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East Asian Calendar of Events and Exhibitions  

December 1999  

Ongoing Exhibitions | Lectures, conferences and performances

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Ongoing Exhibitions

Oct. 31- Dec.12

"Changes and Continuities: Japanese Paintings from the Sanso Collection"

12-5 Tues.-Fri., 1-5 Sat.-Sun.
Montgomery Gallery

For more information, call Steve Comba at (909) 621-8283.

Nov. 2- Dec.19

"Burning Hearts: Portraits of the Philipines"

12-5 Tues.-Fri., 1-5 Sat.-Sun.
Montgomery Gallery

An exhibit of the work of photographer Marissa Roth. An opening reception to be held at 4 p.m., Oct. 29 will feature a discussion by Roth and noted author Jessica Hagedorn, who wrote the text for Roth's recent book. Sponsored by the Pacific Basin Institute, Scripps Humanities Institute, and Montogomery Gallery. For more information, call Steve Comba at (909) 621-8283.

Dec. 4, 1999- Jan. 2, 2000

Art & Democracy II: A mixed media art exhibition

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

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

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

December 19, 1999 to mid April 2000

Miniature Chinese Ceramics

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

Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Avenue,
one half block north of Colorado Boulevard in downtown Pasadena.

For more information about Pacific Asia Museum call 626/449-2742 or fax 626/449-2754.

Through January 2, 2000

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

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

Through January 16, 2000

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

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

Lectures, conferences, and performances

December 1, 1999

"The Logic of Economic Liberalization: Opening China's Provinces to International Business, 1979-1994"

Harry Hongyi Lai
Department of Political Science, UCLA
Ph.D. Candidate

3:00pm-4:00pm
11382 Bunche Hall

Presented by the UCLA Center for International Relations (CIR). Refreshments will be served.

December 1, 1999

"Institutional Obsolescence and Economic Change: The Case(s) of Thailand"

Professor Richard Doner
Emory University

4:00pm-5:00pm
11382 Bunche Hall

Presented by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies Colloquium Series. For more information, call  (310)206-9163.

December 3, 1999

"Changchuan Tomb No. 1 and Its North Asia Context"

Prof. Nancy Steinhardt
University of Pennsylvania

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
275 Dodd Hall, UCLA

This public lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies and the UCLA Department of Art History. Call (310) 825-3284 for more information.

December 3, 1999

Concert featuring Uday Bhawalkar, North Indian dhrupad singer.

8 p.m.
Jan Popper Theater, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
Free

Sponsored by the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.

December 3 and 4, 1999

"The Nature of InterdepenDance"

Susan Bauer
Choreographer

8 pm
Dance Theater 200, UCLA

The work integrates topeng (Balinese masked dance) with American modern and post-modern dance to create a dynamic and thought-provoking new dance form. The carved masks featured are Bauer's original designs created in Bali during her apprenticeship with the master mask-maker Ida Bagus Oka and inspired by Bauer's study, travel and research in Indonesia. Throughout this dance-drama, clown characters add a touch of humor, commenting on our foibles and elements of life in Los Angeles.

Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students. To order, call (310) 825-2101. On campus parking is $5 and is available in Lot 4. (Enter the campus at Sunset and Westwood.) Dance Building Theater 200 is located on the second floor and is accessible only by staircase. For information or requests for access and accommodation, please call (310) 825-3951 seven working days prior to the event. The performance will be followed by a free reception (providing Indonesian food sponsored by Ramayani Restaurant, Westwood) where the audience can meet the cast. The program is part of the Department of World Arts and Cultures' Upstarts Series.

December 5, 1999

Dance in Cambodia Book Signing

Dr. Toni Samantha Phim,
author of DANCE IN CAMBODIA (Oxford University Press, 1999).

2:00 p.m.
Arts of Apsara Cultural Center
UCC Plaza
2338 E. Anaheim Street, Suite 105, Long Beach

From Westwood, take 405 South to 710 South. Exit on Anaheim St. East. UCC Plaza is about a mile and a half on the right-hand side, between Raymond and Junipero.

The program will be introduced by a traditional music and dance demonstration.

Dr. Phim is currently teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies. Prior to getting her Ph.D. from Cornell University, she spent several years (1989-1993) undertaking research on Cambodian dance both in Cambodia and in refugee camps in Thailand. Her work has focused on the relationship between art and war, and the life stories of Cambodia's dancers. Her new book, Dance in Cambodia, co-authored with Ashley Thompson, offers an introduction to the rich diversity of dance as it is practiced today in Cambodia.

Presented by The Arts of the Apsara Cultural Center. For more information or directions, contact Sophiline Cheam Shapiro at scs@ucla.edu or 323-666-3633.

December 6, 1999

"Memory, Ritual and Orality:  Performing the   Imperial Birthday Ceremony in the Song"

Stephen West, Professor
UC Berkeley

3 p.m.
243 Royce Hall, UCLA

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

December 7, 1999

Asian Cultural Night

6-9 p.m.
Pasadena City College
1570 E. Colorado Boulevard
Pasadena, California 91106-2003

Performances from various Asian descent such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Sri Lankan, Pilipino and many more. Some performances will include Chinese and Japanese martial arts, Japanese umbrella dance, Taiko drummers, break dancers, and a acrobatic performance that was also held in many of the Laker games, which you may have heard of (the Asian lady on a monocyle balancing cups on her head.)

There is no dress code, $4 for admission and food and drinks will be served. For more information please contact Cliff Law (I.C.C. Rep and Fundraiser Coordinator) at kim-wa@communityconnect.com or (626) 975-9607.

December 7 - 10, 1999

"When the Purple Settles" a play on color by Francis Tanglao Aguas

Directed by Nathan Adolfson
Part of the Francis Ford Coppola New Play Marathon

December 7,8, 9 at 7 pm
December 10 at 4 pm
UCLA MacGowan Hall 1340
Free Admission. Come early.

The Francis Ford Coppola at UCLA presents "When The Purple Settles" by the 1999 A.S.K Playwriting Award winner Francis Tanglao Aguas. Directed by 1999 D.G.A. Student Film Award winner Nathan Adolfson, PURPLE is a fantastic hallucinogenic contemplation on colonialism, parenthood, virginity and Miss Saigon. It features opera, comedy, dance, drama, and of >>course HIPHOP music.

The Francis Ford Coppola at UCLA is a program of the UCLA Theater Department that produces original plays written by graduate students in the Playwriting Program. The program's namesake, the Film Director Francis Ford Coppola, attended the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television. Mr. Coppola has been known to say that his work is greatly influenced by his collaborations in the Theater Department. To encourage further collaboration between the two mediums, the School named the Series after him. In this light, Film Directors from the Film School direct the plays in production. WHEN THE PURPLE SETTLES is the first Filipino American play to be presented by the Coppolas. Francis Tanglao Aguas is the recipient of various theater and performance awards including the James Pendleton Foundation Prize, Richard Eshelman Playwriting Award, the 1998 A.S.K, Theater Projects Fellowship in Playwriting, and the 1999 A.S.K. Playwriting Award.   Nathan Adolfson is a filmmaker in the MFA Film Program at UCLA. He is the winner of the UCLA Spotlight for Achievement in Filmmaking, the UCLA Award for Editing and Screenwriting and the 1999 Director's Guild of America Student Film Award for his film, "Passing Through." This is Adolfson and Tanglao-Aguas' second collaboration having worked together on Adolfson's film, "Adrift" which is currently in post production. Call Francis Tanglao-Aguas at 310 208 0427 for more information.

December 8, 1999

"Taiwan's 'State-to-State Relations' Policy Toward Mainland China: Old Wine in New Bottles?"

Jason C. Yuan
Director General, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Los Angeles

3 p.m.
State Room (Room 131), Kerckhoff Hall, UCLA     

Jason C. Yuan has been Director General of the Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Los Angeles since 1998. Before that, in 1996-98, he was Ambassador (of the Republic of China) to Panama; in 1991-94, Director General of the Department of North American Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC; and in 1986-91, Director of the Congressional Liaison Division, of the Coordination Council for North American Affairs (in Washington, DC).

Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. Call (310) 825-8683 for more information.

December 9, 1999

Southern California Japan Seminar:
"The Tale of the Heike with a Difference: The Enkyobon Heike Variant and its Place in Medieval Culture"

David Bialock
East Asian Languages and Cultures/Comparative Literature
University of Southern California

8 p.m.
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Professor Bialock earned his doctorate at Columbia University. His publications include “Voice, Text, and the Question of Poetic Borrowing in Late Classical Japanese Poetry,” in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies ( June 1994) and Finding an Epic: The Emergence of the Tale of the Heike as Modern Classic (Stanford University Press, forthcoming).

Sponsored by the USC/UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center. Call seminar coordinator Samuel Yamashita (Pomona College) for more information: (909) 607-2924.

December 9, 1999

2nd annual California Japan Forum on
THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL BUSINESS

The keynote speaker for this event:
Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda
Honorary Chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation
Immediate Past Chairman, Keidanren (Federation of Economic Organizations)

A panel on The Future of Business will precede the keynote speech and includes the following specialists:
Mr. James Flanigan (Senior Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times) Professor John Zysman (Political Economist, U C Berkeley Founder, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy )
Mr. Frank B. Gibney (President, Pacific Basin Institute)
Professor Kazuo Koike (Hosei University, specialist on technology manufacturing)

Registration: 4:30-5:00 p.m.
Panelists: 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Keynote: 6:50-7:30 p.m.

Los Angeles Marriot
333 S. Figueroa St.
Downtown Los Angeles

Valet Parking: $7.50
$30 per person $300 tables of 10

For reservations: email: la-japan@pacbell.net
voice: 213-627-6217, ext. 17.
fax: 213-627-1353

The current pattern of business relations between California and Japan has developed over a century of trade, investment and technological exchange. In the last year of this century, how do we differ in our views on the future of business? Does the rise of the internet mean the end of manufacturing, or will "hard" industries continue to play a crucial role in the economic health of California and Japan? Doe the recent failure of the WTO meeting in Seattle threaten the growth of global business? Join us for a seminar that will explore these important subjects.

The California Japan Forum is created and managed by the Japan America Society. Cooperating organizations include the Asia Society California Center, the Consulate General of Japan, the Japan Business Association, the Pacific Basin Institute, and Town Hall Los Angeles.

For further information please call 213-627-6217, ext. 11.

December 11, 1999

"The History of Chinese Foreign Relations: A Multidisciplinary Revival?"

10 am -- 4 pm
Room B40,  Social Science Building, University of Southern California

This conference is pressented by The USC Center for East Asian Studies and the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies in conjunction with the Southern California China Colloquium.

10 a.m. ¨ Morning Session ¨ Stanley Rosen (Poli Sci, USC), Chair

John E. Wills, Jr. (History, USC), "On the Indispensability of the History of Foreign Relations: Notes On the Historiography of China Beyond the China-Centered Turn"

Paul A. Cohen (History, Wellesley College and the Fairbank Center), "The Asymmetry in Intellectual Relations Between China and the West in the Twentieth Century"

Comment: Daniel Lynch (Int'l Relations, USC), and Kenneth Pomeranz (History, UC Irvine)

2 p.m. ¨ Afternoon Session ¨ Wellington Chan (History, Occidental College), Chair

Michael Swaine (RAND), "China's Security Policy: A Historical Perspective"

Lyman Miller (Naval Postgraduate School and Hoover Institution), "War, the Evolution of the Chinese State, and China's Strategic Culture"

Comment: Richard Baum (Poli Sci, UCLA), and Roger Dingman (History, USC)

The papers are posted on the web site of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies .
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December 12, 1999

Artists' Reception of Art & Democracy II: A mixed media art exhibition

(Part of the Art & Democracy II: A mixed media art exhibition listed in the Ongoing Exhibitions section above)

3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Gallery
125 Paseo de la Plaza at Olvera Street
Downtown Los Angeles

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

December 13, 1999

"From Sense to Sentiment: Yokomitsu Riichi's Melancholic Journey"

Professor Seiji Lippit
UCLA East Asian Languages and Cultures

3-5 PM
Sierra Room, UCLA Faculty Center, UCLA

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

Where to send announcements:
Please send announcements of East Asia-related events, performances, and exhibitions to
        Clayton Dube
        UCLA Center for East Asian Studies
        11266 Bunche Hall, UCLA
        Los Angeles, California  90095-1487
        email: <cdube@isop.ucla.edu>
        fax: (310) 206-3555

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