Chinese objects and their lives
La vie des objets en Chine
Published on Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Abstract
Over the last twenty years, material culture studies have occupied a growing place in the social sciences. How does this growing interest in objects and material culture reveal itself in Chinese studies? Choosing from different disciplines and different periods, this AFEC workshop aims to examine how to approach objects in the humanities and social sciences—from everyday objects to natural objects, consumer goods, technical or scientific instruments, objects of study or devotion, or ritual objects and works of art. By bringing together specialists from different fields (history, art history, archaeology, technology, anthropology, literature, sociology, etc.), the workshop explores the life, trajectory and the possible metamorphoses of the value, status and function of objects, as well as the relationships these artefacts have with individuals—raising in addition questions of their social uses—by focusing on their religious, symbolic, political, economic, emotional or memorial dimensions.
Announcement
Presentation
Over the last twenty years, material culture studies have occupied a growing place in the social sciences. How does this growing interest in objects and material culture reveal itself in Chinese studies? Choosing from different disciplines and different periods, this AFEC workshop aims to examine how to approach objects in the humanities and social sciences—from everyday objects to natural objects, consumer goods, technical or scientific instruments, objects of study or devotion, or ritual objects and works of art. By bringing together specialists from different fields (history, art history, archaeology, technology, anthropology, literature, sociology, etc.), the workshop explores the life, trajectory and the possible metamorphoses of the value, status and function of objects, as well as the relationships these artefacts have with individuals—raising in addition questions of their social uses—by focusing on their religious, symbolic, political, economic, emotional or memorial dimensions.
Programme
Friday, June 15
8:45 Welcome - Introductory remarks, Valérie LAVOIX, President of the AFEC
MORNING SESSION (9:30–12:50) - AMPHI 2, Inalco
Objects of Memory and Memory of the Object (1)
Chair: Gilles GUIHEUX
- 9:30 AMAR Nathanel The Lives of Dakouin China: From Waste to Nostalgia
- 10:00 FLATH James Unmanufacturing Modern China: Industrial Ruins and Post-Industrial Society
- 10:30 LU Yi Sinological Garbology: Archives and History in Modern China
Objects of Memory and Memory of the Object (2)
Chair: Pierre-Emmanuel ROUX
- 11:20 HAMMOND Kenneth J. A Broadsheet Image of Sixteenth Century Beijing
- 11:50 LI Geng “Old House Can Tell”: Chinese Lineage Group Re-Activation and Female Agency around Built Heritage
- 12:20 HOU Song Historicizing, Poeticizing and Dwelling: The Remembrance and Meaning Negotiation of Trees as Cultural Sites in Late Imperial China
June 15 - MORNING SESSION (9:30–12:50) - AMPHI 3, Inalco
Circulating Objects (1)
Chair: John FINLAY
- 9:30 WANG Lianming Materialized Identities: Kingfisher Feather and Qing Material Culture
- 10:00 EBEN V. RACKNITZ Ines Chinese Zodiac: The Social Life of the Yuanming Yuan’s Circle of Animals
- 10:30 MONNET Nathalie The Crucial Influence of Books in the Development of Chinese Studies in France
Circulating Objects (2)
Chair: Michaela PEJCOCHOVA
- 11:20 LI Xiaoxuan Bronzes Commodified and the Rise of Commercialization in Eastern Zhou
- 11:50 LOTZE Johannes Multilingual Objects: Material Culture as Evidence of Ming China’s Global Engagement (1368-1644)
- 12:20 YU Yusen Chinese Painting as Object: Collecting and (Re)mounting Chinese Painting in Persian Albums, 15th–16th Centuries
June 15 - AFTERNOON SESSIONS (2:00–6:00), AMPHI 2, Inalco
Social life of Objects: Human-Object Interactions (1)
Chair: Francesca DAL LAGO
