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JOSEPH NEEDHAM

From Nathan Sivin to the EAAN network, Friday 24 March 1995, 17:45
A little over an hour ago, Joseph Needham died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Cambridge, England, at the age of ninety-four. Until this last day, he maintained his habit of going to his office in the Needham Research Institute every day. It is too soon for an obituary, but many of those who receive this message will have received his always generous help with their scholarship, and will remember him not only (or his enormous contribution to our understanding of Chinese culture, but for his wit, his imagination, and his sympathetic interest in everyone he met.
 

GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLECT, CAMBRIDGE

NOEL JOSEPH TERENCE
MONTGOMERY NEEDIIAM
C.H., F.H.S., F.B.A., SC.D., HON. LITT.D.

MASTER 1966-1976
FELLOW 1914-1966 AND 1976-1995
PRESIDENT 1959-1966
SIR WILLIAM DUNN READER IN
BIOCHEMISTRY 1933-1966

Born 9 December 1900
 Died 24 March 1995

A Memorial Service
will be held in Great St Mary's Church on Saturday at June 1995 at 2.30 pm
 

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MEMBER NEWS (in alpha-order):

Boy, nothing provokes a response from readers faster than publishing their wrong address in the recent EAANmembers Directory (EAANnouncements 14). Newly submitted contact numbers are listed below. If you do not want defunct numbers to appear in future EAANnouncements, please send me a change of address/numbers when they happen!
 

Gina BARNES (St John's College, Cambridge) is currently off to China to attend the Pacific Science Congress and arrange permissions for autumn fieldwork at Niuheliang. Her schedule for the rest of the year is: 4-29 June away; 30 June-1 Sept in Cambridge; 1 Sept-12 Nov away; 12 Nov-31 Dec reachable through the Dept of Archaeology, Cambridge. On 1 January 1996, she will take up a new position, the Chair in Japanese in the East Asian Studies Department, Univ of Durham, Durham, England. Details of her contact numbers there will be published in the autumn 'nouncements.

Bruce BATTEN (Inter-Univ Center, Japan) is leaving his administrative position and returning to full-time teaching and research in the autumn. From 1 Sept he will be at:
School of International Studies
Obirin University
3758 Tokiwa-machi
Machida-shi, Tokyo 194-02, Japan
Work 0427-97-2661
FAX 0427-97-1887
email: BRUCE@PPP.BEKKOAME.OR.JP

CAO Bingwu (Prehistoric through early historic Chinese archaeology)
c/o Department of Archaeology
National Museum of Chinese History
Tiananmen Square
Beijing, China
Work 1-602-5540
FAX 1-512-8986
email: WUGATE@mimi.cnc.ac.cn

Kwang-tzuu CHEN notifies us of his return to Taiwan. His new address is:
Institute of History & Philology
Academia Sinica
Nankang
Taipei 11529, Taiwan
Work 02-782-9555
FAX 02-786-8834

Elizabeth CHILDS-JOHNSON (Hamilton Coll) is currently on leave for two semesters to work on a collaborative project award on Jade Age art and archaeology: "The role of jade as art and the emergence of Chinese civilization." She and MOU Yongkang (Zhejiang Institute of Archaeology) and K.C. Chang (Harvard) have been awarded funding through 1996 by the Li Foundation, represented by the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China (CSCC), the National Academy of Sciences and their Chinese Fellowship for Scholarly Development. To fulfill their project, Prof. Mou will spend most of his time beginning in the fall of 1995 working in New York and Boston with his collaborators and travelling to visit jade collections at various locations in the US.
Elizabeth is also working on the final revision of her manuscript for publication, The birth of the Chinese ancestor cult: the art of the Shang ritual vessel. Her recent publications in Chinese include: "Shangdai fenghuang-Gou dao shenling de meijie," Sichuan Wenwu Zazhi, in press; "Shangren liyi yishu zhongde shamanjiao tezheng jidui Sichuan Guanghan Sanxingdui xinjin faxian de tuize," Nanfang minzu kaogu 1989.2, Sichuan University.

Dr. Julie L. CORMACK (Prehistoric archaeology of East Asia)
Anthropology Department
232 Kroeber Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94704-3710 USA
FAX 510-643-8557
email: cormack@qal.berkeley.edu
Julie is presently involved in editing and statistical analysis of an Early to Middle Stone Age Zambian site, Kalambo Falls, with Prof. J.D. Clark. She completed her Ph.D. thesis last year at the University of Liverpool on "Early Stone Age Heavy Duty Implements of Africa." She is interested in early core tool forms (e.g. choppers, polyhedrons, spheroids, picks etc.) and hopes to expand her research interests into Asia, particularly China.

Laurence DENÈS (Univ Paris) writes to say that her address was incorrectly given in the recent Members Directory. The postcode should be 02370 not 12370 as given.

Martina DEUCHLER (SOAS, Univ London) has been resident at Harvard where she gave a talk on "Problems in the interpretation of Korean society" for the Korea Institute. She also delivered the 9th annual Reischauer Memorial Lecture, on "Class, status, and gender in the formation of traditional Korean society: an East Asian perspective."

Walter EDWARDS (Tenri Univ) is currently studying postwar Japanese archaeology, especially in the Nara Basin) as it relates to the question of the location of Yamatai. He is also researching prewar uses of themes and images from archaeological and mytho-historic sources in support of nationalistic goals.

Lothar von FALKENHAUSEN (UCLA) organised a symposium in February last year (1994) on "Current Approaches to Chinese Art: perspectives from southern California" (p PAPERS READ)

Wayne FARRIS (Tenri Univ) writes to say he his still involved in writing his book on historical archaeology.

Janet GOODWIN (Aizu Univ) is currently on the faculty of a new prefectural university in Japan, the University of Aizu (in Aizu Wakamatsu, Fukushima Pref), attached to the Center for Cultural Research. She is now working on two projects: a study of prostitution prior to the Edo period (partly funded by a Fulbright grant) and a study of Aizu history, involving considerable archaeological materials. As an experiment, she is now working with some virtual-reality specialists to put together a walk-through of Enichiji Temple based on excavated findings.

Mark HUDSON (ANU) writes to say the wrong area code numbers were published for him in the recent EAANnouncements. The Canberra code is 06 so his work number is 6-249-3186; FAX 6-249-2711.

Fumiko IKAWA-SMITH (McGill Univ) is taking a small group of McGill students to Japan this summer, as in 1994, to participate in excavations conducted by organizations administering salvage archaeology. This year's project is coordinated by the Nara National Institute for Cultural Properties Research, with a short orientation course in early June.
This past year Fumiko has been invited to give lectures at the Department of Archaeology, Kokugakuin University ("Origins and dispersal of Homo sapiens: with special reference to the Palaeolithic of East Asia" 27 June 1994) and at the Kitakami City Center for Buried Cultural Properties Research, Iwate-ken, Japan ("Peopling of the New World" 1 June 1994).

Juha JANHUNEN (Univ Helsinki) is currently on sabbatical at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, working on a book on Manchurian ethnic history (to be finished by the end of this year) and continuing work on the Khitan ethnic group and their cultural heritage, especially the Khitan small script. Bronze mirrors of the Liao and Jin periods are also receiving his attention. In addition to two conference papers (p Papers Read), Juha has published an article in Japanese on "Khitanjin wa nanigo o hanashite ita ka?" in the Minpaku Tsūshin 68: 82-5, 1995. He will be returning to Helsinki in September.

Prof. J.Edward KIDDER, Jr. has retired from ICU to North Carolina and is active in East Asian Archaeology activities in the area. He can be reached at PO Box 56, Crossnore, NC 28616 USA.

Kathy LINDUFF (Univ Pittsburg) has given several invited papers this past year including "Archaeological recovery and the study of Chinese art history" (Friends Lecture, 29 Sept 1994, Univ Pittsburgh). She attended the Shang conference in Luoyang and the 'Early Horsekeepers' conference in Kazakhstan (p PAPERS READ).

Helen LOVEDAY and Mike Morris (Geneva) are proud parents of MarcThomas, born April 6th.

PAK Yangjin (Harvard) is busy finishing his dissertation and will be travelling to Korea and northeast China during the summer. He has been selected as a recipient of the Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard and will therefore continue research there for another year from September.

Joan PIGGOTT (Cornell Univ) has passed tenure review and has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. She will be spending the next year on sabbatical in Japan.

Forrest PITTS (Santa Rosa, CA) is continiuing his work on a manuscript entitled "Cultural diffusion: models and reality"

Michael PUETT (Harvard) has been moving around for the past two years, including a year-long stay in China last year, but has now settled at Harvard for at least the next five years as Assistant Professor of Early Chinese History.
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Harvard University
2 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
email: puett@husc.harvard.edu

Jessica RAWSON (Merton College Oxford) was the keynote speaker at an international symposium held on 28-29 April 1995 in conjunction with the exhibition "Adornment for Eternity: status and rank in Chinese ornament" at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado.

RILEY, Ms. Barbara E. (East Asian historical linguistics)
92-430 Akaula St.
Kapolei, HI 96707 USA
Home 808-672-5559
Work 808-956-2086
FAX 808-672-5655
Barbara is working on a PhD at the University of Hawaii on proto-Japanese-Korean using dialectal data in addition to previous works, such as Martin (1966) and Whitman (1985), aiming to write her own reconstructions. She has just completed fieldwork consisting of 45 interviews in Kyushu and Okinawa for dialect research, and her current research projects including working on a multi-authored book on Okinawa.

RUMBALL ROGERS, Ms. Pamela (Prehistoric to early historic Chinese archaeology)
Centre of Asian Studies
University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong
Home 252-14718
FAX 252-78490
Pamela is a doctoral student at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, writing on maritime adaptation in the prehistory of the Pearl River Delta area of South China. Currently she is a Research Associate at the Centre in Hong Kong and her primary interests are in the maritime adaptation in the prehistory of Southeast Asia. She is co-director of the Phuket Project, an on-going study of maritime adaptation in South Thailand.

SERAFIM, Prof. Leon A. (Korean & Japanese historical linguistics)
East Asian Languages & Literatures
382 Moore Hall Work 808-956-2086
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Home 808-734-3278
FAX 808-956-9515
email: serafim@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Leon is Assistant Professor of Japanese at University of Hawaii at Manoa. His specialties are the history and prehistory of the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages, and their genetic or other relationship to other Asian languages, in particular those of the Korean peninsula and of Manchuria. He maintains an active interest in related historical disciplines in order to keep the linguistic changes in context.

Gideon SHELACH (Univ Pittsburgh) is currently doing fieldwork for his Ph.D. thesis on "Settlement pattern survey at the Chifeng area, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China." He will return to Pittsburgh in mid-August. Until then mail is being held for him at the Department of Archaeology, Beijing University.

Anthony SINCLAIR (Univ Liverpool) is still working on a book on Palaeolithic archaeology in Japan with Prof. M. Ambiru, Meiji University, Tokyo. His more detailed work address is:
Archaeological Sciences, William Hartley Building, Brownlow St., Liverpool L69 3BX, England

Stéphanie SOUHAITÉ (Univ Paris), who has been studying in Taiwan for the last year or so, travelled to Thailand from February to April to join the French Archaeological Mission in Thailand (Director Dr. J-P Pautreau, CNRS, and Tassna Doy-Asa, Fine Arts Dept, Bangkok). They made some surveys in the Ping river valley (Chiang Mai province, Hod district) and some test pits in two sites yielding a Hoabinhian industry. She is now on her way back to France where she will spend the next academic year. She can be reached at:
11 bis rue Faraday, 75017 Paris, France
Home 42 27 30 83
email: souhaite@clamart.wireline.slb.com or: r2105009@ccms.ntu.edu.tw

WILLIAMS, Crispin (Archaeology history & language of early historic China)
1-324 Shao Yuan Dorm
Beijing University
Beijing 100271 PRC
1-250-2219/20
FAX 1-256-4095
Crispin is a Ph.D. candidate in the East Asian Studies Dept at SOAS, Univ London, studying early Chinese language and culture under Sarah Allan. He is presently on a 10-month Chinese scholarship (through the British Council) at Beida Archaeology Dept, hoping to extend this for another year. Planning to work on the Houma mengshu for his thesis, he would like to hear from anyone else planning to work or already working on these.

WRIGHT, Joshua (Chinese & Korean archaeology & history)
Dept of Archaeology
Downing Street
Cambridge CB2 3DZ, England
email: jsw22@cam.ac.uk
Josh is an M.Phil. student doing East Asian archaeology.
 

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FIELD & RESEARCH REPORTS:

For articles to appear in this section, they should be limited to 500 words and submitted to the Editor by the issue deadlines stated on the front cover of EAANnouncements: mid-January for the Winter issue, mid-May for the Summer issue, and mid-September for the Autumn issue. The editor reserves the right to edit or decline to print. Please report research here!!
 

CHINA ROUND-UP

Compiled and edited by Francis Allard, University of Pittsburgh

We can thank the recently established electronic discussion group for Early East Asian Archaeology and History (eaan) for the more efficient transmission of information concerning recent and upcoming fieldwork in China. We'll be including in future newsletters a new section on upcoming fieldwork. Please let me know of your research plans abroad so that this information can be shared. Rest assured of then being provided with 'gentle' reminders about possible contributions to the newsletter. E-Mail: Fnast1@vms.cis.pitt.edu
 

Regional Survey of the Yinhe River Basin, Chifeng Area, Inner Mongolia
  by Gideon Shelach

The research which I carried out over the past year In the Chifeng area was partly funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Grant and by a Pacific CuItural Foundation Research Grant. The survey was designed lo address the issue of change over time in the region's political and economic systems. The research focuses on the processes by which small scale egalitarian societies that inhabited north China made the relatively rapid transition to complex societies. In order to achieve this, it was decided that we should aim for a complete coverage of the area and try lo delect broader settlement patterns rather than provide detailed descriptions of a few "important" sites.
The survey itself was conducted over a period of seven months, beginning in October 1994 and ending in July 1995. During the winter months, when the temperatures dropped to -20 Celsius and even the local Baijiu provided little warmth, I spent time doing archival work. Prof Yan Wenming of Beida helped me obtain the necessary permits. Once in Chifeng, I managed to secure the help of the local authorities and arranged all the technical details of the survey. Over the past year, I have cooperated closely with the International Research Center of Northern Chinese Cultures and with the History department of the local Zhaowuda Mongolian Teachers College. My survey team included three people, usually teachers from the History department with archaeological field experience. Obtaining detailed maps of the area was a major problem. Until recently, the only one available to me was a copy of a 1:250,000 topographic map, which provided too few details. Faced with this problem, I purchased a GPS receiver and used it to record the coordinates of each site, which will later be plotted on recently acquired topographical maps and satellite photos.
We covered an area of some 200 square km stretching 25 km along both banks of the Yinhe river. The area was defined as such in an attempt to include at least one complete polity unit within its boundaries. We located more than 180 sites, including 10 Hongshan (ca.3500-2000 BC) sites, 69 Lower Xiajiadian (ca.2300-1600 BC) sites, 68 Upper Xiajiadian (ca.900-400 BC) sites, and 8 sites dated to the Qin-Han period. Most sites displayed clear spatial boundaries. Fortunately, surface visibility was very good, even lor small sites with no architectonic remains. In the case of most Lower Xiajiadian sites, the excellent preservation made it possible lo locale stone walls, which at some sites are still several meters high, as well as individual structures located inside or outside the enclosures. At each site, a sketch map was prepared, with emphasis placed on the site's size and the distribution of special structures within it. In some cases, I was able to count the number of structures and measure their size. This Information will be used in the analytical phase of the research when sites are compared and when an attempt is made to determine site functions and population numbers. At each site, photos were taken and ceramic and other small artifacts were collected in order to help in the task of establishing site chronology and function.
While my project clearly builds on the results ol the many previous archaeological investigations carried out in the Chifeng area since the 1930's, it also recognizes that the methods and theoretical orientation of Chinese archaeology have not favored the generation of data suited for a discussion of long term changes in settlement patterns and social organization. I believe my research to be the first such systematic attempt to address this issue in the Chifeng area. While the final results ol the project must await the complete analysis of the data, I present here a few preliminary and impressionistic findings. It does seem, for example, that Lower Xiajiadian sites are found in concentrations and only in certain types of locations, while in other environmental zones only late sites are found. Importantly, Lower Xiajiadian sites seem to display a three-level central-place distribution pattern, with the largest site located in the center of the cluster and several medium size sites evenly distributed around it. Interestingly, it is not until the Liao dynasty (AD 907-1125) that we witness once more in this region the high population densities reached during the Lower and Upper Xiajiadian periods. Finally, a preliminary comparison of the location and structure of Lower and Upper Xiajiadian sites seems to indicate a transition from an agricultural economy to one based on animal husbandry.

Department of Anthropology
University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh. PA 15260
 

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A Brief Visit to Chifeng and Vicinity. Niuheliang and the Russian Far East
  by Sarah Nelson

One major lesson from this trip: it's hard to get to the Russian Far East from China! Logistics aside, it was an interesting trip and people were extraordinarily helpful. I covered a lot of territory and visited many sites in a short period of time. In Chifeng, I was hosted by the International Research Center of Northern Chinese Cultures, a new organization whose aim is the promotion of the archaeology of eastern Inner Mongolia. On the first day, I visited the site of Hongshan itself - a massive formation of red rocks near Chifeng. The site has become a park, with much that is recently constructed. I was shown artifacts collected following a recent heavy rain storm, including a semi-lunar knife, a small bowl, and a tiny carved stone bird, all of which are consistent with the material excavated from stone cist burials al Hongshan-Hou by the Japanese in the 1930's (but which I saw only from a distance). Within the park, sherds are easily located on the surface. The museum has an exhibit on Xinglongwa, an important site whose long-awaited report will soon be published (although many details remain 'secret'). Also on display are artifacts from Xiaoheyan, which is now believed to date between Hongshan and Lower Xiajiadian, as well as many bronzes dating to the Upper Xiajiadian, Spring and Autumn and Warring Slates periods.
I also visited the impressive site of Xiajiadian, where the remains of houses, walls and towers made of local basalt are still visible. The basalt, which is covered by a thick layer of loess, is exposed along the river, suggesting the transportation of the rock from the river to the hilltops where the sites are located. Local villagers have planted crops on all flat ground, no doubt disturbing some ol the stones. Other hillforts are located on adjacent hills. We also visited one unnamed and unexcavaled site where both an upper and lower enclosure can be seen, and looked at rock art - mostly laces and abstract patterns - pecked into basalt boulders. The visit to Aohan and its museum was done with much fanfare, with TV cameras and the lady mayor of Aohan present for the occasion. A special exhibit had been prepared of rarely seen artifacts from the sites of Xinglongwa, Zhaobaogou, Xiaoheyan, Hongshan and Tianjiayingzi. The Hongshan jades included large jade axes and zhulong. Although no C14 dates are available, it is said that the thick potsherds with crude incised lines precede Xinglongwa. Artifacts from several siles located along the Laoha river were also included in this special exhibit. The cameras also accompanied us to the sites, located only 30 km away but requiring two hours ol travel by jeep.
At the site of Dadianzi, which is marked by a granite stele, it is still possible to make out the city wall and the burial ground, although the whole area is planted in millet. At the site of Xinglongwa, localed on a gentle hill-slope and surrounded by a ditch, the remains of houses can still clearly be seen. About 130 houses were excavated, with the largest (140 sq. meters) located in the center of the site. Across the road are Zhaobaogou and Xiaoshan culture sites, while another Hongshan site occupies a nearby slope. In Ningcheng, located south of Chifeng, the local museum has exhibits of Upper Xiajiadian material, although more interesting are the artifacts (especially pottery) stored at the Cultural Relics Bureau in the same complex. These date to the Lower and Upper Xiajiadian, and to the Warring Slates period. '
At the site of Niuheliang, I was met by members of the Institute of Archaeology in Shenyang. Three days at the site allowed me visit several localities discovered since 1987. There is a 9 meter high earth pyramid surrounded by a ring of stone 60 meters in diameter. Many crucible fragments are found on the top. I revisited the Goddess Temple, which has been backfilled, and live of the tomb groups. A new museum has been built at the site, but it is not yet open. I saw the recently excavated material from Chahai, which will be analyzed or stored at Niuheliang. The people at Niuheliang are encouraging tourists to visit the site and have built pleasant small guest houses to accommodate them. We drove back lo Shenyang via Chaoyang and the site of Chahai. In Chaoyang, we saw two pagodas, one of which was being excavated along its base. In the museum, tomb relics dated to the 3rd to 5th centuries display similarities with those recovered from Three Kingdom tombs (especially Silla) in Korea. A lacquered wooden stirrup found in a tomb whose inscription dates it to the early 3rd century AD is said lo be Ihe oldest stirrup yet found in China. Vessels found in a tomb dated to AD 415 are identified as Roman. At Chahai, an enormous museum has been constructed. It houses various exhibits as well as a circular diorama showing the prehistoric inhabitants engaging in various activities. In Harbin, I had time only lo visit the Natural History Museum and to meet with local archaeologists. Exhibits in the Heilongjiang Museum are extensive and interesting. At the Minorities Museum, there are displays on the various minorities of Heilongjiang, including Koreans.
My flights on Aeroflot, from Harbin to Khabarovsk and from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok, didn't crash... Vladivostok, which was only opened to the outside world in 1992, has some very appealing architecture. Its archaeologists are divided between the Archaeological Institute and the Archaeology Department of the Russian Far East University, both of whose collections I saw. For Asianists, the most interesting new sites are those belonging to the Boisman culture, which display many similarities with North Korean coastal sites. Impressed sherds are said to be older than incised pottery. Members of the Institute are carrying out complex pottery analysis and environmental reconstruction. I was also taken to see an Iron Age shellmound localed near the head of the bay where the Suifen river empties. The Russian archaeologists are eager to develop further contacts with their counterparts abroad.

Department of Anthropology
University of Denver
2130 South Race Denver, CO 80208
 

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DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS
 

The significance of the older Palaeolithic occurrences in the Nihewan Basin, northern China, in the context of important Early and Middle Pleistocene northern Chinese localities
KEATES, Susan G., Ph.D., Oxford University, 1995

This thesis presents studies of the stone artefact assemblages from two late Early Pleistocene sites in the Nihewan Basin, northern China. It also examines the depositionary, chronological, and environmental framework of these sites. The archaeological evidences, including the cultural, depositionary, chronological and environmental data recovered from important Early and Middle Pleistocene northern Chinese localities, are examined based mainly on published data, and discussed in the context of the results of the Nihewan hominid behavioural evidences. Alternative explanations to the Chinese traditional model are presented which may advance a more substantive understanding of lithic variability and of the informal character of these northern Chinese lithic assemblages. A survey of the historical development of Palaeolithic studies in China, the theoretical and methodological orientations of Chinese archaeology and associated disciplines, the practical problems involved in research, and the current interpretations of the palaeoenvironmental data are also included for a deeper understanding of the background of the present knowledge of hominid behaviour in the region. The thesis also includes biographical sources for Chinese Palaeolithic prehistory.
 

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JOBS & GRANTS

CSCC (Committee for Scholarly Communication on China)
Application forms for the 1996-7 scholarly exchange programs with China are available now for submission in the autumn. The application deadlines for the Graduate program and the Research Program are 13 October 1995. The nomination deadline for Chinese Fellowships for Scholarly Development is 3 November 1995. For forms and instructions, contact: CSCC, 1055 Thomas Jefferson St NW, Suite 2013, Washington, DC 20007 USA. Tel. 202-337-1250; Fax 337-3109; Internet: China@NAS.edu

Grants Received

CSCC (Committee for Scholarly Communication on China)
"Gender and identity among Chinese Muslims in Xi'an," Maris Boyd Gillette (from Harvard to Shaanxi Acad. Soc. Sci)
"Settlement trends and sociopolitical evolution: the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in the middle Yellow river valley," by Jimmy A. Railey (from Wash. Univ, St. Louis to Nat Hist Mus, Beijing)
"Pastoral management and domestic economy among ethnic Tibetans in Sichuan," by Nancy E. Levine (from UCLA to Chinese Center for Tibetan Studies)

KOREA FOUNDATION
Yokoyama, Koichi (Fukuoka City Museum) "Promoting the study of ancient history and archaeology of Korea and Japan"
Monroe, Dan (Peabody Museum) "Discussions on opening a Korean Gallery in Peabody Museum"
Myl'nikov, Aleksander S. (Museum Anth & Ethno, Peter the Great) "Disscussions on the Foundation's program to study Korean collections housed in foreign museums"
Sasse, Werner (Hamburg Univ) "Korean linguistic history: language of Silla"
Gelman, Evgeniya (Institute of Far Eastern Peoples' History, Arch & Ethn) "A joint project with Korea for an excavation in the Maritime Province of Siberia"
Kim, Han-kyo (Univ Cincinnati) "Post-unification integration based on the cases of Silla and Koryo"

JAPAN FOUNDATION
Fan, Zaixuan (Dunhuang Institute) "Wall painting conservation." Geidai, Tokyo
Su, Zhirong (Shanxi Archaeological Institute) "Excavation of a 2nd c. BC Japanese village." Hyogo Kyoi
Ndoro, Webber (Nat Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe) "Conservation of archaeological and historical sites." Tobunken
 

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EXHIBITIONS & MUSEUM NEWS

This section may include overlaps with Newsletter, EAAA listings; for fuller information about art historical showings, subscribe to Newsletter, East Asian Art & Archaeology, Dept. Art History, Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi 48109-1357 USA.

The Denver Art Museum has continuing special exhibitions on "Adornment for eternity: Status and Rank in Chinese Ornament" (through 3 Sept 95), "Ancient Chinese Art from the Sze Hong collection" (through 7 Jan 96), and "Mongolia: Legacy of Chinggis Khan (to 25 Feb 96).

A collection of objects by Quentin Roosevelt is being exhibited at Harvard University under the title of "The art and artifacts of the Naxi."

A permanent Korean gallery was opened at the Seattle Asian Art Museum on 9 Aug 1994, supported by the Korea Foundation. The Korean collection totals around 100 ceramics and paintings, some of which are exhibited in the gallery 600 sq ft in size. Korean galleries are also planned for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Museé Guimet in Paris. The Korean Foundation is also sending teams to evaluate holdings in Russian and Chinese museums. In 1993, the KF sponsored a representative to attend the 4th UNIDROIT conference in Rome to discuss ways of cooperating with other countries and international legal prodedures to realize the return of Korea's cultural assets taken out of Korea illegally in the past.

The Helen D. Ling Collection of Chinese Ceramics was on display from 18 Jan-9 Mar 1995 at the University of Maryland, College Park. The collection includes about 100 pieces dating from ca. 200 BC through the Qing Dynasty.

An exhibition of 80 spectacular Chinese ceramics ranging in date from the Neolithic to the Song dynasty in the Meiyintang Collection was on display at the Asia Society, New York City, 15 Feb-18 June 1995.

"A Moveable Feast: Chinese Ceramics and Bronzes" is being shown at the University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, through Fall 1995.

The Krannert Art Museum (Univ Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) has recently reinstalled their Asian Gallery. Among the items featured are Han Dynasty funerary objects.

The University of Oregon Museum of Art (Eugene, Oregon) has two new installations from the permanent collection: Chinese ceramic tomb figures from Han to Tang and Chinese porcelain from Song to modern.
 

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LECTURES

East Asian Archaeology Seminar, Harvard University
24 Apr 95 "Interaction and the emergence of social complexity in Lingnan during the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age," by Francis Allard
3 May 95 "Blood oath in early China," by Dr. Susan Weld

China and Inner Asia Seminar, Univ of Toronto
3 Mar 95 "Strangers in their midst: Shang Wu Ding and his realm," by Katheryn Linduff

Institute of Archaeology Lecture Series, London
23 Feb 95 "Hunter-gatherer subsistence in Jomon, Japan," by Prof. Tatsuo KOBAYASHI

Freer & Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution
5 Apr 95 "Centrifugal and centripetal aspects of the development of metallurgy in China," by Prof. Emeritus Noel Barnard

Explorers Club, New York City
4 Apr 95 " Cultural property in China: the market, the law, and the reality," by J. David Murphy, Faculty of Law, Univ Hong Kong

Denver Art Museum
28 Mar-23 Apr 95 "Tibet: art, Buddhism and culture"
28-30 Apr 95 "Reflections on Chinese ornament: 1500 BC through 1644 AD"

Center for East European & Slavic Studies, UCal, Berkeley
16 Mar 1995 "Ancient metallurgy and the development of the Bronze Age," Evgenij Chernykj
 

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ASIAN SCHOLARS ABROAD
 

CAO Bingwu (Dept Archaeology, National Museum of Chinese History) Visiting Scholar, Anthropology Dept, Washington University

ZHU Baotian (Yunnan Provincial Museum) visited Harvard for three weeks in preparation for an exhibition of Naxi materials.
 

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NOTEWORTHIES

Notes in the current issue are referred to as NOTEWORTHIES No. 00, while those in a previous issue will be referred to as NOTEWORTHIES 00-00, with the issue number before the dash and the note number after the dash.

 

  1. PROF. MARTIN JONES TO NABUNKEN
    Each March, it has become the custom at Nabunken to invite a distinguished archaeologist from abroad to visit Nabunken, attend a specially created symposium in his (no hers yet) honor, give a few lectures and tour the institutions and sites in Japan related to their research topic. This year, the invited guest was Prof. Martin Jones, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University, who was in Japan from 18 March to 9 April. The one-day conference at Nabunken was held on Saturday 25 March, before which Prof. Martin visited Prof. Tsude at Osaka University and Prof. Yamanaka at Kyoto University. After the conference, he visited the National Institute for Genetics in Shizuoka, Shizuoka University, Tokai University with Dr. H. Kondo, the Edo Museum, and the National Museum of Japanese History. He then flew to Hokkaido to lecture at the Sapporo Municipal Archaeological Centre, visited the Kataku Kinenkan and the Shiraoi Ainu Museum, the Hokkaido Archaeological Centre and the Hoppo Minzoku Museum. Prof. Jones is a palynologist himself and is particularly interested in the transition to archaeology in Japan. He is currently supervising EAANmember Ms. Aoi (Leo) Hosoya on this topic for a Ph.D. at Cambridge.
     
  2. EXCAVATION OF QIANLING?
    "A number of deputies to the National People's Congress (NPC) from northwest China's Shaanxi province proposed the state give approval to the excavation of an ancient emperor's tomb, as the 'conditions are ripe now.' Located in Qianxian county in the province, Qianling is the joint tomb of Li Zhi, an emperor of the Tang dynasty (618-907), and Wu Zetian (624-705), the famous empress of China who took the throne in 690. The 1,200-year-old tomb is typical of the emperors' tombs of the feudal dynasty in the prime. It is now under state protection. After 1949 when new China was founded, some of the smaller tombs of a princess and princes in the area were excavated and many cultural relics were unearthed. No evidence shows that the Qianling tombs have been robbed, said Cheng Andong, the provincial governor and an NCP deputy.
    "Pan Ji, professor of Xi'an Jiaotong University, said that China has many experienced archaeologists and has rich experience of excavation of ancient tombs and advanced relics protection equipment and technology including infrared remote sensing, optical fiber speculums and vacuum operation. The 8,000-sq-m newly built modernized warehouse of the Shaanxi Museum of History could provide protection for the unearthed relics, he added. All these have created conditions for the excavation of the tomb, Pan said.
    "Zhang Boxing, Chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee, said that comprehensive investigations and researches have proved that the Qianling tomb is most possible to be excavated among the over 70 tombs of ancient emperors in the province. Zhang also said the province has made preparation for the excavation of the Qianling tomb, with a research offfice set up, materials about excavation of tombs of kings in other countries collected and the surveying of the tomb carried out He said the province had sent a group of archaeologists to Egypt and India to draw on their experience. In addition, the province has worked out regulations on the excavation and protection of the Qianling tomb, providing legal guarantee for the work, Zhang said."
    (from Xinhua, via ARCH-L and eaanet; minimally edited)
     
  3. SHIPWRECK BIBLIOGRAPHY
    ACRO Update has called for the compilation of a shipwreck site list and bibliography. Please send your contributions to: Pisit Charoenwongsa, SPAFA, 81/2 Sri Ayutthaya Road, Bangkok 103-00.
     
  4. SOUTH FUJIAN KILN SITE PROJECT
    A multi-year research project focussing on the ancient ceramic industry of South Fujian began last year with participants from the museums of seven counties in southern Fujian, Xiamen Univ., the Academia Sinica in Taipei, the Field Museum in Chicago and Wright State Univ in Dayton, Ohio. An inaugural workshop was held at Xiamen Univ in December 1994. Attendees learned that the region started making glazed wares as early as the 6th century and that since then it has never stopped. Today, large water jars, blanc-de-chine wares, and vessels of all kinds, are still being made. But historical production had two peaks: the first in the 12th-14th centuries when local potters concentrated mainly on green monochrome wares, and the second in the 16th-18th centuries when the main products were blue-and-white and blanc-de-chine wares. Many and perhaps most of these were made partly for export.
    The project aims at producing a ceramic guide for each participating county which will cover all known early wares and kiln sites. Such guides will be useful to cultural resource managers and economic historians as well as to specialists in trade ceramics. The volume on Jinjiang, slated to be the first of the series, should be in print by late this year. The researchers have partial funding for publication costs but would appreciate suggestions about other sources. Contact: Chuimei HO, Anthro Dept, The Field Museum, Roosevelt Rd at Lake Shore, Chicago, IL 60605, USA.
     
  5. CHINA LIBRARIES
    China Exchange News 22.1 (Spring 94) offers a review entitled "Beijing's research libraries." Some gems of information include: The National Library of China, which hosts a 3-day book sale every autumn at which publishers from throughout China offer their inventories at bargain prices; the Beijing Library-Branch Library, which houses a comprehensive collection of materials on Dunhuang; and The China Science and Technology Information Research Unit, which operates an international on-line information search service [no details given].
     
  6. HUNGARIANS IN CHINA
    John Pomfret reports from Budapest that Hungarians are looking to China for their origins. Since 1986, the Chinese government has allowed Hungarian scholars to study a cemetery near Urumchi, the capital of Xinjiang which was discovered in 1907 by the Hungarian explorer Aurel Stein. 1,200 graves have been uncovered, yielding objects like those found in 9th-10th century Hungarian cemeteries. Weapons are similar, and the methods of burial and the writing systems are said to be the same. Moreover, the Ugars (a 9,000-strong ethnic group distinct from the Uighurs in Xinjiang) know "73 songs that fit exactly into the pentatonic, or five-toned, scale that has made Hungarian folk music, popularised by Bartok, famous worldwide.... Mr. Istvan Kiszely believes that ancient Hungarians left Xinjiang no later than the 5th century and fell into a pattern of settling and then moving westward. As centuries passed, and they mixed with ancient Finns, their unusual language evolved." (Guardian Weekly 19 Feb 95)
     
  7. IIAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN STUDIES
    A new postdoctorate research institute has been established in Leiden, the Netherlands, for the study of Asian humanities and social sciences (ranging from linguistics and anthropology to political sciences, environmental and development studies). To achieve this end, it has agreed upon the following activities:
    1. to set up and execute a post-doctoral programme for Dutch and foreign researchers;
    2. to organise international scientific gatherings;
    3. To act as a national centre for Asian Studies to improve international cooperation in the European context;
    4. to develop other activities in the field of Asian Studies, such as the publication of a newsletter and the establishment of a data base, which should contain up-to-date information on current research in the field of Asian Studies.
    Contact: Prof. Dr. W.A.L. Stokhof, Director, IIAS, PO Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. Tel. 71-27 22 27; FAX 71-27 26 32; email: IIAS@RULLET.LeidenUniv.NL
     
