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RAS China in Shanghai - Newsletter Vol 3 No 9 – October 2012 14 5 th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING end November 2012 Venue to be announced We will be holding our AGM at the end of November. Some of our Officers and Council members will be standing again and others will be stepping down. We are now looking for new members to join us and help to take forward our Society. CALL for NOMINATIONS for COUNCIL positions ALL POSTS are available for nomination – see descriptions opposite. Council members are required to attend approximately seven Council meetings a year - none during July to last week of August, as well as a number of scheduled events. Nominees should email their name, RAS membership number and personal statement (max 200 words) on or before Wednesday, 24 th October 2012, to the Hon Secretary, putting “RAS NOMINATION” in the subject box: secretary@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn Please consider standing for Council as we do require new members to join and thereby help sustain and continue our programme of events and activities. It is important also to have fresh ideas and new impetus from members. Please speak to any Council member if you are interested or want to know more, or e-mail the Hon. Secretary for further information. Members will be informed of the names of all Nominees (including their personal statements) together with the AGM Agenda, to be circulated at least two weeks prior to the AGM. Patricia Lambert Hon Secretary RAS CHINA in SHANGHAI OFFICERS and COUNCIL MEMBERS – not to exceed 20 Elected for one year and may serve for a four-year period in the same post. Two posts may be combined as necessary but only one vote. President - responsible for the general supervision of the affairs of the Society. S/He shall preside at meetings of the Society and of the Council, conduct the proceedings, give effect to resolutions passed, and ensure the Constitution and Regulations of the Society are enforced. Must have already served on Council Vice-Presidents (maximum 4) - have the duty to maintain close communication with the Honorary Secretary and to support the President’s activities. They have the power to act for the President in cases of indisposition or emergency. Must have already served on Council. Honorary Treasurer - responsible for the supervision of the financial records of the Society and for producing accounts for each Council meeting. Yearend accounts to be made available at the AGM and circulated to all members. Honorary Secretary - the general administrator of the Society and is responsible for seeing that minutes and reports from all the Society’s meetings are faithfully kept, and for overseeing matters relating to membership. In the absence of the President and the Vice-Presidents s/he shall, subject to the control of the Council, direct the executive details of the Society’s business. Honorary Librarian - to advise the Society on library matters and shall have general charge and custody of all books, manuscripts, pictures, memorials and other objects of learning, curiosity or interest, in the possession, or likely possession, of the Society. Honorary Research and Publications Director - responsible for developing and overseeing the production and publication of written works by Members of the Society – particularly the China Monograph Series with HKUP. Honorary Editor - responsible for compiling and editing the Society’s Journal. Honorary Programme Director - responsible for managing matters relating to the monthly activities of the Society, and for communicating such matters to the Society’s membership and other relevant parties. Membership Secretary - responsible for the maintenance of membership records, issuing renewal notices and membership cards and collection of membership fees. Liaising with the Honorary Treasurer and Honorary Secretary and Distribution Co-ordinator. Newsletter Editor - responsible for compiling, preparing, editing and producing the monthly newsletter. IT Support - responsible for IT in the form of maintenance of the RAS website and E-mail facilities. Distribution Co-ordinator – responsible for emails to membership and general mailing list. Council Member - will be expected to actively participate in the general running of the Society and its affairs. Non Council POSITIONS: A number of members serve as Co-ordinators and assist with various activities. These include the Focus Group Coordinators: Book Club; Film Club; and Study Group, as well as Events Management and Library Rota volunteers.
RAS CHINA MONOGRAPH SERIES 1 Lao She in London - Anne Witchard ‘London is blacker than lacquer’ Lao She remains revered as one of China’s great modern writers. His life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique, analysis and study. However, the four years the young aspiring writer spent in London between 1924 and 1929 have largely been overlooked. Dr Anne Witchard, a specialist in the modernist milieu of London between the wars, reveals Lao She's encounter with British high modernism and literature from Dickens to Conrad to Joyce. Lao She arrived from his native Peking to the whirl of London's West End scene -‐ Bloomsburyites, Vorticists, avant-gardists of every stripe, Ezra Pound and the cabaret at the Cave of the Golden Calf. Immersed in the West End 1920s world of risqué flappers, the tabloid sensation of England's "most infamous Chinaman Brilliant Chang" and Anna May Wong's scandalous film Piccadilly, simultaneously Lao She spent time in the notorious and much sensationalised East End Chinatown of Limehouse. Out of his experiences came his great novel of London Chinese life and tribulations -‐ Ma & Son: Two Chinese in London. However, as Witchard reveals, Lao She's London years affected his writing and ultimately the course of Chinese modernism in far more profound ways. "A beautifully written book that combines literary biography with a remarkably succinct account of British modernism and an evocative portrait of interbellum London, as viewed through Chinese eyes. Anne Witchard reminds us eloquently of the key role played by Chinese influences -‐ both classical and modern -‐ in literary modernism, and makes a great contribution to our understanding of Lao She's London years." Julia Lovell, Birkbeck College, University of London “Sent by missionaries to teach Chinese in London, the fastidious writer and intellectual Lao She arrived in 1928 in a city brimming with prejudice where tourists visited Whitechapel to see opium dens and experience the Yellow Peril at first hand. Lao She’s novel about London reflects his experience of missionary condescension and popular panic. Anne Witchard’s wonderful weaving of Chinese and British intellectual lives with the horror engendered by characters such as Dr Fu Manchu is a fascinating reminder of how attitudes and prejudices needed to change.” Frances Wood, Curator, Chinese Collections, British Library “This perceptive and engaging book explores the London years and writings of one of China's finest twentieth century novelists. Lao She came to Britain to teach Chinese, but as Witchard ably shows, the fiction and essays he wrote here teach us instead new ways to understand 1920s London, Anglo-‐Chinese relations, and the transnational world of modern literature.” Professor Robert Bickers, Department of History, University of Bristol 15 15
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