Fw: H-ASIA: LEC Timon Screech on Edo Shunga Reconsidered, Tokyo, 22 June 2011

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Subject: H-ASIA: LEC Timon Screech on Edo Shunga Reconsidered, Tokyo, 22
June 2011

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> May 24, 2011
>
> Lecture: Dr. Timon Screech on Edo Shunga Reconsidered, Sophia University,
> Tokyo, 22 June 2011
>
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> Dr. Timon Screech on EDO SHUNGA RECONSIDERED
>
> Location: Japan
> Lecture Date: 2011-06-22 (in 29 days)
> Date Submitted: 2011-05-20
> Announcement ID: 185356
>
> Dr. Timon Screech on
> EDO SHUNGA RECONSIDERED
>
> June 22 (Wed) 2011
> 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
> Room 921, 9F, Library Building, Sophia University
>
> Shunga has recently been the subject of a great deal of scholarly research
> in Japan and outside. It is now some dozen years since Dr. Screech''s book
> on the subject, _Sex and the Floating World: Japanese Erotic Imagery,
> 1700-1820_, first appeared. This is a good time to reflect on the subject
> of shunga, and also on the history of thinking about it, and sum up the
> achievements of the past decade.
>
> Dr. Timon Screech received a BA (Hons.) from Oxford and Ph.D from Harvard.
> He has taught at SOAS, University of London since 1991, and in 2006 was
> elected to a chair in the History of Art. He is concurrently Permanent
> Visiting Professor at Tama Art University, Tokyo, and has authored several
> books on the visual culture of the Edo period. Sex and the Floating World
> is now available in a second expanded edition from Reaktion Books.
>
> Lecture in English / No registration necessary
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Fw: H-ASIA: Chinese characters for leiwen (early forms of lei)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Dunch" <Ryan.Dunch@UALBERTA.CA>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:17 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Chinese characters for leiwen (early forms of lei)

> H-ASIA
> May 24, 2011
>
> Chinese characters for leiwen (response)
> ************************************************************************
> From: Dan Lusthaus <yogacara@gmail.com>
>
> Kate Lingley wrote:
>
>>one version of the
>> oracle bone (and possibly also early bronze) character for lei 雷 is a
>> squared double spiral closely resembling the pattern itself....
>>perhaps someone else on the list will know of a link that
>> illustrates this character.
>
> Try
> http://tinyurl.com/3kztxqm
>
>
> Dan Lusthaus
> Harvard
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Fw: H-ASIA: New online content at The Asia-Pacific Journal

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Subject: H-ASIA: New online content at The Asia-Pacific Journal

> H-ASIA
> May 24, 2011
>
> New online content at The Asia-Pacific Journal (formerly Japan Focus)
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> From: "The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus"<info@japanfocus.org>
>
> Newsletter No. 21. 2011, May 23, 2011
>
> New Articles Posted In This Issue
>
> Hirose Takashi and C. Douglas Lummis,
> The Nuclear Disaster That Could Destroy Japan - On the danger of a
> killer earthquake in the Japanese Archipelago
>
> Matthew Penney and Mark Selden,
> What Price the Fukushima Meltdown? Comparing Chernobyl and Fukushima
>
> Peter Karamoskos,
> Fukushima Burning: Anatomy of a Nuclear Disaster
>
> Peter Bosshard,
> Will Fukushima Make China Reconsider Its Hydropower Boom?
>
> Gavan McCormack,
> Deception and Diplomacy: The US, Japan, and Okinawa
>
> Four featured articles examine multiple dimensions of Japan's 3.11
> earthquake/tsunami experience. Hirose Takashi locates Fukushima in light
> of the potential of other nuclear catastrophes. Matthew Penney and Mark
> Selden examine the Fukushima-Chernobyl comparison in light of the
> ongoing debates about death and risk. Peter Karamaskos offers a new
> interpretation of the Fukushima and Chernobyl death tolls. Peter
> Bosshard assesses the impact on China's ambitious nuclear power plans of
> the Fukushima meltdown. And Gavan McCormack, in a major piece on the
> US-Japan-Okinawa relationship, examines four decades of duplicity from
> the Mitsuyaku (secret diplomacy) now revealed in Wikileaks to the
> Hatoyama and Maher affairs and new base proposals now emanating from
> Washington.
>
> See http://japanfocus.org/
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Fw: H-ASIA: TOC Journal of Burma Studies 15:1

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Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:32 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: TOC Journal of Burma Studies 15:1

> H-ASIA
> May 24, 2011
>
> TOC Journal of Burma Studies 15:1
> ******************************************************************
> From: Paul H. Kratoska <kratoska@nus.edu.sg>
>
> The Table of Contents for The Journal of Burma Studies Volume 15 Number 1
> (June 2011) is below. The Journal is now available online through
> university libraries that subscribe to Project MUSE (most North American
> universities do). NUS Press publishes this Journal on behalf of the Center
> for Burma Studies at Northern Illinois University.
>
> Paul
>
> Dr Paul H. KRATOSKA :: Managing Director, NUS Press :: National University
> of Singapore :: AS3-01-02, 3 Arts Link, Singapore 117569 Tel +65
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> Articles
>
> Special Section in Honor of F. K. Lehman
>
> Where to Begin? A Brief Intellectual Biography of F. K. Lehman
> (F. K. L. U Chit Hlaing)
> Juliane Schober
>
> No Country for Middlemen: Three Sketches of Conflict on the Xiao
> Liangshan Frontier
> Ann Maxwell Hill
>
> Genealogies of Nurture: Of Pots and Professors
> Penny Van Esterik
>
> The Legacy of F. K. Lehman (F. K. L. U Chit Hlaing) for the Study
> of Religion and the Secular in Burma
> Juliane Schober
>
> Bibliography of F. K. Lehman's Published Works
>
> The Saint Who Did Not Want to Die: The Multiple Deaths of an Immortal
> Burmese Holy Man
> Guillaume Rozenberg
>
> Capitalism and the Development of the Tin Industry in Burma
> John Hillman
>
> Scholarly Curiosities
>
> A Royal Collection of Bronze Model Boats and Soldiers from
> Eighteenth-Century Burma
> Bob Hudson
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Chinese characters for leiwen (interchangeable characters)

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Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:33 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Chinese characters for leiwen (interchangeable characters)

> H-ASIA
> May 24, 2011
>
> Chinese characters for leiwen (interchangeable characters)
> ************************************************************************
> From: Songchuan Chen <chensongchuan@gmail.com>
>
> From what I remember of my classical Chinese education, this phenomenon is
> called "*hutong* 互通" meaning two characters with the same main body that
> are used interchangeably. The important thing is not about the tag
> *hutong* but rather that this kind of interchange is not uncommon in
> classical Chinese. If one reads the original publications and writings
> from early ages, as previous responses have pointed out, one will find
> other examples of these. I have been reading the Qing's court memorials,
> and letters exchanged between officials. I can say this phenomenon is
> still there.
>
> The whole thing should be the other way round, from the historical point
> of view, rather than from what we know of about Chinese characters today.
> I am saying: the official standardisation came rather later, through
> dictionaries like the Kangxi zidian 康熙字典, and the Republic's national
> dictionary Guoyu zidian 國語字典 and the like. I was educated in Taiwan where
> the standardisation of spoken and written Chinese was in the hand of the
> state and was implemented forcefully by the 'army' of school teachers. I
> feel still there is a strong language police inside me to impulsively
> correct myself and others' "mistakes".
>
> Songchuan Chen
> Bristol University
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Fw: H-ASIA: Masters funding opportunity for MA in Photographic History and Practice at De Montfort University, UK

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Subject: H-ASIA: Masters funding opportunity for MA in Photographic History
and Practice at De Montfort University, UK

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> May 24, 2011
>
> Masters funding opportunity for MA in Photographic History and Practice at
> De Montfort University, UK
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> From: Elizabeth Lambourn <el5@soas.ac.uk>
>
> The Wilson Fellowship in Photographic History.
>
> Call for Applications.
>
> De Montfort University is pleased to announce the availability of one
> Wilson
> Fellowship for its MA in Photographic History and Practice. The Fellowship
> offers £5,000 toward the defrayal of tuition and other costs related to
> the
> MA, and is open to all students UK, EU and International. To apply for the
> Wilson Fellowship, please submit a piece of recent writing on photographic
> history no longer than 10,000 words, in English, to the Admissions
> Committee
> by August 1. For applications to the MA, please contact Student
> Recruitment
> at the Faculty of Art and Design at artanddesign@dmu.ac.uk or apply online
> at ukpass.ac.uk. For questions about the MA programme or the Wilson
> Fellowship please contact Programme Leader, Dr Kelley Wilder at
> kwilder@dmu.ac.uk.
>
> The MA in Photographic History and Practice is the first course of its
> kind
> in the UK. It lays the foundations for understanding the scope of
> photographic history and provides the tools to carry out the independent
> research in this larger context, working in particular from primary source
> material.
>
> In addition to our collaboration with the Wilson Centre for Photography
> Studies in London, we will work with the collections of the National Media
> Museum, Bradford, the Central Library, Birmingham, the British Library and
> private collections throughout Britain. Students handle photographic
> material, learn analogue photographic processes, write history from
> objects in collections, compare historical photographic movements, and
> debate the canon of photographic history. They also learn about digital
> preservation and access issues through practical design projects involving
> Website and database design.
>
> Research Methods are a core component, providing students with essential
> handling, writing, digitizing and presentation skills needed for MA and
> Research level work. Further modules will encourage independent thinking
> in theory and in history writing, introduce students to methodologies
> commonly encountered in photographic history, and set the students on a
> course for finding their own MA dissertation topic. Students receive
> expert advice on the thesis topic oftheir choosing, which is written in
> the summer months and submitted in September, one year after the course
> begins, in the case of full time study, or two years in the case of
> part-time. For further details on the course and application process,
> please download a course brochure from the website
> http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/art_and_design/pg_courses/photographic-history-practice.jsp
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