BAMBOO - SLIP TEXTS WORKSHOP

AT YALE UNIVERSITY

APRIL 26 - 27, 2004

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall
34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT

All those who are interested in attending this workshop must REGISTER with the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University by Friday, April 23, 2004.  

Please contact 203.432.3426 or email eastasian.studies@yale.edu to register.

Copies of the manuscripts for the workshop are available for all participants at the Council on East Asian Studies (Room 320, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue).

On April 26th and 27th, 2004 in Room 203 of Henry R. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Avenue) there will be a workshop on the bamboo-slip manuscripts from the ancient state of Chu.  The focus will be on the Guodian and the Shanghai Museum collections - both of which concern political and moral thought and are dated to around 300 B.C.  Since their discovery in 1993 and 1994, these manuscripts have generated great excitement in the intellectual community both in China and in the West, and they have inspired a prodigious amount of scholarly output.

Four leading scholars from China will participate in this workshop.  They will lead a panel of discussion at 4:00 PM on April 26th about how these texts came to light, the work involved in cleaning and preserving the bamboo-slips, the task of reading the Chu scripts and putting the bamboo-slips in order, and how these texts have changed our views on the intellectual world of early China.  Their comments will be in Chinese with English translation.

The second day of the workshop, April 27th, will be devoted entirely to reading two manuscripts, one from the Guodian and the other from the Shanghai Museum collection. The discussion will be conducted in Chinese.

Annping Chin, from the History Department of Yale University, will serve as moderator for all workshop sessions.

The following are brief bios of some of the participating scholars:

CHEN Jian is a Lecturer in the Department of Chinese at Peking University and his field is Chinese Paleography.  He received the following degrees:  Ph.D. in Literature 2001, Department of Chinese, Peking University; M.A. in Literature 1998, Department of Chinese, Hebei University; B.A. in Literature 1994, Department of Chinese, Sichuan University.  Currently Chen Jian is working on the project of revising the transcriptions of the Guodian texts, together with a group of outstanding paleography scholars, including Professors Qiu Xigui, Li Jiahao, and Shen Pei.  Chen Jian has taught at Peking University since 2001.

JIANG Guanghui is a Research Fellow in the Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).  He is also a Professor of Chinese Intellectual History in the History Department of the Graduate School of CASS.  Professor Jiang served as the Secretary General of the International Confucian Association during 1995-2001.  Currently he is the Director of the Section of Chinese Intellectual History in the Institute of History of CASS (since 1994), the Chief Editor of Chinese Philosophy (since 1988), and the Chief Editor of the Journal on Zhu Xi (since 1988).  
His publications include:
2002 A History of Thought of the Study of the Chinese Classics. Vol. 1 & 2. (Ed.) Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.
1997 Step Out of the Learning of Li (Principle): Internal Intellectual Development of Qing Dynasty. Shenyang: Liaoning Education Press.
1994 The Learning of Li and Chinese Culture. Shanghai: Shanghai People's Press.
1989 A Concise Discussion on Chinese Cultural Tradition. (Co-authored with Zhang Dainian) Hangzhou: Zhejiang People's Press.
1987 The School of Yan Yuan (1635-1704) and Li Gong (1659-1733). Beijing: Chinese Social Sciences Press.

LI Chaoyuan, born in Beijing in 1953, received his Ph. D. in History from East China Normal University in 1990.  He is currently a Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Shanghai Museum, where he has worked since 1990.  Li Chaoyuan is also a Board Member of the Chinese Society for the Pre-Qin History, Chinese Society for Paleography, and Chinese Society for the Yin-Shang Culture, as well as a Deputy Director of the Board of Shanghai Society for Cultural Relics and Museology.  Dr. Li's research interests are the Pre-Qin history of China, the study of Chinese bronzes and Chinese paleography.  His extensive publications include Xizhou tudi guanxi lun (Research on the Western Zhou Land Relationship) (Shanghai: Shanghai Renming, 1997) and over 60 articles.

PENG Hao is a Research Fellow & Deputy Director of the Jingzhou Museum in Hubei Province, China.  He graduated from the Department of History of Peking University in 1967.  As an outstanding archaeologist whose expertise is in excavated Chinese manuscripts, most of Mr. Peng's edited volumes are essential primary resources in the field of excavated early Chinese texts. They include:
2002 Bamboo-Slips from Han Tomb No. 247 at Zhangjiashan. Beijing: Cultural Relics Press.
2001 Annotations to the Han Bamboo Version of the Mathematics Excavated from Zhangjiashan. Beijing: Science Press.
2000 A Textual Examination of Guodian Chu Bamboo-Slip Version of the Laozi. Wuhan: Hubei People's Press.
1998 Bamboo-Slips from Guodian Chu Tomb. Beijing: Cultural Relics Press.
1991 Chu Bamboo-Slips from Baoshan. Beijing: Cultural Relics Press.

XING Wen received his Ph.D. in History from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1996.  Currently he is both an Associate Professor of Chinese at Trinity University and an Associate Professor in the School of Archaeology and Museology at Peking University, where he is the Director of the Research Center of Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts (since 2000).  He is also a board member of the Society for the Study of Early China.  Xing Wen has taught and done research at Mount Holyoke College (2002-03), Dartmouth College (1999-2000), CASS (1996-97) and Harvard-Yenching Institute (1994-95).  His books include Research on the Silk Manuscript Zhouyi, which received the first- place honor in the national selection for the top ten best academic books in 1996, published by the People's Press in Beijing.  He is also the founder and editor of the International Research on Bamboo and Silk Documents: Newsletter (since 1999).