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ASIA/PACIFIC RESEARCH CENTER STANFORD UNIVERSITY 2000—2001 YEAR IN REVIEW 1 http://APARC.stanford.edu he Asia/Pacific Research Center (A/PARC) T is an important Stanford venue, where faculty and students, visiting scholars, and distinguished business and government leaders meet and exchange views on contemporary Asia and U.S. involvement in the region. A/PARC research results in seminars and conferences, published studies, occasional and working papers, monographs, and books. A/PARC maintains an active industrial affiliates and training program, involving more than twenty-five U.S. and Asian companies and public agencies. Members of A/PARC’s faculty have held high-level posts in government and business. Their interdisciplinary expertise generates research of lasting significance on economic, political, technological, strategic, and social issues. http://APARC.stanford.edu CONTENTS Message from the Director 4 Institutional Developments 6 The Shorenstein Forum 9 The Southeast Asia Forum 12 Research 14 Publications 26 In Memoriam: Michel Oksenberg (1938–2001) 30 Conferences, Seminars, and Special Events 37 Programs 48 Training and Teaching 52 People 58 Friends of the Asia/Pacific Research Center 65 spring—Tom Rohlen will continue his active presence as a senior fellow. Tom’s contributions to A/PARC over the years MESSAGE FROM have been enormous, and his retirement is a reminder that we need to augment our current faculty strengths on THE DIRECTOR contemporary Japan. We anticipate a search in this area during the coming year as well. While we will be looking actively for new faculty, we are gratified that our recent efforts have already borne fruit. Our long search to fill an endowed chair in Korean Studies—a generous gift from our Korean alumni—culminated last spring in the appointment of Gi-Wook Shin as senior fellow and associate professor of sociology. Professor Shin joins us from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a vital part of the largest Korean Studies program in this country. He is already working in his A/PARC office, and is hatching plans to raise funds and build an active program on contemporary Korea that will benefit the entire Stanford community. We are also happy to announce the establishment of our first competitive postdoctoral fellowship program, which is made possible by the continuing generosity of Walter Shorenstein. A/PARC Director Emeritus Henry S. Rowen, left, with Beginning this year, we will hold an annual competition for Professor Andrew G. Walder, the Center’s new director two Shorenstein Fellows. The Fellows will receive an annual stipend and office space, will participate actively in Center e enter the 2001–2002 academic year in a state activities, and will hopefully publish their work with A/PARC of transition. Harry Rowen has just completed or with Stanford University Press. his highly successful run as director, and will I look forward to my three years as director with enthusiasm. now return full-time to his research projects. A/PARC is a unique institution, designed to maximize our WShiho Harada Barbir is our new associate director, and has influence on U.S.-Asian interactions in an era in which this already brought much-appreciated energy and vitality to the relationship has assumed paramount importance. Centers for administration of our affairs. Russell Hancock has assumed Asian studies at other leading universities were established with new duties as director of programs, and will continue to the agenda of the 1950s in mind. During that period, Asia was expand the activities of our Shorenstein Forum. With Jim a remote and poorly understood place for Americans, a setting Raphael continuing as director of research, I look forward to for war, revolution, national reconstruction, and the rise from the coming year with a strong new leadership team in place. We poverty. Area-studies centers, usually focused on one nation or are fortunate to have an opportunity to build on the very solid subregion, encouraged intense specialization on all aspects of a foundation left by our predecessors. single civilization, from language and the arts to contemporary Last February, the premature loss of Mike Oksenberg to politics. Starting from a condition of deep ignorance, this illness robbed us of a remarkably vital intellectual presence, and approach to building knowledge about Asia paid dividends leaves a large gap in our ability to interpret political early on, but its drawbacks became apparent by the 1980s. It developments in China and influence national debate over isolated country specialists from one another, contemporary China policy. Elsewhere in this Review, we area specialists from their social science celebrate Mike’s contributions and describe disciplines, and scholarly research from the bittersweet conference we held in his applications to the world of business and honor last fall. In the year ahead, however, government. we will begin to rebuild our strengths in Today, Asia is an integral part of our this area through one or more faculty world. The pace of cultural, scholarly, appointments in contemporary Chinese economic, and political interaction with the politics and foreign relations. To ensure this, region is unprecedented. By far the largest we have created a memorial fund whose goal contingent of overseas graduate students in is to establish an endowed senior fellowship American universities are those from East within A/PARC in Mike’s name. After six and South Asia. In many disciplines, they months, we are halfway to our fundraising are the primary source of young talent. In goal, and the coming year will be decisive. addition, immigration has changed the face Despite his formal retirement from of American communities, especially in Stanford—marked by a lively party last Professor Michel Oksenberg California. One emblem of such change is 4 publications. And we need to revitalize and expand our publications program. The applied agenda involves research and dialogue on government policy and business activities regarding Asia. A/PARC was founded with the goal of playing a positive role in building constructive political and business relationships between this country and the East Asian region, and this has long been our strength. Our challenge is to renew and reinforce our activities in this area, in part by rebuilding faculty strength, in part by adding carefully selected senior and visiting fellows. Above left: A/PARC faculty and The institutional agenda is larger and staff mingle with the Rohlen family broader, and only indirectly related to our as they wait for the guest of honor to arrive. At right: Professor Thomas P. goals as a research center, but still vitally Rohlen (left), with party organizer important. A/PARC is an integral part of James Raphael, A/PARC director of Stanford University. We have an obligation research, starts the fun at his to play a leading role in building Stanford’s surprise retirement bash. relatively weak capacity as a center for undergraduate teaching and graduate training on contemporary Asia. Stanford lags woefully behind such peer institutions as Harvard and Berkeley in its faculty strength and student programs on Asia. Stanford is in a weaker position now than it Stanford’s entering class of 2005. It is the first in Stanford was in the 1970s, despite A/PARC’s rapid growth. We can help history in which students of European ancestry are in a by strongly advocating for Asian studies within the University. minority—students of Asian descent are the next largest group. Our primary means to do so is to help recruit outstanding A/PARC’s open structure allows us to take advantage of faculty who would otherwise be passed over by academic these new realities. We encourage interactions among the departments and professional schools who have no particular worlds of scholarship, business, and government. We focus on interest in our region. We can also help by establishing the entire East Asian region, from Japan to Indonesia, and have competitive graduate and dissertation fellowships that enable initiated an effort, already successful, to add South Asia to the Stanford to recruit talented students and assist them in mix. We welcome equally scholars whose specialized or applied developing their research on Asia. While it falls outside our work on Asia makes them a poor fit with traditional academic narrowly defined research agenda, we ignore this obligation at departments and scholars whose research on Asia fits firmly our peril. If we at A/PARC do not work hard to build within the mainstream of their academic disciplines, even if Stanford’s capacity to educate the next generation, and to they are not single-country specialists with extensive language provide specialized training for future leaders in academia, training. In today’s world, the key to generating original and government, and business, our Center’s efforts will not succeed timely knowledge about Asia is to encourage the focused in the long run. interaction of these diverse groups. Those who have supported us so faithfully in the past In concrete terms, A/PARC has three broad agendas: understand the importance of A/PARC’s agenda and the need scholarly, applied, and institutional. to continue its work. We are deeply grateful for the generosity The scholarly agenda is to increase A/PARC’s visibility as a of A/PARC’s many friends and contributors. And, as we leading center of academic excellence in the study of rededicate ourselves to the Center’s goals, we will continue to contemporary Asia. This may be traditional area-studies rely on those who share our commitment to them. A/PARC’s scholarship that involves an intense focus on one country. It intellectual and institutional responsibilities have never been may be scholarship on international relations and political more critical. In the coming months and years, we look economy, or on international business and law.