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Prof. Olivia MILBURN 米歐敏教授
Chinese Language and Literature Programme
Professor
BA (Oxon), MA (Cantab), PhD (Lond)
852-39171954
852-28581334
Rm 822, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Court culture in imperial China, Historical representation of minority groups (disabled, ethnic minorities etc.), History and culture of Jiangsu and Zhejiang
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2025 |
“First Contact: Early Western Travelers to China and their Cultural Impact.” Paper presented 31st October 2025 at Shaoxing University, Zhejiang, China. |
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2025 |
“Experiencing Disability: Prejudice, Inequality, and Pain in Pre-Modern Chinese History and Literature.” Keynote speech presented 13th June 2025 at the 9th Undergraduate Academic Conference on Humanities, Education University of Hong Kong. |
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2024 |
(with Daniel Burton-Rose), “晚明人文昆蟲學：以譚貞默 (1590-1965) 的《譚子雕蟲》爲例” [Insect Humanities in the Late Ming: Tan Zhenmo (1590-1665) and his Master Tan’s Carving of Insects]. Paper presented 10th May 2024 at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. |
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2022 |
“弄蟾光兮捉娥影: 中國歷史語文學中的后宮嬪妃” [Capturing the Shadows of Lovely Ladies: Foreign Empresses and Imperial Consorts in History and Fiction]. Paper presented 17th October 2022, at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Macau. |
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2020 |
“Good Wives? Jealousy and Domestic Violence in Marriages in Early China.” Invited paper at the Early China Seminar Lecture Series, Tang Center for Early China, Columbia University, 6th November 2020. |