Centre of Chinese Studies - SOAS University of London

SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

Centre of Chinese StudiesANNUAL REVIEWISSUE 2: September 2010 - August 2011

2 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

CONTENTS3 Letter from the Chair

4 Centre Members

6 Members News

14 Announcements

15 Centre Event Listing 2010-11

16 Centre Activites

22 Honorary Appointments

24 Research Students

26 Research & Enterprise

27 Join the Centre

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中心主任欢迎词

欢迎浏览伦敦大学亚非学院中国研究中心的2011年度通讯。本中心是英国乃至全欧洲的最重要的中国研究机构，有超过40名全职学术人员，其专业范围包括语言研究、人文学科和社会科学各个领域。秉承亚非学院的传统，本中心在国际学术界中向以知识创新和发展成果著称。

在2010-2011学年，本中心专注于学术研究和成果传播活动，同时探索为社会提供知识服务的各种可能性。中心的每周讲座系列，为学院和校外学术人员提供了一个高水平的研究成果交流平台。中心的年度公开演讲，向来是特邀国际学术界前沿学者主讲；本年度的讲者是清华大学的汪晖教授，其讲题是“所谓中国模式：单一性还是多元性？”。此外，在本学年中，中心还举办了一系列的讲座、研讨会和公开论坛。

可以预期，中心在2011-2012学年中所举办的学术活动，将会同样有意义并吸引相关的校内外学者积极参与。

卢荻经济学高级讲师中国研究中心主任，2009-2012

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

Welcome to the 2010-2011 edition 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 staff 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 2010-2011, the CCS focused its activities on research and knowledge dissemination whilst exploring the possibility of enhancing its profile on the enterprise side. The Centre’s regular series of research seminars are a well-established platform for SOAS and external scholars to present their research work to the academic community. The Centre’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 Hui of Tsinghua University, on the topic ‘Is it singular? Rethinking the recent debates on China’s model’. The Centre also organized a number of lectures, symposia and public forums in the academic year.

We have a similarly interesting programme of activities to look forward to for academic year 2011-2012.

Dic LoCentre Chair, 2009-2012


Professor Robert F ASHProfessor of Economics with reference to China and TaiwanDepartment of [email protected]

Professor Timothy H BARRETTProfessor of East Asian HistoryDepartment of the Study of [email protected]

Dr Hong BOSenior Lecturer in Chinese Business and ManagementDepartment of Financial and Management [email protected]

Professor Christopher BRAMALLProfessor of EconomicsDepartment of [email protected]

Dr Cosima BRUNOMellon Lecturer in Chinese StudiesDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner [email protected]

Dr Wynn CHAOLecturer in LinguisticsDepartment of [email protected]

Ms Yan CUISenior Lector in ChineseDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner [email protected]

Dr Andrea JANKUSenior Lecturer in the History of ChinaDepartment of [email protected]

Dr Jakob KLEINLecturer in Social AnthropologyDepartment of Anthropology and [email protected]

Dr Yuka KOBAYASHILecturer in Chinese PoliticsDepartment of Politics and International [email protected]

Dr Tat Yan KONGReader in Comparative Politics and Development StudiesDepartment of Politics and International [email protected]

Dr Lars LAAMANNLecturer in the History of ChinaDepartment of [email protected]

Dr George LANESenior Teaching FellowDepartment of [email protected]

Dr Kevin LATHAMSenior Lecturer in Social AnthropologyDepartment of Anthropology and [email protected]

CENTRE MEMBERS: CURRENT

Dr Dafydd FELLSenior Lecturer in Taiwanese StudiesDepartment of Financial and Management [email protected]

Dr Rossella FERRARILecturer in Modern Chinese Culture and LanguageDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner [email protected]

Professor Bernhard FUEHRERProfessor of SinologyDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner [email protected]

Ms Wan Li GAOSenior Lector in ChineseDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner [email protected]

Dr Rachel HARRISSenior Lecturer in EthnomusicologyDepartment of [email protected]

Dr Nathan HILLSenior Lector in TibetanDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner [email protected]

Professor Michel HOCKXProfessor of ChineseDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner [email protected]


Dr Andrew H-B LOSenior Lecturer in ChineseDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner [email protected]

Dr Dic LOSenior Lecturer in EconomicsDepartment of [email protected]

Dr Xiaoning LULecturer in Modern Chinese Culture and LanguageDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner [email protected]

Dr Shane MCCAUSLANDSenior Lecturer in the History of Chinese ArtDepartment of the History of Art and [email protected]

Dr Lukas NICKELReader in Chinese Art History and ArchaeologyDepartment of the History of Art and [email protected]

Dr Ulrich PAGELReader in Language and Religion in Tibet and Middle AsiaDepartment of the Study of [email protected]

Dr Antonello PALUMBOLecturer in Chinese ReligionsDepartment of the Study of [email protected]

Ms Zhaoxia PANGLector in ChineseDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner [email protected]

Dr Stacey PIERSONLecturer in Chinese CeramicsDepartment of the History of Art and [email protected]

Dr Lianyi SONGPrincipal Teaching FellowDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner [email protected]

Dr Julia C STRAUSSSenior Lecturer in Chinese PoliticsDepartment of Politics and International [email protected]

Ms Lik SUENPrincipal Lector in ChineseDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner [email protected]

Professor Laixiang SUNProfessor of Chinese Business and ManagementDepartment of Financial and Management [email protected]

Dr Carol TANSenior Lecturer in LawChair, Centre of South East Asian StudiesSchool of [email protected]

Dr Tian Yuan TANSenior Lecturer in Traditional Chinese Literature and CultureDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner [email protected]

Dr Damian TOBINLecturer in Chinese Business and ManagementDepartment of Financial and Management [email protected]

Ms Wai Hing TSEAssistant Librarian China, Financial and Management StudiesLibrary and Information [email protected]

Dr Tao WANGSenior Lecturer in Chinese ArchaeologyDepartment of the History of Art and [email protected]

Dr Xinsheng (George) ZHANGDirector of Language CentreLanguage [email protected]

Dr Sanzhu ZHUSenior Lecturer in Chinese Commercial LawSchool of [email protected]


MEMBERS NEWS

Wynn Chao was an invited speaker at the 19th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-19) held June 11-13 2011, at Nankai University, Tianjin China.

Wynn CHAOLecturer in LinguisticsDepartment of Linguistics

Dic LOSenior Lecturer in EconomicsDepartment of Economics

Laixiang SUNProfessor of Chinese Business and ManagementDepartment of Financial and Management Studies

Laixiang Sun: the cover-figure and cover story in China Scholar Abroad

Laixiang Sun was a distinguished guest lecture in University of Maryland, Department of Geography, on 14 April 2011; and guest lecture in University of Nottingham, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, on 5 Oct 2010. Topic: “Food, Feed, and Fuel: Prospects for China based on Simulations of Chinagro-II Model through 2030”.

His current research focuses on Foreign Direct Investment and Total Factor Productivity; Sub-national Institutional Constraints and Foreign Firm Performance; On Equivalence between Cournot Competition and Kreps-Scheinkman Game; The Economics of Biofuel Production: Social and Environmental Impacts in China; Assessing the Impact of Climate Change and Intensive Human Activities on China’s Agro-Ecosystem and its Supply Potentials; Electoral Accountability and the Provision of Public Goods in Rural China.

Publications• Sun, Laixiang, Eunsuk Hong and Tao Li. 2010. “Incorporating Technology Diffusion, Factor

Mobility and Structural Change into cross-region Growth Regression: An application to China”, Journal of Regional Science (2009 Impact Factor: 1.132), vol. 50, no. 3 (Aug), pp. 734–755.

• Sun, Laixiang. 2010. “Forward”, in Economic Reform and Development the Chinese Way: The Selected Essays of Li Yining. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

• Fischer, G., T. Ermolieva, and L. Sun. 2010. “Planning sustianable agricultural development under risks.” In: Coping with Uncertainty: Robust Solutions, K. Marti, Y. Ermoliev, M. Makowski (eds), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 209-226.

