The schedule is still subject to change until the registration deadline.
Registration
Panel 1: China's History: Twentieth Century I
Room 1225A
Chair: Yan Liu, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Zhixin Luo, Binghamton ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
"Orphan and Widow, A Thousand Years of Sorrow”: The Funeral of Empress Dowager Longyu and the Politics of the Expression of Sorrow in the Early Republican China
Wenhao Guan, The Ohio State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Combining Geographical Knowledge with China’s National Humiliation: Modern Geographical Education, Nation-Building & Shanghai’s Publishing Industry, 1902-1937
Yue Wang, The Chinese ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Hong Kong
Reform of Guangzhou's fire protection system and urban safety during the Republic of China period
Qiyuan Liu, Yale ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
In Search of Theory: The Genesis of Contemporary Chinese Photography (1976-1989)
Panel 2: China’s Foreign Relations through Development
Room 1226
Chair: Opinder Kaur, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Harry Febrian, Wenzhou-Kean ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Infrastructure Narrative: Dyadic Communication in China's Belt and Road Initiative in Indonesia
Clement Broche, Université du Québec à Montréal
China’s Presence in Africa: Between Contradictions and Ambivalences
Panel 3: Migration and migrants
Room 1225B
Chair: Natalie Sarrazin, SUNY Brockport
Kunio Nishikawa, Ibaraki ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Management of Migrant Labor at Farm Sites in Japan: Changes due to Economic Development in Asian Developing Countries
Mehria Nessar, Cornell ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Potentialities of Disruption & Daily Living in Diaspora: Rhythm as an Analytic in Ethnographic and Phenomenological Studies of Migration
Siyang Luo, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Rochester
Marleigh Grayer Ryan Awardee
Pandemic Echoes: Chinese Nationalism and the Transnational Student’s Dilemma
Chul Namgung, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of California, Los Angeles
Behind Amity and Friendship: Problems in Leftist-Pacifist Recognition of Zainichi Koreans’ Alien Status
Panel 4: Adaptations and Innovations: Exploring New Directions in the Study of Contemporary Chinese Religion
Room 2213A
Chair: Gareth Fisher, Syracuse ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Taolin Liu, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Virginia
Buddhism, Women, and the Local Religious Ecology of Fengshun County, Guangdong: A Case Study of the Taiping Monastery
Shuman Liu, The Chinese ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Hong Kong
The Revival and Re-invention of Buddhist Temple Tea Traditions: The Case of Wenshu Monastery
Ray Qu, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Virginia
The Religious Capacity to Aspire and the Politics of Hope under Medical Authoritarianism in North China
Jinqing Liang, Duke ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Journey to the West: An Ethnographic Study of the Fawang Temple
Panel 5: Confucian ideology and cultural influence
Room 2213B
Chair: Mark Nathan, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Sueun Chae, Syracuse ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Appropriating the Confucian Ideology: Yun Ch’iho’s (1865-1945) Disapproval of the Japanese Slogan of the Kingly Way Nation in the 1930s
Joonsik Yoon, Syracuse ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Transcending Intergenerational Distance in Korean Immigrant Families: The Emergence of ‘Avoidant Filial Piety’
Jesse LeFebvre, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Rochester
Rotting Relationships, Flesh-Eating Zombies, and the Confucian Hell-on-Earth of Netflix’s Kingdom
Panel 6: Critical Approaches to the “Asian Century”: From Gender Relations to Environmental Concern
Room 1226
Chair: Tsugumi (Mimi) Okabe, Baruch College
Ainslee Rose, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
The Connection between Hegemonic Masculinity and Internalized Racism in Asian American Men
Ashleigh Lucina, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Lily Garden: Exploring Lesbian and Female Homoromantic Narratives in Japanese Manga
