Students are invited to a study abroad information session hosted by Alliance for Global Education. Attendees will be introduced to four study abroad programs in China and India. Alliance representative Clay Harmon will discuss:

• China Now: Development, Politics, and Social Change in Beijing
• Contemporary Chinese Society and Language in Shanghai
• Globalization Then and Now: Xi'an
• Contemporary India: Development, Environment, and Public Health

Jiang Rong’s 2004 bestselling novel Wolf Totem tells an alternative history of the traditional Chinese empire, reviving a once heated debate on Chinese characteristics. This talk will take Wolf Totem as an example of minority historical fiction to discuss the centripetal and centrifugal forces of Chinese history in re-imagining and reconfiguring ethnic, national, and international relations in the contemporary world.

Part of the East Asian Languages and Literatures Colloquium.

Refreshments will be served.

Do you know how to prove how well you speak Chinese, Japanese, or Korean? Come join us to hear from Pitt instructors & students about how to show off what you know for scholarships, jobs, and more! We'll talk about options, which tests are right for you, and even do a sample "OPI" interview in Chinese & Japanese!

Open to all students of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. Refreshments will be served.

Bandai-Namco is offering several internships for talented Japanese-speaking college students. These internships will serve as trial employment periods for students who would like to work at the company headquarters in Japan after graduation.

Those interested in more information are invited to attend an information session with Bandai Namco representatives, to be held on the Carnegie Mellon University campus.

Please register for the event by contacting Yasufumi Iwasaki by email at yiwasaki@andrew.cmu.edu.

Lisa See, a book club favorite, writes moving stories about friendship, family secrets, and forgotten history, inspired by her Chinese-American background. She returns with Dreams of Joy, following Joy, daughter of Pearl from Shanghai Girls, in a poignant depiction of life in 1957 Shanghai amidst the New Society of Red China. She also wrote the book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.

Experience the Japanese Culture of Tea! Students will learn about the ancient tradition of the Tea Ceremony as they shape their own bamboo tea scoops with artist Tadao Arimoto. The bamboo will be split with an ax, thinned with a chisel, heated to bend into a scoop and cooled in water to hold its shape. The workshop will conclude with a Chanoyu Tea Ceremony performed by Yoko Motoyama. There are limited spaces available for participants to share the Chanoyu Ceremony with their guests.

Tuition: $80, Chanoyu guests are an additional $15 each
Materials Fee: $10

Harvard Economist Dani Rodrik described how "Unconditional convergence is alive and well, but that we need to look for it within manufacturing industries rather than the economy as a whole. Industries that start at lower levels of labor productivity grow faster, regardless of the quality of policies or institutions in their home economies." For more, see Professor Rodrik's blog: http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2011/09/unconditional-conv....

In this fictional recreation of a sensational romantic scandal (surrounding writer Shimada Seijirō), Satō Haruo links conventions from mystery and detective fiction to the discourse of psychoanalysis in order to explore the hysteria of the female protagonist in The Rebirth as he attempts to answer a question on the minds of many at this time: what made her do it?

Stephen Noerper joined The Korea Society as Senior Vice President after serving with the EastWest Institute and New York University, where he was an associate professor of international relations. Dr. Noerper's leadership in NGOs dates back to 1985 and his experience with a Chicago-based foundation. Before moving to New York City, he was Vice President of Intellibridge, a senior analyst with the U.S. State Department, and a non-profit resident representative in Mongolia, where he had served as visiting professor and Fulbright senior scholar at the National University of Mongolia. Dr.

Professor Fister’s lecture will focus on three princess-nuns active in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Two of the nuns established their own convents and a third entered and revitalized an imperial convent with a history dating back to the 14th century. Influenced by the Lotus Sutra, the act of creating devotional objects became an important part of their Buddhist practice.