Bringing Together China and the West: A Symposium to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Programme
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Date: |
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10 February 2023 |
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14:00 – 17:30 |
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Venue: |
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Digital Scholarship Lab, University Library, The Chinese University of Hong Kong or virtually via zoom |
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Organizers: |
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library, Department of History and Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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Language: |
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English |
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Registration: |
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Abstracts and speakers information: |
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| Time | Session | Speaker |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. |
Opening Remarks |
Ms Laifong LI
Associate University Librarian
Prof. Stuart M. McManus Associate Director, Centre for Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK |
| 2:20 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |
Panel 1: Art and Culture Between China and the West Prof. Puk Wing-kin (Moderator) Associate Professor, Department of History, CUHK |
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| The Return of the Elephant:
Court Imaginations in Early Modern Sino-European Encounters |
Prof. Lianming Wang
Associate Professor, Department of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong |
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| Overlapping of the Western and Chinese Bodies: Accommodation in Boym’s Latin Translation | Prof. Sophie Ling-chia Wei
Associate Professor, Department of Translation, CUHK |
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| Jesuits, Books, and ‘Cultures of Text’ in Early Modern China | Prof. Elisabetta Corsi
Chair of Sinology, Department of History, Cultures, Religious Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, Sapienza University of Rome |
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| Johann Adam Schall von Bell and His Historica Relatio de ortu et progressu fidei orthodoxae in Regno Chinensi… (1669) | Prof. Claudia von Collani
Adjunct Professor of Missiology and Dialogue of Religions, University of Wuerzburg |
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| Q & A Session | ||
| 3:50 p.m. – 4:10 p.m. | Break | |
| 4:10 p.m. – 5:25 p.m. |
Panel 2: Translating Between China and the West Prof. James Morton (Moderator) Assistant Professor, Department of History, CUHK |
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| Overthrowing the Tartar ‘Tyranny’: British Understandings of Manchu-Chinese Relations and Sino-British Diplomacy from the Macartney Embassy to the First Opium War | Mr. Ross Moncrieff
Examination Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford |
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| Priorities and problems in early English sinology | Dr. William Poole
Fellow in English and Senior Tutor, New College, University of Oxford |
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| ‘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) | Prof. Eugenio Menegon
Associate Professor of History, Department of History, Boston University |
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| 5:25 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks | |