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http://international.ucla.edu/asia/news/02pewpolla.asp

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Hi Jan --

Corel has produced many cds with royalty-free images you can use for web sites and classroom projects. These are now offered by a number of dealers at greatly varying prices. An internet search will turn these up (use corel china photo or a similar search string). I've just done so and noted prices ranging from $10-$30 for a single disk. A friend has purchased about 30 of these disks via eBay at about $7/disk. She draws upon them in illustrating presentations.

Curious about seeing thumbnail versions of the images on these disks? Check out this Berkeley resource:

http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/corel/

Choosing one of the disks (e.g., "Exotic Hong Kong") and hitting search will produce several pages showing the images contained on the disk.

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Dear Jan,

Attachments are indicated by a small icon (a clamp holding a file). Beside the icon is the file name and size and an indication of how many times the file has been downloaded. Clicking on the icon should begin the download. PC users will be asked if they want to open the file or save it to disk. The files in this section have all been in text format.

If you can't see the icon, it is possible that your browser (or your version of it) is incompatible with the forum. It might be a good idea to try a different one (e.g., Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox are all compatible).

Good luck.

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Geny raises many difficult questions. The US has had relatively few allies in its Iraqi campaign. The kidnapping of Filipinos caused the Philippines government to withdraw its soldiers from Iraq. The Philippines is an important ally in the war on terror and the current host of many US anti-terrorist special forces on the island of Mindano.

CNN article: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/20/iraq.philippines/

Earlier, several Japanese hostages were taken. After their release, the Japanese government criticized the hostages and their families, with some officials going so far as to suggest the hostages were willing collaborators in an effort to force Japanese soldiers and others from Iraq.

CNN article on the release: http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/15/iraq.hostages.japan/

A Catholic source, AsiaNews.it has a follow-up story: http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=737

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Some may be interested in the Stanley Kwan film Lan Yu. Kwan is a Hong Kong director who adapted the film from an internet novella. Lan Yu is the name of a young fellow who captures the interest of a successful businessman.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0292066/

Kwan presented the film at UCLA some time ago. He reported that he had no trouble at all when he put out the Beijing casting call. The businessman is played by a well-known film and television actor.

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In general, close same sex friendships are common in most of Asia and it's far more common to see friends holding hands or walking arm in arm. These friends are not assumed to be gay. There is prejudice against homosexuality and in some places it is illegal.

In China, homosexuality was only recently removed from the list of symptoms of mental illness. Tolerance is slowly increasing. But few individuals or organizations have emerged and attempted to assert a distinct gay identity.

In Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, the former vice-premier who had the temerity to challenge his boss was jailed and charged with sodomy and corruption. Malaysia is a predominately Muslim nation. Take a look at this Time interview from 2000. It's entitled "Homosexuality is a crime worse than murder."
http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/interviews/2000/09/26/int.malay.gay2.html

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http://international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=10674

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OK, maybe it's too early for serious reflection on our adventures. Perhaps, though, you'd like to share which of your acquisitions has thus far brought the biggest smiles and which you're happiest about hauling all the way home.

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Dear Catherine (and everyone else),
I'm glad EAA has finally started to reach you folks. Let's take the discussion of using it to the "Asia in My Classroom" forum as I think it will be of general interest.

EAA was nearly killed off by the Association for Asian Studies board. Those of us focused on the classroom saved it by making subscriptions voluntary and by a letter-writing campaign. I often wish the articles were more substantive and the magazine has been slow to embrace the web, but I know all of the editors well and know how they struggle to deliver the best possible product.

http://www.aasianst.org/eaa-toc.htm
Lucien Ellington, the editor, will appreciate whatever feedback you may wish to offer. He's a fascinating fellow, a Mississippian who teaches in Tennessee (but lives across the border in Georgia), wrote a textbook on Japan, plays a mean harmonica, and is passionate about supporting teachers. His email address is:

mailto:[email protected]

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Dean's right -- it is stunning to see this sad history repeated. This is a topic that you might want to take up in the "Asia On My Mind" public forum. Here are a couple of recent articles that you may find interesting.

Business Week, 7/19/04 column on China's efforts to catch up
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jul2004/nf20040719_5639_db010.htm

Time 7/19/04
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501031215-557111,00.html

BBC 7/12/04
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3886783.stm (a good review of the "head in the sand" problem)

To see how China ramps up once the CCP orders it, look at this article from the official Chinese news agency:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-07/21/content_1621986.htm

One of the heroes of the effort to recognize and fight the problem is Gao Yaojie. Here's Dr. Gao's account of her own experience.
http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/sandt/gaoyaojie--aidsprevention.html

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John Lui, writing for CNET Asia in Dec. 2003, argued that one of the biggest stories in 2003 was that China and India displayed considerable tech strength and used it.

His essay lists the critical tech stories month by month:
http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/specialreports/0,39001151,39161784,00.htm

Among the stories that Lui notes is Fortune's identification of Asia's most powerful woman: Mary Ma, CFO of Legend, Chinese computer maker.

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While actual family structure and practice varied over time and place, the "traditional" Confucian family, throughout East Asia, was generally a two or three generation one. Because of the internal and external pressures to divide family property, few families achieved the ideal of five generations living under one roof.

It was stratified according to
- generation
- gender
- age

Only one of the five Confucian relationships has an element of equality about it:
ruler - subject
father - son
husband -wife
elder brother - younger brother
friend - friend

Family rituals, including practices exhalting/recognizing ancestors reinforced this structure (i.e., supporting the authority of the eldest male member of the senior generation).

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Today we sought to look concretely at three family practices that have shaped Asia's past, present, and future. We did not get to the second and third of these. They are

a. How Japanese families decided in the 18th century to control the number of children they had, when they had children, and the gender of their children. This reveals important cultural principles and had a dramatic impact on Japan's economic development.

b. How many Indian, Korean, and Chinese families are electing to not raise female children and are holding out for male children. This reveals a long-standing gender bias and the central position of the family in people's thinking. This practice has already distorted the composition of these societies and is bound to have dramatic consequences as this generation reaches adulthood. Some speculate that world security may be jeopardized if present trends continue.

Our discussion of these two cases was going to be brief no matter what, but I will go over them in short order Monday afternoon. The cases to be made are clear and simple, but the impact of the practices was and is dramatic and long-lasting.

We did cover the first case -- how fenjia (family division, partible inheritance), a practice initiated by a prime minister 24 centuries ago as a means of negating the potential threat posed by the economic elite, was eventually adopted by almost everyone in China. This practice, though humane in the sense of permitting nearly all people to marry (note the contrast with some places in Europe and Asia), did much to produce:
- a large population (because of universal and early marriage), occupying a restricted land area
- fragmented plots (because of the need to divide land of differing qualities evenly among sons)
- intense and amazingly productive agricultural practices
- a diverse rural economy as peasant households struggled to find sideline occupations to generate income to supplement their meager income from the dwindling land
- an economic situation that was not favorable to investing in new technologies or production methods since the amount of land one might apply them to was limited and because labor costs in manufacturing were so low

The practice of primogeniture was the rule prior to the sharp bureaucrat's (Shang Yang, ca. 350 bce) move. His threat of double taxation for families that did not divide their property when a second son married, caused elite families to divide their holdings. Later states did not need this law. The practice was emulated by others and became the norm. State action changed family custom. The new custom changed China's physical, economic, and demographic landscape for centuries.[Edit by="Clay Dube on Jul 31, 5:30:19 PM"][/Edit]

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The complete 2004 Human Development Report, including articles and statistics, can be downloaded at:

http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2004/pdf/hdr04_complete.pdf

Individual chapters can be downloaded at:

http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2004/

Data from the report can be displayed in a number of ways. Students can build their own tables for comparison:

http://hdr.undp.org/statistics/data/

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The complete 2004 Human Development Report, including articles and statistics, can be downloaded at:

http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2004/pdf/hdr04_complete.pdf

Individual chapters can be downloaded at:

http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2004/

Data from the report can be displayed in a number of ways. Students can build their own tables for comparison:

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The attached section of Malthus's Essay focuses on India and Tibet.

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