Dear alumni,

Please find below an event announcement which may interest some of you.

Best regards,

PUAASC

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April 26, 2003 Saturday

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Film and Television in China Today: Socialism & the

Market Day-long conference of the Southern California

China Colloquium, to be held at USC 10 am - 5 pm

Social Science Building, Room B40, USC

10 am -- Morning Session: Television Chair: Arthur

Rosenbaum (History, Claremont McKenna College) Chris

Berry (Film Studies, UC Berkeley), "Documentary on

Chinese Television: Public Sphere or Safety Valve?"

Sheldon Xiao-peng Lu (Comparative Literature and Film

Studies, UC Davis), "Years of Burning Passions: The

Drama of Socialism on Chinese TV" T. Y. Lau

(Department of Communication, Univ. of Washington),

"Post-WTO Chinese Media: Rrestructuring and Market

Strategies" Discussant: Richard Baum

(Political Science, UCLA)

1:30 pm -- Afternoon Session: Film Chair: Stanley

Rosen (Political Science, USC) Yingjin Zhang (Chinese

Literature and Film, Comparative Literature, and

Cultural Studies, UCSD), "New Configurations in the

Political Economy of Chinese Filmmaking in Response

to Hollywood since 1995" Shaoyi Sun (East Asian

Languages and Cultures, USC), "The Quiet Revolution:

'Generation X' and the Transformation of the Chinese

Film Industry" Discussants: Paul ickowicz (History,

UCSD), and Shu-mei Shih (East Asian Languages, UCLA)

Professor Huang Shixian, a senior film theorist and

critic from the Beijing Film Academy, will be visiting

USC at that time and will also attend.

The conference is part of the Southern California

China Colloquium. For additional information, please

call (310) 825-8683.

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