EACS Newsletter European Association for No. 37, December,Chinese 2006 Studies Association européenne EACS addresses and newsletter...... d’études chinoises2 Report from the President...... 3 Greetings from the Secretary ...... 9 Report from the Treasurer ...... 10 EACS Elections of the New Board...... 13 Young Scholar Award – Results...... 15 Young Scholar Award – 2008...... 15 CCK Foundation LTG – Report 2005...... 16 CCK Foundation Library Travel Grant...... 17 Reseau Asie – Asia Network...... 19 Conference Announcements...... 21 European Reference Index for Humanities...... 23 Projects, workshops and other initiatives...... 25 Obituary...... 28 New publications...... 30 EACS membership payment form...... 31
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Treasurer Newsletter Editor Matthias Richter, Universität Ham- Ann Heirman, Department of burg, Asien-Afrika-Institut (ChinA), Chinese Language 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 NEXT COPY DEADLINE: May 1, 2007 Webmaster Next issue: June, 2007 Luca Pisano, Dipartimento di Orien- talistica – Sezione Sinologica, Via Giulia di Barolo 3/a, 10124 Torino, Italy Tel. + 39 011 6703852 Fax +39 011 6703858 E-mail: [email protected] REPORT FROM THE which guarantees the continuity of this PRESIDENT program for a further three years. Starting this year through 2008, we (delivered at the EACS General will receive 10,000 Euro each year. Assembly in Ljubljana on September 2, 2006) As is required by the scheme, students and scholars from East European Dear EACS Members, dear countries predominate. In 2004, 15 Colleagues and Friends, young scholars received a LTG, out of whom 10 came from East European According to Article 20 of our countries. In 2005 11 sinologists could Constitution the General Assembly visit one of the eight sinological shall receive the reports submitted by libraries with 8 coming from Eastern the President, the Secretary and the Europe. So far this year 5 people have Treasurer. My report will deal with been selected for a LTG with 3 EACS activities during the past two coming from Eastern Europe. years and consists of four parts: 1. EACS Projects and Programmes, 2. At its meeting in September 2005, the Communication, 3. Activities of the EACS Board decided to facilitate the Board and Executive Committee, 4. management of the LTG by Relations with other Associations. introducing only two deadlines per year, March 20 and October 20. We 1. EACS Projects and Programmes shall see whether this change proves to be reasonable. Another change will 1.1 Library travel grants be necessary this year, as Guido Samarani’s and Olga Lomova’s terms Let me start with the Library Travel of office on the Board are over and we Grants (LTG), our most long- have to find new Board members established and still very successful taking over their responsibilities. On program that has existed for almost this occasion I should like to thank the twelve years. The program fully two colleagues in charge of the depends on funding from the Chiang applications, Bernhard Fuehrer Ching-kuo Foundation, to whom we (SOAS, London) and Guido Samarani owe sincere thanks for the continued (University of Venice), for all the support of this scheme. It enables work they have put into this scheme. European sinologists or sinologists Thanks also go to others who assisted with permanent residence in Europe to in the smooth operation of this visit major sinological libraries in program, above all the librarians of the Western Europe for one week. Priority participating libraries and Maureen is given to PhD students and scholars Gaskin of the Finance Department of from East European countries. The SOAS in London who assists with the details of the program are published in financial transactions. every issue of our Newsletter. In June this year I signed a contractual agreement with the CCK Foundation
3 1.2 Young Scholar Award evaluated by external reviewers on the basis of a special catalogue of criteria. Two years ago at the Heidelberg The jury set up from among the Conference another program was members of the Board and the local initiated, namely the Young Scholar organizers consists of: Joel Bellassen, Award (YSA).We are very glad and Jana Rosker, Stefania Stafutti, Tim appreciate that the CCK Foundation Wright and myself. As two papers also funds this scheme which enables scored clearly better than all the rest, us to encourage young scholars to the jury decided to invite only two submit high-quality papers for this nominees this time. They are Rossella competition. The papers are evaluated Ferrari and Nicolai Volland, and you by external reviewers, all specialists in just witnessed the ceremony in which their respective fields. A jury then Rossella Ferrari was honoured with selects the best papers and about 3 the YSA. nominees for the Award are invited to attend our biennial conference to We are very happy that this year so present their papers. Their travelling many young scholars made an effort and accommodation expenses are to submit their papers. We are reimbursed. Finally the jury decides resolved to continue this well-received on the winner who will receive a scheme and hope it will meet with the certificate during the conference. At same support and will become an the Conference in Heidelberg there established, well-known and much- were two winners: Chao-jan Chen coveted award in Chinese Studies. The (Université Paris VII) with a paper announcement of another YSA to be entitled “Character-Sense Association: organized for our next conference in A Study on Automatic Sense Lund in 2008 will be published in the Determination for Chinese V-V Newsletter, but already now we Compounds” and Xavier Paules should like to encourage young (University of Lyon) with a study on scholars to prepare papers for Canton Opium Smokers in the 1930’s. submission. We not only thank all While the first paper has not yet been participants of this year’s competition published, the second one has just but also the reviewers on whose help been published in the most recent this competition very much depends. issue of East Asian History Most papers were reviewed by two (Australia). sinologists, so you can imagine the great number of scholars involved this For the first YSA in 2004 the CCK year. We are happy that in fact the Foundation granted us € 5,000.—of vast majority of scholars whom we which we only consumed half the approached agreed to evaluate one of amount. Therefore we did not have to the submitted papers which we cannot apply for new funds this year but can take for granted given that most of cover the nominees’ reimbursements them are over-burdened. The greatest from the remaining sum. As regards burden however was shouldered by this year’s competition, we received our Secretary General Olga Lomova altogether 23 papers that were who was in charge of handling the
4 program and who, under great contributed to make this event a pressure of time, had to manage the success. evaluation process. We owe her our sincere thanks. 1.4 Research Projects
1.3 Braga Summer School As to research projects organized by the EACS or under the auspices of the Another major activity I have to EACS, the Board would be ready to mention is the EACS Summer School support proposals to the EC or ESF, in Chinese Studies that was organized however the initiative has to come at the University of Minho in Braga, from the members. Although the Portugal, in September 2005. This chances to get a research proposal event was mainly supported by the approved are rather low because of European Science Foundation; further high competition and because most of major contributions came from the the instruments offered by the EC for University of Minho and the Orient implementing a project are beyond our Foundation in Lisbon. Altogether 56 capacities and means, we still think it students from 16 European countries would be worthwhile to work out a participated in the Summer School. proposal. I propose we keep an eye on This undertaking was a great success the research programmes offered by as is documented in a formal the EC and look for a suitable evaluation that took place at the end of instrument, like e.g. a targeted the event. A report on the Summer conference or workshop involving School was published in the EACS scholars from Europe and China. As Newsletter No 35 (Dec. 2005), the most recent programmes have therefore I need not go into more been closed, we have to wait for new detail here. I should only like to stress ones which will probably be that all the teachers are members of announced in the next few months. our Association which indeed is an Experience shows that it is not easy to indication of our potential strength. get a project started. As you will Moreover, the Summer School has remember, two years ago our Board certainly contributed to network- member Stefania Stafutti presented a building in Chinese Studies among the proposal for a research project to be various nationalities of Europe. The carried out on a Europe-wide basis Board is considering the possibilities and to be submitted to the ESF for of organizing similar events in the funding a workshop. The suggested near future and perhaps making the topic was “Humour in China” Summer School in Chinese Studies a (announced in NL No 35) which I regular EACS activity. On this think is a wonderful subject involving occasion I wish to thank first of all various disciplines, but I am sorry to Sun Lam who as the local organizer of say, for lack of response we had to the Braga Summer School took the abandon the initiative. This experience chief responsibility; I also wish to however should not discourage us. I thank all the teachers who greatly am sure we could be successful, for we have one big advantage over other
5 bodies, and that is our Europe-wide NL from a mere source of information network of Chinese Studies. Some into a forum for the exchange of ideas new initiatives have already started, is strongly supported by the present e.g., to include Chinese language in Board. While this might be difficult to the European Language Framework achieve, we should at least try to and the European Language Passport extend the NL in the sense of really Project. Details will be published in making it a broad source of the Newsletter. information reflecting the whole range of activities going on in Chinese 1.5 Publication of Conference Studies in Europe. Our NL Editor Ann Proceedings Heirman has time and again appealed to the members to send her more Finally, I would like to mention a information, but so far to little avail. I possible publication project. Some can only once again draw your time ago we were approached by attention to this matter. Another aspect Cambridge Scholars Press who are concerning the NL has to be interested in publishing the mentioned here: the mailing of the NL proceedings of this conference. The by e-mail. As you know postage has next Board will have to decide if and always been one of the major items of what kind of conference volume our expenses. In order to save money, should be published. Some of the the Executive Committee would paper presenters might have other welcome if more members agreed to plans with regard to making known receive the NL online. You would just their research results; therefore it have to change the respective entry in seems likely that we shall opt for a the database. selection of papers which is also preferable in order to give the volume As regards our website, our new a certain coherence. webmaster Luca Pisano from Torino University who has been in charge for 2. Communication almost two years now, is very conscientious and efficient. I think the Our most visible instruments of fruits of his endeavours are visible as communication are our Newsletter, the the website contains more and more EACS website and, for internal use, relevant information. Nonetheless we the EACS membership database. In a could improve the website, e.g. by few minutes you will hear more about making it a forum for the exchange of the database in the Treasurer’s report. ideas, a desideratum that already the So let me just say a few words about previous boards voiced. the NL and the website. As you know the NL comes out twice per year. In its At this moment I should like to present form it is mainly used by the sincerely thank both Ann Heirman and Executive Committee and a few other Luca Pisano for the fine job they are Board members to communicate their doing and for devoting so much time own business. The recommendation to EACS matters. The same goes for by the previous Board to change the our Treasurer Matthias Richter who
6 not only collects the membership fees number of papers which can be and takes care of our finances but also accommodated. had to tackle all the initial problems (2) The Board appoints convenors connected with establishing the who have the authority to select membership database and making it papers within the parameters set work smoothly. by the Board.
3. Board and Executive Committee In accordance with these two principles, the present Board left the This brings me to my third part, the decision which papers were to be work of the Board and the Executive presented to the convenors and Committee. During the past period of referees, of course within the limits set office, the Executive Committee by the organizers. However, the Board consisting of the Secretary General, favoured a more flexible attitude and the Treasurer and the President met therefore added some guidelines to the twice in Prague and the Board held above-mentioned principles. We two meetings here in Ljubljana. The agreed that quality should be a major meetings of the Executive Committee, criterion for selecting papers, but at one in June 2005, the other one in the same time a reasonable June 2006, served the purpose of distribution of topics and national preparing the Board meetings and the representation should be taken into Conference, while the Board account. We also authorized the meetings, the first one in September convenors to suggest the arrangement 2005, the second one last Wednesday, of panels and to ask the participants to apart from discussing ordinary accommodate their papers to the business, were dedicated to the general theme of a panel. On the organization of this Conference and whole these guidelines proved this General Assembly. practicable, and we did not have any major problems. Yet it remains a The Board spent considerable time on problem that the reviewers have discussing guidelines for selecting the different standards which necessarily conference papers. As you will result in inconsistencies. remember, in Heidelberg this was a problem that resulted in a Furthermore, the Board in great detail recommendation by the previous discussed the sections and selected the Board regarding the selection of convenors for the sections. We papers and the organization of panels reinstalled the section on Politics and for the biennial EACS conferences. International Relations and added four The major points were the following: more sections: Law, Anthropology & Sociology, Environment & Ecology, (1)It is understood that local as well as Intercultural Approaches. organizers, based on realistic appraisal of local conditions, Regarding the Board meetings, a have the right to set limits to the problem has come up which is not new but perhaps becoming more and
7 more acute. It concerns the little money, due to the fact that only reimbursement of travelling expenses half of the Board members attended to the Board members. A couple of the meeting. We ask for your years ago there was a decision against understanding in this matter, and I reimbursement, I myself had been a hope you agree to the procedure that strong supporter of this decision. we practiced last year so that in future However, I had to change my mind, we could handle the problem in the because I see the difficulties in getting proposed way. the Board members to attend Board meetings, some of whom do not come 4. Relations with other Associations because of the travelling expenses. Most Board members cannot get Finally, let me say a few words on our reimbursement from their universities. relations with other associations, On the one hand we depend on their especially with EASL, the European attendance, because according to our Association of Sinological Librarians. constitution Board meetings require a In the past we have again and again quorum of at least a majority of its 24 expressed our interest and wish to members. In other words, unless at have EASL representatives attend our least 13 Board members attend the conferences. However, I am sorry so meetings, no decisions can be made. say, to no great avail (and I think this On the other hand, I think we cannot is partly our own fault). At the Torino ask the Board members to pay for the Conference in 2000 EASL representa- meetings themselves given that they tives reported on recent developments already spend quite some time in European Sinological Libraries but (normally 3 days) for attending a since then nothing like this has Board meeting. happened again. I do not know if in Torino there was a special section on In this situation, the Board on its libraries. Anyway, the attendance rate meeting in Sept. 2005 decided on a did not seem to have been very compromise, that is not to reimburse satisfying. In order to guarantee a all travelling expenses but only part of larger audience to this field so them. Moreover, partial reimburse- important for all of us, I think it would ment should only be granted for the be wiser to integrate the librarians’ Board meetings in between the report into our General Assembly. I biennial conferences, not for the should therefore like to propose that meetings that take place during the we invite the Chairman of EASL to conferences. As suggested by the our next conference so that he or she Executive Committee, it was decided could give a report at the GA. to set aside a certain amount of money for reimbursing part of the travelling As to the International Convention of expenses. The money was to be Asia Scholars, ICAS 5 will take place distributed proportionally according to in August 2007 in Kuala Lumpur. This the individual expenses, and as you will be the third time that ICAS will will see in the accounts submitted by be hosted in Asia. As far as I know the the Treasurer we actually used very EACS Board was not officially
8 involved in the organization of the last meet next August in Lund. Items two conventions and it remains to be planned for discussion will include, seen if the EACS Board will be among others, a review of procedures approached by the organizers of ICAS for referees and convenors of 5. This Board’s policy vis-à-vis ICAS conference panels, the promotion of 4 has been not to send an official our on-line membership database as delegate to Shanghai. Instead we well as review procedures for the decided that in case a Board member Young Scholar Award. EACS would attend ICAS 4, he or she should members who would like to bring any represent the EACS by giving a short other matters to the attention of the welcome address or something like Board are very welcome to contact that. This policy will most probably be me. also practised with regard to ICAS 5. Roel Sterckx Thank you for your attention. Brunhild
REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY
This summer’s conference in Ljubljana marked the last occasion for Olga Lomova as Secretary-General of the Association. EACS owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to Olga for her tireless service over the years. Olga’s energy in setting the agenda for the Board meetings, communicating with members and colleagues, and administering EACS initiatives both during and in-between our biennial conference have truly been invaluable. In Ljubljana the General Assembly elected a new Board which met to discuss the agenda for the next cycle leading up to our conference in Lund in 2008. During the meeting the guidelines and deadlines for the Young Scholar Award and the CCK library travel grant scheme were updated. They can be found in this newsletter and are posted on the EACS website. The new Board will
9 REPORT FROM THE TREASURER
Dear EACS members,
At the conference this summer I delivered the biennial treasurer’s report and here I present the data to those who could not be present in Ljubljana.
The situation as of 16 July 2006 is as shown in the overview below:
CUSTODY ACCOUNT
I have left the composition of this account, as arranged by the former treasurer, unchanged: three types of bond shares, all with an extremely small interest margin, but guaranteeing safety against losses on the stock market and availability at any time. The volume of the custody account amounted to € 39,228.36 on 28 February 2005 and has still basically the same value now. A: DIT-Euro Rentenfonds 488.313 x €40.82 = € 19,932.94 B: DIT-Stiftungsfonds Bonds 103.322 x €97.16 = € 10,038.77 C: DIT-Dresd.Bk.GeldmarktfondsSpez. 179.231 x €52.00 = € 9,320.01 total value = € 39,291.72
GIRO ACCOUNT
EXPENDITURES
5,000.00 newsletter 1,378.98 travel costs (board meeting in Ljubljana) 248.48 travel costs (takeover of treasurer’s affairs in Munich) 234.45 travel costs (designing of database in Heidelberg) 104.80 travel costs (meeting of executive committee in Prague) 1,300.00 65 hrs. work of programmer on EACS database 537.39 fees for electronic credit card payment 207.00 bank fees 60.97 address labels 68.00 postage = 9,140.07 total expenditures
10 INCOME
4,653.34 membership fees (cash or bank transfer) + 2,691.79 membership fees (Visa) + 471.86 membership fees (MasterCard) + 287.30 membership fees (AmEx) = 8,104.29 membership fees, total
10,377.15 from former treasurer + 8,104.29 membership fees, total = 18, 481.44 total income
BALANCE
18, 481.44 total income - 9,140.07 total expenditures = 9,341.37 balance (on giro account 30 June 2006) giro account, 30 June 2006 €9,341.37 custody account, 16 July 2006 €39,291.72 TOTAL EACS ASSETS €48,633.09
(The giro account has increased to €13,813.36 by 30 October 2006, because many members paid their membership fees during and after the conference.)
Large expenses were incurred over the Comments: The sum spent on the past two years by the establishment of newsletter, which amounts to over half an EACS membership database. €1,300 of the total expenditure, covers the have been spent on the payment for 65 costs for at least three issues. hrs. of programming, and my journey Another major part of the expenses was to Heidelberg to work out the basic spent on travel: Almost €250 were design of the database with the needed for taking over the treasurer’s programmer cost additional c. €200. job, and c. €100 for attending a Work was later continued over the meeting of the executive committee. phone. The database will be very useful Almost €1,400 were needed for for the EACS and will in the long run reimbursement of board members who save the organisation much more attended the board meeting in money than it originally costed. With Ljubljana in 2005 to prepare this year’s the database we will be able to match conference. In total, travel expenses the previously not entirely consistent amount to 21% of the expenditures, but and complete data in the Secretary’s they are actually indispensable for and my own files and are now able to running the organisation. organise electronic distribution of the newsletter and other information,
11 which again reduces costs. Besides, in It has been agreed at the 2005 board the past years invalid address data meeting in Ljubljana: caused unnecessary postage costs and, – to leave the annual membership by the way, additional work on the part dues unchanged at € 20 (reduced of our newsletter editor. fees of € 10 applying to students and Another advantage of the database will to members from Eastern European be that now each member can check non-EU countries); his/her own payment status at any time – to accept payment of membership as well as update the adress or other dues for up to 4 years in advance; relevant data. Of course payment data – to encourage payment by bank for other members are only accessible transfer from members living within to the administrators of the database, the Euro-zone and other countries i.e. the executive committee of the with similarly favourable conditions board. I would like to strongly of bank transfer and to prefer cash encourage members to update their payment at conferences from entry in the database in cases of change members living elsewhere, thus of address and the like. The database reducing loss of money entailed can now also be used as a source of both by high international bank fees information for all members. and credit card payment. Membership data of all members, For members from other countries, who except for payment data, are accessible do not attend the conference, credit to all members who have password card payment is probably more access to the database. The data will advisable. However, we had to not be open to the public outside discontinue MasterCard payment EACS. Any members who do not wish because of the relatively high costs for to have their data disclosed even to EACS and scarce use by members. other members can deny access to Please remember to always state for others easily by just ticking a box. whom payment is made and for which Their data will then just as before only years. Ordering the bank to trace be displayed to the administrators. unknown senders of payments is I would like to encourage all members extremely costly and can thus not be who have not yet done so to request undertaken. access to the database and enter their data. As a rule I send confirmation Please also note that future newsletters when I receive a payment, but cannot will be sent only to members whose do so when I have no e-mail address of address has been entered in the the sender. You may receive such database. It is extremely time- confirmation of payment only after consuming to collate the new addresses several weeks, because I check the with the old files and then produce the account statement only once a month right sets of address labels from the when it is sent to me by the bank. different sources. Moreover, many of Credit card payment forms as well as the newsletters sent to the addresses other mail sent to the University of from the old files are returned as Hamburg are also forwarded to me at undeliverable, which causes EACS approximately monthly intervals. unnecessary expenses. As I have
12 announced earlier already, whoever Carine DEFOORT, Catholic Univer- should find themselves unable to enter sity of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 45 their data into the database will be votes (2002) welcome to request a form (either as a [email protected] word file or a paper printout) and return this to me with the necessary Halvor EIFRING, University of Oslo, data. I will then complete the entry in Oslo, Norway, 66 votes (2004) the database myself. [email protected]
Matthias Richter Denise GIMPEL, Department of Cross- Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 58 votes (2004) EACS ELECTIONS OF NEW [email protected] BOARD Svetlana GORBUNOVA, Institute of The EACS Board is made up of 24 Far Eastern Studies, Moscow, Russ. members, including the President. Fed., 52 votes (2006) Since several members had completed [email protected] their full period of service this year, new Board members were elected at Barend ter HAAR, Sinological the General Assembly held in Institute, Leiden, The Netherlands, 48 Ljubljana. votes (2006) [email protected] The following board members were elected: Imre HAMAR, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, 33 Dušan ANDRŠ, Institute of East Asian votes (2002) Studies, Charles University, Prague, [email protected] Czech Republic, 47 votes (2006) [email protected] Ann HEIRMAN, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 82 votes (2002) Joel BELLASSEN, National Institute [email protected] of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO), Paris, France, 40 votes Thomas KAMPEN, Institut für (2004) Sinologie, Heidelberg, Germany, 64 [email protected] votes (2006) [email protected] Anna BUSQUETS, Open University of Catalonia/Pompeu Fabra University, Frank KRAUSHAAR, University of School of East Asian Studies, Latvia, Riga, Latvia, 72 votes (2006) Barcelona, Spain, 69 votes (2006) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Barbara LEONESI, Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di
13 Orientalistica, Torino, Italy, 56 votes (2006) SUN Lam, Centre of Oriental Studies, [email protected] University of Minho Braga, Portugal, 63 votes (2002) Tiziana LIPPIELLO, Università Ca’ [email protected] Foscari, Department of East Asian Studies, Venezia, Italy, 71 votes (2006) Marina SVENSSON, Centre for East [email protected] and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden, 65 votes (2002) Cecilia MILWERTZ, Nordic Institute [email protected] of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, 58 votes (2004) Tim WRIGHT, School of east Asian [email protected] Studies, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, 80 votes (2002) Lauri PALTEMAA, Centre for East [email protected] Asian Studies, University of Turku, Finland, 57 votes (2004) The following account auditors were [email protected] elected by the General Assembly by direct vote: Irina POPOVA, Russian Academy of Wolfgang Behr, University of Bochum, Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russ. Fed., 42 [email protected] votes (2002) Bart Dessein, University of Ghent, [email protected] [email protected]
Matthias RICHTER, University of Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut, At the first meeting of the new Board Hamburg, Germany, 87 votes (2004) in Ljubljana, a new executive [email protected] committee was elected:
Jana ROŠKER, Department of Asian President: Brunhild Staiger, Institute of and African Studies, University of Asian Affairs Hamburg Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 74 [email protected] votes (2002) [email protected] Treasurer: Matthias Richter, Uni- versity of Hamburg Brunhild STAIGER, Institute of Asian [email protected] Affairs, Hamburg, Germany, president of EACS Secretary: Roel Sterckx, Cambridge [email protected] University [email protected] Roel STERCKX, Department of East Asian Studies, University of The Vice-Secretary will be Ann Cambridge, Cambridge, United Heirman, University of Ghent Kingdom, 73 votes (2006) [email protected] [email protected]
14 Tim Wright (University of Sheffield) Meng Jinghui and the Latest was elected as Vice-President Developments in Chinese Avant-garde [email protected] Theatre“ and Our webmaster will be Luca Pisano, Nicolai Volland (Academia Sinica, University of Torino Taiwan) with a paper entitled “The [email protected] Linguistic Enclave: Translation and Language Policies in the Early PRC“. The newsletter will continue in the Both nominees presented their hands of Ann Heirman, University of papers on the first morning of the Ghent conference. After the presentation [email protected] the jury consisting of Olga Lomova (Prague), Jana Rosker (Ljubljana), As for the next conference venue in Stefania Stafutti (Torino), Brunhild 2010: Staiger (Hamburg), and Tim Wright we received only one preliminary (Sheffield) discussed the papers proposal submitted during the General again and decided to give the Assembly in Ljubljana by Frank Award to Rossella Ferrari who was Kraushaar: Riga/Latvia. In the honoured with a certificate. meantime Riga University has confirmed that it would welcome to The Board thanks all the applicants for host the conference and the Board taking part in the competition. We hope approved the bid. This means that the that the next competition in 2008 will XVIIIth EACS Conference will be held meet with the same response. in Riga, Latvia.
YOUNG SCHOLAR AWARD YOUNG SCHOLAR AWARD 2008 RESULTS The EACS board is happy to announce The EACS Secretary received 23 again the EACS Young Scholar Award applications for the 2006 YSA to be (YSA). The purpose of this award is to awarded for the second time during the encourage research on Chinese studies XVIth conference of the EACS in among young scholars, especially those Ljubljana. Each paper was reviewed by studying and working at European two independent reviewers selected institutions. The Young Scholar Award from among distinguished scholars has been made possible through the within the broad field of “sinology”. As generous support by the Chiang Ching- two papers scored much better than all kuo Foundation for International the others, the jury decided to invite Scholarly Exchange. It was first only two nominees to the conference in awarded during the 2004 biennial Ljubljana. They were: conference in Heidelberg. The next YSA will be announced at the XVIIth Rossella Ferrari (SOAS) with a paper biennial conference in Lund, Sweden, entitled “Pop Goes the Avant-garde – in the summer of 2008.
15 Eligibility: provided at the time of submission. Please send papers and abstracts by e- Candidates for the YSA should be 35 mail AND in hard-copy to the EACS years of age or below AND their rank Secretary Dr Roel Sterckx, Department of academic employment should be of East Asian Studies, University of below that of Associate Professor or Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Senior Lecturer or the equivalent ranks Cambridge CB3 9DA, United in other systems. The members of the Kingdom, [email protected]. jury welcome papers of high scholarly promise engaging primary sources, Applicants who encounter difficulties secondary scholarship, and innovative in mailing the copy of their work research methodologies relevant to the should contact the Secretary of EACS. field. Papers should be written in English; only single-authored papers will be accepted. Papers should preferably be unpublished, however, CHIANG CHING-KUO candidates may also submit papers FOUNDATION LIBRARY which are under review for publication TRAVEL GRANT in a scholarly journal at the time of the REPORT 2005 2008 EACS conference. Each applicant may submit only one paper of a As in 2004, the EACS received also in maximum of 8000 to 8500 words 2005 10,000.00 € from the CCK (approximately 50.000 characters), Foundation to fund the Library Travel with a one-page abstract. The copy Programme. In 2005, eleven should include the author's full name, applications were approved. Of these, institution, and address. eight came from East European countries and three from West The EACS jury hopes to nominate 3 to European countries. Seven recipients 5 candidates. Nominees will be given were (postgraduate) students and four subsidies (travel cost, per diem senior researchers. The most expenses and registration fee) to attend frequented libraries were those in the EACS conference in Lund where London (5 visits) followed by Paris (2), their papers will be presented during a Leiden (2) and one visit each to special session. The winner of the YSA Heidelberg and Munich. Six visits will be announced during the concerned modern and five pre-modern conference and honoured with the China. award of a certificate. It is expected that candidates submitting papers for the Young Scholar Award are or List of grants will be registered as EACS members by the time of the biennial EACS Dmitry Lvov (student), St. Petersburg/ conference. Russia Research Topic: Life and work of The deadline for submission of both Wang Anyi abstracts and papers is 15 January, Visited Library: Leiden 2008. Proof of age and rank should be
16 Filip Suchomel (student), Prague/ Research Topic: Han Dynasty Standard Czech Republic Histories Research Topic: Chinese and Japanese Visited Library: Munich lacquer ware Visited Library: London Anna Bondarenko (student), Moscow/ Russia Martin Hosek (student), Prague/Czech Research Topic: Problems concerning Republic contemporary Xinjiang Research Topic: Czechoslovak Legion Visited Library: London in Manchuria 1918-20 Visited Library: London CHIANG CHING-KUO FOUNDATION LIBRARY Aglaia De Angeli (student), Italy TRAVEL GRANT Research Topic: Women and crime in Shanghai 1911-49 In 2006-2007 the Chiang Ching-kuo Visited Library: London Foundation continues its generous support to EACS by funding one-week Isabella Labedzka (professor), visits for specialised research in Warszawa/Poland Sinological libraries in Cambridge, Research Topic: Ritual theatre in China Heidelberg, Leiden, London, Oxford, and Taiwan Paris or Munich. Visited Library: Paris Applications received before the two Sofia Graziani (student), Italy deadlines of March 20th and October Research Topic: China’s primary youth 20th will be considered within 3 weeks political organisation 1962-82 after receipt. Visited Library: Heidelberg Applicants should be Sinologists S.A. Toroptsev (professor), Russia based permanently in Europe and Research Topic: Li Po preferably paid-up members of the Visited Library: Leiden EACS. Applications from non- members will be considered, however, Imre Hamar (professor), Budapest/ especially in case of students and Hungary young scholars (up to 35 years), if Research Topic: Avatamsaka-Sutra and accompanied by a recommendation its Chinese commentaries letter from an EACS member. Visited Library: London Priorities are given to applicants as Albert Galvany (student), Spain follows: Research Topic: Politics and war in a. Central and Eastern Europe early China: Hanfeizi students Visited Library: Paris b. Western Europe students c. Central and Eastern Europe Jurij Kroll (professor), St. Petersburg/ scholars Russia d. Western Europe scholars
17 Dr. Fuehrer is able to process APPLICATIONS must include: applications sent by e-mail only.
1) a letter stating the library to be 2) for research on modern China (i.e. visited and intended dates of travel; from 1840) to Dr. Thomas Kampen, 2) a statement of purpose, to include a Sinologisches Seminar, Heidelberg short description of the research University, Akademiestraße 4-8, D- project, including precise indication of 69117 Heidelberg, Germany. E-mail: the sources and material to be used (the [email protected] easiest way to obtain this information is to consult the electronic catalogues of the respective libraries accessible also PAYMENT OF GRANTS through the EACS website). 3) a written statement obtained from 1) If applications are approved, grants the Librarian of the institute where the will be made to include travelling proposed visit is to take place expenses and a per diem allowance, confirming that the research materials which will vary from place to place. required are available for consultation; 2) The grants will be paid on 4) a one-page curriculum vitae with a completion of the visit only. list of main publications (in case of 3) Applicants who, due to special more advanced scholars); circumstances, need to receive the 5) a statement of the travelling grant in advance, should indicate so expenses (Apex economy airfare or in their application. 2nd class rail fare), including a note of 4) On completion of their visit, all other sources of funding; scholars should obtain a letter signed 6) in the case of Ph.D. students, a letter by the Librarian, certifying that the of recommendation from their visit has been made and specifying the supervisor; dates when it began and ended. 7) in the case of non-members, a letter 5) All scholars should send the of recommendation from an EACS Librarian’s letter directly to the member; president of EACS Dr. Brunhild 8) address for correspondence, STAIGER, Institut fur Asienkunde, including fax and E-mail where Rothenbaumchaussee 32, DE-20148 possible. Hamburg, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]. The EACS APPLICATIONS should be sent to the president is in charge of the financial following coordinators: administration of the grant. 6) Upon completion of the visit, a brief 1) for research on pre-modern China report should be sent to the EACS (i.e. before 1840) to Dr. Bernhard Secretary, Dr. Roel Sterckx (e-mail: Fuehrer, School of Oriental and [email protected]). Any publication African Studies, London, Thornhaugh using material collected under this Street, Russell Square, London WC1H program should include acknowledge- OXG, United Kingdom. Fax: +44 (0) ment of help received from the CCK 20 7898 4239. E-mail: [email protected]. Foundation.
18 London WC1H OXG, UK. Fax: +44- LIBRARIANS 171-436-38-44. E-mail: [email protected] (For further details about the libraries Frances Wood, British Library, see our website or the website of the Chinese Section, Oriental & India European Association of Sinological Office Collections, 96 Euston Road, Librarians at: www.easl.org) London NW1 2DB, UK. Fax: +44-171- 412-78-58. FRANCE: E-mail: [email protected] Delphine Spicq, Bibliothèque de David Helliwell, Bodleian Library, l'Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, Oxford, OX1 3BG, United Kingdom. Collège de France, 52 rue du Cardinal Fax: +-44-1865-277132. Lemoine, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, E-mail: [email protected] France. Fax: +33-1-44 27 18 79. E-mail: delphine.spicq@college-de- RESEAU ASIE – ASIA NETWORK france.fr The Réseau Asie – Asia Network, also GERMANY: referred to as IMASIE – Institut des Ms A. Labitzky-Wagner, Sinologisches Mondes asiatiques, wants to participate Seminar, Universität Heidelberg, with other organizations in the Akademiestrasse 4-8, D-69117 exchange of knowledge, in the dialogue Heidelberg, Germany. Fax: +49-6221- between East and West and in 54-24-39. E-mail: [email protected] providing an outlet for the experiences heidelberg.de and knowledge of researchers as much Ms. Renate Stephan at the Bavarian in France and Europe as in Asia and State Library, Section East Asia, Fax America, in order to maximize the +49-89-28636-2805. number of participants (Jean-François [email protected] Sabouret, director of Réseau-Asie, Senior research fellow, CNRS). In NETHERLANDS: order to stimulate interdisciplinary Hanno Lecher M.A., Sinologisch research projects among specialists Instituut, Arsenaalstraat 1, 2311CT, of Asian cultures and disciplines, and Leiden, The Netherlands. Fax: 71-27- to stress to the public the importance 226-15. of improving knowledge of the E-mail: [email protected] different Asian worlds, the network has also chosen to organize a UNITED KINGDOM: Congress every two years, and Charles Aylmer, Chinese Section, publish the syntheses, which will University Library, West Road, profit not only the milieu of research Cambridge CB3 9DR, United but also a wider public, with the Kingdom. Fax: +44-1223-333-160. entirety of all the communications, E-mail: [email protected] more technical and detailed, being Ms Sue Small, School of Oriental & accessible. To achieve this, the African Studies, University of London, Réseau Asie - Asia Network, whose Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, technical and administrative coordi-
19 nation is undertaken by Jeanne Asia without ever trying to impose or Goffinet (Chargé de mission, control it, to remain open to the Ministry of National Education), has initiatives of researchers and labora- created a Website which is updated tories, of scholarly or professional daily, and aims to offer extensive associations, of academic establish- information on research and aca- ments and institutions. Its objective is demic activities in France: to create common initiatives, promote http://www.reseau-asie.com. development of research and cross- disciplinary thought, to stimulate SYNTHESIS OF THE LAST comparative approaches in the study of CONGRESS (2005) Asia and with Asia. It plans for five The second Congress of the outcomes: (1) an Internet site for francophone Réseau Asie - Asia information on research initiatives, Network, which was held on the 28th, activities and studies concerning Asia; 29th and 30th of September, 2005 in (2) a European database of researchers Paris, proved that a new research and experts on Asia; (3) a framework dynamics, extended by scientific inter- proposing inter-disciplinary research disciplinarity and Asian inter- themes about Asia; (4) a place of culturality, could be put in place in partnerships promoting projects across research and academic circles, and different disciplines and skills; (5) a between the doctorate students or French language biennial Congress young postdocs and experts in the bringing together researchers and subject. Papers were divided into five experts from Europe and Asia. main themes: (1) Economic dynamics; All the information concerning the (2) Geopolitics and territories; (3) 2007 congress will be available on the Ideologies, politics and religions; (4) Website. Scholars will be invited to Knowledge, environments and submit proposals for panels to be societies; (5) Literature and the Arts. presented at the congress. “Réseau The syntheses of the 2005 congress are Asie” is a francophone network, but, in being published (Paris, Editions Indes order to welcome non French-speaking savantes, 2006) with a short researchers wishing to participate, they presentation in English, and the papers may be helped with the translation of are directly available on the website their paper into French and with the (full papers in French, presentation and preparation of their oral presentation. abstracts available also in English). More than 40 communications Contact: [email protected] regarding China took place in more Website: http://www.reseau-asie.com than 20 workshops.
PREPARATION OF THE NEXT CONGRESS (2007) The 2005 Congress confirmed the appropriateness of organizing around a flexible network structure, in order to stimulate and coordinate research about
20 CONFERENCE 20 minutes. Les discussions suivront ANNOUNCEMENTS soit après tous les exposés pendant environ 20 à 30 minutes, soit après APPEL A ATELIERS; 3ième chaque exposé pendant environ 5 à 10 CONGRES 2007 DU RESEAU ASIE minutes.
Date provisoire du 3ième congrès: - La proposition qui précisera si c’est 26-27-28 septembre 2007, Paris un atelier constitué ou si c’est une proposition individuelle en vue d’une Objectif : Le congrès est destiné à participation à un atelier comprendra : faire connaître des travaux originaux sur l'Asie avec l'objectif de a) le titre, le résumé de l’atelier avec promouvoir les ateliers transdiscipli- l’indication d’un maximum de dix naires et transculturels à l'ensemble mots-clés (1/2 page) de la communauté scientifique et à un public intéressé par l’Asie. b) la liste des intervenants, et pour chaque personne, son titre académique, Langue : La langue du congrès est le son organisme de rattachement français mais les présentations des administratif, son adresse électronique, ateliers et les résumés des communi- le titre et le résumé de sa cations seront tous mis en ligne en communication (1/3 page). français et en anglais. Si une version en langues asiatiques est disponible, Elle sera rédigée dans un premier en elle sera également diffusée. français, puis dans les autres langues par la suite.
Public : Comme les deux premiers, ce Website : http://www.reseau-asie.com 3ème congrès est ouvert à tous les enseignants, chercheurs, enseignants- chercheurs et experts sur l’Asie et SHANGHAI FORUM 2007: l’Océanie y compris les doctorants. ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AND THE CHOICE OF ASIA: Calendrier prévisionnel: INNOVATION, COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROPOSITIONS A ENVOYER AVANT FIN DECEMBRE 2006 Shanghai Forum is an international academic forum hosted by Fudan - Dès maintenant jusqu'au fin décembre University and funded by KFAS. With 2007, les propositions d'atelier ou de the mission of “concentrating on Asia, participation à atelier sont à adresser à focusing on hot issues, congregating
21 for multi-dimensional and in-depth - Regional divisions and economic in- academic research into the important tegration issues of the global economy and the - Economic restructuring and distribu- international situation, especially tion of manufacturing development and cooperation in the - Industrial structure and energy con- fields of energy sources, information sumption and finance. The goal is to promote the overall development of the economies, - Energy strategies and mechanisms for politics, societies and cultures of Asia international cooperation by soliciting strategic suggestions on - Innovation and distribution of infor- policies and reaching a mutual mation technology industry consensus on development. - Exchange rate determining mecha- nisms and the fluctuations in key I. Theme of the Shanghai Forum international exchange rates 2007 - Asian financial markets and monetary The Shanghai Forum 2007 will cooperation maintain the same theme of “Economic - Competition and cooperation among Globalization and the Choice of Asia”. financial centers Therefore, we would like to solicit - The Era of Asia in the course of papers from scholars in China and economic globalization abroad on the following topics: - The political, social and cultural foundation of economic cooperation Economic Structures and Common and development in Asia Market in Asia
Industrial Structure and Energy III. Time Schedule of the Forum Cooperation in Asia May 24, 2007: Registration (CROWNE Financial Order and Monetary PLAZA near Fudan University) Cooperation in Asia May 25 – 27: Conference II. Proposed topics for the Shanghai May 28: City Tour Forum 2007 IV. Notes Within the framework of the themes of 1. Scholars from the relevant social the Shanghai Forum 2007, we have science fields are welcome to present listed the following topics as the initial their research findings in Shanghai sub-forum themes for domestic and Forum. Anyone who wishes to deliver overseas scholars to consider. The a speech in Chinese in the Forum shall papers should center on research into send us the full text (no more than Asian economies, and may refer to the 15,000 Chinese words) before January good experience and practices of 15, 2007. As for the English papers, the regions outside Asia. author should send us the abstract in - The overall competitiveness of the English (no more than one page) before Asian economies in the process of December 31, 2006. With reference to economic globalization. these abstracts, the Shanghai Forum
22 Organizing committee will decide on class electronic tickets or ticket receipts the list of invitees around January 31; for reimbursement. and those in the list should send us the 6. The Shanghai Forum Organizing full text (no more than 20 pages) before Committee will offer free airport pick- March 15, 2007. Shanghai Forum will up and drop-off one day before and publicize the list of the speakers whose after the Forum. Chinese or English papers are selected before January 31, 2007, and extend official invitation letters to them. Address: Shanghai Forum Organizing Committee, Fudan University, 220 2. Please submit your paper in Handan Rd., Shanghai, China; Post formatted in Word and email it as an Code: 200433 attachment to [email protected]. Contact: Ms. Zhang Yan, Ms Zhu Please use “Shanghai Forum 2007 Xianxiao Submission” as your e-mail title. Tel: +86-21-55664665 55664590 3. The working languages are Chinese Fax: +86-21-55670203 and English. [email protected], 4. As an interdisciplinary conference, [email protected] Shanghai Forum welcomes participants www.shanghaiforum.fudan.edu. from various academic fields, government departments and EUROPEAN REFERENCE INDEX corporations. Therefore, the speaker FOR HUMANITIES shall limit his/her presentation to 20 minutes and make it easy to understand The European Reference Index for the and discuss (try not to use math and Humanities (ERIH) project was started statistics in the presentation). in 2001. The idea behind the project Moreover, the speaker shall give a PPT was to create a European substitute for copy of the speech to our staff during the Thomson’s Arts and Humanities registration and also bring it in a U disk Citation Index, which is generally to the venue. agreed to be inadequate. However it soon became clear that it is not easy for 5. The Shanghai Forum Organizing research in the broad field of Committee will provide fare subsidy Humanities (in this case humanities are and accommodation for all the VIP understood as a broad spectrum of guests and speakers during the fields and topics covering both the conference. They are also exempt from social sciences as well as the humanties any conference fee. All participants in the strict sense of the word) to be (except those with special requests) of measured by a concise citation index. the Forum shall purchase their own As a result the project was transformed tickets. Participants from the Chinese into a “reference index” project, at the mainland should provide economy moment leaving the issue of research class tickets (or train tickets) for assement open. reimbursement; participants from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreign ERIH is a Humanities in the European countries should provide economy Research Area (HERA) Research
23 Infrastructures project, run by the During the panel meetings we European Science Foundation, which extensively discussed the following aims to develop an efficient and issues: accessible research infrastructure, 1) Demarcation of the A, B, C namely a scientific reference index. categories The first results will be an open access 2) Inclusion of non-European list of categorised journals, which will journals in the list serve the research community as a 3) Inclusion of topics and fields simple benchmarking tool and originally not covered in the list constitute the basis for the later provided by ESF and related development of a fully-fledged expertise including the reference index. At the moment the demarcation of “Oriental and expert panels for individual fields have African Studies”, which in the finished their work and submitted the end had to include also such results to ESF. We expect the definitive topics as for example publication of the journal list by the Austronesian linguistics or end of this year. studies about the Caucasus 4) Inclusion of journals dealing In 2004 Hans van Ess and Olga with art, archaeology, theatre Lomova representing EACS joined the and music Oriental and African Studies Panel which served as one of the advisory A great deal of our discussions, both boards for the future reference index. formal and informal, was also invested The panel included 6 members expert with worries about the possible future in various fields of “Oriental and use of the Index, once it becomes African Studies” and met twice (in “canonised” by ESF. As a result our December 2005 and in September panel concluded its work with the 2006) to discuss a list of some 700 following recommendation: journals including journals (and fields) from Abr Nahrain and Acta Asiatica to “ The panel wishes to express its Zimbabwe Law Review. On the list, persistent concern that the lists, once there were some 50 journals dealing published, will be used for other with China in some respect. (For this purposes than those for which they purpose we substantially expanded the were created. The panel is aware of the original list prepared by the EACS ESF's aim to create a list of journals board in 2004.) In the time between that are regarded as acceptable means these meetings we exchanged some of communication in the various correspondence expanding the list and disciplines that make up research in the also commenting on the criteria of Humanities. Nonetheless, such a list selection and categorisation, since an may easily be come to be regarded as A, B, C scale was demanded. After the an easy means to evaluate research, for second meeting was over, we still which it is not suited. The panel hopes provided some supplementary data to that the ESF will do its best to prevent the list. such inappropriate use of the final list and will inform all organisations
24 concerned of the risks involved in this room the visitor can admire four mechanical evaluation on the basis of “naked” black male statues found in the data in the list.” Hongqingyuan (Shaanxi), in the tomb of Empress Bo, consort of the first For further details about the project emperor of the Han Dynasty (r. 206- please go to the website of Europe 195 BC), a huge gilded bronze vase, a Science Foundation pair of jars, and a pair of model granaries plus a wild boar, all made of http://www.esf.org/esf_article.php? baked clay with lead glaze. language=0&article=594&domain=4& In room 2, on two daises facing each activity=9 other, we find rows of funerary statues in painted terracotta that were found in Olga Lomova Yangjiawan (Shaanxi) near the tombs of two famous army officers: Zhou Bo (d. 169 BC) and his son Zhou Yafu (d. CHINA 143 BC): 40 horsemen and 25 BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE infantrymen, varying in height from 47 to 68 cm, belonging to a military The exhibition, hosted at the Scuderie formation of about 2000 pieces. The del Quirinale in Rome, Italy daises also display 25 smaller (www.scuderiequirinale.it) from horsemen found in Changling September 22, 2006 to January 28, (Shaanxi), in the tomb of the first 2007, presents over 320 archaeological emperor of the Han Dynasty. In the objects – some never before exhibited same room, a tiny bronze immortal outside mainland China – from 14 discovered in 1964 in Xi’an, two so- Chinese museums, spanning over ten called “bi” discs and two bronze centuries of Chinese history, from the mirrors are also exhibited. Zhou Kingdom (1045-221 BC) to the In the centre of room 3 a background of Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 23) black tulle sets off the gleaming shape and superbly staged by the stage of what seems to be a body: it is director Luca Ronconi. actually a pale-green jade suit In room 1 we see 56 terracotta statues originally made for a king of Chu, in in straight lines of horsemen and the south of the empire, between 175 soldiers, and of male, female and and 154 BC. eunuch servants, found in pits near the In rooms 4 and 5, moving backwards in tombs of the fourth Han Emperor, time, we come to the dawning of the Jingdi (r. 157-141 BC) and his consort empire. The exhibition displays some (d. 126 BC), in Yangling (Shaanxi). figures of the enormous terracotta army Their armour, weapons and clothes, of Qin Shihuangdi, China’s First originally made of wood, have rotted Emperor (r. 221-210 a.C.): soldiers, away, as have their arms, so that they officers, charioteers, servants, horses. now appear as anatomically correct but Of particular interest are five figures armless naked statues. Alongside, two from the three pits uncovered between horses, four dogs, four pigs, two oxen 1999 and 2003: two athletic men and four goats keep them company. In identified as acrobats, a pair of statues,
25 one kneeling and the other seated, ANNIVERSARY OF JAROSLAV probably representing musicians and a PRUSEK civilian official. In the last room on this floor one of the 64 battle chariots This year we commemorate the 100th located in Pit 2 has been reassembled, anniversary of the birth of Jaroslav the chariot team consisting of three Průšek (1906 – 1980), the founder of soldiers. Sinology in the Czech Republic and The five rooms on the second floor are also one of the active participants in the dedicated to the Zhou Dynasty with Junior Sinologues Conference, the pre- bronzes, lacquerwares and jades from cursor of EACS. the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-221 The anniversary was remembered in BC.). Moreover, the visitor can admire Prague at the Charles University by an the extraordinary lacquerwares and international conference organized on bronzes from the tomb of Marquis Yi October 13–14 2006 by the Chiang of Zeng (d. 433 BC): the coffin for one Ching-kuo Foundation International of his concubines, the elegant deer, the Sinological Centre in Prague together famous and unique bird-shaped drum with the CCK-F Inter-University support, a sort of crane with deer Center for Sinological Studies at antlers and the complete set of stone Harvard University. The conference chimes. Among the impressive titled Paths towards Modernity focused ceremonial bronzes produced in on issues dealing with developments in Northern China during the Western Chinese literature as well as thought Zhou (1045-770 BC) are some objects and society from the late Ming to the discovered at Zhuangbai (Fufeng, May Fourth Movement. The choice of Shaanxi province), and some bronzes the topic was inspired by some of the never seen outside mainland China ideas Jaroslav Průšek expressed in his before, such as the wine vessel in the work, though never elaborating on shape of a naked kneeling woman, them in greater detail. The papers dating from the very beginning of the presented at the conference will be dynasty. Lionello Lanciotti (Università published by Karolinum (Charles degli Studi di Napoli l’Orientale) and University Press) next year. (For Maurizio Scarpari (Università Ca’ further details, including the abstracts Foscari, Venezia), are the curators of see http://cck-isc.ff.cuni.cz/.) the exhibition, with Attilio Andreini, On the occasion a volume of personal Tiziana Lippiello, Sabrina Rastelli recollections about Professor Průšek (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia) and was prepared by his former student Roberto Ciarla (Museo Nazionale Milena Doleželová-Velingerová, and d’Arte Orientale, Roma) as published in Prague. It is bilingual collaborators. (English and Czech) and contains personal essays by seventeen scholars Tiziana Lippiello from Europe and America as well as Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia some unique photographs of Jaroslav Průšek. Though the book is largely of local interest to Czech sinologists, I believe it provides an interesting
26 glimpse into the broader history of Harbsmeier’s scholarly achievements, European sinology. while we ourselves wrote a humorous and hopefully penetrating introduction Olga Lomova to Christoph Harbsmeier’s life. Interested scholars can read more about CELEBRATING CHRISTOPH the publication at www.hermesac.no. HARBSMEIER’S 60th BIRTHDAY Christoph Anderl & Halvor Eifring In connection with Christoph (eds.): Studies in Chinese Language Harbsmeier’s 60th birthday on April and Culture: Festschrift in Honour of 16th this year, one of his former Christoph Harbsmeier on the Occasion students, Dr. Christoph Anderl, took of His 60th Birthday. Oslo: Hermes the initiative to put together a volume Academic Publishing 2006 (hardcover, of articles by leading scholars on a XLVI + 474 pp., incl. 14 colour plates, wide range of sinological topics, ISBN 82 8034 051 3). Price: € 55 including oracle bones and bronze (price for EACS and EACL members: inscriptions, semantics and conceptual € 48). For more information on the history, philosophy, religion and book see www.hermesac.no. The book comparative studies, phonology and may be ordered from Hermes syntax, Buddhist China and Chinese Academic Publishing & Bookshop A/S Buddhism, and literature and film. I at [email protected]. also participated in the editorial work. The volume was finished just in time Halvor Eifring for the celebrations in Oslo. We are proud to have been able to include 34 WORKSHOP ON LIFESTYLE articles by many of the scholars who AND ENTERTAINMENT IN have worked closely with Christoph YANGZHOU Harbsmeier over the years. We are also happy that we were able to give the Newsletter 36 included a report on the book an artistic quality, with flower workshop ‘Lifestyle and entertainment paintings by the Chinese painter Xiao in Yangzhou’. Inadvertently the contact Chan as well as a charming caricature data were dropped. of Christoph Harbsmeier by Feng For information on this workshop, Zikai’s student Bi Keguan. We have please contact Roland Altenburger, also been able to include a poem University of Zürich written for the occasion by one of [email protected] China’s foremost scholars of ancient script and texts, Pang Pu, translated into English by one of Europe’s foremost translators and scholars of traditional Chinese literature, David Hawkes. Björn Wittrock, the Principal of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study at Uppsala wrote a preface lauding Christoph
27 OBITUARY edition 1969; Storia della Letteratura PROFESSOR PIERO CORRADINI cinese, Fabbri, 1st edition 1979; (1933-2006) Antologia della Letteratura cinese, Fabbri, 1st edition 1979; La Città Professor Piero Corradini died Proibita. Storia e collezioni, Giunti suddenly on 7th September 2006 in his 1992; Cina: popoli e società in cinque beloved home in Belforte del Chienti, millenni di storia, Giunti,1996); on in the province of Macerata. His death, Confucianism (Confucio e il Confu- at the age of 73, was due to a rapid and cianesimo, Esperienze, 1st edition devastating illness. While still shocked 1972; Confucius, la via dell’uomo, by this sad and premature event, we are Charta, 1993); on the history of Japan aware of the huge void left in the (Introduzione alla storia del Giappone, academic world, of the importance of Bulzoni, 1992, Il Giappone e la sua this great researcher and of the depth of storia, Bulzoni, 1999); and on his contributions to the formation of Mongolia (La Mongolia moderna, several generations of scholars in the Marzorati, 1978). He was the author of field of oriental studies. numerous essays on state adminis- He graduated in Arts in 1955 from the tration during the Qing era and during Università degli Studi in Rome and was the Republican age, on missionaries in awarded a Diploma in Chinese the Far East, with particular reference Language and Culture by the Italian to Matteo Ricci, and on Chinese cities, Institute for the Middle and Far East. works which were also published in a His first post, in 1964, was as Professor number of Far Eastern and Russian of History and Civilization of the Far journals. However, such a wide- East at the Istituto Universitario ranging contribution to scientific Orientale in Naples, where he research cannot be adequately continued to teach as a full professor conveyed by mere reference to these until 1975, and where for some years titles. he also held the post of Dean of the His intense activity as a researcher was Faculty of Political Science. He accompanied by an equally intense continued his work at the Università activity in cultural internationalisation degli Studi in Macerata (1975 – 85) as a prominent member of prestigious and subsequently at “La Sapienza” Associations on Oriental Studies University in Rome (1985-2000), throughout the world, of which he was where he concluded his brilliant career also president and for which he also in 2003. organised and co-ordinated scientific His fields of interest ranged widely research. He was Director of two from literature to history, from Italian Cultural Institutes abroad, first philosophy to geography and from in Tokyo (1979-81) and then in Peking politics to religion throughout the area (1988-91). of the Far East, publishing more than If, on the one hand, the vast scientific 200 works of essays and texts. Among contribution which he made to global his best known texts, we remember his sinology is undeniable, on the other work on the history, literature and art hand his dedication to academic work, of China (La Cina, U.T.E.T., 1st his open-mindedness, his enthusiasm,
28 the benevolence and generosity with which he treated his students and young researchers are also equally indisputable. When, as a recent graduate and uncertain of my future, I first visited him in his study in the University of Macerata, he himself urged me to undertake the path of research. His words expressed passion and scientific interest, together with solid plans for a possible career, which aroused new stimuli and motivation in me. His ability to communicate passion for researching our origins, for textual analysis, for critical reflection and his immense humanity in sustaining students in their moments of difficulty and dismay, which frequently assail and confound during the development of a research project or in the course of an academic career, made him not only a great educator but a master of life. Farewell Professor Corradini, friend and master. If the lives of your ex- students, even though they have developed in different ways, have followed a fascinating path towards the East, we owe it to you, to the depth of your cultural knowledge, to your humane generosity and to your academic commitment.
Maria Cigliano Università degli Studi di Napoli l’ Orientale
29 NEW PUBLICATIONS Robert H. Gassmann, Verwandtschaft Christoph Anderl and Halvor Eifring und Gesellschaft in alten China, (eds.), Studies in Chinese Language Begriffe, Strukturen und Prozesse. and Culture: Festschrift in Honour of Bern: Peter Lang. 2006. 593 pp. ISBN: Christoph Harbsmeier on the Occasion 3-03911-170-1. € 79.20 of His 60th Birthday. Oslo: Hermes. 2006. 474 pp. ISBN 82 8034 051 3. Harro von Senger, The 36 Stratagems € 55 (for EACS and EACL members for Business. London: Cyan € 48). Communications Limited, 2006. 205 pp. ISBN: 1-904879-46-2. UK 14.99 Véronique Alexandre Journeau Pound; USA 26.95 Dollar. (presentation), Les Mondes asiatiques, Recherches et enjeux. Paris: Les Indes Savantes. 2006. 264 pp. ISBN: 2- 84654-152-3. € 26
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