REGISTRATION IS IN EADS HALL
MCAA 2007
Schedule of Panels and Events
PANEL SESSIONS A: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19,
12:00pm-1:45pm
PANEL 1
New Perspectives on
Marxism in China
Location: Eads Hall, room 216
Chair: Minzner, Carl, Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant: Mertha, Andrew, Washington University in St. Louis
Chen, Jinxing, Edgewood College
A Lone Internationalist:
Frank Glass and Chinese Trotskyism
Harney, John, University of Texas, Austin
The Terminology of
Accusation: Language in Self-Definition in Communist China
Wang, Linlin, University of Texas, Austin
Another Way: The
Communist Movement in Yanfu: 1937-1945
Zhu, Lee S., Loras College
Power and Knowledge
Under Stalin and Mao
PANEL 2
Religious Conceptions
of ‘Homeland’ in Hindu Communities in India and the U.S. and in Modern
True Pure Land Buddhism in Japan
Location: Eads Hall, room 103
Chair/Discussant: Watt, Paul, DePauw University
Watt, Paul B., DePauw University
The Pure Land of the
Present as ‘Homeland’ in the Thought of the Modern Japanese Buddhist
Philosopher Yasuda Rijin
Fuller, Jason D., DePauw University
Almost Heaven: Guadiya
Vaisnava ‘Homelands’ from West Bengal to West Virginia
Benton, Catherine, Lake Forest College
Building Ties to the
Spiritual Homeland: The Construction of Sacred Space by an
Indian-American Community in Chicago
PANEL 3
Roundtable: The
Japanese Language Program at Washington University in Saint Louis:
Curriculum and Assessment
Location: Eads Hall, room 115
Moderator: Marcus, Ginger, Washington
University in St. Louis
Participant: Aridome, Hiroo, Washington
University in St. Louis
Participant: Nimi, Kayo, Washington
University in St. Louis
Participant: Hayashi, Shino, Washington
University in St. Louis
PANEL 4
All the World’s a
Stage: The Theory and Practice of Drama in China
Location: Eads Hall, room 203
Chair:
Marcus, Marvin,
Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant: Henke, Rob, Washington University in St. Louis
Chiang, Maggie, Lake Forest College
The Aesthetics of
Melodrama in Guan Hanqing’s Dou E Yuan
Zhang, Jie, Kenyon College
Li Yu (1611-1680)
Studies and Performance Theory
PANEL 5
Sages, Princes, and
Warrior Women: The Historical Contours of Confucian Ethics
Location: Eads Hall, room 215
Chair: Morrell, Robert, Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant: Lee, Pauline, Washington University in St. Louis
Lan, Haixia, University of Wisconsin, La
Crosse
Is Confucius a
Rhetorician?
Xu, Zhou, University of Kansas, Lawrence
The Concept of State in
Early China—From the Paleographic Perspective
Dong, Lan, University of Illinois,
Springfield
Military Women in
Dynastic Histories: Confucian Ethics Reconsidered
Israel, Larry, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
The Prince and the Sage:
Concerning Wang Yangming’s ‘Effortless’ Suppression of the Rebellion by
the Ning Princely Establishment
PANEL 6
Medicine and Male Desire in Modern Chinese Literature
Location: Eads Hall, room 204
Chair: Hegel, Robert E., Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant: Qiu, Xiaolong, writer
Zhou, Yu, Washington University in St.
Louis
Medicine as Metaphor in
Modern Chinese Literature
Zhao, Yuan, Washington University in St.
