CONFERENCEPROCEEDINGS

of

The16th Annual Columbia GraduateConference on East Asia

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Friday, February 9

12:00-2:30

Registration                                                              Kent 403

 

 

2:30-3:30

Opening Remarks

Professor Lydia H. Liu

Professor Gray Tuttle

Kent 403

 

4:00-5:30

Session I

 

Panel I

Gender Trouble in Modern China

Discussant: Professor Eugenia Lean, Columbia University

Kent 405

 

Katherine Yeung Ko

University of Hong Kong

Chinese Conception of Girlhood with Particular Emphasis on the Mui Tsai System in the 1920s

 

Yurou Zhong

Columbia University

The Soap Saga in the Age of Hygienic Modernity

 

Jianxiong Ma

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Female Traffic and Marriage Squeeze of Ethnic Minorities in Southwest China: On the Case of the Lahu in Yunnan Province

 

Panel II

War, Strategy, and Mobilization in 20th Century East Asia

Discussant: Konrad Lawson, Harvard University

Kent 411

 

Hajimu Masuda

Cornell University

Whispering gallery: Anti-Americanism, domestic politics, and China’s strategy during the Korean War, 1950

 

Deokhyo Choi

Cornell University

Transborder Conscription?: The Syngman Rhee regime and Koreans in Japan during the Korean War

 

Paul B. Spooner

University of Hong Kong

Sunken Dreams: HMS Prince of Wales and the Pacific War

 

Panel III

Transgressions: Tracing Mutability in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction

Discussant: Sara Kile, Columbia University

Kent 522D

 

 

Tiezhu Dong

University of California at Berkeley

A Modernized Sage: The Image of Confucius in Modern Historical Novels

 

 

Xiaojing Sun

University of California at Berkeley

Transgressing Boundaries: Yuan Mei’s Ghost Story Collection Zibuyu

 

 

Panel IV

The Individual in the Epistemological Cosmos of East Asian Philosophies

Discussant: John Zinda, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

 

Kent 424

 

 

Soon-ja Yang

University of Pennsylvania

Shen Dao’s Philosophy

 

 

Matt Stefon

Boston University

Cultivating the Sprouts of Virtue: a Defense of a Mengxian Environmental Virtue Ethic

 

 

Stephen C. Walker

Columbia University

Xunzi on Epistemic Privilege

 

 

Doyoung Park

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Breaking the Myths of Fujiwara Seika, the Pioneer of Tokugawa Neo-Confucianism

 

 

Panel V

Voices from the Underground: Aesthetics and Politics in Writing and Performance

Discussant: Michael Hill, Columbia University

Kent 413

 

 

Susan Parini

University of San Francisco

Duong Thu Huong: A Voice of Determination in Vietnam

 

 

Xiaohua Zhang

Stanford University

Narrative and Opposition in Bei Dao’s Waves

 

 

Xiaoning Lu

Stony Brook University

Unmaking the Film Star in Chinese Socialist Cinema: Performance and Performativity

 

 

 

Friday, February 9

5:45-7:00

Session II

Panel I

Fluid Boundaries: Canon-formation and Transformation of Buddhism in East Asia

Discussant: Gregory Scott, Columbia University

 

Kent 405

David W. Tien

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Doctrine as Discursive Resource in the Buddhist- Confucian Thought of Liang Su

Michael McCarty

Columbia University

Transformations of the Vaiśravana Cult in East Asia

Susie Andrews

Columbia University

Tales of Manifestation Monasteries and the Development of the Cult of Wenshu (Sanskrit Mañjuśrī) at Mount Wutai

Panel II

From Horizontal to Vertical in Traditional East Asian Architecture

Discussant: Jennifer Perry, Columbia University

 

Kent 413

Lala Zuo

University of Pennsylvania

The Sakyamuni Pagoda and Prabhutaratna Pagoda at Bulguksa in Korea

Chen-yu Chiu

Columbia University

The Chinese Bracketing Unit in the Yingzao-fashi [Building Standard]

Alexandra Harrer

University of Pennsylvania

Chinese Desire for Height: The Pingzuo in Medieval Multi-storied Timber Architecture

Panel III

Uneasy Relations: Realism and Modernism in 1920’s and 30’s Japan and China

Discussant: Christopher Rea, Columbia University

 

Kent 424

Hitomi Yoshio

Columbia University

Itō Sei and the New Psychological Literature: Infiltration of European Modernism into the Japanese Literary Discourse in the 1920’s and 30’s

Nate Shockey

Columbia University

“Vanguard” and the “Avant-garde”: Reinterpreting the Formalist Debate of the 1920’s

Adam Chanzit

University of California at Berkeley

Un-Framing the Framed Criminal: Problems of Vision in Cao Yu’s The Wilderness

 

Panel IV

Power Structures and Possibilities: The Public Sphere in Prewar Japan and Contemporary China

Discussant: Charles Kim, Columbia University

Kent 511

Christopher Craig

Columbia University

Local Notables and Participatory Politics in Prewar Japan

Steven T. Schultz

Marquette University

Authoritarian-led Civil Societies: Government Guidance of the Chinese Public Sphere In Comparison

Ju Li

State University of New York at Binghampton

Bounded Transformation: An Integrative Understanding of Chinese Reform

Panel V

Remaking the Body Politic: Sports, Gender and Medicine in East Asia

Discussant: Katherine Yeung Ko, University of Hong Kong

Kent 411

Robin Orlansky

University of Pennsylvania

Moving Forward: Sports and Gender in Modern Japan

Yu-Ling Huang

State University of New York at Binghamton

Marking Differences, Making Profit: Races, Clinical Trials and Biotechnology in Taiwan

John DiMoia

Princeton University

Making Medicine in Minnesota?: Thoracic Surgery and Academic Medicine at Seoul National University, 1954-1962

Heidi Un Kim

Columbia University

Patriot Games: Constructing National Identity in the South Korean World Cup

 

Saturday,February 10

9:00 – 10:00

Breakfast and Registration                                     Kent 403

10:00-11:15

Session I

Panel I

Delineating Gender and Religious Identities in Japan

Discussant: Susie Andrews, Columbia University

Kent 411

Nicolas Jimenez-Ortiz Corrales

University of Madrid

From the First Kannon's Iconography to Women Representation in Bijinga Genre: Buddhist Influence in Both Female Image and Beauty Concept Creation

Tomoko Kitagawa

Princeton University

Hideyoshi’s daughter, Go: A Lady Samurai who Converted to Christianity

Panel II

Crossing Over: Tang Dynasty Literature in Central Asia

Discussant: Linda Feng, Columbia University

Kent 413

Rostislav Berezkin

University of Pennsylvania

The Transmission of the Story of Mulian (Molon-toin) and the Influence of Chinese Oral Narratives on Mongolian Literature

Selena Shen Wang

University of Pennsylvania

The Tragic Romance of the Tang Emperor and the Indian King: A Study of the Hetupratyaya Painting in Cave 83 in Kizil

Panel III

Historical Dynamism on the Chinese Frontier

Discussant: Stacey Van Vleet, Columbia University

Kent 405

Victor Seow

University of Pennsylvania

Pan-Islam in the Far East: Chinese Muslims and the Japanese All China Muslim League

Benno Weiner

Columbia University

Mass Factionalism on the Tibetan Margins: Class, Ethnicity, Politics and the Historiography of the Cultural Revolution

Andres H. Rodriguez

Oxford University

China’s Borderland Enterprise: Chinese Frontier Studies During the War of Resistance (1937-1945)

 

Panel IV

Intellectual Musings on East v.s. West

Discussant: Federico Marcon, Columbia University

Kent 423

Andy Liu

Columbia University

The 200-year-old Divergence: Economic Subjectivity and Comparisons Between Early Modern England and China

Aiko Otsuka

University of Arizona

Miki Kiyoshi's Historical-Cultural Discouse on the East and the West

Adam Bronson

Columbia University

Postwar Theory, Postwar Praxis: Fujita Shôzô, Maruyama Masao and the Emperor System

Panel V

Shakuhachi Players and Waka Poetry: Negotiating Tradition and Modernity in 20th Century Japan

Discussant: Patrick Luhan, Columbia University

Kent 522B

Saeko Shibayama

Columbia University

The Tranquil Demise of Waka: Orikuchi Shinobu and Modern Waka

Joshua M. Smith

Osaka University

The Earliest Shakuhachi Players and Their Social Networks: Continuity and Change in Japanese Society and its Traditions

Rob Tuck

Columbia University

Poets, Paragons and Politics: Sugawara no Michizane in the Meiji Period

 

Saturday, February 10

11:30-12:45

Session II

Panel I

Cultural [Mis]Translation: Political Aesthetics of Nationalism and “Modern” Art

Discussant: Chelsea Foxwell, Columbia University

Kent 411

Elizabeth Clow

Columbia University

The Seals and Sociality of Female Artist Liu Shudu

Yan Geng

Northwestern University

Re-Painting Dunhuang: Transition of a Cultural Frontier in Modern Chinese Art History

Ok Hee Jeong

Temple University

Why was Choon Hyang Made into a Ballet?  The Epistemological and Strategic Issues of Korean Ballet

Matthew Richard Chozick

Harvard University

Sometimes a Ringu is Just a Ringu: a Critique of Misreading the Japanese Film Ringu as Uncanny