35th Annual Meeting
Southwest Conference on Asian Studies
Southern Methodist University
September 29-30, 2006
Convened at
Hughes-Trigg Student Center at SMU
Dallas, TX 75275
Southwest Conference on Asian Studies
35th Annual Meeting
2006 Organizing Committee
Johan Elverskog Program Chair
Peggy Varghese Local Arrangements
SWCAS Officers 2005 – 2006
Johan Elverskog President
Xiaobing Li Vice-President
Harold Tanner Secretary-Treasurer
Stephen Field Webmaster
Tracy Steele Council of Conferences Representative
Directors
Wing Chung Ng
Paul Clark
Margherita Zanasi
Hans Stockton
Carrie Liu Currier
Meeting Room and Functions will be held on the Campus of Southern Methodist University
Registration Foyer outside of Atrium A, Hughes Trigg Student Center
All panels on Friday Atrium A, Hughes Trigg Student Center
All panels on Saturday Heroy Hall 153
Friday Lunch (registration required) Atrium A, Hughes Trigg Student Center
Friday Dinner Trinity Hall, Mockingbird Station
SWCAS Breakfast Le Madeleine, Mockingbird Lane
Saturday Lunch Heroy Hall 153
Conference Registration
Participants are encouraged to pre-register for the 35th annual meeting.
Pre-registration is $35.00. Registration on-site is $40.00.
SWCAS membership is required for those presenting papers. This is a very friendly $15.00.
Checks should be made out to: Southwest Conference on Asian Studies and mailed with the Conference Pre-registration Form and Membership Form (available at http://www.trinity.edu/org/swcas/Winter05.html) to:
Dr. Harold M. Tanner
Department of History
University of North Texas
P.O. Box 310650
Denton TX 76203-0650
Conference Hotel
Hotel reservations can be made at the Radisson Hotel Central Dallas (6060 North Central Expressway). While this hotel is not on campus, it is walking distance from SMU.
The special conference rate is $89.00, which is subject to state and local taxes currently assessed at 15%.
Contact the hotel at (214)-750-6060 or call toll (800)-333-3333 and ask for the Radisson Hotel Central Dallas. It will be necessary for each individual to identify themselves as being part of the SWCAS conference in order to obtain this special rate. Reservations cancelled within 48 hours of arrival are non-refundable.
Individuals will be responsible for the guarantee of their reservation with either an advance deposit or major credit card. Individuals will be responsible for their own room, tax and incidental charges.
NOTE: The special conference rate will only be available if you book before September 12th. After that date any unused portion of the Group block will be released for general sale to the public at full fare.
Panel and Events Schedule
DAY ONE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
All panels will be held in Atrium A, 2nd floor of Hughes-Trigg Student Center
PANEL ONE: 8:30-10:15
Asian Politics and Language
Carrie Liu Currier, Texas Christian University, “Investing in the Future: the One Child Policy and Reform”
Kiril Tochkov, Texas Christian University, “Economic Reforms, Decentralization, and Regional Inequality in China since 1978”
Priya Ananth, Ohio State University, “Role of ‘Performance-based’ Input in a Foreign Language Environment”
Chair: Taka Sakamoto, Southern Methodist University
PANEL TWO: 10:30-12:30
Asian Literature and Film
Yoshiko Anegawa, Pennsylvania State University, “Private Memory and Public History in Murakami Haruki’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”
Ian Woolford, University of Texas at Austin, “Renu Village: Writing an Ethnography of North Indian Fiction”
Xin Wang, Baylor University, “From Yellow Earth to Hollywood: Zhang Yimou’s Filmmaking Then and Now”
Chunhui Peng, Southern Methodist University, “Myth and Imagined Community: Remembering the Cultural Revolution”
Chair: Jian Li, Southern Methodist University
LUNCH: 12:30-1:30 Helping Teachers to Incorporate Asia into the Secondary School Curriculum. Round-table discussion sponsored by the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia (NCTA). The National Consortium sponsors teacher workshops run out of Rice University, Trinity University, and the University of North Texas. The purpose of this round-table discussion is to acquaint SWCAS members with the activities of the National Consortium and explore ways in which SWCAS members can participate in the Consortium's work in Texas.
A box lunch will be provided for all members who pre-register. Please pre-register with Harold Tanner, htanner@unt.edu, by close of business, September 21, 2006.
PANEL THREE: 2:00-3:45
Asian History and Politics
Jian Li, Southern Methodist University, “Changing Perceptions of Religion in China”
Jonathan Ludwig, Rice University, “China, the Shanghai Cooperative Organization, and the Future of Central Asia”
Sr. Margit Nagy, Our Lady of the Lake University, “Modern Japanese History through the Toyota Lens”
Chair: Lisa Ahnert, Southern Methodist University
4:15-5:30: SWCAS Board Meeting
DINNER: 6:30-8:30 Trinity Hall Restaurant (Walking distance from hotel)
DAY TWO: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
All panels will be held in Heroy Hall, 153.
BREAKFAST: 8-10 Le Madeleine at Mockingbird Lane, walking distance from hotel.
(Breakfast is made available through the gracious support of Bruce Jones.)
PANEL FOUR: 10:15-12:15
Asian Migrations and Transformations
Jason Hunter, Oklahoma State University, “Taiwanese Aboriginals in the Face of a Social Mobility Crisis”
Whitney Grey, Texas Christian University, “Modern Hukou and Beijing’s Migrant Community”
Nancy Stalker, University of Texas at Austin, “Protesting Exclusion: Japan’s Popular Response to the 1924 US Immigration Law”
Peggy Varghese, Southern Methodist University, “HIV/AIDS, Stigma and the ‘wretched new class of Untouchables’ in India”
Chair: Monica Cable, Southern Methodist University
LUNCH: 12:15-1:45 Heroy Hall 153, food will be provided by Café Express
Guest Speaker: Anand Yang, Vice-President of AAS
PANEL FIVE: 1:45-3:30
Asian History
Harold Tanner, University of North Texas, “Railways in Communist Military Planning and Operations in Manchuria, 1945-1948: Some Preliminary Observations”
Margherita Zanasi, Louisiana State University, “Economic Nationalism and the Construction of Political Legitimacy in Twentieth-Century China”
Dusty Clark, West Texas A&M University, “Enlightened Civilization: The Iwakura Mission and Japanese Perceptions of American Government”
Chair: Steven Lindquist, Southern Methodist University
PANEL SIX: 3:45-5:45
Asian Religion and Culture
Bruce Jones, Independent Scholar, “Early Chinese and Inca Writing Systems”
Daniel Coyle, Our Lady of the Lake University, “Efficacy in the Guiguzi”
Adam Frank, University of Central Arkansas, “Ghosts and Contemporary Urban Daoism”
Steven Lindquist, Southern Methodist University, “Gender at Janaka's Court: Women in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Reconsidered”
Chair: Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University
