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China Seminar in a new joint venture with the Shilin Foundation present a lecture on Ming (1368-1644) China:
'Ming Martial Arts: Characteristic Features and Problems of Research'
by PD Dr. Kai Filipiak (University of Leipzig)
The paper deals with characteristic features of martial arts during the Ming dynasty. Starting from the question of what martial arts is or seems to be, the paper provides an introduction into types of sources, discusses important trends of martial arts development during the Ming dynasty and explains the social origins of martial arts practice. It will be shown that the development is characterized by aspects of differentiation, specialization, and regionalization of martial arts.
Using the example of the military, it can be demonstrated that the practice of martial arts was closely related to its purpose that defined the performance.
Finally, the paper presents different social groups practicing martial arts for different reasons. The last section will fix some problems in Ming martial arts research today.
The lecture will be held Wednesday 24 April at the Arsenaal building, in the Green Room (inside the East Asian Library), from 15:00 to 17:00. Afterwards we will go for a drink at the English Pub “North End”. Admission is free and open to everyone!
11-04-2013
Welcome to our new chairman!
The Stichting Shilin is proud to announce that Maaike Hang will take over the position of chairman as of this fall. We are very happy to have her and her fresh input and new ideas on board, and we are sure that she will capably and enthousiastically lead Shilin onwards and forwards.
A warm welcome to you Maaike!
07-10-2012
Shilin 3.2 (September 2012) is out!
We are happy to announce that our new September issue is out.
In this issue you may once more find a number of very interesting China-related articles. Gea Ardesch takes us on a tour of Chinese art around the turn of the 20th century, and critically evaluates whether Western techniques imported from abroad were indeed influencing the visual landscape in those heady days of early globalisation. Looking at the rise of menglong 朦胧 poetry, which became popular in the early 1980s, Pieter van Sloten discusses the politics of literature in modern China. Finally, Marijn de Wolff dives into the grammar of Southern Mǐn 閩南, comparing it with more commonly studied Chinese languages such as Mandarin and Cantonese.
In addition to this Barend Noordam and Tabitha Speelman have provided Shilin with its first two book reviews ever. We sincerely hope that we can continue to publish book reviews in our next issues, so if you are interested in publishing one with us, do not hesitate to contact us at editor@shilin.nl!
07-09-2012
Goodbyes and new faces
The summer is over, which means that many students have graduated and are leaving for pastures new. This is also the case for two of our beloved board members.
Chairman Rens Krijgsman has secured a scholarship for a PhD at Oxford University, and will be leaving us at the end of September. His duties will be taken over by Sander Molenaar, who will continue as our acting chairman.
Editor-in-chief Daan van Esch has recently attained his Master's degree, and graduated with distinction. He will also be leaving in September. The position of editor-in-chief will be taken up by Gabe Geert van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen.
Daan, Rens, congratulations to you both! We are sad to see you go, but thank you again for all the hard work you've put in over the past few years making Shilin possible. Have fun and good luck on your next adventures!
07-09-2012
Shilin 3.1 (March 2012) is out!
We are happy to announce that the new issue of Shilin has come out! We have been able to expand considerably, and at 94 pages Shilin is now bigger than ever. This also means that there are many great and stimulating new articles for our readers to enjoy in this fourth issue of Shilin, covering a broad range of topics. Gabriele de Seta investigates how experimental music in China experiments with liveness, mediatisation and community; Neline Floor examines the occurence of rhotacism in Beijing Mandarin; Tong Jiang discusses the Chinese media coverage of the Egyptian Revolution and Gwen Doctor proposes new ways of teaching Mandarin students about "directional complements". Furthermore Colinda de Korte debates the problems and challenges that the education of migrant children poses for China, Luuk van 't Hoff traces the success of the Sogdian trade network along the Silk Road, and Kim-Lan Jong Baw analyses how revolutionary socialism was embodied in the revolutionary ballets of the Cultural Revolution.
A new addition to this issue of Shilin is the section "Briefly Noted", which lists all BA and MA theses recently written by students of the Chinese Studies Department and their library call codes, so that our readers may be more aware of the wonderful work being done every semester.
All in all this is an exiting and diverse new issue of Shilin and we hope you enjoy it! If you have not yet subscribed to Shilin and are interested in doing so, please take a look at our Subscriptions page for more information.
