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Centre of Chinese StudiesANNUAL REVIEWISSUE 3: September 2011 August 2012

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2 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 3 SOAS is a college of the University of London and the only Higher Education institution in the UK specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. SOAS is a remarkable institution. Uniquely combining language scholarship, disciplinary expertise and regional focus, it has the largest concentration in Europe of academic sta concerned with Africa, Asia and the Middle East. On the one hand, this means that SOAS remains a guardian of specialised knowledge in languages and periods and regions not available anywhere else in the UK. On the other hand, it means that SOAS scholars grapple with pressing issues democracy, development, human rights, identity, legal systems, poverty, religion, social change confronting two-thirds of humankind. This makes SOAS synonymous with intellectual enquiry and achievement. It is a global academic base and a crucial resource for London. We live in a world of shrinking borders and of economic and technological simultaneity. Yet it is also a world in which dierence and regionalism present themselves acutely. It is a world that SOAS is distinctively positioned to analyse, understand and explain.STUDYING AT SOASThe international environment and cosmopolitan character of the School make student life a challenging, rewarding and exciting experience. We welcome students from more than 130 countries, and 50% of them are from outside the UK. The SOAS Library has more than 1.5 million items and extensive electronic resources. It is the national library the study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East and attracts scholars all over the world. SOAS oers a wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate and research degrees. Students can choose from more than 400 undergraduate degree combinations and from more than 100 postgraduate programmes (taught and distance learning) in the social sciences, humanities and languages with a distinctive regional focus and global relevance, taught by worldrenowned teachers in specialist faculties. SOAS is consistently ranked among the top higher education institutions in the UK and the world. In 2006 SOAS joined the top 20 European universities in the Times Higher Education Supplement rankings, and in 2007 the Guardian listed it again among the top dozen UK universities, which include other University of London colleges (UCL, LSE and Kingâ€™s College) as well as Oxford and Cambridge. The international environment and cosmopolitan character of the School make student life a challenging, rewarding and exciting experience. We welcome students from more than 130 countries, and 50% of them are from outside the UK. SOAS oers a friendly, vibrant environment right in the buzzing heart of London.CONTACT USWe welcome you to become part of the SOAS experience and invite you to learn more about us by exploring our website.www.soas.ac.ukAdmissions www.soas.ac.uk/admissions/ SOAS Library www.soas.ac.uk/library/ Research www.soas.ac.uk/research/ SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street Russell Square London WC1H 0XG UNIVERSITIY OF L ONDON 2012 40 2011-2012 â€œChinaâ€™s Governmentality in the Last Century: Governability, Government, and Governanceâ€ W LETTER FROM THE CHAIR Outgoing Chair (2009-2012) Dic Lo SOASAIncoming Chair (2012-2015) Tian Yuan Tan CONTENTS 3Letter from the Chair4 Centre Members: current6Members News11Announcements12Honorary Appointments13Academic Events Listing15 Centre Activities19Research Students: 2011-201221London Confucius Institute22Research & Enterprise23Join the Centre elcome to the 2011-2012 issue of the Centre of Chinese Studies (CCS) Annual Review. It is a pleasure as the chair of the Centre to present the Review to everyone concerned. The CCS is a leading academic establishment in the area of Chinese studies in the UK and indeed in Europe as a whole. The Centre has more than 40 full-time members of academic sta from almost all disciplines of language studies, humanities, and social sciences. In line with the general character of SOAS, the Centre has the reputation of intellectual excitement and achievement. In academic year 2011-2012, the CCS continued to focus its activities on research and knowledge dissemination. The Centreâ€™s regular series of research seminars are a well-established platform for SOAS and external scholars to present their work to the academic community. The Centreâ€™s Annual Lecture is given by distinguished invited speakers of international standing, on topics that are of interest to specialist scholars as well as to the general public. This year, the Annual Lecture was delivered by Professor Wang Shaoguang of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, on the topic â€˜Chinaâ€™s Governmentality in the Last Century: Governability, Government, and Governanceâ€™. The Centre also organized a number of lectures, symposia and public forums in the academic year. My term as Centre Chair comes to an end in August 2012. I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all the participants in our activities over the past three years, and particularly to our administrators who have done an excellent job in organizing the activities and ensuring the smooth running of the Centre. I do believe CCS will continue to run an interesting programme of activities in academic year 2012-2013, under the leadership of the new Centre Chair. s Incoming Chair of the Centre of Chinese Studies (CCS), I would rst like to thank Dic Lo for his leadership and contribution to the Centre for the past three years. Building on the established foundation, I will strive to continue developing new activities and fostering partnerships and links between CCS and other institutions and organisations. My area of specialty is in pre-modern Chinese literature. Since joining SOAS in 2006, I have met many colleagues and students who have inspired me to new ways of thinking about China. The School demonstrates and embraces great breadth and depth in the area of Chinese Studies, covering both historical and contemporary aspects, in various departments. CCS has always been and will continue to be the interdisciplinary intellectual and cultural hub of China across the School, where minds and ideas meet. During my term as the Centre Chair, I hope to bring together people from dierent elds who are interested in China, both within and beyond SOAS. The Centre is home to over 40 academic sta and a large number of postgraduate and research students working on a wide range of topics related to China, as well as a growing number of research associates and visiting scholars. Our activities actively involve colleagues and friends from outside the School too, as CCS hopes to serve as the hub of communications, joint research, and collaborations on Chinese Studies between institutions in Asia and Europe. I welcome suggestions and comments from Centre members on how we can develop CCS together. In the coming year, I invite everyone to join me on a journey to discover China through our seminars and activities. I look forward to meeting every one of you and welcoming you into our CCS community.

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4 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 5 Professor Robert F ASH Professor of Economics with reference to China and Taiwan Department of Economics ra2@soas.ac.uk Professor Timothy H BARRETT Professor of East Asian History Department of the Study of Religions tb2@soas.ac.uk Dr Hong BO Senior Lecturer in Chinese Business and Management Department of Financial and Management Studies hb22@soas.ac.uk Dr Cosima BRUNO Mellon Lecturer in Chinese Studies Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia cb65@soas.ac.uk Mr Ernest CALDWELL Lecturer in Chinese Law s School of Law ec24@soas.ac.uk Dr Wynn CHAO Lecturer in Linguistics Department of Linguistics wc@soas.ac.uk Dr Yan CUI Senior Lector in Chinese Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia yc2@soas.ac.uk Yueqin DONG Teaching Fellow Department of Financial and Management Studies yd4@soas.ac.uk Dr Dafydd FELL Senior Lecturer in Taiwanese Studies Department of Politics and International Studies df2@soas.ac.uk Dr Rossella FERRARI Lecturer in Modern Chinese Culture and Language Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia rf24@soas.ac.uk Professor Bernhard FUEHRER Professor of Sinology Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia bf3@soas.ac.uk Ms Wan Li GAO Senior Lector in Chinese Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia wg@soas.ac.uk Dr Enze HAN Lecturer in the International Security of East Asia Department of Politics and International Studies eh22@soas.ac.uk Dr Rachel HARRIS Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology Department of Music rh@soas.ac.uk Dr Nathan HILL Senior Lector in Tibetan Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia nh36@soas.ac.uk Professor Michel HOCKX Professor of Chinese Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia mh17@soas.ac.uk Dr Eunsuk HONG Lecturer in International Business & Management (China) Department of Financial and Management Studies eh19@soas.ac.uk Dr Andrea JANKU Senior Lecturer in the History of China Department of History aj7@soas.ac.uk Dr Jakob KLEIN Lecturer in Social Anthropology Department of Anthropology and Sociology jk2@soas.ac.uk Dr Yuka KOBAYASHI Lecturer in Chinese Politics Department of Politics and International Studies yk37@soas.ac.uk Dr Tat Yan KONG Reader in Comparative Politics and Development Studies Department of Politics and International Studies yk2@soas.ac.uk Dr Lars LAAMANN Lecturer in the History of China Department of History ll10@soas.ac.uk Dr George LANE Senior Teaching Fellow Department of History gl1@soas.ac.uk Dr Kevin LATHAM Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology Department of Anthropology and Sociology kl1@soas.ac.uk Dr Andrew H-B LO Senior Lecturer in Chinese Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia al3@soas.ac.uk Dr Dic LO Reader in Economics Department of Economics dl1@soas.ac.uk Dr Xiaoning LU Lecturer in Modern Chinese Culture and Language Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia xl1@soas.ac.uk Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND Senior Lecturer in the History of Chinese Art Department of the History of Art and Archaeology sm80@soas.ac.uk Dr Lukas NICKEL Reader in Chinese Art History and Archaeology Department of the History of Art and Archaeology ln2@soas.ac.uk Dr Ulrich PAGEL Reader in Language and Religion in Tibet and Middle Asia Department of the Study of Religions up1@soas.ac.uk Dr Antonello PALUMBO Lecturer in Chinese Religions Department of the Study of Religions ap47@soas.ac.uk Ms Zhaoxia PANG Lector in Chinese Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia zp1@soas.ac.uk Dr Stacey PIERSON Lecturer in Chinese Ceramics Department of the History of Art and Archaeology sp17@soas.ac.uk Dr Huanguang QIU Newton International Fellow Dr Lianyi SONG Principal Teaching Fellow Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia ls2@soas.ac.uk Dr Julia C STRAUSS Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics Department of Politics and International Studies js11@soas.ac.uk Ms Lik SUEN Principal Lector in Chinese Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia lx@soas.ac.uk Professor Laixiang SUN Professor of Chinese Business and Management Department of Financial and Management Studies ls28@soas.ac.uk Dr Carol TAN Senior Lecturer in Law School of Law ct9@soas.ac.uk Dr Tian Yuan TAN Senior Lecturer in Traditional Chinese Literature and Culture Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia tt26@soas.ac.uk Dr Damian TOBIN Lecturer in Chinese Business and Management Department of Financial and Management Studies dt29@soas.ac.uk Ms Wai Hing TSE Assistant Librarian China, Financial and Management Studies Library and Information Service wt1@soas.ac.uk Dr Xinsheng (George) ZHANG Director of Language Centre Language Centre xz2@soas.ac.uk Dr Sanzhu ZHU Senior Lecturer in Chinese Commercial Law School of Law sz8@soas.ac.uk CENTRE MEMBERS: CURRENT Paul Webley with President Xu Xianming of Shandong University Shandong University, 2011In October 2011, I was fortunate enough to travel to China to participate in a celebration of the 110th anniversary of Shandong University and to present a paper in a Forum on Higher Education. I gave a talk on the internationalisation of Higher Education, which looked at the major trends and the key issues facing Universities as a result of internationalization: this seemed to be well received, given Shandong Universityâ€™s desire to become a major player on the international stage. The University has considerable expertise in archaeology and we had fruitful discussions about pursuing collaboration in this and other areas. Other than the academic discussions, which were interesting and constructive, the trip had a number of highlights for me. Travelling on the very new high speed train from Beijing to Jinan was good fun (other than the transfer from Beijing airport to South Beijing railway terminal). The train journey was very smooth and I have never seen such clean railway tracks in my life. At the anniversary dinner I met and had a long conversation with Leroy Chiao. Leroy is a Chinese-American astronaut, a Mandarin speaker with a serious interest in and knowledge of Asian space policy and in particular the Chinese space programme. His call sign is Shandong (his ancestors came from the province) and he has an honorary doctorate from the University. I hope that sometime soon we can get him to visit SOAS. At the anniversary dinner I also met the mother of a current SOAS student, who said that her daughter had enjoyed her time at IFCELS so much she chose to stay on at SOAS to study Economics and Politics. The mother had visited the SOAS library and said simply â€˜I love itâ€™. There was also time for a little tourism. Visiting Mount Tai was enjoyable although going up by cable car didnâ€™t seem quite right (pilgrims should clearly have to walk all the way up). The Baotu springs were amazing, beautiful and fascinating â€“ and I was given a lesson about vortices by a Physics professor â€“ so I learnt something as well as being delighted. And I also added to my very limited knowledge of Chinese characters â€“ I am certainly not going to forget the character for mountain or how to pronounce it! Paul Webley Alison Surry (SOAS Publications, 1990-1998) The school is sad to announce the death of Alison Surry, on Thursday 12th July. Alison was a SOAS alumnus (BA Linguistics, 1983) and editorial assistant in the Publications section of the school from 1990 to 1998, working on The China Quarterly and Journal of African Law. She continued to copy edit The China Quarterly until her death Former China Quarterly editor David Shambaugh described Alison as "a phenomenal editor... She gave her professional life to the CQ and SOAS," while his successor Richard Louis Edmonds wrote of her "excellent service to so many of us colleagues and to the many, many authors who beneted from her editing." Stuart Schram (1924 â€“ 2012) We regret to inform colleagues that Stuart Schram, founder Head of the Contemporary Institute at the time when the China Quarterly came under its umbrella, died peacefully on 8 July.Obiturary

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6 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 7 MEMBERS NEWS CUI Yan From left: Professor Tien Hung-mao, who wrote the book's foreword, and Dafydd Fell in Taiwan Dafydd FELL PUBLICA TION Bruno, Cosima. Between the Lines: Yang Lianâ€™s Poetry through Translation. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. The book illustrates how the study of translation can enhance our experience of reading poetry. Translations into English of Yang Lianâ€™s poems provide the case study that complements and demonstrates the theoretical and methodological propositions put forward in the book. In September 2011, Cui Yan was invited to give a presentation in the Second International Teaching Chinese Symposium and the Ninth South East Asia Chinese Teaching Conference which were organized by Singapore Centre for Chinese Language of Nanyang Technological University and jointly organized by Singapore Ministry of Education, Yi An Science Institute and other teaching and learning associations and organizations (http://intcoference.scl.sg). Yanâ€™s speech topic was â€œThe Creation of Digital Materialsâ€. Yan was also invited to chair a sub-discussion meeting at this conference focusing on the eld of teaching modern Chinese literature and crosscultural education in universities outside a target language country. The scholars at the confer ence came from over twenty countries and more than two hundred papers were selected. The conference took place on 8-9 in September 2011 in the Cosima BRUNO Rossella FERRARIOn 24 October 2011 Rossella Ferrari delivered the talk â€œThe Rhizome of Exchange: Interculturalism and Inter-Asian Perfor manceâ€, organized by the SOAS Centre of Chinese Studies. On 16 February 2012 she was invited by the University of Leeds East Asian Research Society to speak about â€œInterculturalism, Transnationalism, and Chineselanguage Theatre Networksâ€. PUBLICA TIONS Ferrari, Rossella. â€œDisenchanted Presents, Haunted Pasts and Dystopian Futures: Deferred Millennialism in the Cinema of Meng Jinghuiâ€. Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 20, Issue 71 (September), 2011, pp. 699. Ferrari, Rossella. â€œArchitec ture and/in Theatre from the Bauhaus to Hong Kong: Mathias Wooâ€™s Looking for Miesâ€. New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 28, Issue 1 (February), 2012, pp. 3. Conference Centre of Singapore Yi An Science Institute. On 26 January 2012, Yan was invited to give a speech at the SOAS seminar organized by SOAS Centre for Language Pedagogy (CLP). This was one of the Series of CLP Forum. Her speech topic was â€œMaterial Development â€“ Creation and Usage of Digital Materials in Language Teachingâ€. She illustrated how the digitalized teaching materials had been developed and used in language teaching. The digital materials were CETL projects which were created in 2005, and have been used in language teaching since. The material which can be used free online was formally published in 2009 by CETL and SOAS (/www.lww-cetl.ac.uk/elementarychinese). This teaching production including audio, written and visual materials have been designed to meet the learnersâ€™ needs, i.e. lling in the teaching gap and developing the learnersâ€™ linguistic and communicative competence. The talk covered the following aspects: the background of the material development â€“ why the materials are needed to be developed and what problems there had been in the actual teaching situation before the materials were produced; how the materials are designed and what the rational is in this material-production; what the characteristics are; how they have been used by the lectors and learners in the regular teaching situation and what the outcomes are after using these materials in teaching. The CLP was established to promote the teaching and learning of Asian, African and Middle Eastern languages and to support the development of teaching materials and learning resources for these languages: www.soas.ac.uk/clp Yan was invited by The International Society for Chinese Teaching (ISCT) and Chinese National Hanban (Hanban) to give a presentation at The 11th International Symposium of Teaching Chinese Language as a Foreign Language on 15, 16 and 17 in August 2012 in Xiâ€™an China. The conference organizer was ISCT and Hanban. The theme of this yearâ€™s conference was: New Theories and Ideas on International Chinese Language Teacher Training. Over 600 hundred papers were submitted but 400 hundred papers were selected including Cui Yanâ€™s. The topic of her presentation was â€œQuality and Ability of Chinese Teaching Sta in Overseas Universitiesâ€. ISCT and Hanban is the biggest organization of Teaching Chinese internationally. Every two or three years, an international symposium of teaching Chinese is organized (http://11th.shihan. org.cn) for scholars to share their information on the latest achievements and development in Chinese language teaching worldwide. This year Dafydd Fell was part of the team awarded runners up for the SOAS Directorâ€™s Teaching Prize. The other members of the team were Professor Robert Ash, Dr Monique Chu and Dr Hardina Ohlendorf. The prize was awarded in recognition of their work developing the Schoolâ€™s world leading Taiwan Studies teaching programme. T ALKS How has Taiwanâ€™s democratic system been aected by the China Factor? Talk given at St Antonyâ€™s College, Oxford University conference titled â€˜An Audit of Democratic Development in the Republic of China.â€™ 24 June, 2011 . The development of Civil Society in Taiwan.â€™ Talk given at the School of Contemporary China Studies, Nottingham University. 5 August, 2011. Taiwanâ€™s 2012 Elections: Campaign, Predicted Results and Consequences. Talk given at Chatham Houseâ€™s Asia Programme Roundtable on Taiwan in the Global Economy. 31 October, 2011. Dafydd spoke at the Taiwan Election Seminar held at the Wilson Center in Washington DC on 13 December, 2011. Here is the eventâ€™s videolink: www. wilsoncenter.org/event/taiwanelections-2012 He then returned to London to join a panel at SOAS the next day titled Looking Ahead to Taiwanâ€™s Presidential and Legislative Elections. Dafydd was in Taiwan from 18 December, 2011 to 16 January, 2012 to observe its January 2012 elections. He was invited as a Visiting Researcher at the College of International Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan. During this Taiwan visit he gave the following talks: The Development of Taiwan studies in Europe, Tamkang University, 4 January, 2012. Why is the study of Taiwanese politics so popular abroad? Graduate Institute of Political Science, National Sun Yat Sen University, 28 December, 2011, Graduate Institute of International Politics, National Chunghsing University, 5 January, 2012, College of Social Sciences, National Chengchi University on 3 January, 2012. In the nal week prior to the election he joined an international election observation group visiting party headquarters, think-tank and campaign events. He spoke at a post-election seminar on 15 January 2012 at the Institute for National Policy Research in Taipei. On his way back from Taiwan Dafydd stopped o in Washington DC to give a talk at a workshop on Taiwanâ€™s Presidential and Legislative Elections on 17 January, 2012. This was jointly organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Brookings Institute. The videolink to the event is: http:// csis.org/multimedia/video-taiwans-january-2012-presidential-and-legislative-electionspanel-one In April Dafydd visited Taiwan to attend the First World Congress of Taiwan Studies (April 26-28), at Academia Sinica. During this Taiwan trip he gave the following talks: Academic Diplomacy in Practice: The Role of SOAS in European Taiwan Studies. Talk given at the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Aairs Training Institute, April 25, 2012 Why is the study of Taiwanese politics so popular abroad? Talk given at Taiwanâ€™s National Central Library, April 25, 2012. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Patterns of Party Switching in Multiparty Taiwan. First World Congress of Taiwan Studies, April 26, 2012. Taiwanâ€™s Claim to Multiculturalism before and after 2008: The Impact of Changing Ruling Parties on Immigration Policies (coauthored with Dr Isabelle Cheng, SOAS Politics). World Congress of Taiwan Studies, April 26, 2012. PUBLICA TIONS Fell, Dafydd: Government and Politics in Taiwan (London: Routledge, 2011) â€˜Taiwanâ€™s Party System in Transition: More or Less Space for Identity Politics?â€™ In: Schubert and Damm (eds.), Taiwanese Identity in the 21st Century: domestic, regional and global perspectives. (London: Routledge, 2011); â€˜Polarization of Party Competition in the DPP Era.â€™ In: Ash, Garver and Prime (eds.), Taiwanâ€™s Democracy and Future: Economic and Political Challenges. (London: Rachel HARRIS Rachel Harris co-organised the international conference â€˜Musical Geographies of Central Asiaâ€™ in May 2012, hosted by SOAS and the University of Londonâ€™s Institute for Musical Research, and supported by the Aga Khan Music Initiative. She presented papers at the Association for Analyzing World Music conference in Vancouver (via Skype), and at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology in Durham. She acts as consultant to the Aga Khan Music Initiative, providing the sleeve notes for the joint CD and DVD project Wu Man: Borderlands which involved the star Chinese pipa player Wu Man working with traditional musicians from across Central Asia. Rachel serves as Chair of the London Jingkun Opera Association, which is celebrating ten years of promoting Beijing and Kunqu opera in the UK with a series of workshops and public performances supported by the London Confucius Institute. Routledge, 2011); â€˜Prospects for Taiwan and its Impact on Cross-Strait Relations.â€™ In Shambaugh (ed): Charting Chinaâ€™s Future: Domestic and International Challenges. (London: Routledge, 2011). â€˜Taiwan: Lessons from the Asian Orphan for Nagorno Karabakh?â€™ Analyticon (3). (March, 2012). This was published in English, Russian and Armenian. â€˜Election Season Returns to Taiwan: Prospects for Taiwanâ€™s National Elections in 2012.â€™ Brookings Northeast Asia Commentary (47). â€˜The 2012 campaign: the story so far.â€™ Taipei Times, 10 November 2011, p. 8. She continues to organise and perform with the London Uyghur Ensemble, a local group dedicated to the performance of traditional music from Xinjiang. Activities this year included a Nowruz concert in the Gasteig Theatre, Munich, and the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, and a TV programme for the BBC World Service. After concluding a busy term as Head of Department, she is conducting eldwork in Xinjiang through summer 2012. PUBLICA TION Music of Central Asia Vol. 10: Borderlands: Wu Man and Master Musicians from the Silk Route (Smithsonian Folkways, 2012) Nathan W. HILLIn September Nathan W. Hill hosted the conference â€˜Bon, Shangshung, and Early Tibetâ€™ (9-10 September 2011), which was held in celebration of 60 years of Tibetan studies at SOAS and 50 years of Bon studies in the West. The conference brought together 18 leading experts on the Bon religion and early Tibetan history, and had over 250 people in attendance. The conference was generously sponsored by the British Academy, the London Shang Shung Institute, the Kalpa Group, and the Faculty of Languages and Cultures.

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8 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 9 MEMBERS NEWS Andrea JANKUNathan spent four months as a visiting researcher at LudwigMaximilians-Universitt (Munich) as a guest of the research project â€˜Kingship and Religion in Tibetâ€™ in the Institut fr Indologie und Tibetologie. Upon his return to SOAS in December he took up a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for the project â€˜Pre-history of the SinoTibetan languages: the sound laws relating Old Burmese, Old Chinese, and Old Tibetanâ€™. During the last year Nathan has delivered invited talks at Oxford Univeristy (â€˜Distinguishing forms of the ablative and comparative in Classical and Old Tibetanâ€™, April 2012), Columbia University (â€˜The contribution of corpus linguistics to lexicography and the future of Tibetan dictionariesâ€™, December 2011), LMU Munich (â€˜The Phywa and the Dmu: comparison of two categories of gods in early Tibetan mythologyâ€™, November 2011), and a paper together with Charles Manson, also of the SOAS Tibetan programme, at the University of Vienna (â€˜A Gter ma of negatives: H. E. Richardsonâ€™s photographic negatives of manuscript copies of Tibetan imperial inscriptionsâ€™, October 2011). Nathan has recently published four papers: â€˜Evolution of the Burmese vowel systemâ€™ in Transactions of the Philological Society (2012), â€˜A note on the history and future of the â€˜Wylieâ€™ systemâ€™ in Revue dâ€™Etudes Tibtaines (2012), â€˜An inventory of Tibetan Sound Lawsâ€™ Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (2011), and â€˜Multiple origins of Tibetan oâ€™ in Language and Linguistics (2011). Starting in September, together with Dr Ulrich Pagel (Department of the Study of Religion), Nathan will begin work on a three-year AHRCfunded research project â€˜Tibetan in Digital Communication: Corpus Linguistics and Lexicographyâ€™. Michel HOCKXIn September 2011, Michel Hockx was elected President of the British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS). He will serve a three-year term. In January 2012, he was appointed interim Director of the London Confucius Institute, which is housed at SOAS. His academic activity in 2011/2012 included presenting papers on Chinese Internet literature at the annual BACS Conference in Edinburgh (Sept 2011) and at the RMMLA conference in Arizona (Oct 2011), as well as a paper on Republican-era transgressive magazines presented at the AAS conference in Toronto (Mar 2012). He also presented invited lectures on postsocialist Chinese publishing culture at the University of Nottingham (Nov 2011), at the University of Copenhagen (Dec 2011), and at Beijing Normal University (Apr 2012). PUBLICA TIONS Hockx, Michel. â€œPrint Culture and the New Media in Postsocialist China.â€ In: Writing under Socialism, ed. Sara Jones and Meesha Nehru, 29-41. Nottingham: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, 2011. Hockx, Michel. â€œThe Literary Field and the Field of Power: The Case of Modern China.â€ Paragraph 35, no. 1 (2012): 49-65. the British Academy funded â€˜Communicating Civilisations and Global Orderâ€™ conference at SOAS (see separate report on page 17). She continued to focus on environmental history with a presentation in German on â€˜Water and Power in Chinese Historyâ€™ at the Northelbian Centre for World Mission and Church World Service in Hamburg on 17 September and participation at the First Conference of the Association for East Asian Environmental History in Taipei in October 2011, where she gave a paper entitled â€˜Landscapes of Production Landscapes of Consumption: Famous Views in Linfen, Then and Now.â€™ On 6 March she was invited as a commentator to a Workshop on Qing Economic History at the LSE. More recently, she gave a seminar paper at the University of Sussex entitled â€˜The Meaning of Landscapes in North China: Historical Reections on the Nature-Culture Divideâ€™ (26 April) and followed an invitation to give a lecture on â€˜The Outsiderâ€™s Gaze: Reading Chinese Images of Disastersâ€™ in the series â€˜Imaging Disastersâ€™ at the University of Heidelberg on 4 June. PUBLICA TIONS Janku, Andrea, Schenk, Gerrit J. and Mauelshagen, Franz, eds. Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics. New York: Routledge, 2012. Yangku (Janku, Andrea), â€˜â€™â€Tianzai hu, renhuo huâ€: 1928-1930 nian xibei da jihuangâ€™ 1928-1930 , Translation of â€˜From Natural to National Disaster: The Chinese Famine of 1928-1930, Zhongguo xueshu/China Scholarship, vol.9, no.2 (2011): 227-262. [Chinese translation of â€˜From Natural to National Disaster: The Chinese Famine of 1928-1930.â€™ In: Janku/ Schenk/Mauelshagen, eds. Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics. New York: Routledge, 2012, pp. 227260.] Jakob KLEINIn 2012 Jakob Klein carried out nearly two months of eldwork in Yunnan Province for a British Academy-funded project entitled â€˜â€œLocalâ€, â€œregionalâ€ or â€œethnicâ€?: Exploring identities through rubing (milk cake) in Kunming.â€™ In April 2012 Jakob presented two papers in Taipei on an invitation from Academia Sinica: â€˜Everyday Approaches to Food Safety in Contemporary Urban Chinaâ€™ (presented to the History of Hygiene Project); and â€˜Constructing Dian Cuisine: Food and Place in Southwest Chinaâ€™ (presented at the Institute of Ethnology). Jakob has been actively promoting Chinese Studies in his work as Deputy Chair of the SOAS Food Studies Centre. The Centreâ€™s fth Distinguished Lecture was delivered on 22 March 2012 by James L. Watson, Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Harvard University. The talk was entitled â€˜Salt Water Margin: Red Rice, Reclamations, and Restaurateurs along the South China Coast (An Ethnographic Puzzle).â€™ On 19 March 2012 the eminent historian of Chinese food, Professor Franoise Sabban (Centre dâ€™tudes sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, EHESS, Paris), presented her paper â€˜The milk issue in China: past and presentâ€™ at a two-day international symposium entitled â€˜Cooking, Cuisine and Class in the Anthropology of Food Todayâ€™, a SOAS Food Studies Centre event co-organized by Jakob and Professor Anne Murcott, and funded by the SOAS Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Lars LAAMANNPUBLICA TION L.P. Laamann (ed.), Critical Readings: The Manchus in modern China (1616-2012), Leiden: Brill, 2011. [four volumes] In September Andrea Janku presented a paper on â€˜The State of the Environment as a Measure of Civilisation: Of Mountains and Rivers, Soil and Trees, and the Twelfth Five-Year Planâ€™ at George LANE In June the â€œChinese Academy of Social Sciencesâ€ together with the â€œResearch Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Cultureâ€ and the â€œOrganisation of Islamic Cooperationâ€ hosted a conference on the theme of â€œChina and the Muslim World: Encounters of Civilisations.â€ The congress took place in Beijing from 27 June until 30 June with the last day comprising a group visit and tour of the Great Wall of China. George Lane gave the third paper of the opening session and compared the fall of Baghdad in 1258 to the fall of Hangzhou in 1276. In 1258 the multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Chinggisid forces under Hulegu Khan besieged the Caliph of Baghdad before launching the attack which ended the Arab presence in Iran and the Arab domination of Islam. Hulegu had arrived in Iran at the invitation of the Iranians who wanted an end to the instability and chaos that had existed with military rule since the initial Chinggisid invasions of 1220. They wanted to be absorbed into the greater empire with the benets that that would bring and the besieging armies around Baghdad were joined by troops from all of Iranâ€™s city states, the Kurds, the Shiâ€™ites and the Armenians and Georgians. Nearly 20 years later Hangzhou surrendered peacefully and Iran and China were united under Qubilai Khan. Persian ambitions were rewarded and their support for Hulegu justied. Today evidence of the mediaeval Persian community has come to light with the appearance of 21 early 14th century tombstones belonging to a mosque built in 1281 by the Persian Ala al-Din. It is the close ties between Hangzhou and mediaeval Persia that he presented at the conference in Beijing. PUBLICA TION An account of Georgeâ€™s research on the Phoenix Mosque and the Persian tombstones from the Ju-jing Yuan cemetery appeared in China at the end of last year. His article was translated into Chinese. The details are: Lane, George. â€œThe Phoenix Mosque of Hangzhouâ€ Guanyu Yuandai Hangzhou de Fenghuangsi). In Qinghua Yuanshi , edited by Yao Dali , Nanjing: Qinghua Academy of Chinese Learning, Qinghua University, no.1, edn,. 2011 Andrew LO Andrew Lo presented a paper entitled â€œHua Yueâ€™s (?-1222) â€˜Cuiwei nanzheng luâ€™ [Mr Cuiweiâ€™s Journey to the South]â€ in Chinese at the International Conference on â€œIntellectuals and Culture in Periods of National Crises in Chinaâ€, organised by National Central University, Taiwan, 26-30 March 2012. At the same conference, Dr Frances Wood (British Library) and Andrew gave a joint talk entitled â€œThe Export of Culture in a Period of Social Change â€”The Signicance and Value of Qing Export Paintingsâ€. He gave a lecture on â€œThe Ming Novelâ€ at the Arts of Asia 15001900: Islamic Middle East, South Asia and China course at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 25 June 2012. Dic LO On 18-19 December 2011, the CCS co-organised with Renmin University of China (RUC) an international conference in Suzhou, China. The conference, entitled â€œRegulating nance for economic developmentâ€, was an activity of a joint SOAS-RUC two-year research project, funded by the Ford Foundation, on â€œChinaâ€™s nancial governance and economic internationalizationâ€. Three SOAS academics (Dic Lo, Hong Bo, and Yingquan Jiang), together with another twenty international scholars, presented papers at the conference. PUBLLICA TION Lo, Dic, Alternatives to Neoliberal Globalization: Studies in the Political Economy of Institutions and Late Development, Basingstoke and London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Xiaoning LUXiaoning Lu participated in an international research project on â€œThe Overseas Life-Writing of Modern Chinese Figuresâ€ led by Shanghai Jiaotong University Centre of Life Writing and funded by Chinaâ€™s National Social Sciences Grant. Shane MCCAUSLANDShane McCausland published and submitted papers, and participated in various scholarly gatherings. In Taipei in December 2011, at National Taiwan University, he gave a conference paper on the appropriation of Baroque visual perspective in Qianlong era painting and printing. At the University of Michigan in February 2012 he contributed a paper on gure painting to a conference entitled â€˜Room for Another Viewâ€™ about on Chinaâ€™s art history in global perspective. The paper is forthcoming in a Blackwell Companion to Chinese Art. In May he spoke about Chinese calligraphy in Mongol Yuan China at a symposium hosted by CRASSH, University of Cambridge, in honour of Wu Hung. In June he hosts a study day on Chinese paintings at SOAS, organised with the British Museum and Christieâ€™s Education, in conjunction with the British Museum special exhibition, Modern Chinese Ink Paintings. He was also a consultant to the director John Mullan for â€˜Cash in Chinaâ€™s Attic: A Culture Show Specialâ€™, presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon and broadcast on BBC2 TV in January 2012. He is on sabbatical during 2012-13, writing a general study of Yuan culture to appear from Reaktion Books.

