USC-UCLA Joint Center for East Asian Studies  

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Southern California
East Asian Calendar of Events and Exhibitions  

June 1999  

Ongoing Exhibitions | Lectures, conferences and performances

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Ongoing Exhibitions

Ongoing through September 5, 1999

"THREADS OF LIGHT: Chinese Embroidery from Suzhou and the Photography of Robert Glenn Ketchum"

The major exhibition "Threads of Light: Chinese Embroidery from Suzhou and the Photography of Robert Glenn Ketchum" presents 30 works of art representing the pinnacle of contemporary Chinese Embroidery. Each an incredible profusion of textures, color and glancing light, these are the works of the renowned Suzhou Embroidery Resarch Institute (SERI), located in the city of Suzhou, China's most famous center of embroidery since at least the 11th century.

Most astonishing among the works on view are a series of 13 large-scale embroideries based on photographs by Robert Glenn Ketchum, one of the leading landscape photographers in the United States. Seeking ways to explore texture and incorporate greater dimension in the medium of photography, Ketchum first approached SERI and director Zhang Meifang in 1986 to explore the re-creation of several of his best known images into embroidery.

UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Museum Hours: Weds. - Sun., noon to 5 p.m.; Thurs. until 8 p.m.
(Closed Mon. and Tues.).  Admission is free.
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

 

June 17 - July 17, 1999

"Monument to the Martyrs of Democracy"

1 pm
City of Los Angeles City Hall East -- pedestrian bridge

The Visual Artists Guild is installing a 20 foot tall monument to those killed in the suppression of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in 1989. This foam sculpture by artist Hei Feng will be on display on the pedestrian bridge for thirty days. The Los Angeles City Council approved the placement on the pedestrian bridge which crosses Temple Street neat Los Angeles Street.

On June 12, 1989, Visual Artists Guild artist Tom Van Sant installed a 23 ft foam statue of the goddess of democracy at the same site.

Lectures, conferences, and performances

June 1, 1999

"From Jazz to 'Jazu': Sound and Fantasy in Japan's Jazz Age"

Shuhei Hosokawa
Value System and Decision Science
Tokyo Institute of Technology

3 pm
6275 Bunche Hall

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

June 1, 1999

"Traitors of the Confucian Way: Philosophical Innovation in the Late Choson Period"

Mark Setton
State University of New York, Stony Brook

1:30-3 pm
243 Royce Hall, UCLA

Sponsored by the UCLA East Asian Languages and Cultures Department and the UCLA Center for Korean Studies.

June 1, 1999

"The Perfect Path: Gay Men, Marriage, Indonesia"

Tom Boellstorff
Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University

noon - 1:30 pm
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by the UCLA Southeast Asian Studies Program. Call Geoffrey Robinson (310 825-3563) for additional information.

June 2, 1999

"Recent Fieldwork in in Asia"

"Searching for the Thousand Lingas in Cambodia"
        Robert L. Brown
        Art History, UCLA

"Searching for Salt in Sichuan"
        Lothar von Falkenhausen
        Art History, UCLA

"Searching for Great Temples of Seventh-Century Japan"
        Donald F. McCallum
        Art History, UCLA

8 pm
275 Dodd, UCLA

Reception to follow. Sponsored by the UCLA Department of Art History. Call (310) 206-6905 for more information.

June 2, 1999

"China, Taiwan, and the United States: The New East Asian Security Dilemma"

Jean-Pierre Cabestan
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and
Hong Kong office of the Centre d'Etudes Français sur la Chine Contemporaine

3 pm
4269 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Dr. Cabestan is the author or co-author of eight books, including Taiwan - PRC: The Impossible Reunification (1995), and China's Military Threat and Taiwan's Defense Capabilities (1998) (both in French). He has also published widely in English, on topics that include, among others, human rights in China, Sino-European relations, administrative reform in China, and Chinese attitudes toward law. Dr. Cabestan is editor of the English-language journal China Perspectives. He is a visiting fellow of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies.

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

June 3, 1999

"Aspiration- Goddess of Democracy Triumphant"

Exhibition by artist Hei Feng.

"Bloodstained Elegance"

Exhibition by photojournalist Catherine Bauknight.

4:00 - 9:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. Presentation and Commemoration program and candlelight vigil.
Center Stage, 3rd Street Promenade
Santa Monica
This event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Visual Artists Guild, Amnesty International, and Chinese Human Rights Advocates.

June 3, 1999

"Poetry reading and Multi-media presentation of 'A Tiananmen Story'"

Readings will be done in Chinese and English and will feature Meng Lang, poet in residence, Brown University. Translation by Denis Mair.

7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd., Venice
(310) 822-3006
Admission: $5

Sponsored by Temple Magazine and the Visual Artists Guild.

June 3, 1999

"Asia Circle discussion with Eric Nakamura, Publisher and Co-editor of Giant Robot"

Giant Robot is a lifestyle magazine for those who are interested in neo-Asia, and enjoys a readership that is 50/50 Asian and non-Asian. Eric Nakamura created Giant Robot with co-editor Martin Wong to make a product that reflects their interests, including skateboarding, Hong Kong films, sumo wrestling, Ultraman, Asian and Asian American history, computers, video games, and cooking.

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Oiwake Restaurant
122 Japanese Village Plaza Mall
Little Tokyo, CA.
Program & buffet fee: $20/Asia Society members; $25/non-members; $30/walk-ins

Sponsored by the Asia Society. For more information, please call (213) 624-0945.

June 4, 1999

"Constructing Entrepreneurial Masculinity in Contemporary China"

Everett Yuehong Zhang
Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

3 pm
243 Royce Hall, UCLA

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

June 7, 1999

"Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II"

John Dower
History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2 pm
6275 Bunche Hall

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

June 7, 1999

"The Singapore Puzzle"

Dr. Mike Haas
Political Science, Loyola Marymount University
formerly, University of Hawaii

noon - 1:30 pm
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by the UCLA Southeast Asian Studies Program. Call Geoffrey Robinson (310 825-3563) for additional information.

June 8, 1999

"Knowledge and Technology Transfer in A Cross-Cultural Setting: A Case Study of Launching a TV Station in Indonesia, 1994-1998"

Dr. Tuen-Yu Lau
Hoover Institution, Stanford University

5:00 p.m.
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Refreshments will be served, but seating is limited.

***Please RSVP via e-mail (Leila@ucla.edu) or phone (310/206-9803)****

DR. TUEN-YU LAU is a visiting professor in UCLA’s communication studies program, and a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. From 1996 to 1998, Dr. Lau advised the CEO and President of the Salim Group, owner of the first digital terrestrial TV network in Southeast Asia and an all-digital satellite pay-TV service. Before that he was a senior member of a management team that led a group of multi-national TV professionals to plan, build, and operate a terrestrial TV network in Indonesia, Indosiar Visual Mandiri.

A former communications professor at Purdue University, Dr. Lau has obtained numerous international and U.S. research grants for his mass media research projects. He also established a faculty and student exchange program between Purdue University and the School of Communication Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has received many awards and honors, including fellowships of the American Advertising Education Foundation, American Press Institute, International Radio and Television Society, and the Stephen H. Coltrin Award for Excellence in Communication Education.   Dr. Lau has published extensively in international communication journals and is also a regular contributor to newspaper columns in leading Hong Kong newspapers and trade journals.

Sponsored by the Asia Pacific Media Network, USC-UCLA Joint Center for East Asian Studies, and the UCLA Office of International Studies and Overseas Programs.

June 9, 1999

Burning Heart: A Portrait of the Philippines

Marissa Roth

7-8:30 pm
Los Angeles Times/Times Mirror Square
145 S. Spring Street Los Angeles

Marissa Roth, a LA-based photojournalist whose work has appeared in the pages of the Los Angeles Times, Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, and other publications, sees one of America's key Pacific allies in distinctive fashion. Her book, Burning Heart (Rizzoli, 1999) with its evocative prose by Jessica Hagedorn, captures in unflinching fashion all the contradictions of this surprising country. Craig Matsuda, editor of the LA Times, will serve as moderator. Ms. Roth's book will be available for sale and author signing.

Sponsored by the Asia Society. For more information, please call (213) 624-0945.

June 14, 1999

"Forms and Norms in Edo Arts and Society"

Herman Ooms,
History Department, UCLA

Time: 3 pm
275 Dodd Hall

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

June 17, 1999

"Monument to the Martyrs of Democracy"

1 pm
City of Los Angeles City Hall East -- pedestrian bridge

The Visual Artists Guild is installing a 20 foot tall monument to those killed in the suppression of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in 1989. This foam sculpture by artist Hei Feng will be on display on the pedestrian bridge for thirty days. The Los Angeles City Council approved the placement on the pedestrian bridge which crosses Temple Street neat Los Angeles Street.

On June 12, 1989, Visual Artists Guild artist Tom Van Sant installed a 23 ft foam statue of the goddess of democracy at the same site.

June 17–20, 1999

Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC): Asia in the Twenty First Century

San Diego State University San Diego, CA

The ASPAC's 1999 conference features 40 panels, including 3–4 invited panels on topics such as Asian economic crisis, Asian security and Economic cooperation among Asian countries. There will be three dinners on June 17, June 18 and June 19 featuring Southwestern, East Asian, South Asian cuisines. Contact: Chair of the organizing committee M. C. Madhavan, Department of Asian Studies and Professor of Economics 619-594-5492; Fax: 619-594-5062; E-Mail: madhavan@mail.sdsu.edu or the Co-Chair of the Organizing committee David Dufault, Chair, Department of History 619-594-5464; E-Mail: ddufault@mail.sdsu.edu.

June 25, 1999

"Charting the Known and the Unknown: East Asian Travel Records, 1600-1900"

Morning Session, 10 am to noon

Chair: Hu Ying, UC Irvine

"Bashô and the Mastery of Poetic Space in Oku no Hosomichi"
Steven Carter, UC Irvine

"Meisho as Public Space and Common Culture"
Elizabeth Berry, UC Berkeley

"The Universality of Some Travel Records in the Edo Period"
Herbert Plutschow, UCLA

Discussant: Joshua Fogel, UC Santa Barbara

Afternoon Session, 2 pm to 4:30 pm

Chair: Steven Carter, UC Irvine

"Island Paradises: Travel and Utopia in Three East Asian Offshoots of Shuihu zhuan"
Ellen Widmer, Wesleyan University

"Official Chinese Travelogues about Taiwan"
Emma Teng, MIT

"'Would That I Were Marco Polo': Shan Shili and Her Travel Writing"
Hu Ying, UC Irvine

"Kishida Ginkô and Other Japanese Travelers to Shanghai in the 1860s"
Joshua Fogel, UC Santa Barbara

Discussant: Meng Yue, Getty Research Center

6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA

This conference is part of the Southern California China Colloquium Series organized by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. Major funding for this event was provided by the Humanities Center of UC Irvine, with additional funding from the USC-UCLA Joint Center for East Asian Studies. Papers are available at <www.isop.ucla.edu/ccs/seminar.htm>.

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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