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Asia Institute Seminar with Dr. Richard Bush, Director of Brookings Institute Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies

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 The Asia Institute

Seminar

February 13, 2012

 

(With support of the Global Peace Youth Corps)

 

Speaker:

Dr. Richard Bush

Director

Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies

Brookings Institution

 

Moderator:

Emanuel Pastreich

President

The Asia Institute

(Associate Professor, Kyung Hee University)

 

Emanuel Pastreich

Thank you for joining us this afternoon. We live in an age in which China’s impact on the world is growing daily, and yet many have only a very vague idea of how China actually works. Your insights are most valued. Tell us a little about your current research on China and Northeast Asia.

Richard Bush

I spend most of my time conducting research on China-Taiwan relations these days. I am currently writing a book on contemporary Taiwan-China relations in which I trace the relationship and offer my views on prospects for the future. I also dabble in other aspects of East Asian Security issues from time to time. I have done a long report on North Korea and its nuclear programs. I have written about China-Japan security relations as well.

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Emanuel’s Talk at International Korea-China Social Science Conference

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I will be speaking at 3:40 at the international conference of the  Korea-China Social Science Conference (한중사회과학학회: 국제학술대회； 韩中社会科学学会：国际大会)to be held at Yonsei University tomorrow, Wednesday, February 22, 2012. My talk is on the complex relationship between China and the United States (talk is in Chinese).

(Location is the basement of the Daewoo Hall at Yonsei University)

See Program:

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Portraits: Marston Anderson (essay)

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Marston Anderson

When I returned from my year in Taiwan, there was a new professor of Chinese literature at Yale whom I had never met. He was a tall man with very short blond hair and a shy personality. The new professor did not talk much unless you engaged in a subject, but then he spoke with an enthusiasm and alertness that was inspiring. His name was Marston Anderson and he had just received a Ph.D. from Berkeley in Chinese literature. I heard later that he had been considered one of the most promising young scholars of Chinese studies. Professor

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Portrait of the Chinese Ecologist Chen Minhao (Essay, November, 2011)

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Emanuel Pastreich

Circles and Squares

November 28, 2011

 

Portrait of the Chinese Ecologist Chen Minhao (陈敏豪)

I was a graduate student in Japan back in 1991, working on my master’s thesis at University of Tokyo and I had just started to think about returning to the United States for a Ph.D. program in East Asian studies. I was particularly interested in Ming literature, because it had had such an impact in Japan during the 18th century—my field of specialization. In my search for good graduate programs, I had been introduced to University of Indiana, specifically to Professor Lynn Struve, a scholar of Ming/Qing history with whom I thought I might study with in the United States. I wrote to her and learned that she would be spending the summer in Shanghai at Fudan University. I quickly bought a ticket and made an appointment to stay at the

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Response to “Is China the Nemesis in a New Cold War?”

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This discussion concerns my article “Is China the Nemesis in a New Cold War?” Published five years ago, I think the points about the future of US-China relations remain relevant today.  It was originally published in the Nautilus Institute.  I had input from Charles G. Coutinho, Ph.D. for the original article.

The Nautilus Institute

June 23rd, 2006

Response to “Is China the Nemesis in a New Cold War?”

by Emanuel Yi Pastreich and Charles G. Coutinho, Ph. D.
Response by Emanuel Yi Pastreich

I. Introduction

The following are comments on the essay “Is China the Nemesis in a New Cold War?” by Emanuel Pastreich, visiting scholar at the Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania and a Japan Focus associate, which appeared as Policy Forum Online 06-18A: March 6th, 2006.

This report includes comments by Charles G. Coutinho, Ph. D. an independent scholar, having with a doctorate in the department of History at New York University in 1997. specializing in Anglo-American relations during the early Cold War.

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Letter from China to the Nobel Prize Committee asking for the establishment of a Prize for Ecology Studies

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 Professor Chen Minghao of Jiaotong University in Shanghai, asked me to translate this letter to the Nobel Prize Committee asking that a Nobel Prize for Ecology be established. At the time, I did not really understand what he was talking about and did the translation just on a whim of sorts, but now, many years later, Chen Minhao’s thought seems most prescient. He passed away last year and I deeply regret I was not able to meet him again and tell him how much I learned from him.

 March, 1994

 

“Maintaining the Well-being of Humanity is the Spirit of Alfred Nobel’s Legacy”

An open letter to the Nobel Prize Committee

by Minghao Chen

There are only five years left in this century. The aging twentieth century is passing into history while a new century slowly emerges in an aura of possibilities and hopes. Humanity as well has reached a historic turning point in its development; a new path awaits us beyond. We must turn away from our present path of single-mindedly pursuing material and technological progress and choose the way of harmonious coexistence with nature, and economic development closely coordinated with the needs of the environment.

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