Academic Year Event Archive, 2002-2003
Archive of all events held from 9/1/2002 - 6/30/2003
Hong Kong's Clouded Horizon: Ministerial Accountability & the Anti-Subversion Initiative
Christine Loh<br>CEO, Civic Exchange
Friday, October 18, 2002
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The 15th Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture: Daoist Arts of the Ming Court
Stephen Little, the new Director Designate of the Honolulu Academy of Arts, will be the featured speaker at the 15th annual Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art.
Saturday, October 26, 2002
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
China in World History
A day-long conference
Saturday, November 02, 2002
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
UCLA Extension Symposium: Symbols of Power in China
Richly illustrated lectures explore how the Chinese used objects of exquisite beauty to embody relations of power.
Saturday, November 02, 2002
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
The Politics of the West: Equality, Nation-Building, & Civilization
David S. G. Goodman
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
New Chinese Cinema: Opening Day!
Series beging with "Springtime in a Small Town"
Saturday, November 23, 2002
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
New Chinese Cinema: Day Two
One world premier & one U.S. premier
Sunday, November 24, 2002
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
China's New Rulers
Just-completed Communist Party Congress replaces China's top leaders
Tuesday, November 26, 2002
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
China's Experimental Theater
Meng Jinghui (prominent stage & film director) and Liao Yimei (playwrite & screen writer)
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Agricultural Labor Productivity in the Yangzi Delta, China, During the Early 19th Century
Li Bozhong (Qinghua University)
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
New Chinese Cinema: Day Three
Series continues with two more premiers
Saturday, November 30, 2002
7:30 PM - 12:00 PM
"Cultural Genocide" and Tibet
Barry Sautman
Monday, December 02, 2002
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Working for His Majesty: The zhong and the ren of the Late Shang Dynasty
David N. Keightley
Monday, December 02, 2002
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
New Chinese Cinema: Day Four
Series continues
Thursday, December 05, 2002
7:30 PM - 12:00 AM
New Chinese Cinema: Closing Day
Two films end the series
Saturday, December 07, 2002
7:30 PM - 12:00 AM
Space & Power in Imperial Chinese History
A day-long conference
Saturday, December 14, 2002
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Integrative Medicine: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, and Herbs
Steven Tan, M.D., to speak on current issues in complementary & alternative medicine
Friday, December 20, 2002
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Stilwell in the Stocks: China, the U.S., & Britain in Burma during the Second World War
Hans van de Ven (Cambridge University)
Monday, January 06, 2003
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Traditional Chinese Medicine & Cancer: An Integrative Approach
David L. Boyd, Ph.D., L.Ac., will discuss the use of traditional Chinese medicine as an adjunct to conventional cancer treatment.
Tuesday, January 14, 2003
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Worldly Stage: Simulation & Spectacle in 17th-Century China
A talk by Sophie Volpp, UC Davis
Thursday, January 16, 2003
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Stillness & Activity in Ming Dynasty Garden Literature
Stan Fung (Architecture Program, University of New South Wales)
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Chinese Arts in Japan's Shinto Matsuri Festivals
Gloria Gonick discusses the role of Chinese works of art in Japanese festivals, & leads a tour of the exhibition "Matsuri! Japanese Festival Arts"
Thursday, February 06, 2003
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Present Trends and Future Prospects
A panel discussion with a delegation from Taiwan
Monday, February 10, 2003
10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Higher Education Development in Hong Kong Under 'One Country, Two Systems'
Professor Poon Chung-kwong, President of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Constitutionalism in China? A Symposium
Distinguished Chinese political activists will discuss the challenges associated with the creation of a constitutional government in China.
Friday, February 21, 2003
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Constitutionalism & Political Reform in China
A talk by Cao Siyuan
Monday, February 24, 2003
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Glimpses of Contemporary Qinghai: Buddhism, Medicine, & Village Development
A talk by Kunchok Gyaltsen (Executive Director, Kumbum Hospital of Tibetan Medicine)
Monday, March 10, 2003
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The Authority of Heaven and the Five Elements in the Shiji of Sima Qian (second century B.C.)
Hans van Ess (Ludwig Maximilians Universität München)
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Lecture: Gender Equality & Modern Chinese Family Law, 1990-1949
Practice Job Talk by Margaret Kuo (Ph.D. candidate in History)
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
Workshop -- Viability, Economic Transition, & Reflections on Neo-classical Economics
A talk by Justin Yifu Lin
Monday, March 31, 2003
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Lecture -- Shadows, Ruins, Landscape: Writing, Photography, & Shanghai's Projected Past
A lecture by William Schaefer (Univ. of Minnesota) in the series New Approaches to Chinese Studies
Thursday, April 03, 2003
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Film and Television in China Today: Socialism & the Market
Day-long conference of the Southern California China Colloquium, to be held at USC
Saturday, April 26, 2003
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The United States and China since 9/11
An evening at the Richard Nixon Library with Professor Richard Baum & a special exhibit "Journeys to Peace"
Sunday, April 27, 2003
5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Lecture -- Thoughtful Descendants and Thought-full Ancestors: How Living Minds Prolong the Existence of the Dead in Early China
A lecture by K. E. Brashier (Reed College), in the series New Approaches to Chinese Studies
Monday, April 28, 2003
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
A Conversation with Bei Dao
A conversation -- in Chinese -- with the noted poet Bei Dao
Wednesday, May 07, 2003
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
China, Taiwan, & the U.S. since 9/11: Old Problems, New Opportunities
A Symposium With Experts from China, Taiwan, and the U.S.
Wednesday, May 07, 2003
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Hybrid Capitalism: Chinese Business in a Global Era
A lecture by Henry Wai-chung Yeung (National University of Singapore)
Thursday, May 15, 2003
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Looking for Cases in Song & Ming Law: Legal Culture & Legal Reasoning in Premodern China
A day-long conference
Saturday, May 17, 2003
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
SARS and Asia: Public Health, Political, Social, and Economic Implications
Hundreds have died. Thousands are hospitalized. Thousands more are under some form of quarantine. The SARS outbreak has focused attention on the relative strength of public health systems and government responsiveness and openness. As it frightens millions, the disease has ravaged Asian economies. Join us on May 29 for an in-depth look at the disease and its short and long term impact on Asia.
Thursday, May 29, 2003
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Concert: Music of China Ensemble
UCLA Presents its Spring Festival of World Music
Saturday, May 31, 2003
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaking the Unspeakable: The Truth about Zhou Enlai
Gao Wenqian, official biographer of Zhou Enlai, discusses his new book, an _unofficial_ and revealing biography that relies heavily on secret documents from the Cultural Revolution period
Wednesday, June 18, 2003
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
