Asia Institute. Records.
1976-2005.
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Title: Asia Institute. Records.
Identifier/Call Number: University Archives Record Series 788
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3.2 linear ft.
3 cartons, 1 half document box
Date: 1976-2005
Abstract: Record Series 788 contains the records of the Asia Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Creator:
University of California, Los Angeles. Asia Institute.
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Historical Note
The Asia Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles was formed in 2003 when the Center for East Asian Studies
was combined with the Asia-Pacific Institute. Under the larger umbrella of UCLA's International Institute, the Asia Institute
supports East Asian studies at UCLA and the surrounding community through the use of Title VI funds and by providing administrative
support to the many centers at UCLA that promote Asian Studies. Additionally, the Asia Institute conducts a number of its
own initiatives in support of Asian Studies. This includes coordinating events and carrying out activities in accordance with
its responsibilities as a Title VI National Resource Center.
While the Asia Institute and its many precursors have changed over the years, their relationship with University of Southern
California's (USC) East Asian Studies Center has persisted since 1975. Together, they comprise the Joint East Asian Studies
Center. It is under this entity that USC and UCLA applies for Title VI funds. As a Title VI National Resource Center, the
Asia Institute supports East Asian Studies by administering fellowships to students and faculty, by supporting language and
regional studies, by coordinating and organizing events such lectures and conference, and by conducting outreach to local
K-12 institutions. In addition, the Institute administers a series of Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships
that provides students with funds to study abroad.
R. Bin Wong was appointed Director of the Asia Institute in 2004 to replace Interim Director Richard Baum. Other faculty prominently
involved in the Institute or its precursors include James Tong, Fred Notehelfer, Russell Campbell, and Lucie Cheng.
Scope and Content
Record Series 788 contains the records of the Asia Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. Files include grant
proposals, administrative files, correspondence, photographs, and records documenting events and activities coordinated by
the Asia Institute.
This is an active record series; additional University records are expected to be added.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Title VI materials. Series 1.
1976-2003.
Scope and Contents note
Includes Title VI proposals and reports submitted to the Department of Education by the Asia Institute, as well as evaluations
of submitted proposals and support materials used to write proposals and reports. Typically, Title VI grants have been used
to support Asian Studies at various levels, from elementary school to graduate level studies. The grant also funds the Foreign
Language and Area Studies Fellowships administered by the Asia Institute, which supports students studying abroad in East
Asian countries. Files include proposals, correspondence, publicity materials, and materials regarding Asian Studies courses.
Box 1, Folders 1-2
1976-1979 - Proposal.
July 1, 1976.
Box 1, Folders 3-4
1981-1982 - Renewal proposal.
April 27, 1981.
Box 1, Folder 5
1984-1985 - Continuation proposal.
December 19, 1983.
Box 1, Folders 6-7
1985 - Proposal (Appendices only).
December 1984.
Box 1, Folder 8
1986-1987 - Continuation proposal.
December 2, 1985.
Box 1, Folder 9
1987-1988 - Continuation proposal.
December 5, 1986.
Box 1, Folders 10-12
1988-1989 - Renewal proposal.
February 1, 1988.
Box 1, Folder 13
1989-1990 - Continuation proposal.
December 2, 1988.
Box 1, Folder 14
1990 - Reviewers comments.
Circa 1990.
Box 1, Folder 15
1990-1991 - Continuation proposal.
December 1, 1989.
Box 1, Folders 16-17
1991-1992 - Proposal.
November 15, 1990.
Box 1, Folder 18
1991-1996 Application and reporting guidelines.
March 21, 1991-August 8, 1995.
Box 1, Folder 19
1992-1993 - Continuation proposal.
November 15, 1991.
Box 1, Folder 20
Supporting documents.
1992-1996.
Box 1, Folder 21
1993-1994 - Continuation proposal.
November 6, 1992.
Box 1, Folder 22
1994 - Reviewers' comments.
April 6, 1994.
Box 1, Folders 23-25
1994-1995 - Renewal proposal.
November 2, 1993.
Box 1, Folder 26
1995-1997 - Continuation proposal.
November 1, 1994.
Box 1, Folder 27
1996-1997 - Reports.
April 9, 1998.
Box 1, Folder 28
1996-1997 - Supporting documents.
1997.
Box 2, Folder 1
1997-2000 - Proposal.
November 1, 1996.
Box 2, Folder 2
1997-2000 - Reports.
March 31, 1998-August 5, 2002.
Box 2, Folder 3
1998-1999 - Supporting documents.
March 27, 1998-Winter 1999.
Box 2, Folder 4
Reviewers' comments.
Circa 1999.
Box 2, Folder 5
Supporting documents.
October 1999.
Box 2, Folder 6
2000 - Notes for proposal.
March 29, 1999-October 5, 1999.
Box 2, Folder 7
Supporting documents.
2000-2001.
Box 2, Folder 8
2000-2003 - Proposal.
October 15, 1999.
Box 2, Folder 9
2000-2003 - Reviewers' comments.
2000.
Box 2, Folder 10
2002 - Supporting documents.
May 11, 2002-November 4, 2002.
Box 2, Folder 11
2003-2006 - Reviewers' Comments.
2003.
Administrative files. Series 2.
1978-2003.
Scope and Contents note
Includes grant proposals (with the exception of Title VI grants), files from the centers supported by the Asia Institute,
strategic plans, meeting minutes, correspondence, and reports.
Box 2, Folder 12
Chinese Studies Center course guides.
1990-1992; 1994-1995.
Box 2, Folder 13
Center for East Asian Studies - Reports.
1999-2002.
Box 2, Folder 14
Center for Japanese Studies, Renaming proposal.
2005.
Box 2, Folder 15
Center for Korean Studies brochures.
1999.
Box 2, Folders 16-17
Center for Pacific Rim Studies - Reports.
1987; 1993; 1999.
Box 2, Folder 18
Centers within the International Institute - Reports.
2003.
Box 2, Folder 19
Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia (CIRA) administration.
2000-2002.
Box 2, Folders 20-23
CIRA Fellowship funded proposals.
2000-2003.
Box 2, Folder 24
CIRA plan for Transnational and Transcolonial Studies: A Multicampus Group.
2000.
Box 2, Folder 25
Correspondence - General.
1996-1997; 2000-2002.
Box 2, Folders 26-28
East Asian Library - Reports.
1991-1992; 1993-1994; 1997-1998; 1999-2002.
Box 2, Folder 30
Fundraising - General contact information and correspondence.
1988; 1994; 1997-1998.
Box 2, Folder 31
Grant - Center for Digital Innovation.
2001.
Box 2, Folder 32
Grant - Freeman Foundation.
2001.
Box 2, Folder 33
Grants - National Endowment for the Humanities.
1978; 1998.
Box 2, Folder 34
Grant - Teaching About Japan.
2000-2001.
Box 2, Folder 35
Meeting Minutes - Steering Committee of the Southern California Consortium on International Studies.
1993.
Box 2, Folder 37
Planning - Joint Center for East Asian Studies.
1999; 2002.
Box 2, Folder 38
Transition - Center for East Asian Studies to Asia Institute
2002.
Events, Outreach and Programs. Series 3.
1980-2003.
Scope and Contents note
Includes files for programs (themed activities that span multiple events), individual events, and outreach activities.
Box 2, Folder 39
Events - CIRA.
2001-2003.
Box 2, Folder 40
Events - Hong Kong Journalists Conference.
1998-1999.
Box 2, Folders 41-42
Events - Sammy Lee Lectures.
1982-2003.
Box 2, Folder 44
Outreach - Curriculum Analysis Project.
1998.
Box 2, Folder 45
Programs - Bringing Asia to LA.
1997.
Box 2, Folder 46
Programs - Course syllabi.
2003.
Box 2, Folder 47
Programs - Language Resource Program.
2002-2004.
Box 2, Folder 48
Programs - Masters of Arts in East Asian Studies.
January 6, 1999-March 10, 1999.
Box 2, Folder 49
Programs - Palos Verdes Peninsula High School Internship Program.
1996-1997.
Box 2, Folder 50
Programs - Study abroad.
1980; 1986.
Media Projects and Publications. Series 4.
1978-2003.
Scope and Contents note
Includes files for media projects and publications managed by the Asia Institute, specifically, Asia Pacific Media Network,
Asia Pacific Monographs, Journal of Asian Culture, and newsletters.
Box 2, Folder 51
Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN) - Los Angeles Times Articles by Tom Plate.
April 14, 1998-September 10, 1999.
Box 2, Folder 52
APMN - Correspondence.
July 13, 1998-July 25, 2003.
Box 3, Folder 1
APMN - Deadline Scholar project guidelines.
2001.
Box 3, Folder 2
APMN - Deadline Scholar winning entry.
