Academic Year Event Archive, 2004-2005

Conference - Healthcare Challenges in Taiwan: Opportunities & Successes

At UCLA, Bunche Hall
Sunday, September 12, 2004
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

The Ming & Mac Gaps: Asian Trade in Chinese and Vietnamese Ceramics from 1380-1580

An illustrated lecture by Roxanna M. Brown, Ph.D., Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum, Bangkok University
Thursday, October 07, 2004
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Hong Kong and Political Change in China: The Meaning of the Sept. 12 Legislative Election

Christine Loh, former legislator, political party founder, and think tank CEO speaks; UCLA political scientist Richard Baum leads the follow-up discussion.
Thursday, October 07, 2004
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Chinese Prison Camps: How Contemporary Memoirs & Fiction Have Questioned Our Assumptions

A talk by Professor Philip F. Williams (Arizona State Univ.)
Monday, October 11, 2004
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Film Festival - Reel China: Six Nights of New Chinese Documentaries

At UCLA every Wednesday, October 13 - November 17, 2004
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

'Greater Chinese Union' - A Political Solution to the Impasse in the Taiwan Strait?

Linda Jakobson explores possibilities for peaceful reconciliation
Monday, October 18, 2004
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Film Festival - Reel China: Six Nights of New Chinese Documentaries

At UCLA every Wednesday, October 13 - November 17, 2004
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Film Festival - Reel China: Six Nights of New Chinese Documentaries

At UCLA every Wednesday, October 13 - November 17, 2004
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Asia Institute Reception

Meet Asia Institute director Bin Wong, other UCLA Faculty, and UCLA Asian Studies students.
Thursday, October 28, 2004
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Film Festival - Reel China: Six Nights of New Chinese Documentaries

At UCLA every Wednesday, October 13 - November 17, 2004
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Mismatched Concepts of Early Medieval Chinese Religious History

A talk by Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania)
Thursday, November 04, 2004
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

The 17th Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture: Yuanmingyuan: The Garden of Perfect Brightness - A Mirror for the Last Dynasty of China

Che Bing Chiu, Professor at the Centre de recherche sur l'Extrême-Orient de Paris-Sorbonne, presents the 17th Annual Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art.
Saturday, November 06, 2004
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Film Festival - Reel China: Six Nights of New Chinese Documentaries

At UCLA every Wednesday, October 13 - November 17, 2004
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Film Festival - Reel China: Six Nights of New Chinese Documentaries

At UCLA every Wednesday, October 13 - November 17, 2004
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Reception hosted by the Center for Chinese Studies

Come join us at the Faculty Center, Downstairs Lounge.
Thursday, November 18, 2004
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Censorship in China and the Current Situation of the Chinese

Jiao Guobiao continues discussion on China Censorship
Monday, November 29, 2004
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Archaeological Research in the Three Gorges, & the Study of the Ancient Ba Culture

Zheng Ruokui. Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Why Women Count: Entrepreneurship and Women in the Leadership of Reform in China

A Talk by David S. G. Goodman - Vice Chancellor and Vice President, Institute of International Studies, University of Technology, Sydney
Friday, January 21, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Agrarian Sovereignty vs. Coastal Economy: The Puzzle of the Wenzhou Model

A talk by Mayfair Yang (UCSB)
Friday, January 21, 2005
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Nationalism in China & Taiwan

The Center for Chinese Studies presents a day-long conference
Saturday, January 22, 2005
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

The Future of the Greater China Economy

Wilbur K. Woo Conference on the Greater China Economy
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Clinical Criminal Justice Programs in China

John W. Smagula discusses the human perspective of legal disputes in China
Friday, February 25, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Terra-cotta Armies, Large and Small: New Finds from Chinese Imperial Tombs

Colloquium at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Saturday, February 26, 2005
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Archaeological Explorations along the Tianshan Mountains

A talk by Wang Jianxin (Northwest China Univ., Xi'an)
Monday, February 28, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Emergence and Spread of Agriculture in East Asia

A talk by Miyamoto Kazuo
Monday, March 14, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

What Is Going to Happen Next? How Chinese Cultural Knowledge Helps to Pattern Experience

Charles Stafford, Richard E. Barnard Visiting Fellow in Chinese Studies, discusses numbers & numerancy and human attachment & separation in Chinese culture
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

The Business of Lobbying in China

Scott Kennedy discusses his just-published book on the growing influence of domestic & foreign businesses on China's national economic policy
Monday, April 18, 2005
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Relations Across the Taiwan Strait: The Anti-Secession Law & Its Aftermath

A colloquium presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the Asia Society Southern California
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Meeting Rising Community Expectations: From Landslide Prevention to Habor Enhancement in Hong Kong

Lee Chack Fan, Pro-Vice Chancellor of University of Hong Kong discusses government-citizen cooperation in developing environmentally friendly projects
Monday, May 02, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Art Exhibits & Reception: China Avant Garde + Procelain Ware from the Cultural Revolution

Exhibits at Arena 1 (in Santa Monica) and the adjacent Sherry Frumkin Gallery
Saturday, May 07, 2005
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Lotus Steps 2005: A New Chapter

UCLA Chinese Cultural Dance Club presents its sixth annual performance
Saturday, May 07, 2005
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Reporting China: Tales from the Dragon's Mouth

A conversation with Seth Faison and John Pomfret
Thursday, May 12, 2005
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

The Hidden Library at Dunhuang

A talk by Sonya Lee (USC)
Thursday, May 19, 2005
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

From Evil Landlords to International Art Stars: Some Questions about the Nature of Art, from China's Cultural Revolution to the Present

Dr. Britta Erickson (Stanford Univ.) analyzes a Cultural Revolution iconic work of art and its reverberations
Thursday, May 26, 2005
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Han Dongfang Speaks on the Trade Union Movement in China

Noted Chinese labor activist to speak at UCLA as the Regents' Lecturer, Spring 2005
Thursday, June 02, 2005
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

China's Tibet: Current Research & Future Prospects

A colloquium with Living Buddha Bu Chu and noted scholars of Tibetology
Monday, June 06, 2005
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM