China’s Periphery and Beyond: Perspectives from Art and Archaeology

May 6 – 7, 2011
Frick Fine Arts Building
Department of History of Art and Architecture
University of Pittsburgh

This conference brings together scholars to present papers on the art and archaeology of peripheral regions beyond China’s Yellow River valley, traditionally considered to be its cultural and political core.  The study of such regions, many of which once lay – and in some cases still lie – outside China’s borders, has played an increasingly important role in our understanding of cultural developments and interregional interaction in early East Asia.  In recognition of the important contributions made by Professor Katheryn Linduff to the study of China’s frontier regions, a group of 19 archaeologists and art historians from many parts of the world, whose research has benefited from Professor Linduff’s work, will gather at the University of Pittsburgh in May 2011 to present papers that range regionally from southern China to Mongolia and Japan, and chronologically from the Neolithic to recent times.

 

 

Sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, School of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Provost, Confucius Institute, Department of Anthropology, China Council, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Korean Endowment, Japan Iron and Steel Federation and Mitsubishi Endowments at the University of Pittsburgh.

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