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Official Conference Proceedings 1 ISSN: 2187 - 4751 The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2013 Official Conference Proceedings Osaka, Japan
The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies
Osaka Japan 2013
The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies
Conference Proceedings 2013
Dr Shamim Ali Professor June Henton Lecturer, Dean National University of Modern Languages, Pakistan College of Human Sciences Auburn University, USA Professor David N Aspin Professor Emeritus and Former Dean of the Faculty of Professor Michael Hudson Education, Monash University, Australia President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Visiting Fellow, St Edmund's College, Cambridge University, Economic Trends (ISLET) UK Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City Dr William Baber Associate Professor Vice-Consul Kathryn Kiser Kyoto University Graduate School of Management, Japan Cultural Affairs Officer, Lahore, Pakistan The United States Department of State, USA Professor Don Brash Former Governor of the Reserve Bank, New Zealand Mr Shahzada Khalid Former Leader of the New National Party, New Zealand Deputy Director Adjunct Professor, AUT, New Zealand & La Trobe University, SAARC Energy Center, Pakistan Australia Mrs Eri Kudo Lord Charles Bruce of Elgin and Kincardine Head Private Sector Fundraising Lord Lieutenant of Fife United Nations World Food Programme Japan, Tokyo, Japan Chairman of the Patrons of the National Galleries of Scotland Professor Sing Kong Lee Trustee of the Historic Scotland Foundation, UK Director The National Institute of Education, Singapore Professor Judith Chapman Professor of Education, Australian Catholic University, Dr Woon Chia Liu Australia Associate Dean, Practicum and School Partnerships, Teacher Visiting Fellow, St Edmund's College, Cambridge University, Education UK The National Institute of Education, Singapore Member of the Order of Australia Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd Professor Chung-Ying Cheng Senior Scholar in Residence, The Needham Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA Institute, Cambridge, UK Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Chinese Philosophy Fellow and Former Master, Darwin College, University of Cambridge Professor Tien-Hui Chiang Fellow of the British Academy Professor and Chair, Department of Education Honorary Foreign Member, The American Academy of Arts National University of Tainan, Taiwan/Chinese Taipei and Sciences
Mr Marcus Chidgey Dr Robert Logie CEO, Captive Minds Communications Group, London, UK Associate Professor of Computer Science Osaka Gakuin University, Japan Professor Kevin Cleary President of the Japan Association of Language Teachers Dr David McLoughlin (JALT) Associate Professor Meiji University, Japan Professor Steve Cornwell Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies Professor Vasile Meita Osaka Jogakuin University, Osaka, Japan General Manager Osaa Local Conference Chair The National Institute for Research and Development in Construction, Urban Planning and Sustainable Spatial Professor Michael A. Cusumano Development (URBAN=INCERC), Romania SMR Distinguished Professor of Management and Engineering Systems, Professor Keith Miller MIT Sloan School of Management Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Computer Science The University of Illinois Springfield, USA Professor Dexter Da Silva Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Technology and Society Professor of Educational Psychology Keisen University, Tokyo, Japan Professor Marjo Hannele Mitsutomi Head of English Language Teaching Practices and the Professor Georges Depeyrot Language Development Intercultural Studies Center Professor and Director of Research Akita International University, Japan French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)/Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France Professor Ka Ho Joshua Mok Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, Associate Vice- Professor Sue Jackson President (External Relations) Professor of Lifelong Learning and Gender Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Pro-Vice Master of Teaching and Learning The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong SAR Birkbeck, University of London, UK
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Dr Jo Mynard Mr Lowell Sheppard Associate Professor & Director of the SALC, Kanda University Asia Pacific Director of International Studies, Japan HOPE International Development Agency, Canada/Japan
Professor Michiko Nakano Professor Ken Kawan Soetanto Professor of English Professor and Director of CLEDSI Director of the Distance Learning Center Waseda University, Japan Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Dr Jeffrey Sommers Ms Karen Newby Associate Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin- Director Milwaukee, USA Par les mots solidaires, Paris, France Visiting Faculty, Stockholm School of Economics, Riga, Latvia Professor Jerry Platt Professor of Business, His Excellency Dr Drago Stambuk Akita International University, Japan, Croatian Ambassador to Brazil Dean and Professor Emeritus, College of Business, San Brazil Francisco State, USA Professor Mary Stuart Professor Michael Pronko Vice-Chancellor Professor of American Literature and Culture The University of Lincoln, UK Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan Professor Gary Swanson Professor Richard Roth Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence & Mildred S. Hansen Senior Associate Dean Endowed Chair Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Qatar The University of Northern Colorado, USA
Professor Monty P. Satiadarma Dr David Wilkinson Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer in Psychology Associate Dean (International & External Programmes) Former Deanof the Department of Psychology and Rector of Faculty of Law and Management the University La Trobe University, Australia Tarumanugara University, Indonesia Professor Kensaku Yoshida Mr Michael Sakamoto Professor of English Interdisciplinary Artist Director of the Center for the Teaching of Foreign UCLA, USA Languages in General Education Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan Mr Mohamed Salaheen Director Mrs Elly Zaniewicka The United Nations World Food Programme, Japan & Korea Political Correspondent BBC Political Programmes, London, UK
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Reading Chinese Painting: Antonello Trombadori's China and the Limits of the Contemporary Francesca Pierini Philippe Major pp. 8-19
Becoming-other to Belong: Radical Eco-Cosmopolitan Subjectivity in Jeff Noon's Nymphomation Emma Nicoletti pp. 20-26
Surrogacy on Stage. Theater, Movies and Documentaries about Assisted Reproduction, Kinship and (be)longings Karen Hvidtfeldt Madsen pp. 27-36
Debating `Culture´ between Performing Artists and the Goethe-Institut Grit Köppen pp. 37-47
The Analysis of the Vientiane’s 450 Year Anniversary Logo: Reflections of Lao's Culture and Society Nattapong Yamcharoen pp. 48-55
Ikebana to Contemporary Art: Rosalie Gascoigne Shoso Shimbo pp. 56-65
Drugs, Racial Stereotypes, and Suburban Dystopia in Showtime's Weeds Douglas Forster pp. 66-78
Old Communities, New Buildings: Decoding the Home-imagining Narratives of Taiwan's Military Dependents' Communities Pei-Ling Lee pp. 79-87
Ethnoarchaeology of Ancient Falconry in East Asia Takuya Soma pp. 88-102
The Life Cycle Rites of the Tatars-krjasheny: Sociocultural Characteristics (the 20th Century) Larisa Lepeshkina pp. 103-109
Gender and Multiculturalism at School – The Migrant Girls’ Voices Ana Borges pp. 110-120
Cosmopolitanism's Double Gesture: Diasporic Chinese Writers Lynn Pan and Hong Ying Weimin Delcroix-Tang pp. 121-128
Cheats, Thieves and 'the Kids': Electronic Dance Music and Technological Change Jonathan Yu pp. 129-137
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Two Waves of Transformation and Construction of Lepcha (Mon) Identity in Sikkim: An Assessment of Intra-Community Divide Ananta Swarup Bijendra De Gurung pp. 138-149
Growing with Time: By the Study of the Cultural and Spacial Representation of Three Government-Run Immigrant Villages in Hualien, Taiwan Hsin-Yun Lee Hui-Wen Lin pp. 150-163
Pessimism about the Jurisgenerative Effects of Human Rights: Ishiguro’s Bleak Cosmopolitan Vision in Never Let Me Go Paul Minford pp. 164-174
Drawn In: Drawing Practice in a Cross-cultural Context in Australia Li Wenmin pp. 175-184
Jeanette Winterson’s Stone Gods as Trans-world and Trans-gender Dystopia Michaela Weiss pp. 185-193
A German Fountain in the Ottoman Capital Ceren Göğüş pp. 194-205
Keeping Simulacra at Bay by Embracing Hybridity: Manufacturing a Sacred Body through a Modern Amalgamation of the Kamis and Buddhas (shinbutsu shūgō) Dominick Scarangello pp. 206-219
Atmospheres of Belonging. The Aesthetic Qualities of the Japanese Installation "wasted" on (in) Fertility and American Videoblogs (vlogs) about IVF on YouTube Nathalie Wind Soelmark pp. 220-251
The Heritage of Great "Kyai Besali", Ponorogo. A Community Action Plan for Religious Heritage Retno Hastijanti pp. 252-246
Tolerated, if Discreet: 1960s Filipino Gays Jonathan Foe pp. 247-259
The Influence of Cultural Aspects on Risk Communication in the Context of Indonesia Suranti Trisnawati pp. 260-269
Educative Approach To The Functions Of The Thumb In Piano Playing Ozgur Mert Esen pp. 270-284
From Dashing to Delicious: The Gastrorgasmic Aesthetics of Contemporary BL Manga Antonija Cavcic pp. 285-295
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On the Edge and in between: The Predicaments of Taiwanese Subjectivity Reflected by "Cape No. 7" and Its Aftermath Chia-fung Schuemann-Lin pp. 295-302
Management of Refugees through Intercultural and Interfaith Dialog Atik Krustiyati pp. 303-313
Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Legacy? Brahmanical Ceremonies of Tri-yumpawai and Tri-pawai in Bangkok Revisited Ruchi Agarwal pp. 314-322
Language, Identity and Sense of Belonging: The Case of Chinese in South Africa Ke Yu pp. 323-335
Mindfulness and the Creation of a New Identity: Recovery from Addiction in the Context of Buddhist Modernism Iljas Baker pp.336-346
Stream, or Continuity: Comparing the idea of time-consciousness in Natsume Sōseki and William James Annette Thorsen Vilslev pp. 347-356
The Posthumous Life of Agnes Smedley, a Cosmopolitan “Spy”: China’s Cultural Memory and Amnesia Xiaoqing Zhang pp. 357-364
Local Images in National and Global Contexts: The Shifting Significances of Hakka Folk Songs Hui-Yun Yang pp. 365-372
Factors Associated with the Perceived English Competency of Chinese International Students in ESL/EAP Classrooms: The Influence of Motivation, Social Networks and Beliefs on Authority Eva Wang Veronica Newton Hisako Matsuo Diana Pascoe-Chavez pp. 373-389
Quality of Contact between Community Members and Bangkok Metropolitan Police Kasemsarn Chotchakornpant Suebsakul Khemtong pp. 390-405
ASEAN and the EU:Arts and Culture Festivals as Tools to Promote Regional Identity? Enrique Banús Irusta David Ocón Fernández pp. 396-406
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Are We There Yet? Understandings of Home Among Compulsive Migrants Carol Neuschul Lindner pp. 407-418
The multicultural celebrities or Asia in Warsaw Wiesław Godzic pp. 419-428 Exploring the Empty Space Nataliya Rozhin pp. 429-446