{"id":20023,"date":"2026-11-09T01:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T01:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=20023"},"modified":"2026-11-09T01:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T01:51:15","slug":"zhang-qian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/zhang-qian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDid Zhang Qian Open Up the Western Regions?\u201d: A Comparison of the Narratives in the \u201cAccount of Dayuan\u201d in the Shiji and the \u201cAccount of the Western Regions\u201d in the Hanshu"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong> November 17th, Tuesday, 2026, 16:00 &#8211; 18:00<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Room 406, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Presenter: Byung-Joon Kim (Chair Professor, Department of History, College of Humanities, Seoul National University)<\/p>\n<p>This lecture seeks to reexamine the conventional understanding that Zhang Qian \u201copened up the Western Regions\u201d by comparing the narratives of the \u201cAccount of Dayuan\u201d (<em>Dayuan Liezhuan<\/em>) in the <em>Records of the Grand Historian<\/em> (<em>Shiji<\/em>) and the \u201cAccount of the Western Regions\u201d (<em>Xiyu Zhuan<\/em>) in the <em>Book of Han<\/em> (<em>Hanshu<\/em>). By exploring differences in how these two historical texts portray Zhang Qian\u2019s activities and the Western Regions, the lecture aims to deepen our understanding of how historical events are recorded and interpreted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: November 17th, Tuesday, 2026, 16:00 &#8211; 18:00 Location: Room 406, SNUAC (Bldg. 101) Presenter: Byung-Joon Kim (Chair Professor, Department of History, College of Humanities, Seoul National University) This lecture seeks to reexamine the conventional understanding that Zhang Qian \u201copened up the Western Regions\u201d by comparing the narratives of the \u201cAccount of Dayuan\u201d (Dayuan Liezhuan) in the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) and the \u201cAccount of the Western Regions\u201d (Xiyu Zhuan) in the Book of Han (Hanshu). By exploring differences in how these two historical texts portray Zhang Qian\u2019s activities and the Western Regions, the lecture aims to deepen our understanding of how historical events are recorded and interpreted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20025,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20023\/revisions\/20025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}