2001.
Box 3, Folder 3
APMN - Deadline Scholar winning entry.
2002.
Box 3, Folder 6
APMN - Visiting professor, T.Y. Lau.
1998.
Box 3, Folder 7
APMN - Web pages.
1998-1999; 2001-2003.
Box 3, Folder 8
Asia Pacific Monographs - Correspondence.
1999; 2002.
Box 3, Folder 9
Journal of Asian Culture - Correspondence.
1978-1979.
Box 3, Folder 10
Newsletters - "Intercom."
1995; 2000-2001.
Box 3, Folder 11
Newsletters - "Pacific Rim."
1993.
Photographs. Series 5.
1980-2003.
Scope and Contents note
Includes pictures, slides, and proof sheets of activities run by the Asia Institute.
Box 3, Folder 12
Asian Pacific Film Festival.
June 1995.
Box 3, Folder 13
Asian Pacific Profiles.
Undated.
Scope and Contents note
35 mm slides for a presentation. The presentation was sponsored by the United Way and produced by Visual Communications.
Box 3, Folders 14-15
California in the Global Economy Conference.
December 5, 2001.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals pictured include Laura Cha, Wiblur Woo, James Tong, Geoffrey Garrett, Robert Sung, Po-chih Chen.
Box 3, Folder 16
Center for Pacific Rim Studies Executive Dinner.
April 1997.
Box 3, Folder 17
Chinese Student Movement: Retrospect and Prospect (Wang Dan).
May 22, 1998.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals pictured include Wang Dan, Richard Baum, Alan Gleitsman, Cheri Roche, James Tong, Leslie Evans, Jean Roth, Jia
Wang, and Clayton Dube.
Box 3, Folders 18-19
Conference of the Asian Pacific Student Services Association.
April 17, 2002.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals pictured include Ed Weismeier and James Tong.
Box 3, Folder 20
Democracy in China: Retrospect and Prospect (Wei Jingsheng).
October 29, 1998.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals pictured include Wei Jingsheng, Alan Gleitsman, James Tong, and Clayton Dube.
Box 3, Folder 21
Democracy in the Hong Kong SAR (Martin Lee).
November 23, 1998.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals pictured include Lee, James Tong, Fred Luk, Congressman Howard Berman, Howard Lee, Albert Youmg, Alan Gleitsman,
and Cheri Roche. Also includes HK faculty group photo.
Box 3, Folder 22
Dinner Talk by Charles Kao.
January 22, 1997.
Scope and Contents note
Chancellor Charles Kao (Hong Kong University), James Tong, Howard and Norma Lee, Robert Sung, and Albert Young.
Box 3, Folder 23
Ewha Conference.
August 15-19, 1988.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals pictured include Lucie Cheng, Alfreda Inglehart, Karen Sacks, Ping Chun Hsiung, Lee Hye Kyung, Cho Hyong, Choe
Sun Yuel, Chang Pilwha, Taimie Bryant, Emily Abel, Kim Byung-Suh, Donald Trieman, Anne L. Peplau, Karen Rowe. (Some Photos
mislabeled "Brainflow")
Box 3, Folder 24
Feng Jicai Lecture.
1995.
Box 3, Folder 25
Forum on Religion in China.
August 22, 2000.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals pictured include James Tong, Bishop Fu Tieshan, John Daly (LMU), Gabriel Lui.
Box 3, Folder 26
Garment Workshops.
November 1990; May 1992.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals pictured include Jorge Carillo, Lucie Cheng, Richard P. Appelbaum.
Box 3, Folder 27
Hong Kong After 1997 (Elizabeth Wong).
May 8, 1997.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals pictured include Elizabeth Wong, James Tong, Fred Luk, Albert Young, Howard Lee, and Hung-Hsaing Chou.
Box 3, Folder 28
Hong Kong and the United States (Jacqueline Willis).
February 16, 2001.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals pictured include Robert Buswell, James Tong, Jacqueline Willis, Tom Plate, and Lee Lansale.
Box 3, Folder 29
Hong Kong Forum and Dinner (Donald Tsang).
September 27, 1996.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals pictured include Donald Tsang, James Tong, Albert Young, Dean Jamison, Robert Sung. Other attendees include Ronnie
Chan, Frang Ching, James To, Michael Brownrig, Dunson Cheng, Garrett Cheng, William Mow, and Gary Larsen.
Box 3, Folder 30
Hong Kong Schools Alumni Federation "Morning Tea" (Anson Chan).
June 10, 1996.
Scope and Contents note
Anson Chan and James Tong pictured in photos.
Box 3, Folder 31
Hong Kong Schools Alumni Federation.
August 1997.
Box 3, Folder 32
Li Yundi Reception.
July 2001.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals pictured include Li Yundi, Geoffrey Garrett, Amy Tsiang (EA Librarian), William Hutchinson (Assoc. Dean, Arts
and Arch), Thomas Plate.
Box 3, Folder 33
Miscellaneous events.
September 1, 1988-April 25, 1991.
Scope and Contents note
Events featured are Brain Flow Conference, Telelink Project, Tiananmen Event, Film and Social Development in 3 Chinese Societies,
the Social Embeddedness of Asian Law. Individuals photographed include Russell Campbell, Sue Fan, Richard Baum, Daytra Hansel,
Suchetta Mazumdar, Roxanne Sylvester, Feng Chengbo, Guan Xinping, Tsai Hong-Chin, Chen Kuan-jeng, Benjamin Carino, Mark Granovetter,
William Alford, Arthur Rosett, Mark Ramseyer
Box 3, Folder 34
Miscellaneous photos.
1983-1994.
Scope and Contents note
Includes labeled photos of Dean Jamison, Russell Campbell, Ivan Paak-Liang Ping, Robert Buswell, Phillip Rundel, Irma Dosamantes,Martha
Winnacker, Lucie Cheng, and Nathan Sivin.
Box 3, Folder 35
National Consortium for Teaching about Asia.
October 2001.
Scope and Contents note
Photos of Clay Dube at Pitzer.
Box 3, Folder 36
One Country, Two Systems: Hong Kong's Legal System and the Handover (Barry Mortimer).
October 20, 1999.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals pictured include Hon. Barry Mortimer, Robert Sung, James Tong, Clayton Dube.
Box 3, Folder 37
Pacific Rim Expo.
November 11, 1986.
Box 3, Folder 38
Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (James Lilley).
December 5, 1994.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals photographed include James Lilley, James Tong, Richard Baum, Fred Notehelfer.
Box 3, Folders 39-40
Sammy Lee Lectures.
1990-1998.
Scope and Contents note
Photos of the Xia Conference (1990), Talking Pictures (1992), Images of Women in Chinese Art (1993), Underwater Archeology
(1995), Refashioning Marriage in Song China (1997), and Extraordinary Luxuries in Gold and Jade (1998). Individuals photographed
include Sammy Yu-Kuan Lee, Ping Ti-Ho, Zhao Zhiguan, Chen Jing, Zou Heng, An Jihuai, Wang Yuxin, Robert L. Thorp, and Wu Hung.
Box 3, Folder 41
Shanghai Institute of Finance and Economics Conference.
1993.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals photographed include Russell Campbell
Box 3, Folder 42
Social Sciences in China (Li Tieying).
November 13, 1998.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals photographed include Tieying (Politburo member of PRC) and James Tong.
Box 3, Folder 43
State of Scientific and Technical Education and Research in Hong Kong (Woo Jia-Wei).
April 6, 1999.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals photographed include Woo Jia-wei, Archie Kleingartner, Linda Newton, Robert Sung.
Box 3, Folder 44
Summer Institute.
1992; 1997; 1998; 2000.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals photographed include Clayton Dube and Fred Notehelfer.
Box 3, Folder 45
Taiwan Earthquake Symposium.
November 4, 1999.
Box 3, Folder 46
Teachers' Workshops.
May 2002.
Box 3, Folder 47
TransPacific Conference.
May 1993.
Box 4, Folders 1-2
UCLA Language Schools in China.
1980; 1984.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals photographed include Charles Young, Russell Campbell, and Lucie Cheng in trip to China (c. 1980). Also includes
1984 trip to Zhongshan.
Box 4, Folder 3
UCLA Language Schools in China - Album.
1980-1991.
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs kept in an unmarked album. Photos include Charles Young, Robert Campbell, and Lucie Cheng from the 1980
trip. Also includes class photos from the Chinese Academy of Science (marked "1982.4," "1983.4.22," and "1983.7.15") and the
Chinese Academy of Social Science (marked "1987.7.3" and "1986.7". Also includes clippings kept in album.
Box 4, Folder 4
World Bank Seminar.
1995.
Scope and Contents note
Individuals photographed include Russell Campbell, Dean Jamison, James Tong, and Howard Lee.