会员通讯
Newsletter of Chinese
Historians in the United States, Inc.
Vol. XVI, No. 1 (General No. 48)
Spring 2003
In this issue . . . .
Features
- Farewell
Letter from Professor ZHAI Qiang, Immediate Past President of CHUS
- Inaugural
Letter from Professor WANG Di, President of CHUS
- Report
of CHUS Panels at the 2003 AHA Meeting
Members News
- YANG
Guocun Presents on Slavery at UK
Conference
- Prominent
Cold War Historian Heads Virginia’s Department of Asian and Middle Eastern
Studies (CHEN Jian)
- Welcome
New Members: WANG Shuo, CHENG Yongying
From the Board of Directors
- CHUS
Financial Report
- Board
of Directors, 2003-2005
Conferences/Programs/Announcements
- International
Conference on Globalization and Higher Education
- International
Conference on Social Change and Cultural Consciousness
- Conference
on Knowledge and Culture
- Summer
Chinese Studies Program at Nanjing
University
- M.E.
Sharpe invites contributions
Editor’s Notebook
Features
Farewell Letter from Professor ZHAI Qiang, Immediate
Past President of CHUS (January 5, 2003)
Dear CHUS members:
I am pleased to report the result of the 2002 CHUS election: WANG Di was elected President
(2003-2005). LIU Yawei, SUN Yi, TIAN
Xiansheng, and YAO Ping were
elected members of the Board of Directors (2003-2005). Congratulations and best wishes to them!
I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the members of
the 2001-2003 Board of Directors for their support of my work. My thanks to all
those who have shared their ideas on issues of our common concern.
I just returned from the AHA meeting in Chicago.
I am happy to inform you that all CHUS sessions went extremely well. They
attracted such prominent historians as Jonathan Spence, Roger Daniels (a
specialist of immigration and Asian-American history
at University of Cincinnati),
Edward MaCord (George Washington
University), Kristin Stapleton (University
of Kentucky), Linda Cook Johnson (Michigan
State University),
and Samuel Chu (Ohio State
University). Our four sessions
represented the largest presence of the CHUS at the annual meeting of the AHA
so far. They definitely increased the visibility and profile of the CHUS in the
American historical community. The quality
of our papers and the lively discussions they drew reflected both the scholarly
strength of the CHUS and the useful purpose of our sessions at the AHA meeting.
I am sure that under the leadership of my distinguished successor WANG Di, the
CHUS will continue to flourish as a vibrant academic organization.
Happy New Year to all of you.
ZHAI Qiang
Inaugural Letter from
Professor WANG Di, President of CHUS (January
30, 2003)
Dear CHUS members:
First of all, I
would like to thank all of you for trusting me as president of the CHUS and I
will work together with the Board of Directors and do my best to serve the
goals of the CHUS and our members.
After the AHA in Chicago
where I took over the position, I have been thinking of the works we may focus
on. At this moment, I think, several matters should be addressed here:
First, preparation and organization of 2004
AHA meeting panels.
Although the deadline of the AHA is still a few months away, it is the time, I
think, to consider the organization of CHUS panels at the 2004 AHA
meeting. Please send me your ideas of
organization of panels by March 15.
Second, the publication of Chinese Historians. The
Board of Directors will try to get next issue of Chinese Historians published as soon as possible. As we have known,
the journal has not been published for two years since the 2000 issue. At the
CHUS business meeting in Chicago,
many members showed their serious concern of it and suggested the ways to solve
the problem. After I came back from Chicago,
I have discussed this issue with editor LIU Yawei, who responded that that he
would have the next issue published as quickly as possible. Since the journal is a major channel of our
scholarly exchange and increasingly a manifestation of our scholarship, I
welcome your suggestions regarding how its quality and operation might be
improved. I believe it is the common
wish of the CHUS members that the journal should occupy a unique and
prestigious position in the historical scholarship across the Pacific. We should be confident enough to achieve
that goal.
Third,
the electronic version of CHUS Newsletter. We appreciate WANG Xi's agreement to continue to be the editor of the
CHUS newsletter. At the Chicago
business meeting, we discussed and approved the proposal that the newsletter
should be published in electronic format and published on CHUS’s website, which
will be created. This would
significantly reduce the editor’s workload, as well as cut the cost of
production (such as printing and mailing). After our
own website is created, the newsletter, saved as a PDF file, will be sent to
the webmaster, who will then put it online.
Members will be given the link to the website and will have the chance,
if they prefer, to print out a hardcopy for their own file.
Fourth, the creation of CHUS website. The
Board of Directors has designated Professor YAO Ping the responsibility for
managing and updating our website. I am sure she will welcome your suggestions
regarding this matter.
Finally let me wish
each one of you a Happy Chinese New Year!
WANG Di
Report of the CHUS panels at the 2003 AHA Meeting
By
ZHAI Qiang, Stephen
Averill, BAO Xiaolan, Janine M. Denomme, WANG Di
At the 2003 annual meeting of the American Historical
Association (AHA) held in Chicago,
the CHUS sponsored four panels. All of these sessions went extremely
well. They attracted such prominent historians as Jonathan Spence, Roger
Daniels (a specialist of immigration and Asian-American history at University
of Cincinnati), Edward McCord (George
Washington University),
Kristin Stapleton (University of Kentucky),
Linda Cooke Johnson (Michigan State
University), and Samuel Chu (Ohio
State University).
The four sessions represented the largest presence of the CHUS at the annual meeting
of the AHA so far. They definitely increased the visibility and profile of the
CHUS in the American historical community. The quality of our papers and the
lively discussions they drew reflected both the scholarly strength of the CHUS
and the useful purpose of our sessions at the AHA meeting.
Defining Historical Moments of Republican China
The first session is devoted to a reassessment of some
critical changes in defining moments of Republican China. It includes a diverse
set of papers, ranging from the diplomatic history of the Paris Peace
Conference in 1919 to state-building efforts in the Sino-Japanese War that
ended in 1945; from the classically-trained intellectual teachers of Mao Zedong
to a Trotskyist interpretation of the Chinese revolution.
Morris L. BIAN (Auburn
University ) discusses the Nanjing
government’s administrative rationalization efforts during the Anti-Japanese
War and concludes that the wartime administrative thinking of Nationalist
bureaucrats represented an important source from which the concept of danwei
or “unit” emerged. His paper contributes to the ongoing revisionist
reexamination of the state-building efforts of the Nationalist government.
In his paper entitled The Paris Peace Conference and
China's Search for a New World Order, XU
Guoqi (Kalamazoo College)
deals with china’s response to Wilsonianism at the Paris Peace Conference. He
argues that the event that was a major spur to the development of Chinese
nationalism and was the precipitating cause of the May 4th Movement.
The predominant textbook view of the Chinese role in the Peace Conference is an
overwhelmingly negative one, stressing the weakness and haplessness of the
Chinese diplomats and their government. XU’s study clearly acknowledges the
disappointments suffered by the Chinese during the negotiations, but also makes
clear the achievements—both intended and unintended—of China’s diplomatic
performances: the positive impression created on world leaders by the efforts
of negotiators such as Wellington Koo, for example, and the impact that the
injustice done to China at the conference had on deliberations over the League
of Nations in the U.S. Senate.
LIU Liyan (Georgetown
College) examines the influence of
Yang Changji on the intellectual development of the first generation of Chinese
Communists. Her explanation of Yang’s role as a classically-trained but
modern-school-based teacher to young revolutionaries such as Mao Zedong clearly
demonstrates that the common view that Confucian-educated mentors were hostile
to change needs to be revised. Her paper also sheds light on the crucial role
that schools and scholars played in nurturing informal organizations such as
the Xinmin xuehui and other study societies that functioned as both incubators
and bases of action for the earliest revolutionaries.
CHEN Jinxin (Albertson
College) discusses the influence of
Harold Isaacs on the development of American Understanding of the Chinese
Revolution of 1925-1927. CHEN points out that The Tragedy of the Chinese
Revolution written by Harold Isaacs pioneered the studies of the Chinese
Revolution of 1925-1927 and has inspired continuous scholarly inquiries. CHEN
examines the course of the writing and publishing of The Tragedy of the
Chinese Revolution and investigates the factors that shaped Isaacs’s view
of the Chinese Revolution. He argues that Isaacs’s perceptions of China had
been affected by his American upbringing and education, his privileged position
as a foreigner in Shanghai’s international community, his initial support for
and later dismissal of the ideas of Leon Trotsky, and his personal relationship
with Trotsky himself. And above all,
CHEN concludes, Isaacs had been influenced by the opinions and materials
provided by his Chinese collaborator Liu Renqing. CHEN believes that his study
of Harold Isaacs helps contextualize the debate over the impact of the
Stalin-Trotsky rivalry on the Chinese revolution. In addition, it highlights the multiple layers of
partially-incongruent, politically-charged interpretation that are almost
inevitably present in Western studies of the history of the revolution.
The Stories of How Chinese Becoming American
The second session
focuses on Chinese American History in the United
States. SONG Jingyi (State University of New York College at Old Westbury
reconstructs Chinese women’s activism in New York’s Chinatown during World War
II. Situating her study at a critical moment in the history of New York’s
Chinatown and examining the anti-war effort of the community in general and
that of women in particular, she argues that it is inadequate to understand
Chinese Americans’ enthusiastic support of their home land’s war effort as
simply a reflection of their strong sense of nationalism, largely reinforced by
the hostility they faced in their host land. As she argues, particularly for
the American born Chinese, men as well as women, wartime was also an important
period for them to develop their dual identities. By denouncing the U.S. for
supplying oil to Japan; publicly questioning its neutrality policy; urging it
to take a stand against Japanese aggression in the early years of the war, and
by joining the U.S. Army and participating in all kinds of war related
activities after the U.S. entered the war, they expressed their strong concern
for the country where they were born and exercised their responsibilities as
patriotic Americans.
LI Xiaobing (University of Central Oklahoma)’s study of the Chinese experience in
Oklahoma and Ling Z. ARENSON (DePaul
University)’s study on the Chinese
communities in Chicago constitute
departures from the much studied major Chinese settlements on the East and West
Coasts. LI Xiaobing discusses the
“underground Chinatown” in Oklahoma
City. This Chinese community, discovered in 1969, was
under five Chinese business shops in the downtown area. It was said to be about
a mile long, covering two blocks. About 100 to 150 Chinese lived in the
basements in this underground Chinese community between 1900 and 1930. By
discussing this little known Chinese experience in Oklahoma,
Li has argued that although the labor shortage, coupled with a lower level of
prejudice and racial discrimination in Oklahoma,
especially in the Indian Territory, drew a small number
of Chinese from the West Coast as early as the 1880s, this Oklahoma
advantage had its limitations. As early as 1890s, constrained by the limited
possibility of economic advancement in the Indian Territory,
more and more Chinese moved to Oklahoma City,
where they lived in basements under Chinese stores and engaged in service
occupations, primarily hand laundries and restaurants, as did their
counterparts elsewhere. Some of them were believed to have died and were buried
there, near where they had lived. Both metaphorically and factually, this
underground world was powerful evidence of the wide spread hostility against
Chinese during the Exclusion era. Li’s
study has surely added a new regional and spatial dimension to our
understanding of the drudgery and hardship Chinese immigrants had to undergo
during the Exclusion era (1882-1943).
Focusing on a
different period, Ling ARENSON
studies recent changes in the Chinese communities in Chicago,
which is to this date a largely under-studied area of Chinese experience in America.
By carefully tracing the development of the Chinese communities in different
parts of the city and identifying factors that led to the differences within
and between them, ARENSON has presented to us a complex picture very important
for understanding recent Chinese experiences in the Midwest.
Although Chicago Chinese communities are fractured by multiple centrifugal
forces, shaped by their members’ economic, cultural, political, educational,
and generational differences, ARENSON remains optimistic about their future. As
she argues, despite all the conflicts and divisions, “there is one ultimate
factor that will eventually bond them together—loyalty to the land that they
bet their future on.” How would this “ultimate factor” help form coalitions
among members of the Chinese communities, however temporal or expedient these
coalitions could be, to advance their common cause? This will be an important
area for future study, not only of the under-studied Chinese experience in the
Midwest but also of the much studied major Chinese settlements on the East and
West Coasts, members of which also came from increasingly diverse backgrounds.
Women’s Roles in Late Imperial and Modern China
The third session
addresses the issue of women’s roles in modern China.
It explores choices made by women in modern China
regarding whether or not to live within the prescribed roles defined for them
by their societies. Furthermore, it also discusses how women’s choices have
impacted Chinese culture and society. Despite the constrictions on women’s sphere
of influence, Chinese women, by their daily decisions and behaviors, changed
and continue to change the history, culture and politics of their society.
Women in China
have propelled public, political and academic discussions and policies,
sometimes without stepping outside their parents’ homes.
LU Weijing (Mary
Washington University)
discusses the debate over the Faithful Maiden and provides insight into the
reasons for the female fidelity cult that swept late imperial Chinese society.
She points out that the act by betrothed women stirred debate. The faithful
maidens inserted themselves into public and scholarly discourse despite the
restrictions placed on women to produce such discourse. Some scholars attacked
the faithful maiden practice while others supported it. Often times, as Lu
concludes, scholars’ opinions were more determined by their own personal
experience than their scholarship. A scholar whose own daughter chose to go and
live with her dead finance’s family, dying an early death, may have witnessed
his own condemnation of the practice wither away. Faithfulness to the ancient marriage rituals
established by Confucius and other sages were at the center of the scholars’
debates over this practice. Furthermore, by calling into question the contemporary
meaning of ancient marriage rituals, the scholars also, perhaps without
intention, called into question all ancient rituals and their authority in a
new day.
WANG Shou (California
State University
at Stanislaus) explores the choices made by many Manchu women during the Qing
dynasty not to marry after returning home from their time served at the palace
in Beijing. Despite the fact that
these women were eligible for marriage, even if they had been gone from their
homes for five years and a good deal older than most brides, many chose to
remain in their parents’ homes, either marrying later or not at all. WANG asks
two major questions: 1) Why did these women choose not to marry; and 2) What
impact did these choices have on the Chinese and Manchu acculturation process?
As to the reason why these Manchu women chose not to marry, She explains that
they were better off if they did not marry. Young Manchu girls were held in
high esteem because of their potential to work in the palace and/or marry into
the imperial family. Those girls chosen to serve in the palace were compensated
with money equal to a Manchu man’s annual income. Likewise, older women whose
children had grown and married and whose sons’ families lived under their roofs
also enjoyed status, often controlling the household. However, middle-aged
married women, those who were not a member of either of the above two groups
and who lived with their husbands’ families, had little social power or status.
WANG argues that wives were more likely to be dominated by their mothers-in-law
than their fathers-in-law or husbands. For these reasons, many Manchu women
chose not to marry.
WANG Guanhua (University
of Connecticut) deals
with patterns of career choices of retired women athletes in the post-cultural
revolution China.
He studies three groups of women athletes: former world champions, national
team members, provincial or lower level team members. WANG concludes
that, in terms of women's liberation, the case of women athletes in China
is at best an irony: they are liberated to perform for their country and
then, more likely than not, retire to their more traditional roles both at
home and in the society.
Contemporary Chinese Historiography
The fourth session discusses Chinese historiography in the
post-Mao era. CHEN
Shiwei (Lake Forest College)
examines the recent development of the historiography of Chinese science. The history of Chinese science and
technology is a field of study marked in crucial ways by its own history. Traditionally, Chinese historians paid great
attention to the acquisition of historical texts and to their philology. They
found historical materials from classics that could be used to verify the
advancement of Chinese science and technology as a distinguishing characteristic
of Chinese civilization. This approach
enabled Chinese historians to develop a common methodology toward the
interpretation of science that is still being used by many historians. In recent years, most studies on the history
of science and technology in People’s Republic are still related to the
traditional topics such as mathematics, astronomy, divination, military
technology, and medicine. While these
studies are particularly fruitful in collecting original materials and
rediscovering important documentations, they did not supply a sufficient ground
for addressing the more comprehensive issues such as the transmission and
influence of science, interpretation of historians of science and their works,
the social, institutional and regional history of science, comparison of
bioethics between the East and the West, and topics that combine the domains of
philosophy, metaphysics and science.
Chen concludes that the traditional approaches used by Chinese scholars have
not surpassed the “science-and-civilization” framework created by Joseph
Needham several decades ago, in which science was conceptualized as a unified
body of knowledge to provide a measure for determining the process of
civilization toward modernity in both West and East.
CHENG Weikun (California
State University
at Chico) focuses on women in urban
public space. He points outs that urban women try to colonize public realm and
turn the “unfamiliar” to the “familiar,” a way to expand their everyday space
and build supportive networks. When
women use and occupy urban public spaces, they compete with men for the control
of urban resources; they challenge the rules of segregation and discrimination;
and they transform the exclusive habit of men and create an open-minded “public
space.” By studying women in urban
public space, CHENG argues that we can better understand such issues as the
separate spheres/spaces, redistribution of urban resources, transgressive
behavior, state regulations and control, and gender politics.
CHEN
Yixin (University of North
Carolina at Wilmington)
discusses recent Chinese scholarship on modern Chinese rural economy. He points
out that China's
rural reform from 1979 has imposed new issues on Chinese scholars. By redistributing land to individual farming
families, China’s
economic reform generated a process of profound de-collectivization. The reform and its consequential problems
have forced scholars to seek a new understanding of the Maoist agricultural
policy programs and further into the era of pre-Maoist China. During past ten years or so, CHEN shows, at
lease three sets of new knowledge have emerged. The first is a study of north China's rural market towns, done by
historians at the Institute of Modern History of Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences. By computing the number of
market towns that had increased by ten times from the 1890s to 1930s, these
historians reveal that rural north China had experienced a rapid
commercialization in modern times rather than being a backward agricultural
area. The second includes studies of
Jiangnan by Cao Xingsui and other agricultural economic historians. Their works show that permanent tenancies,
unlike previously assumed being exploitative of the poor peasants, actually
gave incentives to tenant farmers and enabled them to make a contribution to an
overall growth of agricultural production in modern Jiangnan. The third
involves a collective research on modern agricultural technology by scholars at
the Institute of Agricultural History of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural
Science. Their works show that during the Republican era, the Chinese state had
made great efforts to promote agricultural education, research, finance,
farming extension, and technological developments. Although some of these works were interrupted by the Japanese
invasion and the Civil War, many, such as improved seed varieties, played an
important role in agriculture during the 1940s and continued their influence
into the People's Republic.
WANG
Xi (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) explores recent trends
in the study of American history in China.
He reports that the Chinese studies of American history have witnessed an
unprecedented growth in the past two decades (1980-2000). The fields of
research have expanded from the traditional political and labor history to
social, economic and urban histories, reflecting the growing interest in
American experience of modernization.
Other subjects, such as race and ethnic studies (including Chinese-American
history) and women's history, have also been chosen as important subjects for
graduate theses. The progress owes to a
large degree to a much greater space for academic research, as well as to the
availability of research resources-via ever-expanding translations of works by
American historians, frequent exchange programs, and the increasing access to
primary materials online. With this new
academic environment, Chinese historians of American history are able to absorb
contemporary scholarship of American history in the United States and produce a
much more up-to-date, detailed and balanced writings in the field. Some of the doctoral dissertations by
Chinese students begin to make ways to the English-speaking world. The field of
research, however, continues to confront a number of daunting challenges,
especially in mastering the vast historiography of American history as produced
in the United States,
creating more up-to-date syntheses on such vital subjects of American history
as slavery, constitutionalism, economic development, education, state- and
nation-building, and reinvigorating strong graduate training programs. All this, WANG says, is fundamental to the
development of a unique and substantive Chinese interpretation of American
history.
Finally, ZHANG Xin
(Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis)
reflects on some new scholarship of Chinese history in China
while WANG Di (Texas
A&M University)
briefly introduces latest development of historical criticism in China.
Photos from CHUS panels at the 2003 AHA annual meeting in Chicago:
From left: SONG
Jinyi, BAO Xiaolan, LI Hongshan, Ling ARENSON
From Left: Janine
DENOMME, WANG Guanhua, WANG Shuo, LU Weijing, YAO
Ping
Members News
YANG Guocun Presents Papers on Fugitive Slaves at UK
Conference
CHEN Jian Heads Virginia’s
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
CHEN Jian, C. K.
Yen Professor of Chinese-American Relations and Professor of History at the University
of Virginia, recently was appointed
as chair of UVA ‘s Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and
Cultures. He was also appointed as a senior associate at the Cold War
International History Project at the Woodrow
Wilson Center
in Washington, D. C. He has maintained an active agenda for research,
publication and other scholarly activities. Together with Chen Zhihong, he
translated Odd Arne Westad’s Cold War and
Revolution into Chinese, which was recently published by Guangxi Normal
University Press (广西师范大学出版社).
Eleven of his articles and essays will be published in Historical Research (历史研究),
The China Journal, Journal of Cold War Studies, Diplomatic History, International History Review, Asia
Perspectives, and several essay collections.
Welcome New Members
CHUS welcomes two new members: Professors WANG Shuo and CHENG Yinghong. WANG Shuo received her B.A. from Beijing
Teachers College (1982), M.A. from Beijing
University (1985), and Ph.D. from Michigan
State University
(2002). She is currently an assistant
professor in the Department of History at California
State University
at Stanislaus, teaching world civilization, East Asian and Chinese
history. She has published articles in
both China and
the United States
on Qing dynasty and Manchu women.
From the Board of
Directors
CHUS Financial
Report, January 1
2002 – February 6, 2003
Reported by SUN Yi, Treasurer of CHUS
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Beginning balance
on 01/02/2002
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$13,095.92
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Incomes
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Membership fees
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$740.00
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Interest
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$76.07
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Expenditures
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Publication costs of newsletters
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$249.69
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AHA annual meeting program fee (for CHUS panels)
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$175.00
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Ending balance on February
6, 2003
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$13,487.30
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CHUS Board of Directors,
2003-2005
President
WANG Di
Department of History
101 History Building
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4236
Tel: 979-845-5960; Fax: 979-862-4314
E-mail: di-wang@tamu.edu
Secretary and Treasurer:
SUN Yi
Department of History
5998 Alcala Park
University of San Diego
San Diego, CA 92110-2492
Tel: 619- 260-6811; Fax: 619-260-2272
E-mail: ysun@acusd.edu
Organizational Coordinator:
TIAN Xiansheng
Department of History
Metropolitan State College of Denver
P.O. Box 173362
Denver, CO 80217-3362
Tel: 303-556-5349; Fax: 303- 556-2671.
E-mail: tian@mscd.edu
Primary Contact
Editor, Chinese Historians (
Journal):
LIU Yawei
Department of Social Sciences
Georgia Perimeter College
Lawrenceville, GA 30043-5704
Tel: 770-339-2319; Fax: 770-339-2336
E-mail: labywl@emory.edu
CHUS Web Manager
YAO Ping
Department of History
California State University,
Los Angeles
5151 State University Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90032
Tel: 322-343-2023
E-mail: pyao@calstatela.edu
Conferences/Programs/Announcements
The International
Conference on Globalization and Higher Education is to be held in Guizhou
University, Guizhou, China,
May 18-20, 2003. For more information, see
<http://www.wcupa.edu/_facstaff/facdev/RFP-Guizhou%20General.htm>,
or contact Dr. HONG (George) Zhaohui, Associate Vice President, Sponsored
Research and Faculty Development, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West
Chester, PA 19383, USA, Tel: 610-436-3310, Fax: 610-436-2689, email: ghong@wcupa.edu (O), hong826@comcast.net (H)
The Association of
Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States (ACPSS) is
inviting papers and panels for presentation at the 9th International Conference on Social Changes and Cultural Consciousness, to be held on
October 24-26 (Friday to
Sunday), 2003 at UNLV (University
of Nevada-Las
Vegas).
Please send a paper abstract and/or
panel proposal of no more than 200 words to Dr. Shuming Lu (Department of
Speech Communication Arts & Sciences, The City University of New
York-Brooklyn College, Brooklyn,
NY 11210)
by May 1, 2003, by e-mail at smlu@juno.com , or
by fax at: (718) 951-4167.
The Third
International Conference On Knowledge, Culture And Change In Organisations
will be held Bayview Beach Resort, Batu
Ferringhi Beach,
Penang, Malaysia,
11-14 August 2003. The conference,
featured with the theme of knowledge management, will be hosted by the Faculty
of Business with the Globalism Institute at RMIT Melbourne, Universiti Sains
Malaysia Penang and the Singapore Institute of Management. It will include
major keynote papers by internationally renowned speakers and numerous
small-group workshop and paper presentation sessions. For more information, see
<http://www.ManagementConference.com>.
2003 Summer Intensive
Chinese Program At Nanjing University, China,
organized by Pennsylvania Asian-Pacific Institute at Penn
State University. The program offers American students 2
sessions of Summer Intensive Chinese Program in 2003, running from July 7-August
7, 2003, at Nanjing University.
Class schedule includes Intensive Chinese language courses for four weeks (4
periods each day, five days each week) and 1 week study tour of Shanghai
and Beijing. Send the application form and financial aids
inquires to the following address: Pennsylvania Asian-Pacific Institute (PAI), 1476
Ridge Master Drive, State College, PA
16803. Tel.: 814-883-8439 Fax
814-237-9525, or Email: pai@usasiaedu.org. Application could also be sent online: <www.usasiaedu.org>. Application
Deadline: April 15, 2003
M.E.
Sharpe is looking for an
editor of the Asian-American history volume of a multi-volume reference book.
If you are interested in this project, please contact Dr. James Ciment
(james.ciment@verizon.net), consulting editor, or Andrew Gyory
(agyory@mesharpe.com), executive editor at M.E. Sharpe.
Editor’s Notebook
For any careful reader of the Newsletter,
there is at least a constant problem of inconsistency in the recent
issues. The problem involves the proper
order of our members’ names. How should
a Chinese name-in this case, our members’ names--appear properly in publication such as this one? Should our immediate past president’s name, for example, be spelt
as “Zhai Qiang”, or “Qiang Zhai”, “ZHAI
Qiang”, or “Qiang ZHAI”? What about the
name of Dr. Hong Zhaohui, one of our past presidents? He has an English first name, George. Should his name appear as “George Z. H. Hong”, “Hong George”, or
simply “George Hong”? Of course, things
would be much simpler if people inform me of how they would like their names to
appear in print, but the problem is that naming orders are coming in all kinds
of formalities. I have been trying to
find a way that might offer some sort of consistency, but I must confess it is
difficult to accomplish such seemingly very simple mission. For the moment, I have adopted a simple
mechanism, that is, whenever a member’s name appear the first time, his or her
last name is capitalized and the name follows the original Chinese naming
order-surname name is followed by personal name. I am not sure that this is the best way to solve the problem of
confusion or whether our members would like to accept it, in either case, I
need to hear from you how I should handle this issue. Any of your suggestion about this matter and other aspects of the
newsletter is welcome and appreciated.
Thanks.