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SUMMARY: How Huang Zunxian Helped Canadian-Chinese in an Age of Chinese Exc
 lusion (1882-1885)
DESCRIPTION: About the Event The great poet\, diplomat\, and reformer Huang
  Zunxian (1848-1905) is one of the most widely studied figures of nineteent
 h-century China\, but so far little has been written about his activities i
 n the United States during his period of service as the Chinese Consul-Gene
 ral in San Francisco (1882-1885).  This talk will make use […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><strong>About the Event</strong><br /><a h
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 mer Huang Zunxian (1848-1905) is one of the most widely studied figures of 
 nineteenth-century China\, but so far little has been written about his act
 ivities in the United States during his period of service as the Chinese Co
 nsul-General in San Francisco (1882-1885).  This talk will make use of publ
 ished and manuscript documents to show how Huang managed to provide assista
 nce to Canadian-Chinese travelers who had to pass through U.S. Customs in S
 an Francisco\, just after the signing of the Chinese Exclusion Act by the U
 .S. President in 1882.</p><p><strong>About the Speaker</strong><br /><stron
 g>J. D. Schmidt</strong>施 吉瑞 was born in Oak Park\, Illinois and received h
 is undergraduate degree in Chinese from the Oriental Languages Department\,
  University of California\, Berkeley. He received both his M.A. and Ph.D. i
 n Classical Chinese poetry from the Asian Studies Department of UBC\, his P
 h.D. dissertation being supervised by Prof. Ye Jiaying叶嘉莹. He has published
  widely in the field of Classical Chinese poetry with monographs on the Son
 g poets Yang Wanli杨万里(1124-1206) and Fan Chengda范成大 (1126-1193)\, the latte
 r with Cambridge University Press\, and on the Qing poets Huang Zunxian黄遵宪 
 (1848-1905) (Cambridge)\, Yuan Mei袁枚 (1716-1798)\, and\, most recently\, Zh
 eng Zhen in <em>The Poet Zheng Zhen and the Rise of Chinese Modernity</em>\
 , Leiden:  Brill Press\, 2013\, 720 pages.  A Chinese translation of the bo
 ok on Huang Zunxian has been published by Shanghai Classics Press上海古籍出版社\, 
 and a Chinese translation of the monograph about Zheng Zhen will appear in 
 2016.  Currently Schmidt is writing three more monographs:  (1) a study of 
 the poetry and prose writing of Zheng Zhen’s friends\, relatives\, and disc
 iples (the so-called Shatan沙滩 Group)\, (2) a book about Huang Zunxian’s ter
 m of office as Chinese Consul-General in San Francisco (1882-1885)\, and (3
 ) a study of Classical Chinese poetry in Shanghai during the nineteenth and
  early twentieth centuries.</p><p>Please RSVP <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/
 HXPluH6xZD" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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