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Center for East Asian Studies the University of Kansas 1440 Jayhawk Blvd Center2011 for East Asian Studies University of Kansas | 2011 Annual Report Letter from the Director membership. We anticipate that more of fellowships for the last academic year, 2011 our programming in the future will explore and we started hearing back from these has been an these collaborations and connections. students about how meaningful this interesting year We encourage our faculty and student assistance has been to them. This was at the Center members to come to us with ideas for how the final year of our Kansas Asia Scholars for East Asian we might strengthen these connections. program for students in the School of Studies, one in This year’s theme is Nations & Education. We sent 14 students on a which we have Identity. We kicked off the year in August 3-week study trip to China, and they been compelled with a multi-center conference on this have spent the fall term sharing things to adapt theme in which a number of CEAS they learned with K-12 students and the and change members participated. The conference community. We also assisted faculty to a new will yield an edited volume, which will to develop a range of new courses for environment both at KU and in the nation be edited by Edith Clowes, Director of undergraduates in EALC, Anthropology, while not giving up our core mission: to CREES, and Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, an Geography, and Film & Media Studies. develop new knowledge of East Asia, alumna of LASC. CEAS will take the lead This year we were joined by Jiso to train East Asian language and culture on a collaborative teacher workshop on Yoon, who was hired to teach Korean and experts, and to educate the people of February 25 that will examine the theme Japanese politics by the Department of Kansas and the region about East Asia. through the lens of world heritage sites. Political Science with seed money from As the university moves forward with We welcome any faculty and graduate Title VI. We are extremely pleased to Bold Aspirations, a set of four strategic students doing work on Nations & Identity welcome Jiso; Sanako Mitsugi, who joined initiatives that will guide development to let us know, so that we can schedule a the EALC Japanese language faculty; and of the institution in the coming years, Tea & Talk presentation. Karen Kyeunghae Lee, who joined the we at CEAS have been exploring ways As always, we have had an extremely School of Social Welfare this year. in which to connect to these initiatives. active outreach program this year. Our As always, Jun, Leslie, Nancy, and As the Federal government has sought activities have included many classroom Randi have worked hard through the year ways to balance its budget without raising visits by Randi Hacker, including an to fulfill the Center’s mission and to help revenues, it has significantly reduced afterschool Chinese Club at Cordley our faculty and students to accomplish funding to Title VI. Many of you now Elementary School; a year-long China their research, teaching, and learning know that for this academic year our Title workshop to go along with the Lied goals. They have all done so with good VI grant was cut by 46.5%. We anticipate Center’s China Year; Nancy Hope’s cheer and a positive outlook through what that we will see a similar level of Title VI KCTA course, which she is running on have been some anxiety-producing and grant funding next year as well. a new model this year; and a credit- trying times. I deeply appreciate their At the first Bold Aspirations summit, bearing course for teachers on East Asia dedication and thank them all for their held in November, we were excited to in the World Economy taught by myself hard work. learn just how extensively our colleagues and Barbara Phipps of the Center for We are busy lining up a set of across the university in fields related to Economic Education. This spring we will lectures and activities for the coming term. the environment and fuel are engaged continue to offer many more opportunities We will hold a roundtable on North Korea in research in and about East Asia. Our for teachers to learn about East Asia in February 2; Greg Pflugfelder will deliver Mongolia Initiative seems best positioned ways that are relevant to their classrooms. the Grant Goodman Distinguished Lecture to lead the way for us to explore research We also offered a great range of in Japanese Studies on March 28; Carl and teaching collaborations between these opportunities to undergraduate students Minzer will speak on Chinese law STEM faculty and the humanists and this year. We were very excited to give out social scientists who constitute most of our our first full-year undergraduate FLAS continued next page Director’s Letter (con’t) CEAS Staff March 13; and we are organizing a you at our Lunar New Year Party on Director conference on China’s economy with January 27 at the ECM. Please come help Megan Greene the KU School of Business, to be held in make or eat dumplings, and if there is a May. Vickie Doll and Michiko Ito have special lunar New Year food that you think Accountant and Office Manager been working hard to put together an people would enjoy, you are welcome to Jun Fu exhibit on faculty research on East Asia bring it. that will be displayed in the main lobby of CEAS K–12 Outreach Coordinator Watson Library starting in mid-February. With best wishes for 2012, Randi Hacker The opening reception will be held on Megan February 16. We look forward to seeing CEAS Program Coordinator Leslie von Holten Associate Program Staff 100 years of Tsinghua University Executive Director, The Confucius Institute at the University of Kansas Sheree Welch Willis Associate Director, KU Confucius Institute Kevin Liu Associate Director for Special Projects, KU Confucius Institute; Associate Director, KCTA Nancy Hope Center for East Asian Studies The University of Kansas 1440 Jayhawk Blvd. #201 Lawrence, KS 66045 Tel: (785)864-3849 Fax: (785)864-5034 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.ceas.ku.edu CEAS publishes electronic and printed newsletters that provide up- to-date information on CEAS events and news. To sign up, please contact CEAS joined the Tsinghua Alumni Association of the Greater Leslie vonHolten at [email protected], Kansas City Area in May to mark the Beijing-based university’s (785) 864-1457. centennial. A symposium that explored the past, present, and future of higher education in China was followed by a celebratory CEAS Mission Statement dinner at Bo Ling’s restaurant. Megan Greene (CEAS), Yong Bai (Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering), and Jinghuan CEAS produces specialists in East Asian languages and cultures and provides Shi (Executive Dean, Institute of Education, Tsinghua University) expertise on East Asia to the state, region, were speakers at the program. and nation. On campus, CEAS supports teaching, curriculum development, faculty and student research, the library, and media resources. CEAS outreach ALUMNI: We want to hear from you! programs enrich the educational experience of our students, provide training and educational materials for We are always looking for better mechanisms to track our alumni, and K-12 teachers and educators at other we appreciate when we hear about your professional activities. post-secondary institutions, and make the university’s East Asian resources, including faculty expertise, available to Please remember, you may create and update entries on our Alumni the community, business, government, webpage by emailing Leslie von Holten, [email protected] and the media. Harper Ho Investigates Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility in China research travel grant. approaching corporate social “China’s approach is evolving but responsibility. She also shared her research is likely to be much more state-directed,” with the CEAS community during a Tea & Harper Ho said. “Already, President Hu Talk presentation in October. Jintao and other leaders in China’s central Harper Ho conducted field research government and the Chinese Communist in Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces, Party have publicly urged companies not as well as in Beijing and Hong Kong. to place profit-seeking above broader At the national level, she found that a social welfare, but to adopt responsible number of state agencies, including the and sustainable business practices. People’s Bank of China, the Ministry “In many ways, corporate social of Environmental Protection, and the responsibility is right in line with some of Ministry of Commerce are working to the Chinese central government’s current facilitate enhanced legal compliance and policies, like sustainable development participation in voluntary programs that and building a ‘harmonious society.’ On reward companies that go beyond what the the other hand, there is a certain irony law requires. However, much of her work his summer the Conference Board, in seeing governments that haven’t been is focused at the subnational level, where a leading source of global business T that consistent in enforcing the law now corporate social responsibility guideline research, surveyed 476 leading companies working on corporate social responsibility and audit programs created by local in China and found that 60% of the non- programs.” governments are proliferating. foreign-invested Chinese companies had a Harper Ho presented her work Harper Ho intends to draw upon her strategy for corporate social responsibility at an international conference on research to enhance her upcoming course or sustainability, and half had specific collaborative governance at Fudan on Chinese law, which complements funds dedicated to corporate social University in Shanghai, as well as at existing international law offerings. responsibility implementation. Virginia the Chinese University of Hong Kong “Having the opportunity to conduct Harper Ho (School of Law), who will and the Guanghua School of Law at research abroad in an area that touches teach KU’s first comprehensive Chinese Zhejiang University.
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