The State Museum of the History of Religion (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Mazu Culture Research Center, National Chung Cheng University (Chiayi, Taiwan)

With support of the Cultural Division of the Representative Office in Moscow for the Moscow-Taipei Coordination Commission on Economic and Cultural Cooperation

29 – 30 June 2017

Saint Petersburg International Conference
«Folk Images and Late Imperial China»

Programme

June 29, Thursday

State Museum of the History of Religion (Pochtamtskaya, 14)

10.00–10.30 – Registration at the Museum Lobby

Morning Session

Moderator: Y. Yang, Director, Research Center of Mazu Culture, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, Ph.D, Professor

10:30 – 10.40 Opening Session

Lubov Musienko, Director of the State Museum of the History of Religion. Greetings

Prof. Irina Popova, Director of the Institute of the Oriental Manuscripts. Greetings

10.40 – 11.00. Lin Ching-chih (National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan). GIS Analysis of Chinese Popular Woodblock Prints: A Preliminary Survey

11.00 – 11.20. Irina Popova (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS). Pictures of Folklife (minsuhua) in the Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS

11.20 – 11.40. Ekaterina Teryukova (The State Museum of the History of Religion). Academician V. Alekseev’s Collection from the State Museum of the History of Religion

11.40 – 12.00. Paulina Rud’ (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera). The Formation of Chinese Popular Woodblock Prints Collection in Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) RAS

12.00 – 12.20. Ingrida Raudsepa (Jurmala City Museum, Latvia), Irina Bezrucenko.  Themes of Chinese Color Woodblock Prints of the Jurmala City Museum Collection

12.20 – 12.40. Tatiana Vinogradova (Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences). The Collection of Chinese Woodblock Prints in Portugal

12.40 – 13.00. Lai Yu-chih (National Taiwan Normal University). From Court Paintings to Export Paintings: Some Observations on the Commercial Workshops in Beijing in the Qing dynasty

13.00 – 13.30. Coffee-break

Evening Session

Moderator: E. Teryukova, Deputy Director, State Museum of History of Religion, Saint-Petersburg, Ph.D.

13.30 – 13.50. Yu Hui-chun (PhD., Department of Arts and Creative Industries National Dong Hwa University). Gridded Scene and Auspicious Landscape: Yangliuqing Folk art Prints for the New Land

13.50 – 14.10. Berezkin Rostislav (PhD., Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R.C.). ‘Zhima’ and Baojuan Performances in Southern Jiangsu in the Modern Period

14.10 – 14.30. Komarovskaia Polina (PhD., Saint-Petersburg State University). Nianhua Workshop Center in Yangjiabu (Shangdong): Traditions and Modernity

14.30 – 14.50. Gultaeva Galina (Saint Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences). Evolution of Nianhua in the 20th century

14.50 – 15.10. Pavel Tugarinov (The State Museum of the History of Religion). Contemporary Nianhua from the Exhibition Project «Season of Flying Fish» as an Example of Taiwanese Identity Construction

15.10 – 15.30. Coffee-break

15.30 – 17.00. Workshop

17.00 – 18.00. Visit to the Permanent Exhibition of the State Museum of the History of Religion, Guided tour

June 30, Friday

Morning Session

Institute of the Oriental Manuscripts (Dvortsovaia emb. 18)

Moderator: Prof. Irina Popova, Director of the Institute of the Oriental Manuscripts

10.10 – 10.30. Yang Yujun (PhD., National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan). Imagination and Reality of Late Qing Woodblock Prints

10.30 – 10.50. Hsieh Kuo-Hsing (Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica; Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica). Shaman Facial Makeups of Masqueraded Song Jiang Militia of Taiwan Folk Religion

10.50 – 11.10. Hung Yingfa (Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica). Sending off the Plague (sòng wēn): From the Ship Paintings to the Practice of Taoist Ritual

11.10 – 11.30. Lai Hui-min (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica). Sino-Russian Trade and Folk Prints of Northern China

11.30 – 11.50. Hsieh Jui-Long (Department of Chinese, Mingdao University). Studies on the Mural Paintings of Mazu Temples in Taiwan

11.50 – 12.10. Lin Pei-Ya (Chung Shan Medical University). The Iconization of Taiwanese Folklore, from Legends to Statues of Deities

12.15 – 13.00. Coffee-break

Evening Session

Moderators: Rostislav Berezkin, PhD., Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R.C.

13.00 – 13.20. Lin Li-chiang (National Taiwan Normal University). Folk Images On Corners: Visual Information in the Novus Atlas Sinensis (New Atlas of China, 1655) by Martino Martini

13.20 – 13.40. Chiu Shih-hua (National Palace Museum, Taiwan). Folk Images in the Court Paintings during the Jiaqing Reign (1796–1820)

13.40 – 14.00. Tarasenko Anna, Alfereva Natalia (National Research University ʻHigher School of Economicsʼ). Beijing Russian Ecclesiastical Mission Collections of the Chinese Painting in the late 19th century

14.00 – 14.20. Ekaterina Zavidovskaya (National Tsing Hua University). Painted Icons and Paper Icons Zhima from Alekseev`s Collection: What is Common and Different about Them?

14.20 – 14.40. Olga Khizniak (PhD., The State Museum of the History of Religion). Studying of Zao-wang Image in Russian Sinology

14.40 – 15.00. Tatjana Palmova (Saint-Petersburg State University). The Images of Mystical Foxes in Chinese Popular Painting (based on materials of V. Alekseev’s Сollection of The State Museum of the History of Religion)

15.00 – 15.20. Maria Kormanovskaya (The State Museum of the History of Religion). Chinese Theatric Nianhua from the Collection of the State Museum of the History of Religion

15.20 – 15.40. Valentina Mazurina (The State Museum of the History of Religion). Chinese Nianhua Depicting the Moon Rabbit from the Collection of the State Museum of the History of Religion

16.00. Visit to the Museum of the Institute of the Oriental Manuscripts, RAS

July 1st, Saturday

11.00 – Visit to the State Hermitage, Guided Tour

16.00 – Visit to the Saint Isaak Cathedral

July 2nd, Sunday

11.00 – Visit to Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography