Craft, Technology, and Material Culture in Early Modern Asia

For this meeting, we are going to read:
Li, Yuhang. Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Chapter 3.
And we will workshop Yijun Wang's work-in-progress, "From Exotic Seafood to Superfood: Consumption and Knowledge Production of Edible Bird's Nest in the Context of Cross-Cultural Trade, 1600-1900." Please email Yijun Wang at yw741@nyu.edu to request the paper. Please request the paper by April 7 (Thursday), 12:00 pm.