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China Colloquia
2003-2004
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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JUNE 3, 2004 |
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Thursday, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. |
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Thomson 317 |
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Ren Hai, Professor, Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green
State University |
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The Symbolic Economy of Time: Information, Temporality, and
Life Conduct during Hong Kong's "Return" to China |
Dr. Ren's talk is taken from his forthcoming book: "The
Countdown of Time: Symbolic Economy and Public Displays in
China and Hong Kong".
Event is co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the
China Studies Program.
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MAY 6, 2004 |
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Thursday,
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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Charlotte Furth, Professor of History, University of Southern
California |
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What Do We Think We are Doing When We Do History of the
Body?
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Since receiving
her Ph.D. from Stanford in 1966, Dr. Furth has written on a
wide range of topics in Chinese history. Her early work
focused on intellectual change in the Late Qing and Republican
periods. More recently, she has been concerned with
feminist perspectives on the late imperial history of
medicine, gender and the body. She has been teaching at
the University of Southern California since 1990. Her
prize-winning book, A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's
Medical History 960-1665 appeared in 1999 (U C Press)
Over the past 20
years, Dr. Furth's feminist research on "medicine for
women" (fuke) in premodern China has followed the linguistic
turn from social history to cultural history, and from
the history of science to science studies. In the field in
general, these trends are marked by the emergence of the
"body" as a privileged subject of inquiry. Taking off from
her engagement with "body history" in writing A Flourishing
Yin, her talk invites us to explore some methodological
and philosophical conundrums that emerge when we try to
historicize the human body, and to explore coporeality through
words and texts.
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APRIL 30, 2004 |
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Friday, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
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Parrington Hall, The Commons |
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Thomas Christensen, Professor of Political Science, Princeton University |
Beijing's Perceptions of Japan and PRC Security Policy from
1949 to the present
Sino-Japanese
Relations Lecture Series
Sponsored by
the East Asia Center, the Japan Studies Program and the China
Studies Program
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APRIL 29, 2004 |
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Thursday,
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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Patricia Sieber, Associate Professor, East Asian L&L, Ohio State University |
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The Long Shadow of the "Xixiang ji" (Story of the Western
Wing): A Cross-Cultural Look at the Cantonese Ballad "Huajian"
(The Flowery Notepaper) in the Nineteenth Century
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After studying Chinese, Japanese
and German literature in Tokyo, Zurich, and Beijing, Dr.
Sieber received her Ph.D. in Chinese from the University of
California, Berkeley.
She is the author of "Theaters
of Desire: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early
Chinese Song-Drama, 1300-2000"
(Palgrave, 2003).
She edited a collection of contemporary Chinese women's
fiction, "Red
Is not the Only Color"
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2001) and has published articles on
Chinese canon formation, literary thought, and East/West
literary relations.
She has received funding from NEH, ACLS, and the Chiang
Ching-Kuo Foundations.
She is currently working on a book project on the
formation of European sinology in the nineteenth century.
Published in the 1810s in
Guangzhou and in bilingual translation in 1824 in Macau and
London, the Huajian (The Flowery Notepaper), occupies
a unique place within comparative literary contexts. Dr.
Sieber's paper proposes to address the regional,
empire-wide, and cross-cultural dimensions of the
reproduction and reception of this particular Cantonese
ballad. During her talk, she will focus on several aspects
of her paper. First, the paper examines how the publishing
venue, editorial status, format, and content of this
particular ballad compared to earlier performance-related
publications. In particular, the paper investigates how the
title page's designation of the text as the "eighth book of
genius" together with the assignation of a commentary
positioned this regional genre within an empire-wide
literary field. Second, the paper investigates the
production and reception history of the bilingual
translation of the text published under the title Chinese
Courtship, In Verse by P.P. Thoms (d. after 1851). The
paper delineates the printing mechanisms for the bilingual
book and how they compared to other European attempts to
reproduce and translate significant junks of Chinese text.
Circulating as a rare specimen of Chinese fiction, it was
one of a handful of translations from the Chinese that
inspired (among texts from other traditions) Goethe's 1827
coinage of the term "world literature." In sum, the paper
explores how the manipulation of literary and material
conventions in different publishing contexts propelled a
relatively peripheral local form, for a short while at
least, into the national and international spotlight.
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APRIL 22, 2004 |
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Thursday, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
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Parrington Hall, The Commons |
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Josh Vogel, Professor of History, University of California,
Santa Barbara |
First Contacts: The Voyage of the Senzaimaru (1862) and a
Wartime Cinematic Recreation of It
Sino-Japanese
Relations Lecture Series
Sponsored by
the East Asia Center, the Japan Studies Program and the China
Studies Program
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APRIL 15, 2004 |
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Thursday,
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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Xun Liu, Assistant Professor, History Department, Rutgers
University |
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Visualizing Female Perfection: Sources, Context and Audience
of the 1890 Daoist Paintings of Bixia Yuanjun
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Dr. Liu completed his Ph.D.
in History at the University of Southern California (USC).
His fields of specialty and teaching are Modern China, and
Social/Cultural history of Daoism. Prior to serving
as Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, he was awarded
several fellowships including the An Wang Postdoctoral
Fellowship at Harvard University, the USC Postdoctoral
Teaching Fellowship, National Resource Fellowship and
History Department Merit Fellowship. Dr. Liu has written
numerous conference papers. His publications include
"Visualized Perfection: Daoist Painting, Court Patronage,
Female Piety and Monastic Expansion in Late Qing
(1862-1908), Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
(forthcoming in the 2004 June issue); "Essential Secrets for
Conserving Life: Meditative Regimens for Self-Healing in the
Late Ming (The Case of Cao Heng)", Symposium proceedings,
"Medicine in China: Health Technology and Social History,"
Paris, June 21-23, 2000 (pending publication); and "Women's
Practices for Repelling Illnesses", Health, Illness, and
Healing in Chinese Cultures: A Sourcebook of Primary
Documents (under submission).
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APRIL 1, 2004 |
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Thursday,
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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Xiaofei Tian, Preceptor of Chinese, Harvard University |
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Illusion and Illumination: A New Poetics of Seeing in the
Court Literature of the Liang (502-556)
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Dr.
Xiaofei Tian received her B.A. in English Literature from
Beijing University in 1989; M.A. in English Literature from
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1991; Ph.D. in
Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 1998.
She taught at Colgate University from 1998-1999, and
then at Cornell University as Assistant Professor of
classical Chinese literature from 1999-2000.
Her publications include: "A Preliminary Comparison
of the Two Recensions of Jinpingmei."
In HJAS 62.2 (2002), her most recent books (in
Chinese) are: On Jinpingmei (The Plum in the
Golden Vase (Tianjin: Tianjin renmin 2003);
Sappho: The Formation of A Poetic Tradition in European and
American Literatures (Beijing: Sanlian, 2004); completed
manuscript (in English): The Record of A Dusty Table: Tao
Qian and Manuscript Culture, currently under review at
University of Washington Press.
Her
paper is part of a larger book project on the Liang
(502-556) literary culture.
It discusses the impact of Buddhism, the "doctrine of
images," on the literature of this period, focusing on
images of candlelight and shadow, flames and their
reflections in the water.
During her talk, Dr. Tian will argue that Buddhist
influence is manifest not only in the choice of the images
and their import, but also in a new poetics of seeing.
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MARCH 4, 2004 |
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Thursday,
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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Tsu-Lung Chou, Professor, Graduate Institute of Urban Planning,
National Taipei University |
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Spatial Transformation and Challenges in Globalizing Taipei
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Tsu-Lung Chou holds a Ph.D.
from the Department of Civic Design, Town and Country
Planning, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. Dr. Chou
is now a visiting professor with the Department of City and
Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley.
