30th Annual Meeting
SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies
Trinity University
October 12-13, 2001

Co-Sponsored by

 International Programs Office
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Trinity University

Convened at

Trinity University William Knox Holt Center
106 Oakmont Court
San Antonio, TX 78212
(210) 999-7601
 
Click here for directions to the Holt Center.
Click here to see photos of attendees.
 

2001 Organizing Committee
Donald Clark

Local Arrangements 
Bates Hoffer

Program Chair
Stephen Field

Ex Officio

 

SWCAS Officers 2001-2002
Wing Chung Ng

President
Tracy Steele

Vice-president
Harold Tanner

Secretary-Treasurer

Directors
Sarah Schneewind  2003
Thomas Bellows 2002
Stephen Field  2002
Hans Stockton  2003
Philip Williams  2001
Huiying Wei-Arthus  2001
John Peek 2001

 

Friday, October 12

 

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Registration  

Holt Center Foyer

10:00 a.m.
Van leaves for Trinity University     

DoubleTree Hotel

10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panel 1: "Asia since 1945" (CANCELLED)

   Room 201
 

Moderator: Tracy Steele, Sam Houston State University  

Kathleen Barr, Sam Houston State University, "Okinawa: unequal Allies begin negotiations to end the American occupation"  

Frank Fair, Sam Houston State University, "Beyond Karma Cola: Changes in presenting the philosophy after demographic shifts and a sea-change in philosophical ideology" 

Tracy Steele, Sam Houston State University, "The impact of the Cultural Revolution on US-China policy"

Panel 2: "The Development of Mongolia's Foreign Relations in the 1990s"      

Room 300

 

Moderator: Charles Krusekopf, Austin College

Christopher Griffin, Austin College, "Mongolia and Japan in the Post-Cold War Era"

Michael Dorsey, Austin College, "Economic Reform and the Mongolian Elections of 2000"

Georgina Michel, Austin College, "Transition to Independence or Further Dependence: The Role of International Organizations in Mongolia’s Economic Development"

Amanda Darby, Austin College, "The Importance of the Mongolian-Russian Relationship for Mongolia's National Security and Development" 

Caleb Dupuis, Austin College, "Preserving Independence: Mongolia’s National Security Policies in the 1990s"

12:30-2:00 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)        

Coates Center

1:00-2:00 p.m.
SWCAS Board of Directors Meeting  

Room 300
 

2:00-3:45 p.m.
Paper Session 1: History   

Room 300
 

Moderator:  Hans Stockton, University of Houston

Yick, Joseph, Southwest Texas State University, "The Historical Role of the CCP's Beijing Municipal Committee in the Cultural Revolution, November 1965-May 1966"

Edward Rhoads, University of Texas at Austin, "Zeng Laishun (Chan Laisun) and the Chinese Educational Mission"

Harold Tanner, University of North Texas, "Guerilla, Mobile, and Defensive Base Warfare in Communist Military Operations in Manchuria, 1945-1947" 
Paper Session 2: Literature     

Room 201

 

Moderator:  Bates Hoffer, Trinity University

Jung-ho Yoon, University of Texas at Austin, "Disability as a Metaphor of Social Transformation in Korean Literature"

Patricia Schiaffini, University of Pennsylvania, "Offsprings of Paradox: Sinophone Writers in Tibet"  

Vincent Yang, Baylor University " A Study of Su Shi's Lyrics" 

Bates Hoffer, Trinity University,  "Shusaku Endo and Western Literature"

 

3:45-5:30 p.m.

 
Panel 3: "Current Developments in the Republic of China on Taiwan"

Room 300

 

Moderator and discussant: George P. Chen, Augusta College

Thomas J. Bellows, The University of Texas at San Antonio, "The Legislative Yuan in the Political Process" 

Peter Chow, City College, City University of New York,  "Economic Integration and Political Sovereignty: Problems and Prospects for an Integrated Chinese Economic Area"

Paper Session 3: Economics  

Room 201

 

Moderator:  Stephen Field, Trinity University  

Susan Jarvis, University of Texas, Pan American, "An Overview of Consumer Protection in the PRC"   

Jennifer Richmond, University of Texas at Austin, "The US  Policy of Economic Sanctions: the Case of Myanmar"

Chen, Jianyue, PrairieView A&M University, "Chen Gongbo and Chinese Industrialization during the early 1930s"

5:30-7:00 p.m.

 
Texas Barbecue  

Holt Center Lawn

Sponsored by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston
                                                                                                          

7:30-8:15 p.m.

 
SWCAS--R.O.C. Mainland Affairs Council Videoconference

Cowles Life Sciences Room 349

 

Thomas J. Bellows, University of Texas at San Antonio

Hsiu-Chuang Deppman, Trinity University

Paul Fox, University of Texas at San Antonio
   

8:30 p.m.
Van to DoubleTree Hotel   

Holt Center

 
 
Saturday, October 13
 
 

8:30 a.m.
Van to Trinity University

DoubleTree Hotel

 
 

9:00-10:30 a.m.
Paper Session 4: Perspectives on China

Room 201

 

Moderator: Stephen Field, Trinity University

Wing Chung Ng, University of Texas at San Antonio, "Urbanization of the Cantonese Opera in the Early 20th Century: A Study of Theater Business and its Modern Crisis"

Phil Williams, Arizona State University, "Pragmatic dissidence in China & Tibet: Wei Jingsheng and Tashi Tsering" 

Yenna Wu, University of California-Riverside, "The 'Communication Gap' between Western feminists and Chinese women intellectuals and its implications for feminist readings of Chinese literature"
 
Panel 4: "Travel and its representation from pre-modern to modern Japan" 

Room 300

 

Moderator:  Jilly Traganou, University of Texas at Austin

Michael Brownstein, Notre Dame University, "Day-Trippers: the Osaka Kannon pilgrimage and Chikamatsu's 'Love Suicides at Sonezaki'"   

D. Max Moerman, Barnard College, Columbia University, "Passages to India: the Buddhist map in the Japanese cartographic imagination"   

Jilly Traganou, University of Texas at Austin, "The Tokaido road in guidebooks of the Edo and the Meiji eras"
 

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 Noon
Paper Session 5: Political Science 

Room 201

 

Moderator:  Kenneth Hammond, New Mexico State University

Seungjoo Yoon, Carleton College, "Changing Modes of Statecraft (jingshi) Discourse: The Writings of Zhang Zhidong's Document Commissioners in Modern China, 1880-1900"

M. Fredrick Rollin, University of Texas at San Antonio, "The Divine Invasion: Manifest Destiny and the Perry Expedition to Japan, 1853-1854"

J.S. Nina Han, University of Washington, " New Liberalism in the Making: Reconsidering Yoshino Sakuzo"
 
Paper Session 6:  Religion 

Room 300

 

Moderator: Randall Nadeau, Trinity University

Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University,  "Re-envisioning a Tradition: Buddhism in Contemporary Mongolia" 

Kenneth Hammond, New Mexico State University, "Confucianism in Contemporary Chinese Popular & Local Culture"

Jung-yon Hwang, The Academy of Korean Studies, Korea, "Searching for Identity: Women Painters of Traditional Korea under the Neo-Confucian Society"
 

12:00-1:30 p.m.
Luncheon and Keynote Address

Holt Center Dining Room 

 

“International Business-An SBC Perspective”

Richard D. McCormick, Executive Director, SBC International Operations
 

1:45-3:00 p.m.
Paper Session 7: Minority Relations

Room 201

 

Moderator:  Phil Williams, Arizona State Univeristy

Sr. Margit Nagy, Our Lady of the Lake University,  "Asian Reaction to the Cable Act of 1922"

Shijie Guan, "Chinese ethnic minorities"

Pozza, Amy, University of Texas at San Antonio, "Minority Nationalities in the Early PRC: A Case Study of Xinjiang"

 
 
 
Paper Session 8:  Politics and Education

Room 300

 

Moderator: Donald Clark, Trinity University

Tracy Steele, Sam Houston State University, "The impact of the Cultural Revolution on US-China policy"  

Feng-Hsiung (Danny) Hou, University of the Incarnate Word, "The Impact of Computer Mediated Communication Technology on Foreign Student Studying in PhD. Program"

3:00-4:00
SWCAS General Business Meeting  

Room 300

3:15 p.m.
Van to DoubleTree Hotel

Holt Center