USC-UCLA
Joint East Asian Studies Center
Southern California
East Asian Calendar of
Events and Exhibitions
January 1999
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are free and open to the public (on-campus parking costs $5).
Ongoing through January 17,
1999
"Sun Zhen Hua"
Chinese photographer, Sun Zhen Hua, spent 10 years in Tibet photographing landscapes,
people and art works. Included in this exhibition are rare photographs of Buddhist
frescoes which no longer exist.
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
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
January 15, 1999
"The 1937
Strike and the Trụng Thi Railroad Workshops:
Fusing Nationalism and Communism, Peasant and Proletarian, in French Indochina"
David Del Testa
Department of History, University of California, Davis
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Sponsored by the UCLA
Southeast Asia Program. Contact Professor Geoffrey
Robinson (310 825-3563) for additional information. Lunch will be provided.
January 15, 1999
"Korean Shaman Cosmology and Actors' Transformations"
Theresa Kim
Theater, State University of New York at Stony Brook
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
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).
January 22, 1999
"Workshop on
Okakura Tenshin"
Sierra Room, UCLA
Faculty Center
| 9 am |
Opening Remarks
Fred Notehelfer, UCLA |
| 9:30 am |
"Okakura
Tenshin's Disciples and their Contemporaries in India: with Special Reference to the
Paradigm Change They Brought to the Scholarly Approach to Asian Art"
Shigemi Inaga, Columbia University |
| 10:30 am |
"China in the Mind of Okakura Kakuzo"
Jing He, UCLA |
| 11:30 am |
"Okakura Tenshin and His Vision of Asian Solidarity"
Hae-kyung Sung, Nihon University |
| 2 pm |
"Homologies of Cultural Resistance in Turn of the Century Japan and
India: A Comparative Study of Okakura Kakuzo and Abanindranath Tagore"
Benashish Banerji, UCLA |
| 3:10 pm |
topic to be announced
Ananda Martin, Columbia University |
| 4:10 pm |
Comments
Ellen Conant, Independent Art Historian |
Funded by the Nikkei Bruin Colloquium Fund and coordinated by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies. This event is
free of charge and open to the public. Call (310) 825-8681 for more information.
January 22, 1999
"Korean Values and National Unification Policy"
Jeong Chun-koo
President, Youngsan University (Pusan, Korea)
Chairman, Public Relations Committee of the Advisory Council for Democratic and Peaceful
Reunification
2:00 p.m ~ 3:30 p.m.
Center for International Studies Seminar Room
Social Sciences Building Room B40
University of Southern California
Parking is available at USC Gate #3 at Figueroa and 35th Streets.
The Southern California Korean and Korean American Studies Seminar is a project of the USC/UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center, funded
by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. For further information, please contact Chris Evans at (213) 740-2993.
Beginning January 23, 1999 and 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.
January 23, 1999
"Paris of the Orient? The Worlds of Harbin, 1895-1945"
Conference organized by Joshua
Fogel
History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Morning session, 10 am - noon
"The Jews and the Japanese: A Comparative Analysis of Their Communities in
Harbin, 1898–1931"
Joshua A. Fogel
"The
Harbin Alternative:Social Experiments and Intercultural Learning in Manchuria,
1895–1945"
David Wolff
Senior Research Scholar, Cold War International
History Project, Woodrow
Wilson Center
Afternoon session, 1:30 pm
"Basketballs and Bolsheviks: Chinese Nationalism and the White Russians in
1920s Harbin"
Jay Carter
SUNY New Paltz
"Cultural Life in Harbin in the 1930s"
Peter Berton
Emeritus, International Relations, University of Southern California
"Coping with the Other: Dr. Fu Manchu in Harbin"
Thomas C. Lahusen
Slavic Languages & Literatures,
Duke University
Discussant: Boris Bresler
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA
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. Some of the papers are available at the CCS website.
January 23, 1999 and January 24, 1999
“Nature and Life: The Dependent Origination of the Nature”
Venerable Hui Kai, Ph.D.
Dean of Institute for Comparative Religion, Nan Hua Management College, Taiwan
January 23, 1999, 3:30 - 5:30 pm (in Chinese)
January 24, 1999, 2:00 - 4:00 pm (in English)
Hsi Lai Temple, Meeting Room
3456 S. Glenmark Drive, Hacienda Heights
This free lecture is part of the temple's “Nature and Life: A Buddhist
Perspective” lecture series. Sponsored by Hsi Lai
Temple. Call (626) 961-9697 or send a fax (626) 369-1944 for more information.
January 27, 1999
"The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel"
-- a bookwarming and slide lecture
Barbara Foster
Hunter College
4 - 6 pm
Kerckhoff 135 (The Stateroom), UCLA
Alexandra David-Neel was a prolific author, inveterate explorer and traveler, pioneer
feminist, and an authority on Tibetan Buddhism. The first European to explore Tibet (at a
time when foreigners were banned), she made her famous journey to Lhasa over the Himalayas
in midwinter, armed with a pistol and disguised as a poor pilgrim. She wrote thirty books,
including the bestseller My Journey to Lhasa (Beacon Press). She died in France
at 101 years old.
Click here to read what
Kirkus Reviews said about the book and to see a list of web sites concerning David-Neel.
Barbara Foster and her husband, Michael Foster, co-authored a new biography of
David-Neel. Their 1987 biography, Forbidden Journey: The Life of Alexandra David-Neel
received high praise from several reviewers. Barbara Foster has authored many works and
has spoken about David-Neel at the Smithsonian, at the New York Theophilosophical Society,
and elsewhere.
Sponsored by the Asia Society Southern California Center, the
USC-UCLA Joint Center for East Asian Studies,
and the UCLA
BookZone. Call (213) 624-0945 (Asia Society) or (310) 825-0007 (Joint Center) for more
information.
January 28, 1999
"Tibet: The End of Time"
Film (48 min.)
Isolated within the towering Himalayas, Tibet developed a unique culture unknown to
other civilizations until very recently. Explore the question of how Tibet and its
Buddhist quest for selflessness and peacefulness can co-exist with the modern outside
world.
Bowers Museum of Cultural History
2002 North Main Street, Santa Ana, CA 92706
Tel. (714) 567-3600 - Fax (714) 567-3603
January 29,
1999
"Korea - US Relations in the 21st Century"
James Laney
President Emeritus, Emory University
US Ambassador to Korea from 1993-1997
3 - 5 pm
California Conference Room, UCLA
Faculty Center
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).
January 29, 1999
"Liu Xiaobo and the Tian'anmen Protest Movement of 1989:
Sovereignty, The Police, and Exile"
Jon Solomon
Visiting Fellow, Critical Asian Studies Program, University of Washington
10:00 AM
Royce 243, UCLA
Sponsored by 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 Program and
the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies (310)
825-8683.
This event is open to the public and is free of charge (on-campus parking is $5).
Where to send announcements:
Please send announcements of East Asia-related events, performances, and exhibitions to
Clayton Dube
USC-UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center
11266 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Los Angeles, California 90095-1487
email: <cdube@isop.ucla.edu>
fax: (310) 206-3555
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