Calendar of Events

CALENDAR OF EVENTS  =  2009 WINTER & SPRING

 

Winter 09

Jan 12                        Lecture by AMY HANSER

Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China

 

Jan 13-15                   3-day Seminar by KUO-LIANG YEH

Three Approaches in Contemporary Classical Studies

 

Jan 23                        Chinese New Year’s Banquet

Hop Li Seafood Restaurant, 11901 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles

$10 per person

 

Jan 26                        Lecture by YANGJIN PAK

Xianbei, Fuyu, or Puyo: The Laoheshen Cemetery in Jilin , China , and Its Ethnicity and Women

 

Jan 30                        Conference sponsored by UCLA Burkle Center and the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies  

Two Systems, One World: US-China Relations under the Obama Administration

 

Feb 2                          Lecture by ROBERT WELLER

Religion and Public Good in Taiwan

 

Feb 9                          Lecture by YANG GUOBIN

Twenty Years of Online Activism in China : From June 4^th to the Sichuan Earthquakes

 

Feb 26                        Lecture by WANG GUNGWU

Global China

 

March 2                      Lecture by EDDY U

The Making of the Chinese Individual: Theories, Findings, and Hypotheses

 

March 12                    Lecture by FELIX WEMHEUER

Dealing with Responsibility for the Great Leap Famine in China

Spring 09

April 6                         Lecture by ZHANG XUELIAN

Isotope Research on Ancient Chinese Diets

 

April 13                       Lecture by CALLA WIEMER

China & Global Trade Imbalances: It’s Not the Exchange Rate

 

April 20                       Lecture by YOU TIEN HSING

The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Property in China

 

April 27                       Lecture by BENJAMIN REED

The Alley-Level State : Residents and Neighborhood Organizations in Beijing and Taipei

 

May 4                          Lecture by NANCY GUY

Hearing the Future: Twenty Years of Listening to Popular Music in Taiwan

 

May 11                       Lecture by ENNO GIELE

Ancient Chinese Checkpoints and How They Possibly Worked

 

May 18                       Lecture by JOEL ANDREAS

The Evolution of Paternalistic Democracy in Chinese Factories

 

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