Department of East Asian Studies newsletter spring 2014

The Department of East Asian Studies dates back only to 2007, when the former Faculty of Oriental Studies was renamed the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES), in order to reflect its geographical scope and teaching and research, and was split into two new departments, the Department of East Asian Studies and the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. Professor Roel Sterckx was the founding Head of Department, followed by Professor Richard Bowring, and I succeeded Professor Bowring in September 2012.

It is already several years since the last newsletter appeared and this, the third, is long overdue. There have been many changes since the last newsletter. On the national scale the new fee regime requiring students to take out loans to pay home and EU fees of £9000 per year has come into force and its long-term impact is still difficult to assess, though it must surely make postgraduate study less attractive to British students unless we can provide ample funding for them. In this connection the decision of the Arts and Humanities Research Council not to award the Cambridge-SOAS-Oxford consortium on Asian Studies the sixty PhD studentships over five years it had applied for under the ‘Block Grant Partnerships 2’ scheme is disappointing and shows that we still have an uphill struggle to persuade bodies such as the AHRC that the rest of the world is of some importance.

There have been a number of staff changes in the last two years. After 27 years as Chair of Japanese Studies, Professor Richard Bowring retired at the end of September 2012: the Japanese staff held a congratulatory dinner for him and told his life story in a set of limericks, but the real accolade came when he was presented with the Order of the Rising Sun 3rd Class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon for contributions to the development of Japanese studies, by the Japanese Ambassador at his residence in London. Most of the Japanese Studies staff were present to enjoy the occasion, along with colleagues from SOAS and Oxford.

Several new appointments have been made in the last couple of years. We have welcomed amongst us Dr Imre Galambos, a Hungarian who has been long associated with the International Dunhuang Project, as lecturer in premodern Chinese studies, Dr Laura Moretti, an Italian who has taught at the universities of Venice and Newcastle, as lecturer in pre-modern Japanese studies, and Ms Jiaqi Feng Guo, who is replacing Emma Wu during Emma’s maternity leave.

Congratulations are due to Professors Sterckx and van de Ven, who were both elected Fellows of the British Academy in 2013; to Drs Chau and Steger, who were both promoted to University Senior Lecturer in 2013; to Dr Kushner on his massive EU research grant and to Dr Steger on her Japan Foundation Grant and her two Cambridge Humanities Research Grants; and to Emma Wu, Susie White and Ghazala Sadiq, who have all had babies recently. Ghazala, the Undergraduate Programmes Administrator, left the Department at the end of November, and having worked with her closely over the last couple of years I have to say that I shall miss her good sense, cheerful efficiency and uncanny ability to remain unruffled in times of stress! Lastly, I must not forget to mention the Faculty Administrator, Mary Howe, whose dedication and administrative acumen are much valued, and the Graduate Programmes Administrator, Tash Sabbah, whose mastery of the complex processes which all graduate degrees now involve is indispensable as our graduate numbers creep upwards: warmest thanks to you both.

Peter KornickiHead of Department

Department of East Asian StudiesFaculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

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NEWSLETTER SPRING 2014

Greetings

Chinese Studies 2

Japanese Studies 4

Korean Studies 8

Staff Publications 9

DEAS staff 11

Staying in touch 12

There have been a few staff changes since the publication of the last Newsletter. Dr Joe McDermott, who was recently promoted to a readership, retired at the end of December 2013 after nearly 25 years in the Department. This came just at the time when the first volume of his project on Huizhou was published as The making of a new rural order in South China: Volume 1: Village, land, and lineage in Huizhou, 900-1600 (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Over the years Joe has been a mainstay in the teaching of classical and literary Chinese as well as Chinese history. He will be missed in our daily operations but he will continue to reside in Cambridge and we hope to be fortunate enough to be able to draw upon his expertise for many years to come.

In September 2012 we welcomed a new colleague, Dr Imre Galambos, who has been long associated with the International Dunhuang Project in London, and he took up a position as lecturer in premodern Chinese studies; we also welcomed Yuhui Liao who came to us from Heidelberg as our new lector in Chinese, funded by the Taiwanese Ministry of Education. Emma Wu took maternity leave in 2013 and we have welcome Ms Jiaqi Feng Guo to replace her. We also said farewell to Mark Strange, who concluded his final year as a Draper’s fellow at Pembroke College and moved on to a post at the Australian National University, and to Li-Kuei Chien, a post-doctoral fellow in Chinese Buddhism, who secured an appointment at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

There has been a slight but disquieting decline in numbers throughout the Faculty but so far this has only slightly affected Chinese Studies. In 2011-12, 69 undergraduates were enrolled over the four years of the undergraduate Tripos in Chinese studies, with 21 students enrolled for graduate degrees, mostly PhD candidates. In October 2013 we admitted 15 new first-year students, making a total of 64 undergraduates enrolled in Chinese Studies. The new tuition fee regime may have had a slight impact on application numbers but, in comparison with modern European languages, numbers for Chinese remained healthy. At present we have 20 candidates working towards doctoral degrees and 7 MPhil students. One of our former graduate students, Tineke D’Haeseleer (PhD 2011), has been appointed to a postdoctoral fellowship at the Princeton Society of Fellows.

Our core doctoral fields include Chinese linguistics and second language acquisition (Yuan Boping), modern history (Hans van de Ven), modern literature and film (Susan Daruvala, Peiyin Lin), anthropology

(Adam Chau), early and medieval China (Sterckx, Imre Galambos). Imre Galambos is a specialist in manuscript culture and Dunhuang studies: his appointment is the first in the UK to link an active teaching and research programme to the unique Dunhuang collections in London and beyond and we look forward to fruitful years of collaboration ahead. The various members of staff, who are all listed at the end of this issue of the Newsletter, have been active promoting their research over the last three years and some details of their activities follow.

Adam Chau, who was promoted to a senior lectureship in October 2013, continues his work on various aspects of Chinese religious culture in modern and contemporary China. He has lectured and presented papers at the Max Planck Institutes in Göttingen and Berlin, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Université Paris Ouest (Nanterre), the Universities of Münster and Oslo, Academia Sinica, and participated in the 7th International Sinology Forum in Porto, all in 2012. In 2013 he delivered the Wilde Lectures in Natural and

Comparative Religion at the University of Oxford on the theme of ‘The sovereign host: China, ritual, theory’, and presented papers at a number of international conferences on Chinese religion in Beijing, Singapore, Hong

Kong, Paris, the USA, Belgium, Portugal and Spain. Adam contributed to the catalogue of the the exhibition Mao’s Golden Mangoes at Museum Rietberg in Zürich and gave a public lecture at the opening of the exhibition on ‘Cos-MAO-logy’. He also joined a large-scale international team research project (2012-15) examining the biographies and daily lives of religious masters in Chinese societies funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche.

Imre Galambos, who joined us in September 2012, found time to lecture and present his work at the Collège de France, the University of Colorado (Boulder), the National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) and Academia Sinica in Taiwan. In 2013, he lectured on ‘Early Chinese manuscripts’ at ELTE University, Budapest, at Leiden University and presented his research at the Day of Tangut Studies at SOAS in addition to speaking for various Cambridge audiences as well. Finally in October and November 2013 he spoke on the evolution of the Chinese script at the Scripta conference, Seoul National University, and gave the keynote lecture on the discovery of the Dunhuang cave library at a symposium titled

Chinese Studies

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‘Surprises from the past? The impact of modern discoveries of ancient and medieval texts’, at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

Roel Sterckx spent a sabbatical in 2012 at the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica and gave lectures and papers at National Taiwan University, National Chengchi University, the National Central Library in Taipei, the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies in Paris. He delivered a public lecture entitled “Il cosmo nel pensiero cinese antico” at the 2011 edition of the Festival Filosofia in Modena, Italy. In 2012 Roel finished his six-year stint as Secretary of the European Association for Chinese Studies and continues to serve on the Chiang Ching-kuo European Fellowship committee. On return from his sabbatical he gave papers at the Universities of Oregon and Manchester and delivered public lectures at Asia House and the Institute for Continuing Education. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2013.

Roel Sterckx examining Qin bamboo slip manuscripts from Liye at the Hunan Provincial Institute for Archaeology in Changsha, summer 2010.

Hans van de Ven gave keynotes and lectures at Leiden, Bristol, Manchester, Nanjing and Beijing Universities, as well as Academia Sinica. He delivered a public lecture in Taipei as part of a series to commemorate the 1911 Revolution, and The Battle for China, which he co-edited with Edward Drea and Mark Peattie, was awarded the Annual Book Award by the Society for Military History of the USA. Hans will serve as convenor for the humanities panels for the 2014 RAE exercise in Hong Kong. He was also in charge of the first edition of our Humanitas China Studies

visiting professorship scheme, which brought Wu Hung (Chicago) to Cambridge. Another highlight was a meeting convened on the theme of ‘The Chinese Renaissance in Europe’ at the British Academy. In 2013 Hans lectured and presented papers at the Association for Asian Studies in San Diego, and at Chongqing, Berkeley, SOAS and the LSE. Hans became a member of the Royal Asiatic Society and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Boping Yuan presented at the 24th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics at the University of San Francisco, and at the 11th International Conference on Chinese as a Second Language, Xi’an, where he was presented with an ‘Outstanding paper award’. Boping also served as external examiner for Chinese at the University of Hong Kong and as assessor for the MA in Chinese Linguistics and Language Acquisition at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He delivered keynote speeches at the 9th International Symposium on Chinese Language at Chongqing University, at the 4th National Forum on Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and at the 2nd International Symposium on the Supervision of Research Students in TCSL, Sheffield University. He gave invited talks at Shanghai Jiaotong University, Peking University, Fudan University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, among others, at the 11th International conference on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language in Xi’an, at the 2012 Beijing Forum, and at the 2013 Macau Forum. A second edition of his Developing Writing Skills in Chinese, co-authored with Kan Qian, appeared with Routledge.

Many distinguished visitors, visiting scholars and local academics contributed to a full calendar of activities. Our ‘China Research Seminar’ hosted papers by Nicolas Standaert (Leuven), Michel Hockx (SOAS), Elisabeth Hsu (Oxford), Xu Guoqi (HKU), Philip Kuhn (Harvard), Henrietta Harrison, Barend ter Haar, James St Andre, Julia Strauss, William Brown, Liang Cai, Jennifer Altehenger, Kelly Clark, Perry Link, as well as several members of the Department. Ambassador Shen Lyu-shun of the Taipei Representative Office of London spoke on ‘Chinese Diplomacy in Modern History’. This year’s Chuan Lyu Lectures were delivered by Chen Kuo-tung of the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica. The lectures were entitled ‘British Records, Taiwanese History: The English East India Company in

Taiwan, 1670-1686’ and ‘Beautiful Island, Inhospitable Shores: British Ship-wreckers’ Impressions of Taiwan, 1841-1842’. To celebrate the occasion of Michael Loewe’s 90th birthday Lisa Raphals (UC Riverside) delivered a lecture entitled ‘Divination and Mantic Access: Some Texts and Problems’. The Humanitas 2013 Visiting Professorship in Chinese Studies was held by Professor Chen Yung-fa of the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica. He delivered three public lectures entitled ‘Maoist Rectification during Wartime’, ‘Chiang Kaishek’s Experience with Britain and his Private Thoughts, 1917-1949’ and ‘Chiang Kaishek and the Japanese Ichigo Offensive of 1944’. This was followed by a symposium entitled ‘The Meaning of the Communist Revolution’ featuring Rana Mitter, Uradyn Bulag, Mark Selden, and Perry Anderson. An international symposium entitled ‘Comparing Ancient Worlds: Greece and China’ was held in honour of Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, and the weekly Friday text reading seminars at the Needham Research Institute, now well into their second decade, continued to thrive as ever.

The cover of the book edited by Dr Steger and graduate student Angelika Koch: it contains the graduation dissertations of four former students in the Department.

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Japanese Studies

There have been a number of staff changes recently. The most momentous of these has been the retirement in 2012 of Richard Bowring (see photo at front of Newsletter). He retired as the foundation Professor of Japanese Studies at Cambridge, a post he had held since 1985, and in 2013 he also retired as Master of Selwyn College. In recognition of his enormous contributions to Japanese studies in Cambridge, the UK and internationally, he was awarded by the Japanese Government the Order of the Rising Sun 3rd Class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, which was presented by the Japanese Ambassador at his residence in London. He is of course not retiring from the life of scholarship: in November 2013 he gave the 10th series of Toshiba Lectures in London and Norwich on the theme ‘Tokugawa Japan: Ideologies in Conflict’, and he is now working on the second volume of his major study of religious culture in Japan, following the publication of the first volume, Religions in Japan: 500-1600 (2005). His bonhomie, his wise leadership and his legendary fundraising abilities are going to be sorely missed in the Department!

There have been other staff changes, too. In 2012 we welcomed a new colleague, Laura Moretti, as lecturer in pre-modern Japanese studies, and Peter Kornicki succeeded Richard Bowring as Professor of Japanese Studies; in 2013 Brigitte Steger, who has taken on the important position of Secretary of the Degree Committee in the Faculty, was promoted to senior lecturer. We are fortunate that two postdoctoral research associates have working with us over the last couple of years, Rebekah Clements and Gerhard Leinss; they have been joined by Dr Lily Chang and Dr Deokhyo Choi. We are benefitting much from the added value they bring to the Japanese section of the Department and from their teaching and research.

Undergraduate numbers in Japanese remain at a relatively low level compared to previous years, with 31 students in total in all four years, and this year’s intake of seven was the lowest for some time. To some extent this is a reflection of regrettable overall trends in the study of languages at university throughout the UK and more particulary of falling numbers of humanities students at Cambridge. We continue to strive to attract applications by participating in college and university open days, participating in school visits, and so on, and we are planning to run a summer school for

interested potential applicants in 2014. On the other hand we now have 16 graduate students at various stages of their research, and there is a departmental website www.ames.cam.ac.uk/deas/graduates/index.html at which they can introduce themselves and their work.

STUDENT NEWS

Alessandro Bianchi, a PhD student, received the Rose Book Collecting Prize in

2011-12 at the University Library for his collection of early Japanese books entitled ‘Japanese popular publications before the twentieth century’. This is the first time the prize has been awarded to a collection not devoted to European or North American books.

Gitte Marianne Hansen, a PhD student, was appointed to a lectureship in Japanese studies at the University of Newcastle.Regina Hübner, a PhD student, received a

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Japan Foundation Endowment Committee grant for a three-month stay in Japan and the Soon-Kim Fellowship at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge.

Angelika Koch co-edited the book Manga girl seeks herbivore boy: studying Japanese gender at Cambridge (2013), illustrated above, which is a collection of four graduation dissertations written by final-year students in the Department. This collection provides insights into the diversity of gendered images, identities and life-styles in contemporary Japan – from manga girls to herbivore boys, from absent fathers to transgender people.

Pascal Wenz, one of last year’s 4th-year students, participated in the 8th Japanese Speech Contest for University Students co-organised by the Japan Foundation and the British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (BATJ). As a finalist Pascal delivered a 10-minute speech entitled 欧米における日本仏教像の創作 (‘Creating Japanese Buddhism in the West’) at Regent's College London on 2 March 2013. Pascal and four other finalists from SOAS, Leeds University and Newcastle University were shortlisted through an essay-writing test and a telephone interview. In his speech he discussed how misconceptions about foreign cultures occur because of selective approaches that are guided by personal interests.

Caroline Fitzner, a final-year student, worked as an assistant filmmaker and interpreter in Minamisoma (Fukushima prefecture) at the end of July/beginning of August 2013. She accompanied a German filmmaker and interviewed the protagonists (a Shinto priest, a Buddhist priest, a 20 year old ‘freeter’, who wanted to be a rockstar before the disaster, and his father) as well as other people about their current life, how things have changed and how the disaster has shaped their way of thinking. The film is going to be called ‘The New Normal’ and the whole project is supported by Goethe Institute Kyoto, Harvard University, DEFA Foundation Berlin as well as the LEF-Foundation New England.

Meng Liang, 4th-year PhD student and Gates scholar, has been chosen as the ‘poster scholar’ by the Gates Foundation. She is to be interviewed and her story is to be featured on the Gates Foundation website.

All members of staff have been active in

promoting and publishing their research, and many play important roles in academic organisations. They have given many lectures at home and abroad, and the details follow.

Toshimi Boulding has been serving as Treasurer of the British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language since October 2013 and is currently busy setting up the budget for seminars and an annual conference and involved in organising the 9th Japanese Speech Contest for UK students to be held in March 2014.

Lily Chang joined the Department as a Research Associate with the European Research Council-funded project on the ‘Dissolution of the Japanese Empire’ led by Dr Barak Kushner. She is a historian of East Asia interested in the intersections between law and society, the history of childhood, and the movement of ideas across boundaries. Prior to joining the Department, she was the Henry Lumley Research Fellow in History at Magdalene College, Cambridge, from 2011 to 2013, and remains a fellow of Magdalene. She teaches world history for the History Faculty, and is also a research associate with the Centre for History and Economics in Cambridge. In 2013, she was selected as the only internationally-based fellow for the Hurst Summer Institute on Legal History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, where she further developed her manuscript based on her doctoral work on the legal constructions of childhood in wartime China (1937-1945). Her new project, entitled ‘Japan’s elusive imperial reach: humanitarian thinking and human conflict in the aftermath of the Tokyo Trials’, explores how the judicial legacy of the Tokyo Trials served as a distinct yet crucial lens to problematise and re-evaluate Japan’s post-war pacifism. Seeking to bridge our understanding of the legacies of war and empire between East and Southeast Asia through the lens of law and humanitarian thinking, it examines how the Tokyo Trials served to extend the reach of Japan’s imperial past in the strongest yet most elusive fashion - namely, through the shaping of international law and the transmission of legal thought in areas that were formerly occupied by the Japanese during the war.

Deokhyo Choi is a new Research Associate and joined the Department in September 2013. He completed his PhD in History at Cornell University in August 2013. With

the support of Dr Kushner’s five-year ERC project ‘Dissolution of the Japanese Empire and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Postwar East Asia, 1945-1965’, he is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Crucible of the Post-Empire: decolonization, race, and Cold War politics in U.S.-Japan-Korea relations, 1945-1952. In December 2013, he participated in an international conference in Taiwan as an invited panelist and present a paper on the impact of the Cairo Declaration on the liberation of Koreans in Japan.

Rebekah Clements has been, since completing her PhD in 2011, a Leverhulme Trust Research Associate and in 2012 she also became a Junior Research Fellow at Queens’ College; she is also Director of Studies at Corpus Christi College. She has broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and she was an invited panelist at an international symposium on ‘How should we read classical Japanese literature?’ at Tōyō University, Tokyo, in 2012.

Peter Kornicki receiving the Yamagata Bantō prize from the Deputy Governor of Osaka Prefecture in June 2013.

Peter Kornicki was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2012 and in 2013 was awarded the 24th Yamagata Bantō Prize in Osaka. He has been editor-in-chief of the journal East Asian publishing and society (Brill) since its inception in 2010, and received a major grant from the Leverhulme Trust for his project on translation and vernacularization (2011-14). He has given invited talks in 2011 at the Collège de France, the Accademia Ambrosiana in Milan and Princeton University; in 2012 he gave the Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture at Oberlin College, and in 2013 he gave talks at Kokushikan Daigaku and Sakai-shi Hakubutsukan and in December a lecture

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entitled ‘Sins of omission’ and a seminar on the translation of non-canonical Chinese texts, both at Yale.

Barak Kushner won the 2013 Sophie Coe Prize for Food History for his work on the history of ramen. Apart from that he has been busy collecting research grants! After winning a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2012-2013 he won a European Research Council 5-year Grant for 2013-2018 to fund his research on ‘The dissolution of the Japanese empire and the struggle for legitimacy in postwar East Asia, 1945-1965’. In 2011-13 he has also been participating in a three-year project on a Japanese Ministry of Education collaborative young scholars grant, with Wada Hideho at Shōkei University (Japan) and Mike Lan at Chungcheng University (Taiwan) to research B and C class war crimes and Taiwan. He has given at least twenty-three invited lectures or papers at conferences in the last three years, mostly related to his current major project. In the UK he has spoken at the University of York, Oxford Brookes University, the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and the University of St Andrews. Further afield he has spoken at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and the Japanese History Workshop held at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia. Most of his talks, however, have been given in Japan and Taiwan, and these include ‘Thoughts on Japanese war crimes trials, traitors, and Sino-Japanese relations, given in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and ‘Comparing Chinese war crimes trials of Japanese soldiers: the KMT versus the CCP’ at National Taiwan Chengchi University.

