Prospects for the Study of Dunhuang Manuscripts

Prospects for the Study of Dunhuang Manuscripts: The Next 20 Years

Conference at Princeton University September 6-8, 2014

Research papers will be presented in all fields of Dunhuang manuscript studies, reflecting on promising avenues of research. 32 papers will be presented during 9 panels (schedule will be posted in July). Presenters will be senior scholars involved in the International Liaison Committee for Dunhuang Studies from greater China, Japan, Europe, and the US, joined by several younger scholars from the US.
Two keynote addresses (by FANG Guangchang, Shanghai Normal University, and Susan Whitfield, International Dunhuang Project) are also planned, one on Saturday, Sept. 6 at 9:00 am, and one on Monday, Sept. 8, at 4:30 pm.
The languages of the conference will be Chinese and English, and papers will be written in either language. Brief abstracts will be available in both Chinese and English. At the conference, simultaneous interpretation/translation will not be provided, but local students will assist in discussion.
Co-organizers: Stephen F. Teiser (Princeton Univ.), TAKATA Tokio (Kyoto Univ.)
Co-sponsors: Princeton University, Buddhist Studies Workshop, International Liaison Committee for Dunhuang Studies, with major funding from The Henry Luce Foundation

Free and open to the public, but advance registration is required at the conference website: http://csr.princeton.edu/dunhuangmanuscripts/

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Silk Road House

Uzbek music live: Malika Ziyaeva’s program

A lecture/concert with the participation of Dr. Tanya Merchant

Renowned Uzbek dutarist (a dutar player) Malika Ziyaeva will perform traditional and folk music from the region including selections from maqom repertoires that date back to the 15^th century  courts in Silk Road cities such as Bukhara, Samarqand, Andijon, and Qoqand. Her program will include performance of historical maqom and other traditional pieces, as well as more recent folk and composed pieces.

Ziyaeva was the first female instrumentalist to join the prestigious maqom ensemble of the Uzbek state radio station. She teaches dutar (a two-stringed lute) at the Uzbek State Conservatory of Music and has toured Europe and the former Soviet Union extensively with outstanding vocalist Munojat Yulchiyeva and performed at a variety of world music festivals in Western Europe. She is also featured on many albums of traditional Uzbek music, and was granted the title "Honored Artist of Uzbekistan" in 2002. This will be her first visit to the United States.

Ziyaeva's student, Dr. Tanya Merchant (of the University of California, Santa Cruz), will be on hand to provide percussion accompaniment on the frame drum (doyra) and will provide a short introductory lecture contextualizing this music and its history.

 The event will take place at SRH on Sunday June 1^st, at 1-3pm.

  Silk Road House, 1944 University Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 (between Milvia & Martin Luther King; enter by side door in passageway under black Zabu Zabu awning); e-mail: silkroadhouse@yahoo.com; website: www.silkroadhouse.org; facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SilkRoadHouse; tel.: 510-981-0700.

Silk Road House events are sponsored by the Silkroad Foundation. 

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Newsletter
Newsletter No. 20. 2014     May 19, 2014     New Articles Posted
Quick Links Home About Japan Focus Top 10 Articles RSS Feeds In This Issue Cemil Aydin  Changing Modes of Political Dialogue Across the Middle East and East Asia, 1880-2010  Kirk A. Denton Exhibiting the Past: China's Nanjing Memorial Museum Kyle Cleveland Revised and Updated:  Mobilizing Nuclear Bias: The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Politics of Uncertainty	Greetings! At the opening night of the recent 2014 PEN World Voices Festival in NYC, some of the world's most prominent writers and thinkers to took the stage for a 7-minute oration-a kind of mini-soliloquy of unrestrained intellectual fury-on the social or political phenomenon of their choosing. Here is an excerpt from Noam Chomsky's talk  to announce the intention of the Asia-Pacific Journal to prioritize issues of climate crisis . . . ecological, geopolitical, economic, political and social . . . in future work at the journal. We welcome your proposals and articles. Chomsky: When I hear the phrase "on the edge," the irresistible image is the proverbial lemmings marching resolutely to the cliff. For the first time in history, humans are now poised to destroy the prospects for decent existence, and much of life. The rate of species destruction today is at about the level of 65 million years ago, when a major catastrophe, probably a huge asteroid, ended the age of the dinosaurs, opening the way for mammals to proliferate. The difference is that today we are the asteroid. Geologists break up the history of the planet into eras of relative stability. The Pleistocene, lasting several million years, was following by the Holocene about 10,000 years ago, coinciding with the human invention of agriculture. Today, many geologists add a new epoch, the Anthropocene, beginning with the industrial revolution, which has radically changed the natural world. In the light of the pace of change, one hates to think when the next epoch will begin, and what it will be. No literate person can fail to be aware that we are facing a prospect of severe environmental disaster. . . We might wish to consider a remarkable paradox of the current era. There are some who are devoting serious efforts to avert impending disaster. In the lead are the most oppressed segments of the global population, those considered to be the most backward and primitive: the indigenous societies of the world, from First Nations in Canada, to aboriginals in Australia, to tribal people in India, and many others. While indigenous people are trying to avert the disaster, in sharp contrast, the race toward the cliff is led by the most advanced, educated, wealthy, and privileged societies of the world, primarily North America. We welcome your contributions and reflections. Announcing the Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize in Japanese Literature, Thought, and Society The Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University is pleased to announce a prize honoring the life and work of their colleague Kyoko Selden. The prize will pay homage to the finest achievements in Japanese literature, thought, and society through the medium of translation. The winning translations will be published online at The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Deadline application: May 31, 2014. For more information see here. Have you used the APJ search engine? The best results may be obtained by going to the left home page and typing in key words such as Okinawa, 3.11, energy, or Vietnam War under Title. Please try the new pdf feature at the top of each article, particularly if you wish to print it. It can also be copied and pasted into a Word file to adjust type size and font. Let us know if you encounter problems. info.japanfocus@gmail.com. Thanks to  the generous support of our readers, we succeeded in raising more than $12,000 to fund the Journal for 2014. The Journal will remain free. You can still support the journal at our home page with your 501 (C) tax-deductible gift.
Cemil Aydin with Shuang Wen   Changing Modes of Political Dialogue Across the Middle East and East Asia, 1880-2010  East Asia's relationship with the Middle East today is based mainly on economics and is devoid of grand political projects of solidarity and intellectual dialogue. China, Japan and Korea present the Middle East with a model of state-led capitalist neoliberal economic development. At the same time, the redemptive transformation of East Asia into a globally powerful region offers a trajectory of development diverging from the Middle East, struggling with political turbulence, regime crises and regional wars both cold and hot. One hundred years ago, in 1914, both East and West Asia were dealing with a similar reality of European hegemony and colonialism. This period gave birth to several projects of cooperation between pan-Islamic and pan-Asian currents of thought. Today, however, there is an imbalance between East and West Asia that has created miscommunication in intellectual encounters. This article elucidates the intertwined histories of the Middle East and East Asia over the last century to further understanding of the challenges of today, and to help find ways to make the intellectual and political ties stronger in ways beneficial to both regions. The author argues that the Middle East and East Asia need a more sustained cultural, intellectual and political dialogue for constructive cooperation on issues of global governance. Cemil Aydin is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and author of The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought (Columbia) and Islam in World History (Routledge, in press).  Read more . . .  Kirk A. Denton Exhibiting the Past: China's Nanjing Memorial Museum   When the CCP came to power in 1949, it proceeded to nationalize all culture industries and cultural institutions, including museums, and to develop them in ways that would align them with the new ideology of state socialism. National, provincial, and local governments promoted, funded, and constructed many new museums. The Central Committee established a Museum of the Chinese Revolution to present an official view of party history, and in the early 1950s, the state started building memorial halls dedicated to revolutionary history. These early PRC museums were deeply indebted to the Soviet influence. Not until the Great Leap Forward was a more systematic state effort to build museums  instituted. Following the initial approach in the early 1950s, the author outlines three dynamic bursts in museum development: the Great Leap Forward (1958-1962), the early post-Mao period (1980s), and the post-Tiananmen period (since the 1990s). A detailed explanation of historical trends in Chinese state-sponsored museum development highlights, among other things, the relationship between the monumentalization of trauma and the market economy, which turns memory of past suffering into a commodity to be consumed in tourist scapes. One new type of museum to emerge in the post-Mao museum boom is that devoted to the memory of atrocities committed by the Japanese imperial army during the War of Resistance. The view of the war period presented in Mao-era museums tended to downplay atrocity and victimization in favor of a more heroic narrative in which the CCP was the driving force. In the post-Mao era, as the Deng economic reform program ushered in profound social changes, including the emergence of new class divisions, forms of memory that emphasize national unity through shared suffering served the state well: depictions of Japanese atrocities are morally unambiguous and could direct divisive class resentment toward an external other. One of the most important of these museums is dedicated to the Nanjing Massacre.     Kirk A. Denton is professor of Chinese studies at The Ohio State University. He is author of The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling (1998). He is editor of the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture.  Read more . . .    Kyle Cleveland Mobilizing Nuclear Bias: The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Politics of Uncertainty (Article Updated and Revised May 18, 2014)   The nuclear disaster in Fukushima has given rise to one of the most significant public health crises in modern world history, with profound implications for how nuclear energy is perceived. In a major new interpretation of the  crisis, Cleveland shows how the level of risk was assessed by nuclear experts and state-level actors who worked largely out of view of public scrutiny. In addition to examining how the accident progression in the reactors was addressed and conveyed to the general public, the authorshows  how the exclusionary zones were determined by Japanese and foreign governments in Japan.  Diplomatic considerations helped to suppress the complex, often fractious relations between Japan and foreign governments - especially the United States - whose collective efforts eventually turned the tide from managing the nuclear meltdowns to ameliorating their long-term consequences. Based on interviews with political officials in both the Japanese government and foreign embassies in Japan, and nuclear experts and military officers who worked the crisis, the article analyzes how technical assessments drove decision making and were translated into political policy. Kyle Cleveland is Associate Professor of Sociology at Temple University's Japan Campus in Tokyo and the Associate Director of TUJ's Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies. He is writing a book on the political dimensions of radiation assessment in the Fukushima nuclear crisis, examining how foreign governments in Japan responded to the crisis.  Read more . . .

México-China

Estimados amigos e interesados en China y la relación México-China:

Por este medio nos permitimos informarles que Bernardo García Manzano dictará una conferencia en el marco del Ciclo de Conferencias China-México del Cechimex titulada:

Estimados amigos e interesados en China y la relación México-China:

Por este medio nos permitimos informarles que Bernardo García Manzano dictará una conferencia en el marco del Ciclo de Conferencias China-México del Cechimex titulada:

"LA EXPERIENCIA DE FOTON EN MÉXICO".

El evento se llevará a cabo el miércoles 21 de mayo a las 10 a.m. en el Aula Magna Jesús Silva Herzog, primer piso del Edificio Anexo de la Facultad de Economía, Ciudad Universitaria UNAM. Para informes hablar al 56222195 y ver el mapa de ubicación en:

http://www.economia.unam.mx/cechimex.


El Ing. Bernardo García Manzano es el Director General de Foton México y cuenta con más de una década de experiencias en la cadena autopartes-automotriz en México y vinculada con la República Popular China.



LOS INVITAMOS MUCHO A REGISTRARSE AL

SEGUNDO SEMINARIO INTERNACIONAL "AMÉRICA LATINA, EL CARIBE Y CHINA. CONDICIONES Y RETOS PARA EL SIGLO XXI"

que se realizará del 26 al 28 de mayo. Ya contamos con seis conferencistas magistrales y más de 130 ponentes, el programa e información para el registro se obtienen en:
http://www.redalc-china.org/ .

Registro en: redalcchina@economia.unam.mx  y  cechimex@unam.mx

Programa:
http://www.redalc-china.org/Programa_Seminario-c.pdf

http://www.redalc-china.org/Programa_Seminario-l.pdf

 Saludos, enrique dussel peters

Visítanos en:
        
                  @Cechimex FE UNAM
                 @Cuadernos de trabajo del Cechimex FE UNAM
        
                  @Cechimex_UNAM

Dr. Enrique Dussel Peters
         Profesor
        Posgrado en Economía

Coordinador
        Centro de Estudios China-México
        Facultad de Economía
         Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

http://www.economia.unam.mx/cechimex/

http://dusselpeters.com


A los asistentes al ciclo de conferencias sobre la relación bilateral China México, les informamos lo siguiente relativo al transporte dentro de la Ciudad Universitaria:
ante la densidad demográfica y el incremento del número de automóviles en la Ciudad Universitaria se ha puesto en marcha un programa que estimulará una nueva cultura vial.
Los vehículos que antes se estacionaban en el circuito, ahora podrán ubicarse de manera gratuita y segura en los estacionamientos del estadio, desde donde se podrá acceder tanto a las rutas de transporte interno como a los diferentes medios externos de transporte público y al Programa Bicipuma.
Para los visitantes que no cuentan con credencial de la UNAM y que necesiten venir a hacer trámites o asistir a algún evento en particular, se tiene previsto un espacio en el mismo Estadio Olímpico, desde donde también podrán tener acceso a las rutas de transporte interno.
Con esta iniciativa el circuito se liberará de automóviles estacionados y se ha habilitado una ruta de autobuses escolares que operan en un carril delimitado con el distintivo de */Pumabús/*. Esta ruta ( 7 oro ) funciona con paradas fijas, partiendo de los estacionamientos del Estadio Olímpico y con parada en la Facultad de Economía, tendrá una frecuencia de menos de cinco minutos en cada una de sus corridas.

http://www.pumabus.unam.mx/rutas.html

http://www.tucomunidad.unam.mx/Bicipuma

El evento se llevará a cabo el miércoles 21 de mayo a las 10 a.m. en el Aula Magna Jesús Silva Herzog, primer piso del Edificio Anexo de la Facultad de Economía, Ciudad Universitaria UNAM. Para informes hablar al 56222195 y ver el mapa de ubicación en:

http://www.economia.unam.mx/cechimex.


El Ing. Bernardo García Manzano es el Director General de Foton México y cuenta con más de una década de experiencias en la cadena autopartes-automotriz en México y vinculada con la República Popular China.



LOS INVITAMOS MUCHO A REGISTRARSE AL

SEGUNDO SEMINARIO INTERNACIONAL "AMÉRICA LATINA, EL CARIBE Y CHINA. CONDICIONES Y RETOS PARA EL SIGLO XXI"

que se realizará del 26 al 28 de mayo. Ya contamos con seis conferencistas magistrales y más de 130 ponentes, el programa e información para el registro se obtienen en:
http://www.redalc-china.org/ .

Registro en: redalcchina@economia.unam.mx  y  cechimex@unam.mx

Programa:
http://www.redalc-china.org/Programa_Seminario-c.pdf

http://www.redalc-china.org/Programa_Seminario-l.pdf

 Saludos, enrique dussel peters

Visítanos en:
        
                  @Cechimex FE UNAM
                 @Cuadernos de trabajo del Cechimex FE UNAM
        
                  @Cechimex_UNAM

Dr. Enrique Dussel Peters
         Profesor
        Posgrado en Economía

Coordinador
        Centro de Estudios China-México
        Facultad de Economía
         Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

http://www.economia.unam.mx/cechimex/

http://dusselpeters.com


A los asistentes al ciclo de conferencias sobre la relación bilateral China México, les informamos lo siguiente relativo al transporte dentro de la Ciudad Universitaria:
ante la densidad demográfica y el incremento del número de automóviles en la Ciudad Universitaria se ha puesto en marcha un programa que estimulará una nueva cultura vial.
Los vehículos que antes se estacionaban en el circuito, ahora podrán ubicarse de manera gratuita y segura en los estacionamientos del estadio, desde donde se podrá acceder tanto a las rutas de transporte interno como a los diferentes medios externos de transporte público y al Programa Bicipuma.
Para los visitantes que no cuentan con credencial de la UNAM y que necesiten venir a hacer trámites o asistir a algún evento en particular, se tiene previsto un espacio en el mismo Estadio Olímpico, desde donde también podrán tener acceso a las rutas de transporte interno.
Con esta iniciativa el circuito se liberará de automóviles estacionados y se ha habilitado una ruta de autobuses escolares que operan en un carril delimitado con el distintivo de */Pumabús/*. Esta ruta ( 7 oro ) funciona con paradas fijas, partiendo de los estacionamientos del Estadio Olímpico y con parada en la Facultad de Economía, tendrá una frecuencia de menos de cinco minutos en cada una de sus corridas.

http://www.pumabus.unam.mx/rutas.html

http://www.tucomunidad.unam.mx/Bicipuma

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