Joint Conference 60th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs

and First Himalayan Studies Conference October 28 to 30, 2011 Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota Program

Friday, October 28

Panel 2 Session I: 8:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. The Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalaya, Part I Room 370 Panel 1 Indigenous Peoples and Struggles over Resources in Organizer and Chair: Sarah Besky, U Wisconsin- the Himalaya Madison Room 243 1. Sara Shneiderman, Yale U Chair: Dilli Ram Dahal, Tribhuvan U “Situating Darjeeling and Sikkim in the Himalayas and South Asia” 1. Janak Rai, U Michigan/Tribhuvan U “Emplacing Histories and Re-imagining the Nation: 2. Tina Harris, U Amsterdam Place-making and the cultural politics of Dhimals' “Haunting the Border and Flooding the Market: Trade indigenous activism in Nepal” and the Indo-Tibetan Interface”

2. Mabel Gergan, U North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3. Mona Chettri, SOAS, U London “Resisting Hydropower Development in the Eastern “Evolution of an Identity- The Political Re-definition Himalayas, India.” of the Gorkhas of the Darjeeling Hills”

3. Laya Prasad Uprety, Tribhuvan U 4. Olivier Chiron, U Bordeaux “Marginalization of Indigenous Tharu Community in “Tourism in the Himalayan state of Sikkim: practices Common Property Resource Management: A Case and representations” Study of an Indigenous Irrigation System from the Tarai of Nepal” Panel 3 4. Mingma Sherpa, U Massachusetts-Amherst Geographical Research Across the Himalaya I: Local “Sherpa Conservation Governance in the Sagarmatha Scale Studies National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal” Room 270

Organizer: John Metz, Northern Kentucky U

1 1. Sarah J. Halvorson, Shah F. Khan, and Ulrich Kamp, 2. Mélanie Vandenhelsken, Austrian Academy of The U Montana Sciences “Reconstructing Balakot, Northern Pakistan: A Five- “Gurungs, ‘ethnic’ association and the state in Sikkim: Year Retrospective on the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake” opposition and consent in the making of ethnicity”

2. Keith Brosak, U Montana, Missoula 3. Mark Turin, Cambridge U/Yale U “Between Conservation and Development: “Mother Tongues and Multilingualism: Reflections on Marginalization and resource access in the Linguistic Belonging in Sikkim” Uttarakhand Himalaya.” 4. Sarah Besky, U Wisconsin-Madison 3. Barbara Brower, Portland State U “Political Ecologies of Justice on Darjeeling Tea “The Future of Himalayan Yak-herding: Resilience or Plantations” Collapse?”

4. Asheshwor Shrestha, Nepal Pvt. Ltd. “Local knowledge inputs in prioritizing climate Panel 6 change adaptation measures Geographical Research Across the Himalaya-II: – the case of Nepal” Regional Scale Studies Room 270

Chair: John Metz, Northern Kentucky U Session II: 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. 1. Karl Ryavec, U Wisconsin- Stevens Point Panel 4 “Mapping the Indo-Tibetan Frontier in the Historical Current Research in Nepali Politics Atlas of Tibet” Room 243 2. Stefan Fiol, U Cincinnati Chair: Mahendra Lawoti “Unsettling Regionalism: Perspectives from the Uttarakhand Himalayas” 1. Mahendra Lawoti, Western Michigan U “From mono-ethnic state to poly-ethnic polity: 3. John (Jack) Shroder, U Nebraska - Omaha Exclusion/Inclusion and Democracy in Nepal” “Constraints and Possibilities for Research on Physical Environments in the Hindu Kush and Himalaya” 2. Dilli Ram Dahal, Tribhuvan U, Nepal “Social Exclusion in Nepal: A Study of Yadavs of Central Nepal Tarai” Panel 7 3. Dinesh Paudel, U Minnesota Cultural, Social and Political Change in the Himalaya “A Pre-History of the Maoist Movement: Nature, Room 301 Culture and the Emergence of Rebellious Consciousness in Thabang of Nepal” Chair: Laura Kunreuther, Bard C

4. Purna Nepali, Kathmandu U and Consortium for 1. Brunson, Jan, U Hawaii Land Research and Policy Dialogue “The role of sons in post-monarchy, secular Nepal” “Political Economy of Scientific Land Reform in Constitution Making Process of Nepal” 2. Atul Saklani and Bina Saklani, HNB Garhwal U

“Ritual, Food and Social Hierarchy as Represented in the Culture of Uttarakhand Himalaya: An Anthropo - Historic Perspective” Panel 5 The Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalaya-II 3. Nadine Plachta, U Berne Room 370 “Reflexivity in Relation to Tradition: the Education of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Nepal.” Organizer: Besky, Sarah, U Wisconsin-Madison Chair: Besky, Sarah, U Wisconsin-Madison 4. Om Gurung, Tribhuvan U “The Question of Indigeneity and Identity in a Federal 1. Debarati Sen, American U Nepal” “Measured Invisibility: Ghumauri and the Challenges of Worker Organizing in Darjeeling Plantations”

2 Panel 8 3. Annelies Ollieuz, U Oslo, Norway, Kamikaze, Hiroshima, and Manchuria: Historical “‘Politicians and other educated people’: Political Memory and National Identity parties as arenas of informal learning” Room 205

Chair: Hiromi Mizuno, U Minnesota Discussant: Hiromi Mizuno Session III: 1:30 p.m.-3:15 p.m. 1. R.W. Purdy, John Carroll U “Men, Martyrs and Myth: Kamikaze and Islamist Suicide Bombers” Panel 11 2. Yuko Shibata, Saint John's U/C of Saint Benedict Plenary: Rethinking the Himalaya: The Indo-Tibetan “Spectacle Excess and the Volatility of Gaze: Interface and Beyond Subverting Atomic Bomb Victimhood” Room 250

3. Lianying Shan, Gustavus Adolphus C Chair: Arjun Guneratne “Nostalgia and Identity Formation in Postwar Japan: a Study of Popular and Literary Accounts of Manchuria” 1. Mark Liechty, U Illinois at Chicago “ ‘Missing Links’: The Indo-Tibetan Interface in the Tourist's Mind's Eye”

Panel 9 2. Kathryn S. March, Cornell U Configuring Chinese Cinema and Literature: Cross- “The great (gender) divide” culture perspectives Room 300 3. David Holmberg, Cornell U “Rethinking the Interface: Shamanic Resilience” Chair: Frederik Greene 4. Susan Hangen, Ramapo C 1. Hong Zeng, Carleton C “The Concept of the Himalaya in an Era of Identity “Female doubling and cultural identities of Hong Politics and Globalization” Kong and Shanghai” 5. P. P. Karan, U Kentucky 2. Hongmei Yu, Luther C “The Cultural Geography of the Himalaya” “Between Orientalism and Occidentalism: The Cinematic Ambivalence of Chinese Masculinity” Panel 12 3. Jessica Ka Yee Chan, U Minnesota, Twin Cities Religion, Politics and Ritual in India, China and Japan “Cinematic Encounter: Lu Xun, Douglas Fairbanks, Room 370 and The Thief of Bagdad (1924)” Chair: Roger Jackson, Carleton C

1. Michelle Folk, Concordia U/U Regina Panel 10 “Food for Thought: The Ritual Activities of Mathas in Education in Asia Medieval Tamilnadu India” Room 170 2. Jesse Palmer, Lawrence U Chair: Ruthanne Kurth-Schai, Macalester C “Ennin as Transmitter of Mountain Religion Practices from China to Japan” 1. Sangsook Lee-Chung, U. of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign 3. Amy McNair, U Kansas “Personalized Globalization, Vicarious “On the Origin of the Medieval Chinese Buddhist Cosmopolitans: South Korean “Geese-dad” Sculpted Grottoes at Yungang” Academics” 4. Xi He, U Chicago 2. Zhini Zeng, The Ohio State U “Glorifying and Worshipping the Bodhisattva: An “Second-Culture Worldview Construction: Culture Analysis of the Devotional Emotion in the Gains during Study Abroad” Lalitavistara”

3 Panel 13 Panel 16 Videos: “Experiencing Jingdezhen: The Porcelain City State Power and Spatiality in Inland Tai Urban Spaces of China” and “All the Roads to Lhasa” Room 243 Room 150 Organizer: Taylor M Easum, U Wisconsin, Madison 1. Gary Erickson, Macalester C “Experiencing Jingdezhen: The Porcelain City of 1. Ryan Ford, UW-Madison China” “Tracing the Phrabang Image in upland and lowland spaces: A local history of Northern Laos” 2. Wang Ping, Macalester C “All the Roads to Lhasa” 2. Taylor M. Easum, U Wisconsin, Madison “‘Micro-Colonization’: Scale and State Power in a Thai Provincial City”

Panel 14 3. Jose Rafael Martinez, Ohio U Classical Chinese Literature and Art “Mallification of Space: The Globalization of Room 301 Landmarks in Vientiane”

Chair: Hong Zeng, Carleton C Discussant: Hong Zeng

1. Jane Parish Yang, Lawrence U Session IV: 3:30-5:15 “Hegemonic Dreams/Fictive Dialogues: Channeling Chinese Literati in 16th century Vietnamese 'Narratives of the Strange'” Plenary address 2. Elizabeth Kindall, U St. Thomas “A Painted Geo-Narrative as Quest Toward Sagehood” Drona Rasali, Nepaldalitinfo.com

3. Ye, Qing, U Oregon “Envisioning an equitable space for marginalized “Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Reading of Backyards people in Nepal: A journey of small strides (Hou Ting) in Jin Ping Mei” contributing to ‘change’ for social justice.”

3:45 – 5:00 p.m.

Panel 15 Room 250 Japanese Linguistics: Different Perspectives and Implications for Japanese Language Instruction Room 205 Panel 17 Organizer and Chair: Satoko Suzuki, Macalester C Buddhism in China and Japan Room 370 Michiko Todokoro Buchanan, U Minnesota “Verb Ellipsis in Japanese” Chair: Erik W. Davis, Macalester C

Natalie Dmyterenko and Rika Ito, St. Olaf C 1. Yeonjoo Park, U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Japanese numerals and classifiers: The case of “Buddhist Construction of Kami-Buddha Discourse in number four and seven” Early Medieval Japan: The Logic of the Kami-Buddha Combination in the Keiran shūyōshū” Ritsuko Narita, Macalester C “Transferability of the use of hearsay evidential 2. Chen Qin, The Ohio State U markers in L1 Japanese and L2 Japanese” “Sinification of Buddhism in the Transformation Text of Mulian Rescuing His Mother from the Underworld” Satoko Suzuki, Macalester C “Linguistic Stereotypes and Style Manipulation in 3. Tomoko Yoshida, Independent scholar Japanese Fiction” ““Respect the Gods, Even If You Do Not Worship Them”: Medieval Buddhists’ Advice on Living in a Religiously Plural World”

4 4. Mark Graham, C of Wooster (OH) Panel 20 “Fu De: Translating the Perfection of the Buddha into Development Issues in Asia Chinese Discourses of Virtue (De) and Sagehood” Room 205

Chair: Liang Ding, Macalester C

Panel 18 1. Sudarshana Bordoloi, York U, Canada Roundtable: Experiments in Content-Based “Development Implications of the Emerging Non Farm Instruction: Integrating Asian Language and Area Sector in India: The Case of Kerala” Studies at St. Olaf C Room 300 2. Ajay Panicker, St Cloud State U “State Power and Social Movements in the Neoliberal Organizer: Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf C Era: Examination of a People’s Movement in Kerala, Chair: Phyllis Larson, St. Olaf C India”

1. Luying Chen, St. Olaf C 3. Sucharita Sinha Mukherjee, C of Saint Benedict/Saint “The Liberal Arts Content in a Fourth-year Chinese John's U, Minnesota Language Class” “Are Asian Societies Penny-Wise but Pound-Foolish? An Analysis of Ageing Populations, Female Statuses 2. Tomoko Hoogenboom, St. Olaf C and the Future of Economic Development in Japan, “Content-Based Instruction (CBI) in an Advanced China and India.” Japanese Course” 4. Yong-Chool Ha, U Washington, Seattle; Wang Hwi 3. Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf C Lee, Ajou U, South Korea; “Chinese-Language Components in Chinese History Sunil Kim, U California, Berkeley Courses” “Re-embedding: Institutional Scanning for the Restructuring of Business-Labor Relations in Japan 4. Kris MacPherson, St. Olaf C and Korea” “Applying CBI to a Research Methods Course”

Panel 19 Panel 21 The Politics of the Chinese Communist Party Narrating Modern Chinese Fiction and Theater Room 301 Room 270

Chair: Yue-him Tam, Macalester C Chair: To be determined

1. Linlin Wang, U Texas at Austin 1. Chun-yu Lu, Washington U in St. Louis “Sacrifice for Resistance: the Grain Tax Collection of “A Love Story of Returning: Mu Rugai (1884-1961) and the CCP in Jiangsu (1937-1945)” Popular Romance in Manchukuo”

2. Charles Kraus, George Washington U 2. Li-Lin Tseng, Pittsburg State U “The Centralizing State: Social Investigations, Political “The 1930s: Mei Lanfang, Beijing Opera, and European Campaigns, and Regime Consolidation in Xinjiang, Avant-garde Theater” 1949-1955” 3. Steven Day, Benedictine U 3. Sonja Kelley, Western Washington U “Faux Epistolary: Shi Tuo’s Shanghai Correspondence “Finished Business: The Impact of the Anti-Rightist and the Aesthetics of Literary Montage in Accounts of Movement on the Long-term Development of Visual Wartime Shanghai” Art in the People’s Republic of China” 4. Haosheng Yang, Miami U 4. Joseph Yick, Texas State U-San Marcos “Displaced Dream of Loyalist Romance: Yu Dafu and “Leftwing Journalism and Communist Politics in His Poetry” British Hong Kong: Wen Wei Po in 1989”

5 5:00-6:30 p.m. Welcome Reception, Smail Gallery

6:45 8:00 p.m. Himalayan Studies Conference Dinner, Board Room, Weyerhaeuser Hall

8:00-9:30 p.m. Keynote address: David Gellner, “Upland Region or 'a World of Peripheries'? Some Thoughts on Himalayan Identities”

Saturday, October 29

Session V: 8:30 a.m. -10:15 a.m. Panel 23 Tibet, China, India: mapping connections across history, politics, and culture Panel 22 Room 301 Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya-I: Ritual and Practice Chair: Geoff Childs, Washington U in St. Louis Room 243 1. Adam Cathcart, Pacific Lutheran U Organizer: Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Rutgers U “Liu Shengqi in Lhasa: A New Window Into Tibet and Discussant & Chair: Sijapati, Megan Adamson, Chinese Assertions on the Plateau, 1945-1949” Gettysburg C 2. Sarah Getzelman, The Ohio State U 1. Ehud (Udi) Halperin, Columbia U “Imaging the Dalai Lama: Incarnations in Art and “Buffalo Sacrifice to the Goddess Hadimba: A Practice” Complex Response to Modernity” 3. Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, Université Laval 2. Elizabeth Allison, California Institute of Integral “TV across the Indo-Tibetan Interface: Indian TV as a Studies cultural mediator for ‘Newcomer’ Tibetans in “At the Boundary of Modernity: Religion, Dharamsala?” Technocracy, and Waste Management in Bhutan” 4. Tsering Wangchuk, U San Francisco 3. Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Rutgers U “In Search of the Hidden Land of Pema Koh: Tibetan “The Modernization of a Medieval Nepali Hindu Pilgrims Reminisce about their Attempt to Reach the Tradition: Preliminary Observations of Recent Unreachable Land” Changes”

Panel 24 Biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in the eastern Himalaya of Yunnan, China Room 270

Organizer/Chair: Teri Allendorf, U Wisconsin-Madison

1. Jamon Van Den Hoek, U Wisconsin-Madison “Local Drivers of Forest Cover Change Variability in Tibetan Yunnan, China”

6 2. Selena Ahmed, Tufts U Panel 27 “Persistence and Transformation of Butter-Tea Food Return the Chinese Gods to the Local and Rethink the Systems in Tibetan Yunnan, China” Social Complexity in the Studies of Chinese Religion Room 352 3. Mary Saunders, U. Wisconsin-Madison “Shifting cultivation: The decline of tartary buckwheat Organizer: Liu Yilin, U Wisconsin-Madison farming in its center of origin” Chair: Tobias Zuern, U Wisconsin-Madison

4. Brian Robinson, U Wisconsin-Madison Liu Yilin, U Wisconsin-Madison “Livelihood and matsutake mushroom harvests in “From the Lunar New Year Pictures to the Five Petty Tibetan Yunnan, China” Demons --A Gap Between the Pictorial and Theatrical Representations of Zhong Kui in late Imperial China” 5. Jodi Brandt, U Wisconsin-Madison “Sacred sites are refugia for Himalayan forest birds in 2. Tobias Zuern, U Wisconsin-Madison Tibetan Yunnan, China” “Polymorph Divine Beings--Pan Gu, Pan Hu, and the Drum in a Report of a Ritual from Hunan”

3. Naparstek Michael, U Wisconsin-Madison Panel 25 “Auntie's an Exorcist: Literary Consumption of Daoist Khumbu, Scholars’ Crucible: Four decades in the Exorcism” Study of People and Place Room 300 Discussant: Michael Naparstek, U. Wisconsin-Madison

Organizer: Barbara Brower Chair: James Fisher Discussants: Barbara Brower, James Fisher Panel 28 1. Jeremy Spoon, Portland State U Women in Late Imperial China: Literary, historical “The Heterogeneity of Khumbu Sherpa Ecological and artistic perspectives. Knowledge” Room 170

2. Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Washington State U Organizer & Chair: Ihor Pidhainy, Marietta C “Comparison of on-route and off-route villages in Pharak” 1. Lee, Marion S., Ohio U “Re-positioning painters of women in Late Imperial 3. Lindsay Skog, U Colorado at Boulder China” “Exploring global discourses in a sacred landscape: Methods and theories” 2. Ihor Pidhainy, Marietta C “How Men saw Women in Late Imperial China (and consequently how they were judged): A case study of Yang Shen and the women in his life.” Panel 26 Alterity and Japanese Cinema 3. LiduYi, McGill U Room 205 “Women Painters--Divinely Endowed Talents of Ming and Qing and Art Collections” Organizer and Chair: Heitzman, Kendall, Macalester C 4. George Qingzhi Zhao, Skidmore C 1. Kendall Heitzman, Macalester C “Lives and political involvement of Kubilai Khan’s “Slower, Lower, Weaker in Tokyo Olympiad” wives: Chabui and Nambui in the Yuan dynasty”

2. Noboru Tomonari, Carleton C “Burakumin and Masculinity: Mikuni Rentarō and Postwar Japanese Cinema” 3. David Obermiller, Gustavus Adolphus C “Agency and Orientalism in the Movies Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) and Beat (1998)”

7 Panel 29 Panel 31 Transnational Writing on Asian Themes Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Immigrant Labor: Room 370 Himalayan Diasporas Room 301 Chair and Discussant: Wang Ping, Macalester C Chair and Discussant: Laura Kunreuther, Bard C 1. Stephanie Cox, Carleton C “The microscopic writing of Ying Chen, Francophone 1. Tina Shrestha, Cornell U Asian-Canadian writer” “The everyday immigrant-integration: Nepali refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant workers in New York 2. Puspa Damai, U Michigan, Ann Arbor City” “Cannibal Himalaya? Reading Jamaica Kincaid's Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya” 2. Tristan Bruslé, CNRS ““Qatar is like a jail”: Daily life in a Nepalese migrant 3. Cahill, Devon A, U Minnesota labor camp and the inmate metaphor.” “Penetrating Gotthard: Tawada, Travel, and the Illusion of Identity” 3. Christie Shrestha, U Kentucky “Resettlement of Bhutanese Refugees in Lexington, Kentucky.”

Panel 32 Session VI: 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. The Social Dimensions of Agriculture and Climate Change in the Himalaya Room 270 Panel 30 Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya-II: Language Organizer: Milan Shrestha, Arizona State U and Discourse Chair: Netra Chhetri, Arizona State U Room 243 1. Milan Shrestha, Arizona State U Organizer: Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg C “Climate Change in the Nepal Himalaya: Examining Chair: Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Rutgers U Vulnerability and Livelihood Security Issues”

1. Michael Baltutis, U Wisconsin-Oshkosh 2. Netra Chhetri, Arizona State U “Venerating the Nation, Advertising Dharma: “Climate-induced innovation in agriculture: a Religious Language in Nepal’s 2006 People’s conceptual approach to understanding agricultural Movement” adaptation to climate change”

2. Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg C 3. Deepa Joshi, Wageningen U “Muslim Belonging and Place in Nepal: Reflections “‘Deconstructing Gender-Climate Myths: A Case on Contrasting Narratives and Contemporary Debates Study from the Darjeeling Himalaya’” in the Kathmandu Valley” 4. John Metz, Northern Kentucky U 3. Michelle Kleisath, U Washington “Beware of the Climate Change Bandwagon” “"Stop Saying 'Western,' Start Saying 'White'": an argument for a renewed vocabulary in English language literature on Tibetan Buddhism” Panel 33 Family Planning, State Medicine and Mental Health in 4. Holly Gayley, U Colorado-Boulder Asia “Reimagining Buddhist Ethics on the Tibetan Plateau” Room 370

Chair: Ron Barrett, Macalester C

1. Suryadewi E. Nugraheni, U Wisconsin - Madison “How Indonesian Administrations Have Changed Family Planning Policy”

8 2. Byungil Ahn, Saginaw Valley State U Panel 36 “State Medicine with a Socialist Face: The CCP’s Gender and Women’s Roles in China Programs for Maternity and Infant Health in the 1950s' Room 170 Urban Areas” Chair: David Buck, U Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Emeritus 3. Trude Jacobsen, Northern Illinois U “The Curious Case of Sherlock Hare: Race, Class, and 1. Cronin Irena, U California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Mental Health in British Burma” “Changes in Gender Differentiation in Western Zhou Elite Joint Burial Tombs, as an Indicator of Strength of 4. Prachi Priyam, Stanford U the Late Western Zhou Ritual Reform” “Schizophrenia in Varanasi: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry into the Social Bases of Illness Experience” 2. He Man, Ohio State U “Staging “(Free) Love” in Makeshift Stages: Empowering Women in the Performative Culture of 1920s China” Panel 34 Modernization and Shifting Meanings: Creating 3. John M. Knight, Ohio State U Gender, National and Religious Identities “Comrade Jiang Qing or Madame Mao? How Room 205 Commentary on Jiang Qing Reflects the Changing Roles of Women in Communist China” Organizer: Jennifer Oldstone-Moore, Wittenberg U Chair: Tanya Maus, Wittenberg U 4. Gregory Freitag, Ohio State U “Cultural Imperialism or Feminist Intervention: 1. Janice Glowski, Wittenberg U Rethinking Power Relations and the Gender Ideals of “Powerful Partners: Buddhist Stupas and Peace Missionary Education in China” Language in the Tibetan Diaspora”

2. Jennifer Oldstone-Moore, Wittenberg U “Kongzi and Mr. Science” Panel 37 From the Cultural Revolution to the 2010 Expo: An 3. Tanya Maus, Wittenberg U Analysis of Shifting Chinese Identity across Multiple “Transformations of "Love" in Meiji Japan” art Forms Room 300 4. Terumi Imai, Wittenberg U “Speech and Gender Shaping in Contemporary Organizer and Chair: Natalie McMonagle, U St Thomas Japanese” 1. Natalie McMonagle, U St Thomas “Proletarians of the World Unite: Expanding Chinese Identity through Propaganda Posters of the Cultural Panel 35 Revolution” Re-reading Classical Texts Room 352 2. Carolyn Tillman, U St Thomas “In Front of Tiananmen: Tourist Photography and Chair: Jim Laine, Macalester C Identity in Two 20th Century Chinese Paintings” Discussant: Jim Laine, Macalester C 3. Joshua Feist, U St Thomas 1. Lisa W. Crothers, C of Wooster “Creating and Preserving Narratives in the Act of “Pragmatics of Perfection: Diversities of the Perfected Appropriation: Between Night Revels of Han Xizai Man in the Indian Epic, Mahabharata” and Night Revels of Lao Li”

2. Catherine Ryu, Michigan State U 4. Katie Czarniecki, U St Thomas “Placing The Tale of Genji on the Map of The Silk “National Identity Through Architecture: The China Road Imaginaire: A Poetic Flight through the Figure of Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai” a “Maboroshi””

3. William B. Noseworthy, U Wisconsin-Madison “Establishing a Historical Context for Nai Mai Mang Makah”

9 1. Teri Allendorf, U Wisconsin-Madison Session VII: 1:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. “Local residents’ perceptions of protected areas in Asia”

Panel 38 2. Neil Carter, Michigan State U Islam in the Himalayas: Representations, Boundaries, “Acceptance Capacity for Tigers in Nepal: Implications and Identities for Conservation of Predators in Human-Dominated Room 243 Landscapes”

Organizer: Rohit Singh, UC Santa Barbara 3. Narayan P. Dhakal, U Minnesota Chair: Jennifer Aengst, UC Davis “Assessment of Residents’ Social and Economic Discussant: Megan Sijapati, Gettysburg C Wellbeing and Perceived Biological Gains in Conservation Resettlement: A Case Study of 1. Rohit Singh, UC Santa Barbara Padampur, Chitwan National Park, Nepal” “Narrative and History among Tibetan Muslims in Kashmir: Rethinking Identity within the Indo-Tibetan 4. Bhim Gurung, U Minnesota Interface” “Values for and Tolerance Towards Tigers in Madi Valley, Chitwan National Park, Nepal” 2. Jennifer Aengst, UC Davis “Hyper-fertile and Against Contraception? An Examination of Muslim Women’s Reproduction” Panel 41 3. Mona Bahn, DePauw U Tang Narrative “Being “Muslim” on India’s frontiers: Militarization Room 370 and Identity Politics in Kargil, India” Organizer and Chair: William H. Nienhauser, Jr., U Wisconsin-Madison Discussant: Thomas Noel, U Wisconsin-Madison Panel 39 Roundtable: Migration, Transnationalism and 1. Chunting Chang, U Wisconsin-Madison Diaspora: Old and New Themes in Himalayan Studies “How the Heroines Drive the Plots in ‘Lingying zhuan’ Room 301 and 'Liu Yi'”

Organizer and Chair: Sara Shneiderman, Yale U 2. Maria Kobzeva, U Wisconsin-Madison “Zhou Bao in the Tang Fiction and Historical 1. Sara Shneiderman, Yale U Accounts.” “Trans-Himalayan Citizens” 3. Xin Zou, U Wisconsin-Madison 2. Geoff Childs, Washington U in St Louis “Storytelling and Creativity in ‘Xie Xiao’e zhuan’ “Migration, Family Change, and Elderly Care” 谢小娥傳 (The Account of Xie Xiao’e)”

3. David Gellner, U Oxford “Diasporic consciousness among Nepalis in the UK”

4. Kathryn March, Cornell U Panel 42 “Festivals, Phones & Facebook” Midwest Japan Seminar I

Room 300

Jeffrey Alexander, U Wisconsin-Parkside. “The Beverage of the Masses: The Recovery and Growth of Japan’s Postwar Beer Industry, 1945-1965” Panel 40 Human Dimensions of Nature Conservation Models in the Himalayas Room 270

Organizer: Narayan P Dhakal, U Minnesota

Chair: David C. Fulton, U Minnesota

10 Panel 43 3. Elizabeth Coville, Carleton C India, China and Japan: Regional Power Politics in Joko Sutrisno, Indonesian Performing Arts Association Asia of Minnesota Room 352 “Teaching "Anthropology 110: Indonesian Music and Cultures": Interdisciplinary Experiential Education in Chair: Andrew Latham, Macalester C Minnesota” Discussant: Andrew Latham 4. Matthew Rahaim, U Minnesota 1. Mazumdar Arijit, U St. Thomas “Difference, Translation, and Commensurability in “India in South Asia: Regional hegemony in the Teaching Asia Survey Courses” twenty-first century”

2. Yuxin Ma, U Louisville “China's Rise to Prominence: Competitor or Partner?”

3. Taka Daitoku, Northwestern U Panel 46 “Decline or Renewal? High-Growth Japan’s Search of Plenary: Online Resources for Himalayan Studies: Nuclear Capability and the Three Traditions of Research, Collaboration and Partnership Postwar Pacifism” Room 250

David Germano, U Virginia Mark Turin, Cambridge U and Yale U Panel 44 3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Unreeling China: Fact and Fantasy in Chinese Cinema, 1950-Present Room 170

Plenary address Organizer and Chair: Frederik Green, Macalester C

Discussant: Jennifer Feeley, U Iowa Pratyoush Onta, Martin Chautari

1. Charles Laughlin, U Virgina “The past and future of Nepal Studies in Nepal.” “Are We Having Fun Yet? Levity and Play in Chinese Socialist Film Comedy” 5:00-6:15 p.m.

2. Wei Yang, Sewanee U the South Room 250 “Branding Beijing: The Flattening of Time and Space in Jackie Chan’s The Karate Kid”

3. Frederik Green, Macalester C “The Sky is the Limit: Feng Xiaoning’s Leitmotif Cinema and the Popularization of State Myths”

Plenary: MCAA Presidential Speaker Panel 45 Roundtable: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Karma Lekshe Tsomo, U San Diego South and Southeast Asia Room 205 “Changes and Challenges: Women in Asian Buddhist Cultures.” Organizer and Chair: Julia Byl, St. Olaf C 3:45-5:15 p.m. 1. Julia Byl, St. Olaf C “Ephemeral Representations: Southeast Asia in the Room 350 Performative Moment”

2. Thomas Williamson, St. Olaf C “Universities Without Borders? Connecting Southeast Asian and American Campuses”

11 Panel 47 Tang Narrative-II Room 370

Organizer and Chair: William Nienhauser, U Wisconsin- Madison Discussant: Rania Huntington, U Wisconsin-Madison

1. Chen Wu, U Wisconsin-Madison “Spaces in ‘Changhenge zhuan’ 長恨歌傳 (The Story of the Song of the Everlasting Sorrow)”

2. Nan Ma, U Wisconsin-Madison “Where Romance Ends, Politics Begins: Power, Gender, and Anxiety of Speech in the Tang Tale ‘Lingying Zhuan.’”

3. Hai Liu, U Wisconsin-Madison “Payment and Repayment in “Lingying zhuan” and “Liu Yi”: A Balance Collapsed and Then Restored”

Panel 48 Midwest Japan Seminar II Room 300

Monika Dix, Saginaw Valley State U “Straightening the Wrinkles: Aging Ambivalence in the Jōjin Ajari no haha no shū”

5:30 – 6:45 p.m. MCAA Business Meeting, Room 350

7:00 – 8:00 p.m. MCAA Banquet, Board Room, Weyerhaeuser Hall

8:00 p.m. Keynote Address: K. Sivaramakrishnan, “Forests and the Environmental History of India”

12 Sunday, October 30

Panel 49 Health and Healing in the Himalaya 2. Todd T. Lewis, C of the Holy Cross Room 243 “Tracking Buddhist Modernity in 20th Century Nepal: The Sources for Chittadhar Hridaya’s Sugata Chair: Ron Barrett, Macalester C Saurabha” Discussant: Ron Barrett

1. Sienna Craig, Dartmouth C “Social Ecologies and Subjectivities: Narratives of Panel 52 Health, Illness, and Medicines in Amdo (Qinghai Translating the Shiji (Grand Scribe’s Records) Province, China)” Room 205

2. Bina Saklani and Atul Saklani, HNB Garhwal U Organizer and Chair: William Nienhauser, U Wisconsin- “Religion, Afflictions and Modernity: The role of Madison ritual in Healing in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, India” Discussant: Michael Naparstek, U Wisconsin-Madison

3. Murari Suvedi, Michigan State U 1. Ying Qin, U Wisconsin-Madison “Women’s Health Issues in Nepal” “When Historical Records Do Not Agree: The Case of the “Zhao shijia” 趙世家 (Hereditary House of Zhao)”

2. Thomas Noel, U Wisconsin-Madison Panel 50 “The Lords of Dian 滇: Early Han Imaginings of the Democratization, Politics and Environment in Bhutan Noble Savage” Room 301 3. Lianlian Wu, U Wisconsin-Madison Chair: TBA "Gongshu Boying 公叔伯嬰 or Gongshu and Boying:

A Case of Mistaken Identity." 1. Christopher Candland, Wellesley C

“Tsa Trim Chenmo: The Constitution of Bhutan”

2. Kyle Lemle, School for Field Studies Bryce Rosenbower, Hamline University Panel 53 Robin R. Sears, School for Field Studies Literature and Cinema in Japan Sonam Phuntsho, Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Room 352 Conservation and Environment “The Translation and Negotiation of Traditional and Discussant and Chair: Kendall Heitzman, Macalester C Scientific Systems of Knowledge in Bhutanese Community Forestry” 1. Reichardt Travis, U Wisconsin Milwaukee “The Noble Gangster: Seijun Suzuki's Portrayal of the 3. Prashanti Pandit, U Houston Clear Lake Yakuza in Japanese Chivalry Films of the 1960s” “In Search of Accountable Identity” 2. Gerald Iguchi, U Wisconsin-La Crosse “Tanaka Chigaku, Buddhist Modernity, Nichirenism, Affect”

Panel 51 Tracking Influences on Himalayan Buddhisms Room 270

Chair: Todd Lewis

1. Erin H. Epperson, U Chicago “Tracing out Trends in Tibetan Translations”

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