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Attached, in pdf format, are the presentation outlines for the 2006 workshop. The document includes lists (and in some cases links to websites) of recommended resources.

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Jack's right about the film festival, and those getting the Asia in SoCal weekly calendar newsletter know about it. This week's films are listed at http://international.ucla.edu/asia/events.asp?action=weekview

To add yourself to the Asia in SoCal mailing list, please go to http://www.asia.ucla.edu/events.asp and fill in the boxes. The newsletter goes out every Thursday.

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Hi -- Yes -- you'll be studying at East China Normal.

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Since you are reading this, you probably have already figured out how to use the forum, but if you'd like a guide, one is attached. Please click on the icon below to download this pdf document.

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Hi Folks,
If you haven't already done so, please download the attached evaluation form, add your comments, and email it back to me. Thank you!

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If you have not already done so, please download the orientation evaluation below, offer your comments, and send it to me (mailto:[email protected]) as soon as you can. Thanks!

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Hi Folks,
The Shanghai Global Institute orientation will be held Wednesday, May 17 from 5 to 6 pm in 10383 Bunche Hall. Prof. Ted Huters visited ECNU recently and will discuss both the courses and the facilities.

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Our host institution in Shanghai is East China Normal University (华东师范大学 -- Huadong shifan daxue).

Chinese website: http://www.ecnu.cn/

English website: http://www.ecnu.edu.cn/2005english/English.htm

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Prof. Huters's syllabus for the research seminar is attached. Some of the readings are available online. Please click on the icon below to open the pdf.[Edit by="Clay Dube on May 25, 12:53:56 PM"][/Edit]

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Prof. Huters has prepared the attached syllabus for the course. In some cases the readings are available online. You may wish to take an early look at some of them.

To open the syllabus, please click on the icon (a vise holding a file) below. The syllabus is in pdf format.

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BusinessWeek columnist Frederik Balfour recently visited the spring trade fair at Guangzhou (Canton). He says that perhaps 25% of China's exports can be traced to the trade fair.

Here's his take on what's for sale:
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/apr2006/gb20060427_227718.htm

Here's the trade fair website:
http://www.cantonfair.org.cn/en/index.asp

Here's the website of a company looking to help individuals who want to do business at the fair:
http://www.cbw.com/business/exhib/cantonfair/

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Distinguished Harvard political scientist Roderick MacFarquhar has written several volumes on the origins of the cultural revolution. He spoke on Oct. 20, 2005 at Berkeley on what remains of Mao's revolution in today's China. His presentation can be seen at the UCTV website:

http://webcast.ucsd.edu:8080/ramgen/UCSD_TV/11239.rm

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Hi Folks,
To make it a bit easier on readers, please put feature film posts in the "film festival" thread.

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Peter Hessler is a graceful writer and one of the sharpest observers of contemporary China. I enthusiastically recommend his River Town on teaching in Sichuan and Jonathan Spence endorses his new book Oracle Bones. I've attached Spence's review. If you'd like to read either of these works and write a review from the perspective of a teacher, please do. We'd love to see your observations in the Asia in My Classroom forum.

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KFC is more popular in many places in China than McDonalds, but McDonalds is big enough. Read more about how Ronald McDonald and the crew moved into East Asia in Golden Arches East available in a second edition from Stanford University Press (the first ed is probably available cheap via net sources. My friend and colleage, Yunxiang Yan, is the author of the China section.

http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=%203207

I have attached an H-Asia review of the work.

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