FIFTH ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE ON EAST ASIA
Held at Columbia University
Friday February 9 to Sunday February 11, 1996

Abstracts

1. Panel: How Does it Feel? Fiction and the Corporeal
   Discussant: Gus Heldt (Columbia)
   Panelists:
   
   • Seiji Lippit (Columbia), On the Pure and the Grotesque in Japanese Modernism
   • Margherita Long (Princeton), Taxonomies of Self-destruction: The Sengoku Hero as Sexology's Masochist in Tanizaki's 1931 Bushu ko hiwa (The Secret History of Lord Musashi)
   • Ned Walsh (Columbia), Heat Waves in Tang Poetry
   
   
2. Panel: Woman as Political Terrain in Contemporary Japan
   Discussant: Beth Katzoff (Columbia)
   Panelists:
   
   • Janice Brown (University of Pennsylvania), The Legal Campaign for Equal Employment Opportunity in Japan
   • Tiana Norgren (Columbia), Abortion Before Birth Control: The Interest Group Politics behind Postwar Japanese Reproduction Policy
   
   
3. Panel: Textual Transformations
   Discussant: Morgan Pitelka (Princeton)
   Panelists:
   
   • Claire Cuccio (Washington University), The Generic Intertext of Zuihitsu and Shishtsetsu: A Transition from Edo to Meiji
   • Keller Kimbrough (Yale), A Chip off the Old Woodblock: The Otogizoshi Izumi Shikibu in the Context of a Setsuwa Tradition
   • Elanah Uretsky (George Washington), Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Development and Use of Chinese Historical Narrative in the Shih chi
   
   
4. Panel: Asians in America
   Discussant: Ted Mack (Columbia)
   Panelists:
   
   • Kristine Thoma Guha (New York University), In the Field: Translating Chinese Literature
   • Shuang Shen (City University of New York), The "Gold Mountain" Tales in Another Context (or Re-imagining Immigration)
   • Xiaohua Ma (Ochanomizu University), The War and Immigration: American Policy toward Asians During World War II
   
   
5. Panel: Nationalism Inside and Out
   Discussant: Soyoung Lee (Columbia)
   Panelists:
   
   • Jae-Ho Jeon (Harvard), The Nationalistic Policies of Park's Regime in South Korea (1961-1979)
   • Ellen McGill (Columbia), Go West, Young Han: Republican Reclamations of Inner Mongolia
   • Yusheng Yao (University of Minnesota), Intellectuals and Political Power: Tao Xingzhi's Legacy in PR China
   
   
6. Panel: Shifting Shadows and White in Japanese Literature
   Discussant: Masaaki Kinugasa (Columbia)
   Panelists:
   
   • Pamela Abee-Taulli (Princeton), Only the Shadow Knows: Dopplegangers, Dreams, and Hallucinations in the Shadow of the Psychic Unconscious
   • Sarah Cox (Washington University), Das Erdbeben in Chili and Jishin: Mori Ogai's Translation of Heinrich von Kleist in a Meiji Context
   • Charles Cabell (Harvard), Yearning Japanese: Purity in Kawabata's Snow Country
   
   
7. Panel: Complicating Binaries
   Discussant: Harry Miller (Columbia)
   Panelists:
   
   • Kai Wood Mah (McGill), Towards a Theory of Reading Yin-Yang Texts
   • Frances Yuan (Columbia), Sheng Mou and the Dilemma of the "Scholar" and "Professional" Paradigm
   
   
8. Panel: Strategizing Guns and Money
   Discussant: Andrew Oros (Columbia)
   Panelists:
   
   • Hsiang-Wang Liu (Pennsylvania State University), The Chinese Civil War in South China in 1949
   • Paul Midford (Columbia), State Reputation and Grand Strategy: The Cases of Japan and Russia
   • Thomas Vest, Jr. (University of Southern California), The End of Recognition? Trust and Mistrust in Japan's Economic and Security Future
   
   
9. Panel: Language and Identity in Japan
   Discussant: Laura Evans (Columbia)
   Panelists:
   
   • Barbara Hall (University of Pennsylvania), Agency and Constraint: Bilingual Japanese Women's Narratives
   • Yukako Ommura (University of Pennsylvania), Koreans in Japan: Language Shift/Maintenance and Their Identity
   
   
10. Panel: Chinese Tales of Transcendent Identity
    Discussant: John Harding, University of Pennsylvania
    Panelists:
    
    • Sarah Allen (University of Michigan), Life After Death: Representations of the Afterlife in Tang Zhiguai
    • Lian Duan (McGill), The Great Image Has No Shape: A Study of the Metaphorical Approach to the Tao in Lao Tzu
    • Rania Huntington (Harvard), The Self-made Fox
    • Mario Poceski (UCLA), Myth and Philosophy in Hua-yen Buddhism
    
    
11. Panel: Modes of Power
    Discussant: Yasuhiro Makimura (Columbia)
    Panelists:
    
    • Darryl Flaherty (Columbia), Unions, Parties, Rhetoric, and Power: The Seiyukai and Union Parliamentarians in Japan's Early Twenties
    • Jiweon Shin (Harvard), Christianity and Politics in Korea, 1885-1945
    • Scott Simon (McGill), "Confucianism" in East Asia: Industrial Blueprint or Bourgeois Ideology?
    
