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| JUNE 2, 2005 |
| Thursday, 3:30-5:00 p.m. |
| Thomson Hall, Room 317 |
| William Lavely, Professor, Department of Sociology and
Director, East Asia Center, University of
Washington |
|
Coital Frequency in China and its
Implications |
Professor
Lavely completed his M.A. in Asian
Studies at the
University of California, Berkeley and Ph.D. in
Sociology at the
University of Michigan. His specialty is in the area
of Contemporary Chinese society and population. He
teaches in the Department of Sociology and The Henry M.
Jackson School of International Studies. Since 1983, he
has served as a consultant
on several projects to the United Nations Fund for Population
Activities. Professor Lavely has published numerous
articles on topics ranging from Chinese rural population
statistics, fertility, and infant mortality to sex
preference for children.
Coital frequency in
contemporary Chinese marriage is low relative to that of
European populations, a difference likely rooted in
traditional sexual cultures. Low coital frequency goes
some way towards explaining low marital fertility in late
imperial China, the subject of recent debates in historical
demography. As an
indicator of marital relations, it may also suggest that
China's family revolution has changed marriage less than is
generally
supposed. |
MAY 19, 2005 |
| Thursday, 3:30-5:00 p.m. |
| Thomson Hall, Room 317 |
| Wilt Idema, Professor of Chinese Literature, Department
of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard
University |
|
Something Rotten in the State of Song (960-1126): the
Frustrated Martial Masculinity of the Generals of Yang
Family |
Wilt L. Idema obtained his doctorate
at Leiden University, The Netherlands in 1974, with a thesis
on early Chinese fiction. Most of his later research has
been focused on traditional Chinese drama and prosimetrical
narrative. He also has been active as a translator of
classical Chinese poetry in his native Dutch. Since
1999, he has taught at Harvard. His most recent
publication is The Red Brush. Writing Women of Imperial
China (2004).
The wars between the Northern Song
dynasty (960-1126) and its northern neighbor the Khitan Liao
(907-1119) eventually gave rise to the saga of the generals of
the Yang dynasty. Despite the superior martial skills of
the subsequent generations of the male and female members of
this family on the battlefield and their unsurpassed
self-sacrificial loyalty to the imperial house of the Song,
they are never able to achieve a final victory over the
barbarians, as muddleheaded emperors allow themselves to be
fooled by high civil officials in the pay of the enemy.
The talk will focus on a discussion of one of the Yuan dynasty
plays and one of the Ming dynasty novels that derive their
materials from this
legend. |
MAY 18, 2005 |
| Wednesday, 3:30-5:00 p.m. |
| Communications Building, Room 226 |
| Professor Seishi Karashima, International Research
Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University,
Tokyo |
|
A Project for a Chinese Buddhist
Dictionary |
|
|
APRIL 29, 2005 |
| Friday, 3:30-5:00 p.m. |
| Communications Building, Room 226 |
| Dr. Chack Fan Lee, Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of
Hong Kong; 2004-5 Hong Kong Fulbright Distinguished
Lecturer |
|
Meeting Rising Community Expectations ~ From
Landslide Prevention to Harbour Enhancement in Hong
Kong |
Dr. Chack Fan Lee graduated from the
University of Hong Kong in 1968, with First Class Honours in
Civil Engineering. This was followed by postgraduate
research with the late Peter Lumb (M.Sc., University of Hong
Kong, 1970) and with K.Y. Lo (Ph.D., University of Western
Ontario, 1972). He then worked for Ontario Hydro for
some 18 years in various engineering and management positions
on the design and construction of hydro and nuclear power
projects, dam safety, nuclear waste disposal, etc. Chack
served as TAC's first Secretary/Treasurer, as well as on the
board and technical committees of the Canadian Geotechnical
Society (CGS) and on the Editorial Board of the Canadian
Geotechnical Journal. He has also worked as a consultant
and advisor to the World Bank, the United Nations Development
Plan, the International Atomic Energy Agency, CIDA, etc, on
various power projects overseas and in China, including the
Three Gorges Project.
He is presently Chair and Professor
of Geotechnical Engineering and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for
Research at the University of Hong Kong. He has
published over 150 papers in the geotechnical field. He
is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) and a
recipient of the EIC's K.Y. Lo Medal. His other interests
include volunteer work for charities as well as archaeological
studies of the Silk Road and Central
Asia. |
APRIL 23, 2005 |
| Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.; 1:30-6:00
p.m. |
| Communications 226 (AM); Simpson Center,
Communications 202 (PM), University of Washington, Seattle,
WA |
| Participants: Ann Anagnost, University of
Washington, Seattle; Andrea G. Arai, Pacific Lutheran
University; Brian Hammer, University of Washington; Lisa
Hoffman, University of Washington, Tacoma; Ken Kawashima,
University of Toronto; Gavan McCormack, Australian National
University; Laura Nelson, California State University,
Hayward; PUN Ngai, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology; REN Hai, Bowling Green State University; Jesook
Song, University of Toronto; YAN Hairong, Princeton
University. |
|
Conference:
Imperial Formations of a Neoliberal
Kind |
Sponsors:
Pacific Lutheran University: Chinese Studies, Department of
Anthropology; University of Washington: China Studies Program, East Asia Center,
Department of Anthropology, and the Project for Critical Asian
Studies.
|
APRIL 22, 2005 |
| Friday, 4:00-7:00 p.m. |
| Pacific Lutheran
University, Chris Knutsen Hall, University Center Building,
Tacoma, WA |
| Participants: Ann Anagnost, University of
Washington, Seattle; Andrea G. Arai, Pacific Lutheran
University; Brian Hammer, University of Washington; Lisa
Hoffman, University of Washington, Tacoma; Ken Kawashima,
University of Toronto; Gavan McCormack, Australian National
University; Laura Nelson, California State University,
Hayward; PUN Ngai, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology; REN Hai, Bowling Green State University; Jesook
Song, University of Toronto; YAN Hairong, Princeton
University. |
|
Teach-in and Conference: Nation, Culture and
Economy in East
Asia |
|
|
APRIL 18, 2005 |
| Monday, 5:00-7:00 p.m. |
| Art Building, Room 3 |
| Marsha Haufler, Senior Professor, Chinese Art,
University of Kansas |
|
The Wanli Empress Dowager as Patron and
Bodhisattva |
Professor
Haufler’s talk will
explore the Wanli Empress Dowager's visual campaign for
recognition as a bodhisattva and the promotion of her cult
through paintings, engraved stone steles, and
woodblock-printed
sutras. |
APRIL 17, 2005 |
| Sunday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. |
| Volunteer Park,
Emma Baillargeon Stimson Auditorium |
| Speakers: James Cahill, University of
California, Berkeley; Marsha Haufler, University of Kansas;
Zaixin Hong, University of Puget
Sound |
|
Cross-Currents
in Chinese Painting, Ming and Qing Dynasties
Symposium |
Three scholars present a range of perspectives
on Chinese painting, from the fourteenth to the early
twentieth centuries. The symposium is held in
anticipation of next year’s special exhibition, The Orchid
Pavilion Gathering: Chinese Painting from the University of
Michigan Museum of Art. Open to the public and free
with museum admission; pre-registration suggested, please call
206.654.3226 or email SAAM-RSVP@seattleartmuseum.org.
A Program of the Blakemore Foundation Asian Art Lecture
Series.
Sponsors: University of Washington
East Asia Center, China
Studies Program and Department
of Art History; Seattle Art Museum Asian Art
Council. |
APRIL 16, 2005 |
| Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. |
| Seattle Art
Museum, Downtown |
| Speakers: Shana Brown, University of Hawaii;
Hsueh-man Shen, Foster Foundation Curator of Chinese Art,
Seattle Art Museum; Nicole Huang, University of Wisconsin,
Madison; and William Schaefer, University of California,
Berkeley. Roundtable discussants: Kenneth Lum, University of British
Columbia; Pauline Yao, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco;
Shengtian Zheng, Co-Curator, 5th Shanghai Biennial (2004) and
Managing Editor of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese
Art; and Regine Thiriez, Institut D'Asie
Orientale. |
The
Practice of Photography in China: Historical and
Contemporary
Perspectives Symposium |
Four
speakers
examine the history of photographic practice
in China during the late-nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. Afterward, roundtable discussants explore the
relationship of these historical practices to contemporary
image making, particularly those forms on exhibition.
Open and free to the public; pre-registration suggested,
please call 206.654.3226 or
email
SAAM-RSVP@seattleartmuseum.org.
Sponsors:
University of Washington East Asia Center and China Studies
Program; Seattle Art
Museum. |
APRIL 14, 2005 |
| Thursday, 3:30-5:00 p.m. |
| Allen Auditorium, Allen Library |
| Dr. Imre Galambos, Overseas Project Manager,
International Dunhuang Project, British Library,
London |
|
A Comment by Confucius in Light of Newly
Excavated Manuscripts |
Imre Galambos received his
Ph.D. from UC Berkeley where his main line of research was the
evolution of early Chinese orthography. Since 2002, he
has worked for the International Dunhuang Project at the
British Library and extended his interest to medieval
Chinese writing. This year, he is co-authoring a large
dictionary of Dunhuang character forms called "Dunhuang
zihai."
Confucius laments in the Analects that the
scribes of old, unlike his contemporaries, would rather leave
an empty space in the text than write a character they were
not sure about. Since the Han dynasty, advocates of
orthographic standardization have used this passage as a
justification for their cause. However, the textual
discoveries of the past decades show that the Chinese script
in pre-Qin times exhibited a considerable degree of
orthographic variability. He will use the Houma covenant
texts from about the time of Confucius to show that sage could
not have made such a statement about the writing habits of the
scribes. A second look at the passage in question
also reveals that it did not refer to writing but was
misinterpreted in later times for a specific
agenda. |
APRIL 14, 2005 |
| Thursday, 3:30-5:00 p.m. |
| Thomson Hall, Room 317 |
| Dr. Regine Thiriez, Associate Research Fellow, Institut
D'Asie Orientale, Lyon, France |
|
Late Imperial China in Photography: The First 60
Years |
Only
a minute percentage of the images produced in China before
1900 have been published, yet the early development of
photography was crucial for Chinese history. Dr. Regine
Thiriez explores the significance and context of photography
in late imperial
China. |
APRIL 7, 2005 |
| Thursday, 3:30-5:00 p.m. |
| Thomson Hall, Room 317 |
| Dr. Su Hong, Associate Professor, Department of
Sociology, Shanghai University and Visiting Scholar, The Henry
M. Jackson School of International Studies, China Studies
Program, University of Washington |
|
Behavior of Local Government in China: Land
Expropriations in a Shanghai Suburb |
Su Hong is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Sociology, Shanghai University, China. She
received BA and MA degrees in sociology from Nankai University in Tianjin, and a Ph.D in sociology from
Peking University in
2001. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Henry
M. Jackson School of International Studies, China Studies
Program.
The fiscal decentralization in the 1980s was a
major first step China undertook to
restructure its governmental system and economy. Based
on the paradigm of “local state corporatism,” scholars have
argued that the devolution of powers allowed lower-level
governments to operate within a framework that unleashes local
entrepreneurship and creativity, generating rapid economic
development. They paint a glowing picture of local
state-led economic growth in lines with local community
interest. Skeptics, however, have pointed to a host of
serious, some systematic, problems created by this type of
decentralized state-led growth: over-investment, corruption,
the pursuit of short-term interests at the expense of
longer-term ones, and many predatory local policies and
practices. Some have contended that the system is
basically dysfunctional.
Following a similar line of arguments, Dr.
Hong's paper examines the behavior of local governments at the
township and town levels based on studies of land
expropriations in the suburb of Shanghai in 1999-2001.
