2014 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures (1): East Asian Internationalism and Beyond

Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Tsai Auditorium | CGIS South | Harvard University

2014 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures:
East Asian Internationalism and Beyond: Crossing Borders in Chinese Architectural History
Nancy S. Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania

Lecture 1: The Sixth Century as the Seventh and Eighth: Recentering an International Age in Chinese Architectural History

The lecture begins by asking questions that have driven the study of Chinese architecture through the twentieth century: Why do so many Chinese buildings look like so many others? What are the principles that govern Chinese construction? How did our current Chinese architectural history come to be written? Is Chinese architecture in fact a Chinese, Japanese, and Korean building system? Is the period of the Tang dynasty (618-907) really the first “international age” for East Asian art and architecture? In answering the last question, the lecture argues that Sino-Korean-Japanese internationalism in art and architecture in fact occurred earlier, in the sixth century, and to a certain extent even in the fifth. In the conclusion, the implications of an international sixth-century and themes that will be important in Lectures 2 and 3 are presented.

Discussants:
Yukio Lippit, Harvard University
James Robson, Harvard University

http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/nancy-steinhardt

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