Conference News

British Association for Japanese Studies Conference, 9-10 September, SOAS, London.
Information: http://www.bajs.org.uk/conferences/

Light From Light, an international exhibition run as a partnership between the Shanghai Library and MAAP – Multimedia Art Asia Pacific. It opens on 1 October and will run for 2 years.
Information: http://maap.org.au/light-from-light

American Association for Chinese Studies, 52nd Annual Conference at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, October 15-17, 2010.
Information: http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/aacs/

The 10th Biennial Pacific-Asia Conference on Korean Studies 2010 (PACKS 2010), November 24-26, 2010, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Information: http://ks111.moore.hawaii.edu/wp/?p=606

"Spatial Cultures and Cultural Spaces in Taiwan: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives." Taiwan Studies International Conference, 9th - 10th December, 2010, Asian Institute, the University of Melbourne.
Information: http://www.asiainstitute.unimelb.edu.au/taiwanconference/

Taiwan Studies Postgraduate Symposium: Taiwan Studies in 2010 - the State of the Field, 7-8 December, Asian Institute, the University of Melbourne.
Information: http://www.asiainstitute.unimelb.edu.au/events/2010/taiwan_studies_postgraduate_symposium/index.php

AAS -ICAS Conference, Honolulu, March 31–April 3, 2011.
Information: http://www.aasianst.org/Conference/index.htm

Miao Baby Carriers Collection
Information: www.miaobabycarriers.com
"An extensive (4000+) collection of vintage Chinese baby carrier embroideries, a sampling of which can be viewed online at www.miaobabycarriers.com. The collection is available (at no cost) for study or display to interested students, teachers, and authors. These wonderful handmade artifacts are an enormously rich ethnographic and aesthetic resource, and they would make an ideal subject for a book or research project. Created primarily during the early to mid-20th century, these baby carriers were hand-sewn by the women of the minority cultures (e.g. Miao/Hmong, Dong) of the Southern Chinese provinces, in a tradition that is rapidly disappearing." Mark Clayton, Long Beach, California, USA.