Gerhard Leinss has been a Research Associate on a Leverhulme Trust Grant for a project on the history of time and calendars in Japan since January 2012 and is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge. He has given a number of lectures and presentations on his research, in 2012 these included ‘On the calendar culture of the Nara and Heian period: its origins and development in Japan’ at the History of Science Society Japan meeting at the University of Kyōto. In 2013 he has spoken on ‘On the history of calendrical documents and annotations in Japan with emphasis on the Edo period’ at the Kyujanggak HK International Symposium for Korean Studies, Almanacs and Fortune-notes in East Asia,

at Seoul National University and on 24 June 2013 he co-organised a workshop on the subject of ‘Shifts in time measurement, time perception and time use in Japan from the premodern to the modern era’ at the Needham Research Institute.

Laura Moretti joined the department in September 2012 and has given a paper on ‘Witty humour, entertaining knowledge and a gesaku-esque stance: Shioya Kihei’s single-sheet printed ephemera’ at the Association for Asian Studies conference in San Diego (March 2013) and another on ‘Ensuring popularity: the clever use of paratext in the multiple editions of a Japanese early modern bestseller’ at a conference on ‘Early-modern paratexts’ in Bristol (August 2013). Also in 2013 she organized a symposium on ‘Manuscripts and printed text in pre-modern Japan’ at Emmanuel College, at which she also gave a paper; she has also given a paper at a workshop on ‘Text and images in Japanese books’ at SOAS, and an invited lecture at Keio University on ‘Manuscripts and printed texts of Jinteki mondō’.

Mark Morris: see under Korean Studies news, below.

Brigitte Steger was in 2011 a Visiting Professor at Keiō University and subsequently an Early Career Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) here in Cambridge. Since 2008 she has been an elected member of Council of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) and the Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS), and in 2013 she was elected Secretary General of JAWS, to take office from 2014. She has organized various workshops including one on ‘Shifts in time measurement, time perception and time use in Japan from the pre-modern to the modern era’ at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge (2013) and was the co-convenor of the Tōhoku Disaster fieldwork workshop in Yokohama in August 2011. In 2011 she spoke about her research on sleep in Japan at Keiō, Rikkyō and Kyōto universities, and since then, following a sabbatical spent in Tōhoku after the catastrophic tsunami of March 2011, she has given many talks on her recent work on the tsunami evacuees, often focusing on the practices of cleaning and hygiene as coping strategies in times of uncertainty. She presented her initial findings at several symposia held in Japan in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami disaster and back in Cambridge in October 2011 she spoke

on ‘Coping with disaster: life in tsunami evacuation shelters in Yamada Town, Iwate Prefecture, Japan’, a work-in-progress paper at CRASSH. Since then she has continued her research in Japan and has given many papers and lectures on the subject. Many of these have been given in Japan, such as at the Tōhoku Disaster Fieldwork Symposium in Yokohama, Meiji Gakuin University and Keiō University, but she has also spoken at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, the Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies, University of Oxford and Université Paris Nanterre. On 20 November her new book, Japan copes with calamity: ethnographies of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters of March 2011, was launched at the office of the Japan Foundation in London.

John Swenson-Wright is, in addition to his Cambridge roles, a Senior Consulting Fellow in the Asia Programme at Chatham House and gives advice based on his regional expertise to the UK Foreign Office, various Whitehall departments, outgoing UK ambassadors to Seoul and Pyongyang, and occasionally to the Policy Planning division of the Foreign Office. His specialized briefing and research papers are available online to a global audience and to the General Membership of Chatham House. He has worked in close collaboration with the UK Embassy in the DPRK and the British Council to facilitate the Chevening Scholarship scheme, enabling two DPRK students/officials to study at Cambridge in 2011-12 and a further two students arrived in October 2013.

He has been a member since 2008 of the UK-Korea Forum for the Future, and as such he has been instrumental in making recommendations supporting the promotion of Korean studies in the UK and educational exchange between the UK and the DPRK. The BBC has commissioned numerous opinion pieces from him and at Chatham House he has hosted a number of international conferences, most recently in 2013

on Japan. In 2012 he gave a keynote speech to more than 500 guests at a ceremony in Seoul in 2012 commemorating former President Kim Dae-jung’s Nobel Peace Prize, and later that year he visited Pyongyang as part of the Pyongyang Literary Festival initiative and also to explore options for expanded educational exchange between the DPRK and Cambridge University. In summer 2013 he taught two courses at

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Korea University’s International Summer Program and he participated in the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council meeting in Abu Dhabi.

He received a major grant from the Nippon Foundation for a five-year project exploring Japan’s global economic, political and security role and another grant from the Korea Foundation for two-year project exploring the role of South Korea as a ‘Middle Power’. Finally, over the last two years he has given around 30 lectures and talks, mostly in Seoul but some others at the LSE, the UK Defence Academy at Shrivenham and the Royal College of Defence Studies. One he gave in Cambridge,

‘Development from a Japanese and Korean perspective’, was in response to the Helen Clark Visiting Professorial Lecture at the Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities in Cambridge.

The regular Monday afternoon seminars have continued and amongst our visitors in 2013 were: Professor Jörg Quenzer of Hamburg University speaking on ‘Means of knowledge: paratexts in Buddhist manuscripts of medieval Japan’, Dr Satoko Shimazaki of the University of Southern California speaking on ‘Stage body, stage gender: early modern Kabuki actors and print identity’, and Dr Alessio Palatano of the Department of War Studies, King’s College London and a former alumnus on ‘ “Battle Stations?” Territorial disputes, maritime strategy, and Sino-Japanese relations in the East China Sea’. On 13 October 2013 the third Tsurugi no kai gathering of Cambridge Japanese-studies alumni was held at the Daiwa Foundation house through the kindness of the Director-General Jason James, himself an alumnus. We are grateful to the Faculty Librarian, Françoise Simmons, for maintaining the data base of alumni. The next gathering will be held in October 2015.

Brigitte Steger with head priest Shimizu Seisho and his wife Noriko of the Ryūshōji Temple in Yamada and some of the tsunami survivors who had found shelter in the temple (July 2011).

John Swenson-Wright giving the keynote speech at a ceremony in Seoul in 2012 to commemorate former President Kim Dae-Jung’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Maekawa Nobuyuki (right) explains how he escaped the tsunami by jumping from his house onto the terrace of the higher and more solid house of his neighbour (Yamada, June 2011).

Laura Moretti lecturing on Japanese early-modern books at the University of Pennsylvania, Henry Charles Lea Library.

Barak Kushner racing to the top of Taiwan's tallest building during a research trip to Taipei in 2013.

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Korean Studies

In 2012 Mike Shin was appointed to a university lectureship in Korean Studies in the Department after five years as a lecturer in Korean at Robinson College. Fundraising activities are continuing to make the post a permanent part of the Department.

