President

Paul Hung-Chao Tai

Vice President

Shelley Rigger

Board of Directors

Nat Bellocchi

Thomas Bellows

Chiung-Fang Chang

George Chen

Chu-yuan Cheng

T.J. Cheng

Linda H. Chiang

Richard, Chu

Dan Ciuriak

Cal Clark

John Copper

David Dean

Jacques deLise

June T.Dreyer

Edward Friedman

Yeong-Kuang Ger

Bates Gill

John F. Hsieh

James Hsiung

Walter Kiang

Wei Chin Lee

Phylis Lan Lin

Tse-min Lin

Yu-Long Ling

Jerry A. McBeath

William Parish

Hans Stockton

Robert Sutter

Chia-Lin Tao

Wen-hui Tsai

Francis C. Tuan

Stephen Uhalley

Ping Wang

Vincent Wang

Woo Thye Wing

Catherine Woo

Yenna Wu

Executive Director:

Peter Chow

Address: AACS R4/116

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Newsletter Winter 2008- Spring 2009

American Association for Chinese Studies

51^st Annual Conference at

Rollins College, Orlando , Florida

October 16-18, 2009

We invite proposals for panels, roundtables, and papers concerning China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese Diaspora for the 51^th Annual Conference of the AACS, being hosted by Rollins College in Orlando, Florida. Although membership in AACS is required for participation in the Annual Meeting, non-members are welcome to submit proposals, join the Association and participate in the Annual Meeting.

The program committee prefers proposals for complete panels (a chair, 2-3 papers, and 1-2 discussants) and roundtables (a chair and 3-4 other participants). The committee also welcomes proposals for individual papers and will attempt to place the presenter on an appropriate panel. We encourage submissions from graduate students as well as junior and senior scholars, and overseas participants.

As in the past, panels and roundtables concerning special events or topics of broad significance are especially welcome. We particularly welcome proposals that address the impact of the U.S. change in presidential administration, as well as the late 2008 global financial crisis, on Chinese societies, economies, and polities. We also encourage proposals on pressures of cultural globalization on Chinese audiences and responses. All proposals should include short abstracts. Overall, our goal is to construct a balanced program, including panels representing the humanities, social sciences, and business-related disciplines.

Members of the program committee include Shelley Rigger, Robert Sutter, Ilan Alon, and Jerry McBeath. Please send your proposal, preferably by e-mail, to Professor McBeath at ffjam@uaf.edu. Make sure to include complete contact information (address, telephone number, and e-mail). The deadline for proposals is May 1, 2009. Scholars submitting proposals by this deadline will be notified about their inclusion in the program by June 15^th.

Greetings Messages

from AACS President 2006-2008

This year's conference gave us the opportunity to celebrate the 50-year history of our association. The era from 1959 to 2008 saw large changes in both China and Taiwan. Through their research and teaching, members of the association made significant contributions to the understanding of these momentous times.

I look forward to the new leadership as our association begins its next 50 years, and continues efforts to increase membership and enhance research in China studies. My thanks to members for allowing me to serve as president for the last two years. Best wishes for good health and fortune to all!

Jerry McBeath

from AACS New President

Paul Tai

At the AACS 50^th Anniversary Banquet last October 18, Edward Friedman, a board member, asked me point-blank, “Paul, what’s your agenda for the Association?” I was then doubly surprised. I was merely nominated for the presidency of the Association, not yet in a position to speak on the subject. And I was still lingering in wonderment why my colleagues at the board could entrust a fourteen-year-long retiree with the responsibility for leading the Association.

Well, with the election of the president completed, I am earnestly asking your advice as to how we can make the AACS an organization we will be increasingly proud of. Please send ideas to me at Paulhtai@gmail.com or AACS mail address as shown in this newsletter.

Now getting back to answering Edward’s question, I am ready to share with you three of my ideas.

1. Membership drive. The Association’s records indicate that 486 individuals were on the membership list of 1994, 327 in 1997, 352 in 1998, and 133 on the eve of the 2008 meeting. The early years’ lists, it should be noted, may consist of the cumulative attendees of AACS annual meetings over several years, thus more numerous than the 2008 list, which included only due-paying members—59 life members and 74 regular members--as of the 2007 annual meeting. These statistics show a very substantial membership turnover over a fairly long period of time. The 2008 list also raises concern as to whether our membership level is too low to sustain the kind of activities a national academic organization like ours has been conducting. (As one indication, a sizeable number of individuals had to participate in multiple panel sessions at the annual meetings.)

At the same time, we are confident that the Association, with its fifty-year-long history and with its meetings in constant nationwide rotation, has a large reservoir of academicians as its members. We need to devise ways to recruit them, particularly those of younger age, so that the Association can establish a broad personnel base to function effectively for the next fifty years and beyond.

2. Raising funds. Our current membership fees cover only a fraction of the operating expenses of the organization. For decades, we have been relying on a single-source external grant to make up the difference. While we continue to value this grant, we need to diversify our sources of income by seeking support from all appropriate foundations and interested individuals. We need to identify these sources and enlist their help to broaden our financial base.

3. Best-essay prizes. To encourage our members to participate in panel sessions at annual meetings and, no less importantly, to cultivate a sense of identification of members with our organization, we might establish a fund for the best-essay prizes for papers presented at annual meetings.

I do not underestimate the difficulties in translating these ideas into reality. We have tried to implement some of them in the past without visible result, and we are facing at the moment a financial meltdown in our nation—indeed, the whole world. Yet, as Carl Sandburg has said, “Nothing happens…but first a dream.” If our members can have a common dream, we can make something happen. David Dean has made several concrete suggestions on a membership drive; others have volunteered their time and service. Together we can move forward.

I look forward to your input before we formulate an action plan, and, with the approval of the board, we will proceed to implement it.

(P. S.: As a retiree, I find myself carrying on research and publication as usual—no longer because of mandate, but because of interest.)

Paul H. Tai

Major Resolutions from the AACS Board of Directors

On the Board Members

After discussing the motion on “Individuals who have not attended three consecutive Board meetings be removed from the Board of Directors”, the board offered the following suggestions:

a. Individuals who do not pay membership fees for consecutive years cannot be elected as Board members.

b. If any Board member has missed two consecutive Board meetings, the Executive Officer should send a letter to remind this person.

This motion was passed with an effective date of January 1^st, 2009.

On the Organizational Structure

After discussion, the board had the following resolution:

“The Vice President of the Association shall be elected at the same time as the President; and the Vice President ipso facto will be the next President upon expiration of the current President’s term.”

This motion was passed with one member opposed.

Election of board members

The following board members were re-elected for a three-year term from January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2011

Nat Bellocchi T.J. Cheng

Thomas Bellows John F. Copper

George P.C. Chen David Dean

Edward Friedman Jerry A. McBeath

James Hsiung Catherine C. Woo

In addition, Professors June Dreyer, Yun Kuan Ger and John F. Hsieh were elected as a new board members for three-year terms; Professor Hans Stockton for a two-year term and Professor Wei Chin Lee was elected as a new board member for a one-year term.

4. Re-election of the Executive Director

The board unanimously re-elected Peter Chow to be the Executive Director for another 5-yeat term.

Report from the Secretariat Office

At its October 2008 meeting, the AACS Board of Directors agreed to follow the constitutional procedure for selection of the association’s president and vice president (as specified in Section 2 of Article 4 of the AACS constitution).

The procedure is for the AACS board to nominate one candidate for each office and then distribute ballots to AACS members for their votes. On the ballot, there was a line for write-in candidates to encourage more participation from all members.

The Secretariat Office sent out ballots to all active members at the end of October; more than 40% of the membership returned ballots. Although this process took more time and resources from the Secretariat Office, it is worthwhile in order to fulfill the democratic process of the organization. If you have any suggestions for alternative election process (es), please let me know and I will forward them to the board for consideration.

I have done my best to keep the conference registration fee at $20, as low as it was 10 years ago, and let conference participants have “free” meals on Friday night and Saturday noon during the conference. Of course, we must also continue to make our conference program attractive to further benefit attendees. This is one reason that we insist that conference papers must be posted on the website.

Though the Board re-elected me for another 5-year term, I think any organization needs to have new blood. As I reported to the Board of Directors, the AACS should continue to recruit new members and find a more energetic and more capable scholar than myself to serve as the Executive Director in the near future.

Finally, one housekeeping reminder to all: updating your address at the Secretariat Office is essential to keep our communication channels working effectively. If you change your mailing address or E-mail address during the year, please inform us so you can receive any messages from the AACS promptly. If you are a life member, or a regular member who paid the 2008 membership dues, but have not received the October 2008 issue of the American Journal of Chinese Studies, it was because your mail was returned to us without a forwarding address. Please contact the Secretariat Office so we can re-send the Journal to you soon.

Peter C.Y. Chow

Executive Director

From the Managing Editor of the American Journal for Chinese Studies

I am pleased to report that library and other institutional subscriptions to the American Journal of Chinese Studies continue to grow. The overseas subscriptions are sent first class via a global mail service at a noticeable cost savings. I noticed that over two-thirds of total postage costs for the October 2008 issue were overseas postage.

All articles are evaluated by at least one external reviewer, as well as myself. The acceptance rate is currently at approximately 30 percent. The journal is well-indexed. We are applying for inclusion in the Social Science Citation Index. The inclusion is not immediate because three issues must be evaluated.

Occasionally we are approached to exchange journals. The most recent request was from the Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum, a major library in Rome associated with the Vatican.

Thomas J. Bellows, Editor

Highlight of the 50^th Anniversary of the AACS

The AACS conducted two panels specifically commemorating the 50^th anniversary of the Association. Both panels were specially featured at the association meeting in Fullerton, California. The first focused on “International and Sino-American Relations in the Last Half Century.” Chaired by Paul Tai, three distinguished scholars presented their views, to wit:

James Hsiung, New York University, “China’s Second Ascent and International Relations Theory,”
June Teufel Dreyer, University of Miami, “US-Taiwan Relations and the Referendum Issue,” and
Robert Sutter, Georgetown University, “The Importance of the ‘Asia-first’ versus the ‘China-first’ Emphasis in US Policy toward China, 1959-2008: A Review of the Literature.”

Tom Bellows of the University of Texas San Antonio served as the discussant for this panel.

Peter Chow of the City College, City University of New York, chaired the second panel. Featured distinguished scholars and their paper topics were:

Edward Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Taiwan’s Democratization and Chineseness,”
Wen-hui Tsai, Indiana University, Purdue, “China Studies and American Sociology: A Quantitative Account of the Growth of Research on China in American Sociology, 1957-2007,” and
Yenna Wu, University of California, Riverside, “Reflections on the Study of Chinese Literature and Language in the U.S., 1959-2008.”

Jerry McBeath, University of Alaska Fairbanks, served as the discussant for this panel.

All conference papers received at the Secretariat Office were posted on the AACS website. Meanwhile, the AACS also presented awards for distinguished service to the association and scholarship in the field of China studies to three scholars. A special committee solicited nominations, and selected three recipients, all of whom had both served the association and their disciplines in exemplary fashion. The recipients were: professors Chu-Yuan Cheng, Ramon Myers, and James C. Hsiung.

The AACS gratefully acknowledges the sponsorship of the Chiang Chin-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange for funding these two special panels.

Reflections from AACS Members

AACS at 50: A Personal Reflection

As a member of the Association for more than 40 years, I have had the privilege to observe the marvelous transformation of the Association.

The most conspicuous change is in the orientation of Chinese studies. In the early period, from 1960 to 1970, the focus was on language, philosophy, literature and history. Since the 1980s, as more social scientists joined the Association, studies in the fields of economics, political science, sociology and international relations gained more importance. In the recent decade, science and technology also showed up in the fields of study. Issues in environmental protection, climate warming, etc. were added to the agenda of annual meetings, rendering the Association into a full-fledged all-around academic organization.

Second, the geographic distribution also underwent substantial changes. Originally, most members and annual meetings were limited to the east coast, particularly in Washington D.C., New York City, Maryland, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Since the 1980s, members and annual meetings shifted to the west coast and the mid-west, making the Association a nation-wide organization.

Third, the composition of the membership also changed continuously. In earlier years, most members were American Chinese. As more prominent American scholars joined the Association, more young scholars were attracted to join. In recent decades, the distribution of Board members and Presidents between the two groups evens out, rendering an ideal mixture which is beneficial to the balanced growth of the Association.

Fourth, the scope of activity also expanded. Apart from regularly publishing the American Journal of Chinese Studies, the Association now also publishes newsletters, and in the 1990s published the Digest of Chinese Studies, which significantly promoted the status of the Association.

In view of the transformation of the Association from a relatively unknown establishment in the 1950s to an organization with national and international status, the 50^th anniversary indicated a landmark event. As China has emerged as a global power, studies on various aspects of China are bound to gain more prominence. More scholars are expected to join the Association to solidify its role as a leading organization in Chinese studies.

Chu-yuan Cheng, Professor, Department of Economics, Ball State University and President of AACS 1996-1998

AACS and My Career: I

I have been an AACS member for a quarter century. The annual meetings are an important part of my professional life. I have missed only two since I joined the Association. My only complaint, a minor one, is that the meetings are too short. Often I must choose between two excellent panels scheduled at the same time.

The American Association for Chinese Studies is the largest professional association dedicated to Chinese studies in the United States. The papers at the annual meeting are invariably of high quality. The topics cover most of the disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. The insights and analyses by the presenters always impress me. The quality of scholarship and the intellectual analyses of members is evident at every meeting.

One of the most satisfying aspects of the Association is the unfailing courtesy and friendliness one experiences at the meetings. Some of my enduring friendships have evolved because of individuals I first met at an Association meeting. In fact, at least five of my closest friends are individuals I initially became acquainted with through the AACS.

The AACS annual meeting is a professional event I look forward to each Fall. My interest in Chinese studies began at Augustana College, American University, UCLA, the University of Florida, and Yale University. This initial interest has been nurtured and refined for me because of my association with the AACS, its outstanding members, and dedicated officers. The Association’s commitments to collegiality and to strengthening Chinese studies are the reasons the Association has flourished for 50 years. I am proud to be a member of this organization.

Thomas Bellows University of Texas, San Antonio

AACS and My Career :II

The American Association for Chinese Studies has provided a warm and wonderful academic home for me over the last quarter of a century. Professional associations, in my view, serve both formal and informal functions that are vital to the development of academic fields. They provide a forum for the dissemination of scholarship and also create a conducive context for the development of networks of scholars. I have benefited greatly from my association with AACS in both regards. I was certainly new to the field of Taiwan Studies when I first started to attend AACS meetings. To a neophyte, the level of scholarship was quite impressive. Moreover, I am eternally grateful for the mentoring, friendship, and support that I received from leading members of the Association.

AACS has changed dramatically since then. As an organization, it evolved from a stable Association, housed at Ohio State with Li Wen Lang as Executive Secretary, through a period of institutional instability, to a new stable structure under Executive Director Peter Chow at City University of New York. Its academic focus has expanded considerably; and there have been several generational changes in its membership. To some extent, this suggests the old adage, “the more things change…” However, just like the magic of Taiwan’s democratization, I also see new perspectives and new life in AACS.

Cal Clark

Auburn University & Tunghai University

Information for the 51^st Annual Conference in Winter Park (Orlando Area), Florida

Greetings Message from the Host

On behalf of Rollins College, I'd like to welcome conference attendees and presenters to Florida's oldest and most prestigious College. Nestled in beautiful Winter Park (a suburb of Orlando), the College provides both a strong academic backbone for our conference and a wonderful environment for exploration and fun. Rollins College is ranked 1st among regional universities in the south in America's Best Colleges published by US News & World Report. Additionally, it is also ranked highly in Forbes magazine, Peterson's Competitive Colleges, Barron's Profiles of American Colleges, and The Princeton Review. Internationalization is part of life at Rollins, as noted by a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The College also has a China Center whose mission is to provide opportunities for faculty, students and the community to learn about China and Asia (www.rollins.edu/chinacenter). The city of Winter Park, where Rollins is located, provides many opportunities for those interested in nature, restaurants, museums, and recreation. And, of course, Orlando has a lot to offer to tourists from around the world. We will also arrange for a post conference tour of Disney for those who wish to participate, and look forward to seeing you all in the upcoming conference.

Ilan Alon, Ph.D.
Petters Chair of International Business
Executive Director, The China Center at Rollins College

www.thechinacenter.org

Rollins College

Crummer Graduate School of Business
1000 Holt Ave - 2723
Winter Park, Florida 32789
United States of America

Email: ialon@rollins.edu
Phone: (407) 646-1512
Fax: (407) 646-1566

Orlando International Airport

http://www.orlandoairports.net/main.htm

Conference Venue:

Best Western Mt. Vernon Inn. Website: www.bestwestern.com

110 S Orlando Ave
Winter Park, FL 32789
1-(800) 992-3379

Guest Room Requirements

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12.5%Tax

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You can choose King Standard or Deluxe, or 2 Queen Standard or Deluxe. Smoking rooms can be requested. Prices will vary according to Room type. Best Western will honor the special rate for the hotel for a day before or after the conference if participants wish to stay extra. Please reserve your room early.

Check In Time___3:00PM____Check Out Time: ____11:00AM___

GROUP RESERVATION POLICY:

Reservations must be received no later than 09/16/2009, which will act as the group cut-off date for reservation at the group rate. The hotel will continue to accept reservations after the cut off date on a space and rate availability basis only.

Remarks:

-King Rooms can have 2 people; Double Queens Rooms can have 4 people

-No Rollways Offered

Directions to Downtown Winter Park

Orlando International Airport

State Road 436 North out of airport
Proceed approx. 7.3 miles to Aloma Avenue (SR 426)
Turn left heading West on Aloma Avenue
Proceed approx. 3 miles (through curves)
Keep going straight for 4 more traffic lights
Make right on South Orlando Avenue. Two blocks down and hotel is on the right.

Professional and Academic News for Your Information

CALL FOR PAPERS

Pacific Economic Review (PER) is a journal indexed in SSCI. The October issue in 2009 will be edited and published with the sponsorship of the National Taiwan University. For this issue, we are inviting submissions on topics of labor and health economics. Both theoretical and empirical studies are welcome. In order to be considered for publication, submissions must be received by 29 February 2009. There is no submission fee. The paper must be original, written in English, double spaced, and not exceeding 25 pages in length. All submitted papers will be blind reviewed by two referees. The first-round review will be completed by 30 April 2009 with a decision of acceptance, conditional acceptance, or rejection. Final revisions should be completed and received by June 15, 2009. Please submit the paper by an electronic file (WORD or PDF format) to Professor Hung-Jen Wang (Editor) via per4ntu@ntu.edu.tw

RCIE-UIBE annual conference on “China and the World Economy”

The Research Center for International Economics at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) is organizing a conference on “China and the World Economy: Globalization and Economic Integration”. It will be held on the campus of UIBE, Beijing on June 22-23, 2009. Theoretical/empirical papers in the following areas are most welcome (but not limited to):

· foreign trade and foreign direct investment (especially related to China);

· exchange rates and currencies (especially renminbi);

· economic integration, including regionalism and multilateralism;

· China’s foreign economic policies;

· China’s exchange rate, monetary, and fiscal policies and their impacts;

· trade conflicts, disputes, and issues between China and other economies;

· WTO and China;

Please send the draft of a paper or an extended abstract to YIN Xiaopeng < xyin_ca@yahoo.com>. The deadline for receiving submission is March 31, 2009. Please download a copy of the flyer for more information: http://www.apeaweb.org/confer/bei08/fut-act.htm.

Chinese Economic Association in North America (CEANA) is organizing several sessions at the conferences of the Western Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, and Allied Social Science Associations.

(1) 2009 Western Economic Association Conference

Date and Place: June 29-July 3, 2009, Vancouver, Canada

Organizer: Professor Chong‑Kee Yip, Department of Economics, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

Phone: 852-2609-7057(O), fax: 852-2603-5805, email: chongkeeyip@cuhk.edu.hk

Sessions: Several sessions. Fields are open. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome.

Deadline for submission: February 1, 2009.

(2) 2009 Southern Economic Association Conference

Date and Place: November 21-23, 2009, San Antonio, TX

Organizer: Professor Yu Hsing, Department of Economics, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA 70402.

Phone: (504) 549-2086, fax: (504) 549-2881, email: yhsing@selu.edu

Sessions: Several joint sessions with SEA. Fields are open. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome.

Deadline for submission: March 15, 2009.

(3) 2009 Joint Conference of CEANA and Taiwan Economic Association

Date and Place: late December, 2009

Organizer: Professor Wen S. Chern, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

Phone: 886-5-242-8155 Email: chern.1@ccu.edu.tw

Sessions: Several sessions and fields are open. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome.

Deadline for submission: September 10, 2009.

(4) 2010 Allied Social Science Association Meetings

Date and Place: January 3-5, 2010, Atlanta, GA

Organizer: Dr. Chang-Ching Lin, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Phone: (02)2782-2791 #301. E-mail: lincc@econ.sinica.edu.tw

Sessions: Several sessions and fields are open. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome.

Deadline for submission: May 1, 2009.

Members’ Professional Achievements

Chu-yuan Cheng at Ball State University published the following chapter: “Sino-Japanese Economic Relations: Interdependence and Conflicts” in China and Japan at Odds: Deciphering the Perpetual Conflict, edited by James C. Hsiung, London, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007, pp.81-94. He also had an article on “China’s New Development Plan: Strategy, Agenda and Prospects,” Asian Affairs, An American Review, Spring 2007, pp. 153-165. He presented a paper on Conference: “China’s New Deal in the 21^st Century: Building a Harmonious Society—Significance and Prospects” at the 49^th Annual Conference of Western Social Science Association, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, April 11, 2007 and received the following honors: Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 2007. Who’s Who in America, 2007; Who’s Who in American Education, 2007.

Peter Chow at the City University of New York was a visiting professor of economics at the National Taiwan University during his sabbatical leave in academic year 2007-2008, under the sponsorship of the National Science Council. He delivered several lectures in several universities in Taiwan and was invited by Tokyo University to present a graduate seminar on “Structural Transformation and Vertical Specialization of Export in the NICs” on its main campus on August 7, 2008. He was also invited by the Sigur Center of International Study at the George Washington University to participate at the “Taiwan Roundtable” by giving a talk on “Taiwan’s Path for Sustainable Development” on October 22, 2008.

Cal Clark at Auburn University and Janet Clark at the University of West Georgia published the following book: Women At The Polls: The Gender Gap, Cultural Politics, And Contested Constituencies In U.S. Politics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, 257 pp.

Cal also had a book on Institutions and Gender Empowerment in the Global Community. London: World Scientific Press, 2008, (co-authored with Kartik C. Roy, and Hans C. Blomqvist). And another article on “The Impact of Globalization upon the U.S. Auto Industry: The Case of Hyundai Motor Company’s Investment in Alabama.” International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 44:1 (April 2007) pp. 103-113 (co-authored with Changhoon Jung). He is a visiting Professor of Public Management and Public Policy at Tunghai University during the Fall semester, and presented the Keynote Address on “Public Administration Training and Education in the United States: The Importance of Informal Connections” at a Symposium sponsored by the Regional Civil Service Development Institute, October 21, 2008.

John Copper at Rhode College published a book on Taiwan : Nation-State or Province? (Fifth edition). Boulder: Westview Press, 2009 and a monograph on “Taiwan’s 2008 Presidential and Vice Presidential Election: Maturing Democracy”, University of Maryland School of Law. He also had an article on “Taiwan’s Failed President,” Asian Affairs, Winter 2008 (Vol. 34, No. 4). Book chapters on “The Taiwan Factor in U.S.-China Relations,” in Shuisheng Zhao (ed.), U.S.-China Relations: Cooperation and Competition in Northeast Asia (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2008).

John did book review on “China and the Global Energy Crisis: Development and Prospects for China’s Oil and Natural Gas, Asian Affairs,” by Tats Kambara and Christopher Howe, Winter 2008. “Congress and the U.S.-China Relationship, 1949-1979”, in Pacific Affairs, Guangqiu Xu. He also presented a paper on “The Ma Presidency and U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations,” at the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Sam Houston State University, October 3-45, 2008.

Joel Fetzer at Pepperdine University published the following articles: "Election Strategy and Ethnic Politics in Singapore." Taiwan Journal of Democracy 4(1):135-153. "Public Support for the 1990 Student Democracy Movement and Emigration from Taiwan: Exit and Voice or Exit or Voice?" (with Brandon Alexander Millan). American Journal of Chinese Studies 15(2):501-511.

James Hsiung at the New York University published a book entitled “China and Japan at Odds: Deciphering the Perpetual Conflict “ (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007). He also had an article on “Rethinking International-Relations Theory: An International Governance Perspective ”,published electronically by the One-Dot Center Occasional Papers in International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization., Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan, No.1 (April 2008). In addition, he presented the following papers : (a) “China Second Ascent and IR Theory, “ AACS annual meeting, Oct. 17-19, 2008,

U.C.- Fullerton, Ca. (b) Lecture: “Negotiation: Art and Science,” ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 22, 2008;(c) Paper: “Age of Geoeconomics and the Prospects of Chinese Reunification,” Conference on China in an Age of Globalization, Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, July 13-15, 2008.

