wednesday 26 june 2013 - International Convention of Asia Scholars

WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE 2013 

9:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M. 

Panel 190 

Embodying Masculinities & Physical Appearance in Everyday Spaces of Work, Home, Consumption 

and Leisure across Asia I 

Sponsored by International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS) 

Convenor: Michiel Baas, International Institute for Asian Studies 

Chair: Michiel Baas, International Institute for Asian Studies 

The Fragmented Pornographic - Reflections on the Construction of Pornographic Masculinity in Globalized 

India 

Ronie Parciack, Dept. of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University 

Walking a Tightrope: A Bourdieuian Delineation of Chinese Young Masculinities 

Alex Chan, City University Hong Kong 

Sexuality, Gender or Hygiene: Urologists and plastic surgeons discussing male circumcision in Japan 

Genaro Castro-Vázquez, Nanyang Technological University 

Sex and the Internet: Ethnography of Money Boy Industry and Online Gay Discourse Construction 

Zhiduo Cheng, Shantou University 

Panel 191 

Roundtable: Contested Development: Regional Globalization and Middle Class Formation in India 

Convenor: Tim Scrase, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Australian Catholic University 

Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Australian Catholic University 

Mario Rutten, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam 

Ravi Palat, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University 

Trent Brown, School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, University of Wollongong 

Panel 192 

Portugal, China and Portuguese‐Speaking Countries: Past, Present and Future Challenges 

Sponsored by Observatory of China - Association for the Multidisciplinary Research of Chinese Studies in Portugal 

Convenor: Rui Pedro Pereira, Ministry of Economy and Employment 

Chair: Rui d'Ávila Lourido, Union of Capital Cities of Portuguese Language (UCCLA) 

Some Notes on the Historical Background of China's Emerging Power: The Case of the Portuguese Speaking 

Countries 

Rui d'Avila Lourido, Union of Capital Cities of Portuguese Language 

The New Trend of Chinese Investment in Europe: The Case of Portugal 

Rui Pedro Pereira, Ministry of Economy and Employment 

The Portuguese-Speaking Countries and China's Energy Diplomacy: Angola and Brazil as Case Studies 

Carla Patrício Fernandes, New University of Lisbon - Faculty of Social and Human Sciences 

China's Outbound Tourism: Opportunities and Challenges for Portugal 

Zélia Breda, University of Aveiro - Dept. of Economics, Management and Industrial Engineering

Panel 193 

Individual papers panel: Local histories 

Remapping Cultural Boundary between China and Korea 

Hyun-ho Joo, Yonsei University 

Understanding a Neo-Confucian Lineage in Qing Southern Fujian 

Khee Heong Koh, National University of Singapore 

From Family History to Local History: The gazetteers of Puyan Town in late imperial China 

Ivy Maria Lim, Humanities and Social Studies Education, National Institue of Education, Nanyang Technological 

University 

Panel 194 

Circuits of Exchange: Global Commerce, Cultural Transformation, and Chinese Literature in the 

16th and 17th Centuries 

Convenor: Patricia Sieber, The Ohio State University 

Discussant: Yasushi Oki, University of Tokyo 

Qiong Zhang, Department of History, Wake Forest University 

The Impact of the Circulation of Books in Chinese on Women's Literature in Seventeenth-Century China and 

Korea 

Bowei Zhang, Nanjing University 

Manuscripts and Imprints In Motion: Texts, Media, and Meaning in 17th-Century Chinese Fiction 

Patricia Sieber, The Ohio State University 

‘Silver is Blood’: Trade, Value, and Narrative in 17th-Century China 

Sara Kile, University of Michigan/Brown University 

Love or Betrayal, For A Man or For A Nation: Courtesan Wang Cuiqiao (?-1556) at Sea and Overseas 

Mi Zhao, Dept of History, University of Oregon

Panel 195 

Towards a Global Conceptual History: A Critical Re‐evaluation from the Perspective of 

Transcultural Studies 

Sponsored by University of Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Dynamics of 

Transculturality’ 

Convenor: Joachim Kurtz, University of Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context: 

Dynamics of Transculturality’ 

Chair: Joachim Kurtz, University of Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context: 


‘Cosmopolitanism’ in Late Qing China: Local Inflections of a Global Concept 

Joachim Kurtz, University of Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Dynamics of 


‘Fascism’ as a Global Concept 

Benjamin Zachariah, University of Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context: 


The Global Career of ‘Indigeneous Concepts’ 

Dhruv Raina, University of Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Dynamics of 

Transculturality 

Translating ‘Manners’: There and Back Again 

David Mervart, University of Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Dynamics of 


Panel 196 

Gendering Chinese Religions: A Dialogue of Tradition and Modernity 

Convenor: Jinhua Jia, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of History, University of Macau 

Chair: George Wei, University of Macau 

Discussant: Gil Raz, Dartmouth College 

The Master and the State: Life and Legacy of Tang Buddhist Nun Ruyuan (700-775) 

Ping Yao, California State University, Los Angeles 

Medicine Theory and Longevity Techniques: The Legacy of the Tang Daoist Priestess-Physician Hu Yin 

Jinhua Jia, University of Macau 

Female Agency and Authority: Lay Women Association at the City God Temple in Zhengzhou, 1500s-1900s 

Xun Liu, History Department, Rutgers University 

Women’s Liberation and Anti-supersition: Young Blackie Gets Married (Xiao Erhei jiehun) in the Communist 

Propaganda 

Xiaofei Kang, The George Washington University 

Negotiating between Cultures: A Study of Muslim Women in Hong Kong Chinese Families 

Angela Wai Ching Wong, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Panel 197 

Individual papers panel: Contemporary Asian art II 

(Semi-)legal manifestations of urban art in Chinese cities 

Minna Valjakka, Art History, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki 

Contemporary Art Market Segmentation in India 

Nataliya Komarova, AISSR, University of Amsterdam 

Art or Business: Commercialization of Contemporary Art Galleries in China 

Svetlana Kharchenkova, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam 

Invisible Body, Little Men, and the Predicaments of Existence in An Urbanizing China 

Meiqin Wang, Art Department, California State University Northridge 

Panel 198 

Power and Identity in Chinese Architecture and Space 

Convenor: Shaoqian Zhang, Oklahoma State University 

Discussant: Shaoqian Zhang, Oklahoma State University 

A Brief Discussion on Power in the Spatial Patterns of Traditional Chinese Architecture 

Yitao Xu, Peking University 

An Interim between Political Authorities: the Regionalization of Yuan Timber Architecture 

Lala Zuo, Swarthmore College 

Beijing Central Axis:The Symbol of the city 

Tian Gao, National Heritage Center, Tsinghua University 

The Peking National Library: A Modern Construction of Knowledge, Cultural Identity, and Civil Space 

Delin Lai, The University of Louisville 

The China Hype in European Architecture 

Alexandra HARRER, Tsinghua University 

Panel 199 

East Asian countries’ experiences on the safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage 

Sponsored by Institute of Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sun Yat-sen University 

Convenor: Kang Baocheng, Institute of Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sun Yat-sen University 

Chair: Song Junhua, Institute of Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sun Yat-sen University 

Global Vision and East Asian Experiences in the Mission of Safeguarding ICH 

Gao Xiaokang, Institute of Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sun Yat-sen University 

Japanese experiences on the safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: the good experiences and the 

controversies 

HOSHINO Hiroshi, 

The Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in China 

Liu Kuili, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, CASS 

The non material Korean cultural heritage 

KIM Hogeol , The National Folk Museum of Korea 

Cultural diversity is the common heritage of humanity 

Gwo-long Shy, Bureau of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture

Panel 200 

Spectre of Europe in East Asian Cinema 

Convenor: Kai-man Chang, Tulane University 

Chair: Koichi Iwabuchi, Waseda University 

The Construction of Japanese National Cinema in the Context of the Cold War 

Yoshiharu Tezuka, Komazawa University 

Korean Cinema at the Crossroads: The French Connection 

Kukhee Choo, Tulane University 

The Rise of Vernacular Cosmopolitan Narratives in Taiwan Cinema 

Kai-man Chang, Tulane University 

Panel 201 

Individual papers panel: South Korea: State and Society 

Sport Nationalism in South Korea 

Masaki Tosa, School of Asia 21, Kokushikan University 

Pragmatic Internationalism: South Korean Foreign Policy in the Emerging International Order 

Jojin john, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi 

Reflecting on the First Quarter Century after South Korea's Transition to Democracy: Ongoing Debates and 

Remaining Challenges 

Sunhyuk Kim, Korea University 

Sino-American Relations and Korean Unifications 

Jeong-Pyo Hong, Miyazaki International College, Japan 

Government Reform as Governance Movement in Korea: Can Governance Reshape the State? 

Chonghee Han, Department of Public Administration Kwangwoon University 

Panel 202 

Individual papers panel: Linguistics 

Japanese historical contribution to integration of Chinese Lexicon: kokuji and international character of 

Chinese writing 

Giovanni Borriello, Roma Tre University (Rome, Italy) 

A Night Light on a Light Night 

Liang Zhang, North Carolina State University 

A Sociolinguistic Study on Hakka Tone Sandhi in Taichung Dongshi and Maoli Gongguan in Taiwan 

Chinwei Wu, National Taiwan Normal University 

A Corpus-based Contrastive Study of the Word 'Development' in Chinese English and British English 

Jianli LIANG, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Panel 203 

Individual papers panel: Corruption, inequality and poverty in China 

Building a Culture of Zero Tolerance for Corruption: The Case of Hong Kong 

Ting Gong & Shiru Wang, City University of Hong Kong 

Governing informal payments in the Chinese health care system 

Jingqing Yang, University of Technology, Sydney 

Individual Perceptions of Inequality in Chinese Societies (2003-2010): Its Formation and Impact on 

Redistribution and Protest 

Stephen Tay, University of California, Los Angeles 

Poverty alleviation in urban China: Evidence from household survey 

Alfred M. Wu, The Hong Kong Institute of Education 

Panel 204 

Individual papers panel: Civil society in Indonesia 

State Violence in Modern Indonesian Literature 

Fnu Ferdinal, Deakin University, Australia 

Murmurs of dissent: Anti-corruption sentiment in post-independence Indonesia 

Elisabeth A Kramer, University of Sydney; Atma Jaya Catholic University (Jakarta) 

Civil Society and Local Power in North Sumatera, Indonesia 

Budi Agustono, Department of History, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Unaiversity of North Sumatera 

Between Talk-back and Sing-back: Reviving textual singing tradition and articulating social concerns in 

contemporary Bali 

Darma I Nyoman Putra, Udayana University 

Dynamic traditions in contemporary Balinese textual singing: Resilience, aesthetics, religion and social change 

Helen Creese, The University of Queensland 

Panel 205 

Changing Idioms/Changing Practices: Ethnicity, Minority and Culture in China 

Convenor: Louisa Schein, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University 

Chair: Jiangang Long, Guangdong Foshan Daxue 

Discussant: Louisa Schein, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University 

“Miao”, “Miao-Yi”, and “Miaozu”: The Process and Background of Constructing Ethnic “Self/Other” under 

the Institution of the Mod 

Zhiqiang Yang, Research Institution of Anthropological Studies, Guizhou University 

Minzu and Zuqun: The Politics of Putting Nation and Ethnicity into Chinese 

Jiao Pan, School of Ethnology and Sociology 

Contending Classification and Appropriating Idioms of Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in China’s Politics of 

Recognition 

Siu-Woo Cheung, Division of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Panel 206 

The cultural dynamics of Asian regionalism: sport, popular culture, and media 

Convenor: Nissim Otmazgin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

Sport, regionalism, and regional history in the South East Asia Peninsular Games, 1959-75 

Simon Creak, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University 

Is there such a thing as 'Asian Pop Music'? Perspectives from the region 

Anthony Fung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

The rise of Asia’s cultural industries: policies, strategies, and soft power 

Nissim Otmazgin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

Panel 207 

Migration, remittance and development: Asia experience 

Convenor: AKM Ahsan Ullah, The American University in Cairo, Centre for Migration and Refugee Studies 

Unknown remittances of the migrants died abroad: A study on the recovery and dynamics of usage of 

remittances 

AKM Ahsan Ullah, The American University in Cairo 

Compensating Wage Differentials for Occupational Risks: Evidence from Migrant Workers in Urban China 

Haining Wang; Zhiming Cheng, The University of Wollongong 

Analysis of Crime Rate due to Migrant Labourers from Nepalese in Himachal Pradesh, India 

Renuka Thapliyal, GC Banjar 

Remittances and Development: Case Study of India 

Paramjit S. Sahai, Indian Foreign Service 

Panel 208 

Herbal Pharmaceutical Industry in Asia. Reformulating Drugs for the Global Market (I) 

Sponsored by Center for Research on Medicine, Science, Health and Society -- CERMES3 (CNRS/EHESS/INSERM) 

Convenor: Laurent Pordié, CNRS (Cermes3), Paris 

Discussant: Francis Zimmermann, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris 

Assembling Diasporic Science or Making Herbs a Global Business: CGCM and the Regulatory Globalization of 

Chinese Medicine 

Wen-Hua Kuo, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 

Plants, Reformulation and Ayurvedic Markets: The Trajectory of Jeevani and other Polyherbals 

Jean-Paul Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Inserm-EHESS (Cermes3), Paris 

Herbal Pharmaceutical Industry in Korea: Particularities and Universalities over Commercialized Herbal 

Medicines 

Eunjeong Ma, Pohang University of Science and Technology 

Pharmaceuticalizing Practices of the Sacred in Globalized Tibetan Medicine 

Vincanne Adams, University of California San Francisco

Panel 209 

Architectural Heritage in Asia 

Sponsored by Delft School of Design 

Convenor: Gregory Bracken, Delft School of Design 

New Wine in Old Bottles: Shanghai’s Architectural Heritage: Gentrification versus Adaptive Reuse 

Gregory Bracken, Delft School of Design 

The Invention of Racial Tourism Districts and the Politics of Framing and Disconnection in Singapore 

Imran bin Tajudeen, Dept of Architecture, National University of Singapore 

From Colonial Monument to Postcolonial Symbol: the British Cenotaph and the Politics of Heritage and 

Remembering in Ipoh 

Hamzah Muzaini, Cultural Geography Chair Group, Wageningen University 

Panel 210 

Empowering Women: Real and Imagined in Colonial and Postcolonial India 

Convenor: Uma Ganesan, Berea College 

At the Cross-Road of Tradition and Modernity:Case Study of Naga women's movement for recognition in 

public space in recent times 

Anungla Aier, Department of Anthropology, kohima Science College, Jotsoma 

Politics of women's education in late colonial India 

Aishwarya Singh, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, U.K 

Seema Singh, Aishwarya College of Education 

Challenging Caste and Patriarchy through Marriage Reform in Colonial South India, 1925-1940 

Uma Ganesan, Berea College 

Tropes of Empowerment in Hindi soap operas 

Akanksha Babbar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, U.K. 

Panel 211 

Individual papers panel: Nation building the Philippines 

Envisioning The Capital: Challenges of Postcolonial Modernity in the Planning and Architecture of Quezon 

City as Capital City 

Edson Cabalfin, University of Cincinnati 

Uneasy Allies: The Nixon Administration, Ferdinand Marcos, and United States-Philippine Relations 

Dean Jeffrey Kotlowski, Salisbury University 

Binding the Islands: Air Transport and State Formation in the Philippines 

Meynardo de la Paz Mendoza, Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University 

Quezon's City: Postcolonial Imaginings during the Philippine Commonwealth 

Michael Domingo Pante, Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University 

THE SPECTRUM OF VALUES OF THE BANGSAMORO MUJAHIDEEN: THE DYNAMICS AND 

POLITICS OFAUTONOMY IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES 

Prisciliano Traya Bauzon, Univeristy of Southern Mindanao

Panel 212 

Individual papers panel: Japan and Taiwan in Geopolitics 

Chair: Purnendra JAIN, Asian Studies Association of Australia (2011-2012), Centre for Asian Studies / The 

University of Adelaide 

Japan and the search for new allies 

Thomas S Wilkins, University of Sydney 

Japan's Soft Power in a new Global Context 

Rui Faro Saraiva, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University 

The US-Japan alliance, cross-Taiwan Strait relations and security in East Asia 

Elena Atanassova-Cornelis, Catholic University of Louvain & University of Antwerp 

Taiwan's Role in Japanese Defense Policy and Planning 

Alex Calvo, European University 

Taiwan’s Place in the World: Global Recognition and Low Politics 

Young Chul Cho, O.P. Jindal Global University 

Panel 213 

Individual papers panel: Chinese foreign policy in South America, Africa and Asia 

The Dragon’s power: China’s dominance, motivation and controversy in Cambodia 

Pheakdey Heng, VU University Amsterdam 

The Social and Environmental Implications of Chinese Investment in D.R.Congo: A Field Study on the Mining 

Sector in Katanga 

Duanyong Wang, Shanghai International Studies University 

Linking Up with the Global South: Comparing China’s Search for Political Partners in Sub-Saharan Africa 

and South America 

Georg Strüver, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies 

China’s Soft Power in the Making: Training the Elite of Developing Nations — The Macau Forum 

Emilie TRAN, University of Saint Joseph 

A New Center-Periphery Analysis of Latin America: The Effects of China`s Growing Presence in the Region 

Raquel Cristina de Caria Patrício, School of Social and Political Sciences of the Technical University of Lisbon 

Panel 214 

Individual papers panel: Foreigners in East Asia: Arabs, Brazilians and Jews 

‘A long-kept secret’: The Jews of Macau 

Isabel Maria Da Costa Morais, University of Saint Joseph, Macau 

Arabs in China: Emerging Yemeni Diaspora and Its Implications on China-Middle East Relations 

Wai Yip Ho, Hong Kong Institute of Education 

From Arabia to Yiwu - The Making of the New Silk Road 

Wei Shen, ESSCA School of Management 

Brazilians in Japan - The Saga Continues 

Renato Silva de Noronha Brandao, Keio Gijuku Schools and University and NHK World Radio Japan, Tokyo


11:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. 

Panel 217 


and Leisure across Asia II 



Chair: Romit Dasgupta, International Institute for Asian Studies 

The New Indian Male: Muscles, Masculinity and Middle-Classness 

Michiel Baas, International Institute for Asian Studies 

Rickshaw-wallah’s children: Indian low-caste youth between the cultural question and the politics of being ´not 

quite´ 

Manuela Ciotti, Aarhus University 

Bruce Lee and Performed Masculinities in Abe Kazushige’s Early Novels 

Maria Roemer, Languages of Emotion Cluster of Excellence, Freie Universitaet Berlin 

Panel 218 

Roundtable: The multiple voices of heritage. UNESCO politics and the effects on local notions of 

heritage 

David Berliner, Université Libre de Bruxelles 

Noel Salazar, University of Leuven 

Christoph Brumann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology 

Panel 219 

The Macanese Community and Heritage – Cultural Identity and Integration 

Sponsored by International Institute of Macau (IIM) 

Convenor: Jorge Alberto Hagedorn Rangel, International Institute of Macau (IIM) 

The Macanese Community, Yesterday and Today 

Alexandra Sofia Hagedorn Rangel, International Institute of Macau (IIM) 

Macanese Community, its Boundaries and its Role in the coming future 

Henrique Miguel Senna Fernandes, Associacao dos Macaenses 

Macanese Community and Identity Building of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) 

Jose Luis Sales Marques, Institute of European Studies of Macau 

21st Century, Macau SAR: Will Macanese Community Survive? 

Carlos Alberto Santos Marreiros, Albergue SCM

Panel 220 

Political Economy, Ecology, and Agriculture in Nineteenth Century British India 

Convenor: Laxman D. Satya, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania 

Chair: Laxman D. Satya, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania 

Colonialism and the Forestry-Agriculture Interface in Nineteenth Century Assam 

Rajib Handique, Department of History, Dibrugarh University 

The Colonial Legacy of Famines in British India 

Swati Prakash, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) 

Race and Famine in Colonial India 

Laxman D Satya, Department of History, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania 

Panel 221 

Networks of Exchange in Early Modern Island Southeast Asia 

Convenor: Leonard Y. Andaya, University of Hawai’i (Manoa) 

Chair: Leonard Y. Andaya, University of Hawai’i (Manoa) 

Diasporic Networks and the Colonial Transition in the Malay world 1778-1830 

Koh Keng We, Seoul National University 

Phantom Fleets: Locating Networks of Exchange in Early Modern Makassar, 1650-1800 

Heather Sutherland, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 

Links in the Chain: The Sama-Bajo in the Early Modern Trading Networks of the Indonesian Archipelago 

Lance Castles, University of Hawai’i at Manoa 

Constituting Networks in the Islands of Southeastern Indonesia 

Leonard Y. Andaya, University of Hawai’i (Manoa) 

Panel 222 

Individual papers panel: British and Japanese colonialism revisited 

Images of Colonialism: Comparing Japanese and British Examples 

Stephen Sze, 

Interflows between Korean and Taiwanese left-wing intellectuals in socialism movement of the Japanese 

colonial period 

MAL SOON CHOI, Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National ChengChi University 

The Politics of Fear: Panic and Penal Policy in Colonial Calcutta, 1919-1927 

SUGATA NANDI, WEST BENGAL STATE UNIVERSITY, KOLKATA 

The British Government's efforts to protect the British interest and its people in Tianjin and its hinterland in 

the middle 1920 

Suffian Bin Mansor, History Department, University Malaya 

BRITISH SECURITY POLICY DURING THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY 1948-1957 

ZULHILMI PAIDI, UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA 

Prostitution, Empire and National Identity: the Abolition of Japanese Brothels in Singapore, 1910-1920 

Sookyeong Hong, Cornell University

Panel 223 

Chinese Christianity I: Indigenization and Cultural Void in the Early Twentieth Century 

Convenor: Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Pace University 

Chair: R. G. Tiedemann, Center for Boxer Movement Studies, Shandong University 

Discussant: R. G. Tiedemann, Center for Boxer Movement Studies, Shandong University 

Torch-bearers of Modernity? Western Missionaries, Demonism, and Exorcism in Modern China (1860s-1930s) 

Lars Tse‐Hei Laamann, History Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 

Seeking Convergence: Richard Wilhelm, Wu Leichuan, and their Quest for a Shared Confucian-Christian 

Vision 

Lydia Gerber, Department of History, Washington State University 

Chinese Christian Publishing Networks and the Paradox of Modern Miracle Stories 

Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye, Flat 10B, Tower 5, Lei King Wan, 

The Belated Formation of the China Bible House (1937): Nationalism and the Indigenization of Protestantism 

in Republican China 

George Kam-Wah Mak, David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University 

Panel 224 

Rethinking the Private Lives of Confucian Literati: Reconciling the Three Teachings in Pre-modern 

East Asia 

Convenor: Thomas Sung-Eun Kim, Leiden Institute for Area Studies/Leiden University 

Bureaucracy of the Buddha: Song-Dynasty Icons of the Water-Land Retreat 

Phillip Emmanual Bloom, Department of History of Art and Architecture Institution/Harvard University 

Indeterminacy in Meaning: Religious Syncretism and Dynastic Historiography in the Shannüren zhuan 

Yuet Keung Lo, Department of Chinese Studies/National University of Singapore 

The role of Confucianism in Kūkai’s system of thought 

Paulus Bastian Kaufmann, Doctoral Program Buddhist Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 

The Cultural Adoption and Patronage of Buddhism by Confucian Elites During the Joseon Dynasty 

Thomas Sung-Eun Kim, Leiden University for Area Studies/Leiden University 

Panel 225 

Embodied Visions: Feminine and the Supernatural in Asian Cultures 

Convenor: Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, Nassau Community College 

Chair: Rein Raud, University of Helsinki 

On Imagery of Crossing the Sea: Female Divinity in Medieval Japan 

Saeko Kimura, Tsuda College (Tokyo, Japan) 

Controlling Girl Power: Female Energy and Male Order in Japanese Cultural Practice 

Rein Raud, University of Helsinki 

"What is wrong with the fox? Gender politics in Chinese myths and modern media" 

Gereon Kopf, Luther College 

Seductive Sirens and Dutiful Wives: Paradox of Rresnetation in Ancient Texts and Contemporary Indian 

Cinema 

Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, Nassau Community College

Panel 226 

Re-evaluating the Uses of Visual Forms and Aesthetic Style within East Asian Buddhist Practice 

Convenor: Kathleen Ryor, Carleton College 

Chair: Kathleen Ryoe, Carleton College 

Discussant: Paul Copp, University of Chicago 

Perfecting the Sacred: Radial Symmetry in the Religious Architecture of Early Medieval China 

Tracy Miller, Vanderbilt University 

Style as Substance: Literati Buddhist Ink Painting and Devotional Practices in Late Ming Dynasty China 

Kathleen Ryor, Carleton College 

The Tōji Landscape Screen: What’s Remembered and Forgotten about Its Religious Function in the Modern 

Era 

Yan Yang, Yale University 

Good Karma or Bad Kitsch? Visualizing the Afterlife at Kosanji 

Karil J Kucera, St Olaf College 

Panel 227 

Exhibiting the Regional Identities of Southern China during the 20th and 21st Centuries 

Convenor: Yu-ping Luk, Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University 

Discussant: Shaoyang Lin, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong 

Visual Representation of Regional Culture: The 1940 Exhibition of Guangdong Cultural Heritage 

Pui Pedith Chan, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong 

Guangdong Regional Identity and an Exhibition of Paintings in New York in 1947 

Yu-ping Luk, Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University 

Talkover/ Handover: Visualising Cultural Identities in Post-colonial Hong Kong 

Wing Yan, Vivian Ting, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University 

Panel 228 

Individual papers panel: Debates on politics and history in contemporary China 

China’s Lost Modernity: “Republican Fever” in the PRC and its Impact on CCP Legitimacy 

Robert Weatherley, Cambridge University 

The Modern Allure of Confucianism: Its Practical and Theoretical Roots 

Irena Cronin, UCLA 

Local leaders’ will and tactics matter: Politics of intergovernmental jurisdictional reform in Central China 

Zhenjie Yang, Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong 

Impacts of Legitimacy on China’s Compliance and Practice of International Human Rights 

Chih-Chieh Chou, Department of Political Science, National Cheng Kung University

Panel 229 

The Cultural Discourse of English-Chinese Translation: A Re-appraisal 

Convenor: Isaac Yue, School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong 

Translation as a Process of Reverse‐Sacralization and the Popularization of Late Victorian Fiction in Chinese 

Isaac Yue, University of Hong Kong 

Tales in Two Cities: Chinese Translations of English Detective Stories in Hong Kong and Shanghai at the Turn 

of the 20th Century 

Bo Li, Lingnan University 

Movie Trans-adaptations of Wuthering Heights in 1940-1960’s Hong Kong 

Wenjing Li, Dept. of Translation, Lingnan University, 

Translation of Shakespeare: food and Marxism 

Carly Ng, University of Hong Kong 

Panel 230 

Culture, Society and Extreme Interpersonal Violence in Contemporary China 

Sponsored by Department of Sociology, University of Macau 

Convenor: Spencer Li, University of Macau 

Risk Factors Related to Re-offending among Chinese Murderers 

Yan Ma; Susan Hilal, University of Macau 

Murders with Revengeful Motivation in China 

Xiaonan Bai, University of Macau 

Love or Kill: Intimate Partner Mass Murder 

Tian Ma, University of Macau 

Anatomy of Mass Murder: Psychological Truth behind Inhumanity 

Siying Guo, University of Macau 

Understanding Confrontational Homicides in China 

Weidi Liu, University of Macau 

Panel 231 

Transformation in Malaysia - Ten Years After Mahathirism 

Sponsored by Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia 

Convenor: Joern Dosch, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia 

Chair: Joern Dosch, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia 

MALAYSIAN POLITICS: TEN YEARS AFTER MAHATHIRISM 

James Chin, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia 

Inter-faith relations in Malaysia 

Seng Guan Yeoh, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia 

‘Gender and Sexuality: Inroads and Challenges Post-Mahathirism’ 

