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January
2002
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Through 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 Many of the baskets in the Cotsen collection were originally made to hold flowers for the informal tea ceremony.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.
January 12-February 16, 2002
Post War Japan Photo Exhibit
The White Room Gallery, 8810 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood
Sponsored by the White Room Gallery, the first part of a series of exhibits on post world war II Japan. Photographers include Shigeichi Nagano and Koji Inoue.
Shigeichi Nagano's documentary photography of postwar Japan provides a human portrait of a land in transition. His style of photojournalism, which combined both visual and narrative elements, was perfectly suited to the rapidly changing era in which he rose to prominence. Through an early stint in the late 1940s on the editorial staff of the Sun News Weekly, he worked alongside famous photographers such as Ihei Kimura, and through the early 1950s as a documentary photographer for the Iwanami Library of Photography. His career spanned an era in which a dramatic story of devastation and rebirth was unfolding in Japan, an era crying out for a more narrative style of documentation. Through his thoughtful choice of subject matter and artfully rendered juxtapositions of old and new, traditional and foreign, his crisp, monochrome prints depicted a nation swaying ambivalently between a nostalgic longing for the past and a newfound optimism toward the future.The current exhibit focuses on Nagano's photojournalistic work from the 1949-1964 period.
For hours and more information call 310-859-2402 or Email: info@whiteroomgallery.com.
Lectures, conferences, and performances
January 5, 2002
Hisara Sato in Concert
12 noon
New Otani Hotel and Garden Ballroom
120 So. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, Little Tokyo
Hisara Sato is one of Japan's leading sopranos. She will give a lunchtime concert at the hotel. The event is sponsored by the New Otani Hotel. Tickets: $20. For more information call 213.253.9268.
January 8, 2002
Bridging the Gap: Constructing a “New” Historical-Cultural Identity in the PRC
Axel Schneider
Sinological Institute, University of Leiden4 pm
243 Royce Hall, UCLAProfessor Schneider's talk focuses on the recent revival of interest in the PRC in Republican scholars from before 1949 and how the Guoxue (National learning) revival in the 1990s links back to the 1920s and 1930s.
Professor Schneider says about himself, "After finishing my M.A. concerning political theory in the 1920s and 1930s in the summer of 1989, I started working as Assistant Professor at the then newly established chair for Modern China Studies at Heidelberg University. I completed my Ph.D. in 1994 on Modern Chinese historiography. In July 2000 I received a call to Leiden University while still working on my habilitation thesis on modern Chinese conservatism. In my research I focus on modern Chinese history and politics covering the period from the late Qing dynasty to the present."
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. Call 310 825-8683 for additional information.
January 10, 2002
Aftershock
UCLA Bhangra Team
For more info: www.bruinbhangra.com
January 10, 2002
"The Dame Multiplies Her Body: Female Alchemy, Court Patronage and Daoist Expansion in the Reign of Empress Dowager Cixi (1861-1908)"
Xun Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Southern California4-6 pm
Center for International Studies Seminar Room (SOS Room B-40), USCSponsored by the USC East Asian Studies Center and Department of History. For more information call (213) 740-2993 or write to easc@usc.edu.
January 10, 2002
Kandahar
(Safar e Gandehar) (2001)
Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf7 pm
James Bridges Theater UCLAMohsen Makhmalbaf combines the political sting of his early films (The Cyclist) with the visual poetics of his recent works (Gabbeh) in a devastating account of an Afghan exile's return to her homeland under Taliban rule. Now a journalist in Canada, Nafas is on a mission to save her sister in Kandahar who has threatened suicide. Guiding her on the perilous journey into the heart of darkness of war, religious extremism and human tragedy are by turns an Afghan refugee family, a boy expelled from Koranic school, a self-taught, African-American medic, and a one-legged land-mine casualty, all played by non-professional actors.
Producer/Screenplay/Editor: M. Makhmalbaf. Cinematography: Ebrahim Ghafouri. With: Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Sadou Teymouri, Hayatalah Hakimi. 35mm, in English and Farsi with English subtitles, 85 min.
Advance tickets for Kandahar will be on sale at the James Bridges Theater box office on Tuesday, January 8 only from 6:30-9 pm. Cash and checks only.
January 10-22, 2002
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair, dir.)
Jan. 10, 6:30 pm
Palm Springs High School Auditorium
2248 East Ramon Road, Palm Springs, CA 92262
This new film on a Punjabi wedding from famed Indian director Mira Nair kicks off the festival. After the disastrous relationship with a boss twice her age ends, Aditi hastily agrees to an arranged marriage with Hamant, an engineer now living in Houston, Texas. As the date moves closer and the relatives start to arrive with their own agendas, the atmosphere begins to heat up, culminating in Aditi's decision to tell Hamant the truth about her past, which threatens the marriage ceremony itself.Beijing Bicycle (Wang Xiaoshuai, dir.)
Jan. 11, noon
Festival Arts 1 2300 E. Baristo, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Jan. 20, 1:30 pm
Festival Arts 1 2300 E. Baristo, Palm Springs, CA 92262Guei, a young man from rural China comes to Beijing to make his fortune. Not especially bright, but honest and hardworking, he lands a job as a bicycle courier. His income is small as he pays off his bicycle, but fortune is in sight as he makes the last payment. This no sooner happens than the bicycle is stolen. Refusing to admit defeat, he scours the city until he spies a young man riding it. He follows the biker, a student named Jian, to his home and steals the bicycle back, only to have Jian track him down and demand it back. In an elaborate, rough, but very funny confrontation, Jian and Guei reach a unique compromise.
Go (YUKISADA Isao, dir.)
Jan. 11, 4 pm
Courtyard B 789 Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Jan. 16, 8 pm
Festival Arts 3 2300 E. Baristo, Palm Springs, CA 92262Jennifer Stark describes the film: "Based on the novel by Kankuro Kudo the film centers around Sugihara a young Korean teenager growing up in Japan. Up until now, he has attended Korean school, but curious, decides to attend a Japanese high school. Sugihara's father Hideyoshi, a professional boxer, has been training Sugihara to follow in his footsteps since childhood. Well on his way to doing just that, Sugihara has won his last twenty-four fights. Sugihara begins high school and immediately falls in love with Sakurai, a young Japanese girl. This being his first love, Sugihara is awkward, but Sakurai is drawn to him and their relationship deepens. Sugihara has kept his heritage a secret from Sakurai, afraid that she will reject him for being Korean. He thinks he can keep his secret hidden, until the night his best friend from Korean school calls and sets into motion a series of events that will change everything."
Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, dir.)
January 11
9 pm
Annenberg 101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262Kandahar follows Nafas, an Afghani journalist living in Canada, as she embarks on a difficult quest to reach the Taliban stronghold and find her sister. Enveloped in a burqua, Nafas enters her homeland through the Iranian border, posing as the fourth wife of an Afghani refugee. When her fellow travellers are robbed by bandits and turn back, Nafas pushes on alone, hiring the assistance of a Khak, a young boy who has been expelled from his Koran school for failing to memorize the prayers. She is also helped by a village doctor who is hiding an astonishing secret.
In the Bosom of the Enemy (Gil Portes, dir.)
Jan. 12, 9 am
Festival Arts 3 2300 E. Baristo, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Jan. 18, 2:15 pm
Courtyard A 789 Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262In time of war, the lives of three people are forever changed: Pilar, a beautiful woman with a great capacity for love; Diego, her husband, a man devoted to his country; and Hiroshi, a Japanese officer. When Diego is taken prisoner, Pilar makes a deal with Hiroshi. In return for his freedom she agrees to become the wet nurse for his infant son. In doing so, she finds a friend behind the face of the enemy and comes to love the child, as she does her own infant daughter. Once freed, Diego joins a guerilla group plotting the destruction of Hiroshi and his troops. Pilar is forced to choose between her loyalty for her husband and desire for her country's freedom and her growing love for Hiroshi.
Waterboys
Jan. 12, 11 am
Courtyard C 789 Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Jan. 17, 6 pm
Festival Arts 1 2300 E. Baristo, Palm Springs, CA 92262It's springtime in Japan and the boy's swim team - totaling five - at Tadano High School are barely keeping afloat. When a pretty new swim coach arrives, she manages to convince them to form a synchronized swim team. Inspired, the boys begin training, only to lose her when she realizes she is very pregnant. Left on their own, the boys must make a decision - either they will continue and find a new coach themselves, or face ridicule from their classmates for yet another dismal failure. Through a series of silly misadventures and with the encouragement of a gaggle of local drag queens, the boys manage to find a coach (of sorts), miraculously perfect a routine and enlist a whole crew of swimmers to join them. But as the big day approaches, they must face one last hurtle to achieve their dream.
Munndi [A Preface] (Pattabhiramaiah Sheshadri, dir.)
