26th Annual Meeting of the
Southwest Conference on Asian Studies
October 17-18, 1997
Hosted by
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Convened at
The Grossman International Conference Center
University of the Incarnate Word
1997 Organizing Committee
Thomas J. Bellows (University of Texas at San Antonio) ….... Local Arrangements
Joseph K.S. Yick (Southwest Texas State University)……....…………….. Program
John M. Peek (Centenary College of Louisiana)…………...…………….. Ex officio
Philip F. Williams (Arizona State University)………....……….………….. Ex officio
Friday, October 17
7:00 a.m.
SWCAS Board of Directors Meeting at Rodeway Inn-Downtown
8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Registration, Lobby, Grossman International Conference Center
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Panel 1:
Independent Papers
- Chair: John M. Peek (Centenary College of Louisiana)
"Madness and Its Figures: Akutagawa Ryuinosuke Caught Between Inspiration and the Institution"
- Pamela Abee-Taulli (Princeton University)
"Asian Pioneers in the Eastern United States: The Chinese in Beaver Falls"
- Edward J. M. Rhoads (University of Texas at Austin/University of Pittsburgh)
"Education in Indonesia: An Examination from the Student’s Perspective of Change and Development Plans"
- Seth K. Parker (University of the Incarnate Word)
Panel 2:
Languages Across the Curriculum: Teaching Business, History, Philosophy and Religion in Chinese. A Roundtable
- Chair: Stephen L. Field (Trinity University)
Panel:
- Meng Yeh (Trinity University)
- Randall L. Nadeau (Trinity University)
- Stephen L. Field (Trinity University)
10:20 - 10:45 a.m.
Coffee and Tea Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Panel 3:
Southeast Asian-Foreign Relations and Religion
- Chair: L. Shelton Woods (Boise State University)
"ASEAN’s Power and U.S. Relations"
- L. Shelton Woods (Boise State University)
"China’s Changing Interests and Policy in Southeast Asia After the Cold War"
- Qingxin Ken Wang (National University of Singapore)
"Sufism in Indonesia: The Tariqa Qadiryyah wa Naqshbandiyyah"
- Sri Mulyati (McGill University)
Discussant: Patricia L. Maclachlan (University of Texas at Austin)
Panel 4:
Topics in Chinese Literature: Part I
- Chair: Harold M. Tanner (University of North Texas)
"Garden Narratives and Pride of Place in Ming Jiangnan"
- Kenneth J. Hammond (New Mexico State University)
"Great Mother, the Dream Journey, and the Search for Utopia in Three Ming-Qing Novels"
- Yenna Wu (University of California at Riverside)
Discussant: Philip F. Williams (Arizona State University)
12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Luncheon and Keynote Address
Introduction of the Speaker: Professor Philip F. Williams, Department of Languages and Literatures, Arizona State University and President of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies
Speaker: Professor Carol N. Gluck, Department of History, Columbia University and Past President of the Association for Asian Studies
Topic: War and Memory, Asia and Elsewhere
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Panel 5:
Perspectives on Modern China: Part I
- Chair: Philip F. Williams (Arizona State University)
"New Democracy and China’s Urban Revolution, 1931-1949"
- Thomas D. Lutze (Illinois Wesleyan University)
"American Misconceptions That Burned the Marshall Mission to China, 1945-1947"
- Derrill Trenholm (Independent Researcher in Austin, Texas)
"Agrarian Radicalism in China: From the Guomindang Nation-Building Effort in the 1930’s to Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward"
- Margherita Zanasi (University of Texas at Austin)
Discussant: Joseph K. S. Yick (Southwest Texas State University)
Panel 6:
South Asia
- Chair: Pamela Abee-Taulli (Princeton University)
"Victorian Women and Racial Fear in the Indian Ilbert Bill Controversy of 1883"
- M.A. Scherer (Texas A&M University at Kingsville)
"From Colony to Powerhouse: The Transformation of India into a British Imperial Military Complex During World War II"
- Kodjo Yeboah-Sampong (Benedictine University)
"NGO’s, the State, and Religion: The New Policies of Development in South Asia"
- Jeffrey E. Key (Sweet Briar College/Baylor University)
3:45 - 5:15 p.m.
Panel 7 (Special):
Reflections on Hong Kong After Handover
- Chair: Thomas J. Bellows (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Panel:
- Wing Chung Ng (University of Texas at San Antonio): "Reflections on Hong Kong Culture and Identity."
- Chu-cheng Ming (National Taiwan University): "Taipei’s Hong Kong Policy Beyond 1997."
- Richard Chuang (Northern State University): "The Chinese Military and Hong Kong."
- Discussant: William J. Cunningham (University of St. Thomas)
Saturday, October 18
7:45-8:45 a.m.
Buffet Breakfast and Public Speech
(Under the Joint Auspices of the Office of International Programs, University of Texas at San Antonio, and the Information Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston)
Grossman International Conference Center, University of the Incarnate Word
Introduction of the Speaker: Professor Thomas J. Bellows, Interim Director of the Office of International Programs, University of Texas at San Antonio and Vice-President of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies
Speaker: Professor Chu-cheng Ming, Department of Political Science,
National Taiwan University, Republic of China
Topic: The Cross-Taiwan Straits Relations in the Twenty-First Century
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Panel 8:
Japan, Korea, and Taiwan
- Chair: Edward J. M. Rhoads (University of Texas at Austin/University of Pittsburgh)
"Japan and the United Nations: The Early Years"
- John M. Peek (Centenary College of Louisiana)
"From Cultural Diplomacy to Cultural Interchange: The Creation of the Japan Foundation"
- B. Winston Kahn (Arizona State University)
"Democratization in South Korea and Taiwan"
- Kwang H. Ro and Hans Stockton (Texas A&M University)
Panel 9:
Perspectives on Modern China: Part II
- Chair: Kenneth J. Hammond (New Mexico State University)
"The Modern Japan Discourse in Republican China: A Brief Survey"
- Christiane Reinhold (University of Texas at Austin)
"Who Were the ‘Twenty-Eight-and-a-Half Bolsheviks’ in the Chinese Communist Movement?"
- Joseph K. S. Yick (Southwest Texas State University)
"Approaches to the Problem of Crime: Is There a ‘Chinese Way’?"
- Harold M. Tanner (University of North Texas)
10:00 a.m.-Noon
Coffee and Tea Break
10:45 am.m-12:15 p.m.
Panel 10:
Economic Relations of China, Hong Kong, and United States
- Chair: Thomas D. Lutze (Illinois Wesleyan University)
"Economic Relationships of China, Hong Kong, and United States"
- Patricia L. Burr (University of the Incarnate Word)
- Richard M. Burr (Trinity University)
Panel 11:
Topics in Chinese Literature: Part II
- Chair: Wing Chung Ng (University of Texas at San Antonio)
"Nature Imagery in Du Fu’s Poetry"
- Vincent M. Yang (Baylor University)
"Risk-taking Behavior Among Rural Migrant Laborers in Contemporary China’s Far Northeast"
- Philip F. Williams (Arizona State University)
12:15 p.m.
SWCAS General Business Meeting