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Daryl Cagle's political cartoon website now offers a collection of recent cartoons on the 2008 games. The most consistent view expressed is disdain for China's human rights record and policies. Occasionally cartoonists also jab at businesses in the US and elsewhere who produce goods in China.

http://www.cagle.com/news/ChinaOlympicsnew04/main.asp

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Hi Belinda,

I'm glad you read and enjoyed The Good Earth. Are you ready to charge into the next book in the trilogy? Sons is not as well known, but my wife read and enjoyed it.

Searching the LA City library system is possible at: http://catalog1.lapl.org/.

The county library is at http://catalog.colapl.org. The film version of The Good Earth was listed at several locations (others had damaged or other versions):
Diamond Bar, Walnut, Leland Weaver, Manhattan Beach, Pico Rivera

2 Ventura County Hollywood Video stores have the video for rent (275 W Los Angeles Ave
Moorpark, CA 93021-1870; (805) 529-0416; 5197 E Los Angeles Ave, Simi Valley, CA 93063-3483, (805) 582-2936).

Good luck! I'm anxious to hear what you think of the film. [Edit by="Clay Dube on Aug 29, 4:43:48 PM"][/Edit]

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Keep the photos coming! Adding the story behind the shot makes them all the more interesting. The gorge is spectacular.

Any shots of dorm/campus life to share? Any more shots from the field trips? Anything from the stock exchange, etc.?

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Hi Clay and everyone,

Please post your photos (or links to your online albums) in the photo competition thread, not the news thread, etc. Clay's got some great shots. Check them out.

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Footbinding -- when it started and what it represented is much discussed. Its existence in China's past is one of the most commonly held bits of information many Americans have about China. It was widespread (but was not uniformly practiced) and it lasted centuries. How are we to understand what function footbinding played and how it was understood?

Drawing on new evidence and approaching previously considered materials in new ways, some scholars are arguing that the commonly held view (footbinding was oppressive and was imposed upon women through a cruel social structure and cultural norms) needs rethinking.

Here are some online and print resources teachers may find useful.

Dorothy Ko, "The Body as Attire: The Shifting Meanings of Footbinding in Seventeenth-Century China," Journal of Women's History 8.4.
http://iupjournals.org/jwh/jwh8-4.html

Ko, Ch. 2 from Every Step a Lotus
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9687/9687.ch2.pdf

Beverley Jackson, Splendid Slippers. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1997.

Howard S. Levy, The Lotus Lovers: The Complete History of the Curious Erotic Custom of Footbinding in China. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1992.

And a novel:
Feng Jicai, Three-Inch Golden Lotus. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

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The David Glenn article on the Bare Branches book is available at:

http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i34/34a01401.htm

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Brandon's referring to the former chess champion's detention in Japan. His request for asylum has been rejected and he has been ordered deported. While only tangentially an Asia-subject (US-Japan relations), you may be interested in the latest on this:
Google News results for Bobby Fisher + Japan

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Melody's referring to the interview available at:

http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=12287

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Hikaru mentioned that his original photos were quite large and clogged the system. He and others may want to reduce their photos to 800x600 or 1024x768. They'll fill the screen, but won't be so big that they take forever to open.

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These are terrific photos. Please do keep them coming. When scanning, however, please be sure to just scan the photo. I've cropped Karen's beautiful "colors" photo and attached it to this post. It should be a bit faster to open.

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Kathleen is referring to "Vietnamese Artist Tran Trong Vu -- Torn Between Two Worlds." It is available at:
http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=8550

Another article that those interested in art in contemporary Vietnam is at: http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=7568 Pham Thi Hoài, an influential writer, discusses literature and writing in Vietnam.

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Footbinding -- when it started and what it represented is much discussed. As we noted day one in our images of China presentation, its existence in China's past is one of the most commonly held bits of information many Americans have about China. It was widespread (but was not uniformly practiced) and it lasted centuries.

Some good resources:

Dorothy Ko, "The Body as Attire: The Shifting Meanings of Footbinding in Seventeenth-Century China," Journal of Women's History 8.4.
http://iupjournals.org/jwh/jwh8-4.html

Ko, Ch. 2 from Every Step a Lotus
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9687/9687.ch2.pdf

Beverley Jackson, Splendid Slippers. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1997.

Howard S. Levy, The Lotus Lovers: The Complete History of the Curious Erotic Custom of Footbinding in China. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1992.

And a novel:
Feng Jicai, Three-Inch Golden Lotus. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

I have attached a recent LA Times article on the current plastic surgery craze.

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A .pdf version of the evaluation is attached. You can open it, print it out, and complete it by hand. The .rtf and .doc versions can be completed on the computer and returned to us as email attachments.

Many thanks for your help with these evaluations.

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Here's the evaluation form in Word (.doc) format. Please mail it or send it as an email attachment to us at:

UCLA Asia Institute
11288 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487

[email protected]

This information is also on the first page of the evaluation.

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Among the most interesting places we visited was the Tibetan community of Xianggelila. A couple of us were able to spend time with monks at the monastery. For me it was one of the most exciting moments of the journey. Our conversation focused on everyday concerns: food, prices, daily routines, family, and the like. I didn't broach political topics, though the monk's friend grew quite attentive when I mentioned that the Dalai Lama visited Berea College where I taught in the 1990s. I also told him that we had Tibetan students there (from the exile community in Northern India) and that one had taken my course in modern Chinese history.

I've attached an article from today's Christian Science Monitor. Robert Marquand discusses the views of a young Tibetan monk he met recently.

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