National Foreign Affairs Training Center
China: Advanced Area Seminar
2010 - 2011
Spring/Summer Term
updated:
16 Aug 2011
[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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05 Jan |
17 | Film: "Qiu Ju Da Guansi" 秋菊打官司 [The Story of Qiu Ju] ( Zhang Yimou 张艺谋, 1992) | √ |
F-1210 |
| 12 Jan | 18 | James V. Feinerman (GU Law School): "China and the Law: The Historical Legacy of the Imperial and Republican Periods" | √ | D-2101 |
| 19 Jan | 19 |
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 |
| 26 Jan* | 20 |
First 15 minutes: distribution
and collection of Course Evaluation Forms Early Years of the PRC: Video: "The Mao Years" (part I - 1949-1960 "Catch the Stars and Moon"; part II - 1961-1976 "It's Right to Rebel!" ) WGBH, 1994 |
√ | F-1210 |
| 02 Feb | 21 |
春節: Festivals
and the Passage of Time in Traditional China
(Spendelow) Year of the Rabbit 辛卯
begins 03 Feb 2011 video: "To Taste a Hundred Herbs" (Long Bow Trilogy) |
√ | F-2235 |
| 09 Feb* | 22 | David M. Finkelstein (CNA): China's Military Modernization: Nine Fundamental Points | √ | F-1210 |
| 17 Feb (Thursday) | 23 | 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]" | √ | C-3114 |
| 23 Feb* | 24 | Steven Phillips : Taiwan's Earliest History and the Issue of "Independence" / Introducing the "Taiwan Issue" | √ | F-3420 |
| 02 Mar | 25 | Steven Phillips : Taiwan: From Retrocession 光復 / 接收(1945) through Lee Teng-hui 李登輝 | √ | F-1210 |
| 09 Mar* | 26 |
China and Economic Law: Current Practice, Problems, & Prospects" (Feinerman) |
√ |
F-1210 |
| 16 Mar | 27 |
"China and the International Legal Arena: Regulating Foreign Businesses and WTO Issues" (Feinerman) |
√ | F-3420 |
| 23 Mar* | 28 |
"Women Hold up Half the Sky":
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√ | F-1210 |
| 30 Mar | 29 | Steven Marshall (CECC): Tibet: Its History and Current Role in the PRC and in Sino-American Relations (and, Political Prisoner Database) | √ | F-1210 |
| 06 Apr* | 30 | Film: "Morning Sun" (八九点钟的太阳) - Long Bow Group, 2003 - on the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 | √ | F-1210 |
| 13 Apr | 31 | Bruce Dickson: (GWU) Nuts and Bolts of the Chinese Political System: How the Government and Party Interact | √ | F-1210 |
| 20 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 |
| 27 Apr | 33 | ZHOU Jingxing (political counselor, Embassy of the PRC): "China, the US, and the World: The View from Beijing" | √ | F-1210 |
| 04 May* | 34 | 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 |
| 11 May | 35 |
update: our current understanding of the Tiananmen
demonstrations (Spendelow) film: "Gate of Heavenly Peace" - part 2 (Carma Hinton & Richard Gordon) - additional resources |
√ | F-1210 |
| 18 May* | 36 | 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 May | 37 |
Kara Abramson (CECC): "China's National Minorities - the Northwest and Beyond" with videos |
√ | D-1103 |
| 01 Jun* | 38 |
Sophie Richardson (Human Rights
Watch): Human
Rights in China: The Issues, Politics, and Reality Film: "Please Vote for Me" (Chen Weijun, 2007) - "democracy" comes to a third-grade Wuhan classroom [58 min.] |
√ | F-?1210 |
| 08 Jun | 39 |
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 |
| 15 Jun* | 40 | Shelley Rigger: The Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan's Politics and Society | √ | F-1210 |
| 22 Jun | 41 |
First 15 minutes: distribution
and collection of Course Evaluation Forms Briefings (The View from Main State: US Policy regarding China and Taiwan): Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (EAP/FO) Brent Christensen, Director, Office of Taiwan Coördination (EAP/TC) |
√ |
F-3420 |
| 29 Jun | 42 |
Wrapping up the 44-week Course: Overview, Questions, and Farewell Planning for the summer session |
√ | F-1210 |
| 06 Jul* | 43 |
Independent Study - regular Area Studies class resumes on 13 July 2011 |
√ | n/a |
| 13 Jul | 44 |
Thinking about "China": early origins in a global context (Spendelow) Institutional Continuities: Enduring Features of China's Imperial and Post-Imperial Government (Spendelow) |
√ | K-1108 |
| 20 Jul* | 45 |
Confucianism and Chinese Politics: From Formation in the Zhou to Imperium in the Han (Spendelow) |
√ | F-1210 |
| 27 Jul | 46 | Richard Bush (Brookings Institution): The Perils of Proximity: China in its Regional Setting | √ | F-1210 |
| 03 Aug* | 47 | Elaboration of Confucianism; the Counterbalance of Daoism (Spendelow) | √ | F-1210 |
| 10 Aug | 48 | Jennifer Turner (Wilson Center / CEF): Contemporary China's Environmental Stress: Problems and Prospects | √ | F-1210 |
| 17 Aug* | 49 |
The "Unequal Treaty" System: China and the World to 1898 (Spendelow) China under the Treaties: Conflicting Visions of the Future (Spendelow) |
√ | F-1210 |
| 24 Aug | 50 | James C. Mulvenon (DGI / CIRA): China's Computer Capacity and Cyber-Security | √ | F-???? |