East Asian Studies Program and Department

Annual Report 2011-12 Director’s Letter August 2012

The mission of the East Asian Studies Program is to support teaching and research about China, Korea, and Japan throughout the university. We administer a certificate program formalizing the study of East Asia for majors in any department in the university. We fund undergraduates studying languages during the summer. We assist graduate students when they take courses abroad, conduct research, and write their dissertations. We support the East Asian Library in the acquisition and cataloguing of books. We sponsor a weekly lecture series and numerous conferences, workshops, and performances. We provide funding for many faculty positions, and we underwrite recent renovations to Frist and Jones Hall. Our goal is to ensure that Princeton maintains a vibrant environment for students and teachers engaged in Asian studies.

Student learning and research was extensive during the 2011-12 academic year. 19 undergraduates completed certificates in the Program in East Asian Studies. They earned a Program certificate by studying at least four semesters of an East Asian language through the intermediate level, taking at least four additional courses in one of the disciplines focusing on East Asia (politics, anthropology, art and archaeology, history, religion, etc.), and completing a significant piece of independent work on an East Asian subject. Certificate students tended to major in the social sciences (6 in WWS and 5 in Economics), with additional represen- tation from other divisions of the university, including 1 in Chemical Engineering and 1 in Psychology. The 19 Program certificate students joined 9 majors and 13 certificate students in the Department of East Asian Studies, altogether constituting 41 students majoring or concentrating in this area, demonstrating strong, continuing interest in East Asian Studies broadly speaking. We are extremely proud of all these students. The time they spent, and how and where they spent it—most devoting at least one sum- mer to study abroad—insure that a certificate will mean more than simply being a mark of distinction on their resumes. Many of them plan the next few years or a career working or studying in an East Asian field.

Research by Ph.D. students in the ten departments in the humanities and social sciences supported by the Program in East Asian Studies was even more extensive than in prior years. Partnering with the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Stud- ies (PIIRS), we supported 48 graduate students in their research. Projects ranged from sociological research in the Philippines and Cambodia to consulting archives throughout China and Japan, studying pottery-making in Korea, and pursuing advanced language training abroad.

The two summer language programs supported by the Program in East Asian Studies and directed by our faculty are stronger than ever. Princeton-in-Beijing (PiB) enrolled about 60 Princeton students out of 160 total students for the summer 2012 session. PiB remains the best and most competitive intensive summer program for Chinese language. In Japan, having weathered the disasters of 2011, Princeton-in-Ishikawa (PiI) returned to its full strength. Featuring a year of Japanese training in an intensive 8 weeks for the best students in the U.S., PiI is enrolling about 50 undergraduate and graduate students, with Princeton students accounting for 1/3 of the total. Princeton’s Dean of the Faculty, David Dobkin, graciously agreed to represent Princeton at the celebration of PiI’s 20th year this summer, an important signal to our partner, the Ishikawa Foundation for International Exchange (IFIE), an affiliate of the local government, of Princeton’s enthusiasm for the program.

Lectures, conferences, workshops, and visiting appointments were a significant part of EAS Program-sponsored activities in 2011-12. As part of our regular lecture series we hosted more than 24 lectures, on subjects ranging from omens and morality in ancient China, to Japanese media representations of the 311 disaster, to monastic education in early modern Tibet. Together with the Council on International Teaching and Research (CITR) and other units of the university we hosted two public lectures by Global Scholars. The first was by Jisi Wang, Dean of Peking University’s School of International Studies. The second, concerning relations between the Qing Dynasty Manchu court and Vietnamese envoys in the eighteenth century, was delivered in Chinese to an audience of more than 60 by Zhaoguang Ge, Director of the In- stitute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities at Fudan University. With the support of the Stewart Fellowship in Humanities, we also supported the teaching of a graduate seminar on East Asian Buddhism by one of Japan’s leading Buddhologists, Toru Funayama (Kyoto Univer- sity). We also co-sponsored two very successful graduate-run programs. One was a two-day workshop conducted in Japanese on “Japan’s Oldest Archive,” attended by over 45 scholars and graduate students from the U.S. and Europe, and led by the world’s leading specialist on the subject, Towao Sakaehara (Osaka City University). The second was a monthly colloquium on contemporary China that brought together graduate students and faculty, largely from the social sciences, to discuss work in progress. As part of our commitment to our primary scholarly association in the U.S., the Program hosted the 40th annual meet-

2 East Asian Studies Annual Report Department and Program News ing of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies in October, 2011. The first day of the conference, “Teaching about Asia Workshop,” was attended by over 90 area high school teachers. The second two days, drawing more than 270 participants to 40 panels, concluded with a ceremony naming Martin Collcutt, Professor of East Asian Studies and History, the Distinguished Asianist of 2011.

A change in format for this publication will be evident to some readers. In the past we issued a single newsletter at the beginning of each academic year. We decided, however, that beginning in 2012 we would divide the functions of the traditional publication into two pieces. The first is this Annual Report, summarizing the academic year just completed. This year published in late August, we hope to publish future Annual Reports around the time of Reunions in early June. The second publication will conform more closely to the function of a newsletter, announcing news at the beginning of the academic year and introducing those who are new to the Princeton community.

Stephen F. Teiser

D.T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies and Professor of Religion Director, Program in East Asian Studies

Department and Program News

Faculty in the EAS Department

Hideki Richard Okada, professor of East Asian studies who was known for his work spanning classi- cal as well as contemporary Japanese literature, died on April 4, 2012, after a long illness. He joined the faculty in 1985 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 1983. While Okada was an expert on the eleventh-century classic “The Tale of Genji,” he also studied contemporary Japanese culture, including animation, live-action film, hip-hop music, and television dramas. In his undergraduate course on “East Asian Humanities,” Okada enhanced students’ understanding of the East Asian tradition in a manner that highlighted its similarities to and contrasts with Western culture. At the graduate level, Okada taught courses on classical narrative, classical poetics, medieval discourse and culture, censorship of Japanese literature in the 1960s, and modern writers. The Department and Program of East Asian studies held a memorial service on April 21, 2012 in 202 Jones Hall where faculty, staff, family, and friends gathered to pay tribute to his life and scholarly career in all its richness and depth.

Seiichi Makino, professor of Japanese and linguistics, began his career at Princeton University in 1991 and retired from the Department of East Asian Studies at the end of June 2012. Makino is a prolific author in the broad field of Japanese language and linguistics and has published many books and articles in English and Japanese. His many contributions to the field of Japanese language teaching have been widely recog- nized throughout his long teaching career. Over the years, Makino received numerous awards and distinctions. In 2007, his contributions to Japanese language instruction were honored by the Society of Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, and for his 70th birthday his colleagues in the profession contributed to a festschrift, An Invitation to Second Language Acquisition Research in Japanese: In Honor of Seiichi Makino, ed. Yukiko Hatasa (Tokyo, 2003). We offer our congratulations to him on 20 years of out- standing leadership in developing and directing the Japanese language program at Princeton. A May 2012 conference organized in his honor, “New Horizons in Japanese Language Education,” is described below under “Events.” Image: With Department Chair Ben Elman at his retirement party.

Other information about activities of Princeton faculty is provided below, in the section on Faculty News.

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Visiting Faculty and Fellows

Professor Toru Funayama, Professor of Buddhist Studies at Kyoto University, Institute for Research in the Humanities, was a long-term visiting fellow (Princeton’s Council of the Humanities), holding the Stewart Fellowship in the fall semester. He taught a seminar on The Sutra of Brahma’s Net in East Asian Buddhism and worked with faculty and graduate students in East Asian Stud- ies and Religion. Funayama has been described as a Buddhological renaissance man because of the breadth of his knowledge about Buddhism in India, Tibet, China and Japan. He has published seven books and more than 50 articles or book chapters dealing with Indian philosophy, the linguistic features of texts translated from Sanskrit into Chinese, Chinese biographies of Buddhist monks, lay Buddhist practice in China, and Chinese philosophy in the fifth and sixth centuries.

Professor Zhaoguang Ge, Director of the National Institute for Advanced Study of the Humanities at Fudan University (Shang- hai) and Princeton University Global Scholar through the Council for International Teaching and Research, returned to the East Asian Studies Department for a third extended visit in spring 2012. During his stay, he delivered a public lecture on “Ritual Attire, Etiquette, and Precedence: Concerning the Vietnam King’s Celebration of Emperor Qianlong’s Birthday in 1790 and His Re- quest to Change Attire (衣冠、礼仪与秩序：从1790年安南国王热河祝寿及请求改易服色说起) on April 4. He also co-taught two seminars, conducted in Chinese, for graduate students and faculty. One was on “Chinese Daoism, Japanese Shintō, and the Japanese Emperor’s Official Names(中国道教、日本神道教与天皇称号), ” with Benjamin Elman in EAS. The other was on “The Background to the Revival of Interest in Buddhism during the Late Qing Dynasty: Cultural Crisis and the Interest in Religion in China around 1900 (晚清佛学复兴的背景 —1900年前后中国的文化危机与宗教兴趣),”with Stephen F. Teiser in Religion. This was the final year of Professor Ge’s tenure as a Global Scholar. We are grateful for the time and energy he devoted to his work with students and faculty at Princeton, and we look forward to further exchange in the years ahead.

Postdoctoral research associate Satsuki Takahashi taught two courses this year at Princeton, Recipes for Disaster: Cultures of Calamity in East Asia and Beyond and Culture and the Environment in East Asia, while preparing a book manuscript The Current of Modernity on fishing communities, human-ocean relations, and discourses of survival in pre- and post-3/11 Japan. She will be joining the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University next year.

Mathias Vigouroux spent his first year at Princeton working on his postdoctoral project, Transnational Apprenticeship in Early Nineteenth-Century Japan: Philipp Franz von Siebold’s Initiation to Ishizaka Sotetsu Acupuncture. In the spring of 2012, he co-taught a graduate seminar with Benjamin Elman, whose 2011 Mellon Grant sup- ports his postdoctoral appointment at Princeton, on comparative issues in the history of science in China and Japan, 1500-1850. He also presented at the first Fudan Todai Princeton conference in Tokyo in December 2011, and the workshop on Early Modern Asian Medical Classics and Medical Philology in Princeton in February 2012. In June 2012 the best article prize was awarded to him by the Japanese Society for Medical History for his article titled “Siebold and Ishizaka Sotetsu’s Contribution to the Recep- tion of Acupuncture in Nineteenth Century Europe: A Comparative Research based on the Acupuncture Manuscripts in the Siebold Collection,” published in Japanese in November 2011.

Haruko Wakabayashi *95 has been an EAS departmental guest and visiting faculty since 2010. Her book, The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism, was published by the University of Hawai’i Press in May. Her present interest is in the medieval interpretations of natural disasters. She presented a paper, “From Hōjōki to Musashi abumi: A Comparison of Medieval and Tokugawa Perceptions of Fire” at the Early Modern Japan Network Meeting in Toronto in spring 2012. She also gave a talk on the great Kyoto earthquake of 1185 at Darmstadt University, Germany, in July.

Staff

EAS Department Undergraduate Coordinator, June Balint, retired in spring 2012 for health reasons. She was a mainstay of the EAS Department office since 2000, and we all appreciated her daily professionalism and her ready smile. We miss her greatly and wish her the best. Her successor will be named in the fall.

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Beate Witzler, Coordinator of the East Asian Studies Program since fall 2009, accepted the position of Assistant Director of the newly created Fung Global Fellows Program at the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies in May. We are grate- ful for her years of service in EAS and her graceful management of the October 2011 MAR/AAS conference, and wish her the best in her new endeavor. A new Coordinator will be named in the fall.

East Asian Language Programs

Classes in all three East Asian languages were offered through the 5th-year level. Enrollments for the academic year 2011-12 were a total of 775 students, including 485 in Chinese (274 in the fall/211 in the spring), 171 in Japanese (94 fall/77 spring), and 119 in Korean (52 fall/67 spring).

Chinese Language Program lecturers Haoyuan Duan and Lingxia Zhou left Princeton University at the end of the academic year. New appointments are planned for fall 2012.

Four undergraduates participated in the Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition held in New York on April 7, 2012, all achieving prizes. On the junior level, Chester Dubov won second, Thomas Tasche third prize. On the senior level, Jacob Scheer received first prize and was invited to participate in the final competition to be held in China, while Charles Fortin won third prize. Locally, the annual Chinese language contest of Princeton was held on May 11, 2012 in Frist Hall. A record-breaking number of 67 students participated. Among the 19 prize winners, Thomas Tasche, Chester Dubov, Nathaniel Jones, and Shuxin Zhan were awarded first prizes.

The 20th International Conference on Chinese Language Instruction was held on April 28, 2012, described below under Events.

As for the Japanese Language Program, besides various types of exercises in class to practice language skills, teachers utilized on- line technologies such as blog, Ustream, Lang8, and Facebook to provide students with more opportunities to use the language in settings outside the classroom. In November 2011, the calligrapher Taiko Lyding was taught the first-year Japanese calligraphy class; student works are on display in Frist Campus Center hallways.

The annual Princeton Japanese speech contest was held in Frist on May 11, 2012. Thirteen Princeton students and a student from the Princeton community Japanese language school competed; Seung Yeon Lee and Max Behar won first prizes at their respec- tive levels.

The 19th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, “New Horizons in Japanese Language Education,” was held May 19-20, 2012, described below under Events.

Undergraduates

Department of East Asian Studies Senior Theses 2012

Emily Ann Gass, Chinese Language “The Phoenix and the Crane: An Exploration of Urban Disasters and Memorialization through Two Case Studies, The Tangshan Earthquake and Beijing Urban Renewal”

Daniel González, Japanese Language “A Translation and Critical Introduction of Lee Yangji’s ‘Yuhi’”

Princeton Kwong, Chinese Language “Redefining Causes of Japanese ‘Risk Aversion’: A Look at Japanese Institutional Legacies and Their Effects on Entrepreneurial Growth in Japan”

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Matthew Miller, Chinese Language “Ideas Old and New: The Legacy of Li Zhi and the Transformation of Confucian Concepts”

David Michael Ponce Morado, Korean Language “A Vision of Change: Analyzing the Role of Social Adaptation in the Resettlement Process of North Korean Defectors”

Astrid Elena Stuth, Chinese Language “‘The Kingly Way’ and ‘Humane Authority’: Women in Contemporary Political Confucianism and Visions of China as a Global Power”

Amy Vickery, Chinese Language “Chinese: A New African Language?”

Lang Wang, Chinese Language “Grass Mud Horses and River Crabs: The Production, Consumption, and Dissemination of Online Public Opinion in China”

Lucia Zhou, Chinese Language “China, Zhōng Guó, Assessing Michelangelo Antonioni’s Chung Kuo: Cina”

Department of East Asian Studies Language and Culture Certificates 2012

Jonathan Evans, Anthropology, Chinese Language Mona Gossmann, Psychology, Chinese Language Quzhao Hu, Economics, Japanese Language Rosaline Ma, Molecular Biology, Japanese Language John A. Marzullie III, Woodrow Wilson School, Chinese Language Jonathan Moch, Geosciences, Chinese Language Olivia Quach, Molecular Biology, Chinese Language Risa Reid, Classics, Chinese Language Arielle Sandor, History, Chinese Language Crystal Styron DeJesús, Psychology, Japanese Language Olivia Waring, Chemistry, Chinese Language Erica Zendell, Comparative Literature, Chinese Language Bowen Zhou, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chinese Language

East Asian Studies Program Certificates 2012

Sydney Raven Booker, Woodrow Wilson School, Chinese Language Gregory Colella, Woodrow Wilson School, Chinese Language Otilda I. Colón Pinilla, Comparative Literature, Chinese Language Tiao Guan, Economics, Japanese Language Tzu-Hao Ho, Computer Science, Japanese Language Nicolas Ingram, Politics, Chinese Language Natalie E. Kim, Woodrow Wilson School, Korean Language Stella Hye Young Kim, Economics, Chinese/Korean Language Mary Morales, Anthropology, Chinese Language Jay P. Parikh, Woodrow Wilson School, Chinese Language Alyssa Pehmoeller, Woodrow Wilson School, Chinese Language Alexander D. Pretko, Economics, Chinese Language Ben Rosales, History, Japanese Language Leo Shaw, Chemical Engineering, Chinese Language

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Edward Skolnick, Woodrow Wilson School, Chinese Language Stephany Xu, Economics, Chinese Language Ana Yancheva, Economics, Japanese Language An Yi, Psychology, Chinese Language Pearl Ying Zhou, Politics, Chinese Language

Undergraduate Prizes 2012

The LEIGH BUCHANAN BIENEN AND HENRY S. BIENEN SENIOR THESIS PRIZE was presented to Erica Zendell, a student in the depart- ment of comparative literature who earned the East Asian Studies department’s Language and Culture Certificate, for her thesis “Bread, Circuses, and Steel: Mega-sporting Events, National Image, and the Modernization in China and Brazil (Beijing 2008, Brazil 2014, Rio 2016).” Erica’s adviser was Professor Martin Kern in the Department of East Asian Studies. The prize of $1,000 is awarded each year to the senior with the most outstanding thesis on an East Asian topic. The thesis must be based on extensive and ap- propriate sources in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean as well as Western-language materials.

The MARJORY CHADWICK BUCHANAN SENIOR THESIS PRIZE, originally established by the Class of ‘44 and now provided through the Marjory Chadwick Buchanan fund, is awarded to the senior in the Department of East Asian Studies who, in the opinion of the department, submits the best thesis based, at least in part, on source materials in an Asian language. The 2012 prize was awarded to Matthew Miller for his thesis, “Ideas Old and New: The Legacy of Li Zhi and Transformation of Confucian Concepts.” His adviser was Professor Willard Peterson.

Astrid Stuth, an East Asian Studies department major, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. Stuth’s independent work at Princeton examined China’s national identity and the ways in which that identity has been shaped by various outsiders’ views of the nation and its single-party system. At Oxford, as a scholar of international relations, she will continue to focus on China’s transformation and rise.

Olivia Waring, a chemistry major who also received a Certificate in Chinese Language and Culture, was honored with the 2012 Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of the highest awards given to Princeton University undergraduates. Waring plans to use her award to pursue postgraduate studies in linguistics and philology at the University of Oxford, with an emphasis on Mandarin Chinese and Tibetan languages.

Graduate Student News

Nick Admussen (EAS) defended his dissertation “Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry” (Adviser: Perry Link) in June 2012. In the fall, he will become an Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at Widener University in Chester, PA. He has a scholarly essay on Liu Zaifu forthcoming in the Korea Journal of Chinese Language and Literature, and will be the “notable poet” in the July issue of the UCity Review. Recently, he engaged in a translation exchange with Professor Zang Di of Beijing University, and their transla- tions of each other’s original poetry are forthcoming in Poetry East-West magazine.

Dan Barish (HIS): In his first year at Princeton, Dan took classes that expanded his interests both in terms of geography and time, including a fruitful year of studying Manchu language. Originally focused on late-Qing and Republican China, Dan has broadened his interests to include both Sino-Japanese interactions as well as earlier periods of Chinese history. This summer Dan will spend time in archives in Japan and China, investigating the production, transmission, and consumption of news of world events in the 19th century.

Timothy O. Benedict (REL): Tim spent his first year at Princeton honing his Classical Japanese and Kanbun skills and taking vari- ous courses in Japanese and Chinese religion as well as a course on medical anthropology to round out his research interests in death/dying and the role of spiritual care in Japanese hospices. This summer, in addition to studying French, he will be making a short trip to Japan to scout out some prospective field sites.

William Henry Bridges IV (EAS) defended his dissertation, “Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar

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Japanese Literature” (Adviser: Atsuko Ueda), in May 2012. William is to start a tenure track position at St. Olaf College in the fall.

Daniel Burton-Rose (EAS): From June of 2011 to June of 2012, I was enrolled at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama. In August of 2011, I made a brief foray from Japan to China to visit the rare book collections of the Shanghai Library and the Suzhou Museum. I incorporated my findings in my dissertation prospectus, “A Continuum of Devotion: Ancestor Worship, Spirit-Writing, and Temple Patronage Among the Peng Clan of Suzhou, 1650s-1790s,” in November of 2011. In the spring of 2012, I have resumed dissertation research, frequently visiting Tokyo rare book collections, as well as exploring the old works on offer in the Jimbōchō used books district.

Jue Chen (EAS): An anthology of Song dynasty Chan poetry, Songdai Chanseng shiji kao 宋代禪僧 詩輯考, which Chen Jue co-edited, was published in Shanghai, China, by Fudan University Press in April, 2012. This anthology collects poems which were composed by Song dynasty Chan monks but not included in Quan Song shi 全宋詩. Besides collecting poems, it also provides brief bio- graphical information, especially the religious schools and lineages, of all the known Song dynasty Chan monks. Thus, it can also be used as a reference book for the study of Chan Buddhism. Image of book cover to the right.

Eno Compton (EAS): During a year in Japan as a Fulbright graduate research fellow at Rikkyo University, I finished researching and writing the majority of my dissertation entitled, “A Genealogy of An Erotic Figure: Rereading the ‘Chinese Influence’ of Heian Literature.” I also passed the high- est level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. Over the summer, I will present a part of my research at the Asian Studies Conference Japan and will teach a month-long introductory Japanese course as part of the PIIRS Global Seminar in Tokyo. In August, I will return to my home in Colorado to finish my dissertation and will be on the job market in the fall.

Kjell Erikson (EAS): I spent the past year in Paris gathering materials for my dissertation project on the aquatic and terrestrial his- tory of cultured pearls. Trips to the city’s museum of natural history and some of its many other archives, libraries, and brasseries were supplemented by research elsewhere in France, England, and Austria. This fall, I will head to Japan for twelve months and will be based at Kobe University.

Yulia Frumer (HIS) defended her dissertation, “A Matter of Time: Timekeepers of Edo Period Japan” (Adviser: Benjamin Elman), in August 2012. Yulia is to spend a year doing research at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, Germany, before taking up a tenure- track position at Johns Hopkins University.

Doug Gildow (REL) passed his general exams and dissertation prospectus over the 2011-12 academic year, and also made two presentations in Princeton’s Religion and Public Life Workshop. Further, he served as preceptor for the introductory course, REL 226: Religions of China. In summer 2012, he will do research on the intersection of religion, education, and the state in Taiwan, focusing on the new legal framework for the accreditation of seminaries and other religious schools. Over the 2012-13 academic year, he will be in Beijing on a Fulbright IIE fellowship, doing dissertation research on contemporary Buddhism in the PRC.

Miyabi Goto (EAS) spent her summer of 2011 studying French and exploring her fields of interest. In the academic year 2011-12, in her attempt to familiarize herself with different methodologies of a variety of faculties, she took half of her courses from other departments (Comparative Literature, English, and Philosophy). She plans to complete her general exams and dissertation pro- spectus in the year 2012-13.

Scott Gregory (EAS) defended his dissertation, “From the Center to the Margins: The Shuihu zhuan and the Transformation of Ver- nacular Fiction in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries” (Adviser: Andrew H. Plaks), in May 2012.

Magnus Ribbing Gren (EAS) took graduate seminars in Princeton, deepening his knowledge of early Chinese texts and Qing intellectual history. During the upcoming academic year he will begin his research on the characteristics of classical scholarship in Canton during the Jiaqing-Daoguang reign periods. He will spend the summer studying Japanese in Hokkaido.

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April Hughes (REL) was a graduate student fellow in the Religion and Culture Workshop with Princeton’s Center for the Study of Religion for the 2011-2012 academic year. At the workshop she presented two drafts of dissertation chapters. She also served as a preceptor in two courses, REL 225: The Buddhist World of Thought and Practice and REL 226: Religions of China.

Michael Hunter (EAS) defended his dissertation, “Sayings of Confucius, Deselected” (Adviser: Willard Peterson) on June 1, 2012. Beginning this fall he will teach early Chinese thought and literature as an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University.

Sinead Kehoe (A&ARCH) defended her dissertatikon, “Pictures Of Patriarchs: The Illustrated Life and Acts of Hōnen” (Adviser: Yoshiaki Shimizu), in May 2012.

Sammy (Kin-sum) Li (A&A) went to Japan for the Princeton-in-Ishikawa (PII) program in the summer of 2011. While learning Japanese there, he was exposed to many facets of Japanese culture, and also began to learn the shakuhachi, a traditional Japa- nese bamboo flute. He also visited the Kansai area, mainly Kyoto, Nara and Osaka to conduct historical research on Japanese art and architecture. In the spring semester, Sammy wrote a term paper on the Warring States period (5th-3rd c. BC) bronze mirrors. During spring break, he also visited Lloyd Cotsen’s collection of Chinese bronze mirrors, in Huntington Park, Los Angeles, which helped him further to explore his dissertation theme.

Yaqin Li (EAS) defended her dissertation, “‘Bandit Suppression’ in Manchukuo (1932-45)” (Adviser: Susan Naquin), in May 2012. Yaqin will begin a tenure track position at Meredith College in the fall.

Zhengjie Li (EAS) explored her interests in anthropology, psychoanalysis, and political philosophy in her first year of graduate study. For the upcoming academic year, she plans to continue her focus on the intra-psychic life in China from multiple perspectives, includ- ing the history of science and religious studies.

Adam Liff (POL): A rising fourth year graduate student, Adam defended his dissertation prospectus in the academic year 2011-12, served as the preceptor for a course in WWS on China’s foreign relations, and presented several research papers at conferences in Tokyo, Washington, DC, and Princeton. He also submitted three manuscripts to peer-reviewed journals, one of which will be published in June 2012 and the other two of which are still under review. Adam is excited about his upcoming year of field work in Beijing and Tokyo, where he will conduct research for his dissertation on the role of non-material variables (e.g., norms and identities) in shaping the military policy decisions of rising powers.

Ethan Lindsay (REL) defended his dissertation, “Pilgrimage to the Sacred Traces of Koyas- an: Place and Devotion in Late Heian Japan” (Adviser: Jacqueline Stone), in April 2012.

Bryan Lowe (REL): In June 2012 I defended my dissertation, “Rewriting Nara Buddhism: Sutra Transcription in Early Japan” (Ad- viser: Jacqueline Stone). For Fall 2012 I have accepted a position as Mellon Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. In addition, I presented research at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies and co-organized, with Christopher Mayo, an international workshop entitled “Japan’s Oldest Archive: A Workshop on the Shōsōin,” which was held at Princeton in March. I also participated in the weekly interdisciplinary workshop on religion and culture at the Center for the Study of Religion. My article “Texts and Textures of Early Japanese Buddhism: Female Patrons, Lay Scribes, and Buddhist Scripture in Eighth-Century Japan” appeared in the Princeton University Library Chronicle.

Christopher Mayo (EAS) is a Ph.D. candidate doing research on pre-modern Japan. His dissertation, “Un-Christianity and the Ōtomo Clan in Sixteenth-Century Japan,” is a history of religion and warfare during the country’s transition from a medieval state to an early-modern nation. He recently published an article in the journal Nihonshi kenkyū, presented a paper at the annual As- sociation of Asian Studies meeting in Toronto, and is currently finishing a chapter for an edited volume that will appear in 2013. He will be a Graduate Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion for the 2012-2013 academic year. Please see his homepage at http://www.princeton.edu/~cmayo for updates.

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In his first year at Princeton,Tom Mazanec (EAS) read widely on early and medieval China, focusing mostly on the thorny linguis- tic problems of transmission in both sinological and buddhological texts. Additionally, he presented two papers on repetition in Chinese poetry at graduate student conferences at Columbia University and at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Jürgen Paul Melzer (EAS) is studying the influence of Germany on the development of Japan’s aviation. He is especially interested in how Germany not only spurred Japan’s aircraft technology, but at the same time imparted powerful ideologies of air-minded- ness, faith in industrial efficiency, and even a firm belief in the power of miracle weapons. During the 2011-12 academic year, he presented his research at Ohio State University and Johns Hopkins University.

Sangho Ro (EAS) defended his dissertation, “Print Culture in the Imagination of Modern Korea, 1880-1931: Knowledge, Literature,and Classics” (Adviser: Sheldon Garon), in June 2012.

Patrick Schwemmer (COM) presented at the MAR-AAS conference on a narrative picture scroll version of a noh play discovered and acquired the previous year by Japan’s National Noh Theatre. He passed his general exams in January and has begun a dis- sertation on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Japanese performance and narrative painting. This summer, Patrick will be conducting archival research at the Vatican, Chester Beatty, and British Libraries on an Erich Kahler Fellowship, then studying as a Visiting Researcher at Hōsei University’s Noh Theatre Research Institute and the National Institute of Japanese Literature.

Mårten Söderblom Saarela (EAS): During the year, Mårten was on campus doing coursework. In October 2011, he went to Leiden to participate in a graduate student conference on Korean studies and presented a paper on knowledge of Inner Asia in 18th- century Korea. In May 2012, he presented a paper at another graduate student conference at UCLA on the topic of multilingual phonology in China. During the summer, he will be in Beijing looking for and at books.

Wayne Soon (EAS): I conducted research at archives and libraries in Taiwan, China, and Singapore with funding from the Taiwan Fellowship of the ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Lee Kong Chian Fellowship of the National Library of Singapore. I pre- sented a paper at the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica, as well as at the annual AAS conference in Toronto, on the transnational and diasporic origins of the first Chinese blood bank. In addition, I presented tentative findings on the global and diasporic underpinnings of a new wartime Chinese health care system at the National University of Singapore in May 2012, and will continue to work on my dissertation entitled “Military Medicine and Scientific Research in the Republic of China: The Overseas Chinese and the American Intervention, 1926-1960.”

Jolyon Thomas (REL) made several conference presentations in the 2011–2012 school year. In October, he organized a panel and presented a paper at the MAR-AAS conference held at Princeton. In November, he presented a paper to the Japanese Religions Group at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting; a revised version was recently published in a special issue of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies on the aftermath of the 1995 Aum Shinrikyō incident. At the end of April, Jolyon served as a commentator for a session at the inaugural symposium for the new Center for Japanese Religions and Culture at the University of Southern California. He received a 20th-Century Japan Research Award supporting dissertation research at the University of Maryland Prange Collection this summer, and has just accepted a Fulbright for a year of dissertation research (2012–2013) in Tokyo. In May 2012, he was honored for excellence in teaching by Princeton University’s Graduate School.

During her first year as a PhD student in Princeton,Mercedes Valmisa (EAS) presented a paper entitled “Strategies for Freedom: Expansion of the Field of Phenomenality in the Zhuangzi” at the NEAAS Conference at Wellesley College, and was awarded the “Tsang Yee and Wai Kwan Chan So Fellowship for Chinese History and Culture” as a recognition of academic excellence. Together with fellow graduate student Sara Vantournhout, Mercedes organized an interdisciplinary reading group in philosophical read- ings of early Chinese texts, which already includes enthusiastic participants from five different departments. She hopes that this initiative will be an occasion to bring new approaches to the study of Chinese materials, as well as a channel to spread Chinese philosophical thought to other fields.

Brigid Vance (HIS) defended her dissertation, “Textualizing Dreams in a Late Ming Encyclopedia” (Adviser: Benjamin Elman), in May 2012. Shortly after graduation, she will head west to join the History Department at Colorado State University-Pueblo.

Zhiyi Yang (EAS) defended her dissertation, “Dialectics of Spontaneity: Art, Nature, and Persona In the Life and Works of Su Shi (1037-1101)” (Adviser: Martin Kern), in March 2012. She is to take up a position at Frankfurt University in the fall.

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Evan Young (EAS): I have spent the 2011-2012 academic year as a Junior Visiting Research Fellow at Keio University, Tokyo, and have concentrated on conducting research in the Tokyo area related to illness and healing in late Tokugawa Japan. This sum- mer I will venture outside the Kantō area to collect sources in Kyoto and Nagoya. I am looking forward to returning Princeton in September.

Faculty News

Amy Borovoy (EAS). In summer 2012, Borovoy published “Doi Takeo and the Rehabilitation of Particularism in Postwar Japan” in the Journal of Japanese Studies. The article is part of her current book manuscript, Japan in American Social Thought: The Question of Community. While in Tokyo as a Japan Foun- dation Research Fellow during 2011-2012, Borovoy presented new research on Robert Bellah’s writings on Japan and modernization theory at the Con- temporary Japan Group, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, and at the Asia Forum, International Christian University. Her work on Takeo Doi and Ruth Benedict is forthcoming in Kindai no ‘Nihon Ishiki’ no Seiritsu (The Making of Modern National Consciousness). Borovoy’s article (co-authored with Kristen Ghodsee), “Decentering Agency in Feminist Theory,” was pub- lished in Women’s Studies International Forum in April. In fall 2011, Borovoy also published “Beyond Choice: A New Framework for Abortion?” in Dissent Magazine. The essay draws on the Japanese experience to highlight the role of motherhood in sanctioning reproductive choice. She is currently begin- ning new research on medical decision-making and approaches to risk in Japan.

Janet Chen (HIS/EAS) was on sabbatical leave for the AY 2011-12. Her book Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953 was published by Princeton University Press in February. She is currently working a new proj- ect, provisionally titled “The Sounds of Mandarin: The Making of a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1912-1965.”

C.P. Chou (EAS) edited A Collection of Hu Shih’s English Writings (3 vols.) published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2012. He was invited to deliver a keynote speech on “Hu Shi on the 1911 Revolution and Sun Yat-sen” (胡适论辛亥革命与孙中山) for the International Conference in Memory of the 120th Anniversary of Hu Shi’s Birth, sponsored by the Academia Sinica in December 2011. Chou’s related article was published in the Journal of Modern Chinese Studies (2011). He also gave a keynote address on “Lin Yutang’s Spirit of Protest” （ 林语堂的抗争精神)at the International Conference on the Cross-cultural Legacy of Lin Yutang in China and America, held at the City University of Hong Kong in December 2011. Chou presented a paper titled “Happiness Is Innocent - Lin Yutang’s Philosophy of Life” at the conference on Leisure in Traditional and Modern China at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, April 2012.

Benjamin Elman (EAS/HIS) continued to serve as the East Asian Studies Department Chair. The Mellon Distinguished Achieve- ment Award he received in 2011 got off to a good start by supporting his research over the summer 2011 and the appointment of a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer, Mathias Vigouroux (see above, Department and Program News). In addition, Kathleen Amon joined the project as grant coordinator and has taken over the administration of the workshops supported by the Mellon Foundation in the upcoming year. Elman’s three-year research cluster (in collaboration with Susan Naquin), “East Asia and the Early Modern World—Fresh Perspectives on Material Culture, Social Formations, and Intellectual History, 1550-1800,” supported by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, with additional funding from the East Asian Studies Program, came to a formal conclusion with the end of the AY 2011-12. However, publications and further collaborations, amongst them a comparative project on China and India, of the researchers involved are to follow. For a full description of the cluster and work- shop listings, see: http://www.princeton.edu/piirs/research/research-clusters/early-modern-asia/

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Sheldon Garon (HIS/EAS) released his new book, Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves (Princeton Univer- sity Press). This is a global history of efforts to encourage saving in Japan, other Asian nations, Europe, and the United States, and it suggests what Americans might learn from high-saving countries. Garon has spoken widely about the book at events spon- sored by the Federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis and Minneapolis, JP Morgan Chase, World Savings Banks Institute (Brussels), New America Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt). His op-ed, “Why We Spend, Why They Save” appeared in the New York Times, and the book has also attracted media attention from NPR, BBC, Australian Broad- casting Corporation, The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Foreign Policy, CNN.com, Financial Times Deutschland, Asahi shinbun, U.S. News & World Report, and The Australian. He is presently working on his next book, Home Fronts: A Transnational Study of Japan, Germany, Britain, and the U.S. in World War II.

Martin Kern (EAS) continued to pursue his interests in authorship, text formation, and literary style in early China, ranging from excavated manuscripts to the Shiji, and from the Shangshu to the Xunzi. Over the year, he presented his new research at several Chinese universities, in Jerusalem, and at North American institutions. In November 2011, he co-organized (with Michael Hunter and Oliver Weingarten) the international conference “The Analects—An Eastern Han Text?” that will lead to an edited volume of text-critical, linguistic, and historical essays. Kern also joined the Academic Board of the new International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization at Fudan University, Shanghai, and further continued his work as co-editor of T’oung Pao and of the mono- graph series Studies in the History of Chinese Texts. Together with Dirk Meyer (Oxford), he is now launching a multi-year interna- tional research project on “The Shangshu and the Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy.”

David Leheny (EAS) returned from a year-long sabbatical in Japan to teach new courses on East Asian international relations and to add Vietnam to the subject matter of the EAS Department’s gateway course, Contemporary East Asia. While writing his book manuscript, The Empire of Hope: The Politics of Japanese Decline, Disaster, and Reconstruction, Leheny also served as the conference manager of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, held at Princeton in October 2011, and the co-organizer of the Teaching About Asia Workshop that welcomed nearly 100 high-school teachers from the region to a day-long discussion of current issues in East and South Asia. He is also organizing the first PIIRS Global Seminar in Tokyo, Hope as the New Normal: Tokyo After the Disaster, which fol- lows his earlier seminar in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Noriko Manabe (MUS) spent part of her sabbatical at the Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai) on a Japan Foundation Fellowship. She conducted research on antinuclear protest music post-Fukushima, observing sound demonstrations and interviewing musicians and organizers; she formulated a typology of intertextual approaches to protest music. She also conducted fieldwork on electronic dance music for her monograph,Musical Subcultures in Japan: The Aesthetics of Rebellion and Belonging in Rock, Reggae, Hip-Hop, and Electronic Dance Music, and wrote chapters for her book on Japanese children’s songs. She presented her work at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Group, the Japan Association for the Study of Popular Music, and various symposia at Geidai and other Tokyo-based universities.

Susan Naquin (HIS/EAS) completed the “Artisans and Artifacts” segment of the PIIRS Project on East Asia and the Early Modern World with two events on April 13-14, 2012, under the title “The Changing Meanings of Work in Twentieth Century China,” described below under “Events.” Hoping to discourage further dull work on the subject, Naquin also gave a lecture to a graduate student conference at UC Berkeley in January entitled “Who Cares About Identity?”

Willard Peterson (EAS) presented a paper entitled “Changing Pieces: Some Reflections on Criteria for Selecting, Incorporating and Resisting Knowledge from Other Literate Traditions during the Ming-Qin Period” at the First Templeton Conference on Science and Religion in East Asia: Science and Christianity in the Encounter of Confucian East Asia with the West 1600-1800, held at Seoul National University in December 2011.

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Gil Rozman (SOC) is in the second year of a three-year transition to retirement. He moved to Washington, DC, where he spent the first year at the Woodrow Wilson Center. After teaching SOC 303/ EAS 303: Strategic Asia in the fall semester of the second year, he will teach the same course at Princeton one last time in the fall of 2012. Recently, he has edited or co-edited books based on panels organized by the Asan Institute and the Korea Economic Institute. Updating his book Chinese Strategic Thought toward Asia for a paperback edition, he brought to completion the PIIRS project on Strategic Thought toward Asia. In addition, in 2012 publication is scheduled for books based on conferences supported by the EAS Program (Mercer Trust Fund). They are East Asian National Identity: Common Roots and Chinese Exceptionalism, and National Identity and Bilateral Relations: Widening Gaps in East Asia and Chinese De- monization of the United States.

Jerome Silbergeld (A&ARCH) stayed busy this year with twelve presentations on the lecture circuit, and he chaired the gallery committee and the contemporary arts collection committee at the Asia Society, New York, and served on the gallery committee for the China Institute and the editorial committee of the Archives of Asian Art. Topics in his publications included documentary Chinese pho- tography, Chinese film music, an essay entitled “Photography Goes to the Movies: On the Boundaries of Cinematography, Photog- raphy, and Videography,” Chinese architecture as depicted in 10th-14th century painting, and a radically revised interpretation of the emergence of literati painting in 10th-14th century China. He was co-editor of the 960-page volume Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art History in Honor of Wen C. Fong, published by the Tang Center for East Asian Art and Princeton University Press, and he continued to serve as director of the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art.

Stephen F. Teiser (REL) convened the academic review committee of the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chi- nese University of Hong Kong and continued with his regular duties as Director of the EAS Program (see Director’s Letter, above). He also joined colleagues in Dunhuang studies from Japan (Tokio Takata) and Taiwan (Acai Zheng, Sanqing Wang), delivering lectures at the Academia Sinica and the National Central Library. His coedited volume (with Morten Schlütter) Readings of the Plat- form Sutra was published early in 2012 by Columbia University Press. He is also finishing the coediting (with Franciscus Verellen) of a special issue of the journal Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie on the subject of Buddhism, Daoism, and Chinese religion, based on a 2010 Princeton conference sponsored by the Program in EAS (Mercer Trust).

Andrew Watsky (A&ARCH): This past year I continued my work on sixteenth-century chanoyu, or tea ceremony. Part of my research concerns a tea jar named Chigusa, a ceramic vessel of little worth in its original Chinese context, but which was appro- priated by Japanese tea masters and designated as an excellent object, one of the best in Japan. It was acquired recently by the Freer/Sackler Museum in Washington, DC, and is now the focus of a series of projects, including a webinar last fall in which several colleagues and I lectured on Chigusa and then fielded questions live from an international audience. I am also working with these colleagues on an exhibition centered around Chigusa; the exhibition will travel to the Princeton University Art Museum in a couple of years, at which time I will teach an undergraduate seminar on chanoyu. I lectured widely on different aspects of my chanoyu research, including at the Bard Graduate Center, Columbia University, and the annual AAS conference in Toronto.

Lynn T. White (WWS) has now been dubbed an emeritus professor and “senior research scholar” at Princeton. In October 2011, he attended a conference in Hangzhou and gave a paper on “governance” in China that has now been accepted for publication in the Journal of Contemporary China. On March 15, 2012, the EAS Program joined the WWS and PIIRS in sponsoring a conference on “Democracy in China and Southeast Asia?” All twenty of the China politics or law professors who gave papers at this conference or participated in a roundtable had formerly been White’s students. Some, especially the China law professors, had been under- graduates at Princeton and received their Chinese language training in the EAS Department; all others hold doctorates from the Politics Department. It is expected that a book will emerge from the papers presented at this conference.

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In fall 2011, Everett Zhang (EAS) conducted fieldwork comparing two earthquakes in Tangshan (Hebei) and Wenchuan County (Sichuan), for his ongoing project on death, trauma and grieving. He gave a lecture in September at the Center for Mental Health of Kailuan Coalmining Corporation in Tangshan on the topic of anthropological studies of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). He made a presentation at the “East Asian Studies Symposium on Post-disaster Psychiatric Care,” organized by National Disaster Reduction Center of China in Beijing, in November. He is coauthor of the book Deep China, published in the fall 2011by seven anthropologists of China ; his chapter, “China’s Sexual Revolution,” is a review and analysis of the tremendous change in sexuality in China over the past three decades.

East Asian Studies Program Events 2011-12

Lecture Series

A Rising China versus a Status Quo America: Converging Interests and Diverging Views October 19, 2011 Jisi Wang, Dean of Peking University’s School of International Studies and Princeton Global Scholar. Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, co-sponsored by the EAS Program.

The Deep Structure of Song Dynasty Government; or, Did Southern Song Have a Military-Industrial Complex? November 9, 2011 Charles Hartman, SUNY Albany.

Who is Zhihuilun (?-875/876)? An Assessment of Late Tang Esoteric Buddhism November 16, 2011 Jinhua Chen, The University of British Columbia. Buddhist Studies Workshop, co-sponsored by the EAS Program.

Classical Chinese: New Ways of Teaching an Old Language November 17, 2011 Paul van Els, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

The Early Modern Monastic University in Tibet: A Cross-Cultural Comparison December 7, 2011 Gray Tuttle, Columbia University.

Matteo Ricci and the “Saracens” of Canton: The Birth of Jesuit Dialogue with (European) Empire December 8, 2011 Zvi Ben-Dor, New York University. Hosted by the EAS Program, co-sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

Labrang Monastery, Tibet

Science under Siege: The Introduction of Hans Driesch’s Vitalism and the Debate on the Validity of Science for National Reform in Post- WWI China December 14, 2011 Kevin Chang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

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Temple Under Auspicious Clouds: Sino-Japanese Connections and the Search for Buddhist-Chinese Architecture, 1920s-1930s February 15, 2012 Vimalin Rujivacharakul, University of Delaware.

Heroic Human Pixels: Mass Ornaments and Digital Multitudes in Zhang Yimou’s Art February 16, 2012 Jason McGrath, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund (Humanities Council), co-sponsored by the EAS Program.

Development of “the Learning” in the Medicine of the Japanese Early Modern Period February 22, 2012 Senjuro Machi, Nishogakusha University, Japan. Lecture in Japanese.

Religion in China Today February 29, 2012 Fenggang Yang, Purdue University. Department of Religion, co-sponsored by the EAS Program.

Seeing like a Citizen, Acting like a Leader in Modern China March 7, 2012 David Strand, Dickinson College.

The Belated Revenge of Ōmiwa no Takechimaro: Legacy and Lore in 8th-c. Japan March 28, 2012 Jason Webb, University of Oregon.

衣冠、礼仪与秩序：从1790年安南国王热河祝寿及请求改易服色说起 Ritual Attire, Etiquette, and Precedence: Concerning the Vietnam King’s Celebra- tion of Emperor Qianlong’s Birthday in 1790 and His Request to Change Clothing April 4, 2012 Ge Zhaoguang, Fudan University, PRC, and Princeton Global Scholar. Lecture in Chinese, abstract and discussion in English.

The Paradox of Communists Effectively Promoting Capitalism April 5, 2012 Martin K. Whyte, Harvard University. Contemporary China Colloquium, co-sponsored by the EAS Program.

Inscription and Reinvention: “Dream of the Red Chamber” on the Internet April 12, 2012 Carlos Rojas, Duke University. Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund (Humanities Council), co-sponsored by the EAS Program. See book illustration above.

Global Art and Chinese Culture. A conversation with Wenda Gu April 13, 2012 Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Tang Center for East Asian Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, and the EAS Program. See image of Gu’s “Free Expression” on following page.

Populating and Imagining the Southwest Frontier: Community Membership and Political Boundaries in Qing and 20th Century Yunnan April 18, 2012 Ken Pomeranz, University of California at Irvine.

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Medium Disaster 311 April 20, 2012 Akira Lippit, University of California at Los Angeles.

China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization April 25, 2012 Roselyn Hsueh, Temple University.

From Yomihon to Gôkan: Adaptation of Kyokutei Bakin’s Hakkenden April 26, 2012 Jim Reichert, Stanford University.

Competitive Temporalities and Historical Societies: The Place of the Early Modern April 30, 2012 Prasenjit Duara, Asia Research Institute, Singapore. Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, co-sponsored by the EAS Program.

Mount Fuji Religion: The Debate over Talismanic Practices May 3, 2012 Janine Sawada, Brown University. Department of Religion, co-sponsored by the EAS Program.

Hermeneutics of Omens: Moral Cosmology and Power Struggles in the Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE-8 CE) May 16, 2012 Liang Cai, University of Arkansas.

Unless noted otherwise, the EAS Program was the primary host for the above-listed events. For current listings, see the program’s website at http://www.princeton.edu/eap/events/

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Annual Lectures 2011-12

The 6th Annual F.W. Mote Memorial Lecture, “From Bronze Cast- ing to Carnelian Beads: Technologies from Inner Asia that Changed China, c.2000-500 BC,” was delivered on October 4, 2011, in 202 Jones Hall by Dame Jessica Rawson. The annual lecture in honor of Professor Mote is made possible by the generosity of his family and friends via contributions to the F. W. Mote Memorial Lecture Fund, as well as through the support of the EAS Program. This lectureship invites to Princeton distinguished scholars of Chinese studies.

Dame Rawson is Professor Emerita of Chinese Art and Archaeology in the Oxford Centre for Asian Archaeology Art and Culture in the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK. She was Warden of Merton College, Oxford University, 1994-2010. Prior to her appoint- ment at Oxford, she worked in the Department of Oriental Antiqui- ties at the British Museum for over twenty years. She holds degrees from Cambridge University in History and from London University in Chinese Language and Literature. Her current work concerns religion and ritual changes in the Zhou, Qin and Han period (1000 BC – AD 200) and she has also written extensively on Tang dynasty (AD 618 – 906) silver and ceramics, especially on Chinese ornament and design. In her lecture, she explained that research by archaeo- metallurgists in Russia and China demonstrates that China’s first uses of copper and bronze were very probably not based upon independent invention in the Yellow River basin but were stimu- lated by developments in the steppe, a region that was, in turn, dependent on the metallurgy of Western Asia. Other innovations taken over by the early Chinese from the steppe include horse- drawn chariots, the use of iron and the carnelian beads in the title of the talk. These last were combined with traditional jade carvings and small bronzes in new forms of coffin decoration and élite burial dress from about 800 BC. Indeed, all these new technologies and materials were drawn into the heart of Shang and Zhou court activities and their ritual traditions.

The 7th Annual Marius B. Jansen Memorial Lecture, entitled “The Many Lives of the Japanese Employment System,” was given by Andrew Gordon, Harvard University, on May 2, 2012. This annual lecture series was established in 2006 to honor the memory of Professor Marius B. Jansen by bringing eminent scholars of Japanese Studies to Princeton.

Gordon is the Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University and has served as the Director of the Reis- chauer Institute since 2011. His teaching and research focuses primarily on modern Japan. Gordon has also taught Japan’s pre- modern history, and courses on comparative history of labor His books include A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present (2002) and The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan (1998). He recently published Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan (2011). In his lecture, he pointed out that, from the moment Japan’s employment system was identified as a distinctive entity in the 1950s, scholars and journalists in Japan and elsewhere have been predicting or advocating its demise. His talk outlined the undeniably profound changes of the past two decades in the context of this longer past, with particular focus on the rise of various forms of contingent or “non-regular” employment.

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East Asian Studies Conferences and Workshops 2011-12

40th Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference Human Rights and Social Justice in Asia October 21-23, 2011 Hosted by Princeton’s East Asian Studies Department and Program, with support from the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. David Leheny (EAS) was Conference Manager; Beate Witzler (EAS Program Coordinator) was Conference Coordinator; Maria Toyoda (Villanova University) and Charles Desnoyers (LaSalle University) were Program Co-Chairs; Leslie Solo- mon was Workshop Organizer.

Friday, October 21 consisted of a Teaching About Asia Workshop, an outreach program for high school teachers in the region, featuring presentations by Princeton’s faculty in History and East Asian Studies Janet Chen, Michael Laf- fan, David Leheny, and Gyan Prakash on issues related to modernization in Asia. Firestone Library’s Cotsen Children’s Collection offered a related special exhibit of 20th-century East Asian youth literature, curated by Art & Archeol- ogy graduate student Sammy Li, and the Princeton University Art Museum provided guided tours of the exhibit “Multiple Hands: Collective Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Painting” as well as of its Asian Collection. The Workshop was organized by Lesley Solomon, Ph.D., longtime coordinator for the EAS Program’s participation in the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia, an outreach program for K-12 teachers.

The conference’s overall theme for Saturday, October 22 and Sunday, October 23 was Human Rights and Social Justice in Asia, but a wide range of research interests and topics was covered in more than 40 panels and roughly 200 papers, including many by Princeton graduate students and faculty.

At the concluding banquet, the Association’s Distinguished Asianist Award was bestowed on Martin Collcutt (Princeton University, EAS and History), in recognition of his contributions to scholarship and development of the field.

Japan’s Oldest Archive: A Workshop on the Shōsōin March 24-25, 2012 Organized by graduate students Christopher Mayo and Bryan Lowe, Princeton University. Supported by the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, Northeast Asia Council of the Association of Asian Studies, and Princeton’s Council of the Humanities, Graduate School, East Asian Studies Program, Buddhist Studies Workshop, and Religion Department.

Attended by over 40 national and international graduate students and faculty, the workshop (conducted in Japanese) consisted of a hands-on seminar stretching over two days taught by the world’s leading authority on the the Shōsōin 正倉院 corpus. The archive contains over 10,000 documents from the Nara period,addressing topics such as tax collection, censuses, temple construction, calligraphy, poetry, and the state-sanctioned scriptorium. The material represents the single best source for un- derstanding the religious and economic history of early Japan, while also providing intimate glimpses into the lives of common- ers who have otherwise disappeared from the historical record. Towao Sakaehara (Osaka City University, emeritus) taught the workshop. For further details, see http://www.princeton.edu/~shosoin/index.html.

Routes of Modernity: China-Iberia-Philippines March 30, 2012 Organized by Rachel Price (Spanish and Portuguese), sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies, co-sponsored by the EAS Program.

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The End of the -ist and the Future of Art History March 30-31, 2012 Graduate conference organized by second-year graduate student Kristen D. Windmuller (A&ARCH in African Art), suppored by the Department of Art & Archaeology, the Department of French & Italian, Program in Latin American Studies, Program in EAS, Council of the Humanities, Renaissance Studies, and Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies.

The eleven panelists hailed from the United States, the Netherlands and Belgium, representing nine schools. The conference sought to explore the ways in which the actual creation of art defies the strict geographical and temporal restrictions currently programmatized by the academic institution of art history and to question the continued value of periodization and geographic specialization in a field where current trends in scholarship point to a long history of global artistic interchange. For further de- tails, see http://futureofarthistoryconference.wordpress.com/

The Changing Meanings of Work in Twentieth-Century China April 13-14, 2012 Two events organized by Susan Naquin (EAS, History) concluding the “Artisans and Artifacts” segment of the PIIRS Project on East Asia and the Early Modern World. The first was an evening lecture given by Wenda Gu谷文達, a well known multi-media artist based in New York City. In “Global Art and Chinese Culture: A Conversation with Wenda Gu,” Gu first showed a retrospective video and then chatted on stage with Jerome Silbergeld (A&ARCH) about art- and work-related matters. The following day there was an all-day conference aimed at generating further research in this area, on how older ways of thinking about and doing craft work changed after 1900. Participants included Janet Chen (Princeton), Dorothy Ko (Barnard College) , and Mareile Flitsch (Völkerkun- demuseum Universität, Zürich), Jacob Eyferth (University of Chicago), Geoffrey Gowlland (SOAS), and Maris Gillette (Haverford College).

20th Conference on Chinese Language Instruction, 普林斯顿大学对外汉语教学研讨会 April 28, 2012 Hosted by C.P. Chou (EAS), sponsored by the EAS Program. 25 language educators presented papers, and the conference drew 140 attendees, including the Princeton team of teachers.

Visualizing Asia in the Modern World: An Academic Conference on Image-driven Scholarship May 11-12, 2012 Two-day conference organized by Sheldon Garon (HIS, EAS), sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Council on the Humanities, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, and the Program in EAS.

“New Horizons in Japanese Language Education”: The 19th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum May 19-20, 2012 Organized by Shinji Sato (EAS), the event was a tribute to Seiichi Makino (EAS), who was the director of Princeton’s Japanese Language Program and retired at the end of June 2012. More than 200 participants from all over the world attended the Forum, which was sponsored by the EAS Program and Department, PIIRS, the Columbia Japanese Language Pedagogy Program, and other groups. See http://www.princeton.edu/pjpf/index.xml.

Associated Programs Buddhist Studies Workshop

The Buddhist Studies Workshop, supported by the Center for the Study of Religion, the EAS Program, and others, sponsored seven lectures, a monthly discussion of Buddhist ethics, and a two-day workshop on early Japanese sources for the study of Bud- dhism. Juhyung Rhi (Seoul National University) spoke on early Indian Buddhist iconography, Jinhua Chen (University of British Columbia) spoke on Chinese esotericism, Huaiyu Chen (Arizona State University) talked about the conceptualization of animals in Chinese Buddhism, Yan Dai (Fudan University) lectured on Buddhism and Chinese literature, Lori Meeks (University of Southern

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California) addressed beliefs about female pollution and salvation in Japan, Seiji Hoshino (Kokugakuin University) addressed Buddhism and new religions in Japan, and Justin McDaniel (University of Pennsylvania) reflected on art, birds, and Buddhism in Thailand.

The Buddhist Ethics Reading Group was led by Jonathan C. Gold (REL) and Khenpo Lama Pema Wangdak (a Tibetan monk and a leading teacher of Tibetan Buddhism in the NY/NJ area). After an introductory session on “Compassion as the Root of Liberation: A Conversation on Buddhist Ethics,” the group discussed chapters from the Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (Bodhicaryāvatāra) by the Indian Buddhist author Śāntideva.

“Japan’s Oldest Archive: A Workshop on the Shōsōin,” organized by graduate students Bryan D. Lowe (REL) and Christopher Mayo (EAS), met March 24-25, 2012. The event was led by the world’s preeminent scholar on early Japanese manuscripts, Towao Sakae- hara (Osaka City University).

For further details, see http://www.princeton.edu/csr/current-research/buddhist/.

Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program

The Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (CWP) continues to promote research in the area of China’s foreign relations within the discipline of international relations. With guidance from director Tom Christensen (POL) and assistant director Yan Bennett, the Program offers postdoctoral fellowships to exceptional scholars conducting research within this field, hosts a popular speaker series on current top- ics of the day, and forges interdisciplinary ties with China experts in other fields as well as policy-makers and academics.

This past year, Christensen returned from sabbatical in which he spent much of his time in Asia doing research. He recently published his new book, Worse than a Monolith (Princeton University Press) which focuses on relations between the Com- munist and anti-Communist alliances in Asia during the Cold War. The Program hosted four postdoctoral fellows, who were engaged in finishing book manuscripts, presenting papers, and collaborating with faculty at both universities. The Program also invited many China experts, including Dean Jisi Wang, James Mulvenon, Daniel Rosen, Li Cheng, and David Finkelstein to speak. Finally, the Program co-sponsored the annual CWP Workshop at Harvard University to discuss the postdoctoral fellows’ research.

The Program’s lectures for the past academic year may be found at http://www.princeton.edu/cwp/events_archive/index.xml.

P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art

In the 2011–12 academic year, the Tang Center, under director Jerome Silbergeld and associate director Dora C. Y. Ching, pursued a rigorous publication program and offered a wide range of academic activities including lectures, workshops, and symposia. In fall 2011, the Tang Center celebrated the release of Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong, a two-volume festschrift of thirty-eight full-length research essays addressing a wide range of subjects, building bridges in many directions, from early jades and bronzes through traditional painting and prints, to photography, cinema, and modern museum practice. The Tang Center closed the academic year with the release of a second book, Commemorative Landscape Painting in China, by Anne de Coursey Clapp. This richly illustrated book studies an important genre of Ming-dynasty Chinese painting in which landscapes serve as disguised portraits that celebrate an individual and his achievements, ambitions, and tastes in an open effort to win recognition, support, and social status.

Throughout the year, The Tang Center continued its deep scholarly engagement with issues in East Asian art and culture involving scholars, students, and the public. Among this past year’s highlights were four lectures ranging in topics from Korean ceramics to

20 East Asian Studies Annual Report iconographical studies in Buddhism and paintings of demons; the fifth graduate student symposium in East Asian art, on “Myths and Orthodoxies in East Asian Art and Art History,” which focused on how myths and orthodoxies have given rise to compelling beliefs and canonical lineages in the arts and art histories of East Asia; and the lecture series Empire and Artistic Practice in the Era of Manchu Rule (1644–1911) featuring Claudia Brown, professor of art history at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University, as speaker. The Tang Center also continued to collaborate with Princeton’s Art Museum and contrib- uted toward the acquisition of a collaborative multimedia work combining photography and ink painting by Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney, two artists who were featured in the Tang Center’s and the Art Museum’s 2009 exhibition Outside In: Chinese × American × Contemporary Art. For further information, please visit the website www.princeton.edu/tang.