Sharon A. Bong, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia 

On memory and longing: The Malaysian new wave and the films of Azharr Rudin 

Jonathan O. Driskell, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia 

Falling between two stools? Malaysia’s post-Mahathir profile in Southeast Asia’s international society 

Linda C. Quayle, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia

Panel 232 

Governing Minorities 

Convenor: Rosa Enn, Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna & Institute of Ethnology, 

Academia Sinica Taipei 

Discussant: Aynul Islam, Conflict Research Group (CRG), Ghent University 

Tree, Tenure and Trauma Tree plantation, land (dis)possession and violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts 

(CHT) of Bangladesh 

Aynul Islam, Conflict Research Group (CRG), Ghent University 

Restudying the case of the oversea- Chinese from Semarang, Indonesia 

Sonja Peschek, Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of ViennaUniversity of Vienna, Austria 

Human Rights and Multiculturalism in Malaysia 

John Emanuel Reiss, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa 

Governance and environmental justice in Taiwan- the case of the indigenous Dao 

Rosa Enn, Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna & Institute of Ethnology, Academia 

Sinica Taipei 

Panel 233 

After 10 years, looking at the 3 Gorges experience 

Convenor: Florence Padovani, Paris 1 Sorbonne University 

A study on exchange arrangement model for resettlements from the Three Gorges 

Defeng MA, Soochow University 

The Economics and Financing of Resettlement in the Three Gorges Project 

Yuefang DUAN, China Three gorges University 

A case study on the relations between social networks and mental health among resettlements from the Three 

Gorges to Guangdong province in China 

Yu CHENG, Sun Yatsen university 

Boundaries between “them” and “us”, the new definition of social and collective identity for the Three Gorges 

resettles in Guang 

Florence Padovani, Paris 1 Sorbonne University 

Panel 234 

Individual papers panel: Agencies of Change in Southeast Asia 

Women’s political consciousness in Malaysia: Reflection from post-“Reformasi” Movement Era 

Loo Yit Mei, Graduate school of Southeast Asian Studies, National Chi Nan University 

Writing History in Brunei 

Johannes L Kurz, Universiti Brunei Darussalam 

Bureaucrats in Business 

Faizal bin Yahya, Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Panel 235 

Herbal Pharmaceutical Industry in Asia. Reformulating Drugs for the Global Market (II) 

Sponsored by Cluster of Excellence "Asia & Europe", University of Heidelberg 

Convenor: Laurent Pordié, CNRS (Cermes3), Paris 

Discussant: Vincanne Adams, University of California San Francisco 

From Kampo to “Scientific Chinese Medicine”: A Case of Pharmaceutical Development in Transnational East 

Asian Context 

Hsueh-Yi Lin, University of Wisconsin Madison 

Globalising Kampo: The Possibilities and Limits to Translation in Global Markets 

Maki Umemura, Cardiff University 

Reformulation and the Cognitive Process of Translation 

Francis Zimmermann, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris 

Patterns and Constraints of Drug Discovery in the Ayurvedic Industry. Innovation, Global Markets and 

Proprietary Medicines 

Laurent Pordié, CNRS (Cermes3), Paris 

Panel 236 

Urban Complexity in Asia 

Sponsored by Delft School of Design 

Convenor: Gregory Bracken, Delft School of Design 

Urban Narratives in Relation to Spatial Form 

Andong Lu, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University 

Assymmetrical Urban Development 

Gerhard Bruyns, Delft School of Design 

Pleasures of Malls and Hotels 

Andy Charles Starr Fuller, International Institute for Asian Studies 

Panel 237 

Individual papers panel: Tourism in Asian Societies 

The Evaluation of Ecotourism Resources: An Applied Methodology to Nameri National Park of Assam (INDIA) 

Niranjan Das, North-East Center for Social Science Research, Murhateteli, Tezpur-784001, District- Sonitpur, Assam 

(INDIA) 

"'Border' Tourism: Chinese Tourists' Gaze of China in Taiwan" 

Chang-hui Chi, Department of Chinese Studies, National Quemoy Uniersity 

Anru Lee, Department of Anthropology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York 

Adaptation strategies of Chinese cruise lines to Chinese tourists 

Benjamin TAUNAY, Angers University 

The Imagined Destination: the Current Intra-Asia Tourism Practices and Commodifying Ethnicity in 

Contemporary Taiwan 

Chien-Yuan CHEN, NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION 

The Rush of Reverence: Tourism, Pilgrimage, and Durkheimian Effervescence in North Korea 

Peter Sukonek, History of Art, Yale University

Panel 238 

Individual papers panel: The Philippines - Past and Present 

Population Change and Economic Development in the Philippines, 1899–1946 

Nobutaka Suzuki, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba 

Sakdal and Sakdalism: the Birth of the People's Party during the American Occupation of the Philippines 

(1930-1938) 

Marlon Santiago Delupio, De La Salle University, Philippines 

The Philippine State and Capital Accumulation: Survival Strategy in the Globalization Era 

Kazuhiro Ota, Kobe University 

Panel 239 

Local politics of Southeast Asian Metropolis 

Convenor: Nobuhiro Aizawa, Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO 

Discussant: Nobuhiro Aizawa, Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO 

Governing Bangkok: Reflection on the Recent Bangkok Governor Election 

Pitch Pongsawat, Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Political Science 

Conflict or Coexistence? - Politics of Clientelism and Business Friendliness in Metro Manila 

Wataru Kusaka, Kyoto University, Institute for Research in Humanities 

2012 Jakarta Gubernatorial Election: The Rise of Populism? 

Abdul Hamid, University Of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa 

Panel 240 

China, Africa and Labor 

Convenor: Barry Sautman, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology 

Discussant: Karsten Giese, German Institute of Global and Area Studies 

The Chinese, the Taiwanese, “Fong Kong” and Labor Issues: Challenges in the Garment and Textile Industry 

in Southern Africa 

Yoon Jung Park, Rhodes University, Dep't of Sociology 

Chinese and Africans at Work: Construction of the TAZARA Railway, 1968-1986 

Jamie Monson, Macalaster College, Dep't of History 

Racialization and Labor in Chinese Enterprises in Africa 

Hairong Yan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University 

Racialization and Labor in Chinese Enterprises in Africa 

Barry Sautman, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Division of Social Science

Panel 241 

Governance and Management of International Migration: Perspectives from the Sending Countries in 

Asia and the former USSR 

Sponsored by Afrasian Research Centre, Ryukoku University 

Convenor: Maria Reinaruth Desiderio Carlos, Faculty of Intercultural Communication, Ryukoku University 

Chair: Pauline Kent, Faculty of Intercultural Communication, Ryukoku University 

International Migration Regimes and Human Security Implications in the Sending Countries 

Aysun Uyar, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature 

International Remittances and Income Inequality in Sending Countries: The Case of the Philippines 

Maria Reinaruth Desiderio Carlos, Faculty of Intercultural Communication, Ryukoku University 

Discourse of Korean Diaspora, Intra-ethnic Stratification, and South Korean Project of Trans-border Ethnic 

Networks 

Shincha Park, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton 

Migration Policies vs. Entertainers: The Case of Women Labor Migrants from the Former USSR in Japan 

Viktoriya Kim, School of Human Sciences, Osaka University 

Re-conceptualizing Governance in Light of Governance of Labor Migration in Bangladesh 

Habibul Haque Khondker, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Zayed University


1:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M. 

