National Foreign Affairs Training Center
China: Advanced Area Seminar
2009 - 2010
Spring/Summer Term
updated:
20 Jul 2010
[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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06 Jan |
17 |
The Yan'an Model: practical experience for the CCP (Spendelow) Civil War: Legacy for China in the Late 20th Century (Spendelow) |
√ |
F-1210 |
| 13 Jan | 18 | Film: "Qiu Ju Da Guansi" 秋菊打官司 [The Story of Qiu Ju] ( Zhang Yimou 张艺谋, 1992) | √ | F-1210 |
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21 Jan (Thursday) |
19 | 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) [details announced when available - this supersedes all other Area Studies / Language obligations]" | √ | K-1108 |
| 27 Jan* | 20 | James V. Feinerman (GU Law School): "China and the Law: The Historical Legacy of the Imperial and Republican Periods" | √ | F-1210 |
| 03 Feb | 21 |
Constitutional Law in the PRC China and Economic Law: Current Practice, Problems, & Prospects" (Feinerman) |
√ | F-1210 |
| 10 Feb* | 22 | Snow Day! -- Federal Government closed. | n/a | |
| 17 Feb | 23 |
春節: Festivals
and the Passage of Time in Traditional China
(Spendelow) Year of the Tiger began 14 Feb 2010 video: "To Taste a Hundred Herbs" (Long Bow Trilogy) |
√ | F-1210 |
| 24 Feb* | 24 |
"China and the
International
Legal Arena:
Regulating Foreign Businesses and
WTO Issues" (Feinerman) Feinerman presentation for 24 Feb 2010 |
√ | F-1210 |
| 03 Mar | 25 | Steven Phillips : Taiwan's Earliest History and the Issue of "Independence" / Introducing the "Taiwan Issue" | √ | F-1210 |
| 10 Mar* | 26 | Steven Phillips : Taiwan: From Retrocession 光復 / 接收(1945) through Lee Teng-hui 李登輝 | √ |
F-1210 |
| 17 Mar | 27 | Ted Mann (Director, Office of Taiwan Coördination): "U.S. Policy and Taiwan in the Twenty-first Century -- Problems and Prospects" | √ | F-1210 |
| 24 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 |
| 31 Mar | 29 | Film: "Morning Sun" (八九点钟的太阳) - Long Bow Group, 2003 - on the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 | √ | F-1210 |
| 07 Apr* | 30 |
Christopher F. Wurzel, (Consul /
Political and Economic Section Chief, U.S.
Consulate General Shanghai): "China: The View from the Consular
Trenches" Film: "Please Vote for Me" (Chen Weijun, 2007) - "democracy" comes to a third-grade Wuhan classroom [58 min.] |
√ | F-1210 |
| 14 Apr | 31 | Bruce Dickson: (GWU) Nuts and Bolts of the Chinese Political System: How the Government and Party Interact | √ | C-3114 |
| 21 Apr* | 32 |
Literature in Early 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 |
| 28 Apr | 33 | films on religion in contemporary China: "China's Leap of Faith": The Gods Come Home and The Bamboo Cross (CBC 2008) | √ | F-1210 |
| 05 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 |
| 12 May | 35 | 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 |
| 19 May* | 36 | film: "Gate of Heavenly Peace" - part 2 (Carma Hinton & Richard Gordon) - additional resources | √ | F-1210 |
| 26 May | 37 |
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 |
| 02 Jun* | 38 | Shelley Rigger: The Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan's Politics and Society | √ | F-1210 |
| 09 Jun | 39 | Steven Marshall (CECC): Tibet: Its History and Current Role in the PRC and in Sino-American Relations (and, Political Prisoner Database) | √ | F-1210 |
| 16 Jun* | 40 | David M. Finkelstein (CNA): China's Military Modernization: Nine Fundamental Points | √ | F-1210 |
| 23 Jun | 41 |
08:40 - early session: report from the Beijing Immersion class
(William Flens, Justin Higgins, and Abigail Taylor) -- all are welcome -- this session replaces the language
class usually scheduled at that time.
James Millward - Xinjiang: Historical Perspective and Current Tensions and "Self-Censorship and Reporting on China" - 2010 presentation |
√ |
both in F-1210 |
| 30 Jun | 42 | Independent Study | √ | n/a |
| 07 Jul* | 43 |
Thinking about "China": early origins in a global context (Spendelow) Institutional Continuities: Enduring Features of China's Imperial and Post-Imperial Government (Spendelow) |
√ | F-1210 |
| 14 Jul | 44 | Confucianism and Chinese Politics: From Formation in the Zhou to Imperium in the Han (Spendelow) | √ | F-1210 |
| 21 Jul* | 45 |
Nicholas Platt: "China Boys": A Retrospective of China Studies at the State Department over the Past Half-Century" |
√ | F-1210 |
| 28 Jul | 46 | Confucianism and Chinese Politics: The Dynamics of Development over the Most Recent Millennium (Spendelow) | √ | F-1210 |
| 04 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 |
| 11 Aug | 48 | From the Boxers to May Fourth: China's Tumultuous Entry into the 20th Century (Spendelow) | √ | F-1210 |
| 18 Aug* | 49 | Introduction of Communism:
Surviving the 1920s and the
"First United Front"
(Spendelow)
China in the 1930s & 1940s: (Spendelow) |
√ | F-1210 |
| 25 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 |