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Session 1, Contested East Asian Literary Histories from Antiquity to the Present
Intertitularity and Modern Sino-Japanese Literary Negotiation, Karen Thornber
Japanese Medieval Setsuwa and Chinese Literature, Mioko Uchida
Courting Competition: Sino-Japanese Poetry Contests in the Heian Period, Wiebke Denecke
Ema Saiko (1787-1861) and the Chinese Feminine, Paul Rouzer
Working Mothers and Orphaned Children: The Depression Era Poverty Relief Program in Colonial Vietnam, Christina E. Firpo
Making Citizens out of Orphans, Child Refugees, and Street Urchins: the Project of Child Welfare in Wartime China (1937 -1945), Norman D. Apter
A Colony of Orphans: India, 1857-1930, Satadru Sen
Session 3, Entrepreneurship and Development in Asia: A Multidisciplinary Assessment
Entrepreneurship and Philippine Development, Eric C. Batalla
Rare Entrepreneurship in Japan, Edson Kenji Kondo
Chinese SMEs in the Border Regions of Far East, Barbara A. Despiney-Zochowska
Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in Hong Kong, Louis Augustin-Jean
Migration and Indigenization: Chinese Migrants in Pre-13th Century Yunnan, Bin Yang
The Hokkien Networks in Historical Maritime Asia, James K. Chin
Chinese Muslim Students at Al-Azhar, Yufeng Mao
Near and Far East in Balkan Crisis, 1903-1914, Anne Louise Antonoff
Female Sexuality in Chinese and Arab Feminisms: A Comparative Study, Anchi Hoh
Session 6, Globalization, Locality and Hybridity of Japanese Popular Culture in an Asian Context
Comic Book Diplomacy? Japan, China and Pop Culture Politics, Yoshiko Nakano
Different Senses of Alienity: Kimura Takuya to Japan and Hong Kong, Shuk Ting Yau
Mimicking Japanese Shoujo Manga: The Formation of Korean Girls Comic Book Culture during 1970s-1990s, Kukhee Choo
Japanese for a Day: Cosplay Fandom in Singapore, Elizabeth MacLachlan
Session 22, Forests and Empire in Modern Asia
Paper Forests and a Dearth of Trees: Chinese Forestry in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Anne R. Osborne
Forests, Science and Empire in India's Twentieth Century, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Empires of Forestry in Southeast Asia, Nancy Lee Peluso
Session 23, Women’s Transnational Political Activism in East and Southeast Asia
Women’s Activism in Combating Violence Against Women in China, Louise Edwards
Spectacles, Dress, Feminisms and Women’s Movements in the Philippines, Mina Roces
Refashioning Streetscapes: Women, Vending and Urban Activism in the Northern Philippines, B. Lynne Milgram
Gender, Cosmopolitanisms and Rights Claims in Malaysia, Maila Stivens
Session 24, New Perspectives on Southeast Asia-China Interactions
Most Exotic Treasures Come from the West, Yangwen Zheng
Southern China and the Islamization of Southeast Asia, Geoff Wade
Spices and Sea-Products in Trans-Asian Circuits: Oral Histories and the Sino-Southeast Asian Connection, Eric Tagliacozzo
Session 25, Soviet Influence in China Reexamined: Past and Present
Socialist Brotherhood or Great-Power Chauvinism: Reexamining the 1950 Sino-Soviet Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance Treaty, Douglas A. Stiffler
Instilling Stalinism in CCP Party Members in the 1950s, Hua-Yu Li
Fate of the Soviet Model of Multinational State-Building in China, Minglang Zhou
Session 43, Comparative Perspectives on the Local History of the Cold War in Asia
Militarization, Modernization and Gender in a Cold War Flashpoint, Changh-hui Chi
African and Arab Colonial Soldiers in the First Indochina War: Probing the Limits of Third Worldist and Cold War Narratives., Shawn F. McHale
Contentious Democratization of Environment: Politics of Militarism, Conservation and Livelihood in a Southern Taiwanese Community
, Ming-sho HoIn the U.S. Army but not quite of it: Gender, Race, Class, and Nation in the Discourses of KATUSA (Korean Augmentation to the United States Army), Seungsook Moon
Of "Ducks" and Women: Rumors of Male Prostitution in a Transnational Chinese Village, Julie Y. Chu
How Can I Marry a Foreigner when My Parents are in China? The Dilemmas of Filial Chinese Daughters Studying in Europe, Vanessa L. Fong
Home Wars: Gendered Consumption Struggles over Alcohol and Migrant Remittances among Transnational Sri Lankan Families, Michele Gamburd
Split Family Migration among Chinese Families in Latin America: Immigrant Daughters and their Reunification Struggles, Lok Siu
Discourse between Shanghai and Tokyo on the Literati Art Traditions in the Early 1930s, Zaixin Hong
In the Manner of the Untrammeled (Yipin): Shitao Meets Muqi in Tessai’s Composition, Tamaki Maeda
Nature as Nationalism: The Bird-and-Flower Imagery of Taki Katei, Rosina Buckland
Kangaku in Painting: Hashimoto Kansetsu's Chinese Connection, Aida Yuen Wong
From Camelback to Carnegie Hall: the Global Journey and Modern Makeover of the Pipa, James Millward
Towards a Uyghur Musical Instrument: Reinventing the Central Asian Rawap in Northwest China, Chuen-Fung Wong
The Sitar as a Cultural Icon: Structural, Stylistic, and Cultural Evolution from the 19th into the 21st century, Brian Silver
Session 47, Globalization and Educational Development in East Asia
Globalization, School Reform, and Quality Education in China, Jennifer Adams
Standardization/Centralization of Korean Education and Student Outcomes: Implications for Educational Reform in the Era of Globalization, Hyunjoon Park
Japanese Schools: The Educational Challenges Presented by an Increasingly Multilingual and Multicultural Student Body, Yuko G. Butler
Chinese Education Policy for the Global Knowledge Economy: Reform Rhetoric and Reality during the First Decade of the New Millennium, Tanja Carmel Sargent
Session 48, Memory and Counter Memory: The Construction of Statehood in Early-modern and Modern East
Memories of a Hero: The Mythology of Admiral Yi Sunshin and the Emergence of Korean National Identity, Saeyoung Park
Remembering Shi Kefa: Changing Images of a Hero in Late Imperial and Early Republican China, Ko-wu Huang
Memory and Counter Memory of the Qing Conquest of Inner Asia and the Formation of Modern Chinese National Identity, 1820–1910, Gang Zhao
Food Markets, Environmental Activists and Health: Organic Foods in Southwest China, Jakob Klein
Yuan Dynasty Diet Regulation Principles in Chia Ming's Essentials of Eating and Drinking, E. Leslie Williams
The Use of Topic Markers in Japanese and Korean Narrative Discourse, Fumio Watanabe
Match made on Shaadi.Com: Indian Matrimonial Websites in a Globalizing World, Rima M. Aranha
Acquisition of Aspect in toki ‘when’ Clauses in Japanese, Priya Ananth
Who is a Part-time Worker in Japan? The Diversification of Jobs on a Non-regular Working Basis, Noriko Tada
Relation between Sentance Order and Discourse Development in Japanese Opinion Essays, Mitsuko Kido
Not Farewell, Resignify it! Site-Specific Performances at Factory 798 in Globalizing China, Jiayun Zhuang
Session 66, Race and Gender in Japanese Empire
Hegemony surrounding the Positions within Empire: Strategy of "Survival" of the Korean in the Pacific War, Myoung A. Kwon
Constructing Race and Gender: Literatures on Interracial Marriage and Romance between Korean and Japanese, Su Yun Kim
Performing Japan and the Takarazuka Girls' Revue in the West during the War, Sang Mi Park
Gender in 19th century Chinese Morality Books on Infanticide, Michelle T. King
The French Holy Childhood Association and Families of the Poor in 19th and early 20th century China, Henrietta Harrison
Human Nature in Edo-period Infanticide Propaganda, Fabian Drixler
Session 87, The Dynamics of Contemporary China-Japan Political and Economic Ties
Japan’s Economic Ties with China: A Focus on Industrial Investment and Technology Transfer Policies, Eric Harwit
Contending Histories and the Perception of Threat: World War II Textbooks and Sino-Japanese Relations Today, an Experimental Study, Peter Gries
Explaining the Economic and Political Paradox in Current Sino-Japanese Relations, Yinan He
Session 88, Reconstructing Partition in Indian and Korean Cinema
Romancing the North: Representation of North Korean Women in Recent South Korean Films, Kyung Hyun Kim
Cracks in the Heart: Partition Trauma in Ritwik Ghatak's Cinema , Sudipto Chatterjee
Contesting the Korean Partition: The Filmed Documentation of the North Korean Arirang Festival, Suk-Young Kim
Between Partition and Reunification: The Political Horizons of Indian and Korean War Films, Bhaskar Sarkar
Session 89, Scrutinizing the Transnational in East Asian Cinema
Thinking of Japan in Vladivostok: Finding Nation in "Transnational" Cinema, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
The Banality of Being Transnational: Can East Asian Cinema Save Area Studies?, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
Metonymic Being: Korean Japanese in Japanese Cinema, Jung Bong Choi
Crossing the Yalu River: Korean Cinema's Reengagement with China, Aaron Magnan-Park
Session 105, The State and Maritime Trade in Pre-modern East Asia
Controversies Concerning the Revival of Sino-Japanese Tributary Trade During the Japanese Invasion of Korea, Yoshiaki Nakajima
State Control of Maritime Trade and Interpreters in Northeast Asia in Eighteenth Century: From a Comparative Perspective,Masashi Haneda
Batavia 1619-1810: Balancing the Emporium and the Port City, Leonard Blusse
Maritime Tribute and Maritime Trade in the Early Song, John W. Chaffee
Session 106, East Asia Cities as Laboratories of Modernity: Tianjin, Seoul, and Ho Chi Minh City
Feminized Hinterland: Urban Discourses on Shamanism in Korea (1895-1900), Merose Hwang
Sanitized Tianjin: Multiple Representations of the Italian Concession (1901-2006), Maurizio Marinelli
"Urban Civilization" and the Convergence of State and Popular Discourses in Ho Chi Minh City, Erik Harms
Session 107, Photography in Qing China and Meiji Japan
Japanese Photography and the Legacy of "Dutch Learning", Doris Croissant
Drumming up Business in Early Shanghai Photographic Studios, Oliver Moore
Colonizing the Ogasawara Islands: National Boundaries and Photographic Frontiers, David Odo
The Formative Years of Shanghai Photography, 1842-1875, Regine Thiriez
The Zheng Maritime Organization: A Key Part of the International Context of 17th Century East Asia, Patrizia Carioti
Pirates, Estates, and the Growth of Commercial Shipping in Medieval Japan, Peter D. Shapinsky
The Commercial Networks used by the Wakô, Kenji Igawa
Pirates and Thieves: The Dutch East India Company in Japan, Adam J. Clulow
Session 109, Individual Papers: International Relations and International Norms
Mutual Suspicions, Strategic Competition, Trading Partners or Wary Neighbors: A Realistic Assessment of India-China Relations, Srini Sitaraman
The Abolitionist Movement in Death Penalty-friendly Asia: Comparing Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, Sangmin Bae
Meeting at the Summit: Regional Institutions and Transnational Activism in East Asia, Kim Reimann
Globalization Directed by Past: The Results of the Economic Boom in the 1920s in the Iida -Shimoina Area, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, Hiroshi Onitsuka
The Administrative Law of the Qing Empire and Its Incomprehensible China: Law and the Hybridized Modernity under the Japanese Colonialism, Cheng-Yi Huang
Session 127, Networks of Exchange: India, Africa, and a Challenge to "Area Studies"
Spheres of Inter-relation in the Indian Ocean: Gujarat, East Central Africa and South Asia in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Pedro A. Machado
Trajectories of Transnationality: Uganda Indians, Then and Now, Savita P. Nair
The Idea of "Africa" in Indian Nationalism: The Case of The Modern Review, Isabel Hofmeyr
Session 128, Roundtable: Asia in the Global Economy, 1500-1900
Session 129, Seeing through Asia in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe and her Colonies
Between the Dutch Republic and China: Trade and Travel across Ceramic Surfaces, Dawn V. Odell
The Liberty Bowl: China, Silver, Tea, and Revolution in Britain's American Colonies circa 1775, Jennifer G. Purtle
"Un autre respect pour les lettres des rois": Thai Kingship as Seen by the Court of Louis XIV, Rebecca Zorach
Belief, Ritual and Local Practice in Experiences of Indian Catholicism, Leonard Fernando
A Shifting Mirror: Faces of Vietnamese Catholics in the Early Modern Period, Nhung Tuyet Tran
Catholicism, Education, and Identity on the Island of Flores, Catherine Husbands
Wanted: An Eighteenth-century Chinese Catholic Priest in China, Europe, India, Eugenio Menegon
From Periphery to Center: The Rise of the Korean Film Industry since the Late 1990s and Ironies of its Success, Jeongsuk Joo
Wielding Ritual Censorship for Hierarchical Social Order: Sima Guang's Thinking on Funeral Rituals, Mihwa Choi
Portraying a Potential Partner? The Japanese Press on Germany, 1919-1933, Ricky Law
'I Lament, I Deplore, and I Resent' as 'Veni, Vidi, Vici': the Hansan Yi-ssi Kohaengnok, Si Nae Park
Embroidering an Indigenous Aesthetic: Ainu Women's Innovations and Cultural Revival in Japan, Ann-Elise Lewallen
Being "Indigenous" in Indonesia and the Philippines: Contradictions and Pitfalls, Jacques Bertrand
"Our Tribal Brothers are Happy!": The Asian States and Indigenous Activists at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Janak Rai
Ethnicity and Nature Conservation in Southwest China: The Politics of Indigeneity, Michael Hathaway
Tanuma Okitsugu’s Copper Policies, Bettina Gramlich-Oka
Ryukyu and Sino-Japanese Trade, Gregory J. Smits
The Production of Export Copper, Anke Scherer
On Secret Mission: Glimpses of the Sino-Japanese Copper Trade from a Secret Agent's Report of 1737, Thomas Hirzel
Factory Festivals in Sri Lanka: Setting the Stage for Debates about Globalization, Culture, and Gender, Caitrin Lynch
Resisting Fertility Control, Asserting Islamic Traditions, Claiming Reproductive Rights: Indonesian Muslim Women and Global Population Policy, Christopher Candland
Negotiating the "City of Whores": Gendered Public Spaces and Transgressive Citizen-subjects at Sri Lanka's Katunayake Free Trade Zone, Sandya Hewamanne
Session 170, Roundtable: Sociocultural Consequences of U.S. Military Bases in Asia and Beyond
Session 171, Ethnography in East Asia: Colonialism, Modernity and the State
Meiji Colonial Ethnography and the "East Asian Modern" in Taiwan, Paul Barclay
The Ethnographer and the Writer: Cultural Identity and Violence in Satô Haruo’s Demon Bird, Robert Tierney
Ethnography and Borderland Studies in China, 1903-1956, Dan Shao
Colonial Police as Folklorist: Policing the Everyday and the Rise of Folklore Studies in Japanese Colonial Taiwan, Wei-Chi Chen
Session 188, Countervailing Connections: Islamicate Mobilities in Imperial Moments
Prince’s Progress: Modernization and Islamist Internationalism in Hyderabad, Eric Lewis Beverley
From Coalition to Nation: Julfan Merchants in Madras and the Birth of Modern Armenian National Discourse, Sebouh D. Aslanian
The Importance of Place of Origin as a South Asian Shia in Early 19th-century Iran, Mana Kia
Munshis in London: The Art of Petitioning a Monarch, Manan Ahmed
Session 189, Asia and Europe: Explaining Differing Paths of Regional Integration
The East Asia Community: Political Economic Core of Asia, or Stillborn Dream?, Joel Campbell
Political and Institutional Processes in European and Asian Integration: Most Similar, Most Different, Ken Morita
The EU Expands Eastward: Economic Dissonance and Political Maturation, Kumiko Haba
Political and Institutional Processes in European and Asian Integration: Most Similar, Most Different, Yun Chen
Progress of Asian Financial Cooperation: Comparison with Europe and a Program for East Asia, Jin-Young Kim
Session 191, Roundtable: Bridging Asian and Asian American Studies
Session 209, Examining Religion: Social Change in Asia
Mobilizing Inside and Outside State Organizations: Religious Resistance by Chinese Protestants, Carsten T. Vala
Pious Feminism: Islam and Women's Rights in Indonesia, Rachel Rinaldo
Strategic Fundamentalism : MUI Fatwa’s and the Competition for Religious Authority in Indonesia, Jeremy M. Menchik
Religious Practice among local Women in the Ferghana Valley: From Information to Transformation, Svetlana Peshkova
Session 211, Belief, Science and the "Modern" Divide in Asia
The Flight of the "Brahmadaitya": Ghosts and their Advocates in Colonial Bengal, Tithi Bhattacharya
Japanese Protestant Christianity and Modernity, Garrett Washington
Surveying and Seeing Religious Practice in Republican China, Rebecca Nedostup
Session 212, East Asian Civil Society Organizations in Comparative Perspective
Civil Society and New Governance in Korea: Politicization of Civil Society Organizations in Democratic Consolidation, Jaeho Yeom
Chinese Social Organizations and Civil Society: Based on a Questionnaire Survey of Shehui Tuanti, Kazuko Kojima
Preliminary Analysis of the First Ever Nationwide Survey of Japanese Neighborhood Associations, Robert J. Pekkanen
Which Civil Society Organizations in Which Countries are Enjoying Policy-Making Processes and Why? Comparing 7 Countries in the JIGS Surveys, Yutaka Tsujinaka