UCLA Center for East Asian Studies
November 2001
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November 3-December 16, 2001
Exhibition: A Study in Contrasts: Japanese Paintings from the Sanso Collection
12-5 pm
Tues.-Fri.
1-5 pm
Sat.-Sun.
Pomona College Museum of ArtWith 40 paintings ranging from the 14th -19th centuries, this exhibition explores various contrasts in subject matter, format, moods, artistic style, and brushwork employed by Japanese artists to express ideas and emotions. Some of the works were intended for display in temples or palaces, while others were intimate paintings purely for personal viewing. A wide variety of techniques is displayed in works that range from lush bird and flower paintings in brilliant colors to austere mountain landscapes rendered in shades of black ink. The Sanso Collection is one of the pre-eminent private collections of Japanese paintings in the United States. This exhibition, selected by Scripps College Professor Bruce Coats, is shown in conjunction with courses on Japanese arts and culture at Pomona and Scripps Colleges.
This exhibition is part of the Pomona College Asian Studies program. For additional information, please contact Prof. Samuel Yamashita at syamashita@pomona.edu.
November 3, 2001 - January 13, 2002
Through January 6, 2002
Views of Old Japan: Landscape Prints and Paintings by Hiroshige from the Collection of the Pacific Asia MuseumPacific Asia Museum
Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Robles Avenue, Pasadena, California 91101
626-449-2742 x10
Hours: Wed, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am - 5pm; Fri 10 am - 8 pm
Admission: $5 adults, $3 students/seniorsLandscapes and cityscapes of Japan became the focus of many of the country's artists during the latter years of the Edo period (1600-1868). Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the foremost designers of woodblock printed images of Japan's most famous locations. His most celebrated series The Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido (Japanese: Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi), produced in 1833, portrays not only the mountains, rivers, and towns of Japan, but offers a valuable glimpse into the lives of travelers, villagers, and other people of this period. He also produced many prints of the popular spots in the capital, Edo, ranging from the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarters to the major Buddhist temples. His prints were sold in Europe in the late 19th century and were avidly collected by European artists including Vincent Van Gogh, who reproduced some of Hiroshige's designs in oils. This exhibition includes 25 woodblock prints and paintings of landscapes of Japan by Hiroshige. Several of them are from the famous Tokaido series, while others depict fascinating views of life in the country's capital.
Through January 13, 2002
Bamboo Masterworks: Japanese Baskets from the Lloyd Cotsen CollectionPacific Asia Museum (see exhibition listing above for location, fees, etc.)
The exhibition features one hundred exquisite baskets from one of the world's most important collections, that of Los Angeles-based collector, Lloyd E. Cotsen. The exhibition is currently touring the United States, and Pacific Asia will be its only Southern California venue. Japanese bamboo baskets have long been regarded by objects of great sophistication and beauty. Many of the baskets in the Cotsen collection were originally made to hold flowers for the informal tea ceremony. Among the objects featured is a spherical flower container of breathtaking delicacy, made in the 19th century by Suzuki Kyokushosai (c. 1872-1936); its shape, created by open wickerwork plating, recalls a Japanese lantern. Another is a non-traditional, abstract "basket," dated 1956, by Maeda Chikubosai II (b. 1917) from a single continuous piece of bamboo, which folds in on itself like a wave returning to its source. Three of the masters whose works are on display have been designated as "Living National Treasures," the highest honor Japan bestows on its artists.
For more information about the exhibition, call (626) 449-2742, ext. 19.
Lectures, conferences, and performances
November 1, 2001
Community Meeting for the 2002 World Festival of Sacred Music
7 pm
UCLA University Religious Conference Center
900 Hilgard Ave (3rd Floor Meeting Room), Suite 200
Los Angeles, California 90095World Festival of Sacred Music-Los Angeles Supporters:
Planning for the 2002 World Festival of Sacred Music Los Angeles is well underway. The next community meeting is on Thursday, November 1, 2001; 7:00 pm -8:30 pm; UCLA-University Religious Conference Center; RSVP by Oct 31, 2001 to attend this community meeting by going online to www.festivalofsacredmusic.org, sending email to info@festivalofsacredmusic.org, or calling (310) 825-0507.
The meeting and the festival are sponsored in part by the UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance.
November 2, 2001
UCLA Faculty and Graduate Students Only: UC Pacific Rim Research Program Grant Opportunities
Program Officer
11 am
Sierra Room, UCLA Faculty CenterEach year the UC President's Office makes available just under $800,000 in grant money to encourage Pacific Rim research on the nine campuses of the University of California. Last year UCLA faculty and graduate students were awarded $170,000 for research proposals on issues of importance to the region. This year proposals are due on January 14, 2002. On Friday, November 2, Florence Mou, the Program Officer of the Pacific Rim Research Program at the UC President's office will visit UCLA to answer questions from potential applicants and help you prepare winning proposals for this year's competition. The competition is open to all disciplines provided your topic arises from contemporary issues in the Pacific region. Topics included: Does your idea fit the guidelines for the grants? Will your budget conform to program criteria? How much can you expect to get? What documents do you need from your collaborators to submit with your application? Sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Institute, UCLA International Studies.
November 2, 2001
"The first encounter of the West: The Korean exhibition at the World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893"
Youngna Kim
Seoul National University and Research Associate at Arthur Sackler Museum, Harvard University3-4:30 pm
275 Dodd Hall, UCLASponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. For additional information, please call (310) 825-3284 or email koreanstudies@isop.ucla.edu.
November 2, 2001
"Life is Precious: Controls on Slaying for Rudeness in 18th-century Tosa"
Asian Studies Lecture Series
Luke Roberts, Department of History, UC-Santa Barbara4:15 pm
Hahn 108, Pomona College
333 North College Way, Claremont, CA 91711This lecture is part of the Pomona College Asian Studies program. For additional information, please contact Prof. Samuel Yamashita at syamashita@pomona.edu.
November 2-11, 2001
Asian Films included in AFI Fest 2001
Leading the lineup are two South Korean blockbusters. Friend, directed by Kwak Kyung Taek, is a sweeping and engrossing story of lasting friendship between four boys turned men. Friend is the most popular film in Korean film history. The former box office champ Joint Security Area by Park Chan Wook is a murder-mystery set on the border between North and South Korea.
Films from two Taiwan film masters are included in the festival. Hou Hsiao-hsien offers an interesting love triangle in Millennium Mambo and Tsai Ming's What time is it there? features a watch maker who, obsessed with a woman leaving for Paris, gets busy changing Taipei's clocks to Paris time.
The festival also screens three ghost films from Asia. Hong Kong's Ann Hui directed Visible Secret and Japan's Kurusawa Kiyoshi directed Pulse. Kunitoshi Manda's first feature film, Unloved, is part of the festival's international competition.
This year's festival includes a six film tribute to Taiwan's Ang Lee. Lee, famous for the Wedding Banquet and last year's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon will be in attendance.
For detailed information about tickets and locations, please call (866) AFI-FEST or go to the festival website: http://www.AFIFEST.com.
Nov. 2 4 pm
Egyptian TheatreMILLENNIUM MAMBO
(Taiwan) by Hou Hsiao Hsien
Nov. 3 11 am
Egyptian Theatre
JOINT SECURITY AREA
(Korea) by Park Chan WookNov. 4 7 pm
Vogue Theatre9:15 pm
Egyptian CinemathequeFRIEND
(Korea) by Kwak Kyung TaekVISIBLE SECRET
(Hong Kong) by Ann Hui
Nov. 5 9:45 pm
Egyptian 1
UNLOVED
(Japan) by Kunitoshi MandaNov. 6 6:45 pm
Egyptian Theatre
MILLENNIUM MAMBO
(Taiwan) by Hou Hsiao HsienNov. 7 (Call for time)
Egyptian 14 pm
Vogue Theatre9:15 pm
Vogue TheatreUNLOVED
(Japan) by Kunitoshi MandaVISIBLE SECRET
(Hong Kong) by Ann HuiPULSE
(Japan) by Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Nov. 11 noon
Vogue TheatreWHAT TIME IS IT THERE?
(Taiwan) by Tsai Ming Liang
Nov. 9 7 pm Egyptian Theatre
AFI ANG LEE TRIBUTEANG LEE RETROSPECTIVE
(all at the Skirball Cultural Center):
Nov. 5 7 pm 9 pm
EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN THE WEDDING BANQUET
Nov. 6 7 pm
9 pmPUSHING HANDS
THE ICE STORM
Nov. 7 7:30 pm
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Nov. 8 7:30 pm
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON
November 3, 2001
Hindu - Catholic Dialogue
8:30 am-5 pm
University Hall 1000, Loyola Marymount University
310-338-7772This event features S.N. and Meena Shridhar, Directors, Center for India Studies and Professors of Linguistics, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Swami Sarvadevananda and Saradeshaprana of the Vedanta Society; and George Van Den Barselaar of the Universal Shaiva Trust. Directions: from the 405, take Manchester Blvd west to Lincoln Blvd; turn right; at the third light turn right onto LMU Drive; University Hall is on the right; park under the building and take the elevator to the ground floor; auditorium is on the east side of the building.
November 3-4, 2001
The Descanso Gardens Japanese Garden Festival
9 am-4:30 pm (both days)
1418 Descanso Dr.
La Canada-FlintridgeThe Japanese garden is just starting to get its fall colors. The two-day festival includes instruction on growing Japanese garden plants and chrysanthemums, which are also in bloom. Cultural activities include dance, taiko drumming, a Japanese tea service, and a performance by Kokin-gumi, whose three members play traditional and contemporary music on traditional Japanese instruments. Suiseki stones--natural stones polished by water or wind--will be on exhibit in the Minka, the living space in the Japanese garden.
Admission prices: $5 general; $3 seniors and students; $1 ages 5-12; free for 4 years and younger. For further information call (818) 952-4400.
November 4, 2001
Chasen Kuyo at Zenshuji Soto Temple
11 am
Zenshuji Soto Temple
123 S. Hewett St., Downtown LA's Little Tokyo -- South of First Street, East of AlamedaPracticing chajin and others interested in Japanese Way of Tea (Chado) and Zen Buddhism are invited to the annual Chasen Kuyo, hosted by Zenshuji Soto Temple. The offering (kuyo) of chasen (bamboo tea whisks), like others (e.g. sewing needles), provides an opportunity for renewal and appreciation. The program will include offertory service, lecture, tea ceremony, and authentic shojin ryori (vegetarian temple meal) lunch. $35 per person; free parking. For more information or to register, call (213) 624-8658 by Nov. 1.
November 4, 2001
CALIFORNIA SUMO OPEN
12:30-3:30 pm
UCLA John Wooden Center Blue Room (2nd floor)
When you enter, tell the front desk that you are there for the sumo tournament and they should let you in. Free admission. Parking in lot 4 is $6.Sponsored by:
California Sumo Association
1158 26th Street #202
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Telephone: (310) 288-3641
Fax: (425) 928-7930
Email: afreund@ucla.edu
November 5 and 6, 2001
Taiko Drumming Ensemble
Kenny Endo and Ensemble
11:30-1 pm
Bridges Auditorium, Pomona College
333 North College Way, Claremont, CA 91711This performance is part of the Pomona College Asian Studies program. For additional information, please contact Prof. Samuel Yamashita at syamashita@pomona.edu.
November 6, 2001
The September 11 Attack as an Indonesian Sees It
Goenawan Mohamad
Founder of Tempo News Magazine, Indonesia
Regents Professor, Department of History and Center for South-East Asian Studiesnoon - 1:30 pm
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLAPart of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies brown-bag series. Call 310 825-1181 for more information.
November 7, 2001
China, India, and the Post-September 11 World
Manoranjan Mohanty
Political Science, University of Delhi12 pm
4355C Bunche Hall, UCLAProfessor Mohanty will examine the responses of China and India to the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the subsequent initiatives taken by the U.S. to forge an international coalition and launch a comprehensive offensive against terrorism. He will analyze the domestic impact of these developments as well as their broader implications for security.
Manoranjan Mohanty is Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi and former Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies.
November 7, 2001
University of California Santa Barbara Gamelan Ensemble
12 pm
University of California Santa Barbara Music BowlThe Gamelan, the principal orchestral ensemble of Indonesia, is comprised chiefly of metallic percussion instruments. This ensemble, directed by Mike Pievac, will perform traditional music of Central and Western Java. This performance is part of the weekly World Music Series presented by the UCSB Ethnomusicology Program and the MultiCultural Center. This is a Celebration of Communities event.
November 7, 2001
South Asia in Crisis: India-Pakistan-U.S. Relations
2:30 pm
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLAPanelists: Rajmohan Gandhi
Stanley Wolpert
Moderator: D.R. SardesaiSponsored by UCLA Department of History
November 7, 2001
Taiko Drumming Ensemble
Kenny Endo and Ensemble
8 pm
Bridges Auditorium, Pomona College
333 North College Way, Claremont, CA 91711This performance is part of the Pomona College Asian Studies program. For additional information, please contact Prof. Samuel Yamashita at syamashita@pomona.edu.
November 7, 2001
Music in the (Korean) Countryside
8 pm Leo S. Bing Theater
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) celebrates Korean culture with presentations of traditional Korean music and theater. Organized to coincide with the second anniversary of the opening of LACMA's Korean art galleries, Music in the Countryside, sponsored by the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, and Korea Society, New York, will feature a performance of the traditional Okwangdae or 'Five Clowns Play', an 18th-century masked performance consisting of drama, dance, and song. The play's "Five Clowns" represent the five cardinal directions-east, west, south, north, and center. This colorful and lively stage presentation will mark the premiere of traditional Korean folk music at LACMA.
Ticket Information: Tickets for Music in the Countryside are $10. They may be purchased at the museum box office or by calling (toll free) (877) 522-6225. Information can also be obtained online at http://www.lacma.org.
November 7, 2001
Shujaat Khan and Zakir Hussain (Sitar and Tabla Indian Music Performance)
8 pm
Campbell Hall, University of California Santa BarbaraA descendant of one of India's most influential musical families, sitarist Shujaat Khan is among the top-ranking North Indian classical musicians of his generation. He is today's leading proponent of the Imdadkhani gharana tradition of sitar playing. Shujaat Khan will be joined by tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain who has revolutionized Indian percussion. Through collaborations with artists such as Ravi Shankar, George Harrison, Van Morrison, Tito Puente, and the Hong Kong Symphony, Hussain has brought the music of India to an international stage.
For tickets call (805) 893-3535. This is a Celebration of Communities event. There is a Pre-Concert Meet-the-Artists Discussion at 7 pm hosted by Scott Marcus, Department of Music. (For ticket-holders only).
November 8, 2001
Two Koreas and the Road to Reunification
8 am - 2 pm
Los Angeles Marriott DowntownThe conference will feature keynote speakers, H.E. Sung Chul Yang, Ambassador of the Republic Korea in the United States and Ambassador Michael Armacost, President of the Brookings Institute as well as prominent speakers from South Korea and the United States. Admission fee: $20 students, $35 Asia Society members, $45 non-members. Price includes continental breakfast and lunch.
To RSVP contact Anita Kumar at (213) 624-0945 or email: registration@asiasoc.org by Friday, November 2, 2001.
Sponsored by the Asia Society Southern California Center.
November 8, 2001
TALK BY WANG AN YI
5 pm
243 Royce Hall, UCLAThe Shanghai author WANG ANYI, one of the most important of the post-1979 Chinese writers, and author most recently of the novels Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Changhen ge) and Fu Ping will discuss her work and the current environment for writing in China. She will speak in Chinese, but translation will be available. For more information contact the Center for Chinese Studies at (310) 825-8683.
Sponsors: UCLA Dept East Asian Languages & Cultures
UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
UCLA Center for East Asian Studies
UCLA Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia
November 8-15, 2001
Film Series: Go, Johnnie To!
The UCLA Film and Television Archive, the Asian Film Foundation, and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office present the first film series in North America of one of the most important and gifted filmmakers working in Hong Kong today. Johnnie To has been called everything from "a man on a mission" (for his announced aim of professionalizing Hong Kong's film industry), and "the hardest-working filmmaker in Hong Kong" (for a relentless pace that has resulted in 40 features produced or directed since the 1980s), to "the new godfather of action cool" (for the spare allure of his recent, critically acclaimed film, THE MISSION).
Johnnie To's company, Milkyway Image, has revitalized the Hong Kong action film genre. Johnnie To's range is not limited to action. Over the past twenty years he has worked in every genre except for horror. To defies expectations by habitually switching between making crowd-pleasing quickies and the deconstructionist actioners he calls his "personal films." This is a strategy he devised to stay in business, in concert with his Milkyway partner, writer-director Wai Ka-Fai. Still, there is no doubt Johnnie To loves genre and, of that, action is his preferred form. It is also no surprise, given the blurring of character polarities so prevalent in his work, that he counts as his major influences the yin and yang masters of the Chinese martial arts film: King Hu and Zhang Che.
The six films in this series were chosen by Johnnie To as representative works of his directorial career. (His seventh choice THE HEROIC TRIO is currently unavailable for public screening.) These films deserve to be viewed on the big screen. Johnnie To will be present on November 8 and will participate in a Q and A session after the film.
Tickets are generally available one hour prior to screenings. For this series, however, you may purchase advance tickets at the UCLA James Bridges Theater box office from 6:30-7:30 pm on Thursday, Nov. 1; Saturday, Nov. 3; and Tuesday, Nov. 6. Admission is $7 general; $5 for students, seniors, and UCLA Alumni Association members with ID.
Unless otherwise noted, all films are in Cantonese with English subtitles. All films and events are at the James Bridges Theater in Melnitz Hall, located on the northeast corner of the UCLA Westwood campus, near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Hilgard Avenue. Parking is available adjacent to the theater in Lot 3 for $6. For further information, please call (310) 206-FILM or (310) 206-8013, or visit www.cinema.ucla.edu.
Date and Time Film Nov. 8
7:30 pm**U.S. Premiere**
FULLTIME KILLER (Chun Jik Sat Sau)
(2001) Directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-FaiHong Kong pop star Andy Lau headlines this wildly stylized tale of rivalry between world-class assassins. "Bending all his crooner charm to create a psycho Nijinsky" (Richard Corliss), Lau pits his theatrically preening hit man against the imperturbable executioner's stealth of Japanese heartthrob Takashi Sorimachi. Kelly Lin and Simon Yam lend reflexive pathos to To's and Wai's trademark doppelganger scenario. This film is a whirlwind of thrilling spectacle and operatic emotion, in short, a true Hong Kong wonder. Producer: J. To, Wai K.F., Andy Lau Tak-Wah. Screenplay: Wai K.F., Joey O' Ryan. Cinematography: Cheng Siu-Keung. Editor: David Richardson. With: A. Lau T.K., Takashi Sorimachi, Kelly Lin, Simon Yam. In English/Japanese/Mandarin/Cantonese with English subtitles, 102 min.
*Pre-screening reception: 6:30 pm and Johnnie To post-film Q and A.Nov. 10
7:30 pm
THE MISSION (Cheung Fo)
(1999) Directed by Johnnie ToTo strips the action film to its essentials in this film which many consider his masterpiece. Anthony Wong and Francis Ng lead a superb cast of tough guys hired to protect a besieged triad boss. "With bullet ballets staged in deserted malls, the film plays like THE SEVEN SAMURAI (minus two) in ALPHAVILLE." (Richard Corliss) Just when the central conflict appears resolved, To tosses in an inspired twist that transforms a coolly minimalist exercise into a genuinely moving drama of masculine loyalty. Producer: J. To. Screenplay: Yau Nai-Hoi, Milkyway Creative Team. Cinematography: Cheng Siu-Keung. Editor: Chan Chi-Wai. With: Anthony Wong, Francis Ng, Jackie Lui, Roy Cheung, Simon Yam. 85 min.
Nov. 10
7:30 pm
LIFELINE (Sup Man Fo Gup)
(1997) Directed by Johnnie ToThis gritty refiguration of BACKDRAFT depicts a crew of dysfunctional firefighters bouncing from domestic travails to on-the-job danger. To regular Lau Ching-Wan plays the veteran grunt. The exhilarating climax, in which Lau and his teammates are trapped in a burning factory, is a feat of bravura filmmaking. Producer: Mona Fong Yat-Wah. Screenplay: Yau Nai-Hoi. Cinematography: Cheng Siu-Keung. Editor: Wong Wing-Ming. With: Lau Ching-Wan, Carman Lee Yeuk-Ting, Alex Fong Chung-Shun, Ruby Wong Cheuk-Ling. 108 min.
Nov. 11
7:00 pm
**Los Angeles Premiere**
WU YEN (Zhong Mo Yim)
(2001) Directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-FaiThis film is a costume farce which reprises a folk tale about the complications of love involving the eponymous female warrior, a bumbling emperor, and a shape-shifting fairy enchantress. Long-reigning queen of song and screen Anita Mui (ROUGE) multitasks as the emperor and his ancestral spirit. Young Cantopop idols, Sammi Cheng and Cecilia Cheung, shine as, respectively, the feisty Wu Yen and the sorcerer/sorceress who lusts after her. Producers: J. To, Wai K.F. Screenplay: Wai K.F., Yau Nai-Hoi, Ben Wong King-Fai. Cinematography: Cheng Siu-Keung. Editor: Lau Wing-Cheong, Wong Wing-Ming. With: Anita Mui Yim-Fong, Sammi Cheng Sau-Man, Cecilia Cheung Pak-Chi, Raymond Wong Ho-Yin. 114 min.
Nov. 15
7:30 pm
A HERO NEVER DIES (Chun Sum Ying Hung)
(1998) Directed by Johnnie ToTo's personal favorite among his films is a virtual blueprint of FULLTIME KILLER: coolness incarnate, Leon Lai faces off with flamboyant Lau Ching-Wan in a high-stakes triad turf war. When both men's gang chieftains call a truce, the mob lieutenants find themselves suddenly expendable. Now the foes must join forces for mutual preservation and, ultimately, revenge. From its melodic opening scene to the shattered glass and bodies of its closing frames, this film hauntingly reveals the sacrifice and tragedy at the heart of the "hero film." Producers: J. To, Wai K.F. Screenplay: Szeto Kam-Yuen, Yau Nai-Hoi. Cinematography: Cheng Siu-Keung. Editor: Chan Chi-Wai. With: Leon Lai Ming, Lau Ching-Wan, Fiona Leung, Yoyo Mung. 98 min.
Nov. 15
7:30 pm
**Los Angeles Premiere**
RUNNING OUT OF TIME (Am Zhin)
(1999) Directed by Johnnie ToIn this film, To perfects his penchant for stories of equivocal heroes and villains. Andy Lau won Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards for his portrayal of a suave but terminally ill master thief planning one last heist under the nose of a hotheaded hostage negotiator (Lau Ching-Wan). As the cat-and-mouse game develops, antagonism shades into admiration, and the battle of wits between cop and robber belies an ingenious revenge scheme.
Producer: J. To. Screenplay: Julien Carbon, Laurent Courtiaud, Yau Nai-Hoi. Cinematograhy: Cheng Siu-Keung. Editor: Chan Chi-Wai. With: Andy Lau Tak-Wah, Lau Ching-Wan, Yoyo Mung, Lee Chi-Hung. 92 min.
November 9, 2001
"100 Years of Korean American Methodism"
Prof. Chan-Hie Kim, Claremont School of Theology
3-4:30 pm
243 Royce Hall, UCLASponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. For additional information, please call (310) 825-3284 or email koreanstudies@isop.ucla.edu.
November 9 and 10, 2001
International Symposium: Indonesia: The Common Ground
Keynote Speakers: Nurcholish Madjid and Goenawan Mohamad
9-5 pm
306 Royce Hall, UCLAThe last two years have seen dozens of conferences and seminars devoted to the extraordinary developments in Indonesia. The predictions over Indonesia's future which have been voiced at these events have been in turn optimistic and despairing. Given this, it seems necessary that many long-established presumptions about Indonesia need to be re-examined. Many Indonesians, for instance, scarcely recognized their own country in the violence and bigotry which tore communities apart as military control slackened and authority devolved out from Jakarta. Many have wondered how much space there is between the dire alternatives of disintegration or a return to military authoritarianism.
One of the tasks for long-term observers of Indonesia at this point is to reflect on what was unrealistic or distorted in the way the idea of Indonesia, as a state, has been presented both internally and externally over the past half-century. This symposium aims to take a fresh look at the more abiding structures and themes of Indonesian society and culture, and to enquire into the basis for a cultural consensus. Rather than focusing on immediate political events, this conference examines what longer-term trends may be discerned in the present atmosphere of open contestation.
Nov. 9
10 am: Identity and Political Futures
Goenawan Mohamad, "On Being Indonesian"
Don Emmerson (Stanford), "What is Indonesia?"
Michael Ross (UCLA), "Natural resources and insurrection in Indonesia" Discussant: Andrew McIntyre (UC San Diego)2:30 pm: Nation and State
Anthony Reid (UCLA), "Indonesians and the modern nation-state"
Jeffrey Hadler (UC Berkeley), "The Indigenizing Discourses of Indonesian Nationalism"
Janet Steele (George Washington University), "Discourses of Nationalism in Tempo"
Discussant: Anna Tsing (UC Santa Cruz)Nov. 10
9:30 am: Cultures of Violence?
Geoffrey Robinson (UCLA), "Militias and political violence: an Indonesian tradition"
Henk Schulte Nordholt (Amsterdam), "A Genealogy of Violence"
Janet Hoskins (USC), "Predatory Voyeurs: Tourism and Tribal Violence in Eastern Indonesia"2 pm
John Bowen (Washington University), "Law, Islam and Islamic Law for Indonesia"
Mark Woodward (Arizona State), "Varieties of Islamist Thought and Praxis in Post New Order Indonesia"
Nurcholish Madjid, "The Future of Indonesia"
Discussant: Mary Zurbuchen (UCLA)The Nov. 10 meeting of the symposium will also be the quarterly meeting of the Southern California Southeast Asian Studies Network. This event is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Please call the (310) 206-9163 for additional information.
November 10, 2001
New Paths to the Study of Women in Chinese History
All day conference
6275 Bunche Hall
UCLAProgram:
10 am-12 pm Morning Session
Hu Ying, UC Irvine, Chair and DiscussantSusan Mann, UC Davis, "Women's Biographies as Family Romance"
Weijing Lu, Mary Washington College, "Holding the tablet to Marry: The Faithful Maiden Cult in the Qing"2-5 pm Afternoon Session
Bettine Birge, USC, Chair and DiscussantSuzanne Cahill, UC San Diego, "Hating the Silk Sleeves that Hide Her Verses: Women's Voices in the Poetry of the Tang Dynasty Daoist Nuns"
Ping Yao, Cal State LA, "The Myth of Motherhood and the Reality of Childbirth: Women's Life in Tang China
Patricia Ebrey, University of Washington, "Record, Rumor, and Imagination: Sources for the Women of Huizong's Court Before and After the Fall of Kaifeng"This event is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies in conjunction with the Southern California China Colloquium. Papers for the conference are on the website of the Center for Chinese Studies: www.isop.ucla.edu/ccs.
November 10, 2001
A CELEBRATION OF WORLD MUSIC
8 pm
Schoenberg Hall, UCLA campusA FREE concert featuring UCLA Ethnomusicology faculty artists, student ensembles, and former members of the Don Ellis Jazz Band.
Preconcert lecture by Steve Loza at 7 pm (Jan Popper Theater).Featured Artists:
World Jazz Ensemble
Balinese Gamelan Orchestra
Korean Samulnori
UCLA Jazz Ensemble (Big Band)
Francisco Aguabella, Cuban drums
Kenny Burrell, Jazz guitar
Abhiman Kaushal, North Indian tabla
Shujaat Khan, North Indian sitar
Dongsuk Kim, Korean musician
Kobla Ladzekpo, Ghanaian drums
Steve Loza, Latin jazz trumpet
Roberto Miranda, Jazz bass
Jihad Racy, Arab musician
Ivan Varimezov, Bulgarian gaida
Tzvetanka Varimezova, Bulgarian singing
I Nyoman Wenten, Balinese Gamelan
and former Don Ellis Jazz Band members: Glenn Stuart, Fred Selden, Milcho Leviev
On-campus parking: $6 - Lot 2 (corner of Hilgard and Westholme). Information: (310) 206-3033. Sponsored by the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.
November 12, 2001
Remembering Nabakrushna Choudhuri (1901 - 1984): "Post - September 11: Prospects for Peace and Human Rights "
4 - 7 pm
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLAOn the occasion of the Birth Centenary of Nabakrushna Choudhuri, the great Gandhian from the State of Orissa, India, a group of Peace Activists, Human Rights Workers, and Asian Scholars have organized a symposium in tribute to this inspiring leader. Choudhuri was a rare leader of people who is remembered not only as a great Chief Minister of Orissa and a radical Gandhian, but also an unique humanist who totally identified himself with the struggle and aspirations of the common people. He fought or peace and human rights in South Asia throughout his illustrious life.
Introduction: Manoranjan Mohanty, Delhi University
UCLA Panelists:
The Challenge of Terrorism
Mark Juergensmeyer, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
(Author of "Terror in the Mind of God")The South Asian Prospects
George Mathew, Director, Institute of Social Sciences, New DelhiWestern Perceptions of Asian People
Aamir Mufti, Comparative Literature, UCLARelevance of Gandhian Legacies Today
Anadi Naik, Biographer of Nabakrushna ChaudhuriDiscussant: Vinay Lal, History, UCLA
Chair: Asha Sahed, UCLA-Harbor, REI
All are cordially welcome, but please rsvp by calling (310) 314 3193 or writing mohanty@isop.ucla.edu or vlal@history.ucla.edu.
November 15, 2001
The Post-September 11 World: What Should We Do?
Manoranjan Mohanty
Political Science, University of Delhi
Visiting Scholar, UCLA Center for East Asian Studies11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Concert Hall, Santa Monica College
1900 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90405Dr. Mohanty is a widely published author whose work focuses on social organizations and movements. Among the topics he has addressed is resistance to globalization, forces driving migration, and economic reform and democratic rights in China. Two of his recent books are Contemporary Indian Political Theory (Sanskriti, 2000) and People's Rights (Sage, 1998). Some of Dr. Mohanty's work is available on the web: "Colonialism and the Discourse in India and China" http://ignca.nic.in/ks_40033.htm and "Development and Democracy: The Indian and Chinese Experience" http://ignca.nic.in/ks_41030.htm. This talk is sponsored by SMC Associates.
November 15, 2001
"The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies Over Bondage And Nationalism In The American Colonial Philippines"
Dr. Michael Salman
Associate Professor, UCLA Department of History Chair, UCLA Interdepartmental Program in Southeast Asian Studies Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, UCLA Asian American Studies Center4-6 pm
3232 Campbell Hall, UCLAA Summary of the Book:
A series of controversies over the existence and meaning of slavery shaped American colonialism and nationalist resistance in the Philippines. While American officials claimed colonialism would free Filipinos from various forms of slavery and American anti-imperialists countered that colonialism itself would constitute new kinds of bondage, the first generation of Filipino nationalists had already appropriated anti-slavery rhetoric in their struggles with Spanish colonialism in the late nineteenth century. From these contentions about slavery as a political metaphor, new disputes erupted when American officials "discovered" the practice of slavery among minority groups, such as the Moro (Muslim) societies of the southern Philippines and animist groups in upland northern Luzon. Michael Salman reconstructs these controversies and charts the successive emergence of slavery as an embarrassment for American colonial officials, Filipino nationalists, and American anti-imperialists.The Embarrassment of Slavery examines, for the first time, the salience of slavery and abolition in the history of American colonialism and Philippine nationalism. In doing so, it makes major contributions to the global and comparative study of slavery, abolition, colonialism, and nationalism. This book also expands our understanding of slavery and abolition by explaining the link between the globalization of nationalism and the spread of antislavery as a hegemonic ideology in the modern world.
Sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
Free and open to the UCLA campus community and the general public
Park in Lot 5
*Light refreshments will be served*
November 15, 2001
Performance Reading of "A Granny for All Seasons"
7 pm
UCLA Hammer Museum
Gallery 6
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310.443.7000; TTY: 310.443.7094Directed by Shahid Nadeem. Translated into English by Khalid Hassan. Performers: Noor Shic, Beheroze Shroff, Mira Simhan, Lina Patel, Shonali Bose, Naila Azad, Ravi Kapoor, Subhash Kundanmal, and Kal Penn. Written in Urdu in 1993, the play was inspired by the life-stories of the two grand old dames of South Asian Theatre, Zohra Segal (aged 87) and her sister, Uzra Butt (aged 84). The sisters were separated in 1947 by the Partition of India, and re-united in the late 1980s, after a gap of 40 years. Although the play was met with great public and critical acclaim, it also faced government criticism. No reservations are necessary. Admission to these programs is FREE, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
November 16, 2001
Making Space for Organic Intellectuals: A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of Non-Governmental AIDS Activism in Thailand
Vincent J. Del Casino Jr.
Geography and Liberal Studies, California State University, Long Beach3 pm
1261 Bunche Hall, UCLA
November 16, 2001
Presentation on an Intensive 8-week summer Heritage Language Class for Cambodian University Students
5:30 pm Student Union Building, Room 304, California State University at Long Beach
Frank Smith, Khmer Coordinator at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, will speak about the classes and show videos of classroom activities, examples of teaching materials, financial aid information. Frank will also speak about SEASSI's Hmong, Lao, and Vietnamese Heritage Language classes. Students completing the program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison receive one year of university credit. The summer program runs from June 17 to August 9. For more info, e-mail: vox@drizzle.com or visit: http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/SEASSI/.
November 16-22, 2001
Screening: Audition
A film by Takashi Miike
Nuart Theater
11272 Santa Monica Boulevard (near the 405 Freeway)
Los Angeles, CA
(310) 478-6379Aoyama is a middle-aged widower who tries to find a new mate by holding auditions for a nonexistent film project. He meets many, many women, and is drawn to Asami, a former ballerina. She is not pleased to learn the truth about the film project and seeks revenge. The cast features Ryu Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi, Miyuki Matsuda.
November 17-December 9, 2001
Kon Ichikawa
Kon Ichikawa (b. 1915), one of the four Japanese directors first acknowledged in the West as masters (the others are Mizoguchi, Ozu, and Kurosawa), presents his first major North American retrospective in over three decades. Ichikawa is an artist with an astounding command of many genres, forms, and tones, from ferociously humanist war films to sophisticated social satires, formalist documentaries to extravagant period pieces. This retrospective, including many new 35mm prints, offers a rare opportunity to examine the work of perhaps the last living sensei of Japanese cinema.
In a career extending from the mid-1930s to the present, Ichikawa has directed almost 80 films, and continues to make one or two annually. As this retrospective reveals, his stylistic and thematic experiments are among the most daring and influential in postwar Japanese cinema, acknowledging the formidable influence of his scenarist, his wife Natto Wada.
Many of Ichikawa's films, which are full of gallows humor, revolve around tenacity and madness (often synonymous). He often radically revised revered literary texts for his own pessimistic ends, and rejected Confucian values, offering a thorough critique of the conformity and rapacity of postwar Japan. His trilogy of black comedies about that chaotic world are among the most underrated films in Japanese cinema and are one of the revelations of this series. (James Quandt, Cinematheque Ontario).
All films screen at the James Bridges Theater in Melnitz Hall, located on the northeast corner of the UCLA Westwood campus, near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Hilgard Avenue. Tickets are available at the theater one hour before showtime. Admission is $7 general, $5 students, seniors and UCLA Alumni Association members with ID. Parking is available adjacent to the theater in Lot 3 for $6. For further information, please call (310) 206-FILM or (310) 206-8013, or visit www.cinema.ucla.edu. All films are in Japanese with English subtitles. The following films are being shown as part of the UCLA Film and Television Archive's Kon Ichikawa Series.
Date & Time Film November 17; 7:30 pm Conflagration (1958) A young man, Mizoguchi (Raizo Ichikawa), disgusted by his mother's promiscuity and disenchanted with his weak father, becomes a Buddhist acolyte. But the obsessive, stuttering youth finds his temple school sullied by sexual hypocrisy. In despair, he deliberately sets fire to the temple, a symbol of pure beauty and a national treasure, causing a conflagration that for him is a holocaust. Screenplay: Natto Wada, Keiji Hasebe. Based on the novel "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" (Kinkakuji) by Yukio Mishima. Cinematography: Kazuo Miyagawa. Music: Toshiro Mayuzumi. With: Raizo Ichikawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ganjiro Nakamura. 96 min.
November 17; 7:30 pm An Actor's Revenge (1963) A kabuki actor manipulates the gossamer walls between theater, life and afterlife to wreak terrible vengeance on three villains responsible for his parents' death. Matinee idol Kazuo Hasegawa recreates the dual roles he had played in Kinugasa's 1935 version of the story: that of the onnagata (female impersonator) and the burly, small-time crook Yamitaro, who spies on the actor in his offstage charades. Screenplay: Daisuke Ito, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Natto Wada. Based on a story by Otokichi Mikami. Cinematography: Setsuo Kobayashi. With: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Ganjiro Nakamura. 114 min.
November 18; 7 pm Tokyo Olympiad (1965) This masterpiece of the poetic documentary will be screened in its original, nearly three-hour version. Ichikawa was inspired by Leni Riefenstahl's 1936 Olympia, and with 164 camera operators and a film crew of 500, his take on the 1964 Tokyo Olympics was itself an Olympian feat. As the director put it, "I tried to grasp the solemnity of the moment when man defies his limits, and to express the solitude of the athlete who, in order to win, struggles against himself." Scenario: Natto Wada, Ishio Shirasaka, Shuntaro Tanigawa, Kon Ichikawa. Cinematographic Direction: Shigeo Hayashida, Kazuo Miyagawa.170 min.
November 20; 7:30 pm Alone on the Pacific (1963) In 1962, a small, weather-beaten sloop arrived at the Golden Gate Bridge, a lone passenger on board. "Wheredo you from?" called guests on a nearby yacht. "Japan," came the startling reply. Based on the best-selling log book of Kenichi Horie, this film recreates Horie's incredible 90-day journey from Osaka to San Francisco. Screenplay: Natto Wada. Based on the log book by Kenichi Horie. Cinematography: Yoshihiro Yamazaki. With: Yujiro Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ruriko Asaoka.104 min.
November 20; 7:30 pm The Heart (1955) Ichikawa's adaptation of Soseki Natsume's celebrated novel is set in 1912, when Japan is entering the modern era with the death of the emperor. This film depicts the friendship between a university student and an older teacher that culminates in suicide and a harrowing revelation of betrayal. Screenplay: Katsuhito Inomata, Keiji Hasebe. Based on a novel by Soseki Natsume. Cinematography: Takeo Ito. With: Masayuki Mori, Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Mihashi, Shoji Yasui. 122 min.
November 24; 7:30 pm Harp of Burma (1956) At the close of WWII, a Japanese detachment in Burma is taken prisoner and awaits repatriation. Mizushima, the harp-playing scout for the group, is dispatched by the British to inform an obstinate fighting unit of Japan's surrender. He arrives too late, and what he encounters--bodies of his countrymen lying scattered in the woods--leaves him gripped with an obsession. Screenplay: Natto Wada. Based on a story by Michiyo Takeyama. Cinematography: Minoru Yokoyama. With: Rentaro Mikuni, Shoji Yasui, Tatsuya Mihashi, Taniye Kitabayashi. 116 min.
November 24; 7:30 pm Fires on the Plain (1959) The film portrays demoralized Japanese forces in the Philippines at the end of WWII who turn to cannibalism to survive. Although a participant in his army's many degradations, Tamura is also a man apart: already doomed by tuberculosis, he is not possessed of the same desperate will to live. He retains a proud, sad memory of what it was to be human until his last illusions are dispelled. Screenplay: Natto Wada. Based on the novel by Shohei Ooka. Cinematography: Setsuo Kobayashi. With: Eiji Funakoshi, Mickey Curtis, Osamu Takizawa, Hikaru Hoshi. 105 min.
November 25; 7 pm I Am a Cat (1975) Tatsuya Nakadai stars as a frustrated academic, given to boring his cynical friends with lengthy diatribes on the meaning of life. Meanwhile, activity surrounds him, much of it involving the romantic entanglements of his family, including a beautiful niece played by Yoko Shimada. Screenplay: Toshio Yasumi. Based on a novel by Soseki Natsume. Cinematography: Kozo Okazaki. With: Tatsuya Nakadai, Juzo Itami, Yoko Shimada, Mariko Okada.116 min.
November 25; 7 pm I Am Two (1972) Angered over Ichikawa's over-budget and controversial The Outcast, Daiei Studios punished him with a project about a young couple and their cute baby. Ichikawa, however, remade the assignment as a satire of family life, a confession of his own ambivalence towards its vaunted values. Little Baby Taro narrates the film, cognitive from the start that his existence owes more to his parents' desires than his own. Screenplay: Natto Wada. Based on a story by Michio Matsuda. Screenplay: Setsuo Kobayashi. With: Hiro Suzuki, Eiji Funakoshi, Fujiko Yamamato, Kumeko Urabe.88 min.
November 29; 7:30 pm Pu-San (1953) Based on a popular cartoon character, the hapless Mr. Pu is treated with contempt by everyone as he makes his way through the chaos and corruption of postwar Japan. Full of biting jokes about prostitution, unemployment, militarism, the black market, nuclear war and violent crime, this film is the boldest of parodic salvos. Screenplay: Natto Wada, Kon Ichikawa, Shigeaki Nagaki. Based on a story by Taizo Yokoyama. Cinematography: Asaichi Nakai. With: Yunosuke Ito, Fubuki Koshiji, Kamatari Fujiwara, Eiko Miyoshi.98 min.
November 29; 7:30 pm A Billionaire (1954) An ethical tax collector meets an impoverished family unable to feed its children, much less pay taxes. Upstairs from the family's shack, a woman whose relatives died in the bombing of Hiroshima is building her own nuclear weapons "to ensure world peace." Never mind that the tax man has a paralyzing fear of rain clouds because he is sure they are radioactive. Screenplay: Kon Ichikawa, Natto Wada, Kobo Abe, Taizo Yokoyama, Keiji Hasebe. Cinematography: Takeo Ito. With: Isao Kimura, Yoshiko Kuga, Isuzu Yamada, Yunosuke Ito. 83 min.
December 1; 7:30 pm The Wanderers (1973) Ichikawa lampoons the warrior code and the valorized lone-wolf vagabond of 19th-century Japanese lore. Here the paladins are three farm boys who set out to become professional gamblers, but are little more than punks. Screenplay: Shuntaro Tanikawa, Kon Ichikawa. Cinematography: Setsuo Kobayashi. With: Kenichi Hagiwara, Ichiro Ogura, Isao Bito. 96 min.
December 1; 7:30 pm Punishment Room (1956) Adapted from Shintaro Ishihara's novels about the anarchic behavior of well-off, ego-driven youths in the postwar boom, "sun tribe" films were Japan's Rebel Without A Cause, famously paving the way for the Japanese New Wave. Like the rest of its "sun tribe" ilk, this film outraged moralists in its tale of a young man whose hatred for his ineffectual bourgeois parents manifests in sexual animus. He drugs his date, then rapes her. She falls in love with him, and he cruelly rejects her. Screenplay: Natto Wada, Keiji Hasabe. Based on the novel by Shintaro Ishihara. Cinematography: Yoshihisa Nakagawa. With: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Ayako Wakao, Masayoshi Umewaka, Keizo Kawasaki. 96 min.
December 2; 7 pm A Full-Up Train (1957) The protagonist is a young Japanese everyman who graduates from university along with millions of others and quickly faces the grim realities of the workaday world. His exaggerated miseries draw bitter laughter, but behind it are the growing pains of postwar Japan. Producer: Hidemasa Nagata. Screenplay: Natto Wada, Kon Ichikawa. Cinematography: Hiroshi Murai. With: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Chishu Ryu, Haruko Sugimura, Michiko Ono. 99 min.
December 2; 7 pm The Men of Tohoku (1957) By Tohoku tradition, only the eldest son of a family can inherit land and have a family. The rest must foreswear sex, wear rags and remain unshaven and filthy. Risuke is one of these unfortunate "younger sons" who has the added problem of a halitosis so powerful that it drives everyone away. "Add to this the fact that the villagers believe in magic mushrooms, and a far-off land inhabited solely by females, and you will begin to appreciate the unique and delightful flavor of this... authentically strange" film. (Peter John Dyer, NFT, London) Screenplay: Kon Ichikawa (pseudonym "Christie"). Based on a story by Shichiro Fukazawa. Cinematography: Kazuo Tamada. With: Hiroshi Akutagawa, Minoru Chiaki, Haruko Togo, Kamatari Fujiwara. 59 min.
December 8; 7:30 pm The Makioka Sisters (1983) Scions of a once-wealthy shipbuilding family, the Makioka sisters are now debt-ridden. The pressure is on the two still-single sisters to marry soon and marry well. The film focuses on Yukiko, a reticent and slightly mysterious beauty who has rejected innumerable suitors and is rejected by others after a scandal erupts around her younger sister. While the Makiokas are thus preoccupied, Japan is gearing up for the war that will render all their concerns obsolete. Screenplay: Shinya Hidaka, Kon Ichikawa. Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Cinematography: Kiyoshi Hasegawa. With: Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yuko Kotegawa. 140 min.
December 9; 7 pm Odd Obsession (1959) An elderly Kyoto art dealer tries to keep his sexual potency alive by sundry means. When injections fail him, he tries jealousy, arranging liaisons between his still beautiful wife and a starving intern, his daughter's fiance. Screenplay: Natto Wada, Keiji Hasebe, Kon Ichikawa. Based on a novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Cinematography: Kazuo Miyagawa. With: Machiko Kyo, Ganjiro Nakamura, Junko Kano, Tatsuya Nakadai. 107 min.
December 9; 7 pm Ten Dark Women (1961) A send-up of the murder thriller and a wonderful skewering of male chauvinism, the sanctity of the family and television, this film is a true rediscovery (it was recently re-released in Japan to great acclaim). A married television producer has nine mistresses, each of whom wants him to herself, but one by one they tire of his weakness and self-absorption. Unlimited sexual license has emasculated the Japanese male, they argue. A plot is hatched to murder the guy with the aid of his put-upon wife, herself a bit of a trickster. Screenplay: Natto Wada. Cinematography: Setsuo Kobayashi. With: Eiji Funakoshi, Fujiko Yamamoto, Keiko Kishi, Mariko Miyagi. 103 min.
November 18, 2001
"Katsudo Shashin" Japanese Classic Films Return to Little Tokyo
This monthly series of post-war Japanese films showcases popular and rarely-screened works dating from 1949 - 1977. These post-war masterpieces examine the restructuring of Japanese society, the breakdown of traditional family values, and the role of women in Japanese society.
The Insect Woman
(Nikkatsu 1963)1pm
Japan America Theatre
Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
244 South San Pedro Street, Suite 505
Los Angeles (Little Tokyo), CA 90012
Phone: (213) 628-2725
Fax: (213) 617-8576
General Info Email: info@jaccc.orgDirected by Shohei Imamura, featuring Sachiko Hidari. This winner of the Kinema Junpo's "Best One" Award and the Japanese Blue Ribbon Prize traces the triumphs and misfortunes of an impoverished country girl forced into prostitution in Tokyo. The featured actress Sachiko Hidari won the Best Actress Award at the 1964 Berlin International Film Festival. Adult Subject Matter.
Manji (The Goddess of Mercy)
(Daiei/1964)5 pm
Japan America Theatre
Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
244 South San Pedro Street, Suite 505
Los Angeles (Little Tokyo), CA 90012
Phone: (213) 628-2725
Fax: (213) 617-8576
General Info Email: info@jaccc.orgDirected by Yasuzo Masumura, featuring Ayako Wakao, Kyoko KishidaBased on Junichiro Tanizaki's controversial novel "Manji," the film centers around the complex relations between a dutiful wife, a young, mysterious woman, her lawyer husband and an impotent lover. Adult Subject Matter. Screenings are presented with support from The Japan Foundation.
Tickets: General Admission: $6; JACCC Members, Students/Seniors, Groups: $4. To purchase tickets and for information, call the Japan America Theatre Box Office at (213) 680-3700.
November 19, 2001
"The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Its Possible Role in the War on Terrorism"
Pan Guang
Director, Institute for European and Asian Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Secretary General, Center for International Studies, Shanghai Municipality, Dean, Center for Jewish Studies, Shanghai2:30-4:30 pm
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLASponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations.
November 19, 2001
UC Regents Professor Public Lecture and Reception:
Liberal Islam in Indonesia: A Beginning?Goenawan Mohamad
University of California Regents' Professor4-6 pm
314 Royce Hall, UCLAGoenawan Mohamad is a leading Indonesian journalist, poet, essayist and pro-democracy activist. He is among a handful of Indonesians who speak to both the historical roots of the current transition from authoritarianism and the implications for democracy of ongoing changes, and has made critical contributions to public discourse and intellectual life for over 30 years. He has received international recognition for his work to promote freedom of expression in Indonesia as the recipient of the International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists (1998) and the International Editor of the Year Award from the World Press Review (1999). This event is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Please call the (310) 206-9163 for additional information.
November 19, 2001
"The Life of Rose Notehelfer:
A German Missionary's Life in the South Pacific and Wartime Japan"Fred Notelhelfer
History, UCLA
4:15 pm
Hahn 108, Pomona College
333 North College Way, Claremont, CA 91711Dr. Notehelfer is director of the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies. His books include Kotoku Shosui: Portrait of a Japanese Radical and American Samurai: Captain L.L Janes and Japan, and Japan Through American Eyes, the Journal of Francis Hall, Kanagawa and Yokohama, 1859-1866. In this talk, he shares some of his mother's experiences. This lecture is part of the Pomona College Asian Studies Lecture Series. For additional information, please contact Samuel Yamashita at syamashita@pomona.edu.
November 19, 2001
Presentation on an Intensive 8-week summer Heritage Language Class for Cambodian University Students
Frank Smith, Khmer Coordinator at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, will speak about the classes and show videos of classroom activities, examples of teaching materials, financial aid information. Frank will also speak about SEASSI's Hmong, Lao, and Vietnamese Heritage Language classes. Students completing the program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison receive one year of university credit. The summer program runs from June 17 to August 9. For more info, e-mail: vox@drizzle.com or visit: http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/SEASSI/.
November 20, 2001
Terrorism: The Crisis in US Foreign Policy in Asia and Beyond
Chalmers Johnson
Japan Policy Research InstituteManoranjan Mohanty
Political Science, University of DelhiTom Plate
Communications Studies, UCLA4 - 6 pm
Sequoia Room, UCLA Faculty CenterThis panel will examine the state of the American empire and look at the role played by the media. The event is sponsored by the Japan-America Society and Society president E. Barry Keehn will serve as moderator. Dr. Johnson is the author of Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. He is Professor Emeritus of the University of California, President of the Japan Policy Research Institute, and author of numerous books on East Asia. Dr. Mohanty is professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi and the author of numerous books, including People's Rights, Social Movements and the State in the Third World and is currently a fellow of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. Prof. Plate teaches in UCLA's School of Public Policy and specializes in Asian media and politics. He is the founder of the Asia Pacific Media Network and writes an internationally syndicated column. Admission is free. Contact the Japan America Society (213) 627-6217, ext. 202 or write JAPANAMERICA1@hotmail.com to reserve a seat. Parking at UCLA is in LOT 2 for $6. Purchase parking passes at the Kiosk on Westholme (enter from Hilgard Ave.).
November 21, 2001
"U.S.-China Relations in the Shadow of September 11"
Wang Jisi
12 pm
4355C Bunche Hall, UCLAWang Jisi is the director of the prestigious Institute of American Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Science. This talk is sponsored by UCLA Center for Chinese Studies.
November 26, 2001
"Reading the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese"
Samuel Yamashita
History, Pomona College3 pm
Hacienda Room, Faculty Center, UCLADr. Yamashita is Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History at Pomona College. He'll be drawing upon his forthcoming book for this presentation. He is the author of Master Sorai's Responsals: An Annotated Translation of "Sorai Sensei Tomonsho" (Hawaii, 1994) and was co-translater of The Four-Seven Debate: An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought. Among his many articles and book chapters are "War and Ethnicity in the Study of Modern Japan" (The World in Japan, Michigan, 2001) and "Asian Studies at American Private Colleges, 1808-1990" (Asia in the Undergraduate Curriculum: A Case for Asian Studies in Liberal Arts, M.E. Sharpe, 2000). This talk is part of the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies colloquium series. For more information, please call center at 310-825-8681.
November 28, 2001
Studying a Southeast Asian Diaspora: Chimic-speaking Muslims in Hainan Island, their pre-Vietnam past, Malaysian descendants, and international connections
Keng Fong Pang,
Visiting Scholar, UCLA Center for SE Asian Studies3-4:30 pm
Location TBDThis event is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Please call the (310) 206-9163 for additional information.
November 28, 2001
"North Korean Reforms by Kim Jong Il"
Dae-Sook Suh
Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii3-4:30 pm
10383 Bunche HallSponsored by UCLA Center for Korean Studies
For additional information, please call (310) 825-3284 or email koreanstudies@isop.ucla.edu.
November 28, 2001
"A Look at the Present Environmental Situation in China"
Dai Qing
journalist4:15 pm
Hahn 108, Pomona College
333 North College Way, Claremont, CA 91711Dai Qing is among China's best known journalists. Her 1989 book Yangzi! Yangzi! concerning the enormous Three Gorges Dam project helped to start an environmental movement in China. She's now written a follow-up volume, The River Dragon Has Come! She has received numerous awards and has been a visiting fellow at Harvard, Columbia, and Australian National University. This lecture is part of the Pomona College Asian Studies program. For additional information, please contact Samuel Yamashita at syamashita@pomona.edu.
November 29, 2001
Tibetan Freedom Concert
8:30 pm
The Hub in the University Center (University of California Santa Barbara)Students for a Free Tibet will host this first-ever Tibetan benefit concert. The concert aims to raise awareness about the plight of the Tibetan people. Music by Viggie, el jefe, Bus Driva and Hip Hop sensations, Living Legends, will be featured along with cultural performances and statements by a former political prisoner in Tibet. Concert goers will have an opportunity to sign a mass petition urging the UC Regents to divest their approximately 6 million shares of BP Amoco. BP - the world's third largest petroleum company - through its ownership in PetroChina, is constructing an oil pipeline in Amdo, Tibet which could ravage the local environment and further human rights abuses in the region. Tickets ($16) for the concert are on sale at the AS Ticket office (M-F from 10-4) and at the door.
November 29-30, 2001
"International Conference On Japanese Crimes Against Humanity: Sexual Slavery And Forced Labor"
Radisson Wilshire Plaza Hotel, 3515 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
(corner of Wilshire and Normandie in Mid-Wilshire Los Angeles)This international gathering will feature testimonies from war crimes victims, exhibits, movies and panel discussions involving scholars and authors from China, Japan, Korea, and the U.S. There will be a photo exhibit entitled, "Testimony to a Massacre," by Holly Wong, which focuses on Korean girls and women, who were pressed into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. Former comfort woman Ok Seon Lee will testify about her experiences. Other topics to be examined include forced labor, state-sponsored terrorism in East Asia, sexual slavery and the comfort women system, war and opium policy, Japan's post-war compensation litigation, and the democratization and reunification of Korea. The goal of the conference is to begin to rewrite the history of 20th Century East Asia by considering more of the perspectives of those affected.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
November 29
9-10 am
Welcome Remarks:
Edward T. Chang, UC Riverside, Department of Ethnic Studies
Don Nakanishi, Director, UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Keynote address: Chin Sung Chung, Seoul National University, Korea, "The Issue of Sexual Slavery and Slave Labor at the ILO"10-11:30 am
Presentations, Sexual Slavery
Moderator: Masako Ishii-Kunz, UCR
Hirofumi Hayashi, Kanto-Kaikan University, Japan,
"The Structure of Japanese Imperial Government Involved in Military Comfort Women System"
Jeong Sook Kang, Korean Institute of the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, Korea,
"Comfort Women System in Japan: Government and Corporate Responsibilities"
Zhiliang Su, Shanghai Normal University, China,
"The Chinese Comfort Women Research"
Ken Arimatsu, Japan,
"The Changes of International Society on the 'Comfort Women' issues since 1991 after the coming out of the survivors."11:30 am-12:45 pm Lunch
12:45-2 pm Testimony by Victims
Moderator: Ailee Moon, UCLA
Ok Seon Lee, House of Sharing, Korea
Reverend Nyung Kwang, House of Sharing, Korea2-3:30 pm Presentations, Forced Labor
Moderator: Ignatius Y. Ding
Yoshihiko Moriya, National Sasebo College of Technology, Japan,
"The Responsibility of the Japanese Government and Companies for the Forced Transfer and the Forced Labor of Korean People During the World War II"
Min-Young Kim, Kunsan National University, Korea,
"Transportation of Korean Forced Laborers during WWII"
Sang-Jin Hong, John Tsuchida, CSU Long Beach,
"Fujikoshi and Hanaoka Case: Precedents or Aberration?"3:40-5 pm Presentations, State Terrorism in East Asia
Moderator: Marn Je Cha, CSU Fresno
Seung Suh, Ritsumeikan University, Japan,
"On State-Sponsored Terrorism in East Asia: A Comparative Perspective"
Keun-Sik Jung, Chonnam University, Korea,
"Divided Regime, Democratization and Reparation in Korea"
Jong Moon Ha, HanShin University, Korea,
"Mobilization of Slave Labor During WWII by Japan"5:30-7 pm Reception Co-hosted by the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
Photo exhibit: "Testimony to a Massacre" by Holly Wong, see www.geocities.com/comfortwomenconference/Testimony_to_a_Massacre.html
November 30
9:30-11am Presentations, International Law and Human Rights Moderator: Tae Ung Baik, Notre Dame University Law School
Chang Rok Kim, Pusan University, Korea,
"The 1965 Treaties between Korea and Japan and the Individual Rights of Korean Nationals Against Japan"
Hisashi Yano, Keio University, Japan,
"Forced Labor: A Comparative Analysis of Japan and Germany"
Ivy Lee, Global Alliance and CSU, Sacramento,
"Postwar Treaties and Individual Rights to Claim: The Case for Postwar Compensation by Japan"
Barry Fisher, Human Rights Lawyer,
"Japan's Postwar Compensation Litigation"11:10 am-12:30 pm Screening of "Silence Broken" by Dai-Sil Kim-Gibson, producer
12:30-2 pm Lunch
2-3:30 pm Presentations, War and Opium Policy
Moderator: Dai-Sil Kim-Gibson
Kang Park, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea,
"Japan's Opium Policy in Northeast Asia"
Rumiko Nishino, writer, Japan,
"Japanese Companies' Involvement in 'Comfort Women' System: the case of 606 Drug and the Transportation of Comfort Women"
Miriam Silverberg, director, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA,
"Voice of Japanese Soldier"3:40-5 pm Closing Remarks Speaker: Jean Chung, Chair of the Committee for the Historical Justice For WWII War Crimes
Photo exhibit: "Testimony to a Massacre" by Holly Wong, see www.geocities.com/comfortwomenconference/Testimony_to_a_Massacre.html
Free and open to the General Public. Parking $2 plus tip. PLEASE PRE-REGISTER (free) BY E-MAIL with name, address, and any affiliation: aascrsvp@aasc.ucla.edu
Organized by the UC Riverside Ethnic Studies Department, and co-sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
November 30, 2001
"Paintings After Ancient Masters in Three Countries, China, Korea, and Japan"
Jung-hee Han
Hongik University and Visiting Scholar at Princeton University3-4:30 pm
275 Dodd Hall, UCLASponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. For additional information, please call (310) 825-3284 or email koreanstudies@isop.ucla.edu.
November 30, 2001
Is Dialogue Possible after September 11?
Rajmohan Gandhi
4 pm
UCLA Hammer Museum
Gallery 6
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310.443.7000; TTY: 310.443.7094In this informal talk with discussion, Rajmohan Gandhi will look at the prospects for dialogue and reconciliation in the context of the current U.S. led "war on terrorism." A visiting scholar in the Department of History at UCLA, Professor Gandhi's work has consistently focused on the importance of dialogue in situations of ethnic strife and cultural misunderstanding. He is co-founder and director of the Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation in New Delhi, an organization dedicated to supporting dialogue between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
The grandson and biographer of Mahatma Gandhi, Professor Gandhi has been a tireless proponent of dialogue in South Asia. He is a former member of the Rajya Sabha (Indian Senate) and former leader of the Indian Delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva. His published works include:
Revenge & Reconciliation: Understanding South Asian History, Penguin, 1999; Rajaji: A Life, a biography of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1878-1972, Governor-General of India, 1948-50), Penguin, New Delhi, 1997; The Good Boatman: A Portrait of Gandhi, Viking, New Delhi, 1995; Patel: A Life, a biography of Vallabhbhai Patel (1875-1950, Deputy Prime Minister of India, 1947-50), Navajivan, Ahmedabad, 1990; Eight Lives: A Study of the Hindu-Muslim Encounter, SUNY Press, Albany, New York, 1986.
For further information, please call 310.443.7056. Parking is available under the Museum. Discounted parking with Museum stamp is $2.75 for the first three hours, plus $1.50 for each additional 20 minutes. Take elevator up to the lobby level, then elevator or stairs to the courtyard level. Gallery 6 is entered on the West side of the courtyard.
November 30, 2001
Special Collaborative Performance- Min Tanaka & Tokason with Hirokazu Kosaka
8pm
Japan America Theatre
Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
244 South San Pedro Street, Suite 505
Los Angeles (Little Tokyo), CA 90012
Phone: (213) 628-2725
Fax: (213) 617-8576
General Info Email: info@jaccc.orgThe legendary butoh artist Min Tanaka makes his Los Angeles debut in a special collaborative performance with Los Angeles-based Zen archery master and performance artist Hirokazu Kosaka. Tracing the origins of Japanese dance to primitive rituals associated with rice cultivation, Tanaka gained a near cult following with his butoh method based at his cooperative farm. His company Tokason draws performers from around the world. This specially-commissioned performance piece scheduled on the night of the full moon has its dramatic climax on the JACCC Plaza with a contemporary thanksgiving ritual celebrating an abundant harvest. Supported by The Japan Foundation.
Tickets: Reserved Seating: $20, $18; JACCC Members: $17, $15; Students, Seniors, Groups: $12. To purchase tickets and for information call the Japan America Theatre Box Office at (213) 680-3700.
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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