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.)

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

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”

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” (PowerPoint Presentation)

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”

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

IV.A. DIVERSITY, TRANSFORMATION AND RESISTANCE—GENDERED INSTITUTIONS AND PRACTICES IN CHINA (II): RESISTANCE TO THE HAN PATRIARCHY (Bush 107)

Chairs:  Ya-Chen Chen, City University of New York

Panelists:

Chia-lin Pao Tao, University of Arizona, “The nude parade of 1927: Nudity and women’s liberation during the Republican Era”

Ya-Chen Chen, City University of New York, “‘Chinese cinematic martial arts feminism’ and its incompletion:  Case studies of A Touch of Zen, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and The Banquet”

Hillary Crane, Linfield College, “Resistance through transformation?  The meanings of gender reversals in a Taiwanese Buddhist monastery”

Murray Rubinstein, City University of New York, “Art as life, life as art:  The career and fiction of the novelist and feminist paradigm, Li Ang”

Discussant:  Shanshan Du, Tulane University

IV.B. PROSPECTS FOR US-TAIWAN-CHINA RELATIONS UNDER THE TAIWAN RELATIONS ACT (Bush 120)

Chair:  Robert Sutter, Georgetown University

Panelists: 

Scott Kastner, University of Maryland, “International support for Taiwan in the shadow of a rising China:  An empirical analysis”

Jacques deLisle, University of Pennsylvania, “The TRA’s enduring and partly accidental genius:  Securing stability through acoustical separation, legal entrenchment, and policy content”

Shelley Rigger, Davidson College, “Political relations between the United States and Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act framework”

Elizabeth Hague, US Department of State, “How China’s Taiwan experts frame cross-Strait issues”

Discussant:  T.J Cheng, College of William & Mary

IV.C. SOCIAL CHANGE IN CHINA (Bush 129)

Chair:  Jerry McBeath, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Panelists:

Wei Song, University of Louisville, “Social and spatial segregation:  An empirical study of the migrant population in Beijing, China”

Hui Faye Xiao, University of Kansas, “‘Love is a capacity’: The narrative of gendered self-development in Chinese Style Divorce”

Jerry McBeath and Jenifer Huang McBeath, University of Alaska Fairbanks, “Environmental education in China:  A preliminary comparative assessment”

Discussant:  June Teufel Dreyer, University of Miami

IV.D. PARTISAN CHANGE AND RESPONSE IN TAIWAN (Bush 160)

Chair:  Chiung-Fang Chang, Lamar University

Panelists:

Ming-Chen Shai, Hsuan Chuang University, and Po-Chou Lin, Shih Hsin University, Taiwan, “The impact of party alteration on think tanks in Taiwan”

Jia-wei Liu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, “Information and identity:  Attitudes of Taiwan’s youth toward the cross-Strait relationship”

Howard Sanborn, Virginia Military Institute, “Democratic institutions and the regime in Taiwan:  A study of the similarities and differences of support and approval”

Discussant:  Chunjuan Nancy Wei, University of Bridgeport

IV.E. DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER IN CHINA (Bush 162)

Chair:  Rachana Sachdev, Susquehanna University

Panelists:

Qingjun Li, Middle Tennessee State University, “Women with the golden lilies:  Constructions of Chinese women in early modern Anglo-European travel narratives”

Tonia Warnecke, Rollins College, “Gender and the welfare state in China”

 Discussant:  David Lorenzo, Virginia Wesleyan College

Saturday evening reception, 5:00 p.m. (Galloway Patio)

Banquet:  5:45 p.m. (Galloway Room)

Introduction:  Laurie Joyner, Dean, Rollins College

Keynote address:  David Ahlstrom, Chinese University of Hong Kong, “China’s Rise and the Impact on Global Business”

Concert:  7:30 p.m., John Tiedtke Concert Hall, Keene Music Building

Introduction:  Lewis Duncan, President, Rollins College

Gloria Cook, Lecture/Recital (piano), “The politics of Chinese music in black and white”

Sunday, October 18

7:15-8:30 a.m.  AJCS Editorial Board meeting, hotel

V.A.  SOCIO-ECONOMIC TRANSITION AND CHINESE MANAGEMENT (Bush auditorium)

Chair:  Ilan Alon, Rollins College

Panelists:

Christoph Lattemann, Potsdam University, Germany, “New developments in China’s corporate governance”

Amir Shoham, Sapir Academic College, Israel with Joseph Pelzman, George Washington University, “The economic and cultural factors associated with Chinese and Vietnamese responses to the elimination of US textile and apparel quotas”

Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan and Utai Uprasen, University of Limerick, Ireland, “Measuring the impact of protectionism on China:  A CGE approach”

Eduardo Barberis, University of Urbino, Italy, “The Chinese diaspora in Italy:  An economic sociology approach to transcend the ethnic enclave”

Discussant:  Marc Sardy, Rollins College

V.B.  CONFLICTS AND INTERVENTIONS (Bush 107)           

Chair:  Linda Chiang, Azusa Pacific University

Panelists:

Yu-long Ling, Franklin College, “A case study of conflict intervention:  Life after a law suit”

Daniel Palm, Azusa Pacific University, “The Chinese conceptions of politics:  A point of future clashes of civilizations?”

Linda Chiang, Azusa Pacific University, and Azar Hadadian, Ball State University, “Striving for success:  An early childhood intervention program evaluation in Taitung, Taiwan”

Discussant:  Walter Kiang, City of Los Angeles, CA

V.C.  CHINA’S RISE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS (Bush 120)

Chair:  Wei-chin Lee, Wake Forest University

Panelists:

Charles Chong-han Wu, University of South Carolina, “Hierarchy and bandwagoning in Asia:  The rise of China and its grand strategy in the post-Cold War era”

Roger Chi-feng Liu, University of South Carolina, “China’s military assistance to Africa:  History, implications and prospects”

T. Y. Wang, Illinois State University, Wei-chin Lee, Wake Forest University, and Ching-hsin Yu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, “China’s rise and Taiwan’s expansion of international space:  Opportunities and challenges”

Discussant:  John Hsieh, University of South Carolina

V.D.  TOPICS IN HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP (Bush 129)

Chair:  Shelley Rigger, Davidson College

Panelists:

Xiaoyi Liu, University of Arizona, “Clothing culture and clothing choices as reflected in Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan, the panoramic Ming novel”

Guo Wu, Allegheny College, “Print socialism:  Reading rooms, book stores and early Chinese Anarcho-Communists, 1919-20”

Lane Harris, Furman University, “Language, prestige and power:  Debates about Romanization systems for Chinese, 1860-1940”

Discussant:  Michael Aller, Rollins College

V.E.  REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY TAIWAN (Bush 160)

Chair:  Vincent Wang, University of Richmond

Panelists:

Yi-Chun Lin, Rutgers University, “Scenarios of Taiwan facing a China-led economic integration process in East Asia after the financial turmoil:  An analysis from the Globalization School”

Chunjuan Nancy Wei, University of Bridgeport, “Democracy and the commitment trap:  Why did the Bush Administration oppose Taiwan’s referenda?”

Timothy Rich, Indiana University, “Status for sale:  Taiwan and the competition for diplomatic recognition”

Discussant:  Cal Clark, Auburn University

Coffee break, 10:00-10:15 a.m., Bush lobby

VI.A. CHINA:  PEOPLE, PLANS AND PRESSURES (Bush 162)

Chair:  Michael Aller, Rollins College

Panelists:

Chow Bing Ngeow, Northeastern University, “Issues in urban community (Shequ) elections in China:  An analysis of  election procedures”

George Haley, University of New Haven, and Usha Haley, Harvard Kennedy School, “SASAC and China’s industrial policy:  The role of intelligent design”

Jinsong (Kevin) Zhang, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China, “A study of WACC in various industries of China”

Discussant:  Tonia Warnecke, Rollins College

VI.B. MONEY MATTERS IN CHINA AND TAIWAN (Bush 107)

Chair:  John Hsieh, University of South Carolina

Panelists:

Matthew Shaffer, University of South Carolina, “Causes and consequences of the dysfunctional Chinese banking system”

Ingrid Li, University of South Carolina, “The political economy of property rights in China”

Eun Jeong Soh and Hsiao-chuan Liao, University of South Carolina, “Diplomatic effects of foreign aid:  A comparison of Korea and Taiwan”

Discussant:  Wei-chin Lee, Wake Forest University

VI.C. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGES IN RURAL CHINA UNDER MAO AND DENG (Bush 120)

Chair:  Robert Moore, Rollins College

Panelists:

Robert Moore, Rollins College, “The end of arranged marriage in a northern Chinese village”

Hong Zhang, University of Central Florida, “Wealth breeds lust:  A case study of the relationship between wealth, sex, and family in a northern Chinese village”

Weidong Zhang, Winona State University, “Re-ethnicizing a majority?  Nostalgia, revival and the cultural reclaiming of Hanfu”

Discussant:  Daniel Chong, Rollins College

VI.D. PERSPECTIVES ON LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA (Bush 129)

Chair:  Susan Bach, Rollins College

Panelists:

Hsin-Hao Huang, National Taiwan Normal University, and Chin-Shou Wang, National Cheng Kung University, “A new examination into redness and expertise:  Career paths of political elites in China”

Laurel Mayer, Sinclair Community College, “An American perspective on leadership change in China”

Discussant:  Susan Bach, Rollins College

VI.E. TOPICS IN CHINESE CULTURE, II (Bush 160)

Chair:  Linda Chiang, Azusa Pacific University

Panelists:

Larry Israel, Macon State College, “Neo-Confucianism:  Wang Yangming’s thought and practice”

Haifeng Qi, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, “Using the Identity Management Perspective to analyze the face problem in Chinese consumption behavior”

Kyle Jeffcoat, National Taiwan Normal University, “Contesting the modern ethnic orchestra on transnational terrains:  Comparing two Chinese orchestras in post-WWII America”

Discussant:  Henry Wang, Center for China and Globalization, Beijing

VI.F. MEET THE EDITORS (room TBA)

Chair:  Ilan Alon, Rollins College

Editors:

Tom Bellows, editor of The American Journal of Chinese Studies

David Lamond, editor-in-chief, Journal of Management History

David Ahlstrom, editor-in-chief, Asia Pacific Journal of Management    

Ilan Alon, editor, AIB Insights