HARVARD
VISUAL CHINA
A GSAS Student Organization
A Symposium
Haihunhou: The Tomb of the Emperor
Who Reigned Only 27 Days
Apr 3, 2017 | CGIS South Building S30, Harvard Univesrity
9 am - 4 pm
Organized by Harvard Visual China: A GSAS Student Organization
Sponsored by the Rockefeller Fund, Department of History of Art and Architecture
Tomb of the Marquis of Haihun | Report to the Imperial Court |
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Gold Inlaid Bronze Horse Frontlet | Ceramic Mingqi Tripod |
Jade Carving of A Mystic Beast |
The Tomb of the Marquis of Haihun belonged to Liu He 劉賀 (92-59 B.C.), a grandson of Emperor Wu of Han and the ninth emperor of the Western Han. Far from living a life of imperial glory, Liu He was deposed only 27 days after his enthronement for committing 1127 immoral misconducts and was exiled to the Haihun Kingdom in present day Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. Throughout his tumultuous life, Liu He went from being a prince to a king, then from an emperor to a commoner, and eventually died as the Marquis of the Haihun Kingdom.
Excavated in 2015, the Tomb of the Marquis of Haihun was immediately chosen as one of China’s Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries in 2015 for its extraordinary degree of preservation and the extent of its contents. The tomb yielded more than 10,000 pieces of well-preserved burial goods including bronze, lacquer wares, jade, gold, and bamboo slips with written texts, etc. Many of the excavated artifacts have never been seen before, including a lacquered dressing mirror with the earliest known portrait of Confucius and the Qi version of the Analects, which had been lost for more than 1,800 years.
The present forum, Haihunhou: The Tomb of the Emperor Who Reigned Only 27 Days, aims to bring together specialists for a conversation on these groundbreaking discoveries. The forum consists of two lectures by the leading archaeologists of the tomb, Jun Yang 楊軍 and Zhongli Zhang 張仲立, and a talk by Eugene Wang, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art Chinese, followed by a specialist discussion panel on issues of archaeology, art history, and intellectual history that the Tomb of the Marquis of Haihun has brought to the fore.
Schedule:
9AM - 9:15AM Opening Remark by Professor Eugene Wang
9:15AM - 12PM Key Note Lectures
Yang Jun 楊軍: Discovering Haihunhou: Underground Splendor of the Western Han Marquis
Zhang Zhongli 張仲立: Archaeology of the Tomb of Liu He, the Marquis of Haihun: Some Thoughts on the Burial System
Commentator: Nanfeng Jiao 焦南峰, Sha'anxi Academy of Archaeology
12PM - 1PM Lunch Break
1PM - 1:30PM Moderator's Speech
Eugene Wang: What Was Confucius Doing in Someone Else's Tombs?
1:30PM - 3:45PM Panel Discussion
Miranda Brown, University of Michigan
Constance Cook, Lehigh University
Guolong Lai 來國龍, University of Florida
Michael Puett, Harvard University
James Robson, Harvard University
Wu Hung 巫鴻, University of Chicago
3:45 - 4PM Closing Remarks