SinoNet: Vortrag der Medizinhistorikerin Marta Hanson in Wien am kommenden Mittwoch

[Lena Springer]

*Liebe Sinonetter/innen,
Allen in Wien und Umgebung mo"chte ich einen Vortrag von Marta Hanson
empfehlen. Sie kommt na"chste von Montag bis Donnerstag nach Wien. Am
Mittwoch stellt sie am Mittwoch ab 18 Uhr ct am Institut f¨¹r Geschichte
Geda"chtnistechniken aus dem alten China vor. Sie funktionieren einfach
mit der Hand.
Bis bald - und ansonsten eine scho"ne Winterzeit!
*

*Lena
*

*7. Dezember: Marta HANSON (Johns Hopkins University)**
*"Understanding Is Within One's Grasp" (***ß|**È»**ÔÚ**ÎÕ Liaoran zai
wo): Hand Mnemonics and Chinese Arts of Memory**
*/Moderation: Lena Springer (Department of East Asian Studies) und
Marianne Klemun (Institut f¨¹r Geschichte)/

Abstract: In Chinese hand mnemonics the natural lines of the palm
represented squares where characters were conveniently recalled.
Illustrations of hands as tu (a diagram) represent both esoteric and
vernacular knowledge. The first appeared in the eighth century and
continue to the present. Hand mnemonics tell us what the Chinese
memorized, who memorized it, and where such memorized knowledge was
valued. After an overview of the range of Chinese hand mnemonics, I
focus on examples from 19th-century almanacs and some rare Chinese
manuscripts in the Staatsbibiliothek in Berlin.

Zur Person: Marta Hanson, Associate Professor, Department of the History
of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine,
mhanson4 at jhmi.edu, currently Visiting Research Fellow at the
International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, University of
Erlangen.
Hanson¡¯s first book was published this past July: /Speaking of Epidemics
in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late
Imperial China./ Needham Research Institute Series on East Asian
Science, Technology, and Medicine. London: Routledge Press, 2011.
Hanson¡¯s second book project is on Hand Mnemonics and Chinese Arts of
Memory. Her talk will be based on recent research related to this project.

Currently a visiting scholar at the 
International Consortium for Research in the Humanities University of Erlangen-N¨¹rnberg
Ulrich-Schalk-Str. 3a, 91056 Erlangen, Germany
http://ikgf.uni-erlangen.de/people/index.shtml/marta-hanson.shtml

Website & publications: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/martahanson/research/publications.htm  
Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415602532/


*Geschichte am Mittwoch - Geschichte im Dialog*

*Programm WS 2011/12*

Ort: Universita"t Wien - Institut f¨¹r Geschichte, HS 45
Zeit: Mittwoch, 18.00 c.t. - 20.00 Uhr

http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/htdocs/site/arti.php/90032

-- 
Lena Springer, Dr. phil.
University of Vienna
Department of East Asian Studies
Spitalgasse 2-4, Entrance 2.3
A-1090 Vienna
O +43-1-4277 43841
F +43-1-4277 43849
M +43-676-525 2292

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