40th Annual Meeting January 12-14, 2001 Tallahassee, Florida
PROGRAM
SYNOPSIS
Friday, January 12 3:00pm Executive Committee Meeting 4:00-8:00pm REGISTRATION 8:00pm Plenary Session I: Asian Music Performance Saturday, January 13 8:00-5:00pm REGISTRATION 8:30-10:00am Panel Session A 10:00-10:15am Break 10:15-11:45am Panel Session B 12:00-1:45pm Luncheon and Business Meeting 2:00-3:30pm Panel Session C 3:30-3:45pm Break 3:45-5:15pm Panel Session D 5:30-6:30pm Plenary Session II: Address by AAS President 6:30-7:30pm Reception Sunday, January 14 7:00am Executive Committee Meeting 8:00-10:00am REGISTRATION 8:30-10:00am Panel Session E 10:00-10:15am Break 10:15-11:45am Panel Session F
PROGRAM DETAILS
Friday, January 12
3:00pm Executive Committee Meeting [Tallahassee Room]
4:00-8:00pm Registration [Lobby]
8:00pm Plenary Session I: Performance of Indian Dance [Leon Room]
Saturday, January 13
8:00am- Registration 5:00pm
8:30- PANEL SESSION A 10:00am
A.1 NEWS AND OLDS IN CHINA'S TWENTIETH CENTURY [Leon Room] Panel Organizer: Edward S. Krebs, Duke Study in China Chair: Roger B. Jeans, Washington and Lee University
'New' in the First New China, 1895-1915
Douglas R. Reynolds, Georgia State University
A New Generation Grows Old: May 4th Veterans on Cultural Trends in the 1930s and 1940s
Kristin Stapleton, University of Kentucky
'Old’ in the Newest New China: Constructing One’s Own History from Nostalgia Publications in the 1990s
Edward S. Krebs, Duke Study in China
Discussant: Roger S. Krebs, Duke Study in China
A.2 TRADITIONAL CHINESE PHILOSOPHY [Florida Room Center]
Chair: David Jones, Kennesaw State University
No-things that are Some-things: Democritus and Daoists on the Void
Erin M. Cline, Belmont University
Implications for Moral Life of the Concept of Ming in the Mencius
Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University
Discussant: David Jones, Kennesaw State University
A.3 MONGOLIA-ASIAN RELATIONS [Florida Room West]
Chair: Alicia Campi, Indiana University
Monglian-Tibetan Relations: Politics and Religion Intertwined
Alicia Campi, Indiana University
Mongolian-Indian Relations in the 20th Century
Ragchan Baasan, Mongolian Embassy
Mongolia’s Models for Education and Educational Exchanges
Sodnom Hongorzul, East Carolina University
Discussant: Kate Kaup, Furman University
A.4 ARTISTS, WRITERS AND CRITICS IN MODERN JAPANESE ART [Adams Park]
Chair: Brenda G. Jordan, Florida State University
Censorship and Reception: the case of Kawanaba Kyosai
Brenda G. Jordan, Florida State University
Aesthetics and Ethnicity: Kuki Shuzo’s `iki’ no kozo
Hiroshi Nara, Florida State University
The Restoration of Realism: Kojima Kikuo and the Role of Art Criticism in Modern Japanese Painting
Miki Hirayama, University of Pittsburgh
Discussant: Mayu Tsuruya, University of Pittsburgh
A.5 JAPAN IN THE URBAN HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM - ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION [Florida Room East]
Richard Schmitt, LW Higgins High School Gregory Wilson, Woodlawn High School June Whitehead, White Station High School Walter Nunn, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Jana Eaton, Unionville High School Lucien Ellington, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 PANEL SESSION B
B.1 BRINGING ASIA INTO THE CLASSROOM (AND THE CLASSROOM INTO ASIA) [Leon Room]
Chair: Ronald Robel, University of Alabama
Overcoming Cultural Barriers in Second Language Acquisition
Cungang Liu, Apppalachian State University
Including Korea in Survey Courses
Michael Seth, James Madison University
‘Our Imperfect Sympathy’: Literature from India in the Composition Classroom
Donna Gessell, North Georgia College and State University
Discussant: Ronald Robel, University of Alabama
B.2 POSTMODERNISM AND KOREAN CULTURAL IDENTITY [Florida Room West]
Chair: Hyangsoon Yi, University of Georgia
The Ideal of p’ungnyu in Samguk yusa and the Postmodern Ethics of the Nomadic
Hyung-chul Chung, Pusan University of Foreign Studies
Postmodernity in Contemporary Korean Fiction
Gi Chan Yang, University of Georgia
Self-Reflexivity and Identity Crisis in Park Chulsoo’s Films
Hyangsoon Yi, University of Georgia
Discussant: John Goulde, Sweet Briar College
B.3 ASIA IN THE PACIFIC WAR [Florida Room Center]
Chair: Bill Dorrill, Longwood College
Victims or Victimizers: Museums and the War in Today’s Japan
Roger B. Jeans, Washington & Lee University
Conscripting the Philippine Army, 1935-1941
Richard B. Meixsel, James Madison University
Discussant: Bill Dorrill, Longwood College
B.4 SRI LANKAN BUDDHIST MONKS AND NATIONALISM: AT HOME AND ABROAD [Florida Room East]
Chair: Chandra R. de Silva, Old Dominion University
Sri Lankan Monks in the Diaspora
Tessa Bartholomeusz, Florida State University
Identity and Difference
Ananda Abeysekara, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
The (Mis)education of Buddhist Monks in Sri Lanka Chandra R. de Silva, Old Dominion University
Discussant: Anne Blackburn, University of South Carolina
B.5 UNIFYING CHINA IN THE 1920S: FEDERALISM VERSUS CENTRALISM [Adams Park]
Panel Organizer: Leslie H. Chen, Independent Scholar Chair: Young-tsu Wong, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Sun Yatsen, Chen Jiongming and General Potapov: An Early Soviet Contact with Chinese Republican Leaders
Michail Kryukov, Graduate Institute of Slavic Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan
The Myths of the Kuomintang-Communist Alliance
Kuo-Wei Tai, Graduate Institute of Slavic Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan
The "Sins" of Centralization: Localist Hostility at Guomindang Centralization Efforts in Guangdong, 1924 to Early 1925
Michael G. Murdock, Brigham Young University
Building Democracy from the Bottom Up: Education Reform in Guangdong of 1920-1923
Leslie H. Chen, Independent Scholar
Discussant: Michael Copeland, York University
12:00-1:45 Luncheon and Business Meeting
2:00-3:30 PANEL SESSION C
C.1 TRADITIONAL CHINESE LITERATURE [Florida Room Center]
Chair: Feng Lan, University of Florida
The Horse as Characters in Chinese Military Romances
Ann L. Lo, Independent Scholar
And All the People Sighed in Sorrow: Images of the Wronged Hero in Vernacular Fiction and Drama of the Song and Yuan Periods
Rüdiger Breuer, Washington University
In Need of Integration: Sex and Spirituality in Traditional Chinese Poetry
Yanfang Tang, College of William and Mary
Discussant: Feng Lan, University of Florida
C.2 HINDUISM IN FLUX: VIEWS ON ABORTION AND CASTE [Leon Room]
Chair: Gene Thursby, University of Florida
Dharma Contextualized: Spotlight on Abortion in Calcutta
Bindu Madhok and Selva J . Raj, Albion College
The Indian Potter: (Re)creating in the Changing Marketplace
Ruth Rosenwasser
Untouchable Healing: A Low Caste Ayurvedic Doctor in Nepal
Mary M. Cameron
Discussant: Gene Thursby, University of Florida
C.3 REASSESSING JAPANESE RELIGION: SHINTO AND KOTODAMA [Florida Room East]
Chair: Taneo Ishikawa, Florida State University The Origins of Omoto Kyo
Diana Jarvis Godwin, Aikido Schools of Uyeshiba
Tree Spirit, Word Spirit, Crossroads
Ann Wehmeyer, University of Florida
Discussant: Taneo Ishikawa, Florida State University
C.4 THE VARIED REACH OF COLONIALISM [Adams Park]
Chair: Richard Foltz, University of Florida
Private Lives, Public Stories:Negotiating the Panopticon
Ray W. Chandrasekara, Augusta State University
Images of Empire: Prejudice, Politics and Penury at the Round Table Conference, 1931
Marla Karen Chancey, Florida State University
Scientific Experiments in British India: Indigor, Planters, and the State
Prakash Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology
Discussant: Richard Foltz, University of Florida
C.5 CHALLENGING THE ORDER: FROM TAO XINGZHI TO LI HONGZHI [Florida Room West]
Chair: Lawrence Kessler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Falun Gong and Chinese Political Culture
Shiping Hua, Eckerd College
Rediscovering Tao Xingzhi as an Educational and Social Revolutionary
Yusheng Yao, Rollins College
Journalism in Today’s China
Haipeng Deng, Florida A&M University
Discussant: Lawrence Kessler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:15 PANEL SESSION D
D.1 A VIEW FROM THE PEDESTAL: STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN TIBET VIETNAM, JAPAN, AND KOREA [Florida Room Center]
Chair: C.K. Yoon, James Madison University
Should US College Students Get Involved in the Movement to Free Tibet?
Josh Funderburke, Independent Scholar
Teaching at the University of Saigon Before Tet 1968
David L. Hess, USC-Spartanburg
The World View of Young Adults in Japan
Daniel A. Metraux, Mary Baldwin College
Unbreakable Ethnic Bonds: Korean Graduate Students and the Korean Church in the US
Wooseob Jeong, Florida State University
Discussant: C.K. Yoon, James Madison University D.2 ASIAN RELIGIONS, THIS AND THAT [Leon Room]
Chair: John T. J. Ho, Florida State University
Mana is the Basic Concept of Asian Religions
John T.J. Ho, Florida State University
Taoist, Buddhist and Shinto Talismans of the Far East
James Kemp, Agency for Health Care Administration, State of Florida
The Spread of Shintoism in a Frontier District of Japan during the Kofun Period
Taneo Ishikawa, Florida State University
Discussant: Bruce Grindal, Florida State University
D.3 USING LITERARY VALUES TO UNDERSTAND ART: SEXUALITY, THEATRICALITY, AND PRINTS FROM CHINA AND JAPAN [Florida Room East]
Chair: Gretchen Jones, University of Maryland
Redefining Ukiyo-e: Sorrowful World, Floating World, Flesh World
Sandy Kita, University of Maryland
‘Qing’ (Emotion) and ‘Zhen’ (Authenticity) in Chen Hongshou’s Prints
Tamara Bentley, Independent Scholar
Theatrics and Decadence: Tanizaki and the Visual Arts
Gretchen Jones, University of Maryland
D.4 DEFENDING TAIWAN [Adams Park]
Chair: Brantly Womack, University of Virginia
Recover the Mainland: Taiwan’s Political Strategies of Combatting Communist China in the 1950s
Fenglan Yu, Indiana University Bloomington
Three Faces of Taiwan’s National Security
Wei-chin Lee, Wake Forest University
"The Current State of ROC-PRC Relations"
Roberto Chen, Director General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Miami, Fla.
Discussant: Nevan Fisher, Furman University
5:30-6:30 Plenary Session II - Address: "War and Memory in Postwar Japan" [Florida Rooms]
Peter Duus, President, Association for Asian Studies
6:30-7:30 Reception [Florida Rooms]
Sunday, January 14
7:00am Executive Committee Meeting
8:30-10:00am Registration
8:30-10:00 PANEL SESSION E
E.1 POLITICAL CHANGE IN SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH ASIA [Adams Park] Chair: Paul Rodell, Georgia Southern University
Recent Developments in US-Malaysian Relations
Pamela Sodhy, Georgetown University
Political Culture and Liberal Democratic Change in Malaysia and Singapore
Surain Subramaniam, University of South Carolina
The Effect of Agricultural Privatization on Communist Political Legitimacy in Vietnam
Chad Raymond, Appalachian State University
The Taliban, Human Rights, and Education
Gavad Gohari, Oxford University
Discussant: Paul Rodell, Georgia Southern University
E.2 JAPANESE LITERATURE AND FILM: PAST AND PRESENT [Florida Room East]
Chair: Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Moonlit Court of Ben no Naishi
S. Yumiko Hulvey, University of Florida
Ecology, Anime, and Historical Fiction in Miyazaki Hayao’s Princess Mononoke
John Allen Tucker, East Carolina University
Feature of Dandyism in Japan: from Kyoden to Koji to Kimutaku
Elaine Gerbert, University of Kansas
Discussant: Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
E.3 CHINESE WOMEN [Florida Room Center]
Chair: Charlotte L. Beahan, Murray State University
Sex and Exploitation: New Developments in Taiwan
Lee-jan Jan, State University of West Georgia
Women in Patriarchal Designs
Li-ping Zhang, Florida A&M University
Making Chinese Women Fashionably Nationalistic in Republican China
Karl Gerth, University of South Carolina
Discussant: Charlotte L. Beahan, Murray State University
E.4 BUDDHA NATURE AND ANIMALITY: EAST AND WEST PERSPECTIVES (PART 1) [Leon Room]
Chair: David Jones, Kennesaw State University
Buddhist Animality: Reading Tantric Emptiness
Jennifer Manlowe, Long Island University
The Significance of Animal Postures in Buddhist Qigong
Harriette Grissom, Atlanta College of Arts
Buddha Animals
Jason Wirth, Oglethorpe University Discussant: David Jones, Kennesaw State University
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 PANEL SESSION F
F.1 THE CHANGING ECONOMIES OF CHINA AND JAPAN [Florida Room Center]
Chair: Anthony Koo, Florida State University
China and the World Market System: Lessons from the Ming and Qing
Dorothea Martin, Appalachian State University
A Giant Step Backward: Asia in Landes’ Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Richard Rice, University of Tennessee at Chatanooga
Discussant: Anthony Koo, Florida State University
F.2 ASIAN POLITICS: CHINA, JAPAN, AND TAIWAN [Adams Park]
Chair: Zhenghuan Zhou, North Atlanta High School
China’s Foreign Economic Policy in the Era of Economic Reforms
Chi-chen Chiang, University of South Carolina
Japan’s Economic and Political Role in Southeast Asia in the 21st Century
Samsang Jo, University of South Carolina
Quasi-familism and Contemporary Chinese Political Culture
Zhenghuan Zhou, North Atlanta High School
Taiwan Identity Politics in the Chen Shui-bian Administration
Michael Renalds, University of South Carolina
Discussant: Zhiqun Zhu, University of South Carolina
F.3 BUDDHA NATURE AND ANIMALITY: EAST AND WEST PERSPECTIVES (PART 2) [Leon Room]
Chair: David Jones, Kennesaw State University
Animal Buddhas
David Jones, Kennesaw State University
One Cell, Osmosis and the Buddha’s Broken Karmis Wheel: A Legacy of an Ancient Bacterium
Keiko Takioto Miller, Mercyhurst College
Do Animals have Buddha Nature? An East West Approach
Tom Pynn, Berry College
Discussant: David Jones, Kennesaw State University
F.4 CONTEMPORARY CHINESE AND MONGOLIAN ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND LITERATURE [Florida Room East]
Chair: Aaron F. Lan, The Florida State University
From Lamenting the Yellow Earth to Celebrating the Divine Land
Aaron F. Lan, The Florida State University
Symbolism in Mongolian Architecture
Anatoly Isaenko, Appalachian State University Gao Xingjian—the First Nobel Prize Winner in China
Zhiyuan Chen, Appalachian State University
Discussant: Audience