Tentative Program Schedule, Revision 9/28/04

Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies 2004 Proposed Panels

 

University Tower Hotel

4507 Brooklyn Avenue Northeast

Seattle, Washington 98105

206-634-2000

 

 

Thursday, September 30

4:00 – 5:45 PM

Panel 1

Contending Social Movements: Theories in the Asian Context

Chair: Susan Whiting, University of Washington

 

Chancellor

 

Contentious Politics among China’s Ethnic Minorities

Ketty Loeb, University of Washington

 

U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa and Women's Network: Assessment of the Network's Impact on International Security Policy

Yuko Kawata, University of Washington

 

Women’s Movement in Suharto Indonesia: Mobilization or “Hoshi (Service)”?

Keiko Hirano, Ochanomizu University, Japan

 

Japanese Women’s Legal Mobilization in Daily Life: Rethinking Women’s Movement

Ki-young Shin, University of Washington

 

Discussant: Steven Pfaff, University of Washington

 

 

Panel 2

The Body in China

Chair: Anand Yang, University of Washington

 

Ballroom North

 

Nation, Narration, and Medicine: Chinese (Colonial) Modernity and the Pathological Body

Gossamer Ching-Sue Kuik, University of Washington

 

Kissing in China: Contested Imagery

Sarah Stevens, Southern Oregon University

 

Zheng, Illicit or Not – A Study of Zuo Zhuan (Zuo Commentary)

Ye (Dianna) Xu, University of Washington

 

Writing About Illness in Honglou meng

Binbin Yang, Washington University

 

 

Panel 3

“Go West, Young Man!”: Xibei dakaifa and Shaanxi Province

Chair: Joseph Esherick, University of California, San Diego

 

Regent

 

Rural Transformations: Modernization and Water/ Land Resource Dynamics in Rural Shaanxi

Timothy Blocher, Central Washington University

 

Remaking Chang’an: Urbanization and Development in 20th Century Xi’an

James A. Cook, Central Washington University

 

Personalities and Policy Priorities: The Cadre Exchange System and Village Elections in Rural Shaanxi

John James Kennedy, University of Kansas and Shi Yaojiang, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

 

Discussant:

Joseph Esherick, University of California, San Diego

 

 

Panel 4

Ritual and Politics in Late Imperial Shandong

Chair: Kent Guy, University of Washington

 

President

 

Family Ritual and Politics in Qufu: Kong Jifen’s “Family Etiquette of the Kong Clan”

Chris Agnew, University of Washington

 

Inscribing the Future: Qinq Literati Writing on Mount Tai

Brian R. Dott, Whitman College

 

Ritual Spaces and Reverent Bodies in Cult Veneration of Confucius

Thomas Wilson, Hamilton College

 

 

Panel 5--Roundtable

New Directions in the Study of Southern Viet Nam

 

Governors

 

Chair: Christoph Giebel, University of Washington

 

David Biggs, University of California, Riverside

 

Christoph Giebel, University of Washington

 

Judith Henchy, University of Washington

 

Hieu Ho, Temple University

 

 

Panel 6

South Asian Popular Culture

Chair: Heidi Pauwels, University of Washington

 

Ballroom South

 

Saving Rama’s Lila

Anoop Chandola, University of Arizona

 

Culture Shlock: Reading South Asian American Writing

Nalini Iyer, Seattle University

 

Mediating Bodies in the Land of God

Chaudhuri Tapoja, University of Washington

 

The Dressman’s Line: Costumes on a Hindi Film Set

Clare Wilkinson-Weber, Washington State University, Vancouver

 

 

Panel 7

Changing Japanese Politics? The Diet, the LDP, and the Cabinet

Chair: Robert Pekkanen, University of Washington

 

College

 

Stable Policy Outcome under New Circumstances: Inter-chamber Coordination in the Japanese Diet in the 1990s

Kentaro Fukumoto, Gakushuin University, Japan and Satoshi Machidori, Kyoto University, Japan

 

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, International University of Japan, Japan

 

Discussants:

Hironori Sasada, University of Washington and Takafumi Ohtomo, University of Tsukuba, Japan

 

 

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 Japan and the Americas

Chair: Stephen W. Kohl, University of Oregon

 

Chancellor

 

Testing the Limits of Sakoku Policy

Stephen W. Kohl, University of Oregon

 

The Shipwreck of HMS Providence at Miyako Island in 1797

James Mockford, Independent

 

“Mujinto hyoryuki” and Late Edo Interest in Uninhabited Islands

Michael Wood, University of Oregon

 

 

Panel 9

Conquest Dynasties in China

Chair: Shih-shan Susan Huang, University of Washington

 

College

 

Women’s Role in the Khitan Tribal Religion and Ceremonies

Gaju Cha, University of Arizona

 

Buddhist Arts and Material Culture of the Xi Xia Empire (1038-1227): A Case Study of the Khara Khoto Excavation

Anne Saliceti-Collins, University of Washington

 

Graphic Metaphors of Shamanic State in Petroglyphs and Conceptualization of Shaman

Penglin Wang, Central Washington University

 

Manchu Dilemma in the Early Qing – Conquerors or Legitimate Rulers?

Chen-main Wang, National Central University, Taiwan

 

 

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, Hong Kong Intervention: The Transboundary Flows of the Snake Story

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 China: Studies of the 2000 Census

Chair: William Lavely, University of Washington

 

President

 

Revisiting China’s Regional Disparities Based on Census 2000 Data

Man Wang and Kam Wing Chan, University of Washington

 

Which City has the highest per capita GDP in China?  New Insights from the Census 2000 and Implications for Urban Research 

Antonia Bennett and Kam Wing Chan, University of Washington

 

Estimates of the Human Development Index for Provinces and Counties of China William Lavely and Cai Yong, University of Washington

 

Spatial Variation of Child Sex Ratios in China 

Cai Yong and William Lavely, University of Washington

 

 

Panel 12

Exploring Filipino Marine Conservation: Critical Issues and Complex Responses

Chair: Patrick Christie, University of Washington

 

Ballroom North 

 

Marine Protected Areas for Whom? Fisheries, Tourism and “Barangay” Solidarity in Batangas (Luzon), Philippines

Marc Miller, University of Washington

 

Illegalistas:  Understanding and Planning for Cyanide Fishing in Palawan, Philippines

Heather D'Agnes, University of Washington

 

Starting Point or Solution? Community-Based Marine Protected Areas in the Philippines

Patrick Christie, University of Washington

 

 

Panel 13

The Politics of Art in Modern Japan

Chair: Cynthea Bogel, University of Washington

 

Ballroom South

 

The Forgotten Commodity: Dutch Ivory Imports into Early Modern Japan

Martha Chaiklin, Milwaukee Public Museum

 

The Politics of Postwar Anti-Art in Kyushu in Japan

Wesley Sasaki-Uemura, University of Utah

 

The Poetics and Politics of the Ladybug: A Projection of Japanese Self-Image in the Wartime Japanese Anime Spider and Tulip          

Morio Watanabe, Kyushu International University, Japan

 

Discussant:

Boreth Ly, University of Utah

 

 

Panel A- (China Individual Papers)

Chair:  Alan Wood, University of Washington

 

Boardroom

 

Influences of Message Framing and Political Familiarity on Political Communication - An Experimental Study in Taiwan

Chun-Tuan (Debbie) Chang, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan and Yu-Kang Lee, Chao Yang University of Technology, Taiwan

 

Memory or Fantasy? Honggaoliang’s Narrator

Andrew Stuckey, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Integration, Worlds-Apart, or an Alternative? Globalization, Ideology, and Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Politics

Xiaoping Wang, University of Colorado, Boulder

  

 

10:00 – 11:45AM

Panel 14

Boundary Crossing in Modern Chinese Literature

Chair: Yenna Wu, University of California, Riverside

 

Chancellor

 

Crossing the Boundary between the Lyrical and the Grotesque: Yu Hua’s “Classical Love”

Yenna Wu, University of California, Riverside

 

The Art of the Miniature: Yu Hua’s Short Fiction of the Mid-1990s

Allan Barr, Pomona College

 

Transformations in the May-Fourth Literary Portrayal of Chinese Migrant Laborers Over the Past Two Decades (1980s-2000s)

Philip F. Williams, Arizona State University

  

 

Panel 15--Roundtable

Regarding the Pain of Others: Picturing Violence in the Modern Postwar World

Chair: Bruce Suttmeier, Lewis and Clark College

 

College

 

Linda Isako Angst, Lewis and Clark College

 

Bruce Suttmeier, Lewis and Clark College

 

Alan Tansman, University of California, Berkeley

 

 

Panel 16

Control, Conflict and Consensus in South Asia

Chair: Cabeiri Robinson, University of Washington

 

Regent

 

The Unknown Refugee Crisis: Expulsion of the Ethnic Lhotsampa from Bhutan

Dhurba Rizal, United Nations University, Japan

 

War and Conflict in South Asia: India’s Security Perspective

Raj Kishor Singh, Agra University, India

 

Afghanistan: A Progress Report

Zaher Wahab, Lewis and Clark College

 

 

Panel 17

Citizenship and Negotiated Belonging: Education and the Constitution of Citizen Subjects

Chair: Masashi Kato, University of Washington

 

President

 

Integration and Isolation of Tacoma’s Prewar Japanese Community

Mary L. Hanneman, University of Washington, Tacoma

 

Cultural Struggles over Belonging: Japanese Language Schools, Cultural Citizenship, and the Making of Citizen-Subjects

Lisa Hoffman, University of Washington, Tacoma

 

The Politics of Lost Privilege: Education, Memory, Identity

Jennifer Hubbert, Lewis and Clark College

 

 

Panel B-- (Individual papers)

Chair: Wesley Sasaki-Uemura, University of Utah

 

Boardroom

 

Koreans in the Imperial Japanese Army, 1937 – 1943

Brandon Palmer, University of Hawaii

 

How the Remoteness of New Mexico Impacted the History of WWII

Nancy Bartlit, Los Alamos Historical Society

 

Spirit Possession and Personal Transformation among Silicon Valley Spirit Mediums

Karen Fjelstad and Lisa Maiffret, San Jose State University

 

 

 

 

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 University of Hawai’i

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, University of Washington

 

Chancellor 

 

Colleen Lanki, University of British Columbia, Canada

 

Eng-Beng Lim, University of Washington

 

David Mason, Rhodes College

 

Kevin J. Wetmore, California State University, Northridge

 

 

Panel 19

The Gap Between Theory and Practice of "New Novel”: Theorization, Experimental Subgenres, and the Emotive World

Chair: Stephen MacKinnon, Arizona State University

 

President

 

The Trajectory of Oblivion: A Study of Huang Moxi’s Novel Theory in Late Qing Context

Li Han, University of California, Irvine

 

Writing Spatial Modernity in Wu Jianren’s “The New Story of the Stone”: Late Qing Subgenres, Subjectivities, and Suppressed Intellectual Discourses

Hong H. Ma, University of California, Los Angeles

 

The Criticality of the Personal in Su Manshu’s “The Lone Swan”

Makiko Mori, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Panel 20

Environment, State and Society in Rural China: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Chair: Brian Tilt, University of Washington

 

Regent

 

An Anthropological Perspective on Environmental Research and Intervention in Rural China: Preliminary Comments on the SUCCESS Rural Development  Project

Daniel M. Cartledge, Yuxi Teachers College, China

 

The Recent Environmental History of Tiger Leaping Gorge: Environmental Degradation and Local Land Development in Northern Yunnan

Jack Patrick Hayes, University of British Columbia, Canada

 

Locating the State: Rural Factory Closures and Government Discourses of Sustainability in Southern Sichuan, China

Brian Tilt, University of Washington

 

Multiculturalisms and Bioculturalisms: Ethnic Minorities, Natural Resources and Development in Yunnan, Southwest China

Andreas Wilkes, University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom

 

 

Panel 21

When the Revolution Was a Dinner Party: Pre-Cultural Revolution PRC Cinema

Chair: James Tweedie, University of Washington

 

College

 

Feature and Documentary Films: Propaganda and Aesthetics
Yomi Braester, University of Washington

 

Old Tales Refilmed
Robert Chi, State University of New York, Stony Brook

 

The History, Memory, and Myth of Maoist Chinese Cinema, 1949-1966
Greg Lewis, Weber State University

 

Discussants:

Madeleine Yue Dong and James Tweedie, University of Washington

 

Panel 22

Perfect Motherhood and Proper Family: Women's Work and Family Relations in South Asia

Chair: Deen Chatterjee, University of Utah

 

Governors

 

Milk Teeth and Jet Planes: Children of Sri Lanka’s Migrant Housemaids

Michele R. Gamburd, Portland State University

 

Dowry Dividends: The Contradictions of “Proper Family Calculus” in North India

Megan Moodie, University of California, Santa Cruz

 

All the Weight is on the Mother: Family Metaphors and Practical Work Among Middle Class Women Entrepreneurs

Manjari Wijenaike, Boston University

 

 

Panel 23

Security, International Law and the Military in Southeast Asia

Chair: Mary Callahan, University of Washington

 

Ballroom South

 

Is ASEAN a Security Community? Exploring the Construction and Evolution of ‘Security Governance’ within ASEAN

Hugh Pei-Hsiu Chen, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan

 

U.S. Military Aid to Indonesia: A Dubious Venture

Gerald L. Houseman, Eastern Washington University

 

Military and Democratization: Burma and Indonesia

Yin Kyi, Northern Arizona University

 

Trying Crimes: International Tribunal for Cambodia

Navin Moul, University of California, Berkeley

 

 

 

 

Panel C- (Individual Papers)

Chair: Donald Hellmann, University of Washington

 

Boardroom

 

China - Another Type of Closed Stratification System

Huiying Wei-Arthus, Weber State University

  

ASEANs Response to 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: Towards a Security Community

Jenelyn I. Torres, University of British Columbia, Canada

 

 

4:00 – 5:45 PM

Panel 24

Representing Self, Society, and the Other in Japanese Literature

Chair: Paul Atkins, University of Washington

 

Chancellor

 

Entangled Rhetoric: Ideological Conversion and Romantic Collaboration in Early Showa Japan

Chia-ning Chang, University of California, Davis

 

‘A Singular Sagacity;’ Kobayashi Hideo on Japan at War

Zeljko Cipris, University of the Pacific

 

Legitimating Colonialism: Yanaihara Tadao’s Rendering of Jewish Colonial Settlements in the 1920s

John de Boer, Stanford University

 

 

Panel 25

Traditional Chinese Texts in New Contexts

Chair: Allan Barr, Pomona College

 

President

 

Creative Plagiarism or Sophisticated Hermeneutics? Reading the “Zhuangzi” in “Liezi”

Jeffery Dippmann, Central Washington University

 

The True Intention of the Immortal: A Discussion of Han Yu’s Poem, “Lan Guan”

Jianjun He, University of Oregon

 

Reconsideration of the Authorship of the Guodian Confucian Texts

Wong Kwan Leung, Hong Kong Shue Yan College, Hong Kong

 

A Leisurely Pastime or Lifetime Pursuit: The Role of Literature at the Liang Court as Seen in Xiao Tong’s Letters

Ping Wang, University of Washington

 

 

Panel 26

Who Are the Chinese?: Categorical Contingencies of Ethnicity and Nationalism in Late Imperial and Early Modern China

Chair: Kent Guy, University of Washington

 

Regent

 

“Bandits from beyond our borders”: Political Alliances and Trade Networks Along the Late Tenth Century Sino-Vietnamese Frontier

James A. Anderson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

 

“What is Hui? A Case Study of Muslim Chinese in Yunnan

Michael Brose, University of Wyoming

 

Yi Li, Tacoma Community College

 

“Therefore, the rites of the Manchus are the old rites of the Yin” Manchu Shamanism: Understandings from the 19th Century

Steve Udry, Carthage College

 

 

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, University of Washington Press

 

College

 

Mary Anderson, Asssociate Editor, University of Washington Press

 

Michael Duckworth, Executive Editor, University of Washington Press

 

Lorri Hagman, Acquisitions Editor, University of Washington Press

 

Stevan Harrell, Editor of Studies on Ethnic Groups in China Series, University of Washington Press

 

 

Panel 28

Paradoxical Relations: Anti-Americanism in South Korea, Domestic Policy Adaptation in North Korea

Chair: Clark Sorensen, University of Washington

 

Ballroom North

 

The Story of Anti-Americanism in Korea

Hojong Do, University of Washington

 

Anti-American Movement in South Korea

Hyun Joo Kang, University of Washington

 

Transformation of the Democratization Movement after the Kwanju Incident: U.S. Involvement and its Impact

Hyejin Kim, University of Washington

 

Lights…Camera…Action…Domestic Politics of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: System Maintenance and Policy Adaptation

Tracy Stober, University of Washington

 

 

Panel 29

Colonialism, Historical Research and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia

Chair: Vicente Rafael, University of Washington

 

Ballroom South

 

Jose Rizal: The Artist as Filipino National Hero

Deborah Deacon, Arizona State University

 

Personal Status: Jurisdiction, Authority and the Negotiation of the Colonial State in Malaya

Iza Hussin, University of Washington

 

The Evolving Politics of Representation in Indonesia: the 2004 Elections Compared to Those in 1997 and 1999

Richard Ostrom, California State University, Chico

 

Colonialism after Colonialism in the Philippines:  the Dialectics of Representing Self and Other in the Threshold Year of 1898

Rizalino Malabed, University of Florida

 

 

Panel D – (Japan Individual Papers)

Chair:  Benjamin Nyblade, University of British Columbia

 

Boardroom

 

Contemporary Japan: Legal, Political and Social Perspectives

Japanese Legal Service Providers under the Judicial System Reform

Kyoko Ishida, University of Washington

 

Local Governments in Japan: Recent Developments

Monir Hossain MONI, Waseda University, Japan

 

‘Japanese Style’ Teamwork System:  A Socio Technical Analysis

Rajaratnam Pathmaranjan, Kobe University, Japan

 

 

5:45 – 7:15 PM

Panel 30

Investment and Trade in Asia

Chair: David Bachman, University of Washington

 

Chancellor

 

Technological Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment in China

Ying Lin, University of Washington

 

ASEAN-China Free Trade Area

Thunyamart Limugsorn, University of Washington

 

Commercial Microfinance, Women and Development in India: Institutional Structures and Discourse

Amy Piedalue, University of Washington

 

Foreign Direct Investment in India – A Study in Trends and Portends

V.V. Singh, University of Rajasthan, India

 

Discussant:

Eric Wibbles, University of Washington

 

 

Panel 31

Ecology and Social Change in the Upper Baiwu Watershed: A Case Study

Chair: Stevan Harrell, University of Washington

 

College

 

Traditional Knowledge, Outside Influence, and Educational Innovation in the Yangjuan Primary School

Tami Blumenfield, University of Washington

 

Human Disturbance and Biomass Growth in Upper Baiwu Pine Forests

Philip M. Chi, U.S. Forest Service

 

Continuity in a Time of Change? Nuosu Traditional Shepherding Practices

Barbara L. Grub, University of Washington

 

The Nutritional Status of a Nuosu Community

Ross T. Nadal, Evergreen State College

 

Nuosu Ethnobotany

Victoria I. Poling, University of Washington

 

 

Panel 32

Cultural Politics of Filipino Identity

Chair: Enrique Bonus, University of Washington

 

Regent

 

'Invisible' Families: Imageries, Representations, and Realities of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and the Philippine Nation

Cheryll Alipio, University of Washington

 

TUNOG PiL-AM: Re-thinking an emergent musical tradition among the Filipino American youth in Tacoma, WA

Pamela Costes, University of Washington

 

Children’s Narratives about ‘Power’ on the Theoretical Landscape

Robert Ingenito, University of Washington

 

Larisa Lumba, University of Washington

 

Discussant:

Celia Lowe, University of Washington

 

 

Panel 33

Taiwan's Recent Political and Economic Developments

Chair: Gary G. Hamilton, University of Washington

 

President

 

KMT, Inc.: Party Capitalism, Development, and Democracy in Taiwan

Karl Fields, University of Puget Sound

 

The Taiwan Dilemma: Managing Triangular Politics

Eric Hyer, Brigham Young University

 

Taiwan’s Democratization and the Prospects for Reunification with China

Steven Hood, Ursinus College

 

 

Panel 34

Chinese Urban Planning

Chair: Dan Abramson, University of Washington

 

Ballroom North

 

Property, Transience, and Community Planning in a Major Qiaoxiang

Dan Abramson, University of Washington

 

Constructing Spaces for Modernizing Places: Technology Parks in West China

Susan Walcott, Georgia State University

 

Redefining the Axis of Beijing – Urban Planning during the Time of Revolution

Shuishan Yu, University of Washington

          

 

Saturday, October 2

8:30 – 10:15 AM

Panel 35

States and Politics in Asia

Chair: TBA

 

Chancellor

 

One Face, Different Appearances: Rebuilding the Developmental State in East Asia

Yuan Aihua

Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan

 

Political Legitimacy, Democracy and Constitutions in Asia

Sue Ellen M. Charlton, Colorado State University

 

Toward Rule of Law: Why China’s Path Will Be Different from the West

Baohui Zhang, Daeman College

 

 

Panel 36

Local Perspectives on Rebellion in Late Imperial China: The Shifting Role of Local Elites

Chair: Kent Guy, University of Washington

 

College

 

Good Rural Gangs, Bad Urban Gentry: Tao Xu, the Taiping Occupation, and Rent Reform in Zhouzhuang, 1860-1884

Jeremy Brown, University of California, San Diego

 

State and Elite Mobilization in the Suppression of the White Lotus Rebellion, 1796-1804

Cecily McCaffrey, Willamette University

 

Loyalty, Anxiety and Opportunism: Local Elite Activism during the Taiping Rebellion in Zhejiang, 1851-1864

Xiaowei Zheng, University of California, San Diego

 

 

Panel 37

Contemporary China

Chair: Kan Liang, Seattle University

 

Regent

 

Disruption and Inequity: the Impact of Globalization on China’s Health Care

Yu Huang, University of Washington

 

The Effect of Structural Reform on the Implementation of China’s Environmental Policy

Mei Jiang, University of Oregon

 

Conflict of Control: the Growth of Christianity in the People’s Republic of China

Steven Duke, University of Washington

 

 

Panel 38

Interactions between Minorities and Majorities in Contemporary Japan

Chair: Jeff Hanes, University of Oregon

 

President

 

Hide and Seek: Gaining a Buraku Identity and the Process of Passing

Christopher Bondy, University of Hawaii

 

The Continuity and Disrupture of Identities: Taiwanese Immigrant in Ishigaki Island of Okinawa

Huei-chu Chu, Okinawa Prefectural University of the Arts, Japan

 

Negotiable Representations: Lessons Learned from Majority/Minority Interactions “on the set” in Japan

Matthew Carlsen, University of Hawaii

 

Performing for Self/Performing for Others: Two Festivals for Internationalization in a Multiethnic Community of Osaka, Japan

Yuko Okubo, University of California, Berkeley

 

Discussant:

Jeff Hanes, University of Oregon

 

 

 

Panel 39

The Changing Mentalities of South Korean Workers: Three Case Studies

Chair: Wonmo Dong, University of Washington

 

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, University of California, Berkeley

 

Democracy, Labor Rights, and Equality: South Korean Shipbuilding Workers in the 1960s

Hwasook Nam, University of Utah

 

The World of Hyundai Shipbuilding Workers As Seen Through the Ulsan Oral History Project

Sang-hyun Yang, University of Ulsan, Korea

 

 

Panel 40

Thailand: Interpreting the Past, Understanding the Present

Chair: Thomas Gething, University of Washington

 

Ballroom South

 

Post-Crisis Governance and Policy-making in Thailand: A Study of Poverty Reduction Policy

Amornsak Kitthananan, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

 

The Impact of Globalization on Sex Tourism and HIV Epidemic in Thailand

Suthida Supantamart, Mahidol University International College, Thailand

 

Censorship and the Politics of Research: Issues in the Interpretation of the History of Thailand

Constance M. Wilson, University of Washington

 

 

Panel E-- (Individual Papers)

Chair:  Leila Madge, University of Washington

 

Boardroom

 

Home and Abroad: Japan and WWII

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, University of San Francisco

 

The Art of War for Education: Strategizing Successful Educational Outcomes

Jason Hendryx, University of Washington

 

Value Priorities and Human Rights Policy: A Comparison between China and Western Nations

Hong Xiao, Central Washington University

 

 

10:30 AM – 12:15 PM

Panel 41

Images of Women in Korean Literature

Chair: Ross King, University of British Columbia

 

Regent

 

Imaginaries of Modern Womanhood in “Shin Sosol”

Hyaeweol Choi, Arizona State University

 

Womanhood Beyond Motherhood

Miseli Jeon, University of British Columbia

 

Queen Sohye, a Choson Woman of Exceptional Knowledge and Political Ambition: A New Critical Approach to “Naehun” (1475)

Sinae Park, University of British Columbia

 

Discussant:

Bruce Fulton, University of British Columbia

 

 

Panel 42

Late Imperial Chinese Literature

Chair: Kathleen Tomlonovic, Western Washington University

 

College

 

A Study of Narrative Forms in Qing Poetry

Tsung-Cheng Lin, University of British Columbia, Canada

 

 

Discovered in Russia: Gao E’s Artistic Contribution to Hongloumeng

Sterling Swallow, BYU-Hawaii

 

Between Evangelism and Intellectualism: A Study of Three Early Christian Dialogues in the Late Ming

Gang Song, University of Southern California

 

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, University of British Columbia, Canada

 

 

Panel 43

From Revolution to Nation Reconstruction:  the Process of De/politicization in Republican China, 1920s-1940s

Chair: Roxann Prazniak, University of Oregon

 

Chancellor

 

“Way to Marxism”: Guo Morou’s Literary and Political Practices, 1919-1926

Guannan Li, University of Oregon

 

In Search of “Constructive” Mass Movements: The Seven Basic Movements and Local Self-government in the Early Nanjing Decade

Hsiao-pei Yen, University of Oregon

 

The Yan’an Rectification Movement and Its Influence on Chinese Literature

Hongmei Yu, University of Oregon

 

Discussant:

Roxann Prazniak, University of Oregon

 

 

Panel 44

Contemporary Japan: Politics and Society

Chair: TBA 

President

 

Issues and Perspectives in Moral Education in Japan

Setsuko Buckley, Whatcom Community College

 

The Myth of the Japanese ‘New Family’ in the 1980s

Atsuko Hanada, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan

 

The DPRK Threat: Military Options for Japan

Thomas Pursley, Troy University

 

 

Panel 45

Media Influence on China’s Political System

Chair: T.Y. Lau, University of Washington

 

Ballroom North

 

The Impact of the Internet Upon China's Political System: An Empirical Analysis

Hung Chin-fu, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

 

Campaign Communication in the People's Republic of China

Jianglong Wang, Western Washington University

 

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 Vietnam and Brunei

Chair: Judith Henchy, University of Washington

 

Ballroom South

 

Analysis of Political and Economic Development Patterns in Brunei Based on Interrelations among Government, Market and Society

Shih-Lun Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

 

Institutional Change in the Transitional Economy of Vietnam

Quan Vu Le, Seattle University

 

Civil Society and Public Sphere: A Visual Interpretation of Cityscape in Hanoi

Tinh Le, East West Center

 

  

Panel F-- (Korea Individual Papers)

Chair:  Keith A. Leitich, North Seattle Community College

 

Boardroom

 

Making the Case for Cause Lawyers in South Korea

Patricia Goedde, University of Washington

 

Henry Collbran and the Roots of Entrepreneurial Enterprises in Korea

Don Southerton, Intercultural Institute of California

 

Politics of “All In”: Analysis of the 2004 Election in South Korea

Seungkwon You, University of MissouriColumbia

 

 

1:15 – 3:00 PM

Panel 47

Material Culture, Border Crossing and Cultural Borrowings

Chair: Sara Van Fleet, University of Washington

 

Governors

 

Surviving Monastery Art of Wood in Burma

Ronald M. Bernier, University of Colorado

 

Textiles as a Material Lexicon of Tributary Relations in the Tai World

Patricia Cheesman, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

 

Return to Angkor: Invoking the Golden Age in the U Sam Oeur’s “Sacred Vows”

Tina Powell, Independent

 

 

Panel 48

Korean Culture and Society: Cinema, Literature and Women

Chair: Hyaeweol Choi, Arizona State University

 

College

 

Women’s Voices Start to Fill in the Blank Page of History

Hee Jion Choi, Columbia University

 

The Undying Popularity of Three Kingdoms in Korea and East Asia

Hyuk-Chan Kwon, University of British Columbia, Canada

 

A Certain Tendency in Recent Korean Cinema and Its International Reception

Hyung-Sook Lee, University of Southern California

 

 

Panel 49

Taiwan's 2004 Presidential Election, Taiwan Democracy, and Taiwan-China-US. Relations

Chair: Eric Hyer, Brigham Young University

 

Regent

 

Why Taiwan Matters to China: Government, Military, and Popular Views

Timothy Cheek, University of British Columbia, Canada

 

The U.S. as a Self-interested Mediator Between China and Taiwan

Michael S. Duke, University of British Columbia, Canada

 

The Collapse of a Multiparty Political Party System in Taiwan?

Leo Y. Liu, Brandon University, Canada

 

Some Prospects and Perils for the Future of Democracy in Taiwan

Josephine Chiu-Duke, University of British Columbia, Canada

 

 

Panel 50

Internment and Immigrant Experiences

Chair: TBA

 

President

 

Schooling and Identity: Negotiating Academic Success among Pacific Rim Immigrant Communities in Urban Japan

June Gordon, University of California, Santa Cruz

 

Beyond the Memory of Displacement: Re-Examining “Adios to Tears”: The Memoirs of a Japanese Peruvian Internee in US Concentration Camps

Shigeko Mato, Monmouth College

 

 

Protest at Poston: The Reality of Japanese-American Internment

John Pavia and Nancy J. Brcak, Ithaca College

 

 

Panel 51

Japan Gender Issues

Chair: Davinder Bhowmik, University of Washington

 

Chancellor

 

What a Drag: Retrogression in Japan’s ‘Gay Boom’

Alexis Franks, University of Washington

 

Colonizing Women

Leila Madge, University of Washington

 

Sex, Death and Dystopia in Kurahashi Yumiko’s “Cruel Fairy Tales For Adults”

Toby Leigh Matoush, San Jose State University

 

Twentieth Century East Asian Cosmopolitanism and Identity Politics: Stories by and Magazines for Taiwanese and Japanese Women

Bert Scruggs, University of California, Davis

 

 

Panel 52

Translation at the Turn of the 20th Century: Independent papers on Chinese Literature

Chair: Deborah Porter, University of Washington

 

Ballroom North

 

A Critical Methodological Analysis of Lin Shu’s 1908 Translation of the first Sherlock Holmes novel

Kenneth Berthel, University of California, Irvine

 

Tales of Translation: Lu Xun’s “Regrets for the Past”

Eileen J. Cheng, Pomona College

 

A Chinese Flâneur in Paris: Chen Jitong and his book “The Chinese Painted by Themselves”

Yuan Liu, University of California, Irvine

 

Qu Bingyun: Writes as HERSELF

Louis Liuxi Meng, Central Washington University

 

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, University of Washington

 

Ballroom South

 

Digital Dharma: the Form and Function of Scripture in Digital Technology

Laura Busch, University of Washington

 

Canon and Authority

Kelly Chandler, University of Washington

 

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: A Look at the Boundaries Created by Scriptural Canons in Asian Religions

Jennifer McBride, University of Washington

 

Apocryphal Texts and Their Communities: Authority in “The Scripture on the Ten Kings”

Jennifer Webster, University of Washington

 

 

3:15 – 5:00 PM

Panel 54

China Independent Papers

Chair: Suzanne Wilson Barnett, University of Puget Sound

 

Chancellor

 

Radio vs. Print: Twice – Told Tales of Christian Conversion in Late Republican Shanghai

Carlton Benson, Pacific Lutheran University

 

White Russians in Tianjin: Nationality Definition in the Diaspora

Ed Glatfelter, Utah State University

 

Women Practiced Law: Women Lawyers in Late Republican China, 1930s-40s

Yuxin Ma, Armstrong Atlantic State University

 

Qing Emigration Policy and Its Protection Plans

Jingzhu Wu, Pacific University

 

A World of Three – Why Fanon is too Simple for China around 1900

Wang Zhuoyi, University of Washington

 

 

Panel 55

The Role of Law in China's New Economy

Chair: Jane Winn, University of Washington

 

Regent

 

Comparative Law Research on Security Interests in Copyrights

Tao-Chou Chang, University of Washington

 

The Administrative Agency of Chinese State-owned Banks

Chen Litong, University of Washington

 

Can Law Reform Promote Electronic Commerce in China

Jane Winn, University of Washington

 

China’s New Electronic Signature Law

Chu Zhang, China University of Politics and Law, China

 

 

Panel 56

Japan Independent Papers

Chair:  Paul Dunscomb, University of Alaska, Anchorage

 

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, University of California, Los Angeles

 

The Life and Times of Dr. Asakawa Kan’ichi (1873-1948): Distinguished Historian, Librarian, and Liberal in an Era of Global Turmoil

Rokuo Tanaka, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa

 

Buddhist Rationalization and Justification of Violence: a Textual Analysis of Sawaki Kōdō’s Zen Lectures

Kaoru N. Villa, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa

 

 

Panel 57

Taiwan Studies

Chair: TBA

 

College

 

Bodies that Matter: Reimaging, Reimagining, and Recreating the 2-28 Incident

Chien-hsin Tsai, Harvard University

 

Constitutionalizing Indigenous Rights in Taiwan

Chih-Wei Tsai, University of Washington

 

Women, Commodification and Marriage: The “Mail-Order Bride Industry” in Taiwan

Hsun-Hui Tseng, University of Washington

 

 

Panel 58

South Asian History: Ancient and Modern

Chair: Frank Conlon, University of Washington

 

Governors

 

Lodge and Nation:  the Masonic Roots of Indian Nationalism, 1865-1907

Vahid Fozdar, University of Washington

  

The Buddha Talks to His Double: Miracles in the Ancient Indian Buddhist World

Timothy Lenz, University of Washington

 

Protestant Missionaries, “Cultural Imperialism,” and the Politics of Religious Knowledge in Colonial India

Mitchell Numark, University of California, Los Angeles

 

 

 

Panel 59

Other Histories in Asian Art

Chair: Patricia Berger, University of California, Berkeley

 

Ballroom South

 

The Artistic Category of “Later Jain Paintings”: Evidence of Civil Society in Early Modern South Asia

Catherine Karnitis, University of California, Berkeley

 

In Search of Sri Vikrama: Buddhist Art and Colonial Politics in the Late Kandyan Period

Sujatha Meegama, University of California, Berkeley

 

Urga Portraits: Enshrinement in Third Space

Uranchimeg Tsultem, University of California, Berkeley