Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs
Minneapolis Radisson Metrodome
615 Washington Avenue S.E., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414 (612) 379-8888
October 1-3, 2004
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Session 1:Work and Neighborhood in Japan
Presidents＊ Room
Chair: Sally Hastings, Purdue University
※Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Gender Empowerment and the Future of Japanese Society§
Tamoaki Nomi, Southeast Missouri State University
※The Official Journal of Takoyakushi Neighborhood, Kyoto, 1841§
Mary Louise Nagata, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Keeping ＆Idle Youngsters＊ Out of Trouble: Japan＊s 1929 Abolition of Night Work and the Problem of ＆Free Time＊§
Elyssa Faison, University of Oklahoma
Discussant: Sally Hastings, Purdue University
Session 2: Globalizing Popular Culture
Faculty Room
Chair: Christine Marran, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Psychedelic Culture and Whiteness: Learning from Rave Tourism in Goa§
Arun Saldanha, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Globalized Nationalism in Fin-de-Siecle Chinese Popular Culture§
Jason McGrath, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Cinematic Feet: The Poetics and Politics of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Films"
Leo Chen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Imagining Modernity: Popular Cinema's Reception of Hollywood Film between 1979 and 1989§
Weiqun Su, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Session 3: Archival and Literary Methods of Analyses: Understanding the Dynamics of Community Building in Qing China
Rotary Room
Chair: Linda Cooke Johnson, Michigan State University
※Marriage and Community: A Surname Distribution Study of Rural Liaoning, 1749-1909§
Lai Sze Tso, University of Michigan
※A Preliminary Examination and Analysis of the Banner Registers in Shuangchengpu§
Shuang Chen, University of Michigan
"The Confucian Vitality in an Anti-Confucian Movement: Revisiting the Taiping Rebellion§ (winner of Sidney Brown prize)
James Coplin, Macalester College
Discussant: Linda Cooke Johnson, Michigan State University
Session 4: Approaches to the Hmong
Alumni Room
Chair: Mitchell Ogden, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Joel M. Halpern Collection: A Glimpse of Hmong Life in Laos in 1957§
Larry Ashmun, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Thai Vang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
※The Myth of the Hmong King§
Robert Entenmann, St.Olaf College
※Historical Considerations of the Hmong in Laos§
Mai Na Lee, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Discussant: Frank Osanka, Independent Scholar
Session 5: Literary and Mythical Worlds in Traditional China
Regents＊ Room
Chair: Liangyan Ge, Notre Dame University
※Antithetical or Analogical: Two Conflicting Discourses on Sexual Love and Examination Success in Late Imperial China§
Liangyan Ge, Notre Dame University
※Rumor in Nanjing: Exploration of an Urban Myth in Late Ming China§
Roland Higgins, Keene State College
※Pu Songling's Didactic Discourse§
Charles Hammond, Southern Illinois University
※Yi Yin and the Nine Rulers§
Lavonne Marubbio, Independent Scholar
Friday Morning 10:45-12:45
Session 7: Civic Movements and Resistance
Rotary Room
Chair: Linda Butenhoff, St. Cloud State University
※Collaboration and Resistance in Siping Gai, 1905-1945§ (winner of Percy Buchanan Prize)
Yu Jiang, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Student Participation in the Civic Movement in South Korea§
Aryendra Chakrarvartty, St. Lawrence University
※How Much Can Jinsheng Jinshi Shed Light on the Wang Jingwei Regime?§
Joseph Yick, Texas State University, San Marcos
Session 8: Transnationality and Migration
Collegiate Room
Chair: Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf College
※Living in the Land of Lincoln: Gender and Class in the Building of Community among Filipinos in Springfield, Illinois, since 1965§
Barbara Posadas, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Roland L.Guyotte, University of Minnesota, Morris
※＆To Walk on Both Sides:＊ Transnationality of Chinese Migration across the Pacific since the Late 1970s§
Lisong Liu, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Southeast Asia through Chinese and American Eyes§
Kenton Clymer, Northern Illinois University
Session 9: Information Literacy throughout the Undergraduate Asian Studies Curriculum: A Roundtable
Alumni Room
Kris MacPherson, St. Olaf College
Barbara Reed, St. Olaf College
Karil Kucera, St. Olaf College
