Sept. 19 - 21

The Council on East Asian Studies and the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences present

GLOBALIZATION'S NEWEST CHALLENGE: SARS

An International and Interdisciplinary Workshop

Please CLICK HERE for more information on the schedule of events.

Yale University Film Studies Program, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, and Council on East Asian Studies presents

A Special Screening of Three Films by Taiwan Film Director
Tsai Ming-liang

"Hole" (Dong, 1998)
"What Time is it There?" (Ni nabian ji dian?, 2001)
"The Skywalk is Gone"(Tianqiao bu jian le, 2002)

Director Tsai Ming-liang will be present to discuss his work and introduce his latest film. Click HERE for schedule.

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street

3:30 PM

The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature Workshop

For more information, please contact Anne Letterman at 203-432-3428 or anne.letterman@yale.edu.

Student "SHOW AND TELL" from Summer Study and Research Abroad

COME ENJOY THE FUN and PIZZA!

Henry R. Luce Hall, 2nd Floor Common Room

4:00 PM

Oct. 16

The Fifth Annual John W. Hall Lecture in Japanese Studies

"After the Shipwreck :New Horizons for History-Writing"

Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Professor Gluck specializes in modern Japan, from the late nineteenth century to the present.

Reception will follow lecture in 2nd Floor Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium
34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:30 PM

Special Brown Bag Lecture

"Exploring Alternative Forms of Capital For Low Resource Communities in China’s Multi-Ethnic West"

Gerard Postiglione, Director, Wah Ching Centre of Research and Education in China, The University of Hong Kong and Visiting Fellow, East Asian Studies, YCIAS

Lunch Provided

Room 102, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avneue

12:00 PM

The Council on East Asian Studies is honored to welcome

Sakaiya Taichi, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Japan and Former Minister of State for Economic Planning

to the Yale campus for a series of lectures on Japanese economics and history.

October 20, 2003 - 5:00 PM

"Twelve Japanese Who've Created Modern Japan"

Room, 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

October 21, 2003 - 4:30 PM

"Japanese Economy and Economic Policy from the Meiji to the Heisei Era (Advent of the Knowledge Valued Society)"

Room, 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

October 22, 2003 - 4:30 PM

Rountable discussion with students and faculty about his writings and government career

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

10/20

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

5:00 PM

10/21

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:30 PM

10/22

Room 103, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:30 PM

DISCUSSION OF MODERN JAPANESE PAINTING

with

Ikeguchi Chikako, contemporary Japanese artist and painter

Lunch Provided

Room 103, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

12:00 PM

The Council on East Asian Studies, Larry Kramer Initiative on Lesbian and Gay Studies, and Film Studies present

A SPECIAL SCREENING AND PANEL DISCUSSION
WITH

CUI ZI'EN
Director, Artist, Film Critic, Beijing Film Academy

4:30 PM

Feeding Boys, Ayaya (Aiyaya, qu buru)
Director Cui Zi'en has rapidly become one of the leading lights of China's independent and burgeoning new queer cinema. His most recent film, FEEDING BOYS, AYAYA wittily probes the social contradictions of China's capitalist "experiment" by following the story of a young homosexual in Beijing who turns to prostitution. (87 minutes), China, 2003.

PANEL DISCUSSION AND Q & A WITH DIRECTOR

DINNER - 2nd Floor Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall

8:00 PM

Enter the Clowns (Chou jue deng chang)
Adapted from Cui Zi'en's own novel, ENTER THE CLOWNS explores sexual identity and gender through a series of vignettes about transgendered people. (82 minutes), China, 2001.

Moderated by Jonathan D. Katz, Executive Coordinator, Larry Kramer Initiative

Other Panelists Include: William Summers, History of Medicine and Science and James Tweedie, Crossing Borders Program, YCIAS

4:30 PM
(Feeding Boys)

8:00 PM
(Enter the Clowns)

Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium

34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:00 - 6:00 PM

Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium

34 Hillhouse Avenue

Yale University Film Studies Program, the Yale Council on East Asian Studies, the Whitney Humanities Center, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, the Taiwan Council for Cultural Affairs, and the Taiwan Film Center present

Double Vision: Taiwan's New Cinema, Here and There

Eight films in 35 mm. Directors Chen Kuo-fu and Ang Lee will participate in the conference and film festival.

Please contact Film Studies at 203-436-4668 for more information or CLICK HERE.

