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Realms of Freedom in Post-Mao China

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The fifteenth and final volume of the series The Making of Modern Freedom, this book explores a variety of issues surrounding questions of human rights and freedom in China. The chapters suggest very significant realms of freedom, with or without the protection of law, in the personal, social, and economic lives of people in China before the twentieth century. This was recognized, and partly codified, in the early twentieth century, when legal experts sought to establish a republic of laws and limits. The process of legal reform, however, would be placed firmly in the service of strengthening the post-imperial Chinese nation-state, culminating after 1949 in despotism unparalleled in Chinese history. Nevertheless, the last decades of the twentieth century and the first years of our own would witness a slow, steady, but unmistakable reassertion of realms of personal and communal autonomy that show, even in an era of strong states, at least the prospect of institutionalized freedoms.

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Stanford University Press in "Realms of Freedom in Modern China"
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Jean C. Oi
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Japan: Tilting Closer to Washington

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During the past year, Japan's security policy was shaped decisively by the emergence of a more palpable threat from North Korea. This prompted Tokyo to bolster its alliance with the United States, toughen its stance toward Pyongyang, align its policies more closely with Washington's toward other members of the so-called "axis of evil," and modestly extend the parameters of its evolving international role as a source of offshore, noncombat, logistic services and humanitarian assistance. Japan sought, meanwhile, to enhance its diplomatic maneuverability and diversify its sources of energy by cultivating relations with the major powers -- especially China -- and other countries of consequence. Tokyo competed with predictable zeal for export opportunities, and encouraged forms of Asian regional cooperation that may offer an eventual counterweight to NAFTA and the European Union. Internal factors influencing Japan's security policies included economic malaise, the complexities of coalition government, and rising nationalist sentiments.

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National Bureau of Research in "Strategic Asia: Fragility and Crisis 2003-2004"
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Michael H. Armacost

The Politics of Law, Memories, and Migrant Workers: Korean Chinese, North Koreans, and Guest Workers in South Korea

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This seminar is part of Shorenstein APARC's Korea Luncheon Seminar Series, sponsored by the Korean Studies Program. The luncheon is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are required. Please RSVP to Okky Choi by 12 noon on Wednesday, February 25 if you wish to attend and have lunch reserved for you.

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Hyun-ok Park Assistant Professor New York University
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Modeling the West, Returning to Asia: Shifting Identities in Japanese Colonial Expositions in Korea

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This seminar is part of Shorenstein APARC's Korea Luncheon Seminar Series, sponsored by the Korean Studies Program. The luncheon is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are required. Please RSVP to Okky Choi by 12 noon on Wednesday, February 4 if you wish to attend and have lunch reserved for you.

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Hong Kal

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Stanford University
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Hong Kal is a postdoctoral Korean research fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center. She received her B.A. and M.F.A. from Seoul National University in Korea and M.A. and Ph.D. in History and Theory of Art and Architecture from State University of New York, Binghamton in 2003. Her dissertation, "The Presence of the Past: Exhibitions, Memories, and National Identities in Colonial and Postcolonial Japan and Korea," examined the politics of culture in the two countries and their intertwined historical relations across twentieth century. Her research has concentrated on the formation of colonial modernity and national identity in colonial expositions in Korea and the visual representation of historical memories of the past--colonialism and war--in independence, peace and war museums in contemporary Korea and Japan. She was the recipient of the Japan Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship (2001-02).

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Hong Kal
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The Interplay of National and Global Forces in Colonial Korea

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This seminar is part of Shorenstein APARC's Korea Luncheon Seminar Series, sponsored by the Korean Studies Program. The luncheon is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are required. Please RSVP to Okky Choi by 12 noon on Wednesday, January 28 if you wish to attend and have lunch reserved for you.

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Michael Robinson Professor, East Asian Languages and Culture Indiana University
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Globalization, Sports Competitions, and National Identity

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This seminar is part of Shorenstein APARC's Korea Luncheon Seminar Series, sponsored by the Korean Studies Program. The luncheon is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are required.

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Jae-on Kim Professor of Sociology Speaker University of Iowa
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Public Address: The Future of America's Alliances in Northeast Asia

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Admiral Thomas Boulton Fargo assumed duties as Commander U.S. Pacific Command, at Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii, on May 2, 2002. He is the twentieth officer to hold the position. As the senior U.S. military commander in the Pacific and Indian Ocean areas, he leads the largest of the unified commands and directs Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force operations across more than 100 million square miles. He is responsible to the President and the Secretary of Defense through the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff and is the U.S. military representative for collective defense arrangements in the Pacific.

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Admiral Thomas B. Fargo Commander U.S. Pacific Command
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Walter H. Shorenstein Forum for Asia Pacific Studies

Harukata Takanaka

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Stanford University
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Harukata Takenaka is an associate professor of political science at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. He specializes in comparative politics and international political economy, with a particular focus on Japanese political economy. His research interests include democracy in Japan, and Japan's political and economic stagnation since the 1990s. He is currently working on aborted democratization in prewar Japan, the politics of Japan's financial crisis since the 1990s and the role of the Japanese Senate (House of Councilors) in postwar Japanese politics.

He received a B.A. from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. He is the author of Senze Nihon ni okeru Minshuka no Zasetsu [Aborted Democratization in Prewar Japan], (Bokutakusha, 2002), and the co-editor of Akusesu Kokusai Seijikeizai [Access to International Political Economy],(Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha, 2003).

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Chiho Sawada

Shorenstein APARC
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Stanford University
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Chiho Sawada holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University (specialty in East Asian history; secondary field in Western intellectual history) and a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego (major in economics; minor in visual arts). In addition, he has attended the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (concentration in International Politics and Development), conducted research at numerous other institutions in Asia and the United States, and served stints in U.S. Embassies in Beijing and Seoul.

Dr. Sawada is currently working on several collaborative and individual research projects: (1) Historical Injustice, Redress, and Reconciliation: Global Perspectives, (2) Public Diplomacy and Counter-publics: Asia and Beyond, 1945 to the present, and (3) Student and Urban Cultures in Colonial Contexts. He recently contributed a chapter entitled "Pop Culture, Public Memory, and Korean-Japanese Relations" to the first volume of project one, Rethinking Historical Injustice in East Asia (Routledge, forthcoming). For project two, he is lead organizer of a Stanford workshop and conference, and editing the conference book. Project three is a book project that expands his dissertation to consider colonial context not just in Northeast Asia, but also India, Southeast Asia, and Africa.

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