UCLA Center for East Asian Studies  

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Southern California
East Asian Calendar of Events and Exhibitions  

January 2000  

Ongoing Exhibitions | Lectures, conferences and performances

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Ongoing Exhibitions

Dec. 4, 1999- Jan. 2, 2000

Art & Democracy II: A mixed media art exhibition

Wednesday through Sunday
2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Gallery
125 Paseo de la Plaza at Olvera Street
Downtown Los Angeles

This exhibition is presented to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement in China and the fall of the Berlin Wall. In December of 1989, Art & Democracy was installed at Merging One Gallery and had a great success with participation from artists across the United States. Art & Democracy II will also include international artists from China, Hong Kong, Romania, Vietnam and many parts of the United States.

Sponsors: Visual Artists Guild and Merging One Gallery. For further information, please contact: Diana Wong at Merging One Gallery (310) 394-3018, Fax 395-9969 or Ann Lau of the Visual Artists Guild phone: (310) 539-0234 Or by e-mail at visualalau@earthlink.net.

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,
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 January 2, 2000

"The Art of Twentieth-Century Zen: Paintings and Calligraphy by Japanese Masters"

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 857-6000

Through January 16, 2000

"Ghost in the Shell": Photography and the Human Soul, 1850–2000

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 857-6000

Lectures, conferences, and performances

January 10, 2000

"Intentional Action and Unaccusativity in Japanese"

Wesley Jacobsen
East Asian Languages and Culture, Harvard University

3 p.m.
Sierra Room, UCLA Faculty Center

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

January 13, 2000

"'The Chinese Eat Chopsticks; Westerners Eat Forks and Knives': On Emergent Argument Structure and Its Implications for Applied Linguistics"

Hongyin Tao,
Cornell University

3 p.m.
243 Royce Hall, UCLA

Abstract: This talk draws on evidence from computer corpora of vernacular Mandarin of both the premodern and modern periods to argue for an understanding of the nature of the association of participants (people and objects) and verb actions, as exemplified by chi 'eat,' as a dynamic, discursive, and historical process. It argues that the evolution of this process is shaped by frequency of language use and the principle of prototypicality widely observed in human cognition. The issues involved originate in a pedagogical concern regarding selectional restrictions of nominal references on the verb.

Presented by the UCLA Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures.

January 14, 2000

"Constructing the Greater East Asia Film Sphere"

Michael Baskett,
Doctoral Candidate, Modern Japanese Film and Literature

10 a.m.
243 Royce Hall, UCLA

These lectures are part of a series of practice job talks sponsored by the  UCLA Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures. All interested graduate students and faculty are invited and encouraged to attend.

January 15, 2000

"The Chinese Labor Camp:  Theory, Actuality, and Fictional Representation"

8 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Humanities 1500, UC Riverside

This interdisciplinary conference will examine Chinese prison camps (laogai ying) from perspectives in both humanities and the social sciences.  Speakers include both senior scholars in China studies and human rights activists, some of whom have first-hand experience of the camps.   Areas covered include personal accounts, comparative studies, film and reportage, poetry and fiction, human rights conditions, political dimensions, gender dynamics, and maladjustments of the ex-prisoner in society.  This conference is co-organized by Yenna Wu (UC Riverside) and Philip F. Williams (Arizona State University), and co-sponsored by the Center for Ideas and Society and the Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies and the University of California, Riverside.

This event is free and open to the public.  Seating is limited, pre-registration is required in order to attend the lunch session.

8:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM Welcome Moderator: Yenna Wu, UC Riverside
Opening Address: Dean Patricia O'Brien, UC Riverside

9:00 AM Roundtable: Chinese Prison Camps and Human Rights
Chair: Theda Shapiro, UC Riverside
Presenters: Perry Link, Princeton University
Harry Hongda Wu, Laogai Research Foundation
Liu Qing, Contributing Editor, China Rights Forum

10:45 AM Social-Science Perspectives on the Laogai
Chair: Michelle Yeh, UC Davis
Presenters: James Seymour, Columbia University
Fan Shidong, UC Berkeley & Univ. of Washington
Richard Madsen, UC San Diego

12:15 PM Lunch

1:15 PM The Camps in Reportage and Fiction
Chair: Yvonne Chang, Univ. of Texas, Austin
Presenters: Philip F. Williams, Arizona State Univ.
Jeffrey Kinkley, St. John's University
Yenna Wu, UC Riverside

3:00 PM Prisoners in Literature and Film
Chair: Perry Link, Princeton University
Presenters: Michelle Yeh, UC Davis
Yvonne Chang, Univ. of Texas,
Austin Philip F. Williams, Arizona State Univ.

For registration and other information:
(909) 787-7248
Email: ideassoc@citrus.ucr.edu
Website: http://www.ucr.edu/cis/chinese

January 19, 2000

“The Ritual Life of a People without Culture: Kebudayaan on Lombok”

Dr. Cameron Rollins
Ph.D. from Emory 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.

January 20, 2000

“Tagalog On Site”
Summer Language and Culture Program in the Philippines

Susan Quimpo,
Director

11:00 a.m.
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Tagalog On Site (TOS), a unique summer study-abroad program especially designed for 2nd and 3rd-generation Filipino Americans, assists college students and young professionals in rediscovering Philippine language, culture and history.  TOS combines intensive Tagalog language training with a thoughtfully designed cultural orientation program meant to provide the tools and experience to come to a deeper understanding of one's Filipino roots.  Susan Quimpo, program director of TOS, will share her experiences and insights on how the program has helped participants confront the duality of being Filipino American.

Sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Asian American Studies Center.  For more information call 310-206-9163.

January 20, 2000

"Pitch Undulation and Tonal Realization in the Formation of Mandarin Intonation"

Rongrong Liao
East Asian Languages and Culture, UCLA

3 pm
243 Royce Hall, UCLA

Dr. Liao will provide a general explanation of the phenomenon of unpredictable tone sandhi in Mandarin speech, and a global picture of how pitch undulation is formed in the course of Mandarin utterances of any style and length. The main hypotheses concern the tendency of pitch undulation, the principle of pitch contour formation in intermediate phrases and the rule for sequence of Tone 3s. Dr. Liao will suggest a specific way to teach tonal changes in the beginning Chinese class as well as at higher levels of Chinese conversation.

This presentation is sponsored by the UCLA Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures.

 

January 21, 2000

"The Deployment of Gender in the Writing of Higuchi Ichiyo"

Leslie Winston
Doctoral Candidate, Modern Japanese Literature, UCLA

12:30 p.m.
243 Royce Hall, UCLA

This lecture is part of a series of practice job talks sponsored by the  UCLA Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures. All interested graduate students and faculty are invited and encouraged to attend.

 

 "State and Civil Society in Korea, 1987-1999"

Prof. Ho Ki Kim,
Yonsei University, Visiting Scholar at UCLA

3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
243 Royce Hall, UCLA

Presented by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies and UCLA International Studies and Overseas Programs.  For more information contact (310) 825-3284 E-mail:  koreanstudies@isop.ucla.edu.

 

"Musics of the Minorities of Northwest China"

Professor Du Yaxiong
Professor of Music,
Conservatory of China, Peking

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Gamelan Room 1659 Schoenberg Hall, UCLA

Northwest China, which borders on Kazakhstan, is home to several million Chinese citizens of non-Han ethnicity. Many ethnic minorities in this area are of Turkic origin and follow the Islamic faith. Their music is often very different from that of China's Han majority and shows strong connections with the sound world of Central Asia.

This Faculty & Graduate Student Colloquium is presented by the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.

Japan America Society Mirai X-Change's New Year's Party

The Japan America Society Mirai X-Change will hold its 4th Annual New Year's Party at the Verandah Grill on the Queen Mary. An evening of hors d'oeuvres with a spectacular night time view of Long Beach Harbor.

6:30-8:30 p.m.
The Queen Mary Verandah Grill
1126 Queens Highway,
Long Beach, CA 90802

$20 for JAS members & $25 for non-members. Buffet style food/No host bar. Self Parking: $6 with validation.

For reservations and additional information, please call 213-627-6217, ext.17 or email: aki_jas@hotmail.com

January 22, 2000

New Thinking: The Chinese Academy in the 1990s

Chair: Theodore Huters (UCLA)

Wang Hui (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

   "Reflections on 'National Forms'"

Wang Xiaoming (East Chinese Normal University)

  "Major Developments in Recent Chinese Intellectual Discourse"

Zhang Xudong (New York University)

  "'End of History' and the Future of Humanities in China:
    The Problematics of Postmodernism"

Commentator: Yeh Wen-hsin, U.C. Berkeley

9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA

The conference will be conducted in Chinese, but translation will be provided. This conference is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies in conjunction with the Southern California China Colloquium.

January 24, 2000

 "Paradigms of Baraku-ness: Representations of Outcastes in Modern Japanese Fiction"

Edward Fowler
East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCI

3 p.m.
Sierra Room, UCLA Faculty Center

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

January 27, 2000

"Back to the Barracks?  Asian Militaries in Democratic Reform Processes"

Dr. Mary Callahan,
University of Washington

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.

 

"Causative Constructions in Mandarin Chinese"

Janet Zhiqun Xing,
Western Washington University

3 p.m.
243 Royce Hall, UCLA

Presented by the UCLA Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures.

January 28, 2000      

"Negative Polarity Items in Korean (and Japanese)"

Prof. Chungmin Lee,
Seoul National University, Visiting Scholar at UCLA

3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
243 Royce Hall, UCLA

Presented by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies and UCLA International Studies and Overseas Programs.  For more information contact (310) 825-3284 E-mail: koreanstudies@isop.ucla.edu or 

January 31, 2000

“Defending the Yutang Natawhan: Cebuanos as Filipinos in the War Against the Americans, 1899-1902”

Dr. Michael Cullinane,
University of Wisconsin, Madison 

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.

 

Awards ceremony, book-signing, and panel discussion: Lee Hee-Ho and Sharon Davis

George O. Totten III,
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Chair of the USC Korea Project

2-3 p.m.
Town and Gown, USC

Madame Lee Hee-Ho, First Lady of Korea (wife of South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung) will be honored at a special ceremony and book signing. Madame Lee is being honored as the recipient of the International Social Welfare Prize.

In addition to the ceremony and book signing, Madame Lee will be joined by Sharon Davis (wife of California governor Gray Davis) in a broad-based discussion on issues including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the feminist movement and Christianity.

Lee Hee-Ho attended Lamuth College and received an MA from Scarritt College (both in Tennessee); her career includes positions as vice-president of the Pan-Pacific Southest Asia Womens' Association (Korea Chapter), president of the Research Institute for Womens' Problems, and general secretary of the National YWCA of Korea.  She is the author of Praying for Tomorrow: Letters to My Husband in Korea and Love, My Country. 

George O. Totten III, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Chair of the USC Korea Project, will introduced the featured books authored by Madame Lee.

"Eastward Journeys and Western Discontents: 'Qi Energy,' and Chinese Culture in the Making of Mind-Body Medicine"

Anne Harrington,
Harvard University

4:00 p.m.
Bunche Hall 5288, UCLA

Presented by the UCLA Center for the Cultural Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine, as part of its winter quarter 2000 Monday afternoon lecture series.

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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