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EAAN activities:

• Funding
The Archaeological Institute of America, Boston, has kindly agreed to underwrite the cost of renting audiovisual equipment for the presentation of research reports at the annual EAAN meeting, held in conjunction with the AAS Meetings, for a period of three years. The first of these subsidised EAAN meetings will be held in New Orleans on Saturday, 6:30-8:30pm, 13 April 13 1991.
The Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the Association of Asian Studies has graciously awarded EAAN a grant of $500 for the further preparation of bibliographies on Japanese archaeology. This work will be done by EAANmember Maria Warlies, University of Bonn, during a 3-week visit to Cambridge in March 1991.

• New Orleans EAAN meeting:
All East Asian archaeologists and early historians attending the AAS Meetings are urged to contribute research reports (10-15 minutes; slide and overhead projection equipment available) at this EAAN meeting (see above). Contact Nancy Price for details, c/o Fine Arts Dept, Indiana Univ, Bloomington IN 47401 USA 812-855-7766.

• New Editorial Office
A branch editorial office of EAAN has been established under the aegis of the Department of Archaeology, Boston University. Prof. Norman Hammond will oversee the duplication and distribution of the EAANnouncements for North America into the indefinite future. This activity relieves EAAN of substantial reproduction and mailing costs and therefore is support gratefully received. The 'nouncements, however, will continue to be edited out of Cambridge, and all communications should be sent as before to G. L. Barnes, St. John's College, Cambridge CB2 1TP England (see below).

• Requests from the Editor (GLB):
I would like to make two special requests of EAAN members concerning conferences: First, please send me in advance of a conference any schedule of papers that comes into your hands so that I might advertise papers given on East Asia (see section below on Conference Announcements). Second, if you are attending a conference, can you individually-or even better, together with co-attenders in consultation at the conference-write a short report for EAANnouncements summarising new data or ideas presented for East Asia (see my coarse attempts to do so for the IPPA meetings in 'nouncements 2). Nothing grand is necessary; just make it informative.
If you know of anyone who would be a likely candidate for EAANetwork but isn't yet receiving the 'nouncements, please send in their name and address so they may be added to the mailing list.
Information submissions of any kind are welcomed. I can only print what I hear about. ••••• (a request ad infinitum ) •••••

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MEMBER NEWS (in alpha-order):
 

David BALL has sent in his full address in China for the year:
Room 1-505, Foreign Students' Building
Fudan University, Shanghai China-P.R.C
Shanghai - 5484906
 

Dr. Peter BELLWOOD (Chinese prehistoric & protohistoric archaeology)
Prehistory & Anthropology
ANU, GPO Box 4
Canberra ACT 2601 Australia
FAX 062-492711
In addition to having many prominent publications on Southeast Asian archaeology, Peter is the Secretary and motivating force behind the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association.
 

Prof. Jonathon W. BEST (Korean & Japanese prehistoric - early historic
Art History Program archaeology, history, art history & religion)
Center for the Arts
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT 06457 USA
Home 203-349-8870
Work 203-347-9411x2823
Jonathon is Professor of Asian Art History at Wesleyan, where he is working on a history of Buddhism in Paekche and on an annotated translation of the Paekche Pon'gi (Annals of Paekche) from the Samguk Sagi.
 

Laurence DENES (Korean protohistoric archaeology)
224 rue de la Convention
75015 Paris France
Home 45.33.37.07
Laurence is beginning her M.A. thesis at the University of Paris VII-Jussieu on the large jar-coffins which have been found in southwestern Korean and which may represent one of aspect of the burial system of the Mahan 'state'.
 

Clare FAWCETT (Japanese prehistoric archaeology & anthropology)
4335 Coloniale No. 3
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2W 2C5
Home 514-499-9066
Clare recently submitted her Ph.D. dissertation, A Study of the Socio-Political Context of Japanese Archaeology, to McGill University.
 

Junko HABU (Japanese prehistoric archaeology)
Department of Anthropology
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7 Canada
Home 514-844-4074
Work 514-398-4302
FAX 514-398-7476 (Dept. Anthropology)
Junko is currently working on a research proposal for her Ph.D. thesis at McGill University, entitled "Subsistence-Settlement Systems and Intersite Variability in the Moroiso Phase of the Early Jomon of Japan". She is in Japan from December 1990 to April 1991 for the purpose of data collection for her thesis. She has received a renewal of a Government of Canada Award for 1990-91 for her Ph.D. studies at McGill.
 

Jean M. JAMES (Chinese prehistoric to early historic archaeology,
1101 Kirkwood history and art history)
Iowa City, IA 52240 USA
Home 319-351-1300
Jean is an Independent Scholar who is currently preparing an article on the interpretation of the imagery on the Liangzhu jades. In December 1989, she organised a panel on recent discoveries in China for the AIA meetings [see Conference Announcements section below].
 

Bong Won KANG (Korean prehistoric & Protohistoric Archaeology)
Department of Anthropology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287 USA
Home 602-968-3004
Work 253-4938/9
Bong Won has just completed his MA thesis for Arizona State University entitled A Megalithic Tomb Society in Korea: a social reconstruction. Currently, he is participating in the Pueblo Grande-Hohokam Expressway project undertaken by Soil Systems Inc. as a ceramic analyst.
 

Susan G. KEATES (Chinese prehistory)
Dept. of Ethnology & Prehistory
University of Oxford
60 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6PN England
Work 0865-274722
Susan is a Ph.D. student at the University of Oxford; her dissertation is tentatively entitled The Lower Palaeolithic of the Nihewan Basin. She has been a participant in the Sino-American Expedition to the Nihewan Basin, northern China, and has done field survey and collection of Miocene & Pleistocene localities in northern Thailand-all under the direction of her supervisor, Prof. Geoffrey Pope (Univ. of Illinois). She plans to return to the Nihewan for fieldwork in summer 1991.
 

Tom KOMPIER (Protohistoric-early historic East Asia; and Japanese
Weidsteeg 69 language & culture)
NL-4102 AC Culemborg
The Netherlands
Home 03450-14985
Tom is an MA student at Leiden University who is spending the year in Cambridge studying Japanese state formation.
 

Prof. Dr. Dieter KUHN (Chinese early historic & medieval archaeology Institute of Sinology & history)
University of Wurzburg Am Hubland
D-8700 Wurzburg, Germany
Home 0931-881565
Work 0931-8885571/70
Prof. Kuhn is currently directing a collaborative project funded by the German Research Council entitled "Death and Tombs in Song-, Liao- and Jin-Dynasties: archaeological evidence and tomb inscriptions." It is a socio-archaeological study of tombs and burials aiming to demonstrate the relationship between occupant and tomb structure. He has just had a volume of essays published on this topic: The Mute Witnesses: tombs contribute to studies in the history of China, Heidelberg, 1990.
 

In Sook LEE (Korean protohistoric & early historic archaeology)
The University Museum
Seoul National University
Seoul 151-742 Korea
Home 02-553-8027
Work 02-877-5693, 880-5332
FAX 02-885-5272
In Sook is a Curator and Lecturer at the Seoul National University Museum and is currently preparing her Ph.D. dissertation for Hanyang University on ancient glass in East Asia.
 

Amy NEWLAND (Japanese & Korean art history from the protohistoric The Dictionary of Art to medieval periods)
Macmillan Publishers
4 Little Essex Street
London WC2R 3LF England
Home (Germany) 030-624-5549
Work (England) 071-836-6633
FAX (England) 071-240-1075
Amy is the Area Editor for Japanese Art for the forthcoming publication, The Dictionary of Art, from Macmillan Publishers. She wrote her M.A. thesis, Sueki: an historical, religious and iconographic study of a Japanese Tomb-period ceramic, for the University of Washington, Seattle, and is currently enrolled for Ph.D. research in Japanese art history for the University of Kansas.
 

Yoshihiro NISHIAKI (East Asian palaeolithic; Japanese prehistoric
Institute of Archaeology archaeology)
31-34 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PY England
Home 071-493-8911
Work 071-387-7050x4938
Yoshihiro is now studying the lithic technology of the Near Eastern Neolithic for a Ph.D. at the University of London. He is also interested in the Palaeolithic of East Asia, particularly of Japan. Having been involved in fieldwork in Syria since 1984, he is now working with a French team for CNRS (Paris) doing prehistoric survey in Syria.
 

Dr. Peter B. OBLAS (Japanese prehistoric - early historic Tokyo University of Foreign Studies international relations)
4-51-21 Nishigahara
Kita-ku, Tokyo 114 Japan
Work 03-3917-6111x323
Dr. Oblas is an Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
 

Hi-Hyun PARK
I.P.H.
1 Rue René-Panhard
75013 Paris France
Hi-Hyun has been studying the stone tools from the site of Terra Amata, and is now busy preparing a paper on "The Ch'angnae cultures in the Upper Palaeolithic Age of Korea" to give at the 15th AKSE (Association for Korean Studies in Europe) meeting in Paris in April'91.
 

Prof. Richard PEARSON (East Asian Prehistoric - Early Historic
Dept of Anthropology/Sociology Archaeology & History)
University of British Columbia
6303 NW Marine Dr.
Vancouver V6T2B2 BC Canada
Work 604-228-4937
FAX 604-228-6161
[Dick neglected to fill in the blank on current research projects, but his work is so well known we hardly need mention it here. Beginning with a dissertation on Okinawan ceramics, he proceeded to conduct fieldwork there and then branched out into Korean then Chinese archaeology. He has lately turned more of his attention back to Japan and has become a key figure in organising collections of Japanese archaeological material to be shown overseas (the CJS tour in 1979, the current Japan Society exhibition, and advisor to the Sackler Gallery). We look forward to more!]
 

Arthur PROBSTHAIN, Oriental Bookseller & Publisher
41 Gt. Russell Street
London WC1B 3PH, England
071-636-1096
Mr. Probsthain deals with books on East Asia and the whole of the Orient, including Africa. Please contact him directly for overseas ordering procedures, and he will entertain any requests for material. Be sure to visit his shop while in London, across the street from the British Museum main entrance; another branch is in the foyer of the library of SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London).
 

Dr. Maurizio RIOTTO (East Asian protohistoric & early historic
Istituto Universitario Orientale archaeology & history)
Dipartimento Di Studi Asiatici
Piazza S. Giovanni Maggiore 30
80134 Napoli Italy
Home 91-625-7112
Work 81-551-7855
FAX 81-551-7852
After a long-term fellowship to study the Korean Bronze Age at Seoul National University, Maurizio returned home to take up a Lecturership in Korean studies last August. He is now currently engaged in two research projects: 1) Siberia-Korea relations during the Korean Final Bronze Age/Early Iron Age, 2) Bronze-Iron Age remains in Korea: an ethno-archaeological approach. His treatise The Bronze Age in Korea has been published as the first volume of the new series of Occasional Papers from the Italian School of East Asian Studies, Kyoto.
 

Sally RODWELL (East Asian archaeology & history)
46 Duxford Road
Whittlesford
Cambridge CB2 4NQ England
Home 0223-836752
FAX 0223-836752
Sally received her M.Phil in East Asian Archaeology from Cambridge in 1983, her dissertation entitled The Transition to Agricultural Societies in Early China. She subsequently moved to Hong Kong with her family where she became a member of the Antiquities Advisory Board, supervised and directed archaeological excavations, gave lecture series on Chinese archaeology, and worked as an editor for various publishing organisations. Her book on Historic Hong Kong for the Hong Kong Tourist Association is due to appear soon. She and her family have recently moved back to the Cambridge area where she is now involved in the publishing business.
 

Barbara SEYOCK (Japanese & Korean prehistoric - early historic
Dept East of Asian Studies archaeology & history)
Bochum University
4630 Bochum Germany
Home 02324-80581
Work 0234-7002919
Barbara is a student of Japanese history, Korean studies and prehistory at Bochum. She is currently collecting maps on Korean history with the aim to produce an annotated atlas, showing the mainstreams of occurrences in Korean history. All data are stored in a computer so that searching for particular subjects is possible.
 

Hiroto TAKAMIYA (Japanese pre- & proto-historic archaeology)
Department of Anthropology,
341 Haines Hall, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90049 USA
Home 213-447-2001
Work 213-825-2511 (for messages only)
Hiroto is a 2nd-year Ph.D. student at the University of California, LA, who is mainly interested in palaeodiet/subsistence systems in prehistoric Japan (Hokkaido and Okinawa).
 

Maria WARLIES (Japanese & Korean protohistoric & early historic
Endenicher Str. 334 archaeology, history and folklore)
D-5300 Bonn 1 Germany
Home 0228-629474
Maria is currently working on her M.A. thesis for the University of Bonn entitled The Hayato Question and Archaeology: Narikawa pottery as an example (in German, of course). For the autumn term 1990, she attended the University of Cambridge as one of the first Erasmus Exchange Students in Europe.
 

Dr. Sabine M. WERNER (Chinese archaeology & history of the early
DAI-KAVA historic periods)
Endenicher Str. 41
D-5300 Bonn 1 Germany
Work 0228-692026/27
FAX 0228-656306
Sabine is affiliated with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Kommission für Allgemeine u. Vergleichende Archäologie (hence the acronym in her mailing address! See her description of its activities in the Noteworthies section below). She is particularly interested in early palatial architecture as known from excavations and historical records.
 

Kaoru YAMAMOTO (Japanese prehistoric archaeology)
2-808-206 Takezono
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305 Japan
Home 0298-52-1330
A 3rd-year Ph.D. student at Tsukuba University, Kaoru has already published several articles on raw material utilization for stone implements in the Jomon culture of Japan (including one in English in the December '90 issue of Antiquity entitled "Space-time analysis of raw material utilization for stone implements of the Jomon culture in Japan"). She recently finished a paper about lithic utilization in the Late Palaeolithic period in Japan and is currently interested in trade/exchange of lithic materials during the Palaeolithic and Jomon periods.
 

Kazuaki YOSHIMURA (East Asian pre- & proto-historic archaeology)
Nara Prefectural Kashihara Archaeological Institute
50-2 Unebi-cho, Kashihara-shi
Nara 634 Japan
Home 0726-25-8512
Work 07442-4-1101
FAX 07442-4-1101
Kazuaki is currently assigned to work on the excavations connected with the building of the new Osaka International Airport. His area of research is iron armor in Japan, on which he recently gave a talk at Cambridge University during his visit.
 

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REVIEWS & REPORTS:

Hokkaido archaeology: a review article
   by Mark Hudson, Tokyo University
The following is a summary of 'Hito' wa sanman nisen nen mae ka: Hondo 'jidai no hajimari' wo kensho ['People' from 32,000 years ago? Verifying the beginning of the human occupation of Hokkaido] by YOKOYAMA Eisuke of Hokkaido University which appeared in the December 1990 edition of the Hokkaido Journal (pgs. 92-101).

  1. Paleolithic. Until now the earliest Paleolithic sites in Hokkaido have been dated to ca. 20,000 BP. In June 1990, however, a otsunoshika (Megacervus) antler with possible cut marks was found during sand quarrying in a strata dated older than 32,000 BP at Higashimikawa, Yuni-cho in Sorachi District. (Although this is not mentioned by Yokoyama, the cutting angle of the longest incision in the published photo appears to change direction half way through - something which may suggest it was human-made).
  2. Jomon. Although the latest Paleolithic artifacts (tanged points) and the earliest pottery (Initial Jomon shell-incised) have not been found together, Yokoyama thinks it unlikely that Hokkaido was uninhabited during the interval between the Paleolithic and Jomon periods. The 1987 discovery of Incipient Jomon ryusenmon pottery at Omotedate in Aomori increases the probability that remains from this phase will soon be found in Hokkaido. This would still show, however, that Jomon culture was introduced from the south as northern influences such as blade arrowheads do not arrive until 2000 years after the first Jomon pottery appeared in Hokkaido.
  3. Epi-Jomon. Because of the similarities between the artifacts and features of the Final and Epi-Jomon, Yokoyama prefers to view the latter as a sub-phase (jiki) of the Jomon rather than a separate period (jidai). Such a view, however, would seem to be contradicted by the following discussion of the early (Esan) phase Epi-Jomon site of Usu, where bracelets made of shells from the Ryukyus have been excavated. In the late (Kohoku) phase, Yayoi and Kofun pottery, beads, spindle whorls and metal tools are found in Hokkaido. Such imports signify a move toward a barter economy. The use of metal tools also led to a peak in the traditional hunter-gathering-fishing economy of the island. This may have stimulated population growth and emigration to northern Tohoku where many late Kohoku sites are known. According to Yokoyama close contact between the Kohoku people and Tohoku agriculturalists was important in the development of Satsumon culture.
  4. Satsumon. Here the emphasis is on pottery chronology and is the least interesting of the four sections. Yokoyama begins the Satsumon in the 7th century AD when Epi-Jomon pottery came under strong influence from Haji wares, particularly in vessel shape and fabrication techniques. Although widely varying dates for the end of the Satsumon exist, Yokoyama argues that it terminates throughout Hokkaido in the 11th century. This is supported by various recent finds including a square Song mirror dating to the late Heian or early Kamakura found in a final Satsumon pit-house in Kushiro.

As will no doubt have been realized from the above, Yokoyama's article is an introduction to various problems in Hokkaido prehistory rather than a comprehensive survey. Since space is limited, only a few comments will be possible here. A glaring factual error is the incorrect attribution of the Hadar region early hominid sites to Egypt not Ethiopia. Although some concession should probably be made to the general nature of the article, I find Yokoyama's constant link between culture change and immigration unconvincing but, of course, typical of much Japanese archeology. Whilst he mentions interaction with Tohoku, Yokoyama's view of the effect of Yayoi culture on Hokkaido is quite traditional. Other archeologists (including myself) see certain Epi-Jomon sites such as Usu as part of the Yayoi sphere. The omission of the Okhotsk and Ainu cultures from the article is a pity, but the rather dull section on the Satsumon is more than made up for by Yokoyama's recent excellent book entitled Satsumon Bunka [Satsumon Culture], published by the New Science Company (Tokyo, 1990).

 

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Early Japanese State Bibliography: a preliminary analysis
   by Gina L. Barnes, Cambridge University

[The 'Early Japanese State' and 'Yayoi' bibliographies distributed on request to EAAN registrants were preliminarily analysed for the panel participants in the 1989 Asahi Symposium on the 'Internationalization of Ancient Japan' held in Fukuoka. Since this analysis was not included in the book resulting from the symposium (Kodai Nihon no Kokusaika, Asahi Shimbun 1990), it is offered here for interested readers.]
One characteristic of the combined bibliography [which numbered approximately 300 items in 1989] is that although the works are in Western languages, the authors are almost equally split between foreign (53 ) and Japanese (47 ) nationalities. Thus, views of ancient Japan contained in these works can be initially separated into 1) those which the Japanese have considered worthy of presenting to the West by publication in Western languages and 2) those which represent the intrinsic interests of the foreign investigators as they researched and wrote about what they valued in ancient Japanese history. However, many of the Japanese authors have been trained in or are now teaching in a foreign country, and their views may correspondingly be more international than those of their colleagues in Japan. Furthermore, among the foreign authors are Koreans, Chinese and Russians who are writing in Western languages and are therefore able, like their Japanese counterparts, to influence Anglo-American thinking about ancient Japan. Works in Western languages other than English comprise only 7 of the total, suggesting that European nationals are not well represented.
The chronology of publication of the works in the bibliography shows a clear trend in terms of international interest in ancient Japan. The only works to be published in the 19th century were by foreigners, particularly those who were diplomats in Japan or acting advisors to the Meiji government-such as ES Morse, WG Aston, W Gowland, HS Munro, and E Satow. These familiar figures were preceded by R Hitchcock, who explored early Japanese material culture on behalf of the United States National Museum, now called the Smithsonian Institution. Japanese authors did not begin publishing in Western languages until the 20th century. Aside from a couple of early works presented to the West by K Asakawa and S Takahashi, which were notably large analytic volumes, the views of the Japanese became widely published only after 1930, presumably as part of Japan's efforts to explain itself abroad during its period of expansionism.
In the post-war period, Japanese authors slightly outpaced foreign authors during the recovery decades, publishing 13 works to the 5 by foreign authors in the 1950s, and 21 works versus 16 works by foreigners in the 1960s. However, the output of foreign authors increased dramatically in the 1970s, with 54 works published as opposed to 38 by Japanese authors. In the 1980s [to the date of writing this review in late 1988], publication rates were almost equal between Japanese and foreign authors (42 vs 38). But with more scholars from Japan than ever before now participating in international conferences and publishing in foreign journals, the trend might be for increasing predominance of Japanese-authored works in the Western language literature. This internationalization of Japanese scholarship outwards, however, is not being matched by significantly increasing involvement of foreign scholars and students in Japanese history and archaeology, participation presumably limited by the prospect of few job opportunities.
A preliminary categorization of subject matter in the bibliography yielded the following results (the figures will total more than 300 because some works deal with more than one subect). 42 works are general syntheses including historical or culture-historical descriptions which focus on Japan alone; however, a further 31 works put ancient history in a more international context. A full 60 works deal with the early state in some way-either its origins or its institutions; and 25 focus on social structure or social change. 54 works relate directly to documents in that they are translations of documents, or they discuss primary inscriptional materials, or they analyse aspects of society specifically known from the documents. Religion-consisting here of Shinto, Buddhism, early rituals and mythology-is the subject matter of 44 works; included among these are most of the publications dealing with architecture. Actual sites and settlements are focussed on by only 25 works, while 37 deal with burials-mainly mounded tombs. Art and artefacts form the topics of 62 works, among which 9 are devoted to dotaku, 8 to haniwa, and 8 to pottery.
The above are the major areas of interest represented in the bibliography; minor areas are subsistence with 12 works and ethnicity with 10, the latter including physical anthropology. These so-called 'minor' subjects are far more prominent in works dealing with the Jomon period, which are not part of this bibliography; thus, a bias can be detected in Western-language research on protohistoric Japan which tends to overlook matters of economics and ethnicity. A further 11 works deal with methodology, 8 with technology, and 6 with chronology, while only 2 are devoted to discussions of theory. These areas, which might be described as more scientific in nature-including the theory and methodology of the disciplines of history and archaeology themselves-are very poorly represented in the Western-language literature.
The Western reader thus has a fairly good opportunity to learn from this bibliography about the substantive content of ancient Japanese history (minus economics and ethnic problems) but little opportunity to find out how and why the authors portray Japanese protohistory as they do. In terms of divergence of interests between Japanese and foreign authors, it is clear that most categories of subject matter are treated more or less equally often by the two groups, while only a few are imbalanced. These latter categories are, for example, burials, settlement, methodology and society-of interest mainly to foreign authors; and subsistence and ethnicity/physical anthropology-of interest mainly to Japanese authors.
 

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JOBS!!

University of Virginia invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Asst. Prof. level for fall 1991 in the China field for a scholar whose work "addresses theoretical issues of broad relevance in the discipline." Focus of research is open and may be in social or linguistic anthropology or archaeology. Submit curriculum vitae and names of 3 referees to the Chair of the Search Committee, Dept of Anthropology, Univ of Virginia, Charlottesville VA USA 22906-9024. [Closing date not listed; from Asian Studies Newletter, Winter 1990.]

International Christian University invites applications for Asst. or Assoc. Prof. level in Japanese art. "Other Asian arts, an interest in Asian archaeology and some experience in teaching a field of western art most desirable." Ph.D. required. Send resume and names of 3 referees to Chair, Humanities Division, ICU, Mitaka, Tokyo. [Closing date not listed; from Asian Studies Newletter, Winter 1990.]

Garland Publishing seeks proposals for writing contributions to their new monograph series entitled Garland Research Guides to Ancient Civilizations. The series will publish guides to the important literature dealing with a single culture area, archaeological culture, or significant issues relating to ancient civilizations of the Old and New World. Each volume will have two parts: a critical introductory essay and a topically arranged annotated listing of the important relevant literature. For more information or to submit proposals contact: John M. Weeks, Series Editor, 5 Wilson Library, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN 55455 USA 612-624-5860. [from the SAA Bulletin, Nov 1990]

 

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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

 

EAANmember Maurizio Riotto writes to ask if the University of Cambridge Library has the main historical journals for Korea: Yoksa Hakpo (yes, from vol. 1, 1952), Chindan Hakpo (no) and Paeksan Hakpo (yes, from no. 1, 1966). Locations for these periodicals in Europe can be found in the Standortkatalog Koreanischer Zeitschriften in Europa (Union Catalogue of Korean Periodicals in Europe), compiled for AKSE by Norbert R. Adami. Berlin: Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 1987.

 

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NOTEWORTHIES

 

1. GRANTS RECEIVED

2. WOMENS STUDIES

3. ANCIENT CHINESE TEXT DATABASE PROJECT

The Institute of Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is compiling a computerized database of the entire body of extant Han and Pre-Han traditional Chinese texts. Completion target is mid-1992. Contact: Ancient Chinese Text Database Project, ICS, Chinese Univ of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong (from Asian Studies Newsletter, Annual Meeting Issue 1989)

4. INDEPENDENT SCHOLARS OF SOUTH ASIA

As reported in the Asian Studies Newletter, Winter 1990, this is a new, "national, non-profit organization created for the benefit of researchers with South Asian training, who are without tenure-track positions in academia, or who wish to support the goal of independent scholarship." [Would something like this be feasible for East Asia, allowing such an organization to be used as one's affiliation (katagaki) in order to apply for grants, etc.? Worth thinking about.]

5. KOMMISSION FÜR ALLGEMEINE UND VERGLEICHENDE ARCHÄOLOGIE,

Endenicher Str. 41, D-5300 Bonn 1 Germany
EAANmember Sabine Werner writes with information about her Institute, which was established as part of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in 1979. This Institute of General &
Comparative Archaeology, run by the Foreign Office on the same basis as the German Schools of Archaeology in Athens, Cairo, and Rome, is headed by Prof. K. Killian. Its activites cover the archaeological research in Latin America, Africa and Asia-that is, outside the Classical World and Ancient Orient. Three young Germans have been given scholarships at the Institute to finish monographs which will be published in the Institute's new series, Forschungen zur Allgemeine und vergleichende Archäologie. The first volume of this series is the Archaeological Remains in Pleistocene China, by J.S. Aigner, München: C.H. Beck, 1981. The Institute also publishes an annual series, Beiträge, containing articles on Far Eastern subjects; articles from colleagues writing in English are very welcome.
The Institute has invited several Chinese, Japanese and Korean scholars for short research visits. And among the annually appointed Corresponding Members of the DAI have been/are: XIA Nai, AN Zhimin, ZHANG Changshou, WANG Zhongshu, and TONG Enzheng (1990) from China; HAYASHI Minao, ITO Akio, SAHARA Makoto, and EGAMI Namio from Japan; and KIM Chewon from Korea.

6. INSTITUTE OF ARCHEO-REPLICA, TOKYO

This Institute, which specializes in the making of archaeological replicas, not only of artefacts but houses and whole sites, has established a branch office in London under the name Société Archéo Réalise (S.A.R.). Mr. Kazuo UENO, their London representative, writes that he is interested in developing cooperative projects in Japanese and British archaeology, such as they have already done for Italian archaeology. This would involve the reproduction of Japanese archaeological materials to exhibit side by side with British materials on a particular theme (his example, a Jomon ritual site reconstruction with materials on Celtic archaeology). The company aims at small-scale exhibits, and anyone interested in developing such a cooperative project is welcome to correspond with him at 56 Castletown Road, London W14 9HG England. 071-386-0803, FAX 071-385-5770. "We can provide money for such kind of very small scale project," he says. [I would imagine scholars from countries other than Britain could contact him about similar possibilities for cooperation.]

7. T.T. TSUI GALLERY OF CHINESE ART

EAANmember Rose Kerr writes that this new gallery of Chinese art will open at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in June 1991. The gallery, sited near to the main entrance at the front of the museum, has been completely refurbished and re-installed with the help of a £1.25 million donation from a Chinese patron, Mr. T.T. Tsui. Mr. Tsui is a prominent businessman and collector in his own right from Hong Kong. He first visited the V&A some twelve years ago and was favourably impressed by the polite and helpful attitudes of staff there. Then an unknown and fairly new collector, Mr. Tsui wished to see the three galleries devoted to Chinese porcelain on the top floor, which were closed at that time. A member of staff took him up there after work, and this friendly gesture was never forgotten!
The new Chinese gallery will contain treasures from the museum's large collection, arranged according to theme. The themes were selected on the basis of the V&A's holdings after a considerable amount of market research. They will be: Burial, Temple and Worship, The Domestic Trappings of a Well-to-do Household, Eating and Drinking, Imperial Possessions, and Collecting. All the signpanels in the gallery will be in both English and Chinese, and there will be specially designated "objects to touch" with braille labels. Interactive videos will be used to provide backup information, schools' packs will be available, and a fully colour-illustrated book will be published in April, 1990. The publication, T.T. Tsui Gallery: Chinese art and design, will be available from the V&A and via their distributors, Victor Gollancz, at £19.95.

 

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ASIAN SCHOLARS ABROAD (excluding students and conferencers)

 

Dr. SUNG Wen-hsun, Professor of Anthropology, National Taiwan University and Research Fellow in Archaeology, Academia Sinica, is a Visiting Scholar to CNRS in Paris for the first three months of 1991. He will be giving lectures on the Neolithic of Taiwan.

Prof. Hideo KONDO, from Tokai University in Kanagawa, Japan, is finishing a year's stay (April'90-March'91) at Cambridge University. As Visiting Scholar to the Department of Archaeology, he has been researching the origins of agriculture in India and Bulgaria.

Dr. Jinin FUKUSHI, from Risho University in Japan has been approved as a Senior Scholar to the Academy of Korean Studies in Songnam, Korea to research the area of mutual interaction between Buddhism in China, Korea and Japan during the 7th century.

 

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Call for Participation
4th International Senckenberg Conference, 2-6 Dec '91, Frankfurt am Main
This conference is being organised on the theme "100 Years of Pithecanthropus: The Homo erectus problem" by Jens L. Franzen, The Senckenberg Museum, Senckenberganlage 25, 6000 Frankfurt 1, Germany. Included will be 20 oral presentations, posters, discussions, a 2-day workshop concerned with the study and comparison of the original Pithecanthropus specimens of the Koenigswald Collection, and a 1-day fieldtrip to Messel, Heidelberg and Mauer to see Homo related finds. Persons interested in participating should contact Mr. Franzen as soon as possible.

American Association for the Advancement of Science Conference, New Orleans, Feb '90
At this conference, Milford Wolpoff organised a panel on continuity in worldwide Homo fossil remains to counter the Eve hypothesis [see the colloquial account of the controversy in Discover Aug'90:52-59]. Contact Prof. Wolpoff, Department of Anthropology, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA for details.

14th Annual Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe,19-23 April '90 in Warsaw
Among the many papers on Korean studies were these offered by University of Warsaw faculty members:
Ogarek-Czoj, Halina: A Korean solar myth and some problems of its transference to Japan
Tubielewicz, Jolanta: Japanese attitudes toward Korean immigration reflected in the oldest extant literary works

42nd Annual Meeting, Association for Asian Studies, 5-8 April '90, Chicago
Panels [see the AAS programme for paper listings] on East Asian topics other than archaeology [listed in EAANnouncements 1] were:
Panel: The unreceived tradition: new perspectives on ancient Chinese culture in light of recent paleographic discoveries, organised by Edward L. Shaughnessy
Panel: Warfare and the state in ancient China, organised by Lisa Raphals
Panel: Classics studies in the Han: the emergence of a new paradigm, organised by Steve Van Qoeren

35th International Conference of Orientalists in Japan, 11 May 1990, Tokyo
Edwards, Walter: Buried discourse: the Toro archaeological site and national identity in postwar Japan
 

33rd International Congress of Asian & North African Studies, 19-25 August 1990, Toronto
Local organiser: Victor C. Falkenheim, East Asian Studies Dept, Univ Toronto. East Asian archaeology papers and other of interest were:
Yang, Xiao-jie: The origin and genealogy of the land of immortals in Japanese literature
Taira, Koji: The rise and demise of the Ryukyuan state
Murayama, Yoshihiro: James Legge and China: mainly on his translation of the Shi Jing
Jing, Qi-min: Architectural patterns of Chinese cave house
Amano, Tetsuya: The history of the bear ceremonial
Kidder, J.E. Jr.: The Yoshinogari site and the Himiko mirrors
Gabbrielli, Luciana: L'héritage de la Sibérie dans la mythologie et la culture japonaise
Han, Sang-Bum & Yeun, Kee-young: The development of law, culture and bureaucratism in East Asia
Chen, Yan: On the maritime 'silk road' and the cultural exchange between China and foreign countries
Karashima, Noboru: Discoveries of Chinese potsherds at the ports on the Malabar Coast mentioned by WANG Dayuang in the 14th century
Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman: Mongolian figures in Chinese painting: cases at Chifeng
Liscomb, Kathyrn Maurean: The relationship of Chinese painting and the traditional sciences prior to contact with the West
Duan, Wenjie: From the styles of Dunhuang art to see exchanges between China and the West
Oblas, Peter B.: Resurrection of ancient Japan: mass media and racialism
Kazar, Lajos: Central Asian roots of proto-Japanese suggested by Uralic, Altaic and Indo-European links
Pan, Jin-shih: A report on the state of preservation at the Dunhuang Caves
Wang, Jia-shu: Motifs of a continuous circle in the art of Dunhuang and Yunkang
Shimbo, Toru: The scrolls of the Ten Kings of Hell from Dunhuang
Chang, Cornelius P.: Royal patronage of Yunkang Caves by the Toba Tartar emperors of the Northern Wei
Ang, Choulean: La persistence a travers l'histoire du culte des megalithes et de la grotte au Cambodge
Tsai, Che-mao: An analysis of the identity of 'Mou Wang' and 'Wang Lu' in oracle bone inscriptions
Blakely, Barry: Crown and clan in Chu during the Spring and Autumn period
Psarras, Sophia-Karin: The Xiung Nu and the later Han

11th Rencontres Internationales d'Archéologie et d'Histoire, Antibes-Juan-les-Pins, 18-20 Oct '90
The subject matter of this conference was "25 ans d'études technologiques: bilan et perspectives"; further information is available from Secretariat des Rencontres, CNRS-CRA, Lucette Pallier, Sophia Antipolis 06565 Valbonne, France. The East Asian presentation was:
Yamanaka, Ichiro: Les industries du paléolithique supérieur au Japon et leurs études récents par le remontage

3rd Conference of the Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe, Brussels, 18-21 Dec '90
Organised by Dr. Ian C. Glover, Institute of Archaeology, University of London. Papers on East Asia were:
Dewall, Magdalene von: Bi-metallic tools and weapons in East and Southeast Asia
Pope, Geoffrey: Paleoanthropology in Asia: the demise of 'Eve'
Alba, Larry: Comparative analysis of 16-17th century Chinese tradewares from underwater sites in the Philippines
Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens, Michelle: Cowries in the intersocial network of the Dian Kingdom
Wang, Dadao: Yunnan pottery in the Bronze Age
Eilenberg, Samuel: On the drums from Yunnan

FORTHCOMING:
43nd Annual Meeting, Association for Asian Studies, 11-14 April '91, New Orleans
Panels and Roundtables on early East Asia of interest to archaeologists scheduled for the AAS meetings are:
Roundtable: The current state and future directions of Early China Studies
Panel: New views on ancient Chinese history, literature, and art?
Panel: Buried documents and documents on burials: mortuary practice and precept in early China
Panel: Ryukyu and Japan: the politics of language and culture in a 'homogeneous' state
Panel: The emergence of the Ocho Kokka: the imperial state and its redefinition in 8th-11th century Japan
Panel: State formation in early south and southeast Asia: contributions of historical geography

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In addition to the above notices, several East Asia conferences are reported in Early China News, No. 3, Fall 1990. See it for details on the seven topics listed below. Copies are available to members of the Society for the Study of Early China. To join, send $30.00 to Early China, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.

