Chair: Jaishankar Raman, Valparaiso University

             Larry Israel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                          Consensus and Coercion in the Civilizing Project of a Neo-Confucian                           Philosopher:  Wang Yangming's Campaigns in Guangxi, 1527-1528
             Juan Wang, Purdue University
                          Interpreting the New Policy (Xinzheng): Lui Dapeng, Li Boyuan and Wu Jianren
             Jaishankar Raman, Valparaiso University
                          Reform Process in India and China

Panel A. 2: Women, Migrants and Minorities in Contemporary China
                 (Conference 62 - Ground Level)

             Chair: Lida Nedilsky, North Park University

             Fang Deng, Bridgewater State College
                          A Vital Cultural Reform: The Indigenization in China--Why Has China's                           Marriage  Law Been Amended Twice since 1980?
             Diana Fu, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
                          A Home of Caged Voices: Paradoxically Empowering Chinese Migrant Women
             Lida Nedilsky, North Park University
                          The Politics of Representing Religious Minorities in Post-1997 Hong Kong

Panel A. 3: Gender in Pre-modern Japanese Literature (Big Ten Room B - Lobby Level)

             Chair: Ethan Segal, Michigan State University

             Susan Furukawa, Indiana University
                          The Critique of Umu-sei in Late Heian Fiction
             Chia-li Kao, Indiana University
                          Reorganizing the Gender System: The Assertion of the Female Subject as a Feminist                           in “Yoru no Nesame”
             Minae Savas, Ohio State University
                          The Use of Feminine Madness in Japanese Noh Theatre

             Discussant: Rose Bundy, Kalamazoo College

Panel A. 4: Science, Technology and Defeat in Modern Japan (Michigamme - Ground Level)

             Chair: Takashi Nishiyama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

             Walter Grunden, Bowling Green State University
                          Of Silk and Sealing Wax: Why Was There No “Big Science” Revolution in World                           War II Japan?
             Takashi Nishiyama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
                          Building an Engineering Workforce for War and Peace

             Discussant: Morris Low, Johns Hopkins University

Panel A. 5: Education and Curriculum Reform in Japan (Room 107 - Lobby Level)

             Chair: Anne Prescott, Indiana University

             Anne Hooghart, Siena Heights University
                          Dilemmas of the Ongoing Education Reform in Japan: Report from a Case Study of                           the New Middle School Integrated Studies Course
             Anne Prescott, Indiana University
                          Music Curriculum Reforms in Japan: Traditional Music in the Schools and Society
             Tomoaki Nomi, Southeast Missouri State University
                          That Was Then, This Is Now: Perception and Reality of Education in Japan
             Patty Croom, Michigan State University
                          The Third Revolution: Highlights of Japanese Higher Education Reforms

Panel A. 6: Historical Text and Context: The Power of the Recorded Word
                 ( Willy Room - Lobby Level)

             Chair: Talbott Huey, Michigan State University

             Talbott Huey, Michigan State University
                          The International Influence of Chinese Books from Han to Ming: A Bibliographic                           Essay
             Adam Fong, University of Hawaii, Manoa
                          Out of the East, Understanding the World Through the Records of 13th Century                           Voyagers
             David Horrocks, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
                          US-Asia Relations in the 1970's: Recent and Prospective Declassifications from the                           National Security Adviser Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
             Laura Iandola, Northern Illinois University
                          Making Visible the “Invisible Government:” Interpreting the FRUS Indonesia                           Documents for 1964-1965

Panel Sessions B: Friday, September 23, 2:00pm-3:45pm

Panel B. 1: The Chinese Bronze Age (Room 103B - Lobby Level)

             Co-Chairs: Ying Wang, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
                               Mara Duckens, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

             Mara Duckens, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
                          Reconstructing the Life of Fu Hao
             Michael Aschenbrenner, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
                          The Rise of the Chariot in Ancient China
             Anita Netolicka, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
                          The Power of the Dao and of the First Emperor
             Amy Alendres, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
                          The Hierarchy of Motifs: A Case Study of the Collections at the Art Institute of                           Chicago

Panel B. 2: Self, Earth Mother, and Other: Discourses in Japanese Literature
                 (Heritage Room- Lobby Level)

             Chair: Matthew Strecher, Toyo University

             Mathew Strecher, Toyo University
                          Seeking the New Messiah: Two Murakamis and the Effort to Chart a New Course for                           Contemporary Japan
             Roger Thomas, Illinois State University
                          Enchi Fumiko's “Urmutter”
             Martin Holman, University of Missouri
                          The Naked History of the Self: Youthful Narrators in “Hadaka no kozue” and Other                           Autobiographical Fiction by Inoue Yasushi

Panel B. 3: Christianity and Modernity in Meiji Japan (Conference 62 - Ground Level)

             Chair: Sally Hastings, Purdue University

             Tanya Sue Maus, University of Chicago
                          Child Poverty and the Failure of the Modern State: Indigenous Christian Responses                           during the Early Industrial Period of Meiji Japan (1880-1900)
             Garrett Washington, Purdue University
                          “Lordship” in Meiji Japan: Resolving Ebina Danjo's Identity Crisis
             Adrianne Renburg, Indiana University
                          Educational Narratives: Christianity and Women's Higher Education in Meiji Japan

             Discussant: James Huffman, Wittenberg University

Panel B. 4: Youth and Age in East Asian Social Discourse Panel ( Willy Room - Lobby Level)

             Chair: Jermaine Gordon, Sophia University

             Jermaine Gordon, Sophia (Jouchi) University
                         Through the Looking Glass: An Empirical Study of First Sexual Experience, Sexual                          Attitudes and Behavior of Young Japanese Adults
             Holly Didi-Ogren, St. Olaf College
                         “Is this what you're trying to say?” Verbal Negotiations of Patient Agency at a                          Japanese Adult Care Center

Panel B. 5: Politics and the Military in the Philippines (Big 10 Room B - Lobby Level)

            Chair: Benjamin Muego, Bowling Green State University

            Kevin Cross, Johns Hopkins, SAIS
                         The Enemy Within: Corruption in the Armed forces of the Philippines as a Security                          Threat
            Roger Bresnahan, Michigan State University
                         Belinda Aquino: Chronicler and Conscience of Philippine Politics
            Benjamin Muego, Bowling Green State University
                         Impeachment Philippine-style: Macapagal-Arroyo's Campaign to Head Off Removal                          from Office

            Discussant: Eric Chang, Michigan State University

Panel B. 6: Education in Asia (Room 101 - Ground Level)

            Chair: David Horner, Michigan State University

            Sungworn Ngudgratoke, Michigan State University
                         A Multi-level Factor Analysis of Students' Teaching Evaluation: A Case of Teaching                          Evaluation in Thailand
            Dipendra Subedi, Michigan State University
                         Factors Influencing Career Choice among High School Students in Nepal
            Yonghan Park, Michigan State University
                         Education Fever in South Korea
            David Horner, Michigan State University
                         Post-Handover Education Reform in Hong Kong

Panel B. 7: Her-story: Myth and Memory in Modern Indian Literature
                 (Michigamme - Ground Level)

            Chair: Pamela Lothspeich, Michigan State University

            Pamela Lothspeich, Michigan State University
                         Imagining the Nation in a 20th Century Adaptation of a Classic Sanskrit Play, “The                          Plaiting of the Tresses”
            Jyotsna Singh, Michigan State University
                         Traumas of the Indo-Pakistan Partition Remembered: The Fate of Women in the                          Literary Works of Amrita Pritam
            Aparajita Sagar, Purdue University
                         Some Questions in Middle-Class Literary Feminism in Modern India: Ismat Chughtai                          and Mahadevi Varma

Friday Evening Special Events

4:00 - 4:30     Introduction to, “Intimate India,” with exhibit photographer Marilyn Rauth
(Room 107 - Lobby   Level)

5:00 - 6:00     Welcome Reception (cash bar) (Big 10 Room C - Lobby Level)
                      Michael Lewis, MCAA Program Chair and Director, Asian Studies Center, MSU
                      Jeffrey Riedinger, Acting Dean, International Studies & Programs, MSU

7:15               Introduction to the Chinese Pipa (Festival Lounge, Wharton Center)
                      Marilyn McCullough, Assistant Director, Asian Studies Center,MSU

8:00               Gao Hong: Chinese Pipa Concert ( Wharton Center)
                      Gao Hong, a Chinese music prodigy and master of the pear-shaped lute, the pipa, began her                       career as a professional musician at age 12. Hong graduated with honors from China’s premier                       music school, the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where she studied with the great                       pipa master Lin Shicheng. Hong has received numerous top awards and honors throughout the                       world, including First Prize in the Hebei Professional Young Music Performers Competition. As                       a composer, she has received commissions from the American Composers Forum and Twin                       Cities Public Television. Tickets are $15.00 for MCAA members and will be available for                       purchase at the door.

Saturday Morning Special Events

7:00 - 8:00     MCAA Executive Meeting (Heritage Room - Lobby Level)

Panel Sessions C: Saturday, September 24, 8:30am-10:15am

Panel C. 1: Midwest Japan Seminar I (Heritage Room - Lobby Level)

            Chair: Louis G. Perez, Illinois State University

            Paper: Paul Watt, DePauw University
                         Demythologizing Pure Land Buddhism: Yasuda Rijin (1900-1982) and the Modern                          Restatement of the Shin Buddhist Tradition

            Discussant: Robert Fish, Indiana State University

Panel C. 2: Poetry in Context: Reading, Writing and Commenting on Poetry in late Imperial China                  (Conference 61 - Ground Level)

            Chair: Robert Hegel, Washington University, St. Louis

            Jing Zhang, Washington University, St. Louis
                         Reading Poetry in Late Ming Short Vernacular Stories
            Chun Mei, Washington University, St. Louis
                         Poeticizing Theater in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century China
            Jie Cui, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                         Between the Traditional and the Contemporary: On Wang Fuzhi's Remarks on the Cao                          Brothers

            Discussant: David Rolston, University of Michigan

Panel C. 3: Chinese Political Economy in the Twenty-first Century
                 (Conference 62 - Ground Level)

            Chair: Walter Arnold, Miami University

            Francis Schortgen, Miami University
                         China's Special Economic Zones: Anything Still Special About Them?
            Tony Frye, Miami University
                         Special Economic Zones and the Opening of China
            Irina Aervitz, Miami University
                         The Role of Local Government in Attracting Foreign Investment: The Case of China                          and Russia
            Ed Petronzio, Miami University
                         Fiat's Expansion to China: Motivations and Expectations
            Yinan (Richard) Wang, Miami University
                         Partnering with China's Carmakers: Globalization of Automotive Industry in China

Panel C. 4: Faith, Power and Politics in Southeast Asia (Room 101 - Lobby Level)

            Chair: Robert McKinley, Michigan State University

            Robert McKinley, Michigan State University
                         The Importance of Serving Halal (Islamically Proper) Foods in Multi-religious                         Malaysia: Who is Host, Who Is Guest?
            Oona Paredes, Arizona State University
                         Transcripts of Power: Negotiating Political Authority in Colonial
                         Correspondence in the Southern Philippines
            Lisa Vargas, Kent State University
                         U.S. Foreign Policy and Globalization: The Indonesian Model

Panel C. 5: Current Research in the Lao Domain ( Willy Room - Lobby Level)

            Chair: John Hartmann, Northern Illinois University

            Christy Hicks, Michigan State University
                         Lao and Hmong Teachers' Perceptions of the Developmental Stages of Youth in                          UXO-Impacted Communities
            Priwan Nanongkham, Kent State University
                         The Khaen, a Bamboo Free-Reed Mouth Organ: Musical Instrument and Its Tradition of                          Lao People in Northeast Thailand
            John Hartmann, Northern Illinois University
                         Persistence of Ethnic Identity of Lao Phuan and Lao Song Dam: Evidence from                          Linguistics and History

            Discussant: Frank Osanka, Independent Scholar, Racine, Wisconsin

Panel C. 6: Church and Identity in East Asia (Big 10 Room B - Lobby Level)

            Chair: How Chuang Chua, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

            How Chuang Chua, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
                          Reinterpreting Endo Shusaku's Swamp Motif in Light of the Historical Jesuit Mission to                          Japan
            Mark Dominey, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
                         Chongryun's Fifty Years: Koreans in Japan
            Paulus Pan, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
                         Rediscovering Mennonite Identity in Taiwan

            Discussant: Linda Benson, Oakland University

Panel C. 7: War and Remembrance: Contested Memory, Then and Now
                 (Room 102 - Lobby Level)

            Chair: Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf College

            Parks Coble, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
                         New Perspectives in Understanding Wartime China, 1937-1945: The Contested                          Memory of Wartime Reporting
            Alexander Bon, Royal Netherlands Naval College
                         “Japan Bashing:” A New Jeremiad?
            Shengmei Ma, Michigan State University
                         Translating Comfort Woman

            Discussant: Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf College

Panel C. 8: Space, Body and Performance (Michigamme - Ground Level)

            Chair: Jin-hee Lee, Eastern Illinois University

            John Cho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                         Mobile Citizenship in Korean Gay Site: Ivancity
            Rebecca Nickerson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                         Neoliberal Strategies: Japan, Sport, and Nation
            Akiko Takeyama, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                         Body Movement and Eroticized Interaction in Tokyo Host and Hostess Clubs
            Eng Kiong Tan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                         Empty Body of Desire: The Significance of the Hole in Taiwanese-Malaysia Director                          Tsai Ming-liang's “The Hole”

            Discussant: Jin-hee Lee, Eastern Illinois University

Panel Sessions D: Saturday, September 24, 10:30am-12:15pm

Panel D.1: Midwest Japan Seminar II (Heritage Room - Lobby Level)

            Chair: Louis G. Perez, Illinois State University

            Paper: Catherine Ryu, Michigan State University
                         Aestheticizing the Political: Komachi's Tears in the Noh Play “Sooshi Arai Komachi”

            Discussants: Fumiko Fukuta, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
                         Susan Long, John Carroll University

Panel D. 2: Poetry, Prose and Drama in Traditional China (Michigamme - Ground Level)

            Chair: Ya-chen Chen, Stanford University

            Ya-chen Chen, Stanford University
                         Rethinking the Beauty with Flying Daggers: Han-Tang Gender Politics
            Xiaoquan (Raphael) Zhang, Washington University, St. Louis
                         Polyphonic Monologues: Voices and Personae in Clown and Villain Roles in Two of Li                          Yu's Chuanqi Plays

Panel D. 3: Republican China: Transforming Public and Private Spheres (Room 101 - Lobby Level)

            Chair: Liping Bu, Alma College

            Qiliang He, University of Minnesota
                         Print the Province: Journalism and Federalism in Hangzhou, 1920-1923
            Liping Bu, Alma College
                         W.W. Peter and the Council on Health Education in China
            Wei Xie, Yale University
                         The Rise of Women's Yue Opera in Wartime Shanghai
            Zhiguo Ye, University of Minnesota
                         Making Song Meiling a Chinese New Woman

Panel D. 4: Contested Discourses of Health and Healing in North India
                 (Big 10 Room B - Lobby Level)

            Chair: Judy Pugh, Michigan State University

            Judy Pugh, Michigan State University
                         In the Shadow of Biomedicine: The Discourses of Ayurvedic and Unani Medicine
            Yoganand Sinha, Michigan State University
                         Shamans and Ascetics: A Perspective on Spirit Healing in Rural Bihar
            Pamela Bartholomew, Michigan State University
                         Recasting Women's Health in North India

Panel D. 5: Current Research in the Lao Domain Session 2 ( Willy Room - Ground Level)

            Chair: John Hartmann, Northern Illinois University

            Greg Green, Northern Illinois University
                         Information Access in the Lao P.D.R.
            Nisachol Chamnongsri, Khonkaen University, Thailand
                         Metadata Development for Digitized Palm Leaf Manuscript Management System
            Catherine Raymond and Alan Potkin, Northern Illinois University
                         International Efforts Towards the Restoration of Vat Sisaket, Vientiane's Oldest Temple

            Discussant: Frank Osanka, Independent Scholar, Racine, Wisconsin

Panel D 6: Cultural Flows and Democratization in Contemporary Korea (Room 102 - Lobby Level)

            Chair: Won K. Paik, Central Michigan University

            Jeongsuk Joo, State University of New York, Buffalo
                         Riding the “Korean Wave:” Korean Popular Culture in the Transnational Cultural                          Flows
            Chang-Hun Oh, Kaya University, South Korea
                         Democratization and Anti-American Sentiment in South Korea

            Discussant: Won K. Paik, Central Michigan University

Panel D 7: Individual Papers on Social Capital and Public Structures
(Conference 61- Ground Level)

            Chair: Soon-Yong Pak , Yonsei University

            Christine D. Lasco , Michigan State University
                         Dynamics of Wages and Rice Prices in the Philippines
            Soon-Yong Pak , Yonsei University
                         Engaging Acculturation Issues for Adolescent North Korean Refugees Through                         Alternative Schooling

Panel D 8: Nepal: Contemporary Development Issues and Challenges
(Conference 62 - Ground Level)

            Chair: Muraru Suvedi, Michigan State University

            Mahendra Lawoti, Western Michigan University
                         The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal
            Dirgha J. Ghimire, University of Michigan
                         Changing Family Structures in Rural Nepal
            Krishna Gyawali, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Nepal
                         Contemporary Economic Development Issues
            Murari Suvedi , Michigan State University
                         Meeting People's Expectations of Development

Saturday Special Events

1:00 - 2:45     Presidential Panel (Big 10 Room B - Lobby Level)
                      Asian Studies and the Specter of Global Pandemics: Wild Fowl, Tame Chicks, and                       Human Embodiment of Avian Influenza

            Chair: Jacquetta Hill, President, MCAA

             Scott Dowell, Center for Disease Control: Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases
                      The Global Threat of Avian Influenza
            Ann Jannetta, University of Pittsburg
                      Zoonoses and Human Pandemics: Evolving Relationships Between Species
            Gerald Nelson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
                      Sick Birds, Mad Cows, and Contaminated Civets: How does Modern Agriculture                       Contribute to Global Pandemics?

3:00 - 4:15     New Directions in India-U.S. Relations: A Roundtable Discussion
                      (Big 10 Room B - Lobby Level)

            Moderator: Michael Lewis, Michigan State University

            The Honorable Arun Kumar, Consul General of India at Chicago
            Jeffrey Riedinger, Michigan State University
            Anil Jain, Michigan State University
            Mohammed Ayoob, Michigan State University

4:30 - 5:30     Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs
                      (Big 10 Room A - Lobby Level)

            Chair: Jacquetta Hill, President, MCAA

6:00               MCAA Banquet (Big 10 Room BC - Lobby Level)
                      By reservation only. Reception (cash bar) begins at 6:00. Dinner will be served at 6:30. After                       dinner address by Dr. Barbara Andaya, President, Association of Asian Studies, on                       Cross-cultural Conversations in Southeast Asian History.

Panel Sessions E: Sunday, September 25, 9:00am-10:45am

Panel E. 1: The City of Edo in Multi-Dimensional Perspectives (Conference 61 - Ground Level)

            Chair: Doyoung Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

            Doyoung Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                      Transformation of the Confucian Shrine and Political Position of the Hayashi Family in                       the Tokugawa Bakufu
            Eunseok Choi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                      Taming Urban Unrest in Late Tokugawa Edo: Two Cases of 1787 Edo Riot and 1855                       Great Earthquake
            Akira Shimizu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                      Meat Consumption in Edo: A Case of the District of Kojimachi

            Discussants: Lane Earns, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
                               Brian Platt, George Mason University

Panel E.2: Individual Papers on Chinese Painting and Culture
                (Willy Room - Lobby Level)

