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Panel Sessions B
(as of 9/20/00)

Friday, October 6th
3:15 - 5:00 pm



  1. Title: The Narrative Lens: Insights on Chinese History, Painting, and Memoirs
    Location: Sassafras Room
    Chair & Discussant: Robert Campany, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
    • Robert Eno, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
      "Performative Elements in Early Chinese Narratives"
    • Susan Nelson, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
      "Mountain or Winejug?: Crisscrossing Narratives in Chinese Painting"
    • Lynn Struve, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
      "Memory with Chinese Characteristics: The Case of Seventeenth-Century Memoirs"

  2. Title: Issues in Collegiate Language Pedagogy
    Location: Redbud Room
    Chair & Discussant: Jun Kawabe, Earlham College (Richmond, IN)
    • Yuko Hoshino, Kanazawa Institute of Technology (Ishikawa, Japan)
      "Project Work in Foreign Language: Connecting Language Study and Subject Study at the College Level"
    • Takanori Mita, Moorhead State University (Moorhead, MN)
      "Japanese Students' Need for Communicative English and their Perceived Proficiency Levels"
    • Miyuki Fukai, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
      "College Japanese Classroom Anxiety: True and False Beginners"

  3. Title: Rethinking Boundaries in Japanese Art and Literature
    Location: Persimmon Room
    Chair: Joanne Quimby, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
    Discussant: Eiji Sekine, Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)
    • Margaret Key, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
      "Masking/Violating Boundaries: Love, Murder, and Metafiction in Abe Kobo's Tanin no kao"
    • Michelle Andrews, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
      "Fantastical Scopofeelia: Tactile Gaze and Genderless Desire in Japanese Short Story"
    • Aiko MacPhail, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
      "Perspective in Edo Woodblock Draughtsmen"
    • Joanne Quimby, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
      "Tanizaki's Pursuit of Tradition in Modern Japan: Exiled in Kansai?"

  4. Title: Fantasy in Korean and Korean-American Narratives
    Location: Dogwood Room
    Chair: Yoo-Jung Kong, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL)
    Discussant: Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL)
    • Charse Yun, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL)
      "Fantasy, Trauma, and Desire in Korean-American Fiction"
    • Chung-in Im, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL)
      "Fantasizing of the Penetration of Male Bodies: South Korean Yaoi Writing/ Reading Groups on the Internet"
    • Yoo-Jun Kong, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL)
      "Conspiracies, Messiahs, and Utopias: Religious and Political Fantasy in Two Korean Novels"

  5. Title: Political Configurations of Modern Japan
    Location: Maple Room
    Chair: George Wilson, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
    Discussant: Seungjoo Yoon, Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
    • Takaaki Suzuki, Ohio University (Athens, OH)
      "Modernity and the Transformation of the Japanese State"
    • Noriyuki Katagiri, Columbia University (New York, NY)
      "Japan's Postwar Identity: Neo-Nationalism and its Implications"
    • Yoshinori Kaseda, Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL)
      "Japan's New Security Posture in the Post-Cold War Era"

  6. Title: 20th-Century East Asia: Gender, Political Theory, and Social Reform
    Location: Walnut Room
    Chair: Xin Zhang, Indiana University-Purdue University (Indianapolis, IN)
    Discussant: Yung-chen Chiang, Depauw University (Greencastle, IN)
    • Karen Yuen, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL) (Sidney Devere Brown Prize)
      "Power and Gender in East Asia in the Twentieth Century"
    • Liping Bu, Alma College (Alma, MI)
      "Negotiating Cultures: YMCA Enterprise and China's Social Reforms"
    • Shu-chin Wu, University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI)
      "Li Dazhao and the Chinese Enlightenment"

  7. Title: Issues in China's International Relations
    Location: Oak Room
    Chair: Jeffrey Hart, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
    Discussant: Laura Luehrmann, Wright State University (Dayton, OH)
    • T. Jefferson Rutherford, Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL)
      "The Chinese Connection: Chinese Complicity in the Burmese Oppression of the People of the Shan Hills"
    • Dixia Yang, University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH)
      "Two-Level Game Theory and China's Accession to WTO"
    • Jeong-Pyo Hong, Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
      "U.S.-Sino Relations and the Future of Taiwan"
    • Yuan-kang Wang, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
      "Is Chinese Strategic Culture Realist?: A Study of Ming-Mongol Relations"

  8. Title: Issues in Southeast Asian Society
    Location: State Room East
    Chair: Frank Osanka, Independent Scholar (Racine, WI)
    Discussant: Nick Cullather, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
    • Roger Bresnahan, Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
      "The Philippines in the National Geographic: Assuming Authoritative Representation"
    • Marlene Sokolon, Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL) (Percy Buchanan Prize, Southeast Asia)
      "Burma and Illicit Drugs: A Pervasive Political, Economic, and Social Problem"
    • James F. Ongkili, Universiti Kebangsaan (Selangor, Malaysia)
      "Confrontation and State Politics in Sabah: Surviving the First Decade of Malaysia, 1966-1973"
    • Frank Osanka, Independent Scholar (Racine, WI)
      "Critical Responses to the Publication of The 1988 Uprising in Burma, Dr. Maung Maung's Twelfth and Last Book"

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