Asian Martial Arts Day

Sunday, Oct. 17 @3:30@3:30----5:305:30 PM Byron Center (Gym) Rm 233

Chinese Taichi By Master Smith’s Academy of Asian Martial Arts The University of Scranton Korean Karate Asian Studies’ Cultural Additional Support is provided by the Office By Master’s Kovaleski’s Tang Soo “Tour” of Asia: of Equity & Diversity, and The Royal His- Karate Center 2010 October Series torical Society of The University of Scranton.

Japanese Judo For more information or questions, please By Master Murty’s Judo School contact Dr. Ann Pang-White, Director of East Asia Since World War II: Asian Studies, Tel: (570) 941-6312 or email: Japanese Doji Karate [email protected] The Japanese and Korean By Master Morrissey’s American Experience Dojo Karate School Check out our website at: www.scranton.edu/academics/cas/asian- Scranton Chinese School’s Open studies October 1717----21,21, 2010 House artial Arts, Workshop

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Chinese School & The Office of Organizer: Dr. Shuhua FAN (Hist. Dept) Multicultural Affairs Workshop Instructional Film Speed Screenings (Korean Comedy, with English Subtitles)

“The Rise of Miracles in PostPost----WorldWorld Totoro Thursday Oct. 21 @7:00—9:00PM War II Japan and Korea” Brennan Hall 228 Tuesday Oct. 19 @11:30AM-1:00PM (Japanese Animation, with English Subtitles) A conversation about a single teenage mother The DeNaples Center, Rm 500 Wednesday Oct. 20 @7:00-9:00PM and her child usually generates hush tones, down- Brennan Hall 228 1. Dr. Bill Parente: “Hiroshima & Na- cast eyes, and grim expressions in Korea. That gasaki: The politics of the Atomic Bomb was before Korea’s 2008 blockbuster comedy 65 Years Later” This is a 1988 Japanese anime film writ- Speed Scandal. This brilliant film breaks away ten and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The from the routine of traditional Korean slapstick 2. Prof. Kouji Kimura: “Struggling Japan: film follows two young daughters of a comedy. There are no drunken men squealing The Keys to Survive” professor and their interactions with like pigs on microphones with zany necktie over 3. Mr. Kihoon Kwon: “The Korean Experi- friendly wood spirits Totoro in postwar their heads in a singing room. Meticulous facial ence” rural Japan. The girls befriend Totoro, the expressions and intricate wordplay differentiates spirit of the forest. As the girls' mother lies Speed Scandal as the fresh comedy modern Ko- 4. Dr. Mary Anne Foley: “On Being Gaijin sick in the hospital, Totoro brings the sis- rean audiences have been craving for. This com- (外人)” ters on a magical adventure but also helps edy conveys lessons about the importance of them to understand the realities of life. family that are familiar and typically serious in 5. Dr. Ann Pang-White: “Confucian Phi- The film won the Animage Anime Grand Korea today. losophy and Economic Development in Prix prize and the Mainichi Film Award

East Asia” for Best Film in 1988.

6.6.6. Dr. Shuhua Fan: “Explaining the Rise of

Miracles in Post--WWII Japan”

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