Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii
Dru C. Gladney is currently a special‑ researcher for China and Central Asia at the Asia‑acific Center for Security Studies in. Honolulu, He is currently on leave from Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies. In addition to a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1987, Dr, Gladney has three M.A. degrees. He has been a Fulbright Research Scholar in Turkey and China~ and has held faculty positions and post‑doctoral fellowships at Harvard University, the University of Southern California, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Dr. Gladney conducted field research in China for more than three years as well as more recent projects in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey He is author of the award‑winning book, ' Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic (Harvard University Press, 1996, 1st edition 199 1) as well as three new books. ‑ Ethnic Identity in China: The Making of a Muslim Minority Nationality (Harcourt Brace, 1998); Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan China Korea Mak7ysia TV4 Turkey and the US. (Editor, Stanford University Press, 1998); and Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Sub‑Altern Subjects (London, C. Hurst, forthcoming). He has published over 50 academic articles and his research has been regularly featured in interviews on CNN and in Newsweek, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times, 作者: 恩施土家 时间: 2012-10-27 23:09
Stevan Harrell (University of Washington), East Asia Speaker Series - "Tradition, Revolution, and Erosion in Southwest China"
The environment around the narrow alluvial valley called Apiladda, in the mountainous Liangshan region in Southwest China, is severely degraded. Topsoil is gone on hilltops and north-facing slopes, forest basal area and biomass are severely diminished, river-bottom forests are gone, and the formerly single-channel river is now braided and unpredictable. An interdisciplinary effort over many years by anthropologists, geomorphologists, and ecologists has begun to unravel the story of how this degradation happened. Through a combination of ethnohistorical interviews, guided walks, and a variety of biophysical techniques, it appears that local traditional ecological knowledge may have been inadequate to prevent a loss of system resilience, making the socio-ecosystem vulnerable to the severe disturbances brought about by the implementation of misguided developmental policies in the Communist Revolution. The study has Implications for environmental management, development practice, and the study of traditional ecological knowledge. Stevan Harrell is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington. His most recent work concerns human-environment relations and ecological history in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, a mountainous ethnic minority region in southern Sichuan. He is also a co-founder of the Yangjuan Primary School, a village school in Liangshan, and co-founder and President of the Cool Mountain Education Fund, a small NGO that gives scholarships to Yangjuan Graduates continuing to middle and high school. He is currently writing a book tentatively entitled An Ecohistory of People's China.