Workshops on Li Chunfeng and on the Treatises in the official histories written in Tang China, 2012

Three one-day events

Text reading, a workshop on Li Chunfeng and a workshop
on the treatises in the official histories written in Tang China

organised by SAW members Karine Chemla, Damien Chaussende,  and Zhu Yiwen

Wednesday 28 November,  Thursday 29 November and Saturday 1 December,  2012

Université Paris Diderot – Bâtiment Condorcet

Programme –  PDF version with abstracts

  • Wednesday 28 November, 9:30 -12:30, room A 646 – Mondrian
    Howard L. Goodman

    Reading of an extract from the Lüli 律曆 (Pitchpipes and Calendar) chapter of the Jinshu 晉書
  • Thursday 29 November, room 366 A – Klimt
    Li Chunfeng 李淳風 (602-670), practitioner of mathematics and astral sciences at the Tang Court

9h15 – Karine Chemla, Introduction
9h30-10h15 – Zhu Yiwen, The Way of Writing Treatises on Harmonics and Calendars(Lü Li zhi 律曆志) in the 7th century China
10h45-11h30 – Howard L. Goodman, Li Chunfeng’s metrology: technical arts and scholarship in Xun Xu’s day and in Tang times
14h00-14h45 – Donald Harper, Medieval Chinese heaven and earth mirrors: Textual sources of Li Chunfeng’s Yisi zhan 乙巳占 (Yisi-year divination)
15h15-16h00 – Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud, Li Chunfeng as the Author of the Dunhuang Star Map?

          • Saturday 1 December, room Luc Valentin – 454A
            The treatises in the official histories written in Tang China

9h15 – Karine Chemla, Introduction
9h30-10h15 – Damien Chaussende, Les monographies selon le Traité de l’historien parfait (Shitong) de Liu Zhiji (661-721)
10h45-11h30 – Pablo Ariel Blitstein, Some reflections on the organization of knowledge in early Tang China: “compilations” in the bibliographical treatise of the Book of Sui
14h00-14h45 – Howard L. Goodman, Li Chunfeng’s organization of materials in the Suishu and Jinshu treatises on celestial and harmonic systems
15h15-16h00 – Li Liang, Astronomical tables in lülizhi  律历志: on the creation and adoption of licheng 立成
16h45-17h30 – Alexis Lycas, The Treatise on Geography in the Book of Sui (Suishu)

Each paper is followed by a 30 minute discussion.