WINTER 2005 BULLETIN

Events

	Wednesday, 5 January 2005, 3:30pm-5:00pm
		Asian Languages and Literature Colloquium Series Colloquium lectures are free and open to the public Keith Dede, Lewis and Clark College "The Anti-Agent: [ha] in Huangshui Chinese" Communications 226, University of Washington campus
	Tuesday, 22 February 2005, 3:30pm-5:00pm
		Asian Languages and Literature Colloquium Series Colloquium lectures are free and open to the public Zev Handel, University of Washington "Reconstructing Old Chinese Pronunciation" Communications 206, University of Washington campus
	Thursday, 10 March 2005, 7:00pm
		John Christopher Hamm, University of Washington Author Event: Professor Hamm will speak about his newly published book Paper Swordsmen: Jin Yong and the Modern Chinese Martial Arts Novel. University Book Store, 4326 University Way, (206) 634-3400 Free parking available with store validation

Additional events are planned which have not yet been scheduled. Check the department web site's news and events page for future updates.

2005 Andrew L. Markus Memorial Lecture Professor Pauline Yu, President, American Council of Learned Societies Title TBA Wednesday, May 11, 2005, 8:00 p.m. Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall

More details on the Markus Memorial Lecture will be provided in the Spring Bulletin.

Recent Faculty Publications

	Paper Swordsmen: Jin Yong and the Modern Chinese Martial Arts Novel
		Professor John Christopher Hamm "Paper Swordsmen is by far the best treatment in a Western language of a long-neglected topic in Chinese popular culture. Primal notions of bravery, health, cultivation, skill, justice, loyalty, and romantic love are at the core of martial arts fiction. In the modern context of Jin Yong's Hong Kong, issues of foreign incursion, cultural rootedness, nationalism, and a sometimes-flawed 'national character' also come to the fore. Hamm weaves these strands together and sets them perceptively into their Hong Kong/Guangdong context as well as the larger Chinese cultural world." --Perry Link, Princeton University University of Hawai'i Press, November 2004 ISBN 0-8248-2763-5

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