Abstracts of the 1998 AAS Annual Meeting
March 26-29, 1998, Washington, DC

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INTERAREA, LIBRARY, AND TEACHING

Session 16: Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Progress and Problems

• The Politics of Multilateral Economic Cooperation in Northeast Asia: China and the TRADP, Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
• The Tumen River Area Development Program and Russia’s Interests, Vladimir Portyakov
• Russian-Chinese Relations: Popular Attitudes Toward China and Chinese in the Maritime Territory, Tamara Troyakova

Session 17: The Chinese Mechanism at the Core of Japanese Literary Practice

• Making History with Anthologies: The Kaifuso and its Project, Paul Rouzer
• Uses of the Strange: The Chinese Sources of Ugetsu Monogatari, Stephen Roddy
• China in the Construction of Quotidian Japanese Reality: Oka Hakku and Sawada Issai’s Use of Chinese Huaben Vernacular Fiction (1720–1750), Emanuel Pastreich
• Master, Thy Name is "Woman, Chinese, Other": Inverted Coloniality in Taisho Sinophilic Fiction, Atsuko Sakaki

Session 18: Strangers in the Pleasure Quarters: Imperial Prostitution in China

• White Russian Prostitution in Shanghai: 1920–1949, Marcia R. Ristaino
• Sex Work and the Work of Sex: Japanese Women in Colonial Capitalism, Mark Driscoll
• Prostitution as Privilege: The Shanghai "American Girl" of Treaty Port China, Eileen P. Scully
• The Gendered Edge of Japanese Imperialism: Jôshigun as Agents of Expansion in China, Barbara J. Brooks

Session 34: Individual Papers: Politics and History in South and Southeast Asia

• From Pan-Indianism to Pan-Sikhism: An Analysis of Ghadar and Khalistan, Sue Gunawardena
• Settling the Frontier: Development of a "Limited Raj" in Colonial Peshawar, Robert Nichols
• Resonance: Nation and Umma in the Indies, Michael Laffan
• Rebellions and Smuggling: Forms of Anti-Colonial Resistance in Vietnam, 1890–1920, Philippe Le Failler
• The Fate of Sacrifice: Headhunting in the History of the China-Southeast Asia Frontier Area, Magnus Fiskesjo

Session 35: Textbook Nationalism, Citizenship, and War

• Textbooks, Citizenship, and the Pacific War: TransPacific Perspectives on Contemporary Conflicts, Mark Selden
• Textbooks, Citizenship, and the Pacific War: TransPacific Perspectives on Contemporary Conflicts, Laura Hein
• Education, Nationalism, and Internationalism: A Historical View of Ienaga Saburo’s Textbook Lawsuit, Hiromitsu Inokuchi
• Whose War are We Teaching?: Vietnam in American Classrooms, Steve Potts

Session 36: Gender, Power, and Politics in East Asia: Looking at China, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea

• The Impact of Gender on Power and Politics in Rural China, Sabine Jakobi
• Meanings of Gender and Politics in Hong Kong, Lisa Fischler
• Politics without Women? Women without Power?: The Concept of Gender and Power in Japanese Politics, Kerstin Katharina Vogel
• Gender, State, and Power in South Korea, Bong-Scuk Sohn

Session 37: Poster Sessions

• Reading the Architectural Experience from an Ancient Chinese Poem, Jin Feng
• Dotting the Dragon’s Eyes: The Semiotics of the "Verse Eye" in Classical Chinese Poetry, Da’an Pan
• Reconstruction of Human Conceptualization through Distinct Gradation Along Certain Continuum: Linguistic Evidence and Archaeological Interpretation of Patterned Cognitive Behaviors in Early Chinese Scripts (ca. 1750 b.c.–a.d. 220), Jian Tang
• Windows to the World: Display Mannequins in Popular and Commercial Culture in Contemporary China, Edward S. Krebs
• A Pilot Project Report: A Chinese Biographical Database Website, Marilyn Levine
• Work-Related Behavior and Attitude in Taiwan and China: Evidence from Survey Data, Wenfang Tang
• Labor Strike Activity in China, 1989–1996: Causes and Trends, Harry J. Williams
• Running in Place: Election Campaign Continuity in an Era of Institutional Transition in Japanese Politics, Dyron Dabney
• Japanese Returnees’ Attitudes Toward a "Home Study Record Card" at Saturday Japanese Language Supplementary Schools in the U.S., Noriko Fujioka
• Working with People with AIDS in Japan: Volunteer Responses, Akiko Takai and Thomas Hardy
• Local Interpretation of Philippine National Educational Goals: A Community in Conflict with Itself, Martha A. Adler
• Exhibiting Hand-painted Cambodian Shop Signs in Cambodian Diaspora, Laurie Beth Kalb
• A Study of Yi, Mun-yeol: The Parallelism which Homologizes with the Circular View of History, Hye-sil Choi
• Chinese-American Language and Culture Acquisition, Kylie Hsu
• Development, Environment, and Security Around the South China Sea, David Rosenberg

