ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES-MIDDLE ATLANTIC REGION

                                    TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING

                                 RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY, 1993

1. Polishing the Mirror: History and Historicism in Ancient Chinese Sources

                     Chair: Barry B. Blakeley, Seton Hall University

            Gilbert Mattos, Seton Hall University: Eastern Zhou Bronze Inscriptions as Historical Sources

Constance Cook, Lehigh University: Scribes and the Transmission of Sacred Texts

Barry B. Blakeley, Seton Hall University: Some Thoughts on the Historicity of Narrative Discourses in Chinese Texts

2. New Dimensions of Mission Studies

Chair: Kathleen L. Lodwick, Pennsylvania State University, Allentown

            Murray Rubinstein, Baruch College, CUNY: Current State of Mission Studies

             Raoul Kulberg, University of the District of Columbia: Portrayals of Missionaries in Films About China

Joseph Yick, Southwest Texas State University: Methodist Missionary Contributions to Intercultural Understanding and and Diplomacy: The Caldwell Family in Fuzhou and Central Fujian, 1912-1949

Discussant: Kathleen L. Lodwick, Pennsylvania State University, Allentown

3. Getting Asia into the Mid-Atlantic College Curriculum

Chair: To be announced

             Parrticipants: Elizabeth Buck, East-West Center

Harry Krebs, Dickinson College

Roger T. Ames, University of Hawaii

Bruce Wilson, St. Mary's College, Maryland

4. U.S.-China Business Interchanges

Chair: Robert Gardella, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

            Ting Gong, Ranupo College of New Jersey and Feng Chen, SUNY, Oswego: Ideology vs. Economic Pragmatism: China's Dilemma

Thomas Heed and Peter Hellawell, Ramapo College of New Jersey: China-U.S. Executive Training Center: Establishing Educational and Professional Linkages

Discussant: Robert Gardella, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

5. Roundtable: Religious Revivalism in South Asia

Moderator: Craig Baxter, Juniata College

            Walter K. Andersen, Department of State: India

            Mumtaz Ahmad, Hampton University: Pakistan

            Syedur Rahman, Pennsylvania State University: Bangladesh

            Howard Wriggins, Columbia University: Sri Lanka

6. Communist Mobilization in China

Chair: Margaret B. Denning, Slippery Rock University

            Margaret B. Denning, Slippery Rock University: CCP Wartime Mobilization Through the Oppose the War League

Odoric Wou, Rutgers University: The Emergent Stage of Communist Base Building: the Shangcheng Uprising of 1929

Elise de Vido, Harvard University: Land Reform and Civil War in Shandong, 1946-1949

Discussant: Steven Levine, University of Michigan

7. Recent Videotapes on Asian Ceramic Production

Introduced by H. Leedom Lefferts, Drew University

"Porcelain for Emperors"

"The Korean Onggi Potter"

"Traditional Tai Pottery"

8. Playing with Food

Chair: Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University

Robin Rinehart, Lafayette College: You Are What You Eat: Dietary Practices of Hindu Ascetics

Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University: Shan Out to Lunch at Festivals and What They Eat

Constance Cook, Lehigh University: Ritual Feasting and the Liturgy of Legitimation in Ancient China

Discussant: Frank Chance, Friends of the Japanese House and Garden

9. Mission Archives in the Mid-Atlantic Region

Chair: Dorothy Robins-Mowry, Public Diplomacy Foundation

Peter Wosh, American Bible Society: The American Bible Society Archives

Mark C. Shenise, Methodist Archives: The Methodist Archives at Drew University

Russell Gasero, Reformed Church Archives: The Reformed Church Archives

10. Current Research in Hindi Fiml

Chair: T. Scott Smith, Dickinson College

Kanta Bhatia, University of Pennsylvania: It Happened One Night--Two Hindi Versions

Teja Ganti, University of Pennsylvania: Police Kanoon aur Iinsaaf:  The Discourse of the State in Hindi Cinema

T. Scott Smith, Dickinson College: The Magnificent Sevens: From Sholay to Satte pe Satta

11. Hong Kong Faces 1997 – The Challenge of Transition – Part I

Chair: Deborah Brown, New School for Social Research

James Feinerman, Georgetown University Law Center: Hong Kong Faces 1997: Legal and Constitutional Issues

Ming Chan, Swarthmore College/Stanford University: The Crisis of Sino-British Politics in Hong Kong, 1991-1993

Ross Munro, Foreign Policy Research Institute: China's Strategy Regarding Hong Kong

Murray Rubinstein, Baruch College, CUNY: Taiwan's Perspective on the Hong Kong Govemmental Transition

Discussant: David Pong, University of Delaware

12. Dimensions of Chinese Modernization

Chair: Li Li, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Scott Wilson, Comell University: Banquet Buddies (Jiurou Pengyou): Rural Industrialization as an Instituted Process in China

Albert H. Gardner, University of Maryland: Attitudes Toward Marriage and the Family Among Male Police Academy Trainees in China

Jing Li, St. Mary's College of Maryland: Chinese Popular Images of the United States, 1980s

Discussant: Li Li, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

13. Film Screening by the Low Bow Group

Introduced by a representative of the Long Bow Group, Inc.

"Abode of Illusion"

14. Aspects of Asian Arts and Culture – Individual Papers

Chair, Ellen Nollman, National Agricultural Library

Masako Nakagawa, Villanova University: The Tale of Genji in Kacho Fugetsu, A Medieval Short Story

David C. Prejsnar, Community College of Philadelphia: The Role of Zenko-ji in the Development of Ippen Shonin's Thought and Practice

Sarojini D. Lotlikar, Millersville University: Raja Ravi Varma: A Forgotten Award-Winning Indian Painter

Youru Wang, Temple University: A Deconstruction of Language in Madhyamica Philosophy

15. Medicine and Society in the Qing and the 20^th Century

Chair: Paul Howard, University of Pennsylvania

Paul Howard, University of Pennsylvania: Ministers of Health: Medical Missionaries and the Effort to Cure Opium Addiction in Late Nineteenth-Century China

Marta Hansen, University of Pennsylvania: Sweep Away Leaves and Tramp on Snow: The Social Basis of Conflict Over Medical Practice in Eighteenth-Century Suzhou

Ruth Rogaski, Yale University: Levels of Health Care in Late Qing and Republican Tianjin

Jia Huanguang, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Healing the Reopened Wound: Traditional Chinese Medicine's Resistance to Western Biomedicine

Discussant: Carol Ann Benedict, Williams College

16. Asian and American Business

Chair: John Robert Cassidy, Ramapo College of New Jersey

Joseph LeMay, Ramapo College of New Jersey: Japanese Direct investment in North America

Michael L. Maynard, Temple University: Japan-U.S. Cross-Cultural Advertising: A Case of Slice of Life Format

Robert Cambria, Cambria Consultants: Vietnam and Oil

            Discussant: John Robert Cassidy, Ramapo College of New Jersey

17. Hong Kong Faces 1997 – The Challenge of Transition – Part II

Chair:            Deborah Brown, New School for Social Research

            Tsai Wen-hui, Indiana University at Fort Wayne: The Social Implications of the 1997 Political Transition

                Danny Lam, Pacific Basin Research Center, Harvard University: Hong Kong’s Economic Outlook After 1997

            Joseph Man Chan, University of Hong Kong: 1997 and the Implications for Freedom of Expression

            Deborah Brown, New School of Social Research: The Hong Kong Christian Church Faces 1997

            Discussant: Ka-che Yip, University of Maryland

18. Daughters of Independence: Gender and Politics in South Asian Women’s Writing

Chair: Janet M. Powers, Gettysburg College

Janet M. Powers, Gettysburg College: Bapsie Sidhwa: A Parsi View of Independence

Ruth Rosenwasser, University of Pennsylvania: Shashi Deshpande: Gender and Self-Representation

Indrani Mitra, Mount Saint Mary's College: Gender and Revolutionary Politics in Contemporary Women's Fiction

Discussant: Geeta Ramanathan, West Chester University

19. The Gragon and the Eagle: A Film Sries by James Culp Productions

`            Introduced by Margaret B. Denning, Slippery Rock University

"Westward to China"

"The China Call"

20. Critical Buddhism and the Question of Standards

Teleconference Roundtable

`            Organizer: Frank J. Hoffman, West Chester University

            Participants: Bo-kin Kim, Gettysburg College

            William R. LeFluer, University of Pennsylvania

            Paul Swanson, Nanzan University, Japan

21. Revisioning Studies of Medieval Japan, Part I: The State of the Field, the Future of the Field

Co-Chairs: Linda H. Chance, University of Pennsylvania, and Virginia Skord, Manhattanville College

Tom Howell, University of Pennsylvania: Oral Transmission and Authority in a Literate Society: The Case of the Konjaku monogatarishu

Beth G. Lyon, University of Pennsylvania: Reflections on the Aesthetic Education of Children as Expressed in Selected Treatises of the Noh Master Zeami

Nicole Fabricand-Person, Princeton University: Women as Patrons of Buddhist Painting in the Late Heian Period

Masayo Kaneko, University of Pennsylvania: Women in Japanese Buddhism: Buddhist Nuns and Nunneries

Discussant: Karl Kahler, University of Pennsylvania

22. Social Christianity and Missionary Feminism: The Movement to Establish Christian Schools for Girls in China, 1840-1937

Chair: Lawrence Kessler, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Sarah Mason, Minnesota Independent Scholars Forum: Missionary Women and the Effort to Provide Schooling for Girls in Guangzhou

Kathleen L. Lodwick, Pennsylvania State University, Allentown: Establishing the Mission Girls' Schools in Hainan

Discussant: Lawrence Kessler, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

23. Comic Art in Asia

Chair: John A. Lent, Temple University

John A. Lent, Temple University: Comics and Cartoons in Vietnam, Thailand, and Burma

Hongying Liu-Lengyel, Fudan Museum Foundation: Traditional Chinese Brush and Ink Cartoons

Aruna Rao, Temple University: Immortal Picture Stories: Indian Comics Today

Hsiang-wen Hsiao, Temple University: Political Cartoons in Taiwan

Rei Okamoto, Temple University: Manga Cartoon Magazine During the Pacific War

24. Korea in the Port-Cold War World

Chair: Robert Warne, Korea Economic Institute

Robert G. Rich, Jr., Korea Economic Institute: The Two Koreas: Security and Re-unification Issues on the Korean Peninsula

L. Gordon Flake, Korean Economic Institute: Korea and its Asian Neighbors: Competition and Cooperation

Robert Warne, Korea Economic Institute: Redefining the U.S.-Korean Bilateral Relationship

Discussant: David Steinberg, Georgetown University

25. Issues in Modern Chinese History

Chair: Peter Chen-main Wang, National Chung-hsing University

Li Li, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Revolution or Counter-Revolution?  The Nature of Modem Chinese History

Peter Chen-main Wang, National Chung-hsing University: George C. Marshall's Mediation in China: An Examination of His Style and Approaches

Discussant: Murray Rubinstein, Baruch College, CUNY

26. China’s National Security Policy and Objectives for the 1990s

Chair: Nick Eftimiades, Defense Intelligence Agency

Nick Eftimiades, Defense Intelligence Agency: China's Intelligence Organizations: Roles and Structure

Chong-Pin Lin, American Enterprise Institute: Implications of the PLA's Military Modernization to Regional States

Roxane D.V. Sismanidis, Independent Scholar: China's International Security Policy After the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Discussant: Larry Wortzel, U.S. Army

27. The Classroom in China, Japan, and America

Chair: F. Bruce Robinson, National Endowment for the Humanities

Albert            H. Gardner, University of Maryland: Views of the Successful Life and Famous Persons Admired by Chinese High School Students

Masako Hamada and Masako Nakagawa, Villanova University: Classroom Behavior Of American and Japanese University Students/Cultural and Psychological Influences

Laura Miller, Asian American Review: Using Artifacts from Japanese Popular Culture in the Classroom

Discussant: F. Bruce Robinson, National Endowment for the Humanities

28. Revisioning Studies of Medieval Japan, Part II: Gender and Power in Medieval Japanese Texts – New Directions in Research and Teaching

Co-Chairs: Linda H. Chance, University of Pennsylvania, and Virginia Skord, Manhattanville College

Virginia Skord, Manhattanville College: Sex, Lies, and the Illustrated Scroll: The Dojojii engi emaki

Linda H. Chance, University of Pennsylvania: Text and Power: Ichijo Kanera's Prose Admonitions to Hino Tomiko, The Woman Shogun of 15th Century Japan

Paul Gordon Schalow, Rutgers University: Today's Tales of Yesteryear: Kino wa

kyo no monogatari

Additional Participants: Karl Kahler, University of Pennsylvania

William R. LaFIeur, University 6f Pennsylvania

29. Religion and Culture in South Asia

Chair: Robin Rinehart, Lafayette College

Dilnawaz A. Siddiqui, Clarion University: Contributions of Muslims to Indian Culture

Hamida Amanat, American Islamic Academy and Al-Ghazali School: Religious Fundamentalism in Contemporary South Asia: Cultural and Political Dimensions

Joan Roland, Pace University: The Preservation of Indian Culture and Identity Among Indian Jews in Israel

Discussant: Robin Rinehart, Lafayette College

30. Individual Papers

Chair: Margaret B. Denning, Slippery Rock University

Marcia Ristaino, Library of Congress: Ukrainian and Polish Refugees in Shanghai, 1917-1949

Yury Polsky, West Chester University: Russia's policy toward Southeast and South Asia

Alan Roland, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis: The Psychological and the Psychosocial in Indian Organizational Relationships

31. Missionaries and Chinese Christians in the 1920s and 1930s

Chair: Robert E. Carbonneau, C.P., Passionist Congregation, New York

            Robert E. Carbonneau, C.P., Passionist Congregation, New York: Catholic Missionaries Kidnapped in Hainan!: Reexamining Passionist Diplomatic Cases in National Archives RG 59, 1921-1931

            W. Scott Morton, New York: Building a Chinese Church – First-hand Experiences in Manchukuo

Discussant: Kathleen L. Lodwick, Pennsylvania State University/Allentown

32. South Korean Views

Chair: To be announced

Chin H. Suk, York College of Pennsylvania: Democracy in South Korea: Foreign Views

Dennis Hart, Western Illinois University: The Industrialization of Culture in Everyday Life: The Case of the Korean Housewife

Discussant: To be announced

33. Film Screening and Slide Presentation: “The Jews of India”

“2000 years of Freedom and Honor: The Cochin Jews of India: A Film;” (80 minutes in length) Introduced by Producer: Johanna Spector, Jewish Theological Seminary ot America (retired)

"The Jews of India: A Slide Presentation" (45 minutes in length) By Ezekiel Barber, Kean College of New Jersey (retired)