EAAF Lecture: Lustrous Jades: Crafting Technology and Symbolic Meaning in China’s Earliest Nephrite Earrings in the Xinglongwa Culture (Apr 18, 2019)

The Boston University Center for the Study of Asia’s East Asian Archaeology Forum (EAAF) and the CAS Archaeology Program are pleased to present

Lustrous Jades: Crafting Technology and Symbolic Meaning in China’s Earliest Nephrite Earrings in the Xinglongwa Culture

Ms. WEN Yadi   溫雅棣

Doctoral Candidate, Dept. of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Visiting Fellow, Harvard-Yenching Institute

Thursday, April 18, 2019 from 4-5:30 pm
121 Bay State Road, Pardee School of Global Studies,
Boston University

Note the change in location!

About the speaker:

Wen Yadi received her B.A. in History from China’s Renmin University in Beijing and obtained her M.Phil. in History and Archaeology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her Ph.D. dissertation focuses on prehistoric jades in Northeast Asia. Raw materials, production technologies, sociocultural contexts and values of jades from China and Russian Siberia are analyzed in a comparative perspective. It is expected to outline the origin, long-distance exchange, and spatiotemporal distribution of jades as an enduring symbolic material in this region. The relationship between Upper Paleolithic personal ornaments and Neolithic jades within Eurasia will also be discussed. Her proposed research in the near future will focus on methodologies and materials from Mesoamerican archaeology, especially Mesoamerican jades and jade-using communities. Her long-term research interest is the study of jades from Asia and Mesoamerica, both for comparative purpose and as separate fields.  https://harvard-yenching.org/scholars/wen-yadi

The BUCSA East Asian Archaeology Forum lecture series is supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities