Past Events

September - October - November - December
January - February - March - April - May - July

September 2000

"Impunity for Emperor Hirohito and its Consequences"

Herbert Bix (Professor, Hitotsubashi University)

DATE:	Wednesday, September 13, 2000
TIME:	12:00 noon
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Luncheon Talk
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Frontiers of the East Asian Modern: Authenticity, Sovereignty and Manchukuo"

Prasenjit Duara (Professor of History, University of Chicago)

DATE:	Thursday, September 14, 2000
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies

"China Academic Journal Databases"

Wang Mingliang (Tsinghua Tongfang Optical Disc Co.)
"Current Conditions and Future Prospects in Developing Digital Resources in China"

Zhang Zhenhai (Tsinghua Tongfang Optical Disc Co.)
"Demonstration on CAJ Databases"

DATE:	Friday, September 15, 2000
TIME:	3:30-5:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Gebaulle Room, 220 Stephens Hall
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSOR:	East Asian Library, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative

"Mother China Myths in 20th Century Literary Narratives"

Andrea Riemenschnitter (Research Associate, University of Heidelberg)

DATE:	Friday, September 15, 2000
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"'Perverse Masochism' and Japan's History Curriculum: the 'Citizen's Movement' to Correct Textbooks and Shape Cultural Identity in Contemporary Japan"

John Nelson (Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Francisco)

DATE:	Thursday, September 21, 2000
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Generals and Scholars in Medieval Korea"

Edward J. Schultz (University of Hawaii)

DATE:	Friday, September 22, 2000
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"The Origins of the Bilateral Okinawa Problem: Okinawa in Postwar U.S.-Japan Relations, 1945-1952"

Dr. Robert Eldridge (Fellow, Suntory Foundation)

DATE:	Thursday, September 28, 2000
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Gossips in and of China"

A roundtable discussion of recent experiences and intellectual trends in today's China with
Lydia Liu (Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Comparative Literature)
Tom Gold (Associate Professor, Sociology)
Wen-Hsin Yeh (Professor, History)
Xin Liu (Assistant Professor, Anthropology)
Frederic Wakeman (Professor, History)

DATE:	Friday, September 29, 2000
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Roundtable Discussion
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

October 2000

"Under the Black Umbrella: Korea 1910-1945"

Hildi Kang (Berkeley, California)

DATE:	Friday, October 6, 2000
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Fiber Art Movement in Postwar Japan"

Yoshiko Wada (Research Associate, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Thursday, October 12, 2000
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Desire in Early Chinese Literature: A Research Note on Work in Progress"

Jeffrey Riegel (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures)

Discussant: Robert Ashmore (Assistant Professor, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures)

DATE:	Friday, October 13, 2000
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Desire in Early Chinese Literature: The "Zuozhuan" Lecture of Physician He on Passion and Illness"

Jeffrey Riegel (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures)

DATE:	Wednesday, October 18, 2000
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Room 215, Dwinelle Hall
SPONSOR:	Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"(Ir)relevance of Theory: A roundtable discussion of the significance of theory in the study of Chinese society."

Robert Culp (Assistant Professor, Bard College, History)
William Schaefer (University of Chicago, East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Stephen Herschler (Preceptor in the Master of Arts Program in Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Political Science)
Christian De Pee (Teaching Fellow, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, East Asian Languages & Cultures)

DATE:	Thursday, October 19, 2000
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Roundtable
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Seven Ways to Read a Poem: A Long-Term Relationship with Kim Sowôl's 'Azaleas'"?"

David McCann (Harvard University)

DATE:	Friday, October 20, 2000
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Recent changes in South-North Korean Relations: Evaluation and Prospects"

Hong Yung Lee, Manhak Kwon, Woo Jung Lee

DATE:	Tuesday, October 24, 2000
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Seminar
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Beyond State and Society: Local Government in the Qing"

Bradly W. Reed (Department of History, University of Virginia)

Discussant: Fred Wakeman (Professor, Department of History)

DATE:	Friday, October 27, 2000
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

November 2000

"Settlement and Reorientation?: Government Reform for the 21st Century in Japan"

Mao Guirong (Professor, Department of Political Science, Meiji Gakuin University)

DATE:	Thursday, November 2, 2000
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Behind the China Miracle: Analysis of Innovation in Rural China"

Wen Tiejun (Senior Research Fellow, Research Center of Rural Economy, Chinese Ministry of Agriculture)

DATE:	Friday, November 3, 2000
TIME:	12:00 Noon
PLACE:	Room 3401, Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown bag lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Phonographs, Radios, and Popular Song: Early Mass Culture in Colonial Korea"

Michael Robinson (University of Indiana)

DATE:	Friday, November 3, 2000
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Mongolia's Relations with China and Russia"

Alphonse F. La Porta (US Ambassador to Mongolia)

DATE:	Monday, November 6, 2000
TIME:	4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Shorenstein Seminars on Contemporary East Asia
SPONSOR:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Text as Practice: The Writing of Weddings in Premodern China"

Christian De Pee (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Tuesday, November 7, 2000
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The Culture of Namviet"

Jeffrey Riegel (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Wednesday, November 8, 2000
TIME:	12:00 Noon
PLACE:	Room 3401, Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown bag lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The Influence of Shinran's Marriage upon his Faith"

Masaharu Imai (Professor, Department of History, Tsukuba University)

DATE:	Thursday, November 9, 2000
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Recent changes in South-North Korean Relations: Evaluation and Prospects"

DATE:	Tuesday, November 14, 2000
TIME:	3:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Public Forum
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Soldiers, sex, and protest: Anti-Americanism in Korea-U.S. relations"

Katharine H.S. Moon (Wellesley College)

DATE:	Friday, November 17, 2000
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

Public poetry reading

Kang Un-Kyo (Poet/Professor)

DATE:	Monday, November 20, 2000
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Poetry Reading
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"The Development and Social Impact of the Internet in China"

Eric Harwit (Associate Professor, Asian Studies, University of Hawaii)

DATE:	Tuesday, November 21, 2000
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Poetic Reform amidst Political Reform: the Late Qing Woman Poet Xue Shaohui (1866-1911)"

Nanxiu Qian (East Asian Languages and Literatures, Rice University)

DATE:	Wednesday, November 29, 2000
TIME:	12:00 Noon
PLACE:	Room 3401, Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown bag lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

December 2000

"Under the Censor's Eyes: Kang Kyong'ae's Literary Strategies and Colonial Censorship"

Kyeong Hee Choi (University of Chicago)

DATE:	Friday, December 1, 2000
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Sexual Behavior in China -- Sexual Compliance"

William Parish (Centennial Professor in Chinese Studies, University of Chicago)

Discussant: Thomas Gold (Associate Professor, Sociology, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, December 8, 2000
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

January 2001

"Re-conceptualizing the Guomindang as an Activist Party: Citizenship Training in the Nanjing-Decade Chinese Boy Scouts"

Robert Culp (Visiting National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley)

Discussant: Shana Brown (Doctoral Candidate in History, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, January 26, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Woman and Nation: The Search for Identity in Oakamoto anoko's Shojoruten (Wheel of Life)"

Michiko Suzuki

DATE:	Friday, January 26, 2001
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	Room 3119 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Japanese Literature and Culture candidate lecture
SPONSOR:	Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"Satire Before and After the Meiji Restoration"

Bill Burton

DATE:	Monday, January 29, 2001
TIME:	5:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Room 3119 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Japanese Literature and Culture candidate lecture
SPONSOR:	Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

February 2001

"Party-System Change in Post-Democratization Korea"

Chung Jin Min (Professor, Political Science, Myong Ji University)

DATE:	Friday, February 2, 2001
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Soseki's Taste for the Occult"

Daniel O'Neill

DATE:	Friday, February 2, 2001
TIME:	5:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Room 3119 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Japanese Literature and Culture candidate lecture
SPONSOR:	Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"How the Tiananmen Papers Came To Pass"

Orville Schell (Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley)

Discussant: Fred Wakeman (Professor, History, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Tuesday, February 6, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"A Play of Gazes: Higuchi Ichiyo's 'Takekurabe' (Child's Play)"

Tim Van Compernolle

DATE:	Tuesday, February 6, 2001
TIME:	5:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Room 3119 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Japanese Literature and Culture candidate lecture
SPONSOR:	Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"Youth Problems in Meiji Japan"

Masayo Musha (Education, Nanzan University, Japan)

DATE:	Thursday, February 8, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"How Many of You are Disabled? Transnational Bodies and the Politics of Statistics in the Making of a Modern Chinese Nation-State"

Matthew Kohrman (Assistant Professor, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford)

Discussant: Zhang Li (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UC Davis)

DATE:	Friday, February 9, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Japanese Feminist Debates Past and Present"

Ayako Kano

DATE:	Friday February 9, 2001
TIME:	5:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Room 3119 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Japanese Literature and Culture candidate lecture
SPONSOR:	Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"Hereditary Status Differentiation within a Single Ethnicity: The Sool ('Illegitimates') in Korean History"

Kyung Moon HWANG (History Department, University Southern California)

DATE:	Monday, February 12, 2001
TIME:	4:30 p.m.
PLACE:	Room 3335, Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Job candidate lecture
SPONSOR:	Department of History

"Ciao Mao: The Emergence of the Private Sector in China"

Rupert Hoogewerf (Freelance Journalist)

DATE:	Tuesday, February 13, 2001
TIME:	12:00 Noon
PLACE:	Room 3401, Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown bag lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Challenging the State: Regulatory Dilemmas and Falungong in China"

Jae Ho Chung (Associate Professor, International Relations, Seoul National University)

DATE:	Wednesday, February 14, 2001
TIME:	12:00 Noon
PLACE:	Room 3401, Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown bag lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Reading the Netsuke: The Literary Context of the Miniature Art of Edo"

Haruko Iwasaki (East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UC Santa Barbara)

DATE:	Thursday, February 15, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Japan and Choson: Korean Claims to Tsushima Island in the 15th and 16th Centuries"

Kenneth Robinson (International Christian University, Tokyo)

DATE:	Friday, February 16, 2001
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Performative Memories: On Postwar Japanese Theater"

Miryam Sas (Comparative Literature/EALC, UCB)

DATE:	Thursday, February 22, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Neither Transgressive nor Contained: Boundary-Spanning Contention in China"

Kevin O'Brien (Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley)

Discussant: Joyce Kallgren (Professor Emerita, Political Science, UC Davis)

DATE:	Friday, February 23, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Dictatorship and Counterpublic in Korea: The Worker-Student Alliance and the Minjung Movement, 1970-1988"

Namhee Lee (Assistant Professor of History, University of Utah)

DATE:	Friday, February 23, 2001
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	160 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Job candidate lecture
SPONSOR:	Department of History

March 2001

"Statistics for Democracy: Economics as Politics in Occupied Japan"

Laura Hein (History, Northwestern University)

DATE:	Thursday, March 1, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Memory and Media in and of Contemporary China"

DATE:	Friday-Sunday, March 2-4, 2001
PLACE:	Wells Fargo Room, Haas School of Business
FORMAT:	Annual Symposium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The fate of filial piety during rapid change in the family system of urban southeastern Korea"

Clark Sorensen (University of Washington)

DATE:	Friday, March 2, 2001
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Deathbed Ritual in Medieval Japan"

Jackie Stone (Religious Studies, Princeton)

DATE:	Thursday, March 8, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Huizong 'Twixt Shi and Xiaoshuo: Rhetorical Strategy, Tautology, and the Shaping of Fact"

Steve West (Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley)

Discussant: Robert Ashmore (Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, March 9, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Body and Inscribed Memory: Zhigua Narratives of the Six Dynasties"

Yuan-ju Liu (Professor, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Discussant: Robert Ashmore (Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Thursday, March 15, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Surname acquisition and genealogy consciousness in traditional Korea"

Eugene Park (University of California, Irvine)

DATE:	Friday, March 16, 2001
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Culture and Fascism in Inter-war Japan: An Interdisciplinary symposium on the question of fascism and culture in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s"

Keynote Speaker: Harry Harootunian (History, New York University)

DATE:	Friday-Saturday, March 16-17, 2001
TIME:	8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Toll Room, Alumni House
FORMAT:	Regional Seminar
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

April 2001

"Excavating local meanings: the history and archaeology of Koryo"

Miwha Stevenson (Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Wednesday, April 4, 2001
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Discourse on the Social: Municipalities, Social Policy, and the Idea of Modern"

Louise Young (History, New York University)

DATE:	Thursday, April 5, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Understanding the Society and Culture of Divided Korea"

DATE:	Friday, April 6, 2001
TIME:	9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	The Alumni House, UC Berkeley campus
FORMAT:	Regional Seminar
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Interests or Motivations? Why Jiangsu county officials do what they do"

Stephen Herschler (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley)

Discussant: Tom Gold (Associate Professor, Sociology, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, April 6, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Japan's Road to Political Paralysis: A Democratic Hope Mislaid?"

John Dunn (History, Cambridge University)

DATE:	Monday, April 9, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall
FORMAT:	Maruyama Lecture on Political Responsibility in the Modern World
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Subject to the Sphinx: Capitalist Democracy as Solution and Enigma"

John Dunn (History, Cambridge University)

DATE:	Tuesday, April 10, 2001
TIME:	2:00-4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Middle Eastern Studies Room, Stephens Hall
FORMAT:	Maruyama Lecture on Political Responsibility in the Modern World
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"China's Policy toward Taiwan: Dilemma and Choices"

Huang Jing (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Utah State University)

DATE:	Wednesday, April 11, 2001
TIME:	12:00 noon
PLACE:	Room 3401, Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Bag lunch
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Modernization Theory in Japan: The Hakone Conference and the Reischauer Offensive of the Early 1960's"

Victor Koschman (History, Cornell University)

DATE:	Thursday, April 12, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Morality and foreign policy in Korea, 1612-37"

James Palais (University of Washington)

DATE:	Friday, April 13, 2001
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Reading Voices: Undertexts in Tokugawa Literature"

Howard Hibbett (Spring 2001 Agassiz Visiting Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Victor S. Thomas Professor, Emeritus, of Japanese Literature at Harvard)

DATE:	Tuesday, April 17, 2001
TIME:	5:00 p.m.
PLACE:	The Great Hall, The Bancroft Hotel
FORMAT:	Tompkins Lecture
SPONSOR:	Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"Archeology and the Doubting of Historical Fact"

Wang Bo (Professor, Department of Philosophy, Peking University)

DATE:	Wednesday, April 18, 2001
TIME:	12:00 noon
PLACE:	Room 3401, Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Bag lunch, lecture will be in Chinese
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Hybrid Culture: Future of the Japanese Management Features"

Yamato Sato (Business and Commerce, Keio University)

DATE:	Thursday, April 19, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"The Economic Reform and Domestic Trafficking of Women and Children in China"

Xin Ren (Associate Professor, Criminal Justice, CSU Sacramento)

Discussant: Robert Berring (Professor, School of Law, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, April 20, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Sophisticated Vulgarity: From Low Comedy to High Collars"

Howard Hibbett (Visiting Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor Emeritus, Japanese Literature, Harvard)

DATE:	Friday, April 20, 2001
TIME:	5:00 p.m.
PLACE:	The Great Hall, The Bancroft Hotel
FORMAT:	Tompkins Lecture
SPONSOR:	Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"The New Leading Ideology in 1990's Mainland China"

Wang Xiaoming (Professor, Chinese Literature, East China Normal University, Shanghai)

DATE:	Wednesday, April 25, 2001
TIME:	12:00 noon
PLACE:	Room 3401, Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Bag lunch
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Responding to Japan's New Urban Problem: The Revitalization of Inner Cities Law of 1998"

Tetsutaro Okada (Public Policy, Kagawa University)

DATE:	Thursday, April 26, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Roundtable on East Asia"

Panelists include:
Bates Gill (Director, Brookings Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies)
Hao Chen (Managing and news director, TVBS-ERA group, Taiwan)
Chungsoo Kim (Senior analyst, Joongang Ilbo [National Daily])
Xiaoping Li (Executive producer and program director, Current Affairs Dept, CCTV)
Alexander Lukin (Adviser to the Governor of Moscow and Director, Institute for Political and Legal Studies, Moscow)
Chris Yeung (Associate editor/political editor, South China Morning Post)

DATE:	Thursday, April 26, 2001
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	North Gate Hall
SPONSOR:	Graduate School of Journalism

"The 'Historical E-Atlas of China': Researching Chinese Civilization in Time and Space -- the Applications of GIS, GPS, RS and Digital Library Systems in Chinese Studies"

Fan I-chun and Eric Yen (Academia Sinica, Taipei)

DATE:	Monday, April 30, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, Geographic Information Science Center, Center for Design Visualization

May 2001

"Shanghai Savage"

William Schaeffer (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley)

Discussant: Lydia Liu (Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, May 4, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The Future of Korean Studies in the United States"

DATE:	Monday-Tuesday, May 7-8, 2001
PLACE:	The Alumni House, UC Berkeley Campus
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"A Review of the Policy of Chen Shui-bien's Administration"

Tom Gold (Associate Professor, Berkeley)
Victor Tseng (Director General, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office, San Francisco)
Joyce Kallgren (Professor Emeritus, Berkeley)
Edith Yang (Professor Emeritus, San Francisco State University)

DATE:	Friday, May 18, 2001
TIME:	10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Roundtable discussion
SPONSOR:	Taipei Economic & Cultural Office, San Francisco

July 2001

"Understanding Poetry: Modern Poets from Taiwan"

DATE:	Saturday, July 14, 2001
TIME:	2:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Special summer event
SPONSOR:	Institute of East Asian Studies