  8. HISTORICAL CHINA ENVIRONMENT DATABASE
    So far, 8 MB of data on 29 types of natural elements and human activities from Chinese historical documents have been gleaned from Chinese historical records and entered into the database management program Paradox in English. The creator is looking for funding to continue this work and make this database, entitled "Database on the Environment and its Socioeconomic Impacts in Historical China, version 1.0", compatible with other databases in this field. He is looking for cooperative data entry and funding suggestions. Contact; Dr. Jin Q Fang, Center for Climatic Research, Univ Wisconsin, 1225 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706 USA, FAX 608-262-5864. email: jqfang@facstaff.wisc.edu
     
  9. AAS HOME PAGE
    The Association for Asian Studies (Ann Arbor, MI, USA) now has a home page on the World Wide Web where recent AAS newsletters can be read. The url is
    http://www.easc.indiana.edu/%aas
     
  10. BUDDHIST TEMPLE RESEARCH
    Prof. HO Tze-chuan (HE Ziquan) of the History Dept of Beijing Normal Univ is seeking scholars to collaborate in a project on the history of temples in China focussing primarily on 1) collection of material (Buddhist historical records, collectanea, rubbings, gazetteers, etc.); 2) site surveys [archaeological??]; 3) compilation and editing of materials; 4) the writing of a "History of Chinese Temples." Please contact him directly (in Chinese or English), or write for a brief project description in Chinese to: Bill Crowell, 400 Timber Lane, Falls Church, VA 22046 USA. email: wgcrowell@aol.com
     
  11. NEW SOUTH ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY NEWSLETTER
    Dr. Nandini Rao has started a new newsletter for the Archaeology, Anthropology, History South Asia Network modelled on EAANnouncements. The inaugural issue (April 1995) contained news of activities, events, important discoveries, reviews and reports, exhibitions, conference news and conference announcements, dissertation abstracts, book reviews, publications received, a bibliography and a journal watch. An application form is included in this issue of EAANnouncements. Otherwise, comments and contributions may be sent to Nandini at 3-5-820 Hyderguda, Hyderabad, 500 029 India.
    The next two noteworthies on China are ones she ran in her inaugural issue.
     
  12. FAMEN BUDDHIST FINDS
    "In the underground palace (31.48 sq m) of Famen in north-west China (Shaanxi Province), four holy bones and 2,000 other rare relics found in 1987 were made public this year. It is considered to be the most significant Buddhist and archaeological find of this century. The finds indicate that the palace in which the holy bones of Sakyamuni were enshrined during the Tang period (618-901) was built in the style of the mandala. Evidence indicates that every 30 years, the Tang emperors took the holy bones from the temple to their residence, 100 km away for worship. Inside the temple, the holy bones were enshrined in layers of cases secretly stored in the palace. Above was the 'Pagoda for the Genuine Holy Remains.' Experts believe that this is one of the three important Tantric temples." (from Newsletter AAH South Asia Network 1:4, 1995)
     
  13. BALIGANG EXCAVATIONS
    "34 well preserved building foundations covering an area of 50,000 sq m were found...at Baligang near Dengzhou [Zhengzhou?] city, in the Hanan [Henan?] Province. Additionally, 110 tombs and approximately 3,000 pieces of pottery, bone or stone dating to the same period have also been unearthed at the site. The artefacts belong to five different cultures: the Shang and Zhou, Longshan, Qujialing, Yangshao and Shijiahe."
    (from Newsletter AAH South Asia Network 1:4, 1995)
     
  14. WORLD ASSOCIATION FOR JAPANESE STUDIES
    A new organization of the above title is being founded by Prof. Harumi Befu at Stanford. The objective of this organization is to promote exchange of views among Japan scholars of different regions of the world. Details of the rationale of this organizaation may be obtained by contacting Prof. Befu at Dept of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2145, USA. FAX 415-725-0605, email: eb.har@forsythe.stanford.edu
     
  15. ASIAN AND PACIFIC ARCHAEOLOGY SERIES
    The new editor of the APAS, Dr. P. Bion Griffin, is soliciting monograph-length manuscripts for review and possible inclusion in the series. Published by the University of Hawaii, APAS is particularly interested in field investigations of significant archaeology problems. Contact the editor at Dept of Anthropology, Univ of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2424 Maile Way, Porteus 346, Honolulu, HI 96822. TEL 808-956-6654; FAX 808-956-9541.
     
  16. PEKING HUMAN DATES
    "A high-tech reappraisal of the cave home of China's prehistoric Peking Man has found him to be some 100,000 years younger than previously thought. Prof. Huang Peihua of the Chinese University of Science & Technology reported the finding after a decade of study using electronic spon resonance, an internationally recognized high-tech method for archaeological dating. 'Peking Man was active about 585,000 years to 250,000 years ago, instead of 700,000 to 200,000 years ago as previously believed.' ...Huang came to his conclusion after reassessing the layers in the Upper Cave of the site at Zhoukoudian outside Beijing, where remains of Peking Man were found. Peking Man moved into the cave during the time of the 11th layer, where the first complete cranium of the hominid was found in 1923. Huang's research found that the 11th layer dated from about 585,000 years ago. He found that the cave was almost choked with debris during the time of the third layer, apparently compelling Peking Man to move out. This, he found, was about 250,000 years ago." (Reuter, Beijing via Zhuan DONG on eaanet)
     
  17. ANCIENT BAMBOO SLIP TEXTS
    804 slips with more than 16,000 characters have been found in the vicinity of Jingmen City, Hubei, comprising five "complete ancient texts." Included was a new bamboo slip version of the Laozi , believed to be datable to Chu in the mid-Warring States period. The Laozi text is about 4000 characters long, and two of the other texts were a Zhou Li and a Wu Xing. (compiled from eaanet discussion of published news in Renmin ribao [haiwaiban] 7 Feb 95, p. 5 and 8 Feb 95, p. 8; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 8 Feb 95)
     
  18. SIBERIAN ARCHAEOLOGY REQUEST
    "I am seeking any and all information on current archaeological work being conducted in the Lake Baikal region of Central Siberia, just north of Mongolia. I especially am interested in what may have been groups representing the forerunners of later Mongol groups, and would like to gather data on their subsistence practices. If anyone has addresses, contacts, knows of current research on this topic, etc., I would greatly appreciate any consideration" Contact: Janet Pinkham, James Madison University, Box 5587, 800 S. Main St., Harrisonburg, VA 22807 USA. email: jdpinkha@vax1.acs.jmu.edu
     
  19. ASAHI ON WWW
    The Asahi newspaper is now available on World Wide Web at http://www.asahi-np.co.jp
     

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Titles new to this issue are emboldened and those dealing specifically with East Asia are starred
 

*Apr 22'95: The Japan Oriental Ceramic Society Annual Meeting, Goto Art Gallery,Tokyo.

June/July '95: 2nd Regional Seminar on Southeast Asian Prehistory and Archaeology, Philippines. Contact: W.P. Ronquillo, National Museum of the Philippines, Manila.

*July 1-4'95: 11th New Zealand Asian Studies Conference, Univ Auckland. Contact: Prof. Paul Clark, Asian Lang&Lit, Univ Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, NZ. FAX 9-373-7411

*July 3-6 '95: 9th Biennial Conference, Japanese Studies Association of Australia. Univ Queensland Brisbane. Contact: Dr. N. Gottlieb, Asian Languages & Studies, Univ Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia. Fax: 7-365-6799; email: n.gottlieb@mailbox.uq.oz.au

Aug '95: Alternative pathways to early state, Vladivostok. Contact: Dr. Nikolay N. Kradin, Institute of History, 89 Pushkinskaya St., Vladivostok 690600 Russia. email: history@pub.marine.su

*Aug 15-18 '95: Conference on Prehistoric Cultures of the Middle Yangtze River Valley, Changsha, Hunan. Contact: Mr. PEI Anping, Hunan Institute of Archaeology, Dongfeng Village #2, Dongfeng Road, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China. Phone 731-444-7304.

*Sept 4-8 '95: From the Jomon to Star Carr: hunter-gatherers of east and west temperate Asia, Universities of Cambridge and Durham, England. Contact: Dr. Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dept of Archaeology, Durham Univ, Durham DH1 3NU, UK. FAX 191-374-3740; email: P.A. Rowley-Conwy@durham.ac.uk

*Oct 21-15 '95: Localizing the imaginary: a symposium on the paradise imagery in East Asian art, Harvard Univ. Contact: NING Qiang, Dept of Fine Arts, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA 02138 USA. %617-576-4653; FAX 617-495-1769; email: ming@husc3.harvard.edu

*Oct '95: Chinese Ancient Ceramic Society Annual Meeting, Tunxi, Anhui. Contact: YE Wencheng, Xiamen Univ, FAX 592-208-6402. Date in late October.

*Oct 31-4 Nov '95: 1995 International Symposium on Ancient Ceramics (ISAC '95), Shanghai. Call for papers in the following areas: Scientific & technological insights; Archaeological discoveries; Arts & crafts; Kilns; International trade of ancient ceramics; Application of research achievement of ancient ceramics in modern industry; and other aspects. Contact: SUN Jing, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai 200050. FAX 21-251-3903.

*Apr 9-10 '96: EAANetwork First World Conference, Honolulu in conjunction with the AAS Meetings (Apr 11-13). Contact: Yangjin Pak, Dept of Anthropology, Harvard Univ, FAX 617-496-8041; email: ypak@husc8.harvard.edu

Apr 10-14 '96: 61st SAA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
Contact: Paul Fish & Suzanne Fish, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA. Tel 520-621-2556, FAX 520-621-2976; email:
archeo@ccit.arizona.edu

*Apr, 2nd half '96: International conference on the Bronze Age Peoples of the Tarim Basin and Surrounding Areas, Philadelphia, PA. Contact: Jennifer Alabiso, Penn Language Center, 415 Lauder-Fischer Hall, Univ Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6330 USA. % 215-898-6039; FAX -573-2139; email: jalabisco@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

*Jul 8-10 '96: Asian Studies Association of Australia 20th Anniversary Conference, La Trobe Univ, Melbourne. Contact: Robin Jeffrey, La Trobe Univ, Melbourne, Australia. email: polrj@lure.latrobe.edu.au
 

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CONFERENCE REPORTS

Souhaité, Stéphanie 1995. "Compte-rendu du XVème congrès de l'IPPA (Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association) Chiang Mai, 5-12 janvier 1994." Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française, Tome 92, n° 1:21.

MacPherson, Kerrie L. 1995. "Report on the Fourth International Conference on the Evolution of the East Asian Environment, 1995. Chinese Environmental History Newsletter 2.1: 7-12 (including list of papers).

Summers, Laura 1994. "The XVth Congress of the Indo-Pacific Association, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 5-12 Jan 1994." ASEASUK News 15: 17-18.

Falkenhausen, Lothar von, In Press. "Notes from the preparatory conference for the Cambridge History of Ancient China" (in Chinese), to appear in Hanxue yanjiu tongxun (Newsletter for Chinese Studies), Taipei.
 

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For copies of the papers listed here, please contact either the symposium or panel organizer if the author is unknown to you
 

Chinese Identities, 25 Feb 1995, Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley
Falkenhausen, Lothar von: Western Chou demographic trends: some inferences from anthroponymy
 

Current Approaches to Chinese Art: Perspectives from Southern California,
26 Feb 1994, UCLA
Falkenhausen, Lothar von: Enigmatic aristocrats: the Chu bronzes from Xiasi and their owners
 

Internat. Soc. for Ryukyuan Studies, 2nd Internat. Symposium, 24 Mar 1994, Harvard
Pitts, Forrest: The spatial and metaphoric extent of Ryukyu
 

3rd Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, 19 Apr 94, Anaheim, CA
Ikawa-Smith, Fumiko: The Palaeolithic of East Asia and evolution and dispersal of ancient and modern humans
 

29th Internat. Conference of Orientalists in Japan (Tōhō Gakkai), 21 May 94, Tokyo
Edwards, Walter: Yamato or Yamatai: The Nakayama Otsuka investigation and Nara Basin archaeology
 

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR JAPANESE STUDIES (EAJS), 25-29 Aug 1994, Copenhagen
Borgen, Robert: Tenjin worship: an early literary expression

International Conference Celebrating the 95th Anniversary of the discovery of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, 10-16 Oct 1994, Yinxu, Anyang, Henan
Childs-Johnson, Elizabeth: The gui-spirit in oracle bone inscriptions
 

18th Taniguchi Symposium, November 1994, Division of Ethnology, Osaka
Janhunen, Juha: The languages of Manchuria in today's China
 

ARCHAEOLOGY IN EAST ASIA, 12 Nov 1994. Organised by the Triangle (Duke, North Carolina and Durham Universities) in southeastern United States, the colloquium was held at the National Center for Humanities. Prof. Edward Kidder and Prof. Stanley Abe served as commentators. Contact: Ms. Mavis Mayer, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Farris, W. Wayne: Ancient Japan's Korean connection
 

World Archaeology Congress, 6-10 Dec 1994, New Delhi
Janhunen, Juha: Ethnicity and language in prehistoric Northeast Asia
 

4th International Conference on the Evolution of the East Asian Environment, 3-7 Jan 1995, Hong Kong. Contact: Centre of Asian Studies, Univ Hong Kong, Pokfulam Rd, Hong Kong. See conference report (cited above) for full listing; papers specifically on East Asian archaeology were:

Miki, Takashi: Variegated sequences in Kyushu, Japan, and their palaeoenvironmental and archaeological significance
Carey, Jan: Reading changes in wetland environments from East Asian potsherds
Zhang, Lansheng: Changes in the farming-pastoral Zone of eastern Asia during the last 10,000 years
Corlett, Richard T.: Human impact on the flora of Hong Kong island
Jablonski, Nina G.: Geographical and life history perspectives on modern human origins
Wu, Xinzhi: On the source of modern East Asians
Huang, Peihua: Living environments of Peking Man and Hexian Man in china
Oxnard, Charles: African Eve? Asian Adam! The implications of evolutionary modelling for interpretations of mitochondrial DNA studies
 

A Small Symposium on the Ainu, 20 Feb 95, Cambridge, UK. Organised by Yuri FUKASAWA, New Hall, Cambridge.
Durrans, Brian & Lidchi, Henrietta: Exhibiting Ainu
Wilkinson, Jane: Presentation of Ainu culture
Siddle, Richard: Whither Ainu studies
Fukasawa, Yuriko: How the image of the Ainu was created
Akino, Shigeki: A role of the Ainu museum
Conceptualising Settlement in Prehistoric Archaeology, 4 Mar 95, Cambridge, UK. A one-day conference at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Kaner, Simon: Cosmological slobs or slaves to tradition? Rebuilding the world in Jomon Japan
 

Defining Chinese History: new archaeological discoveries and early China, 10-11 Mar 95, Asia Society, 725 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021, USA. FAX 212-517-7246. This multidisciplinary symposium featuring noted scholars from China and the US examined the wealth of new discoveries in China and illustrated how these artifacts are redefining and reshaping theories about Chinese history and culture. The program covered the Bronze Age through the Northern and Southern and Tang dynasties, with discussions ranging from the relationship between regional cultures and metropolitan authority to the early development of Chinese music and philosophy.
New England East Asian Art History Seminar, 25 Mar 95, Columbia Univ, NYC.
Kamberi, Dolkun: Ancient Tarim Man and the lost civlization of Central Asia
Shkoda, Valentin G.: Tanjikent: the Pompei of Central Asia
Howard, Angela: The Dharani Pillar in Kunming, Yunnan: a legacy of esoteric teaching and local beliefs during the Tali Kingdom (937-1253)
 

47th AAS Annual Meetings, 7-9 Apr 95, Washington DC
amEAAN meeting: "Traditions at the borders." Contact: Kathy Linduff, Univ Pittsburgh.
Fitzhugh, William: Ainu
So, Jenny: Ordos

AAS Panel: "The grassland econosystem of the Mongolian steppe." Contact: J. Reardon-Anderson, Georgetown Univ
Reardon-Anderson, James: Man and nature in the West Liao river basin during the past ten thousand years
Williams, Dee: Grassland enclosures: the devil's hatband in Inner Mongolia

AAS Panel: "Religion in Han and Medieval China"
Wong, Dorothy Ching-Fun: The flourishing of Chinese Buddhist steles in the early sixth century: a legacy of the Late Northern Wei Period (595-534)
Sen, Gu: An iconographic study of Xi Wang Mu (the Queen Mother of the West) in Han art

AAS Panel: "Ethnicity and expansion in Late Imperial China"
Hostetler, Laura: Miao albums: the ethnography of expansion in 18th-century Guizhou
Shin, Leo K.: Tribalizing the frontier: boundary formation in South China during the Ming
Csete, Anne: Ethnicity and Han expansion on the Qing southern frontier: ethnic conflict and the state in Hainan Island in the 18th century

AAS Panel: "Rethinking tribute: concept and practice." Contact Susan Naquin, Princeton Univ; or Pamela Crossley, Dartmouth College
Hevia, James L.: From tribute to Lordship
Ning, Chia: Tribute, frontier, and Manchu state-remaking: Mongol tribute in 17th and 18th-century China
Wills, John E., Jr.: How we got obsessed with the 'tribute system' and why it's time to get over it
Millward, James: Feting the Begs: tribute and Qing Empire in Xinjiang
Brown, Claudia: Western tribute and the transformation of Chinese glassmaking
Park, Nancy: Tribute and official corruption in 18th-century China
di Cosmo, Nicola: Tribute, trade, and the Manchu occupation of Xinjiang

AAS Panel: "Sticks, stones, pots and plots: archaeological insights into Japanese history." Contact: Conrad Totman, Yale Univ
Piggott, Joan R.: The archeology of kingship
Kiley, Cornelius J.: Wooden tags and noble houses: the household(s) of Prince Nagaya as revealed by mokkan
Kidder, J. Edward Jr.: The ephemeral Kokubunji: an archaeological view
Pearson, Richard: Exotic ceramics and modes of exchange in Okinawan state development from 1100 to 1600

AAS Panel: "What's 'early modern' and 'Japanese' about early modern Japan?" Contact: Ronald Toby, Univ Illinois-Urbana
Howell, David L.: The prehistory of the Japanese nation-state

AAS Panel: "Astrology and chronology in Shang & Zhou." Contact: David Keightley, Univ California-Berkeley
Pankenier, David W.: On conjunctions, calendars and cyclical time: the uses of astrological history
Nivison, David S.: Shaughnessy's slip
Shaughnessy, Edward L.: The date of the Qiu Wei gui and reign titles of the Zhou Kings

AAS Panel: "New directions in the study of urban society in Edo." Contact: Constantine Vaporis, Univ of Maryland
Kobiki, Harunobu: Studying the history of Edo: the contribution of archaeology

AAS Panel: "Buddhist ideology in Korean art." Contact: Donald F. McCallum, Univ California-Los Angeles
Best, Jonathan: The tomb of King Muryong as a Buddhist monument

AAS Roundtable: "Asian art and culture and the law: new perspectives on cultural properties." Contact: Amy G. Poster, The Brooklyn Museum

AAS Poster Session:
Edwards, Walter: Yamatai, Yamato and recent archaeology in the Nara Basin
 

The Japanese City, 14-15 1995, Lexington, KY. Contact: Kristin Stapleton, Japanese Studies Committee, Univ Kentucky.

Mather, Cotton: Urban landscapes in Japan
Ohji, Toshiaki: Urban morphology of Japanese cities-an historical analysis
Cybriwski, Roman: From castle town to Manhattan Town with suburbs-a geographical account of Tokyo's changing landmarks and symbolic landscapes
Okamoto, Kohei: Kawagoe, a suburb of Tokyo, and Nisshin, a suburb of Nagoya
Berry, Mary Elizabeth: Images of Kyoto in diaries, paintings, maps and guide books
Smith, Henry D. II: Great urban earthquakes in modern Japanese history-Edo 1855, Tokyo 1923, Kobe 1995
Bognar, Botond: The architecture of the Japanese city
Kidder, Robert: Environmental issues and strategies in Japanese cities-a case study
Callies, David: Urban land use regulation and control in Japan
Fujita, Kuniko: Osa
 

Constructing "Korea": interdisciplinary perspectives on the politics of national identity and culture, 21 Apr 95, The 1995 Regional Seminar of the Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Pai, Hyung-Il: Archaeology and the search for 'Korean' origins: race, myth and the early state
 

AKSE 17th Conference, 21-5 April 1995, Prague
Denès, Laurence: The big jar-coffins of the Yongsan-gang valley
 

International Conference on Shang Culture, 21-5 May 1995, Yenshi, Luoyang, Henan
Childs-Johnson, Elizabeth: Metamorphic imagery and masks of early China
Linduff, Katheryn: Art and identity in Shang: their Chinese and her significant others
 

Early Horsekeepers of the Eurasian Steppes, 18-24 June 1995, Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan
Linduff, Katheryn: Bronze mirrors, knives and other artifacts of northern origin in 'Chinese' tombs
 

9th Biennial Conference, Japanese Studies Association of Australia. 3-6 July 95, Univ Queensland, Brisbane
Panel: "Periphery & Centre in Japanese History"
Hudson, Mark: Power and the late Heian periphery: an archaeological perspective
Trott, Rosemary: The centrality of Edo in the 18th century: a view from Tsugaru
Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice: The Pax Tokugawa: how secure was the centre?
 

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