15-04-2012
(!) Switch to direct debit - renewing old Shilin subscriptions (Dutch below)
!Important! Starting the end of March, when the new Shilin issue comes out, we will begin collecting the subscription fees through direct debit. Unfortunately, our previous subscription form did not conform to the legal requirements, which means your current subscriptions are unsuitable for direct debit payments. We have therefore issued a new subscription form and would like to invite both our current subscribers and new subscribers to download this new form, fill it out and either mail it to us (Stichting Shilin, Arsenaalstraat 1, 2311 CT, Leiden) or scan it and send it to us by mail at editor.shilin@gmail.com. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
(!) Invoering automatische incasso - verval oude Shilin abonnementen
!Belangrijk! Vanaf de eerstvolgende editie van Shilin, die eind maart uitkomt, zullen we gaan werken met automatische incasso. Helaas voldoen de inschrijfformulieren van afgelopen jaar niet aan de wettelijk eis, waardoor uw huidige abonnement niet geschikt is voor automatische incasso. We hebben daarom een nieuw inschrijfformulier gemaakt en vragen iedereen, huidige abonnees en nieuwe abonnees, om dat formulier te downloaden en ingevuld op te sturen naar Stichting Shilin, Arsenaalstraat 1, 2311 CT, Leiden; of een scan ervan te mailen naar editor.shilin@gmail.com. Heeft u nog vragen, neem dan contact met ons op.
02-03-2012
Het Chinese Denken by Karel van der Leeuw
Earlier we announced our plans to republish the excellent book Het Chinese denken: geschiedenis van de Chinese filosofie in hoofdlijnen by Karel van der Leeuw and make it available through print-on-demand, amongst other things converting the Wade-Giles transcription to pinyin in the process. We are proud to announce that this project is now completed and the book available for a reasonable price in our webshop. We invite you all to take a look!
24-01-2012
Open Vacancies - Shilin Board Members 2012 (Dutch text only)
Beste studenten,
Stichting Shilin is op zoek naar vrijwilligers die het bestuur en de redactie van de stichting willen versterken. Een aantal bestuursleden hoopt binnen afzienbare tijd af te studeren, en tegelijkertijd breidt de stichting haar activiteiten uit waardoor er meer redactieleden nodig zijn.
Wat is Shilin?
Shilin is de naam van een stichting die in augustus 2010 is opgericht ter bevordering van onderzoek door jonge wetenschappers op het gebied van China studies. De voornaamste bezigheid van de stichting is het uitgeven van Shilin, een half-jaarlijkse tijdschrift waarin BA- en MA-scripties als artikels gepubliceerd worden, zodat studenten ervaring opdoen met het schrijven van artikels, en tegelijkertijd de rest van de sinologische gemeenschap op de hoogte blijft van interessant onderzoek in verschillende disciplines binnen sinologie.
Daarnaast houdt de stichting zich bezig met het heruitgeven van educatief materiaal, zoals het onlangs uitgekomen Wenyan Partikels, en het binnenkort te verschijnen Het Chinese Denken; ook is de stichting betrokken geweest bij de organisatie van de eerste Rombouts conferentie begin september.
Wat wordt er van je verwacht?
De stichting houdt zich dus bezig met een gevarieerd aantal taken. De verantwoordelijkheid daarvoor ligt bij het bestuur: voorzitter, penningmeester, hoofdredacteur en secretaris; en in het werk wordt dit bestuur bijgestaan door o.a. redactieleden en commissieleden die zich bezighouden met pr, acquisitie etc.
De voorzitter stuurt dit team aan, houdt de grote lijn in de gaten en zorgt ervoor dat de planning nageleefd wordt. De penningmeester houdt zich o.a. bezig met incasso van abonnementen, belastingaangiften en is nauw betrokken bij de acquisitie-commissie. De hoofdredacteur stuurt de redactie aan en is in principe verantwoordelijk voor al het gedrukte werk dat de stichting uitgeeft. De secretaris houdt zich bezig met de algemene communicatie, intern en extern, zoals bijvoorbeeld het contact met de abonnees, het faculteitsbestuur, de opleiding etc. De eindredactie corrigeert artikels voor Shilin en voor andere projecten waar de stichting bij betrokken is. De taken van een commissie kunnen zeer gevarieerd zijn, en vinden altijd plaats in nauwe samenwerking met het betrokken bestuurslid.
