Wednesday Lunches

Every Wednesday at noon, from the second through the ninth week of the quarter, China-interested graduate students, faculty, and visitors gather in Bunche 11377 for a talk, discussion, and pizza lunch hosted by the Center.

Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Reexamining the Authenticity of Song Paper Money Specimens

Presentation by Richard von Glahn
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Environmental Degradation and State Legitimacy: Explaining Deforestation in Northwest Yunnan Province

Presentation by Justin Zackey
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk: ' People' vs. Antonioni: Reexamining China's Anti-propaganda in China

Presentation by Wang Yiman
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- The Relationship between the State and Farmers in Contemporary China

Presentation by Li Chenggui
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Collaborting in Conducting HIV/AIDS Research in China

Presentation by Sheng Wu
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Behavioral Response to China's 2002-03 SARS Epidemic

Presentation by William Mason (Professor of Sociology, UCLA)
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- From Enmity to Rapprochement: Grand Strategy, Power Politics, and U.S.-China Relations, 1961-1974

Presentation by Dong Wang
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Learning to Write in Anyang: The Beginnings of Chinese Literacy

Presentation by Adam Smith
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Alternative Discourses on Globalization in India & China

A presentation by Manoranjan Mohanty
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Performance of Managerial Human Capital: Evidence from Chinese Firms

A presentation by Kong Xiaowei, Visiting Research Associate
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- 'The Compassionate Trade' between Europe and China

A presentation by Eric Hayot, International Institute Global Fellow
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- China's Rural Tax Reforms: A Preliminary Assessment

A presentation by Hiroki Takeuchi, graduate student in Political Science
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Survey of Studies on Chinese Broadcasting Language

A presentation by Zhao Xue, visiting scholar with the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Chinese Death Practices in the Funeral Reform Era

A presentation by Jonathan Jackson, doctoral student in anthropology
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- The Advent of the Modern as Business Venture: The Case of the Commercial Press

A talk by Professor Theodore Huters, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- The Difference a Legislature Makes: Why Air Pollution Regulations Vary in China & Taiwan

A presentation by Eric Zusman
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- China's Economic Growth: Source of Disorder?

A presentation by Robert S. Wang, Diplomat-in-Residence
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- 'Thinking Hearts, Feeling Brains: Metaphor, Culture, and the Self in Chinese Narratives of Depression'

A presentation by Sonya Pritzker
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- A Sinicized Enlightenment Education for the New Republic: Cai Yuanpei in 1912

A presentation by Chaohua Wang
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk -- Transnational Polygamy: Law, Marriage, & Fujianese Migration Early in the 20th Century

A presentation by Huey Bin Teng, doctoral candidate in history
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk-- 'Salaam Chairman Mao!': Music & Politics in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

A presentation by Chuen-Fung Wong, graduate student in ethnomusicology
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Wednesday Lunch Talk--Prototypes in Chinese Speakers' Acquisition of English Tense-aspect Morphology

A presentation by Ming Tao, UCLA doctoral student in the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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