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ANNUAL REVIEW ISSUE 4: September 2012 - September 2013 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR SOAS University of

L ooking back on the past year, 2012- 2013 has been an eventful and fruitful academic year for the Centre of Chinese Studies (CCS).

The Centre’s regular seminar series covered a wide range of topics from literature and arts in imperial to family and reform in the contemporary PRC, with eminent speakers coming from within the UK and also international scholars from Europe, Asia, and North America. These seminars filled the lecture room G50 with lively discussions on Chinese studies on many Monday evenings.

This year’s CCS Annual Lecture was delivered by Professor Stephen H. West (Foundation Professor of Chinese at Arizona State University and formerly Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese at UC Berkeley) on the topic of “The Burdens of Happiness: Zhu Changwen’s Garden of Joy”. In addition, the Centre also organised a SOAS Masterclass SOAS, is the only STUDYING AT SOAS for MA and PhD students, several book Higher Education institution in Europe CONTENTS launches, and an exhibition on “The Great specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and The international environment and Wall Photographs”. More information about the Near and Middle East. cosmopolitan character of the School make these and other CCS events and activities student life a challenging, rewarding and 3 Letter from the Chair can be found in the following pages. SOAS is a remarkable institution. Uniquely exciting experience. We welcome students 4 Centre Members combining language scholarship, disciplinary from more than 160 countries, and 38% of expertise and regional focus, it has the them are from outside the UK. 6 Members News largest concentration in Europe of academic with eminent speakers 15 Annoucements staff concerned with Africa, Asia and the SOAS offers a wide range of undergraduate, coming from within the Middle East. postgraduate and research degrees. 16 Honorary Appointments News UK and also international Students can choose from more than 350 18 Acadmic Events Listing On the one hand, this means that SOAS undergraduate degree combinations and scholars from Europe, Asia, scholars grapple with pressing issues - from almosst 200 postgraduate programmes 19 Centre Activities and North America democracy, development, human rights, (taught and distance learning) in the social Research Students identity, legal systems, poverty, religion, sciences, humanities and languages with 21 social change - confronting two-thirds a distinctive regional focus and global 22 Research & Enterprise In the coming months, we have also lined of humankind while at the same time relevance, taught by world-renowned up a number of international conferences Join Us remaining guardians of specialised teachers in specialist faculties. 23 at SOAS. On 5-6th September 2013, CCS knowledge in languages and periods and will host the “Max Weber and China: regions not available anywhere else in the SOAS is consistently ranked among the top Culture, Law and Capitalism” conference in UK. higher education institutions in the UK and collaboration with the Weber Study Group of the world. In 2006 SOAS joined the top 20 the British Sociological Association, Journal (Central China Normal University), and Dr is currently engaged, but will also bring European universities in the Times Higher CONTACT US of Max Weber Studies, and CCPN Global. Dongling Liu ( Normal University). Chinese studies at SOAS to new heights. Education Supplement rankings, and in 2007 Next, a conference on “Islamic Soundscapes the Guardian listed it again among the top We welcome you to become part of the of China” will be held on 10th January 2014. Looking ahead, it is my great pleasure to Finally, as my term of office as Centre Chair dozen UK universities, which include other SOAS experience and invite you to learn Together with the Shakespeare Birthplace announce that after over two decades since will soon come to an end in Sept 2013, I University of London colleges (UCL, LSE more about us by exploring our website. Trust and National Chung-Cheng University, its founding in 1992, CCS will be entering would like to thank all the colleagues who and King’s College) as well as Oxford and we are also planning a conference on “Brave into an exciting new chapter in the coming have helped me in one way or another Cambridge. www.soas.ac.uk New Theatres: 1616 in China and ” academic year. A new SOAS China Institute in running the Centre over the past year. scheduled to take place in June 2014. (SCI) will be set up under the leadership of Special thanks to Jane Savory and Rahima The SOAS Library has more than 1.5 million Admissions the Founding Director, Professor Michel Begum at the Centres & Programmes Office items and extensive electronic resources. It www.soas.ac.uk/admissions/ The Centre continued to host academic Hockx. Chinese studies at SOAS has grown for their unfailing energy that contributed to is the the study of Africa, Asia visitors for short to medium term. Our steadily and continuously over the years. the success of all the Centre activities and and the Middle East and attracts scholars all SOAS Library visiting scholars in the past year include The expansion from CCS to the new SCI will publications. over the world. www.soas.ac.uk/library/ Dr Yucong Ru (Zhejiang University), Dr not only help to meet the increasing needs This makes SOAS synonymous with Wang Hua (Minzu University of China), Dr of the wide range of China-related activities Tian Yuan Tan Chair, Centre of Chinese Studies intellectual enquiry and achievement. It SOAS offers a friendly, vibrant environment Research Jue Wang (Renmin University), Dr Yan and collaborations in which the School is a global academic base and a crucial right in the buzzing heart of London with www.soas.ac.uk/research/ resource for London. We live in a world of the capital’s rich cultural and social life on its shrinking borders and of economic and doorstep. SOAS, University of London technological simultaneity. Yet it is also a Thornhaugh Street world in which difference and regionalism Our academic focus on the languages, present themselves acutely. It is a world that cultures and societies of Africa, Asia and London WC1H 0XG SOAS is distinctively positioned to analyse, the Middle East makes us an indispensable understand and explain. interpreter in a complex world.

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Anthropology and Sociology Professor Laixiang SUN Languages and Cultures of POLITICAL AND INTERNATIONAL BSC MSC(PEKING) PHD(INST SOC China and Inner Asia Dr Tian Yuan TAN STUDIES Dr Jakob KLEIN STUDIES) MA(NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE) China Quarterly PHD(HARVARD) BA(LUND) MA(STOCKHOLM) MA PHD(LONDON) Professor of Chinese Business and Dr Dafydd FELL Lecturer in Social Anthropology Management Dr Cosima BRUNO Reader in Chinese Studies BA(LEEDS) PHD(LONDON) Editor: [email protected] [email protected] BA(VENICE) PHD(LONDON) Literature and Culture Reader in Comparative Politics with Professor Chris Bramall, SOAS Senior Lecturer in China Studies Chair, Centre of Chinese Studies reference to Dr Kevin LATHAM Dr Damian TOBIN [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] The China Quarterly is the leading BA(OXON) PGDIP(ZHANGSHAN) MA BA MBS(ECON)(LIMERICK) PHD(LONDON) scholarly journal in its field, covering PHD(LONDON) Lecturer in Chinese Business and Manage- Dr Yan CUI LAW Dr Enze HAN all aspects of contemporary China Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology ment BA() MA PHD(LONDON) PHD(GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY) including Taiwan. Its interdisciplinary [email protected] [email protected] Senior Lector in Chinese Lecturer in the International Security approach covers a range [email protected] Mr Ernest CALDWELL of East Asia of subjects including anthropology/ BA (ALABAMA) LLM (SINGAPORE) MA (KANSAS) [email protected] HISTORY sociology, literature and the arts, Dr Rossella FERRARI PHD(CHICAGO) business/economics, geography, DEVELOPMENT STUDIES BA(VENICE) MA(LONDON) PHD(LONDON) Lecturer in Chinese Law Dr Yuka KOBAYASHI history, international affairs, law, and LLB(KYOTO) MPHIL DPHIL(OXON) Dr Tim PRINGLE Dr Andrea JANKU Senior Lecturer in Modern [email protected] politics. Edited to rigorous standards Lecturer in Chinese Politics Lecturer in Labour, Social Movements MA PHD(HEIDELBERG) and Language by scholars of the highest repute, [email protected] and Develompent Senior Lecturer in the [email protected] Dr Carol TAN the journal publishes high-quality, LLM(LSE) LLB(LSE) PHD(SOAS) [email protected] [email protected] authoritative research, keeping Professor Bernhard FUEHRER Reader in Law Dr Tat Yan KONG readers up to date with events in Dr Lars LAAMANN BA(NATIONAL TAIWAN) PHD(VIENNA) [email protected] BA(NEWCASTLE) MPHIL DPHIL(OXON) China. International in scholarship, BA(FREIBURG) BA PHD(LONDON) Professor of Sinology Reader in Comparative Politics and The China Quarterly provides ECONOMICS Lecturer in the History of China [email protected] Dr Sanzhu ZHU Development Studies readers with historical perspectives, BA() LLM(SOUTH CENTRAL UNIV POLITI- [email protected] Professor Robert F ASH [email protected] in-depth analyses, and a deeper Ms Wan Li GAO CAL SCIENCE & LAW, WUHAN) PHD(LONDON) BA MSC(ECON) PHD(LONDON) understanding of China and Chinese Dr George LANE BA(JINGSHAW) Senior Lecturer in Chinese Professor Julia C STRAUSS culture. In addition to major articles Professor of Economics with reference to BA(CONNECTICUT COL) MA PHD(CALIFORNIA) BA MA PHD(LONDON) DIP RSA(BEIRUT) Senior Lector in Chinese Deputy Chair, Centre of East Asian Law and research reports, each issue China and Taiwan Professor of Chinese Politics Senior Teaching Fellow Modern and [email protected] contains a comprehensive Book [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] language pedagogy Review section, and also a Quarterly [email protected] Professor Christopher BRAMALL LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES Chronicle, which keeps readers BA MA PHD(CANTAB) History of Art and Archaeology informed of events in and Professor of Economics Dr Nathan HILL sTUDY OF RELIGIONS affecting China. PHD(HARVARD) [email protected] Ms Wai Hing TSE Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND Lecturer in Tibetan and Linguistics BA(TAIWAN) MA(SHEFFIELD) Professor Timothy H BARRETT [email protected] Subject Librarian (China & Inner Asia) MA(CANTAB) PHD(YALE) Dr Dic LO Reader in the History of Art of China Research Professor of East Asian History The China Quarterly is published BSC(ECON)(CHINESE, H.K.) MA(EAST ANGLIA) [email protected] [email protected] Professor Michel HOCKX [email protected] for SOAS, Univeristy of London by PHD(LEEDS) DRS PHD(LEIDEN) Cambridge University Press. Reader in Economics Dr Lukas NICKEL LINGUISTICS Professor of Chinese Dr Ulrich PAGEL [email protected] DIPL.SIN(BERLIN) PHD(HEIDELBERG) Reader in Chinese Art History and [email protected] BA PHD(LONDON) For subscriptions, advertisements Archaeology Dr Wynn CHAO Reader in Language and Religion in Tibet and contributor instructions, Professor Andrew H-B LO BA(NYCITY) PHD(UMASS, AMHERST) and Middle Asia please visit: Financial and Management Studies [email protected] MA PHD(PRINCETON) Lecturer in Linguistics [email protected] www.soas.ac.uk/research/publica- Professor in Chinese [email protected] tions/journals/chinaq/ Dr Jing BIAN Dr Stacey PIERSON BA(LOYOLA) MA(LONDON) PG DIP(EALING) [email protected] Dr Antonello PALUMBO LLB() LLM(LONDON) PHD(LONDON) LAUREA MA PHD(NAPLES) Senior Teaching Fellow DPHIL(SUSSEX) MUSIC Dr Xiaoning LU Lecturer in Chinese Religions [email protected] Senior Lecturer in Chinese Ceramics [email protected] BA() MA(FUDAN) PHD(STONY BROOK) [email protected] Lecturer in Modern Chinese Culture Dr Hong BO Dr Rachel HARRIS and Language BA(OXON) MMUS PHD(LONDON) BA MA(LAIZHOO) PHD(GRONINGEN) Reader in Finance and Management [email protected] Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology [email protected] [email protected] Ms Zhaoxia PANG Yueqin DONG MA(WESTMINSTER) MSC(LONDON) Lector in Chinese [email protected] [email protected]

Dr Eunsuk HONG Dr Lianyi SONG MSC(LONDON) PHD(LONDON) BA(BEIJING) MA(BANGOR) PHD(LONDON) Lecturer in International Business & Principal Teaching Fellow Management (China) Modern Chinese language and [email protected] language pedagogy [email protected] Dr Huanguang QIU BA(QINGDAO AGR) MSC(CAAS CHINA) Ms Lik SUEN PHD(CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES) BA LLB(BEIJING) MA(HONG KONG) Newton International Fellow Principal Lector in Chinese [email protected]

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BO BRUNO CALDWELL CUI FELL FERRARI Hong Cosima Ernest Yan Dafydd Rossella

During the 2013-14 academic On 7 November 2012, Cosima During the 2013-14 academic Cui Yan gave a presentation in Universities outside China” Dafydd Fell went to Taiwan for Publications Rossella Ferrari was on year Hong Bo: Bruno was interviewed on her year Ernest Caldwell gave at the Fifth Asia-Pacific by Dr Cui Yan was published fieldwork in December 2012. sabbatical in the first term of new book Between the Lines by several invited lectures on International Symposium by Higher Education Press in This project involved interviews Fell, Dafydd. Party Politics in the academic year. She spent • Invited speech on the Prof Carla Nappi. The podcast of Chinese constitutional law and of Teaching Chinese as an Beijing in July 2013. This was the and focus group sessions with Taiwan (London: Routledge, this time researching and topic “The Chinese financial the interview is available on the traditional Chinese legal thought International Language in paper that Cui Yan presented activists and candidates from 2012). Paperback version writing up a chapter on a series system and the domestic East Asia page of the New Books at Oxford, Cambridge, and Melbourne, Australia on 24-25th at the 11th International the Taiwan Green Party. This is published. of inter-Asian collaborative consumption driven growth Network (http://newbooksine- SOAS, and also participated in August 2013. Her paper was Conference for Teaching a collaborative research project performances that address the model”, Conference astasianstudies.com/). the conference “Legal Theory- entitled “Innovative Teaching Chinese (http://11th.shihan. between Dr Fell and Professor Fell, Dafydd (2013) ‘The Nuclear division of the Korean peninsula on issues of regional Legal History: A neglected Chinese as a Foreign Language: org.cn) and it was selected Peng Yen-wen (National Sun Referendum issue in Taiwan.’ and cross-strait relations development in Xian China, On 13-15 December 2012, she dialogue?” held at Queen Mary. An Analysis of Newly Created by the editing committee as Yat Sen University) that aims to University of Nottingham, China between mainland China Xian, June 28-30, 2013. delivered a paper entitled “The Teaching Materials”. This a part of the collective book analyse the past electoral record Policy Institute blog . and Taiwan in comparative • Comment as a respondent Routes of Poetry in Multilingual In November 2012, he was conference was organized which is entitled The Selected of the Green Party and propose perspective. This chapter is on the book “The Morality Macau”, at the World Literature invited to join an international by Asia-Pacific International Paper of the 11th International strategies for improving its Fell, Dafydd (2013) ‘Impact of part of a new book project, of China in Africa” (Edited London Conference, SOAS, team of legal historians for Teaching of Chinese Society, Conference for Teaching future electoral performance. Candidate Selection Systems on provisionally titled Transnational by Stephen Chan) at University of London. a long term project titled, Asia Institute of The University Chinese by The International Election Results: Evidence from Chinese Theatre(s): the book launch event “Legalising Space in China” of Melbourne (http://www. Society for Chinese Language Dafydd gave the following Taiwan before and after the Performance Networks and organized by Royal African On 25 January 2013, Cosima which is based in the Institut asiainstitute.unimelb.edu.au) Teaching Secretariat. The theme presentations over the year: Change in Electoral Systems.’ Rhizomes of Exchange in East Society, UK, May 7 2013. was invited by the University of d’Asie Orientale at Lyon, France. and Australian Tertiary Chinese of this conference organised The China Quarterly, 213 . pp. Asia. • Became an Editorial Board Erlangen-Nürnberg, to give a The purpose of the project is to Teachers Association (http:// by The International Society for 1. Measuring and explaining 152-171. Member of Frontiers in lecture entitled “Contemporary produce full English and French www.artsmonash.edu.au/pub- Chinese Language Teaching and the impact of third parties Her book Pop Goes the Finance in June 2013. Chinese Poetry and the translations of all extant law lications/chinese-studies-re- Hanban/ Confucius Institute in Taiwan’s party system. Avant-garde: Experimental Legitimization of Its Literary codes from traditional China. view/about.php). The objectives Headquarters (http://www.shi- Paper given at the Tenth Theatre in Contemporary Genealogy ” for the lecture of this conference were to han.org.cn) was “Innovation and European Association China was published in early Publication series Invented Traditions, Additionally, Ernest was asked to promote research on teaching Development — International of Taiwan Studies, Lyon, 2013 by Seagull Books in their Institute of Chinese Studies, serve as co-chair of the planning Chinese as an international Chinese Language Teacher France, May 2013. ‘Enactments’ series, edited Bo, Hong, Tao Li, and Yanmei Department of Classical World committee for the upcoming language, to explore ways and Training”. 2. Taiwan’s Green Party. by Richard Schechner and Sun (2013) Board Attributes and Asian Culture, University international conference “Max methods of teaching Chi- Presentation given at SOAS distributed by the University of and Herding in Corporate Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Weber and China: Culture, Law nese by drawing on students’ Based on the theories of Taiwan Studies Summer Chicago Press. Investment: Evidence and Capitalism” to be held at first language, including language teaching and teaching School. June 2013. from Chinese Listed Firms, On 11-15 June 2013, she was SOAS in September 2013. translating and interpret- experience, Cui Yan has given 3. Publishing in Taiwan In March 2013 she visited the forthcoming European Journal invited to attend the 44th ing, teacher training, teaching her detailed account of what Studies. Presentation given University of Leeds to take part of Finance. Rotterdam Poetry International material compilation, teaching fundamental abilities the at SOAS Taiwan Studies in the international symposium Festival, and to give a paper on methodology and tests and as- Chinese language teachers Summer School. June “Performing China on the the translation of Chinese digital sessment etc. who teach Modern Chinese in 2013. Global Stage: People, Society poetry. universities outside China should 4. Implications of Taiwan’s and Culture”, organized by the Cui Yan stated in her have in order to teach the Nuclear Power Station Performing China Network, a On 8-11 July 2013, she presentation at the conference: Chinese language successfully Referendum. Presentation practice-led research network particpated to the British “Teaching Chinese as a and to train learners in different given at SOAS Taiwan co-funded by the Chiang Comparative Literature foreign language effectively language skills effectively, also Studies Summer School. Ching-kuo Foundation and the Association (BCLA) XIII is always a teacher’s task on she has given her own account June 2013. AHRC. The title of her paper International Conference the daily teaching basis, and of the issue on how to train 5. The electoral impact of the was “Avant-Garde(s) and the Migration, with a paper entitled using innovative teaching and produce qualified Chinese Taiwan Green Party.” Paper Intermedial Stage: Some Trends “Macau Poetry in Motion”. The methodology plays very language teachers. Furthermore, given at conference on in Beijing’s Experimental Theatre University of Essex, United important part in successful practical suggestions have Environmental Governance, at the Start of the Twenty-First Kingdom. teaching. This innovative been made and her viewpoint Northumbria University, Century”. teaching strategy should be has been illustrated by using July 2013. based on teachers’ experience authentic language data and 6. Explaining Patterns of Later in March, she was a co- Publications of long term practical teaching, various examples. party switching in multi- panelist at the public event should have been used, party Taiwan, paper given at “Which Way China? A Day “The Public Life of tested and have been proved The International Society for American Political Science Celebrating Chinese Culture”, Contemporary Chinese Poetry to be as an effective one of Chinese Language Teaching Association Conference, organized by Border-Crossings in English Translation”. Target. improving quality of teaching, was established on 14th August Chicago, August 2013. Theatre and co-sponsored by 2012 (24:2): 253-285. which should include teaching in 1987 in Beijing with over the London Confucius Institute materials, teaching approaches five hundreds of members at SOAS. “Contemporary Poetry from or the combination of the worldwide and Cui Yan is one Macau” Intervention: A journal of two.” The analysis included the of them. Cui Yan has been post-colonial theory, July 2013. characteristics and usage of the invited to give her presentations In July 2013 she attended teaching materials etc.. at its international conference the annual conference of the regularly. International Federation for The article entitled “Discussion Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT) of the Fundamental Abilities of in Barcelona, Spain, where she Chinese Language Teachers presented the paper “Rhizomes

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FUEHRER HAN HARRIS HILL Bernard Enze Rachel Nathan W.

of exchange and performances Having completed his term as Publications Enze Han gave a talk at Tsinghua In July 2012 Rachel Harris • January 2013. “Reciting the In April Nathan Hill organized a in journey-form in East Asia”. Associate Dean for Research University in December 2012 on began a year’s sabbatical Qur’an in Chinese Central symposium here at SOAS, 'A day Publications (2009–2012), Bernhard Bernhard Fuehrer: 2012 political mobilization in Tibet. In following the completion of her Asia”, Oxford University, of Tangut studies: a celebration Fuehrer enjoyed a sabbatical Nyeondo je 1 hoe haeoe April 2013, Dr. Han presented a term as Head of the Department Centre of Gender Studies of language and culture in Hill, Nathan W., ed. Medieval Publications during which he delivered the usu-hakja chocheong jipjung- paper on Chinese foreign policy of Music. She spent summer Seminar Series. China's Xixia Dynasty'. This Tibeto-Burman Languages IV. “2012 Lecture Series of World gangjwa 2012 년도 제1회 해 at the International Studies 2012 conducting fieldwork in • October 2012. “Sounding event, sponsored by the London Leiden: Brill, 2012. Ferrari, Rossella, Pop Goes the Distinguished Scholars” in East 외 우수학자 초청 집중강좌 Association Annual Conference southern Xinjiang, funded by Islam in China”, Institute for Confucius Institute, brought Avant-Garde: Experimental Asian Studies at the Academy (2012 Lecture Series of World in San Francisco, USA. In the the Sino-British Friendship Trust Musical Research, London. together six Tangut scholars Theatre in Contemporary China. of Korean Studies in Seoul Distinguished Scholars). Seoul: summer of 2013, Dr. Han was a and the Stein-Arnold Explorer • October 2012. “Tracks: from France, the UK, and China. London, New York, Calcutta: (November 2012), held a Visiting Academy of Korean Studies, visiting scholar at Thammasat Fund. She worked primarily with networks of national Seagull Books, 2012. Professorship at the Graduate 2012 [175 pp.] University in Thailand for Uyghur village women who sentiment in Uyghur song”, Institute for Taiwan Literature research on Sino-Southeast practice a form of Sufi zikr ritual, Border Crossings, School of Ferrari, Rossella, “The Avant- at National Taiwan University Bernhard Fuehrer: “Gui Wencan Asian Relations. and also spent time observing Arts, SOAS. garde Is Dead, Long Live (NTU) in (December 2012 and Gui Dian on Huang Kan’s changing patterns of religiosity The (Pop) Avant-garde! – April 2013), was awarded a Lunyu yishu”, Lin Ching-chang in the regional capital Urumchi. Theoretical Reconfigurations three-month scholarship as and Christian Soffel (eds.): Publications Publications in Contemporary Chinese Visiting Scholar at the Centre Zhengtong yu liupai. Lidai She successfully applied to the Theatre.” positions: asia critique, for Chinese Studies, National Rujia jingdian zhi zhuanbian Han, Enze. Contestation and AHRC for funding for a research • ‘Tracks: temporal shifts and vol. 20, no. 4 (2012): 1127–1157. Central Library (Taipei), and 正統與流派. 歷代儒家經典之 Adaptation: The Politics of network, ‘Sounding Islam in transnational networks of continued to serve as Senior 轉變 (Orthodoxy and Schools National Identity in China. New China’ which will run from 2013 sentiment in Uyghur song’, Fei Laili 費萊麗 (Ferrari, Honorary Research Fellow at the of Thought – Changes in the York: Oxford University Press, to 2015. Activities will include Ethnomusicology 56/3 Rossella), “Kua guo/kua meiti/ Research Centre for Translation History of Confucian Canon 2013. an international conference on (2012): 450-475. Nathan Hill pictured second from right, kua wenben: dazhonghua diqu Studies, Chinese University Studies). Taipei: Wanjuanlou China’s Islamic Soundscapes at • ‘The Uyghur ’, with the Tangut shcolars. cong yinmu dao wutai de kuajie Hong Kong (since 2010), chubanshe, 2012, pp. 483-509 Han, Enze. 2013. ‘External SOAS, and training workshops in Music of Central chuangzuo” 跨国／跨媒体／跨 and as Distinguished Adjunct Cultural Ties and the Politics in Chinese universities in the Asia: an Introduction, 文本 ：大中華地區從銀幕到舞 Researcher at Renmin University Bernhard Fuehrer: “Orality of Language in China.’ anthropology of sound. Theodore Levin & Elmira In May, Nathan gave an 台的跨界創作. Wenhua shiye 文 in Beijing (since 2009). and the Transmission of Ethnopolitics, 12 (1). pp. 30-49. Kuchumkulova eds. Aga invited lecture in Munich, 化視野 (Cultural Vision), no. 2 Interpretations in Two Versions Conferences papers and invited Khan Trust for Culture & "The development of a part- (May 2013): 130–142. [Chinese Together with the Research of Huang Kan’s Lunyu yishu”. Han, Enze. 2013. ‘Transnational lectures: University of Central Asia of-speech tag set for the translation of “Transnation/ Centre for Translation Studies Journal of Chinese Philosophy Buddhist Networks, HIV/ADIS (2012), pp251-260. peparation of a digital diachronic Transmedia/Transtext: Border- at CUHK he organized the [in print for autumn 2013 issue] Prevention, and State-Minority • July 2013. “Intangible • Arzu: Sanubar Tursun. Tibetan corpus", which Crossing from Screen to Stage international conference Relations in Southwest China.’ Cultural Heritage and Felmay Records, 2013 describes the accomplishments in Greater China”. Journal of “Sinologists as Translators in the Journal of Contemporary China, Illegal Gatherings: the case (project consultant, sleeve so far achieved on the AHRC Chinese Cinemas, vol. 2, issue 1 17-19th Centuries: Archives and 22 (82). pp. 594-611. of the Uyghur ”, notes). funded project 'Tibetan in (2008): 53–65]. Context”, held at SOAS, 19-21 International Council for • ‘Sounding Islam in China: Digital Communication'. In July, June 2013. Traditional Music, the geographies of ritual this project also sent Nathan, Conservatory. practice in rural Uyghur together with Ed Garrett, and He organized a Hokkien • June 2013. “The Uyghur society’ (2013) (http:// PhD student Abel Zadoks, to the Workshop (11-17 July 2013) Twelve Muqam and the www.akdn.org/musical_ 12th Seminar of the International which concludes a longstanding Kashmiri Sufiyana Kalam”, geographies/rachel_harris. Association for Tibetan Studies cooperation with National University of Kashmir, asp) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Taiwan University, supported Srinigar. by the Ministry of Education • May 2013. “The Important (Taipei), and produces work of Listening and The Li Fang-Kuei Society for teaching material for Hokkien Weeping”, SOAS, Centre for Chinese Linguistics recognized / Minnanhua. Hokkien. An Gender Studies. Nathan as one of the "promising Introduction (3 vols.), compiled • April 2013. Discussant, young scholars who will be the by Bernhard Fuehrer and Yang ‘International Symposium leaders of the next generation Hsiu-fang, with Cheng Mei- on Culture and Music in the discipline of Chinese and chuan and Wen Zhihao, has of China’s Cultural Sino-Tibetan linguistics" with been accepted for publication Revolution’, Chinese an invitation to participate in a in 2014 by National Taiwan University of Hong Kong. 'Young Scholars Symposium' at University Press. the University of Washington. He presented a paper entitled "A Proposal for the transliteration of Old Chinese: a methodological critique of current practice."

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HOCKX JANKU KLEIN KONG LAAMAN LO LU MCCAUSLAND Michel Andrea Jakob Tat Yan Lars Peter Andrew Xiaoning Shane

In September 2012, Michel In December Andrea Janku gave Together with Dr Nir Avieli Tat Yan Kong gave a talk entitled Lars Laaman has had a fruitful 1. Presented paper “Qing Xiaoning Lu presented her Shane McCausland was on Hockx was a plenary speaker at a presentation on ‘Materials on (Ben Gurion University, Israel) ‘China and North Korea: New year marked by teaching and Dynasty Literati and Plants: paper “Problematic Laughter sabbatical leave during terms 1 the conference “Crafts of World Natural Extreme Events from Jakob Klein co-organized a Regimes, New Relations?’ at student recruitment ... which The Cases of Zhang Ying in Chinese Socialist Cinema: and 2 working on a monograph Literature,” held at the University Chinese Local Histories’ to panel on ‘Food and place in the LSE Korean Economic and seems to have become a new (1638-1708) and Gao Shiqi Unusual Physical Comedy and for Reaktion Books, a general of Oxford. the first meeting of the AHRC- the borderlands: perspectives Political Forum 2012 on 24 feature of a lecturer’s profession. (1645-1703)” (in Chinese) the Pleasure of the Abject” study of Yuan culture. He funded network ‘Collaborative from contemporary East- and November 2012. at Seventh International in British Association for spent the autumn based at In October 2012, when the Research on the Meteorological Southeast Asia’ at the annual • 26-27 June 2013 Conference on Qing Chinese Studies 2012 Annual the in Chinese author Mo Yan was and Botanical History of the conference of the Association Tat Yan Kong gave a lecture International Convention Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen U., Conference at Oxford University Taipei on a Center of Chinese awarded the Nobel Prize for Indian Ocean, 1600-1900,’ of Asian Studies in San Diego, entitled ‘China: From Socialist to of Asia Scholars, eighth Taiwan, 15-18 November in September 2012. Studies fellowship, and visited Literature, he was actively held at the University of Sussex CA in March 2013. The title Capitalist Developmental State?’ conference (www.ICAS8. 2012. The article will be collections and exhibitions involved in the media debate. on 5th and 6th December of my conference paper was at the Chair (Department) of com), Macau/China: published sometime after She also presented her recent in the region, including in Michel’s “Beginners Guide to 2012. She prepared the paper ‘”Local”, “regional” or “ethnic”? East Asian Economy and Society chairing of panel, plus July 2013 in Wen yu Zhe study “Chen Qiang: Engineering Singapore, , Shanghai Mo Yan” was published on the ‘Drought in Northwest China: Negotiating identities through (ECOS), University of Vienna on separate paper: “Torch- (Literature and Philosophy). Political Resentment and Villain and Tokyo. In the spring he held BBC website, he appeared on A Long-term Perspective’ for rubing (milk cake) in Kunming, 10 December 2012. bearers of modernity? 2. Attended Ming banknote Stardom in Chinese Socialist a fellowship at the Metropolitan BBC World television, he was the conference ‘Disasters Wet Southwest China’. Western missionaries, workshop, , Cinema,” in Revisiting Star Museum of Art, New York, and quoted in newspapers including and Dry: Rivers, Floods, and demonism and exorcism 23 May 2013. Studies Conference held at also visited the collections of the The Guardian and the New Droughts in World History’ In May 2013 I participated, in modern China (1860s- 3. Gave a talk entitled Newcastle University on 13 Indianapolis Museum of Art and York Times, and interviewed organized by the Centre for by invitation, in a two-day 1930s)” “Problems in working June, 2013. the Freer Gallery, Washington by journalists from China, Ecological History, Zhongguo workshop at the University • 20 June 2013 Study of with the Chinese export DC. He presented aspects of Singapore, India, Brasil, France, Renmin Daxue and the Rachel of Oregon (Eugene) entitled Religions roundtable, paintings at the British In addition, she was awarded a his new research in lectures in and The Netherlands. Carson Center, University of ‘Foodways in China: New organised by Benedetta Library” at the workshop Universities China Committee Taipei, Hangzhou and London. Munich in Beijing in May 2013. Scholarly Trajectories’. At the Lomi: “Popular religious “Culture and Trade through in London (UCCL) grant for her A Chinese version of that paper workshop I presented a paper sentiment at the junction the Prism of Technical Art fieldwork project “Shanghai Film was presented under the title ‘ with the title ‘Promoting a “local between Qing and History- A Study of Chinese Administration in the 1950s and 中国西北的旱灾：一个从长时段 speciality”: goat’s milk cheese Republic” Export Paintings (Workshop 1960s” in summer 2013. 的视角’ at the conference on (乳饼) in Shilin and Kunming’. • 29 April 2013 “The place 1)”, The Royal Horticultural ‘Disasters and Frontier Societies of the Qing in China’s inter- Society, 4 June 2013. - Tenth annual conference ethnic history”, Christie’s for research on the history Education (London) of disasters in China, held in Urumqi in June 2013. She also gave a series of lectures on Publications environmental history and China Studies in Europe at Nankai Laamann, Lars (ed.), Critical Shane McCausland held a fellowship at the University, Tianjin in June/July Readings on the Manchus in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2013. Modern China (1616-2012), while on sabbatical. Leiden: Brill, 2013. ISBN 9789004227576 (4 vols). Publications Publications

Janku, Andrea. ‘”New Methods McCausland, Shang. ‘Visual to Nourish the People”: narratology in China and Political Economy in Late Japan – a comparative study’. Qing Encyclopaedic Writing In Alexandra Green (ed.), (1888-1903).’ In Chinese Rethinking Visual Narratives Encyclopaedias of New from Asia: Intercultural and Global Knowledge (1870-1920): Comparative Perspectives, pp Changing Chinese Ways of 41-59. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Thought, ed. Milena Doleželová- University Press, 2012. Velingerová and Rudolf G. Wagner. Heidelberg: Springer, McCausland, Shane. ‘Copying 2013. and transmitting, knowledge and nonsense: From the Great Encyclopaedia to the Book from the Sky’. In Nick Pearce & Jason Steuber (eds), Original Intentions: Essays on Production, Reproduction and Interpretation in the . Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2012.

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NICKEL PANG PIERSON SUN TAN TAN Lukas Zhaoxia Stacey Laixiang Carol Tian Yuan

Lukas Nickel co-hosted the Publications Publications Conferences/conference papers The paper, entitled “Outsourcing Publications Carol Tan presented a paper In September 2012, Tian Yuan conference Archaeology of the presented: CO2 within China”, was on ‘Sovereignty, Jurisdiction Tan was elected Secretary- Southern Taklamakan, Hedin Nickel, Lukas. “Brick Built Pang, Zhaoxia (Trans. with Nicky published in Proceedings of the Feng, K., S.J. Davis, L. Sun, X. and Government: A Multi- General of the European and Stein’s Legacy and New Heavens – Cosmic Symbolism Harman): 1923-A Fantasy by • Seoul. 2 November 2012 National Academy of Sciences Li, D. Guan, W. Liu, L. Zhu, K. spatial Analysis of the British in Association for Chinese Studies Explorations, jointly with the in Tomb Architecture and Haihong Zhao: RENDITIONS - Symposium on Goryeo of the United States of America Hubacek. 2013. “Outsourcing Northern China’ at a workshop (EACS). He will serve a two- International Dunhuang Project, Painting of the Han Period”. In: A Chinese-English Translation Celadons and Medieval East (PNAS) on 10 June 2013. PNAS CO2 within China.” Proceedings on Spaces of law: territories, year term on the Executive , and the Xinjiang Shifting Paradigms in East Asian Magazine © The Chinese Asian Ceramics, National is one of the top three science of the National Academy of boundaries, corridors and Committee of the Board. Institute of Archaeology (8th Visual Culture – A Festschrift for University of Hong Kong, 2012 Museum of Korea journals in the world. Laixiang Sciences of the United States beyond organised by the CSSSC, -10th November 2012). In Lothar Ledderose, eds. Burglind • Shanghai - International Sun co-authored the study of America (PNAS), (2011 Kolkata, 11-13 December 2012. In autumn 2012, his recent preparation he did research in Jungmann, Schlombs, Symposium on Yuan Blue along with an international Impact Factor: 9.681), available book, A Critical Edition of Kang archaeological sites around the Melanie Trede. Berlin: Dietrich and White Porcelain. 19 team. “While SOAS is known online on 10 June 2013: www. She is a co-investigator in a Hai’s (1475-1541) Sanqu Songs Tarim basin and in central China. Reimer Verlag 2012, pp. 43-58. October 2012, Shanghai for its arts, humanities and pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/ project on Land Reform and with Notes and Two Essays, was Museum/ social sciences, our global pnas.1219918110 Social Change which was awarded two book prizes in Next to his task as Associate Nickel, Lukas. “The Nanyue • Hong Kong. 10 April 2013 academic network means that awarded a competitive grant China. Dean of the Arts and Humanities Silver Box”, Arts of Asia vol. 42, - Collecting Chinese Art we are increasingly working Lee, In Hyeock, Eunsuk Hong of MYR50,000 (about £10,000) Faculty Lukas worked and no 3 (2012), pp. 98-107. in Hong Kong - a Global in interdisciplinary ways. I and Laixiang Sun.3 2013. by the Ministry of Education, He also acted as consultant to gave lectures on several Phenomenon, Chinese am delighted that this work “Regional Knowledge Capacity Malaysia and a recipient of a the Royal Shakespeare Company research questions. In June he Nickel, Lukas. “China”. In: Dan University of Hong Kong raises the School’s profile in the and Firm Creation in Korea: A British Academy-ECAF fieldwork and provided a programme participated in the workshop Hicks and Alice Stevenson science community,’ Professor Geographic Analysis.” Journal grant and was invited to join an article for its production of the Art in the Making – Approaches eds., World Archaeology at Organized the Study Day on Sun said. of Business Research (Elsevier. AHRC funded research network Yuan dynasty The Orphan to the Carving of Stone, the Pitt Rivers Museum – A ‘Topics in World Ceramics’ at 2011 Impact Factor: 1.872; on Subjects of law: rightful of Zhao. He was interviewed King’s College London, with Characterization. Oxford: SOAS, 1 May 2013 Laixiang SUN contributed 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.473), vol. selves and the legal process in by the BBC News (4 November a lecture on ‘Carving Stone Archaeopress 2013, pp. 511-516. extensively to the Cover 66, no. 10 (Oct.), pp. 2106–2115. imperial Britain and the British 2012) to comment on the Sculptures in Medieval China’. Publications Story of China Daily (中国日报) empire which has scheduled historical context and literary In July he spoke about ‘Der European Weekly on June 14- Zhu, Quantao, Xinwang Wu three workshops. significance of the play. Erste Kaiser von China und Pierson, Stacey. From Object to 20, 2013, entitled “Slick Cities: and Laixiang Sun.3 2013. “A der Hellenistische Orient‘ at Concept: Global Consumption China Is Looking To Europe For Generalized Framework for Carol, together with Xu Ting Invited talks and presentations: Halle University, a topic he and the Transformation of Ming Lessons On Urbanization.” Endogenous Timing in Duopoly (Queens University Belfast) has revisited for a lecture in Zurich Porcelain, Hong Kong, HKU Games and an Application to been invited to be guest editors • “Jiang Shiquan (1725-1785) in June 2013. In September Press, 2013 Price-Quantity Competition.” of a special issue of the Journal and the Competing Styles he discussed ‘An Experimental Journal of Economics (Springer. of on Chinese of Drama in Eighteenth- Study in Bronze Casting‘ at the 2011 Impact Factor: 0.581), Property Law arising from the Century China.” Guest International Forum on Ancient available online on 3 May 2013: CEAL workshop (see Centres Lecture delivered at the Bronze Smelting and Casting http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/ below) due to be published Universität Würzburg Industries in Anyang. In October s00712-013-0347-3 in August 2013. Carol Tan has Institute for Cultural Studies he was invited to give a lecture continued in her role as Chair of of East and South Asia on ‘Bricks in Ancient China‘ at Lee, In Hyeock, Eunsuk Hong the Centre of Southeast Asian (Sinology), 5 June 2013. Tsinghua University, Taiwan. and Laixiang Sun.3 2012. “Inward Studies at SOAS. Würzburg. He further spoke at workshops Foreign Direct Investment and • “Entertainment, Spectacle, in Cambridge, Berlin, Bristol, Domestic Entrepreneurship: A and Visuality: Qing Court Heidelberg and London. Regional Analysis of New Firm Theatre through Spectators’ Creation in Korea,” Regional Eyes.” (In Chinese) MCA Lukas was involved Studies (Taylor & Francis. 2010 Lecture delivered at the with productions of the Impact Factor: 1.259; 5-Year Department of Chinese, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung and Al Impact Factor: 2.212; 19/78 in Sun Yat-sen University, 9 Jazeera. Rana Mitter interviewed Environmental Studies, 13/65 in April 2013. . him on BBC3 Nightweaves Geography), available online on • “Imperial Theatre in the in May in connection with 14 June 2012: http://dx.doi.or Qing Dynasty.” (In Chi- the opening of the exhibition g/10.1080/00343404.2012.69 nese) Qizhen Lecture The Search for Immortality 0067 delivered at the Centre of at the Fitzwilliam Museum. In Ancient Chinese Literature December he went to China to Tian, Zhan, Honglin Zhong, and Culture and the act as consultant to StoryHouse Runhe Shi, Laixiang Sun,3 Department of Chinese production on a documentary Günther Fischer, Zhuoran Liang. Literature, Zhejiang which will be broadcast on Arte 2012. “Estimating Potential Yield University, 2 April 2013. and ZDF in Summer 2013. of Wheat Production in China Hangzhou. Based on Cross-Scale Data- • “Traditions and Transitions Model Fusion.” Frontier of Earth in Eighteenth-Century Qu Science (Springer), vol. 6, no. 4 Poetry: The Case of Jiang (Dec), pp. 364–372. Shiquan,” paper presented at the International Conference on “Linking

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Dr Jon Sullivan as Deputy Director, SCI

Professor Michel Hockx Dr Sullivan, a China TOBIN to lead new SOAS China Institute (SCI) specialist and political Damian scientist, joins SOAS from the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on the uses and effects of political Ancient and Contemporary: Publications ‘Panchayats and Caste in East S OAS, University of London Michel commented: “It communications by political Continuities and India Company Governance’ has announced the appointment will be an honour for elites and citizens in various Discontinuities in the Xu, Yongming and Tan, Tian Paper presented at the Panel: of Michel Hockx, Professor me to lead the SOAS Chinese contexts. Chinese History of Yuan, eds. Yingyu shijie de Tang The Law, the State, and India’s of Chinese and a specialist China Institute as its first Literature and Thought,” Xianzu yanjiu lunzhu xuanyi 英 Panchayats: Past and Present at in contemporary literature Director from Octo- The SOAS China Institute jointly organised by 語世界的湯顯祖研究論著選譯 the Law and Society Association and society, as the Founding ber. I am excited to be formally launches in Ca’Foscari University and (An Anthology of Critical Studies Annual Conference, Boston, Director of the new SOAS China working with my China October 2013, with , 21-22 on in Western 2013 Institute. colleagues in SOAS, new ambitious teaching and March, 2013. Venice. Scholarship). Hangzhou: partners in China, and research goals, as an expert • “Literati Performance and Zhejiang guji chubanshe, 2013. The SOAS China Institute has those in other sectors, resource for the wider Court Theatre: Textual Publications ambitious teaching and research to provide a range of world of business, policy Space in Jiang Shiquan’s Tan, Tian Yuan. “A Dysfunctional goals and will be an expert exceptional teaching, and media. (1725-1785) Birthday Dynasty (The Orphan of Zhao Tobin, Damian (2013) ‘Renminbi resource for the wider world of research and engage- Blessings from the West in 1616)”. In The Orphan of internationalisation: precedents business, policy and media. The ment programmes. More than forty China of the Yangtze River,” Zhao Programme. Stratford- and implications.’ Journal of formal launch will take place in experts from across SOAS’ paper presented at the upon-Avon: Royal Shakespeare Chinese Economic & Business the new academic session. “These programmes portfolio of disciplines will International Conference Company, 2012. Studies, 11 (2). pp. 81-99. will equip tomorrow’s drive forward the SOAS on “Space, Text, and Tobin, Damian (2013) ‘The The Institute will embrace the graduates with highly China Institute activities Performance in Chinese renminbi as an international contemporary, the modern relevant and highly and collaborations under Literature,” organised by currency: the next instalment and the historical. Its remit will valued skills and the leadership of Professor Arizona State University, of China’s economic reforms’ include the social sciences, knowledge; gener- He has the passion, expertise Michel Hockx. 6-8 December 2012. Journal of Chinese Economic & the humanities, as well as ate innovative world-class and vision that will unlock the Tempe. Business Studies, 11 (2). 79. international perspectives from collaborative research; and, incredible diversity and depth Dr Sullivan said: “I am very • “A Preliminary Study of the SOAS’ regional expertise in grow and share the School’s of China expertise here at SOAS excited to be joining Paul the Compilation and NEWS BITE Asia, Africa and the Middle East. China expertise with companies, and help make it accessible to Webley, Michel Hockx and Administration of Drama media and governments. I am the world.” an extremely talented group in Ming and Qing Imperial Professor Paul Webley looking forward to the School of China Studies colleagues Courts,” paper presented and Ms Lik Suen (Deputy the School reclaiming reclaiming its position as a pre- Michel’s wide-ranging studies in this project to establish at the International eminent international centre for Director of the London its position as a encompass Chinese culture the new SOAS China Conference on “Ming Qing Confucius Institute (LCI) the study of China.” and society from the early Institute as the foremost Court Institutions and visited Beijing in Dec 2012 pre-eminent twentieth century to the present centre of expertise on Regulations,” organized in order to initiate the international centre The scholar further highlights and have most recently focused China in the UK and con- by the Palace Museum arrangements to have for the study of China the importance of this centre: on the role of the Internet in tinental Europe. As an East Research Center for Ming a new Chinese partner “At a time when so many contemporary China. Asia specialist from the UK, and Qing Court History, Tan, Tian Yuan. “Tang Xianzu University for the LCI. are jumping onto the China SOAS has a unique attrac- 17-20 September, 2012. and Shakespeare: Two Theatrical They had successful Drawing upon the School’s bandwagon, the need for real His studies on state censorship tion for me and I can't wait Beijing. Cultures in Global Perspective meetings with a group of excellent training programmes experts’ understanding of China in China stand out for their to join my new colleagues • Between the Worlds of 湯顯祖與莎士比亞：兩種戲 senior staff from Beijing in modern and classical Chinese, could not be greater. As China’s unbiased, critical approach to a and students there. “ “Elite Theatre” and “Court 劇文化的全球視野(in English Foreign Studies University the Institute will promote star continues to rise, so does frequently misunderstood topic. Theatre”: The Case of Wang and Chinese).” In Society of (BFSU) during the annual interdisciplinary, language- the rest of the world’s need to He is a fluent Mandarin speaker Professor Hockx added: "It Wenzhi (1730-1802), paper Chinese Theatre Studies (Tang Confucius Institute based Chinese Studies in the understand it and through regularly participates in is fantastic that Jon Sullivan presented at the XIXth Xianzu Branch) and Suichang conference and Professor widest sense of the term. This SOAS China Institute we hope to scholarly debates in China. He is joining the SOAS China Biennial Conference of Association of Social Sciences, Webley visited BFSU will create a unique Institute nurture our unrivalled expertise has already demonstrated his Institute. He brings in a the European Association eds., Tang Xianzu-Shashibiya for further discussions and centre of expertise that and share it.” leadership skills as President wide range of expertise in for Chinese Studies (EACS) wenhua gaofeng luntan ji Tang about the LCI and about understands, interprets and of the British Association for the social sciences and a jointly organized by the Xianzu he Wan Ming wenhua developing a range of shares relevant knowledge, and Professor Paul Webley, Director Chinese Studies, in which genuine commitment to Université Paris Diderot, xueshu yantaohui lunwen ji 湯 collaborations. stimulates debate of China in all of SOAS, added: “We are capacity he has played a pivotal interdisciplinary teaching the Institut National des 顯祖-莎士比亞文化高峰論壇暨湯 of its complexity and context. delighted and very lucky to have role in promoting language- and research in Chinese Langues et Civilisations 顯祖和晚明文化學術研討會論文 Following several months Professor Hockx as the Director based Chinese Studies across all Studies. He is also widely Orientales (INALCO) and 集. Zhejiang: Zhejiang University of negotiation between of the SOAS China Institute. the disciplines. known for his excellent the Bibliothèque des Press, 2012, pp. 24-29. Hanban, BFSU and SOAS outreach work through Langues et Civilisations an agreement was signed blogs and social media. I (BULAC), 5-8 September, Tan, Tian Yuan. “Review of in June 2013 at the have always wanted to work 2012. Paris. Sophie Volpp, Worldly Stage: inaugural Board meeting with him and I cannot wait Theatricality in Seventeenth- of the new partnership, to start!" Century China”. Harvard Journal at which the plans for the of Asiatic Studies, 72 (2): 430- next year of the LCI were Dr Sullivan will begin his 437. discussed. post at SOAS in January. Web: www.soas.ac.uk/sci Email: [email protected]

14 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 15 HONORARY APPOINTMENTS Professorial Research Associates

Professor Renzo CAVALIERI Dr Frances WOOD Chinese contemporary law, Dunhuang studies, Chinese CAVALIERI CHANG CHAO FENBY FEUCHTWANG TIEDEMANN Chinese foreign trade and export paintings, Chinese Renzo Xiangqun Xi Jonthan Stephen Renzo investment law, East Asian legal domestic architecture, Chinese history history, Chinese bibliography [email protected] Dr Chao XI Professor Anthony DICKS Chinese law; comparative In 2012 Renzo Cavalieri During the academic year Chao Xi is Associate Professor at March 2013 Talk and panel Special lectures: During the early part of the QC Laws of the People’s corporate law and governance; attended several conferences 2012-13 Xiangqun Chang the Faculty of Law, The Chinese on China at Global Affairs 2012/13 academic year, while Republic of China; traditional comparative securities and seminars in Italy, China and completed a four year research University of Hong Kong Conference, San Francisco Lectio Magistralis at Urbania based at the Centre of Chinese Chinese law, international law; regulation, law and political Europe, mainly on comparative project on ‘Comparative Studies (CUHK), and he is also Director Talk on China’s new leadership University, Vatican, Rome on Studies, R. G. Tiedemann commercial law; legal history; economy ADR and on Chinese on the New Migrants from of the Chinese Law Program, at Council on Foreign Relations, Hospitality to Ghosts, April 2013 attended conferences in Leuven, laws of Hong Kong [email protected] commercial and international BRIC counties in America, Hong Kong Institute of Asia- New York. Belgium (September 2012) and trade law. Presently, his main Australia, Japan and the UK’ Pacific Studies, CUHK. Keynote lecture, Conference Zhongli, Taiwan (December Professor Stefan FEUCHTWANG research interest is related to the and successfully organised Lecture at China Center on Religion in Rural China, 2012). He also attended several Ritual and religion in China; Visiting Scholars shift of China’s behaviour - from an international conference. PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS Harvard on China’s Unfinished Nongye University, Beijing, on CCS lectures, including the transmission of the Great Leap a passive to a more active mood She is co-editor of a book Revolution The Government of Religion and presentation by Professor famine; making place and the Dr Yucong RU - in the international legal arena. collection on the topic of the ‘Deregulating the Market for Ritual Activities in the People’s Michael Palmer, at SOAS. urbanisation of villages Zhejiang University conference which is expected Corporate Control: The Decline Talks on contemporary China Republic of China, May 2013 [email protected] 1 July 2012-30 Dec 2012 to be published in 2014 by of the Mandatory Bid Rule in at literary festivals at Oxford, Upon his return to Shandong International trade of China, Publications the University HK Press. One China and Its Implications for Keswick, Hay-on-Wye. University in February 2013, Professor Michael PALMER fiscal decentralisation in China, outcome of the conference is Europe’, at the 4th Cambridge Publications he continued his work on Dispute resolution and civil institutional transformation in R.Cavalieri, P.Franzina (eds), Il the selected volume Society International Regulation and New updated editions: a bibliography of Western procedure; Chinese law China nuovo diritto internazionale building - China’s development Governance Conference on • Penguin History of Modern ‘Civilisation and its discontents primary and secondary (traditional and modern); privato della Repubblica at the next stage that Xiangqun “More Regulation or Better China in contemporary China’ The sources concerning the Boxer conflict of laws; comparative Popolare Cinese, Milan, Giuffre’ is editing, due to be published Stewardship? Optimizing the • Tiger Head Snake Tails; Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Movement (Yihetuan yundong) family law Dr Dongling LIU Editore, 2012 by the Cambridge Academic Means and Ends of Good China Today Focus July 2012 http://japan- and the Boxer War of 1900/01, [email protected] Jiangsu Normal University Press in 2014. Governance” (University of focus.org/-Stephan-Feucht- based on material collected 1 Mar 2013-28 Feb 2014 R. Cavalieri, “Zhongguo guoji Cambridge & Anglia Ruskin Paper on China’s foreign wang/3801 in the SOAS library, the British Professor R G TIEDEMANN Modern and contemporary maoyi yiji waishang touzi fazhi Xiangqun also co-organised University, 5-6 September 2012) policy for LSE. Paper on China’s Library, the Bodleian Library UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Chinese literature; literature sanshi nian fazhan”, in Zhang an event ‘Chinese and general leadership change for German in Oxford, and The National History of the Boxer War in phe-nomina in modern Lihong and S.Beretta (eds.), social scientific methodologies ‘Judicial Lawmaking by Chinese Foreign Affairs Institute. ‘Political history, past suffering, Archives in Kew. Moreover, he China and its consequences, Chinese literature; comparative Zhongguo guoji maoyi yiji in comparison’, by Justin Local Courts’, at the Conference and present sources of moral was asked by the Association of 1900-1902 literature between Western and waishang touzi fazhi sanshi nian Yifu Lin, the outgoing Chief on “China’s Long March toward Articles for New York Times, judgement in the People’s Chinese Historians to organize Chinese culture fazhan: yige Yidali xuezhizhi Economist and Senior Vice Rule of Law: Are We Still International Herald Tribune, Republic of China’ in Stafford, the panel “The Boxer War in [email protected] shijiao, Beijing, China University President at the World Bank Marching?” (University of Hong London Times, Guardian, Charles (ed) Ordinary Ethics in China” for the 22nd Congress of Research Associates for Political Sciences and Law in Dec 2012 at LSE. She has Kong, 4 December 2012) Independent, Financial Times. China. LSE Monograph on Social the International Committee of Dr Hua WANG Publishing House, 2012 also been heavily involving Interviews BBC, CNBC, Anthropology No. 79 London Historical Sciences, to be held Dr Xiangqun CHANG Central University for organising an international ‘Law and Industrial Bloomberg, Sky. and New York: - for the first time in Asia - at Contemporary China Studies; Nationalities R. Cavalieri, “Between Justice conference on ‘Max Weber and Transformation: Evolution of Academic 2013 pp 222-241 Jinan, China, in August 2015. Chinese women and gender 1 Jan 2013-31 Jan 2014 and Harmony: Some Features China’ in Sep 2013 at SOAS. Corporate Takeover Regulation Manuscript completed for While in China, he also attended studies; reciprocity and social Ethnomusicology and folk and and Trends of Chinese ADR in China and Japan’, at the books, Will China Dominate international academic confer- networks; local identity and ritual tribal music of southern from a Western Perspective”, in Based on her major work on an China-India Conference the 21st Century for Polity. ences in Shanghai, Hong Kong, culture; village autonomy; rural China, with a focus on Tibetan Opinio Juris in Comparatione, alternative China model with a (University of Malay, 10-11 Publishing due for publication and Macao. development; Marxist sociology. and Naxi folk music 1/2012, paper n.4, http://pa- bottom up approach (lishang- December 2012) spring 2013, and The Siege [email protected] [email protected] pers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers. wanglai 礼尚往来), Xiangqun of Tsingtao for publicaiton as cfm?abstract_id=2125453 has been invited to give more ‘Developmental State and ebook by Penguin, 2014. Publications Mr Jonathan FENBY Dr Jue WANG than 10 lectures and talks at Evolution of Takeover Laws: The History of modern China: end Renmin University of China universities in China, Taiwan Case of China’, at 3rd East Asia Tiedemann, R. G., “Protestant of the 19th century up to the 17 Aug 2012-16 Aug 2013 and the UK from August 2012 to Law and Society Conference Revivals in China with Particular present day. Economic history of world March 2013. (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Reference to Shandong economy 22-23 March 2013) Province”, Studies in World Mr John GITTINGS [email protected] While conducting research Christianity Vol.18, No. 3 Comparative study of the project-based work at LSE for (December 2012), pp. 213-236. perception of peace and war in Dr Yan WU Central China Normal the past 10 years Xiangqun was Publications ancient China and Greece University running voluntarily the China Tiedemann, R.G., “The [email protected] in Comparative Perspective ‘Local Courts as Legislators? ‘Las Instituciones Origins and Organizational 26 Aug 2012-25 Aug 2013 Economic relationship Network (CCPN). Supported Judicial Lawmaking by Sub- Gubernamentales’, in Gabriel Developments of the Dr Ian SECKINGTON by many international scholars, National Courts in China’ (2012) García-Noblejas (ed), China. Pentecostal Missionary between China and Eu; sino-EU economic and trade Xiangqun carried out intellectual 33 Statute Law Review 39-57 Pasado y Presente de una Gran Enterprise in China” was Dr Tao WANG entrepreneurship, and founded Civilización (Madrid: Alianza published in the long-delayed BA(YUNNAN) PHD(LONDON) frictions CCPN Global, an academic ‘The Rise and Decline of the Editorial, 2012) 221-251 Asian Journal of Pentecostal Archaeology of China; [email protected] society for promoting a study Reversal of the Burden of Proof Studies Vol. 14, No. 1 (2011), pp. excavated texts of the Bronze of China and the Chinese from in China’s Medical Negligence ‘Corporate Governance and 108-146. [Published in February Age in China; paleography, a comparative perspective in Law: A Political Economy of Institutional Shareholder 2013] epigraphy and calligraphy; early March 2013. Lawmaking Perspective’ (2012) Activism in China: Three Chinese language and religion 12 The China Review (with Lixin Lessons’ (2012c) 11 The Smart Yang) 33-58 Manager 52-55

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Seminars Event Listing EXHIBITION ANNUAL LECTURE Autumn Term The Great Wall Photographs: The Burdens of Happiness: Zhu Changwen’s Garden of Joy EXHIBITION Then & Now Professor Stephen H. West (Foundation Professor of Chinese at Arizona State 8 October 2012 18 September 2012 18 Sept - 2 Nov 2012 University and formerly Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese at UC Berkeley) Dr Peter Ditmanson (Department Lecturer, Oriental Institute, Organised with the Phoenix Publishing & Media Group (PPMG) 6 March 2013 University of Oxford) The Great Wall Photographs: Then & Now Sagely Ruler and Worthy Subject: Authority and Loyalty in Ming China and Beyond The Earliest known photo of the Great Wall, taken by Felice Beato (1832-1909) This year, the Centre’s Annual Lecture was 15 October 2012 ANNUAL LECTURE delivered by Professor Stephen H. West on 6 Xiangqun Chang (Co-Director and Senior Research Associate, 6 March 2013 March 2013. China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN), LSE) Cohosted with SOAS London Confucius Institute (LCI) How an alternative ‘China model’ (Lishang-wanglai 礼尚往来) Professor Stephen H. West (Foundation Professor of Chinese at Professor West is a leading expert in early can help in understanding the uncertain world Arizona State University and formerly Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese theatre, urban culture and cultural Chinese at UC Berkeley) history of the late medieval period. He 22 October 2012 The Burdens of Happiness: Zhu Changwen's Garden of Joy received his Ph.D. from the University of Jing Tsu (Yale U) Michigan in 1972. He began his teaching Unthinking Area Studies career at the University of Arizona in 1972

and subsequently taught at the University 29 October 2012 MASTERCLASS of California, Berkeley from 1986 to Professor Paolo Santangelo (Prof. of East Asian History in 7 March 2013 Seen for the first time outside China, this 2004, where he was the Louis Agassiz Sapienza University of Rome) Professor Stephen H. West (Foundation Professor of Chinese at juxtaposition of over 50 old and new Professor of Chinese. He is currently The last results of the Project on Textual Analysis for the study of Arizona State University and formerly Louis Agassiz Professor of photographs taken by archaeologists, Foundation Professor of Chinese Language imagery and the representation of emotions in late imperial China Chinese at UC Berkeley) geographers, travellers and enthusiasts The Centre organised a Masterclass for MA

over the past 140 years - both Chinese and and PhD students on 7 March 2013 taught 19 November 2012 Western - show an authentic portrayal of by Professor Stephen H. West (Foundation Ashley Thorpe (University of Reading) one of the great wonders of the world. Professor of Chinese at Arizona State Uni- Chinoiserie and subalterneity in S.I. Hsiung's Lady LECTURE versity and formerly Louis Agassiz Profes- Precious Stream (1934) 8 March 2013 The Great Wall became of interest for sor of Chinese at UC Berkeley). The topic

Professor David Shambaugh (George Washington) photographers in the 1880’s with the use of the Masterclass is "Purloining the Sages’ 3 December 2012 China Goes Global: The Partial Power of the newly invented camera to record life Voice: Sex, Zen, and the Eight-legged Essay". Hans Steinmuller (LSE) Chair: Sir Christopher Hum (British Ambassador to China, 2002-06) and nature. The new technology attracted Students from SOAS, Oxford, and Beijing The Bliss and Curse of Being Remote: Peach Blossom a succession of pioneering photographers attended the Masterclass and discussed their Springs in Enshi, central China, 2012 to the Great Wall including George Ernest research with Prof. West over lunch after the Morrison from Australia, William Edgar class. DISCUSSION Winter Term Geil from the USA and Sha Fei from China 16 April 2013 recording for its history, charm and physical 21 January 2013 Scenarios on the Future of Mongolia presence for later generations. Joe P. McDermott (Cambridge) Commercial Capitalism aand the Ancestral Hall in Between 2001 and 2011 volunteers led by Stephen West and Tian Yuan Tan before the lecture Late Imperial China Zhang Baotian began to research and collect LECTURE old photographs of the Great Wall while 1 February 2013 1 May 2013 at the same time taking modern images in the School of International Letters and Professor Wen-Chin HSU (Open University) Mr Jonathan Fenby (Research Associate, CCS) from the old locations. This labour of love, Cultures at ArizonaState University. He An Account of My Research on Romance of the China’s Unfinished Revolution: The Challenges Facing the New involving trekking the whole length of the teaches courses in the prose and poetry Western Chamber and Beyond Leadership wall on foot, literally feeling the greatness of of late medieval China (the Song and Yuan

this magnificent ancient structure resulted in dynasties), urban literature of the twelfth 4 February 2013 the material for this unique and thirteenth centuries, and early Chinese Professor Michael Palmer (Shantou University , China) exhibition. drama. Floating Clouds and Feudal Commodifications: Family, Law and Reform in the Contemporary PRC With a theme of remembrance of the In his lecture, entitled “The Burdens of

Great Wall and displayed in three parts; Happiness: Zhu Changwen's Garden of 25 February 2013 Tracing Back, Keeping the invaders off and Joy”, Professor West investigated the close Hilde de Weerdt (Reader in Chinese History, King’s College Everlasting Project the exhibition juxtaposed relationship between place, space, and London) the ‘then and now’ location photographs literary production through a masterful close Rethinking Sino-European Comparative History with a time difference of more than 100 reading of the writings centred around Zhu’s

years enabling us to view the Great Wall family garden in the eleventh century. The 18 March 2013 from the past and the present and reminding lecture attracted an enthusiastic audience Dr Anne Gerritsen (Department of History, University of Warwick) us of the vivid history of one of the most who were engaged in lively discussions with Antwerp in the Ming, the Ming in Antwerp impressive historic human structures. Professor West on issues related to textual archaeology and the meanings of space and Summer Term Sponsored by Phoenix Publishing & Media place. Group, China. Co-sponsored by Hadrian’s 11 June 2013 Wall Trust and SOAS, University of London The event was co-sponsored by CCS and Cohosted with SOAS Department of History LCI. Audio recordings of the CCS Annual Professor Timothy Weston (University of Colorado) Organised by The Great Wall Publishing Lecture is available on: www.soas.ac.uk/ The Shanghai-Beijing nexus and the Invention of the Centre, China and PPM International chinesestudies/events/ccs-annual- Capital Correspondent in the late Qing and Early Republic (London) Ltd, UK. Co-organised by Charing lecture/06mar2013-the-burdens-of-happi- Cross Library and SOAS Library. ness-zhu-changwens-garden-of-joy.html

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LECTURE The 2013 AC Graham LECTURE Ruard ABSAROKA HUANG Chia-ling Sarah LEE China Goes Global: Memorial LectureS China’s Unfinished Musicking in the Digital Age in Shanghai British-Qing Interaction in A Historical Study of Female Filipino Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS 19th-century Taiwan Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, Prof William H. Nienhauser The Partial Power Revolution: The Challenges Supervisor: Dr Lars LAAMANN 1970-2005 Professor David Shambaugh (University of Wisconsin) Facing the New Leadership Niki ALSFORD Supervisor: Dr Lars LAAMANN (George Washington) 17-19 April 2013 Mr Jonathan Fenby The Banka Petition: British interactions HUANG Ching-yi 8 March 2013 (Research Associate, CCS) at the cession of Formosa in 1895 John Sparks Ltd: Art dealer and Shuk Man LEUNG 1 May 2013 Supervisor: Dr Lars LAAMANN Chinese Art in Britain, 1900-1950 The Discursive Formation of Utopian Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao Imagination in New Fiction, 1902-1911 The 2013 AC Graham Memorial Lectures Mimi AJIBADÉ Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX Simon FORBES were delivered by Prof William H. Corporate governance in emerging During the academic session the Centre British and French Missions in China Cui LI Nienhauser of the University of Wisconsin economies: a case study of domestic small hosted two events, each designed to mark Held in May and again attracting a large during the 1930s and 1940s Models of regional development in Madison. In his first public lecture Prof and medium size enterprises listed in the the publication of a major book on China. audience the second talk, designed to mark Supervisor: Dr Lars LAAMANN and labour absorption in China Nienhauser linked the Liezi with Tao People’s Republic of China In March, Professor David Shambaugh the publication of a major book on China, Supervisor: Dr Sanzhu ZHU Supervisor: Dr Dic LO Yuanming’s poetry and thereby created – a former member of the SOAS Politics was given by Mr Jonathan Fenby, former Letizia FUSINI a striking connection between his highly Department and Editor of The China Editor of the South China Morning Post Eddie BERTOZZI Concepts of tragedy in Gao Xingjian Tianshuang LIANG contextualised readings of Tao Yuanming’s Quarterly, but now Director of the China and currently Managing Director for China One Step Forward Into Reality: post-exile plays The Agency of Syncretism in poetry with A.C. Graham’s (1919-1991) Studies Program at George Washington at Trusted Sources (an emerging markets Redefining the Realist Style in Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI Modern Chinese Art: Gao Qifeng work on and translation of the book Liezi. University in the United States – delivered research service). In his talk, which took Contemporary Chinese Cinema and the New Republic In the Master Seminar and in his second a lecture, entitled ‘China goes global’. Prof. the title of his recently-published book, Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI Zhongnan HUANG Supervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND public lecture, Prof Nienhauser provided the Shambaugh addressed an audience well Tiger Head, Snake Tails, Mr Fenby offered Seasoned Equity offerings of audience with highly sophisticated readings fresh and illuminating insights into China’s Ouyang BIQING Chinese Listed Firms Sau-Ping LIM of Du Fu’s poetry. After the lectures a copy Supervisor: Dr Hong BO political and economic development, and Bronze Mirrors of the Wu period Nanyin activities in the Jinjiang of a recent reprint of A.C. Graham’s Poems suggested the likely nature of its future Supervisor: Dr Lukas Nickel region of Fujian of the Later T’ang, courtesy of Mrs Judy TP Pamela HUNT trajectory. The talk was Chaired by Professor Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS Graham, was presented to Prof Nienhauser. Paul BEVAN Configurations of Masculinity and Bob Ash (SOAS). Manhua and Illustrated Propaganda Realms of Agency in Post-1989 Hsiang-Chun Michael LIN The two public lectures and the Master in Wartime China, 1927-1945 Chinese Fiction The Investment Behaviour of Seminar were well attended by colleagues Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX Chinese Listed Firms from SOAS and other UK universities, Supervisor: Dr Hong BO Yin HWANG research students from SOAS, Oxford and Angela BECHER The Depiction of War and Rebellion Cambridge, visiting scholars from China, and China’s urban monumentality in LIN Yi-hsin in the Print and Visual Culture of by the wider public. The first public lecture contemporary fiction, cinema and art Tradition, Transmission and Transformation: Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI Late Qing China, 1884-1901 was again recorded by Mr Connor Walsh, Art Collecting and Gentry identity of the Supervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND a graduate of the China and Inner Asia Pan Family in Nineteenth-century Marine CABOS Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao Department at SOAS. The recordings will Landscape Photography of China’s Iconic Yingquan JIANG be made available on SOAS internet radio Sites (1840s-1949) Financial development and Man Yee LUM where a number of previous AC Graham Supervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND economic growth in China Poems on drama of the eighteenth century Memorial Lectures, together with a radio Supervisor: Dr Dic LO Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO feature of Prof AC Graham, are already Charles Hsin-i CHEN available. The Dynamics of Privatisation in China Lin JIAO Yuanyuan MA (1994-2008): An Empirical and Econometric The Practice and Representation of Cultural Conservatism in Modern China: in excess of a hundred people, focusing Analysis the Modern Body in an Age of The Journal Xueheng on the security, diplomatic and cultural Supervisor: Professor Bob ASH Globalisation: The Chinese Custom Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX implications for the rest of the world of of Breast-Binding China’s economic rise. The essence of his Jin CHENG Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU Alastair Ewan MACDONALD talk was that China’s global presence is, for An Economic Analysis of Chinese Township A New Direction in the Vernacular Short Yin-Chen KANG the time being, more broad than deep – as and Village Enterprises Story: Interactions Between “Popular” and The Formation of Taiwanese he put it, China remained a “partial power” Supervisor: Professor Bob ASH Elite Culture in Paian jigqi Classical Theatre: 1900-1930 Supervisor: Dr, Tian Yuan TAN in the world. Prof. Shambaugh’s talk was -Shih CHI Supervisor: Dr Tian Yuan TAN chaired by Sir Christophe Hum, former Malcolm MACNEILL British Ambassador to China. Music, politics and identity in Taiwan Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS Sinae KIM Narrative Agency in 13th-14th Century Chan A wine reception followed the discssio, and Buddhist Scripture and Oral Performance in Figure Painting: A Study of Hagiography- Both Professor Shambaugh answered there was also an opportunity to purchase Jun DU Medieval China: A Study of the Dunhuang Iconography Text-Image Relationships questions from the audience. copies of the two authors’ recent books. Agricultural Transition in China: Domestic Manuscripts of the “Sūtra Lecture Text on Supervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND and International Perspectives on Techno- the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra” logical and Institutional Change Supervisor: Dr Antonello Palumbo How Wee NG Supervisor: Professor Bob ASH “Shaving, not Decapitating”—Censorship Bodil KNUTS Practices of TV Drama and Film in Lifeng HAN Flight or Fight: the Nation is Lost. The Contemporary China The AC Graham Memorial Lectures are Carnival Politics: Festival Spectacle influence of a vagrant life on the notion of Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI organized by Prof Bernhard Fuehrer on and Ritual in Song China 960-1279 C.E. “home” in the prose of Xiao Hong (1911- behalf of the Department of the Languages Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU 1942) and Xiao Jun (1907-1988) Janine NICOL and Cultures of China and Inner Asia, the Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX Daoxuan and the Shijia fangzhi: Centre for Chinese Studies and the London HSU Hsin-wen The Creation of a Buddhist Sacred Confucius Institute. The lectures are An Archaeological Study of the Jades from Wing Sze Kaby KUNG Geography of China sponsored by a generous grant from the the Tomb of the King of Nanyue Kingdom Feminism and Postfeminism in the Supervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO London Confucius Institute and aim to foster Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao Work of Hong Ying and Li Bihua the academic discourse on classical Chinese Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX philosophy, literature and culture.

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