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street

The Council on East Asian Studies is pleased to present a special panel on "Ming-Qing Literature and Thought" with Ayling Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Lawrence C.H. Yim, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; and Tai Ching-hsien, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Room 211, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street

4:00 PM

The Council on East Asian Studies and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences - East Asian Studies Alumni Reunion

EVENT CANCELLED

The Council on East Asian Studies is pleased to present a special presentation

"Organized Peasant Resistance and Rural Instability in China" - a lecture by Yu Jianrong, Scholar

NEW AND SPECIAL EVENT!

The Council on East Asian Studies and the Larry Kramer Initiative on Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale University

are pleased to present

HOMOSEXUALITY IN CHINA

a special lecture by

Li Yinhe
Professor, Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Li Yinhe was born in 1952 in Beijing, China. She is currently a professor and researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Dr. Li's major works include Homoerotism: Sub-culture, Chinese People's Sex & Marriage, and Emotions & Sexuality of Chinese Women. Dr. Li is one of the most famous sociologists studying the sexuality of contemporary China. She was selected as one of the 50 most powerful figures in China by Asia Week in 1999.

6:30 PM
Dinner

7:00 PM
Lecture

Room 202, Henry R. Luce Hall,
34 Hillhouse Avenue

Room 1,
158 Whitney Ave.

4:30 PM

Zhang Hong, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Colby College- "China's New Daughters: Small Family Size and New Cash-earning Power - Renegotiating Parent-daughter Relations in Rural Families"
Lunch Provided

Room 202, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

12:00 PM

Zhao Fusan, Former Deputy Dirctor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, People'e Republic of China - “The Aesthetic Pursuit in Chinese Cultural Heritage”

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

4:00 PM

Bunkyo Kin, Institute for Research in Human Studies, Kyoto University - “On Master Dong's Western Chamber Romance: Comparative Perspectives”
Please note this lecture will be in Mandarin Chinese.

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

4:00 PM

Yu Hua, Professional Writer, Beijing, People's Republic of China; Fellow, Iowa International Writing Program, University of Iowa- "Why Do I Write?"
Please note this lecture will be in Mandarin Chinese.
English translations of his paper will be available at the lecture.

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:00 PM

Room 202, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:30 PM

Oct. 30

Michael Lucken, Assistant Professor, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Studies, Paris, will discuss his latest research projects.

12:00 PM

"English Language Resources for Research on Chinese Topics" - a presentation by Nancy Chapman, Executive Director, Yale-China Association; William Massa, Public Service Archivist, Yale Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library; Martha Smalley, Research Service Librarian, Divinity School; and Tao Yang, Public Services Librarian, East Asian Collection, Sterling Memorial Library

Room 211, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street

12:00 PM

Journalism and Japan Speaker Series - TO BE ANNOUNCED

For more information about the series, please click HERE or contact Anne Letterman (203-432-3428 or anne.letterman@yale.edu) or Gavin Whitelaw (gavin.whitelaw@yale.edu).

Thursday, Sept. 11
Farewell My Concubine (Bawang bieji)
Dir. by Chen Kaige, China (1993) - 171 minutes

Monday, Sept. 15
New Year's Sacrifice (Zhu fu)
Dir. by Sang Hu, China (1956) - 100 minutes

Thursday, Sept. 18
Xiao Wu
Dir. by Jia Zhangke, China (1997)- 105 minutes

AND

On the Beat (Minjing gushi)
Dir. by Ning Ying, China (1995) - 102 minutes

Thursday, Sept. 25
In the Heat of the Sun (Yangguang canlan de rizi)
Dir. by Jiang Wen, China (1995) - 134 minutes

Monday, Sept. 29
Early Spring in February (Zao chun er yue)
Dir. by Xie Tieli, China (1963)

Thursday, Nov. 6 *
Song of the Exile (Ketu qiuhen)
Dir. Ann Hui, Hong Kong (1990)
* Screening in Room 101, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street

Thursday, Nov. 13 *
Once Upon a Time in China (Wong Fei-hung)
Dir. Tsui Hark, Hong Hong (1991) - 134 minutes
* Screening in Room 101, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street

"Remembering Wartime in Japan" Film Series
(Screenings in coordination with EAST 401a)
ALL SCREENINGS AT 7:00 PM
Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

CLICK HERE FOR FILM DESCRIPTIONS