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DESCRIPTION:Heping Liu will be coming to speak in the Seminar in\nComparati
 ve Medieval Material Culture (China\, Islam\, Europe) Wednesday\, March\n1
 0\, 2010\, on “Hydraulic Engineering\, Emperorship\, and Ecology in 10th a
 nd 11th\nCentury China: Evidence from the Visual Arts”\n\nHeping Liu is as
 sociate professor of Asian art history at\nWellesley College.  Born in Chi
 na and among the first post-Cultural\nRevolution college students\, Profes
 sor Liu received his B.A. in English in 1982\nfrom Guangzhou Institute of 
 Foreign Languages (China). He came to the United\nStated in 1986 to pursue
  graduate study in art history\, respectively at\nSouthern Methodist Unive
 rsity (M.A. 1988)\, University of California at Berkeley\n(1988–90)\, and 
 Yale University (M.A. 1991\, M.Phil.1995\, Ph.D. 1997). Among his\nmany aw
 ards are a graduate assistantship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\n(1987
 )\, Starr\, Rockefeller\, and Ford foundation fellowships and grants from
 \nAsian Cultural Council (1989–93)\, an Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fell
 owship\n(1995)\, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2002
 )\, and several\nWellesley faculty research grants.Professor Liu’s researc
 h focuses on art and society in\nNorthern Song dynasty China (960–1126). H
 is major publications include “The\nWater-Mill and Northern Song Imperial 
 Patronage of Art\, Commerce\, and\nScience” in Art Bulletin (2002)\, “Empr
 ess Liu’s Icon of Maitreya:\nPortraiture and Privacy at the Early Song Cou
 rt” in Artibus Asiae (2003)\,\nand “Juecheng: An Indian Buddhist Monk Pain
 ter in Early 11th-Century Chinese\nCourt” in Journal of Inner Asian Art an
 d Archaeology (2007). He is\ncurrently working on a book project entitled\
 , Painting and Empire in Early\nSong Dynasty China\, 960-1063.Dr. Liu will
  speak about 'Hydraulic Engineering\,\nEmperorship\, and Ecology in 10th a
 nd 11th Century China: Evidence from the\nVisual Arts.' Tenth and eleventh
 -century China saw a “revolution in science\nand technology” through a sys
 tematic experimental investigation of nature or\nexploitation of natural r
 esources. The main driving force was the government.\nThe emperor and his 
 court officials defined which technology was emblematic of\nimperial power
  and which resources commanded state control and enhanced its\nimage and p
 restige. Hydraulic engineering was such an imperial technology\nemployed t
 o align political and economic interests\, as in the utilization of\nwater
  resources\, flood control\, and other imperial hydraulic\nprojects. Such 
 exploitation raised environmental concerns. This seminar\ntalk examines th
 e contemporary political and scientific discourse and surviving\nevidence 
 of court-sponsored pictures of water mills\, flood control\, hydraulic\nas
 tronomical clocks\, and landscape and explores how all things were\ninterr
 elated and produced as representations of emperorship in service to the\np
 ublic good.Please join us in the Lecture Hall at 38 West 86th Street\,\nbe
 tween Columbus Ave and Central Park West\, at 5:45pm for a reception befor
 e\nthe talk.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Hydraulic Engineering\, Emperorship\, and Eco
 logy in 10th and 11th Century China:
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