The Asian Studies Center and the Global Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh are teaming up with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (NCUSCR) to present CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections.

In Korean, the liquid was avoided in word-initial position until the late nineteenth century although it was used intervocalically and syllable-finally. Since Chinese vocabulary was imported around the eighth century, the Chinese lateral [l] in word-initial position was borrowed as [n]. This substitution is still strictly applied to Sino-Korean common words by orthographic regulation. However, since the late nineteenth century, the word-initial liquid has manifested itself in loanwords and Sino-Korean proper names.

Join FSA, Malacca, and VSA to celebrate our cultures with dancing, food, and fun!

You are cordially invited to this splendid event presented by the Confucius Institute at the University of Pittsburgh and the London Confucius Institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine. The performance includes Chinese Lion Dance, Chinese Folk Dance, Chinese Martial Arts and various Chinese traditional instruments. It will be a great interactive opportunity to experience Chinese dance and kungfu as well as a wonderful cultural immersion experience!

Bellefield Auditorium: 315 S. Bellefield Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Doors open at 7:00 PM
FREE WITH PITT ID!
General Admission: $5
Free for children under 12
Tickets sold at the door.

The Asian Studies Center and the Department of Anthropology invite you to talk with Dr. Nancy Abelmann, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research—Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields and Harry E. Preble Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In this talk Dr. Abelmann will think about the changing aesthetics of desire and social mobility. She will consider the porous boundary between the radically normative and potentially transgressive in South Korea today.

KCA's annual #POJANGMACHA NIGHT# is back again this year!
Come out with all of your friends to enjoy free Korean street food cuisine and learn about the markets

**sponsored by the Late Night Mini-Grant**

Menu:
sweet potato mat-tang (고구마맛탕)- sweet potato fried with sugar and oil
Spicy pork (제육볶음)
Oh deng guk (오뎅국) - Fish cake soup
kimbap (김밥)
jap chae (잡체) - noodles & veggies
Ddukbokki (떢복기★) - rice cake
rice & kimchi

All food will be catered by KG-Korea Garden Everything is

Focusing on the video industry of Malegaon, India, known for its DIY spoofs of famous Holly- and Bollywood films, this talk will explore plastic world-making practices that open up new avenues of participation. At stake is a bottom-up conceptualization of the global.

Gabriella Lukacs is an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a Japanologist who specializes in television and digital media studies. She is the author of Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan (Duke University Press, 2010). The book project she is currently working on explores issues of labor and gender in the digital media economy through such case studies as the net idols, cell phone novelists, female Internet traders, young female photographers, video game designers, and fashion bloggers.