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EACS Newsletter No. 39, December 2007 European Association for Chinese Studies Association européenne d’études chinoises EACS Newsletter No. 39, December 2007 EACS addresses and newsletter............................. 2 Note from the secretary .......................................... 3 German associations of East Asian Studies and their periodicals ........................................................ 3 Asian and African Studies ...................................... 5 Western popular views of East Asian culture ........ 5 Conference announcement: the seventeenth biennial EACS conference...................................... 6 Call for nominations to the EACS board ............... 8 Young Scholar Award – 2008.................................. 8 CCK Foundation Library Travel Grant.................... 9 Obituary Prof. Elisabeth Joan Croll ...................... 11 Obituary Prof. Wolfgang Franke........................... 14 Note from the treasurer ......................................... 17 New publications ................................................... 20 EACS membership payment form........................ 21 EACS Homepage: http://www.soas.ac.uk/eacs EACS ADDRESSES EACS NEWSLETTER Change of address information and all The EACS Newsletter is published membership payments should be sent twice a year: in spring, and in autumn. to the Treasurer. All contributions should be sent to the Editor by E-mail or on a diskette. President Please remember to check your copy Brunhild Staiger, Institute of Asian carefully before sending it. Workshop Studies, Rothenbaumchaussee 32, and conference reports should not 20148 Hamburg, Germany exceed 600 words. Calls for papers Tel. +49 40 4288740 should not exceed 100 words. Fax +49 40 410 7945 Remember to include all relevant E-mail: [email protected] information when contributing new book titles (author, title, publication place, publisher, year, pp., price in Secretary EURO and ISBN). Names and titles Roel Sterckx, Department of East in non-Latin script such as Cyrillic are Asian Studies, University of welcome provided that the author’s Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, name is in transcription and a short Cambridge CB3 9DA, United content summary in English is Kingdom included. Tel. +44 (0)1223 335137 Every effort is made to include Fax +44 (0)1223 335110 all relevant news, but the Editor E-mail: [email protected] reserves the right to edit all contributions for publication. Treasurer Newsletter Editor Matthias Richter, University of Ann Heirman, Department of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Chinese Language and Culture, Ghent East Asian Languages and University, Blandijnberg 2, B9000 Civilizations, 279 UCB, Boulder, CO Gent, Belgium. Tel. +32 9 264 41 56; 80309, USA fax +32 9 264 41 94 Tel. +1-303-735.0426 E-mail: [email protected] Fax +1—303-492.7272 E-mail: [email protected] NEXT COPY DEADLINE: May 1, 2008 Next issue: June, 2008 Webmaster Luca Pisano, Dipartimento di Orien- talistica – Sezione Sinologica, Via Giulia di Barolo 3/a, 10124 Torino, Italy Tel. + 39 011 6703852 Fax +39 011 6703858 E-mail: [email protected] NOTE FROM THE SECRETARY news of publications. A great deal of work disseminated in European At the EACS Board meeting in Lund languages other than English (and to a last August, the Board suggested we lesser extent French and German) slips initiate a consultation exercise to gather off the radar. Frank Kraushaar, ideas on how to improve the benefits of working in Riga, has floated the idea EACS membership. While we are that we think about an "interlingual encouraged by the fact that the number guide to European sinology" where we of our members is growing, could invite our members to submit membership turnover remains brief descriptions of their books and undesirably high and this suggests that articles in their original languages with we could do more to attract loyal brief abstracts in English. Such a guide members to the organisation. The could be a useful tool for the Board agreed that allowing paid-up preparation of conferences or simply to members to attend biennial conferences help colleagues discover each other. may not always be sufficient as an The value of a guide that collates incentive to join. It was suggested information of publications and therefore that we should start thinking activities will of course depend on about some extra benefits to EACS individual initiative, time and energy. I members. One mechanism through am very grateful to Frank for offering which we could address the issue is our to take the initial steps towards website. Several suggestions from developing such a tool. Members who EACS members have crossed my desk would like to assist in gathering over the past few months. One would information in their respective be to develop the website with a countries or institutions are welcome to members-only section, another contact Frank. There may of course be suggestion is that we develop a several other ways in which we could members-only electronic mailing list. enhance the benefits of membership and I would be very grateful to receive The attraction of a members- further suggestions. only segment on the website or indeed a reserved mailing list will of course Roel Sterckx depend on how valuable the information on our site is perceived to be. I am glad that on that front too, GERMAN ASSOCIATIONS OF several members have shared ideas. EAST ASIAN STUDIES AND Several colleagues working at THEIR PERIODICALS institutions in Eastern Europe have suggested that news about current Deutsche Gesellschaft für developments in Chinese studies in Asienkunde (DGA) different European countries would be information in great demand. Such The DGA (http://asienkunde.de/) is the news could include the usual links, most important organization for contacts, job announcements etc., but contemporary political, economic and its core could consist for example of social studies of Asia. It was first established in 1967 and adopted its 3 current name in 1981. More organizes annual conferences and information about the history of the publishes conference volumes. The DGA can be found here: largest meeting (in 1997) discussed 20th http://asienkunde.de/geschichte/index.h century German, Austrian and Swiss tml. The DGA meets every two years, China studies and some 40 papers were usually in Berlin. The mail address is: published two years later: Helmut DGA, Rothenbaumchaussee 32, D- Martin: Chinawissenschaften – 20148 Hamburg, Germany. The DGA Deutschsprachige Entwicklungen, has published the quarterly journal Personen, Perspektiven (Hamburg: ASIEN - The German Journal on Mitteilungen des Instituts für Contemporary Asia since 1981; the Asienkunde 303, 1999) 678 pp. ISBN tables of contents are online: 3-88910-214-X (table of contents: http://asienkunde.de/asienzeitschrift/in http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/oaw/ dex.html dvcs/konferenzband.html). The 2007 meeting was in Bochum in November Deutsche Morgenländische 2007 (http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ Gesellschaft (DMG) oaw/dvcs/2007callforpapers.doc ). The DMG (http://www.dmg-web.de/ ) Gesellschaft für Natur- und – first established in 1845 – is a well- Völkerkunde Ostasiens E.V. (OAG) known association of classical oriental studies. It is responsible for the The O.A.G. Hamburg was established Deutschen Orientalistentag: website: in 1950 (website: http://www.uni- http://www.dot2007.de. The DMG hamburg.de/Japanologie/oag/index.htm publishes the Zeitschrift der Deutschen l), but has a long pre-history going Morgenländischen Gesellschaft back to the „Deutsche Gesellschaft für (ZDMG), website: http://www.dmg- Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens“ web.de/Redaktion.html. The mail which was established in Tokyo in address is: DMG, SAI, INF 330, D- 1873. The mail address is: Gesellschaft 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens e.V (OAG), c/o Asien-Afrika-Institut Abteilung für Sprache und Kultur Deutsche Vereinigung für Japans, Universität Hamburg, Edmund- Chinastudien e.V. (DVCS) Siemers-Allee 1, Ostflügel, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany. The OAG The DVCS was established in Berlin in publishes the annual Nachrichten der 1990 and has as its aim to improve Gesellschaft für Natur- und East-West contacts and to integrate Völkerkunde Ostasiens E.V.: Sinologists from Austria and website: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ Switzerland. (http://www.ruhr-uni- Japanologie/noag/index.html. The bochum.de/oaw/dvcs/index.html). The OAG also publishes a book series mail address is: Dr. Volker Klöpsch, Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für DVCS, Ostasiatisches Seminar der Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens E.V. Universität Köln, Dürener Str. 56-60, (MOAG): website: http://www.uni- D-50923 Köln, Germany. The DVCS 4 hamburg.de/Japanologie/moag/index.ht Western Popular Views of East ml Asian Culture from the 18th to the 21th century Thomas Kampen http://www.sino.uni- 23.10. – 25.10.2008 heidelberg.de/staff/kampen/ Organized by the Institute of Asian Studies at the University of Latvia, Riga ASIAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES 亞非文集 The Institute of Asian Studies at the University of Latvia in Riga, which Journal of the Department of Asian and was founded in 2006, invites scholars African Studies to a conference reflecting upon the University of Ljubljana – Faculty of formation of Asian studies in a Arts situation of constantly changing views of Asian cultures; it will also examine Volume XI, Issue 1-2, April 2007 the influence of Asian cultures and the Special Issue: Selected Papers from the transformation of Asian ideas into XVIth EACS Conference in Ljubljana Western terms
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