National Foreign Affairs Training Center
China: Advanced Area Seminar
2007 - 2008
Spring/Summer Term
updated:
26 Aug 2008
[links to syllabi for previous and
upcoming terms]
(course homepage)
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Date / Week * = "ART" days |
Speaker / Topic |
confirmed? |
Room |
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02 Jan |
17 |
Film: "Qiu Ju Da Guansi" 秋菊打官司 [The Story of Qiu Ju] ( Zhang Yimou 张艺谋, 1992) |
√ |
F-2235 |
| 09 Jan* | 18 | James V. Feinerman (GU Law School): "China and the Law: The Historical Legacy of the Imperial and Republican Periods" | √ | F-2235 |
| 16 Jan | 19 | "China and Economic Law: Current Practice, Problems, & Prospects" (Feinerman) | √ | F-1210 |
| 23 Jan | 20 | "China and the International Legal Arena: Regulating Foreign Businesses and other Issues" (Feinerman) | √ |
F-2235 |
| 30 Jan* | 21 |
春節: Festivals
and the Passage of Time in Traditional China
(Spendelow) Year of the Rat begins 08 Feb 2008 video: "To Taste a Hundred Herbs" (Long Bow Trilogy) |
√ | F-2235 |
| 06 Feb | 22 | Steven Phillips : Taiwan's Earliest History and the Issue of "Independence" / Introducing the "Taiwan Issue" | √ | F-2235 |
| 13 Feb* | 23 | Video: "Tug of War: The Story of Taiwan" | √ | F-1210 |
| 20 Feb | 24 | Steven Phillips : Taiwan: From Retrocession 光復(1945) through Lee Teng-hui 李登輝 (2000) | √ | F-1210 |
| 27 Feb* | 25 |
09:45 - Video:
"Sparrow
Village" (girls' education in Guizhou, 2003)
10:20 - Douglas G. Spelman (Director, Office of Taiwan Coordination / EAP/TC)): What to Look for in Taiwan's 22 March Elections / Implications for US Policy and Cross-Straits Relations |
√ | F-1210 |
| 05 Mar | 26 | Benjamin Weber: History and Prospects for Democratic Reform in Hong Kong | √ |
F-1210 |
| 12 Mar* | 27 | 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 |
| 19 Mar | 28 | Dennis McNamara: "China and the Asian Community" | √ | F-2235 |
| 26 Mar* | 29 | Shelley Rigger: What Just Happened in Taiwan's 22 March 2008 Presidential Election? | √ |
F-2235 |
| 02 Apr | 30 | Nuts and Bolts of the Chinese Political System: How the Government and Party Interact | √ | F-2235 |
| 09
Apr* |
31 | China's Artistic Heritage (visit to the Freer/Sackler galleries; Lorraine Torres, docent) / location of galleries | √ | off-site: meet @ 10:30, Sackler ground-floor entrance hall |
| 16 Apr | 32 | Steven Marshall (CECC): Tibet: Its History and Current Role in the PRC and in Sino-American Relations | √ |
F-2235 |
| 23 Apr* | 33 | 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-1210 |
| 30 Apr | 34 | film: "Gate of Heavenly Peace" - part 2 (Carma Hinton & Richard Gordon) | √ | F-1210 |
| 07 May* | 35 | Karen Sutter: "China in the Global Economy: Current Issues" | √ | F-1210 |
| 14 May | 36 |
Harry Harding: Perspectives on the State of US-China Relations |
√ | F-1210 |
| 21 May* | 37 | Morris Rossabi: China and Mongolia (09:45) | √ | F-2235 |
| Morris Rossabi: Mongolia Today (13:00) | √ | F-2306 | ||
| 28 May | 38 |
In-house expertise: Ryan Hass - US-Taiwan pol-mil relations -
a view from EAP/TC Jeff Horwitz: coöperation on aviation issues |
√ | F-1210 |
| 04 Jun* | 39 |
Videos: "Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village " (Long Bow Trilogy, 1984) "Women of the Country", #2 in "China from the Inside" / KQED |
√ | F-1210 |
| 11 Jun | 40 | Film: "Morning Sun" (八九点钟的太阳) - Long Bow Group, 2003 - on the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 | √ | F-2235 |
| 18 Jun* | 41 |
Videos from the BBC series "Heart of the Dragon": -- Correcting -- Mediating |
√ | F-2235 |
| 25 Jun | 42 |
class presentation: Claudia Coleman: "history of silk" video: Nanking |
F-1210 | |
| 02 Jul | 43 |
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.] |
√ | F-1210 |
| 09 Jul | 44 | Independent Study | √ | n/a |
| 16 Jul* | 45 | Institutional Continuities: Enduring Features of China's Imperial and Post-Imperial Government (Spendelow) | F-1210 | |
| 23 Jul | 46 | Confucianism and Chinese Politics: From Formation in the Zhou to Imperium in the Han (Spendelow) | F-1616 | |
| 30 Jul* | 47 |
Confucianism and Chinese Politics: The Dynamics of
Development over the Most Recent Millennium
(Spendelow)
The "Unequal Treaty" System: China and the World to 1898 (Spendelow) |
F-1210 | |
| 06 Aug | 48 | China under the Treaties: Conflicting Visions of the Future (Spendelow) | F-1210 | |
| 13 Aug* | 49 | From the Boxers to May Fourth: China's Tumultuous Entry into the 20th Century (Spendelow) | F-1210 | |
| 20 Aug | 50 | Introduction of Communism:
Surviving the 1920s and the
"First United Front"
(Spendelow)
China in the 1930s & 1940s: (Spendelow) |
F-2718 | |
| 27 Aug* | 51 |
Competing Domestic Visions in the Context of Japanese Expansion (Spendelow) Resisting Japan and the Civil War; Role of the United States until 1949 (Spendelow) |
F-1210 | |