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Calling for Chinese Studies Lunch Seminars and Research Day Presenters The Chinese Studies Research Group is looking for expressions of interest from Honour students, Masters and PhD students researching any China-related field who are interested in participating in a Chinese Studies Research Seminars / Postgraduate Conference 2013 which will be run approximately six to seven weeks on Fridays through out the year. 2013 Chinese Studies Research Seminars 22 March 2013 This is a great opportunity to present your research to a friendly and interested audience of other postgrad students and staff, to get feedback on your ideas and style of presentation, and to practice for a future confirmation, thesis defence or conference paper. Please email your contact details, department, research topic and preferred date for holding the day to Bick-har Yeung (bhy@unimelb.edu.au). ****************************************************** Chinese Studies Research Group Lunch Seminars 14 September 2007 ******************************************************* Chinese Studies Research Group Lunch Seminar 3 August 2007 ******************************************************* Chinese Studies Research Group Lunch Seminar 22 June 2007 ******************************************************** Chinese Studies Research Group Lunch Seminar 11 May 2007 ******************************************************** Chinese Studies Research Day 30 March 2007 ******************************************************** Chinese Studies Research Group Lunch Seminar 19 January 2007 Topic: Locating tradition – designed landscapes in China in the context of global interaction, 1995-2005 Speaker: Yun Zhang, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning
When: 1-2 pm, 19 January 2007 (Friday). Where: Tutorial/Committee Room, Ground Floor, Baillieu Library. RSVP : Bick-har Yeung, phone: 8344-5362, e-mail: bhy@unimelb.edu.au Summary: When globalization is transforming the world, the increasing homogeneity of our built environment has caused speculation on many issues including how to become modern and maintain our traditions in the making of landscape? It is common to relate the traditions of Chinese landscaping to Chinese gardening, the traditional Chinese culture, and to locate this tradition in the gardens of the Ming and Qing dynasties. However, the base of this tradition was transformed in general in the modern age. And in particular, in the last two decades when increasing number of Chinese scholars, practitioners and students who have obtained experience from overseas have returned to work and international design practices with Chinese offices has also increased, this tradition are in the conflicts not only between the old and new, but also in the cultural differencese. My research aims to investigate the transformation of landscape tradition in a particular space that is in-between China and the west. The objectives are to locate this tradition and their contemporary interpretations in designed landscapes in China in the last decades, and to explain how western and Chinese knowledge interact in the design process. This research is expected to shed light on the culture continuity in the context of globalization.
******************************************************** Chinese Studies Research Day 24 November 2006 ********************************************************* Chinese Studies Research Group Lunch Seminar 6 October 2006 Topic: Benchmarking Vocational Education and Training System of China Speaker: Zhenyi Guo PhD Candidate at CPELL, Faculty of Education When: 1-2 pm, 6 October 2006 (Friday). Where: Tutorial/Committee Room, Ground Floor, Baillieu Library. Information: Bick-har Yeung, phone: 8344-5362, e-mail: bhy@unimelb.edu.au Summary The new century sees immense pressure on China 's vocational education and training (VET) system. The rapid growth of economy of China has accompanied rapid industrialization and urbanization, which have caused a crisis in human resources. China has abundant labour power, but is in great and urgent need of a better skilled labour force. In this context, evaluation of the performance of the VET system becomes an increasingly important task, as it is one way to identify strengths and weaknesses and target areas for development and intervention through initiatives. The first part of the study is designed to develop a set of internationally comparable indicators for China 's VET system to help evaluate current performance and identify areas of strength and weakness. It is a statistical comparison which will provide a quantitative description of the condition of China 's VET system in comparison with other selected countries. Based on the identified data availability, the second part of the study will be on continuing vocational education and training. An attempt to adopt the Labour Force Survey questionnaires of Canada will be made to obtain information on continuing vocational education and training in China ( Yunnan ), accompanied by case study interviews to explore and examine the feasibility of the questionnaires in the Chinese context. When: 1-2 pm, 6 October 2006 (Friday). Where: Tutorial/Committee Room, Ground Floor, Baillieu Library. Further information: Bick-har Yeung, phone: 8344-5362, e-mail: bhy@unimelb.edu.au Remarks: All welcome. Bring your own lunch. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served. ********************************************************** Chinese Studies Research Group Lunch Seminar 25 August 2006 Topic: The importance of Kam ‘big song' in establishing and maintaining Kam identity Speaker: Catherine Ingram, PhD candidate, Faculty of Music / Asia Institute Summary: Kam ‘big song' is the main multi-part vocal genre of the Kam people, the eleventh largest of China's 55 recognised minority groups. For centuries ‘big song' has been one of the two indigenous musical genres which have functioned as the primary means of recording and transmitting Kam oral history, culture and language, thereby establishing, ‘identifying' and locating Kam people in place and time. Since the mid 1950s ‘big song' has also assumed further importance: it was widely used as the most prominent example of how Western views of China lacking polyphonic music were incorrect, and has recently (2005) been the central feature of a ten thousand voice choral performance aiming to assert a strong Kam vs. Han Chinese identity, establish a notion of ‘pan-Kam-ness' and attract Han Chinese tourism and investment. Drawing upon 18 months of fieldwork (2004-06) in Kam villages of Guangxi and Guizhou provinces, this paper illustrates big song's ongoing importance in the Kam culture of rapidly changing Kam communities. It considers the historical and contemporary relationship between ‘big song' and Kam identity, and examines how the benefits or disadvantages of assuming a Kam identity have and continue to be felt in the Kam ‘big song' tradition. When: 1-2 pm, 25 August 2006 (Friday). Where: Tutorial/Committee Room, Ground Floor, Baillieu Library. Further information: Bick-har Yeung, phone: 8344-5362, e-mail: bhy@unimelb.edu.au Remarks: All welcome. Bring your own lunch. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served. **************************************************************** Chinese Studies Research Group Lunch Seminar 14 th July 2006 Topic: Singing a Zhuang H ero in R itual - G ender and Heroic Representation o n the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier Speaker: GAO Yaning, PhD candidate, School of Anthropology , Geography, and Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne Summary: In 2005, the Zhuang people of Ande Township o n the Sino-Vietnamese frontier resumed a commemoration of national hero Nong Zhigao which had been interrupted for about fifty years. A historical figure - Nong Zhigao who was considered a barbarian and a traitor in Chinese imperial history is now represented literally as a Zhuang hero in the Chinese Communist Party's nationalities policy. These commemorative activities included literal, central, and male representations, yet in this paper I want to highlight the commemorative performance of a female ritual specialist. This ritual was organized and supported by local women and was conducted a day before a formal semi-official commemoration . The women and the female ritual specialist deliver ed sacrifice to Nong Zhigao in front of his temple in order to guarantee a smooth and safe commemoration. In this paper, I examine why it is women rather than men who conduct a ritual to beg for the god's blessing for a safe and successful commemoration of Nong Zhigao , and how a female oral ritual practitioner authorizes the tradition of commemoration. In fact, the ritual is not very conventional; rather , it is a fragmentary ritual combining old and invented elements. However, compared to the male dominated ceremony performed the following day, the ritual can be categorically termed more traditional. I suggest that a further investigation of women's and female ritual specialists ' role in Zhuang society would improve our understanding of how a Chinese ethnic minority represent themselves under the influence of the Chinese Communist Party's nationalities policy. My paper will contribute to the current body of knowledge by presenting a study of the Zhuang female role in ritual in China , as well as by providing grass - root s perspective from which we can consider the relationships between the cent er and the periphe ry. When: 1-2 pm, 14 th July 2006 (Friday). Where: Tutorial/Committee Room, Ground Floor, Baillieu Library. Further information: Bick-har Yeung, phone: 8344-5362, e-mail: bhy@unimelb.edu.au Remarks: All welcome. Bring your own lunch. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served. *************************************************************** Chinese Studies Research Group Lunch Seminar 2nd June 2006 Summary: Chinese Studies Research Group Special Lunch Seminar 24 May 2006 **************************************************************** Chinese Studies Research Group Lunch Seminar 13 February 2006 Topic: Urban space and social life in the city of Hangzhou, the capital of Southern Song, China *********************************************************** Topic: Fieldwork Experience in Yunan, China Speaker: Zhenyi Guo, PhD Candidate, Department of Policy and Management, Faculty of Education When: 1-2 pm , 4th November, 2005 . ***************************************************************** Chinese Studies Research Group Lunch Seminar 7 October, 2005 Speaker : Yongyang (Catherine) WANG, Department of Learning and Educational Development, Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne When: 1-2 pm , 7th October, 2005 . **************************************************** Chinese Studies Research Group Lunch Seminar 9th September, 2005 Speaker : Alex English, PhD candidate in the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Melbourne Summary: Alex English looks at the relationship between the post-Mao reforms, the bureaucracy and local environmental management in rural China. The past two decades of economic reform have accelerated the intensity and spread of environmental degradation. One of the state's responses has been a policy of rapidly establishing nature reserves throughout the countryside. While over 15 percent of China's land mass is already covered by nature reserves, many of these reserves exist only 'on paper'. Despite a well-intentioned policy of preserving China's natural resources within nature reserves, significant gaps in their management remain, largely due to the processes involved in their initial protection. A key factor behind this policy outcome has been the bureaucratic framework of tiaotiao kuaikuai relations or matrix of vertical and horizontal lines of authority. These relations are analysed through the management experience of three nature reserves: Xilingol (Inner Mongolia), Jiuzhaigou (Sichuan) and Changbaishan (Jilin). The talk concludes that the economic, administrative and environmental reforms have brought both opportunities and constraints for China's nature reserves, which operate within a bureaucratic framework characterised by fragmentation and conflict, rather than coordination.
******************************************************** Speaker : Connie Chuen Ying Yu D.Ed, Education Consultant Dr Yu obtained her Doctor of Education degree in the University of Melbourne in mid December, 2004. She has investigated the leadership role of Hong Kong Protestant Secondary Schools after 1997. Previously she finished a Postgraduate Diploma in Education Studies, and Master of Education by course work and a research project on the teaching of thinking. She will share her experiences about succeeding in course work and research projects. *************************************************** Chinese Studies Research Group Seminar 5 November 2004
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