Session 10: Local Products: Regional Specialties and Cultural Identity in Imperial China
Regents＊ Room
Chair: John Dardess, University
of Kansas
※Painting Tribute: Bian Wenjin＊s Birds and the
Flower and Bird Painting of Shaxian§
Jennifer Purtle, University of Chicago
※The Flavors of Zhejiang: Regional Cultural Identity and ＆Local Products＊ in the Late Ming§
Kathleen Ryor, Carleton College
※Writing Women into Local Landscape§
Fang Qin, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Discussant: John Dardess, University of Kansas
Session 11: Playhouse of the Social: Gender, History, and Modernity in the Making of Japanese Theater
Faculty Room
Chair: Ken Ito, University of Michigan
※Komachi's Tears: Engendering the Figure of the Feminine in the No Play Soshi arai Komachi§
Catherine Ryu, Michigan State University
※Playbills, Ephemera, and the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Japan§
Jonathan Zwicker, University of Michigan
※Modernity and Modern Japanese Theater§
Maki Isaka Morinaga, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Discussant: Ken Ito, University of Michigan
Session 12: Performance of Rituals in China
Presidents＊ Room
Chair: C.J. Liu, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Some Uses and Abuses of Imperial Religion in Qin and Han§
Romeyn Taylor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Ritual Hymns during the Six Dynasties§
Richard Mather, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Liturgical Hymns to the Four Seasons during the Reign of Han Wudi§
James Kindler, Independent Scholar
※Daoist Prologues for Opera Ritualization§
Alan Kagan, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Prolegomena of Media Migration§
Dan Donnelly, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Discussant: Yongping Zhu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
On Friday afternoon there will be a tour of the Hmong Resource Center from 2-3:30, led by Mark Pfeiffer, the director. The Hmong Resource Center is located at 995 University Avenue West, Suite 214. If you want a ride, please meet in the lobby of the Radisson at 1:30. The van will have you back to the hotel in time for the presentations by John Dower and Bruce Cumings at 4:00.
Friday Afternoon 1:45-3:45
Session 13: Participatory Development and the Empowerment of Rural Women: Exploring Experiences of Bangladesh and India
Collegiate Room
Chair: Subho Basu, Illinois State University
※Micro-credit Programs of the Grameen Bank and their Impact on Poor Women in Bangladesh§
Abedin Quader, New York University
※Does Social Capital Matter in Development?§
Ali Riaz, Illinois State University
※Addressing Male Bias in Development: Constitutional Social Engineering and Women＊s Representation in Panchayati Raj (Village Government)§
Subho Basu, Illinois State University
Session 14: Zuihitsu: Approaches to the Study of Japanese Discursive Writing
Rotary Room
Chair: Marvin Marcus, Washington University
※Shiga Naoya and Literary Personalism§
Aaron Hames, Washington University
※Booked for Life: Uchida Roan and the Bibliophile Essay§
Marvin Marcus, Washington University
※Zuihitsu and Performance: Poetry in Motion, It身 Hiromi's Story of a Poet and a Taxi Driver§
Lee Friederich, Washington University
※Humor and Aesthetics in the Random Jottings of Akutagawa Ryûnosuke§
Joseph Dreher, Washington University
Session 15: The Importance of Overseas Study in the Undergraduate Curriculum: A Roundtable
Faculty Room
※Pre-departure, Orientation, and Preparations§
Shingo Satsutani, College of Dupage
※On-site Activities and Concerns§
Fumiko Fukuta, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
※Post-tour activities§
Yasuko Ito Watt, Indiana University
Session 16: Gandhi and Indian Nationalism
Presidents＊ Room
Chair: Simona Sawhney, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Gandhi and the Violence of ＆Modern Civilization＊§
Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※The Bhagavad Gita and Gandhi's Critique of Violence§
Simona Sawhney, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Sanctioned Violence? Situating Honor and War in Khalsa History§
Purnima Dhavan, College of St. Benedict/St. John＊s University
Discussant: Mark Anderson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Session 17: Negatiating Gender, History, and Ethnicity: A Marginalized Minority across the Borders of East and Southeast Asia
Regents＊ Room
Chair: Shanshan Du, Tulane University
※Political Leadership by Lahu Women in Northern Thailand§
Jacquetta Hill, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
※An Egalitarian Society in a Patriarchal State: Negotiating Gendered Leadership among the Lahu of Southwest China§
Shanshan Du, Tulane University
※Borders and Identity Shift: The A Sha Fu Cu Story§
Judith M. S. Pine, University of Puget Sound
※Reconstructing History and Historical Memories: State Ideology, Mythology, and Ethnic Identity of the Lahu in China§
Jianxiong Ma, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Discussant: Ann Hill, Dickinson College
Friday Afternoon 4:00-6:00
Presidential Plenary Session:
John Dower and Bruce Cumings: ※The Uses of History§
University Ballroom C and D
Dance Performance and Reception: Ananya Chatterjea at the Weisman Art Museum 6:30 (open to all; no reservations required)
MCAA Executive Committee Meeting〞Humphrey Room
Saturday Morning 8:00-9:00
Dance〞Or Change Your Religion: Dance Performances as a Key Sacred and Social Event among the Lahu Na Shehleh
Video and Roundtable Discussion (with coffee, muffins and yogurt)
Regents＊ Room
Valerie Barske, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jacquetta Hill, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
David Plath, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Saturday Morning 9:00-11:15
Session 18: Women in Chinese Literary and Cinematic Texts
Collegiate Room
Chair: Dian Murray, Notre Dame University
※The Female Body Unbound: A Discussion of the Cultural Practice of Bound Feet in Xiao Lihong's Gueihua Alley§
Chaomei Tu, Purdue University
※Exiles in the Spotlight: Exile and Farewell My Concubine§
Yilin Liao, Purdue University
Session 19: Media Palimpsests of Modern Japan: Circulation, Exchange, and Revisions of Writing in Late Edo and Meiji Literature
Regents＊ Room
Chair: Bret de Bary, Cornell University
※Writing Meiji Japan: From Hokusai's Post Card to Mokuami's Telegraph§
Seth Jacobowitz, Cornell University
※Virtual Courtiers, Mock Antiquity, and Counterfeit Gold: The Private Language of Nineteenth-Century Edo Surimono Exchanges§
Dan McKee, Cornell University
※Circulations of Urban Landscape as Visual Memory: Traversing Higuchi Ichiyo's Diary and the Film Higuchi Ichiyo§
Nagakawa Shigemi, Ritsumeikan University
Discussant: Bret de Bary, Cornell University
Session 20: The Integration of Multimedia into Teaching Chinese Language and Culture
Alumni Room
Chair: Ling Wang, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Multimedia Games in Language Learning§
Zou Zhen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※The Integration of Multimedia into Teaching Chinese Language and Culture§
Wei Hong, Purdue University
※Multimedia and Cultural Contextualization§
Ling Wang, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Session 21: Local Resource and Social Aid in Late Imperial China
Presidents＊ Room
Chair: Jennifer Downs, College of St. Catherine
※Dispute Resolution Resources in a Late Ming Community§
Yanhong Wu, Oklahoma State University
※This Land was Your Land, This Land is Now Our Land: Laying the Groundwork for a Mechanized Coal Mine in the Late Qing§
Jeff Hornibrook, SUNY Plattsburgh
※Famine Relief in the Ming: Government Policy and Local Responsibility§
Jennifer Downs, College of St. Catherine
Discussant: Edward L. Farmer, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Session 22: Indian Art in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Periods
Faculty Room
Chair: Catherine Asher, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Picturing the Goddess: Printed Images, Regional Traditions, and the Nation's Public Culture§
Sugata Ray, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Iconography of Destruction: Felice Beato's Photographs of the Indian Insurrection, 1857-1858§
Venugopal Maddipati, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※The 19th-Century Reconstruction of a Jain Pilgrimage Site at Satrunjaya, Gujarat§
Hawon Kim, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Discussant: Catherine Asher, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Session 23: Individual Papers
Northrop Room
Chair: Frank Osanka, Independent Scholar
※Building Economic Law Capacity in Indonesian Schools§
Cliff F. Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Madison
※Network Nation? Malaysia's Internet Politics§
Thomas Williamson, St. Olaf College
"Home and Nationalism in the Emerging Indonesian Nation: Sam Ratulangie's Rondor Mamarimbing and a Biography of Minahasans"
Amelia Liwe, University of Wisconsin, Madison
※Local Community Participation in Poverty Alleviation: Basic Need for Good Governance: A Case of India§
Ashok Sharma, University of Rajasthan
Session 24: Children and Families in Changing Contexts
Rotary Room
Chair: Linda Butenhoff, St. Cloud State University
※Marketing the Modern Family and Gender Norms through Advertising in the 1920s China§
Huaiting Wu, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※The Western Ideology of Childhood Arrives in China (and the Fighting Begins)§
Daniel Kelliher, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Presidential Lunch (reservations required for lunch) 11:30-12:45:
※The Uses of History〞The Conversation Continues§
Humphrey Room
James Huffman, Wittenberg University
Jeffery Broadbent, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Ann Waltner, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Saturday Afternoon 1:00-3:00
Session 25: Midwest Japan Seminar (paper circulates in advance)
Northrop Room
Chair: Louis Perez, Illinois State University
※Variables and Constants as Seen in the Minor Characters in Morimoto Kaoru's ＆A Women's Life＊§
Guohe Zheng, Ball State University
Session 26:Popular Culture in Korea
Regents＊ Room
Chair: Daniel Kim, Indiana University
※The Birth of Rock in South Korea, 1964-1975§
Phil Ho Kim, University of Wisconsin, Madison
※Cross-currents of Change and Continuity: Kim Seung-ok, Korean National Literature, and Korean National Cinema§
Daniel Kim, Indiana University
※From Here to Modernity: Feminisms and the Modern in Korean Popular Culture§
Cindy Childs, University of Illinois
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Session 27: Travel Writing and Reading in Ming-Qing China
Presidents＊ Room
Chair, Edward L. Farmer, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Translocal Readers of Ming Dynasty Local Gazetteers§
Joseph Dennis, Harvard University
※Cantonese Travel Poetry and the Cultural Appropriation of the West River Basin, 1820-1880§
Steve Miles, Washington University
※Translocal Lineage and the Romance of Homeland Attachment: The Pans of Suzhou in Qing China§ (winner of Percy Buchanan Prize)
Yongtao Du, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
※An Escapist's Dilemma: Journey and Identity in Song Maocheng's Fiction and Travel Essays§
Jing Zhang, Washington University
Session 28: Becoming the Bodhisattva: Women's Poetry of Personae and Domestic Religion
Rotary Room
Chair: Binbin Yang, Washington University
※Deconstructing the Naked Self in Japanese Women's Poetry§
Lee Friederich, Washington University
※Illness and Women＊s Domestic Religion in Elite Ming-Qing Families§
Binbin Yang, Washington University
Discussant: Paul Rouzer, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Session 29: Cultural Representations of Dalit and Buddhist identities in India and Thailand
Alumni Room
Chair: Eleanor Zelliot, Carleton College
※Buddhism at the Crossroads 每 A Reflection on Popular Television Drama Series in Thailand§
Suda Ishida, Hamline University
※Representations of Dalit Women: Translating Urmilla Pawar's Short Stories§
Veena Deo, Hamline University
※Dalit Women Poets: Reflections on Buddhism§
Eleanor Zelliot, Carleton College
Discussant: Gloria Raheja, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Session 30: (Re)Writing History of the Early Ming in Late Imperial China
Faculty Room
Chair: Yonglin Jiang, Oklahoma State University
※Images of the 1402 Usurpation in Late Ming Historiography§
Peter Ditmanson, Colby College
※Witch, Rebel, or Goddess? Tang Saier in History and Fiction§
Pi-ching Hsu, San Francisco State University
※Zhu Yuanzhang's Legal Philosophy as (Re)Constructed History§
Yonglin Jiang, Oklahoma State University
Discussant: Romeyn Taylor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Session 31: The Village and the World: Local Knowledge and External Influence in Rural Rajasthan
Collegiate Room
Chair: Satadru Sen, Washington University
※Negotiating with the Land: How Farmers Fit into the Biotechnology Puzzle§
Karly Segal, Washington University
※Rural Women and the NGO: Identifying an Agenda of ＆Empowerment＊§
Amanda Mount, Washington University
※Public Health in an Unhealthy Village§
Durba Mitra, Washington University
※The Organization and Priorities of the Archaeological Survey of India at the Chittor Fort§
Ellen Chapman, Washington University
Discussant: Satadru Sen, Washington University
Saturday Afternoon 3:15-5:15
Session 32: Midwest Japan Seminar (paper circulates in advance)
Rotary Room
Chair: Louis Perez, Illinois State University
※Creating Local Citizenship: Japanese Cities and Immigration§
Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak, St. Olaf College
Session 33: Press and Mass Culture in Qing and Republican China
Presidents＊ Room
Chair: Piching Hsu, San Francisco State University
※Carving a Public Space for Women: Women＊s Print Media in Late Qing§
Yuxin Ma, Armstrong Atlantic University
※Murder and Mass Culture: Representations, Realism, and Urban Identity in 1920s Shanghai§
Qiliang He, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※New Political Press and Zhang Zhidong's Informant-Correspondents in Late Qing China, 1890-1910§
Seungjoo Yoon, Carleton College
Session 34: Tradition, Trade, and South Asian Textiles
Faculty Room
Chair: Donald Clay Johnson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※In Search of Afghan Dress§
Catherine Daly, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Indian Madras: Trade and Creativity in Design between India and Africa§
Joanne Eicher, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Pragmatism and Enigmas: The Panetar and Gharcholu Saris in Gujarati Weddings§
Donald Clay Johnson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Cultural De-authentication of Embroideries: India to West Africa§
Hazel Lutz, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Session 35: Politics in Thailand and Taiwan
Regents＊ Room
Chair: Jacquetta Hill, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
※The Impact of Matrilocality in Rural Elections in Village Thailand§
Katherine Bowie, University of Wisconsin, Madison
※The Cult of Counter-Terrorism in Thailand§
Eric J. Haanstad, University of Wisconsin, Madison
※Influences of Message Framing and Political Familiarity on Political Communication 每 An Experimental Study in Taiwan§
Yu-Kang Lee, Chaoyang University of Technology
Chun-Tuan Chang, National University of Kaohsiung
Session 36: Individual Papers
Collegiate Room
Chair: Susannah Smith, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※The Everyday Reproduction of Authoritarianism in Singapore§
Soek-Fang Sim, Macalester College
※The Man with the 'Fro:Sathay Sai Bab in Sri Lanka" (winner of Mikiso Hane Prize)
Sarah Gettie Burks, Carleton College
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Session 37: Expanding Instruction in Asian Languages: A Roundtable on the e-LCTL Initiative
Northrop Room
Chair: Roger Bresnahan, Michigan State University, Project Manager for the e-LCTL Initiative
Central Asia: William Fierman, Indiana University
East Asia: Michael Lewis, Michigan State University
South Asia: David Gilmartin, North Carolina State University
Southeast Asia: Roger Bresnahan, Michigan State University
Respondent: Louis Janus, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Session 38: Comparative Approaches to Poetry and Folksongs
Alumni Room
Chair: Joseph Allen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※The Subaltern Sing: (Re) Performance as Reception of Dalit Liberation Theology§
Zoe Sherinian, University of Oklahoma
※＆Conversations of Clouds＊: The Poetic Alchemy of Tears and Dew§
John Mattioli, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Discussant: Joseph Allen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Saturday evening 5:30-6:30
MCAA Business Meeting
Alumni Room
MCAA BANQUET 7:00 (reservations required)
Cash Bar Opens at 6:30
Humphrey Room
AAS Presidential Address
※How Many People are in your French Department?§
Mary Elizabeth Berry, University of California, Berkeley
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Session 39: Religion in New Contexts
Collegiate Room
Chair: Yonglin Jiang, Oklahoma State University
※The Saint in the Wilderness: The Social and Political Role of Sufi Cults among South Asians in Britain§
Patrick Weston, University of Wisconsin, Madison
※Being (Buddhist) in Diaspora: Displacement and Emplacement among Sinhalese Immigrants§
Bridget Fitzpatrick, Carleton College
※Empty Self, Full Person: The Heart Sutra, Nagarjuna＊s Dialectic, and Western Psychological Health§
Alan Pope, University of West Georgia
Section 40: Defining the Postwar Nation: Post-colonialism and Post-imperialism in 1950s Japan
Alumni Room
Chair: Sumiko Otsubo, Metropolitan State University
※Reconceiving National Purpose and Power in Post-Imperial Japan, 1945-1960§
Scott O'Bryan, Indiana University
※Hot Debates During a Cold War: Japan as a Land of Contestation, 1950-1964§
Robert Fish, Indiana State University
※Postwar as Post-Colonial: Japan's Emigration Policy in the 1950s§
Hiromi Mizuno, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Discussant: Michael Lewis, Michigan State University
Session 41: Asian Art Programs for Public Audiences
Presidents＊ Room
※Japanese Tea Ceremony Practice in Minneapolis§
Patricia Katagiri, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
※Chinese Calligraphy and Landscape Classes§
Robert Schmitt, Laughing Waters Studio
※Interactive Museum Programs for All Ages 每 China and Japan in Minneapolis§
Susan Jacobsen, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Session 42: Memories of War and Revolution
Faculty Room
Chair: Roy Hanashiro, University of Michigan, Flint
※＆I Will Be the First to Lay Down My Pen for a Gun＊: Chinese Schoolchildren and the War with Japan§
Adam Cathcart, Hiram College
※Incomplete Project of Narrative Control: Commemoration of the Massacred Koreans in the Japanese Empire§
Jin-hee Lee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
※Researching the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Negotiating a Contemporary Battlefield of Emotions, Memory, Politics, and Identity§
Lei Ouyang Bryant, Macalester College
Session 43: Individual Papers: Japanese Art and Literature
Rotary Room
※Wrapped in Meaning: The Visual Language of Tagasode Byobu§
Lisa Morissette, Denison University
※The Adopted Child of Modern Japan: The Hokkaido Imaginings of Miyamoto Yuriko§
Sarah Pradt, Macalester College
Session 44: Politics in the People＊s Republic of China
Northrop Room
Chair: Edward L. Farmer, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
※Politics and Scholarship in Communist China: The Case of Feng Youlan§
Xiaoqing Diana Lin, Indiana University Northwest
※State Initiation of Gender Equity in Educational Access and Its Failure in Two-Child Families in Rural China§
Lihong Shi, Tulane University
※Shifting Forms of Foreign Direct Investment in China 每 Ramifications for Control over Foreign Capital§
Scott Wilson, Sewanee: The University of the South
§Mao Zedong and John F. Kennedy: Different Policies, Similar Choices 每 The Struggle Between Communist Containment and Expansion§
Jillian Marx, Marquette University
Commentator: Edward L. Farmer, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Session 45: Jazz in Japan
Regents＊ Room
Jazz In Japan is written and narrated by Sidney Brown and produced and directed by Eugene Enrico. University of Oklahoma Center for Music Television, 2002. Supported in part by the Japan Foundation and the University of Oklahoma Foundation. 30 minutes
Sidney Brown, University of Oklahoma
Michael Molasky, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Past President＊s Lunch 11:30 (reservations required)
Nolte Room
Perspectives on Publishing
Linda Cooke Johnson, editor, Studies on Asia
Douglas Armato, Director, University of Minnesota Press
Ann Waltner, Susannah Smith and Ellen Gerdts, Journal of Asian Studies
Edward L. Farmer and Kathleen Ryor, Ming Studies
and the audience
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On Saturday, October 2 there will be a day-long workshop at Macalester College,
entitled ※U.S.-Japan 150 years§ to be held at the Concert Hall.
Morning Session: Economic, Political, and Social Aspects of the US 每 Japan Relationship
9:00 每 Greetings and Introductions
9:10 每 Keynote Address: John Dower, US 每 Japan, a 150-Year Relationship
10:00 每 James Huffman, A Yankee in Japan
10:20 - Break
10:45 每 Emily Rosenberg, Memories
11:00 每 Bruce Cumings, The Political Economy of the US-Japan Relationship
11:15 每 Open discussion among keynote speaker, panelists, and audience
Afternoon Session: Cultural Aspects of the US 每 Japan Relationship
2: 00 每 Richard Bresnahan, The Japan 每 US Cultural Connection and World Ecology
3:00 每 Laura Miller, Consuming the Japanese Culture in the Midwest
3:20 每 Open discussion among panelists and audience
4:00 每 End of session
From Sept 17 to October 17, the Carleton College Art Gallery will be showing
※Perils and Pleasures: Tales from Masami Teraoka 1976-2003§
The Art Gallery is located on the lower level of the music and drama center,on the corner of First and Winona Streets, next to Hulings Hall. Gallery Hours are Mon. thru Wed. 12 - 6pm; Thurs. and Fri. 12 - 10pm; Sat. and Sun. 12 - 4pm
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Officers of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs:
Executive Committee
President---James Huffman
Vice President---Jacquetta Hill
Past President---Parks Coble
Executive Secretary---Roy S. Hanashiro (2003-2006)
COC Representative---Yasuko Ito Watt (2003-2006)
Outreach Coordinator---Roberta Gumport (2003-2006)
Program Chair---Ann Waltner
Advisory Board
Northeast Asia---Ann Sherif (2001-2004) and Michael Lewis (2003-2006)
China and Inner Asia---Man Bun Kwan (2001-2004) and Dian Murray (2003-2006)
Southeast Asia---Katherine Bowie (2002-2005)
South Asia---Satadru Sen (2002-2005)
Cover artwork courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.