China:  Advanced Area Studies

List of Meetings, Topics, and Speakers

Fall 2013

(course homepage)  (previous schedules) (SharePoint site)

13 Dec 2013

Week

Date

Program {click for details}

Speaker Room Notes
#01 11 Sep 2013 Opening Session (be seated before 09:00) Susan Stevenson C-3114 / Kennan Auditorium completed
#02 18 Sep 2013 Confucian Culture (begins at 10:00) Swanger K-1109 completed
#03 25 Sep 2013 Origins of "China"; Dynastic Overview Spendelow F-1210 completed
#04 02 Oct 2013 Three Approaches to "Human Nature" and Implications for Government Spendelow F-1210 completed
#05 09 Oct 2013 Life and Work in Mission China: Two Years of ESTH in Guangzhou Skluzak, Lee C-3114 completed
#06 16 Oct 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-3420 completed
#07 23 Oct 2013 China's Computer Capacity and Cyber-Security Mulvenon C-3114 completed
#08 30 Oct 2013 How to Read China's Media Open Source Center C-3114 completed
#09 06 Nov 2013 China in East Asia: Emerging Nation, Emerging Region McNamara F-1210 completed
#10 13 Nov 2013 Nuts and Bolts of Today's PRC Government Dickson F-1210 completed
#11 20 Nov 2013 China in the Global Economy:  Current Issues Sutter, K. F-1210 completed
#12 27 Nov 2013 China's Contemporary Military Modernization Finkelstein F-1210 completed
#13 04 Dec 2013 "Shanghai'd": Background and Establishment of the Unequal Treaty System Spendelow F-1210 completed
#14 11 Dec 2013 "Sick Man" of Asia: China at the End of the 19th Century Spendelow C-3114 confirmed
#15 18 Dec 2013 China's Rocky Transition from Empire to Republic Spendelow F-1210 confirmed
#16 25 Dec 2013 Independent Study n/a n/a n/a

 

 

cancelled