Note: The following schedule may be adjusted. Thank you, and stay posted!
Friday September 12
4:00 pm - Registration (Eaton Humanities Lobby)
4:30 pm - Welcome from the Chancellor (HUMN 1B50)
5:00 pm - Robert Buswell, President of AAS Keynote Address:
"Korean Buddhism in the East Asian Context" (HUMN 1B50)
6:00 pm - Reception (Eaton Humanities Lobby)
(dinner on your own)
Saturday September 13
All Day - Book Exhibit in the Lobby
8:00-9:00 am - Registration
Saturday 9:00-10:30 am
Humanities 125 - Chinese Transnational Issues
Chair: Anne Bliss, University of Colorado at Boulder
‘A Family Should Not Be Divided’: The Perspective of the Chinese-speaking in Singapore toward the Merger of Singapore, the Federation of Malaya, and the Borneo States, 1957-1963
P.J. Thum, University of Oxford
Reflections on American Higher Education for Students from the People’s Republic of China: A Case Study
Brad D. Washington, University of San Francisco
Revisiting the Concept ‘Commodification’ of Transnational Marriages: A Close Examination of the Current Policy Regarding Abolishing the Profit-Oriented Transnational Marriage Brokering Business in Taiwan
Hsun-Hui Tseng, University of Washington
Humanities 135 - Panel: Images
Chair: Hiroko Johnson, San Diego State University
Musha-e Images Affecting Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture
Neil Hovland, San Diego State University
Manufacturing Confidence: Matsumae and the Ishu Retsuzo
Elizabeth Baniadam, San Diego State University
Ainu Woodcarved Designs as Appealing Images to the Gods
Patricia Lettieri, San Diego State University
Humanities 180 - Modern Literature and Culture of China
Chair: Bert Scruggs, University of California at Irvine
Identity, Ideology, and the Politics of Remembering in Writing Memoirs about the Cultural Revolution
Li Li Peters, University of Denver
Cultural Difference or Ideological Discrepancy? On the Different Responses to Lust, Caution from the East and the West
Xiaoping Wang, University of Texas
Subverting Gender Roles And Gendered Literacy Conventions—The Case of Chen Hengzhe’s Autobiography
Tieniu Cheng, University of California at Irvine
A Love Triangle, a Murder, and a Literary-Artistic Circle in the 1930’s
Eva Shan Chou, City University of New York, Baruch College
Humanities 186 - Panel: New Women in Asia
Chair: Janet Theiss, University of Utah
The New Woman and the Geisha: The Politics of the Pleasure Quarters in Taisho Japan
Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina
Theorizing the ‘New Woman’ in Colonial Korea
Soo Jin Kim, University of Washington
‘New Women’ in Korean Feminist Scholarship: Why Now?
Hyaeweol Choi, Arizona State University
Humanities 190 - Wartime China
Chen Cheng’s Debacle in Manchuria
Yen-po Liao, Central Washington University
Wars along Southeast Chinese Coast: The Rise and Fall of ‘Recovering the Mainland’
Hsiang-Wang Liu, University of Northern Colorado
Picturing the War and More: The Jin-Cha-Ji Pictorial (1942-1947)
Eliza Ho, The Ohio State University
Humanities 1B50 - Studies of East Asian Literature, Language and Pedagogy
Chair: Carla Stansifer, University of Colorado at Boulder
Foreign Language Effect: Speed of Thinking Process during Foreign Language Use
Saori Seta, University of Colorado at Boulder
Body Politics Between the Native Tongue and the Foreign Accent
Yinghong Li, J.F. Oberlin University, Japan
Past, Present, and Future: Current Japanese Students Respond to Uchimura Kanzo Lecture, "The Greatest Heritage to Leave to Future Generations"
Darrell E. Allen, Seattle Pacific University
Humanities 1B70 - Conceptualizing Buddhism
Chair: John Kinsey, University of Colorado at Boulder
Avalokitesvara, ‘the all-sided one’
Punam Madhok, East Carolina University
Imaging the Dalai Lama: The Nature of Art and the Notion of the Relic
Sarah Getzelman, The Ohio State University
The Empty Circle – Buddhism’s Return to India
John Kinsey, University of Colorado at Boulder
Humanities 1B80 - Roundtable: Chinese and Indian Developmental Experience
Chair: William Wei, University of Colorado at Boulder
Steve Chan, University of Colorado at Boulder
Dipankar Chakravarti, University of Colorado at Boulder
Tim Oakes, University of Colorado at Boulder
Keith Maskus, University of Colorado at Boulder
Loriliai Biernacki, University of Colorado at Boulder
Humanities 1B90 - Panel: Libraries and Learning
Chair: Gail King, Brigham Young University
Faculty/Library Cooperation: One Faculty Member's Experience
Stephen Riep, Brigham Young University
Language-Learning-Oriented Library Instruction
Guo-hua Wang, Emory University
Connecting with Asian Studies Faculty Members through a Website
Xiang Li, University of Colorado at Boulder
New Directions for the East Asian Library Instruction at CU
Paul Moeller, University of Colorado at Boulder
Suggestions for Asian Studies Faculty from an Asian Studies Librarian
Mei-yun Annie Lin, University of California at Davis
Saturday, 10:45 – 12:15
Humanities 125 - Governance in Taiwan and China
Chair: Frank Hsiao, University of Colorado at Boulder
Bringing Sovereignty Back In: A Reexamination of the Effects of China’s pre-1949 Semi-Colonization on its Late 19th Century Industrialization Efforts
Stephen Thomas, University of Colorado at Denver
Market Reforms: Second Economic Revolution
Lui Hebron, California Maritime Academy
The Farmers’ Friends: A look at Farmers and the Farmers’ Association in 1950’s Taiwan
Troy Burton, University of Utah
Humanities 135 - Roundtable Discussion on Contemporary China
Chair: Tim Weston, University of Colorado at Boulder
Jeff Wasserstrom, University of California at Irvine
Tim Weston, University of Colorado at Boulder
Terry Kleeman, University of Colorado at Boulder
Tim Oakes, University of Colorado at Boulder
Orion Lewis, University of Colorado at Boulder
Humanities 180 - Late Imperial Literature in China
Chair: Jonathan Porter, University of New Mexico
The Economics of Print: Money, Reputation, and the Book Market in Seventeenth-Century China
Suyoung Son, University of Chicago
Conquering the Other: The Representation of Europe in Yesou puyan
Huili Zheng, University of California at Irvine
A Culture of Tears: Fiction and New Drama of Late Qing and Early Republican Years
Li Jin, Harvard University
Female Knight-errant in Qing poetry: A study of Jin He’s (1818-1885) Narrative Verse
Tsung-Cheng Lin, University of Victoria
Humanities 190 - Panel: Propaganda, Stereotypes, & Peace: US-Japanese Relations Pertaining to the Pacific War
Chair: Marcia Yonemoto, University of Colorado at Boulder
Archival Research and the Navy Japanese Language School at CU-Boulder
Katherine Bresee, University of Colorado at Boulder
Portrayals of “The New Other”: Redefining Imagery in Propaganda in an Occupied Japan
Mackenzie Keegan, University of Colorado at Boulder
Planning for Peace: The Creation of Article IX
Daniel Topal, University of Colorado at Boulder
Humanities 1B50 - Studies of East Asian Sacred Texts
Chair: Keller Kimbrough, University of Colorado at Boulder
Sacred Exchange: Transcription of Ritual in Ennin’s Diary
Jesse Dalton Palmer, University of California at Irvine
Visualizing the Mañjuśrī Parinirvāņa Sutra
David Quinter, University of Alberta
Performing the Lotus Sutra in the Noh Play Kuruma-zô (ca. 1514)
Keller Kimbrough, University of Colorado at Boulder
Humanities 1B70 - Panel: The Place of Empire in Postcolonial South Asia
Chair: Kira Hall, University of Colorado at Boulder
‘A World of Illusion’: The Imperial and the Framing of Postcolonial India’s Foreign Policy
Mithi Mukherjee, University of Colorado at Boulder
Homo Sacer with Kalashnikovs: The Meta-Colonial and the Structure of the Tali-ban
Najeeb Jan, University of Colorado at Boulder
Empire Without Colonialism: Tibet and the CIA in Postcolonial India
Carole McGranahan, University of Colorado at Boulder
Humanities 1B80 - Southeast Asian Buddhisms: Continuity and Change
Religious Encounters in Thailand: The Integration of Western Monks into Thai Monastic life
Brooke Schedneck, Arizona State University
The ‘Charms’ of Modern Thai Relics: An Examination of the Interplay of Tradition and Commerce in 21st Century Thailand
Jade D. Tran, The Ohio State University
Nguyen Phi Khanh and the Formation of Confucianism Literature in Vietnam
Thu Hien Do, Harvard-Yenching Institute
Humanities 1B90 - Panel: Korean Literature and Film
Chair: Bruce Fulton, University of British Columbia
‘Ladies’ of Enlightenment
Ji-Eun Lee, Washington University in St. Louis
A Look at Women’s Writing from Korea in the 1930s: Kang Kyŏngae’s Human Problems (In’gan munje, 1934), Mo Yunsuk’s Wren’s Elegy (Ren ŭi Aega, 1937), and Audrey Harris's Eastern Visas (1939)
Leif Olsen, University of British Columbia
The Past Unearthed: Pro-Japanese Cinema Revisited
Sejung Ahn, University of Minnesota
The Concepts of Division and Reconciliation in Hwang Sǒk-yǒng's The Guest (Sonnim)
Sang-eun Lee, University of British Columbia
12:25-1:30: Lunch on your own
Saturday, 1:30 – 3:00
Humanities 125 - Religion in China
Chair: Juli Gittinger, University of Colorado at Boulder
Let the Sangha take care of your family: Yǘ-lan-pen Assembly
Chen Li, University of Colorado at Boulder
Living History: Catholicism in Shanxi
Xiaofei Tu, West Virginia University
Rethinking Intellectual Syncretism in the Late Imperial China
Heawon Choi, Northwestern University
Humanities 135 - Urban China
Chair: Jonathan Porter, University of New Mexico
Chinese Communist Party's Changing Policies toward Ethnic Minorities during the Long March (1934-35)
Duan Zhidan, Arizona State University
China’s New Sovereign Wealth Fund, the China Investment Corporation
Chen Ji and Stephen Thomas, University of Colorado at Denver
The Emerging of a New Imperial City: From the Empire’s Political Center to the Battlefield of the ‘Trade War’
Zhiguo Ye, University of Minnesota
Humanities 180 - Panel: Rethinking Three Under-explored Aspects of Pre-modern Chinese Fictive Narrative
Chair: Jue Chen, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan
People of No Significance: Medical Doctors and Fortune-Tellers in Tang Dynasty Fiction
Jue Chen, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan
Alternate Realities: Haoshi zhe as Audience of Anecdotal Writings
Meghan Cai, Arizona State University
The Death of Woman Dai: Gender and Historiography in Late Imperial China
Jo-Lan Yi, National Taiwan University
Humanities 186 - Panel: Filiality Made Strange: New Explorations of a Timeless Virtue
Chair: Janet Theiss, University of Utah
Filial Daughters and Womens' Agency in Qing China
Maram Epstein, University of Oregon
The Wages of Unfiliality in an 18th Century Family Scandal
Janet Theiss, University of Utah
Filial Daughters as Sons: Commemorative Writings by Qiu Jin, Wu Zhiying, and Xu Zihua
Hu Ying, University of California at Irvine
Humanities 190 - Issues in Korean Economics
Chair: Mei-Chu W. Hsiao, University of Colorado at Denver
Migrant Entrepreneur’s Propensity for the Long-Term Residence: The Case of Korean Entrepreneurs in China
Soyoung Kwon, Purdue University
The Evolution of Environmental NGOs in Korea and the Role of Government Funding: Critical Junctures, Path Dependence, and Political Contestation
Chang Bum Ju, University of Southern California
Revisiting the Link between Inequality and Growth: The South Korean Experience
Hun Joo Park , KDI School of Public Policy and Management
Humanities 1B50 - Modern Japanese Literature
Chair: Faye Kleeman, University of Colorado at Boulder
Hosts and Constellations: Depictions of Love and Sex in Yaoi and Shōnen ai Manga
Molly (Mara) Martha Blair, University of Colorado at Boulder
Rebirth of Snow Country in 1940: Transforming the Heroine from Sexual Commodity to Laboring Body
Miho Matsugu, DePaul University
Visuality, Transnationality, and Logo/Vocal Enunciations in Contemporary Japanese Disapora Literature
Faye Kleeman, University of Colorado at Boulder
Humanities 1B70 - Roundtable Discussion: The Politics of Protest in Tibet and Beyond
Chair: Emily Yeh, University of Colorado at Boulder
Ralph Litzinger, Duke University
Charlene Makley, Reed College
Emily Yeh, University of Colorado at Boulder
Carole McGranahan, University of Colorado at Boulder
J. Travis Klingberg, University of Colorado at Boulder
Timothy Oakes, University of Colorado at Boulder
Humanities 1B80 - Diversity and Change in South and Southeast Asian Islam
Chair: Dennis McGilvray, University of Colorado at Boulder
Being Muslim in Animistic Ways
Samsul Maarif, Arizona State University
Imagery of Birds in Classical and Contemporary Persian Verse
Alireza Korangy, University of Virginia
Tamil-speaking Sheikhs and Trans-oceanic Saints: Popular Sufism in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Dennis McGilvray, University of Colorado at Boulder
From Facilitating Transition to Global War on Terrorism: an Analysis of the US Foreign Policy towards Uzbekistan during Clinton and Bush Administrations
Ahad Abdurahmonov, University of Wyoming
Humanities 1B90 - Panel: Writing on the Body: Women in South Asian Literature
Chair: Christine Everaert, University of Colorado at Boulder
Writing Revenge: Reconsidering Sexual Assault in Dalit Women’s Literature
Laura Brueck, University of Colorado at Boulder
Hidden Heroines: Mozail and other Progressive Women in 20th Century Hindi/Urdu Short Story Literature
Christine Everaert, University of Colorado at Boulder
Unmanning Violence: The Politics of Naked Protest
Deepti Misri, University of Colorado at Boulder
Saturday, 3:15 – 4:45
Humanities 125 - Ancient Chinese Literature
Chair: Matthias Richter, University of Colorado at Boulder
Evaluation of personalities: Tracing a lost genre in early Chinese texts
Matthias L. Richter, University of Colorado at Boulder
Authorial Self-reflection in Liu Xie’s Wenxin diolong
Antje Richter, University of Colorado at Boulder
On Sima Qian’s Judgment of Boyi and Shuqi
Tiezhu Dong, University of California at Berkeley
Du Guangting’s contribution to the ‘green declaration (qing ci)’
Yushu Yan, University of Colorado at Boulder
Humanities 135 - Islam in China
Chair: Michael C. Brose, University of Wyoming
Translating the Akbari Tradition: The School of Ibn ‘Arabi in the Han Kitab
Kristian Petersen, University of Washington
Memory, Memorialization and Resistance in a Yunnan Chinese Muslim Community
Michael C. Brose, University of Wyoming
The Confucian Version of Shari’ah or the Muslim Version of Li (Rites)? A Critical Reading of Liu Zhi’s Tianfang Dianli Zeyaojie
Yuan-lin Tsai, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Humanities 180 - Gendered and Transcendent Identities: Indian Literature and Philosophy
Chair: Loriliai Biernacki, University of Colorado at Boulder
Emptiness is Not Really Empty: Abhinavagupta’s Proto-(Post)Modern Understanding of Śūnyatā
Loriliai Biernacki, University of Colorado at Boulder
Advaita Tantra in Contrast to Advaita Vedanta in Abhinavagupta: Maya Rewritten
Tamara Lydolph, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Little Clay Cart (Mrechakatika): The Production of Gender and Emotion in Act V, “The Storm”
Mohan R. Limaye, Boise State University
Humanities 186 - East Asian Film and Anthropology
Chair: Vincent Burgess, University of Colorado at Boulder
Ramayana Retold: Heroism in Contemporary Indian Comic Books
Julie Romain, University of California at Los Angeles
The Representation of Asia in Korean TV Dramas
Sunyoung Kwak, University of Colorado at Boulder
Krishnacore and the Convergence of Subculture
Vincent Burgess, University of Colorado at Boulder
Humanities 190 - Panel: Reading in the Margins: Gender, Theory, and Three Modern Japanese Women Writers
Chair: Rebecca Copeland, Washington University in St. Louis
A Revolt of Being: The Threat of the Mother in Hasegawa Junko’s Museiran
David Holloway, Washington University in St. Louis
Gender in the Margins: Subverting Hierarchies in Yoko Tawada’s German-Language Texts
Suzuko Mousel Knott, Washington University in St. Louis
Parle Femme or Onnade: Imposing French Feminism on Japanese Literature
Ben Grafstrom, University of Colorado at Boulder
Humanities 1B50 - Topics in East Asian Politics
Chair: Guofei Chu, Harvard-Yenching Institute
The Implications of Alliance Politics in East Asia in the Post-Cold War Era
Guofei Chu, Harvard-Yenching Institute.
Japan and the East China Sea: Realism, Policy, and the Security Dilemma
Jason Blazevic, Idaho State University
Party Control in National Central University and Nanjing University before and after 1949
Zhendong Xu, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Humanities 1B70 - Art History and Cultural Identity
Chair: Stephen Whiteman, Stanford University
Issues and Sites of Authenticity in Diasporic P’ungmul Performances in New York and Los Angeles Korea Town
Soojin Kim, The Ohio State University
Redefining Notions of Cultural Appropriation: The Borderless Art of Suh Do ho
Paul Bradley, University of Calgary, Canada
Mingei and Yanagi Soetsu in the Face of Modernization: Maintaining Cultural Identity Through Clay
Dorothy Sutton, The Ohio State University
The Gendered Eye: Male and Female Representations of Life in America’s Concentration Camps
Nancy Brcak and John R. Pavia, Ithaca College
5:00 p.m. Banquet in University Memorial Center, Aspen Room
Sunday, 9:00 – 10:30
Humanities 125 - Chinese Art
Chair: Stephen Whiteman, Stanford University
Images of Nationalism: Western Photographers in Wartime China
Joseph Wei Ho, University of California at San Diego
Zha Shibiao’s Vision of the Huangshan: Album of Ten Landscapes, dated 1666
Diana Tenckhoff, Southwestern University, Texas
Reconsidering the Tomb of Huo Qubing
Elizabeth M. Owen, University of Denver
Humanities 135 - Panel: Moving through Space and Time: Writing Female Subjectivities from Traditional to Contemporary China
Chair: Maram Epstein, University of Oregon
Same-sex Desire or Homosociality? Women’s Relationships and Agency in the 1857 Flowers Growing from Writing Brushes
Liu Wenjia, University of Oregon
Emerging Female Agency in the Shanghai Flowers
Zhang Yu, University of Oregon
The Female Fetishism in Zhu Tianwen’s Fin De Siècle Splendors
Yang Mei, University of Oregon
Humanities 180 - Panel: Local Government, Citizen Accountability, and Public Services in China
Chair: Devin Joshi, University of Denver
Institutional Arrangements for Local Governance in Property-Owning Socialism: A Comparison of Beijing and Shanghai
Yousun Chung, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Governance in Non-Democracies: The Role of Civil Society in Increasing Pluralism and Accountability in China’s Local Public Policy
Jessica Teets, University of Colorado at Boulder
Local Government Effectiveness as a Key to Understanding China’s Regional Variation in Primary Health and Education Outcomes
Devin Joshi, University of Denver
Humanities 186 - East Asian History
Chair: Chris McMorran, University of Colorado at Boulder
What do the Jews Have to do with Sino-Japanese Relations? Exploring the Jewish Question and the China Problem in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s
Robert Hoppens, University of Washington
Subjects Most Modern: The Political Person and Juries in Japanese History
Darryl Flaherty, University of Delaware
The Roles of the Qing Court Gazette in Representing Chosŏn Korea
Hyun-ho Joo, University of Chicago
Humanities 190 - Panel: Re-visioning Modern Japanese Poetry: New Perspectives on Lyric, Media, Performance
Chair: Janice Brown, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Use of ‘Hair’ in the Poetry of Yosano Akiko
Tomoko Higashida, University of Colorado at Boulder
Can’t Stand it, Your Going Away: Takamura Kōtarō’s Chieko Poems and the West
Molly (Mara) Martha Blair, University of Colorado at Boulder
A Bird that Flies Higher than Imaginiation: Terayama Shūji and the Japanese Avant-Garde
Matthew Levitas, University of Colorado at Boulder
Minna Buta! Art as Destruction and Destruction as Art
Preston From, University of Colorado at Boulder
Humanities 1B50 - Panel: A Look at Religious Daoism in Medieval and Late Imperial Chinese Sources
Chair: Terry Kleeman, University of Colorado at Boulder
Written Redemption: Epitaph as the Soul’s Intercessory Petition
Lance Crisler, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Identities of Marshal Zhao Gongming in Daoist Resources and in Late Imperial Fiction
Han Zhang, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Male Pregnancy Motif in Daoist Internal Alchemy: Nurturing the Holy Embryo, Birthing the Pure Yang Spirit
Daniel Burton-Rose, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Representation of the Daoist Master in Yuan Mei’s Zi bu yu
Graham Chamness, University of Colorado at Boulder
Humanities 1B70 - Ritual and Performance in South and Southeast Asia
Chair: Beth Osnes, University of Colorado at Boulder
Āyurveda and JyotiS: A Study of the Remedial Prescriptions of the Śani Vrat
Jaya Reddy, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Revealed in Shadows: The Malaysian Shadow Puppet Theatre
Beth Osnes, University of Colorado at Boulder
Dancing in Circles: Representation of Radha in Rasalila Performance of Braja
Pallavi Sharma, independent scholar
Humanities 1B80 - Politics of Inequity in South Asia
Chair: Juli Gittinger, University of Colorado at Boulder
Dams, Development and Displacement in South Asia: The Case Study of a Village Community in Narmada Valley, India
Arnab Roy Chowdhury, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli
Green Transmigrations: Reincarnations of Indian Ecosophies in the West and the Reverse
William Slaymaker, Wayne State
Theorizing the Aurat: Indian Women as Impractical Category of Feminist Analysis
Juli Gittinger, University of Colorado at Boulder
Humanities 1B90 - Media, Research and Asia
Chair: Timothy Weston, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Asian Other in North American Doctoral Dissertations in Journalism and Mass Communication: Early Findings
Bella Mody, University of Colorado at Boulder
Keep the Pirates at Bay: The Positive Influence of Open Source Software in Developing Countries
Jessica Gisclair, Elon University
The Evolution of the News Media in China: Evidence from Five Provinces
Orion A. Lewis, University of Colorado at Boulder
First and the Last?—The Beijing News and China’s Media Reform
Liang Zheng, University of Colorado at Boulder
Sunday, 10:45 – 12:15
Humanities 125 - Tang Poetry
Chair: Antje Richter, University of Colorado at Boulder
A Talented Literatus or an Unsuccessful Official? – The Composition and Significance of Du Fu’s Biography in the New Tang History
Hua Zhao, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Literary Value of Poems on History (yongshi shi) in the Late Tang (827-907) and Five Dynasties (907-960)
Yue Zhang, University of Toronto (CU MA grad, 08)
Songs in the Key of History
Michelle Low, University of Northern Colorado
Light and Beauty in Li He’s Gloomy Poetic World
Huicong Zhang, Harvard University
Humanities 135 - Panel: Visuality and Gendered Identities in Contemporary China
Chair: Yipeng Shen, University of Oregon
Immoral Passion, Transnational Prostitution, and the Recuperation of Chinese Masculine Identity: A Native of Beijing in New York and Popular Articulation of Nationalism in Postsocialist China
Yipeng Shen, University of Oregon
The Destabilization of Female Stereotypes in Close to You, Make Me Warm
Julie Hackenbracht, University of Oregon
The Personal as Public: Lesbian Identity in Fish and Elephant
Bryna Tuft, University of Oregon
Humanities 180 - Panel: Social Policy and Development in Contemporary China
Chair: Gang Guo, University of Mississippi
Race to the Top or to the Bottom: Globalization and Local Social Spending in China
Gang Guo, University of Mississippi
Healthy Investment: Why did Chinese Social Welfare Policy Change under the Hu Administration?
Yu Bin, University of Colorado at Boulder
Why does Coastal China Still Lag Behind Kerala on Human Development?
Devin Joshi, University of Denver
Humanities 186 - Panel: Late Republican China International Relations, 1938-1946
Chair: Steve Levine, University of Montana
The Institute of Pacific Relations and Track Two Sino-American Diplomacy, 1941-1945
Stephen MacKinnon, Arizona State University
Sino-American Economic Diplomacy, 1938-1944: from the Universal Trading Corporation to the Bretton Woods Conference
Greg Lewis, Weber State University
Humanities 190 - Japanese Music and Theater
Chair: Keller Kimbrough, University of Colorado at Boulder
Closer Than They Appear: Takemitsu and Japanese Traditional Music
Lisa Cook, University of Colorado at Boulder
The History of Karaoke
Kevin Brown, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Influence of No and Kabuki on Contemporary Asian Theater: Intracultural and Intercultural Influences in Ota Shogo’s Mizu no eki (1984) and Ong Keng Sen’s Lear (2000)
Elizabeth Ann Jochum, University of Colorado at Boulder
Humanities 1B50 - Panel: Experiences of Globalization in Greater China: Materiality, Representation and Resistance
Chair: Emily Yeh, University of Colorado at Boulder
Globalizing Gender: China’s Adopted Daughters, Diasporas, and Citizenship
Lisa Fischler, Moravian College
Waterproof and Breathable: The Great Outdoors in Urban China
J. Travis Klingberg, University of Colorado at Boulder
Beyond Representation: Gendered Identity on the China/Burma Border
Anouska Komlosy, The British Museum
Representing Themselves: Chinese Rural Women Village Leaders Under Globalization
Sharon Wesoky, Allegheny College
Humanities 1B70 - Cultures and Violence in South Asia
The Betrayal of Afghanistan: A Case of Planned Underdevelopment
Zaher Wahab, Lewis and Clark College
Women, War and Peace in Paktoon’s Society: A Religio-Cultural Study
Syed Minhaj ul Ha, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
The Emergence of Rajputs as Monk-Warriors in Medieval India
Sanjay Gautam, University of Colorado at Boulder
Humanities 1B80 - Publishing Roundtable
Chair: Laurel Rasplica Rodd, University of Colorado at Boulder
Susan Schmidt, University of Colorado at Boulder
Susan McEachern, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Jeff Wasserstrom, University of California at Irvine (Editor of Journal of Asian Studies)
Humanities 1B90 - Modern East Asian Literature and Film
A Study on the Subject in the Literature of Won-Il Kim: Focusing on the Division Consciousness
Yunji Park, Ewha Women’s University
Power Relationship in Kannani, Analyzed by Sociolinguistics and Theoretical Criticism
Tomoko Higashida, University of Colorado at Boulder
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