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Centre of Chinese Studies A E NnuAL R VIEW Issue No 1 ~ 2009 / 2010 September 2009 - August 2010 SOAS The School of Oriental and African Studies STUDYING AT SOAS (SOAS) is a college of the University of London CSONTENT and the only Higher Education in The international environment and the UK specialising in the study of , cosmopolitan character of the School make 3 Letter from the Chair and the Near and . student life a challenging, rewarding and exciting experience. We welcome students 4 Centre Members SOAS is a remarkable institution. Uniquely from more than 100 countries, and more than 6 Members News combining language scholarship, disciplinary 35% of them are from outside the UK. 10 Announcements/ News expertise and regional focus, it has the largest concentration in of academic staff 11 Academic Event Listings 2009-10 concerned with Africa, Asia and the Middle 15 Honorary Appointments East. 18 Research Students On the one hand, this means that 19 Join the Centre SOAS remains a guardian of specialised knowledge in languages and periods and regions not available anywhere else in the UK. On the other hand, it means that SOAS scholars grapple with pressing issues - democracy, development, human rights, identity, legal systems, poverty, religion, - confronting two-thirds of humankind.

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

Dr Dic LO Chair, Centre of Chinese Studies

CCS ANNUAL REVIEW 2009-2010 3 CENTRE MEMBERS

Professor Robert F ASH Dr Dafydd FELL Dr Mark W H HSIAO Professor of Economics with reference to Senior Lecturer in Taiwanese Studies Lecturer in Financial Law China and Department of Financial and Department of Financial and Director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies Management Studies Management Studies Department of Economics [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Dr Rossella FERRARI Dr Andrea JANKU Professor Timothy H BARRETT Lecturer in Modern Senior Lecturer in the of China Professor of East Asian History and Language Department of History Department of the Study of Religions Department of the Languages and Cultures [email protected] [email protected] of China and Inner Asia [email protected] Dr Jakob KLEIN Dr Hong BO Lecturer in Social Senior Lecturer in Chinese Business Professor Bernhard FUEHRER Department of Anthropology and and Management Professor of [email protected] Department of Financial and Department of the Languages and Cultures Management Studies of China and Inner Asia Dr Yuka KOBAYASHI [email protected] [email protected] Lecturer in Chinese Politics Department of Politics and International Studies Dr Valentina BORETTI Ms Wan GAO [email protected] British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Senior Lector in Chinese Department of History Department of the Languages and Cultures Dr Lars LAAMANN [email protected] of China and Inner Asia Lecturer in the History of China [email protected] Department of History Dr Cosima BRUNO [email protected] Mellon Lecturer in Chinese Studies Dr Rachel HARRIS Department of the Languages and Cultures Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology Dr George LANE of China and Inner Asia Department of Music Teaching Fellow [email protected] [email protected] Department of History [email protected] Dr Wynn CHAO Dr Nathan HILL Lecturer in Linguistics Senior Lector in Tibetan Dr Kevin LATHAM Department of Linguistics Department of the Languages and Cultures Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology [email protected] of China and Inner Asia Department of Anthropology and Sociology [email protected] [email protected] Ms Yan CUI Senior Lector in Chinese Professor Michel HOCKX Dr Andrew H-B LO Department of the Languages and Cultures Professor of Chinese Senior Lecturer in Chinese of China and Inner Asia Department of the Languages and Cultures Department of the Languages and Cultures [email protected] of China and Inner Asia of China and Inner Asia [email protected] [email protected] Professor Frank DIKÖTTER Professor of Modern Chinese History Department of History [email protected]

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Dr Dic LO Dr Stacey PIERSON Dr Tian Senior Lecturer in Economics Lecturer in Chinese Ceramics Lecturer in Traditional Chinese Literature Chair, Centre of Chinese Studies Department of the History of Art and Culture Department of Economics and Archaeology Department of the Languages and Cultures [email protected] [email protected] of China and Inner Asia [email protected] Dr Mary MAZZILLI Ms Sue Swee Chin SMALL Teaching Assistant in Chinese Film Librarian (China and East Asia) Dr Damian TOBIN and Theatre Library and Information Services Lecturer in Chinese Business Department of the Languages and Cultures [email protected] and Management of China and Inner Asia Department of Financial and [email protected] Dr Lianyi SONG Management Studies Principal Teaching Fellow [email protected] Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND Department of the Languages and Cultures Senior Lecturer in the History of Chinese Art of China and Inner Asia Dr Tao WANG Department of the History of Art [email protected] Senior Lecturer in Chinese Archaeology and Archaeology Department of the History of Art [email protected] Dr Julia C STRAUSS and Archaeology Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics [email protected] Mr Lukas NICKEL Department of Politics and International Studies Lecturer in Chinese Archaeology [email protected] Dr Xinsheng (George) ZHANG Department of the History of Art Director, London Confucius Institute (LCI) and Archaeology Ms Lik SUEN Language Centre [email protected] Senior Lector in Chinese [email protected] Department of the Languages and Cultures Dr Ulrich PAGEL of China and Inner Asia Dr Sanzhu Reader in Language and Religion in Tibet [email protected] Senior Lecturer in Chinese Commercial Law and Middle Asia School of Law Department of the Study of Religions Professor Laixiang SUN [email protected] [email protected] Professor of Chinese Business and Management Dr Antonello PALUMBO Department of Financial and Lecturer in Chinese Religions Management Studies Department of the Study of Religions [email protected] [email protected] Dr Carol TAN Ms Zhaoxia PANG Senior Lecturer in Law Lector in Chinese Joint Chair, Centre of East Asian Law Department of the Languages and Cultures School of Law of China and Inner Asia [email protected] [email protected]

CCS ANNUAL REVIEW 2009-2010 5 MEMBERS NEWS

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

Cui Yan was awarded a PhD in Chinese Literature in December which is the biggest international organization of Chinese lan- 2009. Her PhD thesis is entitled “The Style of Lao She and Mod- guage teaching in the world. ern Chinese: a Study of his Literary Language in his Fictional Works”. PUBLICATIONS Elementary Chinese Listening (ECL) by Cui Yan was formally Cui Yan was invited to attend and present a paper at the Tenth published at the beginning of the 2009-2010 academic year International Conference, which took place in Shenyang Chi- as a LWW-CETL project. ECL is the first teaching material to be na on 19-20 August 2009. It was jointly organized by Hanban used in language lab. classes on the BA Chinese course since and The International for Teaching. modern Chinese language was taught in the 1920s. The digital The theme of this conference concentrated on the production audio and written materials can also be found online: www. of teaching Chinese as foreign language material. The topic of lww-cetl.ac.uk/elementarychinese. The characteristic of ECL her presentation related to the development of digital teach- is its flexibility, i.e. the learners can make progress based on ing material. each individual’s level and learning ability in one large or small class. The users can find suitable lessons and tasks easily ac- Cui Yan is also a member of the The International Society for cording to their specific needs. Chinese Language Teaching which holds a conference every The Styles of Modern Chinese Literary Language (textbook) two or three years. She regularly participates in knowledge edited by Cui Yan was published in October 2009 at SOAS. This transfer meetings, sharing teaching ideas with colleagues in textbook is the course book for Chinese 405, “The Styles of other universities of the world and exchange the latest infor- Modern Chinese Literary Language”, which is a new course in mation in order to make Chinese language teaching more the department of China and Inner Asia. successful.

In the academic year of 2009-2010 Yan was invited to attend the Tenth International Conference and presented paper at this conference, which took place in Shenyang China on 19th and 20th in August 2010. It was jointly organized by Hanban and The International Society for Chinese Language Teaching, Rossella Ferrari Lecturer in Modern Chinese Culture and Language Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

Rossella Ferrari spent the first term of the academic year Icosahedron, to attend the Architecture is Art Festival (AIAF 2009/10 on research leave at the , http://www.aiaf.hk/), a month-long series of performances, thanks to the generous support of the Journalism and Media concerts, exhibitions and talks exploring the links between ar- Studies Centre (http://jmsc.hku.hk/). chitecture, performance, and music. A report on the festival is forthcoming in TDR The Drama Review (MIT Press). On 3 December 2009 she gave a public talk orrganized by the JMSC with the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. On 13 January 2010 she delivered a lecture on “contemporary The title was: “Avant-garde, pop avant-garde, trans-avant- Chinese theatre” at the Department of Chinese Language and garde(s)? Cultures and Trajectories of the Avant-garde in the Literature of the University of Turin, Italy, and a public talk Chinese Performing Arts”. at the local Confucius Institute on 14 January entitled: “Ex- perimental theatre in China – from avant-garde to pop avant- While in Hong Kong she started working on a major research garde”. project on transnational artistic collaborations and avant- garde performance in Greater China and East Asia. She On July 17 she will present a paper at the XVIII Biennial Confer- visited libraries and archives of theatre companies and re- ence of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS) in search institutes and interviewed several theatre and arts Riga, Latvia. The title of the paper is “Of Borders, Bridges, and practitioners. She was invited by Mathias Woo, co-artistic di- Other Tropes of Travel; Zuni Icosahedron and the Journey to rector of Hong Kong's foremost avant-garde collective, Zuni the East project” (www.eacs-riga2010.lv/)

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Nathan Hill Senior Lector in Tibetan Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

Nathan Hill has given three invited talks this Spring. These are PUBLICATIONS listed below: Iwao, Kazushi and Hill, Nathan and Takeuchi, Tsuguhito (2009) Old Tibetan Inscriptions. Old Tibetan Documents Online Mon- April 9, , An argument against 'mirativity' as ograph Series, 2. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and a valid category of linguistic analysis: hdug in 'Lhasa' Tibetan. Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Stud- ies. April 19, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada. Refining the analysis of the correspondence of Written Burmese was to Written Tibetan o.

April 14, St. John's College Cambridge. The conference called "Decoding Giilgamesh." His paper was titled Black-headed: a near eastern Lehnübersetzung in China and Tibet. Michel Hockx Professor of Chinese Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

During the 2009/2010 academic year, Michel Hockx contin- 1966), for the Harvard workshop on "Manuscript Culture ued his involvement with the international research project in the Chinese Tradition" (http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb. "A New Approach to the Popular Press in China: Gender and do?keyword=k12612). Cultural Production, 1904-1937" (http://www.yorku.ca/ycar/ Joan_Judge.html), presenting a paper at the project work- PUBLICATIONS shop in Heidelberg in December 2009, as well as presenting, His publications during the year included Text, Performance, in March 2010, two papers co-authored with project member and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music (co-edited with Liying Sun (Heidelberg) at the SOAS Centre of Chinese Studies Maghiel van Crevel and Tian Yuan Tan, Leiden: Brill, 2009) as seminar and at the AAS Conference in Philadelphia. well as two contributions to Volume II of The Cambridge His- tory of Chinese Literature, edited by Kang-i Sun Chang and In June 2010, he presented a paper on the publishing his- Stephen Owen. At the end of the academic year, he ended his tory of the collected work of the poet Wu Xinghua (1921- term as Head of the China and Inner Asia Department, to be succeeded by Dr Andrew Lo. Andrew Lo Senior Lecturer in Chinese Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

Andrew Lo delivered a talk at the Fourth International Con- Paper delivered in Chinese entitled "Quan Tangshi zhong de ference on Lyrics and Song Lyrics of the Tang and Song Dy- weiqi yixiang wenhua" (The Imagery and Culture of Weiqi nasties, organized by the China Society of Rhymed Literature (Encirclement chess) in the Quan Tangshi (Complete Poems of and Institute of Technology, 9-12 November 2009, the )). Hangzhou. Qianlong Inscription workshop, 1-2 March 2010, British Mu- seum, on "The Qianlong emperor's poems on ".

CCS ANNUAL REVIEW 2009-2010 7 MEMBERS NEWS

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

In July 2009, Andrea Janku carried out fieldwork in Shanxi PUBLICATIONS funded by a British Academy/Sino-British Fellowship Trust “What Chinese Biographies of Moral Exemplars Tell Us about Small Research Grant: “Text, Image and the Material World: the Disaster Experiences (1600~1900).” In Stephanie Summermat- History of a Cultural Landscape”. Her other travels and publica- ter et al, eds. Nachhaltige Geschichte: Festschrift für Christian tions are listed below: Pfister. Zürich: Chronos, 2009, 129-48.

‘天灾乎，人祸乎’：《申报》和《大公报》所见的1928年 “Linfen fangzhi zhuanji zhong de zaihai tiyan 1600~1900” 至1930年西北大饥荒”, paper given at a Conference on Dis- (Translation of “What Chinese Biographies of Moral Exemplars asters in North China and Social Change) at Shanxi University, Tell Us about Disaster Experiences, 1600~1900”). Qingshi yan- Taiyuan, 10.-12.7.2009. jiu 2009.1: 1-9.

The Critique of Western Learning and the Quest for an East “‘Heaven-Sent Disasters’ in Late Imperial China: the Scope of Asian Identity: Okamoto Kansuke’s (1839-1904) Xixue tanyuan the State and Beyond.” In Christof Mauch and Christian Pfister, (1901), paper given at a Conference on “Encounters and Trans- eds. Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case Studies To- formations: Cultural Transmission and Knowledge Production ward a Global Environmental History. Lanham: Lexington in a Cross-literary and Historical Perspective 1859-1960,” Cam- Books, 2009, 233-264. bridge, 28.-30.9.2009. “Das Erdbeben von 1556 in Shaanxi.” In Gerrit J. Schenk, ed. Landscapes of Identity – Landscapes for Consumption: Fa- Katastrophen: Vom Untergang Pompejis bis zum Klimawan- mous Views in Linfen, Then and Now, paper given at a Work- del. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2009, 81-92. shop on “Climate Change in China and Ideas on Nature and the Environment in Chinese Cultural History” at the KWI (Kul- “The Uses of Genres in the Chinese Press from the Late Qing turwissenschaftliches Institut), Essen, 25.-26.6.2010 and the to the Early Republican Period.” In Cynthia Brokaw and Chris- XVIIIth Conference of the European Association of Chinese topher Reed, eds. From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Studies, 14.-18.7.2010, Riga. Publishing and Print Culture in Transition. Leiden: Brill, 2010. S tacey Pierson Lecturer in Chinese Ceramics Department of the History of Art and Archaeology

PUBLICATIONS This new design history draws on the V&A’s comprehensive Chinese Ceramics: A Design History collection to look at the production, consumption, aesthetics, V&A Publications, 2009 and transfer of Chinese ceramics

Stacey Pierson’s recent publication is a comprehensive design Stacey Pierson’s current research is focused on the history and history of Chinese ceramics which applies a new metholodol- influence of collectors groups and learned on the de- ogy to an established field. velopment of the discipline of art history in Britain and on the transcultural history of Ming porcelain.

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Julia Strauss Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics Department of Politics and International Studies

Julia delivered a keynote speech at the Patterns of Development and Globalization (Cambridge Uni- to inaugurate their Centre for Taiwan Studies. The topic was: versity Press, 2009). Across the Divide of 1949: Continuity and Change in Guomin- dang Policy towards the Countryside She convened The China Quarterly 50th year anniversary/ 200th issue celebration in December; this involved a symposi- Julia delivered a paper and served as as discussant on a dou- um that brought together all the previous editors of The China ble panel on China and Africa at the African Studies Associa- Quarterly and had an audience of around 60 tion meeting in New Orleans, November 2009 Julia attended AAS in Philadelphia in March 2010, serving as A book launch was organised, and convened by the SOAS discussant for a panel on representations of the peasantry Asia Africa Centre and The China Quarterly, for the book she co-edited with Martha Saavedra, China and Africa: Emerging PUBLICATIONS "Forestry Reform and the Transformation of State Capacity in fin de siecle China", Journal of 68:4, November T ian Yuan Tan Lecturer in Traditional Chinese Literature and Culture Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

Tian Yuan Tan had a stimulating sabbatical year during which PUBLICATIONS he spent several months in Asia to conclude a research project His publications in the past year include a co-edited volume (2008-2010) on “Lost Songs” of Kang Hai (1475-1541), sup- with Maghiel van Crevel (Leiden) and Michel Hockx (SOAS), ported by a grant from British Academy and Sino-British Fel- Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Mu- lowship Trust, and to begin work on a new project on Chinese sic: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema (Leiden: Brill, 2009), and a court theatre. number of articles: “Rethinking Li Kaixian’s Editorship of Re- vised Plays by Yuan Masters: A Comparison with His Banter In September 2009, he was visiting fellow at the National Uni- about Lyrics,” in Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese versity of Singapore where he gave a talk on “Court Theatre in Literature and Music, 139-152; “A Collation and Annotation of Ming and Qing Dynasties.” In October, he presented a paper Kang Hai’s Newly Discovered Song Collection Pandong yuefu on “Reflections on the Study of Court Theatre in Late Imperial houlu,” (Parts 1 & 2) (in Chinese) in Studies in Culture & Art China” at the International Conference on Court History Stud- (Wenhua yishu yanjiu), Volume 2, No.4 (2009): 117-134, and ies organized by the Palace Museum in . No. 5 (2009): 145-175.

He received a Visiting Fellow Research Grant to conduct re- Two other articles are in press: “The Transmission of Sanqu search for three months at the Center for Chinese Studies, Na- Songs, Writers’ Reputation, and Literati Network in the Mid tional Central Library in . At the same time, he was also Ming: Local and Translocal Considerations,” in Ming Qing visiting scholar at the National Taiwan University. While in Tai- Studies (2010), and “Emerging from Anonymity: The First Gen- wan, he delivered three lectures: “Multiple Approaches to the eration of Writers of Songs and Drama in Mid-Ming ,” Study of Court Theatre in Ming and Qing Dynasties,” present- T’oung Pao 96 (2010). His book, Songs of Contentment and ed at the Department of Chinese Literature, National Central Transgression: Discharged Officials and Literati Communities University; “Studies on Chinese Classical Drama in Britain and in Sixteenth-Century North China, will be published by Har- North America,” at the Department of Chinese Literature, Na- vard Asia Center in autumn 2010. tional Chung Cheng University; and “Qing Literati Playwrights and Court Theatre” at .

CCS ANNUAL REVIEW 2009-2010 9 ANNOUNCEMENTS / NEWS

SOAS Director & Principal’s visit to China December 2009

This academic session (2009/10) I visited Beijing, to- Dr Zhang and I also had a very useful visit to Beijing gether with Dr George Zhang, to attend the 4th Confu- Foreign Studies University, to discuss collaboration in cius Institute conference. This is a very big affair, involv- general, and the possibility of BFSU becoming our Con- ing all those Universities from around the world who fucius partner in particular. have Confucius Institutes, and it was even bigger than the 2nd such conference, which I attended a couple of This was a very productive meeting, and was followed years ago . up by a visit of the Vice-President of BFSU in February 2010. In our discussions on the issue of teaching less I gave a presentation to the conference on ‘Teaching commonly taught languages, I was most struck by the teachers of Chinese – the why and the how’, in which BFSU solution of simply teaching a different language I discussed the preparation of local Chinese teachers to different cohorts of students. Thus, as an example, and the development of Chinese teaching materials. all 16 students entering in 2008 would study Hausa, Naturally I drew a great deal on our experience here those starting in 2009 Swahili, those in 2010 Yoruba, at SOAS, and was pleased to be able to draw attention those in 2011 Somali and then back to Hausa again in to the fact that we had won the Queens Anniversary 2012. When I asked about student choice, I was told Prize for our specialised language teaching. Somewhat firmly that the students were very pleased to be based to my surprise (since I am no expert on the teaching in Beijing and happy to study the language that was al- of teachers) the presentation and the question and an- located to them! swer session went very well, a tribute to the quality of the briefing I had received from Dr Zhang. Paul Webley Director and Principal of SOAS June 2010

And the Winner is.....

In the UK preliminary competition for the enhance the understanding of Chinese cul- so far, a contestant from SOAS has been selection of two British students to rep- ture. Preliminary competitions are held each one of the two students selected to go to resent UK universities in the 9th Chinese year in over 50 countries around the world. China on behalf of UK universities for the Bridge competition (Hanyu Qiao) in China The winner and one of the runners up will international competition. this July, the two contestants from SOAS represent their country to China to attend the achieved brilliant results. Stewart Johnson, semi-finals and the finals. who is currently in his third year reading for a degree in Chinese and Law, won the first place; while Edward Marriott, a third year student of Modern and Classical Chinese came in third.

This competition took place at LSE’s Hong Kong Theatre on 13th March 2010. Dur- Chinese Ambassador Xiaoming Liu announced ing the four hours’ fierce contest, 20 con- the commencement of the ninth Chinese testants selected from 12 UK universities Bridge competition

demonstrated their excellent Chinese pro- The winner is Steward Johnson from SOAS! ficiency, presented their great knowledge This record truly reflects the standard of and understanding of Chinese culture and the Chinese courses offered at the De- entertained the audience with fantastic Since its establishment, Chinese Bridge com- partment of China and Inner Asia of SOAS talent-based performances. petition (Hanyu Qiao) has been recognized thanks to the excellent quality of teaching as providing a significant platform for the by a team of professional and dedicated His Excellency Chinese ambassador Mr world’s most competent university students teachers. Such an amazing result has, in- Xiaoming Liu attended the opening cer- to demonstrate their Chinese language profi- deed, established SOAS a unique place in emony. The annual Chinese Bridge com- ciency. Every competition has attracted wide which to achieve excellence in Chinese lan- petition, known as Hanyu Qiao, was initi- media coverage and public interest in China. guage studies. ated by the Chinese government in 2002, It is noteworthy that in each of the eight pre- Zhaoxia Pang aiming to promote Chinese language and vious preliminary competitions held in the UK Lector in Chinese June 2010

10 CCS ANNUAL REVIEW 2009-2010 ACADEMIC EVENTS SEPTEMBER 2009 - AUGUST 2010

Seminar Series 2010 AC GRAHAM MEMORIAL LECTURES AUTUMN TERM SPRING TERM Organised with Early China Seminar at the 13 October 2009 12 January 2010 Department of the Languages and Cultures of China Professor Terry McKinley (SOAS) Dr Le-yin Zhang (UCL) and Inner Asia and the London Confucius Institute China-US Relations and Correcting What Really are China’s lessons for Professor Robert H. Gassmann Global Imbalances Africa against poverty? (Professor Emeritus, University of Zurich)

20 October 2009 19 January 2010 23 February 2010 Professor Bernhard Fuehrer (SOAS) Dr Yukteshwar Kumar (University of Bath) Lecture Has Zhu Xi (1130-1200) read Kan’s Sino-Indian Interface: Retrospect The Deconstruction of ‘Virtue’ and (488-545) interpretations of the ? and Road ahead an Exercise in Scientific Morality

27 October 2009 26 January 2010 24 February 2010 Dr Gerda Wielander (University of Westminster) Dr Jan Chmelarcik (SOAS) Master Seminar Christian Love and the Between the Real, the Imaginary, and the The Structure of Argument in Mèngzǐ Harmonious Society Symbolic: Chinese Death Ritual from the 1a.7: Form and Content Perspective of Lacanian Psychoanalysis 3 November 2009 25 February 2010 Dr Julia Strauss (SOAS) 2 February 2010 Lecture Rethinking Land Reform in Jiangnan Dr Yuka Kobayashi (SOAS) Heart and Mind in Ancient China, or: and Taiwan, 1949-1953 China and the WTO – Case study on a Desirable Theory the Telecommunciations Sector 17 November 2009 Professor Guy Liu (Brunel University) 23 February 2010 Are we prepared to work for Chinese Dr Dic Lo (SOAS) socialist state-owned firms? – Chinese China and World Development Events overseas acquisitions beyond the Crisis 16 October 2009 Delegation 24 November 2009 2 March 2010 Organised with the British Academy and the Chinese Professor Rhys Jenkins (University of East Anglia) Dr Hong Bo (SOAS) Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), The Impact of China’s Global Economic Non-tradable Shares, Corporate Professor Ru Xin (Member of the Presidium of CASS Expansion on Latin America Governance and Firm Performance Academic Division) led the delegation and was in China accompanied by Professor Huang Changzhu 1 December 2009 (Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies Abroad) Professor Robert Ash (SOAS) 9 March 2010 and Professor Shen Jiaxuan (Director of the A Bumpy Road – China’s Pursuit of Michel Hockx (SOAS) and Liying Sun Institute of Li) Food Security since 1949 (Heidelberg) Women and Scandal in Early Modern 4 -5 January 2010 8 December 2009 Chinese Literature: The Journal Meiyu Symposium Wang Tao & Luca Zan (SOAS) (Eyebrow Talk, 1914-1916) The Lofty Realm of Literature and Fine Arts Chinese Heritage and - A Symposium and Film Showcase of Nobel International Standard 16 March 2010 Laureate Gao Xingjian - His Works and Dr Damian Tobin (SOAS) Thoughts The Hong Kong branch of the Bank of Gao Xingjian (2000 Nobel Laureate in Literature), EARLY CHINA SEMINARS China: the transition from Communist Mary Mazzilli (Sinologist), Yang Lian (Poet), Chen China’s merchant banker to state-owned Maiping (Writer), and Ma Jian (Novelist) Michel 4 November 2009 commercial bank Hockx (SOAS) and Tianqi Liao (Independent Chinese PEN Centre) Professor Zhang Xiaogang (Kinjo Gakuin University) Books in the Chinese Tradition (in 4 March 2010 Mandarin) Centre of Chinese Studies Annual Lecture China’s Globalisation Challenge 15 March 2010 Professor Peter Nolan () Dr Li Yun-chung(SOAS) The Rise of Poet-Monks during Middle 4 May 2010 Tang Lecture Organised with European Alternatives Course Convenor: China/Europe: Economic and Social Models Professor Bernhard Fuehrer Compared [email protected] Dr Loretta Napoleoni (Italian economist, author, journalist and political analyst) and Dr Dic Lo (SOAS)

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CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES tor of the Institute of Linguistics), Li Jingyuan DELEGATION (former Director of the Institute of Philoso- phy), Chen Zuwu (former Director of the In- 16 October 2009 stitute of History) Liu Yuejin (Deputy Director School of Oriental and African Studies of the Institute of Literature) Wang Jianlang (Deputy Director of the Institute of Modern In October the Centre of Chinense Studes History) and Ms Zhang Lihua (Director of the received the visit to SOAS of a delegation of European Division of CASS’ International Co- eight scholars from the Chinese Academy of operation Bureau). Social Sciences (CASS). The purpose of the delegation, hosted by the British Academy, CCS members in present to meet the delega- was to visit key Chinese studies institutions in tion were Dic Lo, Michel Hockx, Laixiang Sun, the UK and to discuss developments in aca- Andrew Lo, and Nathan Hill. demic exchange between the UK and China. After the meeting, the delegation, accompa- The delegation was led by Professor Ru Xin, nied by Dic Lo and Sue Small of SOAS library, member of the Presidium of CASS Academic had a tour of the library. It donated to the li- Division. He was accompanied by Professors brary some 40 books, which were recent ma- Huang Changzhu (Director of the Centre for jor publications of CASS. Chinese Studies Abroad), Shen Jiaxuan (Direc-

CHINA/EUROPE: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MODELS COMPARED Lcturee 4 May 2010 School of Oriental and African Studies

In collaboration with the international organisation TransEuropa Festival, the Centre of Chinese Studies held a public forum on China and Europe. This was part of a series of activities sponsored by TransEuropa Festival and simultaneously held in London, Paris, Bologna, and Cluj-Napoca. The theme of the Forum was on the comparison and interaction between China and Europe in the di- mensions of economic, social and cultural developments.

The forum started with the speech by Loretta Napoleoni, an Italian economist, and Dic Lo, on behalf of CCS. It was then followed by 75 minutes of open discussion and debate with active participation from the audience.

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REALMS OF THE SPIRIT IN SOAS Centre of Chinese Studies GAO XINGJIAN’S LITERATURE AND ART Realms of the Spirit in SOAS Centre of Chinese Studies SYMPOSIUM RealmsGao of Xingjian’s the Spirit in Gao Xingjian 4-5 January 2010 Gao Xingjian’sLiterature Literature and and Art Art His Works and Thoughts School of Oriental and African Studies A SymposiumA Symposiumand Film Showcase and Film ofShowcase a Nobel of Laureate a Nobel Laureate 4Programme January 2010 On 4 and 5 January 2010 the SOAS Centre 4 January 2010 4 January : 2pm - 8pm of Chinese Studies hosted a symposium to Chair: Michel Hockx (Professor of Chinese, SOAS) 2.005 Januarypm : Welcome3.30pm Speech - 8pm by Professor Paul Webley, celebrate Gao Xingjian’s 70th birthday, the Brunei Gallery SOAS Lecture Director Theatre & Principal 2.30Basement, pm Brunei Screening Gallery, of SOAS, After the Deluge, a short film 2000 Nobel Laureate in Literature. Thornhaugh Street, Russell by Square, Gao Xingjian London WC1H 0XG 2.50 pm Symposium begins 4.50 pm Speakers Coffee include: and Tea The symposium featured a lecture by the 5.10 pm Gao ScreeningXingjian of Silhouette/Shadow, a long film by Gao Xingjian author and the screening of three of his films. 7 – 8Sinologist pm Book Noël signing Dutrait by Gao Xingjian Poet Yang Lian Mr Gao Xingjian is both a writer and a painter 5 JanuarySinologist Mary2010 Mazzilli and the symposium focused on his works Writer Chen Maiping and thoughts, and his contribution to fiction, Chair: TianqiNovelist Liao (Director Ma Jian of Independent Chinese PEN Centre) 3.30 pm Gao Xingjian introduces his new work poetry, drama and theatrical art, Chinese ink- Ballade Nocturne Further Information Translator: Claire Conceison painting and film, as well as his theory of art Contact the Centres Reader: & Programmes Stephen Watts team onetc [email protected] pm Screeningor Tel: 020 of 7898 Snow 4892/3 in August, opera and literature. written and directed by Gao Xingjian http://www.soas.ac.uk/Gao-Xingjian706.30 – 8 pm Book signing by Gao Xingjian Organised by: Speakers included sinologist Mary Mazzilli, Centres & Programmes (SOAS) & Independent Chinese PEN Centre The 4th of January 2010, The Symposium will be held in Chinese and English is the 70th birthday of the poet Yang Lian who was awarded the Sponsor: Chinese Business Gazette & SOAS SOAS Centre of ChineseImage: La Studies: Fin du monde http://www.soas.ac.uk/chinesestudies/, 2006, 240 x 350 cm, Gao Xingjian Mr Gao Xingjian, Flaiano International Poetry Prize (Italy, Design: RB, Centres & Programmes, SOAS - 2009 Nobel Laureate in Literature Design: RB, Centres & Programmes, SOAS - 2009 1999), the writer and Vice-President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center Chen Maiping, and Novelist Ma Jian, the author of the critically acclaimed novel Beijing Coma. Gao Xingjian, born January 4, 1940, is a Chinese-born novelist, playwright, critic, The symposium was chaired by Michel and painter. An émigré to France since 1987, Hockx, Professor of Chinese, SOAS and by Gao was granted French citizenship in 1997. Tianqi Liao, Director of Independent Chinese The recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Lit- PEN Centre. erature, he is also a noted translator (particu- larly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.

Gao is known as a pioneer of absurdist drama in China, where Signal Alarm (《绝对信号》, 1982) and Bus Stop (《车站》, 1983) were produced during his term as resident play- wright at the Beijing People’s Art Theatre from 1981 to 1987. Influenced by European theatri- avant-garde writer. His other plays, The Primi- cal models, it gained him a reputation as an tive (1985) and The Other Shore (《彼岸》, 1986), all openly criticised the state govern- ment.

In 1986 Gao was misdiagnosed with lung cancer, and he began a 10-month trek along the , which resulted in his novel Soul Mountain (《灵山》). The part-memoir, part- novel, first published in Taiwan in 1989, mixes literary genres and shifting narrative voices. It has been specially cited by the Swedish Nobel committee as “one of those singular literary creations that seem impossible to compare with anything but themselves.” The book de- tails his travels from province to the coast, and life among Chinese minorities such as the Qiang, Miao, and Yi peoples on the Image: Michel Hockx and Gao Xingjian fringes of civilization. Image: La Fin du monde, 2006, 240 x 350 cm, Gao Xingjian

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Chin b a’s Glo alisation Challenge CENTRE OF CHINESE STUDIES ANNUAL LECTURE

4 March 2010 School of Oriental and African Studies

This year’s CCS Annual Lecture was delivered by Professor Peter Nolan of Cambridge University, on the topic ‘China’s globalisation challenge’.

The central question addressed in this lecture was: Can the Unit- ed States engage constructively with both China and the Islamic world to devise cooperative solutions to the inherent contradic- M anchu Religion and Society tions of wild capitalist globalisation, which threaten the very sur- vival of humanity? Research Colloquium 滿族歷代社會與宗教”研討會 Professor Nolan’s speech was followed by around 45 minutes of questions and comments from the enthusiastic audience. 15-17 February 2010 School of Oriental and African Studies The lecture proved to be hugely attractive and there wasn’t a spare seat in the house. During last term’s reading week a well attended conference took place, which had initially been planned as a small-scale meeting of minds focusing on Manchu history and customs.

The conference produced unexpected levels of interest, resulting in circa fifty applications, encompassing nearly the entire worldwide scholarly elite devoted to Manchu studies. In the end, thirty-five scholars could be included in the programme. There were four last minute cancellations, due to sickness and visa problems, but the organisers ensured that the papers were read out at the scheduled times. I was particularly proud that so many academics from China were able to attend, mainly from universities and archives in Manchuria (the PRC’s three north-eastern provinces), from Beijing and also from Taiwan.

To CCS members, the subject matter of our conference requires few explanations. Most papers focused on ritual and religious aspects Peter Nolan has researched, written and taught on a wide range of Manchu society during the pre-, early and mid-Qing periods (i.e. of issues in economic development, globalisation and the transi- c. 1600 - 1800), with the remainder exploring political and linguistic tion of former planned economies. He has researched on com- topics. Interestingly, a consensus emerged which showed clear parative development in China and India; on Chinese agriculture; parallels between state and society in mid-Qing China and in the system change in China and the former USSR; poverty, famine, People’s Republic today, based on criteria of official ideology, state inequality and migration; restructuring large global firms in the ep- control, economic development and social mobility. och of the Global Business Revolution; the transformation of large Chinese firms since the 1980s; and the evolution of China’s system The publication of an edited research volume based on these of political economy; the inter-action between Chinese and the contributions has already been agreed by Brill (Leiden). Given the global firms in the epoch of the Global Business Revolution; and fact that the Research Colloquium brought together well established the contradictory character of capitalist globalisation. experts and the “young generation” of Manchu research, this conference volume should be something of a milestone in the study of this important aspect of China’s recent history. The estimated publication date is May 2011. Another direct outcome are incipient negotiations for academic cooperation (MA programmes and facilitation of research visits) with universities in China and in .

At this point I ought to refer to the generous support from the Confucius Society, the Sino-British Fellowship Trust, as well as from the SOAS research fund. Without their grants, most of our Chinese participants would not have been in the position to attend. I should also mention that the British Academy refused to support the conference, with a strong hint that there was little to be gained for the British taxpayer. Obviously we will have to become wiser in the use of our argumentation for potential “impact”, when it comes to formulating research proposals. Academic excellence per seems no longer sufficient. In 2009 he was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Em- For further information, I would be happy to be contacted by e-mail pire) for ‘services to the integration of China into the global econ- [email protected] omy’ and received an honorary doctorate from Copenhagen Busi- LARS PETER LAAMANN Lecturer in the History of China ness School.

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PROFESSORIAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES RESEARCH ASSOCIATES VISITING SCHOLARS

Professor Renzo CAVALIERI Dr Xiangqun CHANG Dr Wenjun DU LLB(UNIVERSITY OF MILAN) PHD(CITY UNIVERSITY, UK) MA BA(CHINA) PHD MA(WUHAN ECONOMICAL INSTITUTE) Chinese contemporary law, Chinese Contemporary China Studies; Chinese BA(ZHONGNAN UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND LAW) foreign trade and investment law, East women and gender studies; personal, Asian legal history institutional and social relationships; The role of the public sector in China’s 1 August 2009 - 31 August 2011 reciprocity and social networks; social economic transformation [email protected] creativity; social support and welfare; local 4 December 2009 - 31 October 2010 identity and culture; village autonomy; [email protected] Professor Anthony DICKS rural development; global civil society; BA LLB MA (CANTAB) fieldwork methodology; . Dr Xiaoyong QC Laws of the People’s Republic of China; 2 August 2007 - 31 August 2011 traditional Chinese law, international law; PHD(GRADUATE SCHOOL OF CHINESE ACADEMY [email protected] OF SOCIAL SCIENCES) BA(BEIJING UNIVERSITY) commercial law; legal history; laws of Central University for Nationalities Hong Kong Mr Jonathan FENBY Chinese archaeology of the periods from 27 October 2008 - 31 August 2012 BA(OXON) the 3rd century BC to 10th century AD, th History of modern China: end of the 19 focused upon Xinyiang area. Central Professor Stefan FEUCHTWANG century up to the present day Asian archaeology and Eurasian cultural PHD(LONDON) 1 November 2004 - 31 August 2012 Ritual and religion in China; transmission exchange studies of the Great Leap famine; making place 15 October 2009 - 15 October 2010 Mr John GITTINGS [email protected] and the urbanisation of villages MA(OXON) 8 June 1998 - 31 August 2012 Comparative study of the perception of [email protected] peace and war in ancient China and Greece 1 October 2002 - 31 August 2012 Professor Michael PALMER [email protected] LLB(CANTAB) BSC(ECON) MA LLD(LONDON) Dispute resolution and civil procedure; Dr Ian SECKINGTON Chinese law (traditional and modern); PHD MSC(SOAS) BA(LEEDS UNIVERSITY) conflict of laws; comparative family law 2 August 2007 - 31 August 2011 1 August 2009 - 31 August 2011 [email protected] [email protected] Dr Frances WOOD PHD(UNIVERSITY OF LONDON) BA() Dunhuang studies, Chinese export paintings, Chinese domestic architecture, Chinese history, Chinese bibliography 2 August 2007 - 31 August 2011 [email protected]

