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Panel Sessions F
(as of 9/7/00)

Saturday, October 7th
3:30 - 5:15 pm



  1. Title: Midwest Japan Seminar: Conflict and Conformity in Modern Japanese Immigration (Part II)
    Location: Georgian Room, 161
    Chair & Discussant: Laura Miller, Loyola University (Chicago, IL)
    • Wayne Patterson, St. Norbert College (De Pere, WI)
      "We are Opposed to Them in Everything: Koreans in Hawai'i Confront the Japanese, 1903-1945"

  2. Title: Historical Perspectives on Chinese Visual Culture
    Location: Sassafras Room
    Chair: Kathleen Ryor, Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
    Discussant: Anne Burkus-Chasson, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL)
    • Pieter Keulemans, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
      "Emperor Song Taizu's Clothes: Making Imperial Power Visible on Stage"
    • Su-hsing Lin, Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
      "Dyeing Pot or Melting Pot?: The Cover Designs in Republican China"
    • Chi-ying Alice Wang, Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)
      "Shen Zhou and Chan Buddhism"

  3. Title: 19th-Century Japanese Cultural Responses to Colonialism
    Location: Oak Room
    Chair: TBA
    Discussant: Roy Hanashiro, University of Michigan (Flint, MI)
    • Todd S. Munson, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
      "Yokohama, 1861: Hashimoto Sadahide and the 'Scum of Europe'"
    • Scott Langton, Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA)
      "Nakajima Atsushi's Hikari to kaze to yume: Racist Propaganda or Portrait of Anti-Colonialism?"
    • Andrea Vasishth, University of Sheffield (Sheffield, UK)
      "'Sullying the blood of the Japanese race': Racial Theory in Japan and its Application to Chinese Residents, 1800s to 1890s"

  4. Title: Reform and Central Control in China
    Location: Walnut Room
    Chair: Andrew Wedeman, University of Nebraska (Lincoln, NE)
    Discussant: Zhimin Lin, Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, IN)
    • Andrew Wedeman, University of Nebraska (Lincoln, NE)
      "Corrupt Cadres and Predatory Institutions: Official Malfeasance and Abuse in China"
    • Murray Scot Tanner, Wang Jianfeng, and Shu Huai, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)
      "Police Decentralization and Dilemmas of Stability and 'Rule by Law' in China"
    • Yehua Dennis Wei, University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI)
      "Fiscal Reforms, Investment, and Uneven Development in Jiangsu Province, China"
    • Carla Freedman, Alverno College (Milwaukee, WI)
      "Regional Responses to Central Policy Initiatives: Northeast China and the World Trade Organization"

  5. Title: Issues in Traditional Chinese Literature
    Location: Maple Room
    Chair: Charles Hammond, Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, IL)
    Discussant: TBA
    • Charles Hammond, Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, IL)
      "The Sexual Pathology of Vulpine Obsession"
    • Qiancheng Li, Albion College (Albion, MI)
      "Myriad Mirrors of the Mind: The Doubling Worlds of Xiyou bu"
    • Rüdiger Breuer, Washington University (St. Louis, MO)
      "The Making of a Filial Hero: The Tang General Xue Rengui in Early Vernacular Fiction and Drama"

  6. Title: Chinese Revolution, American Eyes, 1930s-1990s
    Location: Redbud Room
    Chair: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
    Discussant: Sue Tuohy, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN) & Shen Yu, Indiana University (New Albany, IN)
    • Charles W. Hayford, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
      "Snow, White, and the Seven China Revolution Books: Or, Adventures in the 'Revolution Paradigm'"
    • Peter Gries, Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
      "Despotic Visions: Orientalism, Totalitarianism, and Western Views of Chinese Communism"

  7. Title: Imperial China: Gender and Identity
    Location: Persimmon Room
    Chair & Discussant: Ann Waltner, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN)
    • George Q. Zhao, University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
      "Female Anxiety and Female Power: Political Involvement of Mongol Empresses from the 13th Century to the 14th Century"
    • Xiaoshan Yang, University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
      "On Being Impractical in the Northern Song"
    • Jessey J. C. Choo, University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
      "Shibichudai: Chinese Female Rulership in Japanese Context"

  8. Title: Women's Body, Women's Mind: Women's Expertise and Modernity in Prewar Japan
    Location: Dogwood Room
    Chair: Sally A. Hastings, Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)
    Discussants: Ann B. Jannetta, University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA) & Susan L. Burns, University of Texas (Austin, TX)
    • Yuki Terazawa, University of California (Los Angeles, CA)
      "The State, Midwives, and Expectant Mothers: The Medicalization of Childbirth and the Changing Views on Birth-Related Pollution in Meiji and Taisho Japan"
    • Sally A. Hastings, Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)
      "National Living Treasures: Women Medical Practitioners in Imperial Japan"
    • Hiromi Tsuchiya, Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)
      "Female Doctors in Yoshiya Nobuko's Onna no kyoshitsu (Female Classroom): The Idealized Sisterhood in Wartime Japan"

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