USC-UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center
Southern California
East Asian Calendar of
Events and Exhibitions
March 1999
Ongoing Exhibitions | Lectures, conferences and performances
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are free and open to the public (on-campus parking costs $5).
Ongoing Exhibitions
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.
March 1, 1999
"On Transparency and Shadows: Atomic Radiation and Japanese Cinema"
Akira Mizuta Lippit
Cinema, San Francisco State University
3:00 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).
March 1, 1999
"Competing Views of Natural Studies: From 'Chinese Science' to
'Modern Science in Imperial China'"
Benjamin Elman
Department of History, UCLA
4:00 pm
5288 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for
the Cultural Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine.
This event is open to the public and is free of charge (on-campus parking is $5).
March 3, 1999
"Covering the Vietnam War"
Murray Fromson
Director, School of Journalism, Annenberg School for Communication, USC
4:15 pm
Room 108, Hahn Building
Pomona College
Sponsored by the Asian Studies, International Relations and Media Studies programs.
For information, call Samuel Yamashita at 909-607-2924.
March 3, 1999
Meet the Author/Bookwarming: "Willy Lam, The Era of Jiang Zemin"
Willy Wo-Lap Lam is Associate Editor and China Editor of Hong Kong's South China
Morning Post. A journalist, author and researcher with more than 20 years'
experience, Mr. Lam has published extensively on areas including the Chinese Communist
party, economic and political reform, the People's Liberation Army, and China-Taiwan and
China-Hong Kong relations. Mr. Lam's latest book, The Era of Jiang Zemin
(Prentice Hall- Asia Pacific, 1999), is a study of power politics in Beijing. It provides
an analysis of the Chinese leadership patterns and the position President Jiang has taken
on critical political, economic and social issues, including problems of corruption, the
Taiwan dilemma, and the challenges posed by the Asian financial crisis. The Era of
Jiang Zemin is not yet available in the United States. Through a special arrangement
with the publisher, limited copies of the book will be for sale at this event.
6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Asia
Society. For more information, call 213.624.0945.
March 4, 1999
"Digging Up China: Nationalism, Politics and the Yinxu Excavation,
1928-1937"
Lai Guolang, Ph.D Candidate
Department of Archaeology, UCLA
1:00 pm
Royce 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).
March 4, 1999
Meet the Author/Bookwarming: "Gayle L. Morrison, Sky
is Falling: An Oral History of the CIA's Evacuation of the Hmong from Laos"
A Meet the author/bookwarming program for Gayle Morrison, author of Sky Is Falling:
An Oral History of the CIA's evacutaion of the Hmong from Laos (McFarland &
Company, Inc. November,1998). Sky is Falling documents the dramatic circumstances that
affected General Vang Pao and the CIA's Hmong soldiers in Laos two weeks after the
American evacuation from Saigon. Based on ten years of oral history interviews, Sky Is
Falling fills a Southeast Asian information gap in Hmong history and details the
political and human aspects of this unusual event which led to Hmong refugee immigration
to the U.S.
7:00 p.m.
Sponsored by the Asia
Society. For more information call 213.624.0945.
March 5, 1999
"Crossing Boundaries: Internationalizing Across Disciplines, Time
and Space"
Day-long Conference
8:30 am to 3:00 pm
Faculty Center, Whittier College
REGISTRATION FEE: $10 (which includes morning coffee, lunch and parking on campus)
SPACE IS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 40 FORMS RECEIVED. If space permits, registration
will be available at the door for $15, but lunch cannot be guaranteed.
THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MARCH 1, 1999. If your registration is received in
time, directions and a parking permit will be mailed to you. Otherwise, directions can be
obtained by calling (562) 907-4243 and parking permits will be available at the door.
If you have any questions, please call (562)907-4243.
Sponsored by the Southern California Consortium for International Studies (SOCCIS)
Internationalization of the Curriculum Committee.
March 5, 1999
"Madame Freedom: A Femininity to Suit the Nation"
Kathleen McHugh
Comparative Literature, UC Riverside
Discussion of the struggles between traditional morays and the forces of modernization
in post-war South Korea.
9:00 am
Collins Alumni Conference Room/Alumni Center
(Adjacent to Ackerman Union and parking structure 6)
The presentation is part of a 2-day international conference on NATION AND CULTURAL
PERCEPTIONS OF IDENTITY, featuring case studies from the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and
the Islamic World.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for European
and Russian Studies and the Center for
International Relations of the INTERNATIONAL
STUDIES AND OVERSEAS PROGRAMS (ISOP).
March 6, 1999
"Narrative Mode and Narrative Discourse During the Enlightenment
Period"
Dr. Kwon Youngmin
Professor of Korean Literature, Seoul National University
Currently Visiting Professor, Dept. of East Asian Languages, UC Berkeley
Lecture to be delivered in Korean.
4:00 pm
The Founder's Room, Bauer Center
Claremont McKenna College
Please RSVP: Prof. Carolyn So at (909)607-3060; CSo@McKenna.edu
Directions to Claremont McKenna College--Founders Room 500 E. Ninth Street:
I-10 San Bernardino Fwy-exit Indian Hill Blve.-turn north-Right on 6th St.-Left on
Claremont Blvd (signal)-Left on Ninth St. (the first street on the left)-follow signs for
parking (left side before the end of street)-Bauer Center (3rd story bldg on the south
side of the street). Founders Room is on the ground level facing Ninth St.
This event is sponsored by the Keck Center for International and Strategic
Studies, Claremont McKenna College, and Southern California Korean and Korean-American
Studies.
Day-long conference
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
9383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Morning Session -- 9:30 am to 12:30
James Tong (Political Science, UCLA), Chair
Pitman Potter (University of British Columbia Law School)
"CHINA AND THE WTO: THE IMPORTANCE OF ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE"
Randall Peerenboom (UCLA Law School)
"REINING IN THE BUREAUCRACY: ADMINISTRATIVE LAW & THE RULE OF LAW IN
CHINA"
Micheal Dowdle (Columbia University Law School)
"LEGAL DEVELOPMENT & SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES FOR LEGAL
AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA"
Stanley Lubman (Stanford Law School), Discussant
Afternoon Session -- 1:30 to 5:30
Michael Asimow (UCLA Law School), Chair
Veron Hung (City Univ. of Hong Kong Law School)
"JUDICIAL PRACTICE & JUDICIAL REFORM IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA:
LESSONS FROM ADMINISTRATIVE LITIGATION IN GUANGDONG PROVINCE"
Wang Xixin (Beijing University Law School)
"ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURAL REFORM"
James Feinerman (Georgetown Law Center)
"TOWARD A SECURITIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK IN CHINA"
Donald Clarke (University of Washington Law School), Discussant
Papers are available, as much as possible, on the web site of the Center for Chinese
Studies <<www.isop.ucla.edu/ccs/seminar.htm>.
If restrictions apply, please contact the China Center.
March 20, 1999
"Demography, Social History, & Social Theory: Qing China &
Tokugawa Japan"
Day-long conference
9:30 am to 4:00 pm
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Organizer: Cameron Campbell, UCLA
Session 1--9:30 to 11:00 am--Families and Villages
James Lee (Caltech), Chair
Cameron Campbell (UCLA) "Causes and Consequences of Household Division in
Northeast China, 1789-1909"
Herman Ooms (UCLA) "Status in
Tokugawa Village Politics"
Discussant: Rebecca Emigh (UCLA)
Session 2--11:00 to 12:30--Household Organization and Population Behavior
Cameron Campbell (UCLA), Chair
Noriko Tsuya (Keio Univ.) "Reproduction and Family-Building Strategies in 18th
& 19th Century Rural Japan: Evidence from Two Northeastern Villages"
Wang Feng (UC Irvine) "Fertility, Household Context, and Economic Fluctuations in
18th-19th Century Rural China"
Discussant: William Mason (UCLA)
Session 3--2:00 to 4:00 pm--China and Japan in Eurasian Perspective
Wang Feng (UCI), Chair
James Lee (Caltech) "Social Organization & Demographic Behavior in
Eurasia,1750-1900: A Reassessment of Metageography"
Tommy Bengtsson (Lund University & Caltech) "Prices, Households, & Death
in Europe & Asia before the 20th Century: Comparative Results from the EurAsia
Project"
Discussant: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (UCLA)
Some papers may be available on the web site of the Center for Chinese Studies <www.isop.ucla.edu/ccs>,
although access will be controlled by the organizer, Cameron Campbell.
Sponsored by the UCLA
Center for Chinese Studies and the Center
for Pac Rim Studies in conjunction with the Southern California China Colloquium.
The Southern California China Colloquium is supported by the UCLA Center for
Chinese Studies, by funds from the Department of Education administered by the USC-UCLA Joint Center in East Asian Studies, and
by SOCCIS.
Beginning March 21, 1999
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
March 21, 1999
"THREADS OF LIGHT: Chinese Embroidery from Suzhou and the Photography of
Robert Glenn Ketchum"
| 1:00 pm |
Opening day ceremonies and ribbon-cutting by visiting Chinese dignitaries. |
| 2:00 pm |
Slide-Illustrated Lecture & Reception.
Featuring visiting curator Patrick Dowdey, and artist Robert Glenn Ketchum, and visiting
representative Zhang Meifang, director, the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute (SERI). |
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History and the Textile Group of Los
Angeles. Reception to follow.
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
March 22, 1999
"The Notion of Loyalty in Bushido - A Fresh View"
Kazuhiko Kasaya
History, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto
3:00 pm
Downstairs Lounge, 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).
March 23, 1999
"Taiwan Update with Professor Thomas B. Gold"
Thomas B. Gold
Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley
8:00 - 9:30 AM
For more information please call (213) 624-0945
Sponsored by the Asia Society's Southern
California Center.
March 24, 1999
"Rebuilding
Southeast Asia Architectural Legacies"
Dr. William Chapman
Director of Historic Preservation Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Dr. Chapman will trace the
extent and evolution of colonial architecture in South
Southeast Asia.
Admission: $5 members; $7 non-members & guests
For more information call: (213) 624-0945
Sponsored by the Asia Society's Southern
California Center.
March 25, 1999
"Downtown Los Angeles"
Robert Herman, Emeritus Professor,
Department of Sociology, Pomona College
4:15 pm
Room 108, Hahn Building
Pomona College
Sponsored by the Pomona College Department of Asian Languages &
Literatures. For information, call Lynne Miyake
at 909-621-8931.
March 26, 1999
"Organizations of the 'Old' Red Guard and Their Relations to the Top
Leadership: The Case of the 'West City District Picket' and 'United Action
Committee'"
Yin Hongbiao
Department of International Politics, Peking University
3 pm
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
Professor Yin's talk will be in Chinese. It is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. Call (310)
825-8683 for more information.
March 27, 1999
Curatorial Walkthrough: "Threads of Light"
Curator Patrick Dowdey will discuss the works on view, lending insight into the
challenges posed by new and different genres and techniques.
No reservations required.
2:00 p.m.
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
March 27, 1999
"A Guided Tour of Little Tokyo and Chinatown"
Robert Herman, Emeritus Professor,
Department of Sociology, Pomona College
Begins at 9:30 am at Claremont Depot
Sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages & Literatures, Pomona College. For information, call Lynne Miyake at 909-621-8931.
March 31, 1999
"Prostitution and Buddhist Discourse in Medieval Japan"
Janet Goodwin
Professor of Cultural Studies, Aizu University
4:15 pm
Room 108, Hahn Building
Pomona College
Sponsored by the Asian Studies Program and the Department of History. For
information, call Samuel Yamashita at
909-607-2924.
March 31, 1999
"The Three Rams and the Three Friends: Auspicious Visuality in China"
Roberta "Maggie" Bickford
Brown University
4:30-6:00 pm
Harris Hall Room 102, University of Southern California
Sponsored by the USC Departments of Art
History and East Asian Languanges and
Cultures.
