Past Events 2006-2007

Friday, May. 4th, 2007
Special Lecture and Slide Presentation on Yale's China Encounters -- "Yalies in China and Chinese in Yale: The Nineteenth-Century Story of Yale's China Encounters"
Beatrice Bartlett - Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University
Lecture, Special Event
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Friday, May. 4th, 2007
Special Symposium on Aging -- Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Aging Through Film and Stories From India And Japan
Conference, Workshop, Special Event
Japan
Monday, Apr. 30th, 2007
Lu Xun, Murakami Haruki, and Wong Karwai: A Genealogy of "Ah Q" image in the East Asian Literature and Films
Fujii Shozo - Professor, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo
Conference, Special Event
China
Thursday, Apr. 26th, 2007
Concert of Taiwan Music
Concert coordinated by: Michael Friedmann (Yale University), Hwang-long Pan (Taipei National University of the Arts), Chung-kun Hung (Taipei National University of the Arts)
Conference, Special Event, Performance
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Thursday, Apr. 26th, 2007
An International Conference: Taiwan and Its Contexts
Keynote Speaker: Fredrick F. Chien, Cathay Financial Holdings Former President, Control Yuan; Taiwan Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan
Conference, Special Event
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Thursday, Apr. 26th, 2007
The Well-Being of a Floating Population: A Symposium on Migrants and Health in China
Conference, Workshop, Special Event
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Wednesday, Apr. 25th, 2007
Translation as Violence: On Lu Xun's View of "Yi Jie"
Xuanmin Luo - Professor of English and Translation Studies, Department of Foreign Languages; and Director, Center for Translation and Interdisciplinary Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Lecture
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Monday, Apr. 23rd, 2007
Korea Lecture Series -- Modern Korean Fiction as a Literature of Confinement
Bruce Fulton - Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
Lecture
Korea
Sunday, Apr. 22nd, 2007
Darkness and Light (黑暗之光), Jump! Boys (翻滾吧!男孩) & Three Times (最好的時光)
Film, Special Event
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Monday, Apr. 16th, 2007
Korea Lecture Series -- Traditional Korean Music and Storytelling Today: P’ansori Lecture & Demonstration
Chan Eung Park - Associate Professor of Korean Language, Literature and Performance Studies, Ohio State University
Performance
Korea
Sunday, Apr. 15th, 2007
Blue Gate Crossing (藍色大門) & Taipei’s Bohemians (台北波西米亞)
Film, Special Event
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Saturday, Apr. 14th, 2007
North Korean Refugees: A Complex Humanitarian Crisis
Andrei Lankov (Kookmin University), Stephan Haggard (UC San Diego), JEON WooTaek (Yonsei University), Courtland Robinson (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), and Marcus Noland (Yale University)
Conference, Film, Workshop, Special Event
China, Korea, Transregional
Friday, Apr. 13th, 2007
Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform
Marcus Noland and Stephan Haggard
Workshop, Lecture, Special Event
Korea
Thursday, Apr. 12th, 2007
A Cinema of Affect: Contemporary Korean Cinema
Conference, Film
Korea
Wednesday, Apr. 11th, 2007
Wife, Be Like a Rose (Tsuma yo bara no yo ni)
Film
Japan
Tuesday, Apr. 10th, 2007
On Zhu Ziqing's Interpretation of Shijing: Aesthetic and Political Considerations
Zhang Hui - 张辉, Peking University; Visiting Scholar at the Council on East Asian Studies
Lecture
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Tuesday, Apr. 10th, 2007
Between Home and School: Educational Strategies of Family and Maternal Employment in Japan
Keiko Hirao - Professor of Sociology, Sophia University, Tokyo
Lecture
Japan
Monday, Apr. 9th, 2007
Cheating as a Democratic Practice: Dismantling the Constraints of Masculine Trust in Japanese Local Politics
Robin Leblanc - Associate Professor of Political Science, Washington & Lee University
Lecture
Japan
Sunday, Apr. 8th, 2007
Hill of No Return (无言的山丘) & The Rhythm in Wulu Village (霧鹿高八度)
Film, Special Event
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Wednesday, Apr. 4th, 2007
Sisters of Gion (Gion no shimai) & Woman of Tokyo (Tokyo no Onna)
Lecture
China
Wednesday, Apr. 4th, 2007
Between the Titans: Constructions of Modernity and Tradition at the Dawn of Chinese Architectural History
Cary Y. Liu - Curator of Asian Art, Princeton University Art Museum
Lecture
China
Monday, Apr. 2nd, 2007
Football Diplomacy, Postcolonialism and Regional Integration in East Asia
Wolfram Manzenreiter - Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna
Lecture
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional
Sunday, Apr. 1st, 2007
The Hole (洞) & Let It Be (無米樂)
Film, Special Event
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Thursday, Mar. 29th, 2007
Waiting for Maitreya: The Efforts of Mt. Fuji Believers in Tokugawa Japan to Change the World and Gender Relations
Fumiko Umezawa - Professor of Japanese History and Religion, Keisen Jogakuen University
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Mar. 29th, 2007
Thoughts on "Throne Abdication" during the Warring States Period and the Theories of "Datong"/"Xiokang" in Li Yun
Liang Tao - Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Professor of History, Renmin University
Lecture
China
Thursday, Mar. 29th, 2007
Special Lecture -- A Comprehensive Introduction to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
Feng Huiling - Vice President, Renmin University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Lecture, Special Event
China, Transregional
Wednesday, Mar. 28th, 2007
Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Zangiku Monogatari)
Film
Japan
Tuesday, Mar. 27th, 2007
Special Silk Road Lecture From Korea to Cairo: Mamluks on the Silk Road
Etienne de la Vaissière - Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Ecole pratique des hautes études, Paris, France
Lecture, Special Event
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional
Friday, Mar. 23rd, 2007
CEAS Reception at AAS Annual Meeting
Special Event
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional
Friday, Mar. 9th, 2007
Japan and the World -- The Domestic Politics of How the World Looks to Japan
Organized by Frances Rosenbluth (Yale University) and Masaru Kohno (Waseda University)
Conference
Japan, Transregional

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