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DESCRIPTION:BuYun Chen will present at the Global Middle Ages Seminar on Tu
 esday\, October 15\, at 6 pm. Her talk is entitled “Crafting\nCosmopolitan
 ism in Tang China (618–907).”\n\nFrom the sixth to eighth century\, trade 
 along the Silk\nRoads and imperial expansion into Central Asia filtered ne
 w goods\, technology\, and people into the\nfrontier towns and interior ci
 ties of the Tang empire (618–907). The trade yielded a\nprofound impact on
  the local production of luxury goods by introducing Tang artisans\nto a n
 ew stock of patterns\, colors\, and techniques from visual and material cu
 ltures west of\nthe empire. Focusing on silk design and production\, this 
 talk explores\nthe central role ornament played in exchanges between empir
 es and their\nsubjects and\, also\, in the aesthetic play of fashion durin
 g a dynamic period\nof global history.\n\nBuYun Chen is a historian who sp
 ecializes in the history of textile production\, fashion\, and craft techn
 ology\nin premodern China. She recently completed a book on the history of
  fashion\nduring the Tang dynasty\, titled Empire of Style: Silk and\nFash
 ion in Tang China (University of Washington\nPress). Her current research 
 explores how the circulation of raw\nmaterials\, finished goods\, and tech
 nical\nknowledge between China\, Japan\, and Southeast Asia shaped local c
 raft practices.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Crafting Cosmopolitanism in Tang China (618–9
 07)
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