UCLA Center for East Asian Studies  

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Southern California
East Asian Calendar of Events and Exhibitions  

February 2000  

Ongoing Exhibitions | Lectures, conferences and performances

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Ongoing Exhibitions

Through February 20, 2000

Golden Child

David Henry Hwang Theater --
Union Center for the Arts
120 N. Judge John Aiso St.
Los Angeles, California

Schedule: Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, Sunday matinees, 2 p.m.

Tickets are $25-$30, rush tickets (available one hour before curtain) are $15. Call (800) 233-3123.

David Henry Hwang's new drama explores choices his great grandfather made and how these choices affected his descendants.

Sat. & Sun. Months of February and March

Chinese Culture

Kidseum
Bowers Museum of Cultural Art
2002 North Main Street
Santa Ana, California

11 a.m.-3:30 p.m.- Beijing artisans demonstrate traditional Chinese arts. Create your own Chinese Art projects & have your face painted with good luck symbols.

2-3p.m. - Chinese stories and folktales by the South Coast Storytellers Guild.

Call (714) 480-1520 for any activity and entertainment updates.

Through mid April 2000

Miniature Chinese Ceramics

This exhibition of miniature Chinese ceramics will be drawn from the fine collection of former Ambassador and Mrs. Jack Lydman and several other collectors.

Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Avenue
Pasadena, California 91101

The museum is one half block north of Colorado Boulevard in downtown Pasadena. For more information about Pacific Asia Museum call 626/449-2742 or fax 626/449-2754.

Through September 3, 2000

"Secret World of the Forbidden City: Splendors From China's Imperial Palace"

This exhibition opens Sunday, February 6 and features the largest collection of items (more than 300 objects) ever loaned by Beijing's Palace Museum. According to the museum, these objects have been in storage and are now being displayed for the first time. In addition to various items of clothing, jewelry, paintings, and ceramics, the exhibition includes a recreation of the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Bowers Museum of Cultural Art
2002 North Main Street
Santa Ana, California

Exhibition website

Exhibition hours: Tuesday - Friday 10 am - 4 p.m.; Saturday - Sunday 10 am - 6 p.m.

Exhibition admission (price includes audio tour):

	weekdays	weekends
adults	$14	$16
seniors/students	$12	$14
children 5-18	$8	$10
children under 5	free	free

    Vista Ticketing (877) 250-8999

Lectures, conferences, and performances

February 3, 2000

"Political Parties and Linkage: Strategic Coordination in Thailand"

Allen Hicken,
University of California, San Diego

12 noon
4269 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Lunch will be provided.

Presented by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Department of Political Science. For more information please contact  (310) 206-9163.

February 3, 2000

"Sacred Clay: Traditional Art in Modern Bengal"

Henry Glassie
College Professor of Folklore, Indiana University

7 p.m.
Dodd 275, UCLA

Professor Glassie, one of the most distinguished and influential folklorists in the world today, and an indefatigable fieldworker who has documented various traditions in Asia, Europe, and North America, is the author of numerous books, including -Patterns in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States- (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1969), -All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming- (Indiana University Press, 1976), -Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Culture and History of an Ulster Community- (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982), -Turkish Traditional Art Today- (Indiana University Press, 1993), -Art and Life in Bangladesh- (Indiana University Press, 1997), -Material Culture- (Indiana University Press, 1999), -The Potter's Art- (Indiana University Press, 1999), and -Vernacular Architecture- (Indiana University Press, in press).

This presentation is open to the public.

A reception in Dodd 220 will follow professor Glassie's presentation.

Organized by the UCLA Folklore and Mythology Group For more information, contact Professor Joseph Nagy (English) at jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu

February 3, 2000

The Archaeology of Salt Production in Southwest China

Lothar von Falkenhausen, Art History, UCLA
Li Shuicheng, Peking University

8 p.m.
Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium,
Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA

Surveys and fieldwork conducted at a number of inland salt-producing areas in the Sichuan Basin have revealed several multi-period stratified sites with extremely dense accumulations of potsherds. Obviously not ordinary habitation sites, they suggest linkage to economic activity of some kind, probably salt production. Just back from the field, the speakers will share with the audience some of the most recent findings and present them in a wider comparative context.

This presentation is part of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA's public lecture series.

February 4, 2000

“Multiple Publics and Human Rights in Diaspora Politics”

Professor Aihwa Ong,
University of California, Berkeley

noon
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Lunch will be provided.

Presented by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. For more information please contact  (310) 206-9163.

February 4, 2000

"The Interaction Between the North-West of China and Central Asia in the Second Millennium B.C.: An Archaeological Perspective"

Li Shuicheng
Peking University p.m.

4 p.m.
A153 UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History

This talk is part of the "Talks on Chinese Art & Archaeology" series organized by Lothar von Falkenhausen (Art History, UCLA). These talks are variously sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, the Costen Institute of Archaeology, and the UCLA Department of Art History.

February 4-5, 2000

Meet the UCLA National Dance/Media Fellows
Screening and Discussion of Dance/Video Works by Fellows
Select works by 1999 and 1998 Fellows will also be featured.

7 - 9 p.m. Followed by Reception
Lenart Auditorium,
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Parking: UCLA Parking Lot 4, $5; Enter campus from Sunset Boulevard, Westwood Plaza (North entrance).

Reservations are not required. Admission is free.

Sponsored by UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance, Department of World Arts & Cultures For information about this event, please call (310) 206-1335. For more information about the Fellows and the UCLA National Dance/Media Project, please see visit our website at http://www.wac.ucla.edu/cip/dancemedia/index.htm

The UCLA National Dance/Media Project is made possible by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts.

February 4-6, 2000

Vietnamese Tet (New Year's) Celebration

Friday, Feb. 4: 10 am - 10 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 5: 10 am -10 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 6: 10 am - 9 p.m.

Opening ceremonies: Saturday, 1:30 p.m. (live music, martial arts demonstrations, and dragon dance)

Atlantis Park
Westminster Avenue and Bushard Street
Garden Grove
Parking available at Bolsa Grande High School (9401 Westminster Ave.)

The festival features booths with food, arts, crafts, and games.

February 6, 2000

A Cultural Happening and Benefit for Helie Lee

2 - 5 p.m.
Pacific Asia Museum,
46 North Los Robles, Pasadena

Free Admission to the Museum
Live Traditional Korean Music and Wedding Ceremony, Poetry Reading, Auction, and an opportunity to hear writer/producer Helie Lee.

Helie Lee is the author of Still Life with Rice (Scribner), which interprets the complex nature of family relations and the rapidly changing lives of women. She is currently completing a sequel. In this memoir, she recounts her family's attempts to rescue her uncle from North Korea after he had been presumed dead for forty-one years.  The story has been featured on Nightline and Cosmopolitan. Helie lectures around the country on her bicultural heritage. The benefit is to enable Helie to make a documentary film,"Macho Like Me."

"Macho Like Me" will explore the burdensome cultural expectations placed on Asian men to be manly, and the problems that arise when they attempt to transplant the Confucian patriarchal system onto America's less accepting soil. How the western notion of freedom and self-determination for women threaten a man's manhood. Gaining this very private glimpse into Asian men's struggles will help us better understand how the conflict between men and women came about, but ultimately "Macho Like Me" will transcend the question of gender and race. It will be the message that will hold people. And the message is that we are all human and that oppression of any kind destroys the soul of society.

For more information visit the Pacific Asia Museum website or call (626)449-2742 or fax (626)449-2754.

February 7, 2000

"Suzhou Is Not Enough: 'Sichuan Style' Gardens and Chinese Regional Architecture"

Jerome Silbergeld
University of Washington

2 p.m.
275 Dodd Hall, UCLA

This talk is part of the "Talks on Chinese Art & Archaeology" series organized by Lothar von Falkenhausen (Art History, UCLA). These talks are variously sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, the Costen Institute of Archaeology, and the UCLA Department of Art History.

February 9, 2000

“Writing in a Different Language: The Case of Indonesian Literature”

Professor Hendrick M.J. Maier,
Leiden University

12 noon
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Lunch will be provided.

Presented by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. For more information please contact  (310) 206-9163.

February 11, 2000

The Nikkei Bruin Conference
"Texts and Commentaries: Japan's Literary Hermeneutics"

Organized by Michele Marra, UCLA East Asian Languages and Cultures
Speakers:
Allan Grapard, UCSB
Mack Horton, UCB
Edith L. Sarra, Indiana University
Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, University of Michigan
Jun Suzuki, National Institute of Japanese Literature

Discussants:
David Bialock, USC
Janet Goodwin, Independent Scholar

          All day
          Sierra Room, UCLA Faculty Center

The following is a detailed program of the conference.

Morning Session

9:00 - 9:15 Coffee served 9:15 - 9:30 Opening remarks by Michael Marra, UCLA

9:30-10:00 "Sorrow on the High Seas: Critical Perspectives on the Silla Envoy Sequence in Man'yoshu" H. Mack Horton, UC Berkeley

10:00-10:30 "Edo Commentaries of the Man'yoshu" Jun Suzuki, National Institute of Japanese Literature

10:30-11:00 "Who Comments on What? Mumyozoshi and Other Fictional Talk of Tales" Edith L. Sarra, Indiana University

11:00-11:30 Comments by David Bialock, USC

11:30-2:30 Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

2:30-3:00 "Fujiwara Tameaki and the Medieval Development of Esoteric Waka Initiations" Susan B. Klein, UC Irvine

3:00-3:30 "Poetry, Criticism, and Dissemination: A Reflection on Poetic Composition as Hermeneutic Practice" Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, University of Michigan

3:30-4:00 "The Source of Oracular Speech: Absense? Desired Presence? Or Plain Treachery? Allan G. Grapard, UC Santa Barbara

4:00-4:30 Comments by Lewis Cook, Queens College

4:30 Closing remarks by Michael Marra

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies. Call (310) 825-8681 for additional information.

February 11, 2000

"Landscape of Iron & Steel: From Pastoralism to Postmodernism"

Lo Ch'ing

noon
4269 Bunche, UCLA

A painter of world renown, Lo Ch'ing is also a professor of literature, a poet, an essayist, and a collector. Lo Ch'ing's work is featured prominently in Craig Clunas' authoritative history of Chinese art, Art in China (Oxford, 1997), which gives equal attention to only one other Taiwanese artist.

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. For more information, call (310)825-8683.

February 11, 2000

"Steppe Empires and the Silk Route: Nomads as a Force in International Trade and Politics in Central Eurasia"

Thomas Barfield
Boston University

4 p.m.
A153 UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History

This talk is part of the "Talks on Chinese Art & Archaeology" series organized by Lothar von Falkenhausen (Art History, UCLA). These talks are variously sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, the Costen Institute of Archaeology, and the UCLA Department of Art History.

February 11-13, 2000

Chinese Lunar New Year Celebrations

Friday - Sunday, Feb. 11-13 Carnival

10 am - 10 p.m.
601 North Broadway, Los Angeles
NW Corner of Broadway & Cesar Chavez
Los Angeles Chinatown

Saturday - Sunday, Feb. 12-13 Street Fair

10 am - 6 p.m.
940 North Broadway Parking Lot   
Los Angeles Chinatown  

Saturday, Feb. 12 Golden Dragon Lunar New Year Parade

2- 5 p.m.
600-900 blocks of North Broadway
(starts at Aliso and Main, turns left on Cesar Chavez, then right onto N. Broadway)
Los Angeles Chinatown

February 12, 2000

Tea Party

10-11:30 a.m.
Bowers Museum of Cultural Art
2002 North Main Street
Santa Ana, California

Storytellers share story of Fa Mulan. $14 per child ( includes Kidseum admission). Call (714) 480-1520 for registration.

February 13, 2000

Film: Forbidden City: The Great Within

2 p.m.
FHP Healthcare/ Robert Gumbiner Conference Center of the
Bowers Museum of Cultural Art
2002 North Main Street
Santa Ana, California

Filmed on location in the Palace, this documentary weaves a spellbinding portrait of the lost world of China's emperors. Free with Museum admission. Sponsored by Christie's Los Angeles.

February 13, 2000

UCLA Vietnamese Tet (Lunar New Year) Festival

Doors open at 6 p.m.
Performances:  7 p.m.-11 p.m.
Ackerman Grand Ballroom, UCLA

A Tet festival featuring dragon dance performances, musical performances, skits, game booths, ao dai (traditional Vietnamese dress) pageant, and much more. The event is free and open to everyone.

This event is hosted by the UCLA Vietnamese Language and Culture Club and the UCLA Vietnamese Student Union.

