ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES-MID-ATLANTIC REGION
SIXTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY, 1987
1. Contemporary Asian Economics.. Some Perspectives
Chair: Shanti Tangri, Rutgers University
Kazuo Sato, Rutgers University: Some Problems Of the Contemporary Japanese Economy
Manoranjan Dutta and Daniel Tantum, Rutgers University: US-Asian Competitiveness.- A Case Of Structural Divergence
Ira N. Gang, Rutgers University and Haider Ali Khan, University of Denver: The Effects Of Foreign Aid on Patterns of Government Spending in India
Discussants: David Wong, California State University at Fullerton
Shanti Tangri, Rutgers University
2. Teaching Asia in the Classroom
Chair: W. Jack Miller, GEO VISTA - Global Educational Experiences
W. Jack Miller, GEO VISTA - Global Educational Experiences: Southeast Asia - the Forgotten Region in the School Curriculum
Alice Combes, GEO VISTA - Global Educational Experience: China - Recent Educational Changes
Discussant: Paul R. Rivera, Social Studies Supervisor, Baltimore County Public Schools
3. Dreams and Reality- Perspectives from Asian Literatures
Chair: Chandra P. Agrawal, Morgan State University
Margaret Berry, John Carroll University: “Dream of the Red Chamber” English Language Studies of Hung-Lou Meng
Carolyn T. Brown, Howard University: Two Traditions Merge: Lu Xun's Interpretation of Dreams
Chandra P. Agrawal, Morgan State University: The Self and the Other: The Writings of Mahadevi Verma and Kamala Das
Huma Ibrahim, University of Hawaii: History as Comic Relief: A Woman Looks at 1947
4. South Asian Performing Arts: Cross-Cultural Interaction
Chair: Michael D. Rosse, University of Pennsylvania
Frank J. Korom, University of Pennsylvania: A Phenomenological Approach to Odissi Dance
Alison E. Arnold, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: The Art of Combining Popular Tones: Hindi Film Song Composition in Indian Society
Nancy Nalbandian, University of Pennsylvania: East Meets West. The Influence of Indian Music on Western Popular Music
Michael D. Rosse, University of Pennsylvania: The P.L. 480 Collection of Records and Tapes: A Little-known Resource for the Study of Indian Music
5. India-Pakistan Military Relations
Chair: Michael Potaski, Department of Defense
Douglas Makeig, Department of Defense: India-Pakistan Military Balance
Roger Cunningham, Department of Defense: India's Brass Tacks Exercise and Resulting Tensions
Michael Potaski, Department of Defense: CSCE as a Model for Indo-Pak Confidence Building
William Springer, Department of Defense: India's Regional Security Interests
Discussant: Craig Karp, Department of State
6. Protest and Discontent: Student Activism in Modern China
Chair: David Pong University of Delaware
Ka-che Yip, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Student Activism in the 1930's: an Interpretation
Donald Jordan, Ohio University: The Students' Anti-Japanese Movement of 1931
Odoric Wou, Rutgers University: Student Activism in Honan December 9,1935
Gilbert Chan, Miami University (Oxford, Ohio): The Student Movement of 1935 and 1986-1987: A Comparative Analysis
Discussant: John Witek, S.J, Georgetown University
7. Modem Science, Technology and Medicine: Archival and Library Resources on China and Japan in the Mid-Atlantic States Region
Chair: Frank Joseph Shulman, University of Maryland
Roy E. Goodman, American Philosophical Society: Benjamin Smith Lyman and the Geological Survey of Japan (1892-1879):Papers, Maps and Charts at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia
Thomas Rosenbaum, Rockefeller Archive Center: The Archives of the China Medical Board and the Peking Union Medical College at the Rockefeller Archive Center (North Tarrytown, New York): Some Sources on the Transfer of Western Science, Medicine and Technology to China during the Republican Period
Michael R. Notis, Lehigh University: On the Tracks of Wang Chin (1888-1967), Pioneer of Modern Chemistry in China: Utilizing Resources at Lehigh University and Beyond
Herman Baron, DIANE Publishing Company: Access to Current Japanese Scientific and Technical Literature in English. Selected Sources within the Mid-Atlantic States Region
8. Soviet Policy Objectives in East Asia
Chair: Raymond F. Wylie, Lehigh University
Rajan Menon, Lehigh University: Soviet Policy Objectives in East Asia
Thomas Fingar, Department of State: Chinese Views of Soviet Policy in East Asia
Ronald Morse, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Japanese Views of Soviet Policy in East Asia
Discussant: Donald Zagoria, Hunter College
9. U.S. Military Bases in the Philippines
Chair: Stephen R. Shalom, William Paterson College
Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Dollars and Sense: U.S. Bases in the Philippines: A Metaphor for Cultural Imperialism
Daniel B. Schirmer: The Military Bases and U.S. Intervention in the Philippines
Charles W. Lindsey, Trinity College: The Economic Impact of the Bases and the Prospects for Conversion
Stephen R. Shalom, William Paterson College: U.S. Military Bases and the U.S.-Soviet Balance in Southeast Asia
Discussant: Robin Broad, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
10. Economic Frictions: Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the United States
Chair: Clyde Prestowitz, Harvard University
Edward Lincoln, Brookings Institution: Japan
John Bennett, Korea Economic Institute of America: Korea
Joseph B. Kyle, American Institute in Taiwan: Taiwan
Discussant: Warren S. Hunsberger, American University
11. Calendars, Counting, and Correlative Thought in Early China
Chair: David Pankenier, Lehigh University
Steven Davidson, Allegheny College: Han Calendrical Traditions in Tung Chung-shu's Thought
Richard Kunst, Duke University: Numbers, Numerology, and theYi ling
John Major, The Asia Society: Calendrical Traditions in Huainanzi
David Pankenier, Lehigh University, Early Antecedents of Five Phases Correlative Thought
Discussant: Norman Girardot, Lehigh University
12. Alternative Role Conceptions in South Asia: Foreign Policy of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan
Chair: Maya Chadda, William Paterson College
Hafeez Malik, Villanova University: An Alternative Policy for Pakistan - Pakistan-Soviet Relations
Robert Canfield, Washington University, St. Louis: Changing Configuration of Options in Afghanistan
Maya Chadda, William Paterson College: Hegemony & Partnership: Determinants in India's Foreign Policy Options
Discussant: Walter K. Andersen, Department of State
13. Birth Stories in Indian Literature and the Arts
Chair: Ernest Bender, University of Pennsylvania
Jerome Bauer, University of Pennsylvania: Mahavira's Embryo Transfer.- Interpreting a Svetambara Miracle
Richard Cohen, University of Pennsylvania: The Account of Parsva's Birth in the Pasanaha Cariu of Sridhara
Sagaree Sengupta Korom, University of Pennsylvania: The Fourteen Dreams of Mahavira's Mothers: Narrative Iconography in the Kalpasutra
Bruce Randall, University of Pennsylvania: Is one Born a Dancer? Birth as a Factor of Status among Chau Performers of South Bihar
David Purpur, University of Pennsylvania: The Genesis of Speech According to Some of the Indian Tantras
Discussant: Ernest Bender, University of Pennsylvania
14. MAR/AAS Outreach Roundtable
Chair: F. Bruce Robinson, University of Pennsylvania
Discussants: Marc J. Cohen, Asia Resource Center, Washington, D.C.
Ann Nottingham Kelsall, National Geographic Society
Robert Young, University of Pennsylvania
Robert C. Ainspac, Princeton University
15. Population Perspectives in Asia
Chair: Frances Plunkett, World Bank
Catherine Fogle, World Bank: Thailand and the Philippines: Several Steps Forward and Several Backwards
Frances Plunkett, World Bank: India and Pakistan: The Divide Widens
Michael Billig. Franklin and Marshall College: Kerala and Sri Lanka: Special Cases?
Discussant: John Wesley, USAID
16. Research Support and Lecturing Opportunities in Asia
Chair: David B. J. Adams, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)
David B. J. Adams, CIES: Research and Lecturing Opportunities in Asia under the Fulbright Scholar Program
Merion Kane, Faculty Research Abroad Program, Dept. of Education: Area Studies and the Department of Education, and Other Fulbrights
Jason Parker, American Council of Learned Societies: Private Sector Support. Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies
Glenn Shive, Scholar-in-Residence, United States Information Agency: Problems of Research Access
Mary Bullock, Committee for Scholarly Communication with the Peoples Republic of China: Research Support for Work in China
17. Contemporary Asian Women: Image and Reality
Chair: Shayida Lateef, Indian Council of Social Science Research
Shayida Lateef, Indian Council of Social Science Research: Updating the Women's Movement in India
Janet Powers, Gettysburg College The Media's Portrayal of the Women's Movement
Gita Chanda, George Washington University: The Image of Indian Women in Indo-Anglian Writings by Women
Helen Hopper, Empire State College Japanese Women Before and After the Second World War
Discussant: Surjit Mansingh, Johns Hopkins University
18. Revolutionary Ideology and Practice in China: 1927-31
Chair: Steve Levine, American University
Steve Averill, Kenyon College: Elite and Peasant in the Chinese Revolution: Jiangxi Province, 1927-1930
Ken J. Olenik, Montclair State College: The Revolutionary Program of the Radical Left Guomindang, 1929-1930
Marsha Ristaine, Library of Congress: Organizational Innovation in the Base Areas, 1927-1928
Discussant: Steve Levine, American University
19. Tibetan Buddhism in America Since 1959
Chair: Natalie M. Hauptman. Drew University and Lehigh University
Kurt Keutzer, Bell Laboratories: Buddhism and Science
Natalie M. Hauptman, Drew University and Lehigh University: Buddhism and Ethics
Lozang Jamspal, Columbia University: Buddhism and Its Relationship to Other World Religions
Discussant: Marie Friquegnon, William Paterson College
20. Visions of the Gateway -Western Perceptions of Kwangtung Province in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Chair: Murray A. Rubinstein, Baruch College, CUNY
Jonathan Goldstein, West Georgia College: The Empress of China Bicentennial, American Decorative Arts, and American Idealization of China
Kathleen Lodwick, Southwest Missouri State University: Hainan in Missionary Eyes in the Late 19th Century
Murray A. Rubinstein, Baruch College, CUNY: The View from Zion's Corner: Canton as Pictured by the American Board Pioneers, 1830-1840
Discussant: Robert Gardella, US. Merchant Marine Academy
21. Modem Japanese Literature and Thought
Chair: Roselee Bundy, Dickinson College
Marianne Harrison, University of Chicago: The Constitution of Joryu Bungaku (Women's Literature) as a Category
Toshio Haraoka, Dickinson College: The Fiction of Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Harry Krebs, Dickinson College: Paradigms in the Comparative Analysis of Meiji Intellectual Traditions
Roselee Bundy, Dickinson University: Self-reflexive Narration in the Works of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro
Discussant: Phyllis Lyons, Northwestern University
22. Hindu Revivalism in South Asia
Chair: Richard S. Kennedy, Foreign Service Institute
Walter K. Andersen, Department of State: The RSS and Hindu Revivalism
Bryan Pfaffenberger, University of Virginia: The 1968 Temple Entry Crisis in Hindu Sri Lanka: Hindu Revivalism and Social Change
Theodore P. Wright Jr., SUNY/Albany: Mobilization and Countermobilization: The Case of the Ramajanmabhoomi at Ayodhya
Discussant: Mumtaz Ahmad, M.R.M., Inc.
23. Oriental Medicine
Chair: Sae-il Chun, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Sae-il Chun, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: Oriental Medicine in Western Culture
Alvin E. Gaary, Delaware County Memorial Hospital: Acupuncture in Surgery
Discussants: Patrick La Riccia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Charles Hardy, Pain Treatment Center, Langhorne Anesthesia Associates, Langhorne, PA
24. Teaching About Asia in the High School: The Search for Models
Chair: Paul R. Rivera, Social Studies Supervisor, Baltimore County Public Schools
Bonny M. Cochran, Social Studies Resource Teacher, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, Maryland: The Elective Course Approach
Barbara R. Graves, Social Studies Teacher-Coordinator, Gwynn Park High School, Maryland: An Asian Perspective on Economic Development
Gwen R. Johnson and Muriel Juster, Social Studies Teachers, Scarsdale
High School, New York: Beyond the Western Tradition: A Cultural-Anthropoligical Approach
Paul R. Rivera, Social Studies Supervisor, Baltimore County Public Schools:
Asia in the World History Course
Discussant: H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr, Drew University
25. Ethnicity, Religion and Politics: South Asia in Turmoil
Chair: Mohammad I. Khan, Clarion University
T. M. Deen, D.M.S. Inc.: Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
Habib Tegey, Voice of America: The Nature of the Resistance Movement in Afghanistan
Gurcharan Singh, Marymount Manhattan College: Religion and Politics: Status of Minority Rights?
Raquib-uz-Zaman, Ithaca College: Ethnic Problems of Pakistan and Bangladesh: Economic Impact
Steven E. G. Kemper, Bates College: Ethnic Problems in Sri Lanka: An Appraisal
Mohammad I. Khan, Clarion University: Politics and Religious Revivalism in India
Discussants: Razi Wasti, Columbia University
J.N. Parimoo, Times of India
26. Images of South Asia
Chair: Christopher Greenman, Lehigh University Art Galleries
T. Scott Smith, Dickinson College: Hindi Film in South Asian Survey Courses - A Review
Christopher Latham Sholes: Living Gods, Hindu Faces: Worship Among Hindus in South India (A Slide Presentation)
27. The Japanese Constitution at Forty
Chair: Lawrence Beer, Lafayette College
David Titus, Wesleyan University: The Imperial Institution
Theodore McNelly, University of Maryland: Economics
James Auer, Department of Defense: National Defense
Discussants: Lawrence Beer, Lafayette College
Takagi Seiichiro, Saitama University, Japan
28. A Study of Bengali Poet Nazrul Islam: His Political Philosophy; Rebel Poetry to Musical
Romanticism; and Ties with World Literature
Chair: Hita Brata Roy, Foreign Service Institute
Dawood Khan Majlis, Voice of America: Influence of World Literature on Nazrul
Asim Pada Chakravarti, Jaipuria College, Calcutta, India: Political Philosophy of Kazi Nazrul Islam
Hita Brata Roy, Foreign Service Institute: Nazrul Islam - Rebel Poetry to Musical Romanticism
Discussant: Adhip Chaudhuri, Georgetown University
29. China's Reunification and the Future of Hong Kong: A Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Ka-che Yip, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Discussants: Susie Chiang, China Times, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Alice Lun Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Gilbert Chan, Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
Lincoln Li, Monash University, Australia
Odoric Wou, Rutgers University, Newark
30. Security Issues in the Indian Ocean Area
Chair: Surjit Mansingh, Johns Hopkins University
Surjit Mansingh, Johns Hopkins University: Whose Image? What Reality? The Reagan Administration and the Indian Ocean
Shekhar Gupta, India Today: Regional Security and Arms Transfers
Amit Pandya, Asia Watch: National Unity and International Security
Amy Skiller, Johns Hopkins University: Environmental Impact on Indian Ocean Security
Discussant: Peter Lydon, Department of State
31. Business and Economics in Asia
Chair: Soong Nark Sohng: Clarion University
William Crawford, Slippery Rock University: The Pricing of Technology Transfer in East Asia: Problems and Strategies
Sarjit Singh, Clarion University: Economic Planning - A Boost or Hindrance: The Case of India
Soong Nark Sohng, Clarion University and Panos Mourdoukoutas, Long Island University: Automation and Economic Adjustment in Japan
Discussant: Anand Shetty, University of Pittsburgh
32. China's Urban Economy 1985-1990: Current Issues in the Reform
Chair: Thomas Lyons, Cornell University
Yang Xiaokai, Princeton University and Wuhan University: The Issue of Ownership in Urban Reform
Wang Yan, Cornell University and People's University (Beijing): Recent Developments in China's Financial System
Discussant: Jan Prybyla, Pennsylvania State University
33. Shifting Superpower and Regional Interests in South Asia
Chair: Sumit Ganguly, Hunter College
Richard Cronin, Congressional Research Service: American Interests in South Asia
Donald Zagoria, Hunter College: Chinese Interests in South Asia
Sumit Ganguly, Hunter College: Soviet Interests in South Asia
Parvati Vasudevan, Bombay University: Oil and the Superpowers in South Asia
Discussant: Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, First Secretary (Political), Embassy of India
34. The West Looks East: Western Interpretations of Buddhist and Hindu Texts
Chair: Jacob Meskin, Lehigh University
Andrew P. Tuck, Union College: Isogesis: Western Readings of Indian Philosophical Texts
Herman Tull, Princeton University: From Meaninglessness to Meaning. The Interpretation of the Rg Veda in the West
Jacob Meskin, Lehigh University: Western Philosophical Approaches to Dogen's Conception of Religious Practice
35. Prospects for the Evolution of Democracy in the Far East- A Roundtable
Chair: Choi Sung-il, Korean Institute for Human Rights
Marc J. Cohen, Asia Resource Center, Washington, D.C.: Taiwan
Waldon Bella, Institute for Policy Studies: Philippines
Choi Sung-il, Korean Institute for Human Rights: Korea
36. Teaching the Viet-Nam Experience to Inexperienced Students
Chair: Paul R. Rivera, Social Studies Supervisor, Baltimore County Public Schools
Douglas W. Simon, Drew University Teaching the Viet-Nam Experience to Inexperienced College Students
Raymond L. Frappolli, Social Studies Resource Teacher, Paint Branch High School, Maryland: Teaching the Viet-Nam Experience to Inexperienced High School Students
Discussants: Brent McCallum, Social Studies Teacher, Gaithersburg High School, Maryland
John S. Balliet, Social Studies Instructor, East Penn School District, Pennsylvania
37. Politics in Theater
Chair: Susham Bedi, Columbia University
Susham Bedi, Columbia University: Theater as a Tool for Political Commentary and Satire. Politics in Hindi Theater
Ala Faik, University of Michigan: Political Theater in the Arab World
T'heresa Kija Kim, Brooklyn College: Political Dimensions of Korean Mask Dance-Drama
Discussant: Richmond Farley, Michigan State University
38. Trade and Economy in Fu-chien
Chair: Hugh R. Clark, Ursinus College
Hugh R. Clark, Ursinus College: Trade and Economy in Southern Fu-chien through the 13th Century
Robert Gardella, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy: Trade and Economy in the Fu-chien Tea Industry in the 18th-19th Centuries
Discussant: Robert Hymes, Columbia University
39. Decentralization of Administration and Development in South Asia
Chair: Mohammed Rashiduzzaman, Glassboro State College
Syedur Rahman, Pennsylvania State University: Financial Management Model for Decentralized Administration
Aruna Michie, Kansas State University: Decentralization and Public Welfare in India
Mohammed Rashiduzzaman, Glassboro State College: Local Institutional Skill Development. A Case Study of the Upazilas in Bangladesh
Discussant: Harry Blair, Bucknell University
40. Old Politics and New in Late Qing and Republican China
Chair: Michael Gasster, Rutgers University
Kenneth Pomeranz, Yale University: The Politics of Water Control in Late Qing and Republican China
John Watt, Committee on International Relations Studies with the Peoples Republic of China: The Politics of Public Health in Republican China
Wang Ke-wen, St. Michael's College: Collaboration and Factional Politics: Origins of the Wartime Wang Jingwei Regime
41. Physical Indicators of the Human Condition in Asia
Chair: Thomas A. Timberg, Robert R. Nathan Associates, Washington, D.C.
Thomas A. Timberg, Robert R. Nathan Associates, Washington, D.C.: Height and the Human Condition in East Bengal, 1880-1980
Ira Klein, American University: Mortality, Population Growth, and the Human Condition
Speaker to Be Announced: Experiments with Improving the Human Condition
42. Diverse Influences in Southeast Asia
Chair: H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr., Drew University
Steven Hood, Ursinus College: Sino-Vietnamese Relations Since the 1979 War
S.F. Alatas, Johns Hopkins University: On the Historical Sociology of Islam: From the Maghrib to the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago
Lee Oei, Fordham University: Java and Its Relations with China, as seen in the Twenty-Four Histories
Glen Alexandrin, Villanova University: Elements of Buddhist Economics
Discussant: H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr, Drew University
43. Communism in Twentieth Century China
Chair: Kalpana Misra, Lehigh University
Virginia E. Reynolds, Indiana University of Pennsylvania: The Chinese Communist Party from 1921-1928
Richard Smith, University of California at Los Angeles: Class Structure and Economic Rationality. Problems of Industrial Reform in China
Alfonz Lengyel, Eastern College: Social and Political Cartoons After Mao
Discussant: Kalpana Misra, Lehigh University
44. Americans and Chinese: How We Look at Each Other
Chair: Murray A. Rubinstein, Baruch College, CUNY
Hongying Liu-Lengyel, Villanova University: China in Recent American Children's Literature. A Critical Analysis
Edwin Pak-wah Leung, Seton Hall University: The Making of the First Chinese Yankees: School Life of the Pioneer Chinese Students in America
Su-ya Chang, Pennsylvania State University: The United States and the Long-term Disposition of Taiwan in the Making of Peace with Japan, 1950-1952
Discussant: Murray A. Rubinstein, Baruch/CUNY
45. Science and Technology- Interactions Between East Asia and the West in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Chair: Michael R. Notis, Lehigh University
James Reardon Anderson, Georgetown University: Chemistry in Republican China
Michael R. Notis, Lehigh University: American Education and the Development of Modem Chemistry and Metallurgical Engineering in China: Two Studies
Raymond F. Wylie, Lehigh University: Science and Technology in US.-China Relations
Jim Bartholemew, Ohio State University: The Feudalistic Legacy of Japanese Science
Gail Cooper, Lehigh University: The Development of Quality Control Techniques in Twentieth Century Japan