We have just entered a new lunar year, and things are booming at the Center. Fall semesters are busy, but spring is especially packed with events and activities. The number of lectures, brown bags, symposia, films and workshops seems to grow annually. That is good news. It reflects the size and enthusiasm of our immediate constituency-UW-Madison faculty and students, K-16 teachers, and Wisconsinites interested in East Asia. The Center serves well over fifty faculty members across the campus, and these in turn teach over two hundred courses, with total enrollments of over five thousand per year. Thus, on campus alone there is a substantial and diverse audience.
As this issue of the newsletter shows, UW-Madison's strength in East Asian studies continues to grow, most notably through the addition of talented new faculty members but also through an increase in educational programs and activities. The next few months will see not only an interesting array of speakers but also a number of special events, including symposia on North Korea's engagement with the global economy and on doing business in China in the wake of its entry into the WTO. In addition there will be two summer workshops for teachers: "Demystifying East Asia" for teachers of grades 6-12, and a "K-16 Chinese Language Teachers Workshop." For information on these and other activities, we invite you to visit our web site.
The surge of activity and excitement around the center has been due in large part to the creativity of our faculty and the hard work of our expanded center staff. New funding as a Department of Education (title VI) National Resource Center has made possible this increased level of staffing and activity. The title VI funding has also leveraged other support, both from the university and from outside sources with which we cooperate. We are now in the penultimate year of the current grant and have begun preparing for the next round of competition. Over the course of the next several months we will engage in a dialogue with our faculty and the wider campus community to solicit suggestions for advancing the East Asian program further. Success in this round will allow us to continue to enhance the intellectual life of the university as it relates to East Asia, to support graduate students and faculty in their academic endeavors, and to develop new programs to help increase and spread knowledge concerning East Asia in Wisconsin and the upper Mid-west. The energy that National Resource Center status has brought is no doubt apparent to all. Let's all pull together to maintain our advances and to create new opportunities.
Joe Cutter
Michael Curtin (Ph.D. UW-Madison, 1990) is another new addition to the Dept. of Communication Arts. He comes most recently from Indiana University and has also served as a visiting scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His major interests are film and television as they relate to culture, comparative impact of media across cultures, and the globalization of broadcast media, with particular work on China and Hong Kong.
David Furumoto (B.A. and M.F.A. Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, 1982) joined the faculty fall 2000, as an assistant professor in the Dept. of Theatre and Drama. He hopes to expose American students to traditional Asian theater, including the 400-year-old kabuki style. Last fall he directed a kabuki/no fusion adaptation of the Euripides play "Trojan Woman" for University Theater. His children's theatre play, "Wondrous Tales of Old Japan," has enjoyed successful productions for the Minneapolis Children's Theatre Co., the Mark Taper Forum theatre in Los Angeles and the Honolulu Theatre for Youth.
Melanie Manion (Ph.D. Michigan, 1989) has a joint appointment with the Dept. of Sociology and the La Follette School of Public Affairs .The focus of her research is Chinese politics. Current research and teaching interests are political corruption, informal political institutions, and representation. She is completing a book about corruption control strategies in mainland China and Hong Kong and analyzing data on village elections from a panel survey of Chinese citizens and grassroots leaders conducted in 1990 and 1996.
John Ohnesorge (S.J.D. Harvard, 2002) has joined the Law School and is associated with the East Asian Legal Studies Center. He has engaged in legal employment and research in China and South Korea. His research interests include comparative law and legal history, international trade, and economic development and law.
Kris Olds (Ph.D. University of Bristol, 1996) joined the Dept. of Geography from the National University of Singapore, and brings with him extensive experience and research around the Pacific Rim. He has taught and conducted empirical research in Vancouver Canada (his native city and country), Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and London. His major interests are urban development processes in the Asia-Pacific, the transnational geographies of knowledge production, and global city formation processes.
Zhongdang Pan (Ph.D. UW-Madison, 1990) joined the Dept. of Communication Arts in September. Prof. Pan has held positions at Cornell University, the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania and, most recently, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include media impact, political communication, and public opinion with a special focus on understanding use of media in China’s political reform movements.
Min Shi (Ph.D., Harvard, 2001) has joined the School of Business, Dept. of Finance. Her research interests are international economics and political economy. A native of China, she has conducted research on the impact of exchange rates on trade between East Asia and the United States. She also has experience in short-term assignments with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Victoria Chu takes up the position of Librarian and Bibliographer of the East Asia Collection on March 1. The East Asia Collection, housed in Memorial Library, contains a total of 180,000 books, manuscripts, videos and other materials in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Tibetan languages. Ms. Chu succeeds Dr. Thomas Hahn who left to take a position at Cornell after three years at UW-Madison. Most recently Ms. Chu was librarian at the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library at the University of Toronto. She has held numerous other positions in Canada, Colorado and China. She holds a Master of Information Studies (1997) and a Master of Philosophy in East Asian Studies (1996) from the University of Toronto. She also received the Chinese Certificate from the International Cultural Exchange School at Fudan University, Shanghai (1991). In addition to overseeing the East Asia Collection, Ms. Chu will be responsible for UW-Madison’s active participation in the Digital Asian Library project.
During the week of June 25-29, 2001, the Center for East Asian Studies held an outreach workshop for teachers titled “Demystifying East Asia: Developing Curriculum about China, Japan & Korea for Middle & High School Students” at the Friedrick Center here on campus. Workshop presentations by faculty, staff, and community resources included lectures as well as demonstrations of kabuki, kendo, traditional Korean dance, traditional Chinese dance and participatory workshops on t’ai chi, calligraphy, and cooking.
K-16 Japanese Language Teachers Workshop
“Towards a Better Articulation of K-16 Curriculums for Japanese Language Instruction”
February 2, 2002. In this one-day workshop, participants will enhance their understanding of the existing differences (and similarities) in goals, teaching methods, assessment systems, and cultures set by pre-college and college programs.
“Demystifying East Asia” Workshop for Teachers of Grades 6-12
June 17-21, 2002. This five-day workshop will explore the history & culture of past and present-day China, Japan, & Korea. Participants will have the opportunity to share their teaching experience with each other while also increasing their knowledge of East Asia.
K-16 Chinese Language Teachers Workshop
June 17-21, 2002. Chinese language teachers with focus on language pedagogy, curriculum collaboration, coordination between secondary and post-secondary programs, and skills maintenance for teachers.
Spring 2002 Special Events
“2002 Japan Foundation Film Series”
Wednesdays, 1/30 - 2/20. A series of four popular and art films from Japan within introduction by Dr Jerome Shapiro co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation and Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research at UW-Madison.
“Island of Light: A Symposium on Taiwan Cinema and Popular Culture”
Thursday 3/7 - Saturday 3/9, 4070 Vilas Hall. Sponsored by Center for East Asian Studies, Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research and the Dept. of East Asian Lang. & Lit. with support from the Anonymous Fund at UW-Madison.
“North Korea’s Engagement with the Global Economy: Prospects & Challenges”
April 12. A symposium sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies at UW-Madison and the Korean Economic Institute (Washington, DC); co-sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies Center, CIBER (Center for Int’l Business Education & Research), WAGE (World Affairs & the Global Economy), and the Land Tenure Center at UW-Madison.
“Doing Business in China: What Difference Does WTO Entry Make?”
May 23, Pyle Center. A symposium sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies, co-sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies Center CIBER and WAGE.
With support from the U.S. Dept. of Education, the Center has been able to expand the number of special guest lectures by distinguished scholars in the field of East Asian Studies. Support for some lectures in the series was also received from the University Lectures Committee, the Anonymous Fund, and the Humanistic Fund.
Spring 2001
Han S. Park, Director, Center for the Study of Global Issues, Univ. of Georgia.
“The Anatomy of North-South Korean Relations.” [co-sponsored with the East Asian Legal Studies Center and Tiger 2000: Committee for Korean Studies with funding from the University Lectures Committee]. March 1.
Thomas Scharping, Prof., Modern Chinese Studies, University of Cologne, Germany. “Chinese Birth Planning in the Nineties & the New Population Census of Nov. 2000.” March 21
Laurel Kendall, Curator, Asian Ethnographic Collection, American Museum of Natural History, New York. “Gods, Ghosts and Goods: Consumption in the Korean Shaman World” [co-sponsored with Tiger 2000 with funding from University Lectures Committee]. March 26.
Regine Thiriez, Institut d’Asie Orientale, Lyon, France “Early Photographic Images of China” [co-sponsored with Dept. of Art History]. March 28.
Huang Yushan, Tainan National College of the Arts. “Spring Cactus” (Taiwan, 105 min., 1999), film showing and discussion with the director [co-sponsored with Chinese Language and Culture Club with funding from University Lectures Committee]. April 6.
Ken DeWoskin, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. of Asian Languages and Culture, Univ. of Michigan. “The Great Web of China: From Bronze to Bamboo to Bandwidth” [co-sponsored with Center for International Business Education & Research]. April 24.
Perry Link, Prof., Chinese Language and Literature, Princeton Univ. “Editing the Tiananmen Papers” [co-sponsored with Dept. of East Asian Languages & Literature with funding from University Lectures Committee]. April 27.
William Kelly, Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University. “Men at Work: The Demonstration Effects of Professional Baseball in Japan”
[co-sponsored with Dept. of Anthropology with funding from University Lectures Committee]. May 3
.Lectures in Connection with an Exhibit at the Elvehjem Museum of Art (March 11 - May 14, 2001): “Heaven and Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics of China from the Robert Barron Collection”
Alfreda Murck, Adjunct Prof., History Dept., Peking Univ. “Objects of Meditation: Song Dynasty Tea Wares” [co-sponsored with Dept. of Art History]. March 21.
Virginia Bower, Ph.D. candidate, Princeton Univ. “Beauty and Elegance: The Subtle Splendor of Song Ceramics” [co-sponsored with Dept. of Art History and Elvehjem Museum]. March 29.
Robert D. Mowry, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard Univ. “Blue and Green: Chinese Ceramics of the Song Dynasty” [co-sponsored with Dept. of Art History and Elvehjem Museum]. April 5.
Ronald Egan, Prof., Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara. “The Elusive Bowl: Locating Ceramics in Song Dynasty Culture” [co-sponsored with Depts. of East Asian Lang. & Lit. and Art History with funding from University Lectures Committee]. April 19.
Fall 2001
Xu Jilin, Prof., Dept. of History, Shanghai Normal University and Visiting Scholar at Harvard-Yenching Institute. “Reflections on the Controversy between ‘Liberalism’ and ‘New Leftism’ in the P.R.C.” October 11.
Harold Bolitho, Prof., Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilization., Harvard Univ. “Tidings from the Twilight Zone: The Hijacking of Buddhist Rebirth.” a talk on Japanese Buddhism in the Meiji era. October 18.
Charles Holcombe, Associate Prof. of History, Univ. of Northern Iowa. “Immigrants and Strangers: From Cosmopolitanism to Confucian Universalism in Tang China.” November 1.
Stephen H. West, Prof., Dept. of East Asian Languages & Cultures, University of California-Berkeley. “Imperial Gardens in Northern Song China: Spectacle, Ritual, and Social Relations.” [co-sponsored by Dept. of Art History] November 8.
Elliot Sperling, Chair, Dept. of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University. "Religion and Politics along the Ming-era Sino-Tibetan Frontier." [co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia] November 12.
Karin Lee, East Asia Quaker International Affairs Representative, American Friends Service Committee. “Reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula: From Politics to Policy?” November 29.
Fan Ziye, Prof. of Chinese Literature, Heilongjiang Univ., Harbin. “Early Medieval Chinese Literature.” December 13
“On the Edge, Over the Edge: Hong Kong Cinema and Popular Culture” Film Festival and Symposium. Co-sponsored with Communication Arts, Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research, and Cinematheque. March 1-3, 2001.
“Light in the East: New Asian Cinema” Film Series at the Wisconsin Film Festival.
[co-sponsored with Tiger 2000: Committee for Korean Studies] March 29 - April 1, 2001.
Kendo Exhibition. Organized by Professor Minoru Kiyota, Professor J. Mark Kenoyer and Adam G. Pergament. Sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies, the Center for South Asia, the Dept. of Kineseology and the Dept. of Anthropology. November 22, 2001.
The Center hosts informal lunchtime presentations by East Asia faculty and visiting scholars on the UW-Madison campus to stimulate cross-discipline discussion and research.
Spring 2001
Edward Friedman, Prof., Dept. of Political Science, “How China has Defeated the International Human Rights Movement.”
Julia Murray, Prof., Dept. of Art History. “Bringing Confucius to the South: Relics and Representations at the Qinqpu Kongzhi.”
Nicole Huang, Assistant Prof., Dept. of East Asian Languages & Literature. “Courtyard Facing the Sun: Urban Communal Cultures from the Chinese Cultural Revolution”.
Jim Raymo, Prof., Dept. of Sociology, Center for Demography and Ecology. “Analysis of Marriage in Japan.”
Fall 2001
M. Giovanna Merli, Assistant Prof., Sociology, “Prospects for Change in the Chinese Family Planning Program: Notes from the Field.”
Brett Sheehan, Assistant Prof., History. "Money, Trust and Crisis in Republican Tianjin."
Talant Mawkanuli, Lecturer, Languages and Cultures of Asia. “Islam in China: Beijing’s New Political Challenges from Its Muslim Communities.”
James O’Brien, Prof., East Asian Languages & Literature. "Animals in Modern Japanese Poetry."
Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS)
Four full-year FLAS fellowships and two or three summer FLAS fellowships are available through the Center for East Asian Studies. These fellowships, provided by the U.S. Dept. of Education, support graduate students studying Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Tibetan, either in Asia or on campus.
The following were awarded fellows in the 2001 round:
Summer 2001:
Margo A. Baxter (Art History), Japanese
Jeffery A. Bernard (Geography), Chinese
Warren D. Child (East Asian Lang. & Lit.), Japanese
Academic Year, 2001-02:
Warren D. Child ((East Asian Lang. & Lit.), Japanese
David Herrmann (East Asian Lang. & Lit.), Chinese
Thomas J. Holter (Law), Chinese
Janet L. Spurgeon (Art History), Japanese
Chinese Language Study in Taiwan
The Center administers two full year scholarships for study of Chinese at one of eleven universities in Taiwan. The scholarships are provided by the Taiwan Ministry of Education through the Taiwan Education and Culture Office in Chicago
Dimitri Kessler and Nicolaus Wilk received scholarships in 2001 and are currently studying at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei.
The Center sponsored an Interdisciplinary East Asia Graduate Student Gathering on October 19. About 25 graduate students from various departments who are working on subjects related to East Asia met to share their research interests. In response to the enthusiasm shown at the gathering, the Center is organizing an East Asia Graduate Student Brown Bag Series in the spring of 2002 where students can present their ongoing research.
Recent news on some East Asia graduate students:
Mark Dennis, Ron Green, Chan Ju Mun and Adam Pergament (Buddhist Studies, Languages and Cultures of Asia) completed work on a translation from Classical Chinese of “Transmission of the Dharma in Three Countries,” by the 13th century Japanese scholar-monk Gyonen.
Dana A. Freiburger (History of Science) presented a paper, "Hantaro Nagaoka and the Spectroscope," at a workshop on the history and sociology of spectroscopy held in Munich, Germany in September. The paper explored perspectives on the work of Professor Nagaoka (early 20th c. physicist) as a way to understand this period in Japan.
Hideaki Fujiki (Film Studies) is currently teaching at Nagoya University while writing his thesis on the social roles and cultural meanings of cinema stars in pre-war Japan.
Jinxin Huang (Political Science) spent the fall semester in China conducting research for her dissertation on comparative pension reform in China and other socialist states.
Richard C. Miller (School of Music) spent the past year at the National Ethnology Museum in Osaka, with a grant from the Asian Cultural Council, conducting research for his dissertation on "The Role of Music in the Globalization of Regional And National Identity: A Cultural History of Western Song in Imperial Japan, 1880-1945.” He was also selected for the SSRC Japan Studies Dissertation Workshop in Monterey, California in January 2002.
Hyunjoon Park (Sociology) is analyzing and comparing the process of social stratification in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. His main focus is on cross-national differences in inequality in social mobility, education, and health status.
Joseph Wong completed his Ph.D. in Political Science in May with his dissertation on health care and democracy in South Korea and Taiwan. He is now teaching at the University of Toronto.
Sujane Wu received her Ph.D. in Chinese Language and Literature in May. Her annotated translation of the biography of Lu Yun (262-303) will be published in the 2001 edition of Early Medieval China Journal.
The Center for East Asian Studies offers a B.A. in Asian Studies with a concentration in East Asia. East Asian majors are students interested in careers in teaching, research, business, public service, law and a variety of other areas related to East Asia. In order to promote the major and stimulate interest in East Asia study abroad programs, the Center organized an Undergraduate Open House on Wednesday, October 17. Students from around the campus were able to meet with students returning from study abroad, international program administrators, Dept. advisors and other students interested in East Asia. As a result of the Open House, which will become an annual event, new students have declared an East Asia Studies major and others are applying for study abroad programs in China, Japan and Korea.
On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, the second East Asian Studies Undergraduate Colloquium was held. Three undergraduates presented papers:
Sara Allen (senior), “The Evil Concubine: Historical Construction of Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi.”
Adam Bridge (senior), “Tibetans as a Minority Nationality of the People’s Republic of China.”
Benjamin Deitle (senior), “Chang: A Tibetan Indigenous Alcoholic Beverage from a Cultural Perspective.”
Nothing can compare with the experience of living and studying in East Asia as a way for students to gain an in-depth understanding of the region. UW-Madison sponsors several study abroad programs in China, Japan and South Korea for undergraduates. Students may also avail themselves of programs sponsored by other U.S. universities or by universities abroad. There are summer sessions, single semester and academic year programs. Between summer 2000 and fall 2001, 39 UW undergraduates studied in East Asia through the various UW sponsored programs: 24 in Japan (five sites), 8 in China (three sites), and 7 in Hong Kong. A new student exchange program with Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea will begin in the summer of 2002. The Center is also on the Board of the Inter-University Program (IUP) for Chinese Language Studies and the Inter-University Center (IUC) for Japanese Studies. For more information on these programs, contact the Center.
Faculty from across the campus engaged in research and teaching about East Asia attended Fall and Spring receptions sponsored by the Center. Director Joe Cutter welcomed new faculty members and visiting scholars. This regular event allows Center faculty to become better acquainted with the work and interests of their peers in other departments.
Space limitations permit us to present only the highlights of the many activities and accomplishments of selected faculty over the past year:
David Bordwell’s (Communication Arts) book entitled Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard, 2000), was just published in Chinese translation (Hong Kong: Arts Council/ Film Critics Society, 2001). In Summer 2001, he lectured on Asian Film in Argentina, Frankfurt, Berlin and Belgium.
He recently received the Hilldale Professorship award (Spring 2001), the Hilldale Award in the Humanities (2000-2001), and the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Foundation Visiting Lectureship for a two-week visit to the Academy of Performing Arts, Hong Kong (November 2001).
Robert Joe Cutter (East Asian Studies; East Asia Lang. & Lit.) continues as director of the Center and as East Asia Sectional Chair of the American Oriental Society. In February 2002, he presented a paper at the International Court Culture meeting in Calistoga, CA. He also has a chapter on early, and early medieval, Chinese poetry in the just published The Columbia History of Chinese Literature.
Charo B. D'Etcheverry (East Asia Lang. & Lit.) has recently published "Cannibalizing Memory: Teika, Sanetaka, and Fujioka's Sagoromo," in Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies (vol. 1, summer, 2000). Her work "Sagoromo and Asukai", a translation from the 11th century court tale, is forthcoming in an anthology on classical Japanese literature. Currently she is also writing an article on "funny" voyeurs in Japanese court tales.
Edward Friedman (Political Science) traveled to Taiwan in November to observe the parliamentary elections and participate in a conference on democratization. Earlier in the year he made several trips to the P.R.C. where he lectured on Taiwan at universities in Shanghai and continued his research on village politics. His co-authored book, Revolution, Resistance and Reform in Village China, the sequel to the prize-winning Chinese Village, Socialist State, is forthcoming from Yale University Press. Among the many chapters and articles published in 2001 are “Lone Eagle, Lone Dragon? How the Cold War did not End in China,” in Eagle Rules? Foreign Policy and American Primacy in the Twenty-First Century (Robert Lieber, ed., Prentice Hall); “Why the idea ‘Western Democracy’ is a Foreign Policy Issue in China and Elsewhere,” in The PRC and the Asia-Pacific Region (Chen Wen-chun, ed.); and “Still Building the Nation: The Causes and Consequences of China’s Patriotic Fervor,” in Chinese Political Culture (Hua Shiping, ed., M.E. Sharpe). Professor Friedman was instrumental in obtaining a major grant from the government of Taiwan for development of Taiwan Studies at UW-Madison.
James Mandiberg (School of Social Work ) traveled to Japan to give a series of talks on innovations in Japanese mental health services, in late December 2001. While there he was able to pursue some mid-stream research on two studies: Iwakura, a natural support system for people with mental illness that arose during the Japanese Feudal period; and a study of the “grey economy” in Sanya and Kamagasaki.
Naomi McGloin (East Asian Lang. & Lit.) became chair of the Dept. of East Asia Languages and Literature in summer 2001. She also continues to serve on the Board of the Association of Teachers of Japanese (2000-2003). She read an invited paper entitled "Markers of Epistemic vs. Affective Stances: Desyoo vs. Zyanai," at UCLA in October 2000. The paper will appear in Japanese/Korean Linguistics.
Akira Miura (East Asian Lang. & Lit.) has completed an article in Japanese entitled "Changes That Have Occurred to the Japanese Language Over the Last Few Decades.” The article will be included in a book to be published in 2002 in memory of the late Prof. Akira Komai of Nanzan University. Professor Miura is also one of the two co-authors of an advanced Japanese reader, “Twenty People Who Participated in the Modernization of Japan,” published by the ALC Publishing Company (Tokyo) in December. In March 2001, Professor Miuru was presented a certificate of appreciation by the Consul General of Japan in Chicago for serving as chief judge for the annual Chicago Japanese speech contest for the past ten years. He traveled in Japan in the summer and gave lectures in Kanoya, Kagoshima, Hakodate and Sapporo.
Julia K. Murray (Art History) published several articles recently including "The Admonitions Scroll and Didactic Images of Women in Early China" in the June issue of Orientations and "Portraits of Confucius: Icons and Iconoclasm," in the autumn issue of Oriental Art. In summer 2001 she explored and conducted research on a Ming-Qing shrine to Confucius near Shanghai, where the clothing and cap of Confucius purportedly had once been buried by a 7th-century descendant. The site had been demolished by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution.
William H. Nienhauser, Jr (East Asia Lang. & Lit.) continues his work on a translation of the Shih chi, Grand Scribe's Records. Two graduate students, Weiguo Cao and Scott W. Galer, are assisting with the current volume 2 which will be published by Indiana University Press in 2002. Professor Nienhauser presented two papers at the Second International Conference on Han Dynasty Literature and History at Fu-jen University, Taiwan, in April 2001. He received an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grant (June 2001) to visit Erlangen and Munich universities in Germany and also participated in the Workshop on Ethics East and West held at Academie di Midi, Alets-les-Bains, France. Professor Nienhouser read an English version of "Syntactical Problems and the Composition of the Shih chi" at Yamatagata University in Yonezawa, Japan, in October.
James Raymo (Sociology and Center for Demography & Ecology) is currently engaged in research on work-family interface among older Japanese men and women. This work is based on a national longitudinal study of Japanese population aged 60 and over and is being conducted in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Michigan and the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology. Professor Raymo traveled to Tokyo in June and gave three talks on his research, including a presentation at the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research.
Kenneth D. West (Economics) recently completed a paper entitled "Interest Rates and Exchange Rates in the Korean, Philippine and Thai Exchange Rate Crisis," (with Dongchul Cho, Korean Development Institute), forthcoming in M. Dooley and J. Frankel (eds) Currency Crises. The paper concludes that interest rate increases stabilized exchange rates in those three countries, during the crisis of 1997-98.
Director: Robert J. Cutter
Associate Director: Edward P. Reed
Outreach Coordinator: Hope Rennie
Project Assistants: Sangeeta Desai and Ron Green
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