- 2:00 LEE Wing Ki The Social Lives of Porcelain Photo as Commemorative Portrait in the 20th Century Chinese Context
- 2:30 HUANG I-fen From Boudoir to Antique shop to Modern Museum: The Social Life of Han Ximeng’s Embroidered Album
- 3:00 WRIGHT Suzanne E.Jiupai: Performance and Play
Social life of Objects : Human-Object Interactions (2)
Chair: Marie LAUREILLARD
- 3:50 WANG Wenxin “The Decaying Brushstrokes Inscribed Are Where Your Divine Spirits Rest”: The Creation of Painting Inscriptions as Controlling the Past, Present, and Future
- 4:20 LAURENT Cédric Revaluating Landscape Iconography: Painting and Poetry of Meditation during the 15th & 16th Centuries
- 4:50 CHAN Pedith Visual Travelogue of Scenic Mountains:Yu Jianhua’s Travel Albums
- 5:20 KELLY Thomas The Poetry of Ink in Late Imperial China
June 15 - AFTERNOON SESSIONS (2:00–6:00), AMPHI 3, Inalco
Object Trajectories: Changes in Meaning or in Value
Chair: Ping FOONG
2:00 CHENG Bonnie Meaning and Value in Underground Tombs
- 2:30 KHAYUTINA Maria He zun zhuan何尊傳: From an Agent in the Early Chinese Polity Formation to the Treasure of the State
- 3:00 ZHU Pinyan Avalokiteśvara in Gold: The Transformation of a Devotional Image at Dazu Grottoes
Religious and Secular Objects
Chair: Vincent DURAND-DASTÈS
- 3:50 PEJCOCHOVA Michaela From Ritual to Colonial Fantasies: Chinese Ritual Objects as Part of Western Collections of Chinese Art in the Inter-War Period
- 4:20 XU Lufeng Usual, disciplined, violent: Buddhist Monks’ Knives in the Shaolin Temple
- 4:50 CHAMBON Michel Producing and Consuming the Blood of Christ among Chinese Protestants Today
- 5:20 LEI Yang Creation and Reconstruction of a Soundscape: The Great Buddhist Bell of the Yongle Era in the Local Literature of Peking, 1600-1900
6:00 Presentation by Olivier de BERNON (EFEO) of the future Museum of Chinese Folk Art
Saturday June 16
June 16 - MORNING SESSION (9:30–12:50), AMPHI 6, Inalco
Collecting Neglected Objects
Chair: Delphine SPICQ
- 9:30 LEFEVBRE Romain A Decade of Auctions: What Place for Tangut Objects within the Cultural and Historical Legacy of China?
- 10:00 GRASSKAMP Anna Maritime Matters: Oceans, Objects and Collecting in Early Modern China
- 10:30 SHAN Fred Dust of the Song Dynasty: Huang Pilie (1763-1825) and His Collection of Song Editions
Verbal Representation of Objects
Chair: Valérie LAVOIX
- 11:20 CHEN Guangcheng A Name Searching for its Object: The Life of Jia 斝and the Contestation of Authenticity
- 11:50 KIRKOVA Zornica Facets of the Mountain Censer in Early Medieval Chinese Poetry
- 12:20 PIRAZZOLI Melinda Lu Xun’s Sense of Objects: Exchange, Consumption and Commodity Fetishism in Lu Xun’s “Medicine” (1919) and “Soaps
June 16 - MORNING SESSION (9:30–12:50), AMPHI 7, Inalco
What Do Objects Tell Us (1)?
Chair: Alain THOTE
- 9:30 FOONG Ping A Dunhuang Imaginary: The case of mistaken identity in the biography of a Tang dynasty votive tablet
- 10:00 KIM Moonsil Lee The Capacity of Ancient Vessels: Vessel Volumes in the Catalogues from the Song to the Qing Periods, and Now
- 10:30 ZHANG Jinghong Chinese Tea Serving Pitcher and the Debate Over Its Multiple Cultural Origins
What Do Objects Tell Us (2)?
Chair: Daniela CAMPO
- 11:20 SAM-SIN Fresco From Clan to Empire: The Manchu Shaman’s Changing Toolkit
- 11:50 YANG Ya-ting Qipao: femininity and modern China
Subjects
- Asia (Main category)
- Society > Ethnology, anthropology
- Zones and regions > Asia > Far East > China
- Society > History
- Mind and language > Representation
Places
- Inalco, 2nd floor - 65 rue des Grands Moulins
Paris, France (75013)
Date(s)
- Friday, June 15, 2018
- Saturday, June 16, 2018
Attached files
Keywords
- objet, vie, Chine
Contact(s)
- Association AFEC
courriel : afec [dot] contact [at] gmail [dot] com
Information source
- Jankowski Lyce
courriel : lyce [dot] jankowski [at] gmail [dot] com
License
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To cite this announcement
« Chinese objects and their lives », Study days, Calenda, Published on Tuesday, June 12, 2018, https://doi.org/10.58079/10eb