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The Birth of Empire: The State of Qin Revisited | Israel Institute for Advanced Studies

The Birth of Empire: The State of Qin Revisited

Date: 
Wed, 10/12/2008 to Fri, 19/12/2008
conference

 

ORGANIZERS:

Lothar von Faulkenhousen, UCLA
Yuri Pines, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gideon Shelach, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Robin D.S. Yates, McGill University

 

The workshop will bring together historians and archaeologists for a multidisciplinary and multinational gathering, and the first of its kind to comprehensively assess the cultural, social and political trajectories of the state and the empire of Qin, its relation to other cultures within and outside the Zhou cultural sphere, its historical image, and its impact on the subsequent history of the Chinese empire.

 

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SPEAKERS:

Hans van Ess, University of Munich
Lothar von Falkenhausen, UCLA
Zhao Huacheng, Beijing University
Wang Hui, The Institute of Archeology and Cultural Relics, Gansu Province
Hsing I-tien, Academia Sinica
Teng Mingyu, Jilin University
Poo Mu-chou, Academia Sinica
Michael Nylan, UC Berkeley
Yuri Pines, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Andy Plaks, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/ Princeton University
Charles Sanft, University of Muenster
Gideon Shelach, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Chen Songchang, Yuelu Academy
Griet Vankerberghen, McGill University
Robin D.S. Yates, McGill University