Sixth Asian Studies
Conference Japan
Conference date: Saturday and Sunday, June 22-23, 2002
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Peter Duus
Past President, Association for Asian Studies
"The Korea Problem in Japanese History
--And Vice Versa"
Saturday June 22, 5:55 P.M. 6:40 P.M.
Main Lecture Hall
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This page provides an overview of the program with links to
abstracts.
Room assignments are given on the printer-friendly
version of the program.
The program can also be downloaded in Microsoft
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Program
Saturday morning sessions: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Interrogating East Asian Transnationalisms:
Film, Television, Spectatorship
Organizer / Chair: Stephanie DeBoer, University of Southern California
Woman's Suffrage in Asia
Chair: Yumiko Mikanagi, International Christian University
Organizer: Mina Roces, The University of New South Wales
Stepping-Stones to Empire: Political
and Diplomatic Dimensions of the Japanese Empire
Chair: Hideo Kobayashi, Waseda University
Organizer: Igor Saveliev, Niigata University
Postcolonial Studies in Comparative Perspectives:
India, Philippines and Japan
Organizers: Yoshiko Nagano, Kanagawa University and Chiharu Takenaka,
Meiji Gakuin University
Kana Bungaku and Kanbun: Chinese Literature
and the Development of Japanese Literature in the Heian Period
Organizer / Chair: Joshua S. Mostow, University of British Columbia
Manchu-Han Relations in the Qing
Chair: Tatsuo Nakami, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Organizer: Christopher Isett, University of Minnesota
Saturday afternoon sessions: 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Shanghai Pop: Local Transformations in
Chinese Popular Culture
Organizer: James Farrer, Sophia University.
Japanese Economy and Society Through
a 'British Mirror'
Organizer, W. R. Garside, University of Otago
Individual Paper Session: Colonial Japan,
Occupied Japan
Chair: Mika Mervio, University of Shimane
China and Its Asian Neighbors in the
New Century
Organizer: Daojiong Zha, International University of Japan
Pious Performance in Medieval and Early
Modern Japan
Chair: Arthur Thornhill, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Organizer: Lorinda Kiyama, Stanford University / Shokei Daigaku
The Book of Songs: From Its Origin
to Confucian Concept
Chair: Xiao Chi, National University of Singapore
Organizer: Chen Zhi, Hong Kong Baptist University
Saturday afternoon sessions: 3:45-5:45 p.m.
Individual Paper Session: Urban Culture
and Visual Media and Gender
Chair: Matthew Strecher, Toyo University
Imagining Asia in 1960s Japan
Organizer: Bruce Suttmeier, Lewis and Clark College
Military Cemeteries, Memorials and Community:
War and Memory in Postwar Japan
Organizer: Barry Keith, Gunma University
Dynamics of Social Transformation and
Musical Culture: A Study of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan
Organizer / Chair: Wai-chung Ho, Hong Kong Baptist University
Confucian Discourse as Conceptual Framework--The
Role of Confucian Discourse as Form in Pre-modern Japanese Philosophical
and Literary Thought
Organizer: Kiri Paramore, University of Tokyo
Special program of Korean music.
Presentation by Yeonok Jang, University of London
RECEPTION 6:45 P.M. 8:30 P.M.
First Floor Dining Room
Sunday morning sessions: 10:00 a.m. 12:00 noon
Roundtable: Crossing borders: Experiences
of Japanese Women Overseas
Organizer: Thang Leng Leng, National University of Singapore
Genji monogatari: Reception and
Translation
Organizer / Chair: Lawrence E. Marceau, University of Delaware
Discourses on Music and Musicians during
the Japanese Occupation in the Philippines (1941-1945)
Organizer / Chair: Julie Ann Hallazgo, University of Santo Tomas
Individual Paper Session: Contemporary
Issues in Asia
Chair: Joel Cambell, Kansai Gaidai University
Formations of International Knowledge
in and on Asia
Chair: Kosaku Yoshino, University of Tokyo
Organizer: Ruri Ito, Ochanomizu University
Korean Images of Japanese and Japan in
the Choson Period
Organizer / Chair: Kenneth Robinson, International Christian
University
Recovery and Transition Problems after
the 1997 Crisis: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand
Organizer / Chair: Temario C. Rivera, International Christian
University
Sunday afternoon sessions: 1:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m.
Roundtable: The Atarashii Rekishi
Kyôkasho: A Content Analysis of the Textbook from Four
American Historians' Perspectives
Organizer / Chair: Harry Wray, Aichi Mizuho University
Roundtable: Genji monogatari and
its Place in Japanese Studies
Organizer / Chair: Michael Watson, Meiji Gakuin University
New Dimensions of Philippine History:
The Commonwealth, Japanese Occupation and Independence
Organizer: Hidefumi Ogawa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Entering the Era of Globalization
Migration, Identity, and Social Networks Among Chinese Communities
Organizer: Changhui Chi, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica,
Taiwan
Chair: Zeng Ying, Keio University
Culture and Communication: An East Asian
Perspective
Organizer / Chair: Guo-Ming Chen, University of Rhode Island
Japanese Experience of Modern Korean
and Chinese Intellectuals
Chair: Huh Donghyun, KyungHee University
Organizer: Vladimir Tikhonov, Oslo University
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