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SUMMARY:Early China Seminar Lecture Series: “Coining Chinese Civilization: The Emergence of Civilizational Consciousness in Early China”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Uffe Bergeton\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\nTime: September 20\, 2019 (4:30-6:30 PM)\nLocation: Faculty House (*please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information) \nDrawing on his book The Emergence Of Civilizational Consciousness In Early China: History Word By Word (Routledge\, 2019)\, Uffe Bergeton’s presentation traces the emergence of civilizational consciousness in pre-Qin China. He approaches this question in ways that establish a fresh hermeneutical dialogue between ancient Chinese and modern European concepts of ‘civilization.’ New mappings of diachronic changes in the meanings of Old Chinese words are used to determine when pre-Qin thinkers first began to think of themselves as belonging to a ‘civilization.’ Beyond the word wen 文\, which is sometimes translated into English as culture or civilization\, semantic histories of other key terms\, such as yi 夷 and Xia 夏\, are also proposed. The key argument is that a language-specific form of civilizational consciousness took shape around the middle of the first millennium BCE when the word wen was coined (or lexicalized) in the meaning ‘civility/civilization’ and a contrast between the ‘great ones’ (Xia) and the ‘civilizationally inferior others’ (yi) emerged. \nRequest Pre-circulated Paper \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/early-china-seminar-lecture-series-coining-chinese-civilization-the-emergence-of-civilizational-consciousness-in-early-china/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York City\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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