Collaboration with Fudan University, Shanghai, and Tokyo University, Japan

In recent years, the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Fudan University, the East Asian Studies Department and Program at Princeton University, and the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo have collaborated in scholarly activities in the fields of East Asian History, Religion, and Culture. To strengthen these ties and to promote increased scholarly collaboration, the three institutions agreed to develop an aca- demic consortium in 2011. All three institutions are taking turns in holding an annual international symposium on a chosen topic in Asian History and Culture, in the format of a two-day symposium with about 15 participants. Scholarly publications are to follow the symposia. The first meeting was held December 19-20, 2011, at Tokyo University, under the general topic of what globalism looks like from an East Asian regional perspective. The second meeting will be held at Fudan University in December 2012. For the third meeting, Princeton University plans to host a conference on Early Modern East Asia, with a focus on China, Japan, and Korea, in December 2013. These regular collaborations will promote scholarly exchanges by en- couraging visits, research, and study opportunities for professors, research- ers, post-doctoral scholars, and pre-doctoral (A.B.D.) graduate students from the three institutions. Image taken during Annual Conference in December, attendees in a Nagasaki restaurant “Sakamotoya,” catering to Japanese-Dutch cuisine.

Contemporary China Colloquium 2011-2012

The newly-formed Contemporary China Colloquium (CCC) is a student-led initiative intended to bring together graduate stu- dents, post-docs, and faculty in the social sciences and related disciplines whose work or research interests are relevant to con- temporary (1949 to the present) China. Organizers for 2011-12 were Liza Steele (SOC), Alan X. Feng (ECO), Douglas Gildow (REL), and Megan Steffen (ANT). The initiative is funded by the East Asian Studies Program, and co-sponsored by the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program. Presentations take place over dinner in a relatively informal workshop setting, and the group wel- comes participation from scholars at all stages of study. Proposals for presentations to be given during the 2012-2013 academic year or requests to be on the mailing list may be sent to [email protected].

In 2011-12, the CCC arranged for six talks by Princeton students and post-doctoral researchers from a range of departments and programs, including Anthropology, CWP, History of Science, Politics, Sociology, and the Woodrow Wilson School. In addition, the group hosted its first guest speaker, Professor Martin Whyte from Harvard University’s Department of Sociology.

Oct. 13, 2011 Zhenqing Zhang, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (CWP) Meeting the Challenges of Building an Innovative Country: A Chinese Model for Science and Technology Development at the Turn of the New Century?

Nov. 10, 2011 Howard Chiang, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science Transsexuality and the Chinese Body Politic in Sinophone Taiwan

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Dec. 1, 2011 Adam P. Liff, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Politics Emerging Security Dilemmas in East Asia? Assessing the Region’s Responses to China’s Military Build-up

Feb. 23, 2012 Megan Steffen, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Shanghai in Theory: Realism, Chinese Film History and Jia Zhangke’s I Wish I Knew (2010)

Mar. 15, 2012 Eddie Skolnick, ‘12, WWS Microblogging and the Development of Virtual Civil Society in China

Apr. 5, 2012 (Public Lecture) Martin K. Whyte, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University The Paradox of Communists Effectively Promoting Capitalism

Apr. 19, 2012 Jaeeun Kim, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion Between Two Socialist Fatherlands: Ethnic Koreans in China during the Cold War

East Asian Library and Gest Collection

The East Asian Library continues to thrive as a major resource center, supporting research conducted not only locally but also nationally and internationally. While the library’s number of new print acquisitions is similar to that of other libraries, few other libraries equal Princeton’s e-resources. At present, the East Asian Library is the only library in North America to have access to two important databases: the Shen Bao (1872- 1949), China’s equivalent of The Times and The New York Times; and the North China Herald, an English weekly published in Shanghai from 1850 to 1940. The library has also joined various cooperative projects to increase its purchasing power.

Library staff members pay as much attention to providing services as to collecting. They prepare an online list of new acquisi- tions because a large portion of our acquisitions is sent to remote storage, and they also include more content information in the cataloging records.

At this time, the library is in the final stage of negotiations with the National Library of China regarding a number of major coop- erative projects. A revised catalog of traditional Chinese editions is also upcoming. Long-time Japanese Studies librarian, Mrs. Yasuko Makino, retired at the end of June 2012, and she will be missed by all. She is one of the most respected people in her field and, over the years, spent considerable time and energy in preparing various reference guides for Japanese Studies. Her latest guide related to the humanities and social sciences will soon be available, both online and in print.

Last but not least, Princeton has been invited to join a consortium of key Korean collections in North America, supported by the Korea Foundation. Consortium membership is crucial so that the library can use its new and existing resources judiciously and can rely on its peers to augment its collection.

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Editorial Information:

Photo Credits:

Cover: Japanese, Edo period, 1600–1868 Nakaharu, n.d., Tsuba (sword guard): A-gyo Kongo rikishi in temple gate 1766 (Meiwa 3). Princeton University Art Museum. The Mildred von Kienbusch Collection of Tsubas, given in 1914 by Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Class of 1906 p. 6: Chinese Qing dynasty, 1644–1912, Shitao, 1642–1707, Three Peaks of the Upper Realm (Shangjie san feng), from Luo-Fu Mountains (Luo-Fu shan shuhua ce) ca. 1701–05. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation. Photo: Bruce M. White p.9: Japanese, Edo period, 1600–1868, Suzuki Harunobu, 1725–1770, Lighting a Lamp-Sunset Glow (Andon no sekisho) ca. 1766. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum Purchase, Anne Van Biema Collection Fund. Photo: Bruce M. White p.11: Japanese, Edo period, 1600–1868, Ando Hiroshige, 1797–1858, Kanaya, from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Kanaya, ca. 1855. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of Anne van Biema. Photo: Bruce M. White p.12: Japanese. Kamakura period, 1185–1333, Mandala of the Kasuga Shrine (Kasuga mandara), early 14th century. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr. Photo: Bruce M. White p.13: Japanese, Meiji period, 1868–1912, Taisho period, 1912–1926, Anonymous. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of Alice and Bernard Gerb in memory of Pauline Lester. Photo: Bruce M. White p.16: Chinese, Modern period, 1912–present, Gu Wenda, born 1955, Free Expression, 1989. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of Jerome Silbergeld and Michelle DeKlyen, in honor of Wen C. Fong, Class of 1951 and Graduate School Class of 1958, and Constance Tang Fong. Photo: Bruce M. White p.17: Pendant set from tomb M26 at Liangdaicun, Hancheng, Shaanxi Province. The hanging strings carry carnelian, jade and faience beads. 8th -7th century BC. After Cai Qingling, Sun Bingjun, Rui Guo jinyu xuancui-Shaanxi Hancheng Chunqiu baozang, Xi’an 2007. Photo courtesy of Dame Rawson. p.18: Korean, Goryeo dynasty, 918–1392, Melon ewer with lotus-flower design, 12th century. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921. Photo: Bruce M. White p.20: Chinese, Eastern Zhou dynasty, 770–256 B.C., Warring States period, ca. 470–221 B.C. Openwork disk with entwined drag- ons, 5th century B.C. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of Mrs. Albert E. McVitty. Photo: Bruce M. White p.22: Chinese, Qing dynasty, 1644–1912, Shitao, 1642–1707, Luo-Fu Mountains (Luo-Fu shan shuhua ce), ca. 1701–05 Album of 8 leaves (4 of painting, 4 of calligraphy). Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation. Photo: Bruce M. White

This Annual Report for Princeton University’s East Asian Studies Department and Program is published in July/August by the East Asian Studies Program and is also available online. Unless otherwise stated, all activities reported are sponsored and organized by the East Asian Studies Program or Department, either solely or in collaboration with other departments or programs on cam- pus. Comments are welcome and should be addressed to the Program Coordinator.

Design/Editorial: Beate Witzler Email: [email protected] Phone: 609.258.9350 Fax: 609.258.2099

23 Annual Report 2011-12 Contents Director’s Letter 2 Department and Program News 3 Language Programs 5 Undergraduates 5 Graduate Students 7 Faculty 11 Events 14 Associated Programs 19 Library 22

East Asian Studies Program Administration 2011-12: Director: Stephen F. Teiser Manager: Richard Chafey Coordinator: Beate Witzler

East Asian Studies Department Administration 2011-12: Chair: Benjamin Elman Departmental Representative: Steven Chung Director of Graduate Studies: Atsuko Ueda Manager: Donna Musial-Manners Undergraduate Secretary: June Balint Graduate Secretary: Hue Su Financial Assistant: Susan Doran Technical Specialist: Brandon Ermita

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