National Foreign Affairs Training Center
China: Advanced Area Seminar
2004 - 2005
Spring/Summer Term
updated:
30 August 2005
[links to syllabi for previous and
upcoming terms]
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Date / Week * = "ART" days |
Speaker/Topic
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Room |
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05 Jan |
17 |
Karen Sutter (CIA): "China in the Global Economy: Current Issues" |
F-2720 |
| *12 Jan | 18 |
"Changing Roles for Women in China" The Legacy of Pre-Revolutionary Society (Spendelow) video: "Small Happiness " (Long Bow Trilogy) |
F-3420 |
| 19 Jan | 19 | James V. Feinerman (GU Law School): "China and the Law: The Historical Legacy of the Imperial and Republican Periods" | F-3420 |
| *26 Jan | 20 | "China and the Law: Current Practice, Problems, & Prospects" (Feinerman) |
F-1210 |
| 02 Feb | 21 | "China and the International Legal Arena: WTO Membership and other Issues" (Feinerman) | F-2720 |
| *09 Feb | 22 |
春節: Festivals
and the Passage of Time in Traditional China (Spendelow) video: " To Taste a Hundred Herbs " (Long Bow Trilogy) |
F-2720 |
| 16 Feb | 23 |
Film: "Qiu Ju Da Guansi" 秋菊打官司 ( Zhang Yimou 张艺谋, 1992) Discussion: The Right to Petition in Today's China |
F-2720 |
| 23 Feb | 24 | Bruce Dickson : nuts & bolts of the Chinese political system | F-2720 |
| *02 Mar | 25 | Bruce Dickson : visions of the next leadership generation | C-4111 |
| 09 Mar | 26 |
Introducing the "Taiwan Issue" video: "Tug of War: The Story of Taiwan" |
C-3114 |
| *16 Mar | 27 | Steven Phillips : Taiwan's Earliest History and the Issue of "Independence" | F-2720 |
| 22 Mar Tuesday |
28 | The Challenges Confronting US Diplomats in Advancing Religious Freedom, Human Rights and Tolerance: Presentation by representatives of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation |
C-3114 Kennan Auditorium 08:45-12:00 |
| *30 Mar | 29 |
Shelley Rigger:
"Chen Shui-bian's Second Term: Implications for Taiwan's Future"
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F-2720 |
| 06 Apr | 30 | Films: "Return from Silence" (5 writers who survived the Cultural Revolution, 1982) and "Sparrow Village" (girls' education in Guizhou, 2003) |
F-2720 |
| *13
Apr |
31 | Eric A. McVadon:: How "Operational" is the Current PLA "Modernization"? | F-2720 |
| 20 Apr | 32 | R. Mark Mechem, Director, Business Advisory Services, US-China Business Council: "US-China Trade: The View from the Private Sector" |
F-2720 |
| *27 Apr | 33 | Robert Sutter: The United States in the Taiwan Straits: Interests and Intrigues [joint session with two-week China class] | F-1210 |
| 04 May | 34 | Jonathan Chaves: "Lessons from China's Literary History" [joint session with two-week China class] | C-3114 |
| *11 May | 35 | "China and Its Northeast Neighbors: Current Issues and Trends": panel discussion with Bonnie S. Glaser and Dan Blumenthal (organized by the Office of Special Programs) | F-1210 |
| 18 May | 36 | 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 |
| *25 May | 37 | Anne Thurston: "Grass Roots China" | F-2720 |
| 01 Jun | 38 |
student presentation by Nicholas Papp: current Chinese leadership and Taiwan contact protocols
film: "Gate of Heavenly Peace" - part 2 (Carma Hinton & Richard Gordon) |
F-2720 |
| *08 Jun | 39 | "Changing Concepts of Status and Class" (Spendelow) | F-2720 |
| 15 Jun | 40 | Kate Palmer Kaup (CECC): "China's National Minorities" | F-2720 |
| *22 Jun | 41 | video: "All Under Heaven " (Long Bow Trilogy) | F-4303 |
| 29 Jun | 42 | video: "China in the Red" (Frontline/PBS, first broadcast 13 Feb 2003: 10 stories of the human impacts of the late 20th century reforms) | F-1210 |
| 06 Jul | 43 | China's Intellectual Tradition I: "Legalism" and pre-Imperial Confucianism (Spendelow) | F-2720 |
| 13 Jul | 44 | China's Intellectual Tradition II: The "Three Teachings" 三教 : Daoism, Buddhism, and the Early Development of Confucianism (Spendelow) | F-1619 |
| 20 Jul | 45 | Confucianism and Chinese Politics: The Dynamics of Development over the Most Recent Millennium | F-2718 |
| 27 Jul | 46 | The "Unequal Treaty" System: China and the World to 1898 (Spendelow) | F-1619 |
| 03 Aug | 47 | video: "Tug of War: The Story of Taiwan" Taiwan: Background of the "Taiwan Issue" (Steven Phillips) |
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| 10 Aug | 48 | Taiwan in the Early 21st Century (Steven Phillips) | |
| 17 Aug | 49 | Introduction of Communism: Surviving the 1920s and the "First United Front" (Spendelow) | F-2720 |
| 24 Aug | 50 | China in the 1930s: Competing Domestic Visions in the Context of Japanese Expansion (Spendelow) | E-3117 |
| 31 Aug | 51 | China in the 1940s: Resisting Japan and the Civil War; Role of the United States until 1949 (Spendelow) | C-4109 |