Anru Lee at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY published the following articles: "Women of the Sisters' Hall: Religion and the Making of Women’s

Alternative Space in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring." Gender, Place and Culture 2008, 15(4). "Southern Green Revolution: Urban Environmental Activism in Kaohsiung, Taiwan." City and Society 19(1): 114-138. "Subways as a Space of Cultural Intimacy: The Mass Rapid Transit System in Taipei, Taiwan." The China Journal 2007, 58: 31-55.

Wei-chin Lee at Wake Forest University published the following articles: “Yours, Mine, or Everyone’s Property? China’s Property Law in 2007,” Journal of Chinese Political Science, 2009, forthcoming. “Long Shot and Short Hit: China as a Military Power and Its Implications for the USA and Taiwan,” Journal of Asian and African Studies, 43(5), 2008, 523-542. “Defense Industry,” Linsun Cheng, et al., eds. Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2008, forthcoming. He received the Honors of Distinguished Lectureship on Comparative Politics at the Jilin University, Jilin Province, China, May 2008, and presented several papers in academic/professional meetings: “How Could You Win My Heart? A Re-examination of the Interaction Model of the Cross-Strait Relations,” Global Forum of Chinese Political Scientists and the Center of Taiwan Studies, Peking University, Beijing, September 20-23, 2008 “International Relations Theory and China’s Rise,” Jilin University, Jilin Province, China, May 13, 2008.“Yours, Mine, or Everyone’s Property? China’s Property Law in 2007,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 3-6, 2008

Hsiao-ting Lin at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University published a book entitled Tibet and Nationalist China’s Frontier: Intrigues and ethnopolitics, 1928-49 Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. He also had the following journal articles published: “Chiang Kai-shek’s Diaries and Republican China”, The Chinese Historical Review, 15: 2 (2008). “New Insights on the History of Modern China.”, “From Rimland to Heartland: Nationalist China’s Geopolitics and Ethnopolitics in Central Asia, 1937-1952.”. The International History Review, 30: 1 (March 2008 “Calculated Strategy, Opportunistic Approach: The Nationalists, the Muslim Warlords, and the ‘Great Northwestern Development’ in Pre-Communist China.” China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 5: 1 (February 2007). In addition, he received the following honors: Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2007. International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize: nominated and became a finalist for best study in the humanities (for Tibet and Nationalist China’s Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49).

Yu-long Ling at Franklin College published an article entitled “2004 Presidential Election in Taiwan: Significance and Impact” in American Journal for Chinese Studies.

He also received the Liberty Bell Award 2007 by the American Bar Association. This award is the highest honor granted to a member of the bar. He was also commissioned by the American Journal for Chinese Studies to prepare and submit a manuscript on the 2008 presidential election in Taiwan. He went to Taiwan to observe and collect information on this election. He was a keynote speaker at Dr. Sun Yet-Sen conference in Shanghai, China on August 1-3, 2008. In the 50^th Annual Conference of the Western Social Science Association held on April 23-26, 2008 in Denver Colorado, he served as the roundtable discussion panelist on the impact of domestic and international affairs, post 2008 presidential election in Taiwan. He was a columnist for The Daily Journal Newspaper in Franklin, Indiana.

Xiaoyi Liu at the University of Arizona published an article entitled “A scattered memory---Hu Shih and Homebeck” (co-Authored with Chia-lin Pao Tao) in the Journal of Biography, Taiwan, vol. 92.1, 2008). Another one on the "two beauties, one husband" marriage model reflected by traditional Chinese literature (co-authored with Chia-Lin Pao Tao), forthcoming, the 8th Volume of Critical Essays on Chinese Women and Literature, Dao Xiang Publisher, Taiwan. And a third one on “The Rise of Women’s Modern Schooling in late Qing China (1840-1911)”, forthcoming, History Teacher. Liu also received a Graduate Teaching Assistant Scholarship from University of Arizona.

Jerry McBeath at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks published the following books: “The Political Economy of Oil in Alaska: Multinationals vs. the State” (McBeath, Berman, Rosenberg & Ehrlander), Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008 “Education Reform in the American States “ (McBeath, Reyes & Ehrlander), Information Age Publishers, 2008. For journal articles, he published “Testing, Testing, Testing: Rural and Urban Responses to Alaska’s High Stakes Testing Regime,” (McBeath & Reyes) Northern Review (2008). “The Effects of Environmental Change on an Arctic Native Community” (McBeath & Shepro), American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 31, no. 1 (Winter 2007). He also received the UAF, College of Liberal Arts, “Excellence in Teaching” award, spring 2007, and gave lectures on “Changing American Attitudes toward China” and “US Foreign Policy in East Asia” at the University of International Business & Economics, Beijing, May 2007 and on “Domestic Influences on US Policies in Asia” at the Beijing Language and Culture University, May 2007. He is a member of peer review panel, Fulbright Programs in China/Hong Kong/Mongolia/Taiwan, 2006-08.

Allan Joseph Medwick at the University of Pennsylvania received a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) from Cornell University to attend its intensive Chinese language program this summer. In September, he will begin an Association for Institutional Research/Institute for Education Sciences-National Center for Education Statistics Postdoctoral Policy Fellowship in Washington, D.C. He was also the recipient of the American College Health Association’s Lewis Barbato Award, which honors students who have made major contributions to college health, as reflected in the association's mission and vision statements.

Jan Prybyla at the Pennsylvania State University (emeritus) met with the Rector, faculty and administration of the Techno-Humanistic Academy in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, and with deputy mayor of the city of Bielsko-Biala. He also visited the Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp, the largest German death camp in which some 1.5 million prisoners were exterminated over five years, and consulted with the Auschwitz Museum’s (as it now is) Archives Office. He also did research on (including photographing) the Montelupich prison in Cracow, Poland, which during World War II was one of the severest Gestapo interrogation, torture and execution centers in German-occupied Poland.

He also has a book on the interwar and World War II years in Poland in progress.

Kenneth Swope at Ball State University published the following books: “A Dragon’s Head and a Serpent’s Tail: Ming China and the First Greater East Asian War, 1592-1598” , forthcoming as part of the “Campaigns & Commanders” series, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. He also published the following articles:

“Cutting Dwarf Pirates Down to Size: Amphibious Warfare in Sixteenth-Century East Asia,” forthcoming in Selected Papers of the 2007 Naval History Symposium, edited by Maochun Yu (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009). “As Close as Lips and Teeth: Debating the Ming Intervention in Korea, 1592,” forthcoming in Debating War in China edited by Peter Lorge (Leiden: Brill, 2009). “To Catch a Tiger: The Suppression of the Yang Yinglong Miao Uprising (1587-1600) as a Case Study in Ming Military and Borderlands History,” forthcoming in Festschrift, honoring Dr. John K. Whitmore, edited by Kenneth R. Hall (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009) “War and Remembrance: Yang Hao and the Siege of Ulsan of 1598,” forthcoming in Journal of Asian History 42.2 (Dec. 2008), pp. 165-195. “Clearing the Fields and Strengthening the Walls: Defending Small Cities in Late Ming China,” in Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm edited by Kenneth R. Hall (Boulder: Lexington Books, 2008), pp. 123-154. "Bestowing the Double-edged Sword: Wanli as Supreme Military Commander," in Culture, Courtiers, and Competition: The Ming Court (1368-1644) edited by David Robinson (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), pp. 61-115. “Protecting the Dragon’s Teeth: Reasons for Ming China’s Intervention,” in A Transnational History of the Imjin Waeran, 1592-1598, 2 vols. (Seoul: Humanist Books, 2007), vol. II, pp. 317-353 [Korean language publication]. “Beyond Turtleboats: Siege Accounts from Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Second Invasion of Korea, 1597-1598,” Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 6.2 (October 2006), pp. 177-206. He also received the following honors: West Point Summer Seminar in Military History Participant (2008), Indiana University East Asian Studies Center Research Travel Grant (2007), National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (2006), Ball State University Summer Funding—Ball State University (2006), Moncado Prize for Outstanding Article published in The Journal of Military History (2006). He delivered the following presentations: “Imperial Visions: Ming China’s Response to the Japanese Invasion of Korea, 1592-1598,” at Columbia University, New York, NY (Sept. 2008). “Loyalist or Desperado? The International Context of the Execution of Mao Wenlong,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta, GA (April 2008). Delivered presentation entitled “The Art of War: Images of the Japanese Invasion of Korea in the 1590s,” at Ball State University Museum of Art (February 2008). “Cutting Dwarf Pirates Down to Size: Amphibious Warfare in Sixteenth-Century East Asia,” presented at the Naval History Symposium, Annapolis, MD (September 2007). He served as panel commentator for “Commerce and Power in Early Modern East Asian Cities,” for the conference “The Small City in Global Context,” Ball State University, Muncie, IN (April 2007). Delivered guest lecture entitled “Baywatch: Anti-Japanese Coastal Defenses in Late Sixteenth-Century China,” at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (December 2006). “Protecting the Dragon’s Teeth: Reasons for Ming China’s Intervention,” for the conference: “A Transnational History of the Imjin Waeran: The East Asian Dimension,” Tongyong, South Korea (June 2006). Organized a panel entitled “Raiders, Traders and Invaders in Premodern Northeast Asia” for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History held at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (May 2006) . “All Along the Watchtowers: Plans for Bolstering Coastal Defenses in Late Sixteenth-century China,” presented for the panel “Raiders, Traders and Invaders in Premodern Northeast Asia” at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (May 2006). "The Beating of Drums & Clashing of Symbols: Music in Late Ming Military Operations" for “Musiking the Late Ming” Conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (May 2006) [Currently under review for publication]. “Father Knows Best? Emperor Wanli and the Ming Intervention,” presented as part of the panel “The Korean War of 1592-98 and Styles of Governance in Premodern East Asia” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco, CA (April 2006). Delivered a presentation entitled “Using Korean Archives for Ming History” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Ming Studies, San Francisco, CA (April 2006). He did the following book reviews: Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, forthcoming in The Historian (2009). Comparative book review of Asia Looks Seaward: Power & Maritime Strategy, edited by Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes, and China’s Energy Strategy: The Impact on Beijing’s Maritime Policies, edited by Gabriel Collins, et al., forthcoming in The Northern Mariner (2009). Book review of The Making of the Chinese State: Ethnicity and Expansion on the Ming Borderlands by Leo K. Shin in The Historian 70.1 (Spring 2008), pp. 136-137. Book review of The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-Century China: “My Service in the Army” by Dzengseo by Nicola Di Cosmo, in The Journal of Military History 72.1 (Jan. 2008), pp. 233-234. Book review of Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination in Late Choson Korea, 1600-1894 by Eugene Y. Park in The Journal of Military History 71.4 (Oct. 2007), pp. 1227-1228. Book review essay entitled “Perspectives on the Imjin War” in Journal of Korean Studies 12.1 (Fall 2007), pp. 154-161.Book review of Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China, edited by Pamela Crossley et al., in The Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 50.4 (Oct. 2007), pp. 592-595. Book review of War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe by Victoria Tin-Bor Hui in The Journal of Asian Studies 66.2 (May 2007), pp. 536-538. Book review of Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500-1300 by Bruce L. Batten in The Historian 69.1 (Spring 2007), pp. 132-135.

Paul H. Tai at the University of Detroit, Mercy delivered a paper on “Chiang Kai-shek’s Wartime Diplomacy: Bargaining Strategies and Internal Dynamics” at the Conference on Political Change and Leadership of Nationalist China, 1911-1949, sponsored by the Institute of Modern Chinese History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, on November 1-2, 2008, in Beijing, China.

Chia-lin Pao Tao at the University of Arizona, edited a book with two articles and Preface Zhongguo funu shi lunji, 7, 中国妇女史论集七集 (Studies in Chinese Women‘s History) Seventh Volume, Taipei: Tao-hsiang Publishing Co., Taipei, 2006, 282p. ISBN: 986-7862-85-6. And edited another one with an article and Preface, Zhongguo funu shi lunji, 8, 中国妇女史论集八集 (Studies in Chinese Women‘s History) Eighth Volume, Taipei: Tao-hsiang Publishing Co., Taipei, 2008, 391p. ISBN: 978-986-6913-35-8. She also co-authored with Xiaoyi Liu, “雪泥鴻爪的回憶﹕胡適與霍恩貝克 ( Hu Shih and Stanley Hornbeck),” 傳記文學 Biographical Literature, No. 92 (January 2008), pp. 59-65. Reprinted in 亞省時報 Yasheng shibao (Arizona Chinese News),“Yin Lihua, Empress of Emperor Guangwu of han Dynasty,” in Lily Xiao Hong Lee and A. D. Stefanowska, eds., Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Antiquity Through Sui, 1600 B. C. – 618, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2007, pp. 233-235. She served as the keynote speaker at the Bi-annual meeting of Overseas Chinese Women Writers Association, Las Vegas, September 14-16, 2008. Subject of the talk: “Women’s Writing in Pre-Modern China.”. Other essays published in Chinese newspapers including shijie ribao (World Journal) and yasheng shibao (Arizona Chinese News).

