Program
Paper Submission
To submit your paper, please email it to the assistant of the conference, Yi-chin Huang: yichin.huang@wmich.edu
Program Details
Friday November 8, 2019
Arrival and Check in
Radisson Plaza Hotel
100 W Michigan Avenue
Kalamazoo, MI 49007
(269)343-3333
Welcome Dinner (Informal) 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Burdick’s Bar & Grill
First floor of Radisson Plaza Hotel
First floor of Radisson Plaza Hotel
(269)343-0032
*All panels will take place in the Stone Theatre (B1), Radisson Plaza Hotel.
Saturday November 9, 2019
Breakfast: 6:30 – 8:00 am (charge to your room)
The Morning Dish
Second floor of Radisson Plaza Hotel
(269) 226-3155
Opening Ceremony: 8:30 – 9:00 am
- Dr. Paulo Zagalo-Melo, Associate Provost, Haenicke Institute for Global Education, Western Michigan University
- Mr. Eric Huang, Director General, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Chicago
Panel I (9:00 – 10:20 am): Cross-Strait Relations and the Taiwan Relations Act
Chair: Vincent Wang, Adelphi University
Koji Kagotani, Osaka University of Economics
Wen-Chin Wu, Academia Sinica
Zhiqun Zhu, Bucknell University
Kathleen E. Powers, Dartmouth College
Dalton Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology
Discussant: Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas
Coffee Break: 10:20 – 10:40 am
Panel II (10:40 am – noon): Elections and Public Opinions in Taiwan
Chair: John Clark, Western Michigan University
Lu-huei Chen, National Chengchi University
Hsin-Hsin Pan, National Taiwan University
Koji Kagotani, Osaka University of Economics
- “Taiwanese People’s Favorability for the Chinese Communist Party from 2017 till this January”
Shi-huei Yang, Columbia University
Discussant: Eric Chang, Michigan State University
Lunch: noon – 1:15 pm
Panel III (1:30 – 2:50 pm): Prospects for Democracy in Greater China
Chair: Jim Butterfield, Western Michigan University
John Fuh-sheng Hsieh, University of South Carolina
T.Y. Wang, Illinois State University
Su-feng Cheng, National Chengchi University
Ching-hsin Yu, National Chengchi University
Victoria Hui, University of Notre Dame
Discussant: Tun-jen Cheng, College of William and Mary
Panel IV (3:00 – 4:20 pm): Political Economy of Taiwan and China
Chair: Wei-chiao Huang, Western Michigan University
Alex Tan, University of Canterbury
Karl Ho, University of Texas at Dallas
Cal Clark, Auburn University
Jessica C. Liao, North Carolina State University
Daniel O’Neill, University of the Pacific
Dennis L. C. Weng, Sam Houston State University
Ching-Hsing Wang, National Cheng Kung University
Tsong-Jyi Lin, Tamkang University
Discussant: Dalton Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology
Roundtable (4:30 – 5:50 pm): Forty Years of the Taiwan Relations Act and Hong Kong
Chair: Tse-min Lin, University of Texas at Austin
Panelists:
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Wei-chin Lee, Wake Forest University
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Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas
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Vincent Wang, Adelphi University
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Michael Davis, Columbia University & Wilson Center
Dinner: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Zazios
First Floor of Radisson Plaza Hotel
(269)384-2650
(269)384-2650
Sunday, November 10, 2019
Breakfast: 6:30 – 8:00 am (charge to your room)
The Morning Dish
Second floor of Radisson Plaza Hotel
(269) 226-3155
Panel V (8:30 – 9:30 am): US-Taiwan Relations
Chair: Yuan-kang Wang, Western Michigan University
- “Is the Enemy’s Enemy My Friend? American Public Support for Taiwan under the Context of the Sino-US Trade War”
Yao-Yuan Yeh, University of St. Thomas
Charles K.S. Wu, Purdue University
Dean Chen, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Yao-Yuan Yeh, University of St. Thomas
Discussant: Jessica Liao, North Carolina State University
Coffee Break: 9:30 – 9:50 am
Panel VI (9:50 – 11:30 am): Young Scholars Panel
Chair: Eric Chang, Michigan State University
Yu-Ceng Liao, University of Houston
Chun-Ying Wu, University of Texas at Austin
Shu-An Tsai, SUNY Buffalo
Yuan Yuan Hsu, University of Missouri-Columbia
Discussants: Dennis L. C. Weng, Sam Houston State University
Yao-Yuan Yeh, University of St. Thomas
Lunch: 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
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