China: Advanced Area Studies
List of Meetings and Topics
Spring 2012
(course homepage) (previous schedules)
14 Aug 2012
| Week |
Date |
Program {click for details} |
Speaker | Room | Notes |
| #17 | 04 January 2012 | China's Computer Capacity and Cyber-Security | Mulvenon | F-1210 | |
| #18 | 11 January 2012 | China and the Law: The Historical Legacy of the Imperial and Republican Periods | Feinerman | F-1210 | |
| #19 | 18 January 2012 | Festivals and Folklife | Spendelow | F-1210 | |
| #20 | 25 January 2012 | Taiwan's Earliest History and the Issue of "Independence" | Phillips | F-1210 | |
| #21 | 01 February 2012 |
Resurgence
of Religion as a Factor in International Relations Keynote Address: Hillary Rodham Clinton |
Appeal of Conscience Foundation | K-1108 please be seated by 08:45 |
school-wide program supersedes regular Area / Language Studies |
| #22 | 08 February 2012 |
First 15 minutes: distribution
and collection of Course Evaluation Forms Taiwan: From Retrocession 光復 / 接收 through Lee Teng-hui 李登輝 (1945-2000) |
Umanah
Phillips |
F-1210 | |
| #23 | 15 February 2012 | Updating the China Model: The Shifting Focus of China's Economy and Public Sector | Dickson | F-1210 | |
| #24 | 22 February 2012 | "Women Hold up Half the Sky" 妇女能顶半边天 | Spendelow | F-1210 | |
| #25 | 29 February 2012 | The Role of the PLA in National Security Policy Making | Finkelstein | F-1210 | |
| #26 | 07 March 2012 | China and Economic Law: Current Practice, Problems, and Prospects | Feinerman | F-1210 | |
| #27 | 14 March 2012 | The Tibetan Autonomous Region: Background, Tensions, and Prospects | Marshall | F-1210 | |
| #28 | 21 March 2012 | "Morning Sun": Human Impacts of the GPCR | video | F-1210 | |
| #29 | 28 March 2012 | China's Rise and the Outlook for US-China Relations | Sutter, R. | F-1210 | |
| #30 | 04 April 2012 | Film: "Qiu Ju Da Guansi" 秋菊打官司 [The Story of Qiu Ju] ( Zhang Yimou 张艺谋, 1992) | video | F-1210 | |
| #31 | 11 April 2012 | 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 | C-3114 | |
| #32 | 18 April 2012 |
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 | |
| #33 | 25 April 2012 | 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 | |
| #34 | 02 May 2012 | China and the International Legal Arena | Feinerman | F-1210 | |
| #35 | 09 May 2012 |
Sophie Richardson (Human Rights
Watch): Human
Rights in China: The Issues, Politics, and Reality Film: "Please Vote for Me" (Chen Weijun, 2007) - "democracy" comes to a third-grade Wuhan classroom [58 min.] |
Richardson video |
F-1210 | |
| #36 | 16 May 2012 | James Millward - Xinjiang: Historical Perspective and Current Tensions and "Self-Censorship and Reporting on China" - 2010 presentation | Millward | F-1210 | |
| #37 | 23 May 2012 | Contemporary China's Environmental Stress: Problems and Prospects | Turner | F-1210 | |
| #38 | 30 May 2012 | How to Read China's Media | Open Source Center | F-1210 | |
| #39 | 06 June 2012 | ZHOU Jingxing 周景興 (political counselor, Embassy of the PRC): "China, the US, and the World: The View from Beijing" | ZHOU | F-1210 | |
| #40 | 13 June 2012 | film: "Gate of Heavenly Peace" - part 2 (Carma Hinton & Richard Gordon) | video | F-1210 | |
| #41 | 20 June 2012 | China Bookends: From Spiritual Pollution to the Shanghai Expo | Camp | F-1210 | |
| #42 | 27 June 2012 | Historical Overview of US-China Relations | Dawley | F-1210 | |
| #43 | 04 July 2012 | Independence Day - Federal Holiday | n/a | n/a | |
| #44 | 11 July 2012 |
Valedictory Briefing from the China
Desk distribution and collection of Course Evaluation Forms |
Marchant & Pike | C-3114 | nominal end of the "regular" course; summer session begins |
| #45 | 18 July 2012 | China and Its "Confucian Foundations" | Spendelow | F-1210 | |
| #46 | 25 July 2012 | Independent Study | n/a | n/a | |
| #47 | 01 August 2012 | Tenacity of Tradition: The Imperial Bureaucratic Legacy | Spendelow | F-1210 | |
| #48 | 08 August 2012 | Shanghai'd: China's 'Century of Humiliation' | Spendelow | C-3114 | |
| #49 | 15 August 2012 | Qing and the Republic: Coping with Crises | Spendelow | F-1210 | |
| #50 | 22 August 2012 | China's Two Paths in the 20th Century | Spendelow | F-1210 |
Area Studies classes begin again on 12 September 2012 with a plenary session in C-3114 (Kennan)