Department of East Asian Languages & CulturesColumbia University

GradCon2018

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ThanksGradCon has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the following sponsors, to whom we wish to express our gratitude:

Center for Korean Research (CKR)

Center for International History (CIH)

Center on Japanese Economy and Business

Department of Art History and Archaeology

Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Department of History

Department of Religion

Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture (DKC)

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS)

Graduate Student Advisory Council Student Initiative Grant (GSAC SIG)

Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS)

Tang Center for Early China

Weatherhead East Asia Institute (WEAI)

Modern Tibetan Studies

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WelComeThe committee of the 27th annual graduate student conference on East Asia is delighted to welcome you to Columbia! We are privileged to play host to seventy-five presenters, hailing from thirty-seven institutions in eleven different countries. Over the next two days, we will have the opportunity to hear from graduate students who look at the East Asian region—and beyond it—through a wide range of captivating lenses, into the fields of literature, film studies, history, linguistics, and the social sciences. Presenters in turn will be able to receive the insights and construc-tive comments of renowned members of the academic communi-ty, including professors and research scholars from across North America.

This year, we have maintained our tradition of not picking a specific theme for the entire conference, but instead have allowed topics and issues to arise from the submitted papers themselves. Using their natural intersections, we hope to have created panels that will bring about fruitful discussion both within and across panels.

For the first time, we have gone paperless! However, if you have any queries, questions, or concerns, please do not hesitate to be in touch with us—we can always be found at the reception desk in the lobby of Kent Hall.

Tenggeer HaoEkaterina KomovaYuqing LuoMaho Miyazaki

Peter MoodyJennifer Reynolds-StrangeOliver WhiteYingchuan Yang

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Registration and coffee

Opening Remarks: Professor Wei ShangActing Chair,Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University

Keynote Speech: Professor John D. PhanColumbia University “The Problem of “Sinitic” in Vietnamese History: Language, Culture, and the Ghost of the Present” Lunch

Kent 40310:00

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Friday am

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Friday pmA1 Finding the Modern Boy in Interwar Japan

Discussant: Professor Thomas LooserModerator: Alexander Kaplan-Reyes

Café Architecture and Design in the Age of the Modern Boy Michelle Hauk Columbia University “I Wonder if Marx is Crying Underground”:An Exploration of the Marx Boy in Prewar Japan Katherine Capuder Columbia University

Mapping Merriment Modern Boys and Japanese Masculinities in Manga and Song Scott Miller Columbia University

Kent 411

panel a 1:00 - 3:00 fri

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A2 Gender and Performance in Late Imperial Chinese Literature

Discussant: Allison BernardModerator: Chia-Chen Tsai

Writing the New Frontier onto Chinese Map: Exilic Writings Composed in the Northeastern Region at Early Qing (1644~1700) Mingxi Liu Columbia University Male Same-Sex Marriage and Gender Reassignment Surgery in Chinese Vernacular Story: A Deconstructive Reading of Li Yu’s “A Male Mencius’ Mother” Sheng Chiang National Taiwan University Concubines’ Education and Domestic Relationships in Late Imperial China Sijing Zhang Washington University in St. Louis

Kent 522b

panel a 1:00 - 3:00 fri

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A3 State and Society Across Borders

Discussant: Professor Nicholas BartlettModerator: Danping Wang

The Chinese Party-State’s Use of Model Worker Narratives to Legitimize Reform and Maintain Order, 1977-1992 Bo Sørensen University of Oxford ‘Religious Discrimination’, the Secularism of The Republic of Korea Jung sue Rhee The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

That Bar Life. Spacial Economies and the Service Business in Shinjuku Ni-chome’s Gay Bars. Marcello Francioni SOAS, University of London Seeking India in China’s Academia: Lessons and Insights from Past and Present Nikita Makarchev & Yuan He University of Cambridge

Kent 511

panel a 1:00 - 3:00 fri

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A4 East Asian Tongues:Linguistic Interactions

Discussant: Christopher PeacockModerator: Liyao Chen

Tribute and Translation: Diplomatic Communications with Burma in Ming-Qing China Arina Mikhalevskaya Yale University

“What are you saying?” Ryukyuan and Japanese Codeswitching in a Japanese Drama Ryler Nielsen University of Hawaii

Jimin Oppa’s Abs Slay Me: How The International K-Pop Fandom Adopt and Adapt Korean Words Into English on Social Media Brittany Khedun-Burgoine University of Oxford

Philosophy 408a

panel a 1:00 - 3:00 fri

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B1 Performing Past and Present in Classical Japanese Literature

Discussant: Joshua SchlachetModerator: Oliver White

Cross-dressing in Noh: Gender Ambiguity and Multilayered Identity of Actor/Character Maho Miyazaki Columbia University Preface as a Tool of Reinventing LiterarySystem Maria Tsoy Lomonosov Moscow State University Oh How pitiful! Crying Children and DyingMaidens: On the Affective Modes of Narration in Sekkyo-bushi Ekaterina Komova Columbia University “She Took Too Long to Open theGate”: Michitsuna’s Mother and the Politics of Poetic Captions Iris Tomé-Valencia University of Oxford

Kent 411

panel b 3:15 - 5:15 fri

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B2 Diaspora and Migration

Discussant: Dr Peter HamiltonModerator: Yushuang Zheng

Indigo People: Production, Mobility, and Migration in Highland Southeast China, 1500-1870 Yiyun Peng Cornell University

Disorder in Diaspora: The Politics of the Family in the Chinese Community at Batavia, 1740-1811 Luther Cox Cenci University of British Columbia

Body and the Border: Karayuki-san in Shanghai during the Early Republican Era Qinglin Luan University of Illinois

Kent 522b

panel b 3:15 - 5:15 fri

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B3 Tibet in Transmission

Discussant: Dr Lauran R. Hartley Moderator: Tenzin Yewong Dongchung

Translating Sovereignty: The Tibet Conventions between Britain and China, 1904-1906 Ling-Wei Kung Columbia University

A Salesman’s Pitch: The First Car Sales Advertisement in Tibet Mirror Sonam Tsering Columbia University

Kent 511

panel b 3:15 - 5:15 fri

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B4 Displaced Subjectivities in the Japanese Colonial Empire

Discussant: Clay Eaton Moderator: Mengheng Lee

Migrating Bodies and Imperial Space in Yi T’ae-jun’s “Record of a Journey to Manchuria” (1938) Moxi Zhang University of Hong Kong

The Surprising Presence of China in Japanese-Occupied Korea: Descriptions of China in the Magazines Changjo and Kaebyŏk Minseung Kim Washington University in St. Louis

Philosophy 408a

panel b 3:15 - 5:15 fri

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B5 Paranormal Activities in Modern Literature and Films

Discussant: Tenggeer Hao Moderator: Stephen Choi

The Political Allegory behind a Ghost Story:The Meaning behind “The Ghost of the Winter Palace” Xue Song Peking University

Ghost from the Future: Transforming Tradition and Temporalities in the Film Rouge Yuqing Liu University of British Columbia

panel b 3:15 - 5:15 fri

Kent 522a

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Dinner & Happy Hour

Come and join your fellow presenters and students from the Columbia EALAC community for a huge slice of New York pizza and drinks!

(...the slice is of pizza, not drinks. Nobody slices drinks. That’s just silly!)

Kent 4035:00 - 7:30

saTurday amCoffee, breakfast & chat Kent 40310:00

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Friday pm

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C1 Putting Scientific Knowledge into Practice in Modern China

Discussant: Dr Lan Li Moderator: Yingchuan Yang

Between Disease and Spirit Possession: Madness in the Mid-Eighteenth Century Yujie Pu University of Illinois

Translating with Tradition - Chinese and Japanese Approaches to Organic Chemistry Nomenclature Jennifer Strange Columbia University

“Chairman Mao’s Menpa”: Ethnic Hygiene Teams and Nation-state Building on China’s Ethnic Frontiers in the 1950s Xiaoshun Zeng University of Washington

Children, Science and the Enlightenment Discourse in the 1980s’ China: A Case Study on the Juvenile Scientific Pictorial Si Zhou, National University of Singapore

panel c 11:00 - 1:00 sat

Kent 413

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C2 Colonial Korea and Its Legacy

Discussant: Professor Charles Armstrong Moderator: Sulim Kim

Itinerant Bodies: Haengryŏ Death, Mobility and the Modern State in Early 20th Century Korea Ye Seul Byeon University of Chicago

Mobilizing Motherhood: Gendered Discourses of War, Empire, and Nation in Colonial Korea, 1937-1945 Stella Kim Columbia University

Fertilizing the Empire and War: A Colonial Military-Industrial Complex in North Korea Peter Moody Columbia University

Building a New World: North and South Korean Economic Development and the Colonial Legacy Natalia Matveeva SOAS, University of London

panel c 11:00 - 1:00 sat

Kent 405

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C3 Buddhist Practices and Discourses

Discussant: Professor Michael Como Moderator: Guy St. Amant

Sakyamuni Greeting the Faithful: An Alternate Interpretation of Sakyamuni and Attendant Bodhisattvas in a Landscape Valerie Zinner Columbia University

The Power of a Scripture: Self-immolation, Death, and Enlightenment in the Lotus Sūtra Iris (Lanxin) Zhang Columbia University

panel c 11:00 - 1:00 sat

Kent 411

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C4 Contesting Voices in Premodern China

Discussant: Professor Ethan Harkness Moderator: Chris Kim

Different But Divine: Strange Foreigners in Early Medieval Chinese Cosmography Oliver Hargrave University of Oxford

Lifetime Shortened, Child Ghosts, and the Reconstitution of Identity: The Premature Dead in Entombed Texts from Chu Region, 400 BC to 200 AD Xiang Li Columbia University

Cosmic grottoes and Time in Tang poetry Chen Hainebach Tel Aviv University

“Apologies” for Self: The Identity Anxiety of Literati in the Han Dynasty Ying Wu Peking University

panel c 11:00 - 1:00 sat

Kent 423

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C5 European Eyes of Chinese Art

Discussant: Jeewon Kim Moderator: Di Luo

Framing Chinese art in the French Concession and the British Colony: A Case Study of the Dealer-Collector Edward T. Chow in Shanghai and Hong Kong Ivy Chan SOAS, University of London

Reflexive Surfaces and Monumental Engagement: East Asian Porcelain in the Reshaping of European Antiquarianism Feng He Heidelberg University

Kent 424

panel c 11:00 - 1:00 sat

saTurday pmLunch Kent 4031:00 -

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D1 Mad, Liminal, Fragmented, and Horrific: Gendered Manifestations in Postwar Korean Culture

Discussant: Dr Jenny Wang Medina Moderator: Yon Ji Lee

All the Madwomen: Women’s Madness, Sexuality, Identity, and Desire in Modern Korean Literature Monica Cho University of Californa, Irvine

Cleaving the Cultural Orphan in the Construction of Gendered Subjectivities in Postwar South Korea Iris Kim, Columbia University

유령이 신체를 얻을 때 (When a Ghost Attains a Body): Debilitating Matter in Contemporary South Korea Jeong Eun We, Rutgers University

Strange Intimacies: Reading for Migration and Prostitution in Kang Young-sook’s Rina and Oh Jung-hee’s “Chinatown” Joo Kyung Lee, Columbia University

Kent 413

panel d 2:00 - 4:00 sat

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D2 Localism and the Vernacular in Late Imperial Chinese Literature

Discussant: Professor Wei Shang Moderator: Yifan Zhang

Making Cakes Out of Morning Dew: Wu Vernacular in the Mid-Qing Novella, He Dian 何典 (Which Classic?) Yichun Xu Ohio State University

Transforming the Riddles: Chun dengmi and Ruan Dacheng’s Playwriting Jiayi Chen University of Chicago

Poetry, Illustration, and Aesthetic Thought in the Late Ming--Case of the Shiyu huapu ≪詩餘畫譜≫ Linlin Chen Peking University

Kent 405

panel d 2:00 - 4:00 sat

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D3 Presence and Absence in Modern Sinitic Literature

Discussants: Siwei Wang, David Xu Borgonjon

We Can Save Ourselves: The Relationship of Individual Freedom and Determinism in Republican Era Religious Literary Modernity Gina Elia University of Pennsylvania

Bodily Remains and Textual Hauntings: Luo Yijun’s Forgetting Sorrow Keyun Tian Duke University

The Language of Love and Violence: Towards Sinophone Ecocriticism Jannis Jizhou Chen Harvard University

Kent 411

panel d 2:00 - 4:00 sat

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D4 Military Officials, Historians, Poets, and Cultists: Reconsidering the Formation of Song Elite Identities Roundtable

Moderator: Dongming Wu

Poets Who Didn’t Know It: Poetry and Identity in Early Northern Song China (960-1063) Zach Berge-Becker Columbia University

On Protection Privilege, Dynasty Building, and Elite Making: The Case of She Family Eric Lee Columbia University

The Building of the Image of Tang “Nefarious Officials” in the New Tang History (Xin Tang shu) Youlan Yu Columbia University

A Preliminary Research on Zigu (the Purple Maiden) Cult in the Song Dynasty: Yijian zhi (Record of the Listener) as the Main Source Yuqing Luo Columbia University

Kent 423

panel d 2:00 - 4:00 sat

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D5 Snapshots: Technology and Photos in Japan

Discussant: Maggie Mustard Moderator: Scott Miller

Kurokawa Suizan and Mt. Fuji: Inter-Iconicity, Indirect Indexicality, and Photographic Temporality Ezra Toback University of California, Berkeley

Japanese Cameras as Sites for US-Japanese Relations, 1950-1986 William Chou Ohio State University

Kent 424

panel d 2:00 - 4:00 sat

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E1 Expressive Politics in Contemporary China

Discussant: Chloe Estep Moderator: Yanjie Huang

Socialist Media, Capitalist Sounds: Magnetic Audiotape in the Rise and Fall of China’s Maoist Revolution Chuan Xu Columbia University

Power, Sensible and the Centralized Political Theater in ’89 Tiananmen Protest Yanhua Zhou University of Arizona

A Genderless Utopia?: Women’s Consumption of Danmei Writings in China Yanling Li Stony Brook University

Corporeality, Affect and Place: Expressive Bodies in Jia Zhangke’s Films Xinyi Zhao Columbia University

Kent 413

panel e 4:15 - 6:15 sat

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E2 Disability Across East Asia

Discussant: Dr Tyran Grillo Moderator: Yiran Cheng

Writing Down Our Happiness and Dream: State Ritual, Discourse, and Chinese Deaf Identity in the Making. The Case Study of an Essay Contest (2016) Zihao Lin Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin

The Tokyo Paralympics Handover Show, Sheena Ringo, and Performing Disability Xuting Zhang Columbia University

Representation of Disability in the Chinese Cartoon Production Dream Catching Tianqi Luo Columbia University

Kent 405

panel e 4:15 - 6:15 sat

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E3 Popular Prose in Picture: Early Modern Japanese Literature

Discussants: Dr Matthieu Felt & Yiwen ShenModerator: Maho Miyazaki

Beyond Good and Evil: Personifications of Righteous Rice Cakes and Naughty Alcohol in Santō Kyōden’s Work Onikoroshi kokoro no tsuno-daru Elena Follador University of Cambridge

A Novel Navel: Proverbs, Pictures and Performances in a bakumatsu hanashibon Series Oliver White Columbia University

Reading Theatre: Illustrated Japanese Nō Manuscripts between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period Berenice Moeller University of Hamburg

Kent 411

panel e 4:15 - 6:15 sat

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E4 New Modes of Representation in Japan and Korea

Discussant: Tyler Walker Moderator: Michelle Hauk

Borders of “Girls’ World”: Defining National Character, Love, and the Shōjo in the Pages of Shōjo Sekai Francesca Pizarro University of Hawaii

Revisiting the Radical Feminism of Korean New Women Writers Dharshani Jayasinghe Stanford University

Idols, Celebrities, and Fans During the Time of Disaster Rio Katayama University of Southern California

Kent 423

panel e 4:15 - 6:15 sat

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E5 Pollution Killed the Radio Star: Science and Politics in Modern Japan

Discussant: Professor Paul Kreitman Moderator: Isaac Chun-Kiang Tan

The Construction of Studio as a Space of Experiments: Takemitsu Tōru, Magnetic Tape, and the Radio Studio Aya Saiki Cornell University

Desk Work Violence and the Expropriation of the Local Kevin Richardson University of California, Los Angeles

Kent 424

panel e 4:15 - 6:15 sat

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Dinner for participants

Dinner and drinks are on us!Mexican Festival 2672 Broadway(Broadway and W 102nd Street)

Party

Please join us at Mexican Festival for drinks (both tequila-based and otherwise), music (there may or may not be a Mariachi band) and dancing. All very much welcome!$5 drinks all night.

7:30

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