ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES-MID-ATLANTIC REGION
TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING, 1994
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
1. The Transmission of Learning: Master Artists as Teachers in Nineteenth Century Japan
Brenda G. Jordan, University of Pittsburgh: The Studio of Kawanabe Kyosai
Christine Guth, Independent Scholar: Takamura Koun and Takamura Kotaro, Master Sculptors
Victoria Weston, University of Massachusetts: Yokoyama Taikan and the Tokyo Bijutsu Gaicko
Karen Gerhart, Northern Arizona University: Title to be announced.
Discussant: Sandy Kita, University of Pittsburgh
2. Changing Images of Love in Hindi Cinema
Steve Derne, SUNY at Geneseo: Emotion, Culture and Family Structure in Indian Films
T. Scott Smith, Dickinson College: Change and Continuity in Rebellious Love Stories from Anarkali to Dil
Kanta Bhatia, University of Pennsylvania: Surprising Images in Chandni
3. North and South: From Competition to Cooperation in the Koreas?
Robert G. Rich, Jr., Korea Economic Institute: The Two Koreas: Security and Reunification Issues on the Korean Peninsula
L. Gordon Flake, Korea Economic Institute: The DPRK External Economy
Hy-sang Lee, University of Wisconsin: Economic Factors in Reunification
Discussants: Joseph Chung, Illinois Institute of Technology
Robert Warne, Korea Economic Institute
4. Critical Japanology I
Chair- Paul Schalow, Rutgers University
Nina Cornyetz, Rutgers University: Breaking the Chains of nihonjinron: The Ideal of 'Zero Identity' in the Works of Shimada Masahiko"
David Prejsnar, Community College of Philadelphia: The Historicity of Tradition and the Early Ji Movement: Some Implications of the Interpretive Turn for Japanology
Cecilia Segawa Seigle, University of Pennsylvania: The Real Ooku: Shogun's Ladies Quarters
Matthew Mizenko, Haverford College: Postmodernism in Japanese History
Discussant: Laura Miller, University of Pennsylvania
5. Chinese Communist Wartime Propaganda and Mobilization
Odoric Wou, Rutgers University, Newark: Wartime Youth Mobilization: The Case of Shandong
Elise de Vido, Harvard University: Wartime Recruitment of Civilian Militias and Civilian Laborers in Shandong"
Margaret B. Denning, Slippery Rock University: The Japanese Peasants and Workers School in Yanan
Discussant: Ka-Che Yip, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
6. Northeast China in the 1930's
Vanessa M. Sterling, University of Pittsburgh: Assessing the Ethnic Situation in Northeast China circa 1920
Andrew Hall, University of Pittsburgh: Japanese Educational Objectives in Manchuria 1932-1945
Q. Edward Wang, Rowan College: Tbe Quest for China's Sinology: Chen Yinki (1890-1969) and His Career
7. The Floating World Reconsidered
Mark Sandler, University of Maryland: Hokusai's Yomi-hon and its Effect on Later Musha-e
Sandy Kita, University of Pittsburgh, and Takao Kobayashi, University of Pittsburgh: Tokaido Dairies of Matabei and Hiroshige"
Jamie Rutherford, University of Pittsburgh: The Court Lady and Courtesan in the Prints of Sukenobu
Discussant: Harrie Vanderstappen, University of Chicago (retired)
8. Asian Comics and Cartoons
Chair: John Lent, Third World Media Associates
Alfonz Lengyel, Fudan Museum Foundation: Liao Binxiong's Philosophy: Analytical View of its Political Evolution
Aruna Rao, Temple University: Constitution of Identity in Indian Comics
Rei Okamoto, Temple University: World War II Manga Magazines
Hsiao Hsiang-Wen, Temple University: Popular Culture in Taiwan: The Role of Cartoons
9. Popular Cults in Classical and Contemporary China
Murray Rubinstein, Baruch College
Terry Kleeman, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Donald Sutton, Carnegie Mellon University
10. Critical Japanology II
Chair: Robert Kidder, Temple University
Michael Maynard, Temple University: A Hard Look at Hard Sell in Japanese Advertisement
Laura Miller, University of Pennsylvania: Folk Models of Japanese Language and Culture
Masakazu Iino, University of Pennsylvania: Dialect Use and Foreigner Talk in Japanese Conversations with American Homestay Students"
Masako Hainada, Villanova University: Gender Variation in Japanese Language
Discussant: Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania
11. Disease, Health, and Medicine in East Asia
Chair: Ann Jannetta, University of Pittsburgh
Shi-Yung Liu, University of Pittsburgh: The Chinese Fever School in Japan
Ruth Rogaski, Yale University: Disease and Therapeutics in Late Qing and Republican Tianjin
Deborah Fieldler, Gettysburg College: Mothers Helping Daughters to Become Mothers: The Cultural Context of Satogaeri Childbirth in Japan
Discussant: Carol A. Benedict, Williams College
12. Afghanistan in a Regional Setting
Chair: Thomas P. Thornton, Georgetown University
Sheila Peters, U.S. Department of State: Pakistan and India
Muriel Atkin, George Washington University: Central Asia
Alam Payind, Ohio State University: Iran and the Arab World
13. Sorting Out the Artifacts in Ancient Tombs: The Reflection of 'Others' Within
Ancient Chinese Cultural Spheres
Chair: Kathryn Linduff, University of Pittsburgh
Mrea Csorba, University of Pittsburgh: Frontier Burial Practice of Non-Chinese Recorded at Chang Ping Bai Fu, Northern Hobe
Penny Rode, University of Pittsburgh: Local Significance of Bronze Age Yunnan Burial Furnishings
Miao-Lin Hsu, University of Pittsburgh: Chinese Mirrors in the Fu Hao Tomb at Anyang
Discussants: Emma Bunker, University of Colorado
Tong En Zhong, University of Pittsburgh
14. Images of Asia and Asians in Popular American Films
Robin Rinehart, Lafayette College: Indias Real and Imagined: The Representation of India in American Popular Films
Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University: Green Papayas and Napalm in the Morning: The Scent of Southeast Asia in American Films
Jian-Zhong Lin, Teikyo Loretto Heights University: Art and Reality in “Farewell My Concubine”
Discussant: Frank L. Chance, Friends of the Japanese House and Garden
15. Famine and Cannibalism in Southwest China: A Writer's Expose
Round Table on Red Memorial (Hongse Jinian, Taipei, 1994)
Chair and Discussant: Donald Sutton, Carnegie Mellon University
Zheng Yi, Princeton China Initiative and author of Red Memorial
Bei Ming, Princeton China Initiative
Discussant: Tong En Zhong, University of Pittsburgh
Hiroshi Nara, University of Pittsburgh: Aspects of Stativity in Japanese
Robert Allen, University of Pittsburgh: Toward the Reconstruction of Social Hierarchy in Proto-North Halmaheran
Paul Hopper, Carnegie Mellon University: The Marking of Event Reference in Malay and Indonesian Discourse
James H.-Y. Tai, Ohio State University: On the Role of Iconicity in Chinese Grammar
17. Contemporary Chinese Economic Trends
Chair: Thomas G. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh
Henry R. Harbaugh, University of Pittsburgh: Worker Stock Ownership in China
Wei Lo, University of Pittsburgh: Do Chinese Industrial Enterprises Face a 'Ratchet Effect'?
Robert W. Mead, University of Pittsburgh: China's Rural Economy: Trends and Change
Discussant: Gene Hsin Chang, University of Toledo
18. Asian Philosophy
Chair: Frank J. Hoffman, West Chester University
Cheryl Baker, West Chester University: Reincarnation East and West
David Muckel, West Chester University: Yuasa and Descartes on Mind and Body
Ian Sprandel, West Chester University: Yogacara Epistemology
19. Independent Papers on East Asia
Janet Roberts, Independent Scholar: Kimono and Chrysanthemums
Bao Hua Hsieh, Creighton University: Market System and Mobility: Concubines in Chinese Society from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
Leo K. Shin, Princeton University: Ethnicity and Eepansion in Late Imperial China
20. Life Course Representations I: Contemporary Japanese and Japanese-Americans
Chair: John W. Traphagan, University of Pittsburgh
Lisa Murphy, University of Pittsburgh: Gender, Identity, and the Body: Adolescence in Contemporary Japan
Tamiko Noll, University of Pittsburgh: The Politics of Contraception: Family Planning Ideology and the Life Course
Yasushi Watanabe, Harvard University: Nisei Assimilation as “Model Minorities” in Contemporary America
21. Learning in Likely Places II
Chair: John Singleton, University of Pittsburgh
Jonah Salz, Franklin and Marshall College: Roles of Passage in Kyogen
Frank Chance, Friends of the Japanese House and Garden, Philadelphia: Gagakusai: The Studio of Painting Study
Louise Cort, Charles Freer Gallery of Art, and H. Leedom Lefferts, Drew University: Learning in Isan (NE Thailand): Weaving and Pottery
Ellen Madono, University of Pittsburgh: Regulated and Crafted Learning of Japanese Auto Mechanics
Scott Clark, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology: Learning at the Public Bathhouse in Japan
William Singleton, Pine Creek Pottery: Learning to Be an Apprentice in a Japanese Pottery Workshop
22. Ethnicity and Empire: Japan in Asia
Chair: Michael Tsin, Columbia University
Lisbeth K. Brandt, Columbia University: Objects of Desire: Japan and Colonial Korea
Barbara Brooks, City College, CUNY: Race, Gender and the Manchurian Frontier- Kawashima Yoshiko and 1930's Japan
Faye Kleeman, City College, CUNY: Asian Identities in Contemporary Japanese Fiction
23. Beyond Socialism and Capitalism: Interpreting China's Economic Development
Chair: Brantly Womack, University of Virginia
Zhiyuan Cui, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Exploring Institutional Innovations in China's Rural Industry: Is a New Form of Property Emerging?
Wiexing Chen, Old Dominion University: China's Market-Oriented Communal Socialism
Jason Hubbard, University of Virginia: Interaction of Bureaucratic and Economic Reforms, A Quantitative Analysis of China's Rural Development
Elizabeth Freund, Univrsity of Virginia: Market Transformation of State Industry in China: The Case of Baoshan Steel
Discussant: Thomas G. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh
24. The Kashmir Problem: Conflicting Viewpoints
Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, Concordia University, Montreal: Economic Underdevelopment of Kashmir
Theodore P. Wright, Jr., SUNY at Albany: Indian Muslims and Kashmir: The Most Sensitive Issue
Patricia Gossman, Asia Watch: Non-Govemmental Organizations and Kashmir
Roger D. Long, Eastern Michigan University: Pakistan and Kashmir The Early Years
Discussant: Craig Baxter, Juniata College
25. The Status of Traditional Crafts in South Asia
Ruth Rosenwasser, Independent Scholar: The Gujarati Potter: Portraitof the Artist in an Expanding Marketplace
Gail Maxwell, University of Pennsylvania: The Crafting of Wood in South Indian Temples
Robert Young, West Chester University: Kashmiri Crafts in Crisis
Discussant: Louise Cort, Charles Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
26. Life Course Representations II: Contemporary Japanese and Chinese
Chair: John W. Traphagan, University of Pittsburgh
Albert H. Gardner, University of Maryland: Attitudes Toward Marriage and Family of Peking University Students
Satsuki Kawano, University of Pittsburgh: Gender and Ritual Participation in the Life Course
John W. Traphagan, University of Pittsburgh: Age-Grading in Contemporary Japan
27. Independent Papers on South and Southeast Asia
Kaushik Bagchi, Goucher College: Orientalism, Modernity, and Antiquity: German Orientalists and Indian Reformers in the Nineteenth Century
Sarojini D. Lotlikar, Millersville University: Dr. Anandi Joshi, A Woman Pioneer in Medicine
Gerald Sullivan, University of Virginia: Three Bodies of Being: Remembering, Forgetting, and A Morphology of Balinese Experience
Simmons Chang, New School for Social Research: Socio-Religious Aspects of the Temple in the Andhra Period
28. South Asia: Security Issues in the Emerging International Order
Aftab A. Kazi, Department of Education, and Gowher Rizvi, The Asia Society: Democracy and Governance
Thomas Timberg, Nathan Associates: The New Tigers
Aftab Kazi, Department of Education: Ethnonational Legitimacy and Democratization
Walter K. Andersen, Department of State: India-Pakistan Relations
Discussant: John Echeverri-Gent, University of Virginia
29. Contemporary Policy Issues Across Asia
Roxane D.V. Sisimandis, Independent Scholar: Role Reversal: Sino-Russian Relations in the 1990's
Tse-Kang Leng, University of Virginia: State Democracy and Policy-Making--An Analysis of Taiwan's Mainland Trade Policv, 1988-1993.