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Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies
at Suffolk University
Annual Report for 2011-2012
Ronald Suleski, PhD, Director
Overview
During the 2011-2012 academic year, the Rosenberg Institute took every
opportunity to promote Asian Studies to the Suffolk University community. The
core of our program was the Rosenberg Institute Scholar Series, in which
especially knowledgeable people were invited to speak at Suffolk. All of the talks
were free and open to the general public. On several occasions the Rosenberg
Institute joined with a co-sponsor to host a talk. This allowed the Institute to save
its budget by sharing costs, and to take advantage of the co-sponsors’ network to
recruit audience members.
We used all channels of communication in order to raise the visibility of the
Rosenberg Institute. We regularly posted our activities on the university websites,
including university-level, college level, and the Rosenberg Institute site. On one
occasion we were listed for several weeks as the featured organization on the CAS
website, which gave us a banner on the site and thus more visitors to the site.
Our new President James McCarthy has indicated support for the Rosenberg
Institute and our work. After speaking with Mr. Rosenberg by telephone one
morning during the spring 2012 semester, at the faculty assembly that afternoon he
cited the Rosenberg Institute and its active work on campus, and the generous and
continuing support of Mr. Rosenberg, as one of the admirable strengths of Suffolk
University. This resulted in a strong round of applause for the Institute from the
CAS faculty. We hear many appreciative comments from faculty at Suffolk about
the richness of Rosenberg Institute offerings.
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A. The section below lists the activities of the Rosenberg Institute
conducted in conformance with the Terms of Agreement signed in July
2007, as modified by the Memorandum by Dean Greenberg agreed to in
Fall 2008. These two documents call for a series of Distinguished
Visitors and for the publication of academic papers .
Rosenberg Institute Scholar Series
During the academic year we sponsored and/or co-sponsored 12 public programs
on the Suffolk campus as part of the Rosenberg Institute Scholar Series. This was a
higher number than originally planned, but when an opportunity arose to present a
quality program, we usually decided to hold the event. Because the Rosenberg
Institute is now well-known in the Boston area, we were regularly told of
opportunities to have an interesting speaker for our students. Our audiences ranged
from 40 to 70 persons on each occasion. At most of the talks, in addition to
Suffolk students and faculty, we had colleagues from other schools and
organizations in the Boston area, including Harvard, Boston University, Boston
College, Northeastern, UMASS Boston, Babson, Tufts, Emmanuel, etc. We also
had members of the general public, including our neighbors from Beacon Hill and
Chinatown. Following the events, we often succeeded in having a report published
in one of the several Chinese-language newspapers sold in Boston.
Rosenberg Institute Scholar Series in 2011-2012
2011 Fall Semester
Living and Working in China: Inside Advice from an American Executive in
Shanghai 在大中華地區生活工作的經驗點滴. Jeffrey Williams, Executive
Director of the Harvard Center Shanghai and former president of the Shenzhen
Development Bank, talked about how to build a career in China and how to work
in the complex and dynamic culture of China’s rapidly expanding economy. He
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served as an executive in the banking industry in Asia for many years. September
2011.
Fukushima! Life in Japan After the Earthquake. 福島! 大地震後の日常生活.
Goto Chie 後藤千枝. Ms. Goto is a journalist and activist who visited the area of
the Fukushima earthquake many times since the event in March 2011. She showed
photos about how people in the region are dealing with their losses and struggling
to survive. Photos showed people living in tiny prefabricated buildings as their
temporary shelter, and also children who have become so frightened of water that
they will not enter a shallow wading pool. This event was sponsored by the
Rosenberg Institute at Suffolk, in co-operation with the Japan Foundation Center
for Global Partnership and the Boston-based international non-profit United Planet.
September 2011.
New England Chinese and the 1911 Revolution 新英倫華人與辛亥革命 . Dr.
Wing-kai To 杜榮佳 , Bridgewater State University. Member of the Board of the
Chinese Historical Society of New England and noted scholar, Dr. To helped us
understand the 100th anniversary of the 1911 Revolution that overthrew the Qing
Dynasty. He gave a highly-illustrated talk with many references of the
revolutionary activities of Boston’s Chinatown community. Sponsored by the
Rosenberg Institute at Suffolk, the Cultural Division at the Taipei Economic and
Cultural Office (TECO) in Boston and the Asian Studies Program at Bridgewater
State University. October 2011.
Manchukuo and Colonial Culture in the 1930s 滿洲國與三十年代的殖民地文
化. Dr. Norman Smith, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. A specialist and
author on the literature and popular culture of Japanese-occupied Manchukuo, Dr.
Smith talked about his latest research on how the people lived when the Japanese
were occupying northeast China. The topic of this lecture will soon appear in Dr.
Smith’s fourth book, due for publication early in 2013, and represents a new area
of research, as scholars use archival materials to document details of life under a
colonial occupation. October 2011.
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Stepping Forth into the World: The Chinese Educational Mission to the
United States, 1872-81 走向世界; 1872-81 年在美國的中國幼童. Dr. Edward
Rhoads, emeritus professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Today over
130,000 Chinese students study in the United States. Based on his new book, Dr.
Rhoads talked about the first 120 who arrived in the US at the end of the Qing
dynasty in the 1870s. They were young and had entered a new world almost totally
unfamiliar to them. Co-Sponsored by the Rosenberg Institute, the Chinese
Historical Society of New England (CHSNE), and the Asian Studies Program at
Bridgewater State University. October 2011.
Conversation with Dr. Men Honghua 門洪華, Deputy Director of the Center for
International Strategic Studies, Central Party School, Beijing. He is currently
working on a project titled “The Construction of China’s Soft Power.” This was of
great interest to people from Suffolk’s Government Department and to students
interested in International Relations (IR) theory and practice. Sponsored by the
Rosenberg Institute along with the Government Department Forum Series, and the
Asian Studies Program at Suffolk. November 2011.
2012 Spring Semester
China’s Role in the Global Order 中國在全球秩序中的作用 . Dr. Liselotte
Odgaard, Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Defence College. Her areas of
expertise include International Relations, Asia-Pacific Security and China Studies.
In 2008-09 she was a residential fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She recently published China and
Coexistence: Beijing’s National Security Strategy for the 21st Century (Woodrow
Wilson Center Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). Sponsored by the
Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies. February 2012.
American Robots Help Fukushima Clean-up
報告: 大地震後の福
島. iRobot Corporation is an American company which designs and
manufactures sophisticated robots in Massachusetts. The company sent four of its
robots to Japan to assist in the clean-up at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant following
the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011. Roy Rondoe, Senior
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International Sales Manager demonstrated a PackBot 510 robot and showed
slides of iRobot’s involvement in the disaster clean-up at the Fukushima site.
Suffolk’s engineering students were out in force at the talk, taking photos of the
robot and trying their hand at manipulating it. Sponsored by the Rosenberg
Institute and the Department of Engineering at Suffolk University. March 2012.
Why Taiwan Matters 爲什麽臺灣很重要 . Dr. Shelley Rigger, Davidson
College. A few years ago many feared war would break out between Taiwan and
China. In the elections in Taiwan in Jan 2012, the new president of Taiwan assured
citizens on both sides of the Taiwan Strait that economic cooperation and increased
travel between Taiwan and China was the most likely course. Dr. Rigger talked
about her recent book Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse
(Rowman & Littlefield 2011). The audience filled up the Amenities Room at 73
Tremont. Co-sponsored by the Rosenberg Institute and the Taipei Economic and
Cultural Office (TECO) in Boston. March 2012.
The Gwangju Uprising in Korea 광주광주시민 항쟁 (光州 市民抗爭)을
말하다 . Dr. George Katsiaficas, Wentworth Institute of Technology. Dr.
Katsiaficas has done extensive research on this popular uprising that took place in
1980 against South Korea’s dictator-government of Chun Doo-hwan. Dr.
Katsiaficas talked about his new two-volume book Asia’s Unknown Uprisings,
1980-1992 (PM Press, 2012). Many dramatic photos of the uprising and
government suppression were shown. Sponsored by the Rosenberg Institute. April
2012.
Confucian China in a Changing World Order 孔教在當代. Dr. Roger T.
Ames, University of Hawai’i. Dr. Ames is one of the most distinguished scholars
of Chinese philosophy in the world today. He has published many books, each an
example of thorough scholarship and original insight. Not only is he at the top of
his profession, but he is an engaging and approachable speaker. The Rosenberg
Institute joined with the Asian Studies Development Program of Middlesex
Community College, Lowell to co-sponsor this event. April 2012.
Sustainability and Clean-Tech Innovations in South China. Waltraut Ritter,
Managing Director of Knowledge Dialogues and Research Director at the Asia5
Pacific Intellectual Capital Centre. The Pearl River Delta in south China is an area
of high population, vibrant manufacturing, and abundant agriculture. It is beautiful
and vital. Hong Kong is at the mouth of the river. Keeping this large area clean
and livable and viable is the challenge being examined by Ms. Ritter. Sponsored by
the Knowledge Globalization Institute and the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian
Research , both at Suffolk University, Boston. April 2012.
Rosenberg Institute’s First Occasional Paper
The first occasional paper of the Rosenberg Institute, titled Public Medicine in
Wartime China: Biomedicine, State Medicine, and the Rise of China’s
National Medical Colleges, 1931-1945, by Dr. John R. Watt was published early
in 2012. As part of the launch of the paper, the Rosenberg Institute presented a
public program titled Public Health in Nationalist China, 1928-45 羅森伯格東
亞研究所首期學報: 中國戰爭期間的大眾醫療. By Dr. John R. Watt,
American Bureau for Medical Advancement in China. Dr. Watt’s original study
discusses how Chinese and American medical specialists, political actors, and
leaders in the North American non-profit world struggled to bring health care to
the people in wartime China from 1931 to 1945. This program was co-sponsored
by the Rosenberg Institute and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in
Boston. February 2012.
Availability of the Occasional Paper was announced in the Journal of East Asian
Libraries and in the Newsletter of the Association for Asian Studies. As a result of
requests, copies of the study have been sent to scholars and libraries in the United
States, Canada, China, Japan, Australia and the Philippines.
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Special Public Event: The China Town Hall Meeting
China Town Hall 中美关系：最近报告. Local Connections, National
Reflections. For the third year, the Rosenberg Institute joined with the National
Committee on United States-China Relations to facilitate this event in the Boston
area. China Town Hall is a national day of programming on China involving 50
cities throughout the United States. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National
Security Advisor, answered questions on-air posed by those gathered on select
university campuses in the North America and Asia, including those in the Suffolk
audience. This was a live video feed from Washington DC . Professor Allen
Carlson, and expert in Chinese international relations and foreign policy from
Cornell University, joined us live at Suffolk to discuss current outstanding issues in
US-China relations. Co-sponsored by the Rosenberg Institute, the National
Committee for United States-China Relations, and WorldBoston. November 2012.
Rosenberg Institute’s Visiting Scholars from Asia
In September 2011 the Rosenberg Institute welcomed our first Visiting Scholar. Dr.
Hae-Kwang Park from Chonnam National University in Korea. His PhD is from
top-rated Yonsei University. He is the author of two books and a co-author of five
other volumes published in Korean, several on the lives of Korean workers, on
class, identity and culture. While at Suffolk he completed his manuscript for a
book that explores how Korean society is changing as women from abroad
(Vietnam, Philippines, China) move into Korean farming villages as wives of
Korean men. Dr. Park also completed his contributions of a new sociology
textbook to be published in Korea.
Although always busy with his publication projects, he willingly gave a number of
lectures on campus to faculty and students, thus contributing to the intellectual
climate at Suffolk. Dr. Park was graciously housed at the Sociology Department.
In February 2012 the Institute was also closely involved in arranging for a second
visiting scholar, Yang Liu from Northwest University in Xi’an, China. Her term at
Suffolk was from February to August 2012. Ms. Yang was preparing her PhD
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dissertation on the topic of a Chinese folk deity and popular religion. She was
learning how western scholars and researchers approach this topic in ways quite
different from the analytical categories used by Chinese scholars. She was housed
in the English Department. She also gave a public talk on her present research
interest. The Asian Studies Program co-operated in arranging this appointment.
Both of these visiting scholars were completely self-funded through grants from
their home institutions.
B. During the 2011-2012 academic year being reported here, for the first
time Suffolk withdrew money from the earnings of the endowment fund
to cover a portion of the Institute’s budget. Suffolk University has been
careful to honor the specific terms listed in the original agreement with
Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg. The University hired a full-time
administrator (the Director) for the Institute (going well beyond the
part-time position called for in the original agreement), provided
professional and suitable office space for the Director, and has made
available all of the necessary facilities and support services for
Rosenberg Institute activities . It has also supported the marketing and
communications activities of the Institute. The Institute used University
email lists, as well as the email lists developed by the Institute, to
advertise all of its programs and activities.
This Report is submitted in accordance with the original Terms of
Agreement.
C. Cooperation with the Asian Studies Program. As administrator of the
Rosenberg Institute, the Director was asked by the University to
cooperate with the new Asian Studies Program established in fall 2009.
In some cases the Rosenberg Institute lent its name in support of these
activities and used its email lists to help draw an audience. The Asian
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Studies Committee is chaired by Professor Da Zheng. The activities of
the Asian Studies Program were covered entirely by Suffolk University
funds. These programs helped to promote an interest in Asia on the
campus and to encourage interested students to select an Asian Studies
major or minor. Some students from other campuses in the area
attended these events, though the majority were Suffolk students. Many
faculty members, from Suffolk and nearby schools, were also present at
all of these events. The Director of the Rosenberg Institute was actively
involved in all of the events listed below.
Asian Studies Program Events
A number of Suffolk students studied in Asia in the summer of 2011, in China and
Seoul. They gave a Suffolk a presentation in October 2011 about their experiences
that featured photos of the sights they saw and, perhaps not surprisingly, photos of
many of the Asian foods they tried for the first time. The student’s illustrated
presentation was well attended by their fellow classmates, several of whom
decided to spend the current summer and/or fall 2012 in Asia. The Rosenberg
Institute helped to advertise this program, and the Director played a critical role in
arranging for the summer internship and scholarships for two of the students who
spent summer 2011 in Seoul, with help from Professor Henry Kim of the
Economic Department.
The Asian Studies Program at Suffolk University arranged for a faculty lecture on
the topic “Hao Wang, Logic and Philosophy” given by Professor Montgomery
Link, member of the Asian Studies Committee and a member of the Philosophy
Department in November 2011. The lecture talked about the confluence of
philosophy reasoning and mathematical logic, since Hao Wang was used
mathematical analysis in his own writings. Not only was the lecture very well
attended, but all present were favorably impressed by the thoughtful and informed
questions asked by our students.
Once again the Rosenberg Institute was a co-sponsor when the Suffolk community
celebrated the Year of the Dragon at a Lunar New Year Party in January 2012.
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Other co-sponsors were he Asian Studies Committee, the International Office, and
the Office of Diversity Services. At least 250 students, faculty and staff attended,
and to our satisfaction we found that we had ordered enough Chinese food to feed
everyone present. It turned out the restaurant owner from Chinatown was a
Suffolk alum. This event was later reported in several Chinese language
newspapers with photos.
Our colleague, member of the Asian studies Committee Allan Tow of the
Government Department, received the 2012 Creating the Dream Award at the
annual Martin Luther King Jr. luncheon hosted by the Office of Diversity Services.
Allan is an American of Chinese ancestry who grew up in Massachusetts. He
cherishes the Chinese influences in his life and gives equal respect to all cultural
backgrounds. For the past fifteen years he has been faculty advisor to the AsianAmerican Students Association at Suffolk.
Our colleague Afshan Bokhari of the New England School of Art and Design
(NESAD) and a member of the Asian Studies Committee, appeared in the movie
Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World. The film was shown at Harvard in
February and at the Museum of Fine Arts. Suffolk is planning to show the film
during the fall 2012 semester.
The Asian Studies Program organized a discussion titled Teaching Chinese
Students: Cultural Perspectives and Learning, an Afternoon Tea Discussion in
February 2012. It was held at the Center for Teaching Excellence at Suffolk
University. We were pleasantly surprised that the Center was completely filled
with interested faculty so that it was a standing-room-only audience. Dr. Suleski
spoke at this event.
The Asian Studies Program held an an open house and party in March for all of
Asian Studies majors, minors, and prospective majors and minors. Several faculty
talked about the courses concerning Asia they will offer in the fall 2012 semester,
and visiting scholar Dr. Park from Korea briefly explained his research. Professor
Micky Lee of the Journalism and Communication Department and a member of the
Asian Studies Committee directed the Asia Trivia Quiz, which included prizes of
instant noodles for the winners.
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Suffolk received a gift of 100 books about Japan from the Nippon Foundation.
This project by the Nippon Foundation was brought to our attention by Professor
Afshan Bokhari of NESAD, and the supporting materials for our application were
supplied by Rebecca Fulweiler, Interim Director of the Mildred F. Sawyer Library.
The volumes, most of them recently published, covered the five categories of:
Politics and International Relations, Economy and Business, Society and Culture,
Literature and Arts, and History. The Rosenberg Institute was involved in this
project from the very beginning. After receipt of the gift, the Sawyer Library
arranged an attractive month-long display of the new titles.
The Rosenberg Institute was a co-sponsor of the Suffolk conference Corruption in
the Global Marketplace Why Global Bribery is Not a Market-Entry Strategy. Dr.
Suleski invited his friend, German Consul-General Friedrich Loehr, to join the
panel. Mr. Loehr had served a Deputy Chief of Mission in Beijing for the German
government, and later as German Ambassador to North Korea. He had many
things to say about corrupt practices in Asia. The other co-sponsors were the
Sawyer Business School and the Suffolk Alumni Association. March 2012.
D. Every attempt was made to increase the visibility of the Rosenberg
Institute and the Asian Studies Program at Suffolk. The section below
indicates the major categories of these activities: Welcoming Visitors to
the Institute; Promoting Suffolk’s Asia-Related Activities; Community
Outreach Programs.
Visitors to the Rosenberg Institute in 2011-2012
Throughout the year a number of professionals paid a visit to the Rosenberg
Institute. They wished to learn about our activities, and often we also discussed
ways in which they might assist the Institute. They brought their own perspectives
and advice for ways in which the Rosenberg Institute could strengthen its programs.
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The individuals listed below paid a formal visit to the Institute during the 20112012 academic year.
Visitors to the Rosenberg Institute 2011-2012
Shin Sangbum 幸相範. Dr. Shin is an Assistant Professor of International
Relations at the Wonju Campus of Yonsei University in Korea. He works with the
Global Village Program, in which international students are invited to spend a
semester on campus where they receive a scholarship provide by Yonsei through
Korean Government funds. Suffolk has a Memorandum of Understanding with
Yonsei and we will send a Suffolk student to the program for the fall 2012
semester. July 2011.
Jeffrey Williams. Mr. Williams is Executive Director & General Manager of the
Harvard Center Shanghai. He assumed this post in the fall of 2010, to lead
Harvard’s office in China. He had a thirty year career in Asia, often in the banking
and international sector. He visited the Institute as part of his speaking visit to
Suffolk, where he talked about how young people can build a business career for
themselves in Asia. (His presentation as part of our Rosenberg Institute Scholar
series is listed separately above.) September 2011.
Kim Dae-Keun 金大根. Dr. Kim is President of Soongsil University in Seoul,
Korea, and Dr. Lee Insung, Vice-President for External Affairs at Soongshil
University visited in September 2011. Soongshil has a compact campus in Seoul to
the south of the Han River. They visited Suffolk to meet with Acting-President
Barry Brown, CAS Dean Kenneth Greenberg, and other University officers.
Suffolk and Soongshil have signed a Memorandum of Understanding and
Soongshil sent a delegation of their students to attend Suffolk’s summer English
language program in the summer of 2012.
Men Honghua 門洪華. Dr. Men is Deputy Director of the Center for International
Strategic Studies at the Party School of the CCP Central Committee in Beijing. He
was visiting Boston as an Eisenhower Fellow, doing research on China’s plan to
capitalize on its soft power. He visited the Institute, and then gave a seminar on
China’s Grand International Strategy. Many Suffolk students and faculty attended,
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along with faculty from UMASS Boston and Harvard. (That presentation is listed
above in our Rosenberg Institute Scholar series.) October 2011.
Johnny Ip, Regional Vice-President; Irene Chan, Vice-President; Jian Tam,
Regional Office, EastWest Bank. This bank is located in Hong Kong and
California and is active with the Chinese-American residents in New England. We
met to discuss possible ways of having the Bank assist Suffolk students, through
scholarships, funding student activities, etc. We also met with Dean Greenberg.
The Rosenberg Institute continues to discuss the possibility of receiving some
scholarship finds from EastWest Bank. November 2011.
Geoffrey K. See, Managing Director of Choson Exchange. This group is based in
Singapore, with officers in south Korea and the United States. It brings students
and young bureaucrats from North Korea for short periods of study or educational
seminars outside of the DPRK. They have had groups from North Korea study in
Singapore. We discussed the idea of having some groups visit Suffolk for lectures
on international business and trade. December 2011.
Weston S. Konishi. Mr. Konishi is Associate Director of Asia-Pacific Studies at
The Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, in Cambridge, MA. His institute has
contracts with the Department of Defense and other US Government agencies to
do risk analysis and other research as contracted. They have both a non-profit and a
commercial unit. We discussed the speakers of the Rosenberg Institute, since in
the current academic year our speakers have touched on a number of topics of
concern to the United States government. February 2012.
Zhang Hong 張弘. Dr. Zhang is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and director
of the Centre for Religious Studies at Northwest University 西北大學 in Xi’an,
China. He was visiting the campus with his wife, and with Ms. Yang Liu 楊柳, his
PhD student who is also a Visiting Scholar at Suffolk University. We discussed
cooperation between our two universities and the hopes of exchanging faculty so
that their university can take advantage of some of the specialists we have teaching
at Suffolk, and we discussed continuing cooperation. March 2012.
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Heather O’Brien. She is a specialist in international strategic alliances,
government relations for new business development, and corporate
communications. She has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, and
Cambodia. She has permanent residency in Hong Kong. We talked about
international business strategies and the involvement of the Rosenberg Institute
with the field of international business. March 2012.
Promoting Suffolk’s Asia-Related Activities
The Rosenberg Institute feels it ought to be involved any time there is a
program, activity or talk related to Asia on the Suffolk campus. Further, the
Institute publicizes the activities of Suffolk faculty whose research involves
Asia. The regular emails sent out by Dr. Suleski are a way of showing how
active and relevant the topic of Asia is to Suffolk University. A few of the
achievements of our faculty that were highlighted by the Rosenberg Institute
are listed below.
The Institute helped to publicize the talk Through Hiroshima Eyes: Reflections and
Art of an A-Bomb Survivor, sponsored by the Cambridge Friends Meeting House
and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. October 2011.
Suffolk faculty member Dr. Simone Chun of the Government Department was
interviewed by the Asia Times for a story titled “Anti-elite backlash rocks Seoul
politics,” about party politics vs. grass roots movements in south Korea. The
article was put on-line.
The Sawyer Business School at Suffolk made a presentation by Dr. Florian
Kohlbacher, titled “Ethical Consumption in Japan: Is Japan Finally Waking Up?”.
Dr. Florian Kohlbacher is a senior research fellow and head of the Business &
Economics section at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo The
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Rosenberg Institute assisted the Sawyer School in recruiting an audience for this
event. November 2011.
Suffolk faculty member Dr. Roberto Dominguez of the Government Department at
Suffolk was in Kobe, Japan in January 2012, to attend an international conference
on European Union-Asia Relations in the Global Context. He presented a paper on
The Security Role of the United States in Asia Pacific, which was the first draft of
a chapter for a Handbook of EU-East Asia Relations scheduled to be published
October 2012.
Suffolk faculty member Dr. Kenneth Cosgrove of the Government Department
was in Taiwan teaching at Tamkang University in Taiwan which has a partnership
agreement with Suffolk. He taught an intensive class on political marketing at the
graduate level on Topics included branding, segmentation, market research,
targeting, narrowcasting and an overall examination of the impact of consumerism
on democratic values. The Institute was in contact with the Taiwan diplomatic
office in Boston about this visit, and also publicized it to the Suffolk community.
Dr. Ronald Suleski, a member of the History Department and Director of the
Rosenberg Institute was invited to present a series of graduate seminars on modern
Chinese history at Hangzhou Normal University on Hangzhou, China during May
and early June. While in China, he presented a paper about his research in late
Qing dynasty hand-written manuscripts at the Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai.
He also spent a week in Tokyo, where he gave a talk to the Japan Association of
International Publishers on the topic of current international relations among the
countries of Asia and the United States.
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Community Outreach Programs
For the third year in a row, through the Rosenberg Institute, Suffolk provided a
welcoming meeting space to the Taiwan diplomatic office in Boston, the Taipei
Economic and Cultural Office (TECO), for their annual gathering titled Taiwan
Student Leaders in America 台灣留學生交流會. Outstanding students from
Taiwan studying the in United States were brought to the Suffolk campus for a full
day of exchanging ideas and experiences. The costs were completely covered by
TECO. September 2011.
The Institute’s ties to the Chinese Historical Society of New England continued
to be strong. Suffolk facultyserve on the board of this organization. The Rosenberg
Institute participated in the 19th annual meeting of CHSNE in September 2011. A
current Suffolk undergraduate is the recipient of a partial scholarship provided by
CHSNE.
Suffolk University was host to 47 students from Ritsumeikan University, located
in Kyoto, Japan. The students had just completed a course of English language
study at the Showa Academy in Boston and were about to return to Japan. Suffolk
and Ritsumeikan have an exchange agreement and regular contact has been
maintained by both schools over the years. Several Suffolk faculty spoke to the
student group. September 2011.
The Boston Chinatown Community Center (BCNC) had a successful year and
appreciated the support of the Rosenberg Institute. In October 2011 ward-winning
Asian American author Ha Jin read from his new novel Nanjing Requiem. Copies
of the book were available for purchase and signing. In March 2012 the Rosenberg
Institute participated in the annual banquet of BCNC. In April 2012 A group of
Boston high school students from China affiliated with BCNC were chosen to visit
the White House in Washington, DC. The Rosenberg Institute helped BCNC
celebrate this achievement.
The Sino-American Bridge for Education and Health, Inc. has a program to
take American secondary school teachers to China each summer to work with
Chinese teachers of English, helping them learn American methods of teaching,
ESL, and some American culture (literature, geography, etc.). The Rosenberg
Institute helped Sino-American Bridge to publicize their activities.
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Primary Source continues to be an active organization in the Boston area and the
Institute continues to be a supporter of Primary Source. Dr. Suleski serves on the
advisory committee of this group and was involved in helping them to edit and
publish a revised version of their guide to China for secondary school teachers.
The revised publication should be out early in 2013.
Middlesex Community College. This outstanding community college is located
in Lowell, MA. Beyond the academic program it offers to its students, it also
serves as a center for the continued professional development of teachers and
faculty throughout the state of Massachusetts. The Rosenberg Institute has helped
to gather audiences for the Middlesex programs, to provide space for their Boston
programs, and to be a resource for their programs related to Asia.
Summer 2012 Activities
During the summer of 2012 Suffolk welcomed five student groups from China
(from Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai) and one from South Korea (Seoul) comprised of
students enrolled in the summer English language institute programs offered by
Suffolk’s Second Language Services Program. These 98 students and six faculty
chaperones represent several hundred thousand dollars of income to Suffolk.
Rosenberg institute Director Dr. Suleski worked with Director Dan Wu of the
International Office to have these groups study at Suffolk for the summer.
A number of Suffolk students who have an Asian Studies major or minor field,
were in Asia during the summer of 2012 or will be during the academic year 20122013; Dr. Suleski was involved in arranging all of these study abroad experiences.
Student Ray Delong had a paid internship in Tokyo; Students Daniel McCarthy
and Norelis Popovic had paid internships with a Korean TV broadcasting station
in Seoul Korea (Dr. Henry Kim of the Economic Department assisted in arranging
this program) funded by the KCC Corporation in Seoul; students Jing Chen and
Patrick Moriarity will spend the 2012-2012 academic year at Sophia University in
Tokyo (Suffolk has an exchange agreement with Sophia).
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at Suffolk University
Annual Report for 2011-2012
Ronald Suleski, PhD, Director
Overview
During the 2011-2012 academic year, the Rosenberg Institute took every
opportunity to promote Asian Studies to the Suffolk University community. The
core of our program was the Rosenberg Institute Scholar Series, in which
especially knowledgeable people were invited to speak at Suffolk. All of the talks
were free and open to the general public. On several occasions the Rosenberg
Institute joined with a co-sponsor to host a talk. This allowed the Institute to save
its budget by sharing costs, and to take advantage of the co-sponsors’ network to
recruit audience members.
We used all channels of communication in order to raise the visibility of the
Rosenberg Institute. We regularly posted our activities on the university websites,
including university-level, college level, and the Rosenberg Institute site. On one
occasion we were listed for several weeks as the featured organization on the CAS
website, which gave us a banner on the site and thus more visitors to the site.
Our new President James McCarthy has indicated support for the Rosenberg
Institute and our work. After speaking with Mr. Rosenberg by telephone one
morning during the spring 2012 semester, at the faculty assembly that afternoon he
cited the Rosenberg Institute and its active work on campus, and the generous and
continuing support of Mr. Rosenberg, as one of the admirable strengths of Suffolk
University. This resulted in a strong round of applause for the Institute from the
CAS faculty. We hear many appreciative comments from faculty at Suffolk about
the richness of Rosenberg Institute offerings.
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A. The section below lists the activities of the Rosenberg Institute
conducted in conformance with the Terms of Agreement signed in July
2007, as modified by the Memorandum by Dean Greenberg agreed to in
Fall 2008. These two documents call for a series of Distinguished
Visitors and for the publication of academic papers .
Rosenberg Institute Scholar Series
During the academic year we sponsored and/or co-sponsored 12 public programs
on the Suffolk campus as part of the Rosenberg Institute Scholar Series. This was a
higher number than originally planned, but when an opportunity arose to present a
quality program, we usually decided to hold the event. Because the Rosenberg
Institute is now well-known in the Boston area, we were regularly told of
opportunities to have an interesting speaker for our students. Our audiences ranged
from 40 to 70 persons on each occasion. At most of the talks, in addition to
Suffolk students and faculty, we had colleagues from other schools and
organizations in the Boston area, including Harvard, Boston University, Boston
College, Northeastern, UMASS Boston, Babson, Tufts, Emmanuel, etc. We also
had members of the general public, including our neighbors from Beacon Hill and
Chinatown. Following the events, we often succeeded in having a report published
in one of the several Chinese-language newspapers sold in Boston.
Rosenberg Institute Scholar Series in 2011-2012
2011 Fall Semester
Living and Working in China: Inside Advice from an American Executive in
Shanghai 在大中華地區生活工作的經驗點滴. Jeffrey Williams, Executive
Director of the Harvard Center Shanghai and former president of the Shenzhen
Development Bank, talked about how to build a career in China and how to work
in the complex and dynamic culture of China’s rapidly expanding economy. He
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served as an executive in the banking industry in Asia for many years. September
2011.
Fukushima! Life in Japan After the Earthquake. 福島! 大地震後の日常生活.
Goto Chie 後藤千枝. Ms. Goto is a journalist and activist who visited the area of
the Fukushima earthquake many times since the event in March 2011. She showed
photos about how people in the region are dealing with their losses and struggling
to survive. Photos showed people living in tiny prefabricated buildings as their
temporary shelter, and also children who have become so frightened of water that
they will not enter a shallow wading pool. This event was sponsored by the
Rosenberg Institute at Suffolk, in co-operation with the Japan Foundation Center
for Global Partnership and the Boston-based international non-profit United Planet.
September 2011.
New England Chinese and the 1911 Revolution 新英倫華人與辛亥革命 . Dr.
Wing-kai To 杜榮佳 , Bridgewater State University. Member of the Board of the
Chinese Historical Society of New England and noted scholar, Dr. To helped us
understand the 100th anniversary of the 1911 Revolution that overthrew the Qing
Dynasty. He gave a highly-illustrated talk with many references of the
revolutionary activities of Boston’s Chinatown community. Sponsored by the
Rosenberg Institute at Suffolk, the Cultural Division at the Taipei Economic and
Cultural Office (TECO) in Boston and the Asian Studies Program at Bridgewater
State University. October 2011.
Manchukuo and Colonial Culture in the 1930s 滿洲國與三十年代的殖民地文
化. Dr. Norman Smith, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. A specialist and
author on the literature and popular culture of Japanese-occupied Manchukuo, Dr.
Smith talked about his latest research on how the people lived when the Japanese
were occupying northeast China. The topic of this lecture will soon appear in Dr.
Smith’s fourth book, due for publication early in 2013, and represents a new area
of research, as scholars use archival materials to document details of life under a
colonial occupation. October 2011.
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Stepping Forth into the World: The Chinese Educational Mission to the
United States, 1872-81 走向世界; 1872-81 年在美國的中國幼童. Dr. Edward
Rhoads, emeritus professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Today over
130,000 Chinese students study in the United States. Based on his new book, Dr.
Rhoads talked about the first 120 who arrived in the US at the end of the Qing
dynasty in the 1870s. They were young and had entered a new world almost totally
unfamiliar to them. Co-Sponsored by the Rosenberg Institute, the Chinese
Historical Society of New England (CHSNE), and the Asian Studies Program at
Bridgewater State University. October 2011.
Conversation with Dr. Men Honghua 門洪華, Deputy Director of the Center for
International Strategic Studies, Central Party School, Beijing. He is currently
working on a project titled “The Construction of China’s Soft Power.” This was of
great interest to people from Suffolk’s Government Department and to students
interested in International Relations (IR) theory and practice. Sponsored by the
Rosenberg Institute along with the Government Department Forum Series, and the
Asian Studies Program at Suffolk. November 2011.
2012 Spring Semester
China’s Role in the Global Order 中國在全球秩序中的作用 . Dr. Liselotte
Odgaard, Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Defence College. Her areas of
expertise include International Relations, Asia-Pacific Security and China Studies.
In 2008-09 she was a residential fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She recently published China and
Coexistence: Beijing’s National Security Strategy for the 21st Century (Woodrow
Wilson Center Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). Sponsored by the
Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies. February 2012.
American Robots Help Fukushima Clean-up
報告: 大地震後の福
島. iRobot Corporation is an American company which designs and
manufactures sophisticated robots in Massachusetts. The company sent four of its
robots to Japan to assist in the clean-up at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant following
the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011. Roy Rondoe, Senior
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International Sales Manager demonstrated a PackBot 510 robot and showed
slides of iRobot’s involvement in the disaster clean-up at the Fukushima site.
Suffolk’s engineering students were out in force at the talk, taking photos of the
robot and trying their hand at manipulating it. Sponsored by the Rosenberg
Institute and the Department of Engineering at Suffolk University. March 2012.
Why Taiwan Matters 爲什麽臺灣很重要 . Dr. Shelley Rigger, Davidson
College. A few years ago many feared war would break out between Taiwan and
China. In the elections in Taiwan in Jan 2012, the new president of Taiwan assured
citizens on both sides of the Taiwan Strait that economic cooperation and increased
travel between Taiwan and China was the most likely course. Dr. Rigger talked
about her recent book Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse
(Rowman & Littlefield 2011). The audience filled up the Amenities Room at 73
Tremont. Co-sponsored by the Rosenberg Institute and the Taipei Economic and
Cultural Office (TECO) in Boston. March 2012.
The Gwangju Uprising in Korea 광주광주시민 항쟁 (光州 市民抗爭)을
말하다 . Dr. George Katsiaficas, Wentworth Institute of Technology. Dr.
Katsiaficas has done extensive research on this popular uprising that took place in
1980 against South Korea’s dictator-government of Chun Doo-hwan. Dr.
Katsiaficas talked about his new two-volume book Asia’s Unknown Uprisings,
1980-1992 (PM Press, 2012). Many dramatic photos of the uprising and
government suppression were shown. Sponsored by the Rosenberg Institute. April
2012.
Confucian China in a Changing World Order 孔教在當代. Dr. Roger T.
Ames, University of Hawai’i. Dr. Ames is one of the most distinguished scholars
of Chinese philosophy in the world today. He has published many books, each an
example of thorough scholarship and original insight. Not only is he at the top of
his profession, but he is an engaging and approachable speaker. The Rosenberg
Institute joined with the Asian Studies Development Program of Middlesex
Community College, Lowell to co-sponsor this event. April 2012.
Sustainability and Clean-Tech Innovations in South China. Waltraut Ritter,
Managing Director of Knowledge Dialogues and Research Director at the Asia5
Pacific Intellectual Capital Centre. The Pearl River Delta in south China is an area
of high population, vibrant manufacturing, and abundant agriculture. It is beautiful
and vital. Hong Kong is at the mouth of the river. Keeping this large area clean
and livable and viable is the challenge being examined by Ms. Ritter. Sponsored by
the Knowledge Globalization Institute and the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian
Research , both at Suffolk University, Boston. April 2012.
Rosenberg Institute’s First Occasional Paper
The first occasional paper of the Rosenberg Institute, titled Public Medicine in
Wartime China: Biomedicine, State Medicine, and the Rise of China’s
National Medical Colleges, 1931-1945, by Dr. John R. Watt was published early
in 2012. As part of the launch of the paper, the Rosenberg Institute presented a
public program titled Public Health in Nationalist China, 1928-45 羅森伯格東
亞研究所首期學報: 中國戰爭期間的大眾醫療. By Dr. John R. Watt,
American Bureau for Medical Advancement in China. Dr. Watt’s original study
discusses how Chinese and American medical specialists, political actors, and
leaders in the North American non-profit world struggled to bring health care to
the people in wartime China from 1931 to 1945. This program was co-sponsored
by the Rosenberg Institute and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in
Boston. February 2012.
Availability of the Occasional Paper was announced in the Journal of East Asian
Libraries and in the Newsletter of the Association for Asian Studies. As a result of
requests, copies of the study have been sent to scholars and libraries in the United
States, Canada, China, Japan, Australia and the Philippines.
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Special Public Event: The China Town Hall Meeting
China Town Hall 中美关系：最近报告. Local Connections, National
Reflections. For the third year, the Rosenberg Institute joined with the National
Committee on United States-China Relations to facilitate this event in the Boston
area. China Town Hall is a national day of programming on China involving 50
cities throughout the United States. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National
Security Advisor, answered questions on-air posed by those gathered on select
university campuses in the North America and Asia, including those in the Suffolk
audience. This was a live video feed from Washington DC . Professor Allen
Carlson, and expert in Chinese international relations and foreign policy from
Cornell University, joined us live at Suffolk to discuss current outstanding issues in
US-China relations. Co-sponsored by the Rosenberg Institute, the National
Committee for United States-China Relations, and WorldBoston. November 2012.
Rosenberg Institute’s Visiting Scholars from Asia
In September 2011 the Rosenberg Institute welcomed our first Visiting Scholar. Dr.
Hae-Kwang Park from Chonnam National University in Korea. His PhD is from
top-rated Yonsei University. He is the author of two books and a co-author of five
other volumes published in Korean, several on the lives of Korean workers, on
class, identity and culture. While at Suffolk he completed his manuscript for a
book that explores how Korean society is changing as women from abroad
(Vietnam, Philippines, China) move into Korean farming villages as wives of
Korean men. Dr. Park also completed his contributions of a new sociology
textbook to be published in Korea.
Although always busy with his publication projects, he willingly gave a number of
lectures on campus to faculty and students, thus contributing to the intellectual
climate at Suffolk. Dr. Park was graciously housed at the Sociology Department.
In February 2012 the Institute was also closely involved in arranging for a second
visiting scholar, Yang Liu from Northwest University in Xi’an, China. Her term at
Suffolk was from February to August 2012. Ms. Yang was preparing her PhD
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dissertation on the topic of a Chinese folk deity and popular religion. She was
learning how western scholars and researchers approach this topic in ways quite
different from the analytical categories used by Chinese scholars. She was housed
in the English Department. She also gave a public talk on her present research
interest. The Asian Studies Program co-operated in arranging this appointment.
Both of these visiting scholars were completely self-funded through grants from
their home institutions.
B. During the 2011-2012 academic year being reported here, for the first
time Suffolk withdrew money from the earnings of the endowment fund
to cover a portion of the Institute’s budget. Suffolk University has been
careful to honor the specific terms listed in the original agreement with
Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg. The University hired a full-time
administrator (the Director) for the Institute (going well beyond the
part-time position called for in the original agreement), provided
professional and suitable office space for the Director, and has made
available all of the necessary facilities and support services for
Rosenberg Institute activities . It has also supported the marketing and
communications activities of the Institute. The Institute used University
email lists, as well as the email lists developed by the Institute, to
advertise all of its programs and activities.
This Report is submitted in accordance with the original Terms of
Agreement.
C. Cooperation with the Asian Studies Program. As administrator of the
Rosenberg Institute, the Director was asked by the University to
cooperate with the new Asian Studies Program established in fall 2009.
In some cases the Rosenberg Institute lent its name in support of these
activities and used its email lists to help draw an audience. The Asian
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Studies Committee is chaired by Professor Da Zheng. The activities of
the Asian Studies Program were covered entirely by Suffolk University
funds. These programs helped to promote an interest in Asia on the
campus and to encourage interested students to select an Asian Studies
major or minor. Some students from other campuses in the area
attended these events, though the majority were Suffolk students. Many
faculty members, from Suffolk and nearby schools, were also present at
all of these events. The Director of the Rosenberg Institute was actively
involved in all of the events listed below.
Asian Studies Program Events
A number of Suffolk students studied in Asia in the summer of 2011, in China and
Seoul. They gave a Suffolk a presentation in October 2011 about their experiences
that featured photos of the sights they saw and, perhaps not surprisingly, photos of
many of the Asian foods they tried for the first time. The student’s illustrated
presentation was well attended by their fellow classmates, several of whom
decided to spend the current summer and/or fall 2012 in Asia. The Rosenberg
Institute helped to advertise this program, and the Director played a critical role in
arranging for the summer internship and scholarships for two of the students who
spent summer 2011 in Seoul, with help from Professor Henry Kim of the
Economic Department.
The Asian Studies Program at Suffolk University arranged for a faculty lecture on
the topic “Hao Wang, Logic and Philosophy” given by Professor Montgomery
Link, member of the Asian Studies Committee and a member of the Philosophy
Department in November 2011. The lecture talked about the confluence of
philosophy reasoning and mathematical logic, since Hao Wang was used
mathematical analysis in his own writings. Not only was the lecture very well
attended, but all present were favorably impressed by the thoughtful and informed
questions asked by our students.
Once again the Rosenberg Institute was a co-sponsor when the Suffolk community
celebrated the Year of the Dragon at a Lunar New Year Party in January 2012.
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Other co-sponsors were he Asian Studies Committee, the International Office, and
the Office of Diversity Services. At least 250 students, faculty and staff attended,
and to our satisfaction we found that we had ordered enough Chinese food to feed
everyone present. It turned out the restaurant owner from Chinatown was a
Suffolk alum. This event was later reported in several Chinese language
newspapers with photos.
Our colleague, member of the Asian studies Committee Allan Tow of the
Government Department, received the 2012 Creating the Dream Award at the
annual Martin Luther King Jr. luncheon hosted by the Office of Diversity Services.
Allan is an American of Chinese ancestry who grew up in Massachusetts. He
cherishes the Chinese influences in his life and gives equal respect to all cultural
backgrounds. For the past fifteen years he has been faculty advisor to the AsianAmerican Students Association at Suffolk.
Our colleague Afshan Bokhari of the New England School of Art and Design
(NESAD) and a member of the Asian Studies Committee, appeared in the movie
Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World. The film was shown at Harvard in
February and at the Museum of Fine Arts. Suffolk is planning to show the film
during the fall 2012 semester.
The Asian Studies Program organized a discussion titled Teaching Chinese
Students: Cultural Perspectives and Learning, an Afternoon Tea Discussion in
February 2012. It was held at the Center for Teaching Excellence at Suffolk
University. We were pleasantly surprised that the Center was completely filled
with interested faculty so that it was a standing-room-only audience. Dr. Suleski
spoke at this event.
The Asian Studies Program held an an open house and party in March for all of
Asian Studies majors, minors, and prospective majors and minors. Several faculty
talked about the courses concerning Asia they will offer in the fall 2012 semester,
and visiting scholar Dr. Park from Korea briefly explained his research. Professor
Micky Lee of the Journalism and Communication Department and a member of the
Asian Studies Committee directed the Asia Trivia Quiz, which included prizes of
instant noodles for the winners.
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Suffolk received a gift of 100 books about Japan from the Nippon Foundation.
This project by the Nippon Foundation was brought to our attention by Professor
Afshan Bokhari of NESAD, and the supporting materials for our application were
supplied by Rebecca Fulweiler, Interim Director of the Mildred F. Sawyer Library.
The volumes, most of them recently published, covered the five categories of:
Politics and International Relations, Economy and Business, Society and Culture,
Literature and Arts, and History. The Rosenberg Institute was involved in this
project from the very beginning. After receipt of the gift, the Sawyer Library
arranged an attractive month-long display of the new titles.
The Rosenberg Institute was a co-sponsor of the Suffolk conference Corruption in
the Global Marketplace Why Global Bribery is Not a Market-Entry Strategy. Dr.
Suleski invited his friend, German Consul-General Friedrich Loehr, to join the
panel. Mr. Loehr had served a Deputy Chief of Mission in Beijing for the German
government, and later as German Ambassador to North Korea. He had many
things to say about corrupt practices in Asia. The other co-sponsors were the
Sawyer Business School and the Suffolk Alumni Association. March 2012.
D. Every attempt was made to increase the visibility of the Rosenberg
Institute and the Asian Studies Program at Suffolk. The section below
indicates the major categories of these activities: Welcoming Visitors to
the Institute; Promoting Suffolk’s Asia-Related Activities; Community
Outreach Programs.
Visitors to the Rosenberg Institute in 2011-2012
Throughout the year a number of professionals paid a visit to the Rosenberg
Institute. They wished to learn about our activities, and often we also discussed
ways in which they might assist the Institute. They brought their own perspectives
and advice for ways in which the Rosenberg Institute could strengthen its programs.
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The individuals listed below paid a formal visit to the Institute during the 20112012 academic year.
Visitors to the Rosenberg Institute 2011-2012
Shin Sangbum 幸相範. Dr. Shin is an Assistant Professor of International
Relations at the Wonju Campus of Yonsei University in Korea. He works with the
Global Village Program, in which international students are invited to spend a
semester on campus where they receive a scholarship provide by Yonsei through
Korean Government funds. Suffolk has a Memorandum of Understanding with
Yonsei and we will send a Suffolk student to the program for the fall 2012
semester. July 2011.
Jeffrey Williams. Mr. Williams is Executive Director & General Manager of the
Harvard Center Shanghai. He assumed this post in the fall of 2010, to lead
Harvard’s office in China. He had a thirty year career in Asia, often in the banking
and international sector. He visited the Institute as part of his speaking visit to
Suffolk, where he talked about how young people can build a business career for
themselves in Asia. (His presentation as part of our Rosenberg Institute Scholar
series is listed separately above.) September 2011.
Kim Dae-Keun 金大根. Dr. Kim is President of Soongsil University in Seoul,
Korea, and Dr. Lee Insung, Vice-President for External Affairs at Soongshil
University visited in September 2011. Soongshil has a compact campus in Seoul to
the south of the Han River. They visited Suffolk to meet with Acting-President
Barry Brown, CAS Dean Kenneth Greenberg, and other University officers.
Suffolk and Soongshil have signed a Memorandum of Understanding and
Soongshil sent a delegation of their students to attend Suffolk’s summer English
language program in the summer of 2012.
Men Honghua 門洪華. Dr. Men is Deputy Director of the Center for International
Strategic Studies at the Party School of the CCP Central Committee in Beijing. He
was visiting Boston as an Eisenhower Fellow, doing research on China’s plan to
capitalize on its soft power. He visited the Institute, and then gave a seminar on
China’s Grand International Strategy. Many Suffolk students and faculty attended,
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along with faculty from UMASS Boston and Harvard. (That presentation is listed
above in our Rosenberg Institute Scholar series.) October 2011.
Johnny Ip, Regional Vice-President; Irene Chan, Vice-President; Jian Tam,
Regional Office, EastWest Bank. This bank is located in Hong Kong and
California and is active with the Chinese-American residents in New England. We
met to discuss possible ways of having the Bank assist Suffolk students, through
scholarships, funding student activities, etc. We also met with Dean Greenberg.
The Rosenberg Institute continues to discuss the possibility of receiving some
scholarship finds from EastWest Bank. November 2011.
Geoffrey K. See, Managing Director of Choson Exchange. This group is based in
Singapore, with officers in south Korea and the United States. It brings students
and young bureaucrats from North Korea for short periods of study or educational
seminars outside of the DPRK. They have had groups from North Korea study in
Singapore. We discussed the idea of having some groups visit Suffolk for lectures
on international business and trade. December 2011.
