China and the Asia-Pacific

Dawn over China? The 2nd Chinese Studies Conference takes place at Utah Valley University Library Mar 7-8, 2013 with more than 20 speakers mostly from Utah (USA).

China & The Asia-Pacific Region – The New US Focus

II. Utah Valley University Chinese Studies Conference (UVUCSC II)

March Thu 7 – Fri 8, 2013, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Timpanogos Room (Library), some meals will be served in Lakeview Room

Sponsored by the following entities at UVU: The College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Multi-Cultural Club, Chinese Lunch Club.

Click on the following links for FREE REGISTRATION (reserve your free Chinese meal here) ---- PEER REVIEW (only for speakers) ---- ORGANIZING (only for volunteers) ---- PRESS RELEASE

Description

On November 17, 2011, President Obama announced that the Asia-Pacific region was now a top priority for the US. On January 5, 2012, President Obama announced that the US military will switch its focus to the Asia-Pacific region and on June 2, declared that the US will shift the bulk of its naval fleet to the Pacific by 2020 as part of new strategic focus on Asia, will secure trade routes and will help Japan with counter-missiles. The US challenge the rising regional power of China, as illustrated recently with China’s disputes with Japan and the Philippines on islands.

It shows also how economically important China has become to the US, both as global manufacturer and as a selling market. Will China overcome the US and prove that her model of an exploitative and corrupt economy which restricts people’s freedoms is more successful than a liberal economy based on laws and copyright protection?

This conference invites experts from different fields to discuss China’s role in Asia and the world, her special relation with the US and how this effects Utah and the China-related study programs at Utah colleges and universities, including language teaching. Local business leaders with China-ties will identify expectations towards graduates, what they need to learn if they want to succeed in the China-related job-market. Utah professors will report on concrete examples how they helped graduates to build start-up companies in China and how they played matchmakers between Chinese and Utah businesses.

The conference will also explore the transitional Chinese identity at the beginning of the 21st century. It will report about the environmental impact of China on the region and on the world, on ethnic dissent, human right violations and problems to come to terms with the past.

Scope and target groups

This interdisciplinary conference will bring together speakers from UVU and neighboring universities. On the basis of experiences of the inaugural Chinese Studies Conference in March 2012, it is expected that around 20 student volunteers will help and participate as well as another 30 interested members of the UVU and regional community. The main goal of the conference is to raise awareness of China-related study programs among the UVU community and to foster cooperation in the field of Chinese and Asian Studies between UVU and neighboring universities.

Preliminary Program

Panels This is a tentative list of possible topics and suggested panels. Music will be provided by Harvey Dam playing on a traditional Chinese cither (qin).

Thursday 3/7/2013

9 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Welcome Notes

• Dr. David Yells, Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, UVU
• Dr. Martin Woesler, Chinese Studies Coordinator, UVU

9:15 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. Asian and global effects of Chinese environmental policy

• Panel Chair: Dr. Hong Pang, UVU
• Dr. Hong Pang, UVU, Choking to Death: The Politics of Air Pollution in China
• Dennis Farnsworth, Comparison of US and Chinese hard and soft power, UVU

10:20 a.m. - 11:15 p.m. The US perspective on Developing Business in China and Asia

• Panel Chairs: Dr. David McArthur, UVU, Kent Millington DBA, UVU
• Kent Millington, UVU, Prospects for Benefitial Economic Change in China
• Dr. David McArthur, UVU, Conflict and interests in international technology transfers: Managing agreement and action in China
• Joshua T. Covey, Corporate Counsel Connection, Practical Hints and Tools for Doing Business in China

11:25 - 12:55 p.m. Questions and Possibilities of Conflict Transformation and Democratization in the Asia Pacific

• Panel Chair: Dr. Michael Minch, UVU
• Dr. Michael Minch, UVU, Beijing and Washington as Partners in Response to North Korea: Possibilities within Democratic and Human Rights Tension
• Dr. Geoff Cockerham, UVU, Island Conflicts in the East and South China Sea
• Dr. Eric Hyer, BYU, US Policy and Territorial Disputes in East Asia

1 - 2:30 p.m. Lunch, Timpanogos Room

• Pot Stickers
• Mixed Vegetable with Tofu
• Sweet & Sour Pork
• Beef with Brocoli
• Cashew Chicken

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Chinese cities and transnational spaces

• Panel Chair: Dr. Samuel Y. Liang, UVU
• Licia Kim, B.A., UVU, "Made in USA (with Chinese parts): Being Chinese American in the 21st century"
• Dr. Samuel Y. Liang, UVU, Utopianism in Chinese City Planning: From Beijing to Shenzhen

3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Chinese 21st Century Identity in transition

• Panel Chair: Dr. Martin Woesler, UVU
• Dr. Steve Riep, BYU, Rethinking Genre Filmmaking: Visual Disabilities as Vehicle for Social Critique in Zhang Yimou’s 'Happy Times' and 'House of Flying Daggers' and the Pang Brothers’ 'The Eye'
• Christopher Wiltsie, UVU, 21 Century Chinese identity - Superpower of economy, developing country of freedom
• Dr. Martin Woesler, UVU, Chinese Identity: How do the Chinese see themselves today? How do they see their relation to the US and their role in the world?

5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Dinner and Music by Harvey Dam, playing on a traditional Chinese cither (qin), Timpanogos Room

• Pot Stickers
• Shrimp Fried Rice
• Mongolian Pork
• Kun Pao Beef
• Lemon Chicken

Friday 3/8/2013

10 - 11 a.m. Minorities in China and the Cross-Asian Turk Connection: Ethnic tensions in Northeast China

• Panel Chair: Baktybek Abdrisaev, UVU, History/Political Science / Dr. William Cobb, UVU
• Baktybek Abdrisaev, UVU, The Traditions of Good Governance among Turkic-speaking people of Central Asia and China
• Dyikanbaev Kurmanbek, UVU Center for Constitutional Studies / Member of the Kyrgyz Parliament, The Kyrgyz-Chinese relations and Xinjiang
• Ian Crookstone, Weber State, The History of the Uyghur Diaspora in Kyrgyzstan, 1950-1991

11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. China's Rise from the Historical Perspective

Panel Chair: Dr. Kirk Larsen, BYU

• Dr. Kirk Larsen, BYU, Panel Chair: Dr. Kirk Larsen, BYU, Contemporary Chinese Foreign Policy: Does History Matter?
• Dr. Li Guo, USU, Remembering History through Film: A Study of China's Fourth-Generation Films
• Dr. Greg Lewis, WSU, Zhang Shichuan and the Mingxing Film Company, 1922-1937

1 - 2 p.m. Lunch, Lakeview Room

• Pot Stickers
• Szechuan Pork HOT
• Kun Pao Beef
• Curry Chicken with Onion
• Mixed Vegetable

2:15 - 3:30 p.m. What Utah business expects from UVU graduates to be ready for the China-/Asia-related job market, (joint panel with lecture series)

• Panel Chair: Dr. Jon Westover, UVU
• Garth Peay, Founder of "Perfectly Suited", Provo
• Richard Peterson, Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing "Transfuels LLC", Salt Lake City

3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Review and Final Remarks

5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Dinner, Lakeview Room & Chinese Lion Dance, student performance

• Pot Stickers
• Pork with Mixed Vegetable
• Curry Beef with Onion
• Sesame Chicken
• Kun Pao Tofu

End of Conference

Participants

C.V.s

Martin Woesler

DR. MARTIN WOESLER

organizing committee chair

address

Utah Valley University, 800 W University Parkway, Orem, UT 84058-5999, phone (o) +1 (801) 863-5195, fax (o) +1 (801) 863-6256, martin.woesler@uvu.edu, http://research.uvu.edu/woesler/

current position

• Associate Professor, Chinese Studies Coordinator, Dept. of Languages, MS 167; Utah Valley University, Orem UT, USA
• Director of “International Postgraduate School of Humanities” network, Utah Valley University, Orem UT, USA
• Professor of Intercultural Communication, Chair of Chinese Studies, University of Applied Languages, Munich, Germany

academic education

• Ph.D. in Chinese Studies from Bochum University, Germany in 1998
• M.A. Bochum University, Germany in 1995, B.A. in 1992, majors: Chinese Studies, German Literature, minors: East Asian Politics, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
• 1990-1992 Study at Peking University, Dept. of Chinese Language & Literature, Peking, China

past positions / past work

• 2010-2011 Visiting scholar at Harvard University, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Cambridge MA
• 2007- Chair of Chinese Studies, tenured professor of intercultural communication with the University of Applied Languages Munich, full professorship awarded by the Ministry of Science, State of Bavaria/Germany
• 2004-2007 Assistant Professor of Chinese at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany, head of “China College”
• 2001-2003 Research Associate and Teaching Fellow at Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
• In 2000 Assistant Professor, one-year position, Academy of Euro-Asian Economy and Culture in Achern, Germany

teaching experience

Tongji University Shanghai 2012; Utah Valley University since 2011; Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China 2010; University of Applied Languages, Munich, Germany 2007-2010; University of International Business and Economics, Peking, China in 2006-2007; Nanking University, Nanking, China 2005-2007; Witten/Herdecke University Witten, Germany 2004-2007, 2013; Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany 1998-2003; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA 1998-1999; Ruhr University Bochum, Germany 1996-1999.

professional qualifications

1998 Ph.D.: The Chinese Essay - Authors of the 20th century, Ruhr University Bochum, published 1998 1995 M.A.: Modern Chinese Essays: The author Wang Meng, Ruhr University Bochum, published 1998

selected publications

20 monographs, 80 scripts in Chinese Studies. Most of them are about premodern, modern and contemporary Chinese culture and literature. 25 text books about teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Several articles about literature and culture in peer reviewed US journals, German journals and anthologies, and in Chinese journals.

monographs and scripts in English

• Comparing Chinese and German culture, Bochum 2006, book series Comparative Cultural Sciences vol. 2
• A new model of intercultural communication – critically reviewing, combining and further developing the basic models of Permutter, Yoshikawa, Hall, Hofstede, Thomas, Hallpike, and the social-constructivism, Bochum 2006, book series Comparative Cultural Sciences vol. 1
• Harvard lecture on the 20th century Chinese essay, Bochum 3rd ed. 2006, book series Scripta Sinica vol. 4
• Yale lecture on the 20th century Chinese essay, Bochum 2nd ed. 2005, ISBN 9783899661026, 58 pp., book series Scripta Sinica vol. 3

text books (Chinese-English)

• The Chinese Essay in the 20th Century, Bochum, The University Press Bochum, 2000, 496 (xlii, 205, 229) pp., ISBN 3-934453-14-7, China Science, Bd 2, ISSN 1616-1556, incl. 42 essays with their English translation, and an introduction to the genre with texts from Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Xu Dishan, Yu Dafu, Zu Ziqing, Bing Xin, Ba Jin etc.

monographs in German

• Chinese cultic literature 2008/2009 - authors, works, trends, Munich 2009, 127 pp., book series Sinica vol. 25
• Chinese contemporary literature - authors, works, trends – A snap-shot 2007/2008, Munich 2008, 267 pp.
• Timeless Chinese poetry from the beginnings to the “China avant-garde”, Bochum 4th ed. 2007, 72 pp.
• The history of the Chinese essay, Bochum, 2nd ed. 2009, xiii, 900 pp.
• My Essays are my ‘Longing for Freedom’ - Wang Meng, Former Minister of Culture, as Essayist in the Period 1948-1992, ix, 394 pp, Frankfurt / Main, Peter Lang Press 1998
• Political Literature in China 1991-92 - Wang Meng's 'Reform of Breakfast Habits'. A Translation of the Story “Hard Porridge” and the Documentation of an Absurd Debate, Bochum 2nd ed. 2003, 252 pp., book series Sinica vol. 13
• Valuation criteria for literature – The Dream of the Red Chamber as the most important Chinese novel, Bochum 3rd ed. 2006, 66 pp., book series Scripta Sinica vol. 7
• The film makers of China, Bochum 2004.6, 52 pp. , book series Scripta Sinica 9

edited journals

• European Journal of Sinology (co-edited with Stefan Messmann/Budapest, Hungary, Luigi Moccia/Rome, Italy)
• Bulletin of the German China Association (co-edited with Gregor Paul/Karlsruhe, Germany)

edited anthologies

• Chinese Literature in translation – Proceedings of the conference at the University of Applied Languages Munich 2009/6/27, Munich 2009, 164 pp.
• Law and justice in China. Festschrift in honor of Konrad Wegmann’s 75th anniversary, Munich: 2007, 251 pp.
• Zhang Junhua, Martin Woesler eds., China’s digital dream. The impact of the Internet on Chinese society, The University Press Bochum 2002.10, 274 pp., ISBN 3-934453-90-2, China Science & Scholarship 5
• The Modern Chinese Literary Essay - Defining the Chinese Self in the 20th Century - Conference Proceedings, Bochum, The University Press Bochum, 2000, 327 S., ISBN 3-934453-15-5, China Science, vol. 3, ISSN 1616-1556

edited book series [partly in German]

• 漢學論壇 Sinica (ISSN 1613-6187, 30 vols.)
• 漢學論文 Scripta Sinica (ISSN 1614-3663, 55 vols., some published in the 3rd edition)
• Comparative Cultural Science (co-edited with Matthias Kettner, 8 vols.)
• Suggestive Papers (ISSN 1439-5215, 7 vols.)

grants, honors, research, teaching see [1]

Baktybek Abdrisaev

DR. BAKTYBEK ABDRISAEV

Dr. Baktybek D. Abdrisaev, Senior Lecturer History/Political Science, Utah Valley University.

Professional Experience

• Faculty Lecturer Department of History and Political Science, Orem, Utah, USA, August 2007-

present, Utah Valley University

• Areas of specialization: International Relations and Diplomacy; Comparative Politics – Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Central Asia; Middle East in World Affairs; Islam in World Affairs; Globalization and Sustainable Mountain Development
• Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Orem, Utah, USA, August 2005-August 2007, Utah Valley State College
• Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kyrgyz Republic to United States and Canada
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, Washington, D.C., USA, November 1996-March 2005
• Director of Central Asian Studies, Global Scholarly Publications, New York, USA, August 2003-present
• Deputy of the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic, House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic, Kyrgyzstan,

Bishkek, April 1995-March 2000

• Head, International Affairs Department, Administration of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, September 1993-November 1996

Academic History

• The Honorary Professor of Diplomacy and International Law, The International University of Kyrgyzstan, May 2005
• Doctorate of Philosophy, Institute of Electronics, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Republic of Belarus, Minsk, June 1991

Achievements in Science and Research

• Graduate Diploma of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) 1st International Course on Research and

Innovative Management, International Centre for Science and High Technology (ICS), Venice-Trieste, Italy, 1990

• Bachelor of Science, Bishkek Polytechnic Institute, Kyrgyz Republic, Bishkek, May 1980
• Computer Sciences, Distinctions: Distinguished State Scholarship Recipient, Graduated with High Honors

William Cobb

DR. WILLIAM COBB

Dr. William W. Cobb, Jr., Professor of History, History/Political Science.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., American History, University of Colorado-Boulder, May 1994.
• Master of Arts, History, Colorado State University, December 1986.
• Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy (With High Distinction), Colorado State University, 1978.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Professor of History, Utah Valley University, 2004 - Present.

CURRENT AND RECENT COLLEGE SERVICE

• Coordinator, Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Internship Coordinator for History Majors
• Faculty Representative: Student Chapter of NAACP, UVU
• Faculty Advisor: Phi Alpha Theta (National History Honor Society)
• Faculty Advisor: History Club
• Director: American Studies Program, UVU
• Chair: Engaged Learning in the Liberal Arts (ELLA) Committee, College of HSS, UVU
• Chair: Retention, Tenure, Promotion Committee, History Department, UVU
• Co-Chair: Turning Points in History Lecture Series, UVU.

RECENT CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

• Presenter, 7th Annual International Conference on History at the Athens Insitute for Education and Research. December 2009, Athens, Greece. Paper title: "Wars of Containment and Terror: How the Pedagogy of the American War in Vietnam is Enriched by Comparisons with the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."

PUBLICATIONS

• The American Foundation Myth in Vietnam: Reigning Paradigms and Raining Bombs, University Press of America, 1998.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Phi Alpha Theta, International History Honorary Society.
• The American Historical Association.
• The Organization of American Historians.

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Geoff Cockerham

DR. GEOFF COCKERHAM

Dr. Geoffrey B. Cockerham, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Utah Valley University.

EDUCATION

• PhD., Political Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
• M.A., Political Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
• J.D., Law, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• B.A., Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

FACULTY POSITIONS

• Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah. 2007-2008.
• Assistant Professor, Department of International Studies, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. 2006-2007.
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. 2005-2006.
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. 2003-2005.

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Joshua T. Covey

JOSHUA T. COVEY

Joshua T. Covey

Corporate Counsel Connection

2150 South 1300 East, Suite 500

Salt Lake City, UT 84106

Phone: (801) 251-6869

Fax: (801) 921-6407

www.corporatecounselconnection.com

Joshua T. Covey has spent the past five years honing his corporate law skills as Corporate Counsel for Pragmatic Marketing, Inc. Pragmatic Marketing has been recognized three times by Inc. Magazine as one of the nation’s fastest growing private companies. Along with his responsibilities for Pragmatic Marketing, Mr. Covey also provided legal expertise for seven other closely held businesses. Mr. Covey has worked closely with these businesses to provide solutions for a broad range of legal needs including contract creation and negotiation, employment law/HR administration, and intellectual property rights management.

Prior to joining Pragmatic Marketing, Inc., Mr. Covey was a member of the Real Estate Law group at Snell & Wilmer, P.C., the largest private law firm in Phoenix, Arizona. Mr. Covey graduated from the J. Reuben Clark School of Law at Brigham Young University in 2005. He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Westminster College in Salt Lake City in 2001. Mr. Covey is an active member of both the Utah State Bar and the Arizona State Bar, along with many other professional associations.

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Ian Crookstone

IAN CROOKSTONE

Ian Crookston is an undergraduate student of History at Weber State University. He recently returned from Kyrgyzstan where he was researching the Uyghur Diaspora in Bishkek to write his Senior Thesis. After receiving his B.A. in History, he plans to continue his education in the area of International Politics, Foreign Relations, or History, specializing in Central Asia.

Dennis Farnsworth

F. DENNIS FARNSWORTH, Jr.

Professor Farnsworth has been at UVU since November of 1971, when he began as an adjunct instructor teaching two sections of General Psychology. Since that time, having come from an eclectic academic background, Professor Farnsworth has taught some 33 different courses. Courses he currently teaches include American Heritage, US Economic History, Modern History of East Asia, IR of East Asia, and US Military History.

Professor Farnsworth is Former Founding Director of the UVU Honors Program; former president of the UVU Faculty Senate; co-founder of the current faculty senate, and co-author of its constitution; founder of outcomes assessment; co-founder of Affirmative Action at UVU.

Education: Master of Philosophy degree, Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Utah (2004); Master of Arts degree, International Administration, BYU (1969); Bachelor of Arts degree, Asian Studies, BYU (1966).

Professor Farnsworth is a recognized authority on the history of the People's Liberation Army, the history of the Sino-Soviet dispute, the history of the UVU Honors Program, and the Book of Mormon in Chinese. His specialties in the program that led to his Masters of Philosophy degree include organizational theory and qualitative research.

Teaching and Public-Speaking Specialties: antitrust and regulation in the public interest; Chinese politics; the Chinese Language; Sino-Soviet Affairs; History of the PLA; the Great Depression; the art of teaching; the role of the teacher as a linguistic model; how to develop an honors program; what academic tenure is; how to run a committee.

Honors: Americanism Educational League Essay Coach, whose students have won over $18,000 in prizes from AEL; Sorenson Lifetime Achievement Award, UVU Alumni Association, 2010; Lifetime Service Award, UVU Faculty Senate, 2007; Lifetime achievement Award (Wolverine Achievement Award), UVU, 2006; nominated teacher of the year by department chair, 2001; nominated Teacher of the Year by department chair each year, 1994-1999; nominated for Joseph Katz Award in 1992; Sorensen Award For Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of the Philosophy and Practice of Cooperative Education, 1991; UEH Speakers Bureau member, 1989-1990; General Studies Teacher of the Year, 1988; Who's Who in Provo, 1980; General Education Teacher of the Year, 1976; honor student, BYU Evening School, Summer 1972.

Authorship: "A Study of Selected Aspects of Propositions #1 and #2, Constitutional Amendments Appearing on the Ballot in Utah During the Election Year 1968" (masters thesis, 1969). "A Study Guide for the Book of Mormon in Chinese" (BYU Lee Library Special Collections Call Number: MSS-SC-1823).

Co-authorship: numerous technical papers for Special Operations Command, 1995-2001, and Defense Intelligence Agency, 1972-1995; "The UVCC Honors Program", Focus, Spring 1989.

Private Sector Experience: Management Trainee, lumber industry, 1969-1971; tax consultant, 1969-1971 (part time); advertiser and public relations representative, realty company, 1969-1971 (part time); subscriptions solicitor, prominent Seattle newspaper, 1969-1971 (part time).

Other: Vietnam-Era draftee who spent his overseas time in the Republic of Korea as part of the US forces' occupation, 1966-1967. Spent 35 1/2 years in uniform, full time and part time combined. Chief Warrant Officer, USAR, 1985-2001; retired from the army in 2001 as Chief Warrant Officer Four; fluent in Chinese Mandarin (developed the Chinese Language program, introduced it into the UVU curriculum and taught Chinese 1010 for two years); developed the Chinese Language program and taught Chinese in an intelligence detachment of the US Army for 10 years; has studied Japanese and Korean.

Li Guo

DR. LI GUO

Assistant Professor of Chinese, Ph.D., Department of Languages, Philosophy and Communication Studies (LPCS), College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Utah State University, Office Phone: 1-435-797-8825, Email: li.guo@usu.edu.

Education

PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, 2010.

Published Intellectual Contributions

Edited Journal Issue

Guo, L. (2013). I-Chun Wang and Li Guo edited. Special Issue: “Asian Cultures in the Context of Globalization.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. Purdue University Press.

Book Chapters

Guo, L., Weng, L.. “Two Souls, One World: Autobiographical Writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Ding Ling.” In Urban Conflict and Transnational Modernism in the Interwar Era. Urban Conflict and Transnational Modernism in the Interwar Era.

Refereed Journal Articles

Guo, L. (2013). Negotiating the Traditional and the Modern: Chinese Women’s Literature from the Late Imperial period through the Twentieth Century. To appear in Tulsa Studies of Women's Literature, Spring 2013 issue (32.1).

Guo, L. (2013). Chien-hang Liu, Li Guo and I-Chun Wang. “Asian Cultures and Globalization: A Thematic Bibliography.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 15.2 (June 2013): <http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb> (ISSN 1481-4374). To appear in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb

Guo, L. (2013). Rethinking the Blended Images of the New Woman in China's May Fourth Theatre. To appear in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture.

Guo, L. (2013). Asian Cultures and Globalization: An Introduction. To appear in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture.

Guo, L. (2012). “Rethinking Female Voice and the Ideology of Sound: A Study of Stanley Kwan’s Film Center Stage (1992).”. Film International(3).

Guo, L. (2011). The Legacy of Crossdressing in Tanci: On A Histoire of Heroic Women and Men. Frontier of Literary Studies in China (Higher Education Press, co-published with Springer-Verlag GmbH), 5(4), 566-599.

Guo, L. (2011). “Making History Anew: Feminine Melodrama in Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City (1943)”. Consciousness, Literature and the Arts.. blackboard.lincoln.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/users/dmeyerdinkgrafe/current/guo.htm

Awards and Honors

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Award for College and University Teachers, Shanghai and Berlin: Cultures of Urban Modernism in Interwar China and Germany, NEH at Stanford University. (April 1, 2011).

Book Manuscript

Guo, L. Empowering Tales: Reconnoitering Women’s Tanci in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth Century. In revision.

Eric Hyer

DR. ERIC HYER

Dr. Eric Hyer, is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brigham Young University Provo.

Vita

Education

• PHD, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 1990
• M.Phil, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 1983
• East Asian Institute Certificate, Columbia University, 1982
• MA, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 1981
• BS, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, 1979
• Certificate, Waseda University, International Division, Tokyo, Japan, 1977
• Certificate, National Taiwan Normal University Mandarin Center, Taipei, Taiwan, 1972

Publication Info

• Eric A Hyer (2012). "Soft Power and the Rise of China: An Assessment". China Review International
• Eric A Hyer (2011). “Alternative Perspectives on U.S.-China Relations” . The PRC at 60: Internal and External Challenges.

Licia Kim

LICIA KIM

Licia Kim, is an undergraduate student at Utah Valley University. She is currently pursuing a second B.A. in History. She recently presented a poster "Whatever happened to Salt Lake City's Chinatown?" at the Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research 2013.

Education

• B.A., Asian Studies, Brigham Young University, 1994

Kirk Larsen

DR. KIRK LARSEN

Kirk Larsen is an Associate Professor at the History Department of Brigham Young University.

Education

• Ph.D., Harvard University, 2000
• AM, Harvard University, 1994
• B.A. , Brigham Young University, 1992

Research

History of Modern East Asia; East Asian foreign relations; imperialism; History of Korea; contemporary Korean domestic politics and foreign relations

Awards

• Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award (students’ selection), History Department, Brigham Young University, 2011
• Bender Teaching Award, The George Washington University, 2007

Greg Lewis

DR. GREG LEWIS

Professor of Asian and World History, Weber State University.

Asian Studies Program Director

Office -Social Science 256

Phone - (801)626-6707

Fax - (801)626-7613

Email - glewis@weber.edu

Research and Teaching Areas

• East Asia
• South Asia
• Middle East
• Asian Film

Degrees

• Ph.D., Arizona State University (1999)
• M.A., Arizona State University (1986)
• B.S., Arizona State University (1977)

Courses

• HIST 1500 World History to 1500 c.e.
• HIST 1510 World History from 1500 c.e. to Present
• HIST 4530 Far Eastern History
• HIST 4550 Southeast Asian History

Paper presentation

• "Cross-Cultural Influences in the Globalization of China's Cinema, 1985-2005," at Utah Valley University’s interdisciplinary, international academic conference, “China’s Global Impact,” March 2012

Sam Liang

DR. SAMUEL Y. LIANG

Dr. Samuel Y. Liang is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Utah Valley University, Department of Humanities/Philosophy.

Education

• Ph.D. 2006, Art History, Binghamton University, SUNY;
• MA. History of Architecture, 1994, Department of Architecture, Tongji University, Shanghai

Professional Interests

Architecture and urbanism in modern and contemporary China and East Asia; Chinese spatial and visual culture; Chinese arts and material culture; cultural discourses of urban change; theories of modernity; space and governance; postcolonial identities; aesthetic influences between European and China

Selected Publications

Authored books

• Remaking China’s Great Cities: Space and Culture in Urban Housing, Renewal, and Expansions (Routledge, forthcoming in 2014).
• Mapping Modernity in Shanghai: Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners’ City 1853–98. London: Routledge, 2010, xviii, 218 pp. (paperback 2012), Weblink
  • Chinese version of Mapping Modernity in Shanghai (Beijing: The Commercial Press, forthcoming in 2014)

Journal articles (refereed)

• “Planning and Its Discontents: Contradictions and Continuities in Remaking China’s Great Cities, 1950-2010,” Urban History, 40.3 (2013).
• “最后的先锋派：国际情境主义和建筑电讯派” (Last Avant-gardes: Situationist International and Archigram), 《建筑师》(Architects) 154 (2011): 5-10.
• “The Expo Garden and Heterotopia: Staging Shanghai between Postcolonial and (Inter)national Global Power,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 9, Issue 38 No 1 (2011). http://www.japanfocus.org/-Samuel-Liang/3602
• “Property-Driven Urban Change in Post-Socialist Shanghai: Reading the Television Series Woju,” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 39, no.4 (2010): 3-28.
• “上海弄堂的革命與懷舊: 从中共‘一大’會址到新天地” (The Revolution and Nostalgia of Shanghai Longtang: From the CCP First Congress Memorial to Xintiandi),《台灣社會研究季刊》(Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies) 76 (2009): 393-416.
• “Where the Courtyard Meets the Street: Spatial Culture of the Li Neighborhoods, Shanghai, 1870-1900,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 67, no.4 (2008): 482-503.
• “Amnesiac Monument, Nostalgic Fashion: Shanghai’s New Heaven and Earth,” Wasafiri 23, no.3 (special issue on Chinese writings, 2008): 47-55.
• “Ephemeral Households, Marvelous Things: Business, Gender, and Material Culture in Flowers of Shanghai,” Modern China 33, no.3 (2007): 377-418.
• “High-Tech Cities and the Primitive Jungle: Visionary Urbanism in Europe and Japan of the 1960s,” International Studies in Philosophy 36, no.2 (2004): 45-66.

David Mc Arthur

DR. DAVID N MCARTHUR

Address Utah Valley University, Orem, UT 84058, david.mcarthur@uvu.edu, Office phone (801) 863-7144, david.mcarthur@uvu.edu

Position Associate Professor of International Business & Strategy Chair, Department of Management, Woodbury School of Business, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

Education Ph.D., Business Administration, University of South Carolina, 1998 Major: International Business, Cognate area: Strategic Management • 1999 Richard Farmer Dissertation Award Finalist, Academy of International Business. MA, International & Area Studies, Brigham Young University, 1990, Asian Studies. MBA, Brigham Young University, 1989, International Business and Finance, 1989. BS, Marine Engineering, United States Merchant Marine Academy, 1977.

Current Research Interests International technology transfers within and between firms, the building of organizational knowledge capabilities (esp. technological capabilities); the roles of subsidiaries and managers in the MNE as a network, the diffusion of innovations in international settings, and in the advancing state of the art in international business research methods.

Peer-reviewed Publications appear in • Journal of Marketing Education • International Journal of Applied Philosophy • Complexity and Policy Analysis: Tools and Methods for Designing Robust Policies in a Complex World • Journal of Business Inquiry • Journal of Process Analytic Chemistry • International Journal of Advertising (twice) • Journal of Advertising Research (twice) • Journal of Business Research • R&D Management • International Marketing Review

Peer-reviewed Conference Presentations and Proceedings • 8th World Congress of the Academy for Global Business Advancement • INFORMS Marketing Science Conference • Annual Meeting of the Western Academy of Management, • Mountain Plains Management Conference (twice) • International Workshop on Complexity and Policy Analysis • Academy of International Business Annual Meeting (twice) • Academy of Management Annual Meeting (twice) • American Academy of Advertising Annual Meeting, • Portland International Conference on Technology Management (twice)

Michael Minch

DR. MICHAEL MINCH

Dr. Michael L. Minch is Associate Professor of History and Peace & Justice Program Director at Utah Valley University.

Areas of Specialization and Research

I work in political and moral theory, and in particular, in the connections between them. I also work on the relationship between theology, and political theory, and political commitments. Additionally: democratic theory; theories and practices of peacebuilding, human security, violence, and global justice; political ecology; the moral theories of liberalism, communitarianism, and socialism; and Christian politics, economics and ethics.

Papers Presented (since 2005)

• "When Soldiers Aren't Heroes" at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities co-sponsored by the Asia Pacific Institute of Peking University, the East-West Council for Education, and the University of Louisville Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods; January 2005.
• "Democratic Civil Society Under the Burden of Empire" at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics; Central European University, Budapest, Hungary; June, 2005.
• "Loving Nature and Imaging God: A Sketch for a Political Theology of Nature" at the Salt Lake Theological Seminary; July, 2006.
• “Beyond Rawls, Habermas, and Dryzek: Radical and Green Democratic Theory,” at the annual meeting of the Radical Philosophy Association; Omaha , November 4, 2006.
• "Democracy, Equality, and Economy: Necessary Trends” the annual meeting of the Society of the Advancement of Socio-Economics; Copenhagen , , June 30, 2007.
• "Forgiveness as Political Practice and Economy: Double Negation and Reconciliation" delivered at The Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration at Utah Valley University, January 2008.
• "Why Justice must be Global Justice" given at the twenty-first annual Environmental Ethics Conference at Utah Valley University, April 2008.
• "Democratic Virtues as a Means to Overcome Democratic Deficits and Provide Hope" at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, University of Costa Rica, July 22, 2008
• "Democracy as Music, Music as Democracy" given at the Radical Philosophy Association, San Francisco State University, November 7, 2008.
• "Thoughts about Words and Definitions with Special Reference to the Words 'Christian' and 'Christianity'" at Utah Valley University, November 12, 2008.
• "Living Obliquely: Education for Democracy" at the Grace A. Tanner Symposium on Culture and Democracy," Southern Utah University, January 23, 2009.
• "The Politics of Jesus: Theopolitical Vision and Commission" at the annual "Religion and Public Life" symposium at Salt Lake Community College, March 12, 2009.
• "Democracy: Can it be Rescued and Rebuilt?" at the 8th annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 13, 2010; and the Grace A. Tanner Symposium on Language, Rhetoric, and Democracy at Southern Utah University, January 22, 2010.
• "On Boundaries and Frames and the Erasure of 'War and 'Peace'" at the 7th annual Global Conference on War and Peace: Prague, the Czech Republic, April 30-May 2, 2010; and the annual meeting of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canda, October, 2010.

Publications (since 2005)

• Living Ethics, co-edited with Christine Weigel ( Belmont, CA : Thomson Wadsworth, 2008). second edition, 2011.
• The Democratic Theory of Michael Oakeshott: Discourse, Contingency, and “the Politics of Conversation” will be published by Imprint Academic in 2009.
• "Democracy as Music, Music as Democracy" with Clifton Sanders, Radical Philosophy Review, Vol. 12. Nos. 1 and 2 (2009).
• "Living Obliquely: Education of Democracy," Proceeds from the Grace A. Tanner Lindership inn Democracy, Lee Trepanier, ed. (Cedar City: Southern Utah University Press, 2000), 49-66.
• The following articles/entries in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Global Justice, Deen Chatterjee, ed. (New York: Springer, 2011): "Anarchy", "Augustine", "Borders", "Charity", "Civilian-Based Defense", "Communitarianism", "Corporate Social Responsibility", "Deliberative Democracy", "Democratic Peace Theory", "Dryzek, John", "Global Civil Society", "Habitat for Humanity", "Hobbes, Thomas", "Liberation Theology", "Political Ecology".

Upcoming Book

• I am currently working on a book tentatively entitled, Democratic Virtues (not yet submitted for contract)

Organization Memberships

• The American Philosophical Association
• The Peace and Justics Studies Association, for which I am the Research Liaison and a member of the Board
• The International Peace Research Association
• The American Political Science Association
• The Radical Philosophy Association
• Concerned Philosophers for Peace
• The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
• The Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum

Awards

• Received the 2008 Gandhi Peace Award (with my colleage in Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies at the University of Utah, George Cheney) from the Utah Gandhi Peace Alliance

Kent Millington

J. KENT MILLINGTON, DBA

Address 5006 Country Club Drive, Highland, Utah 84003, 801-368-2146, email jkentmillington@yahoo.com

Experienced senior executive with extensive P&L responsibility and a strong record of building profitable operations in large companies as well as entrepreneurial ventures. International experience having lived in three countries, with substantial experience and networks in Asia (China, Japan, Thailand, Philippines). Specialist in developing new technologies into profitable businesses. Professor of entrepreneurship and finance with excellent teaching skills.

Representative Accomplishments • Built start-up companies to world leaders with profit margins as high as 50%. • Built and managed major operations with sales growing to exceed $500 million. • Developed and managed an important new initiative in technology transfer for one of America’s large national laboratories. • Managed international operations with 300 employees and 4,500 agents. • Successfully introduced new products in markets as diverse as financial services, Internet technologies, and digital forensics. • Received “Outstanding Professor” awards at two universities.

Experience • Business Leader: Twenty-five years of senior level experience, creating and motivating teams to extraordinary achievement with emphasis on building and rapidly expanding profitable operations. Helped build one of the world’s largest Internet companies. Effected the turn-around of an IT company and increased sales by 400% in three years. Extensive international experience, especially in Asia. Served on several Boards of Directors. • Academic Leader: Nine years of full time teaching at the university level, creating entrepreneurship courses and teaching finance and strategy. Taught professional training (CPE) courses for CPAs for over 20 years. Currently teach innovative online MBA courses to students worldwide and serve as Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at University of Science and Technology of China. • Community Leader: Lifelong commitment to service in community and church. Served national small business interests on two committees of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (7 years). Local school board president and member (6 years). Currently serving my fifth year of a six year appointment on Utah Transportation Commission.

Education • Have earned BA, MBA, and DBA degrees. Strong advocate for education.

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Hong Pang

DR. HONG PANG

Dr. Hong Pang, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Utah Valley University.

Garth Peay

GARTH PEAY

Garth Peay, Founder of "Perfectly Suited", Provo.

He was raised in Provo, Utah. Moved to Los Angeles, Cal then to New York City, to be a professional dancer. After a few years of dancing and traveling the world, he became a Flight Attendent for United Airlines. Working mainly International flights to Europe and Asia. His love for clothing continued to grow, working at fine stores in LA and Nordstrom in Utah ..., he finally opened his own business:

Perfectly Suited by garth! 55 No. Univeristy Ave, suite 110.

Richard Peterson

RICHARD PETERSON

Richard Peterson, Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Transfuels LLC.

Mr. Peterson concluded his career at Flying J Inc. as a Senior Executive of the largest privately-held fully-integrated oil company in the U.S. During the past 30 years, he has been actively involved in middle and executive management of Flying J, where he had a primary role in the development and evolution of various businesses which were comprised of petroleum marketing, refining and pipelines, retail travel plazas, supply & distribution, transportation and logistics of all petroleum products.

Flying J was a small regional player in the Western U.S. with revenues of $150 million when Mr. Peterson started with the company. The company grew by developing strategic alliances, forming joint ventures with global companies, and aggressive organic growth of their retail network, transportation, logistics, petroleum marketing, supply and distributions divisions. This business model was successfully implemented in the U.S. and Canada with annual sales exceeding $16 billion.

Mr. Peterson’s vast experience and contribution to the petroleum industry spanned over three decades. One of his greatest talents has been the ability to recognize opportunities and to assemble a team of world-class talent that has been able to demonstrate on a consistent basis that they could achieve the expected result in whatever initiative or endeavor they pursued.

He has enjoyed his professional career in the petroleum industry over the past 30 years with its unique and diverse challenges, and has learned much and acquired immense experience. Mr. Peterson is using those same talents to help launch Transfuels LLC to become a leader in the evolution of the LNG industry.

Steve Riep

DR. STEVE RIEP

Dr. Steve Riep, BYU, Associate Professor of Chinese.

Contact Information

Office: 3064-B JFSB

Phone: 422-1505

Email: steven_riep@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses

• Chinese 342 Chinese Film in Translation
• Chinese 344 Chinese Literature in Translation: Narrative Literature
• Chinese 345R Chinese Culture
• Chinese 347 Business Chinese
• Chinese 443 Modern Chinese Literature in Chinese
• Chinese 444 Contemporary Chinese Literature in Chinese
• Chinese 495 Senior Seminar in Modern Chinese Literature
• Asian/Comp Lit 342 and Honors 303R Asian Literary Traditions

Semester Schedule

• Chinese 347 TuTh 5:00-6:20 pm JKB 2011
• Chinese 444 MW 2:25-3:40 pm SFH 277

Office Hours: Tu 3-4, W 12-1 and by appointment

Steve Riep, associate professor of Chinese and comparative literature, specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film, and culture. He serves as head of the Chinese section and as co-director of BYU's International Cinema Program. His articles and reviews have appeared in or are forthcoming in such venues as Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Modern China, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles and Reviews, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography (Vols. 328 and 370). He has also translated contemporary fiction, poetry, and drama from both China and Taiwan. Research projects past and present have been funded by the Fulbright Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the College of Humanities and David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at BYU. His current research projects explore the depiction of visual disabilities in post-Mao Chinese cinema, the role of the traditional intellectual in the liberation era film Crows and Sparrows, and the relationship between religion and women's emancipation in the short stories of the May Fourth-era writer Xu Dishan.

Projects in Progress

• “Mr. Kong in Shanghai: Revolutionizing a May Fourth Character in the Nationalizing Moment.” (article)
• "Reading Disability in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature & Visual Culture." （book manuscript)

Forthcoming Publications

• “Bai Xianyong.” Dictionary of Literary Biography Volume 368: Chinese Fiction Writers, 1950-2000, Thomas Moran, editor. Columbia, SC: Clark Layman, Inc. for Gale Research. (encyclopedia entry)
• Lin Zhaohua, Hamlet, a Chinese drama based on William Shakespeare’s play. Translated from the Chinese with Ronald Kimmons. Translation and critical introduction to appear in the first volume of Shakespearean Adaptations in East Asia: A Critical Anthology of Shakespearean plays in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, a five-volume anthology edited by Alexander Huang and Ryuta Minami, Eureka Press. (Translation and transcription from the Chinese with a critical introduction in English)

Selected Recent Publications

• “Piecing Together The Past: The Notion of Recovery in Recent Fiction and Film from Taiwan,” Modern China, 38.2 (March 2012), pp. 199-232.
• Literary translations from the Chinese of Wang Wen-hsing’s novella “Dragon Inn” (Longtian lou), pp. 279-349 as well as short stories “Withered Chrysanthemums” (Canju), pp. 27-45 and “Dying Dog” (Yitiao chuiside gou), pp. 9-13 in Shu-ning Sciban and Fred Edwards, eds., Endless War: Fiction and Essays by Wang Wen-hsing, Cornell East Asia Series #158, East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2011.
• Literary translations from the Chinese of poems by Duo Yu (“Gathering Up” and “Village History,” pp. 266-269) and Zhou Zan (“Wings” and “Artisans,” pp. 224-227) in Sylvia Li-chun Lin and Howard Goldblatt, eds., Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China., Copper Canyon Press, 2011.
• “A War of Wounds: Disability, Disfigurement, and Anti-Heroic Portrayals of the War of Resistance against Japan.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 20.1 (Spring 2008), pp. 129-172.
• “The View from the Buckwheat Field: Capturing War in the Poetry of Ya Xian,” in Christopher Lupke, ed., New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. 47-64.
• “Reunification Reconsidered: Rethinking Recovery of the Mainland in Post-1949 Fiction and Film from Taiwan.” The Proceedings of the 2006 UCSB Conference in Taiwan Studies: Taiwan Literature and History, Center for Taiwan Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007, pp. 133-154.
• “Xu Dishan.” In Thomas Moran, ed., Dictionary of Literary Biography Volume 328: Modern Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949, Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. for Gale Research, 2007, pp. 250-256.

Degrees

• BA, U. of California, Berkeley, Chinese and Political Economy
• MA, PhD UCLA, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Modern Chinese Literature

Interests

Modern and contemporary transnational Chinese literature and film; cultural production under authoritarian regimes; ecocriticism; disability studies; war, memory, and trauma in film and literature; and the fiction of Xu Dishan and Bai Xianyong (Pai Hsien-yung, Kenneth H.Y. Pai).

Dyikanbaev Kurmanbek Saparovich

DYIKANBAEV KURMANBEK SAPAROVICH

Dyikanbaev Kurmanbek Saparovich is member of the UVU Center for Constitutional Studies and Member of the Kyrgyz Parliament.

Current Leadership Position

Mr. Dyikanbaev is Deputy of the Zhogorku Kenesh (Parliament) of the Kyrgyz Republic from the party “Republic” since 2011. He currently serves as vice-chairman of the Committee on budget and finance of the Kyrgyz Parliament and is deputy leader of the “Republic” party caucus. He is married with five children.

Education

He first graduated from the Vitebsk State academy in Belarus, in 1986 as a veterinarian and since, has become a postgraduate student at the Academy of Management under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic in 2004. Presently, he is a PhD candidate writing his thesis on: “Constitutional and Legal basis for the Municipal Service.”

Career

Starting his career as a senior veterinarian at the collective farm in the Tyup area, Issyk Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic in 1986, he has continued on to fill positions as:

• Chief veterinarian (1987-1992);
• Chairman of the collective farm in Issyk Kul region (1995-1997);
• Head of local municipality Issyk Kul region (1997-1998);
• Leading expert of the National Association of local governments (1998-2001);
• Expert of the “Decentralization of power” project of the United Nations Development Program (1998-2002);
• Chief of Staff of the National Congress of local communities (1998-2002);
• Chairman of the National Association of local governments of villages and settlements (2002);
• Member of the Coordination Council implementing the Actions Plan of the Government on National Strategy for Decentralization of a state administration and development of local governments (2002);
• Chair of the Management Department of the Chuy Region State Administration (2009-2010);
• Member of the working group on preparation of drafts of the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic under the various forms of government

Jon Westover

DR. JONATHAN H. WESTOVER

Address: Utah Valley University, 800 W. University Parkway, MS-119, Orem, UT 84058-5999, Office Phone: (01) 801-863-8215; Email: jonathan.westover@uvu.edu; Home Address: 479 W 2325 N, Lehi, UT, 84043

Position: Assistant Professor of Management, Woodbury School of Business; Director of Academic Service Learning, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

Education: • Ph.D., Sociology, University of Utah, 2011: Comparative International Sociology: International Political Economy; Sociology of Work and Organizations • Graduate Demography Certificate, University of Utah, 2007: Labor force dynamics • M.S., Sociology, University of Utah, 2007: Work and Organizations Emphasis • Graduate Higher Education Teaching Specialist Certificate; University of Utah, 2007: Adult Learning • MPA, Brigham Young University, 2005: Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior • B.S., Sociology, Brigham Young University, 2003: Research and Analysis Emphasis; Business Management Minor; Korean Language Minor Current Research: Professor Westover’s ongoing research examines issues of globalization, labor transformation, social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, work-quality characteristics, and the determinants of job satisfaction cross-nationally. Over the past 5 years, he has published 28 peer-reviewed scholarly articles in a variety of academic journals (6 more currently submitted and at various stages in the peer-review process), 14 other editorial-reviewed scholarly articles, 6 academic books/texts (2 more forthcoming), 15 book chapters (2 more forthcoming), 16 conference proceedings (1 more forthcoming), and has made more than 70 scholarly and teaching presentations at academic conferences.

Professional Distinction: Professor Westover recently received the prestigious Fulbright Scholar award to be visiting faculty at Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus), where he will be teaching in the MBA program in the School of Business and Management of Technology and conducting research and consulting with business and civic groups on human resource development and performance management issues. Additionally, he is a visiting faculty member in the MBA program at the University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei, China).

Christopher Wiltsie

CHRISTOPHER WILTSIE

Christopher Wiltsie, UVU.

Abstracts

► The Traditions of Good Governance among Turkic-speaking people of Central Asia and China

'Baktybek Abdrisaev, UVU'

University Uighurs are among one of the oldest people who inhabited territory of modern Xinjiang and who live now as a sizable diasporas at the territory of neighboring independent nations of Central Asia. As Turkic people they have many common roots with other Central Asian people, like Kazakhs, Kyrgys, Uzbeks and Turkmen. Presenter will talk about Kutadgu Bilig, 11th century manuscript, which belongs to the time of Karahanids dynasty and represents a document, advocating good governance and respect to law.

► Island Conflicts in the East and South China Sea

'Dr. Geoff Cockerham, UVU'

Competing claims over sovereignty of islands in the East China (Senkaku/Diaoyu) and South China sea (Spratly) are among the most contentious issues in Asian regional politics. In both cases, China’s historical claims to these islands have been challenged by a variety of Asian states, most notably Japan and Vietnam. These challenges have been to such an extent that military conflict is a possibility. This talk will discuss the basis of the various claims to these islands, the application of international law in these disputes, and it will address why international law has not contributed to a successful resolution of these disputes.

► Practical Hints and Tools for Doing Business in China

'Joshua T. Covey, Corporate Counsel Connection'

With a population of roughly 1.3 billion people, more and more individuals and companies are looking to take advantage of the Chinese market. However, before diving in, companies should understand some of the hidden dangers of operating in China. Successful approaches and strategies used in the United States and elsewhere may not translate to the Chinese market. It is important for businesses to understand the risks that are associated with the Chinese market. At a minimum, companies must understand the risks associated with the contracting process and those risks relating to intellectual property.

► The History of the Uyghur Diaspora in Kyrgyzstan, 1950-1991

'Ian Crookstone, Weber State'

The Uyghurs have been present in the area now known as Kyrgyzstan for the past two centuries, though an official explanation of what it means to be a Uyghur only emerged in the last century. The largest migration of Uyghurs into Kyrgyzstan occurred during the late 1950s and early 1960s, as Uyghurs fled Communist Chinese oppression. The leadership of the Soviet Union saw the benefits of such an influx of potential collectivized laborers coming from across the Chinese border, so they orchestrated and facilitated this migration of tens of thousands of Uyghurs, as well as other ethnic Turks. Recent oral histories and other research support the claims that Uyghurs were treated pragmatically as pawns in the Sino-Soviet game of realpolitik.

► Comparison of US and Chinese hard and soft power

'Dennis Farnsworth, UVU'

This article explores the issues of soft and hard power as possessed by the U.S. and the PRC. It focuses on the issue of balanced growth, and whether China and the U.S. are currently pursuing that ideal. The article evaluates comparative development in military power and prowess. Finally, the presentation will consider the likelihood of war between the world hegemon and the great regional hegemon.

► Remembering History through Film: A Study of China's Fourth-Generation Films

'Dr. Li Guo, USU'

This paper addresses the representation of cinematic crowds in the Fourth Generation of Chinese films. Inspired by the late Chris Marker's devotion to the course of creating “Cinema in the hands of the people,” this essay explores how film functions in reconstructing the people's roles in a common culture after China's Cultural Revolution and permits them to speak to one another and understand one another. I explore how post Cultural Revolution filmmakers envision new forms of community that challenge separations between different sectors of culture and transcend mystically coherent categories of class or party. By reflecting on the traumas of Cultural Revolution, the Fourth-Generation Chinese films project a renewed imagination of people's roles as active political subjects who, in resistance against homogenous representation, develop capabilities to speak for themselves.

► US Policy and Territorial Disputes in East Asia

'Dr. Eric Hyer, BYU'

The East China and South China Sea dispute pit US allies against the People's Republic of China. While the US has professed to be neutral regarding the sovereignty disputes, the US has increasingly backed its allies in these confrontations with China. This paper uses a game theory analysis of alliances to analyze the impact on US alliances and the influence these territorial disputes have upon US-China relations. As these territorial disputes have escalated over the past year, the US finds itself in a difficult position. It is a challenge for the US to support its allies and not alienate China at the same time.

► Made in USA (with Chinese parts): Being Chinese American in the 21st century

'Licia Kim, UVU'

There are nearly 4 million Chinese Americans in the US today and almost 3 million people (over the age of 5) speak Chinese at home- making Chinese the 2nd most widely spoken non-English language in the country (after Spanish). So what does it mean to be Chinese American today? From the newly-arrived Chinatown immigrant's disillusionment with the "broken" American dream to the American born Chinese expat's culture shock on the job in China- this presentation examines the experience of being Chinese American in the globalized world of the 21st century.

► Contemporary Chinese Foreign Policy: Does History Matter?

'Dr. Kirk Larsen, BYU'

History, or at least how history has been remembered (and forgotten), can play an influential role in shaping contemporary identities, attitudes, and policies. In the case of contemporary China, the “era of humiliation” (1839-1949) still figures prominently in present-day Chinese consciousness and arguably helps shape how China interacts with its neighbors in the region and its more distant global competitors. Much of “era of humiliation” has been forgotten by many in the United States and Europe to the detriment of mutual comprehension if not amity. On the other hand, many in China have also arguably forgotten much about their own history—not least a long-standing tradition of aggressive foreign policy and the extremely violent process by which the Manchu-dominated but multi-ethnic Qing Empire became “China”—which may also help to illuminate and explain contemporary Chinese foreign policy.

► Utopianism in Chinese City Planning: From Beijing to Shenzhen

'Dr. Samuel Y. Liang, UVU'

This article examines how revolutionary ideology and utopianism informed rebuilding China's great cities in the socialist and reform eras. It provides a historical overview of the complex relationship between Party politics and the national and local building programs. It focuses on the reform era through the case studies of Beijing and Shenzhen and critically analyzes the collaboration between local leaders and foreign architects in carrying out utopian projects. It argues that utopianism is balanced by political pragmatism and the built urban form features a mixture of various visual elements and fragmented patches that resemble a palimpsest rather than a totalizing Scheme.

► Conflict and interests in international technology transfers: Managing agreement and action in China

'Dr. David McArthur, UVU'

Against the backdrop of huge levels of inbound foreign direct investment, individual foreign firms, large and small, make “bets” as they transfer production and commercial technologies into new national markets such as China. For too many these “bets” go disastrously wrong some for one or more of several reasons. Chinese firms, both subsidiaries of and partners in joint ventures with the technology-source companies, can be better understood as potential “points of leakage” if some basic principles are understood beforehand. Using theoretical, experiential, and research sources this discussion will address the roots of partner interests and the conflicts that often arise in technology transfers in China.

► Prospects for Benefitial Economic Change in China

'Kent Millington DBA, UVU'

The economic globalization of the past two decades has increased the connections between countries and brought many countries into the economic equation. China’s economic achievements have been one of the most outstanding examples of this economic integration. But can China maintain its momentum and continue its strong impact on the global economy? Which industries will lead the way and which will lag and perhaps disappear? How will the 12th five-year plan give direction to China’s changes in the coming years? These questions will be explored with some personal observations provided.

► Utah China-related business example: Perfectly Suited by garth, Provo

'Garth Peay, Provo'

Perfectly Suited by garth, started in 2002, as a custom tailoring business for men. P/S was started to help improve the business image and appearance, of men at work and interviews. The business has grow to inclued custom plus a small "men's" shop on Univeristy Ave. in Provo, Utah, with ready to wear suits, shirts, ties etc. With coming plans for a small shops in Salt Lake City and other smaller cities in the Mountian West. These shops will be a francise chain opportunity for young men or women who want to break into the clothing (business) market. Most of the custom suits are tailored in Hong Kong.

► BLU

'Richard Peterson, BLU'

Global companies provide global opportunities. Extend yourself to think global and prepare yourself to compete in a global world.

► Rethinking Genre Filmmaking: Visual Disabilities as Vehicle for Social Critique in Zhang Yimou’s 'Happy Times' and 'House of Flying Daggers' and the Pang Brothers’ 'The Eye'

'Dr. Steve Riep, BYU'

This paper will explore the ways in which well-known director Zhang Yimou’s films Happy Times (2000) and House of Flying Daggers (2004) use blindness in radically different ways. The former attempts to breakdown stereotypes regarding the blind including the favored career path of medical massage therapy and seeking a cure for blindness. House of Flying Daggers works within the genre of wuxia cinema as it pays homage to King Hu’s A Touch of Zen, though its depiction of a woman knight errant passing as blind seems opportunistic. I contrast Zhang’s portrayals of blindness with those found in the Pang Brothers’ Hong Kong horror film The Eye (2002), which problematizes the value of sightedness and questions the benefits of a cure by linking sightedness with a world of evil, darkness, suffering, and death.

► 21 Century Chinese identity - Superpower of economy, developing country of freedom

'Christopher Wiltsie, UVU'

As China develops into a world power, it must also deal with the political and social growing pains of a developing middle class. It has long been assumed that with economic development, certain progressions occur including a politically active middle class and a strengthening of democratic values. Despite these trends throughout the world, China has developed within a strong cultural and political framework that has resulted, in some cases, in a deviation from this standard. I will present on the specific obstacles that China currently faces in becoming more democratic.

► Chinese Identity: How do the Chinese see themselves today? How do they see their relation to the US and their role in the world?

'Martin Woesler, UVU'

Chinese identity in the 21st century is extremely complicated and meanders between pride and shame, which can be seen best with the love and hatred towards the United States. The feeling of shame and inferiority mostly is based in the discovery of 1850 that China was not everything under heaven, and instead was forced into 50 years of semi-colonialism. This feeling of shame is turned into a strong longing to be recognized as equal with other nations and ultimately as the world leader, a longing which justifies even industrial espionage and copyright violations. At the same time, Chinese people feel proud of themselves, when it comes to their economical and military development since 1980. This contradictory feelings of extreme shame and pride result in a schizophrenic longing to prove to the world that China surpasses the United States in all respects. There are some major misperceptions, like the hope to use capitalism and the internet to promote the economy without allowing a legal system and the freedom of mind. This created a more demanding middle class and a critical public sphere. Since China is considered weak in soft power, the government spends billions of dollars for charm offensives, but these campaigns fall flat, because as long as China is seen as the leader of the unfree world, it cannot win the hearts of the people of the world.

Organization

The organizing committee consists of the panel chairs, Mark Olson from IDST and is chaired by Dr. Martin Woesler. The organization is highly transparent, with a Wiki website where everybody can shape the conference and bring in their ideas and other contributions.

Volunteers

• Multi-Cultural Club at UVU, several members
• Chinese Lunch Club at UVU, several members
• Quaid Atkinson
• Josh Brandeberry
• James Campbell
• Mat Christensen
• Tara Froisland (March 8 only)
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