Based on a close reading of a group of diary-like documents penned by a peasant and his family in late Qing Huizhou, central China, Professor Liu Yonghua will interpret three episodes drawn from the life of the peasant and illustrate how the family's life evolved during the sixty odd years from 1838, two years before the Opium war, to 1901, the year the Boxer Uprising was suppressed.

By J. Marshall Unger, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University.

Presentation by Deann Borshay Liem with a response by Lucy Fischer

This lecture is being presented by Dr. Martin Holland from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, who holds the Jean Monnet Chair ad personam designation from the European Commission.

China Today is a one credit (Pitt)/three unit (CMU) mini course, consisting of 14 hours of classes over a weekend, with a final paper assignment to be handed in for credit. The course will explore:

* How does China's multi-ethnic composition affect educational opportunity and career advancement?

* Education in China past and present: How does the history of education in China affect educational opportunity today?

* What is in store as China moves from technological supplier to technological innovator?

Part of the Korean Film Festival. Pizza and refreshments provided!

Reception to follow.

Q&A session after each paper.

3:-3:40 p.m.

'Images of Scandal: The New Woman and Photography in 1910s Japan' Jan Bardsley, Department of Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

3:45-4:20 p.m.

'Bad Girls: The New Woman in Weimer Film Stills' Vanessa Rocco, Department of History of Art and Design, Pratt Institute, and co-editor of The New Woman International

4:25-5:00 p.m.

Part of the EALL Colloquium. Presentation by Haixia Wang, Masters candidate, IDMA Program

The exhibition 'Mind Space-Maximalism in Contrasts', curated by renowned prof. Gao Minglu will be view for the first time in the USA at University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh from February 15 until March 18 2011.

Abstract TBA