Sponsored Events
Future
Events:
National
Science Foundation / Central Washington University Research Experience
for Undergraduates in China (Summer 2005)
Call for Applications:
Central Washington University, the National Science Foundation, and the
Center for Northwest History and Socioeconomic Development of Shaanxi
Normal University would like to announce the call for applications for
the 2005 NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program entitled"Society and Environment in China." This
unique program in social science
research will be conducted in Ellensburg, WA, and Xi'an, China, in the
summer of 2005. Fifteen highly-qualified undergraduates and a team of
faculty mentors will undertake collaborative research on how economic development
and societal change is impacting China's already precarious environmental position
across the Yellow River loess plateau. The eight-week program will be conducted
between June 14 and August 8, 2005. The program's primary objective is to mentor
students through the complete process of designing a research agenda and performing
primary research in the social sciences at an international field site. It
includes a unique combination of close mentoring, student/faculty teamwork,
multidisciplinary research, and international field experience.
Student participation will be encouraged from all fields of the social
sciences, including sociology, anthropology, geography, environmental
studies, economics, political science, Asia-Pacific studies, history, and
land/resource management. Juniors and nongraduating seniors are
particularly encouraged to apply. Graduate students are not eligible.
Applicants are limited to U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
Faculty mentors include Richard Mack (economics), Hong Xiao (sociology),
Roberta Soltz (biology), James Cook (Asian Studies) of Central
Washington University, and Joshua Goldstein (history), Franklin & Marshall
College.
Costs of participation (travel, room, board), including the payment of a
significant research stipend, will be paid by the program. Student
participants are only responsible for their travel to/from Central
Washington University. Deadline for applications is February 2, 2005.
Additional information and application forms can be found at http://www.cwu.ed
Past
Events:
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As an observing delegate,
Dr. Xiaobo Hu (right) was invited to attend the annual national meeting
of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in
Beijing, March 3-12, 2005. He is pictured shaking hands with Mr. Wang
Zhongyu, executive vice chairman of the CPPCC. |
The
Second Chinese Film Festival
The Clemson University China Program
together with Strom Thurmond Institute and the Gantt Intercultural Center
will hold the Second Chinese Film Festival from March 28 to 30
At Strom Thurmond Institute.
Free Admission. Start at 6:45 pm.
The three films are:
House of Flying Daggers (Monday, March 28)
The most visually ravishing movie with sequences of balletic martial
arts actions...
Mountain Patrol (Tuesday,
March 29)
A true story about volunteers protecting endangered Tibetan antelopes
against poachers ...
A World without Thieves (Wednesday, March 30)
Two professional thieves meet an innocent country bumpkin who is taking
his life's savings home to his village...
Presentation
on "The Globalization Process of China" by Drs. Yao Li and Liping Lu (February
27, 2005)
The Clemson University
China Program, the Strom Thurmond Institute and College of Business and Behavioral
Science, sponsored the visit of two Chinese scholars recently. "The
Globalization Process of China" was presented
by Drs. Yao Li and Liping Lu on Monday, February 21, 2005. Dr Yao Dr.
Li received her Ph. D. in Management from Tsinghua University and works in
China's State Administration of Foreign Exchamges (SAFE). Dr. Yao is
currently in charge of regulations regarding all foreign currency accounts
in China as well as all the accounts of Chinese investors going abroad. Dr.
Liping Lu has a Ph. D. in Economics from Peking University and is Associate
Professor of Economics at the National Accounting Institute, Beijing, China.
Pictures of the
Globalization Presentation
Visit
of President and Mrs. Barker to the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC (February
17, 2005)
On February 17,
2005, President Jim Barker led a Clemson delegation on a visit to the Chinese
Embassy in Washington, DC in appreciation for their assistance in helping
with the achievement of Clemson University's Top-20 objectives. The
delegation met with Ambassador and Mrs. Yang Jiechi, Minister-Counselor of
Education Liu Chuansheng, Ms. Zhang Jing (First Secretary, Commerce), Mr.
Fang Qingchao (First Secretary, Education), and Mr. Yu Yougen (Second Secretary,
Education)
Pictures
of the Chinese Embassy Visit
Discussions
on Cooperative Research & Graduate Education between Clemson University
and the University of Science and Technology of China (January
27, 2005)
Drs. Hua and
Lu of the University of Science and Technology of China visited the College
of Business and Behavioral Science on Wednesday, January 26 and Thursday,
January 27 to invite faculty from Clemson to visit USTC, and to discuss cooperative
research and graduate education. Dr. Hua is the chair of the Department of
Information Management & Decision Science in the School of Business.
Clemson University China Program Committee members, Professors Miller and An
met with them to discuss the China Programs mission and the many research,
cultural, and academic activities already conducted and forthcoming.
Visit
of Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences (LASS) (February
16 - 20, 2004)
Clemson University hosted distinguished guests from Liaoning Academy of Social
Sciences in February 2004. Our visitors included Professor Xiangping Li, Vice
President of LASS, Professor Ping Chen, Director of LASS Economic Institute,
Professor Guanglin Wang, Deputy Director of LASS Economic Institute, Professor
Xiaoping Ma, Director of LASS Foreign Affairs Office.
While visiting Clemson University, they met with James Barker, President of Clemson
University, the members of the Clemson University China Task Force, faculty members
from the College of Business and Behavioral Science, the Spiro Center for Entrepreneurial
Leadership, the Clemson University Center for International Trade, the Strom
Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs, as well as those from the
Economic and Community Development area. They also visited local communities.
The purpose of the visit was to better understand the nature and scope of economic
development along the I-85 Corridor and to seek research cooperation with Clemson
University.
Pictures of the
Liaoning Academy Visit
Symposium
on China's Business and Consumer Culture: What South Carolina Businesses
Need to Know about the World's Largest Market (February
25, 2004 )
This symposium
was co-sponsored by Morgan Stanley. It featured Clemson
University President James Baker; Chuansheng Liu, Education Minister-Counselor
of the Chinese Embassy; Peter Kwan, President of Pacific Gateway Capital, John
Long, President of Palmetto Partners International, John Ling, Asia & Pacific
Manager of South Carolina Department of Commerce, Steven Lewis, Director of
Transnational China Program at Rice University, and Karl Gerth, Author of China
Made and history professor at University of South Carolina. Well over
100 members of the academic and business communities attended the day-long
event.
Chinese
Film Festival (March 1 – 9, 2004)
This film festival was co-sponsored by the Upstate Film Society and the Strom
Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs. The Festival featured
five films: Hero ; New Dragon Inn ; Together ; Turn
Left Turn Right ; Eat Drink Man Women , from Taiwan , Hong Kong,
or Mainland China. It attracted hundreds of members of the Clemson University
community as well as local community members.
Conference
on Northeast Asian Security: the North Korean Crisis (April
2 – 3, 2004
)
This conference
was co-sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies at the University of South
Carolina. The Conference featured Clemson University President
Barker; James R. Lilley, former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea and China and
Senior Fellow at American Enterprise Institute; Robert Hathaway, Director of
Asia Program, the Woodrow Wilson Center; Tsuneo Akaha, Director of East Asian
Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies; Balbina Hwang, Policy
Analyst of the Heritage Foundation; Tae-hyo Kim, Fellow at Institute of Foreign
Affairs & National Security, South Korea; Baofu Wang, Deputy Director of
Institute for Strategic Studies at National Defense University, China, and
Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University; Jay Hetherington, former National
Program Manager of CIAs, and Adjunct Instructor at Clemson University; Weiping
Zhou, Director of Center for Northeast Asia Studies, Jilin Province; Sheng
Li, Director of Institute for Border Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,
China; and Han Park, Director of Center for the Study of Global Issues, University
of Georgia. It attracted a large number of participants to the activities held
over a three-day period.
Pictures of the
Northeast Asian Security Conference