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Time: 1:30 - 6:00 p.m. Location: IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor, Berkeley Panel format: 10-minute presentations by participants, followed by 15 minutes of panel discussion, then audience Q&A. RSVP: Your online rsvp is not required for this free event, but would be greatly appreciated: RSVP onlineProgramWelcome- Wen-hsin Yeh
Director, Institute of East Asian Studies
A History of Misunderstanding. Overview
From my very first visit to China in 1984, I found myself wrestling with a subtle exercise in translation, not so much between English and Chinese, as between Right and Left. It has been all too easy these days, perhaps, for us to overlook, when interacting with our friends in China, that there is a government and a history under the Chinese Communist Party that operates with assumptions different from Western liberal democracies and yet is proud of what it has accomplished while determined to carry on. My talk will focus on the "cognitive dissonance" that I've experienced and observed in my decades of interaction with China—all the while searching unfailingly for bettering understanding. Wen-hsin Yeh (UC Berkeley) is the Richard H. and Laurie C. Morrison Professor of History. A leading authority on 20th-century Chinese history, she is author or editor of 11 books and numerous articles examining aspects of republican history, Chinese modernity, the origins of communism, and related subjects. Her books include the Berkeley Prize-winning Provincial Passages: Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism (University of California Press, 1996) and The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China, 1919-1937 (Harvard University, 1990). Her most recent publication, Shanghai Splendor (University of California Press, 2007) is an urban history of Shanghai that considers the nature of Chinese capitalism and middle-class society in a century of contestation between colonial power and nationalistic mobilization.
Kerry Tremain
Editor, California magazine Kerry Tremain is the editor of California, which has won numerous national honors, including 2007 Best Association Magazine in the U.S. from Folio. He has held senior creative positions at several publications, including Mother Jones, Parenting, InfoWorld, and Medical Self Care. He is a three-time National Magazine Award finalist, most recently for an investigative report on the Presidio Trust written for San Francisco, which resulted in significant reforms in the park. He is also the founder of the International Fund for Documentary Photography, a curator of photo exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad, and co-author of Witness in Our Time, Smithsonian's bestselling book of 2001. He served as a Senior Fellow for Healthcare Policy for the Progressive Policy Institute, and as Research Fellow for Civic Ventures.
Susan Hoffman
Executive Director, Osher Lifelong Learning Center
Place: China and the Natural Environment 1:50 pm- Chair:
- Thomas Gold
Director, Berkeley China InitiativeThomas B. Gold (UC Berkeley) is Associate Dean of International and Area Studies, Director of the Berkeley China Initiative, and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his B.A. from Oberlin College and M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He studies many aspects of the rapidly changing societies of mainland China and Taiwan.
- Panelists:
- Robert Collier
California magazine, Goldman School
The case for centralized environmental regulation. OverviewUnderstanding why China has become the world's #1 source of greenhouse gas emissions is not only a crucial policy challenge for all nations, but is the key to understanding why climate change is accelerating so fast. China's anarchic, uber-capitalist economic explosion has become so uncontrollable, so far beyond the grasp of the Communist government, that the international community's primary task in setting an agenda for fighting global warming may simply be to help central government officials in Beijing regain control of the nation's economy. Robert Collier (UC Berkeley and California magazine) is a visiting scholar at the Center for Environmental Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy. He is writing a book on China's role in global warming, to be published in early 2009 by University of California Press. Before taking his position at Berkeley in August 2007, he was a foreign-affairs staff reporter for 16 years for the San Francisco Chronicle, specializing most recently on global energy trends and climate change. For 2006, he was awarded the National Press Foundation's annual Thomas Stokes Award for best energy coverage—the primary U.S. journalism award for energy reporting. For 2003, the Society of Professional Journalists awarded him its Sigma Delta Chi annual award for foreign coverage for his independent, non-embedded reporting based in Baghdad before, during, and after the U.S.-led invasion.
Nan Zhou
China Energy Group, LBNL
Strategies for low-carbon development. Overview
Between 1980 and 2000 energy use/GDP declined in China due to strong energy efficiency policies; however, during China's transition to a market-based economy in the 1990s, many of the country's energy efficiency programs were dismantled and between 2002 and 2005 China's energy use increased significantly, growing faster than GDP. Continuation of this trend in increased energy consumption relative to GDP growth—given China's stated goal of again quadrupling GDP between 2000 and 2020—will lead to significant demand for energy, most of which is coal-based. In 2005, realizing the significance of this situation, the Chinese government announced an ambitious goal of reducing energy consumption per unit of GDP by 20% between 2005 and 2010. One of the key initiatives for realizing this goal is the Top-1000 Energy-Consuming Enterprises program. This presentation intends to review the historic trend and current status of energy consumption in China, describe the Top-1000 program in detail, and provide analysis on whether China can achieve its goal.
Nan Zhou (LBNL) is a Staff Research Associate in the China Energy Group of the Energy Analysis Department, Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Zhou has an architecture degree from Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, a master's degree in Architecture from Kyushu University in Japan, and a Ph.D. in Engineering from Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan. Prior to LBNL, she worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture, Kyushu Sangyo University, and Department of Environment Engineering, University of Kitakyushu, Japan. Dr. Zhou has worked with many organizations, research institutes, and government agencies in China, Japan, and the United States to characterize end-use energy technologies and analyze energy demand trends and energy efficiency policies in the world. Her current research is intended to build China's capacity to evaluate, adopt, and implement low-carbon development strategies.
Chi-Yuen Wang
Earth & Planetary Science, Berkeley
Water scarcity and the South-North Water Transfer Project. OverviewWith the unprecedented pace and scale of socioeconomic growth in China, adjustment problems to water scarcity on the Northern China Plain are greatly exacerbated. The South-to-North Water Transfer Project aims at alleviating some of these problems and, if completed, will deliver 40–50 cubic kilometers of water from the Yangtze drainage basin to the highly water-stressed North China plain. Construction of the central route was kicked off in 2005 and is scheduled to begin flowing to Beijing this summer before the upcoming Olympic Games. The western route, on the other hand, is still under debate. In this talk I will discuss, from a geologic and environmental point of view, some problems with the construction of this route. Chi-yuen Wang (UC Berkeley) is a Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. He received his B.S. in Geology in 1958 from Taiwan National University and his Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Harvard in 1964. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1967. During the last 20 years he has been researching and teaching aspects of hydrogeology, including the migration of fluids in sedimentary basins and the interaction of water with earthquakes. More recently he became interested in China's water resources and traveled extensively in China's Northwest to study water resources in the region.
Kristen McDonald
China Rivers Project
Beyond the Three Gorges: China's River Conservation Challenges. Overview
China has the most number of dams of any country in the world, and many
of its rivers are polluted to the point of being unsafe for human contact. 2008 summer Olympics host Beijing relies on ground water supplies that subside by meters every year. What are the governance challenges to effective freshwater management in China? Dr. McDonald presents finding from field research in Yunnan Province, and the work of China Rivers Project, an organization she founded to promote river conservation for people and wildlife in China. Kristen McDonald is the Director of the China Rivers Project. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Environmental Science, Policy and Management, researching rivers and river conservation in China. Prior to graduate school, she directed the Wild and Scenic Rivers program for the U.S. river conservation organization, American Rivers.
Space: China and the Built Environment 3:10 pm- Chair:
- Harrison Fraker
Dean, College of Environmental Design, Berkeley
Harrison Fraker (UC Berkeley) is Dean of the College of Environmental Design. He is recognized as a pioneer in passive solar, daylighting, and sustainable design research and teaching. He has pursued a career bridging innovative architecture and urban design education with an award-winning practice. Dean Fraker has published seminal articles on the design potential of sustainable systems and urban design principles for transit-oriented neighborhoods. He is currently pursuing his beliefs through a whole systems design approach for entirely resource-self-sufficient, transit-oriented neighborhoods of 100,000 people in China.
- Panelists:
- Harrison Fraker
Neighborhood models for sustainable development. Overview
The Qingdao Sustainable Neighborhood Project (QSNP) is an alternative to the problems faced by China's typical "gated super block" development model. The Qingdao EcoBlock uses an integrated whole-systems approach to generate all its energy from on-site renewables, to recycle all of its water and to recycle over 80% of its waste for on-site uses. In addition, the EcoBlock is designed to provide convenient pedestrian and bike access to a new bus rapid transit system located on a major adjoining arterial. The EcoBlock's whole-systems approach is flexible and adaptable to multiple local conditions and climates and is widely replicable throughout China. If the Qingdao EcoBlock's whole-systems approach works as well as the pre-feasibility study indicates, it will be the first (almost) self-sustaining neighborhood in the world and could help lead China to a more sustainable future.
Reagan Louie
Photographer, California magazine
Building the new Beijing, 1980–2007. Overview
Louie will show photos of Beijing made over a 27-year period, a chronicle of its transformation from a northern capitol to a global center. The pictures will show not only the city's physical changes but also the effects of those changes on its citizens. Reagan Louie (California magazine) is a chairman of the department of photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. His photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Sackler Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. They are in numerous public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA New York, and the Oakland Museum. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts award, and a Fulbright Fellowship, and his photographs have been featured in California and numerous other publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, and Newsweek. Louie's book on China, Toward a Truer Life, was named the best photography book of the year by the New York Times Book Review and his new book, Orientalia, was selected as one of the best photography books of the year by American Photography magazine.
Lanchih Po
East Asian Languages and Cultures, BerkeleyLanchih Po (UC Berkeley) is a visiting associate professor at the Institute of International and Area Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She received her doctorate from the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley in 2001, and then she taught at Peking University in Beijing from 2001 to 2006. Her research interests encompass divergent developmental paths in China's transitional economies, including the influence of Taiwanese direct investment on local institutional change, the globalization of producer services and the formation of China's city-regions, and the socio-economic transformations associated with China's (sub)urbanization process. Representative publications include "Repackaging Globalization: A Case Study of the Advertising Industry in China" in Geoforum (2006); and "Redefining Rural Collectives in China: Land Conversion and the Emergence of Rural Shareholding Cooperatives" in Urban Studies (forthcoming, 2008).
Renee Chow
Architecture, Berkeley
Progress and Practice. Overview
In the re-making of Chinese cities and countryside, officials, developers, planners and architects envision progress for a country that has led to unprecedented physical change. International design practices have been invited to propel China from third world status to leading the 21st century. These global practices are learned in one setting and patched into others without translation, without regard for each city's uniqueness, coherence or cultural practices. Instead, this substitutional method finds its value in how explicitly each piece can separate itself from its context, expressing its own content. In Beijing, as in cities throughout the world, the result is a fragmenting urbanism. This talk describes alternative paradigms for practice and progress in China.
Renee Chow (UC Berkeley) is the current holder of the Eva Li Chair in Design Ethics and Chair of Graduate Advisors for the M.Arch Program. She joined the faculty in the Department of Architecture in 1993 and currently teaches design studios and seminars. Chow's practice and research focus on the intersection between architecture and its physical and cultural locale, proposing strategies for an alternative urbanism. Professor Chow is also principal of Studio Urbis, an architecture and urban design practice formed in collaboration with her partner, Thomas Chastain. The firm has recently received an AIA Monterey Bay Chapter Design Competition Award for new concepts in housing, as well as an honor award for their competition entry in a new Canal Town in South China, sponsored by the Shanghai Qingpu District Government.
Performance: Chinese Conceptions of the Body 4:30 pm- Chair:
- Wen-hsin Yeh
Director, Institute of East Asian Studies
- Panelists:
- Andrew Lam
California magazine
The new cultural revolution: sex and shame Andrew Lam (California magazine) is a writer and editor for New America Media and a regular commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered. His book Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora won the Pen American Beyond Margins award in 2006. His book of short stories, Birds of Paradise, will be published in 2009. Lam is published widely, including in the New York Times, LA Times, Utne Magazine, The Nation, and dozens of other publications. He is working on a novel.
Margaret Jenkins
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
Other Suns: a collaborative Chinese investigation of balance and imbalance Margaret Jenkins is a choreographer, teacher, and mentor to many young artists as well as a designer of unique, community-based dance projects. Jenkins began her early training in San Francisco. In the 1960s she moved to New York to study at Juilliard, continued her training at UCLA, and returned to New York to dance in the companies of Jack Moore, Viola Farber, Judy Dunn, James Cunningham, Gus Solomons, and Twyla Tharp's original company with Sara Rudner. In addition, Jenkins was a member of the faculty of the Merce Cunningham Studio and often restaged his works for companies in Europe and the United States for over 12 years. In 1970 Jenkins returned to San Francisco and formed her own company. She also opened one of the West Coast's first studio-performing spaces, a school for the training of professional modern dancers. In addition to the more than 75 works she has made for her Company, Jenkins's choreographic work has been commissioned by the New Dance Ensemble in Minneapolis, the Repertory Dance Theatre in Salt Lake City, the Oakland Ballet, the Cullberg Ballet of Sweden, AXIS Dance Company, and Ginko, a modern dance company in Tokyo, Japan. Jenkins has received numerous commissions and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Irvine Fellowship in Dance, the San Francisco Arts Commission Award of Honor, three Isadora Duncan Awards (Izzies), and the Bernard Osher Cultural Award for her outstanding contributions to the arts community in San Francisco and the Bay Area. April 24, 2003, was declared "Margaret Jenkins Day" by San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. On that day she also received a Governor's Commendation from Governor Gray Davis.
David Johnson
Chinese History, Berkeley
No losers or winners: public spectacle in premodern China in light of the Beijing OlympicsDavid Johnson (UC Berkeley) is a Professor of Chinese History. He holds an A.B. from Harvard College and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and taught at Columbia for almost ten years, moving to Berkeley in 1984. He began as a specialist in medieval social history, then became interested in what he originally called "the vernacular realm" in the 8th-12th centuries, on which he published two long articles in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, one on the origin and spread of city-god cults, the other on early popular written fiction and its sources in literature and popular religion. He then co-organized with Evelyn Rawski and Andrew Nathan a pioneering conference on premodern Chinese popular culture and co-edited the resulting book: Popular Culture in Late Imperial China. Shortly after moving to Berkeley he founded the Chinese Popular Culture Project, which was supported by substantial grants from Rockefeller, NEH, and other sources. The Project brought in four post-docs a year for four years and published several books. Following this he helped plan a very large project of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, "Chinese Regional Opera in Its Social and Regional Contexts," led by Wang Qiugui, then of Tsinghua University in Taiwan. His involvement with this project led to a major research project on village ritual and opera in Shanxi, which he has just completed after over ten years' work.
Reception 6:00 pmWine and light hors d'oeuvres
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