Watch the 2008 Oscar Lee Symposium

Introductory Remarks and “Young & Sexy in China”

“Facing the Challenges of Development in East Asia”

“Negotiating Minority Identities in Language and Film”

Schedule of 2008 Oscar Lee Symposium

1:00 PM
Introductory Remarks:

• Oscar Lee Symposium Representative
• Professor David Lurie, Director of Undergraduate Studies, EALAC Department
• Professor Myron Cohen, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute

1:15 PM Youth & Sex in China: Literary and Cultural Perspectives

• Sam Ashworth, “Bad Fiction”
• Katherine Atwill, “Acting on the Illusion: Living and Dying in the Story of the Stone”
• Tedde Tsang, “The Choosy Sex: The Ideal Mate Selection Criteria of Urban Chinese Youth and the Female Penchant for Rationality”

2:10 PM Facing the Challenges of Development in East Asia

• Geoffrey Aung, “‘Now We Have a Lightbulb’: The Millennium Road and Development Discourse in Modern Mongolia”
• Pin-Quan Ng, “Transforming Corporate Japan for the Challenges of Global Capitalism”
• Andrew Scheineson,”From Laws to Levees: Methods of Water Control in the Qing Dynasty”
• Diana Xiaojie Zhou, “The Cycle of Inequality, Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Rural China”

3:20 PM Negotiating Minority Identities in Language and Film

• Benjamin Shaffer, “‘Happy Dancing Natives’: Minority Film, Han Nationalism, and Collective Memory”
• Grace Zhou, “Language Attitudes of Central Guizhou’s Gelao Population”

3:55 PM

Closing Remarks:

• Oscar Lee Symposium Representative

The Symposium will be preceded by the Oscar Lee Awards Ceremony for junior East Asian Studies majors from 11 AM - 12 PM.