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This Week

• China and the World
  Sat Nov 7, 2009
• Symposium in Celebration of 30 Years of US-China Relations
  Thu Nov 12, 2009
• The Originality Paradox: Imitation of the Six Dynasties
  Fri Nov 13, 2009

All Events

November 2009

Friday November 6, 2009
12:00 p.m.
Thomson 317

Dipesh Chakabarty, University of Chicago

China Studies Program

Kristi Roundtree, East Asia Center, barnesk@uw.edu

Dipesh Chakrabarty will be giving a lecture at the Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities on November 17, 2009, at 7:00 (UW Kane Hall, Rm, 220). To prepare for this event, the China Studies Program has organized a discussion session on some of Chakrabarty's works.  Laura Eshleman, a graduate student in Comparative Literature, will lead the discussion.

To prepare for the disussion, please read Chakrabarty's book, Provincializing
Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000; new edition
2007) and his recent article, "The Climate of Change: Four Theses". One place to find it is on the website below:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/20136815/chakrabarty-the-climate-of-history-four-theses

Even if you don't have time to finish reading his book, you can still come listen to the discussion and enjoy meeting faculty members and other graduate students.
 

Saturday November 7, 2009
8:30 - 9:30 AM (Tai Chi class) 9:30 - 11:00 AM (Lecture)
Seattle Asian Art Museum

Speaker: Madeleine Yue Dong

Part of the "Saturday University: Asia in Focus" series, presented by the Seattle Art Museum, The Center for Asian Art and Ideas, and the East Asia Center and China Studies Program at University of Washington

For information, contact eacenter@uw.edu

As the inaugural lecture series from the Center for Asian Art and Ideas, "Saturday University: Asia in Focus" provides a firm foundation for understanding the rapid rise of India, China and Japan in today's world. This ten-week series of lectures by University of Washington professors provides an overview of each country's rich history, intriguing contemporary politics and society, and distinctive art and culture. Together we will explore an array of issues that confront these multifaceted Asian civilizations and affect out lives.

Admission for this event is $10 for SAM members, and $15 for non-members. Other presentations on India precede these lectures. Details on those presentations are at http://jsis.washington.edu/soasia/events.php

Thursday November 12, 2009
7:00 - 9:30 PM
Odegaard Library Room 220

“Popular and Cultural Relations between U.S. and China"

East Asia Library, Center for Global Studies, China Studies Program, East Asia Center

Kristi Roundtree, East Asia Center, barnesk@uw.edu

PROGRAM:

Congressman Rick Larsen, 2nd Congressional District of Washington State
Congressman Larsen is the co-chair of the bi-partisan U.S.-China Working Group, which educates Members of Congress on U.S.-China issues through meetings and briefings with academic, business, and political leaders from the United States and China.

Consul General Gao Zhansheng, Consul General of China, San Francisco
Consul General Gao is the former director general of the Department of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Affairs and first secretary of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Netherlands. He has served as consul general in San Francisco since 2007.

David J. Firestein, Director of Track 2 Diplomacy, East West Institute, New York
Mr. Firestein leads EWI’s Russia, China and United States programs. He is a former Deputy Executive Director and Senior Advisor at the State Department where he focused on U.S.-China bilateral affairs. He has also served as a political advisor at the US Embassy in Beijing and the US Ambassador for APEC.

Moderator: David Bachman, Professor of International Relations, Associate Director of the Jackson School.

Co-sponsored by
East Asia Library of University Libraries
East Asia Center, Global Studies Center, China Studies Program at the
Jackson School of International Studies

For additional information, contact the East Asia Center at eacenter@uw.edu or 206-543-6938.
 

Friday November 13, 2009
12:00 p.m.
Thomson 317

Nick Williams; Ph. D. Candidate, Asian Languages and Literature

China Studies

Kristi Roundtree, East Asia Center, barnesk@uw.edu

Nick Williams is a doctoral candidate for Chinese in the Asian Languages and Literature department at the University of Washington. Besides his dissertation on Six Dynasties imitation poetry, other current projects include studies of the poetry of Li Bai and of the reception of Chinese literature in Nara and Heian Japan.

As pentasyllabic verse (wuyan shi) grew in popularity during the Six Dynasties period (220-589 C.E.), specialized genres began to appear: travel poems, poems on historical themes, poems to friends, and so on. One new genre was the imitation poem (nigu shi). These were poems modelled explicitly on the poetry of the past, specifically the style of an individual poet or even a particular poem. Writers like Lu Ji, Xie Lingyun, and Jiang Yan managed to use this genre for paradoxically original and emotionally expressive works, which reveal the singular principles of Six Dynasties literary culture more broadly. These poems seek to reconcile personal feeling and conventional language, innovation and tradition, individuality and conformity.
 

Friday November 20, 2009
12:00 p.m.
Thomson 317

Bradley Jensen Murg, Ph. D. Candidate, Dept. of Political Science

China Studies

Kristi Roundtree, East Asia Center, barnesk@uw.edu

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December 2009

Thursday December 3, 2009
3:30 PM
Thomson Hall, Room 317

Gary Hamilton, Dept. of Sociology

China Studies Program

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