DISCOVERING HISTORY
FROM THE FIELD:
A KNOWLEDGE ARCHAEOLOGY ON FOLK LITERATURE,
LEGENDS, AND TALES
Lecture by
ZHAO SHIYU
Professor of History
Beijing Normal University
Thursday, April 26, 2007
2:00-3:30 PM
4217 Posvar Hall
Zhao Shiyu is Professor of History at Beijing Normal University. A leading authority on Ming-Qing history, popular religion, and folklore studies in China, Professor Zhao has published eight books and numerous articles in both Chinese and English. He is the vice president of the National Folklore Society in China, a council member of several major scholarly associations in China and has been in charge of a number of China’s national programs of social sciences and humanities.
Sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies at Pitt, the Asian Studies Center of the University Center for International Studies, and the Departments of Modern Languages and History at Carnegie-Mellon University
