EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA

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VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 Modernism Revisited: SPRING 2008 The Taiwan Modernist Literary Movement From the Chair 2 in Historical Perspective Mission Statement 2 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE New Ph.D. Program 3 In the late 1950s and early 1960s, also served as a forum for young stu- Departing Faculty 3 as Chinese literature in the Main- dent editors to publish their own fic- Graduate Students 4 land was relegated to Maoist doc- tion and critical essays. Those stu- New Hires 6 trines and socialist realist models, a dents, including Kenneth Hsien- remarkable literary revolution was yung Pai, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Chen Visiting Academics 6 under way in Nationalist Taiwan. At Ruoxi, Wang Wenxing, and Ouyang Awards 7 the gates of Taiwan University a Zi, would later dominate the Chi- East Asia Center 8 group of literature students work- nese literary scene as leading writers Masculinities in 9 ing under the renowned critic, C. and critics for the next half century. Faculty Research 9 T. Hsia, began a landmark journal, On May 1–3, 2008 UCSB will Recent Publications 10 Modern Literature, which would go host an international conference Center for Taiwan Studies 11 on to have a profound impact on the that will bring together several origi- Taiwan—and later Chinese—liter- nal members of the Taiwan Modern- A Trip to Jinhua 12 ary scene. The journal not only in- ist Literary Movement as well as a Language Program 14 troduced the work and theories of selection of leading scholars and Alumni Affairs 14 literary modernism from the West well-known writers to reflect on the Student Travels 15 through translations of important legacy of the movement from both Profiles 15 writers such as Joyce and Kafka, but personal and critical perspectives. Through a series of public panels c. 1980 and discussions, this conference will offer a comprehensive overview of the movement’s development and evo- lution and trace the far-reaching im- pact it has had not only in Taiwan and Hong Kong, but also in main- land China since the 1980s, when these modernist writers’ works were first published there. The circula- tion of these writings from Taiwan had a profound impact upon the new brand of literary modernism that has since flourished in main- Howard Goldblatt, Dominic Cheung, King Hu, C. T. Hsia, Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Wai-lim Yip, and Ho Tong land China. 2007 AVE THE SDATE A Welcome from the Chair— May 1–3, 2008 Greetings from the ever-so-fair climes of Santa Barbara. As chair, I am 8:30 a.m.–5:45 p.m. delighted to be writing for our first newsletter. Much has happened Conference: since the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Modernism Revisited came into existence 16 years ago. In fact, much has changed in just the Corwin Pavilion past three years, not the least of which has been the acceptance of our UCSB first class of Ph.D. students. There have been losses. Allan Grapard Organizers: Michael Berry, retired in spring 2006, bringing to three the number of retirements in Ronald Egan, David Wang a few short years. At the same time, we have been engaged in the http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/ complex process of rebuilding our faculty, andPlease we were check extremely for- projects/Modernism/ tunate to find and hire two outstandinghttp://www young.eastasian.ucsb.edu/ scholars. Ann-Elise Lewallen, a scholar of modern Japan cultural studies,for details received her Ph.D. May 9–11, 2008 in anthropology in 2006 from the University of Michigan. Focusing The Aesthetics of Imperialism: on the Ainu sub-culture of northern Japan, she will bring a generally Matters of Time and Place understudied and new area of analysis (ethnic diversity, marginalization UCSB processes, interactions between humans and the environment), help- Primary Organizer: Miriam Wattles ing us to firmly situate Japan within the larger world—a step that History of Art and Architecture needs to be made more forcefully. Xiaorong , a pre-modern Chinese literature scholar, received her M.A. in Chinese linguistics and Ph.D. in Chinese literature from McGill University in 2006, having received a B.A. in Chinese literature from Peking University. Her research is on women’s poetry in late imperial China. Trained in traditional approaches to texts and literary history in the Literature Department at Peking University, the finest literature department in China, Li comes with a depth of knowledge of pre-modern texts and a philological expertise that will prove invaluable to all our students. The department has also been involved in a number of major events and conferences these past two years. The west coast performances of the Peony Pavilion, produced by our emeritus colleague, Kenneth Hsien- yung Pai was the highlight of fall 2006. The 80-member Suzhou Kunju MISSION STATEMENT opera troupe spent over a week in Santa Barbara, making themselves The Department of East Asian available to our students and opening rehearsals to our classes. The Languages and Cultural Studies is twenty hours of opera, sung entirely in Chinese, spanned three con- committed to providing students secutive sold-out nights at the Lobero Theater. This was followed in with the opportunity to under- March 2007 with the appearance of Yo-yo Ma’s Silk Road ensemble stand the many facets of East on campus and at the Arlington Theater. Again, the department worked Asian culture, including (but not limited to) language, history, closely with Arts and Lectures in offering a general class on the art, society, politics, economics, and music, religion, and cultures of Asia, Sights and Sounds of the Silk art. In a world of increasing Road, featuring numerous guest lecturers from across campus, around international cooperation and the country, and abroad. The quarter culminated with an intimate in- globalization, students will be class appearance of the ensemble. The Center for Taiwan Studies, ran prepared to face a society in which Asia is now a significant factor in its fourth international conference, focusing on Taiwan in Global Per- the foreign relations of the United spectives. The Center’s ten years of publishing a journal on Taiwan States, and the rest of the world. studies, its regular hosting of Taiwan writers and scholars, and its orga- nizing of conferences continues to affirm UCSB’s prominence in the area of Taiwan studies. We also held an international conference on

2 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & CULTURAL STUDIES UCSB EAST ASIAN Graduate Program Specializations LANGUAGES & CULTURAL OND Modern East Asian cultural studies STUDIES New Ph.D. Program Cinema and performing arts FACULTY Taiwan literature and cultural studies MICHAEL BERRY AREWELLS— Religious history and geography RONALD EGAN F Buddhist studies SABINE FRÜHSTUCK in East Asian Launched Translation studies ALLAN GRAPARD Chinese language pedagogy and linguistics JOHN NATHAN Professor Allan Grapard retired from Literati culture HYUNG IL PAI WILLIAM POWELL Early modern Japanese cultural studies EALCS March 2007 after twenty-two KATHERINE SALTZMAN-LI A new Ph.D. program in EALCS was KUO-CH’ING TU Languages Offered MAYFAIR YANG years at UCSB. Grapard, holder of the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan HSIAO-JUNG SHARON YU officially initiated fall 2007, expanding Application deadline AFFILIATED FACULTY for financial assistance: LAURIE FREEMAN International Shinto Foundation Chair December 15, 2006 TSUYOSHI HASEGAWA upon our long-time M.A. degree. The new YUNTE HUANG LUKE ROBERTS in Shinto Studies, is a specialist in Japa- Final application deadline: PETER STURMAN April 1, 2007 MIRIAM WATTLES Ph.D., open to students in Chinese or nese religions, history, and culture. In M.A. and Japanese studies, is an interdisciplinary numerous publications, including The program with an emphasis on the cultural Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the New Ph.D. Kasuga Cult in Japanese History (Uni- UC studies and the humanistic traditions of Program versity of California Press, 1992), he de- East Asia. veloped a new model of understanding East Asian Languages & EMERITI the interaction and mutual dependency Cultural Studies SBOBERT ACKUS Students focus on course work in SBR B UC Santa Barbara HARUKO IWASAKI Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7075 KENNETH PAI Phone: (805) 893-5478 of Buddhism and Shinto in economics, Fax: (805) 893-3011 three specializations, which include Mod- E-mail: [email protected] www.eastasian.ucsb.edu semiotics, politics, and cultural history, ern East Asian Cultural Studies, Cinema redefining the boundaries of religions and the Performing Arts, Buddhist Studies, Translation Studies, Tai- in pre-modern Japan. Protocol of the wan Literature and Cultural Studies, Chinese-language Pedagogy and Gods was awarded the Best Book in East Linguistics, Literati Culture, and Early Modern Japanese Cultural Studies. Asian Studies from the University of Cali- fornia Press and the Berkeley Institute In addition, all students are required to take a group of four core of East Asian Studies. Grapard’s numer- graduate seminars designed to introduce them to key methodological ous articles and book chapters on the and theoretic issues in the study of East Asia. These include a seminar spatial and topographical dimensions of on modern East Asian cultural studies; the theory and practice of trans- religious beliefs and practices in Japan have also opened new modes of inquiry. lation; canon formation, periodization, and disciplinarity in East Asian A student at Kyoto University from studies; and bibliography and research methodology. 1968–1974, Grapard went on to receive Students applying to the Ph.D. program should already be at an the Superior Diploma of Advanced Re- advanced level in Chinese or Japanese. Once admitted, students are search and Studies from the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civi- expected to complete qualifying examinations in their three specializa- lizations in Paris in 1977. He taught at tions at the end of their third year in the program, after which they the University of Colorado and Cornell move onto their dissertation research. University, and was also Research Fel- Fellowship support is available through campus-wide competitions low at the East-West Center of the Uni- versity of Hawai’i. Grapard came to the for multi-year fellowship packages, through U.S. Department of Edu- UCSB Department of Religious Studies cation Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships and De- in 1985. He was a key member of the partmental Block Grant funds. Teaching Assistantships in language faculty group that founded EACLS, first and non-language courses are also available. For further information, as an independent program, and then a department in 1992. In 1997 he was ap- please visit the EALCS website (www.eastasian.ucsb.edu) or contact pointed the first incumbent of the Ronald Egan, Graduate Advisor ([email protected]). Other Shinto Chair, and in 1998 he joined faculty members can also be consulted. EACLS as a full-time faculty member. An exacting teacher and colleague, Chair’s welcome, continued from page 2 as intellectually demanding as socially Masculinities in Japan (see pg. 9). Finally, as this newsletter goes to gracious, Grapard inspired a generation press, we are preparing for a major conference on Chinese Literary of students to look with fresh eyes at Modernism, with many of its founding figures in attendance. This the dynamics of Japanese religion and society. He is sorely missed by those of gathering of Chinese literary luminaries gives us the opportunity to us in our department who had the honor th celebrate the 70 birthday of Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai, one of the of becoming his friends. He and his wife, movement’s central figures. This, we are certain, will prove to be an Carolyn Isono-Grapard (UCSB Depart- exciting conclusion to the 2007–2008 academic year. ment of History), have relocated to Hawai’i, where they built a new house Bill Powell, Chair in celebration of their retirement.

University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring 2008 3 AREWELLS— Introducing our Graduate Students— FCONTINUED Professor Haruko Iwasaki retired in fall Sarah Jane Babcock received her B.A. in Chinese Language and Litera- 2005 after twelve years at UCSB. After ture from UC Berkeley in 2003. After three years of teaching elemen- many years of teaching at Princeton and tary Chinese at a Buddhist seminary college in northern California, Harvard Universities, she came to UCSB Babcock entered the M.A. program in East Asian Studies at UCSB. in 1993 with a Ph.D. from Harvard. At UCSB, Iwasaki taught courses in Japa- She is now in her second year, and will complete her degree in summer nese early modern and Meiji literature 2008. Her thesis focus is the Song Dynasty poet, Su Shi, and his cor- and advanced Japanese language. Stu- respondence and friendship with the Buddhist monks, Canliao and dents fortunate enough to study with Foyin. Babcock received the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) her were guided through the complexi- grant for both years of the M.A. program. ties and beauties of classical, early mod- ern, Meiji, and modern Japanese by her A second-year M.A. candidate, Joshua P. Dyer is working under Ronald surpassing knowledge and carefully- Egan on Song Dynasty literature and aesthetics. His thesis will inves- considered method. There are few other tigate the use of musical imagery in the song lyrics of Yan Jidao. He professors who understand and present also is interested in the practice of literary translation and recently the range of linguistic texts that Iwasaki contributed an English translation of Chang Hua-t’ang’s “Bagusi’s worked with and taught. As a rare ex- pert in the marvelous, yet notoriously Home-Coming Road” to the Taiwan Literature: English Translation difficult Edo texts, she was sought out Series (No. 21, July 2007). by both students and colleagues for help Ria Ludemann is completing her fourth year in the 5-year B.A./M.A. and guidance, and she always responded with generosity and a commitment to program in Asian Studies. Her concentration is on Japan, with her expanding the field of Edo studies. primary interests in Japanese to English translation and Japanese mod- Iwasaki’s vast knowledge and exper- ern popular culture. She also enjoys exploring literature, linguistics, tise of Edo Japan led her to two main art, and music, both Japanese and otherwise. Outside of class, she areas of focus: humorous literature of plays go, video games, and the flute. mid-Edo, about which her seminal re- search on cultural networks has inspired Matt Mewhinney is a second-year M.A. candidate in EALCS. He is the work of many contemporary Edo interested in Japanese colonial literature and its relationship to the scholars, and a nuanced and original post-Meiji Japanese literary canons, specifically narratives that fall into reading of the cultural context and sig- the shi-shosetsu, or I-novel genre. His interests extend to Japanese lin- nificance of netsuke, in which she ex- plicates their meaning against and guistics, the history of Chinese orthography, and language pedagogy. among other forms of Edo popular cul- He spends his spare time with a knife and cutting board, training to ture. Taken together, Iwasaki’s highly- become a sushi chef. original work has illuminated Edo cul- tural values and social practice, while Jennifer Muranaka, a first-year M.A. candidate, graduated from UCLA providing a foundation of knowledge in 2004 with a B.A. in American Literature and Culture and a minor and approach to the study of Edo litera- in Japanese. Her interest in Japanese studies was further sparked by ture and culture from which so many of the year she spent working for the JET Programme from 2004–2005. us have benefited immeasurably. In her return to academia, Muranaka plans to enhance her knowledge Iwasaki also worked tirelessly on of the Japanese language and culture, and intends to utilize her degree behalf of EALCS. She devoted much effort to the improvement of our Japa- by teaching the language at a community college or working at the nese language program, which is thriv- Japanese consulate in Los Angeles. ing today. She was personally respon- Christina Threlkel is a first-year M.A. candidate, considering research sible for bringing the Takashima funds to our department. These monies have on the role of Christianity as an influencing factor in modern Chinese given us both the Takashima Chair for ethics as a thesis project. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Japanese Cultural Studies, currently Principia College (Elsah, Illinois) in Religion and World Perspectives.

4 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies A second-year M.A. candidate from China, Lianting Tu is interested in AREWELLS translation of modern Japanese literature. Far from her native land, she AREWELLS— CONTINUED is grateful for the nurturing environment the EALCS faculty provides, FCONTINUED held by Professor John Nathan, and a going well beyond academic mentoring. program endowment. Later, she spent Shiying Pang is a second-year M.A. candidate in EALCS. Although she many years cultivating and establishing is not a Buddhist, she is interested in objectively studying Chinese formal ties for faculty and student ex- changes with Nihon University, the larg- Buddhism with a specific focus on social practice of female Buddhist est private university in Japan. groups during the Tang Dynasty. Her interests also extend to Buddhist Professor Iwasaki’s myriad and in- canons, traditional Chinese literati culture, and Chinese pedagogy. She valuable contributions to her field, to enjoys teaching and studying languages and is looking forward to teach- the department, and to her students ing Chinese after graduation. and colleagues have been instrumen- tal in greatly strengthening both EALCS Tenzin Sherab is Tibetan, born to refugee parents in India. He received and the study of Edo literature and cul- his early education in a Tibetan refugee school founded by His Holi- ture. She is sorely missed as a daily pres- ness, the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India. Later, he spent many years ence in the department, but with tre- as a Tibetan monk studying Buddhist philosophy, cognitive science, mendous gratitude and admiration, we and meditation. Wanting to experience an American university educa- wish her the best for future endeavors. tion, he recently moved to the U.S. He joined EALCS fall 2007, trans- After many years as specialist in Japa- ferring from the Religious Studies Department, where he had com- nese linguistics and Japanese-language pleted an M.A. in spring 2007. His emphasis in the EALCS M.A. program director, Professor Tomiko program is Tibetan Buddhist studies. He works primarily under Pro- Narahara retired in spring 2006. As the fessors William Powell and José Cabezón. Beyond Tibetan Buddhism, program director, Narahara worked with Sherab’s research interest lies in the applied aspects of Buddhism in the great diligence to raise the level of com- petence among language instructors, socio-political and cultural arena. He is currently working on an M.A. develop a more effective curriculum, thesis entitled, “The Discourse of Violence in Tibetan Buddhism,” which and motivate a greater number of un- he plans to expand for his Ph.D. dissertation. Sherab is especially ex- dergraduate students to study Japa- cited about the challenge of learning yet another new language—Chi- nese. She sought out and recruited nese. But what he enjoys most about being in this department is the highly qualified lecturers and devoted true Californian spirit—accessible and friendly faculty, staff, and fel- considerable time to the hiring, train- low graduate students. ing, and supervision of the program’s teaching assistants. The results of these Haiping Wu is a second-year M.A. candidate in EALCS. Her academic efforts can be seen in the steady in- interests are applied linguistics and language pedagogy. She is cur- crease in the enrollment in Japanese- language courses and in the number of rently working on the iconicity of Chinese word order, and trying to Japanese majors during her tenure as apply the theory of iconicity to explaining linguistic phenomena. She director. It is especially noteworthy that also is interested in Chinese pre-modern and modern literature, and these increases occurred during a pe- would like to explore the pedagogical potentials of literature works in riod in which the national enrollment in teaching Chinese as a second language. She is a good swimmer and Japanese studies decreased. ping-pong player. As a scholar, Narahara was primarily concerned with Japanese syntax, con- Jiayin Zhang is a first-year Ph.D. candidate in EALCS. She is inter- centrating on the Japanese copula. ested in traditional Chinese literature and literati culture of the Tang Praised as an innovative study by lead- ing Japanese linguists, her book, The and Song Dynasties, particularly poetry and literary criticism. Her in- Japanese Copula: Forms and Function terests extend to Chinese art history, teaching pedagogy, and Chinese (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), fills linguistics. With a passion for students and teaching, she wants to a void in Japanese linguistic studies. We teach Chinese literature, language, and culture at the university level. greatly miss Narahara and wish her a fulfilling and productive retirement.

University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring 2008 5 New Hires ELCOMING— W in Modern Japanese Cultural Studies Dr. Akiyo Cantrell is welcomed as a new Japanese Language lecturer. She has a and Chinese Literature Ph.D. from the Linguistics Department at UCSB, and an M.A. in the Division of Dr. Ann-Elise Lewallen, a recent Ph.D. in American Area Studies from Hiroshima anthropology from the University of Michigan University in Japan. and currently postdoctoral fellow at Hokkaido Peng LiuLiu, a scholar and Ph.D. candidate University, will be joining EALCS on January from Fudan University, Department of 1, 2009. Lewallen received her Ph.D. in anthro- Chinese Language and Literature is pology in 2006. Her dissertation was one of two working on his dissertation on monk po- nominations in anthropology for a Best Disser- ets of the Mid-Tang and Late Tang Peri- ods. He will be at UCSB until Septem- tation Award. Her dissertation project, “Hands ber 2009. that Never Rest: Ainu Women, Cultural Revival, Ann-Elise Lewallen Yong-jin ParkPark, Professor of Chinese Lin- and Indigenous Politics in Japan,” reveals her guistics, Department of Chinese Lan- broad interests in the study of urban and rural Japan, gender studies, guage and Literature at Chonbuk Na- and issues of indigeneity, ethnicity, and multiculturalism. That she tional University, Jeonju-city, Jeollabuk- has been able to establish intimate access to Ainu communities that do, Korea will continue to be at UCSB are notoriously unreceptive of researchers, foreign or Japanese, is testa- until February 2008. ment to Lewallen’s extraordinary linguistic and sociocultural sensibili- From September 2007 to September ties. Lewallen is currently transforming this dissertation into a book 2008, Jun WangWang, a Ph.D. candidate at University, will spend the year that will arguably be a path-breaking contribution to our understand- conducting research on modern Chi- ing of an emerging global discourse on indigeneity, or the politics of nese autobiography (1949–1979). being indigenous, but with a gaze that meaningfully links this to and explores the experiences of relatively disempowered members of these N indigenous communities. Lewallen is unique in her ability to cross conventional disciplinary and geographic boundaries. She will bring a I EMORIAM generally understudied and new area of analysis (ethnic diversity, M marginalization processes, interactions between humans and the envi- Atsuko HayashiHayashi, a former EALCS Japa- ronment) to EALCS, and will be an important addition to two Ph.D. nese Language Lecturer, died on June emphases—modern Japanese cultural studies and language and cul- 18, 2007, in Long Beach, California. Born tural contact. She will complement our expertise in modern and con- in Takasaki-shi, the Japanese native worked on campus from 1998–1999 and temporary sociocultural analyses in a manner that makes her a leader 2002–2005, before taking a tenure-track in current and future research currents in the field. Lewallen is plan- position at California State University, ning to offer undergraduate and graduate courses that include the fol- Long Beach, where she became an as- lowing themes: Japanese society and culture with an emphasis on hu- sistant professor. Hayashi was an inno- man-environment relations; ethnic and social di- vative teacher, dedicated researcher, versity in Japan; gender and sexuality in cross- and prolific writer, admired by both her cultural perspective; society, culture and conti- students and colleagues alike. nuity in Japan; global indigenous movements and indigeneity in Asia; and race, ethnicity and nationalism. Our Department will also welcome Dr. Xiaorong Li in Fall 2008 as a new faculty mem- ber, specializing in late imperial period Chinese literature. Li received her Ph.D. in 2006 from Xiarong Li

6 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies McGill University in Montreal and is currently teaching at Swarthmore ONGRATULATING— College in Pennsylvania. She has B.A. and M.A. degrees in Chinese C literature and linguistics from Peking University. Li’s research focuses • Professor Michael BerryBerry, Faculty Re- on gender issues in literary history and women’s writing of the Ming gents Award recipient, 2007–2008; ten- and Qing Periods. She will teach courses on Ming-Qing literature, ured 7/1/07 women writers of imperial China, and gender issues in Chinese liter- • Professor Sabine FrühstückFrühstück, ap- ary and cultural history, as well as Advanced Modern Chinese and pointed Interim Chair of the Execu- Literary Chinese. Dr. Li was selected from a group of highly accom- tive Committee of the UC Pacific Rim plished finalists in our job search this past Fall and Winter. EALCS is Research Program, 2007–2008, and continuing member of the Japan Foun- delighted that she has accepted our offer of appointment. dation American Advisory Committee • Koji Furukawa and Sunny JungJung, Con- tinuing lecturers

MOCHIZUKI MEMORIAL AWARDS 2006–2007 Mochizuki Memorial In Memory of Keiko Mochizuki, Japa- Awards, 2006–2007 Left to right: Akiyo nese Lecturer, and Horace Y. Mochizuki, Cantrell, Chikako Professor of Mathematics, the follow- Shinagawa, Jeffrey ing were awarded for outstanding per- Hampton, Tomomi formance in the Japanese language: Sakuragi, Cheryl Gillette, Hiroko Sugawara, and • StudentsStudents: Jeffery Hampton and Koji Furukawa Cheryl Gillette • Lecturerer: Tomomi Sakuragi

DREW AWARDS 2006–2007 Made possible by the donation by Dr. and Mrs. Ernest H. Drew, the following Drew Awards, 2006–2007 were awarded for outstanding perfor- Left to right: Sharon Yih, mance in the Chinese language: Jonathan Benjamin, Bill Powell, Jennifer Hsu, Marti • First-year Chinese StudentsStudents: Nathan Mcelreath, Haiping Wu, Bella McGovern and Marti Mcelreath Chen, Shiying Pang, and • Second-year Chinese Students: David Madrid Mackenzie Chapman and Jonathan Benjamin • Third-year Chinese Students: Mary Trinh and Sarah Babcock • Heritage Track Students: Sharon Hsu- Lun Yih and Yan Zheng • Teaching Assistant Awardd: Haiping Wu and Fangqiong (Grace) Zhan • Lecture of the Year Awardd: Bella Shu- Chuan Chen

FLAS RECIPIENTS Second-year M.A. students: Sarah Babcock and Joshua Dyer

Faculty, staff, and students from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at UCSB, 2007

University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring 2008 7 AST East Asia Center News— E SIA ACENTER The East Asia Center (EAC) at UCSB (currently directed by Sabine 2007–2008 Frühstück) includes an unusually qualified group of scholars, graduate VISITING FELLOWS students, artists, writers, and other affiliates interested in East Asian cultures. EAC strives to bring this diverse group of people together Tom Gill is an anthropologist and pro- fessor in the Department of Interna- more often and creates occasions for the exchange of ideas across disci- tional Studies, Meiji Gakuin University, plinary boundaries and across the academy and the wider community. Yokohama, Japan. While at the EAC he RECENT EAC-SPONSORED EVENTS: is pursuing a project on homelessness in a number of cities in Japan, the United In response to Taiwanese nationalism and the curiosity that only for- States, and Britain. Gill is the author of bidden archives can generate, histories of Japanese colonialism in Tai- Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organi- wan (1895–1945) have flourished since the lifting of martial law on zation of Day Laborers in Contempo- the island in the 1980s. As participants and objects-of-inquiry in this rary Japan (The State University of New York Press, 2001), and editor (with J. S. scholarly renaissance, Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples have been portrayed Eades and Harumi Befu) of Globaliza- as the most unfortunate victims of Japanese aggression, as pristine ava- tion and Social Change in Contempo- tars of Taiwanese cultural diversity, and as symbols of the island’s sav- rary Japan (Melbourne: Trans Pacific age condition before Chinese immigration. Books, 2000). Through the eyes of an Aborigine-language interpreter known to Emily ZeamerZeamer, a Ph.D. candidate in the history as “Kondo the Barbarian,” Paul D. Barclay traces a history of Department of Social Anthropology and Japanese-Taiwan Aborigine relations. Kondô’s position in the colonial a Weatherhead Center Graduate Stu- order of things suggests that the infamous Wushe rebellion of 1930 dent Associate at Harvard University, is was the culmination of numerous bureaucratic bungles. From Kondo’s particularly interested in narrative and perspective, bloody massacre was both preventable and predictable. visual cultures, modernity, religion, gen- der and class, media publics, and con- Taking the warnings of Japanese subalterns seriously, Barclay argues sumption practices. While at the EAC that the chasm between field-grade functionaries and leading officials she is completing her dissertation, exemplifies structurally conditioned miscommunication between “Considering the Sacred in Small policy-makers in national capitals and the “men-on-the-spot” at the Things: Formations of Buddhism in peripheries of territorially ambitious states. Kondo’s story is thus a Modern Thailand.” cautionary tale for the visionaries who believe the peoples of the world can be managed from a centrally located apex of power and knowledge. Paul D. Barclay is author of numerous articles about Japanese im- perial rule in Taiwan and is completing a book-length project on the Qing-Meiji transition in that colony. Professor Barclay is a recipient of a 2007–2008 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. In 1992 activist Kakefuda Hiroko published a book entitled “What it means to be a ‘lesbian’”—a scathing attack on Japan’s heteronormative mainstream culture. Kakefuda claimed that the cat- egory “rezubian” had becomeso closely aligned with male pornographic fantasy that it was impossible for her to reclaim the term to express her own female agency. Yet how and why did this male colonization of “lesbian” sexuality take place in Japanese popular culture? During the Edo period, scant attention was paid to women’s same-sex sexuality and Meiji and Taisho- period discourses tended to contrast the “spiritual” quality of women’s

8 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies “same-sex love” (doseiai) with the supposedly more carnal interests of ACULTY same-sex desiring men. The immediate postwar period saw a rapid FRESEARCH— increase in discourse about “perverse desires” (hentai seiyoku) that like- wise mainly focused on male agents. Indeed, the category “resubian” Professor of Korean history and East does not begin to appear until the late 1950s. However, there was Asian archaeology, Hyung Il PaiPai, has some media interest in a range of perverse female characters—in par- spent academic year 2007–2008 in Kyoto, Japan, at the International Re- ticular the “sadistic woman,” the “male-dresser,” and the “Lesbos search Center for Japanese Studies. She lover”—categories that expressed female agency at the expense of their is part of a team research project, “Own- male analogues, the “masochist man,” the “female-dresser,” and the ership and Spread of Culture,” headed “Sodomite.” Although there is clearly a prurient interest in women’s by Yamada Shoji, Professor of Informa- sexuality evident in these largely male-authored accounts, this presen- tion Science. Her research project title tation inquires whether it is also possible to read them as a recognition is “Tourism and the Dissemination of Japanese Cultural Properties: Muse- of increasing female agency in the context of the social reforms of the ums, Monuments, and the Marketing early postwar years. of Heritage.” Mark McLelland lectures in the sociology program at the Univer- Lectures Pai has delivered in Japan sity of Wollongong, Australia, and is the 2007–2008 Toyota Visiting and China in fall 2007 include: “Chosen Professor of Japanese at the University of Michigan. He is author of ryoko annaisho ni miru Nihonjin no Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan (2000) and Japan from roman”[Touring “Beautiful” Korea in the Pacific War (2005) and co-editor of Genders, and Pre-War Japan], at the International Re- search Center for Japanese Studies Sexualities in Japan (2005) and Queer Voices from Japan (2007). Forum, Campus Plaza, Kyoto; “Adver- tising the Beautiful Empire: Travel Bro- chures and the Commercialization of Masculinities in Japan Ethnicity in Pre-War Japan,” at the The study of gender has greatly contributed to our knowledge of his- France-Japan Cultural Center, ; tory and has challenged many preconceived notions of sociocultural and “Touring the Ruins of Antiquity: Archaeological Photography and Travel phenomena and processes. The study of men and masculinity, how- Guide-books in Pre-War Japan,” at the ever, has only recently begun in earnest, spearheaded in the United Tianjin University Graduate School of States by such works as R. W. Connell’s, Masculinities (1995) or in Architecture International Symposium Germany by Thomas Kühne’s Männergeschichte—Geschlechter- on the Preservation of Historical Archi- geschichte (1996). In Japan such noteworthy volumes as On Men tecture and Sustainable Development. (Danseiron, ed. Yuko Nishikawa and Ogino Miho, 1999), Where Did Japanese Men Come From? Where Are They Going? (Nihon no otoko wa doko kara kite, doko e iku no ka, ed. Ito Satoru, Murase Yukihiro and Asai Haruo, 2001), Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Ja- pan: Dislocating the Salaryman Doxa (ed. James Roberson and Nobue Suzuki, 2002), and some of the essays in Gendering Modern Japanese History (ed. Barbara Molony and Kathleen Uno, 2006) have paved the way for this still new direction in intellectual engagement. Co-organized by Sabine Frühstück (University of California at Santa Barbara) and Anne Walthall (University of California at Irvine), Mas- culinities in Japan was held from January 31, 2007 through February 2, 2008, at the Upham Hotel, critically examining the struggle over, initiation into, and formation of masculinity in Japan from the seven- teenth century until now. A particularly apropos moment for such a workshop, sociologist Continued on page 10

University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring 2008 9 ECENT Continued from page 9—Masculinities RPUBLICATIONS— Ito Kimio recently claimed “Japanese masculinity is in crisis.” He sug- In summer 2007, Rye Field published gested that the present is the beginning of an era marked by a series of Guangying yayu, the Chinese edition distinct “men’s problems:” The inability to marry despite a desire to of Speaking in Images: Interviews with do so, the rising divorce rate among middle-aged and older men, and Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers, a number of role strain phenomena due to the perception that conven- featuring Professor Michael BerryBerry’s in- terviews of twenty leading film direc- tional roles no longer reap the customary rewards with respect to indi- tors from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. vidual fulfillment, material gain, or social respect, while no new roles In winter 2008, Columbia University have yet materialized. This sense of crisis also seeps from former Prime Press will publish The Song of Everlast- Minister Hashimoto Ryutaro’s critique of Japanese men as incapable ing Sorrow, an epic novel by Wang Anyi, of caring for their families because they did not undergo military train- translated by Michael Berry and Susan ing. It is constantly reinforced by the self-doubt expressed by some of Chan Egan. Generally regarded as one Japan’s most prominent men, ranging from pop art icon Murakami of the most important works of Chinese fiction of the second half of the twenti- Takashi, who proposes that Japanese men have never overcome the eth century, this book marks a major childlike condition attributed to them by allied occupation Commander contribution to the body of Chinese lit- General MacArthur to rightwing demagogue and Tokyo Mayor Ishihara erature in English translation. Shintaro, who is eager to turn Japan’s Self-Defense Forces into a full- Professor Sabine FrühstückFrühstück’s book on blown military and thus restore a “normal state” with “real men” in the Self-Defense Forces in present-day charge. Japan, Uneasy Warriors: Gender, The workshop was interdisciplinary in nature, including anthro- Memory and Popular Culture in the pological, sociological, and historical perspectives, consciously avoid- Japanese Army has been published by ing the conventional tropes of seemingly hegemonic masculinity that the University of California Press in 2007. The Japanese edition, titled have been dealt with in earlier scholarship such as the samurai, the Fuan na heishitachi: Nippon male Kabuki actor who enacts female personae, and the white-collar no Jieitai kenkyu, was pub- worker. Instead, the workshop sought to move beyond stereotypes to lished by Hara shobo in 2008. identify, analyze, and theorize about some of the key modes of mascu- See also http://www.ucpress. linity within their respective historical settings. Participants were en- edu/books/sale/pages/ couraged to address the theme of masculinity within the context of 10616.html. larger epistemological issues and to direct their discussions to the iden- Lecturer Sunny JungJung’s translation of Ko tification of modes of masculinity underwritten and under-theorized Un’s Abiding Places, Korea South and in Japanese studies, ranging from townsmen and artisans of the seven- North (together with Hillel Schwartz, teenth century to the gender of robots in the twenty-first century. The published by Tupello Press) was se- lected by the Austin Poetry Book Prize workshop explored sites where formations of masculinity are formu- to be one of the top four poetry books lated, contested, and renegotiated in a dialectic response to historical to be published in English during the transformations, including the impact of new technologies, knowledge 2006–2007 academic year. The first ci- and normativizing institutions. vilian to be invited to North Korea (by his former political cellmate, Kim Dae- Jung), Ko Un’s poetry was inspired by his travels throughout the Korean pen- insula. In Abiding Places, Ko Un trans- figured his homeland in lovely, obser- vant, and penetrating poems uniting ancient and modern, secular and spiri- tual, art and politics—South and North.

10 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Center for Taiwan Studies— ECENT RPUBLICATIONS— ONGOING PROMOTION OF TAIWAN STUDIES AT UCSB Edited by Professors Kuo Ch’ing Tu and The Center for Taiwan Studies (CTS), made possible by the Lai Ho Robert BackusBackus, the Center for Taiwan and Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies in 2003, has been Studies’ journal, Taiwan Literature: En- glish Translation Series, Issue 21, be- at the forefront nationwide in the promotion of Taiwan studies. Regu- came available in July 2007, publishing larly sponsoring the publication of translations of Taiwan literature, stories, poetry, essays, and studies on visiting writers, international conferences, cultural events, and academic the theme of nostalgia and longing for lectures on the UCSB campus, the CTS activities during 2007 include: the homeland. A second issue on nos- talgia, focusing on narratives of long- • Co-sponsorship of a lecture by David R. Ambaras (North Carolina State Univer- ing for times gone by, was published in sity) entitled “‘Sudden Masses’ and ‘Social Losers’: Everyday Tensions and Settler January 2008. Anxieties in Colonial Taiwan”

• Co-sponsorship of a three-week visit to Taiwan for twelve students to experience an In Transpacific Imaginations: History, Lit- intensive language program at the Mandarin Training Center in Taipei and a erature, Counterpoetics, by Yunte guided tour to favorite Taiwanese tourist spots HuangHuang, professor of English and affili- • Co-sponsorship of video screenings—Taipei’s Bohemians and The Rhythm in ate professor of EALCS, explores how Wulu Village—two documentaries giving the viewer a glimpse into the subcul- American literature is enmeshed with tures of Taiwan the literatures of Asia. The book begins with Western encounters with the Pa- • Co-sponsorship of a November talk by Paul D. Barclay, in which he traces a history cific: Yunte Huang reads Moby Dick as of Japanese-Taiwan aborigine relations; a Pacific work, looks at Henry Adams's • Hosting an international conference entitled “Taiwan Studies in Global Perspec- not talking about his travels in Japan tives,” with 29 scholars from Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Great Britain, France, Canada, and the Pacific basin in his autobiogra- and the United States participating phy, and compares Mark Twain to Liang Qichao. Huang then turns to Asian • A three-year agreement between the Cultural Division, Taipei Economic and American encounters with the Pacific, Cultural Office in Los Angeles (TECOLA), and the UC Regents, providing for concentrating on the “Angel Island” ongoing support of the CTS, and funding programs of Graduate Fellowships and Support, Taiwan Studies Undergraduate Awards, Taiwan Studies Visiting Lec- poems and on works by Theresa Hak tureships, and Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Kyung Cha, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Araki Yasusada. • Publication of the Proceedings of the 2006 UCSB Conference in Taiwan Studies— Huang’s argument that the Pacific Taiwan Literature and History, Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series, Vol- forms American literature more than is umes 20 and 21, both developing the theme of nostalgia generally acknowledged is a major con- tribution to our understanding of liter- ENTER FOR ary history. The book is in dialogue with C cross-cultural studies of the Pacific and AIWAN with contemporary innovative poetics. T TUDIES Huang has found a vehicle to join Asians and Westerners at the deepest level, STAIWAN SCHOLARSHIP and that vehicle is poetry. Poets can WINNERS best imagine an ethical ground upon • Kristin Addis which different people join hands. • Nathaniel Bayer Huang asks us to contribute to this ef- • David Madrid fort by understanding the poets and • Bernet Reed writers already in the process of linking TAIWAN LITERATURE AWARD diverse peoples. For praiseworthy effort and outstanding Harvard University Press, http:// performance in studying Chinese and www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/ Taiwan literature: HUATRA.html • David Madrid

University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring 2008 11 ECENT A Trip to Jinhua, — PUBLICATIONS R — In Search of the Past Coauthored with Kim Yong, Professor Suk-Young Kim (Department of The- atre and Dance) has published Long When I can find the time, one of the most rewarding things for me to Road Home: Testimony of a North Ko- do is to visit historical sites in China that connect, in one way or an- rean Camp Survivor, (Columbia Univer- other, with my interests and current research projects. I was lucky to sity Press). She also published two ar- be able to do so for three weeks in fall 2007. After completing stop- ticles, “Gulag, the Musical: Performing overs for more conventional academic activities in Hong Kong and Trauma in Yoduk Story” (2008) and Guangzhou, I flew to the boom town of Yiwu in mid Zhejiang Prov- “Springtime for Kim Il-sung in Pyong- yang: City on Stage, City as Stage” ince, and from there to Jinhua, which is located about two hours by (2007), in TDR: The Drama Review. Some train southwest of Hangzhou. Nowadays, if people have heard of Jinhua, of her other publications include “Rus- it is probably for the delicious “Jinhua Hams” that are the city’s mod- sian Symbolist Drama as Rituals: G. ern claim to fame. Although local marketing companies want us to Gippius’ Sacred Blood and A. Blok’s believe that Jinhua Hams have been satisfying hungry consumers for Puppet Show,” Poetics. Self. Place: Es- over a thousand years, my own interest in Jinhua was not limited to says in Honor of Anna Lisa Crone (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2007) and the culinary (although it did not exclude the culinary either). During “Crossing the Border to the Other Side: the period of cultural history that I study, the Song Dynasty, Jinhua Dynamics of Interaction between North was a cultural center and home to a distinguished group of scholars, and South Koreans in Joint Security philosophers, statesmen, and poets. Li Qingzhao (1084–1150s), China’s Area and Spy Li Chul-jin,” Frances most celebrated woman poet, lived for the last twenty-five years of her Gateward ed., Seoul Searching: Culture life in Jinhua. Local residents—justifiably proud of her choice of their and Identity in Contemporary Korean city as her final home—have established a Li Qingzhao Memorial Hall Cinema (Albany: SUNY Press, 2007). in honor of her. I traveled to Jinhua to see that memorial hall. Professor Hsiao-jung Yuu’s research in Li Qingzhao’s decision to remove herself to Jinhua is itself of some Chinese linguistics focuses primarily on interest. Her decision followed soon after the dissolution of what for historical and applied linguistics. In his- her was a disastrous second marriage (after she had been widowed by torical linguistics she has conducted her first husband). This second marriage lasted all of one hundred research in applying linguistic analysis days, and ended when Li Qingzhao brought suit against her new hus- to resolving questionable authorship, identifying translators of Buddhist band for malfeasance in office. So humiliated was she by the whole sutras, and dating Chinese literary experience of having remarried only to divorce the man soon thereafter works. Her current research in this field that, as she declared in a letter to a friend, she could no longer bear to has concentrated on exploring exter- be seen in the high society of the capital of Hangzhou (where the nal influences on the changes of the remarriage took place) and needed to hide herself away. Jinhua was the Chinese language, such as the influ- haven to which she es- ence of translated Chinese Buddhist caped in the 1130s. sutras and the language policy when China was under the Mongol and The Li Qingzhao Me- Manchu control. She has collaborative morial Hall in Jinhua is at- research projects with China (Peking tached to Bayong Tower, University and Chinese Academy of an ancient structure that Social Sciences) and France (The Cen- is situated at the remnants tre de Recherches Linguistiques sur of the ancient city wall, l’Asie Orientale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). Her new book overlooking the river that manuscript, entitled “Zhuan ji Baiyuan- flows through the modern Statue of Li Qingzhao at the jing” yufa yanjiu [The Language of “The city. Owing to its com- Memorial Hall in Jinhua, Zhejiang. Sutra of One Hundred Karmic Tales”], manding view of the sur- Behind is her poem on the Bayong Tower

12 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies rounding landscape, ECENT Bayong Tower was a RPUBLICATIONS— favorite site that was accepted for publication by the Beijing/ visited by travelers Shanghai-based Shangwu yinshuguan, and notables through is a comparative study of the Sanskrit the centuries. Liter- “The Sutra of One Hundred Karmic ary persons invari- Tales” and the translated Chinese ver- ably took the oppor- sion. In applied linguistics, Yu’s primary tunity to write a interests are in language-teaching theory and methodology, context and poem on the occa- culture in language learning, and sec- sion of visiting the Grand Hall in the palace of Attendant King (Li Shixian), ond-language acquisition. Yu embraces commander of the forces in Zhejiang tower. But the poem the professional growth she has at- that has become the tained in researching these topics and signature piece about this tower, describing the view it provides and encourages academics with similar in- the troubled era in which she visited it, is a short poem that Li Qingzhao terests to join her in the ongoing ex- wrote when she ascended the tower. Her quatrain has eclipsed the ploration of these areas. dozens of others that were written there by eminent officials and scholars. Also of interest in the memorial hall itself is that this is the only one of four memorial halls or museums in the P.R.C. devoted to Li Qingzhao that so much as mentions her second and disastrous mar- riage. In the other memorial halls (all of them in her native Shandong), the awkward fact that Li Qingzhao remarried at all is completely omit- ted from detailed chronological accounts of her life that are put on display. Jinhua has another historical site of considerable interest, com- pletely unrelated to Li Qingzhao. It is the palace of Li Shixian, who was commander of the Taiping Rebellion armies in Zhejiang. The pal- ace is known as the Residence of the Attendant King, after Li’s rebel title. Built in 1861, the palace is the largest and best preserved Taiping Rebellion structure in all of China. It consists of multiple meeting halls, courtyards, and residences. One stone-floored plaza, used to as- semble and drill the rebel army, is said to have been large enough to accommodate one hundred thousand soldiers. The attendant king him- self clearly had imperial aspirations, as he filled his palace with stone dragon carvings. The palace buildings are famous for the large mural paintings that decorate the walls. Many of the murals, still in good condition, contain rebus images intended to bring divine blessings to the rebel cause. One battlefield banner on display is less subtle. Writ- ten in large, crude characters, the rhyming motto declares: “The long hairs (i.e., rebels) kill the demons, kill and kill some more.” Viewing the banner one can readily imagine how terrifying the Taiping hordes must have been to the imperial officials (the “demons”) who were unlucky enough to encounter them.

Ronald Egan Professor of Chinese Literature and Aesthetics

University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring 2008 13 LUMNI Focus on FFAIRS A Japanese Language Program Alumna Zhang Yuu, currently a first-year Ph.D. student in Asian Languages at Our Japanese language program has been rapidly expanding in the Stanford with a primary field in modern past two years. We currently have five lecturers and a total of 213 Chinese literature, intellectual and cul- students enrolled in the language courses in Winter 2008. Japan 2 has tural history, writes about her experi- ences at EALCS: “Santa Barbara is the six sections team-taught by lecturers Hiroko Sugawara, Chikako most enchanting place in the world. I Shinagawa, Tomomi Sakuragi, and Akiyo Cantrell. Japan 5 has four feel so thankful for destiny bringing me sections, taught by Chikako Shinagawa and Koji Furukawa. Japan 120B to UCSB. Those were my beginning days also has two sections, taught by Koji Furukawa and Tomomi Sakuragi. in academic research as well as in a for- Japan 130B has eighteen students and is taught by Hiroko Sugawara. eign country; I am deeply grateful to During summer 2007 we organized two gatherings for students my professors who were always support- who previously took Japanese courses. Our new lecturer, Akiyo Cantrell, ive and encouraging. My advisor, Pro- fessor Ronald Egan, showed me some took the lead to bring together about twenty students from different of the most exquisite aspects of my own levels of Japanese to practice Japanese during the summer. This not cultural tradition and guided me to re- only provided students with the opportunity to practice their lan- examine it from the perspective of guage skills and share their summer activities, but to enjoy a Japanese American sinology. His supervision movie together as well. Japanese high school students taking summer sowed the seeds for my current work. English courses in the ESL program at UCSB were invited to the sec- There are many beautiful moments and fond memories about life in Santa Bar- ond gathering, giving the entire group the opportunity to share lan- , which I recall again and again— guages and cultural experiences, as well as to make new friends. the illuminating seminars, the lunches Four lecturers attended a workshop of the Teachers of Japanese in with my close friends on the campus Southern California (TJSC) in November 2007. The topic of the work- beach, the memorable parties with my shop was “How to Teach Culture.” This is an invaluable opportunity professors and my intelligent and amus- to learn how colleagues at other universities are incorporating cultural ing classmates. I miss them all.” aspects in their Japanese classes and how we can use Japanese pop

Alumna Fangqiong Zhan writes: “Dur- culture, such as animation and televisiondramas, to teach culture in ing my two years in the Department of class. In addition to the TJSC workshop, the regional workshop of the East Asian Languages and Cultural Stud- California Association of Japanese Language Teachers on December 9, ies at UCSB, I was able to study with 2007 was an opportunity to exchange ideas on how to improve stu- Professor Sharon Yu, who specializes in dents’ listening proficiency and comprehension. historical Chinese linguistics and lan- guage pedagogy. I also worked with other professors in the department, particularly those specializing in literary Chinese, early modern Chinese litera- ture, and translation theory and prac- tice. I was exposed to diverse academic viewpoints and methodologies that I had never encountered before. Further, the program provided me with opportuni- ties to establish contacts with other scholars through attending confer- ences and working with visiting schol- ars and specialists in Chinese studies. The experiences at UCSB nourished my intellect and built the foundation for my current academic life.”

14 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies TUDENT ROFILES— TRAVELS P S CHINESE LECTURERS A 10-day trip was taken by ten stu- Lecturer Bella Shu-Chuan Chen dents in the 9th Summer China Trip. teaches first-year Chinese. She is pas- The program included three weeks of sionate about teaching, organizes stu- intensive study of Chinese language dent activities, and reaches out to the local Chinese American community. at Nanjing Normal University and Through the CTS and in collaboration one-week tour to Shanghai and with fellow lecturer, Jennifer Hsu, Chen Beijing. Information about this pro- arranges a summer trip to Taiwan for our gram can be obtained by emailing students each year. The intensive lan- [email protected]. guage-learning experience in Taipei Students at the Temple of Heaven enhances the students’ skills and rein- forces the UCSB Chinese-language pro- I decided, rather spur-of-one moment, to visit Taiwan this past summer gram, while simultaneously providing a when our language instructors presented the opportunity in class and valuable cultural experience. Chen a classmate begged me to go. I agreed, thinking of it as only a summer serves as editor of the Santa Barbara Chinese American Association Newslet- vacation, but never considered the profound effect it would have on ter. Equipped with teaching experience me! Not knowing what to expect, it was only when I arrived that I and administrative skills, she has helped finally realized what an amazing opportunity I had been given. develop the curriculum for the Chinese Taiwan boasts of beautiful scenery, amazing food, kind people, School in Santa Barbara, and helps train and extremely hot weather! The cities are diverse, fusing the ancient new teachers, provides resources, and with the modern, and our group was privileged to see a great many oversees school maintenance. sights through our university’s program. When we were not practicing Jennifer HsuHsu, language instructor in the Mandarin in our intensive language classes, we were out seeing the Department of East Asian Languages, sights, smelling the aromas, and trying out our awkward language skills. was recognized by The Independent I was pleased to find people eager to help and jubilant when we were (October 4, 2007, p. 34) for her innova- mutually intelligible. Maybe Mandarin is not so difficult after all! tive initiative in establishing a Chinese Taiwan struck me for its beauty, progressiveness, and most pro- School in the Santa Barbara community in 1994. The success of the program is foundly, its people. Everyone was kind, generous in every capacity, ongoing; it currently enrolls about 80 and helpful in repeating sentences slowly to my untrained ear. I am children and helps to maintain their grateful for the patience they showed that helped me to progress quickly Mandarin skills and traditional Chinese throughout my one-month stay. The confidence people demonstrated culture and values. Hsu also hopes to in my ability reassured me, and everyone—from my instructors to establish Mandarin classes in the Santa people I met on the street—showed such an eagerness to introduce me Barbara School District system. to the diversities of Taiwanese culture and contribute to my minimal Lecturer Daoxiong Guan annually ar- vocabulary. What was a ranges for students to participate in a spontaneous decision re- three-week program of intensive Chi- sulted in the high point of nese-language instruction at Nanjing my summer and one of my Normal University, in Nanjing, China. Ten most enriching and fulfill- students participated in 2007’s summer ing trips. Taiwan—a coun- program, the ninth trip Guan arranges, which also included one week of tour- try that throbs with energy ing Shangai and Beijing. and vitality—is definitely Information about future trips can worth a visit. be obtained by contacting Guan at Hannah Dunham, UCSB [email protected].

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