British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Elsley Zeitlyn Lectures on Chinese Archaeology and Culture
This lecture series was endowed through a bequest from Miss Myrtle Henrietta Zeitlyn, in memory of her father Elsley Zeitlyn. The lectures are intended to promote understanding and appreciation of Chinese archaeology, art and music. The lecture was first delivered in 2001.
ELSLEY ZEITLYN LECTURES
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2011 Between One and Many: Interpreting Large Numbers in the Buddhist Art of China, Hsueh-Man Shen
2009 Timely Images: Chinese Art and Festival Display, by Jan Stuart
2008 Buddhist Archaeology in Republican China: a New Relationship to the Past, by Sarah E Fraser
2007 Artists and Craftsmen in the Late Bronze Age of China (Eighth to Third Centuries BC): Art in Transition, by Alain Thote
2006 Qianlong's Pluralist Aesthetics: Writing a History of Buddhist Art in 18th Century China, by Patricia Berger
2005 The Inscribed Bronzes from Yangjiacun: New Evidence on Social Structure and Historical Consciousness in Late Western Zhou China (c.800 BC), by Lothar von Falkenhausen
2004 The Prehistory of Chinese Music Theory, by Robert Bagley
2003 Carving Sutras into Stone before the Catastrophe: The Inscription of 1118 at Cloud Dwelling Monastery near Beijing, by Lothar Ledderose
2002 Cultural Interaction between China and Central Asia during the Bronze Age, by Jianjun Mei
2001 The Origins of Chinese Mountain Painting: Evidence from Archaeology, by Jessica Rawson