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**Asian Events in Claremont**

PBI Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Events:
Spring 2010

All events are open to the public and free of charge unless noted otherwise. For more information, contact (909) 607-8065 or lucy.chang@pomona.edu. If you are interested in Asia-Pacific events throughout the Claremont colleges check out our Asia-pacific Event page.

 

Ethnic Identity in China: New Perspectives & Research

A roundtable panel discussion with faculty delegation members from the School of Ethnology & Sociology, Minzu University of China, led by Dr. Yang Shengmin, Dean, School of Ethnology & Sociology. Moderated by Dru Gladney, President of PBI & professor of Anthropology. 
 
Monday, February 1 at 4:30 p.m.
Hahn 108 | More Information

Panel participants include: Yang Shengmin (杨圣敏), Ph.D., Dean of the School of Ethnology & Sociology, Distinguished Professor of Ethnology; specialist on environment and ethnology of northwest China; Ding Hong (丁宏), Ph.D., Associate Dean/Professor of Ethnology; specialist on Islam in China and Central Asia; Wang Qingren (王庆仁), Ph.D. Professor of Medical Anthropology; specialist on Chinese traditional medicine and the Yijing (I-Ching); Wu Xiaoyan (武小燕), Ph.D., Associate Dean; specialist on history of ethnology and ethnic education in China; and Dan Smyer Yu, Ph.D., Visiting Professor of Anthropology/Senior Researcher, the Ethnic Minority Study Center of China, specialist on Tibetan Buddhism and ethnology of Qinghai.

Organized by PBI; co-sponsored by Scripps College. Contact 909/607-8065

PBI Spring Film Series: (A total of three films will be shown on February 2, March 2 and April 6 respectively)

Refugee

A documentary by Spencer Nakasoko (USA, 2003, 63 min.)
Spencer Nakasoko will be in attendance.

Tuesday, February 2 at 7:00 p.m.
Rose Hills Theatre (170 E. 6th Street, Claremont. Popcorn & punch will be provided)
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The Pacific Basin Institute's Spring film series explores the Pacific Asian diaspora by featuring three documentaries on and by Asian Pacific Americans. Kicking off the screenings is director Spencer Nakasako's REFUGEE (2003). When three young refugees raised on the tough streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin district head back to Cambodia for the first time, their trip becomes much more than they expected. Spencer Nakasako is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker who has two decades of experience as an independent film and video producer, with credits that range from community-based videos to award-winning documentaries and dramatic features. The series is done in collaboration with the Asian American Resource Center (AARC) at Pomona College.

Curated by Karin Mak. Contact 909/621-8639

The Hyphenated Anthropologist: Transdisciplinary Teaching and Research in Health and Health Care

Lecture by Noel Chrisman, University of Washington School of Nursing
Wednesday, February 10 at 4:15 p.m. Hahn 101

Applied anthropologists contribute anthropological theory, method, and findings to problem solving across many disciplines and situations. Chrisman will discuss his development of cultural competence education for nurses, physicians, and other health care personnel, as well as project evaluation research for multicultural public health projects in Seattle. For the last seven years, he has lectured and consulted on these topics for universities and scientific societies in Thailand, Japan, and Taiwan.

Organized by Anthropology Department; co-sponsored by PBI. Contact Gail Orozco, 909/607-3027

Progress in Making Peace Across the Taiwan Strait: An American Perspective

Avery Lecture by Ambassador Raymond Burghardt
Thursday, February 11 at 8:00 p.m. Rose Hills Theatre

For 60 years the Taiwan Strait has been one of the most worrisome potential flashpoints in Asia, the one place where conflict between the U.S. and China has always been possible. Ray Burghardt is one of America's leading experts on the Taiwan issue. In his role as Chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) he has served since 2006 as the U.S. Government's chief Washington-based envoy to Taiwan. He played a similar role 1999-2001 as Director of the Taipei office of AIT, the de facto U.S. ambassador to Taiwan. Burghardt will discuss the remarkable progress that has been made in reducing tension between Taipei and Beijing since the inauguration of Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou in May 2008, including the first direct air, sea and mail links since 1949. He will offer his views on prospects for overcoming the more difficult political and security issues that the two sides still have not tackled and will explain the Obama Administration's policy toward these developments.

Organized by PBI. Contact 909/607-8065

Factory Town: Life in a Chinese Development Zone

Lecture by Peter Hessler, writer, journalist & award-winning author of the book
Tuesday, February 16 at 4:15 p.m. Hahn 101

Peter Hessler will talk about his research in Lishui, a factory town in southern Zhejiang province. For more than two years, Hessler followed development in Lishui, spending time with factory owners, small entrepreneurs, migrant workers, and government officials. Like so many places in southern China, Lishui is focused on growing its export economy, and Hessler will describe the human side of this process.

Organized by PBI. Contact 909/607-8065

“Champions of Justice”: How “Asian” Heroes Saved Japanese Imperialism

Lecture by Leo Ching
Thursday, February 18 at 4:15 p.m. Hahn 108

Through the analysis of postwar Japanese popular culture, especially those of children's culture with its heroes and adventures, this talk will focus on how postwar Japan maintained a remarkable continuity in its orientalizing and imperializing of Southeast Asia. Looking specifically at the genre of early "TV movies" (terebi eiga), I suggest that the impoverished condition of the immediate postwar Japan (re)produced the familiar figures of "Asian" heroes from the prewar and wartime era and redefined the notion of "justice" that enabled Japan to enjoy the trauma of its imperialist endeavors in Southeast Asia and articulate its reconfigured positionality within a U.S. dominant postwar postcolonial Asia. Leo Ching is Chair and Associate Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. He is completing a book manuscript on postwar anti-Japanism and popular culture.

Organized by History Department; co-sponsored by PBI
Contact 909/621-8574.

PBI Film Screening: Title TBA

Tuesday, March 2 at 7:00 p.m.
Rose Hills Theatre (170 E. 6th Street, Claremont. Popcorn & punch will be provided)
Curated by Karin Mak. Contact 909/621-8639

An Ever Contested Poem: The Classic of Poetry’s ‘Hanyi’ and the Sino-Korean History Debate

Lecture by Jae-hoon Shim, Visiting Scholar, CMC 
Professor of Chinese History, Dankook University, Korea
March 3 at 4:15 p.m. Hahn 108

Since 2003, the so-called “history war” over the ancient kingdom of Koguryŏ (37 BCE, trad.-668 CE), located in Manchuria and northern Korea, has been one of the hottest issues between China and Korea. The dispute seems to have fueled a new nationalistic or Sinocentric historiography of ancient Chinese northeast. A ninth-century BCE poem “Hanyi” in the Classic of Poetry (Shijing) has also fueled a far longer “history war.” Whereas Chinese scholars have generally understood Han as a Zhou feudal state ruled by a Ji-surnamed scion of the Zhou Dynasty (1045-256 BCE), most Korean scholars have linked the polity with Old Choson (n.d.-108 BCE), the earliest known state in Korean history. However, comparing the “Hanyi” with several bronze inscriptions with similar contents, this research seeks to re-read the “Hanyi” from a perspective that transcends the dichotomy of Chinese history versus Korean history.

Organized by PBI; co-sponsored by History Department, CMC. Contact 909/607-8065

Mapping Old and New Geographies of Religion in China and Tibet

Lecture by Karl Ryavec
Wednesday, March 31 at 4:15 p.m. Hahn 108

Traditionally scholars have considered Chinese religions to comprise Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism. Research over the past several decades, however, has shown that Christianity and Islam are also important religions in China with their own complex histories and places. Increased interest in Environmental History has also shown that the diffusions and growths of different religious traditions are conditioned by space and time in relation to economies and cannot be neatly reconciled with long held views about the power and patronage of empires and dynasties. This talk presents recent findings from field research and GIS databases on the geography of religion in Tibet and China.

Organized by PBI. Contact 909/607-8065

PBI Film Screening: Title TBA

Tuesday, April 6 at 7:00 p.m.
Rose Hills Theatre (170 E. 6th Street, Claremont. Popcorn & punch will be provided)
Curated by Karin Mak. Contact 909/621-8639

Winners and Losers of Economic Transition in post-Soviet Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

Luncheon lecture by Azamat Junisbai, Sociology, Pitzer College
Friday, April 16 at Noon – 1:00 p.m. Oldenborg Center (350 N. College Way, Claremont) (students use meal cards; others sign in at entrance)

Nearly two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, who are the winners and losers of the transition to market economy in post-Soviet Central Asia? What are the prevailing attitudes about economic justice in these majority-Muslim societies? What do we know about the popular legitimacy of the new economic order with its rampant social inequality and dwindling welfare state? Junisbai will discuss the findings from nationally representative surveys conducted in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in 2007. Azamat Junisbai is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College where he teaches courses on quantitative methods, social inequality, and contemporary Central Asia. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2009. His dissertation - Market Transition Outcomes, Economic Justice, and System Legitimacy in Post-Soviet Central Asia - was funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of State, and the Social Science Research Council.

Jointly sponsored by PBI and Oldenborg Center. Contact: (909) 607-8065 or 607-1159

 

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