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Co-sponsored by the BU Department of History of Art and Architecture & City Planning and Urban Affairs Program, BU Metropolitan College<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In this forum, part of the \u201cAsia and the City\u201d BUCSA yearly series, two short presentations will highlight the changing nature of the Chinese capital between the late imperial and contemporary periods, followed by a conversation with Boston University faculty.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n BU Hosts:<\/b>\u00a0Professors Alice Tseng, Paolo Scrivano, Eugenio Menegon, Cathy Yeh, Enrique Silva<\/p>\n Speakers:<\/b><\/p>\n <\/b>Professor Ya-chen Ma <\/i>\u201cCapital Reimagined: Beijing as the Center of Time and Space and Its Imagined Other\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n <\/span>\u00a0Embedded in the intensive visual interactions between the court and local societies in the eighteenth century, Beijing could not be projected as a political center without marginalizing the provinces. Measuring more than 8 feet in width and almost 8 feet in height, Xu Yang\u2019s (c. 1712-a. 1779) the painting \u201cSpringtime in the Capital\u201d was commissioned by the Qianlong emperor to redefine the capital as the center of time and space in the Qing empire. This presentation examines how Beijing was constructed pictorially as a magnificent imperial capital through reference to its imagined Other, the southern city of Suzhou, and the provinces.<\/p>\n Professor Shuishan Yu \u201cCutting the Dragon Vein: Modern Transformation of Imperial Beijing\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dominated by a north-south axis, \u00a0Ming-Qing Beijing featured a concentric plan with layer after layer of walls and gates, screening the invisible center of power away from public view. Lining up all symbolic structures legitimizing the Mandate of Heaven, this axis was known as the \u201cDragon Vein.\u201d The modern transformation of Beijing had been posed as an antithesis to such an imperial urban model, tearing down the walls and gates and cutting the dragon vein with big avenues. Yet like the imperial model, the modern urban space strengthened the centralization of power rather than weakening it. Analyzing the metamorphosis of Beijing in the mid-twentieth century focusing on its old and new axes, this presentation demonstrates how the imperial framework affected the modern transformations of Beijing and its political implications in the current development.<\/p>\n Location:<\/b>\u00a0Eilts room, Department of International Relations, Boston University, 154 Bay State Road (2nd<\/sup>\u00a0floor)<\/p>\n Time:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Thursday, February 27, 5-7 PM<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Co-sponsored by the BU Department of History of Art and Architecture & City Planning and Urban Affairs Program, BU Metropolitan College In this forum, part of the \u201cAsia and the City\u201d BUCSA yearly series, two short presentations will highlight the changing nature of the Chinese capital between the late imperial and contemporary periods, followed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7744,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7613,7617,7578,84,7585],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5415"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5462,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions\/5462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/b>Institute of History, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
\n<\/i>Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University<\/i><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>School of Architecture – College of Arts, Media and Design
\n<\/i>Northeastern University
\n<\/i>Author of\u00a0Chang\u2019an Avenue and the Modernization of Chinese Architecture<\/i>, University of Washington Press, 2013.<\/p>\n