Tagged: China

Tao in the Core

July 5, 2016 at 10:36 am

We had a brief Taoist chat in CAS 119 this morning. Where else but the Core office? A summer student had stopped by, asking for directions to the ISSO office. We directed him to his destination, and he thanked us, but as he turned to leave he noticed the framed calligraphy painting on the wall. […]

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Trip to the Peabody-Essex Museum

March 21, 2012 at 4:46 pm

Professor Zhou in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature has offered to include Core students in a trip to the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem. The trip will take place this Saturday, March 24. The Peabody-Essex Museum has a well known collection of Chinese and Asian art, highlighted by a Chinese house that was […]

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Happy Year of the Rabbit!

February 3, 2011 at 1:18 pm

In the coming weeks, you’re going to see more posts from Core lecturers and faculty here on the Core blog, as we find ways to share part of the Core classroom experience with you readers. Prof. Eckel invited Prof. Wiebke Denecke — who lectured this past Tuesday on Confucius for the students of CC102 — […]

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Fresh Ink at the MFA

January 27, 2011 at 1:10 pm

The current exhibition “Fresh Ink” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston combines the old and the new in Chinese ink paintings. In this dialogue between the contemporary and the classical, leading artists from China were invited to create new works inspired by the MFA’s classical collection. The new works and the masterpieces they […]

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