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Public Lecture: "Deliver Us from Evil: The Daoist Quest for Release in Medieval China”

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Date:

6 Dec 2017

Time:

4:30 – 6:00 p.m.

Venue:

Activities Room, 2/F, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Speaker(s):

Professor Franciscus Verellen

Biography of Speaker:

Franciscus Verellen is a professor in the History of Daoism at the Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO). He is a member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies,The Chinese University of Hong Kong. From 2004 to 2014 he served as director of the EFEO. With Kristofer Schipper, Verellen co-edited The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang (Chicago, 2004). The present lecture is drawn from his forthcoming book.

Admission:

No registration is required.

Enquiries:

graceleung@cuhk.edu.hk

Remarks:

Organizers:
-CUHK–Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Asia
-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies -Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK
-Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient Centre
-Center for Studies of Daoist Culture, CUHK