The Twelfth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)

Changes to the Printed Program of ASCJ 2008.

After the conference program was printed, a number of presenters informed us that they would not be able to participate. The following papers are canceled.

Session 6: Individual Papers on Japanese History and Religion

Patrick Shorb, University of Minnesota, Morris

Ruling Through “Eyes” and Not “Hands”: Urban Poverty, Urban Shopkeepers, and the Japanese State, 1918–1943

Session 8: Individual Papers on Premodern Chinese Culture

Xiaojing Sun, University of California, Berkeley

Daqu (“Big Suite”) and Medieval Court Performance

Session 12: Individual Papers on East Asian Politics

Karl Wu, University of British Columbia

In the Name of a Nation: Kobayashi Yoshinori’s Nationalist Writing and the Name-Rectification Movement in Taiwan

Session 14: Individual Papers on Community Activism in Asia

Diana Mendoza, Ateneo de Manila University

The Women’s Movement, Congress, and the Anti-Violence Against Women Law in the Philippines

Session 16: Individual Papers on Japanese Literature and Art

Elaine Gerbert, University of Kansas

Crime and Mechanized Vision in the Illegible City: Literary Treatments of Tokyo in the 1920s

Session 22: Individual Papers on the Colonial Experience and Empire

Inhye Kang, McGill University

Panoramas and World Fairs: The Staging of the Japanese Empire at International Fairs

Session 33: Modernization and Internationalization in Bakumatsu/Meiji Japan: Literary and Historical Perspectives on the Individuals involved in the Transformation of a Nation

Tad Wellman, University of Hawai‘i

Discourses of Modernization in “The Story of the She-Devil Takashi Oden”: A Theory of Early Meiji Narrative

There will also two changes to the following panel:

Session 7: Reconsidering Ethnographic Methodologies for Social Science Research on Contemporary Japanese Culture

(1) Ethnographically “Thick” or “Thin”? The Limits and Challenges of Participant Observation in Tokyo Hostess Clubs

　　 This paper by Nana Okura, Yale University will be read by Isaac Gagne, Yale University.

(2) The discussant Kimio Ito, Kyoto University, is unable to attend.