The Fifth Annual Summer Workshop“Studies of Asian Arts, Religion and History”has been held successfully in June 24-July 3, 2015. This Workshop is sponsored by National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies of Fudan University, East Asian Studies Department and Program of Princeton University and Institute for the Advanced Study of Asia of Tokyo University. Its main purpose is to promote the exchanging and cultivating of young scholars in the area of Asian Arts, Religion and History from both domestic and overseas.
Forty students from Harvard university, Princeton University, Heidelberg University, Zurich University, Tokyo University, Kyoto University, Seoul National University, Taiwan University, Hong Kong University, Fudan University, East China Normal University and Shanghai University attend the programe this summer, which has the largest number of students since 2011. Their research area cover Religious, Art, Philosophy, Literature, History and Politics.
We have a powerful teaching team, which includes Prof. Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern from Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University, Prof. R. Bin Wong from UCLA Asia Institute, Professor and Director Oki Yasushi at Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, Tokyo University, Prof. Kawahara Hideki from Faculty of Arts, Tokyo University and Prof. Chuan-ying Yen from Academia Sinica. Besides, Prof. Dong Shaoxin, Associate Prof. Zhang Jia and Assistant Prof. Wang Xin-lei of Advanced Humanistic Studies also accompany and help them during the whole Summer Workshop as organizers.
This Summer Workshop contains three topics, six lectures, three field trips, three group discussions and a paper presentation.
The lecture topics and instructors are:
1. Knowledge & Art of East Asia: (June 25)
1) Problems of Texts and Authorship in Early China
Prof. Martin Kern, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
2) Buddhist Image Study in the early Tang Dynasty
Chuan-ying Yen, Academia Sinica
3) Evening discussion
*Organizer: Prof. Dong Shaoxin（IAHS）
2. Culture & Literature of the Late Ming Dynasty: (June 27)
1) Policy Questions during the late Ming Dynasty: What do they tell us?
Prof. Benjamin A. Elman, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
2) Publishing and Literature of the Late Ming Dynasty
3) Evening discussion
*Organizer: Associate Prof. Zhang Jia（IAHS）
3. West Learning and Response of East Asian (June 29）
1) West Learning in China and Practical Learning in Korea
Prof. Kawahara Hideki, Faculty of Arts, Tokyo University
2) Late Qing political economy and how to understand what is old and new, Western and Chinese
Prof. R. Bin Wong, Asia Institute, UCLA
3) Evening discussion* Organizer: Assistant Prof. Wang Xin-lei（IAHS）
Besides the wonderful lectures and heated discussions, the program also organize visits to the Shanghai Museum and Museum Library, Xujiahui Library, Jiading local libraries, Confucian temples that preserve significant cultural and architectural traditions.
On July 3, all students are divided into three groups, each one has a 15 minutes presentation about their papers or thoughts about this program. After that, we have the graduation ceremony and all of them finished their 9 days study in Fudan.
