September - Royal Asiatic Society China in Shanghai

Royal Asiatic Society China - Newsletter
Vol 4 No 8 – September 2013
NEWSLETTER
Royal Asiatic Society China
SEPTEMBER 2013
LECTURES & WEEKENDERS
10th - Greg Leck – Captives of Empire
14th - Sven Serrano - Lunghwa CAC WALK
The Society provides a forum for the
development and expression of interests and
expertise from within the local community, and
from around the globe, to inspire and to enrich
cultural life in Shanghai and beyond.
14th - Greg Leck - Americans in Shanghai
FOCUS GROUPS
Film Club – 15th
Book Club – 16th
Study Group - 9th & 23rd
NEW 2013 JOURNAL
Special BOOK CLUB events
2 September- with the authors
Russian At Heart by Olga and John Hawkes
nd
23rd September- with the author
Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Wang Anyi
FORTHCOMING
AUTUMN SESSION
Sat 26th Oct– Liliane Willens
Eyewitness: Life in Shanghai during
Japanese Occupation, Civil War and
Establishment of PRC (1949-1951)
Sat 9th Nov – Nicolas Grevot
Taiwanese Aboriginese
Tuesday 26th Nov - AGM
For full details and updates of all our events
please visit our website
Copy deadline for next newsletter 20th of next month
The Royal Asiatic Society China is a branch of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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A note from our
President
I am delighted to announce that the
second edition of the RAS Journal, Vol
75, No 1, is now published and
members can collect one free copy as
from our 10th September lecture. I know
you will want me to extend a huge thank
you to Hon Editor Lindsay Shen and all
the contributors, Journal Advisory Board
members, Graham Earnshaw and
indeed, everyone who has helped to
produce this fine and weighty tome.
The Library move is progressing well and we will be open for business just as soon as the
renovations are complete. Ed, Kyle and Matt have been extremely busy packing and moving all
the books, during the hottest weeks in Shanghai.
Our Monograph series will see two new additions – Nos 3 and 4 – at the beginning of 2014 and
suggested topics for 5 & 6 are being proposed now by Paul French for 2015/16.
Although our July and August programme here in Shanghai has been relatively quiet, focus group
activities have continued and our Book Club and Film Club combined forces to present an “Eileen
Chang” special with a book club discussion on “Love in a Fallen City” followed by a walk around
some of the buildings where Eileen Chang lived, and then members joined with the film club to
view “Eighteen Springs”. The double event proved very popular and special thanks go to Sandy
Strand, Ivana Elezovic and Hanno Hessmer for co-ordinating it.
The Shanghai September programme includes two major presentations from Dr Greg Leck, and
to complement his talk on Captives of Empire, Sven Serrano is conducting another walk around
Lunghwa CAC. We also have very special Book Club meetings with the authors Olga and John
Hawkes on 2nd and Wang Anyi on 23rd.
On the administrative front, we have introduced a new Membership Card for Shanghai members
and these can be collected as from our 10th September lecture.
RAS Beijing of course have their own exciting plans and activities which you can read about later
in this issue and it was particularly good to meet with Alan and Melinda when they visited Shanghai
in August.
One further development during the summer is that RAS China is now partnering with “M” on the
Bund and Capital “M” to hold events at their venues in both Shanghai and Beijing. The first of
these was the award winning photographer H S Liu’s talk in August which drew a large audience
for a very special presentation, pictured above. We very much look forward to further events being
held here - Shanghai members should please note the earlier starting time 4pm for 4.15pm.
A very special thanks to all our presenters and sponsors for their valuable support to RAS China.
We look forward to seeing you in September.
Katy Gow
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RAS CHINA
JOURNAL 2013
Vol 75 No 1
Now Published. RAS members
receive one free copy available for
collection at RAS events and the
RAS Library.
Further copies are available 50 RMB.
SPECIAL THANKS to all
contributors and to Earnshaw
Publishers, for their support in
delivering this issue.
Hon Journal Editor
Dr Lindsay Shen
CONTENTS
Foreward
New Perspectives
Peer Reviewed Research Articles
Paul Hansen - Xin Qiji (1140-1207): Patriotism, Idle Sorrow, and Poetic Creation
Paul Gladston - Cultural Translation and Post hoc Intellectual Conceit: Critical Reflections on the
Conflating of Traditional Chinese Cultural Thought and Practice, and the Theory and Practice
of Deconstruction in Relation to the Theorising of Contemporary Chinese Art
Ian Gow - The Scottish Shanghailander Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Missionary, Man of Letters,
Mathematician
Anne Witchard - Harriet Monroe, Amy Lowell and Witter Bynner: the scramble for Chinese poetry
Selected Essays
Tim Chamberlain - Books of Change: A Western Family’s Writings on China, 1855-1949
Sophie Leacacos - Lu Xun’s Thoughts on Parental Influence
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Discoveries
Peer Reviewed Research Articles
Ron Suleski - Collecting Research Materials in Shanghai: A Qing Dynasty Astrologer’s Predictions for the
Future
Selected Essays
Lindsay Shen - Finding Eliza in the Bibliotheca Zikawei
Tess Johnston - Managing Cinemas in Old Shanghai
Sarah Keenlyside - The Story of the Sketchbook
Places
Peer Reviewed Research Articles
Eric Politzer - The Early Hotels of the Shanghai Foreign Settlement
Paul French - Gypsies of Shanghai: the Roma Community of Late 1930s and 1940s Shanghai and their
Role in the City's Entertainment Industry
Selected Essays
Jeffrey Wasserstrom - A Brief History of Shanghai’s Future
Katya Knyazeva - The Seven Ages of Dongjiadu: Urban Form in Shanghai’s Old Docks
Michelle Blumenthal - Yangpu: Past, Present and Future: The Engine of Shanghai
Peter Hibbard - A New Course in History
M A Aldrich - Fox Spirits, Gate Towers and Old Peking
Bill Savadove - Chasing Ghosts in Old Tianjin
Gary Jones - The North Korea Mass Games
Sam Chambers, with photographs by André Eichman - The Trading Melting Pot of Kashgar
Book Reviews
Eileen Chang: Romancing Languages, Cultures and Genres, ed. Kam Louie reviewed by Karen S. Kingsbury
Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography, eds. May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, reviewed by Frances Wood
Décadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, ed. Derek Sandhaus
reviewed by Paul French
Qian Qianyi’s Reflections of Yellow Mountain: Traces of a Late-Ming Hatchet and Chisel by Stephen McDowell
reviewed by Tamara H. Bentley
Lao She in London by Anne Witchard reviewed by Jo Lusby
Florence Ayscough: Knowledge is Pleasure by Lindsay Shen reviewed by Sue Anne Tay
Writing in(to) Architecture: China’s Architectural Design and Construction Since 1949 by Sylvia Chan
reviewed by Austin Williams
Midnight in Peking – How the murder of a young Englishwoman haunted the last days of Old China by Paul French
reviewed by Alex Sparks
Shanghai Fury: Australian Heroes of Revolutionary China by Peter Thompson reviewed by Liu Wei
The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 by Robert Bickers
reviewed by Derek Sandhaus
Over There: The Pictorial Chronicle of the Chinese Labour Corps in the Great War by the Weihai Municipal
Archives reviewed by Alex Sparks
Reluctant Regulators: How the West Created and How China Survived the Global Financial Crisis by Leo F.