Jan. 12, 4:30 pm
Festival Arts 3 2300 E. Baristo, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Jan. 17, 7 pm
Festival Arts 2 2300 E. Baristo, Palm Springs, CA 92262Therese Hayes writes, "Mutthuchchera, a tiny Muslim in India village, has a special attraction for Arab traders. They come seasonally to buy wood, spices, etc. Local traders vie with each other to woo the Arabs by providing them with all comforts including 'temporary wives'. Poor local women agree to a system in which they marry the Arab only to be divorced in about three months. These women return to their huts and wait in silence for the next season. In return they receive some money as "Meher" every time they marry and sometimes visas for their relatives who long to work in Arab countries. For ages these women accepted this system as a way of life, although creating tension in the families, until one of the women rebelled against such exploitation."
The Cabbie (Zhang Hua-Kun and Chen Yiwen, dir.)
Jan. 13, noon
Courtyard A 789 Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Jan. 18, 2 pm
Courtyard C 789 Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262Su Daquan is a taxi driver who works for his father's company. One day, while musing over how strange it is to have his passengers confide their deepest secrets to him, he has a gun held to his head. This gets him thinking about his life and family and the relationship between his parents. Not long after that experience, he is hit by an even larger realization, when he finds he has fallen head-long for a young policewoman. The only way he can think of attracting her attention is by breaking every moving violation in the book, several times over. But, can a fistful of unpaid traffic tickets be enough to win her heart?
A Dog's Day (Murali Nair, dir.)
Jan. 14, 7 pm
Festival Arts 2 2300 E. Baristo, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Jan. 17, 9 am
Courtyard A 789 Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262Therese Hayes reviews "A Dog's Day": "The ruling lord grants democratic freedom to his faithful citizens and to demonstrate his good will further, he donates the royal dog Apu to his faithful servant Koran and his wife. Apu is cared for royally and admired by the whole village. One day Apu bites a duck, then a small boy. When the boy dies rumors spread that the dog has rabies and the former ruler knew it all along. The peaceful democratic atmosphere is disrupted and the villagers turn against the lord they once loved. The new rulers take up the fight against the dog and the political situation assumes the proportion of an international crisis. Conditions are set for lucrative games of war and trade."
Markova: A Comfort Gay (Gil Portes, dir.)
Jan. 14, 9:45 pm
Festival Arts 2300 E. Baristo, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Jan. 19, 6 pm
Annenberg 101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262The film begins with Markova, watching a documentary about the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. As aging comfort women relate the horrors of being forced into prostitution by the occupation forces, Markova begins to reflect on his own tumultuous life. As a boy, Markova is abused by his brutal older brother. When his brother dies, he experiences his first taste of real freedom but it is short-lived as he deals with the prejudices of his society, and the arrival of the Japanese forces only means a worse kind of oppression. Forced to prostitute himself, Markova eventually escapes but even when the country is liberated by American forces, his battle is far from over.
Daughters of This Century (Tapan Sinha, dir.)
Jan. 15, 3 pm
Annenberg 101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Jan. 18, 9 am
Festival Arts 1 2300 E. Baristo, Palm Springs, CA 92262This film is a collection of three short stories out of five written by great Bengali authors, spanning over a century and representing the oppression and humiliation of women. "Kadambini" a Tagore story, is about a young widow taken to be dead. A storm stops the rituals and when she comes to and returns home, the family disowns her, thinking her to be her own ghost. "Champia" (Seven Marriages) concerns a women who, when she prepares for her seventh marriage, discovers that this one also is based on how much this potential husband can get out of her financially and sexually. "Charu" is a victim of her own trust in love and the relationship she develops with the artist she works for as a housekeeper.
Secret Tears (Ki-Hyung Park, dir.)
Jan. 15, 4 pm
Courtyard B 789 Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Jan. 18, 7 pm
Festival Arts 2 2300 E. Baristo, Palm Springs, CA 92262A recently divorced insurance-claim investigator, Ku-Ho is driving home drunk one stormy night when he hits Mi-Jo, a young woman who is standing in the middle of the road. She has no apparent injury, so he takes her back to his apartment to recover. She has no ID, is both amnesiac and mute, but Ku-Ho soon realizes that she can speak to him telepathically and he can answer. Mi-Jo discovers that she has other supernatural talents too, including an ability to control water telekinetically. Meanwhile, Ku-Ho's colleagues, believing he's succumbed to a "Lolita syndrome," decide to investigate her background with astonishing results. But no matter what is uncovered, what his friends say or the number of corpses that begin to mount, Ku-Ho refuses to give up Mi-Jo.
