Past Events
February 2000
"Building a Dunhuang Archive"
Sarah E. Fraser (Assistant Professor, Department of Art History,
Northwestern University)
| DATE: | Friday, February 4, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Brown Bag Lecture |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies
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"China's 'Japan' Trap: Deflation and Monetary Policy"
Liao Kuang-Sheng (Professor, The Graduate Insitute of San Min Chu
I, College of Law, National Taiwan University, and Senior Advisor, National Security Council, R.O.C.)
| DATE: | Wednesday, February 9, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Brown Bag Lecture |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies |
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"The Drama of Korean Shaman Ritual"
Daniel A. Kister (Independent Scholar, Seoul, Korea)
| DATE: | Wednesday, February 9, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4:00 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Colloquium |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Korean Studies |
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"The Development of the Stock Market in Mainland China: Achievements,
Problems and Solutions"
Han Hui (Associate Professor, Zhejiang Institute of Asian-Pacific
Studies, and Visiting Scholar, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley)
| DATE: | Tuesday, February 15, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4:15-5:30 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Chinese Language Colloquium, Presentation in Chinese |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies |
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"How China Won the West: The Demise of Non-Chinese Peoples Along the
Mekong River"
Edward A. Gargan (Journalist, The New York Times, and Visiting
Scholar, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley)
| DATE: | Wednesday, February 16, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Shorenstein Seminar on Contemporary East Asia |
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| SPONSOR: | Institute of East Asian Studies |
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"Three Thousand Years of Glory, One Hundred Years of Revisionist History: A Discussion of the Interactive Assimilation in the Histories of Chinese Literary History and Dramatic History"
Xie Boliang (Professor, Dramatic Literature, and Director, Theatre History Section, Department of Dramatic Literature, Shanghai Theatre Academy; Professor, Chinese Literature, Nanjing Normal University; and Visiting Scholar, Vassar College)
| DATE: | Wednesday, February 23, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4:15-5:30 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Chinese Language Colloquium |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies |
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"Tanigawa Gan"
Wesley Sasaki-Uemura (University of Utah)
| DATE: | Thursday, February 24, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Colloquium |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Japanese Studies |
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"Confucian Business Culture? Reflections from a Case Study of Shinkong's
Founder Wu Ho-su"
Hoyt Tillman (Professor, History, Arizona State University)
| DATE: | Friday, February 25, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4:15-5:30 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Colloquium |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies |
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March 2000
"The Limits of Tartary: Region and Frontier in the Qing Imperial Imagination"
Mark C. Elliott (Associate Professor, History, UC Santa Barbara)
| DATE: | Wednesday, March 1, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 12-1 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Brown Bag Lecture |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies |
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"Faithful Wives and Heroic Maidens: Politics, Class, and Virtue in Song China"
Beverly Bossler (UC Davis)
| DATE: | Thursday, March 2, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | 3335 Dwinelle Hall |
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| FORMAT: | Job Talk |
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| SPONSOR: | History Department |
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"Staging Edo"
David Pollack (Visiting Professor, EALC, UC Berkeley)
| DATE: | Thursday, March 2, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Colloquium |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Japanese Studies |
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"The Making of Shanghai into the Chinese Media Capital: The Role of the Shenbaoguan Publishing House, 1872-1895"
Rudolf G. Wagner (Professor, Sinology, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg)
| DATE: | Friday, March 3, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 12-1 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Brown Bag Lecture |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies |
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"Pimping the Nation: The Liberalizing State and the Rehabilitation of Sex-Workers in Vietnam"
Dr. Nguyen Huong (Assistant Professor in Liberal Studies California State University, Los Angeles)
"Celebrating and Censoring Vu Trong Phung (1911-1939): The Post-Colonial Promotion and Suppression of a Colonial Vietnamese Modernist"
Peter Zinoman (Professor, Department of History UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Liu Xin (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
"Local Histories and Local History, 1100-1350: A study of local cultural history from the late eleventh century into the seventeenth, focused on Jinhua in eastern Zhejiang"
Peter Kees Bol (Professor of History, Harvard University)
"The Hartwell Historical GIS of China"
Peter Kees Bol (Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University)
"Neo-Confucianism and the Politics of the Local"
Peter Kees Bol (Professor of History, Harvard University)
"Uneasy Times in China's Cities: Urban Migrants and the Unemployed"
Li Qiang (Dean and Professor of Sociology, People's University, Beijing)
| DATE: | Thursday, March 9, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 1-2:30 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | 2521 Channing Way |
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"Early Chinese Capitals and the Invention of Empire"
Mark Lewis (Cambridge University)
| DATE: | Monday, March 13, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | 3335 Dwinelle Hall |
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| FORMAT: | Job Talk |
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| SPONSOR: | History Department |
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"Mapping Dunhuang and Central Asian Antiquities: An ECAI Exemplar Project"
Colin Chinnery (International Dunhuang Project, British Library)
| DATE: | Monday, March 13, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4-5 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| SPONSOR: | Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, Geographic Information Science Center |
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"On the Keyword 'Culture' in post-Deng China"
Jing Wang (Associate Professor, Asian and African Languages & Literatures, Duke University)
| DATE: | Wednesday, March 15, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 12-1 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Brown Bag Lecture |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies |
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"Assessing Beijing's Defense Modernization and Security Policies: Is There a 'China Threat'?"
Paul Godwin
| DATE: | Wednesday, March 15, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Shorenstein Seminars on Contemporary East Asia |
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| SPONSOR: | Institute of East Asian Studies |
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Roundtable Discussion with the author of The Republic of Wine
Mo Yan (novelist)
| DATE: | Friday, March 17, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4-6 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Berkeley China Roundtable, Presentation in Chinese |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies |
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"Textual Authority in Han: A Reconsideration"
Michael Nylan (Bryn Mawr College)
| DATE: | Monday, March 20, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | 3335 Dwinelle Hall |
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| FORMAT: | Job Talk |
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| SPONSOR: | History Department |
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"Understanding the Political Economy of Pension Reform in China: Towards a State-in-Institutions Perspective"
Gu Xin (Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore)
| DATE: | Wednesday, March 22, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 12-1 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Brown Bag Lecture |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies |
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"Political Territory in Imperial China: How to Imagine Historically Accurate Base Maps"
Ruth Mostern (History, UC Berkeley)
"Members of the 'Leading Race': Korean Soldiers in Late Colonial Japanese Discourses on Nation, Ethnos and Empire"
Takashi Fujitani (UC San Diego)
| DATE: | Thursday, March 23, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Colloquium |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Japanese Studies |
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April 2000
| DATE: | Thursday, April 6, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 2:00-5:00 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Panel Discussion |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Japanese Studies |
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| DATE: | Friday, April 7, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 9:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | The Alumni House, U.C., Berkeley Campus |
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| FORMAT: | Regional Seminar |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Korean Studies |
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"Moving Mountains: The Making of the Modern Japanese Alps"
Karen Wigen (Professor of History at Duke University)
"Cutting Edge? Development Zones, New Towns, and Urban Transformation in China and Japan"
Piper Gaubatz
"The Discovery and Research of 'New Historical Sources'"
Li Yongpu (History, Yantai Teacher's College, Shandong, China, and President, Society of Chinese Modern and Contemporary History)
| DATE: | Friday, April 14, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Brown Bag Lecture, Presentation in Chinese |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies |
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| DATE: | Friday-Saturday, April 14-15, 2000 |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Workshop |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies |
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"Paradise Lost or Found? Environmental Change and the Political Geography of Water Supply in Shanghai"
Alana Boland
"On History and Politics in the Thought of Maruyama Masao"
Tetsuo Najita (Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Professor in History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
| DATE: | Thursday, April 20, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4:00 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | Alumni House, UC Berkeley |
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| FORMAT: | Second Annual Maruyama Masao Lecture on Political Responsibility in the Modern World |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Japanese Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities |
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"Spaces of Local Autonomy: Entrepreneurial Cadres in Post-Mao China"
You-tien Hsing
"Japanese Political Thought: Some Problems of Translation and Interpretation"
Tetsuo Najita (Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Professor in History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
| DATE: | Friday, April 21, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
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| PLACE: | O'Neil Room, Faculty Club, UC Berkeley |
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| FORMAT: | Seminar |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Japanese Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities |
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| DATE: | Tuesday, April 25, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies |
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"Intellectual Debates In 90s' China"
Wang Hui (Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Editor in Chief, Reading; Chief Editor, The Scholar; Visiting Fellow/Professor, University of Washington)
| DATE: | Wednesday, April 26, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | 3335 Dwinelle Hall |
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| FORMAT: | Brown Bag Lecture |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies |
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"The Korean Economy After the Recent Currency Crisis"
Sang Mok Suh (Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
| DATE: | Wednesday, April 26, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4:00 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Korean Studies |
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May 2000
"Conversations with Alice" - discussing the book Dear Alice: Letters Home from
American Teachers Learning to Live in China
Alice Renouf (Director of the Colorado China Council)
| DATE: | Tuesday, May 2, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4-5:30 P.M. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Discussion and book signing |
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| SPONSOR: | IEAS Publications |
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"Patterns of North Korea's Foreign Contacts"
Kyung-Ae Park (University of British Columbia)
| DATE: | Wednesday, May 3, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 4:00 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Korean Studies |
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"Elite Power vs. Popular Culture: Chinese Modernization Reconsidered"
Marjo Kaikkonen (Department of Chinese Studies, Institute of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University, and Visiting Scholar, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley)
| DATE: | Friday, May 5, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 12-1 p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Brown Bag Lecture |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies |
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| DATE: | Saturday, May 6, 2000 |
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| TIME: | 8:30a.m. to 1:30p.m. |
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| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
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| FORMAT: | Workshop |
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| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies |
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