
The Tactile and Playful World of Tang Fashion
by BuYun Chen, Associate Professor of History at Swarthmore College
Thursday, April 14, 6–7 pm
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BuYun Chen is the author of Empire of Style: Silk and Fashion in Tang China (University of Washington Press, 2019). Her current research explores the relationship between craft production and statecraft practices in the independent Ryukyu Kingdom (modern-day Okinawa, Japan) from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. She is an external faculty fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center this academic year.
Image: Dame au chignon, mid-8th century. Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, Paris. bpk / RMN - Grand Palais / Roger Asselberghs.