The ERC project Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History (RegInfra) and KU Leuven Early Modern History Research Group organized a reading seminar in cooperation with Prof. Naomi Standen at KU Leuven, LETT 05.30, on June 4, 2025, from 10:00 to 12:00.
We discussed a chapter on technologies of building and making from her forthcoming book, Digging, Weaving, and Dancing: Everyday Creativity in Eastern Eurasia in the 7th to 14th Centuries.
Required Readings
- Naomi Standen, “Technologies of Building and Making – Earth: Walls, Pots, and Supply," in Digging, Weaving, and Dancing: Everyday Creativity in Eastern Eurasia in the 7th to 14th centuries (in preparation for Princeton University Press).
Additional Readings
- Nancy Steinhardt, “China,” in The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History, ed. Peter Clark (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013): 105-124. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199589531.013.0006
- Jan Bemmann, Eva Lehndorff, Riccardo Klinger, Sven Linzen, Lkhagvardorj Munkhbayar, Martin Oczipka, Henny Piezonka, and Susanne Reichert, “Biomarkers in Archaeology: Land Use around the Uyghur Capital Karabalgasun, Orkhon Valley, Mongolia,” Praehistorische Zeitschrift 89 (2014): 337-370. doi.org/10.1515/pz-2014-0022
- Joshua Wright and Chunag Amartuvshin, “‘Unseen by Eye, Unheard by Ear’: The Archaeology of The Early Türks at Baga Gazrynn Chuluu, Mongolia,” Current Archaeological Research in Mongolia: Papers from the First International Conference on ‘Archaeological Research in Mongolia’ held in Ulaanbaatar, August 19th–23rd, 2007, eds. Jan Bemmann, Hermann Parzinger, Ernst Pohl, and Damdinsüren Tseveendorzh (Bonn: Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 2009): 349-363.