The SNU Institute of Humanities HK Civilization Research Project and The Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies will be jointly hosting the 11^th Civilization Research Symposium on “Travel and Translation: Writing China after Matteo Ricci, 1600-1800”. We await the participation of all those who are interested in this symposium, where there will be a variety of in-depth discussions on traveling and translation with a focus on Matteo Ricci.

▶ Topic: Travel and Translation: Writing China after Matteo Ricci, 1600-1800
▶ Date and Time
   ㆍThursday, June 3^rd, 2010. 2:00 ∼ 5:00 PM
   ㆍFriday, June 4^th, 2010. 10:00 ∼ 5:00 PM

▶ Venue: Seminar Room at Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies (Bldg. 103, Rm. 112)

[Program]
▶ Thursday, June 3^rd, 2010. 2:00 ∼ 5:00 PM
Session I. Translating China: Travel Narratives and Other Discourses
Moderator: Yung Sik Kim
ㆍDutch Travels to and Translations of China: Nieuhof’s Account of the 1655 East India Company Embassy Laura Hostetler (University of Illinois at Chicago)
ㆍ‘Postponed Reciprocity’: How Did a Korean Traveler Portray His Encounter with the Westerners in Early Eighteenth-Century Beijing?
Jongtae Lim (Seoul National University)
ㆍThe Wealth of the Chinese Nation: Adam Smith’s Economic Imaginations of China
Jeng-Guo Chen (Academia Sinica)

▶ Friday, June 4^th, 2010. 10:00 a.m. ∼ 12:00 p.m.
Session II. Reading Maps, Mapping Texts: Formal Translations
ㆍMatteo Ricci’s World Maps in Late Ming Discourse of Exotica
Qiong Zhang (Wake Forest University)
ㆍNovel/Topograph: Robinson Crusoe and the Great Wall of China
Eun Kyung Min (Seoul National University)

▶ Friday, June 4^th, 2010. 2:00 ∼ 5:00 PM
Session III. Styles of Difference: Trade, Travel, Translation
ㆍ‘To Rival Oriental Splendor’: Clockwork and the Dissemination of Artistic Style between China and Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Catherine Pagani (University of Alabama)
ㆍConversion, Translation, Chinoiserie
Chi-ming Yang (University of Pennsylvania)