Conversions of farmland to urban/industrial land, especially
in the coastal region, have proceeded at a fast pace since the
early 1990s, along with rapid economic growth and urbanization
of the country. Between 1987 and 2001, more than 33
million mu of arable land was converted for
non-agricultural uses and construction, 70% of which was
expropriated by the government. At the same time, land
expropriation has also become a fertile ground for scandals
and corruption. Her paper examines the complex and
conflicting roles and behaviors of local governments in
promoting economic development, self interest, and community
interest. The paper postulates that the local state
at lower levels in the late 1990s and early
21st century have evolved into self-interest
groups/cliques with objectives and priorities often at odds
with national and community interests. Questions are
raised about the previous conceptualization of local
government as a developmental
state. |
MARCH 10, 2005 |
| Thursday, 7:00 p.m. |
| University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E.,
Seattle |
| John Christopher Hamm, Assistant Professor, Asian
Languages and Literature, University of
Washington |
|
Paper Swordsmen: Jin Yong and the Modern Chinese
Martial Arts Novel,
Faculty Publication
Talk |
The martial arts novel is one of the most distinctive
and widely-read forms of modern Chinese fiction. In
Paper Swordsmen, John Christopher Hamm offers the first
in-depth English-language study of this fascinating and
influential genre, focusing on the work of its undisputed
twentieth-century master, Jin Yong. Professor Hamm will
speak about his book at this UW Book Store event, which is
free and open to the
public. |
MARCH 3, 2005 |
| Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
| Thomson 317 |
| Richard von Glahn, Professor of History, University of
California, Los Angeles |
|
Foreign Silver Coins in the Monetary Culture of
Nineteenth-Century China |
Richard von Glahn, Professor of
History at the
University of California, Los Angeles, was trained
in middle imperial (Tang-Song) Chinese economic history at UC
Berkeley and Yale and taught at the University of Rochester
and Connecticut College before joining the history faculty at
UCLA in 1987. He is author of The Country of Streams
and Grottoes: Expansion, Settlement, and the Civilizing of
the Sichuan Frontier in Song Times (Harvard, 1987);
Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in
China, 1000-1700 (California, 1996); and The
Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious
Culture (California, 2004); and is co-editor of The
Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History (Harvard,
2003) and Monetary History in Global Perspective,
1470-1800
(Ashgate, 2003).
Both the
physical qualities of different types of money, and the
cultural values assigned to them, contributed to the
determination of their economic value. Beginning in the
late 18th century, foreign silver coins-most notably the
"Carolus Dollar", the 8-real coins issued in the name of
the Spanish king Carlos IV (r. 1772-1808)-became the basis of
a new monetary standard, the yuan. Throughout
most of the 19th century, the Spanish-Mexican silver coins
served as the principal medium of exchange, and the yuan, the
principal money of account, in the markets of South
China. In the 19th century, Chinese merchants
published numerous manuals explaining how to identify and
authenticate these foreign coins. These manuals
offer valuable insights on the mentality of Chinese merchants
and the culture of the Chinese marketplace. In
this talk, Professor von Glahn will utilize these
manuals to examine how the physical properties of coins
influenced their value, regional variations in money-use, and
the ways in which merchant knowledge was circulated and
reproduced. He will also discuss the strong
regional differences in coin usage between Guangdong and
Jiangnan. In the 19th century, Guangdong
reverted to a commodity money standard that encompassed a wide
range of different types of physical moneys, including
“chopped” (chuoyin) and broken (lanban) foreign
coins. In Jiangnan, in contrast, the Carolus Dollar
coins became fully established as a unified, “sovereign”
monetary standard. This regional variation attests to
the distinctive regional characteristics of market culture in
late imperial
China. |
FEBRUARY 22, 2005 |
| Tuesday, 3:30-5:00 p.m. |
| Communications 226 |
| Zev Handel, Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and
Literature, University of Washington |
|
Reconstructing the Pronunciation of Old Chinese -
and Beyond |
|
| FEBRUARY 17, 2005 |
| Thursday, 7:00 p.m. |
| University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E.,
Seattle |
| Ted Fishman, Author and Financial/Economic
Journalist |
|
Bookreading of "China
Inc." |
Book Description:
What will happen when China can make nearly
everything that the U.S. and Europe can make, at one-third the
cost? It's a dangerous question that not everyone wants
answered. The
burgeoning power of China's vast low-cost factories and the
swelling appetite of its consumers, driven by enormous
infusions of outside capital and technological know-how (much
of it American), are rapidly changing the global
economy. What happens in China will affect who makes
what everywhere else. And that affects everyone.
This, in broad strokes, is the occasion of China,
Inc.
Ted Fishman is a seasoned financial and
economic journalist whose work has appeared in the New
York Times Sunday Magazine, Money,
Harper's, Worth, Esquire, USA
Today, (where he is a member of the board of
contributors), GQ, Chicago Magazine, and
Business 2.0. He has served as a commentator on
Public Radio International's "Marketplace Radio" and been a
frequent guest on WGN-Radio Chicago's "Extension 720" with
Milt Rosenberg. Other appearances include featured
segments on National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcast
Corporation, the Australian Broadcast Corporation, Chicago
Tonight and local news shows. He was a member of the
Chicago Mercantile Exchange from 1985-1992 during which time
he ran his own trading firm and served as a floor trader in
currencies, cattle and equity stock indexes. He lives in
Chicago.
Sponsored by the East Asia Center and the
China Studies Program of the University of Washington, and the
University Book Store. |
FEBRUARY 3, 2005 |
| Thursday, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. |
| Art Building, Room 3 |
| Ian Boyden, Director of Sheehan Gallery and Lecturer of
Art History, Whitman College, and Hua Rende, Senior
Researcher, Suzhou University Library, Suzhou,
China |
|
Reflections on Forgotten Surfaces: The
Calligraphy of Hua Rende |
Ian
Boyden's primary fields of interest revolve around art on
paper, specifically Chinese calligraphy, painting, bookmaking,
and ink production.
In 1997, he founded Crab Quill Press devoted to
producing limited-edition, fine-press and manuscript
books. In 1998, he
took a position as Director of the Sheehan Gallery at Whitman
College. He is a
graduate of Wesleyan University and Yale
University.
Ian Boyden
will introduce the work of Hua Rende, one of
China's preeminent calligraphers. The talk will give a brief
history of the stele school of calligraphy and then look at
how Mr. Hua has contributed to the advancement of ideas and
theories central to that school. Mr. Boyden will conclude with
an overview of an
exhibition of Mr.
Hua's calligraphy at Whitman College. After the lecture, Hua Rende
will give a calligraphy demonstration and field
questions.
Sponsored by the China Studies
Program and School of Art, Art History Department (Winter 2005
Chinese Art Lecture Series organized by Professor Shih-shan
Susan
Huang.) |
JANUARY 27, 2005 |
| Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
| Thomson 317 |
| Susan Whiting, Associate Professor, Political Science,
University of Washington |
|
When the Deal Goes Sour in China...What's a
Company to Do?
Contracting and Dispute Resolution Among
Chinese Firms |
Professor Whiting specializes in
Chinese and comparative politics, and is an Adjunct
Associate Professor in the Jackson School of International
Studies. She has a Ph.D. in political science from the
University of Michigan and a B.A. in East Asian Studies from
Yale University. Her first book, Power and Wealth in
Rural China: The Political Economy of Institutional
Change, was published by Cambridge University Press in
2001. She has done extensive research in China and has
worked on studies of governance and fiscal reform under the
auspices of the Ford Foundation and the Asian Development
Bank, respectively. Professor Whiting’s current research
interests include the resolution of economic disputes and the
use of the courts in China, the politics of tax and fiscal
reform, and property rights reform.
Litigation of economic disputes in
China has increased dramatically for nearly two decades.
Yet the decision of firms to enter the court system is
surprising, given the widely accepted views of Chinese courts
as handmaidens of party-state officials and of Chinese
citizens and firms as culturally non-litigious. These
views reflect the traditional Confucian emphasis on harmony
and mediation and the cultural importance of cultivating and
maintaining guanxi. This new study--based on a
representative sample of court cases, a survey of enterprise
managers' experiences with contracting and dispute resolution,
and statistical and documentary sources--analyzes the choice
of dispute resolution mechanism on the part of Chinese firms
involved in disputes over business
contracts. |
JANUARY 13, 2005 |
| Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
| Thomson 317 |
| Peter Perdue, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian
Civilizations, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
|
Civilizing by Force: Implications of Qing
Expansion |
Peter C.
Perdue teaches courses on Chinese history and civilization,
Chinese social and economic history, the Silk Road, and
historical methodology. His first book, Exhausting the
Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850 A.D.
was published by Harvard University Press in 1987. His current
research focused on environmental change, ethnicity, and the
relationship between long-term economic change and military
conquest in the Chinese and Russian empires. His new book,
China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central
Eurasia (Harvard UP, 2005) combines these
perspectives into an integrated account of the Chinese and
Russian conquest of
Siberia and Central Eurasia in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries.
The
Manchu rulers of the Qing dynasty expanded their empire to
unprecedented size in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
with a series of relentless military campaigns, accompanied by
policies to promote economic integration, cultural
legitimation, and multi-ethnic administrative
control. Professor
Perdue will discuss some of the broader
implications of his
forthcoming book in this lecture. Did the Qing have a
"civilizing mission" comparable to European empires, and did
its expansion account for both the economic growth of the
eighteenth century and the social conflicts of the nineteenth
century? How did twentieth-century nationalists build on, and
reject, the Qing legacy? |
|
| JANUARY 5, 2005 |
| Wednesday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
| CMU (Communications) 226 |
| Keith Dede, Assistant Professor of Chinese, Lewis &
Clark College |
|
The Anti-Agent: [ha] in Huangshui
Chinese |
Since
the 1980s, there have been numerous reports of language
contact phenomena among the Chinese dialects spoken in
northwestern Qinghai province. Unfortunately, little
effort has been made to disentangle the sub-dialectal and
intra-dialectal variation. The failure to do so has led
to disagreements about the extent to which language contact
has influenced the development of the dialects. The
locus of early disagreement centered on the morpheme [ha] and
the role it played in the dialect's grammar. Based on
data recorded in Autumn 2004, Professor Dede will describe the
role [ha] plays in determining grammatical relations in a
sentence. Further, he will describe the geographic
variation encountered in this data set and will say a word
about the possible origins of this morpheme, and what those
origins tell us about the history of language contact in
northwestern Qinghai. |
|
| DECEMBER 3, 2004 |
| Friday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
| Thomson 101 |
| Zev Handel, Assistant Professor, Asian Languages &
Literature, University of Washington |
|
Ancient Chinese Etymologies
Linguistics Department Colloquium
Series
Refreshments follow the
presentation |
|
| DECEMBER 2, 2004 |
| Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
| Communications 202 |
| Tani Barlow, Professor, Department of History and Women
Studies, University of Washington |
|
"The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism",
New Books in Print |
In this history of thinking about the
subject of women in twentieth-century China, Barlow
illustrates the theories and conceptual categories that
Enlightenment Chinese intellectuals have developed to describe
the collectivity of women. Demonstrating how generations
of these theorists have engaged with international debates
over eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the psyche, Barlow
argues that as an Enlightenment project, feminist debate in
China is at once Chinese and international.
