CUHK – Bringing Together China and the West – Exhibition and Symposium
Bringing Together China and the West: A Symposium to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Friday 10 February 2023
14:00 pm – 17:30 pm, Hong Kong Time
( = same day 7:00 am-9:30 am, Central European Time; 1:00 am ØC 3:30 am US EAST; previous day 22:00-24:30 US Pacific)
Symposium (online):
EXHIBITION at CUHK Library:
Programme:
Lianming Wang
Department of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong
The Return of the Elephant:
Court Imaginations in Early Modern Sino-European Encounters
Sophie Ling-chia Wei
Department of Translation, CUHK
Overlapping of the Western and Chinese Bodies: Accommodation in Boym’s Latin Translation
Elisabetta Corsi
Department of History, Cultures, Religious Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, Sapienza University of Rome
Jesuits, Books, and ‘Cultures of Text’ in Early Modern China
Claudia von Collani
University of Wuerzburg
Johann Adam Schall von Bell and His Historica Relatio de ortu et progressu fidei orthodoxae in Regno Chinensi… (1669)
Ross Moncrieff
All Souls College, University of Oxford
Overthrowing the Tartar ‘Tyranny’: British Understandings of Manchu-Chinese Relations and Sino-British Diplomacy from the Macartney Embassy to the First Opium War
William Poole
New College, University of Oxford
Priorities and problems in early English sinology
Eugenio Menegon
Department of History, Boston University
‘Canons and Artillerie’: The Ming-Qing War seen through Schall’s Essentials of Gunnery (火攻挈要 Huogong qieyao, 1643/1847) and Martini’s Tartar War (Bellum Tartaricum, London 1654)