Vincent Wang at the University of Richmond published several articles as following:

“Taiwan: Conventional Deterrence, Soft Power, and the Nuclear Option,” in Muthiah Alagappa, ed., The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21^st Century Asia (Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2008), pp. 404-428

“The Impact of Taiwan’s 2008 Elections on Cross-Strait Relations: A Game-Theoretical Analysis,” Asian Perspective, vol. 32, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 145-172

“Will Taiwan Contemplate a “Nuclear Option”? Security Imperatives and Normative Transformation,” Tamkang Journal of International Affairs, vol. 11, no. 4 (April 2008): 31-76

“How Contending Identities and Party Politics Shape Taiwan’s External Policy,” East Asian Institute Background Brief 350 (20 September 2007): i-ii & 1-16

“Contending Identities, Party Politics, and Taiwan’s National Security,” in Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Asia Program Special Report 138 (September 2007): 19-27

“The Chinese Military and the ‘Taiwan Issue’: How China Assesses Its Security Environment,” Southeast Review of Asian Studies, vol.29 (2007): 119-36

“The Chinese Military and the ‘Taiwan Issue’: How China Assesses Its Security Environment,” Tamkang Journal of International Affairs, vol. 10, no. 4 (April 2007), pp. 89-130

“From State Centrality to Functional-Competence: Toward a Sui Generis Model for Taiwan’s Participation in International Organizations,” Journal of American-East Asian Relations (2007, forthcoming)

“China’s Economic Statecraft Toward Southeast Asia: Free Trade Agreement and “Peaceful Rise,’” American Journal of Chinese Studies, vol. 13, no. 1 (April 2006): 5-34

“Taiwan’s Participation in International Organizations,” in Edward Friedman, ed., China’s Rise, Taiwan’s Dilemmas, and International Peace (London and New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 149-173

He also presented the following papers at professional meetings:

“The Logic of China’s FTA with ASEAN: Economic Statecraft of ‘Peaceful Ascendancy,’” talk given at the Institute of Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India, 29 May 2008

“China’s New Diplomacy: Economic Statecraft of ‘Peaceful Rise,’” talk given at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 7 April 2008

“Taiwan’s 2008 Elections: Game-Theoretical Analysis and Epilogue,” paper presented at the 81 annual conference of Virginia Social Science Association, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA, 5 April 2008

“The Election’s Over, What’s Next for Taiwan?” talk at the Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC, 4 April 2008

“Looking Ahead to Taiwan’s Presidential Election,” talk at the Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC, 12 March 2008

“U.S.-China Trade Policy,” talk to League of Women Voters Great Decisions program, Williamsburg, VA, 11 March 2008

“The Impact of Taiwan’s Election on Cross-strait Relations: A Game-Theoretical Analysis,” paper presented at the international conference, “Asia Pacific and Democratic Taiwan,” Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan, 10 January 2008

“Power or Profit: Debating the Future of the Taiwan Strait,” talk given the Strait Talk Symposium, Brown University, 12 November 2007

“How Understanding Taiwan's Domestic Politics Helps Improve U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Beyond the Arms Sales, Toward a Positive Agenda,” keynote speech given at the Chinese American Professional Society, Los Angeles, 28 October 2007

“Economic Development and Democracy,” talk given at the conference, “Shaping Taiwan’s Politics: Democracy, Identity & Security 20 Years After the Lift of Martial Law,” George Washington University, 27 September 2007

“The Logic of China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement: Economic Statecraft of ‘Peaceful Rise,’” paper presented at China in the World, the World in China International Conference “Implications of a Transforming China: Domestic, Regional, and Global Impacts,” Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 5-6 August 2007

“Domestic Sources of Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Policy: The U.S. Arms Sales Puzzle,” seminar, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 3 August 2007

“Identity / Party Politics and Taiwan’s National Security,” paper presented at the symposium, “Taiwan’s Dilemma: A Democracy Divided Over National Security,” Wilson International Center for Scholars, 6 June 2007 (also briefed Congressional staff, 7 June 2007)

“How China Views Its Security Environment: The Chinese Military and the ‘Taiwan Issue,’” paper at the 2007 annual convention of the International Studies Association, Chicago, IL, 28 February – 3 March 2007

“From State Centrality to Functional-Competence: Toward a Sui Generis Model for Taiwan’s Participation in International Organizations,” paper at the 2007 annual convention of the International Studies Association, Chicago, IL, 28 February – 3 March 2007

“Challenges to China’s Political Governance,” paper presented at the panel on “Prospects for Political Reform and Democracy in China,” conference on “America and the World: Sustaining Democracy in the Global Age,” Longwood University and Hampton-Sidney College, 25-27 January 2007

“Politics in Taiwan: Key Elections Amid Political Turmoil,” panelist, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, 11 December 2006

“Taiwan’s ‘Virtual Nuclear Option’: Security Imperatives and Normative Transformation,” paper presented at the Conference on Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21^st Century Asia, the East-West Center and the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 15-18 November 2006

“A Functional Competence Model for Taiwan’s Participation in International Organizations,” panelist at the symposium, “Asia/Pacific Region Economic and Security Issues,” National Strategy Forum and the International House, University of Chicago, 9 November 2006

“The State of Taiwan Politics,” panelist at the symposium, “Taiwan’s Domestic Politics: Protests, Elections, and Implications,” The Brookings Institution Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, 7 November 2006

“The Chinese Military and the ‘Taiwan Issue’: Assessing the Security Environment,” paper presented at the 48^th annual meeting of the American Association for Chinese Studies, University of California, Riverside, 20-22 October 2006

“China-Japan Relations: Multiple Perspectives on a Complex Relationship,” talk given to the Second China-America Film and Culture Festival, 27 September 2006

“U.S.-Japan Alliance and the Rise of China,” talk given to the Shanghai Institute for International Studies, 3 July 2006, Shanghai, China

“The ‘Nuclear Option’ in Taiwan’s Security Strategy,” paper presented at the Conference on “Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21^st Century Asia,” East-West Center, Washington, 1 -3 May 2006

“Constitutional Reform and Foreign Policy in Taiwan: Using Domestic Law to Address International Status,” paper presented at the “Constitutional Change and Foreign Policy in East Asia” Conference, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia, 20 March 2006 [with Jacques deLisle]

Larry Wortzel served as Chairman of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission for the 2008 reporting year. During the year the Commission conducted 8 domestic hearings on a range of issues including food safety, sovereign wealth fund investments from China, and foreign policy and security. He also made a one-week visit to China with other commissioners. The Commission published the annual report to Congress on November 20, 2008. Web site is www.uscc.gov

On the policy/scholarly side, he wrote a chapter in a book for the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Strategic Studies Institute and presented it at a conference at the Army War College on "The PLA Beyond Taiwan: Potential People's Liberation Army Missions in South Asia, Central Asia and on the Korean Peninsula."

He did another book chapter and presented it at the conference for the China Maritime Security Institute at the Navy War College on "Evolving Maritime Roles for Chinese Aerospace Power: Deterrence and Presence after Beijing's Aerospace Revolution."

He also delivered lectures at the National Defense College of Denmark on China's military development, space warfare programs, and command and control programs.

In addition, he had an article published in Astropolitics: The International Journal of Space and Politics entitled: "The Chinese People's Liberation Army and Space Warfare." (Astropolitics 6:2, May 2008).

For the Center for the Study of the Presidency, he co-chaired a panel of policy and business experts that provided an issue paper for both presidential campaigns and the incoming administration entitled: "Agenda 2008: A New Look at the U.S.-China Relationship."

Yenna Wu at the University of California-Riverside published the following books and book chapters: Mandarin Chinese the Easy Way with Audio CD: Second Edition with Philip F. Williams by The Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series, 2008; 368 pp. A revised and updated version of the 1999 edition of Chinese the Easy Way, this includes studio-recorded audio CD and a Chinese-character section with all dialogues and new vocabulary lists. We made necessary revisions up to at least 10% of the book.

Wanli daqiang: Zhonggong laogai ying de kua xueke yanjiu 萬里大牆: 中共勞改營的跨學科研究 [A Thousand Miles of Prison Walls: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Contemporary Chinese Labor Camp]. Translated by Yenna Wu (95%) with Philip F. Williams. Taipei: Li Ming Cultural Publishing, 2007. 348 pp. ISBN 978-957-16-0757-3. This is the Chinese translation of The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp Through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage (co-authored with Philip F. Williams; Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004). It includes significant updating and some revision, plus a new introductory chapter solely for this Chinese edition.

Me and China, co-authored with Qian He and Ying Petersen. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, and New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2008. This is a Chinese language textbook specifically designed for Mandarin heritage speakers.

Remolding and Resistance among Writers of the Chinese Prison Camp: Disciplined and Published. Co-edited with Ed. Philip F. Williams. London: Routledge, 2006. Review in The China Journal 58 (July 2007): 236-239.

Book Chapters in Edited Volumes

“Bianxing shiyi xia de Zhongguo” [China in a State of Metamorphosis and Amnesia].In Wanli daqiang: Zhonggong laogai ying de kua xueke yanjiu [A Thousand Miles of Prison Walls: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Contemporary Chinese Labor Camp]. Translated by Yenna Wu with Philip F. Williams. Taipei: Li Ming Cultural Publishing, 2007. Pp. 5-48.

“Baoli, xingbie yu zhutixing: Li Ang de ‘Sha fu’ he Tan Zhongdao de ‘Canghai zhi yi su’” [Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity: Li Ang’s “Husband Killer” and Tan Zhongdao’s “A Grain Afloat on the Ocean”]. In Jin wushi nian xiandai xiaoshuo lunwen ji [A Half Century of Taiwan’s Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays]. Ed by Chai Jen-nien et al. Kaohsiung, Taiwan: National Sun Yat-sen University, 2007. Pp. 55-99.

She has published an article on "Lijiao, qinggan, he zongjiao zhi hudong: fenxi bijiao Xingshi yan disihui he ‘Lishui Chen xiaonü zhuan bei’ dui gegu liaoqin de chengxian" [Interactions Between Emotion, Religion, and the Confucian Ethical Code: Analyzing and Comparing Representations of Gegu liaoqin in the Fourth Story of Xingshi yan and “Lishui Chen xiaonü zhuan bei”] in Wen yu zhe (LITERATURE & PHILOSOPHY) 12 (2008):413-454. Received a grant from Korea Foundation, to help establish a professorship in Korean Literature & Culture, $109,830.00, 2007 (for 2008-2011) and was elected to UCR Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 2006.

In professional meetings and public lectures, she had the following:

-- Moderator for the panel, “Personal Experience in Historical Context,” at the conference “The Course of Contemporary Chinese Intellectuals: An International Symposium Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Anti-Rightist Campaign,” June 29, 2007, UC Irvine.

-- Invited to presented a paper, “Surviving Traumatic Captivity, Arriving at Wisdom: An Aesthetics of Resistance in Chinese Prison Camp Fiction and Memoir,” at the 2008 Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association in Long Beach, CA, 24-27 April, 2008.

-- Presenter: “Reviving Muted Voices: Recovering the Forgotten History of China’s Catastrophes in 1959-1960,” at the conference “Catastrophe and Conversion: Political Thinking for the New Millennium” (Colloquium on Violence and Religion Conference 2008), June 18-21, 2008, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA.

-- At the 50^th Annual Conference of the American Association for Chinese Studies, October 17-19, 2008, California State University – Fullerton, CA:

1. Presenter: “Reflections on the Study of Chinese Literature and Language in the U.S., 1959-2008: Prospects and Challenges”

2. Presenter: “Negotiating External and Internalized Censorship: The Cases of Cong Weixi and Zhang Xianliang”

3. Presenter: “Yu Hua’s Aesthetics of ‘Contrived Fiction’”

4. Panel Chair: “Creating Identity in Film and Memoir”

5. Panel Organizer: “Engaging with Canons: Shen Congwen, Eileen Chang, and Yu Hua”

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