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Self-Promotion Saturday: Upcoming Events

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

A few reminders about upcoming events involving China Beat contributors.

Shanghai

Jeff Wasserstrom will be speaking about his new book, Global Shanghai, 1850-2010, at the Shanghai International Literary Festival tomorrow, March 15 at 4 p.m. City Weekend has been “live blogging” from the festival, so even those who don’t attend can read transcripts from readings. Some highlights for Sinophiles:Stella Dong and James Fallows and Graham Earnshaw.

Hong Kong

Wasserstrom will also be presenting at the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival on Tuesday, March 17 at 4 p.m. (at University of Hong Kong).

Charlottesville, VA

Susan Brownell and Kate Merkel-Hess …

Lee "Pop" Mosley

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Ulysses Loadholt, Lawrence F. Heber Iii

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral program for Ulysses Loadholt. Service was held on March 14, 2009 in Savannah, Georgia

Mr. Talmadge Swans Sr. (Governor)

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral Program for Mr. Talmadge Swans Sr. (Governor) on March 14, 2009 at Cooper Baptist Church

Inez Sheffield Green

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Quiz Winners And A New Quiz

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

We received many correct answers to last week’s Frivolous Friday quiz. For the prize of a copy of China’s Brave New World–And Other Tales for Global Times, Jeff Wasserstrom asked readers to guess which two people he had in mind to answerthis question: “If you could bring back to life, for a day, two people you’ve written about who are now dead, and ask them questions about what Shanghai was like then, who would they be and what would you ask them?” The clues were:

1) Both people were cosmopolitan women who spent time in both China and the United …

Gabbart, Lillian, 1905-1984 - Letter To (Sc 1875), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1875. Letter, 9 December 1923, to Gabbart from “Louis,” a student from the Philippines attending Ohio State University. He expresses his admiration for her and tells of his holiday plans and his desire to visit her family farm in Kentucky.

Bailey Collection (Sc 1862), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1862. Information related to the Bailey family of Logan County, Kentucky, chiefly letters to Margaret Bailey, 1865, from her husband J.M. Bailey, U.S. consul in Glasgow, Scotland, and letters [1869?]-1896 from two friends in Great Britain.

Hale, Hansford Lee, 1898-1977 - Letters To (Sc 1877), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1877. Letters and invitations sent to Hansford Lee Hale, Willisburg, Washington County, Kentucky, some dealing with courtship.

Club Talk: Gossip, Masculinity And Oral Communities In Late Nineteenth-Century London, Amy Milne-Smith

History Faculty Publications

Gossip is not only a guilty pleasure; it is also an important tool of social control. Nowhere is this more evident than in the nineteenth‐century gentlemen's clubs of London. This article looks at the private lives of elite men whose gossip helped shape class and gender ideals. Archival documents, private memoirs and periodical literature provide both an insider and outsider vision of a very private world. Looking at how men gossiped points to codes of gentlemanly behaviour, the importance of homosocial life, and the place of oral culture in a modern, literate age.

Can China Go High-Tech When Exports Slump?, Yu Zhou

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

As the financial Tsunami batter China’s exporting hubs, everyone is wondering how well China can weather the storm in the next couple of years, but a more important question is how China’s economy will emerge after the crisis. As a result of extensive research, I argue that there have been sustained forces pushing China’s industry to more innovative fields with a stronger orientation to the domestic market. The crisis will only strengthen the shift in a more dramatic manner.

This conclusion is based on my research in Beijing’s Zhongguancun, a region dedicated to innovative industry and domestic market. I started …

Correspondence; 2009-03-12; Wny Women's Hall Of Fame, Catherine Collins

Correspondence

No abstract provided.

Trail Blazer - Volume 83, Number 18, Morehead State University. Trail Blazer.

Morehead State Trail Blazer Archive

Morehead State Trail Blazer published on March 12, 2009.

Awards; 2009-03-12; Wny Women's Hall Of Fame Proclamation, Catherine Collins

Honors and Awards

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 43, No. 49, March 12, 2009, Grand Valley State University

Volume 43, July 10, 2008 - June 7, 2009

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Newspapers; 2009-03-11; News Albany Bureau; Ex-Rochester Council Member To Succeed Gardner As Regent, Catherine Collins

Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 1541, Carlos Gándara

Combined Interviews

Carlos Gándara was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. As a child, Gándara had paper routes and collected bottles for extra money. Gándara was introduced to selling office products when he became a driver for BPSI (Business Products and Supplies Inc.) He moved to different office supply stores but credits BPSI for his formal training. Glen Powers was his selling mentor and motivated Gandara to become a better salesman. Gándara recieved professional manager experiance and was the manager at Struges Office Supplies for two years. He was then employed by a national office supply chain and laid off. He …

Collins, Mary Jane (Simonin), 1842-1903 (Sc 1878), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1878. Letter, 4 April 1864, from Mary Collins, Newport, Kentucky, to her husband John Collins, then serving in the military during the Civil War. She describes the tiresome duties of caring for several ill members of her household.

Mo Yan, Inaugural Newman Laureate, Honored In Oklahoma, Haiyan Lee

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

On Thursday, March 5, the acclaimed Chinese novelist Mo Yan received the inaugural Newman Prize for Chinese Literature at a ceremony held on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Over a hundred invited guests attended the event, including the Chinese consul from Houston, the Oklahoma secretary of state, OU’s deans of arts and sciences, OU faculty, high school teachers, students, alumni, visitors, and donors.

The Newman Prize was created in 2008 in OU’s Institute for U.S.-China Issues at the initiative of its director Peter H. Gries, Professor of political science and author of China’s New Nationalism, who …

West, Gary Patterson, B. 1943 - Letters To (Sc 1876), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1876. Letters of support for naming a stretch of road in Bowling Green "Duncan Hines Highway," and letters of appreciation for West's efforts to create the "World's Biggest Brownie" in honor of Hines.

Interview No. 1542, Oscar Venegas

Combined Interviews

Oscar Venegas was born in Juarez, Mexico and obtained dual citizenship in the United States and Mexico. Venegas is a graduate of Burges High School, here he was influenced to become financially successful. He enrolled at The University of Texas at El Paso and graduated with a degree in civil engineering. After graduating, Venegas started working for local businesses, R.E. McKee and Jordan & Nobles. In 1982, Venegas decided to go into business for himself instead of working for McKee and Jordan & Nobles. With previous knowledge of sales and project managing, Venegas began his own construction company. He was …

The Land Where The Good Songs Go, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Programs

What makes a concert great? This is possibly one of the hardest questions we ask ourselves after every concert series concludes. Each concert evening, while speaking with our Patrons in the receiving line, one comment is repeated over and over, "you guys sure look like you are having fun!" We are indeed. We love putting these events together for your enjoyment. We see your faces during our performances, the smiles, the laughter and the tears. We feel strongly about our service to the community and the joy we try to bring to you, our beloved audiences.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 033, Number 24, March 9, 2009, Grand Valley State University

2008-2009, Volume 33

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Lanthorn, Vol. 43, No. 48, March 9, 2009, Grand Valley State University

Volume 43, July 10, 2008 - June 7, 2009

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

The Chanticleer, 2009-03-09, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

Chinese Intellectuals And The Problem Of Xinjiang, Sebastian Veg

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

It is a common assumption that Chinese intellectuals, however critical of their government, its institutions, and its policies, are unreceptive to calls for greater self-government, much less independence, in China’s autonomous regions, most notably Tibet and Xinjiang. It is therefore worth taking note of Wang Lixiong’s book on Xinjiang, published in 2007 in Taiwan, the title of which can be rendered as My Far West, Your East Turkistan.

Wang Lixiong is no newcomer to the question, having devoted the past two decades to researching and reflecting on the place of “ethnic minorities” in China’s political system, in particular in view …

Tobacco Growers' Associations - Kentucky (Sc 1879), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1879. Blank form for use as a template to prepare Articles of Incorporation for county Tobacco Growers' Associations in Kentucky.

Appendix And Index, Pp. 691-740

Legend and Lore: Jefferson Medical College

No abstract provided.

Chapter 15- Then And Now, Pp. 661-670

Legend and Lore: Jefferson Medical College

No abstract provided.

Chapter 14- Archival Objects, Pp. 641-660

Legend and Lore: Jefferson Medical College

No abstract provided.