Goodstadt reviewed by Frank Mulligan
Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture by Chua Beng Huat reviewed by William F. Smith
Beijing Record: A Physical and Political History of Planning Modern Beijing by Wang Jun
reviewed by Jeremy Goldkorn
Chinatowns in a Transnational World, Myths and Realities of an Urban Phenomenon, eds. Venessa Künnemann and
Ruth Mayer reviewed by Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong
China’s Vanishing Worlds: Countryside, Traditions and Cultural Spaces by Matthias Messmer and Hsin-Mei Chuang
reviewed by Neale McGoldrick
Europe and China: Strategic Partners of Rivals? ed. Roland Vogt reviewed by Austin Williams
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RAS BEIJING
One may be forgiven for thinking that with the advent of the autumnal breeze after a hot summer, Beijing
would be lulled to a slumber, in a reverie of the last of the summer erguotou. But we in the Northern Capital
are of sterner and stouter stuff and have been working hard behind the scenes to build on the initiatives
discussed at several central committee meetings in advance of the launch of the RAS Beijing website in
September. We may dispense with the ins and outs of this creative process for now – nobody really wants to
know what actually goes into a jiaozi – but suffice it to say there is a growing feeling of excitement as the
RAS Beijing marches determinedly towards the day of its official launch some time after the National
People’s Congress next March (nothing like a bit of friendly competition).
Of more important note, however, is the wonderful success of two events held here this past month. On
Saturday August 3rd, Alison Friedman, a member of the RAS Beijing Events team, hosted a talk for RAS
Members at the National Center for the Performing Arts introducing TAO Dance Theater, before their
sellout premiere performance at "The Egg". Alison is a
pioneer in promoting modern dance in China, and has
supported Tao Ye, the founder and choreographer of
TAO, for ten years. The performance was
mesmerizing - dance pared back to its essentials of
movement and form. Tao emphasised in a talk on
stage after the performance that he wanted to strip
away story and emotion, and explore and extend the
body’s physical limits. TAO is a radical force of
innovation in Chinese dance, and a powerful example
of the new forces of creativity in art in China. A truly
capital performance.
On another capital note, Capital M and RAS Beijng
jointly sponsored a talk on Sunday August 4th by renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Liu
Heung Shing who published his first book of photography on China in 1983. His current exhibition in
Shanghai, China Dream, Thirty Years, illustrates the changes in China over the past three decades, especially
the psychic evolution from collectivism to individualism. A lively discussion after his talk, considerably
enhanced by expert moderation, covered the technical shift from film to digital, as well as the political, social
and economic shifts that HS Liu has witnessed and so brilliantly documented. The talk was moderated by
Melinda Liu, a veteran foreign correspondent and RAS BJ Archivist.
RAS China wishes to thank Michelle and all at Capital M and M on the Bund for generously sharing with
RAS such wonderful venues for these events.
Alan Babington-Smith
RAS CHINA – BEIJING CHAPTER
Further details from Vice President Alan Babington-Smith
E-mail: [email protected]
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RAS Library - Directions
The Sino-British College, USST
1195 Fuxing Zhong Lu,
near Shaanxi Lu
Shanghai, 200031 PRC
上海市
中路1195号
上海理工大学中英国际学院
Enter the main gate and turn right towards the SBC Learning and Resource Centre Building with the white balcony.
The RAS Library is situated on the first floor upstairs, at the top of the stairs turn right to the end of the corridor.
Members may borrow two books
Refundable Deposit: 500 RMB (cash)
SEPTEMBER
Opening Hours
3-6pm
Wednesday 18th - 25th
Saturday 21st – 28th
Some of our events will also take place in the library.
Hon Librarian: Ed Allen
E-mail: [email protected]
Please note the Library will be closed during October holiday
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DOUBLE PRESENTATION BY DR GREG LECK – 10th & 14th
RSVP: to RAS Bookings at: [email protected]
GREG LECK: Born in New Jersey, Dr. Greg Leck grew up hearing
stories of his Shanghailander mother's life in the Treaty Port, Japanese
Occupation, Republican, and Mao eras of the city. After obtaining his
undergraduate degree from Tufts University, he earned his Doctorate of
Veterinary Medicine and Surgery at Cornell University. While there, he
began his first forays into China historical research at the Kroch Asia
library collections. A passionate researcher, he has pursued this
avocational interest in archives all over the world. His first book,
Captives of Empire, looked at the subject of Allied civilian internment in
China. Critically acclaimed, it was the first work to cover the matter in a
comprehensive and detailed manner. His second book, Dancing on the
Rim of a Volcano: Americans in Shanghai, 1941-1945, is in the research
stage. It follows the lives of a group of disparate Americans, against the
turbulent backdrop of Shanghai's cabarets, high-life, rackets, refugees,
espionage, and war.
