PRINCETON UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT AND PROGRAM OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES

ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21

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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT & PROGRAM OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES

ANNUAL REPORT 2020-2021

Director’s Letter...4 Department and Program News...6 Language Programs...7 Undergraduates...9 Graduate Students...13 Faculty...15 Events...20 Summer Programs...22 Affiliated Programs...25 Libraries & Museum...27

ABOVE: Flowers and Birds (huaniao ce 花鳥冊), 1731, Li Shan 李鱓, 1686-ca. 1756. Album leaf; ink and pale color on paper. y1976-42h. Col- lection of the Princeton University Art Museum. This is an 18th century depiction of the cicada cycle in China, a cycle that made its way up to the topsoil of Princeton this year. (Ed.)

COVER: The Korean Language Program received the gift of an eight-panel folding screen from artist Moon Sun Young. Chaekgado (책가도, Books and Things). This chaekgado is framed by an octagonal bunhapmun (반합문) door with a set of lattice windows. These doors bear courtly dignity, hinting at a royal target audience. The shelves behind the doors are made up of six sections, slightly altering the symmetry. This work shares formal similarities with the works of Jang Han-jong (장한종) in its use of brown hues, the use of the bunhapmun door to signify nobility, the central placement of the partition with the landscape painting, and the simple three-dimensional portrayal of the objects. The use of the bunhapmun door as a frame also makes this piece an unusual example of chaekgado.

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RESILIENCE As government and university policies ease in the coming months, the East Asian Studies Program will resume its I’ve been really amazed by the strength and resourcefulness funding for this work. In fact, we aim to be more flexible of Princeton’s East Asian Studies community. During more than in the past about the timing of research, to help students than one year of historic challenges, our students, staff, and regain momentum in their research. We are also open to faculty have taken on new responsibilities, developed skills, helping researchers develop alternative—distanced— drawn on unknown strengths, and helped each other live methods for conducting research in the field. Individual better and learn together. Some students recalibrated their departments continue to ponder and implement measures to internal clocks to Zoom into class from all over the world, help academics-in-training navigate a changing job market and those in Princeton figured out how to support each and meet demands for new skill-sets. other while maintaining an unprecedented social contract based on solo living. Staff members provided stellar levels UNDERGRADUATES of service; despite weekly alterations in room quotas and building access, they searched library stacks, set up financial Those pursuing independent work shifted significantly to aid portals, and processed certificates and degrees. Faculty address the problems of today with insight, clarity, and learned new pedagogies and performance techniques to build heightened awareness of the real-world payoffs of engaging excitement into distance-learning. with problems in an academic or scholarly vein. Senior theses and independent projects looked at many twenty- CHALLENGES first century topics, including child-trafficking, political protest, religious persecution, human rights mechanisms, The challenges of the past eighteen months have been immigration policy, fat intake in national diets, Asian-African Night scene of the fountain at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs when the Twelve Zodiacs (by Ai Weiwei) were installed there. Photo by Stephen F. Teiser. severe, and we’re fortunate that Princeton University development policies, gender disparities in university leadership responded so quickly, forcefully, and effectively to attendance, internet addiction, domestic violence, the fanbase 100 or more, drawing attendees from every time zone on the are fortunate that he will continue in the demanding role as the exigencies of the day. As I compose this letter in late May for K-Pop, and, of course, many perspectives on the East globe. Director of Princeton-in-Beijing. of 2021, looking forward to resuming a semblance of our Asian dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, a former academic life on campus in Fall 2021, I’m reminded total of 39 undergraduates focused on East Asian Studies: 8 OUTREACH The wide range of teaching and research under the of the challenges we have faced. Language learning was majored in East Asian Studies, 18 earned certificates in the aegis of East Asian Studies and related groups is related in put under additional strain—and this, for languages that are East Asian Studies Program, and 13 pursued certificates in One of the gems of East Asian Studies at Princeton is a the pages that follow. I hope you will sample the news from more challenging than most. Research and learning abroad East Asian Language and Culture. regular series of teacher training workshops organized by students, faculty, and visiting scholars, review the listing of was suspended, and many international students sought Dr. Lesley Solomon and funded by the Freeman Foundation lectures and conferences, and read about the activities of our haven at homes far away from New Jersey. Locally, the U.S. LANGUAGE LEARNING and the East Asian Studies Program. The series is part of the library, museum, and the many departments, centers, and social fabric was rent by ugly incidents of racial violence, National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), a programs that make up EAS. some involving anti-Asian bias, while the national political Language learning morphed from in-person and abroad to multi-year initiative to facilitate teaching and learning about consensus broke down, often violently. Many members of entirely online during summer of 2020 (Princeton-in-Beijing China, Japan, and Korea in world history, geography, social I close this annual letter by expressing special thanks to the Princeton community faced sickness and loss of family and Princeton-in-Ishikawa), a medium that continued into the studies, and literature courses for secondary school teachers. the staff of the EAS Department as well as EAS Program and friends. All of us (if we’re honest) suffered more than fall and spring semesters of 2020-2021. Our students proved This year’s theme was East Asia in World History: From Manager Richard Chafey and EAS Program Coordinator the usual alienation, difficulty concentrating, and other forms resilient, rising to the challenges of increased screen time. the Silk Road to the Belt and Road. It featured lectures and Chao-Hui Jenny Liu for their hard work and flexibility, so of distress. These are just some of the nearly unprecedented Princeton’s language instructors were particularly resourceful discussions led by Princeton University faculty and others, crucial in keeping afloat the ship of East Asian Studies. challenges that Princeton East Asian Studies met—with and hardworking. Like our colleagues in Music and Theater, enrolling numbers much higher than in years when the strength and grace. they quickly invented new methods, prepared new materials, sessions were held in person. Stephen F. Teiser and improvised new approaches for teaching all four skills GRADUATE STUDY (listening, speaking, reading, writing) in Chinese, Japanese, RETIREMENTS Stephen F. Teiser and Korean courses at all levels. D.T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies and Professor of I remain confident about the outlook for graduate study On other pages of this report we pay tribute to the Religion in the near future, despite the difficulties of the past EVENTS contributions that our esteemed colleague, C.P. Chou, has Director, Program in East Asian Studies eighteen months. Students across all departments and made to the international world of scholarship and the culture years of enrollment saw their work impacted by local and Events were slow to start in the Fall, as we adjusted to of teaching at Princeton. Professor Chou was my teacher in international restrictions. As in other fields of study focused seeing visitors and attending workshops and conferences first-year Chinese (at Oberlin College in 1975) and I have on the world outside the U.S., many of our students were only through virtual portals. But once we began, our hosts been trying to live up to his high standards ever since. I forced to postpone trips to interview informants, conduct and speakers excelled at producing exciting events and slick join with the rest of the EAS community in extending our fieldwork, work with foreign colleagues, and pursue research video recordings. In addition, the public offering of most appreciation for his dedication and accomplishments and our in archives, museums, libraries, and archaeological sites. of our events meant that attendance soared, often reaching congratulations and good wishes upon his retirement. We 4 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 5 DEPARTMENT & PROGRAM NEWS Anna Shields will continue in her second year as Chair of the East Asian Studies Department. Federico Marcon Statement on Anti-Asian Racism from the Department and Program is stepping down after a third year as of East Asian Studies the Director of Graduate Studies. He will be succeeded by Paize Keulemans. As part of ongoing efforts to address, ameliorate, and educate about Ksenia Chizhova completed her second anti-Asian racism, the statement below was posted to the EAS website on year as the Director of Undergraduate April 5, 2021. Studies (also known as the Departmental Representative). Amy Borovoy will To students, colleagues, alumni, and friends of East Asian Studies, assume that position in the coming academic year. In the face of rising incidents of violence against the Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander community in recent months, including We are pleased to report the promotion the horrific murders in Atlanta, we are writing to express our solidarity of He Bian (HIS and EAS), a historian with the AAPI community here at Princeton and beyond, and to condemn of late imperial China and a historian of science, to the tenured rank of Associate the anti-Asian racism that has become increasingly pervasive in U.S. Professor. society in the past few years. Our hearts go out to the victims, family, and friends of those affected by this ongoing violence. Many members ARRIVALS of the Princeton East Asian Studies community have witnessed and personally experienced the pain of racist behavior and systems; we must Jerry Zee (PEI & ANT) is an stand together against racism in all its forms. In addition to the statements environmental anthropologist issued by President Eisgruber, by other members of the administration, of contemporary China, and and by other departments, the university has been actively promoting panel assistant professor in the Princeton discussions and offering opportunities for conversation across campus, Environmental Institute and the and we urge you to explore these resources to learn more. The Association Department of Anthropology. for Asian Studies and other scholarly organizations have also launched educational opportunities and called upon leaders to do more to address Melissa Mozek (EAL) began January this crisis. 2021 as the new East Asian Studies Library Supervisor, replacing Andi Johnson. But it is not enough simply to respond to the disturbing churn of the news cycle. As students and scholars of East Asian cultures, we are redoubling our DEPARTURES own efforts to teach the broader community—in and out of the classroom— about East Asia, and to promote greater awareness of the history of anti- Chih-p’ing Chou (known to colleagues Asian racism, which is linked to other forms of racism, violence, and as “CP”), Professor of East Asian injustice. Solidarity is a necessary starting point, and education is our Studies, Director of the Chinese shared goal. Beyond the current resources offered at Princeton and Language Program in East Asian by organizations such as the AAS, we hope to promote opportunities Studies, and Director of the Princeton- within the community to understand and oppose this wave of racism in-Beijing summer language program, and xenophobia. We encourage you to reach out to us with questions, will transition to emeritus status after 42 concerns, and proposals for action. years on the Princeton faculty. See more in “Faculty News.” On behalf of the Department and Program of East Asian Studies,

Andi Johnson, the East Asian Studies Anna M. Shields Library Supervisor, left in August 2020 for further graduate studies. Gordon S. Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Chair of the EAS Department Sean Miller, the EAS undergraduate administrator since summer 2017, left Stephen F. Teiser the East Asian Studies Department early D. T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies, Director of the EAS Program “Where duty lies, we must never waiver; Together, we will win the war against the pandemic!” spring of 2021 to assume a position at A set of Chinese Covid posters was acquired and digitized by the East Asian Studies Library in 2020. (Photo courtesy of the East Asian the Harlem Children’s Zone. Studies Library) 6 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 7 THE KOREAN LANGUAGE east asian language programs PROGRAM

THE CHINESE LANGUAGE This virtual academic year brought an PROGRAM astonishing increase in enrollment in Korean language courses to a record- Besides regular course offerings, the high, a total of 197 students in AY2020- Chinese Language Program (CLP) 21 (Fall: 107, Spring: 90). To provide continued to organize a series of cultural the most efficient and interactive and language activities during the 2020- learning environment even in the 2021 academic year. virtual setting, the Korean language program employed creative approaches To celebrate the arrival of the Year of to facilitate student engagement, Ox, the Chinese Language Program communication, and deeper learning. invited students to participate in cultural In addition to regular Zoom meetings events on Padlet (February 13-21) and with a strong focus on language Zoom (February 26). The Padlet event skills, more of Korean culture through consisted of two activities——a Call for the K–food events, the Korean folk In preparation for in-person instruction culture within the campus community, Visual Works with Elements of Ox/“牛” painting workshop, a puppet show, and and a fully residential program in Fall we received a beautiful eight panel (virtual), sponsored by the Chinese and advanced courses participated. At and a Call for Three-line Love Poems in Virtual Reality (VR) sessions were 2021, Princeton Korean Pedagogy folding screen, Chaekgado (Books and Linguistics Project, Princeton-in-Beijing, a Zoom language table, our alumni and Chinese. We received 12 original artworks successfully incorporated in Korean Workshop (PKPW) was held virtually Things), painted and donated by Ms. and the East Asian Studies Program, was exchange students from the University and 54 poems in total. The live Zoom language instruction and boosted on May 7, 2021. The theme was Sun Young Moon. This work is the held on Friday, April 23 and Saturday, of Tokyo joined in discussions, and celebration on February 26 attracted student engagement throughout this “Reflections, challenges, and effective reproduction of early court chaekgado. April 24. The conference featured two this provided great opportunities over 50 students, who participated in a academic year. As a part of our End-of- strategies for KFL Instruction during This Korean folk painting screen will keynote lecturers and 22 presentations to reconnect through language series of live cultural activities—poetry Year party, Korean students entered the and post-COVID-19 crisis.” be exhibited in the fall (2021) at Frist across four panels and attracted over 250 engagement. reading, lantern riddles solving, tongue- annual speech contest with group video Campus Center for the appreciation of attendees during peak attendance. twister contests, and mahjong. projects and shared their lives during the As part of our efforts to respond to students, faculty, and visitors. In the spring semester, the Japanese pandemic through one-spring-day vlog. greater interest in Korean language and THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE Language Program hosted two lectures, The Chinese Language Table, one PROGRAM “Culture and Emotion: Pro-Positive of CLP’s most enduring traditions, versus Balanced Systems of Emotions” continued to be held during the pandemic. by Dr. Yuri Miyamoto (Hitotsubashi Activities such as pronunciation clinics, The 2020-2021 academic year was a undergraduates University), and “August 6th, 1945: news discussions, and game nights, year when all classes and activities Day celebration and the segment with constructed in one week in the spring My Story” by Ms. Shigeko Sasamori, were held on a weekly basis. During were conducted virtually. Fortunately, the prize award is available at https:// of 2003. Through her extensive and survivor of the atomic bombing of the Wintersession, the Chinese Program before the pandemic, our curriculum mediacentral.princeton.edu/media/1_ judicious use of primary sources Hiroshima, and Dr. Kazumi Hatasa organized an advanced Chinese language had already been moving toward uhwj21vd in Chinese and in English as well (Purdue University). workshop, Reading Autobiography flipped teaching, a method in which (Prizes: 23:30-31:37). as secondary literature on the in Early 20th Century China, and a students review course materials online hospital, Chandler tells a compelling The 27th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy collaborative film discussion event with in preparation for class. This method The Leigh Buchanan Bienen and story of how the Chinese government Forum was held virtually on the the Chinese Program of the University of had been tried out in 100-level courses, Henry S. Bienen Senior Thesis successfully used the Xiaotangshan theme “Rethinking Assessment for Pennsylvania. which many students take to meet Prize was awarded by the East Asian hospital to combat the legitimacy crisis Learning.” Due to the coronavirus their foreign-language requirements. Studies Program to Isabelle Chandler caused by SARS. The thesis astutely pandemic, many of us have been forced On April 8, 2021, the Chinese Language In addition to online materials, our (HIS) and Hyejin Jang (ART) highlights the fact that 2003 was a to rethink assessment principles and Table featured a student-led roundtable collaboration with online communities Isabelle Chandler --Honorary Mention-- politically charged moment for the PRC practices. In the process, we gained discussion on what students continued to motivate students and government. Hu Jintao officially took new insights into the very meaning EAST ASIAN STUDIES PRIZES of Chinese language and culture can do help them improve their language skills Isabelle Chandler, “The Spirit of over the leadership of the party and of evaluation. At this year’s forum, to address anti-Asian bias. The event was and understanding of culture. Students Xiaotangshan: An Investigation into the civilian government in late 2002 we had two types of presentations: 1) The East Asian Studies Department warmly received by students, and the communicated online with a Japanese the Chinese Communist Party and the and early 2003, while the outgoing live presentations via Zoom on May 8 and Program celebrated with seniors Chinese Program will continue to strive university in Japan (JPN 101: Kansai Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s Use president Jiang Zemin retained his role and 2) pre-recorded presentations that and their families on May 24, 2021, to provide a safe space to talk about University, JPN 105: college students of the Xiaotangshan SARS Hospital as a as the leader of the People’s Liberation were available to registrants May 1 - at a virtual Class Day celebration. ongoing social issues and to engage with in Kyoto through an online language Tool of Propaganda, 2003-21.” Army. Disaggregating the PRC June 9. Approximately 300 registrants Awards were given to three seniors who current events through the language and exchange partners program sponsored government and identifying the fault enjoyed 21 live presentations and 24 produced distinguished theses based on knowledge learned in the classroom. by KCJS, the Kyoto Consortium for Chandler’s thesis examines the legacy lines within its leadership, the thesis pre-recorded presentations. For more extensive and appropriate sources in Japanese Studies). KCJS also offered of governmental action during the compellingly argues that “the spirit of information, please visit https://pjpf. Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, as well The 28th annual International Conference lectures on the Kansai dialect (Kansai- SARS epidemic, the Xiaotangshan Xiaotangshan” became a successful princeton.edu/. as Western language materials. Class on Chinese Language Instruction ben), in which students in intermediate hospital in northern Beijing that was ideological trope that helped buttress 8 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 9 government legitimacy. As Chandler and online content that fosters a sense Morgan Mills (SPIA) “Preventing Shiina Yuri (SPIA) “Elite Education for shows in the last chapter, this model of surface familiarity with the material, China from Exploiting Human Female Students: An Empirical Analysis EAST ASIAN STUDIES of hospital-as-propaganda succeeded and the desensitized, essentializing Rights Mechanisms and Altering the of the Sources of Gender Disparities PROGRAM CERTIFCATES during the SARS epidemic and persisted consumer discourses engendered by this Enforceable Definition of Human Rights in Attending Japanese Elite National during the COVID-19 crisis. Nuancing lack of depth. at the U.N..” Universities.” the effects of the government Lillian Chen (ECO) “Putting Kids propaganda machine, Chandler OTHER SENIOR THESIS PRIZES to Work: An Empirical Study on Fumika Mizuno (POL) “Immigrant Wei Xiao Zhang (PHI) “Space, Shuttle, excavates an alternative perspective Unemployment, Wages and Child on the hospital’s afterlife: the haunting Incorporation in East Asia: Divergent Seed: Three Models of the Zhuzian The Center for Contemporary China Trafficking in China from 2008-2017.” photographs from a 2010 blog post that awarded the 2021 Jennifer Wythes Cases in Japan and South Korea.” Heart-Mind.” depicts the hospital in ruins. Well crafted Hyejin Jang Vettel Senior Thesis Award to and elegantly written, this thesis offers Maxwell Chung (POL) “The Politics restitution around the globe in places Florence Wang (SPIA), “Nationalism Samuel Oh (SPIA) “Breaking Free of a thorogh, multi-perspectival study of of Korean Development: Discipline, subjected to colonial violence. with Chinese Characteristics: An Square One: Policy Recommendations EAST ASIAN STUDIES Repression, and Tolerance in Park the discursive management of a health Empirical Study of Nationalism and for the United States Regarding DEPARTMENT LANGUAGES crisis. Chung-Hee’s Era.” The Marjory Chadwick Buchanan State Support in China.” Successful Engagement Strategies AND CULTURE CERTIFICATES Senior Thesis Prize was awarded by Towards North Korea.” Hyejin Jang (ART), “Reassembling a the East Asian Studies Department *Addendum: Alice Xue (COS), a 2020 Nicholas Coleburn (SPIA) “Combating Jack Allen (Slavic Languages and Nation through Art: Korea’s Political to Morgana Anne McGrath. Her Program Certificate graduate, received the People’s Republic of China’s Literatures) “China’s ‘Gulags’? and Institutional Approaches to Cultural the School of Engineering and Applied thesis was entitled “Korea’s Online Religious Persecution of Muslim Ethnic Examining Stalinist Terminology in Heritage, from 1945 to the Present.” Science Calvin Dodd MacCracken Persona.” McGrath’s thesis attempts Groups.” Jang’s thesis casts art and its movement Media Representations of China’s to intervene in a range of public Senior Thesis Award for her thesis as major players in the political history Justice System.” conversations about, and scholarly (which was also her Program Certificate of Korea since 1945. The author Olivia Guan (ECO) “Pass the Plate: approaches to, the fate of local cultures independent paper), “Can a Machine draws on a range of sources, including The Effect of Protein and Fat Intake in the face of technologically saturated Originate Art? Creating Traditional Margaret Baughman (SPIA) “Selling official governmental communications from Diet on Heart Disease Morbidity globalized life. The fraught conditions Chinese Landscape Paintings Using China’s Story Well: The Chinese and tracts, archival news media, and of projection, appropriation, and Artificial Intelligence.” Rates in the United States, Japan, and Government’s Pivot to ‘Privatized synthetic scholarly discussions, to chart circulation of Korean media and cultural Korea.” Propaganda’ on Western Social Media.” a story of development in national products such as K-pop, K-drama, and policies on art, its restitution, and its K-beauty goods are analyzed through Allison Huang (HIS) “Japan as a Leanora Berthiaume (Slavic international display. Jang demonstrates an ambitiously configured range of ‘Great Mirror’ for Anticolonialists and how both governmental and non- Languages and Literatures) “The Impact perspectives: the “techno-Orientalism” governmental actors engaged “cultural Nationalists in Southeast Asia and East of Communism on Domestic Violence of K-culture fans, voices that are more heritage” in the postcolonial rebuilding Asia.” in Russia and China.” critically distant and self-reflexive, of South Korea, including the legal Victoria Pan and the self-orientalizing desire of and diplomatic efforts at recovering Kirsten Keels (MUS) ”Consuming the Korean government itself that is Victoria Pan (ECO) “In the Blink of A Sophia Cantine (ANT) “A State art looted by past occupiers; the strict Korean Popular Music (Kpop): An inseparable from its quest for increased Shutter: The Truth Claim of the Image of Tension: An Analysis of Chinese legal controls the government instituted global visibility. The main intellectual Anthology of Experiences within Fan Nationalist Discourses Expressed in to prevent art from leaving Korea; the in Edward Yang’s Mediations on the thrust of this thesis could not be more Communities.” Chinese Media Representations of government’s soft-power international Monotony of Modernity.” timely. By engaging with a vast array Chinese Athletes.” deployment of art from Korea for of secondary Korean-language sources Yea-In Kim (SOC) “Turning the temporary exhibitions; and its recently Robert Scheerer (SPIA) “The Iron Fist and primary online content, McGrath instituted policy of permitting the Other Cheek: An Exploration of Isabella Khan (Math) “Internet disrupts the comfortable claims of that Feeds: Assessing the Politically permanent sale of Korean art to foreign Identity Threat and the Resolution to Addiction and Social Morality in China cultural knowledge. She identifies a Coercive Properties of Chinese Debt in institutions. Jang makes impressive Love Amidst Media Stigmatization of paradox of the contemporary digital age: Africa.” and Japan.” use of primary and secondary Korean- Christians in South Korea During the the easy accessibility of information language materials to weave her COVID-19 Pandemic.” Samuel Souleles (SPIA) “Explaining Nancy Kim (COM) “Divesting Ding longue-durée narrative of South Korean Ling of her ‘Feminist’ Title: The postwar cultural policies. She ends Hong Kong’s Weakening Democracy: Yeonseo Koo (SPIA) “Looking at Promotion of Communist Propaganda her study with a meditation on the An Analysis of the Basic Law and History or Seeking Partnership: South in ‘Du Wanxiang’ and the Blurring of possible conversations around cultural China’s Legal Manipulations.” Korean Foreign Policy Toward Japan heritage ownership—conversations Gender Boundaries in ‘Miss Sophia’s that, the author hopes, would lead 1998-2019.” Julia Walton (ENG) “The New Global Diary.’” to reconciliation and help further Canon of Japanese Women Authors: Calista Lee (SPIA) “ ‘Chinese Virus’: challenge the power of the West. This Yōko Tawada, Minae Mizumura, Hyeju Lee (ECO) “Long-term Effects work, therefore, skillfully underscores Government and Institutionalized Mieko Kawakami, and the Writing of a of Job Market Entry Conditions on the current urgency of questions of art Landscape fetail from the Chaekado screen Racism in the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Heterogeneous Japan.” Earnings: Evidence from South Korea.” Morgana Anne McGrath from the cover.

10 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 11 the Late Qing Dynasty and Their Effects James Packman (PSY) “‘World of on Chinese Consumer Finance Growth.” GRADUATE STUDIES Pain’: Conflating Mental Illness and Political Dissidence from the Mao Era Gabrielle Rich (SPIA) “Japan and Graduate students across departments GRADUATE NEWS In the academic year 2020-21, Yixin Onwards and Its Implications for Real the Power of Production: Japanese busied themselves this year with Gu (EAS) made good progress on Psychological Distress.” Protectionist Policy since the Mid-19th research and writing despite the ongoing his Ph. D. dissertation now entitled “The Century.” lockdown and pandemic. Graduate Enchantment of Erudition: Models Rebekah Park (ECO) “The Causal seminars ran as normal, but on Zoom. and Manifestations of Literary Culture Connection Between Quantity and Nikhita Salgame (SPIA) “Gender Bias Grad students organized workshops, in Han-Wei China.” He plans to Quality of Children: Evidence From in the Chinese Judicial System.” participated in conferences, and schedule his FPOE in the next academic year. Publications include the journal South Korea.” won grants and fellowships. A brave few defended their dissertations and article, “Speaking with the Learning Annie Zhou (COS) “Parallels and of Odes” (JAOS 141.2), a study on the Stephen Polcyn (COS) “Changes in Polarity in the Technosocial Mode of graduated, obtaining their doctorates during the historic pandemic academic reception and transformation of Major Chinese Financial Forces Since Existence.” year. the Shi 詩 (or Shijing 詩經) and its hermeneutic traditions in Han and early Filippo Gradi (EAS) passed the medieval China. Three of his other DISSERTATIONS general exam in the fields of early research projects on pre-modern Chinese modern and modern Japanese history EAST ASIAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT MAJORS COMPLETED literature and intellectual history will be with Professors Federico Marcon and presented at conferences in spring and of the Monstrous in Online Chinese Xue Zhang (EAS) “Qing China’s Sheldon Garon, modern global history summer 2021. Recently, he earned a Discovery of Central Eurasia: with Professor Jeremy Adelman, and Fantasy Novels.” PIIRS Writing Grant Fellowship for the Geography and Statecraft, 1759-1881,” Japanese religion with Professor Bryan defended July 2020. upcoming academic year (2021-22). Louison Sall, Central Asian History Lowe. He also defended the dissertation from the 12th to 14th Century, “One Belt prospectus entitled “The noise of democracy in Imperial Japan: People’s - Many Roads: The People’s Republic of government and the Meiji constitution,” China’s Rhetoric Surrounding the Silk an intellectual, political, and social Road and the Minzu (民族) That Helped history project focused on the issues of Build It.” constitutional democracy and suffrage in Japan from the early 1910s through the Sergio Serna, Chinese and Korean mid-1930s. He presented his research Language, “Protecting the Little Guy: A at the Susman History conference at Confucian Perspective on Conceptions Rutgers University. Finally, he organized of Intellectual Authorship and Exchange the Modern East Asian History workshop throughout the academic year. during Song Dynasty China.” Yuanxin Chen (EAS) “Writing History Louison Sall Through the Biographical Genre in the Madeline Wu, East Asian Han Dynasty (202 BCE – 220 CE),” Representation in American Musical defended September 2020. Samuel Choi, Modern Korean Soojung Han (EAS), as a Princeton Theater, “Heard, but Not Seen: Culture, “Juingong: Examining Institute for International and Regional An Exploration of East Asian Reader-Character Interaction in Korean Xu Chen (POL) “Bilateral Financing Studies (PIIRS) fellow, has been Representation through Music in Webtoons.” of the Power Sector and Implications working on completing her dissertation, American Musical Theater from the for the Global Low Carbon Energy an ethnopolitical history which explores 1950s to the Present.” Transition,” defended January 2021 Alec Leng, Modern and Contemporary the intersection between political hegemony and identity formation Japanese Media, “Kikuchi Kan and Felicity Audet, Modern Japanese Shinjung Nam (ANT) “Philosophizing across tenth-century Sino-Inner Asia. Prewar Film.” Society & Culture, “The Perception Against Hegemons: Humanities Studies At the Association for Asian Studies of Difference: Combating Cultural & the Politics of Reading in South (AAS) 2021 conference, she had the Morgan McGrath, Modern Korean opportunity to present one of her Consciousness of Mental Illness Korea,” defended May 2021. Culture, “Korea’s Online Persona.” chapters on a panel she co-organized, within Contemporary Japanese Claire E. Cooper (EAS) “Dutch which also won the sponsorship of Society.”Expected to graduate in the fall Reginald Quartey, Modern Chinese Formulations and Family Secrets: the T’ang Studies Society (TSS). of 2021 Literature, “’Where Are They Now’? Medicine and the Marketplace in Early She participated in the New England Analyzing Depictions and Perceptions Modern Japan,” defended June 2021. AAS (NEAAS) 2021 Conference and the Early Medieval China Group

12 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 13 (EMCG) 2021 Conference. At the year of Ph.D. study on archival research protests, at Princeton’s Comparative EMCG conference, her presentation and article writing in China. Based on Politics workshop. FACULTY NEWS on her paper “Empress Dowager Lou the rich collection of diaries, poems, the Kingmaker: Identity Politics in letters and other sources in Wenzhou book, Kinship Novels of Early Modern the Northern Qi (550–577)” won the Municipal Library (Zhejiang), she Korea: Between Genealogical Time inaugural Graduate Student Award. finished her prospectus in October and the Domestic Everyday (Columbia Alongside her research, Soojung 2020 on the history of the lineage University Press, 2021). Ksenia precepted “The Worlds of the Middle in modern Wenzhou. After archival also enjoyed co-hosting (with Olga Ages” in the fall. research during the following months, Fedorenko, Anthropology, Seoul she adjusted her research focus to the National University) a workshop for the intellectual, political and social history special issue of the Journal of Korean of the Republican period (1911-49) and Studies, “Textual Materiality in Korea, local literati. With this new proposal, she Premodern to Postmodern,” which was awarded a Donald and Mary Hyde Professor He BIAN (EAS/HIS) has was attended by EAS colleagues and Research Fellowship by the Graduate been on leave this academic year graduate students, and received the With various collaborative projects School in April 2021. supported by an ACLS/Henry Luce support of a Magic Grant of Princeton’s on the history of war and society Early Career Fellowship. While Humanities Council. She is now postponed, Sheldon Garon (EAS) she could not travel to Asia for research working on her next book project that focused on researching and writing and visit her parents, she finds some traces the techno-aesthetic modulations parts of his book manuscript, “When solace staying home with her family and of the Korean script, from 17th century Home Fronts Became Battlegrounds: Tsz-kit Yim (EAS) spent his year conducting Sinological research online calligraphy to contemporary fonts and A Transnational History of Japan, doing archival work on inter-Asian from a Midwestern college town (see art graphic design in the two Koreas. Germany, and Britain in the Two World film network regarding classic Chinese attached). Over the internet, she started Wars.” He delivered related papers novels and adaptations. He presented a collaborative book project with to the History and EAS Departments, In her second year at Princeton his findings and thoughts consecutively Mårten Söderblom Saarela (Ph.D. 2015) respectively, on “Why No ‘1918’ in University, Meihui Liu (EAS) in key conferences such as CU Boulder tentatively titled The Manchu Mirrors 1945? A Transnational History of fulfilled course requirements. She Asian Studies Graduate Student, and the Language of Natural History in Fomenting Revolutionary Change in kept working on the topic of early America Comparative Literature High Qing China, which they presented War” and “Applying Global History Chinese historiography. She took a Association, and Society For Cinema at this year’s AAS and hope to finish to the Study of War: Transnational Japanese summer course and a seminar and Media Studies in Spring 2021. this summer. She also started serving Narratives of Resilience under Aerial on classical Japanese prose this year. Elaine Yao (POL) I am concluding Most heartwarmingly, he was invited to on the Editorial Board of Late Imperial Bombardment.” Garon has been She wrote several seminar papers and the second year of my Ph.D. in the deliver a 40-minute Zoom talk (followed China and Isis this past year and awarded a 10-month FIAS fellowship at took good care of herself during the Politics department. In this past year, by a 30-minute discussion) on the topic enjoyed doing blogposts for the Manchu Thomas Conlan (EAS) took full the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, pandemic. She will prepare for the I presented a co-authored manuscript, “Classic Chinese Novels: Contemporary Studies Group as its president through advantage of Zoom to give lectures at beginning September 2021. general exam and prospectus next year. “Authoritarian Responsiveness and China, Transnational Media, Affective 2023. Other good news is that she was The University of Cambridge, Kyushu Political Attitudes during COVID-19: Network,” hosted by the Center for the promoted to Associate Professor with University, and Wake Forest, all from James Watson-Krips (EAS) spent Evidence from Weibo and a Survey Study of Globalization and Cultures tenure in July 2021. the comforts of his home. He, like all, the first half of his third year preparing Experiment,” at the NYU Quantitative at his alma mater, the University of adjusted to a year of Zoom classes for his qualifying exams, which he China Studies Seminar conference and Hong Kong. The cross-campus event at Princeton. He also completed a passed in January with a major field in a separate co-authored manuscript, surprisingly attracted more than 30 translation of sources about the warrior Modern China (1800-2008) and minor “How Propaganda Manipulates participants, including professors from culture of Japan. This sourcebook, fields in Imperial China (600-1800) and Emotion to Fuel Nationalism: HKU’s School of Chinese, Department entitled Samurai and the Warrior Culture Modern Japan (1868-1945). He then Experimental Evidence from China,” of Comparative Literature, Hong Kong of Japan, 471-1877 will be published spent the second semester completing at the NYU Chinese Political Economy studies, and post-doctoral researchers from Hackett Publishing next year. He and defending the prospectus for Workshop. The manuscripts are at the from the Society of Fellows in also was able to revitalize his Mongol Tom Hare (COM) Despite bitter dismay his upcoming dissertation project. revise-and-resubmit stage at China Humanities. Encouraging comments and scrolls site, bringing an annotated at the disruptions of the past year, I Tentatively titled “A Republic on the Sociological Review and Comparative constructive criticisms from the Q&A version online with the great help of found it satisfying in one respect: the Road: Traveling by Bus and Truck in Political Studies, respectively. The session made the effort worthwhile, Ben Johnson http://digital.princeton.edu/ past fifteen months have brought to Modern China, 1911-1949,” it asks project on COVID-19 is a joint paving the way for a more rigorous annotatedscrolls/. Tom and his family completion or near completion a number As Director of Undergraduate Studies how automobiles transformed everyday project with Lai Wei (SOC) and Han dissertation. remain happy and well. Save for writing of projects I’ve been working on for a for AY 2020-21, Ksenia Chizhova life in town and country during Zhang (SOC) and was supported and teaching, it really has been a quite long while. I completed chapters on (EAS) is delighted to congratulate China’s Republican period, and how by funding from Princeton’s Data- time, with the greatest drama being memory in the warrior plays of the Noh the class of 2021 on the successful people at this time both adapted and Driven Social Science Initiative. I also discovering a snapping turtle hatchling repertory for a book with the Cornell completion of their studies under the accommodated this new technology to presented progress on my second- at the edge of his driveway. Tom rescued UP, and on many other aspects of Noh continuously unusual circumstances. suit their own needs. year paper, which develops a formal it and returned it to Lake Carnegie with history and critique for a large handbook On a more personal note, Ksenia was theoretical approach to understanding the hope that it will have a long and on Noh now being finished with a happy to see the publication of her Yuqian Wang (EAS) spent her fourth deliberation and goal escalation in happy life. consortium of Japanese and international 14 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 15 scholars via the Noh Research Institute “Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods volume of essays based on our 2017 language program, recruiting new at Hosei University, Tokyo. In the at Fukushima’s Gray Zone.” Ryo conference, The Way and the Words: lectures and organizing Chinese cultural context of work on ancient Egypt, I contributed a commentary on the Religion and Poetry in Medieval China, activities. Her Chinese textbook, Lens published a piece for a popular audience tenth anniversary of Japan’s 2011 to Amsterdam University Press. on China: Intermediate and Advanced in Cabinet magazine on the “Dream triple disaster to Critical Asian Studies Readings on Film for Learning Stela” that was found between the paws (https://doi.org/10.52698/ASPR7364). Brian Steininger (EAS) continued Chinese, was published by Hong Kong of the Great Sphinx at Giza. I also His recent research on wild boars his research on the material formats University Press. Her translations of published a more technical piece on the in coastal Fukushima, presented for and expedients of Sinitic composition several classic Chinese tales were first line of the “Great Hymn to Aten,” the EAS Department colloquium, in Japan ca. 1300. He most included in Victor Mair and Zhenjun from Egypt, 14th century BCE, this one will be published later this year in an recently published a chapter in the Zhang eds., Anthology of Tang and students studied the real. in the German Egyptological journal, anthropology journal. In the summer of series Opening Up Ancient Japanese Song Tales: The Tang Song chuanqi ji Göttinger Miszellen. 2021, Ryo launched an undergraduate History (Kodaishi o hiraku, Iwanami of Lu Xun published by World Scientific Xin Wen (EAS/HIS) had a memorable Paize Keulemans (EAS): The one project with a group of Native students Shoten), and has begun a monthly online Publishing Company in Singapore. year teaching undergrads and grad good thing to come out of Covid was at Princeton, entitled “Nuclear research group to study Princeton’s courses and advising seniors in EAS the ability to invite people at other Princeton” (nuclearprinceton.princeton. recently acquired manuscript of a and HIS, all remotely. Along with his universities to give zoom lectures, or, edu). The project highlights the under- sixteenth-century Japanese commentary teaching and advising, he also finished conversely, give zoom lectures at other acknowledged impacts of nuclear on Zhongxing chanlin fengyue ji, an his first book manuscript entitled The universities. Two such classes stand science, technology, and engineering anthology of Song monastic verse. King’s Road: Envoys, Manuscripts, and out for me last year, one was teaching on Native lands, communities, and the Making of the Silk Road in Eastern a class on “Romance of the Three beyond. Nuclear Princeton is supported Eurasia 850–1000, and is preparing for Kingdoms” and video games at MIT, by Princeton Program on Science publication. In this academic year, he the other was teaching a graduate class and Global Security, High Meadows published an article (co-authored) in on “Outlaws of the Marsh” and video Environmental Institute, among others. the Metropolitan Museum Journal and games at Berkeley (see the attached Based on the project, Ryo will teach a another one in the Central Asiatic visual). The class at Berkeley, in turn, freshman seminar in the spring of 2022. Andrew M. Watsky (ART) spent Journal. Two more articles are accepted became a paper that will be forthcoming 2020-2021 steeped in the virtual, like and forthcoming in Harvard Journal at the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies everyone else. In this context arose the of Asiatic Studies and the Journal of in the coming year. question: how to teach a course in art Chinese History. In the spring, he is history—usually based on the close glad to learn that he received an ACLS Federico Marcon (EAS/HIS) has Stephen F. Teiser (REL) I engaged study of actual things, often in the fellowship that funds his second project Martin Kern (EAS), trying to make completed his tenure as Director the virtual world by developing new Princeton University Art Museum and on the history of the city of Chang’an the best of life under the pandemic, of Graduate Studies for the EAS approaches to teaching. I taught a other collections—in a virtual setting? between the fall of the Tang dynasty embarked on an open-ended online Department. He continued his research year-long workshop for Ph.D. students The answer was to gather groups of and the rise of the Ming dynasty. He reading group of the recently published and writing of his book manuscript focusing on the academic profession, objects and send them to the students, is looking forward to a new year Anhui University Shijing manuscript on ‘Fascism”: History of a Word, which work-life balance, and writing skills. wherever they were. ART 422, “Tea and of exciting research, more human with more than a dozen graduate he hopes to complete in the course of My introductory course on Chinese Its Objects in Sixteenth-century Japan,” connections, and less Zoom. (The photo students from Beijing, Hong Kong, the next academic year. He published Anna Shields (EAS) This was a truly religions took advantage of the boom examined the diverse arts employed in serves to commemorate this time in our Princeton, Philadelphia, and Seattle. two articles on The British Journal for unusual year in which to begin as in online and international events; on chanoyu, a Japanese practice centered lives, hopefully for the last time, when When the group finally finished the History of Science and History & EAS Department chair, but thanks to the course blog, students posted about on the drinking of whisked tea. Each we had to wear a mask for just a walk in reading the manuscript right before Theory and completed a chapter for working from my office in Jones Hall surfing arhats, the use of poisons as Zoom class meeting included discussion the park). the winter holidays, it had met for the New Cambridge History of Japan on since July 2020, I was able to make medicine, The Book of Changes, the of assigned readings, such as sixteenth- some sixty hours of detailed research “Tokugawa Philosophy: A Historical the transition to online teaching and scroll-painting Qingming on the River, century primary sources in translation and discussion online, hosted by Introduction.” As instructor, he chairing smoothly. I am very grateful everyday historians of China, north and, as well, in-depth examination of a Renmin University (Beijing). Joint developed a new undergraduate course for the tireless efforts of our faculty China folk religion, Jewish merchants single type of object, examples of which and individual publications from this for the Humanities, cross-listed with and staff this past year. Although my on the silk road, and the video game every student received. The students project will be forthcoming in both EAS and History: “A Global History of 2020 sabbatical travel was canceled— Total War: Three Kingdoms. I also tuned unwrapped, handled, lived with, and English and Chinese. Besides, among Monsters.” The course, which studies including a fellowship at the Center for in to stimulating panels in the aftermath studied their objects week by week— other writings, Kern published “Beyond how the trope of the monstrous reveals Chinese Studies in Taiwan—I continued of anti-Black and anti-Asian racist ceramic tea bowls one session, metal Nativism: Reflections on Methodology deep structural tendencies in the culture to present virtual papers (at the IAS incidents, including sessions sponsored flower containers the next, followed by and Ethics in the Study of Early China,” that engendered it, counted about a and at the Erlangen Sinologicum) and by the University of Pennsylvania lacquer tea caddies, and so on for twelve a critique of current scholarship that hundred students enrolled and will be participate in the ongoing Tang-Song and the Association for Asian Studies weeks. Although these were inexpensive had first appeared, igniting considerable offered on a regular basis from now on. Transitions Workshop I co-convene with (AAS). study pieces, they well represented controversy, in Chinese. Finally, the Bob Hymes at Columbia University. the aesthetic interests and material first volume of his selected essays in During AY20-21, Ryo Morimoto We’ll be hosting a Tang-Song In AY 2019-2020, Jing Wang (CHI) properties central to Japanese tea Chinese translation has been submitted (ANT) spent his sabbatical year at the Transitions Conference at Princeton in taught four Chinese language courses culture. The seminar met the pandemic- People living on Ezo Island. From Hatano for publication in Beijing. Institute for Advanced Study, where June 2022. With my co-editor Gil Raz, and assisted Prof. Chih-p’ing Chou induced restrictions with the tangible Aokimaro, Ezotō kikan (early 19th c.). Photo he worked on his book manuscript, we submitted the manuscript of our in the administration of the Chinese object and, through the virtual interface, courtesy of the East Asian Studies Library.

16 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 17 at Princeton into one of the nation’s 2003), and Hu Shi’s Thought and creative and flexible to meet those and grew rapidly to enroll an average premier programs. He co-authored and Modern China (in Chinese; Jiuzhou changing needs. of 160 students per summer, with the published more than 20 textbooks, most Press, 2012), which won several awards CP has consistently supported exception of the SARS year of 2003 with Princeton University Press, trained in China at its publication, Modern these curricular innovations by and the recent pandemic year, when PiB of generations of Chinese language Chinese Intellectuals and Cultural producing dozens of new textbooks has operated remotely. CP Chou was teachers, and directed the Princeton-in- Reflections (in Chinese; Beijing, Jiuzhou for both modern and classical Chinese. essential to this terrifically successful, Beijing program, which he co-founded Press, 2013), The Sparks of Freedom: Fifteen of his twenty language textbooks constantly growing international with Princeton professor (now emeritus) Hu Shi and Lin Yutang (in Chinese; have been published by Princeton collaboration in language instruction: Perry Link in 1993. Taipei, Yunchen Press, 2018), and Hu University Press in their “Princeton he managed everything from university- Shi’s Romance in America (in Chinese; Chinese Language Program” series, level negotiations and relationships P Chou’s scholarly publications Hong Kong, Zhonghua shuju, 2019). including Oh, China! An Elementary to securing favorable campus have ranged widely over the Chou’s biographical scholarship Reader of Modern Chinese for accommodations, developing weekend Ccourse of his career, beginning with on Hu Shi has been extensive, including Advanced Beginners, the first college- field trips for students, and recruiting a the study of the late Ming author a co-authored study with Susan Egan level textbook aimed at heritage corps of the best language teachers. Yuan Hongdao (1568-1610) and the of hundreds of letters exchanged with learners. The PUP textbooks have been Over the past 28 years, iconoclastic “Gong’an School” of Edith Clifford Williams, published used throughout the world, testifying to Princeton-in-Beijing has trained over literature. He demonstrated that these in A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: the international success of Princeton’s 4,500 students, many of whom have writers’ advocacy for a wider expressive The Half-Century Romance of Hu Shi Chinese language program. gone on to become scholars in Asian range for literary writing, not just in and Edith Clifford Williams (Chinese studies, international journalists, elite classical genres such as poetry and University of Hong Kong Press, 2009). very year since 1993, CP has also lawyers, financial specialists, educators, belletristic prose but also vernacular In recent years, he turned to examine hosted an international conference and professionals in a wide range of writing, had a far-reaching impact on the international impact of novelist and Eon Chinese language pedagogy, fields requiring advanced Chinese late imperial Chinese literature. His first translator Lin Yutang, and his current which attracts hundreds of scholars to language skills. Princeton-in-Beijing book, Yüan Hung-tao and the Kung-an scholarship examines the influential Princeton each April. Both Princeton- has also had tremendous impact on the School (Cambridge University Press, 20th-century historian and intellectual in-Beijing and the Chinese language field through its training of Chinese 1988; also published in Chinese in Qian Mu (1895-1990). He also regularly pedagogy project have benefited from language teachers, some of whom have PROFESSOR EMERITUS Taipei, 1986) was the first monograph publishes and presents his work in the the strong support of the Program in also taught at Princeton, and many of in English to focus on the significance field of Chinese language pedagogy. East Asian Studies over the years. whom have gone on to teach in language of this literary movement. Expanding Beyond Princeton, CP has broadly programs throughout the U.S. C. P. CHOU this approach, Chou next connected s Director of the Chinese Language influenced the teaching of Chinese in these developments in the late Ming AProgram in East Asian Studies the U.S. and abroad, at first through his P Chou retires from Princeton Chih-p’ing Chou, Professor, Department of East Asian Studies dynasty to the modern Chinese since 1987, CP Chou oversaw significant many years of service (1983-1992) as leaving enormous shoes to fill. literary revolution of the early 20th shifts in Chinese language teaching at the Director of the Chinese Summer CIn addition to his prolific scholarship century (centered in the May Fourth Princeton that have continued to shape Language School at Middlebury on late Ming and modern Chinese hih-p’ing Chou (known to scholars Irving Lo and Leo Lee, who Movement), including its promotion the field nationwide. When he joined College, known for decades as the most intellectual history, since 1979 he colleagues as “CP”), Professor advised his dissertation. He first came to of vernacular literature. Tying the the Princeton faculty in 1979, there rigorous, “total immersion” language has shaped the careers of thousands Cof East Asian Studies, Director of the Princeton while he as a lecturer in 1979 expressive and individualistic tendencies were fewer than 100 students per year program in the country, and later via his of students and has transformed the Chinese Language Program in East while he was finishing his dissertation, of late Ming writing to new 20th- studying all levels of Chinese, and a three decades of directing the Princeton- landscape of Chinese language teaching Asian Studies, and Director of the and after completing his Ph.D. in 1982, century developments, he argued that handful of language lecturers; since the in-Beijing summer language program. at Princeton and around the world. His Princeton-in-Beijing summer language he was appointed assistant professor of the indigenous origins of the literary early 2000s, between 400-500 students In this respect, CP Chou has colleagues in East Asian Studies will program, will transition to emeritus Chinese, teaching Chinese literature, revolution had long been overlooked in per year annually enroll in Chinese honored and enriched the traditions miss his energy, his frank and engaged status after 42 years on the Princeton culture, and language. He received the framework of “western influence” language courses, involving many begun by the founder of East Asian discussion, and his dedication to the faculty. tenure in 1987 and was promoted to full that had dominated prior scholarship. instructors teaching both the modern and Studies at Princeton, Frederick P. (Fritz) success of the Department and Program CP was born in 1947 in professor in 1990. His research on intellectuals classical language. Mote, and the prior Director of Chinese in East Asian Studies and the Chinese Shanghai, and his family moved such as Hu Shi (1891-1962), Lu Xun In the late 1990s, he reformed Language Ta-tuan (TT) Ch’en. language program. from Shanghai to Taiwan in 1952. He ver the course of his long (1881-1936), Feng Youlan (1895- the curriculum to include a double Colleagues across many received his elementary and secondary career at Princeton, he became 1990), and Lin Yutang (1895-1976) track system for heritage and non- uilding on his experience at departments at Princeton—some of education in Taiwan, and then his B.A. Ointernationally known as a scholar have worked to show the persistence heritage learners, making Princeton Middlebury, as China began to open them former students whose careers in Chinese literature from Soochow of Chinese literature and intellectual of liberalism and the May Fourth one of the first universities to expand Bin the early 1990s, he and Professor were instigated through the language University (Taipei) in 1970 and his history. He published on literature of Movement in 20th century intellectual in this direction. As Princeton’s student Perry Link (then Professor of East Asian programs CP directed—will try to M.A. in Chinese literature from Tunghai the late Ming dynasty in his early career culture after 1949. His many books on population has grown and diversified, Studies at Princeton) took the ambitious maintain his high standards and human- University (Taichung) in 1974. While and then carving out a second influential 20th century literature and intellectual this double track system has worked step of establishing Princeton’s own heartedness. Following his transition to at Tunghai University, he had the research profile in the thought of early history published since the 1990s to serve the needs of the growing summer language program in China emeritus status, we look forward to his opportunity to teach at Oberlin College 20th-century Chinese intellectuals. include Hu Shi and Modern Chinese number of heritage and non-heritage in 1993, the first U.S. university to do continued involvement in the life of the from 1974-1976. He applied and was In addition to his prolific scholarly Thought (in Chinese, Nanjing University learners who fill our classrooms. Both so. Located on the campus of Beijing department and program, and we wish accepted to the Ph.D. program in publications, in these four decades he Press, 2002), Studies in Modern Chinese the pedagogy and the curriculum for Normal University, Princeton-in-Beijing him the best in the next stage of his Chinese at Indiana University, where also transformed the teaching of Chinese Intellectual History (in Chinese; Taipei, Chinese language had to become more began with 87 students in summer 1993 career. he studied with prominent literature language at Princeton, making Chinese 18 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 19 Southern California

EVENTS AND LECTURES “Remains of the Everyday, a Century of T H E P R I N C E T O N U N I V E R S I T Y E A S T A S I A N S T U D I E S P R O G R A M & T H E T A N G C E N T E R F O R Recycling in Beijing” E A S T A S I A N A R T P R E S E N T Art Work: sponsored with other units on campus. St. Louis Classifying Artifacts as It’s a August 30-September 1 “I am a Wanderer: Paek Sin-ae (1908- Official Business in Late Imperial China Party! Graduate Symposium “(A)Synchrony: 1939) and Writing Travel” Bruce Rusk, University of British Columbia

Recurrence, Reversal, and Resistance” MARCH 31, 2021 • 4:30 PM TO 6 PM The Department of Art and Archaeology November 11 Lecture ZOOM MEETING You are Cordially Invited to the Hui-shu Lee, UCLA Fall 2020 East Asian Studies Reception September 2 Lecture “Picturing West Lake: The Poetics and Time: 4:30 p.m. (EST) Richard J. Samuels, Massachusetts Representation of an Iconic Place” Date: September 9, 2020 Institute of Technology Co-sponsored with the Tang Center for Venue: ZOOM Please RSVP by registering on this link “Special Duty: A History of the Japanese East Asian Art REGISTRATION REQUIRED. https://bit.ly/3jo9cez Intelligence Community” EAP.PRINCETON.EDU/EVENTS

russia ロシア/Япония japan April 7 Lecture Undaunted by the pandemic, the residues, materialities, environments: trans-disciplinary exchanges Department and Program resumed our Jennifer L. Guest usual get togethers in fall and spring, Queen’s College, Oxford University Julia Alekseyeva Alec Brookes “Borders of Poetic Language: Defining albeit virtually. The fall reception Craig Campbell Jane Costlow Elena Fratto Chinese and Japanese-style Poetry in counted 90 people attending the first Sumiko Hatakeyama March 3 Lecture Margherita Long Medieval Commentary to the Wakan Colleen McQuillen Kikuko Hirafuji, Kokugakuin virtual Fall Reception on September Ryo Morimoto October, 16-17, 2020 Tom Newlin an online conference Rōeishū” 9, 2020. We welcomed new graduate Jon Pitt University, Tokyo Jenifer Presto Franz Prichard Co-sponsored by the Colloquium on students, faculty, staff and new fellows Eiko Maruko Siniawer “The Depiction of Japanese Deities in at the Institute for Advanced Studies (led Modern Japan” Literacies across East Asia (CLEA) by Nicola DiCosmo) with introductions Presented by Elena Fratto, Franz Prichard, and Ryo Morimoto April 14 Lecture and ten breakout rooms. More solidarity Sponsored by March 9 Lecture David A. Gardner ‘69 Magic Grant Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Lihong Liu and hilarity were shared on February 3, Department of East Asian Studies Naomi Standen, University of Oxford 2021, when the Lunar New Year Party “Taking China Out of Premodern Global University of Michigan, Ann Arbor was celebrated on spatial.com and many History Books: Bodies, Threads, and “Shen Zhou’s (1427-1509) Paintings care packages of New Year candy and Fabrics” from Life” October 16-17 Conference decorations were sent out to the East Co-sponsored by the Tang Center for “Russia/Japan: Residues, Materialities, November 18 Book Talk March 10 Lecture East Asian Art Environments: Trans-disciplinary Sarah Kovner, Columbia University Eunsil Oh, University of Wisconsin- Exchanges” “Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Madison April 21 Lecture Council of the Humanities, Department Japanese P.O.W. Camps” “Declining Son Preference in South Ian Johnson, “Writing a New History of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Korea” of China: How Chinese Intellectuals Department of East Asian Studies are Trying to Fill in Blank Spaces in March 17 Lecture Contemporary Chinese History” October 21 Lecture Emily Ng, University of Amsterdam Co-sponsored by the Center on Erica Baffelli, University of Manchester “A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Contemporary China “Living Aum Shinrikyō after Leaving It: Madness, and the Ghost after Mao” Time, Emotion, and Community” Co-sponsored with the Department March 24 Lecture of Religion and the Buddhist Studies Tristan Grunow, Pacific University Workshop “Revisiting Ginza Bricktown: The Asian community around the globe. Politics of Urban Space in Early Meiji November 2 Book Talk Coffee-hours were virtual in 2020- Tokyo” Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Hong Kong 21, a first in its venerable 50+--year Baptist University history. The virtual aspect also made the March 31 Lecture “China Tomorrow” lectures available to a global audience. Bruce Rusk, University of British Co-sponsored with the Paul and Marcia Subsequently, we had lectures with Columbia Wythes Center on Contemporary China attendance numbers hovering between “Art Work: Classifying Artifacts as One still image of a Wu Ding oracle bone 100 to 200 participants, also a first for Official Business in Late Imperial November 5 Lecture March 1 Lecture (P013), recently put online for Reflectance the series. All together there were 18 China,”Co-sponsored with the Tang Ji-Eun Lee, Washington University in Josh Goldstein, The University of Transformation Imaging (RTI)-viewing. 13th c. virtual events and lectures, many co- Center for East Asian Art BCE. EAL collection.

20 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 21 SUMMER PROGRAMS Princeton in Ishikawa (PII) Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Princeton-in-Ishikawa was conducted virtually using Zoom for the first time in PII’s history. Although most non- Princeton summer programs in Japan were cancelled, we were able to offer Japanese courses to students who were seeking to advance their Japanese language during the summer.

During the eight-week program, 25 students from 9 institutions, including 16 from Princeton, participated in our program. For non-Princeton University

students, neither course credits nor Rakugo (traditional Japanese form of comedic storytelling transcripts could be provided from Princeton University. The shift to sessions for the students were Rakugo with many uncertainties. But once it the online format still provides the (traditional Japanese form of comedic began, the eight weeks passed quickly. equivalent of two semesters of regular storytelling) and Kamikiri (traditional Judging from the results of the end- coursework, but reciprocity agreements Japanese paper cutting), which showed program survey, the majority of PII between the states concerning online us that students can obtain sufficient students were highly satisfied with the learning do not allow Princeton traditional performing arts experiences program. The exchange sessions and University to issue credit to non- even virtually. lectures received especially positive Princeton students. However, both feedback. This indicates that virtual non-Princeton and Princeton students Will students participate in online language programs, depending on their classes for three hours every night curriculum and activities, can still Princeton in Beijing (PIB) and 9 were non-Princeton students. or integrated into individual session collaborated to learn about Japanese culture and languages, and we were without getting bored and tired? Will successfully motivate students and help While non-Princeton students could discussions. the online class still be able to improve them improve their speaking abilities. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 not request a transcript from Princeton very proud of their motivation and effort under extremely challenging students’ Japanese abilities? The Virtual This year’s Virtual PII was a good pandemic (deemed as a pandemic in University due to reciprocity agreements Extracurricular and co-curricular PII program started as foreign terrain pioneering example for future PIIs. early March 2020), Princeton in Beijing between states concerning the issuance activities were held, including movie- circumstances. had to cancel the Beijing-based program of credits for postsecondary distance viewing, interviews with people in as well as an in-person program in New learning, Princeton in Beijing provided China, and poetry recitals. Another Regarding class schedule, we took Jersey, ultimately opting for an online its own certification of completion and notable program-wide activity was into consideration the time zones of program instead. The Princeton in grade report for those who completed a traditional Chinese music virtual our students, and decided to meet Beijing Online Summer 2020 Program the program. concert, during which three musicians from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm (Eastern was held with a total of 48 students and based in Beijing gave performances Daylight Time). Holding classes 15 teachers (not including the Director For the Summer 2020 program, using traditional Chinese instruments during these times made it possible for and Program Manager). Despite the Professor Perry Link, co-founder of and students had the opportunity to ask students to participate in the program shift to online, the summer program Princeton in Beijing, gave a series of questions. synchronously from most of the regions remained 8 weeks, with at least 120 talks that covered a wide range of topics in the United States and even from Asia. total class contact hours for students. related to Chinese language, history, and This summer’s program offered culture. Professor Link’s talks were held This year, even though the program three levels of courses: Second Year at the beginning of every week, usually was not held in Ishikawa, Japan, we (CHI 105C/107C), Third Year (CHI Monday evenings, and were around an decided to include ways to connect with 305C/306C). and Fourth Year (CHI hour in length followed by a half hour Ishikawa in the curriculum during the 405C/406C). All program activities, Q&A session. Students found the talks third period of class. We taught regular including classes, individual sessions, to be very interesting, particularly on classes using textbooks only during the and talks, were held using the Zoom the topics of Chinese language arts first and second periods, and used the videoconferencing platform. (xiangsheng and shunkouliu) as well as third period for various other activities, Fang Lizhi and Liu Xiaobo. Students including exchange sessions with Of the 48 students who attended were also very keen on learning Japanese college students and Japanese the program, 34 were Princeton more about Professor Link’s personal host families from the Ishikawa region. undergraduate students, 3 were experiences in China. In some cases, the We also invited guest speakers to hold Princeton graduate students, 2 were contents of Professor Link’s talks were weekly lectures on topics that might recent graduates of Princeton University, either related to the lessons that week interest students. The most popular Thirty-six Actor Poets [Haiyū yakusha sanjūrok’kasen]. Collection of the Marquand Library. 22 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 23 Affiliated Programs

Buddhist Studies Workshop July 4-6, 2020. It included papers and Investigate the Corporate Form. A discussion by twenty-five scholars roundtable with Levi McLaughlin Thanks to support from the Glorisun worldwide. For further details, please (North Carolina State University), Global Network, Princeton’s Numata see the Glorisun website website. Aike P. Rots (University of Oslo), Visiting Scholar and Program Fund, Jolyon Baraka Thomas (University of Office of the Provost, East Asian Studies B. Buddhist Studies Workshop Pennsylvania), and Chika Watanabe Program, Center for the Study of lectures included: (University of Manchester), and Religion, and Department of Religion, responses by Leora Batnitzky (Princeton the Buddhist Studies Workshop hosted Black Buddhism as Religio-Racial University) and Stephen F. Teiser a series of diverse events from June Identity in the Early Twentieth Century. (Princeton University). March 19, 2021 2020 through May 2021. They included Adeana McNicholl (Vanderbilt an international seminar and related Buddhist Perspectives on White Racial conference, a regular series of BSW Ignorance and Identity. Emily McRae lectures, and the first Numata Lecturer (University of New Mexico). April 8, in Buddhist studies. 2021

A. 2020 Glorisun International & Reevaluating Mountain Practice in Intensive Program on Buddhism. Premodern Japan. Kikuchi Hiroki Sponsored by The Glorisun Global (University of Tokyo). April 15, 2021 Network for Buddhist Studies, co- hosted by Princeton University and the C. Numata Visiting Scholar FROGBEAR Project at the University Princeton Peking Opera Program microphone, etc. Each student was also The program’s new features included of British Columbia. June 26–July 15, Under the auspices of Princeton’s (PPOP) given opera kits hand-picked by SHPOC two classes on Chinese language taught 2020 Numata Visiting Scholar and consisting of a digital info booklet, by Princeton Language Lecturer Dr. Program Fund, Professor Kikuchi Due to the pandemic, the summer 2020 make-up packet, fans, and practice Zou Xin, two voice lessons for the dan Four Seminars were offered: Hiroki 菊地大樹 (Tokyo University, Opera Program was postponed to the robes. students by Hongyimei’s Su Shangyi, 1) Imre Galambos (University University). September 21, 2020. Historiographical Institute) served as following year. During Wintersession Three Preparatory Courses and the workshop for applying the of Cambridge): Tradition, Living Aum Shinrikyō after Leaving It: the inaugural Numata Visiting Scholar th 2021, the PPOP director Dr. Chao-Hui commenced May 8 for three remarkable face paint for Peking Opera. Innovation and Interaction: Time, Emotion, and Community. Erica in Spring 2021. Together with Bryan D. Jenny (CJ) Liu offered a two two-hour consecutive Saturdays, divided into a Now our students, with some practice, Buddhist Manuscript Culture in Baffelli (University of Manchester). Lowe (Department of Religion), he co- workshop, “Love, Honor, and War: male role class and a female role class. A can apply their own Peking Opera make- Medieval China. taught a course on Popular Buddhism in PRI NC ETO N UNI VERSI TY Peking Opera Appreciation” with Music special lecture and demonstration given up for performances as well as sing, 2) Stephen F. Teiser (Princeton EAST ASI AN STUDI ES PROGRAM LEC TURES Premodern Japan. Chair Wendy Heller. 43 Princeton by opera superstar Madame Shi Yihong dance, and act. LIVING AUM SHINRIKYŌ University): Medieval Chinese AFTER LEAVING IT: students, staff, and faculty attended and her jinghu accompanist on May The Princeton Peking Opera Buddhist Ritual. TIME, EMOTION, AND the first workshop “Hamlet” ( 30th kicked off the full program. Many Program was organized by the East COMMUNITY 王子旦 3) Eugene Wang (Harvard Erica Baffelli The Paul and Marcia Wythes Center University of Manchester 復仇記） and 20 attended the second students from Princeton-in-Beijing came Asian Studies Program with its University): Buddhist Art of on Contemporary China (CCC) workshop “(霸王別姬) showing the to the talk and demonstration. For two coordinator Dr. CJ Liu serving as the China. full weeks, from Monday to Friday, 7 PPOP director. Sheryl Chow, Ph.D. Princeton University’s great interest in 4) ZHAN Ru (Peking University) This year was busy as the CCC p.m.-10 p.m. (EDT), students learned candidate in Music, was the teaching Peking Opera. & Jinhua Chen (University of sponsored six postdoctoral research virtually, step-by-step, excerpts from assistant. Our collaboration with two In the summer of 2021 the British Columbia): Transborder associates who conducted research the operas The Drunken Consort Princeton University departments, Peking Opera Program resumed on a 貴 and Transcultural Transmission through the academic year.CCC Zoom platform with the partnership and The Lantern List . Music and East Asian Studies, along 妃醉酒 報燈名 of Buddhism: New Evidence 4:30 P.M. (EST) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2020 also supported eight Princeton of the Shanghai Hongyimei Peking Fang Murong (role dan ) and Wang with Princeton alumnus Professor J.P. and Perspectives. REGISTRATION REQUIRED 旦 EAP.PRINCETON.EDU/EVENTS undergraduates who were located in Opera Company (SHPOC) Dun (role chou ), both members of Mei *90 and Shi Yihong’s Hongyimei SPONSORED BY . There 丑 THE EAST ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAM, THE DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION & THE BUDDHIST STUDIES WORKSHOP China and four graduate students with the prestigious Shanghai Peking Opera in Shanghai made the virtual program were considerable challenges with Lectures were delivered by Anne fees for study abroad and language Company (Ms. Fang once graced, in full possible. We learned a lot from the students using a virtual platform to Blackburn (Cornell University), Ulrike October 21, 2020. study. CCC sponsored 15 speakers costume and make-up, the billboards virtual program in summer 2021 and learn a performance art with dance, Roesler (University of Oxford), and throughout the year, often on Monday at Times Square), taught these roles, hope to apply the lessons to 2022! song, acting, and martial arts. Five Jacqueline Stone (Princeton University). The Play of Formulas in the Early in the evenings to ensure audience Princeton students and two Princeton respectively. The full program ran Buddhist Discourses. Eviatar Shulman st Clockwise from upper left: Emily Liu *22, , participation from Asia. staff based in the United States, Japan, for two weeks, from May 31 to June A Conference on “Transmission of (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). and Hong participated in the program. 11th when The students individually Todd Reichart (staff), CJ Liu (staff) middle, Shiina Yuri *21, Julia Zhou *24, Sheryl Chow Buddhism in Asia and Beyond, in November 12, 2020. Each student was equipped with a performed their excerpts in a final recital Memory of Antonino Forte’s (1940- (GS), and Cindy Han *22. custom audio/visual kit with webcam, for their teachers, family, and friends 2006) 80th Birthday” was also held Why Scholars of Religion Must

24 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 25 Lesley Solomon, Ph.D., a longtime SERVICE BEYOND PRINCETON teacher and administrator in the Cherry Hill New Jersey Schools, oversees Princeton in Asia PiA spent the year focused on internal NCTA programs. In January, we offered strengthening and strategic planning a three-part series entitled, From the Princeton in Asia was pleased to offer work, with a focus on advancing Silk Road to the Belt and Road: a suite of eight remote fellowships diversity, equity, and inclusion Economies, Trade and Cross-Cultural this past year. Host organizations objectives and developing more robust Exchanges between East Asia and included long-time partners Ngee Ann health, safety and welfare resources and the West from the Classical Period Polytechnic (Singapore), International protocols. PiA hopes to send a small to the Present. Professor Stephen F. Water Management Institute (Sri group of Fellows to the field in winter Teiser and Dr. Chao-Hui Jenny Liu Lanka), Tractus (Vietnam) and the 2022 and is eagerly looking forward to spoke on the first day of this three-part Natural Resources Defense Council recruiting for fellowships beginning in series. Two of the three programs drew (China), as well as a new partner, Himal summer 2022. over fifty teachers from New Jersey and other states. In April, we provided P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for Columbia, provided a close look at the Photographs of the Mogao and the Southasian (Sri Lanka). Fellows worked in STEM education, environmental National Consortium for Teaching two programs on contemporary East East Asian Art interrelationships among inventories Yulin Caves (9 vols.) and the stand- Asia, one on China and the other on of personal goods, the classification alone paperback of essays, Visualizing sustainability, public health and About Asia (NCTA) economic development. Despite the the Koreas. Professor Tom Christensen The 2020–21 academic year witnessed of art and antiquities, and attitudes Dunhuang: Seeing, Studying, and remote conditions, we are working Since 2000, Princeton East Asian of Columbia University and Professor unprecedented challenges due to the toward property and objects of cultural Conserving the Caves. After many to provide opportunities for cultural Studies Program has provided programs Rebecca Clothey of Drexel University pandemic but also remarkable resiliency. significance. Lihong Liu, assistant years of research, site inspections, learning, connection and relationship- for teachers, funded by the Freeman spoke about China. Princeton Professor Like so many others around the world, professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures workshops, and a protracted production building. Thanks to the generosity of Foundation’s National Consortium for Ksenia Chizhova discussed early the Tang Center, under the direction at the University of Michigan, Ann schedule due to the pandemic, the the Program in East Asian Studies, Teaching Asia. Facing the challenge modern Korea, and Professor Victor Cha of Andrew M. Watsky and Dora C.Y. Arbor, focused on Shen Zhou’s paintings monumental publication endeavor has remote Fellows have been able to of the pandemic, Stephen F. Teiser, of Georgetown University presented Ching, pivoted to virtual programming from life (xiesheng), especially images come to fruition. For details about the apply for language and cultural grants Program Director, Richard Chafey, current issues on the Korean peninsula, while continuing work on publication of flowers, insects, and landscapes, publications, a look inside the volumes, to begin or continue language study in Program Manager, and Brandon Ermita, including, of course, the nuclear projects remotely. analyzing Shen’s work through the and a view of the printing process, the communities of their postings. In Program Technician, developed a virtual threat. These programs, too, drew an In partnership with the East lens of ecological realism. Through the please visit the Tang Center website: addition to piloting remote fellowships, series to replace in-person programs. enthusiastic response from teachers. Asian Studies Program, the Tang virtual platform, we not only continued https://tang.princeton.edu Center hosted four virtual lectures. our commitment to fostering research In September 2020, Peter Sturman, and scholarly discussion, but we were Primary object for Peter Sturman’s lecture. Su also able to reach a diverse, international Shi (103–1101). Old Tree, Rock, and Bamboo. professor in the Department of the Private collection. Image courtesy of Peter LIBRARIES & MUSEUM audience of more than 100 people at History of Art and Architecture at the Sturman. University of California, Santa Barbara, each lecture, renewing and reinforcing presented the lecture “Inscriptional community despite geographical and Visualizing Dunhuang: The Lo Archive East Asian Studies Library and the solutions were established by the Hathi Practices of the Northern Song Literati.” temporal differences. Photographs of the Mogao and Yulin Caves. Gest Collection, 2020-2021 Trust Emergency Temporary Access Building on new research centered on In our final event of the Ed. Dora C.Y. Ching. 9 vols. Princeton: project, which argues that, provided academic year, a webinar book launch, P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center, Princeton As was the case in the whole country, the printed book is owned by a library Su Shi’s attributed painting Old Tree, University, in association with Princeton we celebrated the publication of the academic year 2020 saw the but not accessible, limited access to a Rock, and Bamboo, Sturman examined University Press, 2021. Photo: Trifolio srl the relationships between image maker Visualizing Dunhuang: The Lo Archive university, the library, and the EAL digitized copy (without downloading or and viewer through an in-depth look at struggle with how safely to continue to printing) could be enabled even if under signatures, seals, and inscriptions. provide access during the pandemic. copyright. This allowed temporary In November, Professor access to books digitized under Hui-shu Lee of the Department of Art Amidst fast-changing directives all cooperation with Google but not made History at the University of California, libraries on campus closed in mid- available publicly because of copyright. Los Angeles, re-examined images of March, 2020, and moved to an on- Later in 2020 Princeton was one of West Lake, proposing a new way of line-only environment. As a first the earliest libraries to develop new conceptualizing such imagery. In her step, we worked with our library and software to extend this concept (called lecture, “Picturing West Lake,” she commercial partners to enable at least Controlled Digital Lending) to works explored the pictorial tradition of iconic temporary access to a wide variety of newly digitized locally. Other efforts in images of West Lake as the site of new databases (see https://libguides. which our librarians created new access cultural memory. princeton.edu/ealdbs), increasing and programs were already listed in the already large array Princeton last year’s EAS Annual Report. EAL During the spring semester, Illustration of the Da fo ding shou leng yan two lecturers discussed topics in late users always had access to. One librarians monitor, if possible, the use of jing shu jie meng chao ( major goal was to increase access to such temporary access, and may acquire 大佛頂首楞嚴經疏解 imperial China. Bruce Rusk, associate 蒙鈔), mid-17th c., a Buddhist commentary professor in the Department of Asian e-books, previously less stressed in the new packages as a result; as happened, by Qian Qianyi, censored under Qianlong and Studies at the University of British humanities departments. Creative legal for example, with the Regional and hence extremely rare. Part of the works digi- Industrial Statistics Archives: Meiji tized in cooperation with the NCL. 26 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 27 Period database. Expanded access to students did come back in person. The view by just moving the mouse. RTI was Princeton also organized locally and Chinese databases notably included the problem of limited available student previously used for cuneiform tablets, nationally Korean Romanization large Diaolong set of databases (with workers was largely solved with the but Columbia and Princeton decided it workshops. 道藏 e.g. the Zhengtong daozang 正統 , helpful collaboration of some current could profitably be used for oracle bones Daozang jiyao 道藏籍要, Dunhuang graduate students, who responded too: see https://catalog.princeton.edu/ Perhaps the most exciting development collections, and various additions to the favorably to our special pleas to help catalog/8996000. was that, together with the faculty and Siku Quanshu 四庫全書 such as the keep library services in place. Also, the Center for Digital Humanities, the Siku Quanshu Cunmu Congshu 四庫全 summer 2021 greatly relies on such Persistent requests from librarians at the library spearheaded a new East Asian 書存目叢書). graduate students; thank you! EAL for access to microfilm scanners Digital Humanities Working Group, to during the pandemic resulted in PUL support faculty and students interested in New license agreements with other During the fall semester special acquiring a high-speed microfilm or working on DH projects (https://eadh. providers from mainland China permission was finally obtained to scanner that allows PUL to scan whole princeton.edu/). It saw several sessions and Taiwan made (and continue to hire a replacement for the day-to-day microfilms very quickly. in the past year and will undoubtedly make) it possible to quickly acquire library manager. Marissa Mozek started continue to do so in the coming years as eBooks from such vendors to respond working in that position in early January The acquisition of a Japanese rare work, well. to requests from users, provided an 2021, replacing Andi Johnson who Chūkō zenrin fūgetsushū shō 中興禅林 eBook is available. Thus, access to left in August 2020 to pursue graduate 風月集抄, initiated by a faculty request, The Marquand Library of Art and e-books from important publishers such studies. This was a great relief; she resulted in a virtual international study Archaeology as Zhonghua Shuju and the Shehui arrived just in time to devote herself to group with faculty and students at Kexue Chubanshe greatly improved. A getting ready for the return of 60% of Princeton, Dōshisha 同志社 and Kyūshū Chinese Section comparable expansion in the coverage the students in February, and to allow us 九州 universities. of e-books (and audio-books!) took to go back to the standard pre-pandemic Despite an exceptionally challenging place with our Korean holdings, to add EAL library hours, including evenings year, Marquand’s Chinese art to our traditionally strong offerings in and weekends. Thu,s the EAL managed acquisitions kept pace with past years, e-journals. A special Princeton Korean to give both on-line and in-library access adding over 1,100 titles through E-book Library was set up for this in many ways, and is well placed to April 2021. While access to physical (http://princeton.dkyobobook.co.kr/; return to “normal” by fall. The one, collections was limited, Marquand sign-up required). This collection, which painful exception is that there still is no busied itself with preparations for our includes Korean novels and essays, With the help of the Friends of the Princeton University Library, this six-color 1834 edition of Du access at all for visitors; and the EAL temporary relocation, with collections has already proved very useful in the Fu’s poems, Du Gongbu ji (杜工部集), was purchased. in particular always saw steady use of being dispersed to multiple locations Korean language curriculum. From equal in face of the electronic world; the EAL is relatively crowded: it took its collections by people from other for the duration of the McCormick Hall/ North Korea a digital version of the and especially humanities departments some work to establish new staff spaces institutions. We are very much aware PUAM renovation. official publication of the North Korean need print access too. Despite their that were socially distanced. that some of them are previous members Notable Chinese art acquisitions include Writers Association, Chosŏn munhak great expansion, digitization services of the Princeton community. Know the collaborative purchase of a timely (1977- 2015), was acquired. From the cannot meet all demands. Thus, plans By July 2020, new plans allowed most that we monitor the possibilities in this collection of materials from China, U.S.A. the longest-running Japanese- to resume at least some such services staff to return in rotating shifts, and respect closely. Zhongguo xinguan yiqing zhengce American newspaper, the Rafu Shinpō were soon underway as well; and, services expanded beyond pick-up xuanchuan haibao 中国新冠疫情政策 羅府新報 (L.A. Japanese Daily News; again amidst quickly-changing state, and digitization. Print orders restarted. Despite the pandemic, there were a Hakutaku (白澤) amulet for a cholera 宣传海报 (Chinese COVID-19 political first published in 1903; the digital university and union guidelines, by June The university developed a COVID-19 few special projects which went ahead pandemic in Japan (1858). From: Kanagaki propaganda poster collection). Other archive starts in 1914) was added to the 2020 a pick-up service was in place, a testing program, and for a month the with special permission. A two-year Robun, Ansei korori ryūkōki ōmune (安政箇 additions include the long-awaited ). East Asian Studies Library collection. few people were on site daily, physical university and library expected to have digitization project with the National 勞痢流行記槩畧 volumes of paintings from the National delivery of some boxes restarted, and half of the students back on campus, Central Library in China struggled to Palace Museum-Taipei in the Song hua When the pandemic compromised new workflows with partial physical before worsening conditions in the remain on target with limited staff, In December, the EAL received, qua ji 宋畫全集 series, as well as the access to some major databases access were established; and the country reversed that decision. Still, but managed to deliver 99 rare book digitized and publicized a Chinese initial volumes of the companion Ming available only on in-library computers, libraries as a whole were the first areas the library implemented a reserved-seat titles on time by the end of 2020. (See COVID-19 poster collection to great and Qing 明畫全集/清畫全集 sets, all because local regulations prevented of the university granted partial return to program, creating a set of safely spaced https://dpul.princeton.edu/eastasian.) acclaim (https://catalog.princeton. supplanting classic catalogues used by patrons from using physical computers campus. seats according to state occupancy Our oracle bone collection was put edu/catalog/12047521). All EAL CJK painting scholars in past decades due on campus (e.g. the Siku Quanshu 四庫 rules; some were available to the online by the Chinese consortium librarians are also part of a Princeton-led to their exceptional reproductions. A 全書, the Mingbao Yuekan 明報月刊, There were difficulties: all libraries general (Princeton University) public, CADAL (Chinese Academic Digital IPLC (Ivy-Plus Libraries Confederation) rare photo album published in Beijing the Sibu congkan 四部叢刊), they were faced a very limited availability of and some reserved for established EAL Associative Library). This project effort to archive Global Social in 1958, Kitai: Fotoal’bom, provides made available remotely via a remote students allowed to be on campus. For users. Such seats allowed for browsing uses RTI (Reflectance Transformation Responses to COVID-19 (see https:// over 300 photographs detailing aspects lab service newly developed by the the EAL, in particular, the temporary the stacks, a high priority for some of Imaging) technology, which takes archive-it.org/collections/14022.) Other of the development of each province of library’s IT department. freeze on new hiring went into effect our users. As it so happened, the plans many photographs from different light such new collaborative Web-archiving the PRC in its first decade. Spring 2021 just when the Library was losing 2 of made for the fall semester functioned directions of an item, special software projects are on Greater China Archival additions include new installments in Despite all these efforts, the library its 2.5 staff members in circulation sufficiently well to be continued, with allowing then to look at incisions from Resources, the Queer Japan Web the Qing court architectural archives and librarians knew very well that services; this meant extra work for the minor changes, during the spring different angles. CADAL allows now for Archive, and the Independent Chinese series Guojia tushuguan cang yangshi not all fields, areas and languages are few remaining staff and students. Also, semester too, when some 60% of the such access in a browser, changing the Filmmakers Archive. More are planned. Lei tudang: Yang chun yuan juan 國 28 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 29 家圖書館藏樣式雷圖檔:暢春園卷 website: https://library.princeton. and Nan yuan juan 南苑卷 (National edu/news/general/2021-04-24/new- - Lecture: “Guides for the Soul: Library Collection of the Archival marquand-art-library-cache-kunisada Art from China’s Warring States Drawings of the Lei Family of Qing and an illustrated, but gruesome, Meiji Period,” given by Cary Y. Liu, Imperial Architects: Chang chun period guide to the punishments of the Nancy and Peter Lee Curator of Garden and Nan yuan Garden); an early Tokugawa shogunate, published in 1893, Asian Art, April 29, 2021. exhibition catalogue of photographer entitled Tokugawa Bakufu keiji zufu 德 - Panel Discussion: A Garden for Lang Jingshan 郎靜山, Exhibition of 川幕府刑事圖譜. Solace, Zoe S. Kwok, Associate Pictorial Photography, to Commemorate Curator of Asian Art, participant the Centenary of Daguèrre, sponsored Among the 20th century titles collected July 30, 2020. by l’Association Photographique de this past year were: The Sublime Work - Members Lecture: “Inside the l’Université l’Aurore (1938); and Yuzhi of Seiho [Seiho ippinshū] (1935-36), Curator’s Office: Acquiring Bishu shanzhuang, Yuanmingyuan called one of the most magnificent Asian Art,” given by Zoe S. tuyong 御製避暑山莊, 圓明園圖詠 printing achievements of the twentieth Kwok, Associate Curator of (Imperially commissioned Illustrations century https://library.princeton.edu/ Asian Art, May 26, 2020. of the ‘Summer Retreat to Escape news/marquand/2020-06-03/making- the Heat’ and the ‘Garden of Perfect reservations-exciting-japanese-purchase- - Lecture: “Collecting Asian Art Brightness’), an 1887 pirated 2-volume marquand-library and The Japanese- at Princeton,” given by Zoe S. set of lithographs. French Art Bulletin [Nichi Futsu Kwok, Associate Curator of geijutsu], a rare serial published between Asian Art, April 16, 2020. Japanese Section 1925 and 1928 on the relationship - Spring-Summer Gallery between Japanese and French art. We Rotation: Treasures from Asia, Despite worldwide lockdowns and the also continued to collect rare titles in the last full gallery rotation in the move to Firestone Library, Marquand fields of 20th century architecture and McCormick Hall building that Library was able to acquire a number photography. displayed Chinese landscape of exceptional titles for the Japanese painting from the last 1,000 rare book collection this past year. years, new Chinese ceramic A particularly significant addition gifts, Indian miniature was one of the earliest color-printed paintings, recently acquired books in Japan, Umi no sachi 海の Japanese paintings, and 幸 [Bounty from the Sea] (1762-78), contemporary Korean art. featuring sea creatures in delicate hues. We also added to our collection of titles Museum Acquisitions: illustrated by Kitagawa Utamaro with - Coffin Box Panel: Gentlemen Seirō ehon nenjū gyōji 青樓繪本年中 Attendants, 10th–early 11th century 行事 [Ceremonies of the Green Houses] https://artmuseum.princeton. (1804), one of the first Japanese books edu/collections/objects/134682 to be collected and then republished in - Mallow Flower Shaped Dish, Europe (fueling the craze for Japanese Southern Song art), and Kyōgetsubō 狂月坊 [Moon- https://artmuseum.princeton. mad Monk] (1789), an early book by edu/collections/objects/137702 the artist in which he displays his ability - Insects, Birds, and to work in the five major schools of Accompanying Poems, completed art of the period. Still other Edo period ca. 1896 highlights included: Kitao Masayoshi’s, https://artmuseum.princeton. TOP: Erotic books by Utagawa Kunisada (1786- Kaihaku raikin zui 海舶来禽図彙 [A edu/collections/objects/138126 Compendium of Birds Brought from 1855), “The Amorous Murasaki Finds Pleasure - Illustration to the Bhagavata in Fifty or more Chapters.” Marquand Library Overseas] (1793); Shōkōsai Hanbei’s Purana: Muchukunda Kills the BOTTOM: Thirty-six Actor Poets [Haiyū Santō yakusha masukagami 三都俳優 yakusha sanjūrok’kasen]. Marquand Library. Warrior Kalayavana, ca. 1775 ますかがみ [A True Mirror of Actors https://artmuseum.princeton. from the Three Cities] (1806); and edu/collections/objects/135550 Katsukawa Shunshō’s Nishiki hyakunin Princeton University Art Museum - Gitter-Yelen Collection isshū azuma ori 錦百人一首あつま織 (PUAM) Asian Art donative-sale objects [Brocades of the East: The One Hundred completed, happy to provide Poets] (1775). We also acquired five Highlights of Asian Art activities at full list and images. significant titles by Utagawa Kunisada, the Princeton University Art Museum Newly acquired historical poster (1962) on Atomic Chemical and Biological Weapons preparedness. Photo courtesy of the East Asian Studies Library. featured in an article on the PUL during the 2020-21 year: 30 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 EAS ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 2021 31 Published by the Princeton University Program in East Asian Studies

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