2009 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
PRELIMINARY
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Registration begins at 10:00 am in Irvin Hall.
FRIDAY NOON – 1:45 PM
#69 VIOLENCE, NATIONALISM, AND DEMOCRACY IN TWENTIETH CENTURY JAPAN
124 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Sally A. Hastings, Purdue University
Discussant: Dennis Frost, Xavier University
Intentions for the Japanese Nation: The May Fifteenth Incident
Nicholas J. Gaspar, Purdue University
Public Assassination on the Small Screen: A Shocking Murder Forgotten in Time? (The Assassination of Asanuma Inejiro)
Erica Lynn Hague, University of North Carolina–Wilmington
Nationalism and the Origins of Tohoku Studies
Nathan Hopson, University of Pennsylvania
Martyr Maiden: Kanba Michiko and ANPO
Abby M. Root, Purdue University
#87 ISSUES OF IDENTITY
142 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Jennifer Yamashiro, Miami University Hamilton
Discussant: Laura Stewart, University of Arizona
Impact of Sustained Asian Immigration On Asian American Identity Formation
Jack Ling, University of Dayton
The Concept of Ren (仁) and Differing Visions of the “Chinese Character”
Alexus McLeod, University of Dayton
How We Look: The WWII Japanese Internment Camps
Jennifer Yamashiro, Miami University Hamilton
#88 CONTEMPORARY CHINESE SPECTACLE
126 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Frances Schortgen, Mount Union College
Incentivizing Incompetence: The Destructive Influence of Mao-era Politics on Chinese Primary Education
Bryan Degnan, New York University
Deliberative Institutions as Mechanisms for Managing Social Unrest: The Case of the 2008 Chongqing Taxi Strike
Steve Hess, Miami University
In the Japanese Mirror: Crisis and Compensation in Contemporary China
Adam Stant, Miami University
Chiang Kai-shek’s Rise to the Political Leadership of China in 1928
Joseph Yick, Texas State University
# 117 ROUND TABLE: THINKING FORWARD: EXPLORING WAYS TO STRENGTHEN JAPANESE STUDIES / LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
40 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Moderator: Hiroko Chiba, DePauw University
Charles Andrews, DePauw University
Hiroko Chiba, DePauw University
Noriko Fujioka-Ito, University of Cincinnati
Akiko Kakutani, Earlham College
#42 FROM FEUDALISM TO UNIVERSALISM: IDENTITY CONFLICTS IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ART AND MUSIC
ART MUSEUM
Chair/Discussant: Mikiko Hirayama, University of Cincinnati
Okiku’s Well: Portal Between Worlds, Site of Resistance
Matt Bennett, Raymond Walters College, University of Cincinnati
The Sphinx in the Desert: A New Momentum for Katsura Funakoshi
Leif Fairfield, University of Cincinnati
From Court to Pleasure Quarters: Visualizing Prince Genji in the Ukiyo-e of Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864) in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Bryan Fijalkovich, University of Cincinnati
Minoru Miki’s Vision of Konketsu: A Study of Ethnic Mixture in Sohmon III for Soprano, Marimba and Piano (1988)
Margaret Ozaki-Graves, University of Cincinnati
FRIDAY 2:00 – 3:45 PM
#95 RE-DISCOVERING IDENTITIES: FILMS OF KOREA, JAPAN, AND CHINA
124 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Noriko Reider, Miami University
Discussant: Vitaly A. Chernetsky, Miami University
The Other Face of Modernity in 1950s Mainland Chinese Films
Chi Li, Columbia University
Post-Colonial “Hiroshima, Mon Amour:” Franco-Japanese Collaboration in the American Shadow
Yuko Shibata, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University
Resistance Before and After: Reexamining Korean Films of the Colonial Period
Cindi Textor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sex, Lies, and DVDs: The Documentaries of Matsue Tetsuaki
Noboru Tomonari, Carleton College
#97 RELIGIOUS ROLES AND POLITICS IN JAPAN
142 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Michael R. Bathgate, Saint Xavier University
International Norm Diffusion and Domestic Response in the Politics of Privacy in Japan
Eiji Kawabata, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Taming Dragons: The Buddhist Mythmaking of Sacred Violence in the Konjaku monogatarishū
Yeonjoo Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Secularism in Japan: Zen Atheists and Other “Contradictions”
Michael K. Roemer, Ball State University
Rethinking Meiji Restoration – From the Perspective of a Shinto Religion
Yijiang Zhong, Ball State University
#110 PEOPLE, PLACES, AND POLITICS OF ASIA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
46 IRVIN HALL
Note: this panel will run until 4:10 pm
Chair/Discussant: Mark Peterson, Miami University
Discussant: Stan Toops, Miami University
The Strategies of Dispatch: Understanding Korean and Japanese Military Dispatch to the Iraq War
Jeffrey Hornung, The Ohio State University
North Korean Post-War Militant Nationalism and Its Historical Changes in the Economic Crisis
Jin Woong Kang, University of Minnesota
Developing a Global Partnership: The Aid Relationship of Japan and Viet Nam
Tyler McComas, Miami University
The Modernity of the Everyday Commercial: Exploring a Conflicted Modernity in Contemporary South Korean Cities through the Case Study of Signboard Renovation Project in Gunpo City
Seung Han Paek, The Ohio State University
Mapping Religion in Contemporary China: Empirical Findings from National Survey
Jiexia (Elisa) Zhai, Miami University
#112 ECOLOGY, ENERGY, AND ECONOMICS
40 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Soounn Lee, Miami University
The Rise of Micro-finance Solutions to Fund Alternative Sources of Energy and Foster Economic Development in Bangladesh
Ana Carolina Cabral Murphy, Columbia University
Taming the Yakkha: A Challenge to Buddhist Ecological Ethics
Michael Nichols, Northwestern University
Usage of Electronic Scholarly Communication Initiatives in Mongolia
Tom Scheiding, Elizbethtown College
#64 ASIAN ART AT THE MIAMI UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
ART MUSEUM
Chair: Ann Barrott Wicks, Miami University
Discussant: TBA
The Miami University Art Museum Collection of Sculptures from Ancient Greater Gandhara: Lasting Legacies and New Insights
Carolyn Woodford Schmidt, The Ohio State University
One Hundred Children at Play: Children as Auspicious Imagery in China
Ann Barrott Wicks, Miami University
Creating the Folded Screen: Asian Painting in the Miami University Art Museum
Robert S. Wicks, Miami University
FRIDAY EVENING SPECIAL EVENTS
4:00 pm, MIAMI UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM TOUR
ART MUSEUM
5:00 pm, COCKTAIL HOUR
SHRIVER CENTER, Multipurpose Rooms A&B
5:30 pm, ERIC SHEPHERD, Chinese storyteller performance
SHRIVER CENTER, Multipurpose Rooms A&B
6:30 pm, BANQUET
SHRIVER CENTER, Heritage Room, 3rd Floor
8:00 pm, AAS PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, “Asia's New Religious Pluralism,” Speaker: Robert Hefner
SHRIVER CENTER, Heritage Room, 3rd Floor
SATURDAY MORNING SPECIAL EVENT
7:00 am, MCAA BOARD BREAKFAST
SHRIVER CENTER, Anna Symmes Harrison Room, 3rd Floor
SATURDAY 8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
TEACHER’S WORKSHOP, PANEL 1, ROUND TABLE, LESSONS ON ASIA
26 IRVIN HALL
MIDWEST JAPAN SEMINAR
SHRIVER CENTER Bystrom-Reid Room, 3rd floor
#54 IDENTITY POLITICS IN CHINESE COLONIAL CITIES
126 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Jing Jing Chang, University of Illinois
Discussant: Kai-wing Chow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Familiar Strangers?: Chinese Perceptions of Jews in the Early Twentieth Century
Gao Bei, College of Charleston
Constructing Chinese Nationalism in the Press: Wen Wei Pao and the Film Censorship Board of Hong Kong
Jing Jing Chang, University of Illinois
Jewish Nationalism in Colonial Shanghai as Seen and Constructed through The Israel’s Messenger
Jin Gong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kissed by Hitler: A Jewish Boy’s Escape from Nazism to Shanghai
Seigo Nakao, Oakland University
#89 TRADITION RE-EXAMINED: LITERATURE, CULTURE AND POLITICS IN PRE-MODERN CHINA
124 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Robert E. Hegel, Washington University in St. Louis
Canals and Cotton: The Descendants of Confucius in the Mid-Ming Dynasty
Christopher S. Agnew, University of Dayton
Rescuing Religious History from the Nation: The Invention of Cultural Identities in Early China
J. Scot Brackenridge, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wang Chong on Shi (實) and Han Dynasty Philosophical Method
Alexus McLeod, University of Dayton
Legality and Politics in the Xuande Gate Incident
Xiaoshan Yang, University of Notre Dame
#92 MIXING VOICES: CHINESE CULTURE IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE
142 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Liang Shi, Miami University
This Beautiful, Friendly, and Exploitative Country: The Image of the United States in Fei Xiaotong’s First Visit to America and Ilf and Petrov’s One-storey America
Rumyana Cholakova, Washington University in St. Louis
The Royal Asiatic Society in China
Judith Kolbas, Miami University
Angel Island Poetry: Landscape, Power, Memory
Yi-ling Lin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Cross Cultural Boundaries: A Case Study of Advanced Chinese Learners’ Interactions with Their Mentors
Nan Meng & Ying Liu, The Ohio State University
#115 RELIGION AND POLITICS IN INDIA, VIETNAM, AND INDONESIA
46 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: S. S. Rama Rao Pappu, Miami University
The “Talibanisation” of Hindutva in India
Juli Gittinger, University of Colorado
Social Catholicism and Anti-Colonialism in Late Colonial Vietnam
Charles P. Keith, Michigan State University
Islamic Groups in Indonesia: Ideology and Strategic Adaptability
LaiYee Leong, Southern Methodist University
SATURDAY 10:15 AM – NOON
TEACHER’S WORKSHOP, PANEL 2, INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP – ASIAN DRESS IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT
26 IRVIN HALL
MIDWEST JAPAN SEMINAR
SHRIVER CENTER, Bystrom-Reid Room, 3rd floor
#72 ROMANCING CHINA AND INTER-DISCIPLINING THE MIND
124 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Sherry Mou, DePauw University
Discussant: Xiuwu Liu, Miami University
CJ7 (Changjiang Qihao): Selling an Alternative Remedy to moral Crisis in Globalized China
Wing Shan Ho, University of Oregon
Eighteen Hundred Years of Vistas from Red Cliffs: A “Museum-Exhibit” Approach to Teaching Chinese Culture
Sufen Sophia Lai, Grand Valley State University
Reading Three Kingdoms on the Good Old (Google) Earth
Sherry Mou, DePauw University
Teaching Chinese Literature in the Post-American World
Rujie Wang, The College of Wooster
#91 TRADITIONAL PERFORMING ARTS: TIBETAN PHET AND CHINESE JINGJU
126 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Sura Intamool, Miami University
Discussant: Youngji Jeon, Miami University
Compositional Techniques & Process in Phet Singing of Tibetan Buddhist Vocal Music, Chod Dbyang
Chong Lee Suan, School of Arts, University Malaysia Sabah
Reconsideration of Qi Rushan’s Early Instruction to Mei Lanfang’s Jingju Performance
Guanda Wu, Miami University
#94 CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS: WHEN CHINA MEETS THE WORLD
142 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf College
Beauty Exposed: A Survey of a Traditional Value
Jessica Gisclair, Elon University
An Assemblage of Old and New Narratives at Guanyin Shan: Transformations of a Coastal Landscape at a Leisure and Tourism Development in Xiamen
Thomas M. Lavallee, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
The Misuse of Humor in American-Chinese Communication
Xizhen Qin, The Ohio State University
Rumor and Secret Space: Anti-missionary Rumors in 19th Century China
Xiaoli Tian, University of Chicago
#114 GENDER AND ETHNICITIES: KOREA, SRI LANKA, AND THE US
46 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Ji-Eun Lee, Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant: Jinhee Lee, Eastern Illinois University
Gender Equality and the Practice of Virtue: What makes the Portrayal of Women in the Samguk, sagi Distinct From That of the Lienü Zhuan?
Sookja Cho, Washington University in St. Louis
Men’s Gaze, Women’s Life
Ji-Eun Lee, Washington University in St. Louis
Gendered Geopolitics in the Sri Lankan Armed Conflict: Santosh Sivan’s ‘The Terrorist’ and Mani Ratnam’s ‘A Peck on the Cheek’
Nalin Jayasena, Miami University
The Upwardly Mobile Indian: Class Politics in Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Unaccustomed Earth’
Madhudaya Sinha, Miami University
SATURDAY 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT: SEEING IS BELIEVING – Two bodies of recent work by Jon Yamashiro exploring World War II Japanese Internment campsites. Light refreshments.
HIESTAND HALL
SATURDAY 1:30 – 3:15 PM
WRITER’S WORKSHOP: “The Study of Oneself & One’s People in Prose,” Kao Kalia Yang
100 ART BUILDING
#5 HISTORICIZING GENDER: ZHUANG ZI, LI YU, MARTYRDOM AND HOMOSEXUALITY
124 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Liang Shi, Miami University
Discussant: Sherry Mou, DePauw University
Literary Eroticism and the Remasculinization of the Literati
Liangyan Ge, University Notre Dame
Above the Debate of Yin vs. Yang
Xinda Lian, Denison University
The Great Exodus: Constructing a New Chinese Homosexual Identity in the Twentieth Century
Liang Shi, Miami University
Images to Die for: Female Martyrdom and Perfection in The Heroine of the East Europe
Rujie Wang, College of Wooster
#40 VOCAL, ASSERTIVE, AND ENGAGED: JAPANESE CHRISTIANS IN THE MEIJI AND TAISHŌ PERIODS
142 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Elizabeth Dorn Lublin, Wayne State University
Discussant: Paul B. Watt, DePauw University
Turning Prostitutes and Destitute Women into ‘Proper’ Citizens: One Aspect of Christian Social Work in Meiji Japan
Elizabeth Dorn Lublin, Wayne State University
The Gospels of Globalism: Moral and Religious Discourses of Japanese Protestant Journalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Yosuke Nirei, Indiana University South Bend
Operating the New Ethics: Christian Morality and Social Action Inside Tokyo’s Protestant Church Fujinkai, 1890–1920
Garrett Washington, Purdue University
#93 THE CHANGING FACE: CHINA IN REFORM
126 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Stan Toops, Miami University
China in Africa: Contextualizing Economic Universalization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Richard Aidoo, Miami University
Revolutionary Idealism: Chinese Complaint Systems in the Early PRC (1949–1982)
Qiang Fang, University of Minnesota Duluth
Finding Henan Village—Development of a Migrant Enclave in Beijing
Jia Feng, Michigan State University
China and International Trade Conflict – A Growing Problem
James F. Paradise, University of California, Los Angeles
#111 ART AND POLITICS
ART MUSEUM
Chair: Robert S. Wicks, Miami University
Discussant: Ann Barrott Wicks, Miami University
Defining Identity and Memory: Chinese Propaganda Posters and Scar Art
Annie Kroshus, University of St. Thomas
Bengali Folks and Village Sources for Jamini Roy’s Paintings
Abira Mukhopadhyay, The Ohio State University
The Sino-European Line: Sinicization of French Engraving Style in the Victory Prints of Emperor Qianlong
James Wehn, University of St. Thomas
Art History and Nationalism in Early Twentieth Century China
Yanfei Zhu, The Ohio State University
SATURDAY 3:30 PM – 5:15 PM
PRESIDENTIAL PANEL – ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION ETHNICITY AND THE NATION-STATE
100 ART BUILDING
Chair/Moderator: Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf College, MCAA President
Linda Benson, Oakland University
Michael Robinson, Indiana University
Thomas Williamson, St. Olaf College
SATURDAY EVENING SPECIAL EVENTS
5:30 – 7:00 PM, MCAA BUSINESS MEETING
100 ART BUILDING
7:15 PM, MJS DINNER
WILD BISTRO, 37 E. HIGH ST., UPTOWN OXFORD
SUNDAY 9:00 – 10:45 AM
#31 PROFESSIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF NATION, EMPIRE, AND OCCUPATION IN MODERN JAPAN
124 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Susan Burns, The University of Chicago
Discussant: Tanya Maus, Wittenberg University
Colonized Professionals’ Mobility within the Japanese Empire: An Institutional Study
Wei-ti Chen, The University of Chicago
Questioning the Narrative of Democracy: “The Question of the Prosecutor Seat in the Jury Trial” and State-Civil Relations, 1926-1928
Tadashi Ishikawa, The University of Chicago
Japanese Traditional Entertainers on the U.S.-Occupied Radio
Seong Un Kim, The University of Chicago
The Prison Chaplain in Meiji Japan
Cameron Penwell, The University of Chicago
#49 ROUND TABLE: BRINGING EAST ASIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE TO LIFE: STRATEGIES FOR ENGAGING UNDERGRADUATES
40 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Moderator: Louis G. Perez, Illinois State University
Valerie Barske, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Dennis J. Frost, Xavier University
Gerald S. Iguchi, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
David Obermiller, Gustavus Adolphus College
#90 NATION BUILDING AND CULTURE BUILDING: THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN LITERARY IMAGINATION AND IDEOLOGY
142 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Hongmei Yu, Luther College
A Cultural Translation: Ling Shuhua’s Ancient Melody
Xiaoqing Liu, Butler University
Collecting and Recollecting: the Use of Objects in Wu Weiye’s Play Spring in Moling
Chengjuan Sun, Kenyon College
“Butterfly Loves the Flower:” Politics and Musical Innovation in a Ballad Adaptation of Mao’s Poem
Stephanie Webster-Cheng, University of Pittsburgh
The Romantic and the Epic–the Exchange of Poems between Guo Moruo and Mao Zedong
Haosheng Yang, Miami University
#98 “MODERNIZING” JAPAN: BODY, CHILDHOOD, AND THEATER
126 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Noriko Reider, Miami University
The Concept of Childhood and Literary Evocations in the Taisho Period
Masako Inamoto, Skidmore College
Embodied Differences: Japanese Medical Officers and the Search for an Oriental Other (1868–1912)
Roberto Padilla II, University of Toledo
A Quiet Response to A Natural Disaster: Hirata Oriza’s Play Cherry Blossoms in the Cold Wind
Guohe Zheng, Ball State University
#99 NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL VOICES AND IMAGES OF KOREANS
46 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Yu-Fang Cho, Miami University
Stories of Adjustment in America: Constructivist Conceptualization of Migration Experience of Koreans
Nahree Doh and Larry Leitner, Miami University
The Language of Identity in Chang-rae Lee’s Novel Native Speaker
Danielle Ervin, Miami University
“Female Poet” as Revolutionary Grotesque: Feminist Transgression in the Poetry of Ch’oe Sŭng-ja, Kim Hyesoon, and Yi Yŏn-ju
Ruth Williams, University of Cincinnati
SUNDAY 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM
#58 TOYOTOMI HIDEYOSHI, SAKAMOTO RYŌMA, AND A WOMAN WITH EXPLODING BREASTS: HISTORICAL FICTIONS IN POSTWAR JAPAN
124 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Susan W. Furukawa, Indiana University/Earlham College
Discussant: Marvin Marcus, Washington University in St. Louis
The Woman with the Exploding Breasts: Wondrous Stories of Itô Hiromi
Lee Friederich, University of Wisconsin - Barron County
Toyotomi Hideyoshi as Business Model
Susan W. Furukawa, Indiana University/Earlham College
Bakumatsu and Postwar, History and Fiction
Kendall Heitzman, Yale University/Carleton College
#84 SOCIAL SPACES OF WAR MEMORIES IN JAPAN AND KOREA
46 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Jinhee Lee, Eastern Illinois University
Dokdo/Takeshima: Juxtaposed Memories in Cartographic Practices
Amanda Evans, Eastern Illinois University
The Korean War Inscribed in Korean and American Popular Music
Heejin Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Divided Memory: Evaluating the Cultural History of Yasukuni Shrine
Tristan Sodergren-Baar, Eastern Illinois University
A-Bomb Memories and Representations in Postwar Japanese Art
Mitsumi Takei, Eastern Illinois University
#96 POLITICS OF WAR IN JAPAN: FROM NICHIRENISM AND LANGUAGE TO TOURISM
142 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Michael Lewis, Michigan State University
The Politics of Language in Manchukuo: Hinata Nobuo and Gu Ding
Junko Agnew, University of Dayton
Nichirenism as Modernism
Gerald Iguchi, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
From “Sightseeing of Tear” to “Peace Study”: Battlefields Tourism in Okinawa
Taku Suzuki, Denison University
#100 SEARCHING AND NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES IN THE COLONIAL/POST-COLONIAL ERA
126 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Jamie Gillen, Miami University
A Brief Survey of Sociological Conceptions of the “Malayness” Identity in Malaysian History
John Cheong, Trinity International University
Vernacular Voices: The Work and Writings of Filipino Teachers in the Colonial Philippines
Anthony Medrano, Ohio University
To ‘Meliorate the Stubborn Soil’: Cultivating an Imperial Identity in the Gardens of British India
Karen Rodriguez’G, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Registration begins at 10:00 am in Irvin Hall.
FRIDAY NOON – 1:45 PM
#69 VIOLENCE, NATIONALISM, AND DEMOCRACY IN TWENTIETH CENTURY JAPAN
124 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Sally A. Hastings, Purdue University
Discussant: Dennis Frost, Xavier University
Intentions for the Japanese Nation: The May Fifteenth Incident
Nicholas J. Gaspar, Purdue University
Public Assassination on the Small Screen: A Shocking Murder Forgotten in Time? (The Assassination of Asanuma Inejiro)
Erica Lynn Hague, University of North Carolina–Wilmington
Nationalism and the Origins of Tohoku Studies
Nathan Hopson, University of Pennsylvania
Martyr Maiden: Kanba Michiko and ANPO
Abby M. Root, Purdue University
#87 ISSUES OF IDENTITY
142 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Jennifer Yamashiro, Miami University Hamilton
Discussant: Laura Stewart, University of Arizona
Impact of Sustained Asian Immigration On Asian American Identity Formation
Jack Ling, University of Dayton
The Concept of Ren (仁) and Differing Visions of the “Chinese Character”
Alexus McLeod, University of Dayton
How We Look: The WWII Japanese Internment Camps
Jennifer Yamashiro, Miami University Hamilton
#88 CONTEMPORARY CHINESE SPECTACLE
126 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Frances Schortgen, Mount Union College
Incentivizing Incompetence: The Destructive Influence of Mao-era Politics on Chinese Primary Education
Bryan Degnan, New York University
Deliberative Institutions as Mechanisms for Managing Social Unrest: The Case of the 2008 Chongqing Taxi Strike
Steve Hess, Miami University
In the Japanese Mirror: Crisis and Compensation in Contemporary China
Adam Stant, Miami University
Chiang Kai-shek’s Rise to the Political Leadership of China in 1928
Joseph Yick, Texas State University
# 117 ROUND TABLE: THINKING FORWARD: EXPLORING WAYS TO STRENGTHEN JAPANESE STUDIES / LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
40 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Moderator: Hiroko Chiba, DePauw University
Charles Andrews, DePauw University
Hiroko Chiba, DePauw University
Noriko Fujioka-Ito, University of Cincinnati
Akiko Kakutani, Earlham College
#42 FROM FEUDALISM TO UNIVERSALISM: IDENTITY CONFLICTS IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ART AND MUSIC
ART MUSEUM
Chair/Discussant: Mikiko Hirayama, University of Cincinnati
Okiku’s Well: Portal Between Worlds, Site of Resistance
Matt Bennett, Raymond Walters College, University of Cincinnati
The Sphinx in the Desert: A New Momentum for Katsura Funakoshi
Leif Fairfield, University of Cincinnati
From Court to Pleasure Quarters: Visualizing Prince Genji in the Ukiyo-e of Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864) in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Bryan Fijalkovich, University of Cincinnati
Minoru Miki’s Vision of Konketsu: A Study of Ethnic Mixture in Sohmon III for Soprano, Marimba and Piano (1988)
Margaret Ozaki-Graves, University of Cincinnati
FRIDAY 2:00 – 3:45 PM
#95 RE-DISCOVERING IDENTITIES: FILMS OF KOREA, JAPAN, AND CHINA
124 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Noriko Reider, Miami University
Discussant: Vitaly A. Chernetsky, Miami University
The Other Face of Modernity in 1950s Mainland Chinese Films
Chi Li, Columbia University
Post-Colonial “Hiroshima, Mon Amour:” Franco-Japanese Collaboration in the American Shadow
Yuko Shibata, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University
Resistance Before and After: Reexamining Korean Films of the Colonial Period
Cindi Textor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sex, Lies, and DVDs: The Documentaries of Matsue Tetsuaki
Noboru Tomonari, Carleton College
#97 RELIGIOUS ROLES AND POLITICS IN JAPAN
142 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Michael R. Bathgate, Saint Xavier University
International Norm Diffusion and Domestic Response in the Politics of Privacy in Japan
Eiji Kawabata, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Taming Dragons: The Buddhist Mythmaking of Sacred Violence in the Konjaku monogatarishū
Yeonjoo Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Secularism in Japan: Zen Atheists and Other “Contradictions”
Michael K. Roemer, Ball State University
Rethinking Meiji Restoration – From the Perspective of a Shinto Religion
Yijiang Zhong, Ball State University
#110 PEOPLE, PLACES, AND POLITICS OF ASIA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
46 IRVIN HALL
Note: this panel will run until 4:10 pm
Chair/Discussant: Mark Peterson, Miami University
Discussant: Stan Toops, Miami University
The Strategies of Dispatch: Understanding Korean and Japanese Military Dispatch to the Iraq War
Jeffrey Hornung, The Ohio State University
North Korean Post-War Militant Nationalism and Its Historical Changes in the Economic Crisis
Jin Woong Kang, University of Minnesota
Developing a Global Partnership: The Aid Relationship of Japan and Viet Nam
Tyler McComas, Miami University
The Modernity of the Everyday Commercial: Exploring a Conflicted Modernity in Contemporary South Korean Cities through the Case Study of Signboard Renovation Project in Gunpo City
Seung Han Paek, The Ohio State University
Mapping Religion in Contemporary China: Empirical Findings from National Survey
Jiexia (Elisa) Zhai, Miami University
#112 ECOLOGY, ENERGY, AND ECONOMICS
40 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Soounn Lee, Miami University
The Rise of Micro-finance Solutions to Fund Alternative Sources of Energy and Foster Economic Development in Bangladesh
Ana Carolina Cabral Murphy, Columbia University
Taming the Yakkha: A Challenge to Buddhist Ecological Ethics
Michael Nichols, Northwestern University
Usage of Electronic Scholarly Communication Initiatives in Mongolia
Tom Scheiding, Elizbethtown College
#64 ASIAN ART AT THE MIAMI UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
ART MUSEUM
Chair: Ann Barrott Wicks, Miami University
Discussant: TBA
The Miami University Art Museum Collection of Sculptures from Ancient Greater Gandhara: Lasting Legacies and New Insights
Carolyn Woodford Schmidt, The Ohio State University
One Hundred Children at Play: Children as Auspicious Imagery in China
Ann Barrott Wicks, Miami University
Creating the Folded Screen: Asian Painting in the Miami University Art Museum
Robert S. Wicks, Miami University
FRIDAY EVENING SPECIAL EVENTS
4:00 pm, MIAMI UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM TOUR
ART MUSEUM
5:00 pm, COCKTAIL HOUR
SHRIVER CENTER, Multipurpose Rooms A&B
5:30 pm, ERIC SHEPHERD, Chinese storyteller performance
SHRIVER CENTER, Multipurpose Rooms A&B
6:30 pm, BANQUET
SHRIVER CENTER, Heritage Room, 3rd Floor
8:00 pm, AAS PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, “Asia's New Religious Pluralism,” Speaker: Robert Hefner
SHRIVER CENTER, Heritage Room, 3rd Floor
SATURDAY MORNING SPECIAL EVENT
7:00 am, MCAA BOARD BREAKFAST
SHRIVER CENTER, Anna Symmes Harrison Room, 3rd Floor
SATURDAY 8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
TEACHER’S WORKSHOP, PANEL 1, ROUND TABLE, LESSONS ON ASIA
26 IRVIN HALL
MIDWEST JAPAN SEMINAR
SHRIVER CENTER Bystrom-Reid Room, 3rd floor
#54 IDENTITY POLITICS IN CHINESE COLONIAL CITIES
126 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Jing Jing Chang, University of Illinois
Discussant: Kai-wing Chow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Familiar Strangers?: Chinese Perceptions of Jews in the Early Twentieth Century
Gao Bei, College of Charleston
Constructing Chinese Nationalism in the Press: Wen Wei Pao and the Film Censorship Board of Hong Kong
Jing Jing Chang, University of Illinois
Jewish Nationalism in Colonial Shanghai as Seen and Constructed through The Israel’s Messenger
Jin Gong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kissed by Hitler: A Jewish Boy’s Escape from Nazism to Shanghai
Seigo Nakao, Oakland University
#89 TRADITION RE-EXAMINED: LITERATURE, CULTURE AND POLITICS IN PRE-MODERN CHINA
124 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Robert E. Hegel, Washington University in St. Louis
Canals and Cotton: The Descendants of Confucius in the Mid-Ming Dynasty
Christopher S. Agnew, University of Dayton
Rescuing Religious History from the Nation: The Invention of Cultural Identities in Early China
J. Scot Brackenridge, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wang Chong on Shi (實) and Han Dynasty Philosophical Method
Alexus McLeod, University of Dayton
Legality and Politics in the Xuande Gate Incident
Xiaoshan Yang, University of Notre Dame
#92 MIXING VOICES: CHINESE CULTURE IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE
142 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Liang Shi, Miami University
This Beautiful, Friendly, and Exploitative Country: The Image of the United States in Fei Xiaotong’s First Visit to America and Ilf and Petrov’s One-storey America
Rumyana Cholakova, Washington University in St. Louis
The Royal Asiatic Society in China
Judith Kolbas, Miami University
Angel Island Poetry: Landscape, Power, Memory
Yi-ling Lin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Cross Cultural Boundaries: A Case Study of Advanced Chinese Learners’ Interactions with Their Mentors
Nan Meng & Ying Liu, The Ohio State University
#115 RELIGION AND POLITICS IN INDIA, VIETNAM, AND INDONESIA
46 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: S. S. Rama Rao Pappu, Miami University
The “Talibanisation” of Hindutva in India
Juli Gittinger, University of Colorado
Social Catholicism and Anti-Colonialism in Late Colonial Vietnam
Charles P. Keith, Michigan State University
Islamic Groups in Indonesia: Ideology and Strategic Adaptability
LaiYee Leong, Southern Methodist University
SATURDAY 10:15 AM – NOON
TEACHER’S WORKSHOP, PANEL 2, INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP – ASIAN DRESS IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT
26 IRVIN HALL
MIDWEST JAPAN SEMINAR
SHRIVER CENTER, Bystrom-Reid Room, 3rd floor
#72 ROMANCING CHINA AND INTER-DISCIPLINING THE MIND
124 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Sherry Mou, DePauw University
Discussant: Xiuwu Liu, Miami University
CJ7 (Changjiang Qihao): Selling an Alternative Remedy to moral Crisis in Globalized China
Wing Shan Ho, University of Oregon
Eighteen Hundred Years of Vistas from Red Cliffs: A “Museum-Exhibit” Approach to Teaching Chinese Culture
Sufen Sophia Lai, Grand Valley State University
Reading Three Kingdoms on the Good Old (Google) Earth
Sherry Mou, DePauw University
Teaching Chinese Literature in the Post-American World
Rujie Wang, The College of Wooster
#91 TRADITIONAL PERFORMING ARTS: TIBETAN PHET AND CHINESE JINGJU
126 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Sura Intamool, Miami University
Discussant: Youngji Jeon, Miami University
Compositional Techniques & Process in Phet Singing of Tibetan Buddhist Vocal Music, Chod Dbyang
Chong Lee Suan, School of Arts, University Malaysia Sabah
Reconsideration of Qi Rushan’s Early Instruction to Mei Lanfang’s Jingju Performance
Guanda Wu, Miami University
#94 CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS: WHEN CHINA MEETS THE WORLD
142 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf College
Beauty Exposed: A Survey of a Traditional Value
Jessica Gisclair, Elon University
An Assemblage of Old and New Narratives at Guanyin Shan: Transformations of a Coastal Landscape at a Leisure and Tourism Development in Xiamen
Thomas M. Lavallee, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
The Misuse of Humor in American-Chinese Communication
Xizhen Qin, The Ohio State University
Rumor and Secret Space: Anti-missionary Rumors in 19th Century China
Xiaoli Tian, University of Chicago
#114 GENDER AND ETHNICITIES: KOREA, SRI LANKA, AND THE US
46 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Ji-Eun Lee, Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant: Jinhee Lee, Eastern Illinois University
Gender Equality and the Practice of Virtue: What makes the Portrayal of Women in the Samguk, sagi Distinct From That of the Lienü Zhuan?
Sookja Cho, Washington University in St. Louis
Men’s Gaze, Women’s Life
Ji-Eun Lee, Washington University in St. Louis
Gendered Geopolitics in the Sri Lankan Armed Conflict: Santosh Sivan’s ‘The Terrorist’ and Mani Ratnam’s ‘A Peck on the Cheek’
Nalin Jayasena, Miami University
The Upwardly Mobile Indian: Class Politics in Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Unaccustomed Earth’
Madhudaya Sinha, Miami University
SATURDAY 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT: SEEING IS BELIEVING – Two bodies of recent work by Jon Yamashiro exploring World War II Japanese Internment campsites. Light refreshments.
HIESTAND HALL
SATURDAY 1:30 – 3:15 PM
WRITER’S WORKSHOP: “The Study of Oneself & One’s People in Prose,” Kao Kalia Yang
100 ART BUILDING
#5 HISTORICIZING GENDER: ZHUANG ZI, LI YU, MARTYRDOM AND HOMOSEXUALITY
124 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Liang Shi, Miami University
Discussant: Sherry Mou, DePauw University
Literary Eroticism and the Remasculinization of the Literati
Liangyan Ge, University Notre Dame
Above the Debate of Yin vs. Yang
Xinda Lian, Denison University
The Great Exodus: Constructing a New Chinese Homosexual Identity in the Twentieth Century
Liang Shi, Miami University
Images to Die for: Female Martyrdom and Perfection in The Heroine of the East Europe
Rujie Wang, College of Wooster
#40 VOCAL, ASSERTIVE, AND ENGAGED: JAPANESE CHRISTIANS IN THE MEIJI AND TAISHŌ PERIODS
142 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Elizabeth Dorn Lublin, Wayne State University
Discussant: Paul B. Watt, DePauw University
Turning Prostitutes and Destitute Women into ‘Proper’ Citizens: One Aspect of Christian Social Work in Meiji Japan
Elizabeth Dorn Lublin, Wayne State University
The Gospels of Globalism: Moral and Religious Discourses of Japanese Protestant Journalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Yosuke Nirei, Indiana University South Bend
Operating the New Ethics: Christian Morality and Social Action Inside Tokyo’s Protestant Church Fujinkai, 1890–1920
Garrett Washington, Purdue University
#93 THE CHANGING FACE: CHINA IN REFORM
126 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Stan Toops, Miami University
China in Africa: Contextualizing Economic Universalization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Richard Aidoo, Miami University
Revolutionary Idealism: Chinese Complaint Systems in the Early PRC (1949–1982)
Qiang Fang, University of Minnesota Duluth
Finding Henan Village—Development of a Migrant Enclave in Beijing
Jia Feng, Michigan State University
China and International Trade Conflict – A Growing Problem
James F. Paradise, University of California, Los Angeles
#111 ART AND POLITICS
ART MUSEUM
Chair: Robert S. Wicks, Miami University
Discussant: Ann Barrott Wicks, Miami University
Defining Identity and Memory: Chinese Propaganda Posters and Scar Art
Annie Kroshus, University of St. Thomas
Bengali Folks and Village Sources for Jamini Roy’s Paintings
Abira Mukhopadhyay, The Ohio State University
The Sino-European Line: Sinicization of French Engraving Style in the Victory Prints of Emperor Qianlong
James Wehn, University of St. Thomas
Art History and Nationalism in Early Twentieth Century China
Yanfei Zhu, The Ohio State University
SATURDAY 3:30 PM – 5:15 PM
PRESIDENTIAL PANEL – ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION ETHNICITY AND THE NATION-STATE
100 ART BUILDING
Chair/Moderator: Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf College, MCAA President
Linda Benson, Oakland University
Michael Robinson, Indiana University
Thomas Williamson, St. Olaf College
SATURDAY EVENING SPECIAL EVENTS
5:30 – 7:00 PM, MCAA BUSINESS MEETING
100 ART BUILDING
7:15 PM, MJS DINNER
WILD BISTRO, 37 E. HIGH ST., UPTOWN OXFORD
SUNDAY 9:00 – 10:45 AM
#31 PROFESSIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF NATION, EMPIRE, AND OCCUPATION IN MODERN JAPAN
124 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Susan Burns, The University of Chicago
Discussant: Tanya Maus, Wittenberg University
Colonized Professionals’ Mobility within the Japanese Empire: An Institutional Study
Wei-ti Chen, The University of Chicago
Questioning the Narrative of Democracy: “The Question of the Prosecutor Seat in the Jury Trial” and State-Civil Relations, 1926-1928
Tadashi Ishikawa, The University of Chicago
Japanese Traditional Entertainers on the U.S.-Occupied Radio
Seong Un Kim, The University of Chicago
The Prison Chaplain in Meiji Japan
Cameron Penwell, The University of Chicago
#49 ROUND TABLE: BRINGING EAST ASIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE TO LIFE: STRATEGIES FOR ENGAGING UNDERGRADUATES
40 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Moderator: Louis G. Perez, Illinois State University
Valerie Barske, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Dennis J. Frost, Xavier University
Gerald S. Iguchi, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
David Obermiller, Gustavus Adolphus College
#90 NATION BUILDING AND CULTURE BUILDING: THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN LITERARY IMAGINATION AND IDEOLOGY
142 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Hongmei Yu, Luther College
A Cultural Translation: Ling Shuhua’s Ancient Melody
Xiaoqing Liu, Butler University
Collecting and Recollecting: the Use of Objects in Wu Weiye’s Play Spring in Moling
Chengjuan Sun, Kenyon College
“Butterfly Loves the Flower:” Politics and Musical Innovation in a Ballad Adaptation of Mao’s Poem
Stephanie Webster-Cheng, University of Pittsburgh
The Romantic and the Epic–the Exchange of Poems between Guo Moruo and Mao Zedong
Haosheng Yang, Miami University
#98 “MODERNIZING” JAPAN: BODY, CHILDHOOD, AND THEATER
126 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Noriko Reider, Miami University
The Concept of Childhood and Literary Evocations in the Taisho Period
Masako Inamoto, Skidmore College
Embodied Differences: Japanese Medical Officers and the Search for an Oriental Other (1868–1912)
Roberto Padilla II, University of Toledo
A Quiet Response to A Natural Disaster: Hirata Oriza’s Play Cherry Blossoms in the Cold Wind
Guohe Zheng, Ball State University
#99 NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL VOICES AND IMAGES OF KOREANS
46 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Yu-Fang Cho, Miami University
Stories of Adjustment in America: Constructivist Conceptualization of Migration Experience of Koreans
Nahree Doh and Larry Leitner, Miami University
The Language of Identity in Chang-rae Lee’s Novel Native Speaker
Danielle Ervin, Miami University
“Female Poet” as Revolutionary Grotesque: Feminist Transgression in the Poetry of Ch’oe Sŭng-ja, Kim Hyesoon, and Yi Yŏn-ju
Ruth Williams, University of Cincinnati
SUNDAY 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM
#58 TOYOTOMI HIDEYOSHI, SAKAMOTO RYŌMA, AND A WOMAN WITH EXPLODING BREASTS: HISTORICAL FICTIONS IN POSTWAR JAPAN
124 IRVIN HALL
Chair: Susan W. Furukawa, Indiana University/Earlham College
Discussant: Marvin Marcus, Washington University in St. Louis
The Woman with the Exploding Breasts: Wondrous Stories of Itô Hiromi
Lee Friederich, University of Wisconsin - Barron County
Toyotomi Hideyoshi as Business Model
Susan W. Furukawa, Indiana University/Earlham College
Bakumatsu and Postwar, History and Fiction
Kendall Heitzman, Yale University/Carleton College
#84 SOCIAL SPACES OF WAR MEMORIES IN JAPAN AND KOREA
46 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Jinhee Lee, Eastern Illinois University
Dokdo/Takeshima: Juxtaposed Memories in Cartographic Practices
Amanda Evans, Eastern Illinois University
The Korean War Inscribed in Korean and American Popular Music
Heejin Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Divided Memory: Evaluating the Cultural History of Yasukuni Shrine
Tristan Sodergren-Baar, Eastern Illinois University
A-Bomb Memories and Representations in Postwar Japanese Art
Mitsumi Takei, Eastern Illinois University
#96 POLITICS OF WAR IN JAPAN: FROM NICHIRENISM AND LANGUAGE TO TOURISM
142 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Michael Lewis, Michigan State University
The Politics of Language in Manchukuo: Hinata Nobuo and Gu Ding
Junko Agnew, University of Dayton
Nichirenism as Modernism
Gerald Iguchi, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
From “Sightseeing of Tear” to “Peace Study”: Battlefields Tourism in Okinawa
Taku Suzuki, Denison University
#100 SEARCHING AND NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES IN THE COLONIAL/POST-COLONIAL ERA
126 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Jamie Gillen, Miami University
A Brief Survey of Sociological Conceptions of the “Malayness” Identity in Malaysian History
John Cheong, Trinity International University
Vernacular Voices: The Work and Writings of Filipino Teachers in the Colonial Philippines
Anthony Medrano, Ohio University
To ‘Meliorate the Stubborn Soil’: Cultivating an Imperial Identity in the Gardens of British India
Karen Rodriguez’G, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign