JUNE 4, 2007 |
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Monday,
4:00-5:30 p.m. |
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Art Building, Room 003 |
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Wan Qingli,
Chair,
Professor and Director, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong
Baptist University |
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Art Exhibition and the End of Literati Painting |
The term guohua
（Chinese painting） refers mainly to scroll and album paintings that reflect the influence of literati art theory. According to the literati ideal, the purpose of an amateur creating a picture was to enjoy the process of ink play rather than produce a work for some social functions. Scroll and album paintings were historically appreciated in private places by a few select people and close proximity, even held in one’s hands. However, a Chinese painting in an art exhibition is viewed by the general public in a public space, from some distance (precluding touching), and displayed with many other works (even with sculpture and oil painting). In twentieth-century China, art exhibition has become the major means by which art works engage public attention and artists advance their careers. Chinese painters have had to deal with this fundamental change. Through analyses of exhibition works done by five guohua masters, Li Keran, Pan Tianshou, Fu Baoshi, and Lu Yanshao, the author has discovered that art exhibition has finally brought an end to literati painting.
Co-sponsored by the UW China Studies Program and Department of Art History, and the Seattle Asian Art Museum.
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JUNE 1, 2007 |
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Friday,
3:30-5:00 p.m. |
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Savery Hall 211 |
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Cheng Yu-yu, Professor, Department of Chinese Literature,
National Taiwan University |
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Correlative Thinking, Recitation and the Realization of Desire
in early Han 'Fu' |
Professor Cheng is a prominent scholar of Chinese literature especially on the study of Six Dynasties Literature. In 1998, she was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Washington where she completed her prize-winning book, Xingbie yu jiaguo: Han Jin cifu de Chu sao lunshu published in 2000 and recently republished last year in Shanghai. Professor Cheng has also published three other books and over fifty articles. Her most recent work is Wenben fengjing: ziwo yu kongjian de xianghu dingyi (The poet in text and landscape: mutual definition of self and landscape). She has also taught at Prague University and the University of Illinois in Champaign. She has won several teaching awards from National Taiwan University and an Outstanding Research Award from Taiwan’s National Science Council.
Professor Cheng’s essay takes as its point of departure the curative powers of Mei Sheng's "Seven Stimuli"; goes on to discuss relevant passages from texts such as
Han feizi, Lüshi chunqiu,
and
Huai nanzi; and cites as points of comparison " Also, Zixu's Rhapsody," "Rhapsody on Shanglin," and "Rhapsody on Wind Pipes." Her discussion follows two lines of inquiry: (1) in what manner can the epideictic (fu) poet—who can cite the names of myriad things and recite history through verse—be likened to a philosopher or a medicine man in his role as caretaker of the ruler's health; at the same time, how do the curative techniques offered by the epideictic poet compare to inquiries into fundamental cosmic principles, ethical norms, and medical techniques?; (2) how can pleasures—in particular, the pleasures of sight and sound—be experienced through language? The emphasis of her essay is on analyzing the epideictic poet's deployment of categories that organize experience and the effects of reduplicative binomials. Such binomials, by virtue of being able to take on multiple referents simultaneously, can create correspondences across categories. Through these two lines of discussion, Professor Cheng will reframe the epideictic verse of the early Han as a technique of nurturing the ruler's health, and understand how desires based in perception are understood as an accepted mode of narrating experience through a concrete analysis of the workings of
fu
language.
Co-sponsored by the UW China Studies Program and Department of Asian Languages and Literature.
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MAY 31, 2007 |
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Thursday,
3:30-5:00 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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Dali Yang,
Professor and Chairman, Department of
Political Science, the University of Chicago |
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Corruption and Governance in China |
Dali L. Yang is currently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science at The University of Chicago. Among his books are Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China (Stanford University Press, 2004, 2006); Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China (Routledge, 1997); Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine (Stanford University Press, 1996). He is also editor of Discontented Miracle: Growth, Conflict, and Institutional Adaptations in China (World Scientific, 2007) and the co-editor (with Barry Naughton) of Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in Post-Deng China (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
China has been plagued by official corruption in the reform era. What have the Chinese leadership done to curb corruption? Have they taken effective measures? What does the incidence of corruption portend for China’s governance and future?
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MAY 31, 2007 |
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Thursday,
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. |
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Savery Hall, Room 110C |
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Dali Yang,
Professor and Chairman, Department of
Political Science, the University of Chicago |
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Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Dali Yang
The Confident Chinese: Trade, Diplomacy and the Future of the
World |
Dali L. Yang is currently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science at The University of Chicago. Among his books are Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China (Stanford University Press, 2004, 2006); Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China (Routledge, 1997); Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine (Stanford University Press, 1996). He is also editor of Discontented Miracle: Growth, Conflict, and Institutional Adaptations in China (World Scientific, 2007) and the co-editor (with Barry Naughton) of Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in Post-Deng China (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
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MAY 17, 2007 |
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Thursday,
3:30-5:00 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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Ruth Rogaski,
Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt
University |
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In Search of Mount Changbai: Creating Imperial Knowledge of a
Manchu Homeland in Early Qing |
Ruth Rogaski received her Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1996 and is presently Associate Professor of history at Vanderbilt University. Her work focuses on the history of science and medicine in modern and early modern China. Her first book,
Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (University of California Press, 2004), received several national book awards, including the Levenson Prize and the Fairbank Prize.
"In Search of Mount Changbai" is a section from Professor Rogaski’s present project, "The Nature of Manchuria," which explores the ways that Asian empires created knowledge about the Manchurian frontier from the seventeenth century to the present.
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MAY 3, 2007 |
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Thursday,
3:30-5:00 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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Peng Hsiao-yen,
Researcher, Institute of Chinese
Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan |
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The Dandy and the Modern Girl:
Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris in the 1930's |
Dr. Peng Hsiao-yen is Research Fellow at Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica. Author of Chaoyue xieshi (Beyond realism), Lishi henduo loudong (There are many loopholes in history), and Haishang shuo qingyu (Desire in Shanghai). Editor of Yangkui quanji (Complete works of Yangkui), 14 volumes. Writer of collections of stories聽Duanzhang Shunniang (Shunniang with broken palm lines) and Chunzhen niandai (Age of innocence).
Dr. Peng’s studies the Shanghai Neo-Sensationists, emphasizing their connections with their Japanese and French counterparts. Dandyism manifests itself in the dandy鈥檚 love-hate relationship with the modern girl, who is his inferior other self; in his pr茅ciosit茅 of writing in the macaronic (a mixture of two or more languages); and in his stance as a perpetual traveler and woman watcher.
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APRIL 26, 2007 |
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Thursday,
3:30-5:00 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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Minxin Pei,
Senior Associate and Director, China
Program Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
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Adjudicating Property
Disputes in Chinese Courts: Findings from Empirical Analysis |
Minxin Pei is a senior associate and director of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dr. Pei received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University and taught politics at Princeton University from 1992 to 1998. His main interests are U.S.-China relations, the development of democratic political systems, and Chinese politics. He is the author of
From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (Harvard University Press, 1994) and
China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (Harvard University Press, 2006). Pei's research has been published in
Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs,
The National Interest,
Modern China,
China Quarterly, Journal of Democracy and many edited books. His op-eds have appeared in the
Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and other major newspapers.
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APRIL 19, 2007 |
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Thursday,
3:30-5:00 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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Joshua Goldstein,
Assistant Professor, Department of
History, University of Southern California and Wenqing Kang,
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Pacific Lutheran University |
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A brief efflorescence: the rapid rise and fall of Contemporary
Peking opera in the early 20th century(Professor Goldstein)
Dan and Sexuality in Chinese National Modernity (Professor Kang) |
Professor Goldstein received his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego in Modern Chinese history. His interests include late Qing and twentieth century cultural history, gender studies, environmental history and the socio-economics of trash and waste management. His publications include
Drama Kings: Players and Publics in the Re-creation of Peking Opera, 1870-1937, and
Everyday Modernity in China.
Professor Goldstein will describe a brief period from the 1895-1920 during which Chinese Peking Opera actors often donned exotic foreign (Western) costumes and performed plays ranging from the French invasion of Vietnam to the Crimean War to modern romances in Shanghai. How and why did these innovative "hybrid"plays flourish during these brief and tumultuous decades, only to vanish just as suddenly in the 1920s?
Professor Kang received his Ph.D.in history from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2006 and is currently teaching at Pacific Lutheran University. His research interest is history of gender and sexuality in China. Professor Kang’s dissertation is entitled "Male Same-Sex Relations in China: 1900-1950." Professor Kang studies male same-sex relations in China during the first half of the twentieth century. His talk focuses on the issue in the Peking Opera field. He will argue that the meaning of male same-sex relationship between literati patron and Peking Opera dan actors went through a gradual change in the semi-colonial context of 20th century China. This change involved a long process of discursive production, which included the desexualization of the actor/patron relationship, and heterosexualization of dan actors. In the talk, Professor Kang will use some literary works to illustrate these processes.
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APRIL 5, 2007 |
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Thursday,
3:30-5:00 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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Anne Yue Hashimoto,
Professor of Chinese Language and
Linguistics, Lin Deng and Dr. Ed Lien, Graduate
Students, Department of Asian Languages and Literature,
University of Washington |
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Field work in Jianyang, China |
Anne Yue Hashimoto is also an Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, UW and an Honorary Professor, Department of Chinese, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Hashimoto joined the faculty in 1980. Her major research area is Chinese linguistics including dialectology, grammar, phonology, typology, areal linguistics, field method.
Lin Deng has a B.A. & M.A. from Peking University and received a Recruitment Scholarship to enter the Chinese program of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature in 2001. Lin Deng’s research interests include Chinese linguistics, including dialectology, historical grammar, historical phonology.
Ed Lien has a B.Sc. from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Lien joined the Department of Asian Languages and Literature as a graduate student in 2004. His main research interests are focused on classical literature, especially Song dynasty scholarly notes. He is also interested in Chinese musicology and dialects.
Description and discussion of some special features of the Jianyang dialect of northwestern Fujian province in China in an a real context, including the controversial tone 9 problem, the locative structure and the question form. The unique geographical environment and historical background will also be touched upon.
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APRIL 4, 2007 |