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Fall 2008 Newsletter University of Michigan Duanmu - new Associ Joseph Lam as the center’s e also welcome at the School of Musicology He is Professor ate Director. he center also wishes to express our considerable gratitude gratitude considerable our he center also wishes to express CCS Co- as to San Duanmu for his service and leadership of Music, Dance and Theatre, U-M, Director of the Stearns of the Stearns U-M, Director and Theatre, of Music, Dance of U-M, and former chair Collection of Musical Instruments, music He studied (1999–2007). the Department of Musicology musicology) at the Chinese University (ethnomusicology and of Fine Arts National University the Tokyo (B.A.), of Hong Kong He joined (Ph.D.). University and Music (MFA), and Harvard hav- of Michigan in 1997, after the faculty at the University position, (visiting of Pittsburgh ing taught at the University (1992–97), of California, Santa Barbara 1996–97), University As a mu- (1988–91). Kong of Hong and the Chinese University historical sicologist and as an ethnomusicologist, he examines with musical, criti- cultures Chinese musics and and traditional His recent and methods. perspectives cal, and interdisciplinary of investigate a diversity interests publications and research in musical performance of emperorship from ranging topics, Ming China, and Song China, to music and masculinity in late globalized China. of to Kunqu as the classical opera T W Director during fall term 2007 and Associate Director during and Associate Director during fall term 2007 Director to his look forward winter/spring-summer term 2008. We China Center. continued involvement in the activities of the Lam Associate Director Associate he U-M Center for Chinese Studies is delighted to for Chinese Studies he U-M Center position the accepted has Gallagher Mary that report She is years. coming three for the of CCS Director Professor Gallagher teaches classes on Chinese politics, on Chinese politics, Gallagher teaches classes Professor Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and Her book Contagious Capitalism: was published by Princeton in China was published by Princeton of Labor the Politics She was a Fulbright Research in 2005. Press University of China University 2003 to 2004 at East Scholar from she worked on a and Law in Shanghai, China where Politics The Rule of Law in China: If They Build It, Who new project, examines the legal mobilization Will Come? This project is funded by the Fulbright project This of Chinese workers. She has Association and the National Science Foundation. , Law and Society Re- Politics published articles in World Development, International view, Studies in Comparative and Asian Survey. design. and research labor rights in the global economy, Advisory of Michigan’s She also serves on the University human rights. and Committee for labor standards an associate professor of political science at the University of political science at the University an associate professor she is also a faculty associate at the of Michigan where the Center for Studies, Political Center for Comparative and the Institute of Labor and Industrial Chinese Studies, from in 2001 her Ph.D. in politics She received Relations. Princeton University. Greetings! Mary Gallagher CCS Welcomes 2011 June 30, 1, 2008 to for July as Director T 3 University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2008 2 – by John Graham, Michigan Law School Student and CCS MA Alum

n Saturday, March 15th, 2008, the Michigan Law School OAsia Law Society convened a one day symposium addressing “Activist Lawyers and Muckraking Journalists — Pressures for Legal Reform in China,” bringing together an impressive cross section of legal scholars, journalists, lawyers and academics from China and the outside world. The symposium was supported by the Michi- gan Law School, the U-M Center for Chinese Studies, the Dept. of Political Science, and Linklaters, LLP. The symposium sought to explore the effects on legal reform arising from the establishment and growth of the legal profession in China (including lawyers, judges, and regulators) and an increasingly assertive media. The symposium was highlighted by a lunchtime keynote address by Jo- seph Kahn, former Beijing Bureau Chief of the New York Times, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his series of articles on legal reform in China. The meeting also featured opening remarks by U-M’s own Kenneth Lieberthal, former Asia Director in the Clinton National Security Council and three well-attended panels. Ken Lieberthal opened the symposium by stating his belief that China’s leaders truly desire “harmony,” while at the same time recognizing that a modern society is too complex to be micro- managed. He pointed out that, despite the institutional growth of the legal system, China’s governance system is still characterized by “rule by man,” not “rule by law” whatever its formal structure. The first panel focused on the role of the media and those cases where media attention has helped to highlight miscar- riages of justice and facilitate implementation of legal guarantees. Beijing and Sichuan-based publisher and journalist Yang Jian spoke extremely frankly about the urgent need for “de-officialization” of the media in China, which he noted would ultimately bring increased freedom of the press, judicial independence, and real protection of human rights – all of which he sees as necessary to the enhancement of a productive market economy. In his panel remarks, Joe Kahn, now Deputy Foreign Editor of the New York Times, highlighted the difficulty faced by journalists such as Yang Jian in seeking to report the stories they independently feel are newsworthy in China; yet he noted that there is an ever-increasing demand for uncensored reporting, and that this pressure from within China will eventually shake the Communist Party’s control over the press. Michigan Law School’s Nicholas Howson com- mented on the intersection of media and the legal system in the contemporary context, but also through the lens of Chinese history Top Photo: from left, Eric Richardson, Stanley Lubman, Ted St. Antione and Nicholas Howson; — in particular the early 20th century. Yao Yao and Michigan Law School Professor Emeritus Whimore Gray confer on right. The second panel addressed the legal profession in China, and Middle, left: U-M Professor Kenneth Lieberthal. Middle, right: Joe Kahn, Deputy Foreign Editor, explored the rather significant impact China’s growing corps of New York Times Lower: Yang Jian. Photos courtesy of Gregory Fox Photography lawyers are having on legal consciousness, citizen’s rights, and the development of real “rule of law” in China. Yao Yao, a PRC lawyer “cadre responsibility system” that governs the actions and careers and Director of a PRC NGO “Law and Public Participation in Civil of Chinese officials (including of course judicial actors) in seeking Society Watch”, discussed his personal efforts across China using to understand the ways in which China’s legal system is actually law to help people resolve conflicts with the government, and the used and applied in China today. Liu Sida, a well-known University challenges faced by Chinese citizens wishing to have their griev- of Chicago sociologist and perhaps the world’s leading expert in ances heard and addressed in any forum. Washington University the Chinese legal profession spoke on the phenomenon of activist Law Professor Carl Minzner talked about formal state structures lawyers in China in the broader social structure of the Chinese legal and institutions, suggesting that a focus on traditional institutions profession, and discussed how they interact with other activists in such as the National People’s Congress, the State Council, or the the legal system today. Rounding out the panel, Jeffrey Prescott of Supreme People’s Court bureaucracy, may be misplaced. He argued the Yale Law School China Law Center connected the discussion it is critically important to focus on the Communist Party-run of the first panel on the media with the legal profession, looking

Winter 2008 Law Symposium year level proficiency. nd ow in its fourth year and held annually in Shanghai, the Shanghai, the annually in and held its fourth year ow in Relations Sino-American on Lecture Barnett-Oksenberg n 2008 the Center for Chinese Studies received approval for a approval n 2008 the Center for Chinese Studies received in Asian Studies: China. This Certificate Program new Graduate I Certificate New Graduate in Chinese Studies Program N on Lecture Barnett-Oksenberg Sino-American Relations provides a forum where current and potential issues in the and potential issues in current a forum where provides and forthrightly. discussed frankly are relationship Sino-American Rela- Committee on US-China 2005 by the National Established in of American with the Shanghai Association tions and partnered in China series and only ongoing lecture first this is the Studies, of the late is named in honor The lecture Relations. on US-China both American late Michel Oksenberg, A. Doak Barnett and the whose writing and actions of distinction and policymakers scholars dating back to the relationship impact on the bilateral had a direct faculty associate of the was a former Michel Oksenberg 1960s. Studies and on the faculty of the U-M De- U-M Center for Chinese The 2006 speaker 1973-1991. Science from partment of Political Science of Political Lieberthal, U-M Professor Kenneth was Dr. and of Business Administration and William Davidson Professor series is held The lecture Oksenberg. longtime colleague of Michel as possible to coincide as closely in order in February of each year of the signing of the Shanghai Communiqué. with the anniversary including the text of Ken series, information on this lecture More can be found on the website of the 2006 presentation, Lieberthal’s National Committee on US-China Relations at www.ncuscr.org. certificate is intended for U-M graduate-level students in LS&A de- certificate is intended for U-M graduate-level as well as students who have schools, partments and professional of Michigan or the University from degree completed a Bachelor’s The goal of the certifi- 5 years. within the past another university in in-depth inter- of study grounded a program cate is to provide students whose China to graduate of disciplinary understandings China-focused knowledge require trajectories academic and career of China-related include 15 hours Requirements and training. work and 2 course Joe Kahn then delivered a spell-binding keynote address, in a spell-binding keynote address, then delivered Joe Kahn the unique “outside final panel addressed The symposium’s - events and audio record For a complete listing of the day’s at external NGOs and other external influences on China and at external NGOs and other and legal academics can make lawyers the contributions foreign concluded in construction of the rule of law in China. Prescott need in China for a public the urgent by addressing his remarks path, which he noted would contribute greatly law career interest a U-M Political to building civil society within China. Jason Tower, of the one of the key organizers candidate and Science doctoral the panel. symposium, moderated his Pulitzer which he described his own motivations in composing the un- legal reform, Prize winning series of articles on China’s Times researcher case (a New York known details of the Zhao Yan for “leaking of state prosecuted journalist and former muckraking to the Times), and the way in which the very political final secrets” view of general case informed his more of the Zhao Yan resolution China. how the legal system works in contemporary evolving legal element of China’s as an in” dynamic that appears engagement with system, and looked at the ways in which China’s Stanley Lubman of UC the world has affected its legal reform. of the study of Chinese Berkeley Law School, one of the pioneers shedding light on some foreign opened the panel, law in the West, in in pushing for legal reform that have been active organizations state of competing values China. He observed that in its current development of Chinese legal institutions complexity, and moral U.S. State Depart- Eric Richardson, is a slow work in progress. spoke about the ment official and Michigan Law School graduate, of internet journalists in China (and how U.S.-based internet role companies support them) as case study to look at how the U.S. and other governments can influence rule of law issues in China from Mertha of Cornell discussed various Andrew Scientist Political afar. may they effects what and China on pressure international of types methods of foreign if any, or may not have, concluding that few, intervention will be conducive to establishing an independent Political by U-M judiciary in China. The final panel was moderated Mary Gallagher, Scientist and Center for Chinese Studies Director Chinese of reality the on work own her of some presented also who labor contracts. and Joe Kahn’s ings of each panel, the symposium introduction, web site at please visit the Asia Law Society’s keynote address, of each panel of the A full report http://students.law.umich.edu/als. symposium, along with supporting files used by the panelists (e.g., also available for download. are powerpoint presentations), Photos courtesy of Gregory Fox Photography Photos courtesy of Gregory 5 University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2008 4 – By Yan Liu, CCS MA Student he Center for Chinese Studies holds the Hughes Fellowship Tfor the 2008-2009 academic year. This is a rotating fellow- he Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) at the University of ship shared between the Center for Chinese Studies, Center for TMichigan has long been a nucleus of fostering and sustaining Southeast Asian Studies, and the Center for South Asian Studies. interdisciplinary interaction and cooperation on Chinese Stud- The fellowship can be used to fund visiting fellows or graduate ies. Following this excellent tradition, the CCS 2007 MA students, students from East and Southeast Asia. The intention of the donor together with several Ph.D. students who work on Chinese issues, is that the funds be used to “provide support for instructional or have established an interdisciplinary workshop focusing on Chinese research activity which will strengthen the economic and edu- Studies. The objective of this workshop is not only to provide a cational resources” of the countries located in those regions. The venue for students with different backgrounds to learn from each fellowships were made possible by the generous support of Gwyn other, but also to encourage students and professors alike to de- and Marion Hughes in establishing the Gwyn M. Hughes Memorial velop their original scholarship intended for conference presenta- Fund. He earned a B.A. from U-M in 1926 and served as Chairman tions, articles or dissertations. of the Board of American International Assurances Company, Ltd., With the generous help from the CCS program, the China Hong Kong. Interdisciplinary Workshop kicked off on February 15, 2008. There- after, six students or professors from three different programs pre- CCS has split the award among ten promising students and sented their work in the following biweekly meetings, and received accomplished scholars including: constructive feedback from the audience. Meanwhile, we applied Song Shaopeng, nominated by Professor Wang Zheng, was for the Interdisciplinary Workshop Fellowship provided by the awarded $23,000 and will be a Visiting Scholar through AY08-09 Rackham School of Graduate Studies and are pleased to announce and Summer 2009. She is an Associate Professor at Renmin Uni- that we have received full funding for the China workshop in the versity in the Department of CPC History and will be conducting 2008–2009 academic year. We intend to continue the workshop research on how American scholars perceive the influence of Con- on a biweekly basis throughout Fall 2008 and Winter 2009. Besides fucian traditions and Chinese revolution on contemporary Chinese the regular presentations, we also plan to invite guest speakers women through an intensive examination of texts and in-depth outside the university to come and give talks and purchase relevant discussions with American scholars. Wang Fuqiang, nominated reading materials that are conducive to the discussion. by Professor Nico Howson, was awarded $23,000 and will be a For more information of the China Interdisciplinary Workshop, Visiting Scholar from July 2008–June 2009. He will be mentored please visit our official website http://www.umich.edu/~chinawrk/ by Professor Susan Crawford who joins the U-M Law School from index.html. Any suggestions or comments are greatly appreci- Yale Law School this year. Wang Fuqiang is a Ph.D. student at the ated. Currently we are scheduling the activities for the 2008–2009 China University of Political Science and Law, majoring in Civil Law. academic year. If you are interested in presenting your work in this During his time at U-M he will pursue research on “The Law Study workshop, please feel free to contact us. Our contact emails are of Commercial Use of Personal Information” and “The Study on [email protected] (Victoria Chonn Ching) and yliuz@umich. Frame Structure of Internet Governance.” His hope is to contribute edu (Yan Liu). to the information development of China. Zhang Huili, nomi- nated by Professor San Duanmu was awarded $5000 and will be a Visiting Scholar through AY08-09 to AY09-10 and Summer 2010. China Interdisciplinary Huili is an advanced Ph.D. student at Peking University and is in the process of writing her dissertation. Her research will explore Workshop the “Phonology of Rhyme-inflecting Nouns in Chinese dialects”. Zheng Mu, nominated by Professor Yu Xie was awarded $6000 and will continue work on a Ph.D. in the Department of Sociology, Population Studies Center. Byung Ho Lee, nominated by Professor James Lee was awarded $6000 and will continue work on his Ph.D. in the Department of Sociology. His thesis work will explore the Construction of Ethnicity in Historic and Contemporary China. Liu Yan, nominated by Professor Christian de Pee, was awarded $3000 and will continue his second year in the CCS Master’s Program. He plans to work on his thesis and begin applying for Ph.D. Programs in Chinese history. Qing Lai, nominated by Professor Yu Xie, was awarded $3000 and will pursue a Ph.D. in the Department of Soci- ology. Qing Lai worked with Professor Yu Xie on a research project in Gansu this July and will begin at U-M this fall. Yuhua Wang, nominated by Professor Mary Gallagher, was awarded $2000. Yuhua is a second year doctoral student in Political Science. Funds supported pre-dissertation research in China during the summer of 2008. His project is titled, “Top-Down Diffusion of National Laws Among Chinese Provinces.” Bang Zheng and Hanh Nguyen, nominated by their Faculty Advisor Professor San Duanmu, were both awarded $2000 to support work on completion of their CCS Master’s Thesis.

Hughes Fellowship for 2008–09

We started to build a library of directories, phone books, maps books, phone of directories, to build a library started We their long, Shanghai friends started to ask me to show Before to visitors imparting I enjoy every moment that I am “on tour,” accomplished writer Tina Kanagaratnam, and the doyenne of docu- and the doyenne writer Tina Kanagaratnam, accomplished in our Johnston, decided Tess old buildings, the city’s mentation of people of band tiny a Shanghai,” “Historic establish to room living 1937 heritage of this fabled city. exploring the fascinating dedicated to experts, by presentations organized We accounts. contemporary and of better- and lesser-known tours And created at historic venues. city in the world (and of what was in 1930 the sixth largest corners or or third, city in the world – or the eighth, is now the sixth largest you ask). fourth, depending on whom they told travel Then eyes. an historian’s the city through visitors a tours Soon I was doing several tours. companies that I offered a marketing job” running AsiaMedia, “real month, in addition to my and communications consultancy. celeb- I’ve toured information that is not easily available elsewhere. of and members generals Ambassadors, presidents. and CEOs, rities, historic sites. them Shanghai’s have insisted that I show Congress of my former CCS professor, But my biggest thrill? The appreciation wife Jane, when I toured gracious Lieberthal, and his Kenneth Dr. by the Chicago Council organized them as part of a China program ago, 20 years of 2008. I graduated in the spring on Global Affairs it seems. is endlessly gratifying, professors of one’s but the approval still vibrant street in historical Shanghai. in historical street A still vibrant Cranley Photos Courtesy of Patrick

That was certainly my situation when I studied PRC economics economics PRC studied I when situation my certainly was That with my family in 1997, I was So when I moved to Shanghai both Chinese I started asking questions of long-time residents, hanghai’s near-miraculous rise as one of the world’s most most rise as one of the world’s near-miraculous hanghai’s but of modern China, is well-studied by students dynamic cities Alumni Perspective Patrick Cranley tours Shanghai with tours Cranley Patrick Couric and her daughters Katy S egacy . . . in Shanghai egacy L The Michigan 1988, MBA CCS Studies, , MA Chinese Cranley Patrick by Wm. 1988 Ross School with their eyes firmly on the prize — the almighty diploma — they — the almighty diploma firmly on the prize with their eyes of into the fascinating history time to delve in depth seldom have of the East.” the “Paris Chinese for Center U-M the at student graduate a as politics and of Busi- School (I was also at the Graduate Studies in the mid-1980s off the dates the Ross School of Business). I could rattle now ness, of Party Communist the of Congresses various the of themes and actually was life what of knowledge cursory a only had I but China, for the record). the CPC was born (in July 1921, like in the city where stately neoclassical public here: surprised by what we discovered dozens with mansions now crammed buildings; once-luxurious and of families; bustling Shanghai-style lane neighborhoods; of years 70 after stylish still houses, apartment Deco Art gorgeous Who lived in them in the “old days,” neglect. How did they get here? Shang- taipans, British of stories What now? them in lives who and Sikh policemen, Ningbo bankers, Russian émigrés, hai gangsters, Japanese Communist conspirators, functionaries, “Portuguese” they tell, if walls could talk? cathouses would spies and French So my wife, the good answers. and not getting very and foreign, 7 University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2008 6 – he Center for Chinese Studies will be offering a number of The Winter 2009 presentation within the CCS Tpublic events on topics related to the study of China during Public Lecture Series will be given by Alexandra Fall Term 2008. For a complete listing of times and topics or to Harney, author of The China Price: The True Cost be added to the e-mail events notification group of this center, of Chinese Competitive Advantage (Penguin please contact the China Center at either 734-764-6408 or e-mail Press, 2008). A journalist who was the South at [email protected]. Information can also be found on China correspondent for The Financial Times from the center’s website at: www.ii.umich.edu/ccs under “Events and 2003 through 2006, she has also been published Programs.” in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Far Eastern Economic Review, among others. More information on her talk will Noon Lecture Series: The CCS Noon Lecture Series continues be available at the beginning of Winter Term in January 2009. to offer a weekly presentation of scholarly talks on the study of modern and pre-modern China. The talks will take place at noon CCS Chinese Documentary Film Series: The Fall 2008 CCS film on Tuesdays in Room 1636 School of Social Work Building, 1080 S. series will continue to present contemporary documentary films on University. Presentations this term include Teemu Ruskola, Emory modern culture and society in China. The film series will be shown Law School (Sept. 23); Madeline Chu, Kalamazoo College (Sept. on occasional Saturday evenings at 7:00pm in Auditorium A of 30th); Joseph Dennis, Davidson College (Oct. 7); Shuen-fu Lin, Angell Hall on the central campus area of the University of Michigan. U-M Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures (Oct. 14); Giovanni A complete schedule is available from the Center for Chinese Studies Vitiello, University of Hawaii (Oct. 28); Yanjie Bian, University of at 734-764-6408 or from the center’s website at: www.ii.umich. Minnesota (Nov. 4); Mayling Birney, Princeton Society of Fellows edu/ccs. The series will begin on Saturday, Oct. 4 with a showing of (Nov. 11); Mary Gallagher, U-M Dept. of Political Science (Nov. Care and Love, filmmaker Ai Xiaoming’s portrait of the devastating 18); Wen Yuhang, Kunqu Performer (Nov. 25); and Jin Feng, personal toll of AIDS in the Chinese countryside. On Oct. 11 we will Grinnell College (Dec. 2). All talks are free and open to the public. show China Blue, a powerful and poignant journey into the harsh Light lunch fare and refreshments will be served. Come early to get world of sweatshop workers. Other presentations include: Oct. 25, a good seat. Red Capitalism: China’s Economic Revolution; Nov. 1, No Sex, No Violence, No News: The Battle to Control China’s Airwares; CCS Special Presentation: On Tues- Nov. 8, Last House Standing; Nov. 15, Shanghai Bride, and on day, Sept. 30th at 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Nov. 22, we will show director Wu Wenguang’s documentary on professor and documentary filmmaker provincial farm workers in Beijing who agree to participate in a Ai Xiaoming, Sun Yat-sen University, dance performance called Dance with Farm Workers. All film will present her newest documentary presentations are free and open to the public. film The Train to My Home Town and give a presentation entitled “Visual Representation, Memory and Public Interest.” Professor Ai is a feminist academic, a human rights activist, and director of several documentary films on issues of health, human rights, the legal system and the election system in China, among other topics. Her film The Train to My Home Town, filmed on the eve of Spring Festival (China 2008; 59 minutes, in Chinese with English subtitles) is an intimate portrait of inland migrant workers seeking to return home to be with family for the Chinese New Year. Professor Ai’s film Care and Love (2007), the story of a villager who contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion during childbirth, will be shown in the CCS Chinese Documentary Film Series on Saturday, October 4th at 7:00pm in Auditorium A of Angell Hall. The film series is free and open to the public.

CCS Public Lecture Series: We continue our

popular public lecture series, inaugurated during Care and Love, a 2007 the 2007–08 LSA China Theme Year, with a Fall documentary film by Ai Xiaoming 2008 presentation by Yasheng Huang, Sloan School of Management, MIT. Professor Huang will be speaking on “Rethinking Chinese Reforms.” He is the author of Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics (Cambridge 2008). In collaborative projects with other scholars, Professor Huang is conducting research on engineering education and hu- man capital formation in China and India and on entrepreneurship. He is the recipient of the Social Science-MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Fellowship. His talk will take place on Thursday, October 23rd at 7:00pm in Room 1636 School of Social Work Building. All are welcome to attend.

Events Civil Division of the Shanghai Higher nd , Assistant Professor of History, has published has of History, Professor , Assistant Pee de Christian of Dream of “A translation an annotated 9.2 (2007) in Nan Nü dies in which a young woman story Spring,” a fourteenth-century her but who has dishonored she has never met for a man whom summer he During the of poems and letters. in their exchange capitals: “Wards two articles about eleventh-century has written Space in Song-Dynasty and Urban Geographies Textual of Words: special issue of the Journal for a forthcoming Luoyang, 960-1127,” History of the Orient, and “Purchase of the Economic and Social Space in Song-Dynasty Imperial Space and Commercial on Power: held Emporia,” and “Empires conference the for 960-1127,” Kaifeng, in August 2008. the Netherlands, at Leiden University, - Ross School of Busi , Adjunct Lecturer, Farnsworth Brad In May, for International Business of the U-M Center Director and ness, program for a study abroad director Education, served as faculty provided program The three-week University. based at Tsinghua for thirty- to the Chinese business environment an introduction the Ross Business School. The course from two undergraduates and tours company visits, Tsinghua, from guest lecturers featured sites in Beijing. of the major cultural had a China-focused of Law Nicholas Howson Assistant Professor in “Chi- course Winter semester co-teaching a joint Law-History Law specialist nese Legal History” with Faculty Associate and Qing at Pär Cassell, and a short seminar in “Chinese Constitutionalism” he traveled Arbor, the Law School. After the end of classes in Ann very for the Law School’s to Beijing in May to co-host a reception Shanghai, China (with attendees from alumni in Greater impressive during which time he ), Shanghai and Jilin, Hong Kong, Law School University at the People’s Lecture also gave a Dean’s contests (with com- control on the fiduciary duty in corporate Law Professor University mentary by U-M alumnus and People’s of Political Liu Junhai). He then visited the East China University He he met with President Science and Law in Shanghai, where a Gu Gongyun to arrange Qinhua and Executive Vice-President and continuing investigation of Fall 2008 visit to that University law in China. In June, his article “The and commercial corporate Its Name: Anglo-American Fiduciary Not Speak Doctrine that Dared Law and Case Law Intimations 2005 Company Duties in China’s in the Routledge volume was published of Prior Convergence” Governance in East Asia (Hideki Kanda, Corporate Transforming sum- By the end of the Kim and Curtis Milhaupt, editors). Kon-sik governance at China’s mer his long article examining corporate Banks: The Commercial Restructured banks -- “China’s “reformed” Governance System Serving New Corporate Old Nomenklatura China Banking and Finance -- will come out in Wiley’s Structures?” and his translation And, finally, (Zhu Min and Cai Jinqing, editors). Chinese language law review Li Xiuqing’s annotation of Professor article “Wu Jingxiong Zai Mixiegen Daxue Faxueyuan” [“John C.H. Wu at the U-M School of Law”] will shortly appear in the Journal of Legal Education. During the Fall 2008 Howson will be resident continuing and Law, of Politics East China University at Shanghai’s to investigate with the 2 People’s Court (and the same division of the Supreme People’s People’s Court (and the same division of the Supreme People’s newly amended Court in Beijing) the actual application of China’s sophisticated increasingly Company and Securities Laws by China’s and independent judiciary. Faculty News Faculty Associate News Language, spent of Linguistics and Chinese Bill Baxter, Professor working with his colleague a month over the summer in Paris linguistic on an improved collaborating Sagart. They are Laurent the language of the early classical of , reconstruction He linguistic history of China generally. and on the pre-Qin texts, in part due to the availability making progress believes they are States period, of the Warring volume of Chinese texts of a large sites in China. at archeological years excavated in recent and is currently to tenure has been promoted Brown Miranda of Asian Languages and in the Department an associate professor specializing in early Chinese culture. Cultures has had his article “The of History, Pär Cassel, Assistant Professor in Japan” published in Long Live the Em- Legacies of Ming Taizu East Six Centuries of The Uses of the Ming Founder across peror: Schneewind, 329-44. Minneapolis: Asian History, edited by Sarah 2008. Society for Ming Studies, Staff News a to a new location, we have also experienced As we transition - in staff. Our very capable student services coordina transition Program , accepted the position of Maryellen Bartolome tor, Health Sciences in the Department of Environmental Coordinator in early position and left her current in the School of Public Health for all the support and our appreciation express August 2008. We has given the center and our assistance Maryellen professional and wish her luck in her six years students over the past graduate alumni who wish new position. She will be missed. Any students or u. Jen Zhu, U-M to contact her may do so at [email protected] - as interim student services coordina will serve China Coordinator, Jen’s appreciate We responsibilities. tor in addition to her current at She can be reached us during this transition. willingness to assist [email protected]. Center News Center the China of 2008, the summer : During Location New Office the School of Social to the fourth floor of relocated offices Center’s location on previous after having been in our to Suite 4668 Work - move was precipi November of 1997. The floor since the third the for African Studies at addition of a new Center tated by the Center of the new Weiser Institute and the formation International for Russian will include the Center which and Eurasia for Europe Studies- for European the Center Studies, and Eastern European for Emerging and the newly formed Center Union Center, European Studies have for Japanese and Korean The Centers Democracies. Stop by and visit. floor. also joined us on the fourth 9 University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2008 8 – Photo courtesy of Lynda Li

Lydia Li, Associate Professor of Social Work, spent the summer in Twila Tardif, Professor of Developmental Psychology, has a book China interviewing frail elders and their caregivers living in rural coming out in both English and Chinese entitled Chinese Commu- and urban areas (Jinan and two rural villages nearby), respectively. nicative Development Inventories: User’s Guide The study aims to understand the quality of care received by frail and Manual. The book will soon be published by and disabled elders, and quality of life of frail elders and their fam- the Peking University Medical Press. Addition- ily caregivers. ally, she was a Visiting Senior Fellow at Tokyo Women’s Christian University during summer David Porter, Associate Professor of English and Comparative 2008, and will be on her first-ever sabbatical Literature, had an article published in the recent (Spring ‘08) during 2008-09 to work on a second book on China issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review. Entitled “China is Chinese-speaking (Mandarin and Cantonese) children’s early word Not a Foreign Country: The Promises and Perils of Cross-Cultural learning and learning how to apply complex systems modeling Comparison,” it draws in part on his experience teaching for the techniques to these data. U-M program at Beida in ‘06-07. The essay takes a close look at what is involved in comparing two cultures (like China and the US), Faculty Transitions why cross-cultural comparisons are so tempting, and how they can Ching Kwan Lee, an associate professor in the Dept. of Sociology often lead to serious distortions and misunderstandings. since 2000, has accepted a faculty position at the University of California at Los Angeles and left her current post during the sum- During 2008-09, Martin Powers, Sally Michelson Davidson Profes- mer of 2008. We wish her well in her new position. sor of Chinese Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan and former Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, will be at the James Robson, an assistant professor of Medieval Chinese Bud- Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton writing a book on the dhism and Daoism in the Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, role of “China” in the cultural politics of the English garden. accepted a faculty position at Harvard University as of July 2008. We congratulation him on his new position. Professor Robson In June 2008, Bright Sheng, Leonard Bernstein Distinguished joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in November 2004. University Professor of Music, had the European premiere of his piano concerto Red Silk Dance in Lisbon, Portugal. Additionally, We are delighted to report that Professor Tang Xiaobing of the during October 17-18, 2008, he will be conducting the Detroit University of Southern California will be joining the University of Symphony Orchestra at Orchestra Hall in Detroit. The program will Michigan as of Fall 2008. He will hold the position of Helmut F. consist of musical compositions that express the theme of tragedy: Stern Professor of Chinese in the Department of Asia Languages Prokofiev’s War and Peace Overture and Romeo and Juliet Sym- and Cultures. Professor Tang specializes in modern and contem- phonic Suite 2, and Bright Sheng’s own compositions of Nanking! porary Chinese literary and visual cultures and we look forward to Nanking! and Tibetan Swing. welcoming him to our academic community.

Jidong Yang joined the CCS academic community on July 1, 2008 as Head of the Asia Library. He comes to U-M from the University of Pennsylvania Library where he served as Penn’s first Chinese Studies Librarian and directed the Chinese Studies Unit since 2000. Among his many accomplishments during his tenure at Penn, Jidong significantly increased collection holdings, managed a major retrospective conversion project, created a web gateway to Chinese collections, and greatly expanded the Library’s instruction program in support of East Asian studies. Student News Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History, received two two received of History, the Department Candidate in Ji Li, Ph.D. one of only 15 students She was this year. fellowships prestigious - Chateau the Bourse to be awarded in the U.S. universities from research assist doctoral fellowship to government briand, a French Fellowship the CCK Doctoral she received Additionally, in France. for International Ching-Kuo Foundation by the Chiang offered to support foundations one of the largest Scholarly Exchange, Studies. academic work in Asian summer helping drive the Jason Lin, CCS MA/MBA spent the Internet of next-generation vision, design, and implementation This means he worked with software at Microsoft. features search a sets throughout to manage feature development engineers a needs/ involves managing project lifecycle. His current product’s web-search importance of the relative opportunity study to assess and designing a categories and features, numerous across features opportunities in the Chinese, to deliver on identified pilot program and Japanese markets. Korean, engaged in a CCS MA student Marilyn Mai Over the summer, titled “Chinese Film Studies in Beijing,” held at 4-week program, Yomi by Professor the Beijing Film Academy and administered provided The program of Washington. the University from Braester discuss Chinese film opportunities to study and view Chinese films, contemporary history and criticism, visit important sites of Chinese noted Chinese filmmak- several and hear from production, cultural she will begin an internship at documentary film In the Fall, ers. studio, Caochangdi, also in Beijing, where Wu Wenguang’s director thesis. for and complete her Masters she will conduct research “I’m excited about the opportunities the MA Mai comments, Ms. to addressing me, and am looking forward provided has program that the role some of the questions forming in my mind about plays in Chinese social move- production cultural contemporary ments and tensions.” , Ph.D. student in the Dept. Fodde-Reguer Anna-Alexandra will attend the International of Asian Languages and Cultures, University (ICLP) at National Taiwan Chinese Language Program While diligently working on her language acquisi- in Taipei. (Taida) professors tion, Anna hopes to make connections with various to begin Taida and Academica Sinica in order in her field at both around She also hopes to travel dissertation research. preliminary as much as possible. Taiwan in Lee Skluzak, CCS MA, will be spending the summer enrolled for Chinese language studies (IUP) at Program the Inter-University him for further linguis- which will help prepare Qinghua University, PRC under the auspices of the at a Chinese university tic pursuits to him by CCS. He plans to finish his Master’s fellowship, awarded sci- in political thesis over the year and apply for Ph.D. programs ence during fall 2008. Current Students Current Visiting Scholars CCS Visiting Shihua of the Teng scholar Dr. visiting summer 2008, During China East Public Administration, Science and School of Political - on a compara research conducted and Law, of Politics University between China and the functions of government tive study of was Teng Dr. States. especially the United developed countries, and Science of Political Dept. Mary Gallagher, hosted by Professor for Chinese Studies. of the Center Director - universi and Tsinghua of History at Peking Liang Chen, Professor on a be on campus until June 2009 conducting research will ties, university that focuses on the social origins of elite Chinese project - by James Lee, U-M Pro Chen is being hosted Professor students. fessor of History and Sociology. - in the Department of Econom Liu Haoming, Associate Professor will be on campus conducting of Singapore, University National ics, Xie, He is being hosted by Yu until the end of June 2009. research at ISR, and Professor of Statistics and Research U-M Professor entitled “External Return to project will be working on a research Evidence from Human Capital and Investment in Physical Capital: Some Chinese Cities.” will be a CCS , Shanghai Jiaotong University, Ren Yuxue Professor scholar until the end of August 2009. She will visiting research in part, on how the that focuses, project be working on a research - into the local administra Garrison was changed Eight Banners She will tive system in Northeast China during the . of Lee while at the University James also be hosted by Professor Michigan. of University in the China Zhang Xiaoye, Associate Professor Oct. 2008 until will be on campus from Science and Law, Political be working on she will Sept. 2009. A scholar of Chinese history, to Hubei province of immigrants the life style and social structure She is being hosted by during the Ming and Qing dynasties. James Lee. Professor Studies),Wang (Women’s Song Shaopeng CCS visiting scholars (Linguistics) have Fuqiang (Michigan Law School) and Zhang Huili informa- for 2008-09. More Hughes fellowships all been awarded on campus can be specializations and tenure tion on their research found in the section under “Hughes Fellowships” on page 5 of this newsletter.

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10 13 Recent Graduates Incoming MA Students for Fall 2008 Joys Cheung completed her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology in spring Sarah M. Brooks graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2007 2008. Her dissertation was entitled Chinese Music and Translated with a BA in Asian Studies: China. Her main interest is women’s Modernity in Shanghai, 1918–1937. Currently she has accepted the studies in China. Kalamazoo College/University of Michigan Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship (2008 to 2009). Courses she will teach at Kalamazoo Jason Lin was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the US as a child. College include music of world cultures, music of Asia, and film He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a music. BA in Political Science and International Relations in 2004. He de- cided to apply for the MBA/MA in Asian Studies:China dual degree Ellen Hamilton completed her Ph.D. in Psychology in fall 2007. because he wants to pursue a graduate program that will encom- Her dissertation was entitled pass and synthesize both his cultural and professional background The Importance of Phonological Processing in English- and while preparing him for a career as a strategy consultant in China. Mandarin-speaking Emergent and Fluent Readers. Currently she has a postdoctoral fellowship in the U-M Department of Education. Philip Rogers was admitted to the Ford School in fall 2007, but deferred one year and decided to apply for the MPP/MA in Asian Myeong-seok Kim completed his Ph.D. in Asian Languages and Studies: China dual degree. He graduated from the University of Cultures in summer 2008. His dissertation was entitled An Inquiry Michigan in 2006 with a BA in Economics and his career goal is to into the Development of the Ethical Theory of Emotions in the work for the State Department and the CIA. Analects and the Mencius. He has accepted a postdoctoral fellow- ship in the Philosophy Department at the National University of Brandon Soloski received a BA in Political Science and Govern- Singapore. ment from Union College in 2003. He has had two internships: one at the Beijing Center for Policy Research, a division of the Adeline Koh completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in Carter Center’s China Program and the other at the Congressional winter 2008. Her dissertation was entitled: Inventing Malayanness: Executive Commission on China in Washington DC. Presently he is Race, Education and Englishness in Colonial Malaya. Assistant Director at the Shanghai office of the Alliance for Global Adeline currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship in the English Education. Brandon is a MPP/MA dual degree student. Department of the National University of Singapore. Incoming Ph.D. Students for Fall 2008 Airong Luo completed a Ph.D. in Information in winter 2008 and Martino Dibeltulo will be studying Tibetan Buddhism in the submitted a dissertation entitled Imperfect Partnership: Effects Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. He completed his BA of Collaboratories on Scientists from Developing Countries. Luo is in Languages and Cultures of Eastern Asia and an MA in East Asian now working as a research associate at the Office of Enabling Tech- Languages and Civilizations from Ca’Foscari University of Venice. nologies, U-M Medical School. Qing Lai will be pursuing graduate work in social demography and Li Min completed his Ph.D. in Anthropological Archaeology in the population studies in the Department of Sociology, after having Department of Anthropology in summer 2008. His dissertation was completed a BA in English Language and Literature from Anhui entitled Conquest, Concord, and Consumption: Becoming Shang in University and an MA in Sociology from Temple University. Eastern China. He is currently an assistant professor at UCLA, joint appointment between the Dept. of Asian Language and Cultures Kathy Lin will be entering the Population Studies Program in and Institute of Archaeology and will be teaching East Asian the Department of Sociology to do graduate work within public archaeology. health and medical sociology. She completed her BA in Sociology and Mathematical Methods in Global Health from Northwestern Matthew Noellert completed his M.A. in Asian Studies: China in University. winter 2008. His thesis was entitled Chasing Shadows: Under- standing the Origins of the Zhuangzi.¯ ˇ Currently, Matt is in Japan Ryan Monarch completed his BA in Economics from University of participating in WWOOF Japan, an international cultural exchange/ Chicago and will be entering the Department of Economics in the living/work organization and plans on applying to a Ph.D. program fall. His research interests include emerging economies, economic in the fall. reform and transitions, and economic history.

Alice Yao completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology in winter 2008. Her Ignacio Villagran did his undergraduate work in Political Science dissertation was entitled Culture Contact and Social Change along and Government at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires China’s Ancient Southwestern Frontier, 900 B.C.–100 A.D. Currently, and completed an MA in International Relations from Escuala de she holds a fellowship to do research at the Institute for the Study Defensa Nacional in Buenos Aires and an MA in Asian Studies: of the Ancient World at New York University and has accepted China from El Colegio de Mexico. He will be pursuing graduate a tenure-track position teaching archaeology at the Mississauga work in early Chinese political history in the Department of Asian campus of Toronto University. Languages and Cultures. Photos courtesy of John Schurrer The Ford School of Public Policy requires a ten-week internship, internship, ten-week a requires Policy Public of School Ford The Relief for one week when the I had only been at Direct during our visit to Mianzhu, saw the devastation first-hand We on immediate material efforts have focused Many relief I gained in the CCS program background The interdisciplinary In addition to my internship, I continue to work on my CCS s a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lanzhou I became fascinated with in Lanzhou I became Corps Volunteer s a Peace My work in Zanzibar in Northwest China. social stratification Student Perspective , CCS MA/MPP dual degree student degree dual , CCS MA/MPP Schurrer by John A (Tanzania) instilled a desire to develop the skills needed to evaluate to develop the skills needed a desire instilled (Tanzania) a dual- to pursue I decided As a result, programs. development at Michigan. I knew Studies and Public Policy in Chinese degree anticipate but I didn’t China for academic reasons, I would go to earthquake in China The tragic capacity. going in a professional the latter opportunity. provided Relief International. at Direct Barbara which I completed in Santa Relief is a privately funded, non-partisan Founded in 1948, Direct material medical as- provides that organization and non-religious worldwide. sistance to partner organizations Relief’s 22, I accompanied Direct earthquake struck. On May Chengdu. I had previously to Response Coordinator Emergency familiarity with the city and local dialect lived in Chengdu and my Corps my Peace Through helped us navigate day-to-day activities. and officials in Beijing, Chengdu, we met with doctors connections, Mianzhu, and Guanghan. the tragedy, Hanwang, and Jiulong. Despite the magnitude of of the human spirit was evident. We the perseverance however, old girl whose a three-year met two young boys who “adopted” her spirits up. We mother was killed. They played with her to keep smiled and despite their injuries, amputees who, also met several an from woman recovering thankful to be alive. An older were and joked as her daughter-in- bones laughed assortment of broken time in two weeks. law washed her hair for the first long after remain physical and mental scars support. However, Rehabilitation is a lengthy moved to the next story. have reporters grow, As children particularly for children. for amputees, process Similarly, and resizing. readjustment limbs require prosthetic For those living counseling is not completed in one or two sessions. access to these specialized services may areas, in poor and remote assistance should consider be difficult. Those looking to provide who providers health care with Chinese developing partnerships especially children. populations, service the most vulnerable deal during allowed us to work efficiently and accomplish a great our one-week trip. Using the knowledge and skills gained in my aspects of insight on relevant I was able to provide coursework, Direct As I write this, legal system, and history. bureaucracy, China’s of establishing importation channels to di- Relief is in the process I am confident the skills I gained aid to specific organizations. rect chances of providing Relief’s Direct during my studies improved assistance. targeted which is a quantitative study of occupational attainment thesis, in Northwest China. I plan to among selected minority groups in December and hope to combine my China specific graduate career. knowledge with my quantitative analytic skills in a future

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15 12 Asia Library China Data Online中国数据在线 by Mei-ying Lin, Coordinator of Technical Services (U-M campus access; jointly provided by China Data Center) Collection of databases including: statistical yearbooks, census data E-Source Materials: In the late 1990s, the Asia Library created and other databases. a computing facility dedicating to CJK languages. The facility Wen yuan ge Si ku quan shu nei lian wang ban 文淵閣四庫 provides OCR, handwriting and voice recognition systems, machine 全書內聯網版 (full text: U-M campus access) translation, and connectivity to numerous Asian research data- Provides full text access to the Wenyuange edition of Si ku quan bases. Asia Library provides nearly 1,500 electronic resources, along shu, a comprehensive collection of Chinese scholarship in various with access to records in the Research Library Information Network subjects up to the 18th century. System requirements include: and the Online Computer Library Center. An extensive list of online Windows OS and Internet Explorer and Chinese Input Program. and print reference tools — in both English and CJK languages — is There are also CD-ROM version for use in Asia Library CJK comput- available from the website: www.lib.umich.edu/asia/ref.htm. ing room only and printed version (Buhr Shelving Facility AC 149 .S72 2003) U-M Asia Library Database Subscriptions: China Wanfang Chinese Studies Online 万方中国研究在线 (full text: The Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China 古今圖書 U-M affiliates only) Provided by Wanfang Database Co. for both 集成 (full text: U-M affiliates only) A full-text searchable online single and cross databases search. Currently includes the following database of the 1934 Zhonghua shuju (中華書局) edition with three online databases: original text, illustrations, and punctuation. Edited by Chen Men- glei (陳夢雷) , this compendium of classic Chinese texts was first China Online Journals (COJ) in Arts/Hum., Social Sciences ( 万 published in 1726. Note: The top menu on the main page would ) Features core journals in the Business, Econom- 方数字化期刊 only display properly in Internet Explorer. Users with other browers ics, Arts, Humanities, Law, Politics and Social Sciences, as well as could go to “Advanced Search 進階搜尋” (next to the “GO” but- a very broad collection of Chinese university journals. Its years ton) instead to see the complete menu. of coverage are from 1997 to present. Back issues are constantly being added. CHANT: Chinese Ancient Texts 漢達文庫 (U-M campus access) Collection of databases including the following (the last two can Dissertations of China (DOC) in Arts/Hum., Social. Sciences ( be seen as online versions of 先秦兩漢古籍逐字索引叢刊 and 万方学位论文数据库) Holds full-text, or abstracts and other 魏晉南北朝古籍逐字索引叢刊): 甲骨文資料庫: 收錄13冊《 descriptive information of Masters, Doctoral, and Post-doctoral 甲骨文合集釋文》及《英國所藏甲骨集》等7種海外所藏甲 dissertations from major Chinese research institutions from 1986 骨卜辭資料，重新整理、校勘。 onward. Document delivery service is also available upon request. 竹簡帛書資料庫: 收錄出土簡帛文獻包括《武威漢簡》、《 Policies and Laws of China (PLOC) (万方中国政策法规数 馬王堆漢墓帛書銀雀山漢簡》、《睡虎地秦墓竹簡》等多 据库) Provides valuable information on Chinese jurisdiction, 種，附釋文、圖像逐簡對照顯示。 legislature, and business laws and holds more than 134,000 records 先秦兩漢資料庫: 收錄先秦兩漢所有傳世文獻，合共超過九 covering a comprehensive range of Chinese policies, regulations, 百萬字；全部文獻採用舊刻善本重新校勘。 and laws of both national and regional levels from 1949 onward. 魏晉南北朝資料庫: 收錄魏晉六朝全部傳世文獻，合共超過 二千四百萬字；大部分文獻重新加上標點符號，又比對不 CNKI Zhongguo zhi wang CNKI 中国知网, 中国知识基础设施 同版本，全面紀錄異文資料。 工程 (full text: U-M affiliates only) Jointly provided by CNKI and East View Information Services for both single and cross databases iSinoLaw 中华法律网 (U-M campus access; provided by the UM search. You can also select “Simplified Chinese” in the upper right Law Library) Primary and secondary Chinese legal materials, in corner for using the Chinese interface. Although most articles are traditional and simplified Chinese, Japanese and English. Access is available in pdf format, please download CAJ Viewer for better limited to 3 concurrent users. display. Currently includes the following three online databases: For a listing of the Japanese and Korean language reference mate- China Academic Journals Full-text Database (CAJ) (中国期刊 rials, please access the website of the U-M Asia Library. 全文数据库) CAJ is the most comprehensive, full-text database of Chinese journals in the world. It contains more than 7,200 journals China Data Center starting from 1979. Three series databases — Literature/History/ As part of the recent relocation of various centers at the Interna- Philosophy, Economics/Politics/Law, and Education/Social Science — tional Institute, the China Data Center was moved to a building on are included. Coverage: 1994 onward. East Huron near the Power Center, close to where Fletcher Street Century Journals Project (CJP) (世纪期刊人文社科精品数 dead ends into East Huron. Their current address is: ) Century Journals Project selects the most important 100 据库 China Data Center academic journals published in China and digitizes all issues since Room 206 their very first issue up till 1993 in an effort to expand the China 1007 East Huron Street Academic Journals Full-text Database. Coverage: 1950–1993. Ann Arbor, MI 48104 China Core Newspaper Databases (CCND) (中国重要报纸全 Tel: 734-647-9610 文数据库) CCND selects core newspaper articles published in Fax: 734-763-0335 mainland China since 2000. Coverage: 2000 onward. e-mail: [email protected] Stop by and visit them in their new office location!

Resources century, century, th In addition to the collections galleries, the new UMMA will the new UMMA galleries, In addition to the collections boast an auditorium, classrooms, The new UMMA will also development of kiln and glaze technology that closely relate to that closely relate of kiln and glaze technology development section shows calligraphy The following social history. political and case in a ceiling-high glass which will be displayed and painting, of which some Chinese paintings, large that can accommodate will display The last case in the gallery meters. to three can reach by the donated Chinese folk art recently a wonderful collection of Laing and art historian Ellen Laing. late Richard of its gallery to showcase even more include an “open storage” The with glass doors. rooms collections of virtually storage premier art conservation lab should also be a state-of-the-art Asian new, the lab will walls and doors, With its glass to many. interest great of process the opportunity to observe the fascinating offer visitors Asian paintings and prints. restoring that can be used for teaching and and community meeting rooms hope that this dynamic new strongly We additional programming. will foster the exciting for learning and discovery environment cen- with all of the Asian area developed intellectual partnerships UMMA’s as it reflects the Center for Chinese Studies, including ters, longstanding commitment to Asian art. , Taiwan, 20 Flat Basket, Taiwan, woven bamboo, Gift of Ellen and Laing, 2006/2.36 Richard UMMA has long been known for its strong collection of collection of for its strong UMMA has long been known

University of Michigan Museum of Art, View from State Street Museum of Art, View from of Michigan University Large Storage Jar, China, Majiayao Storage Large (2600BCE–2300BCE), earth- Culture Gift pigments, with mineral enware Pizza, Inc., 1993/1.46 of Domino’s New Chinese Gallery At The UMMA At Chinese Gallery New U-M of Asian Art, Curator Associate , Interim Oyobe by Natsu Art Museum of Univer- the project, expansion and restoration After a landmark to public in its doors reopen Museum of Art will sity of Michigan in the reimagined of Asian art 2009. The presence the spring of galleries devoted expand with five permanent UMMA will greatly and Southeast Asia, and Japan, South to the arts of China, Korea, and the airy Maxine and Stuart Frankel Buddhism, all located in named Family Wing. The new Chinese gallery will be the Frankel of Chinese Art to honor the late wife of The Shirley Chang Gallery Chang. Cheng-Yang Dr. urologist retired art. The Shirley Chang and literati ceramics Chinese art, particularly roughly be divided into five sections Gallery of Chinese Art will these history of Chinese art, highlighting following chronological and Bronze the Neolithic section presents The first two traditions. BCE), including hand-built and (3500 BCE–1000 Age cultures ritual wares. and bronze jades, pots, boldly painted earthenware for mortuary pur- The adjacent section is dedicated to works made especially ceramic periods, the Tang the Han through poses from to paradise. and imagery related of objects for the afterlife replicas a rich wall, presents The next section, which occupies one entire Special attention will be paid to the collection of Chinese ceramics.

University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2008 14 CCS Needs Your Help The President’s Challenge Fall 2008: Support Graduate Student Fellowships in Chinese Studies

-M President Mary Sue Coleman has created the President’s Chal- We hope that you will contribute generously to our effort to build lenge to enhance funding for one of the University of Michigan’s the Center’s ability to create graduate student fellowships in Chinese Uhighest priorities: financial aid for graduate students. Fellowships Studies by sending your gift or pledge today. Please return this form and other awards allow U-M and the Center for Chinese Studies to com- with your check to CCS or contact us directly at 734-764-6308. pete with peer institutions in attracting the brightest and most creative graduate students and supporting them through rigorous academic Have you thought of making a gift to CCS and receiving a lifetime endeavors. income, too? A life income plan provides immediate tax advantages and generates annual income streams for you or other named Under the President’s Challenge, your gift to the Center for Chinese beneficiaries. The University of Michigan will help you select the plan Studies for graduate student fellowship funding will be matched 1:2 by that is best for you and your situation. Call toll-free 1-866-233-6661, additional funds from the Challenge monies. That is, every $2 contributed e-mail [email protected], or visit the website at www.giving.umich for graduate student support before the end of Fall Term 2008 will be and select the “Need Information for Planned Giving” option. matched by $1 from the President. Please detach this form and return with your check to: Corporate Matches for an employee’s gift are eligible to be matched by The Center for Chinese Studies, Suite 4668 SSWB, University of the Challenge if the money comes in before December 31, 2008. Michigan, 1080 South University, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1106

Expendable Gifts of any amount to a CCS fund designated for student support will be matched by the President. The matching monies will go into a CCS endowed fund that will be used for student support now and in the future.

New Endowments: A pledge or gift of $50,000 or more will create a named donor endowed fund and is eligible to be matched by the Presi- dent’s Challenge.

Time Frame: The Challenge will run until either December 31, 2008, or until $40 million is committed university-wide in gifts to support gradu- ate students.

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Cover: Sheng Maoye Gathering (detail), 1621, Pavilion The Orchid of on silk, University ink and color hanging scroll, possible made purchase Art of Museum Michigan Art Collection Parker Watson by the Margaret Fund, 1974/1.244 Silk Road Ensemble with Yo Yo Ma 8:00pm on March 13–14 at Hill Auditorium 13–14 at Ma 8:00pm on March Yo Silk Road Ensemble with Yo information, please contact UMS at: 734-764-2538 or at www.ums.org For more Winter 2009 University Musical Society Musical Winter 2009 University The Regents of the University of Michigan The Regents of the University Ann Arbor Julia Donovan Darlow, Deitch, Bingham Farms B. Laurence Goodrich Maynard, Olivia P. Rebecca McGowan, Ann Arbor Newman, Ann Arbor Fischer Andrea Park Pointe Grosse Richner, C. Andrew Farms Pointe Grosse S. Martin Taylor, White, Ann Arbor E. Katherine Mary Sue Coleman (ex officio) Center for Chinese Studies for Chinese Center SSWB Suite 4668 of Michigan University South University 1080 MI 48109-1106 Ann Arbor, 734-764-6308 Fax: 734-764-5540 e-mail: [email protected] website: www.ii.umich.edu/ccs Summer Tucker, Key Administrator Key Summer Tucker, Coordinator Ena Schlorff, Program Coordinator Stepanchuk, Outreach Carol Coordinator Jen Zhu, Interim Student Services Office Coordinator Anna Moyer, Newsletter Editor: Ena Schlorff Newsletter Design: Savitski Design Inc. Print-Tech, Newsletter Production:

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