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Department of East Asian Languages & CulturesColumbia University
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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 International History
Center on Japanese Economy and Business
Center for Korean Research
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
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Arts and Sciences Graduate Council Student Initiative Grant
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Tang Center for Early China
Weatherhead East Asia Institute
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WelcomeThe committee of the 28th annual graduate student conference on East Asia is delighted to welcome you to Columbia!
We are privileged to play host to 57 presenters, hailing from 17 institutions in 5 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 constructive comments of renowned members of the academic community, 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.
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.
David BorgonjonRyo KawashimaMeng Heng Lee
Melissa LiKristin Elizabeth Schreiner
Chuan XuDanping Wang
Siwei Wang
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Friday 2/15
10:00-10:30
10:45-11:00
11:00-12:00
12:10-12:45
Registration and Coffee
Opening Remarks Paul Anderer Keynote Speech Nicholas Bartlett
Lunch
Kent 300 - Level Lobby
Kent 403
Kent 403
Kent 403
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Friday 2/151-3pm - Panel A
Kent 403
A1. Commodities in the Global Age (Discussant: Madeleine Zelin)
China Tea Company: The Rise of Chinese Tea Merchants in Early 20th-Century World Economy Hounong Li (Columbia University)
“Japan’s Coffer:” Early Attempts to Access Hokkaido’s Black Diamond
Thomas Avila Flippin (Columbia University)
A Taste Manufactured: Chinese MSG before the Myth of the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, 1923-1968
Xiaoyi Li (Columbia University)
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Friday 2/151-3pm - Panel A
Kent 411
A2. State and Society in Imperial Japan
(Discussant: Paul Kreitman)
Theorizing Imperial Japan: Socialism, Fascism and Japanism Through the Writings of Kita Ikki and Tosaka Jun
Filippo Gradi (Princeton University)
Education as a Remedy: An Analysis of Education Committees in Taishō Japan, 1912-1926
Yu-Han Serena Ma (Princeton University)
Managing Rush Hour in Wartime Tokyo, 1938-1945Brian Rogers (Princeton University)
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Friday 2/151-3pm - Panel A
Kent 511
A3. Textual Practices in Premodern China
(Discussant: Harrison Huang)
Making a Text and Writing the Self: An Allegorical Reading of the “Li Sao”
Guoying Gong (Columbia University)
Learning Like an Ancient: A Scholarly Nostalgia in China’s Late Antiquity
Yixin Gu (Princeton University)
Tall Mountains, Flowing Waters, and Good Friends: A Case Study on the Construction of a
Qin-Zither Musical CanonZach Berge-Becker (Columbia University)
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Friday 2/153:15-5:15pm - Panel B
Kent 403
B1. Imaging Techniques and the
Birth of Modern China (Discussant: Jonathan M. Reynolds)
Fiction as Intermedia: Photography and Formation of Modern Chinese Fiction in the Late Qing Empire, 1840-1911
Chung-Wei Yang (Columbia University)
Reconfiguring the National Frontier: Disenchantment and Re-enchantment in Zhuang Xueben’s Photography, 1934-1948
Menglan Chen (Harvard University)
The Dark Side of Lu Xun: Medical Technology, Visual Metaphor, and the Therapy of Modern China
Yingchuan Yang (Columbia University)
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Friday 2/153:15-5:15pm - Panel B
Kent 411
B2. Religion and Narratives
(Discussant: Riga Shakya)
Portraying Religious Lives and Personages: Culture and Practice of Life Writing
in Tibet during the 13th to 15th CenturiesSonam Tsering (Columbia University)
The Bridges to Other Worlds in Four Poems
of the Deity of Eight Thousand SpearsYuewei Wang (Columbia University)
Reincarnation in Transit: Temporality, Trauma, and Self-Exoticism in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Wentao Ma (Columbia University)
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Friday 2/153:15-5:15pm - Panel B
Kent 522C
B3. Encountering Others, Contesting Authority
(Discussant: Dongxin Zou)
Floating Words, Speaking BodiesEun Jeong Choi (New York University)
Benevolent Neutrality: Religious Freedom and Religions Policy of the U.S. Military Occupation of South Korea, 1945-1948
John G. Grisafi (University of Pennsylvania)
Chinese Foreign Nationals in Hitler’s GermanyKimberly Cheng (New York University)
Evangelism, Hunting, and Order in Republican China: The Case of Harry R. Caldwell (1876-1970) in Fujian Province
Ying-kit Chan (Princeton University)
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Saturday 2/1610:00-11:00am
Travel ReimbursementKent 403
Friday 2/155:30-7:30pm
Happy Hour/Pizza PartyKent 403
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Saturday 2/1611am-1pm - Panel C
Kent 424
C1. Body Interpretations in Premodern China
(Discussant: Lan Li)
Bodies, Vessels, and Nourishments: Technologies of Bodies in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Echo Weng (Columbia University)
Physiognomy and the Psyche of the Tang ChineseGaoziyan Cui (Columbia University)
Reconstruction of the Relationship Between Confucian “I” and “Six Canons”: Lu Jiuyuan’s Thinking on Body and Heart-mind
Yuefan Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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Saturday 2/1611am-1pm - Panel C
Kent 411
C2. Repressed Voices in the
Second Sino-Japanese War (Discussant: Isaac Chun-Kiang Tan)
Shooting “Verbal Bullets” at the Enemy: Kaji Wataru and Antiwar Literature during the Sino-Japanese War
Edwin Michielsen (University of Toronto)
Dispatches from the Literary Battlefront: Thinking Solidarity through the Political Economic Imagination
Harlan Chambers (Columbia University)
Negotiation of the Invisibles: Burakumin in Japanese ImperialismQianqing Huang (University of California, Los Angeles)
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Saturday 2/1611am-1pm - Panel C
Kent 403
C3. Literature from War to Postwar
(Discussant: Stephen Choi)
Writing Surrealism in Colonial Taiwan and Beyond: Yang Chichang and the Windmill Poetry Society
Fangdai Chen (Harvard University)
Panpan: Literary Representations of Postwar ProstitutionKristin Schreiner (Columbia University)
Homoerotic Solution: Postwar Okinawa and
Sexual Politics in Ōta Ryōhaku’s “Kurodaiya” (1949)Yoshiaki Otta (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
Trans-Pacific “Reception” of Yassa Mossa (1953)
Yasmine Krings (University of California, Los Angeles)
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Saturday 2/1611am-1pm - Panel C
Kent 405
C4. Sites of Religion in the Premodern World (Dis-
cussant: D. Max Moerman)
Projecting the Fictional: Ishiyamadera engi emaki and the Legend of Murasaki Shikibu
Lanxin Zhang (Columbia University)
Literati Influence and the Transmission of Dongxiao Poetry Anthology
Wanmeng Li (University of California, Los Angeles)
Portable Liminality Generator: The Tamamushi Shrine in Inter-Regional Context
Yingxue Wang (Harvard University)
1-1:45pm - LunchKent 403
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Saturday 2/162-4pm - Panel D
Kent 411
D1. Borderlands and Empires (Discussant: Karl Jacoby)
Struggling to Map the Borderlands: Early Chosŏn’s Northward Expansion, the Ming, and Jurchen Tribes
Meng-heng Lee (Columbia University)
The Silent Immigrants: The Sogdian Slave Trade in Early Tang China
Di Wang (University of Pennsylvania)
Raising Girls, Raising Warriors: Militarization and the Female Children of the Mongol Empire
Sally Greenland (Columbia University)
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Saturday 2/162-4pm - Panel D
Kent 403
D2. Rewriting Chineseness
(Discussant: David Borgonjon)
Representing Diaspora in Newspaper: Changing Images of Overseas Chinese in Republican China
Chuxu Lu (Duke University)
“Is Poetry Merely History?”: Yang Weizhen’s Construction of Cultural Archetypes in Late-Yuan China
Xiuyuan Mi (University of Pennsylvania)
The Great Wall: Affect, Medium, and Collectivity in Modern and Contemporary China
Yan Liu (Columbia University)
Intellectual, Expressions, and Politics: A Case Study on Feng Zikai’s Protection of Life and the
Communist Cultural Policies in the PRC, 1949-1975Qilin Zeng (National University of Singapore)
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Saturday 2/162-4pm - Panel D
Kent 405
D3. Politics of Performing Femininity
(Discussant: Yuan Ye)
“In That Dim Lonesome Library:” Making Shōjo Space in Yoshiya Nobuko’s “Sweet Pea”Francesca Pizarro (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
Transgressive Family Loyalty of Princesses in Chronicle and on
Stage: A Comparative Study of Sahobime in Kojiki and Sakurahime in Edo Kabuki Sakurahime Azuma Bunshō
Melissa Li (Columbia University)
Jiang Qing and the Silver ScreenKarin Mei Li Inouye (Stanford University)
A Feminized Narration of Japan during WWII:
The Takarazuka’s First US Tour, 1939Yanwen Xu (Columbia University)
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Saturday 2/162-4pm - Panel D
Kent 424
D4. Memory and Trauma in Contemporary Asia
(Discussant: Harlan Chambers)
Mother Tongue and Absent Memory: Sounding Sinophone Cantonese Literature in Singapore
Lillian Ngan (University of Alberta)
Documenting “Comfort Women:” Building Care and Relatedness through Blandness
Shiqi Lin (University of California Irvine)
From History to the Present: The Comfort Women Issue in Documentary FilmsChenfeng Wang (University of Pennsylvania)
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Saturday 2/164:15-6:15pm - Panel E
Kent 405
E1. Reimagining Identities in Contemporary Media
(Discussant: Jeong Eun Annabel We)
Cyberpunk Chongqing: The Articulation of Spatiality in Historical and Urban TransformationDingding Wang (Duke University)
Yōkai and Re-enchantment as a Strategy of National Culturalism
Chun Wai Fong (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
Romance-Fantasy: Ironic Utopia in CyberspaceInsook Park (Columbia University)
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Saturday 2/164:15-6:15pm - Panel E
Kent 411
E2. Sociality and Spatiality
(Discussant: Tenggeer Hao)
Exclusive Encounter: Officials’ Social Engagements in the Emperor’s Eyes in the 7th- to 10th-Century China
Chih-Yen Huan (University of Pennsylvania)
The Murderous Shadow: Dr. Caligari in ChinaShao-Hung Teng (Columbia University)
Public Speaking at Zhangyuan: The Auditory Culture of Shanghai’s Public Space in Late Qing
and Early Republican ChinaWang Jin (Peking University)
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Saturday 2/164:15-6:15pm - Panel E
Kent 403
E3. Transcultural and Transmedial Practices
(Discussant: Benjamin Kindler)
All That is Solid Turns into Sand: Woman in the Dunes Across Page and Screen
Xinyi Zhao (Columbia University)
The Noir Wave: Alliances between Japanese New Wave and Film Noir
Kyna Alene McClenaghan (Columbia University)
Overcoming Modernity through Romanticism in Meiji: Kitamura Tōkoku’s Inner Life and Inspiration as Method
Lu Chen (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
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Saturday 2/164:15-6:15pm - Panel E
Kent 424
E4. Koreas in the Postwar World
(Discussant: Charles Armstrong)
Ondol Socialism: Socialist Life Expressed through North Korean Urban Spaces
Sulim Kim (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
South Korean Army’s War Atrocities during the Vietnam War: Legality, Responsibility, Contested Memories, and Justice
Wonkeun Lee (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
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Saturday 2/166:30-8pm
Closing Remarks & DinnerC.V. Starr Library
(Kent 300)
8pm-12amClosing Celebration
C.V. Starr Library (Kent 300)
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