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Tan Xu and Cultural Nationalism in Republican China, James H. Carter
Ambedkar’s Buddhism and Social Justice: Doctrinal Analysis of the Thought of a Buddhist Innovator, James A. Blumenthal
Envisioning Resistance: The Engaged Buddhism of Sulak Sivaraksa, Hung-yok Ip
Legitimating Rhetorics and Factual Economies in a South Korean Development Dispute, Robert Oppenheim
Political Legitimacy and State Neutrality in India, Malaysia, and China, Bruce Gilley
Dollars and Ballots: Economic Performance and Regime Legitimacy in Taiwan and Singapore, David Yang
Nationalism and the Problem of Political Legitimacy in China, Jungmin Seo
Session 4: The International Order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s
China’s Relations with the International Financial System in the Twentith Century: Historical Analysis and Contemporary Implications, Tomoko Shiroyama
British Economic Interests and the International Order of Asia in the 1930s, Shigeru Akita
The Business Network of Taiwan Merchants in Postwar China, Man-houng Lin
Japan’s Commercial Penetration into British India and the Cotton Trade Negotiations in the 1930s, Naoto Kagotani
Session 22: Beyond Asian Values and the New Rich? Gender and Middle Class-ness in Asia
Middle Class Identity and Feminist Activism in South Korea, Rebecca N. Ruhlen
Making Class Classy: Middle-Class Respectability, Islamic Piety, and Gender in Urban Java, Carla Jones
Woman, Buddhist, Entrepreneur: Gender, Asian Values, and the Spirit of the Middle Class in Late Socialist Vietnam, Ann Marie Leshkowich
Cultivating Middle-Class Identities in Rural China, Sara Friedman
Session 23: Telling It Again: Translation as Creative Performance
Translating Affect: Sound and Sorrow in Kim Sowol’s Poetry, Ann Y. Choi
Ezra Pound’s Rendition of the Shijing: A Translation or Something Else? Ming Dong Gu
Reading the Art of Adaptation: The Politics of Love in Red Rose (and) White Rose, Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
Confessing the Colonial Self: Yom Sangsop’s Reactivation of the Japanese Confessional Narrative Form in Early-1920s Korea, Sunyoung Park
Session 24: Cross-Currents in East Asian Buddhism and Buddhist Art, 9th–14th Centuries
The Huayan/Kegon Paintings in China and Japan, 9th–13th Centuries, Dorothy Wong
The Relocation of the Printed Scroll Wenshu’s Guidance from Hangzhou to Kozan-ji, Kyoto, Shih-shan Susan Huang
The Role of Shunjo Risshi in Bringing Song Culture to Japan, Mark Blum
The Light Symbolism of Tejaprabha Buddha in East Asian Art, Seung Hye Sun
Session 42: Transmissions and Transformations: Esoteric Buddhist Traditions in East Asia
Making Wishes Come True: Japanese Transformations of Nyoirin Kannon, Sarah Fremerman
Funny, You Don’t Look (Esoteric) Buddhist: Yuqie yankou, a Late Imperial Chinese Rite, Hun Yeow Lye
Reading the Rituals of Japan’s Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Esoteric-Vinaya Nuns, Lori Meeks
Ritual Power, Imperial Power, and Censorship: A Comparative Study of the Transmission of Esoteric Buddhist Traditions, David B. Gray
Reading Resistance to the Chinese Nationalist Campaigns against Superstition, 1927–1937, Rebecca Nedostup
Religious Revival in Imperial Japan: Oomoto’s Heterodox Shintosim, Nancy K. Stalker
"An Unseemly Scramble for Harijans": Religious Conversion Campaigns in South India, 1936, Eliza Kent
Buddhist Revival and Modernity in India: The Politics of Identity Change, Laura D. Jenkins
Session 44: International Migration and Ethnic Relations in East Asia
Exclusionary Policy and Differential Assimilation of Immigrant Workers in Japan, Keiko Yamanaka
Hong Kong as a Semi-Ethnocracy: "Race," Migration, and Citizenship in a Globalized Region, Barry Sautman
Political Activism and the Expansion of Rights for Transnational Migrant Workers: South Korea and Japan in Comparative Perspective, Timothy C. Lim
"Importing" Foreigners: The Guest Worker Program in Taiwan, Yen-Fen Tseng
A Philosophical Interpretation of Taego Pou’s Odes to Enlightenment, Chan Lee
Forced Migration and Repatriation: The Experience of Sri Lanka’s Northern Muslim Community, Cynthia M. Caron
Changing Images of Beauty in Hindi Film: Cultural Globalization and Imaginings of Class, Gender, and Nation, Steve Derne
Linguistic Imperialism in Japan: Academic Location and Dislocation of Dialects (Hogen) from Meiji to Present, Keiko Ikeda
Contesting Peace at Yasukuni Shrine: What Happens on August 15th? Brian J. Masshardt
Kanji-Kana Dichotomy: An Experimental Comparison of Kanji and Kana Processing, Mohammed Shafiullah
Indexing Identities: Longitudinal Analysis of Young Japanese Women’s Speech, Makiko Takekuro
The Politics of Anti-Americanism in the Age of Globalization: A Case of Japan, Yasushi Watanabe
Do Cultural Experiences Matter for Girls? An Examination of Cultural Capital and Educational Attainment in Japan, Yoko Yamamoto
New China’s Forgotten Cinema, 1949–1966: More Than Just Politics, Greg Lewis
Feeding the Nation: The 1911 Revolution and Famine Relief, Jonathan Andrew Seitz
Chinese Handmade Papers: Process and Product, Nancy Norton Tomasko
Session 64: Food, Fasting, and Famine: Culture and Crisis in Late Imperial China and Chosôn Korea
Disciplining the Body Politic: Dietary Abstinences in State Rainmaking in Nineteenth-Century China, Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke
Destitution, Famine, and Class in Late Chosôn Korea, Anders Karlsson
Assigning Blame: Contested Heroes and Villains of the North China Famine, 1876–2001, Kathryn J. Edgerton-Tarpley
Integrating the Body Politic: An Official Perspective on Relief Work during the "Great North China Famine", Andrea Janku
Session 65: Technological Innovations in Asia: The Role of State, Society, and Ideology
Planters and Administrators in Colonial India: The Rural Context of Technological Innovations, Prakash Kumar
Paleoanthropology and the Class Politics of Scientific Knowledge in 1950s China, Sigrid Schmalzer
A Struggle for Autonomy: The Early Years of Korea’s Electrical Industry, Min Suh Son
Boundary-Making in Science and Administration, Jennifer A. Winther
Session 83: Facility Siting in Northeast Asia through the Lens of Civil Society-State Relations
The Japanese Government’s Involvement in Facility Siting, Daniel P. Aldrich
The Effects of the NIMBY Syndrome upon Power Facilities Siting in Taiwan, Chang-tay Chiou
The Chinese Government’s Involvement in Dam Projects, Lawrence Sullivan
Session 84: Turtles and Snakes, Melons and Mirrors: Omens in East Asian History
A Tale of Two Turtles: Animal Omens and the Inscription of Time in Early Japan, David Lurie
Magic Mirrors and Shangqing Omenology in the Tang Daniel, Alan Fried
Smaller than Empire: Debating a Vegetable Omen in the Early Ming, Sarah Schneewind
Reading Omens in Eighteenth-Century Viet Nam, George Dutton
Session 85: Governing the Social: The Politics of Numbers in Asia
Quality and Quantity: Eugenics in India, Sarah Hodges
Reconceptualizing the Social: The Census Reform in Late-Qing China, Tong Lam
Manufacturing Militarism: Japan’s Armed Forces and Public Opinion, Sabine Frühstück
Discoursing in Numbers: The "Female Worker" and the Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea, Theodore Jun Yoo
Session 90: Individual Papers: Topics in Asian Religions
Becoming Christian in Indonesia, Jennifer Connolly
A Neo-Confucian Mold for Doctors: The Temples to the Three Progenitors in Yuan China (1206–1368), Reiko Shinno
Is School Choice the Right Choice? Neoliberal Economic Reform and the Politics of Islamic Education in Pakistan, Matthew J. Nelson
Resituating Hindu Reform: Sawai Jai Singh II and Vaishnava Reformation in Eighteenth-Century North India, James M. Hastings
Secularism beyond the East/West Divide: Responses to Hindu Majoritarianism in India and its Diasporas, Jill Didur
Political Economy and Alliance: Japanese and Chinese Regulation of Multinationals in Comparative Perspective, Kent E. Calder
MNCs, Economic Reforms, and China’s Developmental State, Qingxin Ken Wang
Korea’s Changing Approaches to Multinationals: The Political Economy of Policy Shift, Sook-jong Lee
Bureaucracies and Development: Comparing Foreign Investment in Korea and Taiwan, Min Ye
Session 103: Folklore, Ethnography, and Authorship in Colonial South and Southeast Asia
Family Titles, National Tales: Devotions of an Indian Ethnographer in Colonial India, Leela Prasad
"Ancient Culture" as a Front Page Feature Story: Batak Reporters Write Heritage in the Vernacular Press of the Colonial Indies, Susan Rodgers
Authorial Subjects and Native Voices in the Late Spanish Colonial Philippines, Megan C. Thomas and Smita Lahiri
Session 121: Labor and Desire in East Asia
Femininity, Flux, and the Messy Formation of Modernity: Nakamoto Takako in 1929, Brian Bergstrom
Sexual Violence in Korean Proletarian Literature, Ruth Barraclough
Romancing Comrades, Heather Bowen-Struyk
Representing the Hmong in Thailand: The Laksut Thongthin and Thailand’s Public Schools, Tracy Johnson-Messinger
Surveillance and Suzhi: Seeing Quality and Producing Distinctions among Schoolchildren in Beijing, Terry Woronov
State Rituals of Local Revivalism: Encompassing the Khmer Other within the Thai National Imaginary, Alexandra Denes
Religion, Feudal Superstition, and Evil Cults: Discourse on Religion and Ethnicity in Southwest China, Thomas A. Borchert
Session 123: An East Asian Century?
East Asia beyond Miracle and Meltdown: A Political Economy Perspective, Jitendra Uttam
APEC, Alter-APEC, and the Building of the Asia-Pacific Community, Vera Zambonelli
East Asian Resurgence in World Historical Perspective, Ganesh K. Trichur
Session 141: The Futures of Matriliny in South and Southeast Asia
Mothers and Daughters: Continuity and Change among the Matrilineal Nayars of Kerala, Shanti Menon
Persistence of Matriliny in the Sri Lankan War Zone, Dennis B. McGilvray
Rethinking Matriarchy: The Minangkabau of Indonesia, Peggy Reeves Sanday
Session 143: The Politics of "the Political": Cross-Cultural Practices of Appropriation
The Politics of Poetry: Kalidasa in the World of Sanskrit Drama, Simona Sawhney
"Translated" Images: The French Revolution and Russian Nihilism in Japanese Political Novels, Atsuko Ueda
Return to the Colonial Present: A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist in Park Chung Hee’s Seoul, Ted Hughes
Producing the "Political": Re-evaluating Dazai Osamu’s Fiction, Richi Sakakibara
Session 161: Impacts of Asian Values on Democratization in East and Southeast Asia
East Asian Political Culture versus Democratic Development, Hsin-chi Kuan
Do Asian Values Deter Popular Support for Democracy? The Case of South Korea, Chong-Min Park and Don Shin
Sources for the Uneven Development of Democratic Culture in East Asia, Alfred Hu and You-Tsung Chang
Impacts of Asian Values on Democratization in Thailand, Robert B. Albritton and Thawilwadee Bureekul
Mapping Settlement Patterns and Characteristics around Edo in the 1800s using a Geographic Information System (GIS), Loren Siebert and Koichi Watanabe
Arable as Commons: Land Reallocation and the National Environment in Early Modern Japan, Philip C. Brown
King’s Law: State and Village in Precolonial Vietnam, Brian Zottoli
GIS Approaches to the Early History of Christianity in Vietnam, Brian Ostrowski
Session 163: Roundtable: Piracy and Robbery in the Asian Seas
Session 181: Whose Museum? The Collection and Consumption of History, Nation, and Community
Representing Exilic Nationhood: Tibet Museum and Its Politics of Identity, Susan T. Chen
From Pollack to Parvati: Grace McCann Morley and the National Museum of India, Kristy Phillips
Place, Purpose, and Participation at Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Alisa Eimen
Museums and the Making of Sikh History, Anne Murphy
Session 182: Representing Traumatic Captivity in Modern Vietnamese and Chinese Literature
Trauma and Memory: The Three Sides of the Vietnam War, Mariam Beevi Lam
Representing the Persistence of Spectacle in PRC Modes of Punishing Criminality and Deviance, Philip F. C. Williams
The Representation of Hunger and Trauma in Chinese Prison Camp Fiction and Memoir, Yenna Wu
Session 183: Individual Papers: Nature and the State in Asia
Nature and the Nation: The Uses of Nature as an Alternative Metaphor to Science in Early 20th-Century Indian Nationalism, Sarah H. Green
The Three Gorges Dam: Resettlement and Environment Policymaking, Goerild M. Heggelund
Ecology and Social Organization in a Chinese Fishery, Micah Muscolino
"Forests Are Gold": A History of Nature Conservation in Vietnam, Pam McElwee
Restructuring of Chinese State Capitalism in Coastal Regions, Rumy Husan
Planning, Economic Liberalization, and the Fate of Democracy: State, Capital, and Governance in India, D. Parthasarathy
Mass Media and Public Life: The SARS Crisis and the Public Sphere in Urban China, Chunxia Shao
State Capitalism and the Debacle of the Communist Party of the Philippines, Vincent K. Pollard
Session 202: China and Vietnam in an Era of Normalcy
Normalization, Normalcy, and Asymmetry in Sino-Vietnamese Relations, Brantly Womack
Vietnam’s Relations with China: The ASEAN Factor, Alice D. Ba
Building Bridges: Reform and Openness in China and Vietnam, Xiaosong Gu
Session 203: New Perspectives on Ôbaku (Huangbo) Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China and Japan
The Origins of the Japanese Ôbaku School in Seventeenth-Century China, Jiang Wu
Miyun Yuanwu (1566–1642) and His Female Lineage of Chan Masters, Beata Grant
The Reaction against Ôbaku: Menzan Zuihô and the Purification of Sôtô Zen, David E. Riggs
The Portraitist Zeng Jing and Ôbaku Portrait Painting, Elizabeth Horton Sharf