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Friday, October 5, 2007
4:30-6:30 pm Registration at Hamilton Smith Hall, Room 101
Saturday, October 6, 2007
8:15-9:00 Registration and Breakfast, Holloway
Commons, Main Floor
Meetings will take
place either at Holloway Commons (HC), with A/V, or the adjacent Memorial Union
Building (MUB), without A/V
Guides to MUB are
available to help at the Registration Desk
Session I 9:00-10:30
Panel 1 Global, Regional and Local
Conflict and Cooperation in Asia
Piscataqua (HC)
Chair: Drew Christie, University of New Hampshire
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Discussant: Chris Reardon, University of New Hampshire
Paper A
The Impact of the
Great Depression on Nagano, Japan: Its Regional Differences
Hiroshi Onitsuka,
Iida City Institute of Historical Research
Paper B
Knowledge Transfer
between the Two Koreas at the Gaeseong Industrial Complex
Jeffrey L. Gower,
University at Buffalo-SUNY
Paper C
India’s Supreme Court and Muslim Personal Law in the Decades following the Shah
Bano Verdict
Salima Christie
Burke
Panel 2 Gender, Class, and the New
Japanese Woman
Salmon Falls (HC)
Chair/Discussant:
Eiko Maruko Siniawer, Williams College
Paper A
The Self-Made Woman:
Gender and Class in Early 20th Century Japan
Mark Jones, Central
Connecticut State University
Paper B
Tamura Toshiko and
the New Woman character
Reiko Yonogi, Indiana
University at Indianapolis
Panel 3 Crossing Boundaries: Artists and
Writers in Asia, Europe, and America
Lamprey (HC)
Chair/Discussant: Cathy Frierson, University of New Hampshire
Paper A
When Robinson Crusoe
meets Ximen Qing: Material Egoism in the “First” Chinese and English “Novels”
Ning Ma, Princeton
University
Paper B
Yearning for the
Exotic? Reflections on Asian Art Collectors in the US, 1880-1920
Kyunghee Pyun, Pratt Institute
Paper C
What is National
Literature?
Panel 4 Modern China in Motion
Cocheco (HC)
Chair/Discussant:
Kathleen Poling
University of
California-Berkeley
Paper A
Communication Systems
of the Late Qing Central Government, 1861-1912
Wook Yoon, Yale
University
Paper B
Transporting
Trafficked People
Johanna Ransmeier,
Yale University
Paper C
Managing Criminal
Bodies: Prisoner Transfer in Qing Dynasty China
Kathleen Poling,
University of California-Berkeley
Session II 10:45-12:15
Panel 1 Japan’s Legacies of Defeat
Squamscott (HC)
Chair/Discussant:
Erik Esselstrom, University of Vermont
Paper A
Mourning War Dead and
the Responsibility for War: Japan’s Yasukuni Problem
Yasushi Toda, Harvard University
Paper B
Framing the Ruins:
Yamahata Yôsuke’s Photographs of Nagasaki (August 10, 1945)
Mark Silver,
Connecticut College
Panel 2 Roundtable: Walking a Fine Line:
Assessing the Mixed Legacy of the Mao Years
MUB 233
Moderator: Weili Ye, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Panelist A
Weili Ye, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Panelist B
Xueping Zhong, Tufts University
Panelist C
Lingzhen Wang, Brown University
Panel 3 Nation-State Questioned: Local
Politics and Resistance in Modern East Asia
Lamprey (HC)
Chair/Discussant: Christopher Robins, St. Lawrence University
Paper A
The Nationalizing of
Chinese Buddhism in the late Qing and early Republic
Gregory Adam Scott,
Columbia University
Paper B
Touhoku Tales as a
Dark Mirror of Japanese Modernity
Christopher Robins,
St. Lawrence University
Panel 4 Mutually Inspired: Arts and
Philosophy during the Song and Ming Dynasties
Salmon Falls (HC)
Chair: Qiong Zhang,
Southern Illinois University
Paper A
The Interplay of
Literature, Arts, and Craftsmanship in Song (960-1279) China: Several Cases of
the Yingzao fashi (Building Standards, 1103)”
Feng, Jiren, Max
Planck Institute
Paper B
Li Xinchuan’s
(1167-1244) Historiography
Tsong-han Lee,
Harvard University
Panel 5 Imperialism and National Rights in
Modern China
Cacheco (HC)
Chair/Discussant: Linsun Cheng, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
Paper A
Rediscovering
Frederick T Ward, the Yankee Would-be-Emperor of Qing China.
Gordon W. Knight,
Green Mountain College
Paper B
American Shanghai
Thomas E Williams,
Green Mountain College
Paper C
Zhang Fuyun and the
reform of Chinese Customs Services
Linsun Cheng,
University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
Panel 6 Anxiety and Hope for Greater China
Piscataqua (HC)
Chair/Discussant: Chris Reardon, University of New Hampshire
Paper A
Hui Gui: Return or
Regression? - Observations on Hong Kong, Ten Years Later
Linda L. Lau, Tufts
University
Paper B
The Conflict-of-Law
Rules between China and Taiwan and Their Significance
Chi Chung, Harvard
University
Panel 7 The Mirror’s Oblique Reflection –
Expanding the Possibilities of Poetry as Autobiography
MUB 207
Chair/Discussant: Stephen Owen, Harvard University
Paper A
Poet-Lovers: Ninth
Century Poetry on Entertainers
Jinghua Wangling,
Harvard University
Paper B
The Poetic Diary –
The Poet’s Self-Portrait in Late 12th Century
Chen Zhang, Harvard
University
Paper C
Yang Weizhen’s
Reinvention of the Yuefu Tradition
Huicong Zhang,
Harvard University
Conference Luncheon, 12:30-2:15
Huddleston Hall Ballroom
Keynote Speech: “Chinese Conceptions of 'Rights': From Mencius to Mao -- and
Now”
Elizabeth Perry
President, Association for Asian Studies
Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government
Harvard University
Session III 2:30-4:00
Panel 1 Western Science in the Popular
Imaginations and Elite Discourse of Modern East Asia
Salmon
Falls (HC)
Chair: Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University
Discussant: Bridie
Andrews Minehan, Bentley College
Paper A
Reinventing the Ideal
of “Scholar-Physician”: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Doctor’s Engagement with
Western Learning
Qiong Zhang, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Paper B
Imagined Technologies
in the Popular Fiction of a Late Eighteenth-Century Japanese Author
William Fleming, Harvard University
Paper C
The Quest for the ‘West’: Empire(s),
Western Knowledge, and Korea
EunJeong Ma, Cornell University
Panel 2 The Politics of Crime, Police and
Power in Imperial Japan
Cacheco (HC)
Chair: Erik Esselstrom, University of Vermont
Paper A
Violent Criminality
in Modern Japanese Politics: Ruffians, Political Parties, and the State
Eiko Maruko Siniawer,
Williams College
Paper B
Beijing, 1901-1912: Gauging the Parameters of Policing
Christopher Dewell,
University of California-Santa Barbara
Paper C
Wartime Pacifism as
Political Crime: The Case of Hasegawa Teruko, 1912-47
Erik Esselstrom
Panel 3 Modern Representations of
Traditional Chinese Literary Genre, Theme, and Aesthetics
Squamscott (HC)
Chair/Discussant:
Shengqing Wu, Wesleyan University
Paper A
Robert Van Gulik’s
Negotiation of Modern Desire and Chinese Detective Fiction in Judge Dee works
Yan Wei, Harvard
University
Paper B
The “Faking” of
Traditions: Textural Revision and the Writing of Asian American Identity
Hongmei Sun,
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Paper C
Accidental Loyalism:
Yu Dafu’s Poetic Response to Chinese Modernity
Haosheng Yang,
Harvard University
Paper D
Qing? Wuqing?
Defining Qing in Wu Jianren’s The Sea of Regret
Lian Liu, Harvard
University
Panel 4 Chinese Communism Redux:
Neo-Communists and the Marketers
Piscataqua (HC)
Chair/Discussant: Linsun Cheng, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
Paper A
China’s New Left and Its Impact on Market Reform
He Li, Merrimack
College
Paper B
Understanding China:
neo-Communism
Erping Zhang,
Association for Asian Research
Paper C
Reconstructing Rural
China
Qunjian Tian, Connecticut College
Panel 5 Does the Original Matter? Lineage,
Language, and Media in Modern and Postmodern China
Lamprey (HC)
Chair/Discussant: LU Yan, University of New Hampshire
Paper A
Following the Court’s
Steps: the Compilation of Genealogies of Manchu Lineages
Haihong Li, Harvard
University
Paper B
Coping with SARS:
Grassroots Governance, Popular Media Outlets and Humor
Yu L. Rioux,
University of Colorado at Bolder
Panel 6 Chinese Women as Heroes, Patriots,
and Superwomen
MUB 233
Chair/Discussant: Caroline Reeves, Emmanuel College
Paper A
The Flight of
Fantasy: Writing Women’s Potential in the Late Qing Women’s Press
Eavan Cully, McGill
University
Paper B
Home is That Which I
Adore: Gender, Nationalism & Self-Narratives of Returned Overseas Chinese Women
Karen M. Teoh,
Harvard University
Paper C
Occidentalized Sinic-
Shanghai Baby, Whitened Libidinal Desire, and Hyperfeminity
Michael A. Mikita, III
Panel 7 Vision, Imagination, and
Contradictions under the British Raj and the Japanese Empire
MUB 207
Chair/Discussant: Sandhya Shetty, UNH
Paper A
Imperial Defense and
Colonial Contradictions in Nineteenth Century India
Sameetah Agha, Pratt
Institute
Paper B
The Formation of
Imaginary Spectatorship of Japanese Empire at
International Expositions
Inhye Kang
Paper C
An Indian Monroe
Doctrine...But What Kind?
James R. Holmes,
Naval War College
Toshi Yoshihara,
Naval War College
Session IV 4:15-5:45
Panel 1 Soft vs. Hard Power: China’s
Security Then and Now
Piscataqua (HC)
Chair/Discussant: John Tian, Connecticut College
Paper A
Homeland insecurity:
the experience of Ming Dynasty China
Roland Higgins, Keene
State College
Paper B
China’s Foreign Relations Riddle: An Ethical Catch-22?
Maororng Jiang,
Creighton University
Paper C
The Power of Appeal
of the People’s Republic of China: Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics
Priscilla Begin,
George Washington University
Panel 2 In Search of Equilibrium:
Re-Understanding Social and Environmental Problems in Asia
Cacheco (HC)
Chair: Drew Christie, University of New Hampshire
Discussant: Jennifer Rudolph, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Paper A
Resistance and
Asymmetrical Equilibrium: Exploring Social Injustice and an “Unequal Balance”
in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance
Hena Ahmad, Truman
State University
Paper B
A Triumph of
Collectivity over Individuality
Siling Zhou,
University of Vermont
Paper C
A Genealogy Shōene
Washlet
Craig Colbeck,
Harvard University
Panel 3 Homoeroticizing the Past:
Bishonen (Beautiful Boys) in Modern Japanese Literature
Salmon
Falls (HC)
Chair/Discussant: Keith Vincent, Boston University
Paper A
Melancholia and
Same-Sex Desire in Kawabata’s Shonen
Keith Vincent, Boston
University
Paper B
Activating the
Object: the Bishônen and Heteroeroticism in Kyôka’s Yôken kibun.
Nina Cornyetz, New
York University
Paper C
Voyage to the Moon:
Futurism and Nostalgia in the Interwar Writings of Inagaki Taruhô
Ryan Cook, Yale
University
Paper D
Proscribed Eroticism:
The Bishônen Ideal in Edogawa Rampo’s Confessions of Rampo and Mori
Ôgai’s Vita Sexualis
Seth Jacobowitz, San
Francisco State University
Panel 4 Rethinking Form and Content in
Pre-modern Chinese Literature
Lamprey (HC)
Chair/Discussant: Stephen Owen, Harvard University
Paper A
In Her Voice: the
Formation of a Tradition in Early Medieval Poetry
Qiulei Hu, Harvard
University
Paper B
Songs and Anecdotes:
Historical and Literary Contexts of Southern Tang Lyrics
Chengjuan Sun,
Harvard University
Paper C
The Content of the
Form in the ‘Fu’ Chapter of the “Xunzi”
Vincent S. Leung,
Harvard University
Paper D
The Omenology in the
Han shu ‘Wu Xing Zhi’: The Reinterpretation of Dong Zhongshu’s Disaster
and Anomaly Theory
Ji Chen, University
of Wisconsin-Madison
Panel 5 Roundtable: Undergraduate
Students: "Authentic" Materials, Library Collections, and Independent Research
Squamscott (HC)
Moderator: Sharon
Domier, University of Massachusetts
Panelist A
Yunshan
Ye, Dickinson College
Panelist B
James Dorsey, Dartmouth College
Panelist C
Weijia Li, Amherst
College
6:30-8:30 Farewell Party
Hamilton Smith Hall, Faculty Lounge (Room 101) |
