Joint Meeting of the

Southwest Conference on Asian Studies

and the

Western Conference of

the Association for Asian studies

 

Program Committee

Kenneth J. Hammond, New Mexico State University, Chair

John Peterson, University of Texas at El Paso, Local Arrangements

Marilyn Levine, Lewis-Clark State College

Thomas J. Bellows, University of Texas at San Antonio ex officio

Dean Collinwood, Weber State University ex officio

 

This conference has been made possible by the generous financial support of

New Mexico State University College of Arts & Sciences Research Center

New Mexico State University Department of History

The Association for Asian Studies

Asian Studies Development Committee, University of Texas-El Paso

New Mexico State University Center for International Programs

 

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Southwest Conference on Asian Studies

 

Officers 1997-98

President – Thomas J. Bellows, University of Texas at San Antonio

Vice President – Joseph K.S. Yick, Southwest Texas State University

Secretary-Treasurer – John M. Peek, Centenary College of Louisiana

Board of Directors

Kenneth J. Hammond, New Mexico State University (1995-98)

L. Shelton Woods, Boise State University (1995-98)

Kwang H. Ro, Texas A&M University (1996-99)

Ben J. Wallace, Southern Methodist University (1996-99)

Stephen L. Field, Trinity University (1997-2000)

Wing Chung Ng, University of Texas at San Antonio (1997-2000)

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Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies

 

Executive Officers 1997-98

President – Dean Collinwood, Utah Asian Studies Consortium, Weber State University

Executive Secretary – Marilyn Levine, Lewis-Clark State College

Treasurer – Beth Harrison, University of Arizona

Board of Directors

Dean Collinwood, Weber State University (1996-98)

L. Shelton Woods, Boise State University (1996-98)

Stephen Miller, University of Colorado (1997-99)

Yenna Wu, University of California – Riverside (1997-99)

Kenneth J. Hammond, New Mexico State University (1998-2000)

Marcia Yonemoto, University of Colorado (1998-2000)

Michele Thompson, Graduate Student Representative, University of Washington (1998)

WCAAS/SWCAS Joint Meeting

El Paso, Texas

October 16 & 17 1998

Schedule of Events

[Please note that unless otherwise indicated, the audience will serve as discussants]

 

Friday 16 October 1998

8:00-9:45 am Session I

Panel #1 Orchid Room

Chair: Anand A. Yang, University of Utah

"B.R. Ambedkar and Social Reform" Asha Krishnan, University of

Mumbai

"It’s a Bipolar World After All: New Delhi versus the Major Powers"

Louis D. Hayes and William G. Vanderbok, University of Montana

"India-Korea Relations" Rupa Bagga, New Mexico State University

 

Panel #2 AV Theater

 

China: Crime & Social Unrest in the 20th Century

Chair: Carl Jackson, University of Texas at El Paso

 

"A Comparison and Contrast of the Unrest in Shanghai in 1925 and 1927"

Carole Schroeder, Boise State University

"The Chiang Kai-shek Regime and State Organized Crime in China,

1927-75" Huang Hualun, University of Kansas

Movement" Kelly Ann Long, Colorado State University

"Crime, Punishment and Modernization in China" Harold Tanner,

University of North Texas

Panel #3 Acacia/Poplar Room

 

Roundtable Discussion: Learning About Asia: Business, Science and

Engineering Internship Opportunities

Kate Willink, Wallace Lopez, Ann Lynn Roberts, New Mexico US- Japan

Center and Asian Technology Information Program (ATIP)

9:45-10:00 am Break

10:00-11:45 am Session II

Chinese Literary Culture

Chair: Philip Williams, Arizona State University

"Tao Yuanming and Su Dongpo: A Literary Affinity" Vincent M. Yang, Baylor University

 

"Family, Community and Talented Women: Hsu Ts’an in Soochow in the Seventeenth Century" Chia-lin Pao Tao, University of Arizona

"Reading Jin Ping Mei as Satire" Yenna Wu, University of California - Riverside

Panel #5 AV Theater

Post-War Japan: Political Culture in a Global Environment

Chair: Dean Collinwood, Weber State University

"Changing Attitudes Towards Cultural Interchange in Postwar Japan" B. Winston Kahn, Arizona State University

"Japan and the Global Environment" John Peek, Centenary College

"The Symbolism of the Middle Classes in Japan and Taiwan" Seio Nakajima, University of California-Berkeley

 

Panel #6 Acacia/Poplar Room

Roundtable Discussion: Academic Employment & the Academic Market

(Transportation to UTEP by bus provided)

Walking tour of the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso

Reception: Geology Building Garden

Dinner: Geology Reading Room

Speaker: Thomas H. Schmid, UTEP Asian Studies Development Committee, "An Introduction to the Bhutanese architecture of the UTEP Campus"

 

 

Magic Carpet to the Orient, a K-12 Outreach Exhibit from the Las Cruces, New Mexico Public Schools, will be on display in the registration area during the conference. This exhibit is funded in part by an outreach grant from the Association for Asian Studies.

Saturday 17 October 1998

Presented Under the Joint Auspices of the Office of International Programs,

University of Texas at San Antonio, and the Taiwan Economic & Cultural

Representative Office, Houston

Introduction: Thomas J. Bellows, Interim Director, Office of International Programs, UTSA

Speaker: Dr. Ming Lee, National Chengchi University, Taipei

Topic: "Taiwan's Current Eco-Political Situation and It's Relations with Mainland China"

12:00-1:30 pm Annual Luncheon Rosewood-Oakwood Rooms

Welcome and Introductions: Kenneth J. Hammond, New Mexico

State University, Program Chair

Comments: Thomas J. Bellows, University of Texas at San Antonio,

President, Southwest Association for Asian Studies

Comments: Dean Collinwood, Weber State University, President,

Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies

Special Honoree: Spencer Palmer

Keynote Speaker, Susan Mann, President Elect, Association for Asian Studies

Topic: Beyond Patriarchy

Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies: AV Theater

Southwest Conference on Asian Studies: Acacia/Poplar Room

Panel #19 Workshop on Japanese Electronic Library Resources

Dorothy D. Gregor, National Coordinating Committee on Japanese Library Resources

NOTE: Participation is limited to 22 persons.

 

Panel #20 Acacia/Poplar Room

Pre-War Japanese Social Dislocations: Ideology, Religion and

Aesthetics

Chair: John Peek, Centenary College

"Nijo Yoshimoto's Mochi Sake Utaawase (Rice Cake and Rice Wine

Waka Match): Buddhist Devotion or Parodic Amusement?" Rukuo

Tanaka, University of Hawaii at Manoa

"Kita Ikki: A Socialist Critique of the Ideology of State Shinto in the

Late Meiji Period" Walter A. Skya, Loyola Marymount University

 

"Reputation and Representation in Japanese Prints: The Public Identity

of Kitagawa Utamaro" Julie Nelson Davis, University of Washington

 

"Pre-War Japanese Aesethetics and Motifs of Displacement in Mishima's Fiction"

C. Michael Rich, Northern Arizona University

"Recovering Authority/Recovering the Self: Watsuji Tetsuro's Role in

the Shizenshugi-Shirakaba-ha Debates" Rosemary Morrison,

Willamette University

Panel #21 AV Theater

Classical and Contemporary Perspectives on Qi

Chair: Stephen Field, Trinity University

"Listen With the Qi: On Zhuangzi and Spontaneity" Ewing Chinn,

Trinity University

"Qi and Early Fengshui" Stephen Field, Trinity University

"Is There Anything Other Than Qi?: Ontological Issues in Classical

Chinese Thought" David Hall, University of Texas at El Paso

"Experiencing Qi" Adam Frank, University of Texas at Austin

Discussant: David Karnos, Montana State University-Billings

Panel #22 Rosewood Room

Roundtable Discussion: China and Mexico: Comparative Development Perspectives

Tim Cheek, The Colorado College

Participants: Tim Cheek, The Colorado College

Juan D. Lindau, The Colorado College

Kenneth J. Hammond, New Mexico State University

Kathy Staudt, University of Texas at El Paso

Nancy Baker, New Mexico State University