American Association for
Chinese Studies 51st Annual Conference
Program
Rollins College, Winter Park,
Florida
Friday, October 16
Registration: 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
(Cornell Fine Arts Museum) Map
at: http://tars.rollins.edu/cfam/
(5:15 p.m. and 5:40 p.m., campus tours)
Reception: Cornell Fine Arts Museum,
6:00-8:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m., welcome remarks, Roger Casey, Provost, Rollins
College
Saturday, October 17
7:00-8:00 a.m.—AACS board meeting (Bieberbach Reed in
Cornell Campus Ctr.)
Session I: Saturday 9:00
a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Shuttle service from hotel/return, 6:30 a.m. to 11:30
a.m.
Registration: From 8:00 a.m. (Bush
Lobby)
I.A. ETHNICITY, GENDER, AND CULTURAL
PERFORMANCE IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA (Bush auditorium)
Chair: Li Wei, Rollins College
Panelists:
Li Wei, Rollins College, “Dongzu
Dage: Self-fashioning or reflexive
modernity?”
Kristin Congdon, University of Central Florida, “Sharing food
and drink in a Miao village: Examining the
aesthetics of identity”
Huike Wen, University of Iowa, “‘Importing more choices’:
Domestic, imported TV dramas and the gender confusion in China in
the 1980s”
Megan Peck, University of Central Florida, “Popular culture
disparity as a reflection on gender roles in Miao culture”
Discussant: Kate Zhou, Rollins College
I.B. ORIGINS AND EVOLVING IMPORTANCE OF
THE TAIWAN RELATIONS ACT (TRA) (Bush
107)
Chair: Robert Sutter, Georgetown
University
Panelists:
Jing-dong Yuan, Monterey Institute of International Studies,
“The executive branch, Congress, and the implementation of the
Taiwan Relations Act”
Steve Phillips, Towson University, “The TRA and domestic
politics during the Carter Administration”
Vincent Wang, University of Richmond, “The Taiwan Relations
Act at thirty: Evolving importance and future
implications”
Robert Sutter, Georgetown University, “Strategic ‘balance’—a
fading legacy of the Taiwan Relations Act”
Discussant: David Dean, CCK Foundation
I.C. SOCIO-ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN
CHINA AND TAIWAN (Bush 129)
Chair: Jenn-hwan Wang, National Chengchi
University, Taiwan
Panelists:
Jenn-hwan Wang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, “Why do
industrial clusters have different innovation
patterns? The Hsinchu-Taipei corridor and
Beijing’s high tech parks compared”
Mei-chuan Wei, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, “From
commercial housing back to welfare housing? An
analysis of China’s post-reform urban housing policy evolution and
its consequences”
Chao-chi Lin, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, “Foreign
investors’ associations in China: Isomorphism or
variation?—The Japanese business association and the Taiwan
business association in Qingdao”
Emmy Ruihua Lin, National Chengchi University, Taiwan,
“Reshaping the identity of Taiwanese in China”
Discussant: Thomas Bellows, University of
Texas, San Antonio
I.D. ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND THE
FINANCIAL TSUNAMI IN EAST ASIA (Bush 160)
Chair: Peter C.Y. Chow, City University of
New York
Panelists:
Wing Thye Woo, University of California, Davis, “China’s
emergence and the global economic crisis”
Chung Hsin Hsu, National Cheng Kung University,
“ECFA: The emerging crisis Taiwan faces”
Shuming Bao, University of Michigan, “Assessment of Western
China Development”
Discussants: James Riedel, SAIS-Johns
Hopkins University, Ping Wang, Washington University and Lowell
Dittmer, University of California, Berkeley
I.E. TOPICS IN CHINESE CULTURE (I) (Bush
162)
Chair: Mark Toncar, Youngstown State
University
Panelists:
Ning Yao, Heidelberg University, “The painting ‘Fungus growing
at the Cenwei Residence (1659)’ of Wu Li (1632-1718)”
Wenxian Zhang, Rollins College, “The Yellow Register
Archives of imperial Ming China”
Tsung-Cheng Lin, University of Victoria, Canada, “The
tradition of the female knight-errant in Qing
poetry: A study of Jin He’s (1818-85) narrative
verse”
Discussant: Jerry McBeath, University of
Alaska Fairbanks
Coffee break, 10:30-10:45 a.m., Bush lobby
Session II: Saturday,
10:45 to 12:15 p.m.
