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CAS GRAD STUDENT REPORTS
Graduate Students recently given awards by CAS for their research in Asia or on Asian topics reported on November 2 and 7, 2007 to each other and interested others about their work. The presentations and discussions were excellent.
The following students, with department and topic given, reported November 2:
Seo Young Park - Anthropology
'Korean and Migrant Factory Workers in Dongdaemun Market'
Tsui-o Tai - Sociology
'Child Poverty in Taiwan: an Internatinal Perspective'
Jennifer Liu - History
'Nationalism and Guomindang Policy on Secondary Education in Southwest China and Taiwan, 1937-1960
Michael Cronin - East Asian Languages and Literatures
'The City in the Japanese National Imaginary'
On November 7, six more students reported:
Lien Vu - Anthropology
'Film Production in Viet Nam's Contemporary Cinema Industry'
Tiffany Hong - East Asian Languages and Literatures
'Contemporary Japanese short fiction, novellas, and novels (Murakami Haruki)'
Neha Vora - Anthropology
'Expressions of belonging and non-beloonging among Indian Expatriates in Dubai'
Erica Vogel - Anthropology
'Ambiguous Legibility: Peruvian Migrant Workers in South Korea'
Titus Chen - Political Science
'Implementation of the Rule of Law and Western Participants in China's legal-judicial reform'
Huili Zheng - East Asian Languages and Literature
'Research - 17th and 18th Century Intellectual and Philosophical Issues'
Annual Meeting of the Western Branch of the American Oriental Society
With the generous support of the Center for Asian Studies, The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures hosted the 2007 meeting of the Western Branch of the American Oriental Society on October 12 and 13, 2007. Thirty-four scholars and fifteen graduate students coming from as far as Columbia Univerity and Hong Kong Baptist University attended the two-day conference. The twenty-eight papers (seven by graduate students) ranged from discussion of the technical language in the early Confucian text, the Spring and Autumn Annals, to Persian translations in the 10th Century, to woodblock illustrations in Ming dynasty popular texts. At the concluding banquet, outgoing president Jonathan Pease delivered a talk exploring the pleasures of reading poets who survive for posterity by having written just one highly popular poem.
CAS SPRING AWARDS TO FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENT
Congratulations to the following faculty and grad students for their award of financial support from Center for Asian Studies
Faculty:
Victoria Beard, Planning, Policy and Design
Yong Chen, History
HU, Ying and Ruohmei Hsieh, East Asian Languages and Literature
Daphne Lei, Drama
Kamal Sadiq, Political Science
Daniel Tsang, Langson Library
Bert Winther, Art History
SU, Yang, Sociology
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Dorothy Solinger and Ken Pomeranz, History, Political Science
Graduate Students:
Titus Chen, Political Science
Hsin-Yeh Hsieh, Political Science
Tiffany Hong, East Asian Language and Literature
Karl Kruse, Political Science
Jennifer Liu, History
Natalie Newton, Anthropology
Seo Young Park, Anthropology
Robert Phillips, Anthropology
Tsui-o Tai, Sociology
Erica Vogel, Anthropology
Neha Vora, Anthropology
Lien Vu, Anthropology
Huili Zheng, East Asian Languages and Literature
Co-sponsored Event with
Southeast Asian Interest Group and Department of Planning Policy and Design
Professor
Michael Douglass Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Thursday, October 11, 2007
12:30-1:30pm
Social Ecology I,
Room 112
Click on Southeast Asian Interest Group for more information |
Co-sponsored Event with
East Asian Languages and Literature
Annual Meeting of the Western Branch of the American Oriental Society
October 12-13, 2007
click here for more information |
The Group for the Study of Early Cultures
Brown Bag Lunch
Friday, October 19, 2007
12:00-2:00pm
HIB 137
Michael Fuller
"Theorizing Literary History and the Problem of Song Dynasty Poetry"
Drifting Amidst Rivers and Lakes
will be available on the Early Cultures website |
Co-sponsored Event with
International Center for Writing and Translation
Global Conversations:
"A Festival of Marginalized Languages"
October 24-26, 2007
"Global Conversations: A Festival of Marginalized Languages" will celebrate conversation among and between languages. The conference will feature scholars, writers, performers, practitioners and activists who are involved in and passionate about the languages with which they work and live. We will be focusing on examples of the revival, restoration and visibility of languages and cultures in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. We see this conference as an opportunity to reflect on how we can encourage conversation among and between languages in scholarship, activism, literature, teaching, and performance. We are coming together in order to be in conversation with one another and to be encouraged to go forward in these areas.
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China Event
November 9, 2007
"Writing in and Writing about Modern Chinese Cities"
Krieger Hall 126 1:30-5:00
This event is loosely linked to a day-long workshop on "Rethinking China and Europe: Connections and Comparisons" sponsored by UCLA's Center for Chinese Studies that will be held on November 10 at UCLA and that will also feature Robert Bickers and Ruth Rogaski
Public Event
For further details
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FAR EAST FACULTY MEETING
The Far East faculty of CAS met Monday, May 14 to discuss ways of
improving UCI's chances for a FLAS grant when the next application can
be submitted, in the fall of 2009. Dorie Solinger summarized the
problems according to the three external reviewers in the fall of 2006,
and the fifteen faculty in attendance made the following suggestions
(in addition to a possible pairing up with UCSD, developing a robust
evaluation procedure, and enhancing the library's holdings).
People should teach more East Asia-related courses. Hires are needed
in areas where we lack faculty, primarily a Koreanist in Social Sciences,
but other possibilities as well. An East Asianist should be hired in Art
History now that Judy Ho is retiring. Create MA-level or advanced
undergraduate-level cross-disciplinary (probably team-taught) courses on
East Asia. Courses with a thematic focus could include more
East Asian material, especially graduate classes. The titles of extant
courses could be changed so they better reflect their East Asian
content. People who have some knowledge of East Asia but who are not
presently part of the Center should be approached to get them to
become part of the proposal: their courses could be included, they could
retitle their courses to reflect their East Asian content.
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CAS SPRING AWARDS TO FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENT
Congratulations to the following faculty and grad students for their award of financial support from Center for Asian Studies
Faculty:
Victoria Beard, Planning, Policy and Design
Yong Chen, History
HU, Ying and Ruohmei Hsieh, East Asian Languages and Literature
Daphne Lei, Drama
Kamal Sadiq, Political Science
Daniel Tsang, Langson Library
Bert Winther, Art History
SU, Yang, Sociology
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Dorothy Solinger and Ken Pomeranz, History, Political Science
Graduate Students:
Titus Chen, Political Science
Hsin-Yeh Hsieh, Political Science
Tiffany Hong, East Asian Language and Literature
Karl Kruse, Political Science
Jennifer Liu, History
Natalie Newton, Anthropology
Seo Young Park, Anthropology
Robert Phillips, Anthropology
Tsui-o Tai, Sociology
Erica Vogel, Anthropology
Neha Vora, Anthropology
Lien Vu, Anthropology
Huili Zheng, East Asian Languages and Literature
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May 11 , 2006
CAS co-sponsored Film: Oxhide
Special Guest: Filmmaker Liu Jiayin to appear in person.
Oxhide
2004, China (110 minutes)
in Mandarin w/English subtitles
Thursday, May 11, 2006
7:00 pm
Humanities Instructional Building, Room 100
The multiple prize-winning feature Niupi (Oxhide) is an extraordinary tour de force by 23-year old Liu Jiayin, who shot it in CinemaScope in the 50 square meters of her family apartment--playing her own role while her parents played theirs. The film, however, is entirely scripted and designed with unflinching rigor. Liu staged 23 static shorts and kep her small DV camera in claustrophobic proximity of her subjects, often showing only parts of their dobies with an on-screen conversation. With a sure hand and a mundane-yet-lyrical inspiration, Liu reinvents the kammerspiel for the one-child families in coontemporary China - Red Cat.
"The directorial debut by 23-year-old Chinese fillmmaker Liu Jiayin proposes radical questions of the basic concepts of film. Twenty-three fixed shots transmit the most trival moments of her family's life in a small apartment. And it works well." - FIPRESCI 2005
"Through the lens, I saw our life. I couldn't describe it otherwise. My home is only fifty square meters. But the screen ratio is Cinemascope. It is my family through my eyes; narrow, depressive, dim and warm. No other people appear in the film except the three of us. The whole movie took me forty days to finish. During those days, once I came back from school and my mon was back from the factory, and my dad was back from the shop, we would shoot the movie. Most of the scenes were shot during the middle of the night. This story continues in real life." Liu Jiayin, from the Director's Statement.
For more information, visit the Film and Video Center at UCI. |
May 18, 2006
The Third Annual Wan-Lin Kiang Lecture
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"The U. S.-China Foreign Exchange Controversy:
The View From China "
Dr. Li Yang
Thursday, May 18, 2006, 7:30 p.m.
Social Science Hall100
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Dr. Li Yang
Dr. Li Yang is the Director General & Research Fellow at the Institute of Finance & Banking at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He holds a B. A. in Economics from Anhui University; an M.A. in money and banking from the Department of World Economics from Shanghai’s prestigious Fudan University; and a Ph.D. in public finance from The People’s University of China (Renmin Daxue) in Beijing, also one of the top universities in China.
In 1998 to 1999 he was an invited visiting scholar at Columbia University. He has served as Director General of the Finance Research Center at CASS, the Deputy Director General of the CASS Institute of Finance and Trade, and Member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the People’s Bank of China (China’s central bank).
He has also held positions on the Chinese Financial Market Development Committee of the Pacific Economic Corporate Committee and on the Executive Committee of the China Society of Public Finance, as well as serving as Deputy Chief Secretary of the Academic Committee of the China Society of Finance and Banking.
Dr. Yang is the recipient of numerous awards for his written work, including the Outstanding Monograph Prize in 2001 given by CASS; in 1992 he was named one of “The State Outstanding Specialists with Remarkable Contributions to the Country,” an honor which was awarded by the State Council (China’s cabinet).
Dr. Yang is the author of 16 monographs on topics such as security markets, urban housing reform, capital markets, and financial globalization, and has produced over 300 essays and working papers.
PARKING - Please enter the Social Science Parking Structure at Campus Drive
and Stanford. A Parking Attendant will be on duty at the kiosk.
Charge is $8.00.
For additional information, please contact the Center for
Asian Studies (949) 824-3344 or email scushman@uci.edu |
May 21
, 2006
CAS Sponsored Chinese Music Gala: The Splendor
of the Great Wall: An Enchanted Evening with Chinese
Music and Dance
Oscar ZC Zhang
International Opera Artist
with the UCI Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Tucker
and the Irvine Chinese Chorus
Sunday, May 21, 2006
7:30 p.m.
Irvine Barclay Theatre
Ticket Prices: $100 / $50 / $40
For more information, see flyer (PDF
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April 26
, 2006
CAS Co-Sponsored Music Event: Traditional Music Today:
P'ansori
Chan E. Park
Assistant Professor
Ohio State University
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Winifred Smith Hall, UC Irvine
Free and Open to the Public
P’ansori is a musical form where
a solo performer sings a story accompanied
by a puk, a barrel-shaped drum. The
program consists of a lectue of about 50
minutes, a p’ansori demonstration that
lasts 5-10 minutes and a mini-workshop of
about 30 minutes. Professor Park discusses
the Korean musical heritage as part of Northeast
Asian traditions, underscoring Korea’s
distinct areas of cultural convergence and
divergence.
Please contact Shirley Field at 949-824-4281 or safield@uci.edu for
directions.
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April 20,
2006
CAS Co-sponsored Lecture : The Blue Tin Trunk:
Archiving Women's Lives
Uma Chakravarti
Historian
University of Delhi
Thursday, April 20, 2006
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
300 Krieger Hall
Uma Chakravarti is a historian and activist, and authored The
Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism Oxoford UP, 1987; Rewriting
History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai with
Kali For Women, Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens,
Stree, Kolkata, 2004, and co-edited From Myths to Markets:
Essays on Gender, published by the Indian Institute
for Advanced Study, Shimla in 2000 and Shadow Lives:
Writings on Widowhood, published by Kali for Women,
Delhi in 2001.
Uma Chakravarti has also been part of collaborative academic
and democratic interventions on community strife and the
complicity of the state in violence against particular segments
of society, and has co-authored an oral history of the 1984
anti-Sikh riots titled The Delhi Riots: Three Days in
the Life of a Nation. Her most recent involvement in
this capacity has been with the International Initiative
on Justice for Gujarat, an international feminist Tribunal
that heard testimonies of survivors of the Gujarat carnage
of 2002 whose report was published in December 2003.
Co-sponsored with the UCI Women's Studies Program and the
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April
7, 2006
Southeast Asian Interest Group Panel: The Dynamics
of Social Capital: Improving Environmntal Policy in Southeast
Asian Cities
Professor Amrita Daniere
Professor of Geography
University of Toronto
Professor Lois Takahashi
Professor, Department of Planning
UCLA
Friday, April 7
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Social Ecology I, Room 225
For more information about this seminar and other upcoming
seminars related to Southeast Asia please check the group's website. |
March
30, 2006
CAS Co-sponsored Faculty Workshop : The Political
Psychology of Religious Nationalism
Catarina Kinnvall
University of Lund, Sweden
Thursday, March 30, 2006
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Social Science Plaza B, Eckstein Common Room, 5250
A light lunch will be served
Professor Kinnvall will discuss examples from the 2002
Gujarat massacre in India to anti-Muslim sentiments in
the West in light of the war on terror and Islamic fundamentalism.
Jointly sponsored with The UCI Interdisciplinary
Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality,
International Studies, Religious Studies, Program in Political
Psychology, UC Irvine Difficult Dialogues Project, Conflict
Resolution Program, Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, and
Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies.
Please RSVP to Sandy Cushman scushman@uci.edu or
949-824-3344 |
May 20, 2005
CAS Sponsored event: Pavarotti Of The East Comes
To UCI
Oscar Z.C. Zhang
Oscar Z.C. Zhang, International Opera Artist, Tenor, will
be the Guest of Honor at a dinner sponsored by the Center
for Asian Studies on Friday night, May 20, 2005, beginning
at 6:00, in the Library room of the University Club, University
of California, Irvine.
Mr. Zhang was trained at the Shanghai Conservatory and was
invited to the U.S. over a decade ago by the San Francisco
opera. He is the winner of the Luciano Pavarotti International
Voice Competition, and of several other international prizes.
He has received honors from the U.S. Government (Foreign Artist
Extraordinary), from the International Merola Program of the
San Francisco Opera House, and was named Outstanding World
Opera Tenor in 2001 by Top Personalities Magazine.
Mr. Zhang has performed as Solo Tenor at the Gala Concert
in Beijing celebrating The 2008 Olympics Host Night, and has
sung as lead tenor in over three dozen opera productions in
Europe, Asia and the U.S., including in "La Traviata"
at the San Francisco Opera, with Pavarotti in in New York
and Philadelphia, and with Placido Domingo in Los Angeles.
After the dinner, Mr. Zhang will present a performance entitled,
"Chinese Music Styles," explaining and demonstrating
a variety of Chinese vocal styles, including folk songs and
opera.
The charge for dinner and the program will be $50.
For questions please contact Sandra Cushman at 949-824-1207
or scushman@uci.edu
Please see the attached Invitation and RSVP information [PDF
file].
For pictures, click here.
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May
12, 2005
CAS Co-sponsored event: Korean Classical Music:
A Concert of Contemporary Works
Byung Ki Hwang, gayageum
Jeong Seung Kim, daegeum
Woong Sik Kim, janggo
Thursday May 12, 2005
6:00 PM
Winifred Smith Hall, UCI
Contemporary Compositions for Korean Classical Instruments
including the Southern California premier of "Mannam
(Encounter)" for daegeum and computer by UCI professor
Christopher Dobrian.
Co-sponsored by The Gassmann Electronic Music Series
For more information phone (949) 824-7288 or visit the Gassmann
Electronic Music Series website.
See attached flyer. |
May
4, 2005
Center for Asian Studies Retreat
Wednesday, May 11; 12:00-5:00
Atrium Hotel
18700 Mac Arthur Blvd., Irvine
Agenda
12:00 Meet and chat with others
12:30 Lunch, including personal introductions: Please be
prepared to speak for 5-6 minutes, explaining the kind of
research you are doing now. This is the best basis for developing
shared initiatives (conferences, workshops, whatever) and
for forming a community where we really know each other!!
During this time, we will pass around website info from other
programs in California.
2:00 CAS future 1: those present speak for 3-4 minutes about
1) what they hope CAS can do for their individual interests
and 2) what they see as potential shared or common interests
and projects.
3:00 CAS future 2: those present brainstorm about a possible
conference or workshop or series of events that would highlight
common interests; those present try to draft a vision statement
about CAS focusing on a shared vision or visions.
4:00 CAS future 3: those present discuss possibilities such
as 1) applying for Title VI funds for graduate fellowships
and/or International/Area Studies Seed Grant Program and 2)
fundraising from various community groups (reports from various
people)
We will aim to finish by 5:00.
If you are planning to come but have not yet told Sandy Cushman,
please tell her now (824-1207; scushman@uci.edu)! See you
Wednesday, May 11.
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May 4, 2005
The Second Annual Wan-Lin Kiang Lecture
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"The Rise of China and Its Influence"
Dr. Hu Angang
Wednesday, May 4, 2005, 7:30 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A 1100
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Dr. Hu Angang is Professor of Public Policy & Management
at Tsinghua University and Director of the Center for China
Studies, Chinese Academy of Sciences/Tsinghua University,
an important think-tank that acts as an adviser to the Chinese
government. His writings on China's developmental strategy
and tax reform have played an important role in formulating
China's public policy in these areas.
Dr. Hu holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Chinese Academy
of Sciences and has done post-doctoral study at Yale Univeristy
in Economics. He has been a visiting scholar, research and
professor at Harvard and Columbia Universities and was awarded
an Honorary Ph.D. by the Far Eastern Institute of the Russian
Academy of Sciences.
Professor Hu has published on a wide range of topics, including
economic growth, taxation, economic stabilization, poverty
and social inequality. He has been author, co-author, or editor
of over 40 books and nearly 200 articles in core periodicals
and key academic journals in China, as well as in top American
scholarly journals. He has also been the recipient of numerous
prestigious scholarly awards in China, and has received funding
from the Ford Foundation.
PARKING - Please enter the Parking Structure at Campus Drive
and Stanford. A Parking Attendant will be on duty at the kiosk.
Charge is $5.00.
For additional information, please contact the Center for
Asian Studies (949) 824-1207 or email scushman@uci.edu |
May 4, 2005
CAS Co-sponsored presentation: “Poems from the
Iron House"
(A lecture in Chinese on exile literature)
Bei Ling
Founder of Tendency, a literary journal
of dissidents and writers-in-exile.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Humanities Instructional Building 469
Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and
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May
3 , 2005
CAS Co-sponsored Talk: “Back to the Future: How
the 2004 Election in India Returned an Old Party to New Terrain"
Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
University of Chicago
12:30-1:50
Tuesday , May 3, 2005
Crystal Cove Auditorium, UCI Student Center
Co-sponsored by the UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the
Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality, the Department of
Political Science, and the School of Social Sciences.
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May
3 , 2005
CAS Co-sponsored Talk: “Amar Singh Between Two
Cultures: A Diarist's Reflections on Self and Other in Colonial
India "
Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
University of Chicago
6:30-7:00 p.m. Reception
7:00-9:00 p.m. Dinner and Talk
Tuesday , May 3, 2005
The Beckman Center
Reservations required in advance for dinner and after dinner
talk. E-mail Barbara Abell for more information.
Co-sponsored by the UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the
Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality, the Department of
Political Science, and the School of Social Sciences.
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April
21 , 2005
CAS Co-sponsored Film Event: Trajectories of Korean
Cinema Studies
Korean cinema has become in the past decade one of the most
vibrant and successful industries in world cinema. This one-day
workshop will feature leading young specialists in the field
who will explore various aspects and trajectories of its study.
2:30-7:00
Thursday April 21, 2005
HIB 135
Panel 1 - 2:30 pm
Eunsun Cho (PhD Candidate, University of
Southern California)
“Transnational Hybrid in Korean National Cinema: Korean Cinema
of the 60s and Italian Neo-Realism”
Jinsoo An (Postdoctoral Fellow, New York
University)
“Dangerous Liaisons: Inter-ethnic Romance in South Korean
Cinema”
Hye Seung Chung (Postdoctoral Fellow, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor) “The Untransatables: Cultural Specificity
in Transnational Korean Cinema”
Panel 2 – 4:30 pm
Hyungsook Lee (PhD Candidate, University
of Southern California)
“Old Boy and the Burden of Transnational Asian Film”
Yung Bin Kwak (PhD Candidate, University
of Iowa)
“After Politics? Revolution! (Yet With/As a Vengeance)":
On Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance”
Reception - 6:00 HIB 137
The workshop will be followed by a screening of E J-yong’s
“Untold Scandal,” director in attendance.
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, Film and Video Center
and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
For more information visit the FVC website or e-mail Steven Chung.
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