UW Simpson Center: Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands

Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950 • January 19-21, 2007

Joseph Rock and his team
Source

E.H. Wilson and his team
Source: Arnold Arboretum, Harvard

George Forrest
Source: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Symposium Overview
	Organized by Stevan Harrell (Anthropology and Curator of Asian Ethnology, Burke Museum) Anthropologists, historians, botanists, and filmmakers from China, Hong Kong, Europe, and the US will gather at the Burke Museum and the Washington Park Arboretum to present lectures, films, exhibits, and garden tours that illuminate the careers of a variegated group of scientists, explorers, writers, photographers, and missionaries from America and Europe who were active in exploring, collecting, and writing in the northern and western borderlands of China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Presented in conjunction with the exhibits Vanished Kingdoms and Sacred Portraits from Tibet at the Burke Museum. Sponsored by the East Asia Center, Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, and the China Studies Program of the Jackson School of International Studies.
Symposium Logistics
	Registration: All events are free and open to the public. No registration is required. Download program Venues Communications Building Map Directions: Coming from the North via I-5 Southbound Coming from the South via I-5 Northbound Coming from the East via State Route 520 Parking: Before parking on campus, stop and purchase a parking permit from a gatehouse. Weekdays 6 am-4 pm: $11 Evenings 4 pm-9 pm: $5 Saturdays 7 am-noon: $5; free after 12 pm Sundays: FREE Burke Museum Map Directions: Coming from the North via I-5 Southbound Coming from the South via I-5 Northbound Coming from the East via State Route 520 Parking: Before parking on campus, stop and purchase a parking permit from a gatehouse. Weekdays 6 am-4 pm: $11 Evenings 4 pm-9 pm: $5 Saturdays 7 am-noon: $5; free after 12 pm Sundays: FREE UW Botanic Gardens Map and Directions Parking: ample parking is available free of charge

Presenters

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Magnus Fiskesjo
Anthropology, Cornell University
"Science Across Borders: Johan Gunnar Andersson and Ding Wenjiang"

Denise Glover
Anthropology, UW
"E.H. Wilson, Pioneer Plant Collector"

Paul Harris
Documentary Filmmaker, Cologne
"On Making A King in China" and screening of film

He Jiangyu
Chongqing Foreign Trade and Economic Relation Commission
"Joseph Rock through Naxi and Chinese Eyes"

Geng Jing
Sichuan Province Nationalities Research Institute
"David Crockett Graham's Contributions to Chinese Anthropology"

Charles McKhann
Anthropology, Whitman College
"David Crockett Graham: An American Missionary Scientist in Sichuan, 1911-1948"

Erik Mueggler
Ethnology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"George Forrest's Rhododendron Paradise and the 'Vast Mountain of Shilo'"

Margaret Swain
Anthropology, UC Davis
"Father Paul Vial, Ethnographer with a Mission among the Sani Yi"

Paul Weissich
Lyon Arboretum, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
"Pohaku, Gentleman Genius: Personal Recollections of Dr. Joseph F. Rock, 1957-1962"

Tamara Wyss
Documentary Filmmaker, Berlin
"Searching for the 'Lolos': In the tracks of Fritz and Hewdig Weiss' 1913 Journey in the Liangshan Region" and screening of Wyss's film The Chinese Shoes

Alvin Yoshinaga
Lyon Arboretum, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
"Joseph Rock's Other Career"

David Zuckerman
Chief Horticulturalist, UW Botanic Gardens
Tour of Himalayan plants in the UW Botanic Gardens

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