ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDDIES-MID-ATLANTIC REGION
TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING
LOCK HAVEN UNIVERSITY, 1991
1. U.S. Arms Transfers to Japan and Korea
Moderator: Parris Chang, Pennsylvania State University
Zhiduan Deng, Contemporary China Reseach Center (NYC): Peking’s Arms to ASEAN and Arab States
Jong-chul Choi, Pennsylvania State University: U.S. Arms Transfers to Japan from Korea
John Merrill, Department of State: North Korea as an Arms Supplier
Discussants: Kyung Ae Park, Franklin and Marshall College
Kerry Dumbaugh, Congressional Research Service
2. War and Mobilization: China in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s
Moderator: Margaret B. Denning, Slippery Rock University
Katherine Reist, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown: The Effect of the Chinese Civil War on the 15th US Infantry in China in the 1920s
Odoric Y. K. Wou, Rutgers University: War and Mobilization: The Impact of War on River East
Margaret B. Denning, Slippery Rock University: Ideological Participation: The Chinese Communist Military and Japanese Prisoners of War
Discussant: Thomas Curran, Sacred Heart University
3. Travel, Text, and Issues of Place in Promodern Japanese Painting
Moderator: Mae Smethurst, University of Pittsburgh
Judy Stubbs, University of Chicago: Shosho hakkei to omi hakkei: The Tradition of the Eight Views
Sandy Kita, University of Pittsburgh: Matabei’s Travelogue and the Transmission of Elite Culture to a Broader Audience
Frank L. Chance, University of Delaware: Reflections on the Mountain: Truth and Poetry in Buncho's Paintings of Mt. Fuji
Discussant: William R. LaFleur, University of Pennsylvania
4. Networks, Space and Distance in Agrarian North India
Moderator: Kum Kum Chatterjee, Pennsylvania State University
Christopher Hill, Lock Haven University: Tribals in Exile: Colonial Jurisdiction of Santals Outside the Santal Pargana
James Hagen, Frostburg State University: If Not 'Village Republics,' Then What Are They?: Space and Circles of Gangetic Village Living in Nineteenth-Century Patna District
Edward Haines, Winthrop College: State, Space, Land, and People: The Spatial Political Ecology of the Rajput State
Discussant: Kum Kum Chatterjee, Pennsylvania State University
5. Spiritual Issues in Asian Culture (Individual Papers)
Moderator: Janet M. Powers, Gettysburg College
Alan Roland, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis: The Spiritual and the Magic-Cosmic in Indian Patients in Psychoanalytic Therapy
Daniel Kealey, Towson State University: Rohit Mehta on Yoga
Charles Prebish, Pennsylvania State University: Modern Buddhist Ethics in Asia and America
Joan Roland, Pace University: Indian-Jewish Identity of the Bene Israel during the British Raj
6. Asian Mass Communications and Popular Culture
Moderator: John Lent, Temple University
Alfons Lengyel and Hong-ying Lin-Lengyel, Fudan Museum Foundation: Effects of Post-Mao Policy on Chinese Cartoons
Frederic Moritz, University of Rhode Island: Creelman at Port Arthur: Yellow Journalism and the Seeds of Prophecy
John Lent and Hsiao Hsiang-Wen, Third World Media Associates: Taiwan's Emerging Cartoon Arts - Interviews and Analyses
7. US-Asia Trade Conflicts
Moderator: Howard Spendelow, Georgetown University
Bala Subramanian, Morgan State University: Trade Conflicts between the US and its Asian Trade Partners
Dinker Raval, Morgan State University: Strategies to Resolve Trade Conflicts Between the US and Asian Countries
Bina Raval, Towson State University: Cultural Perspectives of Trade Conflicts Between the US and Asia
8. Interpretations of the Dynamism of the Confucian Tradition
Moderator: E-tu Zen Sun, Pennsylvania State University
Wing-chi Chan, University of Amsterdam: Reconstruction of Confucian Ideology on Music in the Northern Sung
Matthew Levey, College of William and Mary: Chu Hsi's Restructuring of Northern Sung's View of Human Nature
On-cho Ng, Pennsylvania State University: Reformulation of Neo-Confucian Views on Human Nature in the Period of Ming-Ch'ing Transition
9. Rare and Unique Archival and Library Resources on China and Korea in the New York Metropolitan Area
Moderator: Frank Joseph Shulman, University of Maryland, College Park
Soren Edgren, American Museum of Natural History: Geographic and Topographic Works in the Laufer Chinese Library, American Museum of Natural History, New York
Murray A. Rubinstein, Baruch College, CUNY: China in Maryknoll: The Sinologically-Related Holdings of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Robert Gardella, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy: The Montgomery Collection at Columbia University. Late Ching and Republican Period Chinese Language Private Business Accounting Records
Amy Hai Kyung Lee and Amy V. Heinrich, Columbia University: The Yi Song-ui Collection of Korean Rare Books in the C.V. Starr East Asian Library of Columbia University
10. Manifestations of Nationalism in Modern Japan
Moderator: Roy Hanashiro, University of Michigan-Flint
Roy Hanashiro, University of Michigan-Flint: Control Over the Japanese Imperial Mint: Thomas W. Kinder vs. Japanese Officials
Curtis Miles, Pennsylvania State University: Kokutai Ideology as a Critique of the Right Wmg in Prewar Japan – Minoda Muneki and Yasuoka Masahiro
Roger Purdy, John Carroll University: Press and Press Control in Japan from 1920 through 1936
Mark Lincicome, College of the Holy Cross: Borders of Possibility- Nationalism, Internationalism, and Educational Reform in Modern Japan
11. The 1990 Pakistan Elections
Moderator: Theodore P Wright, Jr.: SUNY at Albany
Theodore P Wright, Jr., SUNY at Albany: Biradaris in Punjab Elections
Mumtaz Ahmed, Hampton University: Social Mobility and the 1990 Pakistan Elections
Aftab A. Kazi, Joumal of Asian and African Affairs: Ethnicity and the Elections: the Case of Sind
Larry Garber, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs: The NDI Election Observation
Discussant: Hafeez Malik, Villanova University
12. Taiwan-Mainland Relations, 1990-1991
Moderator: Martin L. Lasater, Pennsylvania State University
Alfred Wilhelm: The Atlantic Council: The Role of the PIA in China's Reunification
Kerry Dumbaugh, Congressional Research Service: Hong Kong and Taiwan as Forces of Change in the PRC
Martin Lasater, Pennsylvania State University: Taiwan's Mainland Policy
Robert Sutter, Congressional Research Service: New Dimensions in Beijing's Taiwan Policy
13. Asian Perspectives on Education (Individual Papers)
Moderator: Eric R Luce: University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast
Albert Gardner, University of Maryland, College Park: Family, School and the Future: An Analysis of Essays by 7th-Grade Students in the People's Republic of China
Eric R. Luce, University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast: Travels Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast: A Philadelphian (Born and Bred) Encounters Bilingual Education and Buddhism in Biloxi
Keiko Ofuji, Bates College: A Teaching Method Using Picture Books for Dowa hoiku
14. Aspects of Asian Art and Religion
Moderator: Dan Cozort, Dickinson Colkge
Harry Krebs, Dickinson College: Art and Aesthetics in Japanese Religion
Dan Cozort, Dickinson College: Tibetan Tantric Iconography and Sadhana
T. Scott Smith, Dickinson College: Religious Themes in Popular Indian Cinema
Kanta Bhatia, University of Pennsylvania, and T. Scott Smith, Dickinson
College: Naga Image in Hindi Cinema
15. Roundtable: Bangladesh in 1991: From Agitation to Polls
Moderator: Enayetur Rahim, National Endowment for the Humanities
Douglas Makeig, U. S. Department of Defense
Rafiuddin Ahmed, Cornell University
Mahbubul Alam, Embassy of Bangladesh
Stanley Kochanek, Pennsylvania State University
Abdul Momen, Salem State College
16. Roundtable: San Francisco Peace Treaty and the Future of Taiwan
Moderator: David Tsai, Center for Taiwan International Relations
Christine Sirko, Center for Taiwan International Relations
Constance Johnson, Library of Congress
Richard Kagan, Hamline University
Lung-chu Chen, Yale Law School
Tsung-kuang Lin, Drake University
Discussants: Parris Chang, Pennsylvania State University
Robert Sutter, Library of Congress
17. Health Sector Issues in Chinese Modernization
Moderator: John Watt, Institute of International Education
Tan Zhang, Michigan State University: A Chinese Modernizer's Political Problem: The Case of Lin Ke-Sheng in the Anti-Japanese War
John Watt, Institute of International Education: The Rise of Nursing and the Struggle to Create a Chinese Nursing Profession
Elizabeth Armstrong, Columbia University: Effects of Ethnicity in the Development of Taiwan's Medical System
18. Japan: World War H and Post-War Issues (Individual Papers)
Moderator: Rene Peritz, Slippery Rock University
Mauricio Lorence, Independent Scholar, Brooklyn, NY: US Internment of Japanese Peruvians During World War II
Yoko Thakur, George Washington University: Writing of Social Studies Textbooks in Allied Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
Hiroko Storm, Lafayette College: Japanese Women's Peace Movement in the 1950's: Opposition to Nuclear Experiments
Robert Cambria, Cambria Consultants: No Peace for Japan: The Nagasaki Mayoral Election and the Question of War Guilt
19. Images of Women in Modern Indian Fiction and Film
Moderator: Ruth Rosenwasser, University of Pennsylvania
Ruth Rosenwasser, University of Pennsylvania: Voices of Dissent: Heroines in the Novels of Anita Desai
Janet Roberts, University of Pennsylvania: The Power of Women: Alternative Images from Sacred to Modern
Steve Derne, Hobart and William Smith Colleges: Handling Ambivalence Toward “WesternWays”: Images of' Traditional Indian Womanhood in Recent Hindi Films
20. Roundtable: Ups and Downs Of Human Rights in Asia
Moderator: Lawrence W. Beer, Lafayette College
James D. Seymour, Columbia University and Amnesty Intemational: China
Richard Claude, University of Maryland College Park and Founding Editor, Human Rights Quaterly: Philippines
Lawrence W. Beer, Lafayette College: Japan
Michael Arietti, Office of Human Rights
21. Music and Dance of Japan and the Ryukyu Islands
Moderator: Dorothy Perkins Independent Scholar, Philadelphia
Larry Stockton, Lafayette College: The Rhythm of the Sutra: Group Dynamics and Japanese Musical Traditions
Sachiyo Ito, Independent Scholar, New York City: Kuicha, the Folk Dance of Ikema Island
Dorothy Perkins, Independent Scholar, Philadelphia: Religious Festival Dances of the Ryuku Islands
22. New and Old: Resources for the Study of Asia
Moderator: Kanta Bhatia, University of Pennsylvania
Kanta Bhatia, University of Pennsylvania: Videos as a Resource for South Asian Studies
Allen W. Thrasher, Library of Congress: South and Southeast Asian Manuscripts of the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana
Karl Kahler, University of Pennsylvania: Biographical Dictionaries Recently Published in Japan: New Contributions to Japanese Historiography, or Publishers' Sales Promotions?
23. Issues in 19th and 20th Century China (Individual Papers)
Moderator: Odoric Y. K. Wou, Rutgers University, Newark
Charles Desnoyers, La Salle University: ‘China-Centeredness' and the Envoy Question: the Chinese Education Mission and Overseas Representation, 1872-1875
Jian Ouyang, Georgetown University : The Yangwu Ideology from the 1860's to the 1890's: An Interpretive Appraisal
Paul Hickey, Franklin and Marshall College: Making the New Army into a National Army- The Restructuring of Military Administration in China, 1910-1911
Shirley Chan, Harvard University: The Nationality of Hong Kong People after the Chinese Takeover in 1997
24. Sixth Workshop on First-Year Modern Chinese Language Instruction
Moderator: Dayle Barnes, University of Pittsburgh
Lynne Duke, SAIS, The Johns Hopkins University
Gilbert Roy, University of Virginia
Catherine Yu, Georgetown University
25. Form and the Subject in Modem Japanese Literature
Moderator: Linda H. Chance, University of Pennsylvania
Masayo Kaneko, Earlham College: Religiosity in Setouchi Harumi
Faye Yuan Kleeman, City University of New York: Nakagami Kenji: Literature of Liminality
Matthew Mizenko, Haverford College: Some Thoughts on the Kawabatian Subject
Rosemary Morrison, University of Pennsylvania: Unmasking a Self - Watsuji Tetsuro's Concept of Ningen and the Problem of Subjectivity
Discussant: Linda H. Chance, University of Pennsylvania
26. Artisans and Artisanal Enterprise in Indian History
Moderator: Christopher Hill, Lock Haven University
Surojit M. Gupta, Ball State University: Some Problems in the Study of Builders and their Techniques during the Period of Mughal Rule (1526-1707)
Kum Kum Chatterjee, Pennsylvania State University: Weavers and Colonialism in Gangetic Bihar (1765-1813)
Discussant: Christopher Hill, Lock Haven University
27. War, Literature, and Society in the Republic of Vietnam, 1954-1975
Moderator: Neil Jamieson, George Mason University
Neil Jamieson, George Mason University: Poetry, Songs, and Society
Nguyen Ngoc Bich, George Mason University: The War and Fiction
Nguyen Manh Hung, George Mason University: Developing Literature in Translation as an Educational Resource
28. Literature and Politics in Asia (Individual Papers)
Moderator: Bruce Robinson, National Endowment for the Humanities
Vincent Yang, Pennsylvania State University: The Art of Du Fu's Poetry
Cris Toffolo, University of Notre Dame: Alternative Pathways of Democratization: A Comparison of the Approaches of Zulfikar and Benazir Bhutto
Subrata S. Dhar, University of Hawaii at Manoa: Fixating Nationhood in Bangladesh: The Protean Landscape of Politics
29. Roundtable: Democratic Institution Building in South Asia
Moderator: Syedur Rahman, Pennsylvania State University
Harry Blair, Bucknell University: Nepal
Craig Baxter, Juniata College: Bangladesh
Robert LaPorte, Jr., Pennsylvania State University: Pakistan
Thomas Timberg, Robert Nathan Associates: India
30. Security Issues of China in the Decade of the 1990s
Moderator: Col. James Corcoran, U.S. Army War College
Ronald Montaperto, U.S. Department of Defense Intelligence Agency:
Michael Y.M. Kao, Brown University: Political Aspects; China's National Security for the 1990s
Col. Charles D. Lovejoy, U.S. Department of Defense Intelligence Agency:
Col. James R. Corcoran, U.S. Army War College: The PLA’s Role in Chinese Communist Party Rule in the 1990s
31. Religion and Politics in Ancient China
Moderator: Constance Cook, Lehigh University
David Pankenier, Lehigh University: Sources of Zhou Ideology
Constance Cook, Lehigh University: Eastern Zhou Bronze Inscriptions and the Transmission of Zhou Ideology
Michael Nylan, Bryn Mawr College: Han Revision of Zhou Ideology
Discussant: Schuyler Cammann, Independent Scholar, Philadelphia
32. Pedagogy: East Asian Language and Culture (Individual Papers)
Moderator: Charles Springer, Baltimore County Public Schools
Fumiko Nazikian, Princeton University: How to Improve Japanese Language Reading Ability
Kiri Lee, Harvard University: Japanese Tense Morpheme in Adverbial Adjuncts
David Prejsnar, Community College of Philadelphia: Integrating East Asian Studies in the Context of an Introduction to the Humanities Course: Issues and Goals
33. Back to the Future: Studies in the Evolution of South Asian International Relations
Moderator: Ambassador Howard B. Schaffer
Satu R Limaye, ERC Environmental and Energy Services: The Role of Pakistan in US-Indian Relations
Abdul Rauf Mehrpore, Voice of America: Afghanistan: Is a Settlement on the Horizon?
Deepa Ollapally, Swarthmore College: Restraint and Rivalry in Indo-Pakistan Relations: Lessons from the Past
Discussant: Matthew M. Gardner, Georgetown University
34. Beyond US-Centeredness (Individual Papers)
Moderator: Gene Chenoweth, Bucknell University
Binh Le, Pennsylvania State University at Ogontz: Realism vs. Idealism: The Dilemma of FDR’s Vietnam Policy
Quintin Michael de Borja, Institute for Research on Democracy: Rhetoric and Reality of US Intervention in the Third World: The Philippine Experience
Frederic Moritz, University of Rhode Island: Mass Media and Human Rights in Asia: A Guide on How to Get Increased Coverage
Margaret Varma, Rutgers University: Fourth World Children of India
35. Changing Interplay of Korean Politics and Economics
Moderator: John Kie-chiang Oh, Catholic University
John Kie-chiang Oh, Catholic University: ‘Korea Inc.’ in Transition
Sung-Kyung Kim, University of Maryland/College Park: Women Factory Workers in South Korea
Chinkook Lee, U.S. Department of Agriculture: An Analysis of North Korea's Economic Development with Special References to Agriculture
Discussant: David Steinberg, Georgetown University
36. Missionary Exemplars in 19th and 20th Century China
Moderator: Murray Rubinstein, Baruch/CUNY
Murray Rubinstein, Baruch College, CUNY: Robert Morrison and the Creation of a Protestant Presence in Guang Zhong, 1807-1821
Jesse Lutz, Rutgers University: Karl Friedrich Gutzlaff and the Evolution of Basel Mission Methodology
Peter Conn, University of Pennsylvania: Pearl Buck and the Missionary Committee in North China
Kathleen Lodwick, Pennsylvania State University, Mt. Alto: Margaret Moniger in Hainan
Discussant: Raoul Kulberg, Washington, DC