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ISSUE 2: September 2010 - August 2011 SOAS The School of Oriental and African STUDYING AT SOAS Studies (SOAS) is a college of the University of London and the only Higher The international environment and CONTENTS Education institution in the UK specialising cosmopolitan character of the School make in the study of , and the Near and student life a challenging, rewarding and 3 Letter from the Chair . exciting experience. We welcome students from more than 130 countries, and more 4 Centre Members SOAS is a remarkable institution. Uniquely than 45% of them are from outside the UK. 6 Members News combining language scholarship, 14 Announcements disciplinary expertise and regional focus, it has the largest concentration in of 15 Centre Event Listing 2010-11 academic staff concerned with Africa, Asia 16 Centre Activites and the Middle East. 22 Honorary Appointments On the one hand, this means that 24 Research Students SOAS remains a guardian of specialised 26 Research & Enterprise knowledge in languages and periods and regions not available anywhere else in the 27 Join the Centre UK. On the other hand, it means that SOAS scholars grapple with pressing issues - democracy, development, human rights, identity, legal systems, poverty, religion, The SOAS Library has more than 1.5 million social change - confronting two-thirds of items and extensive electronic resources. It humankind. is the national library the study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East and attracts scholars all This makes SOAS synonymous with over the world. intellectual excitement and achievement. It is a global academic base and a crucial SOAS offers a wide range of undergraduate, resource for London. We live in a world of postgraduate and research degrees. shrinking borders and of economic and Students can choose from more than 300 technological simultaneity. Yet it is also a undergraduate degree combinations and world in which difference and regionalism from more than 80 postgraduate present themselves acutely. It is a world that programmes (taught and distance SOAS is distinctively positioned to analyse, learning) in the social sciences, humanities understand and explain. and languages with a distinctive regional focus and global relevance, taught by world-renowned teachers in specialist faculties. School of Oriental and African Studies The School is consistently ranked among University of London the top higher education institutions in the Thornhaugh Street UK and the world. The School’s academic Russell Square excellence has also been recognised in London WC1H 0XG research assessment exercises (RAEs) www.soas.ac.uk SOAS offers a friendly, vibrant environment right in the buzzing heart of London. The Tel: +44 (0)20 7637 2388 capital’s rich cultural and social life is Fax: +44 (0)20 7436 3844 literally on its doorstep and offers students an unparalleled environment in which We welcome you to become part of the and study. The Russell Square campus is in SOAS experience and invite you to learn historic Bloomsbury, an area of leafy squares more about us by exploring our website: well-known as a haven from the bustle of the city, and also an intellectual centre. The Web: www.soas.ac.uk/admissions/ exhibition spaces of the Brunei Gallery is Web: www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/ to be found in the Brunei Gallery Building opposite the main college building. Other SOAS Library colleges of the University of London, the Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4163 and the British Library are Fax: +44 (0)20 7898 4159 just a few minutes away. Web: www.soas.ac.uk/library/

2 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

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欢迎浏览伦敦大学亚非学院中国研究中心 elcome to the 2010-2011 edition of the Centre of Chinese Studies (CCS) 的2011年度通讯。本中心是英国乃至全欧 Annual Review. It is a pleasure as the chair of the Centre to present the Review to 洲的最重要的中国研究机构，有超过40名 everyoneW concerned. 全职学术人员，其专业范围包括语言研 究、人文学科和社会科学各个领域。秉承 The CCS is a leading academic establishment in the area of Chinese studies in the UK 亚非学院的传统，本中心在国际学术界中 and indeed in Europe as a whole. The Centre has more than 40 full-time members of 向以知识创新和发展成果著称。 academic staff from almost all disciplines of language studies, humanities, and social sciences. In line with the general character of SOAS, the Centre has the reputation of 在2010-2011学年，本中心专注于学术研 intellectual excitement and achievement. 究和成果传播活动，同时探索为社会提供 知识服务的各种可能性。中心的每周讲座 In academic year 2010-2011, the CCS focused its activities on research and knowledge 系列，为学院和校外学术人员提供了一个 dissemination whilst exploring the possibility of enhancing its profile on the enterprise 高水平的研究成果交流平台。中心的年度 side. The Centre’s regular series of research seminars are a well-established platform 公开演讲，向来是特邀国际学术界前沿学 for SOAS and external scholars to present their research work to the academic 者主讲；本年度的讲者是清华大学的汪晖 community. The Centre’s Annual Lecture is given by distinguished invited speakers of 教授，其讲题是“所谓中国模式：单一性 international standing, on topics that are of interest to specialist scholars as well as to 还是多元性？”。此外，在本学年中，中 the general public. This year the Annual Lecture was delivered by Professor Wang Hui of 心还举办了一系列的讲座、研讨会和公开 , on the topic ‘Is it singular? Rethinking the recent debates on ’s 论坛。 model’. The Centre also organized a number of lectures, symposia and public forums in the academic year. 可以预期，中心在2011-2012学年中所举 办的学术活动，将会同样有意义并吸引相 We have a similarly interesting programme of activities to look forward to for academic 关的校内外学者积极参与。 year 2011-2012. 卢荻 Dic Lo 经济学高级讲师 Centre Chair, 2009-2012 中国研究中心主任，2009-2012

3 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON CENTRE MEMBERS: CURRENT

Professor Robert F ASH Dr Dafydd FELL Dr Andrea JANKU Professor of Economics with reference Senior Lecturer in Taiwanese Studies Senior Lecturer in the of China to China and Department of Financial and Department of History Department of Economics Management Studies [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Dr Jakob KLEIN Professor Timothy H BARRETT Dr Rossella FERRARI Lecturer in Social Anthropology Professor of East Asian History Lecturer in Modern Department of Anthropology Department of the Study of Religions and Language and Sociology [email protected] Department of the Languages and [email protected] Cultures of China and Inner Asia [email protected] Dr Hong BO Dr Yuka KOBAYASHI Senior Lecturer in Chinese Business Lecturer in Chinese Politics and Management Professor Bernhard FUEHRER Department of Politics and Department of Financial and Professor of International Studies Management Studies Department of the Languages and [email protected] [email protected] Cultures of China and Inner Asia [email protected] Dr Tat Yan KONG Professor Christopher BRAMALL Reader in Comparative Politics Professor of Economics Ms Wan Li GAO and Development Studies Department of Economics Senior Lector in Chinese Department of Politics and [email protected] Department of the Languages and International Studies Cultures of China and Inner Asia [email protected] [email protected] Dr Cosima BRUNO Mellon Lecturer in Chinese Studies Dr Lars LAAMANN Department of the Languages and Dr Rachel HARRIS Lecturer in the Cultures of China and Inner Asia Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology Department of History [email protected] Department of Music [email protected] [email protected]

Dr Wynn CHAO Dr George LANE Lecturer in Linguistics Dr Nathan HILL Senior Teaching Fellow Department of Linguistics Senior Lector in Tibetan Department of History [email protected] Department of the Languages and [email protected] Cultures of China and Inner Asia [email protected] Ms Yan CUI Dr Kevin LATHAM Senior Lector in Chinese Professor Michel HOCKX Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology Department of the Languages and Professor of Chinese Department of Anthropology Cultures of China and Inner Asia Department of the Languages and and Sociology [email protected] Cultures of China and Inner Asia [email protected] [email protected]

4 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Dr Andrew H-B LO Ms Zhaoxia PANG Dr Carol TAN Senior Lecturer in Chinese Lector in Chinese Senior Lecturer in Law Department of the Languages and Department of the Languages and Chair, Centre of South East Cultures of China and Inner Asia Cultures of China and Inner Asia [email protected] [email protected] School of Law [email protected]

Dr Dic LO Dr Stacey PIERSON Dr Tian Yuan TAN Senior Lecturer in Economics Lecturer in Chinese Ceramics Senior Lecturer in Traditional Chinese Department of Economics Department of the History of Art Literature and Culture [email protected] and Archaeology Department of the Languages and [email protected] Cultures of China and Inner Asia [email protected] Dr Xiaoning LU Lecturer in Modern Chinese Dr Lianyi SONG Culture and Language Principal Teaching Fellow Dr Damian TOBIN Department of the Languages and Department of the Languages and Lecturer in Chinese Business Cultures of China and Inner Asia Cultures of China and Inner Asia and Management [email protected] [email protected] Department of Financial and Management Studies [email protected] Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND Dr Julia C STRAUSS Senior Lecturer in the History Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics of Chinese Art Department of Politics and Ms Wai Hing TSE Department of the History of International Studies Assistant Librarian China, Financial Art and Archaeology [email protected] and Management Studies [email protected] Library and Information Service [email protected] Ms Lik SUEN Dr Lukas NICKEL Principal Lector in Chinese Reader in Chinese Art History Department of the Languages and Dr Tao WANG and Archaeology Cultures of China and Inner Asia Senior Lecturer in Chinese Archaeology Department of the History of [email protected] Department of the History of Art and Archaeology Art and Archaeology [email protected] [email protected] Professor Laixiang SUN Professor of Chinese Business Dr Ulrich PAGEL and Management Dr Xinsheng (George) ZHANG Reader in Language and Religion in Department of Financial and Director of Language Centre Tibet and Middle Asia Management Studies Language Centre Department of the Study of Religions [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Dr Sanzhu Dr Antonello PALUMBO Senior Lecturer in Chinese Lecturer in Chinese Religions Commercial Law Department of the Study of Religions School of Law [email protected] [email protected]

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Dic LO Senior Lecturer in Economics Department of Economics

In academic year 2010-2011, Dic Lo represented CCS to deliver seminars and public lectures in a number of British and international academic institutions: Musashi University, (November 2010), Oxford (February 2011), Peking University (March 2011), University, China (April 2011), Complutense University, Madrid (May 2011), and the University of Nagasaki (August 2011).

A grant of US dollar 250,000 has been awarded by the Ford Foundation to a joint research project of CCS and Renmin University of China, entitled ‘China’s financial governance and economic internationalisation’ for a duration of two years starting from September 2010. Dic Lo is principal investigator of the project, and a couple of CCS members from various departments of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences are in the research team of the project.

Publications • Dic Lo and Guicai Li, ‘China’s economic growth, 1978-2006: structural-institutional changes and efficiency attributes’, forthcoming, 2011, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics. • Dic Lo, Guicai Li and Yingquan Jiang, ‘Financial governance and economic development: making sense of the Chinese experience’, forthcoming, 2011, PSL Quarterly Review. • Dic Lo and Zhang, ‘Making sense of China’s economic transformation’, Review of Radical Political Economics, 2011, 43 (1): 33-55.

Laixiang SUN Professor of Chinese Business and Management Department of Financial and Management Studies

Laixiang Sun was a distinguished guest lecture in University of Maryland, Department of Geography, on 14 April 2011; and guest lecture in University of Nottingham, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, on 5 Oct 2010. Topic: “Food, Feed, and Fuel: Prospects for China based on Simulations of Chinagro-II Model through 2030”.

His current research focuses on Foreign Direct Investment and Total Factor Productivity; Sub-national Institutional Constraints and Foreign Firm Performance; On Equivalence between Cournot Competition and Kreps-Scheinkman Game; The Economics of Biofuel Production: Social and Environmental Impacts in China; Assessing the Impact of Climate Change and Intensive Human Activities on China’s Agro-Ecosystem and its Supply Potentials; Electoral Accountability and the Provision of Public Goods in Rural China.

Publications • Sun, Laixiang, Eunsuk Hong and Tao Li. 2010. “Incorporating Technology Diffusion, Factor Mobility and Structural Change into cross-region Growth Regression: An application to China”, Journal of Regional Science (2009 Impact Factor: 1.132), vol. 50, no. 3 (Aug), pp. 734–755. • Sun, Laixiang. 2010. “Forward”, in Economic Reform and Development the Chinese Way: The Selected Essays of Li Yining. : Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. • Fischer, G., T. Ermolieva, and L. Sun. 2010. “Planning sustianable agricultural development under risks.” In: Coping with Uncertainty: Robust Solutions, K. Marti, Y. Ermoliev, M. Makowski (eds), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, , pp. 209-226.

Laixiang Sun: the cover-figure and Honour and awards cover story in China Scholar Abroad • Cover Figure in the March 2011 issue of China Scholars Abroad magazine (The cover and cover-story is attached). • President-elected (in May 2011), Chinese Economist Association (UK/Europe).

Wynn CHAO Lecturer in Linguistics Department of Linguistics

Wynn Chao was an invited speaker at the 19th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-19) held June 11-13 2011, at Nankai University, Tianjin China.

6 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Rachel Harris performing with the London Uyghur Ensemble at the Forde festival, Norway, summer 2010

Rachel HARRIS Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology Department of Music

In summer 2010 Rachel Harris contributed a paper “Perspectives on the use and control of the Uyghur Internet” to a strategic seminar on Xinjiang, organised by the Cambridge Inner Asia Centre in response to the July 2009 inter-ethnic violence in Xinjiang. A journal article is forthcoming in Inner Asia.

She acted as examiner for nomination files for the Urgent Safeguarding List, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage section.

In autumn 2010 she was elected as Chair of the London Jingkun Opera Association, an organisation which promotes Beijing opera and Kunqu in the UK through workshops and public performances.

She continued to act as consultant to the Aga Khan Music Initiative, travelling to Beijing in summer 2010 to work on a fusion project which involved the star Chinese player working with traditional musicians from across Northwest China. A CD and DVD are forthcoming with Smithsonian Folkways.

In May 2011 she contributed a paper: “Sound and meaning in rural Uyghur society: women who recite the Qur’ān” to the University of Copenhagen workshop, “Beyond the Harmonious Society, Tibetans and Uyghurs in socialist China.” An edited volume arising from the workshop is planned.

She continued to organise and perform with the London Uyghur Ensemble, a local group dedicated to the performance of traditional music from Xinjiang. Activities this year included a workshop and concert at the Taipei National Orchestra conference, “Beyond the Road”, an appearance at the Forde festival in Norway, and a concert, workshop and lecture at the Museum of Oriental Art in Turin.

Xiaoning LU Lecturer in Modern Chinese Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

Lu Xiaoning presented her paper entitled “The Transmission of Chinese Revolutionary Art in the Age of Digitalization: Les Chinois a and Its Accidental Audiences” in the panel “Chinese Art for Global Audiences” at 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association in April in Vancouver, Canada. Her article “Promote Physical Culture and Sports, Improve the People’s Constitution” appeared in Ban Wang, ed., Words and Their Stories: Essays on Chinese Revolutionary Discourse (Leiden, Brill Press, 2011).

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Lukas NICKEL Reader in Chinese Art History and Archaeology Department of the History of Art and Archaeology

Lukas Nickel gave invited lectures and conference presentations at the following occasions:

26 September 2010, Iannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies Oxford, conference Dining and Death, Interdisciplinary perspectives on the Funerary Banquet in Art, Burial and Belief, paper titled ‘Banquets and Tombs in Han Dynasty China: Luoyang as a case study’;

28 March 2011, Institute of the Study of the Ancient World, paper titled ‘Sculpture and bricks as evidence for cross-Asian contacts during the 3rd century BC’;

29 March 2011, Bard Graduate Center, New York, ‘Silver Boxes with Achaemenid Design from Han Tombs’;

31 March 2011, Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Honolulu, paper titled ‘Alexander Soper and the Study of Chinese Buddhist Sculpture’,

7 April 2011, International Symposium on Period Metallurgy, Xian, paper titled ‘Exotic Silver Objects of the Qin Period’

At SOAS, Lukas organised the graduate workshop Research Training in the History of Chinese Art and Archaeology, 20-24 September 2010. As a member of the International Centre of Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (ICCHA) he is currently preparing the conference Emergence of Bronze Age Societies – A Global Perspective, to be held in Baoji, China, 8-12 November 2011.

Publications Lukas Nickel, Gräber der Han-Zeit in Luoyang (Published with English synopsis), Münchner Ostasiatische Studien, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag 2011.

Damian TOBIN Lecturer in Chinese Business and Management Department of Financial and Management Studies

Damian Tobin’s current research focuses on the development and governance of China’s banking system, its role in financing China’s economic development and the unique role plated by Chinese state-owned banks in . In particular I have sought to explore the contrast between the tremendous capacity for change demonstrated by China’s state-owned banks since 1949 against their unclear implications for development policy. The research has involved several research visits to Hong Kong, research at the Hong Kong Public Records Office, as well as discussions with senior banking personnel and other sector participants.

A current paper (see below) examines why the pre-reform banking system based on moral compromise could almost seamlessly change to one based on self-advancement where corruption and professional malpractice are the much lamented price of growth. Focusing on a period when resources were desperately short, the paper argues that China’s great advantage has been Hong Kong and the safe access to international markets it has consistently provided. Consequently China’s leadership is more familiar with international markets than is often assumed, and although capitalism is no longer exceptional, access to formal institutions continues to be a core development priority in achieving modernization

Austerity and Moral Compromise: Lessons from the Development of China’s Banking System World Development Volume 39 (2011), pp. 700-711

Hong Kong harbour

8 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Nathan HILL Senior Lector in Tibetan Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

In September Nathan Hill hosted the 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium and 5th Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages Symposium at SOAS, with over sixty guests from around the world and a key-note address by Martine Mazaudon (CNRS), “Dialectology and language change: paths to tone in Tamangish languages.”

In February Nathan attended an editorial meeting of Old Tibetan Documents Online in Kobe, . In March he gave an invited talk ‘The development of the Gnga’ khri btsan po myth in the Bar-dar period’ as part of the conference ‘Between Empire and Phyi dar: the fragmentation and reconstruction of religion and society in post-imperial Tibet’ held at the Lumbini International Research Institute in Lumbini, Nepal.

Nathan has recently published three papers, ‘Personal Pronouns in Old Tibetan’ in Journal Asiatique (2010), ‹A note on the phonetic evolution of yod-pa-red in Central Tibet› in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area (2010), ‘Alternances entre ḥ et b en tibétain ancien et dans les langues tibétaines modernes’ in Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines (2011), a book chapter ‘The allative, locative, and terminative cases (la-don) in the Old Tibetan Annals› in New Studies of the Old Tibetan Documents (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2011), and a book A Lexicon of Tibetan Verb Stems as Reported by the Grammatical Tradition. (Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010)

Dafydd FELL Senior Lecturer in Taiwanese Studies Department of Financial and Management Studies

In December 2010 Dafydd Fell was a Visiting Fellow at National Chunghsing University’s Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Taichung, Taiwan. During this visit he co-organized an International Conference on Migration to and From Taiwan together with National Chunghsing and Chungcheng Universities. The second international workshop on Migration to and From Taiwan was held at SOAS in June 2011 and is funded by a grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.

In May 2011 Dr Fell was one of the organizers of the Eighth Annual European Association of Taiwan Studies, which is one of the largest Taiwan studies events in the world. On July 1-3 Dr Fell will be running the Fifth SOAS Taiwan Studies Summer School. For details see: www.soas.ac.uk/taiwanstudies/taiwan-studies-summer-school/ This is also supported by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.

Publications 1. Critical Elections in Taiwan: Locating the Start of a New Political Era, in Asian Survey (Vol. 50:5, 2010 September/October), 927-945.

2. Taiwan’s Democracy: Towards a Liberal Democracy or Authoritarianism? In Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 39:2 (2010): 187-201.

3. “How to Achieve Political Consensus?” Taipei Times, June 28, 2010 Weblink: www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2010/06/28/2003476597

Conference Papers and Lectures 1. Tracking and Explaining Legislative Violence in post Transition Taiwan, paper given at the Disruptive Democracy: Analysing legislative protest in contemporary workshop, University of Warwick. November 2010.

2. Taiwan Studies in Europe, lecture given at National Chunghsing University, Academia Sinica’s Institute of Sociology, and Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. All in December 2010.

3. Critical Elections in Taiwan Revisited, paper given at conference on Prospects for Cross Strait Relations held at the Institute of Political Science, National Sun Yat Sen University December 2010.

4. Marketing Internally: How Politicians Campaign in Inner Party Elections in Taiwan, paper given at the Eighth European Association of Taiwan Studies Conference, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. May 2011.

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Tian Yuan TAN Senior Lecturer in Traditional and Culture Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

Tian Yuan Tan received a research grant from the Society of Chinese Theatre Studies (Tang Xianzu Branch) for an international collaborative project between six institutions and organisations from UK and China on “The Theatrical Worlds of Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare”. He delivered a keynote address at the International Conference on Tang Xianzu and Late Ming Culture, and convened the Forum on Tang Xianzu-Shakespeare: Cultural Exchange and Collaboration held in Suichang, China, 8-11 April, 2011. His other activities and publications are listed below:

Invited Talks And Presentations “Late Ming Emotions and States of Mind: The Case of Mudan ting.” Paper presented at the Third Villa Vigoni Research Conference on “Reconstruction of the Representation of Emotions, States of Mind and Imagery in Imperial China,” May 25-28, 2011. Menaggio, Italy.

“Imperial Spectacle and Entertainment in Qing Court Theater.” Paper presented at “The Culture of Entertainment in China: Past and Present” Conference held at the , May 19-20, 2011.

“Performing Arts of Beijing in the : Court and Popular Traditions.” Public lecture delivered at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London, February 5, 2011.

“Reconsidering the Boundaries of ‘Elite Theatre’ and ‘Court Theatre’ in the of Chinese Drama.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) held at the University of Bristol, September 8-9, 2010.

Publications Songs of Contentment and Transgression: Discharged Officials and Literati Communities in Sixteenth-Century North China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2010.

Kang Hai sanqu ji jiaojian 康海散曲集校箋 (A Critical Edition of Kang Hai’s Songs, with Introduction, Notes, and Two Essays). : guji chubanshe, 2011.

“Emerging from Anonymity: The First Generation of Writers of Songs and Drama in Mid-Ming Nanjing,” T’oung Pao 96 (2010): 125-164.

Yan CUI Senior Lector in Chinese Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

Cui Yan was one of the sixteen speakers at SOAS International Symposium of Learning and Teaching of Asian and African Languages in the 21st Century which was held on 8th-9th November 2010. Her presentation topic is “Issues Involved in Teaching Chinese Listening Skills at Elementary Level – for teacher training programmes”.

During her speech at SOAS International Symposium held in November 2010

10 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Rossella FERRARI Lecturer in Modern Chinese Culture and Language Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

Rossella Ferrari published ‘Beckett’s Chinese Progeny: Absurdity, Waiting, and the Godot Motif in Contemporary China’ in Dorothy Figueira and Marc Maufort (eds.), Theatres in the Round: Multi-ethnic, Indigenous, and Intertextual Dialogues in Drama (Peter Lang Dramaturgies Series). Her ‘Journey(s) to the East—Travels, Trajectories, and Transnational Chinese Theatre(s)’ appeared in the special issue of Postcolonial Studies ‘East Asia, in Theory’ (Vol. 13, No. 4, 2010), and ‘The Stage As A Drawing Board: Zuni Icosahedron’s Architecture Is Art Festival’ was published in TDR: The Drama Review (Vol. 55, Issue 1, 2011). In addition, she finalized her forthcoming book Pop Goes the Avant-garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China (Seagull Enactment Series) for publication, also thanks to the support of a strategic funding grant awarded by the Faculty of Languages and Cultures.

In November 2010 she gave a talk at the on ‘Avant-garde Theory and Chinese Performance: From Pure to Pop, from Singular to Plural’, and one on ‘Cultural and Artistic Exchange in Greater China: Beyond National Models and East-West ’ at the in March 2011. In April 2011 she presented the paper ‘Geometries and Geographies of Exchange: Conceptualizing Transnational Chinese Theatre(s)’ at the AAS-ICAS joint conference in Honolulu. In May she was invited to participate in the international symposium ‘Staging the Modern: Theatre, Intermediality, and Chinese Drama’ at Harvard University, where she gave a paper entitled ‘Architecture and/in Theatre from the Bauhaus to Hong Kong: Mathias Woo’s Looking for Mies’.

She was also involved in two events sponsored by the Centre of Chinese Studies. In November 2010 she chaired the talk ‘Asia on the World Stage’ by American director Peter Sellars organized by the Asian Performing Arts Forum and held in the Khalili Lecture Theatre. In February 2011 she helped organize the performance of Self-Accusation presented by theatre du Rêve Experimental (Beijing) in the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre.

Michel Hockx Professor of Chinese Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

Michel Hockx was awarded an AHRC Fellowship from April−October 2011, to support the completion of a monograph with the working title Internet Literature in China, to be published by Columbia University Press in 2012.

Michel Hockx was also the lead member of a team of current and former SOAS researchers (Dr Maria af Sandeberg, Dr Uganda Sze-Pui Kwan, Dr Christopher Payne, and Dr Christopher Rosenmeier) who published a book-length English translation of a scholarly monograph by Professor Chen Pingyuan of Peking University. Titled Touches of History: An Entry into “May Fourth” China, the book came out with Brill Publishers in May 2011.

Jakob KLEIN Lecturer in Social Anthropology Department of Anthropology and Sociology

During the 2010/11 academic year Jakob Klein presented his research on constructions of regional cuisine in Yunnan at seminars at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS) in Lisbon, at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, at the SOAS Centre of Chinese Studies, and in Paris at the Centre d’études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).

In March 2011 Jakob participated in a symposium at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, organized by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) under the title, ‘Choking on what? Contested illnesses, pollution and the making of environmental health subjects in contemporary China.’ At the symposium, Jakob gave a paper on ‘Food shopping and perceptions of food safety in urban China.’

In May 2011 Jakob co-organized, with Professor Melissa L. Caldwell (University of , Santa Cruz) and Dr. Yuson Jung (Wayne State University, Michigan), a two-day workshop at the SOAS Food Studies Centre on ‘Ethical foods and food movements in postsocialist settings.’ Two papers on China were presented at the workshop: ‘Food and moral discourse in reform era rural China: An incipient resistance?’ by Professor Ellen Oxfeld (Middlebury College, ), and a paper by Jakob, entitled ‘Reconnecting with the countryside? “Alternative” food movements with Chinese characteristics.’ The workshop was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the SOAS Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

In June 2011 Jakob was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant for the following research project: ‘“Local”, “regional” or “ethnic”? Negotiating identities through rubing (milk cake) in Kunming, Southwest China.’ Fieldwork will commence in March 2012.

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Andrea JANKU Senior Lecturer in the History of China Department of History

Conference papers ‘On the Historical Significance of the Guangxu Famine (1877-8): A View from Shaanxi,’ paper given at the Annual Meeting of the British Association of Chinese Studies, Bristol, September 8-9, 2010.

‘Productive Landscapes in Linfen: The Quest for a Sustainable Balance in a Precarious Environment,’ paper given at the BICC/WREA Workshop on The Roots of China’s Environmental Crisis, Bristol, September 10, 2010.

Panelist at Roundtable on ‘Naturkatastrophen in der Geschichte,’ 48. Deutscher Historikertag, , 29.9.-1.10.2010.

‘Global Connectedness and its Discontents: Earthquake Coverage in the old Shenbao (1872-1893),’ paper presented at the International Sym- posium on the Cooperation among Libraries for East Asian Resources and Chinese Newspaper Digitization, Changsha, October 24-27, 2010.

Panel commentator at the conference on ‘Gender and Transcultural Production: Chinese Women’s Journals in Their Global Context, 1900- 2000,’ SOAS, May 13-15, 2010.

Publications “The Uses of Genres in the Chinese Press from the Late Qing to the Early Republican Period.” In Cynthia Brokaw and Christopher Reed, eds. From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition. Leiden: Brill, 2011, 111-157.

Review of Rudolf G. Wagner, ed. Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870–1910. Albany: State Uni- versity of New York Press, 2007. In T’oung Pao 96.1-3 (2010.1): 265-277.

“‘New Methods to Nourish the People’: Political Economy in Late Qing Encyclopaedic Writing (1888-1903),” in Milena Doleželová-Velingerová, ed., Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870-1920): Changing Chinese Ways of Thought. Heidelberg: Springer, forthcoming).

“From Natural to National Disaster: The Chinese Famine of 1928-1930,” forthcoming in Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics, ed. Andrea Janku, Gerrit J. Schenk, and Franz Mauelshagen. New York: Routledge (forthcoming).

Carol TAN Senior Lecturer in Law School of Law

Carol Tan’s essay on the role of the leased territory of Weihaiwei in the recruitment of Chinese men for the Chinese Labour Corp will appear in Li Ma (ed), Des Travailleurs Chinois dans la Grande Guerre (Paris: CNRS Editions, 2011). This collection emerges out of her participation in an international conference jointly organised by Université du Littoral Côte O’pale and the In Flanders Fields Museum held in Boulogne-sur-Mer and Ypres in 2010. This four day symposium, the largest of its kind and the first symposium on this topic to be held outside China, explored a large number of aspects of the Chinese labourers, including the aftermath of the war on Chinese politics, nationalism, identity and consciousness. The symposium was planned to coincide with a number of related events including a special exhibition at the In Flanders Fields Museum and a special ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres. Carol Tan has also written an essay on public health law as one of the technologies in the interface between the British government and urban Chinese in Weihaiwei. This essay is to be published in a collection of essays on Republican China edited by Professors Billy K.L. So and Madeleine Zelin. These two essays and a forthcoming journal article on gambling and other revenue farms in Weihaiwei are a continuation of her work on the legal history of Weihaiwei. Her book British Rule in China: Law and Justice in Weihaiwei 1898-1930, Law in East Asia Series, (London: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Pub., 2008), xxiii, 340p will be translated for publication in Chinese in 2012-2013. Carol Tan has also written the Foreword to Shiona Airlie, Thistle and : the life and times of Sir James Stewart Lockhart (HK: HKUP, 2010), iv-viii (series information: Echoes: Classics of Hong Kong Culture and History).

As Chair of the Centre of East Asian Law, SOAS (CEAL), she organised a successful two day workshop on the theme of Law and , with funding from University and Notre Dame University in London. Professor Teemu Ruskola (Emory Law School), a specialist in Chinese law delivered the keynote paper. Papers from the workshop will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Law. CEAL hosted five young judges from China to enable them to pursue their LLM studies at SOAS Law School during 2010-2011. From 1st January 2011, Carol Tan became Chair of the SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies (CSEAS). Planned events include an ASEAN-China Economics Workshop in the autumn of 2011.

12 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON George Lane inside the Phoenix Mosque of Hangzhou compound standing in front of the tombstone outhouse with the mosque’s Imam

George LANE Senior Teaching Fellow Department of History

In November 2010 George Lane attended a conference in Hangzhou on Hangzhou during the Yuan dynasty organised by the University of Zheijiang. George attended with Alexander (Sandy) Morton and his PhD student Florence Hodous. His talk focused on the 20 Persian tombstones that have been uncovered in the Jujiang cemetery. Sandy Morton spoke about poetry contained in the texts of the tombstones and Florence spoke about Hangzhou and Mongol law. A book is now being compiled under the editorship of Professor Wu Zhijian. In March/April 2011 George returned to Hangzhou with a £500 grant from the SOAS History Dept and met up with the Institute of Archaeology and Culture and with the local branch of the Communist Party and where he and Sandy signed a contract for a book on the Phoenix Mosque of Hangzhou with translations of the 20 tombstones. The book will be the first detailed study of the mosque since the 1920s the first detailed translation of the tombstones and the first study of the mosque in English.

Shane MCCAUSLAND Senior Lecturer in the History of Chinese Art Department of the History of Art and Archaeology

This academic year Shane McCausland gave lectures at Harvard and Oxford Universities on Yuan painting and visual culture and published a 421-page monograph entitled Zhao Mengfu: Calligraphy and Painting for Khubilai’s China (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011). He was a contributor to the British Museum/BBC Radio 4 series, A History of the World in 100 Objects (Number 39, ‘The Admonitions Scroll’), which has since been published as a book. Shane has had three essays in refereed books accepted for publication on subjects including the workshop practice of the late Ming artist Chen Hongshou, the Yongle dadian and the contemporary artist Xu Bing’s Book from the Sky, and narrative painting in early modern East Asia. Shane is also currently co-editing a volume of papers on narrative arts in later imperial China given at a colloquium held at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, in conjunction with the 2010 exhibition he curated, Telling Images of China: Narrative and Figure Paintings, 15th- 20th Century, from the Museum.

At the start of the year Shane was made Senior Lecturer in the History of Chinese Art.

13 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON ANNOUNCEMENTS

Seminar Series A Celebration and Recognition Achievement of SOAS students in Chinese Bridge Competitions 11 October 2010 Ms Lynne Joiner (author, Honorable Survivor: Mao’s China, McCarthy’s America, On the evening of 19th April 2011, and the Persecution of John S. Service) the Tenth Chinese Bridge (UK area) The Honorable Survivor - Timely Competition was held at Friends House Lessons & Continuing Controversy Euston, London. Twenty-six contestants from thirteen universities in the UK attended the initial competitions and 18 October 2010 nine contestants entered the finals. Professor Fulong Wu (Cardiff) Two contestants from SOAS both Urban development under the China’s entered the finals. Through extremely world factory regime and the tough competitions SOAS student James challenges of post-crisis transition Bilbow, the 4th year BA in Chinese and Business management was awarded second place tied to another contestant. In the end the panel announced that 25 October 2010 Dr King Kwun Tsao James Bilbow would go to China for His Excellency Chinese ambassador Mr Xiaoming Liu international competition together with (Chinese University of Hong Kong) the first place winner. Local Chinese Administartive Reform

From left: Alec Odahara (3rd year BA in Chinese), John Stainer 1 November 2010 (4th year BA in Chinese), Stewart Dr Mary Mazzilli (SOAS) Johnson (4th year BA in Chinese and Law) and the Ninth Chinese Transcultural feminine modernism: Bridge Champion James Bilbow Ling Shuhua’s écriture féminine (4th year BA in Chinese and Business management)

