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Peter Purdue, Professor of History at Yale University, to discuss Globalization and Trade in Chinese History on Feb. 24th

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Tuesday, February 24th, 1:00 p.m. in Munce Conference Room:

Peter Perdue has a Ph.D. (1981) from Harvard University in the field of History and East Asian Languages. He is the author of Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan 1500-1850 A.D. (Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1987) and China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press, 2005). He has also written on grain markets in China, agricultural development, and environmental history.

His research interests lie in modern Chinese and Japanese social and economic history, history of frontiers, and world history. He is a recipient of the 1988 Edgerton Award and the James A. Levitan Prize at MIT. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.  He is currently Professor of History at Yale University.

This event is a presentation sponsored by the Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies. For more information regarding this event, please contact 617-573-6316 or casnews@suffolk.edu.

Dr. Ronald Suleski lectures on Confucius and Confucianism on November 18th

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A Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies Event:

Dr. Ronald Suleski is a specialist on modern Chinese history and Assistant Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.  His research interests have focused on the period of Republican China during the 1920s and 1930s and he has published on topics covering China, Japan, and Korea.  

Among his publications are Civil Government in Warlord China: Tradition, Modernization and Manchuria (2002), and this year, a book chapter in English on Confucianism in contemporary China, and a booklet in Japanese on the Manchuria Youth Corps, composed of teenaged farm boys sent by the Japanese Government in the 1930s to colonize Manchuria.

Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008 
1:00-2:30pm 
Sawyer 429 
8 Ashburton Place, Boston

Competing in Beijing: China and the 2008 Olympics, the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies Inaugural Event

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First Seminar for the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies: 

By 2010, China and Japan will rank as the world’s second and third largest economies. To meet this challenge and compete in a global marketplace, Suffolk University and Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg ’52 are pleased to announce the inauguration of a world-class Institute for East Asian Studies.

The Rosenberg Institute will serve as Suffolk’s lead platform for learning from and about East Asian history, economics, politics, and peoples. Each year, the Institute will promote exchanges among scholars, business leaders, analysts, faculty, and students through a series of two to three seminars addressing vital topics in the field.

We are proud to invite you to join us on Tuesday, April 8, for the first of these seminars, Competing in Beijing: China and the 2008 Olympics, for an intensive conversation about the risks, challenges, and opportunities presented to China and the world on the eve of this historic moment. 

11:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 8, 2008
The State Room
60 State Street, Boston

Event Schedule

 

11:30 a.m.
Registration and Poster Session

 

12:00 – 1:20 p.m.
Luncheon & Keynote
2008 Beijing Olympics: China’s Watershed and Beyond
Keynote Speaker: Robyn Meredith, Senior Editor, Asia, Forbes
Followed by Q & A.  1:20 – 1:45 p.m Break.

 

1:45 – 2:45 p.m.
Session I — Environment
Preparing for the Olympics: Will the Clean-up Last?
Moderator:  Michéle B. Corash, Partner, Morrison & Foerster
Followed by Q & A, 2:45 – 3:00 p.m Break.

 

3:00 –  4:00 p.m.
Session II — Marketing/Consumerism 
Communicating in China: Lost in Translation?
Moderator: Anders Bengtsson, Assistant Professor of   Marketing, Sawyer Business School
Speaker: Sandy Posa, former Senior Vice President of New Products, The Gillette Company 
Followed by Q &A, 4:00 – 4:15 p.m Break.

 

4:15 – 5:15 p.m.
Session III — Economy
China’s Economy is not a Zero-Sum
Speaker: George Koo, Director, Chinese Services Group, Deloitte & Touche
Followed by Q & A

 

5:15 p.m.
Closing reception with attendees and speakers

Dean Greenberg welcomes the Barbara & Richard M. Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies

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President David J. Sargent, Dean Kenneth S. Greenberg, & Richard M. Rosenberg BSJ ’52, DCS ‘91

The Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies stands at the center of Suffolk University’s commitment to the study of the nations, cultures, and economies of East Asia. Through the Rosenberg Institute, scholars and students, community members and visitors, can gather to attend an array of programs focused on the nations and societies of East Asia.

In the College of Arts and Sciences, we are keenly aware of the key role East Asia plays in a world made smaller by globalization.  This is why we offer courses in the languages, history, arts, and politics of the region.  It is why we encourage our students and faculty to travel to all parts of Asia. And it is why we are adding a multidisciplinary major and minor program in Asian Studies to our undergraduate offerings. The Sawyer Business School and the Law School also offer a variety of courses and programs that link Suffolk University to East Asia.

The Rosenberg Institute serves as the intellectual and organizational hub for all of these activities.  I hope to see you here in the coming months.

-Kenneth S. Greenberg, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences