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

Departmental Newsletter Words from the Chair Volume 6

The East Asian region is more and Fall 2013 more relevant in international Chair’s Letter 1 society and culture, and Mission Statement 2 developments there affect in Sabine Frühstück: 2 significant ways also our lives in The Uses of Popular Culture for Sex and Violence the US. Economic developments, political events, international Chinese Corner 3 conflicts and cooperation, and Japanese Corner 5 cultural activities receive wide Center for Taiwan Studies (CTS) 6 coverage in the international News and Events, 2012-13 Fabio Rambelli - Chair media. The Department of East Recent Activities and Publications 8 Asian Languages and Cultural – EALCS Faculty Recent Activities and Publications 16 Studies serves as an important hub for research, education, – Lecturers Recent Activities and Publications 16 and cultural awareness on East Asian matters at the University – Graduate Students of California, Santa Barbara and in the larger Santa Barbara Recent Activities and Publications 16 – Affiliates community. Our mission is to make the news more intelligible by providing linguistic, cultural, and historical contexts to Wada Atsuhiko: 18 How Books Reach Readers current developments, but also to challenge mainstream media coverage by offering our students deeper knowledge Graduate Student Profile: ChunHui Chang 19 and alternative visions of East Asian cultures in the present Corey Byrnes Interview 21 and in the past. This year, we welcome a new faculty member, Nathaniel Smith Farewell 20

professor Corey Byrnes, who will join us in fall 2013 to Shinto Chair & Department Conferences 22 teach courses related to classical Chinese literature and Japan Foundation Summer Institute 2013 24 Chinese cultural history. Another new faculty at UCSB, Graduate Updates closely related to our field, is Naoki Yamamoto (Department David N. C. Hull 25 of Film and Media Studies), an expert on Japanese film. Eileen M. Otis 27

Research Resources 28 ISCUSSION PAPER: EALCS D The Uses of Popular ISSON Culture for Sex and Violence M TATEMENT S The Department of East In this discussion paper I would like to briefly Asian Languages and Cultural describe my experience of incorporating pop- ular culture in the broadest terms in two of Studies is committed to providing my undergraduate courses, “Representations students with the opportunity to of Sexuality in Modern Japan” and “Violence understand the many facets of and the State in Japan.” In each course, I have East Asian culture, including (but integrated one or more sessions that take up not limited to) languages, history, the popular cultural treatment of the core top- society, politics, economics, ics, sexuality in one case, violence in the other. SABINE FRÜHSTÜCK religiosities, media and art. In a Materials in these sessions range widely from erotic woodblock prints of the nineteenth world of increasing international entury to magazine ads for condoms in the twenty-first, and from 1930s racist cooperation and globalization, propaganda imagery to 2010s cartoons designed to increase the appreciation students will be prepared to face of the Self-Defense Forces, Japan’s currentday military. I have found that the a society in which Asia is now a analysis of popular cultural materials can go a long way toward accomplish- significant factor in the foreign ing a core goal of university-level teaching that, in my mind, has been best relations of the United States, and articulated by Michel Foucault. In an interview Foucault said that, “The main the rest of the world. interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.” He wanted his books to be understood as a kind of toolbox for user-readers to “rummage through to find a tool they can use however they UR wish in their own area” (Gauntlett 2002). Accordingly, my courses are de- O TAFF signed to provide blocks of knowledge about a given subject matter, but I also S aim to provide students with questions and perspectives that challenge their Director Bob Ortega own views, and with tools to better think through the social and political im- (805) 893-2993 plications of their perspectives and attitudes.

Financial Services Shubra Agrawal Manager (805) 893-4613 Sex Along these lines, I aim at using popular cultural materials to unsettle students’ Student Services Ra Thea sensibilities and thus allow me to more effectively convey, for instance, the Manager (805) 893-3316 specific cultural and historical conditions of sexuality in Japan while denatu- Financial Assistant Jesus Barragan ralizing their own beliefs and attitudes. I have always liked screening parts of (805) 893-5463 Ôshima Nagisa’s 1976 film Ai no korîda (In the Realm of the Senses) in my Grad. Student Ruby Gutierrez upper-division, undergraduate course of 160-plus students on “Representa- Advisor (805) 893-2744 tions of Sexuality in Modern Japan.” The course fulfills a number of require- Undergrad. Deborah McCleister ments and is thus populated by students pursuing a broad range of majors, Student Advisor (805) 893-4381 from Japanese Studies to Chemistry, Art History, Mathematics, and other Webmaster AJ Hinojosa fields. Typically, only a small number of students have taken courses on Japan (805) 893-2731 or have studied the Japanese language. Most generally, the course traces the history of various sex/gender themes and issues from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, including sexuality and the nation state; sexuality and the arts; gender ambivalence; homosexuality, LGBT activism and queer queer identities; traditional, new and international women; family planning

2 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies from infanticide to the pill; sexual slavery; the politics of prostitution; and sex HINESE and visual culture. C ORNER For years, the film had seemed like a perfectly provocative match for two very different academic takes on the case of Abe Sada featured in the film, C By Shu-Chuan (Bella) Chen namely William Johnston’s book, Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex, The Chinese Language Program provided and Morality in Modern Japan (2004), and Christine L. Marran’s treatment of various extra-curricular activities in the Sada and other transgressive female figures in Poison Woman: Figuring Female academic year 2012-2013. To improve Transgression in Modern Japan (2007). Abe Sada’s story is set in the 1930s. She language learning, we organized a pursues an intense sexual relationship with the (married) owner of an inn. Chinese table for 1st year Chinese learners After killing him as the result of one of their sexual plays, she cuts off his penis to have conversations with native Chinese and testicles, and leaves the scene. Caught by police days after the incident, speakers in the spring session. On Chinese she becomes a celebrity whose story is widely covered by the print media of movie nights, we played Chinese versions the time, frequently adapted as a literary subject, and studied and examined of the well-known Chinese animated by a number of new kinds of experts from various fields of medicine and law. movies Mulan and Kong-Fu Panda I for our ABINE RÜHSTÜCK S F In previous years, students had laughed at scenes that appeared humorous students. For cultural activities, highlights to me as well. included a Chinese New Year’s celebration For instance, when the male protagonist puts a hard-boiled egg into held at a local Chinese restaurant in the vagina of Sada’s character, she squats to push it out again while insisting February. Students not only had delicious that she is not a hen. Both lead characters deliver the conversation in good Chinese food, but also conducted humor. Both laugh at this situation and similarly playful, erotically charged different performances, including singing activities throughout the film. In general, for a film that used to be censored Chinese songs, and performing skits, in Japan and internationally for its explicit, unsimulated sex scenes, there is street dancing, tongue twisters, and a whole lot of witty talk, teasing and laughter. raffles. Then, in order to expand the In the dark of the lecture hall, students also occasionally shrieked students’ interests in Chinese culture, we or, rather lightheartedly, it seemed to me, articulated their disapproval of embarked on Mahjong workshops and certain scenes. An audible murmur went through the room when, for in- practiced throughout the academic year; stance, Abe Sada goes to bed for monetary compensation with an elderly the students were coached by native man whom she refers to as “teacher.” Some scenes prompted the occasional Chinese speakers at UCSB. The students “eew” from the student audience but none as noisily as the bloody end. not only learned new Chinese characters More importantly, however, the screening of the film in class prompted extensive discussions about sexuality in modern Japan; the pro- duction of scientific knowledge; feminism, agency, gendered standards of morality; erotic art versus pornography; among a number of issues. Despite its availability on home video since the 1990s, I suppose that “In the Realm of the Senses” has not been fully absorbed into popular culture. My impres- sion is, however, that at least in the classroom setting, its very radicalism helps students approach more current mainstream popular culture and its and symbols, but also learned the rules treatment of sexual themes with fresh eyes. It also makes the very power- and acquired new skills. In addition, we ful point that sexual mores aren’t on a continuous path towards liberation offered a dumplings workshop in the fall and freedom. What was shocking in the eyes of many audiences during the session and a Chinese onion pancake 1970s has remained so in those of many undergraduates who populate my making and eating party in the spring courses today. session for the 1st year Chinese students. I should report also that in recent years, more than the usual hand- Tasting and making Chinese food was a lot ful of students began to walk out less than 30 minutes into the film. I am of fun for our students. We hope that these uncertain in what particular ways the film, or the fact that I screened it in extra-curricular activities have expanded class, offended their sensibilities. I have wondered whether part of the rea- interest in the Chinese Language Program son lies in the fact that sex, and nudity more specifically, have become... for our students at UCSB.

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Congratulations to the Scholarship ...carefully sanitized in mainstream U.S. media culture. The film’s partial nu- recipients (4 students): dity is mostly of female bodies and many of those tend to be body doubles, often surgically enhanced, of female actors. Given the general anxiety about nudity and the (at least publicly) celebrated obsession with bodily imperfec- tions in contemporary American popular culture, and the simultaneous rise of ever more perfectly obese bodies, is it possible that a substantial number of current undergraduates have never or only rarely seen an actual human body in the nude on film? In any case, perhaps there are indeed reasons other than being a staunch conservative or religious fundamentalist to fail to appreciate Ôshima’s artsy critique of 1970s sexual morals. Such questions aside, “In the Realm of the Senses” is only one of nu- merous visual examples that complement and complicate my lectures in that Thanks to Daoxiong Guan’s effort, course. Drawing an arch from the significance and uses of erotic wood block Jacob Johnson, Phoebe R. Light and prints in the nineteenth century to Ôshima’s take on Abe Sada in the late Andrew Roller (above) from our Chinese twentieth, and further to current-day television shows such as “Josô Paradaisu” classes will begin their Master’s degree ([Male to] Female Cross-dressing Paradise) that feature cross-dressing indi- studies at Shanghai University of viduals on a set that is designed to mock shows devoted to heterosexual part- Finance & Economics (SUFE) in China ner-matching, allows me to make a particular point.1 Perhaps in contrast to this September. The three of them undergraduates’ experiences of the North American popular culture of sexual- have received a full 3 year-scholarship ity, in Japan popular cultural representations of sex, among other things, often from SUFE, which will cover all of their work as objects of humor and play (Linhart 2000). After all, how could one tuition, school housing and food. Jacob not be amused by Katsushika Hokusai’s “Mr. Prick and Ms. Cunt” (ca. 1810) Johnson will study World Trade, Phoebe R. Light will study Applied Linguistics or by the egg sequence in “In the Realm of the Senses?” Most of my students and Andrew Roller will study Law. are infected by the television audience’s laughter at a transgendered host of a Also, Charlie A. Fernandez received a queen show featured in Kim Longinotto’s documentary, Shinjuku Boys (1995), 6-month scholarship to study Mandarin who solicits confirmation from the audience regarding the fact that despite in Taiwan. one performer’s remarkable shoe size, she is still a beautiful woman. It is also quite obvious to my students that the participants in annual festivals such as the Penis Festival or the Naked Festival have fun celebrating what appears to be a reinvention of much older rituals once prohibited by a modernizing state.2 The fact that today’s educational campaigns in Japan tend to heav- ily employ the techniques of advertising and popular culture, ranging from colorful and cheerful elements to cute and endearing imagery, serves as the backdrop to our in-class discussion about the historically evolving approaches to contraception and safe sex. Here too I use examples from popular culture. I begin with the analysis of an advertisement for condoms, such as, for instance, in the 2 July 2002 issue of the youth magazine Popteen, contrast it with an Congratulations to Drew Fund and abstinence advertisement from the George W. Bush-era United States, and CTS Language Award recipients proceed to a discussion of the legal, religious, cultural and historical conditions (7 students): 3 Soizic Catherine Hagege, Monica Stant, within which each of these as well as other images have emerged. Populist for Charles Andrew Fernadez, Kelly Noah, sure. Teaching in a country, however, where abortion continues to be a politi- Melody Lin, Saul Jr. Ruiz, Kevin James cal issue with the power to dominate presidential campaigns, I have found it most effective to start precisely at the point of greatest difference and division and work from there towards a nuanced and historically and culturally in- formed analysis.

4 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies APANESE J ORNER Visualizing the popular culture of sex, then, can guide students who, in California at least, already consume a lot of Japanese popular culture, to C new analytical possibilities of what they are already familiar with and open The Japanese Language Program the window to other realms of Japanese culture they aren’t yet aware of or organized various extracurricular knowledgeable about. The use of popular culture allows me to fully employ activities for their students and Japanese the potential of such materials for the purposes of entertainment and humor speakers on campus during the 2012-13 in line with the context of their production and consumption in Japan, and to academic year. venture into a critical discussion from that particular spot. Perhaps particularly In Fall we kicked off the Japanese with respect to sexuality, popular culture also serves as a vehicle in the struggle Program Orientation where students got against current-day (American) sensibilities – where “identity is a euphemism for conformity” (Wieseltier 1996) – overpowering what students learn about a firsthand look at what our Department Japan. That said, there are topics that lend themselves less to popular cultural and the Japanese Language Program treatment than others. I have found that the history of family planning, for could offer them. They got to learn about instance, particularly the various similarities and connections between early various Japan related organizations on twentieth-century eugenics and currentday prenatal testing, is less suitable for campus such as the Japanese Students popular culture. I am not sure that this is only because there is nothing to Association, the Anime Club, and the laugh about with the current-day socialization and individualization of once Kendo Club. state-sanctioned criteria for inferior/superior humankind. The Japanese Language Café Violence (Japanese conversation group) has been Denaturalizing their individual beliefs and attitudes and what students un- particularly active. Japanese language derstand to be “their own culture” is also a goal when I teach on violence students and exchange students from and the state. In what might be construed as a dramatic contrast to sexual Japan met weekly and got to converse content in mainstream media, violence appears almost completely normal- in Japanese. They also organized movie ized and morphed as a standard feature of entertainment, whether it appears nights, Karaoke nights and an evening on the news or in entertainment programs proper. Accordingly, I suspect that current undergraduates are consuming and are exposed to perhaps more and of Takoyaki making. The Language Café more consistent violent media content that is framed as entertainment than has become a very popular and much the generations before them. That increased exposure does not necessarily go needed language and cultural platform hand-in-hand with the ability to critically analyze violent content when it is for students of Japanese and Japanese presented in the pedagogical setting of a university class and thus endowed students on campus. Full credit goes to with the expectation that such violent content adheres to a certain standard the coordinator Yoko Yamauchi and the of truth – be it, for instance, footage of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and dedicated hard working office bearers Nagasaki or of Miyamata disease victims –. Quentin Tarantino (2013) believes that the audience of Django Unchained can tell the difference between the of the Language Café for making this an violence in his film that is meant to entertain and the violence that aims at unqualified success. representing a historical truth. continued on page 6 The Japanese Calligraphy Club under the guidance of Hiroko Sugawara 1. For clips from this show, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eERVA3L73gc provided the right impetus for students 2. For clips on this Naked Festival, see the YouTube videos at: to diligently practice and improve their http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVgEU7NkcS8 techniques in the art of calligraphy. Their http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTNY300fv6E wonderful brushwork is on display in our http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io_WDUdCLnU nd 3. This abstinence advertisement is included in an article on “Sex ed proponents defy office in the 2 -floor hallway. results of CDC report: Abstinence works,” June 9, 2008, by a certain Jill Stanek: With her typing fingers on the pro-life impulse.http://www.jillstanek.com/abstinence/ sex-edproponen.html continued on page 6

University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2013 5 JAPANESE CORNER (cont.) continued from page 7 The popular Sushi Workshop ...Maybe so. While Tarantino might be accused of softening the impact of vio- conducted by local chef Fukiko Miyazaki lence representing at least a variation of historical facts by mixing in the kinds was another featured event. In April our of violence familiar from whole film genres, no such respite is provided in my Movie Night featured a public screening classroom, and hence, perhaps, the strong reaction from at least some students of the documentary film “Pray for in a lower-division, undergraduate course on “Violence and the State in Japan” Japan.’ This screening commemorated that I have been teaching for more than a decade as well. The course covers various instances and forms of state and anti-state the 2nd anniversary of the Great East violence from the late nineteenth century to today, including state violence at Japan Earthquake. We had quite a few war; organized and corporate crime; terrorism; religion; gender; among other people from the community present at topics. A substantial component deals with Japanese colonialism and the Asia- the screening and sharing a prayer for Pacific War, in the context of which I introduce and discuss propaganda, war all the people who have suffered by the making, the sexual slavery system, and the reinterpretations of that time in devastating earthquake. recent animation and manga, including the Grave of the Fireflies and Bare- We rounded out the year by foot Gen. In different ways, both animated films tell the horrific story of war from the perspective of Japanese children who, unsurprisingly, are depicted as holding the second ‘Kanchan (Kanji) victims. Hailed as anti-war films, they succeed at convincingly narrating the Championship. This year we had 52 tragedy of war for children. They miserably fail, however, at addressing Japan’s participants and a larger audience role in and responsibility for the war. Many of my students tend to be visibly than the previous year. It was a great touched by the fate of the child protagonists in these two sweet, tearjerking success thanks to the combined efforts popular cultural icons. They “understand” the sadness of the surviving chil- of the Japanese lecturers and teaching dren but learn nothing about the history of the war. The fact that all the famil- assistants. A special note of gratitude iar heart wrenching conventions combining children with animated film do their work so well, typically prompts me to open the discussion by reminding should go to the generous support the students of a very different take on war. I show them England-based street received from the Japan Foundation artist Banksy’s wise dictum, “Every picture tells a lie.” Originally painted for and our Department. the number 1 issue of the Backjumps exhibition in 2003, the blood-smeared I would like to congratulate line “Every picture tells a lie” headlines soldiers in combat gear and machine all the hard working students of the guns in hand, provocatively featured with angel wings and yellow smiley faces. Japanese language for their earnest In contrast to students’ accepting reactions to the motif of pacifism as efforts during the academic year. Special heartwarming entertainment exemplified by Grave of the Fireflies, Barefoot Gen and similar 1980s and 1990s attempts to repackage the Asia-Pacific War for congratulations to our student Mochizuki consumption by a young audience that has remained rather undereducated award recipients Elaine Chetwood about it in schools, the screening of Dai Sil Kim-Gibson’s documentary, Si- and Eric Lee and faculty recipient lence Broken: Korean Comfort Women, provoked only one student to break into Akiyo Cantrell for their outstanding tears. Shocked by the personal testimonies of survivors of the sexual slavery achievements during the academic system that the Japanese military had maintained, she was inconsolable, and it year. Last but certainly not the least, took a while to explain to her the official contemporaneous rationale behind a heartfelt thank you to Prof.Michael and the rather unexceptional character of that system. I believe that most other students must have already heard about the sexual slavery system of the Impe- Emmerich for his guidance and support rial Japanese Army, perhaps through recent media reports about now-prime for the Japanese Language Program. minister Abe Shinzô’s repeated doubts about whether it existed at all or at least not in the form historians generally agree it did, and the various governmental and media responses to his statements in China, Korea, the United States, and elsewhere.

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Some students began to engage in the discussion that ensued only when they C AIWAN STUDIES learned that war-making regimes have maintained and continue to maintain T similar systems of sexual labor restricted to servicemen to this very day, and It has been an exciting year for the Center that the U.S. armed forces, the most trusted institution in the United States for Taiwan Studies (CTS). In addition to (Roth 2011), have been no exception. Among other plausible reasons, this hosting a number of visiting scholars reflects another observation that I have made in the classroom many times: this past year, CTS published the 31st My undergraduates tend to assume, and thus are not surprised to learn, that and 32nd issues of the Taiwan Literature: other nation states have done terrible things in the past and suffer from a English Translation Series, hosted the variety of problems in the present. Most are quite certain, however, of the es- th sential goodness – past and present – of the United States. Hence, teaching the 19 Annual Conference of the North modern and contemporary history and sociology of Japan, particularly aided American Taiwan Studies Association and by the visual and often emotionalizing power of popular culture, prompts me also established a formal agreement for to also steer them towards a more pronounced interest in all things American. academic collaboration with the Institute of Taiwan History (ITH) at Academia Sinica. Published with the permission of EJCJS where this discussion paper first appeared: On April 16th, Dr. Dafydd Fell http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/about/index.html of the Department of Politics and

International Studies at SOAS (School References Gauntlett, David. 2002. Media, Gender and Identity. London: Routledge. of Oriental & African Studies), University Johnston, William. 2004. Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex, and Morality in of London, gave a CTS sponsored talk Modern Japan. New York: Columbia University Press. entitled, “Measuring and Explaining Kim-Gibson Dai Sil. 2009. Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women. Dai Sil Productions. Linhart, Sepp. 2000. Warum sind die erotischen Holzschnitte zum Lachen? In Neue the Impact of New Parties in Taiwan’s Geschichten der Sexualität: Beispiele aus Ostasien und Zentraleuropa 1700–2000, Party System.” The lecture discussed ed. Franz X. Eder and Sabine Frühstück. Vienna: Turia + Kant, pp. 117–143. how two of Taiwan’s political parties, the Longinotto, Kim and Jano Williams. 1995. Shinjuku Boys. Women Make Movies. Marran, Christine L. 2007. Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japan. Kuomintang and Democratic Progressive Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Party, have dominated Taiwan’s party Roth, Beth Ford. 2011. U.S. Military Most Trusted of All American Institutions. KPBS system since the lifting of martial law News, June 23. http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/jun/23/us-military-most-trusted- allamerican-institutions/ in 1987. However, Fell also addressed Tarantino, Quentin. 2013. Interview with The Atlantic Wire and in various other how there have been periods in which conversations at http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/01/quen other challenger parties have won tintarantino-violence-quotes/60900/ and “Django Unchained: Meet the press” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1QpScB-HJg significant numbers of parliamentary Wieseltier, Leon. 1996. Against Identity. New York: William Drenttel. seats and affected the political agenda. In his talk, Dr. Fell assessed the impact About the Author of these new parties on Taiwan’s party Sabine Frühstück is a professor of modern Japanese cultural studies at the University of Cali- system and offered some explanations fornia, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Mod- for their electoral success and failures. ern Japan (2003) and Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese th Army (2007; transl. 『不安な兵士たちーニッポン自衛隊研究』 2008). Currently, On April 25 , CTS hosted an event she is completing a monograph on the interconnections between childhood and militarism entitled “The Poet of the Dreamland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/faculty/fruhstuck.htm Zheng Chouyu.” During this event the globally renowned and highly respected poet from Taiwan, Zheng Chouyu who offered a poetry reading and a public

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University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2013 7 ECENT ACTIVITIES & RPUBLICATIONS - EALCS FACULTY MICHAEL BERRY •“Wenzi de tiaozhan: Wo de fanyi Other Activities Publications jingyan” (“The Challenge of Lan- Invited Jury Member; Fresh Wave •Memories of Shadows and Light: In guage: My Experiences in Literary Film Festival, Hong Kong, 2012. Dialogue with the Cinematic World Translation”) and “Fanyi shi wenx- Invited Jury Member; of Hou Hsiao-hsien (Guangying jiyi: ue de wenhua qiaoliang” (“Trans- Dream of the Red Cham- Duitan Hou Xiaoxian de dianying lation as Cultural Bridge”), in ber Award, Hong Kong, 2012. shijie). Taipei: INK (forthcoming Sinologists on Translating Chinese Literature, Beijing: Zuojia chuban- 2013). MICHAEL EMMERICH she, 2012. Publications A book-length extended dialogue Entries on To Live, Yellow Earth, and “Dalla capitale alla metropoli: la with award-winning filmmaker • • Xiao Wu in The Golden Horse’s 100 letteratura giapponese contem- Taiwan Hou Hsiao-hsien, who Greatest Chinese Language Films, poranea e l’irrealtà del luogo.” In discusses his childhood, experience Taipei, 2011. Gianluca Coci, ed., Japan Pop, 99- breaking into the film industry as Review of The Chinese Cinema well as all of his major works. The • 122. Rome: Aracne, 2013. Book in Historical Journal of Film, book also includes interviews with “Scrivere è correre, correre è vita.” Radio and Television Vol. 32. Issue • Hou’s collaborators screenwriter In Gianluca Coci, ed., Japan Pop, 1, 2012. Chu Tien-wen, actor Jack Kao, 123-134. Rome: Aracne, 2013. and writer Huang Chun-ming, Lectures/Presentations •“Beyond Between: Translation, and a short essay by Jia Zhangke. “Nanjing Massacre Cinema and Ghosts, Metaphors.” In Esther Al- the Curious Case of Scarlet Rose,” len and Susan Bernofsky, eds., In •“Chinese Cinema with Hollywood Harvard University Yen-ching Insti- Translation: Translators on Their Characteristics, or How the Karate tute Workshop on Suffering Bod- Work and What It Means, 44-57. Kid Became a Chinese Film” in ies during the Sino-Japanese War, New York: Columbia University Carlos Rojas and Eileen Chow, eds. April 2012. Press, 2013. Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cin- Creative Conversations: In Dia- •Review of Translation and Trans- emas, Oxford: Oxford University logue with Gao Xingjian” MLA, An- lation Studies in the Japanese Press, 2013. nual Convention, Creative Conver- Context, edited by Nana Sato- •“The Absent American: Figuring sations series. January, 2013. Rossberg and Judy Wakabayashi the United States in Chinese Cin- “MLA Roundtable on The Future (Continuum, 2012), in Translation ema of the Reform Era” in Ying of Chinese Studies,” MLA, Annual Studies 6, no. 2 (2013). Jinzhang, ed. Companion to Chi- Convention. January, 2013. •“A Rustic Genji World.” In An- nese Cinema, Blackwell Publishing, “In Conversation with Wu Man,” dreas Marks, ed., Genji’s World in 2012. UCSB Arts & Lectures, February Japanese Woodblock Prints, 34-41. 2013. Leiden: Brill, 2012. “Roundtable on Translating Taiwan •“A Rustic Genji by a Fraudulent Literature” and “Roundtable on Murasaki: A Sense of the Story.” In Taiwan Cinema,” Taiwan studies Andreas Marks, ed., Genji’s World conference, UCSB, June 2013. in Japanese Woodblock Prints, 20- 23. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

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“Monogatari no ningen no mono- “Memory, Love, Words.” Panel dis- SABINE FRÜHSTÜCK •gatari.” Review of Horie Toshiyuki, •cussion with Kawakami Mieko, Ni- Publications Nenshō no tame no shūsaku. In cole Krauss, and Deborah Treisman •Nihonjin no “otoko-rashisa:” Sam- Shinchō (August 2012): 100-101. as part of the Tokyo International urai kara otaku made “dansei-sei” Lectures/Presentations Literary Festival, March 2013. no hensen o ou (Recreating Japa- •“At the Foot of the Volcano.” •“The Structure of World Litera- nese Men). Multiple translators. To- Reading with Matsuie Masashi at ture.” Presentation at World Lit- kyo: Akashi Shoten, 2013. the Worlds Literature Festival, Nor- erature: Networks of Circulation, wich, UK, June 2013. SOAS, University of London, De- The essays in this groundbreak- •“Worlds Literature Festival Provo- cember 2012. ing book explore the meanings of cation—Matsuie Masashi with Mi- •“On Translating Japanese into manhood in Japan from the sev- chael Emmerich.” Invited lecture Japanese.” Keynote lecture, British enteenth to the twenty-first centu- ries. Recreating Japanese Men ex- at Worlds Literature Festival, Nor- Centre for Literary Translation 2012 amines a broad range of attitudes wich, UK, June 2013. Summer School, July 2012. regarding properly masculine “Matsuie Masashi in Conversation “Why Translation Matters When • • pursuits and modes of behavior. It with Michael Emmerich.” Discus- You’re Reading Japanese Litera- charts breakdowns in traditional sion at London Review Bookshop, ture in Japanese.” Invited lecture and conventional societal roles and June 2013. at Waseda University, June 2012. the resulting crises of masculinity. •“Bibliographic Translations of Ina- Other Activities Contributors address key questions ka Genji.” Presentation at Histories •Co-organizer of Histories of the about Japanese manhood ranging of the Japanese Book: Past, Pres- Japanese Book: Past, Present, Fu- from icons such as the samurai to ent, Future, UCSB, May 2013. ture, a three-day international con- marginal men including hermaph- “Japanese Fiction in Translation.” ference at UCSB, May-June 2013. rodites, robots, techno-geeks, rock •Discussion with Stephen Dodd, climbers, shop clerks, soldiers, The Japan Society of London April shoguns, and more. In addition 2013. . to bringing historical evidence to “Translation Flows in Asia.” Round- bear on definitions of masculinity, • contributors provide fresh analyses table discussion at London Book on the ways contemporary modes Fair, London, April 2013. and styles of masculinity have af- “Translation as Poetry.” Invited lec- fected Japanese men’s sense of gen- •ture at World Literature and Japa- Michael Emmerich der as authentic and stable. nese Literature in the Era of Global- ization: In Search of a New Canon, 男性であるとは何を意味するの Tokyo University, March 2013. か? 時代によってその意味する “What We Talk About When We ところは大きく変化してきた。 • 侍、商人、軍人、自衛隊員、 Talk About Translation.” Panel 労働組合員、ホームレス、オタ discussion with Shibata Motoyuki, ク、ロボット…。外国人研究者 Ono Masatsugu, and Lexy Bloom たちが日本人の「男性性」に取 as part of the Tokyo International り組んだ論集。一般向けとして Literary Festival, March 2013. も面白く読める。

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SABINE FRÜHSTÜCK (cont.) •“Controllare il sesso scatenare •“Childhood and Youth in Con- Publications (cont.) il desiderio nell’Asia moderna” temporary Japan,” Ph.D. Sum- •“The Uses of Popular Culture for (Controlling Sex, Unleashing De- mer School, East Asian Studies Sex and Violence.” Electronic Jour- sire in Modern Asia), invited talk at Program, Universitat Autonoma nal of Contemporary Japanese La Storia in Piazza [http://www.las- de Barcelona, http://jornades. Studies 13/3 (2013). http://www.jap- toriainpiazza.it/], Genoa, Italy, April uab.cat/escola_doctorat/content/ anesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/about/ 2013. Photographs: http://www. professorat-convidat, June 25–28, index.html palazzoducale.genova.it/storia/ap- 2013 •“Sexuality and Nation States.” In prof_event.asp?ev=460. Youtube Robert Marshall Buffington, Don- recording: https://www.youtube. ann-elise lewallen na Guy and Eithne Luibheid, eds., com/watch?v=fHieSPbQs-c Global History of Sexuality. Lon- Publications “On Being ‘Normal:’ Gender, My book chapter, “Ikotsu ha Kata- don: Blackwell (in press). • • Health, and the Politics of Care in ru: Ainu Minzoku to Rinri Mondai” “The Modern Girl as Militarist: Fe- Early Twentieth Century Japan and [The Bones Speak, Ainu People •male Soldiers In and Beyond Ja- Korea.” Discussant of panel with and Ethical Dilemmas] (#A-16) is a pan’s Self-Defense Forces.” In Alisa Theodore Jun Yoo, Sonja Kim, Su- substantially updated and revised Freedman, Christine Yano and Lau- san Burns, and Suzuki Akira. An- translation of an earlier published ra Miller, eds., Modern Girls On the nual meeting of the Association for article, “Bones of Contention: Ne- Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Asian Studies, Toronto, March 2012. gotiating Anthropological Ethics Japan, Stanford: Stanford Univer- Other Activities within Fields of Ainu Refusal (2009), sity Press, 131–148 (2013). Interview about issues of mascu- and reflects interest in this paper for “Jieitai - The Self-Defense Forces: • linity and the economic crisis in a Japanese audience. This chapter From the Atom Bombs to Iraq.” In Japan with columnist Misako Hida has been included in a history an- •Japan at War: An Encyclopedia, ed. of The Wall Street Journal Ja- thology focused on situating local Louis Perez. Santa Barbara: ABC- pan, December 11, 2012. http:// history within a global as opposed CLIO (2013). jp.wsj.com/article/japan-ny-report. to a national perspective, entitled Lectures/Presentations html?mod=WSJ_topnav_jp_world From Local History to World His- “Child/Soldier Configurations: How Interview about the Japanese tory: Toward a New Study of His- War Makes Men of Boys,” Marius B. • • health care system compared to tory. Inclusion of my chapter in this Jansen Memorial Lecture in Japa- those of Western European coun- volume is significant because of the nese Studies, East Asian Studies tries and the United States; pub- paper’s critical position on the is- Program, Princeton University, April lished in a CNN series on Ameri- sue of research ethics in Japan and 2013. can exceptionalism by writer and the absence of a human subjects producer Todd Leopold, Enter- review process. My paper also in- prise Unit, CNN. http://www.cnn. cludes a frank discussion of estab- com/2012/07/02/us/american-ex- lished academic research practices ceptionalism-other-countries-les- in Japan, and in addition, focuses sons/index.html?hpt=hp_c1 on the study of Ainu issues as con- cerns of global as well as national, or Japanese, history.

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• I also published a book chapter, scholars, students, policy-makers, Lectures/Presentations “Japan,” an annual review piece activists, and broader publics about •“Recluse in Women’s Arms: Valori- detailing recent developments in the projected effects of sea level zation of Romance and the Politics Ainu organizing for indigenous rise on human and natural systems. of Subjectivity among ‘Mountain rights. This chapter was published Men’ of the Late Ming.” Paper pre- sented at “Image and the Imagi- in Indigenous World 2013, a pub- XIAORONG LI nary in 17th-Century China: An lication on indigenous peoples Publications Interdisciplinary Conference,” co- worldwide produced by the Inter- Women’s Poetry of Late Impe- • sponsored by the UCSB and the national Working Group on Indig- rial China: Transforming the Inner Santa Barbara Museum of Art, San- enous Affairs. Chambers, Seattle: University of ta Barbara Museum of Art, January, Washington Press, 2012. Lectures/Presentations 2013. “Eating, Cooking, and Meaning- “Clamoring Blood: Ainu Ethnicity • • Making: Ming-Qing Women’s Po- and Ancestral Voice in Contempo- HYUNG-IL PAI etry on Food.” rary Identity.” Annual Meeting of Journal of Oriental Publications 45.1&2 (Dec 2012): 27-44. the American Anthropology Asso- Studies •Heritage Management in Japan ciation, San Francisco, CA Novem- •“Nüxing shengyin yu zhuti: xifang and Korea: The Politics of Antiq- ber 2012. Hanxue yanjiu Ming-Qing nüxing uity and Identity, Seattle: University (“Female “Intimate Frontiers” presentation shige de lilun yu fangfa” of Washington Press, (forthcoming Voice and Subjectivity: Theories • to “Affect of Difference” round- 2013). and Approaches in Western Schol- table. Modern Language Associa- Staging ‘Koreana’ for the Tourist arship on Ming-Qing Women’s • tion, Boston, January 2013. Gaze: Imperialist Nostalgia and the Poetry”), in “Japan as Colonial Settler State: Guoji Hanxue yanjiu Circulation of Picture Postcards, • (Newsletter for International Whither Indigenous Sovereignty in tonxun History of Photography Journal Vol. China Studies) (2013): 4-19. the Multicultural Nation?” Associa- 37 (3): (forthcoming 2013) “‘I Sliced my Flesh into Paper and tion of Asian Studies Annual Meet- • Lectures/Presentations Ground my Liver into Ink’: Wang Ci- ing, San Francisco, March 2013. “Staging Koreana for the Tourist: hui’s (1593-1642) Sensualist Poetry • “‘Intimate Frontiers’: Disciplining The Visual Legacy of Native Types • as an Alternative Path to Self-Re- Ethnicity and Ainu Women’s Sexual and Must See-Destinations,” Invit- alization” 67 (2013): Subjectivity in Imperial Ezo.” “The Ming Studies ed Speaker, Portland State Univer- 29-52. Affect of Difference: Race and Iden- sity Institute for Asian Studies and “Who are the Most Beautiful Wom- tity in Asian Empire” conference, • the IAS Korean Studies Endowment en of China? : The ‘One Hundred Dartmouth College, NH, April 2013. Fund, May 2013 Other Activities Beauties’ Genre in the Qing and “Gateway to Seoul: Colonialism, Early Republican Eras.” • Core Project Investigator for the Frontiers of Nationalism, and Reconstructing • 7.4 (forth- 2012-2013 Critical Issues in America Literary Studies in China Ruins as Tourist Landmarks,” Invit- coming 2013). series, College of Letters and Sci- ed Speaker, International Confer- ences, entitled “Figuring Sea Level ence on Recent Advances in East Rise.” This project constituted a and South-East Asian Archaeology, year-long mult-disciplinary initiative Co-Sponsored by the University of to extend conversations among continued on page 12

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HYUNG-IL PAI (cont.) FABIO RAMBELLI awareness that even the most sacred Lectures/Presentations (cont.) Publications objects can be easily destroyed. Wisconsin-Madison Department •Buddhism and Iconoclasm in East After outlining Buddhist at- of Anthropology, Center for South- Asia: A History. Written with Eric titudes towards materiality and its vulnerability, the book offers a dif- east Asian Studies, Center for Reinders. London and New York: ferent and more inclusive definition East Asian Studies and the Hen- Bloomsbury, 2012. of iconoclasm, a notion that is nor- ry Luce Foundation. March 2013 mally not employed in discussions of “Reproducing” Japan’s Antiquity • East Asian religions, and applies it to and Identity: The National Heritage case studies of religious destruction Industry and the Commodification in China and Japan. It also intro- of Art Treasures, Discussant at a duces a new theoretical framework Roundtable Panel, “Who Moved drawn from semiotics and cultural My Masterpiece? Digital Reproduc- studies to address more general issues tion, Replacement, and the Vanish- related to cultural value, sacredness, ing Cultural Heritage of Kyoto.” and destruction. In particular, we try Chair Yamada Shoji (International to expand our East Asian focus and Center for Japanese Studies) understand instances in which the Association for Asian Studies Annu- status and the meaning of the sacred al Meeting, San Diego. March 2013. in any given culture is questioned, contested, and ultimately denied, and how religious institutions react to those challenges. This book tries to establish a conver-

Buddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia sation among Buddhist studies, East - Fabio Rambelli Asian studies, and some tendencies in art history. This book, co-written with UCSB A Buddhist Theory of Semiotics. alumnus Eric Reinders, is a cross- • cultural study of the multifaceted London and New York: Bloomsbury, relations between Buddhism, its 2013. materiality, and instances of reli- This book is an introduction to gious violence and destruction in important aspects of the thought East Asia, which remains a vast and rituals of the Japanese Shingon and still largely unexplored field tradition through the lens of its of inquiry. Material objects are own semiotic discourses and prac- extremely important not just for tices. Indeed, semiotic concerns are deeply ingrained in the Buddhist Buddhist practice, but also for the Heritage Management in Japan and Korea: conceptualization of Buddhist doc- intellectual and religious discourse, The Politics of Antiquity and Identity trines; yet, Buddhism developed beginning with the idea that the - Hyung-Il Pai ambivalent attitudes towards such world is not what it appears to be... need for objects, together with the

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symposium “The Sacred and Natu- Other Achievements ral Disasters,” UCSB, November • Co-organizer of the international 2012. symposium on “The Sacred and •“Constructs of “World Religions” Natural Disasters,” UCSB, Novem- in Premodern Japan.” Invited lec- ber 2012. ture at workshop/symposium “Reli- • Co-organizer of the international gious Negotiations at the Boundar- workshop “Dialogues with the Di- ies,” Vanderbilt University, February vine: Agencies of the Sacred in the 2013. Broader East Asian Region,” UCSB, •“Karma, Mount Sumeru, Atoms, March 2013. and Plants: ‘Nature’ in Buddhist • Participant at a postgraduate work- Doctrine and its Environmental Im- shop on Japanese Buddhist art and plications.” Invited lecture at the representation, Harvard University, symposium “Forests, Waters, and December 2012. Cities: Approaches to the Environ- ment in Japan and Global Con- DOMINIC STEAVU texts,” University of Southern Cali- Publications A Buddhist Theory of Semiotics. fornia, March 2013. “Taking Form in Response to Stim- - Fabio Rambelli • •“Of Matter, Spirit, and Place: The ulus: Recent Publications in Taoist ...which calls for a more accurate Bodies of the Gods in Premodern Studies, A Field in Motion,” Asi- understanding of the self and re- Japan,” international workshop atisches Studien/Études Asiatiques ality. This in turn results in sus- “Dialogues with the Divine: Agen- 62.4 (2013). tained discussions on the status of cies of the Sacred in the Broader “Divination und Vergöttlichung: language and representations, and • East Asian Region,” UCSB, March Die Shi-Tafel in medizinisch-re- on the possibility and methods ligiösen Quellen [Divination and to know reality beyond delusion; 2013. Divinization: The Shi Table in such peculiar knowledge is ex- “Tenjiku and the Indianization of • Medico-Religious Sources],” Fate: plicitly defined as enlightenment. Japan,” paper presented at the an- Newsletter Internationales Kolleg Thus, for Buddhism, semiotics is nual meeting of the Association for also directly relevant to soteriology Asian Studies, San Diego, March für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forsc- is also addressed in the book. This 2013. hung 2012.1. Review of Médecine, religion et so- is one of the first attempts ever to “The Story of Prince Rāma in Japan: • • ciété dans la Chine médiévale by present in a systematic way not Buddhism, Indic Literature, and only a Buddhist theory of semiot- Catherine Despeux, ed., Cahiers Shinto Narratives.” Invited lecture ics, but also a non-western semi- d’Extrême-Asie 19 (2012). at Princeton University, April 2013. otic system. Review of Beyond the Daode jing. “Of Matter, Spirit, and Place: The • Twofold Mystery in Tang Daoism Lectures/Presentations Bodies of the Gods in Premodern by Friederike Assandri, Asiatisches “Earthquake Theology: Natural Japan.” Invited lecture at Columbia • Studien/Études Asiatiques 61.3 Disasters and the Sacred in Pre- University, April 2013. modern Japan,” international (2012).

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University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2013 13 DOMINIC STEAVU (cont.) •Organizer, “Ritual Gestation in East •“Chinese Popular Religion” in En- Lectures/Presentations Asian Traditions” Panel, Associa- cyclopedia of Psychology and Reli- “Differentiating Sameness: Icono- tion for Asian Studies Annual Meet- gion, New York: Springer Interna- •graphic Re-appropriation in Bud- ing, San Diego, CA, March 2013. tional, 2012. dho- Daoist Interchange,” invited •Elected, Steering Committee, •“Women in Chinese Religions” in talk at “Interreligious Demarcation American Academy of Religion, Encyclopedia of Psychology and and Resistance in East Asia Work- Daoist Studies Consultation, 2012- Religion, New York: Springer In- shop,” Ruhr University, Bochum, 2015. ternational, 2012. Germany, July 2012. •Nominated, Associate Editor, Me- Lectures/Presentations •“Pacing the Stars: Talismans and dieval History Journal, Sage Publi- •“Agrarian Sovereignty and Mari- Diagrams in the Jade Maiden’s cations UK, 2012. time Economy: A History of the Concealed Return,” (in absentia) •Nominated, Editorial Board Mem- Present in Coastal China” paper European Association of Chinese ber, Frontiers of Daoist Studies, Si- presented at the “Conference on Studies bi-annual meeting Paris, chuan University, PRC, 2013. Transcultural Asian Modernities,” France, September 2012. sponsored by the Inter-Cultural •“The Final Flood: End and Begin- Studies Centre, Banaras Hindu ning in Chinese Religions,” invited KUO-CH’ING TU University, Varanasi, India, Decem- talk at “The Sacred and Natural Di- Publications ber 2012. sasters International Symposium,” Co-edited with Robert Backus Tai- •“Agrarian Sovereignty and Coastal UCSB, November 2012. •wan Literature: English Translation Economy: a History of the Pres- •“Taxonomies of the Divine in Bud- Series, Special issue on the theme ent,” paper presented at the dhist and Taoist Visualization Prac- of “Folk Ballads in Taiwan,” with Workshop “Dialogues with the tices,” invited talk at “Dialogues contributions by Wilt L. Idema. Divine: Agencies of the Sacred in with the Divine International Work- Numbers 31 and 32, 2013. the Broader East Asian Region,” at shop,” UCSB, March 2013. UCSB, March 2013. •“Divine Gestation: Inner Gods and •“Sovereign Power, Celestial Bu- Immortal Embryos in Daoist Visual- MAYFAIR YANG reaucracy, and the Political Theolo- ization Practices,” Association for Publications gy of the Masses in China,” paper Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San •“Liwu yu yanxi de liang zhong luoji: presented for the Panel on “Politi- Diego, CA, March 2013. Zhongguo yi Beimei Xibei hai’an cal Theologies: Intersections with zhi yuanyuan guanxi” (“Two Logics Secularism, Nationalism, and Oth- Other Activities of the Gift and Banquet: A Gene- er Religions,” at the Society for the •Organizer, “Knowledge on the alogy of China and the Northwest Anthropology of Religion Confer- Move” Panel, European Associa- Coast”), in Chang Shang-k’uan, ence, Pasadena, April 2013. tion of Chinese Studies bi-annual ed., Zhishi zhi li: zai tan liwu wen- Other Activities meeting Paris, France, September hua xueshu tan lunwen ji (The Gift Panel discussant for the panel 2012. of Knowledge: Re‐Examining Gift “Faces of Han Buddhism in Con- •Co-organizer, “Dialogues with the Cultures), Taipei: National Tai- temporary China: “Placing” Mo- Divine International Workshop,” wan University of Politics, Institute nastics and Laity in Dialogue,” UCSB, March 2013. of Foreign Languages, Center for American Academy of Religion Translation Studies and Center for Annual Meeting, Chicago, No- Transcultural Studies, 2013. vember 2012.

14 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies •Panel organizer for “Political The- ...Chinese Syntactical Studies), XIAOWEI ZHENG ologies: Intersections with Secu- co-authored, in Han yi fodian yufa Publications larism, Nationalism, and Other yanjiu lunji, Beijing: Shangwu yins- • “Life and Memory of Sent-down Religions,” at the Society for the huguan, 2013. Youth in Yunnan” In James Cook, Anthropology of Religion Confer- Joshua Goldstein, and Sigrid Presentations Schmalzer, eds., Visualizing China: ence, Pasadena, April 2013. “Changeable, Unchangeable, the Image, History and Memory in Chi- Elected to the Board of Society • • Unchangeable Change,” invited na 1750-Present (Roman & Little- for the Anthropology of Religion talk at Centre de Recherches Lin- field), forthcoming. (SAR), American Anthropological guistiques sur l’Asie Orientale, “Jiangou xinde lixian guojia: Xu- Association Centre National de la Recherche • antong yuannian Sichuan Ziyiju Scientifique, Paris, October 2012. de taolun.” In Zhongguo shixue- “Hanyushi zhong de yuyan jiechu hui ed., Jinian Xinhai geming yibai SIAO- UNG U H J Y • zhounian guoji xueshu yantaohui Publications (I, II)” (“Language Contact in the History of the Chinese Language lunwenji (Beijing: Shehui kexue “Lilun yu shishi—Yuyan jiechu shiji- Parts I and II”), invited talks at Xin- wenxian chubanshe), forthcoming • in 2013. ao xia de Zhongguyijing” (“Theory jiang University, Urumqi, 2012 “Configuring a Constitutional and Fact—a Study of the Translated “Shicong yuyan jiechu kan Minnan • State: Officials and Assemblymen Buddhist Sutras of the Mediaeval •yu dui Taiwan guoyu de yingxiang” at the 1909 Sichuan Provincial As- Period from the Perspective of Lan- (“The Influence of Southern Min sembly Meeting” Twentieth-Cen- guage Contact”), in Jiang Shaoyu Dialect on the Mandarin Spoken in tury China Vol. 38, No. 3 (October and Hu Chirui, eds., Hanyi fodian Taiwan—a Preliminary Study from 2013): 230-253. yufa yanjiu lunji, Beijing: Shangwu Language Contact Perspectives”), “The Railway Movement in Cheng- yishuguan, 2013. keynote speech at the conference • du: Sovereignty of the Nation and “Contact and Change in the His- on “Temporal and Aspect Markers Rights of the People” In Ogata Ya- • in the Study of Chinese Dialectol- tory of Chinese Language,” in sushi ed., ogy,” Zhongyang minzu daxue, The 1911 Revolution in Guangshun Cao, Hilary Chappell, Global History (Tokyo: Kyuko Shoin, Beijing. November 2012. Redouane Djamouri and Thekla 2013), 196-222. Wiebusch, eds., Breaking down the Other Activities “Qinghua University and Chinese Barriers: Interdisciplinary Studies in Organizer of the Sixth International • Politics during the Cultural Revolu- Chinese Linguistics and Beyond, Tai- •Symposium on Language Contact tion” In Alfreda Murck ed., Mao’s pei: Academia Sinica (forthcoming). in Chinese History and the North- Golden Mangoes and the Chinese •“Language Contact and Its Influ- west Dialects, UCSB, 2013. Cultural Revolution (Museum Riet- ence on the Development of Chi- berg Zurich, 2013), 16-35. nese Syntax,” in S. Y. Wang and Chaofen Sun, eds., The Oxford Other Activities Handbook of Chinese Linguistics, •Participant in Research Workshop Oxford University Press (forthcom- “China and the Chinese World Or- ing). der in the 1950s,” organized by In- stitute of East Asian Studies at UC “Zaitan Zhonggu yijing yu Hanyu • Berkeley, East China Normal Uni- yufashi yanjiu” (“Revisiting the lan- versity and Harvard University, July guage of Medieval Chinese Bud- 30 – August 3, 2013, Berkeley. dhist Texts and the Historical... continued on page 22

University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2013 15 ECENT ACTIVITIES & RPUBLICATIONS - EALCS LECTURERS, GRADUATE STUDENTS, AFFILIATES SHU-CHUAN (BELLA) CHEN KATE MCDONALD (Lecturer) Noise, an underground music (Lecturer) Publications genre made through an amalgam of Lectures/Presentations “Ryôdo, rekishi, aidentitii: Sen- feedback, distortion, and electronic “Four Aspects of Chinese Lan- • • Man kankô to Dai Nihon teikoku no effects, first emerged in the 1980s, guage Idiom Teaching: Insertion kôzô” (“Territory, History, Identity: circulating on cassette tapes traded form as Examples.” Presented at Korea-Manchuria Tourism and the between fans in Japan, Europe and the CLTAC Conference, San Fran- North America. With its cultivated Making of the Japanese Empire”) cisco University, October 2012. obscurity, ear-shattering sound, Contact Zone 5 (2012): 1-18. Other Activities and over-the-top performances, Other Activities 38th Mandarin Speech Con- Noise has captured the imagination • Organizer and chair for the panel test Committee Member and • of a small but passionate transna- “In Search of Local Color: Tour- Judge, CLTAC, April 27, 2013 tional audience. For its scattered ism, Culture, and Place in Imperial listeners, Noise always seems to be Japan” at the Association of Asian new, and to come from somewhere Studies annual conference in San else: in North America, it was “Ja- SILKE WERTH (Graduate) Diego, March 2013. panoise.” But does Noise really Lectures/Presentations belong to Japan? Is it even music •“‘Going global:’ An-, Ein-, und at all? And why has Noise become Aussichten junger Japaner im Aus- DAVID NOVAK (Affiliate) such a compelling metaphor for Publications land” (“Going Global: Opinions, the complexities of globalization Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Insight and Prospects for Young and participatory media at the turn Circulation, Durham, NC: Duke Japanese Abroad”), invited talk at of the millennium? University Press, 2013. Heidelberg University, Germany, In Japanoise, David Novak June 2013. draws on more than a decade of research in Japan and the United “Maturation Goes Global: On the • States to trace the “cultural feed- Experience of Uncertainty Among back” that generates and sustains Japanese Young Adults,” invited Noise. He provides a rich ethno- talk at Heinrich Heine University graphic account of live performanc- Düsseldorf, Germany, May 2013. es, the circulation of recordings, •“Self and Society Among Japanese and the lives and creative practices Sojourners in Santa Barbara: On of musicians and listeners. He ex- ‘Lifestyle Migrants,’ ‘Floaters,’ and plores the technologies of Noise, ‘Subcultural Migrants,’” paper pre- and the productive distortions of sented at the 9th EAJS (European its networks. Capturing the tex- Association for Japanese Studies) tures of feedback—its sonic and Ph.D. Workshop, Goethe Universi- cultural layers and vibrations— ty Frankfurt, Germany, March 2013. Novak describes musical circula- tion through sound and listening, recording and performance, inter- national exchange, and social inter- Japanoise - David Novak pretations of media.

16 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Lectures/Presentations Other Activities • “Ethnicity,” in, Jeff Manza, ed., Ox- • “Japanoise and Cultural Feed- •Recipient of Seed Grant on Soci- ford Bibliographies in Sociology, back,” invited Talk at Music De- etal Issues for New Technologies New York: Oxford University Press, partment Colloquium, University (NSF Center for Nanotechnology 2013. of Toronto, February 2013. in Society) for research on antinu- • “Race, Migration, and Member- • “Performing Antinuclear Move- clear protest movements in Japan. ship in American Society: Our His- ments in Post-3.11 Japan,” 3.11 •Co-organized Ethnography and tory, Our Present Situation, and Virtual Conference: Building a Cultural Studies RFG Workshop, What We Might Do,” Maryville Bridge to Disaster Studies, STS UCSB, February 2013. Symposium Proceedings, “Fron- Forum on Fukushima, March 2013. tiers, Borders, and Citizens: Mem- • “Analog Circuits of Social Media,” PAUL SPICKARD (Affiliate) bership in American Society,” 5 invited Talk at Center for Popular Publications (2012): 91-120. Culture Studies Colloquium, Bowl- •Editor, Multiple Identities: Mi- • “Birthers’ Attack on Obama Is Not ing Green State University, April grants, Ethnicity, and Membership. Only Bogus, It’s Irrelevant,” San 2013. Bloomington: Indiana University Jose Mercury News, June 16, 2012. • “Ethnomusicology, World Music, Press, 2013 • Review of Andrea Geiger, Subvert- and the Public Sphere,” invited •“Obama, Race, and the 2012 Elec- ing Exclusion: Transpacific Encoun- Talk at Richard Murphy Colloqui- tion,” in Reginald Daniel and Het- ters with Race, Caste, and Borders, um, Oberlin College, April 2013. tie V. Williams, eds., Race, Gender, 1885-1928, in Journal of American “Sound Demos and the Politics of and the Obama Phenomenon, History (March 2013). • Protest in Post-3.11 Japan,” invited Jackson: University Press of Missis- Review of Shelley Sang-Hee Lee, sippi, 2013. • Talk at Humanities Institute at The Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Editor “Historical Origins of the Ohio State University, April 2013. • Prewar Seattle and Japanese One-Drop Racial Rule in the Unit- “Music, Mediation, and the Cre- America, in Journal of American ed States,” by Winthrop D. Jor- • ative Destruction of Japanoise,” Ethnic History, 32.2 (Winter 2013). dan, Journal of Critical Mixed-Race invited Talk at Music Department Review of Nermin Abadan-Unat, Studies 1 (in press 2013). • Colloquium, Boston University, Turks in Europe: From Guest Work- “Working with Race, Ethnicity, and April 2013. • er to Transnational Citizen, in Nor- Tribe in the Nigerian Church,” Og- “The Cultural Feedback of Noise,” dic Journal of Migration Research, bomoso Journal of Theology, 17.2 • invited Talk at Comparative Me- 2.4 (November 2012). (2013). dia Studies Colloquium, MIT, April •“Many Multiplicities: Identity in an • Review of Erika Lee and Judy Yung, 2013. Age of Movement,” in, ibid. ed., Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway • “Doing Ethnography In/Of Trans- Multiple Identities: Migrants, Eth- to America, in Pacific Historical Re- national Circulation,” at the Medi- nicity, and Membership, Bloom- view, 81.1 (February 2012). ations of Ethnography Workshop, ington: Indiana University Press, Lectures/Presentations Ethnography and Cultural Studies 2013. • “Obama Nation? Race, Multiraci- RFG, UCSB, May 2013. •“Chinese Americans, Turkish ality, and American Identity,” Saw- Germans: Parallels in Two Racial yer Seminar, “Critical Mixed-Race Systems,” in, ibid. ed., Multiple Studies: A Transpacific Approach,” Identities: Migrants, Ethnicity, and University of Southern California, Membership, Bloomington: Indi- January 2013. ana University Press, 2013. continued on page 18

University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2013 17 ECENT How Books Reach Readers: R ACTIVITIES & PUBLICATIONS EALCS AFFILIATES By Wada Atsuhiko

PAUL SPICKARD (Affiliate) (cont.) I spent the time I was a visiting scholar at Lectures/Presentations (cont.) the Department of East Asian Languages •“The Curious Career of the One-Drop and Cultural Studies at UCSB, during the Rule: Multiraciality and Membership spring quarter of 2013, thinking intensively in Germany Today,” with Miriam Nan- about the history of publishing and reading di, Critical Mixed Race Studies Con- in modern Japan. In part, this was because ference, DePaul University, Chicago, I was lecturing each week on the topic in November 2012. a seminar, and in part it was because I was “Race, Migration, and Member- • working on an introductory book dealing ship in American Society: Our His- with these issues. In this sense, the sum- tory, Our Present Situation, and What mer institute that took place from May We Might Do,” plenary address, Wada Atsuhiko Maryville Symposium on Faith and 31 to June 2 on the topic of “Histories the Liberal Arts, Maryville College, of the Japanese Book: Past, Present, Fu- Kentucky, October 2012. ture” jibed very well with my current work • “Chinese Americans, Turkish Ger- and my interests more broadly. The fact that there was such a wonderful mans: Parallels in Two Racial Sys- overlap between what I was thinking about and what was going on in the tems,” Salzburg Seminar American Department allowed me to get a lot done, and I am happy I had a chance Studies Association, September to work on such a gorgeous and pleasant campus. 2012. I mentioned the book I am working on. The aim of this text will Other Activities be to offer a general, easy-to-read introduction to the origins and the his- • Recipient of the Richard A. Yarbor- tory of publishing and reading in modern Japan, and the nature of the ough Mentoring Award by the Ameri- relationship between publishing culture and readers, drawing examples can Studies Association for 2013. from existing scholarship and pointing the way toward further research on specific topics. (These were also precisely the kind of issues I was talk- ing about in class with my students at UCSB.) At present, no book like the one I am working on exists—in fact, the very notion of the history of “publishing and reading” is somewhat vague. It is unclear, for instance, whether this discipline would be focused on the history of publishers, of books and other published objects, or of the sales and circulation systems. I myself have been thinking about this theme from the per- spective of how the routes linking books and readers came into be- ing in the modern period, and how they changed over time. Simply put, I am interested in the history of how books found their way into

18 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies HUN UI HANG readers’ hands. This includes distributors, bookstores, libraries, schools, C H C and even the development of transportation and communication in- Recently we asked ChunHui Chuang, a first year and soon to be second year PhD frastructures. All kinds of people, things, and organizations are in- student in our program, to tell us a little bit volved. about her thoughts on her first year in the Research into the “content” of books has been and continues to program. “When I was accepted for study be widely pursued, but not very much research has been done on the in the EALCS PhD program at UCSB I was pathways and flows by which books reach readers. This is precisely the very excited. Though as with entering area in which I am interested. No matter how great a work of literature any PhD program, just before the autumn classes began I became slightly nervous or thought may be, it doesn’t mean anything unless the book makes it about starting my first year. However, this into the hands of readers. And the particular ways in which books reach Department taught me that the first year readers—the expanse and speed of the network—have an effect not only does not have to be intimidating and as on reading environments, but on the very content of books. I met the faculty and the fellow graduate students in the program my nervousness Consider, for instance, the railroad. In the modern period, the soon went away. There are so many great transportation of books into regions outside the major metropolises re- people teaching and studying in this lied heavily on railroads. The great reach and speed of railroads made it Department. The sense of collaboration and warmth between professors, staff, and possible for books to reach wider audiences, and had an enormous im- students makes this program environment Wada Atsuhiko pact on reading environments in those far-flung regions. But railroads very welcoming for incoming students. didn’t only serve to transport books; they also led to the creation of their All of the professors that I took classes with were very approachable and own sales network. Remnants of this system survive even now in train created an environment which brought stations in Japan in the form of kiosks. It might seem like these kiosks the course materials to life in ways that serve on some level as very small bookstores, but in fact they belong to a were deeply educational and inspiring. In addition to learning through research circulation route that came into being and developed entirely indepen- projects and written assignments, I also dently of the usual circulation routes by which books traveled the country. learned a lot during vibrant class discussions And there’s even more. Not only did railroads carry book and and academic presentations by students, lead to the creation of new spaces for selling them; they also created a faculty, and visiting scholars. The classes I took this past year also introduced me to new reading environment as it became common for people to read on a variety skillful interdisciplinary methods trains. Railroads enabled the birth of what we might think of as “moving for beginning my career research and I am readers,” and thus to the creation of books whose existence was predicat- already excited about what I will learn when classes start for the coming year!” ed on the possibility of rail travel, such as travelogues and travel guides. Small, portable books targeting readers on the move also came into being. Needless to say, we can adopt the kind of perspective I am advocat- ing with reference to all kinds of other things and spaces, not just railroads, and by doing so we will learn a lot about the organizations and systems that connect books and readers, and about the influence they have had on books and other published objects, and on reading environments. I hope that during my time at UCSB I was able to share my sense of the enormous potential research of this kind has with the students who took my seminar.

ChunHui Chuang

University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2013 19 Nathaniel Smith Farewell

I left my native home of California in March of of students have continued to hold an eye to the East, 2001 and moved to Tokyo as a research fellow sponsored cultivating knowledge not only of popular culture, but by the Japanese Ministry of Education. After a decade be- also of the history and politics of Japanese society, its re- tween Japan and Connecticut, I was thrilled by the chance lationships with other Asian nations, and with the West. to return to California and spend two years at the Depart- Temporary or “visiting” academic positions have a ment of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at UC reputation for being rather isolating. The warmth and en- Santa Barbara. My time as the Japan Foundation Faculty thusiasm with which I was welcomed to EALCS quickly Fellow has been a tremendously positive experience, due made it clear that would not be the case at UCSB. The in no small part to the wonderful people --students, staff, Department brings together disciplinary rigor in a vari- and faculty-- that call Santa Barbara home. ety of fields to offer a unique opportunity for the study The courses I offered on modern Japan, “Direc- of both classical and contemporary East Asia. Above and tions in Activism in Modern East Asia,” “Gangsters, Gu- beyond its vibrant academic life, however, the quality and rus, and Gyaru,” and “At Home and Abroad in the Japa- character of the people I had the chance to build relation- nese Empire” among them, attracted an enthusiastic crop ships with among the EALCS faculty, HASC staff and of students hailing from diverse majors and from a variety faculty in affiliated Departments, at ISBER, and across of international backgrounds, united by their interest in the university will remain the highlight of my time in Japan. They were a joy to teach. Though perhaps a truism Santa Barbara. While I will somewhat reluctantly trade of teaching, I learned as much from them as I trust they the beach for the Sonoran desert (the sand abides!) as learned from me. Japanese culture, with its vibrant prod- I assume an assistant professorship at the Department ucts in film, animation, music, and fashion, opens itself of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, the up to an eager global audience. As a scholar who himself model of collegiality and Departmental life I experienced found interest in Japan while a University of California un- at EALCS will be among the first things I unpack when I dergraduate, I was very glad to see that current generations arrive in Tucson. Many thanks to all!

20 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Corey Byrnes Interview:

How did you become interested in East Asian studies and how did you arrive at your current research topic?

I came to East Asian studies in a roundabout manner. Over the first two years of my undergraduate at Brown I took classes in close to 15 different Departments (the East Asian Studies Department was not one them), finally choosing to major in Environmental Studies with an emphasis on marine ecology. I’d always been deeply interested in environmental issues, but for some reason I wasn’t especially excited about my new ma- jor. That’s why, at the end of my sophomore year, I decided to take some time off from school. This is what led me to China. In serious need of something to do during my time off, I asked my uncle and aunt, who had lived in Beijing on and off since and legacy of realism in modern China, the post-Mao resur- the early 1990s, if I could live with them for a semester or two. gence of “traditional” culture in contemporary China, the cat- They generously agreed, and with no training in Chinese, I egory of “post-socialism,” among others. I’m also keen to talk traveled to Beijing and enrolled in intensive language classes. I with students in the Department about what interests them explored Beijing with my uncle’s guidance, traveled extensively and what kinds of classes they might like to take in the future. and dedicated myself to learning Chinese. Slowly but surely I became fascinated by China, and by the time I returned to As I know, you received M.Phil in Oriental Studies Brown I was ready to change my major to East Asian Studies. from the University of Cambridge. So was it a differ- As for how I arrived at my current research, that’s a slightly ent experience to study East Asian studies in the UK? less coherent story, though my undergraduate roots in envi- How would you like to bring this knowledge and ex- ronmental studies have been a major, if unexpected, influence. perience to your future teaching in our Department?

What courses do you plan to offer for students in EALCS? Cambridge is in many ways a magical place, and if you pass through London, I recommend taking a day trip. It is also a very For the 2013-14 school year I’ll teach: Introduction to Clas- old place, deeply marked by tradition and habit. Coming from sical Chinese language (winter and spring); a lower division Brown, where the most venerable tradition is to break with tra- course that approaches Chinese literary history obliquely, by dition, I was often dissatisfied with Cambridge. I learned a great deal there (how to punt, what clotted cream is, etc.) of course, looking at how regional and local traditions are appropriated but as far as teaching and scholarship go, I owe my greatest and homogenized as part of a dominant cultural discourse debts first to Brown and next to Berkeley. Both of these Ameri- (winter); and an upper division seminar (open to both ad- can institutions are driven by the incredible energy of people vanced undergraduates and graduate students) called “Land- communicating and arguing and questioning nearly every- scapes of Desolation,” which explores how artists, filmmakers thing, a dynamic that I hope to foster in my classes at UCSB. and writers, from China and elsewhere, have responded to en- vironmental degradation in China and how they have contrib- What do you like to do in your leisure time? uted to the production of a new mode of Chinese landscape representation (spring). I’ve got lots of ideas beyond next year My absolute favorite leisure activities are cooking and bak- for both undergraduate and graduate students -- including ing (and eating). I make all sorts of food, including Chinese, courses on the visual and literary aesthetics of reclusion and though my current go-to is food from Spain and Portugal. I exile in pre-modern China, the history of Chinese travel litera- love to play tennis too, and am looking forward to finding some good courts in and around Santa Barbara. On occasion ture, the place of eco-criticism in the study of Asia, the history I also play the violin.

University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2013 21 SHINTO C HAIR NEWS & CONFERENCES ENTER FOR (cont. part 2) CTAIWAN STUDIES talk. Since the publication of his extraor- dinary literary debut On the Dreamland in 1955, Zheng Chouyu has become one of the most widely read and best-loved poets in the Chinese language. His works have been translated into English, Japa- nese, Korean, German and French with over 15 collections of poetry published in 170 editions. During his visit to UCSB Zheng Chouyu read and discussed his In November of 2012 the Department celebrated Commemora- works in Chinese and English. The event tive Events for the International Shinto Foundation Chair of Shinto Studies was a great success and was well attend- in order to mark the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Chair. The ed by both the UCSB community and holder of the ISF Endowed Chair in Shinto Studies, Professor Fabio Ram- also many people from broader commu- belli, organized the event together with the the Shintō Kokusai Gakkai, To- nity in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. kyo, the International Shinto Foundation, New York, and several campus The CTS cosponsored this event with the agencies (the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, the Ministry of Culture, TECO in Los Ange- Department of Religious Studies, the Multicultural Center, the UCSB East les, the Department of East Asian Lan- Asia Center, the UC Education Abroad Program, the Ethnomusicology Pro- guages and Cultural Studies at UCSB. gram [Music Department], and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center). A th On May 7 , 2013, Professor Steve Shinto purification ritual (November 1, 2012) was held, along with a lecture Chan gave a talk entitled “Cross-Strait on Japanese music at the Music Department (November 2), and an outreach Commerce as Credible Signaling.” Pro- event at Vieja Valley Elementary School (November 2). Additionally, the cam- fessor Chan is Professor of Political Sci- pus community enjoyed a Kagura performance (Sacred Dances from Chich- ence at University of Colorado at Boulder ibu Shrine, Japan) at the Multicultural Center Theater (November 3, 2012). and Director of the Farrand Residence The Kagura performance was a unique opportunity to experience the sa- Academic Program. In his talk Prof. cred music dances from Chichibu, an important Shinto shrine near Tokyo. It was Chan examined rationalist and realist the first and only US performance of members of the shrine’s Kagura troupe, with explanations of the role and influence an ensemble of three musicians and two dancers. Kagura are ritual dances per- of economic relations and credible com- formed at Shinto shrines in Japan; many are based on ancient myths. The perfor- mitments within the broader context of mance at MCC consisted in a selection of pieces from an ancient Japanese myth Taiwan and China cross strait relations. representing the revival of the world after a natural disaster. Chichibu Kagura from Also in May the CTS published Chichibu Shrine, dating back perhaps to the seventeenth century, has been des- st nd the 31 and 32 issues of the Taiwan ignated by the Japanese government as an Important Formless Folkloric Cultural Literature: English Translation Series, a Property. The Kagura performance was recorded and will be broadcast by UCTV. biannual journal co-edited by Profes- Another event that took place under the aegis of the 15th anniversary of sors Kuo-ch’ing Tu and Robert Back- the establishment of the ISF Chair in Shinto Studies was an international sympo- us (emeritus), which has been pub- sium on the theme of “The Sacred and Natural Disasters,” (November 3, 2012). lished consecutively for sixteen years. The original idea for the symposium “The Sacred and Natural Disasters” was as a continued on page 23 commemoration of the resilience of the communities affected by the earthquake

22 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies ONFERENCES and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. The speakers dis- ENTER FOR (cont. part 3) cussed some of the religious developments in the area, but also ways in which C AIWAN STUDIES religious traditions (Japanese to the public and were covered by the local press. th th T On March 19 and 20 , the ISF Endowed Chair in Shinto Studies organized an international workshop on “Dialogues with the Divine: Agencies The main theme of these two issues was of the Sacred in the Broader East Asian Region.” The event was sponsored by “Folk Ballads in Taiwan,” and featured the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, the Department the translations Wilt L. Idema, Profes- of Religious Studies, and the East Asia Center. This two-day workshop gathered sor of Chinese Literature at Harvard international experts to discuss various understandings of “gods” (Chinese shen; University. The translated editions of Japanese shin or kami; Tibetan lha) in the broader East Asian region (which these works are published here for the includes China, Japan, Tibet, and Mongolia). Papers focused on the notions of first time and the CTS and the Taiwan “gods” as they are envisioned, represented, and addressed in the traditions that Literature: English Translation Series generally fall under the rubric of “Buddhism,” “Daoism,” and “Shinto” in history. is very excited to offer readers exclu- The workshop addressed avenues of inquiry such as discursive catego- sive access to Prof. Idema’s translations. th ries, typologies, and/or representations of “gods”; specific strategies of inter- In celebration of the 10 anniver- action according to different classes of divine beings; religious specialists in sary of the establishment of the Center st charge of interaction with the deities; cartographies of the divine landscape for Taiwan Studies at UCSB on June 21 nd (inner, outer, or transmundane); ontological understandings of “gods” and and 22 the CTS hosted and co-spon- th their subcategories (including, for instance, distinctions between “gods” and sored the 19 Annual Conference of the “buddhas”); social and political ramifications of divine agencies and their North American Taiwan Studies Associa- relative discourses. Although the range of approaches and topics addressed in tion (NATSA). The theme for this year’s this workshop were fairly diverse as based on specific case studies, all contri- conference was “Taiwan in Theory.” In butions examined more general patterns in the relationships between prac- addition to the presentations offered by titioners and the divine in both their ritual and conceptual components. international scholars and conference participants, UCSB faculty presenters in- The international group of par- cluded Professor Mayfair Yang (Religious ticipants was composed of Mayfair Yang, Studies and EALCS), Professor Michael UCSB; Vesna Wallace, UCSB; Dominic Berry (EALCS), and Professor Pei-te Lien Steavu, UCSB; Gregory Hillis, UCSB; (Political Science). Professor Kuo-ch’ing Ana Paula M. Gouveia, University of São Tu (EALCS), Director of the Center for Paulo; Matthew Kapstein, École Pratique Taiwan Studies, delivered opening re- des Hautes Études, Paris; Christine Mol- marks. More than 100 scholars, research- lier, Centre National de Recherche Scien- ers, and members of the UCSB commu- tifique, Paris; Anna Andreeva, Heidelberg nity attended the conference, which was University; and Fabio Rambelli, UCSB. jointly sponsored by the Center for Tai- Lastly, as part of the ongoing series wan Studies, the Institute of Taiwan His- of “Lectures on Japanese Religions” the ISF tory at Academia Sinica, and the North Chair in Shinto Studies organized and wel- American Taiwan Studies Association. comed a lecture by Dr. Bernhard Scheid of Last but not least, the Cen- the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna ter for Taiwan Studies and the Institute on “Shrines Vs Shinto: The Impact of the of Taiwan History (ITH) at Academica. Nonreligious Shrine Doctrine on Mod- ern Interpretation of Japanese Religion. The lecture took place on April 25, 2013.

University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2013 23 Emmerich (UCSB), Dr. Hoyt Long (University of Chicago), Japan Foundation Dr. Edward Mack (University of Washington), Dr. Hoyt Long Summer Institute 2013 (University of Chicago), Dr. Edward Mack (University of Wash- ington), Dr. Luke Roberts (UCSB), Dr. Katherine Saltzman- Li (UCSB), Dr. Ann Sherif (Oberlin College), Dr. Nathan Shockey (Bard College), Dr. Ellis Tinios (Honorary Lecturer From May 31 to June 2, 2013, the Department of East Asian in History, University of Leeds), Dr. Robert Tuck (University Languages and Cultural Studies hosted the third Japan Foun- of Montana), Dr. Umetada Misa (Waseda University), Dr. dation Summer Institute, “Histories of the Japanese Book: Wada Atsuhiko, (Waseda University), Dr. Marcia Yonemoto Past, Present, Future” (http://historyofthejapanesebook.wee- (University of Colorado, Boulder), and Dr. Jonathan Zwicker bly.com/). Organized by Michael Emmerich and Katherine (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Graduate students and Saltzman-Li with invaluable assistance from EALCS gradu- postdocs included: Dr. Molly Des Jardin (Harvard University ate student Suzy Cincone and the participation of 2013 Ja- Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies), Kazuko Hioki (Uni- pan Foundation Visiting Scholar Professor Wada Atsuhiko versity of Kentucky), Judit Erika Magyar (Waseda University), of Waseda University, the Summer Institute was a core ele- Nakano Ayako (Waseda University), Steffen Remvik (Univer- ment of the final year of a three-year Japan Foundation Insti- sity of Oslo), Travis Seifman (University of California Santa tutional Project Grant whose overarching title was “Bringing Barbara), and Momoko Welch (Arizona State University). Politics Back into Cultural Studies.” In addition to funding Over the course of three days, this diverse group of from the Japan Foundation, the three-day program was sup- scholars and graduate students participated in an intensive, ported by generous contributions from Takashima Endowed collaborative exploration of the past, present, and future of Chair John Nathan, the East Asian Languages and Cultur- books, magazines, journals, printing, publication, circula- al Studies Department, the Interdisciplinary Humanities tion, censorship, reading practices, library collections both Center, the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for inside and outside Japan, and online databases and other re- Asian Studies, and the UCSB College of Arts and Science. sources. They also considered the ways in which the shifting One of the main purposes of the Summer Institute nature of our relationship to different bibliographic forms was to bring both UCSB faculty and outstanding graduate (woodblock printed books, typeset books, microfilm, online students into contact with some of the top scholars of Japa- databases) have helped structure and will continue to trans- nese literature, history, and art history from the US, Japan, form notions of Japan, Japanese studies, and knowledge more and Europe, as well as with advanced graduate students and broadly. In this sense, in addition to providing a forum for postdocs from other institutions elsewhere in the US and in sharing cutting-edge research in the increasingly important Japan. The remarkably generous funding we received made field of book history in the context of Japanese studies, the it possible for us to put together a program featuring no less Summer Institute also gave participants an occasion to reflect than twenty-five presentations on topics ranging from early upon one of the fundamental conditions of their work—to modern books for women to the reading practices of Japanese focus their attention, for a few days, on the medium rather soldiers during World War II and the present and future of than on the message, or on the medium as part of the message. the digital humanities. All in all, there were seventeen pre- The EALCS Summer Institute series was an element sentations by scholars from across the US, from Japan, and of the three-year Japan Foundation Institutional Project Sup- from England, and eight by graduate students and postdocs port Program Grant in Japanese Studies, with matching funds from the US, Norway, and Japan. Junior and senior scholars generously provided by Dean David Marshall (Humanities and who presented included: Dr. Mary Elizabeth Berry (Univer- Fine Arts). Luke Roberts (History) serves as PI for the grant and ad- sity of California, Berkeley), Dr. Chad Diehl (Emmanuel Col- ministered the first year program under the theme “Nationalisms lege), Dr. Brian Dowdle (University of Montana), Dr. Michael of Japan” (http://www.j-culturalstudies.ucsb.edu/year1.htm).

24 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Graduate Updates: Japan Foundation Summer Institute - continued from page 24

The second year’s activities, which had the theme “Modes of Japanese Multi- AVID ULL culturalism: Coexistence and Marginality,” were overseen by ann-elise lewallen D N. C. H (EACLS) and Nathaniel Smith (EALCS). The organizers would like to extend their special thanks to Suzy Cin- cone (EALCS Ph.D. candidate) for going above and beyond as Graduate As- sistant, and to express their gratitude to the Japan Foundation, Takashima En- dowed Chair John Nathan, the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC), the College of Letters and Science at UCSB, the Northeast Asia Coun- cil of the Association for Asian Studies, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies (EALCS) for providing additional funding.

I came to the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2001, after spending a year teaching English in northeast Chi- na. I wasn’t entirely sure what field with- Michael Emmerich in China studies that I wanted to pursue, but I was interested in everything. For- tunately, UCSB let me follow all manner of wild ideas. Of course I studied lan- guage with Sharon Yu, Hsu Laoshi, and the entire Chinese language team, but I also studied poetry and classics with Ron Egan; translation with Tu Kuo-Ch’ing, John Nathan and Michael Berry; narra- tive and religion with Bill Powell; theory with Sabine Frühstück; history with Ji Xiao-bin; and anything else I could get from any of the other incredible people there at the time. This is to say noth- ing of what I learned from this cohort... Discussion Panel

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University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2013 25 ENTER FOR (cont. part 4) AVID ULL CTAIWAN STUDIES D N. C. H (cont. from page 25 sidebar) Sinica is the most preeminent academic ...of graduate students that I worked with in our shared office in the HSSB institution in the Republic of China and building. What success I have encountered can be traced directly to the incred- was founded in 1928. The Institute of Tai- ible education and care I received at EALCS. wan History (ITH) is the world’s leading In particular, what I believe that EALCS instilled in me is a healthy ap- research institute dedicated to the study preciation for the value of truly broad learning. When I had come to UCLA, of Taiwan’s history and scholarly historical I had an interest in almost all aspects of Chinese culture, but very little focus research in the sciences and humanities. in any one. EALCS was able to stoke my interest in many directions, but the This collaboration, founded on people there were also able to guide me toward where my real passion was. the principle of reciprocity and the in- Through the EAP program, I was able to spend a summer at Beijing Normal tention to enhance relations between University, followed by an academic year at Peking University. I took classes in the two institutions, seeks to promote language and in International Relations, while at the same time, I was learning academic and cultural interchange in the more about the modern context of a rapidly changing China. When I returned areas of education, research, and other from China, and moved into my MA work, I worked as a reader and a teaching scholarly activities that advance the in- assistant in classes on religion and history. In the end though, Ron Egan’s kind ternationalization of Taiwan Studies. attention and critical standards were instrumental in helping me discover that The areas of cooperation will include any modern literature was exactly where my passion was and were it remains. program offered at either institution that I was awarded my MA in 2006, and was fortunate enough to be ac- is felt to be desirable and feasible for the cepted into the Asian Languages and Cultures PhD Program at UCLA. After development and strengthening of co- a particularly engaging seminar on the modern literature canon with Ted Hut- operative relationships between the two ers, I became fascinated with an issue I hadn’t run into before: the rewriting institutions. However, any specific pro- of fiction. Several authors of revolutionary fiction rewrote their texts after the gram shall be subject to mutual consent, establishment of the People’s Republic of China. Most interesting to me was the availability of funds, and approval of each work of Mao Dun, a literary critic turned author who would become the first institution. Such programs may include: Minister of Culture of the PRC. Because of his history as a literary critic, Mao a) Exchange of faculty b) Exchange of Dun had very specific theoretical goals when he finally began to write fiction. students c) Joint research projects d) Co- As a committed leftist (and one of the very earliest members of the Communist sponsorship of workshops and confer- Party), he was also determined that his fiction would promote the revolutionary ences e) Exchange of academic materials goals he himself espoused. His early novels were popular and influential when On January 11, 2013, the letter of they were written in the late 1920s, but despite this success, or perhaps because Intent for this agreement was signed by of it, in the 1950s he heavily edited them. The comparison between the original Dr. Fabio Rambelli, Chair of the Depart- text (out of print since the 50s and difficult to find) and the post-revolution text ment of East Asian Languages and Cul- provides an intriguing view of the narratives that Mao Dun held and promoted tural Studies at UCSB, Dr. Kuo-ch’ing Tu, at these two dramatically different times. Director of the Center for Taiwan Studies In the process of my research, I became drawn in particular to the mid- at UCSB, Dr. Hsieh Kuo-hsing, Director of dle novel of Mao Dun’s Eclipse trilogy: Waverings. The more I read of the novel, ITH, and Dr. Shi-yung Liu, Deputy Director the more I felt that it was a unique piece of Mao Dun’s work and it needed to of Academic Affairs at the ITH. These same be translated. With the encouragement of the late Michael Heim, I applied for signatories signed the formal agreement and received a PEN Translation Award, and set to work on the translation of the for the collaboration on June 21st, 2013 at novel. Thanks to the generous help from Ted Huters and Michael Heim, I was the 19th annual North American Taiwan able to complete a draft translation of the novel. Chapters of Waverings have... Studies Association Conference at UCSB. Graduate profiles: David N. C. Hull continued on page 27

26 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies DAVID N. C. HULL Graduate Updates: Eileen M. Otis ...appeared in serial in the journal Rendi- tions, and it will be published complete as a stand-alone volume by the Chi- nese University of Hong Kong next year. My current research continues to be based on translation and the ques- tioning of narratives. I am currently translating a satirical kung-fu novel writ- ten in the 1930s by the brilliant satirist Zhang Tianyi. In this novel he lampoons the crooked nationalism and misguided myth-making that marked the late Re- publican Era. Of course, many of these themes are relevant today, and I hope that a translation will find a home in Mod- It’s hard to believe it’s been fifteen years since I graduated with my M.A. ern Literature syllabi when I have finished. from East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at U.C. Santa Barbara (1999). After receiving my PhD in 2012, I The academic support I received from faculty mentors such as Hyung Il Pai, have been lecturing at UCLA and in the Ron Eagan, and Sharon Yu provided an invaluable start to my career as a so- fall of this year I will begin a three-year ciologist of modern China. At EALCS, I first cultivated my Chinese language Visiting Professorship at the University of skills, developed a deep familiarity with Chinese history and refined professional Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. It under their expert guidance. The East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies seems like such a long time since I began Program offered skills and training that gave me a distinct edge and focus when my BA work in Santa Barbara, but I remem- I entered my Ph. D. program at U.C. Davis. ber it clearly and fondly. I can only hope After I graduated I received a Ph.D. in Sociology in 2003, I landed a that I will be able to show my students at tenure-track job at State University of New York at Stony Brook which I de- UPS a fraction of the kindness, diligence ferred for one year to take up an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard and high expectations that were given University. Eventually I migrated back to the West Coast, to take up my current to me by the wonderful people at UCSB. position at the University of Oregon, where I am an now an Associate Professor. My first research project examined China’s emergent consumer service sector, focusing the role of the new consumer service work sector in constructing a feminized workforce and at the same time creating a set of jobs that are low- wage and “dead-end” for women whose mothers worked in farms and factories. Women are pushed out of work at the first sign of “maturity,” around their late 20’s leaving them with few opportunities for promotion. In my book, Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in Urban China (Stanford University Press 2011), my chapters focussed on urban women’s work experiences in two global luxury hotels, in two different cities, as well as migrant women’s employment experiences in the urban informal sector restaurants, bars, beauty salons and coffee shops. Women who were raised by farmers and factory workers didn’t exude the kind of feminine deference and charm hotel and restaurant managers sought to draw customers into their new service industries. At hotels, managers spent

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University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2013 27 ESEARCH RESOURCES R& SERVICE Last year we had trials for four Japanese da- (cont.) tabases. Thanks to many who have sent in Eileen M. Otis positive feedback and recommendation, we considerable time teaching urban women workers how to re-enact “Orientalist” were able to work with other UC campuses visions of “Asian” feminity for the tourist gaze. They trained young women how to negotiate favorable terms to make three of these databases available to the Japa- to wear tight clothes, sway their hips when they walked, to smile at the right nese studies community at UCSB: time, to make eye contact with customers, to wear makeup, shower regularly, etc. Portraying feminine norms as “natural,” even as new workers’ bodies did 1. 雑誌記事索引集成データベース not conform to them, has been a technique adopted by managers to stigmatize (The Complete Database for Japanese Mag- women who did not represent the imported body norms. Women in one hotel azines and Periodicals from the Meiji Era to where sex workers were also working, sought to moderate their presentation of the Present by Koseisha) femininity to distinguish themselves from this stigmatized class. 2. Asahi Shinbun of Pre-war Showa Period Meanwhile, migrant women working in the informal sector weren’t (1926-1945) & Asahi Shinbun of Meiji and subject to direct managerial interventions also began to alter their “presentation Taisho (1879-1926) of self.” Rather as they worked among customers they sought to be acceptance 3. Japan Knowledge: Japanese studies ref- among urbanites as social equals and altered their bodies to emulate their own erence sources such as encyclopedias, dic- perception of urban femininity, putting on makeup, donning platform shoes tionaries, and databases, including Nihon and endeavoring to be “soft” (wenrou 温柔). Their efforts were unsuccessful for Kokugo Daijiten, Rekishi Chimei Taikei, Kô- they tended to adopt styles of dress and manners that betrayed their rural ori- dansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Nihon Dai Hyakka Zensho, Jitsû, Gendai Yôgo no Kiso gins. Ultimately, I argue that the texture of work is deeply affected by the con- Chishiki, e-book of Tôyô Bunko series, e- sumer markets dictated by respective service outlets. The markets themselves journal of Shûkan ekonomisuto and etc. are constructed through the various presentations of femininity on offer in each service venue. Despite the distinctive styles of femininity on offer in each mar- As for Chinese resources, we have added ket, I found that forms of bodily discipline enforced across all the workplace I two new electronic databases: studied represented emergent norms of femininity expected for all women in 1. Apabi Digital Resources: A collection of contemporary China. Markets and Bodies recently won a major book award ebooks, reference works, and yearbooks. It from the Sex and Gender section of the American Sociological Association. includes more than 5,000 titles of e-books Currently I am continuing to research service labor but now in the larg- on a variety of subjects, including literature, est retailer in the world: Walmart. With near saturation of its domestic markets, art, history, politics, language, etc.; more Walmart has expanded abroad as to sustain corporate growth. China’s urban than 90 titles in 700 volumes of statistic year- centers are important new markets. China’s economy, even during the global books on economics and social conditions; recession, continues its rapid development and consumer spending has reached and more than 700 titles of reference works record levels. Observing Walmart’s adaptation to the Chinese marketplace has on all subjects. New titles are being added been fascinating. Of course the chain caters to local tastes and sells live fish and continuously on an annual basis. turtles for eating from tanks, six types of fresh seaweed, fresh pork dumplings 2. Dragon Source: Provides access to 1000 and egg and leek pancakes (one of my personal favorites). Unlike its U.S. Chinese popular magazines and journals stores, Walmart tends to cater to a middle and upper class market in China. such as 收获，当代，读书，新华文摘 in full Given recent concerns about food safety in China, it explicitly markets itself text. They can be read from cover to cover as a reliable source of unadulterated food. Each store hires about 200 direct in image file as a print copy in its entirety, or in text format, which offers “copy & paste” workers and hosts an array of sales agents that can number between 200 and as well as “search” functions. Print copies 400. Despite is well-off target consumer base, workers are paid minimum wages of these titles have been canceled because and have unreliable schedules that make it difficult to sustain any activity that the subscription lapse has gotten worse requires concrete time commitments, like attending school. This summer vaca- over the past year – a delay of six months or tion, I am currently in Beijing conducting an ethnography of a major Walmart more on average. outlet. continued on page 29

28 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies ESEARCH RESOURCES R& SERVICE (CONT.) More content has been added to the Su- perStar e-book database. Six other UC East As I look back on my academic journey, I feel enormous gratitude for the men- Asian libraries are purchasing e-books to torship and guidance I received from the faculty at U.C. Santa Barbara. It was add to SuperStar. It currently has more than an ideal place to build an intellectual and practical foundation for sociological 52,000 Chinese e-books. Because of con- research in China. tractual limitation, for now only about 1,000 titles have been cataloged and are search- able through the UCSB online catalog. All Eileen M. Otis (EALCS MA 1999) the others can only be found at the Super- Associate Professor of Sociology Star website: www.chinamaxx.net. University of Oregon The National Index to Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals (NICNP) database provides access to articles from about 15 thousand newspapers and periodicals from 1833- 1992. It has a very good document delivery system. If you find any articles useful, please request it by clicking on the icon in the last column, filling in your name and e-mail ad- dress. Remember to send Cathy Chiu an e-mail ([email protected]) about your request. I need to go into the account and authorize the payment for the document de- livery. It is a free service to UCSB users.

Duxiu also provides document delivery ser- vice for not only Chinese articles, but also Chinese theses and dissertations. You can request document delivery directly without going through a librarian.

Eileen M. Otis Markets and Bodies Stanford University Press http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=18491

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