Duke China Forum

OYCF now opens registration to its members/friends as well as the general public for the 11th Annual Meeting

2009-04-09T11:58:00.000-07:00

OYCF now opens registration to its members/friends as well as the general public for the 11th Annual Meeting on the theme

"China and the Global Financial Tsunami" on May 30-31, 2009.

Please reply and register as soon as possible, but no later than May 8, 2009.

Our total capacity is 70 people, first come first serve. Due to restrictions imposed by Wagner College, on-site registration is not available this year, and we must submit the final headcount in mid May. So if you do not register by the deadline, we are sorry that we will not be able to accept you due to the restrictions.

NATSA 2009The 15th Annual North American Taiwan Studies Conference

2008-12-05T20:19:00.000-08:00

NATSA 2009The 15th Annual North American Taiwan Studies Conference Call for Papers
Extended Online Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15, 2008
Date: June 26-28, 2009
Location: The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Organization: North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA)
Call for Individual Papers, Panel Proposal and Poster Presentation
Main Theme: Locating Taiwan: Space, Culture and Society Minor Themes: A) Regionalism and Nationalism in Taiwan's Context B) Eco-Politics in TaiwanC) Identity and Hybridity in Cultural Spheres

Conference Highlights:Best Paper Award The winner will receive a prize of $300USD. The Hermes Program Academic and research institutions have on-site interviews with potential candidates in person. Book Exhibition Many important as well as most updated texts presented with discounted prices. Please refer to NATSA website for detailed informationhttp://www.na-tsa.org (Google keyword: NATSA) Conference contributors may be eligible for travel grants; details will be announced on the website in February 2009.

Public Opinion and Security Stability in the Taiwan Straits

2008-11-03T16:26:00.000-08:00

Duke China Forum cordially invites you to a talk by

Professor Emerson Niou, Professor of Political Science, Duke University

"Public Opinion and Security Stability in the Taiwan Straits"

Working language: English Hudson Hall 125Duke West

Campushttp://map.duke.edu/building.php?bid=7747

Nov 7th, 2008, Friday, 3:30-5pm

EMERSON M.S. NIOU (Ph.D., U. of Texas at Austin, 1987), Professor of Political Science, specializes in Formal Theory, International Relations, Political Economy, and East Asian Politics. He is the co-author of The Balance of Power, Cambridge University Press, 1989. His publications in the field of international relations include: "Less Filling, Tastes Great: The Realist-Neoliberal Debate," coauthored with P. C. Ordeshook, World Politics, January 1994 and "Alliances in Anarchic International Systems," coauthored with P. C. Ordeshook, International Studies Quarterly, June 1994. In the field of East Asian politics, his recent publications include: "An Analysis of Dr. Sun Yet-sen's Self-Assessment Scheme for Land Policy," with G. Tan, Public Choice, December 1993; "Seat Bonuses under the Single Non-Transferable Vote for Large Parties: Evidence from Japan and Taiwan," with G. Cox, Comparative Politics, January 1994; and "Police Patrol vs. Self-Policing: A Comparative Analysis of the Control Systems Used in the Ex-Soviet Union and the Communist China," with John Brehm, Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1996. His current projects include studies of local self-government in China and alliance politics in anarchic international systems. Professor Niou is Director of the Program in Asian Security Studies at Duke University.

“Whither China? What Nationalism” by Dr. Gang Yue

2008-10-23T19:26:00.000-07:00

“Whither China? What Nationalism” by Dr. Gang Yue

Wei He

Durham, NC- The Duke China Forum held a talk “Whither China? What Nationalism” from 2:00 -5:00 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4th at Resource/Conference Room, Bryan Center at Duke University. The speaker is Gang Yue, associate professor and chair, Department of Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Yue went through the three-stage evolution of the Nationalism in China since May Fourth Movement: self-salvation, resistance and peaceful rise. The essential of the nationalism in China has always been externally defined, not by internal etiology. Peaceful rise is entrenched in the further fundamental integration of economics, politics and culture between China and western countries, especially US. National interest and strategic plans are taking over the ideology conflicts residual from the resistance stage.

Dr. Yue presented his current research which was concerned with Chinese cultural production of Tibetan themes and recent social changes in the multi-ethnic regions of Western China. He delineated the nation state of China characterized with multi-languages as multi-civilized instead of multi-cultural. The Imperial Tribute System including Korea, Tibet and Xingjiang and Qinghai, etc…was mostly expanded during the Yuan and Qing Dynasty when Mongolians and Mandarins took the sovereign of this system, while Han people tend to be relatively inward looking in the history.

Dr. Yue suggested that the political failure of the Tibet government since the Open and Reform Policy caused the 3/15 riot in Tibet this year. According to him, the great change at social stratification status in Tibet put the Tibetans in a rather disadvantaged position in terms of economic and social standing. Cultural conflict brought and deepened by the modernization process accompanied with market reform put challenges that the government never faced before. National standards on certified professionals replaced the requirement of fluent Tibetan languages for a government position. Other professionals such as lawyer, accountant, financial analyst and interpreter are most likely to be Hans other than Tibetans. Businessmen who obtained great economic achievements are most likely to be the Muslims and Hans as well. Difference of life styles among Tibetan and the way typically in modern society reinforced the conflict between the Tibetan and other peoples through the drastic change of social stratification along with ethnicities. Tibetan farmers had been used to farm one season instead of 3 seasons as people in other regions such as Sichuan do. Business was not popular in the history of Tibet. According to Dr. Yue, the government failed to protect the Tibetans from the adverse impact of the market process, though some programs such as certain job training have been tried. Dr. Yue also mentioned the 5% of highly educated Tibetan who would rather embrace the modernization instead of keep Tibet as a cultural museum.

Dr. Yue cautioned that the political failure might lead to deeper conflict, and if unadjusted, it could make more difficult for the government of Tibet to the extent only military force is able to maintain the existing sovereignty. Dr. Yue suggested that the modernization process in Tibet is irreversible considering the modernization process throughout the world. He also cautioned that if Tibet were to be independent, it would make the fourth long national border in the world, a huge challenge to its national security.

"The Gold Standard, the Dollar Standard and the RMB Standard------The Financial Crisis and the Challenges to China"

2008-10-08T18:58:00.000-07:00

Duke China Forum cordially invites you to a talk by

Diane Kunz,
American author, historian, lawyer, and director of the Center for Adoption Policy.

"The Gold Standard, the Dollar Standard and the RMB Standard------The Financial Crisis and the Challenges to China"

Hudson Hall 125
Duke West Campus
http://map.duke.edu/building.php?bid=7747
Oct 17th, 2008, Friday, 3:30-5pm

DIANE KUNZ is an American author, historian, lawyer, and director of a not-for-profit adoption advocacy group, the Center for Adoption Policy. She is the author of Butter and Guns (1997), an overview of America's Cold War economic diplomacy; The Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis (1991), which won two prestigious prizes; The Diplomacy of the Crucial Decade (1994), which discusses diplomacy in the 1960's; and The Battle for Britain's gold standard in 1931 (1987). She received BA from Yale, JD from Cornell and Ph.D. from Oxford. She recently received a congressional award for her contribution to adoption policy.

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OYCF Fellowship Announcement

2008-10-02T07:04:00.000-07:00

Dear OYCF Members and Friends:

The Overseas Young Chinese Forum ("OYCF") and The 1990 Institute are pleased to
announce that we are accepting applications for our Joint Research Fellowships
in 2008, which sponsor research projects by overseas scholars, professionals
and graduate students that analyze economic and social issues in contemporary
China, with a focus on policy implications. Preferential consideration will be
given to projects that involve fieldwork in China or collaboration with
researchers in China. Topics of particular interest include (but are not
limited to) micro-lending, environmental policy, bio-energy, and rural
education.

The 1990 Institute has provided up to $10,000 for 2008, and up to two
fellowships in the amount of $5,000 will be granted based on the quality of the
research proposals and budgetary requirements.

The application deadline is November 20, 2008. Awards will be announced by
December 20, 2008

To be eligible to receive the fellowship, you must (a) have a Ph.D., J.D.,
S.J.D. or a comparable advanced academic graduate degree from a university in
North America or Europe, or (b) be an ABD (all but dissertation) student
pursuing a doctoral degree, or (c) be pursuing post-doctoral research, at such
institutions. If you are interested in applying for the fellowship, please
download the Information and Application Procedures for the Joint OYCF-The 1990
Institute Research Fellowships from http://www.oycf.org/Research/research.htm.
All applications shall be submitted to OYCF, and final selection decisions will
be made by a Review Committee convened by The 1990 Institute with the
participation of OYCF members.

To submit your application, you will need an application form, curriculum vitae
or resume, a detailed research proposal, an itemized budget, and two letters of
reference. Information and application form can be found at the above web
address.

"Whither China? What Nationalism?"

2008-09-29T20:09:00.000-07:00

Duke China Forum cordially invites you to a talk by

Professor Gang Yue, Chair, Department of Asian Studies,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Whither China? What Nationalism?"

The Multicultural Center Resource/Conference Room, Bryan Center
Duke West Campus
http://mcc.studentaffairs.duke.edu/location/index.html
October 4, 2008, Saturday, 2:00-4:00 pm
Light refreshments are provided.

Professor Gang Yue received his Ph.D in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon in 1993. He teaches courses in Chinese language, modern Chinese literature and cultural studies, and Asian American studies. His current research is concerned with Chinese cultural production of Tibetan themes, the development of the "Shangri-La" eco-tourism zone in Eastern Tibet, and recent social changes in the multi-ethnic regions of Western China.

Varieties of Governance: Rural-Urban Migration and Transformed Governance in Rural China

2008-09-29T19:52:00.001-07:00

Duke China Forum cordially invites you to a talk by

Dr. Jie Lu,
Department of Political Science, Duke University

"Varieties of Governance: Rural-Urban Migration and Transformed Governance in Rural China"
The Multicultural Center Lounge, Bryan CenterDuke West Campushttp://mcc.studentaffairs.duke.edu/location/index.html
October 3, 2008, Friday, 3:00-5:00 pm
Light refreshments are provided.

Bio:Jie Lu is a graduate student of political science at Duke University studying comparative politics -- more specifically, the political economy of institutional change, local governance, political opinion and behavior in non- and new-democracies. He is also interested in the application of statistical modeling and survey methods in political analysis. Before coming to the US for graduate studies, Jie Lu got a master's degree in IR and a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering at Tsinghua University of China.

Varieties of Governance: Rural-Urban Migration and Transformed Governance in Rural ChinaThis project investigates the varied institutional foundations of local governance in rural China with central emphasis on the role of communal structures and rural-urban migration. Instead of treating indigenously developed institutions (IDIs) and externally imposed institutions (EIIs) as competing variables as in most other contemporary research on local governance, I develop a theoretical framework exploring the interaction between the two types of institutions in sustaining local governance as well as analyzing how communal structural features shape this interaction and influence their respective effectiveness in ensuring local governance. With the help of a nationally representative survey, a local non-representative survey, and carefully selected case studies, I document how IDIs and EIIs sustain local governance in rural China respectively, scrutinize the impact of transformed communal structure (driven by rural-urban migration) on the operation and performance of IDIs and EIIs, and explain the existence of varying institutional foundations of local governance in rural China.

"China's Changing Challenge to the US and Taiwan" by NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER

2008-09-22T18:56:00.000-07:00

NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER
Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University
and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
"China's Changing Challenge to the US and Taiwan"
Location: The Multicultural Center Resource Room, Bryan Center
Duke West Campus
Time: September 26, 2008, 3:30-5:00 pm

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker is Professor of History at Georgetown University
and at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is an
American diplomatic historian who specializes in American-East Asian
relations, particularly United States relations with China, Taiwan
and Hong Kong. In 2007 she received a National Intelligence Medal of
Achievement for distinguished meritorious service as the first
Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analytic
Integrity and Standards and Analytic Ombudsman in the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence. In 1986-87, she served in the
Office of Chinese Affairs in the Department of State and at the U.S.
Embassy in Beijing. Previously she taught at Colgate University and
New York University. She has been a fellow at the Institute for
Advanced Study, the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio Study Center),
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the United
States Institute of Peace, Harvard University, and the Chinese Academy
of Social Sciences as well as a Council on Foreign Relations
International Affairs Fellow and recipient of generous research
support from the Smith Richardson Foundation. She has been a member of
the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Historical
Diplomatic Documentation and the boards of the Institute for the Study
of Diplomacy and the National Committee on US-China Relations and is a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her Ph.D. is from Columbia
University. Her book on the strategic and political history of
US-Taiwan relations since 1969 Strait Talk: US-Taiwan Relations and
the Crisis with China will be published in 2008 and her edited volume
on contemporary problems in US-Taiwan-China relations and Taiwan
affairs Dangerous Straits came out in 2005. She is the author of
Uncertain Friendships: Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States,
1945-1992 -- winner of a 1996 Bernath Book Prize of the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations, Patterns in the Dust:
Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950,
co-edited Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World and edited and annotated
China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations.
Her essays have appeared in more than a dozen edited books and various
journals including Foreign Affairs, Journal of American History,
American Historical Review, Survival, Political Science Quarterly,
Diplomatic History and the Washington Quarterly.

First member meeting pictures

2008-07-28T20:10:00.000-07:00

Slides for introduction

2008-07-28T19:45:00.000-07:00

Slides and pictures of our first event (1)

Duke China Forum Is Pleased to Invite You to Attend Her First Member Meeting and Social Activity

2008-07-11T08:05:00.001-07:00

Summer is always the travel time for Chinese scholars and students. Due to the absence of keynote speakers and a broader audience in the summertime, we have to postpone July 18th's nationalism salon until the next semester. We apologize for this unexpected change. Please check our website to see the updated activity information.

We will continue cordially holding the first member meeting and social activity for you on July 18th from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in multicultural lounge in Bryan Center. Delicious Chinese food will be provided. In this social activity, we will introduce this brand new organization, Duke China Forum, to you. A very casual discussion of our organization and brainstorming future discussion topics will follow. If you are determined to come, please register at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=K7lL9_2bmYi6_2bcM6o674UuHA_3d_3d.

Our organization is currently preparing events for throughout the year. We hope this will be an exciting and comfortable place where any person interested in China can express his/her opinions. However, it deserves special emphasis here that DCF is a purely academic organization, which does not uphold any particular political stances, as it is our belief that politics always disturb academic communication. This is the most important spirit of this organization.

Time: Friday, July 18th, 5:30pm-8pm
Location: Multicultural Lounge in Bryan Center
Direction: http://mcc.studentaffairs.duke.edu/location/index.html
Sponsor: Duke China Forum (http://www.dukechinaforum.blogspot.com/)
Co-Sponsor: DCSSA

POSTPONED: The Duke China Forum is pleased to invite you to attend a Salon on Nationalism

2008-07-04T09:24:00.000-07:00

The Duke China Forum is pleased to invite you to attend a Salon on Nationalism.

What do you think about the national mentality encouraged by the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games?

What are your thoughts on the pressures on China’s rich-and-famous to give donations to support the 5.12 Sichuan earthquake victims?

Interested? Come to this salon!

Let’s chat about the implications of nationalism through our own experiences. All thoughts and opinions are welcome! We hope you will enjoy the relaxing and creative atmosphere.

Additionally, delicious food will be provided!

Please register at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=c0CJaToVHXTblSkkI2Qp_2bA_3d_3d

Time: TBA
Location: TBA
Language: Chinese/English.

For more information, please contact dukechinaforum@gmail.com or visit our website: http://www.dukechinaforum.blogspot.com

OYCF Teaching Fellowship

2008-06-05T20:05:00.000-07:00

The OYCF is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for its Teaching Fellowships. Please see details (http://oycf.org/Teach/2008_OYCF_Teaching_Announcement.doc) and Information and Application Procedure (http://oycf.org/Teach/2008_OYCF_Teaching_Procedures.doc).

Blueprint of Duke China Forum

2008-05-16T10:34:00.000-07:00

The Duke China Forum (DCF) is a student-run academic organization, established for students, faculty, scholars and professionals at Duke and the Triangle Area to exchange their views and opinions on social, economic, political and cultural issues occurring in Greater China Region. DCF aims to promote interdisciplinary intellectual exchange among social sciences, humanities, business, law, public policy and science and technology, and develop some innovated ideas and aspirations through regular discussions. DCF expects to become a platform to discuss China issues, a window to know China, and a bridge to link Duke China Study researchers and sister organizations in the world.

DCF will fulfill its mission through five major activities. First, it will organize a monthly academic salon, which serves as a brain exchange activity for members of DCF. The discussion topics are very diverse as long as they are related to social, economic, political and cultural issues concerning the Great China Region. The forms of discussion are also very flexible. Members of DCF are also encouraged to present their research in this salon, and discussion on the related issues will be followed to broaden the communication.

In addition to the monthly salon, DCF will organize a monthly colloquium, where a distinguished speaker will be invited to give a talk. The colloquium will serve as a monthly thoughts igniter for DCF members and broader audience. The primary purpose of this activity is to learn, to educate, and to develop.

Complementing the above two on-site discussion activities is the on-line magazine, which functions as an intellectual reservoir which will cover news, reports, studies interviews, commentaries, and essays related to China studies. This on-line magazine is designed to provide plentiful information and ideas, facilitate cross-disciplinary dialogue, and stimulate the interests in China issues.

DCF will also organize various social activities and annual retreat (e.g., hiking, BBQ) to enhance mutual understandings among its members and bring together interested individuals (e.g. students, faculty, scholars and professionals) to discuss various social issues related to China.

In the long run, DCF also plans to sponsor researchers at Duke and the Triangle Area to teach and do field researches in China by providing a short-term fund, which will help strengthen the tie between DCF and China and increase DCF’s reputation as well.

DCF primarily consists of Duke graduate and professional students, visiting scholars and undergrads regardless of their ethnicities. We also welcome friends who are interested in China Studies from other universities and professional organizations.

DCF is still at the start-up stage and eagerly needs volunteers to fill in the positions in the Organizational Structure. Please drop us a note if you are interested in joining DCF. To maximize your potential leadership and contribution to DCF, you are welcome to occupy several positions simultaneously. We also appreciate any suggestions and supports. Email: dukechinaforum@gmail.com. Website: http://www.dukechinaforum.blogspot.com/. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10641158522.