Weston S. Konishi. Mr. Konishi is Associate Director of Asia-Pacific Studies at
The Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, in Cambridge, MA. His institute has
contracts with the Department of Defense and other US Government agencies to
do risk analysis and other research as contracted. They have both a non-profit and a
commercial unit. We discussed the speakers of the Rosenberg Institute, since in
the current academic year our speakers have touched on a number of topics of
concern to the United States government. February 2012.
Zhang Hong 張弘. Dr. Zhang is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and director
of the Centre for Religious Studies at Northwest University 西北大學 in Xi’an,
China. He was visiting the campus with his wife, and with Ms. Yang Liu 楊柳, his
PhD student who is also a Visiting Scholar at Suffolk University. We discussed
cooperation between our two universities and the hopes of exchanging faculty so
that their university can take advantage of some of the specialists we have teaching
at Suffolk, and we discussed continuing cooperation. March 2012.
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Heather O’Brien. She is a specialist in international strategic alliances,
government relations for new business development, and corporate
communications. She has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, and
Cambodia. She has permanent residency in Hong Kong. We talked about
international business strategies and the involvement of the Rosenberg Institute
with the field of international business. March 2012.
Promoting Suffolk’s Asia-Related Activities
The Rosenberg Institute feels it ought to be involved any time there is a
program, activity or talk related to Asia on the Suffolk campus. Further, the
Institute publicizes the activities of Suffolk faculty whose research involves
Asia. The regular emails sent out by Dr. Suleski are a way of showing how
active and relevant the topic of Asia is to Suffolk University. A few of the
achievements of our faculty that were highlighted by the Rosenberg Institute
are listed below.
The Institute helped to publicize the talk Through Hiroshima Eyes: Reflections and
Art of an A-Bomb Survivor, sponsored by the Cambridge Friends Meeting House
and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. October 2011.
Suffolk faculty member Dr. Simone Chun of the Government Department was
interviewed by the Asia Times for a story titled “Anti-elite backlash rocks Seoul
politics,” about party politics vs. grass roots movements in south Korea. The
article was put on-line.
The Sawyer Business School at Suffolk made a presentation by Dr. Florian
Kohlbacher, titled “Ethical Consumption in Japan: Is Japan Finally Waking Up?”.
Dr. Florian Kohlbacher is a senior research fellow and head of the Business &
Economics section at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo The
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Rosenberg Institute assisted the Sawyer School in recruiting an audience for this
event. November 2011.
Suffolk faculty member Dr. Roberto Dominguez of the Government Department at
Suffolk was in Kobe, Japan in January 2012, to attend an international conference
on European Union-Asia Relations in the Global Context. He presented a paper on
The Security Role of the United States in Asia Pacific, which was the first draft of
a chapter for a Handbook of EU-East Asia Relations scheduled to be published
October 2012.
Suffolk faculty member Dr. Kenneth Cosgrove of the Government Department
was in Taiwan teaching at Tamkang University in Taiwan which has a partnership
agreement with Suffolk. He taught an intensive class on political marketing at the
graduate level on Topics included branding, segmentation, market research,
targeting, narrowcasting and an overall examination of the impact of consumerism
on democratic values. The Institute was in contact with the Taiwan diplomatic
office in Boston about this visit, and also publicized it to the Suffolk community.
Dr. Ronald Suleski, a member of the History Department and Director of the
Rosenberg Institute was invited to present a series of graduate seminars on modern
Chinese history at Hangzhou Normal University on Hangzhou, China during May
and early June. While in China, he presented a paper about his research in late
Qing dynasty hand-written manuscripts at the Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai.
He also spent a week in Tokyo, where he gave a talk to the Japan Association of
International Publishers on the topic of current international relations among the
countries of Asia and the United States.
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Community Outreach Programs
For the third year in a row, through the Rosenberg Institute, Suffolk provided a
welcoming meeting space to the Taiwan diplomatic office in Boston, the Taipei
Economic and Cultural Office (TECO), for their annual gathering titled Taiwan
Student Leaders in America 台灣留學生交流會. Outstanding students from
Taiwan studying the in United States were brought to the Suffolk campus for a full
day of exchanging ideas and experiences. The costs were completely covered by
TECO. September 2011.
The Institute’s ties to the Chinese Historical Society of New England continued
to be strong. Suffolk facultyserve on the board of this organization. The Rosenberg
Institute participated in the 19th annual meeting of CHSNE in September 2011. A
current Suffolk undergraduate is the recipient of a partial scholarship provided by
CHSNE.
Suffolk University was host to 47 students from Ritsumeikan University, located
in Kyoto, Japan. The students had just completed a course of English language
study at the Showa Academy in Boston and were about to return to Japan. Suffolk
and Ritsumeikan have an exchange agreement and regular contact has been
maintained by both schools over the years. Several Suffolk faculty spoke to the
student group. September 2011.
The Boston Chinatown Community Center (BCNC) had a successful year and
appreciated the support of the Rosenberg Institute. In October 2011 ward-winning
Asian American author Ha Jin read from his new novel Nanjing Requiem. Copies
of the book were available for purchase and signing. In March 2012 the Rosenberg
Institute participated in the annual banquet of BCNC. In April 2012 A group of
Boston high school students from China affiliated with BCNC were chosen to visit
the White House in Washington, DC. The Rosenberg Institute helped BCNC
celebrate this achievement.
The Sino-American Bridge for Education and Health, Inc. has a program to
take American secondary school teachers to China each summer to work with
Chinese teachers of English, helping them learn American methods of teaching,
ESL, and some American culture (literature, geography, etc.). The Rosenberg
Institute helped Sino-American Bridge to publicize their activities.
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Primary Source continues to be an active organization in the Boston area and the
Institute continues to be a supporter of Primary Source. Dr. Suleski serves on the
advisory committee of this group and was involved in helping them to edit and
publish a revised version of their guide to China for secondary school teachers.
The revised publication should be out early in 2013.
Middlesex Community College. This outstanding community college is located
in Lowell, MA. Beyond the academic program it offers to its students, it also
serves as a center for the continued professional development of teachers and
faculty throughout the state of Massachusetts. The Rosenberg Institute has helped
to gather audiences for the Middlesex programs, to provide space for their Boston
programs, and to be a resource for their programs related to Asia.
Summer 2012 Activities
During the summer of 2012 Suffolk welcomed five student groups from China
(from Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai) and one from South Korea (Seoul) comprised of
students enrolled in the summer English language institute programs offered by
Suffolk’s Second Language Services Program. These 98 students and six faculty
chaperones represent several hundred thousand dollars of income to Suffolk.
Rosenberg institute Director Dr. Suleski worked with Director Dan Wu of the
International Office to have these groups study at Suffolk for the summer.
A number of Suffolk students who have an Asian Studies major or minor field,
were in Asia during the summer of 2012 or will be during the academic year 20122013; Dr. Suleski was involved in arranging all of these study abroad experiences.
Student Ray Delong had a paid internship in Tokyo; Students Daniel McCarthy
and Norelis Popovic had paid internships with a Korean TV broadcasting station
in Seoul Korea (Dr. Henry Kim of the Economic Department assisted in arranging
this program) funded by the KCC Corporation in Seoul; students Jing Chen and
Patrick Moriarity will spend the 2012-2012 academic year at Sophia University in
Tokyo (Suffolk has an exchange agreement with Sophia).
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