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| 241 Van Pelt Library (Class of 1955 Conference Room)
Early Chinese philosophical prose contains numerous passages of poetic diction. These do not serve as mere embellishment but contribute to the particular ways in which arguments are developed. Unlike its ancient…
The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) broke out at Heping Hospital in Taiwan in 2003. The government decided to isolate the hospital and asked all staff member to return. Dr. Chou defied the return order.…
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| Silverman Hall, Room 240B in the Penn Law School
Eva Pils is an associate professor and director of the Centre for Rights and Justice at the Faculty of Law of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her scholarship focuses on human rights and China, with publications…
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| Tanenbaum Hall, Room 345 in the Penn Law School
In the wake of China's great urbanisation process, many of the tens of millions of Chinese rural and urban citizens affected by evictions and expropriations have engaged in complaints, protest and resistance. This…
"Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy…
"For a century, most have regarded Korea’s colonization by Japan in 1910 as an inevitable outcome of imperialist aggressions and failings of Korea’s leadership. According to this view rooted in Japanese colonialist…
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| Class of '55 Seminar Room, Van Pelt Library, Room 241
Using Gayatri Spivak’s encounter with Taiwan feminists in 2002 as a starting point, this lecture will explore the by now seemingly clichéd question of the translatability of feminism across geocultural differences.…
Ambassador David Shinn is an adjunct professor of the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University, where he also received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.…
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| Silverman Hall, Room 240B in the Penn Law School
Professor Jerome Cohen is the senior American expert on East Asian law. As Director of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School from 1964-1979, he helped pioneer the introduction of East Asian legal systems and…
