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China Colloquia
2001-2002
Current
colloquia for the 2003-2004 academic year are listed here.
For
past colloquia please check the following links for each academic
year:
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| SEPTEMBER |
| FRIDAY,
SEPTEMBER 21, 2001, 3:30 pm |
| Xuejin
Zuo, Vice President and Senior Fellow Shanghai Academy of Social
Sciences |
| Rural-Urban
Migration, Urbanization and Employment in China: Past Experiences
and Future Scenarios |
| Thomson
317 |
|
| OCTOBER |
| THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 4, 2001, 3:30 pm |
| Jack
Williams, Professor of Geograpy, Michigan State University |
| Who
are the Taiwanese? Taiwan in the Chinese Diaspora |
| Thomson
317 |
|
|
THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 11, 2001, 3:30 pm
|
| Zhao
Shukai, Professor, Development Research Center of the State
Council, China |
| Confronting
Challenges of Chinese Farmers |
| Smith
313 |
|
| THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 18, 2001, 3:30 pm |
| Judith
Shapiro, Co-Director Environmental Policy MA Program, American
University |
|
Mao's War Against Nature: Lessons for Today? |
| Thomson
317 |
|
During
the turbulent social and political upheaval that marked the
period of Mao Zedong’s leadership, the abuse of nature and
the abuse of human beings were closely linked. Under Mao,
the traditional Chinese ideal of “Harmony between the Heavens
and Humankind” was abrogated in favor of Mao’s insistence
that “Man Must Conquer Nature.” The devastating consequences
of this period offer much instruction on the dangers of treating
nature as an adversary. In Mao’s War Against Nature: Politics
and the Environment in Revolutionary China (Cambridge University
Press, 2001), Judith Shapiro traces the environmental mismanagement,
political persecution of Chinese intellectuals and ill-planned
agricultural and industrial schemes that resulted in flooding,
pollution, deforestation, famine and forcible relocation of
millions of Chinese. Professor Shapiro draws broad-ranging
lessons for environmental sustainability and explores how
the legacy of the Mao period continues to cloud China’s efforts
to resolve its severe environmental problems. Judith Shapiro
has written extensively on the Chinese Cultural Revolution
and freedom of expression issues and is co-author, with Liang
Heng, of several books on China, including Son of the Revolution
(Random House, 1984) and After the Nightmare (Knopf, 1986).
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| THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 25, 2001, 3:30 pm |
| Alan
Chan, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, and Vice-Dean,
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of
Singapore |
| Mencius
and an Ethics of the Heart |
| Communications
202 |
|
| NOVEMBER |
| THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 8, 2001, 1:00 pm |
| Bei
Dao, Mackey Poet in Residence at Beloit College, Wisconsin |
| "Today"
Magazine and Underground Literature in China since the 1970s
|
| 202
Communications |
|
| THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 15, 2001, 2:30 pm |
| Bin
Wong, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
|
| Temporal
Perspectives on the Political Economy of East Asia, 1800, 1900,
and 2000 |
| Sponsored
by the East Asia Center, China Studies Program and Japan Studies
Program |
2:30-4:00,
309 Parrington, The Forum
4:00-5:00, Reception Immediately Following in The Forum |
|
| THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 29, 2001, 3:30 pm |
| Lester
Ross, Counsel; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
|
| Genetic
Modification in Chinese Agriculture: Impact of Regulations on
Foreign Trade and Investment and/or Environmental Regulation
under Chinese Law |
| Thomson
317 |
|
| JANUARY |
| THURSDAY,
JANUARY 17, 2002, 3:30 pm |
| David
Goodman, University of Technology, Sydney Australia |
| The
Politics of the West Equality, Nation-Building and Colonisation
|
| Thomson 317 |
|
| FEBRUARY |
| THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 21, 2002, 3:30 pm |
| Zheng
Chengjun, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, Department of Nationality
Research |
| Backward
and Poor: The Challenge of Developing an Animal Husbandry Economy
and Forestry |
|
Thomson 317 |
| Food
shortages, low incomes and lack of opportunities directly or
indirectly accompany the hardships of habitat degradation as
forest and pasture resources decline. Overuse and degeneration
of land is a common problem found throughout Nuosu areas. The
pressure of a fast-growing population, especially in conjunction
with the destruction of forest and pastureland, reduces the
agricultural capacity of soil. And, from another perspective,
it also causes a near-crisis for the persistence of people's
traditional culture and ecological wisdom. As research on contemporary
relations between the traditional upland farming culture of
the Nuosu and the local ecology makes clear, the Nuosu upland
farm culture influences the protection of the local environment
and the development of forestry. At the same time, a decline
in the traditional knowledge of ecology and how to use it to
best advantage also has had an impact on the environment people
live in. In short, we cannot overlook the fact that the disappearance
of the traditional upland ecology, as well as the knowledge
of how best to use it, has an impact on living communities.
For this reason, while intervening to fix poverty and the environment
in the mountain areas, we ought to pay attention to protecting
and drawing upon the people's traditional ecological wisdom
for sustaining their ecology and using it to best advantage.
Moreover, in light of this knowledge, we should provide the
appropriate agricultural, pastoral and forestry technical support.
This will be profoundly significant to the simultaneous development
of the culture, economy and the environment. |
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|
Tuesday, February 26, 2002, 3:30 pm |
| Nicholas
Lardy, Senior Fellow The Brookings Institution |
|
Integrating China into the Global Economy |
| Simpson
Humanities Center, Communications 202 |
|
| MARCH |
| THURSDAY,
MARCH 7, 2002, 3:30 pm |
| Sakamoto
Hiroko, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University
|
| The
Discourse on Love and Eugenics in Modern China |
| Thomson
317 |
|
| MAY |
| THURSDAY,
MAY 16, 2002, 3:30 pm |
| Robin
Yates, Professor of History, McGill University |
|
Law and the Military in Early Imperial China |
| Thomson
317 |
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