RAS LECTURE
TUESDAY. 10th September
7pm for 7.30pm start
The RAS Library
CAPTIVES OF EMPIRE:
The Internment of Allied Civilians
in Shanghai, 1941-1945
On the morning of December 8th, 1941, thousands of American, British, Dutch, and
other Allied civilians living in Shanghai awoke to find their countries at war with
Japan. A hemisphere away from their homelands, they were cut off, isolated, and
faced an uncertain future. Overnight, the idyllic life of the expatriate disappeared,
replaced by the shock and surprise of the Japanese victories and rule. As the rigors of
life under the Occupation increased, they were eventually herded into internment
camps known as Civil Assembly Centres. There, accommodation was overcrowded,
frequently squalid, and with few amenities. Poor treatment and lack of food
contributed to the death rate, and internees suffered
many privations, as well as occasional cruelty, torture,
and death. Yet despite an absolute lack of many of the
essentials of civilized life, the internees rose to meet
the challenge of survival. They organized kitchens and
hospitals, started libraries, engaged in subtle forms of
resistance, educated their children, and placed their
hope in the future and eventual liberation. In
internment, they were an example of the strength of
human endeavor in the face of adversity.
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RAS WEEKENDER
In partnership with M Literary Salon
at the Glamour Bar
SATURDAY 14th SEPTEMBER
4pm for 4.15pm start
DANCING ON THE RIM OF A
VOLCANO: Americans in
Shanghai 1930-1945
Shanghai, in the era between the wars, was a cosmopolitan city of legendary
status. Greeted by the city's billion dollar skyline, thousands of Westerners arrived,
stepping ashore at the landing on the fabled Bund. Many came seeking fortune;
others sought not profit but opportunity, excitement, romance, adventure, or
souls. Among the expatriate taipans, administrators, civil servants, and missionaries,
were also workaday people who sought better opportunities for themselves and their
families. Beachcombers, itinerant entertainers, adventurers, soldiers, and spies also
called at Shanghai. Many in these eclectic groups were Americans. Included were a
tough talking, two-fisted newspaper correspondent and radio announcer, a small time
swindler and blackmailer with a Social Register background, a church mission
secretary who became enamored with Shanghai's nightlife, a commercial
representative who was an undercover operative for the US Office of Naval
Intelligence, and an American Nisei who, renouncing his American citizenship, threw
his lot in with the Japanese. Some of the city's infamous criminals, cabaret owners,
and soldiers of fortune were also Americans. After Pearl Harbor, each followed his
own path and faced the consequences until August, 1945, when a small band of
Americans landed in the city, the first wave in a surge of US military whose presence
would briefly put its own stamp on the frenetic, opportunistic, capitalistic city which
was Shanghai.
RAS WEEKENDER WALK - Saturday 14th at 10am
with Sven Aarne Serranno and Betty Barr
A Walk to D, E, G Blocks and the Dew Drop Inn
The Lunghwa CAC site today
This is a repeat event and places are limited
RSVP: to RAS Bookings at: [email protected]
FULL DETAILS OF ALL OUR EVENTS ARE ON OUR WEBSITE:
www.royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
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FOCUS GROUP MEETINGS
SPECIAL
With the authors
RAS Book Club
REGULAR
RAS Book Club
Members - 70 RMB, Guests 100 RMB
Includes a selected drink
Members - 70 RMB, Guests 100 RMB
Includes a selected drink
7pm Monday 2nd September
at The Apartment, 4/F The Study
No. 47 YongFu Xi Lu (between
FuXing and WuYuan Lu)
永福路47号3楼, 近复兴西路.
