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Longtime Association for Asian Studies member Harriet Zurndorfer passed away on 18 March 2026 in Leiden. Harriet arrived at Berkeley to study Chinese history in the late 1960s. Her supervisor, Frederic Wakeman, would go on to have a major influence on the trajectory of her academic career. On Wakeman’s suggestion, Harriet spent time in Cambridge […]

Cambridge Core - East Asian History - Mind and Psychology in Early China

The Journal of the American Oriental Society (ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the American Oriental Society.

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

Community members joined The Landing for speeches and performances to celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility.

The humanities are not a luxury, they are essential. It is time for the university and the government to reflect that reality in their budgetary decisions.

本課程是作為台大歷史系中國史的進階課程，修課學生在大一中國史必修課程的基礎上的選修斷代史。魏晉南北朝史作為一門斷代史，是中國史自身的學科分類。其標準年代是從漢末「三國」形成至隋統一中國，即 189 年董卓軍團攻陷首都洛陽至 589 年隋文帝征服南朝之陳，恰好四百年。當然，在授課時，時代的區分不會如此一刀兩斷，重點會置於漢（帝國）的崩潰與隋（帝國）的成立，故相關課題也會列入討論。課程為教師演講。有二...