EACS-2016. Book of Abstracts

Section 12 21st Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies 133 Kharitonova Anna (St. Petersburg State University) China-Southeast Asia Relations as Seen in the Materials of GARF and RGASPI Archives: on the Example of Khmer-Chinese Relations During the 1950s and 1960s Key words: China, China-SoutheastAsia relations, archives materials, Cambodia, economic assistance At present many researchers show a great interest in China and Chinese foreign policy, not only in the current issues but also in the historical perspective. This article analyses materials on China-Southeast Asia relations on the example of Sino-Cambodian relations in the 1950s and 1960s. These materials have been collected in the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF, Moscow) and the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI, Moscow). The significant part of the information on the China’s bilateral relations with the countries of the region can be found in the collections of the fund №R-4459, GARF and the fund 495, RGASPI. These materials consist of press-cuttings and extracts from newspapers containing reports by TASS, arranged in chronologi- cal order. Mostly it is translations of messages and articles of foreign news agencies such as AFP, Xinhua, Reuters, The Associated Press; translations of articles about politicians of the Southeast Asia; reports of Soviet correspondents. Archival materials contain a large amount of factual data: information on economic assistance to Southeast Asian countries provided by China, the USSR, the USA, France; the records of international visits. It’s also important to introduce the materials and reports of the USSR economic assistance to the region as they contain the facts about Chinese activities in the region. For example, fund №R5446, GARF. These records demonstrate the aspects of economic and political assistance. The funds contain fairly detailed reports on Sino-Cambodian relations. Leutner Mechthild (Freie Universitaet Berlin) The Lost Generation. The Persecution of Sinologists, 1933–1945 Key words: sinology in Germany, history of the discipline, impact of politics on academic institutions The national-socialist dictatorship had serious consequences for the fledgling field of sinology in Germany and for academic research on China as a whole. Out of the 60 or so scholars who were conducting research on China in universities, or were working on China in museums, publishing houses, libraries and other institutions, or had just completed their university studies, more than 40 (above all the younger generation) were forced to emigrate or were banned from practising their professions. The majority of the persecuted scholars were of Jewish origin. They suffered a tremendous upheaval in their personal lives, their family lives and their professional careers. For many years, the emigrants, as well as the few sinologists who had remained in Germany and were banned from practising their professions, were unable to continue their academic work or were only able to do so under extremely difficult conditions. For years, the persecuted scholars were ostracized in Germany and their works eventually consigned to oblivion. The broad spectrum of the research on China that had been conducted by these emigrants, who included ethnologists, social scientists and linguists, historians, art historians and religious scholars, was not represented after 1945, when the discipline of sinology started to be re-established in Germany and Austria. Many of the emigrants played an important role in developing and establishing the discipline in their countries of exile, in some cases founding new schools and helping to establish sinology as a discipline worldwide. It took over 30 years for a new generation of scholars with such comprehensive knowledge of the sub- ject area of sinology to emerge in Germany. Even today, in some areas of German sinology, the loss of this generation and the broad conceptual alignment of the methodology they employed is still painfully apparent. Liu Wei-chih (National Tsing Hua University) Trust and Suspicion in Collaboration: Zhao Zunyue’s Zhegutian, Palace-style Poetry Key words: lyrics (ci), Zhao Zunyue, poetry, collaboration, Wang Jingwei