The First Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium speaker of the 2017-18 year, Associate Professor Guolong Lai from the University of Florida will be giving a guided reading of "King Jian Dispels the Drought" (柬大王泊旱) on September 8, 2017. His talk will be entitled “Excessive Cult or Proper Ritual? Religious Boundaries and Imperial Politics as seen from a Shanghai Manuscript”

At each session one participant presents a text in classical or literary Chinese. Attendees discuss historical, literary, linguistic, and all other aspects of the text, and work together to resolve difficulties in comprehension and translation. Presentations include works of all sorts, from the earliest times to the twentieth century.

No preparation required: all texts will be distributed at the meeting