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East Asian Calendar of Events and Exhibitions  

April 2001

Ongoing Exhibitions | Lectures, conferences and performances

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Ongoing Exhibitions

Lectures, conferences, and performances

April 2, 2001

"The Political System in the Tokugawa Period:  Tenno, Shogun, Daimyo, and Samurai"

Kazuhiko Kasaya
International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto

3-5 p.m.
Hacienda Room, Faculty Center, UCLA

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies.

April 3, 2001

"Sino-American Cultural Interactions: The Case of Yenching University"

Arthur Rosenbaum
History, Claremont McKenna College 

4:15 p.m.
Hahn 108, Pomona College

For more information, please contact Samuel Yamashita at syamashita@pomona.edu.

April 4, 2001

"China's Sixth Generation Filmmakers" 

Huang Shixian 
Beijing Film Academy

2 p.m. 
Von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs (VKC)
3518 Trousdale Pkwy.
Room 329, 
University of Southern California

Huang 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. He also is the author of a four-part interview with Zhang Yimou (published in City Entertainment, the leading Hong Kong film magazine, as a series from November 25, 1999 through January 2000). Professor Huang will give his talk in Mandarin, with English translation provided. 

Sponsored by the USC East Asian Studies Center. For more information, contact Chris Evans at (213) 740-2991.

April 4, 2001

"Studying Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China: Afterthoughts"

Professor Hsiung Ping-chen 
Institute of Modern History Academia Sinica, Taipei

4:00-5:30 p.m. 
Social Sciences Building B40, USC

Dr. Hsiung's talk will be based on research she has conducted for her forthcoming book from Stanford university press, in which she attempts to use children and human "life-cycles" as a measure of history on which to examine the lives of children in late-imperial China.

Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the East Asian Studies Center at the University of Southern California.

For more information, call (213) 740-3707 or write to ealc@usc.edu.

April 6, 2001

"Child Development and Children's Activities in Late Imperial and Modern China"

Hsiung Ping-chen 
Institute of Modern History Academia Sinica, Taipei

1-3 p.m. 
CPH 111 (Health Science Campus), University of Southern California

Dr. Hsiung is visiting as part of the USC provost's distinguished visitors program. Her talk sponsored by the USC Department of Occupational Science and Therapy. Call (213) 740-2991 for more information.

April 6-7, 2001

"History and Memory in Contemporary Indonesia" Conference

Deutsch Room, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA 

The conference will focus on the social, cultural and political dimensions of how the past is recalled and reclaimed in one of the most important and currently most volatile countries in Asia.

The world watched in 1998 as Indonesia brought an end to the 32-year New Order period with the resignation of President Suharto. Under his paternalist regime the study and writing of history was engineered by the state, and official nationalist discourse dominated and obscured the regional and cultural histories of Indonesia? vast archipelago. Central control over representations of the past ensured that violence and repression -- most prominently the mass killings of 1965-66 that accompanied the New Order's rise -- were never discussed as part of the country's legacy.

This conference will consider contemporary Indonesia's efforts to examine collective historical memory, and the many ways in which the country's past is being spoken, written and represented in the wake of the New Order. An interdisciplinary range of papers consider varying topics: remembering the national revolution, new cultural and artistic reflections on the New Order, efforts to open the record of human rights abuse, public intellectuals and the shaping of historical discourse, and the role of private memory in the search for truth and justice.

Friday, 6 April 8:15-9:00 Registration and Coffee

9:00 Opening Remarks -- Anthony Reid, CSEAS Director

9:10 Introduction to Conference Theme
Mary Zurbuchen
CSEAS/Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

9:30-11:30 Session One: Sites of Memory in History and Historiography

"Remembering and Forgetting War and Revolution"
Anthony Reid, UCLA

"History of Trauma and Sites of Memory'"
Klaus H. Schreiner International Forum on Indonesian Development, Brussels

"Nugroho Notosusanto: The Legacy of a Historian in the Service of an Authoritarian Regime"
Kate McGregor, University of Melbourne

"The Battle for History after Suharto"
Gerry van Klinken, Inside Indonesia

11:30-12:30 Comments on Session One Papers Discussant: Geoffrey Robinson, UCLA

12:30-2:00 LUNCH

2:00-3:45 Session Two: Historical Predicaments in Regional Memory

"Invisible Warrior, Unforseeable Nation: Murder Spree in East Java, 1998"
Fadjar I. Thufail, University of Wisconsin

"Struggling with History, Histories of Struggle: Aceh in (Re)forming Indonesia"
Elizabeth Drexler, University of Washington

"Remembering the Regional Revolution in Sulawesi"
Andi F. Bakti, McGill University

3:45-4:00 Coffee break

4:00-4:45 Comments on Session Two Papers Discussant: Nancy Peluso, University of California, Berkeley

6:30 PM CONFERENCE DINNER for Presenters

Saturday 7 April

8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast

9:00-11:30 Session Three: Memory in Transition

"Material Witnesses: Reformasi Photographs and Popular Memory"
Karen Strassler, University of Michigan

"Theological Debates over Female Leadership: A Feminist History"
Lies Marcoes, Insan Hitawacana Sejahtera Social Research Center

Coffee Break

"Writing the National History of East Timor"
Geoffrey Robinson, UCLA

"Transitional Truth-Seeking: A Comparative Perspective on Indonesia, East Timor and South Africa"
Paul van Zyl, Columbia University

11:30-12:15 Comments on Session Three Papers

Discussant: Mochtar Pabottingi, Indonesian Institute of Sciences/ University of Wisconsin, Madison

12:15-1:30 LUNCH

1:30-3:45 Session Four: Memory in Performance and Narrative

"Kali: A Libretto"
Goenawan Mohamad, TEMPO

"Kali and the Poetics of Violence"
Laurie J. Sears, University of Washington

Coffee Break

"Images of 1965 in Literature"
Hendrik Maier, University of Leiden /UCLA

"My Life as a Shadow Master under Suharto"
A Conversation with Ki Tristuti Rachmadi, Solo, Indonesia (facilitated by Laurie J. Sears)

3:45-4:45 Comments on Session Four Papers Discussant: Mary Zurbuchen

4:45 Closing Remarks: Anthony Reid

5:00 Light Refreshments

6:00-7:30 A Program of Javanese Dance and Wayang Venue: UCLA Gamelan Room

For further information please contact Barbara Gaerlan bgaerlan@isop.ucla.edu or Mary Zurbuchen mzurbuchen@yahoo.com.

April 7, 2001

"Race, Class, and Identity: Cultural Understanding Through Cinema"
Screening of Three Seasons

2:30 p.m.
Bowers Museum of Cultural Art

Film screening and discussion with Zoe Bui, actress, Tony Bui (invited), filmmaker, Michael Berlin, College for Developmental Studies. 

A film and discussion series that will include eight feature length films and videos that represent, engage, and challenge the multicultural identities of Southern California communities.  Other film screenings and discussion will take place on February 22, March 3, March 4, March 10, March 17, March 22, March 31.

Bowers Museum of Cultural Art Member $5; non-member $8.  Co-sponsored by the Asia Society.  For more information please contact (213) 624-0945 or email aslastaff@asiasoc.org

April 9, 2001

"Transcritique: From Deconstruction to Movement"

Kojin Karatani
Literature, Kinki University (Osaka)

3 p.m.
Hacienda Room, Faculty Center, UCLA

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies and Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia (CIRA).

April 10, 2001

Commodity and Environment in Colonial Indonesia: Economic Value, Environmental Questions and Forest Policy

Lesley Potter, University of Adelaide

12 noon
6275 Bunche Hall (tentative location), UCLA   

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and by the UCLA Department of Geography.

April 10, 2001

"Life in Wartime Japan: Excerpts from the Diaries of Ordinary Japanese"

Samuel Yamashita
History, Pomona College  

4:15 p.m.
Hahn 108 , Pomona College

For more information, please contact Samuel Yamashita at syamashita@pomona.edu.

April 16, 2001

"Courtliness (Miyabi) and the Ideology of Aesthetics"

Joshua Mostow
Asian Studies, University of British Columbia

3 p.m.
Hacienda Room, Faculty Center, UCLA

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies.

April 16, 2001

UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive Video Hour: Bugaku Performance by Japanese Imperial Court Musicians

Miri Park, M.A. Ethnomusicology, UCLA

Coffee & conversation at 4:30 p.m. 
Video presentation at 5:00 p.m. 
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive 
1630 Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA

Free and open to the public.  Sponsored by the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.

April 17, 2001

"Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Central Asia in the Post-Soviet Era"

Alam Payind Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies International Studies, The Ohio State University 

3 p.m. 
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, the Burkle Center for International Relations, the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, and UCLA International Studies and Overseas Programs.

April 18, 2001

"Migratory Desire and the Social Production of Place in Rural Malaysia"

Eric Thompson, Post-doctoral Fellow, UCLA

12 Noon 
3333 Public Policy, UCLA

Leaving kampung (villages) for urban areas has become the norm among young rural Malays in Malaysia. This talk will examine the conditions and social production of place in rural Malaysia that generate a desire to migrate. Focusing on structures of feeling around urban and rural in schooling and narratives of migratory subjects, Dr. Thompson argues that a pervasive culture of urbanism prefigures the movement of rural Malays into the contemporary urban and industrial workforce. This pervasive urbanism in rural Malaysia throws into question traditional notions of a deep urban-rural divide as well as the meaning of “orang kampung” (village people) in contemporary Malay discourse.

Dr. Thompson holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Washington, Seattle. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California Los Angeles, Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

April 18, 2001

"Preparing for the End of the World: a Stone Library in the Mountains South of Beijing"

Lothar Ledderose
Distinguished Getty Scholar and Heidelberg University Professor

4 p.m.
Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall 
1200 Getty Center Drive 
Los Angeles, CA 90049

Around 600 A.D. monks in the Cloud Dwelling Monastery (Yunjusi) in the mountains south of Beijing began carving the Buddhist canon into stone. When engraving was finished around 1200 A.D, nearly thirty million characters had been carved on fifteen thousand stone slabs. Because the monks believed the end of the world was near, the stones were hidden in an underground pit and mountain caves to await the next world age. Professor Ledderose will discuss his pioneering studies of this ancient stone library. 

This event is free and open to the public. To attend, please contact Getty Center Reservations at (310) 440-7300.

April 21, 2001

"Religion in Contemporary China" Conference

10 a.m., Morning Session
1:30 p.m., Afternoon Session
4269 Bunche Hall, UCLA

10 a.m. Morning Session
Chair:  James Tong, Political Science, UCLA

"Religious Policy in China"
Mickey Spiegel, Human Rights Watch, Asia
"Servants of Caesar and Rome:  Catholics in China"
Richard Madsen, Sociology, UCSD
"Protestant Churches in China"
Ryan Dunch, History, University of Alberta
"The Tale of Two Falungongs:  Xinhua vs. Minghui"
Yingnian Wu, Statistics, UCLA

1:30 p.m., Afternoon Session
Chair:  Richard Baum, Political Science, UCLA

Roundtable Discussion:  What is permissible and not permissible in China today in the areas of religious worship, proselytization, training, ordination, church governance, finance, and relations with outside churches?
Discussants:  Ryan Dunch, Richard Madsen, Mickey Spiegal, and Yingnian Wu.

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies in conjunction with the Southern California China Colloquium.

April 21, 2001

Meeting: Southern California Network on Southeast Asian Studies

11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
 5th floor, University Library, California State University, Long Beach

Over 50 people from 20 educational institutions participated in the February meeting. A presentation will be made, probably on the Philippines, and there will be ample opportunity to meet with colleagues sharing your interests in Southeast Asia. You may bring your lunch or purchase one on campus. Alternatively, you can contact the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies at cseas@isop.ucla.edu to reserve a $10 meal which will be arranged by CSULB Prof. Arnold Kaminsky.

April 21, 2001

"Sharmistha Sen on Sitar and Abhiman Kaushal on Tabla"

7:30 pm 
Jan Popper Theater 
1200 Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA

This event is free and open to the public. Sen is one of the few women instrumentalists to have attained prominence in North Indian classical music. Kaushal, who teaches tabla at UCLA, has accompanied many of the greatest stars of North Indian classical music.

April 23, 2001

"Korean Politics in Transition" 

Hochul Sonn, Sogang University and Visiting Scholar at UCLA

11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
1609 Hershey Hall, UCLA

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. Please call (310) 825-3284 for more information.

April 24, 2001

Reading and Discussion of "Our Twisted Hero" 

Mr. Munyol Yi
Novelist, Author of "Our Twisted Hero" 

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

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. Please call (310) 825-3284 for more information.

April 24, 2001

"Cultural Analysis in the Age of Globalization: Problems and Possibilities"

Rey Chow, Modern Culture and Media at Brown University

5 -7 p.m. 
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA

This seminar will also take place on April 25.

Exactly what happens when "local" cultures "globalize"? Through the work she has done on a number of topics, including modern literary writing, feminist theory, cultural translation, postcolonial politics, and contemporary Chinese cinema, Rey Chow will address this question by way of discussing the multiple facets of cultural analysis, paying special attention to the implications of mediatization.

Rey Chow is an Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is the author of "Women and Chinese Modernity" (Minnesota, 1991), "Writing Diaspora" (Indiana , 1993), "Primitive Passions" (Columbia, 1995), and "Ethics After Idealism" (Indiana UP, 1998), among other works. Copies of the readings are available prior to the seminars. It is advisable to complete the reading material prior to the seminars. The packet includes readings for both days. Readings are available at the following places: 310 Royce Hall, 212 Royce Hall, and 11343 Bunche Hall. Limited seating available, no reservations required.

These seminars are sponsored by UCLA Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia, the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature and the Multi-Campus Research Group on Transnational and Transcolonial Studies. For further information visit www.humnet.ucla.edu/transnation/ or contact Corie Goodloe: cgoodloe@humnet.ucla.eduor (310)825-9581.  

April 24, 2001

"Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha"

Lesley Downer

12:30 p.m. 
Social Sciences Building Room B-40, USC 
The Social Sciences Building is located at the corner of Hoover and 35th Streets near USC Gate #3 at Figueroa and 35th Streets. Parking is available at Gate #3.

An authority on Japanese history and culture, Lesley Downer is author of several acclaimed travel guides and nonfiction books on Japan, including The Brothers: The Hidden World of Japan's Richest Family (a New York Times Notable Book). After residing in Japan for a decade, she now lives in London.

Women of the Pleasure Quarters follows the history of geisha culture from four-hundred years ago, when the original (and male!) geishas laid foundations to the rituals and delicate arts admired by many, but practiced by a choice few. Downer's research has led her to places unknown to outsiders, weaving priceless tales of glamour and romance from Japan's most famous geisha, and exploring modern issues as to why young women still dedicate themselves to this unusual lifestyle.

Ms. Downer's talk is co-sponsored by the Southern California Japan Seminar and the Japan America Society of Southern California. The Seminar is a project of the USC/UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center. For additional information please call (213) 740-2993.

April 24, 2001

 "Missile Defense: An Issue in U.S.-Russia-China Relations"

Michael Nacht Dean, 
Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

2:00-4:00 p.m. 
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA

The Bush administration's commitment to the rapid deployment of a national missile defense, coupled with support for theater missile defense programs, raises serious questions about budget, threat and alliance relationships. But perhaps more importantly, these decisions will have a tangible impact on national security policy in both Moscow and Beijing. What are the central motivations behind the Bush commitments? What plausible options do Russia and China face? What is the likely overall impact on U.S.-Russia-China relations?

Michael Nacht is Dean and Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or co-author of five books and more than sixty monographs, articles and book chapters on international and national security affairs including The Age of Vulnerability: Threats to the Nuclear Stalemate (Brookings) and, with Craufurd Goodwin, Missing the Boat: The Failure to Internationalize American Higher Education (Cambridge). One of his recent publications is ":Missile Defense: The Politics--How Did We Get Here?" (Washington Quarterly, Summer 2000). He is presently conducting research for a book on U.S.-Russia-China relations. From 1994-97, following unanimous U.S.Senate confirmation, he served as Assistant Director for Strategic and Eurasian Affairs of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency where he led the agency's work on nuclear arms reduction and missile defense negotiations with Russia and a nuclear arms dialogue with China. He participated in four summit meetings between President Clinton and then Russian President Yeltsin and one between Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin.

Refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations.

April 25, 2001

"The Conflict in Aceh: Any Way Out?"

Sidney Jones 
Director, Human Rights Watch Asia

12 noon 
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA

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

April 25, 2001

"Cultural Analysis in the Age of Globalization: Problems and Possibilities"

Rey Chow, Modern Culture and Media at Brown University

3-5 p.m. 
314 Royce Hall, UCLA

This seminar will also take place on April 24.  Please see the announcement above for more details.

These seminars are sponsored by UCLA Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia, the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature and the Multi-Campus Research Group on Transnational and Transcolonial Studies. For further information visit www.humnet.ucla.edu/transnation/ or contact Corie Goodloe: cgoodloe@humnet.ucla.eduor (310)825-9581.

 

April 26, 2001

"The Shogun's Women and Palace Life in Comparative Perspective" 

Anne Walthall
History, UC Irvine 

11 a.m.
Hahn 108, Pomona College

For more information, please contact Samuel Yamashita at syamashita@pomona.edu.

April 26, 2001

"Economic Cooperation Between North and South Korea Under President Kim Dae Jung's Sunshine Policy"

Suntai Ahn University of Seoul

12:30-2 p.m. 
SOS B-40 (Lower Level) Social Science Building (Next to Education Building), University of Southern California

Suntai Ahn received his Ph.D. at USC in 1997, after which he returned to Korea. His dissertation concerned corruption and politics in South Korea since l948. Herbert Alexander was his dissertation chairman in Political Science.

How ready is North Korea to allow and protect private business? How open are communications with the South in terms of letters, telephone, inter-net, and travel? Not to mention the repatriation of profits? What about railroad building and shipping?

This lecture and discussion will be broadly of interest to American and Korean undergraduates as well as graduate students and faculty at USC and UCLA and their friends. George Oakley Totten III, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at USC, will introduce Dr. Ahn. Refreshments will be served.

This presentation is sponsored by the USC East Asian Studies Center and the USC Korea Project.

April 26, 2001

UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive Video Hour: "Kembali: The Story of Gamelan Sekar Jaya's 1985 Tour to Bali"

Michael Tenzer, Music, University of British Columbia

Coffee & conversation at 4:30 p.m. 
Video presentation at 5:00 p.m. 
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive 
1630 Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA

A 45-minute show produced by Ideas in Motion, winner of several national video awards and formerly shown often on the Learning channel and PBS. It portrays the 35 member Sekar Jaya troupe's 1985 Bali tour to perform at the Bali Arts Festival at the invitation of the Balinese governor-at the time, an unprecedented honor. The film features concert footage and examines the role of music in Balinese life.

Michael Tenzer, Professor of Music at the University of British Columbia, is teaching in the UCLA Department of Ethno-musicology during the Spring Quarter. He co-founded the Gamelan Sekar Jaya in Northern California in 1979 and served as its first musical director.

This event is free and open to the public.  Sponsored by the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.

April 27, 2001

"Flower Garland Scripture: Styles of Sutra Commentary in late Eighth Century China"

Robert Gimello, 
Harvard University

"Structure and Context of Chinese Commentary Writing"

Alexander Mayer, 
University of Illinois

1:30 p.m.
243 Royce, UCLA

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies.

April 27, 2001

"Wang Anyi's 'Fu Ping' -- A Reading and Evaluation"

Wang Xiaoming 
Literature, East China University

1 p.m. 
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Sponsored by the UCLA Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures and the Center for Chinese Studies.

April 27, 2001

Symposium on "Social Movements and Democratization in Korea."

1:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m., 
Public Policy Building, UCLA

Panel 1: Student and Labor Mobilization (1:00 pm to 2:45 pm) 
Moderator: Professor John Duncan, UCLA 
Professor Hyojoung Kim, University of Washington: 
"The Politics of Suicide: A Strategic Use of Suicide Protest in South Korea, 1970-1997" Professor Joon-shik Park, Hallym University: 
"Recent Changes of Employment Regimes in Korea" 
Discussant: Professor Hochul Sonn, Sogang University

Panel II: Democratic Consolidation (3:00 pm to 4:45 pm) 
Moderator: Gi-Wook Shin, UCLA 
Dr. Chang-ho Kim, The Korea Central Daily: 
"The Decline of Progressive Intellectuals in Korea" 
Professor Chulhee Chung, Chonbuk National University:
"Cultural Tradition and Consolidation of Democracy" 
Discussant: Professor Sunhyuk Kim, USC

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. Please call (310) 825-3284 for more information.

April 27, 2001

"Housing Tenure Choice in Transitional Urban China"

Youqin Huang, Geography, UCLA

3 p.m. 
1261 Bunche Hall ("The Green Room"), UCLA

Sponsored by the UCLA Geography Department.

April 27, 2001

Performance by Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company

8 p.m.
Marsee Auditorium, El Camino College

Inspired by the art of China, Cai, a native of Shanghai and former principal dancer with the Shanghai Opera House, presents a variety of classical, folk, and modern dances complemented by dazzling costumes and authentic and original music.  Her company, which has toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe, has collaborated with, among others, the Grateful Dead and Chanticleer.

Tickets are $22, $19 (Children 12 and under $10).  To order by phone, call toll-free 1-800-832-ARTS or call (310) 660-3734.  For more information, please visit http://www.elcamino.cc.ca.us/centerforthearts.

April 27-28, 2001

Chinese Sword and Sorcery: The Films that Inspired Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

A special showcase of films director Ang Lee and his longtime writer-producer James Schamus have named as inspirations for their swordplay epic:  Chinese Sword and Sorcery: The Films that Inspired Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Friday, April 27, 7:00pm at DGA 1
A Touch of Zen, directed and written by King Hu. A martial arts masterpiece, this landmark work-the first Chinese film ever to win an award at Cannes fuses dazzling spectacle, intricate narrative structure, and precision editing into a magisterial opus on the futility of physical prowess in the face of the spiritual.

Friday, April 27, 10:30pm at DGA 2 
The Sword, directed by Patrick Tam. A wandering warrior longs to possess a precious blade, and in the bursts of ferocious, blood-spurting duels that punctuate his quest, codes of honor fall like the slain bodies of his defeated foes.

Saturday, April 28, 9:30am at DGA 2 
Iron Monkey, directed by Yuen Woo-Ping. Yuen Woo-Ping, martial arts choreographer on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the director who launched Jackie Chan to stardom, supplies wall-to-wall exhilaration and a breathtaking final showdown atop poles in his version of the Wong Fei-Hong legend.

Preceded by King Hu's short film, Anger. 

All films will screen at the Directors Guild of America (DGA), 7920 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles (one block west of Fairfax Ave.).

Admission is $8.50 and advance tickets are available via Ticketweb: (800) 965-4827 or LAFF website: http://www.lafilmfest.com. For further information, please call (323) 937-9155 or log onto http://www.cinema.ucla.edu.

Presented by the Los Angeles Film Festival and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

April 30, 2001

"Hong Kong Since 1977: Evolution of the SAR"

Christine Loh 
Former member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

12 noon 
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Christine Loh has played a prominent role in public life in Hong Kong. Trained as a lawyer, she enjoyed a stellar career as a commodities trader from 1980 to 1991. Business Week named her in 1998 and again in 2000 as one of Asia's Stars. Appointed to the Legislative Council (LegCo) in 1992, and running in two elections subsequently as a leader of the Citizens Party, Loh had a high-profile career as a politician until 2000 when she chose not to seek re-election. "The Economist" described her as perhaps LegCo's most gifted member.  From 1991, Loh has anchored public affairs radio programs at various times and also presented a variety of TV programs apart from being the subject of many more. In September 2000, Loh co-founded Civil Exchange, an independent, non-profit think tank devoted to, among other things, promoting public participation in governance.

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the UCLA Center for East Asian Studies.

April 30, 2001

"Race and Cultural Diversity in Malaysia and Southeast Asia" 

Sumit Mandal, Institute of Malay and Regional Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia

12 noon
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Please call (310) 206-3555 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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