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FALL 2000

September 6 Japanese Women Filmakers Series: The Eternal Breasts [Chibusa yo eien nare] - FREE
This is the third directorial effort by the famous actress-turned filmmaker Kinuyo Tanaka. The Eternal Breasts is a biography of a poet who dies of breast cancer. Set in rural Japan in the 1920s, the film traces the growing fame of the poet, cut short by her illness and death. The Eternal Breasts is an example of the popular namida chodai (tear-jerker) genre of Japanese film, but its lyricism and emotional power invite a re evaluation of the category of melodrama within the context of feminist criticism. The screenplay was written by Sumie Tanaka, adapted from stories by Akira Wakatsuki and Fumiko Nakashiro. As with all of Tanakas films, The Eternal Breasts provides a rare filmic view of Japanese society through a womans eyes. This is the first film of a series that will culminate with a colloquium, Japanese Women Filmmakers, on the Boulder Campus, October 5-7. Japan. Directed by Kinuyo Tanaka. 1955. B & W, 119 mins. With English subtitles. Not rated. Print courtesy The Japan Foundation with permission of Nikkatsu.
Muenzinger Auditorium, 7:00 & 9:15 pm; see http://www.colorado.edu/FilmStudies/ifs for further details.
Sponsored by: President's Fund for the Humanities, IMPART, CRCW, CAS, CHA, The Japan Foundation.
September 8 Travels on the Silk Road
Presentation by Richard McCray, Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado. The term 'Silk Road' stands for the various caravan routes that have connected the Middle East to China since prehistoric times. Its legendary cities -- Samarkand, Kashgar, Kuche, Dunhaung, Xian -- have seen the rise & and fall of many civilizations and empires -- Persian, Greek, Chinese, Arab, Turkish, Mongol, Russian. In1998, I took a trip with some friends, following the footsteps of Marco Polo through some of the more remote parts of the Silk Road. In this illustrated talk I will describe some of the geography, history, and culture of the Silk Road as well as a few of my own experiences. [For a poster, please click HREF="silkroad.html" TARGET=_BLANK>here]
Friday, September 8, 2000, 4:00 p.m., Humanities 1B50, University of Colorado-Boulder. Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and the Asian Studies Program.
September 13 Japanese Women Filmakers Series: Girls of the Night [Onna bakari no yoru] - FREE
In her fifth film, director Kinuyo Tanaka presents a group of young women working as prostitutes though attempting to rehabilitate themselves. The film focuses on their efforts to become self-sufficient in the face of extreme social prejudice. This pseudo-documentary-cum-melodrama became part of the political debate over attempts to ban licensed prostitution in Japan in the 1950s, joining films by Tanakas mentor, director Kenji Mizoguchi (Girls of the Night and Street of Shame) but offering an alternative to Mizoguchis often patronizing view of the women he claimed to be defending. Screenplay by Sumie Tanaka. The second in a series on Japanese Women Filmmakers. Japan. Directed by Kinuyo Tanaka. 1961. Color, 95 mins. With English subtitles. Not rated. Print courtesy of The Japan Foundation, with permission of Toho.
Muenzinger Auditorium, 7:00 & 9:00 pm; see http://www.colorado.edu/FilmStudies/ifs for further details.
Sponsored by: President's Fund for the Humanities, IMPART, CRCW, CAS, CHA, The Japan Foundation.
September
14 -- 15		 Workshop on China-United States Cooperation
Between September 13 and 19, 2000, the Center for China-US Cooperation at the University of Denver's Graduate School of International Studies will host a delegation from the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) for a series of workshops and meetings at the University of Denver, the US Air Force Academy and the Denver Council on Foreign Relations.
Seating will be limited to approximately 35 per session (in the Daniels College of Business Schneider Board Room on the 6th floor), so if you would like to attend, please RSVP to Greg Moore in the China Center by emailing him, or calling him at (303) 871-4474. Please specify which sessions you plan on attending.
Hosted by the Center for China-United States Cooperation Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. For further details see this schedule.
September 15 CAS Board Meeting
Agenda includes nomination of a new Director to replace Prof. Dennis McGilvray, and nominations for other board posts. All welcome. Light refreshments will be served.
4:00 -- 5:00 p.m., Hale 455, University of Colorado-Boulder
September 20 Japanese Women Filmakers Series: The Far Road [Toi ippon no michi] - FREE
Like her predecessor Kinuyo Tanaka, Sachiko Hidari acted in films by famous directors such as Heinosuke Gosho, Tadashi Imai, and Shohei Imamura. She won the 1963 Berlin Film Festival Best Actress Award for her performance as a wife beginning to question traditional roles in Susumu Hanis She and He. The Far Road, commissioned by the Japan National Railway Union, is her only directorial effort. The films is an unsentimental portrait of the trials of a working-class woman in her roles as wife, mother, and worker. After this outing as directer, Hidari returned to work as an actress, though not without expressing her dissatisfaction that she was not given more opportunities. "I feel angry about the injustice experienced by Japanese women," she told film critic Joan Mellen in later years. This is the third in a series on Japanese Women Filmmakers.
Muenzinger Auditorium, 7:00 & 9:00 pm; see http://www.colorado.edu/FilmStudies/ifs for further details.
Sponsored by: President's Fund for the Humanities, IMPART, CRCW, CAS, CHA, The Japan Foundation.
September 26 CAS Fall Reception and Election
The CAS Fall Reception will be held on Tuesday September 26th, 2000, commencing at 4:00 p.m.. Asian food and other refreshments will be provided. CAS receptions are a good opportunity to introduce yourself other Asian Studies colleagues on CU-Boulder campus and at other institutions along the front range. At the reception, we will discuss this year's plans for CAS, and vote for a new Director, and member, for the CAS Board.
The reception will be held on the fourth floor of Hale Science, CU-Boulder campus. If you are unfamiliar with the building, simply take the elevator to the fourth floor and you will see the reception area.
The Hale Science Building is located on Boulder campus to the east of Broadway, and north of University Avenue. It is building # 34 on the online campus map at http://www.colorado.edu/Directories/WebMap/.
September 27 Japanese Women Filmakers Series: Moe no Suzaku - FREE
Moe no suzaku is the first feature film by director Naomi Kawase (27). It won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997. Prior to Moe, Kawase had made a number of interesting documentaries about her family and life in her native village, but nothing had prepared critics for the power of this feature. Like many Japanese narrators, Kawase is concerned less with plot than with mood and setting as she relates the story of a family disintegrating under economic pressures. The film, made with only one professional actor in the cast, is a nostalgic elegy to rural Japanese life. The director, who is now working on her second feature film, will be on the Boulder campus participating in the Japanese Women Filmmakers colloquium, October 5-7.
Muenzinger Auditorium, 7:00 & 9:00 pm; see http://www.colorado.edu/FilmStudies/ifs for further details.
Sponsored by: President's Fund for the Humanities, IMPART, CRCW, CAS, CHA, The Japan Foundation.
October 4 Japanese Women Filmakers Series: In Search of a Lost Writer: Wandering in the Seventh World - FREE
In Search of a Lost Writer: Wandering in the Seventh World combines two stories: the true account of a long-lost Japanese writer and the tale that is her greatest work. These two stories are told through the eyes of two young Japanese women (one a trumpet player in a gay bar) discovering the life of Osaki Midori (1896-1971). Osaki published a number of works in the late 1920s and early 1930s and then vanished from the Japanese literary world at the height of her powers. Thought to have gone mad, she was not rediscovered until 1969 when Wandering was included in a literary collection entitled Black Humor. Osakis work tells the story of a young woman, Ono Machiko, who wants to write poems of the seventh sense, a mysterious perception associated with the female gender. The film is an extraordinary plea for the recovery of a female artist and, metaphorically, of Japanese women filmmakers. Directed by Hamano Sachi, with English subtitles, 1998, color, 108 mins, 35mm, not rated. With Cris Reyns-Chikuma In-Person.
Muenzinger Auditorium, 7:00 PM only; see http://www.colorado.edu/FilmStudies/ifs for further details.
Sponsored by: President's Fund for the Humanities, IMPART, CRCW, CAS, CHA, The Japan Foundation.
October
5 -- 7		 Japanese Women Filmmakers Conference
The University of Colorado, Boulder, will host an international conference on Japanese women filmmakers, October 5-7 in the Humanities building, HUMN 250.  The conference follows a festival of films by Japanese women directors as part of the International Film Series.  The final film in the series, a docu-drama about the "lost" writer Osaki Midori, by Hamano Sachi, will be screened Wednesday in Muenzinger auditorium at 7 & 9 pm. Ms. Hamano will attend the screening.  The conference will feature keynote addresses by Cannes Film Festival prize-winner Kawase Naomi and Professor Keiko McDonald, University of Pittsburgh.  A documentary by noted filmmaker Barbara Hammer will also be screened in HUMN 250, Thursday at 1:00 p.m.  All events are free and open to the public.  The conference is sponsored by The President's Fund for the Humanities, The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, The Center for Asian Studies, GCAH, CRCW, Film Studies and the Asian Studies Program.  For complete conference schedule, please see the program on the EALC website.
October
13 -- 14		 Postcolonial Anxieties and the UnMaking of Postcolonial Theory
Keynote addresses:
Jacqui Alexander, Connecticut College; Timothy Brennan, University of Minnesota; Dipankar Chakravarti, CU-Boulder; Abioseh Porter, Drexel University
Friday, October 13, 3:30-6:00, Humanities Building, HUMN 150
Roundtable follow-up discussions
With keynote speakers, CU faculty, students, and Boulder community members
Saturday, October 14, 9:00 am - 4:15 pm, Humanities Building, HUMN 150
Check out the full schedule: http://www.colorado.edu/ArtsSciences/CHA/pocomain.html, or contact Priya Jha, 2-8503, for further information.
Partly sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies.
October 14 Deepvali Festival Fundraiser for the Association for India's Development
The Nightingale & the Rose Performing Arts Company in association with the Boulder chapter of Aid (Association for India's Development) presents "Deepavali -- The Festival of Lights." This fundraiser and spectacular dance production is a spiritual tribute to the joyous Hindu holiday, celebrated all over the world each year.
Starring Guna, Artistic Director of Khazana Stage Creations, Malaysia ("...We can confidently say that Guna is one of the best male dancers in the country" -- New Straits Times), with Chandrika (Chandrika has performed hundreds of shows throughout India and the United States and is the recipient of numerous awards; this is her first performance in Colorado), and Titanya Monique Dahlin & her troupe, Bedouin Moon (Titanya, a professional storyteller, Polynesian and Middle Eastern dancer has taught and performed all over the world for over 20 years. Bedouin Moon , a Middle Eastern dance troupe, has dazzled audiences at many local events since last year with spectacular choreography and spiritual symbolism)

Saturday, October 14, 7:30 p.m.
Niwot High School Auditorium, (just North of Boulder, before Longmont), 8989 E. Niwot Road Niwot, Colorado
From Boulder: Diagonal highway North (157), continue straight (North). It will turn into 119, but you may not even notice this. Turn right at the light, Niwot Road (The first Niwot exit). Turn right about a mile to the second light. Turn left into the school. Auditorium is the large building on the right.
From I25: I25 to highway 52 (West), continue until the highway ends directly on the 119. turn right onto the highway to the next exit. Turn right and follow the directions above.

Ticket price: $12 presale by Oct. 11 or $15 at the door.
For tickets, registration & information: Call (303) 530-9419, or call Kiran at (303) 786-1960
Tickets also available at:
Tejal International Foods, 10351 Grant THORNTON CO 80229-2032. (303)-450 4164
India's Grocery, 780 W Baseline Rd LAFAYETTE CO 80026-1727. (303)-666 9112
Bombay Bazaar, 3140 S Parker Rd AURORA CO 80014-3110. (303)-3691010
Please visit our website at http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~aid/.

October 16 Asians and South Asians in the Media
How are Asians and South Asians represented in the media?
Speaker: Pradnya Joshi of Newsday
7:00 p.m., HUMN 150.
Organised by CU South Asian Student Organization, http://www.colorado.edu/StudentGroups/SASA/.
October 21 Dance: Aparna Sindhoor and the Indian Fusion Dancers
Aparna Sindhoor and internationally acclaimed Indian Fusion Dancers will perform "The Hunt," about a South Asian woman's journey in the big city.
7:00 p.m., Old Main.
Organised by CU South Asian Student Organization, http://www.colorado.edu/StudentGroups/SASA/.
October 26 Indo-Pakistan Relations
Speaker: S.P. Udayakumar
2:00 -- 4:00 p.m., Regent Room 302.
Organised by CU South Asian Student Organization, http://www.colorado.edu/StudentGroups/SASA/.
October 26 Xu Jilin and the Search for Liberalism With Chinese Characteristics: Popular Historical Essays in the 1990s
Presented by Tim Cheek, Department of History at Colorado College. Comments by Tim Weston, Department of History, University of Colorado.
4:00 p.m., in Hale 455.
October 27 South Asian Women
Another perspective about the plight of South Asian Women. Speaker: Anju Bhargava. Time TBA, Hellems HLMS 252.
Organised by CU South Asian Student Organization, http://www.colorado.edu/StudentGroups/SASA/.
November
2 -- 4		 Third Annual East Asian Graduate Association Conference for Graduate Students: Outcasts
In an ongoing effort to promote diversity and discourse on non-western cultures, the East Asian Graduate Association announces its Third Annual Conference to be held Thursday, November 2, 2000, through Saturday, November 4, 2000. Our theme this year is Outcasts in Asia and will feature a keynote speech by Professor Edward Fowler of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at University of California, Irvine. Research papers will be presented by graduate students in various disciplines from around the world including students from the University of Colorado, Boulder campus. Topics will focus on the theme of Outcasts in China and Japan throughout history to modern times and will cover such diverse subject matter as ethnicity and identity, literature, minorities and gender, issues of space and society, and media and identity.
The conference will begin on Thursday, November 2, 2000 at 6:00 PM with a keynote address by Professor Fowler in room 150 of the Humanities Building at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Fowler will speak on "Outcastehood in Japan, Asia and Beyond." Dr. Fowler is a professor of modern Japanese literature at the University of California, Irvine and is the author of several books including _San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo_ and _The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishosetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction._ A reception in Humanities 160 will immediately follow the keynote address. Panel discussions will held in Old Main from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm on Friday and in Humanities 150 from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm on Saturday. A link to the complete program of the conference events is available here.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Michelle Low at 303-492-0432 or Charlotte Eubanks at 303-735-4137.
The Center for Asian Studies is a major sponsor of this event..
November 5 SASA Cultural Night
With Student performances... a gala of skits, dances, poetry and our annual FASHION SHOW. Get a taste of our culture and what we do to celebrate LIFE.
5:00 -- 7:00 p.m., Glenn Miller Ballroom, UMC.
FREE INDIAN FOOD AT RECEPTION AFTER SHOW
Organised by CU South Asian Student Organization, http://www.colorado.edu/StudentGroups/SASA/.
November 20 Mao's China: A Necessary Evil?
Philip Short presents material from his new biography, 'Mao: A Life." For twenty three years, Philip Short was a foreign correspondent for the BBC, based in Moscow, Beijing, Paris, Tokyo, and Washington. "Mao: A Life," has attracted widespread praise:
* Short has a large canvas, and he uses it brilliantly ... he has combined much of what is best in journalism and scholarship. New York Times Book Review.
* Nowhere has the story of the late Chinese leader been told with greater authority. Washington Post.
* Compulsory reading. Short reconstructs Mao's life -- his undisputed achievements and his ruthless tyranny -- with rich anecdotes, on-the-spot descriptions and contemporary accounts from Chinese and western observers. Chicago Tribune.
* The scenes behind the key moments of Mao's life are vividly painted, in a way only a journalist well-travelled in China could do. Places are described in detail, so that one gets a feel for the story in the way one might in a novel. The character study drawn is not a pretty one. Sunday Times, London.
* A fascinating account. New York Review of Books.
* Complete and unflinching. The Economist.
* Mao Zedong has inspired many biographies. Philip Short's is probably the best. Well researched, rich in detail and beautifully written, it provides an illuminating and accessible portrait not just of the Great Helmsman, but of China during the turbulent 20th century. Irish Times, Dublin.
* Mao: A Life deserves to be the standard history. It is everything one could hope for: magisterial, beautifully written, excellently printed and rich in material from Mr Short's own researches among those who knew and observed Mao. The elegance of Philip Short's long and detailed account powerfully illumines the worst political decline of this century. Sunday Telegraph, London.
* Wonderfully readable and rich in background material and eyewitness accounts. The Guardian, London.

Old Main Chapel; Monday, November 20, 3:00-5:00 p.m.; Free and Open to the Public; Reception to Follow.