Wie zoeken we?
We zijn op zoek naar enthousiaste studenten, bij voorkeur verbonden aan China studies in Leiden, die bereid zijn een paar uur per week te besteden aan stichting Shilin. De positie van penningmeester is voorlopig gevuld, maar alle andere posities in bestuur en redactie zijn open voor sollicitatie. De gekozen sollicitant zal een aantal weken meelopen om ingewerkt te worden op een bepaalde positie, waarna hij/zij zelfstandig aan het werk gaat.
Interesse?
Heb jij zin om ervaring op te doen waarmee je studie en cv verrijkt? Mail dan voor 14 November naar editor@shilin.nl. We horen graag waarom je geïnteresseerd bent, en we zien graag je cv bijgevoegd.
17-10-2011
Wenyan Partikels
Earlier we announced that we are working to republish a Classical Chinese reference book, and that is exactly what we did. Drs. D.R. Jonker's Wenyan Partikels is out now. This reference book explains more than 120 Classical Chinese grammatical particles and illustrates them with examples from various Classical Chinese works.
You can order Wenyan Partikels in our webshop.
11-09-2011
Third issue Shilin
We are happy to announce that the third issue of Shilin will be out next week. For our subscribers in the Leiden area there will be a small stand in the Arsenaal building of Leiden University coming Tuesday the 6th from five o'clock onwards. Be sure to get your hands on this issue as it contains a series of fascinating new articles and sports a brand new bound cover. In this third issue, Ruben de Bie discusses the CCP's usage of 'communities' to counter rising individualisation. Moving 3000 years back in time, Willemijn van Noord debates the monetary function of Shang Cowrie shells. Back to present day International Relations, Petra Meijer reviews the efficacy of the ASEAN Regional Forum, closely followed by Laura Vermeeren who instead analyses the theme of immortality in Guo Pu's poetry. Lastly, Brechtje Spreeuwers discusses the nature of the post-1997 changes in the hukou system, while Tjalling R. Valdés Olmos seeks to emancipate International Relations theory by including non-western alternatives.
In all, a vibrant new edition. If you are not yet a subscriber, please contact us at editor.shilin@gmail.com and we'll get you a hardcopy in no-time!
31-08-2011
Projects
In addition to publishing two Shilin issues per year, members of the Shilin editorial team are also involved with a variety of student-led initiatives at the Department of Chinese Studies. We're working closely with the team behind the student conference in September 2011, and will be publishing the proceedings of this conference. We're also working to republish a few textbooks which are no longer in print. For example, we will republish Karel van der Leeuw's Het Chinese denken: geschiedenis van de Chinese filosofie in hoofdlijnen through print-on-demand early this summer. We are cooperating with Mr Van der Leeuw to realize this project. This summer, we will be releasing new editions of a few reference books on Classical Chinese that were originally published in the 1960s. For more updates on these projects please visit our website in the upcoming months.
12-05-2011
First Shilin issue FREE
Curious what Shilin is? As a token of appreciation towards our readers and for future readers we made the very first issue of Shilin available for download. Go to the archive section and download your first copy of Shilin. This issue is only a sample for what is to come. Eager to read more? Send us an e-mail for a subscription!
01-05-2011
Second issue Shilin
We are happy to announce that the second issue of Shilin: Leiden University Journal of Young Sinology is coming out in a couple of weeks! In the new issue, Chenyu Cheng employs Freudian-Lacanian theories of psychoanalysis to gain a better understanding of who Qiu Jin really was. In the second piece, Tom van der Meer traces the roots of the internet phenomenon known as the “human flesh search engine”, while Suzanne Burdorf goes back to times past and closely examines a Daoist poem. Lai Mei Tang discusses a Song dynasty embassy to the Uighurs, and finally Eveline Kamstra shows how the Cultural Revolution affected a generation of Chinese. We do hope you enjoy reading the articles!
If you are not yet subscribed but would like to do so, just send us an email at editor.shilin@gmail.com. An annual subscription will only set you back €10, which gets you two issues of Shilin full of interesting, stimulating research, including home delivery. Back issues can also be ordered by sending us an e-mail message.
08-03-2011
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