Transnational Currents of US-China Relations
November 15-17, 2013
The University of Hong Kong, Centennial Campus
This year’s conference marked the most successful one to date, with over 110 abstracts submitted on the theme “Transnational Currents of US-China Relations.” Sixty-four universities were represented from all over the world, with 35 universities from mainland China. James Fallows, National Correspondent for The Atlantic; Marilyn Lake, Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne; and Shelley Fisher-Fishkin, Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Stanford University, headlined the conference. A total of 23 concurrent panels were featured, with diverse topics ranging from transnational literary views, to comparisons of US and Chinese media coverage, to Chinese cultural stereotypes and much more. See files below to view a full list of the panels.
This year, there were more papers related to culture and the social sciences, indicating an increased focus on the importance of cultural and social dynamics in the study of America and China, in addition to the political, economic, and strategic disciplines of US-China relations.
USCET took this opportunity to reflect on the past 10 years of American Studies in China and discuss the future of the discipline in a special plenary session, chaired by USCET President Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch. Ten representatives, each from the universities that have hosted the ASN conferences in the past, comprised a Special Delegation that commented on the experience of American Studies scholars in China and the trajectory of the field.
USCET would like to congratulate Iris Eu of the College of William and Mary, Linguang Qiu, and Huihua Liu, both of Beijing Foreign Studies University, the winners of the 2013 Top Graduate Student Paper awards.
The relationship between China and the United States has never been just a bilateral affair. The tenth anniversary conference of the American Studies Network explores US-China relations for the broader international contexts of Asia, the Pacific and the globe. During more than two centuries of interaction between the two countries, American and Chinese identities and relations have been shifting and changing in ways that trouble any easy distinctions between East and West. Furthermore, the commercial, cultural, diplomatic, political, intellectual, literary, and religious dimensions of American-Chinese interactions have impacted many other cultures and influenced our understandings of the regional and hemispheric categories of Asia and the Pacific. As the legacies of diasporic migrations between the two countries continue to this day, do cultural identities exceed any one national orientation or even challenge the category of nationalism itself? How have the politics in the US, China, and other Asia Pacific nations evolved in response to the increasing economic and social interdependence between the two countries? How have US-China relations changed in the age of globalization and how do these changes impact other Asian countries? By answering these questions, our aim is to assess the current state and broader context of American Studies in Greater China and other East and Southeast Asian countries. How far have we come during the first ten years of the American Studies Network, where do we need to go in the future?
2013年美国研究联络会会议-10周年纪念
“中美关系的跨国趋势”
2013年11月15-17日，香港
香港大学百周年校园
今年的会议被标记为最成功的一次会议，大会收到了超过110份关于“中美关系的跨国趋势”的论文摘要。一共有64所世界各地的大学，其中35所来自中国大陆。大西洋杂志（The Atlantic）国家通讯员James Fallows、墨尔本大学澳大利亚研究委员会历史学教授Marilyn Lake和斯坦福大学美国研究中心主任英语教授Shelley Fisher-Fishkin共同主持了会议。23个专题讨论小组同时进行，讨论主题翻从跨国文学交流，到中美媒体对比，到中国文化刻板印象等。具体详情可查看专题讨论的完整列表。
今年有更多关于文化与社会科学的论文主题，表明除了中美关系的政治、经济和战略学科之外，对文化和社会动态在中美研究中的重要性的关注有所增加。
USCET利用这个机会回顾了过去10年在中国的美国研究，并在一次由USCET主席Julia Chang Bloch大使担任主席的特别的全体会议上讨论了该学科的未来。十名代表，分别来自于过去举办过ASN会议的大学，组成了一个特别代表团，对美国学者在中国的经历和该领域的发展轨迹发表了评论。
USCET同时也祝贺威廉与玛丽学院（College of William and Mary）的Iris Eu，以及北京外国语大学的Liu Huihua同学，他们是2013年度最佳研究生论文奖的获得者。
中美两国之间的关系从来不只是双边关系。美国研究联合会十周年会议探讨了中美关系在亚洲、太平洋和全球更广泛的国际背景下的作用。在两国长达两个多世纪的交往中，美国和中国的身份认同和关系一直在以各种方式发生着变化，这些变化都会影响东西方之间任何简单的不同。此外，中美交往的商业、文化、外交、政治、知识、文学和宗教等方面影响了许多其他文化，也影响了我们对亚洲和太平洋地区的理解。
随着两国间侨民移民的遗产持续至今，文化认同是否超越了任何一个国家取向，甚至挑战了民族主义的范畴?美国、中国和其他亚太国家的政治是如何随着两国之间日益增长的经济和社会相互依存而演变的?在全球化时代，中美关系发生了怎样的变化?这些变化对其他亚洲国家有何影响?通过回答这些问题，我们的目标是评估美国研究在大中华区和其他东亚和东南亚国家的现状。在美国研究联络会的头十年里，我们已经走了多远，未来我们又需要走向何方?