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31st Annual Meeting
SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies
Sam Houston State University
October 18-19, 2002

Co-Sponsored by

 Department of History
Sam Houston State University

Convened at

Austin Hall
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX 77341
 
 
 

2002 TEACHER WORKSHOP: WINDOWS ON ASIA  

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2002 Organizing Committee

Tracy Steele

Local Arrangements 

Tracy Steele

Program Chair

Hans Stockton

Ex Officio

 

 

SWCAS Officers 2002-2003

Tracy Steele

President

Hans Stockton

Vice-president

Harold Tanner

Secretary-Treasurer

Stephen Field

Webmaster
Wing Chung Ng

Council of Conferences Representative

Directors

Thomas Bellows

2002

Stephen Field

2002

Sarah Schneewind

2003

Randall Nadeau

2004

Margit Nagy

2004

Johan Elverskog

2004

 

Friday, October 18

 

8-30 a.m. -  9:00 a.m.
Registration 
Austin Hall First Floor

 

9:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
Paper Session 1: Economics
 Austin Hall Second Floor 

Moderator: Tracy Steele, Sam Houston State University

Jennifer Richmond, University of Texas at Austin, "Resettlement in China: Moving Towards Development"

Ernest Trahan, University of St. Thomas, "Economics in Recovery: A comparison of South Korea and Thailand since 1997"

Keith Hudson, University of St. Thomas, "Country Risk in Hong Kong: Joint Venturing with a Chinese Family Business Unit"

10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Paper Session 2: Education
 Austin Hall Second Floor 

Moderator: Hans Stockton, University of Houston

Sarah Schneewind, Southern Methodist University, "Believing in Early Ming Community Schools"

Bates Hoffer, Trinity University, "The Internationalization of Englishes in Asia"

Sharon Xiaohong Wen, University of Houston, "Strategies in Chinese Characters Recognition"

 

12:15-2:00 p.m.
Lunch (on your own) 
Lowman Student Center First Floor Food Court

1:00-2:00 p.m.
SWCAS Board of Directors Meeting 
Austin Hall First Floor
 
 

2:00-3:30 p.m.
Paper Session 3: Culture
Austin Hall Second Floor

Moderator: Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University

Wing Chung Ng, University of Texas at San Antonio, "Cantonese Opera and the Collapse of Theater Business in Guangzhou and Hong Kong 1928-1934

Manny Brand, Hong Kong Baptist University, "A Comparative Analysis of the Cinematic Portrayals of Music Teachers in American and Chinese Popular Films"

Mathew C. Strecher, Toyo University, "Hack Writers on Hacking Women: 'Poison Women' and Early Meiji Journalism"

Scott Langton, Austin College, "The Sword of the Spirit: Yoshikawa Eiji's MIYAMOTO MUSASHI and the Crisis of the Modern"

 

3:45-5:15 p.m.
Panel 1: Gender Studies
Austin Hall Second Floor

Moderator: Harold Tanner, University of North Texas

Yuki Terazawa, Hofstra University, "Medicalization, Discourse on the Female Body, and National Ideology: Health Reforms for Women in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)

Cong Xiaoping, University of Houston, "Making Teaching a Modern Profession--Teachers' Schools in Social transformation of early twentieth-century China."

Jin-kyung Lee, University of California, San Diego, "Construction of Romantic-Autonomous Subject: Romantic Love and Reform of Kinship and Status System in Yi Kwangsu's Mujong"

 

5:30-7:00 p.m.
Dinner
The Homestead
 

Sponsored by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston

 
 
 

7:30-8:15 p.m.
SWCAS - TECO Videoconference
Academic Building 1 (AB1) Room 213
Moderator: Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas

Speaker: Hsiao Bi-khim, Democratic Progressive Party Legislator in the Taiwan Legislative Yuan

Teleconference sponsored by SWCAS and the Information Division of TECO Houston

To read a copy of the talk delivered by the Honorable Hsiao Bi-khim, please click here.

(Those interested in quoting Ms. Hsiao's talk are asked to please contact her for permission at her online office.)
 

 

 
Saturday, October 19
 

 

9:00-10:15 a.m.
Panel 2: Chinese Prison Camps 
Austin Hall Second Floor

Moderator:  Joseph K.S. Yick, Southwest Texas State University

Yenna Wu, University of California, Riverside, "The Mao Era Prison Camp in the Novel Red in Tooth and Claw"

Philip Williams, Arizona State University, "The Deng-Jiang Era Prison Camp in Historical Perspective"

 

 

9:00-10:15 a.m.
Paper Session 5: Religion 
Austin Hall First Floor
Moderator: Hans Stockton

Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University, "An Archaeology of Buddhist Big Dipper Worship"

Kennedy Rehbein, University of St. Thomas, "Spirituality in Protest Movements: A comparative Analysis of the Boxer Rebellion and Native American Ghost Dances and Implications for Falun Dafa"

Elvira Sultanova, Moscow State University (visiting professor at Sam Houston State University), "Problems of Consciousness in Ancient Buddhist Philosophy"

 

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 Noon
Paper Session 6: Transitions in Asia
Austin Hall Second Floor
Moderator: Margit Nagy, Our Lady of the Lake

Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas, "Politics of Cross Strait Relations"

Sujian Guo, San Francisco State University, "The Pattern of Asian Transitions from Communism"

Coung Nguyen, University of St. Thomas, "Democratic Prospects in Vietnam"

 

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

Lowman Student Center Room 320
"Maps in the Mind and the Mobility of Asia."
 
David Ludden
Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
President, Association for Asian Studies

 

 

1:45-3:00 p.m.
Panel 3: Religion in China
Austin Hall Downstairs
Moderator: Tracy Steele, Sam Houston State University

Ronnie L. Littlejohn, Belmont University, "Notes on the Transmission of a Daoist Moral Culture"

Erin M. Cline, Baylor University, "De in Practice"

 

 
Paper Session 7: Asian Issues
Austin Hall Second Floor
Moderator: Frank Fair, Sam Houston State University

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

Toshiuki Yuasa, University of Houston, "Japanese Politics Under the Koizumi Government"

Margit Nagy, Our Lady of the Lake, "Learning, Shaping and Breaking the Law: Memorable Women Activists of Prewar Japan"
 

3:15-4:30 p.m.
Paper Session 8: Asian Conflicts & Crises
Austin Hall Second Floor

Moderator: Wing Chung Ng, University of Texas at San Antonio

Kathleen Barr, Blinn College, "Okinawa: Unequal Allies Begin Negotiations to End the American Occupation"

Chiho Sawada, University of Texas at Austin, "Heavy Brains, Hairy Bodies, and Higher Civilization: Revising a Forgotten Korean Critique of Japanese Colonialism"

Joseph Yick, Southwest Texas State University, "Chinese Nationalist-Communist Struggle in Hong Kong: The 'Kashmir Princess' Incident of 1955"

 

4:30-5:30
SWCAS General Business Meeting 
Austin Hall First Floor

 

 

 
 
The South West Conference on Asian Studies,
Association For Asian Studies,
Sam Houston State University Department of History,
Asia Society Texas,
and the World Affairs Council
Present
Windows on Asia:
 A Workshop for K-12 Teachers
on Infusing Asia into Class Curriculum
Saturday, October 19th 2002
8:30 AM to 5:30 PM
At the Business Auditorium
First Floor of the Smith-Hutson Building
Sam Houston State University
1821 Avenue I, Huntsville, TX 77341

 

Asia is increasingly in the spotlight of international affairs and demanding ever more attention by the United States.  As such, it is crucial for educators and students to remain current on the dynamic forces for opportunity and crisis emanating from the region.  "Windows on Asia" will provide content and curriculum for educators to introduce into their lessons and discussions pertaining to Asian history, culture, politics and current events.  This workshop offers K-12 teachers lesson plans, readings, and presentations on China, Vietnam, and other Asian topics.

 
Workshop participants will receive 7 hours of Creativity and Instruction Strategies toward the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented (TAGT) Awareness Certificate. Individuals working toward their 45-hour Awareness Certificate should keep track of all their training documentation until the 45 hours are accumulated and then submit the paperwork to the TAGT office for verification. Certificates will be distributed at the workshop.

 

Proposed Workshop Schedule for Saturday, October 19, Theater, Smith-Hutson Building:

8:30-9:00 Registration (coffee, doughnuts, and kolaches)

9:00-9:15 Welcome and Introductions

9:15-10:30 "Hollywood Film in China and the Future of the Chinese Film Industry," Dr. Stan Rosen, Professor of Political Science, University of Southern California.  Assigned reading available at: http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/asianfilm/china/

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:00  Carolyn Henderson, director of the China Exchange Initiative, a Freeman Foundation funded program to build partnerships between schools in the United States and China; Advisor, Asia in the Schools Commission; sponsored by the Asia Society Texas Center

12:00-1:30 Lunch and keynote speech, "Maps in the Mind and the Mobility of Asia," Dr. David Ludden, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania; President, Association for Asian Studies (Lowman Student Center Room 320).  Lunch will be Indian cuisine with vegetarian and non-vegetarian choices.

1:45-3:00 “Ways of World-Making: Some Approaches to Teaching about the Asian 'Other,'" Dr. Richard Smith, George and Nancy Rupp Professor Humanities, Professor of History, Rice University

3:00-3:15 Break (coffee and cookies)

3:15-4:30 “Parochial Vision:  The United States and Vietnam,” Dr. James Olson, Distinguished Professor of History, Sam Houston State University

4:30-5:15 Teachers Panel
Anita Pilling, The John Cooper School
Craig Bunch, Coldspring-Oakhurst High School
"Researching Art and Antiques from Chinese and Japanese Markets"

5:15 - 5:30 Evaluations and distribution of Certificates

Seating for the luncheon is guaranteed only upon confirmed registration and payment of $15.00.

 

 
 
Please send the form below with a check or money order for $15.00 to Dr. Tracy Steele, Department of History, Sam Houston State University, P.O. Box 2239, Huntsville, TX 77341.  Checks should be made out to SWCAS (Southwest Conference on Asian Studies).

 
Name:_____________________________________________________

SchoolAffiliation:_____________________________________________

Address:___________________________________________________

City, State, and Zip:__________________________________________

Daytime Phone: __________________   Fax: _____________________

E-Mail: __________________________________________________

For additional information or questions, please call Dr. Tracy Steele at (936)294-1480, FAX (936)294-3938, or e-mail: his_tls@shsu.edu

 

 
Click here for directions to the Smith-Hutson Building and the Lowman Student Center

Click here for directions to SHSU.

Click here for suggested readings.  Although readings and other literature will be distributed at the workshop, in some cases, the teachers have been asked to read certain articles in advance in order to enhance their conference experience. Presenters will be paired with teachers who will provide lesson plans for each topic. The lesson plans will be distributed at the workshop.

*Contact Marco Campos at the Houston World Affairs Council for information on free transportation from Houston to the workshop.   Space is limited to the first thirty teachers.   Please contact Marco Campos for details at (713)522-7822 or e-mail: edu@hwac.net