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Jake Xiao

Jake Xiao

Alumnus Xiao Tie and Zheng Li announce the birth of their son Jake Xiao, born Thursday, Dec. 22 at Princeton University Medical Center, 6 lbs 7oz.

The fourth volume of Professor Emeritus David T. Roy's monumental translation of the Chin P'ing Mei, has just been published by Princeton University Press. The title is The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei Volume Four: The Climax.

Professors Paola Iovene and Judith Zeitlin of EALC and Professor Xinyun Dong of the Center for Media Studies have been awarded a conference grant from the Chicago Center in Beijing.

Jacob Eyferth has been awarded the 2011 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: post-1900 Category, for his book, Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Artisans in Southwest China, 1920-2000. More information here. The book was also nominated for the International Convention of Asia Scholars book prize.

Professor Judith Zeitlin has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, which she will use to complete a manuscript titled The Culture of Musical Entertainment in Early Modern China: Voice, Instrument, Text. See the University news site. Professor Zeitlin has also been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship to support this project.

Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien, Professor Emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Curator Emeritus of the East Asian Library of the University of Chicago, has just published Collected Writings on Chinese Culture, (Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2011), a collection of his English writings on Ancient Documents and Artifacts; Paper, Ink and Printing; Cultural Exchange and Librarianship; Biographies of Eminent Scholars; Memoir of a Centenarian; and Essays About the Author.

Judith Zeitlin has been awarded a Smart Museum Mellon Grant for Faculty Initiatives. This grant will support loan research travel for Prof. Zeitlin and graduate student Yuhang Li for their work organizing Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture, an exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art currently scheduled for spring 2014.

Paola Iovene and Judith Zeitlin have guest edited a special double issue of The Opera Quarterly on Chinese opera film, which also includes an essay by each editor. The table of contents is available here. To read the editors' note, click here.

Professors Paul Copp and Yuming He each received faculty fellowships from the Franke Institute for the Humanities for the 2010-11 academic year. Prof. Copp will use the fellowship to complete final revisions of his book manuscript, Incantatory Bodies: Spells and Material Efficacy in Chinese Buddhist Practice, 600-1000, and to continue work on the project that will lead to his second book, a study of manuscripts and xylographs from 9th- and 10th-century Dunhuang that provide evidence for local styles of Esoteric Buddhist practice. Prof. He will use her award to work on her book manuscript, Reading Commonplace Books in Early Modern China (16th to 17th Centuries).

New Department Members

Jieun Kim, Lecturer in Korean Language

Hoyt Long, Assistant Professor in Japanese Literature

Students

Benjamin Shiwon Joo

Benjamin Shiwon Joo

Recent graduates, Suyoung Son and Hyun-Ho Joo announce the birth of their son, Benjamin Shiwon Joo, 7 lbs., 7 oz., 21", on May 13, 2011.

Max Bohnenkamp presented a paper, 'Collecting Airs' for New Book of Odes: The Great Leap Forward in Folksong," in a seminar entitled "Translation of Revolutionary Temporalities: The Aesthetic Avant-garde and the Political Vanguard in Modern Chinese Literature"at the American Comparative Literature Association conference, held from April 1-4, 2010 in New Orleans.

Richard Davis presented a paper entitled "This Face for Rent: Advertising, Space, and Subjectivity in Giants and Toys," at the Japan@Chicago conference May 2010.

Mika Endo presented a paper entitled, "Education and the State in 1930s Japan: the case of the Life Composition Movement" at a seminar, "The Political Child: Children, Education, and the State," which was held May 15-16, 2009, in Helsinki, Finland.

Helen Findley presented a paper titled, "Meiji jidai bukkyô onsei bungaku," as a guest lecturer at Hanazono University in May, 2009. Helen also presented a paper entitled, "Bunka to bunmei," as a guest lecturer at Hanazono University in October 2009. She served as a Religions of Asia panelist at the Midwest Regional Conference of the American Academy of Religion, March 27, 2010. Also, Helen completed work on an English-language translation of the Ten Oxherding Pictures which will be presented by Prof. Shore in the Chanoyu Quarterly.

Justin Jesty has been busy this year:
Publications

Conferences

Fumiko Joo presented a paper entitled "Circulation of Jiandeng xinhua within Buddhist Culture in Japan from the Sixteen to the Eighteenth Centuries," at the December, 2009, MLA annual convention.

Yuhang Li has been awarded a travel grant to Taiwan by the AAS/Chiang-kuo Foundation. She will use part of her time there to research archives at the Palace Museum. In May, 2010, she participated in a workshop on material culture and textile hosted by Princeton. In March, 2010, at the Midwest American Academy of Religion, Yuhang presented a paper entitled “Oneself as a Female Deity: Representations of Cixi Posing as Guanyin.” This paper was adapted from the fourth chapter of Yuhang’s dissertation. Yuhang also presented a paper entitled "Communicating Guanyin with Hair: Hair Embroidery in Late Imperial China" at a conference on "Embroidery and Storytelling (Broder et raconter)" at the University of Rouen, France in December 10th and 11th, 2009.

Chun Chun Ting recently presented papers at two conferences. At a November, 2009, conference titled "Spaces in Asian Cinemas," at UC Davis, Chun Chun read her paper, "Between Magical and Everyday Spaces: The City of Hong Kong and McDull, Prince de la Bun." Then in April, 2010 Chun Chun presented her paper, "Queen's Pier, 2007 -- Rethinking Hong Kong's Postcoloniality and Capitalism," at the ACLA 2010 annual meeting.