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Renzo Cavalieri Xiangqun Chang John Gittings

During the academic year 2009-10 Renzo During the academic year 2009-10 Xi- As an Associate Editor of the Oxford In- Cavalieri has done research mainly on angqun Chang completed a DIUS funded ternational Encyclopedia of Peace, John Chinese civil law and the social and po- project “Chinese entrepreneur relation- Gittings was very pleased to see this litical implications of legal reforms in Chi- ships and global economics”, and started huge enterprise reach its final stage with na. He has lectured in several European a new project “a Comparative study on publication in March 2010. With Profes- universities and hosted numerous semi- the New Immigrants from BRIC counties sor Nigel Young as chief editor, over 2,000 nars and conferences in the University in America, Australia, Japan and the UK”, pages, more than 800 entries, some 400 of Venice Ca' Foscari, including, in May funded by the Japan Society for the Pro- contributors, and an international team 2010, a major international workshop on motion of Science (2009-12). She is Co-PI of editors, it is the largest encyclopedia "The Uses of Legal Culture" co-organized in this collaboration with Kwansei Gakuin ever published on the subject of peace, with the Journal of Comparative Law. University, Japan. She will give a talk on and the first ever to appear under the Together with Ivan Franceschini, he has “Comparative perspective and methodo- Oxford University Press imprint. His own recently edited a book on Chinese con- logical implications of a Chinese model contribution consisted of four entries temporary society entitled "Germogli di of reciprocity (lishang-wanglai)” on 6th - on protest movements in China, on societa' civile in Cina" (Sprouts of a Civil August in the International Interdiscipli- resistance to China in Tibet, on nuclear Society in China), Milan, Francesco Brio- nary Colloquium: New Immigrants from threats to world peace since the second schi Editore, 2010. the BRIC Countries, Anglo-Chinese Man- world war, and on images of peace in art agers in the UK & Entrepreneurial Capaci- from ancient times to today. Through the ty in the UK and Chinese High-Tech Firms. good offices of the Tibet Office in the UK,

Renzo Cavalieri è professore di Diritto Franceschini I. Cavalieri R. Agli occhi del lettore italiano la Cina può dell’Asia Orientale nell’Università di Venezia a cura di apparire un paese monolitico e autoritario, Ca’ Foscari e avvocato in Milano. Nuovi spazi dove la tutela dei diritti individuali they also invited His Holiness the Dalai È altresì docente di Diritto Cinese Renzo Cavalieri non è garantita, né esistono forme plurali nella Pontificia Università Lateranense, di espressione e strumenti di partecipazione professorial research associate di partecipazione dei cittadini alla vita pubblica. della School of Oriental and African Studies e Ivan Franceschini Questo libro propone uno sguardo più Xiangqun published a book Guanxi or Lama to write the Foreword to the Ency- dell’Università di Londra e Accademico complesso e profondo sulla Cina Fondatore della Classe di Studi Asiatici e pluralismo dei nostri giorni, forte di una serie di analisi dell’Accademia Ambrosiana. Germogli che spaziano dall’ambito politico-giuridico Impegnato da oltre vent’anni nella al panorama dei media, al mondo Li shang wanglai ? --- Reciprocity, Social clopedia. ricerca, nell’insegnamento e nella pratica del lavoro. In particolare indaga lo sbocciare professionale del diritto cinese, nella Cina di oggi di società civile di germogli di società civile come l’ascesa e in particolare di quello civile del “popolo della rete”, la cui influenza e commerciale, ha pubblicato tra l’altro Cina in civile società di Germogli è sempre più sensibile, la presenza Support Networks, & Social Creativity in a i volumi Il virus della legalità (1996), Scritti di: in Cina di un dibattito politico sulla democrazia, La legge e il rito (1999) e Cina: commercio il rafforzamento delle istituzioni giuridiche internazionale e investimenti esteri (2004). Renzo Cavalieri, Ivan Franceschini e della coscienza dei diritti dei cittadini, Simona Grano, Emma Lupano, l’organizzazione dal basso del lavoro. Chinese Village in three versions (English, John’s own book on The Perception of Ivan Franceschini è dottorando di ricerca Finalmente un testo nuovo per capire in lingue orientali presso l’Università Marina Miranda, Gianluigi , la Cina, che, come scritto con chiarezza di Venezia. Dal 2006 vive e lavora Silvia Pozzi, Guido Samarani, da Alessandra Lavagnino nella prefazione, in Cina, dove si occupa principalmente “è un paese diverso da quello patinato simplified Chinese and complicated Chi- Peace is getting closer to completion: It di problematiche legate al mondo Flora Sapio, Luigi Tomba, Valeria Zanier e trionfante, spregiudicato e anche temibile del lavoro. Recentemente ha pubblicato che ci arriva attraverso le nuove, sofisticate per Cafoscarina il volume Cronache dalle modalità della comunicazione ufficiale, fornaci cinesi. È uno dei fondatori del blog ma è un paese che in qualche modo nese), and another book Study of Fei Xia- includes an extended comparison of at- www.cineresie.info. sentiamo, finalmente, più vicino, e che proprio grazie a queste pagine conosciamo un po’ meglio”. otong’s theories and restudies on Kaixi- titudes towards peace in ancient China angong Village (in English and Chinese and ancient Greece. versions), will be published in October

francesco brioschi 2010. This is to commemorate the 100th He has also written an obituary of Yang euro 19,00 editore anniversary of the birth of Professor Fei Xianyi, the great translator (with his wife Xiaotong. Gladys who died in 1999) of Chinese lit- erature (The Guardian, 23 Nov 2009). She is organising an International confer- Sadly, he also had to write an obituary ence: Understanding China and engag- (The Guardian, 25 Aug 2009) for David ing Chinese --- Commemorate the 100th Hawkes, professor of Chinese at Oxford. Anniversary of Professor Fei Xiaotong’s Birth, on the 5th December, at LSE. For those still interested in the , he wrote a review essay on a Dr Xiangqun Change is also a Coordina- significant new study of the tor of China in Comparative Perspective in Beijing by Andrew Walder. The review Network (CCPN), LSE. appears on the China Beat blog, (31 Mar 2010).

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Stephan Feuchtwang Michael Palmer Frances Wood

Stephen Feuchtwang has spent the year Michael Palmer is a former Chair of the Frances Wood published The Lure of Chi- finishing old research projects and pre- SOAS Centre of Chinese Studies and na: writers from Marco Polo to J.G.Ballard, paring for a new one. For publication by Centre of East Asian Law, and is currently Joint Publishing, Hong Kong and Yale Uni- Berghahn Books he finished writing After Professor of Law & Associate Dean for versity Press, 2009 and (with Mark Barnard) the Event, a study of the transmission Research and Global Development, and The Diamond Sutra, British Library Publica- over three generations of gross events of Director, Cheung Kong Centre for Ne- tions, July 2010 and an article ‘Kangxi and state violence, including the Great Leap gotiation and Dispute Resolution, STU death’ in Reign of the Kangxi Emperor: con- famine in China (1959-61) and the larg- Law School, in Shantou, China. He is also ference proceedings, Asian Civilisations est (1952) incident of the White Terror in Emeritus Professor of Law at the Univer- Museum, Singapore, 2009 (2010). Taiwan. sity of London, and a Research Professor in both the CCS and the Law School here For last six months she has been spending He also finished for publication later this at SOAS, as well as at the Institute of Ad- a great deal of time sorting out some 40 year by De Gruyter, Berlin, Gods, Ghosts vanced Legal Studies. Within China he is years of Hong Kong copyright material be- and Charisma – based on my own and also Visiting Professor of Law at Renmin fore it is sent away for storage in the north. others’ studies of ritual and religion in Daxue (People’s University, Beijing) and The British Library received the complete China. Together with a young Chinese Xinan Zhengfa Daxue (Southwest Insti- range of Hong Kong publications until colleague, Luo Pan, John has written a tute of Political Science and Law, Chong- 1997 and it was never possible to separate- paper on town-planning and how it is qing). ly catalogue everything so runs of, for ex- seen from below, including a fengshui ample, TV listings, magazines for pet-lovers perspective, in the city of Quanzhou. This His publications are mainly in the field of and vast quantities of manga comics have should be part of a much larger project comparative law, and cover a wide range not been properly sorted, until now. It is a on urbanisation in China, if they get of areas including legal history, family surprisingly interesting task, watching the funding. He has also reached near-final law reform, human rights, environmental growth in various subjects and changes in drafts of chapters on Chinese civilisation welfare, civil justice and dispute resolu- taste in Hong Kong through publications as examples of a revived concept of civi- tion, consumer protection and criminal spanning decades. lisation, for an eventual book co-written law. He is joint editor of the Journal of with Michael Rowlands and inspired by Comparative Law, and a barrister practis- Wang Mingming, another long-standing ing at Serle Court Chambers in Lincoln’s comrade in research and writing. A long Inn, London. He has in the past served as interview with Wang Mingming on this special advisor to the Attorney-General and related topics will be published in of Hong Kong (on legal aspects of civil Anthropological Quarterly soon. relations between Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland), and been responsi- ble for a number of important interna- tional training programmes for Chinese legal professionals including the Lord Chancellor’s Training Schemes for Young Chinese Lawyers and for Young Chinese Judges, and the EU-China Legal and Judi- cial Co-operation Programme.

He is currently conducting research into the role of mediation in administrative litigation in the PRC. He was recently made a VP at Xiamen University Law School.

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Ruard ABSAROKA Zhongnan HUANG Hector MACLENNAN Musicking in the Digital Age in Shanghai Seasoned Equity offerings of Chinese Reportage Literature of the Korean War Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS Listed Firms Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX Supervisor: Dr Hong BO Antonio BARRENTO Janine NICOL Tourist Culture in China, 1900-1945 Yin HWANG Daoxuan and the Shijia fangzhi: The Creation Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU The Depiction of War and Rebellion in the of a Buddhist Sacred Geography of China Print and Visual Culture of Late Qing China, Supervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO Paul BEVAN 1884-1901 Manhua and Illustrated Propaganda Supervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND Min-Yen ONG in Wartime China, 1927-1945 Heritage or Heresy? Safeguarding Kunqu Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX Yin-Chen KANG in China post‐2001 The Transmission of a Classical Quanzhou Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS Hon Man CHAN Theatre in Taiwan: A Study of Qiziban from the and Dadu Poets in mid-Yuan China: Late 17th to the Early 20th Century (draft title) Shuchi SHEN A reappraisal of the poetry of Yu Ji Supervisor: Dr Tian Yuan TAN Art, Commerce and Chinese Identities: (1272-1348) Remapping the Beijing Art Circle (1911-1938) Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO Paul KENDALL Supervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND Ethnicity and Class through music-making Jocelyn M. CHATTERTON in small town China Fion Wai Ling SO Protestant Missionary Experience during the Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS Competition and Co-operation in : War in China, 1937-1945: The Case of Diederichsen, Jebsen & Company from Province” (completed in 2010) Wing Sze Kaby KUNG 1898 to 1914 Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU Feminism and Postfeminism in the Work Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU of Hong Ying and Li Bihua -Shih CHI Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX Will SUMITS Music, politics and identity in Taiwan Historical documents in Central Asian music Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS Shuk Man LEUNG Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS The Discursive Formation of Utopian Jaroslaw DURAJ Imagination in New Fiction, 1902-1911 Tsz Wing WU Chinese Buddhism in Modernity and Beyond: Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX Humorous writings of the late Ming scholar- A Case Study of Master Shengyan official Wang Siren (1930-2009) Sau-Ping LIM Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO Supervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO Nanyin activities in the Jinjiang region of Fujian Zinan YAN Aristotle DY Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS The poetry of the Manchu prince Yunxi Marginal Buddhists: Religion, Social Work, (1711-1758) and Cultural Identity of the Chinese in the Hsiang-Chun Michael LIN Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO The Investment Behaviour of Chinese Listed Supervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO Firms Sherlon C. Y. YIP Supervisor: Dr Hong BO Relay translation of Ming-Qing erotic fiction Yu-sun FONG Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO, co-supervised with The Doctrines of Buddhism in Han China, Man Yee LUM Professor Theo HERMANS (UCL) With a Focus on the Daoxing jing (T.224) Poems on drama of the eighteenth century Supervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO Sun ZHOU The Chinese : 20th and Lifeng HAN Yuanyuan MA 21st century transformations Urban Festivals in Medieval China, 960-1279 Cultural Conservatism in Modern China: The Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU Journal Xueheng Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX

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