Louis
From Plot-line to
Plot-space—Narrative and Male Desire in Shi Zhecun’s Historical Stories
PANEL 7
Body That Matters:
History, Memory, and Corporeal Discourse in Twentieth-Century Korea and
Japan
Location: Eads Hall, room 102
Chair: Lee, Jinhee, Eastern Illinois University
Discussant: Robinson, Michael,
Indiana University
Park, Jin-kyung, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Corporeal Colonialism as
Imperial Strategy: Medical Representation, Race, and Female Bodies in
Colonial Korea
Lee, Jinhee, Eastern Illinois University
‘Malcontent Koreans’ (futei
senjin): Colonial Representation of Korean Bodies in the Japanese Empire
Kim-Paik, Nan, University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee
Liminal Rites, Embodies
Passages: The Reunions of North-South Korean Separated Families and the
Return of the Korean War’s Presumed Dead
PANEL SESSIONS B: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19,
2:00pm-3:45pm
PANEL 8
International
Relations: East, West, and In Between
Location: Eads Hall, room 216
Chair/Discussant: Glassman, Joel, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Kawabata, Eiji, Minnesota State University,
Mankato
State Identity and
Symbolic Politics in Contemporary China-Japan Relations
Kim, Kwan S., University of Notre Dame
Ensuring the Stability
and Growth of East Asia Through Regional Financial Cooperation
Warner, Meghan, University of Iowa
Gimcracks Dollar Blouses
and Transistors: American Reactions to Imported Japanese Products,
1945-1964
Iandola, Laura, Northern Illinois University
Bandung Redux: Sukarno’s
New Emerging Forces and the Strategic Rationale for Nuclear Weapons
PANEL 9
Hongxue in the 21st
Century: New Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Honglou meng
Location: Eads Hall, room 102
Chair: Rolston, David, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Discussant: Hegel, Robert E., Washington University in St. Louis
Liu, Gang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Towards a Poetics of
Chapter Titles in the Traditional Chinese Novel: Poetry, Narrative, and
the Significance of the Chapter Titles in the First Eighty Chapters of
Honglou Meng
Cheung, Joys, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor
Music in the 1987 TV
Miniseries Honglou meng: A Comparison of Musical and Literary Readings of
the Novel
Bergeton, Uffe, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor
Folk Religion as
Research Tool: Attitudes Toward Folk Religion in the Honglou meng as
Illustrated by the Anecdote about Mingyu (a.k.a. Ruoyu)
Ku, Chung-Hao, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor
Baoyu’s ‘Uses’ of
Material Objects in Honglou meng
PANEL 10
Negotiating Contested
Fields: War, Sex Work, and Memory in 20th Century Japan
Location: Eads Hall, room 103
Chair/Discussant: Igarashi, Yoshikuni, Vanderbilt University
Watt, Lori, Washington University in St.
Louis
The ‘Ordinary Men’ of
Japan: A Social History of the Japanese Military in China, 1937-1945
Kovner, Sarah, University of Florida,
Gainesville
Beyond Victimhood:
Situating Sex Work in Postwar Japan, 1945-1956
Igarashi, Yoshikuni, Vanderbilt University
Listen to the Voices of
the Iconoclasts: War Memories and the Radical Politics of 1960s Japan
PANEL 11
Zhang Yimou, Li Yang,
and Contemporary Chinese Film
Location: Eads Hall, room 204
Chair: Zhang, Jie, Kenyon College
Discussant: Xiang, Adrian Song, University of Chicago
Liebenberg, David, Kenyon College
Different Storytellings
of China’s ‘Sixth Generation’ Films
Thorndike, Jon, Kenyon College
Zhang Yimou and Filmic
Reality
Seabrook, Peter, Kenyon College
Hero: Overblown
Spectacle or Elegant Political Allegory?
Jin, Lei, Purdue University
Penetrating the
Darkness: Analyzing Li Yang’s Blind Shaft
PANEL 12
Writing on the
Margins: From the Diasporic to the Ignored
Location: Eads Hall, room 115
Chair: Shin, Kyung-Sook, Yonsei University
Discussant: Park, Sunyoung, Washington University in St. Louis
Boone, Jeffery, University of Wisconsin,
Madison
Literature on Thai
Fiction: Fiction on Thai Literature?
Gross, Jessica, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Rizal’s Refracted Word
Jiang, Yan, Western Michigan University
Chinese Americans’
Philosophical and Religious Identities in the Diaspora
Montgomery, Charles, National University
The Homeward Arc:
Diaspora and Return in the Works of Kim Yong-Ik
PANEL 13
Edo Japan: Merchants,
Criminals, Play, and Gift-Giving Foreigners
Location: Eads Hall, room 203
Chair: Earns, Lane, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Discussant: Brecher, Wm. Puck, Washington University in St.
Louis
Laver, Michael, University of Wisconsin,
Stevens Point
The Shogun’s Menagerie:
The VOC and Gift-giving in Early Modern Japan
Weber, Timothy R., Michigan State University
Neighborhood Level
Structures of Urban Crime Control in Edo: The Tsuji banya and Jishin
banya
Jackson, Terrence, Adrian College
Play, Civility, and the
Transformation of Sociability in Nineteenth Century Japan
Andrews, Charles, Indiana University
The Merchant Courier
Inokuchiya and the Politics of Communications in Tokugawa Japan
PANEL 14
Tibetan Images: From
the Mythic to the Taboo
Location: Eads Hall, room 215
Chair/Discussant: Childs, Geoff, Washington University in St.
Louis
Arthur, Brid Caitrin, Ohio State University
At the Heart of Myth and
Practice: The Jokhang Temple of Lhasa
Sutton, Dorothy, Ohio State University
From the Himalayas to
Hollywood: Tibetan Culture in Recent Film.
Getzelman, Sarah, Ohio State University
Forbidden Image: The
1996 Chinese Ban on Images of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
FRIDAY EVENING SPECIAL EVENTS
4:00-5:00pm Holmes Lounge
Welcome Address
Dr. Edward S. Macias,
Executive Vice Chancellor and Dean of Arts & Sciences
Keynote Address
Dr. Elizabeth Perry,
Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University
President, Association of
Asian Studies (AAS)
Chinese Conceptions of
‘Rights’: From Mencius to Mao—and Now
5:00-6:30pm Welcome Reception (Holmes
Lounge)
Open bar
7:15pm
Shuttle Bus to UMSL
8:00pm Performance
Treasured Tales: Traditional Japanese Narrative Song
Living National
Treasure Tsuruga Wakasanojo XI and Puppet Master Nishikawa Koryu
University of Missouri, St. Louis, Complimentary
admission
9:30pm
Shuttle Bus to Hotels
and WU campus
SATURDAY MORNING SPECIAL EVENTS
7:00-8:00am MCAA Executive Meeting (Eads
Hall, room 217)
PANEL SESSIONS C: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20,
8:30am-10:15am
PANEL 15
Midwest Japan Seminar
I
Location: Duncker Hall, room 101
Chair/Discussant: Fukuta, Fumiko, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Ibata-Arens, Kathryn, DePaul University
Stakeholder Capitalism
in 21st Century Japan: Communities, Human Capital and New
Technology Industries
PANEL 16
Roundtable: Energy Supply and the Making of Modern East Asian History
Location: Eads Hall, room 203
Participant: Hsieh, Winston, University of
Missouri, St. Louis
The Wheel of Commerce
for Fuel Supply (1885-1895) and the Dawn of [the] Modern Era in Taiwan
(Dr. Hsieh will also report on the NATO conference on Energy
Security, held in Germany, July 19-20, which he attended.)
Participant: McLane, Charles Loren,
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Coal in 20th
Century China: A Blessing and a Burden
Participant: Anderson, Katie, University of
Missouri, St. Louis
Employment Beneath the
Rising Sun: Women Miners in [the] Japanese Coal Industry
Participant: Wilke, Roger, University of
Missouri, St. Louis
The Issues of Energy
Security, as the Immediate Background of the Pearl Harbor Incident
Participant: Tiburzi, Brian, University of
Missouri, St. Louis
Undermining the Japanese
Miracle: The 1960 Mitsui-Miike Coalminers’ Strike
Participant: Michalski, Adam, University of
Missouri, St. Louis
The 1973 Oil Crisis and
the Arrival of a New Era of Japan’s Foreign Policy and Overseas
Investment
PANEL 17
Imagining Female
Agency in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China
Location: Eads Hall, room 103
Chair: Ma, Ning, Princeton University
Discussant: Zhang, Jing, New College of Florida
Ma, Ning, Princeton University
Female Prodigies and the
Carnival of Letters in Ping Shan Leng Yan
Ling, Xiaoqiao, Harvard University
The Fan and the Heroic
Females: Ding Yaokang’s West Lake Fan
Sibau, Maria Franca, Harvard University
Nenghong, or the Cunning
of Loyalty
Zou, Ying, Stanford University
The Exploration of Self in Women’s tanci
Writing: The Influence of The Peony Pavilion on Zaisheng yuan
PANEL 18
Poet Sages, Reluctant
Recluses, and the Classic of Tea: New Perspectives on Buddhism and Daoism
Location: Eads Hall, room 216
Chair: Fischer, Paul, Indiana
University
Discussant: Schlütter, Morten, University of Iowa
Park, Byoungkook, Western Michigan University
Beyond Self and the
Concept of Buddha in the East Asian Meditation Buddhism Poetry
Lee, Yong-yun, University of Wisconsin,
Madison
Discourse Between Tian
and Dao: Interaction Between Cosmology and Ethics in the Lunyu and the
Daodejing
Owyoung, Steven D., Washington University in
St. Louis
Daoism and the Tang
Classic of Tea
PANEL 19
New Studies on
Migration and Development in Asia
Location: Eads Hall, room 215
Chair: Childs, Geoff, Washington University in St.
Louis
Discussant: Colignon, Richard, Saint Louis University
Mao, Yufeng, Washington University in St.
Louis
Muslim Participation in
Nation-Building in Early Republican China
Karl, Renee, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Migration, Modernity,
and Islam: Constructions of Social Status Among Return Migrants
Wangdi, Yosay, Grand Valley State University
Tibetan Pioneers in the
Himalayan Frontier
Anderson, James, University of North Carolina
at Greensboro
The Power of the Family: The Shifting Status of
the Cuan in Yunnan through the Ming
PANEL 20
Remembering
the Ancients
Location: Eads Hall, room 204
Chair: Tsunoda Elizabeth, Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant: Watt, Lori, Washington University in St. Louis
Fiordalis, David, University of Michigan
Narrative, Memorial and
Memory: Remembering the Life of the Buddha
Grimm, Ryan, Washington University in St.
Louis
Signs of Reception:
Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor, and Collective Memory
McGinnis, Scott Paul, Washington University
in St. Louis
Les Lieux
de Mémoire Chinois
PANEL 21
India, Japan, Taiwan,
and the Economies of Knowledge
Location: Eads Hall, room 102
Chair:
Warsi, Mohammad Jahangeer,
Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant:
Darnell,
Alfred,
Washington University in St. Louis
Grapevine, Rebecca, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor
From Appa’s Case to Danial Latifi: The Judiciary and the Legislature
in Post Colonial Indian Personal Law
(Percy
Buchanan Graduate Student Prize for South Asia)
Nomi, Tomoaki, Southeast Missouri State
University
Government Spending,
Socio-Economic Backgrounds and Academic Achievements in Tokyo
Wu, Joshua Su-Ya, University of Chicago
Importing American Support? The Political
Effects of Bilateral Taiwan-US Trade
PANEL SESSIONS D: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20,
10:30am-12:15pm
PANEL 22
Midwest Japan Seminar
II
Location: Duncker Hall, room 101
Chair/Discussant: Fukuta, Fumiko, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Gerteis, Christopher, Creighton University
Radical Women and Male
Dominant Unions in Postwar Japan
PANEL 23
Translocal Practice
in Early Modern China
Location: Eads Hall, room 103
Chair: Miles, Steven B., Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant: Chow, Kai-Wing, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Dennis, Joseph, Davidson College
The Translocal
Circulation of Local Gazetteers, 1100-1644
Du, Yongtao, Washburn University
The Lesson of Riches:
Mercantilism, Translocal Network, and Local Identity in Late Ming Huizhou
Miles, Steven B., Washington University in
St. Louis
A Translocal Family
Strategy: Migration and the Civil Service Examinations on the South China
Frontier
Li, Guotong, California State University,
Long Beach
Reciprocal Construction
of State Power: The Minxue (Fujian School of Neo-Confucianism) Network in
the Eighteenth Century
PANEL 24
Past, Present, and
Future: Continuities and Developments of China’s Political Economy
Location: Eads Hall, room 102
Chair: Arnold, Walter, Miami University
Schortgen, Francis, Miami University
China and
the Paradox of Enterprise Internationalization: A Study of the Changing
Nature of Institutional and Interactional Space in China’s Political
Economy
Arnold, Walter, Miami University
Back to the
Future—Antecedents of Chinese Motor Vehicle Development
Frye, Tony, Miami University
Chinese Economic Zones
as a Path of Development
PANEL 25
Reconciliation –
Resolution: Confronting the Future through the Past
Location: Eads Hall, room 215
Chair: Haley, John, Washington University in St. Louis
Kondo, Alex, Oberlin College
Japan’s Immigration Issue: A Study of the
Context and Factors Defining Reform
(Mikiso Hane Undergraduate Student Prize)
Rice, Richard, University of Tennessee,
Chattanooga
Montagnard Ethnic Claims
and Human Rights Discourse
Shiratori, Ayumi, Eastern Illinois University
Comparative Study of the
Truth Commissions in Timor Leste
Sung, Minkyu, University of Iowa
Subverting the Post-Cold
War “North Korean Heat” in South Korea
PANEL 26
New Approaches to
Premodern Chinese Narrative
Location: Eads Hall, room 204
Chair: Hegel, Robert E., Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant: Huntington, Rania, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Hammond, Charles, Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale
What Yuan Mei Spoke of
Liang, Yan, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Satiric Medicine: Ideal,
Reality, and Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Journey to the West
Yang, Jane Parish, Lawrence University
Stories to Tell: Jia
Baoyu and Poetic Genre in Honglou meng
Pidhainy, Ihor, State University of Oklahoma
Negotiating a Mortgage: Gender, Structure and
Meaning in Chapters 36-38 of the Sanguo zhi yanyi
PANEL 27
Postmodern
Expressions in East Asian Literature and Film
Location: Eads Hall, room 216
Chair:
Allen, Joseph R.,
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Discussant: to be announced
Strecher, Matthew C., Tōyō University
2002—Spatial Odyssey:
Murakami Haruki’s Subversion of Time and Space in Umibe no Kafka
Dalle, Eric, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Suturing the Global
Subject in Fruit Chan’s Hollywood Kong
Weng, Miaowei, Washington University in St.
Louis
Echo, Protest and
Reconstruction: Three Ways of Responding to Consumer Culture in China
Kim, Yeogeun, Cornell University
Neo-liberal Female
Subjects in Korean Soap Operas and Films
PANEL 28
Historicizing
Nationalism / Nationalizing History
Location: Eads Hall, room 203
Chair/Discussant: Fish, Robert, Japan Society, New York
Ishikawa, Tadashi, University of Chicago
Imbricated by Cosmopolitan Shanghai:
Capitalism, Class, and Space of Japanese People from 1937 to 1941
Rapp, John A., Beloit College
Solving a Taiping
Mystery: Why Did Hong Rengan ‘Murder’ Issachar Roberts’s Servant?
Agnew, Christopher S., University of Dayton
Constructing Memory in
Qufu: Inscribing the Past of Confucius’ Descendants
Droubie, Paul, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
1964 Olympic Torch
Relay: Defining Japan’s Role in the World Community
PANEL SESSIONS E: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20,
1:00pm-2:45pm
PANEL 29
Where’s the Beef? –
Meat Eating in Premodern Japanese History
Location: Eads Hall, room 29
Chair: Rath, Eric C., University of Kansas, Lawrence
Discussant: Lindsey, William, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Rath, Eric, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Southern (Barbarian)
Fried Chicken and Other Iberian Junk Foods in Early Modern Japan
Shimizu, Akira, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Swine Imagination:
Representation of the Chinese During the Tokugawa Period
Londo, William, Michigan State University
The Morning Repast of a
Meditating Saint: The Daishi gozen of Kōbō Daishi Kūkai
Henry, David, University of Michigan
The Tale of the War
Between the Shôjin and the Animals (Shôjin gyorui monogatari):
Animal Versus Plant Foods in a Medieval Japanese Parody
PANEL 30
Managing the Empire:
State and Identity Construction in the Qing Empire
Location: Eads Hall, room 102
Chair/Discussant: Chow, Kai-wing, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Stramecky, David, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Hong Kong as a Qing
Chinese City
Chang, Lawrence, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Indirect Autocracy:
Ruling Strategies of the Qianlong Emperor
Abair, Francinevia, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Define and Conquer: Qianlong’s Use of the Qing
Legal Code in the Construction and Projection of Chinese Sino-Muslim
Identity
PANEL 31
Naming and Un-naming:
Framing Contemporary Japanese Women’s Poetry from the 1980s to the
Present
Location: Eads Hall, room 112
Chair/Discussant: Rodd, Laurel Rasplica, University of Colorado,
Boulder
Friederich, Lee, Washington University in
St. Louis
Strangling the House:
Semiotic Displacement and the Animation of Abjection in Isaka Yōko’s
Poetry
Quimby, Joanne, Indiana University
“I Would Rather Work
Among Men”: Japan’s “Women’s Poetry Boom” and the Early Poetry of Itō
Hiromi
Nakayasu, Sawako, University of California,
San Diego
Naming and Un-naming: Translating Experimental
Women’s Poetry of the 2000s
PANEL 32
Health and
Globalization in Asia: From Traditional Medicine to Drug Abuse
Location: Eads Hall, room 203
Chair: Sagar, Aparajita, Purdue University
Discussant:
Kato, Ryo,
Washington University in St. Louis
Azad, Nirmal Kumar, Ministry of Human
Resource Development, Government of India
Drug Problems in South
Asia
Bu, Liping, Alma College
Public Health Education
and Transformation of Rural Life in China, 1950-1965
Forma, Jonathan, Michigan State University
Understanding
Globalization’s Effects on the Sex, Drugs, and Blood Industry: HIV/AIDS
in Southeast Asia
PANEL 33
Comparative
Religions: Confucianism, Shamanism, and Christianity
Location: Eads Hall, room 207
Chair/Discussant: Entenmann, Robert, St. Olaf College
Rausch, Franklin, University of British
Columbia
A Virgin Husband and
Wife: the Confucian Shaping of Catholicism in Korea
Ramachandran, Hema, Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale
Representations of Jesus
Christ in Asian Cinemas
Smith, Herman W., University of Missouri,
St. Louis
Expressive Orders of the
Sacred and Religious: Cross-Cultural Differences
Hogarth, Hyun-key Kim, The Royal
Anthropological Institute, U.K.
Korea and Christianity:
Shamanistic Elements in the New Testament
PANEL 34
The Unseen and the
Outlandish Charm: Sculpture in Indian, Tibetan, and Japanese Temples
Location: Eads Hall, room 216
Chair: Adcock, Cassie, Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant: Lillehoj, Elizabeth, DePaul University
Glowski, Janice M., Wittenburg University
Picturing the Unseen in
an 18th Century Tibetan Buddhist Sculpture
Im, Sooa, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Beyond the Outlandish
Charm: Manpukuji’s Eighteen-Arhat Sculptures
Vedagiri, Anu, University of Missouri, St.
Louis
The Unseen Presence of
the Goddess: Laksminarasimha Images in Andhra Pradesh, India
PANEL 35
New Studies on Pan-Asianism
and World War II
Location: Eads Hall, room 215
Chair: Hanashiro, Roy, University of Michigan, Flint
Discussant: Coble, Parks, University of Nebraska
Lu, Chun-yu, Washington University in St.
Louis
The Rhetorics of
Manefesto of Great East Asia: Pan-Asianism in Wartime Japan 1931-1945.
Purdy, Roger W., John Carroll University
Hakkō Ichiu™: Projecting
Daitōa in Nihon Nyūsu’s Projection Logo
Cathcart, Adam, Pacific Lutheran University
Friendship and War
Crimes: New Documentation on Sino-Japanese Relations from the Chinese
Foreign Ministry Archive
Kishida, Yuka, University of Iowa
Manchukuo Kenkoku
University, 1938-45
PANEL 36
Imagining Identities
in Asian Cinema and Beyond
Location: Eads Hall, room 204
Chair/Discussant: Li, Tonglu, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Sohn, Josie, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Die Winterreise to
Requiem: Death of a Displaced Man in Winter Wanderer (dir. Kwak Chigyun,
1986)
Li, Liyu, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
‘Who am I’ in Past and
Present: Memory in Peter Chan’s Perhaps Love
Chiang, I-In, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Performing Asianess in
The World of Suzie Wong
Yang, Yujie, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
When Classic Taste Encounters Postmodern
Reality – on the Conflicts in Ann Hui’s the Postmodern Life of My Aunt
SATURDAY SPECIAL EVENTS
3:00 - 4:45pm
Presidential Panel: Recent
Archaeological Discoveries in China
Location:
Arts and
Sciences Laboratory Science Building, 300
Organizer: Linda Cooke Johnson, Michigan State University
President,
Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA)
Dr. Jiang Bo, head of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences
5:00- 6:00pm Annual MCAA
Business Meeting
Location:
Arts and Sciences Laboratory Science Building, 300
6:00pm MCAA Banquet
in the Women’s Building Formal Living Room
Reservation
only. Reception begins at 6:00pm.
Dinner
will be served at 6:30pm.
8:00pm MCAA Poetry Session:
Practicum on Writing and Translating Asian
Poetry, and Reading of Poetry
Organizer: Marvin Marcus, Washington University in St. Louis
Location: Hurst Lounge, 2nd floor Duncker Hall, on the
Brookings Quadrangle.
Individuals who study or translate poetry in Asian languages or about
Asia, and poets of any stripe whatsoever, are invited to join in a
*combined*
discussion of their work and a reading of original or translated work.
The aim is to share approaches, techniques, inspirations, and ideas in an
informal and congenial setting-- AND to have an occasion to read work of
one's choosing.
PANEL SESSIONS F: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21,
9:00am-10:45am
PANEL 37
War, Memory, and the
Avant-garde in Contemporary Japanese Film
Location: Eads Hall, room 102
Chair: Robert Tierney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: to be announced
Gabele, Katharine Anne, Michigan State
University
Pandora’s Playground:
Explorations in Akira Kurosawa’s Atomic Genre
Shamoon, Deborah, University of Notre Dame
The Return of the
Monstrous Body and War Memory in Casshern.
Tomonari, Noboru, Carleton College
The Avant-garde and
Resident Korean Filmmaking in Japan
PANEL 38
Urban China: Health,
Homes, and the Reshaping of the Chinese Legal System
Location: Eads Hall, room 204
Chair: Minzner, Carl, Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant: Mertha, Andrew, Washington University in St. Louis
Tower, Jason, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor
Homeowners’ Associations
in the PRC: Rights Protection to New Forms of Governance?
Fang, Qiang, Missouri Southern State
University
Mr. Ye Loves Dragon: The
Complaint System in the Reshaping of the Chinese Legal System Since 1979
PANEL 39
Bodies Unbound:
Psychoanalytic Readings of Asian Literature and Cinema
Location: Eads Hall, room 216
Chair: Wu, Chia-rong, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Chen, Lingchei Letty, Washington University in St.
Louis
Wu, Chia-rong, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Gender Pastiche: Thai
Queerness in Beautiful Boxer
Luo, Junjie, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Destruction and Desire:
Rereading Pan Jinlian
Huang, Yiju, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
In a Shadow of the Greek
Tragedy: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Zhang Yimou’s The Curse of the
Golden Flower
Wang, Yanjie, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Little Red Flowers: A
Little Rebel’s Encounter with the Cannibalistic Symbolic Order
PANEL 40
Terrorism, Anti-Globalism,
and NGO Activism Across Asia
Location: Eads Hall, room 215
Chair: Osanka, Frank, Independent Scholar
Discussant: Mukerjee, Doel, Justice Advisor, India
Cheong, John, Trinity International
University
International Workers
and Islamic Terrorism in Southeast Asian Cities: Challenges and Lessons
from Globalization and its Effects on Working in Muslim Localities
Ho, Sana,
Michigan State University
How is a Civil Society
Possible? From Anti-Globalization Movement to Political Reform in Taiwan
Hlavacs, Lauri,
Ohio University
North Sulawesi Gold
Mines and NGO Activism: A Zero Sum Game No Longer?
PANEL 41
The Poetics of
Anthologizing; The Translation of Poetics: New Perspectives on Classical
Chinese Poetry
Location: Eads Hall, room 115
Chair:
Marcus, Marvin,
Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant: Ridgway, Benjamin, Valparaiso University
Li, En, Washington University in St. Louis
Anthologizing as a
Critical Method: A Case Study on The Emperor’s Four Treasuries
Liao, Chia-hui, University of Warwick
Classical Chinese Poetry
Translation: Different Receptions of “The Legend of the Peach Blossom
Valley”
Yang, Xiaoshan, University of Notre Dame
Wang Anshi as an
Anthologist of Tang Poetry
PANEL 42
Japanese Women’s
Artistic Expression
Location: Eads Hall, room 203
Chair/Discussant: Sokolsky, Anne, Ohio Wesleyan University
Nakano, Keiko, John Carroll University
Two Bicultural ‘Women
Warriors’ with a Sword of Pen: Strategies of Linguistic Amalgam
Saito, Rika, Western Michigan University
Writing in Female Drag:
Gendered Literature and the Female Voice in Modern Japan
Ryu, Catherine, Michigan State University
The Unmaking of
Hospitality: Host, Guest, Hostage in Yū Miri’s Furu Hausu (Full House,
1995)
Prough, Jennifer, Valparaiso University
Raising Readers and
Rearing Artists: Community Fabrication in Shōjo Manga Magazines
PANEL 43
Colonialism,
Capitalism, and Communism: Historical Approaches to North and South
Korea
Location: Eads Hall, room 103
Chair: Haley, John, Washington University in St. Louis
Nash, Patricia, Hiram College
Plague and Propaganda:
The Significance of the Korean War Biological Weapons Allegations
Kim, Marie Seong-Hak, Saint Cloud State
University
Judicial Opinion and
Customary Law in Colonial Korea.
Kim, Jin-Ha, University of Chicago
Warring Transformation: Mass Army’s
Disciplinary Effects on the Korean Industrialization Process
PANEL SESSIONS G: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21,
11:00am-12:45pm
PANEL 44
The Political Thought
of Asia
Location: Eads Hall, room 115
Chair: Lomperis, Timothy J., Saint Louis University
Discussant: Charlotte Beahan, Murray State University
Oglesby, Jessica, Saint Louis University
Mao Zedong and The Three
Kingdoms: Classical Influences on Mao’s Revolutionary Strategy
Jaswal, Navneet, Saint Louis University
The Contradictions of
Dharma: Draupadi and Sita as Heroines, Objects, and Agents
Scott, Jennifer, Saint Louis University
Contemporary Political
Thought in the Struggle for Gender Equality in Modern Japan
Lieder, Elisabeth, Saint Louis University
Speeches of Mohammed Ali
Jinnah on the ‘Two Nations’ Theory of Pakistan
PANEL 45
Pre-Modern Japanese
Female Expression
Location: Eads Hall, room 204
Chair/Discussant: D’Etcheverry, Charo, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Bundy, Rose, Kalamazoo College
Women in Heian Period
Poetry Contests
Newhard, Jamie, Washington University in St.
Louis
Mixed Messages:
Classical Literature in 17th Century Books for Women
PANEL 46
Pulp Culture: Raising
a New Citizenry in Japan and Korea
Location: Eads Hall, room 103
Chair/Discussant: Miller, Laura, Loyola University, Chicago
Nakao, Seigo, Oakland University
Karaoke and Economic
Superpowerdom: What Did They Sing Before the Bubble Burst?
Meagher, Caitlin, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Japanese Discourses on
the Child: Tokugawa to Today
Kim, Chung-kang, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
The Political Strategy of Popular Cinema:
De-politicization and the Legacy of Colonial Modernity-Focusing on the
Late 1950s’ South Korean Comedy Film
PANEL 47
Remembering the Past,
Constructing the Present: Memory and National Identity in Japanese
Historical Fiction and Film
Location: Eads Hall, room 203
Chair: Silver, Mark, Connecticut
College
Discussant: Torrance, Richard, Ohio State University
Silver, Mark,
Connecticut College
Arresting Time:
Nostalgic Remembrance in the Edo-Period Detective Stories of Okamoto Kidô
Stahl, David, Binghamton University (SUNY)
Sacrificial Victims,
Troubled Survivors and Aloof Perpetrators: Loss, Reenactment,
Memorialization and Accountability in Takahata Isao’s Grave of the
Fireflies
Langton, Scott, Austin College
Summoning the Spirits of
the Past: Nostalgic Nationalism in the Period Fiction of Yoshikawa Eiji
Holman, J. Martin, University of Missouri,
Columbia
History, Narrative
Technique, and Public Memory in the Fiction of Inoue Yasushi
PANEL 48
Exploring the
Different Dimensions of Chinese Poetry Writing
Location: Eads Hall, room 216
Chair: Li, Tonglu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Grant, Beata, Washington University in St. Louis
Li, Tonglu, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
On the Uniqueness of
Septasyllabic Poetry
Wang, Yanning, Washington University in St.
Louis
“Encountering Sorrow”
and Ming-Qing Women Writers
Zhang, Xiaoquan, Washington University in
St. Louis
Collective Identity and
Poetry Exchanging among Ming-loyalists
PANEL 49
Educating Women in
Imperial Japan
Location: Eads Hall, room 215
Chair: Hastings, Sally A., Purdue University
Discussant: Harrington, Ann, Loyola University, Chicago
Lublin, Elizabeth Dorn, Wayne State
University
Educating Women,
Educating the Public: The Case of Yajima Kajiko
Park, Haeseong, Purdue University
Colonial Aims, Personal
Gains: Korean Women in Japanese-run Schools in Korea
Hastings, Sally A., Purdue University
Overseas Options:
Japanese Women in American Colleges, 1900-1940
PANEL 50
Imagining
Colonialism through Photography and Painting
Location: Eads Hall, room 102
Chair: Guelcher, Greg, Morningside College
Discussant: Atkins, E. Taylor, Northern Illinois University
Allen, Joseph R., University of Minnesota,
Twin Cities
Picturing the Colonial
Subject: Japanese Colonialist Photography in Taiwan
Mathison, Christina Wei-Szu Burke, Ohio State
University
Chen Chengbo
(1895-1947): A Taiwanese Painter at the Crossroads of Modernity
