Abstracts of the 2001 AAS Annual
Meeting
March 22–25, 2001, Chicago, IL
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Session 3. Relics and Reliquaries in Asian Art and Culture
Relics, Images, and the Early Buddhist Art of India, Susan L. Huntington
Buddhist Relics in a Foreign Land: Portable Sanctity, Lewis R. Lancaster
Bringing Confucius to the South: Relics and Representations at the Qingpu Kongzhai, Julia K. Murray
The Hindu-Javanese Candi as a Reliquary, Cecelia Levin
Central Javanese Reliquaries and Pripih: A Case Study of Candi Loro Jonggrang, Mary Louise Totton
Session 23. Environmental Politics in East Asia: Actors, Interests, and Information
Energy and Climate Change Policy in Japan, Germany, and the United States, Miranda Schreurs
An Environmental Movement with Chinese Characteristics, Anna Brettell
The Media and Environmental Protection in China, Abigail R. Jahiel
Comparing Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations in Taiwan and Hong Kong, Jennifer L. Turner
Session 24. Danger and Protection in Asian Religions
Hariti’s Hordes: Protecting Children in Early Indian Religions, Phyllis Granoff
The Place of the Yaksa/i, Daniel J. Ehnbom
Daoxuan’s Protecting the Dharma: From History to Eschatology, Koichi Shinohara
A Magic Pill: The Protection of Cambodia by the Recitation of the Vinasikhatantra in A.D. 802, Robert L. Brown
Session 25. Reframing an Asian Maritime Culture
Framing a Maritime Culture: "Modern" Spatial Considerations of Japan in a Malay World, Cindy Postma
Art and Cultural Resistance: The Shanghai Museum’s Chinese Collection, Laura A. McDaniel
Transgressing Boundaries: Cultural Malleability in Mid-19th-Century Yokohama, Michael R. Auslin
Session 44. Crafting Identities: Pottery Communities in Asia as Tradition in Transformation
Transforming "Tradition": Creating a Village-Based Factory to Make and Market Stoneware Jars in Northeast Thailand, Louise Cort
The Politics of Pottery and Tradition in Shigaraki, Japan, Nancy Gottovi
Clay Culture: Assessing the Recent Crafts Revival in South Korea, Robert Sayers
Contesting Tradition in Modern Mashiko, John Singleton
Defining an Anti-Western Internationalism: Visions of Civilization in the Pan-Asianist and Pan-Islamist Arguments for Solidarity Between Japan and the Muslim World (1905–1945), Cemil Aydin
Subash Chandra Bose, Japan, and British Imperialism, T. R. Sareen
The USSR’s Comintern Internationalism and the Greater East Asian Coprosperity Sphere, Vladimir Kojevnikov
Pan-Asianism, Diplomacy, and Boundaries: Official Japanese "Foreign" Policy in the Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere, Taro Iwata
Session 47. Remembering War: National Museums and the Construction of National Memory
Military Museums in China and Taiwan, Arthur Waldron
Disputes Over Shôwakan Museum in Japan: Whom Should We Remember, Asian Victims or Japanese Patriots? Takashi Yoshida
Monumental Histories: Manliness, the Military, and the War Memorial, South Korea, Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Fifty Years Later: The National Air and Space Museum and Public Remembrance of World War II in the United States, Matthew A. Levey
Easy Help: East Asian Scholars Electronic Help Desk Pilot Project, Gail King and Sharon H. Domier
Op-Art Perspectives on Indonesia’s Reformasi Movement During Wahid’s First Year as President, C. Richard Ostrom
"Women’s Role and Duty" According to the National Morals Textbook During the Russo-Japanese War, Jason Barrows
Japan and Ethiopia in the 1920s–30s: The Rise and Fall of "Sentimental" Relations, Furukawa Tetsushi
Memories of War, Dreams of Peace; Music in Postwar Okinawa, James E. Roberson
Kannagara no Michi: The World Through Shinto Eyes, E. Leslie Williams
The Eastern Garden of Yangzhou: Walking into a Lost 18th-Century Chinese Garden, Jin Feng
Imperial Geography, Local History, and Changing Notions of Territory in Modern China, C. Pat Giersch
Cartoon and Vernacular Power in the Sichuan Railway Rights Protection Movement, Danke Li
Bringing Chinese Feminism from Elite to Mass: Women’s Studies in Contemporary Popular Women’s Magazines, Sharon R. Wesoky
The Origins of Taoist Graphic Talismans, Li Yang
Under the Japanese Umbrella: South Vietnam’s Hoa Hao during the Japanese Occupation and Afermath, My-Van Tran
Filipino Nationalism Under Japanese Occuption, Ricardo T. Jose
Gender in the Construction and Deconstruction of Manzhouguo, Dan Shao
Thai Irredentism and the Greater East Asian Coprosperity Sphere, E. Bruce Reynolds
Session 66. Asian Regionalism: The Economics of Competition and Cooperation
Regional Power Networks: Implications of the Disk Drive Industry, Richard F. Doner
