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15 Jun 2024: Search. 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 printed in the 1660s, and one of my

27 Mar 2024: Wan Yin Lim PhD student   Current situation Member of Chinese Annual Conference (CAC), Methodist Church of Malaysia   Subject Peacebuilding in Malaysia: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Chinese Methodist Peace Theology and Peace Studies &#xa0

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

10 Jun 2024: 1. “Historiography and Hagiography in Buddhism and Beyond”. Yin-cheng International Conference. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. 8-10 July 2024. Conference Schedule. Monday, July 8. 9:30-10:00 Registration and coffee. 10:00-12:00 Session 1 Welcome Address: Noga Ganany Keynote Addresses. • Rey Sheng Her The Public History in 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. • Arun Kumar Yadav Historiography of Some Major Biographical Events of the Śākyamuni Buddha. • Gudrun Bühnemann An Illustrated Life of Śākyamuni Buddha According to the Newar Buddhist Tradition. 15:30-16:00 Coffee break. 16:00-17:30 Session 3 Writing, Publishing, and the Laity: Chair: Noga Ganany. • Marcus Bingenheimer. Uses of Biography in the Longshu jingtuwen (1162 CE). • Guo Xing Bhikshuni (Yu-Chen Tsui) Hongzhi Zhengjue’s Usage of Allusions from Secular Literature in Gong’an Commentarial Verses. • Katherine

10 Jun 2024: 1. “Historiography and Hagiography in Buddhism and Beyond”. Yin-cheng International Conference. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. 8-10 July 2024. Conference Schedule. Monday, July 8. 9:30-10:00 Registration and coffee. 10:00-12:00 Session 1 Welcome Address: Noga Ganany Keynote Addresses. • Rey Sheng Her The Public History in 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. • Arun Kumar Yadav Historiography of Some Major Biographical Events of the Śākyamuni Buddha. • Gudrun Bühnemann An Illustrated Life of Śākyamuni Buddha According to the Newar Buddhist Tradition. 15:30-16:00 Coffee break. 16:00-17:30 Session 3 Writing, Publishing, and the Laity: Chair: Noga Ganany. • Marcus Bingenheimer. Uses of Biography in the Longshu jingtuwen (1162 CE). • Guo Xing Bhikshuni (Yu-Chen Tsui) Hongzhi Zhengjue’s Usage of Allusions from Secular Literature in Gong’an Commentarial Verses. • Katherine

3 Apr 2024: 1. C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E. Wah Sung Vincent Mak（麥華嵩）. Address: Cambridge Judge Business School University of Cambridge Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1AG United Kingdom Tel: 44 (0)1223 764295 Email: v.mak@jbs.cam.ac.uk Faculty webpage: www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/people/vincent-mak/. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE.  Professor of Marketing & Decision Sciences, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (since 2019; with tenure).  Reader (Associate Professor) in Marketing & Decision Sciences, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (2016-2019; with tenure).  University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Marketing & Decision Sciences, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (2014-2016; with tenure).  University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Marketing, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (2009-2014).  Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2008-2009). EDUCATION.  The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.  2008 PhD in Marketing.  Visiting Scholar, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University (January-May 2008).  University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

16 May 2024: The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography. Wednesday 22 May 2024, 2pm-4pm. Michael Nylan. Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley. Documents [Shū] (ca. 221 BC) by Fu Sheng. Two chapters (ch. 1, pp. 1-3; ch. 14, pp. 1-4) from the text in English follow. (out of a total of 30 that were in circulation in the Han). Ch. 1 is also in Chinese to see how much emendation Professor Nylan brings to the text, based on the extant sources. 1. Canon of Yao <a>1A.1 encomium in verse<a> Yao, Examiner of Old Heroes, named "Propagator of Merit," was impressive and clear-sighted. He knew how to put all things in order and at ease. Truly attentive to his duties, he was capable of relinquishing his powers and privileges to worthy men. His bright influence shone wide to earth's four corners, reaching above and below. He was able to make his instructive example shine forth, to draw the Nine Clans close to him. Once the Nine Clans were settled, then Yao distinguished by insignia the Hundred Families. And once the Hundred Families themselves became shining examples, that induced harmony in the myriad polities, at which point the masses flourished, and the era came to be at peace. <a>1A.2 account of Xi and He and

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