Nineteen Farewell Poems as a Poetic Bricolage of Encoded Meanings”
Discussant: Alan Berkowitz
Special Discussants to the Workshop: Sarah Allen and Robert Ashmore
The seminar is open to all faculty and graduate students, but RSVP is required (by sending an e-mail to