EVENTS ARCHIVE

ACADEMIC YEAR 2003-04 EVENTS

WORKSHOP:  "Narratives of Reform"

Panelists will present the story of a person they know from their research whose life was affected deeply by the economic reforms in China over the past 20 years.

Participants:

• Lei GUANG, Political Science, San Diego State
• Timothy Oakes, Assistant Professor, Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Dorothy Solinger (CAS), Professor of Political Science, UCI
• Janet Sturgeon, Post-doctoral Fellow, Brown  (Ph.D. in environmental studies, Yale)
• Hairong Yan, Post-doctoral Fellow, Princeton University (Ph.D. in Anthropology, U. Washington)
• Mei ZHAN (CAS), Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UCI

Contact person:  Dorothy Solinger (UCI)

10:00-4:00
May 22, 2004
SSPB 5250

Wan-Lin Kiang Endowed Lecture Series Exchange in Chinese Studies
Inaugural Lecture:

"Beyond the 2004 Taiwan Presidential Election: Implications for US-China Relations"

Fei TANG
Senior Advisor to the President of the Republic of China on Taiwan (ROC) and Visiting Scholar of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Tai-chun KUO
Research Fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford University

The lecture will start with an analysis of the latest politics in Taiwan after the Presidential election. Special attention will be given to issues and challenges of the current political situation from 1990 till the present, including the political predicaments and reforms, social and cultural changes, economic challenges, the U.S.-China-Taiwan relations, the rise of Taiwan nationalism and the cross-strait relations, and the future prospect for Taiwan and China.  As former political practitioners, the lecturers will use first-hand information and their personal experience as examples to examine the political challenges and future prospect of Taiwan.

Mr. Tang had served as Premier of the Executive Yuan (2000), Minister of National Defense (1999-2000), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of the Staff (1998), Vice Chairman of the Joint Chief of the Staff (1995-1998), and Commander-in-Chief of the ROC Air Force (1992-1995).  He twice served in a political capacity overseas during 1972-1975 and 1979-1982, first as Deputy Military Attaché to the United States, and then as chief military attaché to South Africa.

Tai-chun Kuo has previously worked as Professor of Graduate Institute of American Studies, Tamkang  University, (Taiwan, 1997-2000), Press Secretary to the ROC President (1990-1995) and Deputy Director-General of the First Bureau of the Presidential Office (1989-1997).

Thursday, 7:30 PM, May, 2004
Crystal Cove Auditorium

TALK: Men, Doves, and Cherry Blossoms:  Military Memory in Japan

Sabine Früstück (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Co-sponsored by the UCI Program in Women's Studies
Contact Person:  Jonathan M. Hall

12:00 noon
Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Humanities Instructional Building 135

Announcement (jpeg file)

FILM: "Feature-Length Anime and Japanese Colonialism"

Professor Kawamura Minato
Hosei University

(In Japanese, with Simultaneous English Translation)

Kawamura Minato is arguably the preeminent scholar of Japanese colonialism today.  A pioneer in bringing culture into the study of Japanese colonialism, he has also taught and worked in Korea for extended periods.  His numerous single-authored books include Illuminating Japan: the Spirit of Okinawa; A Tale of Seoul: History, Literature, Landscape;  The Migration of Japanese Language: Language Instruction in the Colonies;  Reading the Wind, Writing Water: on Minority Literature; The Fall of Manchuria: Japanese Writers and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; The Emergence of Japan: Its People and Culture; The Truth About The Folk in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere;and Japanese Literature of the South Sea Islands and Sakhalin.

This presentation is co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Center for Asian Studies and Film and Visual Studies.

Thursday, 3:30 PM, April 8, 2004
HIB 135

CONFERENCE: Palace Women Around the World

Contact person:  Anne Walthall (CAS)
Professor of History, UCI

March 17-21, 2004
Wyndham Hotel, Costa Mesa, CA

Program (PDF file)

TALK: Ancestors' Familial Instructions:  Authority and Sovereignty in Medieval China

Dr. Christian Lamouroux (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)

Professor Lamouroux is a specialist of medieval Chinese history, having recently published Fiscalité, comptes publics et politiques financière dan la Chine des Song.  His is also the author of major research articles on the political economy of this period.  In addition he has formed and led a team of Chinese and French researchers who have combined field work and documentary research to study water control projects in rural North China, one of the major examples of collaborative research in historical studies between Chinese and foreign scholars.

A brief reception will follow.

For more information or for assistance with a disability, please contact the UCI Department of History at 824-6521.

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 26, 2004
HIB 137

The UCI Center for Asian Studies and the Southern California Korean Studies Seminar

TALK: Secrets of Korea's Economic Development: From the Geopolitical Viewpoint

Tae-Gyun Park
Assistant Professor of Korean History
School of International Studies
Seoul National University

12 Noon
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
HIB 137

Attendees are invited for lunch with the speaker, following the lecture. RSVP requested by Monday, January 26, by e-mailing Gene Park (parkey@uci.edu).

PANEL: Over Land and Across the Seas: Trade in Southeast Asia, Southwest China and Tibet

While increasing amounts of scholarship have been done on maritime trade in Southeast Asia and some work as well on land trade routes in the region, scholars have rarely considered the two arenas in a common framework.  Doing so promises to help us understand more fully the human connections spanning the conventional borders between China and Southeast Asia.

Please join us to hear a panel of specialists who will discuss various aspects of Southeast Asian trade and their connections to different parts of the Qing empire in the early modern era.  Participants include:

• William Gervase Clarence-Smith (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
• C. Pat Giersch (Wellesley College)
• Laichen Sun (CSU Fullerton)
• Charles Wheeler (CAS) (UCI)

3:00-5:00 pm
Friday, 23 January 2004
HIB 137