HSTCC Business Meeting, Panel & Roundtable at the 
AAS San Diego Meeting, March 9-12, 2000

Title: "Fin-de-siecle Postism in the Contemporary Chinese Humanities: A Critique"

Chair: Chia-lin Pao Tao, Univ. of Arizona

-"Moving Beyond Postism in Modern Chinese Literary Studies in the 21st Century"

Philip F C Williams, Arizona State Univ.

-"Pitfalls of the Postcolonialist Rubric in the Study of Modern Chinese Fiction Featuring Cannibalism: From Lu Xun’s ‘Diary of a Madman’ to Mo Yan’s ‘Boozeland’"

Yenna Wu, Univ. of California, Riverside

-"Creating Disorder: Postmodernism in China?"

Michael S Duke, Univ. of British Columbia

Discussants:- Allan Barr, Pomona College

- Michael Fuller, Univ. of California, Irvine

HSTCC Roundtable at the AAS

Date: Saturday, 11 March

Time: 7:15 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Room: Sunrise

"The State of the Field: Reassessing the Study of Chinese Local History"

Chair: Ka-che Yip, UMBC

Speakers:

-Hanchao Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology

-Qin Shao, College of New Jersey

-Edward McCord, George Washington Univ.

-Peter Seybolt, Univ. of Vermont

-Xin Zhang, Indiana Univ., Indianapolis

Discussant: Keith Schoppa, Loyola College

 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

HSTCC members are invited to send nomination suggestions for all positions to be voted on in the 2000 Business Meeting in San Diego. These include: Vice President and the three Members of the Board. Current Board Members may be nominated and may be reelected. Deadline for receipt of names is 6 March 2000. Please send your nominations to Dr. Ka-che Yip.

Membership Publications

(See HSTCC directory for authors’ addresses)

Winberg Chai (Univ. of Wyoming) has an article, "Relations between the Chinese Mainland and Taiwan: A Chronological Survey with Documents," published in Asian Affairs (Summer 1999). Free copies of the article are available to HSTCC members upon request to the author.

Thomas Kampen (Berlin, Germany) has published his book, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and the Evolution of the Chinese Communist Leadership (Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 1999).

Zhai Qiang (Auburn Univ. at Montgomery). His book, China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975 will be published in March by the University of North Carolina Press.

CONFERENCES in 2001

Deadline for receipt of proposals: March 10, 2000. Please send proposals to Dr. Ka-che Yip, Department of History, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250. USA. Or e-mail: yip@umbc.edu

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Keep your membership current!

At the 1998 Annual Meeting, the membership approved a new dues structure: (1) Regular - $25 per year; $60 for a 3-year membership. (2) Student - $10 per year; $25 for a 3-year membership. (3) Lifetime membership - $250. The Society will begin a regular fall-term dues payment schedule for the following academic year. Please send in your dues if you had not done so. Thank you. Please make your check or money order payable to : The Historical Society for 20^th Century China. Mail to: Dr. David Barrett, Department of History, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S4L9. E-mail: barrettd@mcmaster.ca

Minutes of the General Meeting of the Historical Society for 20th Century China.

The annual meeting of the Historical Society for 20^th Century China (HSTCC) was held in the Regis Room of Boston Marriott Copley Place at the Association for Asian Studies, on 13 March, 1999 from 1:00 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. President Ka-che Yip presided over the meeting.

1. Minutes of the 28 March, 1998 general meeting were moved and seconded for approval. They were approved by the membership. The Financial Statement of 1998-1999 was moved and seconded for approval. It was approved by the membership. The balance (as of 13 March 1999) was $1,264.07.

2. President Yip reported that thanks to the effort of Vice-President David Barrett who has begun to institute a system of regular membership dues collection, HSTCC is in much better financial shape. A number of members have taken advantage of the new 3-year membership option. The possibility of credit card payment by members was discussed but was deemed not feasible at this time.

3. HSTCC-University of Venice Conference: Preparations for the international conference on AThe Role of the Republican period in Twentieth Century China: Reflections and Reconsiderations@ from 30 June to 3 July are well underway under the leadership of Professor Guido Samarani of the University of Venice. Dr. Laura De Giorgi of the University of Venice who attended the annual meeting reported on the tentative program and local arrangements. She indicated that 40-45 international scholars from North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia have been invited to make presentations. Registration will take place on 30 June. For the first two days, the conference will be held at the Giorgio Cini Foundation, while the meeting on 3 July will be held at the campus of the University of Venice. Participants are housed in the University Guesthouse. The membership thanked Dr. De Giorgi for her report and for the excellent job she and Professor Samarani are doing in organizing the program.

4. HSTCC-SWCAS Joint Meeting:

The HSTCC joint meeting with the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies will be held at Southwest Texas State University, San Marco on 21-23 October. President Yip and Professor Marilyn Levine are working with Professor Joseph Yick, President of SWCAS on the program. Professor Levine will also be directing an outreach program on Vietnam in conjunction with the conference program. The membership was urged to submit panels/papers to Professor Levine. To encourage graduate student participation, HSTCC has set aside travel subsidies for graduate student members who will be presenting papers at the conference.

5. Professor Levine=s Report:

Professor Levine reported on the HSTCC Roundtable entitled, AChanging Perceptions of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945,@ at the ICAS Conference at Leiden on 26 June, 1998. The Roundtable was a success and HSTCC also held a meeting to discuss business and recruit new members.