UCLA Center for East Asian Studies: October 1999 East Asian Studies Calendar of Events

UCLA Center for East Asian Studies

Southern California
East Asian Calendar of Events and Exhibitions

October 1999

Ongoing Exhibitions | Lectures, conferences and performances

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Ongoing Exhibitions

Through October 3, 1999

"A Winding River: The Journey of Contemporary Art in Vietnam"

Hosted by Orange County's Bowers Museum of Cultural History, this exhibition of paintings and drawings opened on June 26, 1999 and generated considerable discussion in the press and on talk radio. Some members of the region's Vietnamese community argue the exhibition largely excludes the work of South Vietnamese artists, entirely excludes the work of Vietnamese living outside Vietnam, and portrays the government of Vietnam in too favorable a light. The exhibition was organized by the Meridian International Center. You may see samples of the exhibition at the museum's website.

The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 am to 4 pm.

The Bowers Museum
2002 North Main Street, Santa Ana, CA 92706
Tel. (714) 567-3600 - Fax (714) 567-3603
Email: info@bowers.org

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.

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

September 28-October 2

The Motion Picture Association's Film Festival commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China

Festival films will be shown at 20th Century Fox's Zanuck Theater (10201 West Pico Boulevard, parking available at the Galaxy lot off of Avenue of the Stars). On Saturday, October 2, Alhambra's Garfield Theater (7 East Valley Boulevard) will offer two matinee screenings. These screenings are free and open to the public and seating is available on a first come, first served basis. Several distinguished Chinese artists as well as film industry officials will attend the Friday reception following the screening.

Additional information is available by calling (888) 906-FILM.

The films included in this festival are (the Chinese names were not included in the press release):
9/28 Tuesday, 7:30 pm Lover's Grief Over the Yellow River
9/29 Wednesday, 7:30 pm Flower Season, Rain Season
9/30 Thursday, 7:30 pm A Musician's Life (The Story of Zhao Liming)
10/1 Friday, 7:30 pm Country Teachers (screening followed by reception)
10/2 Saturday, 7:30 pm The True Hearted

Saturday matinee, 1:30 pm True Hearted and 4:30 pm National Anthem

September 30-October 10

UCLA Film and Television Archive Presents STUDIO GHIBLI: THE MAGIC OF MIYAZAKI, TAKAHATA & KONDO

Thursday, September 30, 1999 - 7:00 PM
SNEAK PREVIEW!! PRINCESS MONONOKE (Mononoke hime) (1997, Japan, English dub, 35mm, 133 min.) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Producer: Toshio Suzuki. Screenplay: Hayao Miyazaki. English Dialogue: Neil Gaiman. Animation Director: Masashi Ando. Kitaro Kosaka, Yoshifumi Kondo. The film features the voice talents of Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Minnie Driver and Gillian Anderson.

GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (Hotaru no haka) (1988, Japan, in Japanese with English subtitles, 35mm, 88 min.) Directed by Isao Takahata. Producer: Toru Hara. Screenplay: Isao Takahata. Based on the novel by Ayuki Nosaka. Character Design: Yoshifumi Kondo. Music Michio Mamiya. The film features the voice talents of Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara and Akemi Yamaguci.

Saturday, October 2, 1999 - 7:00 PM
NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (Kaze no tani no Nausicaä) (1984, Japan, in Japanese with English subtitles, 35mm, 118 min.) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Producer: Toru Hara. Screenplay/Based on the manga characters by/Character Design: Hayao Miyazaki. Animation Director: Kazuo Komatsubara. The film features the voice talents of Shimamoto Sumi, Rihoko Yoshido, Goro Naya and Hisako Kyoda.

POM POKO (Heisei tanuki gassen ponpoko) (1994, Japan, in Japanese with English subtitles, 35mm, 119 min.) Directed by Isao Takahata. Producer: Hayao Miyazaki. Screenplay: Isao Takahata.

Sunday, October 3, 1999 - 7:00 PM >
WHISPER OF THE HEART (Mimi wo sumaseba) (1995, Japan, in Japanese with English subtitles, 35mm, 111 min.) Directed by Yoshifumi Kondo. Producer/Screenplay: Hayao Miyazaki. Based on the manga by Aoi Hiragi. Character Design: Kitaro Kosaka. The film features the voice talents of Honna Yoko, Takahashi Kazuo, Tachibana Takashi and Muroi Shigeru.

ONLY YESTERDAY (Omoide poroporo) (1991, Japan, in Japanese with English subtitles, 35mm, 120 min.) Directed by Isao Takahata. Producer: Hayao Miyazaki. Screenplay: Isao Takahata. Based on the manga by Hotaru Okamoto and Yuko Tone. Character Design: Yoshifumi Kondo.

Saturday, October 9, 1999
CASTLE IN THE SKY (Tenku no shiro Laputa) (1986, Japan, in Japanese with English subtitles, 35mm, 123 min.) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Producer: Tatsumi Yamashita, Hideo Ogata and Isao Takahata. Screenplay: Hayao Miyazaki. Animation Director: Yoshinori Kanada.

PORCO ROSSO (Kurenai no buta) (1992, Japan, in Japanese with English subtitles, 35mm, 93 min.) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Screenplay: Hayao Miyazaki. Based on the manga Zasso no to hikontei jidan by Hayao Miyazaki. The film features the voice talents of Shuichiro Moriyama, Akio Otsuka and Akemi Okamura.

Sunday, October 10, 1999 - 2:00 PM
MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Tonari no totoro) (1988, Japan, English dub, 35mm, 87 min.) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Producer/Screenplay: Hayao Miyazaki. Animation Director: Yoshiharu Sato. The film features the voice talents of Lisa Michaelson, Cheryl Chase, Greg Snegoff and Kenneth Hartman.

KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (Majo no takyubin) (1989, Japan, English dub, 35mm, 103 min.) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Producer/Screenplay: Hayao Miyazaki. Character Design: Katsuyo Kondo. Animation Director: Katsuyo Kondo, Shinji Otsuku and Yoshifumi Kondo. The film features the voice talents of Kirsten Dunst, Phil Hartman, Janeane Garofolo and Debbie Reynolds.

Tickets for the film series are available one hour before showtime at the James Bridges Theater. Admission is $6 general and $4 for students, seniors and children under 12. Please list this number for further public information, (310) 206 - FILM or visit our website at www.cinema.ucla.edu.

October 4, 1999

"The Future of U.S. - Japan Relations"

The Japan America Society is sponsoring this town hall debate. The featured speakers are

Chalmers Johnson President, Japan Policy Research Institute

Osamu Nariai Professor of International Economics, Reitaku University

The Honorable Koji Watanabe Executive Advisor, Federation of Economic Organizations Former Japanese Ambassador to Russia, Italy, and Saudi Arabia

Teresa Watanabe LA Times Tokyo Correspondent, 1991-97

6-7:30 pm
Japan Foundation and Language Center
2425 Olympic Boulevard, Santa Monica

The event is free and open to the public, but advance reservations are required. Call (213) 627-6217 ext. 17 or send a fax to (213) 627-1353.

The Japan America Society is located at 505 S. Flower Street, Level C, Los Angeles, CA 90071.

October 6, 1999

Indonesia Report with Jay Solomon

6:30 - 8 pm
O’Melveny & Myers Dining Room
400 S. Hope Street, 18th Floor Los Angeles, CA, 90071

This is an Asia Society event involving a reception and a discussion.
Members: $10 Non-members and guests: $15 Parking available at the Mellon Bank Center, 400 S. Hope St., $4 after 5 p.m. (entrance is on Grand Ave. between 5th and 4th Streets.) Jay Solomon will provide an update of recent events in Indonesia. He is the correspondent covering Indonesia for The Wall Street Journal and The Asian Wall Street Journal. In 1993, Mr. Solomon was a freelance correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, a weekly Dow Jones & Company magazine, providing news and analysis on Asian business, economics and politics and headquartered in Hong Kong. He moved to New York in March 1994 as a copy editor for the AP-Dow Jones newswires, and then became bureau chief in Indonesia for the Dow Jones Newswires from 1995 until May 1998 when he began his current assignment with the Journal. For more information contact the Asia Society's Southern California Center at (213) 624-0945.

October 7, 1999

"The Japanese Economy at the Crossroad: Continued Decline or Renewed Growth"

Richard Katz
Economics, State University of New York, Stony Brook

4:15 pm
Room 101, Hahn Building
Pomona College

Sponsored by the Pomona College International Relations Program and the Pomona College Department of Economics. For information, call David Arase at (909) 607-1211.

October 9, 1999

"Sacred Music and Dance of Cambodia and Bali"

Master artists from Indonesia, Cambodia, and the United States will perform traditional music and dance of Bali and Cambodia. Dance Celeste, an internationally acclaimed ensemble of classical music and dance of Cambodia under the artistic direction of Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, will feature eight musicians, three vocalists, and seven dancers- all master and apprentice performers from various Cambodian communities around the United States. Gamelan Sekar Jaya will present an exciting concert program of new and traditional works, led by some of Bali's leading performers.

            8 p.m. Schoenberg Hall
            $20 general, $12 students
            For tickets, call (310) 825-2101

October 11, 1999

"Japan's Network State: Both Boon and Liability"

Jeffrey Broadbent
Sociology, University of Minnesota

3 - 5 pm
Sierra Room, UCLA Faculty Center

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

October 11, 1999

"Sectarians and Daily Religious Life in Rural China: The Long and Completely Uneventful History of Two Sects in the Villages of Cangzhou, 1850-1999"

Thomas Dubois
Graduate Student, UCLA Department of History

12:00-1:30 p.m.
10383 Bunche Hall (UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies library)

Both historical scholarship on Chinese sects and the recent campaign against the Falungong (Buddhist Wheel) Sect in the PRC emphasize the antagonism between organized religion and successive Chinese governments. This paper, based primarily on fieldwork conducted in the villages of Cangzhou, North China, will demonstrate the importance of sectarian groups to the daily religious lives of ordinary peasants. Such sects are composed of peasants and grounded firmly in the village community. Far from being the lunatic fringe that centuries of detractors would have us believe, such groups are often the true essence of popular religiosity, performing all of the ritual, moral and pedagogic activities commonly associated with organized religion.

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion.

October 11, 1999

"The Art of Twentieth-Century Zen"

Steven Addiss
University of Richmond

Audrey Seo
College of William and Mary

8 pm
Humanities 201
Scripps College

Sponsored by the joint Art History Program at Scripps and Pomona Colleges. For information, call Bruce Coats at (909) 607-3600.

October 14, 1999

            "Recent Acquisitions of Indonesian Textiles"

Be the first to get a look at exciting recent additions to the Fowler Museum's growing Indonesian textile collections. Curator Roy Hamilton and guest-extraordinaire Mary Jane Leland will present the latest acquisitions from the Batak region of Sumatra and from Eastern Indonesia.

                    7:00-8:30 P.M.
                    Participation limited to 20
                    Reservations and Membership: (310) 206-0306
                    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 permit - $5 - for lot 4 or 5. (310) 825-4361

October 14, 1999

"Japan's Quest for a Permanent U.N. Security Council Seat: A Matter of Pride or Justice?"

Reinhard Drifte
Japanese Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

8 p.m.
Von Kleinsmid Center (VKC), Room 329
University of Southern California

Parking is available at USC Gate #3 at the corner of Figueroa and 35th Streets. This talk is a presentation of the Southern California Japan Seminar, sponsored by the USC/UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center. For further information contact Chris Evans at (213) 740-2993.

October 14, 1999

"Cultural Transitions in Korean History"

John Duncan
East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

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

This presentation is the first in a six week 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.

October 14, 1999

"The Chinese Style of Premodern Economic Development Seen in Environmental Perspective: The Case of Jiaxing"

Mark D. Elvin
Professor of Chinese History, Australian National University

2:00 pm
4269 Bunche Hall

Professor Mark D. Elvin (Ph.D., Cambridge, 1968) is Head of the Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. He is the author of, among others, the influential _The Pattern of the Chinese Past_ (1973) and co-editor (along with Liu Ts'ui-jung) of _Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History_ (1998). His research interest lies particularly in the environmental and economic history of China.

Co-sponsored by the USC-UCLA Joint Center for East Asian Studies Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the UCLA Center for East Asian Studies. Call the Center for Chinese Studies at (310) 825-8683 for more information.

October 15, 1999

"What is East Asia Today"

Mr. Un Ko
poet

3-4:30 pm
243 Royce Hall, UCLA

This public lecture is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. Call (310) 825-3284 for additional information.

October 15, 1999

"Twenty Years of Musical Ethnography in Yunnan Province: Music, Society and Research Among the Han and Minorities since 1980"

Zhang Xingrong
Yunnan Art Institute

Li Wei
Yunnan Art Institute

noon
B544 Schoenberg Hall, UCLA

Professor Zhang and Ms. Li will lecture in Chinese. A video presentation will accompany the lecture.

To get to B544 Schoenberg Hall: Use the entrance opposite the UCLA Faculty Center main entrance. This brings you into the basement. Go straight ahead and turn left at the end of the corridor. After about ten paces, you will see the entrance to B544 in the left portion of the wall directly ahead of you.

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

October 15, 1999

"Death and Birth of Civilizations: Ancient China and Ancient Greece"

DAVID N. KEIGHTLEY
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
and Visiting Fellow of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies

3 pm
375 Dodd Hall, UCLA

During his long and distinguished career, David Keightley (Ph.D., Columbia, 1969) has fundamentally influenced our understanding of the origins of Chinese civilization. His work in the Neolithic and early Bronze Age, employing the archaeological and inscriptional evidence, has concentrated on the formation of political and religious culture -- ancestor worship, divination, and the development of bureaucracy -- viewed in cross-cultural perspective.
As a Visiting Fellow of the Center for Chinese Studies, Professor Keightley will be on campus at UCLA from October 12 to October 21. He may be reached at the Center for Chinese Studies, (310) 206-3457 or (310) 825-8683.
In addition, Professor Keightley will lead the October 13 and October 20 sessions of Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen's graduate seminar on "New Perspectives on Shang Archaeology" (the seminar meets at 2 pm in 275 Dodd Hall), which will focus on oracle bone inscriptions and issues of decipherment and interpretation. Members of the public and others who are not enrolled are welcome to attend these two sessions. For further information, contact Professor von Falkenhausen by e-mail at lothar@humnet.ucla.edu

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Art History

October 16-28, 1999

Los Angeles-UCLA Film and Television Archive, "The Diabolical Cinema of Kim Ki Young"

Saturday, October 16, 1999 - 7:30 PM

KILLER BUTTERFLY (Salinnabiul Jonun Yoza)(1978, South Korea, Woojin Films, 35mm, 110 min.) Screenplay: Lee Mun-Woong. Cinematography: Lee Sung-Chun. Starring: Kim Jung-Chol, Kim Man, Kim Cha-Ok.

Sunday, October 17, 1999 - 7:00 PM

THE HOUSEMAID (Hayo)(1960, South Korea, Korea Munye Films, 35mm, 90 min.) Screenplay: Kim Ki-Young. Cinematography: Kim Tok-Chin. Starring Lee Un-Shim, Chu Jung-Nyo, Kim Chin-Kyu

THE INSECT WOMAN (Chungyo)(1972, South Korea, Hallip Films, 35mm, 110 min.) Screenplay: Kim Ki-Young., Kim Sung-Ok. Cinematography: Chung Il-Song. Starring Won Nam-Gung, Yun Yo-Jung, Chon Kye-Hyon.

Thursday, October 28, 1999 - 7:30 PM

IODO (1977, South Korea, Dong-Ah Export Co., 35mm, 110 min.) Based on the novel by Lee Chung-Jun. Screenplay: Yu Sang. Cinematography: Chung Il-Song. Starring Lee Hwa-Si, Kim Jong-Chol, Choi Yun-Sok.

PROMISE OF THE FLESH (Yukcheui Yaksok)(1975, South Korea, Dong-Ah Export Co., 35mm, 95 min.) Based on a novel by Lee Man-Hee. Screenplay: Kim Chi-Hon. Cinematography: Chung Il-Song. Starring Kim Ji-Mi, Lee Jung-Kil, Park Jung-Ja.

Tickets for the film series are available one hour before showtime at the James Bridges Theater located on the northeast corner of UCLA's campus (nearest cross streets are Sunset Boulevard and Hilgard Avenue in Westwood.). Admission is $6 general and $4 for students and seniors. For further public information, (310) 206 - FILM or visit our website at www.cinema.ucla.edu.

October 18, 1999

"The Science of the Ancestors: Divination, Curing, & Bronze-Casting in Late Shang China"

DAVID N. KEIGHTLEY
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
and Visiting Fellow of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies

4 pm
375 Dodd Hall, UCLA

A reception for Professor Keightley will follow his talk

During his long and distinguished career, David Keightley (Ph.D., Columbia, 1969) has fundamentally influenced our understanding of the origins of Chinese civilization. His work in the Neolithic and early Bronze Age, employing the archaeological and inscriptional evidence, has concentrated on the formation of political and religious culture -- ancestor worship, divination, and the development of bureaucracy -- viewed in cross-cultural perspective.
As a Visiting Fellow of the Center for Chinese Studies, Professor Keightley will be on campus at UCLA from October 12 to October 21. He may be reached at the Center for Chinese Studies, (310) 206-3457 or (310) 825-8683.
In addition, Professor Keightley will lead the October 13 and October 20 sessions of Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen's graduate seminar on "New Perspectives on Shang Archaeology" (the seminar meets at 2 pm in 275 Dodd Hall), which will focus on oracle bone inscriptions and issues of decipherment and interpretation. Members of the public and others who are not enrolled are welcome to attend these two sessions. For further information, contact Professor von Falkenhausen by e-mail at lothar@humnet.ucla.edu

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Art History

October 18, 1999

          "The Future of US-China Relations"

           Derek Shearer, Former ambassador to Finland
           Ruth Goldway, US Postal Commission

                    2pm to 3:30pm
                    6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA

            Ambassador Shearer and the Honorable Ruth Goldway recently returned from a visit                       to China and will speak on issues as WTO, human rights and US-China relations.                       Refreshments will be served.Sponsored by the UCLA center for International                       Relations.

October 19, 1999

          "The Aesthetics and Metaphysics of 'True Porcelain' in the Eighteenth
            Century"

          Lydia H. Liu, Guest Lecturer

                   4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
                   The Getty Conservation Institute
                   Herculaneum Conference Room, level L3

                   In eighteenth-century Europe, the translucent surface of porcelain
                   became the subject of aesthetic and metaphysical argument. Professor
                   Liu asks how the scientific quest for the essential petrological
                   components of "true porcelain" (kaolin and petuntse) helped produce
                   the metaphysics of porcelain as a specific aesthetics of surface and
                   depth and, conversely, how that aesthetics was able to accommodate a
                   scientific procedure that required a radical discontinuity of content
                   and form, of depth and surface, and of truth and appearance.

                   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.

October 20, 1999

"Nationalism or Colonialism: Yi In-song's Local Color"

Dr. Youngna Kim
Seoul National University

3-4:30 pm
Dodd Hall, UCLA

This public lecture is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. Call (310) 825-3284 for additional information.

October 20, 1999

"One Country, Two Systems: Hong Kong’s Legal System after the Handover"

Honorable Justice Barry T. Mortimer
Vice President, Court of Appeal of the High Court, Hong Kong

6:15 pm
UCLA Faculty Center

Participation by invitation only.

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for East Asian Studies, the Asia Society Southern California Center, the Hong Kong Association of Southern California, the Southern California Chinese Lawyer Association, and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

October 21, 1999

"Indonesia: The Way Ahead"

James Castle
Economic Analyst

Wimar Witoelar
Media Commentator

12 noon-2pm
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Presented by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies Colloquium Series. For more information, call 310-206-9163 or visit http://www.isop.ucla.edu/cseas

October 21, 1999

"The Politics of Authenticity: Intellectuals and the Revolution in Vietnam"

Dr. Kim Ninh
The Asia Foundation

4 pm
6275 Bunche, UCLA

Presented by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies Colloquium Series. For more information, call 310-206-9163 or visit http://www.isop.ucla.edu/cseas

October 21, 1999

"Characteristics of Korean Painting of the Choson Period"

Ahn Hwi-joon
Seoul National University

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

This presentation is the second in a six week 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.

October 21, 1999

"The Jesuits Did NOT Manufacture Confucianism: Jesuit and Chinese Textual Strategies in 17th-Century China"

Nicolas Standaert, S.J.
Chinese Studies, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)

3:30 pm
11382 Bunche Hall, UCLA

The partial acceptance of Christianity by late Ming China has been attributed by many modern scholars to the fact that the Jesuits' preoccupation with concrete things joined the movement towards "concrete studies" (shixue) as practiced by Chinese scholars at that time. These concrete studies included such subjects as astronomy, mathematics, and agriculture. Little attention, however, has been given to the textual interests of the Jesuits and their Chinese counterparts. It is significant to note, however, that Chinese biographies (Mingshi yiwenshi, Siku quanshu zongmu tiyao) paid more attention to the writings on Chinese classics by scholars who were professed Christians than to their scientific writings.

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

October 21, 1999

         "Indonesia: The Road Ahead"

                    Panelists: James Castle, Chairman, The Castle
                                  Group Wimar Witoelar, Communications Consultant and Political Observer

                              12 p.m.-2 p.m.
                              6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
                              626-301-1166, ext.14

                              The American-Indonesian Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with Asia Society present                                 this luncheon panel; special thanks to corporate sponsor Baker & McKenzie.
                              RSVP is required by October 19. For more information, please contact the Asia Society                                 Southern California Center at (213) 624-0945.

                              Co-sponsored by Indonesian & American Chambers of Commerce & The Asia Society

October 22, 1999

          "Korea Today: The Challenges of Change"

                    H.E. Lee Hong Koo,
                    Ambassador, Republic of Korea to the United States

8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Los Angeles County, Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. (@ Ogden Drive) Los Angeles, CA.

PROGRAM
8:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM Korea's Political System Today
10:30AM Societal Changes
Noon Luncheon and Keynote Address: H.E. Lee Hong Koo, Ambassador, Republic of Korea to the U.S.
2:00 PM Culture and the Arts
4:00 PM U.S.-Korea Relationship
5:30 PM Adjournment

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Peter M. Beck, Director of Research and Academic Affairs, Korea Economic Institute of America, Korea Economic Institute
Robert Buswell, Professor and Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director, Center for Korean Studies, University of California-Los Angeles; & Editor-in-Chief, Korean Culture, Korean Cultural Center, Korean Consulate
Marn J. Cha, Professor, Department of Political Science, California State University-Fresno
Chungmoo Choi, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of California, Irvine
Yong Sup Han, RAND (tentative)
Burglind Jungmann, Assistant Professor for Korean Art, UCLA & Adjunct Associate Curator of Korean Art, LACMA
Jiyoung Koo, Managing Director, Korea & Vice President and Codirector, Korean Department, Sotheby's, New York
Chae-Jin Lee, Director, Keck Center for International Studies, Claremont McKenna College
Jaehoon Lee, Claremont Graduate School
Patrick M. Morgan, Thomas and Elizabeth Tierney Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Department of Politics and Society, University of California-Irvine
Robert A. Scalapino, Robson Research Professor of Government Emeritus, University of California-Berkeley
Gi-Wook Shin, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California-Los Angeles
David Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of California-Irvine; & Editor, Social Problems

Luncheon and Program Fee
$50 members
$60 non-members
$25 students

This conference coincides with the opening of LACMA's new Korea galleries. Space is limited and reservations are required, to be received no later than October 20, 1999 by fax (213) 624-0158, phone (213) 624-0945, or e-mail (aishienh@asiasoc.org). Please mail & make checks payable to Asia Society. 24 hours cancellation required for all programs. We regret that we are unable to issue refunds for no-shows. Cosponsored by Asia Society and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. For more information, please contact the Asia Society Southern California Center at (213) 624-0945.

October 22, 1999

         "Eyewitness to Genocide: East Timor, Indonesian State Terrorism, and US Complicity"

Allan Nairn,
Journalist

12 noon-1 pm
11382 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Presented by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies Colloquium Series. For more information, call 310-206-9163 or visit http://www.isop.ucla.edu/cseas

October 23, 1999

12th Annual Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture in Chinese Archaeology and Art:
"Snake, Stupa, and Sunset: The Making of a Chinese Landscape View Over a Millennium"

Eugene Y. Wang
Art and Art History, Harvard University

3-4:30 pm
Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
UCLA

A 10th-century pagoda used to stand on the Thunder Peak jutting into West Lake of east China until its collapse in 1924. The sight of the pagoda-dominated hill bathed in evening glow and casting its shadow across the lake is one of the famous Ten Views of West Lake, attracting poets, painters, and tourists. It is also the setting for the grand finale of a popular romance involving a tragic love affair between a young man and a snake-turned-woman. Curiously, visitors to the site, regardless who they are, all seem to subscribe to a rule of viewing: one either sees the sunset view or thinks of the snake-woman, but rarely mixes the two modes of viewing together. Why can't a poet or a painter envision a sunset-bathed pagoda view made more sinister or darkened by the dramatic prospect of the specter of the snake rearing its head? Wouldn't it have made his poem and painting more compelling to our modern sensibility? Why is this a moot issue for Chinese painters and poets? The lecture attempts to address these questions.

Organized by the UCLA Center for Pacific Rim Studies. Call (310) 206-8984 for additional information.

October 23, 1999

"Women and Modernity in Twentieth-Century China"

6275 Bunche Hall
UCLA

This day-long conference is organized by Joan Judge, UC Santa Barbara, this is a conference in the Southern California China Colloquium. The colloquium is managed by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and is partially supported by U.S. Department of Education Title VI funds administered by the USC-UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center. For more information on the conference, call (310) 825-8683.

9:30 am ¨ Morning Session ¨ Kathryn Bernhardt (History, UCLA), Chair

JOAN JUDGE (History, UCSB)
"Meng Mu Meets the Modern: The Refiguring of Early Female Instruction Books in Late-Qing Textbooks for Girls and Women"

HU YING (EALC, UC Irvine)
"Life and Death of a Modern Icon: Sophia and Her Others"

CHENG WEIKUN (History, Calif. State Univ., Chico)
"Women, Theater, & Modernity:
The Public Lives of Actresses in Early 20th-Century Beijing"

Discussant: MICHAEL TSIN (History, Columbia Univ.)

1:00 pm ¨ Afternoon Session ¨ Yunxiang Yan (Anthropology, UCLA), Chair

RACHEL HUI-CHI HSU (Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers Univ.)
"'Nora' in China: Modernity and Traveling Gender Identities"

GAIL HERSHATTER (History, UC Santa Cruz)
"Gender and "the State Effect" in Rural 1950s China"

SHU-MEI SHIH (EALC & Comparative Lit., UCLA)
"Transnational Feminism Reconsidered:
Hung Liu & the Art of Multiple Antagonisms"

Discussant: PRASENJIT DUARA (History, Univ. of Chicago)

October 23, 1999

            "Teaching about Religion at UCLA" series

                    Professor Gregory Schopen,
                    East Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA

                              12:00-1:30 p.m.
                              10383 Bunche Hall (UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies library)

October 25, 1999

"Conflict and Social Change: Muslim Women in the Southern Philippines"

Masako Ishii
Sophia University

12 noon-1 pm
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Presented by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies Colloquium Series. For more information, call 310-206-9163 or visit http://www.isop.ucla.edu/cseas

October 25, 1999

"Reform of the Criminal Law Trial Method in China"

Chen Guangzhou
Director of the Center for Criminal Law and Justice, Chinese University of Political Science & Law; Vice President of the China Law Society

            12 noon
            UCLA School of Law, Room 1420

                     Presented by the International Law Speaker Series of the UCLA School of Law
                    and the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies.

October 27, 1999

"Greater China in the New Millennium: Obstacles and Opportunities"

Larry Wang,
Managing Director, Wang & Li Asia Resources

5-6pm
UCLA, Anderson Graduate School of Management, Room D313

This event will provide first-hand information on Greater China's business environment as we enter the new Millennium. The presentation will cover:
· The Asia region's current recovery and its impact on multinationals and
professionals in Greater China
· Outlook for key industries, including the Internet boom and its impact on the region
· Hiring needs and trends among multinational firms
· Job search strategies
· Compensation, business, and lifestyle comparisons

To find out more about Wang & Li Asia Resources visit their Website at:
http://www.wang-li.com

October 28, 1998

"Misunderstanding Chinese Law: The Lure of the 'Rule of Law' Paradigm"

Donald Clarke
University of Washington Law School

12 noon
UCLA School of Law, Room 1420

Presented by the International Law Speaker Series of the UCLA School of Law
and the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies.

October 28-29, 1999

Economic, Social and Legal Issues in China's Transition to a Market Economy: Doctoral Student Research Conference

This program is organized and sponsored by the UCLA Center for International Business Education and Research and the UCLA Center for East Asian Studies. Participation is by invitation only.

Ventura, California (Tentative Program)

Thursday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m.

Dinner
Keynote Address:

Professor Baizhu Chen, USC Marshall School of Business

Friday, Oct. 29

8:30 am - 10:30 am
Process of Economic Reform

Liang Wei (School of International Relations, USC)
"China's Accession to the WTO

Hongyi Lai (Political Science, UCLA)
"Logic of Reform--National Selection of the Provinces for Experimental Urban Reform in China"

Michael Johnston (UCLA, Sociology) and Huimin Li (Chinese National Statistical Bureau)
"Champion of the Market -- How the NBS Defines Unemployment"

Kelly Lautt (Political Science, UCLA)
"Corruption and Market Reform in China"

10:30 Coffee Break

11 am - 1 pm
Behavior of Firms and Individuals Market Transition

Yueting Tong (Economics, USCD)
"Foreign Direct Investment, Technology Transfer and Firm Performance"

Wei Hua (AGSM, UCLA)
"Testing the Cultural Boundaries of a Model of Trust: Subordinate-manager Relations in China, Norway and the U.S."

Xiaoguang Wu (Sociology, UCLA)
"Work Units and Income Inequality: the Effects of Transition in Urban China"

1:00 - 2:30 pm Lunch

2:30 - 4:30 pm
Social and Environmental Effects

Marian Katz (Sociology, UCLA)
"Social Challenges of Transition: Individual Narratives about the Impact of Transition on Self, Family and Society"

Hongyan Xiao (Political Science, USC)
"Falungong vs. the Chinese Communist Party in Ideological Education on Chinese Youth"

Eric Zusman (Political Science, UCLA)
"The River Runs Dry: Negotiating Water Scarcity in the Yellow River Basin"

October 28, 1999

"Landscape Paintings of the Late Choson Period"

Yi Song-mi
Academy of Korean Studies, Songnan

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

This presentation is the third in a six week 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.

October 29, 1999

"Nine Lives in Contemporary Korean Buddhism"

Prof. Jaeryong Shim
Seoul National University

3- 4:30 pm
243 Royce Hall , UCLA

This public lecture is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. Call (310) 825-3284 for additional information.


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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