February 15, 2000

“Cambodia Update: Political and Economic Conditions”        

Mr. Ken Quinn,
Former US Ambassador to Cambodia

11 am - 1 p.m.
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Lunch will be provided.

Ambassador Quinn's career in the Foreign Service has spanned more than twenty-nine years, during which time he has earned numerous awards and prestigious positions in the United States Foreign Service Department. In June 1995, he was nominated to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia. Ambassador Quinn was also the deputy head of the U.S. delegation to the Paris conference on Cambodia that opened the way to significant change in the region. He left Phnom Penh on July 25, 1999 and retired from the Foreign Service.

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and The Asia Society. For more information please contact  (310) 206-9163. 

February 15, 2000

Closing the Book on the Khmer Rouge Chapter of Cambodian History?

Mr. Ken Quinn,
Former US Ambassador to Cambodia

6 p.m.- 8 p.m.
Lecture Hall 150
California State University-Long Beach
Long Beach, California

Sponsored by the Asia Society Southern California Center, the CSULB Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the CSULB Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, the Cambodian Association of America, and the United Cambodian Community, Inc.        

February 17, 2000

“From Bureaucratic Polity to Pluralism: Southeast Asia In Comparative Perspective”

Dr. Thaveeporn Vasavakul,
Council on International Exchange, Hanoi

12 noon
4269 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Lunch will be provided.

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Department of Political Science. For more information please contact  (310) 206-9163. 

February 17, 2000

Information Session on the Johns Hopkins/Nanjing University Center

Aubrey Kuan
Student Services Coordinator Hopkins-Nanjing Center

2 pm
243 Royce, UCLA

The Hopkins-Nanjing Program is a one-year residential graduate level program in China for Chinese and English-speaking students and professionals. Participants are selected competitively from universities in China, the United States and around the world.

Courses for Americans and other foreign students focus on China's history, foreign relations, government, politics, society, economics, trade, and language. All courses are taught in Mandarin by Chinese professors. In addition, the Center hosts seminars, conferences and lectures on business, law, political science, history and culture.

If you have questions, but are unable to attend, please contact: Hopkins-Nanjing Center Washington Program Office
1619 Massachusetts Avenue
NW Washington DC 20036
Tel: 202/663-5806
Fax: 202/663-7729
E-mail: nanjing@jhu.edu.
For more information, please visit our website at www.sais-jhu.edu/nanjing.

February 17, 2000

Hepatitis B:  The Global Challenge
Film presentation from the UCLA Center for Pacific Rim Studies

Filmmakers Claire Panosian, MD, and Patrick Dunavan

4-6 p.m.
Hacienda Room, UCLA Faculty Center

Hepatitis B kills nearly two million people every year. In some parts of the world, the virus silently infects one out of every ten people -- lurking in its victims for years, or even decades, without being noticed. What can be done to stop it? The answer is found in "Hepatitis B: The Global Challenge," a half-hour program that will save lives. This informative and inspiring documentary frames the sobering facts about hepatitis B with the stories of people it affects. Camera crews traveled to five different Pacific Rim countries, including China, Korea, Thailand, the Philippines and the United States to record their stories.

Personal tragedies, multiplied by the millions worldwide, "Hepatitis B: The Global Challenge" shows how this scourge is being vanquished with a combination of education, treatment, and immunization. It's a prescription for saving lives. Production "Hepatitis B: The Global Challenge" was an 8-month production sponsored by an educational grant from Glaxo Wellcome to Claire Panosian MD and Patrick Dunavan. Panosian is a medical journalist as well as a UCLA professor of medicine and infectious diseases. She has extensive background in public health issues of the Pacific Rim. Dunavan is a 5-time Emmy award winning television producer whose recent credits also include an hour-long PBS special on cholesterol and heart disease. In the year 2000, "Hepatitis B: The Global Challenge" will be broadcast throughout Asia in English, Mandarin, Korean, and Thai language versions. In 1996, with support from the UC Pacific Rim Research Program, Panosian and Dunavan co-chaired a meeting in Taiwan entitled "Use of Mass Media for Health Education in the Pacific Rim." The proceedings of this conference were later published as a monograph by the UCLA Center for Pacific Rim Studies and proved instrumental in raising funds for "Hepatitis B: The Global Challenge."

