Centre of Chinese Studies ANNUAL REVIEW

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ISSUE 3: September 2011 - August 2012 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR SOAS Universitiy of London

Outgoing Chair (2009-2012) Incoming Chair (2012-2015) Dic Lo 卢荻 Tian Yuan Tan 陈靝沅

Welcome to the 2011-2012 is- A s Incoming Chair of the sue of the Centre of Chinese Studies Centre of Chinese Studies (CCS), (CCS) Annual Review. It is a pleasure I would first like to thank Dic Lo as the chair of the Centre to present for his leadership and contribution the Review to everyone concerned. to the Centre for the past three years. Building on the established The CCS is a leading academic establishment in the area of Chinese foundation, I will strive to continue developing new activities and studies in the UK and indeed in Europe as a whole. The Centre has fostering partnerships and links between CCS and other institutions more than 40 full-time members of academic staff from almost and organisations. all disciplines of language studies, humanities, and social sciences. In line with the general character of SOAS, the Centre has the My area of specialty is in pre-modern Chinese literature. Since reputation of intellectual excitement and achievement. joining SOAS in 2006, I have met many colleagues and students who have inspired me to new ways of thinking about China. The School In academic year 2011-2012, the CCS continued to focus its demonstrates and embraces great breadth and depth in the area of SOAS is a college of the University of STUDYING AT SOAS activities on research and knowledge dissemination. The Centre’s Chinese Studies, covering both historical and contemporary aspects, London and the only Higher Education regular series of research seminars are a well-established platform in various departments. CCS has always been and will continue to be institution in the UK specialising in the study The international environment and for SOAS and external scholars to present their work to the the interdisciplinary intellectual and cultural hub of China across the of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. cosmopolitan character of the School make CONTENTS academic community. The Centre’s Annual Lecture is given by School, where minds and ideas meet. student life a challenging, rewarding and distinguished invited speakers of international standing, on topics SOAS is a remarkable institution. Uniquely exciting experience. We welcome students Letter from the Chair that are of interest to specialist scholars as well as to the general During my term as the Centre Chair, I hope to bring together people combining language scholarship, disciplinary from more than 130 countries, and 50% of 3 public. This year, the Annual Lecture was delivered by Professor from different fields who are interested in China, both within and expertise and regional focus, it has the them are from outside the UK. 4 Centre Members: current Wang Shaoguang of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, on the beyond SOAS. The Centre is home to over 40 academic staff and a largest concentration in Europe of academic topic ‘China’s Governmentality in the Last Century: Governability, large number of postgraduate and research students working on a staff concerned with Africa, Asia and the The SOAS Library has more than 1.5 million 6 Members News Government, and Governance’. The Centre also organized a number wide range of topics related to China, as well as a growing number Middle East. items and extensive electronic resources. It 11 Announcements of lectures, symposia and public forums in the academic year. of research associates and visiting scholars. Our activities actively is the national library the study of Africa, Asia involve colleagues and friends from outside the School too, as On the one hand, this means that SOAS and the Middle East and attracts scholars all 12 Honorary Appointments My term as Centre Chair comes to an end in August 2012. I would CCS hopes to serve as the hub of communications, joint research, remains a guardian of specialised knowledge over the world. 13 Academic Events Listing like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all the participants and collaborations on Chinese Studies between institutions in Asia in languages and periods and regions not in our activities over the past three years, and particularly to our and Europe. I welcome suggestions and comments from Centre available anywhere else in the UK. On the SOAS offers a wide range of undergraduate, 15 Centre Activities administrators who have done an excellent job in organizing the members on how we can develop CCS together. other hand, it means that SOAS scholars postgraduate and research degrees. 19 Research Students: 2011-2012 activities and ensuring the smooth running of the Centre. grapple with pressing issues - democracy, Students can choose from more than In the coming year, I invite everyone to join me on a journey to development, human rights, identity, legal 400 undergraduate degree combinations 21 London Confucius Institute I do believe CCS will continue to run an interesting programme of discover China through our seminars and activities. I look forward systems, poverty, religion, social change - and from more than 100 postgraduate 22 Research & Enterprise activities in academic year 2012-2013, under the leadership of the to meeting every one of you and welcoming you into our CCS confronting two-thirds of humankind. programmes (taught and distance learning) new Centre Chair. community. in the social sciences, humanities and 23 Join the Centre languages with a distinctive regional focus and global relevance, taught by world- 在接任中心主任一职之际，我首先要感谢卢荻主任在过去三年来领中心主任欢迎词 renowned teachers in specialist faculties. 导本中心所做出的贡献。在已建立的基础上，我将竭力继续为本中 CONTACT US 心发展新的活动并促进中心与其它机构、团体之间的交流及合作。欢迎浏览伦敦大学亚非学院中国研究中心的2012年度通讯。本中 SOAS is consistently ranked among the top 心是英国乃至全欧洲的最重要的中国研究机构，有超过40名全职 higher education institutions in the UK and 我个人的研究领域是中国古典文学，自2006年加入伦敦大学亚非学 We welcome you to become part of the 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 the world. In 2006 SOAS joined the top 20 院以来，与身边同事和学生的日常交流，启发我从不同角度思考中 SOAS experience and invite you to learn 领域。秉承亚非学院的传统，本中心在国际学术界中向以知识创 European universities in the Times Higher 国。亚非学院的中国研究兼顾博与专、古与今，其研究队伍来自校 more about us by exploring our website. 新和发展成果著称。 Education Supplement rankings, and in 内不同院系。本中心提供一个平台让各方观点交会激荡，是联系全 2007 the Guardian listed it again among the 校中国领域专家学者的跨科系学术及文化枢纽，未来也将继续扮演 www.soas.ac.uk 在2011-2012学年，本中心专注于学术研究和成果传播活动，同时 top dozen UK universities, which include 这一角色。探索为社会提供知识服务的各种可能性。中心的每周讲座系列， other University of London colleges (UCL, Admissions 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。 LSE and King’s College) as well as Oxford 在任期间，我希望促进校内外对中国感兴趣的各界人士之间的交 www.soas.ac.uk/admissions/ 中心的年-度公开演讲，向来是特邀国际学术界前沿学者主讲； and Cambridge. 流。本中心有超过40名专任学术人员以及大批硕博士生从事各种与本年度的讲者是香港中文大学的王绍光教授，其讲题是 This makes SOAS synonymous with “China’s 中国相关的研究课题，而近年接待的访问学者及研究员亦有上升的 SOAS Library Governmentality in the Last Century: Governability, Government, and intellectual enquiry and achievement. It 趋势。我们的活动积极向外，邀约各界专家、学者及朋友参与。本 The international environment and cos- www.soas.ac.uk/library/ Governance”（或许可以翻译为“20世纪中国的政府理念——可统 is a global academic base and a crucial mopolitan character of the School make 治性、统治和治理”）。此外，在本学年中，中心还举办了一系中心希望发展成为亚洲与欧洲各学府、机构之间交流联系并合作研 resource for London. We live in a world of student life a challenging, rewarding and Research 列的讲座、研讨会和公开论坛。究中国课题的一个枢纽。我欢迎各位中心成员提出建议和意见，共 shrinking borders and of economic and exciting experience. We welcome students www.soas.ac.uk/research/ 同探讨本中心的发展方向。 technological simultaneity. Yet it is also a from more than 130 countries, and 50% of 本人的中心主任任期在2012年8月份结束。在此诚挚感谢过去三年 world in which difference and regionalism them are from outside the UK. SOAS, University of London 来参加中心活动的校内外成员，特别感谢中心行政人员的优秀表在接下来的这一年，我邀请大家参加本中心的各种讲座及活动，与 present themselves acutely. It is a world that Thornhaugh Street 现。本人深信，中心在2012-2013学年中所举办的学术活动，将会我们一同探索中国。我期待着与你们会面，并欢迎你们加入中国研 SOAS is distinctively positioned to analyse, SOAS offers a friendly, vibrant environment Russell Square 同样有意义并吸引相关的校内外学者积极参与。究中心的大家庭。 understand and explain. right in the buzzing heart of London. London WC1H 0XG

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In October 2011, I was fortunate enough to travel to China to participate in a celebration of the 110th anniversary of Shandong University and to present a paper in a Forum on Higher Education. I gave a talk on the internationalisation of Higher Professor Robert F ASH Ms Wan Li GAO Dr George LANE Dr Huanguang QIU Education, which looked at the major trends and the key issues facing Universities Professor of Economics with Senior Lector in Chinese Senior Teaching Fellow Newton International Fellow as a result of internationalization: this seemed to be well received, given Shandong reference to China and Taiwan Department of the Languages and Department of History University’s desire to Department of Economics Cultures of China and Inner Asia [email protected] Dr Lianyi SONG become a major player [email protected] [email protected] Principal Teaching Fellow on the international Dr Kevin LATHAM Department of the Languages and stage. The University has considerable expertise in Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology Cultures of China and Inner Asia Professor Timothy H BARRETT Dr Enze HAN archaeology and we had Professor of East Asian History Lecturer in the International Security Department of Anthropology and Sociology [email protected] fruitful discussions about Department of the Study of Religions of East Asia [email protected] pursuing collaboration in [email protected] Department of Politics and Dr Julia C STRAUSS this and other areas. International Studies Dr Andrew H-B LO Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics Dr Hong BO [email protected] Senior Lecturer in Chinese Department of Politics and Other than the academic discussions, which Senior Lecturer in Chinese Business Department of the Languages and International Studies were interesting and and Management Dr Rachel HARRIS Cultures of China and Inner Asia [email protected] constructive, the trip had Department of Financial and Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology [email protected] a number of highlights Management Studies Department of Music Ms Lik SUEN for me. Travelling on the [email protected] [email protected] Dr Dic LO Principal Lector in Chinese very new high speed train Reader in Economics Department of the Languages and from Beijing to Jinan was Dr Cosima BRUNO Dr Nathan HILL Department of Economics Cultures of China and Inner Asia good fun (other than Paul Webley with President Xu Xianming of Shandong University Mellon Lecturer in Chinese Studies Senior Lector in Tibetan [email protected] [email protected] the transfer from Beijing Department of the Languages and Department of the Languages and airport to South Beijing railway terminal). The train journey was very smooth and I Cultures of China and Inner Asia Cultures of China and Inner Asia Dr Xiaoning LU Professor Laixiang SUN have never seen such clean railway tracks in my life. At the anniversary dinner I met [email protected] [email protected] Lecturer in Modern Chinese Culture Professor