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EACS Newsletter No. 36, June, 2006

EACS addresses and newsletter...... 2 Letter of the president ...... 3 Announcement from the treasurer …………...... 4 A note from the editor...... 4 Nomination for election to office for president.... 5 Nominations for election of the board...... 5 Venue for the 2010 conference ...... 5 Young scholar award ...... 6 Conference announcements ...... 7 Conference reports ...... 9 Project announcement ...... 10 CCK Foundation Library Travel Grant ...... 11 New publications ...... 14 EACS payment form ...... 15

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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 Affairs, 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 Olga Lomová, Institute of East Asian in non-Latin script such as Cyrillic are welcome provided that the author’s Studies, Charles University, Celetná name is in transcription and a short 20, 116 42 PRAHA 1, Czech content summary in English is Republic included. Tel. +420 24 49 14 21 Every effort is made to include Fax +420 24 49 14 23 all relevant news, but the Editor E-mail: [email protected] reserves the right to edit all contributions for publication.

Treasurer Newsletter Editor Matthias Richter, Universität Ham- Ann Heirman, Department of burg, Asien-Afrika-Institut (), and Culture, Ghent Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 Ost, D- University, Blandijnberg 2, B9000 20146 Hamburg, Germany Gent, Belgium. Tel. +32 9 264 41 56; Tel. +49 40 42838 2359 fax +32 9 264 41 94 Fax +49 40 42838 3106 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: matthias.richter@uni- hamburg.de

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LETTER OF THE PRESIDENT library visits. This year thanks to the generosity of the Foundation we shall Dear Colleagues and Friends, again be in a position to give grants to a limited number of applicants. So far 5 Our next conference to be held in applications have been selected. is approaching, and preparations are in full swing. They Last year we established the EACS started last September with our board database which after several meeting in Ljubljana and since then complications seems to work now. I have been in safe hands with Mitja Saje thank all those members who already and his Conference Team. The have entered their data into the refereeing process of the submitted database and appeal to those who have paper proposals has been concluded in not yet done so to register as well and April and the submitters have been to keep their data up to date. We are informed by the organizers whether very glad that the database greatly their papers have been accepted. facilitated changes or corrections to the Altogether there will be presented membership data, checking of some 180 papers. I am sure the membership fees and applications for conference will be as interesting and membership. The growing number of instructive and of the same quality as new young members using online the last ones. We are in contact with a application is a good indication of the British publisher contemplating the usefulness of this convenient tool possibilities of publishing a conference encouraging us to make wider use of it. volume with selected papers. I take the opportunity of this letter to At this year’s conference for the second inform you that I would be prepared to time we shall be able to honour a continue the office of president for young scholar with the EACS Young another two years in case I shall be re- Scholar Award. The deadline for the elected. At the same time, however, I submission of papers was 30 April; should like to encourage you to think however it was extended for one of other candidates and to send your month, because there were several nominations to the secretary general. enquiries about possible late submission. Since the competition I also take this opportunity to thank the takes place only once in two years, we Conference Team and the referees who decided to postpone the deadline in evaluated the paper proposals for their order to receive as many qualified efforts to make the conference a papers as possible. success. I hope to see many of you in Ljubljana! During the last two years, our Library Travel Programme supported by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation has May 10, 2006 Brunhild Staiger successfully been carried out. Last year 11 young scholars were granted travel expenses and per diem allowances for

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ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE The completion of the entries in the TREASURER database will also be vital in the future for distributing the newsletter. The upcoming conference has brought Applicants for membership please note about an increase in membership as a that the requirement to name a sponsor result both of a fair number of new does not imply any financial support by applications and of some renewals of the sponsor, but merely that you name membership. As already announced in an EACS member who could, if the last newsletter and on the website, necessary, confirm your scholarly all membership affairs will from now interest in China. This regulation has on be managed by means of a database. been reintroduced on account of some I would like to thank all members who applications by persons who apparently have already completed their data for desire membership in the EACS for their cooperation. At the same time, on reasons unrelated to the aims of the behalf of the board I would like to ask Association. all others to kindly contact me (e-mail: The assets of the Association are in [email protected]) to good shape. I will report on the get the necessary login information and situation to the general assembly at the then complete their entry in the conference and in the autumn database. If you remember when you newsletter. Invoices to members who joined EACS, please include this have not yet paid this year’s dues will information so that I can enter it in the be sent along with this newsletter. part of the database only accessible to the administrators. Matthias Richter

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR I hear that in some cases there have been technical problems with database access. I will be happy to help as much It is the aim of the newsletter to as I can to solve these problems. provide information of all kinds on the Should some members not be able to sinological world, including on surmount the technical obstacles, I will activities, publications, scholarships, also provide a conventional survey and other issues of interest to the field. form and then enter the data myself. I would like to thank those of you who have sent me their contributions After discussing this matter in the for this issue of the newsletter. I am previous board and also in the current convinced, however, that much more is one, we are firmly convinced that the going on in the sinological world that database will make communication did not reach my mailbox! Just let me between all members easier and will know so that the news can be spread. thus be of benefit to everybody. That is I also would like to thank Tim why we ask you to go through this Wright (University of Sheffield) for his procedure, despite the inconvenience friendly and efficient assistance in the especially for those who have already English redaction of the newsletter registered in the past using other forms. contributions.

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Please remember that all relevant representation from different European information of interest to a wider countries should be guaranteed by academic audience is very welcome. I including no more than three residents hope that with your help the newsletter of any single country in the Board (in can remain an important medium for this case the President counts as one of EACS members. the three). It is also stipulated that one Board member cannot serve more than Ann Heirman three terms (which means 6 consecutive years). In accordance with this regulation, this year at least six NOMINATION FOR ELECTION Board members will step down. TO OFFICE FOR PRESIDENT Given the approaching biennial conference and General Assembly, I All members of EACS are invited to want to encourage all the EACS nominate candidates for the position of members to nominate their candidates the President of the Association. for the new Board. I especially appeal According to the article 10 of our to those outgoing Board members who constitution, the President is elected for are the only representatives of their a period of 2 years (and may be re- country on the Board, to try to elected for two further consecutive nominate a new Board member from terms of office). Article 9 of the among their colleagues. At the same constitution provides for direct election time, in the case of countries with large of the President by the General numbers of EACS members, it is Assembly and requires nominations for advisable to discuss your this election, signed by two Ordinary representatives in the Board in advance Members, to be in the hands of the in order to avoid too many candidates Secretary at least two months before from one country, while only three may the date of the General Assembly. be included in the Board. Candidates The Board proposes Brunhild Staiger, for membership of the Board, please Senior Research Fellow at the apply formally to the Secretary before Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg. the date of the General Assembly. (Do Brunhild Staiger has agreed to continue so either in advance using my e-mail: for another two years. [email protected], or inform me in person on the first day of the conference in Ljubljana.) NOMINATIONS FOR ELECTION OF THE BOARD Olga Lomova Secretary General According to article 9 of our Constitution, the Board is made up of VENUE FOR THE 2010 twenty-four members, including the CONFERENCE President, and is elected by the General Assembly every two years at the time During the General Assembly in of the biennial conference. According Ljubljana we will also be discussing to the same article, a balanced where to hold the EACS Conference in

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2010 (after Lund 2008). This will be second YSA to be awarded in then decided at the General Assembly Ljubljana. The original deadline of by vote. If you would like to suggest April 30 2006 has been extended to that the conference be held in your May 31. I hope we can still manage to country or institution, we kindly ask inform the nominees about the decision you to prepare a proposal that can be of the jury to invite them to Ljubljana presented to the General before June 30. Assembly. Please make sure that the The papers submitted for the proposal includes basic information 2006 YSA will be judged in the same about the institution as well as about way as in 2004. The Board meeting the plans for organizing the conference, held in Ljubljana in September 2005 including details about the voted for a jury consisting of four accommodation and other facilities. EACS Board members plus a member of the organizing committee of the Olga Lomova biennial conference. These are as follows (in alphabetical order): Joel YOUNG SCHOLAR AWARD Bellasen, Brunhild Staiger, Stefania Stafutti, Jana Rosker and Tim Wright. In 2004 EACS established the Young According to the topics of the Scholar Award with the aim of submitted papers external reviewers encouraging young scholars under of will be invited to judge the quality of the age of 35 years. The award receives individual papers. On the basis of the financial support from the Taipei based preliminary evaluation the jury will Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for select three nominees to be invited to International Scholarly Exchange, thus come to Ljubljana and present the building on the continuing and fruitful results of their research in a special cooperation between the foundation session. EACS will cover the travel and EACS. expenses of the nominees. The final In 2004, out of 11 papers decision on the award will be made by submitted for the first YSA, three the jury at the conference in Ljubljana nominees were selected and invited to and the results will be announced present the results of their research at during the General Assembly. the biennial conference in Heidelberg. Given the equally high quality of their Olga Lomova papers, two winners were selected to share the YSA: Chao-Jan Chen (Université Paris VII) with a paper entitled “Character-Sense Association: A Study on Automatic Sense Determination for Chinese V-V Compounds”, and Xavier Paules (Lyon), with a paper entitled “A Study of Canton Opium Smokers in the 1930’s”. We announced in 2005 the

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organized in August 2006. This TSTT CONFERENCE conference is aimed at further ANNOUNCEMENTS promoting the application of terminology to various business THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFER- activities and at strengthening world ENCE ON TERMINOLOGY，STAN- wide cooperation relating to DARDIZATION AND TECHNOL- terminology. OGY TRANSFER (TSTT 2006) For more information, please consult: 25-26 August 2006, Beijing，People’s www.tstt2006.org Republic of China *** The theme for TSTT’2006 is “Terminology in the information 16th INTERNATIONAL CONFER- society, for the emerging knowledge ENCE ON CHINA, CHINESE society”. CIVILIZATION AND THE WORLD: The TSTT Conference is China’s most HISTORY, MODERNITY AND important event in the field of FUTURE PROSPECTS terminology standardization. The goal is to promote the development of The RAS Academic Council on terminology and its application in Comprehensive Studies of Modern business, scientific research and China, together with the RAS Institute education, and to intensify cooperation of Far Eastern Studies and the Russian among related organizations intra- and Association of Sinologists will hold the inter-regionally. 16th International Conference on The first TSTT conference was held in China, Chinese Civilization and the 1991, which marked the beginning of World: History, Modernity and Future full scale cooperation between China Prospects. The conference takes place and the outside world in the field of in Moscow on October 25-27, 2006. terminology standardization. In 1997 The conference focuses on the second TSTT conference interrelations between Russia and demonstrated the flourishing China: Mutual Perceptions (Past, development of terminology in China Present and the Future). The with the rapid growth of the IT conference coincides with the 50th industry. jubilee of the RAS Institute of Far Now China is becoming more and Eastern Studies, and will summarize more involved in the world global the results of the fifty-year research economy, and work on terminology has activities of the Institute. reached a higher stage. Chinese experts Apart from the two Plenary Sessions, are beginning to undertake real tasks in the following panels will be organized: order to develop ISO standards in terminology. To meet the challenge of 1. Economic Aspects of Russia- the new developments in technology China Cooperation; and the wide demand for knowledge 2. Russia-China Mutual Perception management, the third TSTT in the Context of Globalization conference, i.e. TSTT’2006, will be and International Relations;

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3. Historical and Political Aspects Conference Venue: RAS Institute of of Russia-China Interaction; Far Eastern Studies No. 32, 4. Cross-Civilization Dialogue of Nakhimovskiy Ave., Moscow 117997, Russia and China: A Road to Russia. Mutual Understanding; Mikhail L. Titarenko Director, RAS Institute of Far Eastern During the conference, a round-table Studies discussion on Russia and China, Chairman, RAS Academic Council on entitled Mutual Perceptions, is Comprehensive Studies of Modern planned. It will focus on the contexts China and prerequisites for positive image- making between Russia and China, as *** well as on the reasons for negative phenomena appearing in the two ASIAN STUDIES AT A TURNING nations’ public perception of each POINT – TANDEM WALK OR other. BOXING MATCH BETWEEN The invitation to take part in the SOCIAL SCIENCES AND conference is extended to Sinologists in HUMANITIES? Russia, CIS countries, PR China, , Korea, , United States, On November 6 and 7 2006, the Centre and other countries. for East Asian Studies, University of Conference paper abstracts in Russian, Turku and the Nordic Institute of Asian English or Chinese should be Studies, Copenhagen are organizing a forwarded by an e-mail, entitled conference for academic dialogue on October Conference Abstracts to: current methodological and [email protected] . The abstract paradigmatic topics in Asian studies should be under 8000 characters, across disciplinary and regional spaces included. It should be sent in boundaries. The conference will be RTF format, and should contain the held at the University of Turku. author’s name, affiliation and degree in the upper right corner of the front page. The keynote speakers include: Richard Please use endnotes rather than Baum (UCLA), Prasenjit Duara footnotes. For publication in the (University of Chicago), Joseph Cheng conference proceedings volume, the (City University of Hong Kong) and abstracts should be sent to the Barbara Andaya (University of Organizers by May 10, 2006 at the Hawaii). latest. Abstracts sent after that date may be distributed among conference For further information, please consult participants in other than published the following website: forms. asianstudies.niasconferences.dk The Organizing Committee includes: Dr. Roustam Aslanov, IFES Deputy- Lauri Paltemaa ([email protected]) Director (Chairman); Tamara Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Karganova, Head of International Ties East Asian Studies Dpt. (e-mail: [email protected]). University of Turku

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CONFERENCE REPORTS and Hangzhou; but it has also developed certain characteristics that WORKSHOP ON LIFESTYLE AND are quite unique to it. The city’s very ENTERTAINMENT In YANGZHOU rich cultural history offers October 20–22, 2005, Yangzhou, opportunities for scientific research China from numerous angles, and indeed, during recent years, Yangzhou has The city of Yangzhou (Jiangsu attracted an increasing amount of province) on the northern shore of the scholarly interest. Two European Yangzi river, is certainly not among the scholars who were aware of this fact, locations of China that strike tourists as Vibeke Børdahl (Nordic Institute of an absolute “must” on their itineraries. Asian Studies, Copenhagen) und Lucie Its relatively peripheral position in the Olivova (Palacký University, present national context is indicated, Olomouc), established the “Yangzhou for example, by its inadequate Club” to serve as a cross-disciplinary connection to the modern transport platform for scholarly exchange and networks, although a recently cooperation. As the first major activity established railway connection and a of this informal group, they organized bridge crossing the Yangzi at the “Workshop on Lifestyle and Zhenjiang are signs of a new turn of Entertainment in Yangzhou” which development. However, from the Tang was held in Yangzhou itself, from the (8th/9th centuries) through the mid-Qing 20th to the 22nd October 2005. It was (18th century), Yangzhou was the two organizers’ basic idea to considered a central place in the convene a workshop right in situ, in empire, for it was located at the order to combine the discussion of junction of the two main axis of results from individual research with transportation, the Grand Canal and the the experience of the specific local Yangzi river. Commerce, and most of atmosphere, the study of material all, the salt monopoly trade, was of the culture and intellectual exchange with utmost importance to the city’s local scholars and artists. The economic development. Yangzhou’s workshop was funded by the history has also been marked by sharp Norwegian Research Council (Oslo) ruptures as it was repeatedly hit by and the Nordic Institute of Asian large-scale destruction and human loss Studies. Two local colleagues, Huang through warfare. But it was only during Ying (Yangzhou University) and Fei Li the 19th century that the old cultural (Yangzhou Performed Literature town of Yangzhou submerged into Society), provided indispensable relative insignificance. support to the preparation work.

What then made, and perhaps still *** makes, Yangzhou so special? It is true that the city has a number of parallels and commonalities with other major cities of great cultural-historical significance, such as Suzhou, Nanjing,

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WRITING AND RITUAL IN THE influence of writing and ritual practice ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS OF in the process of cultural transmission. ASIA AND AMERICA Cultural anthropologists argued that orality plays an important role in From 5 to 7 October 2005, the Institute traditional life and ritual performance. of of the University of Evidence from their own fieldwork in Munich and the Institute of Ethnology Han villages of Southern China and in and Ancient American Studies of the Kazak settlements in Xinjiang were University of Bonn in cooperation with presented to prove their arguments. the Institute of Socio- and Cultural Other topics concerned the history of Anthropology of Xinjiang Normal research into possible Transpacific University organized an international diffusion and methods of cultural symposium on writing and ritual comparison. practices in the ancient civilizations of The languages of the conference Asia and America at Tongji University were English, Chinese and German. A in Shanghai. It was financed by the second conference focusing on social Volkswagen Foundation through its memory and cultural identity in China Tandem project Writing, Ritual and and Mesoamerica will be held during Cultural Memory in Ancient China and the second half of 2007 in Germany. Mesoamerica (2005-2008), which is directed by Xiaobing Wang-Riese and For further information, see the Daniel Graña-Behrens. following website: www.fak12.uni- About thirty experts from China, muenchen.de/sin/projekte/meso/meso- Germany, Japan, Mexico and the index.html U.S.A. representing different disciplines discussed how and why Xiaobing Wang-Riese writing and ritual constitute important Universität München mechanisms for the transmission of cultural knowledge and how this occurred in ancient cultures of Asia and PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT America. Linguists and experts on writing systems, art and literary Monies, Markets, and Finance in China historians, Sinologists, and East Asia, 1600-1900: Local, Mesoamericanists and ethnologists Regional, National, and International presented papers on various early and Dimensions recent writing systems, e.g. Chinese oracle-bone inscriptions, “Women’s The research carried out within the Writing”, the Naxi and Yao scripts as above project concentrates on the well as Maya hieroglyphic writing and copper-based monies of Qing China, Central Mexican iconography and Tokugawa Japan, and late Choseon writing. Important aspects included the Korea. The focus is on the concrete cultural functions of writing, the conditions of coin production, starting relationship between icon and writing from the mining and smelting of mint and between writing and language, the metals, their transport to the mints, to form and use of books, and the mutual the casting of coins on the one hand,

10 and on problems related to the of the production and transport of mint functions and exchange rates of metals and coin output, the project will different means of payment, the attempt to evaluate the organizational structures of the financial systems as capacity and flexibility of early modern well as the cultural meanings of money Asian states, illuminate the structures on the other. On the basis of selected of cooperation and cooptation between case studies these topics will be the state and the private economy, and highlighted in their local, regional, analyse perceptions of money, wealth, national and international dimensions and poverty in East Asian and Western and interdependencies. The research civilisations. group is composed of scholars in This project has benefitted from the Chinese studies, Japanese studies, and generous support of the Ministry of geography from the universities of Science, Research and Art of the State Tübingen, Heidelberg and Bochum, in of Baden-Württemberg through its close association with colleagues in programme for the promotion of economic history and comparative research. literature. The members of the research The research project will last for six group, together with the numerous years. More information can be found national and international collaborators, at the following website: will utilise methods from a variety of http://www.monieseastasia.uni- disciplines, such as social and tuebingen.de. economic history, history of technology, history of literature and art, Hans Ulrich Vogel numismatics, geography, and Universität Tübingen econometrics. In the course of the research work, massive bodies of mostly unpublished CHIANG CHING-KUO archival documents will provide a FOUNDATION LIBRARY substantial and largely new empirical TRAVEL GRANT foundation. These consist primarily of Qing government reports concerning In 2006 the Chiang Ching-kuo minting and mint metal transport, and Foundation continues its generous documents from Japanese mines and support to the EACS to support one- Korean local archives. A variety of week visits for specialised research in other types of sources will also be Sinological libraries in Cambridge, consulted and analysed, such as coins, Heidelberg, Leiden, London, Oxford, illustrations and maps, fiction, drama, Paris or Munich. poems and jottings, travel reports, newspaper articles, and religious texts. The next deadline is 20 October The research group aims at 2006. contributing a new, empirically A response will be sent within three founded perspective on East Asian weeks of the deadline. monetary history, supplementing the existing research on silver. Besides the Applicants should be Sinologists quantitative and qualitative dimensions based permanently in Europe and

11 preferably paid-up members of the 6) in the case of Ph.D. students, a letter EACS. Applications from non- of recommendation from their members will be considered, however, supervisor; especially in case of students and 7) in the case of non-members, a letter young scholars (up to 35 years), if of recommendation from an EACS accompanied by a recommendation member; letter from an EACS member. 8) address for correspondence, including fax and e-mail where possible. PRIORITIES for the applicants are as follows: a. Students from Central and Eastern APPLICATIONS should be sent by Europe mail or fax to the secretary general b. Students from Western Europe (Prof. Olga Lomová, Institute of East c. Scholars from Central and Eastern Asian Studies, Charles University, Europe Celetna 20, Prague 1, ; d. Scholars from Western Europe fax: +420 224491423; e-mail: [email protected]) and to one of the following: APPLICATIONS must include: 1) for research on pre-modern China 1) a letter stating the library to be (i.e. before 1840) to Dr. Bernhard visited and intended dates of travel; Fuehrer, School of Oriental and 2) a statement of purpose, with a short African Studies, London, Thornhaugh description of the research project, Street, Russell Square, London WC1H including precise indication of the OXG, United Kingdom. Fax: +44 (0) sources and material to be used (the 20 7898 4239. E-mail: [email protected] easiest way to obtain this information is to go to electronic catalogues of the 2) for research on modern China (i.e. respective libraries accessible also from 1840) to Prof. Guido Samarani, through the EACS website at Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia, www.soas.ac.uk/eacs); Department of East Asian Studies, 3) a written statement obtained from Palazzo Vendramin, Dorsoduro 3462, the Librarian of the institution where 30123 Venezia, Italy. Tel. +39 041 the proposed visit is to take place 2349511, Fax: +39 041 2349596. confirming that the research materials E-mail: [email protected] that are required are available for consultation; 3) for research, which straddles the 4) a one-page curriculum vitae with a 1840 limit: either to Prof. Fuehrer or to list of main publications (in case of Prof. Samarani. more advanced scholars); 5) a statement of travel and living It is advisable to apply at least three expenses (Apex economy airfare or months before the visit is planned to 2nd class rail fare, and reasonably take place. priced accommodation), including a note of other sources of funding.

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PAYMENT OF GRANTS [email protected]

1) If applications are approved, grants GERMANY: Ms A. Labitzky-Wagner, will be made to include travel expenses Institut für Sinologie, Universität and a per diem allowance, which will Heidelberg, Akademiestrasse 4-8, D- vary from place to place. 69117 Heidelberg, Germany. 2) The grants will be paid on Fax: +49-6221-54 24 39. E-mail: completion of the visit only. [email protected] 3) In special cases when the applicant has valid reasons for needing to receive Ms. Renate Stephan, Bavarian State the grant in advance, please indicate Library, Section East Asia, those reasons in the application. Fax + 49-89-28636-2805. E-mail: 4) On completion of their visit, all [email protected] scholars should obtain a letter signed by the Librarian, certifying that the NETHERLANDS: Hanno Lecher visit has been made and specifying the M.A., Sinologisch Instituut, dates when it began and ended. Arsenaalstraat 1, 2311CT, Leiden, The 5) All scholars should send the Netherlands. Fax: +31-71-27 226 15. Librarian’s letter directly to the EACS E-mail: [email protected] President, Prof. Brunhild STAIGER who is in charge of the financial UNITED KINGDOM: Charles Aylmer, administration of the grant: Institut für Chinese Section, University Library, Asienkunde Rothenbaum-chaussee 32, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR, D-20148 Hamburg, Germany. E-mail: United Kingdom. [email protected] Fax: +44-1223-333 160. E-mail: 6) Upon completion of the visit, a brief [email protected] report should be sent to Prof. Olga Lomová (see her address above). Any Sue Small, School of Oriental & publication using material collected African Studies, University of London, under this program should include Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, acknowledgement of help received London WC1H OXG, UK. Fax: +44- from the CCK Foundation. 171-436 38 44. E-mail: [email protected]

LIBRARIANS Frances Wood, British Library, (For further details about the libraries Chinese Section, Oriental & India see our web-site or the web-site of the Office Collections, 96 Euston Road, European Association of Sinological London NW1 2DB, UK. Librarians at: http://www.easl.org) Fax: +44-171-412 78 58. E-mail: oioc- [email protected] FRANCE: Delphine Spicq, Bibliothèque de l’Institut des Hautes David Helliwell, Bodleian Library, Etudes Chinoises, Collège de France, Oxford, OX1 3BG, United Kingdom. 52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 75231 Fax: +44-1865 277132. E-mail: Paris Cedex 05, France. [email protected] Fax: +33-1-44 27 18 79. E-mail:

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EACS OFFICERS

President Vice-President Secretary Brunhild Staiger* Stefania Stafutti Olga Lomova*

Treasurer Newsletter Editor Webmaster Matthias Richter* Ann Heirman Luca Pisano

*Member EACS Executive Committee

EACS BOARD MEMBERS

Joel BELLASEN. INALCO, Paris, France. Jana BENICKA. Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. Daria BERG. University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. Carine DEFOORT. Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Halvor EIFRING, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway. Stéphane FEUILLAS, Université Paris 7, Paris, France. Denise GIMPEL, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Imre HAMAR. Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. Ann HEIRMAN. Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Anna KHAMATOVA. Far Eastern State University, Vladivostok, Russia. Olga LOMOVA.Å Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Cecilia MILWERTZ. NIAS, Denmark. Andrey V. OSTROVSKIY. Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Lauri PALTEMAA.University of Turku, Finland. Irina POPOVA. Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia. Matthias RICHTER. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. Jana ROSKER.„ , Ljubljana, . Guido SAMARANI. Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia, Italy. Stefania STAFUTTI. Università di Torino, Torino, Italy. Brunhild STAIGER. Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg, Germany. Lam SUN. University of Minho, Braga, . Marina SVENSSON. Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Maghiel VAN CREVEL. University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands. Tim WRIGHT. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

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