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Center for Chinese Studies Center for Chinese Studies Newsletter Volume 1:1, Spring 2010 Letter from the Director letter. With Diane Perushek as the utation, CCS still has a lot of work editor, we plan to make use of this to do. publication as an outlet to share As I see it, our immedi- news about our activities and to ate task is to refine the methods boost the visibility of CCS. through which CCS operates its The Center’s mission is programs. aimed at promoting an under- It will take concerted ef- standing of China through mul- fort to realize our goals, but I am tiple disciplinary perspectives and confident that our current Exec- a variety of scholarly and cultural utive Committee and staff have activities. Our ongoing goal is to the energy and vision to accom- appy 2010! Let me provide current information and plish this. We welcome sugges- take this opportunity news items of interest to the cam- tions and comments from mem- to welcome you to the pus community. Since its found- bers on ways to improve how we Hre-issuing of the CCS Newsletter. ing in 1978 (formerly known as serve you. In closing, I would like First published in 1984, the CCS Council for Chinese Studies), to express my thanks to my prede- Newsletter was founded as the CCS has been in the forefront in cessors Betty Ecke, Daniel Kwok, primary channel of communica- fostering the study of China to all Roger Ames, Ronald Brown, and tion between the center and the CCS members on and off campus. Rosita Chang for the founda- campus community but was sus- Since its inception, the organiza- tion they have laid down for the pended when the Center decided tion has developed a sound struc- Center. A special mahalo to Cyn- to focus its energy and resources ture and by-laws that serve the dy Ning and Daniel Tschudi for on other projects. Since that time, unique characteristics and needs their dedication and hard work the Center has flourished, grown of our campus. Our membership for more than a decade. Of course, in size, and expanded its activities. has grown to include full mem- Diane Perushek deserves special Because there is important news bers and associate members. With recognition for agreeing to take and exciting Chinese studies relat- the recent addition of the Con- on the daunting task of managing ed information that we would like fucius Institute to CCS, our net- editor for the newsletter. Please to disseminate, we feel that now is Center for Chinese Studies Staff work and activity potential have support our newsletter by submit- the right time to resume the news- Frederick Lau, Director expanded even further. ting newsworthy items to her or Cynthia Ning, Associate Director As the current director of Daniel. I wish you all a productive Contents CCS, I have set the immediate 2010!!! D.E. Perushek, Assoc. Director goal of strengthening the struc- Daniel Tschudi, Coordinator Letter from the Director .............. 1 Frederick Lau ture of the center in order to pro- Faculty Forum: Kate Lingley ...... 2 Address vide more effective services to 417 Moore Hall Recent Faculty Publications ....... 3 colleagues in Chinese Studies. To University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa 2009 Faculty Presentations ......... 3 this end and with the help of the Honolulu, HI 96822 Faculty Awards .............................. 3 Executive Committee and staff, Tel: 808-956-8891 Grants & Scholarships ................. 4 we continue to reassess and im- prove on our various programs, Fax: 808-956-2682 Fall ’09 Research Seminars .......... 4 publications, activities, and web- E-mail: [email protected] Spring ’10 Events........................... 4 site. CCS members belong to http://chinesestudies.hawaii.edu Spring ’10 Research Seminars .... 4 one of the largest Chinese Stud- Alumni Encounter ........................ 5 ies Centers in the U.S., and we are © 2009. Center for Chinese Studies CI-UHM: An Update ................... 5 proud of the productivity, visibil- All rights reserved. Symposium: The White Snake ... 6 ity, and honors that our members An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative have brought to us. Building on Action Institution our history, past success, and rep- Faculty Forum This feature article introduces the work and interests of one of the CCS faculty. This issue brings to you current work by Kate Lingley, BA, Harvard-Radcliffe College, MA and PhD, University of Chicago. In 2005, Professor Lingley joined the UHM Department of Art and Art History where she teaches course in Chinese Art and Culture, Chinese Painting, Chinese Sculpture and Applied Arts. Her research is on Buddhist votive sculpture of the Northern and Southern Dynasties period, with a particular in- terest in the social functions of religious art. On stretching our limits Kate Lingley, Department of Art and Art History department which combines stu- investigates why cross-dressing dio art and art history in the same seems to have bothered Tang so- intellectual and pedagogical proj- cial critics so much less than the ect (itself a relatively traditional wearing of non-Chinese fashions. arrangement). My studio art col- I came with a handful of possi- leagues are active contemporary ble interpretations of the mate- artists, as are the majority of my rial I had so meticulously recon- students. Every day, my teaching structed from visual and historical and advising work requires me to sources; I left, three days later, re- think about the relationship be- plete with fascinating possibilities tween my own work and theirs. suggested by analogies to dress Furthermore, the study of practices of the modern day. It dress and self-representation in would never have been possible if the early historical period (which I hadn’t decided to take a chance is becoming an increasing focus on a conference with a sexy title, Three Lady Polo Players and Foreign Groom on Horseback. Anonymous, of my own work) suffers from a that seemed only tangentially re- Tang Dynasty, Earthenware. Honolulu Academy of Arts, Bequest of Re- nee Halbedl, 1981 (4911.1 - 4). scarcity of interesting theory to lated to my usual field. explain the visual and historical We come to our professorial evidence we spend so much time positions armored with expertise, recently returned from a con- is to say that I am a fairly tradition- carefully reconstructing. It is no painstakingly gathered over a de- ference in Hong Kong, where al scholar, whose work depends longer sufficient, in art history, cade or more of doctoral studies. I gave a paper titled “Cross- strongly on the close examination to identify the date and style and It can be difficult to contemplate IDressing and Silk Road Fash- of visual, historical, and epigraph- origin of a work of art; our object stepping outside those carefully ion in the Early Tang.” The con- ic sources. I also came to art his- of study is visual and material cul- drawn boundaries of discipline ference, Extra/Ordinary Dress tory from archaeology, which in- ture, and we are increasingly re- and period; but the result can be Codes: Costume and the Second creases my orientation toward the quired to address the meaning a kind of cross-fertilization be- Skin in Asia, aimed to “address the technical and historiographic side and social significance of the ob- tween fields that grants us what subject of fashion in all its aesthet- of art history, rather than the con- jects we study. This demands a dif- the botanists call “hybrid vigor.” ic, cultural, historical, performa- ceptual and cultural-studies side ferent intellectual toolset than tra- We expect our students to be pre- tive, ritual and social dimensions.” of art history. You can see why the ditional connoisseurship, though pared to stretch their limits when Conference papers ranged from conferences I attend (and the pa- the result is, to my mind, more in- they enter the classroom: it’s not an analysis of the appropriation pers I give) usually have much less teresting. bad advice for us to take ourselves. of hip-hop dress codes by gangu- sexy titles than this one. My paper examined a form of ro youth culture in 1990s Japan to So why did I bring my tradi- dress worn by early Tang women, a study of the use of recycled ma- tional, scholarly work to such an which has sometimes been iden- terials by street designers in con- event? tified as the “foreigners’ dress” temporary Phnom Penh. In part, it was because of which caused much anxiety for This is not my usual kind of the opportunity to link my tradi- social conservatives who worried conference venue. tional, early-historical work with that their wives were dressing like My research field is the social the work of people engaged with Silk Road “barbarians.” My work history of Buddhist art in medi- contemporary visual culture and argues that these women are ac- eval China (c. 398–618 CE). This contemporary theory. I teach in a tually wearing men’s dress, and tion and Documentation: Barce- Charles Booth. “Asian Corporate Recent Faculty Publications lona, Spain. Insolvency Reform Law Reform in the Aftermath of the 1997 Fi- “Lower Xiajiadian Period Demog- nancial Crisis: The Need for the raphy and Sociopolitical Orga- Continued Development of Ef- nization—Some Results of Col- fective Insolvency Infrastructures.” laborative Regional Settlement OECD Forum on Asian Insol- Patterns Research in NE China.” vency Reform (FAIR), Bangkok, By Christian Peterson, et al. In Thailand, July 17. SAA Archaeological Record, May 2009. Cheng, Baoyan. “Access, Equi- ty, Capacity: Financing Higher “King Lear at the Shanghai Jingju Education.” International Forum Company: Dream of the King of Understanding Labor & Employ- for Education 2020 at East-West Qi.” By Elizabeth Wichman- ment in China. By Ronald C.
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