{"id":124,"date":"2009-10-25T00:49:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T07:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2009-10-25T00:49:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T07:49:40","slug":"berkeley-ties-to-china-140-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/20091025\/berkeley-ties-to-china-140-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Berkeley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ties to China: A Relationship Spanning over 140 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just read a great chronology of UC Berkeley’s ties to China. It was posted to Haas@Cal<\/a> website. In courtesy of the author, I forwarded the full text here to share with more readers.<\/p>\n

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Berkeley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ties to China: <\/strong><\/p>\n

A Relationship Spanning over 140 Years<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1868 <\/strong>Founding of the first of the University of California nine campuses at Berkeley.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The new Town and the permanent site of the University campus named in honor of Irish philosopher George Berkeley<\/p>\n

1872 <\/strong> Regent Edward Tompkins, one of Berkeley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s founding fathers, endows the first \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chair of learning\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at the fledgling University of California, the Agassiz Professorship in Asian languages and cultures<\/p>\n

1896 <\/strong>Department of East Asian Languages founded<\/p>\n

1898 <\/strong>College of Commerce founded, in part to serve as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153portal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for the exchange of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153products and thoughts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d between East and West<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Professor John Fryer, a legendary promoter of Chinese modernization who lived and worked in China\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0for 33 years as a government translator before accepting the first Agassiz Professorship at Berkeley, offers a course on the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153commerce of China and Japan with Europe and America\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to meet the needs of students of the newly organized College of Commerce<\/p>\n

1899 <\/strong>Benjamin Ide Wheeler becomes President of the University of California and pledges his support for the expansion of Asian studies at Berkeley:\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Here can be collected to best advantage data concerning the conditions of the markets in the Asiatic world, and here can be taught to best advantage the manners, customs, social conditions, civilization, and languages of that world\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

1919 <\/strong>Berkeley Political Science Professor N. Wing Mah is the first, or among the first, US scholars to present courses in the United States on the political institutions of China and Japan<\/p>\n

1921 <\/strong> The Berkeley Bureau of International Relations is founded, in part to provide opportunities to research international law and relations on Asiatic affairs<\/p>\n

1928 <\/strong> Phi Theta, the Berkeley honor society for Asian languages, is founded<\/p>\n

1930 <\/strong>International House Berkeley, the gift of US industrialist John D. Rockefeller, is established.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Rockefeller recognized that the Bay Area, and Berkeley, are the American point of entry from Asia \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153through which pours so much of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s commerce and travel.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Since its founding, the International House has been home to thousands of international students from the Pacific Rim, many of whom have achieved prominent positions in areas of intellectual, political, and social life<\/p>\n

1942 <\/strong> University of California hosts the California College in China to promote opportunities for intensive language study of Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Malay<\/p>\n

1946 <\/strong> Professor Claude Hutchison, Dean of the College of Agriculture, leads mission of 13 Chinese agriculturalists to study Chinese agricultural practice and make recommendations for improvement in yield<\/p>\n

1947 <\/strong>Professor Yuen Ren Chao, developer of the National Romanization, a phonetic alphabet for the Chinese language often bearing his name and officially adopted by the Chinese government in 1927, accepts the Agassiz Professorship at Berkeley<\/p>\n

Berkeley endows the East Asian library, one of the most comprehensive collections of materials in East Asian languages in the United States.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The Center for Chinese Studies Library, of which it is a part, is the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest repository of materials on contemporary China outside the People\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Republic<\/p>\n

1957 <\/strong>Center for Chinese Studies is inaugurated<\/p>\n

1977 <\/strong>Walter and Elise Haas Chair in Asian Studies is endowed<\/p>\n

1978 <\/strong> Institute of East Asian Studies is inaugurated<\/p>\n

1979 <\/strong>Berkeley becomes the first US institution to sign bilateral agreements on faculty exchange with Beijing, Tsinghua, Fudan, and Jiao Tong Universities following President Nixon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trip to China.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The agreements were widely publicized in China as an important and valued first step toward normalizing ties between the US and China<\/p>\n

1981 <\/strong> UC Berkeley and Tsinghua University agree to microfilm project to film and exchange rare books in the library holdings of both institutions<\/p>\n

1985 <\/strong>University of California hosts 40 state leaders from across the United States to attend the first national Pacific Rim Conference<\/p>\n

1986 <\/strong>University of California President David Gardner founds the Pacific Rim Research Program, a competitive grants program to support collaborative research on the Pacific Rim by UC faculty, acknowledging that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153California\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s location and immigrant heritage [enable it] to play a pivotal role in what will surely be one of the greatest centers of trade, commerce, and cultural exchange the world has ever known\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

1988 <\/strong> Berkeley is awarded grants under Title VI of the Higher Education Act to fund the Berkeley East Asia National Resource Center to support teaching, lectures and conferences, outreach programs, and the East Asian Studies library<\/p>\n

1989 <\/strong>Tung-Yen Lin, Class of 1933 and member of the civil engineering faculty at Berkeley for 30 years, creates the T.Y. and Margaret Lin Chair in Engineering<\/p>\n

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<\/strong>Berkeley signs exchange program with Tsinghua University<\/p>\n

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1990 <\/strong>Chang-lin Tien becomes Berkeley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s seventh Chancellor<\/p>\n

Yu-Il Han Chair in Asian Studies is endowed<\/p>\n

1992 <\/strong> Law students at Boalt Hall create the first Asian Law Journal in US, concentrating on immigration law, trade policy towards Asian nations, and the biographies of prominent Asian Americans<\/p>\n

1994 <\/strong> T.Y. Lin named Berkeley Alumnus of the Year<\/p>\n

Haas Professor John Harsanyi, 1920-2000, wins the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0for his work in game theory, a mathematical theory of human behavior in competitive situations that has become a dominant tool for analyzing real-life conflicts in business, management, and international relations<\/p>\n

1996 <\/strong> Berkeley Chancellor Chang-lin Tien collaborates with counterparts at UCLA, Cal Tech, and USC to found the Association of Pacific Rim Universities to facilitate strategic partnerships for teaching and research<\/p>\n

1997 <\/strong>University of California\/Tsinghua University Conference on Internet Communication Technology, with UC President Atkinson, Chancellor Chang-lin Tien, an honorary member of the Tsinghua faculty, and Tsinghua University President Wang Dazhong, to promote academic partnerships between UC and leading research universities in China<\/p>\n

1999 <\/strong> Liu Visiting Scholars Program is established to provide senior-level public administrators from China who are responsible for directing regional growth with an opportunity to study at Berkeley<\/p>\n

2000 <\/strong>Haas one of eight departments campuswide to receive a Liu Visiting Scholar, Xu Wei, CFO of Shanghai Electric Group Corporation<\/p>\n

2001 <\/strong>Inaugural Berkeley MBA student-run Asia Business Conference started. Speakers included the School’s Professor Janet Yellen, currently President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Dr. Laura D’Andrea Tyson, member of President Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, former Dean of the Haas School and former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors to the President in the Clinton Administration.<\/p>\n

Building on these roots, the Berkeley MBA Asia Business Conference strives to gather industry leaders to create a collective dialogue about the hottest topics in Asian business and continues to this day.<\/p>\n

2008 <\/strong>The School launches its Asia Business Center, and holds a successful first conference in Singapore in December 2008.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Professor Teck-hua Ho is the faculty advisor for this area.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Dean Richard K. Lyons makes a strategic commitment to increase the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s global footprint, most immediately with Asia due to Berkeley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s historic connections to the area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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