Russian At Heart
by Olga and John Hawkes
7pm Monday 16 September
at glo London
(3/F, VIP Room or Lounge)
1 Wulumuqi Lu, near Dongping Lu
(across from American Consulate)
China Shakes the World
by James Kynge
!
For full details please see our website.
Copies of the books will be available at RAS
events prior to this meeting. You may also obtain a
copy of the book by contacting the RAS Book
Club.
RSVP is essential as space is limited
[email protected]
Convenor: Sandy Strand
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SPECIAL
RAS Book Club
with the author and
Translator
Members - 70 RMB, Guests 100 RMB
Includes a selected drink
Monday 23rd September
At the RAS Library
The Sino-British College, USST
1195 Fuxing Zhong Lu,
near Shaanxi Lu
Shanghai, 200031
复兴 路1195号
上海理工大 中英国际学院
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RAS Film Club
Chai Bites Lounge
Embankment Building,
Ground Floor, 370 North Suzhou Road
3rd Sunday of the month – 6.30pm for 7pm
food can be served before the film begins
Suggested donation: Members - 20 RMB, guests – 50 RMB
Sunday 15th September
Center Stage (Ruan Ling Yu)
1992
Directed by Stanley Kwan (Hong Kong)
Starring Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau,
Tony Leung Ka-fai
Song of Everlasting Sorrow
by Amy Wang
This award-winning film recreates the tragic life
of Shanghai's legendary silver screen goddess
Ruan
Lingyu.
Stanley
Kwan
includes
contemporary interviews with her co-stars,
production meetings with Maggie Cheung and
Carina Lau, and scenes from her movies to create
a fascinating viewpoint on Ruan Lingyu's life.
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In this special Book Club event, renowned
Chinese author Wang Anyi will join us to
discuss her novel Song of Everlasting
Sorrow, along with Ivana Elezovic, who
translated it into English.
RSVP is essential as space is limited
[email protected]
Convenor: Sandy Strand
Convenor: Linda Johnson
For full details please see our website.
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RAS Study Group
usually 2nd and 4th Monday of the month
7pm for 7:15pm start at Melange Oasis
Jiashan Market, Shaanxi Nan Lu, Lane 550,
No. 37, Building D
Suggested Donation: Members - 20 RMB, Guests – 50 RMB
Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition
(published by The Great Courses)
Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition is an epic, comprehensive survey
of the East's most influential philosophers and thinkers. In 36 lectures, awardwinning Professor Grant Hardy (right) of the University of North Carolina at
Asheville introduces you to the men and women responsible for molding Asian
philosophy and for giving birth to a wide variety of spiritual and ideological
systems, including Hinduism, Daoism, Confucianism, Sufism, and Buddhism. By
focusing on these key thinkers in their historical contexts, you'll witness the
development of these rich traditions as they shaped and defined Eastern cultures
through the rise and fall of empires, the friendly and hostile encounters with each
other and with the Western world, and the rapid advancements of the modern age.
9 Sept
Lecture 23 - Han Yu to Zhu Xi-Neo-Confucianism
Lecture 24 -Wang Yangming: The Study of Heart-Mind
23 Sept Lecture 31 - Mohandas Gandhi-Satyagraha, or Soul-Force
Lecture 32 - Fukuzawa Yikichi and Han Yongun
Visit our website for a full run-down of the Study Group programme for the rest of the year:
www.royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
Convenor: Katie Baker
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RAS China Monograph Series 3
COMING 2014
Mu Shiying
China's Lost Modernist: New
Translations and an Appreciation
Andrew David Field
When the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying was
assassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatest
modernist writers while Shanghai lost its most
detailed chronicler of its demi-monde nightlife. As
Andrew David Field argues, Mu Shiying advanced
modern Chinese writing beyond the vernacular
expression of May 4 giants Lu Xun and Lao She to
even more starkly reveal the alienation of the
cosmopolitan-capitalist city of Shanghai, trapped
between the forces of civilization and barbarism.
Each of these five short stories focuses on the author's key obsessions: the pleasurable yet
anxiety-ridden social and sexual relationships of the modern city and the decadent
maelstrom of consumption and leisure in Shanghai epitomized by the dance hall and the
nightclub. This study places his writings squarely within the framework of Shanghai's social
and cultural nightscapes.
"Better than that of any other writer, Mu Shiying's fiction encapsulates the cosmopolitan life
of 1930s Shanghai (with its foreign concessions, cinemas, cafes and cabarets) that
underlay modernist Chinese writing. Andrew Field's book is exciting not only because it is a
new appreciation of this writer but because, through its translations of Mu's stories, it
reveals the extent to which Shanghai-based writing was inspired by the styles of
international modernism." - Lynn Pan, author of Shanghai Style and Old Shanghai:
Gangsters in Paradise.
Biography / Literary
FORTHCOMING 2014
160 pp., 7” x 5”,
PB ISBN 978-9888208142
Price TBA
COPIES WILL BE AVAILBLE AT RAS EVENTS
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RAS China Monograph Series 4
COMING 2014
The Happy Hsiungs
Performing China and the struggle
for Modernity
Diana Yeh
‘Try Something Different. Something Really Chinese’
The Happy Hsiungs recovers the lost histories of Shih-I and
Dymia Hsiung, two once highly visible, but now largely
forgotten Chinese writers in Britain, who sought to represent
China and Chineseness to the rest of the world. Shih-I shot to
worldwide fame with his play Lady Precious Stream in the
1930s and became known as the first ever Chinese stage
director to work in the West End and on Broadway. Dymia was
the first Chinese woman in Britain to publish a fictional
autobiography in English in the 1950s. Through exhaustive
research and fieldwork among surviving family members and
friends, Diana Yeh traces the Hsiungs’ lives from their childhood in Qing dynasty China and youth amid the
radical May 4th era to Britain and the USA, where they became highly celebrated figures, rubbing shoulders
with George Bernard Shaw, James M. Barrie, H.G. Wells, Pearl Buck, Lin Yu Tang, Anna May Wong and
Paul Robeson among others. In recounting the Hsiungs’ rise to fame, Yeh focuses on the challenges they
faced in becoming accepted as modern subjects, as knowledge of China and the Chinese was persistently
framed by colonialist legacies and Orientalist stereotyping, which often determined how their works were
shaped and understood. Yet, The Happy Hsiungs also shows how Shih-I and Dymia, in negotiating
acceptance, ‘performed’ not only specific forms of Chineseness but identities that conformed to modern
ideals of class, gender and sexuality, defined by the western middle-class nuclear family. Though fêted as
‘The Happy Hsiungs’, their lives ultimately highlight a bitter struggle in attempts to become modern. Diana
Yeh lectures at Birkbeck College, University of London and at the University of East London. A former
Fellow of the Sociological Review, she is currently a Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded project, China in
Britain: Myths and Realities and on an AHRC Knowledge Exchange Partnership between Bristol University
and Penguin Books China.
She has published on race, “Thanks to the phenomenal success of his play Lady Precious Stream, Shih-I Hsiung was a
ethnicity, diaspora, migration household name in the US and UK during the 1930s. The Happy Hsiungs tells the story of
Hsiung and his writer wife, Dymia, came to be feted across three continents, enjoying
and
culture,
and
has how
celebrity as part of a global cultural elite that included George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie,
presented her research on H.G. Wells, Pearl Buck, Anna May Wong, Paul Robeson, Lin Yu Tang, and Chiang Yee. Yeh
BBC Radio Four, and at explores their role in representing China and Chineseness to the rest of the world forcing us
institutions such as the Royal to rethink our vision of the British Chinese as invisible and insular, with little social, cultural or
Geographical Society, the political impact on wider society.”
—Dr Anne Witchard, University of Westminster and author of Lao She in London and
Wellcome Trust, National Thomas Burke’s Dark Chinoiserie .
Portrait Gallery and Tate
Britain.
Biography / Literary
FORTHCOMING 2014
160 pp., 7” x 5”,
PB ISBN 978-988-8208-17-3
Price TBA COPIES WILL BE AVAILBLE AT RAS EVENTS
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RAS China - Monograph Series
with Hong Kong University Press
Both Lao She in London by Anne Witchard and Knowledge is Pleasure by Lindsay Shen are
now available on Amazon Kindle.
Hard copies are available for purchase at RAS events and during library opening hours. To
reserve your copies email [email protected] putting “Monographs” in the
subject box.
The monographs have achieved wide acclaim since their publication last year. Reviews of
Lao She in London include:
"A beautifully written book that combines literary biography with a remarkably succinct account of British
modernism and an evocative portrait of interbellum London, as viewed through Chinese eyes. Anne
Witchard reminds us eloquently of the key role played by Chinese influences - both classical and modern in literary modernism, and makes a great contribution to our understanding of Lao She's London years."
Julia Lovell, Birkbeck College, University of London
and for Knowledge is Pleasure:
“This is a sensitive and elegantly written biography of one of the most passionate Sinologists of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author moves fluidly between closely shadowing Florence
Ayscough’s remarkable life and immersion in Chinese culture and stepping back to illuminate her setting and
kindred spirits. Those previously familiar with only a few of Ayscough’s pioneering achievements will find
in this monograph a coherent narrative unfolding before them; those for whom she is an unknown name are
in for the delight of discovery. Lindsay Shen is to be admired for recognizing that this impressive story is
worth telling and for giving it such vividly human character. “
Elinor Pearlstein, Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Art Institute of Chicago
Monographs are 100 RMB each and available at RAS events and RAS Library (cash purchase only)
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RAS China Council Members 2012-2013
President – Katy Gow
Vice Presidents – Tess Johnston, Jan Flohr
Hon Secretary – Patricia Lambert
Hon Treasurer – Peter MacInnes from May 2013
Hon Librarian – Ed Allen
Hon Journal Editor - vacant
Hon Research & Publications Director – Paul French
Hon Programme Director – vacant
Council Member – Ian Crawford
Council Member – IT matters – Lynn Fawcett
Council Member – Susie Gordon
Council Member – Peter Harris
Council Member – Communication - Alexandra Hendrickson
Council Member – Liz Jennings
Council Member - Membership – Wendy Stockley
Vice President Beijing Chapter – Alan Babington-Smith
HONORARY PRESIDENT
Mr Brian Davidson
HM Consul General
British Consulate Shanghai
Hon Treasurer - Simon Drakeford – left Shanghai June 2013
Council Member – Neale McGoldrick – left Shanghai July 2013
Hon Vice President – Mike Nethercott – resigned July 2013
VP Suzhou – Bill Dodson – resigned July 2013
Peter Hibbard MBE – left Shanghai July 2013
PAST PRESIDENTS
HON VICE PRESIDENTS
Carma Elliot CMG OBE,
Nenad Djordjevic,
Professor Liu Wei
Peter Hibbard MBE
2007-2011 – Peter Hibbard MBE
Enquiries: [email protected]
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NATIONALITY: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
E-MAIL ADDRESS: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
MOBILE No: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PROFESSION: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
AREAS OF INTEREST and EXPERTISE: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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WOULD YOU be willing to help with RAS matters? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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SIGNED: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
DATE: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
FEE PAID: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .RMB
RECEIVED BY: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ON BEHALF OF RAS
MEMBERSHIP FEES:
MEMBERSHIP ELIGIBILITY: Any foreign passport holder
Residing in China:
Individual
Joint
Student
Friend
Patron
Residing Overseas:
Individual
interested in Asian culture and in promoting the aims of the
Society may apply for membership. (PRC law prohibits us from
admitting Chinese nationals.) The Society operates a rolling
membership system – membership is valid for one year from the
date of registration. Payments are only possible in cash – please
remit your fee and completed form to a Council member at one of
our events.
16
500 RMB
800 RMB
150 RMB
1,500 RMB
10,000+ RMB
350 RMB
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