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Islamic Feminism and the Transformation of the Indonesian Public Sphere, Suzanne A. Brenner
Recasting the Past: National Identities and Transnational Allegiances during Moments of Crisis among South Asians in the United States, Purnima Mankekar
Caught between Global Hierarchies, Chinese Nationalism, and the Chinese State: The Dilemmas of Chinese Students who Protested against NATO's Bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Vanessa L. Fong
Migrant Workers and the Many States of Protest in Hong Kong, Nicole Constable
Session 4, How "Un-Chinese": Diasporic, Interracial, and Queer Identities
Crossing the Racial Boundaries of Chineseness, Emma Teng
In and Out of Cultural China: Diaspora, Extinction, and Nationalism, Jing Tsu
Searching for Roots and the Politics of Shame in (Post)Colonial Singapore, Song Hwee Lim
Session 5, Individual Papers: Issues in Contemporary Political Economy: East and Southeast Asia
Political Institutions and Politics of Financial Patronage in South Korea and Thailand, Wongi Choe
Health Provision, Inequality, and Decentralized State Finance in Vietnam, Jonathan London
The Legitimacy of the Patrimonial Democratic State: A View from Provincial Thailand, Yoshinori Nishizaki
Centralization of Taxing Power, Political Control, and Tax Collection in China since 1994, Eun K. Choi
Growing out of the "Vortex": Network Responses to Financial Restructuring in Japan and South Korea (1993–2003), Myung-Koo Kang
Middle Class Differentiation and Politics in Globalizing Taiwan, Jui-Chang Jao
The Japan Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Efforts to Create a Sober Yet Modern Nation in the Meiji Period, Elizabeth Dorn Lublin
The Chinese Women's Suffrage Movement in Transnational Context, Carol Chin
Caught in the Crossfire: The YWCA Campaign for Child Labor Legislation in Shanghai, 1920–1925, Elizabeth Littell-Lamb
Session 23, Center-Peripheral Environmental Relations in Asia
Iron Fist or Outstretched Hand? Handling Opposition to Controversial Facilities in Japan, Daniel P. Aldrich
From Panda Diplomacy to Plundering and Protection in the Peripheries of 1970s China, E. Elena Songster
Democratizing Local Environmental Governance: Garbage Incinerator Politics in Taiwan, Ching-ping Tang
Session 24, The Political Economy of Institutional Design
Institutional Reforms of the Rural Credit Cooperatives in China, Lynette H. L. Ong
Institutional Design of Japanese Regional Banks: Political Determinants of Regional Credit Allocation, Kay Shimizu
Cashing Out: Survival Crises Faced by Shareholding Cooperatives in Shanghai, Jin Zeng
Bureaucratic Structure and Industrial Development in China, Zhou Fang
Session 25, Rising China‘s Foreign Relations in the Global Context: American Reactions
U.S. Strategic Thinking toward China and Sino-American Relations, Quansheng Zhao
The European Union: China Relations and the United States, Jean-Pierre Cabestan
The 2004–05 Rising China "Offensive" in Latin American and the American Reactions, Gonzalo S. Paz
North Korean Nuclear Crisis and U.S.-China Relations: A Pitfall of Geopolitics, Masako Ikegami
Session 26: Pop Culture and Teaching: Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching about Asia
Local Society in Southeastern Coastal Zhejiang and Manichaeism during the Song and Yuan Periods, Motoshi Oka
The Structure of Power and Southern Maritime Trade from the Perspective of Local Elites in Yuan Period Zhejiang, Yasuhiro Yokkaichi
Tribute Trade between Japan and Ming China through Ningbo during the Early 15th Century, Gakusho Nakajima
Session 44, Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of Asian Regionalism
A Decade of Political Torpor: When Political Logic Trumps Economic Rationality, T.J. Pempel
Japanese Society Transforming: New Actors, Difficult Choices, and Emergent Forms, William W. Kelly
Immovable Object? Japan’s Security Policy in East Asia, H. Richard Friman and David Leheny
Regional Shrimp, Global Trees, Chinese Vegetables: The Environment in Japan-Asia Relations, Derek Hall
Session 45, Asian Cosmopoleis: Networks in Premodern and Early Modern Eras
Unnecessary Goods: The Import of Foreign Ceramics into Closed Japan, Martha Chaiklin
Consumer Preferences in the Straits of Melaka in the 14th Century, John N. Miksic
Tarup Amyomyo: Probing the "China" of the Burmese Chronicles, Geok Yian Goh
Van Orsoy De Flines' Ceramic Survey of the North Coast of Java: Its Interpretation and Significance for Modern Ceramic Studies, Edmund Edwards-McKinnon
When the Gaimusho had Guns: Japan’s Foreign Ministry Police in Northeast Asia, 1880–1945, Erik W. Esselstrom
What Does Education Mean to Japanese Women? The Interrelation between Gender Ideology and Labor Force Participation, Asahi Fujiwara
Thematic Role Focusing in Japanese: The Role of Connectives, Mohammed Shafiullah
The Stratification of Working Women in Japan: An Easy Workforce for Business, Noriko Tada
The Early Knotted Cord Writing System of China, Bruce Jones
Higher Education Financing in Mongolia: An Investigation of Student Attitudes towards Tuition Fees, Rachel L. Fix
The Colonial Discourse Embedded in the Rhetoric of Kobuohae (The Misunderstanding of a Rickshaw Man), Min Koo Choi
Ram Thang Bay: Offerings to Wandering Spirits in Contemporary Vietnam, Margaret B. Bodemer
Revisiting an Indian Civil Servant's Postings on Burma's Arakan Coast: Transformations of Religious Sites, Steve Derne
They and We: Trust and Suspicion on a Vietnamese-American Spiritual Journey, Karen Fjelstad
Settling the "Nomads": 100 Years of Sedentarization Policies towards Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam, Pam McElwee
Automobility and Public Health in the Context of the Socio-economic Transition Underway in Thailand: Driven to Consume and Consumed by Driving, Matthew Williams
Reconstruction of T'ang Character Readings from Hakka and Japanese, E. Leslie Williams
The Career Consciousness of Japanese Women University Students, Atsuko Ishikawa
Session 68, Porn-ation: Mediating Sex-Crossings
Corporeal Imagery and the Representational Field for Porn in Thailand, Ara Wilson
Foreignizing Deviance: Nationalism, Pornography and Women in India, Heather Dell
Gender Activists vs. New Anti-pornografi/pornoaksi Legislation in Indonesia, Clarissa Adamson
Putting on Sexual Style: Gaya, "Pornographic" Media and the Transformation of Ethnic Bodies in Bali, Laura J. Bellows
Session 69, Religion in East and Southeast Asia: Transformation in Regional Perspective
Media Mavericks: New Religions and the Technology of Mission in Modern Japan, Nancy K. Stalker
Religion or Culture? A Colonial Problem for the Post-colonial World, Webb Keane
New Times for Islam and Cambodia, Anna M. Gade
Authority of Scholarly Expertise: Japanese Ethnography of Chinese Religion, Thomas DuBois
Session 70: Roundtable: The Asian Antiquities Trade and the Academy
Session 89, The Korean War of 1592–98 and Styles of Governance in Premodern East Asia
Father Knows Best? Emperor Wanli and the Ming Intervention in Korea, Kenneth M. Swope
Hideyoshi’s Conduct of the Korean War of 1592–98, Hitoshi Nakano
Politicking or Being Politicked: Wartime Governance in Choson Korea, 1592–98, Nam-lin Hur
Ethnography as Self-Reflection: Japanese Colonial Anthropology in Korea as Critique of Modernity, E. Taylor Atkins
Hollywood’s Japan: Marketing an Ally during the Cold War, Naoko Shibusawa
Pro Wrestlers and Cowboys: American Programs on Early Japanese Television, Jayson Makoto Chun
Session 91, Themeland Asia: Consumer Spaces in Glocal Colors
"A Life of One’s Own:" The Individualization of the World (shijie) in Chinese Society, Hai Ren
Theming Globurbia, Mary Hancock
Korea Towns in Japan: From Ethnic Enclaves to "Thematicized Destinations", Robert J. Fouser
Kokusai For Sale: The Tourist Marketing of the "International" on Naha’s Kokusai-dōri, Gerald A. Figal
Session 92, Famine under State Socialism: The Cases of China and North Korea
Stone Noodles: Rural Memories of the "Great Leap Famine" in Henan Province (1958–1961), Felix Wemheuer
How China's Rural People Resisted and Escaped the Famine of Socialist Rule: Implications for State Legitimacy, Ralph A. Thaxton Jr.
The Famine in North Korea, Jasper Becker
The Transformation of State Socialism in North Korea: The Role and the Future of the Food Problem, Rudiger Frank
Session 112, Conflicts in the Economy of Sacred Space in China and Japan
Interrupting State and Capitalist De-territorialization: Ritual Spatiality in Rural Wenzhou, Mayfair Yang
Conflicted Interests at Sacred Space in Contemporary China: Mt. Wudang as a Case Study, Shin-yi Chao
Changes in Sacred Space under the Pressure of Land Markets in Central Tokyo, Natacha Aveline
A Project of Graveyards Inside a Shinto Shrine : Economic and Symbolic Issues, Fabienne Duteil-Ogata
Session 113, To Conquer, to Colonize, and to Quarantine: Medicine in the Japanese Empire
Profits and Pathogens: Managing Trade and Quarantine within the Japanese Empire, Robert J. Perrins
Re-importation of Scientific Knowledge: Plague Epidemics in Colonial Taiwan and Japan, Tomoo Ichikawa
Beriberi, Barley, and Tools of Empire: Military Medicine in China and Korea, Alexander R. Bay
Medicine, Climate, and Global Immigration in the Japanese Empire 1930–1945, Akihito Suzuki
Session 114, Supplementary Schooling and Its Significance in Contemporary Japan and South Korea
Diversity and the Secret of "Success" in Japan’s Other Education System, Peter Cave
When National Futures No Longer Guarantee Personal Ones: The Juku and the Production of Certainty in Post-Bubble Japan, Andrea G. Arai
The Private After-School Education Market and Educational Reforms in South Korea, So Jin Park
Private Institute Education, Competition and Anxiety among the South Korean Middle Class, Misook Kim
Session 115, Voicing Modernity: Genealogies of the Voice in South and East Asia
Is it Live or is it Playback? Ideologies of Voice in 20th-Century South India, Amanda Weidman
Can the Sovereign Speak? The Ruler's Voice and the Emergence of a Public Tamil, Bernard Bate
Photographing the Voice: The Invention of Japanese Stenography and the Rise of the National Public Sphere in Late 19th-Century Japan, Miyako Inoue
Translating the Voice: Writing, Sound, and Substance in the "Spoken" Telugu Controversy in Early 20th-Century Southern India, Lisa Mitchell
Session 134, Found in Translation: Rethinking the Foreign in East Asian Modernities
The Westernesque Femme Fatale, Interlingual Exoticism, and Modern Japanese Vernacular Style, Indra Levy
Facing the Other: Sociality in Han Yongun’s Poetry, Ann Y. Choi
After Occidentalism: Transcultural Chinese Theatre in the Age of Globalization, Alexander Huang
The Dialectics of Ruins in Yuanmingyuan, Haiyan Lee
Session 135, Rethinking the Politics of Ethnic Mobilization: Lessons from Taiwan to Tamil Nadu
Emotions in Motion: Communal Elites and Democratic Mobilization in Southeast Asia, Daniel Slater
Politics of the Marginalized: Explaining Ethnic Party Success in India, Amit Ahuja
Classing Ethnicity: Strategies of Mass Mobilization in the Transition to Democracy, David Yang
Insiders and Outsiders in Prioritizing the Study of Asia in the 21st Century, Anthony Reid
A European Perspective on Funding for Asian Studies, W. A. L. Stokhof
Funding for Asian Studies: A Donor View, Terrill E. Lautz
Regional Cooperation in Advancing Asian Studies, Charnvit Kasetsiri
U.S. Government Support for Asian Studies: Present and Future, David B. J. Adams
Representing Colonial Modernity in Taiwan: Goto Shimpei and the Formation of Japanese Colonial Discourse, 1902–1905, Lung-chih Chang
Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910–1945, Hildi Kang
Communitarianism and Governmentality in Manchuria, Hyunok Park
