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EACS Newsletter No. 43, November, 2009

EACS Adresses and Newsletter ...... 2 Announcement of the 2010 EACS Conference ... 3 Call for nominations for EACS President ...... 6 Call for nominations for Board Members ...... 6 Young Scholar Award – 2010 ...... 7 EACS Summer School, Braga, ...... 8 Note from the Treasurer ...... 9 New publications ...... 10 EACS membership payment form ...... 11

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ANNOUNCEMENT of the visiting the EACS in Riga you will 2010 EACS CONFERENCE have a chance to meet some of the Riga, July 14th – July 18th 2010 pioneers anchoring its first pillars.

Organizing committee: Frank The venue Kraushaar (Riga/Tallinn), Agita Balt- The conference will be held in the galve (Riga), Ieva Haas (Riga/ main building of the University of Tallinn), Kaspars Eihmanis (Riga/ Latvia, Raina bulvaris 19, LV 1586. Taipei), Loreta Poskaite (Vilnius), Vytis Silius (Vilnius), Jekatarina Riga, the capital of Latvia, is the Koort (Tallinn) largest city in the Baltics. Academic institutions of Chinese Studies are new “Culture is a Crowded Bridge” in the whole area. During the past almost two decades, small depart- Anyone who enters the Baltics ments and research centres were through Riga has to cross several founded in Riga, Tallinn, Tartu (both bridges, real and methaphorical ones: Estonia), Vilnius and Kaunas (both traveling from the airport to the city Lithuania). In the meantime, many of centre, you can’t avoid one or two. the first pioneering generations of English will become your pontoon sinologists who graduated with a once you cross the whirling word- traditional M.A. in the 1990ies have waters of Riga’s multilingual life: returned as PhDs from universities in Latvian, Russian, Belorussian, Ukra- , , Taiwan or the US, and nian and – at least visible on historical during the past 4 years Chinese Stud- facades – German. The key for the ies underwent a progressive devel- 18th EACS conference was found in opment. the image of the bridge as a man-made intersection that attracts, bundles and Interdisciplinary problems, especially releases a diversity of destinations. the cooperation with Japanology and Approaching a bridge one often other East Asian Studies and the ap- becomes attracted by its uniqueness. plication of contemporary theory to No bridge can be doubled because link the traditional fields of cultural each is the only connection between studies with more recent methods of two spots on the shores of transient investigation play a key role. time. Each is constructed, some are destroyed by men, some are over- Thanks to a close cooperation with thrown by urgent floods, and others institutions in Taiwan, Mainland remain bizarre spots in wastelands China and Europe, the research in- once forgotten by most travelers. frastructure increases step by step and Chinese culture, in the most com- international conferences and work- prehensive sense of the word, holds a shops regularly take place each year manifold abundance of such often and are thematically coordinated by a quite unsimilar bridges. One of them network of all Baltic centres (“Baltic is currently built in the Baltics and Alliance of Asian Studies”).

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The absence of any local academic I. Contemporary Economy & tradition in our field is compensated Society by an astonishing popularity of our J. Law B.A, M.A. and Ph.D programmes. In K. Anthropology & Sociology Riga alone an average of 70 students L. Gender enroll in the B.A. programme each M. Environment & Ecology year, the numbers in the larger centres N. Performing Arts & Media in Tallinn and Vilnius being only in- O. Teaching Chinese as a Foreign significantly lower. Language P. Translation & Interpretation The 18th EACS conference will be Q. Other hosted by a team of sinologists from Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn, supported Please, identify your proposal when by enthusiastic students from all the submitting it via the conference web- three Baltic countries. Interested par- site (www.eacs-riga2010.lv) as be- ticipants will not only enjoy the longing to one of the above mentioned charme of Europe’s north-eastern art seventeen sections. Proposals not nouveau metropole. They will also identified by their authors will be find many opportunities to meet with distributed to one section by the their colleagues from Latvia, Li- organizing committee and delegated to thuania and Estonia, to learn more the referees in charge. In case the about how is established in a proposal will be accepted by the new environment and, at the best, to organizers the author(s) will be in- give their support in the future to one formed and the decision concerning or another activity within this process. the belonging to the section can not be revised. Call for papers Scholars of Chinese Studies from The following referees have been Europe and beyond are invited to sub- nominated by the EACS Board: mit proposals for individual lectures or for panels or to attend the conference Joel BELLASSEN (Paris) as listeners. The EACS board decided Wolfgang BEHR (Zürich) to subsume the thematic variety ac- Jerome BOURGON (Paris) cording to the following sections: Hugo de BURGH (London) Marco CERESA (Venice) A. Linguistics & Languages Maghiel van CREVEL (Leiden) B. Religion & Philosophy Delia DAVIN (Leeds) C. Art & Archaeology Glen DUDBRIDGE (Oxford) D. Premodern Literature Kaspars EIHMANIS (Riga) E. Modern Literature Hans van ESS (Munich) F. Premodern History Joachim GENTZ (Edinburgh) G. Modern History Vincent GOOSSAERT (Paris) H. Politics & International Andreas GUDER (Berlin) Relations Ann HEIRMAN (Ghent)

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Andrea JANKU (London) d) June 1- July 1: registration for the Yang JIANG (Copenhagen) welcome reception and the banquet Uta LAUER (Stockholm) (July 17), Song Hwee LIM (Exeter) Astrid LIPINSKY (Vienna) e) July 14 – 18: conference in the Olga LOMOVA (Prague) main building of the University of Kevin MCLOUGHLIN (Edinburgh) Latvia, Raina bulvaris 19, Riga Cecilia MILWERTZ (Copenhagen) Andrey OSTROVSKIY (Moscow) Thierry PAIRAULT (Paris) Conference fees Yuri PINES (Jerusalem) Knut B. PISSLER (Hamburg) The organizers and the EACS Board Vladimir PORTYAKOV (Moscow) agreed on the following fees: Harro von SENGER (Neuchatel) Nicola SPAKOWSKI (Bremen) - EACS members: 60 € James ST. ANDRE (Manchester) - EACS student members: 30 € Isabelle THIREAU (Paris) - Non-members: 120 € Eduard B. VERMEER (Oegstgeest) Kai VOGELSANG (Hamburg) Fees must be transferred in EURO on Anne WEDELL-WEDELLSBORG the organizers bank-account. All (Aarhus) necessary information will be avail- Boping YUAN (Cambridge) able on the conference website Ekaterina ZAVIDOVSKAYA (www.eacs-riga2010.lv). (Moscow) And Others Our conference website will provide you with all basic informations to prepare your travelling to and accom- Deadlines modation in Riga. It will be regularly updated regarding prices of the recom- Please note the following deadlines mended hotels, special offers and and dates: planned events of cultural or touristic interest in the evenings and im- a) February 1: deadline for submission mediately after the official end of the of abstract and panel proposals, conference. b) March 15: notification about the acceptance of paper proposals and panels, c) June 1: deadline for registration for participants without presentations, as well as the last day you can cancel your registration with refunding of the registration fee (refund is not possible if you cancel after June 1), 5

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR EACS PRESIDENT Candidates should be nominated in writing by two EACS members. Dear Members, Nominations, including a brief bio- graphical profile, should reach the In 2010, our current President, Brun- EACS Secretary two months in ad- hild Staiger, will have served her vance of the Riga conference (14-18 statutory time in office. We are tre- July 2010). The new President will be mendously grateful for Brunhild’s elected at the General Assembly in work on behalf of our Association and Riga. very much hope that she will continue to be involved with EACS after the The Board is pleased to announce Riga conference. In Riga, we will Roger Greatrex as candidate for the need to elect a new president. All office of President. EACS members are invited to stand as candidate or nominate a candidate for All nominations should reach the this office. The EACS President is Secretary by 15 May 2010. (re-)elected for a term of two years at the EACS conference. For further information, please contact Brunhild Staiger (staiger@giga- The President is expected to represent hamburg.de) or the EACS Secretary EACS in academic circles and the ([email protected]) public sphere. She or he convenes the Board meetings, chairs and reports to Roel Sterckx the General Assembly at our biannual conference, and oversees the Associa- tion’s relationship with funding bodies and other scholarly organisations. To- gether with the Secretary General, the CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Treasurer, and Newsletter Editor, the FOR BOARD MEMBERS President oversees the EACS budget and the general activities of the As- Dear Members, sociation. We would like to invite nominations The Board expects candidates for this for elections to the EACS Board dur- office to be senior scholars (full or as- ing the Riga conference. To ensure sociate professor or comparable rank) diversity and representation from who are active in a European Centre across Europe on the Board, we hope for Chinese Studies and have experi- that members will be encouraged to ence in academic and institutional stand. We anticipate 5 vacancies on leadership. Candidates should have the Board. Nominations can be sent to shown interest in the Association’s the Secretary at any time prior to elec- activities and be committed to pro- tion at the Riga conference. moting its mission.

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For further information, please contact lished, however, candidates may also Brunhild Staiger (staiger@giga- submit papers which are under review hamburg.de) or the EACS Secretary for publication in a scholarly journal ([email protected]) at the time of the 2010 EACS con- ference. Each applicant may submit Roel Sterckx only one paper of a maximum of 8000 to 8500 words (approximately 50,000 characters), with a one-page abstract. The copy should include the author's YOUNG SCHOLAR AWARD 2010 full name, institution, and address.

The EACS board is happy to an- The EACS jury will nominate 3 can- nounce again the EACS Young Schol- didates. Nominees will be given sub- ar Award (YSA). The purpose of this sidies (travel cost, per diem expenses award is to encourage research on and registration fee) to attend the Chinese Studies among young schol- EACS conference in Riga where their ars, especially those studying and papers will be presented during a working at European institutions. The special session. The winner of the Young Scholar Award has been made YSA will be announced during the possible through the generous support conference and honoured with the by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation award of a certificate. It is expected for International Scholarly Exchange. that candidates submitting papers It has so far been awarded at the for the Young Scholar Award are or biennial conferences in Heidelberg, will be registered as EACS members and Lund. The next YSA by the time of the biennial EACS will be announced at the XVIIIth conference. biennial conference in Riga, in August 2010. The deadline for submission of both abstracts and papers is 15 January, Eligibility: 2010. Proof of age and rank should be provided at the time of submission. Candidates for the YSA should be 35 Please send papers and abstracts by e- years of age or below AND their rank mail AND in hard-copy to the EACS of academic employment should be Secretary Dr Roel Sterckx, Depart- below that of Associate Professor or ment of East Asian Studies, University Senior Lecturer or the equivalent of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, ranks in other systems. The members Cambridge CB3 9DA, United King- of the jury welcome papers of high dom, [email protected]. scholarly promise engaging primary sources, secondary scholarship, and Applicants who encounter difficulties innovative research methodologies in mailing the copy of their work relevant to the field. Papers should be should contact the Secretary of EACS. written in English; only single- authored papers will be accepted. Brunhild Staiger Papers should preferably be unpub- 7

sidered it as “an unforgettable ex- perience”. EACS SUMMER SCHOOL BRAGA, PORTUGAL This Summer School was co-financed by the Confucius Institute of the Cross-cultural translation University of Minho and the EACS. It was the second EACS Summer School Between the 7th and 12th of September organized by Sun Lam and her 2009, 24 students and three professors colleagues from this Portuguese uni- gathered in Braga, Portugal, for 6 days versity. of lectures and workshops on trans- lation. Young people from the UK, Sun Lam Belgium, the Netherlands, Russia, Romania, Italy, Germany, Finland and Portugal enjoyed an unusual ex- perience in working with Chinese and all European languages in this Sum- mer School.

Three teachers, Valerie Pellat from the University of Newcastle, UK, Roman Shapiro from Moscow State University, Russia, and Wang Hong- yin from Nankai University, China, gave a broad introduction of trans- lation traditions and methodologies, with sessions of translation practices. In one of the workshops, students were encouraged to create their own poems in groups, and after changing poems among them, each student tried to translate these poems into his/her own mother tongue. It was a real multilingual atmosphere, where students and teachers exchanged in- teractively their knowledge and sensibilities for translation practices. The organizers, Sun Lam, Luis Cabral, and Bruna Peixoto of the Confucius Institute of the University of Minho, provided excellent conditions for this Summer School. All the participants were satisfied with the 6 days’ Summer School in Portugal, and con-

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EACS Treasurer’s Report, 1 September NOTE FROM THE TREASURER 2009 Autumn 2009 (based on giro account statement of 31 July 09 and current state of custody EACS finances are in good shape, the account) database works in a stable manner and did not cause any significant expenses I) Custody account, as of 1 Septem- any longer. The fact that the database ber 2009 has become a well established means The total of the custody account amounted to of communication within our society € 39,754.68 on 8 July 2008 and has during the past year increased by € 993.37 to a total of € and that more and more members have 40,748.05 on 1 September 2009. chosen to receive only the electronic Composition of custody account, 2 September 2009: version of the newsletter has led to de- total € 40,748.05 creased costs on this count. Newsletter A: Allianz Pimco Euro Rentenfonds K 519.22 x €40.30 = € 20,924.57 production and shipping costs are still B: Allianz Stiftungsfonds Balanced A covered by the last payment of € 5,000 106.003 x €93.71 = € 9,933.54 C: Allianz Pimco Geldmarktfonds Spezial A to the editors in January 2007. 192.075 x €51.49 = € 9,889.94 Major expenses in the previous year A–C disposable at any time. are the € 6,000 support of the summer II) Giro account, as of 31 July 2009 school in Braga as well as the over € EXPENDITURES 4,000 contribution to the conference in 6,000.00 support for 2009 summer school in Braga Lund, followed by the hotel costs for 4,230.00 for 42,925.00 SEK contribution to our guests of honour during this con- Lund conference ference, as well as the € 1,000 of re- 1,369.37 1,3245 SEK Hotel G. Malmqvist & K. Schipper muneration paid to the SOAS web- 1,000.00 to Duncan Franklin for webiste master for updating our website in the management 2008–09 305.74 ipayment fees two years of 2008–09. 172.74 Bank fees 106.14 FedEx balance to auditors: 98.92 + receipt books: 7.22 On the income side we have € 6,500 87.08 toner cartridge for laser printer of membership payments and the (one-time purchase for entire tenure of 6 yrs) substantial contribution of € 2,100 by = 13,271.07 Total expenditures the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. INCOME 3,545.00 membership fees (bank transfer) 1,560.00 membership fees (cash at confer- ence in Lund) 1,268.27 membership fees (Visa) 136.35 membership fees (AmEx) 2,100.50 payment from CCK Foundation = 8,610.12 Total income

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BALANCE GIRO ACCOUNT allows you to arrange the data exactly 9,881.71 balance (on giro account as you wish to have them displayed. 31 May 2008) You have also access to all non- + 8,610.12 total income sensitive data of other EACS mem- - 13,271.07 total expenditures bers, except for those who have = 5,220.76 new balance 31 July 2009 chosen not to disclose their data. So you can find contact information or EACS assets as of 1 September 2009 just check who works in a particular field. Member data are not freely giro account €5,241.68 accessible on the internet, they are password protected and only acces- custody account € 40,748.05 sible to registered EACS members. To log in to the database, go to the total € 45,989.73 “Membership” section of the EACS database and there click on

“Database”, or else use the URL MEMBERSHIP “http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/ According to the database, the EACS eacsdb/” directly. To view data of has at present 454 members, i.e. those other members, click on “Personal members who have paid their fees un- Data” on the upper left of the website. til at least 2006 (192 of which have Members can change the automatical- paid until at least 2009, 99 until 2008, ly generated password by clicking 66 until 2007 and 97 until 2006). “Change Password” and then follow- There are another 374 names regis- ing the instructions. You can also tered, some of them newly registered choose a login name you find easy to members who have not yet paid fees, remember. For this you click on “edit” but most of them old members who in your database entry, change the have ceased to pay fees before 2006 login name or any other information and are thus no longer considered ac- you wish to change. Remember to tive members. The total of present and click “submit” afterward to save the former members still registered in the changed information. database is 828.

DATABASE Again, I would like to encourage all NEW PUBLICATIONS EACS members to exploit the poten- - Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Gilles tials of our database. Of course, you Guiheux (Eds.), Social Movements in need to register your data in order to China and Hong Kong. The Expansion do so. In case of a change of address of Protest Space. Amsterdam. or of any other information that you Amsterdam University Press, 2009. have registered in the database, you 316 pages. ISBN: 978-90-8964-131-1. can easily make these changes your- 44,50 Euro self. This is more sensible than send- ing the new data to me. The database

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EACS OFFICERS

President Vice-President Secretary Brunhild Staiger* Roger Greatrex Roel Sterckx*

Treasurer Newsletter Editor Webmaster Matthias Richter* Bart Dessein Luca Pisano

*Member EACS Executive Committee

EACS BOARD MEMBERS

Dušan ANDRŠ. Charles University, Prague, Anna BUSQUETS. Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Bart DESSEIN. Ghent University, Gent, Belgium Halvor EIFRING. Oslo University, Oslo, Norway. Denise GIMPEL. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Svetlana GORBUNOVA. Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Moscow, Russia Roger Greatrex, Lund University, Lund, Sweden Gilles GUIHEUX, Université Paris 7, Diderot, Paris, France Barend ter HAAR. Sinological Institute, Leiden, The Netherlands Alison HARDIE, Leeds University, Leeds, England Thomas KAMPEN. Institut für Sinologie, Heidelberg, Germany Maria KHAYUTINA, Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität, Munich, Germany Frank KRAUSHAAR. University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia Barbara LEONESI. Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy Tiziana LIPPIELLO. Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy Carmen MENDES, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Dominik MIERZEJEWSKI, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland Matthias RICHTER. University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Mitja SAJE, , Ljubljana, Roman SHAPIRO, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia Brunhild STAIGER. GIGA-Institute of Asian Studies, Hamburg, Germany. Roel STERCKX. Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. Yuha VUORI, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

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