Terra Cotta Warriors and Ink-Brush Poets:
Divergent Figures of the Emperor's Service
a Washington D.C. Association Road Scholars Event
featuring Dr. Carl Robertson, Associate Professor of Chinese
Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010
Lunch Presentation: 12 p.m.
Terra Cotta Warrior Exhibit Tour: 3 p.m.
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Carl Robertson takes to the road to explore understandings of Chinese culture from the perspective of the emperor and the poet and provide a context for viewing the terra cotta warriors and horses exhibit at the National Geographic Museum. After the lunch presentation we will walk .8 miles to the museum for a tour of the Terra Cotta Warrior Exhibit. Tickets to the event are $25 each and include lunch and admission to the museum.
| | Lecture Summary: The First Emperor of China established an authoritarian regime based on
ideas of human control that had never been practiced in China before.
By the time of his death he had wrestled complete dominion over a land
that was previously chaotic and ungoverned. His funerary attendants,
of which the terra cotta warriors are only distant outliers, signify a
total control of all cosmic and earthly power. From then on government
practiced control of personal
expression and belief, to which poet/scholars responded with implied
and subtle criticisms. The poets provided figures in written texts,
not unlike the unblinking service of the clay warriors, but with an
assertion of personal identity which stood as a counter-statement to
imperial authority. |
Please RSVP by Wednesday, February 17, by clicking the Registration button above.
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| Contact Information | Daniel Webb '08 Southwestern Universtiy 1001 E. University Ave. 800-960-6363 | |
| | | Date & Location | Date: February 20, 2010
Time: 12:00 PM
Lunch Presentation - 12 p.m., City Lights of China Restaurant
1731 Connecticut Avenue NW
Terra Cotta Warrior Exhibit - 3 p.m., National Geographic Museum,
1145 17th Street, NW
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