29th Annual Meeting of the SWCAS

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29^th Annual Meeting of the

Southwest Conference on Asian Studies

October 13-14, 2000

Co-Sponsored by

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Center of Asian Studies
Asian American Studies Center

The University of Houston

Convened at

The University Center
The University of Houston
Houston, Texas
(For directions to the UC, click here)

2000 Organizing Committee

Hans Stockton (University of Houston)....................................................................Local Arrangements

John M. Peek (Lyon College, Batesville, AR)................................................................................Program

Friday, 13 October 2000

Noon – 1:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Meeting of Board of Directors

Bayou City (Room 202), University Conference Center

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Session 1

Panel 1 Democracy in Asia Bayou City (Room 202), University Conference Center

Chair and Discussant, Harold Tanner, University of North Texas

China’s New Democratic Revolution: Complexities of the Anti-Feudal Struggle, 1942-1952

Thomas Lutze, Illinois Wesleyan University

The Electoral Connection in Taiwan: Partisanship and National Subsidies, 1981-1996

Hans Stockton, University of Houston

Panel 2 Transnational Conflict

Spindletop (Room 242), University Conference Center

Chair and Discussant, John Peek, Lyon College

Comparison of the Legal and Cultural Aspects of Alternative Dispute Resolution in the U.S. and China

Susan Javis, The University of Texas-Pan American

Yun Chu, Guangzhou Foreign Language University,

Proving the Negative: The Bombing of China’s Belgrade Embassy

William Cunningham

The Nexus of Culture and Social Movements: India’s Sacrede Cow

Rennison Lalegee, University of Texas

3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Session 2

Panel 1 Gender Issues in Asia Bayou City (Room 202), University Conference Center

Chair and Discussant, Tracy Steele, Sam Houston State University

A Taiwan Women Novelist’s Nuanced Rewriting of Famous Classic Chinese Stories

Philip Williams, Arizona State University,

Performing the Masculine, Writing the Feminine: Qiu Jin’s Play on Gender and Genre

Eileen Cheng, University of California at Los Angles

Learning form the Meiji Women Leaders of Kumamoto: A Case Study from the the 1999 Kumamoto-San Antonio Women’s Leadership Conference

Margit Nagy, Our Lady of the Lake University

Panel 2 Cultural Issues in China

Spindletop (Room 242), University Conference Center

Chair and Discussant, Bates Hoffer, Trinity University

Trends in Scholarship Regarding Ethnic Minorities in China in the Post- Mao Period

Scott Cogburn, University of Texas

New Cultural Elements during the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Huiying Wei-Arthus, Weber State University,

South Asia in the System of Globalized Knowledge: Reinventing Ayurveda

Warren Fincher, University of Texas

5:00 – 5:30 Special Session

Bayou City (Room 202), University Conference Center

Overview of the Asian Outreach Program of the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Pamela Abee-Taulli

6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Banquet

Shamrock Ballroom of University Hilton

Keynote speaker: Peter Duus, President, Association for Asian Studies

Saturday, 14 October 2000

7:45 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Special Session with Complementary Breakfast

Shamrock Ballroom of University Hilton

Sponsored by Center for International Studies, University of St. Thomas

Ronald Hatchettt of the University of St Thomas will preside

Wen-chen Lin of National Sun Yat-sen University will speak on
Taipei-Beijing Relations after Taiwan’s Presidential Elections

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Session 3

Panel 1 Recent Developments
in Taiwan
Bayou City (Room 202), University Conference Center

Thomas Bellows, Chair

The Success of the a Grass-Roots Movement in Taiwan: An Analysis of the Presidential Election in March 2000, and Future Implications

Tsai Wen-hui, University of Indiana

A Comparison of Ideologies between the DPP and the U.S. Republican Party. Chen Shui Bian’s Campaign and Political Change

Theresa Chang, University of Houston

Taiwan’s Foreign Policy Since the March Elections

Thomas Bellows, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Cross-Strait Relations

Wen-chen Lin, National Sun Yat-sen University

Discussants: George Chen, Augusta College

Hans Stockton, University of Houston

10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Session 4

Panel 1 Religion and the State Bayou City (Room 202), University Conference Center

Chair and Discussant, John Peek, Lyon College

Three Religions Are One: A Study of the Xiyou ji.

Vincent Yang, Baylor University

Protecting the Qing, Protecting the Buddhist Ecumene

Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University

Noon – 1:00 p.m. Business Meeting and Luncheon, Open to all SWCAS members, With complimentary deli lunch provided by the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of Houston

Tejas Room 238, University Conference Center

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Session 5

Panel 1 Socio-Economic Development of China Since 1949 Bayou City (Room 202), University Conference Center

Chair and Discussant, Philip Williams, Arizona State University

The Construction and Development of, and Contradictions within the Party and State Socialism in Beijing, 1949-1965

Joseph Yick, Southwest Texas State University,

Building Spiritual Civilization: Modernization, Crime, and Criminal Justice at the Local Level in the PRC, 1949-1991

Harold Tanner, University of North Texas,.

China’s Economic Future and Remaking Public Philosophy

Jinghao Zhou, Baylor University

Panel 2 Business and Immigration Spindletop (Room 242), University Conference Center

Chair and Discussant, Huiying Wei-Arthus, Weber State University

The Asian Dragons in the Age of Globalization: A Perspective from Professional Immigration Flows

Tse-Mei Chen

Chinatown Theaters and Chinese Immigrant Culture in North America before 1945

Wing Ng, University of Texas at San Antonio

Limiting Autonomy to Motivate Economic Resources: Evidence from Singapore

Fiona Yap, University of Kansas

3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Session 6

Panel 1 Issues and Values Bayou City (Room 202), University Conference Center

Chair and Discussant, John Peek, Lyon College

Melons and Martyrs: Central –Local Relations in the Early Ming, 1368-1398

Sarah Schneewind, Southern Methodist University,

On the Search for Asian Values

June Rose Garrott, Baylor University

Yoshida’s Bunka Kokka: Building a Cultural Nation in the Postwar Era

Peter Siegenthaler, University of Texas

Directions to University Center from I-45 South (downtown)

exit Spur 5 South

turn right on University Dr.

cross Calhoun and enter campus at Entrance 1

the UH Visitor Information Booth is on your left

after you pass the Information Booth the UC will be on your right

Parking Information
To obtain a visitor parking permit, call Parking and Transportation Services in room 1
Ezekiel Cullen
713/743-1097

There is metered parking in front of the University Center and at the Hilton Hotel.

Visitors can also pay a fee and park under the Hilton Hotel or in lot 1B.