Session 55: Authorizing Madness: Insanity and the Creation of Meaning in Modern Japan and China

• Caught Between Inspiration and the Institution: The Madness of Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Pamela Abee-Taulli
• Memory, Forgetting and Depictions of Madness in Contemporary Chinese Fiction, Mary Jacob
• Yamamoto Michiko’s "Kusa wo karu otoko": The Madwoman in the Mirror, Donna Storey

Session 72: Crossing Boundaries: Bridging Asian American Studies and Asian Studies, Part One: Crossing Oceans: How Chinese is the Chinese Diaspora? Sponsored by the China and Inner Asia Council (see session 90)

• Elaborations on the Idea of "Home": The Changing Relationship Between Taishan County and Overseas Taishanese, 1849–1989, Madeline Y. Hsu
• Studying the Chinese Diaspora: Chinese in the Americas, Evelyn Hu-DeHart
• Conceptualizing Chinese Overseas Migration, 1850–1949, Adam McKeown

Session 73: Roundtable: Communities in Nature: Romance, Disillusionment, Realities in South and Southeast Asian Settings

Session 90: Roundtable: Crossing Boundaries: Bridging Asian American Studies and Asian Studies, Part Two: Crossing Disciplines: Where Do Asia and America Meet? Sponsored by the China and Inner Asia Council (see session 72)

Session 91: Constructing the Local in Asian Popular Performing Arts

• How Far Can Local Go? Place and the Politics of Identity in Japanese Popular Music, Christine R. Yano
• Cantopop and Mandapop in Pre-postcolonial Hong Kong: Identity Negotiation in the Performances of Anita Mui Yim-Fong, J. Lawrence Witzleben
• Constructing the Popular in Sundanese Wayang Golek Purwa of West Java, Indonesia, Andrew N. Weintraub

Session 109: The Grateful Dead?: Funerary Ritual in Late-Capitalist East Asia

• The Daughter Who Didn’t Cry at Her Father’s Funeral: Status, Conscience, and Heterodoxy in Rural Chinese Death Ritual, Ellen Oxfeld
• Catholic Ancestors: Funerary Ritual in Post-Deng Rural Southern China, Eriberto P. Lozada, Jr
• Muslim Funerals: Creating Sacred Space Through Movement in the Contemporary People’s Republic of China, Maris Boyd Gillette
• Funerals as Commodities in Contemporary Japan, Hikaru Suzuki

Session 110: The Asian Renaissance and the Pacific Century: Citizen, Class, State, Nation and the Dynamics of Regionalization and Globalization in the Asia-Pacific

• Building A Pacific Community?: The Geo-Political Imagination and the New Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific, Mark T. Berger
• Locating the Contours of the State: Nationalism, Globalization and the Dynamics of Thailand’s Chareon Pokphand (CP) Group, Jasper Goss
• Culture, Social Movements and Asian Democracy: What Does "Democracy" Mean in East Asia?, Miyume Tanji
• "Leisure" and "Culture": The New Ruling Technologies of the Chinese State in the 1990s, Jing Wang

Session 127: Specters of the West

• The West and the Problem of Address, Naoki Sakai
• The Question of Provincialising Europe: A Second Take, Dipesh Chakrabarty
• Specters of Western Feminism in U.S. Asia Studies, Tani E. Barlow
• Universal Areas: Asian Studies and Cultural Theory in a World in Motion, Pheng Cheah

Session 128: Political Business and Asian Development

• Political Business in Malaysia, K. S. Jomo
• Political Business in Malaysia, Edmond Terence Gomez
• KMT, Inc.: Party Capitalism in a Developmental State, Karl J. Fields
• March of the Entrepreneurs: Military-Owned Enterprises and Marketization of the Chinese Economy, Thomas J. Bickford
• The Determinants of Alternative Forms of Corruption in Japan, South Korea, and Thailand, Andrew Wedeman

Session 129: Responses to Socio-Political Issues in Contemporary South and Southeast Asian Visual Culture

• Ancient Harappa and the Politics of Modern South Asia, Geoffrey Cook
• The Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust: Art and Activism in Contemporary India, Walter Smith
• From Twenty to Two: Transforming Balinese Images of Fertility to Address Indonesia’s Demands for Population Reduction, Kaja M. McGowan
• Witness to History, Voice of the Voiceless: Dadang Christanto in 1990s Indonesia, Astri Wright

Session 147: Across the Divide: Identity and State in the Uplands of Southwest China and Southeast Asia, Part One: The Comparative Frame (see session 166)

• "Dual-ing Frontiers": Examining Regional and Imperial Representations of 19th Century Yunnan, David Atwill
• The Nuosu Are Not Kachin: Re-Configuring Upland-Lowland Relations, Ann Maxwell Hill
• Who We Are Depends Upon Where We Are, F. K. Lehman

Session 148: Humanizing Sino-Japanese Relations: Collaboration and Conflict Reconsidered, 1870–1945

• Before Imperialism: Chinese and Japanese Interactions, 1870–1905, Douglas Reynolds
• Japan’s Guiding Hand: Hattori Unokichi in Beijing, Paula Harrell
• Studying the Enemy: Modern Japanology in Republican China, 1925–1945, Christiane Reinhold
• Beyond Politics in Wartime: Zhou Zuoren, 1931–1945, Yan Lu

Session 163: Roundtable: Teaching and Learning through Collaborative Programs: The Case of Program on India and China

Session 166: Across the Divide: Identity and State in the Uplands of Southwest China and Southeast Asia, Part Two: Boundaries, Subjects/Citizens and Identity (see session 147)

• Thai Yai, Shan, and Tai Long: Political Identity Across State Boundaries, Nicola Tannenbaum
• State Policy and the Changing Boundary of Yi: Apudumo Ideology to Link Bimo Religion Groups in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guixhou, Wu Ga
• Non-Subjects Framed: Lowland States and Highlander Identities in the Sino-Southeast Asian Uplands, Hjorleifur Jonsson

Session 167: Roundtable: Technology Linking Academic Scholarship and Asian Studies Teaching (Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching About Asia)

Session 181: Processes of Privatization in China and Vietnam and their Social and Political Implications

• The Impact of Private Enterpreneurs on Social and Political Development in China, Thomas Heberer
• Private Enterpreneurship and Sociopolitical Change in Vietnam, Arno Kohl
• Exploring the Meaning of Citizenship Among China’s New Enterpreneurs, Kristen D. Parris
• State-Private Business Interaction in Vietnam: State Management of Network Capitalism, Rolf Herno

Session 182: Asia’s Environmental Movement in Comparative Perspective

• The Making of Anti-Nuclear Movements in East Asia: State-Movements Relations and Policy Outcomes, Su-Hoon Lee
• Culture and the Asian Style of Environmental Movement, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
• The Contradictions and Synergy of Environmental Movements and Business Interests, Yok-Shiu Lee and On-Kwok Lai
• The Impact of Democratization on Environmental Movements, Francisco Magno and Alvin Yiu-cheong So

Session 183: Trade, Style, and Society Around the Indian Ocean and Beyond, 1400–1600

• Thailand: Buddha Images for Worship, Ceramics for Export, Hiram W. Woodward Jr
• Gujarati Textiles and the Indian Ocean Trade: A View from Eastern Indonesia, Ruth Barnes
• "Lord of the Eastern and Western Oceans": Politics and the Indian Ocean Trade in South India, 1400–1600, Phillip B. Wagoner

Session 197: Japan in Hong Kong; Hong Kong in Japan

• Domestication of Hong Kong Culture in the Japanese Context, Satohiro Serizawa
• Japanese Manga Coming to Hong Kong, Heung Wah Wong
• Experiencing Hong Kong Culture in Cyberspace, Ellis Lau
• Japanese Popular Music in Hong Kong, Masashi Ogawa

Session 198: Roundtable: Dissonance in the Policy and Practice of HIV/AIDS Discourse: Case Analyses of Better Linkages from Southeast Asia

Session 199: New Forms of Labor and Identity in Rural Asia

• Work, Identity, and Food Security in Rural India, Vinay Krishin Gidwani
• Industrial Shifts: Refiguring Labor and Gender Identities in Contemporary Thailand, Mary Beth Mills
• Money Talks, Labor Walks: Enterprise, Property, and Social Identity in a Chinese Rural Market Town, Gregory Ruf

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