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BORDER-CROSSING SESSIONS

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Session 1. The Marine Products Trade in Early Modern and Modern East and Southeast Asia: The Political Economy of Fish, Kelp, Shark Fins, and Turtle Shells

Import and Consumption of Dried Fish in China: 1600–1900, Takeshi Hamashita

The Turtle Shell Trade of East Indonesia, 1650–1800, Heather Sutherland

A Necklace of Fins: Marine Goods Trading in Maritime Southeast Asia, 1780–1860, Eric Tagliacozzo

Foreign Trade and the Japanese State: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Exports of Dried Marine Products to China, Robert Hellyer


Session 22. Backyards: The Impact of the Regional Production Networks of Advanced Industrial Nations on their Developing Neighbors

The Strategy of Japanese Multinationals in East and Southeast Asia, Tomoo Marukawa

Comrades or Compradores: The Impact of Taiwanese Production Networks on China’s Development, Douglas B. Fuller

German Firms in Central and Eastern Europe: The Emergence of Regional Production Networks, Volker Wittke


Session 43. Consuming History, Consuming the Nation: Theme Parks in Asia

Theme Park Okinawa: Taming, Exoticizing, and Consuming Ethnic Selves, Linda Isako Angst

Consuming History: Theme Parks and the Late-Socialist Chinese State, Jennifer Hubbert

Steering the "Black Ship": Tokyo Disneyland as a Cultural Junction, Aviad E. Raz

The Old Summer Palace and the Landscape of the Other, Hai Ren


Session 62. Soft Sell and Hard Talk: Propaganda and Entertainment in Wartime Asia

Shooting Their Mouths Off: War Comedy Films and the Japanese Imperialist Imagination of Asia, Michael Baskett

"A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to the Front": Japanese Comedic Performers and the Fifteen-Year War, Barak Kushner

"All China Has Muscles Now, and We Know How to Use Them": Nationalist and Communist Sporting Cultures During Wartime, 1937–45, Andrew Morris

Propaganda as Entertainment: The Korean War through the Chinese Lens, Shaoyi Sun


Session 82. Dynamics of Performance: Japanese, Korean, and Indian Performing Arts

Musical Narratologies of Lust: Two Japanese Minyô and the Shamisen, Adam J. Lebowitz

Contextualizing the Spiritual Folklore in Modernity, Chan E. Park-Miller

Getting Lost in the Part: Religion as Performing Arts in India, Susan L. Schwartz


Session 102. Good Money/Bad Money: Legitimizing Currency Systems in Premodern Asia

Dirty Dirhams and Righteous Rebels: Money, Religion, and the State in Early Islam, Stuart D. Sears

A Fistful of Zeni: The Role of the Market in Medieval East Asian Currencies, Ethan Segal

Selling Images: Religious Talismans and Paper Currencies of Seventeenth-Century Japan, Hans Bjarne Thomsen


Session 123. Law and Literature in East Asia: Transforming and Translating Concepts of Justice

Can Law Deliver Justice? Wu Woyao’s Nine Murders and Its Antecedents, Katherine Carlitz

"But Do They Have a Notion of Justice?" Early European Translations of Chinese Crime Literature, James St. André

Putting the Court on Trial: The Translated Crime Novel in Mid-Meiji Japan, Mark Silver

Anticorruption Is Not Justice: On Heaven’s Wrath, a Roman à Clef, Jeffrey C. Kinkley


Session 145. Beyond Nomadic and Sedentary: Shared Discourses in the Mongol World Empire (Sponsored by the Mongolia Society)

"A Singular Conformity?" The Origin and Nature of the Mongol Imperial Religious Policy, Christopher Atwood

Misrepresenting Tradition: Mongol Influences on Chinese Social Legislation, Bettine Birge

The Han-lin Academy and the Creation of the Persian Royal Library-Atelier, Aboulala Soudavar

Elevation Ritual in the Mongol Empire: The Persian Perspective, Ron Sela


Session 166. ‘Cultural Genocide’ and Asian State Peripheries

West Papua: The Discourse of ‘Cultural Genocide’ and Conflict Resolution, John Otto Ondawame

Tibet and the Discourse of ‘Cultural Genocide,’ Barry Sautman

Destroying Difference, Schooling Consent: A Critical Analysis of Education Policy in Indian-Administered Nagaland, Dolly Kikon


Session 187. Globalization and Its Consequences: What Do the Experiences of Filipino Women and Others Tell Us?

The Globalization of Labor and the Politics of Foreign Debt in the Philippines: The Experience of Overseas Filipino Domestic Workers, Ligaya Lindio-McGovern

Sex Trafficking in Asia: Discontinuous with the Pre-Colonial Past? Kathy Nadeau 

Internationalization of Capital and the Trade in Asian Women: The Case of "Foreign Brides" in Taiwan, Hsiao-Chuan Hsia

Filipino Grassroots Women’s Initiatives on Sustainable Development: Insights on Alternatives to Globalization, Salvacion L. Dorado


Session 208. Migration, Civil Society, and Governance in East and Southeast Asia

Protection of Female Migrant Labor: Transnational Advocacy Networks in East and Southeast Asia, Nicola Piper

Race from the Bottom? The Nexus between Civil Society and Transnational Migrants in South Korea, Timothy C. Lim

Dominant Ethnicity, Global Migration, and Civil Society in Japan, Keiko Yamanaka