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June 1, 2000
Tessa Machida

East Asian Capitalisms
February 18–19, 2000
Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies

Friday, February 18, 2000
9:00 a.m. — Opening remarks
9:30 a.m. — Panel 1: The Transformation of East Asian Capitalisms: Social Science Perspectives (1)

    • Steven Vogel, The Transformation of Japanese Capitalism
    • William Kirby, The Internationalization of Chinese Capitalisms
    • Andrew Barshay, Nullified by Reality? Marxian Analyses of Capitalism in Postwar Japan
    • Wen-hsin Yeh, Refashioning the Past: Post-Mao Urban History
    • Chair: Irwin Scheiner

12:00 noon — lunch break
1:30 p.m. — Panel 2: The Transformation of East Asian Capitalisms: Social Science Perspectives (2)

    • Liu Xin, The Beihai Story: Time, Narrative, and History
    • Tom Gold, Private Business and Reshaping Social Space in Urban China
    • Aihwa Ong, American Management and the Emerging Corporate Culture in Shanghai
    • AnnaLee Saxenian, The Silicon Valley-Greater China Connection: Technical Communities and
    • Industrial Upgrading
    • Chair: William Kirby

4:00 – 5:00 p.m. — General comments

    • Chair: Andrew Barshay
    • Commentators: Michael Watts, Frederic Wakeman


Saturday, February 19, 2000
9:30 a.m. — Panel 3: Trade and Investment in East Asian Capitalisms: Perspectives from Law and Journalism

    • Laura Young, The Foundations of China's Acceptance of Intellectual Property Rights: China's Legal Background and the New Capital
    • Martin Fackler, Media Coverage of Japanese Finance in the 1990s
    • Stanley Lubman, Chinese Law Reform After Two Decades: Past Accomplishments and Future
    • Problems
    • Discussant: Robert Berring

12:00 noon — lunch
1:15 – 4:30 p.m. — Panel 4: New(s) from the Archives: Recent Work on Banking in Republican
China (presentations in Chinese, with interpretation)

    • Presentations: Ma Changlin, Xu Xinhua, Cang Dafang, Li Xia
    • Discussants: William Kirby and Wen-hsin Yeh

This meeting is free and open to the public.


Tanigawa Gan
Wesley Sasaki-Uemura, University of Utah
February 24, 2000
Center for Japanese Studies


Staging Edo
David Pollack, Visiting Professor, EALC, UC Berkeley
March 2, 2000
Center for Japanese Studies


Members of the 'Leading Race': Korean Soldiers in Late Colonial Japanese Discourses on Nation, Ethnos and Empire
Takashi Fujitani, UC San Diego
March 23, 2000
Center for Japanese Studies


Japanese Labor Under Pressure: Changing Rules and Identities
April 6, 2000
Center for Japanese Studies

Paper presenters and topics
Steven Vogel (Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley)

    • "Japanese Labor Relations in Hard Times"
    • This presentation focuses on recent developments in the Japanese labor relations system, in light of the prolonged economic crisis. What is changing and what is not?

Mary Brinton (Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University)

    • "Stresses and Strains in Japan's Youth Labor Market"
    • This paper discusses the worsening job opportunities for recent Japanese high school graduates, and outlines some of the new issues confronting schools and students.

Keiko Yamanaka (Institute for the Study of Social Change, UC Berkeley)

    • "Feminization of Japanese Brazilian Labor Migration to Japan"
    • This is a case study of the feminization of Japanese Brazilian labor migration to Japan in the context of female migration throughout the Asia Pacific in the 1990s.

Mike Douglass (Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University)

    • "National Identity and Global Migration: Japan in the Context of the East Asia Economic Crisis"
    • This will deal generally with East Asia, Japan included, with regard to the recent economic crisis and the response of all governments to expel foreign workers, make conditions for their presence more restrictive, and increase penalties for "illegal" migrants. Central to these policies is the bundling of race/ethnicity with national identity that is characteristic of East Asia.

Discussant: Robert Cole (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley)


Moving Mountains: The Making of the Modern Japanese Alps
Karen Wigen, Professor of History at Duke University
April 11, 2000
Department of Geography


Cutting Edge? Development Zones, New Towns, and Urban Transformation in China and Japan
Piper Gaubatz
April 13, 2000
Department of Geography


Envisioning a Triangular Relationship in the Pacific: China, Japan and the U.S. at the Millennium
April 17–18, 2000
Graduate School of Journalism, Yomiuri Shimbun, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

Monday, April 17
12:00 — The Roles of Japan in 21st-Century Asia Location: North Gate Hall Library
Opening Remarks: Andrew Barshay, Director, Center for Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley
Yasuhiko Shibata, Deputy Director, Yomiuri Research Institute
Keynote Talk: Shin'ichi Kitaoka, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo
5:00 — Reception to open conference and special photography exhibit: "China: Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic"
Location: North Gate Hall, courtyard
6:30 — Reflections on Trilateral Relations
Location: Sibley Auditorium
Introduced by: Robert Scalapino, Professor Emeritus, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Hosts: Orville Schell, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley
Yasuhiko Shibata, Deputy Director, Yomiuri Research Institute
In Conversation With: Walter Mondale, former Vice President of the United States and Ambassador to Japan
James Sasser, former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to China
Peter Tarnoff, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Lecturer, UC Berkeley


Tuesday, April 18
Location North Gate Hall Library (all Tuesday events)
9:15 — Opening Remarks:
Nobuaki Tanaka, Consul General of Japan, San Francisco
Hosts: Orville Schell, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley
Yasuhiko Shibata, Deputy Director, Yomiuri Research Institute
9:30 — Panel 1: Building a Stable Framework: Strategic and Military Relations in the Pacific
Triangle
Moderator: Jonathan Pollack, Senior Advisor for International Policy, Rand
Panelists: Jin Youguo, Senior Research Fellow, China Institute for International Strategic Studies
Jim Mann, Washington columnist, Los Angeles Times
Yukio Okamoto, Special Advisor to former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto
Peter Tarnoff, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Lecturer, UC Berkeley
11:30 — Intermission for Lunch
1:00 — Panel 2: Setting the Terms of Debate? Round Table on Media and Foreign Policy
Moderator: Rone Tempest, former Beijing and Hong Kong Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times; Lecturer, UC Berkeley
Panelists: Seth Faison, former Shanghai Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Andrea Koppel, State Department Correspondent, CNN
Jim Mann, Washington columnist, Los Angeles Times
Sarah Lubman, Pacific Rim correspondent, San Jose Mercury News
David Sanger, Senior White House Correspondent, The New York Times
Tato Takahama, former lecturer, UC Berkeley
2:50 — Coffee break
3:00 — Panel 3: Economic Cooperation and Competition Across the Pacific
Moderator: Steven Vogel, Associate Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Panelists: Ryosei Kokubun, Professor, Modern Asia Studies, Keio University
Yuan Ming, Director, Institute for International Relations, Peking University
David Sanger, Senior White House Correspondent, The New York Times
Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Dean, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
4:50 — Closing
6:30 — Consul General Nobuaki Tanaka's residence, San Francisco


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
April 20, 2000
Second Annual Maruyama Masao Lecture on Political Responsibility in the Modern World
Center for Japanese Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities


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
April 21, 2000
Center for Japanese Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities


History and Memory in East Asia
April 28, 2000
Institute of East Asian Studies Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Korean Studies

9:00–9:15am — Opening Remarks

    • Frederic Wakeman (Professor of History and Director, Insitute of East Asian Studies, UCB)

9:15am–10:30am — Panel I

    • Miryam Sas (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature/East Asian Languages & Cultures, UCB), "Once We Knew the Rules of the Game: On Terayama Shuji's Dramatic Experiments"
    • Scott North (Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, UCB), "Living History and the Transformation of Domestic Masculinity in Contemporary Japan"
    • Discussant: Andrew Barshay (Professor, History, UCB)

10:30–10:45am — Break
10:45am–12:30pm — Panel II

    • Patricia Berger (Assistant Professor, History of Art, UCB), "Qianlong's Portraits as 'Sites of Memory'"
    • Stephen Uhalley (Research Associate, Center for Chinese Studies, UCB; Distinguished Fellow, Ricci Institute/Center for the Pacific Rim, USF), "Remembering China's Taipings... Appropriately"
    • Yang Xiao (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UCB), "Discovering Histories in China: Liang Qichao and the Historian's Virtue of Truthfulness"
    • Discussant: Jeou-yi Aileen Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UCB)

12:30–2:00pm — Lunch Break
2:00–3:45pm — Panel III

    • Gloria Tseng (Ph.D. Candidate, History, UCB), "The Glorious, or Not-So-Glorious, Beginnings of the Chinese Communist Revolution: The Year 1921 in the Diligent-Work-Frugal-Study Movement to France"
    • Allison Rottmann (Ph.D. Candidate, History, UCB), "Finding a Place in the Past: Shanghai's
    • 'Contributions' to the Resistance War Against Japan, 1937–1945"
    • Xin Liu (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UCB), "Three Connotations of the Utterance 'Today' in Twentieth-Century China"
    • Discussant: Peter Carroll (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UCB)

3:45–4:00pm — Break
4:00–5:00pm — Roundtable & Discussion
Panel Members:

    • Stephen H. West (Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCB)
    • Gerrit Gong (Director, Asia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies)

5:00–6:00pm — Reception
This program is funded by a grant from the International Education & Graduate Program Services, US Department of Education.
Free and open to the public.

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