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2005/06 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Roger T. Ames

The 2005/06 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Roger T. Ames (University of Hawai’i) Lecture: A Dialogue Between Cultures: Confucian Philosophy and Deweyan Pragmatism Arguably the most important relationship at the beginning of the 21st century is between Europe and North America, and a rapidly growing China. Given that China is home to […]

2007/08 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Dorothy Ko

The 2007/08 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Dorothy Ko (Columbia University) Lecture: Footbinding in Women’s Eyes Professor Ko’s lecture intends to complicate the prevalent view of footbinding as a barbaric form of female oppression. By way of embroidered shoes and other artifacts related to the binding of feet, the talk will probe […]

2009/10 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Lung Ying-tai

The 2009/10 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Lung Ying-tai (University of Hong Kong and National Tsing Hua University) Lecture: Big River, Big Sea: Untold Stories of 1949 Watch Lung Ying-tai’s lecture “Big River, Big Sea: Untold Stories of 1949” in English. Watch Lung Ying-tai’s lecture “Why 1949” in Chinese. Webcast sponsored by […]

2010/11 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor David Der-Wei Wang

The 2010/11 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor David Der-Wei Wang (Harvard University) Lecture: Writing History after “Post-History”: On Contemporary Chinese Fiction Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and sponsored by the Wat Endowment and hosted by the Department of Asian Studies. Writing at a time when History has collapsed […]

2011/12 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Leung Ping-Kwan

The 2011/12 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Leung Ping-Kwan (Harvard University) Lecture: Transformative Identities: Literary Adaptation and Cultural Negotiation in Hong Kong Cinema of the 1950s   Contrary to the common belief that Hong Kong cinema excels only in martial arts and gangster genres but has little to do with literature, recent […]

2012/13 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Wang Fan-sen

The 2012/13 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Wang Fan-sen (Academia Sinica) Lecture: Shoes, Umbrellas, and Tofu: Appraising Local Officials in Late Imperial China Historians have long been interested in the rituals of appraisals for officials that took place in local temples. This is so for good reasons. For most scholar-officials in late […]

2013/14 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: with Professor Pai Hsien-yung

The 2013/14 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Pai Hsien-yung (University of California, Santa Barbara) Lecture: Father and the Republic   Father and the Republic is a photobiography devoted to the life and career of the late General Pai Ch’ung-hsi (Bai Chongxi; 1893–1966). General Pai’s career both paralleled and profoundly influenced the history of […]

2016/17 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Postwar Tokyo: Capital of a Ruined Empire

In this talk, Dr. Seiji M. Lippit discusses Postwar Tokyo. The capital of what had once been a massive overseas empire was reduced to ruins by the unrelenting Allied aerial bombardment and now faced occupation by a foreign military power for the first time in the nation’s history.