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the centre includes over 40 members of staff whose interests span both historical and contemporary Chinese studies Centre of Chinese Studies ANNUAL REVIEW ISSUE 4: September 2012 - September 2013 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR SOAS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 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 China 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, University of London 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 (Jiangsu 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 England” 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 national library 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 Wu 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, Russell Square 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. 2 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 3 CENTRE MEMBERS: CURRENT 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 Taiwan 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(BEIJING) 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 Chinese Culture [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 History of China [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(SHANXI) 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