15 November 2010 Professor T H Barrett (SOAS) Too Much Monkey Business? East and Among the VIP guests who West beyond the Bibulous Chin-Chin attended the event, there were His Excellency Chinese ambassador Mr Xiaoming Liu 22 November 2010 and his wife, Director of the Mr John Gittings (SOAS) Joint International Unit The perception of peace and war for Education, Employment in ancient China and Greece The other contestant from SOAS Alec and Social affairs Ms Susannah Simon Odahara, 3rd year BA in Chinese, and Vice Chancellor of University of achieved the third place tied to two , Chair of the AQ other contestants. A English Committee Professor Michael 29 November 2010 Hoey. Dr Carlos Oya (SOAS) Not only the two contestants from SOAS Can China help increase policy space impressed the audience at this event, Last but not least, it is worth to for African governments? the Ninth Chinese Bridge Champion mention that since the establishment Stewart Johnson from SOAS was invited of Chinese Bridge competition (Hany to deliver a speech at the stage. His Qiao), SOAS has always had one 6 December 2010 choice of words, sense of humour contestant achieved one of the top Dr Chun Lin (LSE) and his Chinese talk show once again two places to go to China representing Arguments for democracy in China demonstrated his excellent Chinese UK universities for the international language skills. SOAS student John competition. This “second to none” Stainer, 4th year BA in Chinese was achievement demonstrates that SOAS 13 December 2010 selected by the organizing committe as Chinese department is THE place to Dr Shane McCausland (SOAS) one of the presenters of the show. His aim high in learning Primal vision: On the forms, shapes accurate pronunciation and intonation, thanks to a small but strongly dedicate and moments of early Yuan art his quick and witty response as well as Chinese language teaching team. his style of presentation also amazed the audience. Zhaoxia Pang (SOAS)

14 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON ACADEMIC EVENTS SEP 2010-AUG 2011

Events

17 January 2011 4 February 2011 Dr Andrew Fischer Research Training in the History of Performance (Institute of Social Studies) Chinese Art and Archaeology Self-accusation Keynes in Beijing Presented by Théatre du Co-hosted with SOAS Department of the Rêve Expérimental (Beijing) History of Art and Archaeology 24 January 2011 Dr Kent Deng (LSE) 21, 22, 23, 24 September 2010 Myth of Maoism: Poverty, Inequality and Workshop Early China Seminar Low-level Equilibrium Trap, 1949 – 1978 Specialists teaching during the training workshop included: Professor Liu Xiaogan Stan Abe (), Craig (Chinese University Hong Kong) Clunas (University of Oxford), Shane 31 January 2011 McCausland (SOAS), Lukas Nickel 21 February 2011 Professor John Wong (SOAS & UCL), Stacey Pierson (SOAS), Lecture () Jessica Rawson (Merton College & A Taoistic Sense of Social Political Reform in China? Reflections University of Oxford), Clarissa von Spee Responsibility on the Centenary of the 1911 Revolution (The British Museum), Jan Stuart (British Museum), Wang Tao (SOAS & UCL) and 22 February 2011 Zhang Hongxing (V&A Museum) Master Seminar 7 February 2011 on the Zhuangzi Dr Jianxiang Bi (UWE) 21 September 2010 Limited sovereignty: Chinese Lecture 23 February 2011 peacekeeping operations in Africa Order and Things: Art History and Lecture Chinese Sculpture Ziran or Nature: In the Laozi Stanley Abe (Duke University) and Contemporary Usage

21 February 2011 Dr Wenxuan Hou 4 November 2010 (University of Durham) Delegation Player and referee roles held jointly: 13-15 May 2011 Professors He Ping, Wang Changyun the effect of state ownership on China’s Co-hosted with the SOAS Centre of Gender and Zhang Chengsi regulatory enforcement against fraud Studies and York University, Canada (Renmin University) Conference Gender and Transcultural Production: Chinese Women’s Journals in their 28 February 2011 8-9 November 2010 Global Context, 1900-2000 Dr Lukas Nickel (SOAS) Cohosted with Renmin University Exotic silverware during the Han period of China (RUC) Conference in Beijing 13 May 2011 Financialisation, financial systems Lecture 7 March 2011 and economic development Ephemeral, Material, Instrumental: Dr Huan Zou (SOAS) Meditations on Women’s Magazines Conflict management in the Joint SOAS-RUC two-year research Jennifer Scanlon (Professor, Gender and entrepreneur-venture capital project, funded by the Ford Women’s Studies, Bowdoin College) relationship Foundation, on “China’s financial governance and economic internationalization”. 14 March 2011 9 June 2011 Six SOAS academics, together with Dr Jakob Klein (SOAS) another twenty international scholars, There is no such thing as Dian cuisine!’ Centre of Chinese Studies presented papers at the conference. Food and local identity in Annual Lecture twenty-first century China Is it Singular?--Rethinking the 10 November 2010 recent debates on China’s Model Co-hosted with the SOAS, Department of Music and Royal Holloway Professor WANG Hui Lecture (Tsinghua University) Asia on the World Stage, a talk by Peter Sellars Peter Sellars (UCLA and Resident Curator of the Telluride Film Festival)

15 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON CENTRE ACTIVITIES

5Th Medieval Tibeto-Burman Langauges Symposium and 16Th Himalayan Langauges Symposium 1-5 September 2010 SOAS, University of London

The 5th Medieval Tibeto-Burman On 2-5 September 2010, various papers were presented, dealing Languages Symposium and papers were presented at a joint with syntactic behavior, meaning the 16th Himalayan Languages sessions and parallel sessions and function of optional case Symposium were held at SOAS, at the 16th Himalayan languages markers in various languages Symposium particpants taking a break. Photo: Roger University of London on 1-5 symposium. The symposium, using from the viewpoints Blench September 2010. The efforts of featuring a keynote address of subject/object marking, convenor Dr Nathan Hill (Senior by Martine Mazaudon and a subject/topic markers, ergative/ Lector in Tibetan, Department workshop on optional case absolutive markers, nominative/ of the Languages & Cultures of marking, included presentations accusative markers, systematic/ China and Inner Asia) yielded focusing on languages or non-systematic patterns, tense/ a successful pair of event. The language communities of the aspect split and attention flow. participants of the symposia Greater Himalayan Region, In her concluding remarks, appreciated the warm hospitality representing contributions Gwendlyn Hyslop summarized and assistance provided by the from linguistic, anthropological, the factors conditioning ‘optional’ staff of the Centre of Chinese historical, and archaeological case markings. They are person; Studies, Centres & Programmes. perspectives. tense/aspect; volition, control, The two events attracted circa expectation, consequence or 60 participants, representing The title of Mazaudon’s keynote effect on the world; directed thirteen countries (Australia, address was “Dialectology activity, directed mental state, China, Finland, , Germany, and language change: path to creation and transformation; India, Japan, Malaysia, Poland, tone in Tamangish languages”. animacy, topicality, prominence; , Switzerland, United This presentation provided role of other arguments in

The academic organiser Nathan Hill (SOAS) Kingdom, and United States). an insightful overview of tone clause; proximity of NP to in Tamangish languages and predicate, semantic clause of demonstrated recent findings verbs; relationship to previous on various aspects of tone in subject, length of NP, and these languages using acoustic argument number. measurements. Mazaudon emphasized the following three The remaining parallel and joint points: the different dialects sessions included more than have each found their own way of thirty papers. Among these, dealing with the progressive shift there were five presentations from initial consonant voicing to on Bhutanese languages, (one breathy phonation and to pitch on Gongduk, one on Tshangla, contrast; breathy phonation, one on East Bodish in general, which appears as in intermediate and one on Mangde), seven stage between initial consonant on Tibetan or other Bodish voicing and phonologised pitch, languages, five on Nepalese can co-occur with high tone languages, three on Burmese only under some phonological languages, eight on languages conditions which are not met in India, one on language in by the Tamangish languages; Pakistan and one on a language and the theoretical status of in Malaysia. Symposium particpants listening intently “emergent tones”, the existence of a prolonged fluctuating Next year’s HLS will move The 5th Medieval Tibeto-Burman equilibrium between segmental from London to Kobe, a city Languages Symposium, held and suprasegmental cues to full of exotic atomosphere in on the first day, comprised six tone leads to the conclusion Japan. Kobe City University presentations on a variety of that “tone” may be defined by of Foreign Studies (organizer: languages including Tangut, multiple cues and not by pitch Tsuguhito Takeuchi) will host Lepcha, Yi, and Old Tibetan. alone. the 17th Himalayan Languages These presentations, mostly Symposium and it will be based on the philological On 3 September 2010, there held 6-9 September 2011. study of historical documents, was an all-day workshop on Information regarding HLS and treated varied phenomena optional case marking arranged upcoming symposium can be including lexical studies, by Shobhana Chelliah (University obtained at: syntax, phonology, religion, and of North Texas) and Gwendlyn www.himalayansymposium.org/ discourse. Hyslop (University of Oregon). Ten Fuminobu Nishida (Akita University) 16 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Research Training in the History of Chinese Art and Archaeology 21 to 24 September 2010 SOAS, University of London

In September 2010 the issues of working in the field of Department of the History of Art Chinese Art and Archaeology. and Archaeology and CCS held To achieve this, each scholar an intensive training event for introduced his or her current postgraduate students in the research and on-going projects field of Chinese art history and in a lecture, followed by a two- archaeology. Over four days, hour seminar in which both 10 specialists from universities students and teachers discussed and museums taught a group the approaches taken and of 15 selected PhD and MA questions raised. Topics included students from UK and overseas publication projects, exhibition institutions. planning and design, collection Handling session at the British Museum strategy, as well as research More than 30 students applied questions from ancient bronzes for seats in the programme to Buddhist art and modern which was taught by Stan Abe painting. Lectures and seminars (Duke Univesity), Craig Clunas were supplemented by visits to (University of Oxford), Shane the showrooms and a handling McCausland (SOAS), Lukas session at the British Museum. Nickel (SOAS and UCL), Stacey The event was designed by Lukas Pierson (SOAS), Jessica Rawson Nickel. (University of Oxford), Clarissa von Spee (The British Museum), As part of the programme, Stan Jan Stuart (The British Museum), Abe of Duke University gave a Wang Tao (SOAS and UCL), and public keynote lecture on “Order Zhang Hongxing (Victoria and and Things: Art History and Albert Museum). Chinese Sculpture”.

