During its rapid modernization, beginning in the Meiji Era (1867–1912), Japan eagerly transplanted advanced technologies, social systems, and conceptual frameworks from the West. Japanese leaders were inspired by advanced models of technology and sociopolitical structures in countries like Great Britain, United States, France, Germany, etc. and made an effort to transplant them in the Japanese soil as quickly as possible.

On April 4-6, 2014, the University of Pittsburgh will host the second of two conferences that constitute the project “Voices of Asian Modernities: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Asian Popular Music of the 20th Century.” The conference will bring together a group of scholars from a range of fields including Music, Literature, History, Anthropology, Film Studies,Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, Performance Studies, and Asian Studies to properly historicize the artistic sounds, lyrical texts, visual images, and social lives of female performers in Asian popular music of the 20th century.

从中国油画看中国当代女性和青年的形象
演讲时间45分钟，演讲的语言为中文，提供午餐和饮料。

Dr. Givens seeks to explain why unrest has continued to rise in China, despite a major attempt by the Chinese government to reduce peasant tax burdens, previously the largest source of unrest. He hypothesizes that local officials, strapped for cash after a series of tax reforms, increasingly resorted to another form of extraction: the expropriation and sale of land used by peasants.

In the globalizing world, what are the determinants of fisheries income in South Korea? What should be considered and investigated before formulating, designing and implementing fisheries policies? Hwang’s research starts with a concise history of fisheries management before and after colonialism based on a literature review and proceeds with the analysis part using an econometric model and quantitative analysis.

Save the date for Silk Screen's annual film festival!

Festival events include:

-Opening Night Gala: April 25, 2014
-Closing Night Film and party: May 4, 2014

Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Documentary at Sundance, A River Changes Course tells the story of three families living in contemporary Cambodia as they face hard choices forced by rapid development and struggle to maintain their traditional ways of life as the modern world closes in around them. "Director Kalyanee Mam follows these families and their distinctive ways of life with her eyes wide open.

Director Keir Moreano's record of his father's experience as a volunteer doctor in Vietnam in 2003 as a journey of a professional who has come to question the difference he makes in the lives of his patients in the US, finding renewed passion in his calling after several weeks conducting surgeries and training staff in a hard-pressed hospital in Hue. "The film observes Dr.

The eighth edition of the Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival is dedicated to the legacy of world-renowned filmmaker, psychologist, and Carnegie Mellon professor, Paul Goodman, and to his professional focus on the human challenges and achievements of diverse groups of workers worldwide.

This talk will focus on the subsistence economies of a region in Northeast China where environmental conditions are conducive to specialized mobile herding. According to a number of scholars, sedentary farmers left their farms to take up full time specialized mobile herding in Northeast China around 1200 BCE. The evidence for this shift is primarily art historical and from received histories. However, there is a lack of direct archaeological data in the region which can support this assertion.