UCLA Center for East Asian Studies  

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Southern California
East Asian Calendar of Events and Exhibitions  

November 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 Philippines"

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

An exhibit of the work of photographer Marissa Roth. "Burning Heart: A Portrait of the Philippines," Marissa Roth's photographs illuminate the Philippine culture both literally and metaphorically. The images, and the accompanying text by author Jessica Hagedorn, represent a journey through the Philippines. 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.

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

Lectures, conferences, and performances

November 1, 1999

"Reform and Recovery in Japan?"

Shinji Fukukawa
Chairman and CEO, Dentsu Institute for Human Studies, Vice Minister of MITI (Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry) 1986-88, and Former Private Secretary to Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira

12 noon-1 p.m.
School of Law Room 1420, UCLA

November 1, 1999

"Luxury is the Enemy:  How Waritime Japan Forged a Culture of Thrift"

Sheldon Garon
History, Princeton University

3 p.m.
Sierra Room, UCLA Faculty Center

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

November 3, 1999

"Thailand After the Crisis"

Dr. Olan Chairpravat, Thai Senator & Banker
Mr. Pongsak Hoontrakul, Business Analyst

12:00 noon-1:00 p.m.
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for East Asian Studies. For more information call (310)206-9163 or visit the UCLA Center for South East Asian Studies website.

November 4, 1999

"Views from the Epicenter: Geological, Geotechnical, Structural Engineering and Disaster Relief Perspectives of The Taiwan Earthquake of September 21, 1999"

Moderated by:
Lucie Cheng
Sociology, UCLA

A Panel Discussion by:
Profs. Jiann-wen Ju, Jonathan Stewart, John Wallace,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

4-6 p.m.
Second Floor (Rm. 2414), Ackerman Union Lounge
UCLA

A reception will follow the event.

The three UCLA professors of Civil and Environmental Engineering were part of a reconnaissance mission to central Taiwan one week after the Ji-Ji earthquake of 21 Sept. 1999, under the sponsorship of the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center. They will report on their first-hand observations during their week-long study in various sites at or near the epicenter.

Presented by the UCLA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Center for East Asian Studies.

November 4, 1999

"Aspects of Korean Ceramics"

Itoh Ikutaro
Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka

7 p.m.
Brown Auditorium, Bing Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA  90036

This presentation is the fourth in a five lecture series to celebrate the opening of the Korean art galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The series is organized by the LACMA Education Department and is supported by grants from the Korea Foundation and the Shin'enkan Foundation. Each lecture is in English and will feature works from the collection. Each lecture is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and available on a first come, first seated basis. A reception will follow each lecture. Call the LACMA Education Department for more information at (323) 857-6512.

November 5, 1999

Southern California Japan Seminar,
"Exploring the Nanjing Massacre"

Honda Katsuichi
Daqing Yang
Peter Sano
Chalmers Johnson

1:30-5 p.m.
Rose Hills Theatre, Smith Campus
Pomona College

Part I Rose Hill Theater, Smith Campus Center

1:30 p.m. Introduction, Samuel Yamashita, coordinator, Asian Studies Program and Professor of History, Pomona College

1:35 p.m. Opening Remarks - Frank Gibney, president, Pacific Basin

Institute and Professor of Politics, Pomona College

1:45 p.m. Honda Katsuichi, journalist and author of The Nanjing

Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's

National Shame

2:45 p.m. Break

Part II Room 208, Smith Campus Center

3:00 p.m. Daqing Yang, Associate Professor of History, George Washington University

3:50 p.m. Peter Sano, author of 1,000 Days in Siberia: The Odyssey of a

Japanese-American POW

4:40 p.m. Chalmers Johnson, president, Japan Policy Research Institute

5:30 p.m. Reception

(Southern California Japan Seminar members should let Sam Yamashita know if they are interested in attending the post-symposium reception; call and leave a message at 909 607-2924)

Co-sponsored by the Pacific Basin Institute, the Asian Studies Program and the Department of History, Pomona College.

For more information, please call Samuel Yamashita at (909) 607-2924.

November 6, 1999

FILMIC TEXT AND MEDIA PRODUCTION IN TRANSNATIONAL CHINA

Day-long Conference
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA

10 am · Morning Session · Mayfair Yang (Anthropology, UCSB), Chair

"The Opium War: Take One, Take Two, Take Three"
Poshek Fu (History, Univ. of Illinois), Paul Pickowicz (History, UCSD), and Zhiwei Xiao (History, Cal. State Univ., San Marcos)

"Death, Decapitation, Desublimation: Wu Ziniu and the Shifting Paradigms of War Films in China"
Zhang Yingjin (Chinese and Comp. Lit., Indiana Univ.)

"A Place To Do Things with Someone Else's Words: Reiteration, Space and Zhang Yimou's Realism"
Esther Yau (Art History and the Visual Arts, Occidental College)

Discussant: Nick Browne (Film & TV, UCLA)

2:00 p.m. · Afternoon Session

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION (with audience participation) on film and TV in China today, including American studios & China, the audience for domestic and foreign films & TV, co-productions, and Chinese diaspora TV & its connections with China.

Stanley Rosen (Political Science, USC, Chair)

"Personal Notes on Changes in the Chinese Film Industry: Globalization and the Market Economy"
Panelists: Lora Chen (Senior International Administrative Coordinator, Sony Pictures) 

"Chinese Film Production in the United States"
Victor Li (Producer, "Bu jian bu san" ["Be There or Be Square"])

"Diaspora Chinese TV in Los Angeles and its Connections with Chinese TV: Personal Observations"
Mu Xiaocheng (Dubbing and Subtitling Division, Warner Bros.)

Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
in conjunction with the Southern California China Colloquium

November 8, 1999

"Modernity in Japanese Modern Literature:   Novel Plot Debate between Akutagawa and Tanizaki in 1927"

Shigemi Nakagawa
Japanese Literature, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto

3 p.m.
Sierra Room, UCLA Faculty Center, UCLA

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

November 8, 1999

"Embodying Translation: Castilian and the Origins of Nationalism in the Philippines"

Professor Vicente Rafael,
U.C. San Diego

          1:00 p.m.
          Morris Room, 306 Royce Hall, UCLA

For more information call (310)206-9163 or visit the UCLA Center for South East Asian Studies website. Co-sponsored by the Comparative Literature Department.

 

November 9, 1999

"Cultural and Social Dimensions of the Korean Economic Crisis"

Prof. Dong Ok Park
Catholic University of Korea

3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
11377 Bunche Hall, UCL

The lecture will be in Korean.

Please note: This lecture was rescheduled from its previous date of November 12, 1999.

November 9, 1999

"China's Foreign Military Relations & Cross-Strait Military Confidence-Building Measures"

Kenneth W. Allen,
Senior Associate, The Henry L. Stimson Center

3 p.m.
Room 2249, Bunche Hall, UCLA

Kenneth Allen will discuss a just-completed major study of China's foreign military relations and their impact on the United States. He will also address ways that Taiwan and the mainland could progressively implement various military confidence-building measures over the next several years in order to reduce tensions across the Taiwan Strait.

Kenneth W. Allen is a Senior Associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, D.C., where he directs a project promoting confidence-building measures for China. Prior to joining the Center, he was Executive Vice President of the US-Taiwan Business Council (1992-1998) and served 21 years in the U.S. Air Force (1971-1992), including assignments in the National Security Agency (1972-73), Taiwan (1974-76), China as the Assistant Air Force Attaché (1987-89), and the Defense Intelligence Agency (1985-87 & 1989-92). He has written extensively on China's air force. He received a BA from the University of California at Davis, a BA from the University of Maryland in Asian Studies, and an MA from Boston University in International Relations.

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

November 9, 1999

"The Professionals at Work: Official Scholars and Their Texts at the Qin Imperial Court"

Martin Kern
Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures,Columbia University

4 p.m.
Room 11382 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Martin Kern, born and educated in Germany, received both his M.A. (1992) and his Ph.D. (1996) in Chinese Studies from Cologne University. In 1997-98 he was a Visiting Scholar and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Washington. Since July 1998 he has been Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature at Columbia University. His published work includes two books and several articles on early Chinese literature and political culture, as well as research on the emigration of German sinologists, 1933-45. He is currently working on issues of canonization and the relation between text and ritual in early China, with a focus on early ritual hymns and inscriptions.

Professor Kern's paper is available for pick up at the Center for Chinese Studies, 11353 Bunche Hall, UCLA.

The series New Approaches to Chinese Studies will present lectures and seminars by scholars, primarily recent Ph.D.s, who are doing cutting-edge research which may not yet have seen the light of day through publication. Speakers, who will be on campus at UCLA for two consecutive days, will present their research both in the form of a one-hour lecture and of an afternoon seminar. For the latter, copies of written work will have been read by members of the audience ahead of time, and one or several discussants will have been designated from among the members of the UCLA community.
The series aims to provide  speakers with an opportunity to present their scholarship at greater depth than is usually possible at a one-hour talk. The New Approaches to Chinese Studies series sees its prime target audience in graduate students; one of its goals is to give them a sense of perspective on life after the Ph.D., and to provide them, in a sense, with role models.

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

November 9, 1999

The Getty Research Institute presents: A Humanities in Comparative, Historical Perspective Lecture,

"Nationalism and the Construction of Art History in Japan"

Hiroyuki Suzuki and Yasuto Ota, Guest Lecturers

4:00-6:00 p.m.
The Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall, Getty Museum

To attend this lecture please make a reservation by calling (310)440-7300, and use the speaker's name as the keyword. The Getty reservation line receives a great volume of calls every day. For quickest service we suggest calling between 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Late arrivals cannot be guaranteed seating. Please also note that there will be a $5.00 charge for parking.

Museology was introduced in Japan in the late nineteenth century as part of the Meiji government's effort to modernize Japan and forge a national consciousness through art and culture. Dr. Suzuki will discuss the ideological function of museology in the Meiji Period(1868*1912) and the displacement of the idiosyncratic idea of the"curio" by the modern notion of "art." Dr. Ota will then discuss nationalism and modernism in Japan in the 1930s and 1940s in the fields of architecture and industrial design. Under the growing pressure of ultranationalism, modernist architects discovered "Japanese-ness," not in monumental architecture such as Buddhist temples or castles, but in vernacular architecture, especially the tea ceremony house. Dr. Ota will argue that this modernist "invention of tradition" successfully modified the vision of architectural history in Japan.

Yasuto Ota is a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan.  Dr.Ota has curated numerous exhibitions on such figures as Theodore Gericault, Joseph Cornell, and Le Corbusier. He has also published widely on European and Japanese art; most recently, he was the editor of Le Corbusier et le Japon, 1999.

Hiroyuki Suzuki is a researcher at the Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties. He is the author of a book on sixteenth-century Japanese painting, Eitoku,Tohaku (1991), and is currently interested in the history of Japanese art history. His most recent publication in this area is "Kokumin kokka ideorogii to nihon bijutsushi" (The Ideology of Nation-State and Japanese Art History), in Gekkan Hyakka, nos. 409, 411 (1996, 1997).

November 10, 1999

"South Korea's Sunshine Policy: Past, Present and Future"

Don Oberdorfer
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Don Oberdorfer retired from the Washington Post in 1993 where he served as White House correspondent (1968-72), Northeast Asia (1972-75) and diplomatic (1975-1993) correspondent. He is the author of The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History (Addison-Wesley, 1997) and From the Cold War to a New Era (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1998).

2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Leavey Library Auditorium, University of Southern California

Presented by the Korean Studies Institute and the Korea Project, University of Southern California.

November 12, 1999

North Indian classical music featuring Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta playing the sarod.

8 p.m., Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
Free

For more information call (310) 206-3033 or visit the Department of Ethnomusicology website.

November 13, 1999

"Indonesian Transitions:  Perspectives and Constraints for a New Indonesian Order"

Dr. Mari Pangestu, CSIS
Professor Jeffrey Winters, Northwestern University
Professor Geoffrey Robinson, UCLA
Professor Andrew MacIntyre, UCSD
Dr. Elizabeth Frankenberg, RAND

9:00 am-5:00 p.m.
Humanities Conference Room, 314 Royce Hall, UCLA

9 a.m. Welcome and Orientation

9.15- 10-45 a.m. Economic Crisis and its Challenges for the New Government --Mari Pangestu (CSIS, Jakarta) "The Indonesian Economy in Transition: Recovery, Restructuring and Institution Building" Policy framework of the new government; how to undertake recovery without the requisite institutions (legal, HRD etc); role of external discipline and private sector. --Elizabeth Frankenberg (Rand Corporation) "The Real Costs of the Economic Crisis in Indonesia: Micro-empirical Evidence from the Indonesia Family Life Surveys" Evidence from longitudinal household and facility survey data shows that the crisis had its biggest effect at the top and bottom of the distribution.

11.00 a.m.-12.30 p.m. The Military and the Timor Crisis --Jeffrey Winters (Northwestern University) "The Price Indonesia Has Paid for Military Domination" Apart from the staining of Indonesia's image around by the Timor atrocities, military domination has retarded the development of government institutions and civil society, distorted the economy and fragmented the nation --Geoffrey Robinson (UCLA) "East Timor and the Indonesian Military"

12:30 p.m. Lunch on your own

2.00-3.30 p.m. The Shape of the New Government --Mark Woodward (Arizona State University) "Gus Dur, Islam and Indonesia" Indonesia is now a semi-secular state governed by a Muslim cleric many consider to be a saint. What theological and political developments contributed to Gus Dur's electoral victory? --Andrew MacIntyre (U.C. San Diego) "The Changing Shape of Indonesian Politics" What are the implications for policy and political management of the particular democratic framework that Indonesian reformers have settled upon?

3.45 p.m. Round Table: Summing up 4.15 p.m. A Network on Southeast Asian (Indonesian?) Studies in the Southwest? 6:00 p.m. Dinner at local restaurant ($20)

The Symposium is supported by a generous grant from the Freeman Foundation.

For more information call (310)206-9163 or visit the UCLA Center for South East Asian Studies website.

 

November 15, 1999

"Creating Across Cultures: Asia Pacific Performance Exchange, 1999"

A film by Marlene Millar, Philip Szporer and Carmella Vassor.
Premiere Screening & Artists Panel Dialogue with Dan Kwong (LA), Carol McDowell (LA), and Narumol (Kop) Thammapruksa (Thailand)

7:00 PM
Jan Popper Theater, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA

Free Admission. Reservations required by Wednesday, November 10th as seating is limited. Please call (310) 206-1335 to make your reservation. Parking $5 in UCLA Parking Lot 2 (enter UCLA campus at Hilgard and Westholme Avenues).

The Asia Pacific Performance Exchange (APPEX) is an international artists and writers program that promotes cross-cultural and interdisciplinary understanding; develops rigorous strategies for art-making that reflect the nuances of cultural differences; and fosters new ways to experiment, collaborate, and interpret artistic expression. In the summer of 1999, APPEX brought together 26 artists and five writers from throughout Asia and the United States for a six-week intensive residency. This documentary was made during the summer residency hosted at UCLA.

To learn more about APPEX and the Center for Intercultural Performance, please see our website at www.wac.ucla.edu/cip

"Creating Across Cultures: Asia Pacific Performance Exchange, 1999" was produced by UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance with Wild Child Productions.

This event is made possible with the cooperation of the UCLA Department of World Arts & Cultures, the Department of Ethnomusicology, and the UCLA Center for South East Asian Studies.

November 17, 1999

"The Emergence of Modern Vietnamese Literature"

Dr. Nha Trang Pensinger

12 noon-1:00 p.m.
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA

For more information call (310)206-9163 or visit the UCLA Center for South East Asian Studies website.

November 17, 1999

"Law in China and Hong Kong: Connections and Conflicts"

Frankie Leung
Adjunct Professor of Law at USC and Loyola Law Schools

12:00 noon
Room 1420, UCLA Law School, UCLA

This event is made possible by The International Law Speaker Series of the UCLA School of Law and the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies

November 18, 1999

"Korean Buddhism and the Arts"

Kim Lena
Hong Ik University, Seoul

7 p.m.
Brown Auditorium, Bing Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA  90036

This presentation is the last in a five lecture series to celebrate the opening of the Korean art galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The series is organized by the LACMA Education Department and is supported by grants from the Korea Foundation and the Shin'enkan Foundation. Each lecture is in English and will feature works from the collection. Each lecture is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and available on a first come, first seated basis. A reception will follow each lecture. Call the LACMA Education Department for more information at (323) 857-6512.

November 19, 1999

University of California Pacific Rim Research Program's
research briefing on 

"Emerging Public Health Issues in California and the Pacific Rim"

9:15 am-7pm
California Room, UCLA Faculty Center, UCLA

9:15-9:30 am:  Opening Remarks,California Room
Michelle Yeh Chair, Pacific Rim Research Program

9:30-10:30 am:  Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Roger Detels (Epidemiology, UCLA)
"The Role of the Pacific Rim Research Program in Supporting Public Health Research in Pacific Rim Countries"

Claire Panosian (Medicine, UCLA)
"Mass Media for Health Education in the Pacific Rim: The Making of a Hepatitis B Documentary"

Break 10:30-10:45 am

10:45-12:15 am:  Epidemiological and Medical Issues in Pacific Rim Immigrant Groups

Deborah Dean (Medicine/Infectious Diseases, UCSF)
 "Fighting Trachoma among Vietnamese in the Pacific Rim."

Gail Harrison (Public Health/Community Health Sciences, UCLA)           "Health Implications of Changing Dietary Patterns of Korean Immigrants
 to Los Angeles"

Peter Kunstadter (Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF)
"Hmong Refugees in Fresno and Non-Refugee Hmong in Thailand: Lessons to Be Learned from Similarities and Differences in Epidemiology
and Health Services at Origin and Destination"

Lunch 12:15-1:45 p.m.     Sequoia Room

1:00-1:30 p.m.    Lunch Keynote Address

Richard Feachem  (Institute of Global Health, UCSF/UCB)
"The Potential Role of the UC Institute for Global Health"
(introduced by Dean T. Jamison)

1:45-2:45 p.m.:  Reproductive and Infant Health

Paula Braveman (Family and Community Medicine, UCSF)
"California's Maternal and Infant Population–the Myth of the Middle-Class Mainstream"

Colin Partridge (Pediatrics, UCSF)
"Resuscitation Decisions for Extremely Low Birthweight Infants:
 an International Comparison of Counseling and Thresholds for
 Life Support"   

2:45-3:45 p.m.:  Long-term Health Care

Patrick Fox (Institute for Health and Aging/Sociology, UCSF)
"Comparison of Older Adults in the United States and The People's
Republic of China"

Margaret Wallhagen (Nursing, UCSF) 
"Caregiving: What Can We Learn From International Studies?"     
        
Break–3:45-4:00  p.m.

4:00-5:30 p.m.:   Issues in Public Health Policy and Practice

Peter Chua (Sociology, UCSB)
"The Activities for First World Governments in Philippine Condom Advocacy: Examining the Politics and Practice of Global Health Promotion"

Donald Morisky (School of Public Health, UCLA)
"HIV/AIDS Prevention in the Philippines/TB Control among Asian American Adolescents in Los Angeles County: the Role of Educational Interventions and Educational Policy"

E. Richard Brown (Center for Health Policy Research, UCLA)
"Access to Health Insurance and Health Care for Children in
 Immigrant Families"

5:30-7:00 p.m.    Reception and Refreshments, California Room, Faculty Center

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Pacific Rim Studies and
the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Pre-registration required. $15 registration fee includes lunch and reception.  Fee waived for UC students (limited availability).  For more information and the registration form, please contact Martin Backstrom at the UC Office of the President (martin.backstrom@ucop.edu) or 510/987-0658.

November 28, 1999

'Comparing Political Trust in China and Taiwan"

Shi Tianjian,
Political Science, Duke University

5:00 p.m.
Dorothy Solinger's home in Irvine

Reservations required. Write to Dorothy Solinger (political science, UC Irvine) at dorjsoli@uci.edu.

November 29, 1999

"North Korea: Kim II Sung's Legacy and the Impact of Humanitarian Assistance"

Dr. Kenneth Quinones

3:00 pm, Monday, November 29, 1999
Leavey Library Auditorium,
University of Southern California

Kim Il Sung sought to perpetuate his legacy of a cloistured socialist society by grooming his son Kim Jong Il to be his successor. Neither anticipated the famine that engulfed North Korea a year after the elder Kim's death. Ever since, North Korea has undergone change, both profound and subtle, as a consequence of the nation's need for international humanitarian assistance. What has changed, and is this change merely superficial and temporary or substanial and enduring?

Presented by the Southern California Korean and Korean American Studies Seminar, under the direction of the USC/UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center. For more information, contact Kyung Moon Hwang, Assistant Professor, Department of History, USC at (213) 740-1672, fax: 740-6999  http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~khwang/

November 30, 1999

The Eighth Annual Chinese Poetry Recitation Contest

Judging Panel:  Major Tsai; Chien-hsiung Wu; Randy Lee; Kylie Hsu; Qingyun Wu; Wen-hsiung Yen; and Stephen Yee, President of Mei Hua Poetry Society of Los Angeles

2-5 p.m.
Maxwell Theater, Student Union
California State University, Los Angeles

Organized by The Chinese Studies Center & The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, California State University, Los Angeles

The Eighth Annual Chinese Poetry Recitation Contest seeks to stimulate a wide interest in Chinese studies and to promote interaction between academic Chinese learning and the Chinese community.  The contest is open to students and staff of California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) and all other California colleges and universities.   Parking for non-CSULA participants will be reserved.  We are grateful to Mr. Major Tsai, President of Ideal Realty, whose donation has enabled us to hold this contest since 1991.

Four First Prizes, Four Second Prizes, and Four Third Prizes:
        For participants at the elementary level of Mandarin
        For participants at the intermediate level of Mandarin
        For participants at the advanced level of Mandarin
        For participants who are native speakers of English without any Chinese background.

Each participant will recite TWO poems at their level of Mandarin.  Recitations will be judged based on the following criteria: (1) pronunciation and intonation, (2) tone, (3) emotion and expression, and (4) manner.

Registration Deadline:  Monday, November 29, 1999
(Those requiring parking reservation must register by November 15th.)

For further information:

Professor Kylie Hsu
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
California State University, Los Angeles
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90032-8112
Tel: 323-343-4274; Fax: 626-288-8568
E-mail: khsu2@calstatela.edu

November 30, 1999

"Tokyo Blues-Contemporary Japanese Jazz"

Craig McTurck

4:15 p.m.
Room 101, Hahn Building
Pomona College

For more information, please call Pedro Loureiro at (909)607-8065.

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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