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Centre of Chinese StudiesANNUAL REVIEWISSUE 4: September 2012 - September 2013

LETTER FROM THE CHAIRSOAS UNiverSiTy Of LONdONL ooking back on the past year, 2012-2013 has been an eventful and fruitfulacademic year for the Centre of ChineseStudies (CCS).

The Centre’s regular seminar series covered a wide range of topics from literature and arts in imperial China to family and reformin the contemporary PRC, with eminent speakers coming from within the UK andalso international scholars from Europe, Asia, and North America. These seminars filled the lecture room G50 with lively discussions on Chinese studies on many Monday evenings.

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This year’s CCS Annual Lecture was delivered by Professor Stephen H. West (Foundation Professor of Chinese at Arizona State University and formerly Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese at UC Berkeley) on the topic of “The Burdens of Happiness: Zhu Changwen’s Garden of Joy”. In addition, the Centre also organised a SOAS Masterclass for MA and PhD students, several book launches, and an exhibition on “The Great Wall Photographs”. More information about these and other CCS events and activities can be found in the following pages.

with eminent speakers coming from within the

UK and also international

scholars from Europe, Asia, and North America

In the coming months, we have also lined up a number of international conferences at SOAS. On 5-6th September 2013, CCS will host the “Max Weber and China:Culture, Law and Capitalism” conference in collaboration with the Weber Study Group of the British Sociological Association, Journal of Max Weber Studies, and CCPN Global. Next, a conference on “Islamic Soundscapes of China” will be held on 10th January 2014. Together with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and National Chung-Cheng University, we are also planning a conference on “Brave New Theatres: 1616 in China and England” scheduled to take place in June 2014.

The Centre continued to host academic visitors for short to medium term. Our visiting scholars in the past year include Dr Yucong Ru (Zhejiang University), Dr Wang Hua (Minzu University of China), DrJue Wang (Renmin University), Dr Yan Wu

(Central China Normal University), and DrDongling Liu (Jiangsu Normal University).

Looking ahead, it is my great pleasure to announce that after over two decades since its founding in 1992, CCS will be entering into an exciting new chapter in the coming academic year. A new SOAS China Institute (SCI) will be set up under the leadership of the Founding Director, Professor Michel Hockx. Chinese studies at SOAS has grown steadily and continuously over the years.The expansion from CCS to the new SCI will not only help to meet the increasing needs of the wide range of China-related activities and collaborations in which the School

is currently engaged, but will also bringChinese studies at SOAS to new heights.

Finally, as my term of office as Centre Chair will soon come to an end in Sept 2013, I would like to thank all the colleagues who have helped me in one way or anotherin running the Centre over the past year. Special thanks to Jane Savory and Rahima Begum at the Centres & Programmes Office for their unfailing energy that contributed to the success of all the Centre activities and publications.

Tian Yuan TanChair, Centre of Chinese Studies

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During the 2013-14 academic year Hong Bo:

• Invited speech on thetopic “The Chinese financial system and the domestic consumption driven growth model”, Conferenceon issues of regional development in Xian China, Xian, June 28-30, 2013.

• Comment as a respondent on the book “The Morality of China in Africa” (Edited by Stephen Chan) atthe book launch event organized by Royal African Society, UK, May 7 2013.

• Became an Editorial Board Member of Frontiers in Finance in June 2013.

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Bo, Hong, Tao Li, and Yanmei Sun (2013) Board Attributes and Herding in Corporate Investment: Evidencefrom Chinese Listed Firms, forthcoming European Journal of Finance.

On 7 November 2012, Cosima Bruno was interviewed on her new book Between the Lines by Prof Carla Nappi. The podcast of the interview is available on the East Asia page of the New Books Network (http://newbooksine- astasianstudies.com/).

On 13-15 December 2012, she delivered a paper entitled “The Routes of Poetry in Multilingual Macau”, at the World Literature London Conference, SOAS, University of London.

On 25 January 2013, Cosima was invited by the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, to give a lecture entitled “Contemporary Chinese Poetry and the Legitimization of Its Literary Genealogy ” for the lecture series Invented Traditions, Institute of Chinese Studies, Department of Classical World and Asian Culture, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

On 11-15 June 2013, she was invited to attend the 44th Rotterdam Poetry International Festival, and to give a paper on the translation of Chinese digital poetry.

On 8-11 July 2013, she particpated to the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) XIII International Conference Migration, with a paper entitled “Macau Poetry in Motion”. The University of Essex, United Kingdom.

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“The Public Life of Contemporary Chinese Poetry in English Translation”. Target.2012 (24:2): 253-285.

“Contemporary Poetry from Macau” Intervention: A journal of post-colonial theory, July 2013.

During the 2013-14 academic year Ernest Caldwell gave several invited lectures on Chinese constitutional law andtraditional Chinese legal thought at Oxford, Cambridge, andSOAS, and also participated in the conference “Legal Theory- Legal History: A neglected dialogue?” held at Queen Mary.

In November 2012, he was invited to join an international team of legal historians fora long term project titled, “Legalising Space in China” which is based in the Institut d’Asie Orientale at Lyon, France. The purpose of the project is to produce full English and French translations of all extant law codes from traditional China.

Additionally, Ernest was asked to serve as co-chair of the planning committee for the upcoming international conference “Max Weber and China: Culture, Law and Capitalism” to be held at SOAS in September 2013.

Cui Yan gave a presentation at the Fifth Asia-Pacific International Symposiumof Teaching Chinese as an International Language in Melbourne, Australia on 24-25th August 2013. Her paper was entitled “Innovative Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language: An Analysis of Newly Created Teaching Materials”. This conference was organizedby Asia-Pacific International Teaching of Chinese Society, Asia Institute of The University of Melbourne (http://www. asiainstitute.unimelb.edu.au) and Australian Tertiary Chinese Teachers Association (http:// www.artsmonash.edu.au/publications/chinese-studies-re-view/about.php). The objectives of this conference were to promote research on teaching Chinese as an international language, to explore ways and methods of teaching Chi-nese by drawing on students’ first language, including translating and interpret-ing, teacher training, teaching material compilation, teaching methodology and tests and as- sessment etc.

Cui Yan stated in her presentation at the conference: “Teaching Chinese as aforeign language effectively is always a teacher’s task on the daily teaching basis, and using innovative teaching methodology plays very important part in successful teaching. This innovative teaching strategy should be based on teachers’ experienceof long term practical teaching, should have been used,tested and have been proved to be as an effective one of improving quality of teaching, which should include teaching materials, teaching approaches or the combination of thetwo.” The analysis included

the characteristics and usage of the teaching materials etc..

The article entitled “Discussion of the Fundamental Abilities of Chinese Language Teachers

in Universities outside China” by Dr Cui Yan was published by Higher Education Press inBeijing in July 2013. This was the paper that Cui Yan presentedat the 11th International Conference for Teaching Chinese (http://11th.shihan. org.cn) and it was selected by the editing committee as a part of the collective bookwhich is entitled The Selected Paper of the 11th International Conference for Teaching Chinese by The International Society for Chinese Language Teaching Secretariat. The theme of this conference organisedby The International Society for Chinese Language Teaching and Hanban/ Confucius Institute Headquarters (http://www.shihan.org.cn) was “Innovation and Development — International Chinese Language Teacher Training”.

Based on the theories of language teaching and teaching experience, Cui Yan has given her detailed account of what fundamental abilities the Chinese language teacherswho teach Modern Chinese in universities outside China should have in order to teach the Chinese language successfully and to train learners in different language skills effectively, also she has given her own account of the issue on how to trainand produce qualified Chinese language teachers. Furthermore, practical suggestions havebeen made and her viewpoint has been illustrated by using authentic language data and various examples.

The International Society for Chinese Language Teaching was established on 14th August in 1987 in Beijing with overfive hundreds of members worldwide and Cui Yan is one of them. Cui Yan has

beeninvited to give her presentations at its international conference regularly.

Dafydd Fell went to Taiwan for fieldwork in December 2012. This project involved interviews and focus group sessions with activists and candidates from the Taiwan Green Party. This isa collaborative research project between Dr Fell and Professor Peng Yen-wen (National SunYat Sen University) that aims to analyse the past electoral record of the Green Party and propose strategies for improving itsfuture electoral performance.

Dafydd gave the following presentations over the year:

1. Measuring and explaining the impact of third parties in Taiwan’s party system. Paper given at the Tenth European Associationof Taiwan Studies, Lyon, France, May 2013.

2. Taiwan’s Green Party.Presentation given at SOAS Taiwan Studies Summer School. June 2013.

3. Publishing in Taiwan Studies. Presentation given at SOAS Taiwan Studies Summer School. June2013.

4. Implications of Taiwan’s Nuclear Power Station Referendum. Presentation given at SOAS Taiwan Studies Summer School. June 2013.

5. The electoral impact of the Taiwan Green Party.” Paper given at conference on Environmental Governance, Northumbria University,July 2013.

6. Explaining Patterns of party switching in multi- party Taiwan, paper given at American Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, August 2013.

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Fell, Dafydd. Party Politics inTaiwan (London: Routledge,2012). Paperback version published.

Fell, Dafydd (2013) ‘The Nuclear Referendum issue in Taiwan.’ University of Nottingham, China Policy Institute blog .

Fell, Dafydd (2013) ‘Impact of

Candidate Selection Systems on Election Results: Evidence from Taiwan before and after the Change in Electoral Systems.’ The China Quarterly, 213 . pp.152-171.

Rossella Ferrari was on sabbatical in the first term of the academic year. She spent this time researching and writing up a chapter on a series of inter-Asian collaborative performances that address thedivision of the Korean peninsula and cross-strait relations between mainland China

and Taiwan in comparative perspective. This chapter is part of a new book project,provisionally titled TransnationalChinese Theatre(s): Performance Networks and Rhizomes of Exchange in East Asia.

Her book Pop Goes the

Avant-garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China was published in early2013 by Seagull Books in their‘Enactments’ series, edited by Richard Schechner and distributed by the University of Chicago Press.

In March 2013 she visited

the University of Leeds to take part in the international symposium “Performing China on the Global Stage: People, Society and Culture”, organized by the Performing China Network, a practice-led research network co-funded by the ChiangChing-kuo Foundation and the AHRC. The title of her paper was “Avant-

Garde(s) and theIntermedial Stage: Some Trends in Beijing’s Experimental Theatre at the Start of the Twenty-First Century”.

Later in March, she was a co- panelist at the public event “Which Way China? A Day Celebrating Chinese Culture”, organized by Border-Crossings Theatre

and co-sponsored by the London Confucius Institute at SOAS.

In July 2013 she attendedthe annual conference of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT)in Barcelona, Spain, where she presented the paper “Rhizomes


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of exchange and performances in journey-form in East Asia”.

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Ferrari, Rossella, Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China. London, New York, Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2012.

Ferrari, Rossella, “The Avant- garde Is Dead, Long LiveThe (Pop) Avant-garde! Theoretical Reconfigurations in Contemporary ChineseTheatre.” positions: asia critique, vol. 20, no. 4 (2012): 1127–1157.Fei Laili 費萊麗 (Ferrari, Rossella), “Kua guo/kua meiti/ kua wenben: dazhonghua diqu cong yinmu dao wutai de kuajiechuangzuo” 跨国／跨媒体／跨

文本：大中華地區從銀幕到舞台的跨界創作. Wenhua shiye

文化視野 (Cultural Vision), no. 2(May 2013): 130–142. [Chinese translation of “Transnation/ Transmedia/Transtext: Border- Crossing from Screen to Stage in Greater China”. Journal of Chinese Cinemas, vol. 2, issue 1 (2008): 53–65].

Having completed his term as Associate Dean for Research (2009–2012), Bernhard Fuehrer enjoyed a sabbatical during which he delivered the “2012 Lecture Series of World Distinguished Scholars” in East Asian Studies at the Academy of Korean Studies in Seoul(November 2012), held a Visiting Professorship at the Graduate Institute for Taiwan Literatureat National Taiwan University(NTU) in Taipei (December 2012– April 2013), was awarded a three-month scholarship as Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Chinese Studies, National Central Library (Taipei), and continued to serve as SeniorHonorary Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Translation Studies, Chinese UniversityHong Kong (since 2010),and as Distinguished Adjunct Researcher at Renmin University in Beijing (since 2009).

Together with the Research Centre for Translation Studies at CUHK he organized the international conference“Sinologists as Translators in the17-19th Centuries: Archives andContext”, held at SOAS, 19-21June 2013.

He organized a Hokkien Workshop (11-17 July 2013) which concludes a longstanding cooperation with National Taiwan University, supportedby the Ministry of Education (Taipei), and produces teaching material for Hokkien/ Minnanhua. Hokkien. An Introduction (3 vols.), compiled by Bernhard Fuehrer and Yang Hsiu-fang, with Cheng Mei- chuan and Wen Zhihao, has been accepted for publicationin 2014 by National TaiwanUniversity Press.

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Bernhard Fuehrer: 2012Nyeondo je 1 hoe haeoeusu-hakja chocheong jipjung- gangjwa 2012 년도제 1 회 해

외 우수학자 초청 집중강좌(2012 Lecture Series of World Distinguished Scholars). Seoul: Academy of Korean Studies,2012 [175 pp.]

Bernhard Fuehrer: “Gui Wencan and Gui Dian on Huang Kan’s Lunyu yishu”, Lin Ching-chang and Christian Soffel (eds.): Zhengtong yu liupai. LidaiRujia jingdian zhi zhuanbian 正統與流派. 歷代

儒家經典之轉變 (Orthodoxy and Schoolsof Thought – Changes in the History of Confucian Canon Studies). Taipei: Wanjuanlou chubanshe, 2012, pp. 483-509

Bernhard Fuehrer: “Orality and the Transmission of Interpretations in Two Versions of Huang Kan’s Lunyu yishu”. Journal of Chinese Philosophy [in print for autumn 2013 issue]

Enze Han gave a talk at Tsinghua University in December 2012 on political mobilization in Tibet. In April 2013, Dr. Han presented a paper on Chinese foreign policy at the International Studies Association Annual Conference in San Francisco, USA. In the summer of 2013, Dr. Han was a visiting scholar at Thammasat University in Thailand for research on Sino-SoutheastAsian Relations.

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Han, Enze. Contestation and Adaptation: The Politics of National Identity in China. New York: Oxford University Press,2013.

Han, Enze. 2013. ‘External Cultural Ties and the Politics of Language in China.’Ethnopolitics, 12 (1). pp. 30-49.

Han, Enze. 2013. ‘Transnational Buddhist Networks, HIV/ADIS Prevention, and State-Minority Relations in Southwest China.’ Journal of Contemporary China,22 (82). pp. 594-611.

In July 2012 Rachel Harris began a year’s sabbatical following the completion of her term as Head of the Department of Music. She spent summer2012 conducting fieldwork in southern Xinjiang, funded bythe Sino-British Friendship Trust and the Stein-Arnold Explorer Fund. She worked primarily with Uyghur village women who practice a form of Sufi zikr ritual, and also spent time observing changing patterns of religiosityin the regional capital Urumchi.

She successfully applied to the AHRC for funding for a research network, ‘Sounding Islam in China’ which will run from 2013 to 2015. Activities will includean international conference on China’s Islamic Soundscapes at SOAS, and training workshops in Chinese universities in the anthropology of sound.

Conferences papers and invited lectures:

• July 2013. “IntangibleCultural Heritage andIllegal Gatherings: the case of the Uyghur meshrep”, International Council for Traditional Music, Shanghai Conservatory.

• June 2013. “The Uyghur Twelve Muqam and the Kashmiri Sufiyana Kalam”, University of Kashmir, Srinigar.

• May 2013. “The Important work of Listening and Weeping”, SOAS, Centre for Gender Studies.

• April 2013. Discussant,‘International Symposium on Culture and Musicof China’s Cultural Revolution’, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• January 2013. “Reciting the Qur’an in Chinese Central Asia”, Oxford University, Centre of Gender Studies Seminar Series.

• October 2012. “Sounding Islam in China”, Institute for Musical Research, London.

• October 2012. “Tracks: networks of national sentiment in Uyghur song”, Border Crossings, School of Arts, SOAS.

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• ‘Tracks: temporal shifts and transnational networks of sentiment in Uyghur song’, Ethnomusicology 56/3 (2012): 450-475.

• ‘The Uyghur Muqam’, in Music of Central Asia: an Introduction,Theodore Levin & Elmira Kuchumkulova eds. Aga Khan Trust for Culture & University of Central Asia (2012), pp251-260.

• Arzu: Sanubar Tursun.Felmay Records, 2013 (project consultant, sleeve notes).

• ‘Sounding Islam in China: the geographies of ritual practice in rural Uyghur society’ (2013) (http:// www.akdn.org/musical_ geographies/rachel_harris. asp)

In April Nathan Hill organized a symposium here at SOAS, 'A day of Tangut studies: a celebration of language and culture in China's Xixia Dynasty'. Thisevent, sponsored by the London Confucius Institute, brought together six Tangut scholars from France, the UK, and China.

Nathan Hill pictured second from right, with the Tangut shcolars.

In May, Nathan gave an invited lecture in Munich, "The development of a part- of-speech tag set for thepeparation of a digital diachronicTibetan corpus", which describes the accomplishments so far achieved on the AHRC funded project 'Tibetan inDigital Communication'. In July, this project also sent Nathan, together with Ed Garrett, and PhD student Abel Zadoks, to the12th Seminar of the InternationalAssociation for Tibetan Studies in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

The Li Fang-Kuei Society for Chinese Linguistics recognized Nathan as one of the "promising young scholars who will be the leaders of the next generationin the discipline of Chinese andSino-Tibetan linguistics" with an invitation to participate in a'Young Scholars Symposium' at the University of Washington. He presented a paper

entitled "A Proposal for the transliteration of Old Chinese: a methodological critique of current practice."

MEMBERS NEWSpUBLiCAtionS Hill, Nathan W., ed. Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV. Leiden: Brill, 2012.


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LAAMAN Lars Peter

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In September 2012, Michel Hockx was a plenary speaker at the conference “Crafts of World Literature,” held at the University of Oxford.

In October 2012, when the Chinese author Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, he was actively involved in the media debate. Michel’s “Beginners Guide to Mo Yan” was published on the BBC website, he appeared on BBC World television, he wasquoted in newspapers includingThe Guardian and the New York Times, and interviewed by journalists from China,Singapore, India, Brasil, France, and The Netherlands.

In December Andrea Janku gave a presentation on ‘Materials on Natural Extreme Events from Chinese Local Histories’ tothe first meeting of the AHRC- funded network ‘Collaborative Research on the Meteorological and Botanical History of the Indian Ocean, 1600-1900,’held at the University of Sussex on 5th and 6th December2012. She prepared the paper‘Drought in Northwest China: A Long-term Perspective’ for the conference ‘Disasters Wet and Dry: Rivers, Floods, and Droughts in World History’ organized by the Centre for Ecological History, Zhongguo Renmin Daxue and the Rachel Carson Center, University of Munich in Beijing in May 2013.A Chinese version of that paper was presented under the title ‘中国西北的旱灾：一个从长时段的视角’ at the conference on‘Disasters and Frontier Societies- Tenth annual conference for research on the history of disasters in China, held inUrumqi in June 2013. She also gave a series of lectures on environmental history and China Studies in Europe at Nankai University, Tianjin in June/July2013.

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Janku, Andrea. ‘”New Methods to Nourish the People”: Political Economy in LateQing Encyclopaedic Writing (1888-1903).’ In Chinese Encyclopaedias of NewGlobal Knowledge (1870-1920): Changing Chinese Ways of Thought, ed. Milena Doleželová- Velingerová and Rudolf G. Wagner. Heidelberg: Springer,2013.

Together with Dr Nir Avieli (Ben Gurion University, Israel) Jakob Klein co-organized a panel on ‘Food and place in the borderlands: perspectives from contemporary East- and Southeast Asia’ at the annual conference of the Association of Asian Studies in San Diego, CA in March 2013. The titleof my conference paper was‘”Local”, “regional” or “ethnic”? Negotiating identities through rubing (milk cake) in Kunming, Southwest China’.

In May 2013 I participated, by invitation, in a two-day workshop at the University of Oregon (Eugene) entitled‘Foodways in China: New Scholarly Trajectories’. At the workshop I presented a paper with the title ‘Promoting a “local speciality”: goat’s milk cheese(乳饼) in Shilin and Kunming’.

Tat Yan Kong gave a talk entitled‘China and North Korea: New Regimes, New Relations?’ at the LSE Korean Economic and Political Forum 2012 on 24November 2012.

Tat Yan Kong gave a lecture entitled ‘China: From Socialist to Capitalist Developmental State?’ at the Chair (Department) ofEast Asian Economy and Society(ECOS), University of Vienna on10 December 2012.

Lars Laaman has had a fruitful year marked by teaching and student recruitment ... which seems to have become a new feature of a lecturer’s profession.

• 26-27 June 2013International Convention of Asia Scholars, eighth conference (www.ICAS8. com), Macau/China: chairing of panel, plus separate paper: “Torch- bearers of modernity? Western missionaries, demonism and exorcism in modern China (1860s-1930s)”

• 20 June 2013 Study of Religions roundtable, organised by Benedetta Lomi: “Popular religious sentiment at the junction between Qing and Republic”

• 29 April 2013 “The place

of the Qing in China’s inter- ethnic history”, Christie’s Education (London)

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Laamann, Lars (ed.), Critical Readings on the Manchus in Modern China (1616-2012), Leiden: Brill, 2013. ISBN9789004227576 (4 vols).

1. Presented paper “Qing Dynasty Literati and Plants: The Cases of Zhang Ying (1638-1708) and Gao Shiqi (1645-1703)” (in Chinese)at Seventh International Conference on Qing Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen U., Taiwan, 15-18 November2012. The article will be published sometime after July 2013 in Wen yu Zhe (Literature and Philosophy).

2. Attended Ming banknote workshop, British Museum,23 May 2013.

3. Gave a talk entitled “Problems in working with the Chinese export paintings at the British Library” at the workshop“Culture and Trade through the Prism of Technical Art History- A Study of Chinese Export Paintings (Workshop1)”, The Royal HorticulturalSociety, 4 June 2013.

Xiaoning Lu presented her paper “Problematic Laughter in Chinese Socialist Cinema:Unusual Physical Comedy and the Pleasure of the Abject”in British Association for Chinese Studies 2012 Annual Conference at Oxford University in September 2012.

She also presented her recent study “Chen Qiang: Engineering Political Resentment and Villain Stardom in Chinese Socialist Cinema,” in Revisiting Star Studies Conference held at Newcastle University on 13June, 2013.

In addition, she was awarded a Universities China Committee in London (UCCL) grant for herfieldwork project “Shanghai FilmAdministration in the 1950s and1960s” in summer 2013.

Shane McCausland was on sabbatical leave during terms 1 and 2 working on a monograph for Reaktion Books, a general study of Yuan culture. Hespent the autumn based atthe National Central Library in Taipei on a Center of Chinese Studies fellowship, and visited collections and exhibitionsin the region, including in Singapore, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Tokyo. In the spring he held a fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, andalso visited the collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Freer Gallery, Washington DC. He presented aspects ofhis new research in lectures inTaipei, Hangzhou and London.

Shane McCausland held a fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, while on sabbatical.

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McCausland, Shang. ‘Visual narratology in China and Japan – a comparative study’. In Alexandra Green (ed.), Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia: Intercultural and Comparative Perspectives, pp41-59. Hong Kong: Hong KongUniversity Press, 2012.

McCausland, Shane. ‘Copying and transmitting, knowledge and nonsense: From theGreat Encyclopaedia to the Book from the Sky’. In Nick Pearce & Jason Steuber (eds), Original Intentions: Essays on Production, Reproduction and Interpretation in the Arts of

MEMBERS NEWSChina. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2012.


MEMBERS NEWS

NICKEL Lukas

PANG Zhaoxia

PIERSON Stacey

SUN Laixiang

TAN Carol

TANTian Yuan

Lukas Nickel co-hosted the conference Archaeology of the Southern Taklamakan, Hedin and Stein’s Legacy and New Explorations, jointly with theInternational Dunhuang Project, British Library, and the Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology (8th-10th November 2012). In preparation he did research in archaeological sites around the Tarim basin and in central China.

Next to his task as Associate Dean of the Arts and Humanities Faculty Lukas worked andgave lectures on several research questions. In June he participated in the workshopArt in the Making – Approaches to the Carving of Stone,King’s College London, with a lecture on ‘Carving Stone Sculptures in Medieval China’. In July he spoke about ‘Der Erste Kaiser von China undder Hellenistische Orient‘ at Halle University, a topic he revisited for a lecture in Zurich in June 2013. In Septemberhe discussed ‘An Experimental Study in Bronze Casting‘ at the International Forum on Ancient Bronze Smelting and Casting Industries in Anyang. In October he was invited to give a lecture on ‘Bricks in Ancient China‘ at Tsinghua University, Taiwan.He further spoke at workshops in Cambridge, Berlin, Bristol, Heidelberg and London.

Lukas was involvedwith productions of the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung and Al Jazeera. Rana Mitter interviewed him on BBC3 Nightweavesin May in connection withthe opening of the exhibitionThe Search for Immortalityat the Fitzwilliam Museum. In December he went to China to act as consultant to StoryHouse production on a documentary which will be broadcast on Arte and ZDF in

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Nickel, Lukas. “Brick Built Heavens – Cosmic Symbolism in Tomb Architecture and Painting of the Han Period”. In: Shifting Paradigms in East AsianVisual Culture – A Festschrift for Lothar Ledderose, eds. Burglind Jungmann, Adele Schlombs, Melanie Trede. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag 2012, pp. 43-58.

Nickel, Lukas. “The Nanyue Silver Box”, Arts of Asia vol. 42, no 3 (2012), pp. 98-107.

Nickel, Lukas. “China”. In: Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson eds., World Archaeology atthe Pitt Rivers Museum – A Characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress 2013, pp. 511-516.

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Pang, Zhaoxia (Trans. with Nicky Harman): 1923-A Fantasy by Haihong Zhao: RENDITIONSA Chinese-English Translation Magazine © The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012

Conferences/conference papers presented:

• Seoul. 2 November 2012- Symposium on Goryeo Celadons and Medieval East Asian Ceramics, National Museum of Korea

• Shanghai - International Symposium on Yuan Blue and White Porcelain. 19October 2012, ShanghaiMuseum/

• Hong Kong. 10 April 2013

- Collecting Chinese Art in Hong Kong - a Global Phenomenon, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Organized the Study Day on‘Topics in World Ceramics’ atSOAS, 1 May 2013

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Pierson, Stacey. From Object to Concept: Global Consumption and the Transformation of Ming Porcelain, Hong Kong, HKU Press, 2013

The paper, entitled “Outsourcing CO2 within China”, was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesof the United States of America (PNAS) on 10 June 2013. PNAS is one of the top three science journals in the world. Laixiang Sun co-authored the study along with an international team. “While SOAS is knownfor its arts, humanities and social sciences, our global academic network means that we are increasingly workingin interdisciplinary ways. I am delighted that this work raises the School’s profile in the science community,’ Professor Sun said.

Laixiang SUN contributed extensively to the CoverStory of China Daily (中国日报)European Weekly on June 14-20, 2013, entitled “Slick Cities: China Is Looking To Europe For Lessons On Urbanization.”

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Feng, K., S.J. Davis, L. Sun, X. Li, D. Guan, W. Liu, L. Zhu, K. Hubacek. 2013. “Outsourcing CO2 within China.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United Statesof America (PNAS), (2011Impact Factor: 9.681), available online on 10 June 2013: www. pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/ pnas.1219918110

Lee, In Hyeock, Eunsuk Hong and Laixiang Sun.3 2013. “Regional Knowledge Capacity and Firm Creation in Korea: A Geographic Analysis.” Journal of Business Research (Elsevier.2011 Impact Factor: 1.872;5-Year Impact Factor: 2.473), vol.66, no. 10 (Oct.), pp. 2106–2115.

Zhu, Quantao, Xinwang Wu and Laixiang Sun.3 2013. “A Generalized Framework for Endogenous Timing in Duopoly Games and an Application to Price-Quantity Competition.” Journal of Economics (Springer.2011 Impact Factor: 0.581), available online on 3 May 2013: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/ s00712-013-0347-3

Lee, In Hyeock, Eunsuk Hongand Laixiang Sun.3 2012. “Inward Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: A Regional Analysis of New Firm Creation in Korea,” Regional Studies (Taylor & Francis. 2010Impact Factor: 1.259; 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.212; 19/78 in Environmental Studies, 13/65 in Geography), available online on14 June 2012: http://dx.doi.or g/10.1080/00343404.2012.690067

Tian, Zhan, Honglin Zhong, Runhe Shi, Laixiang Sun,3Günther Fischer, Zhuoran Liang.

2012. “Estimating Potential Yield of Wheat Production in China Based on Cross-Scale Data- Model Fusion.” Frontier of Earth Science (Springer), vol. 6, no. 4 (Dec), pp. 364–372.

MEMBERS NEWSCarol Tan presented a paper on ‘Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and Government: A Multi- spatial Analysis of the British in Northern China’ at a workshop on Spaces of law: territories, boundaries, corridors andbeyond organised by the CSSSC, Kolkata, 11-13 December 2012.

She is a co-investigator in a project on Land Reform and Social Change which was awarded a competitive grantof MYR50,000 (about £10,000) by the Ministry of Education, Malaysia and a

recipient of a British Academy-ECAF fieldwork grant and was invited to join an AHRC funded research network on Subjects of law: rightful selves and the legal process in imperial Britain and the British empire which has scheduled three workshops.

Carol, together with Xu Ting (Queens University Belfast) has been invited to be guest editors of a special issue of

the Journal of Comparative Law on Chinese Property Law arising from the CEAL workshop (see Centres below) due to be publishedin August 2013. Carol Tan has continued in her role as Chair of the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies at SOAS.

In September 2012, Tian Yuan Tan was elected Secretary- General of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS). He will serve a two- year term on the Executive Committee of the Board.

In autumn 2012, his recent book, A Critical Edition of Kang Hai’s (1475-1541) Sanqu Songs with Notes and Two Essays, was awarded two book prizes in

China.

He also acted as consultant to the Royal Shakespeare Company and provided a programme article for its production of the Yuan dynasty drama The Orphan of Zhao. He was interviewedby the BBC News (4 November2012) to comment on the historical context and literary significance of the play.

Invited talks and presentations:

• “Jiang Shiquan (1725-1785) and the Competing Styles of Drama in Eighteenth- Century China.” Guest Lecture delivered at the Universität WürzburgInstitute for Cultural Studies of East and South Asia (Sinology), 5

June 2013. Würzburg.• “Entertainment,

Spectacle, and Visuality: Qing Court Theatre through Spectators’ Eyes.” (In Chinese) MCA Lecture delivered at the Department of Chinese,Sun Yat-sen University, 9April 2013. Guangzhou.

• “Imperial Theatre in the Qing Dynasty.” (In Chi- nese) Qizhen Lecture delivered at

the Centre of Ancient Chinese Literature and Culture and the Department of Chinese Literature, Zhejiang University, 2 April 2013. Hangzhou.

• “Traditions and Transitions in Eighteenth-Century Qu Poetry: The Case of Jiang Shiquan,” paper presented at the International Conference on “Linking


MEMBERS NEWS ANNOUNCEMENTS

TOBIN Damian

Professor Michel Hockxto lead new SOAS China Institute (SCI)

Dr Jon Sullivan asDeputy Director, SCI

Dr Sullivan, a China specialist and political scientist, joins SOAS from the University ofNottingham. His research

Ancient and Contemporary:

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‘Panchayats and Caste in East

S OAS, University of

London

Michel commented: “It

focuses on the uses and effects of political communications by political

Continuities andDiscontinuities in the Chinese History of Literature and Thought,” jointly organised by Ca’Foscari University and Peking University, 21-22March, 2013. Venice.

• “Literati Performance and Court Theatre: Textual Space in Jiang Shiquan’s (1725-1785) Birthday Blessings from the West of the Yangtze River,” paper presented at the International Conference on “Space, Text, and Performance in Chinese Literature,” organised by Arizona State University,6-8 December 2012. Tempe.

• “A Preliminary Study of the Compilation and Administration of Dramain Ming and Qing Imperial Courts,” paper presented at the InternationalConference on “Ming Qing Court Institutions and Regulations,” organizedby the Palace Museum Research Center for Ming and Qing Court History,17-20 September, 2012. Beijing.

• Between the Worlds of “Elite Theatre” and “Court Theatre”: The Case of Wang Wenzhi (1730-1802), paper presented at the XIXth Biennial Conference ofthe European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) jointly organized by the Université Paris Diderot, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) and the Bibliothèque des Langues et Civilisations (BULAC), 5-8 September,

2012. Paris.Xu, Yongming and Tan, TianYuan, eds. Yingyu shijie de Tang Xianzu yanjiu lunzhu xuanyi 英語世界的湯顯祖研究論著選譯(An Anthology of Critical Studies on Tang Xianzu in Western Scholarship). Hangzhou: Zhejiang guji chubanshe, 2013.

Tan, Tian Yuan. “A DysfunctionalDynasty (The Orphan of Zhao in 1616)”. In The Orphan of Zhao Programme. Stratford- upon-Avon: Royal Shakespeare Company, 2012.

Tan, Tian Yuan. “Tang Xianzuand Shakespeare: Two TheatricalCultures in Global Perspective 湯顯祖與莎士比

亞：兩種戲劇文化的全球視野(in Englishand Chinese).” In Society of Chinese Theatre Studies (Tang Xianzu Branch) and Suichang Association of Social Sciences, eds., Tang Xianzu-Shashibiya wenhua gaofeng luntan ji Tang Xianzu he Wan Ming wenhuaxueshu yantaohui lunwen ji 湯顯祖-莎士比亞文化高峰論壇暨湯顯祖和晚明文化學術研討會論文集. Zhejiang: Zhejiang UniversityPress, 2012, pp. 24-29.

Tan, Tian Yuan. “Review of

Sophie Volpp, Worldly Stage: Theatricality in Seventeenth- Century China”. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 72 (2): 430-437.

India Company Governance’Paper presented at the Panel: The Law, the State, and India’s Panchayats: Past and Present at the Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Boston,2013

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Tobin, Damian (2013) ‘Renminbi internationalisation: precedents and implications.’ Journal of Chinese Economic & Business Studies, 11 (2). pp. 81-99.Tobin, Damian (2013) ‘The renminbi as an international currency: the next instalment of China’s economic reforms’Journal of Chinese Economic & Business Studies, 11 (2). 79.

nEWS BitE

Professor Paul Webley and Ms Lik Suen (Deputy Director of the London Confucius Institute (LCI) visited Beijing in Dec 2012 in order to initiate the arrangements to havea new Chinese partner University for the LCI. They had successful meetings with a group of senior staff from Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) during the annual Confucius Institute conference and Professor Webley visited BFSUfor further discussions about the LCI and about developing a range of collaborations.

Following several months of negotiation between Hanban, BFSU and SOAS an agreement was signed in June 2013 at the inaugural Board meeting of the new partnership,at which the plans for the next year of the LCI were discussed.

has announced the appointmentof Michel Hockx, Professor of Chinese and a specialist in contemporary literatureand society, as the Founding Director of the new SOAS China Institute.

The SOAS China Institute has ambitious teaching and research goals and will be an expert resource for the wider world of business, policy and media. The formal launch will take place in the new academic session.

The Institute will embrace the contemporary, the modern and the historical. Its remit will include the social sciences,the humanities, as well as international perspectives from the SOAS’ regional expertise in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

the School reclaiming its position as apre-eminent

international centre for the study of

China

Drawing upon the School’s excellent training programmesin modern and classical Chinese, the Institute will promote interdisciplinary, language-based Chinese Studies in the widest sense of the term. This will create a unique Institute and centre of expertise that understands, interprets andshares relevant knowledge, and stimulates debate of China in all of its complexity and context.

will be an honour forme to lead the SOAS China Institute as its first Director from Octo-ber. I am excited to be working with my China colleagues in SOAS, new partners in China, and those in other sectors,to provide a range of exceptional teaching, research and engagement programmes.

“These programmes will equip tomorrow’s graduates with highly relevant and highly valued skills and knowledge; gener-ate innovative world-class collaborative research; and, grow and share the School’sChina expertise with companies, media and governments. I am looking forward to the School reclaiming its position as a pre- eminent international centre for the study of China.”

The scholar further highlights the importance of this centre: “At a time when so manyare jumping onto the China bandwagon, the need for real experts’ understanding of China could not be greater. As China’s star continues to rise, so does the rest of the world’s need to understand it and through theSOAS China Institute we hope to nurture our unrivalled expertise and share it.”

Professor Paul Webley, Director of SOAS, added: “We are delighted and

very lucky to have Professor Hockx as the Director of the SOAS China Institute.

Web: www.soas.ac.uk/sciEmail: [email protected]

He has the passion,

expertise and vision that will unlock the incredible diversity and depthof China expertise here at SOAS and help make it accessible to the world.”

Michel’s wide-ranging studies encompass Chinese culture and society from the earlytwentieth century to the present and have most recently focused on the role of the Internet in contemporary China.

His studies on state censorship in China stand out for their unbiased,

critical approach to a frequently misunderstood topic. He is a fluent Mandarin speaker who regularly participates in scholarly debates in China. He has already demonstrated his leadership skills as Presidentof the British Association for Chinese Studies, in which capacity he has played a pivotal role in promoting language- based Chinese Studies across all the disciplines.

elites and citizens in variousChinese contexts.

The SOAS China Institute formally launches in October 2013, with ambitious teaching and research goals, as an expert resource for the widerworld of business, policy and media.

More than forty China experts from across SOAS’ portfolio of disciplines will drive forward the SOAS China Institute activities and collaborations under the leadership of Professor

Michel Hockx.

Dr Sullivan said: “I am very excited to be joining Paul Webley, Michel Hockx and an extremely talented group of China Studies colleagues in this project to establish the new SOAS China Institute as the foremost centre of expertise onChina in the UK and con- tinental Europe. As an East Asia specialist from the UK, SOAS has a unique attrac- tion for me and I can't wait to join my new colleagues and students there. “

Professor Hockx added: "It

is fantastic that Jon Sullivan is joining the SOAS China Institute. He brings in awide range of expertise in the social sciences and a genuine commitment to interdisciplinary teaching and research in Chinese Studies. He is also widely known for his excellent outreach work through blogs and social media. I have always wanted to work with him and I cannot wait to start!"

Dr Sullivan will begin his post at SOAS in January.


HONORARY APPOINTMENTS Professorial ResearchAssociates

CAVALIERI Renzo

In 2012 Renzo Cavalieri attended several conferences and seminars in Italy, China and Europe, mainly on comparative ADR and on Chinese commercial and international trade law. Presently, his mainresearch interest is related to the shift of China’s behaviour - from a passive to a more active mood- in the international legal arena.

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R.Cavalieri, P.Franzina (eds), Il nuovo diritto internazionale privato della Repubblica Popolare Cinese, Milan, Giuffre’ Editore, 2012

R. Cavalieri, “Zhongguo guoji maoyi yiji waishang touzi fazhi sanshi nian fazhan”, in Zhang Lihong and S.Beretta (eds.), Zhongguo guoji maoyi yiji waishang touzi fazhi sanshi nian fazhan: yige Yidali xuezhizhi shijiao, Beijing, China University for Political Sciences and Law Publishing House, 2012

R. Cavalieri, “Between Justice and Harmony: Some Features and Trends of Chinese ADR from a Western Perspective”, in Opinio Juris in Comparatione,1/2012, paper n.4, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers. cfm?abstract_id=2125453

CHANG Xiangqun

During the academic year2012-13 Xiangqun Chang completed a four year research project on ‘Comparative Studies on the New Migrants fromBRIC counties in America, Australia, Japan and the UK’ and successfully organised an international conference. She is co-editor of a bookcollection on the topic of the conference which is expected to be published in 2014 bythe University HK Press. One outcome of the conference is the selected volume Society building - China’s development at the next stage that Xiangqun is editing, due to be published by the Cambridge Academic Press in 2014.

Xiangqun also co-organised an event ‘Chinese and general social scientific methodologies in comparison’, by JustinYifu Lin, the outgoing Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the World Bank in Dec 2012 at LSE. She has also been heavily involving organising an internationalconference on ‘Max Weber andChina’ in Sep 2013 at SOAS.

Based on her major work on an alternative China model with a bottom up approach (lishang-wanglai 礼尚往来), Xiangqunhas been invited to give more than 10 lectures and talks at universities in China, Taiwanand the UK from August 2012 toMarch 2013.

While conducting research project-based work at LSE for the past 10 years Xiangqun was running voluntarily the Chinain Comparative PerspectiveNetwork (CCPN). Supportedby many international scholars, Xiangqun carried out intellectual entrepreneurship, and founded CCPN Global, an

academic society for promoting a studyof China and the Chinese from a comparative perspective in March 2013.

CHAO Xi

Chao Xi is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong(CUHK), and he is also Director of the Chinese Law Program, Hong Kong Institute of Asia- Pacific Studies, CUHK.

prESEntAtionS And tALKS

‘Deregulating the Market for Corporate Control: The Decline of the Mandatory Bid Rule in China and Its Implications for Europe’, at the 4th Cambridge International Regulation and Governance Conference on “More Regulation or Better Stewardship? Optimizing the Means and Ends of Good Governance” (University of Cambridge & Anglia Ruskin University, 5-6 September 2012)

‘Judicial Lawmaking by Chinese Local Courts’, at the Conference on “China’s Long March toward Rule of Law: Are We Still Marching?” (University of Hong Kong, 4 December 2012)

‘Law and Industrial Transformation: Evolution of Corporate Takeover Regulation in China and Japan’, at the China-India Conference (University of Malay, 10-11December 2012)

‘Developmental State and Evolution of Takeover Laws: The Case of China’, at 3rd East Asia Law and Society Conference (Shanghai Jiao Tong University,22-23 March 2013)

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‘Local Courts as Legislators? Judicial Lawmaking by Sub- National Courts in China’ (2012)33 Statute Law Review 39-57

‘The Rise and Decline of the Reversal of the Burden of Proof in China’s Medical Negligence Law: A Political

Economy of Lawmaking Perspective’ (2012)12 The China Review (with LixinYang) 33-58

FENBY Jonthan

March 2013 Talk and panel on China at Global Affairs Conference, San FranciscoTalk on China’s new leadership at Council on Foreign Relations, New York.

Lecture at China Center Harvard on China’s Unfinished Revolution

Talks on contemporary China at literary festivals at Oxford, Keswick, Hay-on-Wye.

New updated editions:• Penguin History of Modern

China• Tiger Head Snake

Tails; China Today

Paper on China’s foreignpolicy for LSE. Paper on China’s leadership change for German Foreign Affairs Institute.

Articles for New York Times, International Herald Tribune, London Times, Guardian, Independent, Financial Times. Interviews BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, Sky.

Manuscript completed for books, Will China Dominate the 21st Century for Polity. Publishing due for publication spring 2013, and The Siegeof Tsingtao for publicaiton as ebook by Penguin, 2014.

‘Las Instituciones Gubernamentales’, in Gabriel García-Noblejas (ed), China. Pasado y Presente de una Gran Civilización (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2012) 221-251

‘Corporate Governance and Institutional Shareholder Activism in China: Three Lessons’ (2012c) 11 The

Smart Manager 52-55

FEUCHTWANG Stephen

Special lectures:

Lectio Magistralis at Urbania University, Vatican, Rome on Hospitality to Ghosts, April 2013

Keynote lecture, Conference on Religion in Rural China, Nongye University, Beijing, on The Government of Religion and Ritual Activities in the People’s Republic of China, May 2013

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‘Civilisation and its discontents in contemporary China’ The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus July 2012 http://japan- focus.org/-Stephan-Feucht- wang/3801

‘Political history, past suffering, and present sources of moral judgement in the People’s Republic of China’ in Stafford, Charles (ed) Ordinary Ethics in China. LSE Monograph on Social Anthropology No. 79 London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic 2013 pp 222-241

TIEDEMANN Renzo

During the early part of the2012/13 academic year, while based at the Centre of Chinese Studies, R. G. Tiedemann attended conferences in Leuven, Belgium (September 2012) and Zhongli, Taiwan (December2012). He also attended several CCS lectures, including the presentation by Professor Michael Palmer, at SOAS.

Upon his return to Shandong University in February 2013, he continued his work ona bibliography of Western primary and secondary sources concerning the BoxerMovement (Yihetuan yundong) and the Boxer War of 1900/01, based on

material collectedin the SOAS library, the BritishLibrary, the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and The National Archives in Kew. Moreover, he was asked by the Association of Chinese Historians to organize the panel “The Boxer War in China” for the 22nd Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences, to be held- for the first time in Asia - at Jinan, China, in August 2015. While in China, he also attended international academic conferences in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Shantou and Macao.

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Tiedemann, R. G., “Protestant Revivals in China with Particular Reference to Shandong Province”, Studies in World Christianity Vol.18, No. 3 (December 2012), pp. 213-236.

Tiedemann, R.G., “The Origins and Organizational Developments of the Pentecostal Missionary Enterprise in China” was published in the long-delayed Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies Vol. 14, No. 1 (2011), pp.108-146. [Published in February2013]

Professor Renzo CAVALIERI Chinese contemporary law, Chinese foreign trade and investment law, East Asian legal [email protected]

Professor Anthony DICKS QC Laws of the People’s Republic of China; traditional Chinese law, international law; commercial law; legal history; laws of Hong Kong

Professor Stefan FEUCHTWANG Ritual and religion in China; transmission of the Great Leap famine; making place and the urbanisation of villages [email protected]

Professor Michael PALMER Dispute resolution and civil procedure; Chinese law (traditional and modern); conflict of laws; comparative family [email protected]

Professor R G TIEDEMANN UNIVERSITY OF LONDON History of the Boxer War in China and its consequences,1900-1902

Research AssociatesDr Xiangqun CHANG Contemporary China Studies; Chinese women and gender studies; reciprocity and social networks; local identity and culture; village autonomy; rural development; Marxist sociology. [email protected]

Mr Jonathan FENBYHistory of modern China: end of the 19th century up to the present day.

Mr John GITTINGS Comparative study of the perception of peace and war in ancient China and Greece [email protected]

Dr Ian

SECKINGTON Dr

Tao WANGBA(YUNNAN) PHD(LONDON)Archaeology of China; excavated texts of the Bronze Age in China; paleography, epigraphy and calligraphy; early Chinese language and religion

Dr Frances WOOD Dunhuang studies, Chinese export paintings, Chinese domestic architecture, Chinese history, Chinese bibliography

Dr Chao XIChinese law; comparative corporate law and governance; comparative securities regulation, law and political [email protected]

Visiting ScholarsDr Yucong RUZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY1 July 2012-30 Dec 2012International trade of China, fiscal decentralisation in China, institutional transformation in China

Dr Dongling LIUJIANGSU NORMAL UNIVERSITY1 Mar 2013-28 Feb 2014Modern and contemporary Chinese literature; literature phe-

nomina in modernChinese literature; comparative literature between Western and Chinese culture [email protected]

Dr Hua WANGCENTRAL UNIVERSITY FORNATIONALITIES1 Jan 2013-31 Jan 2014Ethnomusicology and folk and ritual tribal music of southern China, with a focus on Tibetan and Naxi folk music [email protected]

Dr Jue WANGRENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA17 Aug 2012-16 Aug 2013Economic history of world economy [email protected]

Dr Yan WUCENTRAL CHINA NORMALUNIVERSITY26 Aug 2012-25 Aug 2013Economic relationship between China and Eu;sino-EU economic and trade [email protected]


CENTRE ACTIVITIESACADEMIC EVENTS: SEPT 2012-SEPT 2013

SeminarsAutumn T erm 8 October 2012Dr Peter Ditmanson (Department Lecturer, Oriental Institute,

Event Listing

18 September 2012

EXHIBITIONThe Great Wall Photographs: Then & Now18 Sept - 2 Nov 2012

ANNUAL LECTUREThe Burdens of Happiness: Zhu Changwen’s Garden of Joy Professor Stephen H. West (Foundation Professor of Chinese at Arizona State University and formerly Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese at UC Berkeley)

University of Oxford)Sagely Ruler and Worthy Subject: Authority and Loyalty inMing China and Beyond

15 October 2012Xiangqun Chang (Co-Director and Senior Research Associate, China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN), LSE)How an alternative ‘China model’ (Lishang-wanglai 礼尚往来)can help in understanding the uncertain world

22 October 2012Jing Tsu (Yale U)Unthinking Area Studies

29 October 2012Professor Paolo Santangelo (Prof. of East Asian History in

Organised with the Phoenix Publishing & Media Group (PPMG)The Great Wall Photographs: Then & Now

6 March 2013Cohosted with SOAS London Confucius Institute (LCI)Professor Stephen H. West (Foundation Professor of Chinese at Arizona State University and formerly Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese at UC Berkeley)The Burdens of Happiness: Zhu Changwen's Garden of Joy

6 March 2013

The Earliest known photo of the Great Wall, taken by Felice Beato (1832-1909)

This year, the Centre’s Annual Lecture was

delivered by Professor Stephen H. West on 6

March 2013.

Professor West is a leading expert in early Chinese theatre, urban culture and cultural history of the late medieval period. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1972. He began his teaching career at the University of Arizona in 1972 and subsequently taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1986 to

Sapienza University of Rome)The last results of the Project on Textual Analysis for the study of imagery and the representation of emotions in late imperial China

19 November 2012Ashley Thorpe (University of Reading)Chinoiserie and subalterneity in S.I. Hsiung's LadyPrecious Stream (1934)

3 December 2012Hans Steinmuller (LSE)The Bliss and Curse of Being Remote: Peach BlossomSprings in Enshi, central China, 2012

Winter T erm 21 January 2013Joe P. McDermott (Cambridge)Commercial Capitalism aand the Ancestral Hall inLate Imperial China

1 February 2013Professor Wen-Chin HSU (Open University)An Account of My Research on Romance of theWestern Chamber and Beyond

4 February 2013Professor Michael Palmer (Shantou University Law School, China)Floating Clouds and Feudal Commodifications: Family, Law and Reform in the Contemporary PRC

25 February 2013Hilde de Weerdt (Reader in Chinese History, King’s CollegeLondon)Rethinking Sino-European Comparative History

18 March 2013Dr Anne Gerritsen (Department of History, University of Warwick)Antwerp in the Ming, the Ming in Antwerp

Summer T erm 11 June 2013Cohosted with SOAS Department of History

Professor Timothy Weston (University of Colorado) The Shanghai-Beijing nexus and the Invention of theCapital Correspondent in the late Qing and Early Republic

7 March 2013Professor Stephen H. West (Foundation Professor of Chinese at Arizona State University and formerly Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese at UC Berkeley)

8 March 2013Professor David Shambaugh (George Washington)China Goes Global: The Partial PowerChair: Sir Christopher Hum (British Ambassador to China, 2002-06)

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April 2013Scenarios on the Future of Mongolia

1 May 2013Mr Jonathan Fenby (Research Associate, CCS)China’s Unfinished Revolution: The Challenges Facing the NewLeadership

Seen for the first time outside China, thisjuxtaposition of over 50 old and new photographs taken by archaeologists, geographers, travellers and enthusiastsover the past 140 years - both Chinese and Western - show an authentic portrayal of one of the great wonders of the world.

The Great Wall became of interest for photographers in the 1880’s with the useof the newly invented camera to record life and nature. The new technology attracteda succession of pioneering photographers to the Great Wall including George Ernest Morrison from Australia, William EdgarGeil from the USA and Sha Fei from China recording for its history, charm and physical presence for later generations.

Between 2001 and 2011 volunteers led by Zhang Baotian began to research and collect old photographs of the Great Wall whileat the same time taking modern images from the old locations. This labour of love, involving trekking the whole length of the wall on foot, literally feeling the greatness of this magnificent ancient structure resulted in the material for this uniqueexhibition.

With a theme of remembrance of the Great Wall and displayed in three parts; Tracing Back, Keeping the invaders off and Everlasting Project the exhibition juxtaposed the ‘then and now’ location photographs with a time difference of more than 100 years enabling us to view the Great Wallfrom the past and the present and reminding us of the vivid history of one of the most impressive historic human structures.

Sponsored by Phoenix Publishing & Media Group, China. Co-sponsored by Hadrian’s Wall Trust and SOAS, University of London

Organised by The Great Wall Publishing Centre, China and PPM International (London) Ltd, UK. Co-organised by Charing Cross Library and SOAS Library.

2004, where he was the Louis AgassizProfessor of Chinese. He is currentlyFoundation Professor of Chinese Language

Stephen West and Tian Yuan Tan before the lecture

in the School of International Letters and Cultures at ArizonaState University. He teaches courses in the prose and poetryof late medieval China (the Song and Yuan dynasties), urban literature of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and early Chinese drama.

In his lecture, entitled “The Burdens of Happiness: Zhu Changwen's Garden of Joy”, Professor West investigated the close relationship between place, space, and

literary production through a masterful close reading of the writings centred around Zhu’s family garden in the eleventh century. The lecture attracted an enthusiastic audience who were engaged in lively discussions with Professor West on issues related to textual archaeology and the meanings of space and place.

The event was co-sponsored by CCS and LCI. Audio recordings of the CCS Annual Lecture is available on: www.soas.ac.uk/ chinesestudies/events/ccs-annual- lecture/06mar2013-the-burdens-of-happiness-zhu-changwens-garden-of-joy.html

The Centre organised a Masterclass for MA and PhD students on 7 March 2013 taught by Professor Stephen H. West (Foundation Professor of Chinese at Arizona State Uni- versity and formerly Louis Agassiz Profes- sor of Chinese at UC Berkeley). The topicof the Masterclass is "Purloining the Sages’ Voice: Sex, Zen, and the Eight-legged Essay". Students from SOAS, Oxford, and Beijing attended the Masterclass and discussed their research with Prof. West over lunch after the class.


RESEARCH STUDENTS: SEP 2012-AUG 2013CENTRE ACTIVITIES

LECTUREChina Goes Global: The Partial PowerProfessor David Shambaugh(George Washington)8 March 2013

During the academic session the Centre hosted two events, each designed to mark the publication of a major book on China. In March, Professor David Shambaugh– a former member of the SOAS Politics Department and Editor of The China Quarterly, but now Director of the China Studies Program at George Washington University in the United States – delivereda lecture, entitled ‘China goes global’. Prof. Shambaugh addressed an audience well

in excess of a hundred people, focusing on the security, diplomatic and cultural implications for the rest of the world of China’s economic rise. The essence of his talk was that China’s global presence is, for the time being, more broad than deep – as he put it, China remained a “partial power” in the world. Prof. Shambaugh’s talk was chaired by Sir Christophe Hum, former British Ambassador to China.

Both Professor Shambaugh answered questions from the audience.

THE 2013 AC GRAHAM MEMORIAL LECTURES Prof William H. Nienhauser (University of Wisconsin)17-19 April 2013

The 2013 AC Graham Memorial Lectures were delivered by Prof William H. Nienhauser of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In his first public lecture Prof Nienhauser linked the Liezi with Tao Yuanming’s poetry and thereby createda striking connection between his highly contextualised readings of Tao Yuanming’s poetry with A.C. Graham’s (1919-1991) work on and translation of the book Liezi. In the Master Seminar and in his secondpublic lecture, Prof Nienhauser provided the audience with highly sophisticated readings of Du Fu’s poetry. After the lectures a copy of a recent reprint of A.C. Graham’s Poems of the Later T’ang, courtesy of Mrs Judy TP Graham, was presented to Prof Nienhauser.

The two public lectures and the Master Seminar were well attended by colleagues from SOAS and other UK universities, research students from SOAS, Oxford and Cambridge, visiting scholars from China, and by the wider public. The first public lecture was again recorded by Mr Connor Walsh,a graduate of the China and Inner Asia Department at SOAS. The recordings will be made available on SOAS internet radio where a number of previous AC Graham Memorial Lectures, together with a radio feature of Prof AC Graham, are already available.

The AC Graham Memorial Lectures are organized by Prof Bernhard Fuehrer on behalf of the Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia, the Centre for Chinese Studies and the London Confucius Institute. The lectures are sponsored by a generous grant from the

London Confucius Institute and aim to foster the academic discourse on classical Chinese philosophy, literature and culture.

LECTUREChina’s Unfinished Revolution: The Challenges Facing the New LeadershipMr Jonathan Fenby(Research Associate, CCS)1 May 2013

Held in May and again attracting a large audience the second talk, designed to mark the publication of a major book on China, was given by Mr Jonathan Fenby, former Editor of the South China Morning Postand currently Managing Director for China at Trusted Sources (an emerging markets research service). In his talk, which took the title of his recently-published book, Tiger Head, Snake Tails, Mr Fenby offered fresh and illuminating insights into China’s political and economic development, and suggested the likely nature of its futuretrajectory. The talk was Chaired by ProfessorBob Ash (SOAS).

A wine reception followed the discssio, and there was also an opportunity to purchase copies of the two authors’ recent books.

Ruard ABSAROKAMusicking in the Digital Age in ShanghaiSupervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS

Niki ALSFORDThe Banka Petition: British interactions at the cession of Formosa in 1895Supervisor: Dr Lars LAAMANN

Mimi AJIBADÉCorporate governance in emerging economies: a case study of domestic small and medium size enterprises listed in the People’s Republic of ChinaSupervisor: Dr Sanzhu ZHU

Eddie BERTOZZIOne Step Forward Into Reality: Redefining the Realist Style in Contemporary Chinese Cinema Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI

Ouyang BIQINGBronze Mirrors of the Wu periodSupervisor: Dr Lukas Nickel

Paul BEVANManhua and Illustrated Propaganda in Wartime China, 1927-1945Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX

Angela BECHERChina’s urban monumentality in contemporary fiction, cinema and art Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI

Marine CABOSLandscape Photography of China’s IconicSites (1840s-1949)Supervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND

Charles Hsin-i CHENThe Dynamics of Privatisation in China(1994-2008): An Empirical and EconometricAnalysisSupervisor: Professor Bob ASH

Jin CHENGAn Economic Analysis of Chinese Township and Village EnterprisesSupervisor: Professor Bob ASH

Sheng-Shih CHIMusic, politics and identity in TaiwanSupervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS

Jun DUAgricultural Transition in China: Domestic and International Perspectives on Techno- logical and Institutional ChangeSupervisor: Professor Bob ASH

Lifeng HANCarnival Politics: Festival Spectacleand Ritual in Song China 960-1279 C.E.Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU

HSU Hsin-wenAn Archaeological Study of the Jades

from the Tomb of the King of Nanyue Kingdom Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao

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HUANG Chia-lingBritish-Qing Interaction in19th-century TaiwanSupervisor: Dr Lars LAAMANN

HUANG Ching-yiJohn Sparks Ltd: Art dealer andChinese Art in Britain, 1900-1950Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao

Simon FORBESBritish and French Missions in China during the 1930s and 1940s Supervisor: Dr Lars LAAMANN

Letizia FUSINIConcepts of tragedy in Gao Xingjian post-exile playsSupervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI

Zhongnan HUANGSeasoned Equity offerings of Chinese Listed Firms Supervisor: Dr Hong BO

Pamela HUNTConfigurations of Masculinity and

Realms of Agency in Post-1989Chinese FictionSupervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX

Yin HWANGThe Depiction of War and Rebellion in the Print and Visual Culture of Late Qing China, 1884-1901Supervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND

Yingquan JIANGFinancial development and economic growth in China Supervisor: Dr Dic LO

Lin JIAOThe Practice and Representation of the Modern Body in an Age of Globalisation: The Chinese Custom of Breast-BindingSupervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU

Yin-Chen KANGThe Formation of TaiwaneseClassical Theatre: 1900-1930

Supervisor: Dr Tian Yuan TAN

Sinae KIMBuddhist Scripture and Oral Performance in Medieval China: A Study of the Dunhuang Manuscripts of the “Sūtra Lecture Text on the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra”Supervisor: Dr Antonello Palumbo

Bodil KNUTSFlight or Fight: the Nation is Lost. The influence of a vagrant life on the notion of “home” in the prose of Xiao Hong (1911-1942) and Xiao Jun (1907-1988)Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX

Wing Sze Kaby KUNGFeminism and Postfeminism in the Work of Hong Ying and Li Bihua Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX

Sarah LEEA Historical Study of Female FilipinoDomestic Workers in Hong Kong,1970-2005Supervisor: Dr Lars LAAMANN

Shuk Man LEUNGThe Discursive Formation of UtopianImagination in New Fiction, 1902-1911Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX

Cui LIModels of regional development and labour absorption in China Supervisor: Dr Dic LO

Tianshuang LIANGThe Agency of Syncretism in Modern Chinese Art: Gao Qifeng and the New RepublicSupervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND

Sau-Ping LIMNanyin activities in the

Jinjiang region of FujianSupervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS

Hsiang-Chun Michael LIN The Investment Behaviour of Chinese Listed Firms Supervisor: Dr Hong BO

LIN Yi-hsinTradition, Transmission and Transformation: Art Collecting and Gentry identity of thePan Family in Nineteenth-century SuzhouSupervisor: Dr WANG Tao

Man Yee LUMPoems on drama of the eighteenth centurySupervisor: Dr Andrew LO

Yuanyuan MACultural Conservatism in Modern China: The Journal XuehengSupervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX

Alastair Ewan MACDONALDA New Direction in the Vernacular Short Story: Interactions Between “Popular” and Elite Culture in Paian jigqiSupervisor: Dr, Tian Yuan TAN

Malcolm MACNEILLNarrative Agency in 13th-14th Century Chan Figure Painting: A Study of Hagiography- Iconography Text-Image Relationships Supervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND

How Wee NG“Shaving, not Decapitating”—Censorship Practices of TV Drama and Film in Contemporary ChinaSupervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI

Janine NICOLDaoxuan and the Shijia fangzhi: The Creation of a Buddhist Sacred Geography of ChinaSupervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO

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Hardina OHLENDORFThe Construction of Taiwan Identity

Bespoke programme organised in conjunction with the Chinese

Leadership Summer School for the Chinese University

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in the Global Field of Taiwan StudiesSupervisor: Dr Julia STRAUSS

Min-Yen ONGHeritage or Heresy? SafeguardingKunqu in China post 2001Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS

Emilio RAMOSFrom the Rule of Law Uncertainties to Entrepreneurial Constraints: How China Moves Towards Radical Innovation Supervisor: Dr San Zhu

Shuchi SHENArt, Commerce and Chinese Identities: Remapping the Beijing Art Circle(1911-1938)Supervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND

Yiming SHENChinese Islamic text studies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: A case study of Chinese translations of Jāmī’s Persian Sufi proseSupervisor: Professor Bernhard FEUHRER

Longdu SHIBuddhism and the State in Medieval China: A Case Study of the Three Persecutions of Buddhism, 446-845Supervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO

Shijin SHINChina’s Soft Power and Strategies: A Study of China-South Korea RelationsSupervisor: Dr Tat Yan KONG

Fion Wai Ling SOCompetition and Co-operation in Shandong: Diederichsen, Jebsen & Company from 1898 to 1914Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU

Xiaolei SONGCorporate Governance: A legal study on reform of State-owned Enterprises in China Supervisor: Sanzhu ZHU

Mei WUIndustrial policy and foreign direct investment in Guangdong province, China, 1978-2010Supervisor: Dr Dic LO

Association of Auctioneers (CAA)

In July 2013 22 senior managers and owners of Chinese auction houses came to SOAS to learn about the UK auction house industry. This is the 2nd time SOAS has organisedthis programme. The first week was spent learning from leading figures from UK auction houses and academics from SOAS. Topics covered included contemporary Chinese art and the Western market as

well as more practical sessions on auction house management, the psychology of the salesroom, export and taxation as well as how to professionalise services. Lectures were enhanced through visits to auction houses, galleries and museums in London, whilst the second week was spent exploring other parts of the UK and attending regional auction houses. A promotion event wasalso held at RICS with the purpose of several of the leading Chinese auction housesbeing able to introduce their businesses to interested parties in the UK; over 50 people attended the event and some interesting discussions were held as well as contact details exchanged. The week at SOAS ended with Professor Michel Hockx presenting delegates with their attendance certificates.

of Hong Kong

In July 2013 the 3rd Leadership summer school was organised by the enterprise office. 35 students and 2 staff members attended the course. The focus was‘London as a global city’ and is an integrated component of a two year unique credit bearing programme at CUHK. The Leadership Development Programmewas established to nurture the leadership potential of selected students and prepare them for the challenges and opportunities of a new era.

With a mixture of formal lecturesand visits to places such as BBC, The Houses of Parliament, Chatham House, Brixton and Brick Lane, the itinerary was designed to provide important synergy with the emerging themes of global awareness and community engagement in other components of the programme. Students looked at how globalization has transformed the politics, economy, andculture of London. By looking at the urban development of London, students were encouraged to assess the future challenges and opportunities of Hong Kong as a world city. Students also enjoyed visits to the Open Air Theatre and to Bristol where they completed a graffiti workshop.

About UsThe SOAS China Institute formally launched on 1 October2013 and replaced the Centre of Chinese Studies as the forum for Chinese-related research at SOAS, Universityof London. The SCI represents the largest community of China scholars working together under one roof in Europe and aims to be one of the world-leading centres for China expertise and pre-eminent in London.

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