ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES/MID-ATLANTIC REGION
TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING
TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY, 1995
1. The Shape of Things to Come: Prospects and Problems in South Asia
Chair: Edwin Hirschmann, Towson State University
Edwin Hirschmann, Towson State University: Introduction
Robert LaPorte. Jr., Pennsylvania State University: Pakistan
Syedur Rahman, Pennsylvania State University: Bangladesh
Walter Andersen, Department of State: India: Political Prospects
Stanley Kochanek, Pennsylvania State University: India: Commercial and Political Prospects
2. North Korea: The Nuclear Issue and the Agreement
Chair: Bonnie Oh, Georgetown University
Charles Armstrong, Princeton University: Why North Korea Still Exists
Gary Samore, Department of State: The Negotiation of the Agreement and its Implementation to Date
Victor Cha, Georgetown University: The Geneva-Agreed Framework and the Future of Korea
Discussant: Yo Taik Song, Department of Energy
3. Individual Papers: Art and Aesthetics in East Asia
Diane S. Graham, Nazareth College of Rochester: Chinese Tradition to Japanese Convention: The Transformation of “The Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang” in Hiroshige’s Shiba Hakkei
Adriana Proser, Loyola College of Maryland: The Liquid Stele: Confucianism and Calligraphy in Eastern Han China (CE 25-220)
Dali Tan, University of Maryland: Deep, Deep the Courtyard—How Deep?: Li Qingzhao’s Strategies in Employing Some Architectural Features in Her Lyrics
Jie Xu, Princeton University: The Cemetery Lords of Jin: Its Significance in Western Zhou Archaeology and the Study of Jin Bronze Art
4. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Asian Studies at the Secondary Level
Chair: Leslie Solomon, Cherry Hill High School West
Leslie Solomon, Cherry Hill High School West: Teaching Asian Studies Thematically
Barbara O'Breza, Cherry Hill High School West: Poetry as a Reflection of T’ang Values
Louise McDonnel, Cherry Hill High School East: T’ang Values Reflected in Art
5. Institutional & Historical Perspectives on Modernity in China
Chair: Harold Tanner, University of North Texas
Catherine Keyser, Drew University: Re-Creating Research as a Modern Institution in China
Harold Tanner, University of North Texas: Criminal Justice and China’s Transition to Modernity
Discussant: Xioqun Xu, Francis Marion University
6. Rethinking Female and Male in Japanese Literature
Chair: Ayako Kano, University of Pennsylvania
Linda H. Chance, University of Pennsylvania: Constructions of the Feminist Mode in Japanese Literature
Seiko Yoshinaga, University of Pennsylvania: A Feminist Re-Reading of Fukuda Hideko’s Autobiography
Janice Brown. University of Pennsylvania: Construction of Gender in Kogaku Zasshi
Ayako Kano, University of Pennsylvania: Towards a Critique of Transhistorical Feminity
Discussant: Kathleen S. Uno, Temple University
7. Backing into Change: Voices of New Order Youth in Indonesia
Chair: Elizabeth Fuller Collins, Ohio University
Evi Fitriani, Ohio University: The Influence of Western Films on Indonesia’s Young Generation
Malcom Brownlee, Ohio University: Islamic Intellectual Currents in Central Java
Michelle Reynolds, Ohio University: Kalyanamitra: Out Front in the Anti-Rape Movement
Jacob Boley. Ohio University: Nakal: Everyday Lives of Java’s Unemployed Youth
Elizabeth Fuller Collins, Ohio University: Demonstrasi: Student Protests at the University of Sriwijaya in 1994
8. Korea & the Challenges in the Post‑Cold War Period
Chair: W. Robert Warne, Korea Economic Institute of America
W. Robert Warne, Korea Economic Institute of America: Prospects for Korea-U.S. Economic Relations: A New Partnership as a Part of the Pacific Community
Robert G. Rich, Jr., Korea Economic Institute of America: Korea and the Challenges of the Post-Cold War Period
Ben Kremenak, University of Maryland: Korea’s Road Towards Reunification: Potholes and Detours
John Kie Chiang Oh, Catholic University of America: Implications of the 1995 Local Government Elections in South Korea
9. Individual Papers: Historical Development in Japan
Dallas Finn, Independent Scholar: Preserving Meiji Sites
Yoshimitsu Khan, Union College: Moral Education in Prewar Japan
Maria Rost Rublee, George Washington University: Are Cruel Choices Necessary? The Case of Liberty and Growth in Pre- and Post-World War II in Japan
10. Individual Papers: Religion and Change in Asia
John J. Doyle, Ohio University: Buddhism and National Development in Thailand
Daniel Kealey, Towson State University: Gods, ETs and the Imaginal
Donald W. Kramer, West Virginia University: Green Monks/Green Priests: Religious Reforms, Environmental Activism and Community Developments in Thailand and the Philippines
11. Asian Cartoons and Comics
Chair: John A. Lent, Organizer, Manhua and Komiks Group
Alfonz Lengyel, Fudan Museurn Foundation: He Wei – Chinese Cartoonist Power in Brush and Ink Technique
Hongying Liu‑Lengyel, Shanghai Institute for International Culture: Zhan Tong – Innovator of Chinese Animation, Cartooning and Theme Park Design
Rei Okamoto, Manhua and Komiks Group: Rhetoric of Japanese Propaganda Leaflets
Kie‑Un Yu, Manhua and Komiks Group: Historical Perspective of Korean Cartoons
12. Body and Text in Medieval Japan
Chair: Linda H. Chance, University of Pennsylvania
Tom Howell, University of Pennsylvania: Copying Sutras, Writing Narratives: Textual Values in Medieval Japan
Michelle Li, Princeton University: Reading the Grotesque in Setsuwa Literature
Beth G. Lyon, University of Pennsylvania: Achieving Mind-Body Unity: Kata in Medieval Japanese Education
Discussant: Eleanor Kerkham, University of Maryland
13. Individual Papers: South Asia in Cultural Perspective
Dorothy Perkins, Independent Scholar: The Manifestation of Krishna in Popular American Culture
Shahid Shahidullah, St. John's University, Staten Island Campus: Political Culture in Modernizing Societies: The Case of India
Valerian DeSousa, Widener University: The Industrial Exhibition: Metaphor of Modernity
Sunil Sondhi. University of Toronto: Political Economy of Technology Transfer in Indo-U.S. Relations
14. Individual Papers: Development and Political Policy in China
Xio Bo Hu, Morehead State University: State and Civil Society: Political Economy of Migration in Reforming China
Min Liu, University of Notre Dame: The “Floating Population” in China: Causes, Consequences and Policy Perspectives
Jung‑Fang Tsai, University of Charleston: Hong Kong’s Historical Experience and its Implications for Taiwan’s Political Development
Gabe T. Wang, Morehead State University: A Unique Way to Urbanize
15. Individual Papers: Time and Timelessness in Asia
Robert G. Howard, Independent Scholar: Survey of Time, a Variable in Natural Science
Gerald Sullivan, University of Virginia: Mead, Bateson and the Timelessness of the Balinese
Sanqiang Jian, Washington Center for Chinese Studies: Brain Drain in China and Overseas Chinese Intellectuals
Qin Shao, Trenton State College: Space, Time and Local Politics in Early 20th Century Nantong
16. Individual Papers: Developments in Language Pedagogy in the Instruction of Japanese and Chinese
Masako Hamada, Villanova University: Effective Use of Video Segments from Television for Intercultural Understanding: Introductory
Scott McGinnis, University of Maryland: Teaching Chinese to the Chinese: Assessment and Instruction of Ethnic Chinese Students
Masako Nakagawa, Villanova University: The Use of Videos for a Japanese Literature Course
17. Asian Cartoons and Comics (continued)
Chair: John A. Lent. Manhua & Komiks Group
Arthur Rao. Manhua & Komiks Group: Bahadur the Dacoit-Hunter: Dara the Terror of Terrorists and Other Stories: How Indian Comics Represent Events from 1970 to 1990
John A. Lent, Manhua & Komiks Group: Asian Cartoons and Comics – Asian Comic Strips: Not Quite a Century
Kanako Shiokawa, Manhua & Komiks Group: Memorable Episodes: The Use of Personal Experiences in Japanese Comic Books
18. China and the Resistance War Against Japan
Organizer: Odoric Y. K. Wou, Rutgers University
Margaret B. Denning, Slippery Rock University: The Formulation of Enemy Army Mobilization Methods: Huabei Soldiers Conference
Lincoln Li, Monash University: South Manchurian Railway Report on Chinese Resistance Potential, 1940: A Japanese Assessment of the Resistance Strategy of the Nationalist Government in Chongqing
Odoric Y. K. Wou. Rutgers University: Community Defense and Communist Revolution in China: The Case of Dubalian
Ka‑che Yip, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: The Training of Health Manpower in Wartime China
Discussant: Michael Gasster, Rutgers University