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Pacific Rim Studies, for more information call: (310) 206-8984.

February 17, 2000

NVM Gonzalez -- A Celebration of His Life, Work and Music

5:30 - 8 p.m.
Mark Taper Room
Los Angeles Central Library
Validated parking at 524 South Flower St.
Los Angeles

Program will include: -- Biographical Video "A Story Yet to be Told " by Jerome Academia and Russell Leong -- Creative Pieces from Priscilla Cummings Delgado, Allan Aquino, Anna Alves, Mike Gonzalez and Emily Lawsin. -- Several original Pilipino music pieces will be played on the violin by a world-class concert violinist (and UCLA Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology) Nonoy Alsaybar and "Dandansoy" by an award-winning concert flutist, Asuncion Ojeda. -- Rondalla music and balagtasan will also be part of the program. -- Community tributes coming from Consul Josue Villa or designee, including a Memoriam for NVM from Enrique Delacruz, Jr. -- Emcees will include Allan Aquino and Prosy Delacruz.

NVM Gonzalez was the 1997 Philippine National Artist for Literature, the only UCLA Regents Professor for 1998-1999 and Professor Emeritus of University of the Philippines. He received many literary awards during the course of his lifetime. Considered one of the most important figures in Philippine letters, he authored 11 books including "A Season of Grace", "Winds of April", "Bread of Salt". He passed away at age of 84 on November 26, 1999.

Sponsored by: The UCLA Asian American Studies Center, FILCRA, California State University at Northridge Asian American Studies Center, Los Angeles Philippine Consulate, Philippine Expressions Bookstore and PAWW (Pan Asian Womens' Writers)

To RSVP contact Meg Thornton or Russell Leong at (310) 825-2974 or Enrique and Prosy Delacruz at (323) 933-1198.

February 18, 2000

"The Devolution of Urban Society: the Integration of the Eurasian Steppes into the 'Civilized' Bronze Age World, c. 3500 - 1500 B.C."

Philip Kohl
Wellesley College

4 pm
A153 UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History

This talk is part of the "Talks on Chinese Art & Archaeology" series organized by Lothar von Falkenhausen (Art History, UCLA). These talks are variously sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, the Costen Institute of Archaeology, and the UCLA Department of Art History.

February 19, 2000

 Year of the Dragon: Chinese New Year

Pacific Asia Museum
46 N. Robles Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91101

12 noon-5 pm.
Free

Featuring:
Performances- Traditional Chinese Lion Dance
                        Why do Chinese Celebrate the New Year in Feb.?
                        Tai-Chi Demonstration
                        Traditional Dance Performances
                        Chinese Material Art Demonstration
                        Taiwanese Puppet Show
Children's Workshops-Dough Making
                                    Chinese Knotting
                                    Dragon-hunt Game
Food Samples

Sponsored by the Taipei Economic Cultural Office and the Chinese Arts Council of Pacific Asia Museum.     

February 20, 2000

Lecture: The Great Qing Dynasty and the World

Dr. John E. Wills, Jr.
Professor of History, USC

2 p.m.
FHP Healthcare/ Robert Gumbiner Conference Center of the
Bowers Museum of Cultural Art
2002 North Main Street
Santa Ana, California

Museum members $10, non-members $14. For advance reservations   call (714) 567-3680.

February 22, 2000

 “The Radical and Nationalist Tradition in Philippine Literature”

Dr. Nenita Pambid Domingo,
University of California, Los Angeles

12 noon
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Lunch will be provided.

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. For more information please contact  (310) 206-9163. 

February 22, 2000 

The Southern California Japan Seminar: "Mapping the Sentimental Empire: In Quest of Sony"

John Nathan
Takashima Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies, UCSB

4:15 pm
IBEAR Conference Room (204 Popvich Hall)
University of Southern California

John Nathan will discuss his new history Sony: the Private Life (Houghton Mifflin, 1999), will discuss his new history of Sony. His teaching and research specializations include Japanese cinema and modern Japanese literature. Nathan's documentary films include Mastering Revolutionary Change (1994) and Corporate Culture and Performance (1992).

Parking is available at USC Gate #3 at the corner of Figueroa and 35th Streets.

Samuel Yamashita (history, Pomona College) is seminar coordinator. Contact him at (909) 607-2924 or syamashita@pomona.edu. The seminar is sponsored by the USC/UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center. For further information contact Chris Evans at (213) 740-2993.

February 22, 2000

 “The Outlook for Asia: A View from Davos”

Tom Plate
Policy Studies and Communication Studies, UCLA

4:30 p.m.
11382 Bunche Hall, UCLA
reception to follow

Tom Plate, Adjunct Professor of Policy Studies and Communications Studies and Los Angeles Times contributing editor, has just returned from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where President Clinton and U.S. Trade Representatives Charlene Barshevsky met with leaders of leading world nations, including heads of state and senior representatives from China, South Korea, Indonesia, Japan, and Singapore.

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Pacific Rim Studies, call (310) 206-8984 for more information.

February 23, 2000

"Political Subtexts in Commercial Arts: a Case Study from Late Imperial China"

Kathlyn M. Liscomb
University of Victoria

2 pm
275 Dodd Hall, UCLA 

This talk is part of the "Talks on Chinese Art & Archaeology" series organized by Lothar von Falkenhausen (Art History, UCLA). These talks are variously sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, the Costen Institute of Archaeology, and the UCLA Department of Art History.

February 23, 2000        

"Fashions and Fissures: Changing Meanings of Clothing in Colonial Korea"

Hyung Gu Lynn
Harvard University

3 pm
243 Royce Hall, UCLA

Hyung Gu Lynn is a candidate for a position in the UCLA Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. This talk is sponsored by the Department and the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. Call (310) 825-3284 for additional information.

February 23, 2000      

"The Korean Language: Prospects and Problems"

Chin-wu Kim
Linguistics, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

4-5:30 pm
SOS Room B40, University of Southern California

This talk is sponsored by the USC Korean Studies Institute.

February 24, 2000

Asian Studies Electronic and Internet Resources Seminar

Catherine Lee, Asian Studies Bibliographer, YRL
Sarah S. Elman, East Asian Library

2-4 p.m.
West Electronic Classroom ,
23167 Young Research Library, UCLA

To sign-up, write to Catherine Lee or Sara Elman by February 22, 2000.

"On Communist Repression in China, 1949 - 1989"

Jean-Luc Domenach
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques

3 pm
11382 Bunche Hall, UCLA

A columnist for the dailies La Croix and Ouest-France, Professor Domenach is also a member of the editorial and advisory boards of several periodicals. Among his recent publications are The Origins of the Great Leap Forward: The Case of One Chinese Province (Westview, 1995), and Chine: l'archipel oublié [China: The Forgotten Archipelago] (Paris, Fayard, 1992).

"Dependent Development and Democratic Transition: South Korea"

Gi-Wook Shin
Sociology, UCLA

5-6:30 pm
Hershey 1628, UCLA

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Comparative Social Analysis. Papers are in Adobe .pdf format and are available on the web at: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/groups/ccsa/current.htm

February 25, 2000

Symposium on "Korea in the New Millenium"

1:30 - 5:00 p.m.
2343 Public Policy Building, UCLA

1:30 - 3:00
PANEL I:  Economy and Sociocultural Change 
Chair:          Dr. Gi-Wook Shin, UCLA

Panelists:   Dr. Carter Eckert, Harvard University
"Change or Plus ça change: Economic Reform Under Kim Dae Jung"

Dr. Michael Robinson, Indiana University
"Whither the Cultural Wars in 21st Century Korea?"

3:00 - 3:30    COFFEE BREAK

3:30 - 5:00
PANEL II:  Political and International Relations
Chair:         Dr. Robert Buswell, UCLA

Panelists:    Dr. Byung Chul Koh, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Politics Under Kim Dae Jung: Change or Continuity?"

Prof. Thomas Plate, UCLA
"Korea, North and South -- and America, Decided and Undecided"

Presented by UCLA Center for Korean Studies and the International Studies and Overseas Programs.  For more information contact (310) 825-3284.

February 25, 2000

"The Murong in Northeast China, 2nd 5th Centuries, CE: The Complexities of Ethnicity"

Albert Dien
Stanford University

4 pm
A153 UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History

This talk is part of the "Talks on Chinese Art & Archaeology" series organized by Lothar von Falkenhausen (Art History, UCLA). These talks are variously sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, the Costen Institute of Archaeology, and the UCLA Department of Art History.

February 26 & 27, 2000

Chinese Family Festival

11 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Kidseum
Bowers Museum of Cultural Art
2002 North Main Street
Santa Ana, California

Lion dancers, artisans, art projects, face painting and stories by the South Coast Storytellers Guild.

February 27, 2000

Film: Meishu: Travels in Chinese Art

2 p.m.
Bowers Museum of Cultural Art
2002 North Main Street
Santa Ana, California

This series combines art history and travelogue in a journey through China. Part 1, Canal Boat to History, explores the relationship between geography, landscape and art in China through the ages. (55mins) Free with Museum admission.

February 27, 2000

"U.S.-China Relations at the Crossroads:  A Summit Dialogue"

9:00 am Registration: (Coffee & tea available)
Northwest Campus Auditorium (purple building, two buildings south and west of Covel Commons)

10:00 am WELCOME
UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale
Peking University President Xu Zhihong

10:30 am U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS: THE SEARCH FOR ACCOMMODATION

Introduction: Vice-Provost Phillip Trimble, UCLA International Studies and Overseas Programs
An American View: Ambassador Chas. W. Freeman
A Chinese View: Ambassador An Wenbin

12:00 noon -- Grand Horizon Room (3rd Floor of Covel Commons)
LUNCH: CHINA AND THE WTO: THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS

Robert Kapp, President, U.S.-China Business Council

1:30-3:15 pm CONSTRUCTING PEACE: SECURITY CONCERNS
(Northwest Campus Auditorium)

Moderator: Richard Rosecrance, UCLA Center for International Relations
Jia Qingguo, Professor of International Politics, Peking University
Richard Solomon, President, U.S. Institute of Peace
Michael Swaine, Research Director, Asian-Pacific Policy, RAND Corporation

3:30-5:15 pm: BREAKOUT SESSIONS (choose one)

Session 1: LEVELING THE ECONOMIC PLAYING FIELD: FAIR TRADE vs. FREE TRADE (South Bay Room, 3rd Floor, Covel Commons)

Moderator: Arthur Rosett, UCLA School of Law
Stanley Lubman, Stanford Law School.
Randall Peerenboom, UCLA School of Law
William Mow, CEO, Bugle Boy Industries, Inc.

Session 2: DEMONIZING THE "OTHER": THE ROLE OF THE MASS MEDIA
(West Coast Room, 3rd Floor, Covel Commons)

Moderator: Tom Plate, Los Angeles Times
Orville Schell, Dean, U.C. Berkeley School of Journalism
Dr. Timothy Weston, University of Colorado History Department
Seth Faison, Shanghai Bureau Chief, New York Times
Representative of Xinhua News Agency (TBA)

5:15 pm Cocktail reception (Grand Horizon Room, north section, and adjacent Terrace, Third Floor, Covel Commons)

6:00 pm BANQUET (Grand Horizon Room, south section, Third Floor, Covel Commons)

U.S. Ambassador John H. Holdridge
Introduction: Richard Koo, President, Sino-American Institute of Human Resources
PRC Ambassador Ji Chaozhu
Introduction: Richard Baum, Director, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
"U.S.-China Relations at the Crossroads"-- Kenneth Lieberthal, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asia, National Security Council

8:00 pm ADJOURNMENT

The conference is organized and hosted by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. Cosponsors: UCLA: Center for International Business Education and Research, Center for International Relations, Center for Pacific Rim Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, College of Letters and Science, International Studies and Overseas Programs, School of Public Policy. Cooperating Organizations: Asia Society, Southern California Center; Chinese Scholar Association; Milken Institute; National Committee on U.S.-China Relations; Pacific Council on International Policy; Peking University Alumni Association; and the Sino-American Institute of Human Relations.

Preregistration for the conference is essential. Complete the form available on the web at: www.isop.ucla.edu/chinaconference. For additional information call (310) 825-8683, fax: (310) 206-3555, or email: feelie@ucla.edu.

Registration
After FEB. 22: Students from schools other than UCLA will be admitted for half price ($25), all others will be charged $50.

February 28, 2000

"The Iconography of Landscape: The Case of Some Sacred Mountains of Japan"

Allan Grapard
East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UC Santa Barbara

3- 5 pm
California Room, UCLA Faculty Center

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies. Call (310) 825-8681 for more information.

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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