ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES-MID-ATLANTIC REGION

SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, 1977

1. Multinational Corporations In South Asia: A Diversity of Perspectives

Chairperson: Sushil Verma, Essex Community College

            Jeremiah Novak, Asian Mail: Multinational Corportations and the International Economic Syetem: The Case of India.

M. Mahmood Awan, Northeastern University: The Impact of Foreign Capital

Transfers on the Domestic Economy: The Case of Pakistan.

            Peter W. Lande, Department of State: Multinational Corporations in South Asia: A Governmental Perspective

Discussants: Pritam T. Merani, Towson State University

Abdul Aziz Said, American University

2. China After Mao: A Military and Political Analysis. Round Table Presentation and Discussion.

Chairperson: Hungdah Chiu, University of Maryland School of Law

Thomas Bernstein, Columbia University: The Transfer of Urban Youth to the Countryside Since Mao’s Death.

Bradley Hahn, USN (ret.) Associates International (Maritime Research Service): Implications of the PRC's Maritime Developments (slides).

Y.C. Chang, University of Delaware: Factional Politics After Mao.

John E. Coon, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle: Defense Priorities in Post-Mao Peking.

Michael Pillsbury, Harvard University: Sino-American Security Ties:

The View from Tokyo, Moscow, and Peking.

James Hsiung, New York University: Maoism After Mao.

3. Time in Japanese Literature

Chairperson: Janet A. Walker, Rutgers University

             Janet A. Walker, Rutgers University: Karma and Time Structure in the "Ochikubo monogatari (Tale of the Lady Ochikubo).

Kathryn Sparling, University of Michigan: Time and Narrative Technique in the Novels of Kawabata.

Eleanor Kerkham, University of Maryland: Time and the Image of the

Traveler In Matsuo Basho's "Oku no hosomichi”

Discussant: William LaFleur, Princeton University

4. Teaching Asia at the Elementary and Secondary Level.

Chairperson: Lynn White, Princeton University

Donald Johnson, New York University: American Education and Its Perspective on Asians.

Bonnie R. Crown, Asian Literature Program: Approaching Asia Through Literature.

Paul H. Noguchi, Bucknell University: How an Anthropologist Looks at Japan.

David J. Lu, Bucknell University: Images of Japan Among Pennsylvania High School Students.

Discussant: Sy Fersh, Fairleigh Dickinson University

5. Transition in India.  Elections and Their Aftermath.

Chairperson: Moharnmed I. Khan, Clarion State College

Robert T. Norman, University of Pittsburgh: The Prospect for Decentralization Under the Janta.

Norman D. Palmer, University of Pennsylvania: The Indian Elections of 1977:

Views of an Observer.

Theodore Wright, Jr., State University of New York, Albany: The Indian Muslims in the 1977 Elections.

C.P. Bhambhri, Jawaharlal Nehru University: The Janata Party: An Interim Assessment.

6. The Problem of Local and Regional Elites in Kuomintang China.

Chairperson: Herman Mast II, University of Connecticut

Richard C. Bush, Asia Society: The Kuomintang and the Lower Yangtze Chinese Cotton Mill Owners, 1927-1937

Noel Miner, University of Colorado: Central-Provincial Relations in Chekiang Province, 1927-1937

Keith Schoppa, Valparaiso University: Elite Relations in Chekiang in the Early and Mid-1920s (until 1928)

Brad Geisert, University of Virginia: “Superstition,” Kuomintang and Local Elites in Kiangsu Province, 1927-1937

Discussants: David Strand, University of Chicago

            Herman Mast III, University of Connecticut

7. The Sino-Centric World in Global History.

Chairperson: Frank A. Kierman Jr., Rider College

Frank A. Kierman, Jr., Rider College: The Sino-Centric World in Global History.

Discussants: Charles Peterson, Cornell University

Joseph Strayer, Princeton University

Gilbert Rozman, Princeton University

8. Vietnam in Transition

            William J. Duiker, Pennsylvania State University

            Phan Thien Chau, Rider College: Party Leadership

            William S. Turley, Southern Illinois University: Army and Bureaucracy

            David Missert, Central Intelligence Agency: Economic Construction

                Thomas Miller, Department of Sate: Vietnam and Southeast Asia

            William J. Duiker, Pennsylvania State University: Vietnam in the Socialist Bloc

9. Specialized Archival and Library Resources for the Study of East Asia Within the Mid-Atlantic Region

            Chariman: Frank Joseph Shulman, University of Maryland, College Park

Leon J. Stout, Pennsylvania State University: Resources on Twentieth Century China in Special Collections of the Pennsylvania State University Libraries

            Frank Joseph Shulman, University of Maryland, College Park: Publications and Unpublished Materials from the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952) with the East Asian Collection, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park

            Ann Nottingham Kelsall, University of Maryland, College Park, Resources on China and Japan among the Jesuit Records at the Woodstock Library, Georgetown University

            Tamiyo Togasaki, Columbia University: The Holdings of the Japan Documentation Center, East Asian Center, New York City

            Kay L. Dove, University of Maryland, College Park: Resources on China and Japan within the Presbyterian Historical Society Archives in Philadelphia

10. The Coverage of Asian News in the Mass Media: A Symposium.

Chairperson:     Parris Chang, The Pennsylvania State University

            Robert M. Batcha, Queens College, CUNY: T.V. Coverage of Asia    

            John A. Lent, Temple University: Media Coverage of Asia: A Content Analysis.

            Discussants: Peter Arnett, Associated Press

            Lee Lescaze, Washington Post

            Maynard Parker, Newsweek

            Steve Bell, ABNews

            Theodore Shabad, New York Times

            Edward Neilan, Asia Mail

11. The New Look: Women of Four Different Asian Societies Since 1945.

Chairperson: Irene G. Shur, West Chester State College

            John Esposito, College of the Holy Cross: The Pakistan Woman

            Phyllis Andors, Wagner College: The Chinese Woman

            Joyce C. Lebra, University of Colorado: The Japanese Woman

            Michelle Maskiell, University of Pennsylvania: The Hindu Woman

            Discussant: Chandra K. Khan, Pennsylvania State University

12. Patterns of Economic Development in Asia.

Chairperson: E-tu Zen Sun, The Pennsylvania State University

            Jan Prybyla, Pennsylvania State University: China

            John P. Lewis, Princeton University: India

            Warren Robinson, Pennsylvania State University: Thailand and Singapore

            Norman Taylor, Franklin and Marshall College: Japan

13. Cosmos and Society: Han Attempts to Formulate a Unitary World View.

Chairperson: Dorothy V. Borei, Western Kentucky University

            Charles Y. LeBlanc, University of Moncton: The Huai-nan-tzu.

            Mildred C. Tain, University of Pennsylvania: Union of Teleological and Mechanistic Aspects of Heaven in Tung Chung-shu

Discussant: Derk Bodde, University of Pennsylvania

14. Japan in Transition

Chairperson: Gaston J. Sigur, The George Washington University

            Nathaniel Thayer, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University: Japanese Political Trends

            Herbert Passin, Columbia University: Culture and Society

            Eleanor Hadley, General Accounting Office and George Washington University: Issues in U.S.-Japanese Trade Relations

Discussants: Marius Jansen, Princeton University

Ronald Morse, Department of State

15. Continuity of Traditional Elements in Contemporary Indian Literature in English.

Chairperson: Marie G. Wanek, Glassboro State College

Margaret Berry, John Carroll University: Narayana-Ramayana: Epic

Themes in the Works of R.K. Narayan.

Eusebio L. Rodrigues, Georgetown University: "He Must Sweat for It": The Dilemma of the Indian Writer in English.

Janet Powers Gemmill. Gettysburg College Raja Rao: The Novel As

Upanishad.

Discussants: Shreenivas Rao, LaSalle College

Bruce C. Robertson, Towson State University

16. Asian Spirituality: Contemporary Assessments.

Chairperson: Frank Podgorski, Seton Hall University

            Daniel Sheridan, Riverside Center for Religious Research: India: From Philosophical Analysis to Theological Evaluations

            David Dilworth, SUNY at Stony Brook: Japan: D.T. Suzuki and Nishido Kitaro of the Kyoto School

Edmund Leites, Queens College: Anglo-Amerkan Evaluations of the Religious Data of China.

Discussant: Robert Smith, Trenton State College

17. Asia and its Arts.

Chairperson: John Haskins, University of Pittsburgh

Helen Jean Asquire, University of Pittsburgh: The Later Japanese Prints of

Meiji and Taisho.

Doris Tai, University of Pittsburgh: The Later Work of T'ang Yin.

Carol Gatsie, University of Pittsburgh: New Evidence on Ordos Bronzes

Katheryn Linduff, University of Pittsburgh: Traditional Expression and

Innovation in Late Shang and Early Chou.

Walter R. Bleckman, Kutztown State College: The Frog Motif in South Asia, China and Oceania.