April 26, 2013
CCS Faculty Associates in the News - updated April 2013
Brian Wu
Assistant Professor of Strategy
U-M Ross School of Business
China's economy: Perverse advantage
The Economist
04/27/2013
Doing business in China: Being efficient isn't enough
William Foreman, Global Michigan
04/09/2013
Linda Lim
Professor of Strategy
U-M Ross School of Business
How land and people fit in Singapore’s economy
Yahoo! Singapore
02/21/2013
New Chinese President Faces Looming Economic Decisions
News & Media, U-M Ross School of Business
12/12/2012
Mary Gallagher
CCS Director
Associate Professor of Political Science
Chinese Graduates Say No Thanks to Factory Jobs
Keith Bradsher, The New York Times
01/24/2013
A roundup of all of Mary Gallagher's recent comments on Chinese labor politics
Nico Howson
Professor of Law
U-M Law School
Family of Chinese Regulator Profits in Insurance Firm’s Rise
by David Barboza, The New York Times
12/30/2012
A murder and confession leave questions in China
by Gillian Wong, The Associated Press
08/14/2012
Bright Sheng
Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Composition
U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Bright's country
by Kelly Chung Dawson, The China Daily
11/09/2012
Xiaobing Tang
Professor of Comparative Literature, Helmut F. Stern Professor of Modern Chinese Studies
U-M College of Literature, Science & the Arts
China Celebrates Author Mo Yan’s Nobel
by Austin Ramzy, Time Magazine
10/11/2012
Yu Xie
Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor of Sociology and Statistics
U-M College of Literature, Science & the Arts
How Asians displaced Hispanics as biggest group of new US immigrants
by Mark Guarino, The Christian Science Monitor
06/19/2012
Posted by zzhu at 04:05 PM
April 19, 2013
The best of Winter 2013!
CCS/UM-China in the spotlight:
1. We are at 928 now, but it was exciting to reach the symbolic milestone of 888 posts of the CCS blog. We also invite you to like the Center for Chinese Studies on Facebook.
2. The University of Michigan is recognized for its growing presence on Sina Weibo (新浪微博), the popular Chinese social networking Web site. The University also celebrated the beginning of the Year of Snake with an official greeting.
3. Hot off the (virtual) presses - CCS alumni's writing on key issues of Chinese society! Damien Ma (CCS MA '06) and colleague offer up a meticulous assessment of the prospect for reform. David Shambaugh (PhD ’89) joins the discussion on "Why Chinese soft power is such a hard sell." And David Caragliano (JD/CCS MA '09) explains "Why China's 'real name' Internet policy doesn't work."
4. CCS faculty associates are trusted voices on contemporary China. Xun (Brian) Wu is featured on Global Michigan for his research finding that efficiency and innovation are not enough for business success in China, which he also presented in his April 2, 2013 CCS Noon Lecture entitled "Institutional Barriers and Industry Dynamics." CCS director and professor of political science Mary Gallagher gives her take on why Chinese graduates are turning down factory jobs. And Nicholas Howson, Professor of Law, discusses allegations surrounding highly profitable transactions made by relatives of a top Chinese insurance regulator
We love our collaborators!
5. CCS center associate Yi-Li Wu shares her lovely, insightful observations from the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting.
6. We once again have the pleasure of showcasing savvy writing on China from Asia Healthcare Blog, this time addressing questions such as what is "Chinese" about a Chinese hospital and how socioeconomic status affects health in China.
Many more opportunities still up for grabs!
7. The Congressional-Executive Commission on China is looking to hire a professional staff member in the area of commercial rule of law. Application deadline is April 22, 2013.
8. Call for Papers: The Eighth Annual Conference of the Consortium for Western China Development Studies - abstracts are accepted through April 30.
9. Victoria Cruises Inc. seeks to hire a Yangtze River cruise director.
10. Application to attend the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford University is now available online; applications can be submitted through May 1.
THANK YOU!
Posted by zzhu at 11:28 AM
April 18, 2013
Recent media contributions by CCS alumni - updated April 2013
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Damien Ma (MA '06)
Fellow, Paulson Institute
The Rise of China's Reformers?
Why Economic Change Could Come Sooner Than You Think
by Evan A. Feigenbaum and Damien Ma
Foreign Affairs
04/17/2013
On China's political transition, October 2012
Damien Ma's other articles on China
in The Atlantic
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David Caragliano (JD/CCS MA '09)
Lawyer and international development professional
Why China's 'Real Name' Internet Policy Doesn't Work
The Atlantic
03/26/2013
China to Web Users: Great Firewall? Just Be Glad We're Not North Korea
The Atlantic
01/14/2013
Is China Really the 80th-Most-Corrupt Country on Earth?
The Atlantic
12/12/2012
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David Shambaugh (PhD '89, Political Science)
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
David Shambaugh's response to the question "Why Is Chinese Soft Power Such a Hard Sell?"
A ChinaFile conversation
April 11, 2013
David Shambaugh Assesses China, the "Partial Power," at Asia Society, February 27, 2013
Posted by zzhu at 04:38 PM
Cruise Director - Yangtze River, China
Job Description:
Established New York-based river cruise line operating on the Yangtze River in China seeks a cruise host for a diverse international clientele.
You will serve as a liaison between passengers and local staff, handle passenger questions and concerns, coordinate excursions and on board programs.
Requirements:
Must be service-oriented, energetic, speak well and have excellent interpersonal skills.
Hospitality experience (knowledge of food & beverage and housekeeping operations), musical talent and language ability helpful (German, French, Chinese).
College degree required (2 years or above).
A great opportunity and rewarding position for the right candidate.
We will assist to obtain working documentation after arrival in China.
http://www.hcareers.com/seeker/search/view?jobAdId=38860
Posted by zzhu at 04:17 PM
Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford
Are you interested in …
TRAVEL to Stanford and Beijing on a scholarship?
INTERACT with famous scholars, politicians, and CEOs?
MEET distinguished future leaders from U.S. and China?
BECOME part of a prestigious worldwide student network?
INFLUENCE the future of U.S.-China relations?
Then apply to be a delegate of FACES "On Common Ground" Conference 2013!
Application online now at http://faces.stanford.edu/
Deadline: May 1st, 2013, 11:59pm
Email: faces.recruiting[at]gmail[dot]com
Posted by zzhu at 04:14 PM
April 11, 2013
Winter 2013 CCS Noon Lecture Series - Volker Scheid
Volker Scheid
Professor of East Asian Medicines, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, UK
Chinese Medicine for Global Ills? The History of Yu and its Significance in the Treatment of Depression
April 16, 2013
Tuesday 12 noon to 1:00 pm
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
1080 South University
Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies and by the American Council of Learned Societies/Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures as a part of the series "Global and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Chinese Medicine."
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Posted by zzhu at 05:12 PM
April 10, 2013
Employment Announcement from the Congressional-Executive Commission on China
CECC Employment Announcement - Professional Staff Member - Commercial Rule of Law
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China is a bipartisan commission created by Congress in 2000 to monitor and report on human rights and rule of law developments in China. The Commission consists of Senators, Members of the House of Representatives, and senior officials from the Administration. The Commission holds hearings, issues an Annual Report, and maintains a database of political prisoners in China, among other activities. For more information on the Commission, see www.cecc.gov.
The Commission is seeking a professional staff member to assist in monitoring and reporting on substantive issues pertaining to the commercial rule of law portfolio. The professional staff member will assist in assessing China's compliance or noncompliance with international human rights standards and Chinese domestic law. Successful candidates should have substantive background and/or an interest in one or more of these issue areas. Successful candidates should also possess the necessary Chinese language, English writing, and communication skills to effectively research, analyze, and explain such developments to U.S. policymakers and the broader public.
Main duties:
- Monitoring and researching Chinese and English language sources (media, government, NGO) for developments relating to their issue area.
- Identifying and analyzing key developments and reporting their significance orally and in writing, including through drafting sections of the Commission's Annual Reports, short analysis pieces, public statements, and press releases.
- Researching political prisoner cases and creating and maintaining case records in the CECC Political Prisoner Database.
- Assisting in organizing CECC public hearings and roundtables.
- Staff member also may be asked to travel to U.S. cities, China, or other foreign locations on official business.
Qualifications:
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen.
- Very strong demonstrated ability to speak, read, write, and perform research in Chinese (Mandarin) is required.
- The successful candidate will likely have worked or studied in mainland China, Taiwan, or Hong Kong.
- Candidates will preferably have a law degree or a Ph.D. or M.A. in political science, history, business, economics, or other social sciences. B.A. candidates with very strong credentials will also be considered.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, and the interpersonal skills and enthusiasm to work under tight deadlines and as part of a team.
Continue reading "Employment Announcement from the Congressional-Executive Commission on China"
Posted by zzhu at 02:26 PM
April 03, 2013
Winter 2013 CCS Noon Lecture Series - Ming Xu
Ming Xu
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Resources and the Environment
University of Michigan
China’s Exports and Global CO2 Emissions
April 9, 2013
Tuesday 12 noon to 1:00 pm
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
1080 South University
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Posted by zzhu at 05:16 PM
April 02, 2013
Confucius Institute Lecture - Beauty in Jingju (Beijing Opera): Four Character Types and Performing Techniques
by TU Linghui, Professor of the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts in Beijing
Date: April 05, 2013
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Location: Pendleton Room, Michigan Union
In the first half of the lecture-demonstration, Linghui Tu will elaborate on and demonstrate the general understanding of the basic elements of the four major character types in Beijing Opera--sheng (males), dan (females), jing (exaggerated males), and chou (clown). In the second half of the lecture-demonstration, she will showcase some of the performing techniques in Beijing Opera, such as singing, stage speech, symbolic movement, and stage combat. There will be time for interaction with the students and for Q&A.
Posted by zzhu at 05:26 PM
Harvard University College Fellow Applications Sought, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, AY 2013-2014
Harvard’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations is seeking applications for a College Fellow in the study of Chinese social, economic, or cultural history of the Tang through Ming periods. Teaching duties will include two undergraduate courses and a graduate seminar. Twenty-five percent of the appointment is reserved for the Fellow’s own research. The Fellow may also advise and evaluate senior theses. Candidates are required to have a Ph.D. or an equivalent terminal degree by the expected start date. The appointment is for one year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year. Detailed information and a link to the online application are available at www.fas.harvard.edu/~facaff/cfp/ . Complete applications, including letters of reference, must be submitted by April 15, 2013.
Harvard is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Applications from women and minorities are strongly encouraged.
Posted by zzhu at 04:40 PM
The Red Silk Thread
Dates: April 11, 2013 @7:30pm; April 12, 2013 @8pm
Location: Stamps Auditorium Walgreen Drama Center, 1226 Murfin
The premiere of an opera by Stella Sung, with libretto by Ernest Hilbert. The opera is based on stories of Marco Polo at the court of Kublai Khan. Directed by Robert Swedberg; Kathryn Goodson, Music Director; Yaniv Segal, Conductor. Presented as a Green Opera production in collaboration with the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan. There will be a pre-concert lecture entitled "This Is Our Tradition: The Transformative Roles of Traditional Music in Post-Socialist Mongolia" by Professor Peter Marsh at 4:30-6 pm on April 11 at Stamps Auditorium. Free admissions.
Posted by zzhu at 02:34 PM
Confucius Institute Lecture - This Is Our Tradition: The Transformative Roles of Traditional Music in Post-Socialist Mongolia
by Peter Marsh, Department of Music, California State University, East Bay
Date: April 11, 2013
Time: 4:30 - 6 pm
Location: Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center, 1226 Murfin
Description:
The subject of traditional music has had a surprisingly important place in nationwide "discussions" about the present place of indigenous traditions and culture in contemporary Mongolia, which have often played out on the public stages and in the national media. This presentation will explore several examples of the arguments musicians and cultural officials have made for the transformative role of traditional music in helping Mongolians understand and confront crucial problems they as a nation face in contemporary, post-socialist Mongolia.
This is the pre-concert lecture for the Opera Studio presentation of The Red Silk Thread.
Biography:
Dr. Peter K. Marsh is an ethnomusicologist and music historian who specializes in the music and culture of Mongolia and Inner Asia. He has written extensively on issues related to musical tradition and modernity in Mongolia. His latest book, The Horse-head Fiddle and the Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia, Current Issues in Ethnomusicology Series (2009) examines the development of two-string folk fiddles and their "folklorization" in Mongolia in the past century. He is currently Assistant Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at California State University, East Bay.
Posted by zzhu at 02:32 PM
March 28, 2013
Checking in with our fabulous partner, Asia Healthcare Blog!
1) An interview with hospital historian Michelle Renshaw, Part I: adapting to Chinese expectations of hospital care, by Damjan DeNoble (CCS MA/JD student)
Michelle Renshaw is the author of Accommodating the Chinese: The American Hospital in China, 1880-1920, a history of American medical missionary involvement with China, from the latter half of the 19th century through to the late Republican period of the early 20th century. The book, as we have mentioned before, is a must read for those wishing to understand China’s current medical system, and even more so for those interested in Chinese hospital. This is part one of a two part extensive and fascinating interview with Michelle. Here we cover the theme, "What is 'Chinese' about a Chinese hospital?".
2) Interview with Michelle Renshaw Part II: In China, Distinguish "Private" from "Market Driven" health care, by Damjan DeNoble (CCS MA/JD student)
Part 2 of the above interview. Here we get Michelle's thoughts on the current state of China's healthcare reforms.
3) China Health Care: The Link Between Income and Health, by Bradley Hoath (CCS MA/MPH student)
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending University of Michigan’s Center for Chinese Studied Noon Lecture Series. Dr. Jersey Liang, Professor of Health Management and Policy at the School of Public Health and Research Professor at the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan, delivered a lecture entitled “Socioeconomic Status and Physical Performance among Older Adults in China.” This piece reflects on Dr. Liang's work, and presents some of my own thoughts on how socioeconomic status affects health in China.
Posted by zzhu at 10:32 PM
March 26, 2013
Yi-Li Wu's AAS guest blog
Yi-Li Wu, Research Fellow at EASTmedicine Research Centre, University of Westminster, visiting scholar at the U-M Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, and CCS center associate, shares her experience from the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in San Diego, California. We're grateful to Professor Wu for her insightful and lively observations and for her time!
Blogging the AAS: Scenes from a meeting
The AAS annual meeting officially runs from March 21-24, but the e-mails and Facebook posts start much earlier: “Who’s going to AAS? Are you presenting? Can’t wait to see you!” For those of us whose professional lives revolve around the study of Asia, the AAS conference is our spring carnival, promising more intellectual delights than anyone could possibly enjoy in a single weekend: formal panels on myriad topics both well-established and avant-garde, distinguished plenary speakers, film screenings. The books in the exhibit hall will sing their siren song: “Surely you have enough room left on your shelves for me!”
But for me, the beating heart of the conference has always been the meetings, planned and serendipitous, with old colleagues and soon-to-be friends. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently announced—to some controversy—that Yahoo employees will no longer be allowed to telecommute and must henceforth work in the office. As she pointed out, “Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people, and impromptu team meetings.” For the Asian studies community, usually separated by geography, departmental disciplines, or region of study, tele-collaboration is the norm and we are fabulously good at it. But once a year, we get to gather at that office known as the “AAS Annual Meeting,” and the conference hotel transforms into one giant hallway-cum-water cooler…
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Thursday morning. En route. Flight 833 from Detroit to San Diego looks like a mini AAS, as I see one after another of my Asian studies colleagues from UM board the plane. For a moment, I think rather ghoulishly of flights that crash with entire sports teams aboard. Soon, though, we are touching down in sunny San Diego. I grab a cab with some friends, and we are whisked quickly along the harbor road and delivered to the vast lobby of the Manchester Grand Hyatt. Over the next few days, I find myself wondering whether the Hyatt employees are all taking happy pills. From the maids to the concierge, everyone seems delighted to answer my most trivial questions (“how do I get over to the other tower”?) But perhaps the San Diego waterfront is its own happy pill. Whether checking e-mail in my hotel room or rushing from meeting room to meeting room, I need only look up to see sunshine, sea, and boats. After a long Michigan winter that seems intent on colonizing spring, I revel in walking to dinner without a coat.
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Editorial meeting of the Journal of Asian Studies. I am one of four book review editors responsible for works on China, and this meeting is my window onto the AAS infrastructure. The AAS executive board and regional councils have already held their own meetings, and we hear about the discussions related to the Journal’s operations. While our own meeting nominally focuses on editorial matters, these also address concerns shared by all AAS units: how do we best serve the widely-ranging AAS constituency and promote adequate representation of different regions and disciplines? How can we make our members’ expertise valuable and relevant to an audience of policy makers and non-academics? How might we employ social media and other technology to further these goals?
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“I’m sorry to bring this love-fest to a close,” the panel organizer announces, “but we have to get started now.” He isn’t being entirely facetious. Meeting room Windsor B overflows with hugs, smiles, and laughter as the East Asian medical studies community (including me) catches up at the beginning of Panel 62: “Beyond the Classics: The Diversity of Health Care in Chinese History.” Our delight at seeing each other is intensified by the giddy awareness of how quickly our field has grown over the past two decades. The room is packed with scholars at all stages of their careers, from new graduate students to founding father Nathan Sivin, professor emeritus, who will be chairing the session.
Throughout the weekend, I see numerous other examples of fields of study in the process of expanding and consolidating. I have coffee with a long-time friend, one of the co-editors of the newly-published Sources of Vietnamese Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2012), and congratulate him on producing a work that will stimulate new forms of pedagogy and outreach, thus laying the foundation for future scholarly careers. At the awards ceremony, I watch Jacob Dalton receive the inaugural E. Gene Smith Prize from the Inner Asia Council for his study of Tibetan Buddhism. Although I am already familiar with the story of E. Gene Smith’s quest to save Tibet’s textual heritage, it chokes me up to hear it again. How many of us can even imagine having such an impact on humanity?
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Dalton’s book also receives the Bernard S. Cohn Prize from the South Asia Council, a testament not just to his scholarship, but also to the immensely fluid, contested, and contingent nature of the geographical labels that we use to conceptualize that thing we call “Asia.” For some time now, the annual AAS call for papers has encouraged attendees to organize “border crossing” panels. This year, I count a hundred panels that have been organized in that spirit, presenting cross-cultural and transnational perspectives on specific historical and contemporary themes. I have never been good at panel hopping, so I invest myself in a session on “Queering East and South Asian Pasts” and another on the different uses of a famous Han-dynasty medical text in Korea, Japan, and China.
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Saturday mid-morning. My panel. The room is packed. All the panelists keep to the time limit. All get good questions. Who could ask for anything more?
Continue reading "Yi-Li Wu's AAS guest blog"
Posted by zzhu at 03:20 PM
March 25, 2013
依法行政? - Administration According to Law and China's Rule of Law Ambition
Professor Nicholas C. Howson
4:15 p.m., Monday, April 1, 2013
Room 236 Hutchins Hall
Posted by zzhu at 05:31 PM
Call for Papers: The Eighth Annual Conference of the Consortium for Western China Development Studies
July 5 - 6, 2013
Chengdu, China
Since its establishment in 2004, the Consortium for Western China Development Studies has organized seven conferences on the various themes of western China development. The first conference was held in 2004 in Chengdu on topic of "Towards a New Paradigm for Developing Western China: Meeting the Challenges of Sustainable Development and Globalization." In 2005, the second conference was held in Yinchuan with the title of "Rural and Sustainable Development in West China." 2006 saw the 3rd conference in Chengdu, focusing on the topic of "Anti-Poverty and Regional Cooperation." The conference of 2007 (Guiyang) was framed around the topic of “poverty - stricken and the construction of harmonious society.” The conference of 2008 was organized in Xian on the theme of "Assessment of Western China Development and Future Prospects." In 2009, the conference was held in Lanzhou, titled as "West China Conference: The Retrospect and Prospects of West China Development." The conference of 2010 in Chengdu was about "China Regional Development Model: Ten Years of Western China Development." The conferences have received great support from the Office of Western China Development and some other government agencies. The conference has become one of the important platforms for the international exchanges and collaborations on western China studies.
Sichuan University, jointly with the Consortium for Western China Development Studies and the Western China Development Committee of the China Association of Regional Science, will co-organize the the 8th Annual Conference of the Consortium for Western China Development Studies in Chengdu, China from July 5-6, 2013. The conference is co-sponsored by the Chinese Economists Society. We expect that about 100-200 participants from universities, research institutions, government agencies and business sectors within and outside of China will attend this conference. Many well-known economists from China, the U.S., Europe and other countries have been invited to participate. The conference is expected (1) to serve as a platform for scholars and government officials to exchange their research and development plans on Western China; (2) to submit policy recommendations on under-developed regions to the central government; and (3) to publish a conference proceedings from selected papers presented at the conference.
Theme and Topics:
The theme of conference: the vulnerability and sustainability of western China development
The conference themes will include, but not be limited to, the following topics:
1. The strategy and policy analysis of western China development
2. The vulnerability and strategies of western China development China
3. Social vulnerability and social control in western China
4. Ecological vulnerability and restoration in western China
5. Human resource in western China
6. Anti-poverty and global cooperation
Those who are interested in organizing special panels are encouraged.
Posted by zzhu at 05:27 PM
"Performing the Other: A Symposium on Cultural Exchanges Between China and Africa" - organized by the Confucius Institute
March 29-March 30, 2013
8:30am—10:00 pm
Location: Great Lakes Room and Forum Hall, Palmer Commons, 100 Washtenaw Ave.
The symposium brings African, American and Chinese performers and scholars to Ann Arbor, where they will discuss their experiences and interpretations about Africa-China relationships as manifested through various art forms; it seeks to highlight Africa’s and China’s artistic responses to all levels of interactions between African countries and China. The symposium begins at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, March 29, with the opening remarks at 9:30 a.m., with an evening performance workshop at 8:00 p.m. The symposium begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 30, 2013, with an 8:00 p.m. performance. All events will be held at Palmer Commons.
More information can be found at confucius.umich.edu.
Posted by zzhu at 05:20 PM
The New American Museum: How We're Reinventing the Big Box with Sacred Stuff
Presenter: Jack Tchen, New York University and Museum of Chinese in America
Date: Thursday, April 4, 2013
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: East Conference Room, Horace H. Rackham Building, 915 E. Washington St.
The old exhibitionary big box with grand entryways holding sacred objects and treasures still premised on a top down hierarchy of “deciders,” has run its course. They are energy sucking monsters limping along the landscape trying desperately to find young people and new migrants with money. Booming parts of the world rush to build new monstrosities mistakenly believing it will buy them distinction, cultural capital, and authority. It’s an exhausted part of the highbrow cultural complex forever striving to emulate European aristocratic culture. Yet expectations today stay fixated on that old big box. By doing so, we’re missing the emergence of what will become the new American museum, a decolonized augmented chronotopic experience of folded time/spaces — a way to resituate and revivify place in the retelling of our collective futures. This presentation will sketch out the contours of how diverse emergent practices are actually the formation of the new American museological practice — immanent, dynamic, and yet to take formal shape.
Part of the U-M Museum Studies Program's "Museum Voices: Representing Race/Presenting Identities" Winter event series.
Posted by zzhu at 05:15 PM
Winter 2013 CCS Noon Lecture Series - Xun (Brian) Wu
Xun (Brian) Wu
Assistant Professor of Strategy
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Institutional Barriers and Industry Dynamics
April 2, 2013
Tuesday 12 noon to 1:00 pm
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
1080 South University
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Posted by zzhu at 05:06 PM
March 21, 2013
Special Panel Discussion: What Keeps Chinese Officials in Check, If At All?
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
10am-11:30am (right before CCS Noon Lecture)
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
1080 South University
Description:
In a one-party regime where government officials are not elected to power, what keeps them in check, if at all? What are some alternative mechanisms of accountability besides elections and formal political competition? And how effective are they? This panel brings together three political scientists to discuss the function and limits of non-electoral mechanisms of checks and accountability in contemporary China. These include online activism, a ‘rule of mandates’ alternative to rule of law, and market-based media.
About the speakers:
Yuen Yuen Ang is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the developmental role of states in developing countries and strategies to build good governance under fiscal constraints. Her talk will compare the outcomes of “i-paid-a-bribe” – an online initiative for citizens to report petty bribe-giving – in India and China.
Mayling Birney is a Lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE) and a comparative political scientist with a special expertise in China. She is currently finishing a book about China’s distinctive form of authoritarian governing, in which she highlights its consequences for stability, justice, rule of law, and political reform. She will talk about how China’s use of a ‘rule of mandates’ (in place of a rule of law) helps it to achieve a few high priorities yet hinders it in achieving broader accountability and justice.
Daniela Stockmann is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University. Her research on political communication and public opinion in China has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Political Communication, and The China Quarterly, among others. Her book, Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China (Cambridge University Press, 2013), argues that market-based media provide regime stability rather than simply a democratizing force for change in one-party states. She will talk about the role of market-based media in fostering “responsive authoritarianism” in China.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies and the International Institute.
Posted by zzhu at 07:36 PM
Winter 2013 CCS Noon Lecture Series - Martin Dimitrov
Martin Dimitrov
Associate Professor of Political Science
Tulane University
State Capacity and the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Laws in China
March 26, 2013
Tuesday 12 noon to 1:00 pm
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
1080 South University
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Posted by zzhu at 07:05 PM
Winter 2013 CCS Chinese Documentary Film Series - The Transition Period (书记)
The film showing is FREE and open to the public.
Date: Saturday, March 23, 2013
Time: 7pm
Place: Angell Hall, Auditorium A
(enter via glass doors at fishbowl, off diag)
A film by Zhou Hao (周浩); China, 2009; 114 minutes (Mandarin and Henan Dialect with English subtitles)
Film trailer:
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Posted by zzhu at 07:00 PM
March 19, 2013
Congressional-Executive Commission on China job announcements
1. Professional Staff Members (2)
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China is a bipartisan commission created by Congress in 2000 to monitor and report on human rights and rule of law developments in China. The Commission consists of Senators, Members of the House of Representatives, and senior officials from the Administration. The Commission holds hearings, issues an Annual Report, and maintains a database of political prisoners in China, among other activities. For more information on the Commission, see www.cecc.gov.
The Commission is seeking professional staff members to assist in monitoring and reporting on substantive issues pertaining to the freedom of religion and criminal justice portfolios. The professional staff member will assist in assessing China's compliance or noncompliance with international human rights standards and Chinese domestic law. Successful candidates should have substantive background and/or an interest in one or more of these issue areas. Successful candidates should also possess the necessary Chinese language, English writing, and communication skills to effectively research, analyze, and explain such developments to U.S. policymakers and the broader public.
Main duties:
• Monitoring and researching Chinese and English language sources (media, government, NGO) for developments relating to their issue area.
• Identifying and analyzing key developments and reporting their significance orally and in writing, including through drafting sections of the Commission's Annual Reports, short analysis pieces, public statements, and press releases.
• Researching political prisoner cases and creating and maintaining case records in the CECC Political Prisoner Database.
• Assisting in organizing CECC public hearings and roundtables.
• Staff member also may be asked to travel to U.S. cities, China, or other foreign locations on official business.
Qualifications:
• Candidates must be a U.S. citizen.
• Very strong demonstrated ability to speak, read, write, and perform research in Chinese (Mandarin) is required.
• The successful candidate will likely have worked or studied in mainland China, Taiwan, or Hong Kong.
• Candidates will preferably have a law degree or a Ph.D. or M.A. in political science, history, business, economics, or other social sciences. B.A. candidates with very strong credentials will also be considered.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, and the interpersonal skills and enthusiasm to work under tight deadlines and as part of a team.
Application Procedure:
• Please submit a brief cover letter, resume, short writing sample (5 pages or less), and the names and contact information for two references to Judy Wright, CECC Director of Administration, via e-mail at judy[dot]wright[at]mail[dot]house[dot]gov or via FAX at 202-226-2915. PLEASE NO PHONE CALLS. The deadline for applications is Monday, April 8, 2013, by 11:59 PM, EDT. Applications received after this deadline will not be considered.
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China is an equal opportunity employer.
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2. Communications Director
The Commission is seeking a communications director to be responsible for developing and implementing a communications and outreach strategy to increase the accessibility, visibility, and relevance of the Commission's work to key stakeholders, including Commissioners, Congress, the Executive Branch, media, non-governmental organizations, and the general public.
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Two Taiwanese documentary films at Michigan State U + Q&A with directors
Two Taiwanese documentary films will be presented at Michigan State University (East Lansing) during the first week of April, with directors in attendance for question and answer sessions after the films.
Film dialogues mostly in Mandarin Chinese. WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
April 1, Monday
Taiwanese woman filmmaker and visual anthropologist Tai-Li Hu 胡台麗 will present her latest documentary film “Returning Souls” 讓靈魂回家. Film screening will be preceded by a 9-minute violin performance by Joseph Lin (first violinist of the Julliard Quartet) of a piece by the film composer Shih-Hui Chen 陳士惠 (Rice University).
6:30 pm, Wells Hall B-Wing Lobby: Public reception (meet & greet the artists)
7:30 pm, B122 Wells Hall: Violin performance by Joseph Lin of music composed by Shih-Hui Chen, immediately followed by Tai-Li Hu’s documentary Returning Souls (2012, 85 min.)
9:30 pm: Q&A with director Hu and composer Chen
"Returning Souls" is part of the Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters Global Film Series 2013. For stills, trailers and synopsis, please search on Google or visit: http://chaocenter.rice.edu/returningsouls
April 4, Thursday, 6:00 pm, 103 Erickson Hall: Screening of "Money and Honey" 麵包情人 (2011, 96 min.) directed by Taiwanese documentarist Jasmine Lee Ching-hui 李靖惠. Lee will answer questions from the audience after the film.
The film includes documentary footage shot over 13 years in Taiwan and the Philippines. It presents the lives, relationships and hopes of Philippina migrants who work in Tawianese nursing homes. The film discusses globalization, the transnational movement of labor, and the changing concepts of "home" and the "family" due to people's increased mobility. For stills and trailers, please search on Google, or visit Lee's blog: http://moneyandhoney.pixnet.net/blog/category/63182
Questions about the MSU screenings may be addressed to tzelan[at]msu[dot]edu.
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March 18, 2013
China Entrepreneur Network: 2013 Entrepreneurial Case Competition
Overview:
This competition is meant to give students the opportunity to analyze a real-life business case and to recommend solutions to a panel of judges. In the process, we hope that the participants will gain a more profound knowledge of the business environment, while at the same time hone in on their analytical, problem-solving, and presentation skills.
The 2013 CEN Entrepreneurial Case Competition is divided into two days. The Workshop will be hosted on Friday, March 22 from 5PM-8PM. The Competition will be hosted on the following day Saturday, March 23 from 10AM-4PM.
Attendance for the Workshop is not mandatory to compete in the competition, however it is highly recommended that you attend the Workshop as we will go over the basics of case analyzing, special guest speaker, and the gain a competitive edge of obtaining the actual case at an earlier time.
Please click on flier to learn more and to register.
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March 13, 2013
Winter 2013 CCS Noon Lecture Series - Martin Powers
Roy Lichtenstein, Brushstroke, 1996, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution.
Martin Powers
Sally Michelson Davidson University Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures
University of Michigan
The Cultural Politics of the Brushstroke
March 19, 2013
Tuesday 12 noon to 1:00 pm
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
1080 South University
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March 12, 2013
Confucius Institute Lecture - Global Geography in Early Modern China (16th-17th Centuries): The Entry of Yaxiya/Asia
HE Yumin, Professor
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
University of California, Davis
Monday, March 18, 4pm-5:30pm
Vandenberg Room, Michigan League
The notion of "Asia"/"Yaxiya," which has now become a reflexive part of the way we imagine the landmasses of the globe, was introduced into the Chinese vocabulary by the Jesuits and their Chinese collaborators in the late sixteenth century. Taking the entry of Yaxiya/Asia into Chinese vocabulary as emblematic of the changing conceptual lenses through which the earth and the human realm became legible and organized for and by early modern Chinese as well as people in other regions of the world, this talk attempts to capture these changing terms and the historical experience of spatial cognition and imagination of this era.
Assistant professor at UC Davis, Yuming He received her B.A. and M.A. from Peking University, China, and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. She has held appointments at Reed College and the University of Chicago. Her research areas include late-imperial Chinese literature and culture, history of Chinese theater and performance, and Chinese book history.
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Confucius Institute presents "Beijing Drum Songs: Heroes and Heroines"
Saturday, March 16, 7 PM (Performance)
Rackham Auditorium
915 E. Washington
Free and open to the public
"Beijing Drum Songs" (Jingyun dagu) is a traditional genre of Chinese narrative singing, one that flourished in Beijing at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Sung by one singer who plays a flat drum, which is accompanied by an ensemble of pipa (four-string lute), sanxian (three-string lute), and sihu (four stringed fiddle), "Beijing Drum Songs" musically tell many stories from the Sanguo Yanyi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) and the Shuihuzhuan (All Men Are Brothers), portraying martial heroes, treacherous villains, and charming ladies. Currently, leading singers of "Beijing Drum Songs" are all female, and their performances musically underscore negotiations of gender relations in China. Ms. YANG Fengjie, the featured performer, is one of the most esteemed performers of the genre. The instrumentalists are members of the Tianjin Troupe of Narrative Songs.
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Confucius Institute presents a concert of Chinese art and folk songs
Saturday, March 16, 2013, 2 PM
Rackham Auditorium
915 E. Washington
Presenting a selection of Chinese art and folk songs, this concert features Chinese Conservatory of Music vocalists from Beijing and CIUM Singers from the University of Michigan. Their sharing of the stage celebrates not only their talents but also the partnership between their schools.
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Confucius Institute Lecture - Martial Arts and Arts of Explication: Jin Shengtan commentary to the Shuihu Zhuan
Friday, March 15, 4 - 5:30 pm (Lecture)
Pendleton Room, Michigan Union
Guest Speaker: Robert Ashmore, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley
This is a Pre-performance lecture for Beijing Drum Songs: Heroes and Heroines.
Nothing draws a crowd like a fight: among all the classics of large-scale narrative in late imperial China, the Shuihu Zhuan is likely the one that draws the greatest proportion of its allure from individual episodes where basic conflicts based on loyalty, revenge, or a sense of justice break out into kinetic scenes of spectacular and often virtuosic violence. It is no accident that the Shuihu heroes and their exploits were favorites not only for narrative elaboration on the page, but also particularly for reenactment on the stage. This presentation will explore the process whereby this intrinsically spectacular material, in its novelistic form, became canonized as a masterwork of writing in particular, worthy of a place alongside more austere and highbrow classics. The critical vocabulary, and the exegetical strategies, of the renowned commentator Jin Shengtan (1608-1661), provide an ideal window for us to begin examining these issues.
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March 11, 2013
Yunte Huang on "Listening to Marco Polo"
Please join the Reorientations Interest Group for
Yunte Huang
on
"Listening to Marco Polo"
a meditation on sound, money, travel, and translatability
Monday, March 18, 2013 @4 pm
3222 Angell Hall
Yunte Huang is Professor of English Literature at University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include Transpacific Displacement: Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature (2002);Transpacific Imaginations: History, Literature, Counterpoetics (2008); and Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History (2010).
The Reorientations Interest Group is dedicated to rethinking historical doxa along global, transnational and transpacific axes. Rather than taking reorientational logic as mere theme or historical fact, we seek to employ it as an analytical methodology and powerful critical theory. The group is a collaborative effort between graduate students and professors in the English, History, Comparative Literature, American Culture, Anthropology, East Asian Studies, and Political Science Departments at the University of Michigan,as well as the Confucius Institute and the Center for Chinese Studies. For questions or to join the e-mail list, please contact Nan Da (nda[at]umich[dot]edu) or Alice Tsay (atsay[at]umich[dot]edu).
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March 07, 2013
CCS Faculty Associates in the News - updated March 2013
Linda Lim
Professor of Strategy
U-M Ross School of Business
How land and people fit in Singapore’s economy
Yahoo! Singapore
02/21/2013
New Chinese President Faces Looming Economic Decisions
News & Media, U-M Ross School of Business
12/12/2012
Mary Gallagher
CCS Director
Associate Professor of Political Science
Chinese Graduates Say No Thanks to Factory Jobs
Keith Bradsher, The New York Times
01/24/2013
Communist Party holds key to prosperity in China
The Toledo Blade
02/19/2012
Room for Debate: How Can U.S. Scholars Resist China's Control?
The New York Times
09/01/2011
A roundup of all of Mary Gallagher's recent comments on Chinese labor politics
Nico Howson
Professor of Law
U-M Law School
Family of Chinese Regulator Profits in Insurance Firm’s Rise
by David Barboza, The New York Times
12/30/2012
A murder and confession leave questions in China
by Gillian Wong, The Associated Press
08/14/2012
Bo Suspended After Wife Suspected in British Man’s Murder
Bloomberg News
04/11/2012
Robert Adams
Assistant Professor of Architecture
Disability rights influence architecture professor
The University Record
04/02/2012
Donald Lopez
Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor and Department Chair
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, U-M College of Literature, Science and the Arts
A Tale of Two Scriptures: The American Book of Mormon and the Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Huffington Post
01/31/2012
Bright Sheng
Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Composition
U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Bright's country
by Kelly Chung Dawson, The China Daily
11/09/2012
Xiaobing Tang
Professor of Comparative Literature, Helmut F. Stern Professor of Modern Chinese Studies
U-M College of Literature, Science & the Arts
China Celebrates Author Mo Yan’s Nobel
by Austin Ramzy, Time Magazine
10/11/2012
Yu Xie
Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor of Sociology and Statistics
U-M College of Literature, Science & the Arts
How Asians displaced Hispanics as biggest group of new US immigrants
by Mark Guarino, The Christian Science Monitor
06/19/2012
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University of Michigan Alumni Leaders Event in Beijing, March 16, 2013
Date: Saturday, March 16, 2013 @8:00PM
Address: Havana Club, Grand Millennium Beiijing, Fortune Plaza 7 Dongsanhuan Zhonglu, Chaoyang District
Chinese Address: 朝阳区东三环中路7号财富中心北京千禧大酒店哈瓦那酒吧
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March 04, 2013
Winter 2013 CCS Chinese Documentary Film Series - When China Met Africa
The film showing is FREE and open to the public.
Date: Saturday, March 16, 2013
Time: 7pm
Place: Angell Hall, Auditorium A
(enter via glass doors at fishbowl, off diag)
A film by Nick Francis and Marc Francis; Zambia, 2011; 75 minutes (Mandarin and Zambian languages and dialects, with English subtitles)
Film trailer:
"When China Met Africa" examines China's expanding footprint in Africa through the stories of three people in Zambia: a Chinese farmer, a Chinese multinational's road project manager and Zambia's trade minister.
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February 28, 2013
Winter 2013 CCS Noon Lecture Series - Sarah Schneewind
Sarah Schneewind
Associate Professor of History
UC San Diego
Father and Mother of the People: Thinking Through Ming Bureaucratic Paternalism
March 12, 2013
Tuesday 12 noon to 1:00 pm
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
1080 South University
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February 27, 2013
Film Screening of The Savage Land (1981)
Friday, March 1, 2013, 7 pm
Auditorium B, Angell Hall, 435 S. State St.
English subtitles | Free and open to the public
The Savage Land (原野) is a film based on Cao Yu (曹禺)’s play written in 1937. Superficially a story of a peasant’s revenge, the play interweaves darkness, nightmare, fear and mystery in the style of expressionist theatre. The protagonist’s feelings of guilt and eventual suicide relate to the rivalry for exclusive affection between a possessive old mother and a beautiful but jealous wife, as well as the primitive passions, sexual deprivation and defiant courage of life in this remote environment. The film was shot in 1981 but was banned from the public audience until 1988. As soon as it was released, it won China’s film award ‘Hundred Flowers Award’ and when it was taken to the Venice Film Festival, it was ranked as the ‘Best Recommended Film’. The one-hour-forty-five-minute film was directed by Ling Zi, a female stage/film director, stared by Yang Zaibao (Qiu Hu) and Liu Xiaoqing (Jinzi). Liu won the 1988 Best Actress Prize for acting the role.
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Lecture "Re-Orientations: The Worlding of Marco Polo"
Lecture by Sharon Kinoshita
University of California, Santa Cruz
Wednesday March 13, 2013 @4pm
1636 International Institute, SSWB
Sharon is professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, as well as co-director at the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies, and co-director, UC Multicampus Research Project in Mediterranean Studies. She is the author of Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature and co-author of Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France: A Critical Companion, as well as many essays on Old French literature and on the medieval Mediterranean.
Sponsors: RLL, Center for European Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Asian Languages & Cultures, Comparative Literature.
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