INTERAREA SESSIONS

The Political Role of the First Empress of the Qidan-Liao Dynasty (907–1125), Gaju Cha

Korea’s Queen Sindok: A Pawn of Successive Power Struggles, 1356–2003, Hildi Kang

No Time to Sleep: Life as the Tibetan Sakya Dagmokusolah, Elizabeth Benard

The Digital Tripitaka Koreana 2004, Jongmyung Kim

Digitized Sources in the Study of Chan Buddhism, Mario Poceski

Historical Inscriptions at Cloud Dwelling Monastery: Preparations for a CD-ROM, Matthias Arnold

Digitization in Tibetan Buddhist Studies: Problems and Remedies, Jan Ulrich Sobisch

The "Resegmentation" of the Japanese Labor Market during the Lost Decade, Sebastien Lechevalier

A. A. Vantine and Company: Japanese Handcrafts for the American Consumer, 1895–1920, Yumiko Yamamori

Taiwanese Capital on the Mainland: Globalization and Its Domestic Consequences in Taiwan, Pei-Shan Lee

The Formation and Transformation of Neo-Traditionalism in Taiwan, Ming-sho Ho

The Political Economy of Banking Supervision in Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand, Sawa Omori

Xi Xia Buddhist Woodcuts and Song-Yuan China, Sören Edgren

Praying for Officialdom: The Printed Divinations Efficacious Sticks from Tianzhu, Shih-shan Susan Huang

Goryo Patronage of Buddhist Sutra Printing in Yuan China (1279-1368), Hosun Kang

The Nine-Lotus Bodhisattva on Silk and Stone, Marsha S. Haufler

Between Empire and Nation: The City as Republic, Peter J. Carroll

Imperial Capital versus Industrial Capital: Spatial Projections of Empire and Nation in Tokyo and Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes

Imperialism and the Semantics of Sovereignty in Late-Nineteenth-Century Korea, Henry Em

From Empire to Nation: Images of Political Legitimacy in Twentieth-Century China, Margherita Zanasi

Girls’ Schooling at the Margins: How Culture Shapes Educational Access and Attainment Programs for Ethnic Minority Girls in Western China, Heidi A. Ross and Vilma Seeberg

Making Chinese Tibetans: Schooling and Modernization, Gerard Postiglione

Relating Social Policies, Education, and Identity Formation: Ethnic Chinese in South Korea, Sheena Choi

Teachers’ Perceptions of the Impact of the Indian Educational System on Tibetan Students’ Ethnic Identity, Mary Ann Maslak

The Zheng He Voyages: A Reassessment, Geoff Wade

The Making of a Transnational Social Sphere: Institutional Linkages and the Construction of the Homeland in Singapore, 1945–2005, Hong Liu

Opium: Mechanism of Commodity and Culture Transmission, Yangwen Zheng

The Contentious Crucible of Philippine People Power, Vincent G. Boudreau

Symbols, Minjungism, and the June Uprising in South Korea, Chulhee Chung

Culture and Protests in Modern China, Dingxin Zhao

Constructing Global Citizenship: Japanese Social Movements, Grassroots Education, and Alternative Globalization, Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien

What Chinese Guanxi Can Teach Us about Capitalism: The Case of Harbin’s Businesses, Carolyn L. Hsu

Rethinking Chinese Business Networks in Southeast Asia: Institutional Structures and Organizing Principles in Chinese Business Firms, Tong Chee Kiong

Guanxi in Transformation: Decline, Domestication, and Transnational Technical Cooperation, Alan Smart

Making Connections: The Japanese Advertising Industry, Brian Moeran

The Gordon W. Prange Children’s Book Collection: An Examination of Japanese Children’s Literature from the Early Postwar Period, 1945–49, Amy Wasserstrom

Global Performing Arts Resource Centers: A Digital Opening to Performing Arts across Cultures and Histories, Joshua Young

Thirty Years of April 30: The Politics of Time and Liberation in Ho Chi Minh City, Erik Harms

The Process of Passing Laws in Thailand’s Parliament, 1979–2002, Aaron M. Stern

The Making of an Atlas of the Himalaya, David Zurick

Instructors in Technology and Skill Transfer Knowledge: Expatriate Employees in a Japanese Automobile Corporation, Asahi Fujiwara

Developing a Multimedia Application to Prepare for the Grammar Section in the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, Level 2, Shohei Koike

Cultural Components of Housing Preference: "New Towns," New Houses, and Old Houses in Northern Japan, John A. Mock

The Japanese Government’s Dilemma: The Declining Birth Rate, Noriko Tada

Restrictive Factors on the Use of "Wa" in Spoken Japanese Narrative Discourse, Fumio Watanabe

The "Myth of the Three-Year-Old Child," Keiko Watanabe

Ommyōdō Cosmology in Shintō Ritual at the Hakozaki Hachiman Shrine, E. Leslie Williams

Politics of Legislative Participation in China: A Study of Deputies in Local People’s Congresses, Jiguang Guo

Kissing in China: Contested Images, Sarah E. Stevens

Ethnic Minorities of Northwest Yunnan, Sam Mitchell

"A Ming Dynasty Literatus goes A’Wandering": Yang Shen and the Art of Pure Travel Writing in "Roaming atop Diancang Mountain," Ihor Pidhainy

Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva from Male to Female in Archaeological Artifacts: Changing Morphological Images, Point of Gender Transitions, and Chinese Politico-Religious Impact on Sculptural Art, Jian Tang

Chinese Handmade Papers: Process and Product, Nancy Norton Tomasko

From Ink to Rocks: How Chinese Painters Influenced Sculpture during the Fifth and Sixth Centuries, Li Du Yi

The Usnīsa on Monk Images: Iconographic Study of the Cave Paintings from the Kizil and Bezeklik Regions, Tianshu Zhu

Orthographic Inconsistency in the "Standardized" Qin Script, Imre Galambos

Publicizing Chinese Rubbings: Early Print Culture Online, Miao-lin Hsu

Contrasting Lives in Colonial Korea: The Experiences of Japanese Elite and Working-Class Women, Youn-ok Song

Taiwanese Women Students in Japan under Colonial Rule, Yuru Hung

From Village to Tokyo and Back Again: Korean Women’s Colonial Odyssey, Sunmi Park

Japanese Occupation, Manchukuo, and Chinese Women Writers: The Legacies of Dan Di and Mei Niang, Norman Smith

Battle for the World: The Transnationalization of Chinese Martial Arts Film and Performance, Kin Yan Szeto

Singapore Filmmaking: Raintree Pictures as a Brand Name in the Pan-Asian Film Market? See Kam Tan

Is There an Asian Popular Culture? The Korean Wave (HanRyu in Korean) and the East Asia Cultural Network, Moonim Baek

Kandachime in Ireland: Ready-Made Butoh, Disciplined Body, and Cultural Anxiety, Chia-Hsin Chou

The Butcher, the Baker, and the Carpenter: Chinese Sojourners in the Spanish Philippines and Their Impact on Southern Fujian (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries), Lucille Chia

All about Money: The "Chinese Century" and Java’s Maritime Commerce, ca. 1775, Gerrit Knaap

Developing Habits: Tobacco and Opium in the Indonesian Archipelago (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries), George B. Souza

The Mega-City Film: Lou Ye’s Suzhou River, James A. Tweedie

Moving against Time: Seoul and the Asian Cityscape, Susie Jie Young Kim

For Whom to Atone: Trauma and Redemption in Asian Films, Xinmin Liu

Metropolis and Marginal Spaces in the Chinese Sixth-Generation Films, Jie Lu

Gender Roles and Child Care Networks in East and Southeast Asian Societies, Mari Yamane

The Female Life Course of the Thai Urban Middle Class, Hiroko Hashimoto

Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore, Kayoko Ueno

A Comparative Study of Female Life Course and Child Care Networks in Korean and Japan, Sang-Ook Hong

Multiple Embeddedness in Post-Socialist Corporate Reform: Theory and Evidence from the Chinese Oil and Petrochemical Industries, Kun-Chin Lin

Rescuing Business through Transnationalism: Singapore Chinese Business and Nationalist Activities in the 1930s Great Depression, Huei-ying Kuo

Embedded Colonialism: The Commodification of Emotion, Sexuality, and Ethnicity of Korean Nightclub Hostesses in Japan, Haeng-ja Chung

Dis-embedding from Hierarchy in Japan: The Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Entrepreneurs (SME Doyukai) 1947–1999, Kathryn C. Ibata-Arens

Making of Transnational Knowledge of Wartime Sexual Violence: The Case of Japanese Soldiers’ Sex Crimes in Shanxi Province in China during World War II, Yuki Terazawa

Military Sex Work and Re-configuring Ethnic Identity in South Korea and Korean America, Jin Kyung Lee

State Labor Policies on Transnational Migrant Sex Workers in Japan: Protection and/or Discipline? Eri Fujieda

States, Law, and the Regulation of Marriage and Sexuality in Early Modern Southeast Asia, Barbara Watson Andaya

The Dharma of Women’s Work: Gender, Labor and Law in the Textile Industry of Early Modern South India, Ian C. Wendt

Bilateralism Reconsidered: The Endowment of Local Succession in Early Modern Dai Viet, Nhung Tuyet Tran

Once a Slave: Southeast Asian Social Systems and Colonial Slave Law, Eric Alan Jones

Resolving the Kashmir Dispute: Blending Realism with Justice, Rifaat Hussain

Kashmiris and the Indian State: History, Politics and Future Possibilities, Chitralekha Zutshi

China and the Kashmir Problem, Jing-dong Yuan

Leitmotifs of Everyday Life in the Fin-de-Siècle Pleasure Quarters: A Reading of Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai, I-Hsien Wu

More Than a Domestic Tragedy: Suburban Families and the Nation in Kunikida Doppo’s "Bamboo Gate," Kota Inoue

Out of Place: Effaced History, Embodied Memory in Gotô Meisei’s "Nameless First-Lieutenant’s Son," Peter Bruce Tillack

Civilizing through Legal Change: Law, Custom and Colonial Rule in India, Sandra den Otter

Evil Practices of the Past: Rethinking and Reconfiguring "Custom" and "Statute" in Meiji Japan, Ronald K. Frank

Bigamy, Wedding Customs, and the Civil Code in Republican Beijing, Zhao Ma

Islamization vs. Modernization of Laws: Pakistan’s Complex of Contradictions, Abdul Karim Khan

The Restorative Process of Indigenous Justice in East Timor: Local Practice and Pragmatism as an End to the Cycle of Militia Violence, Chris Lundry

The Techno-Party as Contact Zone in the Context of Tribal Solidarity and Affective Alliance, Toshiya Ueno

Did Somebody Say Hello Kitty? The Ghost of Empire and Animal(ization) in Japan, Tomoko Shimizu

Alive or Dead? Ronggeng Music in Modern Thailand, May Mullins

Siam Reggae: Rasta Aesthetics and Tribal Counterculture in Northern Thailand, Jane M. Ferguson

Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and the Cultural Politics of Its Use in Western China, Tingshuo Yang

Differentially Distributed Knowledge Systems in the System of the Interethnic Gem Trade on the China-Burma Border, F. K. Lehman

From Weapon of Resistance to Transnational Cultural Capital: The Transformation of the Chinese Martial Arts as an Instance of Indigenous Wisdom, Aihe Wang

Local Knowledge, Ancestral Soul: Minority Languages as Indigenous Knowledge Systems in China, Naran Bilik

Negotiating Global Commodities, Gender, and Class: Women and the Used Clothing Trade in the Philippines, B. Lynne Milgram

Gender, Class, and the Mechanization of Pottery Production in Sri Lanka, Deborah Winslow

Wife Battering in Globalized Terrain: Vietnam, Gender Violence, and Cultural Change, Lynn M. Kwiatkowski

Microfinance as Social Capital? Comparative Perspectives from Nepal and Vietnam, Katharine N. Rankin

A Localized Sound on the Road in South Korea, T’ûtot’û Medley, Min-Jung Son

When the Iron Rice Bowl Meets the Market: Falun Gong and the Cult(ivation) of Modernity in Post-Maoist China, Robert Shepherd

Politics, Performance, and the Experience of Meaning in Contemporary Performed Urdu Poetry, Christopher Lee

Telling the Customer What to Do: A Thai Sex Worker Improvisational Folk Chant, Frank J. Smith

Feminizing the Brothers: Gender Representations in Chinese Korea War Films, 1955–1966, Qiliang He

Writing with One’s Body: Two (Japanese and Korean) Leftist Women Writers, Miseli Jeon

Vindicating the Rights of Colonial Maids: Kang Kyŏngae’s Portrayal of Korean Proletarian Women in the 1930s, Sunyoung Park

Revisionism and Historical Consciousness in Japan: The Case of Umemoto Katsumi, Rikki Kersten

The One and the Many: A Classicist Reading of China’s Tradition and its Role in the Modern World, Axel Schneider

Fragments, Selves, and Reconciliation in the History of Twentieth-Century Dunhuang Culture, Lewis Mayo

Reconstructing the "World-Historical Standpoint" of the Kyoto School, Christian Uhl

Governing Globalization: International Trade and Central-Provincial Relations in China, 1977–2002, Yumin Sheng

Globalization and Government Social Spending in East Asia (1950–2002), So Young Kim

Globalization and the Indian Auto Industry, Yeong-Hyun Kim

Globalization as Policy: South Korea in Comparative Perspective, Carl J. Saxer

The Author Formerly Known as Prince Shotoku: Royal Authority and Narratives of Literacy in Early Japan, David Lurie

The Politics of Writing History: Twelfth-Century Korea, Edward J. Shultz

Governance by Medical Texts in Northern Song China, T. J. Hinrichs

Circumscriptions of the Center: The Writing of the Empire in Song Notebooks, Christian de Pee

Falun Gong and Self-Improvement in Reform Era China, Chuck Ditzler

A Cold of the Heart: Antidepressant Medications and the Changing Meanings of Private Suffering in Contemporary Japan, Ken Vickery

Anti-Americanism among South Korean College Students: An Examination of the Nature and Cause of the Phenomenon, Haesook Chae

Competing Environmental Discourses and Their Impact on Urban Environmental Claims: A Case from Kolkata, India, Medha Chandra

Transnational Social Movements in East Asia: Protesting the Asian Development Bank, Kim Reimann