PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PROGRAM AND DEPARTMENT OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES Annual Report 2018-2019 1 Director’s Letter East Asian Studies dates from the 1960s and 1970s, when Princeton established first a Program and then a Department focusing on the study of China, Japan, and Korea, including linguistic and disciplinary training. The Department comprises about forty faculty members and language instructors and offers a major and a certificate, while the Program supports faculty and students working on East Asia in all departments and offers a separate certificate. The 38 seniors in the class of 2019 enrolled in East Asian Studies pursued many interests, combining breadth of study with a solid foundation in the languages of East Asia. Four majors in the East Asian Studies Department together with 34 certificate students (in both Department and Program) worked in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages and produced independent work covering nearly every time, place, and disciplinary approach to Stephen F. Teiser at Shaolin Temple (Henan), July 2018. East Asia. Students working on China wrote on subjects COVER: One-thousand Buddhas on interior cave-temple wall, Shuiyu Temple, Henan. ranging from eleventh-century Confucian philosophy to contemporary migrant children and the system of provide the equivalent of one academic year of language household registration. Japanese topics included the genre instruction. of role-playing games and consumer culture as well as Japanese entrepreneurship. On Korea, students worked on Support for Ph.D. students is one of the core missions government policies on housing development in medium- of East Asian Studies. In 2018 the Program joined the size cities and on the linguistic analysis of Korean mimetic Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies words. Many students wrote on subjects that cross national (PIIRS), the Center on Contemporary China (CCC), the and cultural boundaries, including Nigerian perceptions Buddhist Studies Workshop, and other University funders of Chinese influence, relations between Myanmar and to support more than 33 students pursuing research during China, Chinese theater among immigrants to New York the summer, including language study, pre-dissertation City, and Western commodity culture on display in the research, and dissertation research. They worked in the film Crazy Rich Asians. Certificate students hailed from usual places in East Asia (including China, Japan, Korea, fourteen departments in all four divisions of the university, Singapore, and Taiwan) as well as India, Kyrgyzstan, including Anthropology, Art and Archaeology, Comparative Maryland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Literature, Computer Science, Economics, Geosciences, Recognizing the extra burdens of language study for Ph.D. History, Mathematics, Mechanical and Aerospace students in the field, in 2018-19 the East Asian Studies Engineering, Molecular Biology, Near Eastern Studies, Program also provided a sixth year of funding to nine Philosophy, Politics, and the Woodrow Wilson School. Ph.D. students who demonstrated significant progress in completing their dissertations. Such funding constitutes the The study of language is the foundation of East Asian largest portion of the disposable EAS Program budget, even Studies at Princeton. In 2018-19 Princeton students as broader University support for sixth-year funding (by the enrolled in 800 semesters of language courses in Graduate School, PIIRS, Politics, and History) continues to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, with Korean enrollments grow as well. accelerating fast. Support from the East Asian Studies Program and other university sources enabled more than Lectures, performances, and conferences were a vital 100 students to attend intensive language programs over the part of East Asian Studies in 2018-19, as the listing of summer, especially Princeton in Beijing and Princeton in events in this report demonstrates. Some talks filled Ishikawa. In the span of two summer months, through 20 all 95 seats in 202 Jones Hall or required even larger or more classroom hours per week, these flagship programs spaces. Several of the events we sponsored were linked 2 to undergraduate instruction. Journalist Ian Johnson met 29 years, transferred to emerita status in June 2019. Her with students in REL 226, Religions of China, delivered position will be filled beginning in fall 2019 by Bryan D. a public lecture, and met with more than 35 students Lowe (*12). 2018-19 saw the inauguration of the Peking for dinner discussion in a series of spring events co- Opera Immersion Program, in which 20 Princeton students sponsored with the Department of Religion, the Center studied this Northern Chinese operatic tradition intensively, on Contemporary China, and the Journalism Program. through both academic study and performance training, Jeffrey Angles (Western Michigan University) spoke with with teachers from the Shanghai Peking Opera Company students enrolled in Japanese classes and lectured on “The in Shanghai. Chao-Hui Jenny Liu (EAS Program) served Poetics of Living and Writing between Languages.” The as Field Director for the inaugural year, and Wendy Heller general public was the audience for a talk on “Korean (Music) took part for much of the time as well. Back on Ceramics: Not Your Usual Story” by Soyoung Lee campus in the fall, the students, joined by media specialist (Harvard Museums), and an exhibition was the focus and fellow performer C. Todd Reichart (Chemistry), for Melissa McCormick *00 (Harvard University), who showcased selected pieces and answered questions from spoke on “Illuminating Genji: A Lecture on the Tale of the audience in a special event held in the Effron Music Genji Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” We Building, Lewis Center for the Arts. Through the generous also sponsored workshops and conferences organized by support of Princeton alumnus Jianping Mei (*90, Cheung Princeton faculty, hosting scholars from all over the world. Kong Graduate School of Business) and the contribution Topics included the dynamics of Chinese writing outside of our Shanghai partners, the program will be continuing in of China, technical and paleographical aspects of Chinese 2019 and beyond. ink rubbings, the Chinese Grand Canal, digital techniques for local histories in imperial China, natural history and The wide range of teaching and research under the aegis global business in early modern East Asia, global history, of East Asian Studies and related groups is related in the and Japanese Buddhism. Rudolf G. Wagner (Heidelberg pages that follow. I hope you will sample the news from University) delivered the annual F.W. Mote Memorial students, faculty, and visiting scholars, review the listing Lecture on the public performance of justice, and Peter of lectures and conferences, and read about the activities of Kornicki (University of Cambridge) delivered the annual our library, museum, and the many departments, centers, Marius Jansen Memorial Lecture on Hayashi Razan. and programs that make up EAS. Princeton’s involvement in international networks The staff of the East Asian Studies Program constitute for teaching and research grew even more extensive the bedrock for our work. I extend our thanks to the staff in 2018-19. Beyond the University’s continuing links of the EAS Department as well as EAS Program Manager with Tokyo University as a strategic partner, the EAS Richard Chafey and EAS Program Coordinator Chao-Hui Program supported Princetonians participating in four other Jenny Liu for their contributions. partnerships, including: 1) workshops at the International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures at Renmin Stephen F. Teiser University, 2) a Kyoto University workshop on ancient D.T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies and documents (komonjo), 3) summer seminars at Fudan Professor of Religion University, and 4) four different research clusters sponsored Director, Program in East Asian Studies by FROGBEAR (From the Ground Up: Buddhism and East Asian Religions), a research consortium funded by SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) headquartered at University of British Columbia. Inside This Issue: The clusters investigated textual and material remains placed inside Japanese Buddhist statues, introduced social PROGRAM & DEPARTMENT.......................3 network analysis at the National University of Singapore, LANGUAGE PROGRAMS..............................6 documented late manuscript and early printed editions of UNDERGRADUATES & GRADUATES........9 the Buddhist canon in Korea, and investigated sixth-century FACULTY NEWS............................................15 Buddhist cave-temples and cliff-carvings in central China LECTURES & EVENTS..................................19 (Henan). SUMMER PROGRAMS..................................22 AFFILIATED PROGRAMS............................25 Changes in East Asian Studies were apparent in personnel changes and developing fields of study. Jacqueline I. LIBRARIES & MUSEUM...............................28 Stone, who has taught in the Department of Religion for 3 Program and department EAS Department 2018-19 faculty, lecturers, and staff. EAS Department Megumi Watanabe (JPN) was appointed as a language In 2018-19, Anna Shields served as Acting Chair of the lecturer. East Asian Studies (EAS) Department; in 2019-20, Martin Fang Yan, Ying Ou, and Jue Lu joined the Chinese Kern returns as Chair. This year, Federico Marcon language program 2018-19. Yan and Ou started