What's Going On at MEMS?
Dear Friends,
MEMS continues to sponsor the Premodern Colloquium (meets Sunday afternoons once a month) as well as occasional MEMS Lectures.
We hope you will join us, and watch the website calendar of events for upcoming lectures and other activities of interest!
Fragments Workshop. Scented Protection: A History of Saffron in Medieval China
Yan Liu, SUNY Buffalo
Panelists: Aileen Das (Classical Studies), Amanda Repass (PhD student in History-Anthropology Program), and Paul Freedman (History, Yale).
The flourishing commerce of the Silk-Roads and the vibrant cultural exchange between China and the Western Regions (xiyu) fostered the circulation of diverse substances across the Eurasia continent. Prominent among them were a large number of aromatics of Indian, Persian, or Southeast Asian origin that entered Tang China (618-907) and transformed the landscape of Chinese medical practices. This paper focuses on a particular aromatic, saffron (yujin xiang), which came from northern India and Kashmir. The paper explores the identification of the plant in Chinese sources, various ways through which it was imported into China, and the diverse values it acquired there.
The flourishing commerce of the Silk-Roads and the vibrant cultural exchange between China and the Western Regions (xiyu) fostered the circulation of diverse substances across the Eurasia continent. Prominent among them were a large number of aromatics of Indian, Persian, or Southeast Asian origin that entered Tang China (618-907) and transformed the landscape of Chinese medical practices. This paper focuses on a particular aromatic, saffron (yujin xiang), which came from northern India and Kashmir. The paper explores the identification of the plant in Chinese sources, various ways through which it was imported into China, and the diverse values it acquired there.
| Building: | 202 S. Thayer |
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| Event Type: | Workshop / Seminar |
| Tags: | Asia, History, India, Medicine |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS), Asian Languages and Cultures |
