New publication: Christianity as an Issue in the History of U.S.-China Relations

From: Dong Wang

I am pleased to announce the publication of “Christianity as an Issue in the History of U.S.-China Relations” (pp. 185), a special volume of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, edited by Dong Wang.

Table of Contents

1. Study of the History of Christianity in U.S.-China Relations: A New Departure? by Daniel H. Bays
2. Introduction to Christianity in China as an Issue in the History of U.S.-China Relations by Dong Wang
3. Union Theological Seminary and the Christian Church in China by Yihua Xu
4. Christianity, Academics, and National Salvation in China: Yenching University, 1924-1949 by Arthur Lewis Rosenbaum
5. The Christian Student Movement, YMCAs, and Transnationalism in Republican China by Charles A. Keller
6. Portraying Chinese Christianity: The American Press and U.S.-China Relations since the 1920s by Dong Wang
7. Protestantism in Twentieth-Century Chinese America: The Impact of Transnationalism on the Chinese Diaspora by Timothy Tseng
8. “Our Neighbors but Not Our Countrymen”: Christianity and the Chinese in Nineteenth-Century Victoria (Australia) and California by Ian Welch

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http://www.interworld-pacific.com/home.html

Without a subscription to the Journal, you may now purchase this special issue
individually at a discounted price. Here is the link to the order form:
http://interworld-pacific.com/ordervol13.html

Dong Wang
Professor of History
Executive Director of East-West Institute of International Studies Gordon College
Wenham, MA 01984
http://www.gordon.edu/ewi/

CFP 4th Annual UC Santa Cruz APARC Grad Student Conf on Mobility in the Asia-Pacific-Americas (Feb. 21, 2009)

CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline: Dec 1, 2008)

UC Santa Cruz Asia-Pacific-Americas Research Cluster Graduate Student Conference on Mobility in the Asia-Pacific-Americas

CONFERENCE DATE: Saturday, February 21, 2009 at the University of California,  Santa Cruz

The Asia-Pacific-Americas Research Cluster (APARC) at the University of  California, Santa Cruz is pleased to present its fourth annual Graduate  Research Conference on the theme of how mobility in Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific produces discourses.  APARC invites submissions from graduate students from any discipline on topics that address, complicate, or illustrate issues  surrounding mobility, including
(1) the movement of ideas, people, and tangible and intangible goods along networks of people, technology, and water which are not necessarily bound to the nation and nation-state,
(2) how mobility plays in the making of conceptual frameworks in which ethnic, transnational, gendered, indigenous and other identities are construed, and
(3) how borders, boundaries, and other spatial categories can interfere with or arise from  mobility.

We also welcome submissions related to this theme that address pedagogical challenges and new ways in which multi-media can be used in the classroom.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Hyung Il Pai, Associate Professor in East Asian Languages & Cultures and the  History Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will deliver a keynote address entitled “Touring Japan’s Mythical Homelands: The Search for Authenticity and the Marketing of Heritage Destinations in the  Empire (1905-1945).”

Professor Pai’s research is interdisciplinary and has been  published in the Journal of Korean Studies, the Journal of East Asian  Archaeology, and in several Korean and Japanese journals. She is the author of Constructing “Korean” Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State Formation Theories and is  currently working on a manuscript titled “The Re-discovery of Japan’s Antiquity: Nationalism, Colonialism and Heritage Management.”

SUBMISSIONS:
Papers from any discipline are welcome. Please send to aparc.ucsc@gmail.com the following:

Your abstract (300 word limit), institutional and departmental  affiliation, and class year no later than Monday, December 1, 2008. Abstracts  will be accepted on a rolling basis.

Important note: Due to budgetary constraints and policies, we are unable to  fund student travel and accommodation expenses. Participants are asked to  secure funding at their home institutions. We sincerely hope that this will not prevent contributions to this promising event.

From: Amanda Shuman