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Middle Period China Conference Announcement
by T'ang Studies Society 23 May '12

23 May '12

Announcing an International Interdisciplinary Conference on Middle Period China, 800-1400, planned for early June 2014 at Harvard Call for Paper Proposals This three/four-day conference is open to scholars in all fields--history, literature, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion--and from all countries. The optional fourth day will offer participants opportunities to learn computation methods and databases. All papers presented will be permanently archived online and entered into bibliographies. Some papers will be selected for further refinement and inclusion in a thematic (e-) book. Scholars and graduate students writing dissertations who would like to present research papers at this conference should submit a proposal consisting of a one-page abstract and a one-page CV. To prepare our requests for funding we need lots of exciting proposals. Give us the evidence that innovative research is being done on this period and help us show that scholars in different disciplines have much to gain from talking to each other. The more good proposals that we get, the more participants we will be able to fund. Deadline for paper proposals: July 15, 2012 Please send proposals as email attachments to both: Patricia Ebrey ebrey(a)uw.edu and Peter Bol pkbol(a)fas.harvard.edu

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Board Election Reminder
by T'ang Studies Society 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Dear T'ang Studies Society members, This is just a friendly reminder that the deadline for the 2012 T'ang Studies Society Board Election is tomorrow, February 15, 2012. If you haven't already done so, please send in your votes. You can vote either by snail mail or electronically. Snail mail ballots must be postmarked by February 15 and sent to the following address: T'ang Studies Society c/o Anthony DeBlasi Department of East Asian Studies Humanities 210 University at Albany 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12222 Electronic ballots can be sent to the following e-mail address: vote(a)tangstudies.org Of course, we will accept membership dues at any time, either via U.S. check or PayPal. Best regards, Tony Anthony DeBlasi Incoming Secretary-Treasurer T'ang Studies Society

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Announcement to TSS Membership
by T'ang Studies Society 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Dear colleagues, It is with great sadness that I write to tell you of the passing of a Life Member of the T'ang Studies Society, a fine scholar of Tang literature, and an extraordinary supporter of TSS, Elling Eide. Three longtime friends of his who are also longtime members and leaders of the Society, Michael Drompp, Paul Kroll, and Victor Mair, very kindly agreed to compose the following tribute to Elling, to be shared with the membership. We hope to say more about his contributions at the annual meeting and in a future issue of T'ang Studies. Anna Shields It is with great sadness that we report the loss of a Life Member of the Society, Elling O. Eide, born August 22, 1935, who passed away during the night of January 2, 2012, after a long illness. With Elling’s death we have in reality lost many persons, for Elling’s life and work do not fit easily into a single category. He was first and foremost a fine scholar. The best example of his mature work is certainly the seminal article, “On Li Po,” published in 1973 in the symposium volume, Perspectives on the T’ang. The profound philological care evident in this article, including close attention to the poems’ aural effects, is matched by Elling’s own obvious and personal delight as a reader of Li Po. Both of these traits have been an inspiration for many members of this Society. His lovely book of translations, Poems by Li Po, printed elegantly to his exact specifications in a limited edition by the Anvil Press of Lexington, Kentucky in 1984, is at once a sumptuous example of printers’ art and a testament to his meticulous translation practice. This collects a small number of superb renderings that rank among the best translations of Tang poetry ever put into English. His contributions to the T’ang Studies journal, including his genial excursuses on “The Great Heavenly Treasure Scandal” (TS 1 and 3) and his incomparable translation of Han Yu’s “Mao Ying zhuan” (TS 8-9), will forever display his unique gifts. It is a great tragedy that his later scholarly projects did not come to fruition, largely thwarted by legal and political issues of a local nature, and eventually physical problems as well, that came to plague him to a distressing degree. Elling was an indefatigable supporter of our Society. In our early years it was his abiding generosity that assured our continued existence and fostered our growth. His beneficence allowed us, most importantly, to publish and distribute our journal. It also permitted us to enjoy a lavish reception at our annual meetings. With regard to the latter, he was insistent that the event be “elegant”—that is, that it should reflect the sophistication and conviviality that he associated with gatherings of Tang literati. Although he himself was often unable to attend, he wanted to make sure that members and guests experienced a memorable gathering that would, he hoped, serve as homage to the Great Tang. He was an inquisitive and voracious researcher who enjoyed discussing all manner of topics with his friends. He was a philanthropist whose love of the study of languages and linguistics led him to endow a chair in Southeast U.S. Native American languages at the University of Florida. He was a fancier of fine plants (especially citruses) and noble canines (especially foundlings). He was an engaging conversationalist and a good friend. Some of us will retain lasting memories of the long-distance midnight telephone calls he was wont to make from his home in Indianola, Florida, brimming with highly animated questions, pronouncements, anecdotes, and enthusiasm that often stretched into the early morning hours. We will all miss Elling. He was an extraordinary and unforgettable person, a true original. For those of us lucky enough to have known him, we feel the loss of an immensely generous and intellectually engaged friend. For all of us in the Society, we mourn his passing but also celebrate a life characterized by the love of learning and of the finer things to be found in both the present and the past. Michael R. Drompp Paul W. Kroll Victor H. Mair -- Dr. Anna M. Shields Associate Professor of Chinese, Dept. of MLLI Associate Editor for East Asia, Journal of the American Oriental Society President, T'ang Studies Society Dept. of MLLI, ACIV 146 1000 Hilltop Circle University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, MD 21250

