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46th Annual Meeting
Belmont University
Nashville, Tennessee
January 12-14, 2007
Meeting Program
Questions about the 2007 conference program? Contact Program Chair:
Prof. Harry Kuoshu
Dept. of Modern Languages/Literature/Dept. of Asian Studies
235 G Furman Hall
Furman University
Greenville, SC 29613
O: 864 294-2278
harry.kuoshu@furman.edu
[As of 1-4-07; subject to change]
SYNOPSIS
| Friday, January 12 |
3:00pm
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Executive Committee Meeting |
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4:00-8:00pm |
REGISTRATION [in Lobby] |
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| 5:00-7:00pm |
Reception [Legislative Terrace] |
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| Saturday, January 13 |
8:00-5:00pm |
REGISTRATION & Book Display |
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| 8:30-10:15am |
Session I Panels (6) |
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| 10:15-10:30am |
Break (with refreshments) |
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| 10:30-12:15am |
Session II Panels (6) |
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| 12:15-12:30 |
Break (no refreshments) |
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| 12:15-12:30 |
Break (no refreshments) |
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| 12:30-2:00pm |
Luncheon/Business Meeting |
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| 2:00-2:15 |
Session III Panels (6) |
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| 4:00-4:30pm |
Break (no refreshments) |
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| 4:30:-6:00pm |
Presidential Address |
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| Sunday, January 14 |
7:30-8:30am |
Executive Committee Meeting |
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| 8:00-12:00 |
REGISTRATION & Book Display |
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| 8:30-10:15am |
Session IV Panels (5) |
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| 10:15-10:30 |
Break (with refreshments) |
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| 10:30-12:15 |
Session V Panels |
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| 12:15-1:30 |
Reception [Legislative Terrace] |
* The first panel of each session is in a media room.
Session I
1. Globalization and Modern Japan
(DVD Player/Monitor)
Chair: Izumi Nakayama (Furman University)
Yoshiko Kato (Kansai Univ. of International Studies, Hyogo, Japan),
“Classical Music, Higher Education and Social Structure in Modern Japan”
Steven Gump (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/Ph.D. candidate),
“What’s Japanese about Japanese Religion? Issues for Pedagogy at the Undergraduate
Level”
Kazuo Yagami (Savannah State University), “Konoe and Hull”
2. Korea at the Crossroads of Globalization
Chair: Michael J. Seth (James Madison University)
Woongjae Ryoo (Georgia State University), “The Rise of Civil Society
in Transforming National Political Environment and Mediascape: The Case
of South Korea”
Dongryul Kim (Saint Augustine’s College), “Cultural Versus Rational
Components of Asian Bureaucracy: Hidden Compensation in the Case of Korea”
Michael J. Seth (James Madison University), “Before Globalization:
Korea in the Age of Hemispherization”
Anthony A. Loh (Vanderbilt University), “The Special Relationship
between Beijing, Seoul and Pyongyang and Its Impact on the Politics of
Northeast Asia”
3. Rhetoric of Modernism and Revolution
in China
Chair: Li Zeng (U of Louisville)
Yan Liang (UC Santa Barbara / PhD candidate), “The Connection between
the Present and the Past: How Much did Modernization Change China?” (Xiyou
ji and The Creation of Gods).
Joshua Howard (U of Mississippi), “I’m also Human: Experience and
Activism among Wartime Chongqing’s Women Workers”
Xiaoling Shi (U of Arizona / PhD candidate), “Rhetoric of Revolutionary
Women in Model Operas”
4. Diaspora, Epidemic & Identity Formation
Chair: David Blaylock
Sunita Manian (Georgia College and State U), “Tackling HIV/AIDS
in the Age of Globalization: The Experience of Chennai, India”
Veena Khandke & Chakrya San (USC Upstate), “Gender Roles and
Identity Issues in Young Adults of Indian Descent”
Mai Lan Gustafsson (Christopher Newport University), “ ‘Asian’ Pride
and Prejudice in Syracuse, New York” (sociology topic)
Heather Trubee (U of South Carolina / Graduate student), “Dueling
Stories; Dual Constructions of Thai Identity”
5. Revisiting the Russo-Japanese War:
Reflections on Its Wider Implications for Asia and the World
Chair/Discussant: Daniel Metraux (Mary Baldwin College)
John W. Steinberg (Georgia South U), “Was the Russo-Japanese War
World War Zero? New Ideas Based on Current Research”
Steven Marks (Clemson U), “‘Bravo, Brave Tiger of the East!’ The
Russo-Japanese War and the Rise of Nationalist Movements in British India”
Paul A. Rodell (Georgia Southern U), “Southeast Asian Nationalism
and the Russo-Japanese War: Reexamining Assumptions”
6. Power, Institution and Security in
Asia
Chair: Kate Kaup (Furman University)
James Holmes (U of Georgia), “India Looks Seaward: The Case of the
Proliferation Security Initiative”
Cecily Hurst (Beijing U. School of Law), "Turning the Tide: Re-evaluating
Codetermination in the Chinese Context."
Jonathan Ludwig (Rice U), “Friend or Foe: China’s Role in the Development
of Central Asia”
7. Chinese Cinema: Realism, Urbanism & Local
Culture
(DVD Player/Monitor)
Chair: Harry Kuoshu (Furman U)
Vivian Shen (Davidson College), “Issues of Realism in Chinese Early
Cinema”
Harry Kuoshu (Furman University), “Crossroads and X-Roads: Old and
New Urbanism in China”
Richard Letteri (Furman University), “Beijing Bicycle at the Crossroads
of Italian Realism and Early Hollywood Comedy”
Yuan Gao (U of Memphis / PhD candidate), “The Shaanxi Identity in
Zhang Yimou’s Films”
8. Social and Political Changes in Rural
China
Chair: Binyao Zheng (Kennesaw State U)
Yusheng Yao (Rollins College), Village Elections and Popular Protest—A
Case Study of an Election Crisis in a Northern Chinese Village”
Hong Zhang (U of Central Florida), “Marriage and Sex in a Rural
Chinese Village”
Jim Yoxall (Vermont College: Union Institute and U), “The Disparities
Among the Orphans of China”
9. To Defend / Define Japan
Chair: Hal W. French (University of S. Carolina, Columbia)
Wilburn Hansen (Western Kentucky U), ”Tengu Patriots, Vanguard of
the Divine Wind: Hirata Atsutane’s Secret Weapon Against the Invasion
of Western Culture”
Noell Wilson (U of Mississippi), “Tokugawa Defense Redux: Organizational
Failure in the Phaeton Incident of 1808”
Kelly Hansen (U of Hawaii / PhD candidate), “The First Word on Genbun’itchi”
10. Diaspora and Vietnam
Chair: Richard Rice (U of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Quan Manh Ha (Texas Tech University / Ph.D. candidate), “An Early
Voice of the Vietnamese Diaspora in Vietnamese-American Literature”
Allison Truitt (Tulane University), “National Regalia, Transcendent
Citizenship: Vietnamese Strategies of Belonging”
Lawrence E Grinter (Air War College), “Vietnam’s Security Perceptions
and Policy Directions” (current affairs)
11. Reflections on the History of Cultural
Traffic
Chair: Dorothea Martin (App. State U)
Robert A. Jones (U of Louisville / PhD candidate), "The Literary
Journey of Voltaire: From China to Eldorado"
Anthony E. Clark (U of Alabama), “Baptism, Rape, and Other Misprisions:
A Critical Look at Chinese Sources on Guo Xide (Alberico Crecitelli)”
John Thornell (Delta State U), “A Strange Encounter: Lord Macartney’s
British Embassy Trip to China in 1792”
12. Building Asian Studies Programs: Challenges
and Strategies (Roundtable)
Moderator: Kate Kaup (Furman University)
Kate Kaup (Furman University)
Daniel Metraux (Mary Baldwin College)
Farley Richarmond (U of Georgia)
13. Teaching Asian Philosophies and Religions
(DVD Player/Monitor)
Chair: Tom Pynn (Kennesaw State U)
Joseph T. Jonson (Kennesaw State U), “Teaching Nishida: Approaches
to An Inquiry into the Good”
Tom Pynn (Kennesaw State U), “Introducing Students to Classical
Daoist Philosophical Practice”
Jeff Lidke (Berry College), “The Yoga of Teaching Yoga in Academic
Contexts”
14. Defending the Local in “Global” China
Chair: Charles D. Musgrove (U of Arkansas at Little Rock)
Charles D. Musgrove (U of Arkansas at Little Rock), “Defining the Nation
through Architectural Modernity: The Construction of Government Buildings
in Nanjing, 1927-1937”
Lu Liu (U of Tennessee, Knoxville), “Shaping Identities: Gender
and Nationalism in Wartime China, 1937-1945”
Chris Hess (U of Wisconsin, Madison), “Socialist Internationalism
and the Making of New Dalian, 1945-1950”
15. Concepts, Artifacts & Strategies:
Ancient China
Chair: Yu Jiang (Florida Atlantic U)
Elizabeth Childs-Johnson (Old Dominion U), “The Meaning of the Graph
Yi and Its Implications for Shang Belief and Art”
Yu Jiang (Florida Atlantic U), “Filial Piety in Western Zhou Bronze
Inscriptions and Confucianism in Early China”
Daniel Coyle (Our Lady of the Lake U), “Strategic Thought in The
Book of Master Guigu”
John S. Peale (Longwood U), “Sin, Evil and Goodness in Christianity
and the Chinese Tradition”
16. Economic Transformation and Development:
China & Japan
Chair: Cynthia Bisson (Belmont U)
Sheng Xiao (Furman University), “Has Share Issue Privatization Worked
in China?”
Yuling Zhao (Vanderbilt U / PhD candidate), “The Puzzle of Low Cross-Border
Mergers and Acquisitions in China”
Junlin Du (Indiana U / PhD candidate), “Culture and Household Financial
Choices in China”
Taka Suzuki (Ohio U), “The East Asian Developmental Model in the
Era of Global Finance: The Case of Japan”
17. The Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
in Japan
Chair: Ida Fadzillah (Middle Tennessee State U)
Discussant: William Leggett (Middle Tennessee State U)
4 presenters are students of Middle Tennessee State U.
Matthew Levi Collins, “Geisha, Gei, and Gaijin: Gifting and Gay
Men in Japan”
Angela Stroupe, “Being Japanese in Tennessee: Gender and Transnational
Identity in the New South”
Kelly Hays, “The Glass Slipper is Half Full: Western Princess Mythology
in Japanese Society”
Sandra Franks, “Birth Control Trends in Japan”
18. Old in the New: Problem-Based Learning
in Asian Studies as a Study Abroad
Experience (Roundtable)
Moderator: Ronnie Littlejohn
A panel of Belmont University faculty will talk about their creation
of an interdisciplinary, problem-based learning experience in the China
Travel Study for 2006.
Howard Cochran
Qingjun Li
Ronnie Littlejohn
David Moser
19. Teaching “Exotic” Asia: Active Learning,
Critical Thinking
(DVD Player/Monitor)
Chair: Li-ling Hsiao (U of N Carolina, Chapel Hill), hsiaoll@email.unc.edu
Eric Henry (U of N Carolina, Chapel Hill), “Can a Classroom Contain
a Culture? Vietnamese Music and American Collegiate Listeners”
Jan Bardsley (U of N Carolina, Chapel Hill), “Teaching Memoirs of
a Geisha: Novel, Film, and Controversies”
Li-ling Hsiao (U of N Carolina, Chapel Hill), Kung Fu in the Classroom:
Teaching Kurosawa, Louis Cha, and Zhang Yimou”
Inger Brodey (U of N Carolina, Chapel Hill), “Revenge, Honor, and
Nation: A Comparison of Samurai and Cowboy Film Genres”
20. Taiji, Qi, and Medicine: Physical,
Meta-Physical, and Psychological Gateways in Asian Studies
Chair: Paul Winther (Eastern Kentucky U)
Mingdong Gu (Rhodes College), “The Theory of the Dao/Taiji: A Conceptual
Model of the Mind?”
