National Foreign Affairs Training Center
China: Advanced Area Seminar
2008 - 2009
Spring/Summer Term
updated:
17 Aug 2009
[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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07Jan |
17 |
James V. Feinerman (GU Law School): "China and the Law: The Historical Legacy of the Imperial and Republican Periods" |
√ |
F-1210 |
| 13 Jan (Tuesday) | 18 | The Challenges Confronting US Diplomats in Advancing Religious Freedom, Human Rights and Tolerance: Presentation by representatives of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation (09:00 start-time; please be seated by 08:45) | √ | C-3114 Kennan Auditorium |
| 21 Jan | 19 | "China and Economic Law: Current Practice, Problems, & Prospects" (Feinerman) | √ | F-1210 |
| 28 Jan* | 20 | Film: "Qiu Ju Da Guansi" 秋菊打官司 [The Story of Qiu Ju] ( Zhang Yimou 张艺谋, 1992) | √ | F-1210 |
| 04 Feb | 21 | "China and the International Legal Arena: Regulating Foreign Businesses and WTO Issues" (Feinerman) | √ | F-1210 |
| 11 Feb* | 22 |
春節: Festivals
and the Passage of Time in Traditional China
(Spendelow) Year of the Ox began 26 Jan 08 2009 video: "To Taste a Hundred Herbs" (Long Bow Trilogy) |
√ | F-1210 |
| 18 Feb | 23 | 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 |
| 25 Feb* | 24 | Video: "Tug of War: The Story of Taiwan" | √ | F-1210 |
| 04 Mar | 25 | Steven Phillips : Taiwan's Earliest History and the Issue of "Independence" / Introducing the "Taiwan Issue" | √ | F-1210 |
| 11 Mar* | 26 | Steven Phillips : Taiwan: From Retrocession 光復(1945) through Lee Teng-hui 李登輝 and Chen Shui-bian 陳水扁 (2008) | √ |
F-1210 |
| 18 Mar | 27 | Michael D. Toyryla (Office of Taiwan Coördination): "U.S. Policy and Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou 馬英九 -- Problems and Prospects" | √ | F-1210 |
| 25 Mar* | 28 |
Changing Roles of Women in China: The Legacy of Pre-Revolutionary Society (Spendelow) Video: "Sparrow Village" (girls' education in Guizhou, 2003) } Video: "Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village " (Long Bow Trilogy, 1984) |
√ | F-1210 |
| 01 Apr | 29 | Karen Sutter: "China in the Global Economy: Current Issues" | √ |
F-1210 |
| 08 Apr* | 30 | Film: "Morning Sun" (八九点钟的太阳) - Long Bow Group, 2003 - on the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 | √ | F-1210 |
| 15 Apr | 31 |
Literature in 20th Century China: an overview -
(Spendelow) Film: "Return from Silence" (1982, by 時鐘雯, GWU) - five writers who survived the Cultural Revolution |
√ | F-1210 |
| 22 Apr* | 32 |
Special joint session with China
Two-Week Course, meeting 09:00 - 11:00 -
(DVC)
Contemporary Film & Theater in China Dr. Jonathan Noble, Notre Dame University |
√ |
F-3420 |
| 29 Apr | 33 | Special joint session with China Two-Week Course, meeting 09:00 - 11:00 - China's Military Modernization: Progress, Problems and Prospects Dr. David Finkelstein, CNA Corp. | √ | F-3420 |
| 06 May* | 34 |
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 |
| 13 May | 35 |
Documentary: Ted Koppel, "The People's Republic of Capitalism" (excerpt) Film: "Please Vote for Me" (Chen Weijun, 2007) - "democracy" comes to a third-grade Wuhan classroom [58 min.] |
√ | F-2235 |
| 20 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-1210 |
| 27 May | 37 |
film: "Gate of Heavenly Peace" - part 2 (Carma Hinton & Richard Gordon) - additional resources |
√ | F-1210 |
| 03 Jun* | 38 |
Videos from the BBC series "Heart of the Dragon": -- Correcting -- Mediating |
√ | D-1103 |
| 10 Jun | 39 | Bruce Dickson: (GWU) Nuts and Bolts of the Chinese Political System: How the Government and Party Interact | √ | F-2235 |
| 17 Jun* | 40 | Steven Marshall (CECC): Tibet: Its History and Current Role in the PRC and in Sino-American Relations | √ | F-1210 |
| 24 Jun | 41 | Harry Harding (GWU): Perspectives on the "Fragility" of Sino-American Relations |
√ |
F-1210 |
| 01 Jul | 42 | Thinking about "China": early origins in a global context (Spendelow) | √ | C-3114 |
| 08 Jul* | 43 |
class presentation by Kristen Skipper: "Nüshu
女書: Women's Writing in Hunan" Institutional Continuities: Enduring Features of China's Imperial and Post-Imperial Government (Spendelow) |
√ | F-1210 |
| 15 Jul | 44 |
Confucianism and Chinese Politics: From Formation
in the Zhou to Imperium in the Han
(Spendelow)
Confucianism and Chinese Politics: The Dynamics of Development over the Most Recent Millennium (Spendelow) |
√ | F-1210 |
| 22 Jul* | 45 | Independent Study | √ | n/a |
| 29 Jul | 46 | Jennifer Turner (Wilson Center / CEF): Contemporary China's Environmental Stress: Problems and Prospects | √ | F-1210 |
| 05 Aug* | 47 |
The "Unequal Treaty" System: China and the World to 1898 (Spendelow) China under the Treaties: Conflicting Visions of the Future (Spendelow) |
√ | F-1210 |
| 12 Aug | 48 | From the Boxers to May Fourth: China's Tumultuous Entry into the 20th Century (Spendelow) | √ | F-1210 |
| 19 Aug* | 49 | Introduction of Communism:
Surviving the 1920s and the
"First United Front"
(Spendelow)
China in the 1930s & 1940s: (Spendelow) |
√ | F-1210 |
| 26 Aug | 50 |
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 |