MANDARIN: The Odyssey of a Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Concept in Modern Chinese History
Visiting Scholar Talks
Feb 6, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Conference Room, The BC Ricci Institute, 2125 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston,
Speaker
CHEN Yushu | Associate Professor, East China Normal University; Ricci-HYI Joint Scholar, 2024-25
Discussant
Eugenio Menegon | Associate Professor of History, Boston University
This presentation explores the growing comprehension between Chinese and Western cultures towards each other through a complex and ever evolving word “mandarin” in meaning and its linguistic and cross-cultural cultural implications from the 16th to the 20th centuries through a variety of textual and pictorial sources.
Reception follows after the presentation
Free and open to the public both in person and through Zoom. For online participation, please register HERE. A Zoom link will be sent to the registered participants by February 5, 2025
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