Center2008 for East Asian Studies University of Kansas | 2008 Annual Report Letter from the Director was a year of intense China (Ret.) Joseph Babb, Instructor, Command celebration of this major milestone. 2008watching as the world and General Staff College; and moderated Megan Greene, Associate Professor of counted down to the opening of the by Arienne Dwyer (Anthropology). History, will take the helm of the Center Olympic Games in Beijing. For CEAS, the “Olympic Spotlight on Tibet” combined a on January 1, 2009. I speak for the 2008 Olympics provided an exceptional film screening with a panel discussion by entire membership and staff of CEAS in opportunity to engage the community three members of the KU faculty (page 3). welcoming Megan and saying how much in events and dialogues about East Asia. Amid the special events, regular we look forward to working with her as The centerpiece was “Olympian Desires: programs continued, with a full roster of she charts the course for the Center’s Building Bodies and Nations in East “Tea & Talk” presentations by KU faculty future. Asia,” an international conference that and visitors. And as always, we punctuated explored the political, economic, and the year with festivals. CEAS greeted the —Marsha Haufler cultural impact of the Olympic Games Year of the Rat in early February with a Acting Director on East Asian host nations (page 7). The cheerfully noisy party featuring dumplings Beijing Olympics also inspired a CEAS and a martial arts theme to kickoff the film series on sports in Asia, a summer Olympic year. We welcomed new faculty CEAS Staff book discussion group focused on Beijing and students at the fall CEAS potluck (organized by CEAS community outreach held at the old Lawrence train station, Acting Director coordinator Leslie vonHolten with the where we surprised Bill Tsutsui with the Marsha Haufler Lawrence Public Library), and radio CEAS Staff Appreciation Award. Our spots on contemporary China written and second annual Mid-Autumn Festival was Associate Director presented on Kansas Public Radio by an elegant garden party with music by the Megan Greene Megan Greene (History), John Kennedy Kansas City Chinese Musical Ensemble, (Political Science), Marsha Haufler (Art ancient and new moon poems, tea and Accountant and Office Manager History), and Richard Schrock (Biological moon cakes, and a spectacular appearance Jun Fu Sciences, Emporia State University). by the guest of honor, the full moon. CEAS also presented two special Cultural events like the Lunar New CEAS K–12 Outreach Coordinator; programs in response to issues in the Year’s party and Mid-Autumn Festival KCTA and KCIES Outreach news. “More at Stake than the Olympics: are entirely supported by donations from Coordinator Power and Influence between China and Friends of CEAS. We are profoundly Randi Hacker Post-Soviet Central Asia” featured a talk grateful to the generous individuals who by Professor Morris Rossabi of Columbia make it possible for CEAS to continue CEAS Post-Secondary, Community, University, and a panel discussion with to offer these very successful outreach and Media Outreach Coordinator Rossabi; Brigadier General Mark E. programs. Leslie vonHolten O’Neill, Deputy Commandant, U.S. Army 2009 will be the 50th anniversary of Command and General Staff College, Ft. CEAS, and fittingly, a new director will Associate Program Staff Leavenworth; Lieutenant Colonel come on board in time to launch the Executive Director, The Confucius Institute at the University of Eurasian Security Symposium Kansas Sheree Welch Willis

Associate Director for Education, KU Confucius Institute; Associate Director, KCTA Nancy Hope

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Tel: (785)864-3849 Fax: (785)864-5034 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.ceas.ku.edu In May, KU Anthropology Associate Professor Arienne Dwyer moderated a panel discussion focusing on CEAS publishes electronic and geopolitics between China and Post-Soviet Central Asia. printed newsletters that provide up- Panelists were Lt. Col. (Retired) Joseph G.D. “Geoff” Babb to-date information on CEAS events and Brigadier General Mark E. O’Neill of the U.S. Army and news. To sign up, please contact Leslie vonHolten at [email protected], Command & General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, and (785) 864-1457. Prof. Morris Rossabi of the City University of New York. Tibetan Cultural Exchange EAS faculty members will partner with the Mayul Gesar Foundation, a charity run Cby Tibetans in Qinghai, China, to develop an arts curriculum at a newly founded Tibet in the Curriculum school for the local Tibetan population. The Mayul Gesar Foundation and its American branch, the Blue Valley Foundation, Tibetan studies are growing at KU, with founded the Mayul Multi-Disciplinary Technical School in 2008 to preserve Tibetan Tibetan language taught on two levels culture and help diversify the local economy. The U.S. State Department’s Ngwang by Ven. Champa Tenzin Lhunpo; Eric Choepal Fellowship Program will allow CEAS faculty to take part in this 2-year, Rath’s HIST 603: History of Tibet; and $215,000 cultural exchange program. Deborah Peterson’s EALC 331: Tibetan Eric C. Rath, Associate Professor of History; Yoonmi Nam, Associate Professor of Oral Literature, is being introduced in Art; Sooa Im, graduate student in Art History; and Champa Tenzin Lhunpo, lecturer spring 2009. in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, will take part in the program. During their residence in Qinghai in 2009 and 2010, they will work with the staff of the Mayul school to survey traditional Tibetan arts and crafts. Their goal will be to better Recent Events promote and preserve the rich cultural history of the Golok region and to advise and May 5: Political tensions between assist the school staff in developing a modern educational curriculum, particularly in the Tibetans and Chinese officials inspired area of the traditional arts. The group also hopes to enhance and modernize art training. KU History Associate Professor Eric The goal is to provide important vocational skills for the young Tibetan students so Rath to organize “Olympic Spotlight they will have the opportunity to become financially independent working professionals on Tibet,” a panel discussion with KU in the local community. History Associate Professor Yang Lu “Hopefully my experience as an artist and teacher with a diverse cultural background and Tibetan language instructor Ven. will be of help in assisting the Tibetan teachers in developing a modern art curriculum Champa Tenzin Lhunpo. for their students without imposing our ways of education on them,” said Nam. “I want to find a good balance that could include positive aspects of education from both our cultures.” The grant from the Ngwang Choepal Fellowship also will allow five Tibetan students from the Mayul school to study at KU in the spring of 2010. They will take courses in English As a Second Language and in areas related to their needs and interests, such as fine arts, business, or education. CEAS faculty participating in the project have formed a study group to survey the culture and history of the region. This group will continue to meet through the duration of the project, serving as a forum and link between the Mayul school and KU in the future. Future plans for collaboration include the development of a web site to promote and exhibit works from the Mayul school, a traveling exhibition to introduce Western August 28: Tibetan artist Gonkar audiences to Tibetan culture from Golok, and the establishment of a service-learning Gyatso spoke about the evolution of program at the Mayul school for KU students. For updates and more information, visit his work in a series of lectures and the Mayul School Project blog at http://mayulschool.wordpress.com/. receptions in conjunction with the Spencer Museum of Art and the H&R Block Artspace of Kansas City.

November 20: Lecture by Hungkar Lunch with Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche (seated, center), president of the Dorje Rinpoche, president of the Mayul Mayul Gesar Foundation. Left to right: Deborah Peterson (EALC), KU student Tashitso, Marsha Haufler (CEAS, Art History), KU student Bianba Gesar Foundation and abbot of the Ciren, Eric Rath (History), KU student Sooa Im, Yoonmi Nam (Art & Thubten Chokorling Monastery. Design), Bruce Nelson, and Peter Allen Roberts. Our Faculty Faculty and Staff Awards

CEAS Advisory Committee Awards Promotions The CEAS Faculty Service Amy McNair (Art History) Award was given to Bill Full professor Tsutsui (Associate Dean of International Studies, Yong Bai (Civil, Environmental, & Architectural CLAS) for his contributions Engineering) to the Center, including Associate professor with tenure co-organizing with Michael Baskett April’s international Arienne Dwyer (Anthropology) conference, Olympian Dreams: Associate professor with tenure Building Bodies and Nations in East Asia. Megan Greene (History) Associate professor with tenure Research Travel Grants were awarded to Sanae Eda Thomas Huang (Design) (EALC), Sherry Fowler (Art History), Jie Han (Civil, Associate professor with tenure Environmental, & Architectural Engineering), Thomas Huang (Fine Arts), Yi Jin (Economics), Maki Kaneko Jie Han (Civil, Environmental, & Architectural (Art History), Pok Chi Lau (Fine Arts), Yoonmi Nam Engineering) (Fine Arts), Akiko Takeyama (Anthropology), and Associate professor with tenure Yanbing Zhang (Communications). Bill Tsutsui (History) Course Development Grants were awarded to John Associate Dean of International Studies, College of Kennedy (Political Science) and Yang Lu (History). Liberal Arts and Sciences Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award Kemper Fellowships John Head (Law School) received a Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award to teach and conduct research Raj Bhala (Law at the University of Trento in northern Italy, where School) was he will teach a course on international economic law recognized for his and institutions, including several lectures on Chinese many academic dynastic law. activities, including creation of a program Lawrence Public Schools Friend of Education that allows international Randi Hacker (CEAS K-12 Outreach Coordinator) students with prior was recognized as a Friend of Education for her law experience to presentations ranging from calligraphy, martial arts, and obtain a degree music demonstrations to Chinese, Korean, and Japanese that entitles them to language introductions, as well as her assistance to take bar examinations in the United States, as well as a teachers during course preparation. certificate program in international trade and finance.

Annual Faculty Potluck

As the new academic year begins, CEAS faculty and graduate students take a moment to catch up after the summer break and welcome new instructors and students. Canda Receives Woodyard Award d Canda (Social Welfare) received the 2008 George and Eleanor Woodyard International EEducator Award in September. Canda’s extensive international experience includes helping the School of Social Welfare develop relationships with Korean universities, conducting a study abroad program for social welfare students in Korea, infusing his courses with international perspectives, advising international doctoral students, and researching cross cultural subjects. His international scholarly work includes receiving the Most Outstanding Academic Book on Social Work in Translation from the Republic of Korea National Academy of Scholars for his translated book Spiritual Diversity in Social Work Practice. The Woodyard award recognizes faculty who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in Prof. Canda describes his nong- strengthening KU’s international dimension in such areas as curriculum development, study ak drumming style prior to his abroad programs, relationships with international partner institutions, and collaboration with demonstration at the Korean international colleagues in significant research and publications. Cultural Show last summer. Canda is the fourth CEAS faculty member to be given the Woodyard award. Past recipients are Bill Tsutsui (History, 2007), John Head (Law, 2006), and Marsha Haufler (Art History, 2004).

Li Joins EALC Faculty Local Food Project Connects

an Li, Assistant Professor Kansas with Japan Yof East Asian Languages & Cultures, Chinese, earned her PhD embers of the CEAS faculty are playing key roles in a new in second language acquisition from Mpartnership linking Kansas and Japanese farmers. the University of Southern California. Global Partners for Local Organic Foods: Connecting the U.S. Her dissertation, “The Negation- and Japan through Kansas and Saitama recently earned a funding award from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership numerical NP Interaction in Non- (JFCGP) of New York and Tokyo. The project co-directors are Native Chinese: UG, POS Problem, Patricia Graham, CEAS Research Associate, and Dan Nagengast, and Syntactic Analyses,” explores Director of the Kansas Rural Center for the American side. the influence of native language Japan-side coordinators are Satoko Miyoshi, Association of English and universal grammar on International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements the acquisition of non-native Chinese. (IFOAM), and Takao Shibata, KU Chancellor’s Lecturer and Her research interests include second former Consul-General of Japan for Kansas City. language learners’ interpretation of negation and negation-related The project seeks to develop innovative responses to problems phenomena in their second language (Chinese). in modern food systems through cross-cultural dialogues between Prior to KU, Li served as a lecturer at the University of farmers, NGOs, and policy makers in two agricultural heartlands: Southern California, teaching the first 2 years of Chinese The Kansas River Valley, centered in Douglas County, Kansas, language, as well as business Chinese. She developed teaching and Saitama Prefecture in Japan (northwest of Tokyo). materials for the second-year Chinese course. Li has also taught Reciprocal fact-finding visits between the team members will at the Chinese School of Middlebury College and Princeton in begin in 2009, during which time public programs will introduce Beijing. the project and its goals to local residents. Following the visits, During the spring 2009 semester, Li will teach CHIN 564: each team will strategize and develop pilot projects to spread Modern Chinese Literature, as well as first-year Chinese interest in organic, locally produced foods in their respective language. communities. Li’s research in linguistics has been published in the The project acts on warnings by economists and social Proceedings of the 18th (2006) and 17th (2005) North American scientists that local agriculture is disappearing from these places, Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Applied Linguistics (2:16–20, evidenced by the decline of rural communities, the low rate of 2000), and Track on the Road of Research (Beijing Broadcasting food self-sufficiency, and other dire statistics. The goal is to shed University Press, 1999). light on common problems and suggest solutions applicable not only to Kansas and Saitama Prefecture, but others in the In her free time, Li enjoys hiking, swimming, and cooking developed world. In particular, the partners will be exploring Chinese food for her friends. ways to further interest in smaller-scale, organic farming and the establishment of personal relationships between food producers and consumers. The grant will allow the two groups to strategize together, share successful ideas, and think in a global context about local issues. Follow the group’s progress at www.gplof.org. (The web site will “go live” in late February 2009.) OurYamamoto Faculty receives Career Achievement Award n September, the College of Liberal Acceptance speech by IArts and Sciences recognized long- Akira Yamamoto, Professor time CEAS member Professor Emeritus Emeritus, Departments of Akira Yamamoto with the CLAS Career Anthropology and Linguistics Achievement Teaching Award. Although Professor Yamamoto’s primary scholarly Throughout my teaching life at focus was on Native American languages, KU and also at the University he devoted much time and energy to of Arizona Summer Institute, I teaching East Asian studies. Together have worked with students and with his wife, Professor Emerita Kimiko Native language community Yamamoto, he taught courses on Japanese peoples in the areas of linguistics, folklore, popular culture, and lifestyles linguistic anthropology, bi- and and led seminars on Edo period culture multi-lingualism, and language and space in Japanese culture. He also education. Many people have asked taught “Structure of Japanese” and me why I chose this particular trained numerous graduate students in field of linguistic anthropology. It Japanese linguistics and anthropological started when I was a very green research on Japan. In accepting the graduate student in linguistics. I Career Achievement Award, he reflected needed to take one required course on the nature of teaching and the evolution on “Field Methods in Linguistics”—at the time there were two sections of this course: of the field of Native American linguistic one was taught by a linguist who specialized in African languages, and the other by a anthropology. We share these reflections linguistic anthropologist who worked with Native American languages. I happened to here, slightly abridged, along with a take the latter, which opened my eyes to see the vivid figures of the people who use the portion of the introduction given by languages. This single teacher in a single course set my vision and career. Jim Mielke, Chair of the Department of At the beginning, working with Native language communities was rough: we Anthropology. heard ambivalent feelings toward academic professionals. Members of the language communities expressed negative feelings toward linguists, anthropologists, and From the introduction by academic professionals in general, and, unfortunately perhaps motivated by self- Jim Mielke protection, the negative images of academics were sometimes perpetuated by academic Throughout his entire career, Akira held professionals themselves. a joint appointment in the Departments Gradually the thinking of linguists and anthropologists changed from “doing research of Anthropology and Linguistics. He on the people for scientific purposes” to “doing research for the people” and then to is one of the world’s leading experts in “doing research with the people of the community”—reciprocity has become the basic the area of language preservation, and principle of “doing linguistics” in Native communities. in recognition of his research, Prof. [Around 1993] I saw the birth of trusting and trusted relationships among the Native Yamamoto received a prestigious Higuchi language teachers and linguists. All of us, the staff and participants at the Summer award in 2004. Institute, knew why we were there, and I am happy to say that this communal bond has In addition to his outstanding record kept on growing stronger and stronger. Out of this institute, the KU students I worked as a researcher, Prof. Yamamoto is highly with have become professionals (linguists and educators). Many of the participants are regarded as an inspiring teacher and actively engaged in language teaching, and they are strong advocates of their ancestral mentor. His many honors include the languages in their own communities. Native American communities themselves have W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching changed, and they welcome the academics as co-workers and team members of the Excellence, the Byron T. Schutz language maintenance and revitalization projects. Distinguished Teaching Award, the KU But one thing remains unchanged: once a teacher, we are always a teacher! Recently, Mortar Board Outstanding Educator I received a phone call from a Lakota grandmother in Manitoba, Canada, who was in my Award, and the KU Louise E. Byrd classes many years ago. She called to ask me to prepare together, with her methods and Graduate Educator Award. In addition, materials, for her teaching of her Native language at a university. She is 72 years old and he was named Outstanding Linguistics going strong. Educator by the International Conference Teaching is one of the few fields where teachers and learners grow together in of Native American Language Issues their understanding of the particular fields beyond cultural and age boundaries. I have Institute. been very fortunate to be surrounded by great colleagues in an environment where Professor Yamamoto is truly a teacher- they support one another, bound by the commitment to learn together, from and with scholar in the finest tradition. I have each other and from and with students. Our legacy lives on in the young, younger, or, personally learned much from him over sometimes, older people whose lives we have touched. the past 31 years. Akira, thank you. And, as a student said in an evaluation, “Akira, you rock!” “Olympian Desires” Explores Sports in East Asia

