Premodern Chinese literature as an archive of vernacular knowledge and everyday life culture

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Welcome & Opening

13:00 - 13:30 (30min)

Welcome & Opening

CLASSICAL VS./ VERNACULAR CULTURES

13:30 - 15:45 (2h15)

CLASSICAL VS./ VERNACULAR CULTURES

CHAIR: Elizabeth Smithrosser — DISCUSSANTS: Barbara Bisetto (Wu Feipeng) / Lu Zhenzhen (Wu Weihang) / Rainier Lanselle (Wu Yinghui)

› Mixing, Conflicting and Reconciling: The Characteristics of Knowledge in Vernacular Fictions by Ming and Qing Literati - Feipeng Wu, Wu Feipeng 13:30-14:15 (45min)

› Communication between literary tradition and vernacular culture in Pinhua baojian 品花寶鑑 (Precious Mirror for Judging Flowers), an archive of social intercourse between literati and male actor-courtesans - Weihang Wu, CRCAO, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE-PSL) 14:15-15:00 (45min)

› Xixiang ji as Popular Knowledge: Lyric and Visual Superfluity in The Western Wing with Red-Ink Commentary (Zhuding Xixiang ji 硃订西厢记) - Yinghui Wu, Yinghui Wu 15:00-15:45 (45min)

Break

15:45 - 16:00 (15min)

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SHIFTING FORMS OF VERNACULAR KNOWLEDGE

16:00 - 18:15 (2h15)

SHIFTING FORMS OF VERNACULAR KNOWLEDGE

CHAIR: Barbara Witt — DISCUSSANTS: Rainier Lanselle (Myhre Karin) / Wu Yinghui (Lu Zhenzhen) / Roland Altenburger (Elizabeth Smithrosser)

› Jokes as a site of social knowledge and historical consciousness: Some methodological pointers - Elizabeth Smithrosser, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden 16:00-16:45 (45min)

› Casual collections: Popular manuscript anthologies from Shandong - Zhenzhen Lu, Bates College 16:45-17:30 (45min)

› Mistaken Identity and the Representations of Performance in a Yuan Sanqu Song - Karin Myhre, Karin Myhre 17:30-18:15 (45min)

THE SOCIAL SELF: LOOKS AND CODES

12:45 - 15:45 (3h)

THE SOCIAL SELF: LOOKS AND CODES

CHAIR: Ruben Jesus Almendros Penaranda — DISCUSSANTS: Andrew Schonebaum (Roland Altenburger) — Chen Jiani (Wang Yiwen) / Roland Altenburger (Ning Xu) / Vincent Goossaert (Raffaela Rettinger)

› From everyday ritual to social skill: The etiquette of greeting gestures in three Ming novels - Roland Altenburger, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg [Wurtzbourg, Allemagne] 12:45-13:30 (45min)

› Clothing and Ornaments Writing in Huaben Stories and Rewriting Dramas - Yiwen Wang, Yiwen Wang 13:30-14:15 (45min)

› Tracing back Suzhou-hair: The Formation of the Female Hairdressing Business in the Vernacular Literature in Jiangnan - Ning XU, The University of Hong-Kong - Yeju CHEN, The University of Hong-Kong 14:15-15:00 (45min)

› Your Scars Tell — The Representation of Tattoos in the Shuihu zhuan - Raffaela Rettinger, Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet Wuerzburg 15:00-15:45 (45min)

Break

15:45 - 16:00 (15min)

Break

EVERYDAY LIFE AND CUSTOMS

16:00 - 18:15 (2h15)

EVERYDAY LIFE AND CUSTOMS

CHAIR: SJ Zanolini — DISCUSSANTS: Karin Myhre (Rubén Jesús Almendros Peñaranda) / Andrew Schonebaum (Chen Jiayi) / Barbara Bisetto (Barbara Witt)

› The Romance of Gambling in the Late Imperial Vernacular Stories - 16:00-16:45 (45min)

› The Household Servants of Lin Lan Xiang 林蘭香 - 16:45-17:30 (45min)

› Bribery and Corruption in Canton: The Circulation of Foreign Objects in the Early Nineteenth Century Novel Shenlou zhi 蜃樓志 - 17:30-18:15 (45min)

ETHICS AND VALUE SYSTEM

12:45 - 15:00 (2h15)

ETHICS AND VALUE SYSTEM

CHAIR: Wu Feipeng — DISCUSSANTS: Wu Yinghui (Chen Jiani) / Karin Myhre (Rainier Lanselle) / Vincent Goossaert (Zhu Shan)

› Juxtaposing the Refined with the Vulgar: Editing the World of Desire in Qinglou Yunyu - Jiani Chen, Sun Yat-Sen University 12:45-13:30 (45min)

› Ethics and the discourse on vernacular in Peach Blossom Fan - Rainier Lanselle, CRCAO, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE-PSL) 13:30-14:15 (45min)

› Trading of the Tomb's Trees: Funerary Ritual and its Literature Writing in Qi Lu Deng - Shan ZHU, Institute of literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS) 14:15-15:00 (45min)

Break

15:00 - 15:15 (15min)

Break

WAYS TO BETTER LIVES

15:15 - 17:30 (2h15)

WAYS TO BETTER LIVES

CHAIR: Zhu Shan — DISCUSSANTS: Lu Zhenzhen (Andrew Schonebaum / Roland Altenburger (Zanolini Sj) / Barbara Bisetto (Vincent Goossaert)

› Classifying Water in Early Modern China - Andrew Schonebaum, University of Maryland 15:15-16:00 (45min)

› Vernacular Narratives of Healthcare in the Eighteenth Century - SJ Zanolini, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine [Baltimore] 16:00-16:45 (45min)

› Spirit-writing records as an archive of spiritual knowledge and conversations in late imperial China - Vincent Goossaert, École pratique des hautes études 16:45-17:30 (45min)

General Discussion

17:45 - 19:00 (1h15)

General Discussion