All panels
are presented in rooms at 1957 E Street
Session
I: Saturday, October 25, 9:00-11:00 A.M
I:
A. Room 308, Agency and Migrancy in Mobile Global Asia
I:
B. Room 310, Roundtable: Empires And Their Impact On Cultural Development:A
Dialogue Among College And Secondary Teachers
I:
C. Room 311, Bureaucrats, Merchants, and Missionaries--Rethinking Maritime
Networks in Coastal China
I:
D. Room 313, Reconfiguring Japanese Literature in the Postwar
I:
E. Room 314, South Asia: Domestic Priorities and Global Vulnerabilities
I:
F. Room 315, China Viewed Internationally
I:
G. Room 316, Oppositional Nationalisms in East Asia
Session
II: Saturday, October 25, 1:15-3:15 P.M.
II:
A. Room 308, Leaving China: Problems, Progress, and Memory
II:
B. Room 310, Roundtable: Buddhism In China, Japan And Korea:A
Dialogue Among College And Secondary Teachers
II:
C. Room 311, Laughter and Lyric: Chinese Literature of the Early Twentieth
Century
II:
D. Room 313, Japanese Cultural Nationalism and Global Japan, Then and Now
II:
E. Room 314, Violence and Non-Violence in South Asia: Another Look
II:
F. Room 315, Shifting Boundaries:Conceptions
of Shame, Gender, and Order
II:
G. Room 316, Lines in the Sand: Creating, Crossing and Transcending 'Asian'
Borders
II:
H. Room B17, Viet Nam, Thailand, China, the U.S.: Half a Century Rethought
Session
III: Saturday, October 25, 3:30-5:30 P.M.
III:
A. Room 308, Roundtable: Nexus and Networks: Bringing together Scholars
and Activists for Perspectives and Collaborative Possibilities in an Age
of Migration
III:
B. Room 310, Roundtable: Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism in Globalization
in Education
III:
C. Room 311, National, Intra-national, Transnational Approaches to Globalization
in Asia
III:
D. Room 313, Literature and Philosophy in 20th
Century Japan
III:
E. Room 314, Issues of Ethnicity in Qing and Republican China
III:
F. Room 315, Interaction With Spirits in Early China
III:
G. Room 316, Interactions and Perceptions: Historical Perspectives on Asian-Western
Relations
III:
H. Room B17, Roundtable: Expanding East Asian Studies: It Takes a Collaborative
Session
IV: Sunday, October 26, 9:00-11:00 A.M.
IV:
A. Room 308, New Histories of Change in Qing China
IV:
B. Room 310, Western Observers of Chinese Communism in War-time China
IV:
C. Room 311, Legal
and Constitutional Systems in Japan and China
IV:
D. Room 313, State/Non-State, Core/Periphery in Asian Economics
IV:
E. Room 314, Globalization and Its Effects
IV:
F. Room 315, Women in East Asian Societies
IV:
G. Room 316, North and South Korean Attitudes and Policies
Session
V: Sunday, October 26, 11:15 A.M.-1:15 P.M.
Presidential
Roundtable: Reflections on Mobile Global Asia
Complimentary
Brunch
2003 Annual
Conference Panel Presentation Schedule
Mobile
Global Asia
Session
I: Saturday, October 25, 9:00-11:00 A.M.
I:
A. Room 308, Agency and Migrancy in Mobile Global Asia
Chair:
Liping Bu, Alma College
Agents
of Social Progress: Transcultural Experiences of Chinese Students in America
before World War II--Liping Bu, Alma College
A
Woman Warrior: Crossing Boundaries of Gender, Class, and Nation--Linda
Dwyer, Independent Scholar
Returnee
Women: Can They Change Japanese Society?--Reiko Itoh, DePauw University
In
Step with a Family of Migrants: A Case Study from Rural Shanxi--Josef Gregory
Mahoney, The George Washington University
I:
B. Roundtable: Empires and Their Impact on Cultural Development:A
Dialogue among College and Secondary Teachers
Chair:
Diana Marston Wood, University of Pittsburgh
James
Gao, University of Maryland
Joan
Arno, Central High School, Philadelphia
Joseph
Selfridge, West Philadelphia Catholic High School
Lisa
Pupo, Spring-Ford High School, Royersford
I:
C. Room 311, Bureaucrats, Merchants, and Missionaries--Rethinking Maritime
Networks in Coastal China
Chair:
Robert James Antony, Western Kentucky University
Glimpsing
the Maritime World from Grain Transport Networks--Jane Kate Leonard, University
of Akron
The
Overseas Chinese Networks and Protestant Missionary Movements Across the
South China Sea--Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Pace University
The
‘Other Oriental’ Merchants: Entrepreneurial Diasporas from British India
to China, 1842-1949--Chiara Betta [in absentia], University of Indianapolis
in Athens, Greece
Pirates
and Their Networks of Accomplices in Late Imperial South China--Robert
James Antony, Western Kentucky University
Discussant:
Robert James Antony, Western Kentucky University
I:
D. Room 313, Reconfiguring Japanese Literature in the Postwar Period
Chair:
Diane C. Freedman, Community College of Philadelphia
Textual
Irruptions: Subversive Democracy in Umezaki Haruo's 'B-to fubutsushi'--Erik
R. Lofgren, Bucknell University
With
Rhyme and Reason: Yokomizo Seishi's Postwar Nursery Rhyme Murders--Sari
Kawana, University of Pennsylvania
The
Remains of the Day: Classical Japanese Tradition in Kazuo Ishiguro's
Contemporary British Novel--Wakaba Tasaka, The College of William and Mary
I:
E. Room 314, South Asia: Domestic Priorities and Global Vulnerabilities
Chair:
Ambassador Grant Smith, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute,
School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
Reappraising
India's Political and Foreign Policy Scene--Walter K. Andersen, School
of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
Paradoxes
of Indian Economic Policy and Performance--Ange Belle Hassinger, Former
U.S. Government Economic Analyst for South Asia
Central
Asian Links with Afghanistan and Pakistan--Ambassador Grant Smith, Central
Asia-Caucasus Institute,
School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
I:
F. Room 315, China Viewed Internationally
Chair:
Michael C. Wall, Georgetown University
China,
Hollywood, and the Quest for International Respect--Michael C. Wall, Georgetown
University
Using
the Past to Serve the Peasant: Chinese Archaeology in a National and International
Context--Hilary Smith, University of Pennsylvania
Bosnia:
Where the East and West Are neither Eastern nor Western--E.R. Klein, Flagler
College
I:
G. Room 316, Oppositional Nationalisms in East Asia
Chair:
Steven E. Phillips, Towson University
Chiang
Kai-shek's Anti-Communist Coalition Building in Asia in the 1950s--Steven
E. Phillips, Towson University
The
Imagined (Other) Community: Globalization and National Identity in South
Korea--Samuel Gerald Collins, Towson University
The
Confucian Conscience: Literati Voices on the Loss of National Independence
in Korea and Vietnam, 1890-1920--William F. Pore, The George Washington
University
Discussant:
Rubie S. Watson, Peabody Museum
Annual
Business Meeting and Luncheon
Harry
Harding, Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington
University
Address
by James L. Watson, Harvard University, President, Association for Asian
Studies, "Asian Studies And The Challenge Of Global Studies: Where Do We
Go From Here?"
*****
Session
II: Saturday, October 25, 1:15-3:15 P.M.
II:
A. Room 308, Leaving China: Problems, Progress, and Memory
Chair:
Charles Springer, The Community College of Baltimore County--Essex
Chinese
Immigration to San Francisco by Steamship in the Early 20th Century--Dorothy
Perkins, Independent Scholar
A
Memory of Hope: How Chinese Mission Alumnae Remember/Reinterpret Western
Women--Sue Gronewold, Kean University
Chinese
Immigrants in the United Kingdom--George C. Y. Wang, The George Washington
University
Discussant:
Charles Springer, The Community College of Baltimore County--Essex
II:
B. Room 310, Roundtable: "Buddhism in China, Japan and Korea:A
Dialogue among College and Secondary Teachers"
Chair:
Frank L. Chance, University of Pennsylvania
David
Kenley, Marshall University
Cynthia
McNulty, Oakland Catholic High School, Pittsburgh
Lallitha
John, Winston Churchill High School, Bethesda
II:
C. Room 311, Laughter and Lyric: Chinese Literature of the Early Twentieth
Century
Chair:
Jonathan Chaves, The George Washington University
Humor,
Literature, and Chinese Identity--Michelle C. Sun, Community College of
Philadelphia
The
'Tyger' in China: Xu Zhimo's May Fourth Translations of Poems from Foreign
Lands--Dorothy Trench-Bonett, Mount St. Mary's College
"The
Tragic Laughter in Lu Xun's 'Forging the Sword'--Xiaoling Yin, Bryn Mawr
College
Discussant:
Jonathan Chaves, The George Washington University
II:
D. Room 313, Japanese Cultural Nationalism and Global Japan, Then and Now
Chair:
Jeff E. Long, Bloomsburg University
Japan
and an American Family: Exhibiting a New "Global Japan" and the Newcombe
and McGees--David C. Prejsnar, Community College of Philadelphia
Japanese
Cultural Nationalism in a Mobile Global Asia--Roy Starrs, Otago University
Discussant:
Kevin M. Doak, Georgetown University
II:
E. Room 314, Violence and Non-Violence in South Asia: Another Look
Chair:
Janet M. Powers, Gettysburg College
Satygraha:
Promise andReality--Janet M. Powers,
Gettysburg College
1942:
A Historical and Fictional Reevaluation of Radical Politics--Indrani Mitra,
Mount St. Mary's College
What
Use is Ahimsa?The Reevaluation of
Non-Violence as Political Strategy in Nayantara Sahgal's Lesser Breeds--Madhu
Mitra, College of St. Benedict & St. John's University
The
Politics of Violence in South Asia: Elusive Manifestos and Fatal Friendships--Tahera
Aftab, Gettysburg College
II:
F. Room 315, Shifting Boundaries:Conceptions
of Shame, Gender, and Order
Chair:
Joanne Birdwhistell, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Gender,
Ritual Boundaries, and Civility--Li-Hsiang (Lisa) Rosenlee[Lisa
Lee], Mary Washington College
Shame
and Leaky Boundaries in Early Confucian Texts--Jane Geaney, University
of Richmond
Making
and Unmaking Boundaries:Gender
and Social Order--Joanne Birdwhistell, Richard Stockton College of New
Jersey
Daoist
as 'Nomad':Challenging Order from
the 'Borderlands'--Steve Coutinho, Towson University
II:
G. Room 316, Lines in the Sand: Creating, Crossing and Transcending 'Asian'
Borders
Chair:
Ronald K. Frank, Pace University
"A
Stranger in Mine Own House": W. E. B. Du Bois and Maxine Hong Kingston
Crossing Racial and National Boundaries--Jeannie Chiu, Pace University
Living
the American Dream: Korean War Brides in the Suburbs of New York--Amy Lee,
Pace University
Empire
Building in Nomad's Land: The Mongols in the Russo-Chinese Border Conflicts
in Seventeenth-Century Inner Asia--Diana Neyman, St. John's University
II:
H. Room B17, Vietnam, Thailand, China, the U.S.: Half a Century Rethought
Chair:
Culver S. Ladd, Payap University
Is
Thailand the Test Case?--Culver S. Ladd, Payap University
Beyond
Quagmire: Sino-U.S.-Vietnamese Relations--Kim-Thien T. Nguyen, The George
Washington University
40
Years After: a Reassessment of Ngo Dinh Diem--Robert Cambria, Cambria Consultant
Discussant:
Catharin Dalpino, Georgetown University
*****
Session
III: Saturday, October 25, 3:30-5:30 P.M.
III:
A. Room 308, Roundtable: Nexus and Networks: Bringing together Scholars
and Activists for Perspectives and Collaborative Possibilities in an Age
of Migration
Chair:
Linda Dwyer, Independent Scholar
Chris
Dumm, Executive Director, Indian American Center for Political Awareness
Seung-kyung
Kim, Associate Professor, Women's Studies; Director, Asian American Studies
Program, University of Maryland--College Park
Michael
C. Lin, Former National President, Organization of Chinese Americans, Trustee,
Montgomery College in Maryland
Jon
Melegrito, Public Relations Director of the National Federation of Filipino
American Associations
Preetmohan
Singh, Executive Director, Sikh Media Watch
Kaying
Yang, Executive Director, Southeast Asian Resource Action Center
III:
B. Room 310,Roundtable: Beyond Orientalism
and Occidentalism in Globalization in Education
Chair:
Ma Chin Mei Yang, Lincoln University
Kudzai
Muzorewa, Lincoln University
Raymond
Morgan, Lincoln University
Adeyemo
Adebanke, Lincoln University
Discussant:
Satoshi Hashimoto, Lincoln University
III:
C. Room 311, National, Intra-national, Transnational Approaches to Globalization
in Asia
Chair:
Joseph Laker, Wheeling Jesuit University
Globalization
and China: Economic, Political and Social Implications--Joseph Sams, Library
of Congress
A
Region in Motion: Singapore and the Making of (Chinese) Social and Business
Networks in Modern Asia--Hong Liu, National University of Singapore
The
Globalizing World and Mobil(izing) Asia--Hwa Shin Lee, State University
of New York at Binghamton)
III:
D. Room 313, Literature and Philosophy in 20th
Century Japan
Chair:
Richard Calichman, City College of New York
Literature
and Philosophy: an Intervention in the Soseki 'Kokoro' Debate--Richard
Calichman, City College of New York
What's
'Philosophy' Got to Do with Literary Studies--Shu Kuge, Penn State University
Mobilizing
the Global/Worldy World: Nishida Kitarô's Philosopheme 'Sekai-teki
sekai'--Lewis Harrington, Cornell University
III:
E. Room 314, Issues of Ethnicity in Qing and Republican China
Chair:
James Millward, Georgetown University
Distance,
Duty, and Division of Population: Rethinking Ethnicity in Qing China--Haiyun
Ma, Georgetown University
Chinese
Ethnicity in British Imagination--Saeyoung Park, The Johns Hopkins University
Ethnicity
and Nationalism in Republican China:The 1937 West Hunan“Resist
Japan Abolish Military Land Rents” Uprising--Edward McCord, The George
Washington University
Discussant:
James Millward, Georgetown University
III:
F. Room 315, Interaction With Spirits in Early China
Chair:
Francisca Cho, Georgetown University
'The
Arrival of the Spirits Darkens the Sun' : Two Visions of Shamanism in Early
China--Thomas Michael, The George Washington University
Rewriting
the 'One Thread' of Early Confucianism: 'Warping' the Root of Morality
in the Xiaojing--Thomas Radice, University of Pennsylvania
Maps
of the Shanhaijing: A Comprehensive Survey of the World--Masako
Nakagawa, Villanova University
III:
G. Room 316, Interactions and Perceptions: Historical Perspectives on Asian-Western
Relations
Chair:
Gregg Brazinsky, The George Washington University
The
Failed Attempt to Cooperate: Chinese Archeology and its Resistance to Foreign
Participation in the 1920s--Amy (Hwei-shuan) Feng, The Johns Hopkins University
Neither
Cold Warriors Nor Cowboys: The Mongolian People's Republic in American
Policy and Politics, 1952-1961--Yvette M. Chin, The George Washington University
"Why
I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb:" Making Sense of North Korea's
Nuclear Effort--Yufeng Mao, The George Washington University
Discussant:
Gregg Brazinsky, The George Washington University
III:
H. Room B17, Roundtable: Expanding East Asian Studies: It Takes a Collaborative
Chair:
Aya Ezawa, Swarthmore College
Michael
Barnhart, Kingsborough Community College
Fay
Beauchamp, Community College of Philadelphia
Paula
Berggren, Baruch College of CUNY
Sue
Gronewold, Kean University
Laura
Neitzel, New York University
*****
Saturday,
October 25, Evening
Reception,
5:45-6:45 P.M.
Annual
Banquet, 7:00-9:30 P.M.
Address
by the 2003 Recipient of the Distinguished Asianist Award, Lawrence W.
Beer, "Adventures with Asia: Studying Human Rights Constitutionalism Here
and There"
8:30
P.M. A Conversation on Conferences: National Priorities and Regional Issues
James
L. Watson, Diana Marston Wood, Michael Paschal
*****
Session
IV: Sunday, October 26, 9:00-11:00 A.M.
IV:
A. Room 308, New Histories of Change in Qing China
Chair:
Howard R. Spendelow, Georgetown University
Class,
Gender, and Generation in the Changing Fashion of Tobacco Consumption in
Qing China--Carol Benedict, Georgetown University
A
Chinese Emperor's Contribution to the Early Globalization: Kangxi's Reform
to the Tributary Trade System in 1685 and Its Historical Significance--Gang
Zhao, The Johns Hopkins University
Discussant:
Howard R. Spendelow, Georgetown University
IV:
B. Room 310, Western Observers of Chinese Communism in War-time China
Chair:
Maochun Yu, U.S. Naval Academy
Yenan
Press Conference: Reflections on the 1944 Visit of Catholic Press Correspondent
Passionist Father Cormac Shanahan with Chairman Mao--Father Robert E. Carbonneau,
C.P, Passionist Historical Archives
The
1940 “Battle of the Hundred Regiments” U.S. Perception and Misperception
of Chinese Communist Military Performance--Matthew Russell, The George
Washington University
An
Unexpected Role Model: Evans Carlson and the Impact of PLA Tactics, Strategies
and Doctrines on US Warfighting in WWII--Jill Russell, The George Washington
University
Discussant:
Maochun Yu, U.S. Naval Academy
IV:
C. Room 311, Legal and Constitutional Systems in Japan and China
Chair:
Theodore McNelly, University of Maryland
Multinational
Corporations and Rule of Law in China--Scott Wilson, The University of
the South
Recent
Developments in the Management of China's Prisons--James D. Seymour, Columbia
University
Recent
Constitutional Discourse and Performance in Japan:
Lawrence
W. Beer, Lafayette College and University of Colorado, Boulder
Discussant:
Jacques deLisle, University of Pennsylvania
IV:
D. Room 313, East Asian Finance and Economics: Current Challenges
Chair:
Joseph Laker, Wheeling Jesuit University
Private
Organizations And Economic Policy-Making In Socialist Viet Nam--Kate Hill
and Alasdair Bowie [in absentia], The George Washington University
Can
North Korea Bridge the Gap?IMF and
World Bank Membership for Socialist Countries-- Daniel P. Erikson, Inter-American
Dialogue
The
Core-Periphery Divide And Global Financial Governance: The Case Of East
Asian Financial Arrangements--Injoo Sohn, The George Washington University
IV:
E. Room 314, Globalization and Its Effects
Chair:
Rajmohan Ramanathapillai, Gettysburg College
Global
Mobility and Formal Fluidity: Fictions ofDesai,
Roy, and Lakhsmi--P.S.
Chauhan, Arcadia University
Globalization
and Gender Impact in the South Indian State of Kerala--Anna Lindberg, University
of Pennsylvania
Civil
Society and Globalisation in Asia--Sunil Sondhi, University of Delhi
IV:
F. Room 315, Women in East Asian Societies
Chair:
Kristin Stapleton, University of Kentucky
Looking
for a Master: Runaway Wives in Republican Beijing, 1920-1949--Zhao Ma,
The Johns Hopkins University
Discovering
the Legend of Tang Diyin: The Story of A Chinese Businesswoman in Republican
Shanghai--Juanjuan Peng, The John Hopkins University
Better
to Travel Hopefully than to Arrive: "Kojong" during the 1970s and 1980s--Eddie
Meadows, The George Washington University
Discussant:
Kristin Stapleton, University of Kentucky
IV:
G.Room
316, North and South Korean Attitudes and Policies
Chair:
Young-Key Kim-Renaud, The George Washington University
The
Impact of the Korean War on North Korea--Michael J. Seth, James Madison
University
Information
versus Identity: Sources of South Korean Policy Preferences on North Korea--Jongryn
Mo, Yonsei University and Hoover Institution
Tensions
on the Korean Peninsula: US, ROK, and the DPRK--G. Cameron Hurst III, University
of Pennsylvania
Discussant:
Young-Key Kim-Renaud, The George Washington University
*****
Session
V: Sunday, October 26, 11:15 A.M.-1:15 P.M.
Presidential
Roundtable: Reflections on Mobile Global Asia
Chair:
Joanne Birdwhistell, 2003 President, MAR/AAS
Metadiscussants:
Harry Harding, Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George
Washington University
James
L. Watson, President, Association for Asian Studies
Rubie
S. Watson, Director, Peabody Museum at Harvard University
Complimentary
Brunch Served to all Who Attend this Roundtable