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My name is Tryne Vander Straten and today I am interviewing Dr. Randall Nadeau on June 30th, 2021 at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. And today we are interviewing Dr. Nadeau about the East Asian Studies Department at Trinity and his time at Trinity. All right, so I guess we can go ahead and get started. I want to kind of start by asking you about your academic background. So you have a bachelor's degree from Oberlin, right?\n\nNADEAU: Um-hm.\n\nSTRATEN: And then an MA from Princeton and a PhD from the University of British Columbia, right? \n\nNADEAU: That's right. \n\nSTRATEN: In Asian Studies? \n\nNADEAU: Well, at Oberlin, I was a Religion and Philosophy major, and went to  Princeton to do  a PhD in Religious Studies.\n\nSTRATEN: Hm.\n\nNADEAU: My interest in East Asia certainly began at Oberlin, because of a long history that Oberlin had in China. And so at the time, late 1970s, the Oberlin College Shanxi Program was sending recent graduates to Asia. It's named after Shanxi, Shanxi Province in China, because that was the origin of the program.\n\nAnd after the Chinese revolution, that program moved to Taiwan and helped to establish a university in Taiwan called Donghai University. And for a number of years from 1949 I think  until the 70s, Oberlin sent Shanxi reps to Donghai to teach English. And this was a two-year grant, two-year program going abroad. But by the time when I was in college, the Shanxi program had expanded to other countries, to Indonesia, India, Japan, Korea, and so on, and sent Shanxi reps to all of those places. \n\nSTRATEN: Okay, I see. \n\n NADEAU: So in my cohort, there might have been eight of us, I think? \n\nSTRATEN: Okay. \n\nNADEAU:  When I graduated from Oberlin—1978, I applied to be a Shanxi rep.  But this was a revolutionary  time, because at that moment in time, we had reestablished ties to the original campus in Shanxi Province. And I, and three others—there were four of us in the cohort—were the first to return to China after those intervening years in Taiwan. So instead of going to Donghai in Taiwan, which my  [“Senior school sister, Senior school brother”] my older classmates had gone to Taiwan, I, and other people from Oberlin, went to China. And I spent two years in Taiyuan —Shanxi, Taiyuan — as an English teacher, among the first to go back to Shanxi. So, I hadn't majored in East Asian Studies, I had majored in religion, but I'd had an interest in, in Asia, in college, and, you know, went to China. And that changed my direction in life.  I had already —when I graduated from college, I went immediately to Princeton for a PhD program in religion, but then China opened up again for Oberlin. So I applied and went there.\n\nSTRATEN:  Okay.\n\nNADEAU:  Um, kind of in the middle of my PhD program at Princeton.  But because of that experience, I didn't go back to Princeton. I was too much interested in China and Chinese studies to continue my religious studies program at Princeton.  It so happened that, um, I think it was my second year at Princeton, just before I went to China, there was a visiting professor named Daniel Overmyer at Princeton.\n\nAnd Overmyer was a leading figure in the study of popular religion in China in the 1960s and 70s. So I followed him back to UBC because that's where he was permanently. He'd just come to Princeton for a one year visiting professor appointment. So since I was changing my focus from philosophy of religion to Chinese religions. I— after coming back from China – I went to Vancouver to study with Dr. Overmyer. And then, I did my PhD at UBC, focusing on popular religion in China.  I finally made it to Taiwan. I mean, I was, I'd been thinking of going to Taiwan, you know, through the Shanxi program, but went to China instead and so on. So I finally made it. So I was in Shanxi from 1980 to ‘82. And then I think it was, yeah, it would have been the summer of 1983 when I first went to Taiwan. And, because I was curious about it. And I had an Oberlin connection there as well who kind of arranged for me to be in Taiwan. And that was a missionary friend who had spent many, many years in Taiwan. And so he arranged for me to spend a summer—the summer of 1983 in Tainan—in Southern Taiwan, not at Donghai University— so that came later even though that was sort of the Oberlin connection earlier. But— so I went to Tainan for a summer. Taught English in the YMCA and I lived in the Presbyterian seminary in Tainan because of this missionary connection that I had there. And that was very momentous because in the early 80s, Southern Taiwan, and particular the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, was a very activist in resisting the one party rule of the Nationalist Party, which had—since 1949—had established martial law in Taiwan—the so-called temporary capital of China, you know, the Republic of China based in Taiwan under Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Party— so I was arriving in Taiwan at the very end of that period, that martial law period, when there was a resistance movement. At that time it was called the Dangwai movement, the “outside the party” movement which later became the Democratic Progressive Party, which is now the party in power in Taiwan. But that was a really interesting time to be there because I met all these activists at the Presbyterian seminary, including some who had been imprisoned for fomenting rebellion against the KMT. They had established a magazine called , “The Beautiful Island”, Formosa, and they are sometimes called the , “The Formosa Movement”. And  —So I got to know these people. You know, I was a young person—I was 24 years old—and it was kind of exciting to see this, and to, kind of, land in Taiwan and then be in the South and experiencing this was really fantastic. So I was just there for that summer. And then came back and continued my graduate studies. But— I guess it was a year, maybe, let's see, I was— ‘83, so maybe two years later, maybe ‘85, I'd been working on my PhD, I went back to Taiwan to do more language study,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066#t=0.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066/transcript/92985/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and especially Classical Chinese—which, yeah, just to study classical. And so I went to the Stanford Center—which at that time, was based at National Taiwan University—later it moved to  [“Beijing Normal University”]—I'm not sure. But anyway, at that time the Stanford Center was based in National Taiwan University. So I went there—I think it was ‘85, ‘86—just to do Chinese study. And my experience was really also transformative, mainly because of one teacher that I had, in that program. You know, an intensive Chinese program and you have class three hours a day, every day, that sort of thing. And my teacher was named [“Her surname was “Na”, the character for “there”]. And, which is a very unusual surname—it's actually a Manchurian surname. And her father— she was probably a 60-year-old single woman, and she was extremely erudite and cultured, classically educated, a mainlander—and her father, [Na Zhi-liang) had been the first curator of the \n\nSTRATEN: Wow. (Laughs) \n\nNADEAU: And I've always loved my name because of that. And I told this story many years later—when I was applying to be the Executive Director of Fulbright Taiwan—to the interview committee, because it's a significant story—because when you think of the first time I was in Taiwan, I was right in the middle of what is now the Green Party, you know, and its genesis. And then I go back two years later, and I'm meeting the classical blue, you know, sort of Nationalist Chinese identity part of Taiwan. And so this full range of experience in the first two times that I was there was really, really deep.  And during that time, I found my dissertation research topic, which was a religious movement in Taiwan that had its origins in China, in the Ming Dynasty—the late Ming. So my dissertation was on the scriptures of this movement, but it  had an anthropological chapter, because I also described how this group still existed in Taiwan. At that time, you know, there was no religious freedom in China, so it couldn't exist in China. And so my dissertation was mostly on the Ming scriptures and late imperial Chinese religion, which I then finished at UBC. And then when I was looking for a teaching job, when I finished my PhD in 1990, you look everywhere for a job.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066#t=600.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066/transcript/92985/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I positioned myself to be the East Asianist in a religion department. And Trinity was just developing a kind of  East Asian Studies program. Stephen [Dr. Stephen Field] had been hired the year before—or two? I don't know, was he in '88 or '89? I think—he knows—he was already here. And when I interviewed, I remember that Don Clark was on the committee, who—he’s probably 10 or 15 years older than I am—and he was on the hiring committee as the external person for the Religion Department.\n\nSTRATEN: Okay.NADEAU: And the question came up, why would someone leave Princeton, an Ivy League PhD program, and go to the University of British Columbia? And Clark said, “Oh, because of Overmyer.” That’s legit, you know, because this guy is the best in that field. My religion department, you know, people who will do Hebrew Bible, New Testament, American religion that they had no idea who Daniel Overmyer was, but Don knew, and so I think that definitely helped in terms of the hiring. \n\nSTRATEN: Hm. (Both chuckles)\n\nNADEAU: But for me this was a whole new world. I mean, I'd never been to Texas. I grew up in Philadelphia, and Oberlin is in Ohio, and Princeton is in New Jersey, and then went to Vancouver.\n\nSTRATEN: (laughs) Kind of all over.\n\nNADEAU: But this was—this was the South, and I had never been here. So anyway, when I came, Don was here, Steven was here, and I think it was that same year that the thought was that we'd have the Chinese and Japanese languages. And I can't remember the name of the guy—Steven might be able to look it up—that we hired to teach Japanese. And I think— if I’m not mistaken— Steven had been here a year and then this guy and I were hired the same year. And then—and there was virtually no Asian studies before that. I mean, there was Don, there was a guy in anthropology named Norman Parmer, who had some—no, he wasn't—was he in anthropology? I think so. \n\nSTRATEN: He may have been. \n\nNADEAU: Anyway, he had some connection to Southeast Asia. \n\nSTRATEN: Um-hm.\n\nNADEAU: Seems like it was Thailand. Or—I just can't remember now. But anyway,  —and then there was a guy in the English Department who taught a course in Japanese literature, but he didn't speak or read Japanese. And then, Ewing Chinn in philosophy, who had been trained in an area of philosophy, I think—oh, he was in logic, symbolic logic. His training was not in Chinese philosophy—he developed that interest later in his life because of his heritage as a Chinese American—but he could not read or speak Chinese. But he taught a course in Chinese philosophy based on things that were in translation, and he did a philosophical approach to these texts. He got more and more into it —I think early in his career, he wasn't, but then, it became his total focus—even to the point where I think he started studying Chinese and learning to read Chinese later in his career. And he published on Zhuangzi and so on. So, Ewing was a colleague for—you know, I think he might have retired around 2000? That's my kind of rough memory. Anyway, the Japanese professor didn't work out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066#t=900.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066/transcript/92985/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He had trouble adjusting to the US and to Trinity and might have lasted a couple of years.\n\nSTRATEN: Was he— he wasn't from Japan or? \n\nNADEAU: He was from Japan. \n\nSTRATEN: Okay.  \n\nNADEAU: But just the adjustment to the US, and especially to South Texas was— yeah, just didn't work out. \n\nSTRATEN: Um-hm. \n\nNADEAU: And Stephen will tell you better—but in my recollection, he then kind of lobbied to say, “We're a small university, let's put our resources into one area that we can then develop some excellence in that area”, in other words, Chinese studies, Chinese language. And then he and Don basically created the East Asian Studies program at Trinity, EAST. And Stephen did a fantastic job building up a faculty, creating a major in Chinese. Having enough, I think his strategy was to bring in another full-time tenure-track person and then an adjunct so that there would be three Chinese professors, and that you could then have a major in Chinese—but he'll tell you that story. The key thing was that, through their efforts, we kinda formed an interdisciplinary group, and my courses were part of that East Asia studies program.\n\nSTRATEN: Um-hm. NADEAU: And so right from the start, I taught courses on, like, my Asian Religions course, which is kinda my bread and butter course that I taught for many years, which was a survey of religions in India, China, and Japan.\n\nSTRATEN: Um-hm.  \n\nNADEAU: And then I had three upper division courses that came out of that, which were the Buddhist Tradition, Chinese Religions, and Japanese Religions. \n\nSTRATEN: Um-hm.\n\nNADEAU:  I had a colleague in the religion department who preceded me by 10 years, Mackenzie Brown—\n\nSTRATEN:  (speaking at the same time)Yes.\n\nNADEAU: —who was the South Asianist. So he taught the Hindu tradition. \n\nSTRATEN: Um-hm.\n\nNADEAU:  And so in our department we had two Asianists, one doing  South Asia, one doing  East Asia, and in terms of the field, I think—you know, when I think back generationally— you know, every generation, you know, thinks that they're revolutionaries, and rebelling against something. \n\nSTRATEN: Um-hm. (chuckles)\n\nNADEAU: And I think for my generation—and Dr. Field would be the same—what we were trying to do was to be more critical of previous scholarship in East Asian studies, which had been dominated by textual studies—reading the texts, historical texts, literary texts, religious texts, and translating them into English, and doing that kind of philological study—that's the prior generation. \n\nSTRATEN: Um-hm. \n\nNADEAU:  —armchair scholars. And we were more wanting to see things on the ground. We wanted to be able to speak the language, not just to be able to read it. And so my generation, we really put a heavy emphasis on actually going to Asia and to—doing language as a living, you know, living language.  I had a professor at UBC, he was British, who could literally read","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066#t=1200.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066/transcript/92985/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anything you put in front of him in Chinese. \n\nSTRATEN: (chuckles)\n\nNADEAU: He could read anything—He could read a novel, he could read something from the Tang dynasty, classical Chinese. He could read Tang poetry— he could not speak one word of Chinese. \n\nSTRATEN: Hm?\n\nNADEAU: Could not speak one word. He could read anything—He wrote a dictionary that's still used, a Dictionary of Middle Chinese, Tang Song Chinese—Chinese-English dictionary. NADEAU: You know, he wrote a grammar of [“Classical Chinese”], that I learned classical Chinese from his grammar. \n\nSTRATEN: (laughs)\n\nNADEAU: So that, that was that generation, and in my field—religious studies—that was the generation of the orientalists. Have you ever heard this term of orientalism? \n\nSTRATEN: Um-hm.  \n\nNADEAU: Orientalism meant something like finding what is exotic and different, the complete other. That was the “Orient, the mysterious Orient.”\n\nSTRATEN: Um-hm.  \n\nNADEAU: And the fascination with the wisdom traditions, Buddhism and Taoism especially. And there were other post-war scholars—many of whom, honestly, in religion, couldn't even read Chinese or Japanese, so they depended entirely on translations. There had been translations for a century—in the 19th century, you had the translations of all the classics. All the Confucian classics, all the Daoist classics, had been translated in the 1800s. So they were—they were all there. You could, you know, you could read them all in English. And in religion, that's what people did: they read these things in English—they wrote PhD dissertations on Laozi without being able to read Chinese, you know, which is unthinkable now, right?\n\nSTRATEN: Um-hm.  \n\nNADEAU:  But that's the generation before me. What was different about Overmyer—my advisor – who is still considered to be a giant in the field of study of Chinese religions—what was different about him was that he really valued anthropological research and being in China and learning about religion in temples. That was because of his particular background as a son of a missionary family and  had grown up in China. And you do have that phenomenon from that generation. In fact, Don Clark was the son of a missionary family. \n\nSTRATEN: Yeah, he lived in Korea. \n\nNADEAU: And that's how he knew Korean. Yeah, his Korean background. So, my advisor, Overmyer, was like that—spoke Chinese very, very well. Though his research was mostly textual and historical, but he traveled often to China and spoke Chinese very fluently. Even had a regional accent from where he grew up in China. \n\nSTRATEN: Oh, really? Do you know where in China he grew up? \n\nNADEAU:  No—It seems like it was Hunan or Hubei—but, anyway,  I've forgotten. But I remember when I was considering studying with him, leaving Princeton and going to study with him, and I had already met him and so on at Princeton, but I still wanted to kind of make sure. And the other person that I was interested in studying with was at UC San Diego, Arthur Wolf, and I went to visit him. He was an anthropologist who had lived in Taiwan; he spoke Taiwanese as well as Mandarin. Anyway, I had told Wolf when I visited him that I was kind of interested in anthropology and doing fieldwork, but I—but also like texts, and I wanted to be able to read Chinese and I wanted to be able to do an historical kind of approach. \n\nSTRATEN: Um-hm.  \n\nNADEAU: And he—and he said, oh, then you need to go to Overmyer—you need to be with Overmyer because he's the most anthropological","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066#t=1500.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066/transcript/92985/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of all the historians, you know.\n\nSTRATEN: (chuckles)\n\nNADEAU: So that was—that was great, studying with Overmyer and, and then having that sense. So like, you know, I think that for my generation, that immersion in the language was really important and in knowing people, and not just books, was really important to us. And so we went:  we went to India, we went to Japan, we went to China. We spent time there and we learned the culture experientially, in person. I had spent two years in China, and a summer in Taiwan, then another year in Taiwan. I’d spent a summer in Japan doing some work on my dissertation, which required some Japanese sources. So by the time I came to Trinity, I'd had four or five years in China, Japan, or Taiwan. And I think that’s more typical of my generation. So that was the rebellion—we were rebelling against Orientalism, we were rebelling against purely textual study, and wanting to know things better. You know Dr. Field will tell you the same thing. I mean, his PhD was on Xiang Tu Wen Xue (). That's the sort of native, popular literature of Taiwan, or maybe—sorry, maybe that's his professor? Maybe Stephen was doing something more classical, I've forgotten that. Anyway, he'll tell you that. \n\nSTRATEN: (chuckles) Um-hm.  \n\nNADEAU:  But he definitely, you know—his advisor at UT was in Xiang Tu Wen Xue, and she was definitely,  kind of like Overmyer, you know, very much, she is a reader, a literary scholar, but immersed in the culture, and local life. So, then, there was that general— definitely a generational shift. And I'm not—I feel like, you know, you rebel against something, but at the same time, over time, you become more respectful of it. \n\nSTRATEN: (laughs) Um-hm. \n\nNADEAU: I mean, the giants who were previous to me—they laid the groundwork for Asian Studies and for this being a legitimate field, an accepted field—there weren't a lot of Asian Studies programs at that time. So anyway, that's what we were all trying to do. And then, I think that,  over the years here at Trinity, Stephen is, you know, he's a dynamo, and he was always building and always jockeying for his department, and I think in some ways, Don and I, Don Clark and I were a little bit like the countermeasures. Countermeasure—in other words, Don was saying, well, don't forget about Korea, you know, (laughs) Korea's there too.\n\nSTRATEN: (laughs) Yeah. \n\nNADEAU: And I was the one saying, well, don't forget about Japan, just because it didn't work out that we had a Japanese language program. You know, it's still East Asia, I mean—and don't forget about Taiwan. And so, while Stephen— you know, in the core were, were the programs that he then developed in Fudan and, and then through, CIE I guess, and programs in Harbin and so on, Don and I always kept something going—not as ambitious or as big—but kept something going, he in Korea and me in Japan and Taiwan, and then encouraging students to go to all these places for study abroad. But I think it worked out great, and over the years, the Chinese language program grew.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066#t=1800.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066/transcript/92985/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I remember , I had a family.  So in the 90s, all the way up to—I came in 1990, I would say up to 2005, I was raising young kids and I didn't go to Asia as much. I'd go for a conference, but not for any sustained period. I took students one time on a Freeman grant, that was  to China, but anyway I didn't have as much opportunity to go until later— after my kids had grown up and then I applied for—just to kind of finish the story—I applied for a Fulbright to—let’s see, how did this happen—oh yeah, in 2012—was that 2011 or 2012—about 10 years ago, I had a sabbatical coming up, and I was deciding where I wanted to spend it. And so I spent like a summer—I can't remember where I got the money for this —but I spent a summer touring about seven universities in China and Taiwan—giving lectures. And the purpose—it was a lecture tour but the purpose of it was for me to decide where I wanted to spend a whole year. So I went to  [“Peking University”] and  [“Tsinghua University”] and then I went to Wuhan,  [“Wuhan University”], I went to Xiamen—Oh, I went to Sichuan, both to  [“Sichuan University”] and then [“Shanghai Jiao Tong University”],  [“Fudan University”],  [“Xiamen University”], then to Taiwan—I went to two or three. So I went to a bunch of universities and decided that I wanted to spend that sabbatical in Taiwan at Cheng Kung University and I think it's partly because, you know—that's where I'd been 20 years before in Tainan. And so I thought I'll go back to Tainan—it felt like home when I visited again—and so I did a sabbatical there in the History Department at  [“Cheng Kung University”] and the Dean of the Humanities—right near the end of my stay—told me that he'd gotten offered to be become the president of Donghai University. I said “Oh, Donghai University, I have a long connection at Dong Hai University from Oberlin.”\n\nSTRATEN: (laughs) Yeah. \n\nNADEAU: So he invited me to come there, and I applied for a Fulbright to help him to set up an International College at Donghai. That was 2015, and I went there as a Fulbrighter, and this was to set up an English immersion college within the university—which many many schools are doing nowadays, so you know,developing the curriculum, the courses, recruiting students to start this new college and so because—and I went there as a Fulbrighter and so I often met the Fulbright staff in Taiwan and the Fulbright Executive Director there during my Fulbright year. I came back to Trinity. I had been very much involved with a consortium called AsiaNetwork of liberal arts colleges that offer Asian studies, and now Professor Zhang, Zhang Jie, was president of Asia Network last year. I met at an AsiaNetwork meeting—I met some people from Rikkyo University in Tokyo and","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066#t=2100.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066/transcript/92985/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"through various reasons, they invited me to come and teach a summer class—2017, ‘16 or ‘17. And so I went there and taught for a summer session, and then they invited me to come back for a full year. So I took an unpaid leave, because I'd already had a sabbatical—a sabbatical is basically a paid leave, right? You get paid, you get half your pay—and then I took an unpaid leave to Rikkyo University in Tokyo. And part of this was a research project that I was doing, which was on the history of religion in Taiwan, like a comprehensive general history of religion in Taiwan, and I was working on the Japanese colonial period—which, as you may know, from 1895 to 1945, Taiwan was occupied by Japan—and so I was looking at religious life during that period. And then I was in an international college at Rikkyo University, which was kind of similar to the one at Donghai, and I was teaching, you know, in the case of Donghai, I was teaching in English to Taiwanese students, and I was at Rikkyo teaching in English to Japanese students. Anyway, so that was 2018-19, that I was at Rikkyo, and during that time, I got recruited by Fulbright Taiwan to replace the departing—retiring Executive Director there, because they remembered me from when I had been a Fulbrighter, you know, three or four years before that. So when I applied to be Executive Director, I was doing that  from Tokyo— \n\nSTRATEN: Oh, wow. \n\nNADEAU: —and going to Taipei for interviews. And they offered me the job, and this would have been 2019—two years ago. And I'd already been away from Trinity for a year, and I'd been away a couple years before that at Donghai, and I was really struggling with the decision to leave Trinity. And I was hesitant, reluctant to do that, and about that time, Professor Nishikawa came and  brought some students to Japan for a study abroad program, and I was telling him, just coincidentally, you know, I got this offer—and Katsuo is great. I mean, he's the type—basically, he said, well, why don't you ask for a leave of absence? I said, well, I'm already on a leave of absence, and this will be for three years—it's a three-year contract. And Katsuo said, well, why don't you just ask for three years leave of absence. I mean, it's Fulbright! And to my pleasure, you know, and surprise, Trinity approved it and allowed me to extend what would have been a four-year leave of absence—you know, because the one year at Rikkyo, and then three years at Fulbright. So I started at Fulbright summer of 2019, two years ago. And so I've been—and I've been there two years, and as you can imagine, like everything else, my tenure as the Executive Director has been defined by the coronavirus, which started just a few months after I started the job. So, all the different —each cohort has been affected by COVID in one way or another. \n\nSTRATEN: Yeah. \n\nNADEAU: And then I think I felt sort of like unfinished business there, and things are still not back to normal quite, and I just decided, okay, I'll make a long-term commitment to Fulbright. And that's what led to my decision to retire from Trinity—which just happened like a month ago—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066#t=2400.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066/transcript/92985/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and so now I'm going to be staying on with Fulbright permanently. \n\nSTRATEN: Yeah. So you mentioned that it was a pretty, a pretty tough decision, right? \n\nNADEAU: Yeah. I mean, when Katsuo said, well, ask for the leave—that kind of resolved it because I thought, well, I can still go back to Trinity. This decision was really, really tough. And I'm not sure it was the right decision. \n\nSTRATEN: (laughs) Why do you say that? \n\nNADEAU: Oh, I'm going to miss this place very, very much. And, you know—yeah it was a very tough decision. But,  I would say that—as you can gather from my story— Taiwan has become sort of a second home for me. Kind of started off there, and then my PhD dissertation research was there, went back there twice as a visiting professor. So, I know Taiwan very, very well, and then, since becoming Executive Director— the Fulbright program in Taiwan is very large: it's one of the larger Fulbright programs in the world. \n\nSTRATEN: Oh, really?\n\nNADEAU: I had about 300 grantees last year, the main one being the ETA program—half of them are ETAs. And so we have a really big program, and then there's been so much work through with the coronavirus and managing the grantees, disruptions in the program. In addition to that, the former president of the United States terminated the China program, terminated Fulbright China, which was one of the many stupid things that he did—a terrible decision—but as a consequence of that, we at Fulbright Taiwan received those American scholars and graduate students who had been planning to be in China. So I have 35 professors and graduate students this year in Taiwan who had originally planned to be in China as Fulbrighters. So that was also kind of a big momentous thing. And because under both the Trump and Biden administrations, there's a lot of pushback against China, tension with China, and more favorable policies towards Taiwan—so Fulbright has benefited from that. We’ve gotten a lot of support from the American Institute in Taiwan, AIT, which is the de facto embassy, the American embassy there. We've gotten a lot of support from AIT, a lot of support from the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, because of the increasing ties,  strengthening of ties between the U.S. and Taiwan. So I've gotten a lot more scholarship money, I've gotten a lot more visibility at Fulbright, and so I've just really gotten involved in it very deeply.\n\nSTRATEN: (chuckles) Um-hm. \n\nNadeau: And partly because also my predecessors served for very long periods. \n\nSTRATEN: Yeah. \n\nNADEAU:  The guy before me was executive director  for eight years, and the one before him for 30 years. So, if I had only stayed for two or three years and then left, that would have been shocking to people. \n\nSTRATEN: Yeah. \n\nNADEAU: And then, Trinity was inviting us older professors to retire, and a few people in my cohort have retired this year. So anyway, you know, I'll finish my career there in Taiwan. But, but I’ll definitely miss it here. \n\nSTRATEN: Yeah. \n\nNADEAU: I've loved being part of the East Asian Studies group around—I don't know, I think it was before I went to do the Fulbright in Taiwan, because I'd been away for a while, I decided, \"Okay, better review my Chinese.\" So I went through, I think I spent two years, you know, just taking all the classes. I did third year, I did fourth year,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066#t=2700.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066/transcript/92985/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I did Jinli's class, you know. I just audited all the classes, because it had been a while since I'd really used Chinese that much. \n\nSTRATEN: Yeah. \n\nNADEAU: And you'd be amused by this, which is that with  Ginger and with Jinli, you know, I would basically come to class, participate in class, and then if there was a test - because I had no time to study…\n\nSTRATEN: (chuckles) Um-hm. \n\nNADEAU: And so for exams and tests, I would cheat.\n\nSTRATEN: (laughs)\n\nNADEAU: I'd come to class and, and just, you know, (laughs) look at the notes. But I just wanted to take the test anyway, you know, because I wasn't getting any credit, so I would cheat. And then I got to Zhang Jie's class, and I did this same trick where I just put—pulled out my textbook during the quiz, you know. And she said, \"What are you doing?\" (laughs) And, I said, \"Oh, you know, I didn't have a chance to study.\" She said, \"You can't do that. The students are right here!\"\n\nSTRATEN: (laughs) \n\nNADEAU: So she forced me to actually take quizzes like a normal student. \n\nSTRATEN: (laughs) Yeah, that's so funny. So which classes were those exactly? \n\nNADEAU: Oh, you know, I just, I did third year, just whatever. What's third year Chinese with Ginger? \n\nSTRATEN: Advanced Chinese, I think? \n\nNADEAU: Yeah. \n\nSTRATEN: I mean, the professor switches out, but. \n\nNADEAU: Oh, okay. Yeah. It was, it was just whatever third year is. And then I did, um, what was Zhang Jie's class? Is there a fourth year? \n\nSTRATEN: Yeah.\n\nNADEAU: Just like, I think it was just fourth year Chinese. \n\nSTRATEN: It wasn't classical, was it? \n\nNADEAU: No, I didn't do classical because I already can do classical.\n\nSTRATEN: Yeah, I guess it must have been just— \n\nNADEAU: Jinli's class was a literature class, modern literature, but she taught—that was taught in Chinese. And then Zhang Jie's class was, (clears throat) excuse me, I need water (clears throat).\n\nSTRATEN: We can pause. \n\nNADEAU: Zhang Jie's class was – it just seems like it was like an advanced—\n\nSTRATEN: Like an advanced composition class, that kind of thing? I think that was one that I took, yeah. But we can, we can pause—\n\nNADEAU: (speaking at the same time) But I went through—\n\nSTRATEN: —and grab some water.\n\nNADEAU: No, I'm okay. I went through the whole sequence, yeah, with them. And then we—and then the other thing that we did, that Stephen again, gets the most credit for—was developing the first year seminar, Being Young in Asia. And I was in on the ground, first floor of that, that curriculum. That was really fun. I loved our group and working together on that. And I think it's a great first year seminar. \n\nSTRATEN: Go ahead.\n\nNADEAU: So that dynamic, is Taiwan Chinese, and what is the relationship with China— that’s a very, very active discussion in Taiwan now. And one aspect of that—did it go off again? \n\nSTRATEN: It's still working. \n\nNADEAU:  One aspect of that is that they often say you know in China you have no freedom. \n\nSTRATEN: Um-hm.\n\nNADEAU: And we have freedom of expression, freedom of lifestyle choices and freedom of to be who one is. That's important to Taiwanese. \n\nSTRATEN: Do you think that's changing or is it? \n\nNADEAU: Oh, even more. Yeah, even stronger, you know, for sure. There's a lot of interest in these new concepts, non-binary or intersectionality, those kinds of things. There's a lot of interest in Taiwan in those. But people have never heard of them, you know, for the most part (laughs). \n\nSTRATEN: Yeah. (chuckles)\n\nNADEAU: Yeah, so—Have you ever been to Taiwan? \n\nSTRATEN: I have not. I have a friend, her parents are from Taiwan. \n\nNADEAU: Oh. \n\nSTRATEN: I'd love to go, but it's not in the cards just yet. \n\nNADEAU: Where were you in China? \n\nSTRATEN: I was in—so I've been, I've been to China a few times. I went to Shanghai, and I went to Shanghai, Zhuhai, and then I was supposed to study abroad for this semester in Beijing and that was when COVID hit and everything. \n\nNADEAU: Oh, okay. \n\nSTRATEN: Kind of—Yeah. \n\nNADEAU: Right. \n\nSTRATEN: But, I was actually pretty curious about— , like you've, you've been to so many different universities and like, taught in so many different settings, and I was just curious, like, what was your favorite place that you've taught at? \n\nNADEAU:  You know, I'd say, it's probably","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066#t=3000.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066/transcript/92985/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rikkyo University.\n\nSTRATEN: Really? \n\nNADEAU: I loved it there, I loved the students. It was a great time. Japan is a place that—it's easy to visit. It's a little bit hard to live there longterm, because it is a very insular society. But to visit for a year, and to be in Tokyo, I mean, it was, it was just great. And the students there were mostly—they were all Japanese, their English was quite good. Most of them had spent a fairly long period abroad. Maybe in high school, they'd been with their parents living in the States for three or four years. So their English was quite good and I could conduct class in English. Between classes, they all spoke Japanese with one another, but then in class, they—the English level was quite high. So I really enjoyed the students. I love Tokyo. I like big cities, so, yeah.\n\nSTRATEN:(chuckles)\n\nNADEAU:  But I, I think my greatest regret or sadness at this moment in time is—worried, I'm worried about China.  I can't deny that, the greater restrictions on academic freedom there - it's becoming a more oppressive atmosphere. And I, you know, I'm not a political person, I don't prefer Taiwan over China or anything like that. I love going to China, many Chinese friends. But, I do think the environment is becoming more and more hazardous for intellectual work, for education, for intellectual life. Like, it is becoming worse. And so, I've noticed this with Fulbright, that even before Trump terminated the program there, we were getting a lot more applications to do research in Taiwan about Chinese topics or Chinese studies, which is what it was in my generation. When I was a graduate student, we went to Taiwan because we couldn't go to China, that's all. We would have preferred to be in China. If you're doing Chinese history or Chinese literature, Chinese language, Chinese culture, Chinese art, you want to be in China. \n\nSTRATEN: Um-hm\n\nNADEAU: But at that time, it was too restrictive. And that was the time when China was sort of rebelling against its history and its traditions. So, if you wanted China, you go to Taiwan. \n\nSTRATEN: Yeah. \n\nNADEAU: Because Taiwan was preserving those things. Then as China opened up, the graduate students in the next generation after me, they went to China to do their studies, their field work, their language study, everything. And people who came to Taiwan were just interested in Taiwan, whatever was specific to Taiwan, say, indigenous people or Taiwan flora and fauna, geography; they came to Taiwan for that specific purpose. Now we're seeing the trend of my generation again, where people who are Sinologists, someone who do Chinese history and literature, are deciding to do it in Taiwan. So, just because, the environment is getting worse there. I—the last time I was in China was in Zhuhai, I visited the United College—\n\nSTRATEN: Oh, really? Which year was that? \n\nNADEAU: —international. Let's see, that was my Fulbright year, so that would have been 2015. \n\nSTRATEN: Oh, okay. \n\nNADEAU: That's the last time I've been in China. \n\nSTRATEN: Really? \n\nNADEAU: I haven't been back in six years. \n\nSTRATEN: Wow (chuckles) . \n\nNADEAU: Yeah, I have not been back in six years, I think—Yeah. It's incredible. And now that I'm working for Fulbright Taiwan, you know, I don't know how easy it would be to go back to China. \n\n[END OF INTERVIEW]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066#t=3300.0,3586.25333"}]},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066/index/92300","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Interview with Dr. Randall Nadeau 04-16-2026 16:21 [Index]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066/index/92300/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Academic Background: From Oberlin to China and Taiwan","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066#t=0.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2913/collection_resources/140516/file/307066/index/92300/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dr. Nadeau describes his academic journey from Oberlin College, where he majored in Religion and Philosophy, to Princeton's PhD program in Religious Studies, and ultimately to the University of British Columbia. He explains how Oberlin's Shanxi Program sent him to China in 1980 as one of the first cohort to return to Shanxi Province after decades of the program operating in Taiwan. This two-year experience teaching English in Taiyuan redirected his scholarly focus from philosophy of religion to Chinese religions. He followed his Princeton visiting professor Daniel Overmyer, a leading scholar of popular religion in China, to UBC for his PhD. Nadeau also describes his first summer in Taiwan in 1983, where he lived at a Presbyterian seminary in Tainan and encountered the Dangwai democracy movement that would become the Democratic Progressive Party. 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He recounts his formative relationship with his teacher Na Zong-yi, a classically educated mainlander whose father Na Zhi-liang was the first curator of the National Palace Museum. She gave Nadeau his Chinese name, Na Yuandao, derived from a Tang Dynasty Confucian essay by Han Yu. Nadeau then describes arriving at Trinity in 1990 after completing his PhD at UBC, positioning himself as an East Asianist in a religion department. He notes that Stephen Field had been hired shortly before him and that Donald Clark served on his hiring committee. He describes the small group of faculty with any Asia connection at Trinity: Clark in history, Norman Parmer with Southeast Asia ties, Bates Hoffer teaching Japanese literature without reading Japanese, and Ewing Chinn in philosophy who had trained in symbolic logic but developed an interest in Chinese philosophy through his Chinese American heritage. 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Nadeau's courses in Asian Religions, Buddhist Tradition, Chinese Religions, and Japanese Religions became part of the interdisciplinary program. He worked alongside Mackenzie Brown, the South Asianist in the Religion Department. Nadeau then discusses a major generational shift in Asian studies scholarship: the move away from Orientalism and purely textual, philological study toward anthropological fieldwork, spoken language proficiency, and cultural immersion. He credits his advisor Overmyer as a bridge figure, noting Overmyer's missionary-family upbringing in China paralleled Donald Clark's background in Korea. Nadeau describes how he, Clark, and Field complemented each other within EAST, with Field driving the Chinese language program while Clark maintained Korean connections and Nadeau kept Japan and Taiwan represented. 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He chose Cheng Kung University in Tainan, returning to the city where he had first lived in Taiwan decades earlier. Through the Dean of Humanities at Cheng Kung, who became president of Donghai University, Nadeau received a Fulbright to help establish an International College at Donghai in 2015. He then taught at Rikkyo University in Tokyo in 2017-2018, researching the history of religion during Japan's colonial period in Taiwan (1895-1945). While at Rikkyo, Fulbright Taiwan recruited him to replace its retiring Executive Director. Nadeau describes his difficult decision to leave Trinity, crediting Professor Katsuo Nishikawa with suggesting he request an extended leave of absence rather than resign immediately. 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