Various Speakers

Date: 1 April 2005Time: 9:30 AM

Finishes: 2 April 2005Time: 3:30 PM

Venue: Ruhr University, Bochum

Type of Event: Conference

Friday, 1 April

Panel 1: Taiwan's External Relations 

Chair: Phil Deans (SOAS) 

• Wu Chi-jen (SOAS)
  Comparative Study of Hong Kong and Taiwan's Economic Integration with Mainland China
  Downloads: Abstract | Paper
  Discussant: Wolfgang Klenner (Ruhr University Bochum)
• Esteban, Mario (CEAO, Madrid)
  Will Political Liberalisation of Mainland China Reduce the Risk of Military Conflict in the Taiwan Strait?
  Downloads: Abstract | Paper
  Discussant: Masako Ikegami (Stockholm University)
• Ikegami, Masako
  Assessing the Risk of Armed Conflict across the Taiwan Straits.
  Downloads: Abstract
  Discussant: Phil Deans (SOAS)
• Muyard, Frank (French Centre for Research on Contemporary China, Taipei)
  From a Two-Chinas situation to a Taiwanese nation in the making. Realpolitik, national myths and the American factor in the evolution of Taiwan national politics.
  Downloads: Abstract | Paper
  Discussant: Masako Ikegami (Stockholm University)

Panel 2: Taiwan Literature

Chair: Henning Kloeter (Ruhr University Bochum)

• Marchand, Sandrine (Artois University)
  Utopia and nostalgia: Convergence of two ideals in Chen Yingzhen and Chen Jo-hsi short stories
  Downloads: Abstract | Paper
  Discussant: Anna Maria Paoluzzi (University of Rome)
• Fan Ming-ju (National Taipei University)
  The Sense of Place in Hwang Chun-ming's fiction
  Downloads: Abstract | Paper
  Discussant: Rudiger Breuer (Ruhr University Bochum)
• Paoluzzi, Anna Maria (University of Rome)
  From literary pieces to movies: different approaches to intersemiotic translation in modern Taiwan culture
  Downloads: Abstract | Paper
  Discussant: Mark Harrison (Westminster University)
• Laureillard, Marie (Sorbonne University)
  The image of women in the work of Guo Songfen
  Downloads: Abstract | Paper
  Discussant: Rudiger Breuer (Ruhr University Bochum)

Panel 3: Taiwan Election Studies

Chair: Dafydd Fell (SOAS)

• Allio, Fiorella (CNRS, Paris)
  The dual processes of mobilization and participation during Taiwan's 2004 legislative election
  Discussant: Dafydd Fell (SOAS)
• Lee, Joseph (University of London)
  Political battles in the Courts: Justice or Democracy?
  Downloads: Abstract
  Discussant: Phil Deans (SOAS)

Panel 4: Language, Education and Identity

Chair: Chang Bi-yu (LSE)

• Baran, Dominika (Harvard University)
  'Taiwanese doesn't have culture': Language ideologies and social identity in Taiwan's education system
  Discussant: Ann Heylen (Ruhr University Bochum)
• Lams, Lutgard
  ‘What’s in a Name’: Implications of Linguistic Strategies and Labeling Practices in PRC/ROC Official as well as English-Language Media Discourse on the Cross-Strait Issue and Domestic Taiwanese Politics
  Downloads: Abstract | Paper
  Discussant: Henning Kloeter (Ruhr University Bochum)
• Price, Gareth (University of Essex)
  The Language Barrier? Analysing English Language Education in Taiwan
  Downloads: Abstract | Paper
  Discussant: Henning Kloeter (Ruhr University Bochum)

Panel 5: Taiwan's Party Politics

Chair: Masako Ikegami (Stockholm University)

• Fell, Dafydd (SOAS)
  Failure and Success of Third Parties in Taiwan
  Downloads: Abstract | Paper
  Discussant: Gunter Schubert (University of Tubingen)
• Halbeisen, Hermann (University of Cologne)
  KMT: the Chinese Nationalist Party turning into a Taiwanese Centrist Party?
  Downloads: Abstract
  Discussant: Dafydd Fell (SOAS)
• Lin Chiung-chu (University of Essex)
  Party Image and Taiwan's Electorate, 1992-2000
  Downloads: Abstract | Paper
  Discussant: Gunter Schubert (University of Tubingen)

Panel 6: Formosan Taiwan

Chair: Ann Heylen (Ruhr University Bochum)

• Simon, Scott (University of Ottawa)
  Taiwan's Indigenized Constitution: What Place for Aboriginal Formosa?
  Downloads: Abstract | Paper
  Discussant: Joseph Lee (University of London)
• Adelaar, Alexander (University of Melbourne)
  Aboriginal Languages of Taiwan: The Case of Siraya
  Downloads: Abstract | Paper
  Discussant: Ann Heylen
• Klöter, Henning (Ruhr University Bochum)
  Facts and Fantasy about Favorlang: Early European encounters with Taiwan's languages
  Downloads: Abstract | Paper
  Discussant: Alexander Adelaar

Saturday, 2 April

Panel 7: Taiwan's Economics and Political Economy

Chair: Robert Ash (SOAS)

• Leou Chia-feng (SOAS)
  Financial Reforms and Institutional Constraints: The DPP's Policy U-turn on the reform of the credit units of the farmers' and fishermen's associations
  Discussant: Steven Wang (Stockholm University)
• Wang, Steven (Stockholm University)
  Those Less Favored: The Taiwanese SMEs in Predicaments
  Discussant: Joseph Lin (SOAS)
• Veselka, Marco (University of Heidelberg)
  Taiwan's Economic Development: The Role of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises beyond the Statistics
  Discussant: Wolfgang Klenner (Ruhr University Bochum)
• Sun Chia-sui (National Dong Hwa University, Hualien)
  Political Economy of Books as an Alternative Medium: Publishing and Social Movements
  Discussant: Robert Ash (SOAS)

Panel 8: Culture and Society

Chair: Rudiger Breuer (Ruhr University Bochum)

• Chang Bi-yu (LSE)
  Reclaiming cultural ownership - Indigenous xiqu and the construction of Taiwanese identity
  Discussant: Fiorella Allio (CNRS, Paris)
• Shih Fang-long (London School of Economics)
  Continuity and Change between the KMT and DPP Government Responses to Religion
  Discussant: Fiorella Allio (CNRS, Paris)
• Lee Wei-I (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
  The Construction of Community Imaginaries in Taiwan's Museums and Archives Committees (1945-1978)
  Discussant: Chang Bi-yu (LSE)
• Harrison, Mark (Westminster University)
  Towards a 'Taiwan Studies'
  Discussant: Stuart Thompson (SOAS)

Panel 9: Issues in Taiwanese Political Studies

Chair:

• Damm, Jens (Freie University Berlin)
  Taiwan's Transformation: Successes and Failures
  Discussant: HALBEISEN, Hermann (University of Cologne)
• Deans, Phil (SOAS)
  News Of Virtue Travels Quicker Than Messages Sent By Post: Isolation, Identity and Stamps As Vehicles For Regime Legitimation on Taiwan
  Discussant: Jean Pierre Cabestan (CNRS)
• King, Winnie (St.Antony's College, University of Oxford)
  How Cross-Strait Economics has strengthened Taiwan's political system: the impact of Economic Actors
  Discussant: Robert Ash (SOAS)
• Kucera, Ondrej (Palacky University, Olomouc)
  Is Taiwan a Presidential System? A Critical Review: An Attempt on the Classification of the Taiwanese System of Government
  Discussant: Jean Pierre Cabestan (CNRS)

Panel 10: Taiwan's History

Chair: Shih Fang-long

• Heylen, Ann (Ruhr University Bochum)
  Personal Documents in Modern Taiwanese Historiography
  Discussant: Stuart Thompson (SOAS)
• Storm, Carsten (University of Dresden)
  Images of Anti Japanese Resistance and Identity in Taiwanese Novels
  Discussant: Ann Heylen (Ruhr University Bochum)
• Chen, Elsa Hsiang-chun (University of Leeds)
  Reading Taiwan and the Issue of Difference in a Global/Local Frame: Epitaph by Wu Mali in Sadness Transformed: 2:28 Commemorative Art Exhibition in Taiwan in 1997
  Discussant: Lut Lams (KU Brussel)
• Thompson, Stuart (SOAS)
  In the eye of the beholder: (over)interpreting a funerary taboo
  Discussant: Ann Heylen

Organiser: Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS & The Taiwan Research Unit of the Ruhr University, Bochum