CFP: China & the Southern Pacific, Christchurch NZ, June 17-18, 2008

Call for papers: “Looking North, Looking South - China and the Southern
Pacific”June 17-18, 2008
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
In recent years, China has become one of the dominant players in the Southern Pacific. Both China and its diplomatic rival Taiwan have been “looking South” to develop partnerships with Pacific Island states, while Pacific leaders have [...]

Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies

I would like to inform you of the existence of a Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies, now in its third year of operations at Chang Jung Christian University in Tainan. Based on my experience working here for two of these years, I would say we have a pretty interesting thing going on, with [...]

Silk Road Summer Program

Silk Road Summer Program - Application: Deadline January 24, 2008
We are now accepting applications for the Wittenberg in China: On the Silk Road program mid-May through mid-June 2008
http://www.wittenberg.edu/silkroad
On the Silk Road is a unique, interdisciplinary, month-long summer study abroad program designed to introduce students to some of the peoples, cultures and history of China through [...]

Transformations: Researching Asia

Call for Papers: TRANSFORMATIONS: RESEARCHING ASIA
York Centre for Asian Research Graduate Student Conference - York University, Toronto, Canada September 26 to 28, 2008
Call for Papers deadline: April 1, 2008
What does it mean to “research Asia”? Asian Studies is a growing field within and, [...]

CFP: Buddhist Worldviews and Concepts of Peace

Call for papers: “Buddhist Worldviews and Concepts of Peace.”
Blue Pine Books invites submissions of papers on the topic “Buddhist Worldviews and Concepts of Peace” for possible inclusion in an upcoming publication of collected articles. As an addition to our continuing series of publications on Buddhism and peace, the resulting book will investigate the topic from [...]

CFP: Still the Asian Century?

CALL FOR PAPERS: Still the Asian Century?
10-12 September 2008
A conference jointly sponsored by the International Political Economy Research Group and the Asia Research Group, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham.
During the 1980s and 1990s it became commonplace to think that Asia was on its way to becoming the world’s most dynamic [...]

Music and Ritual in China and East Asia

13th International CHIME Conference on “Music and Ritual in China and
East Asia” Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA October 16-19, 2008
This conference aims to explore the complex and diverse intersections between music and ritual in Chinese and other East Asian contexts. It seeks to bring together international scholars working on East Asian musics from various disciplinary [...]

Mao Tse-tung: Politics

“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed,” (Mao Tse-tung 1893-1976, lecture,1938, in Selected Works [1965]: AskOxford.com).

Harvard-Yenching Library travel grants

The Harvard-Yenching Library is pleased to announce its Travel Grant Program for the 2007-2008 academic year. The purpose of the grant is to assist scholars from outside the metropolitan Boston area in their use of the Harvard-Yenching Library’s collections for research. There will be seventeen grants of $400 each (six in Chinese studies, [...]

Early History of Public Health Associations in China

Early history of Public Health Associations in China
I would welcome hearing from H-Asia readers who have an interest in, or who can suggest any sources of information regarding, the early history of public health associations in China. It has come to my attention, with respect to Jiangsu Province, that a “Kiangsu Public Health Association” was [...]