The Transnational China Project explores
the influence of the transnational circulation of people, technologies,
commodities and ideas on contemporary culture in Chinese societies by sponsoring
original analysis
and commentary, developing curriculum
resources, fostering networks
of scholars and maintaining original
image archives. Please see below for more information about our project goals and awards, our sponsors,
the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and
how to contact us.
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THIS WEBPAGE IN THE NEAR FUTURE FOR PUBLIC EVENTS IN 2007
RECENT
PUBLIC LECTURE
"From China to Random House"
Da Chen
NY Times Bestselling Author of
Colors of the Mountain,
Sounds of the River and
Brothers
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
7:00 PM at Kelly Conference Facility, Baker Institute
This talk is part of the TCP's series of lectures by distinguished and authoritative
writers, poets, artists and performers invited to share their views on recent
changes in an increasingly global Chinese culture. These have included the
writers Wang Meng, Pai Hsien-yong, and Yu Hua, the poets Yu Gwang-chung
and Ya Hsien, as well as many who have come to call the United States their
home, including the musician Liu Sola, the artist Xu Bing, and this speaker,
Da Chen.
Listen to Da Chen's Talk via Rice Webcast
RECENT
PUBLIC FILM SHOWING
"The Journey of Vaan Nguyen"
And Introduction by Director
Duki Dror
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
7:00 PM at Rice Cinema
Sponsored by the Asian Studies Program, Rice Cinema, Hillel, Asia Society
Young Professionals, Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest
"In her painful blog, Vaan Nguyen unfolds the absurdities of her life
as an Israeli-born Vietnamese. Her father was one of the many boat-people"who
fled Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and one of the few who were
given asylum in the "Land of the Jews". Now, when the time has
come to go back home, they both leave to Vietnam, hoping they can reclaim
their confiscated lands. Their journey becomes a parable on the loss of
identity and on the fate of refugees."
RECENT
ROUNDTABLE
"Writers, Readers and Editors in China"
Ya Hsien
Poet
Friday, October 13, 2006
5 to 6:30 p.m.
Humanities 227, Rice University
Talk and Discussion in Mandarin
Sponsored by the Transnational China Project and the Asian Studies Program
RECENT
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
"Crisis in Moral Experience:
Life in Times of Danger and Uncertainty"
Dr. Arthur Kleinman
Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology,
Harvard University
Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
7:00 PM in Dore Commons, Baker Institute
Sponsored by the Transnational China Project of the Baker Institute and
the Health Economics Program of the
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
The Asian Studies Workshop of the Center for the Study of Cultures, the
Department of History and the
Asian Studies Program of Rice University
Prof. Kleinman's talk will be
based upon his research on Chinese healing, the challenges of living a moral
life in times of crisis, and how physicians respond to disasters, as related
in his upcoming book, What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst
Uncertainty and Danger (Oxford University Press), and in the new PBS
series, "New Medicine".
RECENT PUBLIC LECTURE
"Taoist Priestesses in Medieval China:
Roles, Images, and Identity"
Dr. Jinhua Jia
Research Associate, Divinity School, Harvard University
Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Thursday March 30, 2006,
4:00 PM in Humanities 118
Sponsored by the Transnational China Project of the Baker Institute, the
Asian Studies Workshop of the Center for the Study of Culture, and the
Asian Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies and the Study of Women,
Gender and Sexuality Programs of Rice University
RECENT PUBLIC LECTURE
"Opportunities and Challenges:
Chinese Language Education in the Global Context"
Professor Hong Gang Jin,
Professor of Chinese and Director of the Associated Colleges in China Program
Hamilton College
Wednesday, March 22, 2006,
4:15 PM in Humanities 117
Sponsored by the Transnational China Project of the Baker Institute and
the
Asian Studies Program of Rice University
Brief Biographical Sketch for Dr. Jin:
Professor Jin came to Hamilton in 1989. After studying English language
and literature at Shanxi University in China, she earned her master's and
Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At Hamilton she
helped establish the Associated Colleges in China program, a study abroad
consortium in Beijing, sponsored by Hamilton, Oberlin and Williams Colleges.
Winner of the Carnegie Foundation 1998 Outstanding Baccalaureate College
Professor of the Year award, and the most recent past president of the Chinese
Language Teachers Association, Jin is co-author of several books and software
programs about multimedia approaches to teaching Chinese language and culture,
as well as numerous articles for professional journals. A two-volume textbook
series, Crossing Paths: Living and Learning in China and Shifting Tides:
Culture in Contemporary China (both with DeBao Xu), was published in February,
2003. She has also been involved with writing and designing a series of
multimedia computer software to provide interactive exercises in teaching
Chinese. Dr. Jin frequently conducts language research and professional
development workshops in the PRC, Taiwan and the United States.
RECENT ROUNDTABLE
"Poetry and Music"
Professor Yu Gwang-chung,
Professor of English, National Sun Yat-Sen University and
Poet, Writer, Translator, and Literary Critic
Thursday, February 9, 2006,
4:00 PM in Humanities 119
Talk and Discussion in Mandarin
Rice University
FUTURE
EVENTS PLANNED FOR 2007:
Research Workshop and Lectures on Advertising and Collective Identity in
Public Spaces in Chinese Cities
(times TBA)
FORTHCOMING
ADDITIONS TO CHINA IMAGE ARCHIVE:
Dunhuang, Chongqing, Guilin, Yichang
to be Added to Archive of Images From
Beijing, Chengde, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Shaoxing, Three Gorges Dam
Project and Xian:
"Public Advertising Culture in China: Spiritual Civilization, Local
Development,
Privatization and Public Service"
View
the Public Advertising Culture in China Archive
2005
ROUNDTABLE
"Contemporary Scholarship of Classical
Chinese Literature"
Professor Zhang
Hongsheng
Chinese Department, Nanjing University
Wednesday, May 11, 2005,
Contact swlewis@rice.edu for Time and Location
(A Roundtable Discussion in Mandarin with
One of China's Most Prominent Scholars of Chinese Literature
Co-Sponsored by the Asian Studies Workshop of the Center for the Study of
Cultures,
the Program in Asian Studies, and the North American Chinse Writers Association)
2005
ROUNDTABLE
"Contemporary Study of Near Modern
Chinese Literature"
Professors Chen
Pingyuan and Xia Xiaohong
Chinese Department, Beijing University
Tuesday, March 1, 2005,
5:30 pm.
Herring Hall 224
(A Roundtable Discussion in Mandarin with
Two of China's Most Prominent Scholars of Chinese Literature
Co-Sponsored by the Program in Asian Studies)
2005
PUBLIC LECTURE
"Confucianism and Capitalism:
Reflections on the Role of Culture in Chinese Economic Development,
Past and Present"
Dr. Harriet
Zurndorfer
Leiden University and the
Global Economic History Network Project
(London School of Economics and the Leverhulme Trust)
Wednesday, March 2,
2005, 4. pm.
Humanities Building 327
(Co-Sponsored by the Program in Asian Studies and Department of History)
(Professor Zurndorfer's Preliminary Paper on this Timely Topic, Titled
"Confusing Confucianism with Capitalism: Culture as Impediment and/or
Stimulus to Chinese Economic Development"
Can be Accessed On-Line at
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/economicHistory/GEHN/GEHNPDF/ConfusingConfucianismwithCapitalism-HarrietZurndorfer.pdf
2005 PUBLIC LECTURE
"Why is Mongolian Buddhism Not Ethnically Chic?"
Dr. Johan Elverskog
Professor
Department of Religious Studies
Southern Methodist University
February 3, 2005, 4.
pm.
Location on Rice Campus TBA
2004
FREE PUBLIC SHOWING AND
DICUSSION WITH DIRECTOR
"Morning Sun"
Houston Premiere Showing of a Documentary Film on
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Dr. Carma Hinton,
Director,
Long Bow Group,
November 30, 2004,
6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Rice Cinema,
Rice University
(Co-Sponsored by the TCP, History Department, Asian Studies Program and
Rice Cinema of Rice University)
The film Morning
Sun attempts in the space of a two-hour documentary film to create an inner
history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976). It provides
a multi-perspective view of a tumultuous period as seen through the eyes-and
reflected in the hearts and minds-of members of the high-school generation
that was born around the time of the founding of the People's Republic of
China in 1949, and that came of age in the 1960s. Morning Sun is not a comprehensive
or chronological history of the Cultural Revolution as such; nor is it a
study of elite politics or of student factionalism. The film essays rather
a psychological history. It attempts a cinematic account of experiences
and emotions as reflected on by historical actors who themselves were enacting
a history that they had learned and wished to recreate in their own lives.
It is also a film about the cultures and convictions, as well as the historical
events, that created the impetus, language, style and content of the period-the
films and plays, the music and ideas, the rhetoric and ideologies, the education
and the aspirations, the frustrations and fantasies, as well as the realities
and ardor, that a new revolution that attempted to remake revolution itself
entailed.
FORTHCOMING
TRANSCRIPT OF PUBLIC LECTURE
"The India-China Relationship:
What the United States Needs to Know"
Dr. Harry Harding
Dean and Professor
School of International Affairs
The George Washington University
April 12, 2004
Rice University
(Co-Sponsored by the
TCP and Asian Studies Program of Rice University, and the
Asia Society of Texas)
FORTHCOMING
TRANSCRIPT OF ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Yu Hua
Author of To Live and Confessions of a Blood Merchant
February 20, 2004, Baker
Hall
(Co-Sponsored by Chinese Writers Association of North America, Houston Chapter
and
Asian Studies Program, Rice University)
AVAILABLE TRANSCRIPT
OF PUBLIC LECTURE
"The New Chinese Empire:
And What It Means for the United States"
Dr. Ross Terrill
Research Associate,
Fairbanks Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University
April 24, 2003, Baker
Hall, Rice University
(Co-Sponsored by Asia Society of Texas)
Connect
to Transcript of Terill Talk in English
NEW
Reports on Transnational China Project Activities
Connect
to the Baker Institute's April 2004 Report on the TCP's Spring 2004 Activities
Connect
to the Baker Institute's September 2003 Report on the TCP's 2003Activities
Connect
to the Baker Institute's February 2003 Report on the TCP's 2002/2003 Activities
Connect to
Rice News Article on Henry Luce Foundation's Grant to the TCP for the Study
of
Consumer Culture and Collective Identity in China
Connect
to the Baker Institute's Spring 2001 Report
NEW
Image
Archive
Chengde, Hangzhou and Shaoxing Added to
Archive of Images From
Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Three Gorges Dam Project and Xian:
"Public Advertising Culture in China: Spiritual Civilization, Local
Development,
Privatization and Public Service"
(247 Images of 211 Advertisements)
View
the Public Advertising Culture in China Archive
NEW
Analysis
and Commentary
Transcript of Public Lecture
"Integrating China Into the Global Economy"
Dr. Nicholas
R. Lardy
Brookings Institution
April 29, 2002
(Co-Sponsored by Asia Society of Texas and the
Asian Studies Program and Center for the Study of Culture at Rice University)
Connect
to Transcript of Lardy Talk in English
Analysis
and Commentary
"Contemporary Chinese Cinema in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong:
A Collective Force in the Global Market"
Transcript of A Roundtable Discussion
With
Peggy Chiao, Director,
Taiwan Film Center
April 17, 2001
(Co-Sponsored by the
Center for Asian Studies and Department of Radio-TV-Film at UT-Austin, and
the
Transnational China Project)
Connect
to the Chinese Cinema Roundtable Transcript
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
"Advertising Culture & The
Formation of
Transnational and Local Identities in Asia"
An International, Interdisciplinary
Workshop
March 5-6, 2001, University of Hong Kong
(Organized and Co-Sponsored
by the Transnational China Project at Rice University and the
Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures, University of Hong Kong)
Analysis
and Commentary
"Contemporary Culture Debates
in China"
Select Articles From the PRC's Premier Literary Journal,
Dushu (Reader), and Tianya (Horizons) Magazine
Connect to the Dushu Articles Page
Networks
of Scholars
"Useful Links: Cultural Studies Websites
From Taiwan"
Connect
to the Transcultural Studies Network Page
Analysis
and Commentary
"Financial Crisis in East
Asia:
Underlying and Precipitating Factors"
Professor Malcolm Gillis
Rice University
Brief Biographical Note:
Dr. Gillis is an Economist Specializing
in Fiscal Reform and Environmental Policy. He has Extensive Experience as
an Advisor to Governments and Non-Governmental Organizations in Asia, Africa
and the Americas, and Was Recently Honored by President Kim Dae Jung for
Helping Korea Successfully Cope with the Financial Crisis in East Asia.
In Addition to Being the Ervin Kenneth Zingler Professor of Economics, Dr.
Gillis Currently Serves as the Sixth President of Rice University.
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This Essay as a PDF File
This Essay is a Chapter in a Forthcoming
Book, Trade, Development and Political Economy:
Essays in Honor of Anne O. Krueger,
Edited by Deepak Lal and Richard Snape, and Published by Palgrave Publishers,
June 2001. It is Reproduced Here Courtesy of Dr. Gillis and Palgrave Publishers,
the Copyright Holders. For More Information on Current Issues in Political
Economy and this Book, See the Website of Palgrave
Publishers
Analysis
and Commentary
"The
Serious Problems Facing Mankind"
Professor R.C.T.
Lee,
Chinan University
(Co-Sponsored by Fondren
Library and the
North American Chinese Writers' Association -- Southern Chapter
September 15, 2000)
See Attached Text
for Biographical Information
Read
Text of Prof. Lee's Talk
Analysis and Commentary
"Falungong as a Cultural Revitalization Movement:
An Historian Looks at Recent Events in China"
Prof. David
Ownby
University of Montreal
(Rice University,
October 20, 2000)
See Attached Text
for Biographical Information
Read Text
of Prof. Ownby's Talk
Analysis
and Commentary
"China
in the Eyes of a Chinese"
Commentary on
Economic Development, Political Stability and Democratization by
Ambassador Yang Chengxu, President,
China Institute for International Studies
(Baker Institute for
Public Policy, December 8, 2000)
See Attached Text for Biographical Information
Read Text
of Amb. Yang's Talk
Analysis and Commentary
"Feminism, Film and Literary Culture"
Roundtable Discussion
with
Dai Jinhua, Yvonne Chang, Ying Fenghuang and Cindy Chan
(Sponsored by the Transnational
China Project and the
Department of Asian Studies of the University of Texas at Austin
September 8, 1999)
See Attached Text for Biographical Information
Read Text
of the Dai Roundtable in English and Chinese (GB and Big5)
Original
Image Archive
"Public Advertising Culture
in China:
Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Three Gorges Dam Project and Xian"
(156 Images)
View the Public
Advertising Culture in China Archive
Curriculum Resource:
"Chinese Political Literature as Comparative Social Science Teaching
Material: Issues and Obstacles"
Steven W. Lewis, (Rice)
(Paper Prepared for the Workshop on
"Teaching Chinese Language, Literature and Culture,"
Asian Studies Program, Rice University, May 20, 2000)
Read Text
of This Essay
Recent
Public Lectures at Rice University and Events
Supported by the Transnational China Project:
"Key Issues in Asia's Economic Future and Impacts for the United States"
Dr. Charles
Morrison, Dr. Fereidun Fesharaki and Dr. Chris McNally
Scholars of the East-West Center
October 20, 2004
(The TCP in collaboration
with the Asia Society of Texas and the East-West Center)
"Art
of Xu Bing: Between Visual and Written Languages"
Xu Bing
Chinese Artist
February 11, 2003
Shell Auditorium
Jones School of Management
(Co-Sponsored by Transnational
China Project, Art and Art History Scholars Forum,
Dean of Humanities and the Asian Studies Program of Rice University,
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
View
More Information about Xu Bing
"China's
Road Ahead: Will the New Leaders Make a Difference?"
Prof. Cheng
Li
Hamilton College
Thursday, March 14,
2002
International Conference Facility
Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
Co-Sponsored by the Asia Society Texas Center and the Asian Studies Program
Connect
to Introduction to Dr. Li's Lecture and Biographical Note
"Dance
Salad Concert 2002"
March 28, 29,
30, 2002
Cullen Theater, Wortham
Center of Houston
Featuring Nine Modern Dance Groups,
Including the Guangdong Modern Dance Company of Guangzhou, PRC
(Supported for a Third Year by the Transnational China Project)
Connect to the Dance Salad Website
"An
Update: Issues Confronting the Bush Administration"
Douglas H. Paal,
President
Asia Pacific Policy Center
April 18, 2001
(Presented by the Asia Society and Co-Sponsored by the Transnational China
Project)
"Dance
Salad"
Contemporary
Dance Performance by Asian, American and European Dancers
March 23-24, 2001,
Wortham Center, Houston
(Supported for a Second Year by the Transnational China Project)
"Writing
and Filmmaking in the Asian American Diaspora"
Roundtable Discussion
on Identity, Writing and Filmmaking in the Asian American Diaspora with
Russell Leong, Poet/Writer/Documentary Filmmaker of UCLA,
Greg Pak, Independent Filmmaker from New York,
Dr. Chiu-Mi Lai, Rice University
Saturday, February 24,
2001
Baker Institute for Public Policy
(Co-Sponsored by the Transnational China Project, the Center for the Study
of Cultures,
Asian American Film Festival, the Chinese Community Center)
"Magic of the Brush:
Spectrums of Chinese Culture Through Poetry and Painting"
Prof. Catherine
Yi-yu Cho Woo
San Diego State University
February 8, 2001
(Co-Sponsored by the Transnational China Project, the Chinese Writers Association,
Asian Studies and the Asia Society)
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The mission of the "Transnational
China Project" is to develop innovative approaches to the study of
contemporary China through the use of advanced technologies and by means
of new forms of both personal and inter-institutional collaboration. The
central goal of this interdisciplinary effort is to identify, bring together,
make accessible, and analyze the multiplicity of views emerging from the
complex interplay between the forces of both global and local change. In
so doing, this initiative seeks not only to clarify the issues involved
in these debates but also to contribute to the debates themselves.
The research goal of this project
is to understand the forces shaping the rise of mass-media oriented, consumer
societies in the greater China region-particularly the influence of the
transnational circulation of people, technologies, commodities and ideas.
Toward this end, the project has created an international network of prestigious
academic and cultural institutions capable of bringing together experts
from around the world to discuss and debate these research issues, publish
papers and monographs, and transmit useful information to wider audiences
both in the United States and Asia.
The pedagogical goal of this
project is to develop a wide range of audio-visual and textual resources
that will provide a lively, forceful, up-to-date and authentic "inside"
view of the forces transforming contemporary Chinese culture, as well as
the intellectual debates that these changes continue to provoke. A state-of-the-art,
multi-lingual, electronic archive has been created to make these unique
resources available for both course development and research.
The James A. Baker III Institute
for Public Policy at Rice University will coordinate the establishment of
the networks and technologies that will achieve the research and pedagogical
goals of this project. This project was initially supported by grants from
Ford Motor Company and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Some
of the Awards and Links to the Transnational China Project:
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library and the
Internet Guide for China Studies
(Four out of five
stars from the most comprehensive index of Asian Studies resources online,
prepared by scholars of the Institute for Chinese Studies, University of
Heidelberg, and
Australian National University)
Asia Resources on the World Wide Web
(Index of websites
prepared by the Association for Asian Studies by Harvard University scholars)
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
(One of 100 of "The
Web's Best Sites" on China)
The Scout Report
(Index of academic
websites prepared by the University of Wisconsin under a
National Science Foundation grant)
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
(See Courses, Image
Archive and Visual Culture sections of this academic journal's website)
WWW Virtual Library of Labour and Business History
Exhibitions
(Index of image
archives prepared by the WWW Virtual Library History Network of the
International Institute of Social History and the Netherlands Economic History
Archive)
The Henry Luce
Foundation
Benjamin Lee (New School University)
Leo Ou-fan Lee (Harvard)
Steven W. Lewis (Rice)
Richard J. Smith (Rice)
Please address general inquiries
to:
Steven W. Lewis, Ph.D.,
Transnational China Project
Baker Institute MS-40
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251-1892
Phone: (713)-348-5832
Fax: (713) 348-5853
E-Mail: tnchina@rice.edu
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