APSI_Newsletter_03_2005

Number 1 | 2004–05 IN THIS ISSUE Faculty News Stanley Abe receives 2003 Shimada Prize, Richard Jaffe named National Humanities Center Fellow, Program in Chinese Media and Communications established 2 CULTURAL STUDIES DEVELOPMENT GENDER POPULATION LANGUAGE CAPITALISMS SEXUALITY SOCIETY POLITICS RELIGION TRANSNATIONALISM GLOBALIZATION VISUAL CULTURE ETHNICITY POSTCOLONIALISM Recent Publications New titles by Tomiko Yoda, Simon Partner, and Xueguang Zhou 3 New and Visiting Faculty 4 Fellowships 4 Master’s Program in East Asian Studies 5 Conferences 6 Cine-East 5 7 Beyond Academics “Dream Project” formed by Duke graduate and undergraduate students 8 Tianjian Shi organizes project to study local election procedures in China 9 Library News 9 Undergraduate Studies Duke Study in China Program 10 Independent research 10 APSI Outreach 11 Upcoming Events 12 Afterlife, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, is one of 23 films screening this spring during Cine-East 5. Faculty News 2 The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) is the focal point of research and teaching on the Asian/Pacific region at Duke University. Started in 1981, today APSI has over 30 full-time faculty members at Duke and 20 affiliated faculty members from regional universities. It is the largest center for research and teaching on East Asia in the southeast. APSI administers the Global East Asia Studies Center, a Title VI National Resource Center funded by the US Department of Education. APSI is also a recipient of a multiyear Freeman Foundation grant, which has strengthened its support for undergraduate initiatives and faculty development. Richard Jaffe Named National Humanities Center Fellow R Stanley Abe Wins Distinguished Award tanley Abe, associate professor of Art History and an expert in early Chinese Buddhist sculpture, was awarded the 2003 Shimada Prize for distinguished scholarship in the history of East Asian art. This award recognized Abe’s book, Ordinary Images, which examines the little-known world of Chinese Buddhist sculpture created for patrons of modest economic and social standing. The award, together with a cash prize, is granted biennially by the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, DC, and the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies in Kyoto, Japan. The presentation of the award took place at the Freer Gallery of Art in March 2004, where Abe gave the inaugural lecture, “The Qingzhou Discoveries: Contexts and Questions” for the new Sackler exhibition Return of The Buddha. ichard Jaffe, associate professor of Religion, is spending the 2004–2005 academic year as a fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC. He is one of 40 fellows appointed for the year. During his tenure at the Center, Jaffe will work on his book project, Seeking Shakyamuni: World Travel and the Reconstruction of Japanese Buddhism, 1868–1945. Published annually by Asian/Pacific Studies Institute Duke University 2111 Campus Drive Box 90411 Durham, NC 27708-0411 (919) 684-2604 Fax: (919) 681-6247 apsi@duke.edu www.duke.edu/APSI Number 1 | 2004–2005 | © 2005 Edited by Yan Li and Cindy Carlson Designed by Molly Renda Ralph Litzinger, Director, Associate Professor, Cultural Anthropology Yan Li, Administrative Coordinator Cindy Carlson, Grants and Outreach Coordinator Elizabeth Gill, Program Coordinator Debbie Hunt, Office Manager Mary Moore, Staff Assistant S Kang Liu Heads Program in Chinese Media and Communication Studies ang Liu, professor of Chinese Studies in the Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature, spearheaded the effort to establish the Program in Chinese Media and Communication Studies in the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism at Duke’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. The program will be directed by Liu, and was cofounded by Ellen Mickiewicz, James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy Studies and Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center. It will sponsor research on the relationship between media and public policy in China, and foster faculty collaboration and exchanges between Duke and universities in China. The program also plans to offer media fellows and executive training programs for Chinese journalists, media executives, and government officials. The Provost’s Common Fund, the Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research, and the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation provided seed money for the program’s faculty research projects. K Recent Publications 3 Tomiko Yoda, Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Construction of Japanese Modernity, Duke University Press, 2004 Simon Partner, Toshie: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan, University of California Press, 2004 Xueguang Zhou, The State and the Life Chances in Urban China: Redistribution and Stratification, 1949–1994, Cambridge University Press, 2004 T omiko Yoda is an associate professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature, with a joint appointment in the Literature Program. Her new book closely examines the literature of the Heian period (794–1192), which is renowned for the wealth and sophistication of women’s writing. This literature has long been considered central to the Japanese literary canon and Japanese national identity. Yoda approaches the Heian texts from a feminist perspective and also tries to rethink feminism through the study of the Heian texts. The book links feminism and Heian texts “via critical examination of the modern national construction of literature and the notion of subjectivity constituted therein.” ssociate professor of History and author of Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer (California, 1999), Simon Partner turns to the story of a Japanese peasant woman, Sakaue Toshie, in this new book. Born into a poor tenant family in 1925, Toshie left her family at age 12 to work as a maid in another village. She lost both her brothers in the war and had an arranged marriage. She worked more than 20 years as a laborer on construction projects and ultimately enjoyed a life of modest comfort. In telling the story of Toshie, the book casts new light on the often-told stories of Japan’s rural transformation, such as the requisition of rural manpower into the military, the effects of land reform, and democratization. A ueguang Zhou, professor of Sociology, has been returning to China regularly for over a decade to conduct surveys and collect data for his various research projects. His recent book is based on the life histories of a sample of urban residents from 20 Chinese cities and presents a systematic study of social stratification processes in urban China from 1949 to 1994. Zhou analyzes the interplay between redistribution and social stratification under state socialism in urban China, especially the impact of state policies on individual life opportunities in such areas as education, labor force participation, and promotion in organizations. The book further assesses the sources and extent of China’s economic transformation since the 1980s. X New and Visiting Faculty | Fellowships 4 New Faculty Join Ranks of Asian Studies GUO-JUIN HONG received his PhD in Rhetoric with a designated emphasis in Film from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004. His current research interests include Chinese cultural history, particularly contemporary cinema, television, and the popular music of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China in the age of globalization. Before coming to Duke, Hong taught various courses on Film Theory and History, Chinese Cinema, Visual Culture, Postcolonial Theory, and Rhetoric and Writing at institutions in the US and Taiwan. These include the University of California, Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, San Quentin State Prison College Program, and Tainan National College for the Arts in Taiwan. SUSIE JIE YOUNG KIM literature and culture while working on a manuscript in progress tentatively entitled, Re-imagining Civilization: Turn of the Century Print Culture in Korea and the Discourses of the “New,” 1894–1919. Her interests include literature and print culture, colonial period journals, contemporary Korean/East Asian cinema, “new woman,” transnationalism and colonial modernity, and trauma and memory. She will be contributing to a book focusing on Korea during the Taehan chegukki (period of the Great Han Empire) of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and is also working on a project that looks at cinematic articulations of contemporary urban space in East Asia. leading critic of science fiction and fantasy literature in Japan as well as being known for her translations of feminist science fiction and criticism. She has also written widely on Japanese anime and manga. Duke University Press has expressed an interest in publishing her book Sacred Mother, Evangelion in English. In spring 2005, Professor Koichi Iwabuchi will coteach a course entitled “East Asian Cultural Flows” with the chair of Asian and African Languages and Literature, Professor Leo Ching. Professor Iwabuchi serves on the faculty of the School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. The course will analyze the emerging intra-Asian cultural flows in the spatial temporality of globalization and the post–Cold War world. Visiting Faculty PSI’s grant from the Freeman Foundation allows us to bring several visiting faculty each year from East Asia to teach classes with our faculty. In fall 2004, Professors Xiao Tangbiao and He Xuefeng cotaught “Politics, Society, and Development in China” with APSI core faculty member Professor Tianjian Shi. This seminar explored the interaction between state and society in Chinese villages in relationship to clans and political development. Professor Xiao is the chair of the Department of Political Science at Jiangxi Province Administration College in China and is widely recognized as an authority of lineages and clans in China. Professor He is a member of the Department of Sociology and Center of Chinese Rural Studies at Central China Normal University in China. He is an authority in political economy and political transition in agricultural provinces in China. In September 2004, Mari Kotani guest lectured in Professor Tomiko Yoda’s course “Gender and Sexuality in Anime.” Ms. Kotani, an independent scholar and foremost expert on the course’s content, serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Shirayuri College in Japan. She is a A APSI Awards 8 Summer Fellowships in 2004 “I learned things that I could never possibly get from a textbook, and I think that is the most important thing.” —Marcy Szablewicz, Master’s student uring the 2003–2004 academic year, APSI awarded Research Fellowships to eight graduate students to conduct field research in East Asia. Funding for two of the eight fellowships was provided by the Provost’s Pre-dissertation International Field Research Grant. These awards were given to two PhD candidates judged to have the most outstanding research proposals relating to East Asia. Recipients were Yoonkyung Lee (Political Science) and Yu Wang (Cultural Anthropology). The remaining six grants went to PhD candidates in the History Department, Literature Program, Department of Political Science, and one student in APSI’s Master’s program in East Asian Studies. Yoonkyung Lee went to Taiwan to conduct research for a comparative study of labor union behavior in Taiwan and South Korea. While in Taiwan, she examined the inter- D holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her areas of study encompass Korean literature, Korean history, comparative literature, Korean film, and Japanese literature. Prior to her appointment at Duke, Kim was a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University, where she taught Korean Master’s Program in East Asian Studies 5 New East Asian Studies Master’s students (from left to right): Lynnsie Bowles, Kathryn Kempf, Sterling Edwards, Yoojin Jung, Kristen Lauder, Ling Chen and Program Coordinator Elizabeth Gill (not pictured—Justin Sommers) Asian Studies.” This course provides an overview of the historical and contemporary ways in which different disciplines have organized and produced knowledge about East Asia. All incoming APSI Master’s students are required to take this course, which will be offered each fall. In addition, the Asian Pacific Forum for graduate students in East Asian Studies at Duke is in its third year. Assisted by a graduate student, Professor Sucheta Mazumdar coordinated the forum for its first two years. Professor Leo Ching is currently coordinating for 2004–2005. The forum meets monthly to hear presentations by faculty and students and to discuss issues of common interest and concern. The last meetings of the spring and fall 2004 semesters were dedicated to presentations by graduating Master’s students who discussed their capstone research papers. action of local labor administrations and union federations, and also examined the variations of company-level union responses to the pressure to privatize. Yu Wang focused her summer research on understanding how the twin pressures of tourism and the desire to preserve sites of cultural heritage play out on the local level with the ethnic minority populations in Southwestern China. She conducted preliminary field research and also attended the 28th Session of the World Heritage Committee held in Suzhou, where she served as a volunteer. Other student research topics varied from studying the influence of kinship groups on village elections in China and understanding the role of Internet cafes and Internet gaming in the lives of urban Chinese youth, to investigating and documenting the city of Taipei to understand the relationship between social spaces and cultural production. While some students used the summer research trip to test a potential thesis topic, others conducted additional research to address questions that arose during the writing of their dissertations. All were richly rewarded by their on-site experiences and returned to campus with much data to sift through and findings to mull over. As Marcy Szablewicz, an APSI Master’s student who spent her summer doing research in Shanghai, noted, “Doing independent research is much more difficult than it sounded when I first decided to [go to Shanghai].” There were “many more starts and stops, highs and lows than I expected.” But in the end, “I learned things that I could never possibly get from a textbook, and I think that is the most important thing.” News from the Master’s Program in East Asian Studies his fall we were pleased to welcome seven new students from the US, South Korea, and China to our Master’s program in East Asian Studies. Their interests include international relations, culture and society in contemporary Asia, and development studies. Please visit APSI’s website for short biographies of our first- and second-year Master’s students (www.duke.edu/APSI). In 2003–2004, seven students graduated from the Master’s program and two graduated in December 2004. Some of the students have gone on to study in professional schools while others found jobs in the private sector, government, or consulting firms. Also during 2003–2004, APSI worked to strengthen student advising for the Master’s program and to restructure the curriculum. One of the most recent features of the curriculum is a new required core course, “Critical Approaches to East T APSI Hires Program Coordinator E lizabeth Gill joined APSI in September 2003 as Program Coordinator, a new position at the Institute. As Program Coordinator, Elizabeth works primarily with the Duke Study in China Program, the Master’s program in East Asian Studies, and the Visiting Scholar program. Elizabeth graduated from the College of Wooster in Ohio, where she majored in East Asian Studies. Before coming to APSI, she worked for two years as Program Assistant for the Duke Center for International Development at the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy, where she gained experience in international educational administration. She also spent a year teaching English at Shandong University in Jinan, China. Conferences 6 With funding provided by the Title VI grant, APSI was able to expand its support to faculty for course development, research, travel, and, in particular, to organize conferences. APSI faculty organized a record number of conferences in 2004. Stability and Change Across the Taiwan Strait January 31, 2004 This day-long conference was organized by Emerson Niou, professor of Political Science and head of the Program in Asian Security Studies at Duke. Academic and military experts from the US, Taiwan, and Europe analyzed evolving public opinion in Taiwan on the independence versus unification issue, the US’s security commitment to Taiwan, China’s growing military power, and increasing trade relations between Taiwan and mainland China and their implications for cross-strait relations. Healthy Aging and Socioeconomic Development in China August 20–21, 2004 Organized by Professor Yi Zeng, who specializes in demographic issues in China, the conference focused on the issue of the rapidly aging population in China and its socioeconomic ramifications. With heavy contribution from members of Duke’s Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, the conference aimed at comparing US experience on managing aging issues to those of China. Scholars who studied aging issues of China and the US discussed a wide range of topics including “The Elderly Population and Their Level of Dependency in the US and China,” “Healthy Life Expectancy in Developing Countries,” “How to Plan for Aging,” and “Pension Reform Issues.” The Roh Moo-Hyun Government: Assessment and Prospects February 7, 2004 This conference was also organized by Emerson Niou, with funding provided by the Korea Forum and APSI. It brought together scholars, journalists, and government officials from the US and South Korea to assess the fledgling and rather tumultuous presidency of Roh Moo-Hyun and his government. evangelization, and orientalism shaped Euro-American contact with Buddhism and facilitated the global spread of the religion during the twentieth century. The Question of “Asia” in the New Global Order October 1–2, 2004 This conference was the result of collaborative planning by Ralph Litzinger and Leo Ching of Duke, Hairong Yan of Princeton, and Dan Vucovich of University of California, Santa Cruz. It brought together scholars and activists working in different locales in Asia and in different disciplinary traditions to present their work on how the understanding of Asia is changing in relationship to developments in the post–Cold War global order. Some of the key questions addressed were how Asia had been imagined and produced in the past, in different locales, and under particular influences such as the Cold War, and how the “Asia” question is being reshaped by globalization. Scholars from China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, India, Sweden, and the US presented at the conference. In addition to funding provided by APSI’s Title VI grant, and cosponsorship from various Duke offices, the conference also received generous support from the Chiang Chingkuo Foundation. Global Flows and the Restructuring of Asian Buddhism in an Age of Empires February 20–21, 2004 Organized by Richard Jaffe, associate professor of Religion, the conference was a cooperative scholarly effort to detail the full richness of the global exchanges that resulted in the creation of multiple, modern Buddhisms and Buddhist studies as a multinational discipline. It explored the role of exchanges between various Buddhist cultures in the construction of discourses of pan-Asian Buddhism and the emergence of distinctive, national Buddhist modernisms in Burma, Cambodia, China, Japan, Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Several of the presenters also considered the ways in which immigration, Buddhist The 9th Annual Meeting of the American Association of the Teachers of Korean (AATK) June 23–26, 2004 Hae-Young Kim of the Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature organized the meeting. The association consists of faculty and graduate students teaching Korean language and culture in universities in the US, South Korea, and Australia. The four-day meeting was divided into two days of conference presentations and two days of workshops. The conference addressed various topics relating to the theme of the conference: bridging language and culture. The workshops focused on the development of teaching materials and finding ways to engage students in active discussions. The meeting drew 65 attendees from universities in the US and South Korea. The Korea Foundation was a major sponsor of the conference. Cine-East 5 7 Chinese Heritage Language Schools—Issues and Challenges October 10, 2004 Organized by the Chinese language faculty at the Asian and African Languages and Literature Department, the workshop aimed to build linkages between Duke language faculty and teachers of the Chinese heritage community schools; to provide resources for the heritage community school teachers, who are primarily volunteer-teachers; and to promote multicultural and multilingual education in the community. The workshop drew more than 80 administrators and teachers of Trianglearea schools whose students are primarily first- and second-generation Chinese-Americans and adopted Chinese children. In addition to addressing curriculum issues such as teaching material, methodology, and testing, the workshop also focused on aligning the needs of the parents and the students and promoting a desire to be multilingual and multicultural. Goodbye, Dragon Inn, see 4/11 Starting in spring 2003, APSI has sponsored a semester-long, free film series of new East Asian cinema in collaboration with Duke’s Screen/Society. Supported by our Freeman Foundation and Title VI grants, Cine-East is now in its fifth semester. Duke will also be one of the five Southeastern sites to host the Japan Foundation’s traveling spring 2005 film series. For film details, sreening times, and locations see www.duke.edu/web/film/ screensociety/CineEast5.html Thur 1/27 & Fri 1/28 Hero (dir. Zhang Yimou, 2002, 96 min, China/Hong Kong) Thur 2/3 & Fri 2/4 The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (dir. Takeshi Kitano, 2003, 116 min, Japan) Hero and Zatoichi are cosponsored by Freewater Films and the Duke University Union. Mon 2/7 East Is Red (dir. Raymond Lee and Ching Siu-Tung, 1992, 93 min, Hong Kong) Wed 2/9 The River (dir. Tsai Ming-Liang, 1997, 115 min, Taiwan) East Is Red and The River are cosponsored by the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Life at Duke as part of the Queer Tryst series. Mon 2/14 Yumeji (dir. Seijun Suzuki, 1991, 128 min, Japan) Mon 2/21 Omocha (The Geisha House) (dir. Kinji Fukasaku, 1999, 113 min, Japan) Mon 3/7 Charisma (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1999, 104 min, Japan) Wed 3/9 After Life (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998, 118 min, Japan) The above four films are supported by the Japan Foundation (New York office). Mon 3/28 Nowhere to Hide (dir. Lee MyungSe, 1999, 100 min, South Korea) Wed 3/30 Tell Me Something (dir. Chang Yun-hyon, 1999, 116 min, South Korea) Wed 4/6 Innocence (dir. Mamoru Oshii, 2004, 99 min, Japan) Innocence is cosponsored by Duke Anime Club Mon 4/11 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (dir. Tsai Ming-Liang, 2003, 84 min, Taiwan) Wed 4/20 Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang, 2000, 173 min, Taiwan) Sun 4/24 Hush! (dir. Ryosuke Hashiguchi, 2001, 135 min, Japan) Martial Arts Cinema Cine-East 5 includes the largest number of films screened yet, in part due to a strong showing of martial arts films in conjunction with the Martial Arts/Global Flows conference February 11–12 (see page 12). Hero, Zatoichi and East Is Red are also part of the Martial Arts Cinema series. Mon 1/17 Azumi (dir. Ryuhei Kitamura, 2003, 142 min, Japan) Sun 1/23 Executioners from Shaolin (dir. Lau Kar Leung/Liu Chia Liang, 1977, 96 min, Hong Kong) Mon 1/31 Shaolin Temple (dir. Chung Yam Yim, 1982, 90 min, China) Sun 2/13 Legend of a Fighter (dir. Yuen Woo Ping, 1982, 89 min, Hong Kong) Wed 2/23 Prodigal Son (dir. Sammo Hung, 1982, 104 min, Hong Kong) Wed 3/23 In the Line of Duty IV: Witness (dir. Yuen Woo Ping, 1989, 93 min, Hong Kong) Mon 4/4 Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior (dir. Prachya Pinkaew, 2003, 105 min, Thailand) Wed 4/13 Pedicab Driver (dir. Sammo Hung, 1989, 95 min, Hong Kong) Mon 4/25 Fighter in the Wind (dir. Yang YunHo, 2004, 122 min, S. Korea) Cine-East 5 is organized and sponsored by APSI and the Film/Video/Digital section of the Program in Literature. Additional support comes from the Center for Asian & Asian American Studies for the Martial Arts Cinema series and other cosponsors as listed above. Beyond Academics 8 Pilot Studies for a “Dream Project” Based on a report by Duke students Da Liu and Jun Luo “It’s really empowering. There’s only so much thinking you can do. Then, it’s about action.” —Katie Xiao, Dream Project member and recipient of summer 2004 APSI undergraduate research award uring the summer of 2004, a group of Duke graduate and undergraduate students formed a nonprofit organization named The Dream Corps for Harmonious Development Int’l. —fondly dubbed the Dream Project. The group approached APSI for seed money. Impressed by their idealism and enthusiasm, APSI agreed to support the project and has been quite pleased by the results thus far. D The Dream Project is the creation of several Duke students of Chinese origin who had been searchA second grade student from Hewu elementary school in Hunan Province. ing for ways to fulfill a sense of social responsibility while pursuing their academic studies. They to the larger world. The presence of native English speakers geneventually conceived of the idea of volunteering at elementary and erated considerable excitement in the classroom. While in Shanmiddle schools in rural China as a way to foster the dreams of children in rural areas while realizing their own dream of balanced dong, the team was able to assist the Lou Zhuang Township in development between urban and rural areas in China. Their project developing a website, making it the first township in the county to establish a presence on the Internet. received encouragement and support from the Chinese studies faculty at Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Dream Project’s summer activities culminated in a half-day In June 2004, two groups of Dream Project volunteers departed conference at Peking University in Beijing. The conference brought for Hunan and Shandong Provinces. together experts on rural China, NGOs in China, and representatives and volunteers from other NGOs and student organizations The Hunan team, led by Duke Literature Program PhD student devoted to rural development in China. The Dream Project volunHongsheng Jiang with the assistance of Duke junior Huaiyuan teers presented their work and sought suggestions on how to susChen, persuaded Lingfang Central Elementary School to change tain their efforts. their policy of not allowing students into the library. The team donated more than 200 books they had brought from Beijing and, At the end of the conference, another team launched its project in more importantly, devised a way for the students to manage the Yunnan province. Duke freshman Da Liu was joined by a Peking library under the supervision of the school’s teaching staff. To University PhD candidate in Comparative Literature. They conencourage the teachers’ support for this project, the team ducted many interviews with local teachers, students, and parents arranged for the teachers to participate in an essay contest on of the six schools they visited in Tucheng Township. While there, the role of libraries in education. Prizes were given to the winners. they also gathered a great deal of information about the school The Hunan team also visited 11 other schools where they conlibrary, distance education, and computer usage. As a result of ducted interviews with teachers and administrators, observed their research, they came up with the idea of creating a “seedling classes, and interacted closely with the students. fund” to provide financial support for gifted but financially needy students. In the future, they hope to teach local students to fully The Shandong team was led by Duke Computer Science graduate Danxia Xie. Other members included Duke sophomores Katie Xiao use computers already available at the schools. and Calvin Kung and Duke alumnae Christina Hsu and Sara Kile. Dream Project volunteers are now in the process of absorbing This team focused on teaching English at rural schools and explorwhat they experienced last summer and planning the next ing ways to tap into information technology to connect the village steps for summer 2005. Their focus in the second year will be Library News 9 strengthening local school libraries, raising money for the seedling fund, integrating technology into the schools and villages, and cooperating with other NGOs to promote rural development. The Dream Project is now registered with the State of North Carolina and is in the process of applying for nonprofit status. More information can be found at their website: http://www.dreamproject.org. I Faculty Work on Local Election Procedures in China olitical Science Professor Tianjian Shi has been working with colleagues at Duke, several law schools, and the Carter Center to reform and standardize procedures for direct election of community residents’ committees in China. n July 2004, the library implemented a new integrated library system developed by Ex Libris (USA) Inc. to handle databases, acquisitions, cataloging, reserves, circulation, and interlibrary loan. The system now allows patrons to search the online catalog in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts, to see books on order or received but not yet cataloged, to move seamlessly from information in subscribed databases to licensed full-text versions using citation finder and the “get it @ Duke” button, and to search several databases simultaneously using one interface. The library is also changing its classification scheme from Dewey Decimal to the Library of Congress (LC). The process will take five years, but the East Asian Collection will be converted during the 2004–2005 academic year so that when the collection moves to the new building in the summer of 2005, the entire collection will be relabeled and shelved in LC call number order. P The Chinese government implemented direct elections in rural villages and townships throughout China in the late 1980s. In recent years, it has begun experiments in the direct election of community residents’ committees in urban areas. The development of a market economy and the declining importance of work units (danwei) in China has led to the growing importance of urban residential communities. Consequently, community residents’ committees have assumed a great deal of local governmental functions, such as regulating the welfare and security of the community, in addition to organizing sports and other community events. As a result, experiments in direct election of urban community residents’ committees have drawn a great deal of attention. With support from a Ford Foundation grant, Shi took a group of American election experts to China in 2003. While there, they worked with Chinese electoral officials at the national Ministry of Civil Affairs and provincial Bureaus of Civil Affairs to design and standardize election procedures for community residents’ committees. One outcome was the publication of the first draft of “Procedures for Direct Election of Community Residents’ Committees” by the Ministry of Civil Affairs in October 2003. The Ministry further designated Guangxi and Jiangxi provinces as pilot areas for implementing the draft procedures. During the summer of 2004, Shi returned to China with his colleagues to train local officials and to monitor the implementation of the election procedures. In October 2004, Shi organized a workshop at Duke for Chinese officials and American scholars involved in the project. At the workshop, officials from the Chinese central and provincial governments reported on the pilot elections. American scholars and election experts then worked with them to further revise and standardize election procedures. After the workshop, the Chinese delegation traveled to Atlanta to observe the 2004 American presidential election at the Carter Center before returning to China. We have continued to strengthen the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean film collections, thanks, in part, to funding from the Freeman grant. Notable additions include anime, including TV series, and Chinese TV dramas. In addition, we made several major acquisitions, such as Kokka (1889–2001) on DVD, a new collection of Red Guard publications, Confidential U.S. State Department central files, People’s Republic of China, 1955–1959 [microform]. We have recently subscribed to WebOya, an index to periodicals held by the Oya Soichi bunko, a private library in Tokyo which has one of the most comprehensive collections of popular journals in Japan. Finally, the two East Asian librarians, Kristina Troost and Zhaohui Xue, have been active in providing training to faculty in the region, conducting workshops at the University of North Carolina on freely available resources for Japanese Studies faculty in the Southeast, at Washington and Lee for Chinese and Japanese Studies faculty in Virginia, and at Duke on Chinese internet resources as part of APSI’s outreach workshop What Do You Know About Asia? for K–12 teachers. In January 2005, Duke hosted a workshop to train Japanese Studies librarians to apply information literacy theories and techniques in order to help them teach Japanese electronic resources more effectively. Undergraduate Studies 10 Participants in the summer 2004 Duke Study in China Program Beijing, which has been the location of the summer program since the program was initiated in 1982. Fourteen students attended the fall 2004 program, which was held at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. The DSICP will face a couple of changes in the upcoming year. In spring 2004, the program was reviewed by experts in related fields. After considering the comments made by the outside reviewers and consulting with representatives from our partner universities, Washington University in St. Louis and Wesleyan University, we decided to leave Zhejiang University after the fall 2004 program and move to another location in 2006. The fall 2005 program will be held at Capital Normal University until a new location is selected. In 2005, the program plans to launch an online alumni newsletter through which we hope to keep past participants up-to-date about changes in the program and to build an alumni network. Undergraduate Independent Research in East Asia “My time in China has made me realize that . . . there is a fine line between being a student and a tourist. It is far easier to casually observe a subject than to critically and analytically engage it.” —Calvin Kung, Trinity ’06 hrough APSI’s Freeman grant, Duke undergraduates with research interests in East Asia are eligible to receive support for independent research or internships overseas. Nineteen students went to East Asia in summer 2004 to investigate a variety of topics, primarily in China, Japan, and South Korea. Additional funding will be available for students during the summers of 2005 and 2006. Reports on their experiences and research can be found on the APSI website: www.duke.edu/APSI/ old_site/grants/studentexperiences.html. T Duke Study in China Program: from SARS to Record Number of Participants t has been an eventful and fruitful year for the Duke Study in China Program (DSICP). Because of the SARS outbreak, the fall 2003 program was postponed to spring 2004. Seventeen students participated in the program in Hangzhou. I The summer 2004 program attracted 65 students from 13 American universities, the highest number of participants in the history of the program. The program was held at Capital Normal University in APSI Outreach With support from the Freeman grant and the Title VI grant, APSI has developed an outreach program consisting primarily of K–12 teacher training and cultural activities for area schools. 11 Teacher Training eginning in 2003, a two-day annual summer workshop entitled What Do You Know About Asia? China, Japan, and Korea has provided area elementary, middle and high school teachers with training on how to incorporate East Asia into their classrooms. Workshops are free and open to all teachers in North Carolina, with an annual attendance of approximately 30. During the workshops, APSI core faculty and other area East Asianists share their expertise and introduce lesson plans related to their topic. Triangle Taiko perform for students in Wilmington, NC B Outreach to Schools ighlights of school-based programming include demonstrations of the Japanese martial art kendo, performances of Korean drumming, Japanese tea ceremony demonstrations, East Asian music concerts, Japanese drumming concerts, and Chinese calligraphy classes. Although priority is given to teachers who have attended our teacher training workshops, cultural programming is available to any school within a reasonable driving distance from Duke. culture and history, in addition to other aspects of Korean studies. The Korea Box complements APSI’s holdings—China Box and Japan Suitcase—which are also available for teachers to borrow to introduce artifacts from China and Japan. H APSI Hires New Grants and Outreach Coordinator indy (Heffelfinger) Carlson joined APSI in May 2004 as its new grants and outreach coordinator. Cindy has experience as an administrator of East Asian outreach through the Cornell East Asia Program, in addition to being a longtime student of Japanese studies since her undergraduate days at Brown University. As a former high school teacher of Japanese and international studies, she brings with her a passion for introducing things East Asian to K–12 teachers and students through teacher training and school-based programming. Her own experiences as an undergraduate fellowship recipient for programs in East Asia will inform her interactions with Duke undergraduates seeking scholarships and funding opportunities overseas. Overall, Cindy will manage our outreach efforts funded by the Freeman grant and the Title VI grant, while pursuing additional funding sources to sustain longterm APSI goals. C Past sessions have explored comparative law and economy in the US and China; the history of Japan from 1600 to the present; Korean culture and history; teaching Buddhism; democracy in China; and the role of rice in Japanese culture. A popular session each year is an introduction to web-based resources on East Asia. The third What Do You Know About Asia? workshop will be held June 27–28, 2005. In addition to this annual program, two half-day workshops were held in September 2003 in conjunction with the Duke Curriculum Project: Teaching Japan Through Images and Why Are There Still Two Koreas? Another halfday workshop entitled All Eyes on Women: Media in Japan and the US was presented in April 2004. APSI Lending Resources APSI has started a collection of documentary videos on China, Japan, and Korea for classroom use by educators in North Carolina. Teachers may borrow these videos for educational purposes at no charge for up to two weeks. Please contact Cindy Carlson at cindy.carlson@duke.edu or 919-668-2280 to arrange pick-up or delivery. A complete list of videos available through our Resource Lending Library can be found on our website: www.duke.edu/APSI/ events/APSIoutreach.html. A APSI also now offers the Korea Box for teachers to borrow for classroom use. This teaching resource includes artifacts that represent important aspects of Korean Upcoming Events Conferences The Ambassador and his wife (4th and 5th from left) meet with graduate students at APSI. Cine-East 5 January 17–April 25, 2005 In spring 2005, APSI will sponsor the fifth semester-long series of new East Asian cinema from China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. The series is free and open to the general public. CineEast 5 offers the largest selection of films yet (see page 7). For complete listings visit www.duke.edu/web/film/screensociety/CineEast5.htm. Martial Arts/Global Flows February 11–12, 2005 Organized by Anne Allison, Department of Cultural Anthropology, and Leo Ching, Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature Triangle East Asian Colloquium Borderlands and Multicultural Politics in Modern China and Japan February 19, 2005 Annual meeting of East Asian faculty from Duke, UNC–Chapel Hill, and NC State University organized by Sucheta Mazumdar, Department of History. India-China Workshop May 19–22, 2005 Organized by John Richards, Department of History. The workshop is a joint project of APSI and the North Carolina Center for South Asian Studies. Chinese Ambassador to US Visits Duke T he Chinese Ambassador to the US, Mr. Yang Jiechi, visited Duke on November 29, 2004, with several members of the Education Division of the Embassy. The purpose of his visit was to promote greater exchange between Duke and Chinese universities. The Ambassador met with President Brodhead, Provost Peter Lange, Vice Provost for International Affairs Gil Merkx, and deans of various schools at Duke. Ambassador Yang and his entourage then came to APSI to meet with the Chinese studies faculty and students, where a lively exchange took place. The Ambassador brought more than 1,000 books to donate to Duke. K–12 Teacher Training Workshops Japanese Cool: Why Are Fads from Japan Making It Big in the US? April 9, 2005, 9:00 am–1:00 pm Workshop at the North Carolina Museum of Art, with presentations by Anne Allison, Department of Cultural Anthropology, and Kari Shepherdson, PhD Candidate, Art History. What Do You Know About Asia? China, Japan, and Korea June 27–28, 2005 Two one-day workshops will be held on teaching about East Asia for North Carolina elementary school teachers (June 27) and middle and high school teachers (June 28). NonProfit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Durham, NC 2111 Campus Drive Box 90411 Durham, NC 27708-0411 www.duke.edu/APSI Permit No. 60