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Robert F. Campany (REL) published four articles in 2005:

“Eating Better than Gods and Ancestors.” Of Tripod and Palate: Food, Politics, and Religion in Traditional China, ed. Roel Sterckx, Palgrave Press.

“The Meanings of Cuisines of Transcendence in Late Classical and Early Medieval China.” T'oung Pao 91:126-182.

“Long-Distance Specialists in Early Medieval China.” Literature, Religion, and East-West Comparison: Essays in Honor of Anthony C. Yu, ed. Eric Ziolkowski, University of Delaware Press, 109-124.

“Living off the Books: Fifty Ways to Dodge Ming? [Preallotted Lifespan] in Early Medieval China.” The Magnitude of Ming: Command, Allotment, and Fate in Chinese Culture, ed.Christopher Lupke, University of Hawai'i Press, 129-150.

In April Campany was one of four speakers chosen to speak at a symposium honoring Professor Anthony C. Yu on the occasion of his retirement. He delivered a talk titled "Locative and Utopian in China: Redescribing the Quest for Transcendence and Rectifying the Categories of Description.”

In May Campany delivered papers at two workshops at Harvard University. One workshop was on the Eastern Jin dynasty; his paper was an interpretation of the religious thought of two early Eastern Jin authors, Gan Bao and Ge Hong. The other workshop was on the problems and possibilities involved in applying the concept of "religion" to the study of China; his paper was a reflection on this problem as it applies to the interpretation of religious traditions in the early medieval period in China.

Campany recently took on the duties of Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Religious Studies and will continue to serve as co-editor of the Journal of Chinese Religions until the spring of 2006.

Roger L. Janelli (FOLK) delivered the paper “Traditions and Korea's Market Economy” at a conference marking the centennial of the founding of Korea University (Seoul). Also, at the 2005 meeting of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe, held at Sheffield University, he jointly delivered, along with Dawnhee Yim, the keynote address, “The Cyberspace Frontier in Korean studies”.

Sumie Jones (EALC/CMLT) published three articles in 2005:

“Edo no Gesaku to Amerika” (Edo-Style Gesaku and America), a discussion with Haruko Iwasaki and Adam Kern, in “Edo Bunka to Sabukarucha,” special issue, Kokubungaku Kaishaku to Kansho, (January).

"Shunbon o Yomu Watakushi-tachi" (We Readers of Erotic Fiction), featured article, Kokubungaku Kaishaku to Kansho 70, no. 8 (August): 10-20.

"Making the Most of the Breach in the Dike: Accommodations of Cultural Studies to East Asian Comparative Literature," in “Intercultural Explorations,” ed. Eugene Eoyang, special issue, Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 32: 29-37.

Sumie Jones also received a matching grant of $20,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to supplement a grant for her project, "Early Modern Japanese Literature: Research and Translation," 2003-2007.

Scott Kennedy's (EALC/POLS) new publication, The Business of Lobbying in China (Harvard University Press, 2005), documents the rising influence of business, both Chinese and foreign, on national public policy in China.

Kennedy also recently published the following articles:

"China's Porous Protectionism: The Changing Political Economy of Trade Policy." Political Science Quarterly 120, no.3 (Fall 2005): 407-432.

“Barbarians Lobbying at the Gate,” Financial Times, September 28, 2005. http://news.ft.com/cms/s/88071e90-2fbb-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8.html.

Hyo Sang Lee (EALC) presented a paper titled "Cognition, Discourse-pragmatics, and Conversational Usages: With Reference to Verbal Connective - nuntey in Korean" at the 9 th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2005) held July 17-24 at Yonsei University in Korea. He also presented an invited paper titled "Topic Marking as a Framing Strategy: An Interplay of Semantics and Pragmatics" at the Workshop on Topicalization at the Annual Summer Conference of the Linguistic Society of Korea, held July 25 at Sogang University in Korea.

Lee has been invited to give a talk on teaching Korean grammar as a foreign language at the 7th International Conference on Korean Language Education as a Foreign Language to be held October 28 at Seoul National University. He has also been elected to serve a three-year term as an executive board member for the American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK). This is the second time he has been elected as a board member, having also served from 1997 to 2000.

In May 2005, co-authoring with Professor Sungdai Cho (SUNY Binghamton) and Professor Hye-Sook Wang ( Brown University), Lee published two fifth-year Korean textbooks, Integrated Korean: High Advanced 1 & 2 ( University of Hawai'i Press).

Eun-Hee Lee, former AI and lecturer of Korean language at IU, is now a tenure-track assistant professor at SUNY Buffalo.

Jennifer Liu (EALC) was elected Vice President of the Chinese Language Teachers Association.

Mike Robinson (EALC) is now serving on the Association for Asian Studies Program Committee for a two-year term, from 2005 to 2007.

Edith Sarra (EALC) presented the paper “What Women Want is Womanly Men: The Destiny of Romance After Genji” as part of a panel on homosociality and homoeroticism in classical Japanese literature at the 11th annual conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, held in Vienna.

Natsuko Tsujimura (EALC) edited and wrote the introduction to a three-volume set published last spring by the Routledge Library of Modern Japan, Japanese Linguistics: Critical Concepts: vol.1, Phonology and Morphology; vol.2, Syntax and Semantics; vol.3, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, and Language Contact.

Tsujimura presented a paper titled "Mimetic Verbs and Innovative Verbs in the Acquisition of Japanese” at the Berkeley Linguistic Society, UC Berkeley, on February 18-20. She was a guest lecturer in Professor Julie Auger's Topics course Language and Gender on March 23 and talked about honorifics and gender differences in Japanese.

In May she traveled to Japan to conduct preliminary research on rhyming in Japanese hip-hop music at Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyujo. In October she will present a paper on Japanese hip-hop music with Kyoko Okamura (Ph.D. Linguistics) and Stuart Davis (Linguistics) at the University of Wisconsin.

This summer a professional development grant from EASC made it possible for her to develop, along with two of her AIs, Kyoko Okamura (Ph.D. Linguistics) and Tamiji Muto (completed M.A. in Education), instructional materials using the film Shall We Dance? for fourth-year Japanese language courses (J401-J402).

Jeff Wasserstrom (HIST/EALC) recently gave several invited talks. In July he gave a lecture on Shanghai landmarks at the Australia National University and a lecture on representations of Shanghai at the University of Sydney. In September he gave a lecture on "War and Terror at the Turn of Two Centuries: The Boxer Crisis Revisited" at Academia Sinica in Taipei.

His most recent publication is an essay that places the Chinese anti-Japanese protests of earlier this year into historical perspective. A short version of it appeared on the History News Network website, while a longer version came out in the summer issue of the World Policy Journal.

Yasuko Ito Watt (EALC) served as the Program Chair of the annual ATJ (Association of Teachers of Japanese) Seminar held in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies meeting on March 31.

She presented the paper "Classical Japanese in Modern Texts" at the 11th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum on May 9 at Princeton University. She also gave the paper, "Using Anime and Manga to Motivate Students," as the keynote speaker at the Mid-Atlantic Japanese Language Teacher Workshop in Elizabethtown College, PA on May 14.

George Wilson (Emeritus, HIST & EALC) will be a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, teaching recent Japanese history in place of Leslie Pincus (on leave in Kyoto) beginning in January 2006. This visiting appointment follows last spring's teaching job at the University of Kentucky.

Jiacheng Zhang, a visiting scholar with International Programs, will be affiliated with EALC this fall semester. As an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Deputy Director of the Chinese Ideology and Culture Research Institute at Zhejiang University, he will work with the EALC faculty in Chinese thought and religion, especially Steve Bokenkamp and Bob Eno.

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