Welcome to the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting

of the

Mid-Atlantic Region/Association for Asian Studies

As current President of MAR/AAS, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 1998 Annual Conference and to encourage you to attend as many panels and roundtables as you can. To fully participate in the conference is to contribute something of yourself to the scholarly community and to enhance the opportunity for networking provided by MAR/AAS. It is particularly important that mature scholars among us offer adequate feedback to graduate students presenting papers. Thus we have an obligation to hear these students as well as to attend panels dealing with our own scholarly concerns.

Our Program Chair, Frank Hoffman, has organized an outstanding program with a superb representation of panels covering all Asian geographic areas and including a broad spectrum of academic disciplines. With the help of AAS, we are pleased to continue our strong outreach efforts with the Eleventh Teaching Asia Workshop on Friday, October 23, directed this year by Dr. Alan Fox of the University of Delaware, and addressed specifically to teachers in elementary and secondary education. To be able to hold these events at the University of Delaware, a major state university attended by 21,000 students, is a privilege for all of us affiliated with MAR/AAS.

We thank our hosts at the University of Delaware for their extensive effort in organizing a regional conference on their campus. Alan Fox and Gerald Figal have done a splendid job of arranging for our use of the Clayton Hall Conference Center and University dining facilities, as well as an array of media resources. We also express appreciation to David Pong, who has served MAR in many capacities over the years, including its presidency.

The officers of MAR/AAS and the University of Delaware staff look forward to your participation at the Twentieth-seventh Annual Meeting. We hope that you will join us once again for this enjoyable and productive regional gathering of Asianists.

Janet Powers
President MAR/AAS 1997-98

 

conference schedule (All events take place in Clayton Hall)

Friday, October 23

8:30 a.m. Registration for the Teaching Asia Workshop - Lobby

9:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. Teaching Asia Workshop - Room 123

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit and Crafts Display - Room 120

4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Conference Registration - Lobby

4:00 p.m. EC/AC Meeting - Room 123

7:30-9:30 p.m. Asian Cultural Performance:

The University of Delaware Gamelan Lake of the Silver Bear

Saturday, October 24

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Conference Registration

8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Coffee, tea, and pastries - Lobby

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit, Crafts Display

9:00 - 11:00 a.m. Panel Session 1

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Annual Business Meeting, Luncheon, Room 101B

Luncheon speaker will be Professor James Scott of

Yale University, President of AAS 1997-1998.

1:15 - 3:15 p.m. Panel Session II

3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Panel Session III

5:45 - 7:00 p.m. Reception - Lobby

7:00 - 9:30 p.m. Annual Banquet

Address by Srimati Kanta Bhatia,

Winner of the 1998 MAR/AAS Lifetime Achievement Award

Presented annually to a distinguished Asianist

"A South Asia Bibliographer Looks Back: Building a Research Collection"

Sunday, October 25

8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Conference Registration

8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Coffee, tea and pastries

9:00 a.m. - noon Book Exhibit, Crafts Display

9:00 - 11:00 a.m. Panel Session IV

11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Panel Session V

1:30 p.m. Annual Meeting concludes

 

Eleventh Annual Teaching Asia Workshop

University of Delaware, Clayton Hall

Friday, October 23, 1998, 8:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Sessions will provide a range of approaches to the study of Asia and will be of value to elementary, middle, and secondary school teachers. Participants will receive information packets, handouts, and many ideas on teaching about Asia. In addition, there will be several workshops using Problem-Based Learning approaches.

Schedule

8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Registration

9:00 - 10:15 a.m. - Session I

a. Larry Marceau, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Delaware: "Teaching Japanese Culture Through Film."
b. Center for Teaching Effectiveness, University of Delaware: "Teaching Asia using Problem-Based Learning," part I.

10:30 - 11:45 a.m. - Session II

a. Charles Springer, Essex Community College: "Teaching Asia Using Chinese Art."
b: Karin Kopciak, Randallstown High School (Baltimore County Public Schools): "Teaching Asian Religions."

11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Lunch

Speaker: David Pong, Department of History, University of Delaware: "Hong Kong, One Year Later."

12:45 - 2:00 - Session III

a: Alan Fox, Department of Philosophy, University of Delaware: "Teaching Philosophical Daoism Through Chapter One of the Daode Jing."
b: Center for Teaching Effectiveness, University of Delaware: "Teaching Asia Using Problem Based Learning," part II

Ongoing: Displays of books, maps and travel opportunities.

To register for the Teaching Asia Workshop, please contact Dr. Alan Fox, Dept of Philosophy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716. Tel: 302 831-8077; Fax: 302-831 6321; email:afox@udel.edu

 

Program Summary

Session I: Saturday, October 24, 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Roundtable A - Room 110
Relating Asian Studies to the Curriculum Through Title VI International Studies Grants

Panel 1 - Room 119
Standards and Stereotypes: Pedagogical Issues in Asian Studies K-12

Panel 2 - Room 121
War and Society in China (Part One)

Panel 3 - Room 122
Revalorizing Japanese Gender

Panel 4 - Room 123
Healing and the Body in South Asian Perspective

Panel 5 - Room 124
Ethics, Self, and Experience in Buddhism


Session II: 1:15 - 3:15 p.m.

Roundtable B - Room 110
Consumers in Asia

Panel 6 - Room 119
The Poetry and Art of War: Japan 1894-1945

Panel 7 - Room 121
Women, Family and Career: Gender Relations in China During the Twentieth Century

Panel 8 - Room 122
Slavery, Caste, and Social Mobility

Panel 9 - Room 123
Consciousness in South Asian and East Asian Thought

Panel 10 - Room 124
First World/Third World Feminisms


Session III : 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Roundtable C - Room 110
Asian Student Organizations

Roundtable D - Room 124
Anime: Something For Everyone

Panel 11 - Room 121
War and Society in China (Part Two)

Panel 12 - Room 119
A Woman’s Place: Configurations of Power and Strategy in Japanese Warrior Households

Panel 13 - Room 122
Daughter of India: Nayantara Sahgal and the Problems of Nationhood

Panel 14 - Room 123
Monstrosities in Japan and America

Session IV: Sunday, October 25, 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Roundtable E - Room 121
Buddhism in America and American Buddhism

Roundtable F - Room 110
In Symbiosis: Taiwan and China

Panel 15 - Room 119
Asian Animation and Cartoons

Panel 16 - Room 122
Asian Constructions of Ethnicity, Marriage, and Prostitution

Panel 17 - Room 123
Jews in India and Jewish-Asian Dialogue

Panel 18 - Room 124
Culture, Value, Myth, and Psychoanalysis


Session V: 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Roundtable G - Room 110
The Library’s Role in Syllabi Development on the Internet

Roundtable H - Room 119
The Impact of Recent Elections in India

Panel 19 - Room 121
Images of Asia in Film and Diplomacy

Panel 20 - Room 122
Chinese Philosophical Texts and Contexts

 

Conference Program Panels

Clayton Conference Center

Session I
Saturday, October 24: 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Roundtable A - Room 110
Relating Asian Studies to the Curriculum Through Title VI International Studies Grant

Chair: David Prejsnar, Community College of Philadelphia
Participants: Fay Beauchamp, Community College of Philadelphia; Vijay Chauhan, Community College of Philadelphia; Diane Freedman, Community College of Philadelphia; Michael Salvato, Community College of Philadelphia

Panel 1 - Room 119
Standards and Stereotypes: Pedagogical Issues in Asian Studies K-12

Chair: Leslie Solomon, Cherry Hill Schools

Teacher Preparation in Asian Studies: Will We Make It to the New Millennium?
Leslie Solomon, Cherry Hill Schools

Asia in the World History Curriculum
Diana Wood, University of Pittsburgh

Models for Partnerships between the University and K-12
Programs
G. Cameron Hurst III, University of Pennsylvania

High School Graduates from China as University of Maryland Students
Albert Gardner, University of Maryland College Park
Panel 2 - Room 121
War and Society in China (Part One)

Chair: Ka-che Yip, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Nationalist Military Ideology in the 1920s
J. Kenneth Olenik, Montclair State University

Building Mobilizing Structures: Women and the Sino-Japanese War
Odoric Wou, Rutgers University

Monetary Issues During the Sino-Japanese War
Lincoln Li, Monash University, Australia

Discussant: Ka-che Yip

Panel 3 - Room 122
Revalorizing Japanese Gender

Chair: Cecilia Segawa Seigle, University of Pennsylvania

Medicine, Modern State, and Literature: Mori Ogai’s Discourse on Illness and Diagnosis in Meiji Japan
Noriko Horiguchi, University of Pennsylvania

The ‘Third’ Gender: Performative ‘Femininity’ of Onnagata
Maki Morinaga, University of Pennsylvania

Resisting and Perpetuating Stereotypes: Kôda Aya's Otôto, Self, and Sibling Love.
Sari Kawana, University of Pennsylvania

Panel 4 - Room 123
Healing and the Body in Asian Perspective

Chair: Thomas Platt, West Chester University

Zen Buddhism as Alternative Healing Practice
Sandra Mosgo, West Chester University

Singing the Ghost: Improvisation and Healing in South Asia
Daniel Cohen, University of Virginia

Karma and Pregnancy Whim (dohada)
Jerome Bauer, University of Pennsylvania

Healing and Destiny in Laozi and Confucius
Alan Fox, University of Delaware

Discussant: Alan Rowland, National Association for
Psychoanalysis

Panel 5 - Room 124
Ethics, Self, and Experience in Buddhism

Chair: Frank J. Hoffman, West Chester University

One Mind, One Precept in Japanese Buddhism
Shigeru Osuka, Seton Hall University

Buddhism and Aristotelianism
Jackie Crosby, West Chester University

An Argument for the Self
David Spor, West Chester University

The Buddhist Empiricism Thesis: An Extensive Critique
David Montalvo, West Chester University

Discussant: Thomas Radice, Seton Hall University

Luncheon and Business Meeting: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Room 101B

Speaker: Professor James Scott,
President, AAS, 1997-1998

Session II: 1:15 - 3:15 p.m. Saturday Afternoon

Roundtable B - Room 110
Consumers in Asia

Chair: Joo-Gim Heaney, Franklin and Marshall College, co-author with Ronald Goldsmith of a paper to be presented in the Roundtable: Consumers in Asia: Basis for Successful Retail Expansion using the KFC Model
Participants include: Ann Hill, Dickinson College and Ken Saban, Duquesne University

Panel 6 - Room 119
The Poetry and Art of War: Japan 1894-1945

Chair: John R. Pavia, Ithaca College

The Changing View of War as Reflected in Poetry
Steve Rabson, Brown University

The Modern,’ ‘The Self’, and ‘the Other’ in Japanese War Art, 1894-1945
Nancy Brcak, Ithaca College and John Pavia, Ithaca College

Discussant: E. Taylor Atkins, Northern Illinois University at DeKalb

Panel 7 - Room 121
Women, Family and Career: Gender Relations in China During the Twentieth Century

Chair: Lilian Li, Swarthmore College

Be Intelligent, Devoted, and Above All, Helpful—to Husbands: Gender Relations among the Chinese Students in the United States, 1905-1931
Yung-chen Chiang, DePauw University

From Iron Woman to Housewife: Images of Women in Chinese Magazine Advertisements in the Early 1980s.
Tina Phillips, University of Pittsburgh

Discussant: Christina Gilmartin, Northeastern University

Panel 8 Room 122
Slavery, Caste, and Social Mobility

Chair: William Guy, West Chester University

Slaving on the Coast of Sumatra in the 18th Century
Robert Young, West Chester University

Social Mobility in the Caste System in South Asian History,
Xinru Liu, University of Pennsylvania

B.R. Ambedkar and Buddhism
Asha Krishan, Elphinstone College, India

The Buddhist Madhurasutta on Caste
Frank J. Hoffman, West Chester University

Discussant: John Witek, S.J., Georgetown University

Panel 9 Room 123
Consciousness in South Asian and East Asian Thought

Chair: Tao Jiang, Temple University

Rituals for Infant Souls in Taiwan
Julianna Lipschutz, University of Pennsylvania

Betweenness and the Embodiment of Consciousness in Japanese Culture
Michael Graham, Temple University

Shedding Light on the Matter: The Role of Amman in Sancerre’s Theory of Cognition
Douglas Berger, Temple University

The Buddhist Concept of Alayavijnana in the Yogacarabhumisastra
Haibo Wang, Temple University

Discussant: Haibo Wang

Panel 10 Room 124
First World/Third World Feminisms

Chair: Geetha Ramanathan, West Chester University

Third world Feminisms in the First World Classroom.
Anju Kapur, The College of New Jersey

Romanticising Third World Ideologies of Liberation
Christy Esposito, West Chester University

Session III: 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Saturday Afternoon

Roundtable C - Room 110
Asian Student Organizations
Co-chairs: Jerome Bauer, University of Pennsylvania;
Adam Morris, West Chester University

Roundtable D - Room 124
Anime: Something for Everyone
Paul McDonald, West Chester University: Videotape presentation and discussion

Panel 11 Room 121
War and Society in China (Part Two)

Chair: Margaret Denning, Slippery Rock University

The War of Attrition in the Northern Song
Paul C. Forage, Florida Atlantic University

Zhuge Liang and the Northern Campaign of 228-234 A.D.
John W. Killigrew, State University of New York at Brockport

Chinese Understanding of the Modern Navy and naval Warfare up to the Conclusion of the Sino-French War
David Pong, University of Delaware

Discussants: David Pong, University of Delaware;
Margaret Denning

Panel 12 Room 119
A Woman’s Place: Configurations of Power and Strategy in Japanese Warrior Households

Chair: Janet Ikeda, University of Virginia

Barriers at the Top: Hino Tomiko as Womb and Wizard
Linda H. Chance, University of Pennsylvania

Barren Survivor: Kitanomandokoro and the Toyotomi Legacy
Janet Ikeda, University of Virginia

Konoe Hiroko’s Electra Complex: A Revisionist View of a Midaidokoro
Cecilia Segawa Seigle, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Elizabeth Lillehoj, DePaul University

Panel 13 Room 122
Daughter of India: Nayantara Sahgal and the Problems of Nationhood

Chair: Janet Powers, Gettysburg College

Nayantara Sahgal: Evolution of a Political Identity
Indrani Mitra, Mount Saint Mary’s College

Nayantara Sahgal and the Puzzle of Mistaken Identity
Madhu Mitra, College of Saint Benedict

Politics and Polyphonic Voices in Sahgal’s Rich Like Us
Janet Powers

Panel 14 Room 123
Monstrosities in Japan and America

Chair: Frank Chance, University of Pennsylvania

Monsters and Civilization in Meiji History
Gerald Figal, University of Delaware

Hundreds of Phantoms in Night Parade: Moriyama Seikan’s De Visions of the Other Side
Lawrence Marcia, University of Delaware

The Monster in the Self: Anime and Identity
Matthew Mizenko, Haverford College

Meaning and Monstrosity: GODZILLA 1954-1998
Frank L. Chance, University of Pennsylvania

Session IV: 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. Sunday Morning

Roundtable E - Room 121
Buddhism in America and American Buddhism

Chair: Richard McKinney, Philadelphia Buddhist Association

Participants include P. Dai-en Bennage, Mount Equity Zendo

Roundtable F - Room 110
Peoples of Taiwan: In Symbiosis

Chair: Daniel Yeh, West Chester University

Participants: Donald DeGlopper, Library of Congress and Clyde Kiang, California University of Pennsylvania

Panel 15 Room 119
Asian Animation and Cartoons

Chair: John A. Lent, Temple University

Why Do Straight Japanese Women Love Men Who Love Other Men?: Homoeroticism in Japanese Girls’ Comics
Kanoko Shiokawa, Independent Scholar

Portrayal of Istanbul in Turkish Single Panel Cartoons Between 1930 and 1998
Asli Tung, Temple University

Animation in Taiwan
John A. Lent
Discussant: Frank L. Chance, University of Pennsylvania

Panel 16 Room 122
Asian Constructions of Ethnicity, Marriage, and
Prostitution

Chair: Bonita Freeman-Witthoft, West Chester University

Marriage and the Construction of Identity
Fariha Khan, University of Pennsylvania

Hierarchies of Femininity: Prostitution and the State in
Bengal
Heather Dell, Rosemont College

You Are What You Are Named: The Han Chinese Ethnic Stereotypes as Seen from Names
Juwen Zhang, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Kathleen Uno, Temple University

Panel 17 - Room 123
Jews in India and Jewish-Asian Dialogue

Chair: Paul Streveler, West Chester University

Religious Observances of Indian Jews in India and Israel
Joan Rowland, Pace University

Self-realization as the Self-Realization of Reality: Developing a Dialogue Between Judaism and Asian Philosophy
Todd Lavin, Clarion University

Discussant: Michael Benson, West Chester University

Panel 18 Room 124

Culture, Value, Myth, and Psychoanalysis
Chair: Yoko Hashimoto-Sinclair, West Chester University

Culture and Values
Gabe Wang, William Patterson University

Vietnam-USA War and Australian Media
P.M. McGreggor, University of Western Sydney, Australia

The Spiritual Self and Psychopathology: Psychoanalysis in South Asia
Alan Rowland, National Association for Psychoanalysis

Art, Myth, Mutilation: Hegel and the Elephant Woman
Peter Cuasay, Cornell University

Session V: 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Sunday

Roundtable G - Room 110

The Library’s Role in Syllabi Development on the Internet
Chair: Daniel Yeh, West Chester University

Participants: Fan Huang, University of Pennsylvania; Julianna Lipschutz, University of Pennsylvania; David Nelson, University of Pennsylvania; Daniel Yeh, West Chester University

Roundtable H - Room 119

The Impact of Recent Elections in India
Chair: Robert Young, West Chester University

Participants include Kanta Bhatia, University of Pennsylvania and Theodore Wright, State University of New York at Albany.

Panel 19 - Room 121
Images of Asia in Film and Diplomacy

Chair: Molly Frost, George Washington University

From Novel to Film: Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth and Sino-American Diplomatic Relations
Michael C. Wall, Georgetown University

Film Use in Teaching Asian Religions
Donald Hurford, Delaware County Community College

Anitown and Local Government’s Interest in the Korean Animation Industry
Kie-Un Yu, Temple University

Discussant: H. Leedom Lefferts, Drew University

Panel 20 - Room 122
Chinese Philosophical Texts and Contexts

Chair: Alan Fox, University of Delaware

Heterogeneity and Hermeneutics: Textual Issues in Early
Chinese Thought
Thomas A. Radice, Seton Hall University

Taoism, Confucianism, Freedom, and Democracy
Michael Benson, West Chester University

Toward a Utilitarian Confucianism
Adam Morris, West Chester University

Discussant: Julie Dietrich, Temple University

 

The Annual Reception and morning coffee/tea and pastries will be provided courtesy of the University of Delaware Departments of Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Music, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, Women’s Studies, and the East Asian Studies Program. The MAR/AAS appreciates their support.

Clayton Hall is a Smoke-Free Building.

The University of Delaware appreciates your cooperation.

 

Funding to support the 1998 MAR/AAS Annual Conference has been provided by The University of Delaware College of Arts and Sciences and the East Asian Studies Program

  PANEL3 Sari Kawana's paper will be titled, Resisting and Perpetuating Stereotypes: K6da Aya's Ot6to, Se~( , and Sibling Love.

PANEL 7 Tina Phillips' paper will be titled, From Iron Woman to Housewife: Images of Women in Chinese Magazine Advertisements in the Early 1980s.

Yung-chen Chiang's paper will be fided, Chinese Women Educated in the United States, 1905-1931.

Stephanie Pfeiffer will not be presenting.

PANEL 10 Anju Kapur of the College of New Jersey will present a paper tifled, Third World Feminisms in the First World Classroom.

Kerry Price and Sophia Verdekal will not be presenting.

PANEL I I John Killegrew's paper is fitled, Zhuge Liang and the Northern Campaign of 228-234 A.D.

David Pong will present a paper fided, Chinese Understanding of the Modern Navy and Naval Warfare up to the Conclusion of the Sino-French War.

Mao-Rong Jiang will not be presenting.

PANEL 12

Elizabeth Lillehoj is affiliated with DePaul University.