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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/can-koreans-write-like-wang-xi
 zhi-calligraphic-style-of-the-mujangsa-stele-801-and-contested-interpretat
 ions-by-choson-and-qing-scholars/
SUMMARY:Can Korean Calligraphers Write Like Wang Xizhi? The Mujangsa Stele 
 and its Reception in a Sino-Korean Context
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute and the Fairbank Center for
  Chinese Studies\n\nFrom the late eighteenth century\, Chinese scholars to
 ok a keen interest in the steles of early Korea. Some inscriptions on thos
 e steles were seen as material evidence of ancient Chinese calligraphy tha
 t had vanished from China. One notable case is the Memorial Stele for Ensh
 rining the Amitābha Buddha Statue at Mujang Temple (鍪藏寺阿彌陀佛
 造成記碑\, 801). Weng Fanggang (1733-1818) lauded it for preserving th
 e authentic trace of the “Lanting Preface\,” since the original work b
 y the legendary calligrapher Wang Xizhi (ca. 303-ca. 361) no longer existe
 d. Yet Weng’s disciple\, Kim Chŏnghŭi (1786-1856)\, opined that it was
  the brushwork of a Korean calligrapher. This talk will explore how the sa
 me inscription was viewed differently among scholars from the two countrie
 s. While current scholarship often romanticizes Sino-Korean antiquarian ex
 change\, I will demonstrate that beneath the transnational friendship lies
  a reflection of each side’s cultural centrism.
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
LOCATION:Common Room (#136)\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, United S
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