The event took a novel approach The workshop was part of the to MA and PhD teaching, aiming series Research Training in at providing students with Old Chinese convened by Dirk insight into current research Meyer (University of Oxford) and questions and professional funded by the Arts & Humanities

Workshop participants and speakers Department of the History of Art and Archaeology, SOAS Research Training in the History of Chinese Art & Archaeology Research Council (AHRC) and British Inter-University China

21 – 24 September 2010 Centre (BICC). School of Oriental & African Studies

The workshop is an intensive training event for graduate students. It aims at providing students insight into current research questions and The extremely positive reactions professional issues of working in the field of Chinese Art and Archaeology. by all participants indicated Specialists teaching during the training workshop will include Stan Abe (Duke University), Craig Clunas (University of Oxford), Shane McCausland (SOAS), Lukas Nickel (SOAS & UCL), that there is a strong need for Stacey Pierson (SOAS), Jessica Rawson (Merton College & University of Oxford), Clarissa von Spee (The British Museum), training and networking events Jan Stuart (The British Museum), Wang Tao (SOAS & UCL) and Zhang Hongxing (Victoria and Albert Museum). of this kind for future scholars. The workshop is organised by Lukas Nickel. It is part of the workshop series Research Training in Old Chinese, convened by One might envisage workshops Dirk Meyer (University of Oxford). Image copyright: Lukas Nickel Lukas copyright: Image For more information & how to apply, visit: which could – in addition to www.soas.ac.uk/chinesestudies/events/ Co-sponsored by International Centre of Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (ICCHA) of UCL and Peking University Design: RB, Centres & Programmes Office (REO), SOAS Office (REO), & Programmes Centres Design: RB, training and discussion – provide

School of Oriental & African Studies University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG students with the opportunity to

present their own research to a specialist audience.

Lukas Nickel (SOAS)

17 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Stan Abe (Duke University) and Lukas Nickel CENTRE ACTIVITIES

Asia on the World Stage, a talk by Peter Sellars 10 November 2010 SOAS, University of London

SOAS was delighted to host a lecture given by the renowned theater, opera, and festival director Peter Sellars in November 2010. A visionary artist, Sellars is known for groundbreaking interpretations of classic works and is considered to be one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the performing arts in America and abroad. Whether it is Mozart, Handel, Shakespeare, Sophocles, or the 16th-century Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu, Peter Sellars strikes a universal chord with audiences, engaging contemporary social and political issues.

Peter captivated the audience with his passionate and engaging delivery. True to form Peter was not to be bound by convention and opened the evening lecture hugging startled, but delighted, guests and alternated between sitting down and walking energetically around. He gave an intimate talk and finished the lecture by inviting the members of the audience to the Barbican the following evening.

Sellars has led several major arts festivals, including the 1990 and 1993 Los Angeles Festivals; the 2002 Adelaide Arts Festival in Australia; and the 2003 Venice Biennale International Festival of Theater in Italy. In 2006 he was Artistic Director of New Crowned Hope, a month-long festival in Vienna for which he invited international artists from diverse cultural backgrounds to create new work in the fields of music, theater, dance, film, the visual arts, and architecture for the city of Vienna’s Mozart Year celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth.

Peter Sellars deep in conversation with the academics prior to the lecture

From left: David Hughes (SOAS), Rossella Ferrari (SOAS), Peter Sellars, Avanthi Meduri, and Matthew Cohen (Royal Holloway)

Peter Sellers joining the audience during this lecture

Among the operas he has created are Nixon in China and A Flowering Tree (both with American composer John Adams) and The Peony Pavilion (with ).

Sellars is a professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA and Resident Curator of the Telluride Film Festival. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Erasmus Prize, the Sundance Institute Risk-Takers Award, and the Gish Prize, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The talk was co-sponsored by SOAS and the Asian Performing Arts Forum, a strategic partnership among the Centre for International Theatre and Performance Research at Royal Holloway, University of London; Roehampton Uni- versity’s Centre for Dance Research; and the East Asian Performance Research Group at the University of Reading.

Jane Savory (SOAS)

18 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Self-Accusation Performance by Théatre du Rêve Expérimental 3 February 2011 SOAS, University of London

On the 3rd of February 2011, in the Brunei ground and renovate China’s independent and occasionally controversial versions Gallery Lecture Theatre, the Centre of arts scene by testing new ways of making of a number of Western works including Chinese Studies hosted the UK premiere of theatre beyond conventional aesthetics and Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, Self-Accusation, a new production of Peter officially-sanctioned forms. Their productions Sarah Kane’s Crave, and Heiner Handke’s 1965 play presented by Théatre have ventured into physical theatre, Müller’s Hamletmaschine, alongside original du Rêve Expérimental (Xinchuan shiyan multimedia performance, cross-cultural productions such as The Peking OperaTION. jutuan), an emerging theatre company based adaptation, and new experiments with The company has toured several countries in Beijing. The company was founded in Chinese traditional theatre. Self-Accusation including the USA, Canada, and France. 2008 by Wang Chong, a young director and features a voiceover of Handke’s monologue, Self-Accusation marked their debut in the translator who studied theatre both in China which Wang re-recorded in English especially UK. The performance was received with and the United States and trained under for the London performance, and semi- enthusiasm by the SOAS community and established directors including the American improvised vocal and physical actions by provided audiences with a rare opportunity to Robert Wilson and Lin Zhaohua, a pioneer of Beijing opera performer Zhang Yunpeng. discover some recent trends in contemporary Chinese experimental theatre. Wang and his In addition to Self-Accusation, which Chinese theatre. collaborators belong to a new generation of premiered in Beijing in 2009, Théatre du theatremakers who are striving to break new Rêve Expérimental has created successful Rossella Ferrari (SOAS)

19 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON CENTRE ACTIVITIES

Gender and Transcultural Production: Chinese Women’s Journals in their Global Context, 1900-2000 13-15 May 2011 SOAS, University of London

From 13-15 May 2011, SOAS was University, Canada), Professor the venue for an international Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg), and conference on Chinese women’s Professor Michel Hockx (SOAS), journals. The Centre of Chinese the conference was the closing Studies sponsored the keynote event of a three-year research lecture and reception for the project dealing with the women’s event, which was further funded press in late imperial and by generous grants from the Republican China (1911-1949). American Council of Learned Societies, the Humboldt For this particular gathering, Foundation, the Heidelberg the scope of inquiry was University Cluster of Excellence extended to include also papers A snapshot of the conference “Asia and Europe in a Global on post-1949 women’s journals, Context,” while prominent scholars of and the women’s magazines in other Universities countries and cultures (India, China Japan, Anglo-American) acted as Committee discussants. The keynote lecture in London. was given by Professor Jennifer Scanlon from Bowdoin College, Co- a well-known expert on twentieth- organized century English-language by women’s magazines. Professor Joan Judge Keynote speaker Michel Hockx (York Jennifer Scanlon

Conference particpants

Centre of Chinese Studies Annual Lecture Is it Singular? - Rethinking the recent debates on China’s Model Professor WANG Hui (Tsinghua University) 9 June 2011 This year’s CCS Annual Lecture SOAS, University of London took place on 9 June 2011. It was delivered by Professor WANG Hui of Tsinghua University, Beijing. The lecture, entitled ‘Is it singular? – rethinking the recent debates on China’s model’, focused on topical issues of the ‘Chinese model’, development, and democracy.

Professor Wang’s speech was followed by questions and comments from the enthusiastic audience, who filled the lecture Not a spare seat in the house theatre. From left: Dic Lo and Wang Hui

The lecture was followed by a wine reception, which provided a good opportunity for SOAS scholars and external visitors to have conversations with Professor Wang. Dic Lo

20 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 21 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

Michael PALMER Professorial Research Professorial Research Associate Associates

Professor Renzo CAVALIERI Michael Palmer is a former Chair of the SOAS Centre of Chinese Studies LLB(UNIVERSITY OF MILAN) and Centre of East Asian Law, and is currently Professor of Law & 1 August 2009 - 31 August 2011 Associate Dean for Research and Global Development, and Director, Cheung Kong Centre for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, STU Law Professor Anthony DICKS School, in Shantou, China. He is also Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of London, BA LLB MA(CANTAB) and a Research Professor in both the CCS and the Law School here at SOAS, as well as at 27 October 2008 - 31 August 2012 the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Within China he is also Visiting Professor of Law at Renmin Daxue (People’s University, Beijing) and Xinan Zhengfa Daxue (Southwest Institute of Professor Stefan FEUCHTWANG Political Science and Law, Chongqing). PHD(LONDON) 8 June 1998 - 31 August 2012 Michael was appointed Dean of the Law School at Shantou University. Professor Palmer had been one of two Vice Deans of the newly established law school at Shantou University Professor Michael PALMER LLB(CANTAB) BSC(ECON) Publications MA LLD(LONDON) “Administrative Suits and Harmonious Settlements: A Twilight Issue in the Legal Development 1 August 2009 - 31 August 2011 of Contemporary China,” Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp.71-78, (in “Global Wrongs and Private Law Remedies and Procedures”, Special Issue of the JCL, 2010, Guest Research Associates Editor: Stathis Banakas)

Dr Xiangqun CHANG (with Chao Xi) “National Reports: The People’s Republic of China,” [Accessing Chinese Justice: PHD(CITY UNIVERSITY, UK) MA BA(CHINA) Reforming the Financial Burdens of Litigation in the People’s Republic of China] in Christo- 2 August 2007 - 31 August 2011 pher Hodges, Stefan Vogenauer & Magdalena Tulibacka (eds.)The Funding and Costs of Civil Litigation: A Comparative Perspective (Oxford and Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing, 2010, Mr Jonathan FENBY pp. 261-274 BA(OXON) 1 November 2004 - 31 August 2012 Public Lectures “A Perspective on Chinese Law: a lecture in honour of the work of Geoffrey MacCormack,” Mr John GITTINGS January 29th, 2011, The School of Law, University of . MA(OXON) 1 October 2002 - 31 August 2012 “National Protection of Human Rights: The Case of the PRC,” 3rd April, 2011, at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong Dr Ian SECKINGTON PHD MSC(SOAS) BA(LEEDS UNIVERSITY) “Alternative Dispute Resolution: The Development of the Ombudsman System,” 16th June, 2 August 2007 - 31 August 2011 2011, at the School of Law, Foreign Languages University Dr Frances WOOD PHD(UNIVERSITY OF LONDON) BA(PEKING UNIVERSITY) 2 August 2007 - 31 August 2011 Frances WOOD Research Associate Visiting Scholar Most of Frances Wood’s work in the last year has been on Dunhuang. Dr Xavier LIN To celebrate its successful conservation, Mark Barnard, the senior PHD(WARWICK) conservator who spent some 20 years in preparatory research before 1 February 2011 - 31 October 2011 embarking on 7 years work removing unsuitable backings on the thousand year old scroll and I wrote The Diamond Sutra: the story of the world’s earliest dated printed book (British Library Publications, 2010). A small edition in the British Library series ‘Treasures in Focus’, The Diamond Sutra, was published this year.

She has spent some time in Paris at the Musee Guimet looking at the archives of Paul Pelliot, examining his notes on Sir Aurel Stein’s Dunhuang manuscripts, and have been able to start identifying most of the 200 British Museum manuscripts from Dunhuang that spent the period 1911-1919 in Paris. Pelliot was supposed to be preparing a catalogue for the British Museum but his work at the College de France and the First World War put an end to the project.

Frances wrote a short piece on Shakespeare in China for Comment section following Wen Jiabao’s visit and she is currently working on a conference paper for the conference The First Emperor and his legacy to be held at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore.

22 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON The newly-conserved Diamond Sutra, British Library, courtesy of Frances Wood, The British Library Xiangqun CHANG Research Associate

During the academic year 2010-11 Xiangqun Chang completed her project ‘Chinese governance models in the transitional period’ in collaboration with Northeast University, funded by the Ministry of Education of China. She participated in a workshop in Japan on the BRIC migrant project and will conduct a questionnaire survey by using both email and online facilities in autumn.

Xiangqun gave talks about her book ‘Lishang-wanglai’ and social cultural perspective on ‘China model’ at LSE, UCL, Kings of the University of London, and the Universities of Nottingham, Warwick and Sheffield. Based on her fieldwork material she gave a presentation “Chinese migrants’ participation in making centres - cases of Yaohan Plaza, Oriental City and Pacific Plaza” in June at LSE. In September she will give a presentation based on analyses of Chinese migrants in the UK with lishang-wanglai model at a panel session of the 4th International Forum for Contemporary Chinese Studies (IFCCS4) at Nottingham. Xiangqun is coordinator of the IFCCS4. She is also co-organizer, with Professor Xiaowei Zang, University of Sheffield, of a panel ‘Network and relationship studies on China’.

Xiangqun has put considerable effort into developing the CCPN website, the only bilingual website centred on social scientific studies on China in the English speaking world, and migrating it to LSE’s new website system. She also helped launching an online journal Bijiao: China in comparative perspective book review (CCPBR). Currently, as one of the co-editors, Xiangqun is editing Professor Fei Xiatong’s conference proceedings (both Chinese and English editions), due to be published by the end of 2011.

Stephen FEUCHTWANG Professorial Research Associate

Stephan Feuchtwang completed his research programme on the transmission of grievous loss with a book: After the Event; the transmission of grievous loss in German, China and Taiwan. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books 2010 and polished some previously unpublished and some published papers for another book: The Anthropology of Religion, Charisma and Ghosts; Chinese lessons for adequate theory. Berlin: De Gruyter 2010. He taught the last of his five years on the MSc China in Comparative Perspective, which he had designed, handing over to a new Director of the Programme Dr Hans Steinmuller. It is still the only programme of its kind in the world.

As associate convenor with Dr Laura Bear, he helped organise the last two ESRC workshops on ‘Conflicts in time’, taking further our study of how different temporalities are combined and are materially marked off from each other.

He took part in a successful bid and launch, as coordinator of one of four research work packages, of the EU-funded 4-year study of trends in sustainable urbanisation in China.

In his project on the comparison of civilisations he published two articles: (with Mike Rowlands) ‘Re-evaluating the long term: civilisation and temporalities’ in Duncan Garrow and Thomas Yarrow (eds) Archaeology and Anthropology: understanding similarities, exploring differences. Oxford and Oakville: Oxbow Books 2010 pp 117-136; and ‘Exhibition and Awe; regimes of visibility in the exhibition of an emperor’ Journal of Material Culture 16 (1) 2011 pp 64-79

Jonathan FENBY Research Associate

Jonathan Fenby has been working on a new book on China to be published by Simon & Schuster in March, 2011. It follows his Penguin History of Modern China, much of which he researched in the SOAS library,. This is a portrait of contemporary China, - political, economic, social, regional, demographic, foreign relations etc. It is based in part on his work for the research service, Trusted Sources, where he is China Director but, again, the SOAS resource has proved most useful. During the year he has also written on China for various publications (Financial Times, Observer, Independent, London Review of Books, Times Higher Education Supplement, Literary Review, Asian Literary Review) and broadcast quite extensively on the BBC and other stations on Chinese matters as well as speaking at conference and literary festivals.

23 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON RESEARCH STUDENTS

Ruard ABSAROKA HSU Hsin-wen Esther Hor Ying LAU Musicking in the Digital Age in Shanghai An Archaeological Study of the from Sex and the City in post-70s Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS the Tomb of the King of Nanyue Kingdom and 80s Chinese female writers Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI; Antonio BARRENTO Dr Cosima BRUNO Tourist Culture in China, 1900-1945 HUANG Chia-ling Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU British-Qing Interaction in LEOU Chia-feng 19th-century Taiwan Democratisation and Financial Eddie BERTOZZI Supervisor: Lars LAAMANN Governance: The Politics of One Step Forward Into Reality: FinancialReform in Taiwan Redefining the Realist Style in HUANG Ching-yi Supervisor: Dr Dafydd Fell Contemporary Chinese Cinema John Sparks Ltd: Art dealer and Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI Chinese Art in Britain, 1900-1950 Shuk Man LEUNG Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao The Discursive Formation of Utopian Paul BEVAN Imagination in New Fiction, 1902-1911 Manhua and Illustrated Propaganda Zhongnan HUANG Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX in Wartime China, 1927-1945 Seasoned Equity offerings of Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX Chinese Listed Firms Cui LI Supervisor: Dr Hong BO Models of regional development Hon Man CHAN and labour absorption in China and Dadu Poets in Yin HWANG Supervisor: Dr Dic LO mid-Yuan China: A reappraisal of The Depiction of War and Rebellion the poetry of Yu Ji (1272-1348) in the Print and Visual Culture of Sau-Ping LIM Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO Late Qing China, 1884-1901 Nanyin activities in the Supervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND Jinjiang region of Fujian Jocelyn M. CHATTERTON Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS Protestant Missionary Experience during Yingquan JIANG the War in China, 1937-1945: Financial development and Hsiang-Chun Michael LIN The Case of Province” economic growth in China The Investment Behaviour of (completed in 2010) Supervisor: Dr Dic LO Chinese Listed Firms Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU Supervisor: Dr Hong BO JURGENS Valérie Isabelle CHENG The Karlbek Syndicate 1930-1935: LIN Yi-hsin National identiy among marriage Western Trade, Collecting, and Tradition, Transmission and Transformation: immigrants in Taiwan Scholarship on Chinese Archaeology Art Collecting and Gentry identity of the Pan Supervisor: Dr. Dafydd Fell Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao Family in Nineteenth-century Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao -Shih CHI Yin-Chen KANG Music, politics and identity in Taiwan The Formation of Taiwanese Man Yee LUM Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS Classical Theatre: 1900-1930 Poems on drama of the eighteenth century Supervisor: Dr Tian Yuan TAN Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO Aristotle DY Marginal Buddhists: Religion, Bodil KNUTS Yuanyuan MA Social Work, and Cultural Identity Flight or Fight: the Nation is Lost. Cultural Conservatism in Modern China: of the Chinese in the The influence of a vagrant life on the The Journal Xueheng Supervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO notion of “home” in the prose of Hong Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX (1911-1942) and Xiao Jun (1907-1988) Katherine FOSTER Supervisors: Dr Rossella FERRARI (2010/2011 Hector MACLENNAN Child of Sorrow: Children and Childhood only), Professor Michel HOCKX Reportage Literature of the Korean War in Late-Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI Wing Sze Kaby KUNG Feminism and Postfeminism in the How Wee NG Lifeng HAN Work of Hong Ying and Li Bihua “Shaving, not Decapitating”— Urban Festivals in Medieval China, 960-1279 Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX Censorship Practices of TV Drama Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU and Film in Contemporary China Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI

24 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON China in the SOAS Library Janine NICOL Daoxuan and the Shijia fangzhi: The Creation SOAS Library is one of the world’s most important academic libraries for the of a Buddhist Sacred Geography of China study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, which attracts scholars from all over Supervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO the world to conduct research. The Library houses over 1.2 million volumes at the SOAS campus at Russell Square in central London, together with Hardina OHLENDORF significant archival holdings, special collections and a growing network of The Construction of Taiwan Identity electronic resources. in the Global Field of Taiwan Studies Supervisor: Dr Julia Strauss • The China Studies section contains material on China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia and East Asia in general. Min-Yen ONG • The coverage of the collection is very wide and reflects the range of subjects Heritage or Heresy? Safeguarding taught in the School and the library’s national role.

Kunqu in China post 2001 • The collection consists of some 170,000 volumes of printed material Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS and many items in microform, some 5,000 periodical and newspaper titles, 1,100 Shuchi SHEN • pre-1949 local , and 600 congshu (collectanea) Art, Commerce and Chinese Identities: • A rich resources for modern and contemporary China studies and a solid Remapping the Beijing Art Circle (1911-1938) working basis for the study of pre-modern Chin Supervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND

Longdu SHI The strengths of the collection are Buddhism and the State in Medieval China: in vernacular languages, politics A Case Study of the Three Persecutions & government, foreign relations, of Buddhism, 446-845 anthropology and ethnic minorities, Supervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO business, finance & economics, law, modern Chinese literature, modern Fion Wai Ling SO Chinese language, military, overseas Competition and Co-operation in : Chinese, press & media, Hong Kong, Diederichsen, Jebsen & Company Shanghai, Tibetan, women’s studies from 1898 to 1914 and the . Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU The bulk of the collection is in Chinese with other materials in English, other Mei WU European languages, Mongolian, Tibetan, Manchu. Industrial policy and foreign direct investment in Guangdong province, China, 1978-2010 • China quarterly Supervisor: Dr Dic LO • Modern China • Social sciences in China Tsz Wing WU • Journal of contemporary China Humorous writings of the late Ming • China report scholar-official Wang Siren Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO • Issues and studies • China journal (previously: Australian journal of Zinan YAN Chinese affairs) The poetry of the Manchu prince Yunxi • Beijing review (1711-1758) • Far Eastern economic review Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO • China law and practice • Chinese literature Sherlon C. Y. YIP Relay translation of Ming-Qing erotic fiction Librarian Contact Information Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO, co-supervised with Wai Hing Tse Professor Theo HERMANS (UCL) Librarian, China & East Asia General Section SOAS Library Sun ZHUO SOAS, University of London The Chinese : 20th Thornhaugh Street and 21st century transformations London WC1H OXG Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS Tel: +44 020 7898 4176 E-mail: [email protected] www.soas.ac.uk/library/subjects/china/

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News from The China Quarterly

The China Quarterly editorial board, executive committee and editorial staff are sad to say goodbye to Dr Julia Strauss, after nine years of devoted service as editor of the journal. During her tenure The China Quarterly has gone from strength to strength.

The most recently published ISI citation rankings places The China Quarterly at number two position for its five-year impact factor. We are very proud of this success, which is reflected in the growing number of submissions to the journal. New technologies mean that the CQ is available in nearly 3,000 institutions worldwide, and is increasingly accessible to readers in China itself, thanks to university libraries purchasing electronic access to CUP journals online.

Over the last year, the CQ has published a wide array of original articles covering a number of topics, including “social insurance in China,” “Chinese educational funding,” “law and enforcement in China,” “Han supremacism on the Chinese internet,” and “Chen Shui-bian: on Taiwan’s independence.”

In December 2010, we published a special issue on “Gender in Flux: Agency and Its Limits in Contemporary China,” which also came out as a paperback volume in April 2011. Co-edited by Dr Strauss and Professor Harriet Evans, of the University of Westminster, it brought together some of the finest scholars writing on gender in China today.

Although her tenure has come to a formal end, Dr Strauss will guest edit a special issue on relations between China and Latin America. Similar to our China–Africa volume of 2010, this special issue is the outcome of a conference. This year’s conference, “From the Great Wall to the New World: China and Latin America in the 21st Century,” was co-organised and co-funded by The China Quarterly, UCLA and the University of Alberta, and took place in Los Angeles in April. A selection of papers will be published in our special issue and in paperback form in March 2012. Illustration: The Gender in Flux volume

We are delighted that the director of SOAS has appointed SOAS Professor Chris Bramall as editor of The China Quarterly from July 2011 for a three-year period.

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Research Office: External Grant Applications - 1 Sept 2010 - 31 July 2011

Laixiang Sun Mary Mazzilli Tian Yuan Tan DeFiMS Department of the Languages and Department of the Languages and Monetary Policy, exhange rate and Cultures of China and Inner Asia Cultures of China and Inner Asia the house price boom acorss the Research Trip to emerging Chinese Entertaining the Emperor: top 33 China cities: New empirical evidence Theatre Companies Elite Playwrights and Court Theatre Funding Body: British Academy Funding Body: UCCL in Eighteenth Century China Date submitted: 8 December 2010 Fundable Amount: £700 Funding Body: British Academy Fundable Amount: £5,506 Date submitted: 17 March 2011 Nathan HIll Fundable Amount: £7,310 Laurence Smith Department of the Languages and CeDEP Cultures of China and Inner Asia Jakob Klein Developing a catchment management Bon, Shangshung and Early Tibet Department of Anthropology and Sociology template to mitigate non-point Funding Body: British Academy Local’, ‘regional’ or ‘ethnic’? Negotiating iden- source pollution in China Date submitted: 15 March 2011 tities through ‘rubing’ (milk cake) Funding Body: DEFRA Fundable Amount: £4,400 in Kunming, Southwest China Date submitted: 15 November 2010 Funding Body: British Academy Fundable Amount: £48,465 Laixiang Sun Date submitted: 22 March 2011 DeFiMS Fundable Amount: £4,460 The Chinese Way of Economic Reform and Development and its Interaction with Globalization Funding Body: British Academy Date submitted: 15 March 2011 Fundable Amount: £7,000

The Research and Enterprise Office (REO) at SOAS works across the School to secure external funding and income, to support research excellence and to facilitate knowledge transfer.

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