            Chair: Tom Suchan, Eastern Michigan University

            Tom Suchan, Eastern Michigan University
                      Beyond Baoding: Overlooked and Lesser-Known Cliff Sculpture Sites in Dazu
            Bo Liu, University of Michigan
                      Cold Sparrows on Wintry Twigs: A Painting Theme that Dissented
            Tianshu Zhu, Ohio State University
                      A Study of the Principle Image in Central-Pillar Caves at Kizil

Panel E. 3: Center, Periphery and Industrial Integration in Contemporary China
            (Conference 62 - Ground Level)

            Chair: Juan Chen, University of Michigan

            Carla Freeman, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
                      Regional Integration and China's Dongbei: Sources, Patterns, and Implications for                            Central-Local Relations in China Today
            Zhou Fang, University of Michigan
                          Bureaucratic Structure and Industrial Development in China
            Zhiguo Yang, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
                         “This Beer Tastes Really Good:” Development of Beer Brewery Industry in Qingdao,                          Nationalism, and Consumerism, 1903-1992

Panel E. 4: Regenerating Genre, Myth and Self: Female Transcendents and the Aesthetics of                  Healing in Asian Women's Poetry (Room 102 - Lobby Level)

            Chair: Paul Rouzer, University of Minnesota

            Binbin Yang, Washington University, St. Louis
                         Writing as Therapeutic: The “Illness Narrative” of the Qing Woman Poet Jin Yi
                          (1770-1794)
            Yanning Wang, Washington University, St. Louis
                         Ascending up into the Clouds: Qing Woman Poet Luo Qilan's (1755-1813) Poetry of                          “Nu Youxian”
            Lee Friederich, Washington University, St. Louis
                         In the Voice of a Modern-day Miko: Channeling the Semiotic, Hiromi Ito's Retelling of                          the Sansho Dayu Legend

            Discussants: Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan University
                                Paul Rouzer, University of Minnesota

Panel E. 5: What can experts from other disciplines teach Japanese language instructors? A                   Roundtable Discussion (Heritage Room - Lobby Level)

            Chairs: Fumiko Fukuta, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
                       Yasuko Ito Watt, Indiana University

            Participants: E. Taylor Atkins, Northern Illinois University
                               Gregory Guelcher, Morningside College
                               James Stanlaw, Illinois State University

Panel E. 6: Enlightenment, Poetry and Bodhisattvas in East Asian Buddhism
                 (Michigamme - Ground Level)

            Chair: Marilyn McCullough, Michigan State University

            Ariana Maki, Ohio State University
                         Enlightenment Within: The Dakini Paradise as Internal Phenomenon
            Byoung K. Park, Western Michigan University
                         Translating East Asian Chan Buddhism Poems: Han Shan and Ko Un into English
            Marilyn McCullough, Michigan State University
                         Guan-yin and Putuoshan: The Fate of a Sacred Island in Modern China

Panel E. 7: Japanese Visages: Literature, Film, Nature (Room 101 - Lobby Level)

            Chair: Noboru Tomonari, Carleton College

            Shiho Takai, Washington University, St. Louis
                         Musashi's Two Faces: Un/Making of a Hero in Yojo
            Noboru Tomonari, Carleton College
                         Re-Imagining the Japanese: Himatsuri (Fire Festival), the Film and the Novella
            Manuel Yang, University of Toledo
                         Minakata Kumagusu in America, 1887-1892

Panel Sessions F: Sunday, September 25, 11:00am-12: 45pm

Panel F. 1: Co-opting the Marginalized: Literary Struggles in Wartime Japan
                 ( Willy Room - Lobby Level)

            Chair: Susan Burns, University of Chicago

            Emily Chung, University of Chicago
                         For the Masses: Hayashi Fusao's “Metropolitan Hyperbola” and Massification in                          Proletarian Literature
            Miho Matsugu, Grinnell College
                         Gender, Sexuality, Genre and History in Yokota Fumiko's "Book of Daylight"
            Kathryn Tanaka, University of Chicago
                         Leprosy as Metonym: Illness as Counter-censorship Strategy in Hojo Tamio's “The                          Farce”
            Mika Endo, University of Chicago
                         Children Writing Life: The Composition Movement, Realism, and Literature in Pre-War                          Japan

Panel F. 2: Tibet: Regional, Colonial, Diasporic (Conference 62 - Ground Level)

            Chair: Gordon Stewart, Michigan State University

            Nicole Willock, Indiana University
                         Jiao Yingqi's Perspective on the Military Campaign to Tibet in 1720-1721
            Yosay Wangdi, Grand Valley State University
                         Challenges in Diaspora Tibet: Religion and Politics
            Gordon Stewart, Michigan State University
                         Warren Hastings' Tibet Mission, 1774

Panel F. 3: Aspects of Identity Formation in Chinese History (Room 102 - Lobby Level)

            Chair: Linda Cooke Johnson, Michigan State University

            Linda Cooke Johnson, Michigan State University
                         Identity Formation in Liao China
            Jacob Whittaker, Michigan State University
                         Emergence of a Yi Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China

            Discussant: Lynne Paine, Michigan State University

Panel F. 4: From Margins to Mainstream: “Minorities” in Twentieth Century Japan
                 (Conference 62 - Ground Level)

            Chair: Roy Hanashiro, University of Michigan, Flint

            Jin-hee Lee, Eastern Illinois University
                         Undisciplining Archives of Empire: Message, Medium, and Colonial Mayhem in the                          Japanese Metropole
            Robert Fish, Indiana State University
                         “Mixed-Blood” Orphans in Postwar Japan: Did “Race” Really Matter?
            John Davis, Jr., Michigan State University
                         The Buraku Issue and the (Mis) Reading of Race in Japan

Panel F. 5: Art, Food and Poetry in Japan and Asia (Conference 61 - Ground Level)

            Chair: Marvin Marcus, Washington University, St. Louis

            Lisa Morrisette, Denison University
                         Wrapped in Meaning: The Visual Language of “Tagasode Byobo”
            Akira Shimizu, University of Illinois
                         Eating the Beast: Development of Meat Consumption in Early Nineteenth-Century Edo
            Marvin Marcus, Washington University, St. Louis
                         The Versed Asia Project: From Scholarly Discourse to Found Poetry

Panel F. 6: Sports in East Asia: Modernization, Internationalization, and Community Building                  (Heritage Room - Lobby Level)

            Chair: Sayuri Shimizu, Michigan State University

            Guoqi Xu, Kalamazoo College
                         Sports and China's Internationalization
            Sayuri Shimizu, Michigan State University
                         “ America's National Pastime” in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
            Michael Malloch, Michigan State University
                         Baseball and Identity in Taiwan

Panel F. 7: Contested Histories: Nationalism, Narrative, and Textbooks in East and Southeast Asia                  (Michigamme - Ground Level)

            Chair: Ethan Segal, Michigan State University

            Ethan Segal, Michigan State University
                         The Japanese Textbook Controversy: Challenges to Domestic Education and                          International Relations
            Dennis Hart, Kent State University
                         Learning Nationalism as Resistance in Korean Textbooks
            Young Rae Oum, Clark University
                         Food and Identity Discourses in Korean and English Texts
            Michael Wood, Dawson College
                         New Order and Old Orthodoxies: “Sejarah Nasional Indonesia” and Indonesian                          National History

Panel F. 8. Fantasy, Ideal, Reality and Identity: An Investigation of Late Imperial Chinese Classical                  Tales (Room 104 - Lobby Level)

            Chair: Chao-Mei Tu, Purdue University
            Lei Jin, Purdue University
                         The Imagined Garden: A Private Space for Fantasy and Spiritual and Psychological                          Healing
            Xianfeng Mou, Purdue University
                         Negotiating between Conflicting Allegiances: Cultural Ambivalence behind Pu                          Songling's “The Painted Wall”             
            Chao-Mei Tu, Purdue University
                         Lin Siniang in the Late-Imperial Chinese Tales: How Does the Female Body come to                          Matter?
            Yilin Liao, Purdue University
                         On the Journey to Enlightenment