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Hi Folks --
Let Xin or I know if you're having any trouble getting access to or posting to the forum: [email protected] or 213-740-1307

Check out back issues of our institute newsletter: http://china.usc.edu/Resources60.aspx

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Hi Folks --
Let Xin or I know if you're having any trouble getting access to or posting to the forum: [email protected] or 213-740-1307

Check out back issues of our institute newsletter: http://china.usc.edu/Resources60.aspx

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Here's an Asia Pacific Arts review of Old Boy: http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=22030.
For current APA articles (including reviews of new films from Asia), go to http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu .

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Great question about aging. Yes - this will pose challenges, primarily because there's a difference in worrying about children never to be born (because of social / economic trends already at work reducing family size) and worrying about caring for people who are already here (and who have rising expectations on living standards). China will have 300 million over age 65 by 2030. Because of the family planning program, most families consist of a single child who will need to care for two parents and four grandparents:

kid
mother father
maternal grandmother maternal grandfather paternal grandmother paternal grandfather

China's government recently enacted legislation making kids responsible for grandparents. They were already legally responsible for parents.

On the other hand, some also worry about the distortions in boy/girl births. They worry that the surplus of men in China and Japan could lead governments to control them by expanding armies. Once armies are large and available, these scholars worry, governments will send them to war. I'm less fearful of this scenario.

One of my friends, who teaches at Stanford, thinks that polyandry might be a possible solution to this problem.

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Great question about aging. Yes - this will pose challenges, primarily because there's a difference in worrying about children never to be born (because of social / economic trends already at work reducing family size) and worrying about caring for people who are already here (and who have rising expectations on living standards). China will have 300 million over age 65 by 2030. Because of the family planning program, most families consist of a single child who will need to care for two parents and four grandparents:

kid
mother father
maternal grandmother maternal grandfather paternal grandmother paternal grandfather

China's government recently enacted legislation making kids responsible for grandparents. They were already legally responsible for parents.

On the other hand, some also worry about the distortions in boy/girl births. They worry that the surplus of men in China and Japan could lead governments to control them by expanding armies. Once armies are large and available, these scholars worry, governments will send them to war. I'm less fearful of this scenario.

One of my friends, who teaches at Stanford, thinks that polyandry might be a possible solution to this problem.

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Hi Diann and others,
Thanks for the comment - please latch on to something and explore it in a couple of sentences. You might focus on a particular topic (household spending and what it suggests about society/culture) or speculate on some ways that you could help students by providing context for events in the news (e.g., China's first female astronaut, about what is required to send someone to space and why some societies choose to do so). What made something puzzling or interesting? Any materials, ideas, or methods that came up that may be of use?

News and filters:
about the just returned astronaut
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0629/After-13-days-in-orbit-China-s-first-female-astronaut-returns-to-Earth-video

criticism of possibly doctored photo (by Chinese netizens)
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1101&MainCatID=11&id=20120619000071

first astronaut photos required clean up
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/world/asia/04china.html

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Hi Diann and others,
Thanks for the comment - please latch on to something and explore it in a couple of sentences. You might focus on a particular topic (household spending and what it suggests about society/culture) or speculate on some ways that you could help students by providing context for events in the news (e.g., China's first female astronaut, about what is required to send someone to space and why some societies choose to do so). What made something puzzling or interesting? Any materials, ideas, or methods that came up that may be of use?

News and filters:
about the just returned astronaut
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0629/After-13-days-in-orbit-China-s-first-female-astronaut-returns-to-Earth-video

criticism of possibly doctored photo (by Chinese netizens)
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1101&MainCatID=11&id=20120619000071

first astronaut photos required clean up
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/world/asia/04china.html

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Hi Steve and Mary,
Thanks for these great photos -- hard to match our headress wearing peace/victory signaling girl for joy and fun.

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Hi Monica,
Please expand your discussion of the water issues mentioned. What is China doing to address its general shortage and its acute shortages in some places? How might this affect ordinary people? Water control has long been an important preoccupation of Chinese governments and elites. Here's an article about water control in the Qing dynasties. It was written by a student.

Each year, China marks the contribution of early water control at the Sichuan province Dujiangyan: http://www.cctv.com/lm/176/71/88862.html.

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Hi Monica,
Please expand your discussion of the water issues mentioned. What is China doing to address its general shortage and its acute shortages in some places? How might this affect ordinary people? Water control has long been an important preoccupation of Chinese governments and elites. Here's an article about water control in the Qing dynasties. It was written by a student.

Each year, China marks the contribution of early water control at the Sichuan province Dujiangyan: http://www.cctv.com/lm/176/71/88862.html.

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Gabrielle mentioned the observation about Roh's 2002 campaign and cell phones. Here's an article about this from the Korea Times. Note that this was also a period when Korea did well in the World Cup it co-hosted with Japan in 2002.

Korea TimesDecember 23, 2002, Monday
Roh's Young Army Used Internet to Win

It appears that Internet savvy 20- and 30-year-olds contributed the most to president-elect Roh Moo-hyun's victory last week, say observers.Armed with the Internet and cell phones, an army of young voters fighting for political change have demonstrated their striking power by defeating the old guard, represented by Grand National Party leader Lee Hoi-chang.
They made their power move Wednesday night when Chung Mong-joon, leader of National Alliance 21, suddenly withdrew his support for Roh some seven hours before polls ended.
Roh and Chung had agreed that Roh would be the single unified candidate for their two reformist parties based on public surveys. Chung pledged to work for Roh's victory.The merger immediately boosted Roh's public approval rating as he overtook the longtime frontrunner Lee, then Chung abandoned his shocked ally. Roh and his chief aides went to Chung's home to implore him to reconsider _ they failed.
The news shocked, angered then galvanized Roh's young supporters. Fearful that Lee might win, they regrouped and scrambled to save their embattled leader.
Believing that Roh could win if all his partisans voted, they mobilized their peers by either e-mail or cell phone. Earlier pollsters had predicted that low voter turnout would favor Lee because young voters usually avoid the polls.
Within a few minutes, divisions worth of young voters logged on to such sites as naver (http://www.naver.com) and nosamo (http://www.nosamo.org) to push each other to fight until the last battle. Nosamo is a Roh fan club.
''Let's us pick up the phone and make a call to encourage others to vote,'' a Roh supporter posted on the Nosamo homepage. ''Let's us make Roh president through our power.'' The naver site recorded a stunning 3 million hits from around 11: 30 p.m. to about 3:00 a.m. on election day, some five to six times more than average.
When the deciding clash came on election day, voters in their 20s and 30s accounted for almost half of the nation's 34.9 million voters. Exit polls of broadcasting companies said that about 60 percent of the young lined up for Roh.
The Roh army was a high-tech force: it smartly saw the sharp increase in high-speed Internet access in Korea. In 2002, the number of households with broadband Internet access surpassed 10 million, far beyond the 14.000 residents five years ago.
''The winner of this election is the Internet and those in their 20s and 30s,'' said a political commentator.
The latent political power of the young was foreshadowed by the burst of unity and the can-do spirit they showed during the World Cup finals as hundreds of thousands took to the streets to shout ''TaeHan-min-kook" Republic of Korea) and ''Oh-Pil Sung Korea" (Korea's victory). Also, tens of thousands have carried candles at vigils for two schoolgirls killed in a road accident by two U.S. soldiers.
Observers and the young both say they now see themselves as a force for change _ both Roh and Lee must agree.

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Gabrielle mentioned the observation about Roh's 2002 campaign and cell phones. Here's an article about this from the Korea Times. Note that this was also a period when Korea did well in the World Cup it co-hosted with Japan in 2002.

Korea TimesDecember 23, 2002, Monday
Roh's Young Army Used Internet to Win

It appears that Internet savvy 20- and 30-year-olds contributed the most to president-elect Roh Moo-hyun's victory last week, say observers.Armed with the Internet and cell phones, an army of young voters fighting for political change have demonstrated their striking power by defeating the old guard, represented by Grand National Party leader Lee Hoi-chang.
They made their power move Wednesday night when Chung Mong-joon, leader of National Alliance 21, suddenly withdrew his support for Roh some seven hours before polls ended.
Roh and Chung had agreed that Roh would be the single unified candidate for their two reformist parties based on public surveys. Chung pledged to work for Roh's victory.The merger immediately boosted Roh's public approval rating as he overtook the longtime frontrunner Lee, then Chung abandoned his shocked ally. Roh and his chief aides went to Chung's home to implore him to reconsider _ they failed.
The news shocked, angered then galvanized Roh's young supporters. Fearful that Lee might win, they regrouped and scrambled to save their embattled leader.
Believing that Roh could win if all his partisans voted, they mobilized their peers by either e-mail or cell phone. Earlier pollsters had predicted that low voter turnout would favor Lee because young voters usually avoid the polls.
Within a few minutes, divisions worth of young voters logged on to such sites as naver (http://www.naver.com) and nosamo (http://www.nosamo.org) to push each other to fight until the last battle. Nosamo is a Roh fan club.
''Let's us pick up the phone and make a call to encourage others to vote,'' a Roh supporter posted on the Nosamo homepage. ''Let's us make Roh president through our power.'' The naver site recorded a stunning 3 million hits from around 11: 30 p.m. to about 3:00 a.m. on election day, some five to six times more than average.
When the deciding clash came on election day, voters in their 20s and 30s accounted for almost half of the nation's 34.9 million voters. Exit polls of broadcasting companies said that about 60 percent of the young lined up for Roh.
The Roh army was a high-tech force: it smartly saw the sharp increase in high-speed Internet access in Korea. In 2002, the number of households with broadband Internet access surpassed 10 million, far beyond the 14.000 residents five years ago.
''The winner of this election is the Internet and those in their 20s and 30s,'' said a political commentator.
The latent political power of the young was foreshadowed by the burst of unity and the can-do spirit they showed during the World Cup finals as hundreds of thousands took to the streets to shout ''TaeHan-min-kook" Republic of Korea) and ''Oh-Pil Sung Korea" (Korea's victory). Also, tens of thousands have carried candles at vigils for two schoolgirls killed in a road accident by two U.S. soldiers.
Observers and the young both say they now see themselves as a force for change _ both Roh and Lee must agree.

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A former colleague, Michael Salman, at UCLA, wrote on slavery in the PI: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520240711. I've also attached a subsequent article he published on the debate 1912-14 on slavery in the PI. I've also included a review of the Salman book. Salman notes that the American authorities tolerated slavery in the PI, partly because it was not race-based. The authorities, however, would not enforce slavery and, as a result, slaves learned that running away had fewer risks than had previously been the case.

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A former colleague, Michael Salman, at UCLA, wrote on slavery in the PI: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520240711. I've also attached a subsequent article he published on the debate 1912-14 on slavery in the PI. I've also included a review of the Salman book. Salman notes that the American authorities tolerated slavery in the PI, partly because it was not race-based. The authorities, however, would not enforce slavery and, as a result, slaves learned that running away had fewer risks than had previously been the case.

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Hi Sabro,
Thanks for digging up the info on Colton and Slover. Here's a company with manufacturing operations in Colton and in Shenzhen, China.

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