Abstracts of the 2000 AAS Annual Meeting
March 9–12, 2000, San Diego, CA

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Session 1: Rethinking Regions: Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Civilizational Discourses in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Pan-Asianism and Ethnonationalism: Colonial Korea, Gi-Wook Shin

Greece, Great Britain, or Yankee of the East: Figuring a New Place for Imperial Japan, Noriko Aso

The Constitution of the Nation as a Civilizational Category in Colonial India, Manu Goswami

Session 21: ROUNDTABLE: Rethinking Regions: Civilizational Discourses in Contemporary Theory and Practice

Session 41: Russia as an Agent of Change in East Asia: Historical and Contemporary Views

Distant Neighbors: Japanese Intellectuals’ Views of Russia, Tsuneo Akaha

Chinese Intellectuals’ Views of Russia, Weixing Hu

Russia and Its Far Eastern Neighbors: Contemporary Sources of Russian Views, Artem Rudnitsky

Session 61: Invisible Minorities? Ethnicity, Film, and Literature in Postwar Japan and Germany

Korean Osakas: Urban Space, Sexuality and Ethnicity in Film and Narrative, Melissa Wender

Translating Turkish Women: Gender, Immigration, and the Construction of Cultural Identity in Contemporary German Society, Rita Chin

Critical Responses and Literary Prizes: Lee Yang Ji as Zainichi Activist and Artist, Ann Sherif

Session 81: ROUNDTABLE: Between/Beyond Cultures: The Teaching and Learning of Heritage Languages in North America (Sponsored by the Association of Teaches of Japanese)

Session 101: Buddhist Arts in Diaspora

Other Wise, Other Ways, Haruko Okano

Vestiges of Buddhism Through Three Generations, Ken T. Horii

CONTINUUM—Thangkas in the Dreamtime, Karma Phuntsok

Developing a Contemporary Buddhist Architecture for Laotians in Diaspora, Thongkhoun Thomas Pathana

Session 120: Subaltern Studies in Southeast Asia (Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Council)

Writing Alternative Histories: A View from Within Subaltern Studies, Shahid Amin

Violence, Civilization, and History: Reflections from South Asia, Gyanendra Pandey

Session 140: How Modernity was Fashioned: The Politics of Clothing in China, Germany, India, and Japan

Menswear and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century China, Robert E. Harrist, Jr.

Gandi, Khadi, and Modernity: The Invention of Indian National Dress, Emma Tarlo

The "Sporty Woman" in Weimar Germany, Yumiko Washinosu

Dressed to Will: The Japanese Modan Gāru as Seen in the Context of Modern Urban Culture, Richmod Bollinger

Session 159: Text, Image, Sound: Television and Identity in Asia and Asian Diaspora

Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing: The Boundary Between Censorship and Translation of Foreign Programs in Indonesia, Gareth Barkin

This Land, This Day: The Place of Vernacular Media in the Age of Globalization, Shanti Kumar

Popular Music on Television in Hong Kong: One Country, Many Languages, J. Lawrence Witzleben

"Asian Culture" and Asian American Identity on American Television, Hemant Shah

Session 178: Class, Culture, Gender, but most of all, History? Perspectives on Research on Youth

Youth and Youth Cultures in Nairobi, Bodil F. Frederiksen

Children and Trees in Rajasthan, Ann Grodzins Gold

Race, Class, and Nationalism: Social Mobility among Sikh Teenagers in England, Kathleen Hall

Childhood and Youth in Connecticut and Banaras, Nita Kumar 

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