Hevia is a specialist in late imperial Chinese history and has written books about the British Empire in Asia and looting, and it is because of his research in the latter that hes coming to speak on the British looting of the Qing Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) for my cultural property seminar. You may be familiar with the bronze heads on the attached poster from Ai Weiweis contemporary (larger) Zodiac heads currently on display in the CMA. The Afterlife of Ruins: The Yuanmingyuan in China and the West James Hevia Department of History University of Chicago Wednesday, Nov 13, 4:30-6pm Classroom I of the Art Building Sponsored by the Art History Baldwin Fund, East Asian Studies, and the David R. Moore Memorial Lectureship Fund, Department of History If youre interested in dinner with Hevia, there are a few spaces open for colleagues to come chat with him. Please let me know if you would like to join us (ca. 6:30pm). A link to his page: history.uchicago.edu/directory/james-hevia
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