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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.
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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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