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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2009       4:00 PM SPECIAL TAIWAN WRITERS PANEL Taiwan Writers Panel Room 202, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue The presentations will be in Chinese. Three prominent writers from Taiwan discuss the processes of their artistic creation and the current state of Taiwan's literary scene. Zhu Tianwen 朱天文, renowned woman writer, is author of numerous award-winning novels and vanguard of Taiwan's postmodernist fiction in the 1990s. Liu Kexiang 刘克襄, writer of "animal fiction," will be discussing his views on naturalist fiction. Ke Yufen 柯裕棻, Professor of Journalism at National Chengchi University, will talk about his experiences in the United States and return to Taiwan as a scholar and writer. The downloadable PDF files linked below are essays that the panelists will be discussing. For more information: http://eastasianstudies.research.yale.edu/Chu1.pdf http://eastasianstudies.research.yale.edu/Ko1.pdf http://eastasianstudies.research.yale.edu/Ko2.pdf http://eastasianstudies.research.yale.edu/Liu1.pdf http://eastasianstudies.research.yale.edu/Liu2.pdf
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2009       12:00 PM CHINA ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES What is Missing in ‘The Wenzhou Model’? Ritual Economy and Bataille’s Notion of ‘Sovereignty’ in China Mayfair Yang - Professor of Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara Room 105, 10 Sachem Street, Department of Anthropology RSVP by Wednesday, November 10 via email to jun.zhang@yale.edu if you plan to attend. The “Wenzhou Model” is often touted in China as a successful model of rural economic development and rural industrialization. Based on privatized household production, commodity markets, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the local people of Wenzhou have transformed themselves from rural poverty to one of China's most prosperous. However, the Wenzhou Model as described by economists and sociologists has ignored a highly visible phenomenon, the great expenditures on popular rituals and building of ritual sites. Slides from fieldwork in 1991-2008 will illustrate the many dimensions of ritual economy: deity temples, religious processions and festivals, Buddhist and Daoist temples, Protestant and Catholic churches, life-cycle rituals, and lineage ancestor rituals. These religious activities show that the local people are asserting what Georges Bataille has called, their "sovereignty," or freedom from being treated as a mere "tool."