2003 Conference Preview:
A Note from the President
The MAR/AAS Program Committee chaired by Linda Chance and co-chaired by Linda Dwyer has put together an impressive set of panels for our 2003 conference, to be held October 24-26, 2003, at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. With many panels highlighting our conference theme, Mobile Global Asia, conference attendees will have a wide range of topics from which to choose. Current political, international, and educational issues are well represented in the papers, as well as themes with a more historical focus. Reflecting contemporary directions in the various fields of Asian studies, the papers will challenge us to expand our notions about what constitutes a geographical area as well as an academic discipline. As MAR/AAS President, I especially thank Linda Chance and Linda Dwyer for all their hard work in setting up this program, and I encourage everyone to come to the conference for a weekend of stimulation and enjoyment.
Joanne Birdwhistell, Richard Stockton College, President of MAR/AAS 22-2003
A Message
from the Program Co-Chair
The preliminary program listed here for our annual conference should make you proud to be a member of the MAR/AAS. The panels, papers, and roundtables that have been submitted in response to the theme Mobile Global Asia give a fine representation of the intellectual creativity and ambition of scholars in our Mid-Atlantic region.
In addition to papers in your area of interest, let me direct your attention to the last sessions on Saturday and Sunday. Taking advantage of the Washington D.C. location, this year program co-chair Linda Dwyer has organized a roundtable to bring scholars and activists into dialogue. We are again presenting the Presidential Roundtable that has made recent conferences more coherent, and we hope, more valuable to you.
If you find the conference program stimulating, please recommend it to a colleague who may not be a member of the organization. Students who are not presenting papers will be admitted freeplease encourage your graduate students and promising undergraduates to attend!
On a personal note, I applaud the many established scholars who are mentoring their talented students through the conference presentation process, and the spirit of generosity that has greeted my sometimes anxious communications with presenters. The thoughtfulness of the community of scholars in our area has made my job easier. I look forward to meeting you all in October.
Linda Chance
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
University of Pennsylvania
As editor
of the MAR/AAS Newsletter I would like to apologize to Dr. Craig Baxter
and the members of the Association for failing to provide the byline
to the text of Dr. Baxters speech How To Become An Asianist By Mistake,
which was given at the last Annual Conference and published in the Spring
2003 Newsletter. My failure to list Dr. Baxter as the author of his entertaining
and informative essay was called to my attention by numerous members
after the newsletter was published. Again, my apologies to Dr. Baxter. Joseph
Laker
NOMINATIONS
The Nominations Committee announces the following
candidates for MAR/AAS offices, up for election at the 2003 Annual Meeting:
Vice President: Linda Chance
Executive Committee: Dorothy J. Perkins
Dr. Chance is Associate Professor of Japanese Language and
Literature in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University
of Pennsylvania. She teaches classical and advanced modern Japanese, classical
Japanese literature in the original and in translation, and Japanese culture. Her
book, Formless in Form: Kenko, Tsurezuregusa, and the Rhetoric of Japanese
Fragmentary Prose, was published by Stanford University Press. She has
presented at many Mid-Atlantic Region AAS conferences, beginning in
1991, and has served one term as a Member-at-Large,
two terms as an appointed member of the Advisory Committee, participated
as a member of the program committee one year, and been a program chair for
two annual meetings. The fact that the MAR/AAS links colleagues at all types
of institutions and turns our region into a warm scholarly neighborhood brings
her back year after year.
Dr. Perkins is a Member-at-Large on the Executive Council and MAR/AAS Conference Book Display chair. She is an independent scholar in Philadelphia with a B.A. in religion from Gettysburg College and a Ph.D. in religion from Temple University. A member of MAR/AAS for more than 20 years, Dorothy has a special interest in Asian culture and studied the Japanese tea ceremony. Two of her latest books include one-volume encyclopedias of Japan and China.
2003 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVESITY
SIGUR CENTER FOR ASIAN STUDIES
1957 E STREET
Preliminary Program
Conference Schedule (All events take place at 1957 E Street
unless otherwise noted)
Friday, October 24, 2003
8:30 a.m. Registration
for Teaching Asia Workshop
9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Teaching
Asia Workshop
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
4 p.m.-7 p.m. Conference
Registration, Third Floor
4 p.m. EC/AC
Meeting, George Washington
University Club, 1918 F Street NW
6:30 p.m. National
Museum of American History
Carmichael Auditorium
Writers Elaine Kim, Nora Okja Keller, Heinz Insu
Fenkl, and
Don Lee read from their work and discuss Korean
American literature .
Saturday, October 25, 2003
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Conference Registration, Third Floor
8 10:30 a.m. Complimentary
light breakfast
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Book Exhibit,
Crafts Display, Room 309
9 a.m-11 a.m. Panels,
Session I
11:30 a.m.- Annual
Business Meeting and Luncheon,
1:00 p.m. Lindner
Family Commons, Room 602
Address by Professor James L. Watson, Harvard University,
President, Association for Asian Studies, Asian
Studies And
The Challenge Of Global Studies: Where Do We Go
From Here?
1:15-3:15 p.m. Panels,
Session II
3:30-5:30 p.m. Panels,
Session III
5:45-6:45 p.m. Reception
and Exhibition Opening, 6th Floor
With Musical accompaniment
7-9:30 p.m. Annual
Banquet, Lindner Family Commons,
Room 602, Address by the 2003 Recipient
of the Distinguished Asianist Award
8:30 p.m. A Conversation
on Conference: National
Priorities and Regional Issues, with James L.
Watson, Diana Marston Wood and
Michael Paschal
Sunday, October 26, 2003
9-11 a.m. Panels,
Session IV
11:15 a.m.- Presidential
Roundtable: Reflecting on
1:15 p.m. Mobil
Global Asia, Lindner Family
Commons, Room 602
Complimentary Brunch Served to all who Attend Roundtable
1:30 p.m. Annual
Meeting Concludes
Sixteenth Annual Teaching Asian Workshop
Asia and Classroom Arts
Middle Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies
George Washington University
1957 E Street Northwest, Room 602
Washington DC
Friday, October 24, 2003
9 A.M. 3:30 P.M.
The Sigur Center of George Washington University and the Middle Atlantic Region of the Association for Asian Studies presents a Teaching Asia Workshop for Middle and High School teachers. The workshop will be directed by Professor Molly Spitzer Frost of George Washington University.
Teaching Asia Workshop Schedule
Asia and Classroom Arts
9 a.m. Registration, Welcoming Remarks
9:15 a.m. Howard
Spendelow, Georgetown Univ Philosophy:
Confuciansim, Daoism,
Legalism
10 a.m. Elizabeth
Chacko, George Washington University
Geography: South Asian Culture through
Cartography
10:45 a.m. Coffee
Break
11 a.m. Carson
Herrington, Freer Gallery of Art
Art: Image and Imagination in Asian
Visual Arts
11:45 a.m. Jon
Zeljo, Sidwell Friends School
Integrating Asian Studies into the American
Curriculum
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1 p.m. Leonard King, Maret School
Teaching Asia with Film
1:45 p.m. Leo
Hanami, The George Washington Univ.
Japanese Culture through Film
2:30 p.m. T.
Scott Smith, Dickinson College
Indian Film: Us and Them
3:15 p.m. Concluding
Remarks
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2003 ANNUAL
CONFERENCE
Panel Presentation
Schedule
Mobile Global Asia
All panels are presented in rooms at 1957 E Street
Session I: Saturday,
October 25, 9:00-1:00 a.m.
Panel I-A Agency and Migrancy in Mobile Global Asia
Room 308 Chair: TBA
Liping Bu, Alma College Agents of Social Progress:
Transcultural Experiences of Chinese Students in
American Before World War II
Linda Dwyer, Independent Scholar A Woman Warrior:
Crossing Boundaries of Gender, Class and
Nation
Reiko Itoh, DePauw University In Step with a Family of
Migrants
Josef Gregory Mahoney, The George Washington University
In Step with a Family of Migrants: A Case Study
from Rural Shanxi
Panel 1-B Roundtable:
Empires and Their Impact on
Cultural Development: A Dialogue Among
College and Secondary Teachers
Chair: Diana Marston Wood, Univ. of Pittsburgh
James Gao, University of Maryland
Joan Arno, Central High School, Philadelphia
Panel I-C Bureaucrats,
Merchants, and Missionaries
Room 311 Rethinking
Maritime Networks in Coastal
China
Chair: Robert James Antony,
Western Kentucky University
Jane Kate Leonard, University of Akron Glimpsing the
Maritime World from Grain Transport
Networks
Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Pace University The Overseas Chinese
Networks and Protestant Missionary Movements
Across the South China Sea
Chiara Betta, University of Indianapolis in Athens, Greece
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The Other Oriental Merchants: Entrepreneurial
Diasporas from British India to China,
1842-1949
Discussant: Robert James
Antony, Western Kentucky Univ.
Panel I-D Reconfiguring Japanese Literature in the
Room 313 Postwar
Chair: Diane C. Freedman, Community College of Philadelphia
Erik R. Lofgren, Bucknell University Textual Irruptions:
Subversive Democracy in Umezaki Haruos
B-to fubutsushi
Sari Kawana, University of Pennsylvania With Rhyme and
Reason: Yokomizo Seishis Postwar Nursery
Rhyme Murders
Wakaba Tasaka, The College of William and Mary The
Remains of the Day: Classical Japanese
Tradition in Kazuo Ishiguros Contemporary
British Novel
Panel I-E South
Asia: Domestic Priorities and Global
Room 314 Vulnerabilities
Chair: Ambassador Grant Smith, Central
Asia-Caucasus Institute, School of Advanced
International Studies, The John Hopkins Univ.
Walter K. Andersen, School of Advanced International
Studies, The John Hopkins University
Reappraising Indias Political and Foreign Policy
Scene
Ange Belle Hassinger, Former U.S. Government Analyst for
South Asia Paradoxes of Indian Economic
Policy and Performance
Ambdr. Grant Smith, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute,
School of Advanced International Studies,
The John Hopkins University Central Asian
Links with Afghanistan and Pakistan
Panel I-F China
Viewed Internationally
Room 315 Chair: Michael
C. Wall, Georgetown University
Michael E. Wall, Georgetown University China,
Hollywood, and the Quest for International
Respect
Hilary Smith, University of Pennsylvania Using the Past to
Serve the Peasant: Chinese Archaeology in a
National and International Context
E. R. Klein, Flagler College Bosnia: Where the East and
West are neither Eastern nor Western
Panel I-G Oppositional
Nationalisms in East Asia
Room 316 Chair: TBA
Steven, E. Phillips, Towson University Chiang Kai-sheks
Anti-Communist Coalition Building in Asia in
the 1950s
Samuel Gerald Collins, Towson University The Imagined
(Other) Community: Globalization and National
Identity in South Korea
William F. Pore, The George Washington University The
Confucian Conscience: Literati Voices on the
Loss of National Independence in Korea and
Vietnam, 1890-1920
Annual Business Meeting and Luncheon
Welcome, President Stephen Trachtenberg, The George
Washington University. Address by James L. Watson, Harvard University, President, Association for
Asian Studies,
Asian Studies And The Challenge Of Global Studies:
Where Do We Go From Here?
Session II: Saturday, October 25, 1:15-3:15
p.m.
Panel II-A Leaving
China: Problems, Progress, and
Room 308 Memory
Chair: Charles Springer, The Community College of Baltimore County- Essex
Campus
Dorothy Perkins, Independent Scholar Chinese
Immigration to San Francisco by Steamship
in the Early 29th Century
Sue Gronewold, Kean University A Memory of Hope: How
Chinese Mission Alumnae Remember/Reinterpret
Western Women
George C. Y. Wang, The George Washington University
Chinese Immigrants in the United Kingdom
Panel II-B Roundtable: Buddhism
in China, Japan And
Room 310 Korea: A Dialogue
Among College and
Secondary Teachers
Chair: Frank L. Chance, Univ. of Pennsylvania
David Kenley, Marshall University
Cynthia McNulty, Oakland Catholic High
School, Pittsburgh
Panel II-C Laughter
and Lyric: Chinese Literature of the
Room 311 Early Twentieth
Century
Michelle C. Sun, Community College of Philadelphia
Humor, Literature, and Chinese Identity
Dorothy Trench-Bonett, Mount St. Marys College The
Tyger in China: Xu Zhimos May Fourth
Translations of Poems from Foreign Lands
Panel II-D Japanese
Cultural Nationalism and Global
Room 313 Japan, Then
and Now
David C. Prejsnar, Community College of Philadelphia
Japan and an American Family: Exhibiting a New
Global Japan and the Newcombe and McGees
Roy Starrs, Otago University Japanese Culture Nationalism
in a Mobile Global Asia
Discussant: Kevin M. Doak, Georgetown University
Panel II-E Violence
and Non-Violence in South Asia:
Room 314 Another Look
Chair: Janet M. Powers, Gettysburg College
Janet M. Powers, Gettysburg College Satygraha: Promise
and Reality
Indrani Mitra, Mount St. Marys College 1942: A Historical
and Fictional Reevaluation of Radical Politics
Madhu Mitra, College of St. Benedict & St. Johns University
What Use is Ahimsa? The Reevaluation of Non-
Violence as Political Strategy in Nayantara
Sahgals Lesser Breeds
Tahera Aftab, Gettysburg College The Politics of Violence
in South Asia: Elusive Manifestos and Fatal
Friendships
Panel II-F Shifting
Boundaries: Conceptions of Shame, Room 315 Gender,
and Order
Chair: Joanne Birdwhistell, Richard Stockton College of NJ
Li-Hsian (Lisa) Rosenlee [Lisa Lee], Mary Washington College
Jane Geaney, University of Richmond Shame and Leaky Boundaries in Early Confucian
Texts
Joanne Birdwhistell, Richard Stockton College of NJ Making and Unmaking Boundaries
Steve Coutinho, Towson University Daoist as Nomad: Challenging Order from the Borderlands
Panel II-G Lines
in the Sand: Creating , Crossing and
Room 316 Transcending
Asian Borders
Organizer: Ronald K. Frank, Pace University
Jeannie Chiu, Pace University A Stranger in Mine Own
House: W.E.B. DeBois and Maxine Hong
Kingston Crossing Racial and National
Boundaries
Amy Lee, Pace University Living the American Dream:
Korean War Brides in the Suburbs of New York
Diana Neyman, St. Johns University Empire Building in
Nomads Land: The Mongols in the Russo-
Chinese Border Conflicts in Seventeenth-Century
Inner Asia
Panel II-H Viet
Nam, Thailand, China, the U.S.: Half a
Room B17 Century Rethought
Culver S. Ladd, Payap University Is Thailand the Test Case?
Kim-Thien T. Nguyen, The Elliot School of International
Affairs Beyond Quagmire: Sino-U.S.
Vietnamese Relations
Robert Cambria, Cambria Consultant 40 Years After: a
Reassessment of Ngo Dinh Diem
Session III: Saturday, October 25, 3:30-5:30
p.m.
Panel III-A Roundtable:
Nexus and Networks: Bringing
Room 308 together Scholars
and Activists for
Perspectives and Collaborative Possibilities
in
an Age of Migration
Chair: Linda Dwyer, Independent Scholar
Chris Dumm, Executive Director, Indian American Center for
Political Awareness, Seung-kyung Kim, Associate Professor, Womens Studies, Director, Asian American Studies Program,
University of Maryland-College Park, Michael C. Lin, Former National President, Organization of Chinese
Americans, Trustee, Montgomery College in Maryland, Jon Melegrito, Public Relations Director for the National Federation
of Filipino American Association and a columnist for Filipinas magazine, Preetmohan Singh, Executive Director, Sikh Media Watch
III: B. Roundtable: Beyond Orientalism and
Room 310 Occidentalism in Globalization in Education
Chair : Ma Chin Mei Yang, Lincoln University
Kudzai Muzorewa, Lincoln University
Raymond Morgan, Lincoln University
Adeyemo Adebanke, Lincoln University
Discussant: Satoshi Hashimoto,
Lincoln University
III: C. National, Intra-national, Transnational
Room 311 Approaches
to Globalization in Asia
Chair: Joseph Laker, Wheeling Jesuit University
Joseph Sams, Library of Congress - Evaluating Globalization
and its Residual Effects on the Political Economy of China
Hong Liu, National University of Singapore A Region in Motion: Singapore and the Making of (Chinese) Social and Business Networks in Modern Asia
Hwa Shin Lee, State University of New York at Binghamton)
The Globalizing World and Mobil(izing) Asia
III: D. Literature
and Philosophy in 20th Century Japan
Room 313 Chair: Richard
Calichman, City College of New York
Richard Calichman, City College of New York - Literature and Philosophy:
An Intervention in the Soseki 'Kokoro' Debate
Shu Kuge, Penn State University - What's 'Philosophy' Got
to Do with Literary Studies-
Lewis Harrington, Cornell University - Mobilizing the Global/Worldy
World: Nishida Kitarτ's Philosopheme 'Sekai-teki sekai'
III: E. Issues of Ethnicity in Qing and Republican China
Room 314 Chair: James
Millward, Georgetown University
Haiyun Ma, Georgetown University - Distance, Duty, and Division of Population: Rethinking Ethnicity in Qing China
Saeyoung Park, The George Washington University - Chinese Ethnicity
in British Imagination-
Edward McCord, The Johns Hopkins University - Ethnicity and
Nationalism in Republican China: The 1937 West Hunan Resist
Japan Abolish Military Land Rents Uprising
Discussant: James Millward, Georgetown University
III: F. Interaction With Spirits in Early China
Room 315 Chair: Francisca
Cho, Georgetown University
Thomas Michael, The George Washington University - 'The Arrival
of the Spirits Darkens the Sun' : Two Visions of Shamanism in Early China
Thomas Radice, University of Pennsylvania - Rewriting the 'One
Thread' of Early Confucianism: 'Warping' the Root of Morality in the Xiaojing
Masako Nakagawa, Villanova University - Maps of the Shanhaijing:
A Comprehensive Survey of the World
III: G. Interactions
and Perceptions: Historical
Room 316 Perspectives
on Asian-Western Relations
Chair: Gregg Brazinsky, The George Washington University
Organizer: Yvette M. Chin, The George Washington University
Amy (Hwei-shuan) Feng, The Johns Hopkins University - The Failed Attempt
to Cooperate: Chinese Archeology and its Resistance to Foreign Participation
in the 1920s
Yvette M. Chin, The George Washington University - Neither Cold
Warriors Nor Cowboys: The Mongolian People's Republic in American Policy
and Politics, 1952-1961
Yufeng Mao, The George Washington University - "Why I Learned
to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb:" Making Sense of North Korea's Nuclear
Effort
Discussant: Gregg Brazinsky, The George Washington University
III: H. Roundtable:
Expanding East Asian Studies: It
Room B17 Takes a Collaborative
Chair: Aya Ezawa, Swarthmore College, Michael Barnhart, Kingsborough Community College, Fay Beauchamp, Community College of Philadelphia, Paula Berggren, Baruch College of CUNY, Sue Gronewold, Kean University,
Laura Neitzel, New York University
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Saturday, October 25, Evening
Reception, 5:45-6:45 P.M.
Annual Banquet, 7:00-9:30 P.M.
Address by the 2003 Recipient of the Distinguished Asianist Award Dr. Lawrence Beer (See page 8)
8:30 P.M. A Conversation
on Conferences: National Priorities and Regional Issues
James L. Watson, Diana Marston Wood, Michael
Paschal
Session IV: Sunday, October 26, 9:00-11:00 A.M.