He teaches planning theory and systems, local economies and
urban development, and regional development policy and
planning. His recent research has concentrated primarily on
globalization, local transformation and planning in Asian
countries, especially Taiwan and China.
New regionalism and
urbanism are two mainstream arguments in recent literature
on the geography of globalization. However, this literature
provides only partial insights into the development of world
cities, primarily because of their overemphasis on
endogenous growth mechanisms, downplaying the role of the
state and inter-scalar governance beyond the city. This
talk will address Taipei's recent transformation as a case
study to explore this omission, and re-emphasize the roles
of the state and inter-scalar governance policies in the
city's spatial and economic restructuring. His comments
will suggest that the endogenous and exogenous growth
discourse inherent in the world city hypothesis has not
provided full policy guidance for Taipei's restructuring
because of its overemphasis on institutional regulations at
the city level while downplaying inter-scalar governance.
In the Taipei case, development is strongly conditioned by
inter-scalar governance that includes complicated national
identity issues in cross-strait politics, insitutional
inertia of restructuring strategies at a national level, and
inter-scalar governance conflicts at Taiwan's regional
level.
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FEBRUARY 19, 2004 |
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Thursday,
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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Bryan Tilt, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of
Washington |
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Linking Scientific and Lay Assessments of Pollution from
Township and Village Enterprises: A Case Study from Sichuan
Province
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Byran Tilt is a doctoral candidate in the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Washington. His
dissertation is a community assessment of risk from industrial
pollution and is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Sichuan,
China. In this presentation, Bryan Tilt will build upon
a line of critical analysis that sees "nature" and
"environment" as entities that are constructed through
discourse and relations of power. He will do so by
drawing upon scientific monitoring data and ethnographic data
from an industrial township in China's Sichuan Province, and
by suggesting that the degree of risk posed by pollution from
local factories is itself a social construction. He will
argue that these two disparate types of risk assessment - one
determined through scientific monitoring, the other shaped by
social discourse - must be considered in tandem if a
meaningful and just depiction of the local pollution problem
is to be achieved.
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FEBRUARY 5, 2004 |
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Thursday,
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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Gao Xinjun, Professor, Institute of Comparative Economic and
Political Studies, Beijing |
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Recent Political Reform at the Township Level in China:
Results of Field Research
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Gao Xinjun is a professor at the Institute of Comparative
Economic and Political Studies in Beijing. He is a
political scientist specializing in institutional issues.
He is a co-editor of "Comparative Studies of Economic and
Social Systems". Professor Gao has published numerous
articles and books, including his recent contribution to the
two-volume book, "Transformation from the Pressurized System
to the Democratic System of Cooperation". He is a
frequent recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation,
including support for field study on civil society in China
which the talk will address.
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JANUARY 29, 2004 |
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Thursday,
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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Ellen Judd, Professor, Anthropology Department, University of
Manitoba |
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Women on the Move: Women's Kinship, Residence and Networks
in Rural China
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Ellen R. Judd is presently Professor of Anthropology at the
University of Manitoba. She has studied Chinese cultural
production in the Cultural Revolution and in the later revival
of ritual opera, gender and everyday power relations in reform
era rural China, the Chinese women's movement and, currently,
gender and mobility in rural China. This presentation
explores two connected issues, the ties of women to place
through predominant patterns of patrilocal post-marital
residence, and the implications of these patterns for ties
between women within and between rural communities. The
presentation is primarily based upon extensive field data from
three Shandong villages, examining patterns of marriage and
mobility for several generations of rural women before, during
and after the period of relatively fixed residence associated
with the household registration system and collective
institutions. Some reference will also be made to
preliminary findings from research in rural Chongqing
conducted in the fall of 2003, indicating some of the
implications of increased mobility for rural women remaining
in or returning to the countryside.
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JANUARY 29, 2004 |
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Thursday,
7:30 p.m. |
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Kane Hall 110 |
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Dwight H. Perkins, Director of the Asia Center, Harvard University
(Memorial Lecture) |
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China's Economic Transformation: Global Implications
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Dwight H.
