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科技、艺术与考古——古代黄金制品中的中西交流

“一带一路”文化遗产国际合作联盟国际学术研讨会“BELT AND ROAD”CULTURAL HERITAGE GLOBAL ALLIANCE

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Technology,Art and ArchaeologyContacts between East and Westin Ancient Gold

主办:“一带一路”文化遗产国际合作联盟 西北工业大学

承办:西北工业大学文化遗产研究院

协办:西北工业大学科学技术研究院 西北工业大学国际合作处

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科技、艺术与考古——古代黄金制品中的中西交流

Technology, Art and Archaeology Contacts between East and West in Ancient Gold

西北工业大学翱翔国际会议中心

2019年9月4-6日

中国·西安

“一带一路”文化遗产国际合作联盟国际学术研讨会

“BELT AND ROAD”CULTURAL HERITAGE GLOBAL ALLIANCEINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

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古代黄金制品中的中西交流 Contac t s be tween Eas t and Wes t i n Anc ien t Go ld 19/20

A set of gold belt plaques found in M4 of the Majiayuan cemetery 4th-3rd centuries BCEGansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology 2014:34

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Technology, Art and Archaeology International Conference

Contacts between East and West in Ancient Gold

The first is organised by the Belt and Road Cultural Heritage Global Alliance, and jointly organised by the Office of International Cooperation、Office of Science and Technology and NPU Institute of Culture and Heritage. The Research Center of Material Science and Archaeology, NPU Institute of Culture and Heritage MSA was established in the Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2016. It undertakes interdisciplinary study and preservation of archaeologically recovered objects and culture heritage by combining scientific analysis with art history and archaeological studies.

This year theme, Contacts between East and West in Ancient Gold focuses on material culture exchange and technology transfer relating to goldsmith practice in ancient Eurasia. This conference brings together leading archaeologists and scholars across countries to present and discuss the most recent research findings in the fields of Natural Science, Social Science and Humanities. The conference comprises four panels from a variety of perspectives, topics of interest include but not limited to: new archaeological discoveries; Materials, techniques and provenances of ancient gold artefacts; iconography and style; technology transfer and trading network, and cross-cultural interactions.

The first is organised by the Belt and Road Cultural Heritage Global Alliance, and jointly organised by the Office of International Cooperation、Office of Science and Technology and NPU Institute of Culture and Heritage. The Research Center of Material Science and Archaeology, NPU Institute of Culture and Heritage MSA was established in the Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2016. It undertakes interdisciplinary study and preservation of archaeologically recovered objects and culture heritage by combining scientific analysis with art history and archaeological studies.

This year theme, Contacts between East and West in Ancient Gold focuses on material culture exchange and technology transfer relating to goldsmith practice in ancient Eurasia. This conference brings together leading archaeologists and scholars across countries to present and discuss the most recent research findings in the fields of Natural Science, Social Science and Humanities. The conference comprises four panels from a variety of perspectives, topics of interest include but not limited to: new archaeological discoveries; Materials, techniques and provenances of ancient gold artefacts; iconography and style; technology transfer and trading network, and cross-cultural interactions.

Technology, Art and Archaeology International Conference

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VenueVenueAo Xiang International Conference CenterNorthwestern Polytechnical University Chuangxin Building B, the 5th FloorLaodong South Road no.127,Beilin DistrictXi’an,China

Information and ContactInformation and ContactDr. Yan LIU, [email protected]. Fengrui JIANG, [email protected]. Jingnan DU, [email protected]

CONFERENCE PROGRAMMEConference Registration (free) Wednesday 4th September 2019

Thursday, 5th September 2019

8 30 Welcome 8 45 Group photo

Chair: Jianhua YANG (Jilin University)

Discussant: Liangren ZHANG (Nanjing University) 9:00 Hui WANG (Fudan University)

Gold and Silver Artefacts of the Qin and the Xirong during the Eastern Zhou Period

9:30 Jianxin WANG (Northwest University) Early Gold found in Northern Bactria

10:00 Coffee Break 10:10 Jianjun YU (Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology)

Ancient Gold Ornaments from the Aletai Region in west China with a Focus on the Dongtalede and Kalasu Burial Sites

10:40 Arman Z. BEISENOV (Begazy-Tasmola Research Center for History and Archeology)

Archaeological Findings at Taldy II and other sites in Kazakhstan (in Russian, Chinese translation)

11:10 Panel Discussion 12:00-13:30 Lunch

Chair: Junchang YANG (Northwestern Polytechnical University)Discussant: Jianli CHEN (Peking University)

13:30 Jianli CHEN (Peking University) Metallurgic Study of Gold and other Metal Work from Qinghui Liuping, Gansu

province 14:00 Aleksandr TAIROV (South Ural State University)

The Composition of the Ancient Gold Artefacts in the South Urals (in Russian, Chinese translation)

14:50 Panpan TAN, Junchang YANG (Northwestern Polytechnical University), Jiarang ZHONG (Shanxi Museum)

Scientific Analysis of the Bronze Object with Gold Inlay from the Zhaoqing Tomb of the Late Autumn and Spring period (6th-5th centuries BCE)in Taiyuan, Shanxi province

15:20 Kunlong CHEN, Fan YANG(University of Science & Technology Beijing), KANG Ping (Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture Museum)

Preliminary Scientific Investigation of Gold Artefacts from Boma ancient city, Xinjiang

15:50 Coffee break

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Section I: Archaeological Discoveries of Early Gold in Eurasia

Section II: Gold-making Techniques under Microscope

Section I: Archaeological Discoveries of Early Gold in Eurasia

Section II: Gold-making Techniques under Microscope

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Session III: Materials, Techniques, Style and Meaning Chair: Gang SHANG (Tsinghua University)

Discussant: Yan LIU (Northwestern Polytechnical University) 16:00 Kyeongmi JOO (Chungnam National University)

The Art of Thick-Type Gold Earrings in Ancient Silla 16:30 Elena KOROLKOVA (The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)

Influences in Style and Techniques of Nomadic Gold 17:00 Chin-Yin TSENG (Dunhuang Academy)

Behind the Bling: Gold as a Cultural Icon in Northern Wei Pingcheng Society 17:30 Jie JIANG (Famen Temple Museum)

Imperial Gold and Silver Incense Receptacles of Tang Dynasty from the Famen Temple Museum

18:00 Panel discussion 19:00 Dinner

Friday, 6th September 2019

Session IV: Interdisciplinary Approaches towards Ancient GoldChair: Liangren ZHANG (Nanjing University) Discussant: Jianhua YANG (Jilin University)

8:30 Karen S. RUBINSON (New York University) Power Now and in the Hereafter: Gold at Pazyryk and Other Eurasian Sites in

the First Millennium BCE Part I: Use of Gold in Pastoral Communities across the Eurasian World (9th

c.BCE-1st c. CE) 9:00 Katheryn M. LINDUFF (University of Pittsburgh)

Power Now and in the Hereafter: Gold at Pazyryk and Other Eurasian Sites in the First Millennium BCE

Part II: Pazyryk Culture: Internal and Regional Technologies and Uses of Gold 9:30 Coffee break 9:40 Gang SHANG (Tsinghua University)

Gold and Silver Work in the Yuan dynasty 10:10 Yan LIU (Northwestern Polytechnical University)

Prestige Gold and Exotic Culture during the Han Period 10:40 Akan ONGGAR (The National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan)

The Study of “Golden” Mounds of Early Sakas and Sarmatians in the Central Asian Steppe

11:10 Panel discussion 12:00 Post-conference tour: Shaanxi History Museum (limited seats)

Contributors

Arman Z. BEISENOV

Arman Z. BEISENOV is senior researcher of Begazy-Tasmola Research Center for History and Archeology, and the head of department of Saka archaeology. He specialises in early Iron Age archaeology in Kazakhstan and the Central Asia, scientific analysis of gold artefacts, the origin and development of early Saka culture, and early Xiongnu Culture. He has more than 360 publications in the Kazakh and Russian languages, some are published in the German, English, Mongolian languages. He presented scientific reports abroad in such countries as Germany (Bochum), Romania (Bucharest), Hungary (Budapest), Korea. He conducted joint researches with scientists from Russia, Hungary, Italy, Turkey.

Jianli CHEN

Jianli CHEN is professor and Ph.D supervisor at School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University. He received his Ph.D from University of Science and Technology Beijing. He was the main investigator for 10 research projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, the Social Science Fund, and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and has published more than 100 academic papers. His publications include edited book “Archaeology of early metallurgy I: the piece mould casting technique of the Shang and Zhou bronzes”, co-authored books including “Study of Steel and Iron technology in the Han Jin central Plain and the northern area”, “Archaeology of metallurgy II: Technological study of metal work from the Majiayuan cemetery: discussion about the cultural communication in the Northwest area between the Prehistoric Age and the Warring States priod, and “Quantitative archaeology”, and single authored book “Archaeology of metallurgy III: New study of ancient metal casting and mining civilization in China”

