Since 2006, Wei Jiang has been a member of a team developing a series of online Chinese Language & Culture courses, taught through BlackBoard, aimed toward high school students. Once the curriculum is completed, courses will range from Chinese I to AP Levels I and II. These are currently available to students, and level III is in development.
This podcast was produced by Stephen Gordinier.
Indian New Year festival to be held at the Singletary Center.
Beijing or Bust
Bejing or Bust
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791066/
Beijing or Bust is a documentary that follows six American-born Chinese as they leave their lives in the United States for new ones in Beijing. The film, which is documentary maker Hao Wu’s first, was released in 2005. In 2006, while producing a different documentary Wu was detained by PRC officials for nearly 5 months.
2 Million Minutes
*Please note change in date*
2 Million Minutes
2 Million Minutes is a series of documentaries depicting how students in the United States, India, and China spend the 2,00,000 minutes of their high school years. Producer Robert Compton is a businessman who wanted to turn a lens to the role of education in the increasing amount of competition the United States faces from India and China. As of 2009, four chapters were produced.
Last Train Home (归途列车)
Each spring, during the Chinese New Year, millions of migrant factory workers leave their jobs on the prosperous eastern coast to visit the rural villages they call home. Last Train Home tells the story of one particular migrant family, the Zhangs, as they deal with the ruptures this annual migration creates in their family. Last Train Home is Canadian director Lixin Fan’s debut documentary and was released in 2009.
Year of China Lecture Series
Carma Hinton - Director, "Morning Sun"
Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
Thursday, October 27, 5:00-6:40pm
http://china.as.uky.edu/news/famous-filmmaker-focus-china-visits-uk
UK's Department of Anthropology welcomes a renowned political reporter to campus to discuss the struggle between a confident future and controversial history for contemporary Egyptians.
Eugene Wang
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor
East Asia Art History Program
Harvard University
Gaines Center for the Humanities will present a symposium exploring the connections between religion and such topics as history, science and politics.
Fall 2011 Working Papers
All the working paper will be in the Commonwealth House, Gaines Center, upstairs seminar room.
1. Arnold Farr (Philosophy): In Search of Radical Subjectivity: Re-reading Marcuse After Honneth
Thursdsay, October 6th, 6:30-8:00 or 8:30 pm
2. Akiko Takenaka (History): Postmemorial Conservatism: Mobilizing the Memories of the War
Dead in Contemporary Japan.
Thursday, Oct. 27th, 6:30-8:00 or 8:30 pm
3. Jacqueline Couti (French-MCL): Colonial Democracy and Fin de Siècle: The Third Republic andWhite Creoles' Dissent in Martinique.
Thursday, Nov. 17th, 6:30-8:00 or 8:30 pm
A discussion by two respondents: Jeremy Popkin (History) and Joe O'Neil (German) and a general discussion with all present will take place.
These discussions are always stimulating and we welcome your participation, so try to make it. Wine and light snacks.
