Chinese Studies Center
Phone: 323.343.4247
The Chinese Study Center at California State University, Los Angeles was established in 1980 for the purpose of strengthening and preserving Chinese culture and history while easing and hastening assimilation of new Chinese immigrants into mainstream American life.
Objectives
1. To support the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in establishing and maintaining a major in Chinese.
2. To support and help to sustain, according to need/demand, resident credit for courses on China and Chinese culture, as well as courses on Chinese-Americans, in various appropriate academic departments on the CSLA campus.
3. To develop and produce curricular materials on Chinese-American and Chinese culture, traditions, and life, for use in humanities and General Education courses at CSLA and/or for use in other post-secondary and secondary institutions. Such materials will exclude political and sectarian content.
4. To promote, coordinate, and conduct research activities related to the Center's main purpose, and to collect and act as repository for archives, monographs and periodical literature related to that purpose.
5. To develop and sponsor seminars, symposia, conferences, workshops, and exhibits on Chinese culture and on the role of the Chinese people in America.
6. To function as liaison between the University and the Chinese community. The Center acts as a cultural resource center for the CSLA campus and for the Chinese community.
7. To work with representatives from the Chinese community to seek outside funding from external agencies to support the Center's activities.
8. To assist in those extracurricular activities of ethnic Chinese students at CSLA that further the overall objectives of the Center.
9. To Provide scholarships for students with demonstrated interests in Chinese studies.
Organization
Director:
Dr. Kylie Hsu, Professor of Chinese and Linguistics
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Advisory Committee:
A. Community Leaders
Betty Cheung, Director of the North America Chinese Writers’ Association
Major Tsai, Chairman of the American Chinese Culture and Education Foundation
Chien Hsiung Wu, Advisor to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission
Monique Wu, President of the Association for Chinese Culture and Ethical Education in America
Wen-hsiung Yen, President of the Chinese American Musicians Association
Doris Yu, Director (former President) of the North America Chinese Writers’ Association
B. CSLA Faculty
Jun Liu, Department of English
Stephen Ma, Department of Political Science
ChorSwang Ngin, Department of Anthropology
Hong-Lie Qiu, Department of Geography and Urban Analysis
Ping Yao, Department of History
Qingyun Wu, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Activities
The strength and vitality of the Chinese Study Center is manifest in the number and variety of activities that it sponsors. Over the past five years, these include:
Symposium on Unification between Mainland China and Taiwan
Symposium on Confucius
Annual Chinese Poetry Recitation Contest
A Grand Reception Meeting for famous Chinese painters Xie Zhiliu and Chen Peiqiu
Talks by
Tianzhen Xie, "The Development of Literature in Post-Mao China";
Stephen Yee, "Chinese Classical Poetry: Tang Shi & Song Ci";
Wu Tianming "The Cinematic Art of the Fifth Generation in China";
C. Y. Lee, "Writing China in America";
Thomas Beebee, "The Lettered Women: Variations of a Metaphor";
Zhao Baoxu, "Where Is China Going?: Prospects of China's Reform,"
Theodore Huters, "Impossible Representations: Flowers in the Sea of Retributions,"
Organization of group activities: Bejing Opera, Taiwan Artists Painting Exhibition
Co-Sponsorship of the Southern California Campaign of Ethnic and Moral Education
Creation of the Major Tsai Scholarship in Chinese
Organization of a painting exhibition a lecture by Zheng Baizhong
Presentation of the film and lecture: "Female Sex vs. Power: Red Firecrackers and Green Firecrackers,"
Co-sponsored the Confucius Commemorative Day Celebration and a symposium on "Cufucian culture in relation to other cultures in the 20th century"