Lectures cover China, environment
The series, which starts
tonight, will examine
the effect of growth on
China’s environment
By Amalie Young
Higher Education Reporter
A series of lectures sponsored
by the University’s Center for
Asian and Pacific Studies will
examine the environmental con
sequences of China’s rapid in
dustrialization and economic
growth over the past two
decades.
The series, entitled “China’s
Environmental Crisis," will ad
dress China’s environmental his
tory, its difficulties handling sus
tainable agriculture and rural de
velopment, its approaches to the
preservation of biodiversity, its
pressing energy problems and
the international significance of
China’s environmental degrada
tion.
China has become a factor in
management of global and Asian
environmental problems because
of its heavy reliance on coal to
meet its energy demand, accord
ing to a press release.
Serious air pollution, dwin
dling supplies of water and the
degradation of soils threaten to
undermine the many benefits of
China’s recent growth, the re
lease stated.
Americans must look at these
problems and the historical,
philosophical and policy con
texts in which they arise in order
to understand China’s interna
tional role in the 21st century,
said Richard P. Suttmeier, a Uni
versity political science profes
sor, in the press release.
The first lecture, “China’s En
viionmental History: Lessons for
Sustainable Development?” will
be given by Peter Purdue, head of
the history department at Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology,
tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Alum
ni Lounge in Gerlinger Hall.
For more information on suc
cessive lectures, contact the Cen
ter for Asian and Pacific Studies
at 346-5087.
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Campus Briefs
Rothenberg to present
Johnston Lecture
Randall Rothenberg, an author,
newspaper reporter and magazine
journalist, will present the 1998
Johnston Lecture on Tuesday at
3:30 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall at
the University School ofMusic.
Rothenberg has had an eclectic
career covering the relationship
between culture, technology and
business for 20 years. He has been
a writer, editor and contributor for
a number of national magazines,
including Wired, The Atlantic
Monthly, The New York Times
Magazine, GQ, Conde Nast Trav
eler and Science Digest.
He won wide acclaim for his
book, “Where the Suckers
Moon: An Advertising Story,"
which gives an account of the
advertising company Weiden
and Kennedy’s Subaru cam
paign.
He received the Society of Pro
fessional Journalists’ Deadline
Club Award for best magazine fea
ture for his December 1996 story,
which appeared in Esquire Maga
zine,called “The Age of Spin.”
“It’s of great value to the entire
University community to bring
exciting, creative people who are
involved in professional activi
ties related to the school’s vision
for the campus,” said Tim Glea
son, dean of the School of Jour
nalism and Communication.
Rothenberg's visit to the Uni
versity is presented by the
School of Journalism and Com
munication and sponsored by an
endowment from the Richard W.
Johnston Memorial Project,
which established the Johnston
Lecture in 1984.
Professor receives
national book award
Forhisbook, “Showing Signs of
Violence: The Cultural Politics of a
Twentieth-Century Headhunting
Ritual," University anthropologist
Kenneth M. George received the
1998 Harry J. Brenda Prize in
Southeast Asian Studies.
The Association for Asian Stud
ies [ AAS] gives the award annually
for the year’s most outstanding
book on Southeast Asia in any dis
cipline, according to a press release.
“Showing Signs of Violence,”
published in 1996 by the Universi
ty of California Press, deals with
the ceremonies of pangngae, a
mock headhunt that is practiced
in a remote area of Indonesia.
These rituals give the practition
ers an important tool for mourn
ing, cultural memory and sex role
definition, according to the book.
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