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T'ang Studies Administrative Mistake
by T'ang Studies Society 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Dear all, I am writing with an apology for a mistake that I made yesterday. As you have seen, when I was attempting to reply to Professor James Benn’s correspondence with the Society, I mistakenly used the “reply all” function in such a way that the entire membership of the Society was able to see what was supposed to be a confidential e-mail exchange. Of course, my deepest apologies go to Professor Benn, but I also want to apologize to the membership as a whole for my breach of confidentiality and assure you that I have taken steps to ensure that this will not happen again. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions or wish to express any further concerns. Sincerely, Tony DeBlasi -- T'ang Studies Society Tony DeBlasi Incoming Secretary-Treasurer

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Re: [T'ang Studies] Returned mail: see transcript for details
by T'ang Studies Society 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Dear James, I'm just writing to let you know that I have recorded your votes as indicated below in the transcript of the bounced e-mail. There is no need to resend them. My best for a Happy New Year. Tony DeBlasi ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Michael Farmer" <jmf073000(a)utdallas.edu> To: "<bennjam(a)mcmaster.ca>" <bennjam(a)mcmaster.ca> Cc: "T'ang Studies Society" <tangstudies(a)mailman.xmission.com>, "<admin(a)tangstudies.org>" <admin(a)tangstudies.org> Sent: Monday, January 2, 2012 9:36:53 AM Subject: Re: Returned mail: see transcript for details James, thanks for the notice of the bounce. I'll contact our ISP to see if they can stop votes from being flagged as spam. In the meantime, you are welcome to send the vote to our admin(a)tangstudies.org address. Happy New Year. Mike Sent from my iPad On Jan 2, 2012, at 7:05 AM, "James A. Benn" <bennjam(a)mcmaster.ca> wrote: > I tried to vote, but the address is bouncing. > > James A. 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T'ang Studies Society 2012
by T'ang Studies Society 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Dear T’ang Studies Society Member, This year we’re going to try something different. Below you will find the text of the annual State of the Society Letter and Board of Directors election materials. You will also receive a copy of these materials in the mail shortly. We hope that you will take advantage of the various electronic means available to vote and pay your 2012 T’ang Studies membership dues. To vote electronically, please send the names of your choices to vote(a)tangstudies.org with VOTE in the subject line. Don’t worry if you just hit REPLY to this email, we’ll sort it out. To pay your dues online via paypal, just go to http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html and select Regular or Student membership. Of course, we’ll still happily accept your ballot and dues by mail. Be sure to read the following letter. Lots of changes to take note of, including new mailing address for correspondence to the Society office. Best, mf *** STATE OF THE SOCIETY ANNUAL LETTER *** 14 December 2011 Dear T’ang Studies Society Members, It is my pleasure to once again write to you in our annual “state of the Society” letter. 2011 has brought a number of significant changes to the Society, and we are very excited about the future. At our March 2011 meeting, there were several changes in the ranks of the Society’s officers. Michael Drompp, after serving as President for six years, stepped down from that position, and Anna Shields was selected by the Board to serve as the Society’s President. Ding Xiang Warner, editor of T’ang Studies since 2005 also resigned her post, and Christopher Nugent was appointed by the Board to edit the journal. Finally, having also been in office since 2005, I announced a gradual resignation from the position of Secretary-Treasurer. The Board appointed Anthony DeBlasi to succeed me in this office, and Tony and I have been sharing secretarial and financial duties since March. Our new officers and editor come to us with long histories of involvement with the Society, energy, and great ideas for moving the Society forward in the coming years. The Board and Officers of the T’ang Studies Society are very grateful to the service offered by Professors Drompp, Warner, and Farmer. The Society and journal are much more vibrant and healthy due to their efforts. In March 2011, Stephen Bokenkamp, Suzanne Cahill, and Victor Xiong were elected to serve three-year terms on Board of Directors. We also wish to thank Board members Anthony DeBlasi, David Knechtges, and Amy McNair, whose terms expire in 2012, for their service on the Board over the past three years, and in the case of Prof. Knechtges, the past twenty years! The ballot for the 2012 Board election is enclosed, along with a pre-addressed envelope. Please mark your ballots and return them to Tony DeBlasi no later than 15 February 2012. You may also submit your vote via email to: vote(a)tangstudies.org. Volume 29 of T’ang Studies is currently in production and will be mailed to current members of the Society shortly. We are grateful to our editors, Ding Xiang Warner and Christopher Nugent, as well as our guest editor for this volume Jack Chen, for their efforts in bringing this issue to fruition. Again, we ask members of the Society to please keep T’ang Studies in mind as a potential venue for the publication of your own scholarly research on the Tang. Submission guidelines and procedures are located on the Society’s website (tangstudies.org) and submissions should be sent to Christopher Nugent at <cnugent(a)williams.edu>. Additionally, if your college or university library does not currently subscribe to T’ang Studies, please encourage them to do so. For information on institutional subscriptions, contact Helen Jakeman at <subscriptions(a)maney.co.uk>, or see the T’ang Studies page at Maney Publishing: www.maney.co.uk/journals/tng Last year we implemented a system allowing access to the back issues of T’ang Studies by current members. With the new year will come a new login code. Members whose 2012 dues are current will receive that updated access code. We ask that you please respect the copyright interests of the Society and our publishing partners and not share your username and password. Please take a few minutes to renew your Society membership for 2012. Regular membership is $35 per year; student membership is $20 per year. If your contact information has changed, please notify us of the changes. Checks drawn on U.S. banks can be sent to us directly. Additionally, we have established a PayPal online payment account allowing us to accept payment via credit card. All members are welcome to use this payment system, but we especially encourage our international (non-U.S.) members to pay in this manner. Changes in U.S. banking laws make it impossible for us to accept checks or money orders drawn on non-U.S. banks. For more information on membership and payment, see: http://www.tangstudies.org/Membership.html Please note, all correspondence by mail, including (especially!) dues and ballots, should now be sent to Tony DeBlasi at the following address: Anthony DeBlasi Humanities 244 Department of East Asian Studies University at Albany 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12222 You can reach us via email at admin(a)tangstudies.org Our next formal meeting will take place in conjunction with the upcoming annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Toronto from 15–18 March 2012. Our general meeting and reception will be held on Saturday, 17 March 2012 from 9:00-11:00 PM. The location will be in the AAS Program, and we will send an email reminder as we get closer to the date. We hope to see you there! Sincerely, J. Michael Farmer Secretary-Treasurer *** BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION MATERIALS *** T’ang Studies Society 2012 Board of Directors Election Ballot Please choose THREE (3) of the following candidates for election to the TSS Board of Directors. Candidate biographies are provided on the accompanying sheet. Note candidates are listed here alphabetically. _____ Jack W. Chen _____ Linda Rui Feng _____ Richard D. McBride II _____ Amy McNair _____ James Robson _____ Ding Xiang Warner Write-in ________________________ Write-in ________________________ T’ang Studies Society 2012 Annual Election Candidate Biographies Jack W. Chen is Associate Professor of Chinese Poetry and Thought at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, his M.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (both in Comparative Literature), and his B.A. in Literature from Yale. He is the author of The Poetics of Sovereignty: On Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty (Harvard University Asia Center, 2010), and has written articles on gossip and historiography, the practice of reading, the history of imperial poetry, and most recently, the significance of the donkey's bray. He is also the guest editor of a special volume of T'ang Studies that focuses on Tang cities and literature, to which he has also contributed a paper on the anecdotal history of Anyi Ward in Chang'an. Jack's current work involves the visualization of networks for the Shishuo xinyu, which has caused him to spend much more time with datasets, geographical coordinates, and computational analysis than is natural for a literary scholar. Linda Rui Feng received her Ph.D. from Columbia University, and her B.A. from Harvard University. Her major research fields are premodern Chinese literature and cultural history, and to this end she works with materials ranging from informal prose anecdotes, narrative tales and poetry to vernacular novels and urban geographies. Her current book project, “Youthful Displacement: City, Travel and Narrative Formation in Tang Tales,” investigates the relationship between the literati elite’s formative experiences and their sojourns and encounters in Chang’an. She is especially interested in the interplay among urban space, social networks, courtesanship and narrative formation. Her major publications include "Unmasking Fengliu in Urban Chang’an: Rereading Beili zhi (Anecdotes from the Northern Ward)," Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 32 (2010): 1-21 and "Chang’an and Narratives of Experience in Tang Tales," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 71, no. 1 (2011): 35-68. Richard D. McBride II is an Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University-Hawai'i. He earned a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA in 2001, specializing in Buddhist Studies. He was a Mellon post-doctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, 2004-2007, and Fulbright Senior Researcher in Korea, 2007-2008. He is the author of Domesticating the Dharma: Buddhist Cults and the Hwaom Synthesis in Silla Korea (University of Hawai'i Press, 2008), the editor of State and Society in Middle and Late Silla (Early Korea Project, Korea Institute, Harvard University, 2010), and numerous articles on medieval Chinese and Korean Buddhism. Amy McNair is Professor of Chinese Art History at the University of Kansas and the author of Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture (Hawai’i, 2007). Her research interests focus on Tang-dynasty material culture and its historical and religious contexts. James Robson is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Stanford University in 2002. He specializes in the history of Medieval Chinese Buddhism and Daoism and is particularly interested in issues of sacred geography, local religious history, talismans, Chan/Zen Buddhism, and he has been engaged in a long-term collaborative research project with the École Française d’Extrême-Orient studying local religious statuary from Hunan province. He is the author of Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak [Nanyue 南嶽] in Medieval China (Harvard Asia Center, 2009), which was awarded the Stanislas Julien Prize for 2010 by the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres [Prix Stanislas Julien by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Institut de France)] and the 2010 Toshihide Numata Book Prize in Buddhism. He is the author of "Signs of Power: Talismanic Writings in Chinese Buddhism" (History of Religions 48:2), "Faith in Museums: On the Confluence of Museums and Religious Sites in Asia" (PMLA, 2010), and "A Tang Dynasty Chan Mummy [roushen] and a Modern Case of Furta Sacra? Investigating the Contested Bones of Shitou Xiqian." He is currently the President of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions (SSCR). Ding Xiang Warner is an Associate Professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of Asian Studies. Her research interests are in the literature and culture of the Han through Tang dynasties and the history of text production and text culture in medieval China. In addition to a number of journal articles, she is the author of A Wild Deer amid Soaring Phoenixes: The Opposition Poetics of Wang Ji (University of Hawaii Press, 2003). In 2004–05, she was an NEH fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina.Warner has served on the Western Branch of the American Oriental Society (2004–2007), the Board of Directors of the T’ang Studies Society (2003–2006), the Executive Committees of the MLA’s Division on East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 (2006-2010), and presently she is chair of the selection committee for the AAS Levenson Prize for Books on China before 1900. She is also a co-editor of the Brill Monograph Series for Studies in the History of Chinese Texts, and in 2011 she is the immediate past editor of T’ang Studies. -- T'ang Studies Society J. Michael Farmer Secretary-Treasurer

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Last Call for 2011 T'ang Studies Membership and Journal
by T'ang Studies Society 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Dear T’ang Studies Member, Volume 29 of T’ang Studies (2011), a special issue on Sui and Tang urban history and culture, is currently in production. This issue will feature several articles based on a theme that emerged at our 25th anniversary conference in Albany in 2009. The table of contents is as follows: Jack W. Chen. On Sui and Tang Cities: An Introduction Victor Cunrui Xiong. The Miscellaneous Record of the Reign of the Great Enterprise and Sui Luoyang Linda Rui Feng: Negotiating Vertical Space: Walls, Vistas, and the Topographical Imagination Jack W. Chen. Social Networks, Court Factions, Ghosts, and Killer Snakes: Reading Anyi Ward Alexei Ditter. Conceptions of Urban Space in Duan Chengshi’s “Records of Monasteries and Stupas” We are looking forward to the publication of this special issue and want to make sure that you do not miss it. Currently, the T’ang Studies Society has approximately 165 members of record, but to-date, only about 100 have paid their 2011 dues. Only current members will receive a copy of volume 29. How can you know whether you are current on your 2011 dues? First, if you received an email earlier this year containing instructions on how to access the electronic back issues of T’ang Studies, then you are current and do not need to do anything in order to receive volume 29. If you did not receive instructions on how to access the back issues, then our records do not show that you have paid your 2011 dues. Second, and most reliably, you can send me an email and I will check my records and get back to you as quickly as I can. If you have not paid for 2011, I encourage you to do so as soon as possible. We will be providing our publisher a final count and mailing addresses soon. The publisher does not print a large supply of extra copies, so to insure a hard copy of the journal, please remit your dues as soon as possible. The fastest way to pay is online using paypal. A link is available on the T’ang Studies website: http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html If you would like to pay by check, our mailing address is also on the website. Regular memberships are still $35, and student memberships are only $20. Please encourage your graduate students to join and enjoy the benefits of T’ang Studies membership: Hard copy of the journal, exclusive access to electronic back issues, voting rights, and guilt-free indulgence at the annual reception. If you have any questions, please contact me at admin(a)tangstudies.org Best wishes, J. Michael Farmer Secretary-Treasurer -- T'ang Studies Society J. Michael Farmer Secretary-Treasurer

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T'ang Studies Update: Minor Corrections
by T'ang Studies Society 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

The Board met on Friday 11 March 2011. Anna Shields's term began on 12 March 2011. Sorry for any confusion. mf

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T'ang Studies Update
by T'ang Studies Society 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Dear T'ang Studies Society Members, The T'ang Studies Society Board of Directors met on 18 March 2011 in Chicago. Several important changes result from that meeting. First, we are pleased to announce the results of the 2011 Board election. Suzanne Cahill and Steve Bokenkamp were both re-elected, and Victor Xiong was elected, all to three year terms. We thank Eugene Wang for his service on the board these past three years. Second, we would like to express our appreciation to several outgoing officers of the Society, and formally announce new officers. After serving as President for six years, Michael Drompp has stepped down from that position. Anna Shields, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has been chosen by the Board to serve as President of the Society, effective 19 March 2011. T'ang Studies Editor Ding Xiang Warner is handing over the editor's pencil after the completion of the 2011 volume. Her successor, and co-editor for this year, is Christopher Nugent, of Williams College. I will likewise be stepping aside as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. The Board has selected Tony DeBlasi, University at Albany SUNY, as my successor. Tony and I will share the duties of the secretariat until the Society's meeting in Spring 2012. We are thankful to the service of all outgoing officers and board members, and excited about the future directions of the Society under new leadership. The T'ang Studies Society will not have its usual presence at the upcoming AAS meeting in Hawaii; no general meeting/reception. I know that many of you use this opportunity to pay your annual membership dues, so to facilitate this, I will leave a dropbox at the Maney Publishing (our publishing partner) booth in the book exhibition Thurs-Saturday. Kim Martin, our rep from Maney, will be able to accept checks and cash dues payments, and I will pick these up from her at the end of the day Saturday. If this is not convenient, you can always pay your dues online at: http://tangstudies.org/membership Regular memberships are $35 per year. Student memberships are $20 per year. If your contact information has changed, please email me the current info and I'll make sure that my database is updated. Finally, in 2012 we will meet at the AAS meeting in Toronto and resume our regular Saturday evening general meeting and reception. Best, Mike Farmer

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Online Access to Back Issues of T'ang Studies
by T'ang Studies Society 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

Dear T'ang Studies Society Members, Beginning today, online access to back issues of T'ang Studies is available to all current members (i.e., 2011 dues have been paid). If you are a current member, you should have received an email message with login instructions. If you did not receive that message, then my records indicate that your membership is not current. To remedy that situation, please visit the Membership page at tangstudies.org for information on how to submit your 2011 dues by mail or electronically. If you believe that you are current but did not receive login instruction, please contact me. We hope that this feature will be of some use for you. Best wishes. Mike Farmer PS. You might also want to take a look at a recently-posted tribute to the late Professor Denis Twitchett, penned by T'ang Studies Society member and former Board member, Professor David McMullen. <http://tangstudies.org/files/twitchett.pdf> ___________________________________ T'ang Studies Society Dr. J. Michael Farmer, Secretary-Treasurer UTD A&H JO31 800 W. Campbell Rd. Richardson TX 75083-0688 USA admin(a)tangstudies.org www.tangstudies.org

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