Perkins is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political
Economy of Harvard University and the Director of Harvard
University Asia Center. He joined the Harvard University
faculty in 1963. Perkins has authored or edited twelve
books and over one hundred articles on economic development,
with special references to the economies of China, Korea,
Vietnam and the other nations of East and Southeast Asia.
He has served as an advisor or consultant on economic policy
and reform to the governments of Korea, China, Malaysia,
Vietnam, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. He has also
been a long-term consultant to the World Bank, the Ford
Foundation, various private corporations, and agencies of the
U.S. government, including the U.S. Senate Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations (then chaired by Senator Henry
M. Jackson). He served in the U.S. Navy, received his
B.A. from Cornell University in Far Eastern Studies in 1956,
and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in
1961 and 1964. The Henry M. Jackson Foundation Memorial
Lecture is free.
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JANUARY 21, 2004 |
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Wednesday,
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
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Communications 226 |
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Yomi Braester, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative
Literature,
University of Washington |
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Cinema and Urban Renewal in the PRC
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JANUARY 15, 2004 |
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Thursday,
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
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Thomson Hall 317 |
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Sharon Wesoky, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Allegheny
College |
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Theorizing Globalization and New Forms of Chinese Women's
Organizations
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Sharon Wesoky is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Allegheny
College and Director, Minor in Asian Studies. She
completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University and has published a
book entitled Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization.
Her current research focuses on rural women's organizing in
China. Her talk will examine the intersection of
globalization and social movement theory in assessing the
emergence of women's NGOs in Beijing in the 1990's.
Professor Wesoky will discuss some of the implications of
feminist theory for rural women's organizing in contemporary
China.
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JANUARY 15, 2004 |
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Thursday,
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
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Gould 240 |
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Tunney Lee, Professor of Architecture and City Planning
(Emeritus), MIT and Professor of Architecture (Emeritus),
Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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"Chinese Architecture in Transition"
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Tunney Lee was
born in Guangdong, China and raised in Boston, Massachusetts.
He graduated with a B.A. in Architecture from the University
of Michigan and was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of
Rome. He has worked for Buckminster Fuller, I.M. Pei,
and others. In the public sector, he was Chief of
Planning Design for the Boston Development Authority and head
of the Massachusetts Division of Capital Planning and
Operations, the agency responsible for state-owned buildings
and land. At MIT, he was Head of the Department of Urban
Studies and Planning, and founded the Department of
Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Tunney Lee has written numerous publications and given talks
and presentations in various international locations.
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DECEMBER 17, 2003 |
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Wednesday,
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
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Communications 202 |
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James Benn, Professor, Arizona State University |
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Japanese New Religions Self immolation in Medieval Chinese
Buddhism
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NOVEMBER
25, 2003 |
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Tuesday,
8:00 p.m., Followed by a reception |
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Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall |
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David R. Knechtges, Professor of Chinese, University of
Washington |
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Rose or Jade? Problems in Translating Medieval Chinese
Literature
(The Inaugural Asian Languages and Literature Distinguished
Faculty Lecture 2003, Sponsored by The Department of Asian
Languages and Literature)
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NOVEMBER
21, 2003 |
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Friday,
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
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Savery 239 |
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Li Qiang, Labor and Human Rights Activist, New York |
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Workers and the Labor Movement: The Current Situation in
China
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NOVEMBER 20, 2003 |
| Thursday,
3:30 p.m. |
| Thomson
317 |
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Li Qiang, Labor and Human Rights Activist, New York |
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Roundtable discussion on issues in Chinese Politics
(in Chinese)
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NOVEMBER 14, 2003 |
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Friday,
2:30 - 3:30 p.m. |
