Dr. Stephen Owen will be lecturing on "Understanding China through Ancient Chang'an" at 6pm CST, September 24, 2009. The venue will be 402 Rudder.

Chang’an (modern Xi’an) was the capital of the Western Han in the second and first centuries B.C.E. and of the Sui and Tang dynasties, from the end of the sixth to the beginning of the tenth century C.E. In the Tang it was the largest city in the world, and its urban topography is well-known, both from archeology and from the textual record. In this lecture Dr. Owen will talk about the Tang city and contemporary responses to it. It was a peculiarly Chinese imperial city, a perfect grid which was the orderly product of imperial will, the microcosm of the orderly empire, but like the empire itself, disorderly once one entered the grid.

Stephen Owen, whose specialty is Tang dynasty poetry and Chinese literature and poetry in general, is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard.

 

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Contact:  James M. Mendiola Jr.
Program Coordinator, Institute for Pacific Asia
Texas A&M University
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