演讲题目：China’s 19th century in 300 objects: Co-designing the exhibition 晚清百态 at the British Museum
演讲人：英国国家学术院院士,伦敦大学教授 蓝诗玲（Julia Lovell）
主持人：清华大学外文系主任 吴霞
时 间：2023年10月23日（周一）15:00
地 点：文南楼116
演讲人介绍：
Julia Lovell (Fellow of British Academy) is professor of modern Chinese history and literature at Birkbeck, University of London. She has translated many works of Chinese fiction into English, including for Penguin Classics Monkey King: Journey to the West and The Real Story of Ah Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun. She co-designed the 2023 British Museum exhibition ‘China’s Hidden Century’ 晚清百态.
内容概要：
This lecture will focus on Professor Lovell’s recent work co-designing the 2023 British Museum exhibition on late Qing history, 晚清百态. It will analyse the aims and focuses of the exhibition: the challenges of presenting a very complex and controversial period of Chinese history to diverse audiences, from both the West and from China. In particular, it will discuss how the exhibition chose its themes, and how it tried to combine understandings of history from both documentary and material culture. It will focus on how the exhibition strove to balance the big histories of politics, war and imperial aggression towards China, with the stories of resilient individuals who lived through this turbulent period of Chinese history. It will explain the complex negotiations that such an exhibition involves between different departments of the British Museum, to illuminate museum culture in Britain, and the impact of the pandemic on the project. Finally, it will discuss responses to the exhibition in China and in Anglophone countries, and continuities and change in historical understandings of the late Qing period.
特别提示：
从2023年10月12日起，清华大学“人文名家讲堂”系列活动列入《文化素质教育讲座》课程，并按该课程要求举办，希望获得讲座课程学分的本科生携带学生IC卡刷卡入场，欢迎其他师生光临旁听，入场时间为当日14:30。根据《北京市消防条例（2011修订）》相关规定，为确保安全，入场人数控制在50人，额满即止。
