Academic Year Event Archive, 2005-2006

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Reexamining the Authenticity of Song Paper Money Specimens

Presentation by Richard von Glahn
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Center for Chinese Studies Reception

You are cordially invited to attend a reception hosted by the co-directors of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies.
Thursday, October 13, 2005
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

An Overview of Chinese Exegetical Methods

A talk by Professor Zhu Hongjie
Monday, October 17, 2005
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Environmental Degradation and State Legitimacy: Explaining Deforestation in Northwest Yunnan Province

Presentation by Justin Zackey
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Meeting with Delegation from the Beijing Municipal Academy of Social Science Research

Delegation of eight to visit UCLA
Friday, October 21, 2005
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk: ' People' vs. Antonioni: Reexamining China's Anti-propaganda in China

Presentation by Wang Yiman
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- The Relationship between the State and Farmers in Contemporary China

Presentation by Li Chenggui
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

On the Making of 'Recarving China's Past'

A talk by Dr. Cary Liu, Curator of Asian Art, Princeton University Art Museum
Thursday, November 03, 2005
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The 18th Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture: Recarving China's Past: 'Wu Family Shrines' and the Story of the Stones

Cary Y. Liu, Curator of Asian Art at the Princeton University Art Museum, will be the featured speaker at the 18th Annual Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art.
Saturday, November 05, 2005
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Social Transformation & the 'San Nong' Problem in Contemporary China

A talk by sociologist Cao Jinqing, sponsored by the UCLA Asia Institute
Monday, November 07, 2005
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Jia Qiaojie's Bridegroom and the Ending of Story of the Stone

Tina Lu, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Monday, November 07, 2005
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

The Art of Dunhuang

A talk by Professor Roderick Whitfield, Department of Art & Archaeology, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Collaborting in Conducting HIV/AIDS Research in China

Presentation by Sheng Wu
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Buddhist Relics

A talk by Professor Roderick Whitfield, Department of Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Mapping of Southeast Asia and Oceania

Language and Culture Studies on the Champa Civlization of Vietnam and the Batanes and Orchid Islands between the Philippines and Taiwan.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Behavioral Response to China's 2002-03 SARS Epidemic

Presentation by William Mason (Professor of Sociology, UCLA)
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

China Today: Economy & Politics

A lecture by Wen Tiejun (Renmin University)
Thursday, November 17, 2005
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Casting the Treasured Calligraphy: A New Approach to the Bronze Inscriptions of the Western Zhou Period (1045 - 771 B.C.)

A seminar with Li Feng (Columbia University) in the New Approaches to Chinese Studies series.
Friday, November 18, 2005
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

The Life and Times of Sui Yangdi

Victor C. Xiong, Professor of History, Western Michigan University
Monday, November 21, 2005
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- From Enmity to Rapprochement: Grand Strategy, Power Politics, and U.S.-China Relations, 1961-1974

Presentation by Dong Wang
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

EAP China Workshop

All students who would like to study in China for Summer, Fall or Year must attend a workshop prior to applying.
Thursday, December 01, 2005
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Cantonese Opera and the Chinese Diaspora in England

Tong Soon Lee presents a lecture in the series New Approaches to Chinese Studies
Friday, December 02, 2005
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Learning to Write in Anyang: The Beginnings of Chinese Literacy

Presentation by Adam Smith
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

EAP China Workshop

All students who would like to study in China for Summer, Fall or Year must attend a workshop prior to applying.
Friday, December 09, 2005
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

EAP China Workshop - LAST WORKSHOP

All students who would like to study in China for Summer, Fall or Year must attend a workshop prior to applying.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Alternative Discourses on Globalization in India & China

A presentation by Manoranjan Mohanty
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

The Body & the Family: Filial Piety and Buddhism in Dunhuang Art

A talk by Winston Kyan, co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies and the Center for Buddhist Studies.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Compassion Trade: George Henry Mason's 'The Costume of China' (1800) and 'The Punishments of China' (1801)

A presentation by Eric Hayot in the Global Fellows Program Seminar Series of the International Institute
Thursday, January 19, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Performance of Managerial Human Capital: Evidence from Chinese Firms

A presentation by Kong Xiaowei, Visiting Research Associate
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Environmental Mitigation in China: Expectations and Realities

Gregory Veeck, Professor of Geography, Western Michigan University
Thursday, January 26, 2006
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

How Chinese and Americans See Each Other: Findings & Analysis of Two Recent Surveys

At talk by Xiaobo Lü
Friday, January 27, 2006
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- China's Rural Tax Reforms: A Preliminary Assessment

A presentation by Hiroki Takeuchi, graduate student in Political Science
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

'Jade Flowers' in Flight: The Motif of Mystic Excursion in Early Daoist Scriptures

A talk by Tim Chan, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Band-Aid or Bullet Wound? Reversing the Verdict on Zhang Yimou's 'Propadanda' Film NOT ONE LESS

A talk by Yiman Wang, presented by the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures
Friday, February 03, 2006
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Lecture - The Evolving Relationship between Africa & China

A talk by Ernest J. Wilson III, cosponsored by the UCLA Center for African Studies and the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- 'The Compassionate Trade' between Europe and China

A presentation by Eric Hayot, International Institute Global Fellow
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Fashioning History: Visuality & Costume in Modern China

A talk by Xiaojue Wang, Doctoral Candidate, Columia University
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

The Modern Woodcut Movement in China

A talk by Julia Andrews, Ohio State University - Presented by the UCLA Department of Art History
Friday, February 10, 2006
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

SONG AND SILENCE: Ethnic Revival on China's Southwest Borders

A book presentation by Sara L.M. Davis
Friday, February 10, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Printed Books and Theater in the Late Ming

Yuming He, Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago
Monday, February 13, 2006
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Survey of Studies on Chinese Broadcasting Language

A presentation by Zhao Xue, visiting scholar with the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Screening - Mardi Gras: Made in China

At UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Thursday, February 16, 2006
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Manchuria (Northeast China): The Heartland of Controversy in East Asian Premodern History

A presentation by Yingzi Xu, doctoral candidate in Asian Languages & Cultures
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Lectures in Traditional Chinese Culture: A Double Bill

Talks by Poo Mu-chou and Philip Hu
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Can the Dialectical Image Break Bricks?

A talk on Hong Kong film by Robert Chi, Stony Brook University
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Hands-on Seminar: Access to Resources for the Study of China

Seminar at the UCLA East Asian Library
Friday, February 24, 2006
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Chinese Death Practices in the Funeral Reform Era

A presentation by Jonathan Jackson, doctoral student in anthropology
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Strategic Thinking about Regionalism in Northeast Asia: China, Japan, South Korea, and Russia in 2005

A talk by Gilbert Rozman
Thursday, March 02, 2006
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

'Lingchi: Chen Chieh-jen's Dissection of Historical Violence'

A presentation by Michael Berry (UC Santa Barbara)
Thursday, March 02, 2006
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Poetic of Sounds: The Prosodic Invention of Yongming (483-493) Poets

A presentation by Goh Meow Hui (Ohio State University)
Monday, March 06, 2006
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- The Advent of the Modern as Business Venture: The Case of the Commercial Press

A talk by Professor Theodore Huters, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Poems and Things: On the Problem of Literary Significance in Medieval China

A presentation by Jack Chen (Wellesley College)
Friday, March 10, 2006
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- The Difference a Legislature Makes: Why Air Pollution Regulations Vary in China & Taiwan

A presentation by Eric Zusman
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Non-official Publishing: A Third Channel of Public Communications in China

A talk by Xu Xiao
Thursday, March 16, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Anti-Japanism and China: Toward a Post-'East Asia'

Leo Ching, Assistant Professor of Asian & African Languages, Duke University
Thursday, March 16, 2006
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Recent Advances in Scientific Archaeology in China

A talk by Professor Wu Xiaohong (Peking University)
Thursday, March 23, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Economic Outlook: China's Impact on California Business

The UCLA Anderson Forecast analyzes China's impact on California's economy.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
7:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Demonstration: China Census & Statistical Database

A demonstration of the China Census & Statistical Database of the China Data Center, presented by the East Asian Library
Monday, April 03, 2006
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Developing China's West: Solutions to Unbalanced Regional Development

A presentation by Hongyi Harry Lai (Research Fellow, Nat'l University of Singapore)
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Taiwanese Culture Night

At UCLA April 6-8, 2006
Saturday, April 08, 2006
9:00 AM - 10:00 PM

Poetry and the Literary Essay in Modern Chinese Literature: Voices from Britain

Talks by Susan Daruvala (Cambridge University) and Michel Hockx (SOAS)
Monday, April 10, 2006
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Cultural Nationalism in Modern China

A talk by Zheng Shiqu (Beijing Normal University)
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Research on Ancient Chinese Literature

A talk by Zhan Furui, Director of the National Library of China - presented by the East Asian Library
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- China's Economic Growth: Source of Disorder?

A presentation by Robert S. Wang, Diplomat-in-Residence
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

EAP China Informational Workshop

An informational session for students who would like to study in China for Spring.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Archaeology in the Sichuan Region

Presentations by Li Fangyin and Lei Yuhua
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- 'Thinking Hearts, Feeling Brains: Metaphor, Culture, and the Self in Chinese Narratives of Depression'

A presentation by Sonya Pritzker
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Hong Kong Pop Song Competition

Hong Kong Student Society & Dashew International Center announce the fifth annual Joint University Singing Contest
Saturday, April 22, 2006
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- A Sinicized Enlightenment Education for the New Republic: Cai Yuanpei in 1912

A presentation by Chaohua Wang
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Migration in China in the 1990s and Beyond: Trends, Geography, and Policies

Kam Wing Chan, Professor of Geography, University of Washington
Thursday, April 27, 2006
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

EAP China Informational Workshop

An informational session for students who would like to study in China for Spring.
Friday, April 28, 2006
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Performance: Music of China

A performance at the Hammer Museum, presented by the Music of China Ensemble, of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
Saturday, April 29, 2006
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk - CCTV Spring Festival Evening Party: Narrating a Pedagogy of Unity

A pesentation by Hui Zhang
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Beyond Nei and Wai: Gender and Other Forms of Troublemaking in China Studies

A talk by Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz
Thursday, May 04, 2006
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

EAP China Informational Workshop (LAST WORKSHOP)

An informational session for students who would like to study in China for Spring.
Monday, May 08, 2006
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

History, Memory, & Illusion in Two Films by Director Jiang Wen and Cinematographer Gu Changwei

A presentation by Professor Jerome Silbergeld, Director of the Tang Center for East Asian Art , Princeton University
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Vernacular Sociology & Modern Girl Iconography in the Interwar Years in China

A talk by Tani E. Barlow
Thursday, May 11, 2006
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

The Social and Cultural Context of Manchu Bannermen Tales (Zidishu) in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Beijing

A presentation by Elena Chiu, doctoral student in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Takeuchi Yoshimi's Philosophy of History

A talk by Sun Ge (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Conservation of the Mogao Grottoes: An Overview of the Mogao Grottoes Conservation Project

A talk by SU BOMIN (Dunhuang Academy)
Friday, May 19, 2006
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Lotus Steps 2006

Annual dance production of the UCLA Chinese Cultural Dance Club
Saturday, May 20, 2006
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The Chinese LGBT Liberation Movement vs. the Current Political System: Contestation or Negotiation?

A talk by Cui Zi'en
Monday, May 22, 2006
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

The Dasheng Bells of the Song Dynasty

A UCLA Center for Chinese Studies Event
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Transnational Polygamy: Law, Marriage, & Fujianese Migration Early in the 20th Century

A presentation by Huey Bin Teng, doctoral candidate in history
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Erotic Entries & Encounters: Chinese Disaporic & Chinese American Sexualities Today

A presentation by Sik Ying Ho, University of Hong Kong
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk-- 'Salaam Chairman Mao!': Music & Politics in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

A presentation by Chuen-Fung Wong, graduate student in ethnomusicology
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Twenty Years after 'State and Society in the Taiwan Miracle': Author's Retrospective

A presentation by Thomas Gold, Sociology, UC Berkeley
Thursday, June 01, 2006
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Performance - Music of China

At UCLA, Schoenberg Hall
Thursday, June 01, 2006
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Spring Festival of World Music 2006

The UCLA Department of Ethonomusicology
Thursday, June 01, 2006
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

China: The Future of Authoritarianism

A colloquium sponsored by the Center for Social Theory & Comparative History and the Center for Chinese Studies
Monday, June 05, 2006
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Wednesday Lunch Talk--Prototypes in Chinese Speakers' Acquisition of English Tense-aspect Morphology

A presentation by Ming Tao, UCLA doctoral student in the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

AIDS Counseling & Civil Society in China

A talk by Liang Yanyan, of the Beijing Zhiaixing Information & Counseling Center
Thursday, June 08, 2006
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama

Exhibition at UCLA <br> June 11 - September 10, 2006
Sunday, June 11, 2006
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM