Tentative
Program Schedule, Revision 9/28/04
Western Conference of the Association for Asian
Studies 2004 Proposed Panels
University Tower Hotel
206-634-2000
Thursday, September 30
4:00 – 5:45 PM
Panel 1
Contending Social Movements: Theories in the Asian
Context
Chair: Susan Whiting,
Chancellor
Contentious Politics among China’s Ethnic Minorities
Ketty Loeb,
Yuko Kawata,
Women’s Movement in Suharto
Keiko Hirano,
Japanese Women’s Legal Mobilization in Daily Life:
Rethinking Women’s Movement
Ki-young Shin,
Discussant: Steven Pfaff,
Panel 2
The Body in
Chair: Anand Yang,
Ballroom North
Nation, Narration, and Medicine: Chinese (Colonial)
Modernity and the Pathological Body
Gossamer Ching-Sue Kuik,
Kissing in
Sarah Stevens, Southern
Zheng, Illicit or Not – A Study of Zuo Zhuan (Zuo
Commentary)
Ye (Dianna) Xu,
Writing About Illness in Honglou meng
Panel 3
“Go West, Young Man!”: Xibei dakaifa and
Chair: Joseph Esherick,
Regent
Rural Transformations: Modernization and Water/ Land
Resource Dynamics in Rural
Timothy Blocher,
Remaking Chang’an: Urbanization and Development in 20th
Century
James A. Cook,
Personalities and Policy Priorities: The Cadre Exchange
System and Village Elections in Rural
John James Kennedy,
Discussant:
Joseph Esherick,
Panel 4
Ritual and Politics in Late Imperial
Chair: Kent Guy,
Family Ritual and Politics in Qufu: Kong Jifen’s “Family
Etiquette of the Kong Clan”
Chris Agnew,
Inscribing the Future: Qinq Literati Writing on
Brian R. Dott,
Ritual Spaces and Reverent Bodies in Cult Veneration of
Confucius
Thomas Wilson,
Panel 5--Roundtable
New Directions in the Study of
Governors
Chair: Christoph Giebel,
David Biggs,
Christoph Giebel,
Judith Henchy,
Hieu Ho, Temple
University
Panel 6
South Asian Popular Culture
Chair: Heidi Pauwels,
Saving Rama’s Lila
Anoop Chandola,
Culture Shlock: Reading South Asian American Writing
Nalini Iyer,
Mediating Bodies in the
Chaudhuri Tapoja,
The Dressman’s Line: Costumes on a Hindi Film Set
Clare Wilkinson-Weber,
Panel 7
Changing Japanese Politics? The Diet, the LDP, and the
Cabinet
Chair: Robert Pekkanen,
Stable Policy Outcome under New Circumstances:
Inter-chamber Coordination in the Japanese Diet in the 1990s
Kentaro Fukumoto,
LDP Career Patterns and Electoral Systems: What Does
Japan’s Post-reform System Tell Us
Benjamin Nyblade, University of British Columbia, Robert
Pekkanen, University of Washington, and Ellis Krauss, University of California,
San Diego
Japan’s Cabinet Secretariat and Its Emergence as Core
Executive
Tomohito Shinoda,
Discussants:
Hironori Sasada,
6:15 – 7:45 PM
Reception - Governors
Friday, October 1
8:00 – 9:45 AM
Panel 8
Maritime Accidents in the North Pacific: Forging Ties
between
Chair: Stephen W. Kohl,
Testing the Limits of Sakoku Policy
Stephen W. Kohl,
The Shipwreck of HMS Providence at
James Mockford, Independent
“Mujinto hyoryuki” and Late Edo Interest in
Michael Wood,
Panel 9
Conquest Dynasties in
Chair: Shih-shan Susan Huang,
Women’s Role in the Khitan Tribal Religion and Ceremonies
Gaju Cha,
Buddhist Arts and Material Culture of the Xi Xia Empire
(1038-1227): A Case Study of the Khara Khoto Excavation
Anne Saliceti-Collins,
Graphic Metaphors of Shamanic State in Petroglyphs and
Conceptualization of Shaman
Manchu Dilemma in the Early Qing – Conquerors or
Legitimate Rulers?
Chen-main Wang,
Panel 10
PRC Media and Culture
Chair:
Yenna Wu, University of California, Riverside
Regent
Commercialization and Institutional Changes in Literary
Production: The Case of Second Channel in Chinese Book Market
Shuyu Kong, Independent
Chinese Mythology,
Hsiao-mei Hsieh,
Northwestern University
From Propaganda to News: the Transformation of Chinese
Print and Television Media Operations and News Content 1979-2004
Ashley
Esarey, Columbia University
Panel 11
Regional Variation in
Chair: William Lavely,
President
Revisiting China’s Regional Disparities Based on Census
2000 Data
Man Wang and Kam Wing Chan,
Which City has the highest per capita GDP in
Antonia Bennett and Kam Wing Chan,
Estimates of the Human Development Index for Provinces
and Counties of
Spatial Variation of Child Sex Ratios in
Cai Yong and William Lavely,
Panel 12
Exploring Filipino Marine Conservation: Critical Issues
and Complex Responses
Chair: Patrick Christie,
Marine Protected Areas for Whom? Fisheries, Tourism and
“Barangay” Solidarity in Batangas (Luzon),
Marc Miller,
Illegalistas: Understanding and Planning for Cyanide Fishing in
Heather D'Agnes,
Starting Point or Solution? Community-Based Marine
Protected Areas in the
Patrick Christie,
Panel 13
The Politics of Art in Modern
Chair: Cynthea Bogel,
The Forgotten Commodity: Dutch Ivory Imports into Early
Modern
Martha Chaiklin,
The Politics of Postwar Anti-Art in Kyushu in
Wesley Sasaki-Uemura,
The Poetics and Politics of the Ladybug: A Projection of Japanese
Self-Image in the Wartime Japanese Anime Spider and Tulip
Morio
Watanabe,
Discussant:
Boreth Ly,
Panel A- (
Chair: Alan Wood,
Boardroom
Influences of Message Framing and Political Familiarity
on Political Communication - An Experimental Study in
Chun-Tuan (Debbie) Chang, National
Memory or Fantasy? Honggaoliang’s Narrator
Andrew Stuckey,
Integration, Worlds-Apart, or an Alternative?
Globalization, Ideology, and Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Politics
Xiaoping Wang,
10:00 – 11:45AM
Panel 14
Boundary Crossing in Modern Chinese Literature
Chair: Yenna Wu,
Crossing the Boundary between
the Lyrical and the Grotesque: Yu Hua’s “Classical Love”
Yenna Wu,
The Art of the Miniature: Yu Hua’s Short Fiction of the
Mid-1990s
Allan Barr,
Transformations in the May-Fourth Literary Portrayal of
Chinese Migrant Laborers Over the Past Two Decades (1980s-2000s)
Philip F. Williams,
Panel 15--Roundtable
Regarding the Pain of Others: Picturing Violence in the
Modern Postwar World
Chair: Bruce Suttmeier, Lewis and
College
Linda Isako Angst, Lewis and
Bruce Suttmeier, Lewis and
Alan Tansman,
Panel 16
Control, Conflict and Consensus in
Chair: Cabeiri Robinson,
Regent
The Unknown Refugee Crisis: Expulsion of the Ethnic
Lhotsampa from
Dhurba Rizal, United
War and Conflict in South Asia: India’s Security
Perspective
Raj Kishor Singh,
Zaher Wahab, Lewis and
Panel 17
Citizenship and Negotiated Belonging: Education and the
Constitution of Citizen Subjects
Chair: Masashi Kato,
President
Integration and Isolation of Tacoma’s Prewar Japanese
Community
Mary L. Hanneman,
Cultural Struggles over Belonging:
Lisa Hoffman,
The Politics of Lost Privilege: Education, Memory,
Identity
Jennifer Hubbert, Lewis and
Panel B-- (Individual papers)
Chair: Wesley Sasaki-Uemura,
Boardroom
Koreans in the Imperial Japanese Army, 1937 – 1943
Brandon Palmer,
How the Remoteness of
Nancy Bartlit,
Spirit Possession and Personal Transformation among
Karen Fjelstad and Lisa Maiffret,
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Luncheon and Keynote Address by Dr. Barbara Watson Andaya,
Vice President of AAS, Professor of Asian Studies, Director of the Center for
Southeast Asian Studies at the
Being Healthy, Bearing Children, and the China-Southeast
Asian Connection
Ballroom
2:00 – 3:45 PM
Panel 18--Roundtable
Asian Theatre and Performance in Higher Education
Chair: Enrique Benitez,
Colleen Lanki,
Eng-Beng Lim,
David Mason,
Kevin J. Wetmore,
Panel 19
The Gap Between Theory and Practice of "New Novel”:
Theorization, Experimental Subgenres, and the Emotive World
Chair: Stephen MacKinnon,
President
The Trajectory of Oblivion: A Study of Huang Moxi’s Novel
Theory in Late Qing Context
Li Han,
Writing Spatial Modernity in Wu Jianren’s “The New Story
of the Stone”: Late Qing Subgenres, Subjectivities, and Suppressed Intellectual
Discourses
Hong H. Ma,
The Criticality of the Personal in Su Manshu’s “The Lone
Swan”
Makiko Mori,
Panel 20
Environment, State and Society in Rural
Chair: Brian Tilt,
An Anthropological Perspective on Environmental Research
and Intervention in Rural
Daniel M. Cartledge,
The Recent Environmental History of Tiger Leaping Gorge:
Environmental Degradation and
Jack Patrick Hayes,
Locating the State: Rural Factory Closures and Government
Discourses of Sustainability in Southern Sichuan,
Brian Tilt,
Multiculturalisms and Bioculturalisms: Ethnic Minorities,
Natural Resources and Development in
Andreas Wilkes,
Panel 21
When the Revolution Was a Dinner Party: Pre-Cultural
Revolution PRC Cinema
Chair: James Tweedie,
College
Feature and Documentary Films: Propaganda and Aesthetics
Yomi Braester,
Old Tales Refilmed
Robert Chi,
The History, Memory, and Myth of Maoist Chinese Cinema,
1949-1966
Greg Lewis,
Discussants:
Madeleine Yue Dong and James Tweedie,
Panel 22
Perfect Motherhood and Proper Family: Women's Work and
Family Relations in
Chair: Deen Chatterjee,
Milk Teeth and Jet Planes: Children of Sri Lanka’s
Migrant Housemaids
Michele R. Gamburd,
Dowry Dividends: The Contradictions of “Proper Family
Calculus” in
Megan Moodie,
All the Weight is on the Mother: Family Metaphors and
Practical Work Among Middle Class Women Entrepreneurs
Manjari Wijenaike,
Panel 23
Security, International Law and the Military in
Chair: Mary Callahan,
Ballroom South
Is ASEAN a Security Community? Exploring the Construction
and Evolution of ‘Security Governance’ within ASEAN
Hugh Pei-Hsiu Chen,
Gerald L. Houseman, Eastern
Military and Democratization:
Yin Kyi, Northern
Trying Crimes: International Tribunal for
Navin Moul,
Panel C- (Individual Papers)
Chair: Donald Hellmann,
Boardroom
Huiying Wei-Arthus,
ASEANs Response to 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: Towards a
Security Community
4:00 – 5:45 PM
Panel 24
Representing Self, Society, and the Other in Japanese
Literature
Chair: Paul Atkins,
Chancellor
Entangled Rhetoric: Ideological Conversion and Romantic
Collaboration in Early Showa
Chia-ning Chang,
‘A Singular Sagacity;’ Kobayashi Hideo on
Zeljko Cipris, University of the Pacific
Legitimating Colonialism: Yanaihara Tadao’s Rendering of
Jewish Colonial Settlements in the 1920s
John de Boer,
Panel 25
Traditional Chinese Texts in New Contexts
Chair: Allan Barr,
President
Creative Plagiarism or Sophisticated Hermeneutics?
Reading the “Zhuangzi” in “Liezi”
Jeffery Dippmann,
The True Intention of the Immortal: A Discussion of Han
Yu’s Poem, “Lan Guan”
Jianjun He,
Reconsideration of the Authorship of the Guodian
Confucian Texts
Wong Kwan Leung,
A Leisurely Pastime or Lifetime Pursuit: The Role of
Literature at the Liang Court as Seen in Xiao Tong’s Letters
Ping Wang,
Panel 26
Who Are the Chinese?: Categorical Contingencies of
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Late Imperial and Early Modern
Chair: Kent Guy,
Regent
“Bandits from beyond our borders”: Political Alliances and Trade Networks Along the
Late Tenth Century Sino-Vietnamese Frontier
James A. Anderson,
“What is Hui? A Case Study of Muslim Chinese in
Michael Brose,
Yi Li,
“Therefore, the rites of the Manchus are the old rites of
the Yin” Manchu Shamanism: Understandings from the 19th Century
Steve Udry,
Panel 27
The Challenges of Publishing Scholarly Books Amid
Declining Library and Individual Purchases; Tips for First-Time Authors and
Writers Revising Dissertations; and the
Logic, Advantages and Protocol for Contacting Publishers and/or Series Editors
Chair: Michael Duckworth,
Mary Anderson, Asssociate Editor,
Michael Duckworth, Executive Editor,
Lorri Hagman, Acquisitions Editor,
Stevan Harrell, Editor of Studies on Ethnic Groups in
Panel 28
Paradoxical Relations: Anti-Americanism in
Chair: Clark Sorensen,
Ballroom North
The Story of Anti-Americanism in
Hojong Do,
Anti-American Movement in
Hyun Joo Kang,
Transformation of the Democratization Movement after the
Kwanju Incident:
Hyejin Kim,
Lights…Camera…Action…Domestic Politics of the Democratic
People’s Republic of
Tracy Stober,
Panel 29
Colonialism, Historical Research and the Politics of
Representation in
Chair: Vicente Rafael,
Ballroom South
Jose Rizal: The Artist as Filipino National Hero
Personal Status: Jurisdiction, Authority and the
Negotiation of the
Iza Hussin,
The Evolving Politics of
Representation in
Richard Ostrom,
Colonialism after Colonialism in the
Rizalino Malabed,
Panel D – (
Chair: Benjamin
Nyblade,
Boardroom
Contemporary
Japanese Legal Service Providers under the Judicial
System Reform
Kyoko Ishida,
Local Governments in
Monir Hossain MONI,
‘Japanese Style’ Teamwork System: A Socio Technical Analysis
Rajaratnam Pathmaranjan,
5:45 – 7:15 PM
Panel 30
Investment and Trade in
Chair: David Bachman,
Technological Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment
in
Ying Lin,
ASEAN-China Free Trade Area
Thunyamart Limugsorn,
Commercial Microfinance, Women and Development in
Amy Piedalue,
Foreign Direct Investment in
V.V. Singh,
Discussant:
Eric Wibbles,
Panel 31
Ecology and Social Change in the Upper Baiwu Watershed: A
Case Study
Chair: Stevan Harrell,
Traditional Knowledge, Outside Influence, and Educational
Innovation in the
Tami Blumenfield,
Human Disturbance and Biomass Growth in Upper Baiwu Pine
Forests
Philip M. Chi,
Continuity in a Time of Change? Nuosu Traditional
Shepherding Practices
Barbara L. Grub,
The Nutritional Status of a Nuosu Community
Ross T. Nadal, Evergreen
Nuosu Ethnobotany
Victoria I. Poling,
Panel 32
Cultural Politics of Filipino Identity
Chair: Enrique Bonus,
Regent
'Invisible' Families: Imageries, Representations, and Realities of
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and the Philippine Nation
Cheryll Alipio,
TUNOG PiL-AM: Re-thinking an emergent musical tradition
among the Filipino American youth in Tacoma, WA
Pamela Costes,
Children’s Narratives about ‘Power’ on the Theoretical
Landscape
Robert Ingenito,
Larisa Lumba,
Discussant:
Celia Lowe,
Panel 33
Chair: Gary G. Hamilton,
President
KMT, Inc.: Party Capitalism, Development, and Democracy
in
Karl Fields,
The
Eric Hyer,
Taiwan’s Democratization and the Prospects for Reunification
with China
Steven Hood,
Panel 34
Chinese Urban Planning
Chair: Dan Abramson,
Ballroom North
Property, Transience, and Community Planning in a Major
Qiaoxiang
Dan Abramson,
Constructing Spaces for Modernizing Places: Technology
Parks in
Susan Walcott,
Redefining the Axis of
Shuishan Yu,
Saturday, October 2
8:30 – 10:15 AM
Panel 35
States and Politics in
Chair: TBA
Chancellor
One Face, Different Appearances: Rebuilding the
Developmental State in
Yuan Aihua
Political Legitimacy, Democracy and Constitutions in
Sue Ellen M.
Charlton, Colorado State University
Toward Rule of Law: Why China’s Path Will Be Different
from the West
Baohui Zhang,
Panel 36
Local Perspectives on Rebellion in Late Imperial
Chair: Kent Guy,
Good Rural Gangs, Bad Urban Gentry: Tao Xu, the Taiping
Occupation, and Rent Reform in Zhouzhuang, 1860-1884
Jeremy Brown,
State and Elite Mobilization in the Suppression of the
White Lotus Rebellion, 1796-1804
Cecily McCaffrey,
Loyalty, Anxiety and Opportunism: Local Elite Activism
during the Taiping Rebellion in
Xiaowei Zheng,
Panel 37
Contemporary
Chair:
Regent
Disruption and Inequity: the Impact of Globalization on
China’s Health Care
Yu Huang,
The Effect of Structural Reform on the Implementation of
China’s Environmental Policy
Mei Jiang,
Conflict of Control: the Growth of Christianity in the
People’s Republic of China
Steven Duke,
Panel 38
Interactions between Minorities and Majorities in Contemporary
Chair: Jeff Hanes,
President
Hide and Seek: Gaining a Buraku Identity and the Process
of Passing
Christopher Bondy,
The Continuity and Disrupture of Identities: Taiwanese
Immigrant in
Huei-chu Chu,
Negotiable Representations: Lessons Learned from
Majority/Minority Interactions “on the set” in
Matthew Carlsen,
Performing for Self/Performing for Others: Two Festivals
for Internationalization in a Multiethnic Community of
Yuko Okubo,
Discussant:
Jeff Hanes,
Panel 39
The Changing Mentalities of South Korean Workers: Three
Case Studies
Chair: Wonmo Dong,
Ballroom North
Consciousness and the Everyday Lives of Korean Women
Workers in the 1970s: An Analysis on the Life Stories of “Model Workers”
Kim Jun,
Democracy, Labor Rights, and Equality: South Korean
Shipbuilding Workers in the 1960s
Hwasook
The World of Hyundai Shipbuilding Workers As Seen Through
the
Sang-hyun Yang,
Panel 40
Chair: Thomas Gething,
Post-Crisis Governance and Policy-making in
Amornsak Kitthananan,
The Impact of Globalization on Sex Tourism and HIV
Epidemic in
Suthida Supantamart,
Censorship and the Politics of Research: Issues in the
Interpretation of the History of
Constance M. Wilson,
Panel E-- (Individual Papers)
Chair: Leila Madge,
Boardroom
Home and Abroad:
Homefront Warriors: Japanese Women and Children during
the Asian-Pacific War
David Earhart, Independent
The Day They Bought My Life for One Sen, Five Rin
Pamela Nagashima,
The Art of War for Education: Strategizing Successful
Educational Outcomes
Jason Hendryx,
Value Priorities and Human Rights Policy: A Comparison
between
10:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Panel 41
Images of Women in Korean Literature
Chair: Ross King,
Imaginaries of Modern Womanhood in “Shin Sosol”
Womanhood Beyond Motherhood
Miseli Jeon,
Queen Sohye, a Choson Woman of Exceptional Knowledge and
Political Ambition: A New Critical Approach to “Naehun” (1475)
Discussant:
Bruce Fulton,
Panel 42
Late Imperial Chinese Literature
Chair: Kathleen Tomlonovic,
College
A Study of Narrative Forms in Qing Poetry
Tsung-Cheng Lin,
Discovered in
Sterling Swallow, BYU-Hawaii
Between Evangelism and Intellectualism: A Study of Three
Early Christian Dialogues in the Late Ming
Gang Song,
Catenation and Narration in Chinese Poetry: A Study of
Narrative of Catenation in the Poetry from the “Shijing” to Wu Weiye
(1609-1672)
Tsung-Cheng Lin,
Panel 43
From Revolution to Nation Reconstruction: the Process of De/politicization in
Republican
Chair: Roxann Prazniak,
Chancellor
“Way to Marxism”: Guo Morou’s Literary and Political
Practices, 1919-1926
Guannan Li,
In Search of “Constructive” Mass Movements: The Seven
Basic Movements and Local Self-government in the Early
Hsiao-pei Yen,
The Yan’an Rectification Movement and Its Influence on
Chinese Literature
Hongmei Yu,
Discussant:
Roxann Prazniak,
Panel 44
Contemporary
Chair: TBA
President
Issues and Perspectives in Moral Education in
Setsuko Buckley,
The Myth of the Japanese ‘New Family’ in the 1980s
Atsuko Hanada,
The DPRK Threat: Military Options for
Thomas Pursley,
Panel 45
Media Influence on China’s Political System
Chair: T.Y. Lau,
Ballroom North
The Impact of the Internet Upon
Hung Chin-fu,
Campaign Communication in the People's Republic of
The Politics of Media’s Governance in the PRC: a Path
toward Steady Institutionalization
Huaguo Zeng and Chin-fu Hung, The University of Warwick,
United Kingdom
Panel 46
Economic Change, Education and Civil Society in
Chair: Judith Henchy,
Ballroom South
Analysis of Political and Economic Development Patterns
in
Shih-Lun Chen,
Institutional Change in the Transitional Economy of
Quan Vu Le,
Civil Society and Public Sphere: A Visual Interpretation
of Cityscape in
Tinh Le,
Panel F-- (
Chair: Keith A.
Leitich,
Boardroom
Making the Case for Cause Lawyers in
Patricia Goedde,
Henry Collbran and the Roots of Entrepreneurial
Enterprises in
Don Southerton, Intercultural
Politics of “All In”: Analysis of the 2004 Election in
Seungkwon You,
1:15 – 3:00 PM
Panel 47
Material Culture, Border Crossing and Cultural Borrowings
Chair: Sara Van Fleet,
Governors
Surviving Monastery Art of Wood in
Ronald M. Bernier,
Textiles as a Material Lexicon of Tributary Relations in
the Tai World
Patricia Cheesman,
Return to
Tina Powell, Independent
Panel 48
Korean Culture and Society: Cinema, Literature and Women
Chair:
College
Women’s Voices Start to Fill in the Blank Page of History
Hee Jion Choi,
The Undying Popularity of Three Kingdoms in
Hyuk-Chan Kwon,
A Certain Tendency in Recent Korean Cinema and Its
International Reception
Hyung-Sook Lee,
Panel 49
Chair: Eric Hyer,
Regent
Why
Timothy Cheek,
The
Michael S. Duke,
The Collapse of a Multiparty Political Party System in
Leo Y. Liu,
Some Prospects and Perils for the Future of Democracy in
Josephine Chiu-Duke,
Panel 50
Internment and Immigrant Experiences
Chair: TBA
President
Schooling and Identity: Negotiating Academic Success
among Pacific Rim Immigrant Communities in Urban
June Gordon,
Beyond the Memory of Displacement: Re-Examining “Adios to
Tears”: The Memoirs of a Japanese Peruvian Internee in US Concentration Camps
Shigeko Mato,
Protest at Poston: The Reality of Japanese-American
Internment
John Pavia and Nancy J. Brcak,
Panel 51
Chair: Davinder Bhowmik,
Chancellor
What a Drag: Retrogression in
Alexis Franks,
Colonizing Women
Leila Madge,
Sex, Death and Dystopia in Kurahashi Yumiko’s “Cruel
Fairy Tales For Adults”
Toby Leigh Matoush,
Twentieth Century East Asian Cosmopolitanism and Identity
Politics: Stories by and Magazines for Taiwanese and Japanese Women
Bert Scruggs,
Panel 52
Translation at the Turn of the 20th Century: Independent
papers on Chinese Literature
Chair: Deborah Porter,
Ballroom North
A Critical Methodological Analysis of Lin Shu’s 1908
Translation of the first Sherlock Holmes novel
Kenneth Berthel,
Tales of Translation: Lu Xun’s “Regrets for the Past”
Eileen J. Cheng,
A Chinese Flâneur in
Yuan Liu,
Qu Bingyun: Writes as HERSELF
Louis Liuxi Meng,
Zeng Pu, the Translation of Western Literature and the
Politics of Host and Guest
Carlos
Prado-Fonts, University of California,
Los Angeles
Panel 53
Boundaries of Authority Imagined and Realized: Scripture
and Canon in Asian Religions
Chair: Kyoko Tokuno,
Digital Dharma: the Form and Function of Scripture in
Digital Technology
Laura Busch,
Canon and Authority
Kelly Chandler,
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: A Look at the Boundaries
Created by Scriptural Canons in Asian Religions
Jennifer McBride,
Apocryphal Texts and Their Communities: Authority in “The
Scripture on the Ten Kings”
Jennifer Webster,
3:15 – 5:00 PM
Panel 54
Chair: Suzanne Wilson Barnett,
Chancellor
Radio vs. Print: Twice – Told Tales of Christian
Conversion in Late Republican
White Russians in
Ed Glatfelter,
Women Practiced Law: Women Lawyers in Late Republican
Yuxin Ma,
Qing Emigration Policy and Its Protection Plans
Jingzhu Wu,
A World of Three – Why Fanon is too Simple for
Wang Zhuoyi,
Panel 55
The Role of Law in
Chair: Jane Winn,
Regent
Comparative Law Research on Security Interests in
Copyrights
Tao-Chou Chang,
The Administrative Agency of Chinese State-owned Banks
Chen Litong,
Can Law Reform Promote Electronic Commerce in
Jane Winn,
China’s New Electronic Signature Law
Chu
Panel 56
Chair: Paul Dunscomb,
President
Interactive Teaching through Dramas and Simulations
Takanori Mita,
Minnesota State University, Moorhead
The Structure of Degree of Identity System in Japanese: A
Functional Explanation
Hidemi Sugi,
The Life and Times of Dr. Asakawa Kan’ichi (1873-1948):
Distinguished Historian, Librarian, and Liberal in an Era of Global Turmoil
Rokuo Tanaka,
Buddhist
Rationalization and Justification of Violence: a Textual Analysis of Sawaki
Kōdō’s Zen Lectures
Kaoru N. Villa,
Panel 57
Chair: TBA
Bodies that Matter: Reimaging, Reimagining, and
Recreating the 2-28 Incident
Chien-hsin Tsai,
Constitutionalizing Indigenous Rights in
Chih-Wei Tsai,
Women, Commodification and Marriage: The “Mail-Order
Bride Industry” in
Hsun-Hui Tseng,
Panel 58
South Asian History: Ancient and Modern
Chair: Frank Conlon,
Governors
Lodge and Nation:
the Masonic Roots of Indian Nationalism, 1865-1907
Vahid Fozdar,
The Buddha Talks to His Double: Miracles in the Ancient
Indian Buddhist World
Timothy Lenz,
Protestant Missionaries, “Cultural Imperialism,” and the
Politics of Religious Knowledge in Colonial
Mitchell Numark,
Panel 59
Other Histories in Asian Art
Chair: Patricia Berger,
The Artistic Category of “Later Jain Paintings”: Evidence
of Civil Society in Early Modern
Catherine Karnitis,
In Search of Sri Vikrama: Buddhist Art and Colonial
Politics in the Late Kandyan Period
Sujatha Meegama,
Urga Portraits: Enshrinement in Third Space
Uranchimeg Tsultem,