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New England Conference of the

Association for Asian Studies

Brown University
October 3,  2009


Brown University and the Department of East Asian Studies hosted the 2009 New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies on Saturday, October 3, 2009.

Conference Schedule

Please click here for a detailed schedule (PDF).

Please click here for a detailed campus map (PDF).

Panels and Roundtables

Panels and rountables are listed alphabetically by title; click on list items for panelist names and paper titles.

Building Writing Proficiency in the Chinese Language Classroom

  • Yang Wang (Chair)
  • Tong Chen
  • Hsin-I Tseng
  • Min Wan
  • Li Xu
  • Jin Zhang
  • Ling Zhao

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Criticism without Criticism: Ming - Qing Women Writers' Poetic Strategies for Social Critique

  • Ellen Widmer (Discussant)
  • Grace Fong (Chair)
  • Chris Byrne: Using a Thorn to Dig Out a Thorn: Tao Shan's Transformation of Gender Discriminations in Her Buddhist-inspired Poetry
  • Wangming Wang: Reality in Imagination: Xi Peilan's Song Lyrics on Flower and Bird Paintings
  • Zhifeng Wang: Masculine Ideals and Feminine Subjectivity in the Song Lyrics of Ye Xiaoluan

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East Asian Art in the 1980s

  • Jane Debevois (Discussant)
  • Winnie Wong (Chair)
  • De-nin D. Lee: Native Soil Realism: Chinese Appropriations of Andrew Wyeth's Style
  • Iris Moon: Channeling Courbet: Romanticisms and Realisms in Minjung Art
  • Hiroko Kikuchi: Products of the '80s: Visual Culture and Social Conditions in Japan

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High School and University Teachers on the Advanced Placement Program - Toward Better Collaboration

  • Yuko Jackson (Chair)
  • Tomoko Graham
  • Kayoko Tazawa
  • Wesley Jacobsen
  • Kiyoko Morita
  • Fumiko Nazikian
  • Hiroshi Tajima
  • Kasumi Yamamoto

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Identity, Class and Gender in Modern Japan

  • Samuel Perry (Chair)
  • Annika A. Culver: Fuchikami Hakuyô's Avant-Garde Depictions of Labor in Manchukuo in Manshû Gurafu, 1933-1937
  • Yu Yang: Constructing a Manchurian Identity: Endo Arata and Hsinking Central Bank Club
  • Nikki Floyd: Asymmetrical Solidarity: Japanese Proletarian Literature and the Korea Question
  • Yoko Yamamoto: Are Japanese Women Collectivistic or Individualistic? Views and Experiences of Mothers in Contemporary Japan

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Japan as Site and Source of Architectural Hybridity and Modernity

  • Don Choi
  • Sean McPherson
  • Jordan Sand
  • Alice Tseng

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Journey to the East: The Figure of the Monkey King in Transcultural Asian Contexts

  • Chris Tong: Journey through 'Asia': Locations of the Monkey King in Asian Cinema and Media
  • Fei Shi: Tripmaster Monkey:  Post-modernism, Operatic Practice, and Asian American Experiences
  • Chen Luying: Journey to the West in America: Transformation of the Text and Formation of American Teen Identities

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Marginal on the Margins: An Exploration of Women and Representation in China's Independent Documentary Cinema

  • Lingzhen Wang (Chair)
  • Ya-chen Chen: From Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's Interview with Dai Jinhua in Through Women's Eyes to Chinese Academy's Reception of Feminist Scholars and Academic Feminism
  • Jie Li: China's Salvation Through Women's Souls? Reception of Documentary Images of Lin Zhao, Chai Ling, and Song Binbin
  • Ying Qian: Take the Camera to Bed: The Will for Intimacy and the Documentary of the Family
  • Shu-chin Tsui: Female Sexuality and Gender Politics in Independent Documentary Filmmaking

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New Perspectives and Objectives for Teaching Culture in a Language Classroom

  • Hiroshi Tajima (Chair)
  • Yoshitomo Yamashita: The View of Culture in L2 Language Policy Based on Value Creation
  • Tomoko Takami: Perspectives on Intercultural Competence in Foreign Language Classrooms: A Case Study of Business Japanese
  • Yuko Jackson: Introducing Culture in Elementary and Intermediate-Level Japanese Courses

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Pedagogic Strategies to Overcome Difficulties of Advanced Chinese Learners

  • Rongzhen Li: Teach Multi-meanings of Vocabulary and Synonyms in Advanced Level
  • Qiuyu Wang: An Analysis of Pronunciation Errors of Advanced Level English Learners of Chinese
  • Yu Feng: Raise the Bar: Strategy to Develop Students' Advanced Writing Skills

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Performance and Cultural Imagination in Modern China

  • Kathryn Lowry (Chair)
  • Linda Lau: Chinese Masculinity in Performance: Wen-Wu in the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony
  • Nogin Chung: A Tale of Metamorphosis: Zhang Huan’s Meat Man and American Superheroes
  • Po-wei Weng: The Violence Sounds Beautiful: Music and Musical Instruments as Weapons in the Taiwanese Pili Budaixi

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Politics, Power and Memory in Modern China

  • Hye-Sook Wang (Chair)
  • Daniel Murphy: Of Mountains and Men: Landscape, Power, and Authority in Rural Mongolia
  • Joshua Hill: Selecting an Electorate: China's 1909 Provincial Assembly Elections and the Boundaries of Political Participation
  • Shih-Chieh Lo: Dragon Boat Racing and Local Politics in Wenzhou, Zhejiang (1900-1937)
  • Yu Luo Rioux, Hongmo Chen: Socio-political and Economic Roles for Revolutionary Memorials in China

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Reading Texts, Reading Tombs

  • Dore Levy (Chair)
  • Ching-wei Wang: Zhiyi's Meditative Approach to the Lotus Sutra: An Alternative Reading of Zhiyi's Fahua Xuanyi
  • Fan Zhang: Performing Drama for Ancestors: Representations of Theatre in Jin Dynasty Tombs in Pingyang, Shanxi
  • Jung Lee: Being Loosed from the Bonds: Death and Transformation in the Zhuangzi

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Religious authority in ritual, politics and memorial services: examples from Buddhism and Confucianism

  • Janine Sawada (Chair)
  • Mikael Bauer: The Retired Emperor as Embodiment of the Esoteric Monarch, Religious and Political Authority in 11-12th Century Japan
  • Michael Ing: The Dysfunction of Ritual Authority in Early Confucianism
  • Chris Callahan: A Tale of Two Founders: Religious Authority and Memorial Services in Early Shin Buddhism

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Science in Use: the Implementation of Science in Everyday Life in Modern China, 1900-1950

  • Mark Swislocki (Discussant)
  • Wennan Liu: Science and Myth: the Western Medical Discourse in the Anti-Cigarette Campaigns in Late Qing, 1899-1911
  • Daniel Asen: Inquest Officials, Media and Modernity: Everyday Death in Republican Beijing
  • Jia-Chen Fu: The Power of Protein: The Chinese Nutritional Critique of Eugenics, 1937-1947

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Teaching Chinese Vocabulary to U.S. College Students

  • Lung-Hua Hu (Chair)
  • Lei Yan
  • Miaomiao Wang
  • Kening Li
  • Congmin Zhao

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Technologies and Methodologies for Historical Analysis in a Digital World

  • Song Chen (Chair)
  • Javier Cha
  • Ian Miller
  • John Wong
  • Li Wang: East Asian Studies: Resources, Access, and Communication

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Text and Image in Late Imperial China

  • Dore Levy (Chair)
  • Chung-Lan Wang: Beyond Loyalism: The Images of 17th Century Nanjing
  • Kristina Kleutghen: It's Alive!: Strange Stories and Animated Paintings in Late Imperial China
  • Ning Ma: The Dream of the Red Chamber as Bildungsroman
  • Jungmin Yoo: Book Business in Early Modern Korea: Yi Tok-mu’s (1741-93) Travelogue to Beijing, Yonhaengnok

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Tradition Dissolves, Tradition Lingers: Gender Subjectivities in Modern Chinese History and Literature

  • Xueping Zhong (Chair)
  • Dandan Chen: Revolution, Expression, and the Politics of Romantics: Nan She Literati’s Imagination of Women in the Late Qing and Early Republican China (1909-1923)
  • Miao Feng: “Women of the Society”: Knowledge Production and Mobilizing Urban Women for the Nation in 1930s Shanghai
  • Zhange Ni: Confucianism, Catholicism, and Mother-Daughter Relationship in Su Xuelin’s Ji Xin
  • Ying Zhang: Circulating the Orchids: Inscribing and Re-inscribing Loyalty in Early Qing

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Translating East Asia

  • Yukiko Koga (Chair)
  • Brian Steininger: Poetic Fragments and the History of Japanese Kanbun Writing
  • Fang Lu: Chinese Camellia Blossoms in America: A Cross-cultural Translation Study of Lin Yutang's Rewritten Novella Miss Du
  • Kyle Ikeda: Representing the Polylinguality of Okinawan Literature in Translation

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The Urban, the Body and the Human in Modern Asian Cinema

  • Lingzhen Wang (Chair)
  • Jessica Ka Yee Chan: Translating the Corporeal: Translatable Bodies in Early Shanghai Cinema
  • Ling Zhang: Performative Montage, City Symphony, Shanghai Document and Chinese Leftist Film Practice in the 1930s
  • Zhen Zhang: The Making of New Human: Chinese Red Classics in the Age of Consumerism
  • Kwang-Woo Noh: The Youth Culture of the 1970s and the 1990s in Two South Korean films: Once Upon a Time in High School and Over the Rainbow

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War Stories: Reception, Rhetoric and Recycled Narratives in the Tales of the Heike

  • Amy C. Franks: From Morito to Mongaku: Confucian Lessons and Buddhist Redemption in the Engyobon Heike Monogatari
  • Ashton Lazarus: Rhetoric and Writing in Genpei War Narratives
  • Michael Watson: "L’écho des Vicissitudes Humaines” (shogyo mujo no hibiki): Early Western Reception of Buddhist Themes in Heike Monogatari

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What Language Textbooks Do Not Teach: What an Interdisciplinary Approach Can Do in Language Instruction

  • Shizuko Tomoda (Chair): Japanese Language Learning as the Window to the World View
  • Tina Wu: Interdisciplinary Approach to Teach Ritual Refusals in the Chinese Culture
  • Jianjun Yu: Applying Brain Studies in Chinese Written Language Learning

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