The Lone Guardian. Politics, Culture, and Society in China under the Yongzheng Emperor
6-7 July 2023
Thursday, 6 July 2023
10.15 – 10.30 Prefatory remarks (Phillip Grimberg & Federico Brusadelli)
10.30 – 12.00 Session 1
Lars Laamann (SOAS, London): “Huwaliyasun Tob huwangdi – Pater Familias of the Manchu Banners”
Dong Jianzhong (Renmin University, Beijing): “The Truth of Yongzheng’s Succession and its Positive Influence”
Hsi-yuan Chen (Academia Sinica, Taibei): “A Matter of Urgency: A Study on a Newly Discovered Archival File Concerning the Yongzheng Emperor’s Succession to the Throne”
12.00 – 12.30 Coffee break
12.30 – 14.00 Session 2
Ma Kexin (SOAS, London) “In Pursuit of Temporal Illusion: The Reproduction and Imitation of Antiquities under the Yongzheng Emperor (r. 1723-35)”
Kevin Lam (Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore): “The Emperor as Production Supervisor and Designer: Yongzheng and the Zaobanchu”
Phillip Grimberg (Erlangen University): “The Yongzheng Emperor’s ‘Pictures of Ancient Playthings’ (Guwantu) and Early Qing Antiquarianism”
14.00 – 15.30 Lunch break
15.30 – 17.00 Session 3
Harry Jiandang Tan (University of New England, Sydney): “Yongzheng’s Cosplay. The Early Expression of Chinese Political Cartoons” Anna Stecher (University of Naples): “Staging Aisin Gioro Yinzhen: The Mediatic Representation of the Yongzheng Emperor in the TV-Series The Yongzheng Dynasty (Yongzheng Wangchao, 1999)”
17.00 -17.30 Coffee break
17.30 – 19.00 Keynote (Pamela Crossley, Dartmouth College, Hanover)
20.00 Dinner
Friday, 7 July 2023
10.00 – 11.30 Session 4
Hu Minghui (UC Santa Cruz): “Geopolitical Dissolution of Barbarism in Yongzheng’s The Great Righteousness and the Awakening from Confusion (Dayi juemi lu)”
Juul van Eijk (Leiden University): “Compassionate Occupation: The Shift of the Manchu Garrison away from Lhasa and further Connection of Tibet with the Empire”
Daniel Knorr (Cambridge University): “A Local Legacy of Autocracy? Shandong’s Luoyuan Academy in and beyond the Yongzheng Reign“
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 13.30 Session 5
Donatella Guida, Anna Chiara Trapani (University of Naples L’Orientale): “Yongzheng through Matteo Ripa’s Eyes: A Tale of Power and Persecution”
Eugenio Menegon (Boston University): “Yongzheng’s Conundrum. The Emperor on Christianity, Religions, and Heterodoxy”
Agostino Sepe (Università per Stranieri di Siena): “Chinese Civilians beyond the Palisade: An Inquiry into the Opening of Northern Manchuria to Han Commoners in the Yongzheng Era”
13.30 – 14.00 Final Discussion
Palazzo Du Mesnil
Via Chiatamone 61/62
80121 Napoli
