Feb. 8

The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University

SPRING FESTIVAL RECEPTION
in celebration of 2005 - Year of the Rooster

The Council on East Asian Studies is pleased to present

the 45th Annual Edward H. Hume Memorial Lecture

"Contesting the High Ground: Mt. Tai and its Goddess in Late Imperial and Modern Chinese Society"

presented by

Kenneth Pomeranz
Chancellor's Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of California - Irvine

Lecture followed by Reception in 2nd Floor Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Kenneth Pomeranz is Chancellor's Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at University of California - Irvine, former Chair of the History Department, and Director of the University of California Multi-Campus Research Group in World History. His publications include The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (winner, Fairbank prize, American Historical Association; co-winner, World History Association Book Prize); The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present (co-author); and The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society and Economy in Inland North China, 1853-1937 (Fairbank Prize). While the bulk of his work has revolved around Chinese and comparative economic development, rural social change, environmental change, and state formation, he has also written on the history of popular religion and of family organization and gender roles. He is currently engaged in multiple projects, including a follow up volume to The Great Divergence, taking the argument into the 20th century, and a study of the goddess of Mt. Tai in rural north China. His honors include Guggenheim and ACLS Fellowships and distinguished lectureships at a number of universities in the United States, Europe, and East Asia.

Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:00 PM

Peking-Yale University Conference

"Tradition and Modernity: Comparative Perspectives"

The Council on East Asian Studies is pleased to be co-sponsoring the Peking-Yale University Conference "Tradition and Modernity: Comparative Perspectives." Sixteen Yale faculty members will visit Beijing from March 7 to 9, 2005 to participate in this international and interdisciplinary conference at Peking University. Development and collaboration for this conference began with Professors Kang-i Sun Chang (East Asian Languages and Literatures) and Michael Holquist (Comparative Literature), who worked closely with their colleagues at the Peking University Institute for Comparative Literature and Culture, Professors Meng Hua, Yan Shaodang, Zhang Hui, and Lin Qingxin. Panel topics to be covered during the conference include memory and text; canonization and commentary; official and vernacular canons of modernity; representations of war and revolution; tradition and realism; translation and transformation; image and imagination; psychoanalysis and related topics; and comparative perspectives on library resources. This conference is also generously supported by the President's Office.

Beijing, China

EVENT CANCELLED!

The Council on East Asian Studies is pleased to present

Matsuoka Shinpei, Professor, Tokyo University

for a special lecture on his current research on Zeami

Please note this lecture will be given in Japanese.

The Council on East Asian Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Department of Religious Studies are pleased to present

"New Developments in Gandharan Studies: Recent Discoveries of Manuscripts and Inscriptions"

Richard Salomon, Professor, Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington at Seattle and Director of British Library/University of Washington Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project

Gandhara, the ancient region corresponding to modern northern Pakistan and adjoining areas of Afghanistan, has been a major cultural crossroads throughout history, serving, for example, as the main node for the transmission of Buddhism from its Indian homeland to Central and East Asia. Our knowledge of the history, literature and culture of Gandhara in its most flourishing period, around the first three centuries of the Common Era, has been vastly enhanced by the discovery within the last few years of important new inscriptions, and especially of large numbers of Buddhist manuscripts. The new manuscripts have revealed an entire new body of literature of early Indian Buddhism, while the inscriptions have clarified their historical and cultural context. The lecture will provide an overview and evaluation of these new materials.

Room 217A,
Hall of Graduate Studies,
320 York Street

5:00 PM

The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University is pleased to present

The Japanese "Pink Film" Director
Meike Mitsuru

Meike will present one of his films (title TBA) and engage in discussion afterwards.

Translation will be provided for the discussion as well as an English plot summary of the film if it is not subtitled.

"Pink films" are technically adult films in Japan, but given Japanese censorship codes, most would only get an R-17 in the USA. They have been extremely important in the history of Japanese cinema, first in the 1960s as a place of radical political and aesthetic experimentation, and then in the 1970s and 1980s (with Nikkatsu's Roman Porno) as a vital training ground for new directors and film styles. Many of the important directors in mainstream Japanese cinema of the last 30 years actually got their start or were otherwise involved in pink film. Even today, pink film continues to be a site for many exciting new talent.

Meike Mitsuru is one of the most critically acclaimed of the young pink film directors, with an often comedic and parodic style, and is currently residing in New York on a prestigious Japanese government fellowship for artists. He has graciously agreed to come to Yale, show his work, and talk to us about "pink film" and contemporary Japanese cinema.

Room 217B, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street

4:30 PM

The Council on East Asian Studies, The China Law Center, and the Asia Law Forum are pleased to present

From Non-Interference to Communication:
Hong Kong's Constitutional Development

Margaret Ng, Member, Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Lawyer and Journalist

As demand for universal suffrage mounted in Hong Kong following the march of more than half a million people on 1 July 2003, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People's Republic of China promulgated an Interpretation of the Basic Law to the effect that any political development involving Annex I and Annex II of the Basic Law can only be kick-started with its approval. Then on 26 April 2004, the Standing Committee announced a Decision ruling out the implementation of universal suffrage in 2007/2008. Hong Kong’s democratic movement now seems stuck. Can anything be done to resolve the deadlock? From Beijing’s view, the new SAR must come under control. From Hong Kong’s view, political change is the common aspiration of the people and vital to reforming its governance. Both sides agree communication is the key to the future of “one country, two systems” the success of which has much wider significance than Hong Kong itself.

Margaret Ng is a Member of the Legislative Council of the HKSAR and a practising barrister in Hong Kong. She was a Member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council up to June 30, 1997, representing the Legal Functional Constituency made up of all barristers, solicitors and government lawyers. She has returned by overwhelming majorities by the same constituency in the election in May 1998, September 2000, and September 2004 respectively. She is also a noted commentator and writer in both English and Chinese. She served as Publisher of the Ming Pao News from 1988-1990. From 1986-1987, she was the newspaper’s Deputy Editor-in-Chief. She remains a regular contributor to the South China Morning Post. She is the author of some 12 Chinese titles. Miss Ng has a long list of past service in public committees including the Central Policy Unit in 1989-90, 1991-92 and Town Planning Appeal Board. She is currently a member of the Operations Review Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) Operation. She received her law degree from the University of Cambridge and PCLL from the University of Hong Kong. She holds a doctorate in philosophy from Boston University. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in philosophy from the University of Hong Kong.

Room 211,
Hall of Graduate Studies,
320 York Street

4:00 PM

The Council on East Asian Studies is pleased to present

"The Administration of Justice in Late Imperial China"

a special lecture by

Chang Wejen, Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Chang Wejen, LL.M. (Yale), S.J.D. (Harvard), a Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan and a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, specializes in Chinese jurisprudence and legal history, has taught these subjects at Taiwan University, Beijing University, UCLA, Yale, Harvard, NYU and College de France, and is currently finishing his draft of a book on Administration of Justice in Late Imperial China and starting his work on another, entitled “In Search of the Way”.

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

4:00 PM

The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University
is pleased to host a reception in honor of

Edwin McClellan, Sterling Professor Emeritus, East Asian Languages and Literatures

at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois

9:00-11:00 PM

Hyatt Regency, Chicago, IL

The Council on East Asian Studies is pleased to present a special lecture on Manichaean Art

A Rediscovered Book Art Tradition of Mediaeval Asia: The Manichaean Illuminated Codices of Turfan

Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Assistant Professor of Art History, Northern Arizona University

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

4:00 PM

The Council on East Asian Studies is pleased to present

What Can Japan Tell Us About Intra-Party Politics? Strategic Electoral Rule Manipulation in Advanced-Industrialized Democracies

Dr. Kenneth McElwain, Ph.D., Stanford University

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

4:00 PM

The Council on East Asian Studies, the Film Studies Center, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures are pleased to welcome to campus renowned Japanese Film Director

AOYAMA SHINJI

for a series of special film screenings and workshops

The award-winning Japanese film director, Aoyama Shinji, will be visiting Yale from April 8 to 17 to show four of his films and conduct workshops in film production and theory. Known in America for his film critically acclaimed Eureka, Aoyama has also published books on film theory and criticism and won awards for his novels. Please take advantage of this extended stay by a celebrated young master!

For a complete schedule of events, please CLICK HERE.

Please note that certain events do have REGISTRATION DEADLINES.

For biographical information regarding Aoyama Shinji, please CLICK HERE.

For more information regarding the scheduled screenings and workshops, please contact 203-432-3428 or anne.letterman@yale.edu

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

Deafness in a Civil Japan: Contesting Abilities for a New Minority Social Framework

Dr. Karen Nakamura, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Macalester College

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

12:00 PM

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

Feminism as Chronology: Japanese Women Making History

Dr. Tomomi Yamaguchi, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago

Room 1, Anthropology, 158 Whitney Avenue (please note entrance is through the parking lot on Sachem)

12:00 PM

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

The Buraku Issue and the Re-articulation of Race, Nation, and Rights in Japan

Dr. John H. Davis, Jr., Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University

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

4:30 PM

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

Picturing Foreigners in a Domestic Context: Ethnical Interactions in Medieval
Chinese Art

Ning Qiang, Assistant Professor, History of Art, University of Michigan

Room 200, Old Art Gallery Building, 56 High Street

4:00 PM

The Council on East Asian Studies and the South Asian Studies Council at Yale University are pleased to present a Workshop on East Asian Religions

MANIPULATING MAGIC: SAGES, SORCERERS,
AND SCHOLARS

KEYNOTE LECTURE - APRIL 15, 2005
4:00 PM, Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

"The Life and Travels of a Sanskrit Verse, or: Why We are All in the Same Room Today"

Gregory Schopen (University of California - Los Angeles)

PARTICIPANTS ALSO INCLUDE

James Benn (Arizona State University)
Daniela Berti (CNRS, Paris)
William Bodiford (University of California - Los Angeles)
Robert Brown (University of California - Los Angeles)
Jinhua Chen (University of British Columbia)
Bernard Faure (Stanford University)
Robert Gimello (Harvard University)
Phyllis Granoff (Yale University)
Paul Groner (University of Virginia)
Valerie Hansen (Yale University)
Stanley Insler (Yale University)
Edward Kamens (Yale University)
Donald Lopez (University of Michigan)
Donald McCallum (University of California - Los Angeles)
D. Moerman (Barnard College)
James Robson (University of Michigan)
Robert Sharf (University of California - Berkeley)
Koichi Shinohara (Yale University)
Jacqueline Stone (Princeton University)
Gilles Tarabout (CNRS, Paris)
Stephen Teiser (Princeton University)
Eugene Wang (Harvard University)
Stanley Weinstein (Yale University)
Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (Yale University)

For a complete schedule of events, please CLICK HERE.

Henry R. Luce Hall,
34 Hillhouse Avenue

CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University is honored to welcome to campus

Dr. Lee Chack Fan, Pro-Vice Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong and 2004-2005 Hong Kong Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer

to present a special lecture

"Meeting Rising Community Expectations: From Landslide Prevention to Habour Enhancement in Hong Kong"

This lecture will describe the efforts that have been made in Hong Kong to satisfy community concerns regarding development of reclaimed land around Victoria Harbour. Dr. Lee's comments will highlight the use of environmentally friendly approaches to reclamation and slope preservation as well as coordination between the government and local residents.

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

4:00 PM

Apr. 22-23

The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University is pleased to be sponsoring

Japanese Art Since 1945: The First PoNJA-GenKon Symposium

For more information, please contact Ryan Holmberg at ryan.holmberg@yale.edu

CLICK HERE for a schedule of the symposium.

To view the abstracts for all symposium participants, please CLICK HERE.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Please contact 203-432-3428 or anne.letterman@yale.edu
by Friday, April 15, 2005 to REGISTER for this event and provide your name, institutional affiliation, title, mailing address, telephone, fax, and email.

Henry R. Luce Hall,
34 Hillhouse Avenue

NEW EVENT!

The Council on East Asian Studies is pleased to present two special lectures on Eastern Han Dynasty Pictorial Art

"The 'Homage Scene,' The Position of the Tree, and Other Related Iconographies in Han Pictorial Carving"

Jiang Yingju, Shandong Stone Inscriptions Art Museum, Ji'nan, People's Republic of China

and

"The Audiences and 'Others' of Eastern Han Funerary Art"

Zheng Yan, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing,
People's Republic of China

Please note these lectures will be given IN CHINESE.

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

4:00 PM

James Millward, Associate Professor of History, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University - "Chinese Turkistan: Historical Perspectives on Xinjiang Today"

Xinjiang today is the focus of major development efforts, a source of gas and oil for the industries of eastern China, and the gateway to vigorous Chinese economic and diplomatic initiatives in Central Asia. It is also a locus of concern over separatist and terrorist activity, and a region where ambitious plans run up against stark environmental restraints. While some of these issues are new, many are not: the questions of Xinjiang's commercial promise, agricultural development, ecological carrying capacity, ethnic character and, in general, the degree to which it is integration to China as a whole, have troubled rulers in China since the eighteenth century and before. This illustrated talk will explore these themes and their historical roots.

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

4:00 PM

Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto, Department of East Asian Studies- "Being a Part of and Apart from the Complex: Goto Meisei's Warped Space and Incidentality of Belonging"

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

5:00 PM

Hua Ming, Nanjing Normal University- "The Avant-Garde in Western Films and Chinese Art"

Please note this lecture will be given in Chinese.

German abstract films and American underground films are among the two most important schools of twentieth-century Western avant-garde cinema to emerge since the 1920s. In German abstract cinema, Viking Eggeling and Hans Richter's works have been directly inspired by Chinese art. Meanwhile, Maya Deren has been praised as "the mother of American underground cinema," with her film Meditation on Violence advancing the artistic expression of martial arts. The works of these filmmakers embody Chinese culture, particularly Daoist thought.

Room 312,
Hall of Graduate Studies,
320 York Street

4:00 PM

Michael Bourdaghs, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California-Los Angeles - "The Music Will Set You Free: Kasagi Shizuko, Kurosawa Akira, and the Problem of Liberation in Early Postwar Japan"

Room 312,
Hall of Graduate Studies,
320 York Street

5:00 PM

Nancy Steinhardt, Professor of East Asian Art, University of Pennsylvania - "Seeing Horyuji through Chinese Eyes"

The ten oldest wooden buildings in East Asia are in Japan, four of them at the monastery Horyuji. Less well-known and less well-documented than Japan's buildings of the sixth and seventh centuries are China's ten earliest wooden buildings, dated late eighth to early tenth century. Even less is known about Korea's first centuries of Buddhist architecture. This talk explores extant architecture, archaeological evidence, and literary descriptions to determine what we really know about the first centuries of Buddhist architecture in East Asia and if longstanding notions of its major monuments such as Horyuji are valid.

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

12:00 PM

Larry Kominz, Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Portland State University - "Yet Another Mishima Identity: Comic Playwright Extraordinaire"

Room 312,
Hall of Graduate Studies,
320 York Street

5:00 PM

EVENT CANCELLED!

Christine Wong, Henry M. Jackson Professor of International Studies, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of Washington - "Can China Change Development Paradigm for the 21st Century? Fiscal Policy Options for Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao after Two Decades of Muddling Through"

Lei Guang, Department of Political Science, San Diego State University - "The Politics of Labor Market (Trans)formation in Reform-Era China"

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

4:00 PM

Liu Dong, Institute of Comparative Literature & Culture, Peking University - "Story of Black Days: Underground Manuscript Writings from the Cultural Revolution"

Please note this lecture will be in Chinese with English translation provided.

Room 312,
Hall of Graduate Studies,
320 York Street

4:00 PM

UPDATE - EVENT CANCELLED!

Li Tsung-Kun, Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan -"The Numerical Diagrams and the Diagram of I-Ching (Book of Changes)"

The recent discovery of various numerical diagrams in the Chu, Qin and Han bamboo slips have greatly generated scholarly attention on their relationship with the diagram used in the Book of Changes. Zhang Zhenglang, for example, established his hypothesis that the numerical diagrams should have been the origin from which the diagram in the Book of Changes derived. Based on the Chu bamboo slips unearthed from Baoshan and Geling, however, this talk is intended to provide a counterargument. It will prove that the numerical diagrams and the diagram in the Book of Changes actually came from two distinct traditions.

Event Cancelled

Room 217A,
Hall of Graduate Studies,
320 York Street

4:30 PM

Feb. 10

Burglind Jungmann, Professor of Korean Art and Visual Culture, University of California-Los Angeles and Curator of Korean Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art -"Documentary Record versus Decorative Representation: A Queen's Birthday Celebration at the Korean Court"

Room 220A, Hall of Graduate Studies,
320 York Street

4:00 PM

Namhee Lee, Assistant Professor Modern Korea History, University of California-Los Angeles - "The Subject as the Subjected: Intellectuals and Workers in Labor Literature (Nodong Sosol) of South Korea"

This paper explores the literary representation of intellectuals and workers in prose fiction written by labor activists in the late 1980s and early 1990s in South Korea. Written and published at the onset of the demise of the minjung project as a vibrant social and political movement, these novels by and large reflect on the intellectuals' relationship with workers in what is known as the "worker-intellectual alliance" of the 1980s. The paper argues that these novels also function as "revolutionary words," calling into existence the subjecthood of working class as a transparent reflection of a reality that speaks for itself.

Room 312,
Hall of Graduate Studies,
320 York Street

4:00 PM

Janet Poole, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, New York University -"Detailing the Everyday in Late Colonial Korea"

In Korea, the late 1930s saw the entrance of the detail into fiction with a new force and proliferation that provoked much controversy amongst intellectuals at the time. The coincidence of this proliferating detail with the intensification of Japanese colonial assimilation policies raised suspicions that the two were somehow complicit, and heralded a breakdown of revolutionary aspirations. This talk will center on the question of detail and description, asking what it means when the detail enters narrative at particular historical moments.

Room 312,
Hall of Graduate Studies,
320 York Street

4:00 PM

Room 217A,
Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street

4:00 PM

"Nationalism, Regional Studies and Textbooks: Where Is Tibet in the Academy (or Is Tibet Part of China)?" - Dr. Gray Tuttle

Saybrook College, Master's House, 90 High Street

6:30 PM

"The Allure of Dystopia in Recent Japanese Fiction and Popular Culture" - Dr. William Burton

Saybrook College, Master's House, 90 High Street

6:30 PM

"Enslaved by History: Historicizing Korean Slavery" - Dr. Joy Kim

Saybrook College, Master's House, 90 High Street

6:30 PM

EVENT CANCELLED - WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR FALL 2005!

"Ethnic Insurgency in Southwest Guizhou: Indigenous and Imperial Views of the Nanlong Uprising of 1797"

a special presentation by Jodi Weinstein, History Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University

Event Cancelled

Spring 2005 Japan Film Series

FANTASTIC REALMS OF
JAPANESE CINEMA

Organized in conjunction with EAST 401b and JAPN 210b

ALL SCREENINGS BEGIN AT 6:00 PM
AND HAVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

For more information regarding this film series,
please contact 203-432-3428 or anne.letterman@yale.edu

Wednesday, January 19

Afterlife (Wandafuru raifu)
Directed by Kore'eda Hirokazu (1998, 118 minutes, English subtitles)
A touching and thought-provoking exploration of the concept of life after death.

Wednesday, February 2

To Die in the Country (Den’en ni shisu)
Directed by Terayama Shuji (1974, 104 minutes, English subtitles)
Playwright Terayama Shuji's psychedelic masterpiece set in a dreamlike rural Japan.

Wednesday, February 16

Spiral (Uzumaki)
Directed by Higuchinsky (2000, 104 minutes, English subtitles)
Based on the manga by Itô Junji about a small town obsessed with spirals.

Wednesday, March 2

The Sinners of Hell (Jigoku)
Directed by Nakagawa Nobuo (1960, 101 minutes, English subtitles)
A cult classic of Japanese horror movies, set in that most horrible of places.

SPECIAL JAPAN FILM SCREENINGS
Aoyama Shinji Visit Pre-Events

Japanese film director Aoyama Shinji will be visiting Yale in April 2005.

In preparation of this important visit, the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University
is pleased to present special screenings of films by his favorite filmmakers.

Prints courtesy of The Japan Foundation

ALL SCREENINGS BEGIN AT 7:00 PM
AND HAVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street

Friday, February 11

Our Blood Will Not Forgive (Oretachi no chi ga yurusanai)
Directed by Suzuki Seijun (Nikkatsu, 1964, 97 minutes, 35 mm, English subtitles)

A wonderfully eccentric gangster action movie from the master director of Tokyo Drifter.

For more information about the director and film, please CLICK HERE.

Friday, February 25

Twisted Path of Love (Koibitotachi wa nureta)
Directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro (Nikkatsu, 1973, 76 minutes, 35 mm, English subtitles)

FOR ADULTS ONLY: A "Roman Porno" film about sex, violence, and cinema by one of Japan's most celebrated filmmakers of the 1970s.

For more information about the director and film, please CLICK HERE.