Positional Power in Asia: How Japanese Machine Manufacturers Gained the Upper Hand in a Regional Contest with U.S. Rivals, Walter Hatch
Remapping Asia: Competing Networks of Regionalism, T. J. Pempel
Japanese FDI after the Asian Crisis: Leveraging Networks and Clusters, Dennis S. Tachiki
Session 67. Close Encounters with Ming China: International Trade, Diplomacy, and Cultural Exchanges
The Giraffe from Bengal: A Symbol of Yongle’s Foreign Relations? Sally K. Church
Vietnamese Embassies and Literati Cultural Contact, John K. Whitmore
Shan Gems, Chinese Silver, and the Rise of Shan Principalities in Modern Northern Myanmar, c.1450–1526, Laichen Sun
Caught Between the Dragon and the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Negotiations Over the Fate of Korea, 1593–1596, Kenneth M. Swope
Session 68. Refiguring the Spatial in Southeast and East Asia (SEAC Designated Panel)
Place-ment as a Social Movement: Resident Koreans in the "Hometown" of Japanese Culture, Bruce R. Caron
The Challenge of Cybercapitalism: The Remaking of the ‘Greater China’ Space for Speed-Time, Ngai-Ling Sum
Negotiated Reunion: Creating a Space for Separated Families in Inter-Korea Relations, Nan Kim
Labor Markets and New Geographies in Northeast China: The Case of Young Professionals in Dalian, Lisa M. Hoffman
Session 87. Transregional Culture-Building in Premodern and Early Modern Asia
Sinicization in Pre-Imperial East Asia, E. Bruce Brooks
Sanskritic Culture and Sanskritization from Above and Below in Classical South Asia, Timothy Lubin
Islamization and Buddhicization in Precolonial and Colonial Bengal and Southeast Asia, Michael W. Charney
Session 88. Capturing the Benefits of a Global Economy: Foreign Direct Investment and Development
Comparative Technology Transfer in Taiwan’s PC Industry, Berta Lynn Liao
Foreign Direct Investment and the Transformation of India’s Automobile Industry: What are the Mechanisms of Diffusion and Spread? Meenu Tewari
Growing Up and Moving Out: Globalization in the Taiwanese Textile/Apparel and Automotive Sector, Eric Thun
Wang Peng—18th-Century Poet, Artist, Bibliophile—as a Tourist in Nagasaki, Jamie Berger
Three Journeys from Tibet to Nepal: The Travels of the Buddhist Master Tsangnyön Heruka in the 15th and 16th Centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Liu Manqing: A Tibetan-Chinese Woman’s Journey from Nanjing to Lhasa in 1929–1930, Liping Wang
There and Back Again: Master Fazun’s Pilgrimage to Tibet and His Goals upon His Return to China, Gray Tuttle
Session 108. Facets of the Cult of the Bodhisattva Dizang/Jizô in China and Japan
Mount Jiuhua and Ksitigarbha: The Sinification of a Bodhisattva, Françoise Wang-Toutain
Dizang Bodhisattva and the Maitreya Cult: Another Element in the Medieval Chinese View of the Afterlife, Zhiru Ng
An Iconological Investigation of the dokuson Jizo raigo, the Bodhisattva Jizo in Welcoming Descent, Hank Glassman
The Bodhisattva Jizo in the Japanese Landscape of Hot Springs and Hells, Duncan Williams
Session 109. Constructing the Transnational Citizen in Asia: Three Perspectives — PANEL CANCELLED
"We Are All Brothers": Creating International Identity in Republican China, Caroline Reeves
Educating "Cosmopolitan Japanese": Mission Impossible? Mark E. Lincicome
Tibet, Environmentalism, and the International Community, Ann Frechette
Session 110. Migrant Identities: Subjectivity and Experience in Rural and Urban Asia
Longing for the Village: Rural-Return Migration under Indonesia’s Economic Collapse, Rachel Silvey
Urbanism and Migrant Identities in Rural Malaysia, Eric Thompson
Peasant Migrants, Urbanites, and the Market: The Notion of "Tu" (Hick) in Contemporary Discourses of Modernity in China, Hairong Yan
Comparing State Constructions of Social Identity in Late Imperial and Modern China, R. Bin Wong
Understanding Nationalism from the Early Modern Japanese Experience, Hiroshi Mitani
What’s in a Kuk? Andre Schmid
Popular Perceptions of the State in the Late Choson, John B. Duncan
Session 130. Problematizing Networks in Asian Studies
Constructing Networks of Peasant Migration in China, Guang Lei
Gender, Class, and Uses of the Past: Making a Flexible Production Complex in South India, Sharad Chari
Asian Values and Liberal Values: Changing Interpretations of Networks in the Wake of the 1997–1998 Crisis, Hans Nesseth
Session 131. Politics of Gender, Sexuality and Resistance Discourses—Korea and Okinawa
Asian Women Under U.S. Military Colonialism: Military Violence and the Militarized Economy, Yoko Fukumura
Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence: Defining Community Development Through Political Activism, Martha Matsuoka
Gender Representations and the Construction of Okinawan Masculinity in Ôshiro Tatsuhiro’s Cocktail Party, Kyle Ikeda
Embodying Han: Nationalism and Resistance in Lost Names and Comfort Woman, Heather A. Bohannan
Session 132. Individual Papers: Interarea
Testing the Applicability of Public Declarations: Environment, Democracy, and Human Rights after Japan’s 1992 Cabinet ODA Charter, Vincent K. Pollard
Representing Japan in Singapore: Ong Keng Sen Directs Kuo Pao Kun’s Spirits Play, Yoshiko Fukushima
Adaptation and Appropriation: The Construction of Cultural Meanings and Identities in the Consumption of High-Tech Products in Seoul, Shanghai, and Singapore, Sangmee Bak
Barbarians at the Gate: The Cambodian-Vietnamese Boundary Dispute, 1975–1979, Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
State Policymaking Behavior and the Island Disputes in East Asia: ROK-Japanese Tokto/Takeshima Dispute, Yongshik Bong
Japanese Island Disputes, Daniel B. Landau
The End Game: The Sino-Vietnamese Boundary Dispute and Settlement, Eric Hyer
Session 151. Asia, Global Hypergamy, and the Politics of Transnational Marriage
Constructing Wives and Mistresses: Polygyny across the Hong Kong-China Border, Siumi Maria Tam
Chinese Women, Filipinas, and U.S. Men: Transnational Imaginings of the Ideal Spouse, Nicole Constable
Forced Migration or Mobility Strategy? Assessing Transnational Marriages Amidst the Global Marketing of Southeast Asian Brides, Jane A. Margold
What’s Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Marriages Between China and Korea, Caren Freeman
Session 152. Christian Missions, Indigenous Religions, and Conversions in China and Korea
Resisting Ritual Hegemony: Catholics Confront the Confucian State in Eighteenth-Century Korea, Donald L. Baker
The Shangdi Conundrum: Nineteenth-Century Missionary Views of Classical Confucianism and the Problem of Conversion, Michael Lazich
Shattered on the Rock of Ages: Protestant Inconoclasm in China, Eric Reinders
The Great Revival of 1907: The Anchoring of an Evangelical Paradigm in (South) Korea, Timothy S. Lee
Economies Under Different Commands: Socialist Norms and the Making of Market Power in Contemporary Hanoi and Chengdu, Regina Abrami
States of Emergency: Economic Crisis and the Renovation of Craft Villages in the Red River Delta, Michael DiGregorio
Collective Land Ownership: The Institutional Roots of Township Village Enterprises, Xiaolin Pei
Session 172. Political Theatre and Revolution as Spectacle in Asia
Campaigns, Public Accusation Meetings, and Stirring Up the Masses: Political Theatre and Regime Consolidation in the People’s Republic of China, Julia C. Strauss
Revolutionary Spectacle in the Philippines: The "Diliman Commune" of 1971, Eva Lotta Hedman
Trying Pol Pot on the International Stage, Caroline Hughes
Session 173. Creativity at the Margins: Thailand, India, Japan
Sri Dao Ruang, a Thai Literary Challenge, Robert Drexler
Savi Sawarkar, Dalit Artist, Savi Sawarkar
Is There a "Burakumin Literature?" Edward Fowler
The Challenge of the Tamil Christian Folk Music of Theophilus Appavoo, Zoe Sherinian
Political Repression and the Competitive Labor Market: The Cases of South Korea and Taiwan, Chang-Ling Huang
Past State Intervention and Present Technological Upgrading: The Case of the Semiconductor Industry in Taiwan and Korea, Douglas Fuller
Hangover from the Past: Comparison of Electoral Politics in Taiwan and Korea, Jiyoon Kim
Constructing Social Citizenship: Democratization and Welfare in Taiwan and Korea, Joseph Wong
Session 193. Wife or Worker? Contemporary Marriage and Migration of Asian Women
"Misbehaving Victims": Reading Narratives of "Filipina Brides" in Japan since the 1980s, Nobue Suzuki
Transnational Employment and Family: Professional Asian Women Migrants in Malaysia, Michelle Wai Lee
Filipinas in Canada: Deskilling as a Push toward Marriage, Deirdre McKay
Marriage by Introduction: Social and Legal Realities of "Asian" Wives of Japanese Men, Tomoko Nakamatsu
Baghdadi Jews in India: Communal Relationships, Nationalism, and Zionism as Issues of Identity, Joan G. Roland
Hong Kong Sephardic Jews: Shaping Transnational Identities, Caroline Plüss
Jewish Identity in Singapore: Cohesion and Dispersion, Joan Bieder
"Orientals" or Europeans? Baghdadi Jews and the British Informal Empire in China, Chiara Betta
Session 207. Ethnic Consequences of Migration in Asia
Immigration and Japanese Nationalism: The Ethnic Impact of Nikkeijin Return Migrants, Takeyuki Tsuda
When Bangladeshis Become Indians: Who’s an Immigrant? Who’s a Citizen? Kamal Sadiq
Reterritorializing Identities across Borders and at Home: Filipina Migrant Domestic Workers in Taiwan and in the U.S., Pei-chia Lan