DATE: Tuesday, December 2

TIME: 7 p.m.

LOCATION: Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall, University of Washington

Sponsored by the China Studies Program, East Asia Center, and University of Washington Press.

MORE: Emperor Huizong amassed an incredible collection of art during the Song dynasty (960-1279 CE), and his
catalogues list over 9,000 items. The tiny fraction that survive today are among the masterpieces of Chinese art. Ebrey explores Huizong's collections and places them in
both political and art historical context, showing that the acts of adding to and cataloguing the imperial collections
were political ones.

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