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Smith 304, Refreshments following in Smith 409 |
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Dan Abramson, Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of
Washington |
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Impact of Overseas Chinese Networks on Urban Spatial Policy
and Change in Southern Fujian
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NOVEMBER 7, 2003 |
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Friday, 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
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Smith 304, Refreshments following in Smith 409 |
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Lisa Hoffman, Professor, Department of Urban Studies, University
of Washington, Tacoma |
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Enterprising Cities and Citizens: The Re-figuring of Urban
Spaces, and the Making of Professionals in Post-Mao China
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OCTOBER 30, 2003 |
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Thursday, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
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Thomson 317 |
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Laurence Ma, Professor Emeritus, University of Akron, Ohio |
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Economic Reforms, Spatial Restructuring and Planning Issues
in Transitional China
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OCTOBER 16-17, 2003 |
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Friday,
3:00 - 6:00 p.m., Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
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Denny Hall 401 |
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James Lee, University of
Michigan; Wang Feng, UC Irvine; Arthur Wolf, Stanford
University; Hill Gates, Stanford University; Michele Ladenson,
UC Davis, Zhao Zhongwei, ANU, Wang Yuesheng, CASS/Harvard, John
Shepherd, UVI, Han Hua, UW, Steve Harrell, UW |
Workshop on the Chinese Demographic Regime
The
session on Friday will be a general discussion on the state
of the field, based partly on short "thought paper"
summaries that participants are writing. Depending on
length, we might have 1-2 paper discussions on Friday also.
Saturday's sessions will be devoted to data sets and data
papers that participants will be submitting in a variety of
forms, ranging from piles of raw data to finished mss.
Participants will not present their papers; rather each
45-minute session will be devoted to a discussant's remarks
and group discussion.
This is
thus a working conference. Anyone with a serious interest is
welcome to attend, but if you want to come, please request a
set of materials from Kristi Barnes, barnesk@u., and look
them over ahead of time.
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OCTOBER
16, 2003 |
| Thursday,
3:30 p.m. |
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Thomson 317 |
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Ming Chan, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford
University |
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Hong Kong Politics
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Ming K. Chan received his BS
in history, political science and economics from Iowa State
University-Ames in 1969, MA in Chinese history from the
University of Washington in 1970, and Ph D in East Asian
history from Stanford University in 1975 at the age of 25.
At present, he is Research
Fellow and Executive Coordinator, Hong Kong Documentary
Archives, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, where he
was a Fellow, 1976-80 and Visiting Professor of History in
the History Department, 1992-93. During
1980-1997, Ming Chan served as a tenured member of the
History Department, University of Hong Kong, where he was
twice (1986/91) elected "Best Teacher" by the Students'
Union. He was the Julian and Virginia Cornell Visiting
Professor at Swarthmore College, 1993-94. He has also held
visiting appointments at Duke University (1989), the
University of California (UCLA 1979-80; UC-Santa Cruz,
1975/79), and EL Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City (1975-76),
and most recently Mount Holyoke College (2002-3).
Ming Chan has published ten
volumes of academic work and over fifty articles and book
chapters on Chinese history and China-Hong Kong relations.
He is General Editor of the Hong Kong Becoming China
multi-volume series published by M E Sharpe, New York.
As an Asian affairs and
international relations commentator, Ming Chan is frequently
interviewed by television, radio and the printed media,
including the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine,
Newsweek, the BBC, VOA, CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS as well
as the Australian, Canadian, European and Hong Kong press
and tv/radio networks.
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| OCTOBER 15, 2003 |
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Wednesday,
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
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Loew 114 |
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Fred Chiu, Professor, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist
University |
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Women in Japanese Owned Factories in China
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Fred Y.L.
Chiu is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Hong Kong
Baptist University. His research interests include:
Alternative Ethnography and Historiography; Cultural Studies
and Discourse Analysis; Anthropology of Social Conflicts;
Social Bodies and Civil Societies.
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OCTOBER
10, 2003 |
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Friday,
12:30 p.m. |
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Simpson Center, Communications 206 |
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William Parish, Professor, Population Research Center and
Sociology Department, NORC/University of Chicago |
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Sexual Practices, Jealousy and Hitting Among Chinese
Couples
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