ChinaRains at Stanford

Announcing "100 Years of Chinese Revolution": Chinarains special events in commemoration of the 1911

2011-09-27T17:14:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,
In commemoration of the centennial of the 1911 revolution, Chinarains has organized a special series of events “100 years of Chinese Revolution”. During the fall quarter, we will hold three talks focusing on different periods in modern Chinese history. Please mark your calender!
1. “Is 1911 Revolution Inevitable?” by Daren RUAN
Nitery 209, Old Union; Oct 6, 2011 (7:00-- 8:30 pm)
2. “To Return Home or “Return to Taiwan”: Conflicts and Survival in the ‘Voluntary Repatriation’ of Chinese POWs in the Korean War”, by David Cheng CHANG
Nitery 209, Old Union, Nov. 3 (7:00-- 8:30 pm)
3. “Reform or Revolution? Liang Qichao’s The Future of a New China” by Ban WANG
Nairobi Room, Graduate Community Center; Nov. 12, 2011 (2: 00-- 3:30pm)
Chinarains is a student academic organization that has served the Stanford community for over 15 years. We organize academic lectures, seminars, film screening and other ctivities in the field of China studies. For further information about Chinrains, please visit our website at http://chinarains.blogspot.com/ or become a friend of Chinarains on Facebook (full features of our facebook page will be updated soon!). If you have any suggestions or recommendations of activities, or if you wish to join Chinarains and help us organize events, please email George Zhijian Qiao at zhijianqiao@gmail.com.
Thank you very much!
Zhijian Qiao President of Chinarains

Is 1911 Revolution Inevitable?

2011-09-27T17:09:00.000-07:00

"Is 1911 Revolution Inevitable?"

by Dr. Daren RUANA

Lecture followed by discussion

Oct 6, 2011. Thursday. 7-- 8:30 p.m.

Room 209, Nitery Building in Old Union, Stanford (Map)

Working Language: Chinese

Soft drinks and refreshments will be provided.

Lecture Abstract:
In view of the Han vs. Manchu discord, the 1911 Revolution is a nationalistic revolution of the Han people against Manchu rule. But had the Qing Dynasty been a Han Chinese regime, then would the 1911 Revolution still break out? To what extent and in what sense, we can regard the 1911 Revolution as a “historical accident”? Still, toward the end of the Qing era, China was facing a crucial situation of drastic change unprecedented in three thousand years. The backward and malfunctioning Qing political system no longer satisfied the new needs of Chinese society and failed to resolve the socioeconomic contradictions triggered by the transformation from an agrarian to an industrial society. As such, was the 1911 Revolution one of the inevitable milestones of great historical change? What is the real historical meaning to the new Chinese elites of the current age? Now 100 years after the 1911 Revolution, has the China of today already accomplished this great historical transformation? Or rather, is contemporary Chinese society approaching another critical juncture in the great historical transformation, not unlike a century ago? The lecture will last an hour, to be followed by Dr. Ruan’s discussion with the audience on the causes and contemporary relevance of the 1911 revolution.

Speaker Bio:
Daren Ruan, after B.S. graduation from National Taiwan University, came to the United States in 1965. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Notre Dame University, MBA from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford. He taught at various universities, and also worked in the Silicon Valley high-tech sector and also in banking. Dr. Ruan belongs to a prominent family of Kuomingtang elite. His grandfather witnessed the 1911 Revolution as a Tongmenghui (Revolutionary Alliance) member. Buttressed with his family background and wide-ranging interests, Dr. Ruan has devoted himself to the study of the republican era Chinese history, with particular expertise in the leading personalities and their anecdotes. He has been a long-term contributor to the Biographic Literature published in Taipei. A vivid public speaker with superb command of historical sources and collaborative references, Dr. Ruan is held in high regard by specialists in modern Chinese history who often rely on his knowledge and always enjoy his company.

各位朋友，Chinarains 诚邀您参加 “百年中国革命”系列活动。10月6日週四晚7時，我們將在Old Union的 Nitery Room 209 舉辦 ”百年中國革命“ 的第一講：
阮大仁博士主講 “辛亥革命的必然性與偶然性”

該講演為中文

講座提要：
因為有滿漢之分，辛亥革命是漢人反抗滿清統治的民族革命。但如果清朝是一個漢人統治的政權，那辛亥革命是否還會發生？在何種程度上，我們可以認為辛亥革命只是歷史的偶然？然而，清末中國面臨三千年未遇之大變局，滿清落後的政治體制不能符合新的社會要求，無法解決中國由農業社會向工商社會轉型所產生的社會矛盾，那辛亥革命是否只是大歷史變遷的必然的里程碑之一呢？對於現在新一代的中國精英而言，辛亥革命的歷史又意味著甚麼？辛亥百年之後的當代中國，是否已經完成了歷史的大轉型？抑或，今天的中國社會，是否又一次走到了大歷史的轉折關頭呢？

講演約一小時，此後阮先生將與聽眾共同討論辛亥革命的緣起及當代意義。

主講人介紹：
阮大仁，1965年臺大畢業後來美，先後獲得聖母大學博士，威斯康星大學MBA，斯坦福電腦工程碩士。曾在多所大學任教，又曾服務於銀行及硅谷高科技屆。阮先生出身於國民黨世家，其祖父為親歷辛亥革命之老同盟會員。阮先生家學淵藪，學識廣博，專研國史，尤其數稔民國掌故，長期為台灣《傳記文學》撰稿。阮先生精於講演，其講史旁徵博引，深入淺出，為眾多近代史專家所推崇。

Special Event: “Writing China in Silicon Valley, A Dialogue between Chen Qian (award-winning female writer based in Silicon Valley) and Wang Kan (visi

2011-05-27T23:49:00.000-07:00

Special Event: “Writing China in Silicon Valley, A Dialogue between Chen Qian (award-winning female writer based in Silicon Valley) and Wang Kan (visiting scholar and professor of literature from Zhejiang), followed by discussion

Time: Saturday 2:30-4:00, May 28, 2011
Place: Nairobi Room, Graduate Community Center (2nd Floor),
750 Escondido Road, Stanford.
Working Language: Chinese
Soft Drinks and Light Refreshments will be served.

Introduction:

Qian Chen grew up in Nanning, China and came to the United States in 1989, where she received a MS degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Idaho, and worked as a logic design engineer until early 2008. During her engineering career, Chen’s stories and essays have been published in People’s Literature, Harvest and other publications in China and abroad. Her first novel, Xia Ju, was published in 2002. Her novella, Listen to the Caged Bird Sing, received the People’s Literature Award, one of the most prestigious literature awards in China, and her novella Teresa’s Rogue received the Yu Da Fu Fiction Prize, and was nominated for the Lu Xun Literature Award, and the National Literature Award of China.
Wang Kan received his Ph.D. from Nanjing University, and is now Professor of contemporary Chinese Literature in Hangzhou Normal University. He specializes in modern Chinese literary thoughts. He is author of five books, including Narratives and Rhetoric (2010), History, Language and Desire (2008), and others.

This dialogue and discussion will include, but not limited to, the following questions: How did Chen Qian manage to reinvent herself from a computer engineer into an award-winning novelist? What is the path that one can take to become a successful writer in China? How to write about China in the U.S.? How is overseas Chinese literature read in Mainland China? How do insiders of the Chinese literature circle understand the contemporary Chinese literary production and the future of Chinese literature?

在硅谷写作中国：关于中国当代文学的对话

陈谦，女，自幼生长于广西南宁，毕业于广西大学。1989年春赴美国留学，获爱达荷大学电机工程硕士学位。曾长期供职于芯片设计业。著有长篇小说《爱在无爱的硅谷》及中篇小说《望断南飞雁》、《特蕾莎的流氓犯》、《覆水》、《残雪》及《何以言爱》等。其中《特蕾莎的流氓犯》入选2008年中国小说排行榜并获首届郁达夫小说奖，及鲁迅文学奖提名。陈谦现居美国硅谷。
王侃，博士，教授，现任职于中国杭州师范大学中文系，从事中国现当代文学思潮研究。代表著作有：《诗与思的维度》（1999）、《感受梦幻》（2000）、《“浙江潮”与中国新文学》（2004）、《历史·语言·欲望》（2008）、《叙事门与修辞术》（2010）。

该对话及讨论将围绕以下问题展开：首先，陈谦将回顾其个人经历，并讲述她如何从一名硅谷电脑工程师转型成为知名作家。其二，我们将探讨文学爱好者如何能在国内文坛获得成功的途径。其三，在美国居住的华人作家如何来写作并展现中国？他们有怎样的独特视角，又有什么困惑？其四，国内文学界又怎样来看待海外的华语文学和中国写作？最后，中国文学的圈内人又如何来看待当前中国的文学创作以及中国文学的未来？

The Sustainable Reconstruction in Rural Areas Damaged by the Earthquake--A Social Experiment in a Chinese Vallage

2011-05-27T23:47:00.000-07:00

Public Talk: “The Sustainable Reconstruction in Rural Areas Damaged by the Earthquake--A Social Experiment in a Chinese Vallage”, by Luo Jar-Der

Time: Saturday 2:30-4:00, May 21, 2011
Place: Nairobi Room, Graduate Community Center (2nd Floor),
750 Escondido Road, Stanford.
Working Language: English and Chinese
Soft Drinks and Light Refreshments will be served.

Abstract:

Japan’s recent massive earthquake and Tsunami reinvigorated public interest in post-earthquake reconstruction. Would China’s recent reconstruction efforts in Sichuan offer any lesson? Three years ago, the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that jolted Sichuan and the neighboring provinces on May 12th in 2008 has caused extensive damage to local society. The Tsinghua Sustainable Reconstruction Project aims at establishing a model for sustainable reconstruction in rural areas that emphasizes sustainability of the local ecology, economy, and social systems. Prof. Luo Jiar-Der, one of the principal participants in the Tsinghua Project will share with us how they endeavored to implement a reconstruction model combining private-public partnership and sustainable concepts into practice, incorporating scientific planning, balanced development, step-by-step implementation and self-reliance of local community.

Speaker:
Luo Jar-Der 罗家德, Professor of Sociology, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
He received his Ph.D. degree in sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and conducted Post-doctoral research in statistics from UC-Berkeley. Professor Luo taught in Yuan-Ze University in Taiwan for 9 years before he joined the sociology department of Tsinghua University in 2005, where he has worked ever since. Professor Luo published a series of articles on the roles of social networks in Taiwan business activities. His current interests include community organizations and urbanization in China.

Film Screening & Discussion: Popular Democracy in Contemporary China

2011-05-14T17:01:00.000-07:00

Over the last few weeks, a wave of popular unrests and calls for democracy has swept the Middle East. Most recently, this wave has spread to China, when organized small-scale popular protests unnerve the Chinese public. What is the situation of democracy in China? How do the grassroots population approach the question and practice of democracy?

At this interesting historical moment, Chinarains is going to organize a special event to help understand the situation of popular democracy in contemporary China through screening a documentary film “Please Vote for Me”, which tells an intriguing story of a kids election in an elementary school in urban central China. Directed by Chen Weijun, this 2007 documentary has won a series of awards in international film festivals. Meanwhile, we have invited Wang Rui, Ph.D. candicate at Communication Department at Stanford to introduce the film and lead discussions. Wang Rui specializes in deliberative democracy, democratic experiment and practice in China.

Following is the information of the event:

When: March 5, 2011. Satuday. 2:30--4:00 p.m.
Where: Nairobi Room, 2nd Floor, Graduate Community Center. (750 Escondido Road, Stanford)
What: Film-Screening of “Please Vote For Me” (57 minutes)
Discussion with Wang Rui (30 minutes)
Language: Film- Chinese Dialogue with English Subtitles
Discussion in English.

For further information about the film, please refer to http://www.pleasevoteforme.org/
For further information about Chinrains, please visit our website at http://chinarains.blogspot.com/ or become a friend of Chinarains on Facebook.

Capitalism, War, and Revolution--What You May Not Know about Hong Kong

2011-05-14T16:55:00.000-07:00

2011 marks the 100th anniversary of China’s 1911 Revolution; it also marks the 170th anniversary of the first hoisting of the British Union Jack on Hong Kong Island. Over the course of its history, Hong Kong has transformed from a frontier isle into the business hub in the Orient and financial powerhouse of Asia. Yet what are the forces that contributed to Hong Kong's metamorphosis? What was the Hong Kong experience of revolutions, wars and global capitalism that swept the world over the last century?

Talk: "Capitalism, War, and Revolution--What You May Not Know about Hong Kong"

(1 hour presentation and 30 minutes discussion)

Speaker: Nicole Kwan and Ming Chan

Time: Saturday 2:30-4:00, April 23.

Place: Nairobi Room, Graduate Community Center (2nd Floor), 750 Escondido Road, Stanford.

Working Language: English

Soft drinks and refreshment will be provided.

Talk Summary and Bio of Speakers:

2011 marks the 100th anniversary of China’s 1911 Revolution; it also marks the 170th anniversary of the first hoisting of the British Union Jack on Hong Kong Island. Dr. Sun Yat-sen attended Central College in Hong Kong starting in 1884, and graduated in 1892 from the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (later the medical faculty of the University of Hong Kong). Upon re-visiting the University in 1923, Dr. Sun said, “I feel as though I have returned home, because Hong Kong and its university are my intellectual birthplace…”

Nicole Kwan, who co-authored The Dragon and the Crown: Hong Kong Memoirs with her uncle Stanley Kwan, will talk about their book and share the discoveries of her research on Hong Kong’s past century. The Dragon and the Crown is the memoir of Stanley Kwan who created the Hang Seng Index (Hong Kong’s equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average) in 1969 while working at Hang Seng Bank. The talk will cover

topics that include: the little-known but pivotal role of yinhao (traditional Chinese banks) in pre-War Hong Kong; the work of Hong Kong interpreters deployed with American forces in wartime China; and the critical presence of the Chinese Communist Party in the former colony. She will be joined by Professor Ming Chan, who will talk about Hong Kong’s important role in China’s 1911 Revolution and comment on major trends and key developments during this turbulent period of Hong Kong history.

Ms. Kwan has a BA degree from Smith College and MAs from Yale University and the University of Hong Kong. She worked in international banking for over 20 years while based in Hong Kong and conducted the course “Doing Business in China” at Stanford University during 2005-07. The Dragon and the Crown: Hong Kong Memoirs was published by Hong Kong University Press (hardcover 2009, paperback 2011).

As a historian of modern China focusing on Guangdong and Hong Kong-Macao, Prof. Chan received all three degrees in the US, including a PhD from Stanford at age 25. Besides Stanford, he has taught at the University of Hong Kong, Duke and UCLA, amongst others, and was a Research Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, 1976-80 and 1999-09, when he ran the Hong Kong Documentary Archives project. He is currently with the Center of East Asian Studies at Stanford University. Among his 13 books, the latest is New Perspectives on Modern Lingnan History: Guangdong and Its Hong Kong Links, 1900-1938.

Whither China? Time for Cultural Rejuvenation

2011-05-14T16:52:00.000-07:00

Are you concerned about where China is heading toward? When the world attention is attracted to China's extraordinary economic growth and rapidly increasing political clout, cultural transformation in contemporary China is no less epic. Is China going to be more Westernized? Or is Chinese intellectual and cultural tradition reviving? ChinaRains has invited the famous public intellectual and political philosopher Dr. Hsieh Shan Yuan (謝善元) to share his thinking about cultural rejuvenation in contemporary China.

Talk: "Whither China? Time for Cultural Rejuvenation"

by Dr. Hsieh Shanyuan

When: April 2, 2011. Saturday. 2:30--4:00 p.m.
Where: Nairobi Room, Graduate Community Center, 2nd Floor (750 Escondido Road, Stanford)
Language: English
Soft drinks and refreshments will be provided.

Abstract of the Talk:

China's "No.2 World Economy" status has produced both admirations and concerns in the world. The concerns are intensified when Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and his wife were prevented from going to Norway to accept the award. Some people are tempted to cite Samuel Huntington's theory of civilizational conflicts to explain this incident. But a history-conscious person would probably characterize it more as an evidence of China's failture to fulfil the aspirations of her intellectuals of the early 20th century. They embraced science and democracy as the surest ways of saving China and totally abandoned their cultural heritage. A review of the history of these ideas and that of Chinese culture indicates that, while their insight is laudable, their understanding of tradition is inadequate. There are indeed elements in Chinese culture which are compatible with the requirements of both science and democracy. By reorganizing the core teachings of both Confucius and Mencius and by supplementing them with valuable ideas from other schools of thought, one can form a synthesis which, if adopted by the Chinese people, would hopefully guide China's future policies. And a culturally rejuvenated China could probably convince the whole world that her rise would indeed be peaceful.

Short Bio of the Speaker:

Dr. Hsieh Shan-yuan received his Ph.D. in Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations from University of Chicago. He has taught classical Chinese philosophy in various universities, including University of Toronto and University of Denver. Currently, he is a freelance writer and translator. His publications range from academic monographs to Chinese translations of Western classics. Below are some of his publications:
1. Plato Republic (tr.into Chinese from Paul Shorey's Eng. version), to be published.
2. The Last Days of Socrates (tr. into Chinese from Hugh Tredennick's Eng.version), (Shanghai: Yiwen Publishing Co., 2007)
3. The Life and Thought of Confucius, video, 1993
4.The Life and Thought of Li Kou (1009-1059), (S.F.: Chinese Materials Center, 1979)
5. "Hsun-tzu's Political Philosophy", Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 6.1, pp. 69-90, March 1979

A Historical Examination of Nomadic Societies in Northern China-—A Case Study of the Kazakh People

2011-03-01T11:24:00.000-08:00

A Historical Examination of Nomadic Societies in Northern China
—A Case Study of the Kazakh People
中国北方游牧民族社会生活的历史学考察

Zhongyi Han
Professor and Research Fellow
Northwestern Nationalities Research Center
Shaanxi Normal University
韩中义
陕西师范大学西北民族研究中心

Saturday, Feb 26, 2010
2:30-4:00pm
Graduate Community Center (GCC), Nairobi Room
750 Escondido Road (http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-400)

Working language: Chinese
讲座语言：中文

Outline of the talk:

一中国北方游牧民族社会生活的一般性考察
1，历史上中国北方的游牧民族
2，中国北方游牧民族的社会生活管窥
3，有关北方游牧民族的史料与研究。
二中国游牧民族四季迁徙
1，历史上的四季游牧
2，当今游牧生活——以哈萨克族四季迁徙的人类学解读：
2.1，哈萨克族的历史、分布、人口略谈
2.2，哈萨克族四季迁徙——四季牧场
2.3. 哈萨克族精神生活与物质生活
2.4.哈萨克游牧生活的未来状况，以及相关研究

A. general examination of the nomad societies in northern China
(1). northen nomad societies in Chinese history
(2). everyday life of the nomads
(3). historical sources and the state of research
B. Seasonal migration of the nomads
(1). seasonal migration in history
(2). nomad life in the contemporary: anthropologist approach to seasonal migration
(2.1) history, distribution, and population of the Kazakh people
(2.2) seasonal migration of the Kazakh people---seasonal pasture
(2.3) mentality and material life of the Kazakh people
(2.4) the future of the Kazakh nomad life, and related research

About the Speaker:

韩中义，陕西师范大学西北民族研究中心研究员/教授。1985-1992年在中央民族大学学习，获得学士、硕士学位。1992-2001年在新疆社会科学院工作，主要研究新疆宗教、民族问题。2001-2004年在南京大学历史学系学习，获得博士学位。2004-至今在陕西师范大学西北民族研究中心工作，主要研究中亚、新疆伊斯兰教历史、民族史。讲授课程主要有蒙古史、维吾尔族史、伊斯兰教史、少数民族史料学等。出版了《西域苏非主义研究》一部，发表了《喀喇汗王朝名称杂考》等30余篇论文。现为斯坦福大学伊斯兰研究中心访问学者。

Han Zhongyi is Professor and Research Fellow at the Northwestern Nationalities Research Center, Shaanxi Normal University. He received BA and MA from the Central University for Nationalities, and Ph.D. in history from Nanjing University. He has worked in Xinjiang Social Science Academy between 1992 and 2001. His research focuses on Central Asia and Xinjiang Islamic history, while his publications features studies of Sufism in the Western Region, and other central Asian historical problems. Currently, he is visiting scholar at the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford.

Archaeology and the Chinese Public: From The Case of "Cao Cao Mausoleum"

2011-03-01T11:17:00.000-08:00

Archaeology and the Chinese Public
—from the case of “Cao Cao Mausoleum”
考古与公众：从“曹操墓”谈起

Tao Wang
Associate Professor of Archaeology
Chinese Academy of Sciences

王涛
中国科学院

Saturday, Feb 19, 2010
2:30-4:00pm
Graduate Community Center (GCC), Nairobi Room
750 Escondido Road (http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-400)

Working language: Chinese
讲座语言：中文

Outline of the talk:
近些年来，中国的重大考古发现层出不穷。随着人们的文化遗产保护意识的增强，一些考古发现引起了社会各界的关注，成为了新闻热点。例如去年去年河南安阳曹操墓的发掘就引发了轰动，甚至聚讼纷争，莫衷一是。本次报告，中国科学院科技考古系的王涛教授将向同学们介绍考古学的基本原理，探索考古发现的一般经过，考古学研究的工作过程，以及科技考古的最新发展。同时，他将以曹操墓的发掘工作为例，从考古学专业角度来分析围绕着曹操墓的争议与谜团。
In recent years, China has manifested series of monumental archaeological discoveries. When the Chinese public is becoming more and more interested in cultural heritage conservation, a number of archaeological projects attracted enormous public attention. One such example is the excavation of the “Cao Cao Mausoleum" in Anyang, Henan Province, which aroused excitement as well as huge controversies. In this talk, Prof. Wang from Department of Archaeological Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences will introduce the basic principles and work process of archaeology, and the recent development of archaeological science. He will also analyze the controversies and myths around the “Cao Cao Mausoleum” from the perspective of a professional archaeologist.

About the Speaker:

王涛，中国科学院研究生院科技考古系副教授，硕士生导师。在西北大学文博学院考古学专业获得学士、硕士学位；2001－2005年就读于北京大学考古文博学院，2005年获博士学位。从事考古学教学与科研工作，主要研究方向为新石器时代考古与陶器分析，已在国内外期刊发表相关专业文章20余篇。现为斯坦福大学考古中心访问学者。

Tao Wang is Associate Professor at the Department of Scientific Archaeology, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his B.A. and M.A. in archaeology from Northwestern University, China. He received his Ph.D. in archaeology from Beijing University. His research focuses on the pre-historical archaeology of China. He specializes in pottery analysis. Currently, he is visiting scholar at the Stanford Archaeology Center.

The First Stock Market Crash in Chinese History: 1882-1883

2011-03-01T11:08:00.000-08:00

The First Stock Market Crash in Chinese History: 1882-1883

中國歷史上的第一次股災

Yu Li
Professor
Department of History, Center for Studies of Republican China
Nanjing University

李玉
教授、博士生导师
南京大学历史系
中国民国史研究中心

Thursday,May 20, 2010
7:30-9:00 pm
Meyer Library, Room 142
560 Escondido Mall (Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-400)
Working language: Chinese
讲座语言：中文

Outline of the talk:

19世纪80年代初期，近代股市在上海出现后不久，就发生了一次严重的市场风潮，其前因后果颇值得关注与检讨。
一、上海股市渐趋火热
二、股市带动创业
三、股市火热与企业绩效基本无关
四、风险渐至
五、企业受损
六、民心大失
七、走向理性

In early 1880s, immediately after modern stock market first appeared in Shanghai, a stock market crash hit the investors badly. It was the first stock market crash in Chinese history, which also has multiple implications for later development of the Chinese capital market and financial sector. Prof. Li will lead us through the process of that incident,explaining its origins as well as interpreting its consequences.

About the Speaker:

李玉：南京大学历史系、中华民国史研究中心教授，博士生导师，已出版《晚清公司制度建设研究》、《北洋政府时期企业制度结构史论》、《长沙的近代化启动》、《国民党政治与社会结构之演变（1905-1949）》（合著）等著作，现为斯坦福大学胡佛研究所访问学者。

Yu Li, Professor, Department of History and Center for Studies of Republican China, Nanjing University. He is a distinguished researcher on history of enterprises in modern China, and has extensive publications on the history of modern China. His major publications include: Studies of Late Qing Business Institutions (2002), History of Business Institutions in Early Republican China (2007), Engineering the Modernization of Changsha (2000), Politics of the Kuomintang and the Transformation of Chinese Social Structure: 1905-1949 (2007) .

George Zhijian Qiao

The Autumn-Spring and Warring States and The Unification of China – The Formation of “Super Stable Structure” in Ancient China

2010-05-01T20:59:00.000-07:00

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The Autumn-Spring and Warring States and The Unification of China
– The Formation of “Super Stable Structure” in Ancient China
春秋战国历史与中国的统一——古代中国“超稳定结构”的形成

Dingxin Zhao
Professor of Sociology
University of Chicago

赵鼎新
芝加哥大学 社会学系教授

Tuesday, April 27, 2010
7:30-9:00pm
Meyer Library, Room 143
560 Escondido Mall (Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-400)

Working language: Chinese
讲座语言：中文

Outline of the talk:
讲座概要：
本次演讲将为大家介绍一个从韦伯和斯宾赛的理论演化而来的社会变迁模型。这个模型的应用能够揭开许多历史轨迹的关键。其对于理解中国的过去，尤其是春秋战国历史，尤为重要。演讲的内容将涉及以下问题：为什么春秋战国时期的中国在政治、意识形态、军事和经济等方面取得了非同寻常的快速发展？在春秋战国时期为什么国家权利能够持续增强，从而引起强大并且军事化的官僚国家的形成？为什么中国能够在公元前221年得到统一，在诸国列强中为什么是秦国在激烈的军事冲突中赢得了胜利？为什么皇权系统在中国得以从公元前221年延续到20世纪早期而不发生重大变化？为什么军事指挥官在内战当中发挥的作用不大？为什么宗教没有对中国的政治产生重大影响？历史上影响中国与游牧民族关系的因素有哪些？为什么中国没有发生工业革命等等。

This talk presents a general model of social change developed from the theories of Max Weber and Herbert Spencer. The model is applied to address numerous research questions and historical patterns crucial to understanding the Chinese past, especially the history of the Spring-Autumn and Warring States (SA&WS) era (770-221 BCE). Some of those research questions and historical patterns include: Why was China able to achieve an unusual pace of development in politics, ideology, military and economy in the SA&WS era? Why was the state power able to attain increasing domination during the SW&WS, leading to the rise of the strong and militarized bureaucratic state? Why could China end in unification in 221 BCE and why was it Qin rather than the other states that won out in the fierce military conflict? Why could a similar imperial system persist in China most of the time from 221 BCE to the early 20^th century? Why did military commanders play little role in politics except during civil wars? Why did transcendental religions fail to have a great impact on Chinese politics?
What were the forces that shaped nomads-Chinese relationships in imperial China? Why didn’t an industrial revolution take place in China?

Bio of The Speaker:
演讲者简介：
赵鼎新教授任教于芝加哥大学社会学系。他的研究方向包括社会运动、民族主义、历史社会学、社会变迁以及经济发展。他目前的研究工作试图从历史社会学的角度，比较中国与欧洲的经验，从而建构一个基于经验研究的理论，并以此来解释中国春秋战国时期的国家、军队、经济与哲学系统、秦国对中国的统一、以及春秋战国对中国后来历史的影响。在斯坦福大学访问期间，赵鼎新教授致力于此项研究成果的书稿写作。

Dingxin Zhao is professor in Sociology at the University of Chicago. His research covers social movements, nationalism, historical sociology, social change and economic development. He is currently working on a project on historical sociology, which, based on a comparison with the European experience, is intended to develop an empirically-grounded theory to explain the changes in state, military, economy and philosophy during China's Axial Age (722-221 BCE), the unification of China under the Qin Empire (221-206 BCE), and how the developments of this period shaped China's later history. He intends to devote his time here at Stanford to write a book, and is very much looking forward to getting to know more about Stanford and the faculty and students of this school.

The National Leader in Exile: Chiang Kai-shek's First Decade in Taiwan 1949-1958

2010-04-25T14:17:00.001-07:00

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The National Leader in Exile:

Chiang Kai-shek's First Decade in Taiwan 1949-1958

他鄉明月故鄉情：1949－1958年的蔣介石

Nancy Chen

Professor of History

Chinese Culture University

陳立文

中國文化大學史學系教授

Thursday, April 8, 2010

7:30-9:00pm

Meyer Library, Room 143

560 Escondido Mall (Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-400)

Working language: Chinese

讲座语言：中文

Photos courtesy of P H Yang Photography 攝影: 楊必興 (phyang.org)

Outline of The Talk：

講座概要：

蔣介石從1947年開始考慮要在國民當內部另起爐灶，建立新的體系。蔣如何開始這樣的思考？從1949年到1958年的十年中，蔣介石初到台灣，在思鄉、期待返鄉和建設他鄉之間猶豫、徬徨並掙扎。他究竟如何做出抉擇？陳教授將帶我們走進這中國現代大分流的十年中，被迫棲居台灣的蔣介石的心路歷程。

Bio of The Speaker:

演講者簡介：

Prof. Chen obtained her Ph.D. from the History Research Institute of Chinese Culture University. She is currently Professor of History at the History Department, Chinese Culture University. Her research focuses on history of modern China, diplomatic history in particular. Her major publications include: T.V. Soong and Wartime Diplomacy (1991), Wartime China's Diplomatic Efforts (2000), Examine the Northeast Turnover from the Perspective of Party Politics (2001). Between 2007 and 2009, Prof. Chen conducted an oral history project and interviewed more than thirty Chiang Kai-shek's attendants.　

陳立文教授予中國文化大學史學研究所取得博士學位，現為中國文化大學史學系專任教授，主要研究中國現代史、中國近現代外交史，為著名的中國近現代外交史、政治史專家。陳教授的專著包括：《宋子文與戰時外交》（1991），《抗戰期間中國爭取國際地位之努力論文集》（2000），《從黨務發展看東北接收》（2001）。陳教授還在2007－2009年期間主持過蔣介石侍從人員的口述史訪談計劃，採訪了三十多位蔣介石的近身侍從。

The Secret History of Sino-Japanese Relations: CCP & KMT’s Post War Employment of Japanese Human Resources

2010-04-06T20:21:00.002-07:00

The Secret History of Sino-Japanese Relations:

CCP & KMT's Post War Employment of Japanese Human Resources

"Bai Tuan" And Chiang's Changing Policies toward Japan

中日秘史：战后国共两党对日本人的“留用”

——兼谈“白团”及蒋介石对日政策的变化

Xijun Lu

Professor of International Relations

Daito Bunka University

鹿锡俊

日本大东文化大学国际关系学部教授

Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010

7:30-9:00pm

Meyer Library, Room 143

560 Escondido Mall (Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-400)

Working language: Chinese

讲座语言：中文

Outline of The Talk:

内容概要：

Since the release of diaries of Chiang Kai-shek, some popular media including Phoenix Satellite TV has reported how Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT authorities used “Bai Tuan”, a group of former Japanese military officers, to aid military training in the 1950s. There have on-going debates on this issue ever since, especially on the Internet. In fact, not only Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT used the defeated Japanese, Mao and the CCP did as well. Nor was the beginning of this practice 1950. It was rather in 1945, the year when the War of Resistance against Japan ended, that both parties started to use the defeated Japanese. Professor Lu, who has been studying the employment of the defeated Japanese since 2002, will give us a talk on the following issues:

随着蒋介石日记的开放和凤凰卫视等媒体的报道，有关蒋介石和国民党当局1950年代曾利用日本旧军官组成的“白团”帮助军事训练的议论，成为近日互联网的一个热点。其实，以“留用” 的名义使战败的日本人为我所用的，不仅是蒋介石和国民党，还有毛泽东和共产党；双方各自留用日本人的起点，也不是1950年，而是抗日战争刚刚结束的1945年。早在2002年就开始研究留用日本人问题的鹿锡俊教授，将在报告中着重谈论以下内容：

一．“残留日本人”与 “留用日本人”的区别

The distinction between the staying Japanese and the employed Japanese

二．共产党统治区是如何留用日本人的?

How did the CCP use the Japanese?

三．国民党统治区是如何留用日本人的?

How did the KMT use the Japanese?

四．国共两党在前期对日政策上的異同

Differences and similarities between CCP and KMT’s policies toward Japan

五．“白团”及迁台初期蒋介石的转折

“Bai Tuan” and Chiang’s turning point in the early years in Taiwan

六．留用問題的研究意義

Implications of the study

Bio of The Speaker:

演讲者简介：

Professor Lu got two Ph.Ds from the faculty of history at Fudan University and the faculty of law at Hitotsubashi University respectively. He was a professor at Japan’s University of Shimane, and served as reviewer of the Japanese Association of International Relations, before his current professorship at Daito Bunka University. He is also director of the “China Politics and Diplomacy History” lecture series at Hitotsubashi University, distinguished research fellow at the Korean Studies Center at Fudan University, and visiting professor at the Center of ROC Studies at Nanjing University. He has been visiting at the Hoover Institution since April 2009. His main research interest is East Asian international relations and Sino-Japan diplomatic history. Many of his works are published in top journals such as Modern History Studies and History Studies. In recent years, Professor Lu has been chosen as head researcher for many important projects sponsored by various academic foundations including Japan Society for The Promotion of Science. This talk represents preliminary results from one of Professor Lu's on-going projects, "Japanese Human Resources And China's Post-War Reconstruction".

鹿锡俊教授先后毕业于中國復旦大學歷史系博士課程和日本一橋大學法學部博士課程，双双獲得博士學位。

歷任日本島根縣立大學教授、日本國際政治學會評議員等，現任日本大東文化大學“東亞政治與國際關係”教授，同時负责日本一橋大學“中國政治外交史”讲座，并兼任中國復旦大學韓國朝鮮研究中心特聘研究員、南京大學中華民國史研究中心客座教授等。2009年4月起任斯坦福大学胡佛研究院访问学者。

主要研究方向為東亞國際關係與中日政治外交史，已发表的相关论著有:《中國國民政府的對日政策：1931－1933》（東京大學出版會、2001年）;《蒋介石的中日蘇關係観與“制俄攘日”戦略》（2003年）;《國民政府留用日本技術人員的政策過程》(2006年);《日本的國際戰略與中日戰爭的擴大化》(2007年)；《戰爭的世界化與中國的國際解決戰略》(2007年)；《中國問題與日本1941年的開戰決策――以日方檔案為依據的再確認》(2008年)，《國民政府對歐戰及結盟問題的應對》(2008年)、《蔣介石與1935年中日蘇關係的轉折》(2009年)等。这些研究成果大多发表在《近代史研究》與《歷史研究》等頂級雜誌。

近年多次被遴選為日本學術振興會等各种學術基金重點研究課題的主持人。本次報告的內容即為正在進行之中的研究課題“日本的人力資源與戰後中國的重構”的階段性成果。

Chiang Kai-shek Reappraised: Unlocking Modern China History

2010-04-06T20:08:00.000-07:00

Chiang Kai-shek Reappraised: Unlocking Modern China History

重看蒋介石：解密中国现代史

Tai-chun Kuo

Research Fellow

Hoover Institution, Stanford University

郭岱君

斯坦福大学胡佛研究院研究员

Tuesday, Feb 9, 2010

7:30-9:00pm

Meyer Library, Room 147

560 Escondido Mall (Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-400)

Working language: Chinese

讲座语言：中文

Outline of The Talk:

内容概要：

The awakening of China in the last two decades has sent shock waves throughout the world and has been followed by a gradual reconfiguring of the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region. It is the history of China in the last century which has shaped those forces of change and a history little understood by outsiders.

The diaries of Chiang Kai-shek have been opened for researchers at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. As a longtime leader of the Republic of China in the Chinese mainland (before 1949) and in Taiwan (1949-1975) the availability of Chiang diaries has opened a window for new interpretations to understand China and to re-evaluate important events and individuals in the 20th century.

In this talk, Dr. Tai-chu Kuo reappraises Chiang Kai-shek, his leadership, political thinking, and policies with a focus on the following issues:

How was Chiang able to seize so much power after Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s death?
蒋是如何在孙中山去世后获得这么大权力的？

Why did Chiang oppose Communism and was determined to eliminate the Chinese Communists?
蒋为什么反共，而且要决心剿共？

What was Chiang’s reaction to Japan’s invasion in 1931 and his strategy to confront Imperial Japan’s aggression?
蒋对日本1931年侵华作何反应，他就对抗日本帝国主义的侵略有哪些主张？

What was the real basis for the famous Chiang-Stilwell dispute during 1942-44 and its influence on Sino-American relations?
1942－44年蒋与史迪威的分歧背后真正的因素是什么，其对中美关系产生了什么影响？

Chiang Kai-shek and the 228 uprising of 1947.
蒋介石与1947年的228事件。

Why was the Kuomintang party led by Chiang Kai-shek defeated by the Chinese Communists in 1949? How did Chiang view the civil war?
为什么蒋介石领导的国民党1949年败给中国共产党？蒋如何看待国共内战？

Chiang’s self-examination and Kuomintang’s reforms in Taiwan after 1949.
蒋的自我反省与1949年之后国民党在台湾的改革。

Others.
其他。

Bio of The Speaker:

演讲者简介：

Tai-chun Kuo is Research Fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Prior to this position, she was a Visiting Lecturer at Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University (2003) and Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of American Studies, Tamkang University (Taiwan, 1997-2000). She served as Press Secretary to the ROC President (1990-1995), Deputy Director-General of the First Bureau of the Presidential Office (1989-1997), Director of the ROC Government Information Office in Boston (1987-1988).

In addition to researches, since 2003, she has assisted the Hoover Institution Archives to develop its Modern China Archives and Special Collections which includes the archives of the Kuomintang (Nationalist) party, diaries of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo, personal papers of T. V. Soong, H. H. K’ung, and other leading Chinese individuals.

Her major publications include T.V. Soong and His Time, T. V. Soong in Modern Chinese History, China’s Quest for Unification, National Security, and Modernization, Breaking with the Past: China’s First Market Economy, Watching Communist China, 1949-79: A Methodological Review of China Studies in the United States of America and Taiwan, The Power and Personality of Mao Tse-tung, etc.

Expertise: Political Economy, Chinese politics, Chinese economic reforms, U.S.-China relations, modern Chinese historical document researches.

郭岱君教授目前是斯坦福大学胡佛研究所的研究员。此前，她曾任斯坦福大学东亚研究中心客座讲师（2003）以及淡江大學美研所副教授（台湾，1997－2003），台湾总统新闻秘书（1990－1995）等职。自2003年起，她帮助胡佛所建立了近代中国档案以及一系列特别收藏，其中包括国民党党史、蒋介石日记、蒋经国日记、宋子文、孔祥熙以及其他重要人物的私人资料。主要著作有T.V. Soong and His Time, T. V. Soong in Modern Chinese History, China’s Quest for Unification, National Security, and Modernization 等等。

Perspectives on China's Democratic Political Development

2010-01-27T21:09:00.000-08:00

Perspectives on China's Democratic Political Development
中国民主的发展方向

Li Liangdong
Department Head of the Central Party School's Politics and Law Department

李良栋
中共中央党校政法教研部主任教授

Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010
7:30-9:00pm
Havana Room, Graduate Community Center
750 Escondido Road, Stanford, CA 94305

http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-400

Working language: Chinese

In addition, please also try to make Professor Li's public speech at Stanford at 12:00 pm on Wed, Jan 27 in Encina Hall

hosted by CDDRL and Center for Deliberative Democracy
RSVP online - http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/democratic_reform_in_china_personal_reflections/

Professor Li Liangdong is currently the Department Head of the Central Party School's Politics and Law Department. He directly advises senior officials in the Chinese Communist Party. Professor Li received his doctorate from the Central Party School in Law. His main research areas are: democratic perspective, Western political thought, and political theory. Some of his key works include: Contemporary Chinese Studies of Public Opinion (Central Party School Press, 1996), Mao Zedong and Chinese Farmers (China Farmers Press, 1993), Contemporary Chinese Democracy Studies (Contemporary World Press, 2001 edition), and Third Wave and the Chinese Democracy (Central Party School Press, 2001 edition). He has published over 300 articles. Professor Li has hosted discussions on topics including "Public Discussion in China," "Societal Transitions", and "Study of Political Stability"

李良栋教授1989年在中共中央党校获法学博士学位。现任中共中央党校政法教研部主任，教授、博士研究生导师、博士后合作导师。中央直接联系的专家、国家哲学社会科学基金政治学学科评定组成员。中国政治学学会理事、中国高级公务员培训中心和中国青年政治学院客座教授。主要研究领域：民主政治问题、西方政治思想、政治文化理论。主要代表作有：《当代中国社会舆论问题研究》、《转型期的社会治安》、《当代中国民主问题研究》、《“第三波”与中国民主》（中共中央党校出版社2001年版）、《中国社会主义政治文明建设论》等。主编过《新编政治学原理》等教材和书籍共10多部。先后在报刊上发表过论文300多篇。曾经主持完成“中国社会舆论问题研究”、“转型期社会治安问题研究”、“政治稳定问题研究”等课题研究。现正主持国家委托重大课题“中国共产党执政方式改革问题研究”。

Movie & Discussion: The Founding of a Republic

2009-11-01T19:50:00.000-08:00

Stanford ChinaRains presents movie screening of the recent hit Jian Guo Da Ye (The Founding of a Republic, Chinese sound, English subtitle) followed by panel discussion on November 1, 2009. We are honored to have the experts of the Hoover Institute, one of the most prestigious research centers on modern Chinese history, joining our discussion and offering their insights on the historical details covered or uncovered in the movie!

he movie screening starts at 1 pm Sunday afternoon, and the discussion will start at about 3:30 pm.
A map of the location can be found at: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=01-120
电影放映于本周日下午1点钟开始，专题讨论于3点半左右开始。
场地地图请点击http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=01-120

Biographies of the speakers:

Kuo Tai-chun

Tai-chun Kuo is Research Fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Prior to this position, she was a Visiting Lecturer at Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University (2003) and Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of American Studies, Tamkang University (Taiwan, 1997-2000). She served as Press Secretary to the ROC President (1990-1995), Deputy Director-General of the First Bureau of the Presidential Office (1989-1997), Director of the ROC Government Information Office in Boston (1987-1988). In addition to researches, since 2003, she has assisted the Hoover Institution Archives to develop its Modern China Archives and Special Collections. Her major publications include T. V. Soong in Modern Chinese History, China’s Quest for Unification, National Security, and Modernization, Breaking with the Past: China’s First Market Economy, Watching Communist China, 1949-79: A Methodological Review of China Studies in the United States of America and Taiwan, The Power and Personality of Mao Tse-tung, etc.

Duan Ruicong

Ruicong Duan is Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University Japan. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the program in Political Science, Graduate School of Law, at the Keio University, and his B.A. from the Department of Foreign Language at Inner Mongolia University, China. He has also taught at Kyorin University, Japan and the Inner Mongolia University, China. He is the author of Chiang Kai-shek and the New Life Movement (Keio University Press, 2006). He is the joint editor of The Sino-Japanese Relations at the Cross Road (Koyoshobo Press, 2007). Professor Duan is currently a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He research area is the relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and Japan.

Luo Min

Dr. Luo Min now is an associate research fellow at the Institute of Modern History of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS). She got her Ph.D on Chinese modern history at the Graduate School of CASS in 1999. From November 2008 to present, she is a visiting fellow of Hoover Institute, working on studying Chiang Kai-shek's Diaries and other Guomintang's archives. Her research field is the History of Chinese nationalist Party, focusing on Guomindang's Factional struggles in the 1930s.

Research on Ancient People’s Diet: Using Isotope analysis of Carbon-13 and Nitrogen-1

2009-10-28T16:37:00.000-07:00

" Research on Ancient People’s Diet: Using Isotope analysis of Carbon-13 and Nitrogen-14”

古人类食物结构研究: 应用稳定同位素碳十三、氮十五的分析

Keywords : diet, isotope analysis, earlier prehistory

Speaker : Professor Xuelian Zhang 张雪莲教授
Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Archaeology Center, Stanford University

Thursday, Oct. 15, 7:00-9:00pm @ Meyer Library, Room 147
Location Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-400

Working language: Chinese

Outline of the Talk

Analysis of stable isotope 13C and 15N from human bones is an important method for research on ancient people’s diet. Analysis of 13C can tell us about what the people have in their staple food and analysis of 15N can reflect the nutrition level of the people. In 1980s, analysis of 13C was first introduced in China by the Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory of Institute of Archaeology and human or animal bones from some famous archaeological sites of China such as Yangshao and Taosi were analyzed and it revealed that people had the kind of millet as their staple food and while the pig had bran of millet as their staple food, which started the research in China. In the beginning of the century, on the basis of a lot of experiments, the analysis of 15N was established with the instrument for element analysis in the Laboratory for the first time in China, which completing the method as a whole. Recent years, by this method, many archaeological sites, especially some earlier prehistory sites have been detected on the diet of past and then it also provided the basis for the research on natural environment, development of productive forces and related social customs.

Bio. Of Professor Xuelian Zhang
Xuelian Zhang is Professor at Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She received her Ph.D.in Department of Archaeology, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, her M. S. in Department of Chemistry, Fudan University and B. S. in Department of Chemistry, Shandong Normal University. She is the head of Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory of the Institute of Archaeology and recipient of “Excellent Researcher of Science and Technology of China” as well as “Excellent Post-Doctor of China”. She has taken part in many research programs supported by National Department of Science and Technology in recently years. Professor Zhang is currently a visiting fellow at the Archaeology Center, Stanford University. Her research areas are 1. Research on Ancient people’s diet by isotope analysis and 2. Radiocarbon d ating and chronology for Neolithic and the Bronze Age in China

Tianjue Luo
ChinaRains @ Stanford University

Chiang Kai-shek's Views of Asia: An analysis of Chiang Kai-shek's visit to India in 1942

2009-10-28T16:35:00.000-07:00

"Chiang Kai-shek's Views of Asia: An analysis of Chiang Kai-shek's visit to India in 1942”

蒋介石的亚洲观：1942年蒋介石访问印度之分析

Keywords : Chiang Kai-shek, diaries, India, Asia

Speaker : Professor Ruicong Duan
段瑞聪副教授
Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University Japan
Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Thursday, May 21, 7:00-9:00pm
Meyer Library, Room 147
Location Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-400

Working language: Chinese

Outline of the Talk

The Pacific War broke out on December 8, 1941. As a supreme commander of the Chinese Theater, Chiang Kai-shek visited India during February 5 to February 21, 1942. As we all know, during the Pacific War India was a British colony. Previous studies pointed out that Chiang Kai-shek's visit to India had two main purposes: first, to discuss how to strengthen military cooperation with the Government of India; second, to adjust the relationship between the Government of India and the Indian National Congress. However, I think that Chiang Kai-shek's visit to India is closely related to his views of Asia. Chiang Kai-shek’s views of Asia is also closely related to that of Sun Yat-sen's. The main purpose of the presentation is to draw upon new historical materials including diaries of Chiang Kai-shek to analyze the continuity between Chiang Kai-shek’s views of Asia and that of Sun Yat-sen’s.

Bio. Of Professor Ruicong Duan

Ruicong Duan is Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University Japan. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the program in Political Science, Graduate School of Law, at the Keio University, and his B.A. from the Department of Foreign Language at Inner Mongolia University, China. He has also taught at Kyorin University, Japan and the Inner Mongolia University, China.
He is the author of Chiang Kai-shek and the New Life Movement (Keio University Press, 2006). He is the joint editor of The Sino-Japanese Relations at the Cross Road (Koyoshobo Press, 2007). Professor Duan is currently a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He research area is the relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and Japan.

Tianjue Luo and Ling Yang
ChinaRains at Stanford University

The Implementation of China's Anti-Monopoly Law: A Case Study on Coca Cola’s Abortive Acquisition of Huiyuan Juice

2009-10-28T16:31:00.000-07:00

"The Implementation of China's Anti-Monopoly Law: A Case Study on Coca Cola’s Abortive Acquisition of Huiyuan Juice”

中国反垄断法的实施：以流产的可口可乐并购汇源果汁案例为考察视角

Keywords : anti-monopoly law, abortive acquisition

Speaker : Professor Jin Sun
孙晋教授
Law School, Wuhan University
Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley

Thursday, April 30, 7:00-9:00pm
Room 229, 485 LASUEN MALL, Stanford, CA 94305
Location Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-300

Working language: Chinese

Photos courtesy of P H Yang Photography 攝影: 楊必興 (http://phyang.org)

Outline of the Talk

China’s Anti-Monopoly Law, the foundation stone of the market economy, started to be implemented since August 1st 2008. After half a year of investigation, Coca Cola’s acquisition of Huiyuan Juice was put to a stop by Ministry of Commerce on March 18th 2009. It became the first abortive case since the implementation of the Anti-Monopoly Law and caused strong repercussions home and abroad. While the nationalists applauded for the decision, overseas media generally took a skeptical attitude, considering it as a case of trade protectionism. This phenomenon requires a rational interpretation and guidance for the domestic and international media. On the one hand, acquisition by foreign capital may bring advanced technology and management experience and promote economic development; on the other hand, it may lead to the monopoly of relevant market, hamper competition and cause some domestic brands to disappear. I maintain we should look at Coca Cola’s acquisition of Huiyuan Juice from two aspects. There are both advantages and disadvantages in acquisition. Anti-monopoly law enforcement agency should not only pay attention to the damage to competition brought about by acquisition, but also to its positive role in promoting economic development. It should balance the pros and cons so that it can reach a rational conclusion and maintain the authority of law. I think the society should take a balanced attitude to acquisition by foreign capital, and prevent nationalism to go spread unchecked. I also hope that the international media should not overreact to this case, which could become the excuse for other countries to practice trade protectionism. The Chinese government simply made a misleading yet not wrong decision at a wrong place in a wrong time.

Bio. Of Professor Jin Sun

Jin Sun is a professor of law at Wuhan University. He is secretary-general of Hubei Province Economic Law Studies Association, and visiting scholar at Center of Law and Society and University of California, Berkeley. Professor Sun's specialty area is anti-monopoly law and corporate law.

Tianjue Luo and Ling Yang
ChinaRains at Stanford University

Money is Not Everything: Problems in Rural Education Reforms

2009-02-10T10:13:00.000-08:00

Stanford ChinaRains (http://chinarains.blogspot.com)

Money is Not Everything: Problems in Rural Education Reforms
Keywords: rural education, reform, China

Speaker : Han, Li
Shorenstein Post-doctoral Fellow
Asia-Pacific Research Center
Stanford University

Thursday, Feb 5, 7:00-9:00pm
Nairobi Room, Graduate Community Center
750 Escondido Road, Stanford, CA 94305
Location Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=10-590
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=750+Escondido+Rd,+Stanford,+CA+94305,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title
Working language: Chinese

Outline of the Talk
China launched the reforms in 2001 to shift financial burdens of rural schools from xiang-level (town) to county-level. The goal is to ensure adequate educational inputs in poor areas. Despite the well-meant policy changes, financial centralization brings unpleasant impacts in some places. It likely occasions centralization of personnel deployment. Using data collected in Gansu, we find that, centralizing teacher deployment tends to reduce teachers' effort; students academic outcomes decline even though regular teachers enjoyed better pay. Explorations into wage structure and teacher allocation suggest that personnel intervention from county government generates more noises in teachers' performance evaluation and thus hinders xiang educational officers from implementing performance-based pay.

Bio. Of Han Li
Li Han is currently Shorenstein post-doctoral fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center in Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in June 2008. Her research focuses on political economy of dictatorships and public policy issues in developing countries.

Ling Yang, Tianjue Luo
ChinaRains at Stanford University

Making Sense of Village Elections in a Township

2008-11-07T16:42:00.001-08:00

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“Can a falling leaf tell the coming of the autumn?”
Making Sense of Village Elections in a Township
一叶知秋：从一个乡镇的村庄选举看中国改革的道路
Keywords: election, reform, rural China

Speaker : Prof. Zhou, Xueguang
周雪光教授
Department of Sociology
Stanford University

Thursday, Nov 6, 7:00-9:00pm
Room 380Y, Building 380 (Math corner in Main Quad)
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
Location Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=01-380
(Note: We have changed to a new location this time!)

Working language: Chinese

Outline of the Talk
Based on ethnographic research on village elections and related episodes in a township in Northern China, this study offers close observations and sensemaking of the processes that contributed to the success, especially in terms of procedural fairness, in carrying out village elections in this town in 2006, the most recent election cycle. Focusing on the shifting role of the township government in this process, I argue and demonstrate that the observed success resulted from the interplay among multiple, often disparate processes, events in distant areas, and unintended consequences of state policies, some of which had evolved over more than a decade. This recognition points to the importance of local contexts, historical processes, and institutional specificity in understanding the ongoing societal transformation in China.

Bio. Of Prof. Zhou
Xueguang Zhou is a professor of sociology and an FSI senior fellow. His main area of research is institutional changes in contemporary Chinese society, focusing on Chinese organizations and management, social inequality, and state-society relationships.
Ling Yang
ChinaRains at Stanford University

Film-screening: 煤市街 (Sep 23, Tuesday, 7-9pm, 120-215)

2008-09-22T21:27:00.001-07:00

Film Screening and Discussion

Meishi Street

煤市街

Ou, Ning

欧宁

Working language: Chinese

Tuesday, September 23, 7-9pm

Room 215, Building 120
450 Serra Mall Stanford, CA 94305

Meishi Street

Digital video, color, 85 minutes, English subtitle, 2006

Director: Ou Ning

Original video by: Zhang Jinli

Additional camera work: Huang Weikai, Ou Ning, Cao Fei

Meishi Street is located on the southwest side of Beijing's Tiananmen Square and runs from north to south. In this old city district, called Da Zha Lan, the city was carrying out a project to improve traffic and facilities for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. On December 27, 2004, the Beijing Municipal Government launched a project to widen Meishi Street to 25 meters from its original 8 meters. Many of the original residents living along the street faced the demolition of their homes and relocation to other areas of the city. Zhang Jinli, Sun Tiesheng and Liu Ruiping are three of these residents. They're not satisfied with the compensation plan made by the government and developers and started a journey of protecting their rights. All failed in the end though with their properties destroyed by force, even including Zhang Jinli, the most resistant one. This is not a rare case in most cities in China during the process of development. However, what's special about this film is many clips were taken by these victims themselves, which irreplaceably strengthens the passion and pain you can feel in them. Their struggles changed Meishi Street, a normal urban space, and gave it new meanings. In the age of sharp changes, equipped with cameras, Zhang Jinli and the likes are the recorders of alternative history.

Ling Yang and Tianjue Luo
ChinaRains at Stanford University

Reflections on the Polarization of Politics in Taiwan

2008-06-02T12:47:00.000-07:00

Stanford ChinaRains (http://chinarains.blogspot.com)

Diminishing of the Middle?

Reflections on the Polarization of Politics in Taiwan

Speaker : Maukuei, Chang

张茂桂

Research Fellow of the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

President of Taiwanese Sociological Association

Working language: Chinese

Thursday, May 29, 7-9pm

Nairobi Room, Graduate Community Center

750 Escondido Road, Stanford, CA 94305

Outline of the Talk:

Political polarization in democratic regimes seems to be a common theme. Routine partisan competitions involving regional-cultural, ethnic-racial, gender, income-class, religious differences can become so intensified that they split the society into rivalry camps. This talk will address this issue in Taiwan’s democratization process using the data from waves of surveys. After studying different indicators Prof. Chang believes that the middle-of-roaders have not disappeared or declined in past few years even during the time when the Blue camp and the Green Camp fight against each other intensely. He also finds that the middle-of-roaders may come from the dissolving process of the KMT.

Bio. Of Dr. Chang:

Mau-kuei Chang is Research Fellow of the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica; Chair Guest Professor, Department of Sociology, SooChow University (2008); President of Taiwanese Sociological Association (serving 2008-2009). He received his Ph.D. degree of sociology from Purdue University in 1984, and has visited U.C. Berkeley and McGill University as Fulbright and exchange scholar; and has been a Visiting Chair professor at Leiden University of the Netherlands. He has served to various academic journals both in and out of Taiwan. His academic research and teaching interests include social movement studies, identity politics, and ethnic and nationalism. His recent English publications include The Movement to Indigenize Social Sciences in Taiwan (2005), Taiwan’s Nationalistic Politics and its Difficult Status-quo (2006), and has an edited volume (with Zheng Yong-nian) in Chinese titled Social Movement Studies on both Sides of Taiwan Strait (2002).

Ling Yang and Hao Yan
ChinaRains at Stanford University

北京需要新的西藏政策

2008-05-17T23:33:00.000-07:00

Stanford ChinaRains (http://chinarains.blogspot.com)

Beijing needs a New Tibet Policy

北京需要新的西藏政策

Speaker : He, Baogang

何包钢

Chair of

International Studies, School of Politics and International Studies

Deakin University

Australia

Thursday, May 15, 7-9pm

Havana Room, Graduate Community Center (to be confirmed)

750 Escondido Road, Stanford, CA 94305

Sorry, Dinner will not be served this time

Outline of the Talk:

Professor He Baogang will provide an independent analysis of the complex causes of the recent boycott against Beijing Olympics, and suggests that Beijing needs to develop an adequate Tibet Policy.

Bio. Of Prof. He:

With the expertise in the study of democratization and nationality, Professor He is the chair in International Studies at the School of Politics and International Studies of Deakin University, Australia. His recent publications include Rural Democracy in China and Democratic Theory. You can find more information about Profess He at his website: http://www.chinesedemocratization.com/

Ling Yang and Hao Yan
ChinaRains at Stanford University

New Developments of Taiwan Politics

2008-04-26T10:43:00.000-07:00

Stanford ChinaRains (http://chinarains.blogspot.com)

New Developments of Taiwan Politics and

Relations of Taiwan, Mainland China and U.S.

台湾政治新发展及两岸，中美与台美关系

Huang, Ching-lung

黄清龙

Vice President of the China Times in Taiwan

Visiting Fellow of Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies of Brookings Institution

Thursday, April 24, 6:30-8:30pm

Room 313, School of Education

485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

Location Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-300

Working language: Chinese

Dinner or pizza or snacks will be served depending on the headcount,

Please RSVP to the link below by Wednesday noon

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=e9EBdFXsiD4sa2r80SCvyw_3d_3d

Outline of the Talk:

From a review of the recent presidential election in Taiwan, Mr. Huang will share with us his insights in the development of Taiwan politics, its relations with the mainland and the U.S., and the stories of political leaders in Taiwan.

Bio. Of Mr. Huang:

Mr. Huang is the vice president of Taiwan’s leading daily newspaper, the China Times, and has also served as reporter and editor-in-chief. As a distinguished journalist on politics, He is an expert on the development of media in the PRC, and his research at Brookings focuses on the role of the media in Taiwan’s democratization process.

Ling Yang and Hao Yan
ChinaRains at Stanford University

01/31/2008_Xie Youtian: The Fate of Confucianism

2008-01-31T23:39:00.000-08:00

Stanford ChinaRains (http://chinarains.blogspot.com)

The Fate of Confucian Culture

儒家文化的命运

Keywords: Confucianism, culture, china

Speaker : Prof. Xie, Youtian

谢幼田 教授

School of Literature and History

Sichuan University

Retired Visiting Fellow of Hoover Institution

Thursday, Jan 31, 6:00-8:00pm

Nairobi Room, Graduate Community Center

750 ESCONDIDO Road, Stanford, CA 94305

Location Map:http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=10-590

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=750+Escondido+Rd,+Stanford,+CA+94305,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title

Working language: Chinese

Dinner will be served, Please RSVP to juejuereal@gmail.com

Outline of the Talk

As a retired visiting fellow in Hoover institution, Professor Xie Youtian is most famous for his books on the history of the Chinese communist party and the anti-Japanese War. This time he will share with us his new academic exploration, his insights on the transformation and development of the Confucian culture beliefs in modern society.

Ling Yang and Luo Tianjue
ChinaRains at Stanford University

Yuan Weishi: A Historical Perpective of the History

2007-12-01T10:36:00.000-08:00

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A Historical Perspective of the History
真实对待历史—从“冰点事件”说起
Keywords: modern China, Freezing Point Weekly, historical perspective, ideology

Speaker : Prof. Yuan, Weishi
袁伟时教授
Department of Philosophy
Zhongshan University, P. R. China

Thursday, Nov 29, 7:00-9:00pm
Room 334, School of Education
485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
Location Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-300
(Note: We have changed to a new location this time!)

Working language: Chinese
Dinner or pizza or snacks will be served depending on the headcount,
Please RSVP to hao.yan@stanford.edu

Outline of the Talk
Freezing Point, the weekly supplement to China Youth Daily, was closed down in 2006 by officials due to Professor Yuan’s article Modernization and History Textbook in its 574th issue. The shutdown of Freezing Point has evoked a wide debate on the perspectives through which we should reexamine modern Chinese history. Professor Yuan will share with us his views on how to interpret, understand and inherit our history on Thursday night. Fed with the “historical facts” in middle school textbooks, you will hear facts from the other side about the Opium Wars, Boxer Rebellion and Xinhai Revolution in the lecture.
Here is the link to Professor Yuan’s article Modernization and History Textbook
http://zqb.cyol.com/gb/zqb/2006-01/11/content_118530.htm
Professor Yuan’s blog in Sina.com: http://blog.sina.com.cn/yuanweishi

Bio. Of Prof. Yuan
As a professor in the department of philosophy, Professor Yuan Weishi’s academic interests include the philosophy of history, the history of thoughts in late Qing dynasty and the transition of modern China in general. With newspaper articles and essays in his blog, Professor Yuan Weishi is among the foremost public intellectuals in China in constructing a balanced and rational understanding of the past.

Ling Yang and Hao Yan
ChinaRains at Stanford University

Transformation of the Financial System and International Standing of Modern China

2007-10-17T02:04:00.000-07:00

Transformation of the Financial System and International Standing of Modern China （1910s－1950s）

现代中国的金融转型与国际地位变迁

Keywords: financial history, fiscal history, international standing, Shanghai

Wu, Jingping

吴景平

Director, Professor

History Department, Center for Asia Pacific Studies

Fudan University
P. R. China

Friday, Oct 19, 6:30-8:30pm

Room 216, Old Union (opposite to the bookstore)

520 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

Working language: Chinese

Dinner will be served, please RSVP to hao.yan@stanford.edu

Outline of the Talk:

A renewed interest in the dramatic change of the financial and fiscal policy and its impact on China’s international standing has sparked a desire to understand a changing China in the 21st century by tracing its 20th century roots. As the most famous scholar of Song Ziwen study and an expert in the study of the financial history, fiscal history and international relations of Modern China (especially Shanghai area), Professor Wu will share with us his insights in the foundation of Chinese financial system and its impact on China’s international standing.

Bio:

Professor Wu is one of China's most respected historians. He is currently the Chair of History Department and Director of Center for Asia Pacific Studies at Fudan University.The author of almost 50 books, journal articles and book reviews, Wu's scholarship interests have focused on Nationalist history, Song, Ziwen research, China's financial and economic situation during the Nationalist period, the development of Shanghai area, etc.

Southern Weekend （南方周末） and the Transformation of Chinese Media

2007-04-19T17:04:00.000-07:00

Speaker: Yang, Ruichun
Knight Fellow, Stanford University
Former Director of News Department, Southern Weekend

Thursday, April 19, 6:00 PM
@ Nairobi Room
2nd floor
GRADUATE COMMUNITY CENTER
750 Escondido Road, Stanford, CA 94305
Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=10-590

CHINESE DINNER WILL BE PROVIDED!

Outline of the Talk:

1、作为时代产物的《南方周末》：
《南方周末》不仅是时代进程的记录者，本身的发展也是这种进程的体现。
2、《南方周末》的精神和气质：
为何经过多次波折，《南方周末》依然是中国最优秀的媒体。
3、面对新挑战的《南方周末》：
各种新生传统媒体和网络媒体的挑战。

Bio. Of Yang:

Ruichun Yang was born in Shandong Province, China and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at Wuhan University. She got her start in journalism as a reporter at the China News Agency in 1995, later working as a cultural reporter, a political reporter at the agency. She worked for one year as director of the reporter department at China News Week. In 2001, she joined Southern Weekend, a weekly newspaper based in the southern city of Guangzhou, which is the most respected weekly newspaper in China and often cited for its independence. At Southern Weekend, she has been a reporter in the Beijing bureau, director of the features department and before she came to US to be a Knight fellow at Stanford, she was the director of the news department. In that position, she was also the editor of the front page.

Unlocking Modern Chinese History: Chiang Kai-shek (蒋介石), T. V. Soong(宋子文), and Nationalist History Research

2007-03-19T11:55:00.000-07:00

Stanford ChinaRains (http://www2.blogger.com/, http://chinarains.blogspot.com)

Unlocking Modern Chinese History:
Chiang Kai-shek (蒋介石), T. V. Soong(宋子文),
and Nationalist History Research

Saturday, March 24, 1:00 PM
@ Nairobi Room
2nd floor
GRADUATE COMMUNITY CENTER
750 Escondido Road, Stanford, CA 94305
Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=10-590

Speaker: Kuo, Tai-chun

Research Fellow
Hoover Institution
Stanford University

CHINESE LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED!

Outline of the Talk:
The Hoover Institution is building the largest, probably the most unique Chinese archives and special materials collection. These valuable historical materials include party archives of the Kuomintang (KMT) and private papers of top Chinese leaders in the 20th and 21st centuries, such as diaries of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) and Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), private papers of T. V. Soong (宋子文), K’ung Hsiang-his (孔祥熙), Chang Chia-ngau (張嘉璈), Huang Fu (黃孚), Chen Du-xiu (陳獨秀), Ying Hai-guang (殷海光), etc.
Hoover Institution’s historical papers record the arguments and different opinions held by Chinese leaders and elites in the 20th century China. The availability of these documents has brought up a reassessment and a re-interpretation of important events and political leaders of modern China. With a growing interest in the West and East to understand China, these historical papers provide an understanding of the new forces at work in Taiwan and China that have roots in the 20th century.

The talk will focus on Chiang Kai-shek and T. V. Soong based on their personal records now preserved at Hoover Institution.

Bio. Of Prof. Kuo:
Tai-chun Kuo is Research Fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Prior to this position, she was a Visiting Lecturer at Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University (2003) and Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of American Studies, Tamkang University (Taiwan, 1997-2000). She served as Press Secretary to the ROC President (1990-1995), Deputy Director-General of the First Bureau of the Presidential Office (1989-1997), Director of the ROC Government Information Office in Boston (1987-1988).

In addition to researches, since 2003, she has assisted the Hoover Institution Archives to develop its Modern China Archives and Special Collections.

Her major publications include T. V. Soong in Modern Chinese History, China’s Quest for Unification, National Security, and Modernization, Breaking with the Past: China’s First Market Economy, Watching Communist China, 1949-79: A Methodological Review of China Studies in the United States of America and Taiwan, The Power and Personality of Mao Tse-tung, etc.

Xiaobin He, Xiaoling Zhou & Hao Yan

ChinaRains at Stanford

ZHAO Dingxin: The Spring-and-Autumn and Warring States Warfare and the Rise of Confucianism-Legalist States

2007-03-17T00:32:00.000-07:00

Stanford ChinaRains (http://chinarains.stanford.edu/, http://chinarains.blogspot.com/) presents:

"The Spring-and-Autumn and Warring States Warfare and the Rise of Confucianism-Legalist States"

“春秋战国时期战争和儒法国家的形成”

by Zhao, Dingxin 赵鼎新
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Chicago

Saturday, March 17, 2:30 PM

@ Nairobi Room
2nd floor
GRADUATE COMMUNITY CENTER
750 Escondido Road, Stanford, CA 94305
Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=10-590

Outline of the Talk:

本讲座探讨春秋战国时期的战争对中华帝国历史形态的影响。我的观点是：春秋战国时期各诸侯国之间长达五百多年的封建战争促进了工具理性及以效率为导向的文化的形成，它们进而推动了社会的全面发展，包括大型都市的兴起，货币经济的出现，以择优录取为特征的科层制国家的形成，及以各类哲学思想的争鸣。然而，由于缺乏强大的社会力量的钳制，这些由战争促发的发展最后归掌于法家国家的手中。法家国家在社会中地位的上升为秦帝国的统一奠定了基础，然而，法家学说并没有为国家统治提供一种在强力控制和镇压之外的合法性基础。法家国家的残酷性加速了秦帝国的解体。在此后数十年的发展中，中国政治开始走向一种“儒法国家” 形态。在这政治形态下，国家奉儒家学说为合法性基础，同时采用工具主义的法家作为御民之术，皇帝被神圣化为“天子”，而对“天命” 的解释权却在儒家官僚的手中。这种国家政权与儒家精英之间所建立的紧密共存关系（即政治权利和意识形态的共生关系）边缘化了军事和经济力量在社会中的作用，进而促进了中华帝国许多特定历史形态的形成。

About Prof. Zhao:

Dingxin Zhao is an associate professor in Sociology at the University of Chicago. His research covers social movements, nationalism, historical sociology, social change and economic development. He is currently working on a project on historical sociology, which, based on a comparison with the European experience, is intended to develop an empirically-grounded theory to explain the changes in state, military, economy and philosophy during China's Axial Age (722-221 BCE), the unification of China under the Qin Empire (221-206 BCE), and how the developments of this period shaped China's later history. He intends to devote his time here at Stanford to write a book, and is very much looking forward to getting to know more about Stanford and the faculty and students of this school.

Xiaobin He, Xiaoling Zhou & Hao Yan
ChinaRains at Stanford

Song, Ziwen - His Time and His Legacy

2006-11-29T11:44:00.000-08:00

Stanford ChinaRains (http://chinarains.stanford.edu)

Song, Ziwen -His Time and His Legacy

Wednesday, November 29, 6:30 PM

@ Room 215, Building 120
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=01-120

Speaker: Wu, Jingping
Director, Professor
History Department, Center for Asia Pacific Studies
Fudan University
P. R. China.

Working language: Chinese

Outline of the Talk:

A renewed interest in China and the West in the history of modern China has been sparked by a desire to understand a changing China in the 21st century that harkens back to its 20th century roots. Using Hoover Institution's recently available papers (Song, Ziwen's papers, Jiang Jieshi's diaries, Kuomintang's archives, etc.) , a re-evaluation of China and its 20th century leaders is at the forefront of Chinese studies.

Son of Song, Jiashu and a brother to the eminent Song sisters, Song Ziwen first served as Sun Zhongshan's private secretary and later held ministerial positions in Sun's Guangdong government as Central Bank Chairman and Finance Minister. In 1928, Song joined the Kuomintang-led Nationalist government serving as Minister of Finance, Chairman of the Central Bank, Jiang's special representative to Washington during the war, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Premier, and Governor of Guangdong Province.

Song participated in most of the important events in the first half of the 20th century. Based on Hoover Institution's Song, Ziwen papers, scholars now have better access to understand Song, political leaders and events of his time; and some research has led to a re-evaluation of accepted notions of Chinese history.

Bio. Of Prof. Wu:

Professor Wu is one of China's most respected historians. He is currently the Chairman of History Department and Director of Center for Asia Pacific Studies at Fudan University.

The author of almost 50 books, journal articles and book reviews, Wu's scholarship interests have focused on Nationalist history, Song, Ziwen research, China's financial and economic situation during the Nationalist period, the development of Shanghai area, etc. Having published 4 books and more than 20 articles on Song, Ziwen, Wu has been recognized as "the best Song Ziwen scholar."

Xinping Li & Xiaobin He

ChinaRains at Stanford

A Conversation With Prof. Xueguang Zhou

2006-11-09T01:06:00.000-08:00

Stanford ChinaRains (http://chinarains.stanford.edu) invites you to

A Conversation With Prof. Xueguang Zhou

Thursday, November 9th, 5:30-8:00 PM

@ Nairobi Room
2nd floor
GRADUATE COMMUNITY CENTER
750 Escondido Road, Stanford, CA 94305
Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=10-590

We are very pleased to announce that Prof. Xueguang Zhou has accepted our invitation to have a conversation with current Chinese graduate students.

It is an informal and open-end conversation. The purpose of this conversation is to provide a chance for Chinese graduate students to hear some suggestions and advice on study, research, job search in academia from a successful Chinese professor. We can also discuss some academic issues on contemporary China.

We cordially invite you to this meeting and conversation with Prof. Zhou. Don’t miss this great opportunity to talk with a distinguished Chinese professor! Please be prepared to bring your questions!

DINNER WILL BE SERVED AT 5:30PM, SO PLEASE REPLY ASAP (NO LATER THAN TUESDAY, NOV. 7 ) SO THAT WE CAN HAVE A HEADCOUNT FOR THE FOOD.

Bio. Of Prof. Zhou:

Xueguang Zhou is a professor of sociology and an FSI senior fellow here at Stanford. Before joining Stanford in 2006, Prof. Zhou taught at Cornell University, Duke University, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a guest professor at Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Renmin University of China. He received his PhD.D. in sociology from Stanford University in 1991. His main area of research is institutional changes in contemporary Chinese society, focusing on Chinese organizations and management, social inequality, and state-society relationships.

His recent publications include The State and Life Chances in Urban China: Redistribution and Stratification, 1949-1994, Cambridge University Press 2004, "The Institutional Logic of Occupational Prestige Ranking" American Journal of Sociology, 2005, "Chinese Bureaucracy in Transition: Changing Promotion Patterns in the Post-Mao Era" (with Wei Zhao) Organization Science 2004, " Embeddedness and Contractual relationships in China's transitional economy" (with Wei Zhao, Qiang Li, He Cai) American Sociological Review, 2003.

Best,

Xinping Li & Xiaobin He
ChinaRains at Stanford

About ChinaRains

2006-01-01T14:01:00.000-08:00

PURPOSE & ACTIVITY

ChinaRains Club, established in 1996 at Stanford's Rains Houses, is a discussion group aiming to encourage academic communications and social connections among Chinese students and scholars of social sciences within Stanford community. Its initiation lies on the beliefs that China urgently calls for a new generation of social scientists, and that academic enterprises, especially those of social sciences, require a thought-stimulating atmosphere and an intellectual group. The club serves 1) to promote interdisciplinary exchange and mutual encouragement; 2) to establish a strong network and ideally long-term partnerships among Chinese social sciences students and scholars. The main activity of ChinaRains Club is to hold regular academic seminars to discuss any topic related to social sciences or Chinese society.

ORIENTATION

ChinaRains Club is highly academic-oriented. Pragmatic tendency, political prejudice, and ideological preference should be avoided in any club meeting.

MEMBERSHIP

General Membership: General members will be informed of and welcome to any club activity. Any Chinese student and scholar who is studying, teaching, or doing research on social sciences and humanity at Stanford University is automatically granted a general club membership. Non-social science students and scholars as well as non-Stanford people are also welcome.

Regular Membership: Regular members have the right to share any club information and to participate in group development. To become a regular member, one must 1) follow club orientation; 2) be actively involved in and dedicated to club activities.

ORGANIZATION

Coordinators: The club has two coordinators who are responsible for maintaining the functioning of the organization, both internally and externally.

Division Representatives: The club is mainly consisted of nine divisions based on academic disciplines: Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, Business & Law, Education, Humanity, Regional Studies, and sciences & technology. Each division has one representative whose principal duties are to recruit new members and to collect discussion topics.

Election and Tenure: Club coordinators and division representatives are elected annually by regular club members.