During the past two years, there have been a number of workshops on specific topics related to Korea. On 3 December 2012, Professor Bruce Cumings of the University of Chicago came to discuss his recent book The Korean War: A History with graduate students and staff. On 4 February 2012, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research hosted a workshop on ‘The archaeology of early states on the Korean Peninsula’ which was organized with Dr Simon Kaner of the Sainsbury Institute and included speakers from a number of Korean universities. On 16-18 February 2012, the third and last Cambridge-SNU Workshop on the Korean War was held. During the 2012-13 academic year, graduate students in Korean Studies organized seminars once or twice a year where they presented and critiqued each other’s work in progress.

In continuing efforts to raise interest in Korea, colleagues have organized a variety of cultural events. Through the efforts of Mark Morris, the London Korean Film Festival came to Cambridge in November 2011. At the Arts Picturehouse, there were showings of The Unjust, Dance Town, and Die Bad, and an appearance by director Ryoo Seung-Wan, who took questions from the audience. Mark also organized ‘The Korean War in film’, a day of showings of war films in Robinson College. Dr Gyewon Byeon, a visitor at Clare Hall, organized a visit by traditional Korean musicians in 2012: they held two concerts and ran a masterclass at the Music Faculty. The concert featured well-known musicians such as Kyoung-sun Cho, Hyo-young Kim, and Seung-mi Suh. Interest in Korean food has been increasing among students at Cambridge, and every spring there has been a Korean Food Festival at Robinson College. On 28 April 2012, over 150 students and staff attended the festival. Food and drinks were provided by a caterer from New Malden provided the food and drinks, and the event was co-organized by the Cambridge East Asian Cultural Society (CEACS) and the Cambridge University Korean Society (CUKS). On 1 May 2013, the third Korean Food Festival was held, but it was different from previous versions of the event: instead of having the food catered, we hired a cooking instructor, Mrs. Kie-Jo Sarsfield, to teach the chefs of

Robinson College a few basic Korean dishes. They then cooked a meal for a group of 75 students and staff.

The annual Ra Jong-Yil Lectures in Korean Studies, funded through the generosity of former ambassador Ra Jong-Yil, have continued.

The 2011 lecture was given by Professor Vladimir Tikhonov of the University of Oslo on ‘Transcending the boundaries, embracing the others: international contexts of Korea’s modern and contemporary nationalisms’, and the 2012 lecture by Dr Hwang Juhong, a Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, on ‘The challenges of democratic experiments in South Korean politics’. The 2013 lecture was given on 3 December by John Everard, former British Ambassador fo the DPRK from 2006 to 2008.

The inaugural Kim Dae-Jung Memorial Lecture was given by Professor Moon Chung-in of the Department of Political Science at Yonsei University on 18 February, 2011 on ‘Kim Dae-Jung and the Sunshine Policy’. The 2012 lecture was given by Professor Kang Nae-Hui (Chung-Ang University) on ‘Korean culture after the Kim Dae-Jung administration’, and the 2013 lecture was given by Professor Sohn Suk-Hee, one of the most widely respected journalists in South Korea, on ‘Competitive pressure on South Korean journalism’.

In addition to the annual named lectures, there is a seminar series on Korea that has brought speakers from both Europe and Korea to present their research in Cambridge. Recent speakers have included:

Dr. Yun-Mi Hwang (University of St. Andrews), ‘Strategies of self-representation: the historical drama and the heritage commodity cycle in South Korea’Mr. Daniel Tudor (The Economist), ‘No more “Morning Calm” – The changing face of young Korea’Dr. Jim Hoare (SOAS), ‘The other Korea – recent developments’Prof. Kwon Bodurae (Korea University), ‘Korea in the global sequence of Cold War ideology: Sasanggye and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the 1950s-60s’Dr. Jinhee Choi (King’s College London), ‘The ethics of contemplation: Kim Ki-duk’s Arirang’Dr Isabelle Sancho (EHESS), ‘The Splendor and misery of Confucian officialdom in Choson Korea: the system of saga tokso’

In November 2013 efforts by John Swenson-Wright over many years finally paid off and we had the pleasure of welcoming Ambassador Hyon Hak-bong, Ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (ie, North Korea) to the UK, who came to the Department to talk on ‘The situation on the Korean peninsula’. The room was packed and Ambassador Hyon spent about 40 minutes answering questions from an eager audience.

North Korean Ambassador Ambassador Hyon Hak-bong speaking at the Monday seminar

Mark Morris has, in addition to developing the teaching of Korean film within the second-year course Cinema East, served as advisor for the London Korean Cultural Centre’s various film-related activities, especially the annual London Korean Film Festival. In 2010 and 2011 he organized the first Cambridge Korean Film Festivals at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, in co-operation with Robinson College and Trinity College. He also advises a major research project on the Korean War and culture directed by Heonik Kwon and Bruce Cumings, and has participated in conferences mainly in Seoul, London and Cambridge.

Mike Shin completed a research project that was funded by the Academy of Korean Studies under its program for ‘Curriculum Development and Teaching Materials for Global Korean Studies’. The main objective of the project was to create an atlas of Korean history, which he has edited and of which he is one of the co-authors. It is scheduled to be published in spring 2014 by Cambridge University Press. He has given talks at Oxford, the University of Tübingen, the University of Rome, and Sungkyunkwan University, and talked at a panel at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2011. He also chaired a panel on the Korean War at the Conference of the Association of Korean Studies in Europe that was held at the University of Vienna in July 2013. Outside of Cambridge, he continues to serve as the Treasurer of the British Association of Korean Studies and the editor of the newsletter of the Association of Korean Studies in Europe.

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Staff Publications

STAFF PUBLICATIONS 2011-2013

Adam Chau‘Efficacy, not confessionality: ritual polytropy

at Chinese funerals’, in Glenn Bowman, ed., Sharing the sacra: the politics and pragmatics of inter-communal relations around holy places (Berghahn Books, 2012).

‘Script fundamentalism: the practice of cherishing written characters (lettered paper) (惜字紙) in the age of literati decline and commercial revolution’, in Philip Clart, ed., New approaches to studying Chinese popular religion and sectarianism (BoYoung Publishers, 2013).

‘Actants Amassing (AA): beyond collective effervescence and the social’, in Sondra Hausner, ed. Elementary forms of religious life: a dialogue between the disciplines (Oxford: Beghahn, 2013).

‘A different kind of religious diversity: ritual service providers and consumers in China’, in Perry Schmidt-Leukel and Joachim Gentz, eds, Religious diversity in Chinese thought (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 141-154.

Rebekah Clements‘Cross-dressing as Lady Murasaki: Metaphors for

translation in the Tokugawa period’, Testo a Fronte, (special edition celebrating the completion of the Italian translation of Genji monogatari), 2013.

‘Suematsu Kenchō and the first translation of Genji monogatari into English: translation, tactics and “The Women’s Question”’ Japan Forum 23 (2011), 25-47.

‘Mō hitotsu no chūshakusho? Edo jidai ni okeru Genji monogatari no shokizokugoyaku no igi’ (Another kind of commentary – early vernacular translations of the Tale of Genji during the Edo period), in H. Jinno and H. Yokomizo, eds., Heian bungaku no kochūshaku to jūyō 3 (Tokyo: Musashino Shoin, 2011), pp. 39-55.

