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East Asia Center Non-Profit Org. University of Washington U.S. Postage Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies PAID Box 353650, Thomson Hall, Room 301 Seattle, WA Permit No. 62 Seattle, WA 98195-3650 EAST ASIA CENTER WINTER 2010 Asian Languages and Literature: Achievements and Challenges 1 Asian Languages and Literature: Achievements By Michael Shapiro and Challenges The past year has been an exciting 2 The Problem with China’s one for the University of Washington’s Urban Population Data Department of Asian Languages and 4 The Meaning of the Literature. The year has marked the Electoral Victory of the centennial of the establishment in 1908 Democratic Party of Japan by the University’s Board of Regents 6 United Nations Secretary- of a Department of Oriental History, General Ban Ki-moon Literature, and Institutions, headed by Visits Seattle the Reverend Herbert H. Gowen. That Department is the forebear not only of 7 Gardner Center for our own department, but also of the Kaoru Ohta presents a lecture to first-year Japanese language students. Asian Art and Ideas Jackson School of International Studies Launched at the Seattle and the Department of Slavic Languages and Asian language, culture, and civilization has had on Asian Art Museum Literatures. The year has also marked the 40th the UW campus over the past century. 8 Program Updates anniversary of the existence of our department in its It should be no surprise that virtually everything current form, namely as an autonomous department about the study of Asian languages and cultures has 10 Events in the Humanities division of the College of Arts and changed since the Reverend Gowen’s time. In the first 11 Global Asia Institute Sciences. In its present form, the Department has year for which we have catalogue records (1909-10) Founded been the unit on campus most centrally involved after the founding of the new department, the Rev- 13 2010 Summer Study Abroad with teaching and service with regard to representa- erend Gowen was listed as teaching two courses in FLAS FELLOWS tive languages and literatures of East, South, and each of the two semesters of the academic year. The 14 New Confucius Institute Southeast Asia. It has been a fundamental aspect four courses were (1) China, Japan and Korea, their UW - East Asia Center FLAS Fellows for the Academic Year 2009-2010 of Washington State of the Department’s mission that it not only teach history, literature and religious systems; (2) European a broad range of courses to enable students to de- conquests in Asia; (3) the literature of Persia; and Student Department Language 15 Faculty Publications velop practical skills in particular languages, but also (4) the primitive civilization of the Euphrates and Emily Anderson History Korean EAST ASIA 16 FLAS Fellows to treat Asian languages and literatures in a broad Nile valleys, their history, religions, literatures, and Renee Balog Asian Languages and Literature Chinese CENTER humanistic context, taking care to examine them monuments. By the next year, 1910-11, a totally with reference to the cultures and cultural traditions different roster of courses was offered. Expanded Dillon Brown Jackson School - Japan Studies Japanese UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON within which they exist and have developed. During now to three courses per semester, the Reverend Hudson Hamilton Law Japanese this past year, there has been a wide-spread celebra- Gowen’s teaching load comprised the classical Cindy Huang Art History Japanese William Lavely, Director tion on campus of the significance of the University literature of Japan, Buddhism as a philosophy and Samuel Lederer Jackson School - Japan Studies Japanese Mary Bernson, Director, of Washington’s accomplishments in Asian studies a religion, the classical literature of India, a history East Asia Resource Center during the past century. The organization of the of Semitic archaeology, elementary Sanskrit, and Frances Li Asian Languages and Literature Japanese Kristi Roundtree, Associate Director well-attended Centennial Lecture Series, sponsored elementary Hebrew. Clearly, the Reverend Gowen’s Dierdre Martin Jackson School - Japan Studies Japanese EAST ASIA by the UW’s Alumni Association, and the awarding of purview was broad and extraordinary. But within a few Diane Atkinson, Outreach Coordinator Bradley Murg Political Science Chinese CENTER the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Award to the UW’s decades after the establishment of the Department, Sara Caka, Program Coordinator Japan Studies Program in recognition of the UW’s such a one-man operation charged with providing Kristian Petersen Near and Middle East Studies - Interdisciplinary Program Chinese UNIVERSITY OF Peyton Canary, Program Associate long-standing contribution to Japanese studies, both instruction with regard to the languages, history, Mariko Troyer Jackson School - Japan Studies Japanese WASHINGTON bear witness to the important place that the study of (continued on page 12) jsis.washington.edu/eacenter/ EACnews Spr10.indd 1 12/23/09 9:15 AM faculty publications Harrell, Stevan. Christina Y. Chan and Stevan Oshima, Ken Tadashi. Arata Isozaki, London: Harrell, “School Consolidation in Rural Sichuan: Phaidon, March 2009; “Complexities of the Quality vs. Equality,” in Ann Maxwell Hill and Collage: Yamawaki’s Der Schlag gegen das Zhou Minglang, eds., Affirmative Action in China Bauhaus,” in Wolfgang Thöner, ed., Bauhaus: The Problem with and the U.S.: A Dialogue on Inequality and A Conceptual Model, Berlin: Hatje Catz, 2009, China’s Urban Minority Education. New York: Palgrave pp. 323-29; “Yamada Mamoru: From the Japa- Population Data Macmillan, 2009, pp. 143-164; “In Memoriam: nese Secessionists to the International Style,” G. William Skinner, 1925-2008,” China Quarterly, Yamada Mamoru no kenchiku: Ima ni ikiru, By Kam Wing Chan Vol. 198, 2009, pp. 453-458; “Reading Noda, Japan: Nodashi hakubutsukan, 2009, Threads: Dress, Identity, and Ethnicity in South- pp. 81-99; Text entries and essay on Japanese How big are Chinese cities? It is an important west China,” in Thomas Klobe, et al., eds, Writing modernism, in Patrick Goode, ed., Oxford Com- issue, but also a complicated one. It is not With Thread: Southwest Chinese Textiles from panion to Architecture, Oxford University Press, uncommon to hear that Chongqing is “the the Evergrand Collection, Honolulu: University 2009; “Spatialities of Suit-Case Architects,” in largest city not only in China but in the world”, Bi, Nyan-Ping. Integrated Chinese, Level 2, of Hawai’i Press, 2009, pp. 98-110; Zhou Jilly Traganou, ed., Travel Space Architecture, with a population in excess of 30 million. Part 1, Textbook, Workbook, and Character Yingying, Han Hua, and Stevan Harrell, “From London: Ashgate Publishing, 2009; “Watanabe But any Chinese citizen will tell you that Workbook, 3rd edition (co-author), Boston: Labor to Capital: Intravillage Inequality in Rural Yoshio’s Photographs of the Okada House,” Shanghai, with a real urban population of Cheng & Tsui Company, July, 2009; Integrated China, 1988-2006,” China Quarterly, Vol. 195, Impressions, Vol. 30, Spring 2009, pp. 81-86; around 14 million, is larger than its supposed Chinese, Level 1, Part 2, Textbook, Workbook, September 2008, pp. 515-534. “Testing the Limits of Inhabitation,” Column competitor in China’s southwest. Problems and Character Workbook, 3rd edition 5, Vol. 22, 2008, pp. 36-37; “Dynamics of a Hou, Jeffrey. Julie Johnson, Laura Lawson, and with the true city population size of Chongqing Migrant workers in Shantou in southern China. The author lived in Shantou as a child. (co-author), Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, Boundary Surface,” Hitoshi Abe: A-slash, Ann Jeffrey Hou, Greening Cities, Growing Communi- and other Chinese urban centers reflect the December, 2008. Arbor: Michigan Architecture Papers, Autumn ties: Learning from Seattle’s Urban Community fact that China has a highly, and probably based on “city districts” or by objective (1.8 million) and actual population (8.1 million) 2008, 58-61. Bogel, Cynthea. “Why So Blue?: Transforming Gardens, Seattle: University of Washington the most, complex urban and city statistical criteria such as the density of population and in the city district boundary of Shenzhen, for Mandala and Mandala Concepts in Early Heian Press, 2009. Taylor, Veronica. “From Manners to Rules: the data in the world. Confusion over urban buildings (called “urban statistical areas”), example, was 6.3 million in 2005. Japan” in Youngsook Pak, ed. Esoteric Art and Reregulation of Japan,” in John Gillespie and population sizes arises because the boun- as shown in Table 1. In the past, most of the Different statistical approaches to calcu- Mack, Edward. Manufacturing Modern Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan, New Randy Peerenboom, eds., Pushing Against daries of large Chinese cities typically city districts were largely urbanized, but they lating urban populations matter because they Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming 2010; Globalization: Regulation in Asia, New York: encompass an urbanized core surrounded are increasingly not in the last ten years or can have a huge impact on economic planning the Ascription of Literary Value, Durham: With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icon and Early Routledge, 2009; “Send Lawyers, Guns and by numerous scattered towns and large so. Based on the urban statistical areas and business decisions. Table 2 shows the Duke University Press, forthcoming 2010; “The Mikkyô Vision, Seattle: University