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BORDER-CROSSING SESSIONS

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[ 1 | 21 | 41 | 62 | 81 | 101 | 120 | 140 | 159 | 178 | 197 ]


Session 1: Yunnan as Southeast Asia

Language, Migration, and House Type in Southeast Asia and Beyond, H. Parker James

The Southwest Silk Road: Yunnan in a Global Perspective, Bin Yang

Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms from a Southeast Asian Perspective, Laichen Sun

Charting the Wild Frontier Inside Southwestern Yunnan, David Bello


Session 21: Tales of Exile and Diaspora: On Narratives of Transnational/National Asian Geopolitical Dislocation and Cultural Periphery

Fictional Treatments of Disclocation during the Cultural Revolution, Xueqing Xu

Tripmaster Monkey: A Journey to the True Meaning of "Chinese American", Li Zeng

"Triple Outsiders": Ethnic Identity and the Experiences of First Generation Indian Immigrants in the United States, Meeta Mehrotra

Chinese in Asiatic Russia: Between Geopolitics and Fortune, Vladimir Boyko


Session 41: Confronting Chameleons: Imperial Possibilities and Migrant Identities

Changing "Home" from India to England within the Early British Empire, Michael H. Fisher

Imperial Manhood: Migrant Elites and Gender in the British-Indian Relationship, Satadru Sen

Manxmen, Blue-Noses, and Copper-Faces: Race and Identity on the Maritime Frontier, Isaac Land


Session 62: "Sexy" Women . . . and More: (Re)Making Filipina Entertainers and Wives in the Transnational Asia Pacific

Japan’s Internationalization of Gender: A Critical Analysis, Eri Fujieda

Girl Power in the Clubs: Filipina Entertainers in U.S. Military Camp Towns in South Korea, Sea Ling Cheng

Inside the Home: Power and Negotiations in Filipina-Japanese Marriages, Nobue Suzuki


Session 81: Intercountry Adoption from China and Its Influence on Families and Family Life

International Adoption and Chinese Orphanages, Frayda Cohen

Chaobao: The Plight of Adoptive Families under the One Child Policy, Kay Ann Johnson

The Bi-cultural Socialization Hypothesis: Parental Commitments to Socializing Children Adopted from China to Their Birth Culture, Richard Tessler

A Typical American Family? How Adoptive Families Acknowledge and Incorporate Chinese Cultural Heritage into Their Lives, Jay Rojewski

Sexuality, The Media, and Intercountry Adoption: Recent Changes in China-U.S. Adoption Policy, Ann Frechette


Session 101: South Asians in East Africa: Rethinking Culture, Commerce, and Colonialism

Shops and Stations: Negotiating Space and Politics in Colonial Kenya, 1918–1930, Savita Nair

Continents, Civilizations, and Interracial Liaisons: Retracting Nationalist Thought among Gujaratis and Africans in Colonial Tanganyika, 1930–1960, James R. Brennan

Characterizing the Changing Culture of an Asian Business Elite in East Africa, 1880–2000, G. Oonk


Session 120: Behind and Beyond Tourism: Consuming the Periphery on the Borders of China and Southeast Asia

Captain Kingdon-Ward’s Gold Medals: Ontologies of Botanical Exploration in Southwest China, 1905–1945, Erik Mueggler

Authenticity, Forgery, Counterfeit: Borderland Consumption in Post-socialist China, Beth Notar

Making the Dai Temple Its Own: Ethnic Tourism, Therevada, and Upholding Dai Minority Culture in Contemporary Xishuang Banna, China, Jing Li

Ladies of the Lake: Ethnic Tourism and Gender Politics on China’s Southwest Frontier, Eileen Rose Walsh

Strategic Erasures: Fantasy and Conflict on the Borders of Burma and China, Sara Davis


Session 140: Why Don’t You Live in Chinatown? A Study of Border-Crossing and Border-Formation for Chinese Diaspora

The Meaning of Border for Chinese Diaspora: The Case of Yokohama Chinatown, Tien-shi Chen

Hollywood’s Chinatown, Sabine Haenni

A New Virtual Chinatown: A Study of Cantonese Opera Performance in the Bay Area, Daphne Pi-Wei Lei

Religion in Greater Metropolitan Toronto’s Chinatowns, Terry Woo


Session 159: Roundtable: El Niño, Asia, and Historical Processes of National Impoverishment: A Discussion of Mike Davis’s Late Victorian Holocausts (Sponsored by the Asian Environmental Studies Group)


Session 178: Liminal Reflections: Border Crossings in Travelers’ Writings

Mimetic Moments: The Negotiation of Self and Other in Early-Modern Luso-Indian Encounters, Alexander Henn

Smoothing Borders in Chinese Buddhist Travelogues, Alexander Mayer

Border-Line and Border-Space in Pak Chiwon’s Yorha ilgi, Marion Eggert

Travelling on the Sumidagawa River: The Experience of Urban Cultural Boundaries in Kimura Shôhachi’s "Tôkyô hanjô ki" (Report about the Prosperity of Tokyo, 1958), Evelyn Schulz


Session 197: Shifting Histories, Identities, and Imaginaries

Massacre, Memory, and Engendering History: Remembering the Role of Women in the Aftermath of the Massacre of the Muslim Population of Southwest China in 1873, Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein

Filipino Diasporic Imaginations as Non-imaginaries, Sharon Orig

Remembering 1947: A Journey into the Making of the Indo-Pak Border, Jatin Dua and David McDougal

Misplaced Borders and Displaced Geographies: Diasporic Spaces and Partitioned Memories, Navtej Purewal