UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND
Asian Studies Newsletter
Fall 2013
New and Familiar Faces at UPS
Interviews conducted by Garrett Stanford
This semester the Asian Studies Department would like to introduce some new
faces. Joining the UPS community are Professor David Hull, the new Chinese
Professor from UCLA, Yingqi Zheng, a Chinese Assistant Teacher from the Confucius
Institute of China, and Lisa Long, a very familiar face to many of as the new Pac Rim
Program Administrative Director.
We welcome Professor David Hull as our newest Asian Languages and
Literature professor. Professor Hull teaches both Chinese Language and
Literature in translation courses. Prior to coming to Puget Sound, Professor
Hull taught at University of California Los Angeles. Professor Hull received
his Bachelor and Masters degrees at the University of California Santa
Barbara and his PhD at UCLA. His research focuses on Mao Dun, a
Chinese author from the early 20th century on his translation of the novel
Waverings, was published in sequentially in the journal Renditions and will
be available in paperback in 2014
Professor Hull grew up in Oklahoma and Texas. In 1996 he joined the
army. It was in the army that Hull began to learn Chinese. From ’96 to ’00
he worked for the army, learning the language at the Defense Language
Institute in Monterey before being stationed in Hawaii. From 2000-2001,
Hull worked as an English teacher in China.
Hull is also very excited to be at a small liberal arts school like UPS. Hull
says, “I love this place, the Asian Studies department is close knit, and
every professor is here to teach”. Hull states that it is “great to actually get
to know the students” with class sizes so small. Next semester David is looking forward to leading two new
classes. One is a film class, and the other is a language class focused on social media in China. He also
looks forward to hopefully making it up to Seattle for a Sounders and Seahawks games.
From China to Puget Sound: Yingqi Zheng
A graduate student and teaching assistant at the
University of Sichuan in the Sichuan Province, Yingqi
also works for the Confucius Institute.
Zheng will be with Asian Languages and Cultures at
the University for two years. Zheng mentions that she
is very impressed by the Chinese students’ language
skills. “The Chinese program here is very good” she
states.
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New Faces Continued
A Life-Long learner: Lisa Long the new Pac Rim Administrative Director
Asian Studies welcomes Lisa Long, the new Administrative Director of the
Pac-Rim Program. The position of Administrative Director is a new one
that the Asian Studies Committee spent a year crafting. In previous years
Professor Elisabeth Benard carried the sole responsibility as both the
Director of the Pac Rim Program and as the lead faculty person. The new
position of Administrative Director is now part of a Pac Rim team. The
2014– 2015 Pacific Rim trip leadership team consists of Professor
Elisabeth Bernard in the fall and Professor Gareth Barkin in the spring
and Administrative Director Lisa Long for the year.
During Long’s childhood, her father’s military service took her to many
places including a move to Yokosuka, Japan in 1989,where Long lived
until her move to Tacoma to attend school at the University of Puget
Sound. While at Puget Sound Long, majored in Asian Studies and
Comparative Politics, participated in the Study Abroad program in Taiwan
and traveled with the 2002-2003 Pac Rim Program. After graduation in
2004, Long entered the MAT program at Puget Sound. After completing
the MAT program Lisa taught English at Fujian Hwa Nan Women’s
College in Fuzhou, China.
Long’s interest in the Pac Rim Program started before her own 2002-2003 trip. Indeed the connection began
when her sister Masako went on the 1999-2000 trip. Since graduating, Long maintained her involvement with
the program, including a meet-up with the ’05 Pac-Rimmers in China, while teaching at Hwa Nan. Long was
also the business manager for both the 2008-2009 and 2011-2012.
Long says she is looking forward to getting teachers from all different disciplines involved in the Pac-Rim
program. She explains, “seeing teachers on site is eye opening.” Her goal is to expand this aspect of Pac-Rim
as well as maintaining the program’s prominence in the Asian Studies Department.
Announcements
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Announcements Continued
Tacoma Moon Festival
The University of Puget Sound and the
Asian Studies Program participated as a major supporter of the Second annual Tacoma Moon Festival at the
Chinese Reconciliation Park on September 21, 2013.
Students, staff, alumni and faculty shared their talents,
and selfless service. to make it a successful event.
Getting ready for The Moon Festival
Student volunteer Annin
Ramsing helping a festival goer.
Asian Studies Members Receive
Two Global Engagement Awards!
Professor, Elisabeth Benard has been chosen as the inaugural recipient of the
2013 faculty
Global Engagement Award
and
Asian Studies student Phillip Brenfleck has been awarded the inaugural Puget
Sound
Student Global Engagement Award
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Announcements Continued
Bill Porter Lecture
On October 29, 2013 the Asian Studies Program and Religion Department brought Bill
Porter to campus for a lecture titled: The
Quest for and Cultivation of Solitude by
Chinese Hermit Practitioners of Taoism,
Buddhism and Confucianism
Tsubaki Grand Shrine Visit
The Japan program visited Tsubaki Grand
Shrine in Granite Falls, Washington, The
on Saturday, November 9, to receive a
blessing and find out more about Shinto.
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New Classes
CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN ART IN A
TRANSNATIONAL AGE
With Gianna Carotenuto
ART 399A: Special Topics in Art History, M/W/F, 1:00 – 1:50
PM, Kittredge 122
This course will examine arts of contemporary India and Pakistan, primarily,
and other areas of Asia such as China, Japan, North and South Korea, and
Southeast Asia on a case by case basis.
The focus will be on the “high” arts - painting, sculpture, and current avantgarde forms such as multi-media installation, performance art, and crowdsourcing projects. Using India as the lens through which questions shall be
raised and critical positions examined, the material is arranged roughly
chronologically, and structured around several overlapping themes that
feed into each other.
COLONIAL ART OF INDIA: VISUALIZING THE
EMPIRE & THE NATION
With Gianna Carotenuto
ART 399B: Special Topics in Art History, M/W, 3:30 – 4:50 PM,
Kittredge 122
This course covers the visual arts and architecture in India between
the Mughal and the British Empires in India (1757-1947). It seeks to
broaden the chronological, thematic, and theoretical frames for interpreting the art of colonial India (1757-1947). The course aims to investigate the inter-relationship and exchanges that occurred between the
colonizer and the colonized. Students will read first-hand accounts of
travelers and artists produced during the colonial period, analyze texts
and theoretical critiques by European and Indian scholars, and trace
the development of architecture, drawing, and painting as well as the
effects of “modern” visual technologies, such as photography,
calendar art, advertisements, posters and film.
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New Classes Cont.
ALC 325 Chinese Cinema: Ideology in the Box Office
Professor David Hull
This course is an introduction to Chinese cinema. While the broadest topic of the course is the tension
between ideology and commercial demands, it will also analyze many other issues such as: How do Chinese films represent Chinese people: What are recurring types in gender? In ethnicity? How does Chinese film represent modernity and globalization? What is the role of politics in cinema? What are the
differences in "China" in Chinese films: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan?
In this course students will also develop a basic toolset to analyze the technical aspects of film. No previous film or Chinese language experience required. All films will be screened with subtitles, dubbed, or
with translated scripts.
This class satisfies a requirement for Chinese Languages and Cultures Major, the Asian Studies Emphasis and a Pac Rim Program prerequisite.
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Course Offerings for Asian Studies Spring 2014
Class
Days
Time
Instructor
Chinese Cinema: Ideology and the Box Office
MWF
11:00-12:00pm
Hull
Writing Margins in Contemporary Japanese Lit
TTH
Leuchtenberger
1st Year Arabic
MW
TTH
2:00-3:20pm
9-9:50am
9:30
-10:20am
Asian in Motion
TTH
2:00-3:20pm
Barkin
First Year Chinese
MWF
9:00-9:50am
Perry
First Year Chinese
MWF
11:00-11:50
Perry
First Year Chinese Discussion
T
11:00-11:50am
Perry
First Year Chinese Discussion
T
12:30-13:20am
Perry
Second Year Chinese
MWF
12:00-12:50am
Perry
Second Year Chinese Discussion
M
1300-1350pm
Perry
Second Year Chinese Discussion
T
8:30-9:20am
Perry
Second Year Chinese Discussion
T
9:30-10:20am
Perry
Second Year Chinese Discussion
W
3:00-3:50pm
Perry
Situational Oral Expression
TTH
3:30-5:00pm
Hull
Greater China: Commerce and the Media
MWF
1:00-1:50pm
Hull
Tourism and Global Order
MWF
10:00-10:50am
Kontogeorgopoulos
Political Economy of SE Asia
9:30-10:50am
Kontogeorgopoulos
First Year Japanese
TTH
MTWT
H
10:00-10:50am
Leuchtenberger
First Year Japanese
MTWF
1:00-1:50pm
Ludden
Second Year Japanese
MTWF
12:00-1:00pm
Staff
Kanji in Context
MWF
10-10:50am
Ludden
Communicative Japanese: The Harmony of Writing and Speaking
MWF
11-11:50am
Ludden
Asian Political Systems
MWF
2:00-2:50pm
Fields
Asian Medical Systems
TTH
12:30-1:50pm
Glover
Indonesia and Southeast Asia in Cultural Context
W
5:30-8:20pm
Barkin
Survey of Asian Art
MWF
9:00-9:50am
Carotenuto
Contemporary Asian Art
MWF
1:00-1:50pm
Carotenuto
Colonial Art of India, 1747-1947
MW
3:30-4:50pm
Carotenuto
Japanese Religious Traditions
MWF
2:00-2:50pm
Stockdale
Religion, The State and Nationalism in Japan
TTH
12:30 -1:50pm
Stockdale
Buddhism
TTH
3:30-4:50pm
Smithers
Business Culture and Politics of India & South Asia
TTH
2:00-3:20pm
Udbye
Khattab
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Asian Studies Program
University of Puget Sound
1500 North Warner St. #1054
Tacoma, WA 98416-1054
Ludden Sensei and her student the Mongolian princess, at
this year’s Moon Festival
Would you like to teach English in China?
Applications are now open for the English instructorship position at Hwa Nan Women’s College in Fuzhou, China! The position begins in the Fall of 2014 and ends in the
Spring of 2015. The deadline for the application is February 15th, 2014. For more I
nformation click the “links” tab on the Asian Studies home page.