East Asian Studies Center Office of International Affairs SUMMER 2010 The Ohio State University A Title VI NRC/FLAS Center IN THIS ISSUE From the Director . 1 Center News . 2 re Library News. 14 Faculty News. 16 Student News. .19 From The Director Typically, the business of the into the lively LCTL course bourse that it has center is people—the faculty, students, become in 2010. Together with our Center for speakers, teachers, the public—but Slavic and East European Studies NRC and every four years, when the new Title VI Indiana University, we offered Uzbek and applications are due, numbers acquire Mongolian, and in partnership with the OSU a magic sheen. How many courses Department of East Asian Languages and taught? How many students enrolled? Literatures (DEALL) and the University of How many conferences sponsored? Michigan, we launched a battery of regularly How many books acquired? How many taught and highly successful modern and events organized? How many teachers classical Tibetan language courses. We reached? How many people impacted? awarded several FLAS fellowships to study In order to create a composite picture of these languages. Our Tibetan language the many threads of an institution’s East Asian program graduates in History of Art and DEALL activities, we ask questions and we send out now do research in China, Nepal, Bhutan and queries—and then the fun begins: we negoti- Europe; those who have taken Mongolian will ate, we follow up, we send reminder emails, further their language training this summer in we make phone calls, we cajole, we plead, Mongolia. We were pleased that the NRC exp we pursue new leads, we compile what we competition made inter-NRC cooperation a know, we ask another round of questions, and priority and hope to start exporting advanced we create more charts. We tabulate what we Korean in the next cycle. know, and we ponder how to digest what we Starting in 2006, OSU forged ahead with have learnt about inputs, outputs, outcomes, a new, rigorous, and interdisciplinary EAS MA impacts. We attain new personal bests in program that emphasized in-depth language perseverance; our family members acquire and thoroughgoing academic training. Our new levels of competence in the chores that we recruits arrived well-prepared—over 70% have typically manage. Our restaurant and take-out already lived and/or studied in East Asia and bills reach an all-time high. Finally, with the most arrive with at least two years of relevant numbers finally distilled into a forty-five page language preparation. With over 300 area narrative about the institution’s inner life, we studies courses offered annually, with over 80 hope for the best and indulge ourselves a little active East Asia-oriented student organizations, by looking at how the daily sum of our and over 85 East Asian partner institutions in activities over the last cycle have sparked, place, our current cohort can create their own forged, and initiated new programs. one-of-a-kind experience. With recent graduates Beginning in 2006, sparked by student working in government, the non-profit sector, interest, OSU was at the forefront of CIC efforts and education, we hope to reach out to military, to turn the newly created CIC video-delivery CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 EASC East Asian Studies Center The Ohio State University easc.osu.edu From the Director CONTINUED community colleges, and HBCUs to further diversify our future, we are in the process of adding STEM-related pool of graduates in the future. activities to our repertoire to bridge the gap between Starting with 2006, EASC initiated or co-sponsored sciences and the humanities with our first undergraduate over 200 events annually to promote greater knowledge Chemical Engineering/Chinese major on her way to of East Asian culture. Recent highlights have included FLAS-supported language study in Beijing. visits by leading Korean performers guest-teaching classes As always, we thank you for your ideas, time, at OSU while also performing at the annual Asian energy and support and wish you a productive and Festival, the largest event of its kind in the U.S.; forums on exciting summer. Needless to say, we hope to see many contemporary Japanese politics led by the EASC postdoc; of you at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs to be lectures on traditional Chinese drama, tea culture, film, hosted by EASC in the fall. and history presented to a packed house of graduate and undergraduate students; an exhibition on a leading Chinese photographer by one of our graduate students; and visits by documentary filmmakers to show their work PATRICIA SIEBER , PH.D. DIRECTOR , EA S T AS IAN STU D IE S CENTER on the aftermath of WWII in Korea, Japan, and the U.S. DIRECTOR , IN S TITUTE FOR CHINE S E STU D IE S for graduates of EASC teacher training programs. For the Ass OCIATE PROFE ss OR , EA S T AS IAN LANGUAGE S AN D LITERATURE S Center News Focus on East Asian Relations Political scientist serves as 2009-2010 EASC postdoctoral researcher EASC was pleased to welcome its 2009-10 post- doctoral researcher, Dr. Jeffrey Hornung, a specialist in comparative politics and international relations, who was in residence at OSU from September 2009 through Summer 2010 re June 2010. Dr. Hornung received his Ph.D. from George Washington University with his dissertation, “Learning How to Sweat: Explaining the Dispatch of Japan’s Self- Defense Forces in the Gulf War and Iraq War.” With the focus of the 2009-2010 postdoctoral researcher search on policy issues in modern and contemporary East Asia, EASC found an exceptional OSU candidate in Hornung. During his time at OSU, he taught three courses on policy-related topics. The first, International Relations of East Asia, offered in Winter 2010, was designed to help students better understand the complex relations among the regional powers of East Asia through an examination of the evolution of relations EASC P O S T D OCTORA L RE S EARCHER JEFFREY HORNUNG . among these states, both militarily and economically. exp Included in the examination were foreign policies, potential flashpoints as well as issues concerning historical memory.T he second course, Government and Politics of Japan, also offered in Winter 2010, provided students with an understanding of how Japan’s political system works through an examination of the development of modern Japan. Included in this examination was its indigenous attempt at democratic rule, the post-World War II democratic regime dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party, crucial issues that political leaders face, and the recent historical change of government. The third course, International Relations of Japan, offered in Spring 2010, examined Japan’s foreign policy from the 19th century until today. Policies that led Japan to disaster in World War II, postwar bilateral relations with various countries/regions, and issues important to Japan’s foreign policies were included. EASC 2 East Asian Studies Center The Ohio State University easc.osu.edu Center News IJS hosts symposium on “Japan’s Political Earthquake: Sources and Consequences” In February 2010, the Institute for Japanese Stud- ies, with support from EASC’s Title VI grant, hosted a symposium on Japan’s recent political shake-up. Professor Emeritus Bradley Richardson, from the political science department, opened the event with a talk titled “The Democratic Party of Japan’s (DPJ) Electoral Suc- cess: Patterns and Explanations” in which he discussed the changing demographics of Japan and the impact on election turnout and interest. He also talked about Japan’s public debt, changing age structure, educational levels and occupation structure. Invited speaker, Takashi Oka, journalist and author of A Political Biography of Ozawa Ichiro, then spoke about Ozawa and his im- portance within all of the changes in Japanese politics. EASC postdoctoral researcher Jeffrey Hornung, a spe- cialist in comparative politics and international relations, talked about the DPJ’s policy performance on domestic (FROM L EFT ) RICHAR ds ON , OKA , HORNUNG P O S E WITH THE MO D ERATOR issues and Japan’s role in the world. OF THE JA P ANE S E POLITICS S YM P O S IUM , PROFE ss OR J. MAR S HA ll UNGER . ICS co-hosts global military ICS and Mershon Center hold issues symposium Third Annual CHINA Town Hall ICS/EASC co-hosted The National Committee on United States-China “Russia, China and the Relations, in collaboration with the Institute for Chinese Shanghai Cooperation Or- Studies and the Mershon Center for International Secu- ganization” symposium with rity Studies, hosted the “Third Annual CHINA Town Hall: the Center for Slavic and Local Connections, National Reflections,” a national East European Studies and day of programming designed to provide Americans the Summer 2010 re Mershon Center for Interna- opportunity to discuss China’s rapid development and tional Security Studies on Sino-American relations with leading experts. The Town November 2, 2009. This Hall, held on December 8, 2009, featured a nationwide symposium explored the POLITICAL S CIENCE GRA D UATE webcast by Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State S TU D ENT S , XIAOYU PU (L EFT ) Shanghai Cooperation AN D JA S ON SU-YA WU (RIGHT ) for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and an on-site presen- Organization (SCO), a per- P ARTICI P ATE IN THE FIR S T AN - tation by China specialist I. Allen Barber II. NUA L GL OBA L MILITARY Iss UE S manent intergovernmental, Barber addressed SYM P O S IUM . international organization issues in the U.S.-China OSU created in 2001 in Shanghai by the Republic of Kazakh- bilateral relationship stan, the People’s Republic of China, the Kyrgyz Repub- in his presentation, lic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan “Influencing our Future: and the Republic of Uzbekistan.