National Foreign Affairs Training Center
China: Advanced Area Seminar
2003 - 2004
Spring/Summer Term
updated: 24 Aug 2004
[links to syllabi for previous and
upcoming terms]
|
Date |
Speaker / Topic
|
Room |
|
07 Jan |
China's Revolutionary Identities: Building Legacies (Spendelow) |
F-2720 |
|
14 Jan* |
welcome
to new students |
F-2720 |
|
21 Jan |
James V. Feinerman: "China and the Law: Historical Legacy" |
F-2720 |
|
28 Jan* |
China and the Law: Current Practice, Problems, & Prospects (Feinerman) |
F-2720 |
|
04 Feb |
China and the International Legal Arena: WTO and Other Issues(Feinerman) |
F-2720 |
|
11 Feb* |
video: " To Taste a Hundred Herbs " (Long Bow Trilogy) |
F-2720 |
|
18 Feb |
Bruce Dickson : nuts & bolts of the Chinese political system |
F-2720 |
|
25 Feb* |
Bruce Dickson : visions of the next leadership generation |
F-2720 |
|
03 Mar |
Gardner Bovingdon : Xinjiang:
From Qing to 9/11 and
Beyond |
F-3420 |
|
10 Mar* |
Steven Phillips : Taiwan's
Earliest History and the
Issue of "Independence" |
C-3116 |
|
17 Mar |
student presentation: Joseph Kruzich and James Loi: "Impact of WTO membership on China's Domestic Economy" |
F-2720 |
|
24
Mar* |
Steven Phillips : Taiwan in the 20th Century |
F-2720 |
|
31
Mar |
Shelley Rigger: "Implications of Taiwan's Election of 20 March 2004" |
F-2720 |
|
07 Apr* |
Film: "To Live" 活者 ( Zhang Yimou ) 张艺谋 |
F-1210 |
|
14 Apr |
Changing Women's Roles in 20th
Century China (Spendelow) |
C-3116 |
|
21 Apr* |
Ken Allen (former Air
Attaché, Beijing; Senior Researcher at CNA): Introduction
to the PLA |
F-2720 |
|
28 Apr |
Jonathan Chaves : China's
Literary Heritage (joint
session with two-week class) |
F-1210 |
|
05 May* |
Paul Neureiter / Director for China / Office of North Asian Affairs, USTR |
F-1210 |
|
12 May |
R. Mark Mechem, Director, Business Advisory Services, US-China Business Council: "US-China Trade: The View from the Private Sector" |
F-1210 |
|
19 May* |
video: "China in the
Red" - impact of China's economic reforms in Beijing and
Shenyang, 1998-2002 (PBS "Frontline")
|
F-3420 |
|
26 May |
9:30 -video: "To Live is Better than to Die"
(好死不如赖活者) - 2002
film by Chen Weijun (陈为军) on the impact of AIDS in Wenlou, Henan 10:35 - Elizabeth Economy (CFR): China's environmental issues |
F-1210 |
|
02 Jun |
gaming exercise - beginning @ 08:45 |
C-3116 |
|
09 Jun* |
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 |
F-2720 |
|
16 Jun* |
film: "Gate of Heavenly Peace" - part 2 (Carma Hinton & Richard Gordon) |
F-3420 |
|
23 Jun* |
Spendelow: "Changing Concepts of Class and Status in China" |
F-1210 |
|
30 Jun |
films: "Return from Silence" (5 writers who survived the Cultural Revolution, 1982) and "Sparrow Village" (girls' education in Guizhou, 2003) |
F-1210 |
|
07 Jul |
Drew F. Schufletowski [EAP/CM]: "US-China |
F-2720 |
|
14 Jul* |
summer planning session / Formation of Chinese Culture / Early History (Spendelow) |
F-2720 |
|
21 Jul |
Spendelow: Institutional Continuity in Chinese History" |
F-2720 |
|
28 Jul* |
Spendelow: "The 'Three
Teachings': Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism" |
F-1619 |
|
04 Aug |
Spendelow: "Confucianism and the
State: Ideology in Transition" |
F-2720 |
|
11 Aug* |
Videos: "The Mao Years" (two-part documentary on The People's
Republic from Liberation through the Cultural Revolution)
|
F-2720 |
|
18 Aug |
Transitions in the Rural Sector (Spendelow)
Video: Longbow Trilogy "All
under Heaven"
|
F-1720 |
|
25 Aug* |
China's Artistic Heritage: visit to
the Sackler and Freer Galleries
|
[offsite] |
|
01 Sep |
Independent Study
|
|
|
15 Sep |
-- Opening Festivities of the 2004-2005 year |
C-3114 |