Early China News 3 Contents:

  1. China at the Circum-Pacific Prehistory Conference by L. von Falkenhausen [a review of all East Asian material presented at the Seattle conference in August 1989, divided into sections on Human Evolution and Paleolithc; Old World-New World Connections; Neolithic and Later Periods].
  2. Symposium New Perspectives on Chu Culture during the Eastern Zhou Period by Constance A. Cook [a review of papers given on 27 April 1990 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington D.C.
  3. Sixth International Conference on the History of Science in China by David W. Pankenier [a description of the conference, held at Robinson College, Cambridge England 2-7 August 1990, and a list of papers concerning early China].
  4. Abstracts of Conference Panels, compiled by David W. Goodrich [abstracts are published for the papers given at the following panels]:

    Panel: "Recent discoveries in China: the Center and the Peripheries" organized by Jean M. James at the American Institute of Archaeology Meetings, Boston, 29 December '89.
    Underhill, Anne P.: A discussion of the Hemudu, Hongshan, and Liangzhu cultures
    Huber, Louisa G. Fitzgerald: Shang bronze styles from the period of the intervening capitals
    Wu Hung: A case study of Shang-Zhou 'provincial' bronzes: some problems in methodology
    Murowchick, Robert E.: Recent discoveries concerning bronze production and the metals trade among the southwestern barbarians
    Linduff, Katheryn M.: The Western Zhou transformation
    Goodrich, David W. The barbarian element in the Eastern Zhou state of Zhongshan

    Panel: "The Unreceived Tradition: new perspectives on ancient Chinese culture in light of recent paleographic discoveries" organized by Edward L. Shaughnessy for the Association for Asian Studies Meetings, Chicago 6 April '90.

    Panel: "Tiger on the Horizon: a re-examination of 'Chinese influences' on the Manchurian basin and the Korean peninsula" organized by Gina L. Barnes for the Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Las Vegas 13 April '90. [titles for these papers were given in EAANnouncements 1; see the abstracts in this Early China News volume].
  5. Conference programs [short descriptions of the conferences and full lists of the papers presented are given in this section].
    1989 Shang Conference in Anyang: a symposium to commemorate the nintieth anniversary of the discovery of Yinxu oracle-bone inscriptions 10-14 September 1989, Anyang [all papers in Chinese].

    Midwest Regional Early China Seminar 20-22 October 1989, Chicago organized by Edward Shaughnessy, Univ Chicago [papers listed of archaeological interest are:]
    Poor, Robert: Modular structures in ancient Chinese Bronzes
    Shaughnessy, Edward: Shang-Zhou relations as seen in Shang oracle-bone inscriptions
    Thorp, Robert: The late reigns at Anyang

    Third Annual New England Symposium on Chinese Thought
    organized by Robin D.S. Yates at Dartmouth College 18-20 May 1990
    [an archaeological paper of interest was:]
    Bickford, Maggie: The archaeological excavations of the Han tombs at Ma-wang-tui

    International Symposium on Xia Culture
    organized by Hung-hsiang CHOU at UCLA, 23-25 May 1990, Los Angeles [papers in Chinese and English on four topics: historical problems; chronology; archaeological problems; Pre-Xia, Xia, and Shang cultures; jade, lacquer and bronze technology. Western scholars giving papers of archaeological interest were:]
    Allan, Sarah: Was there a Xia: problems in historical methodology
    Kryukov, Michael V.: Xia nation: reality or myth?
    Nivison, David S.: A chronology of China to the end of Xia
    Underhill, Anne P.: Archaeological evidence for the evolution of the Xia state
    Kessler, Adam T.: The ancestral worship temple remains at the Erlitou site
    Thorp, Robert L.: Erlitou and the search for Xia: a critique of contemporary Chinese archaeology
    Kuczera, Stanislaw: The puzzle of Xia: is Erlitou a solution?
    Huber, Louise Fitzgerald: The background of Xia culture
    Childs-Johnson, Elizabeth: Xia period jades in perspective: the insignia
    Barnard, Noel: Thoughts on the emergence of metallurgy in pre-Shang and early Shang China, and a technical appraisal of relevant bronze artifacts of the time

    International Academic Symposium on Circum-Bohai Archaeology
    organized by Guo Dashun and Sun Shoudao 24 September 1990, Dalien     [most papers in Chinese, two contributions by Western scholars:]
    Nelson, Sarah: Is Korean west coast Chulmun derivative from Liaodong?
    Rhee, Song Nai: Bronze Age culture of Korea and its origins
  6. Computerized Concordances of the Standard Histories
  7. The Recent Discovery of a Major Han Tomb Site Near Xian

 

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