Hi, my name is Mark Frank, and I’m a historian of China in a world context. I just finished my Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures at UIUC in August, and this year I’m a postdoctoral associate in the Environmental Humanities of East Asia at Yale University.
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Soboku-e “Innocent Paintings,” the Art of Artlessness, and Mindful Art JournalingDate: Apr 30, 2021
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm CT
Speaker: “Mew” Lingjun Jiang, University of Chicago
Registration: https://bit.ly/3uzY43S
Chi Lung Kang Endowed Lecture Series "China and the Conditions of Spatial Revolution: The Birth of the Twentieth Century"Date: Apr 21, 2021, 7:30 pm CT
Speaker: Prof. WANG Hui
Registration: https://bit.ly/39UH4xw
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