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Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. l?t.t3t.t~ • P?·7 P0%S 7lsian Overtures Portland State University Summer 1984 Alumni News Jlsian Overtures Asian Studies: It started in the early 19th century when the Northwest's beaver and PSU enchances its offerings as the Northwest gears up olter pelts were loaded onto ships at for Pacific Rim trade and cultural exchange. Astoria for the long trans-Pacific page two voyage to China. In far-off Canton, silk, spices, tea and porcelain awaited the American traders. Now, after a 3D-year break in trade and diplomatic relations, the doors to mainland China are open again. Jim Manning: China wants modern technology and PSU marketing professor has been talking international Oregon wants a way out of its trade for 25 years, and now people are listening. economic slump, so friendships are being made. page three Asia already accounts for 80 percent of Oregon's international trade (half of it with Japan), but the state is buzzing with excitement about the opening of the China market. And Theonie Gilmore ('78 MA): Portland State University seems to be taking a lead in the business of Director of MUSIC (Center for the Preservation of forming ties. Jim Manning and Jay Endangered Arts) finds the arts are alive in Afghan Shimada of PSU's School of Business refugee camps. traveled with Oregon's first semi-official trade mission to Fujian page five Province last spring, helping to set the stage for an upcoming trip by the Governor to sign a sister state agreement. In the meantime, PSU PSU and Zhengzhou: President Joseph Blumel traveled to Two urban universities 10,000 miles apart agree to Henan Province to formalize a sister university agreement with Zhengzhou trade students, faculty and friendship. University. Three PSU graduate page eight students are already teaching at Zhengzhou and Chinese students and faculty are on their way here. As trade delegations criss-cross the Pacific and academic exchanges are Jews of Kaifeng: established, Oregonians find themselves wanting to know more Almost a millenium ago, Jewish traders settled in a about the culture that is suddenly so remote city in China. This fall, a descendant is coming accessible. Some want only to avoid to PSU to study her people's culture. gaffs when sharing food, conversation and business details, whi Ie others are page nine chOOSing to devote their lives to the study of East Asia. Portland State is wisely positioning itself to meet these needs with ever-widening coursework in Asian Studies and a proposed Plus: international studies degree program. Alum works with Asian refugees; David James Duncan The rose and the bamboo ('73) and his first novel; Spring Commencement entwining in a favorable new climate--- are being tended in the photos; new alumni column; calendar; AlumNotes, gardens of Portland State. and more. -The Editor Cover illustration by Nancy Olson Chinese calligraphy by Min Shen PSU enhances Asian Studies offerings BRITISH AISLES : A THEATRE TOUR by Cynlhia D. SIDwell entirely in place, he said, and OF LONDON A scanering of courses in East Asian students could begin work on the languages and culture is quickly degree this fall. becoming a specialty within PSU 's Asian Studies at PSU should be ack Featheringill, professor College of liberal Arts and Sciences appealing to business majors and of theater arts and di rector members of the business community as the University responds to the Jof the University'S Northwest's growing fascinalion with as well as liberal arts majors, said the Orient. Walton. "Students who are interested enormously popular summer " Here we are, siUi ng on the West in international business will need a stock company at Cannon Coast on the edge of the Pacific Rim, culture and language background," Beach, takes you on his with obvious economic lies ... PSU 's she said. "After three years of Chinese second tour of london, and Japanese, you can't negotiate a in a great position to address some everyone's favorite theater specific regional needs, II said linda business contract," she admitted, Walton, part-time coordinator of "but the language gives you an cily, Odober 18·28. Asian Studies for (LAS. Walton has important enlr~. You can learn a lot taught Chinese and Japanese history four years and is completing his about the way people think through their language." during her 3% years at PSU. dissertation through the U. of In 1982, the new Chancellor of Chicago. higher education William "Bud" The presence on the PSU faculty of Davis publicly called for the Kominz and Latz, both of whom establishment of a "Pacific Area To all Ihe people who came 10 my studied in Japan on Japan Foundation classes from Vanport days to this Studies Program" at Portland State, a fellowships, may have been part of recommendation that was included in year, .. the reason Portland Slate was recently My Ihanks OSSHE's strategic plan of 1983. By awarded a grant from the Japan the fall of 1983, the state legislature Foundation, said Walton. The staff For helping me to learn my craft and had appropriated $230,000 in "seed expansion grant, one of five awarded money" to develop the Insti tute for for the opportunity to help you learn nationally (the U. of Oregon was also how meaning is made in poems and International Trade and Commerce at a recipient), has made it possible to PSU, and the eLAS dean's office had plays and stories; most of all, for the hire a Japanese linguist, Patricia chance to help you learn how 10 ask placed Walton in charge of expanding Wetzel, who will start this fall. Asian Studies curricula. questions about the life embodied in In addition, a program development fictions, and about our own lives. " In the last year, we've increased proposal submitted to the our East Asian offerings by 4-500%," Chancellor's office by CLAS is said Walton, explaining that this has I cannot imagine a more fu lfilling life requesting six positions in the social work. been accompl ished for the most part sciences and Chinese language, said through the reallocation of existing assistant dean Frederick Nunn. He I hope you will give others the same resources. One of the first steps was expects some action on the proposal chance by helping PSU become the See Starlight Express in to conduct a national search for before fall. full-time tenure-track faculty in the university the city needs. Not a l ondon ... The Royal Improvements made in Asian factory to train people to work in Chinese and Japanese languages. Shakespearean Company Studies this year have supplemented another factory, but a dynamic urban production of Loves Labour existing coursework in Chinese and university: a storehouse of the past Japanese history (Walton), political and a lighthouse to the future for all Lost al Stratford ... a " Here we are, sitting on science (Gary Scott), international people who have questions about the performance at Covent the West Coast on the economics (Helen Youngelson), and heavens and the earth and all things Garden. Go behind·the·scenes anthropology (Daniel Scheans). therein, especially the lives they can allhe SSc. edge of the Pacific Rim .. " For a number of years there have live. Again, my thanks. also been exchange opportunities Tour leader Jack Fealheringill with Hokkaido University in Judah Bierman is a veteran of almost two This search resulted in the hiring Portland's sister city Sapporo, Japan, Professor Emeritus of decades as actor, dancer, last summer of laurence Kominz, and Waseda University in Tokyo (the English and General Studies singer, director. His Broadway who teaches Japanese language and latter under the OSSHE overseas traditional literature, and Wendy program). This summer, Kominz credits include a role in the larson, who teaches language and chaperoned a group of PSU students original production of Music modern Chinese literature. Both who studied language and culture at Man. He ca51 Fiddler on the instructors completed their doctoral Hokkaido while living with Japanese Roof and How to Succeed in work this year - Kominz at families. Hokkaido students can Business Without Trying Columbia University and larson at attend PSU at in-state tuition rates, ~ among many shows. U. of California-Berkeley. added Walton. Now, with the Kominz, whose dissertation was on establishment of a sister relationship ~rspective Join Tour Leader Jack Kabuki drama, helped found the with Zhengzhou University, exchange PSt) ~ i5 ptb/ished q\RIrterly durmg me Fealheringill for an Japan-based Noho Theatre Group, opportunities exist in China, too (see ye.byNews~~Sel'v1ces1or unforgettable theater lour of which performs dramatic worlG of alumni, faculty and staff and friends d Portland stories on pp. 8-9). London ... with leisure time both the East and West using PSU students can also benefit from StateU"i~iry . traditional Japanese mime and dance. visiting professors like Kenji EdiitorCyothiaO. StowrII for sighlseeing, shopping, and Contribulon Oarence tiel" '6S more theater performances of Nalive speakers have taught Tominomori. a member of the diff)olmson Chinese and Japanese at PSU and Hokkaido faculty who taught Japanese C*nd.u fditCN' Pat Scoll: your c hoice, management in Summer Session this through the Division of Continuing dlanpof~:SendboCh~iindoid Call PSU Alumni Office, Education for a number of years, but year.