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December 2026
Chinese Corner
Topics are tentative and subject to change. Friends and Friendship (9/11), My Most-Used Phone APP (9/18), Childhood Memories (9/25), The Ideal Pet (10/2), Colors and Culture (10/9), Celebrity Worship (10/16), Money and Spending Habit (10/23), A Message to My Future Self (10/30), Chinese Zodiac vs. Western Astrology (11/6), Health and Exercise (11/13), Three Must-Haves for Traveling (11/20), and the Art of Gift-Giving (12/4)
Find out more »Unified Variations: Reproducing Qin Imperial Edicts on Weights and Measures
This talk focuses on variations in Qin emperors’ edicts on weights and measures, which were installed and reinstalled on these objects to commemorate unification, mandate standardization, eulogize the dynastic progenitor, and affirm his successor’s authority. It argues that subtle differences among surviving examples expose a tension between the imperial center’s ideal of uniformity and local implementation. Although models of standardization originated at the center, their reproduction depended on officials and artisans in particular sites; the very objects that proclaimed uniformity…
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