Kunlong CHEN

Kunlong CHEN is professor and Ph.D supervisor at the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials History, University of Science and Technology Beijing, he graduated from Zhengzhou University of Technology in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in engineering and entered the Henan Museum of Cultural Relics Protection Technology Research Center. In 2010, he graduated from Beijing University of Science and Technology with a doctorate in engineering. He has been mainly engaged in metallurgical archaeology and metal

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technology history research. He has participated in many research projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, the Social Science Fund, and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, and has published more than 50 academic papers. He won the National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award and China Academy of Archaeology Young Scholar Award (Jinjue Award).He was selected as one of the first batch of national youth cultural relics protection science and technology outstanding young people research program, the British academic school Newton International Scholar, young talents of the national 10,000 people plan.

Jie JIANG

Jie JIANG graduated from Northwest University with a bachelor's degree in archaeology and graduated from Xiangtan University with a master's degree in archaeology. He is currently the Director of the Famen Temple Museum, a national second-level researcher, and the president of the Famen Temple Cultural Research Association. His main research areas include archaeological theoretical methods, archaeological history, Chinese Neolithic Age and Han and Tang Dynasties archaeology, Buddhist art and archaeology, ceramic history, art history, folklore and so on.

Kyeongmi JOO

Kyeongmi JOO is a Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea. She completed her ph. D. in Art History at Seoul National University in 2002. She specialized in the history of arts and crafts of East Asia and is currently serving as an associate member of the Committee of Cultural Heritage at the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea. She has conducted research on various topics related to Buddhist arts, cultural transmissions and variations in East Asia, and published many books and articles in Korean, Japanese, and English.

Elena KOROLKOVA

Elena KOROLKOVA is the head of a section of the Department of Archaeology of Eastern Europe and Siberia, Dr. Phil. (candidate of sciences in History of Art), and the curator of one of the most interesting archaeological collections at the Hermitage Museum,the Siberian Collection of Peter the Great which comprises 250 gold ornaments and personal adornments mostly made in nomadic Animal style in the first millennium B. C. – early centuries A.D., but of different origin. Her research areas include history of ancient art, archaeology, ancient history, nomadic cultures, Animal Style art. Elena Korolkova is the author of about two hundred publications, mostly in Russian, including three books:“ Theoretical problems of study of art and Scythian Animal Style”. Saint Petersburg, 1996 (in Russian language); “Animal Style of Eurasia”. Saint Petersburg,

2006, 272 p. (in Russian); “Lords of the Steppes”. Saint Petersburg, 2006 (in Russian).

Katheryn M. LINDUF

Dr. Katheryn M. LINDUFF specializes in Eurasian and East Asian Art history and archaeology and holds appointments in both HAA and Anthropology (in Archaeology). She is especially interested in the rise of complex society, and in the interplay of ethnic, cultural and gender identity with economic and political change in antiquity. Her study of early China and Inner Asia has led to many books and papers, the most recent of which are: Ancient China and its Eurasian Neighbors: Artifacts, Identity and Death in the Frontier, with Sun Yan, Cao Wei, Liu Yuanqing (Cambridge University Press, 2018); Monuments, Metals and Mobility: Trajectories of Complexity in the Late Prehistoric Eurasian Steppe, with Bryan Hanks (Cambridge University Press, 2009); Are All Warriors Male? Gender Roles on the Ancient Eurasian Steppe, with Karen S. Rubinson (AltaMira Press/Roman & Littlefield Publishing, Inc., 2008); The Beginnings of Metallurgy from the Urals to the Yellow Rivers, Katheryn M. Linduff (Mellen Press. 2004); Gender and Chinese Archaeology, AltaMira Press, 2004 [in English] 2006 [in Chinese]; The Emergence of Metallurgy in China, Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.

Yan LIU

Yan LIU specializes archaeology and material culture study between the Warring States and the Qin and Han periods, with a focus on lacquers and prestige gold. She received Dphil of Archaeology from University of Oxford (2015) and PhD of Art History from Tsinghua University (2012) respectively. She had lectured and held fellowships in the University of Oxford, Christie’s Education (London) and Chinese University of Hong Kong, etc. She was the author of ‘Qu Leilei: A Chinese Artist in Britain (2017)’ and exhibition curator of Chinese paintings at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford. Currently she is a faculty member of the Research Center of Material Science and Archaeology, Institute of Culture and Heritage, Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi’an.

Akan ONGGAR

Akan ONGGAR is curator of the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Karen S. RUBINSON

Dr. Karen S. RUBINSON is an art historian and archaeologist specializing in the steppe and Central Asia in the first millennium BCE and early first millennium CE and the South Caucasus in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages. One focus of her work is how objects of artistic production can help understand cultural contact and exchange; another

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is gender questions in the Eurasian Iron Age. As leader of the Lost Wax/Lost Textile Working Group, Dr. Rubinson has organized international workshops to bring scholars together to investigate this widespread and distinctive technology, which is found, inter alia, among objects in the Hermitage's Peter the Great gold collection, on the Chinese borderlands, and at Tillya Tepe in Afghanistan. Recent edited volumes book include Are All Warriors Male? Gender Roles in the Ancient Eurasian Steppe, with Katheryn M. Linduff and Ceramics in Transitions: Chalcolithic Through Iron Age in the Highlands of the Southern Caucasus and Anatolia, with Antonio Sagona. She is President of the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC). Her Ph.D. in art history and archaeology is from Columbia University.

Gang SHANG

Gang SHANG is professor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, director of the Academic Committee, his academic research focuses on the history of Chinese arts and crafts, and has a lot of experience in the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Yuan Dynasty, especially the Yuan Dynasty and the Sui and Tang Dynasties. His research and teaching achievements have been awarded by Beijing City, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture for six times, and he is awarded as one of outstanding teachers of Beijing.

Aleksandr TAIROV

Dr. Alexander D. TAIROV is the Director of the Eurasian Studies Research and Education Center South Ural State University. He is an historian and archaeologist, specializing in the study of the nomadic societies of the Central Eurasia in the first millennium BC. His works are focused on issues of environmental conditions influence to the forms of economy, social organization and external contacts of the Early nomads of Eurasian steppes. His another area of interest is correlation between the climatic changes and migrations in the steppe Eurasia, cultural interactions of the Central Eurasia nomads with outside world. One of the directions of his work is the research of ancient and medieval trade and exchange communications, which were passed through the steppes of Central Eurasia. Geoarchaeology, particularly composition analysis of the gold artifacts from archaeological sites of the Southern Urals and Central Asia, is another scope of his interests.

Panpan TAN

Panpan TAN is Ph.D candidate in the School of Materials, Northwestern Polytechnical University, she graduated from School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University with a major in Cultural Relics Protection Technique in 2011. In 2014, she graduated from the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials History, Beijing University of

Science and Technology, majored in Science and Technology History. In 2016, she entered the School of Materials of Northwestern Polytechnical University. His main research direction is decorative techniques of ancient gold.

Chin-Yin TSENG

Dr. Chin-Yin TSENG is a Research Fellow of the “Digital Dunhuang” Project at the Dunhuang Academy, Gansu province, China. After completing her undergraduate studies at Stanford University in East Asian Studies, she received an MA degree in Regional Studies-East Asia at Harvard University and a DPhil in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. Her dissertation looked at the construct of material cultural expressions in the Northern Wei Pingcheng period (398-494 CE). She had then worked at Peking University as a post-doctoral fellow for three years, with a research focus on the visual representations in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang. During this period at Peking University, she had jointly edited two essay volumes: Approaching the East 《认识“东方学”》 and Exploring the East 《探索“东方学”》. She currently also serves as the adjunct professor at Chengdu Textile College, research fellow of the Institute for Ancient Civilizations at Peking University, and Consultant to the India Culture Center of the Foreign Language Teaching, and Senior Director of Global Innovation Center at Beijing UniStrong Science & Technology Co., Ltd.

Hui WANG

Hui WANG is senior researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Archaeology, Fudan University, he entered the Department of Archaeology at Peking University in 1980. In 1984, he obtained a bachelor's degree in history. In July 1987, he obtained a master's degree in history from the Department of Archaeology of Peking University. In 2006, he received a doctorate in literature from Kobe University, Japan. He has been worked in the Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics for a long time since 1987, and presided over and participated in the main archaeological investigation, excavation, research and protection work in Gansu Province. In recent years, he has been mainly engaged in the study of the early Qin culture, the Neolithic-Bronze Age archaeology in the Gan-Qing area, and the cultural exchange between China and the West on the early Silk Road. He has hosted and participated in the National Social Science Fund, the Natural Science Foundation, Major Projects of the Ministry of Education's Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Base, the National Major Culture Project - Compass Project and the Chinese Civilization Exploration Project and others.

Jianxin WANG

Jianxin WANG is professor of School of Cultural Heritage and doctoral supervisor

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in Northwest University, he is also a member of the Chinese Archaeological Society, a visiting scholar at the Center for Ancient Civilization Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and an adjunct professor at the China Archaeological Research Center of Peking University. His main research areas include archaeological study of nomadic cultural settlement, archaeology of the Qin and Han periods, archaeology of the west region, and Northeast Asian archaeology. He presided over and participated in the archaeological excavation and research of the Shaanxi Fufeng plaque site funded by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the multi-disciplinary archaeological excavation and research of the Bancun site in Mianchi, Henan, the archaeological research of ancient nomadic cultural settlements in the northwest grassland, and the research of early Qin culture and other important aarchaeological rresearch. He has published 2 academic monographs and more than 20 papers in domestic core journals as well as more than 10 papers abroad. He hosted the excavation of the Dongheigou site in Balikun, Xinjiang, which was awarded the top ten archaeological discoveries in 2007. He compiled the Charity Temple and Linxi Bridge in 2004 and won the second prize of outstanding achievements in Shaanxi Province philosophy and social sciences. The paper of Classification of Bronze Swords in Northeast Asia won the third prize of outstanding achievements in the philosophy and social sciences of Shaanxi Province.

Junchang YANG

Junchang YANG is professor and Ph.D supervisor of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Northwestern Polytechnical University, he has long been engaged in cultural relics protection and scientific archaeology research. He graduated from Changchun University of Science and Technology with a bachelor's degree in engineering in 1983. He graduated from Fudan University with a master's degree in history in 1996, graduated from Beijing University of Science and Technology in 2002 with a doctorate in science. From 1989 to 2003, he had worked in Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics; from 2003 to 2015, he had worked in Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology; since 2015, he has worked in Northwestern Polytechnical University. He has participated in many scientific research projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau. He won the second prize of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan for the Protection of Scientific and Technological Innovation of Cultural Relics, the Gold Medal for the Protection of Archaeological Assets of the Chinese Archaeological Congress, and the Second Prize of Protection of Scientific and Technological Innovation of Cultural Relics of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. He was selected as an expert with special government allowances from the State Council, the Three-Five talents of the new century of Shaanxi Province, and the first Three Qin Scholars (archaeology and museum studies/cultural relics protection).

Jianjun YU

Jianjun YU is researcher at the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, he graduated from Northwest University in July 1995 with a degree in archaeology. He has been engaged in archaeological research and cultural relics protection in Xinjiang for a long time. He has presided over relics archaeological excavation work such as Dongtalede Cemetery in Habahe County, No. 2 Cemetery of Toganba, Kalasu Cemetery and Hailiutan Cemetery in Burqin Count, Tuva New Village cemetery, Ji Mu Nai Tong Tian Dong ruins and so on, compiled Xinjiang Rock Painting Investigation Report, Altaile Region Archaeological and Historical Collections, etc., and published more than 40 articles.

Jianhua YANG

Jianhua YANG is professor and Ph.D supervisor at Jilin University, she graduated from the archaeological major of Jilin University in 1978. She has been a teacher since then and has a doctorate in history. She is Member of the Chinese Archaeological Society, Visiting Fellow of the Center for Ancient Civilization Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Senior Visiting Scholar of the University of Cambridge, UK (1993-1994, 2002), Senior Visiting Scholar of the University of Pittsburgh (2007-2008), USA, member of the archaeological class review team of State Council Academic Degrees Committee (2015 to present). Her main research areas are the West Asia Archaeology and the Bronze Age Archaeology in Northern China. The main academic thesis includes Prehistoric Ages of the Two Rivers, Northern Pre-Qin Archaeological Collection, Metal Road in the Eastern Eurasian Grassland and so on.

Liangren ZHANG

Liangren ZHANG graduated from the Department of Archaeology of Peking University in 1991. In the same year, he entered the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In 1996, he obtained a master's degree (in-service) from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He went to the United States to study in 2000 and received his Ph.D from the University of California Los Angeles in 2007. He has been mainly engaged in Bronze Age archaeology of China and Eurasia (including Central Asia) and art history. He has participated in the excavation of the Fengxi, Chang'an, Shaanxi, Yanshi Erlitou in Henan, the site of the Yanshi Shangcheng and the Heishui State Site in Zhangye, Gansu. He has published more than 10 papers in core and authoritative journals at home and abroad, including Wucheng and Shang: The Rise of a Bronze Age Civilization in Southern China published in Bulletin of Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 78 (2010), Soviet inspiration on Chinese archaeology Published in Antiquity 85 (2011) etc., and participated in the writing of the Chinese Archaeology two-week volume (Encyclopedia of China Publishing House, 2004) ,which won the first prize of the Xia Nai Award (2005).