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Anne Witchard from Around the Globe, to Inspire and to Enrich at Beijing Bookworm Literary Festival Cultural Life in Asia’S Most Dynamic Metropolis RAS China in Shanghai - Newsletter Vol 4 No 2 – February 2013 NEWSLETTER Royal Asiatic Society China in Shanghai FEBRUARY 2013 FOCUS GROUPS RAS Film Club – none RAS Book Club – 17th RAS Study Group – 25th – new series Our Society provides a forum for the development and expression of interests and FORTHCOMING FOR MARCH expertise from within the local community, and 9th – Anne Witchard from around the globe, to inspire and to enrich at Beijing Bookworm Literary Festival cultural life in Asia’s most dynamic metropolis. Lao She in London 10th – RAS Panel: Lindsay Shen, Anne Witchard and Susie Gordon at ‘M’ Shanghai Literary Festival Tempest in a China Teapot 19th & 23rd – Shelly Bryant Talk & Walk – Chinese Gardens 26th – Michael Humphries Surgeon on the China Seas 30th – Vince Ungvary Talk & Exhibition – Antique Maps FOCUS GROUPS for March Book Club – 11th & Sun 24th Study Group - 18th & 25th Film Club – 17th For full details and updates of all our events please visit our website Gaoqiao www.royalasiaticsociety.org.cn Copy Deadline for Next Newsletter 20thof this month RAS China in Shanghai is a branch of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland RAS China in Shanghai - Newsletter Vol 4 No 2 – February 2013 PRESIDENT’s NOTE – Katy Gow On behalf of RAS Council, I send you all good wishes for the Chinese Year of the Water Snake – Xin Nian Kuai Le - 新年快樂. Due to Spring Festival falling in the middle of FEBRUARY, there will only be two events this month – a Book Club meeting (17th) and Study Group meeting (25th), the latter will start with a new topic to see us through the whole of this year. The Book Club schedule for 2013 is also complete. There will be no Film Club meeting this month. MARCH will begin our Spring/Summer session and to give advance notice we are including all our March events in this issue. The first two are collaborative events with Literary Festival programmes in Beijing and Shanghai – it’s really good to have a presence at both. The first event will be held in Beijing on 9th March, at The Bookworm Literary Festival – our Monograph author Anne Witchard will be speaking and Paul French has translated and adapted Lao She’s Ding – a one act play, which will be performed. There will also be an opportunity for those who are interested to meet up with a view to establishing an RAS Beijing Chapter. We are delighted to have an RAS Panel – Tempest in a China Teapot - at “M” Shanghai International Literary Festival. It will be the 11th year of the Festival, and this year Shanghai will be hosting 71 authors from 21 countries. I know that many RAS members are regular attendees at SILF and we look forward to seeing you at our special Panel session on 10th March. Focus Groups will continue but please note that there will be some changes from the usual days they meet. The Book Club will have an extra meeting to take a look at 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature, Mo Yan’s Change: What Was Communism. Lecture and Weekender Series will offer two “Double Feature” events: a Talk & Walk on Chinese Classical Gardens with Shelly Bryant; and a Talk & Exhibition on Antique Maps with Vince Ungvary in collaboration with Hong Merchant Gallery. We will also have Michael Humphries present to us on another interesting figure from the mid-nineteenth century, Charles Courtney, RN Surgeon aboard HMS Highflyer. Grateful thanks are extended to all for offering their time and expertise and we look forward to seeing RAS members and guests at these informative events. The RAS Library will be open during the last two weeks of February – times are indicated below. Special thanks to those who have assisted with cataloguing books and the volunteer rota. If you feel able to offer a few hours for library duty, please contact Ed Allen our Hon Librarian – details below. Finally, I am very pleased to advise that the next issue of the RAS Journal has just gone to press and publication is expected next month. JANUARY events culminated with a splendid visit to Gaoqiao on a brilliant sunny day – opposite – cont’d…. 2 3 Forty members and friends enjoyed a lovely trip to Gaoqiao in memory of Michelle Blumenthal. One group gathering in Puxi for the one-hour Metro ride towards the coast, where we met with those traveling from Pudong. Starting out from the Gaoqiao Museum, armed with information provided for us by Edie Millar and Katie Baker, we all headed off at our own pace, visiting the various points of interest and sampling the street food along the way. With historical buildings, museums, exhibitions, street sellers and life in general, there was plenty to see and we were blessed with glorious winter sun and blue skies. Preparations for Spring Festival were evident with meat drying and decorations being sold. Over twenty of us ended the afternoon with a tasty lunch taking in the local cuisine. Thanks to Edie, Katie and Peter for putting this together – it was a super day out and a fine opportunity to meet with fellow members… Betty Barr told us that she remembered coming to the beach near Gaoqiao with her parents… many moons ago. 3 RAS China in Shanghai - Newsletter Vol 4 No 2 – February 2013 Ian Gow Lecture: Alexander Wylie, Scottish Shanghailander Bill Dodson Lecture: Arrested Development Two Weekender lectures and one mid-week lecture offered by Ian Gow, Bill Dodson and Yat-Ming Loo began our 2013 Programme. Many thanks to our speakers for taking time out to share their research and interests and to Sino-British College and Radisson Xing Guo for hosting. Yat-Ming Loo Lecture: London’s Chinatown 4 5 Please RSVP as soon as RAS STUDY GROUP nd th possible if you would like to 2 and 4 Monday of the month attend this course on 25th 7pm for 7:15pm start at Melange Oasis Jiashan Market Shanxi Nan Road Lane 550 No. 37 Building D New Series for Study Group begins 25th February After a year and a half of tackling Chinese Modern History, the study group moves on to Eastern Philosophy. Below is a course description and dates for the upcoming series. In order to accommodate our group comfortably, we need to assess whether a change of venue is necessary. If you would like to attend the Eastern Philosophy course, please email [email protected] as soon as possible. The format we have followed for the history class is a one hour DVD lecture followed by a discussion that carries on for 45 min to 1 hour. This series will take us to the end of 2013. Our usual venue, Melange Oasis, offers reasonably priced food and drinks. Many people come early to eat first before the lecture. Timing is 7:00 for a 7:15 start time. After 7:15, we ask latecomers to enjoy a drink in the restaurant until 7:45 so as not to interrupt the lecture. Unless otherwise stated, the class meets on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month. Suggested donation: members 20rmb and guests 50rmb Look forward to seeing you there! Kate Baker (Co-ordinator) Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition (published by The Great Courses) Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition is an epic, comprehensive survey of the East's most influential philosophers and thinkers. In 36 lectures, award-winning Professor Grant Hardy of the University of North Carolina at Asheville introduces you to the men and women responsible for molding Asian philosophy and for giving birth to a wide variety of spiritual and ideological systems, including Hinduism, Daoism, Confucianism, Sufism, and Buddhism. By focusing on these key thinkers in their historical contexts, you'll witness the development of these rich traditions as they shaped and defined Eastern cultures through the rise and fall of empires, the friendly and hostile encounters with each other and with the Western world, and the rapid advancements of the modern age. About the Professor: Dr. Grant Hardy is Professor of History and Religious Studies and Director of the Humanities Program at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He earned his B.A. in Ancient Greek from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. in Chinese Language and Literature from Yale University. Professor Hardy has received a wealth of awards and accolades for both his teaching and his scholarship. At the University of North Carolina, he won the 2002 Distinguished Teacher Award for the Arts and Humanities Faculty, and he was named to a Ruth and Leon Feldman Professorship for 2009 to 2010. He also received a research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he participated in scholarly symposia at prestigious universities around the world, including Harvard University and the University of Heidelberg. Professor Hardy has written, co-written, or edited six books, including Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo: Sima Qian's Conquest of History; The Establishment of the Han Empire and Imperial China; and the first volume of the Oxford History of Historical Writing. In addition, he has written or revised a majority of the articles on imperial China for the World Book Encyclopedia. 5 RAS China in Shanghai - Newsletter Vol 4 No 2 – February 2013 Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition (published by The Great Courses) 2013 Screening schedule February 25 Lecture 1, Life's Great Questions, Asian Perspectives Lecture 2, The Vedas and Upanishads-The Beginning March 18 Lecture 3, Mahavira and Jainism-Extreme Nonviolence Lecture 4, The Buddha-The Middle Way March 25 Lecture 5, The Bhagavad Gita-The Way of Action Lecture 6, Confucius-In Praise of Sage-Kings April 8 Lecture 7, Laozi and Daoism-The Way of Nature Lecture 8, The Hundred Schools of Pre-Imperial China April
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