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The East Asian Languages and Cultures Program Presents

Imagination, Interpretation, and Knowledge in the Early Chinese Literary Tradition

Professor Michael PuettTuesday, April 11, 2017 Herter Hall 301, 5 p.m.

This event is generously co-sponsored by:The Five Colleges Lecture FundDepartment of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, UMassEast Asian Languages and Cultures, UMassThe Tagliabue Fund of Amherst CollegeDepartment of History, UMassDepartment of Asian Studies, Mount Holyoke College

Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. He is the recipient of a Harvard College Professorship for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

He is the author of The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Arti�ce in Early China and To Become a God: Cosmolo-gy, Sacri�ce, and Self-Divination in Early China, as well as the co-au-thor, with Adam Seligman, Robert Weller, and Bennett Simon, of Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity.