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Analysis and Commentary:
Alphabetical List of Contributors:

Yuong-seo Baik,
Avron Boretz,
Cindy Chan,
(Chan from Chiao Film Roundtable or Dai Film Roundtable)
Yvonne Chang,
Chan from Chiao Film Roundtable or Dai Film Roundtable)
Yangu Chen,
Hsiung-Ping Peggy Chiao,
Sechin Y.-S. Chien,
Zhiyuan Cui,
Jinhua Dai,
(Dai From Dai Film Roundtable or Dushu Article),
John Downing,
Malcolm Gillis,
Robert Kapp,
Chiu-Mi Lai,
Nicholas R. Lardy,
Kuan Yew Lee,
R.C.T. Lee,
Russell Leong,
Sola Liu,
Zaifu Liu,
Lai Mao,
Horace Newcomb,
David Ownby,
Greg Pak,
Tom Schatz,
Yu-Li Sun,
Ross Terrill
Wei-Ming Tu,
Hui Wang,
Meng Wang,
Chengxu Yang,
Feng-Huang Ying,
Margherita Zanasi,
Jianying Zha


Coming Soon:
"Writing and Filmmaking in the Asian American Diaspora"
Transcript of a Roundtable Discussion on Identity, Writing and
Filmmaking in the Asian American Diaspora With
Chiu-Mi Lai, Rice University
Russell Leong, Poet/Writer/Documentary Filmmaker of UCLA,
Greg Pak, Independent Filmmaker from New York,
Saturday, February 24, 2001
Baker Institute for Public Policy
(Co-Sponsored by the Transnational China Project, the Center for the Study of Cultures,
Asian American Film Festival, the Chinese Community Center)

"Contemporary Culture Debates in China:
Selected Articles From the PRC's Premier Intellectual Forum,
Dushu (Reader), and Tianya (Horizon) Magazine
Articles by
Yuong-seo Baik,
Yangu Chen,
Sechin Y.-S. Chien,
Zhiyuan Cui,
Jinhua Dai,
Hui Wang,
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"Commentary on Feminism, Film and Literary Culture"
Roundtable Discussion with
Cindy Chan,
Yvonne Chang,
Jinhua Dai,
Fenghuang Ying
(Sponsored by the Transnational China Project and the
Department of Asian Studies of the University of Texas at Austin
September 8, 1999)
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"Contemporary Chinese Cinema in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong:
A Collective Force in the Global Market"
Transcript of A Roundtable Discussion With
Peggy Hsiung-ping Chiao, Director, Taiwan Film Center and UT Faculty:
Avron Boretz (UT Asian Studies)
Cindy Chan (UT Radio-Television-Film)
Yvonne Chang (UT Asian Studies)
John Downing (UT Radio-Television-Film)
Horace Newcomb (UT Radio-Television-Film)
Tom Schatz (UT Radio-Television-Film)
Margherita Zanasi (UT Asian Studies)
April 17, 2001
(Co-Sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies and Department of Radio-TV-Film at UT-Austin, and the
Transnational China Project)
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"Financial Crisis in East Asia:
Underlying and Precipitating Factors"
Professor Malcolm Gillis
Rice University
Brief Biographical Note:
Dr. Gillis is an Economist Specializing in Fiscal Reform and Environmental Policy. He has Extensive Experience as an Advisor to Governments and Non-Governmental Organizations in Asia, Africa and the Americas, and was Recently Honored by President Kim Dae Jung for Helping Korea Successfully Cope with the Financial Crisis in East Asia. In Addition to Being the Ervin Kenneth Zingler Professor of Economics, Dr. Gillis Currently Serves as the Sixth President of Rice University.
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This Essay is a Chapter in a Forthcoming Book, Trade, Development and Political Economy: Essays in Honor of Anne O. Krueger, Edited by Deepak Lal and Richard Snape, and Published by Palgrave Publishers, June 2001. It is Reproduced Here Courtesy of Dr. Gillis and Palgrave Publishers, the Copyright Holders. For More Information on Current Issues in International Political Economy and this Book, See the Website of Palgrave Publishers

"American Corporate Values and Chinese Society"
Dr. Robert Kapp,
President, US-China Business Council
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Transcript of Recent Public Lecture
"Integrating China Into the Global Economy"
Dr. Nicholas Lardy
Brookings Institution
April 29, 2002
(Co-Sponsored by Asia Society of Texas and the
Asian Studies Program and Center for the Study of Culture at Rice University)
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"Meltdown in Asia"
Kuan Yew Lee
Senior Minister, Singapore
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"The Serious Problems Facing Mankind"
Professor R.C.T. Lee,
Chinan University
(Co-Sponsored by Fondren Library and the
North American Chinese Writers' Association -- Southern Chapter
September 15, 2000)
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"From the Epic Era to the Prose Era"
Zaifu Liu
Former Director, Institute of Philosophy,
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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"The Nuts and Bolts of Transforming State Enterprises in China:
Experiences of an Expert on Small Scale Privatization"
Lai Mao,
Shanghai Municipal Government Advisor,
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"Falungong as a Cultural Revitalization Movement:
An Historian Looks at Recent Events in China"
Prof. David Ownby
University of Montreal
(Rice University, October 20, 2000)
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"Chinese Culture and Public Art"
Yu-Li Sun,
Noted Singaporean Sculptor
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(For visual materials associated with his talk, see his Quest website,
And the BC-AD website for more examples of
modern interpretations of traditional Chinese art)

"The New Chinese Empire:
And What It Means for the United States"
Dr. Ross Terrill
Research Associate,
Fairbanks Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University
April 24, 2003, Baker Hall, Rice University
(Co-Sponsored by Asia Society of Texas)
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"Asian Values and the Asian Economic Crisis:
A Confucianist Perspective"
Prof. Wei-Ming Tu,
Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute
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"Diverging Cultural Values in Contemporary China"
Meng Wang,
Novelist and Former Minister of Culture, PRC
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"Issues in Contemporary Chinese Literature"
An Informal Roundtable Discussion by Three Authors:
Meng Wang,
Sola Liu,
Jianying Zha
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"China in the Eyes of a Chinese"
Commentary on Economic Development, Political Stability and Democratization by
Ambassador Chengxu Yang, President,
China Institute for International Studies
(Baker Institute for Public Policy, December 8, 2000)
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"Taiwanese Literary Studies in America"
Two Bibliographic and Critical essays in Chinese by Feng-Huang Ying
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