The Logic of Confrontation and Negotiation in Democracy: Reflections of a Japanese Government Lawyer of 40 years
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Reflecting on his career experience Harada will explore the cultural and systemic differences that shape the logic of confrontation and negotiation, in both domestic and international environments.
Akio Harada is a recently retired prosecutor general of Japan - Japan's counterpart to the U.S. attorney general. Prior to assuming his post as the prosecutor general, Mr. Harada served as Director General of the Criminal Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Justice, Vice-Minister of Justice and Chief Prosecutor at the Tokyo High Court. From 1975 to 1978, Mr Harada was first secretary and legal attache at the Japanese Embassy in Washington.
Special lecture hosted with the Center for East Asian Studies.
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Akio Harada
distinguished practitioner at the Center for East Asian Studies, and former prosecutor general, Japan
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Position Announcement: New professorship on contemporary Korea honoring William J. Perry
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Stanford University seeks candidates for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position in the social sciences at the junior or senior professorial rank, whose teaching and research are focused on contemporary Korea. All applicants in the social sciences with area expertise in Korea will be considered. The position will be jointly held in the School of Humanities and Sciences and the Stanford Institute for International Studies (SIIS). The successful candidate will also be expected to provide leadership for the further development of the study of Korea at Stanford. A junior appointment will be to a tenure track position and those applying should send three professional letters of recommendation and a writing sample. Stanford University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Applicants should send curriculum vitae, a brief statement of research interest, and names and addresses of three references by December 15, 2004, to
Gi-Wook Shin
Search Committee
Stanford Institute for International Studies
616 Serra Street
Encina Hall
Stanford, California, 94305-6055
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APARC Fellows from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Present Their Research
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"Taiwan's Democratization, American Democracy Diplomacy and China's
Democratic Future"
Sheng-Chung "Jeffrey" Hsiao, Shorenstein APARC Visiting Fellow from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan
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"A Rhetorical Analysis of U. S. Foreign Policy Towards Taiwan"
Pingshen "Benson" Wang, Shorenstein APARC Visiting Fellow from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan
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Sheng-Chung "Jeffrey" Hsiao
APARC Visiting Fellow from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Taiwan
Pingshen "Benson" Wang
APARC Visiting Fellow from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Taiwan
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Politics and Identity on Taiwan and Cross-Strait Relations
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Richard Bush is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Director of its Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies. The Center serves as a locus for research, analysis, and debate to enhance policy development on the pressing political, eco-nomic, and security issues facing Northeast Asia and U.S. interests in the region.
Bush came to Brookings in July 2002, after serving almost five years as the Chairman and Managing Director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), the mechanism through which the United States Government conducts substantive relations with Taiwan in the absence of diplomatic relations.
Dr. Bush began his professional career in 1977 with the China Council of The Asia Society. In July 1983 he became a staff consultant on the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs. In January 1993 he moved up to the full committee, where he worked on Asia issues and served as liaison with Democratic Members. In July 1995, he became National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and a member of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), which coordinates the analytic work of the intelligence committee. He left the NIC in September 1997 to become head of AIT.
Richard Bush received his undergraduate education at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. He did his graduate work in political science at Columbia University, getting an M.A. in 1973 and his Ph.D. in 1978. He is the author of a num-ber of articles on U.S. relations with China and Taiwan, and of At Cross Purposes, a book of essays on the history of America's relations with Taiwan.
Co-hosted with the Hoover Institution.
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Richard C. Bush
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
The Brookings Institution
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China's Venture Capital System and Investment Decision-making
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During the past 11 months, 9 VC-backed firms from China have successfully brought their IPOs to NASDAQ. Now that the VC industry in China is heating up, Dr. Zhang will address the following topics: What is the evolving structure and system of the venture capital industry in China? What is the investment process and how do international VC firms make decisions when investing in China? Why have several VC firms outperformed others? What challenges lie ahead?
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Dr. Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics & Management, Tsinghua University. During Fall 2004, he is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Professor Zhang's research interests focus on venture capital and entrepreneurship in China. He received his B.A. and M.S. degrees in engineering and Ph.D. in Management from Tsinghua University.
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Wei Zhang
Assistant Professor of Economics and Management
Tsinghua University
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Opportunities and Challenges for Solving the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
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Ambassador Charles L. Pritchard, an expert on U.S. relations with Japan and Korea, was a top aide to President Bush in the administration's negotiations with North Korea and the U.S. Representative to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO). He was also special assistant to the President and senior director for Asian affairs in the Clinton administration. Pritchard joined the Brookings Institution as a visiting fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program on September 2, 2003. While at Brookings, Pritchard has published "North Korea Needs A Personal Touch", Los Angeles Times (09/10/03); "A Guarantee to Bring Kim into Line", Financial Times (10/10/03); "Freeze on North Korea Nuclear Program is Imperative", The Korea Herald (01/09/04); "What I Saw in North Korea", New York Times (01/21/04), "While the US Looked for Iraqi WMD North Korea Built Theirs", YaleGlobal(01/01/04), and "U.S. Should Confide in Allies on North Korean Nukes", Asahi Shimbun/International Herald Tribune (08/06-07/04).
Following a twenty-eight year career in the army, during which he held military assign-ments with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, as its country director for Japan, and as the U.S. Army Attaché in Tokyo, Pritchard joined the National Security Council in 1996.
Pritchard obtained his B.A. in Political Science from Mercer University in Georgia and his M.A. in International Studies from the University of Hawaii. He is the recipient of the Defense Distinguished Service Medal.
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Charles L. Pritchard
Visiting Fellow
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Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
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Stanford Summer 2005 Workshop Fellowships on Korea
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The Korean Studies Program at the Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) in the Stanford Institute for International Studies announces workshop fellowships for June 27-July 1, 2005. Financial support for these fellowships has been provided by a generous grant from the Korea Research Foundation and the Pantech Co., Ltd. and Curitel Communications Inc.(Pantech Group).
The workshop, co-chaired by Michael Robinson (Indiana University) and Gi-Wook Shin (Stanford University), seeks to invite five fellows of any discipline currently engaged in research related to the theme of Culture Wars in Korea (see description below), both historical and contemporary, to explore this subject in an intensive week of discussions and collaborative critique of each others' work. Preference will be given to junior scholars (recent Ph. D and ABD). Along with application, each candidate must submit a draft paper on the related issues and will be expected to spend the week of June 27 to July 1 at Stanford for this intensive workshop. There will be a list of core readings to help unify our discussions. After the workshop, all participants are expected to submit revised papers that will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Korean Studies in 2006. Each fellow will be provided airfare, accommodation, and $1,000.
Culture Wars in Korea: Globalized Mass Culture, State Control, and Conservative Reaction
This seminar will focus on the genesis and evolution of globalized mass culture in Korea. Of particular interest will be the conflict engendered in Korea as state authority and conservative elites attempted to control hybrid cultural forms linked to global flows of mass culture. From the beginning, the emergence of capitalist mass culture in Korea has provoked a variety of conservative responses: colonial censorship and repression, cultural nationalists opposing the "debasement" of traditional cultural forms, post-liberation attempts to control and mediate cultural formations, state censorship of popular cinema, song, and pulp fiction, formal blockade of Japanese popular cultural imports, Minjung activist debates over resisting urban mass culture in favor of agrarian expressions of Koreanness, etc. The motivations for such actions stemmed from the perception of the state, conservatives, and even nationalist ideologues that Korean traditional identity was being effaced by the onslaught of global mass culture. Ironically, in the last decade the Korean entertainment industry has had considerable success exporting its films, rock groups, and television series in East Asia. Some critics attribute this success to a unique Korean cultural sensibility embedded in such cultural exports. This brings the debate about mass culture full circle-from distrust and loathing of the new mass culture to the thought that it might actually embody Korean identity itself.
Submission Deadline
Applicants must submit a CV, one letter of recommendation, and a draft paper by March 1, 2005. Only complete applications will be considered.
Applications should be sent to:
Dr. Hong Kal
Korean Studies Program
Encina Hall, Room E301
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Phone: 650-725-4206
Fax: 650-725-2592
Email: hongkal@stanford.edu
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S(h)ifting Identities in Chinen Seishi's "The House of People"
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Japan Brown Bag seminar.
Co-hosted with the Center for East Asian Studies.
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Davinder Bhowmik
Assistant Professor, Japanese Literature
University of Washington
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Digging Beneath the Surface: A Reporter Reflects on Getting Past Obstacles to Understanding China
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Seth Faison spent 12 years living in and writing about China. He went to China as a 25-year-old looking for adventure. He spent two years studying Chinese in Xian, attaining fluency. He became a reporter in Hong Kong, and then a correspondent in Beijing, where he covered the events at Tiananmen in 1989. He joined the New York Times in 1991, covering New York City. He opened the newspapers bureau in Shanghai in 1995 and wrote about social and economic change, earning a reputation as a writer with a knack for capturing the moods and flavors of China.
China Brown Bag seminar
Co-sponsored with the Center for East Asian Studies
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Seth Faison
Author and former New York Times Bureau Chief
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