FIRST ANNUAL CHINA SYMPOSIUM

December 4, 2004

Timetable for Speakers

Presented by the US China Peoples Friendship Association-Chicago Chapter

Hosted in 2004 by the College of DuPage Asian Forum

12 Noon REGISTRATION BEGINS

12:40-50 PM WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION [approx. 2 minutes each]

President, US China Peoples Friendship Association, Chicago Chapter: Roger A. Noback

Chair, COD Asian Forum: Dr. Jane Wu

President, College of DuPage: Dr. Sunil Chand

Chinese Consul in Chicago: Jin Zhijian, Consul & Director, Political & Press Affairs

1:00 PM-5:00 PM CHINA TALKS: China Talks are 50 minutes long

(including approx. 10 minutes of Q&A), with 10 minute break between each talk.

The 3 rooms for each track of talks are adjacent to each other.

Track/ Time	ARTS AND PHILOSOPHY	COMMERCE	SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY
Sat. 12/4	(A)	(B)	(C)
1 PM	Jane Wu, Confucian and Daoist Moral Lessons Through Story Telling, Prof., College of DuPage	Marie Gaudette, Partnering in China: An Overview, President, MLG & Associates	Peter Carroll, Village Democracy, Prof., Chinese History, Northwestern University
2 PM	Katherine T. Mino, Chinese Celadon For Profit and Power: Examples from the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago and University of Chicago	Preston Torbert, Choice of Arbitration Situs in China to Resolve Commercial Disputes, Partner, Baker & McKenzie Law Firm	Bruce Chassy, Agricultural Biotechnology in China, Assoc. Dean, Univ. of Illinois School of Agriculture
3 PM	Lucy Lu, Chinese Art of Rhetoric: Comparing Classical Chinese and Greek Ideas, Prof., DePaul University	Jeff Olin, [Taxes and Doing Business in China (tent. title)], Int’l Tax Partner, Grant Thornton accountants	William Parish, Trends in Chinese Sexual Behavior: Consequences for Women, Prof., Sociology, Univ. of Chicago
4 PM	Harry Hou, Chinese Calligraphy, Prof., College of DuPage	Mark Allee, Law and its Administration in Historical China, Prof., Loyola University	Mr. W. Moy, Paper Sons – A Bittersweet Story of Strength, Chinatown Museum Ass’n

5-5:45 PM RECEPTION, including refreshments with Chinese appetizers, provided by Jin’s Mandarin Restaurant, Naperville

Chinese Music: Introductory “mini-recital” and reception background music on the Zheng (Chinese zither)

will be provided by Ms. Janice Yang, director, Yellow River Choral Group

Beijing Photographer’s Association Photo Exhibit focusing on Western China is scheduled for display in the COD Library immediately adjacent to the Conference Center throughout the Symposium (provided courtesy of the U.S.China Peoples Friendship Association national organization)

Student Photography Exhibit of China by COD Students in the COD Field Studies Program-China Trip: at the Symposium Conference Center

ANNUAL CHINA SYMPOSIUM: 30^th Anniversary Event, Saturday, December 4, 2004

PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION

FOR: People Interested in China (business, art, science, society)

FROM: U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Association, Chicago Chapter

SUBJECT: Annual China Symposium

Celebrating the 30^th Anniversary of the USCPFA and its Chicago Chapter

Showcasing Chicagoland Universities, Museums, businesses w/China activities

WHEN: Saturday afternoon, December 4, 2004, 12-5:45 p.m.

WHERE: Hosted in 2004 by College of DuPage, Asian Forum, Glen Ellyn (near w. suburb)

COST: $20 Adult, $30 Family (in advance, $5 extra at door), $5 Students

WEBSITE: www.uscpfa.org/midwest.html

Topics. Twelve “China Topic” talks, equally divided among the following three simultaneous tracks: Arts and Philosophy; Commerce; and Science, Technology & Society, including: commerce (e.g., increased penetration of Chinese branded products in international markets; legal and tax matters); politics (e.g., village democracy); art (e.g., Chinese art, music); Science and Medicine (e.g., Agbiotech in China); philosophy (e.g., Confucianism, Taoism); society (e.g., Law in Historical China) and communications (e.g., Chinese Art of Rhetoric). Reception to follow.

Speakers. Distinguished speakers have accepted from major Chicagoland organizations with China activities, including Universities (e.g., University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Northwestern, Loyola and DePaul Universities), museums (e.g., Art Institute), local business officials, and others (e.g., Chicago Symphony). Talks last approximately 50 minutes each (including 10 or so minutes of Q&A) and are geared to a diverse, lay audience.

USCPFA Background. The USCPFA has 50 or so chapters in cities throughout the U.S. and a liaison organization in China with offices in major cities, including the capital city of each province, the Chinese Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (Youxie). The USCPFA originated from the historic 1972 “friendship handshake” between the U.S. President and Chinese Premier. The principal purpose of the USCPFA is to foster friendship, fellowship and understanding between the peoples of the U.S. and China. (see www.uscpfa.org)

For Businessmen, Too. In international business, experts agree that evidencing familiarity with the culture you’re dealing with helps establish rapport, trust, confidence and understanding to further business objectives.

To Register: Make check payable to “USCPFA” and mail to: Marci Duryea, USCPFA, 3 S 244 Cypress Drive, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 with info requested below by Nov. 27 for first priority seating; e-mail info requested to marcoise@earthlink.net and pay at the door for second priority seating. Walk-ins accepted, subject to pre-registrations. Questions? Call 630/469-8710, 847/274-6244 or 708/484-8397

Registrant’s Name:________________________________________ Tele:________________________

Address:_____________________________________________________________________________

E-mail:______________________ Educational Institution (if student) ___________________________

EVENT LOCATION: 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-6599 See www.cod.edu/Maps_Loc.htm (Full Campus, Regional, Local maps) From Chicago, West on I-290/I-88, exit Rt. 53 north (Morton Arboretum exit), left (west) on Butterfield Rd. (Rt. 56), Rt. (north) on Lambert Rd., Rt. (east) on Fawell Blvd., Rt. at 2^nd north entrance to COD Guest parking, north of SRC (Student Resources Center), building with 2 story white columns, proceed to SRC 2800, Turner Conf. Center.

From N & S Suburbs: I-355 south or north, exit Butterfield Rd., etc.

Synopses and Bios: “ARTS & PHILOSOPHY” – TRACK A China Talks

(1 p.m. -A) Confucian and Daoist Moral Lessons Through Story Telling, Jane Wu, College of DuPage

SYNOPSIS: (see insert of updates, if available)

Biographical Information: Jane Wu is an Associate Professor of History at the College of DuPage. She was born and raised in China. She received her BA in English Language and Literature from Fudan University in Shanghai. In 1981, with the support of the Ford Foundation, she enrolled at Michigan State University, where she got her MA in History. Her dissertation (unfinished) was titled: "The Marshall Mission and the KMT-CCP Negotiations, 1945-1947." She was the translator and interpreter for the Governor's Office and the Commerce Department of Michigan in the 1980s and she has been a regular panel discussant on Chinese affairs on "Chicago Tonight" on Channel 11 since 1997. She is a published author and regular presenter at academic conferences on such themes as “The Marshall Mission and the KMT-CCP Negotiations, 1945-1947” and “Suicide and Suicide Survivors of the Cultural Revolution.” She won first in the New York Times "Celebration of New York City, 100 Years" essay contest for her essay titled “The City of Lights.” Professor Wu has won outstanding teaching awards at Michigan State University and the College of DuPage.

(2 p.m. - A) Chinese Celadon For Profit and Power: Examples from the Art Institute of Chicago, Katherine Tsiang Mino, Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago

SYNOPSIS: Ceramics known as celadon are the predecessor of true porcelain which first appeared in China. Aspects of the development of celadon wares in various parts of the country can account for their popularity and commercial success and their resulting importance in political history. They were an important part of the exchange of products and cultural elements that occurred not only in China but all across the Asian continent, with Japan, and eventually also with Europe for well over a thousand years. The Chinese ceramics collection of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the finest in the world and contains many fine examples of celadon wares.

Biographical Information: Katherine R. Tsiang Mino, Associate Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago, received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1996. Her research, including articles published in The Art Bulletin, Artibus Asiae, and Orientations journals, has been in the fields of Chinese ceramics, Chinese Buddhist sculpture, sūtra engravings in stone, texts and imagery, and art historical reconstruction. She is the recipient of a Getty Foundation Collaborative Research Grant for the Reconstruction and Recontextualization of the Xiantangshan Caves in the art and visual culture of the Northern Qi dynasty, a project scheduled to begin in 2005. Katherine is the co-editor and contributor of the forthcoming Harvard University Asia Center conference volume, Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture.

(3 p.m. - A) Chinese Art of Rhetoric: Comparing Classical Chinese and Greek Ideas, Lucy Lu, DePaul University

SYNOPSIS: Knowledge of China’s rhetorical tradition increases understanding of contemporary Chinese rhetorical practices and communication behavior. Such tradition is often overlooked. In the college textbooks throughout the U. S., the history of rhetoric has always begun with ancient Greece. Some prominent scholars in the rhetorical field have claimed that rhetoric is the sole property of the West, and that non-Western traditions have not produced rhetoric to this day (Murphy, 1983). My presentation will challenge such a claim by identifying rhetorical formulations and practices in the ancient Chinese

Synopses and Bios for “Arts & Philosophy” Track A China Talks (continued)

philosophical texts and social/political contexts. In particular, I will examine and analyze representative works from the schools of Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, Mingjia and Legalism. I will contend that ancient China (especially between 400-200 B. C.) had enjoyed a rich rhetorical tradition characterized by moral, epistemological, dialectical, and psychological emphases. Moreover, this rhetorical tradition has shared more similarities than differences with features of classical Greek rhetoric in the same time period.

Biographical Information: Dr. Lu’s award-winning book, Rhetoric in Ancient China, Fifth to Third Century BCE: A Comparison with Classical Greek Rhetoric, was published by the University of South Carolina Press in 1998. Xing (Lucy) Lu received her B.A in English in China, her M.A. in TESOL in Australia and her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Communication from the University of Oregon. Ms. Lu’s most recent publication of the book project is entitled Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Impact on Chinese Thought, Culture, and Communication (University of South Caroline Press).

Her academic interests include Chinese rhetoric, intercultural/multicultural communication, language and culture, cultural identity, and Asian American communication. In addition to a number of book chapters, Lu has published articles in The Western Journal of Communication, The Howard Journal of Communication, Discourse & Society, and Intercultural Communication Studies. In 2002, she published two co-edited volumes on Chinese communication studies: Chinese Communication Studies: Contexts and Comparisons and Chinese Communication Theory and Research: Reflections, New Frontiers, and New Directions (Ablex Publishing). Dr. Lu has been teaching a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses at DePaul University since 1992.

(4 p.m. – A) Chinese Calligraphy,* Harry Hou, College of DuPage

[* Mr. Hou and his topic substitutes for Mr. Chang and his topic, Comparing Chinese and Western Music, since Mr. Chang developed a conflicting required rehearsal.]

SYNOPSIS: What is the origin of Chinese characters, and how did they evolve? From pictographs to associative compounds to pictophonetics, the evolution of Chinese characters is briefly demonstrated. Styles from oracle bone characters through bronze texts, seal (zhuan) characters, official scripts and regular and cursive styles are introduced. The structure of Chinese characters and prescriptive writing techniques are covered.

Biographical Information: Professor Hou has been teaching computer information systems at the College of DuPage for 7 years. He came to the United States in 1988 to pursue his graduate degrees in Math and Computer Science Education (University of Pennsylvania) and Information Science (University of Pittsburgh). Chinese history and calligraphy have been Professor Hou’s avocation for much of his life. In China he attended numerous training classes and seminars in Chinese literature and history. He is very interested in the evolution and development of Chinese characters and their artistic expression through calligraphy. When asked about how a computer scientist becomes an expert in calligraphy, Professor Hou responded: “When I was a school boy, there was no such major in Chinese calligraphy. So many people learned and practiced writing themselves by copying models. I have had calligraphy as a hobby since I was in a grade school. After I settled down in US, I re-started practice. In recent years I have become especially interested in Chinese seals, and have made some for myself and friends.”

Synopses and Bios: “COMMERCE” - TRACK B China Talks

(1 p.m. – B) Partnering in China: An Overview,* Marie Gaudette, MLG & Associates

[*Ms. Gaudette and her topic substitutes for Mr. Shi Han and his topic, “International Branding of Chinese Goods,” since a client of Mr. Han’s required his presence in China on December 4.]

SYNOPSIS: This talk provides an overview of considerations in doing business in China on a collaborative basis including a summary of China as a global marketplace, choosing a location or region in China, identifying the right business partnership structure, case studies and the new opportunities of franchising and health care.

Biographical Information: Ms. Gaudette is the president of MLG & Associates. She has more than 20 years of experience in international business development with an emphasis in China and Japan. Ms. Gaudette’s experience includes international business development, marketing, strategic partner development, trade mission management, international conference management and corporate development. She served as the Senior Vice President of the World Trade Center Chicago, the Director of the LePon Group Chicago and the Senior Vice President of JTBI Chicago. MLG & Associates, an international marketing and business development firm, focuses on developing business linkages between U.S. and international economic development agencies, multinational firms and trade associations. MLG & Associates focuses its business development work in China, assisting U.S. and Chinese firms in the following sectors: agribusiness, food processing/packaging, health care, IT, textile and transportation products/services.

(2 p.m. -B) Choice of Arbitration Situs in China to Resolve Commercial Disputes, Preston Torbert, Baker & McKenzie, law firm

SYNOPSIS: (see insert of updates, if available)

Biographical Information Dr. Torbert, a partner in the international law firm Baker & McKenzie, is a graduate of Princeton University and received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in Chinese history from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He has served for three years as Co-chairman of the People's Republic of China Law Committee of the ABA's Section of International Law and Practice. Dr. Torbert is one of the founders of Baker & McKenzie's China Practice Group and has spent five years in the People's Republic and Taiwan. He began the study of Chinese in 1964 and is often mistaken for a native speaker. He played a key role in establishing the Taipei office of Baker & McKenzie in 1978 and later the Beijing office in 1981 and the Shanghai presence in 1985. He first visited the People's Republic in 1975 and has represented U.S. multinationals there numerous times since then. Dr. Torbert's publications include numerous articles on issues in trade and investment with China such as joint ventures, wholly foreign-owned ventures, technology transfer, taxation, contracts and intellectual property in The China Business Review, East Asian Executive Reports, Corporate Finance, International Financial Law Review, and other U.S. and Chinese publications. He is the author of The Ch'ing Imperial Household Department (Harvard U. Press, 1977).

Synopses and Bios for “Commerce” Track B China Talks (continued)

(3 p.m. – B) [Taxes and Doing Business in China (tent. title)], Jeff Olin, Grant Thornton, accountants

SYNOPSIS: (See insert of updates, if available)

Biographical Information: Jeff specializes in preparing businesses for the world - global tax planning and analysis. He consults with clients for both inbound and outbound international transactions and assists clients with multinational tax planning to reduce worldwide effective tax rates. Specific services include structuring, mergers and acquisitions, treaty analysis, foreign tax credit planning, transfer pricing, and Subpart F analysis. Jeff has over 17 years of public accounting experience. Before joining Grant Thornton, he was an International Tax Partner at McDermott, Will & Emery, one of the world’s largest law firms. Jeff, a CPA, earned a B.S., cum laude, from Carroll College, a J.D. from Marquette University Law School, and an LLM in Taxation from DePaul University College of Law. Jeff is active in several professional associations and is a frequent lecturer on international tax topics for the FSC/DISC Tax Association, the Council for International Tax Education, and the Global Educational Services Group. In addition, he teaches Taxation of International Transactions in the Chicago-Kent College of Law LL.M program and is the author of Foreign Currency Taxation and Translation published by Commerce Clearing House.

(4 p.m. – B) Law and its Administration in Traditional China, Mark Allee, Loyola University of Chicago

SYNOPSIS: Chinese law in the late imperial period was characterized by a history of codified development stretching back at least to the third centure BCE and perhaps even before. The earliest direct ancestor of late imperial codes, such as that of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), was, however, the Tang Code of 737. A number of important conceptual and structural features of almost all subsequent compilations of penal law are visible in the Tang Code. These sophisticated and complex codes were the basis for judicial administration until the early twentieth centure. Those administering the legal system were, in contrast to the trend toward the creation of legal specialists in the West, members of the regular government bureaucracy, responsible not only for the law but often the entire range of government activities in their jurisdictions. These Confucian generalists gave traditional judicial administration of penal and other cases its special character and so must be discussed in tandem with it.

Biographical Information: Mark A. Alee, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of History, Loyola University of Chicago, has authored and contributed to leading texts on the topic of his remarks, including “The Status of Contracts in Ninteeenth-Century Courts” in Contract and Property in Early Modern China, Stanford University Press, 2004 and “Code, Culture, Custom: Foundations of Civil Case Verdicts in a Nineteenth Century Court” in Civil Law in Chinese History, Stanford University Press, 1994. Mark began his study of traditional Chinese law with Professor Wallace Johnson at the University of Kansas. He completed his doctorate in 1987 under the direction of Professor Susan Naquin at the University of Pennsylvania. His research has focused on state and society in nineteenth-century China, and his publications on law and local society in northern Taiwan and in Sichuan are based on extensive research in law cases archives in Taibei and Chengdu.
Synopses and Bios: “SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY” – TRACK C China Talks

(1 p.m. - C) Village Democracy, Peter Carroll, Northwestern University

SYNOPSIS. Since the mid-1990s, village committee elections have been hailed in the Chinese and foreign press as the harbinger of a more general evolution toward participatory democracy that would eventually encompass higher levels of government. While the symbolic and policy effects of these elections have indeed been significant, they have not (yet) delivered the systemic transformation anticipated by the most optimistic observers. Like the many other local self-government reforms introduced since the early 20th century, these current initiatives seem to promise both more and less than what their advocates claim. This presentation will assess the unfolding village democracy movement in light of the century-old tradition of local self-government activism in China.

Biographical Information. Peter Carroll received his Ph.D. at Yale University and teaches modern Chinese history at Northwestern University. He recently completed a book manuscript, Reconstructing a Chinese Cultural Capital, Suzhou, 1895-1937, and has just returned from spending 8 months affiliated with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences on a Fulbright Fellowship to research suicide and ideas of modern society in China during the first half of the 20th century.

(2 p.m. – C) Agricultural Biotechnology in China: Present Realities and Future Prospects, Bruce M. Chassy, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana

SYNOPSIS: Approximately 80 million hectares of crops produced through Agricultural biotechnology were planted globally in 2004. Most of these crops were either resistant to specific insects or tolerant to environmentally friendly herbicides. Maize, cotton, canola and soybeans are the primary biotech crops in the world. China has rapidly adopted biotech maize and cotton. China is also becoming a major innovator of biotech crops. Chinese scientists sequenced the rice genome and appear ready to introduce genetically engineered rice varieties in the coming year. China invests more than $200 million/year in biotech research and is proceeding with development of a wide array of engineered crops. China’s emergence as a biotech super-power could dramatically alter world trade in these products as well as help overcome consumer concerns about biotechnology.

Biographical Information: Professor Bruce M. Chassy is the Executive Associate Director of the Biotechnology Center at the University of Illinois and is also Assistant Dean for Science Communications in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. He served as Head of the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois from 1989 to 2000. Dr. Chassy received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Cornell University. He was a research chemist at the National Institutes for Health (NIH) from 1968-1989.

Dr. Chassy has become active in the development of strategies for food safety evaluation and their application to the setting public policy. Dr. Chassy was appointed to the EPA FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel in 2004. Dr. Chassy served as an Expert on the WHO/FAO Joint Consultation on Food Derived from Biotechnology held in Geneva in May, 2000. Professor Chassy also served on the FDA Food Advisory Committee from 1995-1998. Dr. Chassy is an Adjunct Professor on the faculty of Food Science and Technology at Southern Yangtze University.

Synopses and Bios for “Science, Technology and Society” Track C China Talks: (continued)

(3 p.m. - C) Trends in Chinese Sexual Behavior: Consequences for Women, William L. Parish, University of Chicago

SYNOPSIS:

(see insert of updates, if available)

Biographical Information. Professor William L. Parish is Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. His remarks are based on the recent results of his multi-year study in China. He received his B.A. degree at the University of Texas, 1962, and Ph.D. at Cornell University, 1970. Professor Parish works on labor markets, gender inequality, sexual behavior, and government - business relations. With an emphasis on East Asia, he has published on urban life in China and examined the differences in labor markets and patterns of inequality in Taiwan and S. Korea. Current work is on newly emerging patterns of intimate relations and sexually transmitted diseases in China. He has also worked on migration and family patterns in Europe and family support networks in the U.S.

(4 p.m. – C) Paper Sons – A Bittersweet Story of Strength, Billy Moy, Chinatown Museum Association

SYNOPSIS: The immigration law between 1882-1945 ruled out a proper channel for the Chinese to come to the United States. In order to be united with families and to get around the rules, many Chinese worked out a system of using immigration papers that would allow them to come. The talk touches not only on this phase of the immigration problem but also reflects the lifestyle of those who settled in Chicago.

Biographical Information Billy Moy, a native of Taishan, Guangdong, came to the USA in 1952 as a teenager. He graduated high school in Wausau, Wisconsin, then joined the Army Reserve in 1957. He attended the Academy of Arts in Chicago for eighteen months, then returned to Wausau in 1959 to start his own restaurant business, which he ran until 1993. In 1998 he and his wife moved to Chicago. Since then he has been working as the executive director of the Chinese Community Center, and a resident at Cermak Chinatown. Mr. Moy served one term as the President and three-term board member of the Wisconsion Regional Arts Association. Mr. Moy is now writing an autobiography entitled "Lower Your Eyelids A Little More".

Special Reception Music

(5:00-5:45 p.m.) Reception Background Music and “Mini-Recital”:

Janice Yang, performing on the Zheng (loosely translated as Chinese zither)

Biographical Information. Janice Yang is Director of the Yellow River Performing Arts Group. She was born into a musical family in Shanghai and began playing piano at the age of three. Her father, a musical composition professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, provided her with a foundation which Janice took to new heights. She progressed into practicing the violin by age six and studied erhu by age eight. When she studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, she majored in playing the Chinese zheng instrument. Janice earned respect from music critics and competition judges. She won first prize at the College Student’s Music Performing Contest and first prize at the Traditional Chinese Musical Instruments Contest with her performance charisma and unique skills. She also won first prize at the Composer Contest. Many of her works are still being played by the Shanghai Broadcast Radio. As a Chicagoan since 1980, Janice actively participated in and promoted Chinese culture and music. She has performed annually at the Chinese New Year Celebration since 1981.

SYMPOSIUM SPONSOR

ITW (Illinois Tool Works) is the Symposium Sponsor.

The USCPFA-Chicago Chapter wishes to thank ITW for sponsoring the 2004 Annual China Symposium and thereby helping to celebrate the 30^th Anniversary of the USCPFA and its Chicago Chapter and showcase participating Chicagoland universities, museums and organizations with China activities.

SYMPOSIUM COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS

The following organizations have cooperated with the USCPFA-Chicago Chapter in presenting the 2004 Annual China Symposium by distributing program and registration material among their membership. The USCPFA expresses its deep gratitude to such organizations for cooperating in this fashion to help the USCPFA fulfill its mission of fostering friendship, fellowship and understanding between the peoples of the U.S. and China.