Seton Hall University
South Orange, New Jersey

Local Arrangements Committee
Barry Blakeley, Asian Studies, Chair
Paul Chao, Library
Petra Chu, Art and Music
Robert Hallissey, Grants and Research
Gilbert Mattos, Asian Studies
Kathleen Reilly, International Studies
Leigh Stelzer, Business
William Stoever, Business
Frank Tinari, Business/Asia Center
Yeomin Yoon, Business

Conference Schedule

Friday, October 25
8:30 AM Registration for Teaching Asia Workshop
Beck Rooms, Walsh Library
9:00 AM-2:00 PM Teaching Asia Workshop
Beck Rooms, Walsh Library
4:00 - 7:00 PM Registration for MAR/AAS Annual Meeting
Foyer between School of Business and School of Nursing
8:30 PM Evening Entertainment (To Be Announced)
Amphitheater (Room 113), School of Nursing
Saturday, October 26
8:00 AM-5:00 PM Registration for MAR/AAS Annual Meeting
Foyer between School of Business and School of Nursing
8:00 - 10:30 AM Complimentary coffee, tea, and pastries,
Foyer between School of Business and School of Nursing
9:00 AM-5:00 PM Book Exhibit, Indian Crafts Sale, and Vietnam War Photo Internet Display, Graduate Student Lounge, Duffy Hall 1F
9:00 - 11:00 AM Panels, Session I
11:30 - 1:00 PM Annual Business Meeting and Luncheon, Chancellor?s Suite, Student Center
Keynote Speaker: Carol Gluck, President, Association for Asian Studies
1:15 - 3:15 PM Panels, Session II
3:30 - 5:30 PM Panels, Session III
5:45 - 6:30 PM Silver Anniversary Reception,
Walsh Library Fourth Floor Rotunda
6:30 - 8:00 PM Annual Banquet, Chancellor?s Suite,
Student Center, Lower Level

Sunday, October 27
8:00 - 10:00 AM Registration for MAR/AAS Annual Meeting
Foyer between School of Business and School of Nursing
8:00 - 10:30 AM Complimentary coffee, tea, and pastries,
Foyer between School of Business and School of Nursing
9:00 AM - Noon Book Exhibit, Indian Crafts Sale, and Vietnam War Photo Internet Display, Graduate Stu dent Lounge, Duffy Hall 1F
9:00 - 11:00 AM Panels, Session IV
11:15 AM-1:15 PM Panels, Session V
1:30 - 3:30 PM Panels, Session VI
3:30 PM Annual Meeting Concludes

Ninth Annual Teaching Asia Workshop
Beck Rooms, Walsh Library, Seton Hall University
Friday, October 25, 1996
8:30 AM - 2:30 PM

Seven sessions provide a wide range of approaches to the study of Asia and will be of value to elementary, middle, and secondary teachers. Special emphasis will be placed on inter-disciplinary teaching, technology, human rights, and the Fiftieth Anniversary of Independence in India and Pakistan. Presenters are educators in the New Jersey/New York area.

Participants will receive informational packets, hand-outs, membership in the MAR/AAS, and many ideas on teaching Asia.
Schedule:

8:30 Registration
9:00 Session 1
1: Using Technology in Teaching Asia
2: -Virtues of Violence:? Bhagavad-Gita and
India?s Independence Movement
10:00 Session II
1. New Approaches for Teaching East Asia
2. Nehru and His Legacy
11:00 Session III
1. Current Interdisciplinary Resources and
Team Teaching Ideas for China, Japan,
Korea, and Vietnam
2. Highlights of Fulbright Scholarship Trip
to India, Summer 1996
12:00 Lunch
Greetings from MAR/AAS and Seton Hall University
1:00 Session IV
Panel Discussion: Human Rights and the
Teaching of Asia
Ongoing: Displays of books, maps, and travel opportunities.

To register for the Teaching Asia Workshop please contact Mr. Paul Moloney, 70 Smull Avenue, Caldwell NJ 07006

Program Summary

Session I: Saturday: October 26, 1996, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Panel 1: School of Nursing Room 101
Round Table: Bangladesh at Twenty-Five
Panel 2: School of Nursing Room 108
Viewing the Other: East and West
Panel 3: School of Nursing Room 107
Independent Papers: Construction of Identity among the Asian Indians, Chinese and Taiwanese
Panel 4: School of Nursing Room 109
Reconsidering Female and Male in Japan
Panel 5: School of Nursing Room 105
Independent Papers: Asia's Response to Economic and Political Pressures
Panel 6: School of Nursing Room 104
Comics and Cartoons in Asia

Session II: Saturday, October 26, 1:15 - 3:15 PM
Panel 7: School of Nursing Room 104
Silver Anniversary Panel: Chinese Archeology Twenty-Five Years Later
Panel 8: School of Nursing Room 107
Building And Breaking Bonds: Female Ritual Authority and Practice in East Asia
Panel 9: School of Nursing Room 105
Round Table: Critical Issues Surrounding Teaching Chinese and Japanese Languages
Panel 10: School of Nursing Room 108
Hollywood India and The Bollywood West: Filmi Perspectives
Panel 11: School of Nursing Room 109
Development Strategies for Year 2000 and A Perspective for South Asia
Panel 12: School of Nursing Room 101
Critical Perspectives on the Indian Historiography: Issues of Class Formation, Identity, Education and Cultural Encounters: The Relevance or Irrelevance of Subaltern Studies?

Session III: Saturday, October 26, 1996, 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Panel 13: School of Nursing Room 101
The Impact of War on China (I)
Panel 14: School of Nursing Room 104
The Changing Perspectives on the Aesthetics of North Indian Music and Dance
Panel 15: School of Nursing Room 109
Gender Construction in Modern Chinese Literature
Panel 16: School of Nursing Room 105
Population and Social Change in Asia
Panel 17: School of Nursing Room 107
Asian Indian Perspectives of Natural Sciences
Panel 18: School of Nursing Room 108
Power, Ideology and Change: Japan

Session IV: Sunday, October 27, 1996, 9:00 - 11:00 AM
Panel 19: School of Nursing Room 105
Immigration: Identity Change and Psychosocial Challenges
Panel 20: School of Nursing Room 101
Impact of War on China (II)
Panel 21: School of Nursing Room 104
Independent Papers: Vedanta, Self and Ayurveda
Panel 22: School of Nursing Room 107
Status of Sociology of South Asia and South Asian Americans
Panel 23: School of Nursing Room 108
Balancing Two Worlds: Southeast Asia Refugee Women's Emerging Trends and Issues
Panel 24: School of Nursing Room 109
Socio-Cultural Issues in the Chinese Economy

Session V: Sunday, October 27, 1996, 11:15 AM- 1:15 PM
Panel 25: School of Nursing Room 105
Feminist Perspectives on Indian and Indian Immigrant Culture
Panel 26: School of Nursing Room 107
Independent Papers: Korea and Laos
Panel 27: School of Nursing Room 108
Independent Papers on Japan
Panel 28: School of Nursing Room 101
Immigration: Literature of the South-Asia Diaspora
Panel 29: School of Nursing Room 109
Independent Papers: Violence and Deviant Behaviour in India and China
Panel 30: School of Nursing Room 104
Globalizing Japan?s Trade: The Early Years

Session VI: Sunday, October 27, 1996, 1:30 - 3:30 PM
Panel 31: School of Nursing Room 104
Independent Papers: Women of Bengal and Bangladesh
Panel 32: School of Nursing Room 109
Shades of Meaning: Spirits and Their Interpretation in Southeast Asia
Panel 33: School of Nursing Room 101
Round Table: Asia in World History Texts : A Conversation with the Authors
Panel 34: School of Nursing Room 107
Economic Issues in the Chinese Market
Panel 35: School of Nursing Room 105
Japan Update: Panel Discussion on Political, Economic and Social Change in the 1990s
Panel 36: School of Nursing Room 108
Sources and Pseudo-Sources of Japanese Tradition

Program Panels

Session I: Saturday: October 26, 1996, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Panel 1: School of Nursing Room 101

Round Table: Bangladesh at Twenty Five
Chair: Craig Baxter, Juniata College
Participants: Harry W. Blair, Bucknell University.
Syedur Rahman, Pennsylvania State University

Panel 2: School of Nursing Room 108

Viewing the Other: East and West
Chair : John Meskill, Barnard College
Scott Morton, Seton Hall University
-The Chinese and Roman Empires?
Franklin Woo, Englewood College
-Christianity and East Asian Traditions?
Barbara Brooks, City College CUNY
-China and Japan : Pan-Asianism Reconsidered.?
Discussant: John S. Major, Book of the Month Club

Panel 3: School of Nursing Room 107

Independent Papers: Construction of Identity among the Asian Indians, Chinese and Taiwanese
Chair: Albert H. Gardner, University of Maryland
Kalpana Kanwar, Virginia Tech
-Constructing Identity through Production of Place. A Study of Asian Indians in the Chicago Metropolitan Area?
Anru Lee, CUNY, Elmhurst
-Meanings of Work from a Multi-generational Perspective: Filial Daughters New generation: A Case Study of Taiwan?
Albert H. Gardner, University of Maryland
-Attitudes of Chinese Elementary School Teachers Toward Student and Teaching?

Panel 4: School of Nursing Room 109

Reconsidering Female and Male in Japan
Chair: Ayako Kano, University of Pennsylvania
Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania
-Domesticated Hands in the Japanese Canon.?
Noriko Horiguchi, University of Pennsylvania
-Tradition and Modern Discourse: Kawabata Yasunari's and Enchi Fumiko's Japan.?
Ayako Kano, University of Pennsylvania
-Feminist Debates in Japan Past and Present?

Panel 5: School of Nursing Room 105

Independent Papers: Asia's Response to Economic and Political Pressures
Chair: Kakoli Banerjee, Lander University
Jianshe Wang, Temple University
-In Search of Modernity: China's Economic Reforms 1970s-1990?
Kakoli Banerjee, Lander University
-Peasant Adaptation to Population Pressure: A Comparison of South India and the Northern Plain State in India?
William E. O' Brien, Virginia Tech
-Imagining Indigenes: Government, Environmentalists and Shifting Cultivation in Sarawak Malaysia?

Panel 6: School of Nursing Room 104

Comics and Cartoons in Asia
Chair: John A. Lent, Temple University
Aruna Rao, Temple University
-Being Indian, Comic Style?
Kanako Shiokawa, Independent Scholar, King of Prussia, PA
-Folklore, Mythology and History: Japanese Fantasy Comics?
Hongying Liu-Lengyel and Alfonz Lengyel, Fudan Museum Foundation
-Foreign and Domestic Topics of Chinese Cartoonist Couple: Fang Cheng and Chen Jinyan.?
Kie-Un Yu, Temple University
-Development of Korean Foreign Animation industry?
John A Lent, Temple University
-Establishing Asian Comic Art as Scholarly Endeavor?

Session II: Saturday, October 26, 1:15 - 3:15 PM

Panel 7: School of Nursing Room 104

Silver Anniversary Panel: Chinese Archeology Twenty-Five Years Later
Co-Chairs: Annette Juliano, Rutgers University Newark Campus
Joan Hartman Goldsmith, Institute for Asian Studies
Joan Hartman Goldsmith, Institute for Asian Studies
-Redating Early Chinese Jades?
Annette Juliano, Rutgers University, Newark Campus
-Northern China in the Sixth Century AD: A New Perspective?
Noelle O' Conner: Independent Scholar, Oyster Bay NY
-Excavated Chinese Paintings: Flora and Fauna for the After Life?
Suzanne Valenstein, Metropolitan Museum of Art
-New Light on Ming Imperial Porcelain?

Panel 8: School of Nursing Room 107

Building And Breaking Bonds: Female Ritual Authority and Practice in East Asia
Chair: Brian R. Dott, University of Pittsburgh
Brian R. Dott, University of Pittsburgh
-Talking with Old Grandma: Women Pilgrims' Visits to the Goddess of Mount Tai.?
Kimberly Charlesworth Falk, University of Pittsburgh
-Family and Gendered Authority and Power in Contemporary Rural Shandong Birth Rituals?
William Lindsey, University of Pittsburgh
-Undisciplined Wives, Disciplined Nuns: Female-Initiated Divorce in Tokugawa Japan?
Discussant: Yu Chin-fang, Rutgers University

Panel 9: School of Nursing Room 105

Round Table: Critical Issues Surrounding Teaching Chinese and Japanese Languages
Chair: Lucy Lee, Seton Hall University
Participants: Robert A Hayzer, Jersey City State College
Gilbert Mattos, Seton Hall University
Discussant: Ching I. Tu, Rutgers University

Panel 10: School of Nursing Room 108

Hollywood India and The Bollywood West: Filmi Perspectives
Chair : T. Scott Smith, Dickinson College
David Nelson, University of Pennsylvania
-Images of India in Western Films?
T. Scott Smith, Dickinson College
-India's Images of the West?
Discussant: Robin Rinehart, Lafayette College

Panel 11: School of Nursing Room 109

Development Strategies for the Year 2000 and A Perspective for South Asia
Chair: Ashraf Hasan, University Of Dhaka
Ashraf Hasan, University Of Dhaka
-Dhaka and South Asian Regional Co-operation: Issues & Resources?
Esmail Shakeri, King's College
-Strategies for South Asian Co-operation: The Iran Factor?
Salim Masur, University of Western Ontario
-South Asian Co-operation Problems and Prospects?
A. J. S. Babu, Seton Hall University
and Nalina Suresh, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire.
-Business India: A Priority Choice for the Next Millennium?
Discussant: Craig Baxter
Panel 12: School of Nursing Room 101

Critical Perspectives on the Indian Historiography: Issues of Class Formation, Identity, Education and Cultural Encounters: The Relevance or Irrelevance of Subaltern Studies?
Chair: Peter Gran, Temple University
Peter Gran, Temple University
-Subaltern Studies and the Maintenance of the US Racial Hierarchy?
David Knapp, New School of Social Research
-Colonizing Eastern Europe and Inventing Egypt: Two Problematic Attempts to Re-write Colonial History through the Prism of the West?
Amit Rai, New School of Social Research
-Alexandria at Wonderland?
Kian Tajbakhash, New School of Social Research
-History of a Subject or the Subject of History? Or is a Labour History Possible?
Ariff Hajee, New School of Social Research
-The ?Mainstreaming? Mentality and Education: The Case of an Empirical Study of the US and the Impact of South Asia's Experience with Colonialism on it.?

Session III: Saturday, October 26, 1996, 3:30 - 5:30 PM

Panel 13: School of Nursing Room 101

The Impact of War on China (I)
Chair: Edwin Pak-wah Leung, Seton Hall University
David Pong, University of Delaware
-War and China's Communication Infrastructure: the Impact of Japan's Punitive Expedition on Taiwan 1874-75.?
Edwin Pak-wah Leung, Seton Hall University
-Prelude to War: China's Crisis with Japan over Liuqiu (Ryukyu)?
Tony Teng, Rhode Island College
-The Impact of the Sino-Japanese War 1894-95 on China?
Kenneth Olenik, Montclair State University
-Soldiers and Society: the Second Phase of the Northern Expedition?

Panel 14: School of Nursing Room 104

The Changing Perspectives on the Aesthetics of North Indian Music and Dance
Chair: Michael D. Rosse University of Pennsylvania
Michael D. Rosse, University of Pennsylvania
-Public Concerts in North India, 1896-1996.?
Vinay Bahl, University of Pennsylvania
-Dhrupad: High Culture or People's Culture?
Janaki Patnik, Columbia University.
-East Meets West: Kathak and Tap Dancing.?
Discussant : Frank Hoffman, West Chester University.

Panel 15: School of Nursing Room 109

Gender Construction in Modern Chinese Literature
Chair: Hong Jiang, Colorado College
Maiheng Dietrich, University of Pennsylvania
-The Silent Woman in Modern Chinese Literature?
Hsiao-Ian Roberts, University of Minnesota
-Irony in Contemporary Woman Writer Xu Naijian's Works.?
Huazhi Wang, Cornell University
-Rewriting the Self and the Nation: Female Authorship and Wang An Yi's Facts and Fiction?

Panel 16: School of Nursing Room 105

Population and Social Change in Asia
Chair: Olu-Muyi Arowosafe, University of North Texas
Olu-Muyi Arowosafe, University of North Texas
-Aids Epidemic in Asia/Africa : A Comparison?
Guang-zhen Wang, University of North Texas
-Reproductive Rights in Asia?
Adam Langsam, University of North Texas
-Crime in Asia?
David Barrera, University of North Texas
-Crime in Asia and Africa: A Comparison?
Discussant: Guang-zhen Wang, University of North Texas

Panel 17: School of Nursing Room 107

Asian Indian Perspectives of Natural Sciences
Chair: Eswar Phadia, William Pearson College
Ravi Kulkarni, CUNY NY.
-Indian Contributions to Mathematics?
M. S. Manhas, Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
-Indian Contributions to Chemical Sciences.?
M. G. Prasad, Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
-Perspectives of Acoustics in Sanskrit Literature?
Discuassant: V.T. Alexander, Medgar Evers College, CUNY

Panel 18: School of Nursing Room 108

Power, Ideology and Change: Japan
Chair: Seiko Yoshinaga, University of Pennsylvania
Janice Brown, University of Pennsylvania
"Economic Injustice in Japan: A Study of Women's Participation in Paid Labour in the 1990s."
Hidehiko Motohama, University of Pennsylvania
"Okinawa in Orientalism: Literature. Culture and Ethnicity."
Seiko Yoshinaga, University of Pennsylvania
-Kataribe of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Ota Yoko and Hayashi Kyoko as Communal Narrators of the A-Bomb.?

Session IV: Sunday, October 27, 1996, 9:00 - 11:00 AM

Panel 19: School of Nursing Room 105

Immigration: Identity Change and Psychosocial Challenges
Chair: Srilata Gangulee, University of Pennsylvania
Salman Akhtar, Jefferson Medical College
-Four Tracks in the Identity Change Consequent Upon Immigration.?
Purnima Mehta, Michigan Psychoanalytic Foundation
-Development Conflicts in the Children of Immigrants.?
Discussant: Carlo Coppola, Oakland University

Panel 20: School of Nursing Room 101

Impact of War on China (II)
Chair: Odoric Wou, Rutgers University
Qin Shao, Trenton State College
-Labour Movements under Japanese Occupation: the Case of Nantong?
Odoric Wou, Rutgers University
-Collaborating with the Japanese: the Case of Gongzian Henan?
Lincoln Li, Monash University
-An Aspect of Japanese Colonial Discourse in Occupied China: the Rural Cooperative Experiment in North Manchuria?
Ka-che Yip, University of Maryland/Baltimore County
-Disease and the Fighting Men: Nationalist Anti-malaria Efforts in Wartime China?

Panel 21: School of Nursing Room 104

Independent Papers: Vedanta, Self and Ayurveda
Chair: Leela Prasad, University of Pennsylvania
Leela Prasad, University of Pennsylvania
-Managing Medicine: The Case of Ayurveda in America?
Kokila Ravi, Morehouse College
-The Concept of Self in R. K. Narayan's Fiction?
Ram N. Singh, Grand Valley State University, and
Renu S. Malhotra, Vedanta Balvihar
-Self in Vedanta: The Ancient Indian Approach to Self-Psychology?

Panel 22: School of Nursing Room 107

Status of Sociology of South Asia and South Asian Americans
Chair: Manju Sheth, Rowan College
Shahid M. Shahidullah, St John's University
-Impact of the End of the Cold War on Development Status?
Philip J. Leonhard, CUNY City College and
Parmatma Saran, CUNY Baruch College and Graduate School
-Preferences of Urban Leaders for Agents of Social Change: The Case of Bihar?
Naintara Gorwaney Vaid, SUNY College of Old Westebury
-Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Sensitive Practices with South Asian Community?
Discussant: Kant Nimbark, Dowling College

Panel 23: School of Nursing Room 108

Balancing Two Worlds: Southeast Asia Refugee Women's Emerging Trends and Issues
Chair: Florence Ngoc Halloran, University of Pennsylvania
Florence Halloran, University of Pennsylvania
-The Role of the Native Language in Vietnamese Childrearing Practices: Implications and Challenges?
Sam Pham, Public Health, City of Philadelphia
-Barriers to Healthcare Among Asian Americans?
Robin Chin, Self Employed Artist, Philadelphia
-Community Healthcare Education An Artists? Perspective?
Cadice Tran, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network
-Applying Locally for Equitable Public Policy?
Nathalie Emam, Southeast Asian Refugee Project
-Domestic Violence in the Asian American Communities?

Panel 24: School of Nursing Room 109

Socio-Cultural Issues in the Chinese Economy
Chair: Agnes Olszewski, Seton Hall University
Agnes Olszewski, Seton Hall University
-Ethical Dilemma of Emerging Market Economies: A Case of China?
Leigh Stelzer, Seton Hall University
?Trust and Law in China's Socialist Market Economy?
Joan Coll, Seton Hall University
-Values and Culture: An Application to Negotiating.?
Discussant : William Stoever, Seton Hall University

Session V: Sunday, October 27, 1996, 11:15 AM- 1:15 PM

Panel 25: School of Nursing Room 105

Feminist Perspectives on Indian and Indian Immigrant Culture
Chair: Nandini Assar, Virginia Tech
Nandini Assar Virginia Tech
-Cross Cultural Dynamics: Indian Immigrants in the US?
Meeta Mehrotra, Virginia Tech
-Public and Private Sphere in Indian Immigrant Communities?
Jay Swami, Virginia Tech
-Feminist Reading of Indo-Caribbean Literature?
Discussant: Vinay Bahl, University of Pennsylvania

Panel 26: School of Nursing Room 107

Independent Papers: Korea and Laos
Chair: Edmund F. Wehrle, University of Maryland
Chang Hoon Ko, North Carolina University
-A Phenomenological Interpretation on Cheju People?s Uprising: An Islanders? Perspectives.?
Sung Ho Chung, George Washington University
-Public Personnel Administration in Korea?
Edmund F. Wehrle, University of Maryland
-Facades and Substance: John F. Kennedy, W. Averell Harriman, Souvanna Phouma and the Struggle for a Neutral Laos 1961-1962?

Panel 27: School of Nursing Room 108

Independent Papers on Japan
Chair: David Prejsnar, Community College of Philadelphia
Lawrence W. Beer, Lafayette College
-50 Years under the Constitution of Japan: Peace and Human Rights?
David Prejsnar, Community College of Philadelphia
-Tatsui Baba and the 'Return' to Japan of the Middle Meiji Period?
Beverly Lawn, Adelphi University
-Silence Like Thunder: The Sound of the Mountain?

Panel 28: School of Nursing Room 101

Immigration: Literature of the South-Asia Diaspora
Chair: Salman Akhtar, Jefferson Medical College
Srilata Gangulee, University of Pennsylvania
-Exile or Freedom: The Experience of Immigration in the Writings of Rushdie, Vasanji and Mukherjee."
Carlo Coppola, Oakland University
-Black Water, Brown Skin, Red Blood: The Immigrant Experience in the Works of Two South Asian Writers.?
Discussant: Purnima Mehta, Michigan Psychoanalytic Foundation

Panel 29: School of Nursing Room 109

Independent Papers: Violence and Deviant Behaviour in India and China
Chair: Priyam Singh, Temple University
Priyam Singh, Temple University
-Criminals or Victims? Women in Colonial North-Western Province and Oudh India 1870-1910.?
Adrian F. Davis, Franklin and Marshal College
-Beating and Cursing: Gender and the Representation of Violence in Late Imperial China?
Gabe T. Wang, Morehead State University
-Substance Use and Deviant Behaviour: A Test of Control Theory on Incarcerated Adolescents in China.?

Panel 30: School of Nursing Room 104

Globalizing Japan?s Trade: The Early Years:
Chair: Marlene J. Mayo, University of Maryland
Kevin Murphy, Millikin University
-Toward Economic Independence: Japan?s Management of the Treaty Ports in the 19th Century.?
John C. Ruben, University of Maryland
-Kirin: The Beer that made Milwaukee Nervous?
Marlene J. Mayo, University of Maryland
-Recovery from the Great Depression: Japan?s Trade Boom in the 1930s?

Session VI: Sunday, October 27, 1996, 1:30 - 3:30 PM

Panel 31: School of Nursing Room 104

Independent Papers: Women of Bengal and Bangladesh
Chair: Swapana Banerjee, Temple University
Heather Dell, Duke University
-Engendering Alliances Beyond 'Respectable' Society: The All Bengal Women's Union Rescue Home, 1933-Present?
Jude Fernando, University of Pennsylvania
-NGO's and Women's Movement: Whose Agenda?
Swapana Banerjee, Temple University
-From Being "Figures in the Landscape" to Becoming Important Actors--The Politics of Representation of Servants in Bengali Middle Class Writings in Colonial Calcutta?
Mahua Sarkar, Johns Hopkins University
-On the Threshold: Social Reforms in the Lives of Urban Muslim Women in Late Colonial Bengal?

Panel 32: School of Nursing Room 109

Shades of Meaning: Spirits and Their Interpretation in Southeast Asia
Chair: Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University
Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University
-Ruling Metaphors: Spirits among Thai?
Jerry Sullivan, University of Virginia
-Old Temple and a New Myth Revisited?
Robert Wessing, Independent Scholar, Den Haag Netherlands.
-Community of Spirits: People, Ancestors, Nature Spirits on Java?
Discussant: Richard O' Connor, University of the South

Panel 33: School of Nursing Room 101

Round Table: Asia in World History Texts : A Conversation with the Authors
Chair : Howard Spodek, Temple University
Participants: Howard Spodek, Temple University
Michael Adas, Rutgers University
Robert Zallerk, Drexel University

Panel 34: School of Nursing Room 107

Economic Issues in the Chinese Market
Chair: William Stoever, Seton Hall University
John J. Harrington Jr., Seton Hall University
-PRC the Human Development Index and Other UNDP Indexes.?
An Yuhua, University of International Business and Economics
-Recent Development in PRC Tax Policy?
Jaison Z. Yin, Seton Hall University
-The Myth and Reality of Purchasing Power: Issues for Chinese Consumers.?
William Stoever, Seton Hall University
-The Slow Evolution of Chinese Joint Venture Negotiations?
Robert W. McGee, Seton Hall University
-Applying the Antidumping Laws to the People's Republic of China: An Examination of Recent Case Studies?

Panel 35: School of Nursing Room 105

Japan Update: Panel Discussion on Political, Economic and Social Change in the 1990s
Chair: Wayne C. McWilliams, Towson State University
Participants: Douglas Ostram, Japan Economic Institute of America
Pat Murdo, Japan Economic Institute of America
Barbara Wanner, Japan Economic Institute of America
Chris Johnstone, Japan Economic Institute of America

Panel 36: : School of Nursing Room 108

Sources and Pseudo-Sources of Japanese Tradition
Chair: Lawrence Marceau, University of Delaware
Lawrence Marceau, University of Delaware
-Sun Deity and Syllabic Nasal: "Traditions" in the Norinaga--Akinari Disputes?
H. Eleanor Kerkham, University of Maryland
"Re-righting the Parody, Keeping it Slanted: Oku no hosomichi and Basho's Own Chinese and Japanese Traditions."
Frank L. Chance, Japanese House and Garden, Philadelphia
-Paintings, Objects, and Stories: Real and Imagined Sources for the Art of Tani Buncho?

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Discussant: Ayako Kano, University of Pennsylvania

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Index of Participants

Adas, Michael, Rutgers University, Session VI, Panel 33
Akhtar, Salman, Jefferson Medical College, Session IV, Panel 19, Session V, Panel 28
Alexander, V.T., Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Session III, Panel 17
An, Yuhua, University of International Business and Economics, Session VI, Panel 34
Arowosafe, Olu-Muyi, University of North Texas, Session III, Panel 16
Assar, Nandini, Virginia Tech, Session V, Panel 25
Babu, A. J. S., Seton Hall University, Session II, Panel 
Bahl, Vinay, University of Pennsylvania, Session III, Panel 14, Session V, Panel 25
Banerjee, Kakoli, Lander University, Session I, Panel 5
Banerjee, Swapana, Temple University, Session VI, Panel 31
Barrera, David, University of North Texas, Session III, Panel 16
Baxter, Craig, Juniata College, Session I, Panel 1, Session II, Panel 11
Beer, Lawrence W., Lafayette College, Session V, Panel 27
Blair, Harry W., Bucknell University, Session I, Panel 1
Brooks, Barbara, City College CUNY, Session I, Panel 2
Brown, Janice, University of Pennsylvania, Session III, Panel 18
Chance, Frank L., Japanese House and Garden, Session VI, Panel 36
Chance, Linda, University of Pennsylvania, Session I, Panel 4
Chin, Robin, Self Employed Artist, Session IV, Panel 23
Chung, Sung Ho, George Washington University, Session V, Panel 26
Coll, Joan, Seton Hall University, Session IV, Panel 24
Coppola, Carlo, Oakland University, Session IV, Panel 19, Session V, Panel 29
Davis, Adrian F., Franklin and Marshall College, Session V, Panel 29
Dell, Heather, Duke University, Session VI, Panel 31
Dietrich, Maiheng, University of Pennsylvania, Session III, Panel 15
Dott, Brian R. University of Pittsburgh, Session II, Panel 8
Emam, Nathalie, Southeast Asian Refugee Project, Session IV, Panel 23
Falk, Kimberly C., University of Pittsburgh, Session II, Panel 8
Fernando, Jude, University of Pennsylvania, Session VI, Panel 31
Gangulee, Srilata, University of Pennsylvania, Session IV, Panel 19, Session V, Panel 28
Gardner, Albert H., University of Maryland, Session I, Panel 3
Goldsmith, Joan H., Institute for Asian Studies, Session II, Panel 7
Gran, Peter, Temple University, Session II, Panel 12
Hajee, Ariff, New School of Social Research, Session II, Panel 12
Halloran, Florence N., University of Pennsylvania, Session IV, Panel 23
Harrington Jr., John J., Seton Hall University, Session VI, Panel 34
Hasan, Ashraf, University Of Dhaka, Session II, Panel 11
Hayzer, Robert A, Jersey City State College, Session II, Panel 9
Hoffman, Frank, West Chester University, Session III, Panel 14
Horiguchi, Noriko, University of Pennsylvania, Session I, Panel 4
Jiang, Hong, Colorado College, Session III, Panel 15
Johnstone, Chris, Japan Economic Institute of America, Session VI, Panel 35
Juliano, Annette, Rutgers University Newark Campus, Session II, Panel 7
Kano, Ayako, University of Pennsylvania Session I, Panel 4, Session III, Panel 18
Kanwar, Kalpana, Virginia Tech, Session I, Panel 3
Kerkham, H. Eleanor, University of Maryland, Session VI, Panel 36
Knapp, David, New School of Social Research, Session II, Panel 12
Ko, Chang Hoon, North Carolina University, Session V, Panel 26
Kulkarni, Ravi, CUNY NY, Session III, Panel 17
Langsam, Adam, University of North Texas, Session III, Panel 16
Lawn, Beverly, Adelphi University, Session V, Panel 27
Lee, Anru, CUNY Elmhurst, Session I, Panel 3
Lee, Lucy, Seton Hall University, Session II, Panel 9
Lengyel, Alfonz, Fudan Museum Foundation, Session I, Panel 6
Lent, John A., Temple University, Session I, Panel 6
Leonhard, Philip J., CUNY City College, Session IV, Panel 22
Leung, Edwin Pak-wah, Seton Hall University, Session III, Panel 13
Li, Lincoln, Monash University, Session IV, Panel 20
Lindsey, William, University of Pittsburgh, Session II, Panel 8
Liu-Lengyel, Hongying, Fudan Museum Foundation, Session I, Panel 6
Major, John S., Book of the Month Club, Session I, Panel 2
Malhotra, Renu S., Vedanta Balvihar, Session IV, Panel 21
Manhas, M. S., Stevens Institute of Technology NJ, Session III, Panel 17
Marceau, Lawrence, University of Delaware, Session VI, Panel 36
Masur, Salim, University of Western Ontario, Session II, Panel 11
Mattos, Gilbert, Seton Hall University, Session II, Panel 9
Mayo, Marlene J., University of Maryland, Session V, Panel 30
McGee, Robert W., Seton Hall University, Session VI, Panel 34
McWilliams, Wayne C., Towson State University, Session VI, Panel 35
Mehrotra, Meeta, Virginia Tech, Session V, Panel 25
Mehta, Purnima, Michigan Psychoanalytic Foundation, Session IV, Panel 19, Session V, Panel 28
Meskill, John, Barnard College, Session I, Panel 2
Morton, Scott, Seton Hall University, Session I, Panel 2
Motohama, Hidehiko, University of Pennsylvania, Session III, Panel 18
Murdo, Pat, Japan Economic Institute of America, Session VI, Panel 35
Murphy, Kevin, Millikin University, Session V, Panel 30
Nelson, David, University of Pennsylvania, Session II, Panel 10
Nimbark, Kant, Dowling College, Session IV, Panel 22
O' Brien, William E., Virginia Tech, Session I, Panel 5
O' Conner, Noelle, Independent Scholar, Session II, Panel 7
Olenik, Kenneth, Montclair State University, Session III, Panel 13
Olszewski, Agnes, Seton Hall University, Session IV, Panel 24
Ostram, Douglas, Japan Economic Institute of America, Session VI, Panel 35
Patnik, Janaki, Columbia University, Session III, Panel 14
Phadia, Eswar, William Pearson College, Session III, Panel 17
Pham, Sam, Public Health, City of Philadelphia, Session IV, Panel 23
Pong, David, University of Delaware, Session III, Panel 13
Prasad, Leela, University of Pennsylvania, Session IV, Panel 21
Prasad, M. G., Stevens Institute of Technology, Session III, Panel 17
Prejsnar, David, Community College of Philadelphia, Session V, Panel 27
Rahman, Syedur, Pennsylvania State University, Session I, Panel 1
Rai, Amit, New School of Social Research, Session II, Panel 12
Rao, Aruna, Temple University, Session I, Panel 6
Ravi, Kokila, Morehouse College, Session IV, Panel 21
Rinehart, Robin, Lafayette College, Session II, Panel 10
Roberts, Hsiao-Ian, University of Minnesota, Session III, Panel 15
Rosse, Michael D., University of Pennsylvania, Session III, Panel 14
Ruben, John C., University of Maryland, Session V, Panel 30
Saran, Parmatma, CUNY Baruch College and Graduate School, Session IV, Panel 22
Sarkar, Mahua, John Hopkins University, Session VI, Panel 31
Shahidullah, Shahid M., St John's University, Session IV, Panel 22
Shakeri, Esmail, King's College, Session II, Panel 11
Shao, Qin, Trenton State College, Session IV, Panel 20
Sheth, Manju, Rowan College, Session IV, Panel 22
Shiokawa, Kanako, Independent Scholar, Session I, Panel 6
Singh, Priyam, Temple University, Session V, Panel 29
Singh, Ram N., Grand Valley State University, Session IV, Panel 21
Smith, T. Scott, Dickinson College, Session II, Panel 10
Spodek, Howard, Temple University, Session VI, Panel 33
Stelzer, Leigh, Seton Hall University, Session IV, Panel 24
Stoever, William, Seton Hall University, Session IV, Panel 24
Stoever, William, Seton Hall University, Session VI, Panel 34
Sullivan, Jerry, University of Virginia, Session VI, Panel 32
Suresh, Nalina, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, Session II, Panel 11
Swami, Jay, Virginia Tech, Session V, Panel 25
Tajbakhash, Kian, New School of Social Research, Session II, Panel 12
Tannenbaum, Nicola, Lehigh University, Session VI, Panel 32
Teng, Tony, Rhode Island College, Session III, Panel 13
Tran, Cadice, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Session IV, Panel 23
Tu, Ching Session I, Panel , Rutgers University, Session II, Panel 9
Vaid, Naintara Gorwaney, SUNY College of Old Westebury, Session IV, Panel 22
Valenstein, Suzanne, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Session II, Panel 7
Wang, Gabe T., Morehead State University, Session V, Panel 29
Wang, Guang-zhen, University of North Texas, Session III, Panel 16
Wang, Huazhi, Cornell University, Session III, Panel 15
Wang, Jianshe, Temple University, Session I, Panel 5
Wanner, Barbara, Japan Economic Institute of America, Session VI, Panel 35
Wehrle, Edmund F., University of Maryland, Session V, Panel 26
Wessing, Robert, Independent Scholar, Session VI, Panel 32
Woo, Franklin, Englewood College, Session I, Panel 2
Wou, Odoric, Rutgers University, Session IV, Panel 20
Yin, Jaison Z., Seton Hall University, Session VI, Panel 34
Yip, Ka-che, University of Maryland/Baltimore County, Session IV, Panel 20
Yoshinaga, Seiko, University of Pennsylvania, Session III, Panel 18
Yu, Chin-fang, Rutgers University, Session II, Panel 8
Yu, Kie-Un, Temple University, Session I, Panel 6
Zallerk, Robert, Drexel University, Session VI, Panel 33