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We have had a remarkable year at the Institute of Asian Research. Newfaculty members, a host of dynamic visitors, new research projects, inter-disciplinary seminar programs, and expanded teaching offerings, all havecontributed to the Institute’s ongoing program of combining policyrelevance with local knowledge. The University conducted an externalreview of the Institute of Asian Research for the period 1998-2003. Thereview was an exceedingly helpful exercise that combined praise for IARachievements with recommendations for new approaches and activitiesand calls for additional structural and resource support.

The MAPPS program welcomed the establishment of a new research unit on Asia Pacific Businessand Economic Policy under the leadership of Dr. Ilan Vertinsky. New seminars for the MAPPSprogram included Globalization and Local Culture (Dr. Hyung Gu Lynn), Institutional DevelopmentIn Asia (Dr. Julian Dierkes), and Intellectuals in Contemporary China (Dr. Timothy Cheek). As well,the MAPPS graduate students helped to organize a three-day Graduate Student Conference in Feb-ruary 2004 on the theme of contrasting universal values with local knowledge. The keynote speaker,Professor Donald K. Emmerson, Director of the Southeast Asia Forum and Senior Fellow, Institutefor International Studies, Stanford University, brought practical insights and intellectual depth tothe discussions.

The Institute hosted a range of interdisciplinary research and policy seminars and colloquia duringthe past year. Topics ranged from Japanese ethnicity to good governance in Indonesia, globaliza-tion in China, and Korean nuclear security. The Institute was pleased to host an internationalconference in honor of Professor Alex Woodside on “The Chinese State at the Borders,” as well asthe annual meeting of SACPAN (South Asia Colloquium of the Pacific Northwest). These kinds ofseminar activities are essential to IAR’s programs - disseminating research results, inspiring stu-dent learning, and drawing together the Institute community to build knowledge about Asia.

Research activities at the Institute continue. Our SSHRC/MCRI funded project on Cross CulturalDispute Resolution supports archival and survey research, with micro-projects on issues of migra-tion and human rights, corporate governance, and the impact of local legal cultures on selectiveadaptation. Our project on China’s laws and policies in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Taiwan continues aswell. There are ongoing new projects on urbanization in Southeast Asia (Dr. Michael Leaf, Directorof the Centre for Southeast Asia Research), intellectual history in China (Dr. Timothy Cheek, LouisCha Chair in Chinese Research), educational policies in Japan (Dr. Julian Dierkes, Keidanren Chair inJapanese Research), and Northeast Asia security (Dr. Paul Evans, Director of IAR’s Program on CanadaAsia Policy Studies and Dr. Kyung-Ae Park, Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Research). Newresearch projects include research on China’s military history (Dr. Diana Lary, Senior ResearchFellow) and colonial imagery in Korea (Dr. Hyung Gu Lynn, AECL/KEPCO Chair in Korean Research).As well, Dr. Julian Dierkes is a co-investigator with Dr. Yves Tiberghien of the Department of Politi-cal Science on a European Union-funded research project involving tri-continental partnerships inresponse to global issues in the EU, Japan and Canada.

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The Institute is delighted to welcome new Centre Directors and faculty members. Dr. Alison Baileywas appointed Acting Director of the Centre for Chinese Research for 2003-04, and was appointedFull Director beginning July 1, 2004. We are especially pleased to welcome Dr. Timothy Brook asthe Republic of China Chair in the Centre for Chinese Research, effective July 1, 2004. While Dr.Brook will be serving as Principal of St. John’s College, he will also be a part of our ContemporaryTibetan Studies Program. Dr. Ashok Kotwal was appointed Director of the Centre for India andSouth Asia Research effective July 2003. Milind Kandlikar has been jointly appointed at IAR and theLiu Institute for Global Issues. Dr. Kandlikar will be handling methodology and infrastructure policyin the MAPPS program, and continuing with his active research agenda on sustainable develop-ment. The Institute appointed Dr. Abidin Kusno to be a Canada Research Chair in the Centre forSoutheast Asia Research and Dr. Amanda Weidman as the Asa and Kashmir Johal Chair in India andSouth Asia Research. These appointments will take effect in 2004 and 2005 respectively.

The Institute also welcomed Dr. Claude Comtois as the Visiting Chevalier Professor in Transporta-tion and Local Development in China. Dr. Comtois brought his extensive expertise and experiencein transportation policy issues to bear on China’s development program, delivering a series ofpublic lectures and graduate student seminars.

The highlight of the past year for many was the visit to UBC by His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lamaand other Nobel Prize Laureates and visionary thinkers in April 2004. Honorary degrees wereconferred on the Dalai Lama, Professor Shirin Ebadi (2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate), andArchbishop Desmond Tutu (1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate). The Institute’s ContemporaryTibetan Studies Program was launched with an academic conference on Tibet in the ContemporaryWorld. A Roundtable Dialogue brought together His Holiness, Dr. Jo-Ann Archibald, Rabbi ZalmanSchachter-Shalomi, Professor Ebadi and Archbishop Tutu to discuss the need to balance educatingthe mind with educating the heart. All in all, the visit (discussed in greater detail later inthis Annual Report) was a transformative experience for the Institute, the University, andthe community.

On a personal note, I would like to thank all the faculty, students and staff of the Institute of AsianResearch, as well as the broad community of friends and supporters across the University andbeyond for their steadfast encouragement, support, and friendship over the past five years. I willbe on leave from the Institute during 2004-05, and Dr. Timothy Cheek, Louis Cha Chair in ChineseResearch, will serve as Acting Director during this time. I have been privileged to have the oppor-tunity to work with and learn from a wide array of wonderful people associated in many differentways with the Institute of Asian Research, and for this I am profoundly grateful.

Dr. Pitman B. Potter,Director


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1. Centre for Japanese Research hosted seminar given by Ron Dore, foremost Englishlanguage expert on Japanese society and economy, 10 April 2003.

2. A one-day seminar on “Good Governance for Regional Cooperation and Development inIndonesia” was presented by the Centre for Southeast Asia Research in commemorationof 50 years of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and Canada, 19 June 2003.

3. Appointment of Dr. Alison Bailey, UBC Department of Asian Studies, as Acting Directorof the Centre for Chinese Research, 01 July 2003.

4. Appointment of Dr. Ashok Kotwal, Professor at UBC School of Economics, as newDirector of the Centre for India and South Asia Research, 01 July 2003.

5. Establishment of the Asia Pacific Business and Economic Policy Research Unit,September 2003.

6. An international conference celebrating 40 years of Korean-Canadian relations washosted by the Centre for Korean Research, 03 October 2003.

7. “China Globalizing: People, Beliefs and Ideas” – conference organized by the Centre forChinese Research funded by the Chinese Research Centre Endowment, 24 -25 October 2003.

8. Ambassador Soo-Gil Park, President of the Korea-Canada Society, made an addresson the North Korean nuclear issues and East Asian security, 03 November 2003.

9. “Dimensions of Japanese Ethnicity Within and Without, 1543 – 1945” – a two-dayconference hosted by Centre for Japanese Research with grant from the JapanFoundation, 6-7 November 2003.

10. “The Chinese State at the Borders,” an international conference in honour of ProfessorAlexander Woodside, hosted by the Centre for Chinese Research, 16-17 January 2004.

11. Three-day IAR graduate student conference on the theme of contrasting “universal values” with “local knowledge” in Asia was hosted by MAPPS students andfaculty, 5-7 February 2004.

12. Annual South Asia colloquium of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN) conference hostedseveral scholars and graduate students from the University of Washington, Simon FraserUniversity and UBC, 27-28 February 2004.

13. A three-day visit by His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama marked by several public eventsheld in UBC campus and in Vancouver, 18 – 20 April 2004.


clockwise from top:His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lamahosted by IAR at the UBC campus;Centre for Japanese Researchhosts Dr. Ron Dore of the London School of Economics;IAR annual Christmas party;below:Dr. Paul Evans with memorial photo and plaque ofOm Radsady, Cambodian humanitarian;far left:Welcoming greetingto the graduate students’ conference:Asia Pacific: Local Knowledge vs. Western Theory

14. IAR hosts an academic conference on “Tibet in the Contemporary World” toinaugurate the Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program, 19 – 20 April 2004.

15. Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Dr. Shirin Ebadi joined their fellow NobelPeace Laureate, His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, and other luminaries, RabbiZalman Schachter-Shalomi and Dr. Jo-Ann Archibald in a roundtable discussionon the theme of balancing educating the mind with educating the heart,20 April 2004.


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2003-04 HIGHLIGHTSThe Institute of Asian Research’sMaster of Arts - Asia Pacific PolicyStudies has had a banner year. Anexternal review concluded thatMAPPS is widely perceived byfaculty, students and administra-tors to be a major success story. Inthree short years it has placeditself “on the map” of NorthAmerican policy schools. It admit-ted twenty-three students from approximately a hundred and thirty applications, with about halfof the entering class from North America and half from Asia.

The program involves a student-directed combination of seminars within the Institute offered bypermanent members of faculty, seminars and courses across the university, and a choice of eithera practicum (internship, co-op, field research) or thesis route for completing the degree. Practicumplacements are a major attraction for students and recent MAPPS students have arranged place-ments in more than 25 organizations in 11 countries. The program this year awarded fiveentrance scholarships, provided five infrastructure policyawards funded by Power Corporation ofCanada, and assisted seven other students in locating RA and TA assignments.

Fifteen students graduated this year have moved to positions in Ph.D. programs, governmentagencies in Ottawa including DFAIT and Transport Canada, and private sector and NGO jobs inCanada, the US and three Asian countries.

Dr. Paul Evans,Chair,

IAR Teaching Committee

top:MAPPS cohort 2003

left:graduating MAPPS students,November 2003


The 2003-2004 MAPPS Student Association wasin full swing with a number of parties, specialevents, and other stress releasing activities. Therundown of events followed very fittingly withthe season holidays.

The first two months began with a real sense ofcomradeship as many of us realized that weshared similar interests and experiences. Muchof this forging of relationships was establishedon hikes up Chief Mountain or in the darkenclaves of Koerner’s Pub. In retrospect, theywere good times. Because little did we knowthat it was the lull before the storm. Quicklyrealizing that our papers could not be put offindefinitely, we threw a Halloween bash whereeveryone dressed up as their alter ego and letloose. But the day after, the nature of our rela-tionships with each other changed as wesupported one another through the toughNovember and December paper writing months.

Fortunately, there were few casualties. We wereable to regain any vision loss from the longnights of staring at the computer screen in timeto organize a Christmas party. Since we had all

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just finished our first semester, it was only natu-ral to want to dress up for the riches and powerthat would soon be waiting for us. This formalgathering was truly a spectacle where jeans andt-shirts were replaced with suits and gowns. But,at the strike of midnight, silence filled the hallsbecause we knew that soon we would be trans-formed back into the poor students we are.

Although, there were other festivities toreminisce on, the one that should never be for-gotten is Holly Coutt’s Baby Shower. It was se-cretly organized by a handful of students whoslaved away making a feast of the ages to wel-come a newborn that was only a month awayfrom taking her first breath. We all gatheredand shared in Mother Holly’s glow before thebeautiful and tender Alexandra was born.

Two days after we welcomed the new additionto our MAPPS family, it was time for us to saygood-bye to one another with a last farewelldinner at La Bodega. It was a heartwarming eventwhere our glasses were never empty andlaughter replaced silence. This year togetherwill echo in our memories because we were notjust a student association, but were a family – aMAPPS family.

Joey ComeauMAPPS Students’ Association

MAPPSSAorganizesboth social andacademic activitiesfor MAPPSstudents


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From February 5 to 7, 2004, MAPPS studentsand faculty hosted a 3-day graduate researchconference on the theme of contrasting ‘univer-sal values’ with ‘local knowledge’ in Asia. IARhas always embodied the notion of policy-relevant research in the Asia-Pacific region basedupon local knowledge, and this was a stimulat-ing way of allowing graduate students fromacross UBC and elsewhere to debate the distinctand sometimes divergent approaches based onthese two research methodologies.

The keynote speaker was Dr. Don Emmerson,Director of the Southeast Asian Forum andSenior Fellow, Institute for International

Studies, Stanford University (top picture, farright). Dr. Emmerson gave a talk on the inter-play between local knowledge and universal(sometimes understood as Western) values,theory and policy prescriptions: ‘The Clash ofInspirations: Presumptive Universals vs. the Cultof Local Knowledge’.

Graduate students from many disciplines withinUBC and colleges in the region gave a widevariety of research papers in panels focusing onhistorical perspectives, contemporary socialtrends, globalization, and security practice. IARwill soon produce a publication of theconference proceedings.

At the end of the second day’s events, an eveningof entertainment was provided by the studentorganizing committee, including an ‘Asian triviaquiz’ which was won by the faculty team, com-prising Drs. Alison Bailey, Don Baker, TimothyCheek, Julian Dierkes, Paul Evans, Michael Leafand Scott MacLeod (beginners’ luck!). Visitorfrom the USA, Don Emmerson, read out one ofhis poems on ‘NAFTA’ and Dr. Jan Walls, fromSimon Fraser University played a bamboo instru-ment called “clappers” and recited improvised‘shulaibao’ or ‘Chinese rap’.

top:IAR faculty and students

with Donald Emmerson (farright) , keynote speaker

at the conference

right:conference in progress


THE PARTNERSIn the first instance, IAR wasfortunate to have the full sup-port of President Martha Piperand the Faculty of GraduateStudies throughout the pre-paratory stages. Close collabo-ration with UBC Ceremoniesand Events, Campus Securityand Public Affairs offices werepivotal to success. The First Na-tions House of Learning offeredHis Holiness a Musqueam wel-come, setting the tone for thewhole visit. Outside partners in-cluded: the Tibetan CulturalSociety of British Columbia, acoalition of local dharmagroups, Westcoast Sacred ArtsSociety/Vancouver SymphonyOrchestra, and Simon FraserUniversity. Each took responsi-bility for a specific event andlent energy and experience tooverall planning. Behind eachinstitution were numerous

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The combination of privilege,opportunity and obligation thatcharacterizes so many of IAR’sacademic and communityoutreach activities reached itsfinest expression this year inthe visit of His Holiness theDalai Lama. Two years ago thatopportunity was a mere flashof inspiration on the part ofPitman Potter: His Holinesswould be asked to deliver a Key-note Address to launch the con-ference that would inauguratea Contemporary Tibetan Stud-ies Program within the Insti-tute. The prospect of the visit,however, galvanized public de-sire to honor His Holiness andto benefit from his presence.

What began as amodest vision ex-panded to sevenpublic events, withparticipation by

other eminent persons, includ-ing fellow Nobel LaureatesArchbishop Desmond Tutuand Shirin Ebadi. For those inthe throes of planning, thesense of opportunity wouldsoon be overtaken by a deep-ening sense of privilege andconcomitant obligation to beas inclusive of the public aspossible. The process was ajourney with hazards and risks,as well as inspirational vistasand rewards. His Holiness’ visitin April 18-20, 2004 became aremarkable, many facetedevent shared with many valuedpartners and enjoyed by manythousands in the city ofVancouver.

photo: Carey Hinde

photo: Carey Hinde


individuals and stakeholders,tireless contributors andvolunteers. Webcasting and widetelevision coverage brought sev-eral events into the homes ofmillions. Indicative of a generalcontagion of enthusiasm wasthe emergence of an independ-ent community group thatmounted over 65 artistic activi-ties to celebrate His Holiness’presence in the city. While theInstitute may take credit forspearheading the overall initia-tive of the visit, there is no ques-tion that the scale of outreachachieved would have been im-possible without these commit-ted partners.

PROFILE of the MAIN EVENTS

Spiritual TeachingSpiritual TeachingSpiritual TeachingSpiritual TeachingSpiritual TeachingThe first of seven public events,the Spiritual Teaching was spon-sored by a coalition of tendharma centers in the LowerMainland, which came togetherfor that specific purpose. Illus-trative of the kind of publicpressures involved, 7,000 seatsfor the Spiritual Teaching andthe Public Talk sold out withinfifteen minutes of going on sale.It became evident that ques-tions of scale needed urgentrevisiting. Both events moved tothe Pacific Coliseum, a quantumleap in terms of every aspect ofplanning.The Spiritual Teach-ing, entitled “Good Heart – FullLife” took place on April 18, ina packed Pacific Coliseum. Withan audience of over 12,000 peo-ple, one could hear a pin dropas His Holiness elaborated onthe nature of compassion and

reality. Though encased in tra-ditional Buddhist concepts, hisdiscussion of how altered per-ceptions of life and fellow sen-tient beings could relieve hu-man suffering was accessible toa wide public. At the same time,his analytical treatment of thefoundations of compassion andinterdependent co-originationwere a rare treat for Tibetansand Buddhists alike.

Public TalkPublic TalkPublic TalkPublic TalkPublic TalkSponsored by the Tibetan Cul-tural Society of BC, the PublicTalk also took place on April 18,with yet another full house of12,000 at the Pacific Coliseum.Introduced by his long-timefriend, Archbishop DesmondTutu, His Holiness spoke on afavorite topic: “Universal Re-sponsibility.” The concept ofuniversal responsibility em-braces some of the most

photos: (left to right)Doane Gregory, R. Semeniuk, E. Rausenberg

photos: left, E. Rausenberg; right, Doane Gregory


number of subsequent queries,demonstrated that the inaugu-ration of a ContemporaryTibetan Studies Program wastimely indeed.

Musical TributeMusical TributeMusical TributeMusical TributeMusical TributeAnother sold-out event withsome 2700 audience members,the Musical Tribute was anoccasion for expressing thepure joy of having His Holinessamong us. Sponsored by theWestcoast Sacred Arts Societytogether with the VancouverSymphony Orchestra, theevening was emceed by GoldieHawn and included three worldpremier performances in HisHoliness’ honor. The VancouverInter-cultural Orchestra and a250 voice peace choir for chil-dren, youth and adults joinedto create a remarkably diverse“Celebration for Peace.”

contemporary issues of globalcommunity, security and envi-ronmental sustainability.Though secular in appeal, theconcept flows directly from HisHoliness’ spiritual messagesconcerning wisdom and com-passion as the basis forpeaceful co-existence.

Convocation CeremoniesConvocation CeremoniesConvocation CeremoniesConvocation CeremoniesConvocation CeremoniesThe conferral of honoraryDoctor of Laws degrees on HisHoliness, Archbishop DesmondTutu and Shirin Ebadi markeda historic first for both UBC andSFU. The two separate convo-cation ceremonies for the threeNobel Laureates were adramatic statement that theworld needs visionaries of thiscaliber if it is to steer a coursefor humanity. They were equallya statement that universitieshave a role to play in thatchallenge.

UBC’s convocation at the ChanCenter enchanted an audienceof over 1200 with its combina-tion of ritual ceremony,culturally rich music and thewonderful spontaneity ofspeakers. The event was punc-tuated with standing ovationsat regular intervals, in recogni-tion of the stature of thehonored guests and the grav-ity of what they represent.

This was also the occasionfor His Holiness to delivera Keynote Address, to launchthe academic conference onTibet in the ContemporaryWorld and to inauguratethe IAR’s ContemporaryTibetan Studies Program. Thespeech underscored His Holi-ness’ keen interest in seeing ahigh level of scholarshipdevoted to Tibet at a time whenit is undergoing rapid social,political and economic change.

Research is critical, he empha-sized, for guiding exchangeson policy issues.

Academic ConferenceAcademic ConferenceAcademic ConferenceAcademic ConferenceAcademic ConferenceIAR’s two-day conference onTibet in the ContemporaryWorld gathered 15 leadingacademics in this young fieldof scholarship. It was the larg-est conference of its type everheld in Canada, with 250registered attendees and asubstantial waiting list. Some42% were informed membersof the general public, 43% werestudents and 15% were Faculty.The interdisciplinary mix oftopics and panelists was illus-trative of some of the mostinnovative research takingplace in North America, Europeand Asia. These included suchcutting edge themes as: tech-nology-facilitated collaborativeresearch, differential im-pacts of state led economicgrowth,Sino-Tibetan cyber-space and intergenerationalchange in nomadic areas.

The various presentationsamply demonstrated the needfor scholarly attention, asurged by His Holiness. Theinterest exhibited by panelistsand attendees, as well as the

photo: Doane Gregoryphoto: K. F. NgDalai Lama visit Steering Committee


frustration and paralysis felt bymany in the face of global chal-lenges. His message and theexamples of his fellow vision-aries sound a bright note ofoptimism. Ultimately, that maybe more empowering for thewell- intentioned listener thanits dark opposite.

Looking forward, however, thereal challenge is to construct aroad-map from the generalindications given. How domessages of universal respon-sibility and compassion look onthe ground where decisionshave to be made with complextrade-offs? What does it reallymean to invoke these messagesin policy formulation? With thisvisit, the Institute has openedthe door to exploring suchquestions. It also hopes tostimulate spin-off roundtablediscussions within the commu-nity, by making archival mate-rials of the visit available,together with briefing orpedagogical supplements.

AcknowledgementsAcknowledgementsAcknowledgementsAcknowledgementsAcknowledgementsThe Institute owes a specialdebt of gratitude to Victor Chanwho facilitated the contact withHis Holiness, and who chairedthe Organizing Committee forthe visit. It is also deeply grate-ful for the tremendous work of

Committee members: JoannaAshworth, Alison Bailey, CarlaBanfield, Eilis Courtney,Susanne Duska, Peter Elliot,Nancy Fischer, PhuntsokKakho, Angela Hryniuk, WilfHurd, Marietta Lao, BruceLovell, Tenzin Lhalungpa,Lorne Mayencourt, MadeleineMacIvor, Marilyn Pankratz,Pitman Potter, Erica Smishek,TC Tethong, Marion Tipple,Freydis Welland and MordehaiWosk. IAR is also indebted tomany individuals and organiza-tions that made major in-kindcontributions in several areas,including webcasting, designand printing, as well as tofinancial donors.

Susanne Duska,Project Co-ordinator

Roundtable DialogueRoundtable DialogueRoundtable DialogueRoundtable DialogueRoundtable DialogueThe visit’s finale was aRoundtable Dialogue on thetheme “Balancing Educating theMind with Educating the Heart,”held at the Chan Centre. HisHoliness was joined in thisextraordinary afternoon ofdiscussion by ArchbishopDesmond Tutu, Shirin Ebadi,Dr. Jo-Ann Archibald and RabbiSchachter-Shalomi, with BishopMichael Ingham as moderator.The Roundtable luminariesexamined the topic in the lightof their diverse experienceswith peace and reconciliation,emerging democracies, envi-ronmental stewardship andstruggles for social justice. Theconcentration of spiritual andmoral leadership representedin this panel of speakers lentweight to every utterance. Formany, the experience wastransformative.

In view of the tremendouspublic pressure to participatein the Roundtable Dialogue, anelaborate access system wasput into place. This includeduniversity and public lotteries,nominations by over 200 com-munity organizations workingin relevant areas with a rangeof socio-economic groups, andseparate essay competitionsfor high schools and studentsof SFU and UBC.

Retrospectively,Retrospectively,Retrospectively,Retrospectively,Retrospectively,Prospectively…Prospectively…Prospectively…Prospectively…Prospectively…In retrospect, it seems appro-priate to ask why this visitstimulated such scale andintensity of interest. As onenewspaper headliner put it:“There’s something happeninghere.” His Holiness’ insistenceon the individual’s moral re-sponsibility to engage in thepressing issues of the worldseems to cut through the

photo: Carey Hinde

SusanneDuskaand IainMcLellanawait HisHolinessat the Chan Centre


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Co-Directors: Dr. Masao Nakamura and Dr. Ilan Vertinsky

IAR’s Asia-Pacific Businessand Economic PolicyResearch unit was recentlyestablished to promoteresearch on issues pertinentto the economic transforma-tion and development ofAsian countries as well astheir trade relations in thePacific Rim. It also aims to fa-cilitate participation ofresearchers and graduatestudents from IAR and otheracademic units to getinvolved in Asia-relatedresearch. The followingresearch topics are currentlyunder investigation: traderegimes in Asia (with a focuson China’s membership inWTO); development offinancial centers in the Asia Pacific; economicdevelopment and transformation in the two deltaregions of China; entrepreneurship, small andmedium size enterprises, and overseas entre-preneurs in Asia; and infrastructure developmentin Asia. Currently the unit is based in Room 375of the C. K. Choi Building.

Some of these research activities are con-ducted for the research project entitled “ThePreeminence of International FinancialCenters in Asia Pacific Region” funded by theSecretariat for APEC Finance and DevelopmentProgram (AFDP).

The AFDP project involves the followingresearchers: Pitman Potter (IAR Director) as theprincipal investigator, and David Edgington(Geography), Maurice Levi (Sauder School ofBusiness), Masao Nakamura (IAR, Sauder Schoolof Business, Applied Science), Ilan Vertinsky(Graduate Studies, Sauder School of Business,IAR) and Matthew Au (Ph.D. student in the Fac-ulty of Law) as co-investigators. In addition, thefollowing M.A. students are participating inthe project: Martin Andresen (Geography),

Joey Comeau (MAPPS), Eleanor Gill (MAPPS),Belinda Hung (MAPPS), Aviva Li (MAPPS) andGe Ying (MAPPS).

Next year Professor Yasunori Katsurayama whospecializes in mathematical finance at the Schoolof Social Sciences of Waseda University in Tokyowill be visiting this unit as an IAR Visiting Scholarfor the period, March 30, 2005 - March 29, 2006.

Some of the recent publications and conferenceand other presentations on research topics ofinterest to the unit are listed under the profilesof the investigators.

M. NakamuraPlease see Dr. Nakamura’s activities in hisprofile under the “Faculty” section. See also:http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/nakamura/)

I. VertinskyPlease see Dr. Vertinsky’s activities in hisprofile under the “Faculty” section. See also: http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/vertinsky/)

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The Institute of Asian Research’sAsia Pacific Program on Cross-cultural and Comparative Researchon Disputes Resolution (APDR)

hosted in Hong Kong on January 8-10, 2004 theJoint Conference on Rights Protection, DisputeResolution and Legal Culture. Over 50 partici-pants attended the three-day program, includ-ing UBC scholars and graduate students,justices from the Hong Kong High Court, as wellas legislators and leading academics from Chinaand Japan. This conference, jointly sponsoredby the University of Hong Kong, was the final ofthree international meetings hosted by the APDRresearch initiative in its first year of implemen-tation. The first two held in the autumn of 2003took place in Shanghai and Kyoto, respectively.

Launched in January of 2003 the IAR’s AsiaPacific Program on Cross-cultural andComparative Research on Disputes Resolutionwas one of only two Major Collaborative ResearchInitiative grants awarded to UBC by SSHRC in2003. To date, the APDR initiative has already

supported 18 graduate students by providingtravel funding and research assistantships.These graduate students come from the IARMAPPS program, the Institute for Resources,Environment and Sustainability, the Faculty ofLaw, and the Department of Psychology, thustruly reflecting the inter-disciplinary strengthsof the research.

This collaborative project investigates some keythemes and elements in human rights and inter-national trade dispute resolution using exper-tise and analyses with perspectives from law,sociology, psychology, decision analysis scienceand commerce. This project’s key activities willsupport a fully integrated program of research,student training, knowledge transfer activities,publications as well as policy seminars and apublic lecture series.

The project supports research, analysis andpolicy proposals aimed at building knowledgeon cross-cultural dispute resolution (includingmediation, arbitration, and court adjudication)in international trade and human rights inCanada, China and Japan. As globalization hasresulted in more frequent and intimate interac-tion among states and societies of theAsia-Pacific region, cross-cultural disputeresolution has taken on increased importance.Resolving cross-cultural disputes requires anunderstanding of the interplay betweencontested standards of conduct associated withdifferent cultural communities, as well as anappreciation of power relations that often deter-mine processes and outcomes of dispute resolu-tion. Processes involving China’s accession to theWTO, APEC trade liberalization, and periodichuman rights reporting, for example, illustratethe capacity of liberal industrial states todisseminate their preferred rules of governancearound the world. However, many states andsocieties in Asia have resisted uncritical accept-ance of liberal models for regulating trade andhuman rights, as indicated by the mixed recordof compliance with principles of trade liberaliza-tion associated with APEC and the WTO, and by

Participants in the JointConference on RightsProtection,Dispute Resolution andLegal Culture,from left: Zhang Xiandu,Pitman Potter, Albert Chen,Harry Wang, andDonald Lewis


tensions that have arisen over policies anddoctrines associated with the Bangkok andVienna declarations on human rights.Differing approaches to trade and humanrights are manifested in part throughdisputes involving states, business actors,civil society organizations and individualsacross the Asia-Pacific region.Tradedisputes have challenged cooperativeeconomic relations between Canada,Japan, and China, while human rightsdisputes are also evident over such issuesas annual human rights reports, NGO challengesto infrastructure projects, and individual humanrights claims within particular countries. Prevent-ing these kinds of disputes where possible andmanaging them where necessary will requireapproaches to dispute resolution thataccommodate the needs and expectations ofdifferent cultures.

This project addresses these concerns throughcollaborative research, analysis and policydevelopment. Focusing on Canada, China andJapan, the project will test existing hypothesesand generate new ones, about “selective adap-tation” and related concepts that inform theexchange of practices and norms about tradeand human rights dispute resolution across cul-tures. The project will use interviews, surveysand archival research, as well as statistical andqualitative data analysis to explain interactionsamong local, foreign and international normsand practices.

Based on the knowledge generated, the projectwill offer policy proposals for building disputeresolution programs, processes and institutionsthat are more responsive to cross-culturaldifferences. The results of the research willenable interdisciplinary scholars andpolicymakers in Canada and internationally tounderstand better the requirements for effec-tive cross-cultural dispute resolution, thusstrengthening efforts to build a community oftrade and human rights compliance in the Asia-Pacific region. The research results will also

enable Canadian policymakers to address needsof cross-cultural dispute resolution practice inour multi-cultural environment. The knowledgegenerated by the proposed research will also beuseful to inform future studies of other cross-cultural policy issues such as environmentalprotection, health care, and technology policy.

Led by principal investigator, Pitman Potter, theInstitute’s director and professor of law, theproject has a core team alliance representing theUniversity of British Columbia (Faculty of Law,School of Community and Regional Planning(SCARP), Department of Anthropology and Soci-ology, Department of Psychology and Faculty ofCommerce), the University of Melbourne (Collegeof Law), Willamette University (Centre for Dis-pute Resolution), Kyushu University (Faculty ofLaw), Peking University, Hong Kong University,the China International Economic and TradeArbitration Commission (CIETAC), and theShanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Theproject’s co-investigators are Sarah Biddulph(University of Melbourne), Richard Birke(Willamette University), Ljiljana Biukovic (UBCLaw), Gu Xiaorong (Shanghai Academy of SocialSciences), Darrin Lehman (UBC Psychology),Michelle LeBaron (George Mason University), ZiliMu (CIETAC), Tim McDaniels (UBC SCARP), MasaoNakamura (The IAR & UBC Commerce), YoshitakaWada (Kyushu University), and Zhu Suli (PekingUniversity).

At the Hong Kong Conference:Julian Dierkes, Jaeyoun Won,

Harry Wang and Donna Yeung


The project is very well served and supportedby an Advisory Board consisting of: John Hogarth(Professor Emeritus, UBC Law School), RobertRatner (Professor Emeritus. UBC Anthropologyand Sociology), Peter Grove (B.C. InternationalCommercial Arbitration Centre and CanadianCommercial Arbitration Centre), Takao Tanase(Kyoto University), The Honorable Joseph Caron(Canada’s Ambassador to China), and MadameJustice Beverly McLachlin, (Chief Justice of theSupreme Court of Canada). This Board of highlyrespected individuals brings to the project awide range of experience and worldviews.

Funded by the Social Sciences and HumanitiesResearch Council (SSHRC) of Canada under itsMajor Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI)Program, this is a $2.5 million dollar grant wonthrough competition in a wide field of applicants.

HIGHLIGHT APDR WORKSHOPSand CONFERENCES

• The Scope of Rights Protection Research inChina: A Project Planning Workshop held inSeptember 2003 in Shanghai, China.• Disputes Resolution Research: A GeneralProgram Planning Workshop held in September2003 in Shanghai, China.• Japanese Research on Disputes Resolution:A Program Planning Workshop held in October2003 in Kyoto, Japan.• Administrative Law and Disputes Resolution:A Joint Conference with the Hong Kong Univer-sity Law School held in January 2004 in HongKong, S.A.R..

KEY RESEARCH DISSEMINATIONACTIVITIES and RESOURCES

• Web-Interactive “Normative Frameworks in theWTO System” developed by Prof. Ljiljana Biukovicand LLB student, Wei Kiat Sun.TechnicalAssistance also provided by Samuel Hu.• Web-Interactive “Normative Frameworks in theNAFTA Trade System – A Canadian Context”developed by Prof. Ljiljana Biukovic and LLBstudent, Wei Kiat Sun. Technical Assistance alsoprovided by Samuel Hu.• The APDR Database – a web-interactive livedatabase containing over an initial set of 800records on cases and seminal publications onissues related to cross-cultural dispute

resolution in the Asia Pacific. The focus is onhuman rights and international trade issues.• “Cross-cultural Resolution and SelectiveAdaptation,” a Graduate Seminar.

SELECTED PAPERS and WORKING DOCUMENTS

• “Current Issues on Rights Protection for Hous-ing and Health Services in China” by WeidongHe (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences).• “Current Issues on Housing as a Human RightsDiscourse in Japan” by Hiroo Sono (HokkaidoUniversity Law School).• “A Survey Paper on International Norms Rel-evant to Human Rights in China” by Prof. SarahBiddulph and Neri Colmenares (University ofMelbourne).• “A Guide to the Development of Criteria forResearch on Human Rights in the Context ofCross-cultural Selective Adaptation” by ElinSigurdson and Prof. Bill Black (UBC Law School).• “Chinese Health, Housing, Consumer Protec-tion in CEDAW and CRC” by Prof. Sarah Biddulphand Neri Colmenares (University of Melbourne).• “Human Rights Perspectives for Research onChina” by Prof. Sarah Biddulph (University ofMelbourne).• “Legal Reform in China – Institutions, Culture,and Selective Adaptation” by Pitman B.Potter (UBC) .• “The Treatment of Local Subsidiaries underDispute Settlement Procedures in the Interna-tional Investment Agreements: Japan, China andHong Kong” by Maomi Iwase (MiyakonojoNational College of Technology).

Donna Yeung,Project Manager

Dr. Potter addressesan audience

in Hong Kong


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The Institute’s “Comparative InternationalStudies of Social Cohesion and Globalization”Project was concluded in March 2004. Contrib-uting to a dialogue on changes in a globalizingera, this project explored how a variety ofelements in the internationalization dynamicsaffect conditions for peace, economic livelihood,regional governance, identity and socialcohesion in localized and regional contexts.With studies undertaken in China, Indonesia,Japan, Korea and Sri Lanka, this project hasbrought out some lessons on the need fordifferentiated approaches to studying “globali-zation”. Particularly where local social cohesionis concerned, magnitudes of scale and the scopeof the study were important in order to capturesome understanding of the causes and effects.While Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and arguably Chinacan be characterized as states with decidedlyregional disparities (religion, economic and po-litical stability, for example), Japan and Koreacan be said to have had relatively homogeneousnational experiences. Yet, our research revealedthat all five countries are showing signs ofhaving been materially affected by the forces ofglobalization. At the heart of the research wasan attempt to identify what is being impactedand at what level of effect these changes insocial cohesion are manifested.

This research also has relevance to the widercommunity of Canadians and Canadian policy.Yuen Pau Woo from the project’s policy partner(Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada) suggests thatthere is a “need for international policyco-ordination” and/or some review of our inter-national co-operation agenda. Barrie Morrison,our Sri Lanka research team leader observes that“it is in Canada’s interest to have peaceful andstable states to mutually protect shared valuesand with whom to participate in internationalagreements, [and] thus [it is] in Canada’s inter-est to encourage responsive governments, fairlystructured economies and “open societies”(autonomous civil organizations in a self-regulating system, for example)”.

The project was directed by principal investiga-tor Pitman Potter with Barrie Morrison, MasaoNakamura, Geoff Hainsworth and Yunshik Changas co-investigators leading their respectivecountry teams. Five books, one covering eachcountry of research will be published in 2004.The first volume, Sri Lankan Society in an Era ofGlobalization: Struggling to Create a New SocialOrder has just come off the presses in time forthis reporting period. A research grant of$250,000 was awarded by the Social Sciencesand Humanities Research Council of Canada.

KEY POLICY WORKSHOPSand CONFERENCES

• Policy Research Initiative Joint Conference on“Social Cohesion in a Globalizing Era.” ACanadian Policy Research Conference -Vancouver, April 2000 (SFU Wosk Centrefor Dialogue).• “Globalization: Conformity and Diversity inSocial, Economic, and Political Relations.” AnInternational Conference – Shanghai, November2001 (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences).• “Citizenship and Participation: A Considera-tion of Labour, Migration, Equity and Inclusionin a Global Community.” A Research Workshop– Montreal, April 2002.

Donna Yeung withLi Yihai,Director ofInternational Programsat theShanghai Academyof Social Sciences


SELECTED PAPERS PRESENTED

• Dr. Alan Smart, The University ofCalgary: “Trust, Institutions and SocialCohesion: Hong Kong’s Integrationwith China”• Dr. Graham Johnson, The University

of British Columbia: “Globalization and Its Im-pact on South China: The Pearl River DeltaRegion, Heartland of Greater China”• Dr. Ronald Keith, The University of Calgary:“Internationalization and Social Cohesion: TheCase of Property Law in the PRC”• Dr. Pitman B. Potter, The University of BritishColumbia: “Globalization and Legal Reform inthe P.R.C.”• Dr. Yan Kejia: “Diaspora, Religious Practice andGlobalization: The Parsi Community in MainlandChina 1756-1945”• Dr. Shen Kaiya: “The Development Trend ofInternational Metropolises in the 21st Century:Revelation to the Improvement of Shanghai’sComprehensive Competitiveness”• Dr. Huang Renwei: “ Melting into InternationalOrders and the Reform of Domestic Systems:The Significance of China’s Entering the WTO”• Dr. Wang Hailiang: “The Governance ofSingapore: Civil Society as the Basis of GoodGovernance”• Dr. Zhang Xinhua: “Globalization and Devel-opment of Global Network Financing:Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies”• Dr. Liu Hua: “Globalization and Anti-terrorism”

• Dr. Bakti Setiawan, Gadjah Mada University,Yogyakarta: “Social Dislocation and SocialCohesion under Impacts of the Asian Crisis andIntensified Globalization”• Dr. Hadi Sudharto, Diponogoro University,Semarang: “Social Cohesion, RegionalAutonomy, and Globalization in Indonesia”• Dr. Teti Argo, Institute of Technology,Bandung: “What the Future Holds? ThePosition of the Younger Generation in the Eraof Reformasi”• Dr. Geoffrey Hainsworth, The University ofBritish Columbia: “Globalization the Asian Way,Persistent Poverty and the Challenge of Main-

taining Social Cohesion and National Integrityin Indonesia”• Dr. Terence McGee, The University of BritishColumbia: “Labour Market Adjustment in theTime of ‘Krismon’. Changes in the EmploymentStructure in Indonesia 1997-1998"• Dr. Yoshi Wada, Sapporo University, Sapporo:“Surviving a Globalized World: Lessons to beLearned from Japan’s Problem SolvingIncapability”• Dr. Takanobu Nakajima, Keio University,Tokyo: “Japanese Society Under Marketizationand Globalization”• Dr. Shujiro Urata, Waseda University, Tokyo:“Low Levels of Inward Foreign Direct Investmentin Japan”• Dr. Hyunho Seok, Sung Kyun Kwan University,Seoul: “Globalization of Labor and CorporateEnterprises in South Korea: Labor Relations andSocial Adjustment of Migrant Workers”• Dr. Yunshik Chang, The University of BritishColumbia: “Two Faces of Korean Nationalism andSouth Korean Democracy”• Dr. Donald Baker, The University of BritishColumbia: “Tradition Modernized: Globalizationand Korea’s New Religion”• Dr. S.H. Hasbullah, University of Peradeniya:“Finding a Place for a Million Displaced Persons”• Prof. M. Sinnathamby, University of Peradeniya:“Generations of Bonded Labourers: the TeaEstate Workers Still Waiting at the Gate”• Dr. Sumathy Sivamohan, University ofPeradeniya - “Territorial Claims and the Genderof Nation: the Rise of Militant Tamil National-ism, Its Assumptions and the CulturalProduction of Tamil Women”• Mr. Karunatissa Atukorala, University ofPeradeniya: “The Expanding World Demand forGems: the Old Poor and the New Rich inRatnapura”• Prof. Nancy Waxler Morrison, The University ofBritish Columbia: “Who Will Care for Those Leftat Home? The Effect of New Opportunities forWork on Sri Lankan Families”• Prof. Barrie Morrison, The Institute of AsianResearch, UBC: “Mobilizing for Collective Actionin the 21st Century”

Donna Yeung,Project Manager


Two years ago, Dr. Pitman Potter invited HisHoliness to deliver the keynote address to aplanned academic conference on Tibet in theContemporary World. His Holiness accepted theinvitation, on the understanding that theconference would formally launch a uniqueresearch program focusing on Tibet, not as anostalgic museum piece, but as a vibrant entityin transition. He expressed a genuine, andindeed urgent, desire to see scholarly documen-tation of the processes of change affectingTibet – its land, its traditional and Diaspora com-munities, its lived culture.

Tibetan studies are currently being institution-alized with a network of international confer-ences, university posts and regular contributionsto scholarly journals. Of interest is how the mainprograms of Tibetan study are positioned in theirinstitutions in North America. The mostcommon placements are in departments ofAnthropology, Religious Studies, or AreaStudies (South Asia, East Asia, Central Eurasia).Although the scholarship emerging from theseinstitutions may be highly contemporary infocus, their positioning may limit the way inwhich research findings can be disseminated toa broader public. This gap constitutes a nichethat IAR’s new Contemporary Tibetan StudiesProgram seeks to fill.

The Program has benefited from the input of adiverse range of scholars, including MelvynGoldstein, Tom Grunfeld, Elliot Sperling andTashi Rabgey. At the same time, Tibet’s chal-lenge of adapting to conditions of globalizationand rapid, multidimensional change - combinedwith the salience of Tibetan Buddhist perspec-tives for global issues - has prompted the IARto adopt a two-pronged vision for the program.In combination with IAR’s hallmark focus on‘policy relevance informed by local knowledge,’the dual approach promises to be unique inCanada, and quite possibly in North America.

Teaching and research activities under theContemporary Tibetan Studies Program willsupport undergraduate and graduate studentlearning, scholarly writing and publication, andwell-informed contributions to internationalpolicy-making relevant to the lives of Tibetanpeople, and the perspectives of Tibetan spiritu-ality. Permanent funding for the ContemporaryTibetan Studies program will ensure theProgram’s sustainability and add long-termidentity and stability to the study of the region,peoples, and perspectives of modern day Tibet.

More specifically, it is anticipated that endow-ments will support a Chair in ContemporaryTibetan Studies, to spearhead interdisciplinaryand historically informed research on Tibetansociety and culture, in China as well as inDiaspora communities around the world. TheChair will also initiate an occasional program ofteaching, possibly including a unit within theMAPPS modular framework. Reflecting the two-pronged approach, the Chair equally will pur-sue a program of activities that investigate HisHoliness the Dalai Lama’s message of compas-sion, universal responsibility and cross-culturalunderstanding in the context of current policychallenges. Peace and security, community build-ing and sustainable development will be themesof primary focus.

A panel at theTibet in the Contemporary World

Conference, (left to right): Elliot Sperling,Robert Thurman, Daniel Overmyer

and Marc des Jardins

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top left and below:Guests at the IAR reception honouring theTibetan Communitytop right:Participants in the Tibet in the Contemporay World conference

Outstanding graduate students are of courseessential to the success of the ContemporaryTibetan Studies Program. The Program there-fore hopes to offer the necessary financial andintellectual support, to attract up to ten gradu-ate students studying such thematic streams aseconomic and social change, governance andhuman rights, or religion and public policy.

Also critical to the success of an emergentresearch and study program is library support.The UBC Library already has a substantialfoundation of Tibetan language books, thelargest collection in Canada after the Universityof Toronto. Yet the pace of new research onTibet is such that recency and relevance of thecollection must be continually upgraded, if it isto support teaching and research in theContemporary Tibetan Studies Program. Primaryemphasis will be given to Tibetan books anddocuments, which can be acquired through theInstitute’s existing collaborative links with theTibeten Library and Archives in Dharamsala,India, and through links with research institutesin China, Europe, and North America.

Finally, the program envisages the appointmentof a Director of Community Engagement who willplay a critical role in disseminating knowledgeand expertise to the University communities inCanada and to the greater global community.Such activities may include international confer-ences and seminars that will attract leadingexperts, business leaders, and governmentrepresentatives for dialogue on issues relevant

to contemporary Tibet. This key staff positionwill also be responsible for building on existinginternational and regional community linkagesto make information available through initiativessuch as art exhibits, cultural performances,policy dialogues and public lecture series.

The vision is large, the challenge substantial.Yet, the visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama inApril provided an inspirational surge of energy;the academic conference on “Tibet in theContemporary World,” April 19 and 20, contrib-uted intellectual grist; and a program planningworkshop with the Tibet scholars on April 21added design refinements to further strengthenthis innovative newcomer to the IAR intellectualfamily.

Susanne Duska,Project Co-ordinator


WORKSHOPS and CONFERENCES

2 May 2003, “Social Morality and PublicGovernance in Post-Conflict Cambodia: ACommemorative Seminar Inspired by the Life andWork of Om Radsady”, IAR.6-9 August, “17th Asia Pacific Roundtable”,organized in cooperation with ASEAN ISIS andISIS Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.24-27 September, “The Third ASEAN People’sAssembly,” organized in cooperation with ASEANISIS, Manila.27 September, workshop on “MainstreamingGender,” organized in cooperation with theInstitute of Strategic and Development Studies,Manila.1-3 October 2003, “Fifth Meeting of theCanada-Korea Forum,” with Professor Tim Beal,University of Victoria in Wellington, for researchon North Korea, in cooperation with the SeoulForum for International Affairs and DFAIT,Ottawa.5-9 October 2003, Peter Padbury, PolicyPlanning Division, DFAIT for lectures on theforeign policy review and scenario-basedplanning.4-7 November 2003, North East Asia EnergyFutures Workshop (co-hosted with the NautilusInstitute of Berkeley, California).18 November 2003: Roundtable with StefanieBeck, Canada’s Ambassador to Cambodia.20-22 November 2003, “Expert’s Meeting onNorth Korea” (Co-hosted with the NormanPaterson School of International Affairs), Ottawa.

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1 March 2004, Roundtable with Randolph Mank,Canada’s Ambassador to Indonesia.5 March 2004, Workshop on “Democratizationin Taiwan (and Canada).”5 April 2004, Roundtable with Peter Sutherland,Canada’s Ambassador to the Philippines.

VISITORS to PCAPS

22-25 September, Dr. Sorpong Peou, SophiaUniversity.6-10 October, Peter Padbury, Senior PolicyAdvisor, Policy Planning Division, DFAIT.

OTHER PROJECTS

The CIDA-funded Southeast Asia CooperationProject concluded at the end of October. Mate-rials are available on its final events includingthe Asia Pacific Roundtable in Kuala Lumpur inAugust and the Third Meeting of the ASEANPeople’s Assembly in Manila in September. Allof those associated with PCAPS extend theirdeepest gratitude to our partner institutes inSoutheast Asia and the Canadian academics andofficials who have played key roles in the morethan forty events that it has supported.

PERSONNEL CHANGES

Shirley Yue has accepted a new positionstarting April 2nd at the Institute of HealthPromotion Research, and will go on to join theUniversity-Industry Liaison Office at UBC.Effective May 1st, Paul Evans will be serving asthe Acting Director of the Liu Institute forGlobal Issues.

above:Michael Leaf, Gordon Longmuir, Sorpong Peou andPaul Evans at the dedication of the photograph and plaquein memory of Om Radsady on September 23rd

right:MAPPS students Shannon Bullock, Holly Coutts,Lisa Rickmers and Wendy McAvoywith Stefanie Beck (second from right),Canada’s Ambassador to Cambodia


LLLLLUNUNUNUNUNAR NEW YEARAR NEW YEARAR NEW YEARAR NEW YEARAR NEW YEAR

The Lunar New Year Festival was celebrated in great fashionagain this year at the Institute of Asian Research. It was ajubilant occasion where colleagues, students, and guests fromthe community were all able to enjoy authentic live Asianorchestra (headed by Professor Alan Thrasher from the Schoolof Music) while sampling a vast array of culinary delights.

One of the highlights was a visit from nearby elementary school-children. About a hundred smiling kids eagerly participated inspecial activities. There was The Art of Recycling, by Oliver

Samonte; the Art of Clay Modeling, by theTaiwanese Student Association; Origami bythe Japanese Volunteers Association and theexciting Lion Dance performance put on byTiger Martial Arts.

What a lively way to start off the Year of theMonkey!


The Centre for Australasian Research has hadan active year hosting visitors, as well as arrang-ing seminars and workshops. During the yearthe Centre released its inaugural publicationAustralian and Canadian Approaches to Asia inan Era of Globalization eds. T.G. McGee and D.W.Edgington, published by the Institute of AsianResearch, UBC, Vancouver. 2004. 209pp.The Centre’s Steering Committee this year wasmade up of:Richard Barichello (Agricultural Science)John Barker (Anthropology/Sociology)Cathrine Dauvergne (Law)Peter Dauvergne (Political Science)David W. Edgington (Geography)Sneja Gunew (English/Women’s Studies andGender Relations)Dan Hiebert (Geography)Tom Hutton (SCARP)David Ley (Geography)Andrew Mack (Liu Institute)Arthur Ray (History)Kathrine Richardson (Geography)Wes Pue (Law)

Centre Coordinator: Kathrine Richardson(Ph.D. Programme, Geography)

SEMINARS• 3 April 2003, Libby Robin (Centrefor Resource and EnvironmentalStudies, Australian National Univer-sity), “Nature and Nation: Civics andNature Study in Australia and otherSettler Societies,” co-sponsored withInterdisciplinary 19th CenturyStudies and the Department ofGeography.• 8 May 2003, Anne Brewster (Eng-lish, University of New South Wales),“A Trembling at the Edge of Being:The Figuring of Post-reconciliationCommunity in the Poetry of LisaBellear.”• *8 September 2003, Arthur Ray(History, UBC), “Constructing and

Reconstructing Native Cultural History forAboriginal Claims Purposes.” Discussant, AlexReilly (Law, Macquarie University).• 11 October 2003 , Peter Drysdale (Economics,Australia National University), “East AsianRegionalism: Implications for Asia Pacific and theGlobal Trading Systems,” co-sponsored withProgram for Canada-Asia Policy Studies, andthe Centre for Japanese Research.• 14 October 2003, David Ley (Geography, UBC),“Immigration and Internal Migration: Australianand Canadian Perspectives on an ‘AmericanDream’.”• *14 October 2003, Margaret Thornton (Law,LaTrobe University), “Rapuznel and the Lure ofEqual Citizenship.” Discussant, Bronwen Levy(English, University of Queensland).• *20 October 2003, Jeremy Webber (Law,University of Victoria), “Australian by Choice (notMerely by the Accident of Birth)?” Discussant,Philip Resnick (Political Science, UBC).• 10 November 2003, David Williams (Law,Auckland University), “Who ‘Owns’ our Beaches?Canadian Influences on Current Indigenous Cus-tomary Rights Issues in Aotearoa New Zealand.”

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photo: Wendy McAvoy


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• *24 November 2003, Marilyn Lake (History,LaTrobe University), “White Man’s Country: ANational Response to a Trans-NationalConversation.” Discussant, Sneja Gunew (Wom-en’s Studies and Gender Relations, UBC).• 3 December 2003, Andrew Buck (Law,Macquarie University) “Property, Law, and theRise of Democracy in Canada and Australia.”• *12 January 2004, Ruth Buchanan (Law, UBC),“Law, Nation, Community: A Dialogue.”Discussant, Sundhya Pahuja (Law, MelbourneUniversity).• 3 February 2004, Dan Hiebert (Geography,UBC), “Similar Concerns, Different Outcomes:New Directions in Immigration policy in Australiaand Canada.”• *1 March 2004, Anna Yeatman (PoliticalScience, Alberta), “State Formation in the Age ofCompetitive Globalism: National Citizenship asPrivate Right.” Discussant, Greg Feldman(Geography, UBC).

• 9 March 2004, Sneja Gunew (Centre for Researchin Womden’s Studies and Gender Relations, UBC),“Transcultural Improvisations: PerformingHybridity.”• *29 March 2004, Peter Fitzpatrick (Law, BirkbeckCollege, University of London), “We Know It isWhen You do not Ask Us: The UnchallengeableNation.” Discussant, Doug Harris (Law, UBC).*these events were co-sponsored by St. John’sCollege, and the Law & Society Program, UBC aspart of the ‘Challenging Nation Speaker Series’.

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS

RICHARD BARICHELLORICHARD BARICHELLORICHARD BARICHELLORICHARD BARICHELLORICHARD BARICHELLOAgricultural Economics

Publication“The Market for Food Exports to Asia in the1990s,” in Australian and Canadian Approachesto Asia in an Era of Globalization. eds. T.G. McGeeand D.W. Edgington, Institute of Asian Research,UBC, Vancouver. 2004.pp. 115-126.

DAVID W. EDGINGTONDAVID W. EDGINGTONDAVID W. EDGINGTONDAVID W. EDGINGTONDAVID W. EDGINGTONGeography

Publication“Australia, Canada and the Asian FinancialCrisis,” in Australian and Canadian Approachesto Asia in an Era of Globalization. eds. T.G. McGeeand D.W. Edgington, Institute of Asian Research,UBC, Vancouver. 2004.pp. 79-114.

DAN HIEBERTDAN HIEBERTDAN HIEBERTDAN HIEBERTDAN HIEBERTGeography

Publication“Uneven Globalization: Neoliberal Regimes,Immigration and Multiculturalism in Australia,Canada and New Zealand,” WP 03-05 (withJ. Collins and P. Spoonley).

WES PUEWES PUEWES PUEWES PUEWES PUELaw• Association of Commonwealth Universities,Gordon and Jean Southam Fellowship (awardedAugust 2002, for tenure at Murdoch University,Western Australia, during 2003).• 2003 Association of CommonwealthUniversities Titular Fellowship presentations atthe following locations:

− University of Queensland, School of Law,May 28, 2003: “Lawyers and Vampires:Cultural Projects and Structural Transforma-tion in Legal Professionalism.”

photo: Wendy McAvoy


− University of Queensland, Centre forAustralian Studies, May 29, 2003: “TerrorismPolicy in the Shadow of the Hegemon:Canadian Constitutional Governance in astate of Permanent Warfare?”− University of Wollongong (Legal Intersec-tions Research Centre and Canadian-Australian Studies Research Centre), June 4, 2003: “Terrorism Policy in the Shadowof the Hegemon: Canadian ConstitutionalGovernance in a state of Permanent Warfare?”(part of LIRC/CAS with Bronwyn Winter), Uni-versity of Sydney: “Pre-emptive FridgeMagnets and other Weapons of MassDisinformation: Australia Does the ‘War onTerror.’”− Australian National University, School ofLaw, June 11, 2003: “Terrorism Policy in theShadow of the Hegemon: CanadianConstitutional Governance in a state of Per-manent Warfare?”− University of Melbourne, Institute forPostcolonial Studies, June 19, 2003: “Terror-ism Policy in the Shadow of the Hegemon:Canadian Constitutional Governance in astate of Permanent Warfare?”− National University of Singapore, July 2:“Lawyers and Colonialism: Rethinking LegalProfessions from British Model through theCanadian and Indian Colonies.”− Murdoch University, August 4, 2003, “Law-

yers and Colonialism −Rethinking Legal Pro-fessions from British model through ColonialInnovations.”

• The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies ofProperty Rights, Faculty of Arts and SocialSciences, University of Newcastle (NSW),www.newcastle.edu.au/centre/cispr/ AssociateMember, 1999-• Board Member, Australia, New ZealandStudies Association of North America, 2002 -• Reviewer, Australian Research Council.

• Co-convenor/ co-editor (with Dr. CatherineDauvergne) “Challenging Nations”, a lectureseries sponsored by St. John’s College and theUBC Centre for Australian Studies and asymposium issue of Law Text Culture toappear in 2004.

SNEJA GUNEWSNEJA GUNEWSNEJA GUNEWSNEJA GUNEWSNEJA GUNEWResearch Projects

• ICCS (Internat. Council for Canadian Studies)Transculturalisms: Métissage/Hybridity. One of6 international directors. 3 yrs (2001-3). Website:http://transculturalisms.arts.ubc.ca.• Convened international conference:“Transcultural Improvisations: PerformingHybridity” (Oct. 2003, UBC).

THOMAS A. HUTTONTHOMAS A. HUTTONTHOMAS A. HUTTONTHOMAS A. HUTTONTHOMAS A. HUTTONSchool of Community andRegional Planning

Publication“Service Industries, EconomicRestructuring and the SpatialReconfiguration of Asia PacificCity-Regions,” in Australian and CanadianApproaches to Asia in an Era of Globalization.eds. T.G. McGee and D.W. Edgington,Institute of Asian Research, UBC, Vancouver,2004. pp. 177-192.

DAVID LEYDAVID LEYDAVID LEYDAVID LEYDAVID LEYGeography

Publications•“Offsetting Immigration and DomesticMigration in Gateway Cities: Canadian andAustralian Reflections on an ‘AmericanDilemma’,” WP 03-01, RIIM Metropolis Centre ofExcellence, Vancouver, 2003.• “Asian Immigration, Identity Politics and theCanadian Housing Market,” Australian andCanadian Approaches to Asia in an Era ofGlobalization. eds. T.G. McGee and D.W.Edgington, Institute of Asian Research, UBC,Vancouver. 2004. pp. 139-146.

Sneja Gunew


Funding/GrantsRockefeller Foundation (with Kaplan andBernd) $120,000 (Bellagio ResearchCenter Workshop).SSHRC Conference $10,000.AwardsKillam Research Prize (Snr) $5000

Celebrate Research Award, UBC, March, 2004.Publications

BookBookBookBookBookHaunted Nations::::: The Colonial Dimensionsof Multiculturalisms, London: Routledge, 2004.171pp.

Contributions to BooksContributions to BooksContributions to BooksContributions to BooksContributions to Books

• “Multicultural Sites: Practices of Un/Homeli-ness,” in Complex Entanglements: Art,Globalisation and Cultural Difference.Edited by Nikos Papastergiadis. Rivers OramPress: London, 2003 (178-204).• “The Home of Language: A Pedagogy of theStammer,” in Uprootings/Regroundings:Questions of Home and Migration. Edited by S.Ahmed, C. Castaneda, A-M Fortier & M. Sheller.Berg: Oxford, 2003 (41-58).

JournalsJournalsJournalsJournalsJournals

• “Feminist Cultural Literacy: TranslatingDifferences, Cannibal Options,” Ilha do Desterro:A Journal of English Language, Literatures inEnglish and Cultural Studies. Special Issue:Gender Studies and Feminist Perspectives, ed.by Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida. Vol. 42,Jan./Jun. 2002, Florianópolis, Brazil, 21-48.• Review “Transcultural Feminisms”, Ella Shohat,ed. Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminisms, NewMuseum, MIT Press, Canadian Literature, 176,Spring 2003, 185-188.

OtherOtherOtherOtherOtherDVD - “Transcultural Translators: Mediating Race,Indigeneity, and Ethnicity in Four Nations”.Interviews from the Workshop , RockefellerCenter, Bellagio, Italy. Editing (with B.Charles). 50 mins.

Invited Lectures, Colloquia and AddressesKeynoteKeynoteKeynoteKeynoteKeynote

Featured Speaker: “Eating English: The Appetitefor Language.” 4th Pan Asian Conference(English Teachers’ Association – Republic OfChina), Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 9, 2002.

Invited LecturesInvited LecturesInvited LecturesInvited LecturesInvited Lectures

• “Transcultural Translators,” Auto/biographicalPractices series, Green College, UBC, Sept. 2003• “Transcultural Improvisations: PerformingHybridity,” Centre for Australasian Research,March, 2004.• “Transcultural Improvisation: FeministPerspectives,” CRWSGR, March, 2004.

OrganizerOrganizerOrganizerOrganizerOrganizer

• Convenor, Transculturalisms conference,Métissage Group, ICCS, Montréal, May, 2003(final conference).• Co-organizer (with E. A. Kaplan, SUNY, StonyBrook & Zilá Bernd, Brazil), “Transcultural Trans-lators,” Rockefeller Workshop (responsible for11/22 participants), Bellagio, August 2003.• Convenor, “The Interviewed Life” Panel, “Auto/biographical Practices” series, GreenCollege, UBC.• Convenor “Transcultural Improvisations:Performing Hybridity” conference (SSHRC/Hampton funded), UBC, Oct. 16-19, 2003.

ConferencesConferencesConferencesConferencesConferences“Performing Theory: Academic Theatre,” 7th.International Congress, Brazilian Associationof Canadian Studies (ABECAN), UniversidadeFederal Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte,Brazil , Nov. 2003.

photo: Michael Leaf


CENTRE fCENTRE fCENTRE fCENTRE fCENTRE for CHINESE RESEARor CHINESE RESEARor CHINESE RESEARor CHINESE RESEARor CHINESE RESEARCH (CCH (CCH (CCH (CCH (CCRCRCRCRCR)))))Acting Director: Alison BaileyAssociate Director: Timothy Cheek

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Alison Bailey, Timothy Cheek, Gu Xiong, DianaLary, Pitman Potter, Leo Shin, Catherine Swatekand Eleanor Yuen.

VISITING SCHOLARS

Professor Liang-kung Yen, Chair, Dept. ofPublic Administration, National ChengchiUniversity, Taiwan.Professor Te-mei Wu, Dr. Sun Yat-sen GraduateInstitute of Social Sciences and Humanities,National Chengchi University.

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

Professor Zhao Yuezhi (SFU).Dr. Kong Shuyu (Independent scholar).

The Centre had a very active and interesting yearwith a variety of speakers, conferences, andworkshops on a wide range of topics. One ofthe main highlights of the year was the visit toUBC of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, ArchbishopTutu and Mme Shirin Ebadi and the wealth ofevents celebrating that occasion. The Centrewas proud to play a role in the visit and to beinvolved in the academic conference on issuesin contemporary Tibet held at the same time.

SPEAKERS, SHORT TERM VISITORS,and SEMINARS

The CCR had a very full programme of seminarsthis year:• July 25, J. Stapleton Roy, Managing Director,Kissinger Associates and former US ambassa-dor to Singapore, People’s Republic of China, andIndonesia, “China in a Changing World.”• Sept. 18, (with CISAR) Anand Yang, Director,Jackson School of International Studies, Univer-sity of Washington, “The Boxer Uprising: AnIndian Soldier’s Account of China and the Worldin 1900-1901.”• Sept. 18, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor ofIndian History and Culture, The Oriental Insti-tute, Oxford, “Eighteenth-century Views of Westand Central Asia.”• Oct. 21, Yan Wenming, Professor and formerChair, Dept. of Archaeology, Beijing University,“The Origins of Chinese Civilization and Its EarlyDevelopment.”• Oct. 23-28, Liu Dong, Professor of Compara-tive Literature, Beijing University, “Three Kindsof Weber in China” (Oct.25); “Beijing AcademicCulture in the 1990s,” co-sponsored with AsianStudies, Oct. 27.

Claude Comtois (far right) ,Chevalier Visiting Professor inTransport and Development in

China,delivered a fascinating series oflectures in November and March


Centre forChinese Research (CCR)

• Nov. 3, Daniel Overmyer, Professor Emeritus,Dept. of Asian Studies, and CCR,Religion in China Today (Cambridge:2003): “AnIntroduction to the Book.”• Nov. 5, Nov. 26 and Mar 3, Claude Comtois,Professor, Dept. of Geography, Université deMontréal and Chevalier Visiting Professor inTransportation and Development in China for2003-2004:

− “Global Linkages and Airport Development:China’s Evolving Airline Networks”− “Intermodality, Landbridge and HubLocation”− “Global Linkages and Airport Development:China’s Evolving Airline Networks”

• Nov. 17, Frederick C. Teiwes, Professor,Department of Political Science, University ofSydney. “Local Knowledge and DisciplinaryKnowledge: On Contemporary China and Politi-cal Science.” (Brown bag lunch talk, with Dept.of Political Science), and “The Tiananmen CrisisRevisited: A New Interpretation of a Misunder-stood Seminal Event.” (CCR / IAR presentation).• Jan. 19, R. Kent Guy, Professor, Department ofHistory, University of Washington. “The QingCreation of the Province.”• Jan. 30, Women and Development LectureSeries (with CSEAR). Heather Gibb, SeniorResearcher, North-South Institute, “SupportingMarginalized Women Exporters in theAsia-Pacific Region.”• Feb 26 & 27, (with Asian Studies) Perry Link,Professor, Princeton University, “How HaveChinese Writers Looked at the Cultural Revolu-tion?”; “Rhythm and Metaphor in Daily Life Chi-nese.”• Mar. 12, Women and Development LectureSeries. Tani E. Barlow, Professor, Department ofWomen’s Studies, University of Washington.“Women in Reregionalizing Asia.”• Mar. 15, Bryna Goodman, Professor,Department of History, University of Oregon,“Getting the News Straight: Semi-Colonialism,

Transnational Networks and Information Flowsin Early Republican China.”• Mar 31, Jaeyoun Won, APDR /IAR Postdoctoralfellow, “Withering Away of the Iron RiceBowl: The Reemployment Project of Post-Socialist China.”• April 28, Liang-kung Yen, Chair, Departmentof Public Administration, National ChengchiUniversity and Visiting Scholar, CCR and Te-meiWu, Professor, Dr. Sun Yat-sen GraduateInstitute of Social Sciences and Humanities,National Chengchi University, Visiting Scholar,CCR. ”Global Governance and Domestic Geneti-cally Modified Foods Regulation Policy-Makingin Taiwan.”

WORKSHOPS and CONFERENCES 2003-2004

• Oct 24 –25, “China Globalizing: People, Beliefs,and Ideas.” An international conference organ-ized by Tim Cheek, funded through an endow-ment to the Institute of Asian Research by PaulLin. Professor Timothy Brook, in-coming princi-pal of St.John’s College (July 2004), gave thekeynote lecture entitled, “Chinese Lineages ofthe Absolute State.” Panels at the conferenceincluded, Chinese Religion and Globalization;Chinese Migration and Globalization; andChinese Intellectuals and Globalization. Invitedguests included, Yan Kejia (Shanghai Academyof Social Sciences); Li Minghuan (Xiamen Uni-versity); David Kelly(Beijing); Jason Kindopp(National Committee on US-China Relations);Elizabeth Sinn (University of Hong Kong); andLiu Dong (Beijing University). Panelists from UBCincluded, Daniel Overmyer (Asian Studies, CCR);Pitman Potter (IAR); Henry Yu (History);Maurice Copithorne (Faculty of Law); KennethFoster (Political Science); and Timothy Cheek(CCR / IAR).

Dr. Diana Lary and Dr. Li Minghuan from Xiamen Universityspeaking at the CCR conference, “China Globalizing”


• January, “The Chinese State at the Borders.”An international workshop organized by DianaLary, with the assistance of Colin Green, andfunded by SSHRC, IAR’s China Program forIntegrative Research and Development, andUBC’s History Department. The workshophonoured the work of Professor AlexanderWoodside on his retirement from the HistoryDepartment at UBC. Invited speakers included:Alexander Woodside (History, UBC); BenjaminElman (Princeton); Leo Shin (History, UBC);Timothy Brook (History, University of Toronto);Peter Perdue (MIT); Andre Schmid (University ofToronto); Victor Zatsepine (History, UBC); VanNguyen-Marshall (History, Trent University);Diana Lary (History, UBC); Wang Ning (History,UBC); Michael Szonyi (Huron College, Universityof Western Ontario); Stevan Harrell (Universityof Washington); and Pitman Potter, IAR.A publication is planned from this conference.• March 6, “A Workshop on Democratization inTaiwan (and Canada),” organized by ProfessorPaul Evans (PCAPS), with the CCR and the Centrefor International Relations at the Liu Institutefor Global Issues in association with the TaipeiEconomic and Cultural Office (Ottawa) and theAsia Pacific League for Freedom and Democracy.• April 2, (with Asian Studies and PoliticalScience). “Testing Democracy in Taiwan.”Roundtable discussion with UBC faculty, hostedby Kenneth Foster (Political Science, UBC) andPaul M. Evans (IAR).• April 2-3, “Tri-Universities China Symposiumand Language Teachers’ Roundtable” broughttogether China-related scholars and teachers

from the University of British Columbia, SimonFraser University, and the University of Victoria,as well as several lower mainland colleges, for arich and varied programme of papers anddiscussions. Organized by Tim Cheek and AlisonBailey, with the help of Judy Maxwell. Next year’sTri-University event is scheduled to be held atthe University of Victoria.• May 14, “Workshop on Chinese Women andGirls” addressed contemporary issues affectingwomen and girls in China today. Speakersincluded Tami Blumenfield, Ph.D candidate, So-ciocultural Anthropology, University of Washing-ton; Huang Xin, Ph.D candidate, Centre for Re-search in Women’s Studies and Gender Relations,UBC; William Lavely, Director, East Asia Center,and professor, Dept. of Sociology, University ofWashington; and Wang Chunmei, professor,Beijing Languages and Culture University andVisiting Scholar, Centre for Research in Wom-en’s Studies and Gender Relations, UBC.Organized by Alison Bailey.

FACULTY ACTIVITIES/ NEWS/ PUBLICATIONS

ALISON BAILEYALISON BAILEYALISON BAILEYALISON BAILEYALISON BAILEYActing Director,Centre for Chinese Research

Articles and book chapters“The Female Dragon Roars: Female Filial Aveng-ers in Chinese Drama and Fiction” (workingtitle), in Kevin Wetmore, ed. Revenge: East andWest. Volume 2: China. (Forthcoming, Universityof Hawai’i Press).

Participantsand lecturers at the

“Chinese State at the Borders”conference

organized by Diana Lary.


Papers Delivered at Professional Meetings“Reading Between the Lines: Legal Discourseson Disorder in the Ming-Qing Transition,” work-shop on “On Trauma, Agency and Texts: Repre-sentations of Disorder in Late Imperial China,”McGill, Montreal, April 2004. (A draft version waspresented at the Tri-Universities Symposium ear-lier in April, 2004). A conference volume is be-ing prepared based on the McGill workshop.

Conference and Workshop Organization• Co-organizer, Tri-Universities Symposium andChinese Language Teachers’ Roundtable, UBC,April 2004.• Organizer, Centre for Chinese ResearchWorkshop on Chinese Women and Girls, UBC,May, 2004.

TeachingAsian Studies:• AS341, Classical Chinese Litereature inTranslation• AS350 (coordinator), Asian Literature inTranslation• Directed Reading, Pre-modern ChineseLegal Dispute Resolution

Committees• 2 MA Exams (pre-modern Korean Literature and17th Century Chinese Drama)• Chair, IAR Liaison Committee

• Member, IAR Equity Committee

TIMOTHY CHEEKTIMOTHY CHEEKTIMOTHY CHEEKTIMOTHY CHEEKTIMOTHY CHEEKLouis Cha Chair in Chinese Research;Associate Director, CCRPlease see Dr. Cheek’s profile under “Faculty”pages.

DIANA LARYDIANA LARYDIANA LARYDIANA LARYDIANA LARYSenior Research Fellow, CCR;History, UBC

Articles and Book Chapters“The Water Covered the Earth: China’sWar-induced Natural Disasters”, in Mark Selden& Alvin So eds, War and State Terrorism.Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004: 142-170.

Papers Delivered at Professional Meetings• “Visual Images of War: the Anti-JapaneseWar in China”, conference on “War in Chinain the 1940s”, Academia Sinica, Taipei,November 2003.• Commentator, conference on “The MilitaryAspects of the Resistance War,” Maui, January2004. (Organized by Harvard University).

• “The Furthest South: China’s Southern Bordersin the Republican Period,” conference on “TheChinese State at the Borders,” UBC, January 2004.• “Profit and Illegality: the Uses and Abuses ofDocumentation in Illegal Migration,” conferenceon “Illegal Migration,” UBC, January 2004.• “The Impact of the Taiwan Election on HongKong”, workshop on the Taiwan Election, UBC,March 2004.

Conference and Workshop Organization2004: organizer, workshop on “The ChineseState at the Borders,” Vancouver.

Funding2003 SSHRC conference grant, $10,0002004 SSHRC research grant, $68,000.

DANIEL OVERMYERDANIEL OVERMYERDANIEL OVERMYERDANIEL OVERMYERDANIEL OVERMYERCCR Senior Research Associate

PublicationDaniel Overmyer, ed. Religion in China Today.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

OTHER CCR ACTIVITIES

October 2003 CASA Panel (Professor Tim Cheek;Dr. Chao Shin-yi (formerly Asian Studies andpresently at the University of Washington in St.Louis); Wang Ning (Ph.D candidate, History, UBC);Professor David Ownby (Université de Montréal),discussant.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

• The CCR hosted a number of meetings withscholars and members of the community todiscuss issues of preservation of ChineseCanadian Veterans’ Archives.• Fukien Chinese Association Award: The CCR isdelighted to announce that the first recipient ofthis award is Mary Tuen Wai Yeung, ProfessorDaniel Overmyer’s Ph.D student, for researchwork on ritual marionette theatre in Fujian inconjunction with Xiamen University. The Centrewould like to thank the Fujian ChineseAssociation for establishing this award whichbenefits UBC graduate students with aninterest in pursuing studies in the PRC.

The CCR would like to extend its thanks to MaryChan who designed and formatted the Centre’snew website,www.iar.ubc.ca/centres/ccr/ccrindex.htm


CENTRE fCENTRE fCENTRE fCENTRE fCENTRE for Jor Jor Jor Jor JAPAPAPAPAPAAAAANESE RESEARNESE RESEARNESE RESEARNESE RESEARNESE RESEARCH (CJRCH (CJRCH (CJRCH (CJRCH (CJR)))))Director: David W. EdgingtonAssociate Director: Julian Dierkes

The Centre (CJR) has had a very active year witha large number of seminars covering manytopics, and it has also sponsored local culturaloccasions. We have tried to involve our visitorsand graduate students in our events. JulianDierkes (Keidanren Chair in Japanese Studies)was appointed Associate Director of the Centrein September 2003. During November, CJRorganized a 2-day conference funded by a JapanFoundation grant, entitled “Dimensions ofJapanese Ethnicity Within and Without, 1543-1945.” This involved international scholars fromJapan, Australia and the United Kingdom. Inaddition, the Centre published a collection ofessays especially written by members and pub-lished by UBC Press: Japan at the Millennium:Joining Past and Future, edited by David W.Edgington.

SEMINARS and CULTURAL EVENTS

Spring/SummerSpring/SummerSpring/SummerSpring/SummerSpring/Summer• 1 April, Heesuk Ahn (Department of BusinessAdministration, University of Marketing andDistribution Sciences, Kobe), “Strategic Behaviorand Corporate Growth of Japanese and KoreanFirms: Focusing on the Diversification StrategyUntil the Beginning of 1990.”• 2 April, David W. Edgington (Director, CJR;Geography, UBC), “Japan: A Multicultural County?Evidence from the Field,” co-sponsored withDepartment of Geography, UBC.• 4 April, James E. Ketelaar (Modern JapaneseHistory, and Director of the Center for East AsianStudies, University of Chicago), “Japan’s FirstShôgun (Who, By the Way, Did Not Exist).”• 10 April, Ronald Dore (London School ofEconomics and Political Science), “The Battle forthe Japanese Corporate Soul.”• 11 April, End of the Academic Year Social Event;including a “Japanese Trivia Quiz: Faculty vs.Grads,” arranged by CJR’s two ResearchAssistants: Jeff Alexander and Keisuke Enokido.• 10 June, Joy Hendry (Oxford-Brooks University,Oxford), “Cultural Display: Japan’s Place in theWorld.”

• 4-5 August: NaokiTanaka (SpecialEconomic Adviser toJapanese PrimeMinister JunichiroKoizumi), organizedby Yves Tiberghienand funded byDFAIT.• 14-15 August,“International Work-shop on UniversityReform in Six Coun-tries”, co-sponsoredwith Faculty of Education, UBC.

Fall TermFall TermFall TermFall TermFall Term• 5 September, Yuko Shibata (CJR, UBC), “Over-lapping Lives: Cultural Sharing Among FiveGroups of Japanese Canadian (Nikkei) Women.”• 22 September, Japanese Movie Night: “AllAbout Our House” (Director: Koki Mitani); “AfterLife” (Director: Hirokazu Koreeda), co-sponsoredby the Embassy Of Japan In Canada, ConsulateGeneral Of Japan In Vancouver and Icas NikkeiTV, Vancouver Shinpo.• 26 September, Bill Wray (History, UBC),“Hegemony and the Cycles of Japanese History.”• 10 October, Karen Wigen (History, Stanford),“Moving Mountains: The Meiji Discovery of theJapanese Alps.”• 17 October; Millie Creighton (Anthropology,UBC), “From the Heart of Japan to the Heartbeatof the World: The Transmission of Taiko Tradi-tion and Identities from Sado Island.”• 6-7 November, CJR Conference: “Dimensionsof Japanese Ethnicity Within and Without, 1543-1945,” funded by the Japan Foundation. Speak-ers included:

− Tessa Morris-Suzuki (Australian NationalUniversity) “Subjects and Citizens: National-ity in the Prewar Japanese Empire.”

− William Wray (History, UBC) “The 17th-Century Japanese Diaspora: Questions ofBoundary and Policy.”

photo: Wendy McAvoy


Centre forJapanese Research (CJR)

− Yeounsuk Lee (History, HitotsubashiUniversity) “The Fear of ‘Mixed Residence’:Examples of Xenophobia in Meiji Japan.”

− Manji Kitajima (History, Kyoritsu Women’sUniversity) “Japan’s Perceptions of ChosonKorea during the Imjin War, 1592-1598."− Shosuke Murai (History, University ofTokyo) “East Asia in the 16-17th Centuries:The Records of Foreign Detainees andCastaways.”− Masaki Wakao (History, HitotsubashiUniversity) “Discourses on Foreign Countriesand the World in Early Modern Japan.”− Moritaka Matsumoto (Fine Arts, UBC) “Interaction of the Japanese and EuropeanArtistic Conventions in Pre-Meiji Japan.”− Millie Creighton (Anthropology/Sociology,UBC), “Towards a View of Ukiyo-e from theAnthropology of Aesthetics.”− Michio Nakajima (History, KanagawaUniversity) “Shrines that Crossed the Sea:Shinto Shrines Abroad.”− Hiroko Sakamoto (History, HitotsubashiUniversity), “The Views of ChineseIntellectuals on the Japanese in Late Qing.”− James Lewis (Asian Studies, University ofOxford), “The Cost of Korean Diplomacy toTokugawa Japan.”− Nam-lin Hur (Asian Studies, UBC), “ChosonKorean Officials in Tokugawa Japan.”

• 28 November, Janice Matsumura (History,Simon Fraser University), “The Problem ofPsychiatric Casualties among Japanese SoldiersDuring the Asia-Pacific War.”• 8 December, Peter Drysdale (Economics,Australia-Japan Research Centre, AustraliaNational University), “The Rise of East Asia:Prospects and Challenges,” co-sponsored withthe Centre for Australasian Research Centre, andLiu Centre, UBC.

Spring TermSpring TermSpring TermSpring TermSpring Term• 5 - 15 January, “The World Heritage in JapanPhoto Exhibition: An Introduction to The WorldHeritage” (photographs of Kazuyoshi Miyoshi),co-sponsored with The Japan Foundation, Van-couver Shinpo, and ICAS Nikkei TV.• 30 January, Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien (Educa-tion, UBC), “Redefining Race in Japan: DomesticMobilization of Global Human Rights Frames.”• 9 February, Keiko Hirata (Center for the Studyof Democracy, University of California, Irvine),“Civil Society in Japan: Grassroots Movementsas a Democratic Force.”• 12 February, Wolfram Manzenreiter (East AsianStudies, University of Vienna), “The Emergenceof a National Sport Culture: A Historical Com-parison of Imperial Austria and Japan,” co-hostedwith the Institute for European Studies.• 13 February, Wolfram Manzenreiter (East AsianStudies, University of Vienna), “How to Sell aPublic Good: Case Studies on the Current Stateof Sport Supply in Contemporary Japan.”• 27 Februrary, Tom Waldichuk (Geography,University College of the Cariboo), “Transforma-tion and Adaptations of Japanese Agricultureand Farm Communities in the 21st Century:Examples from the Kanto Plain.”• 8 March, Charles Weathers (Economics, OsakaCity Univ) “The Dilemmas of Equal EmploymentPolicymaking in Japan,” co-sponsored with IAR’sWomen and Development Lecture Series.• 18 March; David Drake (Minister-Councellor(Economic), Canadian Embassy, Tokyo) “TheJapanese Economy: A Return to Confidence?”• 26 March, Mary Elizabeth Berry (History, UCBerkeley), “Why Work So Hard? Advice from EarlyModern Japan,” co-sponsored with the Dept ofAsian Studies.• 2 April, Toshiyuki Taga, Japanese ConsulGeneral in Vancouver, and Robert Desjardins,Japan Division, Department of Foreign Affairsand International Trade, “The 75 Years ofCanada-Japan Relationships: Retrospect andProspect.”• 23 April, Workshop: “Localism, Nationalism,and Regionalism in East Asia”, sponsored bySeoul National University, School of Internationaland Area Studies, co-sponsored by theCentre for Japanese Research and the Centrefor Korean Research.


VISITING SCHOLARS

Professor Keisaku Higashida, Econom-ics, Fukushima Univ. Research projecton trade and the environment(Oct 2003-Sept 2005).

Professor Hijiri Kumada, Meiji Univ.Womens College, Tokyo Researchproject on business and the environ-ment (Sept 2003-March 2004).

Professor Deek-kee Min, ChongjuUniversity (Waseda Phd) ResearchProject on Korea-Japan relations (December 2002- February 2004).

Professor Hiroyuki Inui, History, Commerce,Kyushu Sangyo Univ., Research project onCanada-Japan tourism (August 2003 – August2004).

Professor Hideoki Takasuji, Urban Planning,Reitaku University, Chiba; Research project oncomparative urban planning (August 2003 – June2004).

HIGHLIGHTS of FACULTY ACTIVITIES

JENNIFER CHAN-TIBERGHIENJENNIFER CHAN-TIBERGHIENJENNIFER CHAN-TIBERGHIENJENNIFER CHAN-TIBERGHIENJENNIFER CHAN-TIBERGHIENEducational Studies

Publications• Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan:Global Norms and Domestic Networks. StanfordUniversity Press: In Press.• “The State of Civil Society in Japan.” BookReview. Pacific Affairs. Vol. 77, No.2.

GrantsHumanities and Social Sciences Large Grant(2004-5), University of British Columbia, $6,760.“The Claims of Culture: Affirmative Action andMulticultural Education in France and Japan.”

Presentations“Redefining Race in Japan: Global Norms andDomestic Networks,” CJR.

Current Research Projects• The Claims of Culture: Affirmative Action andMulticultural Education in France and Japan.• The Cultural Tango: Performing CulturalDiversity Within and Without Japan• Social Movements and Popular Educationin Japan.

MILLIE CREIGHTONMILLIE CREIGHTONMILLIE CREIGHTONMILLIE CREIGHTONMILLIE CREIGHTONAnthropology and SociologyIn May, 2003, elected as an officer of the EastAsian Section of the American AnthropologicalAssociation, in their competitive generalelection, for a three year term.

Publications• “May the Saru River Flow: The Nibutani Damand the Resurging Tide of the Ainu IdentityMovement,” in Joining Past and Future: Japan atthe Dawn of the Millennium, ed. by DavidEdgington, pp. 120-143. Vancouver: Universityof British Columbia Press.• “Connecting with the Okinawan and San JuanColonies, and Confronting Issues of Identity,Panamerican Nikkei Gather in Bolivia and PassBaton to Canada.” The Bulletin: A Journal of Japa-nese Canadian Community, History and Culture.• Review of Illustrating Asia: Comics, HumorMagazines and Picture Books, ed. by John Lent.Pan-Japan: The International Journal of theJapanese Diaspora, Vol. 3(1&2): 119-123.

David Edgington, CJR Director,seated next to

Japanese Consul General Toshiyuki Tagaat a CJR event commemorating

the 75th anniversary ofJapanese-Canadian diplomatic relations



Presentations• “Re-Sounding Identities from the Periphery:Re-Arranging Selves through Taiko from theEdges of Japan and Beyond,” at the CanadianAnthropological Society (CASCA) meetings inHalifax, Nova Scotia, May 8-11, 2003.• “Japanese Tourism in Canada and to Canadato Japan,” at the Canadian Asian Studies confer-ence in Montreal, Quebec, Oct. 11, 2003.• “From the Heart of Japan to the Heartbeat ofthe World: The Transmission of Taiko, Tradition,and Identities from Sado Island.” Centre forJapanese Research, UBC, Oct. 17, 2003.• “Towards a View of Ukiyo-e from the Anthro-pology of Aesthetics,” for the Conference,“Dimensions of Japanese Ethnicity, Within andWithout, 1543-1945,” in Vancouver, Nov-ember 7, 2003.• “Nostalgia, Identities, and the Longing for Placein Contemporary Taiko Drumming,” for theAnthropology Colloquium Series Jan 29, 2004,Vancouver, UBC.• “Changing (Heart) Beats: From JapaneseNational Identity and Nostalgia to the TaikoRhythms of Citizens of the Earth”, “InternationalConference on East-West Identities: Globaliza-tion, Localisation, and Hybridization,” held inHong Kong, Feb 26-27, 2004.• “Changing (Heart) Beats: From JapaneseNational Identity and Nostalgia to the TaikoRhythms of Citizens of the Earth” at theAssociation of Asian Studies meetings, in SanDiego, March 4-7, 2004.• Organizer and Chair of Panel for Associationof Asian Studies Conference, entitled: “Discus-sions of Percussions: Drumming Up “Veri-Asians”of Identities and Tradition.”

JULIAN DIERKESJULIAN DIERKESJULIAN DIERKESJULIAN DIERKESJULIAN DIERKESCJR Associate Director and IARPlease see Dr. Dierkes’ profile under “Faculty”pages.

DAVID W. EDGINGTONDAVID W. EDGINGTONDAVID W. EDGINGTONDAVID W. EDGINGTONDAVID W. EDGINGTONCJR Director and Geography

Publications• Japan at the Millennium: Joining Past andFuture, Vancouver, UBC Press, 273pp.(April, 2003).• “Japan Ponders the Good Life: Improving theQuality of Japanese Cities,” in D. W. Edgington(ed.) Japan at the Millennium: Joining Past andFuture, Vancouver, UBC Press, 193-245.(April, 2003).• Journal article: (with R. Hayter) “Flying Geesein Asia: The Impacts of Japanese MNCs as aSource of Industrial Learning,” Tijdshcift voorEconomische en Sociale Geografie, 95, 3-26.(February, 2004).• “Australia, Canada and the Asian FinancialCrisis,” in Australian and Canadian Approachesto Asia in an Era of Globalization. eds. T.G. McGeeand D.W. Edgington, Institute of Asian Research,UBC, Vancouver. 2004.pp. 79-114.

Conferences• IGU-Economic Geography Conference.“Japanese Electronics Firms in Hong Kong.”Vancouver (August 2003); Geography Depart-ment Colloquium “Is Japan a Multicultural Coun-try? A Report from the Field” (April, 2003); alsopresented at the Centre for Asian PolicyInitiatives, University of Victoria (Sept., 2003).• “Multicultural Planning in Japan,” presented atthe Japan Studies Association of Canada,Hamilton (October, 2003).• “The Flying Geese Meet the Big Panda: Japan-China Relationships and the ElectronicsIndustry,” Association of American GeographersMeeting, Philadelphia, PA. (March 2004).

Current Research ProjectsJapanese electronics companies and their invest-ments in China; Japanese urban management.

TSUNEHARU GONNAMITSUNEHARU GONNAMITSUNEHARU GONNAMITSUNEHARU GONNAMITSUNEHARU GONNAMIEmeritus Librarian, Asian Library

Publications• “Japanese Collections at UBC Libraries: ARetrospective Overview (1959-2003).” Journal ofEast Asian Libraries, No. 131 (October 2003),pp. 51 - 67.• Review of Tom Sando, Wild Daisies in the Sand:Life in a Canadian Internment Camp. Edmonton(Alberta): NeWest Press, 2002, in PacificAffairs, Vol 76, No. 4 (Winter 2003/2004),pp. 694 - 696.


Presentations“Development of Various Japanese Collectionsat UBC,” presented at the Centre for JapaneseResearch, UBC, on July 21 2003, to a group ofvisitors from the University of Shiga Prefecture.

STEVEN J. HEINESTEVEN J. HEINESTEVEN J. HEINESTEVEN J. HEINESTEVEN J. HEINEPsychology

Publications• “Self-enhancement in Japan? A Reply to Brownand Kobayashi,” Asian Journal of Social Psychol-ogy, 6, 75-84. Heine, S. J. (2003).• “Making Sense of East Asian Self-enhancement,”Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 34, 596-602. Heine, S. J., & Lehman, D. R. (2003).• “Move the Body, Change the Self: AcculturativeEffects on the Self-concept,” in M. Schaller andC. Crandall eds., Psychological Foundations ofCulture, (pp. 305-331). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.Heine, S. J. (2003).• “An Exploration of Cultural Variation in Self-enhancing and Self-improving Motivations,” inV. Murphy-Berman and J. J. Berman eds.,Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: Vol. 49.Cross-cultural Differences in Perspectives on theSelf (pp. 101-128). Lincoln: University of Ne-braska Press.

GrantsSSHRC Grant, “Personality Utility Across Cul-tures.” 2004-2007, ($122,000).

Presentations• Heine, S. J. (2003).“Positive Self-regard:Understanding Universals and Variability AcrossCultures,” presentation at the small group meet-ing on “Social Cognition: Evolutionary andCultural Perspectives,” July 19, 2003, Budapest,Hungary.• Hamamura, T., & Heine, S. J. (2003). “Self-en-hancement in Japan and the Better-than-Aver-age Effect,” symposium presentation at the Japa-nese Social Psychological Association AnnualConference, September 16-18, Tokyo, Japan.• Heine, S. J., & Foster, J. B. (2003). “Do JapaneseBirds of a Feather Flock Together? Cultural Vari-ation in the Similarity Effect.” Symposium pres-entation at the Japanese Social PsychologicalAssociation Annual Conference, September 16-18, Tokyo, Japan.

Current ResearchSimilarity and attraction in Japan and NorthAmerica, actor-observer biases across cultures,dialectical thinking and response style, person-ality utility across cultures.

HYUNG GU LYNNHYUNG GU LYNNHYUNG GU LYNNHYUNG GU LYNNHYUNG GU LYNNIARPlease see Dr. Lynn’s profile under “Faculty”pages.

MORITAKA MATSUMOTOMORITAKA MATSUMOTOMORITAKA MATSUMOTOMORITAKA MATSUMOTOMORITAKA MATSUMOTOArt History, Visual Art and Theory

PublicationsDVD Authoring/Publication and Production:DVD Authoring/Publication and Production:DVD Authoring/Publication and Production:DVD Authoring/Publication and Production:DVD Authoring/Publication and Production:

• World Heritage in Japan, Photo Exhibition:Miyoshi Kazuyoshi, photographer, January 5-15,2004. DVD Production Date: March 25, 2004.• World Heritage in Japan, Photo Exhibition:Miyoshi Kazuyoshi, Photographer, January 10,2004. DVD Production Date: March 25, 2004.• “The Aesthetic World of Yayoi’s Mime Perform-ance: A Contemporary Interpretation of NohDrama and Its Spirit,” March 1, 2003 at RobsonSquare Theatre, University of British Columbia.DVD Production Date: March 15, 2004.• Shakuhachi, Koto, Sitar Music and Zen Photosof Kyoto & Kamakura: Musicians – A. Ramos, Y.Nariya, A. Kim, Photographer – Emu Goto, Sep-tember 28, 2002 at Robson Square Theatre,University of British Columbia. DVD ProductionDate: March 9, 2004.• UBC Year of Japan: Japan Arts Fest- Influenceof Japanese Culture on French Impressionists,Piano – Reiko Nakatsukasa, UBC, Asian CentreAuditorium, University of British Columbia, Jan.31, 2003. DVD Production Date: March 4, 2004.

Grants:The World Heritage in Japan Photography Exhi-bition, Japan Foundation, Triple M Housing LTD.,JTB International and Cheena Canada LTD.

Presentations:“Interaction of the Japanese and European Artis-tic Conventions in Pre-Meiji Japan.” InternationalConference, “Dimensions of Japanese EthnicityWithin and Without, 1543 – 1945,” Centre forJapanese Research, UBC, Nov. 6-7, 2003.

Event Production:UBC Year of Japan Production. The World Herit-age in Japan Photography Exhibition, AsianCentre Auditorium, Jan. 5-15, 2004

Current Research Projects:My research on Nanban Art and Culture broughtme to Nagasaki, Hirado, Ikitsuki, Kagoshima,Tanegashima and other parts of Japan twiceduring the last academic year. The NagasakiKenritsu Art Museum curator showed me theirprecious artworks kept in the storage and helpedme find an interesting aspect of the Nanban



painting tradition of the 16th-17th centuries. Vis-iting Tanagashima, the first site that the South-ern Europeans landed in Japan, 1542, I found anew dimension to the Japanese peoples’ reac-tion to and acceptance of what the SouthernEuropeans brought to Japan, including theTanegashima-ju. I am going to visit New Lisbon,Evora, Tomor, Coinbra and other ancient siteswhere the Portuguese of the16th and 17th centu-ries left their legacy, including several histori-cally important artworks they brought back fromJapan.

MASAO NAKAMURAMASAO NAKAMURAMASAO NAKAMURAMASAO NAKAMURAMASAO NAKAMURAIAR, Sauder School of Business, ElectricalEngineeringPlease see Dr. Nakamura’s profile under“Faculty” pages.

Current Research Projects:1. Corporate governance in Japan and elsewhere;2. Environmental and technology managementin Japan and Canada;3. Productivity issues in the Japanese economy.

TAK NIIMURATAK NIIMURATAK NIIMURATAK NIIMURATAK NIIMURAElectrical & Computer Engineering

Publications:T. Niimura, S. Niioka, and R. Yokoyama, “Trans-mission Loading Relief Solutions for CongestionManagement,” Journal of Electrical PowerSystems Research, Vol. 67, Issue 2, November2003, Elsevier, pp. 73-78.

Grants:Japan Institute of Systems Research, C$3293

Current Research Projects:Ongoing analysis of electric power industryderegulation and competition and analysis ofJapanese adoption, 2001-2003

PETER NOSCOPETER NOSCOPETER NOSCOPETER NOSCOPETER NOSCOAsian Studies

Publications• “The National Learning Schools” in Wm.Theodore de Bary, ed., (revised edition) Sourcesof Japanese Tradition (in press), Columbia Uni-versity Press.• “Spiritual Pilgimage and the Early Modern Travel

Narrative: Oku no hosomichi,” in Hanyang Jour-nal nos. 11-12 (January 2004), pp. 1-18.• “Early Modernity and the State’s PoliciesToward Christianity in 16th- and 17th-CenturyJapan,” in Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese Stud-ies (in press).• Book review-Christianity in Early ModernJapan: Kirishitan Belief and Practice, by IkuoHigashibaba. In Japanese Journal of ReligiousStudies 30:1-2, pp. 172-75.

Presentations• “Spiritual Pilgrimage and the Early ModernTravel Narrative: Oku no hosomichi,” at theannual Hanyang University Japan studies inter-national symposium “Folk, Religion and TravelCulture in Korean and Japan.”• “What Earthly Paradises Tell Us About Thenand Now,” as part of a roundtable on “Eight-eenth-Century Utopian Visions in Literature andPolitics: Their Views versus Our Views”. 34th An-nual Meeting of the American Society for Eight-eenth-Century Studies, UCLA, August 4, 2003.

JOHN RIESJOHN RIESJOHN RIESJOHN RIESJOHN RIESSauder School of Business

Publications• Head, Keith, John Ries, and Barbara Spencer,“Vertical Networks and U.S. Auto Parts Trade: IsJapan Different?” Journal of Economics & Man-agement Strategy 13(1), 2004, 37-67.• Head, Keith and John Ries, “Heterogeneity andthe Foreign Direct Investment versus ExportsDecision of Japanese Manufacturers,” Journal ofthe Japanese and International Economies 17,2003, 448-467.

Presentations• “Japan’s FDI: The Verdict From a DartboardModel,” presented at “Japan, the United States,and the International Economy: New Directionsfor Research,” The Japan Foundation and theCenter for Global Partnership (CGP), Universityof Michigan, March 13, 2004. (presented byKeith Head).• “Foreign Direct Investment versus Exports: ATest of the Selection Hypothesis” (with KeithHead), presented at the Economics Department,University of Toronto, April 7, 2003.


YUKO SHIBATAYUKO SHIBATAYUKO SHIBATAYUKO SHIBATAYUKO SHIBATAResearch Associate, CJR

Publications• “Cultural Sharing: A Perspective of a Shin-Is-sei//La Transmission Culturelle: La Perspectived’Une Femme Shin-Issei” in Owning History:Through the Lens of Japanese Canadian Redress,Exhibition Catalogue (English, Japanese, French)of the Japanese Canadian National MuseumInaugural Exhibition, September 2000,pp. 38-50 (English). Burnaby, B.C., Japanese Ca-nadian National Museum.• “Across Five Generations and Beyond: Learn-ing from and Sharing with Nikkei Women’sNarratives, A Shin-Issei’s Perspective.” InChanging Japanese Identities in MulticulturalCanada, Kess, J. F., H. Noro, M. M. Ayukawa, andH. Lansdowne (eds), pp. 365-373. Victoria, B.C.:University of Victoria.

Presentations• “Overlapping Lives: Cultural Sharing AmongFive Groups of Japanese Canadian (Nikkei)Women,” CJR Fall Term Seminar Series,Sept. 2003.• “Power of Narratives: Enduring and SurvivingMemories,” the 16th Annual Conference ofJapan Studies Association of Canada, Hamilton,Ontario, Oct. 2003.• Lectures on Japanese Canadians at Kyoto(Ritsumeikan University), Nagoya (NagoyaForeign Language University), and Sapporo(Hokkaido Chapter of Japan Association ofCanadian Studies), Nov. 2003.• “Cultural Sharing among Japanese Canadian(Nikkei) Women” at Couch-Stone Winter Sympo-sium of the Society for the Study of SymbolicInteraction, Vancouver, Canada, February 2004.

Current Research ProjectsManuscript, working title: Overlapping Lives.“Diversity is Our Strength,” for Japanese Cana-dian National Museum’s Speaker’s Series, Sep-tember 2004, Burnaby, B. C. Nikkei (JapaneseCanadian) narratives and working on papers ontopics: generations, language/emotion andmemory, identity and self.

YVES TIBERGHIENYVES TIBERGHIENYVES TIBERGHIENYVES TIBERGHIENYVES TIBERGHIENPolitical Science

Publications• “Kokusai shihon ido: kokusai shihon ido tokokunai seiji” (The Domestic Political Impact ofInternational Capital Mobility) In Masaru Kohnoand Harukata Takenaka, eds. April 2003.Akusesu Kokusai Seiji Keizai (Access to Theoryon International Political Economy). Tokyo:Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha. pp. 146-164.• “Continuité au Japon et Transformation enCorée : Analyse Politique de Deux ParcoursDivergents” (“Continuity in Japan andTransformation in Korea: Political Analysis ofTwo Divergent Trajectories”). In Jean-MarieBouissou, Diana Hochraich, and Christian Millelieds. Les Économies Asiatiques: de la Crise auRebond ? Collection Recherches Internationalesdu CERI. Paris: Editions Karthala. Published inNovember 2003.• Japan is Changing, Canada in Asia Series onthe Foreign Policy Dialogue, Vancouver: AsiaPacific Foundation of Canada. Published inNovember 2003.• “L’État Japonais en Question: Rééquilibragesau Centre” (The Japanese State in Question:Reorganization at the Core), AGIR N°17,Mars 2004. pp. 15-22. Paris, France: Societede Strategie.• Book Review of Political Business in East Asia.(Edmund Terence Gomez. 2002. London andNew York: Routledge). Published in Pacific Af-fairs, October 2003, Volume 76, No. 3, Fall.

Grants(with Julian Dierkes) European Commission,$20,000, “Toward an Alternative TricontinentalPartnership? Responses to Globalization in EU,Japanese and Canadian Policy-Making.”

Presentations• “The Politics of Ill-Supervised Financial Deregu-lation: A Reinterpretation of the Japanese Finan-cial Bubble.” Proceedings of the Annual Conven-tion of the International Studies Association(ISA), March 17-20, 2004, Montreal.

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• “Japan’s Response to Domestic and ForeignTerrorism,” Lester Pearson College of the Pacific,March 8, 2004.• “Global Investors, Mediating State, and Corpo-rate Reforms Convergence: A Comparative Studyof Japan, Korea, and France,” Centre d’Études etde Recherches Internationales (CERI), Institut desÉtudes Politiques de Paris, France (IEP,Science Po) December 1, 2003.• “Le Choc Nissan et la Transformationde l’Économie Japonaise: PerspectivesComparatives,” Institut National des LanguesOrientales (INALCO), Universite Paris Dauphine,Paris, December 4, 2003.• “Quelle Reponse du Japon a sa CriseÉconomique?”, Institut des Études Politiques deLille (IEP Lille), France, November 26, 2003.• “Global Investors, Mediating State, and Corpo-rate Reforms Convergence: A Comparative Per-spective on the Covert Jospin Reforms in France,”Max Planck Institute for Social Sciences, Cologne,Germany, November 24, 2003.• “Japon-Coree: Analyse Politique de Deux Par-cours Divergents,” Institut des Études Politiquesde Paris, France (IEP), November 21, 2003.• “Global Investors, Mediating State, and Corpo-rate Reform Convergence: a Comparative Studyof Japan, Korea, and France,” WeatherheadCenter for International Affairs and Korea Center,Harvard University, November 12, 2003.

• “Policy-Making in the Era of Financial Globali-zation: the Battle for Japanese CorporateReforms,” Political Science, University of Penn-sylvania, November 11, 2003.• “The Nissan Shock and the Transformation ofthe Japanese Political Economy,” Wharton Schoolof Business and Center for East Asian Studies,University of Pennsylvania, November 10, 2003.• “Reflections on the Outcome of the Nov.9 LowerHouse Election: Toward a Brave New Japan?”Vancouver Mokuyokai Society and VancouverCanada-Japan Society, November 17, 2003.• “Veto Players, Financial Globalization, andPolicy-Making: A Political Analysis of thePathway of Structural Reforms in Japan, 1993-2000,” Political Science, UBC, October 17, 2003.• “Policy-Making in the Era of Financial Globali-zation: the Battle for Japanese Corporate Re-forms, 1996-2002,” Conference on Globalizationand East Asian Capitalism, Yonsei University andthe Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford Uni-versity, August 2003.• “Veto Players, Financial Globalization, andPolicy-Making: A Political Analysis of the Path-way of Structural Reforms in Japan, 1993-2002.”Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Ameri-can Political Science Association (APSA), Phila-delphia, August 28-31, 2003.

Current Research Projects1. State Mediation of Financial Globalization: thecase of Japan in comparative perspective.Completion of book manuscript and relatedarticles, focus on the politics of corporate gov-ernance reforms and structural reforms in Japanin the context of globalization.2. The Politics of Genetically-Modified Organisms(GMOs): Japan and the EU compared. 3-yearproject on the political analysis of GMO regula-tions in Japan and the EU, with comparison toother important countries (OECD and Asia).3. Canada-Japan-EU convergence project: 3-yearconference and book project to study thepatterns of cooperation and convergencebetween these 3 powers in response to globalissues.4. Changing Japanese Foreign Policy: new projecton the impact of a rising civil society on Japan’sgrowing involvement at the UN and into peace-keeping operations.5. Evaluation of Koizumi reforms and causalanalysis.


ILAN VERTINSKYILAN VERTINSKYILAN VERTINSKYILAN VERTINSKYILAN VERTINSKYIAR and Sauder School of BusinessIAR and Sauder School of BusinessIAR and Sauder School of BusinessIAR and Sauder School of BusinessIAR and Sauder School of BusinessPlease see Dr. Vertinsky’s profile under the“Faculty” pages.

WILLIAM WRAYWILLIAM WRAYWILLIAM WRAYWILLIAM WRAYWILLIAM WRAYHistoryHistoryHistoryHistoryHistory

Publications:“Nodes in the Global Webs of Japanese Shipping,”Business History, Vol. 47, no. 1.

Current Projects:“Riding a Tsunami: Japan’s NYK Line in WorldWar I; Hegemony and the Cycles of JapaneseHistory.”

HIGHLIGHTS ofGRADUATE STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CJR AwardsCJR AwardsCJR AwardsCJR AwardsCJR AwardsThe following students received funds from theCJR Pacific Bridge Award Programme:Jeff Alexander, 3rd year History PhdAndrew Dyche, 1st year History Phd.Kaori Yoshida, 3rd year Asian Studies Phd.Keisuke Enokido, 5th year SCARP Phd.Maria Petrucci, 2nd year Asian Studies MA.Asako Omukai, 2nd year Political Science MA.Christopher Kelly, 1st year MAPPS.Masako Tsuzuki., 2nd year MAPPS.

Graduate ThesesGraduate ThesesGraduate ThesesGraduate ThesesGraduate ThesesAndrew Dyche, “Politics and Philosophy in theNew Order: A Reappraisal of Miki Kiyoshi andthe Showa Kenkyu Kai.” (History, supervisor:William Wray).Matthew Spooner, “Public Finance and Invest-ment out of the Japanese Post Office: A Historyof the Postal Savings System.” (Master in AsiaPacific Policy Studies, supervisors: Hyung GuLynn and William Wray).

PresentationsPresentationsPresentationsPresentationsPresentations• Keisuke Enokido (SCARP) “RecognizingOkinawa: The Power of Cultural Politics in Re-constructing Center-Periphery Relationships.”IAR Graduate Student Conference, February2004.• Takeshi Hamamura (Psychology) and SteveHeine. “Why the Better-than-Average EffectExaggerates Self-Enhancement?” 44th AnnualMeeting of the Japanese Society of SocialPsychology, Tokyo, September 2003.

• Shiho Maeshima (Asian Studies),“Images of Modernity in Japanese-language Mass-Market Magazinesin the Japanese Empire.” IARGraduate Student Conference,February 2004.• Mark Manger (Political Science),“Japanese FTA Strategy in Comparative Perspec-tive.” Presented at the Six University Symposium,Kyoto, November 2003.• Mark Manger (Political Science), “Japan’s FTAStrategy in Context: Multinational Firm Strategyand the Global Move to Free Trade Agreements”Presented at the Business & Economics StudyGroup Meeting, German Institute for JapaneseStudies, Tokyo, November 2003.• Mark Manger (Political Science), “Japan’s ‘Mul-tilayered’ Trade Policy and the Global Move toFree Trade Agreements.” Presented at the ISA-West Annual Conference, Las Vegas, October2003.• Jeff Newmark (Asian Studies), “Reshaping theEarly Modern Public Sphere of Remonstration:Oshio Heihachiro and Ikuta Yoruzu’s 1837Uprisings.” IAR Graduate Student Conference,February 2004.• Maria Petrucci (Asian Studies), “Tea Politics,Christianity and War Economics: Shimai Soshitsuand Kamiya Sotan’s Role in the Process ofJapan’s State Formation Between 1570 and1615.” IAR Graduate Student Conference,February 2004.• Matthew Spooner (MAPPS), “Development ofPublic Finance and Investment out of theJapanese Post Office: 1875-1945.” IAR GraduateStudent Conference, February 2004.• Kaori Yoshida (Asian Studies), “Kappa in TheKappa Child.” Department of Women’s Studies,University of British Columbia. March 19, 2004.• Kaori Yoshida (Asian Studies), “ContemporaryJapanese Popular Culture.” Cultural DiversitySeries in Life-Long Learning for Seniors. KwantlenUniversity College. October 17, 2003.• Kaori Yoshida (Asian Studies), “Female Imagesof the Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture.”Department of Women’s Studies, University ofBritish Columbia. October 8, 2003.• Kaori Yoshida (Asian Studies), “Issues inChildren’s Media as Glob/calized CulturalIndustry.” IAR Graduate Student Conference,February 2004.


Over the 2003-04 academic year, the Centre forKorean for Korean Research promoted researchon Korea at UBC in four ways. First of all, itprovided financial support for research onKorea by members of the UBC community.Second, it provided forums for UBC research-ers on Korea to discuss their research findingswith other scholars working on Korea-relatedissues. Third, it worked to strengthen ties be-tween UBC researchers and the rest of theCanadian Korean Studies community. Fourth, itstrengthened research links between UBCresearchers and researchers in Korea.

Five UBC faculty members received financial sup-port from the CKR over the past academic year.1. The CKR supported research by Namlin Hurfrom Asian Studies on “A National Hero inHistory-Making: Yi Sunsin in Post-imjin Korea “;2. Research by Steven Lee from History in theUS National Archives on US relations withCanada and Korea from 1945 to 1975;3. On-site research by Millie Creighton from An-thropology and Sociology on karaoke in Korea;4. Research by Hyung Gu Lynn from the CKR

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Associate Director: Kyung-Ae Park

on popular culture in South Korea-Japanrelations;5. Research by Ross King of Asian studies onnotions of correctness and authenticity inKorean language ideologies.In addition, five UBC graduate students (ErinWilliams, Romee Lee, Avram Agov, Hyuk ChanKwon, and Leif Olsen) were each awarded $1,000for exemplary seminar papers on a Korea-relatedtopic.

ON-CAMPUS SEMINARS

• May, 2003, Haeng Yi talked about “DemocraticConsoliation and the Presidential Electionof 2002."• May, 2003, Young Ch’ul Chung talked about“North Korean Reform and Opening: DualStrategy and Silli (Practial) Socialism.”• August, 2003, Seong Dal Doh compared theethical attitudes of Koreans, Japanese, andAmericans.• August, 2003, Soon-woo Chung analyzed theNeo-Confucian encounter with Christianity inthe 18th century.• September, 2003, Jongsok Choi shared hisfindings on the polarization betweenNeo-Confucianism and shamanism during theChoson dynasty.• December, 2003, Youngja Baik joined withHaeyaul Choi to describe changes in Koreanclothing over the centuries.• January 2004, Young-Chun Yim presented apaper on new approaches to understandingKorean ecological literature.• February, 2004, Young-Sang Ahn presentedthe fruits of his research on the conflict betweenConfucian and Catholic models of community in18th century Korea.• March, 2004, Song Younok presented a paperon Korean nationalism through Japanese-Canadian eyes.• March, 2004, Noriko Furukawa shared herresearch on the Dok-San school in Daegu incolonial Korea.

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• March, 2004, UBC’s own Ross King, from theDepartment of Asian Studies, shared with theUBC community his research on verbal hygienein Korea.• April, 2004, another UBC faculty member, BruceFulton, also from the Department of Asian Stud-ies, presented a lecture in April, 2003, at an eventco-sponsored with the International Communi-cation Foundation in Seoul as well as the officeof the UBC president, in celebration of hisappointment as the Young Bin Min Chair inKorean Literature and Literary Translation.

0FF-CAMPUS VISITORS

• May, 2003, Wayne Patterson from St. Norbert’sUniversity in the US spoke on “100 years ofKorean-American History.”• September, 2003, Victor Kozhemyako of Rus-sia’s Far Eastern National University introducedthe UBC Korean Research community to Koreanstudies and research in Russia.

• October, 2003, Walter Lew fromThe University of California, LosAngeles spoke on Yi Sang, a poetin early modern Korean.• October, 2003, Tae-Gyun Parkfrom Seoul National University vis-ited UBC to talk about reshapingthe Korean state from 1961 to1963.• October, 2003, Norm Thorpe

shared his collection of postcards from colonialKorea.• Nov. 3, 2003, Ambassador Soo-Gil Park,President of the Korea-Canada Society, made anaddress on the North Korean nuclear Issue andEast Asian Security.• January, 2004, Kevin O’Rourke, from Seoul’sKyunghee University, presented a paper onKorean songs from the Koryo period.• March, 2004, Sunmi Park from RitsumeikanUniversity in Japan, visited UBC to talk aboutKorean women college students in Japan duringJapanese colonial rule.

WORKSHOP

In August, 2003, the CKR co-sponsored (alongwith the Department of Korean Studies) a two-day workshop on Korean literary translation atwhich established translators from UBC, the US,and Korea worked with graduate students to helpthem improve their ability to translate Koreanliterature into English.

October 2003 Conference on 40 years of Korea-Canada relations:Dr. Steve Lee (History) speaking, with Dr. Kyung-Ae Park as moderator

Conference on 40 years of Korea-Canada relations: aspeaker shows a picture of a 19th century Koreanofficial who visited Vancouver.


CONFERENCE

The most significant event for the year was aconference in October celebrating forty yearsof Korean-Canadian relations. Scholars fromacross Canada, from the United States, and fromSouth Korea came to UBC to discuss the manyways Koreans and Canadians have interactedover the years. A total of 15 papers werepresented at this conference. Topics rangedfrom present day economic ties to a visit toVancouver by Korean reformers over a centuryago. Soo-Bin Park from Carleton Universitytalked about the “North Korean Economy,current issues and prospects,” Tae Gyun Parkfrom Seoul National University talked about theCanadian role in the Republic of Korea’s earlyyears, and Walter Lew from The University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles talked about themaritime ties of the first Korean-Americannovelist.The conference ended with the revivalof the Canadian Association for Korean Studiesas an umbrella organization to give scholars of

Centre forKorean Research (CKR)

Korea in Canada, no matter what their discipli-nary orientation, a chance to share ideas andresearch results. The association will be basedin the CKR, helping UBC researchers strengthentheir ties with the rest of the Canadian Koreanresearch community.

PROJECTS

The CKR is also strengthening research linksbetween UBC researchers and researchers inKorea. Director Don Baker is a part of a researchteam, along with Soon-woo Chung (from theAcademy of Korean Studies), Young-sang Ahn(from Andong University), and Jong Seong Choi(from Seoul National University), formed toexamine the relationship between the individualand the absolute in modern Korean religiositywith funding from the Korea Research Founda-tion. Ross King, a member of the CKR manage-ment committee, has also been invited to workwith professors in Korea on joint researchprojects on the history and dialects of theKorean language.

In August, 2004, Director Don Baker along withemeritus professor and former director YunshikChang and CKR professor Hyung Gu Lynn willtravel to Pyongyang, in North Korea, to repre-sent the Centre for Korean Research at the WorldCongress of Korean Studies.

photo: Wendy McAvoy


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RECRUITMENT

This year was characterized by a great deal ofrecruitment effort that ended with the success-ful recruitment of two highly accomplishedcandidates – Dr. Milind Kandlikar and Dr. AmandaWeidman.

Milind Kandlikar Milind Kandlikar Milind Kandlikar Milind Kandlikar Milind Kandlikar will be appointed on July 1,2004 as an Assistant Professor jointly in CISARand the Liu Centre of Global issues at UBC. Hereceived his PhD in Engineering and Public Policyin 1995 from Carnegie Mellon University, Pitts-burgh, USA. His research interests are in theareas of: global climate change and air-pollution,energy and natural resources, biotechnology,environmental policy etc. In his recent work hehas applied his expertise to analyzing environ-mental problems in India.

Amanda WeidmanAmanda WeidmanAmanda WeidmanAmanda WeidmanAmanda Weidman will be appointed on July 1,2005 as an Assistant Professor jointly in CISARand the Department of Anthropology and Sociol-ogy at UBC. She will be the first occupant of JohalChair in India Research. She received her PhD inAnthropology in May 2001.She is an ethno-musicologist who has written on the changingmores, including those regarding gender, inSouth Indian classical music. For her fieldworkshe had to learn Tamil in which she is fluent andTelugu in which she has basic competence. Shealso has basic reading competence in Sanskrit.Amanda is an accomplished violinist in South In-dian classical style and has participated in anumber of concerts either as a soloist oraccompanist.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES by FACULTY MEMBERS

DR. VIDYUT AKLUJKARDR. VIDYUT AKLUJKARDR. VIDYUT AKLUJKARDR. VIDYUT AKLUJKARDR. VIDYUT AKLUJKARResearch Associate

PublicationsBooks:in pressin pressin pressin pressin press

• Bhashavedhå, an anthology of articles on vari-ous aspects of Language. Majestic Prakashan,Girgaon, Mumbai. Slated for publication in 2004.• A†harå Dhånyånce Ka”bole, an anthology ofshort stories from world literature translated byme and edited with introductory essays on eachstory. Menaka Prakashan, Pune. Slated forpublication in 2004.

Articles: in pressin pressin pressin pressin press

• “Games with God: Sakhya-bhakti in Marathi SantPoetry,” article written as a chapter of an editedvolume/book on Indian Sant poets. Slated forpublication in 2004-5. Editor: Dr. Edwin Bryant.Rutgers University. New Jersey, USA.• “The ‘Radio-active’ Gita -Ramayana: Home and

Abroad,” is slated for publication in an anthol-ogy edited by Dr. M. Bose, past director of CISARto be published by Oxford University Press. Thiswas a paper presented in the conference onPerformance, Gender and the Narrative Designof the Ramayanana under the auspices of PeterWall Institute of Advanced Studies and the Insti-tute of Asian Research at the University ofBritish Columbia. June 15- 16, 2001.• “Indecent Proposals: A Cross-cultural Study,”is being considered for publication in an anthol-ogy edited by Prof. Raffaele Torella, to bepublished in Italy, in Italian translation as wellas the original English.• “Debating Divinity: Strategies of Reconciliationin Ånanda-Råmåyana,” an article to be publishedwith other conference papers by the Universityof Helsinki. Editor: Dr. Petteri Koskicallio.• “Family, Feminism and Film in RemakingRamayana.” Article to be published with otherconference papers by the University of Washing-ton, Seattle. USA. Editor: Prof. Heidi Powell.

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Centre for India andSouth Asia Research(CISAR)

and Gender, edited by Jacqueline Suthren Hirstand Lynn Thomas (New Delhi: Oxford UniversityPress, 2004, pp. 102-16).Her present project is a book tentatively titledDevi: The Indian Goddess, in collaboration withProfessor Sanjukta Gupta Gombrich (Oxford).

Seminars and Presentations• “In Sita’s footsteps: Growing up Female in theAsian Diaspora,” at Department of South andSoutheast Asian Studies, Calcutta University,30 September 2003.• “Self-Questioning in the Ramayana,” at theIndian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla,15 October 2003.• “Sangitanarayana: a Seventeenth CenturySanskrit Text on Music and Dance,” at IndiraGandhi National Centre for the Arts,22 October 2003.• “Re-Inventing the Ramayana in TwentiethCentury Bengali Literature,” at India InternationalCentre, 23 October 2003.• “Classical Thoughts on Drama and TheirRelevance in Understanding the AncientCulture,” at Department of Sanskrit, JadavpurUniversity, 26 November 2003.• “Images of Goddess and Contemporary IndianWomen,” at Department of Women’s Studies,Calcutta University, 27 November 2003.• “Bharata’s concept of Dramaturgy,” at Depart-ment of Sanskrit, Calcutta University, 30November 2003.• “Re-Inventing the Ramayana in TwentiethCentury Bengali Literature,” The Asiatic Society,Calcutta, 5 December 2003.

Interviews• Doordarshan TV (National Television of India),13 December 2003, “Hindu Fundamentalism andthe Indian Diaspora.”• Doordarshan TV, 14 December 2003, “The Ideaof Goddess in the Hindu Tradition and its Influ-ence on Women.”

PROFESSOR ASHOK KOTWALPROFESSOR ASHOK KOTWALPROFESSOR ASHOK KOTWALPROFESSOR ASHOK KOTWALPROFESSOR ASHOK KOTWALDirectorDr. Kotwal received a two year SHARPE grantfunded by CIDA and Shastri Institute. It is, a col-laborative project with Mukesh Eswaran (UBCEconomics), Bharat Ramswami (Indian Statisti-cal Institute, New Delhi and India DevelopmentFoundation, Gurgaon), Wilima Wadhva (IndiaDevelopment Foundation, Gurgaon) titled ‘TheImpact of Economic Reforms on Employment and

Papers/lectures presented atConferences and Seminars• “Debating Divinity: Strategiesof Reconciliation in Ånanda-råmåyana,” in the World SanskritConference at Helsinki. 14-17July, 2003. This was a sequel tothe paper presented earlier atthe American Oriental Society’s213th conference at Nashville,TN. in April 2003.• “Power, Passion and Panache :The Feminine in Hinduism,” aninvited public lecture given atSimon Fraser University,arranged by Dr. Mirium Eguchi,also as a guest lecture for herclass on world religions. Novem-ber 6, 2003.

• “Family, Feminism and Film in RemakingRamayana,” an invited lecture given at the SeattleAsian Art Museum, WA, USA. The lecture wasgiven in the symposium, Classics on Celluloid:Bollywood Recasting the Tradition, arranged byThe South Asia Centre, The Simpson Centre forthe Humanities and The Department of AsianLanguages and Literature at the University ofWashington, Seattle Community Colleges andSeattle Asian Art Museum. April 3, 2004.

DR. MANDAKRANTA BOSEDR. MANDAKRANTA BOSEDR. MANDAKRANTA BOSEDR. MANDAKRANTA BOSEDR. MANDAKRANTA BOSEProfessor EmeritaDr. Bose received a 4 – year SSHRC grant in April2002 to work on Signifying Gender in RamayanaPerformances.

PublicationsBook: In Press In Press In Press In Press In Press

Ramayana Revisited (Oxford University Press,New York, 2004). Edited by Dr. Bose, containing14 articles by contributors from Canada, USA,England, Europe, India and Thailand.

Article“Confrontation, Transgression and Submission:Ideals of Womanhood in the Manasamangala,”in Playing for Real Hindu Role Models, Religion

Dr. M. Bose,Professor Emerita


Poverty in India’. The goal of the project is toexamine if and how the economic reformsundertaken in 1991 in India have made an im-pact on: (a) growth rate (b) poverty (c) schoolenrollment rates and (d) the well-being of women.

PublicationsArticleArticleArticleArticleArticle

“A Theory of Gender Differences in Altruism”(with M. Eswaran), forthcoming in the CanadianJournal of Economics.

Papers/lectures Presented at Conferences andSeminars

“Can Globalization Reduce World Poverty?”, atMcgill University, February 18, 2004.

PROFESSOR BARRIE MORRISONPROFESSOR BARRIE MORRISONPROFESSOR BARRIE MORRISONPROFESSOR BARRIE MORRISONPROFESSOR BARRIE MORRISONPlease refer to the “Comparative InternationalStudies of Social Cohesion and GlobalizationProject” page for his research activities.

PROFESSOR NANCY WAXLER-MORRISONPROFESSOR NANCY WAXLER-MORRISONPROFESSOR NANCY WAXLER-MORRISONPROFESSOR NANCY WAXLER-MORRISONPROFESSOR NANCY WAXLER-MORRISONProfessor EmeritaDr. Waxler-Morrison visited Sri Lanka (Novem-ber 2003 through February 2004) for fieldresearch and study. During her visit she gavepresentations at Eastern University and South-eastern University.

Publications(In Press)“Who Will Care for Those Left at Home: TheEffect of New Opportunities for Work on SriLankan Families”, in S. Hasbullah and B.Morrison, Social Change in Sri Lanka, Sage(India), 2004.

SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS andCOLLOQUIA at CISAR

1. April 2, 2003, jointly with the Dept of AsianStudies, “Classical Ayurveda and Its ModernPractice: Study and Fieldwork of Ayurveda inIndia and in America” by Prof. Kenneth G. Zysk,(Dept. of Asian Studies, University of Copenha-gen).

2. April 2, 2003, jointly with the Dept of Asianstudies, “The Use of Animals in the SanskritTraditions of Lovemaking, Conjugal Love andMedicine,” by Professor Kenneth G. Zysk, (Dept.of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen).

3.May 24, 2003, Lower Mainland BengaliCultural Association celebrated the birthday ofRabindranath Tagore. The event took place atthe C.K. Choi Building with the garlanding of the

Tagore bust and was followed by a cultural eventat UBC International House.

4. May 24, 2003, book launch for Mrs. MadhuVarshney’s book of poems.

5. June 5, 2003, reception for Chitralekha Tagore.

6. September 18, 2003, jointly with the Centrefor Chinese Research: “Asian Drama: Indian Per-ceptions of Asia” – a dual presentation.(i) “The Boxer Uprising: An Indian Soldier’s Ac-count of China and the World in 1900-1901," byAnand Yang, Director, Jackson School of Inter-national Studies, U. of Washington, Seattle.(ii) “Eighteenth-Century Indian Views of West andCentral Asia,”by Sanjay Subrahmanyam,Professor of Indian History and Culture, The Ori-ental Institute, Oxford, UK.

7. October 27, 2003, “Writing the Body:Cosmology, Orthography and Notions ofIdentity in Northeastern India,” by Sohini Ray(Recruitment Seminar).

8. November 3, 2003, “Clinical Theodicies: TheEnchanted World of Clinical Conception inIndia,” by Aditya Bhardwa (RecruitmentSeminar).

9. November 3, 2003, jointly with Green College,“The Pre-History of Orientalism: European Viewsof Indian Religion, 1500-1800,” by SanjaySubrahmayam, Chair in Indian History andCulture, Oriental Institute, Oxford University.

10. November 5, 2003, “The Politics of Voice:Colonial Modernity and Classical Music in SouthIndia,” by Amanda Weidmen (RecruitmentSeminar).

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16. December 6, 2003, “Remembering A Jewelof India: Dr. Ambedkar,” by Ashok Bhargava.

17. February 27-28, 2004, SACPAN 2004Conference. The conference took place at UBC,and started with a reception and dinner at theInstitute of Asian Research, Centre for India andSouth Asia Research (CISAR). Almost 40 Schol-ars from the University of Washington (U of W),University of British Columbia (UBC), Universityof Victoria (UVIC) and Simon Fraser University(SFU) as well as graduate students from thesethree institutions participated at this lively so-cial event.• “Explaining India’s Rise as Global IT Power-house,” by Professor Milind Kandlikar,Institute for Resources, Environment andSustainability/SDRI/Liu Institute for GlobalIssues, UBC.• “Is Pro-Market Reform Good for Women? Ex-ploring the Indian Scenario,” by Professor S.Charusheela of University of Hawaii presentlyvisiting the University of Washington.• “The Celestial Globe and Astrolabe in India:Introduction, Reception and Dissemination,” byProfessor S. R. Sarma, Sanskrit, Aligarh Univer-sity presently visiting Asian Studies, UBC.• “Blurred Borders: Coastal Conflicts betweenIndia and Pakistan,” by Professor Charu Gupta,History, University of Delhi presently visiting theUniversity of Washington.• “Strategies of Secularism: The Indian National-ist Movement in Hyderabad State,” byProfessor John Roosa, History, UBC.Almost 50 people attended the Saturday confer-ence which included a lively discussion lastingthe entire day.

18. March 19, 2004, “WTO After Cancun:Indian Perspective,” by Dr. Charan Wadhva,President and Chief Executive, Centre for PolicyResearch, India.

11. November 13, 2003, “Insights and QuestionsArising from the Distinctive Yet Familiar Case ofOverfishing in Gujarat’s Coastal Waters,” by DerekJohnson (Recruitment Seminar).

12. November 14, 2003, “Political Thought andStatecraft in Pre-Colonial India,” by V. NarayanaRao, Department of Asian Studies, University ofWisconsin, Madison.

13. November 17, 2003, “The Future that ShouldHave Been: Afterlife of the Partition of India,” by(Recruitment Seminar).

14. November 20, 2003, one day workshop on “Changing Faces of Islam: Historical andContemporary Perspectives.”Speakers:− Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Oxford and CISAR):“Two Views of Indo-Islamic Interaction in the LateMughal Period.”− S.R. Sarma (Asian Studies, UBC): “IntellectualExchanges between the Persian and SanskritTraditions in Mughal India.”− Chitralekha Zutshi (College of William andMary): “Rethinking Kashmiri Islam”− Taj Hashmi (Asian Studies, UBC): “Failure ofthe ‘Welfare State’, Islamic Resurgence andPolitical Legitimacy in Bangladesh.”− Haider Nizamani (Political Science, UBC):“Islam and the Changing World Order: People’sPerceptions from Pakistan.”

15. November 26, 2003, “Dowry Inflation inIndia: a Theoretical Perspective,” by ProfessorSiwan Anderson, Department of Economics, UBC.


CENTRE fCENTRE fCENTRE fCENTRE fCENTRE for SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARor SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARor SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARor SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARor SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCHCHCHCHCH(CSEAR(CSEAR(CSEAR(CSEAR(CSEAR)))))Director: Michael Leaf

As a constituent part of the Institute of AsianResearch, the Centre for Southeast Asia Research(CSEAR) is the only academic institution inCanada exclusively devoted to the study ofSoutheast Asia. Its purpose is to promote inter-est and understanding of Southeast Asian issuesand cultures through scholarly exchange andinteraction on the UBC campus, in SoutheastAsia, and in the wider Lower Mainland commu-nity. CSEAR undertakes the organization of semi-nars, workshops, conferences and publications,and serves as a vehicle for the development ofcollaborative research projects among faculty,graduate students and colleagues in SoutheastAsia and elsewhere in Canada. CSEAR’s Execu-tive Committee this past year consisted of:Leonora Angeles, Richard Barichello, PaulLeonora Angeles, Richard Barichello, PaulLeonora Angeles, Richard Barichello, PaulLeonora Angeles, Richard Barichello, PaulLeonora Angeles, Richard Barichello, PaulEvans, Geoffrey Hainsworth, Michael Leaf,Evans, Geoffrey Hainsworth, Michael Leaf,Evans, Geoffrey Hainsworth, Michael Leaf,Evans, Geoffrey Hainsworth, Michael Leaf,Evans, Geoffrey Hainsworth, Michael Leaf,Gordon Longmuir Gordon Longmuir Gordon Longmuir Gordon Longmuir Gordon Longmuir and Terry McGeeTerry McGeeTerry McGeeTerry McGeeTerry McGee.

ACTIVITIES

This past year, CSEAR was able to obtain fund-ing to establish a Canada Research Chair in AsianUrbanism and Culture, soon to be taken up byDr. Abidin KusnoDr. Abidin KusnoDr. Abidin KusnoDr. Abidin KusnoDr. Abidin Kusno, a young scholar already widelyregarded for his contributions to the growingfield of postcolonial urban studies, including hiscritically acclaimed book, Behind the Postcolonial:Architecture, Urban Space and Political Culturesin Indonesia (Routledge 2000). Since completingthis book, Dr. Kusno’s work has expanded intoother areas, perhaps most importantly on vio-lence and collective memory, as exemplified byan article recently published in PublicCulture (Spring 2003), dealing with the chang-ing meaning of “Chinese cultures” in Jakarta inthe wake of the May riots of 1998. Other workhas addressed in a diversity of ways thecultural implications of growing globalinterdependencies as expressed through theurban built environment, as shown in recentarticles on the transformation of Beijing (2000,with Anthony King), Indonesian mosques (2003),and the discourse of regionalism among archi-tects in Southeast Asia (2002). An architecturalhistorian with interests in sociology,anthropology, history and politics, Dr. Kusno’s

focus as Canada Re-search Chair will be theexploration of the his-torical and contempo-rary conditions of ur-ban politics and city lifein Asia. Linked to theCRC position, CSEARhas also obtained CFIfunding for the estab-lishment of the “AsianUrbanism Laboratory”at IAR. This facility isintended to serve as avenue for comparativeresearch and network-ing among those withinterests in the pastand ongoing evolution of urbanization andurban socio-cultural change in Asia.

The Centre for Southeast Asia Research, incollaboration with the Consulate General of theRepublic of Indonesia in Vancouver, presenteda one day seminar on June 19th, 2003, on GoodGovernance for Regional Cooperation andDevelopment in Indonesia. The seminar was heldas part of this year’s commemoration of fiftyyears of diplomatic relations between Indonesiaand Canada. The theme was chosen for itsrelevance to Indonesia’s current experienceswith decentralization, democratization andregional autonomy, and was intended as a meansof opening up a dialogue between Indonesiansand Canadians on the challenges of local gov-ernance and development. CSEAR was verypleased to welcome H. SyaukaniH. SyaukaniH. SyaukaniH. SyaukaniH. Syaukani, the Bupati ofKabupaten Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan,and the Director of APKASI, the IndonesianAssociation of Kabupaten Governments, as thekeynote speaker for the seminar. Mr. Syaukaniwas joined as well by Eddy PratomoEddy PratomoEddy PratomoEddy PratomoEddy Pratomo of theDepartment of Foreign Affairs in Jakarta, and bya number of speakers from British Columbia andAlberta, including Greg Halsey-BrandtGreg Halsey-BrandtGreg Halsey-BrandtGreg Halsey-BrandtGreg Halsey-Brandt of theGovernment of British Columbia and DavidDavidDavidDavidDavidMarshallMarshallMarshallMarshallMarshall of the Fraser Basin Council. Theproceedings from this seminar are now available

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through CSEAR. Input and support from theCanadian International Development AgencyPacific Regional Office and the Asia Pacific Foun-dation of Canada are gratefully acknowledged.

The five-year, CIDA-funded program on Local-ized Poverty Reduction in Vietnam (LPRV)concluded with a three day conference andsymposium in Hanoi, Vietnam, on October 29-31, 2003. This collaborative program broughttogether researchers from UBC’s Centre forSoutheast Asia Research and Centre for HumanSettlements, with researchers from Laval Univer-sity, Vietnam’s National Centre for the SocialSciences and Humanities (NCSSH), and five uni-versities in Vietnam. The first day of the confer-ence, attended by a large number of bothforeign donor agencies and Vietnamese govern-ment officials, included presentations anddiscussions of the results of the work, includingthe launching of a series of books and teachingmaterials on the range of topics covered by theresearch, including participatory methods forpoverty reduction, working with ethnic minoritycommunities, incorporating gender analysis inpoverty reduction work, and the challenges ofaddressing poverty in urban contexts in Viet-nam. The second day of the program, which wasco-sponsored by SEAMEO (The Southeast AsiaMinisters of Education Organization) extendedthe discussion by bringing in comparative ex-amples of poverty reduction work through aca-demic institutions from elsewhere in the region.The final day of the meetings included thedevelopment of plans for the continuation of thework of the network through NCSSH, under thedirection of former NCSSH President NguyenNguyenNguyenNguyenNguyenDuy QuyDuy QuyDuy QuyDuy QuyDuy Quy. Overall, the project was seen to be amajor step forward in engaging Vietnameseacademic researchers in the difficult tasks ofpoverty reduction work, both on the groundthrough action research with poor communitiesand through university teaching programs.Further information on LPRV and the programoutputs may be obtained at:www.chs.ubc.ca/lprv/index2.html.

It was announced in January, 2004, that Profes-sors Geoff HainsworthGeoff HainsworthGeoff HainsworthGeoff HainsworthGeoff Hainsworth and Terry McGeeTerry McGeeTerry McGeeTerry McGeeTerry McGee of theCentre for Southeast Asia Research, along withProfessor Peter BoothroydPeter BoothroydPeter BoothroydPeter BoothroydPeter Boothroyd of UBC’s Centre forHuman Settlements, are to be awarded Friend-ship Medals by the President of the Socialist Re-public of Vietnam. This prestigious award is givento foreigners who have made significant contri-butions to Vietnam in any field that helps withthe development of Vietnam or promotes friend-ship internationally between the people of Viet-nam and (in this instance) Canada. In grantingthe award, the Vietnamese government recog-nized the important contribution of these threeUBC faculty members to “social science humanresource development and poverty reduction” inVietnam, as demonstrated by the successes ofthe recently completed program on LocalizedPoverty Reduction in Vietnam, and, previous tothis, the collaborative Vietnam Linkages Projectbetween UBC and the National Centre for theSocial Sciences and Humanities of Vietnam, inwhich Hainsworth, McGee and Boothroyd playedinstrumental roles.

In February, 2004, Michael Leaf Michael Leaf Michael Leaf Michael Leaf Michael Leaf of the Centrefor Southeast Asia Research participated in thefinal meetings of five year project on urbanpoverty research in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam,organized through the Social Science ResearchCouncil (SSRC) of New York in collaboration withthe Institute of Social Sciences in Ho Chi Minh

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City (ISSHO). The goals of this program includedboth capacity building within ISSHO for quanti-tative and qualitative research methods, as wellas the overall advancement of the state of ur-ban social science research in Vietnam. In thisconference, ISSHO and SSRC-affiliated research-ers presented the findings of their work on pov-erty, migration and urbanization, and discussedmethodological aspects of their studies andpolicy implications of their findings. Outsideguests were invited to present papers dealingwith these same themes in Chinese and otherSoutheast Asian contexts. Dr. Leaf’s paper wasentitled: “Urban Poverty and Urban Transitions:Southeast Asian Experiences.”

In August, 2003, Tineke HellwigTineke HellwigTineke HellwigTineke HellwigTineke Hellwig presented apaper entitled “Controlling the Female Body:Interracial Connections in Malay Literature of the1920-30s” at the 3rd International Convention ofAsia Scholars, National University ofSingapore.

SEMINARS

• September 24, 2003, “Petroleum Paradox: Natu-ral Resource and Development in Indonesia in1967-1997” by Francisia Seda (Department ofSociology, University of Indonesia, and Directorof the Women and Election Division of CETRO(Center for Electoral Reform), Jakarta).• October 15, 2003, “The Bali Bombing: One YearLater” by Irman G. Lantiiiii (Doctoral Candidate, UBCDepartment of Political Science, andResearcher, Centre for Information and Devel-opment Studies, Jakarta).• October 31, 2003, “Gloria and the Media: Some

Current Developments in Philippine Politics” byLuz Rimban (Philippine Center for InvestigativeJournalism, Manila, and 2003 McLuhan Fellowat the University of Toronto, presented inconjunction with the Asia Pacific Foundation ofCanada).• November 12, 2003, “Globalization in a Pill:Understanding Addictive Thai Modernity throughOpium, Methamphetamine and 3,000 Killings”by Craig Candler (Doctoral Candidate, UBCDepartment of Anthropology/Sociology).• November 27, 2003, “The Chinese Kongsi ofWest Borneo: Democratic Governance duringLate Colonialism” by Wang Tai Peng (journalistwith Asia Inc.).• January 6, 2004, “Reflections on East Timor Af-ter Independence: Government and Opposition:

An Opposition Leader’s Perspective” by Fernandode Araujo (Opposition Leader of National Coali-tion Platform and Former Vice Minister of For-eign Affairs, East Timor).• January 21, 2004, “Issues of Malay Urbanity:Colonial Constructions / Indigenous Construc-tions” by Dr. Terry McGee (UBC Department ofGeography and Institute of Asian Research,presented in collaboration with the UBCDepartment of Geography).• January 30, 2004, Women and DevelopmentLecture Series: “Supporting Marginalized WomenExporters in the Asia-Pacific Region” by HeatherGibb (Senior Researcher, The North-South Insti-tute, Ottawa).• February 4, 2004, “Searching for the Truth: Pre-serving Memories and Obtaining Justice from theKhmer Rouge Era” by Youk Chhang (ExecutiveDirector, the Documentation Center of Cambo-dia, Documentation Center of Cambodia).• March 24, 2004, “The Time of Terror: An OralHistory of Victims’ Experiences in Indonesia” byJohn Roosa (Assistant Professor of SoutheastAsian History and International Relations, UBC).

PUBLICATIONS

LEONORA ANGELESLEONORA ANGELESLEONORA ANGELESLEONORA ANGELESLEONORA ANGELES• “Creating Social Spaces for Transnational Femi-nist Advocacy: The Canadian International De-velopment Agency, the National Commission onthe Role of Filipino Women and Philippine Wom-en’s NGOs.” The Canadian Geographer, 4, Octo-ber 2003, pp. 283-302.• “Grassroots Democracy and Community Em-

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TINEKE HELLWIGTINEKE HELLWIGTINEKE HELLWIGTINEKE HELLWIGTINEKE HELLWIG• In the Shadow of Change (Dalam Bayang-bayangPerubahan) Citra Perempuan dalam Sastra In-donesia. Jakarta: Desantara. 283 pp. [Indonesiantranslation of In the Shadow of Change. (1994)].• “Menguasai Tubuh Perempuan: HubunganAntar-ras dalam Sastra Melayu 1920-30an” pa-per presented at the Pertemuan Ilmiah NasionalXIV Himpunan Sarjana Kesusastraan Indonesia,Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia,August 26-28, 2003, and published in theYogyakarta literary and cultural journal Basis 9-10 (September-October) pp.54-61.

MICHAEL LEAFMICHAEL LEAFMICHAEL LEAFMICHAEL LEAFMICHAEL LEAF• “What is Urban about Urban Poverty?” in NgoVan Le, M. Leaf, and Nguyen Minh Hoa (eds.),Ngheo Do Thi: Nhung Bai Hoc Kinh Nghiem QuocTe (Urban Poverty: Lessons from InternationalExperience, in Vietnamese translation), NationalUniversity of Ho Chi Minh City Press, Ho Chi MinhCity (in Vietnamese translation), 2003.• Good Governance for Regional Cooperation andDevelopment in Indonesia, The ConsulateGeneral of the Republic of Indonesia in Vancou-ver, and the UBC Centre for Southeast AsiaResearch, Vancouver, 2003.

GISELE YASMEENGISELE YASMEENGISELE YASMEENGISELE YASMEENGISELE YASMEEN• Bangkok’s Foodscape , a book manuscript re-vised from her doctoral dissertation, was sub-mitted to White Lotus Press in Bangkok.• “The Globalisation of Asian Foodways:Canadian Identity in Transition”, an invitedpaper presented to the “Asian FoodscapesConference” at the National University ofSingapore (June 13-15, 2002, is expected to bepublished soon in the journal Food and Foodways.

powerment: The Policy and Political Require-ments of Sustainable Poverty Reduction in thePhilippines,” in Democracy and Civil Society inSoutheast Asia, ed. Jayant Lele and Fariq, (Lon-don: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).• (and F. Magno) “The State of Local Governanceand Decentralization in the Philippines,” inP. Oxhorn, A. Selee and J. Tulchin, eds.Decentralization, Democratic Governance, andCivil Society in Comparative Perspective: Africa,Asia, and Latin America. (Baltimore: JohnsHopkins University Press, 2004).• “Gender and Governance in Poverty Alleviation:Social Services Delivery in Baguio City, Philip-pines” in Lisa Drummond and K.C. Ho, eds. Criti-cal Perspectives on Cities in Southeast Asia(Netherlands, Singapore: Brill Press, 2004).• “Women, Bureaucracies and the Governance ofPoverty in Southeast Asia: Gender and Participa-tory Governance in Poverty Reduction Programsin the Philippines and Vietnam” in Rodolphe deKoninck, Jules Lamarre and Bruno Gendron, eds.Understanding Poverty in Vietnam and thePhilippines (Montreal: University of Montreal andthe Localised Poverty Reduction in VietnamProject, 2003), pp.49-70.

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TIMOTHY CHEEKLouis Cha Chair in Chinese Research

EditorEditorEditorEditorEditorPacific Affairs, quarterly academic journalpublished by the Institute of Asian Research,July 2002-present.

Associate Faculty PositionsAssociate Faculty PositionsAssociate Faculty PositionsAssociate Faculty PositionsAssociate Faculty PositionsDepartment of History, UBCCentre for Research In Women’s Studies andGender Relations, UBC.

PublicationsPublicationsPublicationsPublicationsPublicationsBook chapters

• “Historians as Public Intellectuals in Contem-porary China” in Edward Gu and Merle Goldman,eds., Chinese Intellectuals Between the State andMarket, London: Routledge, 2004, 204-22.• Qi Mushi [Timothy Cheek], “Beimei xueshujieguanyu Zhongguo zhishifenzi de yanjiu” (NorthAmerican Research on Chinese Intellectuals),Kaifang shidai (Open Times) Guangzhou, 2003,No. 2, 137-44.

Forthcoming• “Intellectuals and Academics,” entry in EdwardDavis, ed., Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chi-nese Culture, London: Routledge, 2004,forthcoming.• Translating and editing translations ofMao Zedong as associate editor of vol. 8covering 1942-45 in Stuart R. Schram’s, MaoZedong’s Road to Power (series of 10 volumes;sponsored by the Fairbank Center, HarvardUniversity); 2005.

Book ReviewsMerle Goldman & Leo Ou-Fan Lee, An Intellec-tual History of Modern China, in The ChinaJournal, No. 51, Jan., 2004.

Manuscript ReviewsBook manuscript reviewed for Oxford UniversityPress; article manuscripts reviewed for The ChinaReview (1), China Information (1), Issues andStudies (1).

PresentationsPresentationsPresentationsPresentationsPresentationsConference Presentations(selection by peer review)

• “Intellectuals and Academics in 20th CenturyChina,” at the conference, “Individual, Society andState in Intellectual History,” The Chinese Uni-versity of Hong Kong, 7-10 October 2003.• “Foreign Theory and Local Issues in Contem-porary Chinese Discourse,” Canadian AsianStudies Association meeting, Montreal, 10-12October 2003.• “Where Do Correct Ideas Come From? On theSearch for a Theory of Practice Among Contem-porary Chinese Intellectuals,” for the panel, “ThePractice of Theory Among Contemporary ChineseIntellectuals,” Association for Asian Studiesannual meeting, San Diego, 4-7 March 2004.

Invited Presentations• “Revisioning the Yan’an Way: Mao’sRectification Writings from the Perspective ofBegriffsgeschichte,” presented at “Mao Re-Evaluated: A Conference to Mark the 110th

Anniversary of the Birth of Mao Zedong & toHonor Stuart Schram,” Harvard University,5-7 December 2004.

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• “Studying Our Friends/Befriending OurStudies: Western Scholarship on Chinese Intel-lectuals and the State in the PRC,” presented at“Historical Thinking and Contemporary ChineseHumanistic Studies,” a conference of the Projecton Modern Chinese Studies, University of Cali-fornia, Berkeley, 30-31 January 2004.• “Reform and Opening Is Not a Dinner Party:Intellectuals and Academics in ContemporaryChina,” presented to the History and East AsianStudies Colloquium, Wittenberg University(Ohio), 19 February 2004.

Conference OrganizationConference OrganizationConference OrganizationConference OrganizationConference Organization• 25-27 October 2003, “China Globalizing:People, Beliefs, and Ideas,” an internationalconference sponsored by Centre for ChineseResearch, IAR/UBC.• 2-3 April 2004, “Tri-University China Sympo-sium & Language Roundtable,” hosted by CCR/IAR, co-organized with Alison Bailey.

Panel OrganizationPanel OrganizationPanel OrganizationPanel OrganizationPanel Organization (peer reviewed)(peer reviewed)(peer reviewed)(peer reviewed)(peer reviewed)• 10-12 October 2003, “Religion, Memory andIdeology in Contemporary China,” a panel for themeeting of the Canadian Asian StudiesAssociation, Montreal.• 4-7 March 2004, “The Practice of Theory AmongContemporary Chinese Intellectuals,” a panel forthe Association for Asian Studies annualmeeting, San Diego.

Working GroupsWorking GroupsWorking GroupsWorking GroupsWorking Groups• Co-director, Intellectuals and Thought in 20th

Century China, a planning group for internationalresearch network and grant writing co-organizedwith Xu Jilin, East China Normal University.Committee: Wen-hsin Yeh (Berkeley), Liu Qing(Hong Kong), Axel Schneider (Leiden), SusanneWeigelin-Schwiedrzik (Vienna), and Gloria Davies(Melbourne).• Planning committee for the project, ThinkingAbout Chinese Thinking, with Ara Norenzayan(UBC/Psychology) and Xu Jilin (ECNU), withworkshop planned for September 2004 at IAR.• Planning team (with Vibha Kapuria-Foreman,Colorado College), Teaching the Tigers: TheScholarship of Teaching Eastern Asian EconomicDevelopment, grant application and conferencefor May 2005.• Member, Working Group on World History,Department of History, UBC.

ServiceServiceServiceServiceServiceAdministration

• Associate Director of the Centrefor Chinese Research and memberof CCR management committee.• Member of IAR Council, the IARTeaching Committee (withreference to MAPPS), and IAR PublicationsCommittee.

Editorial Boards• Editorial Board member, Association for AsianStudies (Ann Arbor, MI): publishes three serieson sources for scholarly research, sources forteaching, and the monograph series, “AsianInteractions and Comparisons”; served 1996-2003; re-appointed for 2003-05.• Editorial Board member, China Information(Leiden University), The Netherlands, 1998 -.• Editorial Board member, Historiography East& West (E.J. Brill), 2003 -.• Editorial Board member, Issues & Studies(Taipei), 2004 -.

RefereePromotion review at University of Montreal(September 2003).

TeachingTeachingTeachingTeachingTeaching• HIST586D Topics in Intellectual History: Com-munities of Intellectual Life; IAR 500 module on“Governance & Human Rights”.• IAR Directed Reading Courses: 515 “Womenin China” and 515H “Modern Chinese Intellec-tual History”.

Thesis SupervisionMA thesis supervision in the MAPPS programfor Lise Chartrand.

Thesis ExamColin Green (Ph.D. exam, History, UBC,Sept. 2003).Samantha Anderson (MA defense, SCARP, UBC).Linh Trinh (MA defense, Political Science, UBC,Sept. 2003).

Ph.D. CommitteesWang Ning, modern Chinese History, UBC.Huang Xin, on Women’s Studies, UBC.Michelle Fu-Wei Lee, on Anthropology, UBC.Li Hua, on Asian Literature, UBC.


JULIAN DIERKESKeidanren Chair in Japanese Research

PublicationsPublicationsPublicationsPublicationsPublications• “Empiricist Historiography in Portrayals of theJapanese Nation in Middle-School HistoryEducation” in Masako Watanabe, ed., NarrativeStyle and History Education. Tokyo: Sangensha,2003: 161-181.• “How Do Policy-Makers Respond toGlobalisation?” in Asia Pacific Report 27 (1),Institute of Asian Research, UBC, Spring 2003.

Conference OrganizationConference OrganizationConference OrganizationConference OrganizationConference Organization• Panel organizer, session on “Immobilism inJapanese Education Reform,” meetings of AsianStudies on the Pacific Coast, Honolulu,June 2003.• Panel organizer, “Education and Politics inJapan: The What, Why, and How of Change andIts Absence,” Association for Asian Studies,San Diego, March 2004.

GrantsGrantsGrantsGrantsGrants• UBC, Hampton Fund, $8,480 and CJR ResearchFund, $3,000, “Japanese Shadow Education”,(with Yves Tiberghien).• European Commission, $20,000, “Toward anAlternative Tricontinental Partnership?Responses to Globalization in EU, Japanese andCanadian Policy-Making.”• Austrian Embassy, Ottawa, $2,000, travel fund-ing for CJR to host Wolfram Manzenreiter,University of Vienna.• Carnegie Council of Ethics and InternationalAffairs, Research Grant, US$3,000, “The Trajec-tory of Reconciliation Through History Educationin Post-Unification Germany.”

Conference PresentationsConference PresentationsConference PresentationsConference PresentationsConference Presentations• “Immobilism in Japanese History Education De-spite the Dominance of the Ministry of Educa-tion over Policy-Making,” meetings of the AsianStudies on the Pacific Coast, Honolulu, June2003.

• “The Rise of the COO: From Luxury Sidekick toa Significant Player in Corporate Management”(with Frank Dobbin, Man-shan Kwok and DirkZorn), meetings of the American SociologicalAssociation, Atlanta, August 2003.• “World Society Precepts for History Educationin Japan and the Germanys, 1945-1995,”Seminar, Centre for the Study of HistoricalConsciousness, UBC, April 2003.• “The Japanese Shadow Education System,”Japan Sociologists’ Network, meetings of theAmerican Sociological Association, Atlanta,August 2003.• “An Institutional Account of Postwar Construc-tions of National History in Japan and theGermanys,” Department Colloquium, Depart-ment of Anthropology and Sociology, UBC,October 2003.• “Extrapolating from the Past – The Trajectoryof Reconciliation Through History Education inPost-Unification Germany,” Carnegie Council ofEthics and International Affairs, New York,December 2003.• “The Trajectory of Reconciliation ThroughHistory Education in Post-Unification Germany,”Symposium on “History Education and PoliticalReconciliation”, Carnegie Council of Ethics andInternational Affairs and Centre for the Study ofHistorical Consciousness, UBC, November 2003.• “Portraying the Nation – HistoriographicalPerspectives in Postwar Japan and theGermanys,” Dept. of Sociology, University ofVirginia, February 2004.• “Reproducing the Nation – Empiricist Hist-oriography in Postwar Japanese History Educa-tion,” East Asia Center, University of Virginia,February 2004.• SSRC Japan Program Roundtable participant,“Doing Research in Japan: Trends, Practices, andFunding,” Association for Asian Studies, SanDiego, March 2004.• “An Institutional Perspective on the Stability ofPostwar Japanese History Education,” Associa-tion for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 2004.• “Constructing the East German Nation throughSchooling,” Conference of Europeanists, Chicago,March 2004.• “Paukschulen auf dem Lande” [Cram Schoolsin the Countryside], Joint Congress of theAustrian, German and Swiss Associations forEducation Research, Zurich, March 2004.

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AwardAwardAwardAwardAwardEarly Career Scholar, Peter Wall Institute forAdvanced Studies, UBC.

Service and AppointmentsService and AppointmentsService and AppointmentsService and AppointmentsService and Appointments• Associate Director, Centre for JapaneseResearch.• Member, Steering Committee, Centre for theStudy of Historical Consciousness.• Faculty Associate, Institute for EuropeanStudies.• Research Editor (Sociology), Electronic Journalof Contemporary Japanese Studies.

TeachingTeachingTeachingTeachingTeachingIAR507 “East Asian Organizations in Compara-tive Perspective.”IAR500 “Economic and Social Change” (withHyung Gu Lynn).

PAUL M. EVANS

PresentationsPresentationsPresentationsPresentationsPresentations• “Canada and Korea: Implications of the Unipo-lar Era,” presentation to the public forum on “VisitKorea,” Vancouver, 12 June 2003.• “Asian Perspectives on Human Security,” pres-entation to the conference on “Human Securityin East Asia,” organized by UNESCO and KoreaUniversity, Seoul, 16 June 2003.• “NATO and Asia,” presentation to the delega-tion of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Van-couver, 13 June 2003. Report available on-lineat http://www.naa.be• “Canada and the the DPRK,” presentation to aconsultative meeting, DFAIT, Ottawa,8 July 2003.• “North Korea,” presentation to the VancouverRoundtable, 22 July 2003.• Co-chair, plenary session and chair, concurrentsession, Asia-Pacific Roundtable, Kuala Lumpur,7-9 August 2003.• “Human Security and East Asia: What Place inan Illiberal Era and a Rough Neighbourhood,”paper presentation at the “International Confer-ence on Peace, Development and Regionalizationin East Asia,” organized by the East Asia Insti-tute and the Gorbachev Foundation of NorthAmerica, Seoul, 2 September 2003.• “The New Diplomacy: Non-State Actors in aChanging World,” plenary presentation to the 9th

Annual Member’s Weekend of the PacificCouncil on International Policy, Seattle,11 October 2003.• “Human Security in A Troubled World,” concur-rent panel presentation, PCIP Weekend, Seattle,11 October 2003.• Keynote address, “The Future of the HokkaidoConference,” Hokkaido Conference on NorthPacific Issues, Sapporo, 25 October 2003.• “Prospects for Cooperation in the North Pacific,”presentation to the workshop on “East AsiaEnergy Futures,” Vancouver, 4 November 2003.• Co-chair, “Experts Workshop on MultilateralCooperation on the Korean Peninsula: HardChoices, Next Steps,” Ottawa, 20-21November 2003.• Panellist, “Public Forum on North Korea,”organized by the Norman Paterson School ofInternational Affairs, Ottawa, 21 November 2003.• Discussant, panel on “A Changing Regional

Dr Julian Dierkesand familyat the annualIAR summer barbecue


Security Environment,” at the Asia-Pacific Secu-rity Forum 2003, Taipei, 30 November 2003.• Panellist and panel chair, sessions at the 1st

CSCAP General Conference, Jakarta, 7-8December 2003.• “Multi-Disciplinary Teaching and Evaluation,”presentation to a CAUT workshop, University ofHong Kong, 11 December 2003. Abstractavailable on-line at www.hkuhk/caut/homepage/tln/seminars/index.htm.• “Korean Nuclear Crisis and Asia-Pacific Secu-rity,” presentation at the 3rd CIIS-GPDC Meeting,China Institute of International Studies, Beijing,3 February 2004.• Participant, roundtable discussion, Institute forWorld Economy and Politics, Chinese Academyof Social Sciences, Beijing, 4 February 2004.• Pre-spondent and chair, panel on security,conference on “Presumptive Universals vs.Local Knowledge,” IAR, 7 February 2004.• “Human Security in an Era of National Insecu-rity,” lecture to the Commonwealth Society ofVancouver, 19 February 2004.• Participant, workshop on “The State of Democ-

racy in South Asia,” Centre for the Study ofDeveloping Societies, Delhi, 12-14 March 2004.• “Creating Community: Prospects for Institution-alized Cooperation,” presentation to the “5th

International Symposium on Korea and the Searchfor Peace in Northeast Asia,” Kyoto,16 March 2004.• “Beyond the Six Party Talks,” presentation tothe Ritsumeikan University Public Symposium,Kyoto, 17 March 2004.• Participant and panelist, conference on “TowardEast Asian Community Building,” organized bythe Japan Center for International Exchange,Tokyo, 19-21 March 2004.• Participant, roundtable discussion with theCoordinator General and Staff of Advisors to theMexican Minister of Foreign Affairs, MexicanConsulate, Vancouver, 24 March 2004.• “Dealing with ‘Rogue’ States: Deterrence, Con-tainment or Engagement?” presentation to thePolitical Studies Speakers Series, CapilanoCollege, 31 March 2004.

Principal Organizer ofPrincipal Organizer ofPrincipal Organizer ofPrincipal Organizer ofPrincipal Organizer ofWorkshops and ConferencesWorkshops and ConferencesWorkshops and ConferencesWorkshops and ConferencesWorkshops and Conferences• “Social Morality and Public Governance in Post-Conflict Cambodia,” seminar in honour of OmRadsady. Organized in cooperation with theCentre for Asia Pacific Initiatives, Vancouver, 2May 2003.


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• “Canada-Korea Forum V,” Ottawa, October2003. Funded by DFAIT, CAE and others.• “Northeast Asia Energy Futures Workshop,”Vancouver, 4-7 November 2003. Funded by theNautilus Institute and UBC.• “Experts Meeting on North Korea”, Ottawa,November 2003. Funded by DFAIT and co-hosted with the Norman Patterson School of In-ternational Affairs, Carleton University.• “Taiwan’s Democratization and Its RegionalImplications,” Vancouver, March 2004. Fundedby TECO and UBC.

PublicationsPublicationsPublicationsPublicationsPublications• Ortis, Cameron and Paul Evans, “The Internetand Asia-Pacific Security: Encountering the ‘DarkSide’”, The Pacific Review, Vol. 16, No. 4,Fall 2003, pp. 549-72.• Evans, Paul, “Asia’s New Regionalism: Implica-tions for Canada,” Foreign Policy DialogueSeries, 2003-3, Asia Pacific Foundation ofCanada, October 2003. Available in hard copyand on line at www.asiapacific.ca/analysis/pubs/pdfs/newregionalism3_14oct03.pdf.• Evans, Paul, “Human Security and East Asia: Inthe Beginning,” Journal of East Asian Studies,Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2004. Modified versions ofthe essay are being translated and publishedin: Korean, in Hyun In-taek and Lee Shin-wha,eds., East Asian Human Security (Seoul: KoreaUniversity Press, fall 2004); Chinese, in WorldEconomics and Politics (published by the Chi-nese Academy of Social Sciences) in June 2004;and in Japanese, in Sato Makoto, ed., New Is-sues in Human Security (Tokyo: June 2004).• Evans, Paul, “The Role of the Hokkaido Confer-ence for North Pacific Issues and Its FutureProspects.” Published in English and Japanesein NIRA Policy Research (Seisaku Kenkyu), Vol.17, No. 1, January 2004, pp. 41-48. Availableon-line at www.nira.go.jp/index.html.• Evans, Paul, Brian Job and Emily Munroe,“Teaching Human Security,” prepared for theCanadian Consortium on Human Security, pre-sented at the inaugural conference in Ottawa inApril 2002, revised in June 2003, and postedelectronically at www.humansecurity.info/CCHS_web/Teaching_Human_Security/en/index.php• Evans, Paul, “The Changing Strategic Contextof Institution Building in East Asia and the AsiaPacific: Unipolarity and Its Implications,”

disseminated electronically by the Asia PacificFoundation of Canada, August 2003. Availableon-line at www.asiapacificresearch.ca/caprn/cisp_project/papers.cfm.• Evans, Paul, “Asian Perspectives on HumanSecurity: A Responsibility to Protect,” UNESCOKorea, forthcoming 2004.• Capie, David and Paul Evans, “The ASEAN Way,”in Sharon Siddique and Sree Kumar, eds., The2nd ASEAN Reader. Singapore: Institute ofSoutheast Asian Studies, 2003.• Evans, Paul, “The Prospects for Multilateralismin Northeast Asia: From Six Party Talks to aRegional Security Framework?” in ChoiYoung-Jin, ed., title not yet confirmed. Seoul:Institute for Foreign Affairs and NationalSecurity, July 2004.• Evans, Paul, “Between Regionalization andRegionalism: Policy Networks and the NascentEast Asian Institutional Identity,” in T.J. Pempel,ed., Remapping East Asia. Ithaca: Cornell Uni-versity Press, summer 2004.

Unpublished PapersUnpublished PapersUnpublished PapersUnpublished PapersUnpublished Papers• (with Pierre Lizee), “Conflict and Developmentin Southeast Asia: Patterns and Prospects,”discussion paper prepared for the meeting ofCIDA officials and the ASEAN ISIS directors, KualaLumpur, 11 August 2003.• “Prospects for Multilateral Cooperation in theSix Party Talks and Beyond,” paper presented atthe 3rd CIIS-GPDC Meeting, Beijing, 3 February2004.• “What Lies Beyond the Six Party Talks? Remarkson the Prospects for Cooperative Security inNortheast Asia,” paper presented at the 5th

International Symposium on Korea and theSearch for Peace in Northeast Asia, RitsumeikanUniversity, Kyoto, 15 March 2004.

HYUNG GU LYNNAECL/ KEPCO Chair in Korean Research

Hyung Gu Lynn continued to research topics andthemes related to colonialism and globalizationin Korea and Japan. His presentations, publica-tion, and teaching, administration, and otheractivities during April 1, 2003 to March 31, 2004are summarized below.


PresentationsPresentationsPresentationsPresentationsPresentations• “The Light of Korea and Other Refractions ofPrint Culture in Colonial Korea,” at the Work-shop on “Publishing Culture in Colonial Korea”at the Korea Institute, Harvard University,May 16-17, 2003.• “Consumgnosis as Virtual Redemption:Popular Culture in Korea-Japan Relations, 1965-2003,” Invited talk at Harvard University,October 28, 2003.• “History and Culture in Contemporary Korea-Japan Relations, 1965-2002,” Invited talk atSmith College, November 4, 2003.• “Past and Future in Post-1965 Korea-Japan Re-lations,” Invited talk, Seoul National University,February 24, 2004.• Chaired panel on “Canada-Korea Trade TradeRelations” at the Conference, “Celebrating FortyYears of Canadian-Korean Relations,” October3-4, 2003, Centre for Korean Research, UBC.• Discussant for the panel on “Local Knowledgevs. Western Theory in Asia Pacific” at theInstitute of Asian Research, Graduate StudentConference, Feb. 5-6, 2004.• Participated in Society for the Study ofKorean History’s meetings in Tokyo inFebruary 21, 2004.• Commentator at the Workshop on “Colonialand Semi-Colonial Infrastructues in East Asia,”May 22-23, 2004, at Fairbank Institute, HarvardUniversity.• Presentor, Georgetown University during May14-15, 2004, and Oxford and CambridgeUniversities in the United Kingdom inJune 2004.• “Parsing of the Seas: The Politics of SouthKorea-Japan Maritime Relations, 1945-2000,” atthe International Maritime History Conferencein Corfu, Greece in June 22-27, 2004.

PublicationsPublicationsPublicationsPublicationsPublications• “The Antinomies of Distance and Desire: TheEpistemologies of Korean History in North

America” (Kôridugi kwa yongmang ûi iyul baeban:Pungmi ûi Han’guksa insikhak), Yôksa pip’yông,Vol. , No. 2 (Spring 2004), pp. (in Korean).• “Malthusian Dreams, Colonial Imaginary: theOriental Development Company and JapaneseEmigration to Korea,” in Caroline Elkins, andSusan Pederson, eds., Settler Colonialism in theTwentieth Century: Projects, Practices, Legacies(London: Routledge, forthcoming).• “Powering the Ignorant Eye: Aesthetic Value andKorean Film,” Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Vol.8, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2004).

Book ReviewsBook ReviewsBook ReviewsBook ReviewsBook Reviews

• Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States,Japan, and the Institute of Pacific Relations inWar and Peace, 1919-1945, by Tomoko Akami(New York: Routledge, 2002), for Pacific Affairs,Vol. 76, No. 1 (Spring 2003).• Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the JapanesePresence in Asia, Europe, and America, editedby Harumi Befu, and Sylvie Guichard-Anguis (NewYork: Routledge, 2001), Pacific Affairs,Vol. 76,No. 3 (Fall 2003).• Learning Places: The Afterlife of Area Studies,edited by Masao Miyoshi and H.D. Harutoonian(Durham: Duke University Press, 2002), PacificAffairs, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Spring 2004).• He was also a reader of articles for Pacific Af-fairs, and the Journal of Medical History.

GrantsGrantsGrantsGrantsGrants• Peter Wall Institute Early Career UBC Scholar’sProgram.• Association of Asian Studies, Northeast AsiaCouncil, Short-term Research Travel within NorthAmerica Grants, Spring/Summer 2003.• Centre for Korean Research Faculty ResearchGrant.

OtherOtherOtherOtherOtherHe continued in his role as an Associate Editorfor Pacific Affairs, Chair of the Institute of AsianResearch Publications Committee, as well as hismemberships on the IAR Council, IAR TeachingCommittee, and Centre for Korean Research Man-agement Committee.

UniversityUniversityUniversityUniversityUniversity• External reader for a Ph.D. dissertation atHarvard University in the East Asian Languagesand Civilizations Department.

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• Advising/ comprehensives committees forPh.D. students in Asian Studies and Anthropol-ogy.

TeachingTeachingTeachingTeachingTeaching• Masters in Asia-Pacific Policy Studies module“Economic and Social Change.”• Three directed reading courses on “Globaliza-tion and Culture,” “FDI/ODA Issues,” and“Globalization and Civil Society in Korea.”

Current ProjectsCurrent ProjectsCurrent ProjectsCurrent ProjectsCurrent ProjectsCollaborating with the Seoul National Universi-ty’s School of International and Area Studies(SIAS) on its “Japan and East Asia InternationalRelations Project.” SIAS is the principal researchunit in the project, which received a grant fromthe Korea Research Fund for its activities. A jointconference is planned for late January 2004 atthe IAR. The focus of this interdisciplinaryresearch is placed on the interplay of localism,nationalism, and regionalism in Japan’srelations with its Northeast Asian neighbours.

MASAO NAKAMURAKonwakai Chair in Japanese Research

Masao Nakamura continued his research in theareas of technology and environment manage-ment, and Japanese business and economicbehaviour. These topics constitute the integralparts of the courses on environment and tech-nology management, new product developmentand international business he regularly teachesin the Institute of Asian Research, the Master ofArts in Asia and Pacific Studies (MAPPS) programat IAR, the Sauder School of Business and theFaculty of Applied Science.

PublicationsPublicationsPublicationsPublicationsPublications(note: an asterisk (*) indicates a refereed publi-cation.)

Books and MonographsMasao Nakamura (Editor), Changing JapaneseBusiness, Economy and Society: Globalization ofPost-Bubble Japan, accepted for publication, De-cember 2003, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.

Refereed Journal Articles• “How the Organizational Structure of Environ-mental Management Influence CorporateGreening: An Empirical Analysis of Large Manu-facturing Firms in Japan,” (with T.Takahashi),Environmental Information Science (Kankyo JohoKagaku), (in Japanese with English abstract),

Dr. MasaoNakamura

accepted for publication, August 2003,forthcoming.• “Corporate Governance and ManagementPractices in Japan: Current Issues,” CorporateOwnership & Control, accepted for publication,July 2003, forthcoming.• “Mixed Ownership of Industrial Firms inJapan: Debt Financing, Banks and VerticalKeiretsu Groups,” Economic Systems 26,2002, 231-247.• “Firm Performance and InternationalAlliances,” (with A.Nakamura), International Jour-nal of Technology Management (JournalInternational de la Gestion Technologique;Internationale Zeitschrift für techno-logiemanagement), forthcoming.

Chapters in Books• “Aging, Female and Foreign Workers, and Japa-nese Labor Markets: An International Perspec-tive,” (with A. Nakamura and A. Seike), forthcom-ing in Changing Japanese Business, Economy andSociety: Globalization of Post-Bubble Japan, above.• “The Post-Bubble Japanese Business Systemand Globalization: Implications for JapaneseSociety,” (with K. Horiuchi), forthcoming inChanging Japanese Business, Economy and So-ciety: Globalization of Post-Bubble Japan, above.

PresentationsPresentationsPresentationsPresentationsPresentations(*=refereed presentation)• * “Been There, Done That: The History ofCorporate Ownership in Japan,” (joint with R.Morck), paper presented at the NBER Conferenceon the “History of Corporate Ownership: The Riseand Fall of Great Business Families” held at LakeLouise, Alberta, Canada on June 21-22, 2003.


• * “Corporate Governance and Management Prac-tices in Japan: Current Issues,” paper presentedat the Euro-Asia Management Studies Associa-tion 2003 Annual Conference (Competitive Pa-per Section) held at Stockholm University, Stock-holm, Sweden, October 22-25, 2003.• *“Joint Venture Instability, Learning and theRelative Bargaining Power of the Parent Firms,”paper presented in the competitive papersection of the 2003 Conference of the EuropeanInternational Business Academy (EIBA) held atthe Copenhagen Business School, Denmark,December 11-13, 2003.• “Japan’s Corporate Governance Mechanism andthe Law of Banking Practices,” invited seminargiven at the Asian Institute of InternationalFinancial Law of the University of Hong Kong,January 12, 2004.• * “Been There, Done That: The History of Cor-porate Ownership in Japan,” (joint with R. Morck),paper presented at the CEPR/ECGI/INSEAD/NBER/University of Alberta joint conferenceentitled “The Evolution of Corporate Governanceand Family Firms” held at INSEAD, Fontainebleau,France, January 30-31, 2004.

Research GrantsResearch GrantsResearch GrantsResearch GrantsResearch Grants “The Role of Non-Profit Organizations in Pro-moting Cross-Cultural Understanding in theJapanese Canadian Society,” SSHRC, principalinvestigator ($49,930 for 2004-2006).

University Committees andUniversity Committees andUniversity Committees andUniversity Committees andUniversity Committees and Administrative Duties Administrative Duties Administrative Duties Administrative Duties Administrative DutiesIAR Council, IAR Research Committee, IAR Teach-ing Committee, IAR Building Committee (Chair)and UBC SSHRC Committee (rep for FOGS).Also served as Co-Director of the IAR Asia-Pa-cific Business and Economic Policy Research Unit.

OtherOtherOtherOtherOtherMasao Nakamura also serves on the editorialboards of the following journals: Managerial andDecision Economics (MDE) (John Wiley, AdvisoryEditor, May 1988-date), the Scottish Journal of

Political Economy (Editorial Advisory Board,December 1998-date) and Corporate Board: Role,Duties & Composition Journal (2003-date). Alsoserved as President of the Japan Studies Associa-tion of Canada (October 1, 2000 - September 30,2001) and as a member of its Executive Commit-tee (October 1, 1999 - date).

KYUNG-AE PARKKorea Foundation Chair for Korean Research

PublicationsPublicationsPublicationsPublicationsPublications• “North Korea: Pendulum Swing between Crisisand Diplomacy,” Asian Survey, Vol. XLIV, No. 1(January/February, 2004), pp. 139-146.• “USA Lacks Options in Crisis with Pyongyang,”Jane’s Intelligence Review, Vol. 15, No. 4 (April2003), with H. Park.

Invited Conference Papers andInvited Conference Papers andInvited Conference Papers andInvited Conference Papers andInvited Conference Papers andPresentationsPresentationsPresentationsPresentationsPresentations• “Democratic Consolidation in the ROK and Po-litical Perspectives on the 2002 Presidential Elec-tion,” at the international conference on “Presi-dential Elections in the Republic of Korea: Impli-cations and Impacts,” Asia-Pacific Center for Se-curity Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 15-17,2003.• “The Bush Administration and North Korea Dead-lock,” TransPacific Hawaii College, Honolulu, Ha-waii, April 18, 2003.

Dr. Kyung-Ae Park:Korea Fondation Chair

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• “Korean Integration and State-Society Relationsin North Korea,” Workshop on “Understandingthe Dynamics of Korean Reunification,”University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA,April 27.• “The U.S.-North Korea Nuclear Standoff: WhyIs the ‘Evil’ So Intractable?” at the internationalconference on “Korean Dilemmas: The Politicaland Human Drama of Division and Reconcilia-tion,” The Sigur Center for Asian Studies, GeorgeWashington University, Washington, D.C.,October 14, 2003.• “Engaging North Korea: Hard Choices, NextSteps,” The Centre of International Relations,University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC,November 10, 2003• “The Second Nuclear Crisis,” at the symposiumon “Korean Identity and Asia-Pacific Inter-dependence,” The Center for East Asian Stud-ies, Western Washington University, Belligham,Washington, February 19, 2004.• Commentator, Workshop on “The Six PowerTalks on Korea: A Footnote to the War onTerror or a Preface to the Asian Century?,”University of Washington, Seattle, Washington,March 19-21, 2004.

GrantsGrantsGrantsGrantsGrantsResearch Contract, Department of ForeignAffairs and Trade, $24,000.UBC HSS Grant, $ 2,050.

Service to the Academic CommunityService to the Academic CommunityService to the Academic CommunityService to the Academic CommunityService to the Academic Community• Editorial Advisory Board member, KoreaObserver.• Board of Directors member, The Associationof Korean Political Studies in North America.• Board of Governors member, Canada-DPR Ko-rea Association.• Regional Conference Director, Korean-Ameri-can University Professors Association.• General Secretary, Research Council onKorean Reunification.• Reviewer, Pacific Affairs

• Chair, Equity Committee, IAR

• Teaching Committee, IAR

• Research Committee, IAR

• IAR Council Member

Pitman Potterchats withHis Holinessthe XIVthDalai Lama

• Associate Director, Center for Korean Research

• Management Committee, Center for Korean Re-search

TeachingTeachingTeachingTeachingTeaching• Contemporary Korean Politics, Department ofPolitical Science• Women and Development Module, IAR

PITMAN B. POTTERDirector, IAR

Pitman Potter continues to be jointly appointedin IAR and the Faculty of Law. His activities atIAR included administration, research, teaching,and program design. Dr. Potter’s activities asIAR Director are evident throughout this AnnualReport. In particular, he organized the facultyretreat and the IAR’s participation in the exter-nal review conducted by the Faculty of GraduateStudies. Dr. Potter continued his research worksupported by the SSHRC/MCRI project on “CrossCultural Approaches to Research on DisputeResolution in Asia Pacific.” His teaching includessupervision of graduate students and leadingseminars in the infrastructure policy theme inthe MAPPS program. Dr. Potter also played akey role in designing the Contemporary TibetanStudies Program and organizing the visit to UBCof His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama (discussedelsewhere in this Annual Report).Dr. Potter’s publications during 2003-2004 in-cluded the following:• From Leninist Discipline to Socialist Legalism:


Peng Zhen on Law and Political Authority in thePRC (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003).• Pitman B. Potter, “Legal Reform in China -Institutions, Culture, and Selective Adaptation,”Law and Social Inquiry, 2004 (invited reviewessay).• Pitman B. Potter, “Belief in Control: Regulationof Religion in China,” The China Quarterlyno.174, July 2003, (refereed article).• Pitman B. Potter, “China: Trade and HumanRights: Myth and Reality,” Asia Pacific Founda-tion of Canada, 2003 (invited essay).

Dr. Potter’s work in progress includes thefollowing:• Legal Reform and Economic Change in Chinaand Taiwan, edited collection of essays preparedfor conference chaired by Potter at IAR in June2001. Publication expected mid-2004.• Globalization and Social Cohesion in Asia,edited collection of essays delivered at GreenCollege Lecture Series. Submitted to Universityof Toronto Press, 2003.• Globalization and Social Cohesion in China,edited collection of essays prepared underSSHRC strategic grant on Globalization andSocial Cohesion (Potter is principal investigator).Submission to UBC Press invited 2004.• Globalization and Social Cohesion: Implicationsfor Canada, policy review co-authored with YuenPau Woo (VP Research, Asia Pacific Foundationof Canada), based on SHRC strategic grant.Manuscript expected 2004.

ILAN VERTINSKY

PresentationsPresentationsPresentationsPresentationsPresentations• “Enterprise Failure as a Determinant ofEntrepreneurial Entry,” The Chinese Universityof Hong Kong, December, 2003.• “How Small Firms Can Compete Successfully:The Choice of Generic and Innovation Strategiesand Firm Performance.” The 23rdrdrdrdrd Babson

Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Confer-ence, Wellesley, MA. 2003.• “Intra and Inter-cultural Collaborations: TheImpact of Contracts and Personal Ties onPartner Credibility and Initial Trust.” The Admin-istrative Sciences Association of Canada,International Business, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 2003(with Branzei and Camp).• “Initial Trust in Cross-cultural Collaborations:Formal and Informal Assurances in Canada andJapan,” The Academy of Management Conference,Seattle (International Business), 2003 (withBranzei and Camp).• “The Formation of Green Strategies in ChineseFirms,” The Academy of Management Conference,Seattle (Business, Policy and Strategy), 2003 (withBranzei).• “Outcomes of Innovation Strategies for SmallFirms: Paths to Exploration and Exploitation,”First West Coast Research Symposium on Tech-nology Entrepreneurship, University of Washing-ton, September 25, 2003 (with Branzei).• “Collaboration Portfolio Designs for Small Manu-facturing Firms: Impacts on Absorptive Capacityand Innovation Performance,” First West CoastResearch Symposium on TechnologicalEntrepreneurship, University of Washington,September 25, 2003 (with Branzei).• “Modeling Biodiversity Euro XX” Istanbul, 2003(with Krcmar).• “The US Canada Softwood Lumber Dispute,”North American Economic and Financial Integra-tion, Bloomington, Indiana 2003 (with Nelson).• “The Geographic Nature of Entrepreneurship:Location Choice of New Establishments,” The 23rdrdrdrdrd

Babson Kauffman Entrepreneurship ResearchConference, Wellesley, MA. 2003 (with Peer).• “Enterprise Failure as a Determinant ofEntrepreneurial Entry,” First West Coast ResearchSymposium on Technology Entrepreneurship,University of Washington, 2003 (with Peer).

Working Papers CompletedWorking Papers CompletedWorking Papers CompletedWorking Papers CompletedWorking Papers Completed• “Variations in Collaborative R&D: The Differen-tial Impact of Learning on Multinationals andDomestic Corporations,” (with Branzei andNakamura).• “A Knowledge-Based View of EnvironmentalPerformance in Different Cultural Contexts:Canada, Japan, and China,” (with Branzei andJennings).


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• “Strategic Pathways to Innovation,” (withBranzei), accepted for presentation inAOM 2004.• “Product Innovation in Heterogeneous Net-works: Paths to Exploration and Exploitation,”(with Branzei and Shultz), accepted for presen-tation in AOM 2004.• “Initial Trust Formation on WWW: A Model ofPlanned Behavior,” (with Branzei and S-J Tan).• “Cognitive Frames of Corporate Environmen-tal Performance: Posi-tional Differ-ences and Similarities,” (withBranzei), accepted for Grunen Work-shop, University of Granda, 2004.

Papers Submitted for Review orPapers Submitted for Review orPapers Submitted for Review orPapers Submitted for Review orPapers Submitted for Review orUnder ReviewUnder ReviewUnder ReviewUnder ReviewUnder Review• “Enterprise Failure as a Determi-nant of Entrepreneurial Entry: AStudy of within Region Micro-clusters.” Submitted to Manage-ment Science (with Peer).• “Initial Trust in CollaborationsWithin and Across Cultures: TheRole of Formal and Informal Assur-ances in Canada and Japan,” firstrevision for Organizational Be-havior and Human DecisionProcesses (with Branzei & Camp).• “Integrity or Benevolence? Estab-lishing Initial Trust in InternationalJoint Ventures in Canada and Ja-pan,” first revision for The Journalof International Business Studies, (with Branzeiand Camp).• “Strategic Pathways to Product Innovation inSMEs,” second revision for the Journal ofBusiness Venturing, (with Branzei).

Journal Articles and Book ChaptersJournal Articles and Book ChaptersJournal Articles and Book ChaptersJournal Articles and Book ChaptersJournal Articles and Book Chapters• “The Formation of Green Strategies in ChineseFirms: Matching Corporate EnvironmentalResponses to Individual Values and Principles,”Strategic Management Journal, forthcoming(with O.Branzei, T.Ursacki and W.Zang).• “Modelling Alternative Zoning Strategies inForest Management,” International Transactionsof Operations Research (forthcoming), (withKrcmar and Van Kooten).

• “Certification of Sustainable Forest Manage-ment Practices: A Global Perspective of WhyCountries Certify,” Forest Policy and Economics(with Van Kooten and Nelson).• “Why Might Forest Companies Certify? Resultsfrom a Canadian Survey,” The International For-estry Review. (with Takahashi and Van Kooten).• “Initial Trust in Cross-cultural Collaborations:Formal andInformal Assurances in Canada and Japan,” In D.

Nagao, ed., Academy of Manage-ment Best Paper Proceedings,Seattle, WA: Academy of Manage-ment, IM G6. Nominee for theCarolyn Dexter Award. 2003(with Branzei, and Camp).• “The Geographic Nature of En-trepreneurship: Location Choiceof New Establishments,” Frontiersof Entrepreneurship Research,Wellesley, MA, 2004 (with A.Pe’er),• “How Can Small Firms CompeteSuccessfully? Relative Position,the Choice of Innovation Strate-gies and Innovation Perform-ance,” Frontiers of Entrepreneur-ship Research, Wellesley, MA,2004.• “Intra and Inter-cultural Col-laborations: The Impact of Con-tracts and Personal Ties on Part-ner Credibility and Initial Trust,”

Administrative Sciences Association of Canada(International Business), Halifax, Nova Scotia.2003 (with Branzei and Camp).• “The US Canada Softwood Lumber Dispute” inRugman, Alan M., ed., North American Economicand Financial Integration, Volume 10 ofResearch in Global Strategic Management (Ox-ford: Elsevier, 2004) with Nelson.• “The Economics, Demography and Cultural Im-plications of Globalization: The Canadian Para-dox,” Management International Review (withStanbury), forthcoming.• “Private or Self Regulation: A ComparativeStudy of Forest Certification Choices in Canada,the U.S. and Germany,” Forest Policy and Eco-nomics (with Cashore, Van Kooten, Auld andAffolderbach), forthcoming.

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• “Institutional Change: The Emergence of Pri-vate Ownership in China,” Journal of BusinessResearch (with Li and Zhou) forthcoming.• “Globalization and the Cultural Industries inCanada; Far from a Borderless World,” Cultureof Economy, Economics of Culture, BavarianAmerican Academy, Munich (with Stanbury),in press.

In addition to involvement with projects of theAsia Business and Economic Research Unit, IlanVertinsky has been working on collaborativeprojects with scholars from the National Univer-sity of Singapore and the Chinese University ofHong Kong. The project with the National Uni-versity of Singapore focussed on e-business andthe formation of trust by Singaporeans and Ca-nadians. The project with the Chinese Univer-sity of Hong Kong is focusing on “institutionsthat build trust.”

Ilan also participated in a CIDA funded projecttraining university professors from WesternChina to develop business case studies to useas part of their MBA and executive programs.The project coordinated by McGill Universityended with a conference in December in Xianand a publication of the case studies by BeijingUniversity (in Chinese) is expected.

Among Ilan’s papers accepted for publication in2003/2004 are several on his work about Asia.Ilan in collaboration with former students inCanada and China has completed a paper on theformation of green strategies by Chinese firmsto be published in Strategic ManagementJournal, the leading journal in the field of strat-egy. Another paper about initial trust in cross cultural collaboration in Japan and Canada wasnominated for the Dexter Award and publishedin the best paper proceedings of the AmericanAcademy of Management.

Ilan was a recipient of more than a million dol-lars in research funding as a principal investiga-tor and continues to participate as a co-investi-gator in IAR’s project on dispute resolution.He also continues his role as a director of theSauder’s School of Business Centre of Interna-tional Business Studies and the W.Maurice YoungEntrepreneurship and Venture Capital ResearchCentre. He is also the director of the ForestEconomics and Policy Analysis Research Unit.


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VISITING SCHOLARS

Ahn, Young Sang (CKR)Ahn, Young Sang (CKR)Ahn, Young Sang (CKR)Ahn, Young Sang (CKR)Ahn, Young Sang (CKR)02/28/03 - 03/01/04Researcher, Center for KoreanThoughts, Institute of theKorean Culture, Korea Univer-sity, Republic of Korea.Studies Sungho’s school inthe process of conflict andfusion between Western andEastern culture.Email: [email protected]

Baik, Young Ja (CKR)Baik, Young Ja (CKR)Baik, Young Ja (CKR)Baik, Young Ja (CKR)Baik, Young Ja (CKR)03/01/03 - 02/28/04Professor, Dept. of HomeEconomics, Korea NationalOpen University, Republic ofKorea.Comparative Study onCostume Culture Knowledgeamong Canada, Korea, Chinaand Japan.Email:[email protected]

Choi, Hai Yaul (CKR)Choi, Hai Yaul (CKR)Choi, Hai Yaul (CKR)Choi, Hai Yaul (CKR)Choi, Hai Yaul (CKR)03/01/03 - 02/28/04Full-time Leturer, SeorabolCollege, Republic of Korea.Comparative Study onCostume Culture Knowledgebetween Korea and Canada,and Comparative Study onCostume Culture betweenKorea and Mongolia.Email: [email protected]

Choi, Hoon (CKR)Choi, Hoon (CKR)Choi, Hoon (CKR)Choi, Hoon (CKR)Choi, Hoon (CKR)09/01/03-08/31/04Deputy Director, Audit andInspection Bureau, Ministry ofGovernment of Administrationand Home Affairs, Republic ofKorea.South and North KoreanAdministration; Local Admin-istration Systems; Prospectsfor Changes in S.N. KoreanRelations, and Political Obsta-cles to Korean Unification.Email: [email protected]

Furukawa, Noriko (CKR)Furukawa, Noriko (CKR)Furukawa, Noriko (CKR)Furukawa, Noriko (CKR)Furukawa, Noriko (CKR)03/23/03 - 04/01/04Associate Professor, Faculty ofInternational Relations, DaitoBunka University, Japan.Elementary School Educationin Colonial Korea.Email: [email protected]

Higashida, Keisaku (CJR)Higashida, Keisaku (CJR)Higashida, Keisaku (CJR)Higashida, Keisaku (CJR)Higashida, Keisaku (CJR)10/01/03 - 09/30/04Associate Professor, Faculty ofEconomics, Fukushima Univer-sity, Japan.Trade and the Environment.Email:[email protected]

Inui, Hiroyuki (CJR)Inui, Hiroyuki (CJR)Inui, Hiroyuki (CJR)Inui, Hiroyuki (CJR)Inui, Hiroyuki (CJR)09/01/03 - 08/31/04Associate Professor, Faculty ofCommerce, Kyushu SangyoUniversity, Japan.Japan-Canada Tourism: Corpo-rate strategy; Service andHospitality Management; andTourism Management.Email: [email protected]

Jeong, Jai-Heon (CKR)Jeong, Jai-Heon (CKR)Jeong, Jai-Heon (CKR)Jeong, Jai-Heon (CKR)Jeong, Jai-Heon (CKR)07/01/03-08/31/04Deputy Chief at Metro Desk,Joongang Ilbo (NationalNewspaper), Republic ofKorea.The Imjin War and its VisualRepresentations.Email: [email protected]

Kang, Hyeong Goo (CKR)Kang, Hyeong Goo (CKR)Kang, Hyeong Goo (CKR)Kang, Hyeong Goo (CKR)Kang, Hyeong Goo (CKR)01/01/03 - 12/31/03Staff Reporter, Dept. of GlobalBusiness & Economy, MaeilBusiness Newspaper, Republicof Korea.New roles of Government forPerpetual Growth in Knowl-edge-based Economies.Email: [email protected]

Kim, Sung Un (CKR)Kim, Sung Un (CKR)Kim, Sung Un (CKR)Kim, Sung Un (CKR)Kim, Sung Un (CKR)02/01/03 - 01/31/04Professor, Dept. of KoreanLanguage and Literature,Dong-A University, Busan,Republic of Korea.Comparative Studies onWestern and Eastern LiteraryTheories.Email: [email protected]

Kumada, Hijiri (CJR)Kumada, Hijiri (CJR)Kumada, Hijiri (CJR)Kumada, Hijiri (CJR)Kumada, Hijiri (CJR)04/01/03 - 03/31/04Lecturer, Women’s College,Meiji University, Japan.Cultural Differences in Busi-ness Negotiations betweenCanada and Japan.Email: [email protected]


Lee, Joo HyungLee, Joo HyungLee, Joo HyungLee, Joo HyungLee, Joo Hyung(CKR)(CKR)(CKR)(CKR)(CKR)12/01/03-05/31/04Assistant Director,7th Bureau Board ofAudit and Inspection,Republic of Korea.

Performance Evaluation of thePublic Sector.Email: [email protected]

Loi, Duy Nguyen (CSEAR)Loi, Duy Nguyen (CSEAR)Loi, Duy Nguyen (CSEAR)Loi, Duy Nguyen (CSEAR)Loi, Duy Nguyen (CSEAR)06/01/03 - 08/31/03Researcher, Department ofInternational Economic Rela-tions, Institute of WorldEconomy, Vietnam.Comparative Study ofEconomic Growth and SocialEquity of Thailand and Koreaand implications for Vietnam;Vietnamese Economic Prob-lems and Issues.Email:[email protected]

Min, Deak-kee (CJR)Min, Deak-kee (CJR)Min, Deak-kee (CJR)Min, Deak-kee (CJR)Min, Deak-kee (CJR)01/01/03-12/31/03Associate Professor,Department of History,Chongju University, Republicof Korea.Japan-Korea Relations: Diplo-matic Reform of Arai HakusekiRelated to the Tonshinsa in1711.Email: [email protected]

Min, Hyeon Ki (CKR)Min, Hyeon Ki (CKR)Min, Hyeon Ki (CKR)Min, Hyeon Ki (CKR)Min, Hyeon Ki (CKR)07/15/03 - 05/31/04Professor, Dept. of KoreanLanguage and Literature,Keimyung University, Republicof Korea.A Study on Korean ModernSatirical Novels with Readers-response Theory.Email: [email protected]

Noh, Tae Don (CKR)Noh, Tae Don (CKR)Noh, Tae Don (CKR)Noh, Tae Don (CKR)Noh, Tae Don (CKR)08/01/03 - 08/31/04Professor, Department ofKorean History, SeoulNational University, Republicof Korea.Paleo-Asiatic Elements in thePrimitive Culture of Korea.Email: [email protected]

Park, Goo Jae (CKR)Park, Goo Jae (CKR)Park, Goo Jae (CKR)Park, Goo Jae (CKR)Park, Goo Jae (CKR)08/01/03 - 08/31/04Reporter, Kyunghyang DailyNews, Republic of Korea.The Development of KoreanMass Media and the FutureDevelopment of the Internetas a Mass Media: A Compara-tive Study of Canada andKorea.Email:[email protected]

Shin, Ju-Cheol (CKR)Shin, Ju-Cheol (CKR)Shin, Ju-Cheol (CKR)Shin, Ju-Cheol (CKR)Shin, Ju-Cheol (CKR)09/01/03-06/15/04Lecturer, Dept. of KoreanLanguage, Foreign LanguageTraining and Testing Center,Hankuk University of ForeignStudies, Republic of Korea.Comparative Study on Meth-ods of Teaching Haiku andHanshi to Westerners, and todevelop a teaching model ofKorean Shijo.Email: [email protected]

Song, Chang Seon (CKR)Song, Chang Seon (CKR)Song, Chang Seon (CKR)Song, Chang Seon (CKR)Song, Chang Seon (CKR)08/01/03-07/31/04Associate Professor, Depart-ment of Korean Language andLiterature, Kyungsan Univer-sity, Republic of Korea.Analyzing the function of“OSS” in the Korean language.Email:[email protected]

Song, Youn Ok (CKR)Song, Youn Ok (CKR)Song, Youn Ok (CKR)Song, Youn Ok (CKR)Song, Youn Ok (CKR)04/01/03 - 03/31/04Professor, School of BusinessAdministration, AoyamaGakuin University, Japan.Comparative Studies in Sociol-ogy of Korean women living inJapan and Korean womenliving in Canada; Life Historyof Japanese-Canadians; andthe issue of foreigners andtheir legal treatments inCanada.Email:[email protected]

Subrahmanyam, SanjaySubrahmanyam, SanjaySubrahmanyam, SanjaySubrahmanyam, SanjaySubrahmanyam, Sanjay(CISAR)(CISAR)(CISAR)(CISAR)(CISAR)09/01/03 - 12/31/03Professor of Indian History &Culture, University of Oxford,UK.Travel-accounts in the Indo-Persian World in the EarlyModern Period.Email:[email protected]

Takatsuji, Hideoki (CJR)Takatsuji, Hideoki (CJR)Takatsuji, Hideoki (CJR)Takatsuji, Hideoki (CJR)Takatsuji, Hideoki (CJR)08/01/03 - 07/31/04Professor, International Schoolof Economics & Business Ad-ministration, Reitaku Univer-sity, Japan.Comparative Urban Develop-ment Issues: Evaluation of De-velopment Rights Allocation: AReal Options ApproachEmail: [email protected]

Yen, Liang-kung (CCR)Yen, Liang-kung (CCR)Yen, Liang-kung (CCR)Yen, Liang-kung (CCR)Yen, Liang-kung (CCR)09/01/03 - 08/01/04Professor and Chair, Public Ad-ministration, School of SocialScience, National Chengchi Uni-versity, TaiwanWorking on a textbook onPolitics and Business in ChineseSociety.Email: [email protected]


Yen Wu, Te-mei (CCR)Yen Wu, Te-mei (CCR)Yen Wu, Te-mei (CCR)Yen Wu, Te-mei (CCR)Yen Wu, Te-mei (CCR)09/01/03 - 08/01/04Associate Professor, Sun Yat-Sen Institute for SocialSciences, National ChengchiUniversity, Taiwan.Migration and EmploymentProblems in China.Email: [email protected]

Yim, Young Chun (CKR)Yim, Young Chun (CKR)Yim, Young Chun (CKR)Yim, Young Chun (CKR)Yim, Young Chun (CKR)02/15/03 - 02/28/04Professor, Dept. of KoreanLanguage and Literature,Chosun University.A Study on Korean EcologicalLiterature.Email: [email protected]

HONORARY RESEARCHASSOCIATES

07/01/03 – 06/30/04

Aklujkar, VidyutAklujkar, VidyutAklujkar, VidyutAklujkar, VidyutAklujkar, VidyutSanskrit/Hindi Languages;ancient, medieval, and contem-porary Indian literature, mythol-ogy, and philosophy; Women’sliterature, diasporic literature inMarathi; Creative writing: shortstories, essays and poetry.

Chau, Rebecca (CJR)Chau, Rebecca (CJR)Chau, Rebecca (CJR)Chau, Rebecca (CJR)Chau, Rebecca (CJR)Japanese linguistics with afocus on speech acts andmodality and its application inlanguage teaching.Email:[email protected]

Faris, Hani (IAR)Faris, Hani (IAR)Faris, Hani (IAR)Faris, Hani (IAR)Faris, Hani (IAR)Middle East politics, conflictresolution and political devel-opment.Email: [email protected]

Longmuir, Gordon (CSEAR)Longmuir, Gordon (CSEAR)Longmuir, Gordon (CSEAR)Longmuir, Gordon (CSEAR)Longmuir, Gordon (CSEAR)Canada’s strategic interests inSouth (mainly India) and South-east Asia (special expertise inCambodia).Email: [email protected]

McLeod, Scott (IAR)McLeod, Scott (IAR)McLeod, Scott (IAR)McLeod, Scott (IAR)McLeod, Scott (IAR)Interdisciplinary analysis ofmarket dynamics across Asia.Email:[email protected]

Nodwell, Evelyn (CISAR)Nodwell, Evelyn (CISAR)Nodwell, Evelyn (CISAR)Nodwell, Evelyn (CISAR)Nodwell, Evelyn (CISAR)South Asia, women and devel-opment, ethnographic film.Email: [email protected]

Placzek, Jim (CSEAR)Placzek, Jim (CSEAR)Placzek, Jim (CSEAR)Placzek, Jim (CSEAR)Placzek, Jim (CSEAR)South East Asian ethnic originsand culture history, TheravadaBuddhism and Thai language.Email: [email protected]

Roth, David (IAR)Roth, David (IAR)Roth, David (IAR)Roth, David (IAR)Roth, David (IAR)The study of political change inparticular models for predictingpolitical system changes inChina, Malaysia, and Philip-pines.

Shibata, Yuko (CJR)Shibata, Yuko (CJR)Shibata, Yuko (CJR)Shibata, Yuko (CJR)Shibata, Yuko (CJR)Overseas Japanese and immi-grant experiences in Canada,i.e., language and culture, shift-ing identities, Nikkei (JapaneseCanadian) women; adultsocialization; and life narrativesand writings.Email:[email protected]

Tamang, Ritrendra (CISAR)Tamang, Ritrendra (CISAR)Tamang, Ritrendra (CISAR)Tamang, Ritrendra (CISAR)Tamang, Ritrendra (CISAR)Anthropology of intersectionsof international development,politics, mass media, culture,and social change in develop-ing nations, particularly Nepal.Email:[email protected]

Tsurumi, Patricia, EmeritaTsurumi, Patricia, EmeritaTsurumi, Patricia, EmeritaTsurumi, Patricia, EmeritaTsurumi, Patricia, Emerita(CJR)(CJR)(CJR)(CJR)(CJR)Japanese women’s history, es-pecially the modern and earlymodern periods.Email: [email protected]

Waxler-Morrison, NancyWaxler-Morrison, NancyWaxler-Morrison, NancyWaxler-Morrison, NancyWaxler-Morrison, Nancy(IAR)(IAR)(IAR)(IAR)(IAR)Sociology of health and illness(Canada, USA, India andSri Lanka).Email:[email protected]

Yasmeen, Gisele (CSEAR andYasmeen, Gisele (CSEAR andYasmeen, Gisele (CSEAR andYasmeen, Gisele (CSEAR andYasmeen, Gisele (CSEAR andCISAR)CISAR)CISAR)CISAR)CISAR)Food distribution in South andSoutheast Asia with particularreference to urban small-scaleenterprises such as street ven-dors.Email:[email protected]

HONORARY PROFESSORS,INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH

Cha, LouisCha, LouisCha, LouisCha, LouisCha, LouisChinese Culture and Literature.

Lin, PaulLin, PaulLin, PaulLin, PaulLin, PaulChinese Politics andCanadian-Chinese Relations.

Wickberg, EdgarWickberg, EdgarWickberg, EdgarWickberg, EdgarWickberg, EdgarOrganizations and ethnicity -past and present - of Chineseoutside China, especially inSoutheast Asia and NorthAmerica.Email:[email protected]

Morrison, BarrieMorrison, BarrieMorrison, BarrieMorrison, BarrieMorrison, BarrieBuilding on earlier research onsocial change in Kerala, India,and Sri Lanka, he is now inves-tigating the relation betweenthe concentration of controlover productive resources andthe emerging crises in societalreproduction in some Asiancountries.Email:[email protected]


REPORREPORREPORREPORREPORT of AT of AT of AT of AT of ACTIVITIESCTIVITIESCTIVITIESCTIVITIESCTIVITIES

IAR staff from left:Marietta LaoKaren JewNilda OnateDonna YeungandRozalia Mate

BUDGET

The operating budget for the Institute in the fis-cal year 2003-2004 totalled $473,500 of which$368,115 were for faculty and staff salaries;$97,385 were allocated for supplies, equipment,repairs and maintenance, communications andother operating expenses; and $8000 were allo-cated to the operating expenses of the Centresfor Chinese Research and Southeast Asia Re-search. The Institute received a total of$1,440,005 in research funds, and $234,930 inendowment operating funds for the fourendowed Centres and from the Choi EmergingOpportunities Endowment.

PERSONNEL

The Institute welcomed Dr. Alison BaileyDr. Alison BaileyDr. Alison BaileyDr. Alison BaileyDr. Alison Bailey whohas taken the post of Acting Director of theCentre for Chinese Research for the academicyear. Her expertise on Chinese literature, cul-ture and history is certain to enhance the schol-arly resources of the Centre and the Institute.Dr. Bailey takes over from Dr. Diana LaryDr. Diana LaryDr. Diana LaryDr. Diana LaryDr. Diana Lary whowill continue to be actively affiliated with theCentre and the Institute as Senior ResearchFellow. Both the Centre and the Institute willcontinue to benefit from Dr. Lary’s insights inher new role. The Institute also welcomed Dr.Dr.Dr.Dr.Dr.Ashok KotwalAshok KotwalAshok KotwalAshok KotwalAshok Kotwal as the new Director of theCentre for India and South Asia Research. He isan invaluable addition to the IAR community as

he brings with him a wealth of experience andexpertise in the areas of Economics and SouthAsian studies. Dr. Kotwal is also an esteemedfaculty member at the UBC School of Economics.The Institute and its Centre for India and SouthAsia Research are looking forward to welcomingDr. Milind KandlikarDr. Milind KandlikarDr. Milind KandlikarDr. Milind KandlikarDr. Milind Kandlikar in July 2004. With his PhDin Engineering and Public Policy andresearch expertise in the areas of global climatechange and air pollution, biotechnology, energyand natural resources, environmental policy, hewill be an invaluable addition to the MAPPSProgram, particularly in its thematic stream ofinfrastructure policy.

Dr. Mandakranta BoseDr. Mandakranta BoseDr. Mandakranta BoseDr. Mandakranta BoseDr. Mandakranta Bose, former Director of theCentre for India and South Asia Research andIAR faculty, was appointed Professor Emeritus asof July 1, 2003. Retirement has not inanyway slowed her down. She has been travelingto India, USA, and Europe to present seminars,papers and continue with her research work andwriting. One of her more recent work, TheRamayana Revisited, a volume containing 14articles by contributors from Canada, USA,England, Europe, India and Thailand, is in presswith Oxford University Press, New York, andexpected to be released July 2004.

Dr. Timothy BrookDr. Timothy BrookDr. Timothy BrookDr. Timothy BrookDr. Timothy Brook, the new Principal at St. John’sCollege, will be joining IAR as the Republic ofChina Chair come July 1, 2004.


Two faculty searches were conducted during theyear. Dr. Abidin KusnoDr. Abidin KusnoDr. Abidin KusnoDr. Abidin KusnoDr. Abidin Kusno, appointed as theCanada Research Chair in Asian Urbanism andCulture will be joining the Centre for SoutheastAsia Research in July 2004. An architectural his-torian with interests in sociology, anthropology,history and politics, Dr. Kusno’s focus will bethe exploration of the historical and contempo-rary conditions of urban politics and city life inAsia. Jointly appointed in IAR and the Depart-ment of Anthropology and Sociology, Dr.Dr.Dr.Dr.Dr.Amanda WeidmanAmanda WeidmanAmanda WeidmanAmanda WeidmanAmanda Weidman will start her term as the Asaand Kashmir Johal Chair in India Research onJuly 1, 2005. She will be joining UBC with a PhDin Anthropology and background as anethnomusicologist.

After four and a half years as the Projects Coor-dinator of the Program on Canada-Asia PolicyStudies (PCAPS) at the Institute, Shirley YueShirley YueShirley YueShirley YueShirley Yue hasmoved on to new challenges here at UBC. Shewill be assuming a one-year term position at theUniversity-Industry Liaison Office.

Margaret VillacinMargaret VillacinMargaret VillacinMargaret VillacinMargaret Villacin, former MAPPS Program Sec-retary, left the Institute in mid-February to takeon a full-time position at the Department of Phys-ics and Astronomy.

In separate receptions held to acknowledge andgive thanks to their invaluable contributions andcommitment to their respective roles, staff andfaculty members alike bid a bittersweet adieuand wished them well.

During the latter part of the fiscalyear, we welcomed two new staffmembers. Rozalia MatéRozalia MatéRozalia MatéRozalia MatéRozalia Maté took onthe position of Finance Clerk in lateFebruary. Having moved to Vancou-ver from Winnipeg in 2002, she iscurrently enrolled as a part-timestudent in an Accounting Program at the Brit-ish Columbia Institute of Technology. As theFinance Clerk, she will be looking after thepreparation of requisitions, payroll requests,maintenance of ledgers for the Institute’s vari-ous funds and accounts, as well as assisting inbudget preparation and reporting. Nilda OñateNilda OñateNilda OñateNilda OñateNilda Oñatecame on board to fill in the 50% part-time posi-tion of MAPPS Program Secretary. She bringswith her a wealth of work experience havingworked for the Canada World Youth and theUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cul-tural Organization (UNESCO). Nilda providessecretarial support to the Chair of the TeachingCommittee and the graduate program, as wellas providing front-line information to potentialapplicants and assisting currently enrolledstudents, graduates and alumni of the Masterof Arts – Asia Pacific Policy Studies Program. Sheis responsible for the processing of admissionapplications and the maintenance of applicantand student files, records and database.Heather FischerHeather FischerHeather FischerHeather FischerHeather Fischer, a student in the combinedMAPPS/LL.B. program, provided design andeditorial support this year with IAR publications,including this Annual Report.

IAR’s Choi Buildingat night(photo: Calvin Lo)


FUTURE DIRECTIOFUTURE DIRECTIOFUTURE DIRECTIOFUTURE DIRECTIOFUTURE DIRECTIONSNSNSNSNSof the INSTITUTE of ASIAof the INSTITUTE of ASIAof the INSTITUTE of ASIAof the INSTITUTE of ASIAof the INSTITUTE of ASIAN RESEARN RESEARN RESEARN RESEARN RESEARCHCHCHCHCH

The Institute has made plans to pursue the following initiatives during the 2004-05 year:

Program adjustments to MAPPS curriculum, including revisiting the structure for the meth-odology core course, adding new seminars, revisiting resource support.

Continue attention to issues of equity in IAR programming.

Continue to develop the Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program, within the framework ofReligion and Public Policy.

Develop CFI-funded Asian Urban Laboratory.

Continue to expand IAR centre and program activities, including linkages with other UBCdepartments, external profiling, and interdisciplinary and inter-centre linkages.

Develop lecture program on Central Asia under leadership of Drs. Julian Dierkes andDiana Lary.

Continue to pursue existing research grant programs (including MCRI and SSHRCfunded projects).

Ongoing attention to ensuring that the Choi Building remains a collegial and supportivevenue for research and teaching.

Continue attention to liaison activities including community-based art and music exhibits.


www.pacificaffairs.ubc.ca

Pacific Affairs is a quarterly international reviewof Asia and the Pacific published by the Insti-tute of Asian Research at the University of Brit-ish Columbia. It remains one of the top interna-tional peer-review journals on contemporaryAsian affairs in the world. We publish betweenfifteen and twenty research articles and in ex-cess of two hundred book reviews each year. Sub-scribers include most of the world’s major aca-demic institutions and governments concernedwith Asia.

EDITORIAL BOARD

The most notable change for Pacific Affairs overthe past year has been the reshaping of our Edi-Edi-Edi-Edi-Edi-torial Board torial Board torial Board torial Board torial Board (see listing of members, below). Wenow have a single, large editorial board (of about60 scholars), with a smaller Executive Commit-Executive Commit-Executive Commit-Executive Commit-Executive Commit-teeteeteeteetee (of about 12) that meets three or four timesa year to manage practical editorial and admin-istrative issues. The new Editorial Board is dis-tinguished by the number of new faces. It in-cludes a strong representation by scholars liv-ing and working in Asia. Our goal over the nextyear is to increase the representation of col-leagues in Europe. We said farewell to two long-serving and valued members of the core team,

PPPPPAAAAACIFICIFICIFICIFICIFIC AFFC AFFC AFFC AFFC AFFAIRSAIRSAIRSAIRSAIRSEditor: Timothy Cheek

Managing Editor: Jacqueline Garnett

Jan WallsJan WallsJan WallsJan WallsJan Walls from SFU and Ralph HuenemannRalph HuenemannRalph HuenemannRalph HuenemannRalph Huenemann fromUVic. Succeeding them on the Executive Com-mittee are Yuezhi Zhao Yuezhi Zhao Yuezhi Zhao Yuezhi Zhao Yuezhi Zhao from SFU and RadhikaRadhikaRadhikaRadhikaRadhikaDesai Desai Desai Desai Desai from UVic. We have been delighted bythe energy and willingness to contribute to thework of the journal shown by our new and con-tinuing Editorial Board members. They have ourheartfelt thanks for making the PA communitystronger and more effective.

Our Associate EditorsAssociate EditorsAssociate EditorsAssociate EditorsAssociate Editors (who are also membersof the Editorial Board and Executive Committee)continue to support the work of Pacific Affairsby their extensive contributions through pre-reviewing article manuscripts (with the attend-ant identification of formal peer reviewers) andguiding the selection of book reviewers. This isthe core work of the journal without which wewould not exist.

ELECTRONIC EDITION

The major development planned for the next yearis to bring Pacific Affairs fully into the world ofon-line publication. We have been negotiatingwith a number of major e-publication providers,including Project MUSEProject MUSEProject MUSEProject MUSEProject MUSE and IngentaIngentaIngentaIngentaIngenta. The Ex-ecutive Committee has approved the plan tobegin formal e-publication of Pacific Affairs (inaddition to our regular paper edition) beginningwith Vol. 78 in March 2005.

The heart of our work remains scholarship, andthe bulk of our scholarly work does not appearin the published journal. The process of peerreview and manuscript revision is extensive. Withsome 80-85% of submissions not published, itis the mentoring work of criticism and sugges-tions for revision that constitutes a major serv-ice of the journal to the scholarly community. Itdemands a large part of the time of the editor,the managing editor (in charge of copy-editingand manuscript preparation for publication), andour reviewers. In fact, any one issue of the jour-nal involves up to eighty people in terms of au-thors, referees of articles, and reviewers ofbooks. This work creates and sustains the com-munity that is Pacific Affairs.

Pacific Affairs :Jacqueline Garnett (left), Tim Cheek and Linh Trinh


top:Editors Across the Pacific — Editorial Board member of

Pacific Affairs, Dr. Charan Wadhva, President of the Centrefor Policy Research, New Delhi (right) visits PA’s editorial

offices with Executive Committee member, Dr. Yuen PauWoo, of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, and Timothy

Cheek

middle and right:New members of the Executive

Committee of the Editorial Board of Pacific Affairs in 2004:Dr. Radhika Desai of the University of Victoria (middle) and

Dr. Zhao Yuezhi of Simon Fraser University (right)

In the Pacific Affairs editorial office atthe IAR we continue to be well-servedby our publishing assistant, Ms. LinhLinhLinhLinhLinhTrinhTrinhTrinhTrinhTrinh, who—in addition to completingher M.A. in Political Science—continuesto handle the book reviews and manu-

script records and helps oversee our handful ofpart-time student helpers. We say goodbye, withregret and lifelong gratitude, to our computerhero, Mr. Asad HusseinAsad HusseinAsad HusseinAsad HusseinAsad Hussein, who graduates (with aPh.D. in Engineering) to a new life after havingguided the journal through our transition to fullcomputerization and toward e-publication.

THE WILLIAM L. HOLLAND PRIZE

The second William L. Holland Prize for bestessay has been awarded for Vol. 76. The winneris Ademola Adeleke (University of Lagos) for hisarticle, “The Strings of Neutralism: Burma andthe Colombo Plan,” which was published inPacific Affairs, 76:4. The prize will beannounced, in the usual fashion, in theSummer issue (77:2) of the journal.


Pacific Affairs Editorial Board as of Vol. 77(* Indicates Members of the Executive Committee)

Pitman Potter, Chair of Editorial Board *Editor:* Timothy CheekAssociate Editors:* John Barker, David Edgington, Michael Leaf,Hyung Gu Lynn, Glen Peterson, John R. WoodManaging Editor: Jacqueline GarnettPublishing Assistant: Linh Trinh

Amitav Acharya, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeAnne Allison, Duke University, USACharles Armstrong, Columbia University, USAJudith Bennett, University of Otago, New ZealandMandakranta Bose, University of British Columbia, Canada *Paul Bowles, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada *Jean Marie Bouissou, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherces Internationales,

Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, FranceTimothy Brook, University of Toronto, CanadaDavid P. Chandler, Monash University, AustraliaChu Yun-han, National Taiwan University, TaiwanMillie R. Creighton, University of British Columbia, CanadaVeena Das, Johns Hopkins University, USARodolphe De Koninck, Université Laval, CanadaRadhika Desai, University of Victoria, Canada *Julian Dierkes, University of British Columbia, CanadaMichael Donnelly, University of Toronto, CanadaMichael Dutton, University of Melbourne, AustraliaPaul Evans, University of British Columbia, Canada *Edward Friedman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAK.C. Ho, National University of Singapore, SingaporeRobin Jeffrey, La Trobe University, AustraliaJomo K.S., University of Malaya, MalaysiaByung-Kook Kim, Korea University, KoreaAtul Kohli, Princeton University, USAAshok Kotwal, University of British Columbia, CanadaBrij V. Lal, Australian National University, AustraliaDiana Lary, University of British Columbia, CanadaAndrew MacIntyre, Australian National University, AustraliaJudith Nagata, York University, CanadaTae-Gyun Park, Seoul National University, KoreaJohn Ravenhill, Australian National University, AustraliaMargaret Rodman, York University, CanadaSusanne Hoeber Rudolph, University of Chicago, USAGi-Wook Shin, Stanford University, USAElizabeth Sinn, University of Hong Kong, Hong KongSoeya Yoshihide, Keio University, JapanJohn Swenson-Wright, University of Cambridge, U.K.Reeta Tremblay, Concordia University, CanadaCharan Wadhva, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, IndiaGungwu Wang, National University of Singapore, SingaporeSusanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, University of Vienna, AustriaChristine Wong, University of Washington, USAYuen Pau Woo, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Canada *William D. Wray, University of British Columbia, CanadaAnand Yang, University of Washington, USAYoshimi Shunya, University of Tokyo, JapanYu Xintian, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, ChinaYuezhi Zhao, Simon Fraser University, Canada *

Pacific Affairs Volume 76(2003-2004)

Articles and Review Articles

76.1• Democratization in South Korea and Inter-Korean Relationsby Chien-peng Chung• The Dispute over the Kurile Islands between Russia and Japan in the1990s by Yutaka Okuyama.• From Monopoly to Competition: Party Politics in the Bangladesh Par-liament by Nizam Ahmed• Disquiet on the Southwestern Front: Studies of the Minorities of South-west China by James Wilkerson (Review Article)

76.2• Innovation in China’s Local Governance: Open Recommendation andSelection by Tony Saich and Xuedong Yang• Japan’s National/Asian Women’s Fund for “Comfort Women”by C. Sarah Soh• Deepening Democracy in Taiwan by Joseph Wong• Hong Kong’s Post-1997 Transformation in Perspectiveby Bernard Hung-Kay Luk (Review Article)

76.3• China and the North Korean Crisis: Facing Test and Transitionby Ming Liu• India and Russia: Reassessing the “Time-Tested” Ties by B.M. Jain• The Discourse of Unequal Treaties in Modern China by Dong Wang• Sustainable Forestry in Thailand: The Effect of Agenda 21 on Forest-Related Non-Governmental Organizations by Matthew J. Mohlenkamp

76.4• China and Southeast Asia: Asymmetry, Leadership and Normalcyby Brantly Womack• From a Special Relationship to a Normal Partnership?: Interpretingthe Garlic Battle in Sino-South Korean Relations by Jae Ho Chung• The Anatomy of the Welfare-Zoku: The Institutional Complementarityof the Party Commission and the National Reform Councils in LDPDecision-Making by Benoit Rousseau Leduc• The Strings of Neutralism: Burma and the Colombo Planby Ademola Adeleke• Letters in Support of the Institute of Pacific Relations: Defending aNongovernmental Organization by Lawrence T. Woods


Alliances, Cooperative Ventures and the Role of Government in the Knowledge Based Economy: Policy Issues for Canada and Beyond

Edited by Masao NakamuraThe rapid development of information technologies in recent years has made it possible for us to have access to and/or send massive amounts of information viainternet from global sources. This development of information technologies and internet now allows effective implementation of many economic activities involv-ing many participants: auto assemblers and their parts suppliers can cooperate over internet effectively in joint design of a new car model, reducing time-to-marketsignificantly; and purchasers of goods can look for the globally best prices over internet, giving them opportunities for arbitrage as well. Another example iscooperative research and development (R&D) strategies, or R&D alliances, which have become a normal and yet strategically important part of business decisionmaking in many industries in recent years. R&D collaboration is often viewed as essential for creating industry-standard platforms and technological innovations onwhich new knowledge work can be developed. Whether government should get involved in these alliances, and in what forms if it should, is an important publicpolicy issue. In these examples, economic decisions are made based on the knowledge base which expands continuingly. How communities are to interact withthese new types of knowledge based alliances is not well understood. Internet has also made it possible for us to have access to private information of others,which could in turn be used for profits.Published by the Knowledge Based Economy Project, Centre for Japanese Research, UBC. 326 pages, 2002.ISBN: 0-88865-748-7. Order through the Institute of Asian Research.

Japan in the Global Age: Cultural, Historical and Political Issues onAsia, Environment, Households and International Communication

Edited by Masao NakamuraJapan’s rich and unique experiences in economic development, international relations and cultural interactions with other nations provide scholars in many academicspecialties with interesting research topics. This book contains 15 interdisciplinary chapters on various aspects of Japan which are contributed by academics fromCanada, Japan and the U.S.A. The specialties of the authors of these chapters include anthropology, Asian Studies, business management, economics, environmentalmanagement, geography, history, linguistics, native studies and political science.Published by the Knowledge Based Economy Project, Centre for Japanese Research, UBC. 227 pages, 2001.ISBN: 0-88865-748-X. Order through the Institute of Asian Research.

Mao Zedong and China’s Revolutions:A Brief History with Documents

By Timothy CheekWhether one views Mao Zedong as a hero or a demon, the “Great Helmsman” was, undoubtedly, a pivotal figure in the history of twentieth-century China, a manwhose life and writings provide a fascinating window on the Chinese experience from the 1920s onward. Part Mao biography, part historical overview of theturbulent story of China’s Communist revolutions, the introductory essay traces the history of twentieth-century China, from Mao’s early career up to the ChineseCommunist Party’s victory in 1949, through three decades of revolution to Mao’s death in 1976. The second half of the volume offers a selection of Mao’s writings —including such seminal pieces as “On New Democracy” and selections from the Little Red Book — and writings about Mao and his legacy by both his contemporariesand modern scholars. Also included are headnotes to the documents, a chronology, Questions for Consideration, 12 images, a selected bibliography, and an index.Published by Bedford/St. Martin’s, Boston, USA. ISBN: 0-312-25626-4. Paperback, $20.00, order through Amazon.ca

Recent Books by IAR Scholars


Japan at the Millennium: Joining Past and Future

By David W. EdgingtonWhile it is always tempting for social scientists to see current events as momentous historical turning points, I think we can safely say thatJapan today is indeed at an important historical juncture. Buffeted in recent years by rapid economic, social and political change, yet still verymuch steeped in custom and history, the nation has become an amalgam of the traditional and the modern. As a result, it has becomeincreasingly difficult to categorize. So, how are we to represent today’s Japan effectively, and fairly predict its future? How can the opposingforces of change and continuity be reconciled in order to understand this country as a cohesive whole? The Centre for Japanese Research’slatest series of essays, entitled Japan at the Millennium: Joining Past and Future (published in April 2003 by UBC Press), takes stock of suchquestions, exploring the convergence of past and future in contemporary Japan. Contributors to this critical, multidisciplinary collectioncomment on a wide range of economic, socio-cultural and political trends. The overall aim of each case study is to show how history hasshaped both present circumstances as well as future challenges.288 pages, 2003. ISBN: 0774808985. Hardcover price: $85.00 Order through UBC Press at www.ubcpress.ca

The Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon

By David Capie and Paul EvansThe Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon focuses on the vocabulary of Asia-Pacific security, mainly as it developed in the creative decade of the 1990s.The goal is to dissect thirty four ideas and concepts that have been at the core of debates about multilateral security co-operation. The studyof multilateral institution-building in the Asia-Pacific has usually focused on material determinants, especially the relationship between thebalance of power and regional institutions. By contrast, the focus here is on ideas.The current version of the Lexicon has been rewritten to take into account changes in regional discussion since 1998 and to add several newterms. The objectives are both practical and theoretical. The Lexicon is primarily intended as a handbook to assist policy-makers andresearchers as they participate in multilateral activities. Much of the debate and controversy in regional discussions still revolves aroundconceptual questions. We address these questions but can scarcely resolve them. Our purpose is not to offer definitions and interpretationsthat are fixed and incontestable. The concepts we examine, to borrow T.S. Eliot’s phrase, “will not stay still”. Rather, the aim is to set anintellectual and historical context, and examine how the concepts have evolved.224 pages, 2002. Order through Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. www.iseas.edu.sg/pub.htmlSoft cover: ISBN 981-230-149-6, US $24.90; Hard cover: ISBN 981-230-150-X US $44.90

Australian and Canadian Approaches to Asia in an Era of Unstable Globalization

Edited by Terry McGee and David EdgingtonThis book examines the relationship of both countries to the Asian region from the perspective of the opening years of the milleneum.Australia and Canada share many similarities, including the importance of agriculture and mineral resources, as well as federal systems ofgovernment. Over the last 20 years or so both countries have been impacted by powerful forces of globalization, and in particular by thecountries of northeast and southeast Asia. In 1997 and 1998 the Asian financial crisis led to sudden instability in the region and provided apause in Asia’s growth trajectory. It also provided an opportunity to examine the various implications of developments in Asia and theirrelationships with Australia and Canada. With an emphasis upon comparative contexts, the essays in this volume consider a number ofrelevant themes, including the challenge of addressing human rights in Asia, trade and economic relations, immigration and multiculturalism,and metropolitan responses to globalization. Published by the Centre for Australasian Research, University of British Columbia.209 pages, 2004. ISBN: 0-88865-760-9. Paperback, $20.00. Order from the Institute of Asian Research.




From Leninist Discipline to Socialist Legalism:Peng Zheng on Law and Political Authority in the PRC

By Pitman B. PotterThis is the first full-length study in English of Peng Zheng (1902-1997), a revolutionary comrade of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, anda prominent and influential legal policymaker in China during both men’s regimes. As one of the chief architects of PRC law and legalinstitutions during the 1950s and again in the 1980s, Peng left an indelible mark on the legal system of China as we know it today.

This book analyzes the evolution of Peng’s legal views from his days as an underground revolutionary in the 1930s and1940s, through his active participation in Communist rule during the 1950s, to his conflicts with Mao and his purge in 1966, and finally tohis rehabilitation and resumption of legal reform activities in the 1980s and 1990s. Initially, Peng’s ideas on law and political authorityembraced notions of Leninst discipline by which Party and state officials were responsible only to their superiors, and had broadauthority to direct and sanction subordinates and society at large. These ideas gradually evolved so that in the post-Mao period Pengcalled for increased reliance on formal rules and procedures as mechanisms of governance.

Though the evolution of Peng’s views resulted largely form the changing political circumstances of his career, his ideas onpolitical authority and law set the parameters of possibility for future legal reform in China. His oft-repeated statement “the Partyleads the people in enacting the law and leads the people in observing the law” has become a familiar slogan used by Jiang Zemin andother top leaders. Peng’s edict on the role of law as an instrument for implementing Party policy has been incorporated into the legaleducation curriculum of China’s central Party School. The 1982 Constitution, of which Peng was the chief architect, continued to serve asthe fundamental articulation of the basic policies of the state and the Party.272 pages, 2003, ISBN 0804745005 cloth hardcover price: $55.00 US. Order through Stanford University Press at www.sup.org

Religion in China Today

Edited by Daniel L. OvermyerA variety of religious traditions has revived in China in the last fifteen to twenty years, with important implications for society and politics. Thisvolume is an introduction to their activities in their cultural and political contexts, intended for non-specialist readers. Articles include: Belief inControl: Regulation of Religion in China; Local Communal Religion in Contemporary Southeast China; The Cult of the Silkworm Mother as a Core ofLocal Community Religion in a North China Village; Local Religion in Hong Kong and Macau; Religion and the State in Post-war Taiwan; Daoism inChina Today, 1980-2002; Buddhist China at the Century's Turn; Islam in China: Accommodation or Separatism?; Catholic Revival during the ReformEra; Chinese Protestant Christianity Today; Healing Sects and Anti-Cult Campaigns.

Contributors:Daniel L. Overmyer, Pitman B. Potter, Kenneth Dean, Fan Lizhu, Liu Tik-Sang, Paul R. Katz, Lai Chi-Tim, Raoul Birnbaum, Dru C. Gladney, RichardMadsen, Daniel H. Bays, Nancy N. Chen.Order from Cambridge University Press at www.cambridge.org


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