講 題：“An Icon of ... What? Another Visit to Wang Xizhi’s Xingrangtie”
主講人：Martin Kern (Professor of Chinese Literature, Princeton University)
日 時：March 2(Mon), 2009, at 16:00~
會 場：Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USA.
內容簡介：
Since early Tang times, Wang Xizhi’s (303-361) Xingrangtie, or Prayer Ritual for a Good Harvest, has been a tiny yet monumental cultural icon. However, Prayer Ritual, now housed in the Princeton University Art Museum, is an unlikely candidate to carry such weight. A paper slip of 24.4 x 8.9 cm and its partly unintelligible text of 15 characters seems trivial: It is one half of a letter but poorly matching the known other half in style, and it is not an original but an anonymous copy made some three centuries later. What is it an icon of?
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