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The East Asia Center hosts a broad array of events covering the arts, humanities and social sciences. These events range from academic lectures by professors from the U.S. and East Asia to film festivals featuring documentary and feature films.
This Week
Click on the title for more details.- 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 - Why Has Japan Only Had One Dynasty?
Sat Nov 14, 2009
All Events
November 2009
Discussion- "The Climate of Change: Four Theses" and "Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Though and Historical Difference"
Friday November 6, 2009
12:00 p.m.
Thomson 317
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.
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China and the World
Saturday November 7, 2009
8:30 - 9:30 AM (Tai Chi class) 9:30 - 11:00 AM (Lecture)
Seattle Asian Art Museum
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
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Symposium in Celebration of 30 Years of US-China Relations
Thursday November 12, 2009
7:00 - 9:30 PM
Odegaard Library Room 220
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.
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The Originality Paradox: Imitation of the Six Dynasties
Friday November 13, 2009
12:00 p.m.
Thomson 317
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.
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Why Has Japan Only Had One Dynasty?
Saturday November 14, 2009
8:30 - 9:30 AM (Aikido class) 9:30 - 11:00 AM (Lecture)
Seattle Asian Art Museum
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
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The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China with Hannah Pakula
Tuesday November 17, 2009
7:00 PM
Seattle Art Museum, Simpson Auditorium
Renowned author of the historical biographies Hannah Pakula discusses her latest book. The Last Empress is the story of the founding of modern China and a biography of the beautiful and controversial Madame Chiang Kai-shek (1897-2003), one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. It is an action-filled epic of revolution, war, insurrection, Japanese invasion and finally the Communist take-over and the Nationalists’ exile. Co-presented with Elliot Bay Books. Free but registration required. Register online at www.seattleartmuseum.org
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Provisional-"Law and Economic Development in China and the Former USSR"
Friday November 20, 2009
12:00 p.m.
Thomson 317
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The Troubled Spirit of Modern Japan
Saturday November 21, 2009
8:30 - 9:30 AM (Aikido class) 9:30 - 11:00 AM (Lecture)
Seattle Asian Art Museum
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
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December 2009
TBA
Thursday December 3, 2009
3:30 PM
Thomson Hall, Room 317
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What's Art and What's Not in the History of Japan
Saturday December 5, 2009
8:30 - 9:30 AM (Aikido class) 9:30 - 11:00 AM (Lecture)
Seattle Asian Art Museum
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
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Three Cups of Tea: Islam and Schooling in Asia
Tuesday December 8, 2009
5:00-8:00 PM
Thomson Hall, UW Campus
Three Cups of Tea: Islam and Schooling in Asia
Islam, Asia, Modernity Professional Development for Educators Workshop
Muslim societies in Asia are fast changing, and often at the crossroads of global social, economic and geopolitical conflicts. Long standing educational systems and traditions are evolving in multiple ways as these societies became more integrated into the global economy. Local institutions, national bureaucracies, international non-governmental organizations, and other actors are influencing how schools educate both male and female students.
This workshop will focus on Pakistan, Indonesia and Xinjiang, China, and how different influences are coming to bear on educational systems in these areas.
Join us for this engaging 3 hour workshop intended for educators of grades 6-12.
Each attendee will receive at least 20 copies of Greg Mortenson's award winning book
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time
Space is limited, so register early.
Date: Tuesday, December 8
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Thomson Hall, UW Campus, Seattle
Cost: $25.00
Dinner will be provided.
Clock hours available at no extra charge
To register: visit
https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/snodgras/85759
where you will enter information about yourself. Then mail your payment of $25.00 to:
South Asia Center, University of Washington, Box 353650, Seattle, WA 98195. Questions or inquiries, please call 206-543-4800 or contact snodgras@u.washington.edu.
Your registration is not complete until full payment of $25.00 is received.
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February 2010
MOVIE: Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai)
Thursday February 4, 2010
7:00 PM
Kane Hall 210, UW Seattle campus
Classic Japanese film co-written, edited and directed by the incomparable Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshio Mifune. (1954) 160 minutes. 16th century Japanese farmers face a band of roving thieves. Their solution is to hire samurai for protection. The farmers are poor and can only offer food and lodging but they soon recruit Kambei Shimada who determines that they will need a total of seven samurai to properly guard the village...
This screening is preceded by a brief introduction by Professor Ted Mack of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature.
Part of the SMAK 2010 International Film Series (See Movies at Kane) showing every Thursday night: January 14---March 18, 2010.
No tickets required / Free and open to the public
Please note that this event does not provide clock hours to teachers.
All showings at 7:00 p.m., Kane Hall, Room 210, University of Washington, Seattle.
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