Honour and awards• Cover Figure in the March 2011 issue of China Scholars Abroad magazine (The cover and

cover-story is attached).• President-elected (in May 2011), Chinese Economist Association (UK/Europe).

In academic year 2010-2011, Dic Lo represented CCS to deliver seminars and public lectures in a number of British and international academic institutions: Musashi University, Tokyo (November 2010), Oxford (February 2011), Peking University (March 2011), Wuhan University, China (April 2011), Complutense University, Madrid (May 2011), and the University of Nagasaki (August 2011).

A grant of US dollar 250,000 has been awarded by the Ford Foundation to a joint research project of CCS and Renmin University of China, entitled ‘China’s financial governance and economic internationalisation’ for a duration of two years starting from September 2010. Dic Lo is principal investigator of the project, and a couple of CCS members from various departments of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences are in the research team of the project.

Publications• Dic Lo and Guicai Li, ‘China’s economic growth, 1978-2006: structural-institutional changes and efficiency attributes’, forthcoming, 2011,

Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics.• Dic Lo, Guicai Li and Yingquan Jiang, ‘Financial governance and economic development: making sense of the Chinese experience’,

forthcoming, 2011, PSL Quarterly Review.• Dic Lo and Yu Zhang, ‘Making sense of China’s economic transformation’, Review of Radical Political Economics, 2011, 43 (1): 33-55.


In summer 2010 Rachel Harris contributed a paper “Perspectives on the use and control of the Uyghur Internet” to a strategic seminar on Xinjiang, organised by the Cambridge Inner Asia Centre in response to the July 2009 inter-ethnic violence in Xinjiang. A journal article is forthcoming in Inner Asia.

She acted as examiner for nomination files for the Urgent Safeguarding List, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage section.

In autumn 2010 she was elected as Chair of the London Jingkun Opera Association, an organisation which promotes Beijing opera and Kunqu in the UK through workshops and public performances.

She continued to act as consultant to the Aga Khan Music Initiative, travelling to Beijing in summer 2010 to work on a fusion project which involved the star Chinese pipa player Wu Man working with traditional musicians from across Northwest China. A CD and DVD are forthcoming with Smithsonian Folkways.

In May 2011 she contributed a paper: “Sound and meaning in rural Uyghur society: women who recite the Qur’ān” to the University of Copenhagen workshop, “Beyond the Harmonious Society, Tibetans and Uyghurs in socialist China.” An edited volume arising from the workshop is planned.

She continued 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 workshop and concert at the Taipei National Orchestra conference, “Beyond the Silk Road”, an appearance at the Forde festival in Norway, and a concert, workshop and lecture at the Museum of Oriental Art in Turin.

Rachel HARRISSenior Lecturer in EthnomusicologyDepartment of Music

Rachel Harris performing with the London Uyghur Ensemble at the Forde festival, Norway, summer 2010

Lu Xiaoning presented her paper entitled “The Transmission of Chinese Revolutionary Art in the Age of Digitalization: Les Chinois a Paris and Its Accidental Audiences” in the panel “Chinese Art for Global Audiences” at 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association in April in Vancouver, Canada. Her article “Promote Physical Culture and Sports, Improve the People’s Constitution” appeared in Ban Wang, ed., Words and Their Stories: Essays on Chinese

Revolutionary Discourse (Leiden, Brill Press, 2011).

Xiaoning LULecturer in Modern Chinese Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia


MEMBERS NEWS

Hong Kong harbour

Damian TOBINLecturer in Chinese Business and ManagementDepartment of Financial and Management Studies Damian Tobin’s current research focuses on the development and governance of China’s banking system, its role in financing China’s economic development and the unique role plated by Chinese state-owned banks in Hong Kong. In particular I have sought to explore the contrast between the tremendous capacity for change demonstrated by China’s state-owned banks since 1949 against their unclear implications for development policy. The research has involved several

research visits to Hong Kong, research at the Hong Kong Public Records Office, as well as discussions with senior banking personnel and other sector participants.

A current paper (see below) examines why the pre-reform banking system based on moral compromise could almost seamlessly change to one based on self-advancement where corruption and professional malpractice are the much lamented price of growth. Focusing on a period when resources were desperately short, the paper argues that China’s great advantage has been Hong Kong and the safe access to international markets it has consistently provided. Consequently China’s leadership is more familiar with international markets than is often assumed, and although capitalism is no longer exceptional, access to formal institutions continues to be a core development priority in achieving modernization

Austerity and Moral Compromise: Lessons from the Development of China’s Banking System World Development Volume 39 (2011), pp. 700-711

Lukas NICKELReader in Chinese Art History and ArchaeologyDepartment of the History of Art and Archaeology

Lukas Nickel gave invited lectures and conference presentations at the following occasions: 26 September 2010, Iannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies Oxford, conference Dining and Death, Interdisciplinary perspectives on the

Funerary Banquet in Art, Burial and Belief, paper titled ‘Banquets and Tombs in Han Dynasty China: Luoyang as a case study’;

28 March 2011, Institute of the Study of the Ancient World, paper titled ‘Sculpture and bricks as evidence for cross-Asian contacts during the 3rd century BC’;

29 March 2011, Bard Graduate Center, New York, ‘Silver Boxes with Achaemenid Design from Han Tombs’;

31 March 2011, Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Honolulu, paper titled ‘Alexander Soper and the Study of Chinese Buddhist Sculpture’,

7 April 2011, International Symposium on Qin Period Metallurgy, Xian, paper titled ‘Exotic Silver Objects of the Qin Period’ At SOAS, Lukas organised the graduate workshop Research Training in the History of Chinese Art and Archaeology, 20-24 September 2010. As a member of the International Centre of Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (ICCHA) he is currently preparing the conference Emergence of Bronze Age Societies – A Global Perspective, to be held in Baoji, China, 8-12 November 2011. PublicationsLukas Nickel, Gräber der Han-Zeit in Luoyang (Published with English synopsis), Münchner Ostasiatische Studien, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag 2011.


In December 2010 Dafydd Fell was a Visiting Fellow at National Chunghsing University’s Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Taichung, Taiwan. During this visit he co-organized an International Conference on Migration to and From Taiwan together with National Chunghsing and Chungcheng Universities. The second international workshop on Migration to and From Taiwan was held at SOAS in June 2011 and is funded by a grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo

Foundation.

In May 2011 Dr Fell was one of the organizers of the Eighth Annual European Association of Taiwan Studies, which is one of the largest Taiwan studies events in the world. On July 1-3 Dr Fell will be running the Fifth SOAS Taiwan Studies Summer School. For details see: www.soas.ac.uk/taiwanstudies/taiwan-studies-summer-school/ This is also supported by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.

Publications1. Critical Elections in Taiwan: Locating the Start of a New Political Era, in Asian Survey (Vol. 50:5, 2010 September/October), 927-945.

2. Taiwan’s Democracy: Towards a Liberal Democracy or Authoritarianism? In Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 39:2 (2010): 187-201.

3. “How to Achieve Political Consensus?” Taipei Times, June 28, 2010 Weblink: www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2010/06/28/2003476597

Conference Papers and Lectures1. Tracking and Explaining Legislative Violence in post Transition Taiwan, paper given at the Disruptive Democracy: Analysing legislative

protest in contemporary legislatures workshop, University of Warwick. November 2010.

2. Taiwan Studies in Europe, lecture given at National Chunghsing University, Academia Sinica’s Institute of Sociology, and Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. All in December 2010.

3. Critical Elections in Taiwan Revisited, paper given at conference on Prospects for Cross Strait Relations held at the Institute of Political Science, National Sun Yat Sen University December 2010.

4. Marketing Internally: How Politicians Campaign in Inner Party Elections in Taiwan, paper given at the Eighth European Association of Taiwan Studies Conference, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. May 2011.

Dafydd FELLSenior Lecturer in Taiwanese StudiesDepartment of Financial and Management Studies

Nathan HILLSenior Lector in TibetanDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

In September Nathan Hill hosted the 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium and 5th Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages Symposium at SOAS, with over sixty guests from around the world and a key-note address by Martine Mazaudon (CNRS), “Dialectology and language change: paths to tone in Tamangish languages.”

In February Nathan attended an editorial meeting of Old Tibetan Documents Online in Kobe, Japan. In March he gave an invited talk ‘The development of the Gnga’ khri btsan po myth in the Bar-dar period’ as part of the conference ‘Between Empire and Phyi dar: the fragmentation and reconstruction of religion and society in post-imperial Tibet’ held at the Lumbini International Research Institute in Lumbini, Nepal. Nathan has recently published three papers, ‘Personal Pronouns in Old Tibetan’ in Journal Asiatique (2010), ‹A note on the phonetic evolution of yod-pa-red in Central Tibet› in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area (2010), ‘Alternances entre ḥ et b en tibétain ancien et dans les langues tibétaines modernes’ in Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines (2011), a book chapter ‘The allative, locative, and terminative cases (la-don) in the Old Tibetan Annals› in New Studies of the Old Tibetan Documents (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2011), and a book A Lexicon of Tibetan Verb Stems as Reported by the Grammatical Tradition. (Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010)

http://www.soas.ac.uk/taiwanstudies/taiwan-studies-summer-school/

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2010/06/28/2003476597


MEMBERS NEWS

Tian Yuan Tan received a research grant from the Society of Chinese Theatre Studies (Tang Xianzu Branch) for an international collaborative project between six institutions and organisations from UK and China on “The Theatrical Worlds of Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare”. He delivered a keynote address at the International Conference on Tang Xianzu and Late Ming Culture, and convened the Forum on Tang Xianzu-Shakespeare: Cultural Exchange and Collaboration held in

Suichang, China, 8-11 April, 2011. His other activities and publications are listed below:

Invited Talks And Presentations “Late Ming Emotions and States of Mind: The Case of Mudan ting.” Paper presented at the Third Villa Vigoni Research Conference on “Reconstruction of the Representation of Emotions, States of Mind and Imagery in Imperial China,” May 25-28, 2011. Menaggio, Italy.

“Imperial Spectacle and Entertainment in Qing Court Theater.” Paper presented at “The Culture of Entertainment in China: Past and Present” Conference held at the University of Bristol, May 19-20, 2011.

“Performing Arts of Beijing in the Qing Dynasty: Court and Popular Traditions.” Public lecture delivered at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London, February 5, 2011.

“Reconsidering the Boundaries of ‘Elite Theatre’ and ‘Court Theatre’ in the Historiography of Chinese Drama.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) held at the University of Bristol, September 8-9, 2010.

PublicationsSongs of Contentment and Transgression: Discharged Officials and Literati Communities in Sixteenth-Century North China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2010.

Kang Hai sanqu ji jiaojian 康海散曲集校箋 (A Critical Edition of Kang Hai’s Songs, with Introduction, Notes, and Two Essays). Hangzhou: Zhejiang guji chubanshe, 2011.

“Emerging from Anonymity: The First Generation of Writers of Songs and Drama in Mid-Ming Nanjing,” T’oung Pao 96 (2010): 125-164.

Tian Yuan TANSenior Lecturer in Traditional Chinese Literature and CultureDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

Cui Yan was one of the sixteen speakers at SOAS International Symposium of Learning and Teaching of Asian and African Languages in the 21st Century which was held on 8th-9th November 2010. Her presentation topic is “Issues Involved in Teaching Chinese Listening Skills

at Elementary Level – for teacher training programmes”.

Yan CUISenior Lector in ChineseDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

During her speech at SOAS International Symposium held in November 2010


During the 2010/11 academic year Jakob Klein presented his research on constructions of regional cuisine in Yunnan at seminars at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS) in Lisbon, at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, at the SOAS Centre of Chinese Studies, and in Paris at the Centre d’études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).

In March 2011 Jakob participated in a symposium at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, organized by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) under the title, ‘Choking on what? Contested illnesses, pollution and the making of environmental health subjects in contemporary China.’ At the symposium, Jakob gave a paper on ‘Food shopping and perceptions of food safety in urban China.’

In May 2011 Jakob co-organized, with Professor Melissa L. Caldwell (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Dr. Yuson Jung (Wayne State University, Michigan), a two-day workshop at the SOAS Food Studies Centre on ‘Ethical foods and food movements in postsocialist settings.’ Two papers on China were presented at the workshop: ‘Food and moral discourse in reform era rural China: An incipient resistance?’ by Professor Ellen Oxfeld (Middlebury College, Vermont), and a paper by Jakob, entitled ‘Reconnecting with the countryside? “Alternative” food movements with Chinese characteristics.’ The workshop was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the SOAS Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

In June 2011 Jakob was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant for the following research project: ‘“Local”, “regional” or “ethnic”? Negotiating identities through rubing (milk cake) in Kunming, Southwest China.’ Fieldwork will commence in March 2012.

Jakob KLEINLecturer in Social AnthropologyDepartment of Anthropology and Sociology

Michel HockxProfessor of ChineseDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

Michel Hockx was awarded an AHRC Fellowship from April−October 2011, to support the completion of a monograph with the working title Internet Literature in China, to be published by Columbia University Press in 2012.

Michel Hockx was also the lead member of a team of current and former SOAS researchers (Dr Maria af Sandeberg, Dr Uganda Sze-Pui Kwan, Dr Christopher Payne, and Dr Christopher Rosenmeier) who published a book-length English translation of a scholarly monograph by Professor Chen Pingyuan of Peking University. Titled Touches of History: An Entry into “May Fourth” China, the book came out with Brill Publishers in May 2011.

Rossella FERRARILecturer in Modern Chinese Culture and LanguageDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

Rossella Ferrari published ‘Beckett’s Chinese Progeny: Absurdity, Waiting, and the Godot Motif in Contemporary China’ in Dorothy Figueira and Marc Maufort (eds.), Theatres in the Round: Multi-ethnic, Indigenous, and Intertextual Dialogues in Drama (Peter Lang Dramaturgies Series). Her ‘Journey(s) to the East—Travels, Trajectories, and Transnational Chinese Theatre(s)’ appeared in the special issue of Postcolonial Studies ‘East Asia, in Theory’ (Vol. 13, No. 4, 2010), and ‘The

Stage As A Drawing Board: Zuni Icosahedron’s Architecture Is Art Festival’ was published in TDR: The Drama Review (Vol. 55, Issue 1, 2011). In addition, she finalized her forthcoming book Pop Goes the Avant-garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China (Seagull Enactment Series) for publication, also thanks to the support of a strategic funding grant awarded by the Faculty of Languages and Cultures.

In November 2010 she gave a talk at the University of Oxford on ‘Avant-garde Theory and Chinese Performance: From Pure to Pop, from Singular to Plural’, and one on ‘Cultural and Artistic Exchange in Greater China: Beyond National Models and East-West Paradigms’ at the University of Cambridge in March 2011. In April 2011 she presented the paper ‘Geometries and Geographies of Exchange: Conceptualizing Transnational Chinese Theatre(s)’ at the AAS-ICAS joint conference in Honolulu. In May she was invited to participate in the international symposium ‘Staging the Modern: Theatre, Intermediality, and Chinese Drama’ at Harvard University, where she gave a paper entitled ‘Architecture and/in Theatre from the Bauhaus to Hong Kong: Mathias Woo’s Looking for Mies’.

She was also involved in two events sponsored by the Centre of Chinese Studies. In November 2010 she chaired the talk ‘Asia on the World Stage’ by American director Peter Sellars organized by the Asian Performing Arts Forum and held in the Khalili Lecture Theatre. In February 2011 she helped organize the performance of Self-Accusation presented by theatre du Rêve Experimental (Beijing) in the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre.


Conference papers‘On the Historical Significance of the Guangxu Famine (1877-8): A View from Shaanxi,’ paper given at the Annual Meeting of the British Association of Chinese Studies, Bristol, September 8-9, 2010.

‘Productive Landscapes in Linfen: The Quest for a Sustainable Balance in a Precarious Environment,’ paper given at the BICC/WREA Workshop on The Roots of China’s Environmental Crisis, Bristol, September 10, 2010.

Panelist at Roundtable on ‘Naturkatastrophen in der Geschichte,’ 48. Deutscher Historikertag, Berlin, 29.9.-1.10.2010.

‘Global Connectedness and its Discontents: Earthquake Coverage in the old Shenbao (1872-1893),’ paper presented at the International Sym-posium on the Cooperation among Libraries for East Asian Resources and Chinese Newspaper Digitization, Changsha, October 24-27, 2010.

Panel commentator at the conference on ‘Gender and Transcultural Production: Chinese Women’s Journals in Their Global Context, 1900-2000,’ SOAS, May 13-15, 2010.

Publications“The Uses of Genres in the Chinese Press from the Late Qing to the Early Republican Period.” In Cynthia Brokaw and Christopher Reed, eds. From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition. Leiden: Brill, 2011, 111-157.

Review of Rudolf G. Wagner, ed. Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870–1910. Albany: State Uni-versity of New York Press, 2007. In T’oung Pao 96.1-3 (2010.1): 265-277.

“‘New Methods to Nourish the People’: Political Economy in Late Qing Encyclopaedic Writing (1888-1903),” in Milena Doleželová-Velingerová, ed., Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870-1920): Changing Chinese Ways of Thought. Heidelberg: Springer, forthcoming).

“From Natural to National Disaster: The Chinese Famine of 1928-1930,” forthcoming in Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics, ed. Andrea Janku, Gerrit J. Schenk, and Franz Mauelshagen. New York: Routledge (forthcoming).

Andrea JANKUSenior Lecturer in the History of ChinaDepartment of History

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Carol TANSenior Lecturer in LawSchool of Law

Carol Tan’s essay on the role of the leased territory of Weihaiwei in the recruitment of Chinese men for the Chinese Labour Corp will appear in Li Ma (ed), Des Travailleurs Chinois dans la Grande Guerre (Paris: CNRS Editions, 2011). This collection emerges out of her participation in an international conference jointly organised by Université du Littoral Côte O’pale and the In Flanders Fields Museum held in Boulogne-sur-Mer and Ypres in 2010. This four day symposium, the largest of its

kind and the first symposium on this topic to be held outside China, explored a large number of aspects of the Chinese labourers, including the aftermath of the war on Chinese politics, nationalism, identity and consciousness. The symposium was planned to coincide with a number of related events including a special exhibition at the In Flanders Fields Museum and a special ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres. Carol Tan has also written an essay on public health law as one of the technologies in the interface between the British government and urban Chinese in Weihaiwei. This essay is to be published in a collection of essays on Republican China edited by Professors Billy K.L. So and Madeleine Zelin. These two essays and a forthcoming journal article on gambling and other revenue farms in Weihaiwei are a continuation of her work on the legal history of Weihaiwei. Her book British Rule in China: Law and Justice in Weihaiwei 1898-1930, Law in East Asia Series, (London: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Pub., 2008), xxiii, 340p will be translated for publication in Chinese in 2012-2013. Carol Tan has also written the Foreword to Shiona Airlie, Thistle and Bamboo: the life and times of Sir James Stewart Lockhart (HK: HKUP, 2010), iv-viii (series information: Echoes: Classics of Hong Kong Culture and History).

As Chair of the Centre of East Asian Law, SOAS (CEAL), she organised a successful two day workshop on the theme of Law and Orientalism, with funding from Shantou University and Notre Dame University in London. Professor Teemu Ruskola (Emory Law School), a specialist in Chinese law delivered the keynote paper. Papers from the workshop will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Law. CEAL hosted five young judges from China to enable them to pursue their LLM studies at SOAS Law School during 2010-2011. From 1st January 2011, Carol Tan became Chair of the SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies (CSEAS). Planned events include an ASEAN-China Economics Workshop in the autumn of 2011.


George Lane inside the Phoenix Mosque of Hangzhou compound standing in front of the tombstone outhouse with the mosque’s Imam

George LANESenior Teaching FellowDepartment of History

In November 2010 George Lane attended a conference in Hangzhou on Hangzhou during the Yuan dynasty organised by the University of Zheijiang. George attended with Alexander (Sandy) Morton and his PhD student Florence Hodous. His talk focused on the 20 Persian tombstones that have been uncovered in the Jujiang cemetery. Sandy Morton spoke about poetry contained in the texts of the tombstones and Florence spoke about Hangzhou and Mongol law. A book is now being

compiled under the editorship of Professor Wu Zhijian. In March/April 2011 George returned to Hangzhou with a £500 grant from the SOAS History Dept and met up with the Institute of Archaeology and Culture and with the local branch of the Communist Party and where he and Sandy signed a contract for a book on the Phoenix Mosque of Hangzhou with translations of the 20 tombstones. The book will be the first detailed study of the mosque since the 1920s the first detailed translation of the tombstones and the first study of the mosque in English.

This academic year Shane McCausland gave lectures at Harvard and Oxford Universities on Yuan painting and visual culture and published a 421-page monograph entitled Zhao Mengfu: Calligraphy and Painting for Khubilai’s China (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011). He was a contributor to the British Museum/BBC Radio 4 series, A History of the World in 100

Objects (Number 39, ‘The Admonitions Scroll’), which has since been published as a book. Shane has had three essays in refereed books accepted for publication on subjects including the workshop practice of the late Ming artist Chen Hongshou, the Yongle dadian and the contemporary artist Xu Bing’s Book from the Sky, and narrative painting in early modern East Asia. Shane is also currently co-editing a volume of papers on narrative arts in later imperial China given at a colloquium held at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, in conjunction with the 2010 exhibition he curated, Telling Images of China: Narrative and Figure Paintings, 15th-20th Century, from the Shanghai Museum.

At the start of the year Shane was made Senior Lecturer in the History of Chinese Art.

Shane MCCAUSLANDSenior Lecturer in the History of Chinese ArtDepartment of the History of Art and Archaeology


ANNOUNCEMENTS

On the evening of 19th April 2011, the Tenth Chinese Bridge (UK area) Competition was held at Friends House Euston, London. Twenty-six contestants from thirteen universities in the UK attended the initial competitions and nine contestants entered the finals. Two contestants from SOAS both entered the finals. Through extremely tough competitions SOAS student James Bilbow, the 4th year BA in Chinese and Business management was awarded second place tied to another contestant. In the end the panel announced that James Bilbow would go to China for international competition together with the first place winner.

From left: Alec Odahara (3rd year BA in Chinese), John Stainer (4th year BA in Chinese), Stewart Johnson (4th year BA in Chinese and Law) and the Ninth Chinese Bridge Champion James Bilbow (4th year BA in Chinese and Business management)

His Excellency Chinese ambassador Mr Xiaoming Liu

A Celebration and Recognition Achievement of SOAS students in Chinese Bridge Competitions

The other contestant from SOAS Alec Odahara, 3rd year BA in Chinese, achieved the third place tied to two other contestants.

Not only the two contestants from SOAS impressed the audience at this event, the Ninth Chinese Bridge Champion Stewart Johnson from SOAS was invited to deliver a speech at the stage. His choice of words, sense of humour and his Chinese talk show once again demonstrated his excellent Chinese language skills. SOAS student John Stainer, 4th year BA in Chinese was selected by the organizing committe as one of the presenters of the show. His accurate pronunciation and intonation, his quick and witty response as well as his style of presentation also amazed the audience.

Among the VIP guests who attended the event, there were His Excellency Chinese ambassador Mr Xiaoming Liu and his wife, Director of the Joint International Unit for Education, Employment

and Social affairs Ms Susannah Simon and Vice Chancellor of University of University of Liverpool, Chair of the AQ A English Committee Professor Michael Hoey.

Last but not least, it is worth to mention that since the establishment of Chinese Bridge competition (Hany Qiao), SOAS has always had one contestant achieved one of the top two places to go to China representing UK universities for the international competition. This “second to none” achievement demonstrates that SOAS Chinese department is THE place to aim high in Chinese language learning thanks to a small but strongly dedicate Chinese language teaching team.

Zhaoxia Pang (SOAS)

11 October 2010Ms Lynne Joiner (author, Honorable Survivor: Mao’s China, McCarthy’s America, and the Persecution of John S. Service) The Honorable Survivor - Timely Lessons & Continuing Controversy

18 October 2010 Professor Fulong Wu (Cardiff) Urban development under the China’s world factory regime and the challenges of post-crisis transition

25 October 2010 Dr King Kwun Tsao (Chinese University of Hong Kong)Local Chinese Administartive Reform

1 November 2010Dr Mary Mazzilli (SOAS)Transcultural feminine modernism: Ling Shuhua’s écriture féminine

15 November 2010 Professor T H Barrett (SOAS) Too Much Monkey Business? East and West beyond the Bibulous Chin-Chin

22 November 2010Mr John Gittings (SOAS) The perception of peace and war in ancient China and Greece

29 November 2010Dr Carlos Oya (SOAS) Can China help increase policy space for African governments?

6 December 2010Dr Chun Lin (LSE) Arguments for democracy in China

13 December 2010Dr Shane McCausland (SOAS) Primal vision: On the forms, shapes and moments of early Yuan art

Seminar Series


SEP 2010-AUG 2011ACADEMIC EVENTS

17 January 2011Dr Andrew Fischer (Institute of Social Studies) Keynes in Beijing

24 January 2011Dr Kent Deng (LSE) Myth of Maoism: Poverty, Inequality and Low-level Equilibrium Trap, 1949 – 1978

31 January 2011Professor John Wong (University of Sydney) Political Reform in China? Reflections on the Centenary of the 1911 Revolution

7 February 2011Dr Jianxiang Bi (UWE) Limited sovereignty: Chinese peacekeeping operations in Africa

21 February 2011Dr Wenxuan Hou (University of Durham) Player and referee roles held jointly: the effect of state ownership on China’s regulatory enforcement against fraud

28 February 2011Dr Lukas Nickel (SOAS) Exotic silverware during the Han period

7 March 2011Dr Huan Zou (SOAS) Conflict management in the entrepreneur-venture capital relationship

14 March 2011Dr Jakob Klein (SOAS) There is no such thing as Dian cuisine!’ Food and local identity in twenty-first century China

Early China Seminar

Professor Liu Xiaogan (Chinese University Hong Kong)

21 February 2011Lecture

A Taoistic Sense of SocialResponsibility

22 February 2011Master Seminar on the Zhuangzi

23 February 2011

LectureZiran or Nature: In the Laozi

and Contemporary Usage

13-15 May 2011Co-hosted with the SOAS Centre of Gender Studies and York University, Canada Conference Gender and Transcultural Production: Chinese Women’s Journals in their Global Context, 1900-2000

13 May 2011 Lecture Ephemeral, Material, Instrumental: Meditations on Women’s Magazines Jennifer Scanlon (Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies, Bowdoin College)

4 February 2011Performance Self-accusation Presented by Théatre du Rêve Expérimental (Beijing)

Research Training in the History of Chinese Art and Archaeology

Co-hosted with SOAS Department of the History of Art and Archaeology

21, 22, 23, 24 September 2010Workshop

Specialists teaching during the training workshop included:

Stan Abe (Duke University), Craig Clunas (University of Oxford), Shane McCausland (SOAS), Lukas Nickel

(SOAS & UCL), Stacey Pierson (SOAS), Jessica Rawson (Merton College &

University of Oxford), Clarissa von Spee (The British Museum), Jan Stuart (British Museum), Wang Tao (SOAS & UCL) and

Zhang Hongxing (V&A Museum)

21 September 2010 Lecture

Order and Things: Art History and Chinese Sculpture

Stanley Abe (Duke University)

4 November 2010Delegation Professors He Ping, Wang Changyun and Zhang Chengsi (Renmin University)

Events

10 November 2010Co-hosted with the SOAS, Department of Music and Royal Holloway Lecture Asia on the World Stage, a talk by Peter Sellars Peter Sellars (UCLA and Resident Curator of the Telluride Film Festival)

9 June 2011

Centre of Chinese Studies Annual Lecture

Is it Singular?--Rethinking the

recent debates on China’s Model

Professor WANG Hui (Tsinghua University)

8-9 November 2010Cohosted with Renmin University

of China (RUC) Conference in Beijing

Financialisation, financial systems and economic development

Joint SOAS-RUC two-year research project, funded by the Ford

Foundation, on “China’s financial governance and economic

internationalization”.

Six SOAS academics, together with another twenty international scholars, presented papers at the conference.


CENTRE ACTIVITIES

The 5th Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages Symposium and the 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium were held at SOAS, University of London on 1-5 September 2010. The efforts of convenor Dr Nathan Hill (Senior Lector in Tibetan, Department of the Languages & Cultures of China and Inner Asia) yielded a successful pair of event. The participants of the symposia appreciated the warm hospitality and assistance provided by the staff of the Centre of Chinese Studies, Centres & Programmes. The two events attracted circa 60 participants, representing thirteen countries (Australia, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, Poland, Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States).

Symposium particpants taking a break. Photo: Roger Blench

5Th Medieval Tibeto-Burman Langauges Symposiumand 16Th Himalayan Langauges Symposium

1-5 September 2010 SOAS, University of London

The 5th Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages Symposium, held on the first day, comprised six presentations on a variety of languages including Tangut, Lepcha, Yi, and Old Tibetan. These presentations, mostly based on the philological study of historical documents, treated varied phenomena including lexical studies, syntax, phonology, religion, and discourse.

The academic organiser Nathan Hill (SOAS)

On 2-5 September 2010, various papers were presented at a joint sessions and parallel sessions at the 16th Himalayan languages symposium. The symposium, featuring a keynote address by Martine Mazaudon and a workshop on optional case marking, included presentations focusing on languages or language communities of the Greater Himalayan Region, representing contributions from linguistic, anthropological, historical, and archaeological perspectives.

The title of Mazaudon’s keynote address was “Dialectology and language change: path to tone in Tamangish languages”. This presentation provided an insightful overview of tone in Tamangish languages and demonstrated recent findings on various aspects of tone in these languages using acoustic measurements. Mazaudon emphasized the following three points: the different dialects have each found their own way of dealing with the progressive shift from initial consonant voicing to breathy phonation and to pitch contrast; breathy phonation, which appears as in intermediate stage between initial consonant voicing and phonologised pitch, can co-occur with high tone only under some phonological conditions which are not met by the Tamangish languages; and the theoretical status of “emergent tones”, the existence of a prolonged fluctuating equilibrium between segmental and suprasegmental cues to tone leads to the conclusion that “tone” may be defined by multiple cues and not by pitch alone.

On 3 September 2010, there was an all-day workshop on optional case marking arranged by Shobhana Chelliah (University of North Texas) and Gwendlyn Hyslop (University of Oregon). Ten

papers were presented, dealing with syntactic behavior, meaning and function of optional case markers in various languages using from the viewpoints of subject/object marking, subject/topic markers, ergative/absolutive markers, nominative/accusative markers, systematic/non-systematic patterns, tense/aspect split and attention flow. In her concluding remarks, Gwendlyn Hyslop summarized the factors conditioning ‘optional’ case markings. They are person; tense/aspect; volition, control, expectation, consequence or effect on the world; directed activity, directed mental state, creation and transformation; animacy, topicality, prominence; role of other arguments in clause; proximity of NP to predicate, semantic clause of verbs; relationship to previous subject, length of NP, and argument number.

The remaining parallel and joint sessions included more than thirty papers. Among these, there were five presentations on Bhutanese languages, (one on Gongduk, one on Tshangla, one on East Bodish in general, and one on Mangde), seven on Tibetan or other Bodish languages, five on Nepalese languages, three on Burmese languages, eight on languages in India, one on language in Pakistan and one on a language in Malaysia.

Next year’s HLS will move from London to Kobe, a city full of exotic atomosphere in Japan. Kobe City University of Foreign Studies (organizer: Tsuguhito Takeuchi) will host the 17th Himalayan Languages Symposium and it will be held 6-9 September 2011. Information regarding HLS and upcoming symposium can be obtained at: www.himalayansymposium.org/

Fuminobu Nishida (Akita University)

Symposium particpants listening intently

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21 – 24 September 2010School of Oriental & African Studies

The workshop is an intensive training event for graduate students. It aims at providing students insight into current research questions and professional issues of working in the field of Chinese Art and Archaeology.

Specialists teaching during the training workshop will include Stan Abe (Duke University),Craig Clunas (University of Oxford), Shane McCausland (SOAS), Lukas Nickel (SOAS & UCL), Stacey Pierson (SOAS), Jessica Rawson (Merton College & University of Oxford), Clarissa von Spee (The British Museum), Jan Stuart (The British Museum), Wang Tao (SOAS & UCL) and Zhang Hongxing (Victoria and Albert Museum).

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Department of the History of Art and Archaeology, SOAS

Research Training in the History of Chinese Art & Archaeology

Co-sponsored by International Centre of Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (ICCHA) of UCL and Peking University

In September 2010 the Department of the History of Art and Archaeology and CCS held an intensive training event for postgraduate students in the field of Chinese art history and archaeology. Over four days, 10 specialists from universities and museums taught a group of 15 selected PhD and MA students from UK and overseas institutions.

More than 30 students applied for seats in the programme which was taught by Stan Abe (Duke Univesity), Craig Clunas (University of Oxford), Shane McCausland (SOAS), Lukas Nickel (SOAS and UCL), Stacey Pierson (SOAS), Jessica Rawson (University of Oxford), Clarissa von Spee (The British Museum), Jan Stuart (The British Museum), Wang Tao (SOAS and UCL), and Zhang Hongxing (Victoria and Albert Museum).

The event took a novel approach to MA and PhD teaching, aiming at providing students with insight into current research questions and professional

Research Training in the History of Chinese Art and Archaeology

21 to 24 September 2010SOAS, University of London

issues of working in the field of Chinese Art and Archaeology. To achieve this, each scholar introduced his or her current research and on-going projects in a lecture, followed by a two-hour seminar in which both students and teachers discussed the approaches taken and questions raised. Topics included publication projects, exhibition planning and design, collection strategy, as well as research questions from ancient bronzes to Buddhist art and modern painting. Lectures and seminars were supplemented by visits to the showrooms and a handling session at the British Museum. The event was designed by Lukas Nickel.

As part of the programme, Stan Abe of Duke University gave a public keynote lecture on “Order and Things: Art History and Chinese Sculpture”.

The workshop was part of the series Research Training in Old Chinese convened by Dirk Meyer (University of Oxford) and funded by the Arts & Humanities

Research Council (AHRC) and British Inter-University China Centre (BICC).

The extremely positive reactions by all participants indicated that there is a strong need for training and networking events of this kind for future scholars. One might envisage workshops which could – in addition to training and discussion – provide students with the opportunity to present their own research to a specialist audience.

Lukas Nickel (SOAS)

Handling session at the British Museum

Workshop participants and speakers

Stan Abe (Duke University) and Lukas Nickel


SOAS was delighted to host a lecture given by the renowned theater, opera, and festival director Peter Sellars in November 2010. A visionary artist, Sellars is known for groundbreaking interpretations of classic works and is considered to be one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the performing arts in America and abroad. Whether it is Mozart, Handel, Shakespeare, Sophocles, or the 16th-century Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu, Peter Sellars strikes a universal chord with audiences, engaging contemporary social and political issues.

Peter captivated the audience with his passionate and engaging delivery. True to form Peter was not to be bound by convention and opened the evening lecture hugging startled, but delighted, guests and alternated between sitting down and walking energetically around. He gave an intimate talk and finished the lecture by inviting the members of the audience to the Barbican the following evening.

Sellars has led several major arts festivals, including the 1990 and 1993 Los Angeles Festivals; the 2002 Adelaide Arts Festival in Australia; and the 2003 Venice Biennale International Festival of Theater in Italy. In 2006 he was Artistic Director of New Crowned Hope, a month-long festival in Vienna for which he invited international artists from diverse cultural backgrounds to create new work in the fields of music, theater, dance, film, the visual arts, and architecture for the city of Vienna’s Mozart Year celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth.

Among the operas he has created are Nixon in China and A Flowering Tree (both with American composer John Adams) and The Peony Pavilion (with Tan Dun).

Sellars is a professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA and Resident Curator of the Telluride Film Festival. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Erasmus Prize, the Sundance Institute Risk-Takers Award, and the Gish Prize, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The talk was co-sponsored by SOAS and the Asian Performing Arts Forum, a strategic partnership among the Centre for International Theatre and Performance Research at Royal Holloway, University of London; Roehampton Uni-versity’s Centre for Dance Research; and the East Asian Performance Research Group at the University of Reading.

Jane Savory (SOAS)

From left: David Hughes (SOAS), Rossella Ferrari (SOAS), Peter Sellars, Avanthi Meduri, and Matthew Cohen (Royal Holloway)

Peter Sellers joining the audience during this lecture

Asia on the World Stage, a talk by Peter Sellars10 November 2010SOAS, University of London

Peter Sellars deep in conversation with the academics prior to the lecture

CENTRE ACTIVITIES


On the 3rd of February 2011, in the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, the Centre of Chinese Studies hosted the UK premiere of Self-Accusation, a new production of Peter Handke’s 1965 play presented by Théatre du Rêve Expérimental (Xinchuan shiyan jutuan), an emerging theatre company based in Beijing. The company was founded in 2008 by Wang Chong, a young director and translator who studied theatre both in China and the United States and trained under established directors including the American Robert Wilson and Lin Zhaohua, a pioneer of Chinese experimental theatre. Wang and his collaborators belong to a new generation of theatremakers who are striving to break new

ground and renovate China’s independent arts scene by testing new ways of making theatre beyond conventional aesthetics and officially-sanctioned forms. Their productions have ventured into physical theatre, multimedia performance, cross-cultural adaptation, and new experiments with Chinese traditional theatre. Self-Accusation features a voiceover of Handke’s monologue, which Wang re-recorded in English especially for the London performance, and semi-improvised vocal and physical actions by Beijing opera performer Zhang Yunpeng.In addition to Self-Accusation, which premiered in Beijing in 2009, Théatre du Rêve Expérimental has created successful

and occasionally controversial versions of a number of Western works including Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, Sarah Kane’s Crave, and Heiner Müller’s Hamletmaschine, alongside original productions such as The Peking OperaTION. The company has toured several countries including the USA, Canada, and France. Self-Accusation marked their debut in the UK. The performance was received with enthusiasm by the SOAS community and provided audiences with a rare opportunity to discover some recent trends in contemporary Chinese theatre.

Rossella Ferrari (SOAS)

Self-AccusationPerformance by Théatre du Rêve Expérimental3 February 2011SOAS, University of London


Centre of Chinese Studies Annual LectureIs it Singular? - Rethinking the recent debates on China’s ModelProfessor WANG Hui (Tsinghua University)9 June 2011SOAS, University of London

From left: Dic Lo and Wang HuiNot a spare seat in the house

Gender and Transcultural Production: Chinese Women’s Journals in their Global Context, 1900-200013-15 May 2011SOAS, University of London

Conference particpants

A snapshot of the conference

Keynote speaker Jennifer Scanlon

CENTRE ACTIVITIES

This year’s CCS Annual Lecture took place on 9 June 2011. It was delivered by Professor WANG Hui of Tsinghua University, Beijing. The lecture, entitled ‘Is it singular? – rethinking the recent debates on China’s model’, focused on topical issues of the ‘Chinese model’, development, and democracy.

Professor Wang’s speech was followed by questions and comments from the enthusiastic audience, who filled the lecture theatre.

From 13-15 May 2011, SOAS was the venue for an international conference on Chinese women’s journals. The Centre of Chinese Studies sponsored the keynote lecture and reception for the event, which was further funded by generous grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Humboldt Foundation, the Heidelberg University Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context,” and the Universities China Committee in London.

Co-organized by Professor Joan Judge (York

University, Canada), Professor Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg), and Professor Michel Hockx (SOAS), the conference was the closing event of a three-year research project dealing with the women’s press in late imperial and Republican China (1911-1949).