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10 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 11 MEMBERS NEWSWith generous sponsorship from Christies, Stacey Pierson organized a Study Day on New Research in Chinese Ceramics which took place at SOAS on 24 May 2012. This was designed to introduce current students and members of the public to Zhaoxia PANGZhaoxia Pang presented her paper at British Chinese Language Teaching Society International Symposiums in University of Cardi in 2010. Her paper was selected for publication in Applied Chinese Language Studies III Innovations in Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language. London: Sinolingua London Ltd. pp: 32-39, June 2012. Laixiang Sun is the current President of Chinese Economic Association (UK/EUROPE) during 2012-13. Laixiang organised the 23rd Chinese Economic Association (UK) and 4th Chinese Economic Association (Europe) Annual Conference, The Chinese Way of Economic Reform and Development in the Context of Globalization which was co-organized by Department of Financial & Management Studies (DeFiMS) and Centre of China Studies (CCS), SOAS, University of London and Peking University Alumni Association in the UK. PUBLICA TIONS Shane McCausland, â€˜Copying and transmitting, knowledge and nonsense: From the Great Encyclopaedia to the Book from the Skyâ€™. In Nick Pearce & Jason Steuber (eds), Original Intentions: Essays on Production, Reproduction and Interpretation in the Arts of China. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2012. Shane McCausland, â€˜Chen Hongshou and his Workshopâ€™. In Jerome Silbergeld et al. (eds), Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Wen C. Fong, pp 16382. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Stacey PIERSONthe latest work in the eld, and the most prominent specialists working in the UK. Prior to this she presented a paper at the annual Association for Asian Studies Hong Kong conference on the subject of the Terracotta Army in the 21st Century in March 2012. Laixing SUN Carol TANPRESENT A TIONS â€˜Man and Land: Early interference in the traditional land system in Kedah under the Light Administrationâ€™, International Conference On The Legal Histories Of The British Empire, National University Of Singapore, July 2012. â€˜The Shadow of Colonialism: Britishinspired courts in Southeast Asiaâ€™, Graduate Institute Of Southeast Asian Studies And Centre Of Southeast Asian Studies, National Chi-Nan University, Taiwan, June 2012. â€˜The Shadow of Colonialism: Britishinspired courts in Asiaâ€™, programme for Courts in East Asia and Legal Transplant, International Conference on News Perspectives in East Asian Studies, Institute Of Advanced Studies In Humanities And Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, June 2012. â€˜Colonial Public Health Laws and the Making of a European Summer Resort in North Chinaâ€™, London Legal History Seminars And Institute Of Advanced Legal Studies seminar on Imperial Encounters: colonialism and the law from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century, May 2012. â€˜Hugh Hicklingâ€™s nonacademic writingsâ€™, Workshop on Law and Society in Malaysia, Centre For Asia Pacic Initiatives, University Of Victoria, July 2011. Carol Tan is also Chair of the Centre of South East Asian Studies (CSEAS) at SOAS and events in the past 12 months included an ASEAN-China Economics Workshop in the autumn of 2011. PUBLICA TIONS Tan, Carol GS, â€˜Sans liaison ferroviaire: Wei-hai Wei et le Chinese Labour Corpsâ€™, in Li Ma (ed), Des Travailleurs Chinois dans la Grande Guerre (Paris: CNRS Editions), pp 55-68 Tan, Carol GS, â€˜Colonial Cleansing: laws for a summer resort in Chinaâ€™, (2012) International Review of Law, vol. 1, published at http://www.qscience.com/ toc/irl/2012, (2012:7). Tan, Carol GS, â€˜Nesting the taxonomy in the remedial: re-examination of promissory termsâ€™, Northern Ireland Law Quarterly, 62: 321-334 In 2011, Tian Yuan Tan was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant for a new project on â€œEntertaining the Emperor: Elite Playwrights and Court Theatre in EighteenthCentury China.â€ In April 2012, his forthcoming book, An Anthology of Critical Studies on Tang Xianzu in Western Scholarship (co-edited with Xu Yongming, Zhejiang University), received a Harvard-Yenching Institute Publication Grant. He visited Sapienza University of Rome in July 2012 for research collaboration and preparation of a book manuscript on emotions in Peony Pavilion, supported by a Strategic Research Funding Grant from the Faculty of Languages and Cultures. T ALKS â€œSpectators and Spectacles in Qing Court Theatre,â€ presented at the Institute for Chinese Studies Seminar Series, University of Oxford, 17 November 2011. â€œVisuality in Court Theatre during the Qianlong Era.â€ (in Chinese) presented at the International Conference on â€œVisual Culture in the Era of Emperor Qianlongâ€, organised by National Taiwan University, 15-16 December 2011. PUBLICA TION Tan, Tian Yuan. â€œReections on the Study of Court Theatre in Late Imperial Chinaâ€, in Ming Qing gongtingshi xueshu yantaohui lunwenji (Volume 1), ed. Palace Museum (Beijing: Jijincheng chubanshe, 2011), 467-477. Tian Yuan TANChinese New Year of Dragon at SOASOn 27 January 2012, organized by BA Chinese year three students and their course teachers, joined by BA Chinese year one students as well as many other students and sta at SOAS, a Chinese New Year celebration party took place at SOAS. Special guests included Director of London Confucius Institute Professor Michel Hockx and many SOAS teachers and sta. Amid the colourful traditional Chinese decorations in the lecture hall G2, the performances on the stage were both stylistic and dynamic: Chinese singing and dancing, Chinese music, Chinese songs, Chinese poems, Chinese talk shows, Chinese quiz, Chinese Kongfu, to name a few. The event was not only a celebration of the Chinese New Year but also a demonstration of the achievements of our students and an inspiration to all those who would like to know more about China. â€œI am deeply impressed by the language competence of the students as well as the quality of the show. It is really amazing!â€ said Ms Huiying Huang, a Chinese language specialist from Beijing Language and Culture University. The youngest audience in this event, Michelâ€™s little son of seven also promised to continue working hard on leaning Chinese. This celebration marks the third event since it started in 2010. Thanks to the voluble support from London Confucius Institute, we hope there will be many more in the years to come. Zhaoxia Pang On 13 February 2012 Nathan Hill hosted a visit of four scholars from Tibet who run a traditional Tibetan hospital, museum, and research institute. Dr Dorje (Senior Tibetan medical doctor and currently the director of Tsongon (Qinghai) Provincial Tibetan Medical Research Institute), Dr O Tsokchen (One of the leading experts on Tibetan Medicine today and currently Professor and President of Tsongon University Tibetan Medical College, President of Tsongon Provincial Tibetan Medical Hospital and the Director of Tsongon Tibetan Culture Museum), Tsem Gonthar (Vice director of the Tsongon Tibetan Culture Museum) and Dr Ba Dolma (Professor of epidemiology, specializing in laboratory experimentation).Meeting the Media On 17 May 2012, a team of 4 from Hunan TV station in China visited SOAS, University of London. Hunan TV station has successfully organised Chinese Bridge Competition for several years and This TV programme has become one of the most popular TV programmes in China with millions of viewers. Due to the successful performance of SOAS contestants in the last two yearsâ€™ Chinese Bridge Competition, Hunan TV came to SOAS to shoot video clips for the 11th Chinese Bridge Competition due in the summer of 2012. These video clips will provide Chinese viewers further knowledge of SOAS, which has nourished such outstanding students. Students from Chinese department enthusiastically joined the activity. Alec Odahara, SOAS year-four undergraduate, the second prize winner of the 10th Chinese Bridge competition in 2011, voluntarily accompanied the team during their stay in London. Professor Michel Hockx, director of London Confucius institute, extended welcome to the team and provided timely support to facilitate the teamâ€™s visit at SOAS. â€œIt is another good example of how the department and the LCI can work togetherâ€ to prompt Chinese language teaching and learning as well as the reputation of SOAS, said Professor Hockx. Two of SOAS students, Owen Sebastian Churchill and Maximilian Christopher Sleigh-Parrott were selected to join in the Chinese Bridge competition this summer on behalf of U.K. universities. We wish them the best luck in the competition. For detailed reports of the achievements of SOAS students in the previous Chinese Bridge Competitions, please log on: www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem75395.html www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem67282.html www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem60498.html www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem70731.html Zhaoxia Pang ANNOUCEMENTSThe visitors donated 90 books to the SOAS library. After more than 25 years at SOAS, Senior Lecturer Dr Wang Tao is relocating to New York, to head the Department of Chinese Art at Sothebyâ€™s. Tao was Chair of the Centre of Chinese Studies from 2005-2008. A reception took place on Thursday, 5 July and was attended by SOAS colleauges and members of the art community, all who were sad to see him go.

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12 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 13 Professorial Research AssociatesProfessor Renzo CAVALIERI LLB(MILAN) Professor Anthony DICKS BA LLB MA (CANTAB) Professor Stefan FEUCHTWANG PHD(LONDON) Professor Michael PALMER LLB(CANTAB) BSC(ECON) MA LLD(LONDON)Research AssociatesDr Xiangqun CHANG MA BA(CHINA) PHD(CITY) Mr Jonathan FENBY BA(OXON) Mr John GITTINGS MA(OXON) Dr Ian SECKINGTON BA(LEEDS) MSC PHD(LONDON Dr Frances WOOD BA(PEKING) PHD(LONDON) Dr WANG Tao BA(YUNNAN) PHD(LONDON)Visiting ScholarsDr Makato ITO PHD(KYOTO) University of Nagasaki 14 September 2011 â€“ 13 September 2012 Dr Guangbin LIN MA BA(NORTHWEST) PHD(RENMIN) China Institute for Actuarial Social Science (CIAS) 1 January â€“ 30 June 2012 Dr Changyong LIU Chongqing University of Technology and Business 1 October 2011 â€“ 30 September 2012 HONORARY APPOINTMENTS Xiangqun CHANGDuring the academic year 2011-12 Xiangqun Chang continued work on the project, as a Co-PI, 'Comparative Studies on the New Migrants from BRIC counties in America, Australia, Japan and the UK' (2009-13). She co-organised three academic events with Chinese publishers at the London Book Fair. She is also co-organising two forums. They are the 5th International Forum for Contemporary Chinese Studies (IFCCS5) in August and International Forum on Cross-strait studies the 20th anniversary of the consensusâ€ in December. Xiangqun gave seminars at the following institutes: Utrecht University, 22-23 June; Department of Sociology, Tsinghua University, 9th July; Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS), 11th July; she will give talks in the following conference/forums: the 8th annual conference of social networks and relationship management research-Social management innovation and corporate social responsibility, Tsinghua University, China, 6-8 July; the IFCCS5, Beijing, 8-9 August; Resourcefulness, relationships and Chinese management thoughts, Shih Hsin University, Taiwan, 2-4 November, International Forum on Cross-strait studies, LSE, 13/14 December (date tbc). Xiangqunâ€™s dialogue with Gary Hamilton on Fei Xiaotong, entitled 'China and World Anthropology', has been published in Anthropology Today, No.6, 2011. She also helped to publish the online journal Bijiao: China in comparative perspective book review (CCPBR), No.2, 2012. She submitted a book Study of Fei Xiaotong's theories and restudies on Kaixiangong Village (in Chinese), which will be published by the Social Science Academic Press in 2013. As one of the co-editors, Xiangqun is editing Professor Fei Xiatongâ€™s conference proceedings (both Chinese and English editions), due to be published by Airit Press in 2013. LIN Guang Bin Lin Guang Binâ€™s research interest is Reshaping the Development Model in Chinese Economic Transformation. He wrote two papers during his academic visit to SOAS. During his six month stay, the CCS invited highly-regarded academics to present their working papers in the weekly seminar series, as well as organises many interesting workshops. These create and diversity valuable opportunities to experience high quality research. Lin Guang Bin attended many seminars and talks hosted by the centre. Lin Guang Bin participated in four workshop and international confences inlcuding "The Workshop and Book Launch -The Political Economy of China: A Long Run Perspective from the Qing Empire to the Present Regime"and "Law, Governance and Development: The Transformation of Property Rights in Land and Property Law in China" and " Oxford Forum on China and the World Economy". PUBLICA TIONS Lin Guang Bin, â€œReshape of China Economic Development Mode :Based on Demographic Structure and Pattern of Ownership â€, Economic Theory and Business Management, 2012, 32(4):24-32. Lin Guang Bin, â€œReections on the Microeconomic Basis for Soft Budget Constraint in the Market Economyâ€, China Economist, 2012,1: 68-77. Lin Guang Bin, â€œReections on the Microeconomic Basis for Soft Budget Constraint in the Market Economyâ€, China Economist, 2012,1: 5-17. Lin Guang Bin, â€œReshape of China Economic Development Mode:Based on Industry structureâ€, forthcoming. Stephan Feuchtwang formally retired from the LSE Anthropology Department and was immediately re-employed as part-time teacher and as convener of a work program in a large EU project on urbanization in China. He was also awarded â€˜Emeritusâ€™ professorial status. His project on urbanization concerns governmental â€˜communityâ€™ formation and residentsâ€™ self-organisation and place-making. Field research will be completed in 2013. His project on comparative civilization with Professor Mike Rowlands at UCL continues. He published â€˜Chinese civilization in the presentâ€™ The Asia Pacic Journal of Anthropology 13: 2 2012 pp 112-127 and contributed a paper â€˜Chinese Civilisation in Comparative Perspective: some markersâ€™ to a conference on Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis: Eurasian explorations at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at Halle, in June 2012. He also gave a keynote speech â€˜What have wenming and wenhua done to Chinese civilization (hua)?â€™ to the Hong Kong Association of Asian Studies in March 2012. Stephan FEUCHTWANGMichael Palmer is a former Chair of the SOAS Centre of Chinese Studies and Centre of East Asian Law, and is currently Dean, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research and Global Development, and Director, Cheung Kong Centre for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, STU Law School, in Shantou, China. He is also Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of London, and a Research Professor in both the CCS and the Law School here at SOAS, as well as at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Within China he is also Visiting Professor of Law at Renmin Daxue (Peopleâ€™s University, Beijing) Xinan Zhengfa Daxue (Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing) and Xiamen Daxue (Amoy University). In February 2012 he was appointed to the Standing Review Board on the Humanities and Social Sciences Panel of the Research Grants Council (RGC) within the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong (UGC). In March 2012 he was appointed as a Special Advisor to the newly established Shanghai Commercial Dispute Resolution Centre. In June 2012 he was appointed a Special Advisor to the Shenzhen International Court of Arbitration. T ALKS 28-30 October, 2011: Chair Judge at National Legal English Contest in Beijing 3 March, 2012: â€˜The Ombudsman and Financial Disputesâ€™, paper presented at the Shanghai Commercial Dispute Resolution Centreâ€™s â€˜Shanghai-Hong Kong Mediation Conferenceâ€™, Shanghai, PRC. 12-14 April, 2012: â€˜Opening Addressâ€™ and presented a paper on â€˜The Ombudsman in Comparative Perspectiveâ€™, at the International Conference held at Shantou University with Xiamen and Kobe Michael PALMERUniversities on â€˜ADR and Legal Practice in Comparative Perspectiveâ€™. 25 May, 2012: Chaired Panel Session and presented Paper (â€˜Reforming Legal Education Transsystemicallyâ€™), â€œPart III: Possible Areas of Collaboration: Law and Legal Servicesâ€, at the Governance in Asia Research Centre (GARC) Forum entitled â€œAchieving Mutual Gains in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau Collaboration: Qianhai, Hengqin and Beyondâ€, City University of Hong Kong. 7 June, 2012: University of Navarra, Spain, Public Lecture on â€˜Family Mediation the Mediation of Family Disputes in Contemporary Chinaâ€™ 6 July, 2012: Public Lecture: â€œGlobalising Legal Education in China,â€ Michael Palmer, Yonsei University Law School, Korea. PUBLICA TIONS Michael Palmer & Simon Roberts: Dispute Processes: ADR and the Primary Forms of Decision Making, second edition translated published in Chinese by Peking University Press, 2011). Jiufen Jiejue de Guocheng: ADR yu Jueding Xingcheng de Zhuyao Xingshi â€œRethinking Childrenâ€™s Rights and Interests?: Economic Reform, Social Protection and Legal Culture in Post-Mao China,â€ Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp.220240 (2011), in â€œUsing Legal Cultureâ€, Special Issue of the JCL, 2011, Guest Editor: David Nelken) â€œChina: Bringing the Law Back In,â€ in Elaine Sutherland (ed.), The Future of Family and Child Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Gary Tiedemann presented papers at several international conferences, including the Colloquy â€˜Europe as the Other: External Perspectives on European Christianityâ€™, held at the Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany, 1-3 September 2011; the International Academic Conference on Taiwan Church History, held at National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan (R.O.C.), 2-3 December 2011; the conference on â€˜Manuscripts, Reminiscence, Locations and Interpretation: New Perspectives on Chinese-Western Cultural Exchange and Christianity in Northeast Chinaâ€™, held at Changchun, 26-29 April 2012; and the 2012 Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity Meeting, â€˜Religious Movements of Renewal, Revival, and Revitalization in the History of Missions and World Christianityâ€™, held at the University of Edinburgh, 28-30 June 2012. In February 2012, Gary took up his appointment as rstclass professor in the School of History and Culture, Shandong University, with particular responsibility for developing an international research programme at the newly established Center for Boxer Movement Studies (Yihetuan yundong yanjiu zhongxin). He is currently working on a comprehensive bibliography of Western writings on the Boxer Movement and the Boxer War of 1900. PUBLICA TIONS In the summer of 2011 his monograph was published in China: Di Deman [R G Tiedemann], Huabei de baoli he konghuang: Yihetuan yundong qianxi Jidujiao chuanbo he shehui chongtu [Violence and Fear in North China: Christian Missions and Social Conict on the Eve of the Boxer Uprising] (Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2011), with a second print-run in November 2011. Other publications include: Tiedemann, R G, â€œComity Agreements and Sheep Stealers: The Elusive Search for Christian Unity Among Protestants in Chinaâ€, International Bulletin of Missionary Research 36.1 (January 2012), pp. 3-8 Tiedemann, R G, â€œForeign Missionaries, Chinese Christians and the 1911 Revolutionâ€, Tripod 31 (Hongkong, Autumn 2011), pp. 12-34; with Chinese version on pp. 13-30. A German translation was published as Tiedemann, R G, â€œAuslndische Missionare, chinesische Christen und die Revolution von 1911â€, China heute 31.1 (Sankt Augustin, Germany, 2012), pp. 47-56. Gary TIEDEMANN

