Upcoming Event --- Taiwanese Glove Puppet Show
November 19, 2011 (Satursday) 3 pm -- 4:30 pm
Sponsors: San Jose-Tainan Sister City Association
Location: Martin Luther King, Jr. Library (Exploration Room above Children's Activity Room)
150 East San Fernando Street,
San Jose, CA 95112
(408) 808-2000
Admission: FREE
Program:
- Display Taiwanese Glove Puppets on a stage constructed by community volunteers
- Briefly introduce Taiwanese Glove Puppet Show by a high school student
- Show a video clip of a puppet show performed by professionals
- Allow people to have hands-on experience in acting as puppeteers
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Click here for an introduction to Taiwanese Glove Puppetry.
Upcoming Event --- Annual Meeting
December 10, 2011 (Satursday) 11 am -- 2 pm
Sponsors: San Jose-Tainan Sister City Association
Venue: Taiwanese American Center of Northern California, 4413 Fortran Court, San Jose, CA 95134
Admission: $5/member; $10/non-member
Program:
- Annual business affairs: Election of new officers (members only)
- Keynote Speech: Culture of Tainan (台南府城文化) by Dr. Edward Huang (黃東昇 博士)
- Buffet luncheon
- Video of Tainan's cultural history and tourism (to supplement Dr. Huang's speech)
Contacts/RSVP:
Alan Chen (925) 362-3180 or atwchen@gmail.com
Ching-Chao Huang (408) 777-9740 or huang@ieee.org
Marice Hsueh (408) 268-2653 or m.m.Tzeng@att.net
Tim Lim (408)314-4234 or timlim2@Pacbell.net
Gary Lin (408) 314-4234 or uslin21@Yahoo.com
Gina Mao (650) 787-7288 or abcgina@yahoo.com
Amy Chen (408) 984-0590 or amychenlai@gmail.com
Pam Tsai (510) 559-8702 or tsai4344@gmail.com
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Magistrate Su's Speech & Dinner Events
歡送前台南縣長蘇煥智演講會及餐會
July 14, 2011 (Thursday)
Sponsors: San Jose-Tainan Sister City Association and Taiwanese American Federation of Northern California
Speech on Managment Experience in Tainan County: 2:30 pm at Taiwanese American Center of Northern California, 4413 Fortran Court, San Jose, CA 95134
Dinner : 5:30 pm at King Crab Restaurant, 269 W. Calaveras Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035 (408) 263-2228
Background:
Former Tainan County Magistrate Huan-Chih Su came to the Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley as a Visiting Scholar in March 2011. Magistrate Su had completed his tour of duty. On July 14, 2011, before Magistrate Su leaving US for Taiwan, he gave a speech at 2:30 pm. It was followd with a dinner party in his honor at 5:30 pm.
Magistrate Su received his law degree from the National Taiwan University. He served three terms as legislator in Taiwan as well as two terms as the Magistrate of Tainan County before Tainan County mergered with Tainan City to form the new Tainan City Municipality.
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A Lecture on Taiwanese Music in the 1930s
March 15, 2011 (Tuesday)
Speaker: Professor Ping-hui Liao (廖炳惠教授)
Location: Second Floor, Room 225, Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 150 East San Fernando Street, San Jose, CA 95112
The lecture is based on a recent documentary “Viva Tonal – The Dance Age,” dedicated to Taiwanese music in the 1930s. The film uses private lives of several singers, composers, and collectors to offer a nuanced and sensible interpretive account of Taiwanese music and cultural history. “Viva Tonal-The Dance Age” is an important contribution to the understanding of colonialism and modernism in East Asia. Emergence of new acoustics in recording industry and the phonographic sound reproduction technology are used to examine music as a system of selection and signification, of signs and social meanings that are complicated by personal and transnational destinies as well as local and global cultural coding. The documentary can be viewed as an archival project to suggest that Taiwan has been a hub of transculture across the Pacific. The discussion touches upon multiple sources of music and modernity in early twentieth century Taiwan linking it to the rest of the world. Film clips are shown to enhance the presentation and to illustrate speaker’s viewpoints.
About the Speaker:
Professor Ping-hui Liao was born in Taiwan in 1954 and received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from University of San Diego (UCSD) in 1987. He was a visiting scholar or professor at Princeton University, Harvard University and Columbia University. Professor Liao won numerous awards such as the May Fourth Prize and the Wu Yung-fu Prize. He has served as Director General of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of the National Science Council, President of the Comparative Literature Association in Taiwan. He served as a committee member and editorial or advisory board member for many journals and scholarly associations in Taiwan as well as abroad. Professor Liao was a Distinguished Professor of Literary and Critical Studies at the National Tsinghua University in Taiwan. He is internationally renowned in Taiwan Studies.
In 2009, Professor Liao returned to UCSD serving as the Chuan-Lyu Endowed Chair Professor. He ambitious plans include an extensive collaboration with faculty members across disciplines throughout the UC system as well as develop new undergraduate and graduate courses in Taiwan literature, cinema, and modernity in East Asia.
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Click here for a short paper by Prof. Liao on " Engendering New Sound in 1930s Taiwan".
2011 Board Meetings
November 26, 2011 (Saturday)
Location: Dr. & Mrs. Alan Chen’s , San Ramon, CA 94582
Agenda:
- Approve Board meeting minutes of 6/25/2011
- President's updates on State of Information filing to the office of the CA Secretary of State
- Review past activities including Taiwanese Glove Puppet Show at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in San Jose (11/19/11)
- Financial report
- Plan 2011 annual meeting - Keynote speech, Luncheon preparation, On-site setup and Cleanup
- Recommend board members & officers for the new term
- Discuss membership fee changes
- Others
June 25, 2011 (Saturday)
Location: Taiwanese American Center, 4413 Fortran Court, San Jose, CA
Agenda:
- Approve Board meeting minutes of 2/13/2010
- President's updates on puppet show, trip to Tainan, annual report and others
- Review past activities
- Financial report
- Plan future activities including meeting with former Tainan County Magistrate Huan-Chih Su, annual meeting and others
- Others
Meeting Highlight:Preview of a Taiwanese Glove Puppet Show on May 14, 2011
The year-long planning resulted in a preview of the Taiwanese Glove Puppet Show presented at the Taiwanese American Cultural Festival at Union Square, San Francisco on May 14, 2011. The show includes display of Taiwanese glove puppets on a stage constructed mainly by volunteers, and DVD play of a puppet show performed by professionals. In addition, visitors had hands-on experience to be a puppeteer.
February 13, 2011 (Sunday)
Location: Formosan Methodist Church, 788 Lewelling Blvd., San Leandro, CA 94579
Agenda:
- Approve Board meeting minutes of 10/17/2010
- President's update
- Review past activities
- Financial report
- Plan future activities
- Others
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