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Localizing Exotics in Early China

Dr. Lillian Lan-ying Tseng, Associate Professor of East Asian Art and Archaeology at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin, visits the National Arts Club to speak about artifacts from the Han Dynasty, the second imperial dynasty of China. While exploring the conflation of globalization and localization through newly excavated objects from Princely Tombs in Han, China, she focuses upon its formative stage in the second and first centuries BCE.

Dr. Tseng examines how ancient cultures encountered and interacted with one another. The roles media, motifs, and contexts played in the process of transmission and transformation is also discussed.











When: Thu., Apr. 14, 2022 at 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Dr. Lillian Lan-ying Tseng, Associate Professor of East Asian Art and Archaeology at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin, visits the National Arts Club to speak about artifacts from the Han Dynasty, the second imperial dynasty of China. While exploring the conflation of globalization and localization through newly excavated objects from Princely Tombs in Han, China, she focuses upon its formative stage in the second and first centuries BCE.

Dr. Tseng examines how ancient cultures encountered and interacted with one another. The roles media, motifs, and contexts played in the process of transmission and transformation is also discussed.

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