China and the Asia-Pacific
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
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 UVU, 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. UVU 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 50 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.
Preliminary Program
Panels This is a tentative list of possible topics and suggested panels. Music has been requested from the Chinese-Western band Matteo.
Friday 3/1/2013 Pre-Conference Workshop, one week before the conference, Panel Discussion Sino-US Relations in the Guomindang Era
- Dr. Greg Lewis, Weber State University
- Dr. Parks Coble, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Dr. Jingping Wu, Fudan University, China
Thursday 3/7/2013
9 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Welcome Notes
9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Asian and global effects of Chinese environmental policy
Panel Chair: Dr. Hong Pang, UVU (confirmed)
Speaker 1: N.N.
Speaker 2: N.N.
Speaker 3: N.N.
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. The US perspective on Developing Business in China and Asia
Panel Chairs: Dr. David McArthur, UVU (confirmed), Dr. Kent Millington, UVU (confirmed)
Speaker 1: Changing preferences in China for local manufacturers squeezing foreign companies
Speaker 2: Improving IP protections in China
Speaker 3: Low cost manufacturing shifting away from China
Speaker 4: Infrastructure improvements offering and facilitating Asian business opportunities
12:45 - 2 p.m. Questions and Possibilities of Conflict Transformation and Democratization in the Asia Pacific
Panel Chair: Dr. Michael Minch, UVU (confirmed)
Speaker 1: Dr. Michael Minch, UVU, Beijing and Washington as Partners in Response to North Korea: Possibilities within Democratic and Human Rights Tension
Speaker 2: Dr. Geoff Cockerham, UVU, Island Conflicts in the East and South China Sea (confirmed)
Speaker 3: Dr. Eric Hyer, BYU, The higher profile the US is taking in the South China Sea and East China Sea territorial dispute (confirmed)
2 - 3 p.m. Lunch Break Lakeview Room
Chinese Lunch (sponsor pending)
3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Chinese cities and transnational spaces
Panel Chair: Dr. Sam Liang, UVU (confirmed)
Speaker 1: Licia Kim, B.A., UVU, Chinese Identity in Diaspora Communities with a focus on Chinatowns today (confirmed)
Speaker 2: Dr. Sam Liang, UVU, Utopianism in Chinese City Planning: From Beijing to Shenzhen
Speaker 3: N.N.
4:30 - 5:45 p.m. Minorities in China - Handicaped people and the Cross-Asian Turk Connection: Ethnic tensions in Northeast China
Panel Chair: Baktybek Abdrisaev, UVU, History/Political Science (confirmed) / Dr. William Cobb, UVU (confirmed)
Speaker 1: Baktybek Abdrisaev, UVU (confirmed)
Speaker 2: N.N.
Speaker 3: N.N.
5:45 - 7:45 p.m. Dinner
Friday 3/8/2013
9:30 - 11 a.m. Chinese 21st Century Identity in transition
Panel Chair: Dr. Martin Woesler, UVU (confirmed)
Speaker 1: Dr. Steve Riep, BYU, Disability and China today (confirmed)
Speaker 2: Christopher Wiltsie, UVU, 21 Century Chinese identity - Superpower of economy, developing country of freedom (confirmed)
Speaker 3: Dr. Martin Woesler, UVU, Chinese love and hatred of the USA - Attractiveness as main component of softpower (confirmed)
11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. China's Rise from the Historical Perspective
Panel Chair: Dr. Kirk Larsen, BYU (confirmed)
Speaker 1: Dr. Kirk Larsen, BYU, Contemporary Chinese Foreign Policy: Does History Matter? (confirmed)
Speaker 2: Dr. Li Guo, USU, Remembering History through Film: A Study of China's Fourth-Generation Films (confirmed)
1 - 2 p.m. Lunch, Lakeview Room
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 (confirmed)
Speaker 1:
Speaker 2:
Speaker 3:
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Review and Final Remarks
5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Dinner, Timpanogos Room
End of Conference
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)
- Daniel Jensen (March 8 only)
- Alex Johnson
- Licia Kim
- Vickie Lee
- Telmar Lochridge
- Lance Reeves (March 7 only)
- Emanuel Rivas
- Hannah Robinson
- Justin Schow
- Christopher Wiltsie
- Kami Winterton (March 8 only)
- Melanie Woodbury
C.V.s
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 of Chinese Studies, 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
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; 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
1. Comparing Chinese and German culture, Bochum 2006, book series Comparative Cultural Sciences vol. 2 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 3. Harvard lecture on the 20th century Chinese essay, Bochum 3rd ed. 2006, book series Scripta Sinica vol. 4 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)
5. 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
6. Chinese cultic literature 2008/2009 - authors, works, trends, Munich 2009, 127 pp., book series Sinica vol. 25 7. Chinese contemporary literature - authors, works, trends – A snap-shot 2007/2008, Munich 2008, 267 pp. 8. Timeless Chinese poetry from the beginnings to the “China avant-garde”, Bochum 4th ed. 2007, 72 pp. 9. The history of the Chinese essay, Bochum, 2nd ed. 2009, xiii, 900 pp. 10. 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 11. 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 12. 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 13. The film makers of China, Bochum 2004.6, 52 pp. , book series Scripta Sinica 9
edited journals
14. European Journal of Sinology (co-edited with Stefan Messmann/Budapest, Hungary, Luigi Moccia/Rome, Italy) 15. Bulletin of the German China Association (co-edited with Gregor Paul/Karlsruhe, Germany)
edited anthologies
16. Chinese Literature in translation – Proceedings of the conference at the University of Applied Languages Munich 2009/6/27, Munich 2009, 164 pp. 17. Law and justice in China. Festschrift in honor of Konrad Wegmann’s 75th anniversary, Munich: 2007, 251 pp. 18. 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 19. 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]
20. 漢學論壇 Sinica (ISSN 1613-6187, 30 vols.) 21. 漢學論文 Scripta Sinica (ISSN 1614-3663, 55 vols., some published in the 3rd edition) 22. Comparative Cultural Science (co-edited with Matthias Kettner, 8 vols.) 23. Suggestive Papers (ISSN 1439-5215, 7 vols.)
grants, honors, research, teaching
see http://research.uvu.edu/woesler/
GAËLLE BRILLANT
EDUCATION
- Sciences-po University, College of political sciences, Paris, France, PhD candidate since September 2010, Field of study: political economics: The Chinese financial system
- HEI-HEP , Institute of political and international studies, Paris, France
- Master degree, February 2010, International administration studies
- INALCO, Institute of Oriental civilization and language, Paris, France
- Master degree, June 2008, Chinese language and civilization, International trade
- BLCU, Beijing Language and Civilization University, Beijing (2006)
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
- Revue d’Economie Financière (Financial Economics Review) : “Chinese Banking System : Between State Control and International Norms” (June 2011)
- China Analysis/ECFR n°27: “Towards a low-carbon economy?” (2010)
- China Analysis/ECFR n°28: “ Is the reduction of Chinese trade surplus a long term evolution?”(2010)
EXPERIENCE
- GAB Consulting (self employed) : creation in December2011
- Academic research for business strategies
- SWIELD Advisory and Services (2011- 2012), Consultant: Due diligence (trade and strategy), Independant Business Review, Business organization and performance (enhancing strategies)
- Teaching Assistant (2010 -2011), Sciences-po University, Paris, France, ASIA CENTRE (2010)
- Internship : project manager assistant
- Reporters Without Borders (Internship )(2005)
LISA CHENG
Lisa Cheng is President of the Utah Asian Chamber of Commerce. She originates from Hefei, China. She received her international business degree in China at Anhui University and worked as an international trader for more than seven years. She is also graduated from the University of Utah with a major in Finance. She has been successfully providing financial guidance and banking services to the Utah Asian community for more than 7 years at First Utah Bank as Vice President / International Marketing Manager. Her marketing focus over the past few years has been on China, from the perspective of American business development and the local Utah Asian community.
As a respected and leading member of the Utah Asian community, Lisa has always made herself available to her clients for their financial needs, business development requirements, international relations, business networking goals, and international project development. She is a founding member of the Utah Asian Chamber of Commerce, working in conjunction with other business groups to help Chamber members do business and connect to other countries.
She is currently engaged in multiple projects with U.S. and Chinese businesses, their projects covering a wide range of manufacturing and new technology placement. In 2010 Ms. Cheng served as President of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology, CAST, and in 2012 she became President of the Utah Asian Chamber of Commerce.
LUKAS DANNER
EDUCATION
- Doctorand at Florida International University (Miami, Florida), 2011-Present
- PhD Program in International Relations Major field: Comparative Area Studies Minor field: Foreign Policy & Security Studies
- Graduate Teaching Assistant Scholarship, Florida Int'l University
- M.A. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich, Germany), 2005-2011, Major: Sinology Minors: American Cultural Studies & Int'l Law, MA Thesis: Social Organization of the U.S.-huaqiao during Free Immigration (1848-1882)
- Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU; Beijing, P.R. China), 2007-2008 Intensive Chinese Language Training
- Partial Scholarship of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Comparative Area Studies; East Asian Foreign Policies; U.S.-China Relations; International Political Economy; Cultural Dimension of Foreign Policies
PAOLO DO
Paolo Do is a PhD candidate at the Business and Management School of Queen Mary University of London, Great Britain.
He works on the changes in higher education in China.
In 2010, he published the book "The Heel of the Dragon, Cognitive Capitalism and Struggles in China" in Italian ("Il tallone del drago"). He participated in several conferences and talks about China’s economy and its political transformation. His research interests include the political economy of knowledge, strategic management and the new international division of labour.
YUANYUAN FANG
PhD candidate at Florida International University majoring in International Relations. Her research interests rest in U.S.-China relations, soft power, conflict management, cultural politics and political psychology. In 2009, Yuanyuan Fang came to the United States from China, when “China’s Threat” accounts were fairly prevailing in the U.S. Having known the domestic anxiety about the future of China, she has been looking for ways of decreasing the gap between U.S.'s understanding of China and China's own plan for its development. Her master thesis topic is China’s soft power in the 21st century: a comparative study, in which she compares China's soft power strategy with that of America and Japan. Soft power is a very interesting and important concept and she believes it will become increasingly essential in world politics.
EDUCATION
- PhD candidate at Florida International University, Present
- Major: International Relations Major field: Foreign Policy Minor field: Area Studies
- MA Florida International University, 2011, Major: Asian Studies Concentration: International Relations, MA Thesis: China’s Exercise of Soft Power: A Comparative Study
- Ritsumeken University Jun, 2010 – Aug, 2010, Program: Summer Study Abroad Program
- BA Beijing Language and Culture University, 2009, Major: English, BA Thesis: An Empirical Study of the Misuse of a Sense Group of “Support” and “Against”
- Curtin Technology University 2007 - 2008, Program: Exchange Program
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- U.S.-China Relations; Foreign Policy; Soft Power; Conflict Management; Cultural Politics; Political Psychology
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
- 2012-Present: Graduate Assistant Scholarship, FIU
- 2011: FIU Award for outstanding academic achievement
- 2010: Fu Foundation Scholarship
- 2009 - 2011:Teaching Assistant Scholarship FIU
- 2009: BLCU University-Wide Outstanding BS Thesis
- 2008: Education on Emotion Attitude is the Key of Successful Teaching, published in “Study Monthly”, Vol. 9, 2008
- 2008: Social Development Needs to Improve English Writing-Reflects on English Writing Teaching from Its Current Practice, published in “Education Science & Culture Magazine”, Vol. 10, 2008
- 2005 - 2006: Scholarship for Outstanding Accomplishment on Art Performance
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.
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
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, 2010. Dissertation Title: Tales of Self Empowerment: Reconnoitering Women’s Tanci in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China. Advisor, Dr. Maureen Robertson 雷麦伦. M.A. English Language and Literature, Peking University. Beijing, China, 2003. Thesis Title: “From Reason to Passion: On Milton’s Paradise Lost.” Advisor, Dr. Shen Hong 沈宏. B.A. English, Shandong University. China, 2000.
Areas of Specialization
Late imperial and early twentieth century Chinese fiction and drama, narrative theory, women and gender studies, film, visuality, folk literature, minority literatures and cultures, psychoanalysis, performance.
Major Awards, Honors, Grants
- 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 ($4500), with Professor Russell Berman and Professor Ban Wang, Stanford University, June 27-August 4, 2011.
- Seed Grant, for the development of Study Abroad Program in Mainland China ($3000), Office of Global Engagement at the Utah State University, summer 2010.
- Story in Theory: 2009 Andrew E. Mellon Dissertation Summer Seminar Scholarship.” ($4500) Offered by Professor Garrett Stewart, James O. Freedman Professor of Letters in English, the University of Iowa, November 2008.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
- “The Legacy of Crossdressing in Tanci: On A Histoire of Heroic Women and Men (1905).” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 5: 4 (2011), 566-599.
- “Making History Anew: Feminine Melodrama in Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City (1943).” Consciousness, Literature and the Arts (CLA), December 2011. In press.
- “Rethinking Female Voice and the Ideology of Sound: A Study of Stanley Kwan’s Film Center Stage (1992).” Film International, Volume 10, Issue 4, 2012. In press.
Book Project In Progress
- Tales of Empowerment: Reconnoitering Women’s Tanci in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth Century.
Book Chapter(s)
- “The Drama of the ‘Child’ in Sally Morgan's My Place" in Chen Zhengfa ed. Looking Back and Forward: Selected Papers of the 8th International Conference of Australian Studies in China. Hefei: Anhui University Press, 2004. 437-453. Invited.
DR. ERIC HYER
(In preparation.)
DR. KIRK LARSEN
Kirk Larsen is 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
DR. GREG LEWIS
Professor of Asian and World History, Weber State University.
DR. JINGDONG LIANG
Position
Dr. Jingdong Liang is Associate Professor of Communication in the UVU Communication Department.
Publication
How U.S. Correspondents Discover, Uncover, and Cover China: China-Watching Transformed (Chinese Studies, 27), hardcover, 286 pp., Edwin Mellen Press, February 2003, ISBN 9780773469761.
DR. DAVID N MCARTHUR
Address Utah Valley University, Orem, UT 84058, david.mcarthur@uvu.edu, Office phone (801) 863-7144
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)
DR. STEFAN MESSMANN
Stefan Messmann is Professor of International Business Law at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, since 1998, where he is actually head of the Legal Studies Department. He also served as Academic Pro-Rector of CEU between 1999 and 2003.
Professor Messmann was born in Serbia, educated in Germany and Switzerland and is of German nationality.
He obtained his Licence en droit 1970 in Geneva and Doctorat en droit 1978 in Fribourg.
Before joining CEU, he held positions of Senior Legal Counsel with Volkswagen AG in Germany, Deputy General Manager and Commercial Executive with Shanghai Volkswagen in Shanghai, was member of supervisory boards of companies of the Volkswagen group, General Manager for Asia and the CIS with Umformtechnik GmbH, Erfurt, with seat in Shanghai and head of Shanghai Branch Office of Wessing, a German international law firm.
Speaking several languages, Professor Messmann has extensively written and lectured on international joint ventures, as well as on foreign investment, company and contract law in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.
In 2006, he received the Dr. Elemér Hantos Prize (http://www.hantosprize.org) for co-editing, with Professor Tibor Tajti, the book “Investing in South Eastern Europe”. He also published, among others, about foot-binding practices and Jews in China.
Within the China-EU School of Law’s Professional Training Committee Professor Messmann is in charge of organizing training programs for European lawyers in China. He is also Co-Editor and a member of the Advisory Board of the European Journal of Sinology.
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.
DR. HUSSEIN MOHAMMED
Dr. Hussein Mohammed since 2009 is Assistant Professor at Kordofan University. He holds an MBA from Kordofan University and has worked as a Development Consultant 2008-2011.
Besides research papers and economic studies, Dr. Suleiman has published the following books:
- Global Financial Crisis
- The Poverty and Rural Development in the Sudan
He is currently working on the following book projects:
- Aftermaths of the Global Economic Crisis in the United States, Europe, and China
- The social-economic and political life of the Hamar Tribe
IVAN WILLIS RASMUSSEN
Address PhD Candidate, Tufts University, the Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, email ivan.rasmussen@tufts.edu, phone (859) 421-9232, home address: 160 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
Education 08/07-present The Fletcher School, Tufts University Medford, MA Doctorate of Philosophy (candidate) Masters of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (May 2009) 09/02-06/06 Princeton University Princeton, NJ A.B., Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Professional Experience 02/10-09/10 On The Ground Coordinator for Duke Engage Abroad Program Zhuhai, PRC DukeEngage and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Duke University 06/08-08/08 Foreign Affairs Rosenthal Fellow Washington, DC U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Teaching Experience 09/10-present Teaching Assistant, PS 61: Intro to International Relations Medford, MA, Political Science Department, Tufts University 09/09-present TA, Graduate Statistics Course (four semesters) Medford, MA, The Fletcher School, Tufts University 09/10-01/11 TA, Graduate Course on Processes of International Negotiation Medford, MA, The Fletcher School, Tufts University 09/09-01/11 TA, PS 135: Comparative Revolutions (two semesters) Medford, MA, Political Science Department, Tufts University 02/10-05/10 Friend or Foe? Sino-US historic and contemporary relations Medford, MA, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Tufts University
Selected Conferences, Presentations, and Papers 04/11 Association for Asian Studies Conference Honolulu, HI 03/10 “From PLA to MBA: China’s Fifth Generation of Leaders” Hong Kong, PRC 02/10 Columbia University Graduate Conference on East Asia New York City, NY 01/10 “Regional Conflict and Contrasting Nationalisms” Taipei, Taiwan, Chinese Yearbook of International Law and Affairs. (Volume 26, 2008) peer reviewed 06/09 North American Taiwanese Studies Conference Austin, TX 12/08 “Torture in the United States and China” Singapore, Asian Journal of Public Affairs. (Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2008) peer reviewed 11/08 Forum for American-Chinese Exchange at Stanford Shanghai, PRC 04/08 Murrow Center Conference on Credible Public Diplomacy Medford, MA
Fellowships and Awards Pacific Forum Young Leaders Program (Center for Strategic and International Studies) Next Generation Grant (Harvard Program on Negotiation / http://www.pon.harvard.edu/) Rosenthal Fellow (U.S. State Department) Academic Fellow (The Institute of Law, Economics, & Politics, Hong Kong / www.instituteleap.org) Dean’s Discretionary Fund for Research (The Fletcher School) Critical Language Scholar (U.S. State Department) Woodrow Wilson School Undergraduate Research Fund Award (Princeton University)
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).
DR. FUSHENG WU
Director of the Confucius Institute and Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at the Department of Languages and Literature, University of Utah. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University in 1995.
Education: Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Brown University (May 1995): Dissertation: Decadence as Theme and Poetics in Chinese Poetry of the Six Dynasties and Tang Periods M.A., Comparative Literature, Brown University, 1993 M.A., English Literature, Nankai University, Tianjing, P.R.C., 1987 B.A., English, Nankai University, Tianjing, P.R.C., 1984 Professional Career: Lecturer of English, Nankai University, China, 1987-1990 Graduate teaching assistant, Brown University, 1991-95 Assistant professor of Languages and Literature, University of Utah, 1995-2002 Associate professor of Languages and Literature, University of Utah, 2002-09 Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Utah, 2009- Guest professor, College of Literature and Journalism, Sichuan University, China, 2008- Guest professor, College of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Nankai University, 2010 - Director of Confucius Institute at University of Utah, 2007-
Publications:
Books
- The Poetics of Decadence: Chinese Poetry of Southern Dynasties and Late Tang Periods. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998; 277 pages.
- Written at Imperial Command: Panegyric Poetry in Early Medieval China. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008; 289 pages.
Translations
- Songs of My Heart: The Lyric Poetry of Ruan Ji, with Graham Hartill. London: Wellsweep Press, 1988; 96 pages.
- The Poems of Ruan Ji, with Graham Hartill, the bilingual edition— translation from classicial Chinese into English and modern Chinese, with a critical introduction. Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 2006; 175 pages.
Articles in 2011
- 理雅格的詩經翻譯 （一）(“James Legge’s Translation of the Shi jing, or The Book of Poetry, Part I”), 國際中國文學研究International Journal of Chinese Literary Studies, 1(2011): 306-17.
- 理雅格的離騷翻譯 (“James Legge’s Translation of Li Sao, or Fallen into Trouble”), forthoming in 中國詩學 Chinese Poetics 16 (2011).
- Death and Immortality in Early Medieval Chinese Poetry: Cao Zhi and Ruan Ji,” Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, and Reviews, 33 (2011): 15-26.
Book Chapter
- “The Lyrics of the Chu,” Chapter Two of How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology, edited by Zonh-qi Cai. Columbia University Press, 2007; 20 pages.
Translations
Into English
1. "Three Ancient Stories," Chinese Literature, 2 (1990), 171—75. 2. “To Cao Biao, The Prince of Baima” by Cao Zhi, with Graham Hartill. Scintilla 3 (1999): 131—34. 3. “Seven Poems by Cao Zhi,” Chinese Literature, Spring 1990, 159—65, with Graham Hartill.
Into Chinese
1. "The Transformation of Cai Yan as an Archetype in Chinese Poetry and Painting" by Dore J. Levy, 《 中 外 文 學》 (Chung Wai Literary Monthly), 22 (April 1994), 108—124. 2. 詩 歌 次 序 之 構 建 ﹕枚 舉 （ 賦 ）新 論 (“Construction Sequence: Another Look at fu Enumeration”), by Dore J. Levy. Guoji hanxue 國 際 漢 學 International Sinology (4) 1999: 245—66.
Current research project
A book on English translations of classical Chinese poetry, focusing on James Legge, Herbert Giles, Arthur Waley, and Ezra Pound.
Research-related activities
External reviewer for State University of New York Pres, and Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, and Reviewers.
DR. GUOGUANG WU
Guoguang Wu is Professor in both Departments of Political Science and History, University of Victoria, Canada, where he concurrently holds the Chair in China and Asia-Pacific Relations. Originally from China, Professor Wu obtained a Ph.D. degree in political science from Princeton University, and was awarded a Nieman fellowship and a Wang An post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University, and a Luce fellowship at Columbia University. With research interests in political transition from communism, institutional change, political economy, globalization, elite politics, media and politics, and foreign policy and regional security with empirical references to China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, he is author, co-author, and editor of 20 books in English or Chinese (as some are also translated and published in French, Japanese, and Korean); his research articles have appeared in journals such as Asian Survey, China Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, The Pacific Review, Social Research, and Third World Quarterly. He currently sits on editorial board of six international referee journals on China and Asia studies.
DR. HUI XU
Position
Professor, Doctoral supervisor, Department of Marketing, Business School, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Currently Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Utah Valley University, phone (1)801-615-9582, E-mail: susan_xhui@126.com
Research Directions
1. Marketing, 2. International Business Management, 3. Internationalization of Service Enterprises
Ongoing Research Projects (selection)
[1] Research on the Risk Identification Mechanisms, Measure Indicators, and Mangement Control in the Internationalization Process of Chinese Companies. Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 70572081
[2] Research on MNES’ Global Strategies (Presided by Zhang Yuli) Supported by the Research Foundation from Ministry of Education of China (Grant No.05JJD630026)
[3] Research on risk identification and prevention control for Chinese enterprises’ entering international market. Supported by National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 03CJY0117)
Teaching
Graduate: Marketing, Service Marketing, Market Research and Forecasting; Professional degree: Service Marketing, Public Relationship Marketing; Undergraduate: Marketing, Service Marketing, Business English.
Papers
- Xu Hui, Zou Hui-min.Research on the influence of International Risk on International Performance.Journal of Management Science.2010(2):2-10
- Xu Hui, Zou Hui-min,Wang Jian-ming.Risk Identification In Multinational Enterprises In The Context Of International Operating Strategy Transformation. Economic Management Journal.2009(9):142-150
- Hui Xu, Zou Huimin.The Assessment of International Risks from the View of the Decision-maker---Empirical Research Based On Chinese International Enterprises. Journal of Marketing Science.2009,5(2):109-120.
- Xu Hui; Zou Hui-min; Shan Feng-ling.Research on the Influencing Factors of Foreign Investment in the Producer Service Industry of China---From the Perspectives of Industrial Interaction and Systematic View. Economic Survey,2009(5):39-43.
- Xu Hui, Wan Yiqian,Pei Degui, A study on risk perception and risk identification in the internationalization process of Chinese hi-tech enterprises----A case study of Huawei Technologies, Management World, 2008(4):140-149
- Xu Hui,A Research Of the Service Firms’ Locational Decision of International Investment: Based on the Study of Investment of MNCs to Chinese Service Industry. Economic Survey.2008(3):77-81
- Xu Hui, Han Jinglun, Zhang Jun, Research on Choice of Strategic Mode of Canadian Enterprise Entry into Chinese Market: Based on Dynamic Interaction between FSAs and CSAs.Journal of International Economics and Trade Research,2007(8):40-44
- Xu Hui, Risk Identification and Prevention for Export-oriented enterprises’ Expanding International Market: Tianjin Cases. International Trade, 2007, (3):36-40
Books
- Research on International Risk Identification and Control,Science Press,2010.
- Prevention of Firm’s International Risk. Press of Renmin University of China.2010
- Risk Management in International Business, University of International Business and Economics Press, 2006
- Speeding up Internationalization-Strategies for Developing the International Markets, Tianjin University Press, 2003