We would like to invite you to a talk by Dr. Adam Craig Schwartz (Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology and HKBU) titled "Happiness in China circa 1200 BC". A major oracle bone archive discovered in 1991 (and completely published in 2003) at the former center of the Late Shāng dynasty […]

REPAC is pleased to announce its two-day seminar on Strategies for Reading Early Chinese Manuscripts & for Re-Reading Chinese Classics. This intensive seminar, with REPAC’s main themes in mind, shall focus on approaches to and tactics for reading unearthed manuscripts from the Warring States period (475-221 BCE), namely texts about […]

We would like to invite you to a talk by Prof. Haun Saussy (University of Chicago) titled "Forced Innovation: Exile and Poetic Language in Medieval China." Exile or banishment has long been a professional liability of intellectuals in many cultures. In China, where almost all literate men were assumed to […]