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14 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 15 5-7 September 2011 Conference Vth International Forum on World Civilisations Communicating Civilisations and World Order Keynote speakers included: Prof. Harry Harootunian, Prof. Prasenjit Duara, Prof. Yao Jiehou, Dr. Paul Bowman and Dr. Franz Mauelshagen Autumn T erm10 October 2011 Dr Rachel Harris (SOAS) Dwarfs, Men, and Women who act like Monkeysâ€™: editing a volume on gender in Chinese music--------------------17 October 2011 Dr Dic Lo (SOAS) Rethinking Chinese nance--------------------24 October 2011 Dr Rossella Ferrari (SOAS) The Rhizome of Exchange: Interculturalism and Inter-Asian Performance Networks--------------------14 November 2011 Dr Lars Laamann (SOAS) Demon possession and exorcism in early 20th-century China--------------------21 November 2011 Dr Meining Yan (Shantou University, China) Criminal Defamation in the New Media Environment â€“ The Case of PRC--------------------28 November 2011 Professor Christine Wong (Oxford) Reforming Public Finance for the Harmonious Society in China: How Far across the River?--------------------5 December 2011 Dr Duo Qin (SOAS) Is Chinaâ€™s Currency Substantially Undervalued?--------------------12 December 2011 Dr Kevin Latham (SOAS) New Media and Subjectivity in China: Problematising the Public Sphere Winter T erm16 January 2012 Dr Bingqin Li (LSE) Party Reinvention and Social Welfare Reform in China--------------------23 January 2012 Dr Bingchun Meng (LSE) Mediated citizenship: political discussions on the Chinese Internet--------------------30 January 2012 Dr Xioning LU (SOAS) Rethinking Myth on the Left: A Case Study of Chinese Socialist Musical Third Sister Liu--------------------6 February 2012 Dr Vanesa Pesqu Cela (KCL) The Political Economy of Public Goods Provision in Rural China--------------------20 February2012 Dr Anna Lora-Wainwright (Oxford) Learning to live with pollution: the making of environmental subjects in a Chinese industrialised village--------------------27 February2012 Prof Xinzhong Yao (KCL) Problems with Chinese religion--------------------5 March 2012 Dr Kun-chin Lin (Cambridge) The Asian Highway Network: the transmission of Chinese power via transport connectivity in Asian sub-regions--------------------12 March 2012 Dr Cosima Bruno (SOAS) The Public Life of Contemporary Chinese Poetry in English TranslationSpring T erm23 April 2012 Tim Luard (Author) The Christmas Day Escape From Hong Kong, 1941: Diaries, Letters And Personalities ACADEMIC EVENTS: SEP 2011-AUG 2012 11 12 May 2012 Workshop Law, Governance and Development: The Transformation of Property Rights in Land and Property Law in China Speakers included: Carol Tan, Ting Xu, Alison Clarke, Jane Henderson, Tim Murphy, Yong Q Han, Zhang Lei, Jing Bian, Ting Xu, Emilio Ramos and others 9 & 10 September 2011 Symposium Co-hosted with the London Shangshung Institute Bon, Shangshung, and Early Tibet Keynote addresses by Prof. Namkhai Norbu (Universit di Napoli Lâ€™Orientale), Prof. Samten Karmay (Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de lâ€™asie orientale, CNRS Paris), and H.E. Tenzin Namdak (Triten Norbutse Monastery) 19 April 2012 An evening with Mo Yan Part of the London Book Fair 2012 Co-hosted with the London Confusius Institute 15 May 2012 Centre of Chinese Studies Annual Lecture Wang Shaoguang Chinaâ€™s Governmentality in the Last Century: Governability, Government, and Governance 12 April 2012 Reception for the Chinascape: Contemporary Chinese Photography Curated by Gu Zheng Landscape Art: Past and Present In collaboration with Asian Art in London 4 November 2011 Roundtable Discussion 5 November 2011 Symposium Speakers included: Xu Longsen (Artist), Wang Tao (SOAS), Shane McCausland (SOAS), Li Xiaoshan, Angelo Capasso (Art critic, Rome), Yang Xiaoneng (Stanford University), Li Xiaoshan (Nanjing Institute of Fine Art), and many moreSeminar SeriesAn unusual combination of student initiative, academic cooperation and generous funding from the British Academy made it possible to host the 5th International Forum on World Civilisations at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. The Forum was started by the Centre for Comparative Studies of World Civilisations of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences together with the Institute of Cultural Studies of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the School of Foreign Languages and Cultures of Nanjing Normal University. The conference held at SOAS brought senior scholars from China and advanced research students and academics from across the world together to engage in two days of lively and diverse debates about the possibilities and modes of crosscivilizational communication. Conference participants presented a total of 32 papers that dealt with theories of civilisation, modes of national self-representation, questions of belief, and environmental issues, to address the big questions of how world order is established and how ideas of civilisation can both help and hinder communication. Oering reections on the past and Yao Jiehou, one of the keynote speakers CENTRE ACTIVITIESIn 1950 SOAS, University of London became the rst institution of higher education in the United Kingdom to host a permanent academic position in Tibetan studies. In 1960, when Bonpo monks came to SOAS under the auspices of a Rockefeller grant, SOAS became the rst institution of higher education in the West to prominently engage in research on the Bon religion. The conference â€˜Bon, Shangshung, and Early Tibetâ€™ (9-10 September 2011) was held in the Brunei Gallery in celebration of these two anniversaries. The Bon religion of Tibet sees itself as the regionâ€™s pre-Buddhist religion, originating from the kingdom of Shangshung in what is now western Tibet. The earliest Tibetan documents preserved at Dunhuang mention both Bon and Shangshung, but these Namkhai Norbu Dominic Kennedy (Academic director of the London Shangshung Institute) and Deligeer Borjigin (Professor at Inner Mongolia University)Communicating Civilisations and World Order 5-7 September 2011 SOAS, University of LondonBon, Shangshung, and Early Tibet9-10 September 2011 SOAS, University of Londonseeking insight into possible futures, the conference addressed some of the most pressing concerns of our rapidly globalising world. The Centre of Chinese Studies sponsored the keynote lecture by Prasenjit Duara from the National University of Singapore who spoke about â€˜Sustainability and the Crisis of Transcendence: The Long View from Asia.â€™ Further keynote lectures introducing the dierent thematic sections were delivered by Harry Harootunian (New York University), whose lecture was entitled â€˜Area Studies and Memories of Underdevelopment,â€™ Yao Jiehou (CASS) who presented his â€˜Observations on Communication across Civilisations: A Discourse from the Perspective of Intercultural Philosophy,â€™ Franz Mauelshagen (Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Essen) who spoke about â€˜Communicating Climate Change,â€™ and Paul Bowman (Cardi University) who concluded the conference with a thoughtprovoking and entertaining visual essay on Hong Kong movies. The conference started o with an evening reception featuring the jazz band â€˜Last Mango in Parisâ€™ who oered a tailormade programme with lyrics squarely addressing the themes of the conference. Setting the tone for the days ahead, the event contributed to ensuring that the heavy-weight academic discussions took place in an atmosphere of lively exchange and friendly criticism. Whilst ambitious in its scope and objectives, the cordial and warm nature of proceedings provided an important overall coherence to the conference, making it a rewarding experience for everybody involved. Andrea Janku and Matthew Phillips documents can be dicult to date and even harder to interpret. The conference brought together 18 of the worldâ€™s most prominent researchers of the Bon religion and early Tibet. Delegates attended from Canada, China (PRC), France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Nepal, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. Professor Tsering Thar from the Central University for Nationalities (China, PRC) transported with him over sixty volumes of rare Bonpo texts as a donation to the SOAS library. The conference featured three keynote addresses by Prof. Namkhai Norbu (Universit di Napoli Lâ€™Orientale), Prof. Samten Karmay (Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de lâ€™asie orientale, CNRS Paris), and H.E. Tenzin Namdak (Triten Norbutse Monastery). Two of the speakers, Samten Karmay and Tenzin Namdak, were among the Bonpo monks who came to SOAS in 1960. Namkhai Norbu rst arrived in Italy under the same programme. In addition to his academic carreer he is the founder and director of the Internaltional Shang Shung Institute, and recently founded the London Shang Shung Institute. Over 250 people attended the conference, which was generously sponsored by the British Academy, the London Shangshung Institute, the Kalpa Group, and the Faculty of Languages and Cultures (SOAS). A volume of conference proceedings is in preparation. Nathan Hill

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16 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 17 CENTRE ACTIVITIESLandscape Art Past and Present 4-5 November 2011 SOAS, University of Londonâ€˜Mountains and Waterâ€™ was an exhibition of Shanshui, or landscape art, including a series of Xu Longsenâ€™s smaller works on paper. The highlight was an 8.5mtr high installation piece entitled â€œShanshui Totemâ€ specially created for the exhibition. This was a unique experiment with the Shanshui art form. It oered new visual excitement to modern viewers, as well as posing a challenge for art historical interpretations in the 21st century. Xu Longsen was born in Shanghai in 1956. His Shanshui art is forceful and unrestrained, candid and broad-minded. By applying the ne technique of ink and brush on a vast scale, Xu Longsen not only attempts to breathe new life into the essential characteristics of Chinese Shanshui painting, but also challenges -the dynamics of modern display spaces and conventional conceptions of landscape art. To the modern viewer, there is a mysterious and positive energy owing through the black ink and white paperâ€”as a landscape is reborn.Mountains and Water: An exhibition of landscape paintings by Xu Longsen1 November 17 December 2011 The Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of LondonXu Longsenâ€™s â€˜Mountains and Waterâ€™ brought one of the most creative Chinese artistâ€™s work to London for the rst time. On 4-5 November 2011 â€˜Rebirth of Landscapeâ€™ was held in SOAS, University of London. Co-sponsored by SOAS, the National Art Museum of China and Asian Art in London, the event included a halfday round-table discussion and a one-day international symposium. In the afternoon of 4 November invited scholars, experts and journalists participated in the round-table discussion held in the publishers former residence of British poet and playwright, T. S. Eliot. In the discussion presided over by Dr Wang Tao, Senior SOAS and Jan Stuart, director of the Asian Division of the British Museum, the attendees shared their opinions of Xu Longsenâ€™s giant landscape paintings. They also intensively discussed the international identity of Chinese landscape art and whether the global context and contemporary public space had created an opportunity for the third evolution of landscape paintings. The attendees included Roderick Whiteeld, Chinese expert from the University of London, Shao Dazhen from Central Academy of Fine Arts, China, Shane MaCausland from the School of Oriental and African Studies, poet Yang Lian, Shelagh Vainker from the University of Oxford, Jiang Jiehong from the University of Birmingham, Italian critic Angelo Capasso, Richard Vinograd from Stanford University, Yang Xiaoneng from Stanford University, artist Xu Longsen, Li Xiaoshan from Nanjing University of Art, Wang Yuechuan from Beijing University, French curator Xing Xiaozhou, Zhang Hongxing from The Victoria and Albert Museum, Juliane Noth from the Free University of Berlin, Sajid Rizvi from Saron Books, The editor Janet McKenzie from the magazine of International Studio, gallery director Michael Goedhuis and Li Jing from Beyond Art Space of Beijing. On 5 November a series of keynote speeches were delivered as part of the symposium, Landscape Art Past and Present which aimed to discuss the tradition of landscape art in China and to compare it to other traditions of the world. The symposium was attended not only by academics and students but also by members of the art community from Britain, Continental Europe and as far aeld as the USA. The conference â€˜Making a Dierence â€“ Representing/Constructing the Other in Asian/African Media, Cinema and Languagesâ€™ was held from 16-18 February 2012 at SOAS and organised by Griseldis Kirsch. As part of a consortium of African and Asian Studies (CAAS), it was this year that SOAS hosted the conference and hence most of the participants came from CAAS institutions. The conference attracted academic interest not just from the participating institutions; in the end, over 40 participants from seven dierent nations were hosted. Consequently, the conference ran in two parallel sessions over two of the three days and all attracted large audiences. Rather than a small symposium, we were able to make this a big and international event. All of the panels were well visited and discussions were lively and fruitful. The speakers mostly engaged in case studies of how â€˜dierenceâ€™ was appropriated when familiarity and cultural proximity also played a vital part. Researchers came from dierent elds of study and looked at dierent regions, but all of them looked at either Asia, Africa or the Middle East, but with a distinct emphasis on the Middle East and Japan. As the conference was multidisciplinary, the aspects in the discussion did not just include questions regarding the papers, but added to the academic debate as sometimes theoretical concepts were highlighted. The papers were put in panels along regions, rather than thematic similarities so that audiences with interest in a particular region, but also those interested in a particular genre could attend. The rooms in which the sections were held were not far apart, so that anyone interested could easily move between the sections. The keynote speech was given by Dr Dolores Martinez (SOAS), who introduced the theme by looking at various representations of dierence in Western and Japanese lm. The conference was sponsored by the British Academy, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the Faculty of Languages and Cultures. Grieldis KirschMaking a Dierence â€“ Representing/Constructing the Other in Asian/African Media, Cinema and Languages16-18 February 2012 SOAS, University of LondonCurated by Gu Zheng, a highly recognized critic in the eld of contemporary arts, â€˜Chinascape: Contemporary Chinese Photographyâ€™, was the only exhibition of Chinese photographic art coinciding with London Book Fair 2012. It featureed around forty works of a number of high-prole independent artists in China, namely Wong Fen, Feng Yan, Zhu Hao, Liu Liyan, Wang Chuan, Zhang Xiao, He Wei, and Jin Jiangbo. By virtue of modern photographic technologies, these artists reected in their work Chinaâ€™s urbanisation, the daily life of the people, the reshaping of tradition, as well as unveiling up-andcoming trends in contemporary Chinese culture. The main source for the exhibition came from Contemporary Chinese Photography, a wellreceived book designed and published with joint eorts of CYP, CYPI, and Roaring Lion Media. Ma Liang, "Postman, No.1", 2008. Yang Yongliang, "Untitled 3", 2008Chinascape: Contemporary Chinese Photography 12 April 8 June 2012 SOAS, University of London With Gu Zheng as chief editor, this book collects the photographic works of sixty well-known contemporary Chinese photographers, and is considered the rst book in recent years that presents the development and achievement of Chinaâ€™s contemporary photographic art in a systematic manner. The lead curator of the exhibition was Gu Zheng, critic, historian, curator, and Associate Prof. in the School of Journalism at Fudan University, Shanghai. Guo Guang, General Manager and editor-inchief of CYPI, Wang Tao, senior lecturer at SOAS, and Zhang Hongxing, curator at V&A Museum were all co-curators.

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18 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 19 As Chair of the Centre of East Asian Law (CEAL) at the SOAS School of Law, Dr Tan co-directed a workshop on Law, Governance and Development: The Transformation of Property Rights in Land and Property Law in China, a workshop that was part funded by the Centre of Chinese Studies, SOAS. This workshop attracted eminent and early career scholars working in institutions in the UK and Europe, as well as from Hong Kong and mainland China. Several SOAS academics and research students also participated in the workshop which addressed a range of issues arising from the decollectivisation of rural communes, the corporatisation of state-owned enterprises, and the emergence of urban property markets alongside legal reforms. The workshop was also pleased to welcome participants from government and industry. Carol Tan CENTRE ACTIVITIES Ruard ABSAROKA Musicking in the Digital Age in Shanghai Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS Niki ALSFORD The Banka Petition: British interactions at the session of Formosa in 1895 Supervisor: Dr Lars Laamann Antonio BARRENTO On the Move: Tourist Culture in China, 1900-1945 Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU Eddie BERTOZZI One Step Forward Into Reality: Redening the Realist Style in Contemporary Chinese Cinema Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI# Paul BEVAN Manhua and Illustrated Propaganda in Wartime China, 1927-1945 Supervisor: Prof. Michel HOCKX Angela BECHER Chinaâ€™s urban monumentality in contemporary ction, cinema and art Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI Hon Man CHAN Yazheng and Dadu Poets in mid-Yuan China: A reappraisal of the poetry of Yu Ji (1272-1348) Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO Completed Spring 2012 Isabelle CHENG National identiy among marriage immigrants in Taiwan Supervisor: Dr. Dafydd Fell Sheng-Shih CHI Music, politics and identity in Taiwan Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS Aristotle DY Marginal Buddhists: Religion, Social Work, and Cultural Identity of the Chinese in the Philippines Supervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO Lifeng HAN Carnival Politics: Festival Spectacle and Ritual in Song China 960-1279 C.E. Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU HSU Hsin-wen An Archaeological Study of the Jades from the Tomb of the King of Nanyue Kingdom Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao HUANG Chia-ling British-Qing Interaction in 19th-century Taiwan Supervisor: Lars LAAMANN HUANG Ching-yi John Sparks Ltd: Art dealer and Chinese Art in Britain, 1900-1950 Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao Simon FORBES British and French Missions in China during the 1930s and 1940s Supervisor: Dr Lars Laamann Letizia FUSINI Concepts of tragedy in Gao Xingjian post-exile plays Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI Zhongnan HUANG Seasoned Equity oerings of Chinese Listed Firms Supervisor: Dr Hong BO Pamela HUNT Congurations of Masculinity and Realms of Agency in Post-1989 Chinese Fiction Supervisor: Prof. Michel HOCKX Yin HWANG The Depiction of War and Rebellion in the Print and Visual Culture of Late Qing China, 1884-1901 Supervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND Yingquan JIANG Financial development and economic growth in China Supervisor: Dr Dic LO Lin JIAO The Practice and Representation of the Modern Body in an Age of Globalisation: The Chinese Custom of Breast-Binding Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU JURGENS Valrie The Karlbek Syndicate 1930-1935: Western Trade, Collecting, and Scholarship on Chinese Archaeology Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao Yin-Chen KANG The Formation of Taiwanese Classical Theatre: 1900-1930 Supervisor: Dr Tian Yuan TAN Participants of the CEAL-CCS workshop in Chinese Property Rights and Land Law (SOAS, 11-12 May 2012) This yearâ€™s CCS Annual Lecture took place on 15 May 2012. It was delivered by Professor Wang Shaoguang of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Shaoguang Wang is the chairman and a chair professor of Department of Government & Public Administration, the director of Universities Service Centre for China Studies, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a non-ocial member of Hong Kong Governmentâ€™s Commission on Strategic Development. He serves as the chief editor of the China Review, an interdisciplinary journal on greater China. He studied for his LL.B. at Peking University and his Ph.D. at Cornell University. He taught at Tijiao High School in Wuhan from 1972-1977 and Yale University from 1990 to 2000. He has authored and co-authored more than 20 books and numerous journal articles in Chinese and English. The lecture, entitled â€˜Chinaâ€™s Governmentality in the Last Century: Governability, Government, and Governanceâ€™, approached contemporary China from theoretical and long-term historical perspectives. It focused on topical issues of state capacity, nation building, development, and democracy. Professor Wangâ€™s speech was followed by questions and comments from the enthusiastic audience. There was a wine reception after the lecture, which provided a good opportunity for SOAS scholars and external visitors to have conversations with Professor Wang. Dic LoLaw, Governance and Development: The Transformation of Property Rights in Land and Property Law in China 11-12 May 2012 SOAS, University of LondonCentre of Chinese Studies Annual Lecture 2012Chinaâ€™s Governmentality in the Last Century: Governability, Government, and GovernanceGiven by Wang Shaoguang 15 May 2012 SOAS, University of London RESEARCH STUDENTS: SEP 2011-AUG 2012 Bodil KNUTS Flight or Fight: the Nation is Lost. The inuence of a vagrant life on the notion of â€œhomeâ€ in the prose of Xiao Hong (19111942) and Xiao Jun (1907-1988) Supervisor: Prof. Michel HOCKX Wing Sze Kaby KUNG Feminism and Postfeminism in the Work of Hong Ying and Li Bihua Supervisor: Prof. Michel HOCKX LEOU Chia-feng Democratisation and Financial Governance: The Politics of FinancialReform in Taiwan Supervisor: Dr Dafydd Fell Sarah LEE A Historical Study of Female Filipino Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, 1970-2005 Supervisor: Dr Lars Laamann Shuk Man LEUNG The Discursive Formation of Utopian Imagination in New Fiction, 1902-1911 Supervisor: Prof. Michel HOCKX Cui LI Models of regional development and labour absorption in China Supervisor: Dr Dic LO Tianshuang LIANG The Agency of Syncretism in Modern Chinese Art: Gao Qifeng and the New Republic Supervisor: Dr Shane McCausland Sau-Ping LIM Nanyin activities in the Jinjiang region of Fujian Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS Hsiang-Chun Michael LIN The Investment Behaviour of Chinese Listed Firms Supervisor: Dr Hong BO LIN Yi-hsin Tradition, Transmission and Transformation: Art Collecting and Gentry identity of the Pan Family in Nineteenth-century Suzhou Supervisor: Dr WANG Tao Man Yee LUM Poems on drama of the eighteenth century Supervisor: Dr Andrew LOShaoguang Wang with Dic Lo

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20 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 21 Yuanyuan MA Cultural Conservatism in Modern China: The Journal Xueheng Supervisor: Prof. Michel HOCKX Hector MACLENNAN Reportage Literature of the Korean War Supervisor: Prof. Michel HOCKX Malcolm McNeill Narrative Agency in 13th-14th Century Chan Figure Painting: A Study of Hagiography-Iconography Text-Image Relationships Supervisor: Dr Shane McCausland How Wee NG â€œShaving, not Decapitatingâ€â€”Censorship Practices of TV Drama and Film in Contemporary China Supervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI Janine NICOL Daoxuan and the Shijia fangzhi: The Creation of a Buddhist Sacred Geography of China Supervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO Hardina OHLENDORF The Construction of Taiwan Identity in the Global Field of Taiwan Studies Supervisor: Dr Julia Strauss Min-Yen ONG Heritage or Heresy? Safeguarding Kunqu in China post 2001 Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS Emilio Ramos From the Rule of Law Uncertainties to Entrepreneurial Constraints: How China Moves Towards Radical Innovationâ€™ Supervisor: Dr San Zhu Shuchi SHEN Art, Commerce and Chinese Identities: Remapping the Beijing Art Circle (1911-1938) Supervisor: Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND Yiming SHEN Chinese Islamic text studies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: A case study of Chinese translations of Jmâ€™s Persian Su prose Supervisor: Prof. Bernhard Fuehrer Longdu SHI Buddhism and the State in Medieval China: A Case Study of the Three Persecutions of Buddhism, 446-845 Supervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO Fion Wai Ling SO Competition and Co-operation in Shandong: Diederichsen, Jebsen & Company from 1898 to 1914 Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU Xiaolei SONG Corporate Governance: A legal study on reform of State-owned Enterprises in China Supervisor: Sanzhu ZHU Mei WU Industrial policy and foreign direct investment in Guangdong province, China, 1978-2010 Supervisor: Dr Dic LO Tsz Wing WU Humorous writings of the late Ming scholar-ocial Wang Siren Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO Boying XU Private Equity Investment in China Supervisor: Dr Hong Bo Zinan YAN The poetry of the Manchu prince Yunxi (1711-1758) Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO Completed Summer 2011 Sherlon C. Y. YIP Relay translation of Ming-Qing erotic ction Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO, co-supervised with Prof. Theo HERMANS (UCL) Cyrus Ki Yip YEE Chinaâ€™s New Administration in the Inner Asian Frontiers in the Late Qing Period, 1901-1911â€ Supervisor: Dr Lars Laamann Beibei ZHAN Wedding Ritual in Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD): Prescriptions, Practices and the Discourse (tentative title) Supervisor: Prof Bernhard Fuehrer Sun ZHUO The Chinese guzheng zither: 20th and 21st century transformations Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS Lei ZHANG Land and Private Property in the PRC: Law and Practice of Expropriation Supervisor: Dr. Sanzhu ZHU The London Confucius Institute at SOAS, Univeristy of London Telephone:+44 (0)20 7898 4887/4880 Email: lci@soas.ac.uk London Confucius Institute Events Listing: www.soas.ac.uk/lci/events Particpants during the Master Class Mo Yan chats with students at the reception A full house at the Mo Yan eventMain events organized by the London Confucius Institute (LCI) during the 2011/2012 academic session. The London Confucius Institute is a non prot making organisation that aims to promote Chinese language learning and teaching and the understanding of the Chinese culture in the UK. It also endeavours to facilitate research activities in the above areas and cultural and education exchanges between Britain and China. Set up under an agreement between Hanban (Oce of Chinese Language Council International) and SOAS, The London Confucius Institute oers courses and engages in various activities either independently or jointly with SOAS Language Centre by drawing upon the expertise and resources of its partner institutions SOAS in London and Peking University in Beijing. LONDON CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE A.C. Graham Memorial LecturesFrom 21-23 February 2012, the LCI, in partnership with the SOAS Early China Seminar, hosted the third annual A.C. Graham Memorial Lectures in classical Chinese philosophy. This yearâ€™s speaker was Prof Carine Defoort from the University of Leuven in Belgium. Prof Defoort presented two lectures and taught a special seminar for SOAS graduate students.An Evening with Mo YanOn 19 April 2012, the LCI, in partnership with the SOAS Centre of Chinese Studies and with the British Council, organized an evening event which featured the novelist Mo Yan, the most prominent Chinese author to participate in the 2012 London Book Fair. Mo Yan read from his work and answered questions to an audience of well over a hundred sta, students, and members of the general public.Quotations SongsOn 30 May 2012, Prof. Andrew Jones of the University of California, Berkely, presented a public lecture, sponsored by the London Confucius Institute, on the topic of Cultural Revolution period â€œquotation songs,â€ drawing a lively mixed audience from the SOAS departments of Chinese, History, and Music.Master Class in Modern Chinese CultureOn 21 June 2012, Prof Kirk Denton of the Ohio State University, who is editor of the leading peer-reviewed journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, taught a master class to graduate students from SOAS, Oxford, and Cambridge. In the evening, he gave a very well-attended public lecture on his research into Chinese museum culture. The event was co-sponsored by the LCI and the Oxford Institute of Chinese Studies. RESEARCH STUDENTS: SEP 2011-AUG 2012 China QuarterlyEditor: Professor Chris Bramall, SOAS The China Quarterly is the leading scholarly journal in its eld, covering all aspects of contemporary China including Taiwan. Its interdisciplinary approach covers a range of subjects including anthropology/ sociology, literature and the arts, business/economics, geography, history, international aairs, law, and politics. Edited to rigorous standards by scholars of the highest repute, the journal publishes high-quality, authoritative research, keeping readers up to date with events in China. International in scholarship, The China Quarterly provides readers with historical perspectives, in-depth analyses, and a deeper understanding of China and Chinese culture. In addition to major articles and research reports, each issue contains a comprehensive Book Review section, and also a Quarterly Chronicle, which keeps readers informed of events in and aecting China. The China Quarterly is published for SOAS, Univeristy of London by Cambridge University Press. For subscriptions, advertisements and contributor instructions, please visit: www.soas.ac.uk/research/publications/journals/chinaq/

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22 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 23 Leadership Summer School for the Chinese University of Hong Kong The Enterprise Oce organised a two week study programme for the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). The new partnership with SOAS is aimed at promoting globalization and contemporary social changes as the focus of the tour. The rst group of 15 students came in July 2011 and the second group of 30 came in June 2012. SOAS will host the group again next year. The focus was â€˜London as a global cityâ€™ and is an integrated component of a two year unique credit bearing programme at CUHK. The Leadership Development Programme was 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 lectures and visits to places such as City Hall, The Houses of Parliament and the Olympics site, 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, and culture 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. There was a strong emphasis on social enterprise in the second programme with presentations from A Very Good Company and Foodcycle. Having reected on the programme one of the students wrote â€œI got to truly appreciate how diverse London is as a city, and how globalized and dierent Londoners could be from one another. It was like seeing a mini globalized world with all its interactionsâ€. Briengs for Diplomats The Enterprise Oce also prepared a bespoke brieng for the Department of Foreign Aairs in Ireland for the new Consul General for Shanghai focusing on the historical, cultural, political and economic issues facing China. This was delivered by a range of SOAS academics from dierent departments. For information on China related programmes please contact Claire Hardesty, 020 7898 4832 / claire.hardesty@soas.ac.uk Research OceExternal Grant Applications 1 Sept 2011 31 July 2012 Frauke Urban Centre for Development, Environment and Policy China goes global: A comparative study of Chinese hydropower dams in Africa and Asia Funding body: ESRC Date Submitted: September 2011 Amount awarded: ,424 Yuka Kobayashi Department of Politics and International Studies Review of the Literature on the Status Quo of Muslims in China Funding body: Qatar Foundation Date Submitted: October 2011 Amount awarded: 4,000 CUHK students 2011 CAA group 2011 with Dr Wang Tao and Claire Hardesty RESEARCH & ENTERPRISE www.soas.ac.uk/reo The Centre of Chinese Studies (CCS) is the forum for Chinese-related research at SOAS, University of London. The principal role of the Centre is to promote, coordinate and disseminate information relating to, the academic study of China across the disciplines and to act as a resource for academic, governmental, non-governmental and business constituencies with an interest in China. If you would like to recieve information about the Centreâ€™s activities and research news, send an email with your name to centres@soas.ac.uk Please put â€˜CCS email distribution listâ€™ in the subject header.Connect with Us!The CCS hosts a comprehensive programme of high quality and well respected interdisciplinary activities including the weekly public seminars, international conferences, performances, lm screenings, closed working groups, workshops and receptions. Details of the events are available at: www.soas.ac.uk/chinesestudies/events You can download the current, and past, editions of the CCS Annual Review from: www.soas.ac.uk/chinesestudies/annual-review www.facebook.com/China.SOAS The CCS is on Facebook!Its a great way for you to hear about our activities. Add/Follow us, and stay connected to the Centre. About Us Our Events Keep Updated CCS Annual Review Find us on Facebook CCS www.facebook.com/Centres.SOAS twitter.com/soascentres Regional Centres on Social MediaThe Centres & Programmes, the hub for 7 regional Centres at SOAS, is on Facebook and Twitter. Add/follow us and stay up-to-date with our activites. ADD US / LIKE US / SHARE OUR PAGE / STAY UP TO DATE JOIN THE REGIONAL CENTRES COMMUNITY ONLINEEditorial/Design: Jane Savory Connect with Us/Back page: Rahima Begum Listings: Dorinne Tin Ming Kaw Produced by: Centres and Programmes Oce, SOAS Printed by: SOAS Print Room Front Cover: Courtesy of Chinascape: Contemporary Chinese Photography The Centres & Programmes Oce is part of the Research and Enterprise Oce (REO). This directorate at SOAS works across the School to secure external funding and income, to support research excellence and to facilitate knowledge transfer. CENTRE OF CHINESE STUDIES Enterprise Oce Bespoke programme organised in conjunction with the Chinese Association of Auctioneers (CAA)In June 2011 25 senior managers and owners of Chinese auction houses came to SOAS to learn about the UK auction house industry. The two week programme was convened by Dr Wang Tao and organised in conjunction with the CAA, whose President Madam Zhang also attended. The rst week was spent learning from leading gures 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 and how to professionalise services. Lecturers were enhanced through visits to auction houses, galleries and museums in London whilst the second week was spent exploring other parts of the UK. The programme concluded with a roundtable discussion and networking reception attended by participants and people working in the art and auction markets in London. A second group will be coming in September 2012 to study a similar programme with increased emphasis on professional standard and export/ export regulations.

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