复旦大学古籍整理研究所前沿学术讲座

帝国作为文本实践的视野：

对近来欧美先唐文学研究趋势的批判性反思

Empire as a Horizon of Textual Practice：

Critical Reflections on Recent Trends in Western Language Studies of Ancient and Medieval China

主讲人：Christopher Elford（安睿思）

Hamilton College

主持人：吴冠文（复旦大学古籍整理研究所）

与谈人：龚宗杰（复旦大学古籍整理研究所）

时  间：2023年12月18日（星期一）

    15：15 — 17：15

地  点：复旦大学光华楼西主楼1615

所用语言：英文演讲，中英文问答

讲座简介

This talk reviews a cluster of recent works in European and American sinology which take up the then newly-emergent ideological and administrative framework of empire as a horizon against which to make visible certain changes in literary, historical, and commentarial genres beginning in the late Warring States period and extending through the early medieval period. New research in this vein locates these changes at the level of 1) the physical features and codicological structure of manuscripts, 2) the stylistic and ideological orientation, and 3) the administrative channels through which both these texts and their authors moved. This talk argues such works lay the groundwork for treating the bureaucratic and military machinery of the early empires as a kind of mesh-point for the articulation of new conceptions of authorship and alternative ways of formulating the relationship between person and utterance, one the one hand, and author and text, on the other.

主讲人简介

Christopher Elford is Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Hamilton College. He received an M.A. in Chinese literature from the University of Oregon in 2014 and a Ph.D. in Chinese from the University of California, Berkeley in 2021. His research focuses on the poetry, poetics, calligraphy, and material culture of China from the 2nd through the 12th centuries. His current book project gives a new account of the co-emergence of the concepts of individual literary and calligraphic style during the Six Dynasties period.