UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & CULTURAL STUDIES

Chair’s Letter Departmental Newsletter Volume 4 Dear Friends, Fall 2011

This past year, EALCS underwent an external program review designed to assess our work of Chair’s Letter 1 the past decade and our direction for the im- Mission Statement 2 mediate future. I am delighted to note that the laudatory Report highlighted the tremendous Recent Activities and Publications 4 – EALCS Faculty success of developing a cultural studies frame- Recent Activities and Publications 14 work, hiring a number of new faculty while at – Lecturers the same time building on earlier strengths, Recent Activities and Publications 15 and establishing a successful Ph.D. program. – Affiliates The report states further that ours is clearly a top Asian studies program with a distinctive Faculty Profile: 18 Ronald Egan and exciting vision. The external reviewers Graduate Student Profile: 19 from Berkeley, Harvard and the University of Michigan found the Depart- Qian Yang ment to be in excellent shape, emphasized that EALCS plays an extremely Visiting Professor Profile: 21 important role within the larger university, and has an exciting vision for Yeonghae Jung moving forward. Faculty Fellow Profile: 22 Nathaniel Smith In this spirit, we continue to be extremely grateful to our gener- ous donors, including The Drew Family for their generous support of our Center for Taiwan Studies (CTS) 17 Chinese language program, Bruce Wilcox for two endowments in honor of News and Events, 2010-11 Professor Pai Hsien-yung, supporting graduate fellowships and Chinese lit- East Asian Center (EAC) 26 erature studies generally, the Mochizuki Family for supporting the Japanese News and Events, 2010-2011 language program, and several of our undergraduate and graduate student East Asian Library (EAL) 28 News and Events, 2010-2011 alumni for their significant gifts. This past year the Drew Award was given to Erica Melanie Sommerman and Ly-Ann EE for being the best students in Graduate Updates 27 first-year Chinese language. The Mochizuki Student Award went to Nicole Kim and Nicha Cygnel for being the best students in Japanese language. Japan Corner 8 Japanese language lecturer and current language program coordinator Hi- roko Sugawara was awarded the Mochizuki Lecturer of the Year Award. The China Corner 14 Residence Halls Association and the Office of Residential Life honored each East Asian Grad Student 17 Colloquium Lecture Series, Spring 2011

continued on page 2 Campus Earthquake Relief Efforts 3 one of our energetic Japanese language lecturers - Akiyo Cantrell, Chikako Shi- nagawa, Hiroko Sugawara, and Yoko Yamauchi – with Outstanding Lecturer EALCS Recognition Award Nominations and Ph.D. student Silke Werth with an Out- standing TA Recognition Award Nomination. Chinese language lecturer and ISSON program coordinator Daoxiong Guan was honored with a summer resident M TATEMENT researcher award by Shanghai University of Finance & Economics through S The Department of East its Foreign Experts Exchange Program while Shu-Chuan (Bella) Chen was Asian Languages and Cultural awarded a Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Grant. Congratula- Studies is committed to provid- tions to all awardees whose enormous commitment and drive constitute such ing students with the opportunity an important component of the EALCS language programs’ excellence. to understand the many facets of I am also pleased to recognize the prompt and creative efforts of Jap- anese language lecturer Yoko Yamauchi and students Phillip Wong, Adam East Asian culture, including (but Gross, and Alexander Hsu in promptly coordinating disaster relief efforts in not limited to) languages, history, the wake of the tripple disaster in Northeastern Japan – Japan’s 3/11. society, politics, economics, religi- The EALCS community wouldn’t be as vibrant without our visiting osities, media and art. In a world scholars. As every year, EALCS welcomed a number of scholars who came to of increasing international coop- EALCS in pursuit of various research projects, including Professor Shuen-Shing eration and globalization, students Lee (National Chung Hsing University), Ms. Yue Wang (Shandong Univer- will be prepared to face a society sity), Ms. Xingzi Hau (Peking University), Ms. Valentina Mejia (El Colegio de Mexico), and Professor Harald Meyer (Bonn University). I am also delighted in which Asia is now a significant to welcome David Novak, a new EALCS affiliate, and Nathaniel Smith, the factor in the foreign relations of UCSB Japan Foundation Faculty Fellow. Novak is a new faculty member in the United States, and the rest of the Ethnomusicology Program of UCSB’s Music Department. His novel and the world. interdisciplinary expertise in the globalization of popular music, experimental culture, environmental sound, social practices of listening and intermedia con- stitutes an excellent addition to our modern East Asian cultural studies em- UR phasis (http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/PhD.htm). UCSB Japan Foundation O TAFF Faculty Fellow Nathaniel Smith has joined us from Yale. Smith’s dissertation is S an ethnography of the world of rightwing politics in contemporary Japan, an Director Bob Ortega issue of considerable societal, comparative, and theoretical importance. While (805) 893-2993 at UCSB, he will be offering 4 exciting new courses in winters and springs Financial Services Shubra Agrawal 2011/12 and 2012/13, on popular culture and consumption, directions in so- Manager (805) 893-4613 cial activism, life in the Japanese empire, and a graduate seminar on criminal-

Student Services Lisa Blanco ity and contrition in East Asia (For an interview with Smith, see p. 22 of this Manager (805) 893-3316 Newsletter). The UCSB Japan Foundation Faculty Fellow is one component

Financial Assistant Vera Reyes of the three-year Japan Foundation Institutional Project Support Program (805) 893-5463 Grant in Japanese Studies that has been generously matched by the Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts. As many of you know, Luke Roberts (History) is Grad. Student Sally Lombrozo Advisor (805) 893-2744 the PI of the grant and has organized this past year’s program on “National- isms of Japan” (http://www.j-culturalstudies.ucsb.edu/year1.htm). Next year’s Undergrad. Student Deborah McCleister Advisor (805) 893-4381 program will be arranged and administered by ann-elise lewallen (EALCS) on “The Return of the Political in Cultural Studies.” Please also watch out for Webmaster Stephen Wilcox (805) 893-2731 the third and final year’s program in 2012/13 that will be organized by Mi- chael Emmerich and Katherine Saltzman-Li (EALCS) on “The History of the Book, Printing, and Publications in Japan and Its Relationship to Modernity.”

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2 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies More detailed information will become available at: http://www.j-cultural- AMPUS studies.ucsb.edu/year2.htm. EARTHQUAKE Despite increasingly fierce competition in grant selections, our faculty C ELIEF have continued to apply with great success: No fewer than three of our junior REFFORTS faculty members - Michael Emmerich, ann-elise lewallen and Xiaowei Zheng By Adam Gross, Alexander Hsu, Phillip Wong - have received Hellman Family Faculty Fellowships; lewallen won a grant On Friday, the 11th of March 2011, one of from the University of California Center for New Racial Studies; Emmerich the most powerful earthquakes in recorded was awarded a Junior Faculty Fellowship; Mayfair Yang is the recipient of a history formed off of the coast of Japan, UC President’s Faculty Fellowship from UCHRI; Sabine Frühstück was hon- causing a massively destructive tsunami. ored with a senior fellowship of the International Research Center for Cultural The devastation to the northern regions of Studies (Internationales Forschungsinstitut Kulturwissenschaften), Vienna; Japan was, and still is, tremendous. Many and Hyung-Il Pai was the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship precious lives were lost, and entire cities awarded by the Council on the Inter-exchange of Scholars in Washington. were consumed by the massive waves. As D.C., among other awards and fellowships. we sat and watched this chaos unfold on A series of East Asia events lie ahead of us and will be announced on the other side of the ocean, we leaders of the Japanese Language Café knew we had the EALCS website. I would like to bring two of them to your attention: Our to take quick and helpful action. During the most wonderful intellectual spirit and leader in Song-era literature and cultural days and weeks that followed this terrible studies, Ron Egan, will be hosting the 2011 meeting of the American Oriental tragedy, we worked hard devising a way for Society’s Western Branch in mid-October. On January 24, 2012, we will host us to help the people of Japan. After care- film director Mark Hall. The screening of his latest documentary, Sushi: The ful deciding, we began to sell T-shirts of our Global Catch to UCSB. Sushi: The Global Catch, will be introduced, screened own design to the many students of the and discussed as an Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Public Goods lecture EALCS. Our sales became so successful that series event (http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/series/publicgoods/). ann-elise lewallen, we decided to create more shirts, and went our own specialist in environmental change and indigenous political move- on to sell them in front of the UCEN. With ments, will be moderating a Q & A session. Sushi: The Global Catch is a pow- the wonderful support that we received from the EALCS faculty, and with the all-important erful feature-length documentary that explores how sushi became a worldwide guiding hand of our sensei Yamauchi Yoko, phenomenon. The film poses the question, “Can the growth continue?” to we were able to manage a very successful over two dozen sushi chefs, marine biologists, fish vendors, Greenpeace ac- fundraiser. In addition to selling shirts, we tivists, and other experts (check out the trailer at http://www.sushitheglobal- set up a special origami fundraising event catch.com/). in which various students and faculty came This has also been a critical year with respect to the reorganization from around the campus to help create a of the department-level administration. Under the skillful leadership of Bob senbazuru. After exceeding our goal of cre- Ortega (HASC Director), Shubra Agrawal (Manager of Academic Personnel ating one thousand paper cranes, we strung & Financial Services), and Lisa Blanco (Manager of Academic Advising), the them together and, along with a few shikishi staff of four departments – Classics, History, Religious Studies, and EALCS signed with various students’ wishes of hope – have been clustered and substantially reorganized. I would like to take this and prayer, sent them off to the children of Yuriage Junior High School in Miyagi, Japan. opportunity to thank all staff members for their continued creativity, stamina All in all, the JLC raised almost $4,000 for and commitment to our community! Japan relief, which we hand-delivered to Di- rect Relief International, a local Goleta NGO. Onward, Although the amount of time and energy that we spent on fundraising was immeasur-

able, the joy and satisfaction that we gained knowing our hard work would help our dear friends in Japan made it more than worth the while. We will never forget the wonderful ex- Sabine Frühstück periences that we had while helping Japan, and we hope to continue our humanitarian efforts well into the coming school year. continued on page 3

University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2011 3 ECENT ACTIVITIES & RPUBLICATIONS - EALCS FACULTY MICHAEL BERRY •Reviews of “Postsocialist Moder- Lectures/Presentations Publications nity” (Cinema Journal, 2010), “The •“Chinese Cinema with Hollywood •《 光影記憶:對談侯孝賢 》 Hypothetical Mandarin” (Journal Characteristics: Global Chinese Memories of Light and Shadow: In of Asian Studies, 2010), “Storm Un- Film in the Reform Era” UCLA/USC Dialogue with Hou Hsiao-hsien (Tai- der the Sun” (The Moving Image, Joint Conference on Chinese Cin- pei, INK Publishing, forthcoming). 2011). ema, Oct. 2011. •“The Absent American: Figuring •《乡关何处：贾樟柯的故乡三部 •“On Floating Weeds and Explod- the United States in Chinese Cin- 曲》(In Search of Home: Reading ing Flowers: Ozu and Ori” Santa ema of the Early Reform Era” in A Jia Zhangke’s Hometown Trilogy) Barbara Museum of Art. Companion to Chinese Cinema (Trans. By Lian Cheng) Guangxi •“The Blue Kite and Global Revolu- Edited by Yingjin Zhang (Blackwell, Normal University Press, 2010. tions” UCSB, MCC August, 2011. forthcoming). •Translations of “Why I Write” (by •“City of Life and Death and the •Essays on Yellow Earth, Xiao Wu Wang Anyi) and “Autobiography” Nanjing Massacre” Invited Talk at and To Live for The Golden Horse and “Author’s Foreword” (by Yu Santa Clara University, June 2011. Film Festival 100 Greatest Chinese Hua) in Chinese Writers on Writing “The Hollywoodization of Chinese Films, Taipei, Taiwan. Trinity University Press, 2010. •Cinema” Duke University Chinese •“Scorched Earth: Why The City of Cinema conference, May 2011. Life and Death’s Treatment of the “Millennium Mambo and Hou Nanking Massacre Ignited Contro- •Hsiao-hsien’s Cinema of Distance” versy in China” in Film Comment Invited Talk at Davidson College, Vol 47, No. 3. May 2011. •A History of Pain: Trauma in Mod- •Roundtable on Translation Stud- ern Chinese Literature and Film ies, UCSB February 2011. (paperback), Columbia University •“Cinema of Ruins: In Dialogue with Press, 2011. Filmmaker Du Haibin” UCSB, Oc- •“移民，愛國， 自殺：白先勇和白 tober 2010. 景瑞作品中的感時憂國與美國夢想” “Translating To Live: Reflections (“Immigration, Nationalism, and •and Lessons,” Duke University, In- Suicide: Pai Hsien-yung and Pai vited lecture (via web conferenc- Ching-jui’s Chinese Obsessions ing) September 2010. and American Dreams”) in Per- •“Opening Remarks: Chinese Lit- spectives on A History of Mod- erature in the World,” “Transla- ern Chinese Fiction: In Dialogue tion in Dialogue: Roundtable Re- with C.T. Hsia《中國現代小説史 marks with Chinese Writers and 大觀：與夏志清先生對話》Tai- In Search of Home: Reading Jia Zhangke’s Hometown Trilogy Translators,” and “The Translator’s wan Lianjing 臺灣聯經出版公司, Journey: Experiments and Chal- Shanghai Fudan University Press lenges,” (in Chinese) at Chinese 上海復旦大學出版社 2010. Writers Association, Beijing Chi- na (International Conference on Translation) August 2010.

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•“Filming the Nanjing Massacre in Other Achievements •“Northern Song Dynasty Litera- China” (in Chinese) Korea Foreign • Invited Jury member for the 2010 ture.” The Cambridge History of Language University, Seoul Korea Golden Horse Film Festival, Taipei, Chinese Literature, ed. Kang-i Sun August, 2010. Taiwan. Chang and Stephen Owen. Cam- “Filming the Nanjing Massacre in • Invited Jury member for the Gold- bridge University Press, 2010. 1: •China” Beijing Film Academy- Uni- en Horse Film Festival 100 Great- 381-464. versity of Washington Summer Pro- est Chinese Language Films Proj- “才女的重担:李清照《词论》 gram, Special Guest Lecture, Bei- ect, 2011. •中的思想与早期对她的评论( 上)” (The burden of female tal- jing, China July, 2010. RONALD EGAN •Respondent to three papers and Publications ent: Li Qingzhao’s “On Song lyr- chair of panel on visual culture dur- • “To Count Grains of Sand on the ics” and early criticism on her, Part ing the Japanese occupation pe- Ocean Floor: Changing Percep- 1), Changjiang xueshu 长 江学术 riod in Taiwan UCSB, Center for tions of Books and Learning in 2009.2: 23-29. “才女的重担:李清照《词论》 Taiwan Studies International Con- Song Dynasty China.” Knowledge •中的思想与早期对她的评论( ference June, 2010. and Text Production in An Age of 下)” (The burden of female tal- “The Absent American: Figuring Print: China, 900-1400, ed. Lucille • ent: Li Qingzhao’s “On Song lyr- the United States in Contemporary Chia and Hilde De Weerdt. Leiden: ics” and early criticism on her, Part Chinese Cinema” UCSB, Panel on Brill, 2011. Pp. 33-62. 2), Changjiang xueshu 长 江学术 The Globalization of China May “钱锺书写《管锥编》的动机与 • 2009.4: 78-87. 2010. 心情” (Qian Zhongshu’s motives •“Shooting the Enemy: Photograph- and thinking when writing Guan- Lectures/Presentations ic Attachment in Nanjing Massacre zhui bian). Shanghai shuping •Visiting scholar, Institute for Chi- Cinema and the Curious Case of 上海書評, November 14, 2010. nese Literature, Wuhan University, Scarlet Rose” Princeton University, Link: http:// www.dfdaily.com/ September 2011. May 2010. html/1170/2010/11/14/537003. •“Ming-Qing Period Perceptions of •“Return to Jianghu: The Cinematic shtml. Li Qingzhao.” Conference on Bio- Art of King Hu” USC April 2010 “Why Didn’t Zhao Mingcheng graphical Literature, Forum for the Panel on Translating East Asia • Send Letters to His Wife, Li Qing- Study of Biographical Literature, (moderator/discussant) UCSB, The zhao, When He was Away?” Hsiang Beijing, December 19, 2010. Translator’s Visibility Conference Lectures on Chinese Poetry, ed. •“Banana Tree in the Snow: Key April 2010. Grace Fong. Montreal: Center for Concepts in Song Dynasty Aes- •“Imagining Atrocity: City of Life East Asian Research, McGill Uni- thetics.” Center for Chinese Stud- and Death and the Nanjing Massa- versity, 2010. Pp. 57-77. ies, Princeton University. February cre on Film University of San Fran- • 宋代文献中的都城面面观 15, 2011. cisco’s Center for the Pacific Rim (Changing representations of the in connection to the San Francisco capital in Song dynasty sources). International Asian American Film Ducheng de fanhua 都城的繁华, Festival March 2010. ed. Institute of Literature and His- tory, Fudan University. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2010. Pp. 93-109. continued on page 6

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MICHAEL EMMERICH •“Post-postwar,” a translation of •“Nōberu bungakushō to ‘ii Publications an opinion piece by Takahashi hon’yakusha’” (The Nobel Prize •“Suematsu Kenchō to sekai bun- Gen’ichirō, The New York Times, in Literature and “A Good Trans- gaku toshite no Genji monogatari: March 20, 2011. lator”), Kangaeru hito, 36 (Spring aru romansu no rekishi” (Suematsu •“Send in the Clones,” a translation 2011): 182-183. Kenchō and The Tale of Genji as of an essay by Katō Norihiro, The •“Hon’yaku wa gengo kara no World Literature: The History of a American Interest 6, no. 4 (March/ kaihō” (To Translate is to Be Liber- Romance) in Kōkyō suru kodai (Sym- April 2011): 90-97. ated from Language), a conversa- phonies of the Ancient), edited by •Manazuru, a translation of Mana- tion with Shibata Motoyuki, Gunzō Ishikawa Hideshi, Hinata Kazumasa, zuru by Kawakami Hiromi (Coun- (March, 2011): 179-189. and Yoshimura Takehiko terpoint, 2010). •“Namari ni tsuite” (On Accents), (Tōkyōdō Shuppan, 2011), 438-456. •“A Little Darkness (extract)” by Ba- Kangaeru hito 35 (Winter 2011): •“Making Genji ours: Translation, nana Yoshimoto, Asia Literary Re- 176-177. world literature, and Masamune view (Summer, 2010): 67-78. •“Sōseki rokoko” (Sōseki Rococo), Hakuchō’s discovery of The tale of •New Penguin Parallel Texts: Short Monkey Business 11 (Winter 2010): Genji,” in Translation in Modern Stories in Japanese (Penguin, 314-337. Japan, edited by Indra Levy (Rout- 2011). • “Michael Emmerich & the Manaz- ledge, 2010), 234-253. uru Tuning Fork,” published online •Translations of “Concerning the at Beatrice.com (October 9, 2010). Sound of a Train Whistle in the “Tōmei ningen, hon’yaku o kata- Night or On the Efficacy of Fic- ru” (The Invisible Man Talks about tion,” (by Murakami Haruki), “A Translation), Shinchō (October, •Little Darkness,” (by Yoshimoto Ba- 2010): 306-307. nana), “Genjitsu House,” (by Koike • “Shinzoku shūkai” (Family Re- Masayo), “Mogera Wogura,” (by union), Kangaeru hito 34 (Fall Kawakami Hiromi), “The Maiden in 2010): 170-171. the Manger,” (by Abe Kazushige), Korean Translation of Read Real •“Where the Bowling Pins Stand,” by Japanese (Seoul: Nexus Press, Ishii Shinji in Michael Emmerich, ed., 2010). New Penguin Parallel Texts Short •“Aru mono, nai mono” (What Stories in Japanese (Penguin, 2011). There Is and What There Isn’t), •“Monsters,” a translation of “Kai- Kangaeru hito 33 (Summer 2010). butsutachi” by Furukawa Hideo, •“Nippon chi no genzai,” Hirotsu- Monkey Business: New Writing gu for the Kyōdō News Agency, From Japan 1 (2011): 6-17. appeared in local newspapers The Lake, a translation of Mizūmi by • The Lake throughout Japan. Yoshimoto Banana (Melville House, 2011).

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•“Genji monogatari kenkyū no dai- • “Sekai bungaku toshite no Genji •“Translating the Book: A Begin- issen o ninau tensaihada no naisu monogatari: aru roman no rekishi” ner’s History.” Lecture at Gakushūin gai” (A Brilliant, Nice Guy at the (The Tale of Genji as World Litera- University sponsored by the De- Forefront of Research on The Tale ture: The History of a Romance). partment of English Language and of Genji), interview with Shibata Kōkyō suru kodai, Meiji University, Cultures (6/31/2010). Discussant, Motoyuki, English Journal (January Tokyo, Japan (11/4-5/2010). “Reception of the Writings of Mu- 2011): 74-89. • “The Best of Times, the Worst of rasaki Shikibu: From Medieval Ka- •“Hon’yaku wa wabun eiyaku no ji- Times: Translating Japanese Lit- makura to Modern Korea.” Asian gen o koete” (Translation Beyond erature in 2010.” The Third North Studies Conference Japan (6/19- Japanese to English) by Akiro American Workshop on Kore- 20/2010). Wada, Asahi Weekly (September an Literature, The University of •Invited lecturer, 2009-2010 Mellon 26, 2010): 11. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MA (10/14- Faculty Development Workshop, Lectures/Presentations 16/2010). “Teaching The Tale of Genji in the •“This Tedious Japanese Scudéry.” • “Shōsetsu o yakusu to iu koto” 21st Century,” Scripps College Annual Meeting of the Association (Translating Fiction). Discussion (6/9-11/2010). for Asian Studies (3/31-4/4/2011). with Shibata Motoyuki held at The Other Achievements Panel Organizer, “Back to the Pres- Nippon Foundation Building and •Japan-U.S. Friendship Commis- ent: 140 Years of Japanese Studies). sponsored by the Japanese Litera- sion Prize for the Translation of Annual Meeting of the Association ture Publishing Promotion Center Japanese Literature, for the trans- for Asian Studies (3/31-4/4/2011). (7/31/2010). lation of Kawakami Hiromi’s Mana- •“The Gravity of World Literature.” • “Genji monogatari ga sekai bun- zuru, 2010. Roundtable Colloquium: Com- gaku ni natta toki” (When The Tale parisons from Calcutta to Kyoto, of Genji Became World Literature). University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Lecture at Gakushūin University (2/18/11). sponsored by the Department of Discussant, “Cultural Flows Through English Language and Cultures Popular Media.” 126th MLA Annual and the Department of Japa- Convention (1/6-9/2011). nese Language and Literature •“Genji Goes Global: History, Ma- (7/9/2010). teriality, Mass Media.” The Story of • “Za jirenma obu toransulēshon” the Stone and The Tale of Genji in (The Dilemma of Translation). Lec- Modern China and Japan: Issues in ture at Waseda University spon- Media, Gender, and Cultural Iden- sored by the Faculty of Letters, tity, Columbia University, NY (11/19- Arts and Sciences (7/6/2010). 20/2010).

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University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2011 7 • APANESE Recent Activities - continued from page 7 J ORNER SABINE FRÜHSTÜCK C Sabine Frühstück’s Recreating Japa- By Hiroko Sugawara nese Men (co-edited with Anne The Japanese Language Program offered Walthall), published in the University various extra-curricular activities for stu- dents and Japanese speakers on campus of California Press series, Asia: Lo- in 2010-2011. We launched the Japanese cal Studies, Global Themes, was re- Calligraphy Club in Fall 10 with several stu- leased in September. The essays in dents in the second and third-year Japanese this groundbreaking book explore the classes. They practiced Japanese calligraphy meanings of manhood in Japan from throughout the academic year and improved the seventeenth to the twenty-first their brushworks a lot under the mentor- centuries. Recreating Japanese Men ship of one of our TAs, Kamiya Tetsuhisa. We offered a Sushi workshop in Winter and examines a broad range of attitudes Japanese Movie Nights in Fall and Winter regarding properly masculine pursuits to meet the students’ interests in Japanese and modes of behavior. It charts break- culture. In addition, our third-year Japanese downs in traditional and conventional students have organized a group, the Japa- societal roles and the resulting crises of nese Language Café (JLC), under the guid- masculinity. Contributors address key ance of our new lecturer, Yoko Yamauchi. questions about Japanese manhood Recreating Japanese Men Thanks to the JLC, our students were able to get together with students from Japan ranging from icons such as the samurai as well as heritage Japanese speakers at to marginal men including hermaphrodites, robots, techno-geeks, rock climbers, UCSB to use their communication skills out- shop clerks, soldiers, shoguns, and more. In addition to bringing historical evidence side of the classroom. In Spring 11, the JLC to bear on definitions of masculinity, contributors provide fresh analyses on the organized fundraising events on campus in ways contemporary modes and styles of masculinity have affected Japanese men’s cooperation with the Japanese Student As- sense of gender as authentic and stable. sociation to support earthquake disaster In Fall 2010, Sabine Frühstück was a Senior Fellow at the International Re- relief efforts in Japan. We hope that these extra-curricular activities have strengthened search Center for Cultural Studies (Internationales Forschungsinstitut Kulturwissen- the sense of community among Japanese schaften), Vienna, where she completed research for the Europe component of her learners at UCSB. interdisciplinary and transnational book project, “Playing War: On the Militarization of Childhood in the Twentieth Century.” While at the Center and throughout the rest of the year, she was invited to present papers on a number of ongoing projects at Oxford University, The School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, Frühstück’s alma mater, the University of Vienna, Stanford, and Harvard, among others. Frühstück was also awarded the 2011 Distinguished Lecturer on Ja- pan of the Association for Asian Studies’ Northeast Asia Council and a research grant from the North East Asia Council for research in Japan. Some of Frühstück’s recent publications are available for download on her webpage at http://www.east- asian.ucsb.edu/faculty/fruhstuck.htm

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ann-elise lewallan “Narratives of Ainu Revival in Ja- Rewriting the Inner Chambers: Tra- Publications • • • “Performing Identity, Saving Land: pan: The Politics of Heritage” to dition and Transformation in Chi- Ainu Indigenous Ecotourism as a the East Asian Cultures RFG, UCSB nese Women’s Poetry, 1650-1930, Stage for Restitution of Rights in Ja- • “Usable Pasts: Mobilizing Ances- University of Washington Press, pan.” In Report of the International tral Texts and Ainu Identity in Ja- 2012, forthcoming. “夫唱婦隨:明清過渡時期李元鼎 Symposium “Exploring Ethnicity pan” to the African Studies RFG, • 和朱中楣的詩歌唱和 (Wife echo- and the State through Tourism in UCSB ing husband: the poetic exchange East Asia.” Kanazawa, Japan, 2010. “The Clamor of Our Blood” to the • between Li Yuanding and Zhu The Ainu of Japan. In The Indige- Cultural Anthropology Colloqui- • Zhongmei). In Zuo Dongling 左冬 nous World 2011, ed. Kathrin Wes- um, UCSB 嶺, ed., 明代文學與文化國際學 sendorf. Copenhagen: IWGIA. 術討論會論文集 (2012) (Proceed-

Lectures/Presentations Other Achievements ings of the International Confer- • “Performing Identity, Saving Land: • Named an Interdisciplinary Human- ence on Ming-Dynasty Literature, Ainu Indigenous Ecotourism as a ities Center Faculty Fellow for 2011 2012), forthcoming. Stage for Restitution of Rights in • Awarded a UC Center for New Ra- Japan” to Japan-China Intangible cial Studies research grant for “Un- Lectures/Presentations “Representing the Feminine ‘Oth- Cultural Heritage Research Sympo- ravelled: The Cipher of Race and • er’: Gu Zhenli’s (1623-1699) Song sium, Kanazawa, Japan Gender in Indigenous Women’s Lyrics to her Female Friends,” UC “Indigeneity Interrupted: Japan’s Empowerment” Berkeley Premodern Chinese Lit- • Multicultural Policy and the Ainu Awarded a Hellman Family Faculty • erature and Culture Workshop, No- Question” at the American Anthro- Fellowship for “The Fabric of Indi- vember 13, 2010. pology Association meetings, New geneity: Ainu, Clothwork, and Gen- “Intoxicated with Illness: The ‘Dec- Orleans, LA der in Postcolonial Japan,” 2011- • adent’ Poetics of Wang Yanhong “Japan’s Ethnic Policy: Internation- 2012 • (1593-1642),” Paper Presented in al Society and the National Diet, the Annual Meeting of American Multicultural Coexistence and the XIAORONG LI Oriental Society, Western branch, Ainu” to the Japan Specialist Work- Publications “‘Singing in Dis/Harmony’ in Times Boulder, Colorado, October 8-9, shop at the National Diet Library, • of Chaos: Xu Can’s Poetic Exchange 2010. Tokyo, Japan with Her Husband Chen Zhilin dur- “Contested Heritage and the Tex- • ing the Ming-Qing Transition.” Re- tiles of Colonial Conquest among search on Women in Modern Chi- Postcolonial Ainu” to the Asso- nese History 19 (2011): forthcoming. ciation of Asian Studies, Honolulu, “Woman Writing about Women: Li Hawai’i • Shuyi (1817-?)’s Project on One Hun- “Critical Conversations: Engage- • dred Beauties in Chinese History.” ment with Ainu and Pacific North- Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender west Indigenous Issues.” Panelist in China 13.1 (2011): 52-110. at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA continued on page 10

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XIAORONG LI (cont.) HYUNG-IL PAI •Re-visiting the Korean Wave: Ro- Lectures/Presentations (cont.) Publications mance, Drama and Marketing Her- •“Drinking, Eating, and Meaning- •Resurrecting the Ruins of Japan’s itage Destinations at “Questioning Making: Ming-Qing Women’s Po- Mythical Homelands: Colonial Ar- Oriental Aesthetics and Thinking” etry on Food and Drink,” Paper ac- chaeological Surveys in the Korean symposium, International Center cepted to present in “Legacies of Peninsula and Heritage Tourism,” in for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Ja- Taste: An International Conference The Handbook of Post-colonialism pan. on Food Narratives in China,” the and Archaeology, World Archaeo- “Tracing Japan’s Antiquity: Pho- University of Hong Kong on De- logical Congress (2010). •tography, Archaeology and Repre- cember 15-17, 2011. •“Travel Guides to the Empire: The sentations of Kyŏngju,” at the 38th Other Achievements Production of Tourist Images in Co- International Research Symposium •Hellman Family Faculty Fund, lonial Korea,” in Consuming Korean held at the International Research UCSB, 2010-2011. Tradition in Early and Late Moderni- Center for Japanese Studies, Kyo- ty, University of Hawaii Press (2010). JOHN NATHAN to, November 2010. “Tracing Japan’s Antiquity: Photog- Publications • Other Achievements raphy, Archaeology and Represen- A Bintel Brif: A Novel, Xlibris, 2011. Fulbright Senior Research Fellow- • tations of Kyŏngju,” in Questioning • Light and Dark, (明暗), Nat- ship awarded by the Council on • Oriental Aesthetics and Thinking: sume Soseki, a new translation the Inter-exchange of Scholars for Conflicting Visions of “Asia” under with critical introduction. Co- the project, “The Making and Mar- the Colonial Empires Internation- lumbia University Press, 2013. keting of Heritage Destinations in al Research Center for Japanese Korea: Imperialists Nostalgia and Studies, Kyoto, 2011. the Production of Tourist Images, Lectures/Presentations 2010-2011. •Invited Talks at Seoul National Uni- •NEAC (Northeast Asia Council), versity, Yonsei University, and the Association of Asian Studies, Pub- Academy of Korean Studies. lication Subvention Grant. •Hosei University Research for Inter- •Academy of Korean Studlies Sub- national Japanese Studies, Confer- vention Grant. ence on “Formation of Japanese National Identity.” FABIO RAMBELLI Publications “Romancing the “Con Other” in • •Tabunka kōryū jidai e no chōsen the Korean Peninsula: Travel Myths, 多文化交流時代への挑戦 (Chal- Images, and the Imperial Tourist lenges in the Age of Multicultural Gaze” at AAS, 2011. Exchange). By Mitarai Shōji 御手洗 昭治, Ogasawara Haruno 小笠原は るの, Fabio Rambelli ファビオ・ ランベッリ. Tokyo: Yumani shobō, May 2011. A Bintel Brif: A Novel

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“The Story of Prince Rama in Japan: KATHERINE SALTZMAN-LI • “Kabuki Knowledge: Professional • Sources and Transformations.” In Publications Manuscripts and Commercial Texts “Romantic Male Role Types: Kabu- Ramayana in Focus: Visual and Per- on the Art of Kabuki” at “Publishing • ki’s Nimaime and the Innamorato forming Arts of Asia. Ed. By Gauri the Stage: Print and Performance in of Commedia dell’Arte”. Text and Parimoo Krishnan. Singapore: Asian Early Modern Japan,” conference, Presentation, 2011. Civilisation Museum, July 2010, pp. 2011. Kabuki Knowledge: Professional 28-37. • Other Achievements Manuscripts and Commercial Texts Co-curator of Santa Barbara Muse- “Home Buddhas: Historical Pro- • on the Art of Kabuki. Publishing um of Art Exhibit “Presenting Noh • cesses and Modes of Representa- the Stage, Print and Performance Drama: Theater Prints of Tsukioka tion of the Sacred in the Japanese in Early Modern Japan, Center for Kogyo”, February-May, 2011. Buddhist Family Altar (butsudan),” Asian Studies, University of Colo- Japanese Religion vol. 35/1-2, rado Boulder, 2011. Spring and Fall 2010, pp. 63-86. Lectures/Presentations “‘Dog-men,’ Craftspeople, or Liv- Delivered lectures on Meiji artist • ing Buddhas? The Status of Yama- • Tsukioka Kogyo and his noh-drama bushi in Pre-modern Japanese related woodblock prints, Santa Society,” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie Barbara Museum of Art and Asso- 17-18, 2009 (published March 2011), ciation of Asian Studies, 2011. pp. 123-140. • “Using History, Making History: Ka- Lectures/Presentations buki and the Period Play”. Compar- • “Visions of the Invisible: Images ative Drama Conference, 2011. and Representations in the Bud- dhist Tradition” Invited talk given at the International Symposium “Im- ages and Visions in Christian and Buddhist Culture”, Tokyo Univer- sity, February 2011. A Sweeping View of China’s Moun- • “Shinto in Comparative Perspec- tains and Rivers tive” Invited talk given at Shinto KUO-CH’ING TU Kokusai Gakkai Shinto Seminar, Ka- Publications makura, Japan, February 2011. • Du Guoqing ji (Collected Poems of • “Shinto and Buddhism in the East Tu Kuo-ch’ing), Taiwan shiren xuanji Asian Religious Contexts” Panelist (Taiwan Poets Series), Vol. 30, pub- for Association for Asian Studies, lished by National Museum of Tai- Annual meeting, Honolulu, March wan Literature, January 2010. 2011. • Shilun, shiping, shilun-shi (Poet- Noh Theater Print by Tsukioka Kogyo ics, Poetic Critiques, and Poems of from SBMA exhibition Poetics) National Taiwan University Press, December 2010. continued on page 12

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MAYFAIR YANG Lectures/Presentations •“Globalization of Chinese Religi- Publications •“Postcoloniality and Religiosity in osities” presented at the Round- •“Postcoloniality & Religiosity in Modern China” presented at the table panel “The (Re)Globalization Modern China: the Disenchant- Center for the Study of Religion & of China”, Association for Asian ments of Sovereignty” in Theory, Society, East China Normal Univer- Studies meeting, Honolulu, May Culture and Society, vol. 28, no. 2 sity, Shanghai, Sept. 2010. 2011. (2011). •“Urban Religiosity: Commercializa- Other Achievements •“Georges Bataille,” “Cultural Rev- tion, Social Stratification, Diversity, •Received the U.C. President’s Fac- olution” and “Postcolonialism” In and Citizenship” presented at “Re- ulty Research Fellowship, 2011- Encyclopedia of Global Religions, ligion and Urban Culture” confer- 2012. eds. Wade Clark Roof and Mark ence, East China Normal University, Panel organizer for American An- Jurgensmeyer. Sage Publications, Shanghai, Sept. 2010. •thropological Association meet- Oct. 2011. •“‘温州模式’少了什么？— 礼仪经 ing, New Orleans: “Rethinking • “The Future of China’s Past: An 济及巴塔耶 ‘自主存在’概念之辨 Postcoloniality & Postsocialism: Interview with Mayfair Yang” with 析” (“What is Missing in ‘The Wen- Circulations of Religiosity and Sec- Nathan Schneider, in The Imma- zhou Model’? Ritual Economy and ularization in the Expansion of Sov- nent Frame (an academic internet Bataille’s Notion of ‘Sovereignty’”) ereignty” 2011. blog), Oct. 2010. presented at Xiamen University, Fu- •Panel organizer for Associa- http://blogs.ssrc.org/ jian, China, Sept. 2010. tion for Asian Studies meeting, tif/2010/09/23/the-future-of-chinas- •“Fieldwork on Religious Culture in Honolulu:“The (Re)Globalization past/ Wenzhou” lecture given at Shan- of China” May 2011. dong University, Jinan, China, Sept. •Elected Council member, China 2010. “Ethnography, Ethnographic and Inner Asia Council, Associa- Film, & Religious Revival in Con- tion for Asian Studies (AAS). 2009- temporary China”, paper present- 2011. ed at the Conference on Cultural •Member of Editorial Board, Asian Dimensions of Visual Ethnography: Studies Review. 2009-2011. U.S.-China Dialogues, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, April 2010. •“Sovereignty and Disenchantment: Postcoloniality, Religiosity, & Mo- Collected works of EALCS Profes- dernity in China” presented at the sor Emeritus Kenneth Hsien-yung American Anthropological Asso- Pai published in a deluxe 12 volume, 4 DVD collector’s box set ciation meeting, New Orleans, Nov. in Taiwan. 2010.

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HSIAO-JUNG YU Other Achievements • “Configuring a Constitutional Publications • Fifth International Symposium on State.” Presented at the Confer- •Zhuan ji Baiyuanjing yufa yanjiu Altaic Language Influence on Chi- ence of Society for Cultural Interac- (The language of Avadānaśatakam nese Language, UCSB, 2010 (Sym- tion in East Asia (SCIEA) in Wuhan, ‘The sutra of one hundred karmic posium Organizer). China, 2011. tales’), Beijing: Shangwu yinshu- XIAOWEI ZHENG • “Nationalism: New Conceptions guan. 2010. Publications for China.” Presented at Brookings •CALL (Computer Assisted Lan- • Book Review for John E. Wills Jr., Institute in Washington D.C., 2011. guage Learning tool): CyberChi- The World from 1450 to 1700 (Ox- “Sichuan’s 1911 Revolution.” Pre- nese Web version (with George Mi- ford University Press), Journal of sented at the International Confer- chaels), 2011. Asian Studies (70.1). ence for the One Hundred Year An- Lectures/Presentations • Book Review for Complicated Cur- niversary of the 1911 Revolution in •Topics on Historical Chinese Lin- rents: Media Flows, Soft Power, and Wuhan, China, 2011. guistics, Language Contact and East Asia, edited by Daniel Black, • “Democratic Political Culture and Chinese Language Development: Stephen Epstein and Alison Tokita, Its Practice in the Sichuan Railway Qinghua University, Beijing, 2010 (Monash University Press), Journal Protection Movement.” History De- (one-week; four talks). of Asian Studies (70.2). partment, Huazhong Normal Uni- •Topics on Historical Chinese Lin- • “Life and Memory of Sent-down versity in Wuhan, China, 2011. guistics, Language Contact and Youth in Yunnan.” In James Cook, • “Democratic Political Culture and Chinese Language Development Joshua Goldstein, and Sigrid Its Practice in the Sichuan Railway Chinese University in Hong Kong, Schmalzer, eds., Visualizing China: Protection Movement.” Presented Hong Kong, 2011 (two talks). Image, History and Memory in Chi- at the International Conference on •Topics on Chinese Language Peda- na 1750-Present, in press by Roman Commemorating the 100th Anni- gogy and CALL (Computer-Assist- & Littlefield. versary of the 1911 Revolution in ed Language Learning) Chinese Lectures/Presentations Kobe, Japan 2011. Language Teachers’ Training Work- “Researching as a Historian.” His- shop for Korean Professors and • Other Achievements tory Department, Peking University UCSB Regents Junior Faculty Fel- Lecturers (Sponsored by the Min- • in Beijing, China, 2010. lowship 2010 istry of Education, Taipei, Taiwan; “Configuring a New State.” Pre- UCSB Faculty Career Development 2008, 2009, 2010). • • sented at the National Association Fellowship 2011 Topics on Chinese Language Peda- • of Asian Studies Annual Meeting in UCSB Hellman Research Fellow- gogy and CALL (Computer-Assist- • Hawaii, 2011. (Also served as panel ship 2011 ed Language Learning), Renmin organizer for “Politics after the Em- University, Beijing, 2010 . perors: Reexamining Democratic Politics in the Late Qing-Early Re- publican China”’).

University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2011 13 HINESE ECENT ACTIVITIES & CCORNER RPUBLICATIONS - EALCS LECTURERS SHU-CHUAN (BELLA) CHEN CHIKAKO SHINAGAWA By Daoxiong Guan The Chinese Language Program provided Lectures/Presentations Publications numerous extra-curricular activities for our •Chinese Language Teacher Train- •Genki I second edition: An Inte- students during the 2010-2011 academic ing, instructed over 200 Chinese grated Course in Elementary Jap- year. Highlights included the Chinese New language teachers in New Jersey, anese (co-authored), The Japan Year celebration, which was presented by Washington DC and Detroit, pro- Times, February 2011. the Chinese Language Program and the gram is organized by Overseas Genki I Workbook second edition: UCSB Chinese Students & Scholars Asso- • Compatriot Affairs Commission, An Integrated Course in Elemen- ciation at the Isla Vista Theatre in February 2011. In May, the program held a well-at- Taiwan (July, 2010). tary Japanese (co-authored), The tended Chinese karaoke contest. Addition- •Trajectories of Learners-Specific Japan Times, February 2011. ally, the program organized several activities Curriculum Mapping and Instruc- •Genki Picture Cards on CD-ROM I related to Chinese language learning. First, tional Designs, invited lecturer at second edition (co-authored), The we coordinated a language exchange part- workshop in National Taiwan Nor- Japan Times, February 2011. ner program with a group of international mal University, June 2011. Lectures/Presentations exchange students from Fudan University Implementing Film Clips into Chi- “Study of Use of Negation forms of China. We also worked with the Wordoor • • Technology Corporation in Shanghai, China, nese Language and Culture Class- in TV talk shows” 2010 Interna- to implement a free online Chinese tutoring A curriculum built for heritage tional Conference on Japanese program. We have also started the “Chinese students, The 7th International Language Education, National Table” for our students to converse in Chi- Conference for Internet Chinese Chengchi University; Taiwan. July nese every Wednesday during lunch time Education (ICICE 2011) June 2011, 2010. at Rice Garden on campus. These activities in Taiwan. Workshop at Irvine Valley College have been very positively received by stu- • CA, May 2011. dents.

DAOXIONG GUAN Publications •“Task Types and Design in Business Chinese Instruction.” (Daoxiong Guan and Fei Fei) (International Chinese Language Education, 2010 Vol. 1, Foreign Language Teaching Karaoke Contest & Party, Chinese New Year 2011 & Research Press, Beijing). •A Selection of Gong Zizhen’s Po- ems and Essays: Annotation and Modern Chinese Translation (co- author with Bangwei Zhu). (Phoenix Publishing & Media Group, Nan- jing, China, 2011, Revised edition).

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ANTHONY BARBIERI-LOW (History) TSUYOSHI HASEGAWA (History) “Japanoise: An Introduction.” In- Publications Publications •vited Paper in cultural anthropolo- •“Artisan Literacy in Early China.” in • The Cold War in East Asia, 1945- gy forum. CAnth Collective, UCSB Writing and Literacy in Early China, 1991 edited by Tsuyoshi Hasega- April 2011. Seattle, (UW Press, 2011). wa, Stanford University Press/ “Sonic Maps of the Japanese Un- Other Achievements Woodrow Wilson Center Press, •derground.” Invited Paper in “Ge- •Getty Scholar, Getty Research Insti- 2011. ographies of Place” Series. Inter- tute, Spring 2011. Lectures/Presentations disciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB Faculty Research Lecture, UCSB. April 2011. JOSE CABEZON (Religious Studies) • October 2010. “Scholarly Publishing at the Cross- Publications •roads.” Panelist in CISM/UCSB Tibetan Ritual (Oxford, 2010). DAVID NOVAK (Music) •Meditation on the Nature of Mind, Publications Library sponsored roundtable. Da- •co-authored with the Dalai Lama Playing Off Site: The Untranslation vidson Library, UCSB. April 2011. • “From Transculture to Technocul- (Wisdom Publications, 2011). of Onkyô. Asian Music 41(1): 36-59, •ture.” Invited paper for Asian/Pa- Lectures/Presentations 2010. cific/American Studies Colloquium Plenary speaker at the Rocky Moun- Cosmopolitanism, Remediation • • Series. New York University March tain Great Plains meeting of the and the Ghost World of Bollywood. 2011. American Academy of Religion, Cultural Anthropology 25(1): 40-72, “The Cultural Feedback of Ja- Denver, 2010. 2010. •panoise.” Paper at “In the Mix: Invited lectures at Ohio State, UC Onkyô/Oto, Chinmoku/Ma, to • Asian Popular Music and Culture” •Berkeley and Stanford. Impuro no Sendaitekina Kachi conference. Princeton University Other Achievements [Sound(s), Silence(s), and the Glob- March 2011. Secured grant from the Rubin Foun- al Value of Improvisation]. In Nyû “World Music 2.0 and the Experi- •dation for Dr. Jill Sudbury (Oxford) Jazu Sutadizu [New Jazz Studies], •mental Ethics of New Media.” In- to teach “Women and Gender in ed. T. Miyawaki, S. Hosokawa and vited Paper at Ethnomusicology/ Tibet and the Himalayas” in EALCS. M.S. Molasky, pp. 375-395. Tokyo: Artes Press, 2010. Musicology/Theory Forum. Music Listening to Kamagasaki. Anthro- Department, UCSB March 2011. YUNTE HUANG (English) • Publications pology News 51(9):5, 2010. •“Feeding Back from Music to Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of Noise.” Paper and Organizer of Lectures/Presentations •the Honorable Detective and His “Sound Circulations” panel. Amer- “Kansai Mix.” Multimedia presen- Rendezvous with American History, ican Anthropological Association, •tation of field recordings in Kyoto (W. W. Norton, 2010) New Orleans, LA. November 2010. and Osaka, Japan. Transcriptions •“New Media, New Music, New Other Achievements Center Research Slam, UCSB. May World?” Paper and Organizer of California Book Award • 2011. “New Media Ecologies of World Mystery Writers of America Edger • Music” panel. Seminar for Ethno- Award musicology, Los Angeles, CA. No- New York Times Notable Selection • vember 2010. •Shortlisted for 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography

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DAVID NOVAK (cont.) PETER STURMAN Lectures/Presentations Other Achievements (History of Art & Architecture) Panelist: “Lingering Winds: Callig- UCSB Regent’s Junior Faculty Fel- Publications •raphy after Su Shi and his Circle.” • “Spreading Falling Blossoms: Style .lowship 2011. International Conference on Tang •and Replication in Shen Zhou’s UCHRI Residential Research Group and Song Calligraphy. Mingdao Late Calligraphy.” Tsing Hua Xue- Fellowship 2011; “Vocal Matters: University, Taiwan; November bao (Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Technologies of Self and the Mate- 2010. Studies) New Series XL/3 (Septem- riality of the Voice” [declined]. Discussant: “Research on Post- ber, 2010), 365-410. • UCSB Academic Senate Faculty Re- Li Tang Landscape Painting” and • “Distant Peaks, Clearing Clouds search Grant 2010. “Zhang Jizhi and his Large Script,” •by Mi Youren.” Qiannian danqing Dynastic Renaissance: Art and Cul- (Masterpieces of Ancient Chinese LUKE ROBERTS (History) ture of the Southern Song. The Publications Paintings) (Beijing: Beijing Univer- National Palace Museum, Taipei; Performing the Great Peace: Po- sity, 2010), 159-166 (Chinese), 037- • November, 2010. litical Space and Open Secrets 042 (English). Lecturer: “Falling Blossoms: Shen in Tokugawa Japan, University of “Lingering Winds: Calligraphy • • Zhou and the Problem of Growing Hawai’i Press, Forthcoming Dec. after Su Shi and his Circle.” Pro- Old.” Visiting Scholar in the Harn 2011. ceedings of the International Eminent Scholar Chair in Art His- “Name and Honor: A Merchant’s Conference on Tang and Song • tory (HESCAH) Lecture Series, Uni- Seventeenth Century Memoir,” Calligraphy (Zhanghua: Mingdao versity of Florida, March, 2011. in Sabine Frühstück and Anne University, 2010). Panel Organizer and Chair: “The Walthall eds. Recreating Japanese Invitation to Reclusion. The Santa • • Methods of Calligraphy.” Asso- Men, University of California Press, Barbara Museum of Art, forthcom- ciation for Asian Studies / Interna- 2011. ing. tional Convention of Asia Schol- Lectures/Presentations ars Joint Conference, Honolulu, Organized the workshop, “Nation- March, 2011. •alisms in Japan,” at UCSB June 15- 18, 2011, with 20 participants from UCSB, UCLA, UCI, USC, George- town, and Hiroshima University. Achievements Managing the Japan Foundation •Institutional Development Grant

16 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies AST ASIAN Center for Taiwan Studies News (2010-11) GRAD STUDENT E OLLOQUIUM The Center for Taiwan Studies (CTS) has received renewed support of Tai- LECTURE SERIES, wan Studies for three years (2010-2013) from the Ministry of Education in C SPRING 2011 By Suzy Cincone Taiwan through the Cultural Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Of- This spring, the East Asian Grad Stu- fice in Los Angeles (TECOLA). The MOE Research Grants and Taiwan dent Colloquium had the pleasure of Studies Fellowships provide for ongoing support of CTS in the promotion hosting a two-part lecture series, “Re- and study of the people, society, history, and culture of Taiwan. The funds will be used for support of the following categories: 1) Graduate Fellow- search in Japan.” The first lecture was ships and Support; 2) Taiwan Studies Undergraduate Awards; 3) Taiwan presented by Japanese visiting Pro- Studies Visiting Lectureships; and 4) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships. fessor Hidemichi Kawanishi and was titled “Conducting Research in Japan, With the assistance of our senior lecturer Jennifer Hsu, CTS helped the Cul- A Japanese Scholar’s Perspective.” In tural Division of TECO in Los Angeles select outstanding students for Tai- this lecture, Dr. Kawanishi gave gradu- wan Scholarships for Huayu Enrichment sponsored by the Ministry of Edu- ate students his insights into finding cation. Last year there were three winners from UCSB. For this coming year, Japanese professors to work with while two students were awarded scholarships: Jacob Johnson and Darren Ha. They conducting research in Japan, how to studied Chinese in Taiwan during 2011, for nine months and ten weeks re- go about approaching such professors, spectively. The scholarships will cover their tuition, room and board while studying in Taiwan. Furthermore, last year CTS administered the 2010 Test and the relative importance of being of Proficiency-Huayu (TOP), which is Taiwan’s national standardized test, the near a professor with a relevant re- first time held at Santa Barbara with assistance from the Cultural Division of search field or being near the location TECOLA. This year CTS also administered the Test of Chinese as a Foreign of the most useful research materials. Language (TOCFL) and recruited eight students to participate. Three ( Linda The second lecture, “Making the Most Huynh, Yuan-yuan Lin, and Mia Zhang) passed at the Intermediate Level. of Digital Resources in Japan: Adven- tures in the National Diet Library,” was CTS hosted several lectures during the 2010-11 academic year. These in- presented by EALCS’s own Professor cluded a visit from Professor Shuen-shing Lee, Department of Foreign Lan- ann-elise lewallen. Dr. lewallen partici- guages and Literature, National Chung Hsing University, who gave a talk pated in the Japan Specialist Workshop to the public in English on “Internet Poetics and Beyond: A Fun Drive into Chinese Digital Literature as Developed in Taiwan.” Professor Bao- sponsored by the National Diet Library chai Chiang, Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature, National Chung and International House of Japan last Cheng University, concurrently Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard Uni- Summer, and shared some of the infor- versity, gave a talk on “Modern Women during the Japanese Occupation mation she gathered in the workshop. Period in Taiwan,” which was particularly welcome by the students in Chi- This included aspects of using the NDL nese 126A, a class on Taiwan literature during the Japanese colonial period. both in person and electronically, as well as a variety of Japanese databases. CTS has published the proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on The Colloquium appreciated the par- Taiwan Studies, Taiwan under Japanese Rule: Cultural Translation and Colonial ticipation of both professors and hopes Modernity. The journalTaiwan Literature: English Translation Series’s 26th issue to present more lectures in the fall. For is on the Surrealist poet Yang Chichang (1908-1994), January 2010, the 27th issue is on Weng Nao (1910-1940) and Wu Yongfu (1913-2008), January more information about these lectures, 2011, and the 28th issue is on Long Yingzong (1911-1999), July 2011. please see the Colloquium blog; http:// eastasiangradcolloq.wordpress.com/.

University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2011 17 In graduate school I concentrated on Early China, that is the Faculty Profile Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. But after finishing my degree, I was gradually drawn toward the Song Ronald Egan dynasty period (10th-13th centuries). It is the abundance of surviving sources from that period that makes it so exciting. It was in the 11th century that book printing became widespread in China (far earlier than in Europe). The spread of printing Ronald Egan is regarded as one then meant that a much higher proportion of written materi- of the leading specialists in Song- als survived. Thousands, if not ten of thousands, of books era literary and cultural studies. Ronald Egan survive from the period, documenting a way of life that would He is the author of such books as Word, Image and Deed in otherwise be completely lost to us today. Compared even with the Life of Su Shi and more recently The Problem of Beauty: the great Tang dynasty that preceded it, the wealth of primary Aesthetic Thought and Pursuits in Northern Song Dynasty Chi- sources on Song society and culture is exponentially larger. na. He is also the translator and editor of a landmark volume on the critical writings of Qian Zhongshu entitled Limited You are currently at work on a new monograph on the Song poet Views. In between his teaching duties and service as Gradu- Li Qingzhao. What led you to this project and what are some of ate Advisor for EALCS, Egan is completing work on a new the discoveries that have arisen over the course of your research? book about the Song poet Li Qingzhao. In the Fall of 2011, I was a latecomer to the field of Chinese women’s studies. My he will also host the 2011 meeting of the American Orien- previous writing projects were all concerned entirely with men tal Society, Western Branch in Santa Barbara, which will as poets, officials, painters, and thinkers. The great discoveries highlight the latest research in pre-modern Chinese studies. made in the past 25 years about women writers in the Ming- What initially led you into the field of Chinese studies? Qing period got me thinking more about what might be said about the greatest woman poet of the Song period (some would It was, at first, more accidental than purposeful. As an un- say the greatest of all Chinese history), Li Qingzhao (born in dergraduate, I needed to satisfy a foreign language require- 1084). Looking into her life and works, I began to think that ment. I was an English major and had read about the influ- her genius had been quite distorted by traditional (and modern) ence Chinese poetry (or perceptions of Chinese poetry) had interpretations of her, which reduce her to loving wife and for- on 20th century English and American poets. So I thought lorn widow. I actually think she is more provocative and talented it would be fun to learn something. I wasn’t planning on than usually believed. It’s also interesting to try to understand concentrating in Chinese at all. But once I got started I be- why the critical tradition during later centuries had to treat her came intrigued by the language, especially the writing sys- so simplistically, and to see how successful it was in doing so. tem. As a later professor of mine once said, Chinese char- acters “get under you skin.” Then it becomes a challenge to What advice do you have for majors and students considering master the very difficult writing system, to become literate. pursuing a major in Chinese, Japanese, or East Asian Studies? Then, after many years of language learning, you begin to Find a subject, field, or career path that you feel is, for now at realize how vast and rich are the various traditions of Chi- least, immensely absorbing and rewarding. Then pursue it. nese learning, literature, history, etc. It’s non-stop from there! Be concerned more with honestly figuring out what you enjoy At what point did your attention turn to Song dy- doing and learning about than with questions about where it nasty poetry and literature as your primary area of in- will eventually lead you professionally. If you are truly en- terest? What makes the Song such a unique and im- grossed in it, chances are it will lead you toward a fulfilling portant period for cultural development in China? career, sooner or later. If your interest is Asia, you are living in a time of unprecedented opportunities for study in Asia, work in Asia, or a career that intertwines life and work in USA and Asia. Take advantage of these opportunities! They are not given to every generation, but they are there for you.

18 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies MERICAN Graduate Student Profile: A RIENTAL OOCIETY Qian Yang WESTERN BRANCH ANNUAL MEETING IN SANTA BARBARA Qian Yang is a doctoral S candidate in EALCS’ East Asian Languages and Cultural PhD program. She is Studies is a primary host and sponsor of currently writing a dis- the American Oriental Society, Western sertation on the mangliu Branch annual meeting, which will take or migrant worker is- place at the Upham Hotel in Santa Bar- sue as portrayed through bara, October 14-15, 2011. The AOS film and literature. She Western Branch meetings, which have is also an active writer met annually since the 1950s, normally of Chinese fiction, hav- Qian Yang attract 50-60 distinguished scholars and ing published numerous graduate students from across the USA short stories and novels. We spoke to Qian about her experience as a grad- and Asia. By tradition, the focus of the uate student at UCSB and the challenges of juggling research and writing. group is on China, with particular atten- What initially attracted you to the doctoral program at UCSB? From a tion to papers on Chinese literature, his- student’s perspective, what do you find the particular strengths of the pro- tory, religion, and linguistics. The two gram to be? days of meetings at the Upham Hotel are open to the public; the registration Three things initially attracted me to the doctoral program at UCSB, firstly, the professors. To pursue a doctorate degree is a long and strenuous journey, fee is $15.00. Those who wish to see a and requires serious and thorough consideration. My interests are modern and detailed listing of the paper topics and contemporary Chinese literature, film and popular culture. When choosing presentation times should contact the a doctoral program, I was particularly looking for the one with recognized meeting organizer, Ronald Egan (email: professors whose research interests and specializations best matched my own [email protected]). interests. I found that the program at UCSB have an array of professors and affiliated professors, such as Professors Michael Berry, Michael Curtin, and Mayfair Yang, doing research on modern and contemporary Chinese cultural studies from diverse perspectives. Additionally, the program at UCSB is com- paratively small, which means that students will have more attention and be able to establish closer relationships with their professors. For me, I think it is very important to work closely with my advisor and get adequate academic advising along the way. Second, UCSB awarded me an excellent fellowship package, which secures five years of financial support, which greatly helps me concentrate on my study and research. And a final attraction was the location. Santa Barbara is close to LA, where many cultural events and film festivals take place. We can take good advantage of it. In addition, Santa Barbara has its own international film festival too. This is definitely very beneficial to film students.

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Other strengths of the program include 1) We are encouraged The most surprising discoveries are: 1) China’s urbanization to take courses outside the department, which largely broad- has been going on for a century, and literature and film about ens our horizon and helps us develop a more open perspective this topic are numerous, but there seems no systematic discus- on our own research. 2) The TA workload is very reasonable. sions on the migrant narrative. Many classic novels and films And TA assignments are a mix of language courses and content are in fact neither rural nor urban stories; instead, they are mi- courses. Graduate students will have a chance to teach both grant stories. 2) Since 2003, every year, at least one New Year’s kinds of classes and learn different teaching approaches. This Blockbuster have chosen rural migrants as its topic. Quite provides a comprehensive teaching training for us, and also gives a few award-winning films are about migrant workers. The us a well-rounded teaching experience at college level. And 3) emergence of 6th generation filmmakers in the 1990s to some our program requires us to have three fields, which I think will degree came along with the emergence of migrants’ stories. 3) make us better-rounded in terms of our academic training. Quite a few migrant–worker-writers have emerged through Internet writing and publishing platform. The online wiring You are writing about the migrant worker phenomenon mode creates an immediate and intimate relationship between in contemporary China, examining this topic through the the author and the reader. This new author-reader dynamic en- lens of film, literature, and television. What got you in- hances the spontaneity of writing, blurs the boundary between terested in this topic and what are some of the most sur- fiction and fact, and challenges the hegemonic mode of state prising discoveries you have made during your research? narrative as well as elitist perspectives.

As an urban youth born in the early 1980s to a middle-class Besides your classes, research, and duties as a teaching assis- family in the lower Yangtze River, I have witnessed tremen- tant, you are also a published author of numerous fictional dous changes in the epic progress of China’s urbanization and works in Chinese, including the award-winning short story, economic development. Initially, the topic that greatly inter- “Record of Concealed Love.” How do you balance research ested me was the “city,” and how people’s imaginations of the with your creative writing? Do they influence one another? city have evolved in social, economic and cultural transitions since the 1980s. It was a pretty big and vague topic to ex- Generally speaking, I write fiction only during summer breaks. plore; and I had to narrow it down. I noticed that the most Admittedly, doing creative writing did take away some time depicted group of urban lives in both cinematic and literary from my research, but it could also be a catalyst for my re- narratives is rural migrants. The issue of urbanization is in fact search. My research targets are literature, film and television. not an urban issue, but a migrant issue. Moreover, recently, As a writer myself, I think my writing experience helps me Chinese social mobility in the globalized era has been reported better understand the nuanced implications of fictional nar- as the largest human migration in the world. While people ratives. What is more, recently I wrote a coming-of-age story celebrate the economic boom brought by such phenomenon, about overseas Chinese young people. The initial inspiration some scholars have begun to reflect upon the question of what came from my research about migrant workers, whose precar- are at stake. They have tackled problems of migrant workers ity, alienation, loneliness and floating are very much similar to from a variety of perspectives and provided different view- overseas migrants. points on rural-urban dynamics in China as well as ethical, environmental and educational issues. However, few have looked into the migrant worker phenomena from the cultural perspective or examined the representations of migrant work- ers in literature, film and popular culture. Therefore, I decided to focus my research on rural migrants, exploring the com- plexity of the migrant worker phenomena through examina- tions of the way in which various media have portrayed them.

20 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Visiting Professor Profile: Yeonghae Jung

By ann-elise lewallen EALCS’s ann-elise lewallen spoke with Dr. Jung about the EALCS is pleased to announce that Professor Yeonghae Jung development of her research interests during a recent trip has been appointed as the UCSB Japan Foundation Visiting to Japan, where she described the larger historical context Professor for Spring 2012. Dr. Jung will be joining us from of Koreans in Japan: her current post as professor of sociology in the Department of Human Relations at Ōtsuma Women’s University in To- “Korea was colonized as part of Japan’s Empire in 1910. From kyo, Japan. Dr. Jung’s research and teaching interests offer a the 1930s, Korean farmers migrated to the Japanese mainland critical new perspective on citizenship, belonging, and the so- for work opportunities after losing their land to Japanese oc- cial fabric of the Japanese nation framed by her unique per- cupation. During the Pacific War, many Koreans were forcibly spective as an ethnic Korean in Japan. Her interests comple- conscripted for heavy labor in the front line of Japan’s Empire, ment the Japan Foundation theme for 2010, “Nationalisms including Sakhalin, Manchuria, Taiwan, Korea, and the Japa- in Japan,” and bring into sharp focus the 2011-2012 theme, nese mainland. As imperial subjects they were granted Japa- “The Return of the Political in Cultural Studies.” In Spring nese citizenship, including voting rights for men and many 2012 Dr. Jung will offer a graduate seminar on “Multicultur- served in the Imperial Army. But in 1952, after Japan signed alism and Citizenship in Japan”. The course will be open to the Treaty of San Francisco and forfeited its claim to the Ko- students across campus. All readings and discussions will be rean Peninsula, all ethnic Koreans remaining in Japan lost their conducted in Japanese. In addition, in Spring 2012, Dr. Jung citizenship. Today descendants of these early Korean migrants will also participate in the second Japan Foundation Sum- are referred to as “Zainichi Koreans” a misnomer that implies mer Institute on “Modes of Japanese Multiculturalism: Co- temporary residence, despite the fact that now five generations existence and Marginality.” We are very pleased to have Dr. of ethnic Koreans have made their permanent homes in Japan.” Jung’s expertise in approaching this complex and timely topic.

Born in Tokyo in the 1960s, Dr. Jung is a descendant of these former colonized subjects who were stripped of their Japa- nese nationality. “In my studies I learned about identity and ethnicity, from the per- spective of phenomenological sociology, a branch of sociology that calls for analysis of the formal structures of social existence. As a result of the state’s assimilation poli- cies, many second and third generation Zainichi Koreans were, for all intents and purposes, Japanized. And in order to pro- tect their human rights and call for lib- eration, they mobilized aspects of Korean ethnicity and values. For example, they Yeonghae Jung continued on page 22

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emphasized the traditional Korean patriar- chal system, which can be seen as an oppres- Nathaniel Smith sive system toward women and youth. These campaigns presented many in the Zainichi community with a dilemma, including those children of Japanese-Korean parents who By Sabine Frühstück have hybrid identities.” From this awareness, The Department of East Asian Dr. Jung became interested in how gender, Languages and Cultural Stud- sexuality, and mental health could become ies is pleased to announce the part of a “social system that would enable appointment of Dr. Nathaniel mutual coexistence” for ethnic minorities. Smith as the new UCSB Japan To achieve such an inclusive society would Foundation Faculty Fellow. require a close analysis of how imperialism, Dr. Smith has just completed a sexual violence, and heterosexism interact as structures complicit in sustaining inequal- Ph.D. thesis in anthropology on, ity. This came to occupy the focus of her re- “Uncivil Society: Activism, Vio- search. lence, and the Ethnic Nation in From her position as a Zainichi Ko- Contemporary Japan” and has rean –on the one hand Japanized and yet joined us from Yale University also classified as a foreign national – it has at the beginning of September. become clear how the nation of Japan has drawn boundaries between Japanese citi- Nathaniel Smith zens and non-citizens, and what kind of “citi- zen” the state has sought to mold. More re- Your dissertation, an ethnography of the world of rightwing politics in cently, her work has turned toward the state’s contemporary Japan, is of great societal, comparative, and theoretical im- attempts at social integration. In the global portance. Yet, yours is the first substantial attempt in English to exam- era, Japanese nationals are purported to be ine the role rightwing groups have played in Japanese civil society. What an “ethnic majority” but are now threatened prompted you to study them? with a crisis of identity. She has become in- terested in this dilemma and how this will I think what first intrigued me about rightwing groups was how public impact Japanese society in the near future. Since 2000, Dr. Jung has been re- their activism is, yet how studiously average citizens seem to ignore them. searching women in the Korean Diaspora It is a familiar sight in central Tokyo (and many other cities) to encounter living in the midst of globalization. She sug- a string of rightwing “sound trucks” lumbering down a boulevard blaring gests that an understanding of these wom- martial music or parked in front of a train station with activists atop doing en’s situations allows us to read the interna- oratory. But it is uncommon to see rightwing groups get much positive re- tional politics of East Asia, and to abstract inforcement from the citizenry they address. Of course, many of their ac- the structures underlying the global eco- tivist practices are deliberately aggressive and off-putting, and many right- nomic system. As she put it, “From an analy- ists are surly characters that seem to revel in their intrusive behavior. Still, sis of gender and globalization as mutually I found the disjuncture between the amount of money, time, and emotion reinforcing systems, I am now looking into that activists devote to their work and the seemingly negligible amount the ‘critical limitations’ posed by an ever- of traction they seemed to gain with the Japanese public to be fascinating. expanding globalization.”

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As I delved into my research, I learned more about the mixture research in Tokyo in the summers of 2005 and 2006. I read of religious fundamentalism, nativist politics, criminality, and, rightwing publications and internet message boards, I went perhaps surprisingly, abiding interests in internationalist causes, to demonstrations and, more importantly, I attended several literary work, and aesthetic pursuits that these groups exhibit. multi-hour oratory sessions each week outside large train sta- I think that Japan’s rightwing groups have a lot to say about tions like Shinjuku, Shinbashi, and Shibuya. By the end of the social and political transitions that carried Japan from em- the first summer I had made significant contact, and I was pire to the “post-war” and to the “post-Cold War.” In addition able to build upon those connections the subsequent summer. to the domestic scene, they offer a unique vantage point to as- When I returned to Japan for long-term research (Jan 2007- sess Japan’s relationships with Asia and the West, both histori- Sept 2008), the rightists were expecting me. cally and in the present. The diversity and breadth of groups During my long-term research term, I spent a lot of engaged in what might be considered rightist activism, on time trailing activists as they did their day-to-day activism. the other hand, necessitate a reckoning with our understand- This included street oratory, riding around in sound trucks, ing of political difference. At times the lines blur between the making domestic trips, and attending study groups and sym- Left and the Right in ideological and methodological terms. posia. I spent many, many hours hanging out in smoky group headquarters, and many more hours destroying my liver at Why have anthropologists remained uninterested in Ja- their after-hours hangouts. Throughout, I took notes, made pan’s rightwing? audio and video recordings, snapped many thousands of pic- tures, and tried to soak it all in. I was lucky enough to make I think there has been much peripheral interest and awareness a few return trips, too. Most recently, it has been interesting about the Right among people that study Japan, but you are to see how rightist groups have tried (sometimes successfully, right that despite a wide range of great work on other kinds sometimes not so successfully) to use their activist networks to of activism there hasn’t been much formal research on right- ists. Since an important side of anthropological research is sus- engage in 3-11 relief efforts. tained, multi-year interaction with the people we study, maybe What would you describe as the main insights gained from it isn’t surprising that many anthropologists tend to gravitate your research? toward people who, at the very least, we think deserve more attention. Given their aggressive public activism, rightwing ac- My initial question is hinted at above—I was very interested tivists aren’t necessarily the easiest people to approach either. in how these zealous, often violently uncivil groups function Japan is a wonderfully rich site for the study of pop-culture, as an integral part of civil society in a place such as Japan, par- institutions, and changing labor practices. Nevertheless, there ticularly as Japanese are often considered (wrongfully, to my is a small cohort of researchers currently working on politi- mind) to be politically complacent. In a more specific sense, cal groups like those I study and other forms of contempo- I wanted to understand how activists working in groups such rary activism. I have been very happy to compare notes and as these sustain their aggressive activism, in ideological as well collaborate with them. In this regard, Japan anthropologists as emotional terms. The Right has played an important role in are playing catch-up to researchers working in the US, Eu- postwar Japan, and are indeed an understudied part of how the rope writ-large, and South Asia in particular, who have long Japanese have processed the legacies of imperialism, but their engaged with questions germane to nationalist and rightwing activism has a deeply anachronistic, self-undermining strain— activism. The 3-11 disaster seems to have recentered scholarly they always seem to be working against themselves. Oddly, this interest on political activism, though, and I look forward to is socially and emotionally productive for their activism, sort seeing how our field changes. of like the figure of a plucky underdog that won’t give up. In a broad sense though, I think the Right in Japan offers insight How exactly did you do your research? into how forms of incivility can enter civil society, and how the I am fluent in Japanese, but rightist oratory is a peculiar ani- social and moral commitments of activists are cultivated and mal. In order to familiarize myself with these groups’ language then take shape on a very public stage. and to judge the feasibility of my project, I did exploratory continued on page 24

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My work explores the productive space between a sense of From your current perspective, how would you advise a imperial subjecthood and juridical forms of citizenship, and new graduate student about approaching such a politically pursues ethnographically how contemporary rightists opera- contentious subject? tionalize religious idioms of piousness and purity of action to craft lineages of ideology and activist practice. This fictive kin- I think my first suggestion would be for the researcher to clar- ship ensures that the peculiar marginality of rightists in Japan ify their interest in the topic, both emotionally and politically. is one imbued with power, even if their use of violence is self- One difficulty in studying political groups is calibrating your marginalizing. Subjectively, rightists consider themselves the stance vis-à-vis the group you are studying. If you are pulled inheritors of the legacies of their forefathers; at the same time too far in as an advocate or supporter, you may lose the abil- they are aggressively other. In what might seem like a perverse ity to critically engage your informants later. If you are too populist twist, Japanese rightist activists are most compellingly distant, you might not get access in the first place. I was lucky motivated to action against mainstream society and the state to find a space as a critical observer very early on. The way I by their socially and politically marginal status within it. Both cultivated relationships, and the strain of self-critique present the strength of their social networks and zeal of their activism in many activist groups in Japan meant that there were ways are dependent on the same sense of heroic marginality. for me to engage closely, but critically, and be welcomed for it. Another thing to be prepared for is that some political groups What would you describe as the biggest challenges in your will harbor particular kinds of sexism or racism. My experience research? with Japanese rightist groups could have proved very different were I a woman or Asian-American, for instance. To return to I think the most difficult thing for me was to avoid getting something I mentioned above, as a white male I faced other caught up in factional squabbles among groups. Many groups problems, since some activists engaged me as an avatar of US are small, but they have a diffuse cohesion and come together imperialism. One group that I worked with in particular is in coordinated actions regularly. I spent the majority of my vehemently opposed to US bases on Japanese soil. They have time with one group in particular, and was very comfortable more than a few times, in the course of a demonstration, beaten with them, but I was careful about engaging broadly and in- people they suspected to be US servicemen (read: white male terviewing a wide range of other groups. A second challenge with short hair). I had to pay attention to the assumptions was calibrating my engagement (or lack thereof) with Japa- groups made about me and my politics based on how I look, nese police and state agents who monitor rightist groups. In partially to disabuse activists of their preconceived notions of a similar vein, although it could have become a problem, I me, but also to find out how the lines around their ideas of found that having to constantly negotiate my status as an out- race, nation, and political sensibility were drawn. Just as being sider—notably, an American outsider—proved a productive a “native anthropologist” has its benefits, being a foreign one interpersonal space to talk about politics, and work through can be productive. A useful side to the small-n inquiry that an- the complex relationship the Japanese Right has with the thropologists favor is that we strive to analyze and reflect upon United States. our own experiences and the unique characteristics we bring to Finally, a general challenge that holds true for most the conversations we have in the field. Projects with an overt anthropologists I know: I need to become better at narrowing political angle to them encourage us to take these questions my impulse to collect data. For a digital-era anthropologist quite seriously. working with contemporary groups, it is easy to end up with massive archives of print media, television recordings, internet What’s next? captures, interviews, and still images in addition to our field notes. The upside is that I have material to draw from for years My first goal while at UCSB is to revise my dissertation for to come! publication and prepare for the courses I will offer beginning

24 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Nathaniel Smith Faculty Fellow Profile - continued from page 24 winter term. More broadly, I am looking forward to begin- Dr. Smith will begin offer two courses each in winter and ning a second project about a rather unique area of Tokyo, spring 2012. They include Japan 180PC: Popular Culture and Kabukicho. This neighborhood is emblematic of postwar Ja- Consumption in Japan, Japan 180SA: Directions in Social Ac- pan’s neon excess, but it is also something of a Petri dish for tivism in Modern Japan, Japan 180JE: At Home and Abroad marginality—you’ll find both Japanese and foreign gangsters, in the Japanese Empire, and EACS 215: Criminality and Con- all manner of artists and activists, the “water trade” and sex trition in Japan/in East Asia. industry, carousing salary men and drunken students. And all The UCSB Japan Foundation Faculty Fellow is one this in the shadow of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government component of the UCSB Japan Foundation Institutional Proj- building! My goal is to address changing discourse around eth- ect Support Grant program in Japanese Studies. The 2011/2012 nicity, immigration, and crime in contemporary Japan from program will be arranged and administered by ann-elise lewal- the space of this dynamic, historically-rich, and ethnically and len (EALCS) on “The Return of the Political in Cultural socio-economically diverse neighborhood. Studies.” The third and last year’s program in 2012/13 will be The Kabukicho project builds out of connections I organized by Katherine Saltzman-Li and Michael Emmerich made during my previous research to rightist activists who are (EALCS) on “The History of the Book, Printing, and Publica- involved in organized crime in the area, on the one hand, and tions in Japan and Its Relationship to Modernity.” Please find a set of fervently anti-foreign new conservative activist groups more detailed information on the UCSB-JF Grant program that consider places like Kabukicho the frontline of foreign as it becomes available at: http://www.j-culturalstudies.ucsb. criminal incursion. The hiccup between these two factions is edu/. that the former was operative in importing the very foreigners that the latter fulminates against. Further still, the former wel- comes Asian foreigners not only as workers but as a contem- porary extension of Japan’s imperial project. The latter takes the foreign “other” in legal terms, and makes connections with the North Korean abduction issue and what they consider to be unjustifiable privileges accorded to Japan’s long-term resi- dent ethnic Korean population. Given Japan’s falling birth rate and ageing population, questions about ethnicity and inclu- sion that are getting hashed out in Kabukicho resonate broadly throughout the country.

You received your undergraduate education at UC River- side. What does it mean to you to return to the University of California?

My first experience in Japan was as an EAP exchange student at Tokyo’s Sophia University during my junior year at UC Riv- Congratulations to 2010/11 Outstanding Student Award erside. I didn’t anticipate that I would return to Japan again, Winners: Erica Melanie Sommerman & Ly-Ann Ee much less the extent to which my experiences in Japan would shape my career and friendships for many years since. After be- ing based in New Haven, CT since 2003, I am very excited to come home to California, and very pleased to have the chance to contribute to the UC system and the program at East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies.

University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2011 25 AC EEVENTS Lectures organized by the East Asia Center, 2010-2011: East Asia Center News

October 20, 2010 By Mayfair Yang, Director of EAC Film Screening: “Autumn Gem,” produced Events & Lectures by Rae Chang & Adam Tow In the school year of 2010-2011, the East Asia Center organized a total of eleven lecture or film events, and the visit to UC Santa Barbara of a university delega- October 23, 2010 Film Screening: “1428” (documentary film tion from China. Two of these events were film showings, both with the film about the Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008) directors and producers present to answer questions. One event was an infor- Director Du Haibin in Dialogue with Prof. mal roundtable panel of professors and graduate student discussants. The other Michael Berry, UCSB events were lectures by invited professors or scholars of China and Japan Studies November 4, 2010 from other universities. Prof. Guobin Yang, Asian & Middle Eastern The East Asia Center received co-sponsorship and modest funding con- Cultures, Barnard College “The Growing tributions for these events from several sources at UCSB, including: Chinese Power of Internet Activism in China: Recent Students & Scholars Association; the Multicultural Center; History Depart- Trends and Countercurrents” ment; the Orfalea Center for Global Studies & International Studies; Religious November 4, 2010 Studies Department; Film & Media Studies Department; East Asian Languages “The Evolving Internet: New Technologies, & Cultural Studies Department; Mellincamp Endowment; and the Taiwanese Netizens, and the State in China” American Student Association. After the lectures, the visitor was invited to go Speakers: Prof. Guobin Yang (Sociology, Barnard out to dinner with faculty members who volunteered to continue the discus- College) sions over dinner. Lijie Ren (Computer Science, UCSB) Prof. Alison Brysk (Global Studies, UCSB) Student Travel Grants Jian Zhen (Electrical Computer Engineer- ing, UCSB) In November 2010, the East Asia Center also offered a travel grant competition Prof. Jan Pieterse (Global Studies, UCSB) for graduate students whose papers had been accepted for presentation at con- Weiwei Ren (Comparative Literature, UCSB) ferences. Four graduate students were selected to receive these travel grants of $300 each, totaling $1200, more money than was given away last year. These November 18, 2010 students were: Kirsten Ziomek (History); Alyson Prude (Religious Studies); Prof. Michael Heim, Slavic Languages & Lit- eratures, UCLA Moonsil Kim (History); Seokwon Choi (History of Art & Architecture). “The Role of Translation in the Formation of an International Literary Canon” Visiting Delegation November 30, 2010 On June 3, 2011, the East Asia Center also organized the visit of a delegation Prof. Akira M. Lippit, Cinematic Arts & of the Language and Humanities Division of the University of Wuhan in Chi- East Asian Studies, USC “Imaginary Lan- na, which included the Dean and Vice-Deans there. The delegation met with guages in Translation: Imagined National Chancellor Henry Yang and Dean David Marshall, Charles Bazerman (School Cinemas in East Asia” of Education) and EAC Director Mayfair Yang, as well as Jose Cabezon, Chair February 23, 2011 of Religious Studies Department, and faculty members from East Asian Lan- Prof. Alan Grapard, East Asian Languages guages and Cultural Studies Department and Political Science Department. & Cultural Studies, emeritus “Why are Gods so Hungry? Food Offerings in Japan” Visiting Scholar March 2, 2011 The East Asia Center hosted one visiting research scholar in 2010-2011: this Dr. Xiaobin Ji, History Department, UCSB was Prof. Myung Chul Cho, from the Department of Asian History at Korea “An Ax Falling under the Candle Light: A University in Seoul, Korea. Prof. Cho was given an office near ISBER in North Royal Murder Mystery, History Writing, & Hall so he could conduct his research on modern Japanese military history, and the Political Culture of Song China” work with Prof. Luke Roberts and Prof. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in the History De- continued on page 27 partment at UCSB. 26 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies AC EEVENTS (CONT.) Lectures organized by the East Asia Graduate Updates: Center, 2010-2011:

April 13, 2011 Alexis Agliano (EALCS, BA 2008), Prof. Ching-kwan Lee, Sociology, UCLA I graduated from UC Santa Barbara in “The ‘Labor Question’ of Chinese Capital- ism in Africa” March 2008 with a double major in East Asian Cultural Studies and Japanese. My May 2, 2011 plan-A had been to work in Japan through Prof. Andrew Gordon, History, Harvard the Japan Exchange Teaching Program University “Social Protest in Imperial Japan: Reading (JET), as an Assistant Language Teacher the Visual Record” (ALT) the fall after graduating. However, as I was unsuccessful in this pursuit, I fell May 31, 2011 to plan-B and returned to living at home Prof. Jinhua Dai, Director, Film & Cultural Studies Center, Beijing University “Politics, in Sacramento, determined to try again for National Ethnicity, and the “Lust, Caution” Alexis Agliano JET the following year. In the end, my year Phenomenon in China” back home turned out to be very rewarding, although I didn’t realize this at the time. I landed my first “real” job at the Cali- fornia Museum, and spent my free time studying for the GRE, taking Japanese classes at UC Davis, working on my JET application, and becoming involved with the Japanese Language Meet Up Group. In hindsight, the year away from school gave me time to prepare and seriously consider my long-term career ambitions and essential interests, while also giving me more experience as a “working adult.” I drew from these experiences in my re-application to the JET program - and this time I was successful! Since August 2009, I have been a JET-ALT in Shimane prefecture and have assumed the role of my city’s unof- ficial translator and interpreter. My time in Japan has certainly increased my Japanese language fluency, and shown me the responsibilities of Japanese life as a working member of society. I believe my post-graduate year off, plus the cultural enrichment and opportunities gained through living in Japan made me a much more competitive graduate school applicant. This autumn, I’ll be at- tending the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, working towards a master’s degree in the Regional Studies East Asia Department, with a focus on Japan. My academic interests gravitate towards culture, society, the environ- ment/seasonality, and the arts. The flexibility of the Harvard program will allow me to advance into any number of fields, of which I am currently considering careers in NGOs, publications, the arts and diplomacy. Although I leave Japan with regret, I am also eager to begin the next chapter of my life.

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University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2011 27 ESEARCH RESOURCES R& SERVICE Last year we had trials for four Japanese da- tabases. Thanks to many who have sent in East Asian Library News positive feedback and recommendation, we were able to work with other UC campuses to negotiate favorable terms to make three The Library personnel have been busy of these databases available to the Japa- relocating materials in the two-story nese studies community at UCSB: wing in preparation for a seismic retrofit project to make the building 1. 雑誌記事索引集成データベース more safe and secure for library us- (The Complete Database for Japanese Mag- ers. The departments affected by the azines and Periodicals from the Meiji Era to project include Map and Imagery Lab the Present by Koseisha) (MIL), Curriculum Lab, Govern- 2. Asahi Shinbun of Pre-war Showa Period ment Publications, Media Collection, (1926-1945) & Asahi Shinbun of Meiji and and the Interlibrary Loan Unit. They Taisho (1879-1926) are in the process of being moved to 3. Japan Knowledge: Japanese studies ref- the four-story building of the library. erence sources such as encyclopedias, dic- tionaries, and databases, including Nihon Huei-ling Sun Luh A new library building will be added Kokugo Daijiten, Rekishi Chimei Taikei, Kô- to the north side of the existing two- dansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Nihon Dai story building. The project is scheduled to start in 2012 and will last for ap- Hyakka Zensho, Jitsû, Gendai Yôgo no Kiso proximately two years. Both the retrofit project and the new library building Chishiki, e-book of Tôyô Bunko series, e- projects are funded by the government bond separate from the UC education journal of Shûkan ekonomisuto and etc. funds. After one year of search, UCSB Library has found a new University As for Chinese resources, we have added Librarian. Denise Stephens joined the campus administrators’ rank on July 1, two new electronic databases: 2011. She comes to us from the University of Kansas, where she has held sev- 1. Apabi Digital Resources: A collection of eral positions including Strategic and Organizational Research Librarian, Vice ebooks, reference works, and yearbooks. It Provost for Information Services, and Chief Information Officer. Before Kan- includes more than 5,000 titles of e-books sas, she was Acting University Librarian and Associate University Librarian for on a variety of subjects, including literature, Public Services at Syracuse University. Denise has published in the area of or- art, history, politics, language, etc.; more ganizational development and leadership in libraries and has served on numer- than 90 titles in 700 volumes of statistic year- ous library and information technology advisory boards. She can be reached at books on economics and social conditions; [email protected] or (805) 893-3256. and more than 700 titles of reference works The East Asian Library has successfully recruited a new staff member, on all subjects. New titles are being added Huei-ling Sun, to replace Peter Pang, who retired last June. Before joining the continuously on an annual basis. East Asian Library, Huei-ling has worked for the Acquisitions Department for 2. Dragon Source: Provides access to 1000 ten years. She is very familiar with ordering and checking in library materials. Chinese popular magazines and journals such as 收获，当代，读书，新华文摘 in full She has also received very good training in cataloging. Her major responsibili- text. They can be read from cover to cover ties in EAL include cataloging, acquisition, and gift books exchange program. in image file as a print copy in its entirety, or She has a BS in plant pathology and an MA in counseling. She is very good at in text format, which offers “copy & paste” locating materials. If you need help with finding books or journal articles, feel as well as “search” functions. Print copies free to contact her at [email protected] or (805) 893-2365. of these titles have been canceled because the subscription lapse has gotten worse over the past year – a delay of six months or more on average. continued on page 29

28 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies ESEARCH RESOURCES R& SERVICE (CONT.) Graduate Updates: More content has been added to the Su- perStar e-book database. Six other UC East Asian libraries are purchasing e-books to Matthew Mewhinney add to SuperStar. It currently has more than (B.A. 2006, M.A. 2009) 52,000 Chinese e-books. Because of con- sends warm greetings from tractual limitation, for now only about 1,000 titles have been cataloged and are search- Japan. Since spring of last able through the UCSB online catalog. All year, Mewhinney has been the others can only be found at the Super- living in Tokyo while study- Star website: www.chinamaxx.net. ing at Waseda University on a two-year fellowship awarded The National Index to Chinese Newspapers by the Japanese Ministry of and Periodicals (NICNP) database provides Education (MEXT). Under access to articles from about 15 thousand the tutelage of Kunihiko Na- newspapers and periodicals from 1833- kajima, Ichirō Ikezawa and 1992. It has a very good document delivery other scholars in the Depart- system. If you find any articles useful, please request it by clicking on the icon in the last ment of Japanese Literature, column, filling in your name and e-mail ad- Mewhinney has delved into dress. Remember to send Cathy Chiu an the poetics of Meiji intel- e-mail ([email protected]) about your lectual and writer, Natsume request. I need to go into the account and Sōseki. His research on authorize the payment for the document de- Sōseki’s classical Chinese po- livery. It is a free service to UCSB users. Matthew Mewhinney etry and prose (kanshibun) has led him to explore the Duxiu also provides document delivery ser- literary realms of the Edo, Meiji and Taishō periods. When examining works vice for not only Chinese articles, but also Chinese theses and dissertations. You can written in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, Mewhinney often request document delivery directly without finds himself crossing the tenuous line of demarcation between pre-modern and going through a librarian. modern Japanese literature. Aside from doing research and attending graduate seminars at Waseda, Mewhinney has been enjoying his stint in Tokyo by frequenting antiquarian bookstores and teaching English part-time at various corporations. For leisure, he has been honing his skills in translation. In addition to rendering Sōseki’s classical Chinese poems (kanshi) into English, Mewhinney hopes to translate the Sino-Japanese oeuvres of other Meiji writers cum poets, such as Mori Ogai and Masaoka Shiki. Mewhinney’s growing fascination with kanshi also has stirred a curios- ity concerning the great epistemological shift in modern Japan: the long literary tradition of classical Chinese exegesis (kanbun kundoku) falling subordinate to the fervid study of Western literature and philosophy in Meiji and later periods. In an aim to assess the state of kanbun kundoku in modern Japan, the writings of Yoshikawa Kojirō, Kanda Kiichirō and other modern Japanese sinologists have inspired Mewhinney to trace the history of modern Japanese sinology, and draw comparisons with Western scholarship. Mewhinney hopes to engage with these projects in the near future, but in the meantime, he is busy writing PhD applications for admission in Fall of next year.

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