Shawn Arthur (Appalachian State University), “Chinese Medicine:
A Gateway to Asian Studies and Beyond”
Eric Karchmer (U of N Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Postcolonialism,
Qi, and the Making of Chinese Medicine”
Irene Nichols Ozbek (U of Tennessee at Chattanooga), “Clinical Psychology
and Asian Psychotherapy”
21. Towards Modernity in China: Culture,
Society & Rhetoric
Chair: Charlotte Beahan (Murray State U)
Michael Chang (George Mason U), "Local Tribute and Imperial Gift
Exchange in High Qing China, 1684-1713"
Zhiyuan Chen (Appalachian State U) & Xinggan Zhao (Suzhou U)
"Economical Miracle in East of China and Its Social Consequences"
Haosheng Yang (Harvard U / PhD candidate), “The Poetics of a Traitor:
Zhou Zuoren’s Alternative Response to Chinese Modernity”
22. India, Religion & Peace
Chair: Hal W. French (University of S. Carolina, Columbia)
Gerald T. Carney (Hampton-Sidney College), “From Ashram to Condo:
Transformation of a Religious Ideal”
Hal W. French (University of S. Carolina, Columbia), “The Self as
an Instrument of Peace: Wisdom from the Indian Tradition and Modern Sources”
Roderic Owen (Mary Baldwin College), “Teaching Gandhi and Peacemaking”
23. Sacred Origins of Arts and Religions
Chair: Veena Khandke (USC Upstate)
N. S. Valluvan (Independent researcher, Chennai, India), The Indus
Sign Denoting the Sky Loop of Time or The Maha Kala of Siva Linga that
Encompasses the Five Staffs of Time or Pillars of Time”
Emily A. Bell (U. of Florida / Ph.D. candidate), “Dhrupad-Singing:
The High Art of an Unbroken Tradition”
Michael Rich (Georgetown College), “Sacred Origins of Japanese Somatic
Theories”
24. Images and Memories: Asia in Cinema, Photography
and Writing
(DVD Player/Monitor)
Chair: Daniel Metraux (Mary Baldwin College)
Daniel A. Metraux (Mary Baldwin College), “Cambodia Today: The Slow
Road Back from the Inferno and Killing Fields Revisited”
Charles L. Shull (Sociology, Lynchburg, VA), “Images of Japan and
the Japanese: What American Saw of Through Stereo-Photographs Between
1880-1920”
25. Application of Some Newer Communications
Technologies to Japan Studies in
the United States (Roundtable)
Chair: James Auer (Vanderbilt U) James.E.Auer@vanderbilt.edu
Discussant: Edward J. Lincoln (New York U) elincoln@stem.nyu.edu
Leonard Schoppa (U of Virginia)
Kristina Troost (Duke U)
Robert Angel (U of S Carolina)
26. Community, Democracy, and Chinese Political Thought
Chair: Brett Benson (Vanderbilt)
Discussant: Brooke A. Ackerly (Vanderbilt)
John Delury (Yale U), “Too big for Democracy? Perspectives on the
Problem of Extent in Early Modern Chinese Political Thought”
Leigh Kathryn Jenco (U of Chicago), “From Commonality (tong) to
Difference (yi): Zhang Shizhao’s Challenge to the Idea of Public Space”
Steven F. Geisz (U of Tampa), “Deliberative Interactions and Confucian
Perspectives”
27. Characters, Diaglossia & Enigma:
Language and Rhetoric Issues in Asian Studies
Chair: Binyao Zheng (Kennesaw State U)
Binyao Zheng (Kennesaw State U), “Character Education in Changing
Society: A Study of Cultural Values in a Contemporary Chinese Reading
Textbook”
Li Lu (Wuhan Star Art Kindergarten, China), “Using Classical Poetry
for Understanding Cultural Traditions and Aesthetic Education”
Li Zeng (U of Louisville), “Hermetic and Enigmatic: ‘Problematics’
of Ambiguity in Li Shangyin’s Poetry”
Yahui Huang (U of Texas at Austin / PhD candidate), “Diaglossia
in Taiwan and the Influence of Nationalism”
28. Interpreting China Through Student
Eyes
Chair: Mana Shagoli (Belmont U)
Discussant: Sean Ashworth (Belmont U)
A group of Belmont U students talk about their work on interdisciplinary,
problem-based learning projects in China travel study for 2006
Shannon Neel, “China’s Forgotten People: the Disabled in the Land
of the One Child Policy”
Mana Shagoli, “An American in Club Banana”
Zachary Koffler, “Face Painting the Self”