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INTERAREA SESSIONS

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Session 2. National Ornaments: East Asia and Exhibitionism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

The Economics of Identity: Expositions, Entertainment, and Late Meiji Japan, Angus Lockyer

Zhang Jian and China’s First Museum, Lisa Claypool

The Phoenix Hall and the Japanese Lady’s Boudoir: Gender and National Identity at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, Lisa K. Langlois

Unruly Objects and the Problem of Display: Managing Things at the Nanyang Exposition of 1910, Susan Fernsebner


Session 3. Roundtable: Language Policies in Asia


Session 23. Roundtable: The India-China Relationship: What the U.S. Needs to Know


Session 24. War and Nation-Building: The Construction of National Memory in Asia

Speaking Power to Truth: Military Commemoration in Postwar Burma, Mary Callahan

Revisiting Wartime in Contemporary China, Rana Mitter

The Korean War and Local Memory, Sheila M. Jager

Invocations of War and National Identity in Viet Nam, Christoph Giebel


Session 44. Civil Society of South and Southeast Asia and the Empowerment of Women

Grameen Bank and Uttoron: The Role of Civil Society in the Empowerment of Women in Bangladesh, Sharfal Alam

Many Voices but No Chorus: Growth of Women’s Issues and Civil Society in Thailand, Darunee Tantiwiramanond

Human Rights Abuse and Women’s Organizations in Bangladesh: A Test of Sociological Institutionalism and Feminist Theory, Afroza Anwary


Session 45. China Under Japan: The Wang Jingwei Regime

In the Name of Chiang Kai-shek’s Brother-in-Law: Chinese Wartime Military Intelligence Operations in Hong Kong and Macau, Jinbao Qian

Control and Smuggling: The Trade of Cotton Products in Wartime Shanghai, May-Li Lin

Scales of Interest, Duty, and Weakness: French Diplomats and Colonial Authorities in East Asia Facing the Wang Jingwei Regime, 1941–1945, Marianne Bastid-Bruguière

The Control of Material Resources in the Lower Yangtze Area, 1937–1945, Christian Henriot


Session 46. Looking Back with Anger and Nostalgia: Re-working Earlier Cultural Productions and Re-making Contemporary History in East Asian Popular and High Culture Between the 1960s and 1990s

Jane Bond, Irma Vep and the Modern Woman: Icons of Modernity in 1960s Hong Kong Cinema, Daisy Sheung-Yuen Ng

Remembering Girlhood, Mothers, and Grandmothers in a Different 1950’s South Korea: "National" History of Other Places in O Chong-hui, Jin-kyung Lee

Avant-Garde Theater in Post-Socialist Beijing: Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the ‘Left,’ Yue Meng

Unglamorous Cinderella and Witches in the Basement: Japanese Girls’ Comics and the Television Drama Shomuni (1998–1999), Yuki Terazawa


Session 63. Mariners, Merchants, and Missionaries: America and India in the 19th Century

Factors Affecting United States Trade with India in the Nineteenth Century before 1857, David G. Dickason

Yankee Mariners and Hindu Practices, Susan S. Bean

Nineteenth-Century American Missionaries and India: The View from the Field, Carl T. Jackson

Colonialism, Conversion, and Vernacularism: Assam and American Baptists in the Nineteenth Century, Dilip K. Basu


Session 64. Practical Canons of the Theravada: Describing Local Textual Worlds

Monastic Biographies as Practical Canons in Contemporary Burma, Jason Carbine

How to Be Buddhist: Theravadin Identity and Textual Authority in Cambodian Practical Canons, Anne R. Hansen

History-Writing as Buddhist Practice in Premodern Sri Lanka, Stephen Berkwitz

A Narrative Practical Canon: The Collection of Pre-Sumedha Stories in Pali Texts, Karen Derris


Session 65. Roundtable: Structuring the Asian Field Study Experience for Undergraduates and Educators (Sponsored by the Committee for Teaching About Asia)


Session 83. Political Behavior in Developing Democracies of Asia

Support for Democracy in Thailand, Robert B. Albritton and Thawilwadee Bureekul

The Political Significance of Insignificant Class Voting, Ko-Wei Hu, Yun-han Chu, and You-Tsung Chang

Democratic Legitimacy in Hong Kong, Hsin-chin Kuan and Siu-kai Lau

The Dynamics and Sources of Voter Turnout in South Korea, Junhan Lee and Doh C. Shin


Session 84. Medical Issues and Public Health in the Japanese Imperium

Between National Policy and Local Practice: Cholera, Gotô Shimpei, and the Formation of the "Hygienic State," Susan L. Burns

Colonial Power and Public Health in Japanese-held Korea, Barbara Brooks

Combating Illness and Constructing Public Health: Disease and Hospitals in Japanese-controlled Southern Manchuria, Robert J. Perrins

Writing Western Hygiene in Nineteenth-Century East Asia, Ruth Rogaski


Session 103. The Political Dynamics of Financial Crisis Management in Asia

Japan’s Counterweight Strategy: Cooperatively Challenging the US Agenda in International Finance after the Asian Crisis, Saori N. Katada

Moving Beyond Bilateralism in Financial Crisis Management? Japan and the Asian Monetary Fund, Jennifer Amyx

Malaysia and International Financial Cooperation: When Does it Play, When Does it Opt Out? A. Maria Toyoda


Session 104. Global Asia: Consumption, Identity, and Cultural Power

The Cultural Politics of Pokemon Capitalism, Anne Allison

Bringing Consumption Home: Mobile Miao and the Question of Rural Ethnoconsumerism in China, Louisa Schein

Consuming America: Japanese Expatriates and the Negotiation of Identity, Laura Ginsberg-Spielvogel

Kimono Kitty: Marking "Asia" in Japanese Global Products, Christine R. Yano


Session 105. Nationalism and the Writing of History: The 2001 Textbook Crisis in Japan, China, and Korea

Some Problems Concerning Japanese Textbooks for Middle School Students, Seung-ki Hong

Official Histories, Official Protest: China’s Reaction to the Textbook Issue, Xiaorong Han

Contemporary Japanese Views on the Asia-Pacific War: A Background of the Textbook Controversy, Hiromitsu Inokuchi


Session 124. From Science to Society: Social Darwinism in East Asia

Social Darwinism’s Progressive Posture in Meiji Japan, Julia Adeney Thomas

Struggle for National Survival: Social Darwinism and Chinese Eugenics, Juliette Yuehtsen Chung

Nature, Nation, and Social Darwinism in Early Twentieth-Century China, Fa-ti Fan

Social Darwinism and the Japanese Right Wing in Interwar Japan, Christopher W. A. Szpilman


Session 125. The Culture and Politics of the Internet in Asia: Empirical, Theoretical, and Methodological Issues

Targets of Electronic Attention in Asia: Who Watches Whom in Cyberspace? Matthew Ciolek

The Internet and Openness in Chinese Society, Guo Liang

Online Chinese-Language Sphere as Global Public Sphere, Guobin Yang

The Internet in the Southeast Asian Academy: Emergent Technology and Uneven Development, Eric Thompson


Session 144. Poster Sessions

Zoomorphic Divine Animals and Animal-Human Relations in Ancient China since the Bronze Age: Generative Bases, Cognitive Processes, and Aesthetic Synthesis Revealed from Complex of Archaeological Artifacts, Mythological Evidence, Religious Scriptures, Linguistic Systems, and Early Historical Textual Fragments Existing in the Region, Jian Tang

The Indian Ocean Rim: Towards "New Regionalism"? Kuldeep Kaur

Images of China: Austro-Hungarian Political Cartoons on China 1894–1914, Monika Lehner

Bali’s Transition from a Traditional to a Modern Society: Some Op-Art Warnings about the Tradeoffs, C. Richard Ostrom

Urban Growth, Housing, and Economic Interaction from Bangkok’s "Congested Communities," Curtis N. Thomson

"The Indigenous Gentleman": George Keyt and the Making of Sri Lankan Modernism, R. Byron Breese

Keeping the Jungle Out: Discourses on Crime and Deviance in Rural North India, Julia Wardhaugh

Indian Dance in the United States, Malini Srirama

Unequal Beginnings: Social Class and Parenting in Japan, Yoko Yamamoto

What Does Amae Mean to Japanese Today? A Multifaceted View of the Concept of Amae, Kazuko Y. Behrens

Women Organizing to Impact Legislation: The Role of Human Rights Groups in Creating the 2001 Domestic Violence Prevention Law in Japan, Ruth Grubel

Beyond Borders: Transnationalization of Japanese Domestic Actors in Global Atmospheric Politics, Atsuko Sato

The Path of Grammar Change in the Japanese Connective Nagara, Hidemi Sugi

The Japanese Challenge to Conventional (Western) Theories of Corporate Trade Policy Preferences, Mark Elder

Interpersonal Conflict Resolution: Mongolian Men as Cultural Text(s), Andrew Jared Critchfield

The Slanting Parallel Lines: A Study of the Oblique Projection in the Rule-Line Depiction of Architecture, Jin Feng

Building an Academic Library’s Chinese Collection from Next-to-Nothing to Something: A Case Study, C. David Hickey

China’s Internet Policy between Technological Development and Political Reaction, Jens Damm

Islamic Calligraphy in China: Traditional Styles and Recent Innovations, Ma Yiping


Session 146. Towards a Modern Theatre in East Asia: Tokyo as Prism

New Theatrical Developments in Tokyo: 1890–1930, Shinko Matsumoto

The Development of a Modern Chinese Theatre: The Japanese Connection, Steven Liu

The Movement Towards a Modern Korean Theatre, Jae-Oh Choi


Session 147. Beyond Transnationalism: Recontextualizing the Chinese Diaspora

The Historical Ecology of Chinese Migration, Philip A. Kuhn

"Where are the Women?" A Global Perspective on Cantonese and Punjabi Male Immigrations to the United States, Sucheta Mazumdar

In-Between Places: The Key Role of Localities of Transit in Chinese Migration, Elizabeth Sinn


Session 167. Present Claims on Asian Pasts

Japan’s Reflexive Apologies, Alexis Dudden

The Artists’ Turn, Lindsay French

In the Name of Our State: Anti-Communism, Human Rights, and Dissension in South Korea, Namhee Lee


Session 168. Reassessing Asian Economies Five Years After the Financial Crisis of 1997

East Asian Recovery from Crisis and Sustainable Growth Prospects, K. S. Jomo

The Asian Financial Crisis: Some Lingering Controversies, Tun-jen Cheng

Thailand after the Crisis: Transparency, Good Governance, and Challenges of Upgrading in the Sugar Industry, Ansil Ramsay and Richard F. Doner

Korean Business Groups in the Middle of the Asian Crisis: Tracking Down Networked Changes, Eun Mee Kim and Dukjin Chang


Session 169. Caught in Crossfire: Korean, Taiwanese, and Tibetan Writers under Colonial Rule

A Place of Their Own: Korean Woman’s Literature in Manchuria, Jina Kim

Deckhands, Paperboys, and Capitalists: Early Twentieth-Century Proletarian Literature in Taiwan and Japan, Bert M. Scruggs

Imposed Identities: Creating Tibetan Literary Voices in the PRC, Patricia Schiaffini


Session 170. Politics, Culture, and Christianity in East Asia: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives on Indigenization

Kil Son-ju (1869–1935) and Millennialism: The Culture and Politics of Protestantism in Colonial Korea, Chong Bum Kim

Taking the "Foreignness" out of Christianity: The Story of the City Evangelization Movement in Weixian, Shandong, John R. Stanley

The Role of Conversion in Establishing Civil Society in Hong Kong, Lida V. Nedilsky

States, Nationalism, and the Institutionalization of Christianity: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Korea, Japan, and Taiwan (1880s–1945), Jiweon Shin


Session 188. Roundtable: Opium in Asian History, 1600–1900


Session 189. Roundtable: Asian Languages in the Area Studies Curriculum: Challenges Ahead (Sponsored by the Chinese Language Teachers Association)


Session 190. Individual Papers: Interarea

An Interpretation on the Peculiarities of Sakra Buddhist Rituals in the Koryo Dynasty (918–1392), Jee Won Ahn

The History of Hinin Settlements in Early Modern Osaka, Christian M. Hermansen

Buddhism and the Kings of Wuyue, Yi-hsun Huang

Takuga: Religious Authority in Fourteenth-Century Japan, Sybil Anne Thornton


Session 209. Localizing "Universal Knowledge" and Ordering Society in Modern East Asia

Packaging the Wonder-Full World for Sale: Popular Science Magazines in Interwar and Wartime Japan, Hiromi Mizuno

Investigating and Ordering Chinese "Society," 1890s–1930s, Tong Lam

In Search of Independence and Freedom: The Origins of Constitution in Korea, Jacqueline Pak

The Emergence of Rinrigaku (Ethics) in Meiji Japan: Unifying Society through the Creation of a Common Moral Outlook, Richard Reitan


Session 210. Edgy Things: Asserting Identities through Material Culture

"Indigenism," Identity, and the Dictatorship in Contemporary Philippine Painting, Cherubim A. Quizon

Piña Textiles and the Project of Philippine Nationalism: Negotiating Regional Production and Identities for a Global Market, B. Lynne Milgram

Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation in Yaeyama: Symbol of Island Identity, Amanda Mayer Stinchecum

Sticky Rice, Fermented Fish, and the Course of a Kingdom: The Ethnicity of Food in Northeast Thailand, H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr.