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China Colloquia
2002-2003
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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OCTOBER 29, 2002 |
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Tuesday, 3:30 p.m. |
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Denny 401 |
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Xiaohong Zhou, Chair, Department of Sociology, Nanjing
University |
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Chinese Middle Class: What is its Possibility and
Potential for Accomplishments*
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*(This presentation will be in Chinese with an interpreter.)
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NOVEMBER 7, 2002 |
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Thursday, 3:30 p.m. |
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Thomson 317 |
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Diana Lary, Professor, Department of History; Directory, Centre
of Chinese Research, University of British Columbia |
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Mysteries of the Zhuang
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NOVEMBER 14, 2002 |
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Thursday, 3:30 p.m. |
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226 Communications |
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Douglas Howland, DePaul University |
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John Stuart Mill in East Asia: The Tension Between
Liberty and Morality
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Although John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" offered a utilitarian
defense of individual liberty, his Japanese and Chinese
translators undertook to interpret Mill's work so as to
encourage both individual liberty and some measure of public
morality. Where Mill imagined a middle-class majority that
oppressed the individual, his Japanese and Chinese translators
imagined social chaos in the absence of a common commitment to
morality on the part of free individuals. This talk will
explore Japanese and Chinese interest in Mill's argument and
the ways in which they sought to ameliorate its deficiencies.
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NOVEMBER 21, 2002 |
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Thursday, 3:30 p.m. |
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Thomson 317 |
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Catherine Yeh, University of Heidelberg |
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The Female Impersonator (dan) as National Star: Martial
Politics, Mass Media, and Sexual Fantasy in Early Republican
China
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DECEMBER 5, 2002 |
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Thursday, 3:30 p.m. |
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Thomson 317 |
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Elizabeth Lominska Johnson, Ph.D., Curator of Ethnology,
University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology |
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CANCELLED WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR THE SPRING
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DECEMBER 12, 2002 |
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Thursday, 3:30 p.m. |
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ART 312 |
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Roberta Bickford, Professor, Department of History of Art and
Architecture, Brown University |
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Emperor Huizong's Paintings: Art and Imperial Agency
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JANUARY 23, 2003 |
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Thursday, 3:30 p.m. |
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Thomson 125 |
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Scott Rozelle, Professor, Department of Agricultural and
Resource Economics, University of California, Davis |
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Working Until Dropping: The Economics of the Elderly in
Rural China
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JANUARY 30, 2003 |
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Thursday, 3:30 p.m. |
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Thomson 317 |
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Jonathon Lipman, Professor of History, Mont Holyoke College |
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White Hats, Oilcakes, and Common Blood:
The Local and the National among the Hui
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FEBRUARY 6, 2003 |
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Thursday, 3:30 p.m. |
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Communications 226 |
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Gail Hershatter, Professor of History, Director of the Institute
for Humanities Research, University of California at Santa Cruz |
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Forget Remembering: Gender in China's Rural Collective
Past
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Gail Hershatter is Professor of History at the University of
California, Santa Cruz, where she also directs the Instittue
for Humanities Research and co-directs the Center for Cultural
Studies. Her most recent book is Dangerous Pleasures:
Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai
(University of California, 1997). Her current book-in-progress
is The Gender of Memory: Rural Chinese Women and the 1950s.
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FEBRUARY 20, 2003 |
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Thursday, 3:30 p.m. |
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Smith 304 |
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Albert Park , Associate Professor and Associate Chair,
Department of Economics, Associate Director and Faculty
Associate, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan |
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How has Economic Restructuring Affected China's Urban
Workers?: Evidence from Recent Survey Data
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FEBRUARY 25, 2003 |
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Tuesday, 1:30 p.m. |
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Thomson 317 |
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Shanshan Du, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology,
Tulane University |
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A Gender-Egalitarian Society in a Patriarchal State: An
Ethnographic Study of the Lahu People of Southwest China
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FEBRUARY 27, 2003 |
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Thursday, 3:30 p.m. |
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Humanities Simpson Center, Communications 202 |
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John W. Chaffee, Professor of History and Director, Asian &
Asian American Studies Program, Binghamton University, SUNY
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Foreign Maritime Communities in Middle Period China
(750-1450): A Preliminary Overview
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MARCH 6, 2003 |
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Thursday, 3:30 p.m. |
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Thomson 317 |
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Jae Ho Chung, CNAPS Fellow, The Brookings Institution and
Associate Professor, Department of International Relations,
Seoul National University |
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China's Reform at Twenty-Five: Challenges for the New
Leadership
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Dr. Chung is Associate Professor in the Department of
International Relations at Seoul National University, Korea
and currently CNAPS Fellow at the Brookings Institution in
Washington, D.C. for 2002-3. Professor Chung received a B.A.
from Seoul National University (1983), an M.A. in Chinese
history from Brown University (1985), and his Ph.D. in
political science from the University of Michigan (1993).
He had worked previously as Assistant Professor of Social
Sciences at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
during 1993-1996 and as Visiting Fellow at Hong Kong
Polytechnic University's Management Department in 2001. He
also served as the head of the research team on Long-Term
Strategies toward China for South Korea's Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Trade during 2002.
A specialist in Chinese politics, especially central-local
relations and Sino-Korean relations, Professor Chung is
Founding Coordinator of the Korean Association of Chinese
Political Studies (KACPS) and former editor of the KACPS
Newsletter. He also sits on the editorial committees of such
English journals as China: An International Journal
(Singapore), China Perspectives (Paris and Hong Kong), and
Provincial China (London).
Professor Chung is currently conducting research on "How
America Views South Korea-China Bilateralism," which will in
effect constitute the last chapter to his forthcoming book on
Between Eagle and Dragon: South Korea-China Bilateralism and
the United States. Professor Chung is also working on a
book-length project on "China's Internal Governability"
supported by a research grant from the United States Institute
of Peace.
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MARCH 13, 2003 |
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Thursday, 3:30 |
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Savery Hall 315 |
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Ralph Litzinger, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural of
Anthropology, and Director, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute,
Duke University |
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The Mobilizations of "Nature": Green Collaborations,
Anti-Mountaineering, and the Yunnan Great Rivers Project
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Sponsored by China Studies Program and UW Sichuan Exchange |
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MARCH 19, 2003 |
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Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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J. Vernon Henderson, Eastman Professor of Political Economy,
Brown University |
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The Effect of Migration Restrictions on Urbanization in
China
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Sponsored by the China Studies Program and the Department of
Geography
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APRIL 10, 2003 |
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Thursday, 3:30 p.m. |
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Communications Bldg. 202, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the
Humanities |
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Yingjin Zhang, Professor of Chinese Literature and Film,
Comparative Literature, and Cultural Studies, University of
California-San Diego |
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Interrogating Cultural Modernity in China
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APRIL 15, 2003 |
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Tuesday, 3:30 p.m. |
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Communications Bldg. 226 |
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Andrew Scobell, Associate Research Professor, U.S. Army War
College |
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China and North Korea: Too Close for Comfort
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April 17, 2003 |
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Thursday, 3:30 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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Susan Greenhalgh, Department of Anthropology, University of
California, Irvine |
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Science, Modernity,and the Making of China's One-Child
Policy
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China's one-child-per-couple policy represents an
extraordinary attempt to engineer national wealth, power, and
global standing by drastically braking population growth.
Despite the policy's fame, its origins remain shrouded in
mystery. In this country, the one-child policy is often viewed
as a product of a repressive communist regime. This article
shows that the core ideas underlying that policy came instead
from Western science. The policy was a product of struggles
between China's social and natural scientists to define the
nature of China's "population problem" and its "optimal
solution." In those contests, a handful of maverick control
theorists with backgrounds in military science managed to push
aside the social scientists and get their ideas adopted. This
paper traces the roots of the natural scientists' victory to
China's distinctive Maoist history, in which military science
was privileged while the social sciences were abolished, and
to a particular cultural climate in which humanistic
perspectives have long given way to scientistic ones.
Susan Greenhalgh is an anthropologist with longstanding
interests in the politics of gender, family, and population in
contemporary China. Her current work draws on science studies,
governmentality studies, and the anthropology of modernity to
explore the scientific roots of China's one-child policy. She is
now completing an ethnography of China's state birth planning
project, to be published by the University of California Press.
Greenhalgh is Professor of Anthropology at the University of
California at Irvine. |
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May 1, 2003 |
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Thursday, 3:30 p.m. |
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Thomson 317 |
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Geng Jing, Assistant Researcher, Sichuan Nationalities Research
Institute in Chengdu |
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David Crockett Graham and the Ethnic Groups of Southwest
China, 1911-1948
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Geng Jeng graduated from the ethnology department of Central
Nationalities Institute (now University) in Beijing in 1990, and
is now an assistant researcher in the Sichuan Nationalities
Research Institute in Chengdu. She has conducted anthropological
research among her own people, the Qiang of northern Sichuan,
and also among Tibetans and Yi.
In her presentation, Ms. Geng will address the content and
methodology of Graham’s work, and the assessment of Graham in
contemporary Chinese scholarship.
David Crockett Graham traveled to China in 1911, and arrived in
Sichuan in 1913, where he worked in West China University (now
Sichuan University) until he retired in 1948. He was an
archaeologist and ethnologist whose works included the first
excavations at the famous Sanxingdui site, the founding and
directing of the first University Museum in China, and
wide-ranging ethnological research on the Miao and other
peoples. |
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May 15, 2003 |
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Thursday, 3:30 p.m. |
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Thomson 317 |
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Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard
University |
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Patrolling the Revolution: Militias and State-building
in Modern China
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Professor Perry is a graduate of William Smith College, and
received her MA from the University of Washington and PhD from
the University of Michigan. From 1999-2002, she directed the
Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard. A Guggenheim
recipient and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, Perry is the author or editor of more than a dozen
books on Chinese politics, including SHANGHAI ON STRIKE: THE
POLITICS OF CHINESE LABOR, which won the Fairbank Prize of
the American Historical Association.
The talk will drawn on a forthcoming book which traces the
evolution of revolutionary militias in China from their origins
in the 1920s to the present. The fate of revolutionary militias,
Perry suggests, serves as a window on changing state-society
relations — not only in contemporary China, but in other
post-revolutionary countries as well.
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May 16, 2003 |
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Friday, 12:30-2:00 p.m. |
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Thomson 125 |
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Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor of Geography,
University of Manitoba, Canada |
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Environment in the 21st Century: Global and Chinese
Prospectives
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Professor Smil's interdisciplinary research encompasses a
broad area of environmental, energy, food, population,
economic and public policy studies, ranging from
quantifications and modeling of global biogeochemical cycles
to long-range appraisals of energy and environmental
options. He has been applying these approaches to energy,
food and environmental affairs of China.
Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor of Geography at the
University of Manitoba, Canada, and is the author of many
books on energy and the environment. In 2001, he received
the Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology
from the American Association for the Advancement of
Science.
Professor Smil's many books include China's Environmental
Crisis, winner of the Joseph Levenson Prize of the
Association for Asian Studies, and the recently published,
The Biosphere.
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July 17, 2003 |
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Thursday, 3:30-4:30 p.m. |
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Suzzallo Library, Room 101 |
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Helen Rees, Associate Professor, Department of
Ethnomusicology, UCLA |
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Globalization and Naxi Performing Arts
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Helen Rees is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at
UCLA. Since 1989, she has carried out research on the
traditional and tourist-oriented musics of the Naxi ethnic
minority and Han majority of Yunnan Province, southwest
China. She is the author of Echoes of History: Naxi
Music in Modern China [OUP, 2000], and was the
interpreter for the Naxi musicians of the renowned Dayan
Ancient Music Association on their first international
concert tour to England in 1995.
The Naxi, a Tibeto-Burman group numbering around 300,000,
live mainly in and around Lijiang County, a mountainous
region in Yunnan Province, southwest China. They have a
great variety of secular and religious music and dance, some
influenced by or borrowed from neighboring ethnic groups,
including the Tibetans and the Han Chinese. Despite
dampening factors such as the Cultural Revolution and
today's rapid modernization, many traditional performing
arts still flourish, and have even received a boost from the
massive tourist influx that began in the late 1980's. Since
1995, the renowned Dayan Ancient Music Association has made
numerous international concert tours, including to Seattle
in May 2002, bringing Lijiang's local music to even broader
audiences.
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