‘Rewriting Murasaki: vernacular translation and the reception of Genji Monogatari during the Tokugawa Period’, Monumenta Nipponica 68 (2013): 1-36.

Imre Galambos‘An English boy in Chinese Turkestan: the story of

Orlando Hobbs’, Studia Orientalia Slovaca 10.1 (2011): 81–98.

‘Popular character forms (suzi) and semantic compound (huiyi) characters in medieval Chinese manuscripts’, Journal of the American Oriental Society 131 (2011): 395–409.

‘The northern neighbors of the Tangut’, Cahiers de Linguistique – Asie Orientale 40 (2011): 69–104.

‘Sitanyin, Li Gaiti yu yize shenfen hunxi gong’an’ 斯坦因、李蓋提與一則身份混淆公案. Wenjin xuezhi 文津學志 4 (2011).

‘The Tangut translation of the General’s Garden by Zhuge Liang’, Written Monuments of the Orient (Pis’mennyje Pamiatniki Vostoka), No. 1 (14) (2011): 131–142.

‘Touched a nation’s heart: Sir E. Denison Ross and Alexander Csoma de Kőrös’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 21 (2011): 361–375.

‘Shahon no jittai kara mita jisho kijutsu: Kaii moji

wo rei to shite’ 写本の実態から見た字書記述 ― 会意文字を例として, in Ishizuka Harumichi 石塚晴通, ed., Kanji jitaishi kenkyū 漢字字体史研究 (Tokyo: Bensei shuppan, 2012).

‘Simplified characters’, in Naomi Standen, ed. Demystifying China: new understandings of Chinese history (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012).

‘Non-Chinese influences in medieval Chinese manuscript culture’, in Zsombor Rajkai and Ildikó Bellér-Hann, eds., Frontiers and Boundaries: Encounters on China’s margins (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012).

‘Consistency in Tangut Translations of Chinese military texts’, in Irina Popova ed., Tanguty v Tsentral’noj Azii: Sbornik stat’ej v chest’ 80-letija prof. E. I. Kychanova [Tanguts in Central Asia: a collection of articles marking the 80th anniversary of Prof. E. I. Kychanov] (Moscow: Oriental Literature, 2012), pp. 84–96.

‘A Forgotten Chinese translation of the preliminary report of Aurel Stein’s first expedition’, in Liu Yi and Irina Popova (eds.) Dunhuang Studies: Prospects and Problems for the Coming Second Century of Research (St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2012), pp. 55–59.

‘Taboo characters in Buddhist manuscripts from Dunhuang’, in Yu Xin, ed., Zhonggu shidai de liyi, zongjiao yu zhidu (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2012).

‘Sir Aurel Stein’s visit to Japan in 1930: His diary and notebook’, in Helen Wang, ed., Sir Aurel Stein: Colleagues and collections (British Museum Research Publications, 2012), pp. 1–9.

‘Japanese exploration of Central Asia: The Ōtani expeditions and their British connections’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 75 (2012): 113–134. (with Kitsudō Kōichi.)

Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan documents of a tenth-century Buddhist pilgrim (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012), co-authored with Sam van Schaik.

‘Correction marks in the Dunhuang manuscripts.” In Imre Galambos, ed. Studies in Chinese Manuscripts: From the Warring States Period to the 20th Century (Budapest: ELTE Institute of East Asian Studies, 2013), pp. 191–210.

Studies in Chinese manuscripts: from the warring states period to the 20th century. (Budapest: ELTE Institute of East Asian Studies, 2013). (Edited volume.)

Magyar-Kínai Szótár [Hungarian-Chinese Dictionary] (Budapest: Balassi, 2013).

Peter KornickiCatalogue of pre-modern Japanese maps held in

the British Library (British Library, 2011).F. V. Dickins’ letters to Ernest M. Satow,

Kumagusu Minakata and others, transcribed, edited and annotated with Haruko Iwakami (Tokyo: Edition Synapse, 2011).

‘A transnational approach to East Asian book history’, in Swapan Chakravorty and Abhijit Gupta, eds, New word order: transnational themes in book history (Delhi: Worldview, 2011), pp. 65-79.

‘The Hyakumantō Darani and the origins of printing in eighth-century Japan’,

International Journal of Asian Studies 9 (2012): 1-28

‘Towards a history of the Tangut book: some recent publications’, East Asian Publishing and society 2 (2012): 83-91.

‘Korean books in Japan: from the 1590s to the end of the Edo period’, Journal of the American Oriental Society 133 (2013): 71-92.

‘Recent work on the history of the book in Japan’, in Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis 20 (2013), pp. 125-139.

The history of the book in East Asia, edited with Cynthia Brokaw (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013).

Barak Kushner‘Ghosts of the Japanese Imperial Army: The

“White Group” (Baituan) and early Post-war Sino-Japanese relations’, Past and Present, 218, suppl. 8 (Transnationalism and Contemporary Global History), (2013), pp. 117-150.

‘A limitless supply of knowledge and insight’, The Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, fifth series, 4 (2012), pp. 43-52.

‘Treacherous Allies: The Cold War in East Asia and American Postwar anxiety’, Journal of Contemporary History, October 2010, pp. 1-34.

‘Sweetness and empire: sugar consumption in imperial Japan’, in Janet Hunter and Penelope Francks, eds., The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 127-150.

‘Going for the gold - health and sports in Japan’s quest for modernity’, in William Tsutsui and Michael Baskett, eds., The East Asian Olympiads, 1934–2008: Building Bodies and Nations in Japan, Korea, and China (Folkestone: Global Oriental, 2011), p. 34-48.

Slurp! A culinary and social history of ramen, Japan’s favorite noodle soup (Leiden: Brill, 2012).

‘Unwarranted attention: the image of Japan in twentieth century Chinese humour’, in Jessica Davis and Jocelyn Chey, eds., Humour in Chinese Life and Culture: Resistance and Control in Modern Times (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013), pp. 47-80.

Gerhard Leinss‘Sechs Fragen an den Kalendermeister. Ein

Zwiegespräch über die Wahl günstiger Tage und Richtungen aus einer Enzyklopädie für divinatorische Zwecke (ôzassho) der späten Tokugawa-Zeit’, Japonica Humboldtiana 13 (2010), pp. 27−46. (‘Translation of passages from a household encyclopaedia (ôzassho 大雑書) of the 19th century on the calendar and auspicious days’).

‘“Erläuterung der Kalenderreform” (Kaireki ben) von Fukuzawa Yukichi’, in Michael Kinski et al., eds, En 縁 – Nexus. Japanische Episoden übersetzt für die Ökumene, Klaus Kracht zu Ehren aus Anlaß seiner Emeritierung (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013), pp. 127−138. (‘Translation of Fukuzawa Yukichi’s ‘Explanations about the calendar reform’ (Kairekiben 改暦弁)’).

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Joe McDermott‘Book collecting in Jiangxi during the Song

dynasty’, in Lucille Chia and Hilde Weerdt, eds, Knowledge and text production in an age of print: China, 900-1400 (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 63-102.