Sponsor: Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the
Humanities. For more information,
contact (206)
543-3920. |
DECEMBER 2, 2004 |
| Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
| Thomson 317 |
| Victor Shih, Assistant Professor, Department of
Political Science, Northwestern University |
|
Factional Politics and Credible
Dis-inflationary Policy in
China |
Professor Shih received his
Ph.D. from Harvard University, Department of Government and
his B.A. from The George Washington University in East Asian
Studies. His dissertation focused on the
effects of elite politics on China's monetary and banking
policies. He continues to explore issues related to the
Chinese banking sector and privatization, as well as, how
political incentives of local governments affect fiscal
outcomes. Professor Shih teaches courses spanning
political economy of development, Chinese politics and East
Asian politics. |
|
| NOVEMBER 19, 2004 |
| Friday, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. |
| Denny Hall Room 401 |
| Stevan Harrell, Professor of Anthropology, University
of Washington |
|
Collective Agriculture and Fertility Decline in
Rural China, 1965-95
(Co-Authors: Han Hua and Zhou
Yingying)
CSDE Colloquium Series Fall
2004 |
|
| NOVEMBER 18, 2004 |
| Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
| Thomson 317 |
| Susan Fernsebner, Assistant Professor of History,
University of Mary Washington |
|
Objects, Spectacle and Nation-on-Display at the
Nanyang Exposition of 1910 |
|
| NOVEMBER 8, 2004 |
| Monday, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. |
| Thomson 317 |
| Christine Wong, Henry M. Jackson Professor of
International Studies, University of Washington |
|
Can China's Retreat from Equality Be
Reversed? Assessing Fiscal Policies toward
Redistribution from Deng Xiaoping to Wen
Jiabao |
Christine Wong received her
Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University
of California, Berkeley, both in Economics. In fall
2000, she joined the faculty at the University of Washington
as the Henry M. Jackson Professor of International Studies in
The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and
Adjunct Professor of Economics. Prior to joining UW, she
was Senior Economist in the World Bank Office in Beijing from
1997 to 2000, responsible for technical assistance in public
finance and tax issues. During 1995-1996, she was
Resident Scholar at the Asian Development Bank (Manila).
Most recently, she has been a Guest Professor in the Asia
Department of Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin,
Germany.
Light refreshments will be served following Professor
Wong's talk. |
|
| NOVEMBER 4, 2004 |
| Thursday, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
| Communications 202, Simpson Center Conference
Room |
| Shao Jing, Research Associate, Institute of
Anthropology, Peking University |
|
Empowering HIV-Positive Villagers in Henan,
China |
Dr. Shao's recent ethnographic
research involves the HIV/AIDS epidemic among rural commercial
blood donors in central China and an investigation of the
social and cultural resources in HIV affected rural areas for
community rebuilding in pursuit of social justice, access to
equitable treatment and effective prevention. His recent talks on this
subject include: "Fluid
Labor and Blood Money: The Economy of HIV/AIDS in Rural China"
(2003).
Sponsors: The
China Studies Program,
Department of Geography and Department of
Anthropology.
Plus Living Dreams in a Dying
Village
A Documentary Exhibit of the
China AIDS Orphan Fund featuring drawings and narrative by
children from the rural villages of Henan (located on the wall outside of
Communications 206), November 1-14, on-going since October
25. This is the first West Coast showing of drawings
collected during the delivery of financial aide to children
directly affected with HIV/AIDS in rural Henan Province.
Initially assembled by Hong Kong's Chi Heng Foundation in
2002, this exhibit is a result of the generous agreement by
Chi Heng's founder, Mr. Chung To, to allow the
Minneapolis-based China AIDs Orphan Fund(CAOF) to replicate
the exhibit in the United States. The exhibit at the
University of Washington is made possible with the generous
support of the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the
Humanities, the University of Washington China Program, and
several volunteers who donated their
time. Located on
the wall outside of Communications
206 |
OCTOBER 21, 2004 |
| Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
| Thomson 317 |
| Tobie Meyer-Fong, Assistant Professor of History, Johns
Hopkins University |
|
City of Memories: Yangzhou After the Taiping
Rebellion |
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| OCTOBER 7, 2004 |
| Thursday, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
| Thomson 317 |
| Fu Poshek, Associate Professor of History and Cinema
Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
|
Constructing China in Hong Kong:
The Global Pan-Chinese Cinema of the Shaw
Brothers |
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