40th Annual Meeting January 12-14, 2001 Tallahassee, Florida PROGRAM SYNOPSIS Friday, January 12 3:00pm Executive Committee Meeting 4:00-8:00pm REGISTRATION 8:00pm Plenary Session I: Asian Music Performance Saturday, January 13 8:00-5:00pm REGISTRATION 8:30-10:00am Panel Session A 10:00-10:15am Break 10:15-11:45am Panel Session B 12:00-1:45pm Luncheon and Business Meeting 2:00-3:30pm Panel Session C 3:30-3:45pm Break 3:45-5:15pm Panel Session D 5:30-6:30pm Plenary Session II: Address by AAS President 6:30-7:30pm Reception Sunday, January 14 7:00am Executive Committee Meeting 8:00-10:00am REGISTRATION 8:30-10:00am Panel Session E 10:00-10:15am Break 10:15-11:45am Panel Session F PROGRAM DETAILS Friday, January 12 3:00pm Executive Committee Meeting [Tallahassee Room] 4:00-8:00pm Registration [Lobby] 8:00pm Plenary Session I: Performance of Indian Dance [Leon Room] Saturday, January 13 8:00am- Registration 5:00pm 8:30- PANEL SESSION A 10:00am A.1 NEWS AND OLDS IN CHINA'S TWENTIETH CENTURY [Leon Room] Panel Organizer: Edward S. Krebs, Duke Study in China Chair: Roger B. Jeans, Washington and Lee University 'New' in the First New China, 1895-1915 Douglas R. Reynolds, Georgia State University A New Generation Grows Old: May 4th Veterans on Cultural Trends in the 1930s and 1940s Kristin Stapleton, University of Kentucky 'Old’ in the Newest New China: Constructing One’s Own History from Nostalgia Publications in the 1990s Edward S. Krebs, Duke Study in China Discussant: Roger S. Krebs, Duke Study in China A.2 TRADITIONAL CHINESE PHILOSOPHY [Florida Room Center] Chair: David Jones, Kennesaw State University No-things that are Some-things: Democritus and Daoists on the Void Erin M. Cline, Belmont University Implications for Moral Life of the Concept of Ming in the Mencius Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University Discussant: David Jones, Kennesaw State University A.3 MONGOLIA-ASIAN RELATIONS [Florida Room West] Chair: Alicia Campi, Indiana University Monglian-Tibetan Relations: Politics and Religion Intertwined Alicia Campi, Indiana University Mongolian-Indian Relations in the 20th Century Ragchan Baasan, Mongolian Embassy Mongolia’s Models for Education and Educational Exchanges Sodnom Hongorzul, East Carolina University Discussant: Kate Kaup, Furman University A.4 ARTISTS, WRITERS AND CRITICS IN MODERN JAPANESE ART [Adams Park] Chair: Brenda G. Jordan, Florida State University Censorship and Reception: the case of Kawanaba Kyosai Brenda G. Jordan, Florida State University Aesthetics and Ethnicity: Kuki Shuzo’s `iki’ no kozo Hiroshi Nara, Florida State University The Restoration of Realism: Kojima Kikuo and the Role of Art Criticism in Modern Japanese Painting Miki Hirayama, University of Pittsburgh Discussant: Mayu Tsuruya, University of Pittsburgh A.5 JAPAN IN THE URBAN HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM - ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION [Florida Room East] Richard Schmitt, LW Higgins High School Gregory Wilson, Woodlawn High School June Whitehead, White Station High School Walter Nunn, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Jana Eaton, Unionville High School Lucien Ellington, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 10:00-10:15 Break 10:15-11:45 PANEL SESSION B B.1 BRINGING ASIA INTO THE CLASSROOM (AND THE CLASSROOM INTO ASIA) [Leon Room] Chair: Ronald Robel, University of Alabama Overcoming Cultural Barriers in Second Language Acquisition Cungang Liu, Apppalachian State University Including Korea in Survey Courses Michael Seth, James Madison University ‘Our Imperfect Sympathy’: Literature from India in the Composition Classroom Donna Gessell, North Georgia College and State University Discussant: Ronald Robel, University of Alabama B.2 POSTMODERNISM AND KOREAN CULTURAL IDENTITY [Florida Room West] Chair: Hyangsoon Yi, University of Georgia The Ideal of p’ungnyu in Samguk yusa and the Postmodern Ethics of the Nomadic Hyung-chul Chung, Pusan University of Foreign Studies Postmodernity in Contemporary Korean Fiction Gi Chan Yang, University of Georgia Self-Reflexivity and Identity Crisis in Park Chulsoo’s Films Hyangsoon Yi, University of Georgia Discussant: John Goulde, Sweet Briar College B.3 ASIA IN THE PACIFIC WAR [Florida Room Center] Chair: Bill Dorrill, Longwood College Victims or Victimizers: Museums and the War in Today’s Japan Roger B. Jeans, Washington & Lee University Conscripting the Philippine Army, 1935-1941 Richard B. Meixsel, James Madison University Discussant: Bill Dorrill, Longwood College B.4 SRI LANKAN BUDDHIST MONKS AND NATIONALISM: AT HOME AND ABROAD [Florida Room East] Chair: Chandra R. de Silva, Old Dominion University Sri Lankan Monks in the Diaspora Tessa Bartholomeusz, Florida State University Identity and Difference Ananda Abeysekara, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The (Mis)education of Buddhist Monks in Sri Lanka Chandra R. de Silva, Old Dominion University Discussant: Anne Blackburn, University of South Carolina B.5 UNIFYING CHINA IN THE 1920S: FEDERALISM VERSUS CENTRALISM [Adams Park] Panel Organizer: Leslie H. Chen, Independent Scholar Chair: Young-tsu Wong, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Sun Yatsen, Chen Jiongming and General Potapov: An Early Soviet Contact with Chinese Republican Leaders Michail Kryukov, Graduate Institute of Slavic Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan The Myths of the Kuomintang-Communist Alliance Kuo-Wei Tai, Graduate Institute of Slavic Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan The "Sins" of Centralization: Localist Hostility at Guomindang Centralization Efforts in Guangdong, 1924 to Early 1925 Michael G. Murdock, Brigham Young University Building Democracy from the Bottom Up: Education Reform in Guangdong of 1920-1923 Leslie H. Chen, Independent Scholar Discussant: Michael Copeland, York University 12:00-1:45 Luncheon and Business Meeting 2:00-3:30 PANEL SESSION C C.1 TRADITIONAL CHINESE LITERATURE [Florida Room Center] Chair: Feng Lan, University of Florida The Horse as Characters in Chinese Military Romances Ann L. Lo, Independent Scholar And All the People Sighed in Sorrow: Images of the Wronged Hero in Vernacular Fiction and Drama of the Song and Yuan Periods Rüdiger Breuer, Washington University In Need of Integration: Sex and Spirituality in Traditional Chinese Poetry Yanfang Tang, College of William and Mary Discussant: Feng Lan, University of Florida C.2 HINDUISM IN FLUX: VIEWS ON ABORTION AND CASTE [Leon Room] Chair: Gene Thursby, University of Florida Dharma Contextualized: Spotlight on Abortion in Calcutta Bindu Madhok and Selva J . Raj, Albion College The Indian Potter: (Re)creating in the Changing Marketplace Ruth Rosenwasser Untouchable Healing: A Low Caste Ayurvedic Doctor in Nepal Mary M. Cameron Discussant: Gene Thursby, University of Florida C.3 REASSESSING JAPANESE RELIGION: SHINTO AND KOTODAMA [Florida Room East] Chair: Taneo Ishikawa, Florida State University The Origins of Omoto Kyo Diana Jarvis Godwin, Aikido Schools of Uyeshiba Tree Spirit, Word Spirit, Crossroads Ann Wehmeyer, University of Florida Discussant: Taneo Ishikawa, Florida State University C.4 THE VARIED REACH OF COLONIALISM [Adams Park] Chair: Richard Foltz, University of Florida Private Lives, Public Stories:Negotiating the Panopticon Ray W. Chandrasekara, Augusta State University Images of Empire: Prejudice, Politics and Penury at the Round Table Conference, 1931 Marla Karen Chancey, Florida State University Scientific Experiments in British India: Indigor, Planters, and the State Prakash Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology Discussant: Richard Foltz, University of Florida C.5 CHALLENGING THE ORDER: FROM TAO XINGZHI TO LI HONGZHI [Florida Room West] Chair: Lawrence Kessler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Falun Gong and Chinese Political Culture Shiping Hua, Eckerd College Rediscovering Tao Xingzhi as an Educational and Social Revolutionary Yusheng Yao, Rollins College Journalism in Today’s China Haipeng Deng, Florida A&M University Discussant: Lawrence Kessler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3:30-3:45 Break 3:45-5:15 PANEL SESSION D D.1 A VIEW FROM THE PEDESTAL: STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN TIBET VIETNAM, JAPAN, AND KOREA [Florida Room Center] Chair: C.K. Yoon, James Madison University Should US College Students Get Involved in the Movement to Free Tibet? Josh Funderburke, Independent Scholar Teaching at the University of Saigon Before Tet 1968 David L. Hess, USC-Spartanburg The World View of Young Adults in Japan Daniel A. Metraux, Mary Baldwin College Unbreakable Ethnic Bonds: Korean Graduate Students and the Korean Church in the US Wooseob Jeong, Florida State University Discussant: C.K. Yoon, James Madison University D.2 ASIAN RELIGIONS, THIS AND THAT [Leon Room] Chair: John T. J. Ho, Florida State University Mana is the Basic Concept of Asian Religions John T.J. Ho, Florida State University Taoist, Buddhist and Shinto Talismans of the Far East James Kemp, Agency for Health Care Administration, State of Florida The Spread of Shintoism in a Frontier District of Japan during the Kofun Period Taneo Ishikawa, Florida State University Discussant: Bruce Grindal, Florida State University D.3 USING LITERARY VALUES TO UNDERSTAND ART: SEXUALITY, THEATRICALITY, AND PRINTS FROM CHINA AND JAPAN [Florida Room East] Chair: Gretchen Jones, University of Maryland Redefining Ukiyo-e: Sorrowful World, Floating World, Flesh World Sandy Kita, University of Maryland ‘Qing’ (Emotion) and ‘Zhen’ (Authenticity) in Chen Hongshou’s Prints Tamara Bentley, Independent Scholar Theatrics and Decadence: Tanizaki and the Visual Arts Gretchen Jones, University of Maryland D.4