‘The rise of Huizhou merchants: kinship and commerce in Ming China’, in Billy So, ed., The economy of Lower Yangzi delta in late imperial China: connecting money, markets and institutions (Abingdon: Routledge, 2013), pp. 233-265

The making of a new rural order in south China, vol. 1 (Cambridge University Press, 2013)

‘How to succeed commercially as a Huizhou book publisher, 1500-1644’, in 『印刷与市场国际会议论文集』 (2012).

Laura Moretti‘Kanazōshi revisited: reconsidering the beginnings

of Japanese popular literature in print’, Monumenta Nipponica, 65 (2011), pp. 297-356 .

‘The Japanese early-modern publishing market unveiled: a survey of Edo-period booksellers’ catalogues’, East Asian Publishing and Society, 2 (2012), pp. 199-308.

‘The distribution and circulation of erotic prints and books in the Edo period’, in Timothy Clark (ed.), Shunga: sex and pleasure in Japanese art (London: The British Museum, 2013), pp. 290-93.

Chikusai ryōji no hyōban 竹斎療治之評判 (1685) (critical edition), in Hanada Fujio, Iriguchi Atsushi, Laura Moretti et al., (eds.), Kanazōshi shūsei, vol. 48 (Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō shuppan, 2013), pp. 175-201, 328-332.

‘Onna enshi kyōkun kagami and Onna genji kyōkun kagami: sexual education through entertaining parody’, Japan Review, 26 (2013), special issue Shunga: sex and humor in Japanese art and literature (edited by Andrew Gerstle and Timothy Clark), pp. 195-212.

Mark Morris‘On the trail of the Manchurian western’, in Frank

Rüdiger et al., eds, Korea 2010 (Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 217-246.

‘South Korea’s Kwangju uprising: fiction and film’, (with Ch’oe Yun) The Asia-Pacific journal: Japan focus (2010)

‘The New Korean Cinema, Kwangju and the art of political violence’

The Asia-Pacific journal: Japan focus (2010)

‘Northerners on southern screens: from ‘Shiri’ (1999) to ‘The Yellow Sea’ (2010)’, in Frank Rüdiger et al., eds, Korea 2012 (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 153-180.

‘War horror and anti-Communism: from Piagol to Rainy Days’, in Alison Peirse and Daniel Martin, eds, Korean horror cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), pp. 48-59.

‘A genealogy of the Korean action “Star”’, in Leung Wing-Fai and Andy Willis, eds, East Asian Film Stars (2013).

Mike Shin‘Towards a politcal economy of the early modern

print industry in Joseon’, East Asian publishing and society 1 (2011), pp. 145-175.

‘Melodrama of the modern girl: Jaesaeng by Yi Gwangsu’, in Journal of Yi Kwangsu research (in Korean)

‘Pyeongan province and the origins of modern society’, Papers of the British Association of Korean Studies 13 (2011), pp. 59-88

‘The intimate past: an introduction to the Joseon period’, in M. Shin, ed., Everyday life in Joseon-era Korea: economy and society (Leiden: Brill, 2013)

‘Introduction: major debates on the historiography of the Joseon period’, in M. Shin, ed., Everyday life in Joseon-era Korea: economy and society (Leiden: Brill, 2013)

‘Yi Kwang-su: the collaborator as modernist against modernity’, Journal of Asian studies 71 (2012), 115-120.

Brigitte Steger‘Kulturkreis’ with Andre Gingrich, in Lexikon

der Globalisierung, ed. by Fernand Kreff, Eva-Maria Knoll and Andre Gingrich, eds, (Bielefeld: 2011), pp. 217–220.

‘“We were all in this together”. Challenges to and practices of cleanliness in tsunami evacuation shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, 2011’, Japan Focus, 17 September 2012, www.japanfocus.org/-Brigitte-Steger/3833.

‘Cultures of sleep’, Andrew Green and Alex Westcombe (eds): Sleep: Multi-professional perspectives. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012), pp. 68–85.

‘Negotiating gendered space on Japanese commuter trains’, Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies 13/2 (2013)

Japan Copes with Calamities. Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013), ed. with Tom Gill and David H. Slater.. Contains my ‘The 3.11 Disasters’ and ‘Solidarity and distinction through practices of cleanliness in tsunami evacuation shelters’, pp. 3-23, 53-75.

Sekai ga mitometa Nippon no inemuri. Tsūkin densha no utouto ni mo imi ga atta! [The world has recognised Japanese inemuri. There was a meaning in napping on commuter trains!] (Tōkyō: Hankyū Communications 2013).

Higashi-Nihon daishinsai no jinruigaku. Tsunami, genpatsu jiko to hisaisha-tachi no ‘sono go’ [Anthropology of the East-Japan great earthquake disaster. The aftermath of the tsunami and nuclear disasters for the victims]. (Kyoto: Jinbun Shoin 2013), ed. with Tom Gill and David Slater. Contains my ‘Introduction’ and ‘“Mina issho dakara” Iwate-ken, Yamada-machi no tsunami hinanjo no rentaikan’ pp. 7-28, 271-300.

Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy. Studying Japanese Gender at Cambridge, ed. with A. Koch (Zurich: LIT, 2013). Contains ‘Introduction: Gender matters’, written by Steger and A. Koch, pp. 1-18.

Roel SterckxFood, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China (New

York: Cambridge University Press, 2011).‘Asian Studies in the Humanities: Visions for

the Future’ (with Dinu Luca). Strassbourg: European Science Foundation, 2012.

‘Animals, gaming and entertainment in traditional China’, in Vivienne Lo, ed., Perfect Bodies: Sports, Medicine and Immortality Ancient and Modern (London: British Museum Research Publications, 2012), pp. 31-41.

‘Zoomorphism and Sacrificial Religion in Early China’, Hanxue yanjiu 漢學研究 30.4 (2012), pp. 305-334.

Energia vitale. Il cosmo nel pensiero cinese antico (Modena, Festival Filosofia, 2012).

‘Feeding in the afterlife’, in James S.C. Lin, ed., The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 69-75, 230-31.

‘Zhi shen Shennong de tianyuan’ 置身神農的田園, Hanxue yanjiu tongxun 漢學研究通訊, 32.1 (2013), pp. 1-8.

‘Mozi 31: explaining ghosts, again’, in Carine Defoort and Nicolas Standaert, eds., Different Voices in the Mozi: Studies of an Evolving Text (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2013), pp.96-141.

John Swenson-Wright‘The limits to “normalcy”: Japanese-Korean

post-Cold War interactions’, in Japan as a ‘Normal country’? A nation in search of its place in the world (University of Toronto Press, 2011), pp. 146-192.

‘The role of Japan in the international relations of East Asia’, in Frank Rüdiger and Swenson-Wright, eds, Korea and East Asia: the stony road to collective security (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 105-125.

‘Inter-Korean relations and the challenge of northeast Asian security’, in East and Southeast Asia: international relations and security perspectives (Abingdon: Routledge, 2013)

‘Is Japan truly “back?: prospects for a more proactive security policy’, Chatham House Briefing Paper, June 2013.

‘Inter-Korean relations and the challenge of North-east Asian regional security’, in Andrew T. H. Tan, ed., East and South-East Asia international relations and security perspectives (London: Routledge, 2013).

‘The role of Japan in the international relations of East Asia’, in Ruediger Frank and John Swenson-Wright, eds., Korea and East Asia: the stony road to collective security (Leiden: Brill, 2012).

‘North Korea’s artful long game’, Prospect (April 2013), available in print and online at: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/blog/north-korea-south-korea-kim-jong-un/#.UiAsRhbU7lI

‘Resurgent trilateralism in Northeast Asia’, Chatham House, Asia Programme Paper (February 2011). Available online at: www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/1010

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Hans van de VenThe battle for China (Stanford University Press,

September 2010), co-editor with Mark Peattie and Edward Drea; author of ‘The Sino-Japanese War in History’ and joint author with Edward Drea of ‘Chronology’ and ‘Overview of Major Military Campaigns’.

‘The Maritime Customs in World War Two: a stubborn anomaly in a nationalist time’, in 《民国研究》, vol. 17 (2010), pp. 182-212.

The Cambridge History of War: Vol. 4: War and the Modern World (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012), co-editor, with Roger Chickering and Denis Showalter, author of introduction to Part 1 and ‘A hinge in time’.

Yuan Boping 袁博平‘Asymmetrical syntactic and thematic

reconfigurations in English speakers’ L2 Chinese resultative compound constructions’, International Journal of Bilingualism, 15 (2011): 38-55 (with Y. Zhao).

‘Syntax-Discourse Interface in English Speakers' L2 Acquisition of Chinese Wh-topicalization’, in J. Herschensohn and D. Tanner, eds., Proceedings of the 11th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2011), pp. 162-170, Somerville, MA.: Cascadilla Press (with E. Dugarova).

‘Second Language Acquisition of Chinese Resultative Complements by English-speaking Learners’ [in Chinese], in X-B. Zhou, ed., Chinese Language in the World, 1 (2011): 36-58, Guangzhou, Sun Yat-Sen University Press.

‘L1 Transfer at L2 Syntax-Discourse Interfaces: Evidence from L2 Chinese daodi...wh- Questions’, in J. Herschensohn and D. Tanner, eds., Proceedings of the 11th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2011), pp. 152-161, Somerville, MA.: Cascadilla Press.

‘Factors leading to unsuccessful interfaces in L2 Chinese grammars: Evidence from English and Japanese speakers’ L2 acquisition of Chinese wh-words as existential polarity words’ [in Chinese], Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 44 (2012): 57-76.

‘Wh-topicalization at the syntax-discourse interface in English speakers’ L2 Chinese grammars’, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 34 (2012): 533-560 (with E. Dugarova).

‘Is Chinese ‘daodi’ ‘the hell’ in English speakers’ L2 acquisition of Chinese daodi … wh … questions? Effects and recoverability of L1 transfer at L2 interfaces’, International Journal of Bilingualism, 17 (2013): 403-430.

Developing Writing Skills in Chinese [2nd Edition, 2013]. London: Routledge (with Q. Kan).

DEAS Staff

CHINESE STUDIES TEACHING STAFF

Dr Adam Yuet ChauUniversity Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology of Modern China

Dr Susan DaruvalaUniversity Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese Literature

Dr Imre GalambosUniversity Lecturer in Pre-modern Chinese Studies

Ms Jiaqi Feng GuoLector in Chinese

Ms Yu-Hui LiaoLector in Chinese

Dr Joe McDermottReader in Chinese History

Professor David McMullen FBAEmeritus Professor of Chinese

Professor Roel Sterckx FBAJoseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science and Civilization

Professor Hans van de Ven FBAProfessor of Modern Chinese History

Ms Emma WuLanguage Teaching Officer in Chinese

Dr Boping YuanReader in Chinese Language and Linguistics

CHINESE STUDIES AFFILIATED STAFF

Dr Sally Church Affiliated researcher

Professor Christopher CullenDirector Emeritus, Needham Research Institute

Dr James LinAssistant Keeper of Applied Arts, Fitzwilliam MuseumLecturer in Chinese Art History

Dr Robert WeatherlyAffiliated lecturer in Chinese politics

JAPANESE STUDIES TEACHING STAFF

Mrs Toshimi BouldingLector in Japanese

Professor Richard BowringEmeritus Professor of Japanese Studies

Professor Peter Kornicki FBAProfessor of Japanese Studies

Dr Barak KushnerUniversity Senior Lecturer in Modern Japanese History

Mrs Haruko LaurieSenior Language Teaching Officer in Japanese

Dr Laura MorettiUniversity Lecturer in Pre-modern Japanese Studies

Dr Mark MorrisUniversity Lecturer in Japanese Cultural History

Dr Brigitte StegerUniversity Senior Lecturer in Modern Japanese Studies

Dr John Swenson-WrightUniversity Senior Lecturer in Modern Japanese Politics and International Relations

JAPANESE STUDIES AFFILIATED STAFF

Dr Lily Chang Research Associate

Dr Deokhyo ChoiResearch Associate

Dr Rebekah ClementsResearch Associate

Mr Philip GarrettResearch Associate

Dr Simon KanerAffiliated Lecturer

Dr Gerhard LeinssResearch Associate

KOREAN STUDIES TEACHING STAFF

Dr Michael ShinUniversity Lecturer in Korean Studies

KOREAN STUDIES AFFILIATED STAFF

Dr Hyungwi Park Research Associate

LIBRARIANS

Mr Charles AylmerHead of Chinese Department, Cambridge University Library

Mr Noboru KoyamaHead of Japanese Department, Cambridge University Library

Mr John MoffettLibrarian, Needham Research Institute

Mrs Françoise SimmonsLibrarian, Faculty Library

STAFF NEWS

In the Faculty Office Susie White is now on maternity leave and has been replaced by Louise Dobson. Ghazala Sadiq, who left at the end of November has been replaced by Francesca Barraud.

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Dr Lily Chang has been appointed to a lectureship at University College London as from September 2014.

Philip Garrett and Angelika Koch have recently successfully completed their PhD viva examinations.

Susie White will be returning to the Faculty Office in April after completing her maternity leave.  She will return as Susie Nightingale.

Japanese Studies alumni groupTsurugi no kai 剣の会

To enable Japanese Studies alumni to share news and interests, offer new graduates advice and discuss ways to ensure the prosperity of Japanese Studies at Cambridge we have formed the group Tsurugi no kai (from the Meiji-period name for Cambridge 剣橋).

This has already led to a pair of reunions in London and may lead to further events involving a lecture and a dinner in Cambridge and/or London together with a series of informal contacts.

Francoise Simmons (graduated 1990 and now Faculty Librarian) has agreed to act as our nerve centre. Please do e-mail her on [email protected] or contact her via the Tsurugi no Kai group on Facebook.