China: Advanced Area Studies
List of Meetings, Topics, and Speakers
Spring 2013
(course homepage) (previous schedules) (SharePoint site)
19 Aug 2013
| Week |
Date |
Program {click for details} |
Speaker | Room | Notes | |
| #17 | 02 Jan 2013 |
Film: "To Live" 活者(1994),
by
Zhang Yimou 张艺谋 (a family's changing circumstances from the 1940s through the 1970s) [133 min.] |
video | F-1210 | completed | |
| #18 | 09 Jan 2013 | The Perils of Proximity: China in its Regional Setting | Bush | F-1210 | completed | |
| #19 | 16 Jan 2013 | China and the Law: The Historical Legacy of the Imperial and Republican Periods | Feinerman | F-1210 | completed | |
| #20 | 23 Jan2013 | China and Economic Law: Current Practice, Problems, and Prospects | Feinerman | F-1210 | completed | |
| #21 | 30 Jan 2013 | China and the International Legal Arena | Feinerman | F-1210 | completed | |
| #22 | 06 Feb 2013 | Festivals and Folklife ("water-snake" year 癸巳 begins on 10 Feb 2013) | Spendelow | F-1210 | completed | |
| #23 | 13 Feb 2013 | Taiwan's Earliest History and the Issue of "Independence" | Phillips | F-1210 | completed | |
| #24 | 20 Feb 2013 |
Taiwan:
From Retrocession
光復 / 接收 through
Lee Teng-hui 李登輝
(1945-2000)
Final 15 minutes: distribution and collection of Course Evaluation Forms |
Phillips | F-1210 | completed | |
| #25 | 27 Feb 2013 | China's Rise and the Outlook for US-China Relations | Sutter, R. | F-1210 | completed | |
| #26 | 06 Mar 2013 |
Cancelled: "Snowquester"
weather closing of FedGovt [joint session with 2-weeker] 09:00 - 10:20: “China’s Economic Challenges and Prospects: Beijing Perspective”; 10:35 - 12:00: “China’s Military Grand Strategy: A Philosophical & Historical Perspective” |
DI Dongsheng
翟东升 |
F-3420 | cancelled | |
| #27 | 13 Mar 2013 | "Women Hold up Half the Sky" 妇女能顶半边天 | Spendelow | C-3114 | completed | |
| #28 | 20 Mar 2013 | China's Rocky Transition from Empire to Republic | Spendelow | F-1210 | completed | |
| #29 | 27 Mar 2013 | "Morning Sun": Human Impacts of the GPCR | video | F-1210 | completed | |
| #30 | 03 Apr 2013 | "Communism" Comes to China | Spendelow | F-1210 | completed | |
| #31 | 10 Apr 2013 | China's "War of Resistance" against Japan, 1937-1945 | Spendelow | F-1210 | confirmed | |
| #32 | 18 Apr 2013 | Details to be announced in the week preceding the event. This program takes place on a Thursday, please be in your seats by 08:45; Thursday's language classes will be held on Wed 17 April. | Appeal of Conscience Foundation | K-1108 | school-wide program supersedes regular Area / Language Studies | |
| #33 | 24 Apr 2013 |
|
Finkelstein | F-1210 | completed | |
| #34 | 01 May 2013 | The Current Human
Rights Situation in China Film: "Please Vote for Me" (Chen Weijun, 2007) - "democracy" comes to a third-grade Wuhan classroom [58 min.] |
Richardson video |
F-1210 | completed | |
| #35 | 08 May 2013 | Tensions in the Early Years of the PRC | Spendelow | F-1210 | completed | |
| #36 | 15 May 2013 | The Tibetan Autonomous Region: Background, Tensions, and Prospects [joint session with 2-weeker] | Marshall | F-1210 | completed | |
| #37 | 22 May 2013 | Rural Development in Contemporary China | Looney | F-1210 | completed | |
| #38 | 29 May 2013 | film: "Gate of Heavenly Peace" - part 1 (Carma Hinton & Richard Gordon) - on-the-Square and behind-the-scenes documentary of the 1989 student demonstrations in Beijing | video | F-1210 | completed | |
| #39 | 05 Jun 2013 | film: "Gate of Heavenly Peace" - part 2 (Carma Hinton & Richard Gordon) | video | F-1210 | completed | |
| #40 | 12 Jun 2013 | China's Environmental Challenges | Lewis | F-1210 | confirmed | |
| #41 | 19 Jun 2013 | ZHOU Jingxing 周景興 (political counselor, Embassy of the PRC): "China, the US, and the World: The View from Beijing" | ZHOU | F-1210 | confirmed | |
| #42 | 26 Jun 2013 | Video: "China in the Red" (Frontline/PBS, first broadcast 13 Feb 2003: 10 stories of the human impacts of the late 20th century reforms) | video | F-1210 | ||
| #43 | 03 Jul 2013 | Valedictory Briefing from the China Desk | A. Carlson & C. Beede | F-1210 | wrap-up for the Sep 2012 group | |
| #44 | 10 Jul 2013 | Independent Study: language-testing and observation of U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue | n/a | |||
| #45 | 17 Jul 2013 | Dynastic Overview | Spendelow | F-1210 | summer session begins | |
| #46 | 24 Jul 2013 | Origins of "China" | Spendelow | F-1210 | ||
| #47 | 31 Jul 2013 | China and Its "Confucian Foundations" | Spendelow | D-1103 | ||
| #48 | 07 Aug 2013 | Tenacity of Tradition: The Imperial Bureaucratic Legacy | Spendelow | F-1210 | ||
| #49 | 14 Aug 2013 | "Shanghai'd": Background and Establishment of the Unequal Treaty System | Spendelow | F-1210 | ||
| #50 | 21 Aug 2013 | "Sick Man" of Asia: China at the End of the 19th Century | Spendelow | F-1210 | ||
| 2013-2014 sessions begin on 11 September 2013 | ||||||