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27 Jun 2024: Search. Curing Thousands of Diseases. One of the great privileges of working in The Parker Library is the opportunity to slowly discover the collections, to spend a few minutes looking at a manuscript whose shelfmark you don’t recognise, to talk to readers working on things you’ve never considered, to share in the excitement of new discoveries, and to learn just a little bit more about an item, bit by bit. One could spend a lifetime getting to know the collection, but even given many such lifetimes, there would still be many items that I will never even begin to understand; for now, they must remain filed away in memory, black holes sitting next to the tiny pinpricks of light that are connected to their neighbors on the shelves. Every year we welcome the students from the Corpus Christi Medicine and English Summer School Program to The Parker Library. During each of these visits we give the participants a tour of our current exhibition and then bring out a few items that we believe may be of particular interests to the students that they are allowed to (gently) explore as we talk about the history of the book. This year, I was delighted to share MS 227, Curing Thousands of Diseases, an eight volume Chinese work that was

29 May 2024: LIONEL D. SMITH. List of Publications May 2024. Books. The Law of Loyalty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023). This monograph of about 180,000 words elucidates common legal principles underlying the use of powers in public law and private law, looking at the common law and the civil law. It aims to provide a theory of how Western law regulates the situations in which we hold legal powers, not for ourselves, but for and on behalf of others. Waters’ Law of Trusts in Canada, 5th edition; with Donovan Waters and Mark Gillen (Toronto:. Carswell, 2021). As in the 3rd edition (2005) and 4th edition (2012), I was responsible for chapters 10-11, 17-21, 23-30, and the Appendices. Canadian Corporate Law: Cases, Notes and Materials, 4th edition; with Bruce Welling and Leonard. Rotman (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2010). In this edition, I was responsible for chapters 5, 6, and 7. I also participated, with different responsibilities and co-authors, in the first (1996), second (2001) and third (2006) editions. Oosterhoff on Trusts: Text, Commentary and Materials, 7th edition; with Albert Oosterhoff, Robert. Chambers, and Mitchell McInnes (Toronto: Carswell, 2009). In this edition, I was responsible for chapters 1, 10 and 15. I also

27 Jun 2024: Historiography and Hagiography. in Buddhism and Beyond. 8-10 July, 2024. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. This conference is generously sponsored by the Tzu Chi 慈濟Foundation as part of the Yin-Cheng Network. and the Glorisun Global Buddhist Network. 1. “Historiography and Hagiography in Buddhism and Beyond”. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. 8-10 July 2024. This conference is generously sponsored by the Tzu Chi 慈濟 Foundation. as part of the Yin-Cheng Network and the Glorisun Global Buddhist Network. Note: All sessions take place in the Lucia Windsor Room in Newnham College, Sidgwick. Avenue, Cambridge. The conference is open to the public; no registration is required. Conference Schedule. Monday, July 8. 9:30-10:00 Registration and coffee. 10:00-12:00 Session 1: Welcome and Keynote Addresses Welcome Address: Noga Ganany Rey Sheng Her. The Public History of Contemporary Buddhism: Exemplifying Tzu Chi’s Oral History and Documentation. Mark Meulenbeld Place and Presence: What Peach Spring tells us about Hagiography. 12:00-13:30 Lunch break. 2. 13:30-15:30 Session 2: The Life/Lives of the Buddha Chair: Richard Bowring Mario Poceski. Intersections of History, Legend, and Myth in the Live(s) of the Buddha.

29 Jun 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Chinese Periodicals. Cambridge University Library holds more than 1,000 tiles of Chinese language peridocials. The list is a union catalogue including periodicals from Chinese Department and other departements in the University Library, college and department libraries at University of Cambridge and Neehdam Resarch Institute Library. The latest unbound parts of selected current Chinese periodicals previously displayed in the East Asian Reading Room have been withdrawn as they are now available in the CNKI/CAJ database. Bound volumes of earlier issues of these periodicals will be found on the Ground Floor of the Aoi Pavilion. For earlier issues still in process of binding please ask the Chinese Section at chinese@lib.cam.ac.uk. Locations. Cambridge University Library. EARR. Enquire in East Asian Reading Room. FA. Aoi Pavilion, Basement (FA formerly in EARR). FB. Aoi Pavilion, Ground Floor (FB formerly in EARR). FG-FH. Order in East Asian Reading Room. FM. Order in East Asian Reading Room. L1-L999. Order in West Room (Periodicals). Microfilm. Order in Microfilm Reading Room. NPR. Order in West Room (Periodicals). OP. Order in Official Publications Room. PH. Pigeon-hole in West Room.

27 Jun 2024: Historiography and Hagiography. in Buddhism and Beyond. 8-10 July, 2024. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. This conference is generously sponsored by the Tzu Chi 慈濟Foundation as part of the Yin-Cheng Network. and the Glorisun Global Buddhist Network. 1. “Historiography and Hagiography in Buddhism and Beyond”. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. 8-10 July 2024. This conference is generously sponsored by the Tzu Chi 慈濟 Foundation. as part of the Yin-Cheng Network and the Glorisun Global Buddhist Network. Note: All sessions take place in the Lucia Windsor Room in Newnham College, Sidgwick. Avenue, Cambridge. The conference is open to the public; no registration is required. Conference Schedule. Monday, July 8. 9:30-10:00 Registration and coffee. 10:00-12:00 Session 1: Welcome and Keynote Addresses Welcome Address: Noga Ganany Rey Sheng Her. The Public History of Contemporary Buddhism: Exemplifying Tzu Chi’s Oral History and Documentation. Mark Meulenbeld Place and Presence: What Peach Spring tells us about Hagiography. 12:00-13:30 Lunch break. 2. 13:30-15:30 Session 2: The Life/Lives of the Buddha Chair: Richard Bowring Mario Poceski. Intersections of History, Legend, and Myth in the Live(s) of the Buddha.

29 Jun 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Chinese reference works. All reference books are located in the East Asian Reading Room (Aoi Pavilion). The materials are on open stacks and can be used in the reading room onsite. If you have any questions, please contact chinese@lib.cam.ac.uk. FA.999. Far East: reference. FB.1.1-. Bibliography: general 书目. FB.11.1-. Library catalogues: official libraries until 1850. FB.13.1-. Library catalogues: public libraries in China after 1850. FB.16.1-. Library catalogues: private Chinese collections. FB.18.1-. Library catalogues: foreign collections after 1850. FB.18:01.1-. 汉籍所在调查报告. FB.21.4-. General bibliographies. FB.21:01.1-. 全国总书目. FB.21:02.1-. 中国国家书目. FB.21:03.1-2. 全国内部发行图书总目(1949-1986). FB.25.1-. Special bibliographies. FB.29.5-. Bibliographies of & indexes to collectanea & periodicals. FB.29:06.1-. 台湾地区汉学论著选目汇编本. FB.31.1015-1096. 古今图书集成. FB.31.1101-1174. 中国大百科全书. FB.31:03.1-32. 中国大百科全书 (second edition). FB.34:02. 中国年鉴 (latest issue). FB.34:06. 中国百科年鉴 (latest issue). FB.68:01.1-22. Harvard-Yenching Institute sinological index series.

3 Jun 2024: Small Data, Big Time—A retrospect of the first weeks of COVID-19. Qingyuan Zhao. [To be read before The Royal Statistical Society at the Society’s 2021 annual conference held inManchester on Wednesday, September 8th, 2021, the President, Professor Sylvia Richardson, in theChair]. Abstract. This article reviews some early investigations and research studies in the first weeks of the coron-avirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic from a statistician’s perspective. These investigations werebased on very small datasets but were momentous in the initial global reactions to the pandemic. Thearticle discusses the initial evidence of high infectiousness of COVID-19 and why that conclusion wasnot reached faster than in reality. Further reanalyses of some published COVID-19 studies show thatthe epidemic growth was dramatically underestimated by compartmental models, and the lack of fitcould have been clearly identified by simple data visualization. Finally, some lessons for statisticiansare discussed.Keywords: Infectious disease modeling; Selection bias; COVID-19; Model diagnostics. 1 Introduction. Starting from a regional disease outbreak in Wuhan, China, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)rapidly grew into a once-in-a-lifetime