Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University

Enhancing Cross-cultural Competence of Advanced Chinese Learners — Strategies in Teaching Business Chinese at the College Level

Fang Lu, Boston College

Hanover Duxbury Room

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Filial Piety: New Perspectives on Elder Care in China

Jing Tan, Bridgewater State University
Kathleen Bailey, Bridgewater State University

Council Chambers

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

How Epidemics, Child Mortality and War Brought Public Health to Republican China

John R. Watt, ABMAC Foundation

RCC 202

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

"I Cannot Teach Because I Am Not Smart": Working Class Mothers’ Support for Their Children's Education in Japan

Yoko Yamamoto

Council Chambers

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The Cost and Price of Family in Contemporary Chinese Films

Wing Shan Ho, Montclair State University

Council Chambers

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The Emergence of Singlehood in the 20th and Early 21st Century: Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan

Joanna Kang, St. John's University

Council Chambers

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The Role of Culture in Making Psychiatric Diagnosis: Hwabyung (火病) and Neurasthenia (神經衰弱)

Jonghyun Lee, Bridgewater State University

RCC 202

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Understanding the Dynamics of the Victim-Perpetrator Relationship in Child Sexual Abuse to Design Situational Crime Prevention Policy: An Examination of the Child Sex Abuse Victimization Data in South Korea

Kyung-shick Choi, Bridgewater State University

RCC 202

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Using Simulation Videos and Online Activities to Acquire Survival Chinese in a Blended Learning Context

Jingyun Chen, University of Oregon

Hanover Duxbury Room

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Collaboration with Faculty in Research Scholarship on Korean Shaman

Shin Freedman, Framingham State University

Hanover Duxbury Room

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Family Magazines – Consumer Culture, Japan, & the Making of the Masses

Amy Bliss Marshall, Wellesley College

RCC Small Ballroom

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Integration and Disintegration in East Asia: Korea and Hong Kong in the Cold War Era

Byung Soo Oh, Northeast Asian History Foundation, Seoul

RCC Small Ballroom

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Librarians' Role in the ChinaX Course Preparation

Nanni Deng, Harvard University
Xiao-He Ma, Harvard University

Hanover Duxbury Room

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Perceiving Japan through Two Film Versions of "Madame Butterfly": The Dynamics of Power among Japan, China, Hong Kong, and the United States

Midori Nakamura, Waseda University

RCC Small Ballroom

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Scholarship from Exchange at Bridgewater State University

Sheau-Hwang F. Chang, Bridgewater State University

Hanover Duxbury Room

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Teaching in China: Reflections on Higher Education, Student Learning, and Teacher Training

Wing-kai To, Bridgewater State University
John Marvelle, Bridgewater State University
Ryan LaBrozzi, Bridgewater State University
Chien Wen Yu, Bridgewater State University

Council Chambers

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

"What is Fiction?" - a Question of Self and Displaced Self

Yoshihiro Yasuhara, Carnegie Mellon University

RCC Small Ballroom

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Hydroelectric Power and Sustainable Development in Himachal Pradesh, India

Martin Grossman, Bridgewater State University
Madhu Rao, Bridgewater State Univeristy

Council Chambers

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Local Global Connections via Asian American Studies

Shirley S. Tang, University of Massachusetts Boston

Hanover Duxbury Room

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Navigating 18th Century Haiku: Translating the Poetry of Yosa Buson

Allan Persinger, Milwaukee Area Technical College

RCC 202

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

The Traditional Japanese Comedic Theater: Unveiling the Essence of Human Nature

Minae Yamamoto Savas, Bridgewater State University

RCC 202

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Turning into a Shadow: Textual Management of Sexual Violence in Taketori Monogatari

Otilia C. Milutin, University of British Columbia

RCC 202

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Vote of No Confidence: Elections and Democracy in College Student Organizations in China

Chun-Yi Sum, Boston University

Hanover Duxbury Room

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

WASH Education: Need for More than Water Treatment for Floating Villages in Cambodia

Kevin Curry, Bridgewater State University

Council Chambers

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM