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2010 Annual Report

York Centre for Asian Research

April 2010

An organized research unit of York University


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Table of Contents 1. Director's Message (p. 3) 2. Executive Committee (p. 6) 3. Membership (p. 7) 4. Research and Training Programmes and Projects (p. 9)

1) Literatures of Human Rights in Asia and Asian Diaspora 2) Development, Migration Strategies and Prospects for Integration: Understanding Contemporary Transnationalism among South Korean Families 3) Mobilizing Research on Asia and Asian Diaspora 4) A New Approach to the Popular Press in China: Gender and Cultural Production, 1904‐1937 5) B(R)ICS and Beyond: Emerging Powers and World Order 6) Ecologies on the Edge 7) Political Change in China: Contemporary Research and Policy Implications 8) Reorganizing Landscape and Livelihood: Household and Community Responses to Protected Area Establishment 9) Privatizing Environmental Governance: A Global Analysis of the Effects and Effectiveness of Environmental Certification for Farmed Salmon and Shrimp 10) Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies 11) Asian Comics and Gaming 12) Challenges of Agrarian Transition in Southeast Asia 13) Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage 14) Asian Business and Management Programme (ABMP) 15) ABMP Training Division Programmes

5. Research Clusters (p. 25) 1) Korea Studies Group 2) Philippine Study Group 3) (Re)making Governance 4) South Asian Research Group 5) York China Studies 6) York Political Ecology Workshop 7) Religions and Philosophies in Asia and Asian Diaspora

6. Event Highlights (p. 31) 1) Asian Transformations series 2) Religion and Rights in China 3) Asian Heritage Month Lecture and launch of the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage 4) Literary Translation in a Multicultural World

7. Calendar of Events (p. 38) 8. Graduate Student Research, Training and Awards (p. 48)

1) Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies 2) YCAR Graduate Student Awards 3) YCAR Graduate Assistants


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9. Associate Awards and Grants (p. 53) 10. Plans and Priorities for 2009‐2010 (p. 56)

1) Asian Identity: Becoming Canadian |The Asian Heritage Month Lecture at York University 2) Literatures of Human Rights in Asia and the Asian Diaspora 3) Visit of Professor Padmini Swaminathan as Shastri Visiting Scholar 4) Canada‐China: Reflecting on 40 Years of Diplomatic Relations 5) China in the Twentieth China: Overcoming the 1949 Divide 6) Critical Political Ecologies: Shifting Contours of Environmental Knowledges and Governance 7) Money and the Indian Ocean: An International Workshop 8) Graduate Student BrownBag Research Seminar 9) Writings in “Chinese” by Japanese: Analysis and Classification: A Planning Workshop 10) Ati‐atihan Lives 11) Asia Lecture 12) Public Outreach Workshop

11. Publications (p. 60) 1) Publication Highlights 2) Publications of Associates

12. Statement of Operations for 2009‐2010 (p. 83)


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1. Director's Message The 2009‐2010 academic year has been a particularly noteworthy one at the York Centre for Asian Research. In March 2010, York University Senate unanimously approved the renewal of the Centre for another six‐year period, bringing to an end an extensive external review process mandated by York University Senate that began in autumn 2008. Senate’s decision was an endorsement of the conclusions of the external assessors that the Centre “has been remarkably successful in fulfilling its original mandate”, having in its six‐year life “established very successful programmes of research, graduate training and funding, and activities that provide stimulus for the network of Asia focused research and programmes in the University.” They noted that the Centre has made its many contributions to research, graduate training and internationalization at York “with very limited resources of personnel, infrastructure and funding”. Our entire research community should be proud of the conclusions of the external reviewers that YCAR is “a major resource of social and academic capital that enhances the University’s reputation locally, nationally and internationally.” On behalf of YCAR, I would like to extend a special thank you to the Centre’s first Director, Peter Vandergeest, whose energy and vision contributed immensely to this outcome. Our gratitude also goes out to the many YCAR members who participated in the review process, to our coordinator, Alicia Filipowich, and our former coordinator, Rhoda Reyes, whose work has been crucial to our successes. In autumn 2009, the Centre moved to new premises in the York Research Tower, after many months of planning and preparation. Our new space offers better and more offices and work areas for our Associates and enhanced space for research projects and events. The open floor plan has also encouraged more interaction with other research centres and their members. In 2009‐2010, YCAR welcomed a new Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)‐funded collaborative research project 'Development, Migration Strategies and Prospects for Integration: Understanding Contemporary Transnationalism among South Korean Families,' with Ann H. Kim (Sociology) leading a research team with colleagues from the University of Toronto, the University of Windsor, Brown University, McGill University as well as York. As I write this, we have just learned that YCAR Associate Director, Michael Nijhawan (Sociology) has been awarded a SSHRC Standard grant for his project on 'Predicaments of a 'Post‐conflict' Generation: A Comparative Study of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Diaspora Formations'. Both externally funded projects contribute substantially to our work in the area of Asian Diaspora research. Details of the many awards and grants received by our researchers can be found inside. Amongst this year's other research highlights, the Centre held a major book workshop on the B(R)ICS (Brazil, India, China and South Africa) as emerging international aid donors, lead by


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Gregory Chin (Political Science) and funded by the International Development Research Centre and the Office of the Vice‐President, Research & Innovation. Researchers working on the Ecologies on the Edge research programme received a Major Collaborative Research Initiative development grant from SSHRC and held a workshop in July 2009. There are now plans by the programme’s Asia‐focused researchers to hold a book workshop in the coming academic year, lead by Peter Vandergeest (Geography) and Shubhra Gururani (Anthropology). The proceedings from the Political Change in China conference, organized by B. Michael Frolic (Political Science), were published in Fall 2009 and the original research from the international team involved will serve as the basis for a forthcoming book. YCAR has been a partner of the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage, a project of Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc., funded by Canadian Heritage. In June 2009, the online Museum was launched in conjunction with the 2009 Asian Heritage Month Lecture at York University. As we ended the academic year, the Office of the Vice‐President, Research & Innovation, awarded YCAR seed money for its newest interdisciplinary research programme on the Literatures of Human Rights in Asia and the Asian Diaspora. The programme will examine human rights struggles and issues (broadly and critically understood) in Asia and Asian Diaspora through literature (broadly construed to include novels, short stories, poetry, plays, film scripts, essays, testimonials, memories, visual arts and performance). It was also a significant year for the training division of the Asian Business and Management Programme as it took the first steps in expanding the programme outside of China by welcoming its first training group from Vietnam. This was more than a year in the making. Máire O'Brien, Lisa Drummond and B. Michael Frolic deserve special recognition for making this new direction in training possible. YCAR and its Associates hosted over 30 events in the past academic year. Of special mention are the three events organized in celebration of York's 50th anniversary. I encourage you to read more about these events and our other research dissemination activities in the 'Event Highlights' and 'Calendar of Events' sections. I would like, on behalf of the entire YCAR community, to extend a heartfelt thank you to our executive committee for their work on behalf of the Centre. This year, the committee included faculty members Joshua Fogel (History), Ananya Mukherjee‐Reed (Political Science), Patrick Alcedo (Dance), Lisa Drummond (Geography), Zulfikar Hirji (Anthropology), Michael Nijhawan (Sociology, who also served as our Associate Director and Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies Coordinator), and B. Michael Frolic (Political Science, Director of the Asian Business and Management Programme), as well as Graduate Associates Doris Ha‐Lin Sung (Social and Political Thought), Jooyeon Rhee (Humanities), and Naoko Ikeda (Women’s Studies).


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The Centre also benefitted from the contributions of three visiting graduate students, Sai Latt (Simon Fraser University), Sakkarin Na Nan (Chiang Mai University) and Lou Janssen Dangzalan (National University of Singapore). We were also fortunate to have the able help of Graduate Assistants: Ferdinand Caballero, Mary Choy, Maria Fakhruddin, Marianne Lau, Cesar Polvorosa and Arianto Sangadji. I invite you to learn more about our programmes, projects and other initiatives in the pages that follow. Please also check out our website at www.yorku.ca/ycar and subscribe to the listserv by emailing [email protected] to keep informed of our activities throughout the year. Best Wishes,

Susan Henders, DPhil Director, York Centre for Asian Research


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2. Executive Committee The YCAR Executive Committee is chaired by the Director (ex officio) and is comprised of the Associate Director (ex officio); four other faculty members; a fifth member, who may be a York faculty member or a faculty member from another university or another person external to York who would make a useful contribution to the work of the Centre; and up to three Graduate Associates who have two votes. The Graduate Associate representatives are elected by the Graduate Associates of the Centre. The Director may also appoint administrative staff of the Centre to the Executive Committee as ex officio members. In 2009‐2010, the Executive Committee held five regular meetings. YCAR Executive Committee Members for 2009‐2010 Russ Patrick Alcedo, Dance Lisa Drummond, Social Science Joshua Fogel, History; East Asian Studies Programme Coordinator B. Michael Frolic, Political Science; Director of Asian Business and Management Programme (ex officio) Susan Henders, Political Science, YCAR Director (ex officio) Zulfikar Hirji, Anthropology Naoko Ikeda, Women’s Studies; Graduate Associate Representative Ananya Mukherjee Reed, Political Science; South Asian Studies Programme Coordinator Michael Nijhawan, Sociology; YCAR Associate Director; Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies Coordinator Jooyeon Rhee, Humanities; Graduate Associate Representative Doris Ha‐Lin Sung, Social and Political Thought; Graduate Associate Representative Alicia Filipowich, YCAR Coordinator (ex officio)


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3. Membership There are five distinctive affiliations with YCAR that are available to Asian and Asian Diaspora researchers and scholars: 1) Faculty Associate; 2) Research Associate/Visiting Scholar; 3) Senior Research Associate; 4) Graduate Associate; and 5) Post‐Doctoral Associate. These categories enable a wide variety of interested individuals with diverse backgrounds to become involved in YCAR activities. 1) Faculty Associates Faculty Associates are full‐time, part‐time, tenure‐stream and non‐tenure‐stream faculty from York University who are actively involved in research on Asia or Asian Diasporas and committed to the Centre's mandate. In 2009‐2010, we were happy to welcome Qiang Zha (Education) as a Faculty Associate. Currently, YCAR has 50 Faculty Associates. 2) Research Associates and Visiting Scholars Research Associates are individuals other than full‐time York University faculty who are associated with universities and other educational institutions, government, industry, non‐governmental and not‐for‐profit organizations, and who are actively involved in research on Asia or Asian Diasporas. This category may include Visiting Scholars or Principal Investigators of projects associated with the Centre. YCAR currently has 27 Research Associates. In 2009‐2010, we welcomed: Anthony Chan (Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Ontario Institute of Technology) Ghazy Mujahid (PhD, Researcher) Mary Young (PhD, Researcher) In 2009‐2010, YCAR hosted three Visiting Scholars. Lou Janssen Dangazalan (Master's Candidate, Sociology, National University of Singapore) Sai Latt (Doctoral Candidate, Geography, Simon Fraser University) Sakkarin Na Nan (Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University, Thailand) 3) Senior Research Associates Senior Research Associates are individuals who have made outstanding contributions to research on Asia or Asian Diasporas and are retired and emeriti scholars. YCAR currently has four Senior Research Associates, all of whom are active in the Centre's programmes and activities.


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4) Graduate Associates Graduate Associates are York University graduate students engaged in research on Asia or Asian Diaspora. We now have several Graduate Associate alumni and, at present, 32 graduate students associated with the Centre. Since May 2009, we have welcomed: Kamal Arora (Doctoral Candidate, Social Anthropology) Ferdinand Caballero (Master's Candidate, Social Anthropology) Ryan Foster (Doctoral Candidate, Political Science) Veronica Javier (Master's Candidate, School of Social Work) Jiaxin Koh (Master's Candidate, Communication and Culture) 5) Post‐Doctoral Associates Post‐doctoral Associates work on research projects under the auspices of the Centre. For a complete membership list and member researcher profiles, please visit: www.yorku.ca/ycar/Membership.html.


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4. Research and Training Programmes and Projects The following programmes and projects were new or ongoing in 2009‐2010. 1) Literatures of Human Rights in Asia and Asian Diaspora (2010‐) Supported by: York Advanced Research Seminar Grant, Office of the Vice‐President, Research & Innovation Principal Investigators: Susan Henders (Director; Political Science, York University); Ted Goossen (Faculty Associate; Humanities, York University). This interdisciplinary York Seminar for Advanced Research will examine human rights struggles and issues (broadly and critically understood) in Asia and Asian Diaspora through literature (broadly construed to include novels, short stories, poetry, plays, film scripts, essays, testimonials, memories, visual arts and performance). The broad aim is to look through the lens of multiple disciplines at literatures that illuminate situations where human rights are at issue: 1) to gain deeper understandings of what is meant by key human rights ideas (e.g., freedom, equality, dignity); 2) to gain new insights about the causes of and possible solutions to human rights problems; and 3) to explore the limitations of literary and non‐literary accounts of human rights. 2) Development, Migration Strategies and Prospects for Integration: Understanding Contemporary Transnationalism among South Korean Families (2009 to 2012) Supported by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Grant Principal Investigator: Ann H. Kim (Faculty Associate; Sociology, York University) The main objective of this research programme is to understand how South Korean family migration strategies and strategies of social reproduction are shaped by the global social and economic order and how the migration strategy, in turn, shapes the experiences of settlement and integration. It focuses on several aspects including: 1) The determinants of contemporary transnational family migration versus intact family migration within a global economic context and notions of space in social reproduction; 2) The different settlement experiences between the two types of migrant families (transnational immigrant family and ‘intact’ immigrant family) and their on‐going connections to South Korea; and 3) The impact of the different types of familyhood on social integration and incorporation. Professor Kim's research team on the Toronto Korean Families Study includes: Eunjung Lee (Co‐Investigator; Social Work, University of Toronto); Samuel Noh (Co‐Investigator; Psychiatry, University of Toronto); Wansoo Park (Co‐Investigator; Social Work, University of Windsor); Sung Hyun Yun (Co‐Investigator; Social Work, University of Windsor); Jose Itzigsohn (Collaborator; Sociology, Brown University); Min‐Jung Kwak (Collaborator; Geography, York


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University); Jeeseon Park (Collaborator; Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University); and Young‐Ah Kim (Project Coordinator). In 2009‐2010, the first year of the project, efforts were directed towards the development of a survey questionnaire for the two types of families to be studied. The initial team meeting and community consultation took place in Toronto in June 2009 and the project was presented to the Korean Canadian Community Research Enhancement Network (KCCREN) in September 2009. The programme will be bolstered by a team member's successful SSHRC Institutional Research Grant for 'Education Migration and its Impact on Children, Parents and Schools: A Pilot Study on Korean Migrant Children in Toronto, Canada.' Over the coming year, the team will conduct their survey, which was pre‐tested in March 2010, and prepare the data for analysis. Professor Kim spoke about her preliminary findings at YCAR in April 2010 and five members of the team will present 'Korean Mothers in Flight: A Study on Toronto Korean Families' at the Global Studies Conference in South Korea in June 2010. 3) Mobilizing Research on Asia and Asian Diaspora (2010‐) Partner organizations: YCAR and Knowledge Mobilization Unit, York University The initiative aims to make key research findings related to Asia and Asian Diaspora by York scholars available to non‐academic audiences. In January 2010, Graduate Associates and Graduate Assistants affiliated with YCAR attended a training session on writing in clear language, offered by the Knowledge Mobilization Unit. The students are now preparing research summaries of selected research publications by York researchers. The summaries will be made available on a dedicated page on the YCAR website as well as on the Knowledge Mobilization web site at www.researchimpact.ca/researchsearch/ (click 'resources' and then 'research summaries'). 4) A New Approach to the Popular Press in China: Gender and Cultural Production, 1904‐1937 (2008 to 2011) Supported by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Grant; Humboldt Foundation Principal Investigators: Joan Judge (Faculty Associate; Humanities/Women's Studies, York University); Barbara Mittler (University of Heidelberg); Grace S. Fong (McGill University). ‘A New Approach to the Popular Press in China: Gender and Cultural Production, 1904‐1937’ seeks to restore complexity to early twentieth‐century Chinese history by liberating that history from its own reductive discourses on the failings of tradition and the promise of modernity. The instrument and object of investigation is the popular press, a new and as yet understudied


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medium that dominated the contemporary print market and became one of the prime sites for the production of knowledge and culture. Other members of the research team include: Julia Andrews (Ohio State University); Michael Hockx (University of London) and Christian Henriot (Lumière‐Lyon 2 University). Doris Ha‐Lin Sung (York University), Eavan Cully (McGill University), Annika Joest (University of Heidelberg) and Sun Liying (University of Heidelberg) were research assistants in 2009‐2010.

In the past year, Professor Judge gave a number of papers on various aspects of her contribution to the project in Canada, the United States, Germany, France, Australia and China. These included: 'The Modern Shanghai Visual Imaginary: Magazine Cover Girls and New Cultural Possibilities in The Early Twentieth Century'; 'Portraits of Republican Ladies: Materiality and Representation in the Photographs from Funü Shibao (The Women’s Eastern Times)'; 'Everyday Life in the Early Republic: Evidence from Funü shibao (The Women’s Eastern Times)'; and 'A Global Visual Modernity: Translocal Photography in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Women’s Journals.' Liying Sun gave a talk on 'Anthropological Comparison: “luoti” in The Shanghai Sketch (Shanghai manhua) (1928‐1930)' at University of Heidelberg in May 2009. Ms. Sun and Michel Hockx also presented ' Women and Scandal in Early Modern Chinese Literature: The Journal Meiyu (Eyebrow Talk, 1914‐1916)' at the University of London in March 2010. Meiyu (Eyebrow Talk) was founded in Shanghai in 1914 and banned by government decree two years later. It was among the earliest modern literary journals to have a female editor and to feature contributions by a relatively large number of women authors. Christian Henriot held a conference in October of 2010 on 'History and Visual Images in Modern Chinese Studies' in Santa Lucia Di Tallà, Corsica, which Professor Judge attended. This was an opportunity for Professor Judge and Professor Henriot to discuss the integration of visual materials into the SSHRC project.


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In December of 2009, the research team and research assistants met in Heidelberg, Germany, for a workshop on Visual Culture. Prominent art historian Ellen Johnston Laing gave the keynote speech and shared important methodological insights with members of the team. In Heidelberg the team also had the opportunity to share their research as well as discuss the project database, which will be integrated into the Heidelberg Research Architecture. In March 2010, Professors Judge, Fong, Mittler, Hockx and Ms. Sun presented a roundtable on the project at the Annual Association of Asian Studies Meeting in Philadelphia. Julia Andrews contributed with comments from the floor. In conjunction with the meeting, the team held a first workshop on the language of the women’s journals and were joined by Professor Theodore Huters, who is currently researching the complexities of the shift from the classical to the vernacular language in early twentieth century China. For more information, please visit: www.yorku.ca/ycar/Joan_Judge.html. (L. Sun photograph of the research team at the Heidelberg conference in December 2009).

5) B(R)ICS and Beyond: Emerging Powers and World Order (2008‐) Supported by: International Development Research Centre; Office of the Vice‐President, Research & Innovation Organized by: Gregory Chin (Faculty Associate; Political Science, York University); and Fahim Quadir (Faculty Associate; Social Science, York University) This research programme explores the main dynamics and implications of the rise of the emerging powers (specifically China, India, Brazil and South Africa) from a range of political economy and geopolitical considerations. In Spring 2009, Professor Chin secured funding from the International Development Research Centre for a ‘B(R)ICS: Emerging Powers as Emerging Donors' workshop. It brought academics and policy makers from Canada, India, Brazil, South Africa, France and Germany together at York University in November 2009 for a two‐day workshop. The innovative findings from the workshop are being prepared for dissemination with an academic publication and policy papers among the final outputs. The focus of the programme is on whether and how the rise of the emerging powers affects: 1) Great Power relations; 2) less developed countries of the Global South; and 3) whether or not their rise is leading to new developments in regionalization and regionalism. In terms of both scholarly and policy implications, the programme analyzes whether the rise of the emerging powers is producing a shift in the international architecture of global power creating “new vulnerabilities” and driving new projects in region‐building.


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The substantive goal of the workshop was to provide a forum dedicated to developing more precise comparative understanding of B(R)ICS/emerging donor intentions; the complex motivations that are giving rise to the emerging donors in international development; and the growing influence of the B(R)ICS as emerging donors, including how this change is related to their increasing political, economic and diplomatic profile as “emerging powers” within the shifting global order. This initiative builds on 2007 IDRC‐funded research on B(R)ICS as 'Emerging Donors', which included four published country studies on Brazil, India, China and South Africa (www.idrc.ca/en/ev‐140964‐201‐1‐DO_TOPIC.html). For more information, please visit: www.yorku.ca/ycar/programmes_projects/BRICS.html. 6) Ecologies on the Edge (2007‐) Supported by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada MCRI Development Grant Principal Investigators: Robert Latham (Political Science; York Centre for International and Security Studies, York University) and Peter Vandergeest (Faculty Associate; Geography, York University) The Ecologies on the Edge Research Programme brings together scholars from the social and natural sciences, including sociology, anthropology, ecology, law, geography and political science to investigate key processes affecting vulnerable ecologies in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Arctic. It builds on several interdisciplinary research clusters at York University and is a joint initiative of YCAR, the York Centre for International and Security Studies and the Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability. The research team submitted a SSHRC‐MCRI letter of intent in January 2009 and was successful in obtaining an MCRI development grant later that year. A workshop was held at York University in July 2009 and included scholars from across Canada. There are now plans by the programme’s Asia‐focused researchers to hold a book workshop in the coming academic year that will explore changing practices and discourses of environmental knowledges and governance, both locally and globally. YCAR Associates involved with the research programme include: Faculty Associates Peter Vandergeest (Geography), Shubhra Gururani (Anthropology), Robin Roth (Geography) and Susan Henders (Political Science) as well as Research Associate Melissa Marschke (University of Ottawa).


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7) Political Change in China: Contemporary Research and Policy Implications (2007‐) Supported by: Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and the Asian Business and Management Programme Project Director: B. Michael Frolic (Senior Research Associate; Political Science, York University) This ongoing project brings together Sinologists in several disciplines to look more closely at the prospects for political change in China. More than 20 scholars from Canada and China are focusing on five areas: Chinese Communist Party reform, institutional change, rule of law, civil society and human rights. Generally, the research has revealed that while political change is taking place, the realization of Western style democracy is still a distant prospect. The research group met in April 2008 and March 2009 at the Asian Institute, University of Toronto, to share their findings. Papers were commissioned for the latter conference, including from specialists from the People’s Republic of China. In 2009‐2010, the proceedings from the March 2009 conference were published and are available at: www.yorku.ca/ycar/Publications/Political_Change_in_China.pdf. Professor Frolic is currently collecting the revised papers for publication in book form. 8) Reorganizing Landscape and Livelihood: Household and Community Responses to Protected Area Establishment (2007 to 2010) Supported by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Grant Principal Investigator: Robin Roth (Faculty Associate; Geography, York University)

In 2009‐2010, the project focused on collecting data in three Karen villages in Doi Inthanon National Park. Professor Roth and her team of Thai graduate researchers have traced the origins of coffee and flower production and ecotourism in the area, and interviewed key individuals involved in the growth of the industries. In the past year, a Land Use and Cover analysis was completed using Landsat 7 data. A Master's thesis comparing the socio‐economic features of

coffee production sold into the Fair Trade market versus that sold to conventional markets has been completed and two more Master's students at Chiang Mai University have begun research on the project. The first is looking at the development of corn production on the borders of Mae Tho National Park and how it is being used as a means of claiming land in the face of park establishment. The second thesis will explore the ways in which, and the factors involved, in fair trade coffee production gaining a foothold in Ob Luang National Park. Sakkarin Na Nan, a


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doctoral student from Chiang Mai University and a YCAR Visiting Scholar in Winter 2010, is tracing the emergence of seed production for agribusiness on the outskirts of a national park in Nan province. Professor Roth will make another research trip in the next year to complete research on flowers, coffee and ecotourism in Doi Inthanon and to interview actors involved in market oriented conservation initiatives and livelihood change. The 'Reorganizing Landscape and Livelihood' project investigates the growing role that markets play in the livelihoods of communities located in and around protected areas and assesses the implications for conservation and development initiatives. Research is being conducted in Northern Thailand, where the expansion of protected areas has resulted in the reduction of agricultural land for highland communities. Farmers are responding by intensifying their market activities while government and non‐government agencies are promoting greater market integration. Meanwhile, conservation agencies and organizations are promoting ecotourism, handicraft sales and high‐value crops in the hopes that such income will make extraction of forest resources less attractive. The project investigates this increase in market based governance by first studying how farmers use markets to reorganize their livelihoods and by tracing the extra‐local factors that enable or constrain certain livelihood trajectories. Research then turns its attention to conservation and development initiatives that promote greater market integration as a solution to conservation conflict and traces the impacts of those projects for the recipient communities. The findings will have theoretical implications for our understanding of livelihood change and policy implications for market oriented initiatives in conservation practice. For more information, please visit: www.yorku.ca/ycar/Robin_Roth_SSHRC.html. (S. Na Nan photographs of R. Roth; Flower farm)

9) Privatizing Environmental Governance: A Global Analysis of the Effects and Effectiveness of Environmental Certification for Farmed Salmon and Shrimp (2007 to 2011) Supported by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Grant Principal Investigator: Peter Vandergeest (Faculty Associate; Geography, York University) Privatizing Environmental Governance is a collaborative research project by an international team of scholars, activists and representatives from the “new” seafood movement. The focus is on shrimp and salmon as the two highest value, and most controversial, species in global


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aquaculture. The research sites range from shrimp and salmon farms to corporate offices, from supermarkets to international organizations, as researchers ask: * what are the effects of seafood certification on the shrimp and salmon industries and on the communities engaged in aquaculture? * how effective are certification regimes in mitigating the negative environmental and social effects of intensive aquaculture? * who participates in setting standards and monitoring and enforcing compliance? * to what extent does the move to certification actually represent the “privatization” of environmental governance? Professor Vandergeest's research team includes: Derek Hall (Co‐investigator, Research Associate; Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University); Md. Saidul Islam (Researcher, Nanyang Technological University); Beatriz Cid (Research Assistant; Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, York University); Paul Foley (Research Assistant; Doctoral Candidate, Political Science, York University) In 2009‐2010, the research team organized a day‐long session on environmental certification at the September 2009 World Aquaculture Society meetings in Mexico. The series of panels on the 'Challenges for Aquaculture Certification' also included presentations by the team on traceability in Japan, the acceptability of certification in Thailand, and labour practices in Bangladesh and roundtables on salmon farming in Chile. Professor Vandergeest has been asked to comment on certification standards both by the WWF process as well as by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Later this year, he will present research, coauthored with doctoral candidate Anusorn Unno, on the global south and the legitimacy of private regulation through certification at the American Anthropological Association meetings. It will draw on Vandergeest and Unno's field research in Thailand. Derek Hall continues his research and writing on the Japanese food industry. He is currently working on a study of new food governance dynamics (especially ecolabeling and traceability) in Japan, with a focus on fisheries imports. Md. Saidul Islam has been asked to join the Standards Oversight Committee (SOC) of the Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA). This committee directs the drafting of standards by Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) technical committees and reports its recommendations to the GAA board of directors for final standards approval. With assistance from the BAP standards coordinator, the SOC also coordinates revisions and other aspects of standards development and implementation. GAA makes standards for the Aquaculture Certification Council (ACC), which is an independent certification scheme.


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In December 2009, Professor Islam completed follow‐up fieldwork in Bangladesh on aquaculture in that country, which resulted in an article on the fish and shrimp industry written for a broader audience. In March 2010, he attended the Shrimp Aquaculture Dialogue Meeting of the WWF in Jakarta, Indonesia. WWF is trying to establish “widely acceptable” shrimp standards through various dialogues for its future independent certification scheme, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC). Paul Foley joined the project in 2009‐2010. His dissertation research, which focuses on eco‐certification and labelling through the case of Canadian fisheries, intersects with the PEG project and is producing mutually supportive research and writing activities. In fall 2009, Mr. Foley conducted site‐specific study on salmon aquaculture certification in Canada and spent four months on the East Coast conducting interviews as part of the PEG project. While in Atlantic Canada, Paul conducted about two dozen interviews with representatives from federal and provincial governments, industry, environmental groups, scientists, certification organizations and fishing organizations. The interviews produced information on how different stakeholders understand and shape certification, and provided insight into core research questions of the project, particularly how different government agencies interact with private certification systems. He presented his research on 'The Privatization of Global Governance and New Environmental Certification in Atlantic Canada’ in October 2009 at the Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association (APPSA) Annual Conference in Nova Scotia. In June 2010, he will share this research on the 'Global Political Economy of Public Support for Private Regulation: The Impacts of International Eco‐certification and Labelling on Canadian Fisheries Management' as part of a panel on environmental governance and policy issues at the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) Annual Conference in Montréal.

For more information, please visit: www.yorku.ca/ycar/Programs_Projects/PEG_main.html. (A. Unno photograph)

10) Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (2009‐) YCAR continues to host the CCSEAS website. The website was originally created for the Council's 2009 Biennial conference, which was held in Vancouver, British Columbia in October 2009. Philip Kelly (Faculty Associate; Geography, York University) is the former CCSEAS President. The website can be found at: www.yorku.ca/ycar/ccseas.html.


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11) Asian Comics and Gaming (2005‐) Project Coordinator: Wendy S. Wong (Faculty Associate; Design, York University)

The International Conference on Asian Comics and Animation and Gaming (ACAG) was held in 2006 with more than 50 international participants. The conference resulted in the

formation of a global network amongst scholars and students working on research and studies on comics, animation and gaming. Communications between coordinator Wendy Wong and potential collaborators for future initiatives are ongoing. (Wendy Wong graphic) 12) Challenges of Agrarian Transition in Southeast Asia (2005 to 2010) Supported by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Grant Co‐Investigator: Peter Vandergeest (Faculty Associate; Geography, York University) The Challenges of Agrarian Transition in Southeast Asia project (ChATSEA) is a network of Canadian scholars working with researchers abroad on a large‐scale research project to investigate and explain current processes of social and environmental change in Southeast Asia. The project is based at the University of Montréal. The tsunami disaster in December 2004 in Asia underscored the importance for Canada to have a vibrant academic community producing and disseminating knowledge about Asia. The network of 20 scholars from Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and Southeast Asia have spent the last five years studying agrarian transition in Asia. Project funding has also supported several York students' research in Southeast Asia including: Keith Barney (Doctoral Candidate, Geography); Nga Dao (Doctoral Candidate, Geography), Vanessa Lamb (Doctoral Candidate, Geography); and Mary Young (Doctoral Candidate, Political Science). Several members of the research team presented at the workshop on ‘Migration and Rural Change in Southeast Asia’ at the University of Toronto in late April 2009 and at the biennial conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CCSEAS), held at the University of British Columbia in October 2009. The final project conference, 'Revisiting Agrarian Transformations in Southeast Asia: Empirical, Theoretical and Applied Perspectives,' will be held in May 2010 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Peter Vandergeest is a member of the organizing committee for the latter conference. Peter Vandergeest was involved in two projects under the ChATSEA umbrella over the past year. The first is the restudy project, with Jonathan Rigg (Durham University), which involves about 15 researchers who have conducted restudies in sites where they did research earlier,


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with the time spans ranging from about 40 years to 10 years. Singapore University Press will publish a book comprised of short restudy papers, plus several chapters providing background and analysis written by Professor Vandergeest and Professor Rigg. They are currently reviewing chapter submissions by participants. As part of this sub‐project, Professor Vandergeest co‐organized a session on 'Restudying Agrarian Transformations', which will be held at the final project conference. A restudy workshop was also held at the University of British Columbia in October 2009. His work under the second project includes continued writing on a book (coauthored with Mary Young and Stephanie Scott) on New Green Revolutions in Southeast Asia, a study of the emergence, paths and futures of alternative agriculture. The three scholars also co‐authored a chapter in Corporate Power and Global Agrifood Governance (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009). Professor Vandergeest presented his ChATSEA research, 'Is the Alternative Agriculture Movement Having Any Wider Impact? Observations in Southern Thailand' as part of a panel on ‘Trends in Organic and Alternative Agri‐food Networks in Southeast Asia' that he co‐organized for the October 2009 CCSEAS conference. He is organizing a second panel for the final project conference on 'Alternative Futures in Alternative Agriculture', which will bring together practitioners and academics to respond to the research and analysis of the team, and provide comments on the future of alternative agriculture. In June 2009, Professor Vandergeest was invited to lecture on 'New Green Revolutions: Alternative Agriculture and Organic Food in a Global South Context' at the University of Wageningen, The Netherlands. Professor Vandergeest's other ChATSEA related activities in the past year included organizing a panel on 'Economic Crisis and Rural People in Southeast Asia' at the CCSEAS conference and the publication of a book, Politics of Decentralization: Natural Resource Management in Asia, co‐edited with fellow ChATSEA researcher Chusak Wittayapak (Chiang Mai University) Several graduate researchers participated in the ChATSEA dissertation workshop in B.C. in October 2009. Vanessa Lamb presented her summer 2009 research on 'Reconceptualizing the River: Salween as Site of Development, Conservation, Livelihood, Ethnicity and International Border' at this workshop and in a YCAR Graduate Student BrownBag research seminar at York University. Keith Barney presented 'State Control, Elite Consolidation, and Global Commodity Flows: Transboundary Formations and Forest Governance Failures in Southeast Asia.' Mr. Barney shared his research on Laos at the University of Guelph and at a conference on 'Prosperity and Security: The Challenges of Uncertain Economic Times' organized by the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, Public Safety Canada, and Export Development Canada, under the Global Futures Forum in November 2009 in Ottawa. He is also a member of the editorial board for the ChATSEA working paper series.


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Next year, Ms. Lamb will be based in Thailand conducting fieldwork on knowledge making and environmental governance along the Nu‐Salween River. Nga Dao was funded by the project to conduct fieldwork from June 2009 to March 2010 on dams and agrarian change in Vietnam. While in Hanoi, she did an archive search on ethnic minority policies of the Vietnamese state after 1954. She also collected secondary data and interviewed officers from Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and Electricity of Vietnam. The data and interviews are related to water/river basin management and resettlement policies in Vietnam in general and policies on the Son La dam project in particular. Ms. Dao also made a number of intensive trips to Son La province, especially to Muong La district and Muong Bu commune. She spent time in the two villages Pu Nhuong and Phieng Bung 1 for surveys and interviews (both based on questionnaires and in‐depth interviews) as well as in other resettlement sites in Thuan Chau and Quynh Nhai districts, which provided a broader sense of resettlement process in Son La province. During her time in Vietnam, she coordinated with NGOs and academics working on water and resettlement issues in Vietnam and completed a ChATSEA working paper. She is also a co‐editor of the forthcoming MPOWER book on 'Rites of Access: Seeking Justice in Managing Mekong Region Water' and has submitted a draft paper for Water Alternative's special issue on dams. Sakkarin Na Nan (Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University and YCAR Visiting Scholar in Winter 2010) has been conducting interviews with key informants and gathering data for a preliminary research paper for the project. Mary Young presented a paper at the CCSEAS conference, 'Revisiting the Impact of Economic Crises on Indonesian Agro‐food Production,' which discussed the impact of the Global Financial Crisis and global food crisis on the Indonesian agro‐food sector, and compared Indonesia’s recent experiences with those of the Asian Financial Crisis (1997‐1998). This paper was also submitted to Development in Practice and is currently under review. She is also writing a working paper on the historical development of food standards in Indonesia and is co‐author of a chapter in Corporate Power and Global Agrifood Governance (2010) and in the forthcoming New Green Revolutions in Southeast Asia. Publications by team researchers in 2009‐2010 include: Baird, I.G., K. Barney, P. Vandergeest and B. Shoemaker (2009). "Reading Too Much into Aspirations: More Explorations of the Space between Coerced and Voluntary Resettlement in Laos". Critical Asian Studies 41(4): 605‐614. Barney, K. (2009). "Laos and the Making of a ‘Relational’ Resource Frontier". Geographical Journal 175(2): 146‐159.


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Dwyer, M. and K. Barney (2009). "Apprentice Nationalists". Book Review of Soren Ivarsson (2008) Creating Laos: The Making of a Lao Space Between Indochina and Siam, 1860‐1945 (Copenhagen: Nias Press). Asia‐Pacific Viewpoint 50(2): 247‐249. Scott, Steffanie, Peter Vandergeest and Mary Young (2010). "Certification Standards and the Governance of Green Foods in Southeast Asia", 61‐92. In J. Clapp and D. Fuchs (eds.) Corporate Power and Global Agrifood Governance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Vandergeest, Peter, Steffanie Scott and Mary Young (Forthcoming). New Green Revolutions in Southeast Asia. Vandergeest, Peter and Chusak Wittayapak (2009). Politics of Decentralization: Natural Resource Management in Asia. Chiang Mai: Mekong Press. For more information on this project, please visit: www.yorku.ca/ycar/Programs_Projects/ChATSEA.html.

13) Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (2008‐) Supported by: Canadian Heritage’s ‘Gateway’ Fund Principal Investigator and Director: Kay Li (Research Associate; President of Asian Heritage Month‐Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture [Central Ontario] Inc.)

The dream of a space to highlight the unique cultural heritage and contributions of Asian Canadians is now a reality with the creation of the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (VMACCH). The Museum was launched on 4 June 2009 at York University and is located at www.vmacch.ca. The project was funded by Canadian Heritage’s ‘Gateway’ Fund with support from York University and YCAR. The Asian Heritage Society of New Brunswick and the Accés Asie in Montréal are also institutional partners. The museum showcases the cultural experiences and expressions of Asian Canadians in a variety of capacities from across Canada. It strives to provide insight into how this demographic experiences life in Canada, how Asian Canadians choose to express their traditional culture and heritage, and what these expressions and experiences mean to Asian Canadian communities. The first phase of the project focused on contributions of Asian Canadians in the area of cultural heritage. Organizers hope the project will continue to grow in future phases with support from individuals and communities across Canada. For more information, visit: www.vmacch.ca.


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14) Asian Business and Management Programme (ABMP) (Ongoing) Director: B. Michael Frolic (Senior Research Associate; Political Science, York University) The Asian Business and Management Programme (ABMP) has been one of Canada's leaders in Asian research for over 25 years and one of the first institutions in Canada to provide executive development training to Chinese professionals. The ABMP collaborates with the Schulich School of Business in the implementation of its training programmes (see 4.15) with staff in both Beijing and Toronto. The Programme also supports research through its own programmes and initiatives as well as through its financial and other support for YCAR (see 4.7). In 2009‐2010, the ABMP provided support for YCAR research activities, including funding for five computers for Associate use. Professor Frolic has been working towards formalizing the programme's current research link in Canada‐People's Republic of China relations with Beijing Foreign Studies University (Beiwai), and with the Shanghai government. A major event will be held in fall 2010 at York to mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Canada and the PRC. For more information on the ABMP, please visit: www.yorku.ca/abmp/english.html. 15) ABMP Training Division Programmes (Ongoing) The training division of the ABMP (formerly China Management Training Programme) communicates with partners and colleagues in China and Vietnam to facilitate specifically designed executive development training programmes. China | CMTP hosted 11 groups from China in 2009‐2010. A three‐week programme on Energy Efficiency in the New and Built Environment for a group of 25 senior administrators from the Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban‐Rural Development (BJ RUD) was hosted in November 2009 and evolved from the excellent rapport developed in 2008 with a group from the same ministry. This programme is popular because the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is a very high priority for the Chinese government, not to mention the high recommendations of Chongqing trainees in the same programme in late 2008. The programme's reputation has spread and it will be delivered to Rural and Urban Development officials from Jiangsu province in 2010 along with a third delegation from Chongqing, Toronto’s sister city. The Chongqing Urban‐Rural Development Commission (CQ RUD) sent its second delegation for training on Energy Efficiency in the New and Built Environment in January 2010 after many months of delay brought on by the H1N1 virus alert. The Ministry had its name changed from the Construction Commission in late 2009 to better reflect the


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focus and priority of this entity. Another delegation is expected later in 2010. The Beijing Higher People’s Court is a programme focused primarily on the process of writing judicial judgments. Delivery of the programme has been delayed until later in 2010.

The Chaoyang District of Beijing sent another group of senior officials representing various divisions and responsibilities in 2009. The seven‐day programme was an introduction to best practices in public management in Canada. As an established client, they are expected to send another delegation on 2010. The Real Estate Market Supervision Department of the Ministry of Housing and Urban‐Rural Development in Beijing was a pilot group for the ABMP, which delivered a programme on the issue of land expropriation, arbitration and compensation. The five‐day programme covered issues such as: an Introduction of land/building expropriation legislation in the municipal context; de facto expropriation; the current state of Canadian law; expropriation in Ontario; commercial compensation versus public interests; dispute resolution and land expropriation. The Hebei Taxation five‐day programme was held in collaboration with colleagues from the Schulich School of Business. The group of 25 officials represented the tax division of various districts throughout Hebei province. The Jiangsu International Talents Exchange Association visiting delegation met with Asia Business and Management Training Programme Director B. Michael Frolic, former Vice‐President Academic Sheila Embleton and Training Director Máire O’Brien to discuss future cooperation.

Dr. O’Brien visited Chongqing in September 2009 to discuss future opportunities for cooperation in the area of health. The follow‐up to this trip was the reception of a small group from the Chongqing Public Health Bureau and the signing of a MOU with Dean Skinner of the Faculty of Health. In 2010, there will be a group for three weeks of training on hospital administration ‐ a cooperative effort between the ABMP and the Health Leadership and Learning Network (HLLN), Faculty of Health. This programme is strongly supported by the City of Toronto as a component of the Chongqing‐Toronto sister city relationship.

Senior officials from universities in the Province of Henan returned for a fifth consecutive year of programme delivery in Post Secondary Institutional Reform and Management and are expected again in 2010. Deans and senior administrative officials from Shaanxi Normal University also took this three‐week programme.

The Shanghai Organization Department sent a small delegation of six that spent six months with the ABMP from August 2009 to February 2010. Their first weeks in Canada were spent in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes in preparation to audit classes, conduct research interviews, and present their findings. The individuals in the group were senior administrators


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in various disciplines: education, urban planning, e‐government, municipal governance and business administration.

Vietnam | With the invaluable assistance of Professor Lisa Drummond (Faculty Associate; Social Science) and after several years of hard work establishing relationships with key officials in Vietnam, the ABMP received its first delegation from Vietnam from 24 October to 6 November 2009. The group of 20 officials from various divisions in the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment received the programme on land expropriation, arbitration and compensation. A second delegation from Vietnam will be receiving a programme in Human Resources Management in the near future. Russia and the Ukraine | Discussions are underway with colleagues to expand opportunities with universities in Russia and the Ukraine. For more information on CMTP, please visit: www.yorku.ca/abmp/programes.html. (M. O'Brien

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5. Research Clusters

YCAR hosts seven research clusters, both geographic and thematic. Their mandates are to increase research collaboration and community around specific research areas to enhance our knowledge and research opportunities. They include: Korea Studies Group, Philippine Study Group, (Re)making Governance, the South Asian Research Group, York China Studies, the York Political Ecology Workshop, and Religions and Philosophies in Asia and Asian Diaspora. The clusters' web presence was being revamped in 2009‐2010.

1) Korea Study Group The Korea Study Group brings the study of South Korea, North Korea, and the Korean diaspora together, investigating the formation of the national division and shifting boundaries of the nation. Drawing scholars together from different disciplines, it seeks to develop a comparative perspective that places the Korean affairs in dialogue with historical, global and theoretical changes. The faculty and students explore such themes as modernity, history, visual art, migration, post/colonialism, gender studies, urban politics, labour studies and global capitalism. Ann H. Kim began work on her SSHRC‐funded 'Development, Migration Strategies and Prospects for Social Integration: Understanding Contemporary Transnationalism among South Korean Families' project. For more details, see 4.2. Professor Kim presented her pilot test findings in a talk on 20 April 2010. In May 2009, York students Alex Hurezeanu and Graduate Associate Jooyeon Rhee (Humanities) organized North Korean Film Day, which included screenings of 'Chosen Forever' (2008) and 'The Game of Their Lives' (2002) with guest speakers Director Joohyun Kwon (Chosen Forever) and Christopher Graper (Koryo Canada Tours). Opening comments were given by Faculty Associate Janice Kim (History). In the YCAR Graduate Student BrownBag research seminar series, Jooyeon Rhee discussed the representation of women in two Korean silent films, 'Airiang' (1926) and 'A Boat without the Master' (1931), written and directed by Na Un‐kyu (1902‐1937). The two films she examined are known for the expression of the impoverished social conditions of Korea and the strong desire for regaining Korea's independence. She analyzed the relationship between gender and nationalism in a colonial context. (Jared photograph, 2006)


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2) Philippine Study Group In 2009‐2010, the Philippine Study Group (PSG) hosted two talks by visiting speakers. In December 2009, Trudeau Scholar and University of British Columbia doctoral candidate Mark Lawrence Santiago presented 'Made for Canada, Product of the Philippines: Global Nurse Migrations and the Geopolitics of Global Justice'. He spoke about his research on the large‐scale migration of the Philippine's health care work force seeking better employment opportunities in more developed economies such as Canada. In April 2010, Lou Janssen Dangzalan, a 2010 YCAR Visiting Scholar, presented his Master's research in a talk on 'Moro Reactions towards Colonial State Building and Republican Forms of Political Authority.'

The PSG was formed in 2006 to bring together faculty and graduate students with an interest in the Philippines and/or Filipino(a) migration and diaspora. The group has an active listserv and meets periodically for discussions based on readings from the contemporary interdisciplinary literature in Philippine Studies and to discuss each other's research proposals and ideas. Faculty and students in the group come primarily from York University, but also from other institutions in the Toronto region. They represent a variety of disciplinary backgrounds including: anthropology, dance, education, environmental studies, fine arts, geography and political science. The study group is led by Philip F. Kelly (Faculty Associate; Geography). (P.F. Kelly photograph)

3) (Re)making Governance (Re)making Governance draws together a broad group of researchers with an interest in the various practices through which relationships amongst and between human and non‐human agents are regulated. The cluster encompasses both the practices associated with institutions (egs. states and international organizations) as well as the discursive, material and everyday practices of other agents. The (Re)making Governance cluster served as an umbrella for a number of ongoing initiatives including the research projects of Peter Vandergeest (see 4.9, 4.12), Gregory Chin (4.5) and Robin Roth (see 4.8). The York Political Ecology Workshop (see 5.6) is also a part of this cluster. In 2009‐2010, members of this cluster were also involved in the Ecologies on the Edge research programme, which received a Social Science and Humanities Research Council – Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (SSHRC‐MCRI) Development Grant (see 4.6). In late April 2009, Ben White of the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, discussed approaches to the


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study of the social impacts of, and responses to, economic downturns, using data on Indonesian recessions since the 1930s as illustrations. His talk was a part of YCAR's three‐part series on the effects of the global financial crisis in Asia. In November 2009, YCAR welcomed scholars to an international book workshop on ‘B(R)ICS: Emerging Powers as Emerging Donors', organized by Gregory Chin (Faculty Associate; Political Science) and Fahimul Quadir (Faculty Associate; Social Science). (Jonathan McIntosh photograph, 2004)

4) South Asian Research Group The South Asian Research Group (SARG) brings together graduate students and faculty researchers, from a diversity of disciplines, interested in South Asia. The cluster’s members aim to facilitate research, discussion and events on a variety of issues related to South Asia and South Asian diaspora to broaden the horizons of the York community at large. The membership reflects the diverse range of expertise at York including from the departments of anthropology, geography, humanities, languages, literatures and linguistics, political science, social and political thought, psychology and sociology. From poverty in India to Sanskrit translation to Indian nationalism, YCAR and its Associates hosted research dissemination activities on a variety of themes in 2009‐2010. In September 2009, the Inaugural Asia Lecture was given by Veena Das, Krieger‐Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her topic was 'Poverty and the Imagination of a Future: The Story of Urban Slums in Delhi, India.' For more details, see 6.1. 'Home and the World: Women and Nationalism in the Novels of Rabindranath Tagore' was the title of Professor Himani Banerjee's talk in November. In March 2010, YCAR co‐sponsored a talk by Ramon Magsaysay Award winner Palagummi Sainath, 'Slumdogs versus Millionaires: India in the Age of Inequality’. (Dan Brady photograph, 2005) 5) York China Studies The York China Studies research cluster creates a community for a large, but thematically and disciplinarily diverse group of York scholars who study China and/or Chinese Diaspora. Several events were held in 2009‐2010 under the auspices of York China Studies. Five China and Chinese Diaspora studies events were held in May 2009. York professor Yam Lau (Visual Arts) presented 'A Courtyard House or a Dream? An Informal Talk on Space, Time, Image and China', drawing from his field research in Beijing and focused on his creative projects, which combine computer‐generated animation and digital video, including his recent work, Hutong House, which reconstitutes the architectural layout and the associated ways of life of a traditional Chinese courtyard house as rendered in virtual space.


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In 'The Chinese Knowledge Diaspora and the International Knowledge Network | Australian and Canadian Universities Compared,' Rui Yang (University of Hong Kong) and Anthony Welch (University of Sydney) spoke about their Australian Research Council Discovery Project that traces communication networks of the Chinese knowledge diaspora in Australian and Canadian universities. Julia F. Andrews, a specialist in Chinese painting and modern Chinese art from Ohio State University, gave the keynote speech at the 'Global Modern: Transnationalism and the Media in Asia', a symposium organized by YCAR as part of York University's U50 celebration. Her topic was 'Publishing and the Birth of China's Modern Art World: Shanghai huabao (Pictorial Shanghai) in the 1920s'. Human rights issues surrounding religious practice in China as well as the contributions of religion to human rights and civil society in China was the theme of an international symposium co‐hosted by YCAR in late May 2009. 'Religion and Rights in China' welcomed scholars from Canada, China, the United States and England, and Chinese law and politics scholar Pitman Potter (University of British Columbia) was the keynote speaker. For more information, see 6.2. YCAR welcomed Canadian Senator Vivienne Poy to York in November, where she was part of a panel that examined the contributions and limitations of the various modes of historical inquiry for telling Hong Kong's past, including biography, oral history and memoir. Bernard Luk (History, York University) and Yuk‐Lin Renita Wong (Faculty Associate; School of Social Work, York University) also shared their research in 'Biography and History of Hong Kong'. Three presentations in the YCAR Graduate Student BrownBag research seminar series also focused on China Studies. In February 2010, Tenzing Jigme (Graduate Associate; Master's Candidate, Political Science; Public and International Affairs) discussed minority rights accommodation in Tibet and how certain policies (e.g. regional autonomy laws) limit the recognition of Tibetan identity, culture and development in 'Minority Rights Accommodation in China: The Tibet Case.' The expressions of body and gender in the works of Chinese female performance artist He Chengyao (b.1964) were traced in Doris Ha‐Lin Sung's (Graduate Associate; Social and Political Thought) February 2010 talk. 'Liquid Modernity, Fluid Brand Meaning: Urban Chinese Consumers' Changing Perception of Western Brands' was the topic of Yikun Zhao's March talk. The Doctoral Candidate in Marketing (Schulich School of Business) examined how the changing macroeconomic landscape, especially the rising status of China, influences urban Chinese consumers’ perception of Western brands in general and fast food brands in particular (McDonald and KFC in this case), so as to reveal the increasingly fluid nature of brand meaning particularly in the context of globalization.


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In April, Jonathan Yang (Doctoral Candidate, Political Science) examined the recent history of and contemporary struggles over Taiwan government policies with respect to the growing economic ties between Taiwan and China in 'The Rise and Fall of Lee Teng‐hui’s “No Haste Be Patient” Policy: Its Implication for Taiwan’s Mainland Policy Today.' The GTA Modern China Reading Group also continued its activities this year. The group brings together York faculty (Bernard Luk, Grace Shen, Joshua Fogel) and graduate students (Doris Ha‐Lin Sung, Colin McLennan) along with faculty and graduate students from the University of Toronto, McMaster University and Wilfred Laurier University. The group meets monthly to discuss pre‐circulated papers or primary materials. (Thomas Kraus photograph, 2005)

6) York Political Ecology Workshop The York Political Ecology Workshop aims to promote dialogue around human‐ecological relations and processes through the organization of workshops and by facilitating research activities. The focus is Asia, but the group is interested in relevant work being done around the world. Members also coordinate the offering of graduate seminars on political ecology topics and make resources available to graduate students. Over 30 York University and University of Toronto faculty and graduate students are involved in the cluster. Four workshops were held over the past year to discuss new research in the area of political ecology: ‘New Green Revolutions: The Making of Alternative Agriculture and Organic Food in Thailand' (Faculty Associate Peter Vandergeest, Geography) in April 2009; 'Oil “Futures”: Shell’s Scenarios and the Social Constitution of the Global Oil Market' (Professor Anna Zalik, Environmental Studies) in May 2009; and 'Constrained by Conservation, Liberated by Capitalism? Conservation Induced Livelihood Change in Northern Thailand' (Faculty Associate Robin Roth, Geography) in June 2009. A special workshop was held in October 2009 when the group welcomed Maano Ramutsindela (University of Cape Town, South Africa), who discussed 'Grounding Decolonization in Nature: Peace Parks and the Vicissitudes of Imperial Spaces of Conservation.' The final seminar of the YCAR Graduate Student BrownBag Research Seminar series focused on the environment in Southeast Asia. Sakkarin Na Nan, a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Social Science at Chiang Mai University, spoke about 'The Making of Plant Gene in the Struggles of the Small‐Scaled Farmers under the Global Seed Market Integration in Northern Thailand.' 'Knowledge and Environmental Governance on the Nu‐Salween River' was the focus of Graduate Associate Vanessa Lamb's (Geography) talk, based on her summer 2009 research in Thailand.

The YPEW network also contributed substantially to the 'Ecologies on the Edge' research programme in 2009‐2010. For more details, see 4.6.


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YPEW is organized by Faculty Associates Robin Roth (Geography) and Peter Vandergeest (Geography). (Juni photograph, 2004)

7) Religions and Philosophies in Asia and Asian Diaspora The Religions and Philosophies in Asia and Asian Diaspora research cluster includes the Canadian Missionaries in Asia group. The creation of the latter followed on the December 2006 conference, 'Canadian Missionaries in Asia: Memory and Meaning in Asian‐Canadian Churches'. The group brings together over 30 scholars and Asian‐Canadian church representatives to explore Canadian missionaries as part of Asian and Canadian social and cultural history, as well how this past enters into the collective memory of both Asian and Canadian Churches. In 2009‐2010, cluster leader Michael Stainton organized 'Religion and Human Rights in China', an international symposium held in May 2009 that examined the human rights issues surrounding religious practice in China as well as the contributions of religion to human rights and civil society in China. The symposium was co‐hosted by YCAR, the Centre for Asian‐Canadian Theology and Ministry at Knox College and the Hudson Taylor Centre for Chinese Ministries at Tyndale Seminary. For more details, see 6.2. YCAR also welcomed Jane Lee of Aletheia University (Taiwan) who spoke about her research on Minnie Mackay and the experience of native Christian women in Taiwanese women's history. The title of her November 2009 talk was 'Native Bible Womanhood and Women's Rights in Late 19th century Taiwan: Minnie Mackay's Story'.


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6. Event Highlights 1) Asian Transformations series In 2009, YCAR was host to three events in celebration of York University's fiftieth anniversary: The Global Modern: Transnationalism and the Media in Asia symposium; the transpulsation – new asian canadian imaginings exhibition; and the inaugural Asia Lecture. The series, funded by the U50 Committee, was designed to reflect upon key transformations and continuities in Asian societies and Asian diasporas, in Asian studies, and in Canadian engagements with Asia. The events examined major scholarly and policy debates surrounding the dramatic socio‐economic, political, and environmental changes, while anticipating future research agendas and policy issues. It also reflected upon the evolution of Asian studies as a field of academic inquiry, while showcasing Asian studies at York, one of Canada’s premier centres for research and teaching on East, Southeast and South Asia, and on Asian diasporas. The series was made possible thanks to the participation of York faculty and graduate students, outstanding York alumni, members of Asian Canadian communities, and prominent international scholars and activists. The Global Modern: Transnationalism and the Media in Asia symposium (15 May 2009) The symposium explored the transnational origins and dimensions of the modern mass media in Asia. Demonstrating that various forms of South and East Asian media were global from their inception, the workshop both reinforced themes explored in the accompanying exhibition on diasporic Asian art and belied the commonly held conception that globalization is a post‐modern, post‐capitalist, late twentieth century development. The symposium was organized by Joan Judge (Faculty Associate; History, York University). The symposium presenters, all YCAR Associates, included: Shobna Nijhawan (Languages, Literatures and Linguistics ‐ Global (?), Modern and Colonized: Indian Women Writers’ and Activists’ International Networking in the Early Twentieth Century); Xueqing Xu (Languages, Literatures and Linguistics ‐ In an Alien Land: Fictional Works by Three Chinese‐Canadian Women Writers of Different Generations); Wendy Wong (Design ‐ An Image of Women in Hong Kong: Revisiting 13‐Dot Cartoons in Contemporary Context); Sailaja Krishnamurti (South Asian Studies ‐ Indian Comics and Diasporic Youth: Education, Nostalgia, and Identity); Doris Ha‐Lin Sung (Social and Political Thought ‐ Beyond Identity Politics: Transnational Asian‐Canadian Art); and Joan Judge (A Global Visual Modernity: Translocal Photography in Early Twentieth Century


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Chinese Women's Journals). The symposium themes were explored by looking at various forms of media including women’s journals and comics from China to India to Canada. Julia F. Andrews, a specialist in Chinese painting and modern Chinese art from Ohio State University, gave the symposium keynote talk on 'Publishing and the Birth of China's Modern Art World: Shanghai huabao (Pictorial Shanghai) in the 1920s.' Her paper examined the seductive images of China’s new culture and society that emerge from the pages of the tabloid periodical Shanghai huabao (Pictorial Shanghai) from 1925 to 1932. The cultural world created on its pages reflected not only the social connections and life experiences of its editorial staff, but also the artistic sensitivity and highly personal imaginative creations of the city’s constantly changing visual imagery and emotional tenor. Over time, the publication constructed a new Chinese visual modernity, demarcating those areas of traditional social and artistic practice that might suitably absorb elements from an imported lifestyle. Shanghai huabao offers vivid insight into the cultural psychology of the late 1920s, when writers might be both classically educated and European trained, and simultaneously speak in a tone of Neo‐Daoist escapism and European ennui. It lured its readers into a cosmopolitan Chinese culture that synthesized old and new tastes, a visual milieu that has left its traces in that of Shanghai today, which has once again become a city that is Chinese, Asian and global. Professor Andrews is a specialist in Chinese painting and modern Chinese art. Her first book, Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China (1994), won the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the best book of the year on modern China. In addition to writing and teaching, she served as co‐curator and catalogue author for one of the first American exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art, 'Fragmented Memory: The Chinese Avant‐Garde in Exile,' at OSU's Wexner Center for the Arts in 1993, and of the Guggenheim Museum's 1998 exhibition, 'A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth Century China,' shown in New York and Bilbao. (YCAR photograph of D. Sung, J. Judge, X. Xu, S. Krishnamurti, J.

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transpulsation – new asian canadian imaginings exhibition (15 May to 12 June 2009)

Cultural traversing and globalization are (re)shaping our understanding of the 'connected world.' These processes have significant importance for the members of Asian Diaspora in Canada, whose interactions with their cultural origins transform their social, economic, political and cultural experience. Asian Canadians, one of Canada’s largest groups of immigrants, illustrate the possibilities of building meaningful links between their native places and newly‐adopted homes. They reveal a good deal about the enriching of life experiences through traversing between 'here' and 'there'.


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From the 1970s to the early 1990s, the desire to belong, identity politics and cultural memory were among the common themes in the works of Asian Canadian artists. Since then, 'transnationality' has become an important trend. As opportunities for travel to and from Asia have increased, the geographical distance ‐ both physical and emotional ‐ between one’s place of cultural origin and Canada is shorter than ever before. The exploration of 'identity' remains crucial in the works of the four artists in this exhibition, Shelly Bahl, Will Kwan, Meera Sethi and Amy Wong. However, the artists reconstruct the paradigm of identity politics through the experience of transnationality. They explore a broadened scope of cultural interactions that attempts to create and enhance the socio‐cultural and historical connections between Asia and Canada. transpulsation – new asian canadian imagining was curated by Graduate Associates and professional curators Jooyeon Rhee (Humanities) and Doris Ha‐Lin Sung (Social and Political Thought). It was exhibited at the Gales Gallery at York University from 15 May to 12 June 2009. The opening gala hosted a large and enthusiastic audience of family, friends and colleagues. (Graphic by Meera Sethi. YCAR photograph

of D. Sung, A. Wong, W. Kwan, S. Bahl, M. Sethi and J. Rhee) Inaugural Asia Lecture (24 September 2009)

The final event in the 'Asian Transformations' series was the inaugural Asia Lecture given by Professor Veena Das. Krieger‐Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University, she shared her research and experience in the 24 September talk titled, ‘Poverty and the Imagination of a Future: The Story of Urban Slums in Delhi, India.’ The audience had the opportunity to ask questions of the Anders Retzius Gold Medal recipient after her lecture. One of the most well‐known social theorists specializing on South Asia today,

Professor Das is particularly known for her research on the anthropology of violence, social suffering and the state in South Asia. Amongst her many works are Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (California UP, 2006), Critical Events: An Anthropological Approach to Contemporary India (Oxford UP, 1995); and Structure and Cognition: Aspects of Hindu


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Caste and Ritual (Oxford University Press, 1977). Professor Das was welcomed to York by Lorna Wright, Associate Vice‐President International and Martin Singer, Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, offered thanks on behalf of the faculty, students and community members in attendance. The Lecture was organized by Director Susan Henders and Associate Director Michael Nijhawan. Special thanks to Vanessa Rosa for her assistance. A video of the event is available at: www.yorku.ca/alumni/podcasts/?video=VeenaDas01.flv. (F. Caballero photographs of Veena Das; clockwise from left: M. Nijhawan, S. Henders, Dean Martin Singer, V. Das and Mrs. Singer)

2) Religion and Rights in China (30 May 2009)

In late May, YCAR co‐hosted an international symposium on Religion and Rights in China. The 2008 Olympic Games brought international attention to China’s human rights practices, as well as intensified repression against Tibetan Buddhists, Uyghur Muslims, non‐registered churches and Falun Dafa practitioners. At the same time, China is experiencing the greatest religious revival in human history. This symposium examined issues of religious control and persecution as well as the contributions of religions as civil society organizations building human rights in China. The over 40 attendees were drawn from churches, the academy, China human rights activists, and members of affected groups – Tibetan Buddhists, Uyghur Muslims and Falundafa practitioners. Dr. Pitman Potter (Professor of Law, University of British Columbia and Hong Kong Bank Chair in Asian Research at UBC's Institute of Asian Research) presented the keynote lecture via video speaking on China’s law and policy on religious freedoms in the context of international human rights standards. The event featured three panels: The Christian Experience, The Falun Dafa Experience, and Religion and Ethnicity. Presenters included: Joseph Tse‐Hei Lee (Politics of Faith: Patterns of Christian Activism in Modern China); Brian Swords (Catholics in China); David Matas (Falun Gong and Human Rights); Rukiye Turdush (Religious Dominance of CCP: Tool of Control over


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East Turkistan); Michael Dillon (Muslims in China: Communist Party Policy, Dissent and Human Rights); Tsewang Tethong (Violation of Human Rights and Religious Freedom in Tibet); and Razmik Panossian (Religion and Human Rights). More information on the panels and the panelists can be found at: www.yorku.ca/ycar/Events/religion_human_rights_china.html. The panels were followed by a roundtable on 'Religion Building Human Rights' to consider future research and an action agenda. The director of China’s Leap of Faith: The Gods Come Home, David Webster, was in attendance and answered questions after the screening of his film. This event was organized by: Research Associate Michael Stainton, York Centre for Asian Research; Centre for Asian‐Canadian Theology and Ministry at Knox College; Hudson Taylor Centre for Chinese Ministries at Tyndale Seminary. The symposium was generously supported by: the E.H. Johnson Memorial Fund; the St. Stephen’s‐Broadway Foundation; the Kiervin Family Foundation; Lisa Chung (President, Kuo Hua Trading Company) and the following York University sponsors: the Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security; the East Asian Studies Programme; and the Religious Studies Programme. (J. Song photographs of lt‐rt: Tsewang Tethong; Michael Stainton introducing the keynote talk by Pitman Potter; Rukiye Turdush; Brian Swords)

3) Asian Heritage Month Lecture and Launch of the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (4 June 2009) Joy Kogawa gave the 2009 Asian Heritage Month Lecture at York University on 4 June 2009. Dr. Kogawa, a renowned author, community advocate and member of the Order of Canada, spoke on her new memoir, Gently to Nagasaki. The discussant was York Professor Mona Oikawa (Equity Studies). The event also celebrated the national launch of the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (www.vmacch.ca), which featured a performance by Raging Asian Women taiko drummers and an introduction to the Museum by Zul Kassamali, whose

inspiration it was to create this space to celebrate Asian Canadian culture and heritage. The event was chaired by the Honourable Vivienne Poy, Senate of Canada. Joy Kogawa was born in Vancouver in 1935. Her literary and community accomplishments have been widely recognized. She is a member of the Order of Canada (1986) and the Order of British Columbia (2006). She received the National Association of Japanese Canadians National Award in


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2001, and November 6, 2004, was proclaimed Joy Kogawa Day in Vancouver. Her first novel, Obasan (Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1981) has received several awards including: First Novel Award, Books in Canada; Book of the Year Award, Canadian Authors Association; Best Paperback Fiction Award, Periodical Distributors of Canada; The American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation; and Notable Book, American Library Association. Her other novels include: Itsuka (Viking, Canada, 1992); The Rain Ascends (Knopf Canada, 1995); Emily Kato (Itsuka revisited) (Penguin Canada, 2005). Her poetry collections include: The Splintered Moon (University of New Brunswick, 1967); A Choice of Dreams (McClelland and Stewart, 1974); Jericho Road (McClelland and Stewart, 1977); Woman in the Woods (Mosaic, 1985); A Song of Lilith (Polestar, 2000); and A Garden of Anchors, Selected Poems (Mosaic, 2003). Her children and young adult fiction titles include Naomi’s Road (1986), which was commissioned as an opera by the Vancouver Opera in 2005. Naomi no Michi (young adult fiction, Shogakkan, Japan) and Naomi’s Tree (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2008) are her two other titles in this genre. The VMACCH will allow for the preservation and online showcasing of one of Canada's most culturally diverse communities. Organizers hope that it will become a valuable resource for Asian Canadians and other Canadians to share cultural experiences. The first phase of the project focused on contributions of Asian Canadians in the area of cultural heritage. Organizers expect the project will continue to grow in future phases over the next few years with support from individuals and communities across Canada. Dr Kogawa is also a contributor to the VMACCH. Raging Asian Women is a diverse collective of East and Southeast Asian women who are carrying on the North American taiko drumming tradition and promoting social justice while making music. The event was hosted by the York Centre for Asian Research and sponsored by the Office of the Vice‐President Academic and Provost and the Asian Heritage Month, Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario). (VMACCH logo; Photograph of J. Kogawa provided by J. Kogawa; YCAR

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4) Literary Translation in a Multicultural World (20 October 2009) Distinguished Sanskrit literary scholar and career diplomat A.N.D. Haksar shared this love of Sanskrit literature with students and faculty during a visit to York in October. The lecture, 'Literary Translation in a Multicultural World,' was held on 20 October 2009, organized by Shobna Nijhawan and moderated by Malcolm Blincow. Mr. Haksar is a long time student of Sanskrit literature, which he has translated into English. Educated at the universities of Allahabad and Oxford, he was a career diplomat for many years, serving as Indian High Commissioner to Kenya and the Seychelles, Minister to the United States and Ambassador to Portugal and Yugoslavia. He is now based in India.

His translations from the Sanskrit include plays and fables, stories and satires, a verse anthology from Kashmir, a collection of Buddhist jatakas with a foreword by The Dalai Lama, and the never before translated love story of Madhav and Kama, the original text of which he first saw at the Robarts Library. Five of these works have been published as Penguin Classics. He has also complied A Treasury of Sanskrit Poetry for the Indian Council for Cultural Relation (ICCR). His most recent publication is The Courtesan's Keeper (2008). YCAR Director Susan Henders accepted two books donated to the Scott Library by Mr. Haksar: Glimpses of Sanskrit Literature and A Treasury of Sanskrit Poetry. This event was organized by Professor Shobna Nijhawan and sponsored by YCAR, Professor Nijhawan and the South Asian Studies programme. Special thanks to the York University Bookstore for their assistance. An audio recording of the lecture is available from YCAR and the event photographs can be found on the website: www.yorku.ca/ycar. F. Caballero photographs of A.N.D Haksar presenting books to S. Henders; M. Blincow, A.N.D Haksar, S. Henders, Mrs. Haksar, S. Nijhawan and Sharada Haksar


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7. Calendar of Events > New Green Revolutions: The Making of Alternative Agriculture and Organic Food in Thailand (22 April 2009) A York Political Ecology Workshop (YPEW) talk given by Faculty Associate Peter Vandergeest (Geography). YPEW is organized by Faculty Associates Robin Roth (Geography) and Peter Vandergeest (Geography). > Don't let a Good Recession go to Waste: How (not) to Study the Social Impacts of Economic Downturns (30 April 2009) Ben White of the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, drew on his own study of the experiences of the economic recessions of the 1930s, 1960s and 1990s in Indonesia. Professor White discussed how to study the social impacts of, and responses to, economic downturns, using data on Indonesian recessions since the 1930s as illustrations. He emphasized the need to study economic downturns as part of long term socio‐economic and political processes rather than in ‘before – after’ terms. The social impacts of downturns should be understood not simply as products of a crisis, but as outcomes of the development model followed for decades prior to the crisis. This seminar was organized by Faculty Associate Sharada Srinivasan (International Development Studies). Sponsored by YCAR and International Development Studies, it was a part of YCAR's three‐part series on the effects of the global financial crisis on Asia.

> What Does Ethnic Costume Represent? (1 May 2009) Textile artist, Haji Oh (Natsue Okamura), YCAR’s Visiting Scholar for 2009, spoke about her experiences of living in Japan as a Korean Japanese resident, the so‐called ‘zainichi’ and the role of art in expressing the social and historical background of her community. Ms. Oh is a Doctoral Candidate in the Division of Fine Arts at Kyoto City University of Arts. (YCAR photograph of Ted Goossen and H. Oh)

> A Courtyard House or a Dream? An Informal Talk on Space, Time, Image and China (7 May 2009) Yam Lau (Visual Arts) drew from his field research in Beijing, China, in a talk that focused on his creative projects, which combine computer generated animation and digital video. He discussed one of his recent works, Hutong House, which reconstitutes the architectural


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layout and the associated ways of life of a traditional Chinese courtyard house as rendered in virtual space. This event was organized by Associate Director Wendy Wong, and sponsored by YCAR and the City Institute. (YCAR photograph of Y. Lau and W. Wong)

> The Chinese Knowledge Diaspora and the International Knowledge Network |Australian and Canadian Universities Compared (8 May 2009)

Talk by Rui Yang (University of Hong Kong) and Anthony Welch (University of Sydney) based on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project tracing communication networks of the Chinese knowledge diaspora in Australian and Canadian universities. It analysed networks of such individuals with colleagues in the People’s Republic of China and other Chinese scholars worldwide, focusing on the

dynamics, advantages and difficulties. This talk was organized by Faculty Associate Qiang Zha (Education). (YCAR photograph of Qiang Zha, Anthony Welch, Jorge Balán, Rui Yang and Wendy Wong) > '"Oil “Futures": Shell’s Scenarios and the Social Constitution of the Global Oil Market' (13 May 2009) A York Political Ecology Workshop (YPEW) talk given by Professor Anna Zalik (Environmental Studies). YPEW is organized by Faculty Associates Robin Roth (Geography) and Peter Vandergeest (Geography). > North Korean Film Day (13 May 2009) Screenings of 'Chosen Forever' (2008) and 'The Game of Their Lives' (2002) with guest speakers Director Joohyun Kwon (Chosen Forever) and Christopher Graper (Koryo Canada Tours). Opening comments were given by Faculty Associate Janice Kim (History). This event was organized by York student Alex Hurezeanu and Graduate Associate Jooyeon Rhee (Humanities). (YCAR photograph of J. Kwon, C. Graper, J. Kim, J. Rhee

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> The Global Modern: Transnationalism and the Media in Asia symposium (15 May 2009) The symposium explored the transnational origins and dimensions of the modern mass media in Asia. Demonstrating that various forms of South and East Asian media were global from their inception, the workshop both reinforced themes explored in the accompanying exhibition on diasporic Asian art and belied the commonly held conception that globalization is a post‐modern, post‐capitalist, late twentieth century development. Julia F. Andrews, a specialist in Chinese painting and modern Chinese art from Ohio State

University, gave the keynote speech on 'Publishing and the Birth of China's Modern Art World: Shanghai huabao (Pictorial Shanghai) in the 1920s' (see 6.1). This symposium, part of YCAR's U50 Asian Transformations series, was organized by Joan Judge (Faculty Associate; History, York University) and sponsored by the York University U50 Committee. YCAR photograph of Julia F. Andrews

> transpulsation – new asian canadian imaginings exhibition (Opening 15 May 2009) Cultural traversing and globalization are (re)shaping our understanding of the 'connected world.' These processes have significant importance for the members of Asian Diaspora in Canada, whose interactions with their cultural origins transform their social, economic, political and cultural experience. Artists Shelly Bahl, Will Kwan, Meera Sethi and Amy Wong explored a broadened scope of cultural interactions that attempt to create and enhance the socio‐cultural and historical connections between Asia and Canada in this exhibition. The exhibition ran from 15 May to 12 June 2009 (see 6.1). The exhibition was curated by Graduate Associates Jooyeon Rhee (Doctoral Candidate, Humanities) and Doris Ha‐Lin Sun (Doctoral Candidate, Social and Political Thought). It was part of YCAR's U50 Asian Transformtions series, which was sponsored by the York University U50 Committee. (YCAR photograph of J. Rhee, D. Sung and S. Henders)

> Annual General Meeting (25 May 2009) > Religion and Rights in China symposium (30 May 2009) Presentations at the international symposium examined the human rights issues surrounding religious practice in China as well as the contributions of religion to human rights and civil society in China (see 6.2).


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This event was organized by: Research Associate Michael Stainton, York Centre for Asian Research; the Centre for Asian‐Canadian Theology and Ministry at Knox College; and the Hudson Taylor Centre for Chinese Ministries at Tyndale Seminary. The symposium was generously funded by: the E.H. Johnson Memorial Fund, the St. Stephen’s‐Broadway Foundation, the Kiervin Family Foundation, Lisa Chung (President, Kuo Hua Trading Company) and the following York University sponsors: the Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, the East Asian Studies Programme, and the Religious Studies Programme. > Constrained by Conservation, Liberated by Capitalism? Conservation Induced Livelihood Change in Northern Thailand (3 June 2009) A York Political Ecology Workshop (YPEW) talk given by Faculty Associate Robin Roth (Geography, York University). YPEW is organized by Faculty Associates Robin Roth (Geography) and Peter Vandergeest (Geography, York University).

> The 2009 Asian Heritage Month Lecture (4 June 2009) Dr. Joy Kogawa C.M. was keynote speaker at 2009 lecture, where she spoke on her new memoir, Gently to Nagasaki. Professor Mona Oikawa (Equity Studies) was the discussant. The event also featured a performance by Raging Asian Women, a diverse collective of East and Southeast Asian women that are carrying on the North American taiko drumming tradition and promoting social justice while making music (see 6.3).

This event was sponsored by: The Office of the Vice‐President Academic at York University and the Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc. Canadian Heritage. (Photograph provided by Dr. J. Kogawa) > Launch of the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (VMACCH) (4 June 2009) YCAR is a partner on the project, which is directed Research Associate Kay Li of the Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc. The first phase of the project focused on contributions of Asian Canadians in cultural heritage. The Museum project was sponsored by Canadian Heritage’s ‘Gateway’ Fund (see 6.3). This event was sponsored by: The Office of the Vice‐President Academic at York University and the Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc. through Canadian Heritage’s ‘Gateway’ Fund.


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> Inaugural Asia Lecture (24 September 2009) Professor Veena Das, Krieger‐Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, gave the inaugural Asia Lecture on 'Poverty and the Imagination of a Future: The Story of Urban Slums in Delhi, India' (see 6.1). The Lecture was organized by Director Susan Henders and Associate Director Michael Nijhawan as part of YCAR's U50 Asian Transformations series. It was sponsored by the York University U50 Committee. (John Hopkins University photograph) > YCAR Open House (8 October 2009) YCAR invited its Associates and friends to drop by to see the Centre's new space in the York Research Tower at the Keele campus and learn about Asia and Asian diaspora activities and events for the academic year. > What's your vision for Canada's future with Asia? workshop (19 October 2009) The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada held a video workshop for students (18 to 35‐year‐olds) interested in its 25@25 initiative. The contest invited individuals aged 18‐35 to create a short video that described an issue, a challenge or an opportunity that they feel Canadians should be thinking about in Canada's relations with Asia and which could help define APF's list of 25 things that matter most for Canada's future with Asia. This event was organized and sponsored by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

> Literary Translation in a Multicultural World (20 October 2009) A.N.D. Haksar, Sanskrit literary scholar and career diplomat, spoke on Sanskrit literature and his experiences translating Sanskrit prose and verse into English (see 6.4). The event was organized by Faculty Associate Shobna

Nijhawan (Languages, Literatures and Linguistics) and sponsored by YCAR, Professor Nijhawan and the South Asian Studies programme with special thanks for the York University Bookstore for their assistance. (YCAR photograph of A.N.D Haksar and M. Blincow)

> Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies (GDAS) orientation (26 October 2009) YCAR held its annual orientation for graduate students enrolled in or interested in taking the Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies (GDAS). The orientation was directed by GDAS Coordinator Michael Nijhawan.


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> Native Bible Womanhood and Women's Rights in Late 19th century Taiwan: Minnie Mackay's Story (6 November 2009) Jane Lee of Aletheia University, Taiwan, spoke about her research on Minnie Mackay and the experience of native Christian women in Taiwanese women's history. This event was organized by Research Associate Michael Stainton. (YCAR photograph of Jane Lee and Kenneth Lan)

> B(R)ICS: Emerging Powers as Emerging Donors authors workshop (20‐21 November 2009) The November 2009 workshop brought academic and policy experts from Canada, India, Brazil, South Africa, Germany and France together at York University. The substantive goal of the workshop was to provide a forum dedicated to developing more precise comparative understanding of B(R)ICS/emerging donor intentions; the complex motivations that are giving rise to the emerging donors in international development; and the growing influence of the B(R)ICS as emerging donors, including how this change is related to their increasing political, economic and diplomatic profile as “emerging powers” within the shifting global order. This event was organized by Gregory Chin (Faculty Associate; Political Science) and Fahimul Quadir (Faculty Associate; Social Science) and sponsored by the International Development Research Centre and the Office of the Vice‐President, Research & Innovation. > Home and the World: Women and Nationalism in the Novels of Rabindranath Tagore (23 November 2009) Professor Himani Banerjee (Sociology) focused on selected novels written by Rabindranath Tagore, which she analyzed in the framework of an emerging Indian nationalism, in 'Home and the World: Women and Nationalism in the Novels of Rabindranath Tagore'. In working with Tagore’s fiction writings, Professor Bannerji charted out imaginations of nationalism as an anti‐colonial movement based on a cultural idiom that cannot be reduced to the sexist‐exclusivist or religious‐nationalist strands of the national movement. In discussion of Tagore’s work, however, she demonstrated the ambiguities of notions of sacrifice, nation and gender in his work. Tagore was a poet, novelist, musician and playwright. The first non‐European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1913), he is seen by many as the most important literary figure in Bengali literature. This event was organized by Associate Director Michael Nijhawan.


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> Biography and History of Hong Kong (26 November 2009) Speakers at this unique event examined the contributions and limitations of the various modes of historical inquiry for telling Hong Kong's past, including biography, oral history and memoir. The panel included: Senator Vivienne Poy and York faculty Bernard Luk (History) and Yuk‐Lin Renita Wong (Faculty Associate; School of Social Work). This event was organized by Director Susan Henders (Political Science). > Made for Canada, Product of the Philippines: Global Nurse Migrations and the Geopolitics of Global Justice (1 December 2009) Mark Lawrence Santiago, a University of British Columbia Doctoral Candidate in Geography and Trudeau Scholar, presented his research on an urgent social and economic phenomenon in the Philippines today – the large‐scale migration of its health care work force seeking better employment opportunities in more developed economies such as Canada. This Philippine Study Group talk was organized by Graduate Associate Adam Lukasiewicz (Geography). > YCAR Graduate BrownBag Research Seminar series (Winter 2010) This series is an opportunity for students whose research focuses on Asia or the Asian Diaspora to present their research to colleagues and faculty to receive feedback critical to the development of their research. It is open to Masters and Doctoral students with the intention to assist students who may be at any stage in the development of their graduate‐level thesis work. Presentations during the Winter 2010 series included: * Minority Rights Accommodation in China: The Tibet Case (23 February 2010) Graduate Associate Tenzing Jigme (Master's Candidate, Political Science; Public and International Affairs) discussed minority rights accommodation in Tibet and how certain policies (e.g. regional autonomy laws) limit the recognition of Tibetan identity, culture and development. * Expressions of Body and Gender in the Performances of He Chengyao (25 February 2010) Graduate Associate Doris Ha‐Lin Sung's paper traced expressions of body and gender in the works of Chinese female performance artist He Chengyao (b.1964). It looked at strategies of subject formation in the artist's works through probing historical and philosophical expressions of selfhood in Chinese art in order to trace how signs and conventions are renewed and


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reinterpreted in contemporary body performances. Ms. Sung is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Social and Political Thought. * Gender and Nation in Korean Silent Films (25 February 2010) Graduate Associate Jooyeon Rhee (Doctoral Candidate, Humanities) spoke about the representation of women in two Korean silent films, 'Airiang' (1926) and 'A Boat without the Master' (1931), written and directed by Na Un‐kyu (1902‐1937). These two films are known for the expression of the impoverished social conditions of Korea and the strong desire for regaining Korea's independence. She analyzed the relationship between gender and nationalism in a colonial context. * Liquid Modernity, Fluid Brand Meaning: Urban Chinese Consumers' Changing Perception of Western Brands (11 March 2010) Brand meaning transformation has not been studied in the global context, where the developed and the developing nations are redefining themselves relentlessly. Yikun Zhao's (Doctoral Candidate, Marketing, Schulich School of Business) paper examined how the changing macroeconomic landscape, especially the rising status of China, influences urban Chinese consumers’ perception of Western brands in general and fast food brands in particular (McDonald and KFC in this case), so as to reveal the increasingly fluid nature of brand meaning, particularly in the context of globalization. * The Making of Plant Gene in the Struggles of the Small‐Scaled Farmers under the Global Seed Market Integration in Northern Thailand (25 March 2010) To challenge the understandings of agrarian transitions under the context of global seed market integration in the northern Thailand, Sakkarin Na Nan problematized the taken‐for‐granted view of "gene" as a naturally bounded entity in the genetics debates and plant genetic manipulations. By exploring the discourses of plant genetic improvement and peasant neo‐populism development among the dominant actors like state officials, NGOs and seed companies, he showed the various forms of bio‐politics related to plant genetic improvement and concerning the spatial arrangements and social practices of local farmers in a village in Nan province. Mr. Na Nan is a Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University and a YCAR Visiting Scholar in Winter 2010. * Knowledge and Environmental Governance on the Nu‐Salween River (25 March 2010) In the face of hydroelectric and other impending developments on the Nu‐Salween River, local knowledge has been promoted as one way that local residents can create a counter‐discourse to and even serve to ‘democratize’ the scientific ways of knowing that normally dominate the development process. In this paper, Vanessa Lamb (Graduate Associate; Doctoral Candidate, Geography) discussed how such knowledge is incorporated (and indeed, transformed) in decision‐making processes and environmental governance.


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> The Rise and Fall of Lee Teng‐hui’s “No Haste Be Patient” Policy: Its Implication for Taiwan’s Mainland Policy Today (14 April 2010) Jonathan Yang (Doctoral Candidate, Political Science) examined the recent history of and contemporary struggles over Taiwan government policies with respect to the growing economic ties between Taiwan and China. > Surveying Korean Transnationalism: Pilot Test Findings from the Study on Toronto Korean Families (20 April 2010) Faculty Associate Ann H. Kim (Sociology) discussed preliminary research findings from her 'Development, Migration Strategies and Prospects for Social Integration: Understanding Contemporary Transnationalism among South Korean Families' project, funded by the SSHRC. > Moro Reactions Towards Colonial State Building and Republican Forms of Political Authority Philippine Study Group talk by Lou Janssen Dangzalan, YCAR Visiting Scholar, on his master's research. Mr. Dangzalan is a Master's Candidate in Sociology at the National University of Singapore. In addition, YCAR has provided financial and/or administrative support for the following events over the past year: > 2009 Burma Ethnic Nationality Forum Invitation (3 October 2009) The Forum featured internationally prominent human rights advocates and leaders from the Thai‐Burma border region. > Fugues for Multi‐Species Living (19 October 2009) Anthropology Professor Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing of the University of California, Santa Cruz spoke on how histories can be written to recognize non‐human protagonists in the annual Anthropology Lecture at York University. > Research on China (27 January 2010) This event was part of RESEARCH MATTERS, a speaker series organized by the Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University. ABMP Director Bernie Frolic (Political Science) and Faculty Associate Joshua Fogel (History) were among the presenters. > Slumdogs versus Millionaires: India in the Age of Inequality (10 March 2010) Palagummi Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor, The Hindu (India) was the 2007 winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s most prestigious prize (and often referred to as the ‘Asian Nobel’), for Journalism Literature and Creative Communications Arts. His York talk was organized by Faculty


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Associate Ananya Mukherjee‐Reed (Political Science) and will be broadcast at a later date on TVO's 'Big Ideas' programme. > Cosmopolitanism and Youth Identities: Challenging Lacunae in Contemporary Cosmopolitan Conceptualisations (8 April 2010) Drawing on the collection of empirical data in the cities of Auckland and Singapore, Professor Tracey Skelton addressed whether young people (aged 16 to 23) have a concept of cosmopolitanism and, if they have, how they define it and whether they consider themselves to be engaged with it. Do young people constitute ‘young cosmopolitans’? The 2010 Urban Studies Lecture was organized by Faculty Associate Lisa Drummond (Social Science).


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8. Graduate Student Research, Training and Awards 1) Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies (GDAS) The GDAS is open to any student enrolled in a graduate programme at York University. The GDAS is centered on the core course, ‘The Making of Asian Studies: Critical Perspectives’, which was offered for the fifth time in Winter 2010. Shobna Nijhawan (Humanities; Languages, Literature, Linguistics) was the course director. Other requirements for the GDAS include: two Asia‐focused research papers, Asian field work experience and competence in an Asian language relevant to the student's research. Currently, 19 students are officially enrolled in the diploma and 11 students have completed the Diploma, including four in 2009: Salma Ahmad (Environmental Studies), Sharlene Bamboat (Film), Gary DeCouto (Education) and Shuxia Tai (Environmental Studies). In Winter 2010, 11 students were enrolled in the core course. The annual orientation was held in October 2009. The Joint Graduate Programme in Communication & Culture (York University and Ryerson University) agreed this year to allow their students to count the core course towards the GDAS and towards their degree, bringing the programme in line with several others at York including Humanities, Geography, Sociology and Anthropology. The GDAS is also now linked with the Faculty of Environmental Studies. In Winter 2010, Professor Michael Nijhawan, the Diploma Coordinator, has been in consultation with faculty and students in preparation for a review of the diploma programme. YCAR launched the Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies in early 2007 in response to an identified need among graduate students for more Asian content in their studies and their need to be able to demonstrate they have Asia‐related expertise to prospective employers. For more information on the GDAS, please visit: www.yorku.ca/ycar/Graduate_Diploma.html. 2) YCAR Awards In 2009, three awards were offered to graduate students engaged in Asia and Asian Diaspora research: the Albert C.W. Chan Foundation Fellowship, the Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award and the YCAR Language Award. The winners were announced in April 2009. The David Wurfel Award was not awarded this year. Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award Naoko Ikeda is the second recipient of the Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award. She is a fourth year doctoral candidate in the School of Women’s Studies at York University. Her research


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interest is a gender analysis of militarization and war politics in the East Asian regions, primarily Okinawa, Japan, focusing on local women’s peace‐building practices. The award funds assisted Naoko in her summer 2009 fieldwork in Okinawa. Her doctoral project investigates an important history of women’s peace‐building in Okinawa, the southern most prefecture of Japan, which has hosted 70 per cent of the American military facilities and bases in Japan since the end of the Second World War. She looks at the Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence (OWAAMV, 1995‐current), a non‐governmental women’s group advocating gender justice, as an important part of demilitarization and peace‐building. Focusing on the historical development of OWAAMV, and examining their intersectional approach to patriarchy, militarism and nationalism with respect to U.S. militarization in Okinawa, her study examines an important example of a gender‐sensitive feminist security/peace politics in current Japan‐U.S. security relations. She also worked as a research assistant, interpreter and co‐author for a Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust‐funded research project on Feminisms, Socialisms and Pacifisms in Movements against War and for Peace: from Common Goals to Coherent Actions (2009) with Dr. Cynthia Cockburn. Naoko has a BA in both Women’s Studies and English from the State University of New York at Albany (2002) and an MA in Women’s Studies from York University. Naoko is the recipient of the Doris Anderson Research Fellowship (2007 and 2008) and the Martin Cohnstaedt Graduate Research Award for Non‐Violent Research (2008). The award is named for the Honourable Vivienne Poy and assists a graduate student in fulfilling the fieldwork requirement for the Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies. YCAR is grateful for Senator Poy's support for this award. For more information: www.yorku.ca/ycar/Awards/Vivienne_Poy_Asian_Research_Award.html. YCAR Language Award Colin McGuire and Brianna Mersey were the 2009 recipients of the YCAR Language Award. McGuire, a doctoral candidate in Ethnomusiciology, studied Cantonese and Brianna used the award funding to study Hindi in anticipation of her summer 2009 master's fieldwork in India. As a current member of Toronto’s Hong Luck Kung Fu Club and their Lion Dance Team, Colin is building the foundation for his dissertation research on lion dancing in Chinese‐Canadian kung fu clubs. His work seeks to explain the lion dance’s continued cultural significance for diasporic


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Chinese communities as well as to investigate the martial value for practitioners. Colin has over 12 years experience in Chinese martial arts and an MA in music composition. Since receiving the award, Colin has reached level three in his Cantonese language studies with Dr. Simon So through the University of Toronto's Continuing Education. Brianna is a globetrotter at heart and one of her favourite spots is South Asia. Through her travels, she developed a love

for South Asian landscapes and culture, which lead to her academic pursuits in international development at York University in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. Her research project focused on the effects of microfinance as a financial linking strategy connecting rural populations with financial institutes in India. Traditionally, Indian banks have not offered poorer patrons access to credit due to various limiting circumstances, including the lack of assets and the small amounts. The poor typically have had to rely on moneylenders, who often charge high interest rates. Microfinance programmes help small groups set up intra‐savings programmes within the communities to provide funds for loans. Her study analyzed household income growth, including savings and assets, of beneficiaries of a microcredit/self‐help programme who have participated for a six‐month period. The study will reflect on the limitations and challenges faced by the poor whilst trying to access credit as well as the efficacy of the microfinance group. Her new languages skills were valuable in conducting her research in southern India. The Award was created to support graduate students in fulfilling the language requirement for the Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies and to facilitate awardees master's or doctoral‐level research. For more information: www.yorku.ca/ycar/Awards/YCAR_Language_Award.html.

Albert C.W. Chan Foundation Fellowship

Jennifer Payton is the 2009 recipient of the Albert C.W. Chan Foundation Fellowship. Jennifer is a first year master's candidate in the Geography Department at York University. She has a degree in English Literature and Geography from the University of Western Ontario.


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Her research interests are centered on female migration and boom crop production in Southeast Asia, specifically focusing on labour hierarchies and gendered divisions of labour on plantations. The award supported Jennifer's fieldwork in Bunga, Tanza, Cavite in the Philippines. The money was used to fund her research assistant, who participated, arranged, and translated her daily interviews with rice farmers, discussing changing labour practices, production processes and the use of migrant labour. She was able to better understand how the village class structure was shifting in tandem with changing labour practices and how migrant labourers were becoming the most vulnerable group, located at the bottom of the village's socio‐economic hierarchy. The Albert C.W. Chan Foundation Fellowship was established by the Albert C.W. Chan Foundation to encourage and assist York University graduate students to conduct field research in East and/or Southeast Asia. YCAR would like to thank the Albert C. W. Chan family for their support of York graduate students. For more information: www.yorku.ca/ycar/Awards/Albert_CW_Chan.html. 3) Graduate Assistants YCAR was very pleased to have support from five graduate assistants in the 2009‐2010 academic year:

Marianne Lau is a first year Master's Candidate in Political Science. Her main area of study is international relations and Chinese foreign policy. In particular, she is interested in China and emerging world order. Ferdinand D. Caballero is a Master's Candidate in Social Anthropology at York. His research interests include human rights, migration, identity‐construction, politics, religion, social justice and postcolonial cultures. Mr.

Caballero holds a BA in Anthropology with a specialization in ethnographic studies from Grant MacEwan University. Mary Choy is a first year Master's Candidate in the Department of Sociology. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Guelph and University of Ghana in Sociology and Politics. Cesar Polvorosa Jr. is a writer, strategic planner, economic geographer, instructor and business plan consultant. He was head of research of a Philippine bank. His published works span economics, business and creative writing fields. His


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essays, short stories or poems had been published in Philippine national magazines, an anthology and a Japanese newspaper. He was a Writing Fellow at the University of the Philippines Creative Writers’ Workshop. In Toronto, Mr. Polvorosa was chosen as a 2008 Emerging Writer of Diaspora Dialogues and is a Board Director of Story Telling Toronto. He is also the Treasurer of Connecting Filipino Families, Inc., works on consultancy projects and teaches Economics at Seneca College. He earned his BA (cum laude) from U.P. His Masters of Policy Science degree is from

the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Geography, where he focuses on ethnic entrepreneurship.

Arianto Sangadji is a Master's Candidate in Geography. He is interested in the areas of capitalism, violence, and social and political movements. As part of his GA projects at YCAR, he is contributing research to the Literatures of Human Rights research programme, including on Wiji Tukul, an Indonesian poet who had inspired social movements over the last decade and disappeared 10 years ago. He is also writing a paper about the ‘war on terrorism’ in Indonesia. Sangadji is the former Director and co‐founder of Yayasan Tanah Merdeka (YTM, Free Land Foundation). YTM was founded in 1992 in response to the increasing threats facing adat communities from large scale developments. Some areas of YTM’s work include the protection of indigenous land rights, and working with populations affected by the expansion of transnational mining operations in Sulawesi. In 2005, he founded The Presidium to campaign against human rights abuse and corruption connected to the violence in Poso. It conducts fact‐finding, mobilization and information dissemination. The organization work starts from the conviction that the violence was not simply a matter of Christians versus Muslims, but involved manipulation by military, political and corporate players with diverse agendas that need to be exposed.


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9. YCAR Associate Awards and Grants

Many YCAR Associates have received awards and grants in the past year. Below is a partial list.

> Russell W. Belk (Faculty Associate) – Qatar Foundation funding for 'Men's and Women's Spaces in Qatari Households' (2009). > Gregory Chin (Faculty Associate) – International Development Research Centre funding for 'B(R)ICS: Emerging Powers as Emerging Donors' (Co‐applicant, 2009‐2010). > Nga Dao (Graduate Associate) –Challenges of Agrarian Transition in Southeast Asia (ChATSEA) Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) funding and International Development Research Centre Doctoral Research Award to support fieldwork for her research in Vietnam on ‘Displacement and Agrarian Change in the Northern Uplands of Vietnam’ (2009‐2010). > Joshua Fogel (Faculty Associate) ‐ American Council of Learned Societies grant and Chiang Ching‐kuo Foundation funding for planning workshop on 'The Uses of "Chinese" by Japanese' (2009). > Naoko Ikeda (Graduate Associate) – Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award (2009). > Joan Judge (Faculty Associate) ‐ Honourable Mention, Wallace K. Ferguson Prize (best book published in 2008 in a field other than Canadian history) for The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China (Stanford University Press, 2008) (2009). > Hong Kal (Faculty Associate) ‐ Social Science and Humanities Research Council Standard Grant for ‘Spectacles, Politics and Histories in Korea’ (Principal Investigator, 2010). > Philip F. Kelly (Faculty Associate) – Faculty of Arts Research Grant, York University (2009); Canadian Asian Studies Association funding (with Scott Simon, University of Ottawa) (2009‐2010); Social Science and Humanities Research Council Standard Grant for ‘Class Reproduction, Employment and Filipino Canadian Youth Identity' (Principal Investigator, 2010). > Ann H. Kim (Faculty Associate) ‐ Social Science and Humanities Research Council Standard Grant for '"Worked to Death": Gendered‐Racialized Dimensions of Economic Security for Later Life Canadians' (Co‐investigator, 2009); New Brunswick Population Growth Secretariat funding for 'Provincial Nominee Program, New Immigrant Destinations and Community Capacity: Korean Immigrant Settlement, Integration and Reception in New Brunswick' (Co‐Principal Investigator, 2009).


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> Janice Kim (Faculty Associate) ‐ Korea Foundation Field Research Fellowship (2010); Social Science and Humanities Research Council Standard Grant for 'Between Mountains: Refugee Life during the Korean War, 1948‐1953' (Principal Investigator, 2010). > Vanessa Lamb (Graduate Associate) ‐ Challenges of Agrarian Transition in Southeast Asia (ChATSEA) Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) funding to support fieldwork for her research on knowledge and environmental governance on the Nu‐Salween River in Thailand (2009). > Wan Kay Li (Research Associate) ‐ ORANO–The Optical Regional Advanced Network of Ontario (ORION) funding for SAGITARRIUS: ORION–Shaw Pilot Project (2009); Canadian Heritage funding for Asian Heritage Month Festival (2009); Toronto Arts Council funding for Asian Heritage Month Festival (2009); Social Science and Humanities Research Council Standard Research Grant for ‘Interactive Inclusive Cross–Cultural Encounters on Ultra High Speed Optical Networks –– The Sagittarius ORION – Shaw Literature Digitizing Project’ (Principal Investigator, 2010); Social Science and Humanities Research Council Public Outreach Grant for ‘Literature for All: Promoting Inclusive Education through Digitizing Textual and Contextual Materials’ (Co‐investigator, 2010); Social Science and Humanities Research Council Image, Text, Sound and Technology Grant for ‘Digital Interactive Environments and New Curriculum for Schools’ (Co–investigator, 2010); Canadian Heritage funding for Asian Heritage Month Festival (2010). > Lucia Lo (Faculty Associate) ‐ Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI) funding for ' Making Ontario Home: A Study of Newcomer Settlement Services Use and Needs' (Co‐investigator, 2009‐2010); National Science Foundation (United States) funding for 'Financial Institutions and Immigrant Integration in the U.S. and Canada' (Collaborator, 2009‐2013); Metropolis British Columbia funding for 'Investigating Immigrant and Non‐immigrant Businesses in Kelowna' (Co‐principal Investigator, 2009‐2010). > Colin McGuire (Graduate Associate) – YCAR Language Award (2009). > Brianna Mersey (Graduate Associate) – YCAR Language Award (2009). > Lynne Milgram (Research Associate) – Ontario College of Arts and Design Award for Distinguished Research and Creation (2008‐2009). > Ananya Mukherjee‐Reed (Faculty Associate) ‐ Shastri Indo‐Canadian Institute – Partnership Development Grant for developing a research partnership with the Center for Development Studies, Kerala, India (2009). > Michael Nijhawan (Faculty Associate) ‐ Social Science and Humanities Research Council Standard Grant for 'Predicaments of a "Post‐Conflict" Generation: A Comparative Study of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Diaspora Formations' (Principal Investigator, 2010); Faculty of Arts Research Grant, York University for 'Sikh and Ahmadi Transnational Religious Practices in Canada and Germany' (2009); Deutscher Akademischer Auslandsdienst (DAAD) funding for 'Asian Diasporic


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Communities in Canada and Germany: Theorizing the Politics of Secularism across Interdisciplinary Boundaries' (part of the collaborative grant, 'Promoting German and European Studies in Canada,' submitted by the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at York University) (Principal investigator, 2009). > Fahimul Quadir (Faculty Associate) ‐ Social Science and Humanities Research Council‐Research Development Initiatives Grant (RDI) for 'Aid Effectiveness and People’s Self‐Development: The Role of Western NGOs in Strengthening Albanian Civil Society' (2009‐2010); Research Development Fellowship, York University (2009‐2010); Faculty of Arts Research Grant for 'Islam, Civil Society and Democracy: The Politics of Islamic Modernity in Southeast Asia' (2009). > Trichy Sankaran (Faculty Associate) – Lifetime Achievement Award given by Mudhra Fine Arts (India) for his contributions to Karnatak music (2009). > Doris Ha‐Lin Sung (Graduate Associate) – Recipient of the China‐Canada Scholars' Exchange Programme Scholarship (2008‐2009) for research at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. > Yuk‐Lin Renita Wong (Faculty Associate) ‐ Partnership for Community Development funding for 'Post‐earthquake Psychological and Cultural Rebuilding in Beichuan, Sichuan Province, China' (Co‐applicant and consultant, 2009‐2010).


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10. Plans and Priorities for 2010‐2011

1) Asian Identity: Becoming Canadian | The Asian Heritage Month Lecture at York University (25 May 2010) Wayson Choy, award‐winning author of such novels as The Jade Peony (1995) and All That Matters (2004) and of the memoirs Paper Shadows (1999) and Not Yet (2009) will give this year’s Asian Heritage Month Lecture at York University. A member of the Order of Canada, Choy will speak on 'Asian Identity: Becoming Canadian'. The evening will also feature a dance performance from OrienTik/Portrait, by Alvin Erasga Tolentino and York University alumni Andrea Nann. The performance will explore an Asian identity that is diverse in culture, creating a bridge between the identities of Canadians and the rest of the world. 2) Literatures of Human Rights in Asia and Asian Diaspora: York Advanced Research Seminar (May 2010 to April 2011) Organizers: Ted Goossen and Susan Henders This interdisciplinary York Seminar for Advanced Research, funded by the Office of the Vice‐President, Research & Innovation, will examine human rights struggles and issues (broadly and critically understood) in Asia and Asian Diaspora through literature (broadly construed to include novels, short stories, poetry, plays, film scripts, essays, testimonials, memories, visual arts and performance). The broad aim is to look through the lens of multiple disciplines at literatures that illuminate situations where human rights are at issue: 1) to gain deeper understandings of what is meant by key human rights ideas (e.g., freedom, equality, dignity); 2) to gain new insights about the causes of and possible solutions to human rights problems; and 3) to explore the limitations of literary and non‐literary accounts of human rights. 3) Visit of Professor Padmini Swaminathan (Madras Institute of Development Studies) as Shastri Visiting Scholar (Autumn 2010) Organizer: Sharada Srinivasan Professor Padmini Swaminathan, a feminist economist who holds the Reserve Bank of India Chair in Regional Economics, will spend three weeks in Canada sponsored by the Shastri Indo‐Canadian Institute and based at YCAR. During this time, she will present her work at a seminar, co‐sponsored by International Development Studies and YCAR, and will meet with graduate students. Professor Swaminathan’s work is at the intersection of gender and development related to such issues as labour, welfare, health and education. Her regional specialization is Tamil Nadu in south India. Her work and visit to York will enrich our understanding of the diversity of experiences related to development and social security in India.


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4) Canada‐China: Reflecting on 40 Years of Diplomatic Relations (Autumn 2010) Organizers: Bernie Frolic and Susan Henders Details to be announced. 5) China in the Twentieth Century: Overcoming the 1949 Divide (19 November 2010) Organizer: Joshua Fogel The workshop will examine various sub‐fields linking the Republican and post‐Mao periods, to explore perspectives on 20th‐century China that do not view 1949 as the Mount Everest of modern history. The proposed agenda includes: Joshua Fogel (York University), 'The Japanese within the International Community of Shanghai, 1912‐1952'; Han van de Ven (Cambridge University), 'The Transition from the Republic to the People's Republic of China: Customs Personnel from 1945 to 1952'; Timothy Cheek (University of British Columbia), 'Challenges of Intellectual Service in Republican and Post‐Mao China'; Joan Judge (York University), 'From Republican Ladies to Iron Maidens: ‘Cover Girls’ in Chinese Magazines, 1911‐1990'; Doris Ha‐Lin Sung (York University), 'The Transforming Concept of ‘Realism’ in Chinese Women’s Art, 1920s to 1976'; and David Ownby (Université de Montréal), 'Secularism and its Discontents in Modern and Contemporary China'. 6) Critical Political Ecologies: Shifting Contours of Environmental Knowledges and Governance (April 2011) Organizers: Shubhra Gururani and Peter Vandergeest This one‐day interdisciplinary workshop will bring together international scholars to address the changing practices and discourses of environmental knowledges and governance, both locally and globally. The workshop is associated with the Ecologies on the Edge research programme, a joint initiative of YCAR, the York Centre for International and Security Studies and the Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability. 7) Money and the Indian Ocean: An International Workshop (March 2011) Organizer: Zulfikar Hirji From the ancient bead, shell and textile trades and the sale and purchase of spices and slaves, to the financing of European colonial projects such as railroads and missionaries and the recent development aid provided to countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, scholars at this international, interdisciplinary workshop will present contextualized case‐studies that analyze the multiple and complex relationships that ‘money’ has with the Indian Ocean. The aim of the workshop is to use these case studies to generate discussion, compare and contrast local and trans‐local experiences centered on the Indian Ocean, and draw out broad themes


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and theoretical considerations that are relevant to various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences as well as other regions of the world. Particular efforts will be made to invite the participation of scholars working in institutions in the Indian Ocean area in an effort to establish links with academic institutions in the Indian Ocean area, making knowledge available to those societies, and supporting the humanities and social science research and researchers in the area. Selected papers from the workshop will be submitted for publication as an edited volume to the Indian Ocean Series published by Routledge. 8) Graduate Student BrownBag Research Seminar (Winter 2011) This student‐organized seminar series will be an opportunity for graduate students to present research work in progress and to get comments from an interdisciplinary audience and discussants. 9) Writings in “Chinese” by Japanese: Analysis and Classification: A Planning Workshop (20‐21 August 2010) Organizer: Joshua Fogel The workshop will focus on planning an interdisciplinary, international conference on Kanbun

漢文, a distinctive form of Chinese used by pre‐modern and modern Japanese writers, about

which there is little scholarship in the West. The workshop will be at Columbia University, with the conference slated for Toronto in the 2011‐2012 academic year. The conference organizers include Joshua Fogel (historian of Sino‐Japanese relations, York University), J. Timothy Wixted (specialist in Chinese and Japanese languages and literatures, Arizona State University), David Lurie (specialist in ancient Japanese literature and language specialist, Columbia University), Matthew Fraleigh (specialist in eighteenth and nineteenth century Japanese literature, Brandeis University), and Ju Chiou‐er (specialist in ancient and early modern Japanese literature, National Taiwan University). 10) Ati‐atihan Lives (academic year 2010‐2011) Organizer: Russ Patrick Alcedo 'Ati‐atihan Lives' is a full‐length documentary film that Russ Patrick Alcedo (Faculty Associate; Dance) will premiere in the coming year. A Social Science and Humanities Research Council Small Grant allowed Alcedo to travel to Kalibo, Aklan, Philippines, in January 2009 to continue his documentation of the Ati‐atihan festival, an annual celebration in honour of the Santo Niño, the Holy Child Jesus, and the indigenous atis or Negritos, who are considered to be the putative ancestors of Filipinos. A 2009 Faculty of Fine Arts enabled him to return to Kalibo to finish his interviews and to follow the lives of the members of the indigenous group of Negritos he


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organized to participate in the January Ati‐atihan festival. Alcedo’s documentation of the Ati‐atihan started in 2000. The film will contribute to a multi‐media project, a dance performance, and a book manuscript. This series of projects collectively argues that the complexity of the Philippines’ postcolonial situation, as embodied by Santo Niño devotees and participants in the Ati‐atihan festival, can be best articulated through multi‐ and inter‐disciplinary means—through the intersections of photos, film footage, choreographic performances and ethnographic writing. 11) Asia Lecture (academic year 2010‐2011) Details to be announced. 12) Public Outreach Workshop (Spring 2011) Details to be announced.


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11. Publications 1) Publication Highlights (in alphabetical order by author)

Agnew, Vijay (ed.) (2009). Racialized Migrant Women in Canada: Essays on Violence, Health and Equity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Despite legislative guarantees of equality, immigrant women in Canada often experience many forms of prejudice in their everyday lives. Racialized Migrant Women in Canada delves into the public and private spheres of several distinct communities in order to expose the underlying inequalities within Canada's economic, social, legal, and political systems that frequently result in the denial of basic rights to migrant women.

Using interdisciplinary approaches drawn from the areas of sociology, law, health studies and political science, the essays in this volume cover diverse topics such as the social construction of Muslim women, access to health care, and violence against women. The contributors base their work not only in cities with large immigrant populations but also in areas less densely populated with immigrants, revealing regional disparities in regard to economic opportunity and social services.

Racialized Migrant Women in Canada draws much‐needed attention to the marginalization and prejudice resulting from public policy and calls for an active, systematic approach to creating a more just and equitable society.

Reprinted with permission from University of Toronto Press.

Browne, Katherine E. and B. Lynne Milgram (eds.) (2009). Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press. In Economics and Morality, the authors seek to illuminate the multiple kinds of analyses relating morality and economic behaviour in particular kinds of economic systems. The chapters explore economic systems from a variety of diverse indigenous and capitalist societies, focusing on moral challenges in non‐Western economic systems undergoing profound change, grassroots movements and moral claims in the context of capitalism, and morality‐based movements taking place within corporate and state institutions. The anthropological insights of each chapter provide the value of firsthand fieldwork and ethnographic investigation, as well as the tradition of critically studying non‐Western and Western societies. Because the moral challenges in a given capitalist society can no longer be effectively addressed without


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considering the interaction and influences of different societies in the global system, the international ethnographic research in this book can help document and make sense of the changes sweeping our planet. Reprinted with permission from The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.

Chan, Anthony B. and Nancy Van Leuven (eds.) (2009). Dao of Communication. Toronto: Ginger Post Imprints.

Intersecting Daoism and communication marks a dynamic step in the evolution of how communication can be made more meaningful through philosophical discourse. This trajectory brings new paradigms to such common communication propositions as digital, intercultural, interpersonal, marketing, mass, organizational, research, strategic, team, and theoretical. Philosophical communication offers the practitioners and students with additional choices to forge new understanding of how humankind creates connections. Daoism and communication both resulted from a time before the universe when all were nameless and nothingness was prevalent. Once humankind emerged as entities that needed to live and work together, the

forces of non‐verbal and verbal communication became paramount. Through the Internet, this has progressed to a multi‐dimensional mass communication of global proportions. What resulted were avenues of communication for solitary beings interested in connecting with the world, but also convinced of their own need for individuality and independence. Dao of Communication contains a volume of original submissions by a diverse array of scholars, practitioners and writers dedicated to advancing new knowledge in the communication process. Reprinted with permission from Ginger Post. For more information: http://gingerpost.com/?p=725.

Chin, Gregory (2010). China's Automotive Modernization: The Party‐State and Multinational Corporations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. As a window for understanding the relationship between globalization and the state's pursuit of national industrial development, this book examines how and why the Chinese government succeeded in leveraging China's international competitive advantages to modernize the country's automotive industry from 1978 to 2001. Chin, Gregory (2010). China's Automotive Modernization: The Party‐State and Multinational Corporations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan; reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.


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Henders, Susan (2010). Territoriality, Asymmetry and Autonomy: Catalonia, Corsica, Hong Kong and Tibet. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Minority special status arrangements figure prominently in efforts to articulate universality with territorialized difference in many parts of the world. Yet much of what has been written about this important modality of the asymmetrical state has focused exclusively on the liberal democratic West. This book extends the analysis. It offers a structured‐focused comparison of the experience of the People's Republic of China, France and Spain. Case studies on central Tibet, Hong Kong, Corsica and Catalonia are used to identify the conditions that affect the degree to which special status arrangements enhance stability while improving the citizenship of both minority territorial communities and their more vulnerable residents.

Henders, Susan (2010). Territoriality, Asymmetry, and Autonomy: Catalonia, Corsica, Hong Kong, and Tibet. New York: Palgrave Macmillan; reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.

Kim, Ann H. (2009). The Social Context of Residential Integration: Ethnic Groups in the United States and Canada. El Paso: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC.

The residential segregation of ethnic groups represents their degree of integration or distinctiveness in society and is the result of a process of incorporation that differs by ethnic group and place. Kim explores how these patterns of integration are shaped by the cultural and structural organization of societies. Her comparative analysis of ethnic residential integration in Canada and the United States reveals that there are important cross‐national as well as ethnic group differences. In the United States, the racial structure affects integration; Canada is distinctive for its integration ideology and policies. At a group level, the motivation for migration, i.e. economic or humanitarian, is revealed as the key factor to explain integration patterns in both countries.

Reprinted with permission from LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC.

Nijhawan, Shobna (ed.) (2009). Nationalism in the Vernacular: Hindi, Urdu and the Literature of Indian Freedom. New Delhi: Permanent Black. This anthology comprises a selection of formative literary writings in Hindi and Urdu from the second half of the nineteenth century, leading up to Indian Independence and the creation of Pakistan. The texts here are mostly hitherto unpublished translations into English. The anthology provides a picture of how nationalism—as a cultural ideology and political


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movement—was formed in literature. Unlike other anthologies, this one focuses on writings in two North Indian vernaculars with a contested relationship: Hindi and Urdu. The combination is deliberate: the relationship of Hindi and Urdu was being consolidated and sealed even as these texts were being written. There are two separate Introductions to this anthology. Each grounds, respectively, the peculiar paths taken by Hindi and Urdu proponents and practitioners. The anthology emphasizes the shared ground of Hindi and Urdu. The Hindi and Urdu texts are arranged into eight thematic clusters, each represented by a nationalist mode of reasoning. Autobiographical

writings in Hindi, prison poetry in Urdu, and social reform writings around gender, caste, class, and Dalits are also included in this fascinating collection. Reprinted with permission from Permanent Black.

Vandergeest, Peter and Chusak Wittayapak (eds.) (2009). Politics of Decentralization: Natural Resource Management in Asia. Chiang Mai: Mekong Press. This book brings together empirically grounded studies of the decentralization of natural resource management in seven South and Southeast Asian countries. It provides a clear explanation of the key concepts and debates in decentralization relevant to the management of forests, fisheries and water in the region. The editors draw on evidence presented in the book to argue that the politics of decentralization is best understood as the terrain of negotiation and conflict. This terrain shapes how decentralization is designed, implemented, and in some cases, appropriated, by popular movements. This approach to politics stands in contrast to the common assumption that democratic management can be manufactured by decentralization programs designed by experts and governments. Although a discussion of politics is never absent, politics is usually presented as an obstacle to effective decentralization. The diverse cases presented in the book show that decentralization can shift the terrain of struggle in a variety of ways, sometimes in favour of farmers, fishers, water users, and forest users, and sometimes to their disadvantage. Institutional design does make a difference, but more in relation to implementation than effect. Readers of this book will learn to be wary of centralizing forces that use donor‐funded decentralization to stave off pressure for genuine democratization, and to identify opportunities to promote institutions that could be open to capture by democratic groups. This book’s front cover and description are taken from Peter Vandergeest and Chusak Wittayapak (eds.)'s, The Politics of Decentralization: Natural Resource Management in Asia (Chiang Mai: Mekong Press, 2009), by permission of the publisher.


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Yang, Jae‐jin and Thomas Klassen (eds.) (2010). Retirement, Work and Pensions in Ageing Korea. Oxon: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

Even among the four Asian tigers, with their economic miracles during the past several decades that allowed them to join the ranks of the developed nations, South Korea is extraordinary. Although established in a short time, and still immature in some aspects, South Korea's unique East‐Asian model now faces a population that is aging at an unprecedented rate. This book introduces readers to the impact of demographic changes in Korea, particularly the impact of these on work, retirement and pensions. It provides an explanation for the reforms of public policy in these domains. The chapters provide an up‐to‐date assessment of aging, retirement, and

pension policies in South Korea and give valuable insights into the diverse aspects of the unprecedented rapid aging. The theme of this volume, which brings together the foremost Korean scholars and experts, is how rapid demographic change in Korea has been a central factor in income security policy for the elderly as well as workplace policies. Reprinted with permission from Taylor and Francis. For more information: www.tandf.co.uk or www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk. Many Taylor & Francis and Routledge books are now available as eBooks.

2) Publications of Associates (Referred and Non‐Referred) Vijay Agnew Agnew, Vijay (ed.) (2009). Racialized Migrant Women in Canada: Essays on Violence, Health and

Equity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Russ Patrick Alcedo Alcedo, Russ Patrick (2009). 'Boxing to be the Next Pacquiao'. New York Times. Available at:

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/11/12/sports/1247465653943/boxing‐in‐the‐shadow‐of‐pacquiao.html.

Keith Barney Baird, Ian G., Keith Barney, Peter Vandergeest and Bruce Shoemaker (2009). "Reading Too Much

into Aspirations: More Explorations of the Space between Coerced and Voluntary Resettlement in Laos". Critical Asian Studies 41(4): 605‐614.


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Barney, K. (2009). "Laos and the Making of a ‘Relational’ Resource Frontier". Geographical Journal 175 (2): 146‐159.

Dwyer, M. and Keith Barney (2009). ‘Apprentice Nationalists.’ Book review of Soren Ivarsson,

Creating Laos: The Making of a Lao Space between Indochina and Siam, 1860‐1945 (Copenhagen: Nias Press, 2008). Asia‐Pacific Viewpoint 50(2): 247‐249.

Russell W. Belk Belk, Russell W. (Forthcoming). "Philosophies for Less Consuming Societies". In K. Ekstrom and K.

Glans (eds.) Changing Consumer Roles. Belk, Russell W. and Eric Ping Hung Li (Forthcoming). "Remade China: The Re‐Production of

Chineseness in a Multi‐Cultural Society" (abstract). Advances in Consumer Research. Belk, Russell W. and Eric Ping Hung Li (2009). "Remade China". Toronto: Odyssey Films. Belk, Russell W. and Rosa Llamas (2010). "Shangri‐La: Messing with a Myth". Proceedings of the

International Society of Marketing and Development. Hanoi, Vietnam, 2010. Belk, Russell W., Yuko Minowa and Olga Khomenko (Forthcoming). "Social Change and Gendered

Gift Giving Rituals: A Historical Analysis of Valentine’s Day in Japan." Journal of Macromarketing.

Belk, Russell W., Yuko Minowa and Olga Khomenko (2009). "Social Change and Gendered Gift

Giving Rituals: A Historical Analysis of Valentine’s Day in Japan", 197‐209. In R. Hawkins (ed.) Proceedings of the Conference for Historical Analysis and Research in Marketing.

Belk, Russell W. and Rana Sobh (Forthcoming). "Gender Privacy in Arab Gulf States: Implications

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Belk, Russell W. and Rana Sobh (2009). "Behind Closed Doors: Consuming Gendered Home Spaces

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12. Statement of Operations for 2009‐2010 Budget Fiscal

2009‐2010 Actual Year to Date

Total Revenue 69,196 107,516

Administration 75,998 79,237

General Office and Operations 9,046 7,167

Research Dissemination Activities 3,320 1,324

Research and Development 7,700 5,192

Total Expenses 96,064 92,920

Surplus for the current year (26,868) 14,596

Carryforward from 2008‐2009 51,747 51,747

Carryforward to 2010‐2011 24,879 66,343

Notes to the Statement of Operations: Revenues were significantly higher than expected due to YCAR receiving the full amount of its normal annual payment from the endowment administered by ABMP and the full amount of its normal annual overheads from the Centre by the China Management Training Programme (CMTP). At the time the budget for 2009‐2010 was written, it had been anticipated that both these sources of revenue would be dramatically reduced due to the impact of the global financial crisis on the stock market (which reduced disbursements from the endowment administered by ABMP) and on the number of training groups coming from China through CMTP. This change in circumstances also explains why the budget had anticipated a deficit, but ended up with a healthy surplus. Administrative expenses to the end of the fiscal year were higher than projected. This is partly due to paying out the Coordinator’s accumulated over time from January 2009, although it should be noted that this pay out is offset by unanticipated revenues related to tasks performed by the Coordinator. As per the unanimous decision made at the Annual General Meeting, CAD 16,000 will be moved to Asia Projects, where it will be allocated for research development initiatives and planning for contingencies. This will leave CAD 50,000, the voted upon cushion, to remain in the Operating Fund for its day‐to‐day expenses until anticipated revenues become available later in the 2010‐2011 academic year, and for operational contingencies.

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