19. Splash! Boom! Bang!: Woodblock Prints of the Sino‑Japanese War
Chair: Frank L. Chance, University of Pennsylvania
Frank L. Chance, University of Pennsylvania: Kobayashi Kiyo: “One Hundred Battles. One Hundred Laughs
Rosalind Bradford, University of Pennsylvania: Kokumatsu’s Representations of the Battle of Pyongyang
Tracy Miller, University of Pennsylvania: The Chinese Political Environment and Military Situation Before the Sino-Japanese War
Tate J. Rarick, University of Pennsylvania: Historical Features in Prints Representing the Battle of Pyongyang
Warren Keyser, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art: Uniform Brilliance: Representation of Costumes of Japanese and Chinese Soldiers
Vicky Soo. University of Pennsylvania: The Peiyang Navy and the Battle of Haiyang Island
20. Contemporary Observations on China's Economy
Chair: Thomas Rawski, University of Pittsburgh
Wei Lo, University of Pittsburgh: Experimental Tests of the Ratchet Effect with Chinese Managers
Rick Harbaugh, University of Pittsburgh: Effects of Equity Sharing in TVEs
Robert W. Mead, University of Pittsburgh: Observations on Rural Household Labor Allocations
21. Individual Papers: Studies in Asian Linguistics
Rika Hayami Allen, University of Pittsburgh: A Study of the Language of Taliwang (Sumbawa, Indonesia)
Robert B. Allen, University of Pittsburgh: West Papuan and Austronesian
Kiri Lee, Lehigh University: The Notion of Shared Information and its Implications for Japanese Case Marking
22. Reading Through the Text: Performativity and Context in East Asian Performance
Sara Davis, University of Pennsylvania: Urban Chinese Oral Narratives: Modern Elaborations of the “Three Kingdoms”
Neil Schmid, University of Pennsylvania: Medieval Monks as Seditious Storytellers
Jonah Sa1z, Independent Scholar: Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Monologuist Issey Ogata
Discussant: Ayako Kano, University of Pennsylvania
23. Individual Papers: Historical Movement in China
Hsieh Boa Hua. Creighton University: Concubines, Ritual and Legal Standing
J. Kenneth Olenik, Montclair State University: From Internationalist to Nationalist: The Chinese Rejection of International Socialism in the Late 1920s
Paul R. Rivera, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: The November 1927 Yeungkong Incident and the Maryknoll Mission Enterprise in China
24. Individual Papers: Tradition and Change Among Women in Asia
Lisa Kim Davis, Johns Hopkins University: The Anti-Sexual Violence Movement: Sexuality, Nationalism and Class in Korean Feminist Politics
Mala Mathrani, Ohio State University: Constructing and “Asian Idnetity”: Women’s Organizations in Pre-Independence India
Yi Sun, Albion College: Progress or Regress: Women and Economic Reforms in China
Kim Falk, University of Pittsburgh: Matrilineal Kin Assistance During and Post-Pregnancy in Post-Reform Shandong
25. Individual Papers: Economic Policy and Development in Asia
Liping Deng, Mount Allison University: Japan’s Official Devlopment Assistance to China: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Kevin H. Zhang, University of Colorado at Boulder: A Simple Model of Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries
Susan Stone, Drexel University: An Investigation into the Macroeconomic Linkages among Dynamic Asian Economies
Christopher C. Meyerson, Columbia University: Designing and Testing a Model of Japanese Trade Policy Making: Japan’s Role in the Agricultural Policy Reform Debaye of the Uruguay Round of the GATT
26. Individual Papers: Education in East Asia
Albert Gardner, University of Maryland: An American Professor Teaching in a Shanghai High School
Elizabeth K. Eder, University of Maryland: Margaret Clark Griffis: An American Teacher in Early Meiji Japan
Hideo Watanabe, University of Pittsburgh: Adult Learning in Japan
27. Individual Papers: Aesthetics and Images in Japanese Tradition
Erika O. Bainbridge, Johns Hopkins University: Images of Cronies in Japanese Noh Drama
David C. Prejsnar, Community College of Philadelphia: The Role of Engi in Kamakura Popular Buddhism: An Examination of Their Use in the Ippen Huiri-E
Peipei Qiu, Vassar College: Onitsura’s Makoto and theTaoist Cincept of the Natural
Reiko Yonogi, Indiana University at Indianapolis: The Narrative of Self-Discovery: Autobiographical Writings by Tamura Toshiko, Miyamoto Yuriko and Sata Ineko