3:00-4:30pm
1855 West Mall, C.K. Choi Building Conference Room #120
Needless Quarrel: The Second North Korean Nuclear Crisis
By Professor James Matray (California State Univ. at Chico)
In this seminar, Professor James I. Matray will describe the events surrounding the Second North Korean Nuclear Crisis that began in October 2002. He will focus attention particularly on identifying the reasons why the Bush Administration decided to abandon the Agreed Framework of October 1994, as well as questioning the legitimacy of its claim that North Korea’s development of a Highly Enriched Uranium program justified initiating this confrontation. He then will describe the ongoing efforts to end the crisis, tracing negotiations at the Six Party Talks beginning in August 2003 in Beijing. Professor Matray will present evidence to support the conclusion that Bush’s neo-conservative advisors were responsible for implementing a militant and aggressive policy aimed at toppling the government of Kim Jong Il. Instead of achieving regime change, however, this U.S. policy has strained relations with South Korea, elevated the status of China in East Asia, and forced North Korea to expand its nuclear weapons program as an act of self-defense.
Professor James I. Matray is professor of history at California State University, Chico, where he completed his final term as department chair in August 2008. He has published more than forty articles and book chapters on U.S.-Korean relations during and after World War II. Author of The Reluctant Crusade: American Foreign Policy in Korea, 1941-1950 and Japan’s Emergence as a Global Power, his most recent books are Korea Divided: The 38th Parallel and the Demilitarized Zone and East Asia and the United States: An Encyclopedia of Relations Since 1784. During 2003 and 2004, Matray was an international columnist for the Donga Ilbo in South Korea. From 2005 to 2007, he served on the Board of Editors for Diplomatic History.
Friday, September 26, 2008
CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH - Oct 3 - 12 noon
12:00-1:00PM
1855 West Mall, C.K. Choi Building Conference Room #120
Why has China grown so fast for so long?
Prospects for the future
By Khalid Malik
UN Resident Coordinator
UNDP Resident Representative
China
In a single generation, the world’s most populous nation has undergone one of the most dramatic and most dramatically successful transformations the world has ever seen. As high growth and steady reform continue unabated, China is not only reinventing itself but fundamentally altering political and economic relationships across the globe.
Yet right from the start of reforms, most international economic observers harbored profound skepticism towards China’s unorthodox path and expected it to fail disastrously. Curiously, this disbelief has persisted through decades of stellar growth, moderated only recently by the increasingly obvious fact that we are witnessing the greatest sustained economic expansion in human history. But economists over the world still struggle to understand just how the Chinese bumblebee has been able to defy the laws of economic gravity in such a conspicuous way.
This lecture will argue that the problem is inherent in traditional economic theory, which is by construction incapable of capturing the process that has taken place and thus fundamentally insufficient to provide us with the full explanation. Instead, there is a need for a more holistic understanding of the underlying social transformation necessary for growth to take hold in developing economies.
Outlining a different interpretation of China’s reform process and its success factors, Mr. Malik will provide some generalized lessons useful for other countries as well as a look into the future prospects of the Chinese economic endeavour.
Mr. Khalid Malik is a development practitioner with extensive leadership and management experience. Educated as an economist at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Essex and Punjab, he has held a variety of key managerial, technical and policy positions in UN/UNDP both in the field and at headquarters.
Mr. Malik is currently serving as the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in China (since August 2003).
1855 West Mall, C.K. Choi Building Conference Room #120
Why has China grown so fast for so long?
Prospects for the future
By Khalid Malik
UN Resident Coordinator
UNDP Resident Representative
China
In a single generation, the world’s most populous nation has undergone one of the most dramatic and most dramatically successful transformations the world has ever seen. As high growth and steady reform continue unabated, China is not only reinventing itself but fundamentally altering political and economic relationships across the globe.
Yet right from the start of reforms, most international economic observers harbored profound skepticism towards China’s unorthodox path and expected it to fail disastrously. Curiously, this disbelief has persisted through decades of stellar growth, moderated only recently by the increasingly obvious fact that we are witnessing the greatest sustained economic expansion in human history. But economists over the world still struggle to understand just how the Chinese bumblebee has been able to defy the laws of economic gravity in such a conspicuous way.
This lecture will argue that the problem is inherent in traditional economic theory, which is by construction incapable of capturing the process that has taken place and thus fundamentally insufficient to provide us with the full explanation. Instead, there is a need for a more holistic understanding of the underlying social transformation necessary for growth to take hold in developing economies.
Outlining a different interpretation of China’s reform process and its success factors, Mr. Malik will provide some generalized lessons useful for other countries as well as a look into the future prospects of the Chinese economic endeavour.
Mr. Khalid Malik is a development practitioner with extensive leadership and management experience. Educated as an economist at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Essex and Punjab, he has held a variety of key managerial, technical and policy positions in UN/UNDP both in the field and at headquarters.
Mr. Malik is currently serving as the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in China (since August 2003).
Monday, September 22, 2008
Odissi Indian Classical Dance by Sitara Thobani - Sept 24 - 7pm
Sitara Thobani will present Odissi Indian classical dance
Odissi dance is steeped in rich artistic and spiritual traditions, characterised by its striking poses, complex rhythmic footwork and emotional intensity. The dance and its practitioners were once significant in temple worship. However, after undergoing serious decline during the colonial era, Odissi was revived in the mid-twentieth century. This performance pays homage to the groundbreaking work of the dedicated artists who devoted their efforts to reconstructing and continuing Odissi dance. In doing so, it brings together both traditional and modern concepts within this art form.
Experience an evening of dance, music and drama as Sitara Thobani showcases some of the most captivating choreorgaphies of this style.
About the Artist:
Sitara Thobani began training in Odissi under Dr. Ratna Roy in 1997. She has also undertaken intensive training in India at the esteemed Nrityagram dance school and with leading choreographers in Bhubaneswar, Orissa. She has performed at many cultural and art events in Canada, the United States, India, Tanzania, and London, England. Her performance highlights include the Second and Third International Odissi Conferences (Washington, DC, 2003; Bhubaneswar, Orissa, 2006), the Mahari Festival (Bhubaneswar, 2007) and her solo productions of Arpan (London, 2006) and Sthayi (Vancouver, 2007)
At the Jericho Arts Centre
1675 Discovery
Tickets $15
ONLINE RESERVATIONS or 604-913-4368 or at the door
www.jerichoartscentre.com
Odissi dance is steeped in rich artistic and spiritual traditions, characterised by its striking poses, complex rhythmic footwork and emotional intensity. The dance and its practitioners were once significant in temple worship. However, after undergoing serious decline during the colonial era, Odissi was revived in the mid-twentieth century. This performance pays homage to the groundbreaking work of the dedicated artists who devoted their efforts to reconstructing and continuing Odissi dance. In doing so, it brings together both traditional and modern concepts within this art form.
Experience an evening of dance, music and drama as Sitara Thobani showcases some of the most captivating choreorgaphies of this style.
About the Artist:
Sitara Thobani began training in Odissi under Dr. Ratna Roy in 1997. She has also undertaken intensive training in India at the esteemed Nrityagram dance school and with leading choreographers in Bhubaneswar, Orissa. She has performed at many cultural and art events in Canada, the United States, India, Tanzania, and London, England. Her performance highlights include the Second and Third International Odissi Conferences (Washington, DC, 2003; Bhubaneswar, Orissa, 2006), the Mahari Festival (Bhubaneswar, 2007) and her solo productions of Arpan (London, 2006) and Sthayi (Vancouver, 2007)
At the Jericho Arts Centre
1675 Discovery
Tickets $15
ONLINE RESERVATIONS or 604-913-4368 or at the door
www.jerichoartscentre.com
New Asia Film Festival - Free Screening - Sept 27 - 7pm
Lecture Hall, Richmond Cultural Centre
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond
7pm – 10:30pm
778-869-3278, ying@cinevolutionmedia.com
Presented by Richmond Cultural Centre & Cinevolution Media Arts Society
Way of Fortune
(China/2007/Director: Chang Chao Wei/73 min/CNEX/Documentary) Mandarin + English subtitles
The 2008 Beijing Olympics have really shaken up the westerners; the world is both astounded and perplexed by this new China’s considerable wealth and prosperity. What are the factors that led to the current economic development? What is the driving force of fortune-making in the Chinese history? How do Chinese people see money and wealth? What are the challenges China has to face in the future? This documentary seeks answers to these important questions.
Shanghai Quest
(America /2007/Director: Kim Taylor /78 min/ Documentary) Mandarin/ English+English / Mandarin subtitles
The Paris of the Orient in the 20s and 30s, Shanghai is now the New York of the Far East. Three Westerners abandon their respective lands of opportunity to try and “make it” in China. The film provides us with an open view of contemporary urban China and the astonishing rate with which the city has undergone a “lifestyle revolution” since the economic reforms of 1992.
The Cinevolution Media Arts Society will present a series of free monthly film screenings every fourth Saturday leading up to the 2nd annual New Asia Film Festival, May 8-10, 2009. A one-time only membership fee of $5 must be purchased to enter the theatre and is valid for any screening until April 30th, 2009.
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond
7pm – 10:30pm
778-869-3278, ying@cinevolutionmedia.com
Presented by Richmond Cultural Centre & Cinevolution Media Arts Society
Way of Fortune
(China/2007/Director: Chang Chao Wei/73 min/CNEX/Documentary) Mandarin + English subtitles
The 2008 Beijing Olympics have really shaken up the westerners; the world is both astounded and perplexed by this new China’s considerable wealth and prosperity. What are the factors that led to the current economic development? What is the driving force of fortune-making in the Chinese history? How do Chinese people see money and wealth? What are the challenges China has to face in the future? This documentary seeks answers to these important questions.
Shanghai Quest
(America /2007/Director: Kim Taylor /78 min/ Documentary) Mandarin/ English+English / Mandarin subtitles
The Paris of the Orient in the 20s and 30s, Shanghai is now the New York of the Far East. Three Westerners abandon their respective lands of opportunity to try and “make it” in China. The film provides us with an open view of contemporary urban China and the astonishing rate with which the city has undergone a “lifestyle revolution” since the economic reforms of 1992.
The Cinevolution Media Arts Society will present a series of free monthly film screenings every fourth Saturday leading up to the 2nd annual New Asia Film Festival, May 8-10, 2009. A one-time only membership fee of $5 must be purchased to enter the theatre and is valid for any screening until April 30th, 2009.
Call for Volunteers - Vancouver Asian Film Festival
Every November, dozens of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers from Metro Vancouver get together to make the Vancouver Asian Film Festival a success. VAFF volunteers serve in a variety of capacities including box office and ticket handling, front of the house, audio/visual equipment operators, coordinators for receptions, hosts for special Festival guests, and more! Most importantly, VAFF Volunteers have fun meeting industry people and making new friends. Be part of the VAFF team and help support the local Asian Canadian filmmaking community!
More info & to sign up:
http://www.vaff.org/volunteer
UBC Women's Volleyball vs. Zhejiang (China) - Sept 25 - 7pm
When: Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM download
Where: UBC Point Grey Campus
Description: UBC Women's Volleyball vs. Zhejiang (China)
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: War Memorial Gym
Tickets: $10 adult/$4 youth and senior/$2 student
Come out and cheer on the 2007-08 CIS Champions as they take on a visiting team from China in women's volleyball preseason action.
WINNING IS MORE FUN WITH YOU THERE!!!
Don't forget to get your season's pass -- get you into every home game for every sport.
$50 adult/$20 youth/$10 student (Blue Crew)
For more information, including previews, recaps, and a complete season schedule, head to gothunderbirds.ca
Where: UBC Point Grey Campus
Description: UBC Women's Volleyball vs. Zhejiang (China)
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: War Memorial Gym
Tickets: $10 adult/$4 youth and senior/$2 student
Come out and cheer on the 2007-08 CIS Champions as they take on a visiting team from China in women's volleyball preseason action.
WINNING IS MORE FUN WITH YOU THERE!!!
Don't forget to get your season's pass -- get you into every home game for every sport.
$50 adult/$20 youth/$10 student (Blue Crew)
For more information, including previews, recaps, and a complete season schedule, head to gothunderbirds.ca
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
NBC UNIVERSAL OPEN CASTING CALL! - Sept 22 & 23
SEEKING ETHNICALLY DIVERSE & MULTI-CULTURAL ACTORS
Talent representatives from NBC Universal, Los Angeles, will be in Vancouver to meet diverse actors for non-specific roles. Specifically seeking East Indian, African American, First Nation, Asian and Latino actors.
DATES
Monday, September 22nd
&
Tuesday, September 23rd
TIME
10:00am-12:00pm
LOCATION
North Shore Studios
Building 4
555 Brooksbank Avenue
North Vancouver, B.C.
(Studio is located next to Park and Tilford Shopping Center. Plenty of street parking)
* Please bring picture, resume and demo reel (if available)
This open call is designed to add diverse, new faces to our expanding talent pool for film and television (Psych, Battlestar Galactica and Eureka)
For more information on NBC’s Diversity Initiatives go to www.diversecitynbcuni.com
Talent representatives from NBC Universal, Los Angeles, will be in Vancouver to meet diverse actors for non-specific roles. Specifically seeking East Indian, African American, First Nation, Asian and Latino actors.
DATES
Monday, September 22nd
&
Tuesday, September 23rd
TIME
10:00am-12:00pm
LOCATION
North Shore Studios
Building 4
555 Brooksbank Avenue
North Vancouver, B.C.
(Studio is located next to Park and Tilford Shopping Center. Plenty of street parking)
* Please bring picture, resume and demo reel (if available)
This open call is designed to add diverse, new faces to our expanding talent pool for film and television (Psych, Battlestar Galactica and Eureka)
For more information on NBC’s Diversity Initiatives go to www.diversecitynbcuni.com
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Gumboot to China - Sept 5 - 7:30pm
Silk Road Music presents a fascinating performance of Chinese and African dance. Highlife,Gumboot and Step-dancing from the African diaspora, Central Asian music of Xin-Jiang, colorful dance and costumes of hill tribes from Yunnan to the Mongolian plateau. The journey will unite some of Vancouver’s finest artists: Jacky Essombe, a heart warming Cameroonian dancer; Jessica Jone and Cheng xin Wei, a highly creative team redefining Chinese dance; Qiu xia He on Chinese pipa and vocal, Andre Thibault on guitar, oud and winds plus Pepe Danza on world percussion.
Enchanted Evenings Concert Series
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
578 Carrall Street, Vancouver
All concerts begin promptly at 7:30pm. Doors open at 7pm.
Ticket Prices: $18.00 (non Garden members) and $15.00 for members.
Call 604-662-3207 ext 208 for tickets or email assistant@vancouverchinesegarden.com
Silk Road Music
www.silkroadmusic.ca
www.myspace.com/silkroadtocanada
Enchanted Evenings Concert Series
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
578 Carrall Street, Vancouver
All concerts begin promptly at 7:30pm. Doors open at 7pm.
Ticket Prices: $18.00 (non Garden members) and $15.00 for members.
Call 604-662-3207 ext 208 for tickets or email assistant@vancouverchinesegarden.com
Silk Road Music
www.silkroadmusic.ca
www.myspace.com/silkroadtocanada
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Wild Birds - Carvings by Tad Yesaki | Photographs by Roy Hamaguchi - Oct 2 to Dec 24
Nikkei Place, 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC.
This exhibition celebrates wild birds through the works of two Nikkei artists—photographer Roy Hamaguchi and woodcarver Tad Yesaki. A full-colour book about the artists and their art, written by Donna Yoshitake Wuest, featuring photographs by Hamaguchi and the graphic design by Lotus Miyashita, will accompany the exhibition.
Tad Yesaki began, as a youngster in the mid-1940s, carving decoys for duck hunting in Picture Butte, Alberta, where his family relocated during the internment years. As his appreciation for the beauty of birds emerged, Yesaki’s craft of carving decoys evolved to the art of carving decorative birds. He has exhibited his carvings in shows and competitions throughout BC’s Lower Mainland and across Canada and the United States. He’s won numerous prizes, including two firsts at the Canadian National Wildfowl Carving Championship in Kitchener, Ontario in 2008.
Roy Hamaguchi’s interest in photography also began in the mid-1940s at Minto Mine, near Lillooet, where his family had evacuated to during WWII. His adventures in photography have taken him from the Canadian Arctic to the Serengeti in Africa to Asia, yet some of his favourite locations are right here in beautiful British Columbia. Hamaguchi’s photographs have been featured across Canada, including at the 1986 International Ornithological Conference in Ottawa and in a permanent exhibition of his bald eagle photographs at the Brackendale Art Gallery. His photographs have appeared in publications such as Marsh Notes, Canadian Geographic, Equinox, Nature Canada, Time-Life, and Beautiful British Columbia, and on a Canada Post stamp.
Public Programs
The following programs will be held in conjunction with the exhibition. All programs are open to the public, free of charge.
Reception
Thursday, October 9, 7pm
Please RSVP to museum@nikkeiplace.org or 604.777.7000 ext.109.
Speaker Series
Two Cranes, Two Continents
By Roy Hamaguchi
Thursday, November 6, 7pm
Roy Hamaguchi will give a digital presentation on two species of cranes, the Sandhill Crane of North America and the Red-crowned Crane of Asia. As a species, they are the oldest living birds in the world. Come and witness their intimate behaviors as they struggle to raise a family and glimpse at some of their human-like antics.
Carving demonstration
By Richmond Carvers Society
Saturday, November 22, 2-4pm
Come see members of the Richmond Carvers Society demonstrate carving in a variety of styles. The Richmond Carvers Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of woodcarving as a hobby and an art form. Starting in 1988, the Society has grown to become one of the largest in the area with a membership of 60 carving enthusiasts.
Speaker Series
From Dumpsite to Dragonflies
By Patricia Banning-Lover and John Lowman
Saturday, November 29, 2pm
An inspiring story of how Wild Bird Trust - a fledgling conservation organization - turned the former degraded industrial area at Maplewood Flats into the North Shore's first wildlife sanctuary.
Patricia M. Banning-Lover co-founded WBT in 1993, was President for eight years and is now the Trust's CEO. In 1997 she was presented with the federal Certificate of Environmental Citizenship by Environment Canada. Patricia has four grandchildren.
John Lowman took up bird photography in 2001 prompted by a series of encounters with spectacular predators like Osprey and Northern Pygmy-Owl in the Conservation Area at Maplewood Flats. Since that time he has worked in conjunction with Wild Bird Trust of British Columbia to document the wildlife residing in and passing through Maplewood, and create photographic art in the process.
Please join us for this Wild Birds exhibition program at the Japanese Canadian National Museum in Burnaby, from October 2 to December 24, 2008.
Supporters:
British Columbia Waterfowl Society
Patricia M. Banning-Lover
CustomColor Professional Imaging Lab
Ducks Unlimited Canada
George Reifel
Richmond Carvers Society
Wild Birds Trust
National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre
tel 604.777.7000
6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby,
www.jcnm.ca / www.nikkeiplace.org
This exhibition celebrates wild birds through the works of two Nikkei artists—photographer Roy Hamaguchi and woodcarver Tad Yesaki. A full-colour book about the artists and their art, written by Donna Yoshitake Wuest, featuring photographs by Hamaguchi and the graphic design by Lotus Miyashita, will accompany the exhibition.
Tad Yesaki began, as a youngster in the mid-1940s, carving decoys for duck hunting in Picture Butte, Alberta, where his family relocated during the internment years. As his appreciation for the beauty of birds emerged, Yesaki’s craft of carving decoys evolved to the art of carving decorative birds. He has exhibited his carvings in shows and competitions throughout BC’s Lower Mainland and across Canada and the United States. He’s won numerous prizes, including two firsts at the Canadian National Wildfowl Carving Championship in Kitchener, Ontario in 2008.
Roy Hamaguchi’s interest in photography also began in the mid-1940s at Minto Mine, near Lillooet, where his family had evacuated to during WWII. His adventures in photography have taken him from the Canadian Arctic to the Serengeti in Africa to Asia, yet some of his favourite locations are right here in beautiful British Columbia. Hamaguchi’s photographs have been featured across Canada, including at the 1986 International Ornithological Conference in Ottawa and in a permanent exhibition of his bald eagle photographs at the Brackendale Art Gallery. His photographs have appeared in publications such as Marsh Notes, Canadian Geographic, Equinox, Nature Canada, Time-Life, and Beautiful British Columbia, and on a Canada Post stamp.
Public Programs
The following programs will be held in conjunction with the exhibition. All programs are open to the public, free of charge.
Reception
Thursday, October 9, 7pm
Please RSVP to museum@nikkeiplace.org or 604.777.7000 ext.109.
Speaker Series
Two Cranes, Two Continents
By Roy Hamaguchi
Thursday, November 6, 7pm
Roy Hamaguchi will give a digital presentation on two species of cranes, the Sandhill Crane of North America and the Red-crowned Crane of Asia. As a species, they are the oldest living birds in the world. Come and witness their intimate behaviors as they struggle to raise a family and glimpse at some of their human-like antics.
Carving demonstration
By Richmond Carvers Society
Saturday, November 22, 2-4pm
Come see members of the Richmond Carvers Society demonstrate carving in a variety of styles. The Richmond Carvers Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of woodcarving as a hobby and an art form. Starting in 1988, the Society has grown to become one of the largest in the area with a membership of 60 carving enthusiasts.
Speaker Series
From Dumpsite to Dragonflies
By Patricia Banning-Lover and John Lowman
Saturday, November 29, 2pm
An inspiring story of how Wild Bird Trust - a fledgling conservation organization - turned the former degraded industrial area at Maplewood Flats into the North Shore's first wildlife sanctuary.
Patricia M. Banning-Lover co-founded WBT in 1993, was President for eight years and is now the Trust's CEO. In 1997 she was presented with the federal Certificate of Environmental Citizenship by Environment Canada. Patricia has four grandchildren.
John Lowman took up bird photography in 2001 prompted by a series of encounters with spectacular predators like Osprey and Northern Pygmy-Owl in the Conservation Area at Maplewood Flats. Since that time he has worked in conjunction with Wild Bird Trust of British Columbia to document the wildlife residing in and passing through Maplewood, and create photographic art in the process.
Please join us for this Wild Birds exhibition program at the Japanese Canadian National Museum in Burnaby, from October 2 to December 24, 2008.
Supporters:
British Columbia Waterfowl Society
Patricia M. Banning-Lover
CustomColor Professional Imaging Lab
Ducks Unlimited Canada
George Reifel
Richmond Carvers Society
Wild Birds Trust
National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre
tel 604.777.7000
6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby,
www.jcnm.ca / www.nikkeiplace.org
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