9/12/2005

The 47th American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS) Conference

Vanderbilt University

October 21-23, 2005

 

Local Organizational Committee:

 

 

·         Professor Ping Wang (Chair), Department of Economics, ping.wang@vanderbilt.edu

·         Professor Yanqin Fan (Co-Chair), Department of Economics, yanqin.fan@vanderbilt.edu

·         Professor Neville Jiang (Co-Chair), Department of Economics, nien-huei.jiang@vanderbilt.edu 

·         Professor Peter Lorge, Department of History, peter.lorge@vanderbilt.edu

·         Professor Tracy Miller, Department of Art and Art History, tracy.miller@vanderbilt.edu

·         Professor Anna Wang Roe, Department of Psychology, anna.roe@vanderbilt.edu 

·         Professor Yu Shyr, Department of Biostatistics, yu.shyr@vanderbilt.edu

·         Ms. Sherry Hurt (Coordinator), Office Assistant of Economics, sherry.hurt@vanderbilt.edu      

 

Conference Plan:

 

10/21/2005 (Friday)

10/22/2005 (Saturday)

10/23/2005 (Sunday)

 

8:00-8:50: Opening Address

Introduction: Ping Wang 

Speaker: Professor Been-Lon Chen

               Academia Sinica

 

 

9:00-10:30: Concurrent sessions 1:

Panels A1, B1, C1, D1

8:30-10:00: Concurrent sessions 5:

Panels A5, B5, C5

 

10:30-10:45: coffee break

coffee break

 

10:45-12:15: Concurrent sessions 2:

Panels A2, B2, C2, D2

10:15-11:45: Concurrent sessions 6:

Panels A6, B6, C6

 

12:20-1:40: Lunch, Wilson Hall

 

 

1:45-3:15: Concurrent sessions 3:

Panels A3, B3, C3, D3

 

 

3:15-3:30: coffee break

 

 

3:30-5:00: Concurrent sessions 4:

Panels A4, B4, C4, D4

 

 

5:10-6:00: Keynote:

Introduction: Tracy Miller

Speaker: Professor Dorothy Ko

               Columbia University

 

6:00-8:00 Reception

                 University Club

Sponsored by TECRO

Welcome: Neville Jiang

                  Eric W. Bond

                  Yu-Long Lin

6:30-9:00: Dinner Banquet & Keynote

                  Golden Coast Restaurant

Introduction: Anna Wang Roe

Speaker: Rep. David Tawei Lee

               TECRO

 

Preliminary Program as of May 2005:

 

Friday, October 21, 2005

 

Registration:  5:30 – 8:00 p.m.

 

Welcome Reception:  6:00 – 8:00 p.m.  University Club  (sponsored by TECRO)

            Welcome Remarks:            Neville Jiang (Co-Chair, Local Organizational Committee)

                                                Eric Bond (Chair of Economics, Vanderbilt University)

                                                John Lin (Senior Officer, TECRO)

                                                Yu-Long Ling (President, AACS)

 

Saturday, October 22, 2005

 

AACS Board Meeting:  7:00 – 8:00

            Room:             Centennial A, Holiday Inn

 

Opening Address:  8:00 – 8:50              

Introduction:             Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis)

Keynote Speaker: Professor Been-Lon Chen (Deputy Director of Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, and Taiwan University)

 

First Session:  9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

 

Panel 1A:  Planting the Seeds of Revolution:  Modern Educators and China’s Revolutionary Transformation, 1910-1949

            Organizer:  Elizabeth Littell-Lamb (St. Bonaventure University)

            Chair:  Christopher Reed (Ohio State University)

  1. “The First Generation of Chinese Communists and the Hunan First Normal School,” Liyan Liu (Georgetown University)
  2. “Partners in Revolution:  The YWCA, Christian Socialists, and Shanghai Leftists in 1930s China,” Elizabeth Littell-Lamb (St. Bonaventure University)
  3. “From Students to the Leaders of Local Guerrilla Warfare:  Teachers’ Schools and Communist Reemergence in 1930s China,” Xiaping Cong (University of Houston)

            Discussant:  Robert Culp (Bard College)

 

Panel 1B:  Society and Politics in Contemporary China

            Organizer:  Program committee

            Chair:  Wen-Hui Tsai (Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne)

  1. “From TASS to CNN Style:  What Changed Chinese National TV News Reporting,” Xi Chen (Virginia Polytechnic University)
  2. “A Deductive Study of Liberal Democratization in China,” Todd West (University of Georgia)
  3. “Intellectual-State Relations in Contemporary China,” Chow Bing Ngeow (Northeastern University)
  4. “A Study of the Emotional Health of China’s City Migrant Children,” Yanyin Chen (University of Nottingham)

            Discussant:  Tsai Wen-Hui (Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne)

 

Panel 1C:  Economic Development and Cultural Change in China

            Organizer:  Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis)

            Chair:  Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis)

  1. “Migration, Development, and Persistent Inequality in China,” Neville Jiang (Vanderbilt University)
  2. “An Expectancy Model of Chinese-American Differences in Conflict Avoidance,” Ray Friedman (Vanderbilt University)
  3. “Share Issue Privatization in China:  1994-2003,” Sheng Xiao (Vanderbilt University)
  4. “Shanghai, Inc.” Donald Hsu (Dominican College)

            Discussants:  Kwang-wen Chu (California State University- Fullerton)

          Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis)

 

Panel 1D: Roundtable:  Constitutional Reform and Party Politics in Taiwan

 

         T.J. Cheng (College of William and Mary)

         George Chen (Augusta State University)

  Yeong-kuang Ger (National Taiwan University)

  Yung Ming Hsu (Academia Sinica , Taiwan)

 

 

 

Coffee Break  10:30 – 10:45 a.m.

 

Second Session  10:45-12:15 p.m.

 

Panel 2A:  The Right to Survive, the Right to Strive--Among Chinese, Then and Now

            Organizer:  Linda H. Chiang (Azusa Pacific University)

            Chair:  Linda H. Chiang (Azusa Pacific University)

  1. “Women’s Status during the Era of the Taiping Kingdom (1851-1864):  A Controversy,” Linda H. Chiang (Azusa Pacific University)
  2. “Chinese Immigration, US Citizenship, and American Political Thought,” Dan Palm (Azusa Pacific University)
  3. “Repression, Violence, and the Assimilation of Chinese-Americans,” Joel Fetzer (Pepperdine University)
  4. “Child Poverty and Anti-Poverty Programs in Taiwan,” Walter Kiang (Cal State University, Los Angeles)

            Discussant:  Jay C. Thompson (Ball State University)

 

Panel 2B:  Topics in Literature and Culture

            Organizer:  Program Committee

            Chair:  Yenna Wu (University of California, Riverside)

  1. “Knotted Cords:  China’s Earliest Writing System,” Bruce Jones (Dallas, Texas)
  2. “Matriarchy in the Early Han Dynasty and the Rise of Gungyang Doctrine,” Francis Kai (Cupertino, California)
  3. “Re-evaluation of Yong-shi-shi (Poems on History):  A Case Study of Hu Zeng’s Poems,” Yiya Lee (ChungYuan Christian University, Taiwan)
  4. “Modern Chinese Writers:  Zhang Xianliang and Yu Hua,” Yenna Wu (University of California, Riverside)
  5. “Developing and Interconnecting Studio Art Programs at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts,” Stephen Lane (Keio Academy of New York)

            Discussant:  Jerry McBeath (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

 

Panel 2C:  Feng Shui and Health

            Organizer:  Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis)

            Chair:  Catherine Yi-yu Cho Woo

  1. “Building Structure and Health,” Crystal Chu (San Diego State University)
  2. “I-Ching Eight Tri-grams and Health,” Catherine Yi-yu Cho Woo (San Diego State University)
  3. “Feng Shui Solutions for Good Health,” Lin Yun (San Diego State University)

            Discussant:  Catherine Yi-yu Cho Woo

 

Panel 2D:  Topics in Song Dynasty History

            Organizer:  Peter Lorge (Vanderbilt University)

            Chair:  Peter Lorge (Vanderbilt University)

  1. Don Wyatt (Middlebury College)
  2. Hilde DeWeerdt (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
  3. Peter Lorge (Vanderbilt University)
  4. “Localism, Statism and Civil Society in the Thought of Lu Jiuyuan,” Robert Foster (Berea College)

            Discussant:  Peter Lorge (Vanderbilt University)

 

Luncheon:  12:20 – 1:40 p.m.      Lobby, Wilson Hall

 

Third Session  1:45 – 3:15 p.m.

 

Panel 3A:  Can China and Japan Ever Learn to Live in Peace?

            Organizer:  James C. Hsiung (New York University)

            Chair:  Cal Clark (Auburn University)

  1. “China and Japan:  A Saga of Un-ending Rivalry,” Richard Chu (Rochester Institute of Technology)
  2. “Sino-Japanese Economic Relations:  Conflict and Cooperation,” Chu-yuan Cheng (Ball State University)
  3. “Law of the Sea and the China-Japan Disputes:  How to Determine Who Owns What Part of the East China Seabed Oil/Gas Deposits?”  James C. Hsiung (New York University)

            Discussants:              Yu-long Ling (Franklin College)

                                    Paul H.C. Tai (University of Detroit)

 

Panel 3B:  Globalization and the Chinese Economy

            Organizer:  Peter Chow and Program Committee

            Chair:  Peter Chow (City University of New York)

  1. “A Cluster Analysis of FDI, China and the World, 1980-2001,” Haitao Liang (CUNY Graduate Center)
  2. “An Investigation of Causal Relationships between Singapore, Hong Kong and the US Capital Markets,” Wenlong Weng (Lehigh University)
  3. “Globalization and its Influence on the Oil Trade:  The Case of China’s Oil Importation,” Qiang Yan (University of Missouri-St Louis)
  4. “Economic Networks, Regional Development, and Globalization,” Chien-ju Lin (SUNY at Binghamton)

            Discussant:  Jerry McBeath (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

                                   Kwang-wen Chu (California State University- Fullerton)

 

Panel 3C:  Chinese Poetry Genre  (in Chinese)

            Organizer: Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis)

            Chair:  Catherine Yi-yu Cho Woo

  1. “Guidance Poems,” Crystal Chu (San Diego State University)
  2. “Nature Poems,” Catherine Yi-yu Cho Woo (San Diego State University)
  3. “Philosophical Poems,” Lin Yun (San Diego State Universityi)

            Discussant:  Catherine Yi-yu Cho Woo

 

Panel 3D:  Filial Piety and Family Relations in Chinese Philosophy and Government

            Organizers:  Tracy Miller (Vanderbilt Universitiy)

                                Paul Goldin (University of Pennsylvania)

            Chair:  Paul Goldin (University of Pennsylvania)

  1. “Confucian Government:  A Nation of Families,” Kenneth W. Holloway (Florida Atlantic University)
  2. “Why is Yang Gong a Filial Son?  The Connections between Filiality and Righteousness in Early Medieval China,” Keith Knapp (The Citadel)
  3. “Filial Piety and its Discontents:  The Ancient and Modern Debates,” Thomas Radice (University of Pennsylvania)

            Discussant:  Paul Goldin (University of Pennsylvania)

 

Coffee Break:  3:15 – 3:30 p.m.

 

Fourth Session  3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

 

Panel 4A:  The Anti-Secession Law of China

            Organizer:  Yu-long Ling (Franklin College)

            Chair:  David Dean (CCK Foundation)

  1. “The Making of China’s Anti-Secession Law:  Its Complex Significance and Hidden Implications,” James C. Hsiung (New York University)
  2. “The Economic Effect of the Anti-Secession Law on the U.S., China and Taiwan,” John Stevens (Franklin College)
  3. “Cross-Strait Relations after the Anti-Secession Law:  The Taiwan Perspective,” Yeong-kuang Ger (National Taiwan University)
  4. “Impact of the Anti-Secession Law on Political Development in Taiwan,” Thomas Bellows (University of Texas at San Antonio)

            Discussant:  Yu-long Ling (Franklin College)

 

Panel 4B:  Topics in Modern Chinese History

            Organizer:  Program committee

            Chair:  Richard Chu (Rochester Institute of Technology)

  1. “An Examination of Emperor Daoguang’s ‘Seeking Peace’,” Alice Dong (York University)
  2. “The Political Functions of the Southern Capital of Ming China,” Jun Fang (Huron University College)
  3. “When Soldiers and Students Collide:  Militarists and the May Fourth Movement in Guizhou, 1916-1921,” Peter Worthing (Texas Christian University)
  4. “Cooperation against Competition:  Daxing and Yuhua Cotton Mills in Crisis, 1931-1937,” Juanjuan Peng (Johns Hopkins University)

            Discussant:  Richard Chu (Rochester Institute of Technology)

 

Panel 4C:  Multifaceted Chinese Language:  Influence from Outside and Its Intrinsic Characteristics

            Organizer:  Xiamin Liu (Vanderbilt University)

            Chair:  Xiamin Liu (Vanderbilt University)

  1. “Two Mandarins,” De-an Swihart (University of Memphis)
  2. “Buddhist Influences on Chinese Language,” Yong Chen (Vanderbilt University)
  3. “Does Chinese have Singular and Plural Markers?”  Xiamin Liu (Vanderbilt University)

            Discussant:  Tracy Miller (Vanderbilt University)

 

Panel 4D:  Chinese Medicine

            Organizer:  Yu Shyr and Xiao-Ou Shu (Vanderbilt University)

            Chair:  Yu Shyr (Vanderbilt University)

  1. “China-US Cooperative Epidemiologic Studies of Cancer,” Bill Blot (International Institute of Epidemiology & Vanderbilt University)
  2. “Soyfood and Women’s Health,” Xiao-ou Shu (Vanderbilt University)
  3.  “Tea and Cancer Prevention,” Gong Yang (Vanderbilt University)

            Discussant:  Wei Zheng (Vanderbilt University)

 

Plenary Session  5:10 – 6:00 p.m.

            Introduction: Tracy Miller (Vanderbilt University)

            Speaker:            Professor Dorothy Ko (Columbia University)       

 

 

AACS Annual Banquet and Keynote:  6:30 – 9:00 p.m.    Golden Coast Restaurant

            Keynote:  8:30-9:00

Introduction:             Anna Wang Roe (Vanderbilt University)

Keynote Speaker:              Representative David Tawei Lee, TECRO

 

Sunday, October 23, 2005

 

AJCS Editorial Board Meeting:  7:15 – 8:30

            Room:             Chancellor’s Room, Holiday Inn

 

Fifth Session:  8:30 – 10:00 a.m.

 

Panel 5A:  National Integration and the Open Door:  Problems in China’s Developmental Experience

            Organizer:  Edwin Pak-wah Leung (Seton Hall University)

            Chair:  Edwin Pak-wah Leung (Seton Hall University)

  1. “Bilingualism, Language Policy, and National Integration in China, 1949-1983,” Edwin Pak-wah Leung (Seton Hall University)
  2. “The Revival of Drug Crimes in China since the Open Door,” Helen Xiaoyan Wu (University of Toronto)
  3. “Advertising in China since the Open Door:  Visual Culture and Visual Expressions,” Luding Tong (Marietta College)

            Discussant:  TBA

 

Panel 5B:  Society and Politics in Contemporary Taiwan

            Organizer:  Program committee

            Chair:  John Copper (Rhodes College)

  1. “An Inevitable Price?  Taiwan’s Democratic Transition and the Breeding of Ethnic Hatred,” Chenghong Li (University of South Carolina)
  2. “The Gender Gap and Political Participation in Taiwan,” Jenhei Chen (NCNU, Taiwan)
  3. “Rural and Urban Dynamics in Taiwan’s New Wave Cinema,” Larry Ling-hsuan Tung (Rutgers University)

            Discussant:  John Copper (Rhodes College)

 

Panel 5C:  Grandparents and Grandchildren (Undergraduate Research Presentations)

            Organizer:  Cheng-Hsien Lin (Texas A & M, Kingsville)

            Chair:  Chiung-Fang Chang (Texas A & M, Kingsville)

  1. “The Characteristics of Grandparents-Headed Households in Hispanic and Asian American Families,” Margie Hernandez (Texas A & M)
  2. “Patterns of Grandparenting for Mexican American and Chinese American Families,” Bruce Robertson (Texas A & M)
  3. “Causes, Effects, and Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency,” Karen Gafford (Texas A & M)
  4. “The Influences of Grandparenting on Hispanic and Asian American Grandparents,” Jacinda Neighbor (Texas A & M)

            Discussant:  Ming-Hsiu Ho (Nan-Hua University, Taiwan)

 

Coffee Break:  10:00 – 10:15 a.m.

 

Sixth Session:  10:15 – 11:45 a.m.

 

Panel 6A:  Real and Represented Architecture in Pre-Modern China

            Organizer:  Tracy Miller (Vanderbilt University)

            Chair:  TBA

  1. “Architectural Elements in Early Chinese Bronzes,” Ming-chorng Huang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  2. “A Tomb with a View:  Pictures as Eulogy in Eastern Han Elite Burials,” Agnes Hsin-mei Hsu (Brown University)
  3. “Wooden Architectural Structure in Brick:  A Study of Cupola-like Corbelled Dome Tombs during the Liao and Northern Song Periods,” Wei-cheng Lin (University of Chicago)
  4. “Regional Style in Timber Frame Architecture of the 10-12th Centuries,” Tracy Miller (Vanderbilt University)

            Discussant:  TBA

 

Panel 6B:  China’s Foreign Relations

            Organizer:  Program committee

            Chair:  Vincent Wang (University of Richmond)

  1. “Nativism, Nationalism and China’s Diplomacy:  The Chinese Six Companies and Late Qing Policy toward Exclusion 1848-1911,” Yucheng Qin (University of Guam)
  2. “U.S.-China Competition in a New Arena:  The Middle East,” Jennifer Chang (University of Maryland)
  3. “International Legal Regimes and Changing Perceptions of Equity:  WTO Accession and China’s Legal Norms in Historical Perspective,” Cecily Hurst (Moore & Van Allen, Charlotte, North Carolina)
  4. “‘The More, the Better?’ or ‘Three is a Crowd?’ – The Involvement of the Third Party in Cross-Strait Dialogues” Yisuo Tzeng (George Washington University)

            Discussant:  Vincent Wang (University of Richmond)

 

Panel 6C:  Military Disasters in Chinese History

            Organizer:  Peter Lorge (Vanderbilt University)

            Panelists (paper titles not yet available)

  1. David Graff (Kansas State University)
  2. Kenneth Swope (Ball State University)
  3. Peter Lorge (Vanderbilt Universrity)

           


Available for Classroom Adoption or Special Order

 

American Journal of Chinese Studies

 

Special Issue on “Elections 2004 in the Republic of China on Taiwan”

 

Table of Contents

 

Taiwan’s Democracy at a Turning Point... Yun-han Chu

 

A Retrospective Analysis of the Taiwanese 2004 Presidential Election... Emile Sheng

 

Peaceful or Provocative: Taiwan’s Referendum, 2004..... Gary D. Rawnsley

 

Divided Politics in an Era of Uncertainty: Aftermath of the 2004 Presidential Election in Taiwan. Yeong-kuang Ger

 

Cross-Strait Relations after Taiwan’s 2004 Presidential Election.. Chen-yuan Tung

 

Parallels in the Political Dynamics in Taiwan and the United States, 2004.................

... Cal Clark and Janet Clark

 

Voters Go to the Polls.. Myra Lu (Taiwan Review)

 

Taiwan’s Legislative Election in Comparative Perspective Dafydd Fell

 

The 2004 Taiwanese Legislative Elections: An Inexact Science..... Brian L. Kennedy

 

Taiwan’s Political Parties John Copper

 

Party Politics... Wei-chin Lee

 

Available now. Price per copy is $15 for domestic and for foreign countries. The checks should be made out to The American Journal of Chinese Studies, and sent to:

Professor Thomas J. Bellows

Department of Political Science

The University of Texas at San Antonio

San Antonio, TX 78249

U.S.A.

tbellows@lonestar.utsa.edu