Preliminary Program (6/7/12): American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS)
Preliminary Program (6/7/12): American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS)
Georgia Institute of Technology, October 12-14, 2012
Schedule
Friday, October 12, 2012
6:00-8:00 p.m. Opening Reception
Saturday, October 13, 2012
7:00-8:00 a.m.
AACS Board Meeting
8:30-10:15 a.m. Session One
Panel 1,“Rising China on the World Stage and U.S.-China Relations,”
Organized by Vincent Wang, University of Richmond
Chair: Edward Friedman, University of Wisconsin
Papers:
John Garver, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Chinese perceptions on U.S. policy toward China,”
Vincent Wei-cheng Wang, University of Richmond, “American perspectives on the rise of China and the rise of India”
Howard Sanborn, Virginia Military Institute, “Competition or (de facto) cooperation? The interaction of the P.R.C. and U.S. interests on the African continent,”
Fei-ling Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, “China’s strategic views about the United States,”
Discussant: Edward Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Panel 2, “Inclusion of New Immigrants and Ideas in Taiwan,”
Panel organizer and chair: Linda H. Chiang, Azusa Pacific University
Papers:
Chiung-Fang Chang, Lamar University, “Intermarriage: Effects on personality, assimilation and fertility in Taiwan,”
Linda H. Chiang, Azusa Pacific University, “Teaching other people’s children: Helping foreign brides’ children to meet academic and social challenges in Taiwan,”
Dan Palm, Azusa Pacific University, “Chinese encounters with foreign ideas in the Self-Strengthening Movement (1861-1895),”
Discussant: Phylis Lan Lin, University of Indianapolis
Panel 3 “Topics in Chinese Fiction and Culture”
Panel organizer and chair: Yenna Wu, Univerity of California, Riverside
Papers:
Wen-ling Tung, University of California, Riverside, “Desire and delusion: Buddhist ideas and their influences on Chin P’ing Mei”
Yenna Wu, UCR, “Disembodied subversion in Li Ang’s Visible Ghosts”
Makiko Mori, Auburn University, “Conquering the ‘Savage’ within: The late Qing question of the people in Wu Jianren’s Utopian Narrative”
Discussant: TBA
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:30 Session Two
Panel 4, “Post-Mortem to Taiwan’s 2012 Presidential Election: Retrospective and Prospective Commentaries?”
Panel organizer and chair, Yu-long Ling, Franklin College
Papers:
Thomas Bellows, University of Texas at San Antonio, “Elections and economic interaction with Southeast Asia,”
James Hsiung, New York University, “The legal and political “magic” of Jiu’er Gongshi,”
Yu-Long Ling, Franklin College, “The Taiwan presidential election 2012, and its implications for China-United States-Taiwan relations,”
Discussant: Vincent Wang, University of Richmond
Panel 5, “Church-State Relations in Contemporary China”
Panel organizer and chair: Deborah Brown, Seton Hall University
Papers:
Deborah Brown, Seton Hall University, and TJ Cheng, College of William and Mary, “Church-state relations in contemporary China: The critical Shouwang case,”
Second paper, TBA
Third paper, TBA
Discussants: Bob Fu, China Aid
Chien-Pin Li, Kennesaw State University
Panel 6, “New Development Drivers in China’s Domestic Economy”
Panel organizer and chair, Penelope B. Prime, China Research Center and Georgia State University
Papers:
Susan Walcott, U. of North Carolina, Greensboro, “China’s shifting regional modernization: Producer services in metropolitan Xi’an”
Peter C. Y. Chow, City University of New York, “Financial development in China and its role in rebalancing the global economy,”
Zhenhui Xu and Jianyong Fan, Georgia State College/University and Fudan University, “Domestic demand and regional market segmentation in China”
Discussant: Penelope Prime, China Research Center and Georgia State University
Zhenhui Xu, Georgia State College and University
Xuepeng Liu, Kennesaw State University
Panel 7, “Teaching Chinese as a Foreign/Second Language (TCFL/TCSL)” (Part A)
Panel organizer and chair, Ya-chen Chen, Clark University
Presenters of cases:
Shelley Rigger, Davidson College
Edward Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ya-chen Chen, Clark University
12:30-1:30 Luncheon
Speaker: Mary Brown Bulloch, Emory University
1:45-3:30 p.m. Session Three
Panel 8, “Predicaments and strategic solutions of TCFL/TCSL in the U.S.” (Part B)
Panel organizer and chair, Ya-chen Chen, Clark University
Presenters of cases:
Stephen Uhalley, University of Hawaii
Chiung-fang Chang and Cheng-Hsien Lin, Lamar University
Discussant: Ya-chen Chen, Clark University
Panel 9, “China in Transition: Coping with Internal and External Challenges”
Panel organizer and chair: Chien-Pin Li, Kennesaw State University
Papers:
Baogang Guo, Dalton State College, “The new mandate of heaven: Governance and legitimacy in the post-18th CCP National Congress,”
Yawei Liu, the Carter Center, “Elections with Chinese characteristics: Voting and the future of political reform,”
James Schiffman, China Research Center, “Chinese soft power and the U.S. media response: Reflections on the CCTV and NBC presentations of the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic summer games,”
Discussant: Chien-Pin Li, Kennesaw State University
Panel 10, “China’s Advance to the Arctic”
Panel organizer and chair: Jerry McBeath, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Papers:
Shiloh Rainwater, Pepperdine University, “China’s arctic strategy: Implications for Sino-Arctic relations,”
Jerry McBeath, University of Alaska Fairbanks and Bo Wang, University of International Business & Economics, Beijing, “China’s interests and opportunities in the Arctic,”
Third paper, TBA
Discussant: June Teufel Dreyer, University of Miami
Panel 11, “Legacies of the Cold War: The Role of the History of the PRC’s Foreign Behavior in Contemporary Chinese Foreign Relations,”
Organizer and chair, Robert Sutter, George Washington University
Panelists:
John Garver, Georgia Institute of Technology, paper title TBA
Paul Tai, University of Detroit-Mercy, paper title TBA
Robert Sutter, George Washington University, paper title TBA
Discussant: James Hsiung, New York University
3:30-4:00 Coffee break
4:00-5:45 p.m. Session Four
Panel 12, “U.S.-Taiwan-China Relations”
Panel organizer and chair: Shelley Rigger, Davidson College
Papers:
Dean Chen, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Origins of the strategic ambiguity policy,”
Shelley Rigger, Davidson College, “Strategic implications of cross-strait economic engagement,”
Discussant: Cal Clark, Auburn University
Panel 13, “Elections in East Asia”
Organized by program committee
Chair: Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas
Papers:
Judy Chia-yin Wei, University of South Carolina, “The parties’ strategic entry in Hong Kong’s Legislative Council elections”
Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas, “Manufacturing majoritarianism through electoral reform in East Asia”
Discussant: Lowell Dittmer, University of California, Berkeley
Panel 14, “Chinese Language Learning and Processing: Technology and Instructional Design”(Part C)
Panel organizer and chair: Ming-Tsan Pierre Lu, University of Texas at Brownsville
Papers:
Ming-Tsan Pierre Lu, UT Brownsville, “Han character learning and teaching using Scratch: An empirical study”
Carol M. Lu, Columbia University, “Use of multimedia technology and embodied cognition for Chinese language learning”
Rong Cheng, Columbia University, “Chinese language processing: Text structure and reading effectiveness”
Robin Harvey, New York University, and Pauline Huang, public school educator, “Chinese language learning for young children: Music and embodied cognition”
Discussant: TBA
Panel 15, “Issues of Science and Technology in Greater China”
Organized by program committee
Chair: Stephen Uhalley, University of Hawaii
Papers:
Darryl E. Brock, Fordham University, “The people’s science: Chairman Mao’s mass line and the cultural revolution”
Chunjuan Nancy Wei, University of Bridgeport, “Barefoot doctors: The legacy of Chairman Mao’s healthcare”
Stephen Uhalley, University of Hawaii, “The problematic China-U.S. aerospace relationship”
Discussant: TBA
6:00-8:00 p.m. Banquet & Keynote Speech
Keynote speaker: Edward Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sunday, October 14, 2012
7:15-8:30 AJCS Board Breakfast Meeting
8:30-10:15 a.m. Session Five
Panel 16, “The Kuomintang as Taiwan’s Ruling Party in the 1950s and 60s”
Panel organizer and chair: Shelley Rigger, Davidson College
Papers:
Steven Phillips, Towson University, “KMT leadership politics in the 1950s,”
Megan Greene, University of Kansas, “Education policy in 1950s’ Taiwan,”
Discussant: Thomas Bellows, University of Texas-San Antonio
Panel 17, “Cross-Border Innovation”
Panel organizer and chair: Jenn hwan Wang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Papers:
Jenn hwan Wang, NCCU, and Sheng-wen Tseng, Yu Da University, Taiwan, “Managing cross-border innovation networks: Taiwanese IC design firms in China,”
Sheng-wen Tseng, Yu Da University, and Jenn hwan Wang, “Lighting rural China: Can small hydropower solve the rural poverty problem?”
Discussant: TBA
Panel 18, “Culture as the Driver of Social Change”
Organized by program committee
Chair: TBA
Papers:
Yue Hu, “Two-fold (cultural) dimensional model: A comparative analysis of Chinese and Russian development paths”
Lukas Danner, Florida International University, “Confucian influences on popular values in China and Taiwan”
Discussant: TBA
Panel 19, “Topics in China’s Foreign Relations”
Organized by program committee
Chair: Lowell Dittmer, University of California, Berkeley
Papers:
Shengping Guo, York University, Canada, “How China exercised its international power”
Ning Liao, Old Dominion University, “Strategic narratives and nationalist discourse: Enabling effects versus constraining effects on China’s foreign relations”
In Tae Yoo, University of South Carolina, “China as regional hegemon and regional integration in East Asia”
Discussant: Yu-long Ling, Franklin College
10:15-10:45 a.m., Coffee break
10:45-12:30 p.m. Session Six
Panel 20,“Comparative Topics in Political Economy”
Organized by program committee
Chair: Thomas Bellows, University of Texas-San Antonio
Papers:
Cal Clark, Auburn University, and Evelyn Clark, University of Missouri, Kansas City, “Taiwan and Chile: Implications for creating a dynamic political economy”
Ingrid Li, University of South Carolina, “Private information and the security of property rights”
Discussant: TBA
Panel 21, “Leadership and Policy in Greater China”
Organized by program committee
Papers:
Chair: John Hsieh, University of South Carolina
Lowell Dittmer, University of California, Berkeley, “The reform dial3ectic and CCP leadership transition”
Charles Chong-han Wu and John Fuh-sheng Hsieh, University of South Carolina, “To change or not to change, that is the question: Defensive commitment and the status-quo in cross-Strait relations”
Thi-Hien-Luong (Julia) Dinh, University of Sydney, “Chinese ideational leadership after 2012: Any chance(s) for Hu’s ‘harmonious world?’”
Discussant: Nancy Wei, University of Bridgeport
Panel 22, “Changing Central-Local Relations and Government Capability in China”
Organized by program committee
Chair: TBA
Papers:
Edward A. McCord, George Washington University, “Reevaluating the Nanjing decade: A provincial perspective”
Haiting Zhang, Southern Methodist University, “Unitary difficulties and federal inspirations”
Yi Wu, independent scholar, “Administrated agriculture in Fuyuan: Contestation, negotiation, and experiments among major rural alignments in the post-Mao era”
Discussant: TBA
Panel 23, “Topics in Chinese Drama and Film”
Organized by program committee
Chair: TBA
Papers:
Qi Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Independent Chinese cinema, the forsaken generation and a post-socialist historical consciousness”
Xing Fan, Bates College, “Beauty matters: Aesthetics in the Jingju model plays of China’s cultural revolution”
Jin Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Psychological subjectivity in the use of sound and language in Jiang Wen’s Devils on the Doorstep and Lu Chuan’s Missing Gun”
Discussant: TBA
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