USC-UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center

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Southern California
East Asian Calendar of Events and Exhibitions 
February 1999

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Please note: Underlined names or phrases indicate links to that organization's website. You may click on such links to visit that site for more information about the event or exhibition. Use your browser's back button to return to the USC-UCLA Joint Center website. Click here to get directions to UCLA. Most UCLA lectures are free and open to the public (on-campus parking costs $5).

Ongoing through March 7, 1999

"Cloth and Clay: Contemporary Korean Textiles and Ceramics"

Contemporary textiles and ceramics by Korean and Korean American artists .

Pacific Asia Museum
(Located at 46 North Los Robles Avenue, one half block north of Colorado Boulevard in downtown Pasadena.)
Tel: (626) 449-2742;  Fax: (626) 449-2754
Organized with the help of the Korean Arts Council.

Ongoing through March 21, 1999

"Basketry of the Luzon Cordillera, Philippines"

UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
(Located just west of Royce Hall. Take Sunset Boulevard to Westwood Plaza and get a parking permit - $5 - for lot 4 or 5.)
(310) 825-4361

February 2, 1999

"Meet the Author, James Mann"James Mann, the author of ABOUT FACE, was the Los Angeles Times correspondent in China from 1984 to 1987. He is currently the Times foreign policy correspondent in Washington, DC.  Mr. Mann's latest book, ABOUT FACE (Knopf, January 1999) chronicles the history of America's strange and often clandestine dealings with China. With new information from interviews and previously unseen documents, including a classified CIA study and Nixon's handwritten notes from his 1972 trip to China, Mr. Mann describes the assumptions, both true and false, behind America's foreign policy toward China. On this 20th anniversary of the normalization of the Sino-American relations, Mr. Mann assesses America's relationship with China, from Nixon's Cold War-driven rapprochement to the business-oriented policies of the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations.

Copies of the book will be for sale at the event at a special 20% discount for members of the Asia Society and the Asian American Journalists Association.For more information call 213.624.0945 or e-mail Wendy Hsieh.

February 5 - 6, 1999

"Constructed Histories Along China's Western Frontiers."

Organized by Lothar von Falkenhausen
Art History, UCLA

and  David Schaberg
East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
 

Friday, February 5 Room 275, Dodd Hall, UCLA
4:00 pm *Panel*	Chair: Elizabeth Barber (Occidental College) Discussant: Helen Rees (UCLA)
	Zvi Ben-Dor (UCLA) "Between Tianxia and Tianfang: Chinese Muslims as a Bridge between China and Dar el-Islam"
	Magnus Fiskesjo (University of Chicago) "The Raw and the Cooked: China and Its Barbarians"
6:00 pm *Slide Presentation*	Ming-Ke Wang (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei) "Between the Chinese and the Tibetans: Observations from Qiang Territory"
Saturday, February 6 Room 275, Dodd Hall, UCLA
10:00 am *Morning Panel*	Chair: Eugene Anderson (UC Riverside) Discussant: Nancy Levine (UCLA)
	David Schaberg (UCLA) "Going Native in the Han: Resistance to Empire in Shiji 110"
	Nicola Di Cosmo (Harvard University) "Constructing the Frontier: The Function of The Northern Walls in Pre-Imperial China"
	Ming-Ke Wang (Academia Sinica) "The Qiang: Products and Producers of Histories"
2:00 pm *Afternoon Panel*	Chair: Richard Strassberg (UCLA) Discussant: Richard von Glahn (UCLA)
	Aihe Wang (Purdue University) "The Son of Heaven Has No Brothers"
	Ning Qiang (San Diego State University) "National Identity In Political Context: Sino-Tibetan Relations in the Art of the Middle Tang Dunhuang Caves"
	Lothar von Falkenhausen (UCLA) "The Ethnic Origins of Qin: Archaeological Perspectives"

 

Papers available at: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/ccs/seminar.htm
    For access to the papers:
    User Name: SEMINAR
    Password: CCS
    Both User Name and Password must be all in CAPS

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies (310) 825-8683,
UCLA Department of Art History, UCLA Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures and the USC-UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center funded Southern California China Colloquium.
This event is open to the public and is free of charge (on-campus parking is $5).

February 7, 1999

"Chong Son's True Views:  Real or Ideal?"
Dr. Burglind Jungmann
Department of East Asian Art History, University of Heidelberg

3:00 pm
Dorothy Collins Brown Auditorium
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard

Parking available in the Staff Parking Lot, located across from Staff Entrance on Ogden Drive.

This lecture is the first in a series of Korean art lectures sponsored by
The Far Eastern Art Department of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  It is made possible with funds provided by the Korean Cultural  Center, Los Angeles.

February 8, 1999

"Nationalism, Anachronism, and Edo Era History"

Luke Roberts
History, University of California, Santa Barbara

3 - 5 pm
Hacienda Room, UCLA Faculty Center

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies (310) 825-8681
This event is open to the public and is free of charge (on-campus parking is $5).

February 12, 1999

"Korean Art Panel"

The theme is "Korea and Neighbors," emphasizing Korean art in Asian art context. The 4 papers chosen this year are:

1.  "The Art of the Three Kingdoms Period and the Reconstruction of the Iconography of the Tenjukoku Shucho Mandara"
Dr. Maria del Rosario Pradel, USC.

2.  "Korean Sources of the Todaiji Monuments and Other Buddhist Art of Japan"
Dr.  Junghee Lee, Portland State University.

3.  "Medieval Buddhist Art: Sung or Koryo?"
Dr. Youngsook Pak, SOAS, University of London.

4.  "The Ten Kings at the Seikado Library: An Iconographic and Stylistic Study of an Untapped Treasure"
Dr.  Cheeyun Lilian Kwon, Princeton University.

Discussant: Dr. Kumja Kim, Curator of Korean Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.

5:30-8:00 p.m.
Room 304, West Hall, Los Angeles Convention Center

Entrance fee is $25.00 for adults and $15.00 for students (with, ID),(cash only).   Pay at the door.

This event is part of the annual convention of the College Art Association of America.

February 16, 1999

"Sister of My Heart"
Meet the author/Bookwarming with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning poet. Her short story collection, Arranged Marriage, was awarded the PEN Oakland Jospehine Miles Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for Fiction, and an American Book Award in 1995. She is also the author of the bestselling novel, The Mistress of Spices. Sister of My Heart is a passionate novel about the extraordinary bond between two sisters, and the jealousies, loves, and family secrets that threaten to tear them apart. Chitra will read from and sign her new novel at this

9:00 am
Dutton's Brentwood Books
11975 San Vicente Blvd. (between Bundy and Montana), Los Angeles, CA.

This event being jointly organized by the Asia Society Southern California Center and Dutton's Brentwood Books.   For more information call 213.624.0945.

February 17, 1999

"Music of Korea"
Student Ensemble
Dong Suk Kim, Director

7:30 p.m.
Jan Popper Theater

Sponsored by the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.  Please call (310) 206-3033 for more information.

February 18, 1999

"Economic Law Reforms in China:  The Draft Unified Contract Law"

Wang Liming, Associate Dean
Law School, Chinese People's University
Professor Wang is a drafter of China's new unified contract law.

2 pm
Room 1327, UCLA Law School

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies (310) 825-8683 and the UCLA School of Law.
This event is open to the public and is free of charge (on-campus parking is $5).

February 18, 1999

"State Power and the Asian Crisis"
Professor Linda Weiss
University of Sydney, Australia

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Pines Room, UCLA Faculty Center

Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Department of Sociology, UCLA Center for Korean Studies, and the Center for Comparative History and Social Theory.
This event is open to the public and is free of charge (on-campus parking is $5).

February 20, 1999

Chinese American Cultural Night
featuring a play about the Tiananmen Square Democracy Movement

8 pm
Royce Hall, UCLA

Sponsored and organized by the UCLA American Chinese Association. The play was written by Kathleen Wong (student assistant at the USC-UCLA Joint Center) and Wilson Chow. Anne Marie Wear is the director. Admission is free and open to all. Click here to read a Daily Bruin story about the play.

February 22, 1999

"Evidence of Phantoms and Phantom Evidence: Hirata Atsutane's Evidential Approach to the Afterlife"

Mark McNally
Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

3 - 5 pm
Sierra Room, UCLA Faculty Center

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies (310) 825-8681
This event is open to the public and is free of charge (on-campus parking is $5).

February 22, 1999

"From Martial Law to 'Quality of Life' Laws: Policing Gender in Taiwan's New Democracy"
Cindy Patton
Lesbian and Gay Studies, Emory University

4 pm
Kinsey 355, UCLA

Sponsored by UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Program and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Call (310) 825-0590 for more information.

February 22, 1999

"Political and Cultural Capital as Axes of Contention in the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Dissecting Student Factional Conflict at Tsinghua University and Middle School"
Joel Andreas
Doctoral Program, Sociology, UCLA

12:00 pm
Royce  Hall 243, UCLA

This event is a part of the China Workshop Series.  The Series is made possible by a grant from the Ford Foundation. Additional support provided by UCLA International Studies and Overseas Programs, the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies (310) 825-8683, and the UCLA Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures.
This event is open to the public and is free of charge (on-campus parking is $5).

February 22, 1999

"Flushing the Future: The Japanese Postmodern Toilet in Cultural Perspective"
Professor Allen Chun
Academica Sinica and the University of Westminister

2 pm
Royce Hall 243, UCLA

Sponsored by UCLA Center for Pacific Rim Studies (310) 206-8984.
This event is open to the public and is free of charge (on-campus parking is $5).

February 24, 1999

"Chinese Influence in the New World: Legendary and Real Journeys across the Pacific"
Roxanna Brown

Roxanna Brown is a Los Angeles-based art historian and specialist on antiques in Asia. She has published numerous articles and books regarding Southeast Asian ceramics and Chinese trade pottery. This slide lecture will focus on the historical and cultural connections between Asia and Latin America. Ms.Brown will trace the Chinese influence in the New World by exploring sea trade from the pre-Hispanic colonial times to the present. Special attention will be given to the role of ceramics in transmitting cultures and art traditions across the Pacific.

9:00 a.m.
Wray Theatre, Rio Hondo College
3600 Workman Mill Road, Whittier, CA

Sponsored by the Asia Society.  For more information call 213.624.0945

February 25, 1999

"Corporation Law & the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises in China"
Sun Xinqiang
Law School, Shandong University

2 pm
Room 1327, UCLA Law School

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies (310) 825-8683 and the UCLA School of Law.
This event is open to the public and is free of charge (on-campus parking is $5).

February 25, 1999

"Hong Kong Media Mixer"

Seven prominent young Hong Kong journalists will be in Los Angeles this February for a two-week journalism workshop. The seven journalists are: Cheuk Shiu-kwan, Ming Pao; Chow Yin-ling, South China Morning Post; Hung Hiu-king, Hong Kong Economic Times; Lau Yu-wai, Radio/TV Hong Kong; Leung Shuk-fan, Cable News; Tang Mei-ling, Cable News; and Wong Suk-yee, Dow Jones Newswires. They will discuss their work and experiences in journalism at this reception.

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Sponsored by the Asia Society. For more information call 213.624.0945

February 26, 1999

"Social Movements in Contemporary Korea"

"White-Collar Labor Movements and Democratization in Korea"
Doowon Suh
Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley

"Women Workers Movements"
Jeong-Lim Nam
Taegu University and Visiting Scholar at UCLA

3 - 4:30 pm
243 Royce Hall

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies (310 825-3284) This event is open to the public and is free of charge (on-campus parking is $5).

February 26, 1999

"The Political Economy of the Japanese Financial Crisis"

10 am - 6:30 pm
Sierra Room, UCLA Faculty Center

For detailed information, please contact Professors Susanne Lohmann or Michael Thies.

                Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies (310) 825-8681
                This event is open to the public and is free of charge (on-campus parking is $5).

February 26, 1999

"Imagining Burma/Myanmar:  State Signs, Women's Narratives, and Personal Notes"
Tamara Ho, UCLA

11:30 am -  1:30 pm
Bunche 11377

Sponsored by UCLA Southeast Asia Program.  Contact Professor Geoffrey Robinson, 310-825-3563, for more information.

February 26, 1999

"Decapitations, Scalpings and Throat-Cutting Among Ancient Eurasian Nomads:  Evidence from a Cemetary in Tuva, Southern Siberia"
Eileen Murphy, Queens University, Belfast

12 noon
Archaeology Student Commons, A153 Fowler, UCLA

This is a Special Brown-Bag Event at the UCLA Institute of Archaeology.

February 27, 1999

"Cultural Practices in Pre-1919 Shanghai"

Conference organized by Theodore Huters, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA.

6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA

10 am	Chair: Theodore Huters
	"Before Invasion: A Look at the Japanese Community of Shanghai in Its Formative Phase, 1862–1894" Joshua Fogel History, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
	"Domesticating Modernity: Science & Technology in Late Qing Popular Romance" Ming Feng-ying Literature, Whittier College
	"Modernism and Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai Painting" Jonathan Hay Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
	Discussant: Lydia H. Liu Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
1:30 pm	Chair: Hu Ying East Asian Languages & Literatures, UC Irvine
	"The Immediate vs the New: Playful Writing at the Dawn of New Literature, 1900–1920" Meng Yue Getty Research Institute
	"Shanghai Origins of the Cultural Debates of the 1910s" Theodore Huters EALC, UCLA
	"Being Public: The Politics of Representation in 1918 Shanghai" Bryna Goodman History, University of Oregon
	Discussant: Joan Judge History, UC Santa Barbara

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies (310) 825-8683 and the USC-UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center funded Southern California China Colloquium.

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