This Program Inaugurates the new NCTA SEMINAR SERIES. This seminar will be hte first of four seminars during the winter and spring of 2012-13. (For the other seminars, go to http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/ncta/sustainability.html.) This new format will begin with a brief presentation by the speaker to be followed by open discussion based on the questions of the participants. Therefore, it is essential that attendees read and prepare questions based on the reading(s) which will be sent to those who register. You do not need to participate in all the seminars to attend this first seminar. This seminar series is only for NCTA alumni and associates.

Our guest presenter will be Dr. Tina Phillips Johnson, Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Chinese Studies Program at St. Vincent College. Tina received her PhD from Pitt in 2006 and teaches courses in both ancient and modern East Asian History. Her book, Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity was published in August of 2011. For those of you who register for this seminar, we will send you an article entitled "Maternal and Child Health in 19th to 21st Century China. We are fortunate to have limited access to this article since it will be one chapter in a forthcoming publication in the China Medical Board's centenary publication on Western medicine in China. This material will provide the basis for our seminar discussion.