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ASPAC Conference 2010 June 18 – 20, 2010 | Portland, OR (1657-1725), presented Japan to Korea as a divine realm, Amenomori represented his country with a more forthright disposition, maintaining a nearly unprecedented equality between the Korean and Japanese people. Amenomori garnered a reputation among his Japanese and Korean counterparts as a naïve ideologue that benefited neither country in a period when official ties between Japan and its neighbors had been severed. Yet, he played an instrumental role in masking the historically tense and adversarial relationship between the two lands until the end of the nineteenth century. Exploring Amenomori Hōshū’s reflections and unofficial proposals from his account, Kōrinteisei (Neighboring Proposals), I argue that Amenomori’s account directs a nostalgic gaze toward an idyllic past in a rather patent attempt to reconstruct relations between Japan and its neighbors. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Ka-yi Ng Towards a Sustainable Mode of Truth Production: Opening up the Channel Between East-West Exchange With Différance -- Case Study of Zhenren’s Translations as an Explicatory Case Sustainability and boundary-traversing have become the leitmotifs of the times. In China studies, however, the East’s and the West’s modes of truth production stay under-communicated, resulting in their both being unsustainable: the Western paradigm held ancient China to be a fixed stock of researchable materials ever lessened by each of the one-off discoveries, thus concentrates, rather, on consuming the ever-emerging current issues; the East has been content with moving bones from one tomb to another, evincing a intellectual lethargy. This paper exemplifies how this academic unsustainability is surmountable with (1) methodological innovation and (2) transnational and cross-disciplinary research. Paradigmatically, by introducing Derrida’s différance into (a) the philosophical study and (b) the translation of classical Chinese thinking, it challenges the ego-centrism and truth monism the East, for the reasons of lingual and geo-cultural affinity, typically committed in China studies. Methodologically, this possibility is exemplified through a concrete case study of the Taoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子. Chased is how the Chinese ideal personality, zhenren 真人, got proteanly translated in the Anglo-American and the Eastern academias, the reasons behind, and the implications for how the concept has actually been received on different cultural and philosophical soils. This study thus serves strict illustrative purpose, showing how, by forsaking both a monistic view on truth and the obsession with some most faithful, “correct” translation, made realistically possible is a more flexible, self-reflective mode of truth production facilitating a facile bilateral flow of cultural resources between the East and the West. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Stephen Noakes Intellectuals and Authoritarian Resilience: The Development of Political Science in China What is the role of the social sciences in non-democratic regimes? In his 1987 Presidential address to the American Political Science Association, Samuel P. Huntington posited a close relationship exitsts between the development of political science and democratization. “Political science,” he writes, “is not just an intellectual discipline (but) also a moral one… the impetus to do good in the sense of promoting political reform is embedded in our profession.” By contrast, this article demonstrates the complicity of political research in upholding authoritarianism in China. Because of the historically close association of the discipline to state interests there, periodic changes in the logic of authoritarian survival. Under the current Hu-Wen administration, political science has become more nation-centered and service-oriented, concerned with solving China’s governance challenges while support for democratization, prominent in the late 1980’s, has largely been silenced. Now more focused on improving that replacing the communist regime, political science in China today provides the CCP with a means to re-legitimate itself, and thereby serves to strengthen and perpetuate authoritarian rule rather than end it. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 28
ASPAC Conference 2010 June 18 – 20, 2010 | Portland, OR Nicole Nowlin Scanlations: Copyright Infringement for Literature and Art Fans Brought to You by the Internet In the US, Japanese film, anime, manga, food, fashion, cars, and music have a growing impact in pop culture. Now, with the addition of the internet to the equation, scanlations come into play. The paper is an examination of the pop culture phenomenon of Japanese manga comics in the United States and the world of illegal scanlations. Scanlating is the practice of scanning and translating Japanese manga from its native language into English. Scanlations, especially when viewed as a parallel to the current lawsuits for illegal music downloading, is inherently an unacceptable practice from a legal standpoint, yet is widely accepted and used in the anime/manga subculture in the United States. Explanations and analysis will be drawn from US Copyright laws, interviews conducted with publishers, authors, and fans, and a survey of user demographics. The paper concludes with a look at the likelihood of the trend changing in the near future, and the overall theme behind the movement to continue scanlations. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Takeshi Odaira Regional Environmental Cooperation in East Asia: From Track 1 ODA to Track 1.5 Business Arrangement Now the concept of East Asian Community is discussed in both the political and academic realms much more often than the past. Besides, the need of international environmental cooperation is claimed in the same realms. Therefore, it is meaningful to produce a paper on the study of regional environmental cooperation in East Asia, as global frameworks of the environmental cooperation such as UNFCCC have not developed to universally effective means of protecting the environment. This logic is equivalent to that of FTA researchers and policy makers who tend to deal more with regional economic arrangements when the development of universal trade arrangements such as negotiations at WTO are much less prospective in its speed of progress. How does the regional environmental cooperation develop in East Asia? To this research question, a few researchers have given their answers. Matsuoka, Matsumoto and Iwamoto (2008) assumed that the track 1 official environmental cooperation leads to the track 1.5 cooperation as a part of the first stage of the development of the regional environmental regime. However, they did not examine how this process in the first stage proceeds in East Asia. Therefore, it is necessary for the following researchers to conduct case studies to examine the relevance of the aforementioned assumption. The proposed paper conducts a qualitative case analysis on verifiable official documents and press releases. This analysis illustrates that bilateral track 1 de jure environmental cooperation such as ODA is leading to the emergence of track 1.5 de facto cooperation involving the corporate sector in East Asia. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Sujin Oh Hazu da and Wake da as Logical Conclusion Hazu da and wake da are contemporary Japanese terms expressing the perceptions of a speaker as a logical conclusion. Hazu da refers to coming to a conclusion inevitably via the laws of nature or certain circumstances. It is also used when judging that the current circumstances can be the natural consequence based on your understanding of a certain fact about which you have doubted. This is an expression to let others know the circumstances from which your inferences are made are true based on your current knowledge while you may not be able to speak positively when you want to judge whether they are true or not. Wake da refers to coming to a conclusion inevitable such as a certain fact, circumstance, or reasonableness. Like hazu da, it is used when the current circumstances are natural consequences based on your understanding of the truth of a fact while you may still have doubts about it. It is the expression of a speaker to listeners indicating that it is a natural consequence of a certain thing. The expression shows that we reach a natural consequence through inferences from obvious facts in order to explain why a certain fact is as it is. As for the difference between the two, wake da is an expression used to make a decision by presenting 29
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