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The 17th Annual North American Taiwan Studies Conference
Date: June 17-18 (Fri-Sat), 2011
Conference Venue: Frick Fine Art Building, University of Pittsburgh, USA

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June 17, Friday

8:00-9:00

Check-in
Front Desk

9:00-10:30

Panel 1
Theme II+IV
(Individual Paper)
Room: FA 202

Moderator: Mr. Weiting Guo (Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia)

Panel Title
Taiwan with Multiple Faces: Imaginations, Narratives, and Identity Construction in a Trans-national Context

Ms. Yen Hoang Nguyen (Department of Chinese Literature, National Cheng Kung University)

On unpublished document about Taiwan: Taiwan image in Notebook of Vietnamese Scholar in the 19th century

Ms. Nga-i Tenn (Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Language, Culture and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University)

A Glocalized National Narrative---A Siraya-based discourse in the Taiwanese Puppet Show, Blitzkrieg Siraya

Mr. Karl Wu (Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia)

The Elastic and the Ambiguous: border control and identity politics in the case of Taiwanese political refugees in Canada

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-12:30

Panel 2
Special Workshop
(Panel Presentation)
Room: FA 202

Moderator: Ms. Chiting Peng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Panel Title
The History of colonial Taiwan under Japanese rule

Mr. Te-chih Chen (Program of History, National Taiwan Normal University )

The Flows and Networks of Fishing Technocrats of Colonial Taiwan in Global History - with A Focus on Investigation and Experiment of Fishing Industry

Mr. Tetsuzo Suzuki (Program of History, National Taiwan Normal University)

The Formation of Medical Educational Facilities in colonial Taiwan - from Taiwan Governor - General Medical School to the Department of Medicine of Taihoku Imperial University

Mr. Shuji Nakamura (Program of History, National Taiwan Normal University)

The formation of "Nanbo kyoei ken" (the Southern Co-Prosperity Sphere) in colonial Taiwan


Panel 3
Theme I+III
(Individual Paper)
Room: FA 203

Moderator: Mr. John Chung-En Liu (Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin Madison)

Panel Title
Private Role in Public Governance: Professionalism, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Market Ideologies

Ms. Wan-Tsui Chiang (Indiana University Maurer School of Law)

The Characteristics of Medical Professionalism in Taiwan- an Observation on Medical History, Health Law, and Legal Matters

Mr. Aristotle Bulaclac (Department and Institute of Public Administration, Chung Hua University)

"Analyzing the Corporate response to the Taiwan Sustainable Energy Policy Framework through Corporate Social Responsibility: The AsusTek case"

Mr. Chih-Yuan Lin (Department of Sociology, The New School for Social Research)

The construction of State and Stock market-The Two Market Ideologies in Taiwan and China Stock Market

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:30

Panel 4
Theme V
(Panel Presentation)
Room: FA 202

Moderator: Mr. Chien-Yuan Chen (Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i, Manoa)

Panel Title
The Living Forest: Memories, Imaginations, and Multiple Constructions of Chineseness in Contemporary Taiwan

Ms. Szu-Yun Hsu (Department of Geography, University of British Columbia)

The Performativity of the Free Market Economy in Taiwan:Lessons from the U.S. Beef Import Dispute in 2009

Mr. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang (Department of History, University of British Columbia)

Exile and Collective Trauma in Formation of Mainlander Identity in Taiwan: History, Memory, and Nation

Mr. Weiting Guo (Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia)

Remembering the "Righteous People": The Temple of Loyal Fighters and the Transformation of Yimin Discourse in Taiwan

Mr. Chien-Yuan Chen (Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i, Manoa)

Crafting Chineseness at the Palace Museum: the CCTV Documentary liangan gugong and the Souvenir Business

15:30-16:00

Break

16:00-18:00

Keynote Speech:
Taiwanese Identity for the Next Generation: Where we are, how we got here, and where we are heading

Room: Auditorium FA 125

Prof. Lin Man-houng (Institute of Modern History, Academic Sinica)
Prof. Scott Simon (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa)
Prof. Stéphane Corcuff (Lyon Institute of Political Studies)

18:00- Dinner Reception (Opening Remarks and Welcome from the 2011 Committee)
Frick Fine Art Building,
University of Pittsburgh


June 18, Saturday

8:30-9:00

Check-in
Front Desk

9:00-10:00

Panel 5
Special Workshop
(Individual Paper)
Room: FA 202

Moderator: Mr. Yang-Yi Kuo (Department of Anthropology, University College of London)

Panel Title
Taiwanese History Refreshed: the repeated future and the repressed past

Prof. Stéphane Corcuff (Lyon Institute of Political Studies)

Ma Ying-jeou’s China leaning Policy and the 1683 Fall of the Zheng in Taiwan: A Cross-Centuries Geopolitical Comparison

Prof. Mike Shi-Chi Lan (Division of Chinese, Nanyang Technological University)

Taiwanese-native Japanese Soldiers and the Politics of Remembrance

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-12:30

Panel 6
Theme IV
(Panel Presentation)
Room: FA 202

Moderator: Ms. Laura Jo-Han Wen (Department of East Asian Languages & Literature, University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Panel Title
The Multiple Representations on Historical Memories of Taiwan

Ms. Shih-Yun Lo (Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Chengchi University)

South, Memory, and Colonial Youth in the 1940s: a Discussion on the Taiwan Panorama of Nakamura Chihei and Lung Ying-tsung’s Autobiographical Novels

Ms. Yu-Ju Chang (Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Chengchi University)

Railway, Tourism, and Modernity: a Study on the Chang-Liou Magazine in Taiwan during the 1950s and 1960s

Mr. Kun-Lin Lu (Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Chengchi University)

Memory of White Terror in Taiwan: An Examination of “White files”

Ms. Shu-Jhen Liu (Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Chengchi University)

Surveillance of Memory: The Wall and the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder


Panel 7
Theme III+V
(Individual Paper)
Room: FA 203

Moderator: Mr. John Chung-En Liu (Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Panel Title
Red, Blue, and Green: Social and Political Dynamics across the Strait and Nationalism in the Taiwanese society

Dr. Shao-Cheng Sun (Association for Managing for Defense and Strategies (AMDaS))

The Building of the Cross-Straits CBMs: The Rational Actor Model Analysis

Ms. Caterina Fugazzola (Asia Pacific Studies Program, University of San Francisco)

Surfing the Digital Strait: People-to-People Cross-Strait Interaction in the Internet Era

Dr. Dongtao Qi (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore)

The Disadvantaged Social Groups’ Support for the DPP in Taiwan: Globalization, Social Justice and Economic Nationalism

Mr. Feng-yi Chu (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)

Adherents of an Imaged Chinese Nation: a case study of pan-blue political cults in Taiwan

12:30-13:30

Lunch &
2011 Committee Report and the Election for the 2012 Committee (13:00-13:30)

13:30-15:30

Panel 8
Theme IV
(Individual Paper)
Room: FA 202

Moderator: Mr. Chih-Yuan Lin (Department of Sociology, The New School for Social Research)

Panel Title
Cultural Performance in Everyday life

Ms. Christy Ann DeLair (Department of Anthropology, Brown University)

Craft Ephemera as Representation and Creation of Indigeneity

Ms. Sydney Hsin-I Yueh (Departmnt of Communication Studies, University of Iowa)

The Politics of Playing Cute: A Critical Analysis of Femininity in Taiwanese Popular Culture

Mr. Brian Brubaker (Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh)

A sociolinguistic analysis of metapragmatic speech in Taiwan

Mr. Shih-Hsiang Sung (Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh)

The Life History of Fengshui Commodity: the global flow of crystal from Brazil, Guangzhou to Taipei


Panel 9
Theme II+IV
(Individual Paper)
Room: FA 203

Moderator: Mr. Dale Albanese (Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University)

Panel Title
Contemporary Issues on Taiwanese Education System and A Case Study on Cultural and Creative Industries in Rural Taiwan

Dr. Wei-Ju Chen (Independent Scholar) and Dr. Kai-Yuan Ho (Independent Scholar)

Does same mean equity? Teachers’ treatments between immigrants and native-born students in Taiwan-three cases studies in primary education

Ms. Hsin-Yi Kao (Department of Leadership and Counselor Education, University of Mississippi)

A comparative study of student loans between the United States of America and Taiwan higher education

Mr. Dale Albanese (Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University)

Internationalization and the Impact on College Youth: Challenges in Developing National Chengchi University’s International Association

Mr. Dan McMackin (Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University)

From "Creative Cities" to "Creative Rural Areas": A Case Study of an Innovative Cluster in Yilan County and its Implications for the Cultural and Creative Industries in Rural Taiwan.



15:30-16:00

Break

16:00-18:00

Round Table Forum & Feedback Time:
From National Identity to Global Citizenship: Discovering Taiwan's Niche and Responsibility

Room: Auditorium FA 125

Prof. Joseph Wong (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)
Dr. Fang-Long Shih (Taiwan Research Programme, London School of Economics)
Prof. Mike Shi-Chi Lan (Division of Chinese, Nanyang Technological University)

18:00-

Check Out and Farewell – Travel Grant Checks Available

Front Desk

Committee Business Meeting


Panel

Name

Title

Discussant

Panel 1: II+IV (Individual Paper Presentation)
Panel Title:
Moderator: Mr. Weiting Guo (Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia)
09:00-10:30, June 17th (Friday)

1

Ms. Yen Hoang Nguyen (Department of Chinese Literature, National Cheng Kung University)

On unpublished document about Taiwan: Taiwan image in a Notebook of Vietnamese Scholar in the 19th century

Ms. Laura Jo-Han Wen (Department of East Asian Languages & Literature, University of Wisconsin – Madison)

Ms. Nga-i Tenn (Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Language, Culture and Literature, National Taiwan Normal Univ)

A Glocalized National Narrative---A Siraya-based discourse in the Taiwanese Puppet Show, Blitzkrieg Siraya

Prof. Scott Simon (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa)

Mr. Karl Wu (Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia)

The Elastic and the Ambiguous: border control and identity politics in the case of Taiwanese political refugees in Canada

Dr. Fang-long Shih (Taiwan Research Programme,  London School of Economics)

Panel 2: Special Workshop (Panel Presentation)
Panel Title: The History of colonial Taiwan under Japanese rule
Moderator: Ms. Chi-Ting Peng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
11:00-12:30, June 17th (Friday)

2

Mr. Te-chih Chen (Program of History, National Taiwan Normal University)

The Flows and Networks of Fishing Technocrats of Colonial Taiwan in Global History - with A Focus on Investigation and Experiment of Fishing Industry

Prof. Man-houng Lin (Institute of Modern History, Academic Sinica)

Mr. Tetsuzo Suzuki (Program of History, National Taiwan Normal University)

The Formation of Medical Educational Facilities in colonial Taiwan - from Taiwan Governor - General Medical School to the Department of Medicine of Taihoku Imperial University

Prof. Man-houng Lin (Institute of Modern History, Academic Sinica)

Mr. Shuji Nakamura (Program of History, National Taiwan Normal University)

The formation of "Nanbo kyoei ken" (the Southern Co-Prosperity Sphere) in colonial Taiwan

Prof. Man-houng Lin (Institute of Modern History, Academic Sinica)

Panel 3: I+III (Individual Paper Presentation)
Panel Title:
Moderator: Mr. John Chung En Liu (Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
11:00-12:30, June 17 (Friday)

3

Ms. Wan-Tsui Chiang (Indiana University Maurer School of Law)

The Characteristics of Medical Professionalism in Taiwan- an Observation on Medical History, Health Law, and Legal Matters

Mr. Chih-Ming Liang (University of Wisconsin- Madison Law School)

Mr. Aristotle Bulaclac (Department and Institute of Public Administration, Chung Hua University)

"Analyzing the Corporate response to the Taiwan Sustainable Energy Policy Framework through Corporate Social Responsibility: The AsusTek case"

Mr. John Chung En Liu (Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin- Madison)

Mr. Chih-Yuan Lin (Department of Sociology, The New School for Social Research)

The construction of State and Stock market-The Two Market Ideologies in Taiwan and China Stock Market

Prof. Joseph Wong (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)

Panel 4: V (Panel Presentation)
Panel Title: The Living Forest: Memories, Imaginations, and Multiple Constructions of Chineseness in Contemporary Taiwan
Moderator: Mr. Chien-Yuan Chen (Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i, Manoa)
13:30-15:30, June 17th (Friday)

4

Ms. Szu-Yun Hsu, (Department of Geography, University of British Columbia)

The Performativity of the Free Market Economy in Taiwan: Lessons from the U.S. Beef Import Dispute in 2009

Prof. Joseph Wong (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)

Mr. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang (Department of History, University of British Columbia)

Exile and Collective Trauma in Formation of Mainlander Identity in Taiwan: History, Memory, and Nation

Prof. Stéphane Corcuff (Lyon Institute of Political Studies)

Mr. Weiting Guo (Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia)

Remembering the "Righteous People": The Temple of Loyal Fighters and the Transformation of Yimin Discourse in Taiwan

Prof. Mike Shi-chi Lan (Division of Chinese, Nanyang Technological University)

Mr. Chien-Yuan Chen (Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i, Manoa)

Crafting Chineseness at the Palace Museum: the CCTV Documentary liangan gugong and the Souvenir Business

Panel

Name

Title

Discussant

Panel 5: Special Workshop (Individual Paper Presentation)
Panel Title: Taiwanese History Refreshed: the repeated future and the repressed past
Moderator: Mr. Yang-Yi Kuo (Department of Anthropology, University College of London)
09:00-10:00, June 18th (Saturday)

5

Prof. Stéphane Corcuff (Lyon Institute of Political Studies)

Ma Ying-jeou’s China leaning Policy and the 1683 Fall of the Zheng in Taiwan: A Cross-Centuries Geopolitical Comparison


Ms. Szu-Yun Hsu, (Department of Geography, University of British Columbia)

Mr. Weiting Guo (Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia)

Prof. Mike Shi-chi Lan (Division of Chinese, Nanyang Technological University)

Taiwanese-native Japanese Soldiers and the Politics of Remembrance


Mr. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang (Department of History, University of British Columbia)

Mr. Karl Wu (Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia)

Panel 6: IV (Panel Presentation)
Panel Title: The Multiple Representations on Historical Memories of Taiwan
Moderator: Ms. Laura Jo-Han Wen (Department of East Asian Languages & Literature, University of Wisconsin – Madison)
10:30-12:30, June 18th (Saturday)

6

 Ms. Shih-Yun Lo (Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Chengchi University)

South, Memory, and Colonial Youth in the 1940s: a Discussion on the Taiwan Panorama of Nakamura Chihei and Lung Ying-tsung’s Autobiographical Novels

Prof. Mike Shi-chi Lan (Division of Chinese, Nanyang Technological University)

Ms. Yu-Ju Chang (Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Chengchi University)

Railway, Tourism, and Modernity: a Study on Chang-Liou Magazine in Taiwan during the 1950s and 1960s

Mr. Chien-Yuan Chen (Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i, Manoa)

Mr. Kun-Lin Lu (Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Chengchi University)

Memory of White Terror in Taiwan: An Examination of "White files"

Mr. Karl Wu (Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia)

 Ms. Shu-Jhen Liu (Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Chengchi University)

Surveillance of Memory: The Wall and the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Mr. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang (Department of History, University of British Columbia)

Panel 7: III+V (Individual Paper Presentation)
Panel Title:
Moderator Mr. John Chung En Liu (Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
10:30-12:30, June 18 (Saturday)

7

Dr. Shao-Cheng Sun (Association for Managing for Defense and Strategies (AMDaS))

The Building of the Cross-Straits CBMs: The Rational Actor Model Analysis

Major Daniel E. Hall (Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies)

Ms. Caterina Fugazzola (Asia Pacific Studies Program, University of San Francisco)

Surfing the Digital Strait: People-to-People Cross-Strait Interaction in the Internet Era

Dr. Dongtao Qi (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore)

Dr. Dongtao Qi (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore)

The Disadvantaged Social Groups’ Support for the DPP in Taiwan: Globalization, Social Justice and Economic Nationalism

Prof. Joseph Wong (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)

Mr. Feng-yi Chu (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)

Adherents of an Imaged Chinese Nation: a case study of pan-blue political cults in Taiwan

Dr. Dongtao Qi (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore)

Panel 8: IV (Individual Paper Presentation)
Panel Title: Cultural Performance in Everyday life
Moderator: Mr. Chih-Yuan Lin (Department of Sociology, The New School for Social Research)
13:30-15:30, June 18 (Saturday)

8

Ms. Christy Ann DeLair (Department of Anthropology, Brown University)

Craft Ephemera as Representation and Creation of Indigeneity

Prof. Scott Simon (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa)

Ms. Sydney Hsin-I Yueh (Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa)

The Politics of Playing Cute: A Critical Analysis of Femininity in Taiwanese Popular Culture

Dr. Fang-long Shih (Taiwan Research Programme,  London School of Economics)

Mr. Brian Brubaker (Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh)

A sociolinguistic analysis of metapragmatic speech in Taiwan

Ms. Nga-i Tenn (Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Language, Culture and Literature, National Taiwan Normal Univ)

Mr. Shih-Hsiang Sung (Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh)

The Life History of Fengshui Commodity: the global flow of crystal from Brazil, Guangzhou to Taipei

Mr. Yang-Yi Kuo (Department of Anthropology, University College of London)

Panel 9: II+IV (Individual Paper Presentation)
Panel Title: Contemporary Issues on Taiwanese Education System and A Case Study on Cultural and Creative Industries in Rural Taiwan
Moderator: Mr. Dale Albanese (Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University)
13:30-15:30, June 18th (Saturday)

9

Dr. Wei-Ju Chen (Independent Scholar) and Dr. Kai-Yuan Ho (Independent Scholar)

Does same mean equity? Teachers’ treatments between immigrants and native-born students in Taiwan-three cases studies in primary education

Dr. Dongtao Qi (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore)

Ms. Hsin-Yi Kao (Department of Leadership and Counselor Education, University of Mississippi)

A comparative study of student loans between the United States of America and Taiwan higher education

Dr. Wei-Ju Chen (Independent Scholar)

Mr. Dale Albanese (Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University)

Internationalization and the Impact on College Youth: Challenges in Developing National Chengchi Univeristy’s International Association

Mr. Dan McMackin (Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University)

Mr. Dan McMackin (Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University)

From "Creative Cities" to "Creative Rural Areas": A Case Study of an Innovative Cluster in Yilan County and its Implications for the Cultural and Creative Industries in Rural Taiwan.

Mr. Chien-Yuan Chen (Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i, Manoa)

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