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Session 1
Spatialities across the Modern Japanese Empire: Imaginaries and Contestations

Laying Claim to the Diamond Mountains: Travel and the Historical Imagination, Ellie Y. Choi
“Imperializing” Space: The Wartime Transformations of Late Colonial Seoul, 1937-45, Todd A. Henry
Japanese Colonialist Photography: Taiwan as an Itinerary, Joseph R. Allen
Wartime Tourism, Kenneth J. Ruoff

Session 2
Life after Empires: Identities, Mobility, and Livelihoods in Central and South Asia

Osh-Almaty-Moscow and Return: Livelihoods in an Undocumented but Accepted World, Susan Thieme
Shadow Traders in Assam, Malini Sur
Borders, Bagans, and Bazaars: An Ethnography of Transition along the Patkai Foothills (Northeast India), Dolly Kikon
Survival after Improbable Projects: Comparing Trajectories of Workers following the Collapse of Plantations and Kolkhozes, Sanjay Barbora

Session 3
Writing Manchukuo and Beyond

The Memories of Manchukuo and Korean Chinese Minoritization, Hyun Ok Park
Dialogizing Manchukuo Literature: The Use of Language in Gu Ding’s “The Wilds", Junko N. Agnew
Rethinking Ethnicity through Kobayashi Hideo’s “The Impression of Manchukuo”, Yukiko Shigeto
Depicting Manchukuo’s Necropolitics: Drugs and Critique in Yuan Xi’s Beike, Mark Driscoll

Session 4
Roundtable: Multiple Histories and Changing Memories of Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War -
Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching About Asia

Session 5
Constructing Gender in Asian Performing Arts

Gender, Symbolism, and Power: Ludruk Folk Theatre in East Java, Indonesia, Carl J. Hefner
The Body Danced as Paradox in a Philippine Religious Festival, Patrick P. Alcedo
“I am a Woman!”: Gendering Female while Performing Male in Cantonese Opera, Priscilla Tse
Performing Masculinity in Philippine Folk Forms: Ang Lalaking Pilipino, Ricardo D. Trimillos

Session 22
Choreographies through Sacred Space

Between Portraits and Icons: Negotiating Commemoration and Devotion in Dunhuang Family Caves, Winston Kyan
Transforming Objects: Bianxiang as Ritual Agents, David Neil Schmid
The Karma Mandala at Tôji, Cynthea J. Bogel
Mandala Pinball: Female Stagnancy and Agency in Images from the Cult of Tateyama, Caroline Hirasawa

Session 23
The Local Politics of International Aid in Cambodia and Nepal

Where Decentralization Meets Democracy: Donors, Civil Society, Local Government, and Accountability in Cambodia, Sedara Kim
Compradors or Champions? The Ambiguous Position of "Reformers" in the Cambodian State, Kheang Un
Is Greed Really Dead? Donor Responses to Conflict in Nepal, Graham K. Brown
From Bureaucratic Authoritarianism to a Patrimonial Oligarchic State: Foreign Aid and Business Entities in the Trajectory of Cambodia, Andrew Cock

Session 24
Roundtable: High School to College Articulation in Language Courses: What We Can Learn from the New Advanced Placement Courses in Chinese and Japanese - Sponsored by ATJ

Session 25
Challenging Borders in East Asian Literatures

Ajia wa hitotsu?: Twentieth-Century Japanese Sinologists' Vexed Relationship with Asia, Jason P. Webb
Hometown Abroad: Reconsidering Cultural and Linguistic Identity in Japan through Hayashi Kyoko's Shanghai, May-yi Shaw
Censorship, Translation, and the Blurring of Literary Boundaries in Early Twentieth-Century East Asia, Karen Thornber
Traveling Exoticism: Fabricating Nanyang in Sinophone Fiction, Chun-yu Lu

Session 42
"Modernity and Medicine": Transforming Bodies in Colonial and Postcolonial East Asia

"The Visible Women": Modernity, Medicine, and Venereal Disease in Colonial Korea, Jin-kyung Park
Achieving the Model Family: Enforcing Population Control and Public Health Policy in the ROK, 1961-1968, John P. DiMoia
Defining Koreans' Bodies Under Japanese Colonialism (1910-1945), Soyoung Suh
From the Population Problem to Pre-pregnancy Health: The Politics of Reproduction in the Prehistory of Family Planning in Taiwan, 1949-1959, Yu-Ling Huang

Session 43
Imperial Outgrowths: Asian Landscape and the British Colonial Project

Sublime Japan: Shiga Shigetaka and a Nation of Landscapes, Nobuko Toyosawa
British Burial Grounds: Landscaping India in the Colonial Cemetery, Sarah Hoglund
The Journey Home: Oriental Vistas and the Draw of the Picturesque, Niharika Dinkar
More Capable than Capability? Perceptions of Chinese Landscapes from the First British Embassy to China, Jodi Eastberg

Session 44
(De)Colonizing the Korean Body: The Colonial Politics of Malcontent, Miscegenation and Muscularity in the Japanese Empire

Malcontent Koreans: A "Ghostly Matter" in the Multiethnic Japanese Empire, Jinhee Lee
Bodies in Contest: Conflicting Desires over Athletic Body in Colonial Korea, Sophia J. Kim
Japanese-Korean Mixed-Bloods in Pre-WW2 Texts, Atsuko Aoki

Session 45
Comparing Gods: Indian and Chinese Gods and the Rites that Define Them

Vedic God as Ritual Actor: The Gods in Relation to Sacrifice, Kathryn McClymond
Siva Crowned King of Madurai, Richard H. Davis
The Daoist Theological Reformation and its Relationship to Existing Deity Cults, Terry F. Kleeman
A Confucian Theory of Gods and How to Venerate Them, Thomas A. Wilson

Session 62
Cultures Meet Technology: New Approaches to Innovation and Economic Development in Asia and the West

From Lab to Market? Strategies and Issues in the Commercialization of Nanotechnology in China, Philip Shapira
How do Biotechnology Clusters Emerge and Become Sustainable? Exploring the Role of Government Policy in Europe and the United States, Steven Casper
Kyoto Cluster Culture: Social and Spatial Variations in Japan and the United States, Kathryn Ibata-Arens
Biobusiness Entrepreneurship in Two Japanese and French Bio-clusters: The Distinctive Role of Founders' Career and Social Capital, Eric Jolivet

Session 63
Odd Bodies: Depictions of Alternative Corporeality in East Asian Narratives

Defamiliarizing the Familiar, Contesting the Boundary: The Self Vision and Strange Stories of Pu Songling, Lei Jin
Odd Is the New Normal: Embodying Difference in Postwar Japanese Women’s Fiction, Julia C. Bullock
Female Bodies Translated across the Strait of Korea: The Power of Corporeal Transformation Accorded Women in Chong Ui-shin’s Plays, John D. Swain
Sick Man, Strong Man, Strange Man: Imagining the Martial Chinese Body in Republican-Era China, John C. Hamm

Session 64
Postcolonial Constitutionalism and Politics in Asia

Challenging Democracy: Ethnic Tensions in the Post-colonial States of Fiji and Trinidad, Movindri Reddy
The Philippines and the United States: Postcolonial Constitutional, Maria Elena P. Rivera-Beckstrom
Emergence of Parliamentary Democracy in India: Colonial Legislatures in Bombay, United Provinces, and the Central Legislat, Arvind Elangovan

Session 65
The Triumph of the Vernacular in Asia

A Peripheral Rebirth of Universal Language: An Evaluation of Bilingual Writing in the Modern Korean Literature, Sangjin Park
Traveling Ideas: The “Vernacular” in 1920s China and Taiwan, Gang Zhou
The Modern Japanese Vernacular as a Polyglossic Femme Fatale, Indra Levy
The Triumph of the Vernacular in Vietnam, Stephen O'Harrow

Session 83
“Zomia” as a Framework for Conceiving Scholarship on Upland Mainland Southeast Asia

Zomia as a “State-Repelling Space”, James C. Scott
Zomia Remade: Cross-border Relationships among Minority Farmers in China, Burma, and Laos, Janet C. Sturgeon
As a Social Space, Is the Southeast Asian Massif a Helpful/Functional/Viable Notion? Jean Michaud
Zomia in the Qing Southwest: Local Responses to the Imperial Enterprise in Eighteenth-Century Guizhou, Jodi L Weinstein
What Revolution? Calling for a King in Dien Bien Phu, Christian C. Lentz

Session 84
Multimedia Chinggis Khan

Chinggis on the Japanese Mind: Images of the Great Khan in 19th-and 20th-Century Japan, Joshua A. Fogel
Changing Criteria of Authenticity: Old and New Portraits of Chinggis Khan, Isabelle Charleux Goossaert
A Portrait of the Khan as a Young Man: Buyannemekhü’s “Heroic Boy Temujin”, Tristra Newyear
The Sacrificed Brother in the "Secret History of the Mongols", Christopher P. Atwood

Session 85
Enriching the Asian Experience: An Integrated Approach to Maximize Linguistic and Cultural Gain through Experiential Learning

Coaching American Players in Chinese Games: Creating Target Culture Experiences, Moving to the Sidelines, Reviewing Post-game Mental "Films", and Creating Coachable Learners, Eric T. Shepherd
Coaching of Study Abroad Learners through “Stories”, Hiroaki Kawamura
Coaching of Study Abroad Learners through “Stories”, Mari Noda
“Attending” to the Immersion Experience: Training Students to Listen Effectively, Phyllis Hy Larson

Session 86
Heroism, Nostalgia, and Memorial: China and Vietnam’s Contested and Collaborative Terrains in the Twentieth Century

Appropriating the Chinese Poetic Canon to Serve the Vietnamese Revolution: Ho Chi Minh’s Prison Diary, Jane Parish Yang
Re-presenting the Past: Photographs as Artifact at My Lai and Nanjing, Karil J. Kucera
Return of the Prodigy’s Descendents: A Sino-Vietnamese at Dien Bien Phu, Lorraine M. Paterson

Session 103
Suspected, Rejected, and “Protected”: Eurasians as the Symbols of Empire in Colonial India, Indochina, and Japanese-Occupied Malaya

Erasians in Britich Asia during the Second Wold War, Felicia Yap
Eurasian Children and the Sepoy Mutiny, Satadru Sen
“Abandoned" Children: The Changing Racial Perceptions of Franco-Vietnamese Children, Christina E. Firpo

Session 104
Insiders and Outsiders? Regionalism, Nationalism, and Transnationalism in the Chinese Diaspora, 1860s-1950s

“To Become a Chinaman Again”: Gu Hongming as a Cultural Amphibian, Chunmei Du
Yokohama Chinatown Between the Sino-Japanese Wars (1894 – 1945): Nationalism, Acculturation, Collaboration, and Shûmai, Eric C. Han
Conceptualizing the Chinese World: Jinan University, Nanyang Migrants, and Trans-Regionalism, 1900-1942, Leander Seah
"To Be or Not to Be Chinese": Lim Boon Keng and the Cultural Politics of Identity, Soon Keong Ong

Session 105
Intercultural Business Communication and Strategy in Asia

Inter-cultural Communication and the Changing Business Environment: Cases of U.S. Companies in China, May H. Gao
Asian-American Business Negotiation and Conflict Management, Leigh Anne Liu
Exploring Human Resource Management Practices in Japanese and Korean Companies, Hyeon Jeong Park

Session 106
Borders in Northeast Asia: Perceptions and Experiences

Margins, Borders, and Frontiers: The Expanding Meaning of “Bianfang” between the Eighth and the Thirteenth Centuries, Hilde De Weerdt
"The First Pass under Heaven": Shanhai Pass, Manchuria and China, 1860s-1950s, Dan Shao
The Great Wall and the Cosmotopography of the Northern Song-Khitan Border, Nicolas Tackett
The Porous Frontier: Trade and Diplomacy across the Qing-Choson Border, Seonmin Kim

Session 107
Romanization in the Sino-Xenic Sphere: Past, Present, and Future

Romanizations for Korean, John B. Whitman
Foreign Tools to Assert Indigenous Identity in Vietnam, Mark J. Alves
The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Romanization Movement, Yuki Takatori
The Current Status of Script Reform in China, Victor H. Mair

Session 124
Democracy, Anti-democracy: People's Politics in the Global South

Violence, Justice, and a “People’s Democracy” in Kerala, South India, Ruchi Chaturvedi
Art, Ethnicity, and the Politics of the People in Democratic Malaysia, Lisa M Todzia
Dressing the Masses and Leading the March: Youth Politics in Indonesia, Doreen Lee
Intention and Subjection: Attacking a Muslim Artist in Democratic India, Karin J. Zitzewitz

Session 125
Modernities of Ancient Cities in East Asia

The Novelty of the Ancient in Suzhou, Peter J. Carroll
Gion Festival and Politics of Tradition in Contemporary Kyoto Neighborhoods, Eiko Ikegami
The Creation of Modern Landscapes in Nara: The Emperor System and the "Ancient", Hiroshi Takagi

Session 126
Transnational Activism in Asia: Identity, Discourse, and Networks

Trading National for Natural: Reconstructing "Asia" through Regional Conservation, Anne Rademacher
The Fourth World Conference on Women and the Positionality of Japanese Feminists in Asia, Linda E. White
Transnational Dimensions of Nepal’s Indigenous Nationalities Movement, Susan Hangen
Sexual Rights and Activism in Thailand: Nationalism, Transnationalism, Feminism, and Buddhism in the Construction of Thai Activist Discourses, Megan Sinnott

Session 127
Workers in Crisis: The Political Economy of Irregular Employment in Japan and South Korea

Democracy Without Labor? The Dynamics of Labor Politics since Democratization in South Korea, Myung Ji Yang
Organizing for Legitimacy: The Japanese Labor Movement, Irregular Workers, and the Quest for Political Status, Kristin E. Vekasi
Global Forces, Local Adjustments: Labor Market Reform in Contemporary Japan and Korea, Jiyeoun Song
Organizing Japan's Non-Regular Workers: An Analysis in US-Japanese Comparative Perspective, Charles Weathers

Session 128
Comparing Socialist China and the Soviet Union: Rethinking the State-Peasant Relationships

The Construction of the New Men in Maoist China and the Soviet Union, Felix Wemheuer
Famines in Russia and China in Historical Perspective, Stephen Wheatcroft
The Agents of Mao's Famine: In Search of the Soviet Russian Counterpart, Ralph A. Thaxton
Roles of Grain Procurement Crises in Collectivization in the Soviet Union and China: A Comparison, Xiaojia Hou

Session 143
Poster Session

North/South Interfaces in the Korean Peninsula, Valerie Gelezeau
Form-Meaning Associations in toki "When’"Clauses in Japanese: A Corpus Analysis of Native Speakers' Data using Concordance, Priya Ananth
Kanji-Kana Dichotomy: An Experimental Comparison of Kanji and Kana Processing, Mohammed Shafiullah
Going to Court? Comparing Social Networks and Attitudes Towards Corruption in Rural and Urban China, Christine B. Avenarius
Asian International Students' Openness to Counseling, Megumi Omonishi
Ancient World Maps of the Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas), Masako Nakagawa Graham
Limits of Tradition as a Discourse of Civil Society: A Case Study of Peasant Resistance over Use and Ownership of Land and Natural Resources in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Mariko Urano

Session 145
Apprehending the Americas: East Asian Conceptions of the Nineteenth-Century New World

Visions of Cuba in Christina Garcia's Monkey Hunting, Luisa Ossa
Staging Empire: The Representation of Japan at International Expositions, Inhye Kang
In Search of Min Sheng in Centennial America, Charles Desnoyers
A Comparative Study of Japanese Diasporas Before World War II: The Philippines and Hawai'i, Mariko Iijima

Session 146
Re-Centering the Nation on the Peripheries of East Asia: Music and Cultural Renaissance - Sponsored by the Mongolia Society

Relocating the Local in the Era of Cultural Preservation: Music of the Dolan People and the Revival of Uyghur Music in Northwest China, Chuen-Fung Wong
The Power of Musical Discourse in a Period of Cultural Renaissance: The Reinvention of the Mongolian Horse-Head Fiddle, Peter K. Marsh
Muqam and the Construction of a Modern Uyghur Nation, Elise M. Anderson
Cultural Symbols, Spatial Histories, and the Media: Kazakh Nation Building in Western Mongolia, Jennifer C. Post

Session 147
Queer Approaches to Sexuality Studies in Japan and Korea - Sponsored by the Northeast Asia

The Personal Is Personal: Predicaments of the Lesbian Feminist Subject in 1990s Japan, Karen Lee Kelsky
The Wedding Banquet Revisited: “Contract Marriages” between Korean Gays and Lesbians, John Song Pae Cho
Crossing the Line: The (Homo)Eroticized Male and Queer Female Identifications in Japan, James Welker
The Deployment of the “Toujisha” as an Authenticating Strategy in Current Debates about Sexual Minority Rights in Japan, Mark McLelland

Session 148
“Military Rule” as Reprise and Rehearsal: Problematizing Korea’s Colonial Archive

The Government-General’s Policy Towards Resident Japanese in Korea during the Military Rule Period, Sungyup Lee
Wielding Customs: Women’s Civil Suits in 1910s Colonial Korea, Sungyun Lim
Rehearsal Print: Imagining Empire in Maeil Shinbo under Military Rule, Michael I. Shapiro
Making Koreans Japanese: A Gospel for Japan’s New Colonial Subjects, Emily Anderson

Session 149
Individual Papers: Migration and New Homelands

Anonymous Workers, Auxiliary Forces: The Politics of Malaysian Coercion, Kevin McGahan
The Strength of Weak Ties: Role of Networks in Nepali Migration to South and Southeast Asia, 1900-2000, Lopita Nath
Life in the "Homeland": Cambodian American Deportees in Cambodia, Navin Moul
Imaginary Homelands? Perceptions of “Home” in the Global Diaspora of the Hmong, Grit Grigoleit
People's Border Crossing during the Japanese Imperial Period: On Yaeyama, the Ryukyu Islands and Colonial Taiwan, Hiroko Matsuda

Session 165
Blurring Boundaries: Migrants, Soldiers, and Merchants in 17th-Century Northeast Asia

Reconfiguring Region along the Bohai Gulf, Christopher S. Agnew
Loyalist or Desperado? The International Context of the Execution of Mao Wenlong, Kenneth M. Swope
Migrants, Captives and Hostages: The Making of Northeast Asia in the Seventeenth Century, Sun-Hee Yoon

Session 166
Learning to Read Across Borders: Secular and Religious Education in Laos, China, and the Diaspora from 1920 to the Present

Communist Control, Capitalist Development: The Fragility of Autonomy in Monastic Education in the Contemporary PRC, Thomas A. Borchert
Vernacular Landscapes of Lao Buddhist Education: 1920-2008, Justin T. McDaniel
War Behind the Frontline: Education in Communist Zones during the Indochina Wars, Vatthana Pholsena
Literacy, History, and Educational Planning: The Case of the Hmong, John Duffy

Session 167
Performing Real on Procrustean Beds: Re/presentation of Realities in and about East Cultures

Asian Reality of Forms, Form of Reality: "Imitation" in the Discourse of Onnagata in the Kabuki Theater, Maki Isaka
Memorandum on Happiness, or the Limits of Visibility: Taiwan's Tongzhi Movement in Mickey Chen's Documentaries, Guo-Juin Hong
Remembered Materials without Identity: The Artist Books of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Sayumi Takahashi
Acting Real: The Death of Ruan Lingyu and the Discourse of Realism in Early Chinese Cinema, Jason McGrath

Session 168
Varieties of Financial Reforms in East Asia

Similar Policies, Different Outcomes: The Politics of Bank Restructuring in South Korea and Japan (1997-2006), Myung-koo Kang
Chinese Strategy for Reforming Financial Institutions: Growing Out of Non-Performing Loan, Hong Yung Lee
Financial Crisis and Corporate Reform in Japan: Formal Convergence and Functional Divergence, Yul Sohn

Session 184
Systems of Slavery in Asia: Comparative Approaches

Religion and Slavery in India, ca. 1600, William R. Pinch
Korean Slavery and Historical Memory, Joy Sunghee Kim
Domestic Bonds: The Roles of Unfree and Purchased People in Late Qing and Republican Beijing Households, Johanna S Ransmeier
Free and Unfree in Japan and Europe during the Middle Ages, Thomas A. Nelson

Session 185
Buddhism and Social Problems across Borders

Preliminary Reflections on a Buddhist Theory of Justice, James A. Blumenthal
Modern Korean Buddhism and Peacemaking, Chanju Mun
Gyoki and the Bodhisattva Ideal, Ronald S. Green
“Snuffing Out” Humankind's Ego Self, James K. Powell

Session 186
East Asia: Ten Years After the Crisis

Politics of Economic Recovery in Thailand and the Philippines, Allen D. Hicken
The Capitalist Embrace: China Ten Years after the Asian Financial Crisis, Edward S. Steinfeld
Restructuring Regional Ties, T.J. Pempel
Institutions, Economic Recovery, and Macroeconomic Vulnerability in Indonesia and Malaysia, Thomas Pepinsky

Session 187
Technology Beyond the Nation-State in East Asia

Contextualizing Technological Relationships:
Early U.S.-Japanese Semiconductor Industry in Transnational Perspective, Hyungsub Choi
Enacting U.S.-Japan Relations in Satellite Remote-Sensing Systems, Daniel J. Plafcan
Nanotechnology and U.S.-Japan Relations, Yasumoto Fujita
Achieving Technological Self-Reliance through Foreign Dependency? South Korea’s Developmental Nationalist Responses to Technology and Knowledge Transfer, Sang-Hyun Kim

Session 188
Individual Papers: Comparative Studies in Contemporary Asia

Good Governance, Economic Growth, and the Future of Development in China & India, Devin K. Joshi
North Korea's Economic Transformation and China's Role as Catalyst and Model (1998-2006), Mika Marumoto
Work or Babies: How Best to Account for Differences in Fertility? Patricia Boling
The Irony of Antagonistic Complicity? Neo-Nationalism of Contemporary Korean and Japanese Cinema, Yung Bin Kwak
Japan-Indonesia Relations during the Detent Period: The Impact of Nixon's New Asian Policy, Amiko Nobori

Session 204
Asian Traders and Their Larger Counterparts: Continuity and Transformations

Of Wool and Washing Machines: Transformations in Himalayan Trading Networks, Christina H. Harris
Jade Trade from Burma since 1988, Wen-Chin Chang
Manangi Trade Diasporas in South and Southeast Asia, Prista Ratanapruck

Session 205
Commodity, Art, and Politics in the Production of East and Southeast Asian Cinemas

Personal Growth as Metaphor of Historical Transformation, Yan Wang
The Politics of Drifting Bodies in East Asian Art House Cinemas, Kaiman Chang
Rogue Sexuality and Transnational Flows in Vietnam Cinema, Mariam Beevi Lam
Trans-regional Consumption of Stereotypes and Spectacles in East Asia: Jackie Chan and Golden Harvest in the 1980s, Jeesoon Hong

Session 206
Religious NGOs in Authoritarian States

Walking a Balance Beam: Faith-based NPOs and the Central Party-state, Carol L. Hamrin
The Chinese YMCA: A Religious NGO in an Authoritarian One-Party State, Charles A. Keller
Negotiating State-Ethnic Political Relations: Challenge and Potential Among Christian INGOs in China’s Ethnic Minority Areas, Miwa Hirono
Living History: Catholic Social Involvements in Shanxi, Xiaofei Tu

Session 207
The End of the Individual? Relationships Between Human and Machine in 20th-Century China, Japan, and Soviet Russia

Tempered Steel, Virgin Lands, and Dis/Abled Bodies: Questions of Nature and Machine in Maoist Theory and Visual Culture, Tina Mai Chen
Robotic Lacunae: Automata and Mechanical Man in Meiji Literature and Art, Seth Jacobowitz
Modeling the Post-human: Messages from the Catwalk and the Car Dealership, Sarah Teasley
Citizen, Soldier, Robot: Figments of Disciplinary Desire in Japan, China, and the Soviet Union, Aaron William Moore

Session 208
Cultural Interchanges between Korea and Japan in the Colonial and Postcolonial Eras

South Korea's Modeling of Japanese Cultural Policy, Sang Mi Park
The Avant-Garde and the Resident Korean Filmmaking in Japan, Noboru Tomonari
The First K-Wave: Koreaphilia in Imperial Japanese Popular Culture, E. Taylor Atkins
Translating "Colonial Kitsch" and "National Tradition": Retelling The Tale of Spring Fragrance, Nayoung Aimee Kwo