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
View mapThe Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College & the Harvard-Yenching Institute jointly sponsor a presentation:
MANDARIN: THE ODYSSEY OF A LINGUISTIC AND CROSS-CULTURAL CONCEPT IN MODERN CHINESE HISTORY
4:00 - 5:30 PM, EST, Thursday, February 6, 2025
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 Menegon, 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