An Ever-contested Poem：The Classic of Poetry's 'Hanyi' and the Sino-Korean History Debate
A talk by JAE-HOON SHIM（Fulbright Visiting Scholar）

Thursday, April 15, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
UCLA

Since 2003, the so-called “history war” over the ancient kingdom of Koguryŏ（37 BCE, trad.-668 CE）, located in Manchuria and northern Korea, has been one of the hottest issues between China and Korea. The dispute seems to have fueled a new nationalistic or Sinocentric historiography of ancient Manchuria. A ninth-century BCE poem “Hanyi” in the Classic of Poetry（Shijing）has also caused a far longer “history war.” Whereas Chinese scholars have generally understood the Han in the poem as a Zhou feudal state ruled by a Ji-surnamed scion of the Zhou Dynasty（1045-256 BCE）, most Korean scholars have linked the polity with Old Choson（n.d.-108 BCE）, the earliest known state in Korean history. However, comparing the “Hanyi” with several bronze inscriptions with similar contents, this research seeks to re-read the “Hanyi” from a perspective that transcends the dichotomy of Chinese history versus Korean history.

Jae-hoon Shim（Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 1998）is Associate Professor of Chinese History at Dankook University. He is currently a Fulbright Scholar at UCLA. Among Professor Shim's publications are（in English）："The Dilemma of Choson in Traditional Chinese Texts," Journal of Asian History 40/1（2006）, pp. 31-48 and "The Political Geography of Shanxi on the Eve of the Zhou Conquest of Shang：An Alternative Interpretation of the Establishment of Jin," T'oung Pao 88.1-3（2002）：1-26.

For more information please contact
Richard Gunde
Tel：（310）825-8683
gunde@ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/china

Signs from the Unseen Realm（Mingxiang ji）：A Collection of Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China
A Numata Colloquium Series talk by Professor Robert Campany, USC

Friday, April 16, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall

Just prior to 500 C.E., scholar-official Wang Yan compiled and circulated a collection of Buddhist miracle tales titled Mingxiang ji 冥祥記 or Signs from the Unseen Realm.  Around 130 tales from this once much larger text, plus Wang’s preface, survive.  In this talk I will first introduce the text and the larger miracle-tale genre to which it belongs.  I will then offer remarks on selected themes in the text that are of interest to historians of Buddhism, Chinese religions, and comparative religions.  One of these themes will be the relation, in general, between miracle tales and the social and religious networks that produce them.  Another will be the extent to which Mingxiang ji exemplifies the “sinification” of Buddhism—and what this might mean.

Cost：Free and Open to the Public

For more information please contact
Jennifer Jung-Kim
Tel：310-825-2089
jungkim@international.ucla.edu
http://www.international.ucla.edu/buddhist

Responsible Stakeholder or Revisionist Superpower? China and the World in the 21st Century
An all-day conference sponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, UCLA International Institute, and the Center for American Progress（CAP）.

Monday, May 24, 2010
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
James West Alumni Center

Cost：$25 - general admission; $10 - students with ID

Sponsor（s）：Burkle Center for International Relations, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for American Progress