Japan’s Korean Communities: Diverse Origins, David Rands
Defining Terrorists: Urban Warfare between Japanese and Chinese in Tianjin, 1931–1933, Brett G. Sheehan
Media, Morale, and Manufacturing Consensus in Wartime Chongqing, Edna Tow
Visualizing Wartime China: A Case Study of the Journalist and Artist Shen Yiqian, Kuiyi Shen
"Take Me Out to the War Game!" Wartime and Postwar Children’s Propaganda in Japanese Kamishibai, Barak Kushner
Nationalism and Defining a "Royal Tomb": A Comparative Approach to the Study of Ancient Burials (Kofun) in Japan and Korea, Hideo Yoshii
Edo Perspectives on "Ancient China": An Analysis of the Spatial Boundaries in Classical Texts and the Formation of the "Sphere of Kanji", Takao Hirase
Challenging the "Zhongyuan" Paradigm: The Forgotten Yangtze River Archaeologists in 1930s Republican China, Hwei-shuan Amy Feng
Session 179, Society and Circulation in Eastern Eurasia
The Myth of Vietnam’s Poor Center: Region, Circulation and Political Economy in 500-Year Perspective, Charles Wheeler
The Age of Gem Trade in Asian History, c. 1279–1911, Laichen Sun
Interregional Circulation, Chinese Migration, and the Transformation of Southwest China, C. Pat Giersch
The Peril of Self-discipline: Diaries, Reportage and Subjectivity during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Aaron W. Moore
Faux Epistolary: Shi Tuo's Shanghai Correspondence and the Aesthetics of Literary Montage in Accounts of Wartime Shanghai, Steven P. Day
Who Tells the Tale? Traumatic Loss, Cathartic Reenactment and Memorialization in "Grave of the Fireflies", David C. Stahl
Session 199, Becoming World Class: Unfulfilled Aspirations of East Asian Universities?
The Beida Reforms: The Barometer of University Change in China? Stanley Rosen
Private Universities in China: Expansion and Challenges, Jing Lin
Higher Education Reform in Japan: Targeting World Class Rankings, Atsunori Yamanoi
Remaking Southeast Asian Higher Education amid China's Rise, Gerard Postiglione
Session 200, Dynamics of Civil Society in East Asia
When the NPO Law Sinks In: Japanese Civil Society and Cultural Production of Citizenship, Akihiro Ogawa
Nationalism and Beyond: Humanitarian Assistance to North Korea and the Case of the Korean Sharing Movement, Seung-Mi Han
The Indigenization and Institutionalization of Voluntary Service in Southern China: A Case Study of "People-Organized" Assistance to Isolated Rural Villages, Anthony J. Spires
The Effects of "The Second Government" on People’s Civil Engagement: A Case of Folk Religion’s Transformation in Modern Taiwan, Jen-Chieh Ting
Session 201, Rhetoric and Practice in Qing Regional Relations
Kangxi and the Making of the 1684 Open Trade Policy, Gang Zhao
Shame and Meaning: The Manchu Invasion of Korea, Saeyoung Park
Closed Frontier, Disturbed Borders: Ginseng and Border Trespassing between Qing China and Choson Korea, Seonmin Kim
Selling Modernism: Images of New Women in Calendar Posters and Magazine Advertisements in 1920–30s' Shanghai, Yongmei Wu
Clash of the Gazer and the Gazed-Upon: Women on the Streets of Seoul in the 1920–30s, Ji Young Suh
Transition from Traditional Beauty to Japanese Modern Beauty: The Analysis of Image of Japanese Woman on Commercials for Cosmetics in 1930–40s, Ayu Ishida
Session 204, Individual Papers: International Relations in Historical Perspective
The 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty and the South China Sea Islands: Old British and French Colonial Claims in a Post-War Era? An Interpretation, Ulises Granados
The Impact of Chinese Nationalism on Contemporary Japanese Memory of "The Greater East Asia War" and "The Fifteen-year War", Matthew A. Levey
Taiwan’s Roles in the Structural Changes of Japan-China Relations: Substance and Image, Yasuhiro Matsuda
Session 220, "Educate a Woman, Educate a Nation": Muslim Communities Educating their Daughters
Educating Girls in West Sumatra: Creating Muslim, Gender, and Minangkabau Identities, Lucy Whalley
"Educate a Man, Educate an Individual; Educate a Woman, Educate a Nation": The Role of Women in Rebuilding Communities in Muslim China, Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein
Fighting Poverty Means Giving Girls a Different World: Islam, Feminism, and Education in the Old City of Hyderabad, Danielle Widmann Abraham
Baba, Send me to School: Problems and Possibility of the Education of Girls in Turkey, Kim Shively
The Local Politics of Global Networks: Domestic Political Institutions and Transnational Networks in China, Douglas B. Fuller
Weak Ties and Innovation among Indian and Chinese Engineers in Silicon Valley, Rafiq Dossani
The Effect of Personal Network on the Crossnational Knowledge Diffusion-Comparative Analyses between the Returnees from the U.S. and Japan in Taiwan’s IT Sector, Mayumi Tabata
Networks and States: How Political Institutions Influence Global Networks of Technologists in Ireland, Israel and Taiwan, Dan Breznitz
Grassroots NGOs and their Significance in China’s Evolution of Civil Society, Qiusha Ma
Immigrant Association and Long-Distance Nationalism: The Case of North Korean Association in Japan, Apichai Shipper
Civil Buddhism and Transnational Religious Civil Society: The Compassion Relief Movement in Chinese Societies, C. Julia Huang
Transnational Environmental Networks in Asia: Societal Activism, NGOs and the Case of Shrimp Farms and Mangrove Preservation, Kim Reimann
Rethinking Victim and Perpetrator Status in the Second Sino-Japanese War: Li Bihua’s View from Hong Kong, J. Colleen Berry
Literature from the Dregs: Hayashi Fusao’s "Four Characters" and His Acquiescence to Defeat, Jeff E. Long
Rethinking History: Anti-Heroic Portrayals of the Second Sino-Japanese War in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Steven L. Riep
Kamei Katsuichiro: Ideological Conversion, War Guilt, and Religious Salvation, Chia-Ning Chang
Outing Ming Taizu: How and Why Did Zhu Yuanzhang Become a Muslim? Zvi Ben Dor Benite
Living in the Past: Resurrection of Ming Taizu in Late Choson Korea, Seung B. Kye
Ming Taizu, Manchu Hero, Mark C. Elliott
Two Tombs: Thoughts on Zhu Yuanzhang, the Kuomintang, and the Meanings of National Heroes, Rebecca Nedostup
Session 225, Art, History, and Asia: Challenging Established Canons
Why Originality Can't Be a "Traditional Chinese Value," and Why It Is, Katharine Burnett
Tea Practice in Sixteenth-Century Japan: Looking beyond Zen, Joan O'Mara
Modeling the Limits of Indian Art: The Case of Clay Sculpture in 19th-Century Bengal, Susan S. Bean
Dressing Turkic: Gender and Ethnic Costume at the Founding of Tang, Kate A. Lingley
Session 226, Individual Papers: Migration and Minorities
Rethinking the Minority Experience: A Cross-Cultural Study of Koreans in Osaka and African Americans in Chicago, 1920–1945, Chisato Hotta
Green Card, Transnationalism and Chinese Return Migration from the Late 1970s to Present, Lisong Liu
Retracing the Steps across the Pass: Reconceptualizing Migration to Manchuria during the Republican Period, Martin Fromm
Interrogating the Household Registration System: The Experiences of Japanese Returnees from China, Karl Jakob Krogness