Abstracts of the 1999 AAS Annual
Meeting
March 11-14, 1999, Boston, MA
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INTERAREA, LIBRARY,
AND TEACHING
- Toward a Universal Sociology, Elizabeth
McSweeney
- Beyond Battlelines: American Political
Science and China, Stephen Herschler
- Apples and Lichees: Comparative Literature
and East Asian Studies, James St. Andre
- Lay Participation and Apprenticeship in
Burmese Buddhism, Ingrid Jordt
- A Nun’s Education in Zangskar,
Northwest India: Practical Beliefs versus Dogma and Doctrine, Kim I. Gutschow
- Servants of Amaterasu: Learning to be a
Priest at the Grand Shrines of Ise, Rosemarie Bernard
- Ideas, Identity, and Korea, Victor D. Cha
- Indian Strategic Culture, Sumit Ganguly
- A New Culture of National Security?: The
(Re)Negotiation of Civil-Military Authority in Postwar Japan, Sheila A. Smith
- The Chinese Cult of Defense: A Great Wall of
the Imagination?, Andrew Scobell
- Gendering the Cyber-Desi, S. Sudha
- Cultural Pluralism, Gender Justice and
Personal Laws in India: The State of Play, Narendra Subramanian
- Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Indonesia
and the Philippines, Jacques Bertrand
- Before Recognition: Reflections on the
DRV’s Early Wartime Trade with China (1945–1950), Christopher Goscha
- The Effects of Changing Sino-Vietnamese
Relations on the Economy of Vietnam’s Border Provinces, 1960–1990, Christopher
Roper
- Border Cooperation Between China and Vietnam
in the 1990s, Gu Xiaosong
- Dimensions of Servitude in Recent Yao/Mien
History, Hjorleifur R. Jonsson
- Captives, Victims, "Slaves": War,
Sacrifice and Slave Trade in the Wa Context, Magnus Fiskesjo
- Captives and Caste in Xiao Liangshan, Ann
Maxwell Hill
- No Earthly Salvation: Wang Mingdao, John
Sung, Watchman Nee, and the Rise of Indigenous Christianity in Nationalist China, Xi
Lian
- "More Loyal Chinese Citizens Cannot be
Found": Bethel Mission and Registration, 1927–37, Connie Shemo
- Wonderful Sympathies? Nationalist Sentiments
and the Construction of ‘Noble Christian Womanhood’ Among Protestant Women
Missionaries in Late Meiji Japan, 1904–1910, Jennifer Reece
- Indian Opium Trade, Sayako Kanda
- Asian Cotton Trade, Linda Grove
- The Flow and Fluctation of Silver Between
China and the World Market, 1830–1910, Takeshi Hamashita
- Currency Traded as a Commodity: China’s
Silver Trade in the Early Twentieth Century, Tomoko Shiroyama
- Struggle for Equality and Difference:
Women’s Movement to Reform the Equal Employment Law in South Korea, Seungsook Moon
- Negotiating the State’s Control:
Unintended Consequences of "Successful" Population Control in South Korea, Young-Rae
Oum
- Challenging the Commonplace: Sex-Education
Texts and Middle-Class Women in Postcolonial India, Jyoti Puri
- Crossing Borders, Consolidating Nations: The
Politics of Gender and Sexuality in South Asian Communities in the United States, Monisha
Das Gupta
- Prostituting Asian Women in Colonial and
Postcolonial Imagination, Lisa Yun
- Cultural Consumerism and Transnational Asian
American Women in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeater, Karen Chow
- Revising the Alter-Native Imagines of
Chinese/American Women, Meiling Wu
- Negotiating Diaspora: Patriarchy, Class, and
Christianity in the Lives of Korean Immigrant Women, Seungsook Moon
- Modernity and the Western Comprehension of
the East: Takeuchi Yoshimi, Richard F. Calichman
- Experiences of Exile and Institutions of
National Translation: Liu Xiaobo, Jon Solomon
- Providence, History and the Formation of
Modern China as Subject, Peter Button
- Reinterpreting Hu Shi’s
Cosmopolitanism, Jingyuan Zhang
- Revisiting Meanings and Motivations in
Migration Studies, Maruja M. B. Asis
- Female Labor Migration: Global Links and
Local Changes in
- Two Sri Lankan Communities, Michele
Gamburd
- Some Observations on Overseas Work and the
Future of Filipino Rice Production, Stephen Graw
Session 99. The Politics
and Policies of Historic Preservation in Korea and Japan: A Comparative Perspective on
Issues of Representation, Repatriation, and Heritage Management
- The Order of "Korean" Things: The
1916 Historical Remains Preservation Act and the Creation of National Treasures and
Monuments, Hyung Il Pai
- "Tourists and Headhunters":
Reclaiming the Indigenous Heritage in Hokkaido and Sakhalin, Tessa Morris-Suzuki
- A Case Study of the Restoration of a Samurai
House in Shikoku, Luke S. Roberts
- Preserving the Tradition: Delineating North
and South Korean Brush Painting, Frank Hoffmann
- Green Food: The Political Economy of Organic
Agriculture in China, Paul Thiers
- "Exit" from the Conventional Rural
Political Economy: Sustainable Agriculture and Peasant Empowerment in Central Java,
Indonesia, Blair A. King
- The Alchemy of Blue Gold: Incorporating the
Ecological into High-Value Shrimp Culture in Thailand, Robert Gronski
- The Mahayana Notion of Buddhahood:
Representation in Early Chinese Buddhist Art, Dorothy Wong
- Is Tenjukoku a Buddhist Pure Land?, Maria
del Rosario Pradel
- Daoxuan (596–667) on the Monastic Robe,
Koichi Shinohara
- The "Monk Painter" and the
Representation of Enlightenment, Charles Lachman
- Where’s the Tumen River? The Limits of
National Territory Along the Sino-Korean Border, 1885–1909, Andre Schmid
- Japanese Colonial Society in Korea and the
Advent of Manchukuo: Consolidation or Divergence?, Barbara J. Brooks
- "Blood-Cemented Friendship":
Congealing National Boundaries through Revolution, War, and Reconstruction,
1937–1967, Charles Armstrong
- Nature Conservation in Taiwan under Japanese
Colonial Rule, Ts’ui-jung Liu and Shi-yung Liu
- Nature Conservation in Colonial Philippines,
Arthur M. Navarro and Lou R. de Leon-Bolinao
- Nature Conservation in French Indochina, Micheline
Lessard
- Nature Conservation in Colonial Indonesia, Robert
Cribb
- "A Song at Twilight": The Auditory
Impulse in Song Landscape Painting, Richard M. Barnhart
- A World in Blue and Green: The Classical
Habitats of Japanese Landscape Painting, Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan
- A Place in Time: Thinking About the Contexts
of Constructing Places in Song Dynasty Mountain and Water Painting, John Hay
- Making Mountains: Replications of Mount
Fuji, Melinda Takeuchi
- American Qi: Representing and
Marketing the Life Force in the USA, Adam Frank
- Stereotyping and Perceptions of Asian
Culture in Children’s Literature, Jo-Ann Lynn Mullen
- The Concept of "Jing" in Texts on
the Traditional Chinese Garden, Jin Feng
- A Study of the Buddhist Relic Deposits from
the Tang (618–907) to the Northern Song (960–1127) Period, Hsueh-man Shen
- The Chinese Book—History and Culture in
Its Forms, Nancy Norton Tomasko
- Chinese Migrant Labourers and the
"Green Jade Mountain Village": A History of the Dalian Dockyards and Japanese
Colonialism in Manchuria, 1905–1931, Robert John Perrins
- Empowering Women Through Daily Life
Activities: The Consumer Co-ops in Japan, Ruth Grubel
- Matsuri: An Outsider/Insider’s View of
Akita’s Kanto Festival, John Mock
- Nine Lives: An Oral History of Life on
Okinawa During the Postwar Period, Ruth Ann Keyso
- The Gordon W. Prange Collection: Japanese
Publications Issued During the Allied Occupation of Japan, Ernest Notar and Amy
Wasserstrom
- Cultural Archetypes of Love in Popular
Female Teen Magazine Advertisements in Japan and the United States, Naoko Kimura
- Why Volunteer: Motives for Working with
People with AIDS in Japan, Akiko Takai and Thomas Hardy
- Political Crisis and the Allocation of Labor
Union Rights: Theory and a Korean Case Study, Lisa Milligan
- New Sources of Power and Energy Policy
Issues of Sri Lanka’s Electricity Generation Capacity, Cynthia M. Caron
- A House Divided: British Sikhs and the
Khalistan Question, Sue Gunawardena
- Examining the Socioemotional Implications of
Home and School Imposed "Model Minority" Stereotypes on Asian Indian Students, Sapna
Vyas
- Transnational Tresses: Beauty Salons as
Sites of Cultural Production for Cambodians in America, Lydia Breckon
- Subak: The Social Embeddedness of a Balinese
Irrigation Community, Nitish Jha
- The Three Gorges Dam and Shih-san Hang:
Archaeological Practice and Political Participation in the PRC and ROC, Erika
Evasdottir
- "The Hung Kings Founded this
Nation": The Dong Son Archaeological Culture as Symbol of Vietnamese National Unity, Tracy
A. Hoffman
- Labour, Education, and Interpretation in the
Archaeology of the Former Soviet Central Asia and Mongolia, Joshua Wright
- Politics, History and Regionalism in the
Archaeology of Dian (Yunnan Province, China), Francis Allard
- Getting a Head in Northeast China: Headship
Succession and Household Division in Eight Banner Serf Populations, 1789–1909, Cameron
Campbell
- Leaving Home in Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Century Rural Japan, Satomi Kurosu
- Family Division in Korea: Before and After
the Seventeenth Century: Aristocrats, Commoners and Slaves, Mark Peterson
- Household Division and Interitance in Qing
and Republican China, David Wakefield
- Fitting the Master Plan: Migration and
Transformation of the Subcontractual Relations of Chinese Immigrant Wives to their
Husbands’ Work, Guida C. Man
- A Thematic Approach to Heritage Language
Pedagogy, Kylie Hsu
- Miaikekkon: The Marriage of Talents of
Native and Non-Native Speaker Teachers of Japanese, Kathryn Allen
- "A World in a World": The
Influence of Chinese Poetics on the Chinese American Poetry of Arthur Sze, Dorothy Wang
- Localization and "Authenicization"
of Chinese Food in Canada, Josephine Smart
- The Change, Modification and Development of
Chinese Cultural Identity and Image through Restaurant Menus, Cen Huang
- To "Chinese" as a Verb: Interplay
between Chinese Food and Local Taste in Belgium, Ching Lin Pang
- The Hawker Centres: Negotiating Chinese Food
Identity in Singapore, Khun Eng Kuah
- Cultural Influence Upon Women’s Ways of
Knowing: An Analysis of Short Stories from Taiwan, India, and African-America, Kathleen
Seaton
- Creating a Japanese-Korean Intercultural
Space: The Asia Mime Festivals of Tobu, Japan, and Chunchon, Korea, Adam Lebowitz
- Ethnogenesis in Amdo Qinghai: Historical
Questions on the Development of Salar Identity, Arienne M. Dwyer
- Ethno-Revolution: National and International
Determinants of Ethnic Challenges to State, Kailash Mohapatra
- Politics, Security and Regional Conflicts:
The San Francisco System and the Cold War in the Asia-Pacific Region, Kimie Hara
- Pinyin Master 2.0: Interactive Tutorial for
Mandarin Pronunciation and the Pinyin System, Jeffrey Winters
- CyberChinese: A Fully Interactive Practical
Chinese Reader, San-Pao Li
- Putting the ChiNews on the Map: Creating a
Web Chinese Comprehension Program, Ying-che Li
- Dancing with the Dead: Practice, Value and
Subjectively in the Okinawan Eisaa, Christopher Nelson
- Ambivalent Journeys: Tapsa Yohaeng
and Locality in Kyongju, South Korea, Robert Oppenheim
- What is a Contract?: Law Meets the Doctor,
the Migrant, and the Prostitute, Bill Mihalopoulos
- Taking It with You: Consumer Practice in the
Kathmandu Expatriate Community, Heather Hindman
- Local Power and International Cooperation in
Northeast Asia, Katherine G. Burns
- From State to Market via the State
Governments: The Political-Federal Logic of Liberalization in India, Aseema Sinha
- Constructing High Technology Industries in
Shanghai and Beijing, Adam Segal
- The Development of an Industrial Sector in
China: The Case of Autos, Eric Thun
- Nationalism and Aggression: Perspectives,
Orientations, and Characteristics of Chinese Nationalism, Suisheng Zhao
- The Challenges of the Japanese Comprehensive
Security System, Akio Igarashi
- Taiwan’s Democratization and Its Impact
on China’s Unification, Kate Xiao Zhou
- Japan-DPRK Diplomatic Normalization: A New
Approach in Engaging the North?, Yoshihisa Amae
- Beauty Up: Aesthetic Salons in Japan, Laura
Miller
- Culture, Identity, and the Body: The
Semiotics of Chinese Beauty Product Advertising, Perry Johansson
- Spinning—Is it the Newest Craze in
Japanese Fitness Clubs?, Laura Ginsberg McGuinness
- Once in a Lifetime Beauty: Make-overs in
Taipei’s Bridal Industry, Bonnie Adrian
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