ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES-MID-ATLANTIC REGION

FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, 1976

1. Pre-Collegiate Asian-Studies: New Directions in Teaching

Chairperson:  Robert L. Schell, Department of Education, Harrisburg

Irene C. Shur, West Chester State College: New Concepts in Teaching Asian History

            Melvin T. L. Ang, Salisbury State College: Teaching Asian Studiesas Both Comparative History and Social Studies

            Bonnie R. Crown, Asia Literature Program: Misunderstanding Asia Through Textbooks

            William Jack Miller, Abington High School: National and Regional Asian Curriculum Projects and Centers

2. Japanese Painting: Response to Foreign Influence

            Chairperson: Ellen P. Conant, Bryn Mawr College

            Laura Kaufman, Manhattanville College: Decoration and Meaning in Heian Sutra Scrolls

Carla Zainie, Trinity University: On the Selection of Models for Muromachi Ink Painting

            Calvin French, University of Michigan: The Assimilation of Chinese and Western Painting in the Edo Period

Ellen P. Conant, Bryn Mawr College: The Dichotomy in Modern Japanese Painting

3. Political Prisoners in East Asia

Chairperson: James D. Seymour, New York University

Rene Cruz, New York: Philippines     

James D. Seymour, New York University and Mab Huang, SUNY at Oswego: Chinese Mainland and Taiwan

            Byung-suh Kim, Montclair State College: Korea

            Bruce Cumings, Swarthmore College: Military Rule, Political Prisoners and U.S. Policy

4. Achieving a New Socioeconomic Order in South Asia

Chairperson: Wilfred Malenbaum, University of Pennsylvania

Nirmal K. Sinha, Morgan State College: The New Social Order in India

Nirmala Bidawani, SUNY at Oneonta and Merel J. Cox, California State College, Pennsylvania: Green Revolution and Population in India

Harold A. McWilliams, Wells College: Entrepreneurs and Social Change in Gujerat: The Case of Small Industries

Balwant Singh, Bucknell University and Mohammad Shahidullah Khan, Gandhi-Faizam College, India: Relationship Between Social and Economic Change in South Asia During the Past 25 Years

John Adams, University of Maryland, College Park: Agricultural Development in Maharashtra

Discussants: Sushil K. Verma, Essex Community College; Tej B. Saini, Bloomsburg College; and Harry W. Blair, Bucknell University

5. Pre-Collegiate Asian Studies: Some New Methods of Teaching Asia

            Chairperson: William Jack Miller, Abington High School

            Diana Wood, University of Pittsburgh: Teaching About the Chinese Language in Elementary and Secondary Schools

            Deborah DeLauro, Keith Valley Middle School: Simulation on the Changing Role of Women in Asia

            Bonnie R. Crown, Asia Literature Program; and Art Cohen and Herman Eberhardt, Students, Abington High School: Crosstalk: A Comical Dialogue from the P.R.C.

Judy McNally, U.S.-China People’s Friendship Association: Demonstration Lesson on Modern Chinese Painting from the P.R.C.

6. The Japanese Occupation of French Indochina, 1940-1941: The View from Four Countries

            Chairperson-discussant: King Chen, Rutgers University

            Mark Peattie, Pennsylvania State University: The Japanese Occupation, 1940-1941.

            Robert Maddox, Pennsylvania State University: The American Response

            John E. Dreifort, Wichita State University: The French Response

            William Duiker, Pennsylvania State University: The Vietnamese Response

7. The Role of Minorities in Developing Nations

Chairperson: Charles O.            Houston, Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo

            Theodore P. Wright, Jr., SUNY at Albany: Islam and Muslims Under Socialism

            Richard Frank, Montclair State College: Indonesia’s Military Regime and Ethnic Minorities

            V. N. Anthony, University of Kansas: Language Politics and Minorities in Singapore

            Sao Saimong, University of Michigan: Minor Problems of Ethnic Minorities in Independent Burma

            Syed Z. Abedin, Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo: An Emerging Identity of the Indian Muslims

            Rasheeduddin Khan, Jawaharlal Nehru University: Muslims Under Secularism

            Mansura Haider, Aligarh Muslim University:  Uzbegs in Soviet Central Asia    

8. Problems of Contemporary Chinese Historiography

Chairperson: Ka-cheYip, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Gilbert Chan, Miami University, Ohio: Sun Yat-sen and the Chinese Revolution

Glenn Shive, Temple University: Rhetorical Analysis and the Chinese Communist Revolution

Clifford Edmunds, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Politics and Historiography After the Great Leap: The Case of Chien Po-tsan

Arif Dirlik, Duke University: The Problem of Class Standpoint Versus Communist Historiography

            Discussant: Laurence A. Schneider, SUNY at Buffalo            

9. Belief in Superhuman Powers in Indian Thought

Chairperson: P. Krishna Mohan, Southern Connecticut State College

Frank R. Blackford, Jr, Wesleyan University: Supernatural Curing in North India

Mitchell Weiss, University of Pennsylvania: Exogenous Psychosis in the Caraka Samhita

P. Sarasvati Mohan, Wesleyan University: Mystic Power of Syllabic Sounds in Indian Poetry

            Barbara Benary, Livingston College, Rutgers University: Superhuman Power of Musical Melodies

10. Politics, Commerce and Religion in Colonial India

Chairperson: Ainslie Embree, Columbia University

Zubeida Khanum, Aligarh Muslim University: Financing British Trade in Bengal During the Seventeenth Century

Warren Fusfeld, University of Pennsylvania: The Ahmadiyya Movement in Late Nineteenth Century Punjab

Thomas Kessinger, University of Pennsylvania: The British and the

North Indian Rural Economy in the Nineteenth Century

Muhammad I. Khan, Clarion State College: The Public Reactions to the British Administrative System in Awadh.

Discussants: Marie Wanek, Glassboro State College and Edwin Hirschmann, Towson State College

11. Political and Social Integration in the People's Republic of China

Chairperson: S. M. Chiu, Temple University

David C. Buxbaum, Esquire, New York: Attitudes Toward Law in the PRC

Helen L. Chiu, Temple University: Urban Organization in the PRC:The Neighborhoods

Ernest F. Patterson, Davidson College: The Politics of Industry and Agriculture

S. M. Chiu, Temple University: The PLA and Social Integration

Discussants: William Meyers, New School of Social Research, and Oscar Shaftel,

Pratt Institute and Queen's College

12.  A Comparative Analysis of Attitudes Toward Democracy Among Bureaucrats in the Developing Nations

             Chairperson: Joong-Gun Chung, University of Nebraska at Omaha

              Joong-Gun Chung, University of Nebraska at Omaha and Sung-Moun Pae, Bellevue       College, Nebraska: Korea   

Milton J. Esman, Cornell University: Malaya

Norman D. Palmer, University of Pennsylvania: India

Discussants: Robert LaPorte, Jr., Pennsylvania State University, and Mohammad Rashiduzzaman, Glassboro State College

13. United States Detente and Its Impact on East Asia

            Chairperson: Michael D. Salomon, Center for Arms Control and International Security Studies, University of Pittsburgh

            C.J. Feng, Cheyney State College: Détente and Its Impact in the Far East

            T.C. Rhee, University of Dayton: Sino-Soviet Conflict and the PRC-US Relationship

            Y.C. Chang, University of Delaware: Sino-American Detente

14. Meditation: Paths, Models, Goals

Chairperson: Kenneth Morgan, Colgate University

Frank Podgorski, Seton Hall University: Samkliya-Yoga Meditation

John Chethimattam, Fordham University: Buddhist and Advaitic Meditations as

Reflection in Reverse

Kristin Yu Greenblatt, Rutgers University: Buddha Invocation as Koan

Anne M. Ch’ien, Columbia University: Reverence and Ritual as aConfucian Approach to Meditation

Discussant: Kenneth Morgan, Colgate University

15. East Asian Communist Leaders and Their National Traits: Mao Tse-tung, Kim Il-sung, Miyamoto Kenji and Ho Chi Minh

Chairperson.  John Young, Seton Hall University

Panelists: Douglas Pike, Department of State

K. P. Yang, Library of Congress 

Parris Chang, The Pennsylvania State University

King Chen, Rutgers University

Chong-sik Lee, University of Pennsylvania

16.  The Founding Fathers of Nationalism in South and Southeast Asia

Chairperson: Khalid B. Sayeed, Queens University, Ontario

             Khalid B. Sayeed, Queens University, Ontario: A Reappraisal of Jinnah's Leadership as the Founder of a State

             Inam Rahman, Minister for Education, Embassy of India: The Educational Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi

             Harold L. Levy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Means, Ends, and Personal Responsibility in Mahatma Gandhi

Mi Mi Khamo, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Aung-San: Father of Burmese Nationalism

Allen H. Merriam, Trenton State College: Mohammad Ali Jinnah in His Centennial Year

Zillur R. Khan, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh: Sheikh Mujib

Paul Van der Veur, Ohio University: Soetomo's Contribution to Indonesian Nationalism

17.    Asian-Americans in This Bicentennial Year

      Chairperson: Priscilla Chung, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

       Priscilla Chung, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Asian-American: Beyond Protest

       Natalie Isser, The Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz: Have They Painted

Dick and Jane Yellow Yet?1890-1920

              Lita L. Schwartz, The Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz: Have They Painted Dick and Jane Yellow Yet? 1965-1975

              Discussant: Jaipaul, Ethnic Heritage Affairs.