American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (Sc 1986), 2010 Western Kentucky University
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (Sc 1986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1986. Advisory statement issued by the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee to Arab Americans and Muslim Americans suggesting responses to threats or harassment in the event of a U.S. war with Iraq. Includes list of FBI field officers.
Mike Park Interview, 2010 DePaul University
Mike Park Interview, Ben Rogers
Asian American Art Oral History Project
2010 interview with Mike Park from Asian Man Records by Ben Rogers
Railroad Noir, 2010 Kennesaw State University
Reading Round-Up: 2/12/10, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Reading Round-Up: 2/12/10
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
1. China Beat team members Jeff Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess have a new piece at Foreign Policy discussing the recent joint report issued by the governments of China and Japan regarding the 1937-38 Rape of Nanking. In“Nanjing By the Numbers”, they argue that focusing on the continued controversy over the massacre’s death toll overlooks the greater significance of the report:
It would be too much to hope that any joint report over the causes and events of the Pacific War would reach accord on every issue. But as partisan as the debate on the Nanjing massacre has often seemed, a …
Religion And Manifestations Of Chinese Modernity, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Religion And Manifestations Of Chinese Modernity, Paul Katz
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
One of the most frequent questions that scholars and writers hear is “I’m interested learning more about your field. What should I read?” Answering this query is surprisingly tricky, as often the books that specialists love the most are far beyond the introductory level that many general readers are seeking. China Beatwould like to help; below is the inaugural post in our new series, “Where to Begin.” In these essays, we’ll be asking authors to suggest a broad range of books that might make up a good beginning reading list for someone setting out to explore an unfamiliar topic. Here, …
Cross Talk, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Cross Talk
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
“Wit, comic repartee, tongue-twisting speed and impressively lengthed sleeves are on display at a Peking University art society’s bi-termly xiangsheng (cross talk) performance. The audience behind me was, if sparse, in stitches throughout.”
— Alec Ash, Six
证婚人: A Memoir, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
证婚人: A Memoir, Jacob Dreyer
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
While living in Shanghai last year, Jacob Dreyer found himself working as a 证婚人 [zhenghunren] in one of the city’s many wedding facilities. Translated as “wedding officiant,” “priest for weddings,” or “wedding witness,” zhenghunrenhas no real equivalent in the West. The role involves leading the wedding ceremony, but there is no need for a zhenghunren to be certified or authorized to perform weddings — which is one reason Dreyer was able to slip into the position so easily.
Shanghai, September 2009. It was the time of year when it was just beginning to be crisp. At a party at night, …
Upcoming Event: Ying Zhu On Google And China, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Upcoming Event: Ying Zhu On Google And China
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Ying Zhu, Professor of Media Culture at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island, will be giving a talk on Friday, February 12 at Google’s Manhattan headquarters, beginning at noon. Although the event is not open to the public, a limited number of guest passes can be arranged; anyone interested in attending can contact her by e-mailing Ying.Zhu[at]csi.cuny.edu
Ying Zhu’s presentation, titled “Emerging Critical Masses and Shifting State-Society Relations in China,” will focus on Google’s recent tensions with China, as well as the adventures of Avatar in Chinese theaters, to explore the concept of China’s emerging “critical …
Cuba 2010: An Island In A Global World, 2010 Florida International University
Cuba 2010: An Island In A Global World, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University
Cuban Research Institute Events
This flyer promotes a Call for Papers and Panels for the event "Cuba 2010: An Island in a Global World", the 8th Annual Cuban Research Institute Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies.The overarching theme of the conference focuses on the current political, economic, cultural and social dynamics on the island and the diaspora in the light of a changing world.
Ann Marie Chua Lee Interview, 2010 DePaul University
Ann Marie Chua Lee Interview, Jasmin M. Ortiz
Asian American Art Oral History Project
2010 Interview with cosplay costume designer Anne Marie Chua Lee by Jasmin M. Ortiz
U.S.-China Relations: A Quick Q-And-A With Warren I. Cohen, 2010 University of California, Irvine
U.S.-China Relations: A Quick Q-And-A With Warren I. Cohen, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
While trying to keep up with the latest twists and turns of U.S.-China relations, something I recently wrote about for Time magazine’s Asian edition, I learned that a new edition of a book on the topic that I’ve learned a lot from, and also assigned in a recent undergraduate class, is about to come out from Columbia University Press. The book is Warren I. Cohen’s America’s Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations, and this will be its fifth edition. Given the current interest in interactions and tensions between Washington and Beijing, I decided to ask Cohen (whose name …
A Conversation On “Confucius” With Daniel A. Bell, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
A Conversation On “Confucius” With Daniel A. Bell, Alec Ash
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
The film Confucius premiered in Beijing last month, to a backdrop of controversyover Avatar being dropped from cinemas to make way for more patriotic fare. I saw the film last weekend with Chinese student friends, and we couldn’t hold back the occasional open snigger: in a word, Confucius is cornier than maize. It also raises interesting questions about the selective interpretation and political uses that modern China makes of its ancient Confucian tradition.
I put some of these questions to Daniel A. Bell, Professor of Philosophy at Tsinghua University, who has written widely on Confucianism (including pieces for The China …
Six Takes On Martin Jacques, 2010 University of California, Irvine
Six Takes On Martin Jacques, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
I have a commentary that’s just appeared online at time.com (it’s in print as well in Time Asia’s February 8 issue), in which I focus on the distinction between what I call “Big China Books” (with “titles that cry out to be put in bold type”) and the quite different works that take a “worm’s eye” rather than “bird’s eye” view of the country, and which usually avoid predictive assertions. I state my preference for the latter genre, which I call forays into “scholarly reporting,” taking my cue fromAndrew Ross.
While I mention several books falling into each category, the …
Coming Distractions: Country Driving, 2010 National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
Coming Distractions: Country Driving, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
I made my initial foray into China studies in the fall of 2000, when I took a course called “Travelers in History.” Beginning with The Travels of Marco Polo, we moved forward through the centuries, reading a sampling of China-related travel narratives as well as works by historians looking back at those who had journeyed to and from China (such as The Question of Hu by Jonathan Spence and Peter Hopkirk’s Foreign Devils on the Silk Road). For the “modern” period, we read Paul Theroux’sRiding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China(1988). Although I thoroughly enjoyed Theroux’s book, and thought …
Privatization Of Water In Latin America: A Case Study In Bolivia, 2010 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Privatization Of Water In Latin America: A Case Study In Bolivia, Jason Segers
Social Sciences
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In Case You Missed Them: Books By Martin Jacques And Yasheng Huang, 2010 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
In Case You Missed Them: Books By Martin Jacques And Yasheng Huang, Howard French
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
During his first trip to China recently, Barack Obama was excoriated by pundits for his meekness on a host of issues, from Tibet to exchange rates to human rights. Newspaper commentary in the United States went on endlessly about the curtailment of American influence in an age where a fast-rising China has become this country’s main creditor. The event that supposedly crystallized all of this was the American-style town hall meeting the president had planned, but which the Chinese government appeared to control. In the end, Obama was limited to a stilted forum with an audience of carefully screened and …
February Roundtable: Introduction, 2010 University of Denver
February Roundtable: Introduction
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An annotation of:
“Tragedy and Opportunity for Haiti” by Kara C. Mc Donald. Council on Foreign Relations. January 14, 2010.
A Time For Anger. And A Time For Rights, Not Charity, 2010 Occidental College
A Time For Anger. And A Time For Rights, Not Charity, Anthony Chase
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Sadness but also anger is the immediate reaction to the deaths of 200,000 Haitians. Among the dead are Myriam Merlet, Magalie Marcelin and Anne Marie Coriolan (founders of three leading Haitian feminist organizations) and 14 of the 16 members of SEROvie, the main Haitian organization providing HIV-related services for men who have sex with men and the transgendered – people who have been at the front line in pushing for political change from within Haiti. Kara McDonald’s words that “it is hard to identify another country that has had as many peacekeeping forces, stabilization operations, and crisis responses at work …
Can They Stay The Distance? The International Response To The Earthquake In Haiti, 2010 Amnesty International
Can They Stay The Distance? The International Response To The Earthquake In Haiti, Anna Talbot
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Haiti is devastated again. Over one hundred thousand people are presumed dead. Reports of looting and violence are emerging. The international community is responding, with a statement from the Secretary-General of the UN, a resolution by the Security Council, a Special Session, and resolution from the UN Human Rights Council and numerous aid and UN agencies in the country seeking to help as many survivors as possible. Various commentators, including Kara McDonald, have claimed this is an opportunity for a stronger Haiti. Whether this opportunity is realized or not depends in large part on the international community, and whether it …
Hope For Haiti?, 2010 University of Glasgow
Hope For Haiti?, Kurt Mills
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Kara McDonald raises the question of whether or not the international community will go beyond its patchwork response to Haiti's problems. One wonders why the question is even asked, given the international community's track record in Haiti, as well as in other parts of the world. Indeed, setting aside the many positive acts of individuals and states to address the suffering after the earthquake, the response to Haiti illustrates the inability of the international community to respond in a coherent and humane manner to many crises around the world.