of Chinese Business and and had a long conversation with Leroy Chiao. Leroy is a Chinese-American astronaut, a Mandarin speaker with a serious interest in and knowledge of Asian space policy and and Language Management in particular the Chinese space programme. His call sign is Shandong (his ancestors Mr Ernest CALDWELL Professor Michel HOCKX Department of the Languages and Department of Financial and came from the province) and he has an honorary doctorate from the University. I hope Lecturer in Chinese Law s Professor of Chinese Cultures of China and Inner Asia Management Studies that sometime soon we can get him to visit SOAS. At the anniversary dinner I also School of Law Department of the Languages and [email protected] [email protected] met the mother of a current SOAS student, who said that her daughter had enjoyed [email protected] Cultures of China and Inner Asia her time at IFCELS so much she chose to stay on at SOAS to study Economics and [email protected] Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND Dr Carol TAN Politics. The mother had visited the SOAS library and said simply ‘I love it’. Dr Wynn CHAO Senior Lecturer in the History of Chinese Art Senior Lecturer in Law Lecturer in Linguistics Dr Eunsuk HONG Department of the History of School of Law There was also time for a little tourism. Visiting Mount Tai was enjoyable although Department of Linguistics Lecturer in International Business & Art and Archaeology [email protected] going up by cable car didn’t seem quite right (pilgrims should clearly have to walk all [email protected] Management (China) [email protected] the way up). The Baotu springs were amazing, beautiful and fascinating – and I was Department of Financial and Dr Tian Yuan TAN given a lesson about vortices by a Physics professor – so I learnt something as well as being delighted. And I also added to my very limited knowledge of Chinese Dr Yan CUI Management Studies Dr Lukas NICKEL Senior Lecturer in Traditional Chinese characters – I am certainly not going to forget the character for mountain or how Senior Lector in Chinese [email protected] Reader in Chinese Art History Literature and Culture to pronounce it! Department of the Languages and and Archaeology Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia Dr Andrea JANKU Department of the History of Cultures of China and Inner Asia Paul Webley [email protected] Senior Lecturer in the History of China Art and Archaeology [email protected] Department of History [email protected] Yueqin DONG [email protected] Dr Damian TOBIN Teaching Fellow Dr Ulrich PAGEL Lecturer in Chinese Business Obiturary Department of Financial and Dr Jakob KLEIN Reader in Language and Religion in Tibet and Management Management Studies Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Middle Asia Department of Financial and [email protected] Department of Anthropology and Sociology Department of the Study of Religions Management Studies Alison Surry [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (SOAS Publications, 1990-1998) Dr Dafydd FELL Senior Lecturer in Taiwanese Studies Dr Yuka KOBAYASHI Dr Antonello PALUMBO Ms Wai Hing TSE The school is sad to announce the death of Alison Surry, on Thursday 12th July. Department of Politics and Lecturer in Chinese Politics Lecturer in Chinese Religions Assistant Librarian China, Financial and International Studies Department of Politics and Department of the Study of Religions Management Studies Alison was a SOAS alumnus (BA Linguistics, 1983) and editorial assistant in the [email protected] International Studies [email protected] Library and Information Service Publications section of the school from 1990 to 1998, working on The China [email protected] [email protected] Quarterly and Journal of African Law. She continued to copy edit The China Dr Rossella FERRARI Ms Zhaoxia PANG Quarterly until her death Lecturer in Modern Chinese Culture Dr Tat Yan KONG Lector in Chinese Dr Xinsheng (George) ZHANG and Language Reader in Comparative Politics and Department of the Languages and Director of Language Centre Former China Quarterly editor David Shambaugh described Alison as "a phenomenal Department of the Languages and Development Studies Cultures of China and Inner Asia Language Centre editor... She gave her professional life to the CQ and SOAS," while his successor Cultures of China and Inner Asia Department of Politics and [email protected] [email protected] Richard Louis Edmonds wrote of her "excellent service to so many of us colleagues [email protected] International Studies and to the many, many authors who benefited from her editing." [email protected] Dr Stacey PIERSON Dr Sanzhu ZHU Professor Bernhard FUEHRER Lecturer in Chinese Ceramics Senior Lecturer in Chinese Commercial Law Professor of Sinology Dr Lars LAAMANN Department of the History of School of Law Stuart Schram (1924 – 2012) Department of the Languages and Lecturer in the History of China Art and Archaeology [email protected] We regret to inform colleagues that Stuart Schram, founder Head of the Cultures of China and Inner Asia Department of History [email protected] Contemporary Institute at the time when the China Quarterly came under its [email protected] [email protected] umbrella, died peacefully on 8 July.

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Conference Centre of Singapore of this year’s conference was: the following talks: Routledge, 2011); Cosima Yi An Science Institute. New Theories and Ideas on Dafydd • ‘Prospects for Taiwan and International Chinese Language • The Development of its Impact on Cross-Strait BRUNO On 26 January 2012, Yan was Teacher Training. Over 600 FELL Taiwan studies in Europe, Relations.’ In Shambaugh invited to give a speech at the hundred papers were submitted Tamkang University, 4 (ed): Charting China’s SOAS seminar organized by but 400 hundred papers were January, 2012. Future: Domestic and SOAS Centre for Language selected including Cui Yan’s. The • Why is the study of International Challenges. Publication Pedagogy (CLP). This was one topic of her presentation was This year Dafydd Fell was part Taiwanese politics so (London: Routledge, 2011). of the Series of CLP Forum. “Quality and Ability of Chinese of the team awarded runners up popular abroad? Graduate • ‘Taiwan: Lessons from the • Bruno, Cosima. Between Her speech topic was “Material Teaching Staff in Overseas for the SOAS Director’s Teaching Institute of Political Asian Orphan for Nagorno the Lines: Yang Lian’s Development – Creation and Universities”. ISCT and Hanban Prize. The other members of the Science, National Sun Karabakh?’ Analyticon Poetry through Translation. Usage of Digital Materials is the biggest organization team were Professor Robert Ash, Yat Sen University, 28 (3). (March, 2012). This Leiden and Boston: Brill, in Language Teaching”. She of Teaching Chinese Dr Monique Chu and Dr Hardina December, 2011, Graduate was published in English, 2012. illustrated how the digitalized internationally. Every two or Ohlendorf. The prize was Institute of International Russian and Armenian. She continues to organise teaching materials had been three years, an international awarded in recognition of their Politics, National • ‘Election Season Returns and perform with the London The book illustrates how developed and used in language symposium of teaching Chinese work developing the School’s Chunghsing University, 5 to Taiwan: Prospects Uyghur Ensemble, a local group the study of translation can teaching. The digital materials is organized (http://11th.shihan. world leading Taiwan Studies January, 2012, College of for Taiwan’s National dedicated to the performance of enhance our experience of were CETL projects which were org.cn) for scholars to share teaching programme. Social Sciences, National Elections in 2012.’ traditional music from Xinjiang. reading poetry. Translations into created in 2005, and have been their information on the latest Chengchi University on 3 Brookings Northeast Asia Activities this year included a English of Yang Lian’s poems used in language teaching achievements and development January, 2012. Commentary (47). Nowruz concert in the Gasteig provide the case study that since. The material which can in Chinese language teaching TALKS • ‘The 2012 campaign: the Theatre, Munich, and the complements and demonstrates be used free online was formally worldwide. In the final week prior to story so far.’ Taipei Times, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, and a TV the theoretical and published in 2009 by CETL and How has Taiwan’s democratic the election he joined 10 November 2011, p. 8. programme for the BBC World methodological propositions SOAS (/www.lww-cetl.ac.uk/el- system been affected by the an international election Service. put forward in the book. ementarychinese). This teaching China Factor? Talk given at observation group visiting party From left: Professor Tien Hung-mao, who production including audio, St Antony’s College, Oxford headquarters, think-tank and wrote the book's foreword, and Dafydd Fell After concluding a busy term written and visual materials University conference titled campaign events. He spoke at in Taiwan as Head of Department, she is have been designed to meet the ‘An Audit of Democratic a post-election seminar on 15 conducting fieldwork in Xinjiang learners’ needs, i.e. filling in the Development in the Republic of January 2012 at the Institute through summer 2012. teaching gap and developing Rossella China.’ 24 June, 2011 . for National Policy Research in the learners’ linguistic and FERRARI Taipei. • Should I Stay or Should Rachel Publication communicative competence. The development of Civil I Go? Patterns of Party HARRIS CUI Yan The talk covered the following Society in Taiwan.’ Talk given at On his way back from Switching in Multi- • Music of Central Asia Vol. aspects: the background of the the School of Contemporary Taiwan Dafydd stopped off in party Taiwan. First World 10: Borderlands: Wu Man material development – why China Studies, Nottingham Washington DC to give a talk Congress of Taiwan and Master Musicians from the materials are needed to be On 24 October 2011 Rossella University. 5 August, 2011. at a workshop on Taiwan’s Studies, April 26, 2012. the Silk Route (Smithsonian developed and what problems Ferrari delivered the talk “The Taiwan’s 2012 Elections: Presidential and Legislative • Taiwan’s Claim to Rachel Harris co-organised Folkways, 2012) there had been in the actual Rhizome of Exchange: Intercul- Campaign, Predicted Results Elections on 17 January, 2012. Multiculturalism before and the international conference In September 2011, Cui Yan was teaching situation before the turalism and Inter-Asian Perfor- and Consequences. Talk This was jointly organized after 2008: The Impact of ‘Musical Geographies of Central invited to give a presentation materials were produced; how mance”, organized by the SOAS given at Chatham House’s Asia by the Center for Strategic Changing Ruling Parties on Asia’ in May 2012, hosted by in the Second International the materials are designed Centre of Chinese Studies. Programme Roundtable on and International Studies Immigration Policies (co- SOAS and the University of Teaching Chinese Symposium and what the rational is in this Taiwan in the Global Economy. and Brookings Institute. The authored with Dr Isabelle London’s Institute for Musical and the Ninth South East Asia material-production; what the On 16 February 2012 she was 31 October, 2011. videolink to the event is: http:// Cheng, SOAS Politics). Research, and supported by Chinese Teaching Conference characteristics are; how they invited by the University of Leeds csis.org/multimedia/video-tai- World Congress of Taiwan the Aga Khan Music Initiative. which were organized by have been used by the lectors East Asian Research Society to Dafydd spoke at the Taiwan wans-january-2012-presiden- Studies, April 26, 2012. She presented papers at the Singapore Centre for Chinese and learners in the regular speak about “Interculturalism, Election Seminar held at the tial-and-legislative-elections- Association for Analyzing World Nathan Language of Nanyang teaching situation and what the Transnationalism, and Chinese- Wilson Center in Washington panel-one Music conference in Vancouver W. HILL Technological University and outcomes are after using these language Theatre Networks”. DC on 13 December, 2011. Here PUBLICATIONS (via Skype), and at the British jointly organized by Singapore materials in teaching. The CLP is the event’s videolink: www. In April Dafydd visited Taiwan to Forum for Ethnomusicology in Ministry of Education, Yi was established to promote the Publications wilsoncenter.org/event/taiwan- attend the First World Congress • Fell, Dafydd: Government Durham. An Science Institute and teaching and learning of Asian, elections-2012 of Taiwan Studies (April 26-28), and Politics in Taiwan other teaching and learning African and Middle Eastern • Ferrari, Rossella. “Disen- at Academia Sinica. During (London: Routledge, 2011) She acts as consultant to the In September Nathan W. Hill associations and organizations languages and to support chanted Presents, Haunted He then returned to London this Taiwan trip he gave the • ‘Taiwan’s Party System in Aga Khan Music Initiative, hosted the conference ‘Bon, (http://intcoference.scl.sg). the development of teaching Pasts and Dystopian to join a panel at SOAS the following talks: Transition: More or Less providing the sleeve notes for Shangshung, and Early Tibet’ Yan’s speech topic was “The materials and learning resources Futures: Deferred Millen- next day titled Looking Ahead • Academic Diplomacy in Space for Identity Politics?’ the joint CD and DVD project (9-10 September 2011), which Creation of Digital Materials”. for these languages: nialism in the Cinema of to Taiwan’s Presidential and Practice: The Role of SOAS In: Schubert and Damm Wu Man: Borderlands which was held in celebration of 60 Yan was also invited to chair a www.soas.ac.uk/clp Meng Jinghui”. Journal of Legislative Elections. in European Taiwan Studies. (eds.), Taiwanese Identity in involved the star Chinese pipa years of Tibetan studies at SOAS sub-discussion meeting at this Contemporary China, Vol. Talk given at the Taiwan the 21st Century: domestic, player Wu Man working with and 50 years of Bon studies conference focusing on the field Yan was invited by The 20, Issue 71 (September), Dafydd was in Taiwan from 18 Ministry of Foreign Affairs regional and global traditional musicians from in the West. The conference of teaching modern Chinese International Society for Chinese 2011, pp. 699–721. December, 2011 to 16 January, Training Institute, April 25, perspectives. (London: across Central Asia. brought together 18 leading literature and cross- cultural Teaching (ISCT) and Chinese • Ferrari, Rossella. “Architec- 2012 to observe its January 2012 Routledge, 2011); experts on the Bon religion education in universities outside National Hanban (Hanban) to ture and/in Theatre from 2012 elections. He was invited • Why is the study of • ‘Polarization of Party Rachel serves as Chair of and early Tibetan history, a target language country. give a presentation at The 11th the Bauhaus to Hong Kong: as a Visiting Researcher at the Taiwanese politics so Competition in the DPP the London Jingkun Opera and had over 250 people in The scholars at the confer- International Symposium of Mathias Woo’s Looking College of International Studies, popular abroad? Talk given Era.’ In: Ash, Garver and Association, which is celebrating attendance. The conference ence came from over twenty Teaching Chinese Language as a for Mies”. New Theatre Tamkang University, Taiwan. at Taiwan’s National Central Prime (eds.), Taiwan’s ten years of promoting Beijing was generously sponsored by countries and more than two Foreign Language on 15, 16 and Quarterly, Vol. 28, Issue 1 During this Taiwan visit he gave Library, April 25, 2012. Democracy and Future: and Kunqu opera in the UK with the British Academy, the London hundred papers were selected. 17 in August 2012 in Xi’an China. (February), 2012, pp. 3–19. Economic and Political a series of workshops and public Shang Shung Institute, the The conference took place on The conference organizer was Challenges. (London: performances supported by the Kalpa Group, and the Faculty of 8-9 in September 2011 in the ISCT and Hanban. The theme London Confucius Institute. Languages and Cultures.

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Nathan spent four months as a the British Academy funded and chaos that had existed with and Culture in Periods of visiting researcher at Ludwig- Michel ‘Communicating Civilisations Jakob Lars military rule since the initial National Crises in China”, Xiaoning Maximilians-Universität (Munich) and Global Order’ conference Chinggisid invasions of 1220. organised by National Central as a guest of the research HOCKX at SOAS (see separate report KLEIN LAAMANN They wanted to be absorbed University, Taiwan, 26-30 March LU project ‘Kingship and Religion on page 17). She continued into the greater empire with 2012. At the same conference, in Tibet’ in the Institut für to focus on environmental the benefits that that would Dr Frances Wood (British Library) Indologie und Tibetologie. Upon history with a presentation in bring and the besieging armies and Andrew gave a joint talk en- his return to SOAS in December In September 2011, Michel German on ‘Water and Power In 2012 Jakob Klein carried out Publication around Baghdad were joined titled “The Export of Culture in Xiaoning Lu participated in an he took up a British Academy Hockx was elected President in Chinese History’ at the nearly two months of fieldwork by troops from all of Iran’s city a Period of Social Change —The international research project Postdoctoral Fellowship for the of the British Association for Northelbian Centre for World in Yunnan Province for a British L.P. Laamann (ed.), Critical Read- states, the Kurds, the Shi’ites and Significance and Value of Qing on “The Overseas Life-Writing project ‘Pre-history of the Sino- Chinese Studies (BACS). He Mission and Church World Academy-funded project ings: The Manchus in modern the Armenians and Georgians. Export Paintings”. of Modern Chinese Figures” Tibetan languages: the sound will serve a three-year term. In Service in Hamburg on 17 entitled ‘“Local”, “regional” or China (1616-2012), Leiden: Brill, Nearly 20 years later Hangzhou led by Shanghai Jiaotong laws relating Old Burmese, Old January 2012, he was appointed September and participation “ethnic”?: Exploring identities 2011. [four volumes] surrendered peacefully and Iran He gave a lecture on “The Ming University Centre of Life Writing Chinese, and Old Tibetan’. interim Director of the London at the First Conference of through rubing (milk cake) in and China were united under Novel” at the Arts of Asia 1500- and funded by China’s National Confucius Institute, which is the Association for East Asian Kunming.’ Qubilai Khan. Persian ambitions 1900: Islamic Middle East, South Social Sciences Grant. During the last year Nathan has housed at SOAS. His academic Environmental History in Taipei were rewarded and their support Asia and China course at the delivered invited talks at Oxford activity in 2011/2012 included in October 2011, where she gave In April 2012 Jakob presented for Hulegu justified. Today Victoria and Albert Museum, 25 Univeristy (‘Distinguishing forms presenting papers on Chinese a paper entitled ‘Landscapes two papers in Taipei on an evidence of the mediaeval June 2012. of the ablative and comparative Internet literature at the annual of Production - Landscapes of invitation from Academia Persian community has come to in Classical and Old Tibetan’, BACS Conference in Edinburgh Consumption: Famous Views Sinica: ‘Everyday Approaches to light with the appearance of 21 April 2012), Columbia University (Sept 2011) and at the RMMLA in Linfen, Then and Now.’ On Food Safety in Contemporary early 14th century tombstones (‘The contribution of corpus conference in Arizona (Oct 6 March she was invited as a Urban China’ (presented to the belonging to a mosque built in linguistics to lexicography 2011), as well as a paper on commentator to a Workshop History of Hygiene Project); 1281 by the Persian Ala al-Din. and the future of Tibetan Republican-era transgressive on Qing Economic History at and ‘Constructing Dian Cuisine: It is the close ties between Shane dictionaries’, December 2011), magazines presented at the the LSE. More recently, she Food and Place in Southwest Hangzhou and mediaeval MCCAUSLAND LMU Munich (‘The Phywa and AAS conference in Toronto gave a seminar paper at the China’ (presented at the Institute Persia that he presented at the Dic LO the Dmu: comparison of two (Mar 2012). He also presented University of Sussex entitled ‘The of Ethnology). conference in Beijing. categories of gods in early invited lectures on postsocialist Meaning of Landscapes in North Tibetan mythology’, November Chinese publishing culture at China: Historical Reflections Jakob has been actively Publication Shane McCausland published 2011), and a paper together the University of Nottingham on the Nature-Culture Divide’ promoting Chinese Studies in and submitted papers, with Charles Manson, also of (Nov 2011), at the University of (26 April) and followed an his work as Deputy Chair of An account of George’s research and participated in various On 18-19 December 2011, the the SOAS Tibetan programme, Copenhagen (Dec 2011), and at invitation to give a lecture on the SOAS Food Studies Centre. on the Phoenix Mosque and the scholarly gatherings. In Taipei CCS co-organised with Renmin at the University of Vienna (‘A Beijing Normal University (Apr ‘The Outsider’s Gaze: Reading The Centre’s fifth Distinguished Persian tombstones from the in December 2011, at National University of China (RUC) an Gter ma of negatives: H. E. 2012). Chinese Images of Disasters’ in Lecture was delivered on 22 Ju-jing Yuan cemetery appeared Taiwan University, he gave Richardson’s photographic the series ‘Imaging Disasters’ at March 2012 by James L. Watson, George in China at the end of last year. international conference in a conference paper on the Suzhou, China. The conference, negatives of manuscript copies Publications the University of Heidelberg on Fairbank Professor of Chinese LANE His article was translated into appropriation of Baroque of Tibetan imperial inscriptions’, 4 June. Society and Professor of Chinese. The details are: entitled “Regulating finance visual perspective in Qianlong for economic development”, October 2011). • Hockx, Michel. “Print Anthropology, Emeritus, Harvard era painting and printing. At was an activity of a joint Culture and the New Media Publications University. The talk was entitled • Lane, George. “The Phoenix the University of Michigan in Nathan has recently published ‘Salt Water Margin: Red Rice, Mosque of Hangzhou” SOAS-RUC two-year research February 2012 he contributed in Postsocialist China.” In: In June the “Chinese Academy four papers: ‘Evolution of the • Janku, Andrea, Schenk, Reclamations, and Restaurateurs (关于元代杭州的凤凰寺 project, funded by the Ford a paper on figure painting to a Writing under Socialism, of Social Sciences” together with Burmese vowel system’ in Gerrit J. and Mauelshagen, along the South China Coast Guanyu Yuandai Hangzhou Foundation, on “China’s financial conference entitled ‘Room for ed. Sara Jones and Meesha the “Research Centre for Islamic Transactions of the Philological Franz, eds. Historical (An Ethnographic Puzzle).’ On de Fenghuangsi). In governance and economic Another View’ about on China’s Nehru, 29-41. Nottingham: History, Art, and Culture” and Society (2012), ‘A note on the Disasters in Context: 19 March 2012 the eminent Qinghua Yuanshi 清華元 internationalization”. Three art history in global perspective. Critical, Cultural and the “Organisation of Islamic Co- history and future of the ‘Wylie’ Science, Religion, and historian of Chinese food, 史, edited by Yao Dali , SOAS academics (Dic Lo, The paper is forthcoming in Communications Press, operation” hosted a conference system’ in Revue d’Etudes Politics. New York: Professor Françoise Sabban Nanjing: Qinghua Acad- Hong Bo, and Yingquan Jiang), a Blackwell Companion to 2011. on the theme of “China and Tibétaines (2012), ‘An inventory Routledge, 2012. (Centre d’études sur la Chine emy of Chinese Learning, together with another twenty Chinese Art. In May he spoke • Hockx, Michel. “The the Muslim World: Encounters of Tibetan Sound Laws’ Journal • Yangku 扬库 (Janku, moderne et contemporaine, Qinghua University, no.1, international scholars, presented about Chinese calligraphy Literary Field and the Field of Civilisations.” The congress of the Royal Asiatic Society Andrea), ‘’”Tianzai hu, EHESS, Paris), presented her edn,. 2011 papers at the conference. in Mongol Yuan China at a of Power: The Case of took place in Beijing from 27 (2011), and ‘Multiple origins renhuo hu”: 1928-1930 paper ‘The milk issue in China: symposium hosted by CRASSH, Modern China.” Paragraph June until 30 June with the last of Tibetan o’ in Language and nian xibei da jihuang’ [天灾 past and present’ at a two-day Publlication University of Cambridge, in 35, no. 1 (2012): 49-65. day comprising a group visit and Linguistics (2011). 乎人祸乎： 1928-1930 年 international symposium entitled honour of Wu Hung. In June he tour of the Great Wall of China. 西北大饥荒], Translation of ‘Cooking, Cuisine and Class in Lo, Dic, Alternatives to hosts a study day on Chinese Starting in September, ‘From Natural to National the Anthropology of Food To- Neoliberal Globalization: paintings at SOAS, organised George Lane gave the third together with Dr Ulrich Pagel Disaster: The Chinese day’, a SOAS Food Studies Cen- Studies in the Political Economy with the British Museum paper of the opening session (Department of the Study of Famine of 1928-1930, tre event co-organized by Jakob of Institutions and Late and Christie’s Education, in and compared the fall of Religion), Nathan will begin Zhongguo xueshu/China and Professor Anne Murcott, Development, Basingstoke and conjunction with the British Baghdad in 1258 to the fall of work on a three-year AHRC- Scholarship, vol.9, no.2 and funded by the SOAS Faculty Andrew LO London, Palgrave Macmillan, Museum special exhibition, Hangzhou in 1276. In 1258 the funded research project ‘Tibetan Andrea (2011): 227-262. [Chinese of Arts and Humanities. 2012. Modern Chinese Ink Paintings. multi-ethnic, multi-cultural in Digital Communication: JANKU translation of ‘From Natural He was also a consultant to the Chinggisid forces under Hulegu Corpus Linguistics and to National Disaster: director John Mullan for ‘Cash Khan besieged the Caliph of Lexicography’. The Chinese Famine of in China’s Attic: A Culture Show Baghdad before launching the 1928-1930.’ In: Janku/ Special’, presented by Andrew attack which ended the Arab Schenk/Mauelshagen, Andrew Lo presented a paper Graham-Dixon and broadcast In September Andrea Janku presence in Iran and the Arab eds. Historical Disasters in entitled “Hua Yue’s (?-1222) on BBC2 TV in January 2012. He presented a paper on ‘The State domination of Islam. Hulegu Context: Science, Religion, ‘Cuiwei nanzheng lu’ [Mr is on sabbatical during 2012-13, of the Environment as a Measure had arrived in Iran at the and Politics. New York: Cuiwei’s Journey to the South]” writing a general study of Yuan of Civilisation: Of Mountains invitation of the Iranians who Routledge, 2012, pp. 227- in Chinese at the International culture to appear from Reaktion and Rivers, Soil and Trees, and wanted an end to the instability 260.] Conference on “Intellectuals Books. the Twelfth Five-Year Plan’ at

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Publications the latest work in the field, and inspired courts in Southeast Chinese New Year of Dragon at SOAS the most prominent specialists Asia’, Graduate Institute Of Tian Yuan • Shane McCaus- working in the UK. Southeast Asian Studies On 27 January 2012, organized by BA Chinese year land, ‘Copying and And Centre Of Southeast TAN three students and their course teachers, joined transmitting, knowledge Prior to this she presented a Asian Studies, National A fter more than 25 years at SOAS, by BA Chinese year one students as well as many Senior Lecturer Dr Wang Tao is relocating to and nonsense: From the paper at the annual Association Chi-Nan University, Taiwan, other students and staff at SOAS, a Chinese New Year New York, to head the Department of Chinese Great Encyclopaedia to the for Asian Studies Hong Kong June 2012. celebration party took place at SOAS. Special guests Art at Sotheby’s. Tao was Chair of the Centre Book from the Sky’. In Nick conference on the subject of • ‘The Shadow of included Director of London Confucius Institute In 2011, Tian Yuan Tan was of Chinese Studies from 2005-2008. Pearce & Jason Steuber the Terracotta Army in the 21st Colonialism: British- awarded a British Academy Professor Michel Hockx and many SOAS teachers (eds), Original Intentions: Century in March 2012. inspired courts in Asia’, Small Research Grant for a new and staff. Essays on Production, programme for Courts A reception took place on Thursday, 5 July project on “Entertaining the and was attended by SOAS colleauges and Reproduction and in East Asia and Legal Amid the colourful traditional Chinese decorations Emperor: Elite Playwrights and members of the art community, all who were Interpretation in the Arts of Transplant, International in the lecture hall G2, the performances on the stage Court Theatre in Eighteenth- sad to see him go. China. Gainsville: University Conference on News Century China.” In April 2012, were both stylistic and dynamic: Chinese singing and Press of Florida, 2012. Perspectives in East his forthcoming book, An dancing, Chinese music, Chinese songs, Chinese • Shane McCausland, Asian Studies, Institute Anthology of Critical Studies poems, Chinese talk shows, Chinese quiz, Chinese ‘Chen Hongshou and his Of Advanced Studies In on Tang Xianzu in Western Kongfu, to name a few. Workshop’. In Jerome Laixing SUN Humanities And Social Scholarship (co-edited with Xu Meeting the Media Silbergeld et al. (eds), Sciences, National Taiwan Yongming, Zhejiang University), The event was not only a celebration of the Chinese Bridges to Heaven: Essays University, Taipei, June received a Harvard-Yenching New Year but also a demonstration of the achievements On 17 May 2012, a team of 4 from Hunan TV station in China vis- on East Asian Art in Honor 2012. Institute Publication Grant. He of our students and an inspiration to all those who ited SOAS, University of London. Hunan TV station has successfully of Wen C. Fong, pp 163- • ‘Colonial Public Health visited Sapienza University of would like to know more about China. “I am deeply organised Chinese Bridge Competition for several years and 82. Princeton: Princeton Laws and the Making of a Rome in July 2012 for research impressed by the language competence of the students This TV programme has become one of the most popular TV University Press, 2011. Laixiang Sun is the current European Summer Resort collaboration and preparation of as well as the quality of the show. It is really amazing!” programmes in China with millions of viewers. President of Chinese Economic in North China’, London a book manuscript on emotions said Ms Huiying Huang, a Chinese language specialist Association (UK/EUROPE) during Legal History Seminars And in Peony Pavilion, supported by from Beijing Language and Culture University. The Due to the successful performance of SOAS contestants in the last 2012-13. Institute Of Advanced Legal a Strategic Research Funding youngest audience in this event, Michel’s little son two years’ Chinese Bridge Competition, Hunan TV came to SOAS Studies seminar on Imperial Grant from the Faculty of of seven also promised to continue working hard on to shoot video clips for the 11th Chinese Bridge Competition due Laixiang organised the 23rd Encounters: colonialism Languages and Cultures. leaning Chinese. in the summer of 2012. These video clips will provide Chinese Chinese Economic Association and the law from the viewers further knowledge of SOAS, which has nourished such (UK) and 4th Chinese Economic eighteenth century to the TALKS This celebration marks the third event since it started outstanding students. Zhaoxia Association (Europe) Annual twentieth century, May in 2010. Thanks to the voluble support from London PANG Conference, The Chinese Way 2012. • “Spectators and Spectacles Confucius Institute, we hope there will be many more in Students from Chinese department enthusiastically joined the of Economic Reform and • ‘Hugh Hickling’s non- in Qing Court Theatre,” the years to come. activity. Alec Odahara, SOAS year-four undergraduate, the second Development in the Context academic writings’, presented at the Institute prize winner of the 10th Chinese Bridge competition in 2011, of Globalization which was Workshop on Law and Zhaoxia Pang voluntarily accompanied the team during their stay in London. Zhaoxia Pang presented for Chinese Studies co-organized by Department of Society in Malaysia, Centre her paper at British Chinese Seminar Series, University Financial & Management Studies For Asia Pacific Initiatives, Professor Michel Hockx, director of London Confucius institute, Language Teaching Society of Oxford, 17 November (DeFiMS) and Centre of China University Of Victoria, July extended welcome to the team and provided timely support to International Symposiums 2011. Studies (CCS), SOAS, University 2011. On 13 February 2012 Nathan Hill hosted a visit of four facilitate the team’s visit at SOAS. “It is another good example of in University of Cardiff in • “Visuality in Court Theatre of London and Peking University scholars from Tibet who run a traditional Tibetan how the department and the LCI can work together” to prompt 2010. Her paper was selected during the Qianlong Era.” Alumni Association in the UK. Carol Tan is also Chair of the hospital, museum, and research institute. Chinese language teaching and learning as well as the reputation for publication in Applied (in Chinese) presented Centre of South East Asian of SOAS, said Professor Hockx. Chinese Language Studies III at the International Studies (CSEAS) at SOAS and Dr Dorje (Senior Tibetan medical doctor and - Innovations in Teaching and Conference on “Visual events in the past 12 months currently the director of Tsongon (Qinghai) Two of SOAS students, Owen Sebastian Churchill and Maximilian Learning Chinese as a Foreign Culture in the Era of included an ASEAN-China Provincial Tibetan Medical Research Institute), Dr Christopher Sleigh-Parrott were selected to join in the Chinese Language. London: Sinolingua Emperor Qianlong”, Economics Workshop in the O Tsokchen (One of the leading experts on Tibetan Bridge competition this summer on behalf of U.K. universities. We London Ltd. pp: 32-39, June organised by National autumn of 2011. Medicine today and currently Professor and Presi- wish them the best luck in the competition. 2012. Taiwan University, 15-16 dent of Tsongon University Tibetan Medical College, December 2011. Carol TAN PUBLICATIONS President of Tsongon Provincial Tibetan Medical For detailed reports of the achievements of SOAS students in the Hospital and the Director of Tsongon Tibetan Cul- Publication previous Chinese Bridge Competitions, please log on: • Tan, Carol GS, ‘Sans liaison ture Museum), Tsem Gonthar (Vice director of the Tsongon Tibetan Culture Museum) and Dr Ba Dolma ferroviaire: Wei-hai Wei • Tan, Tian Yuan. “Reflections • www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem75395.html et le Chinese Labour (Professor of epidemiology, specializing in laboratory • www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem67282.html on the Study of Court experimentation). Corps’, in Li Ma (ed), Des Theatre in Late Imperial • www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem60498.html PRESENTATIONS Stacey Travailleurs Chinois dans China”, in Ming Qing • www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem70731.html PIERSON la Grande Guerre (Paris: gongtingshi xueshu • ‘Man and Land: Early CNRS Editions), pp 55-68 yantaohui lunwenji (Volume Zhaoxia Pang interference in the • Tan, Carol GS, ‘Colonial 1), ed. Palace Museum traditional land system Cleansing: laws for a (Beijing: Jijincheng in Kedah under the summer resort in China’, chubanshe, 2011), 467-477. With generous sponsorship Light Administration’, (2012) International Review from Christies, Stacey Pierson International Conference of Law, vol. 1, published at organized a Study Day on New On The Legal Histories Of http://www.qscience.com/ Research in Chinese Ceramics The British Empire, National toc/irl/2012, (2012:7). which took place at SOAS on University Of Singapore, • Tan, Carol GS, ‘Nesting 24 May 2012. This was designed July 2012. the taxonomy in the The visitors donated 90 books to the SOAS library. to introduce current students • ‘The Shadow of remedial: re-examination and members of the public to Colonialism: British- of promissory terms’, Northern Ireland Law Quarterly, 62: 321-334 10 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 11 HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

editing Professor Fei Xiatong’s Universities on ‘ADR Publications Xiangqun conference proceedings (both LIN Michael and Legal Practice in Gary Professorial Research Chinese and English editions), Comparative Perspective’. CHANG Guang Bin PALMER In the summer of 2011 his Associates due to be published by Airit • 25 May, 2012: Chaired TIEDEMANN monograph was published Press in 2013. Panel Session and in China: Di Deman [R G Professor Renzo CAVALIERI presented Paper Tiedemann], Huabei de baoli he LLB(MILAN) (‘Reforming Legal konghuang: Yihetuan yundong During the academic year Lin Guang Bin’s research interest Michael Palmer is a former Education Trans- Gary Tiedemann presented qianxi Jidujiao chuanbo he Professor Anthony DICKS 2011-12 Xiangqun Chang is Reshaping the Development Chair of the SOAS Centre of systemically’), “Part papers at several international shehui chongtu [Violence and BA LLB MA (CANTAB) continued work on the project, Model in Chinese Economic Chinese Studies and Centre of III: Possible Areas of conferences, including the Fear in North China: Christian as a Co-PI, 'Comparative Transformation. He wrote two East Asian Law, and is currently Collaboration: Law Colloquy ‘Europe as the Missions and Social Conflict on Professor Stefan Studies on the New Migrants papers during his academic visit Dean, Professor of Law, and Legal Services”, Other: External Perspectives the Eve of the Boxer Uprising] FEUCHTWANG from BRIC counties in America, to SOAS. Associate Dean for Research at the Governance in on European Christianity’, held (Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin PHD(LONDON) Australia, Japan and the UK' Stephan and Global Development, and Asia Research Centre at the Institute of European chubanshe, 2011), with a second (2009-13). She co-organised During his six month stay, the Director, Cheung Kong Centre (GARC) Forum entitled History, Mainz, Germany, print-run in November 2011. Professor Michael PALMER FEUCHTWANG three academic events with CCS invited highly-regarded for Negotiation and Dispute “Achieving Mutual Gains in 1-3 September 2011; the LLB(CANTAB) BSC(ECON) Chinese publishers at the academics to present their Resolution, STU Law School, Guangdong, Hong Kong International Academic Other publications include: MA LLD(LONDON) London Book Fair. She is also working papers in the weekly in Shantou, China. He is also and Macau Collaboration: Conference on Taiwan Church • Tiedemann, R G, “Comity co-organising two forums. seminar series, as well as Emeritus Professor of Law at Qianhai, Hengqin and History, held at National Central Agreements and Sheep They are the 5th International Stephan Feuchtwang organises many interesting the University of London, and a Beyond”, City University of University, Jhongli City, Taiwan Stealers: The Elusive Search Forum for Contemporary formally retired from the LSE workshops. These create and Research Professor in both the Hong Kong. (R.O.C.), 2-3 December 2011; for Christian Unity Among Research Associates Chinese Studies (IFCCS5) in Anthropology Department and diversity valuable opportunities CCS and the Law School here at • 7 June, 2012: University the conference on ‘Manuscripts, Protestants in China”, August and International Forum was immediately re-employed to experience high quality SOAS, as well as at the Institute of Navarra, Spain, Public Reminiscence, Locations and International Bulletin of Dr Xiangqun CHANG on Cross-strait studies the as part-time teacher and as research. Lin Guang Bin of Advanced Legal Studies. Lecture on ‘Family Interpretation: New Perspectives Missionary Research 36.1 MA BA(CHINA) PHD(CITY) 20th anniversary of the “1992 convener of a work program in a attended many seminars and Within China he is also Visiting Mediation - the Mediation on Chinese-Western Cultural (January 2012), pp. 3-8 consensus” in December. large EU project on urbanization talks hosted by the centre. Professor of Law at Renmin of Family Disputes in Exchange and Christianity • Tiedemann, R G, “Foreign Mr Jonathan FENBY in China. He was also awarded Daxue (People’s University, Contemporary China’ in Northeast China’, held at Missionaries, Chinese BA(OXON) Xiangqun gave seminars ‘Emeritus’ professorial status. Lin Guang Bin participated in Beijing) Xinan Zhengfa Daxue • 6 July, 2012: Public Changchun, 26-29 April 2012; Christians and the 1911 at the following institutes: four workshop and international (Southwest University of Political Lecture: “Globalising Legal and the 2012 Yale-Edinburgh Revolution”, Tripod 31 Mr John GITTINGS Utrecht University, 22-23 June; His project on urbanization confences inlcuding "The Science and Law, Chongqing) Education in China,” Mi- Group on the History of the (Hongkong, Autumn 2011), MA(OXON) Department of Sociology, concerns governmental Workshop and Book Launch and Xiamen Daxue (Amoy chael Palmer, Yonsei Uni- Missionary Movement and World pp. 12-34; with Chinese Tsinghua University, 9th July; ‘community’ formation and -The Political Economy of University). In February 2012 he versity Law School, Korea. Christianity Meeting, ‘Religious version on pp. 13-30. A Dr Ian SECKINGTON Institute of Sociology, Chinese residents’ self-organisation and China: A Long Run Perspective was appointed to the Standing Movements of Renewal, German translation was BA(LEEDS) MSC Academy of Social Science place-making. Field research will from the Qing Empire to the Review Board on the Humanities Publications Revival, and Revitalization in published as Tiedemann, PHD(LONDON (CASS), 11th July; she will be completed in 2013. Present Regime"and "Law, and Social Sciences Panel of the the History of Missions and R G, “Ausländische give talks in the following Governance and Development: Research Grants Council (RGC) • Michael Palmer & Simon World Christianity’, held at the Missionare, chinesische Dr Frances WOOD conference/forums: the 8th His project on comparative The Transformation of Property within the University Grants Roberts: Dispute Processes: University of Edinburgh, 28-30 Christen und die Revolution BA(PEKING) PHD(LONDON) annual conference of social civilization with Professor Mike Rights in Land and Property Law Committee of Hong Kong ADR and the Primary Forms June 2012. von 1911”, China heute 31.1 networks and relationship Rowlands at UCL continues. He in China" and " Oxford Forum on (UGC). In March 2012 he was of Decision Making, second (Sankt Augustin, Germany, Dr WANG Tao management research-Social published ‘Chinese civilization China and the World Economy". appointed as a Special Advisor to edition translated published In February 2012, Gary took 2012), pp. 47-56. BA(YUNNAN) PHD(LONDON) management innovation and in the present’ The Asia Pacific the newly established Shanghai in Chinese by Peking up his appointment as first- corporate social responsibility, Journal of Anthropology Publications Commercial Dispute Resolution University Press, 2011). class professor in the School of Tsinghua University, China, 13: 2 2012 pp 112-127 and Centre. In June 2012 he was • Jiufen Jiejue de Guocheng: History and Culture, Shandong 6-8 July; the IFCCS5, Beijing, contributed a paper ‘Chinese • Lin Guang Bin, “Reshape appointed a Special Advisor ADR yu Jueding Xingcheng University, with particular (纠纷解 Visiting Scholars 8-9 August; Resourcefulness, Civilisation in Comparative of China Economic to the Shenzhen International de Zhuyao Xingshi responsibility for developing 决的过程 — ADR 与决定形 relationships and Chinese Perspective: some markers’ to Development Mode :Based Court of Arbitration. an international research 成的主要形式, （第二版） Dr Makato ITO management thoughts, Shih a conference on Anthropology on Demographic Structure programme at the newly ，北京：北京大学出版社) PHD(KYOTO) Hsin University, Taiwan, 2-4 and Civilizational Analysis: and Pattern of Ownership TALKS established Center for Boxer University of Nagasaki November, International Forum Eurasian explorations at the ”, Economic Theory and • “Rethinking Children’s Movement Studies (Yihetuan 14 September 2011 – 13 on Cross-strait studies, LSE, Max Planck Institute for Social Business Management, • 28-30 October, 2011: Chair Rights and Interests?: yundong yanjiu zhongxin). September 2012 13/14 December (date tbc). Anthropology at Halle, in June 2012, 32(4):24-32. Judge at National Legal Economic Reform, Social He is currently working on a 2012. He also gave a keynote • Lin Guang Bin, “Reflections English Contest in Beijing Protection and Legal comprehensive bibliography of Dr Guangbin LIN Xiangqun’s dialogue with Gary speech ‘What have wenming on the Microeconomic • 3 March, 2012: ‘The Culture in Post-Mao China,” Western writings on the Boxer MA BA(NORTHWEST) Hamilton on Fei Xiaotong, and wenhua done to Chinese Basis for Soft Budget Ombudsman and Journal of Comparative Movement and the Boxer War PHD(RENMIN) entitled 'China and World civilization (hua)?’ to the Hong Constraint in the Market Financial Disputes’, Law, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp.220- of 1900. China Institute for Actuarial Anthropology', has been Kong Association of Asian Economy”, China paper presented at the 240 (2011), in “Using Legal Social Science (CIAS) published in Anthropology Studies in March 2012. Economist, 2012,1: 68-77. Shanghai Commercial Culture”, Special Issue of 1 January – 30 June 2012 Today, No.6, 2011. She • Lin Guang Bin, “Reflections Dispute Resolution Centre’s the JCL, 2011, Guest Editor: also helped to publish the on the Microeconomic ‘Shanghai-Hong Kong David Nelken) Dr Changyong LIU online journal Bijiao: China in Basis for Soft Budget Mediation Conference’, • “China: Bringing the Chongqing University of comparative perspective book Constraint in the Market Shanghai, PRC. Law Back In,” in Elaine Technology and Business review (CCPBR), No.2, 2012. Economy”, China • 12-14 April, 2012: ‘Opening Sutherland (ed.), The Future 1 October 2011 – 30 She submitted a book Study Economist, 2012,1: 5-17. Address’ and presented a of Family and Child Law, September 2012 of Fei Xiaotong's theories and • Lin Guang Bin, “Reshape paper on ‘The Ombudsman Cambridge: Cambridge restudies on Kaixiangong Village of China Economic in Comparative University Press, 2012. (in Chinese), which will be Development Mode:Based Perspective’, at the published by the Social Science on Industry structure”, International Conference Academic Press in 2013. As one forthcoming. held at Shantou University of the co-editors, Xiangqun is with Xiamen and Kobe

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Seminar Series 5-7 September 2011 Conference Vth International Forum on World Autumn Term Winter Term Civilisations Communicating Civilisations and World Order different thematic sections were delivered Communicating Civilisations and 5-7 September 2011 by Harry Harootunian (New York University), 10 October 2011 16 January 2012 World Order SOAS, University of London whose lecture was entitled ‘Area Studies Dr Rachel Harris (SOAS) Dr Bingqin Li (LSE) Keynote speakers included: Prof. Harry and Memories of Underdevelopment,’ Dwarfs, Men, and Women who act Party Reinvention and Social Harootunian, Prof. Prasenjit Duara, Prof. Yao Jiehou (CASS) who presented his like Monkeys’: editing a volume on Welfare Reform in China Yao Jiehou, Dr. Paul Bowman and Dr. An unusual combination of student initiative, seeking insight into ‘Observations on Communication across gender in Chinese music Franz Mauelshagen academic cooperation and generous possible futures, Civilisations: A Discourse from the ------funding from the British Academy made the conference Perspective of Intercultural Philosophy,’ ------it possible to host the 5th International addressed some of Yao Jiehou, one of the Franz Mauelshagen (Institute of Advanced 9 & 10 September 2011 keynote speakers 23 January 2012 Forum on World Civilisations at the School the most pressing Studies in the Humanities, Essen) who spoke Symposium 17 October 2011 Dr Bingchun Meng (LSE) of Oriental and African Studies in London. concerns of our about ‘Communicating Climate Change,’ Co-hosted with the London Dr Dic Lo (SOAS) Mediated citizenship: political The Forum was started by the Centre for rapidly globalising world. and Paul Bowman (Cardiff University) who Shangshung Institute Rethinking Chinese finance discussions on the Chinese Internet Comparative Studies of World Civilisations concluded the conference with a thought- Bon, Shangshung, and Early Tibet of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences The Centre of Chinese Studies sponsored provoking and entertaining visual essay on Keynote addresses by Prof. Namkhai ------together with the Institute of Cultural the keynote lecture by Prasenjit Duara from Hong Kong movies. Norbu (Università di Napoli L’Orientale), Studies of the Shanghai Academy of the National University of Singapore who Prof. Samten Karmay (Centre de 24 October 2011 Social Sciences and the School of Foreign spoke about ‘Sustainability and the Crisis of The conference started off with an evening 30 January 2012 recherche sur les civilisations de l’asie Dr Rossella Ferrari (SOAS) Languages and Cultures of Nanjing Normal Transcendence: The Long View from Asia.’ reception featuring the jazz band ‘Last Dr Xioning LU (SOAS) orientale, CNRS Paris), and H.E. Tenzin The Rhizome of Exchange: University. The conference held at SOAS Further keynote lectures introducing the Mango in Paris’ who offered a tailor- Rethinking Myth on the Left: A Case Study Namdak (Triten Norbutse Monastery) Interculturalism and Inter-Asian of Chinese Socialist Musical Third Sister Liu brought senior scholars from China and made programme with lyrics squarely Performance Networks advanced research students and academics addressing the themes of the conference. Setting the tone for the days ahead, the ------Landscape Art: Past and Present from across the world together to engage ------In collaboration with Asian Art in London in two days of lively and diverse debates event contributed to ensuring that the heavy-weight academic discussions 6 February 2012 about the possibilities and modes of cross- 4 November 2011 took place in an atmosphere of lively 14 November 2011 Dr Vanesa Pesqué Cela (KCL) civilizational communication. Conference Roundtable Discussion exchange and friendly criticism. Whilst Dr Lars Laamann (SOAS) The Political Economy of Public participants presented a total of 32 papers 5 November 2011 ambitious in its scope and objectives, the Demon possession and exorcism Goods Provision in Rural China that dealt with theories of civilisation, modes cordial and warm nature of proceedings in early 20th-century China Symposium of national self-representation, questions of Speakers included: Xu Longsen (Artist), provided an important overall coherence ------belief, and environmental issues, to address Wang Tao (SOAS), Shane McCausland to the conference, making it a rewarding ------the big questions of how world order is (SOAS), Li Xiaoshan, Angelo Capasso (Art established and how ideas of civilisation experience for everybody involved. 20 February2012 critic, Rome), Yang Xiaoneng (Stanford can both help and hinder communication. 21 November 2011 Dr Anna Lora-Wainwright (Oxford) University), Li Xiaoshan (Nanjing Institute Offering reflections on the past and Andrea Janku and Matthew Phillips Dr Meining Yan Learning to live with pollution: of Fine Art), and many more (Shantou University, China) the making of environmental subjects Criminal Defamation in the in a Chinese industrialised village New Media Environment – 12 April 2012 Bon, Shangshung, and Early Tibet documents can be difficult to date and Namkhai Norbu The Case of PRC ------Reception for the Chinascape: 9-10 September 2011 even harder to interpret. The conference Contemporary Chinese Photography SOAS, University of London brought together 18 of the world’s most prominent researchers of the Bon religion ------27 February2012 Curated by Gu Zheng and early Tibet. Delegates attended from Prof Xinzhong Yao (KCL) In 1950 SOAS, University of London became Canada, China (PRC), France, Germany, 28 November 2011 Problems with Chinese religion 19 April 2012 the first institution of higher education in Israel, Italy, Nepal, the Netherlands, Norway, Professor Christine Wong (Oxford) An evening with Mo Yan 莫言 the United Kingdom to host a permanent Switzerland, the UK, and the US. Professor Reforming Public Finance for the ------Part of the London Book Fair 2012 academic position in Tibetan studies. In Tsering Thar from the Central University for Harmonious Society in China: Co-hosted with the London Confusius 1960, when Bonpo monks came to SOAS Nationalities (China, PRC) transported with How Far across the River? 5 March 2012 Institute under the auspices of a Rockefeller grant, him over sixty volumes of rare Bonpo texts Dr Kun-chin Lin (Cambridge) SOAS became the first institution of higher as a donation to the SOAS library. The Asian Highway Network: ------11 - 12 May 2012 education in the West to prominently the transmission of Chinese power via Workshop engage in research on the Bon religion. The The conference featured three keynote transport connectivity in Asian sub-regions 5 December 2011 Law, Governance and Development: conference ‘Bon, Shangshung, and Early addresses by Prof. Namkhai Norbu Dr Duo Qin (SOAS) The Transformation of Property Rights Tibet’ (9-10 September 2011) was held in the (Università di Napoli L’Orientale), Prof. Is China’s Currency ------in Land and Property Law in China Brunei Gallery in celebration of these two Samten Karmay (Centre de recherche sur les Substantially Undervalued? Speakers included: Carol Tan, Ting Xu, anniversaries. civilisations de l’asie orientale, CNRS Paris), Karmay and Tenzin Namdak, were among 12 March 2012 Alison Clarke, Jane Henderson, Tim and H.E. Tenzin Namdak (Triten Norbutse the Bonpo monks who came to SOAS in ------Dr Cosima Bruno (SOAS) Murphy, Yong Q Han, Zhang Lei, Jing The Bon religion of Tibet sees itself as the Monastery). Two of the speakers, Samten 1960. Namkhai Norbu first arrived in Italy The Public Life of Contemporary Bian, Ting Xu, Emilio Ramos and others region’s pre-Buddhist religion, originating under the same programme. In addition to 12 December 2011 Chinese Poetry in English Translation from the kingdom of Shangshung in what his academic carreer he is the founder and Dr Kevin Latham (SOAS) is now western Tibet. The earliest Tibetan director of the Internaltional Shang Shung New Media and Subjectivity in China: Spring Term Institute, and recently founded the London 15 May 2012 documents preserved at Dunhuang mention Problematising the Public Sphere Shang Shung Institute. Centre of Chinese Studies both Bon and Shangshung, but these 23 April 2012 Annual Lecture Tim Luard (Author) Over 250 people attended the conference, Wang Shaoguang The Christmas Day Escape From Hong Kong, which was generously sponsored by the China’s Governmentality in the Last 1941: Diaries, Letters And Personalities British Academy, the London Shangshung Century: Governability, Government, Institute, the Kalpa Group, and the Faculty of and Governance Languages and Cultures (SOAS). A volume of conference proceedings is in preparation.

