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EALCS Newsletter – Issue 1 (Spring 2008) EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA EE AST May 1–3, 2008 EEE McCune Conference SIAN EWS Room AA SIANNNN HSSB, 6th Floor AAA NN 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 Modernism Revisited: SPRING 2008 The Taiwan Modernist Literary Movement From the Chair 2 in Historical Perspective Mission Statement 2 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE New Ph.D. Program 3 In the late 1950s and early 1960s, also served as a forum for young stu- Departing Faculty 3 as Chinese literature in the Main- dent editors to publish their own fic- Graduate Students 4 land was relegated to Maoist doc- tion and critical essays. Those stu- New Hires 6 trines and socialist realist models, a dents, including Kenneth Hsien- remarkable literary revolution was yung Pai, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Chen Visiting Academics 6 under way in Nationalist Taiwan. At Ruoxi, Wang Wenxing, and Ouyang Awards 7 the gates of Taiwan University a Zi, would later dominate the Chi- East Asia Center 8 group of literature students work- nese literary scene as leading writers Masculinities in Japan 9 ing under the renowned critic, C. and critics for the next half century. Faculty Research 9 T. Hsia, began a landmark journal, On May 1–3, 2008 UCSB will Recent Publications 10 Modern Literature, which would go host an international conference Center for Taiwan Studies 11 on to have a profound impact on the that will bring together several origi- Taiwan—and later Chinese—liter- nal members of the Taiwan Modern- A Trip to Jinhua 12 ary scene. The journal not only in- ist Literary Movement as well as a Language Program 14 troduced the work and theories of selection of leading scholars and Alumni Affairs 14 literary modernism from the West well-known writers to reflect on the Student Travels 15 through translations of important legacy of the movement from both Profiles 15 writers such as Joyce and Kafka, but personal and critical perspectives. Through a series of public panels c. 1980 and discussions, this conference will offer a comprehensive overview of the movement’s development and evo- lution and trace the far-reaching im- pact it has had not only in Taiwan and Hong Kong, but also in main- land China since the 1980s, when these modernist writers’ works were first published there. The circula- tion of these writings from Taiwan had a profound impact upon the new brand of literary modernism that has since flourished in main- Howard Goldblatt, Dominic Cheung, King Hu, C. T. Hsia, Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Wai-lim Yip, and Ho Tong land China. 2007 AVE THE SDATE A Welcome from the Chair— May 1–3, 2008 Greetings from the ever-so-fair climes of Santa Barbara. As chair, I am 8:30 a.m.–5:45 p.m. delighted to be writing for our first newsletter. Much has happened Conference: since the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Modernism Revisited came into existence 16 years ago. In fact, much has changed in just the Corwin Pavilion past three years, not the least of which has been the acceptance of our UCSB first class of Ph.D. students. There have been losses. Allan Grapard Organizers: Michael Berry, retired in spring 2006, bringing to three the number of retirements in Ronald Egan, David Wang a few short years. At the same time, we have been engaged in the http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/ complex process of rebuilding our faculty, andPlease we were check extremely for- projects/Modernism/ tunate to find and hire two outstandinghttp://www young.eastasian.ucsb.edu/ scholars. Ann-Elise Lewallen, a scholar of modern Japan cultural studies,for details received her Ph.D. May 9–11, 2008 in anthropology in 2006 from the University of Michigan. Focusing The Aesthetics of Imperialism: on the Ainu sub-culture of northern Japan, she will bring a generally Matters of Time and Place understudied and new area of analysis (ethnic diversity, marginalization UCSB processes, interactions between humans and the environment), help- Primary Organizer: Miriam Wattles ing us to firmly situate Japan within the larger world—a step that History of Art and Architecture needs to be made more forcefully. Xiaorong Li, a pre-modern Chinese literature scholar, received her M.A. in Chinese linguistics and Ph.D. in Chinese literature from McGill University in 2006, having received a B.A. in Chinese literature from Peking University. Her research is on women’s poetry in late imperial China. Trained in traditional approaches to texts and literary history in the Literature Department at Peking University, the finest literature department in China, Li comes with a depth of knowledge of pre-modern texts and a philological expertise that will prove invaluable to all our students. The department has also been involved in a number of major events and conferences these past two years. The west coast performances of the Peony Pavilion, produced by our emeritus colleague, Kenneth Hsien- yung Pai was the highlight of fall 2006. The 80-member Suzhou Kunju MISSION STATEMENT opera troupe spent over a week in Santa Barbara, making themselves The Department of East Asian available to our students and opening rehearsals to our classes. The Languages and Cultural Studies is twenty hours of opera, sung entirely in Chinese, spanned three con- committed to providing students secutive sold-out nights at the Lobero Theater. This was followed in with the opportunity to under- March 2007 with the appearance of Yo-yo Ma’s Silk Road ensemble stand the many facets of East on campus and at the Arlington Theater. Again, the department worked Asian culture, including (but not limited to) language, history, closely with Arts and Lectures in offering a general class on the art, society, politics, economics, and music, religion, and cultures of Asia, Sights and Sounds of the Silk art. In a world of increasing Road, featuring numerous guest lecturers from across campus, around international cooperation and the country, and abroad. The quarter culminated with an intimate in- globalization, students will be class appearance of the ensemble. The Center for Taiwan Studies, ran prepared to face a society in which Asia is now a significant factor in its fourth international conference, focusing on Taiwan in Global Per- the foreign relations of the United spectives. The Center’s ten years of publishing a journal on Taiwan States, and the rest of the world. studies, its regular hosting of Taiwan writers and scholars, and its orga- nizing of conferences continues to affirm UCSB’s prominence in the area of Taiwan studies. We also held an international conference on 2 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & CULTURAL STUDIES UCSB EAST ASIAN Graduate Program Specializations LANGUAGES & CULTURAL OND Modern East Asian cultural studies STUDIES New Ph.D. Program Cinema and performing arts FACULTY Taiwan literature and cultural studies MICHAEL BERRY AREWELLS— Religious history and geography RONALD EGAN F Buddhist studies SABINE FRÜHSTUCK in East Asian Launched Translation studies ALLAN GRAPARD Chinese language pedagogy and linguistics JOHN NATHAN Professor Allan Grapard retired from Literati culture HYUNG IL PAI WILLIAM POWELL Early modern Japanese cultural studies EALCS March 2007 after twenty-two KATHERINE SALTZMAN-LI A new Ph.D. program in EALCS was KUO-CH’ING TU Languages Offered MAYFAIR YANG years at UCSB. Grapard, holder of the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan HSIAO-JUNG SHARON YU officially initiated fall 2007, expanding Application deadline AFFILIATED FACULTY for financial assistance: LAURIE FREEMAN International Shinto Foundation Chair December 15, 2006 TSUYOSHI HASEGAWA upon our long-time M.A. degree. The new YUNTE HUANG LUKE ROBERTS in Shinto Studies, is a specialist in Japa- Final application deadline: PETER STURMAN April 1, 2007 MIRIAM WATTLES Ph.D., open to students in Chinese or nese religions, history, and culture. In M.A. and Japanese studies, is an interdisciplinary numerous publications, including The program with an emphasis on the cultural Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the New Ph.D. Kasuga Cult in Japanese History (Uni- UC studies and the humanistic traditions of Program versity of California Press, 1992), he de- East Asia. veloped a new model of understanding East Asian Languages & EMERITI the interaction and mutual dependency Cultural Studies SBOBERT ACKUS Students focus on course work in SBR B UC Santa Barbara HARUKO IWASAKI Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7075 KENNETH PAI Phone: (805) 893-5478 of Buddhism and Shinto in economics, Fax: (805) 893-3011 three specializations, which include Mod- E-mail: [email protected] www.eastasian.ucsb.edu semiotics, politics, and cultural history, ern East Asian Cultural Studies, Cinema redefining the boundaries of religions and the Performing Arts, Buddhist Studies, Translation Studies, Tai- in pre-modern Japan. Protocol of the wan Literature and Cultural Studies, Chinese-language Pedagogy and Gods was awarded the Best Book in East Linguistics, Literati Culture, and Early Modern Japanese Cultural Studies. Asian Studies from the University of Cali- fornia Press and the Berkeley Institute In addition, all students are required to take a group of four core of East Asian Studies. Grapard’s numer- graduate seminars designed to introduce them to key methodological ous articles and book chapters on the and theoretic issues in the study of East Asia. These include a seminar spatial and topographical dimensions of on modern East Asian cultural studies; the theory and practice of trans- religious beliefs and practices in Japan have also opened new modes of inquiry. lation; canon formation, periodization, and disciplinarity in East Asian A student at Kyoto University from studies; and bibliography and research methodology. 1968–1974, Grapard went on to receive Students applying to the Ph.D.
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