tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49156193401393460662011-09-30T08:25:11.416-07:00Professor Emeritus, History of Art, University of Berkeley CaliforniaJames Cahillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02161434879918980818noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915619340139346066.post-15872592409829107072011-01-01T20:16:00.001-08:002011-01-01T20:16:45.892-08:00

Blog 12/25/10This is the first blog I have posted in over a year, and that one was the first in eight months. I am a poor blogger—I’ve written and posted Reminiscences instead--and I’m sure that scarcely anybody bothers to look here any more. But for those few who do—Welcome, faithful few! I have a lot to tell you about today. And Merry Christmas.First, as many of you know, my long delayed book

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10/1/09Eight months between blogs, and now only two days. I forgot, in writing the previous one, to include information on publications of my writings in Chinese. This is for those of you who read Chinese, or want to let you Chinese friends know.First of all, the Sanlian Book Co. in Beijing has published new editions of four of my books, the four that were published in Taiwan by Rock Publishing

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9/29/09I haven’t written a blog for about eight months, and I am sure that most visitors to my website have long ago given up looking to see if there is a new one. I’ve been unusually busy—but that is supposed to be what blogs record, not what keeps them from being written. No excuses.Three more items have been added to the “Responses and Reminiscences” series. This series is apparently—as I know

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2/5/09.The big news in this blog is that there is not only a new item that will appear under Directory when you go to "Writings of J.C.," on my website, it is that this item is for the first time illustrated. The new item is "Chang Ta-ch'ien Forgeries," and when you click on it, two sub-items appear below: the second (should be first, but no matter) is titled the same, and is a long text, mostly

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12/18/08Beginning another blog in the days before Christmas. I will be spending it quietly here in Vancouver, without doing any holiday travel. We are having a cold spell, and snow is thick outside. I am warm and secure, and in pretty good health. Best holiday wishes to all my friends and colleagues.Best news: my research assistant Barry Magrill has found a way to add a really usable, easily

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11/3/08 (begun on the night before the fateful election):I haven't written and posted one of these for nearly seven months, and have probably lost whatever readership I had, by not rewarding your checking the site. But for those who still do, there are a few new items.- Two new additions to the "Responses and Reminiscences." No. 56 is "Dealers Who Don't Get Credit," which, in addition to

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4/10/08I am putting on my website four additions to the "Responses and Reminiscences" section (found under "Writings of J.C.") These are:52. Tessai, the Temple, and Three Bishops 53. How the Train Scroll Came Into Being 54. Ed Schafer and Three Chopin Barcarolles 55. Sôgenga: A Modest Exhibition, An Opportunity Missed All four are, I think, entertaining, in some part

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This blog is mainly to announce the addition of some more CLPs, old lectures and papers, to my website. Responses that come in through the "contact" box and otherwise indicate that these are being read and used by quite a few people, and it seems worthwhile to make more of them accessible. These will be put on as pdf files, downloadable and readable that way—I don't have them in digitized form,

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I announced in the previous blog that we planned to put more CLP (Cahill Lectures and Papers) texts on my website as PDFs (please see that blog for instructions on how to open these.) Now I have chosen thirteen more to be made accessible in this way; they are either openable now or soon will be. Again, I will list them, stating briefly why I believe they may be of interest to students, colleagues

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Those of you who have opened and read my CLPs (Cahill Lectures and Papers) on my website are aware that on the list that first appears when you open "The Writing of James Cahill," some entries begin with asterisks * which means that they are digitally available, and can be called up by clicking on the corresponding number in the long list that comes down at left. The ones without asterisks exist

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Up to now, my blogs have been occasioned by additions or changes to my website. Some of those are indeed underway, and will be announced soon. But today I want to write, for a change, a commentary on a large issue in our field.In Berkeley last week I attended a book party given by Danny Goldstine, an old friend, for Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, to celebrate the publication of his

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Today's blog is a brief addition to yesterday's. In that I recommended two of my CLPs as embodying the messages I want to pass on to young scholars in East Asian art history, giving them some sense of what the field has gone through over the decades of my participation in it, and some (quite partisan) thoughts on where it might go from here, and on what I feel strongly should not be lost. One

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Today's blog is to celebrate, and respond to, an anonymous message that came this morning via the "Contact" facility on my website. It reads:"Professor Cahill,Your website is a godsend. Ironically, your approach is "new" to me. The so-called New Art History is all I've ever known; to me, it is "old", it is the orthodoxy. I cannot thank you enough for your generosity in sharing your knowledge

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9/3/07. Two more items have been added to the "Writings" section of my website, both of interest chiefly to people who may want to follow up, as researchers or just out of interest, on my paper "Paintings for Women in Ming-Qing China?" published in Nan Nü: Men, Women, and Gender in China, vol. 8 (2006), 1-54. (Note: the original Nan Nü publication, through a publisher's error, lacked the color

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Again, I must use this blog to apologize for faults in the website and announce the correction of them, thanks to my able research assistant Barry Magrill. First, an extraneous text had been inserted wrongly into the CYCTIE, the "Imperishable Ephemera" section, as Part 2. It has been removed, and the CYCTIE is complete in two parts. (The "Hamlet at Wittenberg" piece is at the end of Part 1.)

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The glitches in my website have been largely repaired, and it is ready to be announced. My long-planned send-out will finally be carried out, today and tomorrow. Those of you who receive it: note that if downloading the attachments is difficult or too much time and trouble, the same texts are on the website as CLP 176 and 177.So, this cumbersome and overloaded vehicle will at last be under way.

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7/9/07.There are still a few minor glitches in the website that need to be corrected, but it is close enough to ready for me to announce it. A note on opening the "Writings" section: There is a "Directory" at left, with the categories in orange type below; clicking once on any of those should make a more detailed menu appear below it in small black type, and clicking on the items in those menus

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My first words on this "blog" will be an acknowledgement that the name is probably wrong—it appears that "blog" is more often understood as something like "chatroom," with anybody who wants to contributing, and that certainly wasn't what I had in mind—I don't want to take on the administering of any such grand collective forum. This is only to be a place where I can post information and ideas

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