Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs and the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Joint Conference of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs and the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

October 28 to 30, 2011

Macalester College Saint Paul, MN

Conference websites http://www.macalester.edu/mcaa/ http://anhs-himalaya.org/hsc/

Message from MCAA President

On behalf of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, I am delighted to welcome you to our 60th meeting. This year the conference is being held in conjunction with the First Himalayan Studies Conference organized by the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies. The Program Chair for both conferences is Professor Arjun Guneratne of Macalester College. As you can see from the program, Arjun has done a remarkable job in producing an integrated conference that deals with a broad range of topics ranging from climate change in the Himalaya to classical Chinese literature. I would like to extend our profound appreciation to him for all his efforts in ensuring that this conference will be intellectually enriching. This year I have invited Dr. Karma Lekshe Tsomo as the MCAA presidential speaker. With scholarly interests in Tibetan and Chinese Buddhism, she is the author and editor of numerous books. She will speak on “Changes and Challenges: Women in Asian Buddhist Cultures" at 3:45 pm on Saturday. Her talk will be followed by the MCAA Business Meeting, which everyone is welcome to attend; wine and cheese will be served. In keeping with MCAA tradition, our keynote speaker will be Professor Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and immediate Past President of the Association for Asian Studies. His talk, on “Forests and the Environmental History of India”, will take place on Saturday evening at 8:00 p.m. His talk will be preceded by the awarding of student prizes: the Sidney DeVere Brown and Mikiso Hane prizes for outstanding undergraduate papers and the Percy Buchanan prizes for outstanding papers written by graduate students. Enjoy the conference!

Katherine Bowie

Message from the President of the ANHS

Welcome to the First ANHS Himalayan Studies Conference. This conference marks ANHS’s new relationship as a Center in Developing Status with the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). Support though CAORC, without which this conference would not be possible, is provided by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. We also owe a debt of gratitude to Arjun Guneratne for convening the conference, and Macalester College as the host institution. When members of the ANHS Executive Council conceived this conference a year ago we decided to center on the theme “Rethinking the Himalaya: The Indo-Tibetan Interface and Beyond.” In doing so, we hope to provide continuity with a seminal 1973 conference and resulting volume, edited by Jim Fisher who we’re proud to have with us at this conference, titled Himalayan Anthropology: The Indo- Tibetan Interface. That groundbreaking conference and volume set the tone for decades of research highlighting the Himalayas as an important historical and contemporary crossroads of polities, economic transactions, and cultures. Our aims for this year’s conference are to assess where we’ve been, learn about new directions in present and future research, and broaden the international base for Himalayan Studies by forging new connections. Importantly, holding the ANHS conference in conjunction with the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs allows us to underscore ways that our research can contribute to scholarship on two areas that the Himalayan region straddles: South Asia and East Asia. Highlights of this conference include our invited speakers: Drona Rasali. Plenary Address “Envisioning an equitable space for marginalized people in Nepal: A journey of small strides contributing to ‘change’ for social justice.” Pratyoush Onta. Plenary Address “The past and future of Nepal Studies in Nepal.” David Gellner. Keynote Address “Upland Region or 'a World of Peripheries'? Some thoughts on Himalayan identities” We are pleased that you can join us in taking this opportunity to see old friends, meet new colleagues, and devote a few days to scholarly exchange on the Himalayan region. We look forward to learning about your research, and encourage you to submit your papers to the ANHS-sponsored journal Himalaya. In the meantime, enjoy the conference. Sincerely yours,

Geoff Childs

4 6oth Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs and The First Himalayan Studies Conference Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Joint Conference Program

Friday, October 28

Registration: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m, Smail Gallery, Organizer and Chair: Sarah Besky, University of Olin Rice Hall Wisconsin-Madison

Session I: 8:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Sara Shneiderman, Yale University “Situating Darjeeling and Sikkim in the Himalayas and South Asia”

Tina Harris, University Amsterdam “Haunting the Border and Flooding the Market: Trade and the Indo-Tibetan Interface” Mona Chettri, SOAS-University London “Evolution of an Identity- The Political Re-definition Chair: Dilli Ram Dahal, Tribhuvan University of the Gorkhas of the Darjeeling Hills”

Janak Rai, University of Michigan/Tribhuvan Olivier Chiron, University Bordeaux University “Tourism in the Himalayan state of Sikkim: practices “Emplacing Histories and Re-imagining the Nation: and representations” Place-making and the cultural politics of Dhimals' indigenous activism in Nepal” Mabel Gergan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill “Resisting Hydropower Development in the Eastern Himalayas, India.”

Laya Prasad Uprety, Tribhuvan University “Marginalization of Indigenous Tharu Community in Common Property Resource Management: A Case Study of an Indigenous Irrigation System from the Tarai of Nepal”

Mingma Sherpa, University of Massachusetts-Amherst “Sherpa Conservation Governance in the Sagarmatha National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal”

5 ! # Organizer and Chair: Sarah Besky, University of Organizer: John Metz, Northern Kentucky University Wisconsin-Madison

Sarah J. Halvorson, Shah F. Khan, and Ulrich Kamp, Debarati Sen, American University University of Montana “Measured Invisibility: Ghumauri and the “Reconstructing Balakot, Northern Pakistan: A Five- Challenges of Worker Organizing in Darjeeling Year Retrospective on the 2005 Kashmir Plantations” Earthquake” Mélanie Vandenhelsken, Austrian Academy of Keith Bosak, University of Montana, Missoula Sciences “Between Conservation and Development: “Gurungs, ‘ethnic’ association and the state in Marginalization and resource access in the Sikkim: opposition and consent in the making of Uttarakhand Himalaya.” ethnicity”

Barbara Brower, Portland State University Mark Turin, Cambridge University/Yale University “The Future of Himalayan Yak-herding: Resilience “Mother Tongues and Multilingualism: Reflections or Collapse?” on Linguistic Belonging in Sikkim”

Asheshwor Shrestha, Nepal Pvt. Ltd. Sarah Besky, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Local knowledge inputs in prioritizing climate “Political Ecologies of Justice on Darjeeling Tea change adaptation measures—the case of Nepal” Plantations”

Session II: 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

#! Chair: John Metz, Northern Kentucky University Chair: Mahendra Lawoti, Western Michigan University Karl Ryavec, University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point “Mapping the Indo-Tibetan Frontier in the Historical Mahendra Lawoti, Western Michigan University Atlas of Tibet” “From mono-ethnic state to poly-ethnic polity: Exclusion/Inclusion and Democracy in Nepal” Stefan Fiol, University of Cincinnati “Unsettling Regionalism: Perspectives from the Dilli Ram Dahal, Tribhuvan University, Nepal Uttarakhand Himalayas” “Social Exclusion in Nepal: A Study of Yadavs of Central Nepal Tarai” John (Jack) Shroder, University of Nebraska - Omaha “Constraints and Possibilities for Research on Dinesh Paudel, University of Minnesota Physical Environments in the Hindu Kush and “A Pre-History of the Maoist Movement: Nature, Himalaya” Culture and the Emergence of Rebellious Consciousness in Thabang of Nepal”

Annelies Ollieuz, University of Oslo “‘Politicians and other educated people’: Political parties as arenas of informal learning”

6 Jessica Ka Yee Chan, University of Minnesota-Twin " Cities “Cinematic Encounter: Lu Xun, Douglas Fairbanks, and The Thief of Bagdad (1924)”

Chair: Laura Kunreuther, Bard College

Brunson, Jan, University of Hawaii “The role of sons in post-monarchy, secular Nepal” Nadine Plachta, University of Berne “Reflexivity in Relation to Tradition: the Education Chair: Ruthanne Kurth-Schai, Macalester College of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Nepal.” Sangsook Lee-Chung, University of Illinois at Urbana- Om Gurung, Tribhuvan University Champaign “The Question of Indigeneity and Identity in a “Personalized Globalization, Vicarious Federal Nepal” Cosmopolitans: South Korean “Geese-dad” Academics”

Zhini Zeng, Ohio State University “Second-Culture Worldview Construction: Culture Gains during Study Abroad” !" " #

Chair: Hiromi Mizuno, University of Minnesota Discussant: Hiromi Mizuno

R.W. Purdy, John Carroll University “Men, Martyrs and Myth: Kamikaze and Islamist Suicide Bombers”

Yuko Shibata, Saint John's University/College of Saint Benedict “Spectacle Excess and the Volatility of Gaze: Subverting Atomic Bomb Victimhood”

Lianying Shan, Gustavus Adolphus College “Nostalgia and Identity Formation in Postwar Japan: a Study of Popular and Literary Accounts of Manchuria”

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Chair: Frederik Greene, Macalester College

Hong Zeng, Carleton College “Female doubling and cultural identities of Hong Kong and Shanghai”

Hongmei Yu, Luther College “Between Orientalism and Occidentalism: The Cinematic Ambivalence of Chinese Masculinity”

7 Session III: 1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. " $ %*!#% "+* +

Gary Erickson, Macalester College “Experiencing Jingdezhen: The Porcelain City of !$ China” "% "% Wang Ping, Macalester College ' " “All the Roads to Lhasa” " ""

Chair: Arjun Guneratne, Macalester College

Mark Liechty, University of Illinois at Chicago “ ‘Missing Links’: The Indo-Tibetan Interface in the # " Tourist's Mind's Eye”

Kathryn S. March, Cornell University Chair: Hong Zeng, Carleton College “The Great (Gender) Divide” Jane Parish Yang, Lawrence University David Holmberg, Cornell University “Hegemonic Dreams/Fictive Dialogues: Channeling “Rethinking the Interface: Shamanic Resilience” Chinese Literati in 16th century Vietnamese 'Narratives of the Strange'” Susan Hangen, Ramapo College “The Concept of the Himalaya in an Era of Identity Elizabeth Kindall, University of St. Thomas Politics and Globalization” “A Painted Geo-Narrative as Quest Toward Sagehood” P. P. Karan, University of Kentucky “The Cultural Geography of the Himalaya” Qing Ye, University of Oregon “Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Reading of Backyards (Hou Ting) in Jin Ping Mei”

Discussant: Hong Zeng, Carleton College ! "% $ $

Chair: Roger Jackson, Carleton College

Michelle Folk, Concordia University/University of Regina “Food for Thought: The Ritual Activities of Mathas in Medieval Tamilnadu India”

Jesse Palmer, Lawrence University “Ennin as Transmitter of Mountain Religion Practices from China to Japan”

Amy McNair, University of Kansas “On the Origin of the Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpted Grottoes at Yungang”

Xi He, University of Chicago “Glorifying and Worshipping the Bodhisattva: An Analysis of the Devotional Emotion in the Lalitavistara”

8 ! ! # # " $ Chair: Lene Pedersen, Central Washington University Organizer & Chair: Satoko Suzuki, Macalester College Lene Pedersen, Central Washington University Michiko Todokoro Buchanan, University of Minnesota “Ties that Bind: Interdependence and Narratives of “Verb Ellipsis in Japanese” Tolerance In Changing Hindu-Muslim relationships on Bali” Natalie Dmyterenko and Rika Ito, St. Olaf College “Japanese numerals and classifiers: The case of Ron Barrett, Macalester College number four and seven” “How to be a Brahmin-Aghori in Banaras: The Gentrification of Radical Asceticism” Ritsuko Narita, Macalester College “Transferability of the use of hearsay evidential Erik W. Davis, Macalester College markers in L1 Japanese and L2 Japanese” “Adoption, Fertility, Magic: Imagining Something Other Than Religious Syncretism in Southeast Asia” Satoko Suzuki, Macalester College “Linguistic Stereotypes and Style Manipulation in Japanese Fiction” Session IV: 3:30-5:15 p.m.

" $ # ! % & Chair: Erik W. Davis, Macalester College Organizer: Taylor M. Easum, University of Wisconsin- Madison Yeonjoo Park, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Ryan Ford, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Salvific Snake: The Logic of the Kami-Buddha “Tracing the Phrabang Image in upland and Combination in Keiran shūyōshū” lowland spaces: A local history of Northern Laos” Chen Qin, Ohio State University Taylor M. Easum, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Sinification of Buddhism in the Transformation “‘Micro-Colonization’: Scale and State Power in a Text of Mulian Rescuing His Mother from the Thai Provincial City” Underworld”

Jose Rafael Martinez, Ohio University Tomoko Yoshida, Independent scholar “Mallification of Space: The Globalization of ““Respect the Gods, Even If You Do Not Worship Landmarks in Vientiane” Them”: Medieval Buddhists’ Advice on Living in a Religiously Plural World”

Mark Graham, College of Wooster “Fu De: Translating the Perfection of the Buddha into Chinese Discourses of Virtue (De) and Sagehood”

9 Joseph Yick, Texas State University-San Marcos “Leftwing Journalism and Communist Politics in & !!'&"#! British Hong Kong: Wen Wei Po in 1989”

Drona Rasali, Nepaldalitinfo.com “Envisioning an equitable space for marginalized $ " !!#!! people in Nepal: A journey of small strides contributing to ‘change’ for social justice.” Chair: Liang Ding, Macalester College

Sudarshana Bordoloi, York University, Canada “Development Implications of the Emerging Non Farm Sector in India: The Case of Kerala” #"(% "!""*! !" #"( " "! # Ajay Panicker, St Cloud State University "#!"") “State Power and Social Movements in the Neoliberal Era: Examination of a People’s Movement in Kerala, India” Organizer and Chair: Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf

College Sucharita Sinha Mukherjee, College of Saint

Benedict/Saint John's University Luying Chen, St. Olaf College “Are Asian Societies Penny-Wise but Pound- “The Liberal Arts Content in a Fourth-year Chinese Foolish? An Analysis of Ageing Populations, Female Language Class” Statuses and the Future of Economic Development

in Japan, China and India.” Tomoko Hoogenboom, St. Olaf College

“Content-Based Instruction (CBI) in an Advanced Yong-Chool Ha, University of Washington-Seattle; Japanese Course” Wang Hwi Lee, Ajou University; Sunil Kim,

University of California-Berkeley Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf College “Re-embedding: Institutional Scanning for the “Chinese-Language Components in Chinese History Restructuring of Business-Labor Relations in Japan Courses” and Korea”

Kris MacPherson, St. Olaf College “Applying CBI to a Research Methods Course”

" !"" "!"!#!" "& Chair: Steven Day, Benedictine University

Chun-yu Lu, Washington University in St. Louis Chair: Yue-him Tam, Macalester College “A Love Story of Returning: Mu Rugai (1884-1961)

and Popular Romance in Manchukuo” Linlin Wang, University of Texas at Austin

“Sacrifice for Resistance: the Grain Tax Collection of Li-Lin Tseng, Pittsburg State University the CCP in Jiangsu (1937-1945)” “The 1930s: Mei Lanfang, Beijing Opera, and

European Avant-garde Theater” Charles Kraus, George Washington University

“The Centralizing State: Social Investigations, Steven Day, Benedictine University Political Campaigns, and Regime Consolidation in “Faux Epistolary: Shi Tuo’s Shanghai Xinjiang, 1949-1955” Correspondence and the Aesthetics of Literary

Montage in Accounts of Wartime Shanghai” Sonja Kelley, Western Washington University

“Finished Business: The Impact of the Anti-Rightist Haosheng Yang, Miami University Movement on the Long-term Development of Visual “Displaced Dream of Loyalist Romance: Yu Dafu Art in the People’s Republic of China” and His Poetry”

10 Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Rutgers University 5:00-6:00 p.m. Welcome Reception, Smail Gallery, “The Modernization of a Medieval Nepali Hindu Olin Rice Hall Tradition: Preliminary Observations of Recent Changes”

Discussant: Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg College

6:15 p.m. Himalayan Studies Conference Dinner, Board Room,

Weyerhaeuser Hall 7:15 p.m. Announcement of Dor Bahadur Bista Award

Introduction of Speaker: Geoff Childs Chair: Geoff Childs, Washington University in St. Louis Keynote address: David Gellner, Oxford University “Upland Region or ‘a World of Peripheries’? Some Adam Cathcart, Pacific Lutheran University Thoughts on Himalayan Identities” “Liu Shengqi in Lhasa: A New Window Into Tibet and Chinese Assertions on the Plateau, 1945-1949”

Sarah Getzelman, Ohio State University “Imaging the Dalai Lama: Incarnations in Art and Practice”

Saturday, October 29 Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, Université Laval “TV across the Indo-Tibetan Interface: Indian TV as Registration: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Smail Gallery, a cultural mediator for ‘Newcomer’ Tibetans in Olin Rice Hall Dharamsala?”

8:00 a.m. MCAA Board Meeting, Room 247 Tsering Wangchuk, University of San Francisco “In Search of the Hidden Land of Pema Koh: Tibetan Pilgrims Reminisce about their Attempt to Reach the Unreachable Land” Session V: 8:30 a.m. -10:15 a.m.

" Organizer: Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Rutgers University Organizer and Chair: Teri Allendorf, University of Chair: Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg College Wisconsin-Madison

Ehud (Udi) Halperin, Columbia University Jamon Van Den Hoek, University of Wisconsin- “Buffalo Sacrifice to the Goddess Hadimba: A Madison Complex Response to Modernity” “Local Drivers of Forest Cover Change Variability in Tibetan Yunnan, China” Elizabeth Allison, California Institute of Integral Studies Selena Ahmed, Tufts University “At the Boundary of Modernity: Religion, “Persistence and Transformation of Butter-Tea Food Technocracy, and Waste Management in Bhutan” Systems in Tibetan Yunnan, China”

11 Mary Saunders, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Shifting cultivation: The decline of tartary buckwheat farming in its center of origin” " # Brian Robinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Livelihood and matsutake mushroom harvests in Tibetan Yunnan, China” Organizer: Liu Yilin, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chair: Tobias Zuern, University of Wisconsin-Madison Jodi Brandt, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Sacred sites are refugia for Himalayan forest birds Liu Yilin, University of Wisconsin-Madison in Tibetan Yunnan, China” “From the Lunar New Year Pictures to the Five Petty Demons --A Gap Between the Pictorial and Theatrical Representations of Zhong Kui in late

Imperial China”

Tobias Zuern, University of Wisconsin-Madison $ ' % “Polymorph Divine Beings--Pan Gu, Pan Hu, and # the Drum in a Report of a Ritual from Hunan”

Organizer: Barbara Brower, Portland State University Michael Naparstek, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chair: James Fisher, Carleton College, Emeritus “Auntie's an Exorcist: Literary Consumption of Daoist Exorcism” Jeremy Spoon, Portland State University “The Heterogeneity of Khumbu Sherpa Ecological Discussant: Michael Naparstek, University of Knowledge” Wisconsin-Madison

Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Washington State University “Comparison of on-route and off-route villages in Pharak”

Lindsay Skog, University of Colorado-Boulder % #$ “Exploring global discourses in a sacred landscape: !& Methods and theories” Organizer and Chair: Ihor Pidhainy, Marietta College Discussants: Barbara Brower, Portland State University Marion S. Lee, Ohio University James Fisher, Carleton College, Emeritus “Re-positioning painters of women in Late Imperial China”

Ihor Pidhainy, Marietta College

“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.”

Organizer and Chair: Kendall Heitzman, Macalester Lidu Yi, McGill University College “Women Painters--Divinely Endowed Talents of Ming and Qing and Art Collections” Kendall Heitzman, Macalester College “Slower, Lower, Weaker in Tokyo Olympiad” George Qingzhi Zhao, Skidmore College “Lives and political involvement of Kubilai Khan’s Noboru Tomonari, Carleton College wives: Chabui and Nambui in the Yuan dynasty” “Burakumin and Masculinity: Mikuni Rentarō and Postwar Japanese Cinema”

David Obermiller, Gustavus Adolphus College “Agency and Orientalism in the Movies Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) and Beat (1998)”

12 ! # "! $ " Chair and Discussant: Wang Ping, Macalester College Chair: Laura Kunreuther, Bard College Stephanie Cox, Carleton College “The microscopic writing of Ying Chen, Tina Shrestha, Cornell University Francophone Asian-Canadian writer” “The everyday immigrant-integration: Nepali refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant workers in Puspa Damai, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor New York City” “Cannibal Himalaya? Reading Jamaica Kincaid's Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya” Tristan Bruslé, CNRS “’Qatar is like a jail’: Daily life in a Nepalese migrant Cahill, Devon A., University of Minnesota labor camp and the inmate metaphor.” “Penetrating Gotthard: Tawada, Travel, and the Illusion of Identity” Discussant: Laura Kunreuther, Bard College

Session VI: 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. ! !

" " "&$ Organizer: Milan Shrestha, Arizona State University ! ! Chair: Netra Chhetri, Arizona State University

Organizer: Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg Milan Shrestha, Arizona State University College “Climate Change in the Nepal Himalaya: Examining Chair: Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Rutgers University Vulnerability and Livelihood Security Issues”

Michael Baltutis, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Netra Chhetri, Arizona State University “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”

Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg College Deepa Joshi, Wageningen University “Muslim Belonging and Place in Nepal: Reflections “‘Deconstructing Gender-Climate Myths: A Case on Contrasting Narratives and Contemporary Study from the Darjeeling Himalaya’” Debates in the Kathmandu Valley” John Metz, Northern Kentucky University Michelle Kleisath, University of 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” Holly Gayley, University of Colorado-Boulder “Reimagining Buddhist Ethics on the Tibetan " # Plateau”

Chair: Ron Barrett, Macalester College

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

13 Byungil Ahn, Saginaw Valley State University “State Medicine with a Socialist Face: The CCP’s Programs for Maternity and Infant Health in the 1950s' Urban Areas”

Trude Jacobsen, Northern Illinois University “The Curious Case of Sherlock Hare: Race, Class, and Mental Health in British Burma”

Prachi Priyam, Stanford University “Schizophrenia in Varanasi: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry into the Social Bases of Illness Experience”

Organizer: Jennifer Oldstone-Moore, Wittenberg University Chair: Tanya Maus, Wittenberg University !

Janice Glowski, Wittenberg University Chair: David Buck, University of Wisconsin- “Powerful Partners: Buddhist Stupas and Peace Milwaukee, Emeritus Language in the Tibetan Diaspora” He Man, Ohio State University Jennifer Oldstone-Moore, Wittenberg University “Staging ‘(Free) Love’ in Makeshift Stages: “Kongzi and Mr. Science” Empowering Women in the Performative Culture of 1920s China” Tanya Maus, Wittenberg University “Transformations of "Love" in Meiji Japan” John M. Knight, Ohio State University “Comrade Jiang Qing or Madame Mao? How Terumi Imai, Wittenberg University Commentary on Jiang Qing Reflects the Changing “Speech and Gender Shaping in Contemporary Roles of Women in Communist China” Japanese” Gregory Freitag, Ohio State University “Cultural Imperialism or Feminist Intervention: Rethinking Power Relations and the Gender Ideals of Missionary Education in China”

Chair: Jim Laine, Macalester College

Catherine Ryu, Michigan State University “Placing The Tale of Genji on the Map of The Silk 12:25 p.m. Association for Nepal and Road Imaginaire: A Poetic Flight through the Figure Himalayan Studies Annual of a “Maboroshi”” Members’ Meeting,

William B. Noseworthy, University of Wisconsin- Room 250 Madison “Establishing a Historical Context for Nai Mai Mang (Lunch provided) Makah”

Discussant: Jim Laine, Macalester College

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Organizer and Chair: Natalie McMonagle, University Organizer and Chair: Sara Shneiderman, Yale of St Thomas University

Natalie McMonagle, University of St Thomas Sara Shneiderman, Yale University “Proletarians of the World Unite: Expanding “Trans-Himalayan Citizens” Chinese Identity through Propaganda Posters of the Geoff Childs, Washington University in St Louis Cultural Revolution” “Migration, Family Change, and Elderly Care”

Carolyn Tillman, University of St Thomas David Gellner, University of Oxford “In Front of Tiananmen: Tourist Photography and “Diasporic consciousness among Nepalis in the UK” Identity in Two 20th Century Chinese Paintings” Kathryn March, Cornell University Joshua Feist, University of St Thomas “Festivals, Phones & Facebook” “Creating and Preserving Narratives in the Act of Appropriation: Between Night Revels of Han Xizai and Night Revels of Lao Li”

Katie Czarniecki, University of St Thomas “National Identity Through Architecture: The China Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai” ! ! " %

Organizer: Narayan P. Dhakal, University of Session VII: 1:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Minnesota Chair: David C. Fulton, University of Minnesota

Teri Allendorf, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Local residents’ perceptions of protected areas in Asia” % ' & ! & Neil Carter, Michigan State University “Acceptance Capacity for Tigers in Nepal: Organizer: Rohit Singh, University of California-Santa Implications for Conservation of Predators in Barbara Human-Dominated Landscapes” Chair: Jennifer Aengst, University of California Davis Narayan P. Dhakal, University of Minnesota Rohit Singh, University of California-Santa Barbara “Assessment of Residents’ Social and Economic “Narrative and History among Tibetan Muslims in Wellbeing and Perceived Biological Gains in Kashmir: Rethinking Identity within the Indo- Conservation Resettlement: A Case Study of Tibetan Interface” Padampur, Chitwan National Park, Nepal”

Jennifer Aengst, University of California-Davis Bhim Gurung, University of Minnesota “Hyper-fertile and Against Contraception? An “Values for and Tolerance Towards Tigers in Madi Examination of Muslim Women’s Reproduction” Valley, Chitwan National Park, Nepal”

Mona Bhan, DePauw University “Being “Muslim” on India’s frontiers: Militarization and Identity Politics in Kargil, India”

Discussant: Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg College

15 #! "')(&% Organizer and Chair: William H. Nienhauser, Jr., University of Wisconsin-Madison Organizer and Chair: Frederik Green, Macalester College Chunting Chang, University of Wisconsin-Madison “How the Heroines Drive the Plots in ‘Lingying Charles Laughlin, University of Virgina zhuan’ and 'Liu Yi'” “Are We Having Fun Yet? Levity and Play in Chinese Socialist Film Comedy” Maria Kobzeva, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Zhou Bao in the Tang Fiction and Historical Wei Yang, Sewanee University of the South Accounts.” “Branding Beijing: The Flattening of Time and Space in Jackie Chan’s The Karate Kid” Xin Zou, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Storytelling and Creativity in ‘Xie Xiao’e zhuan’ Frederik Green, Macalester College (The Account of Xie Xiao’e)” “The Sky is the Limit: Feng Xiaoning’s Leitmotif Cinema and the Popularization of State Myths” Discussant: Thomas Noel, University of Wisconsin- Madison Discussant: Jennifer Feeley, University of Iowa

Jeffrey Alexander, University of Wisconsin-Parkside. #! “The Beverage of the Masses: The Recovery and Growth of Japan’s Postwar Beer Industry, 1945- 1965” Organizer and Chair: Julia Byl, St. Olaf College

Julia Byl, St. Olaf College “Ephemeral Representations: Southeast Asia in the Panel 44 Room 352 Performative Moment” India, China and Japan: Regional Power Politics in Asia Thomas Williamson, St. Olaf College “Universities Without Borders? Connecting Chair: Andrew Latham, Macalester College Southeast Asian and American Campuses”

Arijit Mazumdar, University of St. Thomas Elizabeth Coville, Carleton College “India in South Asia: Regional hegemony in the Joko Sutrisno, Indonesian Performing Arts Association twenty-first century” of Minnesota “Teaching “Anthropology 110: Indonesian Music Yuxin Ma, University of Louisville and Cultures”: Interdisciplinary Experiential “China's Rise to Prominence: Competitor or Education in Minnesota” Partner?” Matthew Rahaim, University of Minnesota Taka Daitoku, Northwestern University “Difference, Translation, and Commensurability in “Decline or Renewal? High-Growth Japan’s Search Teaching Asia Survey Courses” of Nuclear Capability and the Three Traditions of Postwar Pacifism”

Discussant: Andrew Latham, Macalester College

#& "$ #$ #% # % !$ "#$$ $ $ "#$##$ Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego David Germano, University of Virginia Mark Turin, Cambridge University / Yale University “Changes and Challenges: Women in Asian Buddhist Cultures.”

#$# 5:30 – 6:45 p.m. MCAA Business Meeting, Room 250 "$ $ % $

Wine and cheese in Room 241, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Pratyoush Onta, Martin Chautari

“The Past and Future of Nepal Studies in Nepal.” 7:00 p.m. MCAA Banquet in the Board Room, Weyerhaeuser Hall.

7:45 p.m. Welcome: Satoko Suzuki, Chair, #' "& Department of Asian Languages and !' Cultures, Macalester College

Announcement of Student Prizes Organizer and Chair: William Nienhauser, University of Wisconsin-Madison Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Discussant: Rania Huntington, University of Katherine Bowie, President of the MCAA Wisconsin-Madison Keynote Address: Chen Wu, University of Wisconsin-Madison K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University: “Forests and “Spaces in ‘Changhenge zhuan’ (The Story the Environmental History of India” of the Song of the Everlasting Sorrow)”

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

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

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

17 Sunday, October 30 !"") (! !*

Organizer and Chair: William Nienhauser, University of Wisconsin-Madison Session IX: 9:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Ying Qin, University of Wisconsin-Madison “When Historical Records Do Not Agree: The Case of the “Zhao shijia” (Hereditary House of Zhao)” ""% Thomas Noel, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chair: Ron Barrett, Macalester College “The Lords of Dian : Early Han Imaginings of the Noble Savage” Sienna Craig, Dartmouth College “Social Ecologies and Subjectivities: Narratives of Lianlian Wu, University of Wisconsin-Madison Health, Illness, and Medicines in Amdo (Qinghai “Gongshu Boying or Gongshu and Boying: Province, China)” A Case of Mistaken Identity.”

Discussant: Ron Barrett, Macalester College Discussant: Michael Naparstek, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Chair: Arjun Guneratne, Macalester College Chair: and Discussant: Kendall Heitzman, Macalester College Kyle Lemle, Bryce Rosenbower, Robin R. Sears, Sonam Phuntsho Travis Reichardt, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee “The Translation and Negotiation of Traditional and “The Noble Gangster: Seijun Suzuki's Portrayal of Scientific Systems of Knowledge in Bhutanese the Yakuza in Japanese Chivalry Films of the 1960s” Community Forestry” Gerald Iguchi, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Prashanti Pandit, University of Houston-Clear Lake “Tanaka Chigaku, Buddhist Modernity, “In Search of Accountable Identity” Nichirenism, Affect”

Lauren Prusinski, Valparaiso University “Wabi Sabi, Mono no Aware, and Ma: Tracing Traditional Japanese Aesthetics Through Japanese History” #!%#!!

Chair: Todd Lewis, College of the Holy Cross Abstracts of papers presented at the Erin H. Epperson, University of Chicago conference are available on the conference “Tracing out Trends in Tibetan Translations” websites:

Todd T. Lewis, College of the Holy Cross “Tracking Buddhist Modernity in 20th Century http://www.macalester.edu/mcaa/ Nepal: The Sources for Chittadhar Hridaya’s Sugata http://anhs-himalaya.org/hsc/ Saurabha”

18 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs Prize Papers 2011

Percy Buchanan Graduate Prize

Robert Hsu, Northern Illinois University. “Fear Nothing but Poverty: An “Il/legal” Motorbike Import Business in Burma.”

Nan Ma, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Where Romance Ends, Politics Begins: Gender, Identity, and Anxiety of Speech in the Tang Tale “Lingying Zhuan” .”

(There is no winner in either South Asia or Northeast Asia region)

Sidney DeVere Brown Prize

Zack Kaplan, University of Oklahoma, “Anti-Americanism in Zengakuren 1957- 1960.”

Mikiso Hane Prize

Lauren Prusinski, Valparaiso University, “Wabi-Sabi, Mono no Aware, and Ma: Tracing Traditional Japanese Aesthetics Through Japanese History.”

Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

ANHS Senior Fellowship Award, 2011 The Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) annually awards senior fellowships for support of short-term research or other scholarly projects that will advance knowledge of the Himalaya-Karakoram-Hindukush mountain regions. The fellowship supports work focusing on any aspect of Himalayan studies.

Dr. Amanda Snellinger, Affiliate Scholar, The Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington Project Title: Transfiguration of the Political: From Student Activist to Politician in “New Nepal.”

Dor Bahadur Bista Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper, 2011

Sarah Besky, University of Wisconsin, Madison “Moral Economies of Land, Labor, and Justice on Darjeeling Tea Plantations.”

MCAA Executive Committee

President Katherine Bowie, University of Wisconsin

Vice President Yongming Zhou, University of Wisconsin

Past President Roy Hanashiro, University of Michigan - Flint

Executive Secretary Greg Guelcher, Morningside College

COC Representative Kai-wing Chow, University of Illinois

2011 Annual Meeting Program Chair Arjun Guneratne, Macalester College

Advisory Board

Northeast Asia Catherine Ryu, Michigan State University Sumiko Otsubo, Metropolitan State University

China and Inner Asia Yongtao Du, Oklahoma State University Seungjoo Yoon, Carleton College

South Asia Ali Riaz, Illinois State University

Southeast Asia Tom Williamson, St. Olaf College

20 Presidents and Conference Locations of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs

Year President Conference Location 2011 Katherine Bowie Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 2010 Roy Hanashiro Ohio State University, OH 2009 Robert Entenmann Miami University, OH 2008 Yasuko Ito Watt St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges, Northfield, MN 2007 Linda Cooke Johnson Washington University in St. Louis 2006 Aparajita Sagar University of Wisconsin-Madison 2005 Jacquetta Hill Michigan State University, East Lansing 2004 James L. Huffman University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul 2003 Parks M. Coble Illinois State University, Normal 2002 Gerald J. Larson Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 2001 Sally A. Hastings University of Nebraska, Lincoln 2000 David Buck Indiana University, Bloomington 1999 Richard M. Cooler Michigan State University, East Lansing 1998 Louis G. Perez University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 1997 Daniel H. Bays Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 1996 Eleanor M. Zelliot University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1995 David Plath University of Missouri-St. Louis 1994 Winston Hsieh Western Illinois University, Macomb 1993 Donald Emmerson John Carroll University, Cleveland 1992 Koji Taira University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh 1991 Adrian Bennett University of Iowa, Iowa City 1990 Stephen Cohen Indiana University, Bloomington 1989 Rita Kipp Michigan State University, East Lansing 1988 Mikison Hane University of Wisconsin-Madison 1987 Ted Farmer St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges, Northfield, MN 1986 Harold Gould University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1985 Carl Landes Miami University, Oxford, OH 1984 Bonnie Oh Washington University in St. Louis 1983 Willard Elsbree University of Kansas, Lawrence 1982 Manindra Verma University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1981 Marleigh Ryan University of Missouri-Columbia 1980 Samuel Chu University of Iowa, Iowa City 1979 Clark D. Neher Ohio State University, Columbus 1978 Barabara Ramusack University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1977 Iwao Ishino Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 1976 Byron Marshall University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul 1975 Robert Crawford Ohio University, Athens 1974 Grant K. Goodman University of Kansas, Lawrence 1973 Barbara Teters Michigan State University, East Lansing 1972 Bernard Karsh University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1971 John Kie-chang Oh University of Wisconsin-Madison 1970 David Wurfel Indiana Indiana University, Bloomington

21 1969 Fred von der Mehden Oklahoma State University, Stillwater 1968 Jackson Bailey Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo 1967 Stanley Spector University of Kansas, Lawrence 1966 George M. Beckmann Wartburg College, Waverly, IA 1965 Earl Swisher University of Colorado, Boulder 1964 Ping-chia Kuo Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 1963 Fred Parrish University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1962 Yahva Armajami Washington University, St. Louis 1961 Solomon B. Levine Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA 1960 Sidney D. Brown University of Oklahoma, Norman 1959 Robert K. Sakai University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1958 Mitchell Smith University of Missouri-Columbia 1957 Rudolph Bjorgan Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 1956 Alfred Crofts University of Kansas, Lawrence 1955 Haridas Muzumdar Kansas State University, Manhattan 1954 Oswald P. Backus III University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1953 Percy Buchanan University of Kansas, Lawrence 1952 Percy Buchanan University of Oklahoma, Norman (Founder)

Studies on Asia, the interdisciplinary journal sponsored by the Midwestern Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA), is published biannually. The online journal welcomes manuscripts on any and all aspects of Asia, past and present, and including translations, poetry, prose, and pedagogy. The journal covers a wide range of topics, review essays and book reviews. The website of the journal is: www.StudiesOnAsia.IllinoisState.edu

Editor: Ali Riaz

Associate Editors: Noboru Tomonari, Carleton College Subho Basu, Syracuse University

Book Review Editor: Greg Guelcher, Morningside College

23 Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Executive Council

President Geoff Childs, Washington University in St. Louis

Secretary John Metz, Northern Kentucky University

Treasurer John Mock, University of California, Santa Cruz

Editor, Himalaya, ex-officio Arjun Guneratne, Macalester College

Council

Teri Allendorf, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Mary Cameron, Florida Atlantic University

Sienna Craig, Dartmouth College

Pradyumna P. Karan, University of Kentucky

Mahendra Lawoti, Western Michigan University

Milan Shrestha, Arizona State University

Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg College

24 Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, is the continuation of Himalayan Research Bulletin (1981-2003) and the Nepal Studies Association Newsletter (1972-1980). They were all published by the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, which was known as the Nepal Studies Association from 1972-2000.

Himalaya (ISSN 0089-4834) is published annually. With the exception of the two most recent years of publications, a complete backfile of all issues is available on the web at http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/ The current issues will become available in an electronic format two years after the date of publication

To join, go to http://anhs- himalaya.org/join/index.html or complete the membership form on reverse and mail it in with

you check

Editor: Arjun Guneratne

Himalaya seeks to promote understanding and appreciation of the region through the publication and support of original research and other important work, and to review scholarship, research, and other information of interest to members of The Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies and other Himalayanists.

Himalaya is a peer-reviewed publication and publishes original articles, short reports on research, book reviews, reports of meetings, dissertation abstracts, professional announcements, photographs, and other interesting information from any and all fields relevant to the Himalayan areas of Asia.

The journal is included in the collections of fifty major libraries in the United States, Asia, and Europe. It has developed from a mimeographed newsletter into its present form - as the major international journal for the region - through the efforts of its volunteer editors, the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) Council, and members who provide much of the material for each issue.

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26 Notes

27 28 Transportation and Parking

Directions to campus: Although the official Macalester College address is 1600 Grand Ave., (St. Paul ---NOT Minneapolis), this will put you at the far end of campus from conference. Please enter at south end of campus from St. Clair Ave. The campus drive is 1 block west of Snelling Ave. Turn north on campus drive, then go about 1 block north to the first academic building on the right (east). The tennis courts are there. We will have signs pointing to registration. Registration and panels are in Olin/Rice Hall of Science, south end of campus. Banquets are in Weyerhaeuser Hall, 62 Macalester St.

Parking: See map on opposite page for parking. Transportation options: Taxis and Super Shuttle:

• SuperShuttle: Local Reservations (612) 827-7777 ext.2 (800) BLUE VAN (800-258-3826) • Airport Taxi 651-222-0000 • Diamond Cab 651-644-6655 • Yellow Cab (612) 308-9482

Hotel Shuttle between Holiday Inn and Macalester College: The Holiday Inn St. Paul Downtown provides guests with a free shuttle for morning and evening departure times. Check with hotel for schedule. No shuttle service to and from airport. Macalester Vans to Airport (Sunday only): Check times at Registration table.

Metro Transit Buses: To plan your route, use Macalester College address of 1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul --- NOT Minneapolis --- go to http://www.metrotransit.org/maps-schedules.aspx Click on the "Trip Planner" button on right side of screen and fill in. Details for selected routes on the next page.

29 Friday October 28, 2011 departing at: Note: (rush hour) Regular Fare: $2.25 Senior fare: $2.25

• 7:05 am: o Walk 0.14 miles N from Holiday Inn STP to Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg. o Take Route: 63A Grand Av / St Thomas 7:15 AM depart from Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg 7:31 AM arrive at Grand Av & Snelling Av • 7:30am: o Walk 0.14 miles N from Holiday Inn STP to Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg o Take Route: 63A Grand Av / St Thomas 7:54 AM depart from Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg 8:09 AM arrive at Grand Av & Snelling Av

Saturday October 29, 2011 departing at: Note: Regular Fare: $1.75 Senior fare: $0.75

• 7:05am: o Walk 0.14 miles N from Holiday Inn STP to Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg o Take Route: 63A Grand Av / St Thomas 7:18 AM depart from Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg 7:32 AM arrive at Grand Av & Snelling Av • 7:30am: o Walk 0.14 miles N from Holiday Inn STP to Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg o Take Route: 63A Grand Av / St Thomas 7:48 AM depart from Smith Av & Ramp Exit / Kellogg 8:02 AM arrive at Grand Av & Snelling Av

Sunday October 30, 2011 departing at: Note: Regular Fare: $1.75 Senior fare: $0.75