IEAS - Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

Catching the Wave: Connecting East Asia through Soft Power

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DATE:Friday-Saturday, October 5-6, 2007
PLACE:Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley
SPONSORS:Institute of East Asian Studies
Center for Chinese Studies
Center for Japanese Studies
Center for Korean Studies
Institute of International Studies
Berkeley China Initiative
Asia Society Northern California
The Japan Society of Northern California

This conference is made possible by the generosity of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO)

Video Presentations

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Written Presentations

Anne Allison (Duke University) J-brand: What image of youth is getting sold in Japan's "gross national cool"?

Peter Beck (ICG Seoul/US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea)

Ian Condry (MIT) — Anime, Online Piracy, and the Workings of Soft Power

Jinxia Dong (Peking University/Beijing Sports University) — Elite Athletes, National Identity and the Olympic Games: Winning Glory for China

Steve Fish (UC Berkeley) — Projecting What We've Not: Sustaining the Cult of Whiteness and Forfeiting Cultural Power in Indonesia

John Horne (University of Edinburgh) — Hosting Major Sports Events in East Asia: Connections, Challenges and Contradictions

Roger Janelli (Indiana University) — Korea, Soft Power, and the Politics of Culture (paper co-authored by Dawnhee Yim) and PowerPoint presentation

Alastair Iain Johnston (Harvard University) — Keynote Address: The Conditions for a Security Community in East Asia

Josh Kurlantzick (Carnegie) — China's Soft Power in Southeast Asia

Chyungly Lee (Institute of International Relations of National Chengchi University) Soft Power and Asian Identity: A Taiwanese Perspective

Richard Madsen (UC San Diego) — The Asian Cultural Cooperation Forum: Hong Kong as a Nexus of Soft Power

Roald Maliangkay (Australian National University) — The Myth of Soft Power: Selling Korean Pop Music Abroad

Wolfram Manzenreiter (University of Vienna) — The Soft Power of Sports in Japan's International Relations

Andrew Morris (California Polytechnic State University) — Kanō Baseball and "Triethnic" Identity in 1930s Taiwan

Chan E. Park (Ohio State University) — Storytelling and Human Connectivity: Songs of Korean Diaspora

T.J. Pempel (UC Berkeley) — Concluding Remarks - Catching the Wave: Connecting East Asia Through Soft Power

Xiao Qiang (UC Berkeley) — Bloggers as Cultural Ambassadors in Cyberspace

Kim Reimann (Georgia State University) — NGOs, Transnational Networks and Regional Governance in East Asia

Stanley Rosen (University of Southern California) — Film Markets in China, Japan and Korea and PowerPoint presentation

Sang Yeon Sung (Indiana University) — Constructing a New Image - Korean Popular Culture in Taiwan and PowerPoint presentation

Isao Tsujimoto (Japan Foundation, New York) — How Soft Is Japan?

Jeffrey Wasserstrom (UC Irvine) — NGOs and China: Putting Current Patterns into Historical Perspective

Keiko Yamanaka (UC Berkeley) — Civil Activism for Migrant Workers' Rights in Japan, Korea and China

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