Shilin: Leiden University Journal of Young Sinology

13/09/2021

English below!

De Rombouts-Shilin Conferentie staat weer op het programma voor 25 en 26 september!

De conferentie duurt 2 dagen vol lezingen, panels en workshops en is gratis. Het thema van dit jaar is "China and the Chinese identity in a globalizing world" met het oog op de recente internationale ontwikkelingen. We zijn heel trots met onze keynote speakers Hui Hui Pan van het PAC (Pan Asian Collective) en professor Frank Pieke die een hele tijd aan Leiden en Oxford heeft gedoceerd.

Gedurende de panels kan je medestudenten hun onderzoek horen presenteren en vragen beantwoorden, een goede leerervaring voor jezelf straks misschien. Na afloop volgt een borrel die gratis is, en diner op eigen kosten, tot de plekken op zijn. Je leest het goed: de conferentie neemt OFFLINE plaats met de nodige maatregelen.

Je kan je aanmelden via de website onderaan en je bent ook welkom om je interesse te melden als je lid wilt zijn van het team voor 2023 (alleen voor studenten aan de Universiteit Leiden). Ook dit nog: we hebben goodiebags voor de eerste 50 aanmeldingen. Hier is de website: https://sites.google.com/view/rombouts-shilin-conference/2021

Registreren kan tot en met 19 september via de website.

Tot dan!

Het organisatorisch comité van de Rombouts-Shilin Conferentie 2021

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The 2021 Rombouts-Shilin Conference is only two weeks away!

This free conference will take place on the 25th and 26th of September 2021 with two days full of lectures, panels and workshops. This year's theme is "China and the Chinese identity in a globalizing world" in view of recent international developments. We are very proud of our keynote speakers Hui Hui Pan from the PAC (Pan Asian Collective) and professor Frank Pieke who taught at Leiden and Oxford for a long time.

During the panels you can hear fellow students present their research and answer questions, a good learning experience for yourself in the future. Afterwards there will be a free drink and dinner at your own expense (limited seats available). You read that right: the conference will take place OFFLINE with the necessary preventive measures.

You can register via the website below and are also welcome to contact us if you want to be a member of the team for 2023 (Leiden University students only). Last but not least: we have goodie bags for the first 50 registrations. Please find the website here: https://sites.google.com/view/rombouts-shilin-conference/2021

You can register until the end of September 19 via the website.

See you there!

The organisatory committee of the Rombouts-Shilin Conference 2021

10/10/2019

We invite submissions for the IIAS National Master's Thesis Prize in Asian Studies 2019. The thesis must have been evaluated in the period 1 November 2018 – 31 October 2019. Both students and their supervisors can apply.

08/10/2019

Title: Politics and Gender
Speaker: Li Ang 李昂
Date & time: October 10, 15:15-17:00
Venue: Gravensteen 011, Leiden University, Pieterskerkhof 6

Abstract: Which is more taboo: writing about s*x or politics? And what if transs*xual subject matter is coupled with the February 28 Incident, the Guomindang government's 1947 massacre of civilians that marked the beginning of the White Terror? On October 10, Leiden University will welcome famous Taiwanese writer Li Ang for a talk on "Politics and gender."

Bio: Born in 1952, in Lugang (Taiwan), Li Ang published "Flower Season", her first short story, by the age of 16. After graduating from the philosophy department of the Chinese Culture University, she enrolled at University of Oregon where she earned an MA in theater in 1977. She returned to Taiwan the following year and became assistant professor at the Chinese Culture University.
"Her reputation is based on a masterful prose style and a prolific output that includes pioneering explorations of issues that were taboo morally or politically at the time she wrote [...]. Women and gender lie at the center of her concerns in much of her oeuvre; the result is works about feminism, s*xuality, the examination of desire the intertwining of gender with politics, lesbianism, and cross-Taiwan Straits romantic love." (Rosemary M. Haddon, in Chinese Fiction Writers, 1950-2000. Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, 2013, p. 135 https://bit.ly/2kDN1bT)
Part of her work has been translated into English: Curvaceous Dolls, The Butcher's Wife, The Lost Garden.
(Re-)discover Li Ang at the Asian Library: https://bit.ly/2mgR51W

08/10/2019

Title: The Gradually Emerging Pacific - My Maritime History Studies
Speaker: Man-houng Lin 林滿紅 (Academia Sinica)
Date & time: October 9, 15:00-17:15
Venue: Vossius room, University Library

Abstract: The talk discusses Lin's works in relation to the Pacific. Her socio-economic history research since 1976 has been related to Taiwan's or China's maritime trade. This talk shows that the maritime image, particularly a concrete Pacific image did not appear in her early works. Up to now, the global intellectual community still perceives the Atlantic as a central platform in analyzing historical changes to the point that even people living in areas bordering the Pacific tend to neglect the importance of this ocean for their own history. Findings in her latter research, particularly the one covering relations between Taiwan and Hong Kong, first published in Chinese in 2001, discovered the rise of the Pacific as an important shipping route to connect East Asia and the Western World during the first half of the 20th century.

Bio: Prof. Lin obtained her Ph.D. from History and East Asian Languages of Harvard University in 1989 and served as the president of Academia Historica of ROC/Taiwan from 2008 to 2010. Now she is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. Prof. Lin's research focuses on economic history of East Asia from around 1600 till the present, which covers historical relations between Taiwan and China and that between Taiwan and US-Japan.

28/09/2019

The upcoming Rombouts-Shilin conference is only one week away! Please find the programme booklet and the overview through the following links and don't forget to sign up!

The programme overview will be distributed at the conference, due to ecological considerations the programme booklet will be findable online.

Overview:
http://shilin.nl/wp-content/uploads/Rombouts-2019-Programme-overview.pdf

Booklet:
http://shilin.nl/wp-content/uploads/Rombouts-2019-Programme-booklet-.pdf

Form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3Ry64uSVxDHLMnDKzu_abGeW2se14anGJMr4HIZF3giHtBQ/viewform?fbclid=IwAR1NL1FKwVHyvyxVyBpTT2VFG3hV7oreug9e0PKT775176wY3zS3wKoo2xg

Sign up:

We look forward to your presence!

05/09/2019

The first China Seminar of the academic year is about to start! This lecture, called ''Losing the Way in the City: Cities and Intellectual Crisis in Eleventh-Century China'', will be about the literati of the eleventh century who for the first time ever endeavored to write the commercial streetscape. As a new literary subject, the urban streetscape afforded scope for original effects, but literati also wrote the city for ideological reasons. By the end of the eleventh century, however, these ideological projects had failed. Find out during this China Seminar what these ideological projects were, and more importantly, why these had failed.

Speaker: Christian de P*e
Date and time: 18 September 2019, 15:15 - 17:00 hrs.
Location: Room 208, Lipsius Building in Leiden.
For more information and details:

Abstract During the eleventh century, literati endeavored for the first time to write the commercial streetscape. Literati of previous centuries had written the city in the past tense, in tales of dissolute youth and in memoirs about capitals destroyed, but had otherwise hidden urban streets behind&...

01/09/2019

Have you written your BA or MA thesis about China and do you wish to get more exposure? Submit it to the Young Scholar Award! The winner will see his.her thesis published in a special issue of "Shiln: Journal of Young Sinology" and a monetary prize.

We accept theses in English and Dutch written in the past three years, no university restriction. The submission deadline is set on the 15th of September. The Young Scholar Award ceremony will be held on the 5th of October for BA-theses and on the 6th of October for MA-theses as a part of the Rombouts-Shilin Conference "China beyond its borders". If selected, you will have to pitch your thesis on the according day.

You can submit your thesis and questions to [email protected]

We hope to see many of your works!

The Young Scholar Award and the Rombouts-Shilin Conference Team

04/11/2018

The Institute of East Asian Studies organizes and sponsors research and public service programs related to the history, cultures and contemporary affairs of East Asia, at the University of California, Berkeley

15/09/2018

Interested in writing for us? Now is your chance!