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[ 121 | 122 | 139 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 160 | 179 | 180 | 198 | 199 ]


Session 2: Who Finds the Stones to Cross the River? Emergent Social and Economic Inequalities in Reforming China and Vietnam

From Privilege to Competition: The Rise of New State Business Interests in Ho Chi Minh City, Martin Gainsborough

Robbers, Slackers, Drones, and Model Entrepreneurs: Inequalities in Development Opportunities in Rural China, Michelle S. Mood

Earnings Inequalities in Post–Doi Moi Viet Nam: Returns to Education and Political Capital in the Nascent Market Economy, Lynne Taguchi

Industrial Labor Standards in China and Vietnam Compared, Anita Chan


Session 3: Roundtable: Asia "In Situ": Acquiring Language and Culture through Study Abroad (Sponsored by the Association of Teachers of Japanese)


Session 22: Playing Sports in a Global Arena: Identity, Popular Culture, and Sports in China, Japan, and Diaspora Communities

Hoop Dreams without Borders: Playing and Imagining Basketball in China, Eriberto P. Lozada, Jr

Bukatsudoo: What Do Students Learn in Japanese Extra-curricular School Clubs? Peter Cave

A Mean Spirited Sport: The Meanings of Gateball among Nikkei in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Joshua Roth

Chinatown in Space: The Construction of "Chineseness" through Martial Arts, Adam Frank


Session 23: Buddhist Pedagogical Texts and Practices: Burma, Laos, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Yunnan

Buddhist Education under High Colonialism: The Case of Sri Lanka’s Vidyodaya Pirivena, Anne M. Blackburn

Curricula and Canon in Thailand and Laos: The Abhidhamma Nissaya and the Teaching of Buddhist Philosophy, Justin McDaniel

Ecclesiastical Examinations: Their Origin and Impact on the Sangha in Burma and Thailand, Venerable Khammai Dhammasami

Making Novices: Dai-Lue Novices in Shanghai, Thailand, and Chinese Public Schools of Sipsong Panna, Thomas A. Borchert


Session 24: Roundtable: Asia as Method: Dialogues in Culture and Places


Session 42: Compradores, Christians, Collaborators, and Contexts: Reaping with the Enemy in China, India, and Vietnam

Challenging the Imperial Order: The Precarious Status of Christian Converts in Late-Qing China, Jean-Guy Daigle

Trans-colonial Collaborators: Agents of Change or Comforters of Imperialism? John L. Hill

Collaborators, Nationalists, or Revolutionaries: The Convenient Categorization of Vietnamese Nationalists, Micheline Lessard

Protest and Satire in Hindi Abolitionist Literature: 1910–1918, Karen Ray


Session 43: Tropics of History: Genealogical Forces and Fictions in East Asia

Claiming the Game: The "Ancient" Game of Kemari and Japanese Claims to Modern Soccer, Elise Marie Edwards

"Speaking Bitterness": Autobiography as Alternative History in Tibet (PRC), Charlene Makley

Eugenical Phantasms: Embellishments and Erasures in Japanese Science History, Jennifer Robertson

Feminism as Chronology: The Place of Timelines (Nenpyô) in Women’s History, Tomomi Yamaguchi


Session 63: Visual Print Culture and Political Propaganda: Cartoons and Posters in the Construction of Nationalism, Worldview, Self-Image, and the "Other"

Elite Political Propaganda and Popular Expression: Cartoon Power in the Sichuan Railway-Rights Recovery Movement, Danke Li

Encountering the "Other" in Chinese Propaganda Posters, Stefan Landsberger

Changing the Images of Asia: Austro-Hungarian Political Cartoons 1890–1918, Monika Lehner

Subduing the Triumph of Rangaku: Japanese Popular Prints of the Russo-Japanese War, Wieslaw Rzadek


Session 64: Roundtable: Asian Studies and World History: Implications for Teaching About Asia (Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching about Asia)


Session 82: Asian Studies and New Media: Creating Web-Based Resources for Teaching and Research

The China Module Project: Follow-Up and Sustainability, Michele Ferrier-Heryford

A Digital Teaching Library for the "America’s Wars in Asia" Project, Philip West

Multimedia Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century China, Carma Hinton


Session 83: Streets, Pathways, Passages, and Highways: The Cultural and Spatial Logics of Modern Religiosity

Bodied Spaces of Ritual: Re-encoding and Re-embodying Space and Temporality in Southeast China, Mayfair Yang

Sacred Geographies, Urban Boundaries: The Spatial Mnemonics of the Sai Baba Movement in Bangalore City, Smriti Srinivas

The Beckoning Lady, the Buddha, and the King in the Market Shrines of Bangkok, Ara Wilson

Hanoi Palimpsest, May Joseph


Session 84: Universalism, Out of Asia

"Bollyworld": Communicating Globalization through Popular Narrative, Lakshmi Srinivas

Place of Metamorphosis? Transnationalizing Memory at Pearl Harbor, Yujin Yaguchi

The Next Big Idea: Great Harmony, William A. Callahan

Cosmos in a Caravan: Silk Road Nostalgia and Universalism via Asia, Marie Thorsten


Session 102: Co-opting Orientalism

Patient:Agent::Indirect:Direct—Orientalism, Language, and Japan, Cindi Sturtz Sreetharan

Transnational Saints, Diaspora Hinduism, and Orientalism, Meena Khandelwal

"Tibet" in Postcolonial Dharamsala, Wendy Singer


Session 103: Trying to See Like a State: Refashioning Leviathan

Opium and Ganja Consumption and British Drug Policy: Assam, 1878–1911, Siddharth Chandra

A "Debt of Honor" to "Dishonorable Women": Reforming Prostitution Policy in the Netherlands East Indies, 1890–1915, Andrew Abalahin

Delivering for God and Country: Midwifery Training in the Late Spanish Colonial Philippines, Megan Thomas

Belated Seduction: Cartographic Production and the Great Han Empire, Jee Sun E. Lee


Session 104: The Nonhuman Other: Animal Imagery in Korean and Japanese Art

Yi Am’s Dog Paintings: A New Interpretation of Their Style, Saehyang P. Chung

The Twelve Animals in Unified Silla, Tang China, and Nara Japan, Sarah E. Thompson

The Monkeys of Mt. Hiei, Rosina Buckland

A Painting of Sea Life in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Midori Oka


Session 121: Before and Beyond the Friendship Gate: Ethnic Identity and Economic Exchange along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier

From Tribute to Trade: A Period of Transformation in Middle Period Sino-Vietnamese Relations, James A. Anderson

Ethnic Brothers? The Impact of Sino-Vietnamese Relations on China’s Ethnic Minorities, Katherine P. Kaup

The Zhuang Literati and Ethnic Identity in the Early Qing Era in Guangxi, Jeffrey G. Barlow


Session 122: History, Ethnology, and the Law: Trials and Narrative-Making in Modern Asia

Settling Accounts with the Gang of Four, Alexander C. Cook

Guidebooks, Galons, and Genealogies: Legalizing Ethnology in Colonial Burma, Maitrii Aung-Thwin

Pacification on Trial: The Gardener Case and the Ending of the Philippine "Insurrection," Reynaldo C. Ileto


Session 139: Poster Sessions

Shoot Back: Worlds through Hmong Eyes, Duong Bich Hanh

Computer Mediated Academic Networks in Research on Southeast Asia, Eric Thompson

Modernist Pilgrim: L.T.P. Manjusri as Preservationist, Monastic and Studio Artist in 20th-Century Sri Lanka, R. Byron Breese

Between Globalization and Nationality, Sun Hee Yoon and Ki-young Shin

The Sacred Sites of Emperor Jimmu, 1940 and Now: A Study in the Postwar Transformation from Wartime Monument to "Negative Heritage," Walter Edwards

Textbank for Content-Based Japanese Instruction in Asian Studies Fields, Tomoko Fujimura

A Cultural Analysis of Pre-Death Funerals in Contemporary Japan, Satsuki Kawano

Unpredictable Script Switching in Japanese, Mohammed Shafiullah

Japan’s Edo-Tokyo Capital Region Analyzed Using a Historical Geographic Information System (GIS), Loren Siebert and Koichi Watanabe

The Renaissance of the Okinawan Peace Movement (1995–2000), Gabriele Vogt

Political, Economic, and Educational Reform in Allied Occupied Japan: Research Activities in the Gordon W. Prange Collection, Amy Wasserstrom

Momotarô: Taoist Cosmology in Japanese Folklore, E. Leslie Williams

The Growing Plurality of Newspaper Content in the PRC, 1992–2001, Martin Brendebach

The Desert Road to Turkestan Revisited: Examining Chinese Landscape Change through the Work of Owen Lattimore, Charles Krusekopf and Mark Giordano

Great Momentum and Unfathomed Power: Art Archaeological Interpretations of the High Ming Royal Emblem on Imperial Porcelains in the Early Fifteenth Century and Its Historical Impetus via Contacts between the Northern Song Tradition and Mongolian Cognitive Aesthetics, Jian Tang

Imaging an Era: Photographs from the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Dietrich Tschanz, Cindy Ting, and Saughar Somali


Session 141: The Big Picture: How Films and Religion Influence Popular and Official Views in and of South and Southeast Asia

Nationalist Inscriptions: Situating the Chinese "Other" in India and in Fire, Payal Bannerjee

"Sedih Sampai Buta": Blindness, Modernity, and Tradition in Malay Films of the 1950s and 60s, Timothy Barnard

Mohamed Rafi Rocks and Amir Khan Swings (a Bat) as Bollywood Crosses Over on a Two-Way Street, Monica Ghosh

Rethinking Citizenship in Modern Malaysia, Beng-Lan Goh


Session 142: Health, Gender, and Power in Asian Cultures

Complicities and Resistances: The Politics of Gender in Post-Mao Medical Practices in China’s Lijiang Basin, Sydney D. White

Women Ayurvedic Doctors in Nepal: Transnational Ayurveda, Global Biomedicalization, and the Gender Politics of Medicine, Mary Cameron

With Spirit Songs Flowing through Her: Temiar Women as Healers, Marina Roseman

Women’s Bodies and State Power: Wife Battering in Two Vietnamese Communities, Lynn Kwiatkowski


Session 143: Straddling State and Society: Challenges and Insights from Asian Associational Life

Local Civil Society and the State in Japan, Robert J. Pekkanen

Patterns of Citizen Response to China’s Neighborhood Committees, Benjamin Read

The Construction of Community Participation: Village Family Planning Groups and the Indonesian State, Jeremy Shiffman

Rethinking the Yushin Regime (1972–79): Bansanghoe and the Role of the Korean State, Jungmin Seo


Session 160: Memories of Manchuria: Past and Present of a Historical Borderland

How does "Memoir" Differ from "Memory"? Some Thoughts on the Memoir of the Japanese Colonial Elite in Manchukuo, Mariko Tamanoi

Colonized Colonizers: The Poles of Manchuria, Thomas Lahusen

China’s Dongbei or Japan’s Manshu? Li Narangoa

Manchus’ Memories of Manzhouguo: Pasts in the Present, Dan Shao


Session 179: Perspectives on Famine: South Asia and China in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Ensuring Survival? An Analysis of Village Establishment Entitlements during Scarcity, Marcia J. Frost

The British Empire and Famine in Late-Nineteenth-Century Central India, Laxman D. Satya

Famine and Social Change: Treaty-Port Responses to the North China Famine of 1876–1879, Kathryn Jean Edgerton

Famine, Fatalism, and Faith: The Political Economy of Culture and Acute Scarcity Management in South Asia, with a Case Study of Bangladesh, 1973, A. A. Rahman


Session 180: Individual Papers: Demarcating Difference: Inscriptions of Otherness from Tourism to Total War

Women as Colonial Subject and Object in Japanese Colonial Discourses: Representations of Japanese, Korean, and Manchurian Women in Japanese Women’s Magazines in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Yuki Terazawa

Heavy Brains, Hairy Bodies, and Higher Civilization: Revisiting a Forgotten Korean Critique of Japanese Colonial Policy (1919), Chiho Sawada

Tourism in Tibet: Chinese Strategies, Tibetan Tactics, and the Question of Culture, Robert Shepherd

Writing Histories of State Spaces: Cartographic Agency and Everyday Governance in Early Colonial South Asia, Bernardo A. Michael

"A Different War, A Strange War!": The Chinese Discourse of "Total War" in Late 1937, Lu Liu


Session 198: Politics and Matriliny: Comparative Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

"Matriliny," Modernity, and Postmodernity: Southeast Asian Matriliny and "Family" in Malay-World Imaginaries, Maila Stivens

Mothers, Anthropologists, Communists: Legacies of 1910s and 1920s Minangkabau, Jeffrey Hadler

The Power of Matriliny: Discourses on Agency in West Sumatra, Evelyn Blackwood

Matriliny’s Legacy in Kerala, Robin Jeffrey


Session 199: Literary and Reading Practices in Tokugawa Japan and Imperial China

Reading Classical Texts for Cultural Production in Eighteenth-Century Japan: A Case Study of Buson’s Poetry and Painting, Toshiko Yokota

The Bashô School and Haikai Poetry as a Social Practice, David Cannell

Reading Commentaries on Fiction: The Politics of Pleasure and Anxiety as Reading Habits in Seventeenth-Century China, Chun Mei

Dushu: The Culture of Reading in China, Li Yu