Dominic Kennedy (Academic director of the London Shangshung Institute) and Deligeer Borjigin (Professor at Nathan Hill Inner Mongolia University)

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Landscape Art Past and Present Mountains and Water: Making a Difference – Chinascape: Contemporary 4-5 November 2011 An exhibition of landscape Representing/Constructing the Chinese Photography SOAS, University of London paintings by Xu Longsen Other in Asian/African Media, 12 April - 8 June 2012 1 November - 17 December 2011 Cinema and Languages SOAS, University of London Xu Longsen’s ‘Mountains and Water’ The Brunei Gallery, 16-18 February 2012 brought one of the most creative Chinese SOAS, University of London SOAS, University of London Curated by Gu Zheng, a highly recognized critic artist’s work to London for the first time. in the field of contemporary arts, ‘Chinascape: ‘Mountains and Water’ was an exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Photography’, was the only On 4-5 November 2011 ‘Rebirth of Shanshui, or landscape art, including a series exhibition of Chinese photographic art coinciding Landscape’ was held in SOAS, University The conference ‘Making a Difference of Xu Longsen’s smaller works on paper. with London Book Fair 2012. It featureed around of London. Co-sponsored by SOAS, the – Representing/Constructing the The highlight was an 8.5mtr high installation forty works of a number of high-profile independent National Art Museum of China and Asian Other in Asian/African Media, Cinema piece entitled “Shanshui Totem” specially artists in China, namely Wong Fen, Feng Yan, Zhu Art in London, the event included a half- and Languages’ was held from 16-18 created for the exhibition. This was a unique Hao, Liu Liyan, Wang Chuan, Zhang Xiao, He Wei, day round-table discussion and a one-day February 2012 at SOAS and organised by experiment with the Shanshui art form. It and Jin Jiangbo. By virtue of modern photographic international symposium. Griseldis Kirsch. As part of a consortium technologies, these artists reflected in their work offered new visual excitement to modern of African and Asian Studies (CAAS), viewers, as well as posing a challenge for art China’s urbanisation, the daily life of the people, the In the afternoon of 4 November invited it was this year that SOAS hosted historical interpretations in the 21st century. reshaping of tradition, as well as unveiling up-and- scholars, experts and journalists participated the conference and hence most of coming trends in contemporary Chinese culture. in the round-table discussion held in the the participants came from CAAS Xu Longsen was born in Shanghai in 1956. publishers former residence of British poet institutions. The conference attracted His Shanshui art is forceful and unrestrained, The main source for the exhibition came from and playwright, T. S. Eliot. In the discussion academic interest not just from the candid and broad-minded. By applying Contemporary Chinese Photography, a well- presided over by Dr Wang Tao, Senior SOAS participating institutions; in the end, the fine technique of ink and brush on a received book designed and published with joint and Jan Stuart, director of the Asian Division over 40 participants from seven different efforts of CYP, CYPI, and Roaring Lion Media. of the British Museum, the nations were hosted. Consequently, the Yang Yongliang, "Untitled 3", 2008 attendees shared their opinions conference ran in two parallel sessions of Xu Longsen’s giant landscape over two of the three days and all paintings. They also intensively attracted large audiences. Rather than a discussed the international small symposium, we were able to make identity of Chinese landscape art this a big and international event. and whether the global context and contemporary public space All of the panels were well visited and had created an opportunity for discussions were lively and fruitful. The the third evolution of landscape speakers mostly engaged in case studies paintings. The attendees included of how ‘difference’ was appropriated Roderick Whitefield, Chinese when familiarity and cultural proximity expert from the University of also played a vital part. Researchers London, Shao Dazhen from came from different fields of study and With Gu Zheng as Central Academy of Fine Arts, looked at different regions, but all of chief editor, this China, Shane MaCausland from them looked at either Asia, Africa or the book collects the the School of Oriental and Middle East, but with a distinct emphasis photographic works African Studies, poet Yang Lian, on the Middle East and Japan. As the of sixty well-known Shelagh Vainker from the Uni- conference was multidisciplinary, the contemporary versity of Oxford, Jiang Jiehong aspects in the discussion did not just Chinese from the University of Birmingham, Italian vast scale, Xu Longsen not only attempts include questions regarding the papers, photographers, critic Angelo Capasso, Richard Vinograd to breathe new life into the essential but added to the academic debate and is considered from Stanford University, Yang Xiaoneng characteristics of Chinese Shanshui painting, as sometimes theoretical concepts Ma Liang, "Postman, No.1", 2008. the first book from Stanford University, artist Xu Longsen, but also challenges -the dynamics of were highlighted. The papers were put in recent years that Li Xiaoshan from Nanjing University of Art, modern display spaces and conventional in panels along regions, rather than presents the development Wang Yuechuan from Beijing University, conceptions of landscape art. To the thematic similarities so that audiences and achievement of French curator Xing Xiaozhou, Zhang modern viewer, there is a mysterious and with interest in a particular region, but China’s contemporary Hongxing from The Victoria and Albert positive energy flowing through the black also those interested in a particular genre photographic art in a Museum, Juliane Noth from the Free ink and white paper—as a landscape is could attend. The rooms in which the systematic manner. University of Berlin, Sajid Rizvi from Saffron reborn. sections were held were not far apart, Books, The editor Janet McKenzie from the so that anyone interested could easily The lead curator of the magazine of International Studio, gallery move between the sections. The keynote exhibition was Gu Zheng, director Michael Goedhuis and Li Jing from speech was given by Dr Dolores Martinez critic, historian, curator, Beyond Art Space of Beijing. (SOAS), who introduced the theme by and Associate Prof. in the looking at various representations of School of Journalism at On 5 November a series of keynote difference in Western and Japanese film. Fudan University, Shang- speeches were delivered as part of the hai. Guo Guang, General symposium, Landscape Art Past and Present The conference was sponsored by Manager and editor-in- which aimed to discuss the tradition of the British Academy, the Great Britain chief of CYPI, Wang Tao, landscape art in China and to compare Sasakawa Foundation and the Faculty of senior lecturer at SOAS, it to other traditions of the world. The Languages and Cultures. and Zhang Hongxing, symposium was attended not only by curator at V&A Museum academics and students but also by Grieldis Kirsch were all co-curators. members of the art community from Britain, Continental Europe and as far afield as the USA.

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Law, Governance and Development: The Transformation of Property Ruard ABSAROKA HUANG Chia-ling Bodil KNUTS Rights in Land and Property Law in China Musicking in the Digital Age in Shanghai British-Qing Interaction in Flight or Fight: the Nation is Lost. The Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS 19th-century Taiwan influence of a vagrant life on the notion of 11-12 May 2012 Supervisor: Lars LAAMANN “home” in the prose of Xiao Hong (1911- SOAS, University of London Niki ALSFORD 1942) and Xiao Jun (1907-1988) The Banka Petition: British interactions HUANG Ching-yi Supervisor: Prof. Michel HOCKX As Chair of the Centre of East Asian Law at the session of Formosa in 1895 John Sparks Ltd: Art dealer and (CEAL) at the SOAS School of Law, Dr Supervisor: Dr Lars Laamann Chinese Art in Britain, 1900-1950 Wing Sze Kaby KUNG Tan co-directed a workshop on Law, Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao Feminism and Postfeminism in the Governance and Development: The Antonio BARRENTO Work of Hong Ying and Li Bihua Transformation of Property Rights in Land On the Move: Tourist Culture in China, Simon FORBES Supervisor: Prof. Michel HOCKX and Property Law in China, a workshop that 1900-1945 British and French Missions in China was part funded by the Centre of Chinese Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU during the 1930s and 1940s LEOU Chia-feng Studies, SOAS. Supervisor: Dr Lars Laamann Democratisation and Financial Governance: Eddie BERTOZZI The Politics of FinancialReform in Taiwan This workshop attracted eminent and early One Step Forward Into Reality: Letizia FUSINI Supervisor: Dr Dafydd Fell career scholars working in institutions Redefining the Realist Style in Concepts of tragedy in Gao Xingjian in the UK and Europe, as well as from Contemporary Chinese Cinema post-exile plays Sarah LEE Hong Kong and mainland China. Several Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI# Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI A Historical Study of Female Filipino SOAS academics and research students Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, also participated in the workshop which Participants of the CEAL-CCS workshop in Chinese Property Rights and Land Law (SOAS, 11-12 May 2012) Paul BEVAN Zhongnan HUANG 1970-2005 addressed a range of issues arising from Manhua and Illustrated Propaganda Seasoned Equity offerings of Supervisor: Dr Lars Laamann the decollectivisation of rural communes, the corporatisation of state-owned enterprises, and the emergence of urban property markets in Wartime China, 1927-1945 Chinese Listed Firms alongside legal reforms. The workshop was also pleased to welcome participants from government and industry. Supervisor: Prof. Michel HOCKX Supervisor: Dr Hong BO Shuk Man LEUNG The Discursive Formation of Utopian Carol Tan Angela BECHER Pamela HUNT Imagination in New Fiction, 1902-1911 China’s urban monumentality in Configurations of Masculinity and Supervisor: Prof. Michel HOCKX contemporary fiction, cinema and art Realms of Agency in Post-1989 Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI Chinese Fiction Cui LI Supervisor: Prof. Michel HOCKX Models of regional development Centre of Chinese Studies Annual Lecture 2012 Hon Man CHAN and labour absorption in China China’s Governmentality in the Last Century: Governability, Government, and Governance Yazheng and Dadu Poets in Yin HWANG Supervisor: Dr Dic LO mid-Yuan China: A reappraisal of The Depiction of War and Rebellion Given by Wang Shaoguang the poetry of Yu Ji (1272-1348) in the Print and Visual Culture of Tianshuang LIANG 15 May 2012 Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO Late Qing China, 1884-1901 The Agency of Syncretism in SOAS, University of London Completed Spring 2012 Supervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND Modern Chinese Art: Gao Qifeng and the New Republic This year’s CCS Annual Lecture took 20 books and numerous journal articles in Isabelle CHENG Yingquan JIANG Supervisor: Dr Shane McCausland place on 15 May 2012. It was delivered by Chinese and English. National identiy among marriage Financial development and Professor Wang Shaoguang of the Chinese immigrants in Taiwan economic growth in China Sau-Ping LIM The lecture, entitled ‘China’s University of Hong Kong. Supervisor: Dr. Dafydd Fell Supervisor: Dr Dic LO Nanyin activities in the Jinjiang Governmentality in the Last Century: region of Fujian Shaoguang Wang is the chairman and Governability, Government, and Sheng-Shih CHI Lin JIAO Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS a chair professor of Department of Governance’, approached contemporary Music, politics and identity in Taiwan The Practice and Representation of Government & Public Administration, the China from theoretical and long-term Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS the Modern Body in an Age of Hsiang-Chun Michael LIN director of Universities Service Centre for historical perspectives. It focused on topical Globalisation: The Chinese Custom The Investment Behaviour of China Studies, at the Chinese University issues of state capacity, nation building, Aristotle DY of Breast-Binding Chinese Listed Firms of Hong Kong, a non-official member of development, and democracy. Marginal Buddhists: Religion, Social Work, Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU Supervisor: Dr Hong BO Hong Kong Government’s Commission Professor Wang’s speech was followed and Cultural Identity of the Chinese in on Strategic Development. He serves as by questions and comments from the the Philippines JURGENS Valérie LIN Yi-hsin the chief editor of the China Review, an Shaoguang Wang with Dic Lo enthusiastic audience. There was a wine Supervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO The Karlbek Syndicate 1930-1935: West- Tradition, Transmission and Transformation: interdisciplinary journal on greater China. He reception after the lecture, which provided ern Trade, Collecting, and Art Collecting and Gentry identity of the studied for his LL.B. at Peking University and a good opportunity for SOAS scholars and Lifeng HAN Scholarship on Chinese Archaeology Pan Family in Nineteenth-century Suzhou his Ph.D. at Cornell University. He taught at external visitors to have conversations with Carnival Politics: Festival Spectacle Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao Tijiao High School in Wuhan from 1972-1977 Professor Wang. and Ritual in Song China 960-1279 C.E. and Yale University from 1990 to 2000. He Dic Lo Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU Yin-Chen KANG Man Yee LUM has authored and co-authored more than The Formation of Taiwanese Poems on drama of the eighteenth century HSU Hsin-wen Classical Theatre: 1900-1930 Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO An Archaeological Study of the Jades from Supervisor: Dr Tian Yuan TAN the Tomb of the King of Nanyue Kingdom Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao

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Yuanyuan MA Fion Wai Ling SO Cultural Conservatism in Modern China: Competition and Co-operation in The Journal Xueheng Shandong: Diederichsen, Jebsen & China Quarterly Main events organized by the London Confucius Institute (LCI) Supervisor: Prof. Michel HOCKX Company from 1898 to 1914 during the 2011/2012 academic session. Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU Editor: Hector MACLENNAN Professor Chris Bramall, SOAS Reportage Literature of the Korean War Xiaolei SONG Supervisor: Prof. Michel HOCKX Corporate Governance: A legal study on The China Quarterly is the leading A.C. Graham Memorial Lectures reform of State-owned Enterprises in China scholarly journal in its field, covering From 21-23 February 2012, the LCI, in partnership with the SOAS Early China Malcolm McNeill Supervisor: Sanzhu ZHU all aspects of contemporary China Seminar, hosted the third annual A.C. Graham Memorial Lectures in classical Narrative Agency in 13th-14th Century including Taiwan. Its interdisciplinary Chinese philosophy. This year’s speaker was Prof Carine Defoort from the Chan Figure Painting: A Study of Mei WU approach covers a range University of Leuven in Belgium. Prof Defoort presented two lectures and Hagiography-Iconography Industrial policy and foreign direct of subjects including anthropology/ taught a special seminar for SOAS graduate students. Text-Image Relationships investment in Guangdong province, sociology, literature and the arts, business/economics, geography, Supervisor: Dr Shane McCausland China, 1978-2010 Mo Yan chats with students at the reception Supervisor: Dr Dic LO history, international affairs, law, and An Evening with Mo Yan How Wee NG politics. Edited to rigorous standards On 19 April 2012, the LCI, in partnership with the SOAS Centre of Chinese “Shaving, not Decapitating”—Censorship Tsz Wing WU by scholars of the highest repute, Studies and with the British Council, organized an evening event which Practices of TV Drama and Film in Humorous writings of the late Ming the journal publishes high-quality, featured the novelist Mo Yan, the most prominent Chinese author to Contemporary China scholar-official Wang Siren authoritative research, keeping participate in the 2012 London Book Fair. Mo Yan read from his work and Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO readers up to date with events in answered questions to an audience of well over a hundred staff, students, China. International in scholarship, and members of the general public. Janine NICOL Boying XU The China Quarterly provides Daoxuan and the Shijia fangzhi: Private Equity Investment in China readers with historical perspectives, The Creation of a Buddhist Sacred Supervisor: Dr Hong Bo in-depth analyses, and a deeper Quotations Songs Geography of China understanding of China and Chinese On 30 May 2012, Prof. Andrew Jones of the University of California, Berkely, Supervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO Zinan YAN culture. In addition to major articles presented a public lecture, sponsored by the London Confucius Institute, on The poetry of the Manchu prince Yunxi and research reports, each issue the topic of Cultural Revolution period “quotation songs,” drawing a lively A full house at the Mo Yan event Hardina OHLENDORF (1711-1758) contains a comprehensive Book mixed audience from the SOAS departments of Chinese, History, and Music. The Construction of Taiwan Identity Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO Review section, and also a Quarterly in the Global Field of Taiwan Studies Completed Summer 2011 Chronicle, which keeps readers Supervisor: Dr Julia Strauss informed of events in and Master Class in Sherlon C. Y. YIP affecting China. Modern Chinese Culture Min-Yen ONG Relay translation of Ming-Qing On 21 June 2012, Prof Kirk Denton of the Ohio State University, Heritage or Heresy? Safeguarding erotic fiction who is editor of the leading peer-reviewed journal Modern Chinese Kunqu in China post 2001 Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO, co-supervised Literature and Culture, taught a master class to graduate students Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS with Prof. Theo HERMANS (UCL) from SOAS, Oxford, and Cambridge. In the evening, he gave a very well-attended public lecture on his research into Chinese museum Emilio Ramos Cyrus Ki Yip YEE culture. The event was co-sponsored by the LCI and the Oxford From the Rule of Law Uncertainties to China’s New Administration in the Inner Institute of Chinese Studies. Particpants during the Master Class Entrepreneurial Constraints: How China Asian Frontiers in the Late Qing Period, Moves Towards Radical Innovation’ 1901-1911” Supervisor: Dr San Zhu Supervisor: Dr Lars Laamann The London Confucius Institute is a non profit making organisation that aims to promote Chinese language learning Shuchi SHEN Beibei ZHAN and teaching and the understanding of the Chinese culture in the UK. It also endeavours to facilitate research Art, Commerce and Chinese Identities: Wedding Ritual in Ming Dynasty activities in the above areas and cultural and education exchanges between Britain and China. Remapping the Beijing Art Circle (1368-1644 AD): Prescriptions, Practices (1911-1938) and the Discourse (tentative title) Set up under an agreement between Hanban (Office of Chinese Language Council International) and SOAS, Supervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND Supervisor: Prof Bernhard Fuehrer The London Confucius Institute offers courses and engages in various activities either independently or jointly with SOAS Language Yiming SHEN Sun ZHUO Centre by drawing upon the expertise and resources of its partner institutions - Chinese Islamic text studies in the The Chinese guzheng zither: 20th and SOAS in London and Peking University in Beijing. seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: 21st century transformations A case study of Chinese translations of Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS 伦敦孔子学院是以促进中国语言文化在英国的传播为目的的非营利性社会公益性机构， Jāmī’s Persian Sufi prose The China Quarterly is published 学院也致力于推动有关领域的研究及英中两国间的文化教育交流。 Supervisor: Prof. Bernhard Fuehrer Lei ZHANG for SOAS, Univeristy of London by Land and Private Property in the PRC: Cambridge University Press. 伦敦孔子学院由中国国家汉语国际推广领导小组办公室与伦敦大学亚非学院签署协议合作建设。 Longdu SHI Law and Practice of Expropriation 伦敦孔子学院借助其办学合作单位北京大学和亚非学院的资源和专长， Buddhism and the State in Medieval China: Supervisor: Dr. Sanzhu ZHU For subscriptions, advertisements 以独立或与亚非学院语言中心合作的方式开设有关课程并开展相关的活动。 A Case Study of the Three Persecutions of and contributor instructions, Buddhism, 446-845 please visit: Supervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO www.soas.ac.uk/research/publications/journals/chinaq/ The London Confucius Institute at SOAS, Univeristy of London Telephone:+44 (0)20 7898 4887/4880 Email: [email protected] London Confucius Institute Events Listing: www.soas.ac.uk/lci/events

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