For this particular gathering, the scope of inquiry was extended to include also papers on post-1949 women’s journals, while prominent scholars of women’s magazines in other countries and cultures (India, Japan, Anglo-American) acted as discussants. The keynote lecture was given by Professor Jennifer Scanlon from Bowdoin College, a well-known expert on twentieth-century English-language women’s magazines.

Michel Hockx

The lecture was followed by a wine reception, which provided a good opportunity for SOAS scholars and external visitors to have conversations with Professor Wang.

Dic Lo


HONORARY APPOINTMENTSProfessorial Research Associates

Professor Renzo CAVALIERILLB(UNIVERSITY OF MILAN)1 August 2009 - 31 August 2011

Professor Anthony DICKSBA LLB MA(CANTAB)27 October 2008 - 31 August 2012

Professor Stefan FEUCHTWANGPHD(LONDON)8 June 1998 - 31 August 2012

Professor Michael PALMERLLB(CANTAB) BSC(ECON) MA LLD(LONDON)1 August 2009 - 31 August 2011

Research Associates

Dr Xiangqun CHANGPHD(CITY UNIVERSITY, UK) MA BA(CHINA)2 August 2007 - 31 August 2011

Mr Jonathan FENBYBA(OXON)1 November 2004 - 31 August 2012

Mr John GITTINGSMA(OXON)1 October 2002 - 31 August 2012

Dr Ian SECKINGTONPHD MSC(SOAS) BA(LEEDS UNIVERSITY)2 August 2007 - 31 August 2011

Dr Frances WOODPHD(UNIVERSITY OF LONDON) BA(PEKING UNIVERSITY)2 August 2007 - 31 August 2011

Visiting Scholar

Dr Xavier LINPHD(WARWICK)1 February 2011 - 31 October 2011

Michael PALMERProfessorial Research Associate

Michael Palmer is a former Chair of the SOAS Centre of Chinese Studies and Centre of East Asian Law, and is currently 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 (People’s University, Beijing) and Xinan Zhengfa Daxue (Southwest Institute of Political Science and Law, Chongqing).

Michael was appointed Dean of the Law School at Shantou University. Professor Palmer had been one of two Vice Deans of the newly established law school at Shantou University

Publications “Administrative Suits and Harmonious Settlements: A Twilight Issue in the Legal Development of Contemporary China,” Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp.71-78, (in “Global Wrongs and Private Law Remedies and Procedures”, Special Issue of the JCL, 2010, Guest Editor: Stathis Banakas)

(with Chao Xi) “National Reports: The People’s Republic of China,” [Accessing Chinese Justice: Reforming the Financial Burdens of Litigation in the People’s Republic of China] in Christo-pher Hodges, Stefan Vogenauer & Magdalena Tulibacka (eds.)The Funding and Costs of Civil Litigation: A Comparative Perspective (Oxford and Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing, 2010, pp. 261-274

Public Lectures “A Perspective on Chinese Law: a lecture in honour of the work of Geoffrey MacCormack,” January 29th, 2011, The School of Law, University of Aberdeen.

“National Protection of Human Rights: The Case of the PRC,” 3rd April, 2011, at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong

“Alternative Dispute Resolution: The Development of the Ombudsman System,” 16th June, 2011, at the School of Law, Guangdong Foreign Languages University

Frances WOODResearch Associate

Most of Frances Wood’s work in the last year has been on Dunhuang. To celebrate its successful conservation, Mark Barnard, the senior conservator who spent some 20 years in preparatory research before embarking on 7 years work removing unsuitable backings on the thousand year old scroll and I wrote The Diamond Sutra: the story of the

world’s earliest dated printed book (British Library Publications, 2010). A small edition in the British Library series ‘Treasures in Focus’, The Diamond Sutra, was published this year.

She has spent some time in Paris at the Musee Guimet looking at the archives of Paul Pelliot, examining his notes on Sir Aurel Stein’s Dunhuang manuscripts, and have been able to start identifying most of the 200 British Museum manuscripts from Dunhuang that spent the period 1911-1919 in Paris. Pelliot was supposed to be preparing a catalogue for the British Museum but his work at the College de France and the First World War put an end to the project.

Frances wrote a short piece on Shakespeare in China for the Guardian Comment section following Wen Jiabao’s visit and she is currently working on a conference paper for the conference The First Emperor and his legacy to be held at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore.

The newly-conserved Diamond Sutra, British Library, courtesy of Frances Wood, The British Library


Xiangqun CHANGResearch Associate

During the academic year 2010-11 Xiangqun Chang completed her project ‘Chinese governance models in the transitional period’ in collaboration with Northeast University, funded by the Ministry of Education of China. She participated in a workshop in Japan on the BRIC migrant project and will conduct a questionnaire survey by using both email and online facilities in autumn.

Xiangqun gave talks about her book ‘Lishang-wanglai’ and social cultural perspective on ‘China model’ at LSE, UCL, Kings of the University of London, and the Universities of Nottingham, Warwick and Sheffield. Based on her fieldwork material she gave a presentation “Chinese migrants’ participation in making centres - cases of Yaohan Plaza, Oriental City and Pacific Plaza” in June at LSE. In September she will give a presentation based on analyses of Chinese migrants in the UK with lishang-wanglai model at a panel session of the 4th International Forum for Contemporary Chinese Studies (IFCCS4) at Nottingham. Xiangqun is coordinator of the IFCCS4. She is also co-organizer, with Professor Xiaowei Zang, University of Sheffield, of a panel ‘Network and relationship studies on China’.

Xiangqun has put considerable effort into developing the CCPN website, the only bilingual website centred on social scientific studies on China in the English speaking world, and migrating it to LSE’s new website system. She also helped launching an online journal Bijiao: China in comparative perspective book review (CCPBR). Currently, as one of the co-editors, Xiangqun is editing Professor Fei Xiatong’s conference proceedings (both Chinese and English editions), due to be published by the end of 2011.

Stephen FEUCHTWANGProfessorial Research Associate

Stephan Feuchtwang completed his research programme on the transmission of grievous loss with a book: After the Event; the transmission of grievous loss in German, China and Taiwan. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books 2010 and polished some previously unpublished and some published papers for another book: The Anthropology of Religion, Charisma and Ghosts; Chinese lessons for adequate theory. Berlin: De Gruyter 2010. He taught the last of his five years

on the MSc China in Comparative Perspective, which he had designed, handing over to a new Director of the Programme Dr Hans Steinmuller. It is still the only programme of its kind in the world.

As associate convenor with Dr Laura Bear, he helped organise the last two ESRC workshops on ‘Conflicts in time’, taking further our study of how different temporalities are combined and are materially marked off from each other.

He took part in a successful bid and launch, as coordinator of one of four research work packages, of the EU-funded 4-year study of trends in sustainable urbanisation in China.

In his project on the comparison of civilisations he published two articles: (with Mike Rowlands) ‘Re-evaluating the long term: civilisation and temporalities’ in Duncan Garrow and Thomas Yarrow (eds) Archaeology and Anthropology: understanding similarities, exploring differences. Oxford and Oakville: Oxbow Books 2010 pp 117-136; and ‘Exhibition and Awe; regimes of visibility in the exhibition of an emperor’ Journal of Material Culture 16 (1) 2011 pp 64-79

Jonathan FENBYResearch Associate

Jonathan Fenby has been working on a new book on China to be published by Simon & Schuster in March, 2011. It follows his Penguin History of Modern China, much of which he researched in the SOAS library,. This is a portrait of contemporary China, - political, economic, social, regional, demographic, foreign relations etc. It is based in part on his work for the research service, Trusted Sources, where he is China Director but, again, the SOAS resource has proved most useful. During the year he has also written on China for various publications (Financial Times, Observer, Independent, London

Review of Books, Times Higher Education Supplement, Literary Review, Asian Literary Review) and broadcast quite extensively on the BBC and other stations on Chinese matters as well as speaking at conference and literary festivals.


RESEARCH STUDENTSRuard ABSAROKAMusicking in the Digital Age in Shanghai Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS

Antonio BARRENTOTourist Culture in China, 1900-1945 Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU

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

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

Hon Man CHANYazheng and Dadu Poets in mid-Yuan China: A reappraisal of the poetry of Yu Ji (1272-1348) Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO

Jocelyn M. CHATTERTONProtestant Missionary Experience during the War in China, 1937-1945: The Case of Hubei Province” (completed in 2010) Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU

Isabelle CHENG National identiy among marriage immigrants in Taiwan Supervisor: Dr. Dafydd Fell

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

Aristotle DYMarginal Buddhists: Religion, Social Work, and Cultural Identity of the Chinese in the Philippines Supervisor: Dr Antonello PALUMBO

Katherine FOSTERChild of Sorrow: Children and Childhood in Late-Twentieth-Century Chinese FictionSupervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI

Lifeng HANUrban Festivals in Medieval China, 960-1279 Supervisor: Dr Andrea JANKU

HSU Hsin-wenAn Archaeological Study of the Jades from the Tomb of the King of Nanyue KingdomSupervisor: Dr WANG Tao

HUANG Chia-lingBritish-Qing Interaction in 19th-century TaiwanSupervisor: Lars LAAMANN

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

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

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

Yingquan JIANGFinancial development and economic growth in ChinaSupervisor: Dr Dic LO

JURGENS ValérieThe Karlbek Syndicate 1930-1935: Western Trade, Collecting, and Scholarship on Chinese ArchaeologySupervisor: Dr WANG Tao

Yin-Chen KANG The Formation of Taiwanese Classical Theatre: 1900-1930 Supervisor: Dr Tian Yuan TAN

Bodil KNUTS Flight or Fight: the Nation is Lost. The influence of a vagrant life on the notion of “home” in the prose of Xiao Hong (1911-1942) and Xiao Jun (1907-1988) Supervisors: Dr Rossella FERRARI (2010/2011 only), Professor Michel HOCKX

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

Esther Hor Ying LAUSex and the City in post-70s and 80s Chinese female writersSupervisor: Dr Rossella FERRARI; Dr Cosima BRUNO

LEOU Chia-feng Democratisation and Financial Governance: The Politics of FinancialReform in Taiwan Supervisor: Dr Dafydd Fell

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

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

Sau-Ping LIMNanyin activities in the Jinjiang region of Fujian Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS

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

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

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

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

Hector MACLENNANReportage Literature of the Korean War Supervisor: Professor Michel HOCKX

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


Janine NICOLDaoxuan and the Shijia fangzhi: The Creation of a Buddhist Sacred Geography of 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 ONGHeritage or Heresy? Safeguarding Kunqu in China post 2001 Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS

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

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

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

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

Tsz Wing WUHumorous writings of the late Ming scholar-official Wang Siren Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO

Zinan YANThe poetry of the Manchu prince Yunxi (1711-1758) Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO

Sherlon C. Y. YIPRelay translation of Ming-Qing erotic fiction Supervisor: Dr Andrew LO, co-supervised with Professor Theo HERMANS (UCL)

Sun ZHUOThe Chinese guzheng zither: 20th and 21st century transformations Supervisor: Dr Rachel HARRIS

SOAS Library is one of the world’s most important academic libraries for the study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, which attracts scholars from all over the world to conduct research. The Library houses over 1.2 million volumes at the SOAS campus at Russell Square in central London, together with significant archival holdings, special collections and a growing network of electronic resources.

China in the SOAS Library

• The China Studies section contains material on China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia and East Asia in general.

• The coverage of the collection is very wide and reflects the range of subjects taught in the School and the library’s national role.

• The collection consists of some 170,000 volumes of printed material and many items in microform, some 5,000 periodical and newspaper titles, 1,100

• pre-1949 local histories, and 600 congshu (collectanea)• A rich resources for modern and contemporary China studies and a solid

working basis for the study of pre-modern Chin

The strengths of the collection are in vernacular languages, politics & government, foreign relations, anthropology and ethnic minorities, business, finance & economics, law, modern Chinese literature, modern Chinese language, military, overseas Chinese, press & media, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tibetan, women’s studies and the Chinese Communist Party.

The bulk of the collection is in Chinese with other materials in English, other European languages, Mongolian, Tibetan, Manchu.

• China quarterly• Modern China• Social sciences in China• Journal of contemporary China• China report• Issues and studies• China journal (previously: Australian journal of

Chinese affairs)• Beijing review• Far Eastern economic review• China law and practice• Chinese literature

Librarian Contact InformationWai Hing TseLibrarian, China & East Asia General SectionSOAS LibrarySOAS, University of LondonThornhaugh StreetLondon WC1H OXG

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RESEARCH & ENTERPRISE

Laixiang SunDeFiMSMonetary Policy, exhange rate and the house price boom acorss the top 33 China cities: New empirical evidenceFunding Body: British AcademyDate submitted: 8 December 2010Fundable Amount: £5,506

Laurence SmithCeDEP Developing a catchment management template to mitigate non-point source pollution in ChinaFunding Body: DEFRADate submitted: 15 November 2010Fundable Amount: £48,465

Mary MazzilliDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner AsiaResearch Trip to emerging Chinese Theatre CompaniesFunding Body: UCCLFundable Amount: £700

Nathan HIllDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner AsiaBon, Shangshung and Early TibetFunding Body: British AcademyDate submitted: 15 March 2011Fundable Amount: £4,400

Laixiang SunDeFiMSThe Chinese Way of Economic Reform and Development and its Interaction with GlobalizationFunding Body: British AcademyDate submitted: 15 March 2011Fundable Amount: £7,000

Tian Yuan TanDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner AsiaEntertaining the Emperor: Elite Playwrights and Court Theatre in Eighteenth Century ChinaFunding Body: British AcademyDate submitted: 17 March 2011Fundable Amount: £7,310

Jakob KleinDepartment of Anthropology and SociologyLocal’, ‘regional’ or ‘ethnic’? Negotiating iden-tities through ‘rubing’ (milk cake) in Kunming, Southwest ChinaFunding Body: British AcademyDate submitted: 22 March 2011Fundable Amount: £4,460

Research Office: External Grant Applications - 1 Sept 2010 - 31 July 2011

Illustration: The Gender in Flux volume

News from The China Quarterly

The China Quarterly editorial board, executive committee and editorial staff are sad to say goodbye to Dr Julia Strauss, after nine years of devoted service as editor of the journal. During her tenure The China Quarterly has gone from strength to strength.

The most recently published ISI citation rankings places The China Quarterly at number two position for its five-year impact factor. We are very proud of this success, which is reflected in the growing number of submissions to the journal. New technologies mean that the CQ is available in nearly 3,000 institutions worldwide, and is increasingly accessible to readers in China itself, thanks to university libraries purchasing electronic access to CUP journals online.

Over the last year, the CQ has published a wide array of original articles covering a number of topics, including “social insurance in China,” “Chinese educational funding,” “law and enforcement in China,” “Han supremacism on the Chinese internet,” and “Chen Shui-bian: on Taiwan’s independence.”

In December 2010, we published a special issue on “Gender in Flux: Agency and Its Limits in Contemporary China,” which also came out as a paperback volume in April 2011. Co-edited by Dr Strauss and Professor Harriet Evans, of the University of Westminster, it brought together some of the finest scholars writing on gender in China today.

Although her tenure has come to a formal end, Dr Strauss will guest edit a special issue on relations between China and Latin America. Similar to our China–Africa volume of 2010, this special issue is the outcome of a conference. This year’s conference, “From the Great Wall to the New World: China and Latin America in the 21st Century,” was co-organised and co-funded by The China Quarterly, UCLA and the University of Alberta, and took place in Los Angeles in April. A selection of papers will be published in our special issue and in paperback form in March 2012.

We are delighted that the director of SOAS has appointed SOAS Professor Chris Bramall as editor of The China Quarterly from July 2011 for a three-year period.

www.soas.ac.uk/research/publications/journals/chinaq/

The Research and Enterprise Office (REO) at SOAS works across the School to secure external funding and income, to support research excellence and to facilitate knowledge transfer.

www.soas.ac.uk/reo/


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