November 22, 2009
Xinhua covers Michigan Law professor and CCS faculty associate Nicholas Howson's speech at the annual conference of the Chinese Finance Association
我们需要改变企业治理结构，加强监管，让企业以长期健康发展为目的，摒弃追逐短期利润的恶习。
"美法律专家呼吁改革华尔街金融业 "
news.xinhuanet.com
11/15/2009
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November 17, 2009
Winter 2010 Course - ASIAN 261: "Modern Chinese Culture"
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November 15, 2009
TONIGHT!!! Livestream of President Obama's Shanghai town hall
President Barack Obama arrived in Shanghai late Sunday evening local time. In a few hours time, he will hold a town hall meeting with Chinese youth. The event, to be livestreamed on the White House Web site, is scheduled to start Monday at 12:45pm local time in Shanghai which means late Sunday night at 11:45pm EST.
The live streaming of the Shanghai town hall concluded at around 1:10am EST, November 16. 2009. The event in its entirety can be watched below.
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November 13, 2009
Distinguished historian and curator of Chinese art to give lecture at the Detroit Institute of Arts
Please click on the flier for additional information.
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November 12, 2009
Ken Lieberthal previews President Obama's first trip to China - PLUS your chance to comment!
As President Barack Obama prepares to embark on his first trip to China from November 15 to November 18, 2009, Kenneth Lieberthal, Professor Emeritus and director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution, took questions about the president's trip in a recent edition of the Brookings Scouting Report.
After reading the complete transcript, you are invited to contribute comments here.
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November 11, 2009
CCS Photo Contest Exhibit - EXTENDED THROUGH NOVEMBER, 2009
2009 CCS Photo Competition Results
Student Competition:
First place: Marilyn Mai – "Beijing’s B-boys"
Second place: Brett Linowes – "Gossip Girls"
Third place: Elizabeth Yarina – "Construction Tags"
Honorable mention:
• Jennifer Dai – "Colonel Sanders in the Mountains of Yangshuo"
• Elaine Denny – "Yak Milk Tea and Satellite TV"
• Lai Sze Tso – "Family Planning"
Open Competition:
First place: Thomas Talhelm – "Living Protest"
Second place:
• Cameron Campbell – "Bar in a Hutong Neighborhood"
• Marilyn Mai – "Human Dignity and the Future of the Country"
Third place:
• Xuezhao Lan – "The Streets of Old Dali"
• Wei Ping Teoh – "Wuzhen: The Past in the Present"
• Lingyun Xu – "Mao: Serve the People"
Honorable mention:
• Mike Anderson – "The View from Mt. Emei"
• Marilyn Mai – "This Used to be Home"
• Mary Ann Ray – "Huang Rui and Mao Mao"
All entries in the final round of the competition, including the winnings ones, can now be viewed online in the CCS Press Room.
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Michigan eyes China as top export market
Please click on graphics to read the Detroit News article.
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November 10, 2009
Ken Lieberthal discusses China and the environment on the Diane Rehm Show
10am, Thursday, November 5, 2009
China, Coal, and Climate Change
Guest host: Susan Page
China has become the world's leading producer of greenhouse gasses – in large part from burning coal. An update on collaborative efforts between the U.S. and China to reduce coal plant emissions and why they could be key to addressing global climate change.
Guests:
Kenneth Lieberthal, Director, John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution; Former senior director for Asia at the National Security Council.
Orville Schell, Director, Center on U.S. - China Relations, Asia Society
Bruce Stokes, National Journal, international economics columnist German Marshall Fund, fellow
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Champion Learning Speaker Series featuring Dr. Yong Zhao
Dexter Community Schools present the Champion Learning Speaker Series
featuring
Dr. Yong Zhao
University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education, Michigan State University
6:30pm, Thursday November 12, 2009
Dexter High School, 2200 N. Parker Road
Dexter, MI 48130
Dr. Zhao serves as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, executive director of the Confucius Institute, as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence. He is a fellow of the International Academy for Education. His areas of research are in global education, world languages, and educational technology, including computer gaming and education, diffusion of innovations, teacher adoption of technology, computer-assisted language learning, and globalization and education. For more information on Dr. Zhao, please visit his website here.
This event is open and free to the public. For more information, please contact Dexter High School at (734) 424-4240.
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November 09, 2009
Winter 2010 Course - History 251: "The Chinese Renaissance"
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Summer Language Fellowships, Middlebury Language Schools, deadline 02/01/2010
Middlebury Language Schools Announce Fellowship Opportunity for Summer 2010
Location: Vermont, United States
Fellowship Deadline: February 1, 2010
Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace: Investing in the Study of Critical Languages
Full Scholarships Available for Intensive Language Study at the Middlebury Summer Language Schools
Middlebury Language Schools are pleased to announce the continuation of the Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace for the fourth year in a row. The fellowship will cover the full cost of one summer of language study from the beginner to the graduate level in any of the following six languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian.
For more
information, please visit
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ls/fellowships_scholarships/kwd.htm.
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A lecture by Yiqun Zhou: Women, Religion, and Sociability in Ancient China and Greece
The Departments of Asian Languages & Cultures and Women's Studies
Present a lecture by
Yiqun Zhou
Stanford University
Women, Religion, and Sociability in Ancient China and Greece
4pm, Monday, November 16, 2009
1022 Thayer Building (First Floor)
This talk examines the role of religion in shaping two distinctive patterns of female sociability in ancient China and Greece (c. 10th-4th centuries BCE). Comparisons and contrasts will be drawn between the forms, spaces, and ideologies of the religious festivities—from household feasts to public festivals—in which women participated in the two ancient societies. Whereas the sacrificial banquet in honor of patrilineal ancestors epitomized the ideal Chinese familial and sociopolitical order, festivals that featured competitive homosocial activities were at the center of Greek religious life. The talk will focus on how religion served crucial but different functions in defining women's identities and forming their social ties in the two influential classical traditions.
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Winter 2010 Course - ASIAN 221: "Great Books of China"
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Winter 2010 Course - ASIAN 265: "Arts and Letters of China"
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November 04, 2009
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies Presents: Peranakan Musical Cultures in Singapore
Source: The Peranakans - http://www.peranakanmuseum.sg/themuseum/abtperanakans.asp
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies invites you to a Friday-at-Noon lecture:
Peranakan Musical Cultures in Singapore
Lee Tong Soon, Department of Music, Emory University
12:00pm – 1:30pm
Friday, November 6, 2009
1636 SSWB/International Institute
The Peranakan community in Singapore has made much concerted efforts in enhancing public understanding of their culture. With a mix of Chinese and Malay heritage, the roots of the Peranakan communities can be traced back to 17th century Malacca. Since the 1980s, Peranakan culture has been represented in the form of restaurants specializing in their cuisine, revival of Peranakan plays, and permanent exhibits of their architecture, dress, household paraphernalia, and crafts in museums. Such efforts complement, and indeed constitute the broader State's effort to create interests and concern on local heritage, thereby affirming the community as an integral part of the State's conception of a national culture. Peranakan musical practices in Singapore include the performance of music and songs in Peranakan plays, singing of Peranakan hymns and translations of English hymns in the Peranakan patois for Catholic masses, and dondang sayang singing sessions.
Much of the State's representation of Peranakan culture is inclined towards nostalgic and reified perspectives of Peranakan identities and belies the current state of anxiety the community faces in affirming who they are. In this presentation, I would like to explore the ways in which Peranakan music underscores the changing dynamics of Peranakan identities in Singapore. By focusing on musical activities of pre-WW2 amateur Peranakan music groups, I want to show how different musical practices of the community in early 20th century Singapore reveal shifting moments in the meanings, values, and functions of being Peranakan.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies.
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CCS faculty associate Bright Sheng's work celebrated in Chinese festival at Carnegie Hall
"Ancient Paths, Modern Voices: A Festival Celebrating Chinese Culture" will feature work by Bright Sheng, Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Composition and CCS faculty associate.
Bright Sheng's personal and professional experiences are in the spotlight as part of the Carnegie Hall festival's focus on modern Chinese composers and in a recent Wall Street Journal article on the first group of Chinese composers to emerge from the ashes of the Cultural Revolution.
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CCS and Confucius Institute arts offerings featured on annarbor.com
Prominent Chinese-American community activist and friend of CCS Frances Wang discusses upcoming Chinese music concert and art talks on annarbor.com.
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October 30, 2009
Grand Opening - Confucius Institute Events - November 5, 2009
Come and celebrate the grand opening of the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan, featuring an inaugural lecture entitled "De-familiarizing the Exotic: Appreciating the Arts of China in the 21st Century" by Martin Powers, Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures and CCS faculty associate, as well as an evening of musical performance by the pipa virtuoso Yang Wei and members of the Chinese Ensemble of Renmin University of China.
Please click on poster for additional information.
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October 29, 2009
National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes
National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students
Full Proposal Deadline Date: December 8, 2009
Support of international activities is an integral part of the NSF's mission to sustain and strengthen the nation's science, mathematics, and engineering capabilities, and to promote the use of those capabilities in service to society. In particular, NSF recognizes the importance of enabling U.S. researchers and educators to advance their work through international collaborations, and of helping ensure that future generations of U.S. scientists and engineers gain professional experience beyond this nation's borders early in their careers.
What the Program Offers
The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes provide U.S. graduate students in science and engineering:
1) first-hand research experience in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore or Taiwan;
2) an introduction to the science and science policy infrastructure of the respective location; and
3) orientation to the society, culture and language.
The primary goals of EAPSI are to introduce students to East Asia and Pacific science and engineering in the context of a research setting, and to help students initiate scientific relationships that will better enable future collaboration with foreign counterparts. All institutes, except Japan, last approximately 8 weeks from June to August. Japan lasts approximately 10 weeks.
Award Benefits
EAPSI awardees receive a $5,000 stipend, international round-trip air fare to the host location, and are supported to attend a pre-departure orientation in the Washington, D.C. area.
Foreign co-sponsoring organizations provide additional support to cover EAPSI students' living expenses abroad during the period of the summer institutes, and provide an orientation to the science environment and culture(s) of each location.
Fields of Study
• Biological Sciences
• Computer and Information Science & Engineering
• Education (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics)
• Engineering
• Geosciences
• Mathematical & Physical Sciences
• Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences
• Multidisciplinary Research
Eligibility
As of the deadline date of the application year, applicants must meet all of the following criteria:
• U.S. citizen or permanent resident;
• Enrolled in a research-oriented master's or Ph.D. degree program (including joint degree programs);
• Students enrolled in joint Bachelor/Master's programs must have graduated from the undergraduate degree.
• Enrolled at a U.S. institution in the United States; and
• Pursuing studies in fields of science and engineering research and education supported by the National Science Foundation.
Previous EAPSI awardees may apply, but only to a new host location (Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, or Taiwan).
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October 26, 2009
AAS Dissertation Workshop, Philadelphia, March 28–31, 2010
"Popular Culture and Social Change"
DEADLINE: DECEMBER 11, 2009.
The Association for Asian Studies is pleased to announce plans for a ninth consecutive AAS Dissertation Workshop, which will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting in Philadelphia next spring. The workshop will again be organized and led by David Szanton, and follow the model used in previous workshops.
No longer are Asian studies largely focused on courts and peasants, ancient cultures, classical texts, and traditional forms. Today all across the humanities and social sciences scholars are approaching and re-interpreting a rapidly changing Asia through various forms of popular culture (film, sports, TV, music, dance, radio, online networks, fiction, fashion, cuisine, fan clubs, martial arts, bars, drugs. etc.), concerned with how it is both producing and marking social, and cultural change all across the region. Intergenerational differences and tensions are growing all across the region, often with serious political consequences. Popular culture, as an alternative “unofficial view of the world,” as a form of subtle or overt resistance to the hegemonic, has become an important lens for approaching and analyzing Asia’s rapidly expanding middle classes, urbanization, consumerism, differentiation and stratification, political mobilization, geographical mobility, diasporic influences, and both transnational and globalizing sensibilities.
This workshop is intended to bring together doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences who are (1) developing dissertation proposals or are in early phases of research or dissertation writing; and who are (2) also dealing with the kinds of issues mentioned above in the context of contemporary or historic Asian states and societies.
The workshop will be limited to 12 students, ideally from a broad array of disciplines and working on a wide variety of materials in a variety of time periods, and in various regions of Asia. It also will include a small multidisciplinary and multi-area faculty with similar concerns.
The workshop will be scheduled for the days immediately following the 2010 AAS annual meeting in Philadelphia. It will cover two and one-half days of intense discussion beginning the evening of Sunday, March 28, and running through the afternoon of Wed. March 31.
The AAS will be able to provide limited financial support for participants including three night’s accommodations, meals and “need-based” travel funds up to a maximum of $300. Students needing additional funds to attend the workshop are encouraged to approach their home institutions for support. It is hoped that participants also will attend the AAS annual meeting immediately prior to the workshop.
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CCS and the Global Lens 2009 Film Series: Zhang Yang's GETTING HOME, Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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