Opening of the Research Center in Taiwan

Opening of the Research Center in Taiwan

03/12/2015 orient Events, News, Taiwan

On December 3, 2015, the Research Center of the Oriental Institute (Czech Academy of Sciences) at Academia Sinica in Taiwan (RCT) has been established. Prof. Wang Fan-sen, the vice-president of the Academia Sinica, Prof. Huang Chin-shing, the director of the Institute of History and Philology, and Dr. Beránek, the director of the Oriental...

<b>Lecture:</b> Charles Sanft (University of Tennessee)

Lecture: Charles Sanft (University of Tennessee)

11/05/2015 orient Events, News

1) Communication and Cooperation in Early Imperial China The talk draws from received history, the results of archaeological excavation, and current secondary scholarship to argue for the importance of non-coercive  government under the early empire. It argues that despite its reputation as a harsh and totalitarian regime, the Qin dynasty...