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Institute of Asian Research Annual Report 07/08

IAR Annual Report 07/08 Table of Contents

2 Director’s Message

4 Highlights

Graduate Program 6 Master of Arts [Asia Pacific Policy Studies] 10 MAPPS Student Association

Programs 12 Asia Pacific Business and Economic Policy Research Unit 14 Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution 18 Summer Institute Program 20 Program on Inner Asia 21 Contemporary Tibetan Studies 23 Buddhism and Contemporary Society 25 Community Liaison

Centres 30 Centre for Chinese Research (CCR) 34 Centre for India and South Asia Research (CISAR) 38 Centre for Japanese Research (CJR) 42 Centre for Korean Research (CKR) 46 Centre for Southeast Asia Research (CSEAR) 50 Centre Directors

53 Faculty

64 faculty associates

67 Administration and Budget

71 Future Directions

72 Pacific Affairs Journal Director’s Message

Pitman B. Potter Director, Institute of Asian Research

The past year has been one of significant has gotten off to a wonderful start under the challenge and change at the Institute of Asian leadership of Dr. Tim Cheek. Many of our newer Research following the re-organization of the faculty members have become actively engaged Faculty of Graduate Studies and the creation of in a wide range of important endeavours, such the College for Interdisciplinary Studies. My as the Asian Urbanism Lab (Abidin Kusno); the medical leave during Fall 2007 prevented me Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program (Tsering from participating effectively in Institute activities Shakya); the Central Asia Program and the and decisions. During this time, the University Interdisciplinary Policy Seminar ( Julian Dierkes); relocated the College for Interdisciplinary Studies research initiatives on Environment, Infrastructure to the Choi Building and granted the Institute and Social Change in India (Milind Kandlikar); for European Studies permanent space there. The and research and teaching on Cultural Change and IAR community rose to the task and adjusted its Social Transformation in Korea (Hyung Gu Lynn). activities to accommodate the College and IES Established faculty continue to make important on the first and third floors of the Choi Building, contributions including Masao Nakamura’s book welcoming our colleagues to the Choi community. on Corporate Governance in Japan; Ilan Vertinsky’s While these changes have limited IAR’s use work on Risk and Policy Management in China of Choi Building space, they have also created and Japan; and Kyung-Ae Park’s important work important opportunities for collaboration and on Reunification Policies and Politics in Korea. intellectual exchange. I hope that the Institute Among the most active contributors to the IAR will continue to find opportunities in what appear community are our Centre Directors, who have initially to be challenges. This approach has been contributed their energy and expertise to such an important element of our success in building issues as Globalization and Economic Change a thriving intellectual community devoted to in India (Ashok Kotwal); Urbanization in Asia teaching and research in which policy relevance is (Michael Leaf ); Trade Policy and Agricultural combined with local knowledge. Development in Asia (Rick Barichello); Religion in As the contents of this year’s annual report Korea (Don Baker); Human Rights and Migration reveal, IAR has been continually active and successful in Korea and Japan (Nam-lin Hur); Globalization in a wide array of research and teaching achievements. and Financial Structural Change (David Edgington); The China Environmental Studies Seminar (CESS) and Political and Social Change in China (Alison

2 Bailey). I have been privileged to work with all curtailed my activities since then. I resigned as of these fine colleagues over the past year, and to Director of the Institute effective July 1, 2008, be continually enlivened by their productivity and although I will continue to hold my position as commitment to the intellectual community at IAR. Hong Kong Bank Chair in Asian Research for The Institute has been particularly blessed with the next two years. Dr. Masao Nakamura, of our opportunities to collaborate with other departments Centre for Japanese Research, has graciously at UBC, including the Department of Asian Studies agreed to serve as Acting Director while we through the TLKY Canada Foundation Program mount a search for a new director. My primary on Buddhism and Contemporary Society; research activities in the near term will involve Department of History through joint teaching, our MCRI-funded program on Asia-Pacific Department of Anthropology through collaboration Dispute Resolution, as well as my role as Chair of on the Johal Chair appointment; and of course the Canada International Council China Project. through a range of joint and chaired appointments These two projects offer wonderful opportunities with the Department of Economics, Sauder School for policy-oriented research and teaching, of Business, Faculty of Law, and the Faculty international linkages, and expanded collaboration of Forestry. We are also very indebted to the with colleagues at UBC and elsewhere. While Department of Political Science for encouraging I am sorry to be stepping down early as IAR and supporting our graduate students in the Director, I am looking forward very much to the MAPPS program. Programs being developed with opportunities this will present for enlivening my the Liu Institute and other CFIS units demonstrate research and teaching agenda. As this will be the potential for interdisciplinary and inter- my last Director’s message, I would simply like organizational collaboration. While the activities to thank the faculty, staff, and students at IAR, within the Institute and the collaborative efforts the College for Interdisciplinary Studies, and in between the Institute and other UBC units speak the university community more broadly for the for themselves, we look forward to continually fellowship, intellectual engagement, and personal strengthening and expanding these initiatives. friendship they have shared with me these past This year has been a challenging year for me eight years. I have been immensely blessed and I personally, as health issues forced me to take a can only hope to repay these kindnesses through leave of absence during the fall term and severely continued productivity in teaching and research.

3 Highlights of the Year

Dr. Anand Pandian, The Chinese Environmental Johal Chair in Indian Sciences and Sustainability Studies, organized an Group (CESS), an initiative academic workshop on of the Centre for Chinese “Genealogies of Virtue: Research, organized an A Memorandum of Ethical Practice in South exploratory workshop Understanding has been Asia” held September on environmental issues signed between IAR’s 2007 in collaboration in China with faculty Centre for Southeast with the Peter Wall discussants and graduate Asia Research and the Institute for Advanced student paper presenters Consulate General of the Studies. This workshop in October 2007. Due to Republic of Indonesia to focused on the ethical the large audience that this co-organize a workshop dilemmas scholars face event was able to draw, in October 2008 on while reflecting on the CESS will continue to offer “Indonesia’s Urban Future: modernizing processes in workshops and other events Directing Urban Change.” South Asia. in the coming years.

2007

Two Centres went through The Centre for Japanese The Centre for Korean Research directorship transitions in Research (CJR), in (CKR) organized a conference fall 2007. The Centre for conjunction with the entitled “Changing Political Korean Research (CKR) Department of Asian and Economic Environment of welcomed Professor Nam- Studies, organized and the Korean Peninsula” in lin Hur (Department of hosted the “Takemiya October 2007. This conference Asian Studies) as the new Keiko Manga Festival at took up several issues related Chair of its Management UBC” in September 2007. to Inter-Korean Summit and Committee. Professor the Free Trade Agreements Rick Barichello (Faculty of (FTAs) between South Korea Land and Food Systems) and North America. The joined the Centre for former Deputy Prime Minister Southeast Asia Research of South Korea, Dr. Nyum Jin, (CSEAR) Management and the Canadian Ambassador Committee as the new to South and North Korea, Centre Director. Mr. Ted Lipman (also IAR’s Diplomat-in-residence in 2006-07) gave the opening remarks and the keynote speech respectively.

4 Highlights of the Year

IAR officially welcomed “Performing Culture Senator Jack Austin in in South Asia: New a reception held last Technologies, Texts and February 2008. The Traditions” was the title CSEAR and CCR jointly Honourable Jack Austin of the 2008 Varshney held a forum in late May joins the Institute as conference held March 2008 on “UBC-IAR Honorary Professor 27-29. This academic Forum on the Sichuan and Senior Fellow as he conference made possible Earthquake and Burmese continues to conduct through a generous grant Cyclone: Observations, his lifelong research on from Hari and Madhu Reflections and Actions.” Canada-Asia relations. Varshney brought together The forum focused on Senator Austin also looks a diverse, interdisciplinary the types of responses and forward to scholarly group of scholars to responsibilities of various exchanges with the discuss the impact of new interest groups and a MAPPS students and technologies, new cultural discussion on deployment faculty as well as leading contexts, and new social/ of aid mechanisms and the Institute’s newly religious identities on other solutions after such revamped External the modes of traditional natural disasters. Advisory Council. performance in South Asia.

2008

In November 2007, The 5th annual IAR “Staging the Beijing IAR launched its CJR hosted a panel Graduate Student Olympics: Visions, new website on May discussion on the future Conference entitled Tensions, and Dreams” 2008 after two years of British Columbia “Globalized Asia: was a successful of planning and (BC) trade and Challenges and workshop organized several months of investment relations Opportunities” was held and hosted by the developmental and with Japan. Details February 28–March Centre for Chinese site programming on this forum entitled 1, 2008. It provided Research in May work. Feedback “The Japan Market a forum for graduate 2008. This workshop from the faculty, Advisory Group students and faculty drew people from the staff and students Report: Implications with a common interest academic and local were positive and and What to do in the Asia Pacific community, as well favorable. It is Next?” is published region from different as from government hoped that with on the 2008 spring/ backgrounds to come circles including the the increased summer issue of the together to discuss Vancouver Organizing functionalities and Asia Pacific Report. issues as diverse as Committee (VANOC) upgraded features This newsletter issue state and civil society representatives. of this new website, can be found on relations in China, dissemination of http://www.iar.ubc.ca/ transnational marriages information to the resources/publications/ in Thailand to16th public will become asiapacificreport.aspx. century Japanese pirates. more timely and efficient.

5 graduate program

Master of Arts– Asia Pacific Policy Studies Program (MAPPS)

The MAPPS program now completes its the past academic year. Comments from MAPPS eighth year of operation with another successful students from 2006 and 2007 indicate the value year of study and practicum placements. The IAR of student involvement in the many and diverse core faculty continues to support the program activities of IAR and its Centres, so it is expected and we are particularly grateful for the support that this initiative will both strengthen the of Dr. Ian Harris, visiting TLKY Professor in MAPPS teaching program and enhance student Buddhism and Contemporary Society, and the involvement in the IAR community. Honourable Senator Jack Austin, IAR Honorary As in the past, MAPPS students organized Professor. Dr. Kyung-Ae Park returned this year the IAR Annual Graduate Student Conference from her sabbatical leave as Graduate Advisor on the theme of “Globalized Asia: Challenges of the MAPPS Program. We are grateful to Dr. and Opportunities.” This year’s highlight was the Michael Leaf, former Director of IAR’s Centre presence of Dr. Mike Douglass, Director of the for Southeast Asia Research and Professor at the Globalization Research Center and Professor in School for Community and Regional Planning for the Department of Urban and Regional Planning graciously coming on as acting Associate Director at the University of Hawai’i. Dr. Douglass gave for Teaching since January. the keynote address, entitled “Asia Unbound— The Institute of Asian Research, in Globalizing the (Un)making of Urban Histories,” collaboration with its constituent Centres as well as a second conference presentation on the and Programs not only sponsors talks but various forms of “global householding” that are also promotes involvement in the community. arising from the diverse and complex population The IAR Teaching Committee regards the movements within Asia and between Asia and the participation of MAPPS students in IAR activities rest of the world. For more details on this annual and the broader intellectual community as an conference, please refer to the following article important element in students’ graduate education. penned by Pascale Massot, MAPPS student and a In order to encourage this, Participation in the IAR member of the Conference Organizing Committee. and Broader Intellectual Community was formally Financial assistance in the form of scholarships added as an activity to the MAPPS core course in continues through the Power Corporation of

6 2007-2008 MAPPS cohorts with IAR faculty.

Canada, The Hung Hing Ying and Leung Hau the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Ling Charitable Foundation, and in the form of in India, the Eurasia Foundation in Almaty, research assistantships in IAR’s effort to heighten Kazakhstan, and Cooperative for Assistance and centres’ and students’ growth. Altogether, seven Relief Everywhere Inc. (CARE) in Nepal. students benefitted with one-year scholarships and As announced in last year’s Annual Report, worked as research assistants in the academic year the HHY Practicum 2007 scholarship recipients 2007-08. Our appreciation goes out to the sponsor were placed at: the People’s Health Organization, organizations, foundations and individuals who Saheli Project, in Pune, India; The Refuge Pnan continue to support outstanding MAPPS students in Seoul, South Korea; West Coast Domestic and IAR’s teaching initiatives. Workers’ Association in Vancouver, Canada; and We are pleased to note that in the current year the Institute for Policy Analysis and Advocacy most MAPPS students have received confirmation (ELSAM), in Jakarta, Indonesia. With the of their Practicum placement earlier than in any exception of Ms. So Young Yang, an intern with past year. The internships through the Canadian The Refuge Pnan organization whose experience diplomatic missions in China have consolidated was published in 2007, all other interns were in recent years and our students are sought after as involved in their projects at the time of press. MAPPS has consistently been able to deliver bright Here are the brief summaries of their work and and energetic interns. In addition, the Canadian experiences: Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, has also been steadfast in supporting the MAPPS program and Ms. Noushin Khushrushahi, awardee of the this year two more interns will gain experience in HHY Practicum 2007 foreign affairs through their placements in Jakarta. Internship placement: People’s Health Organization, Now in its second year, the Hung Hing Ying Saheli Project, in Pune, India, June-July 2007 (HHY) Practicum 2008 scholarship has been awarded to four MAPPS students who have Saheli HIV/AIDS Karyakarta Sangh sits bang in initiated projects at the International Service for the middle of Budhwar Peth, the most prominent Human Rights (ISHR) in Geneva, Switzerland, Red Light Area of Pune City in India. Saheli

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Left: Ms. Noushin Khushrushahi and Raju. Right: Sign at the entrance of the People’s Health Organization.

Sangh is the only collective of sex workers in the sub-culture of the Red Light Area, the issue of Pune—it is also the one of the foremost models on human trafficking, and the distinct differences that how peer education and respect for gender rights categorize brothel-based sex work ; it also allowed has helped to cut the number of HIV infections in me to analyze gender and social disparities that brothel-based sex work by half and generate social help contribute to the spread of disease. Moreover, respect for sex workers. Volunteers and researchers my daily trips to the field, detailed observation at the organization are initially given a warm and and discussion, as well as impromptu duties (such wise warning: “Remember, these women are not as visits to the police stations to file complaints) merely objects of study; do not coerce them into provided me with a compelling real-life arena answers, stay with the tais at all times, and DO within which to critically engage with policy NOT take any pictures out in the brothels.” analysis and development. I spent much of my summer heeding this For more information on Saheli Sangh, advice during my practicum experience, an event please visit sahelipune.blogspot.com. For more made possible thanks to the generosity of the information on how to send in much needed Hung Hing Ying Scholarship and the Centre for donations, please email [email protected]. India and South Asian Research. My work there was equally split between volunteering for the Ms. Virginie Francoeur, awardee of the HHY organization and conducting informal research on Practicum 2007 the twin issue of HIV/AIDS and gender rights. Internship placement: West Coast Domestic Workers’ Quite specifically, I helped set up a database for Association in Vancouver, Canada, May-July 2007 the organizations records, including an extensive list of the medical history of each sex worker at I am very grateful for the support which I received the organization. I also sat in on weekly meetings from the Hung Hing Ying Foundation for my held to discuss pertinent issues faced by these practicum. During my practicum placement, I women, spent time talking with and teaching the worked as a Legal Support Coordinator at West children of sex workers who were housed at the Coast Domestic Workers’ Association (WCDWA), organization’s nursery, helped edit reports and a non-profit organization located in Vancouver. statements, and engaged in discussions over what WCDWA’s mandate is to provide legal advice continues to be a heated topic in India—the female and representation to foreign domestic workers condom. My experience allowed me to understand in Canada in the Live-in Caregiver Program.

8 Left: Ms. Jane Grace Balbutin, Legal Advocate (left) and Ms. Virginie Francoeur (right) at West Coast Domestic Workers’ Association. Right: Ms. Tomoe Otsuki dressed for the Hindu Festival in Bali.

The Live-in Caregiver Program allows foreign experience and reinforced my desire to dedicate my nationals who meet certain criteria set out in career to helping immigrants and refugees. Canada’s immigration and refugee legislation to work in Canada in private homes as caregivers for Ms. Tomoe Otsuki, awardee of the HHY children, persons with disabilities or the elderly, Practicum 2007 while living with their employers. A caregiver who Internship placement: ELSAM, Institute for Policy completes 24 months of full-time employment Research and Advocacy, Jakarta, Indonesia, June- within 3 years of entering Canada may be eligible August 2007 to apply for Permanent Resident status. However, the program is difficult to complete because I worked for the re-establishment of the Truth whenever caregivers want to work for a new and Reconciliation Commission (the TRC) for employer, they must apply and wait for a new three months in ELSAM, a local NGO for policy- work permit, which can take up to 4 months. In research and advocacy of democracy. ELSAM was addition, caregivers are vulnerable to exploitation the primary initiator for the establishment of the and abuse since they are required to live in their TRC in Indonesia in 1999. I was asked to review employers’ homes. English literature and publications on the TRC My main responsibility at WCDWA was in general, and the Indonesian TRC in particular. to provide legal assistance to live-in caregivers Then, I was assigned to conduct interviews with concerning immigration and employment issues. I other NGOs (including International NGOs), worked under the supervision of WCDWA’s staff individual victims/survivors, human rights lawyer, Ms. Deanna Okun-Nachoff. The majority lawyers and some of the former TRC commission of my clients were from the Philippines, though candidates. The ultimate goal was to produce a some of them were from Peru, Mexico, China, and comprehensive picture of the politics of the TRC in India. I assisted many clients with applications for Indonesia. I also interviewed a few victims of the new work permits and for Permanent Residence, 1965-1966 massacres. Their voices are collected both in the Live-in Caregiver class and on in the ELSAM database as testimony. ELSAM Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds. I and National Human Rights Commission are still also provided support and advice to caregivers working on making a new draft bill for the TRC experiencing difficult working conditions. My act. Likewise, I am working on my thesis on the practicum at WCDWA was a wonderful learning politics of the TRC in Indonesia.

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MAPPS Student Association (MAPPSSA)

Robert Sullivan MAPPSSA President 2007-2008

A busy year on campus for the MAPPS 07-08 provoking event, and this year’s edition largely owes cohort is winding down, and many of us have started its success to the efforts of Pascale Massot, Dennis to tackle the practicum or thesis component of our Visser, Carla Stucchi, and Bonnie Lui, who all put degrees, one more step towards fine tuning our policy in a lot of hard work both setting up and running development expertise. There has been some great the conference. Participants were also treated to variety this year in terms of where we are heading a keynote address from Dr. Michael Douglass off for our practicum placements, ranging from East from the University of Hawai’i. Other notable Asia to Europe. Of course those who found it hard talks and seminars over the year included visits to say no to a beautiful Vancouver summer will stay from: Mr. Emmanuel Jimenez, Sector Director of on for their summer term. Pascale Massot will be Human Development from the World Bank’s East enjoying the build-up to the Beijing Olympics at Asia Region; Mr. Rajat Nag, Managing Director the Canadian Consulate in Shanghai this summer, General from the Asian Development Bank, and while Margaret Skwara explores the Asian Steppe the World Bank Colloquium. with her hunting eagle in Almaty, Kazakhstan at Those of us involved with the second Asia the Eurasia Foundation. Both Carla Stucchi and Pacific Policy Project on Genocide Education Dennis Visser will be in Jakarta at the Canadian in Cambodia after last year’s inaugural success Embassy, and I will be joining them in Southeast have continued to revisit the project. Along with Asia a little father north, in Bangkok at the United our group members from SCARP, we have been Nations Economic and Social Commission for working towards getting the project document Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). Ravina Bains finished and distributed to relevant agencies and will be in the opposite side of the globe, way over organizations hopefully some time this year. in Geneva at the United Nations as well, while Asia has once again proved to be the Darlene Foote will be working at the Cooperative international hub of dynamic political, economic, for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc. (CARE) and social developments in the world, and this in Nepal, and Bonnie Lui will be keeping an eye on has only made the past year all the more exciting Vancouver for all of us, conducting her Practicum and relevant in the MAPPS program. For those at the Fraser Institute. We will all be keeping in of us continuing on in MAPPS in the upcoming touch over the summer and should have some great year there should be plenty more opportunities for experiences to share come fall. stimulating discussions around the Choi Building There were a lot of great opportunities this year and a new cohort of MAPPSsters to welcome. to experience some really interesting work, both For those of us who are off to put our policy in-class and during the many IAR-hosted events. development skills to the test, the year here at the The IAR Graduate Student Conference once MAPPS program has been a tremendously rich again proved itself to be a valuable and thought- and rewarding experience.

10 Ravina Bains Matthew Levine Bonnie Lui

Kulwindar Parhar Pascale Massot Robert Sullivan

Margaret Skwara Carla Stucchi Dong Sun

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Darlene Foote Lakhbir Jassal

Dennis Visser Zan Zhang

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The Asia-Pacific Business and Economic Policy Research Unit

Masao Nakamura Ilan Vertinsky Co-Directors

IAR’s Asia-Pacific Business and Economic in 1996, M.A. (with distinction) Policy Research unit was established to promote in International Studies from the University of research on issues pertinent to the economic Warwick in 1992 and LL.B. from Kyushu transformation and development of Asian countries University in 1983. Professor Yoshimatsu authored/ as well as their trade relations in the Pacific Rim. co-authored a number of academic publications It also aims to facilitate participation of researchers including the following recently published books, and graduate students from IAR and other academic book chapters and journal articles: units to get involved in Asia related research. • The Political Economy of Regionalism in The following are some of the research topics East Asia: Integrative Explanation for currently under investigation: foreign direct Multiple Challenges (Basingstoke: Palgrave investment and trade in Asia; corporate governance Macmillan, 2008) (forthcoming). mechanisms and economic development in • Japan and East Asia in Transition: Trade East Asia; environmental management in Japan Policy, Crisis and Evolution, and Regionalism and elsewhere; and forest management and (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). environment in Canada and elsewhere. • Internationalization, Corporate Preferences Information on our recent research activities, and Commercial Policy in Japan publications, conference and presentations on (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000). research topics of interest to the unit are given below. • “Government Policy and the Automobile Industry in Asia,” in Christopher Findley Professor Y. Katsurayama et al. (Eds.), The Automobile Industry Professor Yasunori Katsurayama who specializes in Asia and China’s Challenge (Tokyo: in mathematical finance at the School of Social Sobunsha, 2005) (in Japanese). Sciences of Waseda University in Tokyo completed • “Short Circuiting Keiretsu: Japanese his two-year stay as a visiting professor of this unit Electronics Firms in Asia,” in Vinod on March 29, 2007. K. Aggarwal and Shujiro Urata (Eds.), Winning in Asia, Japanese Style: Market and Professor H. Yoshimatsu Nonmarket Strategies for Success (New York, We currently host another visiting faculty, Professor Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) Hidetaka Yoshimatsu, who is a full professor at and (Tokyo: Waseda University Press, the College of Asia Pacific Studies of Ritsumeikan 2004) (in Japanese). Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Japan, for the • “Japan’s Policy on Steel Trade Disputes period February-September, 2008. Professor with the United States: A Comparative Yoshimatsu received his Ph.D. in International Analysis,” The Pacific Review, Vol.20, Relations from the Australian National University No.3, 2007.

12 • “Global Competition and Technology adhered to sovereignty largely because of their Standards: Japan’s Quest for Techno- desire to maintain and strengthen national unity Regionalism,” Journal of East Asian Studies, and collective national identity. Furthermore, Vol.7, No.3, 2007. the East Asian states have maintained the state’s • “Asia’s Odd Men Out: Australia, Japan, superiority over the society in state-society and the Politics of Regionalism,” relations. Given these conditions, it is necessary International Relations of Asia Pacific, Vol.7, to think first about factors influenced by the No.2, 2007 (with Mark Beeson). state’s power relations and interests in examining • “The Politics of Japan’s Free Trade interstate affairs in East Asia. At the same time, Agreements,” Journal of Contemporary Asia, we need to pay due attention to the possible Vol.36, No.4, 2006, pp.479-99. validity of the constructivists’ claim that norms, ideas and identity have crucial influences on While at UBC Professor Yoshimatsu plans to international relations. Historically-developed focus his research on “The Prospect of Regional ideas and socially-constructed norms might have Economic Integration in East Asia: Synthesising discernable influences on the evolution of regional the Neorealist and Constructivist Perspectives.” cohesion. Indeed, East Asia is characterized by This research aims to consider the prospect vast and various diversities in terms of cultural of regionalism in East Asia by synthesising backgrounds including religion and language, the two major international relations (IR) theories: degree of economic development as well as political neorealism and constructivism. Ever since the mid systems. However, some East Asian countries have 1990s, East Asian states have promoted regional similarity in paying respect to specific ideas such cooperation/ integration under the ASEAN+3 as forgiveness, harmony through consultation, and (APT) framework. By 2005, cooperation under co-existence with nature. the APT framework showed steady progress to cover seventeen sectors and have 49 mechanisms M. Nakamura to facilitate and implement cooperative initiatives. Konwakai Chair of Japanese Research Despite such evolutions, regional politics in East Professor, IAR and Sauder School of Business Asia is still constrained by the neorealist logic. (Please refer to page 60 under IAR Faculty.) Great power politics interplayed by the United States, China and Japan has determined the I. Vertinsky degree of distrust and cooperation in the region, Professor, IAR and Sauder School of Business and actions and policies of other smaller states (Please refer to page 62 under IAR Faculty.) have tended to be considered as bandwagoning or balancing. The major East Asian states have

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The Asia Pacific Program on Cross-cultural and Comparative Disputes Resolution Research (APDR)

Dr. Pitman B. Potter Principal Investigator

Donna Yeung Project Manager (medical leave)

Rozalia Mate Acting Project Manager

The APDR Program, a Major Collaborative the factors of perception, complementarity, and Research Initiative (MCRI) funded by the Social legitimacy. The results from these questionnaires Sciences and Humanities Research Council of are being reviewed by our country teams Canada (SSHRC), supports research, analysis and and research groups for policy proposals and policy proposals. It is aimed at building knowledge provide useful information for future studies on cross-cultural dispute resolution (including on other cross-cultural policy issues such as the mediation, arbitration, and court adjudication) in environment, health and technology. international trade and human rights in Canada, Our knowledge dissemination activities have China, and Japan. This project addresses these also continued through international conferences concerns through collaborative research, analysis such as the Law and Society Association held and policy development. Focusing on Canada, in Berlin, Germany on July 25-28, 2007. The China, and Japan, the project tests existing APDR project organized three panels. The first hypotheses and generates new ones about selective panel “Selective Adaptation Theory: Comparative adaptation and related concepts that inform the Perspectives on Dispute Resolution” examined exchange of practices and norms about trade and theoretical and methodological dimensions of human rights dispute resolution across cultures. selective adaptation. The second panel “Dispute The second phase of Selective Adaptation Resolution in Japan: A Comparative Perspective Survey data collection was completed in mid-2007, on Selective Adaptation” focused on issues of and data entry and statistical analysis activities selective adaptation in the context of Japan in began shortly after. Close to 2400 questionnaires the areas of international commerce and human on issues of human rights, including housing, rights and were based on papers on (1) mergers health and labor and on international trade have and acquisitions, (2) the WTO and competition been administered in China, Japan and Canada policy, (3) free trade and economic partnership for the second time. Phase Two was devoted to agreements, (4) tobacco control and health policies, the correlative analysis of relationships between and (5) health care reform. The third panel, the phenomenon of selective adaptation and “Dispute Resolution in China: A Comparative

14 Left: Right: Participants at the consultation workshop on “Selective Adaptation and Institutional Capacity: Approaches to Treaty Compliance in International Trade and Human Rights” held July 20-21, 2007. This workshop was hosted by the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (Cambridge University).

Perspective on Selective Adaptation” focused on adaptation of international norms and institutional issues of selective adaptation in relation to China capacity for enforcement as key elements of treaty in the areas of human rights, social protection and compliance. The workshop was one in a series of international commerce and were based on papers international consultations, which not only provided on (1) health care reform, (2) the effectiveness of an opportunity for further dissemination of our collective labor contracts, (3) policies and responses research results but also generated strong intellectual to housing evictions in Shanghai, (4) corporate support for research on the integration of trade and governance and (5) anti-dumping. These sessions human rights compliance. were particularly illustrative of the dynamic of In June 2007, our policy outreach and selective adaptation, combining theoretical insight dissemination strategy supported the IAR Summer with empirical data in ways that are emblematic of Institute China Program for business and policy the law and society enterprise/discourse. executives who applied research knowledge Collaboration with the Lauterpacht Centre on generated by the APDR research program to case- International Law at Cambridge University and the based problem solving in areas of trade and human Emerging Dynamic Global Economies (EDGE) rights. The Summer Institute is an innovative Network in Ottawa resulted in an international environment for launching training scenarios policy roundtable on “Selective Adaptations and using analysis and research tools derived from Institutional Capacity: Approaches to Treaty the APDR program. Evaluations from Canadian Compliance in International Trade and Human government, policy and private participants were Rights” held on July 20-21, 2007 at the Lauterpacht overwhelmingly positive, noting the high quality of Centre. This workshop provided opportunities program design and implementation. to learn about and discuss the results of the On the program management front, the APDR research program on local implementation APDR project had a challenging year. It started of international treaty standards in trade and with Project Manager Donna Yeung’s unforeseen human rights. Presenters addressed quantitative medical leave at the beginning of July 2007. and qualitative measures of the role of selective Coincidentally, at the beginning of August 2007,

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Dr. Pitman Potter, Project Director, became quite local conditions for integrated compliance with ill and was away on medical leave for a few months. trade and human rights standards that have direct With the appointment of Acting Project Manager, relevance to Canada, not only in light of shared Rozalia Mate, the wonderful help provided by the cultural traditions with the regions selected for project co-investigators and collaborators alongside study but also as applied to specific policy questions Dr. Potter’s gradual return, the project activities such as links between transparency and human were carried out as planned. rights enforcement, intellectual property and The project started in 2008 with a very busy protection of indigenous knowledge, and economic agenda. Led by the Project Director, Dr. Pitman subsidies and preservation of local communities. Potter, the project co-investigators came together Thus, our proposed Second Phase MCRI project for a brainstorming session for the MCRI Letter will build on our current achievements to generate of Intent application submission on Phase Two important knowledge on integrated trade and of the APDR Project: “Understanding Integrated human rights compliance that has clear relevance Compliance with International Trade and Human for academic and policy communities in Canada Rights Standards from a Comparative Perspective,” and internationally. SSHRC has just recently due January 31, 2008. accepted our Letter of Intent and the formal Our proposed Phase Two MCRI project application is due on September 1, 2008. involves a new program of research that applies In spring 2008, Dr. Pitman Potter (Project the findings of our initial MCRI program to new Director) together with Dr. Lesley Jacobs (Project and important policy and geographic areas. The Co-investigator) have submitted a proposal proposed project represents an opportunity to apply to UBC Press for the publication of the Asia the demonstrably valuable concepts of “Selective Pacific Legal Culture, International Law, and Adaptation” and “Institutional Capacity” to the Globalization—a book series that revolves around critically important policy issue of integrated research themes associated broadly with the theme compliance with international trade and human of Asia Pacific legal culture, international law, rights standards. Building upon the achievements and globalization. The origin of the series is the of our initial MCRI project that examined collaborative interdisciplinary research initiated trade and human rights as separate examples by leading international scholars working on where compliance was determined by selective the Asia Pacific region under the auspices of the adaptation and institutional capacity, the proposed APDR program. However, it is anticipated that Second Phase MCRI project will address the this book series would also include manuscripts ways in which compliance with trade rule affects on research themes developed outside the APDR compliance with human rights standards and vice program. The series is designed to appeal not only versa. The research networks established during to the traditional markets for university press books Phase One are already in place and functioning (academic libraries, university bookstores, classroom well, and will support the expansion of the research adoptions, and sales to individual scholars) but also to the issue of integrated compliance, and extension to readers in the policy realm and those involved of the research scope to include Southeast and with businesses in the Asia Pacific region. The basis South Asia. By expanding our geographic reach for the books will be original empirical research as to include Indonesia and India, we will be able to well as qualitative and quantitative analysis related test our explanatory paradigms in regions where to international trade and human rights. The local implementation of international standards is following are three books, one single authored and made more complex by factors of post-colonialism the other two edited volumes, which are already that are largely absent in China and Japan, thus well developed and could be readily available for the offering important comparisons for Canada. The launch of the series: proposed research will also rely heavily on carefully • Ljiljana Biukovic (Law, UBC) and Pitman developed case studies to build understanding of Potter (Law and Institute of Asian

16 Research, UBC), editors, Globalization and Local Adaptation of International Trade Law in the Asia Pacific Region • Sarah Biddulph (Law, Melbourne University) and Lesley Jacobs (Law and Society, York University), editors, Human Rights Issues in the Asia Pacific Region: New Perspectives on Social Rights • Pitman Potter (Law and Institute of Asian Research, UBC), Asia Pacific Approaches to International Trade and Human Rights: Alison Bailey (left), Centre for Chinese Research Director, gave the Challenging Globalization and Convergence keynote speech and represented IAR at the “Western Development Another forthcoming publication under the and Socio-Economic Change: Canada-China Forum,” held at the APDR project is the Changing Corporate Governance Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing, PRC. Practices in China and Japan: Adaptations of Anglo- American Practices volume, edited by Masao Nakamura and published by Palgrave Macmillan, Houndsmills, differences in academic terms, policies and attitudes U.K. The chapters in this volume address the extent can be narrowed down when presented clearly and to which China and Japan adopt the U.S.-style supported by case studies. Anglo-American corporate governance practices and In the spring and summer of 2008, the Principal also explore the reasons that might determine the Investigator together with the project team members extent of such transplantation of foreign corporate will be working very hard on the formal application governance practices to China and Japan. for Phase Two of the APDR Project. The Advisory On March 28-29, 2008, the APDR project, Board will hold a summary session in Autumn together with the Institute of Asian Research 2008, where research findings will be presented and and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, strategies for ongoing interaction with the policy co-organized the “Western Development and community will be formalized. In October 2008, Socio-Economic Change: Canada-China together with the EDGE (Emerging Developing Forum,” which was held at the Chinese Academy Global Economies) Network in Ottawa, we will of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing. The host a policy roundtable on “The Role of Selective conference brought together an impressive Adaptation in compliance with International variety of scholars and experts in economics, Trade and Human Rights Rule Regimes.” We sociology, law and political science from China have measures in place to continue our support for and Canada for two days of intensive discussions students, making the APDR project funds more on regional developments in China and Canada. accessible to a wider field of Canadian students. The conference’s comparative approach exposed A key student-centered activity is the launch of the Chinese and Canadian scholars to different our country-wide open call for graduate papers. interpretations and official policies in the Furthermore, we have structured a graduate western regions in their respective countries. roundtable for top papers to be presented in a The participants of this conference benefited workshop in Vancouver this coming autumn. By from critical assessment of state policies and an adjudication process, a select group of those developmental pressures on the indigenous monographs will win a paper prize and gain exposure populations of these regions. This conference was through publication in our occasional paper series. a good example of collaboration between scholars Further project activities include the production from different cultural and political backgrounds of additional publications and book volumes and united by their interest in developmental the development of additional plans to expand the and regional issues. It demonstrated that the transfer of information and policy dissemination.

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Summer Institute China Program 2007

Eleanor Gill Manager for the Summer Institute Program (from May 1, 2006 to July 31, 2007)

The Summer Institute China Program simulations of real-life negotiations and decision- successfully launched its first full program from making scenarios, designed by the Summer June 3-15, 2007, providing experiential and case- Institute China Program, whereby participants based training to nine Canadian business and responded to role-play actors in person, over the government executives working on China projects. phone, and by email to negotiation contract clauses The Summer Institute China Program was pleased and solve problems. to receive Platinum Sponsorship from Bombardier. The first week of the program was followed The nine participants in this year’s Summer by a two-day retreat at a beautiful mountain Institute China Program were from: Bombardier, resort in Whistler, British Columbia, led by Transport Canada, TSI Terminal Systems Inc., William Roberts, Founder of the Whistler Forum. Department of Foreign Affairs, TD Bank, Natural Participants engaged in structured discussions Resources Canada, Export Development Canada, on broader questions of values and leadership and UBC Development. with mentors including David Fung (ACDEG The first week of the program took place Group), Soren Harbel (BC Ministry of Economic at the Institute of Asian Research, and covered Development), Russell Mark (RM Catalysts Ltd.), property, contracts, negotiations, including property and Wu Jian (Weyerheauser), and even tried their and supply chains, government relations, and hand at archery to draw parallels between this new integrity. Program participants received seminars sport and their China ventures. from instructors including Dickson Hall (Hunter The second week of the program was held Dickinson Inc.), David Fung (ACDEG Group), in Shanghai, in cooperation with the Shanghai Gretchen Bozak (International Trade), Ilan Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) and the China Vertinsky (Sauder School of Business), Timothy Executive Leadership Academy Pudong (CELAP). Cheek (Institute of Asian Research), Richard Susan Gregson, Consul General of Canada, Paisley (UBC Faculty of Law), and Euan Taylor Shanghai, hosted a welcome dinner for participants (David LLP). Participants also underwent three upon their arrival on Monday, June 11. Participants

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then underwent two days of lectures and training This program was tested on 12 experienced exercises at SASS, and one day at CELAP. business and government leaders with vast Participants were joined by Chinese employees of experience in China during a Summer Institute Sino-Canadian joint ventures who they worked Pilot China Program held last July 27-29, alongside with during the various exercises and 2006. The program received enthusiastic and mock negotiations. The Shanghai segment positive feedback, and many of the pilot program concluded with a full day of site visits to the WTO participants have expressed an interest to remain Consultation Centre, Shanghai No. 2 Intermediary involved in the formal launch of the program in People’s Court, and Manulife-Sinochem. summer 2007. It is hoped that the Summer Institute Program Please visit the Summer Institute China will be an annual program offered by the Institute Program website at http://www.iar.ubc.ca/ of Asian Research. It has been designed for both programs/summerinstitute/chinaprogram/ for more business and government executives, as well as information. The 2007 Summer Institute China non-profit and non-government organization Program is directed by Dr. Pitman Potter, and representatives and researchers. Each of the managed by Eleanor Gill. program exercises and topics covered is relevant to both private and public sector participants, as participants will have opportunities to focus on specific business or government perspectives. The program is chaired and directed by Dr. Pitman Potter, Director, Institute of Asian Research, with support from leading business and government executives in Canada and abroad who participate both as instructors and mentors.

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Program on Inner Asia

Julian Dierkes Program Coordinator

The program has continued to focus its Research.“The Tibeto-Mongol Treaty of activities on contemporary Mongolia. The Program 1913 and its Significance.” received a significant anonymous donation in the Manduhai Buyandelgeryin (Anthropology and past year allowing it to step up its activities. In the Society of Fellows, Harvard University) past year, presentations in the Mongolia Lecture • November 8, 2007. ASSC I Building, SFU. Series included: “The Impossibility of Knowing the Past: • November 14, 2007. Dave McClung Muted Ghosts, Mass Graves, and the (Geography, UBC). “Altai Range, Northwest Neoliberal State in Mongolia.” Mongolia (with Comparison to Other • November 9, 2007. Conference Room, Glaciated Areas Along the Silk Road).” C.K. Choi Building for the Institute • February 15, 2008. Chuluundorj of Asian Research (co-organized with Khashchluun (National University of Anthropology, UBC). “Representation of Mongolia). “Mongolia’s Dilemma: Ensuring Buddhism in Arts, Culture, and Cinema Benefits From Mining Development to the during Socialism in Mongolia.” Nation vs Business Considerations.” Julian Dierkes co-ordinates the Program and Together with the Buddhism and Contemporary has continued to travel to Mongolia frequently. His Society Program and the Contemporary Tibetan interests are focused on the regulation of natural Studies Program, the Program organized a lecture resources. In February the Program hosted a series on “Tibet-Mongolia Links in Religion and delegation of Mongolian academics and officials on Medicine” with funding from the Silkroad Foundation. a “Responsible Mining Study Tour” together with This lecture series included the following presentations: colleagues in the Norman B Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering, organized by the Asia Foundation. Vesna Wallace (Religious Studies, University of For November 14-17, 2008, the Program is California, Santa Barbara) planning a major international conference on • April 7, 2008. Conference Room, C.K. “Contemporary Mongolia—Transitions, Development Choi Building for the Institute of Asian and Social Transformations.” Approximately 30 Research. “Mediating the Power of Dharma: participants were selected from among almost 100 Mongols’ and Tibetans’ Approaches to proposals for the conference. In addition to research Reviving Buddhism in Mongolia.” presentations, the conference will also include policy • April 8, 2008. 1800 Terasen Cinema, discussions and will commemorate the 35th anniversary SFU Habour Centre. “Revitalisation of of diplomatic relations between Canada and Mongolia. Buddhism in Mongolia.” The current Mongolian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Elliot Sperling (Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana Dr. Oyun, has agreed to participate in the conference. University) Brant Enterprises has stepped up as the premier • March 14, 2008. Conference Room, C.K. supporter for the conference and we are still soliciting Choi Building for the Institute of Asian additional funds from companies and individuals.

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Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program

Tsering Shakya Canada Research Chair in Religion and Contemporary Society in Asia

This year, the Contemporary Tibetan Studies In November 2007, the Chinese Consulate Program (CTSP) organized a major conference Office in Vancouver requested the CTSP to host on Social-Economic Development in Tibet in a visit by the delegation of Chinese scholars and conjunction with the China Tibetology Research officials. Professor Ilan Vertinsky, Acting Director Centre, Beijing. The conference focused on current of IAR, welcomed the visiting scholars. The social and economic trends in Tibet as a result of delegates gave a presentation to the MAPPS the Western Development Program launched in students and provided a lively discussion on the 2000. The two-day conference was attended by six current situation in Tibet. scholars from China and eight scholars from North In addition, the Program organized two America. Ms. Bi Hua, Vice Director of the China interesting lectures. Dr. Jan Magnusson of Tibetology Research Centre, presented a paper on Lund University, gave an insightful talk on the Housing Projects for Low Income Families. The “Contemporary Baltistan Movement and its participants of the conference included Professor Trans-Himalayan Implications.” The Baltis are a Melvyn Goldstein, who presented a paper about Tibetan-speaking community in Pakistan. The the shift from a predominantly subsistence talk focused on the recent social development in agricultural economy to a new mixed economy the western Himalayas and the emergence of the in which non-farm income plays a dominant so-called Baltistan Movement and the revival of role. Professor Emily Yeh’s paper examined the Balti culture in Pakistan and India in the past two emergence of the “Green Tibetan” through trans- decades. In March 2008, Daniel Winkler from local and transnational projects and alliances. It Washington visited IAR and gave a lecture on the touches on recent writings by some Tibetans in mushrooming fungi market on the Tibetan Plateau. Tibet about why the environment is important. The talk focused on how recent improvements in It includes an example of a few grassroots communication and the increased commodification environmental associations in eastern Tibetan of natural resources in addition to globalization areas and what motivates the people, both Chinese have caused a mushrooming of the fungus industry. and Tibetan, to be a part of these associations. The market is dominated by Yartsa gunbu The scholars from China dealt with the economic (Caterpillar fungus, Cordyceps sinensis), which impact of the opening of a railway link between accounts for over 95% of the fungi market value. In Golmud and Lhasa. Dr. Tenzin Lhundrup from Tibet, it contributes 40% to the rural cash income. Beijing presented an interesting paper on rural CTSP together with Professor Julian Dierkes cooperative organization and its impact on rural (IAR) and Professor Craig Janes (Health Sciences, household income. The conference was made SFU) organized a lecture series on Tibet-Mongolia possible by the support of Bombardier. Links in Medical and Religious Practices. In March

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2008, Professor Elliot Sperling of Indiana University Nationalities Language Centre (CNLC), funded by presented a paper on The Tibeto-Mongol Treaty of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and 1913 and its significance. In 1911, after the collapse the BC Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF). of the Qing Dynasty, Tibet and Mongolia declared CNLC, which aims to be the first multimedia independence and signed a treaty of friendship and research facility in Canada capable of operating recognition of each other’s independence. Recently, in China’s minority nationalities languages, will the treaty has come to light with the opening of the strengthen Canada’s capability to build knowledge archive in Ulaanbaatar. on these areas and promote social and cultural CTSP continues to engage with the Canadian understanding. Actual renovation of the third floor business community. For the past years, the space in the C.K. Choi Building began in May Program has been convening a meeting of 2007 and was completed in early September 2007. Canadian Business and local groups concerned CNLC has also acquired and set up computing with developments in Tibet. The meeting provided equipment and software over several months in a forum for concerned groups to exchange views fall 2007 and early 2008. It will also proceed and also discussed social development strategies with additional purchases of server and storage for Tibet being developed by Bombardier and support systems in the summer of 2008. Once the Agriteam Canada. CNLC becomes fully operational, it will provide The Program, together with the administrative an interactive research environment that will staff at IAR and our shared Systems Administrator, greatly expand the productivity and effectiveness Syed Hassan, has also been busy over the past of research and knowledge building on China’s year coordinating the establishment of the China minority nationalities areas.

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Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program

The Program on Buddhism and Contemporary Arts, Culture and Cinema during Socialism in Society Program is supported by a $4 million gift Mongolia” in November 2007. She discussed how from The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation. Buddhism continued to thrive in the cultural field Currently housed at the Institute of Asian despite the state socialism in Mongolia having Research, the Program, a collaboration between propagandized against religion and brought about the IAR and the Department of Asian Studies, religious cleansing in the 1930s and 1940s. Dr. supports interdisciplinary teaching and research on Elliot Sperling (Indiana University’s Central intersections between Buddhism and contemporary Eurasian Studies), featured speaker in mid-March socio-economic and political life, particularly 2008, gave a talk on “The Tibeto-Mongol Treaty of (although not necessarily exclusively) to Asia. The 1913 and its Significance.” Dr. Sperling touched Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program at on the shared cultural and historical relationship UBC bridges the historical and cultural focus of between Tibet and Mongolia for centuries. After Buddhist studies with the application of Buddhist the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, Tibet and teachings to policy issues of contemporary society Mongolia declared independence and signed a such as environmental protection, education, health treaty of friendship and recognition of each other’s care and human development. independence. His talk explored the significance of the Tibet-Mongol treaty of 1913. Dr. Gustaaf Lecture Series Houtman, editor of Anthropology Today, gave two The Program, operating under the guidance of an lectures on Buddhism in Burma—lectures that interdisciplinary academic council that includes were a joint collaboration between the Program colleagues from the Department of Asian Studies, and the Centre for Southeast Asia Research. the Institute of Asian Research and other UBC The College for Interdisciplinary Studies, The departments, continues to support teaching, Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation, and the research projects, public lectures and symposia on Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program Buddhism and its role in contemporary society. presented Robert Thurman, America’s leading Over the past year, Professor Guang Xing, the expert on Tibetan Buddhism, at UBC’s Chan Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation Visiting Centre for the Performing Arts on April 27, 2008. Professor in Buddhism and Contemporary Society Professor Thurman is the Je Tsong Khapa Professor from January to June 2007, gave a talk in late of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia May on “The Relevance of Buddhism to Modern University, holding the first endowed chair in Society.” Jointly collaborated with the Silkroad this field of study in the United States. He is also Foundation, IAR’s Program on Inner Asia and co-founder and President of Tibet House, and is the Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program, a President of the American Institute of Buddhist lecture series entitled “Tibet-Mongolia Links in Studies. In his talk entitled “Buddhism as a Religion and Medicine” was launched. Professor Civilization Matrix and the Current Global Crisis,” Manduhai Buyandelgeriyn (MIT Anthropology) Professor Thurman discussed Buddhism in the reported on the “Representation of Buddhism in context of the crisis humanity faces as a struggling

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Professor Ian Harris, Tung Lin Kok Yuen Visiting Professor in Buddhism and Contemporary Society (from January to May 2008). species on an overstressed planet. To view video associated movements of social and political change. clips from his talk, please visit http://www.cfis.ubc. He also taught ASIA 250, an undergraduate course ca/main.jsp?page=473. in the Department of Asian Studies. This course entitled, Introduction to Buddhism, examines TLKY Canada Foundation Visiting Professor in the origins, basic teachings, and development of Buddhism and Contemporary Society Theravada, Mahayana, and Tantric traditions, In January 2008, the Program officially welcomed their historical spread first through Asia and later Professor Ian Harris as the Tung Lin Kok the world, as well as Buddhism in contemporary Yuen Canada Foundation Visiting Professor in societies. In late February, he gave a public Buddhism and Contemporary Society, appointed lecture entitled “Buddhism in Extremis: The Fate from January to May 2008. Professor Harris of the Buddhist Order under Pol Pot.” In this was a Senior Scholar at the Becket Institute, lecture, he discussed how the Buddhist monastic St. Hugh’s College, Oxford (2001-4) and is sector (sangha) was virtually extinguished during currently Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Democratic Kampuchea (1975-79). Yet the Division of Religion and Philosophy, University number of monks who met their doom under the of Cumbria, Lancaster. He is the author of Khmer Rouge regime may have been significantly Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice (2005) less than has formerly been claimed. His talk and Buddhism Under Pol Pot (2007) as well as of reassessed previous calculations, investigated their many articles on various aspects of Theravada ideological underpinnings, and offered a historical Buddhist ethics and politics. Co-founder of the overview of the gradual liquidation of institutional UK Association for Buddhist Studies and editor Buddhism in Cambodia. of Buddhism and Politics in Twentieth Century Asia A search for the Tung Lin Kok Yuen (TLKY) (1999) and Buddhism, Power and Political Order Canada Foundation Chair in Buddhism and (2007), he is currently engaged in a Leverhulme Contemporary Society will be conducted over Trust-funded research project on Buddhism and the summer and fall months of 2008. The holder politics in pre-Pol Pot Cambodia. of the Chair will lead the TLKY Buddhism and Professor Harris led a Master of Arts—Asia Contemporary Society Program, while teaching Pacific Policy Studies Program seminar course undergraduate and graduate courses in Buddhism, (IAR 515B) on Buddhism and Contemporary and Religion and Public Policy. The Chair Society in the spring term. This course examined will also organize an annual public lecture and major trends in Asian Buddhism from the mid- convene an annual conference on Buddhism and 19th century to the present, with a particular Contemporary Society. For a full job posting, emphasis on the rise of Buddhist modernism and please visit our website at www.iar.ubc.ca.

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5th Annual IAR Graduate Student Conference: “Globalized Asia: Challenges and Opportunity”

Pascale Massot 2007-08 MAPPS Student

The 5th annual IAR Graduate Student global households and the manners in which they Conference took place February 28th-March 1st, spread across borders. Reactions to both events 2008 at the Institute of Asian Research, UBC. The were extremely positive as Dr. Douglass’ research conference, entitled: “Globalized Asia: Challenges sparked interesting discussions. The students in and Opportunities,” provided the opportunity for IAR’s Master of Arts-Asia Pacific Policy Studies graduate students and faculty from a multitude of (MAPPS) Program were extremely happy to have backgrounds who shared an interest in the Asia- had the chance to interact with Dr. Douglass on Pacific region to meet and exchange ideas, in an these issues and wish to thank him for coming to atmosphere of collegiality and interdisciplinarity. this annual conference. Dr. Mike Douglass, Professor in the Urban and On February 29th and March 1st, four Regional Planning Department and Director of the graduate student panels were held: a panel on Globalization Research Center at the University of China’s rise and its positioning in the new global Hawai’i, gave the keynote address. His talk, entitled order (chaired by Dr. Diana Lary), a second panel “Asia Unbound—Globalizing the (Un)Making of on developmental challenges for Asia (chaired Urban Histories,” exposed the realities of the rapid by Dr. Paul Evans), a third panel on media and development of mega-projects in Asia. According globalization (chaired by Dr. Alison Bailey) and to Dr. Douglass, the projects, some of the world’s finally a fourth panel on past and present global tallest buildings, global business districts, shopping flows (chaired by Dr. Michael Leaf ). malls for global consumption, and massive edge Issues as diverse as the state and civil cities and gated housing estates, are “breaking” society relations in China (Guoxin Xing, SFU), the social, architectural and cultural fabric of transnational marriages in Thailand (Sirijit these places and creating “cities without histories.” Sunanta, UBC), the Asia Pacific Gateway (David At the same time, stimulated by globalization Chan, APFC), Philippine Nurse Migrations forces, Dr. Douglass observes the rise of civil (Mark Lawrence Santiago, UBC), 16th Century society attempting to reclaim urban spaces both Japanese Pirates (Maria Petrucci, UBC), through direct actions and the electoral process. community responses to the Kobe earthquake Dr. Douglass’ talk was attended by a very dynamic (Etsuko Yasui, UBC), anti-talibanisation in audience, and the open forum session was lively Pakistan (Arsalan Butt, SFU) and Alcan’s Utkal and insightful. Alumina project in Orissa, India (Noah Quastel, Dr. Douglass also chaired a roundtable at UBC) were presented by graduate students and the end of the Graduate Conference, entitled representatives from Simon Fraser University, “Global Householding and East Asia—Phantom The University of British Columbia and the Asia or Phoenix?” It reviewed the complexities of Asian Pacific Foundation of Canada.

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Left: MAPPS student Bonnie Lui presents at the 2008 IAR Graduate Student Conference. Right: MAPPS student Pascale Massot presents at the 2008 IAR Graduate Student Conference.

The backgrounds of the presenters were diverse The 2008 IAR Graduate Conference and included Ph.D. and MA students from the organizing committee was formed of Bonnie Lui, Departments of Communications, Geography, Pascale Massot, Carla Stucci and Dennis Visser, Planning, History, Women and Gender Studies with the help of Dr. David Edgington and Dr. and the Institute of Asian Research. Michael Leaf, who all worked very hard to make Three MAPPS students gave presentations: this happen. The Committee also thanks Ravina Bonnie Lui presented her paper on “The Impact Bains for her help with campus publicity and of the Olympic Movement in East Asia and its all the MAPPS students and IAR faculty who Implications for Environmentalism in China,” supported the committee members during the Pascale Massot presented a paper on “Nam Theun conference. This annual conference would not Two: Decision Making Process and Development” have been possible without the help of the UBC and Kulwindar Singh Parhar presented his paper sponsors: the Institute of Asian Research, the on “Cinema and Hindu Politics in India.” This Choi Emerging Opportunities Endowment Fund experience was invaluable and we are all grateful and the Urban Studies Program (Department of for having been given the opportunity to present Geography). Thank you to everyone who helped our research to an audience composed of academic make the 5th Annual IAR Graduate Student peers, professors and members of the public, as well Conference a great success! as address their queries.

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Lunar New Year Celebration at the Choi Building

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1. Chinese paper cutting. 2. From left: Dr. Don Baker, Dr. David Edgington, and Dr. Nam-lin Hur. 3. UBC Chinese Music Ensemble. 4. Indonesian and South Asian cusine. 5. Lion dance performed by the Tiger Martial Arts Club.

February 15, 2008 marked the day when the festivities by helping out with the Korean dessert Lunar New Year festivities took place in the Choi booth together with their spouses. Building. Having skipped IAR’s annual traditional Acknowledgment goes out to the Tzu Chi celebration in 2007 to give way to the Centres’ 15th Canada Foundation for putting up a Chinese anniversary celebration, everyone agreed that it was paper cutting exhibit and demonstration. The time to bring favorable feng shui back to the building. public tried the art of paper cutting to come up To start it grand, loud and energetic, the 2008 lunar with symbolic cutouts to welcome spring. The new year celebration commenced with lion dancing atmosphere in the C.K. Choi Building was further performed by the Tiger Martial Arts Club. enlivened with music performed by the UBC A celebration is not complete without food Chinese Music Ensemble led by Dr. Mei Han of and music. Food booths selling Indonesian, South the UBC School of Music. Asian cuisine and Korean desserts participated With the public’s response to and enjoyment of in the event. Even visiting professors from the these festivities, the year of the rat is definitely off Centre for Korean Research took part in the day’s to a good and auspicious start.

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The Honourable Jack Austin joins UBC and the Institute of Asian Research

The Honourable Jack Austin joins UBC and 1970-May 1974), Chief of Staff to Prime Minister the Institute of Asian Research,(IAR), providing Pierre Elliott Trudeau (May 1974-August 1975), students in the Master of Arts-Asia Pacific Policy the Minister of State for Social Development in Studies (MAPPS) graduate program with over 30 Prime Minister Trudeau’s Cabinet (September years of his experience in Canada-Asia relations. 1981-June 1984), and a member of the Senate of He will also conduct ongoing research at IAR on Canada (August 1975-March 2007) representing the Canada-China relationship. British Columbia. Professor Austin developed Austin’s real-world experience will no doubt extensive relationships with, and knowledge of, inform the MAPPS students as they tackle the Canada-Asia relations, with the focus of his efforts five thematic streams in the graduate program: on China since 1970. Economic and Social Change; Security; Gender As a Federal Deputy Minister, Professor Austin and Development; Governance and Human Rights; was a member of the first official visit team to China and Infrastructure Policy. Professor Austin looks following the exchange of diplomatic relations in forward to learning as much from his students as October 1970 and established during the June 1971 he shares with them. “I have been fortunate enough meetings in Beijing. Hosted by Premier Zhou Enlai, to have travelled and learned a tremendous amount these bilateral relations included technical visit about Canada-Asia relations over the past five exchanges in mining, oil and gas, and forestry. decades, but I expect I’ll be the one learning the Since that time, Professor Austin has held a most from my students, given how informed and number of roles in Canada-China relations including engaged these students are. The MAPPS program both official duties and business-to-business draws the finest students from around the world activities. In 1983 as Federal Minister for Expo’86, and I expect to be challenged at every turn,” he he negotiated China’s attendance in Vancouver and says from his third floor office in the C.K. Choi hosted the first state visit to Canada by a Chinese Building, where the MAPPS program is housed. Premier, Zhao Ziyang, in January 1984. The depth of Professor Austin’s experience From 1993 to 2000, Professor Austin served is impressive. In his roles as Deputy Minister of as President of the Canada China Business Energy, Mines and Resources in Ottawa (May Council which represents over 300 Canadian

28 Left: Professor Jack Austin at the welcome reception hosted by IAR. Right: Professor Austin, Mr. Owen, and Mr. Choi in a discussion.

companies doing business in China. He created 6th, 2006. Professor Austin held the Cabinet and organized the first Team Canada visit to post of Leader of the Government in the Senate, China in November 1994 led by Prime Minister Senior Privy Councillor and Acting Chair of the Jean Chretien and included nine provincial Cabinet Committee on Aboriginal Peoples. In Premiers, three territorial leaders, and over 350 January 2005, Professor Austin accompanied Prime Canadian business executives. Follow-up meetings Minister Martin on an official visit to Japan and were held in Montreal (1995) led by Premier Li China. He also was a member of the Canadian Peng; in Shanghai (1996) led by Prime Minister WTO Ministerial Negotiating Team at the Hong Chretien; in Toronto (1997) led by President Jiang Kong Conference in December 2005. Zemin; in Beijing (1998) led by Prime Minister Professor Austin was born in Calgary, Chretien and in Toronto (1999) led by Premier Alberta on March 2nd, 1932. He is a graduate Zhu Rongji. These diplomatic and business of the University of British Columbia, (B.A. ’54; activities brought Canada-China relations to a LL.B. ’55) and Harvard Law School (LL.M. higher level. ’57), and pursued Doctoral studies at Boalt Hall, During the 1997 Toronto meeting between University of California, Berkeley. He taught Prime Minister Jean Chretien and President at the law school of the University of British JiangZemin, it was agreed that a parliamentary Columbia (1955-56 and 1957-58) and received an relationship should be established between the honorary degree, Doc. Soc. Sc. from the University National Peoples Congress and the Parliament of of Macau (East Asia) in 1987, along with the Canada. As a Senator, Professor Austin organized Rt. Hon. Pierre E. Trudeau, for services to the and became Founding Co-Chair of the resulting Canada-China relationship. Canada-China Legislative Association from 1998 Currently, Professor Austin serves as an to 2003. international business advisor to Sternpartners, On December 12th, 2003, as a Senator, a private capital investment group based in Professor Austin was appointed to the Federal Vancouver, B.C. and will soon head a newly Cabinet of Prime Minister Paul Martin, where revamped External Advisory Council of the he served until that Cabinet resigned on February Institute of Asian Research.

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Centre for Chinese Research

Alison Bailey Director

Timothy Cheek Associate Director

The Centre for Chinese Research had an Duke (Asian Studies, UBC), Professor Mark extremely busy and productive year, with three Warren (Politics and the Centre for Democracy, major workshops, two lively seminar series, and a UBC), Professor Maurice Copithorne (Law, variety of other events. The revamped CCR web UBC), Professor Timothy Cheek, IAR, and pages on the newly launched IAR website provide Professor Paul Evans, Asia Pacific Foundation details of the range of people and activities (past, and UBC. Dr. David Lee, Director General of present and future) involved in the Centre and in the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Organization Chinese studies at UBC. in Ottawa, gave the keynote speech at lunch at the Peter Wall Institute. In May 2008, the CCR Workshops held a very successful workshop on the Beijing The CCR organized three major workshops Olympics: “Staging the Beijing Olympics: Visions, between September 2007 and May 2008. In Tensions, and Dreams.” This workshop, held in October, the Chinese Environmental Sciences the Asian Centre Auditorium, drew an audience and Sustainability Group (CESS) hosted of almost 100 people from academic, community an exploratory workshop on environmental and government circles, including Vancouver issues in China. Focusing on recent research Organizing Committee (VANOC) representatives. by graduate students including Guo Li, Tashi Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California, Tsering and Jack Hayes, the workshop drew a Irvine, was the highly engaging keynote speaker. large audience, including faculty discussants. In Other speakers included Joseph Weiler, Arun November there was an international workshop, Mohan (UBC), Tracey Kinney (Kwantlen), “Taiwan Democracy: Regional Implications and Hyung Gu Lynn (UBC), Jennifer Hubbert (Lewis Comparative Perspectives,” with generous funding and Clark), Zhao Yuezhi (SFU), Kingsley John by the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy and Edney (Melbourne), Tsering Shakya (UBC), Tom support by TECO. Participants included Professor Grunfeld, (SUNY-Empire State College), Carole Ho Szu-yin (National Cheng-chi University, Samdup (Rights and Democracy), Lee Taedong Taiwan), Professor Yen Liang-kung (NCCU and (University of Washington), Bonnie Lui (UBC), at present visiting faculty at the CCR/IAR as and Jessica Chen (Vancouver City Hall). Thanks part of the new exchange programme between are due to the discussants, Abidin Kusno, Amy the IAR and NCCU), Professor Josephine Chiu- Hanser, Pitman Potter, and John Friedmann, and

30 Participants at the Taiwan Democracy conference.

to the sponsors, the CCR, the IAR, the Urban were two speakers in March: Dr. Hisham Zerriffi, Studies Program, St. John’s College at UBC and Ivan Head South/North Research Chair in the Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Fuller details Liu Institute for Global Issues, who spoke on of the workshop can be found on the new IAR / “Energizing the Countryside: Distributed Rural CCR website and we hope to post video footage of Electrification in China” and Dr. Leo K. Shin, selected panels and speakers at a later date. Asian Studies and History, on “Why Are We Picking on a Song-Dynasty (960-1276) Martyr?.” Seminars and Talks In April, Professor Chris Lee, English, gave the last The Centre for Chinese Research launched a of this academic year’s Brown Bag Lunch Seminar new brown bag lunch seminar series in 2007 to Series’ talks on “Reading Eileen Chang [Zhang celebrate Chinese research at UBC and the range Ailing] as an (Asian) Americanist.” of topics and speakers only revealed the tip of the The CESS Group organized two talks in iceberg. The series began with a talk by Professor the spring of 2008: a talk in March by Professor Timothy Brook, History Department, Principal Earl Drake, former Ambassador to the People’s of St. John’s College, and concurrently at Oxford Republic of China (1987-90) and current University, entitled “Unwarranted Conversations: Adjunct Professor at the David Lam Centre for Reconstructing the Post-War Trial of Liang International Communication at Simon Fraser Hongzhi.” Professor Li Duanduan, Asian Studies, University. Professor Drake has worked as Project talked on “Learning Chinese as a Heritage Director for the China Council for International Language: An Identity Issue” in October, and Cooperation on Environment and Development Professor Jing Zhichun, Anthropology, on “Human (CCICED) since 1990 and spoke of his experience & Social Dynamics of Early Bronze Age China” with the council. At the end of March Dr. Yin in November. In January 2008, Professor Daniel Yongyuan, Senior Researcher with Environment Overmyer (Professor Emeritus, Asian Studies and Canada’s Adaptive & Impacts Research Division, CCR) spoke on recent findings by Hebei scholars now based at UBC’s Department of Forestry, gave on the connections between local religious practices a talk entitled “China 2012—Probing the Potential and society in rural North China today: “Festivals, for Sustainable Development,” which explored Markets and Mediators in Rural North China: issues of climate change and the impact on China’s New Reports by Hebei Local Scholars.” There poverty-stricken Western regions.

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The CCR had a number of other talks Director, acted as respondent. This event was co- and events throughout the year, relying on the hosted by the CCR and Community Partners for fortunate serendipity of visitors passing through Internationalization, Office of the Associate Vice- or based in Vancouver willing to share their President, International, with generous sponsorship knowledge and expertise on things Chinese. by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office In early October the CCR organized a talk for in Canada. In mid-May Dr. Stephanie Hemelryk MAPPS students by Dickson Hall, Director, Donald, Professor of International Studies, Corporate Development, Asia, Hunter Dickinson, Director, Institute for International Studies, and his colleague, Deirdre Riley, Manager, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, talked Stakeholder and Environmental Affairs, on on “Global Beijing: ‘The World ’ Is A Violent Place,” sustainable mining practices in Western China and a discussion of the award-winning Chinese director Tibet. Mr. Hall, recently profiled in the Vancouver Jia Zhangke’s film The World. Sun, has had a lengthy career in business in China. In response to the tragic natural disasters in Later in October the CCR hosted a book launch Burma (Myanmar) and Sichuan the CCR and and talk entitled Fieldwork Connections: The Fabric the Centre for Southeast Asian Research held a of Ethnographic Collaboration in China & America, joint forum in late May: “UBC-IAR Forum on (University of Washington Press in conjunction the Sichuan Earthquake and Burmese Cyclone: with UBC Press) by Bamo Ayi, Stevan Harrell, Observations, Reflections and Actions.” The and Ma Lunzy. Bamo Ayi is Deputy Director forum drew a range of speakers and audience from of the Foreign Affairs Department, State the academic and community worlds, including Nationalities Commission, and Professor of Stephanie Chang, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy at Central Nationalities University, Disaster Studies, UBC, Alison Bailey, UBC, Bob Beijing. Stevan Harrell, a frequent visitor to UBC, Anderson, SFU, Maria Hla Tin (Voices From is Professor of Anthropology at the University Burma), and George Chandler, Red Cross. Abidin of Washington. Ma Lunzy, Deputy Director of Kusno acted as discussant and chair. The focus of Liangshan Minorities Research Institute, was the discussion was on the types of responses and unfortunately unable to join the other speakers. responsibilities of different interest groups and how In February 2008, the CCR hosted an to move forward after such terrible events. unusual and visually stunning poetic event by the well known, award-winning Quebec novelist, People playwright, poet, and translator, Robert Majzels, The CCR is delighted to welcome two visiting and his collaborator, Dr. Claire Huot, author scholars to the Centre this academic year: our of two highly regarded books on contemporary old friend and colleague Professor Yen Liang- Chinese culture (La Petite révolution culturelle, kung, NCCU, who is returning for a third visit, 1994; China’s New Cultural Scene, 2000). Dr. Huot and Professor Huang Lang-wen, Department was Canada’s cultural counselor in Beijing from of Sociology, Soochow University, Taipei, who 2000 to 2002. The event was entitled “85 read: is working on Chinese migration patterns, Ghosts of Chinese Poems—experiments in the particularly in relation to young migrants from reception of classical Chinese poetry into English Taiwan to Vancouver. from writing to visual text to video to installation The China Studies Group (CSG) remains and from author to translator to performer to very active with Professor Amy Hanser as new spectator.” February also saw a very well-attended coordinator. Meetings replete with coffee, cookies “Dialogue on Hong Kong Basic Law,” with a talk and good discussions still take place at St. John’s, by Mr. Alan Hoo, QC, Hong Kong SAR Basic courtesy of Professors Tim Brook and Henry Yu. Law Steering Committee member and Chair, The graduate student CSG off-shoot Wangshe Basic Law Institute. Professor Pitman Potter, IAR organized this year by Huang Xin (Women’s

32 Studies), continues to be productive. In other graduate student news, the CCR is delighted to congratulate recipients of the Chiang Ching Kuo Fellowship this year: Tim Sedo (History), Hui-ling Lin (Women’s Studies) and Mary Ngai (Asian Studies). Jack Hayes is to be congratulated for completion of his Ph.D. and new appointment. Congratulations are also in order for Professor Timothy Cheek who has been appointed Associate Principal of the College for Interdisciplinary Studies, now joining us on the ground floor of the Choi Building. Dr. Cheek will continue to play a role in the IAR and CCR but inevitably will be spending more time in his new administrative position. Professor Pitman Potter will be stepping down from his position as Director of the IAR at the end of June but will remain closely linked to the Institute and the CCR. Unfortunately, the CCR has been considerably affected by the recent changes in the space Guest speaker at the Beijing Olympics May 2008 workshop. allocation of the Institute of Asian Research whereby we have lost office and desk spaces on the third floor for senior research fellows (Professors Lary and Overmyer, both extremely active scholars), visiting scholars, and graduate students. The CCR’s space on the second floor has now become home to four graduate students as well as Finally, CCR would like to thank many Tim Cheek and Alison Bailey—an arrangement people for their help and support this year. which works well but still does not entirely address Marietta Lao worked incredibly long hours to the problem of hosting visiting scholars and more get the new IAR website up and running, and senior academic colleagues. Gary Wang (Asian Studies) helped enormously In other sad news, the CCR would like to in designing the graphics for the new CCR express its condolences to Professor Sam Ho, former portion of the site. Karen Jew is always ready director of the CCR, on the loss of his wife, Sharon to help in all aspects of event planning and Ho. The life of Jackie Garnett, (Pacific Affairs), resources. The CCR Management Committee someone many of us in the Choi Building remember has been as stalwart as ever: Tim Cheek, Diana with deep affection, was celebrated in a beautiful Lary, Catherine Swatek, Eleanor Yuen and Jing memorial meeting organized by Karen Jew. Zhichun all contributed to the life of the CCR The CCR is happy to announce the recent hiring in many ways. Many thanks also to CSEAR of a new professor of modern Chinese literature, colleague Abidin Kusno whose collaborations Christopher Rea, who will be joining Asian Studies with the CCR on a number of events have been this year and will begin teaching in the spring of invaluable. Several graduate students have 2009. There are hopes of other new hires being contributed greatly to the smooth running of made in different Chinese studies fields quite soon— the Centre, particularly Tim Sedo and Tom UBC’s China studies are first-rate but attrition Woodsworth, whose creativity, technical expertise inevitably creates large holes in certain vital areas. and patience are gratefully acknowledged here.

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Centre for India and South Asia Research

Ashok Kotwal Director

Current Projects (Geography) for her proposal on “Getting By The following list of topics exemplifies the High: The Untold Stories of Punjabi Youth in diversity of research undertaken by the members Surrey, B.C.” and research associates of CISAR during the year: Symposiums and Conferences and • Sikh History ( Murphy) Distinguished Lecturers • Atmospheric Pollution in Indian Cities (Kandlikar) Genealogies of Virtue: Ethical Practice in South Asia • Regulation of Genetically Modified September 6-8, 2007 Technology in India (Kandlikar) This conference was organized in collaboration • Signifying Gender in Ramayana with Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies, Performances (Bose) UBC by Anand Pandian. The keynote address • Anand-Ramayana (Aklujkar) was given by Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of • Construction of ‘Varna’ in Sanskrit Epics Chicago) on “Empire, Ethics and the calling of (Sathaye) History.” The conference spanned four sessions • Social Capital and Institutional over two days. The session themes and the Performance in Maharashtra (Anderson, speakers in the respective sessions were as follows: Francois and Kotwal) Moral Traditions and the Making of Nehru Award Ethical Subjects The annual competition for the most promising • Charles Hallisey, ‘Relevance’ and Moral research proposal in Indian studies sponsored by Action in Theravada Buddhism Dr. Devendra Goel took place in October 2007. • Daud Ali, The kosa as Artifact: Thoughts There were nine excellent proposals adjudicated on the History of Ethics in Medieval India by a committee of three UBC faculty members • Leela Prasad, The Tacit, the Embedded, and and the Nehru Award was given to Heather Frost the Experienced: Ethics and its Narration

34 Conference reception performance. From left: Adheesh Sathaye, Matthew Rahaim, and Mohan Bhide.

• Lauren Eve, Ethical Practice, Religious Anthropology of Ethics: Contemporary Reform, and the Buddhist ‘Art of Living’ in Interactions between Jainism, Neoliberal Nepal Environmentalism, and Animal Liberation

Lineages of Pedagogy Ethics and Politics of the Everyday • Emma Flatt, Advising the Son: Creating a • Veena Das, Ethics and Dispositions: Javanmard in the Service of the King Everyday Life as the Claim of the Other • Avril Powell, Old Books in New Bindings: • Craig Jeffrey, Contesting Corruption: Influencing Ethics Through Education in Improvised Politics end Economics of Colonial India Virtue Among North Indian Student • Bhavani Raman, Learning Recollection in Populations the Tinnai School in Nineteenth Century • Lawrence Cohen, Ethical Publicity, South India Commitment and the Problem of Offense • Barney Bate, Naladiyar in the Bajar: Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Public Sphere Prem Goel Memorial Lecture February 28, 2008 Ethics and Modernity This year’s Prem Goel Memorial Lecture was • Ritu Birla, The Value of Market Values: delivered by Professor Parimal Patil on the Capitalism, Ethics, and the Modern following topic: “In Search of Scriptures—Vedic Subject in India Interpretation in Classical India.” • Rakesh Pandey, Ethical Cultures and the Parimal Patil is John A. Loeb Associate Science of Ethics in Colonial India Professor of Humanities at Harvard University. • Ajay Skaria, Living by Dying: The He is a philosopher and intellectual historian Obligation of Satyagraha of religion who is interested in South Asian • James Laidlaw, Appropriation and intellectual practices and their relevance to Constructive Reenactment in the much broader issues in The Study of Religion,

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Philosophy, and Area Studies. He is particularly Akeel Bilgrami (Philosophy, Columbia) spoke interested in Indian Buddhism, its intellectual about Gandhi’s unique approach to the writings of history in Southern Asia and Buddhist, Hindu the enlightenment. The afternoon session began and Jaina debates in aesthetics, epistemology, with Purnima Dhavan (History, University of metaphysics and philosophy of language. His Washington) presenting 18th century Sikh history current work includes a book-length project on one of the divided loyalties in Punjab. Next, Patrick such debate during the "final phase" of Buddhism Heller (Sociology, Brown) spoke on the challenges in India and articles on Sanskrit narrative literature, of decentralization in South India. The conference epistemology and philosophy of language. More ended with Tsering Shakya (CTSP/IAR, UBC) recently, he has become interested in classical South speaking about India in the imagination of Tibet. Asian literature and literary theory. Other research and teaching interests include: contemporary Hari and Madhu Varshney Lecture Series 2008 method and theory in the study of religion; The 2008 Varshney Conference at the University Euro-American philosophy of religion; Sanskrit of British Columbia, entitled “Performing Culture language, literature, and poetics; and Hindu studies. in South Asia: New Technologies, Texts, and Traditions,” was held on March 27-29, 2008. Report on SACPAN Arranged by the Centre for India and South Asia February 29–March 1, 2008 Research and made possible through a generous South Asian Colloquium of the Pacific Northwest grant from Hari and Madhu Varshney, this (SACPAN) is a jointly organized annual event that academic conference brought together a diverse, alternates between the University of Washington interdisciplinary group of scholars from around the and the University of British Columbia. This year globe to discuss the impact of new technologies, it was hosted by the Centre for India and South new cultural contexts, and new social/religious Asia Research in the Institute of Asian Research identities on the modes of traditional performance at The University of British Columbia. The first in South Asia. The conference featured two days day offered a forum for presentations by twelve of academic presentations (March 28 and 29), graduate students on four different themes: Global one plenary session—an evening screening of Environment and Public Health; Knowledge Shabnam Virmani’s documentary, Hadh Anhadh: Production in South Asia; Representing the Journeys with Kabir and Ram (March 28)—as Difference; and Political Society: Unraveling and well as a classical Hindustani vocal performance by Reconfiguring the Indian State. David Geary, a Matthew Rahaim (March 27). Ph.D. student (Anthroplogy, UBC) took on the The first evening of the conference, March responsibility of organizing the graduate student 27, featured a welcoming reception and a classical part of the conference. On the second day of Hindustani vocal performance by Matthew Rahaim the conference, six eminent invited scholars in (University of California, Berkeley), a student of different disciplines presented their research on Vikas Kashalkar (Pune), accompanied by Mohan wide ranging topics related to South Asia. Parimal Bhide (harmonium) and Adheesh Sathaye (tabla). Patil (Sanskrit, Harvard) opened the proceedings In the morning session of March 28, Heidi with the examination of how it is that we know Pauwels of University of Washington (Seattle) the history of Buddhist philosophy. Sanjay presented a comparative study of the phenomenon Subrahmanyam (History, UCLA) presented a of ‘eve-teasing’ in medieval Hindi devotional poetry colorful account of an assault by Bernard Picart on and Bollywood film, entitled “Enacting Eve- world religions that could be perhaps characterized teasing: Messages from Movies and Mythology.” as an attempt to bring in radical enlightenment. Her paper was followed by Philip Lutgendorf

36 of the University of Iowa, who presented a Fraser Valley into the changing role of bhangra comparative study of the representations of Ram- performance in diasporic Sikh communities, lila in modern Hindi film, entitled “Ramayana entitled, “Chak de Phatte: Performance and the Remix: Some Innovative Adaptations, Observed.” Construction of a Jat Sikh Rural Imaginary.” The afternoon session of March 28 featured Saturday’s afternoon session was focused on Linda Hess (Stanford University), whose paper the role of performance in South Asian musical engaged in a discussion of how new media and traditions. Dard Neuman of the University of new audiences have impacted the performance California, Santa Cruz, presented a paper entitled traditions of Kabir poetry in central India. The last “Craft Techniques and Formations of Knowledge paper of the day was presented by Kirin Narayan in Hindustani Music,” exploring how techniques of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Narayan of learning and practice among Hindustani discussed the impact of new media recordings and musicians impact the ways in which they theorize the internet on the markedly ‘folk’ traditions of their own musical traditions. Sharmadip Basu women’s songs in the Himalayan foothills of the of Syracuse University then presented a paper Kangra valley. entitled “American Tunes in Calcutta Airs: Folk/ The evening of Friday, March 28, featured the Rock Subculture in a Postcolonial Metropolis,” an Plenary Session of this year’s Varshney Conference, investigation of the channels of cultural exchange a special advance screening of Hadh Anhadh: between Sixties American youth culture and the Journeys with Kabir and Ram, a fantastic new same in India, particularly in Calcutta. Matthew documentary on the oral performance traditions Rahaim of the University of California, Berkeley, of Kabir’s poetry in central India and Pakistan, by then discussed the significance of gesture in the Shabnam Virmani of the Shrishti School of Art performance of Hindustani classical vocal music, and Design, Bangalore, India. Scholars and general in a paper entitled “Gesture and Melody in Indian spectators alike found the film to be engaging, Vocal Music.” The final presentation of the moving, and poignant, and this well-attended and conference was a paper by Anna Schultz of the successful event was followed by a stimulating University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, entitled discussion with the filmmaker. “You Can Put it in any Air: Disarticulations of The morning session of the second day, Repertoire from Style in Indo-Guyanese-American Saturday March 29, featured a panel dedicated Temples.” Schultz’s study focused on the impact to the role of performance in Punjabi literary and of Hindi film songs on the religious performance cultural traditions. In a paper entitled, “Prayer, traditions within diasporic Indo-Guyanese temples Song, and Ethics: Notes on Sikh Performances in the United States. in Unhappy Circumstances,” Michael Nijhawan The Varshney Conference was successful in of York University spoke on the role of the bringing together a diverse group of scholars on performance of dhadi music and the nitnem daily South Asian performance to UBC, from as far prayers among a Sikh diasporic community in away as Bangalore and Lahore. What emerged Germany. This was followed by a presentation was a special blend of thoughtful and engaged entitled “Shrine Musics: Multiple Forms and research alongside truly poignant and moving films, Contexts,” by Virinder Kalra of the University music, and texts that made this an unforgettable of Manchester on the role of the shrine as a weekend. We hope to garner support for a more performance context for Qawwali and other music elaborate, community-oriented festival of Virmani’s on both sides of the border in the Punjab. The documentaries and performances from the Kabir final paper of this session was an investigation by singers themselves, to be held in March 2009 as Nicola Mooney of the University College of the part of their planned North American tour.

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Centre for Japanese Research

David W. Edgington Director

Julian Dierkes Associate Director

The Centre continued to celebrate its 15th Development (Hon. Colin Hansen) and the anniversary in the calendar year of 2007 with a Consul General of Japan (Seiichi Otsuka). A number of events linked to government, business summary of this event is held on our Centre’s and the Japanese community in Vancouver. web site at http://www.iar.ubc.ca/centres/cjr/ In September, CJR arranged a workshop on cjr15thanniversaryspecialevents.aspx. “Regional Sustainability in Japan and Canada” During the year we also held a number in collaboration with Ritsumeikan University, of seminars and hosted a visit from the Hon. and organized the “Keiko Manga” festival in Yasuko Ikenobo Member of the House of conjunction with the Asian Studies Department, Representatives Senior Vice-Minister, Ministry UBC. Keiko Takemiya is a famous mangaka of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and (cartoonist) in Japan. The festival included a Technology. Our visiting scholars this year number of events including a book signing at included Dr. Masamichi Kawano (School the UBC Bookstore, displays of her art work, of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University); and public lectures on campus as well as at UBC Dr. Takamoto Mori (College of Policy Robson Square. CJR was particularly pleased to Sciences, Ritsumeikan University); Dr. Soun- join with the Japanese–Canada National Museum Ju Ahn, (Department of Japanese Language (Nikkei Heritage Centre) in Burnaby which and Literature, Seoul Women's University); also opened a shôjo manga exhibit in the same Dr. Yasunori Doi (Faculty of Business week. Public lectures by Professor Takemiya were Administration, Ritsumeikan University); and Dr. supported by President's Advisory Committee Ki-hak Nam (Department of Japanese Studies, on Lectures. As a memory of this event, Keiko Hallym University). Takemiya kindly donated one of her original The Centre continued to assist faculty and art works to the Centre. Our anniversary events graduate students with its small grants program, were capped by a workshop in November on the and also supported books published during the B.C. government’s recently released Japanese year by CJR Faculty Associates Yves Tiberghien Marketing Advisory Report ( JMAG Report). (Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Panelists included the Minister of Economic Governance in France, Japan and Korea, Cornell

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University, 2007) and Jennifer Chan (Another • Gergana Ivanova (Ph.D. program, Asian Japan is Possible: New Social Movements and Studies) “Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book in Global Citizenship Education, Stanford University the Shunsho Bunko Collection” Press, 2008). As always, the CJR Management Committee Visiting Scholars and Faculty Associates provided sage advice in • Dr. Masamichi Kawano (School of Economics, the running of the Centre affairs and timely help Kwansei Gakuin University), April 2007- with various events. For more information on April 2008, conducted research into their individual scholarly activities, please visit the international trade and regional development. Centre for Japanese Research web site (http://www. • Dr. Takamoto Mori (College of Policy iar.ubc.ca/centres/cjr/). Thanks are also due to our Sciences, Ritsumeikan University), June- hardworking CJR Work-Study Project Assistant, September 2007, conducted research into Phoebe Ogawa. regional networks for sharing information between universities and local communities Research activities in Japan and Canada. The Centre supported the following research • Dr. Soun-Ju Ahn, (Department of projects through its small grants program: Japanese Language and Literature, Seoul Women's University), September CJR Faculty Associates 2007-August 2008, conducted research • Millie Creighton (Anthropology) “The into cultural differences among Korean, Global Article 9 Conference in Japan” Japanese, and English-speaking countries. • Dr. Yasunori Doi (Faculty of Business CJR Graduate Students Administration, Ritsumeikan University), • Takeshi Hamamura (Ph.D. program, August 2007-April 2008, conducted Psychology) “Origin and Fate of research into urban public transportation in Individualism-Collectivism Differences: Canadian cities. US-Japan Comparison” • Dr. Ki-hak Nam (Department of Japanese

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Studies, Hallym University), January 2008- September 19-21, 2007. “Takemiya Keiko Manga February 2009, conducting research into Festival at UBC,” co-sponsored with Asian Kamakura Bakuhu's political thoughts on Studies, UBC, and supported by the President's military prestige and soothing administration. Advisory Committee on Lectures. October 12, 2007. “The Greatness of The Tale of CJR Management Committee Genji,” Royall Tyler (Visiting Fellow in the Millie Creighton, Anthropology Japan Centre in the Faculty of Asian Studies, Julian Dierkes, CJR Associate Director/IAR Australia National University), co-sponsored David W. Edgington, CJR Director/Geography with Asian Studies, UBC. Joshua Mostow, Asian Studies October 19, 2007. “Civil Society and Political Masao Nakamura, IAR/Sauder School of Business Agenda Capture: The Battle over Genetically- Peter Nosco, Asian Studies Engineered Food in Japan,” Yves Tiberghien John Ries, Sauder School of Business (Political Science, UBC). November 16, 2007. “Researching Japan’s NYK CJR Work-Study Student Project Assistant Shipping Line: Life on a Silver Platter,” Phoebe Ogawa, Undergraduate Program, French William Wray (History, UBC). and Political Science November 30, 2007. “The Japan Market Advisory Group Report—Implications and What Seminars/Workshops/Other Events to do Next,” Panel Discussion with Ms. July 4, 2007. “Trends in Japanese Politics on the Angela Hollinger, Japan Market Advisory Eve of the Upper House Election.” Masaru Group; Hon. Colin Hansen, Minister for Kohno (Politics, Waseda University). Economic Development, BC; Mr. Seiichi August 23-35, 2007. Sixth International Otsuka, Consul-General of Japan, Vancouver; Congress of Morita Therapy, organized by Christian Hansen, Deputy Director and Ishu Ishiyama, (Department of Educational Senior Trade Commissioner, Foreign Affairs and Counselling Psychology, and Special and International Trade Canada; Hiroyuki Education, UBC). Matsuoka, Director, Vancouver JETRO; August 28-29, 2007. Workshop on “Modeling Tomomi (Tom)Yamamoto, General Manager, Power Relationships in Japanese Democracy.” Vancouver Branch, Marubeni Canada Ltd and A two-day conference supported by the President Japanese Business Association of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Vancouver (Konwakai). and Centre for the Study of Democratic January 18, 2008. “Educating Monks in Medieval Institutions, UBC, organized by Yves Japan,” Mariko Watanabe (Hirosaki Tiberghien (Political Science, UBC). University). September 5, 2007. Workshop on “Dressing January 25, 2008. “Illustrated Classical Texts for Up Japanese History: Gender, Class and Women in the Edo Period,” Joshua Mostow, Clothing from Premodern to Present,” co- (Asian Studies, UBC). sponsored by the Peter Wall Institute for February 8, 2008. “Japanese Tourism in Canada: Advanced Studies, organized by Christina Recent Trends,” David W. Edgington Laffin (Asian Studies, UBC). (Geography, UBC). September 7, 2007. Workshop on “Regional February, 22-23, 2008. Two-day Conference on Sustainability in Japan and Canada,” co- “Popular Culture Flows in Northeast Asia,” sponsored by Ritsumeikan University Research supported by the Japan Foundation and the Mobility Office in UBC, and organized Asia Research Fund (co-sponsored by the by Hiroshi Murayama (Policy Sciences, Centre for Korean Research). Organized by Ritsumeikan University). Hyung Gu Lynn.

40 Left: The Honorable Yasuko Ikenobo. Right: Manga cartoonist, Keiko Takemiya, at book signing session at the UBC Bookstore.

February 29, 2008. Workshop on “Lifecourse Hirata (Dokkyo University) (co-sponsored and Personality in Post-Industrial Japan: with the Centre for Korean Research). Preliminary Analysis of a US-Japan March 28, 2008. Seminar and Book Signing: Comparative Panel Survey” (Osaka University); “Another Japan is Possible: New Social Toru Kikkawa: Project Overview; Kikuko Movements and Global Citizenship Education,” Nagayoshi: “Comparing Japanese and American Jennifer Chan (Education Studies, UBC) Life-courses and Personality Development,” April 3, 2008. “Urban Agro-activities in Shrinking Jun Nakahara: “A Comparative Look at Aging Japanese Cities,” Makoto Yokohari (Graduate between Japanese and Americans.” School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo). March 5, 2008. “Soft Power, Brand Nationalism April 11, 2008. “Japan’s Immigrant Incorporation and Dialogic Uses of Media Culture,” Koichi Regime,” Erin Chung ( Johns Hopkins University). Iwabuchi (Waseda University). May 2, 2008. “Challenges of Higher Education March 20, 2008. “The Korean Wave or Hallyu in Japan and Role and Mission of Japanese in Japan: Studies in Political and Cultural Traditional Culture in the 21st Century,” the Relations between Japan and South Korea,” Hon. Yasuko Ikenobo, Member of the House Susumu Kohari (Shizuoka University); of Representatives Senior Vice-Minister, “Contradictory Images of the Divided Korea Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, in Tourism: the case of the DMZ Tour,” Yukie Science and Technology.

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Centre for Korean Research

Nam-lin Hur Chair

This past year the Centre coordinated and The University of Hawai’i Press recently published hosted a number of excellent guest talks and his Korean Spirituality. Also, the Korea Herald ongoing research activities. One of the highlights recently included his “The Transformation of was the conference entitled “Korea NGO activities Religion in Korea” in its recent book Insight and Perspectives for a Better World,” which was into Korea. And Yonsei University included held on May 2, 2008. As part of its participation in his “The International Christian Network for a T. J. Park POSCO Foundation-funded program Korea’s Democratization” in a recent book on to provide sabbaticals for mid-level NGO officials the democratization movement of the 1970s and from Korea, the CKR hosted the annual conference 1980s. Over the past year, he also published articles of the ten POSCO fellows spending the 2007-08 in the Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, the academic year engaged in research at five different Journal of Asian Studies, Acta Koreana, and Pacific universities in North America. POSCO fellows Rim Report from the Center for the Pacific Rim from Stanford University, Columbia University, of the University of San Francisco. He is currently George Washington University, Indiana University, finishing a book on Tasan Chŏng Yagyong and UBC presented papers dealing with subjects (1762-1836) and the early Korean response to that included human rights, pan-Asian solidarity, Christianity. In addition, he is preparing a study grass-roots movements, and long-term prospects of history writing during the Chosŏn dynasty. A for a more just society. In addition, Paull Shin, vice book co-edited with former CKR director Yunshik president pro tempore of the Washington State Chang, Korea Confronts Globalization, will be Senate, presented a keynote address on “From published soon by Routledge. Another book he Seoul to Olympia: The odyssey of a Korean- co-edited with Dan Overmyer from the Centre for American politician.” Chinese Research and Larry DeVries from Langara There was also a leadership change at the Centre: College on Asian religions in British Columbia is Donald Baker (who served as Centre Director for six currently under review by the UBC Press. years) stepped down and Nam-lin Hur was appointed Bruce Fulton (Asian Studies) had two books as the new chair in November 2007. published in 2007-08, a revised and expanded edition of Land and Exile: Contemporary Korean Research Activities Fiction and There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories Some of the featured research activities include: by Ch’oe Yun, along with two more books accepted Donald Baker (Asian Studies) continues to for publication, two story translations published study Korean beliefs and values, past and present. and one refereed article published. He had a

42 Speaker panel at CKR’s conference on “Changing Political and Economic Environment of the Korean Peninsula.” David Straub, Nyum Jin, Kyung-Ae Park, and Ted Lipman.

residency with Ju-Chan Fulton and author Ch’oe located in Coquitlam. In particular, she has Yun at the Banff International Literary Translation examined historical, social, and political factors that Centre, the first residency awarded for a translation contribute to the emergence of “Koreatown” and from any Asian language. He also organized and how this acts as a social space where articulations chaired panels at both the annual AAS conference of nationhood, citizenship, neoliberalism, and and the annual WCAAS conference and joined the multiculturalism become produced, maintained, editorial board of the new Korean literature journal and contested within contexts of globalization. She Azalea. He also brought authors So Hajin and Kim presented a paper entitled “Footnotes on Hannam: Young-ha to UBC in November 2007 as part of his Searching for Diaspora, Community, Home, and annual Korean author tour. Belonging in Greater Vancouver’s ‘Koreatown’” at Nathan Hesselink (Music) was guest editor and the 2007 Annual UBC Centre for Women’s and contributor to a special issue of The World of Music Gender Studies Graduate Symposium. (volume 49.3, 2008) titled “Music and Politics The Centre for Korean Research and the Centre on the Korean Peninsula.” He also published for Japanese Research co-hosted an international the article “SamulNori, Wŏn-Pang-Kak, and workshop February 22-23, 2008 on “Popular Culture Cosmological Didacticism” (Yearbook for Traditional Flows in Northeast Asia.” This project was organized Music 39: 140-61, 2007). by Hyung-Gu Lynn (IAR) with the support of the Franklin Rausch (Ph.D. candidate, Asian Japan Foundation, the Asia Research Fund, and the Studies) presented his papers “Violence, Religion two Centres. Participants from South Korea, Japan, and the State in Korea: The Great Persecution of Israel, Hong Kong, the United States, and Canada 1801” at the Indiana University Religious Studies gathered to analyze the effects of transnational Graduate Conference on March 21, 2008 and flows of popular culture and the meanings of “Conflict over Catholic Educational Policy in the concrete practices of reception in the region. Late Chosŏn Dynasty” at the Association for Asian Three participants in the above project, Studies Annual Meeting on April 6, 2008. He Professors Iwabuchi Koichi (Media Studies, is currently conducting research on Hwang Sa- International Christian University), Kohari Susumu yŏng’s Silk Letter. He has been awarded a Fulbright (International Relations, University of Shizuoka) Fellowship for his dissertational research in Korea. and Hirata Yukie (Interdisciplinary Studies, Dokkyo Jane Lee (M.A. candidate, Centre for Women’s University) also gave separate talks in March 2008 and Gender Studies) conducted research on the for seminars sponsored by the Centre for Korean emerging geographical space of “Koreatown” Research and the Centre for Japanese Research.

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Research Support modern physical education standards.” The Centre supported the following research projects • Kyun, Oh (Prime Minister’s Office of Korea): to faculty members and graduate students through “Resolving conflict and establishing peace on its research enhancement grants program: Donald the Korean peninsula with a special focus on Baker (Asian Studies)—“A translation-research the peaceful settlement of the North Korean project on ‘Western Learning’”; Millie Creighton nuclear question.” (Anthropology)—“Korean transnational consumer • Lee, Beom Seok ( Japanese Language and and popular culture flows in Asia”; Jennifer Chun Culture, Catholic University): “Prosodic features (Sociology)—“The symbolic politics of labor: of bilingual speakers of Korean and English.” Organizing immigration and women workers in • Lee, Hyo-Gul (Oriental Philosophy, Andong Korea and the United States”; Si Nae Park (Asian University): “Ui-Sang’s Hwaom philosophy Studies)—“Late Chosŏn fictional narratives and and T’oegye’s Neo-Confucianism.” kamun sosŏl”; Dafna Zur (Asian Studies)—“The • Lee, Jung Yeon (Human Ecology, Mokpo National invention of childhood and literature for children in University): “Planning of Korean family culture Korea: A historical and critical approach.” contents based on maritime culture resource.” • Lee, Kangbaek (Beautiful Store): “Distinctive Visiting Scholars donor administration strategy & charity shop • Ahn, Young-Sang (Korean Thoughts, Korea administration.” University): “Studies on Sungho’s school in the • Levkowitz, Alon (East Asia, Haifa University): process of conflict and fusion between Western “Relationship of equals: The evolution of Korea and Eastern Culture.” as an independent ally vis-à-vis the United States.” • Chun, Jungok (Easy Access Movement • Mah, Insub (Political Science, Sungkyunkwan for People with Disabilities): “Gender and University): “Recent ideological change in the empowerment for disabled people in Korea.” public and its influence on North Korea policy • Chung, Hyung Ji (Tourism and Food Service, in South Korea.” Osan College): “Changes in dine-out culture in • Moon, Young-suck (International Studies, modern Korea.” Kangnam University): “Religious aspects of • Ha, Jiyoung (Institute of International Juche thought.” Affairs, Seoul National University): “Ways to • Park, Kwang-Soo (Won Buddhism, invigorate international academic exchanges in Wonkwang University): “Comparison of the Korean studies.” epistemological approach of Buddhism with • Han (Yoon), Kyoon-Ja (Sociology, Korea the discoveries of cognitive Science.” National Open University): “Public opinion in • Park, Kyu-tae ( Japanese Culture, Hanyang the USA about Korea.” University): “Korean culture in Japan.” • Kim, Chang-Ho (Independent scholar): “Strategies of communication and friendship Seminar Series and Conferences between Canada and South Korea.” On October 26, 2007, the CKR organized a • Kim, Wang-Bae (Sociology, Yonsei University): conference entitled the “Changing Political and “Ethnic identity of Korean Chinese in Manchuria.” Economic Environment of the Korean Peninsula,” • Kwak, Cha-Seop (History, Pusan National which featured eight speakers and attracted more University): “Reception and appropriation of than 120 people in the audience. The conference modern western discourses in Korea: A study focused on several issues related to Inter-Korean on translations, 1900-1910.” Summit and the FTAs between South Korea and • Kwon, Wook-Dong (Sport and Leisure Studies, North America. Dr. Nyum Jin, Former Deputy Daegu University): “New paradigms of Korean Prime Minister of South Korea and Mr. Ted physical education and sports with respect to Lipman, Canadian Ambassador to South and North

44 Korea gave opening remarks and a keynote speech, respectively. Two panels included the following talks by six presenters:

• “U.S.-ROK Alliance and Differing U.S. and ROK Approaches,” David Straub, Stanford University • “Summit Politics and Inter-Korean Relations,” Kyung-Ae Park, UBC • “Progress at the Six Party Talks and the North Korean Nuclear Issue,” Balbina Hwang, Senior Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific, Department of State, USA • “Korea-Canada Free Trade Agreement Speakers at the “Changing Political and Economic Environment of and Beyond,” Soontaik Hwang, Minister, the Korean Peninsula” held October 26, 2007. Top row, from left to Embassy of South Korea, Canada right: Kyung-Ae Park, UBC; Ted Lipman, Ambassador of Canada to • “Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Its South and North Korea; Nyum Jin, Former Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea; David Straub, Stanford University; Bottom row, from Significance and Challenges Ahead,” left to right: Seok-Young Choi, Minister, Embassy of South Korea in Seok-Young Choi, Minister, Embassy of USA; Scott Rembrandt, Korea Economic Institute, Washington, DC; South Korea, USA Soontaik Hwang, Minister, Embassy of South Korea in Canada; Brian Job, UBC; not in photo—Balbina Hwang, Department of State, USA. • “The Future of the Kaesong Industrial Complex and Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation,” Scott Rembrandt, Korea Economic Institute, Washington, DC

October 22, 2007. Chung-in Moon (Yonsei March 13, 2008. Tae-Ung Baik (UBC) University) “Two Korean Summits of 2000 “Criminal process in the Democratic People’s and 2007.” Republic of Korea.” January 10, 2008. Hyung Gu Lynn (UBC) March 20, 2008. Susumu Kohari (Shizuoka “The History of photography in modern University) “The Korean wave or Hallyu in Korea, 1871-1953.” Japan: Studies in political and cultural relations January 17, 2008. Hyaeweol Choi (Arizona State between Japan and South Korea.” University) “The lure and danger of the public March 20, 2008. Yukie Hirata (Dokkyo University) sphere: Gender and mission encounters in Korea.” “The contradictory images of the divided February 7, 2008. Jiwon Shin (University of Korea in tourism: The case of the DMZ tour.” California Berkeley) “Collecting Su Shi: March 27, 2008. Jennifer Chun (UBC) Material culture and literati self-fashioning in “Overcoming exclusion: The gender and labor early nineteenth century Korea.” politics of Korea’s irregular workforce.” February 14, 2008. Millie Creighton (UBC) April 10, 2008. Jesook Song (University of Toronto) “Is Korean Noraebang, Japan KaraOKe? “Enjoyment as ethics of cultivating self and care Singing banquets, singing doctors, and singing for the self: Family-independent women in the rooms in Korea.” post-Asian debt crisis South Korea.” February 28, 2008. Alon Levkowitz (Hebrew April 17, 2008. Wangbae Kim (Yonsei University) University) “The 7th withdrawal: Has the US “Nostalgia and Anxiety: The social change of forces’ journey back home from Korea begun?” Joseonjok (Korean-Chinese) village in rural China.”

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Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Rick Barichello Director

The 2007-2008 academic year marked the Research Activities beginning of Centre for Southeast Asia Research A seminar series hosted by CSEAR indicate that (CSEAR). Rick Barichello from the Faculty the themes this year were religion, urbanism and of Land and Food Systems joined the Centre disasters. Working together with the different as new Director. An expert in Southeast Asian centres in the Institute, CSEAR hosted discussion agriculture, Dr. Barichello has a long standing forums on natural disasters and their implications acquaintance, via collaborative research and on politics and social life in the region. In October, teaching projects, with numerous scholars in in cooperation with Centre for India and South prestigious universities in North America as Asia Research, Philippe Le Billon from the Liu well as high level policy makers in Southeast Institute for Global Studies spoke on disaster, Asia, especially Indonesia. CSEAR thus has a conflict and peace, using the 2004 Indian Ocean Director with historical links to personages and Tsunami as his case study. In May, in conjunction institutions in both Southeast Asia and North with Centre for Chinese Research, CSEAR hosted America, and who is enthusiastic in expanding a discussion forum entitled: “Sichuan Earthquake the CSEAR program. and Burmese Cyclone: Observations, Reflections As the Centre moves forward, the staff at and Actions” with speakers including Stephanie CSEAR would like to thank Michael Leaf who has Chang (CRC in Disaster Studies), Alison Bailey led CSEAR for seven years and built a solid basis (Centre for Chinese Research), Bob Anderson for the Centre to continue its activities. His work to (Communication, SFU), Maria Hla Tin (Voices develop CSEAR has had wide impact in making the from Burma) and George Chandler (Red Cross). Centre known to various institutions in Southeast The forum drew a remarkable audience including Asia, as one of the main locus for research on Asian Chinese and Burmese communities, representatives urbanism. Michael Leaf remains a much-valued from humanitarian organizations, and a member member of CSEAR and IAR. Activities this year from the House of Commons. Natural disasters emphasized how important his work as Centre’s could arguably be human made, and attempts to Director has been over the past years. prevent them from taking place demand both

46 Singapore’s cityscape. regional and global approaches. In between these in Asia. In November, Emeritus Professor of two forums on natural disasters in Asia, CSEAR Geography and former Director of IAR, Terry hosted a talk by Chris Bennett (Food and Resource McGee gave a talk titled “From Beijing to Economics), an expert on Indonesian political Denpasar: Journeys in Search of Southeast Asian economy and environmental sustainability, titled Urbanization.” In this well attended presentation, “Deferred Deforestration and Indonesian Forest Terry McGee talked about his coauthored new to Reduce Global Warming: The Challenge of book, “China’s Urban Space: Development under Holding on to Carbon without Releasing Carbon.” Market Socialism” and the implications of findings CSEAR is grateful to Professor Tsering of the book to the writing of a new book on Shakya for his initiative to arrange Dr. Gustaaf Southeast Asian urbanization. In conjunction to Houtman, Deputy Director of the Royal the urbanism theme, with the generous support Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and from Elvin Wyly, director of UBC Urban Studies Ireland, to give a series of talks on Buddhism in Program, Abidin Kusno (CSEAR) organized a Burma. In November, Dr Houtman delivered two symposium for students of his graduate seminar lectures titled “A Saffron Revolution in Burma? titled “The City and the National Imagination.” Buddhist backgrounds to Burmese politics” and Papers included cities in China, India and Southeast “On Samatha and Vipassana: Some case studies Asia with keynote address by Goran Therborn, from Burma and the socio-political implications Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced of their practice.” Also in February, Dr. Ian Harris, Studies, who presented “Modern Nations and Their the Tung Lin Kok Yuen Visiting Professor on Capitals: A Eurasian Comparison.” Buddhism and Contemporary Society, gave a In regards to the Centre’s commitment to talk on “Buddhism in Extremis: The Fate of the developing scholarships on urbanism in Asia, Buddhist Order under Pol Pot.” This series of talks CSEAR is pleased to report that a Memorandum emphasized the important connection between of Understanding has been signed between religion and social change in Asia. CSEAR and the Consulate General of the Each year, CSEAR holds talks on urbanism Republic of Indonesia to co-organize a workshop

47 centres in October 2008 in IAR on “Indonesia’s Urban beginning October 1st, Dr. Clarence Aasen has Future: Directing Urban Change.” Four speakers joined the Centre as an Honorary Research from Indonesia are expected to participate in a Associate. From 1971 until 1988, Dr. Aasen was two-day workshop focusing on the attempts of a Professor of Architecture at Carleton University social groups to represent and transform the city in Ottawa. In 1988, he was appointed Chair and and the implications on identity formation in the Professor of Architecture and Design at Victoria post-Suharto Jakarta. The Indonesian Consulate University in Wellington, New Zealand—a in Vancouver has been an important partner of position he held until June 2006. At Victoria CSEAR in setting up workshops and producing University, he also served as Dean of the Faculty proceedings of conference. The most recent of Architecture and Founding Head of the School seminar proceedings titled Arts, Popular Culture of Design and was a founding member of the and Social Change in New Indonesia (based on a University’s Asian Studies Institute. He currently conference held at IAR on November 24, 2006) lives and works in Vancouver. Dr. Aasen’s research has just come out with Michael Leaf served as the has focused on the architecture and urbanism of the editor. CSEAR looks forward to continuing the ethnic Chinese of Southeast Asia; material artefacts mutually beneficial partnership with the Consulate associated with ethnic displacement, reconstruction General of the Republic of Indonesia. and identity formation processes; and the history The Centre had two distinguished seminars of Southeast Asian urbanization processes, on the Philippines that opened and closed this particularly in terms of the aesthetic, cultural and academic year. In October, Salbacion ‘Inday’ geo-political processes involved. Espina-Varona, Editor-in-chief of the weekly news CSEAR is currently working on a number magazine Philippine Graphic and winner of the of initiatives to support future research activities 2007 Marshall McLuhan Fellowship and the Jaime in the Centre. Among others, CSEAR has been V. Ongpin Award for Excellence in Investigative participating in the search for funding and the Journalism, opened the CSEAR’s lecture series organization of the next Council for Southeast by continuing the Centre’s tradition with a talk Asian Studies Conference chaired by Tineke titled “Lives in Conflict: A Presentation on Acts Hellwig. The Conference will take place at UBC of Human Rights Violation in the Philippines.” in October 2009 in part to honor the outstanding In this talk, Ms. Espina-Varona discussed issues contributions of Professor Alex Woodside to the around journalism including extrajudicial killings, study of Southeast Asia. In this and other venues, child soldiers and women. Ending the spring term Ms. Hannah Lim, joint LLB/MAPPS student, in May, Eleanor del Rio-Laquian and Aprodicio has been an active project assistant for CSEAR A. Laquian spoke about their recent book, titled this year. Seeking a Better Life Abroad: A Study of Filipinos in Canada (1957-2007) in a seminar called Seminars and Lectures “Filipinos in Canada after 50 Years.” The Laquians October 11, 2007. “Lives in Conflict: A presented their findings from their 2006 nationwide Presentation on Acts of Human Rights survey of Filipinos in Canada and ended with a Violation in the Philippines.” Salvacion ‘Inday’ discussion by Leonora Angeles from the School Espina-Varona, Editor-in-chief, Philippine of Community and Regional Planning who is also Graphic and winner of 2007 McLuhan a member of CSEAR Management Committee. Fellowship. Sponsored by Dahong Pilipino (The Filipino October 25, 2007. “Peace in the Wake of Disaster? Canadian Community and Business Directory), the Secessionist Conflicts and the 2004 Indian seminar drew large audiences from members of the Ocean Tsunami.” Philippe Le Billon, Associate Philippine communities in Vancouver. Professor, Liu Institute for Global Studies and The Centre is pleased to announce that, Department of Geography.

48 Above: New Governor, Nationalism, and Chinese Cultures: Jakarta on the eve of Indonesian Independence Day, 2007. Right top: Puncak, Indonesia. Right bottom: Jakarta.

November 22, 2007. “From Beijing to Denpasar: January 30, 2008. “Deferred Deforestation and Journeys in Search of Southeast Asian Indonesian Forest to Reduce Global Warming: Urbanization.” Terry McGee, Emeritus The Challenge of Holding on to Carbon Professor of Geography, UBC. without Releasing Carbon.” Chris Bennett, November 26, 2007. “A Saffron Revolution in Adjunct Professor, Food and Resource Burma? Buddhist backgrounds to Burmese Economics, UBC. politics.” Gustaaf Houtman, Editor of February 13, 2008. “Buddhism in Extremis: The Anthropology Today and Deputy Director of Fate of the Buddhist Order under Pol Pot.” Ian the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Harris, Tung Lin Kok Yuen Visiting Professor Britain and Ireland. on Buddhism and Contemporary Society. November 27, 2007. “On Samatha and Vipassana: May 20, 2008. “Filipinos in Canada after 50 Some case studies from Burma and the socio- Years”: A book-launching seminar: Seeking political implications of their practice.” Gustaaf a Better Life Abroad: A Study of Filipinos Houtman, Editor of Anthropology Today and in Canada (1957-2007). Eleanor del Rio- Deputy Director of the Royal Anthropological Laquian and Aprodicio A. Laquian, Emeritus Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Professor, School of Community and Regional December 10, 2007. “The City and the National Planning, UBC (sponsored by Dahong Imagination.” A Graduate Student Class Pilipino, the Filipino Canadian Community Symposium with keynote address, Goran and Business Directory). Therborn, Director, Swedish Collegium for May 22, 2008. “Forum on the Sichuan Earthquake Advanced Studies (sponsored by Urban Studies and Burmese Cyclone: Observations, Program UBC). Reflections and Actions” (co-organized with Centre for Chinese Research).

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Centre Directors

C. D. Alison Bailey With Baylis, K., H. Chouinard, Chinese Ministry of Agriculture Assistant Professor, Institute of Asian H, and L. Nogueira. “Changes and related officials involved in Research; Director, Centre for Chinese in the Canadian Dairy Supply trade policy on topics of trade Research (Please refer to page 54 under Management System and the policy and negotiations, Beijing, IAR Faculty) Perceived Protection Provided.” July 2007. Paper for journal submission. December 2007. Graduate Student Committees Rick Barichello “Administrative Procedures, the Jacek Puchala, Postdoctoral Fellow, Director, Centre for Southeast Asia Distribution of Costs and Benefits, Krakow Agricultural University, Research and Incentives in Anti-dumping Krakow, Poland Cases.” Estey Handbook of International Alex Sterelyukin, Agricultural Leave Trade. Ed. W.A. Kerr. Estey Center Economics, M.Sc. Study Leave, April 2007-August 2007; for Study of International Law and Lejiu Zhang, Agricultural Economics, Visiting Research Fellow, Institute Trade Policy, 2007. M.Sc. of South East Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore Presentations and Conferences Service to the University (Medical Leave, retinal detachments, July 2007. Wrap-up presenter on IAR Council/CSEAR Directorship three surgeries during period “Lessons from International Faculty of Land and Food Systems, September-December 2007) Agricultural Trade Research Colleagues Committee for Re- Consortium Summer Symposium appointment of Professor Sumeet Publications on China’s Agricultural Trade: Issues Gulati, 2007-2008 (Chair) With Loppacher, L.J. and W.A. and Prospects,” Beijing, China. Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Kerr. “The Debate on Improving June 2007. “Role of Agricultural Food and Resource Economics Implementation of the Policies in Poverty Alleviation Group: Chair, Search Committee Regionalization Chapter of the in Southeast Asian Countries,” for CRC Chair Appointment, SPS Agreement: Real Problems or seminar presentation to Institute for December 2007-July 2008 Disguised Protectionism?” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. Food and Resource Economics (FRE) World Trade 41.4 (2007): 667-681. June 2007. “Rural Labour Markets in Group: Undergraduate Advisor to With Cranfield, J., and K. Meilke. Vietnam: Implications for Poverty students in Food Market Analysis “Options for Supply Management in Reduction,” seminar presentation to (Food Nutrition and Health), 2001- Canada with Trade Liberalization.” Institute of Policy and Strategy for 2008 (ongoing) CATPRN Commissioned Paper. Agriculture and Rural Development, 04 June 2007. FRE 490 – Agricultural and Resource Canada, Ottawa, 1999-present “Underlying Trends in International Policy Analysis Member, Editorial Board, The Estey Agriculture: What Does Canadian IAR 500 – Perspectives and Methodologies Centre Journal of International Experience Offer?” Proceedings, of Asia Pacific Policy Studies (One Law and Trade Policy, 2000-2008 Korean Agricultural Outlook week’s lectures) Reviewer: Bulletin of Indonesian Conference, Korean Rural Economic Economic Studies (March 2008), Institute, Seoul, Korea. 2007. (In Continuing Education American Journal of Agricultural Korean). Invitation to speak to workshop for Economics (March 2008)

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Other Services in the Japanese Innovation System’, Earthquake, SSHRC and Japan “Rural Urban Labor Market Linkages, March 2008). Foundation funded. Agricultural Policy, and Poverty “Urban Systems, Global Capital and the Japanese Tourism in Canada, HSS funded. Alleviation: The Case of Vietnam.” Cities of Asia-Pacific.” In a collection Japan and the Greater China Circle, Selected paper accepted for of short papers: Ed. P.K. Kelly. SSHRC funded (with R. Hayter, Summer Symposium, International ‘Geographer, Asianist, Urbanist: SFU). Agricultural Trade Research Celebrating the Scholarship of Terry Consortium-Korean Rural McGee’, Asia Pacific Viewpoint 48.2 Economic Institute, Seoul, Korea, (August 2007): 250-269. Nam-lin Hur 2008 meetings. “Japanese Approaches to Technology Chair, Centre for Korean Research With Nguyen, D. “Rural-Urban Labour Clusters: Implications for British Market Integration: Implications Columbia.” Asia Pacific Foundation Publications for Poverty Alleviation.” Selected of Canada, Commentary Paper “Cheju ŭi yŏksajŏk t’op’osŭ: p’erip’ori paper accepted for Australian #48. February 2008. 2007): 5-39. Cheju National Queenstown, NZ, 2007. University, Korea. Discussant of four papers on China’s Presentations and Conferences “Chosŏn Korean Officials in the Agricultural Trade and Prospects, April 2007. “The Kyoto Research Land of Tokugawa Japan: Ethnic International Agricultural Trade Park and Innovation in Japanese Perceptions in the 1719 Korean Research Consortium Summer Cities,” Association of American Embassy.” Korea Observer 38.2 Symposium, Beijing, China, Geographers Meetings, San Francisco. (September 2007): 439-468. July 2007. May 2007. Chair, Conference Book review: Lewis, J.B. Frontier Organizing Committee, “Creative Contact between Chosŏn Korea and Grants City Regions: Examining their Role Tokugawa Japan. London and New “Measuring Water in Canadian Dairy in the Pacific Rim,” 20th Meeting York: Routledge Curzon, 2003. Product Tariffs” $13,000 Canadian of the Pacific Regional Science 322pp. Journal of Korean Studies 31 Agricultural Trade Policy Research Association, Vancouver. (2007): 86-88. Network, 2007-2008. June 2007. With L. Lee and R. Hayter. Book review: Moerman, M.D. “Taiwan’s Latecomer Firms and Localizing Paradise: Kumano Awards and Distinctions the Asian Division of Labour in Pilgrimage and the Religious Canadian Agricultural Economics the Electronics Industry,” Second Landscape of Premodern Japan. Society, selected as Fellow 2008 Global Conference on Economic Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Geography, Beijing. Asia Center, 2005. 297pp. The November 2007. With R. Hayter. Journal of Japanese Studies 34.1 David W. Edgington “Japanese Electronics Firms in (2008): 184-88. Associate Professor of Geography; Taiwan: Insiders and Partners,” Director, Centre for Japanese Research North American Regional Science Presentations and Conferences Association Meetings, Savannah, GA. July 4, 2007. “Chunghwa sasang kwa Publications February 2008. “Japanese Tourism in shin’guk sasang: chŏnkŭndae “The Japanese Innovation System: Canada: New Trends and Patterns,” Chosŏn kwa Ilbon ŭi kukche University-Industry Linkages, Centre for Japanese Research kwangye ideollogi,” Third Annual Small Firms and Regional Seminar, UBC. Graduate Student Workshop of Technology Clusters.” Prometheus the Global Consortium of Korean 26.1 (March 2008): 1-20. (Guest Current Research Studies Centers held at UBC. editor of Special Issue: ‘Advances Rebuilding Kobe after the Hanshin February 20, 2008. “A Style of

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Confucian Politics during the Reign Declines: Evidence from India, University of Virginia, Department of King Sŏnjo in Chosŏn Korea,” 1983-99.” Submitted to the Journal of Economics Center of Korean Studies, University of Development Economics. Promotion and tenure assessments, of Michigan. With Ramaswami, B. “Growth and UBC, IAR April 4, 2008. “Monarchy and a New Poverty—Experience of India Thesis Defense Examiner, Yajie Liu, Vision of the Japanese State in and Mexico.” Completed under UBC the Hideyoshi Regime,” Annual a contract with Inter American Executive Council (Canadian Members), Meeting of the Association of Asian Development Bank. (In progress.) Indo-Canadian Shastri Institute Studies, Atlanta, GA. May 9, 2008. “Kinsei no kokusai Current Research Grants kankei to Kirishitan: Nihon to “Growth and Poverty in India: 1980- “Process of Trickle Down,” Shastri Indo- Chōsen no hikaku o chūshin ni,” 2000,” invited survey article at Canadian Institute, $6,000 Center of Japanese Studies, Rikkyo Journal of Economic Literature (with “Social Capital and Institutions in the University, Japan. B. Ramaswami and W. Wadhwa). Process of Development,” SSHRC May 19, 2008. “Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Expected date of completion no Chōsen shinryaku o megutte: so August 2008). Research Contracts no kokusai kankeiron teki kentō,” “Social Capital and Institutional “Growth and Poverty Decline in Shiryo hensanjo, Tokyo University. Development” a SSHRC project Mexico and India,” Inter-American May 23, 2008.“Imjin Waeran kwa with Patrick and Siwan, the first part Development Bank, $10,000 oegyo wa kunsaryŏk chŭnggang ŭi of the project (data collection) is Yugyo chŏngch’i,” 2008 Kyujanggak almost completed. We expect all the Awards and Distinctions International Conference, Seoul data to be in by the end of May. Elected as Senior Fellow of BREAD National University. (Bureau for Research and Economic Teaching Analysis of Development) Current Monograph Projects ECON 255 – Understanding Killam Teaching prize 2007-08. “Food and Diplomacy: War and Globalization Wartime Politics in Premodern East ECON 442 – Issues in Economic Other Asia, 1592-98” Development (co-taught with As a Director of the Centre for India “Survival and Corruption: War and Patrick Francois) and South Asia Research, I Wartime Society in Premodern East ECON 541 – Development Economics organized a major interdisciplinary Asia, 1592-98” (two guest lectures) conference (South Asian Colloquium of Pacific Northwest) Service to the University Graduate Student committees in February 2008 and assisted IAR Council Aditi Bhargava, Economics, B.A. in organizing another one Wenhui Fan, Economics, Ph.D. (Performance and Culture in South Anirban Mukherjee, Economics, Ph.D. Asia) in March 2008. Ashok Kotwal Sourabh Paul, Economics, Ph.D. Professor of Economics; Director, Centre E. Shashidharan, RMES, Ph.D. for India and South Asia Research Service to the University Publications Advisory Committee on India Strategy With Eswaran, M. “Quality Enhancing Executive Committee, Department Trade Liberalization.” Journal Of Committee Member, LEAD Initiative Development Economics 83.2 ( July Liaison with Regional Colleges, 2007): 549-561. Department With Ghosh, P. “Factor Market Search Committee for the Chair of Imperfections in Poor Agrarian Interdisciplinary Programme Economies.” International Handbook External Review Committee for the of Development Economics. Ed. Jaime Department of Asian Studies Ros. Routledge, 2008. 1-22. Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, With Kandlikar, M. “Outsourcing.” Department Oxford Companion on Indian IAR Council Economy. Ed. Kaushik Basu. Oxford University Press, 2007. (6 pages.) Service to the Community “Employment and Poverty.” Oxford Associate Editor, Pacific Affairs Companion on Indian Economy. Ed. Refree, Journal of Economic Growth Kaushik Basu. Oxford University Refree, Journal of Economic Inequality Press, 2007. (4 pages.) Refree, Journal of Development Economics With Eswaran, M., B. Ramaswami, Refree, Pacific Affairs and W. Wadhwa. “How Poverty Promotion and tenure assessments,

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Alison Bailey Timothy Brook Timothy Cheek Julian Dierkes Paul M. Evans

Milind Kandlikar Abidin Kusno Masao Nakamura Anand Pandian Kyung-Ae Park

Pitman B. Potter Tsering Ilan Vertinsky Wangdu Shakya

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Hyung Gu Lynn

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C. D. Alison Bailey Annual IAR Graduate Student Forum on Western Development Assistant Professor, Institute of Asian Conference. and Socio-Economic Change, Research; Director, Centre for Chinese February 2008. Guest lecturer, “The Chinese Academy of Social Research Worlds of Ming and Early Qing Sciences, Beijing, PRC March 2008 Literature,” History 440 (Professor Guest editor, Renditions, special Publications Leo Shin). volume on violence in Ming and “Culture: The Spirit of China.” China: April 2008. Panel organizer, “Living Law Qing literature, forthcoming People, Place, Culture, History. Alison and Changing Times: Wang Mingde’s November 2008 Bailey, Ronald G. Knapp, Peter (fl. 1674) Meditations on the Law,” Chair, IAR Liaison Committee Neville-Hadley, J.A.G. Roberts, Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta. Chair, IAR Equity Committee and Nancy S. Steinhardt. Foreword (Part of panel entitled, “Circumstantial Member, IAR Teaching Committee by Anchee Min. London: Dorling Evidence: ‘Living Law in Ming and Kindersley, 2007. 234-279. (Non- Early Qing China’”). peer-reviewed). May 2008. “The Sichuan Earthquake: Timothy Brook “The Female Dragon Roars: Female An Overview,” Forum on the Republic of China Chair in Chinese Filial Avengers in Chinese Drama Sichuan Earthquake and Burmese Research and Fiction” (working title). Ed. Cyclone: Observations, Reflections, Kevin Wetmore. Revenge: East and Actions, Institute of Asian Publications and West Volume 2: China (Forthcoming: Research, UBC. Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century University of Hawai’i Press). May 2008. Main organizer, workshop and the Dawn of the Global World. Guest editor, Renditions Vol. 70 on “Staging the Beijing Olympics: New York: Bloomsbury; Toronto: (November 2008): Violence in Visions, Tensions, & Dreams.” Penguin, 2008. Ming and Qing Literature. (Editor’s Co-authored with Blue, G., and Jérôme Introduction: “Writing Violence”). Teaching Bourgon. Death by a Thousand “Reading Between the Lines: IAR 515A – Ways of Being/Ways of Cuts. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Representations and Containment Seeing: Chinese Film and Identity University Press, 2008. of Disorder in Late Ming & Early IAR 515K – Narratives of Violence, Editor. Nanjing datusha yingwen shiliaoji. Qing Legal Texts.” Under review for Trauma, and Remembrance Taibei: Shangwu yinshuguan, 2007. Ming Studies. Asia 351 – Modern Chinese Literature Expanded Chinese translation of A Shield for a Pillow: A Cultural History of in Translation Documents on the Rape of Nanking. Filial Revenge. Book manuscript in Two directed readings courses in Ann Arbor: University of Michigan progress. University of Hawai’i and twentieth-century magazines, Press, 1999. Brill have both expressed interest. gender, popular culture and Chinese General editor. The History of Imperial Scene extract from Pu Songling’s drama documentary films (2007-2008). China (6 vols.), Harvard University “The Cold and the Dark” (17th Under development: Pre-Modern Press. Volume 1: Mark Lewis, The century); vernacular short story by Chinese Law for 2008 Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han. Ling Mengchu, “Against Autopsy” Cambridge: Harvard University (17th century), forthcoming, in Service to the University Press, 2007. Renditions 70 (2008). Director, Centre for Chinese Research, “Occupation State Building.” China at Book review: Lee, H. Revolution of the IAR, 2004– War: Regions of China, 1937-45. Ed. Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China Member, search committee, Modern Diara Lary, Stephen MacKinnon, 1900-1950. Stanford, CA: Stanford Chinese Literature, Department of and Ezra Vogel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 364pp. The Asian Studies, 2007–2008 University Press, 2007. 22-43. China Quarterly 193 (March 2008): Member of three Ph.D. committees “What Happens when Wang Yangming 197-198. (Asian Studies: pre-modern Chinese Crosses a Border?” The Chinese literature & Buddhist studies) State at the Borders. Ed. Diana Lary. Presentations and Conferences Member of four M.A. committees Vancouver: University of British 2007-2008. Organizer, Brown Bag Lunch (Asian Studies: pre-modern and Columbia Press, 2007. 74-90. Seminars, Centre for Chinese Research. modern Chinese literature & film); “Radhabinod Pal on the Rape of November 2007. Main organizer, one completion May 2008; co- Nanking: The Tokyo Judgment and workshop on “Taiwanese supervisor for one the Guilt of History.” The Nanking Democracy: Regional Implications Member, Sessional Faculty Task Force, Atrocity, 1937-38: Complicating and Comparative Perspectives,” Asian Studies, 2008– the Picture. Ed. Bob Tadashi (Funded by the Taiwan Foundation Member, Focus Group, CFIS May 2008 Wakabayashi. Oxford: Berghahn, for Democracy), CCR, UBC. Compiler and editor of CCR web pages 2007. 149-180. 2008. Consultant, Chinese art and for new IAR website 2008 “Chinese Collaboration in Nanking.” culture, Dorling Kindersley Publishers. Member, Renditions Editorial Board 2007– The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-38: February 2008. Discussant, “Media and Keynote speaker and IAR representative Complicating the Picture. Ed. Bob Globalization,” Globalized Asia: (on behalf of Dr. Pitman Potter and Tadashi Wakabayashi. Oxford: Challenges and Opportunities, 5th Dr. Diana Lary), Canada-China Berghahn, 2007. 196-226.

54 Presentations and Conferences Asian Studies, University of Michigan. Hong Kong (February 2008) January 11-February 2, 2008. Organizer, February 19, 2008. “Vermeer’s Hat: External examiner, Department of History, “Manufacturing Islam: Muslim From Christian Island to a History Brown University (December 2007) Identities in the 21st Century,” UBC. of the World,” Royal Ontario External examiner, Humboldt April 18, 2007. “Mapping the World: Museum, Toronto. Prize, Alexander von Humboldt The Mutual Transformation of Fenruary 20, 2008. “The Art and Foundation, Bonn (November 2007) Chinese and European Cartography Science of Eating Off Porcelain,” External examiner, Soutenance in the 17th Century,” Centre for East Chicago Foodways Roundtable. d’habilitation de Jérôme Bourgon, Asian Research, McGill University. February 21, 2008. “Envisioning the World: École des Hautes Études en April 28, 2007. “Postimperiality in China The Sino-European Transformation Sciences Sociales, Paris (Nov 2007) and Japan,” Imperial Models in the of Mappae Mundi in the 17th Early-Modern World: From Early- Century,” Department of East Asian Modern to Modern Empire and from Studies, University of Chicago. Timothy Cheek Empire to Nation-State, UCLA. February 23, 2008. “Vermeer’s Hat: Professor, Institute of Asian Research; May 15, 2007. “Xiangxiang shijie: shiqi What 17th-Century Dutch Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research shiji Zhong-Xi shijie ditu de hudong Paintings Reveal of our Global biange,” (Visions of the world: the World,” Vancouver Institute, UBC. Publications Sino-European transformation of March 18, 2008. “Why is that Man “Making Sense of Mao in the Hu-Wen world maps in the 17th century), Wearing that Hat? The Challenge Era.” Harvard Asia Quarterly (2008), Daxia Lecture #42, East China of World History,” Department of in press. Normal University, Shanghai. Geography, UBC. Vivere le riforme. La Cina dal 1989. May 22, 2007. “Guanyu ‘hezuo’,” Torino: EDT, January 2008. (The problem of ‘collaboration’), Graduate Student Supervision Italian translation of: China since Department of History, East China Desmond Cheung, History, Ph.D. 1989: Living with Reform. London: Normal University, Shanghai. Sonam Chogyal, History, Ph.D. Zed Books, October 2006, with May 23, 2007. “Guanyu ‘hezuo’,” (The Noa Grass, History, Ph.D. new preface. problem of ‘collaboration’), History Ching-hua Huang, Asian Studies, Ph.D. “Intellectuals: Academic Authorities & Institute, Social Sciences Academy, Heidi Kong, History, Ph.D. Public Voices.” Reclaiming Chinese Shanghai. Yoel Kornreich, History, Ph.D. Society: Politics of Redistribution, May 24, 2007. “Ou-Mei de Handi he David Luesink, History, Ph.D. Recognition and Representation in Zangchuan fojiao yanjiu,” (The study Timothy Sedo, History, Ph.D. Contemporary China. Eds., You- of Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism in Malcolm Thompson, History, Ph.D. Tien Hsing and Ching Kwan Lee. the West), Deptartment of Religious Fred Vermote, History, Ph.D. Submitted July 2007. Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai. Dewei Zhang, Asian Studies, Ph.D. Chinese Visions on a Planetary Scale. May 25, 2007. “Jindai xifangren Conference volume with yanzhong de Zhongguo lingchi,” Service to the University Geremie Barmé and Gloria (Lingchi from Western imagination Member, UBC Press publications board Davies. In progress. to Chinese law), Department of Principal, St. John’s College The Cambridge Critical Introduction to History, Fudan University, Shanghai. Mao. Proposal accepted and contract October 18, 2007. “Delighting in Service To the Community signed to edit. In progress. the Dying of the Other: Chinese Member, Executive Committee, “Mao’s Rectification Writings from the Torture and the Alienation of Vancouver Institute Perspective of Begriffsgeschichte.” Suffering,” Institute for Chinese Editorial Board, Brill Handbook of Article ms. based on conference Studies, University of Oxford. Oriental Studies, Leiden presentation. In progress. November 29, 2007. “Justice and Editorial Board, International Journal of Revenge in Tokyo and Shanghai: Asian Studies, Tokyo Presentations and Conferences The Prosecution of War Editorial Board, Pacific Affairs, UBC August 15-17, 2007. Co-organizer with Criminals in 1946 in Comparative Editorial Board, Shilin (Historical studies), Gloria Davies and Geremiw Barmé, Perspective,” The Tokyo Trial: Social Sciences Academy, Shanghai “Chinese Visions on a Planetary Legacy and Reassessment at Sixty, Reviewer, Oxford University Press Scale,” an international conference George Washington University, Reviewer, University of California Press of Chinese and Western scholars Washington DC. Reviewer, University of Hawai’i Press working on contemporary Chinese December 6, 2007. “Max Weber, Yü Reviewer, University Press of America thought, Monash University, Ying-shih, and the Confucian Reviewer, American Historical Review Melbourne, Australia. Commercial Ethic: Where was the Reviewer, Canadian Bulletin of Medical January 17-18, 2008. Guest speaker and State While All This was Going History/Bulletin canadien d’histoire de panel chair for “The Rise of China On?” INALCO, Paris. la médicine and The Challenges Facing Canada’s February 11, 2008. “The Fall of the Ming Reviewer, English Historical Review China Policy,” University of Alberta, and the Price of Grain: A Simple Reviewer, International History Review China Institute. Correlation?” Department of East External examiner, City University of February 20, 2008. “Making Sense of

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Mao in Contemporary China,” Service to the Community Resolution into Japanese Legal Fairbank Center, Harvard University. Editorial Board, The China Journal Education,” Law and Society February 27-9, 2008. “New Directions (Canberra), 2007– Association, Berlin. in Historiography of Republican Editorial Board, Issues and Studies August 2007. With Matthias König. China,” a workshop based on (Taipei), 2004– “Ambivalence in the World Polity— readings at the archives of the Editorial Board, Historiography East & Conflict Resolution and Conflict Hoover Institution, convened by West (Leiden/Vienna), 2003– Dynamics in Neo-Institutional Dr. Wen-hsin Yeh and held at Editorial Board, China Information Perspective,” American Sociological Stanford University and University (Leiden), 1998– Association, New York. of California-Berkeley. Member, Editorial Board of the Publications August 2007. “Mining in Mongolia: Committee, Association for Asian Building on Momentum in the Teaching Studies (USA), 1996– Long Term,” Ulaanbaatar Forum for IAR 500 – Perspectives and Methodology East Asia, Ulaanbaatar. module (co-taught with M. Kandlikar) Other Services October 2007. “The Path of Mongolian IAR 515M – Intellectuals and Public Honours Thesis supervision, History, Public Policy on Mining,” Central Life in Eastern Asia primary supervisor for Lars Neufeld Eurasian Studies Society, Seattle. IAR 515Q – Directed readings: Modern thesis on medical history of December 2007. “Parallel Education Chinese Press and Propaganda Shanghai in early 20th century (for Systems—Privatization versus Public HIST 563 – Methodology and Sources completion April 2008) Policy?” International Symposium in Chinese History Honours Thesis supervision, History, on“Frontiers of International primary supervisor for Julia McFarlane Educational Research: Relevant Graduate Student Supervision thesis on struggle between traditional Topics—Innovative Concepts— Anna Belogurova, History, Ph.D. and modern medicine in 1950s China Emerging Challenges,” Humboldt Darlene Foote, MAPPS (for completion April 2008) university, Berlin. Xin Huang, Gender and Women’s Honours Thesis supervision, History, February 2008. “The Impact of Studies, Ph.D. second supervisor for Andrew Ball Historiographical Preferences on Heidi Kong, History, Ph.D. thesis on post-modern turn in Textbook Controversies in Postwar Yoel Kornreich, History, Ph.D. historiography (for completion Japan and Germany,” workshop on Nick Simon, History, Ph.D. April 2008) “Textbook Controversies,” Institute Carla Stucchi, MAPPS for Social Science Research, Huiyu Wu, MAPPS Grants Cornell University. Zan Zhang, MAPPS “Public Intellectuals in China,” SSHRC, March 2008. “Single-Sex Education $76,016 in the Japanese Supplementary Graduate Student Committees “China Environmental Sciences and Education Industry,” Comparative Gerhard Brauer, Education (Chair, Sustainability,” IAR, $4,500 and International Education Graduate exams) Society, New York. Jack Hayes, History, Ph.D. David Luesink, History, Ph.D. Julian Dierkes Service to the University Dominic Yang, History, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Institute of Asian Associate Director, Centre for Japanese Zhansui Yu, Asian Studies, Ph.D. Research; Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research Research Co-ordinator, Program on Inner Asia Service to the University Associate Member, Department of Editor, Pacific Affairs Publications Sociology Acting Director, Institute of Asian “The Trajectory of Reconciliation Research ( January to June 2007) through History Education in Acting Associate Director for Teaching, Postunification Germany.”Teaching Paul M. Evans Institute of Asian Research the Violent Past: History Education Professor, Institute of Asian Research; (September 2006 to June 2007) and Reconciliation. Ed. L. Cole. Co-CEO and Chairman of the Associate Director, IAR Centre for Lanham, MD: Rowman and Executive Committee, Asia Pacific Chinese Research Littlefield, 2007: 31-50. Foundation of Canada IAR Council “Japanese Shadow Education: The IAR Publications Committee Consequences of School Choice.” Paul Evans continues to be on IAR Teaching Committee The Globalisation of School Choice? secondment to the Asia Pacific IAR Liaison Committee Eds. S. Davies, M. Forsey, and G. Foundation of Canada for the period, Associate Faculty, Department of Walford. Oxford: Symposium Books. April 2007 to March 2008. History, UBC In press. Associate Faculty, Centre for Research on Women’s Studies and Gender Presentations and Conferences Milind Kandlikar Relations, UBC July 2007. With Mayumi Saegusa. Assistant Professor, Institute of Asian “Integrating Alternative Dispute Research, Liu Institute for Global Issues

56 Publications Impact of Non CO2 gases,” Liu Dan Beldescu, Land and Food Systems, With Jones, K. “The Role of Hybrid Institute for Global Issues, UBC, Ph.D. Cars in the Material Flows of Vancouver, BC. Shashidharan Enarth, RMES, Ph.D. Nickel” Journal of Industrial Ecology June 15-18 2007. With Satterfield,T . Brian Gouge, RMES, Ph.D. (2008). Accepted. Expert Views of the Public, SRA- Jana Hanova, RMES, MS With Morel, B. “Accelerating the Europe Conference, The Hague. Christian Krelling, Planning, Ph.D. Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas October 2007. Nano-enterprise, Society (McGill) Reduction: The influence of for the Social Studies of Science Eric Mazzi, RMES, Ph.D. Economic and Technological Meeting, Montreal. Tashi Tsering, RMES, Ph.D. Uncertainties.” Integrated Assessment October 2007. Invited speaker at the Jeff Wubbs, Geography, Ph.D. 7.1 (2007): 81-101. Agricultural Biotechnology in India With Risbey, J. “Expressions of Roundtable, South Asia Conference, Service to the university Likelihood and Confidence in the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Director, Environment Program, IPCC Uncertainty Assessment Wisconsin. Liu Institute for Global Issues, Process.” Climatic Change 85.1-2 November 2007. Invited, “There is no 2005-present (2007): 19-31. ‘Best Practice’: Just ‘Good Science’,” Advisory Council, Institute for Asian With Ogushi, Y. “Assessing Extended Symposium on Inter-disciplinarity Research, 2004-present Producer Responsibility Laws in (panel on best practices in inter- Teaching Committee, MAPPS program, Japan.” Environmental Science and disciplinary environmental research), IAR, 2004-present Technology 41.13 (2007): College for Interdisciplinary Studies, Research Committee, IAR 2006-present 4502-4508. UBC, Vancouver. Nehru Humanitarian Fellowship Award “Air pollution at a New Delhi Hotspot: December 2007. With Saraswat, A. Committee, 2006-present Detecting Trends, Seasonal Cycles “What determines air quality in Executive Committee, Centre for India and Oscillations.” Atmospheric Indian cities? Symposium on Traffic, and South Asia Research, IAR Environment 41.28 (2007): Health, Energy and Environment,” 2004–present 5934-5947. organized by the Shastri-Indo Graduate Admissions Committee, With Ogushi, Y. and H. Dowlatabadi. Canadian Foundation and the Indian MAPPS program 2006-present “What Determines End-of-Life Institute of Technology, Delhi. Olav Slaymaker Scholarship Selection Outcomes for Consumer Products: March 12, 2008. Invited, “What Kinds Committee Chair, 2005-present Insights from Japan.” Progress in of Technologies Help Bring People Technical Advisory Committee, Industrial Ecology (2008). In press. Out of Poverty?” UBC Colloquium Presidents Climate Change With Ramachandran, G., Toscano, B. on World Bank and Development. Initiative, 2007 et al. “Uncertainties in health risk assessments of nanoparticles.” Teaching Other Services Nanoparticles and Occupational IAR 500 – Perspectives and Methodologies Gave assistance and guidance to the Health. Eds. Andrew Maynard, and of Asia Pacific Policy Studies following supervised students to win David Pui. Elsevier Ltd., 2007. (Infrastructure Policy module; co- fellowships and awards: Corresponding author with Carter et taught Perspectives and Methodology Beaudrie and Findlater were awarded al. “Chapter 2, New Assessment module with Tim Cheek). NSERC scholarships (1 CGS and 1 Methods and Characterization RMES 500T – Biofuels for Transport: NSERC-Doctoral) of Future Conditions.” IPCC Science, Policy and Politics of an Reynolds won a prestigious doctoral WG-II, Fourth Assessment Report Emerging Energy System award from the American Air and of the Intergovernmental Panel on Waste Management Association Climate Change (IPCC). Cambridge Graduate Student Supervision Freeman won a Pacific Century Scholarship University Press, 2007. Jen Ardiel, RMES, M.Sc. With Gerrard, J. “Lead and Cadmium Christian Beaudrie, RMES, Ph.D. (co- Grants Emissions in the Life-Cycle of supervised with T. Satterfield) “Biotechnology Regulation in India,” Automobiles.” International Journal Kieran Findlater, RMES, M.Sc. with T. Satterfield, SSHRC, $34,019 of Life Cycle Assessment (2007). Julia Freeman, RMES, Ph.D. (co- “A Capacity Building Program for the In progress. supervised with T. Satterfield) Global Environment,” University With Reynolds, C. “The Climate Kim Jones, RMES, M.Sc. Investment Fund, $63,000 Change Implications of Local Air Bonnie Lui, MAPPS “Alternative Fuels in Indian Transport,” Quality Policy: Natural Gas Fuelling Conor Reynolds, RMES, Ph.D. as co-investigator with M. Badami, for Public Transportation in Delhi.” Arvind Saraswat, RMES, Ph.D. SSHRC, $45,000 Environmental Science and Technology Margaret Skwara, MAPPS “Clinical Drug Trials in India,” as co- (2008). In progress. Phil Torio, MAPPS investigator with V. Kamat, UBC Hampton, $17,500 Presentations and Conferences Graduate Student Committees “Climate Science, Equity and 2007. “Cows, Cars and Climate Jason Barton, Land and Food Systems, Development,” with H. Zerriffi and Change: Assessing the Climate Ph.D. J. Risbey, UBC Hampton, TBD

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“Alternative Fuels and the Automobile,” of Indonesia, 2007. 1-33 (in the Typology of Our Memories,” all co-PIs with H. Dowlatabadi, Indonesian). Symposium on Public Space, Identities H. Maclean, and E. Tam, Auto 21 “Konflik Urban” (Urban Conflict). and Collective Memories. Department NCE, $47,500 ECPOSE: Majalah Fakultas Ekonomi of Literature, Faculty of Cultural “Nanotechnology in Society,” as co- Universitas Jember 26.18 (2007): 57- Studies, University of Indonesia. investigator with B. Harthorn, T. 64 (in Indonesian). October 19, 2007. “Spectacle and Satterfield and 25 others, National “Epilogue.” Mencari Arsitektur Sebuah Governmentality in the New Science Foundation (US), $25,000 Bangsa: Sebuah Kisah Indonesia. Indonesia,” Cities in Conflict Mohammad Nanda Widyarta. (Sponsored by the Melon Surabaya: Wastu Lanas Grafika, Foundation), Alice Kaplan Abidin Kusno 2007. Epilogue, 66-71. Institute for the Humanities, Canada Research Chair in Asian “The Seen and the Unseen Urban Northwestern University. Urbanism and Culture Kaleidoscope.” Jakarta Metropolis. February 4, 2008. “Exemplary State: Amsterdam: Valiz Publishers, 2007. Governing Urban Subjects in the Publications 17-21. New Indonesia,” York Centre for Memories, Appearances and New Times in Book review: Askew, M., W.S. Asian Research (YCAR), Faculty of Indonesia. Durham: Duke University Logan, and C. Long. Vientiane: Social Sciences, the Urban Institute, Press. Forthcoming, contract in hand. Transformation of a Lao Landscape. and the Department of Geography, “Space, Power and Identity: Patches London: Routledge, 2007. 265pp. York University, Toronto. of the Postcolonial Past, Present International Development Planning February 23, 2008. “Master Q, Kung and Future Jakarta.” Journal of Review 29.1 (2007): 122-123. Fu Heroes and the Creole Chinese: Comparative Cultural Studies in Book review: Chinese Indonesians: State A Note on Asian Pop Cultures Architecture 1 (2007): 37-42. Policy, Monoculture and Multiculture. in the 1970s-1980s Indonesia,” “The Cosmology, the Disciplinary and Ed. Leo Suryadinata. Singapore: Popular Culture Flows in Northeast the Informality: Power and Space in Eastern Universities Press, 2004. Asia, Institute of Asian Research, Colonial Indonesia.” Trialog: Journal 124pp. Pacific Affairs 79.4 (Winter University of British Columbia. for Planning and Building in the 2006-2007): 705-707. March 1, 2008. “Stealing Twilight: Third World 93.2 (2007): 32-36. Jakarta Bay, the Pioneer and the Last “The Afterlife of the Empire Style, Presentations and Conferences Frontier,” The Origin and Future the Indies Architecture and February 16, 2007. “‘Back to the City’: of Southeast Asian Coastal Cities: the Art Deco.” The Past in the Notes on Urban Architecture in Link, Layering, and Transformation, Present: Contemporary Architecture the New Indonesia,” Southeast Asian Research Institute, National in Indonesia. Ed. Peter J. Nas. Asian Studies Program, Cornell University of Singapore. Rotterdam: NAI Press in association University, Ithaca. March 18, 2008. “Architecture, with KITLV Leiden, 2007. 131-145. March 29, 2007. “Architecture and Cities and Nations,” Architecture “Back to the City: A Note on Urban Urbanism in the New Indonesia,” and Cultural Studies: An Architecture in the New Indonesia.” Spring 2007 Seminar, Swedish Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Faculty Arts, Popular Culture and Social Collegium for Advanced Studies, of Cultural Studies, University of Change in the New Indonesia. Ed. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Indonesia, Depok. Michael Leaf. Seminar Proceedings, April 2, 2007. “The Regime, the City April 12, 2008. “Architecture and Centre for Southeast Asian and the Urban Subject: Jakarta the National Imagination,” Research, 2008. 59-93. in the Post-Suharto Era,” Global Narrative, Memory and History “Di Bawah Bayangan Bung Karno: Cities in Asia, Centre for East and in Indonesian Arts, Media and Arsitektur Modernis dan Sejarah Southeast Asian Studies, Lund Culture, The Yale Indonesian Kita” (Under the Shadow of Bung University, Lund, Sweden. Forum Workshop, Luce Hall, Yale Karno: Modernist Architecture June 5, 2007. “The New Transport and University, New Haven. and Our Histories). Tegang- the Image of the Capital City in Bentang: Ketegangan dan Perdebatan an Indonesian Metropolis,” Space, Teaching dalam Sejarah Arsitektur Moderen Power, Nation: Reconsidering Capital IAR 500 – Economic and Social Indonesia. Ed. Amir Sidharta. Cities Workshop. Swedish Collegium Change Module Jakarta: Pusat Dokumentasi for Advanced Study, Uppsala. IAR 515C – The City and the National Arsitektur Indonesia, Erasmus Huis August 9, 2007. “Urban Modernity and Imagination and KITLV, 2008. Section II (38 Popular Radicalism in Colonial pages in Indonesian). Java,” Conference on Literature, Graduate Student Co-Supervision “Ruang Publik dan Tipologi Memori Urbanism and Industrialization Manneke Budiman, Asian Studies, Ph.D. Kita” (Public Space and the organized by the Association of Sun Dong, MAPPS Typology of Our Memories. Identity, Indonesian Literature (HIKSI), Jason Hilgefort, Architecture, M.Arch. Public Space and Collective Memories, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Lakhbir Jassal, MAPPS Proceedings of Symposium. Faculty University of Indonesia. Danielle Labbe, School of Community of Cultural Studies, University August 10, 2007. “Public Space and and Regional Planning, Ph.D.

58 Hannah Lim, MAPPS Research Grant, $68,700 Presentations and Conferences Pascale Massot, MAPPS Visiting Fellow, Swedish Collegium November 9, 2007. “Migration Theory Tomoe Otsuki, MAPPS for Advanced Studies, Uppsala and Agricultural Migration in Jenny Pace, Art History, Ph.D. University, March-June 2007 the Japanese Empire,” Kyushu Irfan Sonowala, Interdisciplinary University, Research Center for Studies, Ph.D. Korean Studies, Fukuoka (in Hamish Stewart, MAPPS Hyung Gu Lynn Japanese). Soyoung Yang, MAPPS Assistant Professor, Institute of Asian January 5, 2008. “Bipolar Orders Zan Zhang, MAPPS Research; AECL/ KEPCO Chair in and Uneven Developments: The Korean Research Two Koreas in World History Service to the University since 1989,” American Historical Co-Director (with Dr. Alison Bailey), Publications Association, Panel: “Global History CFI-funded Asian Urbanism Lab, IAR Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas Since of the Present,” Annual Meeting, Acting Director, Centre for Southeast 1989. London: Zed Books, 2007. Washington DC. Asia Research, IAR, (September- “Chūō Chōsen Kyōkai and Policy- February 22-23, 2008. Organizer, December 2007) Making in Colonial Korea” (Ch]ō presenter. Popular Culture Flows in Council Member, IAR Chōsen Kyōkai to shokuminchiki Northeast Asia. Institute of Asian Committee Member, Building, Liason, Chōsen no seisaku kettei katei). Research, UBC. and Teaching Committees, IAR Ed. Matsuda Toshihiko. Colonial February 22-23, 2008. “Introduction,” Committee Member, Centre for Bureaucrats in the Japanese Empire. Popular Culture Flows in Southeast Asia Research, IAR Tokyo: Shisōsha, 2008. Forthcoming Northeast Asia. Institute of Asian Committee Member, Urban Studies in Japanese. Research, UBC. Program “Migration Theory and Rural February 22-23, 2008. “Love Thy MAPPS Graduate Admission Committee Migration in the Japanese Empire” Doppelganger: Images of North University Examiner, Ph.D., Michelle (Imingakuriron to teikoku Nihon- Korea in South Korean Films,” Kooy, Geography nai no nôgyô imin). Institute of Popular Culture Flows in Architectural Studio Critic of Professor Korean Studies Annual. Summer Northeast Asia, Institute of Asian Mari, School of Architecture 2008. Forthcoming in Japanese. Research, UBC. “History of Gendered Migration in the Service To the Community Two Koreas.” Harvard Asia Quarterly Teaching External Ph.D. Examiner, Eka (Spring 2008). Forthcoming. IAR 500 – Perspectives and Methodology Permanasari, Department of “Moving Pictures: Postcards of of Asia Pacific Policy Studies Architecture and Urban Design, Colonial Korea.” International (Gender and Development module) University of Melbourne, Australia Institute of Asian Studies Newsletter IAR 506 – Culture and Globalization in External Ph.D. Examiner, Dikmen 44 (Summer 2007). the Asia Pacific Bezmez, Department of Sociology, Book review: Jonsson, G. Towards Binghamton University, State Korean Reconciliation: Social-cultural Graduate Student Supervision University of New York exchanges and cooperation. London: Kyung-hyo Chun, Anthropology, Ph.D. External Reviewer, Singapore Journal of Ashgate, 2006. 291pp. East Asia: An (co-supervised) Tropical Geography International Quarterly 25.1 (April Shantini James, MAPPS Editorial Board Member, Journal of 2008). Forthcoming. Noushin Khushrushahi, MAPPS Architectural Education Book review: Eds. Armstrong, C.K., G. Shiho Maeshima, Asian Studies, Ph.D. Editorial Board Member, Journal of Rozman, S.S. Kim, and S. Kotkin. (co-supervised) Planning History Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Carla Stucchi, MAPPS Editorial Advisory Board Member, Regionalism in Northeast Asia. Armonk, Kaori Yoshida, Asian Studies, Ph.D. Centre for Southeast Asian NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006. 319pp. Pacific (co-supervised) Studies Book Series, University of Affairs 80.4 (Winter 2007). Wisconsin Press “History of the Present in the Two Service to the University Paper Reviewer for Panel on “the Politics Koreas.” Asia Pacific Report 31. 1 Associate Editor, Pacific Affairs of Space” for the 96th Association of (Spring/Summer 2007): 1, 4. IAR Council Collegiate Schools of Architecture “Fukuoka Impressions.” Kyushu University IAR Teaching Committee Annual Meeting, Houston, March Research Center for Korean Studies IAR Publications Committee 27-30, 2008 Newsletter 7 (Winter 2007). IAR Equity Committee Reviewer for proposals for “Architecture Co-edited with Kim, M. Urban Culture and Cultural Studies” Workshop, in Colonial Korea. Under review Service To the Community University of Indonesia, August 26- Harvard University Press. Member, Association for Asian Studies 27, 2008 Co-edited with McCann, D., J. Frankl, Member, American Historical Association and M. Kim. City and Text in Reviewer, Journal of Japanese Studies Grants Colonial Korea. Under review. Reviewer, History & Memory “Re-making Jakarta,” SSHRC Standard Harvard University Press. Reviewer, Pacific Affairs

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Grants Presentations and Conferences Referee, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems “Popular Culture Flows in NE Asia” July 25-28, 2007. “Japanese Corporate Referee, International Business Review Workshop, Japan Foundation, Governance Practices in the Post- Referee, International Journal of US$13,000 Bubble Era: Implications,” Berlin Managerial Finance “Popular Culture Flows in NE Asia” 2007 International Conference: Law Referee, Journal of Banking and Finance Workshop, Asia Research Fund, and Society in the 21st Century, Referee, Journal of Financial Intermediation US$20,000 Humboldt University. Referee, Journal of Institutional Economics “Migration in the Japanese Empire,” August 16-19, 2007. “Corporate Referee, Journal of Modelling in Management Kyushu University, Research Center Governance Reform and Anglo- Referee, Journal of the Operational for Korean Studies, US$25,000 American Corporate Governance Research Society Practices in Post-bubble Japan: Institutions in Transition and Grants Masao Nakamura Selective Adaptation,” Japan Studies “Interfirm relationships in manufacturing Konwakai Japan Research Chair; Association of Canada ( JSAC) 2007 industries: the role of keiretsu networks Professor, Institute of Asian Research, International Conference, Toronto, in Japan and policy implications,” Sauder School of Business York University. SSHRC, $131,796, 2008-2011 November 30, 2007. Invited seminar. “Japan’s policy reforms and management Publications Shorenstein Lecture, “Foreign Direct practices: analysis of institutional Editor. Changing Corporate Governance Investment and Wages: Differential and corporate behaviour and future Practices in China and Japan: Impacts by Worker Rank at Japanese prospects,” UBC Hampton Fund, Adaptations of Anglo-American Manufacturing Firms,” Center for $27,250, 2005-2008, completed Practices. Accepted for publication, Japanese Studies, University of “Time-to-market, new product Palgrave Macmillan, March 2008. California, Berkeley. development and technology-based “Corporate governance practices in December 7, 2007. Invited speaker. multinational firms: implications for post-bubble Japan: implications of “Business Groups and the Big Push: competitiveness,” SSHRC, $87,905, institutional and legal Reforms in Meiji Japan’s Mass Privatization and 2005-2008, on-going the 1990s and Early 2000s.” Ed. Subsequent Growth,” in memory “Asia Pacific program on cross-cultural M. Nakamura. Changing Corporate of Professor Gary Saxonhouse, and comparative research in disputes Governance Practices in China Department of Economics and the resolution,” co-investigator with P. and Japan: Adaptations of Anglo- Center for Japanese Studies, University Potter, SSHRC, $2.5million, 2003- American Practices. Forthcoming, of Michigan Conference. 2009, on-going Palgrave Macmillan. “Measuring the price and quantity of “Selective adaptation of Anglo- Teaching labour,” SSHRC at the University American corporate governance COMM 498 – International Business of Alberta, A.Nakamura, principal practices in Japan,” Ed. M. Management investigator with co-investigators Nakamura. Changing Corporate COMM 548 – Supervisor for directed M.Nakamura and E.Wiewert, Governance Practices in China studies on “Policy Issues of $180,000, 2004-2008, completed and Japan: Adaptations of Anglo- Multinational Firms in Asia-Pacific” American Practices. Forthcoming, IAR 515G – Policy Studies in Firms, Palgrave Macmillan. Technology and Environment in Anand Pandian With Morck, R. “Business Groups Asia-Pacific Assistant Professor, Institute of Asian and the Big Push: Meiji Research, Department of Anthropology; Japan’s Mass Privatization and Service to the University Johal Chair in Indian Studies Subsequent Growth.” Enterprise IAR Appointments, Promotion Tenure and Society (June 2007). Accepted Committee, Chair Professor Pandian has been on unpaid for publication. IAR Asia-Pacific Business and leave from July 1, 2007 to May 31, 2008. With Hayami, H. “Greenhouse Economic Policy Research Unit, gas emissions in Canada and Co-Director Japan: Sector-specific estimates IAR Building Committee, Chair Kyung-Ae Park and managerial and economic IAR Council Associate Professor, Institute of Asian implications.” Journal of FOGS/CFIS Appointments, Promotion Research; Korea Foundation Chair Environmental Management 85 and Tenure Committee (2007): 371-392. For most of the academic year 2007-08, With Nakajima, T., A. Nakamura. Service To the Community Professor Park was on leave. and E. Nakamura. “Technical Editorial Board, Corporate Board: Role, Change in a Bubble Economy: Duties & Composition Journal Japanese Manufacturing Firms in Editorial Board, Managerial and Decision Pitman B. Potter the 1990s.” Empirica (Journal of Economics (MDE) Director, Institute of Asian Research; Applied Economics and Economic Referee, Corporate Governance: An Professor, Institute of Asian Research, Policy) 34 (2007): 247-271. International Journal Faculty of Law

60 Publications Co-edited with Biukovic, L. Reception administrative leave Spring 2007, on “China and the International of International Trade Law in Asia: medical leave Fall 2007) Legal System: Challenges of Selective Adaptation, Institutional IAR Appointments, Teaching and Participation.” The China Quarterly Capacity. Under review, Routledge. Research Committees 191 (September 2007): 699-715. Faculty of Law, Appointments Committee Editor. History in the Making: The Presentations Faculty of Law, Graduate Committee Dalai Lama Dialogues in Vancouver April 16, 2007. Distinguished Visitor Presentations to various donors 2004. Vancouver: Institute of Asian HKSAR Government. Research, 2007. May 8, 2007. Presentation on China to Service to the Community Book review: Peerenboom, R. China CIDA Executives. Board of Directors, Asia Pacific Modernizes: Threat to the West or May 28, 2007. Canada-Indonesia Human Foundation of Canada Model for the Rest? Oxford: Oxford Rights Dialogue, keynote speaker. Board of Directors, Premier’s Asia University Press, 2007. 432 pp. June 2007. Panel presenter, “Courts in PacificT rade Council China Review International (2008). Xinjiang” for University of Victoria Board of Directors, BC International Forthcoming. International Conference on Commercial Arbitration Centre “China’s Peripheries: Challenges of Courts in Comparative Context. Board of Directors, Canada-China Central Governance and Local Paper to be published as a chapter Business Council Autonomy.” China at the Borders. Ed. in Harding and Nicholson ed., Editorial Board, China: An International Diana Lary. Vancouver: UBC Press, New Courts in Asia (forthcoming Journal 2007. 306pp. from Routledge). Editorial Board, China Quarterly “Zhidu, falu wenhua, he xuanze xing July 27-28, 2007. Organized three Editorial Board, Hong Kong Law Journal shiyong: Guancha Zhongguo falu panels for Law and Society annual Editorial Board, Pacific Affairs de Shijiao” (Institutions, Legal meeting, Berlin. Reviewer, (H.K.) Research Grants Council Culture, and Selective Adaptation: July 28, 2007. “Selective Adaptation and External Examiner: Hong Kong University; Perspectives on Chinese Law). China’s Security Policy,” Law and City University of Hong Kong Proceedings from 40th Anniversary Society Association, Berlin. Conference of Universities Service September 17-18, 2007. “Dispute Other Services Centre. Hong Kong: Chinese Resolution in China—the Courts in Consultant, Borden Ladner Gervais University Press. In press. the Nationality Areas,” Foundation LL.P. “Selective Adaptation and Institutional for Law, Society and Justice Ordained Minister (Deacon) Anglican Capacity: Approaches to conference, Hawai’i. Unable to Church of Canada Diocese of New Understanding Reception of attend due to illness. Westminster International Law under Conditions October 12-13, 2007. “Selective of Globalization.” Legal Sociology 66. Adaptation and Dispute Resolution Grants Japan, 2007. (Invited). in Shanghai,” Harvard Law School “Chinese Law and Policy on Taiwan, “Jingji guanli guifan de xuanzexing conference on law in China. Unable Tibet, Xinjiang,” SSHRC, $89,000 shiyong: Dangdi yujing xia de to attend due to illness. “Cross-Cultural Dispute Resolution in touming zhidu he zizhiquan yuanze” Asia Pacific,” SSHRC, $2,499,730 (Selective Adaptation of Economic Teaching Governance Norms: Transparency IAR 500 – Perspectives and Methodologies Awards and Distinctions and Autonomy in Local Context). of Asia Pacific Policy Studies Faculty Alumni Research Award 2008 China Society of Legal History. (Governance and Human Rights Ed. Zhongguo wenhua yu fazhi module) (Chinese culture and the rule of IAR 515Q – Sustainability and Tsering Wangdu Shakya law). Beijing: Chinese Academy of Governance in China (co-taught Canada Research Chair in Religion and Social Sciences Press, 2007. with Timothy Cheek) Contemporary Society in Asia “Courts in Xinjiang” for University of Law 336C – Chinese Law Victoria International Conference Publications on Courts in Comparative Context. Graduate Student Supervision “Tibetan Literature in PRC Since Paper to be published as a chapter Susanne Duska, ISGP, Ph.D. 1980.” Modern Tibetan Literature in Harding and Nicolson ed., New Wenwei Guan, Law, Ph.D. and Social Change. Ed. Lauran R. Courts in Asia (forthcoming from Emily Lee, Law, Ph.D. Hartley, and Patricia Schiaffini- Routledge). June 2007. Harry Wang, Law, Ph.D. Vedani. Durham, NC: Duke Law, Policy and Practice in China’s University Press, May 2008. Periphery: Norms and Capacity for Graduate Student Committees “Ga rgya ‘gram nag: bandit or primitive Central Control. Under review, Erin Williams, Political Science, Ph.D. rebel? A study of banditry and social Routledge. Sophia Woodman, Sociology, Ph.D. protest in Nag chu.” Proceedings of Co-edited with Biukovic, L. 12th International Seminar of the Business Law in Asia. Invited by Service To the University International Association for Tibetan Butterworth’s. Director, Institute of Asian Research (on Studies, Bonn. In press.

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gSar rtsom, A Development of Modern Graduate Student Committee Resource Endowments on Location Tibetan Literature Since 1950. Kulwindar Parhar, MAPPS Choices of de novo Enterprises.” Work submitted, University of Lakhbir Jassal, MAPPS Strategic Organization (SO!) 6.2 Columbia Press. Irfan Sonawala, SCARP (May 2008): 119-149. With Nelson, H., and K. Niquidet. Presentations and Conferences Service to the University “Pricing the Social Contract in the March 2007. Organizer, Canada Tibet Fundraiser and Convener for the “2010 British Columbian Forest Sector.” Business roundtable meeting with International Association of Tibetan Canadian Journal of Forest Research Bombardier and Tibetan NGOs and Studies” conference 37 (2007): 2250-2259. community groups. IAR Teaching Committee With Fuller, K. “Antecedents April 2007. Panelist, “China’s Tung Lin Kok Yuen Lecture Series to Certification of Software Modernization and Tibetan Committee Development Processes.” 5th IEEE Traditions,” North West China Buddhism and Contemporary Society Conference on Standardization and Council, Portland, Oregon. Committee Innovation in Information Technology April 2007. Panelist, “The 13th Dalai Ph.D. Examiner to Jack Hayes, History Proceedings. Calgary, Canada (2007). Lama of Tibet,” Department of With Branzei, O., and R. Camp. Philosophy, Oregon State University. Service to the Community “Culture-Contingent Signs of November 2007–April 2008. Co-organizer, Organized meetings between Canadian Trust in Emergent Relationships.” Tibet-Mongol lecture series. businesses operating in Tibet with Organizational Behavior and Human November 2007. Organizer, “Economic Tibetan community groups Decision Processes 104 (2007): 61-82. and Social Development in Tibet,” Reviewer of grant applications, “Oral With Innes, J., E. Krcmar, A. Mathey, Conference, UBC. and Festival Traditions of Western and D. Tait. “Forest Planning February 2008. Panelist, “India in Tibet,” for the Executive Board of using Co-Evolutionary Cellular the Imagination of Tibet,” South the Austrian Science Fund Automata.” Forest Ecology and Asian Conference of the Pacific Management 239 (2007): 45-56. Northwest, UBC. Grants With Fuller, K. “Market Response to February 22-23, 2008. Panelist, “Popular “Economic and Social Development ISO 9000. Certification of Software Music and Video Sharing: Re- in Tibet” conference, Bombardier, Engineering.” Standardization signification ofT ibetan Identity,” $20,000 Research in Information Technology: Popular Culture Flows in Northeast “2010 International Association of New Perspectives. Volume 2 of Asia, IAR. Tibetan Studies” conference, Advances in Technology Standards and March 2008. Panelist, “Writing Tibet, University of Lausanne, $10,000 Standardization Research. Hershey, Auto/biographies of Tibetan PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2007. Women,” Centre for Women’s and With Bryant T.J., and C. Smart. Gender Studies, UBC. Ilan Vertinsky “The Fit between Crisis Types Speaker, “Tomorrow’s International Professor, Institute of Asian Research, and Management Attributes Scene lecture, Tibet: Past and Sauder School of Business, and Institute as a Determinant of Crisis Present,” for UBC Continuing for Resources, Environment and Consequences.” The Oxford Studies, Robson Street campus. Sustainability Handbook of Organizational Decision Making. Eds. G.P. Teaching Publications Hodgkinson, and W.H. Starbuck. IAR 515E – Contemporary Tibet: With Pe’er, A. “Firm Exits as a Oxford: Oxford University Press, Identity, Development and Conflict Determinant of New Entry: Is 2008. 174-193. IAR 515P – Religion and Public Policy There Evidence of Local Creative With Bryant T.J., and C. Smart. Destruction?” Journal of Business “Globalization and International Graduate Student Supervision Venturing. Forthcoming. Communicable Crisis: A case Study Sonam Chongyal, History (co- With Innes, J., E. Krcmar, and A. of SARS.” Communicable Crises: supervised with Leo Shin) Mathey. “Opportunities and Costs Prevention, Response and Recovery in Susanne Duska, ISGP (co-supervised of Intensification and Clustering the Global Arena. Ed. D. Gibbons. with P. Potter) of Forest Management Activities.” Charlotte, NC: Information Age Frank Rausch, Asian Studies (co- Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Publishing, 2007. supervised with D. Baker) Forthcoming. Tamar Scoggin, Anthropology (co- With Dragicevic, S., E. Krcmar, and Presentations and Conferences supervised with A. Bloch, and J. Barker) A. Mathey. “An Object-Oriented July 20-21, 2007. Discussant, “Selective Tashi Tsering, Institute for Resources, Cellular Automata Model for Forest Adaptation and Institutional Environment & Sustainability (co- Planning Problems.” Ecological Capacity: Approaches to Treaty supervised with H. Schreier) Modeling. Forthcoming. Compliance in International Trade Almas Zakiuddin, Gender and Women’s With King, A., and A. Peer. “Who and Human rights,” Lauterpacht, Studies (co-supervised with D. Enters, Where and Why? The Center for International Law, Currie and H. Zaman) Influence of Capabilities and Initial Cambridge University.

62 July 25-28, 2007. “Some Methodological Teaching International Joint Ventures,” Consideration in Studying BAIM 503 – Issues in International SSHRC, $93,000 Compliance with International Trade Policy “Design of New Institutions,” NCE/ Economic Rules: Selective Shanghai summer program 2007 SFM, $743,000 Adaptation in China and Japan (Sauder School of Business) “Selective Adaptation,” (as co-investigator), to WTO Rules and Competition Academic Director SSHRC/MCRI, $2,000,000 Laws,” Joint Annual Meetings of the Chinese Leaders Program, Lecture on “Economics of Aboriginal Land Use Law and Society Association (LSA) International Business Strategy, May Activities,” (as co-investigator), and the Law (RCSL), Humboldt 22nd, 2007 NCE/SFM, $160,000 University, Berlin. July 25-28, 2007. Session discussant, Graduate Student Supervision Offices Held “Dispute Resolution in Japan,” Joint Victor Cui, Sauder Ph.D. Canada Research Chairs, College of LSA RCSL Annual Meetings, Qianqian Du, Sauder Ph.D. Referees, Member Humboldt University, Berlin. Craig Mayberry, IRES Ph.D. SSHRC Adjudication Committee #29, August 3-8, 2007. With Du, Q. Member “Promotion and Creation of Venture Graduate Student Committees Journal of Cross Cultural Management, Capital in China,” Academy of Matthew Au, Law Ph.D. Member Management, Philadelphia. Wenwei Guan, Law Ph.D. Journal of International Business, Member August 7-9, 2007. Invited discussant, Tedder Sinclair, Forestry Ph.D. The International Public Management IPMN Workshop on Ranking Wellington Spetic, Forestry Ph.D. Journal, Member and Rating the Public Services, International Public Management Review, Worchester College, Oxford. Service to the University Member September 5, 2007. “Globalization Centre for Japanese Research Presentation,” Bank of Beijing, Management Committee Beijing. Forest Economics and Policy Analysis October 9, 2007. Session organizer, Research Unit, Director facilitator and discussant, Forest Economics and Policy Forum, “Sustainability Industry Clusters,” Advisory Committee TCI, 10th global conference: The IAR, Acting Director (October- Academic Summit. December 2007) October 13-19, 2007. With Fuller, K. IAR Asia-Pacific Business andE conomic “Antecedents to Certification of Policy Research Unit, Co-Director Software Development Processes,” IAR, Associate Director 5th IEEE Conference on IAR Publications Committee Standardization and Innovation in IAR Research Committee, Chair Information Technologies, Calgary. St. John’s College Academic Committee October 25-26, 2007. “Tenure Systems W. Maurice Young Entrepreneurship in Canada in the Long and Short and Venture Capital Research Centre Run,” Tenure Workshop, University (to September 2007), Director of Alberta, Edmonton. November 9, 2007. “International Trade Service to the Community and the Current State of the Forest Various research briefings and media Industry,” Weyerhaeuser, Albany, interviews related to forest policies Oregon. and sustainable forest management November 22, 2007. “Tenure Reform Member of the Scientific Committee, Options: Impacts on Short and Third GEM Research conference, Long Term Competition of the October 1-3, 2007, Washington, DC. Canadian Forest Products Sector,” Member of the Organizing Committee: SFM Partners Meeting, Workshop The Competitiveness Institute on Global Competitiveness and the (TCI) 10th Global Conference: Forest Industry, The Laurel Point Academic Summit, October 7-9, Inn, Victoria. 2007, Portland. December 2007. With Peer, A. “Survival Enhancing Strategies of de Novo Grants Entrants in Clusters and Dispersal,” “Optimizing Forest Land Management Israel Strategy Conference, Jerusalem. under Overlapping Multiple March 26, 2008. “Do Tenure Systems Resource Tenure,” NSERC, $75,000 Matter? Can Tenure Reform Help?” “The Geography of Entrepreneurial SFM Network Showcase, Sheraton Success,” SSHRC, $117,000 Wall Center, Vancouver. “Improving the Performance of

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Honorary Professors Geoff Hainsworth Hani Faris, IAR [email protected] [email protected] Jack Austin Economic development in Southeast Asia Middle East politics, conflict resolution [email protected] and political development Canadian politician and member of the Samuel Ho Canadian Senate 1975-2007 [email protected] Michael Leaf, IAR Economic development, Chinese economy [email protected] Robert Bedeski Urbanization in China, Vietnam, and [email protected] Diana Lary Indonesia; land development in the Human security, Chinese international [email protected] Third World foreign policy, and small arms Modern Chinese history, with attention proliferation in Asia to internal migration and regionalism Nisha Malhotra, CISAR [email protected] Louis Cha Terry McGee International economics; public finance Chinese culture and literature [email protected] Urbanization in developing countries, Anne Murphy, CISAR Ronald Philip Dore geography development [email protected] [email protected] Historical formation of religious Japanese society and economy and the Barrie Morrison communities in Punjab and nearby in interaction between social trends and [email protected] South Asia economic trends—as exemplified in Social change in Kerala, India and recent book, Stock Market Capitalism, Sri Lanka Adheesh Sathaye, CISAR Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany [email protected] vs. the Anglo-Saxons Daniel Overmyer Early medieval Sanskrit drama, [email protected] aesthetics, and narrative literature Tsewang Choegyal Chinese religion and philosophy Tethong [email protected] Edgar Wickberg Adjunct Professors Tibetan history and culture; [email protected] representative of H.H. the Dalai Lama, Organizations and ethnicity—past and Abul Hasanat Alamgir, CISAR New Delhi. 1997-2001 Kalon Minister present—of Chinese outside of China, [email protected] for Information and International especially in Southeast Asia and North Bangladesh’s development, politics and Relations TGIE, Dharamsala America public health issues

John Wood Seonaigh MacPherson, IAR Professors Emeriti [email protected] [email protected] Community resource management in India Language shifts and assimilation in the Mandakranta Bose Tibetan diaspora [email protected] Dance and drama in the Sanskrit tradition UBC Associated Faculty Research Associates Yunshik Chang Rebecca Chau, CJR [email protected] [email protected] Richard Paisley, IAR Korean society, development/ Japanese linguistics with a focus on [email protected] underdevelopment speech acts and modality, and its International natural resources law application in language teaching including international water law, negotiation and environmental conflict resolution

64 Honorary Research Associates Patricia Tsurumi, CJR Kyoon-Ja Han (Yoon), CKR [email protected] Professor, Dept. Sociology, Korea Vidyut A Aklujkar, CISAR Japanese women’s history, especially the National Open University [email protected] modern and early modern periods [email protected] Medieval Sanskrit text Ananda-Ramayana Public opinion in USA about Korea Tooryalai Wesa, IAR Charles Krusekopf, IAR [email protected] Ian Harris, IAR (Program on [email protected] Afghan agricultural extension system: Buddhism and Contemporary Society) International trade, environmental impact of the Soviet occupation and Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation economics, Mongolia’s economic prospects for the future Visiting Professor in Buddhism and development Contemporary Society Professor of Buddhist Studies, University Gordon Longmuir, CSEAR Visiting Professors College of St. Martin, Lancaster [email protected] [email protected] Canada’s strategic interests in South Soun-Ju Ahn, CJR Buddhism in Southeast Asia, Buddhism (mainly India) and Southeast Asia Associate Professor, Dept. of Japanese under Pol Pot (special expertise in Cambodia) Language & Literature Seoul Women’s Univerisity Lang-wen Huang, CCR Zareen Naqvi, CISAR [email protected] Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, [email protected] Cultural differences among Korean, Soochow University Public policy, macroeconomics, Japanese, and English-speaking countries [email protected] international trade Migrant Chinese youths in the Madhav Badami, CISAR Vancouver area Wenbin Peng, IAR Assistant Professor, School of [email protected] Environment, McGill University Masamichi Kawano, CJR Cultural nationalism, regionalism, and [email protected] Professor, School of Economics, ethnicity in China; popular culture and Environmental policy and planning, Kwansei Gakuin University travel/tourism representation; history of sustainable urban transport [email protected] Eastern Tibet and Tibetan pilgrimage; Business models, environmental issues, social construction of time and space You-Jin Choi, CKR and labour implications in Japan and Professor, Dept of Philosophy, North America Jim Placzek, CSEAR Kyungnam University [email protected] [email protected] Wang-Bae Kim, CKR Southeast Asian ethnic origins and Buddhism and the state in Shilla Kingdom Assoicate Professor, Yonsei University culture history, Theravada Buddhism [email protected] and Thai language Yasunori Doi, CJR Ethnic identity of Korean Chinese in Professor, Faculty of Business Manchuria David Roth, IAR Administration, Ritsumeikan University [email protected] [email protected] Cha-Seop Kwak, CKR The study of political change in Urban public transportation of Canadian Professor, Dept. History, Pusan National particular models for predicting political cities University system changes in China, Malaysia, and [email protected] Philippines Xin Guang, IAR (Program on Reception and appropriation of modern Buddhism and Contemporary Society) western discourses in Korea: Yuko Shibata, CJR Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation a study on translations, 1900-1910 [email protected] Visiting Professor in Buddhism and Overseas Japanese and Japanese Contemporary Society Wook-Dong Kwon, CKR immigrant experiences in Canada, i.e., Professor, Centre of Buddhist Studies, Associate Professor, Dept. of Sport language and culture, shifting identities, University of Hong Kong and Leisure Studies, Daegu University Nikkei ( Japanese Canadian) women, [email protected] [email protected] adult socialization, and life narratives Buddhism, life and society; history of New paradigms of Korean physical Chinese Buddhism education and sports with respect to modern physical education standards

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Hyo-Gul Lee, CKR Liang-Kung Yen, CCR Oh Kyun, CKR Professor, Dept. of Oriental Philosophy, Professor, Faculty of Public Administration, Prime Minister’s Office of Korea Andong University National Chengchi University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Resolving conflict and establishing peace Ui-Sang’s Hwaom philosophy and Empirical research on the interagency on the Korean peninsula with a special T’oegye’s Neo-confucianism collaborative network for household focus on the peaceful settlement of the registration services in Taipei city North Korean nuclear question Jung Yeon Lee, CKR government Professor, Division of Human Ecology, Kangbaek Lee, CKR Mokpo National University Hidetaka Yoshimatsu, IAR Secretary General, Beautiful Store [email protected] Professor, College of Asia Pacific Studies, [email protected] Planning of Korean family culture contents Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University Distinctive donor administration based on maritime culture resource [email protected] strategy and charity shop administration The prospect of regional economic Tatsuyoshi Miyakoshi, CJR integration in East Asia: synthesizing the Alon Levkowitz, CKR Professor, Graduate School of International neorealist and constructivist perspective Instructor, East Asia Department, Haifa Cultural Studies, Tohoku University University The reform of East Asian financial [email protected] systems: roles of Japan and USA Visiting Scholars A relationship of equals: the evolution of Korea as an independent ally vis-à-vis Young-Suck Simon Moon, CKR Young-Sang Ahn, CKR the United States Chair, Division of International Studies, Researcher, Centre of Korean Thoughts, Kangnam University Korea University Xiaobing Tang, CCR [email protected] [email protected] PhD Candidate, Dept. History, East Religious aspects of Juche thought Studies on Sungho’s school in the China Normal University process of conflict and fusion between [email protected] Takatomo Mori, CJR Western and Eastern culture Public opinion of modern China—a Associate Professor, College of Policy case study about two special columns of Science, Ritsumeikan University Jungok Chun, CKR Ta Kung Pao Newspaper and Shen Pao [email protected] Director, Easy Access Movement for Newspaper A comparative study of regional network for People with Disabilities sharing information between a university [email protected] Michel Tenikue, CISAR and a community in Japan and Canada Sex and empowerment for disabled Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Economics, people in Korea University of Namur Ki-hak Nam, CJR [email protected] Professor, Dept. of Japanese Studies, Jiyoung Ha, CKR The study of the impact of Self Help Hallym University Assistant Manager, Institute of Group (SHG) membership in the state [email protected] International affairs Graduate School of Jharkhan, India A study of Kamakura Bakuhu’s political of International Studies, Seoul National thoughts: military prestige and soothing University Ying Wang, CCR administration [email protected] Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Political Ways to invigorate international Science, Renmin University Kyu-tae Park, CKR academic exchanges in Korean studies [email protected] Associate Professor, Dept. Japanese Thought remoulding of Chinese Language and Culture, Hanyang University Chang-Ho Kim, CKR Intellectuals: the revolt and submission [email protected] Minister, Government Information of Chinese Senior Intellectuals (1949-52) Modernity and religion in late Choson Agency, Korea Korea: the discursive mapping of Hanuel [email protected] and heresy Strategies of communication and friendship between Canada and Xue Fang Peng, CCR South Korea Associate Professor, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Science [email protected] Aboriginal education in Canada

66 Administration and Budget

Budget who took up the challenging role of acting For fiscal year 2007-2008, the Institute has a total administrative head for the Institute during the operating budget allocation of $458,799. From this summer and fall of 2007. Michael Leaf, IAR total operating fund, $63,035 was set aside for faculty associate, was the Acting Director of IAR non-salary operating expenses; $7,600 was allocated from mid-August to September. Ilan Vertinsky towards the operating budget for the Centres for took on the dual role of being both the Acting Chinese Research and Southeast Asia Research; and IAR Director as well as the Associate Director for the balance was used on faculty and staff salaries. Research from October to December. Overall budget to support non-salary expenses for the After six years as Director of the Centre Institute and the two Centres experienced a significant for Korean Research, Professor Donald Baker reduction due to the 5.2% university-wide budget stepped down to return to full-time teaching in cut to the general operating purpose funds and a the Department of Asian Studies. Dr. Nam-lin fund shift from non-salary to faculty salary budget Hur, also from the Department of Asian Studies, to support a faculty salary top-up. Funds to support assumed responsibility for chairing the Centre’s research activities, projects, workshops, and visiting Management Committee in the fall of 2007. fellowship programs totaled $719,455. Research The Centre for Southeast Asia Research funds were largely derived from various agencies, also experienced a transition in the Centre’s namely: the Social Sciences and Humanities Research directorship. Michael Leaf, Associate Professor at Council of Canada, Japan Foundation, POSCO the School of Regional and Community Planning, Foundation, Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the former CSEAR Director for the last Asia Research Fund and other private donors seven years passed on the torch to Rick Barichello, and foundations. Funds for the Choi Emerging Associate Professor with Faculty of Land and Food Opportunities Endowment, four endowed Centres Systems, on September 2007. and the Tung Lin Kok Yuen Endowment for Dr. Anand Pandian, Johal Chair in Indian Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program Studies and Assistant Professor of Anthropology totaled $240,811. resigned on June 30, 2008. Before resigning, he organized a number of conferences at the Institute Personnel of Asian Research and was actively involved with Special thanks go to a number of IAR faculty activities at the IAR and the Centre for India and

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IAR staff from left: Karen Jew, Nilda Onate, Rozalia Mate, Judy Wang and Marietta Lao.

South Asia Research. Despite his resignation, he former Director of the Centre for Southeast Asia continues to look forward to collaborating with the Research, takes over the role of Associate Director Institute as an academic colleague and affiliate. He for Teaching and MAPPS Graduate Advisor as is now based in Baltimore, Maryland USA. of July 1, 2008. He looks forward to “rejoining” Dr. Pitman B. Potter, IAR Director for the the IAR, this time in a different role and capacity last eight years steps down as of July 1, 2008 due in which he will be more involved with IAR’s to health reasons. The Institute is ever grateful to teaching program and mandate. Professor Potter for having led major changes and A note of congratulations goes out to Tim Cheek, development in its teaching and research programs Professor and the Louis Cha Chair in Chinese as well as carrying out an expansion of its faculty and Research at IAR, for his most recent additional staff personnel. However, he will still continue to appointment at UBC. Dr. Cheek takes on the role of be actively involved in IAR activities and programs Associate Principal, Teaching and Strategic Initiatives as the Institute’s Hong Kong Bank Chair in Asian at the College for Interdisciplinary Studies (CFIS) Research. Dr. Masao Nakamura, Konwakai Chair starting in July 2008. Dr. Cheek looks forward in Japanese Research, will take on the role of IAR’s to joining the leadership team at CFIS to lend Acting Director while a search is conducted for the support to CFIS Principal, Michael Burgess, and to next IAR Director. help move the College forward. Acknowledgment goes out to Dr. Kyung-Ae Ms. Eleanor Gill, MAPPS alumna, was Park who led the IAR’s Teaching Committee for appointed Summer Institute China Program close to three years since the academic year 2004- Manager in May 2006. Assisting with the strategic 2005. As the Associate Director for Teaching planning and development of the program and and the MAPPS Graduate Advisor, she made responsible for its execution, she provided excellent numerous contributions to the MAPPS Program day-to-day management of the Program. Her by successfully increasing the number of courses appointment ended in July 2007 as she decided to the program offered, developing links to donors settle down to a new life in Toronto, Ontario. to establish a three-year scholarship funding, and A new addition to the IAR staffing further improving and streamlining faculty and complement is Mr. Syed Hassan who joined program support services for the students. Dr. IAR in July 2007 as the Computer and Systems Michael Leaf, IAR faculty associate member and Support Technician. He is jointly appointed with

68 other units under the College for Interdisciplinary long and astonishingly cheerful battle with cancer Studies (CFIS). He provides user and system for many years. She has worked for UBC for more support, network server administration and than 25 years, earned her BA degree from UBC in computer operations support. He also assists in the 1984, and joined PA in 1989. She kept PA going research of technologies, software applications and through difficult transitions and brought about technical configurations to meet equipment needs. the electronic publication phase for the journal. Ms. Donna Yeung, Manager of the Asia Pacific Her friends and family fondly remember that Dispute Resolution Project for the last three years, she oftentimes expressed her love for her work, took a leave due to medical reasons on July 1, her colleagues, and her surroundings in the UBC 2007. Ms. Rozalia Mate filled in as Acting Project campus despite personal and professional obstacles Manager for the next six months. and challenges. Jackie remained true to herself One of the administrative staff members always—never failing to protect our natural world at IAR, Ms. Rozalia Mate, at the start of the and local wildlife. Her unique lilting and high- calendar year 2008 officially assumed the position pitched voice has been silenced in the hallways of Manager, Research and Program Development. and lobby of the C.K. Choi Building but her spirit Having joined IAR in February 2004, she was lives on among us who will continue to recall initially hired as Finance Clerk and ably took and cherish the friendship, laughter, values and on the Acting Administrator role when the IAR memories she left behind in each one of us. Administrator took a six month personal leave. The administrative staff of the Institute is In her new position, she will provide program composed of: support with particular responsibility for assisting Eleanor Gill, Summer Institute China Program the IAR Director and Associate Directors in the Manager (up to July 2007) identification and development of opportunities for Syed Hassan, Computer and Systems Support growth and expansion in the Institute’s education Technician (from July 2007 onwards) and research programs. She will also facilitate Karen Jew, Assistant to the Director promotion of the Institute’s educational programs Marietta Lao, Administrator and research initiatives; performing research on Rozalia Mate, Acting Administrator ( January potential funding sources for the Institute’s various to June 2007)/ Acting Manager for the Asia programs and activities; as well as managing Pacific Dispute Resolution Project ( July to selected research projects. Dec 2007)/ Manager, Research and Program Ms. Png-chu ( Judy) Wang joined the IAR Development (from January 2008 onwards) family in March 2008, filling in the Finance Clerk Nilda Oñate, MAPPS Graduate Program Secretary vacancy. Ms. Wang had recently completed a Png-chu ( Judy) Wang, Finance Clerk Diploma program in Financial Management from Donna Yeung, Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution Langara College when she came to IAR. Prior Project Manager (up to June 2007) to this, she completed a B.A. program in Public Finance from the National Chengchi University In spite of numerous staffing challenges in Taipei, Taiwan. As Finance Clerk, she provides and directorship transitions during the year, the financial and administrative clerical support to IAR staff remained steadfast in carrying out its IAR. The IAR community wishes both Ms. Mate administrative duties. and Ms. Wang all the best in their new roles at the Special thanks to the work study and summer Institute. student assistants who assisted the Institute during The IAR and the rest of the UBC community the academic year 2007-2008. Jeffrey Cheung, is saddened by the loss of Ms. Jackie Garnett, long Amy Kao, Clara Yiu and Ava Zhang provided much time Managing Editor of Pacific Affairs (PA). Ms. needed assistance and support to the administrative Garnett passed away on March 10, 2008 after a office and the MAPPS graduate program.

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1: Erin Williams, MAPPS alumna and UBC Ph.D. student (Political Science) was one of the paper presenters at the forum. 2 and 3: One of the sessions at the “Western Development and Socio-Economic Change: Canada-China Forum” held March 28–29, 2008 in Beijing, PRC. 4: Korean desserts sold at the Lunar New Year celebration. 5: UBC Chinese Music Ensemble. 6 Pacific Affairs staff (from left to right): Tim Cheek, Nick Simon, Fremma Esquejo, and Carolyn Grant. 7. Pacific Affairs booth at the Association for Asian Studies Meeting. 7

70 Future Directions

Pitman B. Potter Director

During the coming year the Institute will • Enlarging the IAR graduate teaching focus on a strategic plan based on the collaborative program. This will include expansion vision developed by the IAR Council at our retreat of the existing MAPPS program and held in June 2008. Among the priorities identified consideration of establishment of a doctoral are the following: program. Furthermore, discussions are ongoing concerning collaboration with • Strengthening collaborative projects other units on the establishment of an Asia- involving the various IAR Centres and Pacific and international policy program. Programs. Examples include building linkages among the IAR Centres on The Institute will continue to give attention the Religion and Contemporary Policy to a number of substantive research themes in the Program, expanding links among the IAR coming year, including the Asia-Pacific Dispute Centres in areas of policy research, teaching Resolution Project, the China Environmental and community programming, expanding Studies Project, the Central Asia Project, and the joint seminars and research presentations. Religion and Contemporary Society Program. • Expanding collaborative projects with Each of these has initial start up funding and more other units at UBC. This might include substantial long term funding is being pursued. expanded research and teaching initiatives These projects offer significant potential for with departments in the Faculties of building important new knowledge about Asia that Arts, Law, Medicine, and the College for is relevant to Canadian interests and communities. Interdisciplinary Studies. Joint teaching As well, each of these projects offers significant programs and research programs will be potential for expanding collaboration among IAR a welcome addition to this effort. The Centres and Programs, and expanding collaborative Institute will continue to give significant links between IAR and other UBC units. attention to the TLKY Canada Foundation The Institute will give significant attention Program in Buddhism and Contemporary to expanding the infrastructure foundation for Society, in cooperation with the the CFI—funded Asian Urbanism Lab and the Department of Asian Studies. Chinese Nationalities Language Lab.

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Timothy Cheek Editor

Jacqueline Garnett Managing Editor (from April to July 2007)

Carolyn Grant Acting Managing Editor (from July 2007 to March 2008)

Pa c i f i c Af f a i r s is an independent quarterly team of work-study students: Ben Addis, Parmida international review of Asia and the Pacific published Zarankamar, Kyle McLeod and Nicco Bautista. by the Institute of Asian Research at the University The sixth William L. Holland Prize for the best of British Columbia. It is one of the top international essay for Vol. 80 was awarded to Hy V. Luong’s “The peer-review journals on contemporary Asian affairs in Restructuring of Vietnamese Nationalism, 1954- the world. We publish about twenty research articles 2006,” (80:3) [Fall 2007]. The Prize honours the and in excess of two hundred book reviews each year. memory of Bill Holland’s dedication to thorough, Subscriptions include most of the world’s major academic engaged, and accessible scholarship. The prize was institutions and governments concerned with Asia. announced in the Summer 2008 issue (81:2). The generous and energetic contributions of all our Editorial Board members in refereeing articles Pacific Affairs staff and the Executive Committee and promoting the journal among colleagues continue as of Volume 81, No. 1 to be essential to the reputation of the journal. We (*Indicates members of the executive committee) take this opportunity to express our gratitude to our board members for their services. During the past Editor: Timothy Cheek spring 2008, three editorial board members stepped Associate Editors: John Barker, Julian Dierkes, down after many years of service: Mandakranta Bose, Paul Evans, Ashok Kotwal, Michael Leaf, Diana Lary, and Christine Wong. We are grateful for Hyung-Gu Lynn, Glen Peterson their contributions. We also welcomed new Editorial Other Executive Committee Members: Paul Board members: Allan Carlson, Cornell University; Bowles, Leslie Butt, Yuezhi Zhao Chae-Ho Chung, Seoul National University; Amy Managing Editor: Carolyn Grant Hanser, University of British Columbia and Kellee Publishing Assistant: Fremma Esquejo Tsai, Johns Hopkins University. Editorial Assistant: Jack Hayes Our Publishing Assistant, Fremma Esquejo, continued to keep the book reviews flowing, while Pitman Potter, Chair of Editorial Board, University Jack Hayes was a model of efficiency in managing of British Columbia, Canada* the stream of article submissions as the Editorial Amitav Acharya, Nanyang Technological Assistant. We were also well-served by our superb University, Singapore

72 Charles Armstrong, Columbia University, USA Pacific Affairs, Volume 80 (2007-08) Judith Bennett, University of Otago, New Zealand Verena K. Blechinger-Talcott, Free University of Spring 2007: Vol. 80, No. 1 “East Asian Environmental Co-operation: Central Berlin, Germany Pessimism, Local Optimism,” Sangbum Shin Paul Bowles, University of Northern British “Building Peace or Following the Leader? Japan’s Peace Columbia, Canada * Consolidation Diplomacy,” Julie Gilson Jean Marie Bouissou, Centre d’Etudes et de “Informed Consent and Mining Projects: A View From Recherches Internationales, Fondation Nationale Papua New Guinea,” Martha Macintyre “An Incomplete Arc: Analyzing the Potential for des Sciences Politiques, France Violent Conflict in the Republic of Vanutau,” Abby Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia, Canada McLeod and Michael Morgan Tim Bunell, National University of Singapore, Singapore Leslie Butt, University of Victoria, Canada * Summer 2007: Vol. 80, No. 2 Allen Carlson, Cornell University, USA Special Issue: East Asian Cross-Regionalism Guest Editors: Mireya Solís and Saori N. Katada David P. Chandler, Monash University, Australia Introduction: “Understanding East Asian Cross- Chu Yun-han, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Regionalism: An Analytical Framework,” Mireya Jae Ho Chung, Seoul National University, Korea Solís and Saori N. Katada Millie R. Creighton, University of British Columbia, “Forming a Cross-Regional Partnership: The South Canada Korea-Chile FTA and Its Implications,” Sung- Hoon Park and Min Gyo Koo Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University, USA “The Japan-Mexico FTA: A Cross-Regional Step in Rodolphe De Koninck, Université de Montréal, Canada the Path Towards Asian Regionalism,” Mireya Solís Radhika Desai, University of Manitoba, Canada and Saori N. Katada Michael Dutton, Goldsmiths, University of London, “Southeast Asian Cross-Regional FTAs: Origins, UK Motives and Aims,” Stephen Hoadley “China’s Cross-Regional FTA Initiatives: Towards David Edgington, University of British Columbia, Comprehensive National Power,” Stephen Hoadley Canada and Jian Yang Ken Foster, Concordia College, USA Amy Hanser, University of British Columbia, Canada Fall 2007: Vol. 80, No. 3 K.C. Ho, National University of Singapore, Singapore “Civil Society and Interest Groups in Contemporary Japan,” Yutaka Tsujinaka and Robert Pekkanen Robin Jeffrey, Australian National University, Australia “The Restructuring of Vietnamese Nationalism, 1954- Milind Kandlikar, University of British Columbia, 2006,” Hy V. Luong Canada “Christian Evangelical Conversions and the Politics of Atul Kohli, Princeton University, USA Sri Lanka,” Bruce Matthews Brij V. Lal, Australian National University, Australia “What Has Happened to Urban Reform in the Island Pacific? Some Lessons from Kiribati and Samoa,” Andrew MacIntyre, Australian National University, Paul Jones and John P. Lea Australia Kristoffel Lieten, University of Amsterdam, the Winter 2007: Vol. 80, No. 4 Netherlands “Introduction to Special Forum on East Timor’s Truth Commission,” John Roosa Judith Nagata, York University, Canada “How Does a Truth Commission Find Out What the Tae-Gyun Park, Seoul National University, Korea Truth Is?” John Roosa John Ravenhill, Australian National University, “History, Nation and Narrative in East Timor’s Truth Australia Commission Report,” David Webster Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, University of Chicago, “The CAVR: Justice and Reconciliation in a Time of ‘Impoverished Political Possibilities’,” Joseph Nevins USA “East Asia’s Changing Regional Architecture: Towards Michael Schoenhals, University of Lund, Sweden an East Asian Economic Community?” Nick Bisley Gi-Wook Shin, Stanford University, USA “Digital Diaspora and National Image Building: A New Soeya Yoshihide, Keio University, Japan Perspective on Chinese Diaspora Study in the Age Narendra Subramanian, McGill University, Canada of China’s Rise,” Sheng Ding

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John Swenson-Wright, University of Cambridge, UK James H. Tang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Yves Tiberghien, University of British Columbia, Canada Reeta Tremblay, Memorial University, Canada Kellee Tsai, The Johns Hopkins University, USA Charan Wadhva, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India Gungwu Wang, National University of Singapore,

Singapore The late Jackie Garnett. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, University of Vienna, Austria Joseph Wong, University of Toronto, Canada and Diana Lary who all shared experiences and Kosaku Yoshino, Sophia University, Japan memories they had of Jackie. One of the IAR staff Yuen Pau Woo, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, members, Karen Jew, created a slideshow presentation Canada * of Jackie’s photos from various stages of her life, which Anand Yang, University of Washington, USA left hardly a dry eye in the room. Attendees in the Yu Xintian, Shanghai Institute for International group also shared personal experiences and memories Studies, China of how Jackie championed and valued the life of even Yuezhi Zhao, Simon Fraser University, Canada* the littlest creature. David Zweig, Hong Kong University of Science A second memorial was held at her home and Technology, Hong Kong in Ladner on July 5 for family and old friends. E-mailed messages and letters from Saskatchewan, United Kingdom, Ottawa, and Nova Scotia were Jackie Garnett ( July 9, 1945 –March 10, 2008) read and shared at this gathering. It is with great sorrow we inform the friends of Jackie’s lilting and high-pitched voice has been Pacific Affairs and the Institute of Asian Research silenced but her spirit lives on among us who will that Ms. Jacqueline Garnett, long time Managing cherish the friendship, laughter, values and memories Editor, died on Monday 10 March 2008. She she left behind. More photos of the Choi Building fought a long and astonishingly cheerful battle with memorial gathering for Jackie can be seen at www. cancer for many years. To the end, Jackie was with iar.ubc.ca/resources/multimedia/photogallery.aspx. her friends, concerned about our natural world and local wild life, always full of good cheer. William Holland (December 26, 1907–May 8, 2008) Two memorials were held for Jackie’s many William Lancelot Holland, former Secretary- friends and family members. On April 24th a lovely General of the Institute of Pacific Relations and afternoon tea was served in her beloved C.K. Choi professor emeritus of the Department of Asian Building for the Institute of Asian Research to Studies at the University of British Columbia, died colleagues and friends across UBC campus. The after a brief illness on May 8, 2008, in Amherst, hundred plus people who attended are testimony Massachusetts, USA, at age 100. We are greatly to the many lives she touched in her life. IAR saddened by the passing of one of the pioneers in Director, Pitman Potter, welcomed the group to the study of Asia and one of the primary architects the memorial gathering and gave a fitting tribute to of Pacific Affairs. Jackie’s contributions to Pacific Affairs (PA) and UBC A native of New Zealand, Holland worked with during a span of over 25 years. This was followed by the Institute of Pacific Relations from 1928 until 1960. touching testimonies from Tim Cheek, Terry McGee The Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) was established

74 of any government or government officials. Nonetheless, the legal battle plus the loss of much foundation funding left the Institute depleted of funds and it dissolved in 1960. Holland accepted the offer of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, to become the head of the newly created Department of Asian Studies, and to bring Pacific Affairs with him. He joined the faculty in 1961 and through his leadership and discernment, helped build UBC into a leading center for research on Asia. He became

The late William Holland. professor emeritus in 1972, continuing to edit Pacific Affairs until 1978. In 1989 the University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws. in 1925 as a private non-partisan forum for the In 1934, he took a Masters degree at King’s promotion of mutual understanding among nations of College, Cambridge University, in economics, Asia and the Pacific Rim through discussion, research, studying with John Maynard Keynes among others. and education. IPR’s programs of conferences, In 1944, he became an American citizen, so that he research projects, publications, and its quarterly journal could become acting director of the Office of War Pacific Affairs contributed to the expansion of the Information in Chungking, China. field of Asian Studies. The Institute conducted its In 1990, following his wife’s death, he moved affairs through autonomous national councils. The to Amherst, Massachusetts, to live with his only International Secretariat was based in Hawai’i until child, Patricia G. Holland, and her husband, it moved to New York City in 1933. Robert F. Winne. He continued to travel widely. Holland held positions as Research Secretary; He grew fond of the North Amherst Library, and American IPR Executive Secretary and editor of in 1993 funded the building’s renovation. its periodical, Far Eastern Survey; IPR Secretary- His recollections were published in 1995 General and editor of its journal, Pacific Affairs. In in Tokyo as Remembering the Institute of Pacific the early 1950s the United States Senate Judiciary Relations: The Memoirs of William L. Holland. They Committee’s Subcommittee to Investigate the were edited and introduced by Professor Paul F. Administration of the Internal Security Act and Hooper of the University of Hawai’i. Holland’s Other Internal Security Laws (the McCarran papers, including those of the IPR, are at Columbia Subcommittee) alleged that the IPR was open to University, the University of British Columbia, and communist influences. In addition, former Pacific the University of Hawai’i. In 2003, he established Affairs editor Owen Lattimore was indicted for the William L. Holland Prize for the best article perjury in an appearance before the subcommittee. published each year in Pacific Affairs. Although neither of the charges was substantiated, He is survived by his daughter and her the surrounding negative publicity seriously husband, his granddaughter, Lucy Barber of impaired the operation of the Institute. Washington, D.C., his grandson and wife, Jonathan The IPR also lost its tax-exempt status as an and Kristin Lieber of Portland, Ore., and many educational body and waged a five-year battle relatives in New Zealand and Australia. to have it restored. The final judgment in 1959 His qualities of integrity, breadth, balance, affirmed that, contrary to the allegation of the consideration, and generosity assure William Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1955, the Lancelot Holland an affectionate place in the Institute had not engaged in the dissemination of memories of us all—colleagues, friends, and all controversial and partisan propaganda, and had those who have been the fortunate beneficiaries of not attempted to influence the policies or opinions his ethical, intellectual and administrative legacies.

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Staff Directory Director, Dr. Pitman B. Potter Institute of Asian Research Administrator, Ms. Marietta Lao C.K. Choi Building Manager, Research and Program Development, Ms. Rozalia Mate 251-1855 West Mall APDR Project Manager (on leave), Ms. Donna Yeung Vancouver, BC, Assistant to the Director, Ms. Karen Jew Canada V6T 1Z2 Finance Clerk, Ms. Png-Chu ( Judy) Wang MAPPS Program Assistant, Ms. Nilda Oñate Tel: (604) 822-4688 Fax: (604) 822-5207 Email: [email protected] Centre Directors Website: www.iar.ubc.ca Centre for Chinese Research, Dr. Alison Bailey Centre for India and South Asia Research, Dr. Ashok Kotwal Centre for Japanese Research, Dr. David W. Edgington Centre for Korean Research, Dr. Nam-lin Hur Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Dr. Rick Barichello

Institute Faculty Dr. Alison Bailey Dr. Milind Kandlikar Dr. Kyung-Ae Park Dr. Timothy Brook Dr. Abidin Kusno Dr. Tsering Shakya Dr. Timothy Cheek Dr. Hyung Gu Lynn Dr. Ilan Vertinsky Dr. Julian Dierkes Dr. Masao Nakamura Dr. Paul Evans Dr. Anand Pandian

International Advisory Board Patron

Dr. Sally Aw Sian C.K. Choi Family Dr. Louis Cha Mr. David W. Choi Dr. Wang Gungwu Mr. Arthur Hara, OC Dato Dr. Kamal Salih Dr. Emil Salim

Editor: Marietta Lao Designer: Carol Lee

The IAR Annual Report 2007-2008 is published by The University of British Columbia Institute of Asian Research. It is distributed around UBC, to current and past UBC faculty members, and to the general public. It is also freely available at the IAR office. T his publication can also be found online at www.iar.ubc.ca. To comment or request print copies please contact: Marietta Lao at [email protected].

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