Embedded Files
Session One: Depictions of Foreign and Peripheral Lands in Chinese Historical Writing
Session One: Depictions of Foreign and Peripheral Lands in Chinese Historical Writing
Date: 15 January 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 12:00–14:00 (UK time)
Format: Online (Zoom)
Papers
Papers
Perceptions of Foreign Civilizations among Yuan-Dynasty Chinese Literati: A Study of the Customs of Cambodia
Yaohan Wei (Capital Normal University)
From the "Western Regions" to the "Western Ocean": Knowledge Transformation and Conceptual Change in Chinese Extraterritorial Writings (Tang-Song to Ming-Qing)
Xinle Chen (City University of Hong Kong)
Imperial Encounters in Yunnan: Peripheral Imaginations in Nineteenth-Century Chinese and French Knowledge
Ziang Dong (Hokkaido University)
Discussant
Ruisen Zheng (King's College of London)
Host
Shunran Tu (University of Exeter)
Session Two: Transcultural Poetics and the Circulation of World Literatures
Session Two: Transcultural Poetics and the Circulation of World Literatures
Date: 06 February 2026 (Friday)
Time: 12:00–14:00 (UK time)
Format: Online (Teams)
Papers
Papers
Li Po and Chinese Cuisine: Derek Walcott’s Chinese Experience and the Making of Caribbean Culture
Chenlong Li (Nanjing University)
Towards Chinese-Arabic Comparison as Method: Lin Shu, Muṣṭafá Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī, and the Translation of Modernity
Haodong Bai (University of Cambridge)
The Ecological Materiality of Chinese Landscape Literature and Its East Asian Resonances: From Xie Lingyun to Matsuo Bashō
Xinping Wei (Renmin University of China)
Discussant
Dr Ye Tian (University of Leeds)
Host
Yizhou Feng (University of Exeter)
Session Three: The Production of Knowledge and Scholarly Identity among Chinese Intellectuals in Contexts Shaped by Western Discourse
Session Three: The Production of Knowledge and Scholarly Identity among Chinese Intellectuals in Contexts Shaped by Western Discourse
Date: 27 February 2026 (Friday)
Time: 13:00–14:30 (UK time)
Format: Online (Teams)
Papers
Papers
Historical Narratives Across Boundaries: Paradigmatic Shifts in the History of “China” in the United States during the Long Twentieth Century
Peinan Cheng (University of Southampton)
“History Originates from Ritual”: Negotiating Time and Modernity in Liu Yizheng’s Philosophy of History
Haifeng Weng (University of Goettingen)
Forging Chinese Antiquity: How Catholic Missionaries Interpreted the “Burning of Books and Burying of Scholars” During Ming-Qing Transition
Kang Li (Wuhan University)
The New Interpretation on Zhu Xi’s “Study the Nature of Things” (Gewu) in Late Qing During Ming-Qing Transition
Xinyu Wang (Nanjing Normal University)
Discussant
Zhijian Sun (National University of Singapore)
Host
Shunran Tu (University of Exeter)
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse