Past Events 2006-2007

Monday, Mar. 5th, 2007
Special Lecture on Contemporary Chinese Art -- The Art of Wenda Gu
Wenda Gu, Contemporary Artist
Lecture, Special Event
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Thursday, Mar. 1st, 2007
Transmutations of Desire: Drama and Narrative in Late Imperial China
Qiancheng Li - Associate Professor of Foreign Language and Literature, Louisiana State University
Lecture
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Wednesday, Feb. 28th, 2007
A Cinema of Girlhood: The Decorative Impulse in Korean Horror Cinema
Dr. Jinhee Choi - Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies
Lecture
Korea
Tuesday, Feb. 27th, 2007
Utamaro And His Five Women (Utamato O Meguru Gonin No Onna)
Film
Japan
Tuesday, Feb. 27th, 2007
CEAS Spring Festival Reception
Special Event
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional
Thursday, Feb. 22nd, 2007
The Curious Career of Anna May Wong—A Study in Transnational Stardom
Eileen Cheng-yin Chow - Associate Professor of Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University
Lecture
China, Transregional
Wednesday, Feb. 21st, 2007
The Emergent Diversity of Firms in "the Decade of Flux" in Japan: Hybridization or Transition?
Masahiko Aoki - Takahashi Professor Emeritus of Economics, Stanford University
Lecture
Japan
Tuesday, Feb. 20th, 2007
Life Of Oharu (Saikaku Ichidai Onna)
Film
Japan
Monday, Feb. 19th, 2007
Korea Lecture Series -- Doubly Bound: the Chosôn Legal Code and Slave Women
Milan Hejtmanek - Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Lecture
Korea
Wednesday, Feb. 14th, 2007
Placating Credible Rebels: Chinese Fiscal Policies Toward Religious and Non-Religious Ethnic Groups
Victor Shih - Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
Lecture
China
Wednesday, Feb. 7th, 2007
Ugetsu (Ugetsu monogatari)
Film
Japan
Wednesday, Feb. 7th, 2007
"Don't Fear SARS; fear what's in your heart": Text and Discourse among Chinese Lay Buddhists
Dr. Gareth Fisher - Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies
Lecture
China
Monday, Feb. 5th, 2007
Bracketing [Modernity]: Reconsidering Sino-Japanese Cultural History, 1700-1850
Benjamin Elman - Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University
Lecture, Special Event
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional
Wednesday, Jan. 31st, 2007
Children of Empire: Growing up Japanese in Colonial Korea
Dr. Nicole Cohen - Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies
Lecture
Korea
Tuesday, Jan. 23rd, 2007
Special Documentary Screening and Q&A Session -- Seoul Train
Film, Special Event
China, Korea, Transregional
Monday, Jan. 22nd, 2007
Sansho the Bailiff (Sanshō Dayū)
Film
Japan
Wednesday, Dec. 13th, 2006
For Every Minute That I Live, I'll Enjoy the 60 Seconds (活着一分钟,快乐六十秒)
Film, Special Event
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Wednesday, Dec. 13th, 2006
Final Days: Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life
Susan Long - Professor of Anthropology, John Caroll University
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Dec. 7th, 2006
Spirit Into Script: Decoding the Secrets of Chinese Talismanic Writing
James Robson - Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
Lecture
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional
Wednesday, Dec. 6th, 2006
Blossoming in the Wind (风经) & Who is Hao Ran? (浩然是谁)
Film, Special Event
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Thursday, Nov. 30th, 2006
Modern Fortress Besieged (现代围城) & Pai Gu (排骨)
Film, Special Event
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Monday, Nov. 27th, 2006
Chinese Archaeology Lecture Series -- Archaeological Approaches to the Jingjue Kingdom at Niya
Wang Binghua - Renmin University of China and Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology in Xinjiang
Lecture, Special Event
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Thursday, Nov. 16th, 2006
Beyond "Nei" and "Wai": Gender and Other Forms of Trouble-Making in China Studies
Gail Hershatter - Professor of History, University of California-Santa Cruz
Lecture
China
Wednesday, Nov. 15th, 2006
Beautiful Men (人面桃花)
Film, Special Event
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Wednesday, Nov. 15th, 2006
Southeast Asia Studies Seminar -- Vestiges of Early Buddhist and Hindu Art in the Cuu Long River Delta and Problems in the Study of Oc Eo Culture
Le Thi Lien - Institute of Archaeology, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences; Research Fellow, Harvard-Yenching Institute 2006-2007
Lecture
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional
Tuesday, Nov. 14th, 2006
Playbills, Ephemera, and the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Jonathan Zwicker - Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Michigan
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Nov. 8th, 2006
Nostalgia (乡愁) & Ferry (渡口)
Film, Special Event
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Thursday, Nov. 2nd, 2006
The Stone Garden at Ryôanji: (De)Constructing an Icon
Kendall Brown - Associate Professor, Art Department, California State University, Long Beach
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Nov. 2nd, 2006
Xue Shaohui's (1866-1911) Biographies of Foreign Women
Nanxiu Qian - Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, Rice University
Lecture
China, Transregional
Wednesday, Nov. 1st, 2006
Special Screening of "The King of Masks" with Director Wu Tianming and Producer Luo Xueying --
Wu Tianming (吴天明) and Luo Xueying (罗雪莹)
Film, Special Event
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan

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