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USC U.S.-China Institute  留言于2017-03-01 01:00:34 |
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评论：UPDATE - From The Chinese American Professors and Professionals Network (2017 No.05) |
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Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a book talk by Stein Ringen. In The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the 21st Century, Stein examines how China''''s distinctive governmental system works and where it may be moving.
The Perfect Dictatorship: China In The 21st Century
Date: Thursday, March 2, 2017, 4-5:30pm
Location: Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, ASC 204, USC
Cost: Free, please register here
Stein Ringen's new book, The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the 21st Century, examines how China's distinctive governmental system works and where it may be moving. Ringen argues that Xi Jinping's party-state is much more demanding than Deng Xiaoping's and that China's economy is more fragile and its political system more dictatorial than most in the outside world believe. Ringen will discuss the intentions and priorities of party-state leaders, Xi Jinping's methods and aims, and how the economy works and its prospects. How pragmatic and how ideological are China''''s leaders? How is control exerted?
About the Author:
Stein Ringen, a Norwegian political scientist, is emeritus professor at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, where from 1990 he held the chair in sociology and social policy, and an affiliate of St Antony's College, Oxford. He started his academic career at the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He subsequently taught and carried out research at the University of Stockholm and Lillehammer University College. His government service includes posts at Norwegian Central Bureau of Statistics, the Norwegian Ministry of Public Administration, and the Norwegian Ministry of Justice. He''''s worked as well as a consultant for the United Nations and a reporter with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. He has been a visiting professor at a number of schools. Ringen's books include What Democracy Is For (2007; Chinese version 2012), The Korean State and Social Policy (co-authored, 2011), The Possibility of Politics (1987, 2006), and Nation of Devils: Democracy and the Problem of Obedience (2013).
USC U.S.-China Institute
213-821-4382
uschina@usc.edu |
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UCLA Center for Chinese Studies 留言于2017-02-25 15:15:44 |
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评论：UPDATE - From The Chinese American Professors and Professionals Network (2017 No.04) |
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Undoing Commonness: Language and Social Change in Contemporary China
Thursday, March 02, 2017
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall， UCLA
Talk by Qing Zhang, University of Arizona
“Letting some people and regions get rich first,” a declarative by Deng Xiaoping 30 years ago, offers perhaps the most potent example for the power of language in social change in contemporary China. This talk argues for an integrated approach to language and social change as mutually constitutive. Building on research that tracks the emergence of Cosmopolitan Mandarin (CM), a new linguistic style alternative to the conventional Standard Mandarin, also known as “common speech,” I demonstrate that CM constitutes an emergent stylistic resource for dismantling the Maoist socialist stylistic regime that valued conformity and egalitarianism. By examining the formation, use, and social evaluation of CM, I demonstrate that it brings about social change in two ways. First, through its use by particularly groups of social actors to produce new distinction, CM participates in the increasing socioeconomic diversification of Chinese society. Second, through its valorizations vis-à-vis the conventional standard language, CM participates in shaping the configuration of a postsocialist stylistic regime. Qing Zhang is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and affiliated faculty member in East Asian Studies and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. Her research examines the constitutive role of language in contexts of sociopolitical change and globalization.
Egoist Individual, Moralist Self, and Relational Person: A Tripartite Approach to Changing Chinese Personhood
Thursday, March 02, 2017
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
352 Haines Hall, UCLA
Talk by Yunxiang Yan, Professor of Anthropology and the Director of UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
Aiming at an ethnographic account of changing Chinese personhoods, this paper suggests a tripartite approach that examines the egoist individual (bodily desires), the moralist self (psychological and ethical self-control), and the relational person (social practice of connectedness) as the three components of the Chinese subjectivity. The fight by the moralist self against the egoist individual for the purpose of becoming a proper relational person stands out as the biding theme of the cultural construction of personhood in Chinese culture, which unfolds as a long birth-to-death process of becoming, instead of a given structure of being. Chinese personhood as a process of becoming, however, has also been undergoing radical changes in the context of the national pursuit for modernity and globalization since 1900 and thus manifests itself in real life in both dynamic and plural forms. Yunxiang Yan is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his B.A. in Chinese Literature from Peking University in 1982 and Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University in 1993. He is the author of The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village (Stanford University Press, 1996), Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 (Stanford University Press, 2003), and The Individualization of Chinese Society (Berg publishers, 2009).
Contact: china@international.ucla.edu |
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CESASC 留言于2017-02-23 06:37:43 |
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评论：UPDATE - From The Chinese American Professors and Professionals Network (2017 No.04) |
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Dear CESASC members and friends,
The Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists Association of Southern California (CESASC) will hold its 55th Annual Convention on April 15, 2017 in Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City. The convention will feature a Luncheon, Technical Symposium, and Evening Gala and Awards Reception. Now we are soliciting applicants for three types of awards:
1. Student STEM Essay Contest: Future Technology That Can Improve Human Life
• The contest is open to all 6th to 12th grade students who are currently registered in a U.S. school. Students in other countries should contact Perceiver Education Inc. for International Student Category.
• Awards include three prizes:1st place - $500 and a trophy; 2nd place - $250 and a trophy; 3rd place - $100 and a trophy.
2. Business Innovation Competition
• The 2017 Business Innovation Competition is open to all engineers, scientists, and college students.
• Based on submitted abstracts and business plans, 6-8 finalists will be chosen to present their business plans to a panel of judges on April 15, 2017.
• The top winning team will also be invited to a business venture camp in China in summer 2017.
The application links and deadlines are:
2017 CESASC Student STEM Essay Contest: March 1, 2017
2017 CESASC Business Innovation Competition: March 1, 2017
Please click the above links for details.
We look forward to hearing from all of you. Please distribute this email to others who might be interested.
CESASC Board
info@cesasc.org
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EliteWeatlhs 留言于2017-02-23 01:59:37 |
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评论：UPDATE - From The Chinese American Professors and Professionals Network (2017 No.04) |
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報稅季節已逐漸進入旺季高峰！面對密密麻麻的美國稅務新規條款，很多人看了心煩氣燥，無從下手？如果一不小心又收到國稅局查帳的通知，請千萬不要驚 慌! 首先在與國稅局查帳專員通電話時，需授權稅 務代表與國稅局連絡即可。不要以為所得稅報被審查，就認定是國稅局找麻煩？這可能是國稅局的電腦系統自動挑選的，也有可能是公司所屬行業是國稅局測試是否按照規定報稅的專案行業，也許是競爭對手或不滿的僱員舉發？
不論原因為何，當被國稅局查帳時一定認真因應。通常稅表經國稅局分數計算審查系統的計算，會產生一個數值，而這個數字會顯示費用項目與平均值相差多少。接下來系統會把所有跟國稅局標準值相差的 部份全部加總，用以計算所謂的稅表分數。很多人覺得這個評份系統的運作方法是個謎。為了正確解析這個謎底，卓越稅務和財富管理集團特邀前國稅局稽查师本週六2/25@2pm與大家面對面分析，為何一些項目會使你的稅表分數 提高？查帳中的通訊查帳，辦事處的查帳，親到公司現場查帳 有何區別？儘管沒有方法可以保證你的稅表不會被查, 但是前国税局稽查师将會分析如何降低國稅局查稅的可能？
1， 如何申報所有收入？國稅局會獲得你拿到的所有W-2和1099表格，所以絕不能隱暪收入。若你經營現金交易的生意,確保你申報所有現金，並保存紀錄。
2， 如何正確申報你的被撫養人？如果兩個人申報同一人是被撫養人，特別是若你也申報工作所得抵稅。因為申報這項抵稅的詐欺情況普遍，國稅局對該退稅監控嚴密。
3，如何檢查你的計算是否有誤？多數報稅軟體會替你計算，減少你出錯的機率。如果你是自己報稅，定要把稅表檢查兩、三遍。
4，如何瞭解家庭辦公室扣稅的規定？家庭辦公室扣稅的規定往往被錯誤利用。所以對申報家庭辦公室扣稅的稅表，國稅局審查從嚴。
5，如何申報餐飲和娛樂方面的扣稅？若你想申報生意用餐、旅行或娛樂的扣稅，相關文件要準備齊全。特別是目的地剛好也是度假勝地，保存收據和紀錄就特別重要。
6，如何申報在你收入水平常見的扣稅？你申報的扣抵稅愈是接近你收入層的扣抵稅，被查稅的機率就愈低。
7， 如何申報海外資產，如何分辨肥咖與CRS？
本週六2/25@2pm舉辦【稅表被查怎麼辦？】研討會。講座報名：1-877-253-8288， or Jenny@EliteWeatlhs.com.
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