Mandarin: The Odyssey of a Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Concept in Modern Chinese History
Thursday, February 6, 2025 4pm to 5:30pm
About this Event
2125 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE, BOSTON, MA 02135
http://www.bc.edu/ricci #ricci, #harvard-yenchinginstituteMandarin: The Odyssey of a Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Concept in Modern Chinese History
Conference Room, the BC Ricci Institute
2125 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02135
Reception follows after the presentation
Speaker: Dr. CHEN Yushu 陳妤姝, Associate Professor, East China Normal University, China
Discussant: Dr. Eugenio Memegon, Professor, Boston University, U.S.A
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.
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