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (Ashutosh Gowariker, dir.)
Jan. 16, 10 am
Courtyard B 789 Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Jan. 19, 10 am
Palm Springs High School 2248 East Ramon Rd., Palm Springs, CA 92262The rains have failed and the villagers of Champaner in Victorian India hope they will be excused from paying the crippling land tax (Lagaan) imposed by British rulers. Instead, the unrelenting British commander declares that the tax will be doubled. All because the Raja, a strong principled vegetarian refused to eat meat with the English Captain. The villagers are stumped. One among them, Bhuvan, gets into a scuffle and is thrown a challenge. If the villagers beat the British at cricket, the tax will be excused for 3 years. The villagers who know nothing about cricket are distraught but eventually Bhuvan manages to galvanize a team with the crucial help of two women, the village belle and the English Captain's own sister.
For information and tickets, please call (760)778-8979 or (800)898-PALM (7256).
January 11, 2002
Burial Mounds & The Bronze Age Civilization of Southeast Coastal China
Yang Nan
Noon
4355C Bunche Hall, UCLAThe recent excavation of burial mounds (3700 B.P. - 2400 B.P.) scattered across Southeastern China has yielded important discoveries, including the mausoleum of the king of Yue (2500 B.P.), ranked as "one of the most important archaeological discoveries in China in 1998." Ancient burial mounds were closely related to the origins of the Wu and Yue cultures.
Yang Nan (Ph.D., Dept. of Archaeology, Peking University, 1996), Visiting Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, is professor in the Department of History, Central University for National Minorities. Professor Yang was with the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology for over ten years, and participated in or led excavations of ancient sites in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shanxi.
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. Call 310 825-8683 for more information.
January 12, 2002
A Living Religion: The Socio-Political Geography of Buddhism in Contemporary Societies
A Look at Four Regions
10-11 am Sara Davis, UCLA Visiting Scholar
Burma/China: "State Development and Popular Buddhist Revival on China-Burma Borders"
11:10 am-12:20 pm Patrick Pranke, Middlebury College
Burma: "Buddhist Eschatology and Samgha-State Relations"
(Lunch)
1:30-2:40 pm Helen Hardacre, Harvard University
Japan: "After Aum: Religion and Civil Society in Japan"
3-4:30 pm Wenjie Qin, Harvard University
China: A showing of the Documentary "To the Land of Bliss" (2001)
Sponsored by UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies.
January 14, 2002
UCLA International Studies and Overseas Programs Funding Opportunities Open House
11 am - 1 pm
Charles E. Young Grand Salon (248 Kerchkoff Hall), UCLAGraduate students who have made New Years resolutions to broaden their cultural and educational horizons might find their task made easier by exploring a bounty of resources ranging from funding to study abroad at an "International Studies Open House." The open house will be the first of its kind to showcase graduate fellowships, interdepartmental degree programs, and educational abroad opportunities offered to UCLA students through ISOP.
January 14, 2002
"Foreign Workers, Associative Activism, and Democratic Transformation in Japan"
Apichai Shipper
Harvard University11:45 am
SOS B-40
USCApichai Shipper is a candidate for a position in Japanese Politics. Organized by the USC Dept. of Political Science and the USC East Asian Studies Center.
January 14, 2002
A Constitutional Affair: Kato Shidzue and Other Women Activists Read MacArthur's Constitution
Helen Hopper
History, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University3 pm
Hacienda Room
Faculty Center, UCLASponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies. If you have questions, please contact the office at 310-825-8681.
January 16, 2002
The Clash Between Liberalism & New Leftism in China
Xu Jilin
Noon
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLAThe turn of the century has witnessed a sharp clash between “liberalism” and “new leftism” in China. The controversy signals that the 20-year Chinese reform is now facing a critical choice: From this point forward, where shall China go and how shall it get there? Unlike former ideological controversies in the PRC, the current disputants on both sides share the same background: they were products of the intellectual enlightenment of the 1980s and they all once were the staunchest advocates reform. Yet, during the 1990s as a market economy really began to take root in China, intellectuals themselves came to disagree fundamentally about the rationality and the direction of the reform.
Xu Jilin is professor of history at Shanghai Normal University and director of the Association of Chinese Historians. A prominent intellectual historian, he has published widely on Chinese intellectuals and modern culture, among other subjects.
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. Call 310 825-8683 for additional information.
January 17, 2002
The Mourning System and Women's Status in Early China: Evidence from Mawangdui
Lai Guolong
Ph.D. candidate, UCLA Department of Art History4 pm
243 Royce Hall
January 18, 2002
Political Consolidation or Political Decay? Chen Shui-bian’s China Policy
Chien-min Chao
Noon
4355C Bunche Hall, UCLALess than two years after winning the presidential election in 2000, the DPP (Democratic Progressive Party) has successfully emerged as the largest political party in Taiwan, displacing the KMT (Nationalist Party) for the first time as the party with the most seats in the parliament. However, the mandate delivered by the voters of Taiwan regarding the island's policy towards China has been less than clear. While uncertainty in its relations with China has certainly contributed to Taiwan's economic slump, voters seem to be telling the Chen administration that it is all right. In the meantime, ethnic tensions were raised to a new height as the "pan-green force" and the "pan-blue force" divide the political map quite evenly from the middle of the island. A divided Taiwan will in no way churn out a unified policy towards its neighbor to the west. Finally, factionalism within the ruling party will continue to constrain the president in his pursuit of better relations with China. Moreover, accession to the WTO by the two archenemies fails to ameliorate their problems.
Chien-min Chao is Professor of the Sun Yat-sen Graduate Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities at National Chengchi University, in Taipei. He has been a visiting distinguished professor at George Washington University. His publications include Taiwan and Mainland China: Relations and Foreign Competition (1992), Authoritarian Politics (1994), An Analysis to Contemporary Chinese Politics (1997), and Cross-strait Relations and Taiwan's Foreign Policies (2000). He is also co-editor of several books including: The ROC on the Threshold of the 21st Century: A Paradigm Reexamined (1999), Rethinking the Chinese State: Strategies, Society, and Security (Routledge, 2001), Lee Teng-hui's Legacy: Democratic Consolidation and Foreign Relations (M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming). Professor Chao has also published seventy articles in academic journals.
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. Call 310 825-8683 for additional information.
January 18, 2002
"On the resemblance of the philosophic paradigm between Jeong Dasan and Tianzhu Shiyi"
Young-bae Song
Seoul National University and visiting scholar, UC San Diego3-4:30 pm
243 Royce HallSponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. Please call (310) 825-3284 for additional information.
January 19, 2002
New Directions in Yunnan Studies
10 am-4 pm
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLAIn recent years, the quantity of historical, anthropological, and cultural research on Yunnan--China’s most ethnically diverse southwestern border province -- has exploded, and the implications of its complex relationship with its Southeast Asian neighbors are at last beginning to be addressed. The gathering of scholars at this workshop, all of whom work in and around Yunnan, offers a rare opportunity to discuss the region from a multidisciplinary perspective, and to think about what this site, with its uniquely complex geopolitical location, has to offer to China studies more broadly defined, and to studies of border regions throughout mainland East and Southeast Asia.
Conference Program:
Chair: Helen Rees
10am-11 am Keynote address
Anthropological Perspectives on Yunnan
Yang Hui
Department of Anthropology, Yunnan University
11:15 am-12:45 pm Presentations on their research by:
Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein, Religious Studies, Stanford Univ.
Emily Chao Anthropology, Pitzer College
Sara Davis Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UCLA
Erik Mueggler Anthropology, University of Michigan
Helen Rees Ethnomusicology, UCLA
Laichen Sun History, Cal State Univ., Fullerton
Margaret Swain Anthropology, UC Davis12:45-2pm Lunch
2-4 pm Roundtable discussion:
Current & Future Directions in Yunnan Studies
This workshop is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, UCLA Comparative & Indisciplinary Research on Asia and the UCLA Center for East Asian Studies.
January 19, 2002
Warabi-za "21st Century Hisho - Flying across the Pacific"
8 pm
George and Sakaye Aratani Japan America Theatre
244 South San Pedro Street Los Angeles, CA 90012
The rousing folk ensemble Warabiza makes its long-awaited return to the U.S. with an exciting program of folk music and dance. Hailing from Japan's northern Akita Prefecture, Warabiza, celebrates its 50th anniversary with this special 5-city U.S. tour and an all new repertoire. The award-winning company has toured internationally as cultural ambassadors presenting folk dances and music from Japan's various regions. Appealing to the wide interest in taiko, Warabiza devotes the first half of its program to many colors and textures of Japanese folk drumming.The U.S. tour of Warabi-za is funded in part by The Japan Foundation through the Performing Arts JAPAN Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, WESTAF (Western States Arts Federation), and the Kodo Cultural Foundation.
Tickets for the Performance: Reserved Seating $25, $23 / JACCC Members $22, $20 / Students & Seniors, Groups $18.
To purchase tickets and information call the Japan America Theatre Box Office at 213.680.3700.More info on Warabi-za: http://www.warabi.or.jp/English/index.html.
January 19-20, 2002
Celebrating Mahavira's Teachings:
The Lessons of Ahimsa and Anekanta for Contemporary LifeThe ancient teachings of Vardhamana Mahavira, and in particular two of its core elements - the principle of Ahimsa (Non-violence) and the philosophy of Anekanta (Non-absolutism) - appear to have an extra-ordinary timeliness as well as great practical significance at the dawn of the twenty-first century. In this conference an international group of scholars and practitioners will share their research and insights on the teachings of Mahavira and Jainism, and approaches to education about Jainism. The conference is sponsored by the Southern California Seminar on South Asia, CSU Pomona, the Infinity Foundation, the Jain Center of Southern California, and the Jain Society of San Diego. Click here for a printable program and registration form.
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
3801 West Temple Avenue, Pomona, California 91768Saturday, January 19
9:00 a.m Registration
9:45 a.m. Introduction
Tara Sethia, Cal Poly Pomona10:15 a.m. Welcome Remarks
Bob H. Suzuki, President Cal Poly Pomona
Barbara Way, Dean CLASS, Cal Poly Pomona10:45 a.m.
“Mahavira and Reverential Ecology"
Satish Kumar, Schumacher College, UK11:45 a.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. Panel 1: Ahimsa and Non-violence
“Ahimsa and Non-violence: A Comparison of Religious and Cultural Values"
John E. Cort, Dennison University“Ahimsa and Compassion"
Kristi Wiley, University of California at Berkeley“Jain Responses to Terrorism"
Kim Skoog, University of Guam2:45 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m. Panel 2: Anekantavada and Beyond
"The Ontological and Epistemological Significance of Anekantavada"
John M. Koller, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute"Mahavira, Anekantavada and the Contemporary World"
Samani Charitrapragya, Jain Vishva Bharti, India“Multi-dimensional Significance of Anekanta in Present-day Social Life"
Kamla Jain, College of Jesus and Mary, Delhi University“Beyond Anekantavada: A Jain Perspective on Tolerance"
Paul Dundas, University of Edinburgh5:00 p.m. Bhajans Paresh Shah and Jammy Shah
6:00 p.m. Dinner
Sunday, January 20
8:30 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. Panel 3: Ahimsa and Anekanta in Jain Tradition
“Exemplars of Anekanta and Ahimsa: The Case of the Early Jains of Mathura in Art and Epigraphy"
Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, University of California at Irvine“Religious Dissonance and Reconciliation: The Haribhadra Story"
Christopher Key Chapple, Loyola Marymount University“Anekanta, Ahimsa and the Question of Pluralism"
Anne Vallely, McGill University10:30 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. Panel 4: Towards Greater Understanding through Ahimsa and Anekantavada
“The Tremendous Practicality of Anekantavada"
Gabriel E. Figueroa, American Vegan Magazine“Modern Effective Social Service Practice through Ahimsa and Anekantavada"
Brian Truncale, Chicago Health Outreach Clinic12:00 noon Lunch
1:30 p.m. Panel 5: Education About Jainism
“Unifying Jain Concepts with Day-to-Day Thinking and Behavior"
Pallavi Gala and Biren Mehta, Southern California Jain Center“Jain Education in the Twenty-first Century"
Sudhir Shah, Anekanta Education Foundation“Jainism in the College Curriculum"
Tara Sethia, Cal Poly Pomona3: 00 p.m. Conference Summary and Response
Padmanabh S. Jaini, University of California at BerkeleyRegistration fees vary from $15 to $40 for late registrants. Accommodations are also available. Please see the registration form.
January 20, 2002
Warabi-za "21st Century Hisho - Flying across the Pacific"
2 pm
George and Sakaye Aratani Japan America Theatre
244 South San Pedro Street Los Angeles, CA 90012
The rousing folk ensemble Warabiza makes its long-awaited return to the U.S. with an exciting program of folk music and dance. Hailing from Japan's northern Akita Prefecture, Warabiza, celebrates its 50th anniversary with this special 5-city U.S. tour and an all new repertoire. The award-winning company has toured internationally as cultural ambassadors presenting folk dances and music from Japan's various regions. Appealing to the wide interest in taiko, Warabiza devotes the first half of its program to many colors and textures of Japanese folk drumming.The U.S. tour of Warabi-za is funded in part by The Japan Foundation through the Performing Arts JAPAN Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, WESTAF (Western States Arts Federation), and the Kodo Cultural Foundation.
Tickets for the Performance: Reserved Seating $25, $23 / JACCC Members $22, $20 / Students & Seniors, Groups $18.
To purchase tickets and information call the Japan America Theatre Box Office at 213.680.3700.
More info on Warabi-za: http://www.warabi.or.jp/English/index.html.Special announcement: Warabi-za Workshop. A special workshop with Warabi-za members. Registration is $25 and limited. Call 213.628.2725 ext 130 or 106 to register.
January 20, 2002
The World of Noh, Kyogen & Buyo
3 pm
James R. Armstrong Theater, Torrance Cultural Arts Center
3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, CA 90503The Japanese Traditional Performing Arts Organization presents Special guest performers from Japan: Anshin Uchida, a master artist of Kita School of Noh who is designated as a National Intangible Cultural Asset, and his son are joined by Beikoku Kita-Kai of Los Angeles. Theatre of Yugen is the only Kyogen group in the US, established in 1978, headed by Yuriko Doi Walker. Buyo (dance) is a part of Kabuki and much of its repertoire originates in Noh & Kyogen.
This performance is funded by grants from the Fund for Folk Culture, the California Arts Council & the Japan Foundation.
Tickets: $20.00 General admission, Seniors & Students $16.00. For tickets call (310) 781-7171, Monday through Friday 8 am - 8 pm. For further information call (310) 378-3550.
January 21, 2002
East Asia Bound Up, Tied Up, and Buried: How Country Studies Balkanized an Intellectual Field
Bruce Cummings
History, University of Chicago4 pm
306 Royce Hall, UCLASponsored by UCLA Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia. For further information call (310) 794-8944.
January 23, 2002
"The Contentious Japanese? Taxpayer Suits and Freedom of Information in Japan"
Jonathan Marshall
UC, Berkeley12:30 pm
SOS B-40
USCJonathan Marshall is a candidate for a position in Japanese Politics. Organized by the USC Dept. of Political Science and the USC East Asian Studies Center.
January 23, 2002
The Consequences of War in Central Asia: Refugees and Relief Efforts Panel Discussion
2 pm
A panel of representatives from leading international relief organizations will explore the implications of the humanitarian problems in Central Asia and the role of local relief efforts made by organizations based in Southern California.
Speakers: Neil Joyce, International Medical Corp.
Hasan Nouri, President and Founder, Rivertech Inc.
Richard Walden, President and CEO, Operation USA
Moderator: Judy Dugan, Deputy Editor, Editorial Pages, The Los Angeles TimesSponsored by the Asia Society of Southern California. For further information please call, (213) 624-0945.
January 23, 2002
Title: TBA
Thanet Aphornsuvan
History, Thammasat University3-4:30 pm
10383 Bunche HallSponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. For further information call 310-206-9163.
January 24, 2002
Runaway
Independent Visions Film Series
12 noon and 6 pm
Maxwell Theater, U-SU, Cal State Los AngelesThis powerful documentary intimately explores the lives and experiences of a group of young runaway girls who are taken to a women's shelter in Tehran-Iran. The film is an engrossing and honest account of the social and psychological battles faced by women in Iran. Directed by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini, 2001, 87 minutes.
Call the Cross Cultural Centers at (323) 343-5001 for more information.
January 24-26, 2002
National Acrobats of Taiwan
Jan. 24 and 25, 8 pm
Jan. 26, 2 pm and 8 pm
Cerritos Center for the Performing ArtsA company of 35 acrobats from the National Fu Hsing Dramatic Arts Academy will perform. For information, call (800) 300-4345.
January 25, 2002
A Seminar on U.S. – China Relations
2 pm
4335C Bunche Hall, UCLAWith a delegation from The Shanghai Institute of International Studies:
Yu Xintian, President
Yang Jiemian, Vice President
Zhang Zuqian, Director, European Studies
Zhao Huasheng, Director, Russian Studies
Zhao Gancheng, Director, International Exchanges
Chen Dongxiao, Research Fellow, American Studies
Sponsored by UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. For further information, call (310) 825-8683.
January 25, 2002
"An Early Analysis of 2002 Korean Presidential Election" [Cancelled]
Peter Ahn
Sejong University3-4:30 pm
243 Royce HallSponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. Please call (310) 825-3284 for additional information.
January 26, 2002
Nikkei Bruin Symposium on Religion in Japanese American Communities
3 pm
314 Royce Hall, UCLAPresenters:
Duncan Williams
Camp Dharma: Religious and Ethnic Identiry among Buddhists in the Internment CampsCharles Prebish
Japanese American Buddhism and Its Role in the Western Buddhist CommunityTetsuden Kashima
Japanese American Religiosity: Japanese American on the West Coast SurveyJane Hurst
Pioneer Women: The Story of the Japanese Women Who Brought Soka Gakkai to AmericaLori Pierce
Buddhist Modernism in the Issei GenerationTaitetsu Unno
RespondentSponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies. If you have questions, please contact the office at 310-825-8681.
January 26, 2002
Flower Drum Song
Special Revival Screening
7:30 pm
Bing Theater
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036
323-857-6000 (general information)
323-857-0098 (TDD)1961. Dir: Henry Koster; w/ Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta. The Rogers and Hammerstein score of this 1960s musical was featured in David Hwang's updated production at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. MGM Studios' distribution rights expire in February, so this screening may be the city's last chance to see this rare Technicolor print. color. 133 min.
Admission is $7; $5 for museum and AFI members, seniors (62+), and students with valid ID. Tickets may be purchased at the museum ticket office or by calling toll free 1-877-522-6225. Purchase of a film ticket includes entrance to the galleries. For info: 323-857-6010.
January 27, 2002
Absence Made Tangible: The Relics of the Buddha in India, China, and Japan
10 am-4:30 pm
306 Royce, Herbert Morris Room, UCLAChen Jinhua (University of Virginia)
Brian Ruppert (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Gregory Schopen (Stanford University/UCLA)
Koichi Shinohara (McMaster University)
John Strong (Bates College)Sponsored by UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies. Please call 310-825-2089 for further information.
January 27, 2002
Tantric Buddhist Dance of Nepal
4 pm
Pacific Asia Museum
46 N. Los Robles Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91101
(626)449-2742Known in Sanskrit as Charya Nritya or "dance as a spiritual practice," this dance was traditionally performed by Vajrayana Buddhist priests as part of their meditation, rituals and celebrations, and has only recently become accessible for non-initiates. As a type of meditation, the dancer invokes the different energies of Tantric deities, transforming the self into the forms of gods and goddesses of Vajrayana Buddhism. Tickets $9.00 in advance and $12.00 at the door.
January 28, 2002
The Politics of State Identity in Japan's Security Policy
Andrew Oros
Columbia University10:45 am
SOS B-40
USCAndrew Oros is a candidate for a position in Japanese Politics. Organized by the USC Dept. of Political Science and the USC East Asian Studies Center.
January 30, 2002
A Theory of Regional Voting: Democratization and Regional Voting in South Korea
Practice Job Talk
Woojin Moon, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science
UCLA3-4:30 pm
4355C Bunche Hall
Directions to UCLA: Traveling on 405-N, exit at Sunset Blvd. and turn right. Traveling on 405-S, exit at Sunset Blvd. Turn left onto Church Ln. and proceed to Sunset Blvd. Turn left at Sunset Blvd. Proceed on Sunset Blvd. for about 2 miles and turn right at Hilgard Ave. Continue on Hilgard Ave. and turn right on Wyton. Proceed to UCLA Parking and Information booth for directions to Bunche Hall and parking location (Parking permits are $6/day).To access the paper for this talk, please go to: http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~wjmoon/regionalism.PDF
Sponsored by UCLA Center for Korean Studies. For further information, please call (310) 825-3284.
January 30, 2002
The Most Important Buddhist Scripture? The Aparimiturjana and the Question of Context
Jonathan Silk
Yale University3:30 pm
243 Royce HallSponsored by UCLA Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures and UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies.
January 31, 2002
Contemporary Chinese Art
Dr. Janet Baker
1 pm
Copley Auditorium
San Diego Museum of Art
Lectures are free for museum members, $5 for nonmembers. For information call Don Sohlin, (619) 435-7052.
January 31, 2002
Panel Discussion on Internationally Oriented Careers
7-9 pm
James West Alumni Center, UCLAAn alumni panel discussion on internationally oriented careers including law, business, research, diplomatic service, foreign trade, and language translation and interpretation. After the presentation, the panelists will be able to answer questions. There will also be information on the US State Dept. and the UC Study Abroad Programs (EAP). You do not need to be a SAA member to attend.
Sponsored by the UCLA Student Alumni Association Career Network.
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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