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Program

4 July 2013

13.00 Registration and Welcome Coffee


13.30-15.00 Opening Session

I Greek and Roman Culture in China

13.30 Almut-Barbara Renger (Freie Universität Berlin) Introduction

13.45 Bernhard Kytzler (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Teaching Classics in China in the Late Twentieth Century
Fritz-Heiner Mutschler (Peking University) Western Classics at Chinese Universities: A Few Subjective Observations

14.30 Discussion

15.00-17.15 Plenary Session
II Classical Scholarship and Translations

15.00 Zhi Zhang (Xiamen University) Lukianos in China

15.30 Lihua Zhang (Peking University) Toward a New Mode of Vernacular Chinese: A Study on Zhou Zuoren’s Modern Translation of Theocritus’ Idyll X

16.00 Xin Fan (Freie Universität Berlin) Imagining Classical Antiquity as a Global Concept?: The Debate on the Periodization in the Ancient World in Twentieth-Century China

16.30 Discussion

17.15 Coffee break


17.45-19.30 Parallel Sections
III Ancient Contact Between East and West 1 IV Ancient Contact Between East and West 2

17.45 Jingling Chen (Harvard University) Socrates Visits Beijing: Intellectual Thoughts on the Eve of 1949

17.45 Shuai Luo (Peking University) The Begram Treasure and the Roman Commercial Expansion

18.15 Krisztina Hoppál (Eötvös Loránd University) Chinese Perceptions of the Roman Empire: A Mysterious Country in the Westernmost Part of the World

18.15 Daniel Sarefield (Fitchburg State University) “If I return to Scythia a better man than I left”: Anacharsis the Wise Barbarian

18.45 Discussion 18.45 Discussion

19.30 Plenary Session
V Reception

19.30 Yan P. Lin (Francis International Inc.) Liberty and Equality - Key Greek Values in Relation to Ancient China


5 July 2013

10.30 Welcome Coffee


11.00-13.15 Parallel Sections
VI The Reception of Classical Languages and Legends in the History of Japan VII Greek Myth in Japanese Popular Culture

11.00 Ichiro Taida (I-Shou University) The Earliest History of the Reception of Classical Languages in Japan

11.00 Luciana Cardi (Osaka University) The Function of Greek Myths in Contemporary Japanese Literature

11.30 Jerzy Nowak Wojciech (Adam Mickiewicz University) Jesuits’ Linguistic Efforts on Creating Catholic Vocabulary in Japan - the Case of Japanese Hidden Christians

11.30 Carla Scilabra (University of Torino) Back to the Future: Reviving Classical Figures in Japanese Comics

12.00 Timon Screech (SOAS, University of London) The Legend of Zeuxis and Japanese Painting

12.00 Jen Cresswell (University of Edinburgh) Greco-Roman Iconography and Architecture in Anime and Manga

12.30 Discussion 12.30 Discussion

13.15 Lunch


14.45-16.30 Parallel Sections
VIII Greek and Roman Themes in Asian Material Culture IX Sculpture in East and West

14.45 Cynthea J. Bogel (Kyushu University) Grapes, Gods, and Men: Greco-Roman and Asian Motifs on an Eight-Century Japanese Buddha Pedestal

14.45 Lukas Nickel (SOAS, University of London) China and the Hellenistic World - Sculpture as Evidence for Cross-Asian Contacts During 3rd Century BC

15.15 Chia-Lin Hsu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Politics, Culture and Neo-Classical Architecture in Taiwan

15.15 Rui Nakamura (Tokyo University of the Arts) The Reception of Parthenon Sculpture in Modern Japanese Art School

15.45 Discussion 15.45 Discussion

16.30 Coffee break


17.00-18.45 Parallel Sections
X Translation as Reception XI Staging Ancient Greek Drama in East Asian Theatre

17.00 Bill M. Mak (University of Hong Kong) The Book of Four Gates 四門經 and Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos

17.00 Tianshu Yu (Peking University) and Haiying Liu (China Agricultural University) On Queen Hudijin: A Medea-like Chinese Woman in Guo Moruo’s Historical Play The Peacock’s Gallbladder

17.30 Jinyu Liu (DePauw University) Translation as Reception, Reception as Argument: Western Antiquity in China in the 1920s-1930s

17.30 Kuan-wu Lin (Freie Universität Berlin) The Revival of Greek Tragedies by Fusions with Eastern Theatre Traditions

18.00 Discussion 18.00 Discussion

18.45-20.00 Plenary Session
XII Round Table & Closing Remarks: Greco-Roman Antiquity in Chinese Discourse on Modernity
Axel Schneider (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Xin Fan (Freie Universität Berlin)
Almut-Barbara Renger (Freie Universität Berlin)
et al.

20.00 Social Dinner