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The Baroque Sublime: Spectacle & Meraviglia Date: 20 November 2013 (Wednesday) Time: 5:00-6:00pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus Speaker: Helen Langdon Helen Langdon is a distinguished [...]

From the Summer Palace 1860: Provenance and Politics Date: 22 November 2013 (Friday) Time: 3:30-4:30pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus The looting and destruction of parts [...]

Ke Jiusi (1290-1343) and Ink Bamboo Painting in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) Date: 26 February 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 5:00pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus In the [...]

Victory Pictures in a Time of Defeat: Depicting War in the Print and Visual Culture of Late Qing China, 1884-1901 Date: 5 March 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 5:00-6:30pm Venue: Room 7.58, [...]

Converging Lines in Parallel Worlds: The Kangxi emperor’s Imperially Commissioned Pictures of Tilling and Weaving as a production of the Investigation of Things and Scientia Date: 9 April 2014 (Wednesday) [...]

Culture, Style and Globalism: The Reception of Western Ornament in Asia Date: 17 April 2014 (Thursday) Time: 4:30-6:00pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus Ornament has always [...]

Representing the Literatus Self in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) Date: 12 September 2014 (Friday) Time: 4:30pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus Existing portraits of scholar-officials prior [...]