EAC-JSAC Alberta 2005 Conference Program

Japan Studies Association of Canada

East Asian Council of Canadian Asian Studies Association

EAC-JSAC 2005 ALBERTA CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Connections & Identities in East Asia and Beyond

All conference activities & lunches are in Telus Centre at Univ. of Alberta, 111 St. & 87 Ave.

Thursday, Sept. 29, 2005

4:00-6:00 pm Registration, Telus Centre

7:30-9:30 pm Reception, Telus Centre

Friday, Sept. 30, 2005

7:30-8:30 am Registration / Morning coffee

8:30-9:00 am OPENING CEREMONY (Rm. 217-219)

Dr. Satoshi Ikeda, EAC-JSAC 05 Conference Co-Chair, MC

Dr. Rolf Mirus, Acting Vice-Provost & Associate Vice-President (International), Univ. of Alberta

Dr. O. P. Dwivedi, President, CASA

Dr. Fumiko Ikawa-Smith, President, JSAC

9:00-10:15 am PLENARY SESSION I: (Rm. 217-219)

Sixty Years Anniversary of World War II:

History, Identity, Nationalism & Reconciliation

Chair: Dr. Charles Burton, Brock Univ.

Stephen Doust, Canadian Embassy in Tokyo—The Changing Japanese Dynamic and its Implications

Kimie Hara, Univ. of Waterloo—Japan and the “Unresolved Problems” in East Asia

Satoshi Ikeda, Univ. of Alberta— Between Malign Oblivion and Learned Ignorance: Japanese “Management” of War Crime Memories

10:15-10:30 am Coffee break

10:30-12:00 am BREAKOUT SESSIONS I

Panel A Roundtable - Promoting East Asian Studies: Perspectives from Chairpersons (Rm. 217)

Chair: Peter Nosco, Chair, Dept. of Asian Studies, UBC

Janice Brown, Chair, Dept. of East Asian Studies, Univ. of Alberta

X. Jie Yang, Chair, Dept. of Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian Studies, Univ. of Calgary

Jan Walls, Director, David Lam Centre, Simon Fraser Univ.

Cody Poulton, Chair, Dept. of Pacific & Asian Studies

Univ. of Victoria

Panel B Chinese/Canadian Adoptive Kinship:

Cultural, Legal, and Historical (Rm. 219)

Chair: Sara Dorow, Univ. of Alberta

Ouellette Françoise-Romaine, Université du Québec—Chinese/Canadian Adoption and the Increasing Openness of Adoption Files

Xiaobei Chen, Univ. of Victoria—Chinese Orphans, Canadian Missionaries and Adoptive Parents: Cross-Border Love (Kua Guojie De Ai) in Historical Perspective

Sara Dorow, Univ. of Alberta—“Being Chinese”: Adoptive Families as Immigrant Families?

Panel C Food Culture and the Food Industry in Japan (Rm. 131)

Chair: Carin Holroyd, Asia Pacific Foundation

Matsubara, Toyohiko, Ritsumeikan—Environment-friendly agriculture and producer-consumer network in Japan

Joe Kess and Yuko Igarashi, Univ. of Victoria— Food Fight! Change and challenge in Japan's culinary culture

Yuko Igarashi and Joe Kess—Univ. of Victoria—A Not so-Dry Economy

12:00-1: 30pm Lunch sponsored by Faculty of Arts (Rm. 140)

WELCOME:

Dr. Sheree Kwong See, Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts, Univ. of Alberta

KEYNOTE:

Mark Seldon, Binghamton University,

The Future of East Asian Studies: Regional
and Global Perspectives

BOOK LAUNCH:

Why Japan Matters edited by Joe Kess and Helen Lansdowne

Magnolia: Stories of Taiwanese Women by Tzeng Ching-wen, and translated by Lois Stanford and Jenn-Shann Lin

1:30-3:00 pm BREAKOUT SESSIONS II

Panel D Roundtable - Teaching about Contemporary China:

Issues, Dilemmas, and Perspectives (Rm. 217)

Chair: Ken Foster, UBC

Timothy Cheek, UBC

Ellen Judd, Univ. of Manitoba

Feng Xu, Univ. of Victoria

Panel E Popular Culture, Identity & Nationalism (Rm. 219)

Chair: Joe Kess, Univ. of Victoria

Cathy Kmita, York Univ.—The Mongolian Dance Andai: Trading Dance for Identity

Xu Wu, Univ. of Alberta—Crying Wedding and Dancing Funeral: Folk Rituals as Ethnic Identities in Contemporary West Hubei

Mark Driscoll, Univ. of North Carolina—The Two Freeters of Contemporary Japan: The Fateful Marriage of Neoliberalism and Neonationalism

Panel F Health Care in East Asia (Rm. 131)

Chair: Jim Tiessen, McMaster Univ.

Wei-Ching Chang and Marie-Laure Baudet,, Univ. of Alberta—The Tao of Feminism and Health Care in Taiwan

Taikun Ji, Univ. of Alberta—HealthCcare and Deepening Rural Crisis in China.

Jim Tiessen, McMaster Univ. —Hospital Competition and Quality in Japan

3:00-3:30 pm Networking break

3:30-5:00 pm BREAKOUT SESSIONS III

Panel G Roundtable – East Asian Energy Security

Chair: Tom Waldichuk, Thompson Rivers Univ.

Simon Nantais, Univ. of Ottawa—Foreign policy, National Identity:Canadian Newspapers During the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1941

Iain Grant, Dalhousie Univ.— The Puzzling Case of the Sino-Canadian Oil Relationship

Simin Yu, Univ. of Alberta—Sino-Japanese Competition for Energy

Panel H Transformations in Chinese Identities: Intellectuals, Students, and Minorities in the Modern Period (Rm. 219)

Chair: Timothy Cheek, UBC

Timothy Cheek, UBC—Intellectual Identities: What Makes a 'Chinese Intellectual' Chinese?

David Luesink, UBC—Transformation in regional identities: Cheeloo Univ. and St. John's Univ. medical students/graduates as agents of regional and national identity.

Jack Hayes, UBC—Market and Ethnic Identities: Roads, the Environment, and Minority Identities in Northern Sichuan

Ryan Dunch, Univ. of Alberta— An Overview of Missionary Books in Late Qing China (1811-1911)

Panel I The borderless world: changing perspectives on language and culture (Rm. 131)

Chair: Tsuneko Iwai, McMaster Univ.

Tsuneko Iwai, McMaster Univ.—Globalization and the changing patterns of self-construals: an exploratory study of the Japanese students abroad

Noriko Yabuki-Soh, York Univ.—Re-examining Japaneseness: Nihonjinron and cross-cultural manuals

Kaori Yoshida UBC—Animation and Otherness: Asia-ness and Orientalism in the Japanese Anime World

Naofumi Tatsumi, Purdue University—Cross-cultural understanding: Proposing an intercultural communication course with emphasis on East Asia

6:00-8:30 pm Conference Dinner, Faculty Club

KEYNOTES:

Professor Takeshi Hamashita, Kyoto Univesity,

Changing Pattern of Sino-centric Regional Order in East Asia 1805-2005

Saturday, October 1, 2005

8:00-8:30 am Registration / Morning coffee

8:30-10:00 am BREAKOUT SESSIONS IV

Panel J Trade and Investment, and sustainable growth in Asia (Rm. 217)

Chair: Teri Ursacki-Bryant, Univ. of Calgary

Carin Holroyd, Asia Pacific Foundation—Rediscovering Japan: An Examination of British Columbia's Trade and Investment Initiative for Asia

Monir Hossain Moni, Waseda Univ.— Japanese FDI in South Asia: Limits and Possibilities

Tom Waldichuk, Thompson Rivers Univ.— Actor Networks and the Sustainability of Horticulture on Kujukuri Plain,
Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Panel K Constructing Identities in War and Peace--Japan and East Asia in the Long Twentieth Century (Rm. 219)

Chair: Bill Sewell, Saint Mary’s Univ.

Shinji Takagaki, Univ. of Toronto at Mississauga—War and the Meiji Nation-Building Enterprise
Yu Chang, Univ. of Toronto— Peacetime Reflections Upon War and East Asian Identities
Owen Griffiths, Mount Allison Univ.— Public Imagery of War, the Nation, and Historian's Responsibilities
Bill Sewell, Saint Mary’s Univ.—Manchuria in Post-Postwar Northeast Asia

Panel L Tea and Chopsticks: Cultural Awareness as an Aid to Second Language Learning (Rm. 214)

Chair: Lloyd Sciban, Univ. of Calgary

Cai Wei and Shu-ning Sciban Univ. of Calgary—What Has Been Taught about Chinese Language and Culture in Chinese Language Textbooks?

X. Jie Yang, Univ. of Calgary—Designing an On-line Database for Language Textbooks

Mayumi Hoshi, Univ. of Alberta—Is There Such a Thing as a “Best” Textbook?

Lloyd Sciban, Univ. of Calgary—Defining Culture within Language Learning

Panel M Languages Initiative –

East Asian Languages in Alberta schools (Rm. 216)

Chair: Kimie Hara, Univ. of Waterloo

John Sokolowski, Alberta Education—Overview of Languages Initiative

Jincheng Huang, Alberta Education—Chinese Language and Culture Education in Alberta

Yoko Udagawa, Alberta Education—Japanese Language and Culture Education in Alberta

10:00-10:30 Networking break

10:30-12:00 BREAKOUT SESSIONS V

Panel N Workshop - Introduction to Japan Studies Databases and a Chinese Courseware (Rm. 217)

This workshop is partially sponsored by the NCC

Tadanobu Suzuki, Librarian, Univ. of Victoria

Tomoko Goto, Japanese Librarian, UBC Asian Library

Laifong Leung & Jingjun Ha, Univ. of Alberta— Interative Chinese Tutor: A New Multimedia Courseware

Panel O Cultural Expression and Representation (Rm. 219)

Chair: Jennifer Jay, Univ. of Alberta

Brian Pendleton, Langara College—Space: The Final Frontier: Ma and the Mathematics of Japanese Garden Design

Naohiro Nakamura, Queen’s Univ.—The Change of Cultural Representation of the Ainu in Museum Exhibition.

Anne Wu, Univ. of Toronto—Cooking as Transnational Practices

Panel P Identity Formation & Historical Memory (Rm. 214)

Chair: Mark Driscoll, Univ. of North Carolina

Yuko Shibata, UBC—Under the Asian Face: In/Visible Canadians

Hiroko Noro, Univ. of Victoria—Hapa Japanese Canadian Identity: An Exploratory Study of Identity Formation of Interracial Japanese Canadian Children

Scott Simon, Univ. of Ottawa—From Savages to Soldiers: Truku Memories of Japanese Formosa

John Harding, Univ. of Lethbridge – Contested Identities and Buddhism in Modern Japan: A Shikoku Case Study of Pilgrimage and Persecution

Panel Q Emerging China and its neighbors (Rm.216)

Chair: Ryan Dunch, Univ. of Alberta

Guoguang Wu, Univ. of Victoria— Testing China's Peaceful Rise: Taiwan, Energy, and Human Rights Issues

Saarah Shvji, Univ. of Alberta—China-Kazakasthan Relations

Zachary Devereaux, Ryerson Univ.— Chinese News Coverage of North Korea in the New Media Context

12:00-1:30 pm Lunch Sponsored by School of Business (Rm. 140)

WELCOME:

Dr. Michael Percy, Dean, School of Business, Univ. of Alberta

KEYNOTE:

Mr. Jeff Kucharski, former Consul for Canada to Nagoya, Japan

The New Japan in an Asian Context

EAC Business Meeting (Rm. 217)

1:30-3:00 pm BREAKOUT SESSIONS VI

Panel R Development of Japanese Corporations (Rm. 217)

Chair: Dick Beason, Univ. of Alberta

Paul Parker, Univ. of Waterloo—Connections within and Beyond Japan’s Photovoltaic Industry:Industrial Development, National Solar Energy Strategies and Global Exports

David Edgington, UBC and Roger Hayter, Simon Fraser Univ.—Japanese Electronics Firms in Southeast Asia and China: Patterns of Bargaining, Cultural Learning and Embeddedness

Teri Ursacki-Bryant, Univ. of Calgary—Anti-Takeover Defenses and the Vitality of Japanese Corporations

Panel S Identities for Women in Pre-modern Japan (Rm. 219)

Chair: Sonja Arntzen, Univ. of Toronto

Caitilin Griffiths, Univ. of Toronto—Itinerant Jishu Nuns: Members of a Mixed Gender Religious Community

Gergana Ivanova, Univ. of Toronto—Sei Shōnagon’s Makura no Sōshi: In Search for the Original Text

Lianne Zwarenstein, Univ. of Toronto—Working Women: the Professional Identities of Kamakura Female Authors

Discussant: Christina Laffin, UBC

Panel T Education and Activism in Japanese North America (Rm. 214)

Chair: Greg Robinson, UQAM

Greg Robinson, Université du Québec À Montréal—“Forrest E. LaViolette: Asian North American Studies Pioneer”

John Baick, Western New England College—Franz Boas and the Origins of East Asian Studies in America

Susan Smith, Univ. of Alberta—Toku Shimomura: An Issei Woman during World War II

3:00-3:30 pm Networking break

3:30-5:00 pm PLENARY SESSION II (Rm. 217-219)

New Challenges & Policy Research in Canada-Asia Relations

Chair: Wenran Jiang, Univ. of Alberta

Dr. Yuen Pau Woo, President, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

Dr. Charles Burton, Brock University, former academic councilor in the Canadian embassy in Beijing

Mr. Alan Bowman, International Trade Canada

5:00-5:30 pm JSAC Business Meeting

Saturday Evening: Free

Sunday, October 2, 2005

8:30-10:00 am BREAKOUT SESSIONS VII

Panel U Translation: Modern & Pre-modern (Rm. 217)

Chair: Sonja Arntzen, Univ. of Toronto

Shaobo Xie, Univ.of Calgary—Translating Modernity towards Translating China

Kozue Uzawa, Univ. of Lethbridge—Problems of Selecting Appropriate Words in Translating Tanka into English

Panel V Literature & Education in Japan (Rm. 219)

Chair: Fumiko Ikawa-Smith, McGill Univ.

Yoko Riley, Univ. of Calgary—The Poetic Manifestations of Japanese History

Febe Pamonag, Univ. of Alberta—‘Where are the teachers who are to train and help the eager students?’ Tsuda Umeko and Her American and Japanese Supporters for Women’s Education in Meiji Japan

Kumiko Aoki, National Institute of Multimedia Education—Japan, Internationalization of Higher Education (or the Lack of it) in Japan

Panel W Chinese Identities: Culture & Literature (Rm. 214)

Chair: X. Jie Yong, Univ. of Calgary

Tzuhsiu (Beryl) Chiu, Univ. of Alberta— Transcultural Chinese identities

Rui Feng, Univ. of Alberta and Iris Xu, McNally Composite High School—Chinese Identities: Lessons from the Chinese Canadian Experience

Hua Li, UBC—Changing Patterns of the Bildungsroman in Modern Chinese Literature

Jennifer Jay, Univ. of Alberta— Confused Identities in the Chinese Canadian Experience: Last Names First and Paper Sons

10:00-10:15 am Coffee break

10:15-11:45 am BREAKOUT SESSIONS VIII

Panel X Japanese linguistics in Japanese Studies (Rm. 217)

Chair: Kaori Kabata, Univ. of Alberta

Yuki Johnson, Univ. of Toronto—Functions of the Particle Ga in Japanese: Ga as an Object Marker

Kaori Kabata, Univ. of Alberta—Usage Patterns and Mental Representation of Japanese Particles

Kiyoko Toratani, York Univ.—Mimetics (lost) inTtranslation

Panel Y Encounters with the Other: Re-Locating the Intertextual/Transnational in Modern Japanese Literary Texts (Rm. 219)

Chair: Janice Brown, Univ. of Alberta

Brad Ambury, Univ. of Alberta—Transnational Encounters in Modern Fiction

Ania Dymarz, Univ. of Alberta—Kurahashi and Kafka: A Comparative Reading of Textual Worlds

Janice Brown, Univ. of Alberta—Disentangling Lyric and Nation in Modern Japanese Poetry

Panel Z Education in Japan (Rm. 214)

Chair: Yoko Riley, Univ. of Calgary

Lloyd Scaiban and Scott Harrison, Univ. of Calgray—The Japanese Concept of Self in Teaching Japanese as a Second Language

Yoko Udagawa, Gakuin Univ.—Kanji for High School Programs

Mito Takeuchi, Ohio Univ.—Supplemental Education for Foreign Residents in Japan: Challenges of “Multicultural Coexistence

11:45am-12:00 pm Closing Remarks (Rm. 217-219)

Dr. Satoshi Ikeda & Dr. Wenran Jiang

EAC-JSAC 05 Conference Co-Chairs

12:00-1:00 pm Lunch (Rm. 217-219)

NOTES:

1. Please make payments in either check or cash at the registration;

2. Please limit your presentation to 15 minutes;

3. Roundtable should be open and interactive;

4. Every room has a computer with projector for PPP, etc.;

5. Every room has Internet access;

6. There are two computers with Internet access in the main lobby for email;

7. We will distribute your paper or outline if you have copies with you;

8. We will consider the publication of the proceedings after the conference;

9. Please let us know if you have any special requests.

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September 29—October 2, 2005

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Date Sept. 2005

Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Canada

The Globe and Mail | Commentary

How do we engage China?
By WENRAN JIANG
Thursday, September 8, 2005 Page A27

Chinese President Hu Jintao is visiting Canada to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the establishment of Canada-China diplomatic relations. His impressive 100-plus member delegation and the extensive itinerary -- Ottawa and Toronto this week and Vancouver next week after attending the United Nations General Assembly -- demonstrate that Beijing attaches great importance to its relationship with Ottawa.

Mr. Hu is likely to propose a set of new initiatives to push the bilateral ties to a higher level. Prime Minister Paul Martin has indicated that he is looking forward to forging a strong personal relationship with the Chinese leader and a "strategic partnership" with China. The challenge for Ottawa is to have a clear vision on what a strategic relationship means, and to seize new opportunities to advance Canadian interests with the world's fastest growing economy.

If past bilateral summits are any indication, Canadians are about to engage in another familiar round of a "trade versus human rights" debate.

Opposition politicians, editorial pundits and some NGO groups will criticize the government for pursuing economic interests too much and for not doing enough on human-rights violations in China; the Martin cabinet will counter such criticism by raising human-rights concerns in the summit agenda; and the Chinese will play along to accommodate what they see as a formality. Once the visit is over, most of the human-rights issues will disappear from news coverage, and little will follow in terms of government policies.

Such a "spotlight" approach to human rights in China is both superficial and non-effective. The rejection of this false dichotomy between trade and rights is long overdue. The real issue is how to engage China on both fronts with Canada playing a constructive role.

Let's begin with trade. China is a global powerhouse and Canada's second-largest trading partner. In 2004, Canada's exports to China grew by 40 per cent and imports by 30 per cent. These are good figures but not extraordinary considering that China's foreign trade with all its major partners increased by 20 per cent to 40 per cent last year. Facing severe low labour-cost competition from China, Canada needs to find its competitive advantage, and the energy and related sectors seem to be the most promising.

Ranking second in the world after Saudi Arabia in possessing 178 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, Alberta has a huge potential to extract crude from its oil sands. China, on the other hand, is facing an energy supply crisis at home. Driven by a 9.5-per-cent annual growth rate in the past 25 years, China has turned from an oil exporter to the second-largest oil consumer in the world. With a floating population of 150 million, Beijing needs to keep a minimum 7-per-cent annual growth rate to provide employment and social stability. The short supply of coal, electricity and oil and the lack of transportation have become the bottlenecks to China's economic development.

It is against this background that large Chinese oil firms, all with strong government backing, have recently invested in a number of Alberta's oil-sands ventures, have expressed interests in jointly building a pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific Coast, and have purchased PetroKazakhstan, a Calgary-based firm with large operations in Kazakhstan. These moves are aimed at ensuring China's future energy supply, a reflection of the Chinese leadership's anxiety on its energy insecurity. They are not an attempt by a Communist state to take over Canada, and it is a mistake to treat the Chinese as a threat to Canadian sovereignty.

Large-scale, long-term co-operation between Canada and China in the energy and environmental sectors has profound strategic implications: It will benefit both countries economically; it will guide China's energy policy toward a more environmentally friendly direction, producing less acid rain and chlorofluorocarbons; and it will modify Beijing's foreign policy along a more peaceful and less confrontational path, thus serving the comprehensive security interests of Canada and the rest of the world. Mr. Martin should make it clear that Chinese investments in our energy sectors are welcome as long as they meet necessary Canadian requirements.

This confident and constructive approach is equally applicable to the political front. China's political liberalization is less impressive but nevertheless substantial in the past 25 years. It will be ahistorical to write off the reform credentials of current Chinese leaders and to treat them as nothing more than a bunch of power-hungry Leninists. Only a few days ago, Mr. Hu talked candidly about the need for more democratic reforms in China, and Premier Wen Jiabao even promised to move China's village elections to the township level.

Well, Mr. Martin can take their words and engage Mr. Hu personally, showing how Canada's commitment to multiculturalism and racial tolerance and its struggle to keep our medical and social welfare system working might be conducive to Mr. Hu's efforts in building a "harmonious society." With the complexities of the Chinese reality in mind, Mr. Martin may also want to advise his guests that economic prosperity and the promotion of human rights in an open society are not and should not be mutually exclusive goals; it is a strong desire of the Canadian public that Canada's future economic co-operation with China must firmly rest on the foundation that China is moving toward a democratic society ruled by law; and Canada is ready to extend its helping hand.

It was 35 years ago that the visionary Pierre Trudeau decided to recognize the People's Republic of China. Today, Canada needs the same strategic mind in crafting a China policy that moves the bilateral relationship forward, benefiting both countries in the new century.

Wenran Jiang, associate professor of political science and special adviser to the dean of arts on international affairs at the University of Alberta, is an academic member of Canada's Strategic Working Group on China, and has organized two large bilateral energy co-operation conferences sponsored by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Alberta government.

BusinessWeek Double-issue on China and India

I was invited to participate in the Expert Roundtables for BusinessWeek's double issue on China and India in August, 2005. Read the related articles and my comments in 8 expert roundtables:

BusinessWeek double issue on China and India

Or you can read each Roundtable below:

Expert Roundtable 1: Growth: China vs. India

The debate's first question is, Will India ever grow as rapidly as China? If so, how might that occur?

Expert Roundtable 2: Should China Be Feared?

The debate's second question is, Is China's rapid rise good for the rest of the world? Or something to be feared? Or some of each?

Expert Roundtable 3: India and China: Partners?

The debate's third question is, Are India and China rivals for world markets and resources, or will they tend to be business partners?

Expert Roundtable 4: Advice for the U.S.

The debate's fourth question is, What should the U.S., and individual Americans, do to keep good, high-paying jobs in the U.S.?

Expert Roundtable 5: Can China and India Innovate?

The debate's fifth question is, Will either or both become leaders in technological innovation? And if so, in what fields?

Expert Roundtable 6: Chinese and Indian Youth

The debate's sixth question is, How are young Indians and Chinese different from their elders? Smarter? Lazier? Less obedient?

Expert Roundtable 7: Reading about China and India

The debate's seventh question is, What books do you think would help people understand China, India, or both?

Expert Roundtable 8: What Could Go Wrong?

The debate's final question is, Both China and India appear to be on a path of strong and sustainable growth. What, if anything, might knock them off this path?

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