SWCAS 2004 Annual Meeting

33^rd Annual Meeting

SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies

Sam Houston State University

October 8-9, 2004

Co-Sponsored by

Department of History

Sam Houston State University

Convened at

Austin Hall

Sam Houston State University

Huntsville, TX 77341

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Preregistration Form

2004 Organizing Committee

Tracy Steele

Local Arrangements

Tracy Steele

Program Chair

Hans Stockton

Ex Officio

SWCAS Officers 2004 – 2005

Tracy Steele                                                      President

Hans Stockton                                                  Vice-President

Harold Tanner                                                   Secretary-Treasurer

Stephen Field                                                     Webmaster

Wing Chung Ng                                                 Council of Conferences Representative

Directors

Wing Chung Ng (2004)

Stephen Field (2004)

Johan Elverskog (2004)

Margit Nagy (2004)

Rina Verma Williams (2005)

Xiaobing Li (2006)

Sarah Schneewind (2006)

Friday, October 8

8-00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Registration & Complimentary Continental Breakfast
Austin Hall First Floor

WHEN REGISTERING ON SITE, PLEASE MAKE PAYMENT IN CHECK

9:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.

Paper Session 1: Revolts, Protests and War in China

Austin Hall Second Floor

Moderator: Tracy Steele, Sam Houston State University

Peter Worthing, Texas Christian University, “Family Feud and Factional Struggle: The May Fourth Movement in Guizhou”

Charles Musgrove, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, “Sun Yatsen Road: Capital Center National Artery”

Jaeyoon Kim, University of Oregon, “The Tiandihui Rebellion of the Pearl River Delta in Nineteenth-Century China”

10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Paper Session 2: Japan and its Colonial Empire

Austin Hall Second Floor

Moderator: Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas

Kazuo Yagami, University of Northern Colorado, “Kanoe Fumimaro: War and Aftermath”

Andrew Hall, University of Pittsburgh, “The World is Mightier than the Throne: Bucking Colonial Education Trends in Manchukuo”

12:15-1:150 p.m.

Lunch (on your own)
Lowman Student Center First Floor Food Court

1:15-2:30 p.m.

Paper session 3: Language & Literature

Austin Hall Second Floor

Moderator: Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University

Bruce Jones, Independent Scholar, “The Ancient Chinese Knotted Cord Writing System”

Paul Clark, West Texas A& M University, “Herbert Spencer, Ideology and the “Survival of the Fittest” Japanese Language Style in the Meiji Era”

2:45-4:00 p.m.

Paper Session 4: Language & Literature

Austin Hall Second Floor

Moderator: Harold Tanner, University of North Texas

Hyung-Jin Lee, Rice University, “Censorship of the Plays of Jo-Yeol Park and Gramsci’s Hegemony”

Daniel McKay, Purdue University, “Sex, Lies and Red Tape: The Representation of Asians in the Journal of Townsend Harris, American Consul to Japan”

4:15-5:30 p.m.

Paper Session 5: Intelligence Gathering Before and During World War II

Austin Hall Second Floor

Moderator: Tracy Steele, Sam Houston State University

Xiaobing Li, University of Central Oklahoma, “CCP-KMT Intelligence Cooperation and Conflicts in 1923 - 1935"

Ray Lynn Brown, University of Central Oklahoma, “China 1944: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Civilian and Governmental Military Intelligence Reports”

6:00 p.m. Dinner at the Homestead on 19th
1215 19th Street

Saturday, October 9

7:30-9:00 a.m.

Breakfast (7:30 a.m.) & TECO Videoconference (8:30 a.m.)
Bluebonnet Room, University Hotel &
Academic Building 1 (AB1) Room 213

Moderator: Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas
Speaker: H. H. Michael Hsiao, Executive Director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Academia Sinica

Topic: "“The Paradigm Shift: The Rise of Taiwan National Identity”

Full Breakfast and Videoconference Sponsored by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office-Houston. Breakfast served beginning at 7:30 a.m. and ending at 8:15 a.m. Videoconference to last from approximately 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.

9:15-10:30 a.m.

Paper Session 6: Vietnam & Myanmar
Austin Hall Second Floor

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

Long Le, California State University - Bakersfield, “The Politics of Vietnamese Post-War Generation: Obedient or Resistant?”

Char Thaike, Program Coordinator of Strengthening Refugee Families and Marriages Catholic Charities, "The Lost Generation: The Destruction of the Education System in the 1990's under military rule in Burma (Myanmar)"

9:15-10:30 a.m.

Paper Session 7: China and the Arts
Austin Hall First Floor

Moderator: Xiaobing Li, University of Central Oklahoma

Diana Tenckhoff, Southwestern University, Georgetown, “Cha Shih-piao: Anhui Master and Yangchou Professional Painter”

Wing Chung Ng, University of Texas, San Antonio, "Chinatown theater as transnational business during the exclusion period: recent findings from Vancouver"

10:45 a.m. - 12:00 Noon

Paper Session 8: Contemporary China & Gender Issues

Austin Hall Second Floor

Moderator: Tracy Steele, Sam Houston State University

Zhifang Song, University of Southern California, “No House to Divide: Marriage Transactions and Family Life in Contemporary Rural China”

Wei Shan, Texas A&M, "Agent or Protector?: State Mandates and Characteristics of Village Leadership in China"

Ling-Ling Shih, “Theories in Historical Anthropology and Chinese Gender Study”

12:00-1:30 p.m.

Luncheon and Keynote Address
Blubonnet Room, The University Hotel

Topic: "Being Healthy, Bearing Children, and the China-Southeast Asian Connection"

Barbara Watson Andaya
Professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii
Vice President, Association for Asian Studies

1:45-3:00 p.m.

Panel 1: Literarature

Austin Hall Second Floor

Moderator: Tracy Steele, Sam Houston State University
Scott Langton, Austin College, "History as it Isn't: Period Fiction and the Critical Debate of Historical Accuracy"

Michael Tangeman, Denison University, “Historicity in the Early Period Fiction of Matsumoto Seicho”

Stephen Filler, Oberlin College, “Period Fiction in Proletarian Literature”

1:45-3:00 p.m.

Paper Session 9: Japan

Austin Hall First Floor

Moderator: Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas

Joseph Schiller, University of St. Thomas, "Reevaluating the Evaluation of Japan’s Recession: Getting Back to the Point"

Tsveta Iankova, University of St. Thomas, "MITI and the Japanese Developmental State: Creeping Institutionalism in Reverse"

3:15-4:30 p.m.

Paper Session 10: Defining People and Places

Austin Hall Second Floor

Moderator: Sarah Schneewind, Southern Methodist University

Johan Everskog, Southern Methodist University, “Visualizing Qing Mongolia”

Kevin Sheives, Baylor University, “Domestic Sources of Chinese Foreign Policy towards Central Asia”

4:30-5:30

SWCAS General Business Meeting
Austin Hall First Floor

Revised 10/04/04

CONFERENCE PRE-REGISTRATION FORM

33rd Annual Meeting of Southwest Conference on Asian Studies (SWCAS)

Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas

October 8 and 9, 2004

The conference fee this year will be $35.00 and includes two meals. Registration on‑site will be $40.00.

Please register as soon as possible in order for proper arrangements to be made with catering.

You may include your membership dues for 2004-2005 in this payment

Name ____________________________

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2004-2005 membership fee:             $15.00 ______________

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Checks may be made payable to “Southwest Conference on Asian Studies” or simply to “SWCAS”

Please send your registration form to:

Dr. Tracy Steele, President

            Southwest Conference on Asian Studies

Department of History

Sam Houston State University

Huntsville, Texas 77341‑2239

Membership fees and Membership forms will be forwarded to Dr. Harold Tanner, Secretary-Treasurer of SWCAS.

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Southwest Conference on Asian Studies

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Harold M. Tanner, Secretary-Treasurer

Southwest Conference on Asian Studies

Department of History, P.O. Box 310650

University of North Texas

Denton TX 76203-0650

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2004 Organizing Committee
Tracy Steele	Local Arrangements
Tracy Steele	Program Chair
Hans Stockton	Ex Officio

8-00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Registration & Complimentary Continental Breakfast	Austin Hall First Floor
WHEN REGISTERING ON SITE, PLEASE MAKE PAYMENT IN CHECK

10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Paper Session 2: Japan and its Colonial Empire	Austin Hall Second Floor
Moderator: Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas Kazuo Yagami, University of Northern Colorado, “Kanoe Fumimaro: War and Aftermath” Andrew Hall, University of Pittsburgh, “The World is Mightier than the Throne: Bucking Colonial Education Trends in Manchukuo”

12:15-1:150 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)	Lowman Student Center First Floor Food Court

1:15-2:30 p.m.
Paper session 3: Language & Literature	Austin Hall Second Floor
Moderator: Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University Bruce Jones, Independent Scholar, “The Ancient Chinese Knotted Cord Writing System” Paul Clark, West Texas A& M University, “Herbert Spencer, Ideology and the “Survival of the Fittest” Japanese Language Style in the Meiji Era”

2:45-4:00 p.m.
Paper Session 4: Language & Literature	Austin Hall Second Floor
Moderator: Harold Tanner, University of North Texas Hyung-Jin Lee, Rice University, “Censorship of the Plays of Jo-Yeol Park and Gramsci’s Hegemony” Daniel McKay, Purdue University, “Sex, Lies and Red Tape: The Representation of Asians in the Journal of Townsend Harris, American Consul to Japan”

4:15-5:30 p.m.
Paper Session 5: Intelligence Gathering Before and During World War II	Austin Hall Second Floor
Moderator: Tracy Steele, Sam Houston State University Xiaobing Li, University of Central Oklahoma, “CCP-KMT Intelligence Cooperation and Conflicts in 1923 - 1935" Ray Lynn Brown, University of Central Oklahoma, “China 1944: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Civilian and Governmental Military Intelligence Reports”

9:15-10:30 a.m.
Paper Session 7: China and the Arts	Austin Hall First Floor
Moderator: Xiaobing Li, University of Central Oklahoma Diana Tenckhoff, Southwestern University, Georgetown, “Cha Shih-piao: Anhui Master and Yangchou Professional Painter” Wing Chung Ng, University of Texas, San Antonio, "Chinatown theater as transnational business during the exclusion period: recent findings from Vancouver"

10:45 a.m. - 12:00 Noon
Paper Session 8: Contemporary China & Gender Issues	Austin Hall Second Floor
Moderator: Tracy Steele, Sam Houston State University Zhifang Song, University of Southern California, “No House to Divide: Marriage Transactions and Family Life in Contemporary Rural China” Wei Shan, Texas A&M, "Agent or Protector?: State Mandates and Characteristics of Village Leadership in China" Ling-Ling Shih, “Theories in Historical Anthropology and Chinese Gender Study”

12:00-1:30 p.m.
Luncheon and Keynote Address	Blubonnet Room, The University Hotel
Topic: "Being Healthy, Bearing Children, and the China-Southeast Asian Connection" Barbara Watson Andaya Professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii Vice President, Association for Asian Studies

3:15-4:30 p.m.
Paper Session 10: Defining People and Places	Austin Hall Second Floor
Moderator: Sarah Schneewind, Southern Methodist University Johan Everskog, Southern Methodist University, “Visualizing Qing Mongolia” Kevin Sheives, Baylor University, “Domestic Sources of Chinese Foreign Policy towards Central Asia”

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