    
12. Panel: Contesting Cultural Politics in "Modern" Taiwan and China
    Discussant: Ling-chei Letty Chen (Columbia)
    Panelists:
    
    • Ya-Chung Chuang (Duke), Becoming Taiwanese: Nationalism and the Politics of Identity in Postwar Taiwan
    • Minghui Hu (UCLA), The Science of Everything: The Specter of Victorian Scientism in Yan Fu's China
    • Eugenia Lean (UCLA), The Avenging Female Warrior: Cultural Archetype, National Modernity and Gender in China
    
    
13. Roundtable: Modernity and its Institutions: Pre-, Post-, Pro, and Con
    Moderator: Suzanne O'Brien (Columbia)
    Panelists/Position holders:
    
    • Gus Heldt (Columbia)
    • David Lurie (Columbia)
    • Janet Poole (Columbia)
    
    
14. Roundtable: What is the Place of the Asian Diaspora in the Study of Asia?
    Moderator: Ken Liu (Yale)
    Panelists/Position holders:
    
    • Kai Wood Mah (McGill)
    • Shuang Shen (City University of New York)
    • John Weinstein (Columbia)
    
    
15. Panel: Images of the Rural and Urban
    Discussant: Andrew Field (Columbia)
    Panelists:
    
    • Robin Visser (Columbia), City and Country in the Literary and Cultural Imagination of Modern China: Reexamining Avant-garde Fiction in Relation to the 1930's Jingpai/Haipai Debates
    • Alisa Freedman (University of Chicago), Glorifying Moving Parts: Symphonies of Modern Girls and Mass Transportation in 1930s Chinese City Films
    
    
16. Panel: Writing in Early Japan
    Discussant: Ann Satoh (Columbia)
    Panelists:
    
    • Anne Commons (Columbia), The Development of Kokuji ("Chinese" characters coined in Japan)
    • Yukio Lippit (Princeton), Nara Imperial Scriptoria
    • David Lurie (Columbia), Beyond Transcription: The Uses of Writing in the Man'yoshu
    
    
17. Panel: Suspicious Minds, Acquiring Methods, Doubting Makers
    Discussant: Alex Beels (Columbia)
    Panelists:
    
    • Matthew Marr (Howard University), Cross-Cultural Interviewing in Japan's Day Labor Pools
    • Jinbao Qian (Harvard), Read Documents with Suspicion: A Historiographic Study
    • Olga Tutatchikova (Ohio State University), Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation by Foreign Learners: The Role of Memory in Learning and Teaching
    
    
18. Panel: Constructing Performance Traditions
    Discussant: Sara Davis (University of Pennsylvania) Panelists:
    
    • YouYoung Kang (University of Pennsylvania), Musical Identity -- "Korean Music"
    • Brian Ray (University of Pennsylvania), Western Influences on Kabuki during the Early Meiji
    • Seiko Yoshinaga (University of Pennsylvania), The Construction of Femininity in Nihon Buyo in the Works of Ariyoshi Sawako
    • Jeremy Wallach (University of Pennsylvania), Love and Pronouns: Discourse Analysis of an Indonesian Pop Song
    
    
19. Panel: Art as History
    Discussant: Leila Wice (Columbia)
    Panelists:
    
    • Beng Choo Lim (Cornell), Figures of Authority in Three Noh Plays by Nobumitsu
    • Roberta Wue (New York University), Art Advocate and Calligraphy Beggar: Ren Bonian's Portraits of Gao Yong (1850-1921)
    • Nixi Cura (New York University), Chinese Bannerman Painters in Beijing ca. 1700-1770
    
    
20. Panel: Multiple Rhetorics of Taiwan and Korea
    Discussant: Cindy Postma (Columbia)
    Panelists:
    
    • Elizabeth Vanderven (UCLA), Structure and Agency: Reevaluating the 2-28 Incident of Taiwan
    • Hsin-Yi Lu (University of Washington), Reading the Colonial Past: The Changing Images of Japanese in Taiwanese Literature
    • Mohammed Hafez (University of Southern California), The Origins and Rise of East Asia's Newly Industrialized Countries
    
    
21. Panel: Asian "Orientalism"
    Discussant: Laura Neitzel (Columbia)
    Panelists:
    
    • James Leibold (University of Southern California), The Discourse of "Minzu" in Early Modern China: Defining the Group that Matters,1895-1949
    • Janet Poole (Columbia), Into the Light: Kim Sa-ryang and Minor Literature
    • Ami Takenaka (Columbia), Limits of Ethnicity and Culture: A Study of Japanese-Peruvians as Sojourners
    
    
22. Roundtable: Conceiving, Defining, and Enforcing Human Rights
    Moderator: Amy Fettig (Columbia)
    Panelists/Position holders:
    
    • Trevor Morrison (Columbia)
    • Farhad Karim (Columbia)
    • Carsey Yee (Harvard)
    
    
23. Roundtable: Can an "Asianist" be a Methodological Innovator? New Thinking in the Social Sciences and Humanities
    Moderator: Kristin Mulready (Yale)
    Panelists/Position holders:
    
    • Scott Swaner (Cornell)
    • Gregory Fleming (Yale)
    • Kristin Bayer (New York University)
    
    
24. Panel: Proscripted Perversions
    Discussant: Jennifer Carpenter (Columbia)
    Panelists:
    
    • David Bello (University of Southern California),Heresy and Gender in Medieval China as Seen in Thirteenth Century Song Dynasty Legal Cases
    • Andrew Field (Columbia), Regulating Indecency: The Moral Role of the Shanghai Municipal Police, 1920-1940
    • John Weinstein (Columbia), All Men are Brothers, but Some are More Brotherly than Others: Homosexuality in the "Shuihu zhuan"
    
    
25. Panel: Making and Breaking Space
    Discussant: Lidy Chu (Columbia)
    Panelists:
    
    • Kristin Bayer (New York University), Mapping for the Emperor: Competing Images of Imperial Space in Qing China (1644-1911)
    • Earl Tai (Columbia), Travels through Space and Time: An Alternate Mode of Perspective in the Chinese Context
    • Ted Mack (Columbia), Privacy in the Public Arena: Fictional Space in Natsume Soseki and Uno Koji