II.A. CHINESE MARKETING, FOREIGN DIRECT
INVESTMENTS AND COMPETITIVENESS (Bush auditorium)
Chair: Marc Fetscherin, Rollins
College
Panelists:
Ying Wang and Mark Toncar, Youngstown State University, “Using
the concept of hybridity to examine the effects of international
advertising in China (EIAC)”
Peter Buckley, Adam Cross and Hinrich Voss, University of
Leeds, UK, “The Chinese multinational enterprise:
A review and assessment”
David Lamond, Nottingham Business School, UK, and Connie
Zheng, RMIT University, “HRM Research in China:
Looking back and looking forward”
Discussant: James Johnson, Rollins
College
II.B. RESEARCH ON ELDERLY HEALTH AND CARE
IN TAIWAN (Bush 107)
Chairs: Walter Y.L. Kiang, County of Los
Angeles, CA, and Ching-li Yang, National Cheng Kung University,
Taiwan
Panelists:
Tung-Han Hsieh, National Cheng Kung Medical Center, Taiwan,
“Characteristics and outcomes of elderly patients with acute
coronary syndrome in southern Taiwan”
Hsiao-ting Chang, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei,
“Determinants of senior veterans’ quality of
life: The case of four veterans’ homes in
southern Taiwan”
Walter Yu-lung Kiang, Los Angeles County, California, “Child
abuse among immigrant Chinese families:
Characteristics and implications”
Ching-li Yang, National Cheng Kung University, Hung-Jeng Tsai
and Yi-Chi Huang, Nan-Hwa University, Taiwan, “Foreign
spouses: Taiwan’s advantage or burden?”
Discussants: Chiung-fang Chang and
Cheng-Hsien Lin, Lamar University
II.C. YIN-YANG STUDIES IN CHINESE
PHILOSOPHY (Bush 120)
Chair: Catherine Yiyu Cho Woo, San Diego
State University
Panelists:
Crystal Chu, San Diego State University, “Application of
Yin-Yang in the Philosophy of Life”
Catherine Yiyu Cho Woo, San Diego State University, “There is
yang in yin and yin in
yang: Yin-yang and natural
phenomena”
Thomas Lin Yun, San Diego State University, “On yin and
yang”
Discussant: Chia-lin Pao Tao, University of
Arizona
II.D. THE EVOLVING NATURE OF TAIWAN
SOCIETY AND POLITICS (Bush 129)
Chair: Cal Clark, Auburn University
Panelists:
Ronald West and Andrew Yeh, Tunghai University, Taiwan, and
Stephen Hsiung, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan, “The
influence of Christianity on Taiwan Society”
Tsuey-ping Lee, National Chung Cheng University, and Cal
Clark, Auburn University, “The limits of budget reform in
Taiwan”
Cal Clark and Phyllis Mei-lien Lu, Auburn University, and
Janet Clark, University of West Georgia, “The improvement of
women’s status in Taiwan: A theoretical
model”
Jeanine Yutani, University of Southern California, “At the
intersection: Taiwan’s foreign labor
policy”
Discussant: Janet Clark, University of West
Georgia
II.E. ECONOMIC REFORM AND GROWTH IN EAST
ASIA (Bush 160)
Chair: Wing Thye Woo, University of
California, Davis
Panelists:
Ping Wang, Washington University, “The dynamic process of
economic takeoff and industrial transformation”
James Riedel, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University, “Challenges to
macroeconomic management in Vietnam from the global financial
crisis”
Peter C. Y. Chow, City University of New York, “Bilateralism
vs. trilateralism in East Asian economic
integration: Krugman-Baldwin’s hub-spoke thesis
revisited”
Discussants: Wing Thye Woo, University of
California, Davis and Shuming Bao, University of Michigan
II.F. THEORY AND PRACTICE IN CHINESE
POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION (Bush 162)
Chair: Chunjuan Nancy Wei, University of
Bridgeport
Panelists:
Scott Wilbur, National Taiwan University, “Jiang’s ‘Three
Represents’: Realist strategy and/or communist
ideology?”
Walter Chun Li, Peking University, “Public
involvement: A way to improve satisfaction for
public services delivered by government in China”
Zhenqing Zhang, University of Minnesota, “Implementation of
China’s intellectual property rights policy since 2001”
Shuo Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
“Tax reform, fiscal centralization, and local public goods
provision in China”
Discussant: Paul Tai, University of Detroit
Mercy (ret.)
12:15 to 1:45 p.m. Boxed lunch (Bush
Lobby)
Luncheon speaker: Jay Taylor, author
of The Generalissimo (Bush Auditorium)
“Chiang Kai-shek, an Extraordinary Life: New
insights into the man, his successes and failures, and his role in
history”
Session III: Saturday,
1:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
III.A. THE TWO-LEVEL STRATEGIC TRIANGLE
AND THE SURGE IN CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS (Bush auditorium)
Chair: Shelley Rigger, Davidson
College
Panelists:
Lowell Dittmer, University of California, Berkeley, “The
United States and the Taiwan Strait issue”
Jing Huang, National University of Singapore, “Hu Jintao’s
pro-status quo approach to cross-Strait
relations: Building up a framework for eventual
reunification”
Yu-Shan Wu, Academia Sinica, “The strategic triangle, change
of guard, and Ma’s new course”
Discussants: T. J. Cheng, College of William
and Mary and Jacques deLisle, University of Pennsylvania
III.B. DIVERSITY, TRANSFORMATION AND
RESISTANCE—GENDERED INSTITUTIONS AND PRACTICES IN CHINA (I):
DIVERSE NON-HAN TRADITIONS AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE HAN GENDER
SYSTEM (Bush 107)
Chair: Shanshan Du, Tulane University
Panelists:
Shanshan Du, Tulane University, “‘Men and women are the
same’: The Lahu tradition of gender
equality”
Monica Cable, Franklin & Marshall College,
“Butt-bumping wedding performance: Han Chinese
fetishism of Dai marriage”
William Jankowiak, University of Nevada, “Changing morality of
dating: Youth and modernity in China”
Lihong Shi, Tulane University, “When the daughter-in-law
becomes the boss: The empowerment of young women
in rural northeast China”
Discussant: Ya-Chen Chen, City University of
New York
III.C. DISCURSIVE
CONSTRUCTION: DISCOVERY OF THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF
CHINESE MODERNIZATION FROM THE NINETEENTH TO THE EARLY TWENTIETH
CENTURY (Bush 120)
Chair: Zhiguang Yin, Cambridge
University
Panelists:
George Mak, Cambridge University, “Protestant Bible
translation and the emergence of Mandarin as the Chinese national
language”
Chi Man Kwong, Cambridge University, “The struggle for mastery
in Northeast Asia, 1925-26: A case study of the
3.18 Incident”
Zhiguang Yin, Cambridge University, “Conceptualization of a
new “literature”: Theoretical practice among
young left-wing intellectuals, 1927-30”
Discussant: Robert Sutter, Georgetown
University
III.D. CHINA’S FOREIGN POLICY CHOICES
(Bush 160)
Chair: Paul Tai, University of Detroit
(Mercy)
Panelists:
Yi-Jen Shih, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, “China and
the environmental politics of climate negotiations”
William Carroll, Sam Houston State University, “Seeking
hegemony, coexistence, or harmony: China’s
foreign policy in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and with
ASEAN”
Darryl Brock, Fordham University, “Globalization, the West and
China: Retrospective and postmodern legacy”
Lichao He, “China’s environmental strategy and its foreign
policy ramifications”
Discussant: Vincent Wang, University of
Richmond
III.E. TAIWAN UNDER PRESIDENT MA (Bush
162)
Chair: Yu-long Ling, Franklin College
Panelists:
James Hsiung, New York University, “The feasibility of the
ROC’s quest for wider international participation”
Yu-long Ling, Franklin College, “How the global economic
crisis affects the domestic politics of Taiwan”
Yeong-kuang Ger, National Taiwan University, “The recent
development of cross-Strait relations under President Ma”
Tom Bellows, University of Texas, San Antonio, “The role of
the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan’s economic crisis”
Discussant: Richard Chu, Rochester Institute
of Technology
Coffee break, 3:15-3:30 p.m. – Bush lobby