Event date:?May 12 – May 16, 2019 Organizers: ?(Hebrew University of Jerusalem) ?(Princeton University)
Chinese empire was renowned for high cultural prestige and exceptional productivity of history writing. In distinction, only a very few historical texts survived from the millennium preceding China’s imperial unification of 221 BCE. Yet recent paleographic discoveries and a more nuanced understanding of transmitted texts allow us to reassess the formative age of China’s historiographic tradition. Our symposium gathers specialists in history, philosophy, literature, paleography, and archeology, for a joint exploration of a broad variety of historical and quasi-historical texts now available. Our goal is to understand the role of history-writing in the intellectual and political life of pre-imperial China. Who produced historical texts, and for what audiences and purposes? What were the sources that historians utilized, and how did they get access to them? What inspired trust in the historian, and where was his authority coming from? How did historical texts circulate? How are they related to contemporaneous ideological cleavages? What was their role in the formation of regional and trans-regional identities? How did history-writing evolve during these centuries and how is it related (or not) to subsequent imperial-age historiography? What are the differences and similarities between early Chinese historiographic traditions and those in other ancient civilizations? By engaging these questions we hope to raise our understanding of early Chinese historiography to a new level. Speakers:Reuven Amitai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem? Arabic History Writing in the Medieval Middle East Chen Minzhen, Tsinghua University? How Chu People Told Chu History Stephen Durrant, University of Oregon? The Problem of “Other Annals” Embedded in Zuozhuan Hans Van Ess, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich? The Dissolution of Jin and its Impact on Pre-imperial Historiography Lothar von Falkenhausen, University of California, Los Angeles? Bronze Inscriptions and Early Chinese Historiographic Genres Revisited Miriam Frenkel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem? Landmarks in Jewish Historiography Joachim Gentz, University of Edinburgh? When Clio Meets Urania: Historiography and Divination in Early Chinese Writing? Yegor Grebnev, University of Oxford? He Jin, Peking University? Shu (述) and zuo (作): History Officials in the Zhouli and History Writing in the Pre-Imperial Period Martin Kern, Princeton University? Quotation, Memory, and Performance: Actualizations of Voices Past in Zuozhuan Maria Khayutina, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich? Li Wai-yee, Harvard University? Inconvenient or Unnecessary Details in Zuozhuan ? ? ?Full paper [password protected] Nino Luraghi,?University of Oxford? Documenting the past: primary sources in Greek historiography Ellen O’Gorman, University of Bristol? Historical Knowledge in Ancient Rome ? ? ?Yuri Pines, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem? Beyond the “One Size Fits All”: Heterogeneity of Early Chinese Historiography Reconsidered Sharon Sanderovitch, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem? David Schaberg, University of California, Los Angeles? Pre-Qin Historiography and Rhetorical Pragmatism: Zhanguoce as Paradigm Edward L. Shaughnessy, University of Chicago? Classic: The *She?Ming or?Command to She Gideon Shelach, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and?Yitzhak Jaffe, University of Haifa? Shimao and the Rise of States in China: Archaeology, Historiography, and Fantasy Michael Shenkar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem? Empires without Historiography: Orality, Mythology, and Epic in Ancient Iran Kai Vogelsang, University of Hamburg? Society, History, and Social History in Ancient China Nathan Wasserman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem? The Sumerian King List: Rulers, Cities, No Gods Xu Jianwei, Renmin University? |
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