Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University

Aesthetic Beauty in the 18th Century Chinese Novel Guwanyan (Preposterous Words)

Qing Ye, University of Oregon

Council Chambers

9:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Follow the E-Learning Road to Learning about East Asia

Anne E. Prescott, Five Colleges, Incorporated

RCC 202

9:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Global and Local: Asian Studies Program at Bridgewater State University

Wing-kai To, Bridgewater State University

RCC 202

9:00 AM - 10:45 AM

K-16 Education Outreach in Asian Studies: MCC and ASDP

Dona M. Cady, Middlesex Community College - Bedford

RCC 202

9:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Primary Source: Gateway to Asia for Educators

Peter Gilmartin, Primary Source

RCC 202

9:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Rainbow Dance, Inkling of Collapse or Symbol of Eternal Love

Melody Yunzi Li, Washington University in St.Louis

Council Chambers

9:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Searching in the Dark - Han Learning and the Controversy of 1799 Metropolitan Exam

Shiu On Chu, Brown University

Council Chambers

9:00 AM - 10:45 AM

The China Program Center at U Mass Boston

Wanli Hu, University of Massachusetts Boston

RCC 202

9:00 AM - 10:45 AM

The East India Company's 1835 Currency Reform

Ian Barrow, Middlebury College

RCC Small Ballroom

9:00 AM - 10:45 AM

The Folk Music of Rajasthan, India

Salil Sachdev, Bridgewater State University

RCC Small Ballroom

9:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Be Not Afraid of Greatness: Shakespeare Under Lu Xun's Eyes

Joseph Poon, The University of Hong Kong

Council Chambers

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Late Qing Themes in Eileen Chang: Gender, Modernity, and the Household in Decline

Samuel Y. Liang, Utah Valley University

Council Chambers

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Marco Polo - Pioneer of the East-West Communication and Trade Link

Chien Wen Yu, Bridgewater State University

Council Chambers

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Narrating Self and Supper: Food in the Works of Ogawa Yoko

Amanda Seaman, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

RCC 202

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Ovulation as a Mode of Thinking and Letting Go: Tawada Yoko's The Unfertilized Egg

Robin L. Tierney, Bridgewater State College

RCC 202

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Painting Taiwan's Modern Identity

Shelley D. Hawks, Middlesex Community College - Bedford

RCC Demo Room

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Recreating Traditional Japan in Brinkley's Japan, Described and Illustrated by the Japanese

Daniel J. Johnson, Bridgewater State University

RCC Demo Room

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Washing Outside the Bath: The Impure Girl's Body in Uchida Shungiku's Early Manga and Fiction

Eve Zimmerman, Wellesley College

RCC 202

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Are the Cartesian and Yogic Conceptions of the Self the Same?

Heather Salazar, Western New England University

Hanover Duxbury Room

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Balance Through Acting: Taking the Drama Out of Drama

Karen Oster, Middlesex Community College - Bedford

RCC 202

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Between Regional and National Identity: Spectacle and Festival in Modern Japan

Sean H. McPherson, Bridgewater State University

Council Chambers

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Feast & Famine: Food & Power in Contemporary Chinese Fiction & Film

Cathy McCarron, Middlesex Community College - Bedford

RCC 202

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Harmonizing Poetic Expressivity and Craft: Rūpa Gosvāmin’s Citrakavitvāni

David Buchta, Brown University

Hanover Duxbury Room

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Living with Circularity: Realist Responses to Nāgārjuna’s Skeptical Attack

Matthew R. Dasti, Bridgewater State University

Hanover Duxbury Room

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Maneuvering Modernity: Family Law as a Battle Field in Colonial Taiwan (1895-1945)

Yun-Ru Chen, Harvard University

RCC Small Ballroom

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Negotiating Colonialism and Chineseness: Museums, Tours, and Heritage Preservation in Pearl River Delta, Macau, and Hong Kong

Wing-kai To, Bridgewater State University

Council Chambers

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Representing the Self: Southeast Asian Contemporary Art

Jan Arabas, Middlesex Community College - Bedford

RCC 202

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Teaching Eurasia with Owen Lattimore

David Kalivas, Middlesex Community College - Bedford

RCC 202

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Cult of Ho Chi Minh: Commemoration and Contestation

Dat Manh Nguyen, Boston University

Council Chambers

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Formation of 'Colonial Monetary Area' in Hongkong and Taiwan

Bae Sung Joon, Northeast Asian History Foundation

RCC Small Ballroom

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Confronting Cultural Difference in the Establishment of a Global Zen Community

Joshua A. Irizarry, Bridgewater State University

RCC 202

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Has China Moved from Global Standard Setter to Market Winner? The Rise and Fall of Chinese Standard TD-SCDMA

Ching-Jung Tsai, National Chengchi University, IIR

Council Chambers

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Microfinance and Poverty Reduction in Rural Southwest China: The Yilong Experience

John Tian, Connecticut College

Council Chambers

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Representing the People: Chinese Capitalists in Early PRC Diplomacy

Christopher Leighton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

RCC Small Ballroom

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

The Japanization of Okinawan Karate

Craig Colbeck, Eckerd College

RCC 202

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Varieties of Bureaucrats, Varieties of Capitalism: The Origins of Developmental Paths in Local China

Ling Chen, Stanford University

Council Chambers

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM