Past Events

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

August 2001

"The Informalization of the Urban Economy"

Dorothy Solinger (Professor, Political Science, UC Irvine)

Discussant: You-tien Hsing (Associate Professor, Geography, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, August 31, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

September 2001

"Deterrence, Stability, and the Taiwan Conflict"

Robert Ross (Professor, Political Science, Boston College)

Discussant: Lowell Dittmer (Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, September 7, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Tempest in a Textbook: the Historical Revisionism and Political Controversy of the Atarashii Rekishi Kyoukasho (New History Textbook)"

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

DATE:	Thursday, September 13, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Japanese Religions in and beyond Japanese Diaspora"

Keynote Speaker: Robert Bellah

DATE:	Friday, September 21, 2001
TIME:	9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Geball Room, Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"How Reform Worked in China"

Yingyi Qian (Professor, Economics, Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, September 21, 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 Journey as Meditation: A Buddhist Reading of O Chong-hui's 'Words of Farewell'"

Hyangsoon Yi (University of Georgia)

DATE:	Friday, September 28, 2001
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

October 2001

"The Japanese Socialists and Anarchists in San Francisco Bay Area"

Kaoru Ohara (Law and Political Science, Kokugakuin University)

DATE:	Thursday, October 11, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Politics of culture, tourism and local identity in contemporary Korea"

Okpyo Moon (Academy of Korean Studies)

DATE:	Friday, October 12, 2001
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"The Rise of Entrepreneurs in China"

Kate Zhou (Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

DATE:	Wednesday, October 17, 2001
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Ideology and Science"

DATE:	Friday, October 19, 2001
TIME:	1:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Special Fall Symposium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"'I Love Peace!' Reinventing the Military in Present-Day Japan"

Sabine Fruhstuck (Modern Japanese Cultural Studies, UC Santa Barbara)

DATE:	Thursday, October 25, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"The dilemma of Japanese colonial history in Korea, 1895-1919"

Andre Schmid (University of Toronto)

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

The 9th Annual Bakai (バークレー大学研究大会)

DATE:	Monday, October 29, 2001
TIME:	2:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

November 2001

"From the Specter of Mao to the Spirit of the Law: Labor Insurgency in Reform China"

Ching Kwan Lee (Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Michigan)

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

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

"On The Tale of Genji and Translation"

Royall Tyler

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

"The Korean Pension System: Present and Future"

Hyungpyo Moon (Korea Development Institute)

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

"Shanghai at the end of the Qing Dynasty"

Xiong Yuezhi (Professor, History, Fudan University)

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

DATE:	Tuesday, November 13, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium, Lecture will be conducted in Mandarin
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The Nature of Buddhist Art -- From Gandhara to Dunhuang and Yungang"

Kathy Cheng Mei Ku (Associate Professor, Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore)

DATE:	Thursday, November 15, 2001
TIME:	12:00 noon
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Wolf Killing and Subjugating Nature in Nineteenth-Century Japan: From 'Slaves of Living Things' to 'Supreme Spirits of Living Things'"

Brett Walker (History, Montana State University)

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

"Treaty-bound: Japanese Politics and International Diplomacy, 1853-Present"

DATE:	Friday-Saturday, November 16-17, 2001
PLACE:	Faculty Club, Heyns Room
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Borderline Identities"

Dru Gladney (Professor, Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

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

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

"Taiwanese Literature: The new face of Taiwan's mother tongue movement in a new era"

Chin-an Li (Professor, Harvard University)

DATE:	Friday, November 16, 2001
TIME:	8:00 p.m.
PLACE:	200 Wheeler Hall

"From Fiction to Film: the Metamorphosis of Elements of Fiction"

Su Tong (renowned Chinese writer)

DATE:	Monday, November 19, 2001
TIME:	12:00 noon
PLACE:	370 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture will be conducted in Mandarin, with translation
SPONSOR:	Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"Politics of Culture in Contemporary China: A Study of a Death Cult"

Kwong-ok Kim (Professor, Anthropology, Seoul National University)

DATE:	Tuesday, November 27, 2001
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Questions Concerning Dialect, History, and Culture at the Border between Mandarin and Wu in China"

Gu Qian (Associate Professor, Chinese Department, Nanjing University)

DATE:	Wednesday, November 28, 2001
TIME:	12:00 noon
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown bag lunch, Lecture will be conducted in Mandarin
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The 2000-01 Excavation Report on Casualties from the Korean War"

Sunjoo Park (Chief Researcher, Excavation Team of the Korean Army, Chungbuk National University)

DATE:	Friday, November 30, 2001
TIME:	4:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

December 2001

"The Punk Rock Scene in Seoul, Korea"

Timothy Tangherlini and Stephen Epstein

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

"The Manila Massacre of 1639: Is this the Late Ming in a Global Context?"

Timothy Brook (Professor, History, University of Toronto)

Discussant: Wen-hsin Yeh (Professor, History, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, December 7, 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 Special Workshop: A Dialogue between Two Centers

DATE:	Saturday-Thursday, December 8-13, 2001
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

January 2002

"How Should a Chinese Woman Look? Revisiting 'the Look' and the De-Westernization of Film Studies"

Chris Berry (Associate Professor, Film Studies and Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Berkeley)

Discussant: Miryam Sas (Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, January 25, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

February 2002

"Comparative Study of 'Institutional Templates' in East Asian Capitalism"

Hong Yung Lee (Political Science, U.C. Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, February 1, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Chinese Phonology Research During The Chosun Dynasty (1392-1910)"

Jae Don Lee (Professor, Chinese Language and Literature, Ewha Womans University, Korea)

DATE:	Wednesday, February 6, 2002
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Positive Action or Part-time-ization? Japan's Changing Environment for Equal Job Opportunity"

Charles Weathers (Economics, Osaka City University)

DATE:	Thursday, February 7, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"The Brazilian Imaginaire on Zen: Global Influences, Rhizomatic Forms"

Christina Rocha (Religious Studies, University of Western Sydney)

DATE:	Friday, February 8, 2002
TIME:	10:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Geballe Room, Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Literacy and Orality in the Chinese Xiaoshuo Tradition"

Timothy Wong (Professor, Chinese, Arizona State University)

Discussant: Stephen West (Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, February 8, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The American Indictment: The Japan That Cannot Say Sorry"

Charles Burres (Berkeley Bureau Chief, San Francisco Chronicle)

DATE:	Thursday, February 14, 2002
TIME:	12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Understanding Korea's Cultural Heritage"

Yu Hong-June (Professor, Department of Art History, Myongji University)

DATE:	Friday, February 15, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Alumni House
FORMAT:	Korean language lecture with English interpretation
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Analysis of China's Macroeconomic Performance"

Guangjian Xu (Professor, Economics, People's University, China)

DATE:	Wednesday, February 20, 2002
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Women, Youths, and Men: Male-Male Eroticism and the Age/Gender System of Tokugawa Japan"

Gregory Pflugfelder (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University)

DATE:	Thursday, February 21, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"The Archaeology of Han Sichuan"

Michael Nylan (Professor, History, UC Berkeley)

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

DATE:	Friday, February 22, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Bungalows and Culture Houses: Westernization in Early Twentieth-Century Japan and the Imperial World Order"

Jordan Sand (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Georgetown University)

DATE:	Monday, February 25, 2002
TIME:	12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Reasserting Imperial Power? Britain and East Asia in the 1930's"

Yoichi Kibata (International Studies, Tokyo University)

DATE:	Wednesday, February 27, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Sustainable Environment of Our Civilization - From Japanese Perspective: Agriculture and Industrialization"

Koyu Furusawa (Economics, Kokugakuin University)

DATE:	Thursday, February 28, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

March 2002

"Conjuring 'Comfort Women': The Mediated Affiliations of Korean/American Trans-nationality"

Laura Kang (Literature, University of California, Irvine)

DATE:	Friday, March 1, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Korean Cinema and Society in Transition"

DATE:	Thursday-Friday, March 7-8, 2002
PLACE:	Alumni House
FORMAT:	Regional Seminar
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Anthropology in and of China: A Cross-Generation Conversation"

DATE:	Friday-Saturday, March 8-9, 2002
PLACE:	Bancroft Hotel, 2690 Bancroft Way
FORMAT:	Annual Symposium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Parody and Pathology in Mori Ogai's 'Vita Sexualis'"

James Reichert (Asian Languages, Stanford University)

DATE:	Friday, March 8, 2002
TIME:	12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Look Who's Talking Now: Globalization, Film, Media, & the Public Sphere"

DATE:	Saturday, March 9, 2002
TIME:	9:30 am - 4:00 pm
PLACE:	142 Dwinelle
FORMAT:	Film Studies Symposium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Legitimation of Chinese Grass-Roots Associations"

Bingzhong Gao (Professor, Institute of Sociology and Anthropology, Peking University)

DATE:	Wednesday, March 13, 2002
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"French influence on Korean Poems"

Claire Lyu (University of Virginia) and Santiago Colas (University of Michigan)

DATE:	Friday, March 15, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Japan: Crossing the Boundaries Within"

DATE:	Friday-Saturday, March 15-16, 2002
PLACE:	Gifford Room 221 Kroeber Hall
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Accession into the WTO: External Pressure for Internal Reforms in China"

Ick Soo Kim (Associate Professor, Korea University)

Discussant: Gengsheng Zhou (Deputy Division Director, Foreign Trade & Economic Cooperation Ministry, PRC)

DATE:	Tuesday, March 19, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Japan and the Nobel Science Prizes, 1901-1949"

James Bartholomew (Ohio State University)

DATE:	Thursday, March 21, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Nature and Ethics in the Philosophy of Xunzi"

Eric Hutton (Center for Chinese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow)

Discussant: Michael Nylan (Professor, History, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, March 22, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

April 2002

"The Institutionalization of Unemployment in Urban China"

Xin Gu (Center for Chinese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow)

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

DATE:	Monday, April 1, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Korean Composers and Western Music: How much of the tradition remains?"

Hi Kyung Kim (UC Santa Cruz)

DATE:	Friday, April 12, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Art as Propaganda: Shanghai Poster Designers before the Cultural Revolution"

Kuiyi Shen (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford)

DATE:	Wednesday, April 17, 2002
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"From the Age of Growth to the Age of Sustainability: Paradigm Shift Turmoil in Japan"

Gavan McCormack (Professor, East Asian History, Australian National University)

DATE:	Thursday, April 18, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Public Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"The Japanese Constitution After 55 Years: The Revision Debate"

Gavan McCormack (Professor, East Asian History, Australian National University)

DATE:	Friday, April 19, 2002
TIME:	12:00 noon-2:00 p.m.
PLACE:	O'Neil Room, Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Seminar
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"The Local Dynamics of Social Transformation in Rural Vietnam in the 1990s"

Hy Van Luong (Professor, Anthropology, University of Toronto)

Discussant: Darren Zook (Lecturer, Political Science, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, April 19, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Domestic Violence and the Law in Rural China"

Paul Pickowicz (History and Chinese Studies, UC San Diego)

DATE:	Tuesday, April 23, 2002
TIME:	12:10 p.m.
PLACE:	Seminar Room, 2240 Piedmont Avenue
SPONSOR:	Center for the Study of Law and Society

"Phantom Women: An Examination of the Disappearing Acts of Female Bodies in Contemporary Japanese Performance"

Katherine Mezur (Dramatic Art, Georgetown University)

DATE:	Thursday, April 25, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Collaboration, Colonial Modernity and Twentieth-Century Korean Thought"

Kyu Hyun Kim (UC Davis)

DATE:	Friday, April 26, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"US-Japan Relations: How Will the Next 10 Years Differ From the Last 50?"

Steven Vogel and Keith Nitta (Political Science, UCB)

DATE:	Monday, April 29, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

May 2002

"The reform of China's political system and the CCP's self-imposed system"

Siyuan Cao (President, Beijing Siyuan Research Center for Social Sciences)

DATE:	Wednesday, May 1, 2002
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch, Lecture will be conducted in Chinese
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Korean Officials in the Land of the Kami: Diplomacy and the Prestige Economy, 1607-1811"

Nam-Lin Hur (Asian Studies, University of British Columbia)

DATE:	Friday, May 3, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies, Center for Japanese Studies

"Visual Representation of Ritual Dances in the Ming and Qing"

Nicolas Standaert, S.J. (Professor of Chinese Studies, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)

Discussant: Stephen West (Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Tuesday, May 7, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The US-China Security Relationship - Past and Future"

Mike Pillsbury (Member of the Policy Advisory Group, Office of the Secretary of Defense and Adjunct Research Associate at the National Defense University)

DATE:	Wednesday, May 8, 2002
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"China's Entry into the WTO and its Implications for Japan"

Ryosei Kokubun (Professor, Political Science, Keio University)

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

DATE:	Friday, May 10, 2002
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

"Northern Policy of South Korea"

DATE:	Friday-Saturday, May 17-18, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Special Seminar
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Anime and Techno-Orientalism"

Freda Freiberg (Visual Dept., Monash University)

DATE:	Thursday, May 23, 2002
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies