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April 2002
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April 21-July 28, 2002
Japanese Fisherman's Coats from Awaji Island
Fowler Museum, UCLA
The women of Awaji Island began quilting and embroidering cotton coats known as sashiko no donza to keep the fishermen warm and dry when they made their daily trips out to sea. Ultimately, these kimono-like garments evolved into symbols celebrating the identity and social roles of Awaji fishermen. This exhibit is the first to present 22 of these rare garments. See www.fmch.ucla.edu for further information.
Co-sponsored by UCLA Fowler Museum and UCSB University Art Museum.
April 21-July 28, 2002
Tradition and Innovation: Contemporary Textiles From The Nuno Studio, Tokyo
Since the 1980s, Japan has been at the forefront of a revolution in textiles. The Japanese legacy of exquisite traditional fabrics combined with recent technological advancements has opened a world of possibility in textile design. The Nuno Studio and its chief designer, Reiko Sudo, have distinguished themselves within this experimental, groundbreaking movement by adapting the refined beauty of natural fibers and historical techniques to the sophisticated materials and complex innovations of contemporary techno-culture. This unique installation, with panels of fabric hung ceiling to floor, provides an intimate view of textiles made with stainless steel, copper, rust, polyester, aluminum, feathers, and other conventional and unconventional materials.
Sponsored by UCLA Fowler Museum. Organized by UCSB University Art Museum.
April 28-May 30, 2002
Images of Viet Nam, 1969-1970
A Photographic Exhibition by Viet Nam Veteran Michael Burr
My House Restaurant
12332 Brookhurst Street, Garden Grove, CA 92840
(714) 210-186Directions from L. A. area:
San Diego (405) Fwy. South to the Garden Grove (22) Fwy. East. Exit at Brookhurst. At the bottom of the ramp turn left & go north on Brookhurst. Once you pass Lampson Avenue start looking on your right (east side of street) for the restaurant.
Through July 14, 2002
The Way of Rama: A Prince in Exile
San Diego Museum of Art
1450 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, California
(619) 232-7931Beginning this weekend, Museum visitors can follow the twists and turns of one of India's greatest epics, The Ramayana, in paintings from the Museum's Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of South Asian paintings. The Way of Rama focuses on the adventures of the Hindu god Rama and his wife Sita. Rama, like Krishna, is an incarnation of the great god Vishnu, born as a mortal in order to bring divine powers into the course of events on earth. While Krishna brought the power of play and devotion, Rama brings the virtue of a righteous son, husband, brother, and king.
In images made at various courts on the sub-continent between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, Rama's legendary honor and nobility are witnessed. He bravely accepts banishment from his father's kingdom and battles fierce demons in the depths of the forest. When the ten-headed King of the Demons, Ravana, uses trickery to capture his beautiful wife Sita, Rama is heartbroken, but soon Hanuman and his army of monkey warriors come to Rama's aid. Together they set out to find Sita and to destroy the Demon King.
This third exhibition in the Who's Who/What's What Series of South Asian paintings from the collection of Edwin Binney 3rd runs through July 14.
Museum hours: Tuesday through Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Closed Mondays.
Through June 16, 2002
Bijinga: Japanese Paintings of Beautiful Women
Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101
(626)449-2742This small exhibit will feature paintings and prints of beautiful women from the Museum's outstanding collection of Edo period (1600–1868) Japanese paintings. Such paintings, known in Japanese as bijinga (literally, "pictures of beautiful women"), depict courtesans and other women from the pleasure quarters of Japan's cities. These women often wore the most elaborate and fashionable kimonos and hairstyles of the day, the details of which are exquisitely rendered in pigments on silk and paper.
Artists from various schools, including the Kaigetsudo, Hishikawa and Hokusai schools, and celebrated artists such as Tohoharu (1763–1828) and Eisen (1790–1848) will be featured in this exhibition.
Lectures, conferences, and performances
April 2, 2002
An Act of Savouring: Approaching Art the Indian Way
6 pm
James S. Copley Auditorium
San Diego Museum of Art
1450 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, California
Phone (619) 232-7931Dr. Goswamy will engage in a dialogue with museum trustee and noted neuroscientist, Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran, on rasa or "essence," an Indian system of aesthetic responses linked to emotions. This system provides a useful key to understanding all classical works of Indian art. Dr. Goswamy and Dr. Ramachandran will approach the subject from their respective fields of art history and neuroscience. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Caron Smith, senior curator, Asian art. The presentation is free of charge.
April 5-6, 2002
Conference on Cultural Exchange and Transformation in the Indian Ocean World
8 am- 8 pm
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History8 am-8 pm UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
This two day conference will explore the Indian Ocean World (IOW) which links Eastern Africa from the Cape to the Horn, islands of the Indian Ocean, Southern Arabia, lands bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf, South Asia, and Western Indonesia. The conference will investigate the region by focusing on the exchange and reformulation of ideas that have shaped the development of popular culture around the western Indian Ocean rim, with a particular focus upon diasporic communities. It will also bring together scholars in disciplines such as anthropology, art history, ethnomusicology and linguistics to explore the complex issues involved in cultural exchange in the IOW over the course of this long period of time.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for African Studies and other units.
April 6, 2002
The US & Pacific Asia: A View from Singapore
6:30-9 p.m.
The Sierra Ballroom, Hilton Los Angeles/Universal Hotel
Please join a dinner conversation with H.E. Kishore Mahbubani, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, who will lead a discussion on the foreign policy ramifications of the September 11th terrorist attacks, addressing in particular whether they were one-off events or instead presage the emergence of new fundamental factors in international politics. He will draw upon the themes articulated in his latest book, "Can Asian Think?", a stimulating collection of essays on the rise of economic power in Asia and its concomitant geopolitical implications. Dinner will be provided. Members $55; non-members $65. This program is co-sponsored by Singapore American Business Association of Southern California, British American Business Council, and Hong Kong Association of Southern California. Seats are limited, please register early with the Asia Society Southern California Center at (213) 624-0945.Sponsored by the Asia Society Southern California Center. For further information, telephone (213) 624-0945.
April 6, 2002
USC East Asian Studies Center Film Series: Three Films by Xie Jin
Asia Society Film Series: Nationhood, History, and Cinema
The Opium War1-4:30 pm
Norris 105, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089 campus map directionsDirected by Chinese director Xie Jin, The Opium War depicts the set of events leading up to Great Britain's colonization of Hong Kong. Shot on location in China and England, through painstakingly accurate recreations, magnificent costuming, and dramatic sets, this epic film brings to life both the period and places as it recounts this turbulent era in history. Xie Jin, one of China's most venerable directors, will discuss his film and answer questions from the audience. The discussion is chaired by David James, Professor, Division of Critical Studies, School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California. Occidental College's Esther Yau will also participate. Seating is limited, please arrive early.
This screening is part of the USC East Asian Studies Center's "Three Films by Xie Jin series. Other films being screened are Hibiscus Town (Furong zhen, 1985, on March 30) and Stage Sisters (Wutai jiemei, 1965, on April 13). For additional information, call (213) 740-2993. The screening is also part of the Asia Society's Nationhood, History, and Cinema film series. For additional information about this series click here or call (213) 624-0945.
Sponsored by University of Southern California East Asian Studies Center, in cooperation with USC School of Cinema-Television and the Asia Society Southern California Center.
April 6-May 5, 2002
Far East
Laguna Playhouse
606 Laguna Canyon Rd.
Long Beach, CA
(949) 497-2787Tues.-Friday 8 pm
Sat. 2 and 8 pm
Sun 2 and 7 pmSouthern California premiere of A.B. Gurney's play. Directed by Jules Aaron. On an American Naval base in Japan just after the Korean War, a young reserve officer arrives seeking romance, adventure and the chance to escape his rich family back home. The officer falls in love with a Japanese woman. Not everyone is pleased with this turn of events. Gurney's earlier play, Sylvia, was produced by the Laguna Playhouse in 1998.
Tickets: $38-$45.
April 6-May 11, 2002
Asia Society Film Series: Nationhood, History, and Cinema
The Asia Society Southern California Center's second annual film screening and discussion series showcases eight feature length films and documentaries during . The film series seeks to examine the relationships between cinema, history, and nationhood from different geographical locales across Asia; seeks a wide range of socio-cultural, political, economic, and historical perspectives, as viewed through the lens of Asians and Asian Americans; and creates a forum for the exchange of thoughts, experiences, and opinions across cultures. The series begins with Xie Jin's The Opium War (see below).
The UCLA Center for East Asian Studies and the USC East Asian Studies Center are coordinating institutions for these events. For more information about the Asia Society or these screenings, please call (213) 624-0945. Click here for the full schedule.
April 7, 2002
Asia Society Film Series: Nationhood, History, and Cinema
To The Starry Island
1-4 pm
Lucas 108, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089 campus map directionsAcclaimed at the 1994 New York Film Festival, To the Starry Island is one of director Park's most influential works. The film begins in Seoul as an old man makes his dying wish, to be buried at his birthplace on the distant island of Kwisong, to his son and his old friend, a poet. This plan is thwarted when the islanders refuse to let the body come ashore. The poet, also an island son, tries to negotiate with the locals and uncovers a secret past and unhealed wounds from the Korean War. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Dr. Kyung Hyun Kim, Assistant Professor, East Asian Language and Literature, UCI. Seats are limited, please arrive early. Co-sponsor: the USC East Asian Studies Center.
For more information about the Asia Society or this series, please call (213) 624-0945. Click here for the full schedule of screenings.
April 8, 2002
Security Issues in the Asia Pacific Region
Nobuo Matsunaga
Vice Chairman, Japan Institute of International Affairs3:30 - 5:00 pm
Sequoia Room, Faculty Center, UCLA
With the U.S. now waging a war on terrorism in the Philippines and following connections to Osama Bin Laden through other parts of Southeast Asia, security issues in the Asia-Pacific region are firmly on the front burner and likely to remain there. Ambassador Matsunaga, who has devoted a lifetime to Japan's foreign affairs, is a specialist in security issues. He has held many appointments within the Japanese Foreign Ministry and was ambassador to the US from 1985 to 1989. His lecture will be followed and open discussion and light refreshments.Admission is free, but please RSVP: Call the Japan America Society at (213) 627-6217, ext. 202 or email JapanAmerica1@hotmail.com or apmn@sppsr.ucla.edu. Sponsored by the Japan America Society. Co-sponsored by the Asia Pacific Media Network and the Consulate General of Japan.
April 8, 2002
Suicide and the New Woman: Cultural Meanings of Shanghai Modernity
Bryna Goodman
History, University of Oregon4 pm
Leavey Library Auditorium (lower level), University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089 campus map directionsSponsored by the USC Department of History and the USC East Asian Studies Center.
April 8, 2002
Confucian Democracy: An Oxymoron or Viable Alternative?
Roger Ames,
Philosophy, University of Hawaii4:30-6:30 pm
McIntosh Center (University Hall 4520) Loyola Marymount University
One LMU Drive, Los Angeles, California 90045-2659Roger Ames is a leading scholar in the area of Eastern thought, particularly Chinese Philosophy. Editor of Philosophy East and West, he is also a translator of important primary resources and authors and co-author of numerous books in the field, including The Analects of Confucius, The Art of Warfare, The Art of Rulership: A Study in Ancient Chinese Political Thought, Thinking Through Confucius and The Democracy of the Dead.
For more information, contact Robin Wang (Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University) at rwang@lmu.edu or 310-338-5941.
April 9, 2002
The Challenge for the Asia-Pacific Region in the 21st Century
Nobuo Matsunaga
Vice Chairman, Japan Institute of International Affairs2:45 pm
Seely G. Mudd Building Room 123, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089 campus map directionsOne of Japan's senior diplomats and former Japanese ambassador to the United States, Nobuo Matsunaga is on expert in Pacific Rim security issues as well as Japanese foreign policy. Amb. Matsunaga's formal remarks will be followed by an open discussion with the audience.
Sponsored by the USC East Asian Studies Center and the USC Center for International Studies. Call (213) 740-2993 for additional information.
April 9, 2002
Nations Online:
familiarity, recognition and fascination on the Pacific RimStephanie Donald,
Senior Lecturer University of Melbourne, Australia4:30-6:30 pm
306 Royce Hall, UCLATourism is the world's largest industry, critical to the economy of many nations, and to the leisure time choices of consumers. The emergence of the Internet has revolutionized the possibilities in the field, including the potential for virtual tourism, and the exploration of imaginary spaces. In this presentation, Dr. Donald argues that virtual tourism processes and documents national and quasi-national space in new media formats (web-cams, video clips and still montage). Such documentation is especially potent for communities and nations in political transition. The increasing representation of location based identities and tourist attractions through web-mediated forms raises critical issues as to how nations and communities see themselves and their positioning in a globalized economy. The marketing of culture and location is, she suggests, premised on nodes of national and mythic identity. Dr. Donald contends that online, specifically, virtual, tourism makes these nodes visible as symptomatic of emerging and residual national and international imaginariness.
Light refreshments will be served.
Sponsored by UCLA Center for Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia.
April 10, 2002
"Past, Present, and Future of Chinese Film"
Xie Jin,
Film DirectorHuang Shixian,
Beijing Film Academy2-3:30 pm
Social Sciences Building Room B40, USCPresentations will take place in Chinese (to be translated by Sun Shao-Yi, USC lecturer and specialist on Chinese cinema); discussion will be in English and Chinese.
Sponsored by USC East Asian Studies Center. For additional information please call (213) 740-2993.
April 10, 2002
Changes in Service Use during Indonesia's Economic Crisis
Elizabeth Frankenberg,
Sociology, UCLA3-4:30 pm
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLASponsored by UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Call 310-206-9163 for more information.
April 10-20, 2002
Out of India: The Films of Satyajit Ray
Bing Theater, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323-857-6000 (general information)Satyajit Ray (1921–1992) is one of India’s greatest filmmakers. His feature films span five decades and include intimate stories of Chekhovian subtlety, tales of adventure, children’s fantasies, allegorical and historical dramas set in colonial India, and studies of contemporary urban life. In support of Ray’s 1992 Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, Martin Scorsese placed Ray’s films “in the company of Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, and Federico Fellini.” In the words of Akira Kurosawa, “Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.”
Nayak/The Hero
(1966/b&w/120 min.)
April 10, 2002
7:30 pmOn a long train journey, a famous film actor Arindam (Uttam Kumar), meets a journalist (Sharmila Tagore), who secretly plans to write a scathing article about him. Over the next 24 hours, the troubled and lonely actor openly re-examines his life, in flashbacks and dreams, in a way that forces the journalist to reconsider her motives.
The Music Room/Jalsaghar
(1958/b&w/100 min.)
April 12, 2002
7:30 pmUnable to bear his vulgar, nouveau-riche neighbor’s displays of wealth, a feudal lord spends his dwindling fortune hiring the best musicians and entertaining his guests with lavish parties in the “music room” of his crumbling palace. Ray's early masterpiece has been compared to King Lear for its powerful depiction of blind pride and tragic destiny.
Company Limited/Seemabaddha
(1971/b&w/110 min.)
April 12, 2002
7:30 pmPart social commentary and part character study, Company Limited is the story of a young woman who visits her brother-in-law in Calcutta to see if the corporate life has changed the man who so impressed her years before.
Mahanagar/The Big City
(1963/b&w/122 min.)
April 13, 2002
7:30 pmWhen a traditional wife decides to take a job to help her cash-strapped accountant husband, her newfound freedom as a salesgirl is the first step in a journey that leads to personal equality at the cost of domestic unrest.
The Adversary
(1970/b&w/110 min.)
April 13, 2002
7:30 pmWandering the sweltering streets of Calcutta, a medical school dropout is turned down for a job due to supposed Communist leanings, declines a job offer from the Communist party, is almost killed by a Naxalite (militant Communist) bombing, encounters a group of hippies, and goes to a pornographic film with a former classmate.
The Expedition/Abhijaan
(1962/b&w/150 min.)
April 18, 2002
7:30 pmThough virtually unknown in the West, The Expedition was one of the most popular films Ray produced, and it represents Ray's conscious effort to reach out to a wider audience. When a hot-tempered Rajput taxi driver loses his license after aggressively passing a government official in his car, a shady businessman approaches him with an offer to transport contraband merchandise. Introduction by Joe Lindner and Mike Pogorzelski, The Academy Film Archive.
Devi/The Goddess
(1960/b&w/93 min.)
April 19, 2002
7:30 pmA young woman (Sharmila Tagore) is gradually destroyed when her wealthy, recently widowed father-in-law, a 19th-century patriarch and devotee of the Hindu goddess Kali, proclaims her to be an incarnation of the goddess, capable of performing miracle cures. In India, Devi was criticized as an attack on Hinduism and was denied distribution abroad for portraying Indians as superstitious; the personal intervention of Nehru was required to lift the ban. Introduction by Sharmila Tagore (to be confirmed).
The Middleman
(1976/b&w/131 min.)
April 19, 2002
7:30 pmSomnath is a history student with mediocre grades and dim career prospects who reluctantly enters the shady business of being a “middleman,” and he soon finds himself reduced to compromising his ideals and rationalizing his behavior. Introduction by Sharmila Tagore (to be confirmed).
Days and Nights in the Forest/Aranyer Din Ratri
(1970/b&w/115 min.)
April 20, 2002
7:30 pmFour sophisticated young men from Calcutta make a holiday excursion to a tiny village, where one of them becomes sexually involved with a local tribal girl, while the others court two sisters vacationing with their family in a nearby cottage. As the days and nights pass—filled with the idle pleasures of a native dance, a silly word game, a village fair—the film becomes a meditation on tradition versus modernity, on desire and reticence, and it becomes increasingly complex in its moral and psychological implications. Conversation with Sharmila Tagore (to be confirmed).
Admission is $7; $5 for museum and AFI members, seniors (62+), and students with valid ID. Tickets may be purchased at the museum ticket office or by calling toll-free 1-877-522-6225. Purchase of a film ticket includes entrance to the galleries. Info: 323-857-6010.
April 11, 2002
Asian Comedy Film Festival
8 pm
Rose Hills Theater, Smith Campus Center
Pomona College
170 E. 6th St.
Claremont, CA
909-607-8065Steal Happiness
(Yang Yazhou, 1999, China)Da Min, the oldest brother, is living a comfortable life with his mother and two younger siblings. He is a talkative man. His sympathy for his neighbor Yun Fang, whose boyfriend left her to go abroad, succeeded in winning her heart. They are ready to get married, but there is no housing. To resolve the problem, the rest of the family moves to the living room, leaving the only bedroom for the new couple. Before they can really settle down, brother San Min declares he is ready to get married. There is no way out but to make a partition in the middle of the bedroom. The two couples have barely settled down before sister Er Min starts up problems with her marriage…… Time passes in spite of all the fuss. Da Min finally gets his own apartment. He tells his son, “Life is good if you let it be. Even happiness can happen. Enjoy life… and ‘steal happiness’….” This film is part of the Pacific Basin Institute Asian Film Festival.
Free of charge. Refreshments provided 30 minutes prior to each showing.
April 12, 2002
Meet the Author: Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
6 - 8:30 pm
Auditorium, Glendale Public Library
222 East Harvard Street Glendale, CA 91205
(818) 548-20276 pm Reception
6:30 pm Video Documentary on Filipino Women
7 pm Talk
7:30- 8:30pm Discussion and BooksigningThe Philippines is one of the main sources of domestic workers on the international market. There are approximately 6.5 million Filipino migrant workers and over half of them are women. Of these women, two-thirds are employed as domestic workers. These women are highly educated, having earned trade school diplomas and college degrees. They leave their families behind to work abroad as domestic workers. Sociologist and author of Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work ( Stanford University Press, 2001 ), Rhacel Salazar Parrenas will discuss the links between the labor supply in a poor country, the Philippines, and demand in two rich countries, the United States and Italy. Ms. Parrenas is Assistant Professor of Women's and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
R S V P : ( 310) 514-9139 or email: LindaNietes@earthlink.net
The event is part of the ongoing program of Philippine Expressions Bookshop to create more awareness for the Filipino presence in the Los Angeles area. Co-sponsored by: Antique Circle USA, Inc., Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Filipino American Business Association of Glendale, People's Core, and Philippine Expressions Bookshop.
April 12-13, 2002
Reproducing Gender in Contemporary Vietnam and Diasporic Spaces: A Workshop
Friday: 1221B Bunche Hall, UCLA
Lunch will be provided.
Saturday: 112 Alumni Center, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California Refreshment and Lunch Beverages (coffee, tea, juice, and water) and pastry will be available to the workshop attendees and the public. California Lutheran University has generously agreed to provide lunch to workshop presenters and organizers. Lunch will consist of tri-tip or roasted vegetable sandwiches, fruit, a drink (juices, sodas, sparkling water), brownies, etc. Members of the SoCal Network and public who wish to purchase lunch, at $9.00, may do so by advance reservation only by contacting David Del Testa at (805) 493-3318 or deltesta@clunet.edu no later than Friday 5 April.The economic and political reforms under Doi Moi in Vietnam have propelled the country into the global economy, which in turn has brought together spaces of gender practices in contemporary Vietnam and among Vietnamese immigrants in First World countries. An examination of gender in Vietnam and the diaspora should provide insights into overlaps and contrasts in the ways that gender is embodied and (re)produced in state policies, global production, biological reproduction, and cultural productions including literature, film, and the visual arts. The workshop brings together interdisciplinary work by established and emerging researchers from the US, Europe, and Vietnam.
April 12, 2002
9:30 am Welcome and Introductory Remarks
10 am-12 pm Femininity and Masculinity Embodied
Lecture by Helle Rydstrom, Linkoping University, Sweden
Screening of Firecracker by Victor Vu, Film Director1:30-3:30 pm Panel One : Gendered Representations in National and Diasporic Narratives
Chair and Discussant: Esha De
Ly Lan, Lan Duong, Mariam Beevi, Allaine Cerwonka3:45-5:45 pm Panel Two : Visualizing Beauty and Sexuality in Vietnam and Vietnamese America
Chair and Discussant: Thu-huong Nguyen-vo
UuDam Nguyen, Slide Show of Asian Dick Sculpture Exhibit
Chris Cao, Discussion of UuDam's work
Gina Masequesmay
Christina FirpoApril 13, 2002
9:30 am-12 pm Panel Three: (Re)Modeling Femininity in Medicine, State, and the Economy
Chair and Discussant: Helle Rydstrom
Presenters: Melissa Pashigian, Jayne Werner, Thu-huong Nguyen-vo, Craig HuynhDirections to Cal Lutheran (from South or East of Thousand Oaks): Follow 101 towards Ventura/Santa Barbara for about twenty miles past its intersection with the 405 freeway. You will pass Topanga Canyon, Calabasas, and Lost Hills. When approaching Thousand Oaks, after passing Westlake Blvd, look for Highway 23 North. Take 23 North to the Olsen Road exit; at the bottom of the off ramp, turn left (please watch for on-coming traffic). Continue straight on Olsen Road under the freeway, up and over a hill, past a Chevron station as you cross Moorpark Road, to Montclef Road. At Montclef, turn left; then, turn right into the first parking entrance. From the left side of the parking lot, Alumni Hall will be at the bottom of the parking lot; go around to the other side of the hall to find 112 Alumni. Directions (from North or West of Thousand Oaks): You should take 101 towards Los Angeles, and follow the directions as above #3. If you should be traveling on 118 West or East, obviously take Highway 23 South, exit at Olsen Road, turn right, and follow the directions.
Sponsored by UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UCLA Interdisciplinary Program in Southeast Asian Studies, UCLA Center for Asian American Studies, and California Lutheran University.
April 12, 2002
"Roots and Fruits of Korean Christianity"
Prof. Syngman Rhee
Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education3-4:30 pm
243 Royce HallSponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. Please call (310) 825-3284 for additional information.
April 13, 2002
USC East Asian Studies Center Film Series: Three Films by Chinese director Xie Jin
Stage Sisters (Wutai jiemei, 1965)1 pm
Lucas 108, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089 campus map directionsDirector Xie Jin is one of the most popular and influential Chinese filmmakers of the last half century. Xie Jin will be in residence as a distinguished visitor at USC from April 6-13, and will be present at the screenings of The Opium War (April 6) and Stage Sisters (April 13) to discuss his films and answer questions from the audience. Professors David James (USC), Stanley Rosen (USC) Sun Shao-Yi (USC) and Esther Yau (Occidental College) will also participate in the discussions following the film screenings. All screenings and discussions are free and open to the public.
A very popular pre-Cultural Revolution film, Stage Sisters contrasts the lives of two actresses, one of whom seeks happiness through family life, the other through political activism. Not surprisingly, the former is portrayed as a failure. While the story is set primarily in pre-1949 China, Stage Sisters ends after the founding of the PRC. Video, with subtitles.
Sponsored by the USC East Asian Studies Center and the USC School of Cinema-Television. Please call (213) 740-2993 for additional information.
April 13, 2002
Asia Society Film Series: Nationhood, History, and Cinema
The Making of the Mahatma1-4:30 pm
Lecture Hall 151, California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840 (562) 985-4111Free admission and no registration required.
Based on the book The Apprenticeship of the Mahatma by South African writer Fatima Meer, The Making of the Mahatma explores Mahatma Gandhi's experiments with using non-violence as a radical weapon in the struggle for human rights in colonial South Africa. In addition to focusing on the great leader's humanitarian efforts, the filmmaker also offers a rare chronological look into Gandhi's personal life and the sacrifices of his family. Shot in picturesque locales in South Africa, the film brilliantly portrays the transformation of an ordinary man into a Mahatma (Great Soul). The screening will be followed by a discussion with Movindri Reddy, Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College and Arnold P. Kaminsky, Asian Studies and History, California State University, Long Beach. Seats are limited, please arrive early.
For more information about the Asia Society or this series, please call (213) 624-0945. Click here for the full schedule of screenings.
April 13, 2002
Of Dogs and Demons: The Dark Side of Japan
Alex Kerr
2-4 pm
Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Ave.
Pasadena, CAAlex Kerr, an observer of East Asian cultures lived for roughly 20 years in Japan. He now lives in Thailand and is visiting Los Angeles briefly to open an exhibition of his Japanese calligraphy at the Shumei Hall in Pasadena. In this accompanying lecture, he will present his views on Japan's changing culture and landscape, which he has discussed his award-winning books, Lost Japan and Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan. Mr. Kerr will sign copies of these books after the lecture. This event is free with Museum admission.
For a review of Kerr's book, Dogs and Demons, click here. For excerpts from an interview with Kerr that is conducted by James Fallows, click here.
April 15, 2002
Women and Progress in Afghanistan and Around the Globe (speaker from CARE)
12-1 pm
UCSB Career & Counseling -room 1109 (free)This talk provides an eyewitness account of Afghanistan and efforts by CARE, the international humanitarian agency, to bring education and job opportunities to women there and around the world. Alina Labrada, a CARE representative, recently spent two months in Afghanistan. She'll offer first hand information on efforts to rebuild Afghanistan, focusing on women. The event includes a video presentation and a question and answer session. CARE, one of the world's largest international humanitarian organizations, helps communities achieve lasting solutions to poverty. CARE started operations in Afghanistan in 1961. Alina Labrada has more than a decade of experience in communications, including working as a journalist for CNN and Reuters Television before joining CARE, the international humanitarian organization, in 2000. Labrada travels throughout Asia as part of her role as a spokesperson for CARE.
April 15, 2002
Muslims Around the World: Different Faces, One Religion
6-8 pm
LS 2147, UCLAMuslims make up a large portion of the East Asian population, in countries such as China, Philippines, Indonesia, and other countries (i.e. Spain) that are far away from the Middle East. The conference speakers will present important facts about how and when Islam was spread to such regions. This event is part of Islamic Awareness Week.
Sponsored by UCLA Muslim Students Association (MSA).
April 16, 2002
Muslim Women: Liberated or Oppressed?
6-8 pm
100 Moore, UCLAIssues concerning women in the Muslim world are addressed in this talk. This event is part of Islamic Awareness Week.
Sponsored by UCLA Muslim Students Association (MSA).
April 17, 2002
Lecture and Screening of the Thai film "Suriyothai"
Mattani Rutnin
Thammasat University11 am - 5 pm
314 Royce Hall, Humanities Conference Room,Sponsored by UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Co-sponsored by the UCLA South & SE Asian Languages and Cultures Program and the Royal Thai Consulate - Los Angeles. Call 310-206-9163 for additional information.
April 17, 2002
Breaking down the Misconceptions
6-8 pm
190 Royce Hall, UCLAAsian Americans are a large minority group who have been underrepresented and discriminated against. Similarly Muslims are facing the results of ignorance and misconceptions today. This talk seeks to deconstruct some of the misperceptions operating in the U.S. today about Muslims. This event is part of Islamic Awareness Week.
Sponsored by UCLA Muslim Students Association (MSA).
April 17, 2002
American Cinematheque screens Kurosawa's High and Low
6:30 pm
Egyptian Theater , 6712 Hollywood Blvd., HollywoodDirected by Akira Kurosawa, made in 1963, 142 min. One of Kurosawa's best, seen here in a new 35 mm. print. With Tatsuya Nakadai, Kenjiro Ishiyama. Prior to the screening at 6:30 pm in the Egyptian Lobby, noted Japanese film historian Stuart Galbraith will join us for a special book signing of his acclaimed new biography of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune, The Emperor And The Wolf.
Click here for ticket information.
April 17, 2002
Suriyothai
(2001) directed by Price Chatrichalerm Yukol
Lecture and Thai Film Showing (with Free Lunch)
11 am-5 pm
314 Royce Hall, Humanity Conference Room, UCLAThis film was a blockbuster in Thailand. The film depicts the heroism of a queen from the kingdom of Ayothaya who sacrifices her life in battle. Her name appears in the royal chronicles as "Pra Suriyothai." Spanning a total of some 57 years, Suryothai is a retelling of early Ayothaya history from the time during the reign of King Ramathibodhi II (1491-1529) and ending with the great battle of King Tabinshwehti (1548). More information on this film can be found at: http://www.suriyothai.mweb.co.th/eng/index.asp.
Program:
11 am- 12:15 pm
Lecture by Mattani Rutnin (Thammasat University),
"Performing Arts and their roles in Politics and Society with a particular reference to Suriyothai"
12:15 Lunch (free) - Thai food
12:45-1:00 A brief historical background for the film
Thanet Aphornsuvan (Thmmasat University and UCLA)
1- 4 : Suriyothai (film showing)
4-5: Informal Discussion
Sponsored by UCLA South & Southeast Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and the Royal Thai Consulate General - Los Angeles.
April 17, 2002
The Hidden Fortress
7:30 pm
EDA Lab, UCLA
The EDA lab is located just north of the Dickson Art Center, past the Arts library, on North campus. If you are coming from Parking lot 3, pass Melnitz Hall, hang a right and make another right next to the Arts library to enter a courtyard formed by the walls of the Dickson Art Center. The EDA lab is accessible through a door on the far wall.Screening of Akira Kurosawa's 1958 film, the inspiration for George Lucas's "Star Wars." The film stars the immortal Mifune Toshiro and will be screened on a 9 foot by 12 foot DVD projection. The screening is open to everyone and free of charge, so feel free to invite friends. The film tells the story of a warrior and a princess trying against all odds to return to their homeland with their fortune. Along the way, they are simultaneously assisted and thwarted by two itinerant and not too bright farmers with their own designs on the treasure, giving the story a subtle comic bent.
April 18, 2002
Muslims and Global Politics Today: A Southeast Asian Perspective
Chandra Muzaffar
President, International Movement for a Just World (JUST)4-6 pm
131-133 Kerkhoff Hall State Rooms, 1st Floor, UCLASponsored by UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Please call 310-206-9163 for additional information.
April 18, 2002
Asian Comedy Film Festival
8 pm
Rose Hills Theater, Smith Campus Center
Pomona College
170 E. 6th St.
Claremont, CA
909-607-8065Disoriented
(Francisco Aliwalas, 1998, Philippines)Chasing the American Dream has West Cordova trapped in a nightmare. His overbearing mother is bent on shaping him into a surgeon. His crazy, “wannabe-a-supermodel” Japanese girlfriend craves blonde hair and round eyes. And his long-lost jock brother has just returned home having traded his high tops for high heels. If young “Doctor” Cordova can pass his premedical studies, mend his fractured family and revive his romance, he may just discover the cure for his own unraveling identity. This film is part of the Pacific Basin Institute Asian Film Festival.
Free of charge. Refreshments provided 30 minutes prior to each showing.
April 18-21, 2002
John Woo Tribute
Born in southern mainland China in 1946, action auteur John Woo grew up in Hong Kong and began as assistant director to martial arts filmmaker, Chang Cheh, in 1969 at the fabled Shaw Brothers studio. Since shifting his base of operations to the U.S. in the early 1990s, Woo has turned out a string of mega-successful action films filled with his trademark mixture of humor and spectacularly choreographed violence. John Woo will be at the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian for a retrospective tribute to some of his most exciting films.
Film Schedule (all films are at The Lloyd E. Rigler Theater at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.--between McCadden Place and Las Palmas Ave.--unless otherwise noted).
A Better Tomorrow
April 18 7:30 pm
The film that brought world attention to Hong Kong's brand of "heroic bloodshed" cinema and set director Woo on the fast track. Two C-note burning gangsters are embroiled in a massive counterfeiting scheme while trying to keep news of one's criminal ties from his clean-as-a-whistle policeman brother.A Better Tomorrow 2
April 18 7:30 pm
Two men team up to redeem their mentor, a shipping magnate when he's forced to flee to New York after his daughter is killed and he's framed for murder.
The Killer
April 19 7 pm
April 21 5 pmThis film put director Woo on the international map. An honorable hitman accidentally blinds a female singer in a nightclub shoot-out, then falls in love with her. Discussion with John Woo after the film
Hard Boiled
April 19 9:45 pm
A cop and an enigmatic killer join forces to take down a blood-thirsty gang of arms dealers. John Woo will introduce this screening.
Bullet in the Head
April 20 5 pm
Hailed by many as Woo's finest and most personal film, this film is a beautiful drama of three friends in 1967 Hong Kong, who are forced to flee after becoming unintentionally embroiled in a gang vendetta. Discussion with John Woo after the film.
Face/Off
April 20 8:30 pm
A federal agent and a psychotic master criminal exchange identities when a bizarre undercover operation to coax information out of the criminal's brother goes horribly wrong. John Woo will introduce the screening.
Once a Thief
April 21 5 pm
Three street urchins who have grown up to be art thieves comb Paris and Europe to acquire a mysterious painting that has become a "holy grail" for the trio.
More information, updates, and schedule changes are online at: www.egyptiantheatre.com.
April 19-20, 2002
Sensibilities of Transformation: The Linguistic Turn and Contemporary Japanese Literary Criticism
Herbert Morris Seminar Room, 306 Royce Hall, UCLA
The decade between the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s saw a revolution in the study of modern Japanese literature. Works such as Maeda Ai's The Establishment of the Modern Reader (Kindai dokusha no seiritsu, 1973), Kamei Hideo's Transformations of Sensibility (Kansei no henkaku, 1983), Noguchi Takehiko's The Japanese Language in Fiction (Shosetsu no Nihongo, 1980), and Karatani Kojin's Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (Kindai Nihon bungaku no kigen, 1980), began the process of challenging orthodox interpretations. This conference will carry out a critical reassessment of the linguistic turn, exploring the political implications of the new scholarship, extending possibilities that it first opened, as well as exploring questions it was unable to raise.
Schedule
Friday, April 19, 2002
1:30 pm Welcoming remarks
1:45 pm Panel One: The Politics and Practice of the Linguistics Turn
Chair: Shoichi Iwasaki (UCLA)Presenters Tomiko Yoda (Duke University),
"The'Textual Turn' in Heian Literary Studies: The Tokieda Legacy"
Norma Field (University of Chicago),
"Thinking about Form & Ideology: 'Literature & Revolution' through the Short Fiction of Kobayashi Takiji"
John Whitman (Cornell University),
"Kokugogaku vs. Gengogaku: Language Process Theory and Tokieda's Construction of Saussure, 50 Years Later"
DiscussantsSatoshi Kinsui (Osaka Univeristy)
Theodore Huters (UCLA)
4:30 pm Keynote Address: Kamei Hideo (Hokkaido University),
"Theories of Language in the Fields of Philosophy and History: Japan in the 1970s"
Moderator: Michael Bourdaghs (UCLA)
5:30 pm Public ReceptionSaturday, April 20, 2002
9:30 am Panel Two: The Uses of Meiji Literature
Chair: Seiji Lippit (UCLA)
Presenters Joseph Esserier (UCLA),
"The Propriety of Literary Form in Mid-Meiji"Guohe Zheng (Ball State University),
"A Linguistic Approach to Kajin no kigu."
Kohno Kensuke (Nihon University), "The Age of the Prize Contest Novel"
Discussant: Richi Sakakibara (Shinshu University)
1 pm Panel Three: Textual Subjects and the Rise of Modern Literature
Chair: Namhee Lee (UCLA)
Presenters Atsuko Ueda (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),
"The Genealogy of the Modern Shosetsu: Tsubouchi Shoyo's Shosetsu shinzui"
Susie Jie Kim (UCLA),
"Becoming Modern: Subject Formations in Turn-of-the-Century Korean Fiction"
Leslie Winston (Conneticut College),
"The Voice of Sex"
Discussant: Christopher Bolton (UC-Riverside)
3:30 pm Panel Four: The Voice(s) of the Other
Chair: Mariko Tamanoi (UCLA)
Presenters Mirana May Szeto (UCLA),
"From Princess to Bare Life: Kawashima Yoshiko and the Constitutive Dangers of the Nation and the Citizen"
Charles Shiro Inouye (Tufts Univeristy),
"Centering the Word: Beyond Orality/Literacy"
Jennifer Lee (UCLA),
"Between Speakers and Languages: Narrating Trauma in Yi Chonjun and Ooka Shohei"
Discussant: Rachel C. Lee (UCLA)Presentations will be given in English or Japanese; English-language summaries will be provided for Japanese-language presentations. This conference is free and open to the public. Registration is not required, but seating is limited. Parking is available for $6.00 in Lot 2, or as directed by the Parking Services Information kiosks.
For further information, contact Michael Bourdaghs bourdagh@humnet.ucla.edu.
Sponsored by UCLA Center for Japanese Studies, UCLA Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Asia, and UCLA Dept. of East Asian Literatures & Cultures.
April 20, 2002
Contested Claims: The Party, the People, and the Fate of the PRC
10 am - 4 pm
Social Science (SOS) B-40, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089 campus map directions10 am Opening Remarks
Dai Qing
journalist and author, currently a USC Provost's Distinguished VisitorMorning Panel
Chair: James Tong, Political Science, UCLAPeter Gries, Political Science, University of Colorado
"Popular Nationalism and the Fate of the Nation"Stanley Rosen, Political Science, USC
"Chinese Media and Youth: Attitudes Toward Nationalism and Internationalism"Discussant: Harley Balzer, Political Science, Georgetown University
1:30 pm Afternoon Panel
Chair: Arthur Rosenbaum, History, Claremont-McKenna CollegeRichard Kraus, Political Science, University of Oregon
"When Legitimacy Resides in Beautiful Objects: Repatriating Beijing's Looted Zodiac Animal Heads"Teresa Wright, Political Science, CSU Long Beach
"The China Democracy Party and the Politics of Protest in the 1980s-1990s"Discussant: Daniel Lynch, International Relations, USC
Sponsored by the Southern California China Colloquium in conjunction with the USC East Asian Studies Center and the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. The papers are available online.
April 20, 2002
Pacific Island Festival of Masks Thai New Year Celebration
1-4 pm
Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91101Thai New Year comes to Pacific Asia Museum. The afternoon will open with a traditional Thai Buddhist monk blessing and chanting, followed by the Water Ceremony. The festivities will continue with Thai Classical dance performances accompanied by skilled musicians. Children may participate in Thai Headdress making workshop. Visitors may learn the subtle art of Thai Traditional painting and Thai dance with a lecture/demonstration and exhibit. A sampling of Thai foods will be available. This event is free to the public.
April 20-21, 2002
Monterey Park Cherry Blossom Festival
Sat. 11 am-7 pm
Sun. 10 am-6 pm
Barnes Park
350 S. McPherrin Ave.
Monterey Park
Free to the publicScheduled performances include bands, traditional Japanese dancing, taiko performance, a fashion show, and traditional and contemporary musical performances. The festival features tea ceremony, flower arranging, origami, and plays. There will also be a wide variety of food items. For information call the Special Events Hotline: (626) 307-2533.
April 20-21, 2002
Torrance's Japanese Cultural Festival
11 am-5 pm
Ken Miller Recreation Center
3341 Torrance Blvd., TorranceThis is the Torrance Sister City Association's annual Bunka-Sai Japanese Cultural Festival. There will be free performances, exhibits, demonstrations, and workshops, including flower arranging, martial arts, dance, music, calligraphy, and Japanese food. For further information, call the City of Torrance Parks and Recreation Dept. (310) 618-2930.
April 21, 2002
Hittobe
12 noon & 3 pm
Aratani/Japan America Theater
244 South San Pedro Street Los Angeles, CA 90012
Little Tokyo
Tickets: (213) 680-3700Hittobe is a word that embodies the value of the human spirit. Instead of showing fear, hesitation, or doubt, the word encourages people to go to for the dreams they have. The story begins when the main character (Utanosuke Sanyutei) decides to volunteer his time at an elder care home. The main content of the film is the interaction between the main character and the residents of this home. One in particular, Mr. Ishii, a stubborn man who believes he is confined to his wheelchair permanently, is very hard to reach.
Co-sponsored by the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California, and Keiro Senior Health Center.
April 22, 2002
Chinese Archery: An Unbroken Tradition?
Stephen Selby
noon
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLAArchery is the “forgotten martial art” of China. With a continuous history from over 3000 years ago up until the 1950s, it was said by some military theorists to be the jewel of Chinese martial arts. Yet after flourishing in China for four thousand years and influencing Japanese, Korean and Mongolian traditional archery, it disappeared towards the end of the twentieth century.
Stephen Selby will offer a broad view of traditional archery in China as seen through the eyes of historians, philosophers, poets, artists, novelists and strategists from the oracle bones of 1500 bc until the new millennium.
Stephen Selby holds an MA (Hons) in Chinese from Edinburgh University. He has worked in Hong Kong for twenty years, during which time he has pursued his interest in Chinese language and culture, and has published a number of articles on Chinese culture, history, and traditional law. He is the author of Chinese Archery (Hong Kong University Press, 2000).
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. Call (310) 825-8683 for more information.
April 22, 2002
National Crimes, International Justice: The Case of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
Norma Field
East Asian Languages &Civilization, University of Chicago3 pm
Faculty Center, UCLASponsored by UCLA Center for Japanese Studies. For further information call, 310-825-8681.
April 22, 2002
Governing Sex in Vietnam: Medicine and Governmental Intervention in Prostitution
Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo
EALC, UCLA4 pm
355 Kinsey, UCLAThu-Huong Nguyen-Vo is the author of Khmer-Viet Relations and the Third Indochina Conflict (1992) and professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA. For access to the pre-circulated paper, please email women@women.ucla.edu.
Sponsored by UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
April 24, 2002
Performing the Philippines: Postcolonial Discourses in Migrant Theater
Joi Barrios,
University of the Philippines3-4:30 pm
243 Royce Hall, UCLAThe lecture will focus on the following plays: Ralph Pena's "Flipzoids" performed by the May-i Theater Group in New York; Charlson Ong's "Ang Kalayaan sa Buhay ni Loretta Tanaka (Freedom in the Life of Loretta Tanaka)," performed in Osaka, Japan; and Merlinda Bobis' "Cantada of a Woman Warrior," performed in Australia. It will examine how the homeland is constructed and reconstructed in the sites of migration, and the postcolonial, post-World War II, and gender discourses in these plays. The lecture uses pananalinghaga (using metaphor) as a way of "reading," deriving from the traditional definition of the word, deconstruction and feminist theories, and the use of tropes.
Joi Barrios is a Visiting Professor at UCLA's South and Southeast Asian Languages and Cultures Program during Spring Quarter 2002.
Sponsored by UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Please call 310-206-9163 for additional information.
April 24, 2002
Dancing with Hollywood: Post-WTO Chinese Cinema
Huang Shixian,
Beijing Film Academy2-3:45 pm
SOS Room B-40, University of Southern CaliforniaHuang Shixian is a senior professor at the Beijing Film Academy and one of China's best known specialists on Chinese and foreign films. The author of many books and articles on film, Professor Huang was among a group of six specialists asked by Asiaweek to choose the 100 best Chinese films of all time. Please call (213) 740-2993 or send email easc@usc.edu for additional information. Professor Huang will give his talk in Mandarin, with English translation provided by Dr. Sun Shao-Yi (Ph.D., USC).
Sponsored by USC East Asian Studies Center.
April 24, 2002
Reception in honor of Dai Qing
4-5:15 pm
Social Sciences Building Fountain Courtyard (lower level), USCDai Qing is one of China's leading environmental activists and famous journalists, known for her investigative reporting. Among other awards she's won is the International PEN Award for Freedom for her book The River Dragon Has Come, a recent book about the Three Gorges Dam and the fate of China's Yangtze River and its people. Dai has been a Neiman Fellow at Harvard, a fellow at Columbia's Freedom Forum, and recently held a one year fellowship at the Wilson Center in Washington. The Sydney newspaper The Australian in a recent issue listed her as among the world's 100 most influential women. She spent a year in prison after the Tiananmen events of June 1989, but she has been relatively protected because she was raised by one of the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. She is currently a Provost's Distinguished Visitor at USC. Please RSVP by email (ccevans@usc.edu or easc@usfc.edu).
Sponsored by USC East Asian Studies Center.
April 24, 2002
From the Age of Growth to the Age of Sustainability: Paradigm Shift Turmoil in Japan?
Gavan McCormack
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University5:30 p.m.
Social Sciences Building Room B-40 (lower level), University of Southern CaliforniaGavan McCormack (PhD, University of London), taught at the Universities of Leeds (UK), La Trobe (Melbourne), and Adelaide, before taking up his position at the ANU in 1990. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Kobe, Kyoto, Ritsumeikan and Tsukuba Universities. McCormack, who was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities of Australia in 1992, is the author of The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence (2001) and co-author of Japan's Contested Constitution Rethinking the National Role (2001).
Co-sponsored by the Southern California Japan Seminar and University of Southern California East Asian Studies Center. The Southern California Japan Seminar is a project of USC/UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center. For additional information please call (213) 740-2993.
April 25, 2002
Asia Society Film Series: Nationhood, History, and Cinema
Regret to Inform7:30-10 pm
Film and Video Center, University of California, Irvine
214 Humanities Instructional Building Irvine, CA 92697-3535 (949) 824-7418
Admission: $5 for general; $3 for Asia Society members and students with ID.This Oscar-nominated documentary brings together women who lost loved ones on both sides of the Vietnam conflict long after the tragedy "ended." Their voices, and the many-layered truths of their stories, gently bid viewers to look into the deep and long-lasting effects of war. Xuan Ngoc Nguyen, main character in this film, will discuss her film and the journey in search of the truth with Chor Swang Ngin, Professor, Anthropology, Cal State LA. Seats are limited, please register early with the Asia Society Southern California Center at (213) 624-0945. Click here for the full schedule of screenings.
April 25-26, 2002
Anthrax Warfare and Bio-Terrorism: Long Journey From China to the U.S.
Press Conference
2 pm
Social Hall of the Filipino-American Community of Los Angeles (FACLA)
1740 W. Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026"Japan's Refusal to Apologize for Bio-Chemical Warfare" is the topic of Chinese bio-chemical warfare investigator and human rights activist Wang Xuan's press conference. She is in the U.S. to discuss the current status of her lawsuit against the Japanese government for its use of anthrax, nerve gas and other forms of state-sponsored terrorism during World War II. Wang Xuan is a well-known human rights activist who has spent many years investigating Japan's state-sponsored bio-terrorism against civilians from 1931 through 1945. She is the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Japanese government and represents her uncle who was a victim of germ-warfare during the war. Call (909) 322-7126 or (213) 687-9999 for further information.
Co-sponsored by Alliance to Preserve the History of WWII in Asia - L.A. (ALPHA-LA), Region IX Chapter of the National Federation of Filipino-American Associations (NaFFAA), by the Media Breakfast Club (MBC), and Pasadena City College Chinese Student Association.
April 26, 2002
Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the 20th Century
Rebecca E. Karl
New York Universitynoon
4355C Bunche Hall, UCLAProfessor Rebecca E. Karl (Ph.D., Duke University, 1995) is researching an on-going project on gender and citizenship at the turn of the twentieth century. Among her other research interests are contemporary Chinese film, historical consciousness, and historiographical debates; issues in contemporary Chinese intellectual and social life; 1920s and 1930s Chinese economic thought and “semi-colonialism”; contemporary critical theory; and comparative history. All of her work highlights the various global contexts--economic, intellectual, cultural--of modern and contemporary China and is intended as an extended working out of the relationship between critical theories of modernity and modern Chinese history. Among her publications is a just-released book, Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Duke Univ. Press).
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. Call (310) 825-8683 for more information.
April 26, 2002
Meet the Authors of New Books on Korea and the Korean Experience
Book Signing Party
Mary Connor's The Koreas: A Global Studies Handbook (ABC-CLIO, 2002)
Helie Lee's In The Absence of Sun (New York: Harmony Books, 2002)6 - 8 pm
Korean Cultural Center
5505 Wilshire Blvd., LA, 90036
Located at the intersection of Wilshire and Dunsmuir.
Four blocks west of LaBrea on Wilshire.Mary Connor is a senior member of the history department at Westridge School in San Marino, CA. Her first book on the Koreas is a regional studies handbook for use in high schools and colleges. Helie Lee is the acclaimed author of Still Life with Rice (New York: Scribner, 1996). She has been featured on "Nightline," CNN, the Associated Press, and the Los Angeles Times regarding the subject matter of her recent book about her uncle's defection from North Korea.
For more information please call 323-936-7141
(ask for Rick McBride). Refreshments will be served. Free parking in KCCLA lot behind the center.
April 26, 2002
Workshop on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines and the Outrageous Impacts from the 'War on Terrorism'
6 pm 133 & 135 Kerkhoff State Rooms, UCLAThe workshop critically examines contemporary conditions in the Philippines and Vietnam.Sponsored by UCLA Peace and Justice Committee.
April 26, 2002
Commemoration of the Fall of Saigon6 pm 1178 Franz Hall, UCLAThe event will educate students and the community about the historical significance of the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 and raise awareness of the continuing struggle for human rights and democracy in Vietnam. Current commemoration focuses on the issue of Vietnamese land and sea concessions to China. Several guest speakers will provide insight into the history and present conditions of the Vietnamese community. Includes multimedia and historical footage, musical performances, a candlelight vigil, and a panel discussion. For program information, visit www.uclavsu.org.Sponsored by UCLA Vietnamese Student Union.
April 26-27, 2002
International Conference on Korean Christianity in Global Context
9 am-5 pm
UCLA Faculty Center in Downstairs LoungeFriday, April 26, 2002
8:50 am Welcoming Remarks and Introduction:
John Duncan, Director, UCLA Center for Korean Studies
Robert Buswell, Principal Investigator, Korean Christianity Program at UCLA9 am-12:15 pm
Panel I: Rise of Christianity in Korea
Moderator: John Duncan, UCLA
Presenters: Sung-Deuk Oak, Boston University
"Chinese Tracts and the Early Korean Protestant Church"Donald Baker, University of British Columbia
"Saving Race: Two Centuries of Competition between Catholics and Protestants for the Souls of Korea"Timothy S. Lee, UCLA
"Beleaguered Success: Korean Evangelicalism in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century"Respondent: James H. Grayson, University of Sheffield
12:15-1:30 pm Break
1:30-4:45 pm
Panel II: Christians, North Korea, and Reunification of Korea
Moderator: Robert Buswell, UCLAPresenters: Mahn-yol Yi, Sookmyung Women's University, Korea
"Reunification Movement of Korean Christians"Wi Jo Kang, UCLA
"A Korean Theology and Praxis of Reconciliation: Global Implications"Stephen W. Linton, Eugene Bell Foundation
"Religion and Civil Religion in North Korea"Respondents: Anselm Min, Claremont Graduate University
James H. Grayson, University of SheffieldSaturday, April 27, 2002
9:45 am-12 pm
Panel III: Christian Women and Interreligious Dialogue in Korea
Moderator: Namhee Lee, UCLAPresenters: Kangnam Oh, University of Regina
"The Christian-Buddhist Dialogue in Korea: A Global Perspective"Chae Ok Chun, Ewha Women's University, Korea
"Rediscovering Ewha Mission: Its Effects on Korean churches"Respondents: Anselm Min, Claremont Graduate University
Kyeyoung Park, UCLA12-1:30 pm Break
1:30-3:45 pm
Panel IV: Korean Christianity in Diasporas
Moderator: Wi Jo Kang, UCLAPresenters: Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University
"The Beloved Community: The Lived Religion of Korean American Christians"Gil Soo Han, Monash University, Australia
"Korean Christianity in multicultural Australia: is it globalizing or localizing Koreans?"Respondents: Kyeyoung Park, UCLA, USA
3:45-5 pm
Panel V: Summation and Discussion
Moderator: Timothy Lee, UCLA
5:00 pm Reception
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. Please call (310) 825-3284 for additional information.
April 27, 2002
Pieces of the Puzzle: 11th Annual Pilipino Cultural Night (PCN)
4 pm
Campbell Hall, UCSBUCSB's Kapatirang Pilipino presents: Pieces of the Puzzle, the 11th Annual Pilipino Cultural Night (PCN). This is an afternoon/evening of acting, singing (KP choir), cultural dance (KP's cultural dance troupe) and hip hop dance (urban/hip hop dance troupe).
Tickets: $10 presale and $12 at the door. Tickets sold at the ARBOR Monday 4/22 -Friday 4/26 between 10 am and 3 pm.
For more information visit the KP website: http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu or email Charlene at ucsbpcn@hotmail.com.
April 27, 2002
Asia Society Film Series: Nationhood, History, and Cinema
Earth7:30-10 pm
Film and Video Center, University of California, Irvine
214 Humanities Instructional Building Irvine, CA 92697-3535 (949) 824-7418
Admission: $5 for general; $3 for Asia Society members and students with ID.Adapted from Bapsi Sidhwa's semi-autobiographical novel Cracking India, Earth is Deepa Mehta's second film in a trilogy (with Fire and Water). It examines major historical events surrounding the Partition in 1947 of India through the eyes of an eight-year-old girl, the pampered daughter of an affluent Parsi family in Lahore. The film depicts the destructive religious and civil wars that took place in India and Pakistan to gain independence from the British. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Dr. Karen Leonard, Professor, Anthropology, UC Irvine. An additional speaker to be announced. Seats are limited, please register early with the Asia Society Southern California Center at (213) 624-0945. Click here for the full schedule of screenings.
April 27, 2002
UCSB Gamelan Ensemble (performance)
8 pm /
UCSB Lotte Lehman Concert HallMichael Pievac directs the ensemble in a performance of Javanese music with guest musicians and dancers. The second half features the Mahabharata dance drama Ciptoning (Arjuna's Meditation). Tickets at the door: $10 general, $7 students. For further information, call 893-7001 or visit the website: www.music.ucsb.edu.
April 28, 2002
Sa-I-Gu (4-2-9) Commemoration
2 - 5 pm
Los Angeles City's Lafayette Park (east of Vermont, between Wilshire and 6th Street)
The event is free and open to the public.
The 10th anniversary of the 1992 LA Civil Disturbances will be commemorated with a traditional Korean kut (shaman ritual). In Korean culture, the shaman, the ritual professional (either male or female), was endowed through spirit possession or genealogy with the skills and power necessary to realign relationships with the spirits. It was the shaman's duty to know which spirits were ill at ease (be they mountains or a tree, under the sea or in the heavens, a fierce general or a venerable scholar), how to appease them, and thus how to restore harmony for long life and prosperity. The Sa-I-Gu (Korean, literally: 4 -2 - 9) commemoration will be the Los Angeles premiere of Shaman Kim Kûmhwa, one of Korea's designated "Intangible Cultural Treasures," and a full compliment of ritual dancers, singers and musicians. Born in 1931 in Hwanghae-do, a western province now in North Korea, Kim Kûmhwa was initiated at the age of 17 into her profession as a mudang (shaman) by her grandmother, also a mudang. In 1972, she rose to national prominence when she won the National Folk Art Competition for her performance of General Hae-Ju Kut. Her prominence also advanced the status of women as professionals and artists within this highly-structured Confucian-ethic based culture. Her troupe of senior shamans and musicians from Hwanghae-do, includes two other National Intangible Cultural Properties -- Choi Eum-Jeon, changgu (hourglass drum) and An Seung-Sam (flower maker / puk - barrel drum / singer).For more information about this event, please call Lauren W. Deutsch (323) 930-2587. The event is sponsored by South Baylo University, a school of acupuncture and Oriental medicine located in Los Angeles and Anaheim in association with Pacific Rim Arts. Call (714) 533-1495 for more information about South Baylo University.
April 28, 2002
Lotus Steps 2002
2 pm
Northwest Campus Auditorium, UCLAThis is the third annual dance production of the UCLA Chinese Cultural Dance Club. Tickets are free and will be available starting April 19th. Get them at the Central Ticket Office or reserve them online at http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/ccdc.
Sponsored by UCLA Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars.
April 28 2002
Images of Viet Nam, 1969-1970
A Photographic Exhibition by Viet Nam Veteran Michael Burr
11 am-4 pm
Reception for the Artist
My House Restaurant
12332 Brookhurst Street, Garden Grove, CA 92840
(714) 210-186Directions from L. A. area:
San Diego (405) Fwy. South to the Garden Grove (22) Fwy. East. Exit at Brookhurst. At the bottom of the ramp turn left & go north on Brookhurst. Once you pass Lampson Avenue start looking on your right (east side of street) for the restaurant.
April 28, 2002
In The Mood for Love (film-Hong Kong)
7:30 pm
UCSB Campbell HallIn the Mood for Love, a voluptuous and gorgeously shot film set in 1962 Hong Kong, stars Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung as a couple caught in a vortex of quiet passion. Wong Kar-wai (Chungking Express) directs this romance of bright pop surfaces and unrequited tender longing. (2000, 97 min.) Arts & Lectures film. Tickets at the door- $6 general, $5 students.
April 29, 2002
The Health Care Service System in the People's Republic of China
Liming Lee
Director, Chinese Center for Disease Control (CDC)
President, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine
Professor of Epidemiology, Beijing University School of Public Health9-10 am
CHS 71- 257, UCLAFor any inquiries, please contact Dr. Zuo-Feng Zhang, Department of Epidemiology, (310) 825 -8418.
April 29, 2002
The Influence of Translation upon the Historical Development of the Japanese Language
Satoshi Kinsui
Linguistics, Osaka University3 pm
Faculty Center, UCLASponsored by UCLA Center for Japanese Studies. For further information call, 310-825-8681.
April 29, 2002
Human Rights in Southeast Asia
Coeli Barry
History, Thammasat University3 - 4:30 pm
243 Royce Hall, UCLAThe effort to intellectually legitimize human rights in Southeast Asia continues apace. This talk examines what continues to drive the human rights effort, especially the academic/scholarly dimension of this political movement. The talk draws on Barry's experiences teaching in the first masters course on Human Rights in Southeast Asia (at Mahidol University in Thailand) to explore efforts on the part of students and staff to develop intellectual foundations for the promotion of human rights.
Sponsored by UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Please call 310-206-9163 for additional information.
April 29, 2002
Singapore Writers (reading)
6:30 pm
UCSB MultiCultural Center Theater
FreeThis event is a writer's evening of readings. Features an entourage of seven accomplished and highly respected Singaporean poets, a novelist and a publisher. The Singaporean Writers' Reading Tour is made possible by the National Arts Council and the Singapore International Foundation. For information, call 893-8411.
Where to send announcements:
Please send announcements of East Asia-related events, performances, and exhibitions to
Clayton
Dube
UCLA Center for East Asian Studies
11266 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Los Angeles, California 90095-1487
email: <cdube@isop.ucla.edu>
fax: (310) 206-3555
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