Program
Saturday, September 12, 1992
16:00–19:00
Registration
Sunday, September I3, 1992
9:30-10:30
Opening Ceremony (International Reception Hall, Grand Hotel)
- Chen Sun, President, National Taiwan University
- Pi-Cheng Wang, Vice Chairman of the Board, United Daily News, Inc.
- Wei-fan Kuo, President, Council for Cultural Planning and Development, ROC
- Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Professor, Free University, Berlin
- Denis Sinor, Secretary General, Permanent International Altaistic Conference
Moderator: Chieh-hsien Ch’en, Professor, National Taiwan University
10:40–12:30
Confessions
Chairman: Denis Sinor
12:30–14:00
Lunch
I4:00–15:00
First Meeting (Papers Presentation)
Section A (International Reception Hall, Grand Hotel)
Chairman: Dmitri D. Vasiliev
Reporters:
- Jean Richard: The Relatio de Davide as a Source for Mongolian History
- Ruth I. Meserve: The Bactrian Camel: Two Mongolian Manuscripts in the Royal Library (Copenhagen)
- Mária Ivanics: Über die Beglaubigungsformeln der Krimtatarischen Urkunden
- B. Sumiyabaatar: Study on Ancient Letters of the Mongolian Empire
Section B (Spring Room, Grand Hotel)
Chairman: Hok-lam Chan
Reporters:
- Giovanni Stary: Recurring Elements in Manchu Shaman Prayers
- Chieh-hsien Ch’en: Analysis of the Reasons of Manchu Emperor Hong Taiji’s Restriction of Shamanism
- Chong-nian Yan: The Ch’ing Court and Shamanistic Worship
- Tatjana A. Pang: New Evidence About Shamanic Practices Among the Sibe-Manchu People in Xinjiang
Section C (Plum Room, Grand Hotel)
Chairman: Hans-Peter Vietze
Reporters:
- Richard Howell: Social Identity Versus Language Standardization
- Vladimir Alpatov: Japanese as a Hybrid Altaic-Chinese Language
- Alexander Vovin: Is Ainu Related to Altaic?
- Jiro Ikegami: Aorist Suffixes in Proto-Tungus
15:00–15:30
Discussion
15:30–16:00
Coffee Break
16:00–17:30
Second Meeting (Papers Presentation)
Section A (International Reception Hall)
Chairman: Chieh-hsien Ch’en
Reporters:
- Barbara Kellner-Heinkele: Scholarship in 19th Century Khiva and Neighboring Khanates
- Ho-dong Kim: The Worship of Local Islamic Saints and Its Persistence in Eastern Turkestan: The Case of Alp-Ata in Turfan
- Imel Bakievich Moldobaev: The Historical Events Reflected in the Kyrghyz Heroic Epos “Manas”
- A. van Tongerloo: The Nature of the Manichean Uighur Technical Terminology
Section B (Spring Room, Grand Hotel)
Chairman: Hidehiro Okada
Reporters:
- Hans-Peter Vietze: Bio Bzan Bstan ’Jin Güüši’s Rhymes
- Hirotoshi Shimo: The Central Organization of Il-Khanate Governments
- Han-Woo Choi: A Study of the Word “Muktor” (冒頓)
- Dawaagyn Tsolmon: The Customary and Lingual Resemblances of Indians to that of Mongols
Section C (Plum Room, Grand Hotel)
Chairman: Mária Ivanics
Reporters:
- Décsy Gyula: Reconstruction of the Turkic Protolanguage
- Adam Molnár: On an Enigmatic Passage of an Old Turkic Book Of Divination
- Eiji Mano: The Original Title of the Memoirs of Bābur
- Koichiro Koyama: The Will of Murad II
- Xénia Celnarová: Some Remarks on the Prosody of Yunus Emre
I7:30–18:00
Discussion
18:30–20:00
Welcome Reception (International Reception Hall)
Monday, September 14, 1332
9:00–10:00
Third Meeting (Papers Presentation):
Section A (Conference Room No. 2, Scholars’ Hostel, Academia Sinica)
Chairman: Frederik Kortlandt
Reporters:
- Masao Shimada: Effectivity of the Ch’ing Mongol Code (Meng-ku li 蒙古例)
- Hidehiro Okada: The Mongolian Literary Tradition in Early Manchu Culture
- Junko Miyawaki: The Nomadic Kingship Based on Marital Alliances: The Case of the 17th–18th- Century Oyirad
Section B (Conference Room No. 3, Scholars’ Hostel, Academia Sinica)
Chairman: Jun Matsumura
Reporters:
- Chi-fa Chuang: A Study on the Manchu Version of the Tripitaka of the Ch’ing Dynasty
- Koichi Higuchi: The Bhadracaryāpraņidhānarāja in Mongolian
- Florin Deleanu: Mindfulness of Breathing in the Dhyāna Sūtras
Section C (Conference Room No. 4, Scholars’ Hostel, Academia Sinica)
Special Panel on the Manchu Studies Archives Kept on Both Sides of the Taiwan Strait. All papers are presented in Chinese.
Chairman: Peter Chang
Reporters:
- Zhong-han Wang: A Brief Description of the Manchu Noble Yun-ti’s Life
- Qing-yuan Wei: The Ch’ing Government and Xibo People
- Rong-sheng Wang: The Examination System of Mongolia and Tibet During the Ch’ing Dynasty
10:00–10:30
Discussion
10:30–10:50
Coffee Break
10:50–12:10
Fourth Meeting (Papers Presentation)
Section A (Conference Room No. 2, Scholars’ Hostel, Academia Sinica)
Chairman: Jean Richard
Reporters:
- Denis Sinor: The Practice of Scalping in Inner Asia
- Alice Sárközi: Burial of a Dog
- Vadim Solntsev: Words for “Person”, “Man”, “Male” and “Child” in Altaic and Southeast Asian Languages
- Dmitri D. Vasiliev: Old Turkic Inscriptions of the Chinese Mirrors from Siberian Museums
Section B (Conference Room No. 3, Scholars’ Hostel, Academia Sinica)
Chairman: Giovanni Stary
Reporters:
- Nobuo Kanda: Correspondence Between Hong Taiji and Mao Wen-lung
- Naoto Kato: The Rebellion of Lobdzang Danjin and the Yung-cheng Emperor
- Hiroomi Kanno: On the Versions of Manchu Veritable Records
- Jun Matsumura: On the Founding Legend of the Ch’ing Dynasty
Section C (Conference Room No. 4 Scholars’ Hostel, Academia Sinica)
Special Panel on the Manchu Studies Archives Kept on Both Sides of the Taiwan Strait. All Papers are presented in Chinese.
Chairman: Qing-yuan Wei
Reporters:
- Yipu Xu: Notes on the Elutan Archives and Historical Materials
- Er-kang Feng: Jilin (Kirin) Manchurian Society and Immigrants in the Early Ch’ing Dynasty
- Geng-sheng Liu: On the Political Dealings of the Ch’ing Dynasty Government with the Elutan Tribes
- Hua Bai: Comparative Research on the Customs and Traditions of Altaic Peoples
12:00–12:40
Discussion
12:40–13:30
Lunch
13:30–17:30
Visit of the National Palace Museum
18:30–21:00
Dinner Party
Tuesday, September 15, 1992
9:00–10:00
Fifth Meeting (Papers Presentation)
Section A (Conference Room 2, Scholars’ Hostel, Academia Sinica)
Chairman: Fred Drake
Reporters:
- Zuihō Yamaguchi: The Intervention by Tumed Kholochi and his Sons in Central Tibet
- Ming-chu Fung: The Sino-British Negotiations on Tibet and the Political Situation in Tibet in Modern China—from the Gurkha War to the Washington Conference
- Taksing Kam: Manchu-Tibetan Relations before 1644: A Reappraisal
- István Zimonyi: Ethnical Political and Social Unities in the Empire of the Turks
Section B (Conference Room 3, Scholars’ Hostel, Academia Sinica)
Chairman: Vadim Solntsev
Reporters:
- Nap-yin Lau: A Strategic Analysis of the Shanyuan Accord
- Ling-yeong Chiu: The Consolidation of An Empire: Early Ming Emperors’ Frontier Defence and the Untimely Demise of Tīmūr the Lama (Tamerlane)
- Ruby Yuan-chu Lam: Notions Behind Reconciliatory Attempts on the Hung-wu Period of Ming China
Section C (Conference Room 4, Scholars’ Hostel, Academia Sinica)
Chairman: San-ching Ch’en
Reporters:
- Van Cac Phan: Government Relations between the Great Viet and Yuan Mongolia in the Middle of the XIII Century
- Elena V. Boikova: Cultural Orientation of Mongolia at the Post-revolution Period
- Chiu-wen Liu: Comments on Hsu Shu-cheng Enforcing Mongolians to Cancel Their Autonomy
10:00–10:30
Discussion
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
11:00–12:00
Chairman: Nobuo Kanda
Reporters:
- Yoshihiro Kawachi: The Sable Trade in Northeast Asia in the Ming Period
- Hartmut Walravens: The Current Situation of the Manchu Collection of the Berlin State Library
- Tatsuo Nakami: Japanese Researchers’ Search for Ch’ing-Manchu Sources in the Early 20th Century
Section B (Conference Room 3, Scholars’ Hostel, Academia Sinica)
Chairman: Barbara Kellner-Heinkele
Reporters:
- Fred W. Drake: The Mukden Palace and Nurhaci’s Tomb as Symbolic Architecture (abstract: A Study of Early Manchu Edifices in Mukden)
- Sherman Han: Poems by an Early Manchu on His Journey to Mongolia and Xinjiang
- Cheng-mian Wang: The Concept of Loyalty in Early Ch’ing Official Histories—As Seen in the Case of Hung Ch’eng-ch’ou (1593–1665)
Section C (Conference Room 4, Scholars’ Hostel, Academia Sinica)
(All Papers are Presented in Chinese)
Chairman; Chi-fang Huang
Reporters:
- Ting-cheuk Yuen: Some Notes on the Decipherment of Qidan Large Script
- Teh-yi Wang: The Relations Between the Ch’in Dynasty and Koryo
- Min Lin: Cultural Relationship Between Lin Zexu and Altai Nationality in the Zhu Zhi (竹枝詞) Poems of Going Back to Xinjiang
12:00–12:30
Discussion
12:30–14:00
Lunch
14:00–15:00
Seventh Meeting (Papers Presentation)
Section A (Conference Room 2, Scholars’ Hostel, Academia Sinica)
Chairman: Alice Sárközi
Reporters:
- Alessandra Pozzi: Two Divinities in the Sibe World: Siri Mama and Hairkan Mafa
- Ágnes Birtalan: A Xibe Love-song Among the Altai-Oirats
- Gertraude Roth Li: Minority Education in China as Seen Through Xibe Elementary School Texts
- Kuo-tung Chen: The Wanggiyan Clan of the Imperial Household Department
S
Chairman: Tung-kuei Kuan
Reporters:
- Hakanchulu Harnod: The Mongols and Jin Jou Island–from Harubang
- Fu-shun Lei: The Mongolian Tribe of Torgut Went Never to Return
- David Honey: Notes on the Texts of Ssu-ma Ch’ien’s Hsiung-nu Loros
Section C (Conference Room 4, Scholars’ Hostel, Academia Sinica)
Chairman: Ling-yeong Chiu
Reporters:
- Erling v. Mende: Traditional Agriculture in Liaoning Province
- Liliya Gorelova: Tungus-Manchu Publications for the Period of 1970–-90
- Ting-yuan Kuang and Hwa-ker Chang: Studies on the Development of Usage of Computer’s Desk-Top Publishing Technique to Process Manchu Scripts
15:00–15:30
Discussion
16:00–16:30
Discussion
16:00–16:30
Coffee Break
16:30–17:30
Eighth Meeting: Business Meeting (Conference Rm. No. 1, Scholars’ Hostel)
17:30–18:00
Closing Ceremony (Conference Rm. No. 1, Scholars’ Hostel)
18:30–21:00
Dinner Party
Wednesday, September 16, 1992
Excursion
Thursday, September 17, 1992
Departure