Abstracts of the 2000 AAS Annual
Meeting
March 9–12, 2000, San Diego, CA
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Illustrations as Guides to Reading Late Imperial Chinese Fiction, Robert E. Hegel
The Referential and Metaphorical Modes of Reading: Illustrations in the 1640 Edition of Xixiang ji, Li-ling Hsiao
Translation and Illustration in Moronobu’s Tales of Ise, Joshua Mostow
Memory and Identity: Pictures in Japanese Ballad-Drama Books of the Early 17th Century, Melanie Trede
From "Qhatshie" System to "Administrative Village": The Transformation of Lahu Village Organization in the Chinese State, Shanshan Du
Dancing the Night Away: Lisu New Year Celebrations and Ethnic Display, Kathleen Gillogly
Educating the She Nationality People, or a Not-So-Great Recipe for Cooked (Civilized) Minorities, Charles Ettner
The Infusion of Sameness, or You Are What You Drink: Wa Rice Beer vs. Chinese Liquor Magnus Fiskesjö
How Shall I Nianfo? Let Me Count the Ways, Charles Brewer Jones
Hidden Pure Lands: Alternative and Esoteric Visions I (China), Charles D. Orzech
Hidden Pure Lands: Alternative and Esotoric Visions II (Japan), James H. Sanford
Early Modern Rinzai Orthodoxy and Nenbutsu Practice: The Case of Ungo Kiyô and the Song of Essentials for Rebirth, Richard M. Jaffe
Melodrama and the Market for Fiction: Consuming the Novel in India 1850–1900, Priya Joshi
Robinson Crusoe and His Adventures in China: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Problem of Realism and Science Fiction, Lydia He Liu
"Robinson Crusoe Stories": Translation, the Novel, and the Literary Market in Nineteenth-Century Japan, Jonathan Zwicker
Democracies, Civil Societies, and the Information Age in Asia: A Comparative Analysis, Judith A. Gillespie
Democratic Norms and the Growth of Information in Malaysia, Wei Leng Loh and Rashila Ramli
The Growth of Civil Society and the Information Age in China, Mark A. Hoyt and JuFen Wang
Contemplating Survivalist North Korea: Implications for Democracy and Civil Society in South Korea, Alvin Magid
Multiple Voices and Views: Narration in The Tale of the Heike, Michael G. Watson
Filial vs. Fraternal Organization: Competing Governmental Models in Three Kingdoms, Moss Roberts
The Structural and Symbolic Significance of the Wangs and the Shis at the Beginning of The Water Margin, Chi-hung Yim
Decentralizing the Japanese State: A Political Reform Parable, David Arase
The Political Odyssey of an Intellectual Construct: Peasant Nationalism and the Study of China’s Revolutionary History, Suzanne Pepper
Looking for Mr. Amaya from Bandung to Bangkok, Danny Unger
Functional Constructions: Communist, Developmental and Individualist, Lynn T. White III
Got a Problem? Get a Pessary: Birth Control as a Solution to Chinese Social Problems, Cheryl Barkey
‘My Mysteriously Set Time’: Discovering Ovulation and the New Birth Control Method of Periodic Abstinence in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s, Karen Callahan
The Racial Economy of Reproduction: Edward Ross, Race Suicide, and Social Control in the United States, 1900–1930, Laura Lovett
Rethinking the War-Make-State Process: War-Making and the Triumph of the Coercive State in Ancient China, Victoria Hui
Representing Shanxi: State Formation and Multi-Scale Territorial Contestation in Republican China, Hakan Friberg
"New Taiwanese": Reconfiguring Identity and Statehood in the Republic of China on Taiwan, Mark Harrison
State Building Without a State: The Role of the Refugee Camp in the Tibetan Diaspora, Ann Frechette
Representations of Real Landscapes in Premodern Japan: Tani Bunchó’s "Paintings of a Journey by Boat Through the Kumano Region," Khanh Trinh
Chòng Sòn’s Panoramic "True Views" of the Diamond Mountains: Real or Ideal Landscape? Rose E. Lee
The Creation of the Term "True Scenery" in China and Korea and its Spread to Japan, Burglind Jungmann
Sites and Scenes of Suzhou: Local Scenery in Wu School Painting, Louise Yuhas
Regulating the Printed Page, Lucille Chia
The Development of Modern Typography in East Asia, 1850–2000, Martin J. Heijdra
Following Paper Historian Dard Hunter: Understanding Craft Through Practice, Cathleen Baker
Contemporary Continuations of Traditional Chinese Book Arts: Making and Re-making Books in China, Nancy Norton Tomasko
Digital Strategies for Supporting Research: The Evolution of the East Asian Libraries World Wide Web, Maureen H. Donovan
The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative and K–12 Education Projects, Lewis Lancaster
Scholarship and Storytelling: Dissemination in a Digital Age, Namji Kim Steinemann
Introducing Undergraduates to Electronic Curricula: The China Module Project, Michele R. Ferrier and Evelyn S. Rawski
The Economic and Commercial Roles of the Vietnam People’s Army, Carlyle A. Thayer
"First" or "Second"? The Political Economy of the Korean People’s Army, Hideshi Takesada
The Chinese Defense Establishment in the Era of Jiang Zemin, Andrew Scobell
Shifting Centers and Peripheries: Ceramics of Southern Korea and Western Japan, Soyoung Lee
Technology Transfer Through Japanese FDI in Thailand: The Case of the Automotive and Electronics Sector, Rogier B. P. M. Busser
The Political Economy of Triangular Relations: Cross-Straits and Southeast Asia, Jenn-Jaw Soong
Sino-Southeast Asian Studies: Toward a New Analytical Paradigm, Hong Liu
Backs Against the Wall? The Impact of Foreign Threat on Dictatorship and Democracy in the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand, 1950–95, John Linantud
Fascination, Nostalgia, and the Engendering of the Southland, Sophie Xiaofei Tian
Lament and Nostalgia in "The Romance of the Western Mansion," Min-Min Liang
Nativism, Consumerism, and Nostalgia: The Making of Alternative Culture in Taiwan, Feng-ying Ming
Writings from the Margins: Autoethnographies and the Cultural Politics of Nostalgia, Daisy Sheung-Yuen Ng
Dubbing Culture: Mass Media and Gay Subjectivity in Indonesia, Tom Boellstorff
The Privacy Rage: Discourses of Intimacy and Suffering in 1990s China, Ralph Litzinger
"But We Are Modern!": Cinematic Travels and Global Erotics in the Filipino Queer Diaspora, Martin F. Manalansan IV
What Life Could be Like: Transnational Television, Erotics, and Fantasies of the Cosmopolitan in Late-Twentieth-Century India, Purnima Mankekar
Slave/Convict/Laborer, Indian/Malay/Chinese, Anand A. Yang
Voir/Savoir: Convicts, Photography, and Identification in Colonial Southeast Asia, Clare Anderson
How to Rule a Colony: British Imperialism and the Asian Sexualized Subject, Philippa Levine
Sugi’s Collation Notes to the Koryo Buddhist Canon and Their Significance for Buddhist Textual Criticism, Robert Buswell
The Tun-huang Platform Sutra Reconsidered: Hermeneutics and Translation, Sung-Bae Park
Gakyô: Clay Tile Sutras and the Preservation of the Buddhist Canon in Medieval Japan, Kyoko Tokuno
Words Etched in Stone: Preservation and Practice, Bruce C. Williams
The Transfer of Anthropological Power in India: The Life and Work of Biraja Sankar Guha (1894–1961), Kelli M. Kobor
National Ethnography in India: Politics of Categories and Consciousness, Laura D. Jenkins
A Tale of Two Meiji Japanese Ethnologists: Ino Kanori and Torii Ryuzo in Taiwan, Paul Barclay
China’s Transnational Scholars: Defining Sociology for a "Chinese" Nation (1912–1949), Constantine Hriskos
Yuan Jiang’s "Dong yuan sheng gai tu": A Study of its Architectural Accuracy and the Rule of Axonometric Projection, Jin Feng
A Research Companion to the Yi Jing and Related Cosmological Charts, Bent Nielsen
Creating a Sanitary City: Healthcare and Disease in the Manchurian Port of Dalian, 1910–1931, Robert John Perrins
Reclaiming Biography: The Case of Wang Guangqui and the Renaissance of Youth, Marilyn Levine
Modern Bodies: Figure Paintings by Japanese Nihonga-Artist, Ogura Yuki, Gunhild Borggreen
Caves and Graves: Or, How the Battle of Okinawa Almost Ruined Our Vacation, Gerald A. Figal
"Japan’s Neo-Nationalism?": The Case of the Legislation of Hinomaru and Kimigayo, Mayumi Itoh
Chukon-hi War Memorials: Remembering the War Dead in a Japanese Community, Barry E. Keith
Brightness and Gloom: Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japanese Tourist Guidebooks, Peter Siegenthaler
Effect of a Computer-Assisted Language Learning Program on Long-Term Retention of Japanese Vocabulary, Mayumi Takeda
What is the True Numeral Classifier? Kasumi Yamamoto
Resources on Indochina, Binh P. Le
The Meaning of Success of Social Movement in Culturally Defined Domains: An Historical and Ethnographic Study of the National Language Movement of East Bengal, Afroza Anwary
Chinese Migration to Cuba, 1847–1949: History, Memory, and Identity, Kathleen M. Lopez
Two Yoshiko’s: Negotiating Ethnic and National Identities in Manzhouguo, Dan Shao
Facing Forward: Nuanced Meanings in Frontal Poses in Chinese Portraiture, Jan Stuart
The Distinctive Features of the Monk Huirang’s Sacred Statue and Their Relationship to Chinese and Japanese Portrait Sculptures, Junghee Lee
Authenticity and Realism in Yun Tu-so’s Self-Portrait, Hongnam Kim
Sin Yunbok’s Amorous Figures and Their Possible Relationship to Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian Engravings, Saehyang P. Chung
Mobilizing Private Sector Demand in Bangladesh: A Counter-Corruption Agenda for Growth, Karen Casper
Research-Based Counter-Corruption Strategies in Cambodia, Vannath Chea
Public Perceptions of Graft and Corruption in the Philippines, Steven Rood
Attitudes Toward Corruption and Public Participation in Thailand, Nualnoi Treerat
Sacred Objects in Medieval India: Anti-Image Polemics and Their Legacy, Phyllis Granoff
Subverting the Primacy of the Human Image: Concurrent Modes of Representing Sacred Presence in Early India, Sonya Rhie Quintanilla
Image Worship in Daoxuan’s Vinaya Commentary, Koichi Shinohara
The Earliest Images in Ancient Cambodia: An Indian Facade? Robert L. Brown
Reconfiguring the Housewife Fantasy: Indonesian State Ideology and Minangkabau Daughters’ Desires, Evelyn Blackwood
Feminine Celebrity and the Pursuit of Masculine Prestige in Javanese Performances, Nancy I. Cooper
Sustaining "Power of Life" in Immigration: Minnan Women and their Patriarchal World, Siumi Maria Tam
Dream Girl: Imagining the Girl-Next-Door in a Japanese Popular Music Genre, Christine R. Yano
The Philippines and Japan in the Context of "Intra-Asian Trade," Yoshiko Nagano
Japan-Philippines Socio-Economic Relations: The Role of Kobe-Osaka, West Japan, Shinzo Hayase
Diplomacy Under Duress: Philippines-Japan Diplomatic Relations During the Japanese Occupation, 1943–1945, Ricardo T. Jose
Neutralize the Philippines? Political Dynamics of U.S.-Japan-Philippines Relations in the 1920s and 1930s, Lydia N. Yu-Jose
Translating Theory: A Genealogy of Area Studies Knowledges, Michael Dutton
Comparing the Temporalities of Nationalism, Akhil Gupta
Comparability of Capitalist Modernities, Hyun Ok Park
Ghostly Comparisons, Harry D. Harootunian
Military Might and Foresight: The Contribution of the Dutch Presence in Asia to the Acquisition of Armaments in Togukawa Japan, Martha Chaiklin
A Feigned Peace? Maritime Power and Ritual Diplomacy in the Relations Between the Sultanate of Ternate and the Dutch East India Company, 1700–1750, Hendrik Niemeijer
Technologies and Protocols of Criminality in the Dutch East India Company Empire, Kerry Ward
Lighting Indie: Coastlights, Beacons, and Buoys in Anglo/Dutch Colonial State Expansion, 1870–1910, Eric Tagliacozzo
Constructing/Deconstructing a Cultural Identity: Fictional Writings by Chinese American Authors, Li Zeng
Construction of Chinese and Non-Chinese Identities in the United States and Japan, Zhigang Liu
Chinese and English: Two Languages and One Conceptual System? Ming Feng
Globalization, Gender, and Nation: Transnational Feminist Activism and the Unsettled Issue of the "Military Comfort Women" in Japan and Korea, Nicola Piper
Homeless Abroad: Migration, Alienation, and Liminality in the Ethnic Homeland, Takeyuki Tsuda
The Memory of Difference: Western Minorities in Manchukuo, Thomas Lahusen
The Colonizer’s Anxieties: The "Japanese" in "Manchuria," Mariko Tamanoi
"Blurring Boundaries": Japanese Colonialism and Transnational Citizenship in Manchukuo, 1932–1945, Taro Iwata
The Strategy of Sovereignty Amidst Transnational Ideology in Early Manchukuo, Suk-Jung Han
The Quadrature of the Circle: Identity Politics and Russian Emigration in the State of Manchukuo, Sabine Breuillard
Hong Kong Muslim Identities: Assimilation vs. Idiosyncrasy, Caroline Plüss
Modernization, "Spiritual Development" and the "Systematic Elimination" of Orang Asli from Malaysian Life: Islamicization as Political Ethnocide, Robert Dentan
A Mosque of One’s Own: On Being Muslim, Hui and Woman in Contemporary China, Maria Jaschok
Islamic Identity in Cyberspace: Cairo to Indonesia, Ronald Lukens-Bull
Free and Unfree Labor in Qing China, Cameron Campbell and James Lee
Labor Markets and Labor Migration in Early Modern Japan: Koriyama Town, Miyuki Takahashi
Organization of Labor and Labor Markets in Early Modern Japan, Mary Louise Nagata
