2007 Events
Presented by the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim
 The Lotus & The Cross
East-West Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road
Exhibition (online)
September 20 to October 5, 2007
Del Santo Reading Room, Lone Mountain Campus
University of San Francisco
(Directions to USF)
(2800 Turk between Masonic & Parker)
Lecture
by Dr. Ken Parry
Thursday, September 20, 2007
5:45 p.m., Room LM100
Symposium
Friday, September 21, 2007
8 a.m.- 5:00 p.m., Room LM100
(Registration required)
Advance registration for the symposium is suggested, as seating will be limited. Please click here to download a registration form. (You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open, view and/or download the registration form. Click to download a free Adobe Reader.)
About the Exhibition and Symposium:
This is an exhibition of large-format photographs of stone tombstones from Fujian province in South China and stone crosses from Kerala state in South India, presenting some of the surviving archaeological evidence for early Eastern Christian presence in India and China. Written records and inscriptions show that between the fourth and seventh centuries Christians from the Middle East undertook trade and missionary work using the overland routes to China and the maritime spice route to India. The tombstones from Fujian belong to so-called “Nestorian” Christians who settled in South China during the Mongol Period (1272-1368), while the stone crosses from Kerala belong to various Syrian Christian communities, the earliest dated to the eighth century. A common iconographic motif to be seen on these remains from both continents is the mounting of the cross on the lotus flower.
The photographer and curator of the exhibition is Dr. Ken Parry. The photos were the result of an Australian Research Council-funded project based in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University. The exhibition has already been seen in Sydney (2003), Salzburg (2003), Kerala (2003), London (2004) and Ankara (2005).
Lecture and Exhibition are free and open to the public. Reservations recommended for Lecture.
For information, call 415-422-6401 or Email ricci@usfca.edu
Co-sponsored by USF Center for the Pacific Rim and EDS-Stewart Chair at the USF Ricci Institute.
The Lotus & the Cross: East -West Cultural Exchange Along the Silk Road 600 to 1500 CE
Seminar Schedule (as of September 19, 2007)
Friday, September 21, 2007, Room LM100
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| 8:00– 8:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast & Registration, Room LM100 |
8:30– 8:40 a.m. |
Welcome
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Xiaoxin Wu, EdD, Director, USF Ricci Institute
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Lauren Arnold, Research Associate, USF Ricci Institute
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8:40– 10:20 a.m. |
Panel #1: Early Silk Road Exchange ca. 600 CE
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Bonnie Cheng, Oberlin College
From Commerce to Community: Visualizing Cultural Exchange in the Sarcophagus of Shi Jun of 579 CE
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Al Dien, Stanford University (Emeritus)
Religious Syncretism in Central Asia: The Sogdian Case
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Mark Hall, Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Glass as Evidence of East-West Trade
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10:20– 10:40 a.m. |
Break, Room LM100 |
10:40 – 12:00 p.m. |
Panel #2: Religious & Cultural Interaction by 1250 CE
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Huaiya Chen, University of the West, Rosemead, CA
When Nestorianism Met Esoteric Buddhism in 8th-Century China
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John M. Thompson, Christopher Newport University, Va
The Stupa—Place of Meeting(s) Sacred and Profane
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12:00– 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch, Room LM100, Symposium Group Photo, Tour of the Ricci Institute and Exhibit |
1:30– 3:20 p.m. |
Panel #3: East-West Synchrony by 1500 CE
- Lauren Arnold, USF Ricci Institute, San Francisco, CA
Oriental Carpets in Late-Song Paintings: The Case for Their Embedded Christian Symbolism
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Jason BeDuhn, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Nestorians & Manichaeans in China: A Luminous Rivalry
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Zsuzsanna Gulacsi, Northern Arizona University
A Chinese Manichaean Portrait of the Buddha Jesus (I-shu Fo Cheng)
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3:20– 4:00 p.m. |
Summation: Ken Parry |
| 4:00– 4:45 p.m. |
Refreshments and Tours of the Exhibition |
For more information, Please contact
Lauren Arnold • Research Associate • The Ricci Institute • University of San Francisco • 2130 Fulton Street, LM 280
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080 • Tel: (415) 422-6401 • Fax: (415) 422-2591 • e-mail: laurenarnold@cs.com
The Ricci Institute at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim is an interdisciplinary research center that promotes the
study of historical cross-cultural encounters and dialogues between China and the West. The Institute facilitates and engages in research on the history of Chinese-Western cultural exchange and the history of Christianity in China through scholarly research, programs, publications, conferences, and public events.
Presented by the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim
 Christianity & Cultures
Japan & China in Comparison (1543-1644)
Thursday, September 13, 2007
5:45 p.m., Room LM100
Lone Mountain Campus
University of San Francisco
(Directions to USF)
(2800 Turk between Masonic & Parker)
A lecture and presentation exploring the Jesuit missions in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Fr. M. Antoni J. Üçerler is a lecturer in East Asian studies and comparative history at Campion Hall, University of Oxford and a corresponding member of the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome. He is also a visiting fellow of the EDS-Stewart Chair at the Ricci Institute at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim.
Free and open to the public. Reservations recommended.
For information, call 415-422-6401 or Email ricci@usfca.edu
Co-sponsors: USF President’s Office, USF Jesuit Community, Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought, The Japan Society of Northern California, USF Center for the Pacific Rim, EDS-Stewart Chair at the USF Ricci Institute
The Ricci Institute at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim and the Lifemark Group present
Medicine & Culture: Chinese-Western Medical Exchange (1644 - ca.1950)
Friday, March 9, 2007
University of San Francisco
(Directions to USF)
Lone Mountain Campus, LM100
(2800 Turk between Masonic & Parker)
Please click here to download a registration form. (You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open, view and/or download the registration form. Click to download a free Adobe Reader.)
For information, call 415-422-6401 or
Email ricci@usfca.edu
The symposium will be an examination of the interaction between China and the West through medicine and pharmacology from the Qing dynasty through the early 1950s. The aim of the symposium is to provide a forum for the examination of themes related to this interaction, such as: social and cultural roles, social reform, education, cultural exchange, encounters with Christianity, relations of power, modernity, and issues of race and gender.
Featured speakers include:
Keynote: Marta Hanson, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Jesuits & Medicine in China at the Qing Imperial Court
Qiong Zhang, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Larissa Heinrich, University of New South Wales; Bridie Andrews Minehan, Bentley College; Michelle Renshaw, University of Adelaide; Shang-Jen Li, Academia Sinica; Hugh Shapiro, University of Nevada; Cristina Zaccarini, Adelphi University; Tina Phillips Johnson, St. Vincent College
AGENDA
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| 8:15 – 8:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
8:30 – 8:45 a.m. |
Welcome
- Xiaoxin Wu, EdD, Director, USF Ricci Institute
- Melissa Dale, PhD, Assistant Director for Research, USF Ricci Institute
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8:45 – 10:30 a.m. |
Panel #1: Conceptualizing Mind and Body: East and West
(20 min./paper, 15 min. for discussant, 30 min. open discussion)
Chair/Discussant: Marta Hanson, Assistant Professor, History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
- Qiong Zhang, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Hybridity and Ambiguity: The Concept of Xin (Heart/Mind) in Wang Honghan’s Yixue yuanshi (Origins of Medicine 1692)
- Daniel Asen, PhD Student, Modern Chinese History, Columbia University
Visual Representation of the Body in Illustrations of the Manchu Anatomy
- Larissa Heinrich, Lecturer in Chinese Studies, Department of Chinese and Indonesian Studies, University of New South Wales
Using Visual Culture in the Study of Western Medical Missionaries in China: Examples from The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body Between China and the West
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10:30 – 10:50 a.m. |
Break |
10:50 – 12:35 p.m. |
Panel #2: Practicing Western Medicine in Late Imperial China
(20 min./paper, 15 min. for discussant, 30 min. open discussion)
Chair/Discussant: Brian Dolan, PhD, Professor, Social Medicine and Medical Humanities, UCSF School of Medicine
- Bridie Andrews Minehan, History Department, Bentley College
What Missionary Doctors Learned from the Chinese
- Michelle Renshaw, Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Adelaid
Missionary Medicine in China: Peter Parker’s Practice
- Shang-Jen Li, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute and Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Moral Economy of Health: John Dudgeon on Hygiene in China
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12:35 – 1:10 p.m. |
Buffet Lunch |
1:10 – 1:30 p.m. |
Tour of the Ricci Institute |
1:30 – 4:30 p.m. |
Panel #3: Linguistic Hybridity and Medical Reform
(20 min./paper, 15 min. for discussant, 40 min. open discussion )
Chair/Discussants:
Melissa Dale, PhD, Assistant Director for Research, USF Ricci Institute
John Sikorski, MD, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF
- David Luesink, PhD student, Department of History, University of BritishColumbia
Translating Medicine in China, 1916-1917: The first two meetings of the Medical Terms Investigation Committee
- Hugh Shapiro, Associate Professor, History Department, University of Nevada
Making the Diagnosis: nosological conundrums in early 20th-century Chinese hospitals
- Cristina Zaccarini, Associate Professor, History Department, Adelphi
University
The Sinification of Western Medicine in the Nanking Decade
- Tina Phillips Johnson, Assistant Professor, Department of History, St. Vincent College
Childbirth Reform in Early Twentieth-Century China: Marion Yang and the First National Midwifery School
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4:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Summing Up & Closing Remarks |
Co-sponsoring with UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, and USF Center for the Pacific Rim, the Ricci Institute and the Lifemark Group present
Jesuits & Medicine in China
at the Qing Imperial Court
Keynote public lecture for Friday, March 9 symposium:
Medicine & Culture: Chinese-Western Medical Exchange (1644 -ca. 1950)
See below or click on title for details.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
5:45 PM - 7:00 PM
University of San Francisco
(Directions to USF)
Lone Mountain Campus,
Del Santo Reading Room
(2800 Turk between Masonic & Parker)
What kind of healing took place in the Qing imperial court during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor (r.1662-1722)? Chinese physicians offered acupuncture, moxibustion, massage, and medicinal tonics. Yet, the Emperor disliked Chinese acupuncture, loathed the smell of mugwort, would never get a massage, scoffed at Taoist longevity practices, and expressed skepticism of southern tonics and restoratives. He was curious about 'Western medicine' and the scientific knowledge of Jesuits in his court. From the Jesuits would come 'Jesuit’s bark', tonic wines, brandy, the surgeon’s scalpel, and an anatomical view of the human body.
According to the 1698 account of the French Jesuit Joachim Bouvet, the Emperor had become interested in Western medicine only after a member of their group had successfully used 'Jesuit's bark/Cinchona' (modern-day quinine) to cure the Emperor of a malignant fever he had contracted during one of his southern tours in 1692. In response to this quinine-healing episode, Kangxi ordered a Manchu translation of Western
medicinal substances and even had a Jesuit botanist and pharmacist travel with him on some of his tours. The result of this initial interest in Western medicine would reach fruition about a quarter century later in the early 1720s with several copies of illustrated Western anatomy texts in Manchu.
Reading the writings of the Jesuits and the Kangxi Emperor on medicine together provides a unique window on the medical pluralism, the Chinese-Western exchange of therapies, concepts, and images of the body, and the range of therapies practiced within the Manchu court of the early Qing dynasty.
Keynote Speaker: Marta Hanson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Prof. Hanson holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in the History and Sociology of Science. She has written numerous articles on medical regionalism, gender and medicine, and Manchu medical sources in late imperial China. Her book manuscript is titled Speaking of Epidemics: New Genres and Currents of Learning in Qing Medicine.
For information, call 415-422-6401 or e-mail ricci@usfca.edu.
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