Wren Heron, Independent Scholar
Making Visible the Invisible: The Relationship of Queer/Trans Asian Pacific Islander Anthologies to Archival Practice
Panel 7: Higher Education and Internationalization
Room 1225A
Chair: Sean MacDonald, Huron ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ College
Guo Wu, Allegheny College
Listening to the Voices from China: A Non-'Western-Centered' Pedagogical Approach
Qiong Liu, Virginia Military Institute
Navigating Love and Learning: Innovating History Education at a Military Institute
Sean Macdonald, Huron ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ College, Canada
Chinese Studies in the 21st Century
Panel 8: The Silent Revolution in India's Music Education Practices
Room 1225B
Chair: Natalie Sarrazin, SUNY Brockport
Natalie Sarrazin, SUNY Brockport
National Education Policy 2020 and the Future of Indian Music Education
Aditi Krishna, O.P. Jindal Global ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, India
Classical Music, Tradition, and Organizations in India: Music Education Revisited
Rachel Schuck, The ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of North Texas
Creative Pastiches of Hegemony: Classical Music Ideology and Pedagogy in South Indian Western Music Conservatories
Panel 9: Roundtable on Innovative Approaches to Teaching East Asian Languages and Cultures
Room 2213A
Chair: Mitsuaki Shimojo, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Mitsuaki Shimojo, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Hyein Amber Kim, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Chuan Lin, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Chihiro Heckman, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Xianxian Fang, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Panel 10: Different Asias, Different Lives: Text &/vs Context in Literature and Film from Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines
Room 2220A
Chair: Nicholas Kaldis, Binghamton ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Nicholas Kaldis, Binghamton ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Collateral Damage of the Cold War[?]: Wang Wen-hsing’s Family Catastrophe
David Stahl, Binghamton ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Unthinkable Lived Realities: Oppressive Ideologies, Historical Violence and Counter- Hegemonic Narrative in Kurosawa Akira’s Rashōmon
Phillip B. Guingona, Nazareth ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
The Hierarchy of Asianness: Philippine Observations of China in the Early Twentieth Century
Panel 11: Women’s Voices Emerging from Trauma
Room 1227
Chair: Patricia Welch, Hofstra ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Soohee Jang, Dong-a ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, Korea
Eyes of Dawn: Translation and Border Crossing in the Era of Japanese Military 'Comfort Women' Narratives
Kavita Gawrinauth, Adelphi ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Marleigh Grayer Ryan Awardee
Bound by Love: Uncovering Familial Love and Sisterhood among Chinese Comfort Women during World War II
Panel 12: Trade and Economic Development
Room 2213B
Chair: Vida Vanchan, Buffalo State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Ning Liao, New Jersey City ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Geoeconomics, Techno-nationalism, and Global Value Chains: Dissecting the U.S.-China Rivalry through a Tech Lens
Vida Vanchan, Buffalo State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Xingwang Qian, Buffalo State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
FDI in ASEAN Countries: US Decoupling Strategies?
Chih-Yuan Lin, New School for Social Research
Shadow Titans: Unveiling the Credit Crisis of China's Local Government Financing Vehicles
Welcoming Remarks
President Satish K. Tripathi, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of New York
Keynote address
Kaiser Kuo, Founder and Host, Sinica Podcast
Can American Exceptionalism Accommodate Chinese Exceptionalism in the Asian Century?
NYCAS 2024 Reception
Jacobs School of Medicine Atrium
Musical performance at 42 North Brewing
674 Main Street, Buffalo (next to Shea's Performing Arts Center)
0.6 miles from the conference venue (about a 15-minute walk or 1 metro stop)
No tickets or cover charge. Attendees will pay for their own food and beverages.
NYCAS Executive Board meeting
K-12 Teacher Workshop
The History of Medicine in Asia
Designed for K-12 teachers, but open to all NYCAS 2024 attendees
Presenters:
Yan Liu, Associate Professor of History, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Jin Hee (Genie) Yoo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks
Shireen Hamza, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Panel 13: Law and Human Rights
Room 1225B
Chair: Tiantian Zheng, SUNY Cortland
Tiantian Zheng, SUNY Cortland
Intercultural Impact on Activism on Intimate Partner Violence in China
Mary Szto, Syracuse ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
The Origins of Anti-Asian Racism and Restorative Justice as a Healing Balm
Sharif Hazoori
Taliban 1.0 vs 2.0 in Afghanistan: Same Policies, Persistent Vision
Panel 14: Addressing Environmental Concerns in Asia
Room 2213A
Chair: Swathi Karamcheti, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Antarlina Bhattacharjee, Independent Researcher
Navigating the Resource Frontier: Political Ecology and Landscape Transformations in Northeast India
Pema Dorjee, Amnye Machen institute
Impact of Tibet Runoff Changes on Socio-economic Development in Southeast Asia
Achim Koeddermann, SUNY Oneonta
To a Fair Distribution of Water in Central Asia
Panel 15: China’s history: Early 20th century II
Room 2213B
Chair: Kristin Stapleton, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Arden Chao, Sewanee: the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of the South
Fractured Representation: The Collapse of Chinese Representative Democracy in Early 20th Century
Xiaoliang Yang, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Pennsylvania
Decline of the West, Rise of the East, and Chinese Classicalism: Liang Qichao’s History of Pre-Qin Political Thoughts
Huanjun Zhou, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Toronto, Department of History
Evolutionary Revolution: Revisiting Sino-British Extraterritoriality Negotiations, 1929-1931
Panel 16: Diplomacy and international relations in East Asia
Room 2220A
Chair: Kevin Cai, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Waterloo
Monazir Khan, Independent Scholar
The New Asian Century and the Imaginings of Asian Societies and States under Historical Capitalism: A Tentative Framework
Seong-Hyon Lee, Harvard ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
East Asian Powerhouse: Prospects for Collaboration Among South Korea, Japan, and China
Joshua Rota-Tebb, Montclair State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Power Struggles and Elite Response to Existential Crises: A Comparative Study of Communist China and Imperial Japan
Panel 17: Emergent Literary Forms in South Asia
Room 2220B
Chair: Sharmeen Mehri, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Sharmeen Mehri, Department of English, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½,
Contemporary Parsi Women Writers: Transcultural Memory and Dissymmetrical Relationships
Shantam Goyal, Department of English, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Mira Nair's Complex Classes
Tasneem Hamead, Department of English, Syracuse ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Veils, Plagues, and Burials: The Blighted Sri Lankan Muslim Body
Apoorv Pandey, Department of English, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Rochester
“Neither Queer nor Mother India: A Comparative Reading of Anita Desai's Rosarita and Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand”
Panel 18: Japanese History, Literature, and Culture
Room 1226
Chair: Mitsuaki Shimojo, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Kinji Ito, Appalachian State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Japanese Culture in a Global Context
Tim Cooper III, Sienna College
The Heavenly Principle of Happiness: Kaibara Ekiken’s Prescription for ‘the Good Life’ in Tokugawa Japan
Panel 19: Labor, Migration, and the Environment
Room 1225B
Sophie Qi, Columbia ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Escaping the Big Rat: The Survival, Legitimization, and Decline of Hawkers in Colonial Hong Kong, 1945-1975
Hyeona Shin, Pusan National ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Competition between Capital and Labor, Making a Heavy Industry Family - Multiple Scale of Region, Labor, and Family, and Gender Topography
Julia Godart, UQAM (Canada), Université Paris Cité (France)).
From Coolies to Transnational Agents: Evolution and Reinterpretation of the Chinese Labor Corps' Role in Shaping Modern China.
Surabhi Pant, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Socio-Ecological Reproduction: Intensive Gendered Labor in Northern Himalayas
Panel 20: Creating a Sense of Belonging for Asian and Asian American Students at Monroe Community College (Roundtable)
Room 1226
Chair: Christina Lee
Christina Lee, Monroe Community College
Judicheal Razafintsalama, Monroe Community College
Nadia Jamal, Monroe Community College
Panel 21: Language as Target and Source: Transcriptions, Translations, Codes, and Policies in South Asia
Room 2220A
Chair: Walter Hakala, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Walter Hakala, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Improvised Texts: Hearing Local Forms of Urdu
Raana Jilani, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
The Impact of Urdu Nationalism on Pakistan’s Regional Languages: A Socio-historical Analysis
Caitlyn Marentette, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Michigan
Translating Languages, Translating Performance: Lebedev’s Screening of Jodrell in Colonial Calcutta
Vipin Krishna, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Pittsburgh
Developing the Sciences of Detection in Late Nineteenth-Century North India
Panel 22: Revisiting the Chinese Revolution: A Critical Approach
Room 2220B
Chair: Jenny Day, Skidmore College
Chuxu Lu, New York ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
A Pioneering Path: He-Yin Zhen’s Anarchafeminism
Kristin Stapleton, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Revisiting a Revolutionary Life: An Update on Hu Lanqi
Jenny Day, Skidmore College
In Search of Song Qingling: a Literary Review
Yingchuan Yang, Columbia ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Red Sounds of the East: Zhou Enlai and the Technologized Aurality of a Revolutionary Song
Discussant: Mao Chen, Skidmore College
Panel 23: Health, Medicine and Psychology
Room 2213A
Saeed Ahmad, Tampere ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, Finland
Assessing Health Disparities and Access: Afghan Refugee Health in Pakistan through Data-Driven Analysis
Keping Wu, Duke Kunshan ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Community Care of the Elderly: Aging in Urbanizing China
Nicholas Bartlett, Barnard College
Toward the Study of a “Crowd-Like” Groups in China
Panel 24: LGBTQ+ in Asia
Room 2213B
Chair: Nathen Clerici, SUNY New Paltz
Zihao Yuan, Teachers College, Columbia ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
A Call for Advocacy and Empathy: A Study of Gay Men in Chinese Dance
Bishal Pandey, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Cincinnati
Gendered Public Spaces: Transgender Women's Access and Experiences in Kathmandu, Nepal
Prateek Srivastava
Queering the Economic Crises: Debt, Development and LGBTQ+ Enterprises in Sri Lanka
Lakshmi Bulathsinghala, SUNY Binghamton
Voices Unvoiced: The Rejection of Homosexuality in Sri Lanka and its Effect on Human Lives
Panel 25: Fandom and Social Media
Room 1227
Chair: Stephanie Choi, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Xiaodan Wang, Duke ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Alienation of Labors and Fans in Asian Digital Economy - From Digital Labor to Emotional Labor
Stephanie Choi, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Women in K-pop: Deinstitutionalizing the Masculine Industry
Liz Carter, Vassar College
Social Media Addiction: The Framing of Emerging Internet Use Issues in China and Beyond
Boxed lunch served to all registered participants
NYCAS 2024 business meeting
Keynote Address:
Hyaeweol Choi, Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Iowa, President, Association for Asian Studies
Recipes for Everyday Life Politics in Global Korea
Panel 26: Labor, Visible and Invisible: How to Build Cultural Influence in Asian Diaspora
Room 1225A
Chair: Xin Chen, Buffalo State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Jean Amato, SUNY-Fashion Institute of Technology
Helena Kuo’s Legacy: Lost Labor in Translation
Xin Chen, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Laboring for Influence: Challenges of Chinese Game Creators in the US Market
Kyunghee Pyun, Fashion Institute of Technology, Art History
Domestic Labor in Transnational Living: All That Falls Has Wings by Yi Mun-yol (1988)
Chair: Yuhao Chen, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Pittsburgh
Shu Wan, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Making the Chinese Deaf People Useful: The Politics of Deafness in 1950s China
Yuhao Chen, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Pittsburgh
Durée of Pain: Learning to Read in LMS Hospitals, 1917−1927
Bingwan Tian, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Critical Analysis of Policy Learning in Regular Classrooms (LRC) in Contemporary China
Panel 28: Creative Approaches in Japanese Language Pedagogy: Literacy, Communication, Culture (Roundtable)
Room 2213A
Chair: Patricia Welch, Hofstra ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Roundtable presenters:
Patricia Welch (Chair), Hofstra ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Chihiro Heckman, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Akemi Sakamoto Isselbaecher, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Mikuko Nagashima, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Nathen Clerici, SUNY New Paltz
Hiromi Dollase, Vassar College
Mitsuaki Shimojo, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Panel 29: History: China and Hong Kong
Room 2213B
Chair: Qiu Jin Hailstork, Old Dominion ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Ka Shing So, Binghamton ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Marleigh Grayer Ryan Awardee
Practices and Techniques of Gold Smuggling in Cold War Hong Kong
Qiu Hailstork, Old Dominion ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Mao's Tour to South China and the Lin Biao Incident
Ranting Zhang, Columbia ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
"Global City" or "the Paris of the East": 21st-Century Shanghai and its Imperialist Memory
Panel 30: Religion and Ritual in China and Vietnam
Room 1226
Chair: Gareth Fisher, Syracuse ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Lauren Meeker, SUNY New Paltz
The Power of the Marginal: Female Ritual Power and Social Belonging in Rural Vietnamese Lineages
Shin-Yi Chao, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Rochester
Traditionalization in Village Religion in China in Late Imperial and Present Times
Panel 31: Qing/Choson History
Room 1225A
Chair: Mark Nathan, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Hector Sanchez, Syracuse ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Writing Sex in Late Chosŏn Korea: Sources on Late-Chosŏn Male-Male Sexuality
Yamin Xu, Le Moyne College
Nurhaci's State and Its Kinship Foundation
Kevin Wang, Syracuse ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Demarcating the Islands: Nineteenth-Century Qing-Chosŏn Negotiations and Border-making in the Yellow Sea Region
Panel 32: Music and Performance
Room 1225B
Chair: Stephanie Choi, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Suk Gabriel Choi, Towson ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies
An Introduction to Korean Aesthetics: Korean Pungryu (風流) Music
Austin Young, Bowling Green State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
The Fantasy of Takarazuka
Panel 33: Literature
Room 2213A
Chair: Shu Wan, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Fang Lu, Boston College
The Cross-cultural Healing Power of the Six Chapters of a Floating Life -- Lin Yutang’s Discourse on the Art of Living and his Translation of Shen Fu’s Memoir
Nicholas Albertson, Colgate ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Radical Sympathies in the "Robe of Love" Poems
Kunkyab Pasang
Representation of Women and Social Mobility in the Gesar Epic
Suhail Islam, Nazareth ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Literature of the Oppressed: Dalit Literature in South Asian and Global Conext
Panel 34: East Asian Politics
Room 2213B
Chair: Satoshi Machida, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Nebraska-Kearney
Changxin Xu, Syracuse ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Does Increased Attention Lead to Better Policy Performance? Autonomy as An Analytical Tool in Contemporary Chinese Politics
Satoshi Machida, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Nebraska-Kearney
External Threats and Political Engagements in Japan
David Zhong, Independent Scholar
From Decentralization to Consolidation: CCP’s Reshaping of China’s Legislative System in the New Era
Panel 35: Caste, Gender and Local Elites in North India, Room 1226
Chair: Aniket Pankaj Aga, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Anupriya Pandey, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Gender in Caste Ecologies: Dalit Women Negotiating “Freedoms” within the Pesticide Nexus in India.
Amrita Chakraborty, Cornell ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
“Our Own Small World”: Coalitional Possibilities, World-Making, and Failure in Neeraj Ghaywan’s Geeli Pucchi (2021)