Modernity”; Grant Goodman (KU), “Japan, the Philippines, and the Far Eastern Olympics of 1934”; Jessamyn Abel (Bowling Green), “When Athletes Are Diplomats: Competing for World Opinion Left: Michael Baskett at the Tokyo Olympiads”; and (KU), co-organizer of Aaron Skabelund (Brigham the “Olympian Desires” conference. Below: Young), “Public Service/Public Aaron Skabelund Relations: The Deployment of (Brigham Young) and the Japanese Self-Defense Force Grant Goodman (KU). for the Tokyo Summer and s China prepared for the Beijing Sapporo Winter Olympics.” AOlympics, 12 scholars from On the last day, the spotlight around the globe gathered at KU for shifted to Korea and China, with the conference “Olympian Desires: presentations by Lisa Davis (UCLA), Building Bodies and Nations in East Asia” “Cultural Policy and the 1988 Seoul organized by William Tsutsui (History) Olympics: Policing the National Body”; and Michael Baskett (Film) for CEAS. James P. Thomas (Sogang), “Anticipation, The conference opened on April 10 Attainment, and Aftermath: The Legacy with a keynote address by Andrew Morris of the 1988 Seoul Olympics and Its (California State Polytechnic, San Luis Monumentalist Aesthetics”; Xu Guoqi Obispo): “Why Are They so Far ahead of (Kalamazoo), “The Olympics and China’s Us?: The National Body, National Anxiety, Internationalization”; and Jennifer and the Olympics in China.” Hubbert (Lewis and Clark), “The Olympic The next day, John D. Horne City As Spectacle: Beijing.” (Edinburgh) and Lisa Neirotti (George The papers will appear in a Washington) addressed broad issues raised volume edited by Tsutsui and by the Olympics in East Asia, speaking on Baskett. “Sports, Mega-Events, and the Shaping “Olympian Desires” was of Urban Modernity in East Asia” and co-sponsored by the KU “Understanding Olympic Spectators’ College of Liberal Arts and Spending Behavior and Strategies Sciences, Hall Center for to Maximize Olympic Economic the Humanities, Confucius Opportunities,” respectively. Four Institute, and Kansas speakers focused on Japan: Barak Kushner Consortium for Teaching (Cambridge), “Going for the Gold: Health about Asia. and Sports in Japan’s Quest for

Korean Culture Show Part of Social Welfare Conference

youth-serving professionals; a 3-day scholarly conference with presenters from South Korea, the United States, and Canada (about 55 attendees); and a post-conference field trip for the Korean participants. The conference included a Korean Culture Show in the evening, which was open to the public. Featuring local and regional performers of traditional arts he University of Kansas School of (such as samul nori percussion) TSocial Welfare hosted an international and customs, it attracted over 400 conference in July 2008, “Positive Youth attendees. The faculty host was Development through Strengths and Professor Edward Canda, and the Spirituality: Perspectives from Korea main organizer was Dr. Jeong- and North America.” It included a 5-day Woong Cheon, both of the School pre-conference training program for 22 of Social Welfare. CEAS was a participants from South Korea who were co-sponsor of the conference. Our Faculty 2008 CEAS Faculty Updates Yong Bai (Civil, Environmental, & a presentation at the 36th World Congress suffering can be eliminated. She finished Architectural Engineering) gave a talk, of the International Association of an article, “Coercive Courtship Strategies “Modern Bridges of China,” in the Kansas Hydrogeologists in Toyama, Japan. and Gendered Goals in Classical Japanese Union on October 9th. This talk was based He currently is pursuing research Literature,” which is a sequel to “The on the outcomes of a 2007 NSF workshop opportunities with groundwater Value of Vulnerability: Sexual Coercion in China, which included three Chinese hydrologists at the National Central and the Nature of Love in Japanese Court and five U.S. universities. In 2008, Bai University in Taiwan and the China Literature” (Journal of Asian Studies, was promoted to associate professor with University of Geosciences in Beijing. 1999). In September, Childs competed in a tenure. This research is directed at developing 2-day, 80-mile competitive Kentucky trail new field methods for groundwater ride on her Appaloosa gelding. They didn’t Michael Baskett (Theatre & Film) was hydrologists for activities ranging from place, but they completed the ride and had invited by the Council on East Asian characterizing conditions at sites of a fabulous time doing it. Studies, Yale University, to speak as part groundwater contamination to estimation of their Japan Colloquium Series and of groundwater consumption by plants. Vickie Doll (East Asian Library) has been participate on a panel for the Ozu Yasujiro the Chair of the Council on East Asian Retrospective film series. His paper was Edward Canda (Social Welfare) Libraries (CEAL) Statistics Committee titled “Building Blocs: Nagata Masaichi taught Spiritual Diversity in Holistic since 1999. In 2008, the committee and the Creation of Transnational Film Social Work at Ritsumeikan University completed input of retrospective data Consensus in Cold War Asia.” In April, (Japan) during the summer and served published from 1957 to 1998, which Baskett and Bill Tsutsui co-organized as a keynote speaker at a symposium on means that the CEAL database now an international symposium, Olympian holistic education. In the spring, he co- includes North American East Asian Desires: Building Bodies and Nations in hosted faculty and students from Hallym library and museum statistical data from East Asia. Baskett also presented papers at University (Korea). Canda delivered a 1869 to 2007. The database site was two conferences: “Modernizing Pan-Asian new study abroad course in Korea with selected as one of the top 1000 resources Film in Cold War Asia,” presented at Cold Hallym faculty and gave two presentations by the Asian Studies WWW Monitor. Doll War in Asia: The Cultural Dimension during the summer. He also published recently completed her paper on 50 years (National University of Singapore) and three articles and obtained a grant from of the KU East Asian Library, which “Ire and Desire: 1920s Japanese Film the Shumaker Family Foundation that commemorates the library’s first librarian, Journalism on Hollywood, Transnational will partly support East Asia projects. He Karl Lo, who passed away in 2007. Her Stardom, and Colonial Modernity” at received the KU Woodyard Award for article will be included in a book featuring Border Crossings: Rethinking Early Excellence in International Education in the top 20 East Asian collections in Cinema (University of California, August 2008. North America. Doll’s daughter JoAnn Berkeley). Both papers are being revised is a senior at Lawrence High School and for publication. So-Min Cheong (Geography) returned is studying Mandarin Chinese this year this fall after a year of research leave with the Confucius Institute via distance Raj Bhala (Law School) published the at Stanford working on adaptation to learning (IDL) technology. Dictionary of International Trade Law environmental change, such as coastal and (LexisNexis), as well as International climate change and energy efficiency. As Arienne Dwyer (Anthropology) was Trade Law: Interdisciplinary Theory for work on East Asia, she has focused on elected 2008 Chair of the Linguistic and Practice (3rd edition), International social consequences of Korea’s oil spill Society of America’s Committee on Trade Law Supplement (3rd edition), that occurred in December 2007. Cheong Endangered Language Preservation. and the accompanying Teacher’s Manual is also interested in embarking on new Also, in May 2008 she did fieldwork (LexisNexis). He published an article, research on Japan’s energy efficiency and with colleague Mucaram Toktogulova on “Virtues, the Chinese Yuan, and the its transferability to the United States. language attitudes in southern Kyrgyzstan American Trade Empire” in the Hong while based at a health spa, which was a Kong Law Journal, as well as articles in Maggie Childs (East Asian Languages lot less cushy than it sounds. the Saint Louis Public Law Review and the & Cultures) replaced Keith McMahon Loyola University Chicago International as department chair after 12 years Robert Fiorentino (Linguistics) Law Review. Bhala gave presentations at of effective leadership. She led 17 presented an invited talk at the 45th the International Bar Association annual participants in the Summer Study Program Annual Meeting of the Academy of meeting (Buenos Aires, Argentina); the in Hiratsuka, Japan. Adventures included Aphasia, titled “Processing of Compound Law Firm of Heenan Blaikie (Toronto, four students missing curfew in Kyoto; Words: An MEG Study.” He published Canada); Saint Louis University Law a visit by police for fireworks on the 4th a magnetoencephalographic (MEG) School (St. Louis, Mo.); and Loyola Law of July; and a deeply moving visit with brain imaging study on visual word School (Chicago, Ill.). an atomic blast survivor in Hiroshima. In recognition, “Masked Repetition Priming March, Childs presented a paper at the Using Magnetoencephalography,” in the Jim Butler (Kansas Geological Survey) University of Colorado, Boulder, titled journal Brain and Language (Monahan, completed his service as the Henry Darcy “Embracing Suffering,” which looks at the P., Fiorentino, R., & Poeppel, D.). In Distinguished Lecturer of the National ways Japanese literature values suffering, October, Fiorentino presented a paper, Ground Water Association with contrary to the Buddhist attitude that “Dissociating Morphology, Form and Meaning in Compound Processing,” at Conference of the Association for Asian Marsha Haufler (Art History) gave two the 6th International Conference on the Studies in Hilton Head, SC, and read a talks in May, “East Meets West: Qing Mental Lexicon. He was also awarded a paper on humor in the modernist magazine Court Taste and European Style” at the General Research Fund grant from KU Shinseinen (New Youth) in the l920s at the Joslyn Art Museum, and “Alternate to conduct psycholinguistic and neouro- International Society for Humor Studies Realities in Pyongyang” at the Honolulu linguistic research on Japanese word conference in Spain. She contributed Academy of Art. She met with the recognition (“The Processing of Japanese a book chapter to be published in The Honolulu Academy of Art staff to plan an Spoken Compounds: A Cross-method Present State of Japanese Studies (Meiji exhibition of Joseon Buddhist painting. In Approach”). University). Gerbert gave presentations August, Haufler returned to North Korea for the Kansas City Japan Council and to gather material on contemporary North Sherry Fowler (History of Art) traveled the Greater Kansas City Japan Festival; Korean art and architecture. She presented to Japan to consult with specialists; obtain developed the new course, Civilizations the paper “Viewing Paintings in Buddhist research material; and view sculptures, of Japan and Korea, which was taught Monasteries: Episodes from the Ming and paintings, and prints related to her in fall 2008; and was elected to the Qing Dynasties” for Beyond Boundaries: research project, “Accounts and Images Graduate Studies Council. She serves as International Symposium on Chinese and of the Six Kannon Cult in Japan.” The co-director of the Hall Center’s 2008-09 Korean Painting (National Museum of Scuola Italiana di Studi sull’Asia Orientale Globalization(s) Seminar and organized its Korea, Seoul). Her recent research on later (ISEAS) and École Francaise d’Extrême- September event, The Beijing Olympics Chinese Buddhist painting also appears in Orient (EFEO) in Kyoto invited her and the Global Community. “Sino-Tibetan Tangkas of the Chenghua to give a talk, “The Power of Six: The and Zhengde Periods in Western Six-Syllable Sutra Ritual Mandala and Megan Greene’s (History) monograph, Collections” (Palace Museum Journal, the Six Kannon.” She presented the paper The Origins of the Developmental State in October 2007, in Chinese; a revised “Ningai, Six Kannon, and the Mandala Taiwan: Science Policy and the Quest for version in English is forthcoming in for the Six Syllable Sutra Ritual” at the Modernization, was published by Harvard Artibus Asiae); “A Vaishravana Thangka AAS Annual Meeting in Atlanta and University Press in the spring of 2008. She from the Ming Dynasty” (Orientations, gave a lecture, “Japanese Buddhist Art: was also granted tenure and a sabbatical November 2008); and “Only Fit for the Esoteric and Pure Land Traditions” for the for the autumn of 2008, which she has Monks’ Quarters” (forthcoming, Ars advanced placement Japanese examination spent in London eating well and working Orientalis). readers at the Kansas City Convention on a new project on how history is Center. Two of Fowler’s articles have constructed and narrated in contemporary John Head (Law School) was recently been accepted for publication: “Distance Taiwan. Greene spent part of June in awarded the Fulbright Distingushed Chair Far and Near in the History of Japanese Taiwan collecting material for this project in Law at the University of Trento for Temple and Shrine Precinct Prints” (and, of course, eating well there, too!). spring 2009. In 2008, he completed three (Artibus Asiae) and “Travels of the In January 2009 she will become the books: General Principles of Business Daihoonji Six Kannon Sculptures” (Ars director of the Center for East Asian and Economic Law (Carolina Academic Orientalis). Studies. She is looking forward to working Press); Losing the Global Development with students, faculty, and alumni, and War: A Contemporary Critique of the Alison Gabriele (Linguistics) gave an she welcomes all suggestions on how to IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO invited talk at the conference Mental strengthen and improve the Center. (Brill/Nijhoff); and China’s Legal Soul: Architecture for Processing and Learning The Modern Chinese Legal Identity in of Language, which was held in Sendai, Jie Han (Civil, Environmental, & Historical Context (Carolina Academic Japan, in August. Her talk was titled Architectural Engineering) published Press). Head published articles in the “Mapping Between Form and Meaning: nine journal articles and presented 15 Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy, A Case of Imperfect L2 Acquisition.” conference papers. In 2008, he presented the Human Rights and Globalization Law She also presented a paper, “Can We 24 invited lectures and papers in the Review, and the Journal of the Kansas Predict When ‘Dying’ Will Be Difficult: United States, China, Australia, and Bar Association, as well as prepared two Progressive Achievements in L2 English” Mexico. During the summer, Han lectured revisions to earlier books. In March and at the Boston University Conference at nine universities in China. He received April, he was a Paul Hastings Visiting on Language Development. Gabriele the Miller Scholar Award (KU School of Professor at the University of Hong Kong, published an article (with co-author Junko Engineering) and the Best Paper Award, and in late March he visited both Renmin Maekawa), “Interpreting Tense in L2 Soil Mechanics Section (Transportation (People’s) University of China and Peking Acquisition,” in the EUROSLA Yearbook, Research Board). Han served on several University (both in Beijing). In July, Head and had a second article, “Transfer committees, including the editorial board was awarded the Michael P. Malone award and Transition in the L2 Acquisition of of the Chinese Journal of Geotechnical for leadership in international education. Aspect,” accepted for publication in Engineering; the International Advisory the journal Studies in Second Language Committee, International Symposium on Michiko Ito (East Asian Library) taught Acquisition. Lowland Technology (Busan, Korea); and JPN 598: Anime & Manga in Spring the International Advisory Committee, 2008 with Maggie Childs. The content Elaine Gerbert (East Asian Languages the Second International Conference on was offered as a part of JPN 564 in the & Cultures) used her spring sabbatical to Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster past, but they offered this as a one-credit research the interplay between visual and Mitigation and Rehabilitation (Nanjing, course for the first time, with the hopes of literary culture in Japan during the 1920s. China). In 2008, Han received $245,000 in making it a regular course in the future. She presented a paper, “Adventures in research funding. Ito also wrote an article about the Institute Seeing: Expositions and Shishosetsu As of Pacific Relations, which was based on Museums of the Mind” at the Southeast a conference presentation she delivered several years ago. The article, “The Faculty updates (con’t) “From the Fee-for-Tax Reform to the discussion on “Rocks, Fossils, and Abolition of Agricultural Taxes: The Graduate Studies in China” while at KU. Impact on Township Governments in Japanese Institute of Pacific Relations and Northwest China.” The award came with a Keith McMahon (East Asian Languages the Kellogg-Briand Pact: The Activities 500-pound ($1000) cash prize. & Cultures) presented a paper, “Same- and Limitations of Private Diplomacy,” sex Desire and the Ethics of Equality was finally published this year inHawai’i Chu-tsing Li (Professor Emeritus, Art in Precious Mirror of Boy Actresses,” at the Crossroads of the U.S. and Japan History) was honored in September with at a Stanford University conference, Before the Pacific War. a symposium, A Tradition Redefined: Same Sex Desire and Union in China: Modern & Contemporary Chinese Art, Interdisciplinary and Historical Yi Jin (Economics) visited the largest at the Phoenix Art Museum. Organized Perspectives, May 16-17, 2008; and national medicine enterprise in Shanghai by Janet Baker, curator of Asian Art for presented a one-hour talk in English, this summer for her work on “A Case the Phoenix Museum, the symposium “Lacan’s Theory of Sexual Difference Study of China’s Stock Market and speakers were Hsieh Shih-ying, Yen in Late Imperial China,” to faculty Growth of State-owned Enterprises: Chuan-ying, and An-yi Pan. Li and Judith and graduate students of the Foreign Overseas Listing of Sinopharm Medicine Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor Languages Department of Qinghua Holding Co., Ltd (SMHC).” (SMHC Emerita Marilyn Stokstad also gave University, Beijing, May 27, 2008. is attempting to list its shares in Hong talks, and Robert Mowry and Claudia His new book, Polygamy and Sublime Kong.) Jin studied the underlying reasons Brown led the discussion. The stimulus Passion: Sexuality in China on the Verge and benefits of overseas listing, challenges behind the symposium was the traveling of Modernity, will be published by the SMHC faces, and actions taken to exhibition, A Tradition Redefined: Modern University of Hawai’i Press in 2010. facilitate the listing. Her visit provided and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings a better understanding of the current from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, Amy McNair (Art History) survived her progress of China’s stock market reform 1950-2000. The collection reveals the first year as editor-in-chief of the journal and contributions of stock markets to the most fundamental transformation of Artibus Asiae. She also contributed an development of state-owned enterprises. Chinese painting to date, while tracing the article, “The Ending of the Law and the Jin also attended the Far Eastern meeting personal and professional career of Li. The Hope of Salvation: Some 6th Century of the Econometric Society in Singapore exhibition’s fourth venue will be at the Chinese Buddhist Sculptures in the this July and presented a paper about Spencer Museum of Art. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art” to the foreign direct investment and foreign aid. November 2008 issue of Orientations, William Lindsey (Religious Studies) which is devoted to the Asian collection Maki Kaneko (Art History) gave a gallery spent the summer in Japan and made at the Nelson. Thanks to her promotion to talk to the Town and Gown audience at the sure to take a special trip to wine full professor, she is now the chair of the Spencer Museum of Art. She presented country—Yamanashi Prefecture. While Art History department travel committee! two lectures: “Resounding Spirit: Avant- there he stayed at the temple of Daizenji, garde Art in Post-War Japan” for the a Buddhist temple that serves wine Yoonmi Nam (Art & Design) was Japanese Maintenance Lecture program, made from the temple’s own vineyards invited to show her work at several group and “Sensoga (War Paintings) Past and alongside its excellent vegetarian dinners. exhibitions around the United States and Present” at the Greater Kansas City Japan It is popularly noted for its image of in Seoul, South Korea. They were at the Festival in Overland Park, Kansas. Last Yakushi Buddha holding a bunch of grapes Kwanhoon Gallery and the Museum of summer, she made a research trip to Japan, ready to be made into wine, which puts a Contemporary Art at Hongik University visiting Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Fukuoka, and new, and for Lindsey an agreeable, spin (Seoul); the Institute of Contemporary Nagasaki. Kaneko was awarded a New on Yakushi as the healing Buddha. Before Art at Maine College of Art (Portland, Faculty General Research Fund grant. returning to Lawrence he took an all-too- ME); the Jack Olson Gallery at Northern Based on research conducted in Japan, she short trip to Korea, staying a few days Illinois University (DeKalb, IL); Clara M. is currently working on an article entitled in Seoul and in and around the beautiful Eagle Gallery at Murray State University “New Art Collectives in the Service of the and historical environs of Gyeongju, the (Murray, KY); and the Janet Turner War: The Formation of Art Organizations ancient capital of the Silla Dynasty, near Print Museum (Chico, CA). Full-colored during the Asia-Pacific War.” the southeast coast. catalogs for three of these exhibitions were published. Nam gave visiting John Kennedy (Political Science) was Larry Martin (Natural History Museum, artist lectures at Hongik University and awarded Best Paper at the Association Biodiversity Research Center) continues Hanyang Women’s College in Seoul; of Chinese Political Studies in October. to participate in a number of collaborative Maine College of Art; and Murray State His article, “Legitimacy with Chinese projects in Korea and China. In May 2008 University. The following grants helped Characteristics: ‘Two Increases, One he was visited by Gong Enpu, Dean of fund these research activities: Kansas Reduction,’” was accepted for publication the Graduate School for Northeastern Arts Commission Mid-Career Artist by the Journal of Contemporary China University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, Fellowship, CEAS International Research (2009, vol. 18, no. 60). Kennedy’s book China. Gong leads a research team Travel Grant, General Research Fund, and chapter, “Rural China: Politics and Policy” that includes several KU scientists and the Faculty Travel Award. (William A. Joseph, ed., Politics of students. The research of this group on China), will also be published in 2009 by the origin of flight was featured in a So Yeon Park (Art & Design) developed Oxford University Press.This summer he NOVA program on PBS this last year, and the P.E.A.R.L. Project (Performing to was awarded the Gordon White Prize for Martin, Miao, and Burnham intend to visit Empower Awareness and Reinvent the most original article published in the China in spring 2009 to continue with this China Quarterly in 2007 for his paper, project. Gong Enpu led a roundtable Lives), which was presented at the U.S. State Department Ngwang Choephel City Japan Festival, the Gender Seminar Lawrence Arts Center in November and Fellowship that will allow him and two at the Hall Center, the CEAS Tea & Talk features monologues from inmates and other CEAS faculty members and a series, and the Annual Anthropology parolees from the state’s only all-female graduate student to travel to a Tibetan meeting. She also enjoyed teaching the correctional facility. The performances region of China in 2009 and 2010 and to People of Japan course, in which both are part of a multi-discipline, community- bring five Tibetans to study at KU in 2010. graduate and undergraduate students did based arts project. P.E.A.R.L. creates a The grant will assist in the development a wonderful job. Takeyama is currently non-judgmental space in which these of a school for the Tibetan population in writing a book chapter, “‘Allow Me to marginalized women can discuss and the Golok region of Qinghai province. Dream’: The Art of Seduction in a Tokyo explore issues of identity, societal Besides readying two books on Japanese Host Club,” to contribute to an edited perception, the realities of incarceration, foodways for print, Eric’s publications this volume, Sexing Travel: Intimacy and and their imagined futures after release. year included “The Cultural Significance Subjectivity in Women’s International By using performance art, these women of Large Servings of Food in Japanese Tourism. challenge themselves to find new modes of Cuisine” [in Japanese] for Kokubungaku: personal expression to help reinvent their kaishaku to kanshô (Japanese Literature: Bill Tsutsui (College of Liberal Arts lives. P.E.A.R.L. is a collaborative effort Interpretation and Appreciation) and & Sciences) became Associate Dean involving the Kansas Dept. of Corrections; “Banquets Against Boredom: Towards for International Studies in the College Topeka Correctional Facility; Kansas Understanding (Samurai) Cuisine in Early of Liberal Arts & Sciences in July Reentry Policy Council; Topeka Parole Modern Japan,” Early Modern Japan, vol. after serving as executive director of Office; Arts in Prison, Inc.; the Lawrence 16. the Confucius Institute and chair of Arts Center; the Topeka Shawnee County the History department. He published Public Library; and KU. This project Akiko Takeyama (Anthropology and “Through the Years with Godzilla and was awarded a grant ($11,869) from the Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies) Tora-san: Film Series in Postwar Japan” in Showalter Foundation through Arts in filed her doctoral dissertation in May! Jennifer Forrest, ed., The Legend Returns Prison, Inc. She also conducted follow-up research and Dies Harder Another Day: Essays on on Japan’s host club phenomena in Film Series (McFarland), and wrote four Eric C. Rath (History) will participate July. While in Tokyo, she had the great articles and chapters on topics including in an exchange with farmers in Japan experience of visiting Tsukiji Fish Market, Japanese otaku culture, imperialism and and Kansas in summer 2009 to promote the largest in the world, for the first time. Japanese fisheries, and Asian Americans organic agriculture with funding from the Takeyama had opportunities to share her in Kansas. Tsutsui presented lectures at Japan Foundation for Global Partnership. research project at the Council on East Rice, Brigham Young, Kentucky, SUNY Rath is also principal investigator for a Asian Studies at Yale, the Greater Kansas Buffalo, and Washburn universities, and was a participant in conferences at Indiana and Montana State universities. He served as a reviewer for ACLS fellowships Poetry Under the Moon and Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad, and as a member of the Marshall Scholarship selection committee for the Midwest region. He is currently working on a volume for the AAS series “Critical Issues in Asian Studies” on Japanese popular culture and globalization.

Kyoim Yun (East Asian Languages & Cultures) published “Aspiring to Prestige: On Becoming a Great Shaman in South Korea” in the Journal of Shamanic Practice this summer. She also presented a paper, “A Negotiated Tan’gun Myth: Embedded Tradition in an Interactional Storytelling between Performer and Researcher,” at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco. She especially enjoys teaching at KU because of the wonderful students she meets and their active class participation and respect for others. When she has time, she takes yoga classes and relaxes in the sauna at Body Boutique, then relishes good food at the Merc. She Our second annual Mid-Autumn Moon-Viewing Festival in said, “I knew very little about Lawrence September blended East Asia and Kansas cultures with tea and when I moved here in summer 2007, so mooncakes, “Kansas mooncakes” (donut holes!), music by the I’m still astonished at how quickly I have Kansas City Chinese Music Ensemble, and contemporary and classic come to feel at home here.” poetry inspired by the full moon. Our StudentsStudent Scholarships and Awards Our 2008-2009 FLAS Recipients East Asian Languages & Cultures Awards and Scholarships Robert J. Del Greco (East Asian Languages & Cultures) used his summer FLAS to study fourth-year Mary and Joseph Kuo Scholarship: Given annually intensive Chinese at the Columbia University Summer in memory of Mary Kuo, a former member of the Language Program in Beijing. Lifespan Institute. This year’s recipient was Robert Del Greco. Rachel Voorhies (Art History) studied first-year Japanese at KU with her summer FLAS, and she is Andrew and Lilly Tsubaki Award: Awarded to a theatre currently studying second-year Japanese with her student who plans to participate in a study abroad academic-year FLAS. program devoted to theatre and/or language and culture. The 2008 recipient was Michael Bourbon. James D. Parker (East Asian Languages & Cultures) is studying third- and fourth-year Japanese at Fukuoka Grace Wan Chinese Language Award: For outstanding University in Japan with his academic-year FLAS. work in the Chinese language, in memory of Grace Wan, a former KU professor of Chinese. The award Karin Warch (Art History) is studying third-year this year went to Erin Billing. Korean at Ewha University in Seoul, South Korea, with her academic-year FLAS. Higuchi Japanese Language Award: Given to the best Japanese language students each year in memory of Takeru Higuchi, Regents’ Professor of Pharmaceutical Kleinberg Scholarship Chemistry. The 2008 recipients are Bryce Clark and Lindsay Winder. Rebecca Russell is using her Kleinberg Scholarship to attend the Beijing Institute for Education program. Niswander Dictionary Awards: Established by Rex and Sonoko Niswander, in honor of John Niswander, Okubo Award the award recognizes outstanding achievement in three Asian languages. The winners this year were Sooa Im (Art History), for her paper, “Beyond the Cooper Alton (Chinese), Alicia Cusano (Japanese), Outlandish Charm: Manpukuji’s Eighteen-Arhat Stephan Thrun (Japanese), Peter Mussatto Sculptures.” Named after Genji Okubo, a supporter of (Korean), and Michelle Heitmann (Korean). Japanese studies at KU, the award is granted annually for the best student paper on a topic related to Japan. Nelson Scholarship in EALC: Awarded on the basis of academic excellence in EALC to a second-semester Chinese Government Scholarship junior. The award this year went to Ethan Skinner.

Maria Ahmad (East Asian Languages & Cultures, Scholarships Abroad Chinese; co-major, International Studies) is strengthening her Chinese language skills as she writes an honors thesis Freeman Scholarships about Chinese and U.S. international policies at Beijing Brent Garcia (Fall 2008, University of Hong Kong) Foreign Language University. Kasey Moomau (Academic Year 2008-09, J.F. Oberlin University, Tokyo) Erin Billing (East Asian Languages & Cultures, Chinese) Christopher Mitchell (Academic Year 2008-09, J.F. is researching Chinese women’s literature of the late 19th Oberlin University, Tokyo) and early 20th centuries at Nankai University in Tianjin. Michael Bourbon (Academic Year 2008-09, J.F. Oberlin University, Tokyo) Jacob Fund (Academic Year 2008-09, J.F. Oberlin Amsden Awards for Art History University, Tokyo) Marilyn Stokstad Award: Alison Miller, for her Rebecca Russell (Academic Year 2008-09, CET major contributions to the educational mission of the Beijing) department. Gilman Scholarship Art History Associates Award: Sangnam Lee. Michael Bourbon (Academic Year 2008-09, J.F. Oberlin University, Tokyo) Laurence Sickman Scholarship: Established in honor Rebecca Russell (Academic Year 2008-09, CET of former curator of Chinese art and director of the Beijing) Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Laurence Sickman. The award went to Shuli Han. NSEP Boren Award Scholarship for Academic Excellence in Asian Art Lee “Mickey” Clemon (Academic Year 2008-09, CET History: Shu-yun Ho. Beijing) Japanese Art at the Spencer Our Film Festival(s) This year, CEAS hosted two East Asian Film Festivals: The first centered on Clockwise: Kris Imants Ercums sports in East Asia, and the second gives a gallery talk; So Yeon Park’s expanded media students explored the theme of protest and struggle in a field of sifted revolution in conjunction with other flour during a performance KU area centers piece; expanded media student Jody Wood performs amid the Sports in East Asia Resounding Spirit exhibit in the Kress Gallery. Tokyo Olympiad (Japan) February 26

A State of Mind (North Korea) ris Imants Ercums (Curator of Asian March 1 KArt, Spencer Museum of Art) and So Yeon Park (Art) collaborated for the Wrap Around the World (South Korea) March opening of Resounding Spirit, an exhibition tracing the pioneering use March 2 of abstract art by Japanese artists from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Park’s Game of Their Lives (North Korea) students in Expanded Media staged March 7 performance art works throughout the the gestural, illegible paintings known as Spencer during opening night, which drew “abstracted calligraphy.” Waterboys (Japan) over 300 people. Resounding Spirit: Japanese March 8 Characterized by innovation and Contemporary Art of the 1960s was a growing awareness of international organized by the Gibson Gallery Balls of Fury (China) currents in the art world, groups of young (Collection), SUNY Potsdam, New York. March 13 artists such as Gutai (Japanese Ercums coordinated for “embodiment”) not only Resounding Spirit Revolution in Film flouted previously held for the Spencer notions of art, but transgressed and organized a conventional ideas of practice. complementary Asia The Last Emperor (China) Ideas closely associated with Gallery exhibition. October 6 abstract expressionism inspired a rethinking of traditional Shiri (Korea) calligraphy, which engendered October 20

Crossing the Line (North Korea) November 3 Annual Lunar New Year Party KT (Japan) December 1

The Year of the Rat was welcomed with a celebration of the richness of East Asian food, music, stories, and games. Our audience of over 200 people was wowed by Aikido and Wushu demonstrations in what we billed as our Martial Arts Edition. OutreachOut There With Outreach: A 2008 Retrospective

t was a busy year for CEAS Outreach. brush calligraphy techniques at the Kansas IWe saw a big increase in schools City Art Institute and to the Lawrence interested in our Five Days of Chinese Public Library Chrysalis Club. program, which introduces basic Over the summer, Hacker ran a pilot Chinese vocabulary through activities program called Summer Children’s and songs to young students. Outreach Chinese Choir at Century School and the Coordinator Randi Hacker taught Five Cordley Boys & Girls Club. More than Days of Chinese at KU’s Hilltop Child 40 students in grades K–5 participated. Development Center, the Cordley Boys & They learned several songs and a poem Girls Club, Schwegler and Broken Arrow in Chinese, then performed at three Elementary second graders, and Prairie local retirement communities. This Park Elementary fourth graders. A special heartwarming event was covered by the presentation on the Chinese and Japanese Lawrence Journal World and Channel 6. counting system was given to third graders Teachers were not neglected! CEAS at Deerfield Elementary with the help of sponsored a very successful workshop graduate student Mindy Varner. at the Kansas City Japan Festival, To give older kids the opportunity to “Playdate 2008: Japanese Children’s speak and write in Chinese, Hacker taught Games,” taught by Eda and graduate our Introduction to the Chinese Language students Kikuko Taguchi, Yuki Takahashi, Erika Hirano gives KCAI students pointers course in Lawrence, Topeka, and Kansas and Mishizu Ohtake. Another teachers’ on brush calligraphy techniques. City. workshop, “Negotiating the Peace,” was CEAS Outreach also offered an co-sponsored with the KU Center for abacus demonstration and lesson to fifth Russian, East European, and Eurasian graders at Lawrence’s Langston Hughes Studies. Elementary. CEAS abacus wizard Jun Fu Hacker gave two presentations on East wowed the kids with her flying fingers— Asia this year: one on brush calligraphy she even outdid the math teacher as he at the Kansas Art Educators Association worked problems on the board. Conference, and one about the use of In the spring, Hacker taught our junior literature to teach about East Asia at the high after-school Chinese program at Kansas Council for the Social Studies Southwest Junior High. Former KAS- Conference. China scholar Trent Wilson, after returning And finally, close to 200 people from 2 years in Wuhan, China, taught the attended CLAS Acts: What Makes a course at Central Junior High in the fall. Monster?, a collaboration between the Introduction to Japanese was offered College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the to students at Central Junior High with the Museum of Natural History, and CEAS. help of graduate student Eriko Akaike- Between Bill Tsutsui’s lecture about Toste. Graduate student Ayako Mizumura Godzilla, a fun roaring competition, a introduced Lansing Middle Schoolers to monster hands and feet craft table, and a Ayaka Mizumura demonstrates the art of the art of furoshiki wrapping, and graduate scavenger hunt, the program at Spooner Japanese furoshiki wrapping. student Erika Hirano and KU Assistant Hall was monstrously successful. Professor Sanae Eda helped us teach basic

Postcards from Asia Asian Botanicals on campus Postcards from Asia, the Center’s radio spot that explores the quirkier aspects of both traditional and contemporary East Asian culture, enters its third season with one major change: Bill Tsutsui, the voice of Postcards since its inception, handed the earphones and the seat behind the mic to Randi Hacker, CEAS Outreach Coordinator. You can hear her on KPR twice weekly— Wednesdays at 9:58 PM and Saturdays at 1:04 PM. You Work on our East Asian Botanicals web page continues! can also listen to Postcards online at www.ceas.ku.edu. Follow the link on our web site, www.ceas.ku.edu AffiliateKansas Programs Consortium for Teaching About Asia

t was a big year for the Kansas In cooperation with the KU Department teachers will be able to take the class for IConsortium for Teaching About Asia of Continuing Education, in 2009 KCTA two graduate credits paid for by KCTA. (KCTA). Housed in CEAS, KCTA will take TEA all the way to South Dakota, The big South Dakota kickoff meeting was continues to expand its reach while where the seminar will be offered online held December 13 in Sioux Falls; the class fulfilling its mission of teaching teachers to educators across the state. These begins in January. how to teach about East Asia. In 2008, the KCTA seminar, “Teaching East Asia” (TEA), was offered in south-central Kansas and in Lawrence, both as a face- to-face class and as an online course. In December, the class broke free of its geographic boundaries and went north. Teachers from Andale and other school districts in the Wichita area took TEA concentrate spring 2008. Meeting a total of 12 hours—4 hours on Friday and 8 on Saturday at Andale High School—the group of 14 educators were able to complete the 30–contact hour course in three weekends. The fall 2008 class met Fall 2008 KCTA seminar visits the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. at the KU Edwards campus and boasted a record-breaking 31 participants!

KU East Asian Library uring the fall D2008 semester, Confucius Institute at KU the East Asian Library Database trials included Scripta Sinica, SuperStar ChinaMaxx eBook, and Duxiu database; Apabi Digital Library (eBook, eNewspapers, Art Museum, and eReference); the National Index to Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals; eKorean Studies; and the Korean e-article databases. New database subscriptions are Scripta Sinica, Apabi eBook, eReference (in negotiation), and SuperStar ChinaMaxx eBook (pending), with funding approved by KU Libraries special one-time funds. The Library’s Korean collection was evaluated by Hyokyoung Yi, Korean Studies Librarian from the University of Washington, Seattle. The 2008 Library Travel Grant was awarded to Hua-lun Huang, a KU alumni and associate professor of Sociology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Huang’s research is on female infanticide, runaway wives, “brides” of spiritual marriage, and abducted women in China. The KU Libraries celebrated 2008 International Education Week on Nov. 18 with several events to promote library This year, Sheree Willis was named the new Executive international collections and services. For more information, Director of the Confucius Institute at KU. The institute including the open house event pictures, please visit http://www. enhances understanding of Chinese language and lib.ku.edu/iew/. You can also visit the East Asian Library and culture by offering courses to the public in topics such as International Area Studies Council at KU on Facebook! Mandarin language, Chinese customs, history, and more. Our AlumniKU East Asian Alumni Do Great Things

Michael Bass (1998, MA, Art History) is exhibition of ukiyo-e, which opened Walter Davis (1998, MA, Art History) is vice president, specialist, in the Chinese January 20, 2009, at Ursinus College. He now an assistant professor in the art and Ceramics and Works of Art department is also continuing a project called “Japan design department at the University of at Christie’s. He spends most of his time in the 21st Century: Preparing Teachers Alberta in Edmonton. He is teaching the gathering property for their bi-annual in Philadelphia Area High Schools.” history and historiography of Chinese and sales in March and September and helping The latter project took him to Japan last Japanese painting, calligraphy, prints, and to research and catalogue the material. summer, and will take him there again sculpture. He also teaches the history of “I have been quite lucky and have had in the summer of 2009. Last summer he Buddhist art across Asia. opportunities to travel around the country visited kiln sites in Kwangju, Kangjin, and and to Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and, Ichon in South Korea. Timothy Brian Devine (2005, BA, most recently, to London,” he said. “My EALC, Korean) has been teaching English job allows me to see, handle, and research Paul Clark (MA, EALC; PhD, University in Korea for the past 3 years, serving a lot of material.” Christie’s March 2009 of Pittsburgh) is associate professor of as the head instructor for 2 years. As sale will feature pieces from the Arthur history at West Texas A&M. In April, head instructor, he has monitored and M. Sackler Collections, including an he returned to KU at the invitation of mentored 10 English-speaking teachers in important set of four hanging scrolls of the EALC graduate student association addition to teaching. He is now applying birds and ducks by Bada Shanren, as well to give a talk on his research and offer to graduate programs to pursue a teaching as a number of important early jades and career advice. His talk was titled, “Sacred certificate and Masters of Education. archaic bronzes. Virtue or Chauvinism? Yamada Yoshio He and his girlfriend, Su-jin, who has and the Pre-War Movement to Control a Masters in Korean literature and also Peter Bollig (2008, BA, EALC, Chinese) the Japanese Language.” He also led an teaches English in Korea, will be traveling is in China on the KU Direct Exchange informal discussion of career opportunities through southeast Asia in the next few program with Nanjing University for the available to students who complete the months before returning to the United 2008-09 academic year. MA in an East Asian language. States for graduate study.

Qing Chang (2005, PhD, Art History) is Scott D. Colby (1966, BA, Oriental Paul Dunscomb (2001, PhD, History) is the Helga Wall-Apelt Curator of Asian Art Languages & Literature; PhD, Chinese an associate professor at the University at the John and Mable Ringling Museum History, Columbia University, 1976) of Alaska, Anchorage, and director of the of Art in Sarasota, FL. The Wall-Apelt continues work as an investment advisor new UAA Confucius Institute. In 2008, he collection includes 18th- and 19th-century with New England Financial–Benchmark published “‘A Great Disobedience Against Chinese jades, Southeast Asian bronze Financial, the firm his father started in the People’: Popular Press Criticism of sculptures, and 12th- and 13th-century 1950 in Wichita, which operates today Japan’s Siberian Intervention, 1918–22,” Cambodian stone figures. In a museum as an affiliate of New England Financial in the Journal of Japanese Studies (32:1 press release, Dr. John Wetenhall, the of Boston, MA, and Metropolitan Life [2006], 53–81), and presented “China’s executive director of the Ringling, praised of New York. Colby teaches business Olympic Gamble and Other East Asian “Dr. Chang’s extensive knowledge of college courses on the fundamentals Spectator Sports” at the Alaska World Asian art as well as his experience in a of financial planning. In May 2007 he Affairs Council on February 1. university art museum setting” as “a great was elected president of the National fit for the Ringling Museum.” Association of Insurance and Financial Mary Dusenbury (1999, PhD, Art Advisors of Kansas. He remains engaged History) is a research curator at the KU Frank L. Chance (1976, MA, Art with international affairs as a member of Spencer Museum of Art. On a 2002 History) is associate director of the Center the executive committee of the American research trip to Xinjiang and Qinghai for East Asian Studies at the University Committee on Foreign Relations, a to look at newly excavated textiles in of Pennsylvania. In 2008, he presented national nonprofit organization dedicated the dingy back rooms of museums and a paper on Tani Buncho’s portraits of to advancing public dialogue on foreign archaeological institutes, she found herself Chinese poets at the annual AAS meeting. relations. in the ancient trading city of Kashgar and Currently, Chance is working on an longed to go further west, crossing the mountains to the oasis towns of Central Asia—Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva. We want to hear from you! Finally last spring she did that, traveling You may create and update entries on our Alumni webpage by with a small research team to study emailing Leslie vonHolten, [email protected] contemporary silk production and silk ikat weaving in Hotan (Xinjiang) and We’re also on Facebook! Uzbekistan. In the Ferghana Valley the team found wonderful textiles produced A fun—if somewhat addictive—way to catch up with friends by a medieval network of specialized and network with other professionals in the field. We encourage artisans. Dusenbury rounded out the year everyone to join our group. (In Facebook, simply search “Center for with a symposium panel on this research East Asian Studies, University of Kansas”) (the result of the 2008 investigation and a preliminary trip to Uzbekistan in 2007), three invited lectures, and a short article, Memorial at My Lai” in Studies on Asia of 13 places he is interviewing for a “Archaeological Evidence: Japan,” in Berg (Spring 2008) can be read online at residency, with a specialization in internal Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion http://www.isp.msu.edu/studiesonasia/ medicine. He hopes to pursue a fellowship (vol. 3, 2010). s3_v4_n1/. On her homepage she reports, in preventive medicine with a focus on “My most recent research deals with the international health concerns, particularly Patricia Graham (1983, PhD, Art memorials found at My Lai, Nanjing, among underserved populations. He also History) lectured extensively about Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. While some plans to run his first Boston Marathon this Japanese art, especially on her book may see this as a departure from my April. Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Buddhist work on hell and the grotto site Art, 1600-2005 (University of Hawai’i of Baodingshan, it is in fact an extension Rex Niswander (1976, BA, EALC, Press, 2007). Her research now focuses of my interest in sites as sacred spaces, Chinese) is executive producer at on contemporary Japanese artists effective uses of text and image, and Laughing Buddha Music (http://www. inspired by Buddhism. Graham wrote humankind’s attempts to represent the laughingbuddhamusic.com/). They an essay on the sencha tea ceremony unimaginable” (http://www.stolaf.edu/ released a CD, Night Wheel, which is for an upcoming exhibition on tea at people/kucera/). dedicated to Tibetan children; 10% of the UCLA Fowler Museum; a chapter proceeds will go to the Tibet Fund for the on craftsmanship in Japanese arts for Chengshan (Frank) Liu (2006, PhD, support of the Noenga School for Disabled a forthcoming book on teaching Asian Political Science) is an assistant professor Tibetan Children. Last year, the company Studies through art; and a foreword for a teaching research methods, public opinion, was nominated for a Tibetan Music Award 1935 survey book on Japanese art. She is and political communication at the (“Sort of a Grammy, I like to think,” said now certified by the Uniform Standards Institute of Political Science, National Sun Niswander). Laughing Buddha is also an of Professional Appraisal Practice. In Yat-Sen University (NSYSU), Kaohsiung, official sponsor of the Tibetan Olympics 2008, Graham also became a co-director Taiwan. To keep up with Frank’s career, (http://www.tibetanolympics.com/). of the Global Partnership in Local Foods: check out his website at http://www2. Niswander is a member of the board Japan-Kansas Connections, a program nsysu.edu/politics/liu and vice president/treasurer of the Three connecting organic food professionals Jewels Foundation, a newly formed New in Douglas County, KS, and Saitama Karen Mack (2006, PhD, Art History) York nonprofit whose mission is to support Prefecture, Japan. Last December, she continues to live and work in Japan. Her Tibetans in need and to preserve Tibetan spent 2 weeks in Japan with her husband, article “The Phenomenon of Invoking culture. Said Niswander, “I am glad to be David Dunfield, and son, Lee Dunfield, Fudō for Pure Land Rebirth in Image and involved with the Tibetan cause.” who finished his architecture thesis and Text” appeared in the Japanese Journal of landed a job with an architectural firm in Religious Studies (33/2[2006]: 297–317], Midori Oka (1995, MA, Art History) is Cincinnati. published by the Nanzan Institute for the associate curator of Japanese art and Religion and Culture. museum educator for Asian collections at Will Hedberg (2005, BA, EALC, the Peabody Essex Museum. She curated Chinese) is currently in his fourth year Bruce MacLaren (1999, MA, Art the exhibition “Stage Idols: Japanese of the PhD Chinese language program at History) is curator of Chinese Art at the Kabuki Theater” at the Peabody Essex Harvard. Hedberg writes: “Having just Peabody Essex Museum. An exhibition Museum. As a museum educator, she taken my general examinations, I am he curated, “Perfect Imbalance: Exploring co-authored with her colleagues Peabody beginning dissertation research. I would Chinese Aesthetics,” opened at the Essex Museum Teacher Resources: China, like to focus on 18th- and 19th-century museum and is now in its third rotation. Japan, and Korea. She and Bruce have an Japanese translations of late Ming and In 2007, MacLaren worked with the 8-year-old son, Reed Soen Oka-MacLaren. early Qing Chinese fiction.” He spent 19th- and 20th-century Chinese painting summer 2008 in Taiwan, and is currently and calligraphy exhibition “New Songs Munro Richardson (1993, BA, EALC) living in Yokohama, Japan, where he is on Ancient Tunes” at the Honolulu Art is director of the Kauffman Legacy Fund taking Japanese courses through the Inter- Academy, contributing 30–40 catalog at the Kauffman Foundation, and he is in University Center for Japanese Studies. entries and presenting a paper, “From the the middle of his PhD program in political Imperishable to the Ephemeral: Ancient science at the University of Illinois. He Jermay Jamsu (2006, BA, Anthropology) Scripts in Popular Chinese Culture,” also serves on the advisory board of the is now in the MA/PhD program in which will be included in a symposium Confucius Institute at KU. linguistics at Georgetown University. proceedings publication. In 2008, MacLaren presented a paper at Zhejiang R.D. Andrew Stark (2008, BA, Elizabeth Kindall (2006, PhD, Art University (Hangzhou) on a series of 249 EALC) was recently appointed as an History) is an assistant professor of East paintings that were recently discovered administrative assistant in the Office of Asian Art History at the University of St. in the Peabody Essex Museum’s library. International Programs at KU. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. These paintings were among the first paintings of China’s interior to be Jason Steuber (1996, EALC) is the Steve Kinsella (2001, BA, EALC, displayed publicly in the United States in Cofrin Curator of Asian Art at the Harn Chinese) works for the Social Security the summer of 1796. Museum of Art at the University of Administration. Florida. This year, with Distinguished Ryan Monroe (2000, BA, EALC) will Professor of Religion Vasudha Narayanan, Karil Kucera (2002, PhD, Art History) graduate from medical school at Johns he co-curated “An Ocean of Devotion: has been promoted to associate professor Hopkins this May. He actually finished South Asian Regional Worship with tenure at St. Olaf College in last May, but postponed graduation for Alumni con’t next page Northfield, MN. Her new publication, 1 year in order to pursue research in “Remembering the Unforgettable: The epidemiology. KU Medical Center is one Alumni updates con’t Our Tea & Talk Series

Traditions.” The exhibition focused on challenging in the current environment). Our informal lecture series offers specific deities such as Vishnu, Ganesha, He is also promoting two international university and community members Krishna, and Parvati, and explored golf tournaments and an international an opportunity to learn about and narratives significant in the Hindu beach football tournament. Williams traditions. reports that Hainan is lovely, with clean discuss a broad variety of topics beaches and water, a delightful tropical related to East Asia. Hans Thomsen (1999, MA, Art History; climate, excellent hotels, and friendly David Cateforis, “Commerce PhD, Princeton) is chair of the East Asia people. The two main cities, Haikou and department, Institute of Art History, at Sanya, have direct flights to Hong Kong (1 Into Culture: Wenda Gu’s Neon the University of Zurich. In 2008, he hour) and other southeast Asian cities. He Calligraphy Series” attended a series of AAS conferences and said, “I welcome anyone from Kansas to February 7 worked on catalogue entries and essays. come and stay.” Among the most fun was research on Gregory Hadley, “Old Wars, Present the Nihonga artist Omura Koyo and the Donald Wood (1985, PhD, Art History) Memories: Revisiting the ‘Field of great Chicago curator Frederick Gookin. was recently promoted to senior curator at Spears’” Thomsen finished an edited volume, the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA). March 6 Looking Modern, and continues working He remains the Virginia and William M. on the Antiquarianism series. In addition, Spencer III Curator of Asian Art as well, Marsha Haufler, “Beyond Sports: The he is working on a Princeton conference and is currently working on a complete Cultural Impact of the Olympics in to mark the retirement of Prof. Shimizu; reinstallation of the Asian Art galleries a lecture at the MFA Boston; and entries and an exhibition on Vietnamese ceramics. Korea” for a Japanese screen catalog and exhibit BMA has the largest and finest collection March 27 for the Art Institute of Chicago and the of Vietnamese ceramics in the United St. Louis Art Museum. Thomsen reports States and plans to tour the collection Terry Weidner, “China in 2008: The that all five children now speak better beginning in 2011. Recent publications Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” Swiss-German than their parents, “who by Wood include a chapter on Japanese September 18 only go for that High German stuff,” and Mingei for the catalogue Texas Collects that they seem to be satisfied with the Asian Art (The Trammell and Margaret Patricia Graham, “Chinese and land of chocolate and cheese, despite the Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, Japanese Arts: Antique or Not, occasional plea for more Japanese food, TX); the catalogue for the exhibition Authentic or Fake?” peanut butter, ketchup, or pumpkin pie. Eye to the East: The Robert Y. Turner September 22 Collection of Chinese Art (Columbia Tim Williams (1972, BA, Oriental Museum of Art, Columbia, SC); and Languages & Literature) now splits his serving as organizer and editor for the Yong Bai, “Modern Bridges of China” time between the Sunshine Coast in exhibition and catalogue Kamisaka Sekka: October 9 Australia, where he plays a lot of golf Rimpa Master and Pioneer of Modern and does little work, and Hainan Island in Design (BMA). The Sekka exhibition Takao Shibata, “Beyond Pyongyang: China, where he works a lot and plays a broke all attendance records during its run Life in the North Korean little golf. His company in Hainan advises at the National Museum of Modern Art in Countryside” Chinese companies seeking foreign Kyoto. October 30 partners and capital (which is somewhat Nicolas Bonner, “Meet the Director of Crossing the Line” Bamboo: A Material Exploration November 4 Akiko Takeyama, “Selling Dreams: The Art of Seduction and Affect Economy in Japan” November 6

Marsha Haufler, “Alternate Realities: Perceptions of Pyongyang, Capital of the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (North Korea)” December 1

What better spring activity than setting out on Potter’s Lake in a canoe built from bamboo and plastic shopping bags? It was the culmination of hard work and innovation by students in Tom Huang’s industrial design course, Beyond Tiki Torches: Bamboo, A Material Exploration. Bol Set to Deliver Inaugural Johnson Lecture

eter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell annotated translation, The Tang Code: PProfessor of East Asian Languages General Principles (1979) and The Left: Harvard Professor & Civilizations, and Director, Center Tang Code: Specific Articles (1997), Peter Bol. Below: The for Geographic Analysis at Harvard published by Princeton University Press, late KU EALC Professor University, will deliver the first Wallace is recognized as the definitive translation Wallace S. Johnson. S. Johnson Memorial Lecture in Medieval of this major Chinese legal text. Chinese Culture on April 17, 2009. His This lecture series is entirely dependent lecture is tentatively titled “In Defense on donated funds. CEAS is indebted of Translating and Computing: From the to donors and the resourcefulness of Tang Code to Biographical Databases.” Assistant Professor Lu Yang (History), The Johnson Memorial Lecture in whose energies secured a grant from the Medieval Chinese Culture is in honor of Tang Research Foundation. For future Professor Wallace Stephen Johnson Jr., Johnson Memorial Lectures, CEAS is who passed away in October 2007. A searching for former students of Prof. member of the KU East Asian Languages Johnson who are willing to serve on & Cultures faculty since 1965, Johnson an advisory committee. (Please contact is remembered as a dedicated scholar and Leslie vonHolten, [email protected], outstanding teacher. His two-volume 785-864-1457)

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