Online Forum on Chinese Cultural Revoluation -- "地方文革"论坛

"地方文革" is an online forum devoted to collecting information of primary source materials about the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

The website results from a project undertaken by a UofT professor and one of his graudate students.


link: http://www.difangwenge.org

Chinese America: History and Perspectives

"Chinese America: History and Perspectives" is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Chinese Historical Society of America (CHSA) to recount history of Chinese Americans through scholarly essays, oral histories, memoirs, and translations. The journal began publication in 1987. Some of its articles are now available at Goliath. Intersted readers can set up temporary logins at Goliath to retrieve these articles for free.

"Chinese America: History and Perspectives" is also available to the UofT community through two databases, Gale and Expanded Academic ASAP. The coverage of both starts from 2001. Access to the two databaes is restricted to current UofT students, faculty and staff.

OECD: International Migration Outlook 2010

OECD: Interntinal Migration Outlook 2010

For the first time in its annual International Migration Outlook, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development calculated "stay rates" for students converting their status from student to migrant. The 2010 report states that "international students have become a significant group in international migration flows in OECD countries" due to "broader policies to attract and retain highly skilled migrants." Such policies include Canada's facilitation of permanent residency for international graduates. According to figures based on 2007 status changes, the number of student-to-worker status changes is nearly 13,000 in Canada, one of the highest numbers among OECD nations. The OECD reports that the majority of students (61%) who changed status did so for work-related reasons, with a higher share of changes due to marriage in Germany and for humanitarian reasons in Canada.

Latest Issue of The EAL Newsletter Released

The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library releases its July, 2010 issue of The EAL Newsletter, which is now available online at http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eal/web/newsletter.pdf

The East Asian Studies Program at UofT Needs Your Support!

Dear Friends of the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library,

It’s with great concern that we send you what is very distressing news about developments still unfolding at the University of Toronto and solicit your support. The Faculty of Arts and Science has recently proposed in its strategic plan to eliminate the Department of East Asian Studies, starting from the fall of 2011.

The Department of East Asian Studies, with a history for more than 70 years, has been very successful in promoting multi-disciplinary studies in the history, culture and society of the East Asian region. With an enrollment of over 1,000 students, it is one of the largest and most respected East Asian Studies Programs in North America.

The decision by the Faculty of Arts and Science to eliminate this successful department in the biggest university in Canada and at a time when Canada’s political, economic and cultural relations with East Asia are expanding and strengthening is truly regrettable and very unsettling.

The disestablishment of the department will not only harm Canadian research on East Asia, but will also dismantle an important education centre to teach and inform young Canadians about Asian culture and traditions. This will inevitably erode the chance for Asian Canadians to have their culture represented in Canadian society as a whole.

We need your help immediately to reverse and prevent this ill-conceived decision from going forward. If you value East Asian culture, if you care about strengthening East Asian Studies in Canada, and believe in cross-cultural dialogue, please help us with the following efforts:

1. Sign the online petition, ‘Save the East Asian Studies Program at the University of Toronto’ at http://www.petitiononline.com/saveeas/petition.html, and

2. Write to the President OR Vice President with a copy to the Dean of the University to oppose the dissolution of the Department of East Asian Studies. The relevant email and postal addresses appear below. Many thanks for your help and support.

Write a hard copy letter to:

Dr. David Naylor, the President of the University of Toronto

Mailing Address: Dr. David Naylor

Office of the President
University of Toronto
27 King's College Circle, Room 206
Toronto, ON Canada
M5S 1A1

OR

Professor Cheryl Misak, Vice-President and Provost of the University of Toronto

Email: provost@utoronto.ca

Mailing Address: Prof. Cheryl Misak

Simcoe Hall, Room 225
27 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1
Tel: 416.978.2122 Fax: 416.978.3939

With other contact info for cc:

Meric Gertler, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science

email: officeofthedean.artsci@utoronto.ca

Mailing Address: Dean Meric Gertler

University of Toronto

Faculty of Arts & Science

100 St. George Street

Toronto, ON CANADA M5S 3G3

You can find more information about this decision and the developing situation by following these links:

Save East Asian Studies at U of T:

URL: http://saveeastasianstudies.wordpress.com/

Against the integration of the EAS into the new School of Languages and Literatures

URL: http://saveeastasianstudies.wordpress.com/manifesto/

The Varsity article about the A&S changes:

http://thevarsity.ca/articles/31644

（星島日報）多大東亞系將與他系合併.師生震驚發起聯署盼收回成命
http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/2010-07-15/headline1279183583d2606480.html

（星島日報）東亞系一旦湮沒.損失難以彌補
http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/2010-07-15/headline1279183575d2606479.html

（世界日報）多大擬併東亞系 教授不滿

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=122802167763519#!/photo.php?pid=56282612&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=122802167763519&aid=-1&id=28120065

（明報）多大擬砍東亞研究系逾900師生簽名反對文理學院面對6000萬財赤困擾
http://www.mingpaotor.com/htm/News/20100717/tba1.htm

Please also help us spread the message among your friends and whoever may be interested. Thank you all for your support!

Sincerely,

The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library Team

All Research is Fieldwork: A Practical Introduction to Studying in Japan as a Foreign Researcher

The following article published by Levi McLaughlin, an assistant professor of Religion at Wofford College may be of interest to those who are planning to do research in Japan.

Article summary: "This is a short, pragmatic guide designed to assist researchers, particularly graduate students and other novice scholars, through initial stages of Japan-based study. All of the advice here is designed to help researchers address what they should do, how they should do it, and the long-term dividends they can enjoy through careful conduct in the field."

Mclaughlin, Levi. "All Research is Fieldwork: A Practical Introduction to Studying in Japan as a Foreign Researcher." The Asia Pacific-Journal: Japan Focus.

Available online: http://japanfocus.org/-Levi-McLaughlin/3388 (Accessed on July 26, 2010)

EAL Lecture: Hakka Castle Dwellings -- UNESCO World Heritage Site

Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, & Global Asia Studies
@ UTSC jointly present

Hakka Castle Dwellings:

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Presented by Dr. Keith D. Lowe

Friday, July 9, 2010, at 2:30pm

Current Periodical Area, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

Speakers: Dr. Keith D. Lowe (羅金生)

Chair: Dr. Helen Xiaoyan Wu

Date & time: Friday, July 9, 2010 starting at 2:30pm. Light refreshments will be provided.

Location: Current Periodical Area, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

(On the 8^th floor of the Robarts Library at 130 St. George Street, Toronto )

Registration: Seats are limited and registration is required. To register, contact Lucy

Gan by email (lucy.gan@utoronto.ca) or by phone 416-978-1025

Flyer: Downloadable

Language: All talks are in English

Abstract

Utilizing many photographs and diagrams, Dr. Keith Lowe presents a survey of Hakka castle dwellings. He focuses on the tulou (土樓), or round earth castles common to the mountainous Hakka heartland where eastern Fujian adjoins northwestern Guangdong and southern Jiangxi province. He shows how the architecture reflects various stages of Chinese and Hakka history and culture. In 2008, UNESCO declared a group of tolous in Fujian a world heritage site.

Bio of Dr. Keith D. Lowe

A graduate of Harvard College (magna cum laude), Lowe gained the Ph.D. in modern English and American literature at Stanford University. He was a professor at Howard University, Washington DC, and at the University of California at San Diego. He is also an educator specializing in curriculum development and a consultant in multiculturalism.

Dr. Lowe is a descendant of the Lowe clan which devoted three generations to building Crane Lake New Residence near Longgang city in the Shenzhen region. This magnificent walled villa was completed in 1817. The villa is reputed to be the largest five-phoenix villa in GuangdongProvince and possibly in all of China. In 1996, the Shenzhen municipality converted the villa into the Museum of Hakka Customs.

A former president of the Ontario Multicultural Association, Dr. Lowe served two terms as a director of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto. He headed the first and second Toronto Hakka Conference held at York University in December 2000 and December 2004.