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

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

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

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

“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"

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

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?"

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.