Panel 244 


and Leisure across Asia III 



Chair: Mario Liong, International Institute for Asian Studies 

Japanese male beauty: contemporary discourses of masculinity 

Alessandra Maria Sabelli, University of Chicago 

Between gyaru-o and sôshokukei-danshi. Depictions of masculinities in fashion magazines for young Japanese 

men 

Ronald Saladin, Universty of Trier 

On the Symbolic Meanings of Corporate Masculine Anxieties in Contemporary South Korean TV Dramas 

Joanna Elfving-Hwang, University of Frankfurt 

Panel 245 

Roundtable: Maritime Frontiers, Colonial Experience, and Post-Colonial Developments: Macao, 

Hong Kong, and Beyond 

Sponsored by Research Institute for the Humanities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Chair: Ping-chen HSIUNG, Research Institute for the Humanities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong 

Kong 

Discussant: Ping-chen HSIUNG, Research Institute for the Humanities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Richard von GLAHN, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles 

Pui Yin HO, Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Panel 246 

Double Panel: Casino and Development in Asia (I) 

Sponsored by Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Macau; Asia Research Institute, National 

University of Singapore 

Convenor: Tak-wing Ngo, Department of Government and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences and 

Humanities, University of Macau 

Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Asian Migration Research Cluster Leader, 

Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapor 

Pandora’s Hope: The Emerging Casino Economy in Asia 

Zhang Juan, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore 

The Political Economy of Casino-oriented Growth in Macau 

Alex H. CHOI, Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Macau 

Casinos, Sovereignty, and Modernity in the Special Zones of the Burma-Lao Borderlands 

Pál NYÍRI, Global History from an Anthropological Perspective, Vrije Universiteit 

From War Zone to “Free” Zone: Politics of Legalizing Casino in Taiwan 

Melody Chia-Wen LU, Department of Sociology, University of Macau 

Panel 247 

Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia ‐ Differences and Similarities 

Sponsored by Japan Center, Munich University, Germany 

Convenor: Franz Waldenberger, Japan Center, Munich University, Germany 

Corporate Social Responsibility - Chinese perspectives and approaches 

Ying Cheng, School of Economics and Management, Chongqing University, China 

Corporate Social Responsibility - Korean perspectives and approaches 

Martin Hemmert, School of Business, Korea University, Korea 

Corporate Social Responsibility - Japanese perspectives and approaches 

Franz Waldenberger, Japan Center, Munich University, Germany 

Panel 248 

MAURITIUS: Global island going regional as a potential transcultural hub between Africa and Asia 

Sponsored by Mauritius-China Friendship and Cultural Society 

Convenor: Vinesh Y. Hookoomsing, AIEFCOI 

From the traditional isolated village shop to the urban professional elite and the regional entrepreneur with 

global business ne 

K C Kwong Wing Li, Mauritius-China Friendship and Cultural Society 

The Chinatown of Mauritius: A gateway to a comparative study of Chinatowns in Southern Africa and the S- 

W-I O Islands 

Jocelyn Chan Low, University of Mauritius 

Mauritius and the Chinese Diaspora in the South-West Indian Ocean Region 

Clement C. S. Chan Wan Thuen, DCI Studios Ltd

Panel 249 

Individual papers panel: Regional identities in Indonesia and Timor Leste 

Chair: Elena Soboleva, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy 

of Scienses 

Three Colours of Nationalism in the Indonesian Archipelago 

David Webster, Bishop's University, Dept. of History 

Stigma and Identity: The revival of local historiography in Banyuwangi, East Java 

Sri Margana, Gadjah Mada University 

The 2012 elections in Timor-Leste: firm steps towards democratic consolidation? 

Rui Graça Feijo, CES/University of Coimbra/Portugal 

Timor-Leste's security challenges 

Nuno Canas Mendes, Orient Institute - School of Social and Political Sciences, Technical University of Lisbon 

Urban Knowledge Dynamica in Three Indonesian City-Regions 

Elisa Sutanudjaja, Rujak Center for Urban Studies 

Panel 250 

Chinese Christianity II: Christian Disaster Management and Institutional Void in the Republican Era 


Chair: Robert James Antony, History Department, Macau University 

Discussant: Lydia Gerber, Department of History, Washington State University 

Religious Women and Local Society: Christian Virgins and Catholic Communities of Women in Northeast 

China 

Ji Li, Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong 

Christian Disaster Management in South China 

Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, History Department, Pace University 

Catholic Mission Stations: Centers of Stability and Protection in Troubled Times 

R. G. Tiedemann, Center for Boxer Movement Studies, Shandong University 

Patriotic Cooperation: The Church of Christ in China and Church-State Relations in Nationalist China 

Diana Xiong, Government, History and Criminal Justice Department, Regent University 

Panel 251 

Individual papers panel: Re-reading the classics 

An Early Canonization of the Confucian Teachings: A Re-examination of the Apocryphal Records of Confucius 

beyond the Analects 

Vincent Wai-kit Ho, History Department, University of Macau 

Defining ‘Yimin’:- A Journey through the Mental Maps of Commentators 

Soon Cheng TAN, Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board 

Rethinking of Yue(Music) in the Analects and Its Methodological Significance ——Based on the Reading of 

Thinking Though Confucius 

Jinfeng Wang, Philosophy Department, Nanjing University. 

Leadership Wisdom of the I Ching 

Adrian John Davis, Macau Polytechnic Institute

Panel 252 

Food and Heritage: Maintaining and Crossing Culinary Borders in Asia and Beyond 

Sponsored by Association for Asian Studies 

Convenor: Theodore C. Bestor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University 

Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University 

Ingesting Divinity: Temple Modernities, Heritage Sacred Food and Shifting Carnal Economies in India 

Tulasi Srinivas, Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College 

Food Heritage and Community Construction: Definition and Reproduction of Traditional Local Foodways in 

Taiwan 

Yujen Chen, Graduate Institute of Taiwan Food Culture, National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism 

Japanese Cuisine as World Cultural Heritage: The UNESCO Campaign 

Theodore C. Bestor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University 

Korean culinary heritage and the 38th parallell 

Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University 

Spice Boys: Masculinity and the Travels/Travails of Asian Food 

Michael Herzfeld, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University 

Panel 253 

Sex and Gender in Asian Art 

Convenor: Melia Belli, University of Texas at Arlington 

Gender Politics & Public Identity: Mayawati's Sculptures 

Melia Belli, University of Texas at Arlington 

Princess Dara Rasami as Promoter and Preserver of Lan Na Culture in Late-19th to Early-20th Century Siam 

Leslie Woodhouse, Independant Scholar 

Hua Yan (1682-1756) and the Yangzhou Garden: Visualizing Gender and Society in the Qing Dynasty 

Kristen Chiem, Department of Art, Pepperdine University 

Art for and by women in the canon of Korean art history 

Charlotte Horlyck, School of Oriental and African Studies 

Lady Zenmyo’s Piety in The Illustrated Legend of Kegon Sect 

Ikumi Kaminishi, Department of Art History, Tufts University

Panel 254 

Contemporary Korean Art and Media: Looking Beyond and Before 

Convenor: Stephen Epstein, Victoria University of Wellington 

Discussant: Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, University of Hong Kong 

Affect and Pop Music in Recent South Korean Nostalgia Films 

Yun Mi Hwang, University of Ulsan, Department of English 

Whose Super Violent Asian Women? My Wife is a Gangster and My Sassy Girl as Chinese-Korean Intertexts 

Jane Chi Hyun Park, University of Sydney 

Into the New World: Girls’ Generation from the Local to the Global 

Stephen Epstein, Victoria University of Wellington 

Popular Media as Message: Reconsidering Nam June Paik, Young Hae Chang and the Back Dorm Boys as 

Global Avant-Garde 

Margaret Ji Rhee, UC Berkeley 

Trickle, Splash, Shoot: Chang Jia’s Standing Up Peeing 

Kate Korroch, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 

Panel 255 

Individual papers panel: China's foreign relations 

Caught Between the National and the Regional: Representation of 2008 Beijing Olympic in South Korea 

Younghan Cho, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Graduate School of International and Area Studies) 

Concepts of Wufu (Five Zones) and Zhongguo (Central State) in Sino-Foreign Relations: Historical Review 

KU BOON DAR, Universiti Sains Malaysia 

Emigration, “Colonization,” and Nation-Building: China in Global Context, 1842-present 

Lisong Liu, Susquehanna University 

China’s (Re-)Emergence as a Great Power 

Chris Ogden, University of St Andrews 

Panel 256 

Individual papers panel: Education I 

Using STEM fields to teach China Area Studies 

Jennifer Rudolph, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 

Socrates v. Confucius: What's the Right Model for East Asia's Law Schools? 

Jasper Kim, Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University; Founder, Asia-Pacific Global 

Research Group 

Research on the Construction of Excellent Courses in China Universities 

Gao Huijun, Guangxi University for Nationalities 

A Study of Campus Cultural Asset: Soft Power Arising from the NCKU Writers Series Project 

Mei-tzu Tsai, Department of Chinese Literature at National Cheng Kung University

Panel 257 

Civil Society Organisations and the Future of Participatory Development in South and Southeast Asia 

Sponsored by Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, Univeristy of Wollongong 

Convenor: Susan Engel, Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, University of Wollongon 

Discussant: Vera Mackie, Institute for Social Transformation Studies, University of Wollongong 

Civil Society Organisations in Indonesia: Challenges of a rapidly changing environment 

Susan Engel, Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, University of Wollongong 

Civil Society Organisations and the Promotion of Sustainable Agriculture in India 

Trent Brown, Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, University of Wollongong 

Civil Society Organisations and the future of Participatory Development in Pakistan: The Case of Child 

Welfare 

Asma Kahlid, Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, University of Wollongong 

Panel 258 

Individual papers panel: Yunnan, minorities and education 

Across natural and cultural barriers: The caravans of Zhaozhou, Western Yunnan 

Jianxiong MA, Division of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 

Revolution beyond Evolution: Dong Guan-zhi and his Pictorial Illustrations of Yunnanese Natives in Early 

Republican Period 

Peng-hui Wang, Dept. of Anthropology, National Taiwan University 

The Yunnan & Vietnam Community Based Visual Education and Communication ( CBV) Project 2006-2009 

Karsten Krueger, Shantou University, College of Liberal Arts, Centre for International Studies (CIS) 

Panel 259 

Social Cohesion and Ethnicity in Malaysia's Pluralistic Society 

Sponsored by Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA), National University of Malaysia (UKM) 

Convenor: Giok Hun Pue, Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA) 

Chair: Puay Liu Ong, Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA) 

Learner Diversity and Education for All: Tracking the School System in Malaysia 

Puay Liu Ong, Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA) 

On Ethnic Categorization and Recognizing the Peranakans: Reconceptualizing Social Amalgamation Towards 

Social Cohesion 

Giok Hun Pue, Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA) 

Branding Malaysia: The catalyst for discourses on a pluralized nation 

Shazlin Amir Hamzah, Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 

The Role of Food in Everyday Life: in the Case of Malaysian Cuisine 

Marcella Aloysius, Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA) 

Guru Granth Sahib as a Model of Maintaining Social Cohesion among the Sikh Minority Community in 

Malaysia 

Charanjit Kaur & Darshan Singh, Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA)

Panel 260 

Individual papers panel: Living the Edges: Trade and Mobility 

BORDER TRADE BETWEEN INDIA AND MYANMAR 

Bijay S Mipun, NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY 

Resilience of Oirat Communities on the Northeast Tibetan Plateau: A Case Study in Ethno-microhistory 

Gerald Roche, Qinghai Normal University 

The Role of Indonesian traditional fishermen in the mobility of migrants' smuggling to Australia 

Tri nuke pudjiastuti, Indonesian Institute of Sciences and University of Indonesia 

The Otherness Discourse in Thai Online Newspapers 

Thanachate Wisaijorn, Faculty of Political Science, Ubon Ratchathani University 

Tree, Tenure and Trauma: Tree plantation, land (dis)possession and violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts 

(CHT) of Bangladesh 

Aynul Islam, Research Fellow, Conflict Research Group (CRG), Ghent University 


Individual papers panel: Between occidentalism and orientalism 

Dilemma of Multiple Modernity or Universal Modernity: The Reflections of China’s Modernity from Dewey, 

Russell, and Tagore 

Eugene Chiu, Dept of History, Tunghai University 

The Road from Isolation: Qing Scholar-Officials Introduce Knowledge about Western Countries into XIX 

Century Japan and Korea 

Sergey Vradiy, Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnology of Far Eastern People Russia Academy of Science 

The Netherlands in Late Imperial China: Images and Ideas 

Thijs Weststeijn, University of Amsterdam and Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome 

The French for “London” Is “Paris”: Orientalism and Occidentalism in Lao She’s Novel The Two Mas 

Rumyana Spartak Cholakova, Macao Polytechnic Institute 

America’s Asia: Cultural Contact and Racial Formation in the Nineteenth Century 

Constance Chen, Loyola Marymount Universty 


Medicines, modernity and development in traditional and biomedical systems.' 

Convenor: Alex McKay, IIAS, Leiden; Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Sikkim 

Discussant: Ivette Vargas, Department of Religious Studies: Austin College 

Medicine-taking among Nepalese Sherpas 

Susan Heydon, School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, 

Taming the Poisonous: Ideas of Toxicity and Contamination in Tibetan Pharmacology 

Barbara Gerke, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 

Tibetan medical doctors' engagements with 'Maternal and Child Health' in transnational Sowa Rigpa 

Resi Hofer, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo 

Back to the Future? Reflections on Himalayan Medical Transformations 

Alex McKay, IIAS Leiden/Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Sikkim


Accountability and Institutions in the Sustainable Development of Southeast Asia 

Sponsored by Support Staff Education and Adjustment Committee (SSEAC) 

Convenor: Russell Toth, School of Economics, The University of Sydney 

Chair: Michele Ford, Department of Indonesian Studies, The University of Sydney 

Environmental Quality Index and Eco-Efficiency Analysis: The Case of Indonesia 

Meilanie Buitenzorgy & Tihomir Ancev, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, The University of 

Sydney 

The Scope of Fair Trade Labeling in South East Asia 

Elisabeth Valiente-Riedl, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Sydney 

Kue empuk (soft cake) for politicians or a hidden cost to society? Understanding local government reserves in 

Indonesia 

Russell Toth, Sherry Tao Kong & Thomas Pepinsky, School of Economics, The University of Sydney 


Individual papers panel: Northeast India and Bhutan 

DEMOCRATIC BHUTAN RE-CONSTRUCTED: the evolution of perceptions of power 2008-2013 

Brian Carl Shaw, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong 

Khasi Political Organization and the Struggle for Identity : A Study of aTribe in North East India 

GEETIKA RANJAN, North Eastern Hill University 

Migration and Socio-Cultural Transformation of Deoris in Assam-INDIA 

Sujata Deori, North Gauhati College, College Nagar 

Redistribution of Population in Majuli Island, India 

Debendra Kumar Nayak, Department of Geography 


The Formation of Market Economies in Central Asia: the Role of Informal Institutions and Path 

Dependence 

Convenor: Roman Anatolyevich Vakulchuk, Central Asian Development Institute 

Chair: Julia Anatolyevich Kusznir, 

Discussant: Alibek Tusupbekov, Central Asian Development Institute 

Private vs. State-Owned Companies: How Much Do Informal Institutions Matter in the Uzbekistan Context? 

Farrukh Irnazarov, National University of Uzbekistan 

Informal Institutions and the Formation of the Market Economy in Kazakhstan: the Varieties of Capitalism 

Perspective 

Roman Anatolyevich Vakulchuk, Central Asian Development Institute 

General and Specific Changes in the Higher Education of Central Asia: Universities versus Business Schools 

Yelena Istileulova, Ljubljana University


Individual papers panel: Crossing the Chinese borders 

The People without Hukou in the Sino-vietnam Border: the case of Vietnamese wives in Kannai village, 

Ningming county, China 

Guofu WU, Guangxi University for Nationalities 

Borders and Citizenship in Governance of Sino-Vietnamese Undocumented Marriages 

Elena Barabantseva, University of Manchester 

The Daily Border Crossing; expressions of borders in everyday life. 

Jonathan Burrow, University of Oulu 

Identities of Cross-border Students: Crisis, Ambiguity or Flexibility 

Anita Kit Wa Chan, Department of Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Institute of Education 


Localizing Cosmopolis in a Global Age: The City at the Grass Roots in East & Southeast Asia 

Convenor: Michael Douglass, Asia Research Institute & Department of Sociology, National University of Taiwan 

Chair: Kong Chong Ho, Department of Sociology/National University of Singapore 

The City at the Grassroots: Local Engagement and State Response 

Kong Chong Ho, Department of Sociology/National University of Singapore 

Space of Hope: Analyzing the Resilience of Marginalized and Socially Vulnerable Groups in Long-Shan Park, 

Taipei 

Liling Huang, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning/National Taiwan University 

The City, Nature and the Grass Roots: Locating Cosmopolis in Urban Waterfronts 

RIta Padawangi, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy/National University of Singapore 

Divided Cosmopolis? Tales of Two Global Villages in Seoul 

Myung-Rae Cho, Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Social Sciences/Dankook University 

Contentious space at the neighbourhood in urban China: Homeowners activism, Civic Engagement and social 

control 

Ngai Ming Yip, Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong 


Individual papers panel: Chinese in North America and Israel 

Ancestral Worship Ritual and the Politics of Clan/Hometown Associations on the Internet 

Ann Shu Ju CHIU, University Library, Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Combining the Best of all Worlds? Explaining the Multi-place Social Integration of Chinese Singaporeans in 

New York 

Caroline Pluss, Division of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University 

Bifurcated identities, complicity and resistance among Chinese construction workers in Israel 

Nily Gorin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

One Foot Stepping on Two Lands: Globalization and Transnational Migration Trajectories of Immigrant 

Women Professionals’ Experi 

Guida Chingfan Man, Department of Sociology, York University


3:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. 

Panel 271 


and Leisure across Asia IV 



Chair: Manuela Ciotti, International Institute for Asian Studies 

Acting Straight? Salarymen Negotiating Discourses of Sexuality Through Everyday Embodied Practices of 

Work and Leisure 

Romit Dasgupta, University of Western Australia 

Masculinized in Oil: The Identity of the Female Artist in Self-Portraits in Republican China, 1911 – 1949 

Kevin Lam, Northwestern University 

Masculinity without ‘men’—Performing female masculinity in Japanese FTM zines 

Shu Min Yuen, University of Melbourne 

Panel 272 

Roundtable: Southeast Asian Studies: Crisis or Opportunity? 

Sponsored by 

Convenor: Mario Ivan Lopez, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University 

Chair: Caroline Sy Hau, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University 

Philippe Peycam, International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS) 

Loos Tamara, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University 

Michael Feener, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore 

Shin Yoon Hwan, Institute of East Asian Studies, Sogang University 

Charnvit Kasetsiri, Southeast Asian Studies Program, Faculty of Liberal Arts Thammasat University

Panel 273 

Double Panel: Casino and Development in Asia (II) 

Sponsored by Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Macau; Asia Research Institute, National 

University of Singapore 

Convenor: Tak-wing Ngo; Department of Government and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences and 

Humanities, University of Macau; 

Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Asian Migration Research Cluster Leader, 

Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapor 

Non-State Actors in Macau's Casino Economy 

Tim SIMPSON, Department of Communication, University of Macau 

Illicit Flows and Criminal Things in the Borderlands of the Golden Triangle: The Other Side of the Greater 

Mekong Sub-region 

Danielle TAN, Australian National University 

In Search of Respectability: Legalization and Diversification of the Junket System in Macao 

Emilie TRAN & Fiona, CHEONG Weng Lam, Faculty of Business, Government and Social Work, University of Saint 

Joseph 

Panel 274 

I was here: mediating experiences with ink and photography in modern and contemporary Japanese 

visual culture 

Convenor: Olivier Krischer, Independent; ArtAsiaPacific magazine 

Chair: Olivier Krischer, Independent; ArtAsiaPacific magazine 

Ink and the politics of memory: Komuro Suiun’s travel paintings of China and Korea. 

Rhiannon Paget, University of Sydney 

Being “Asian” in China: images of modern Japanese scholars traveling in China at the turn of the twentieth 

century. 

Olivier Krischer, Independent; ArtAsiaPacific magazine 

Traces of Time through the Brush and Lens: A Japanese travel diary from the 1930s 

Fuyubi Nakamura, Institute for Art Anthropology, Tama Art University 

You are what you eat: food photography, image consumption and strategies of self-hood in Japan 

Toby Slade, Department of English Language, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Tokyo

Panel 275 

Europeans in East Asia from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century: Elements for a 

Social History of Globalisation 

Convenor: Klaus DITTRICH, Korea University 

Going East! European life between adventure and nostalgia in 19th century China 

Christine HOWALD, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Tsinghua University 

Europeans in Treaty Port East Asia: From Bilateral to Transnational Approaches 

Klaus DITTRICH, Korea University 

Musical Migration: European composers, conductors and pianists in East Asia during the Interwar Period 

Kyungbun LEE, Seoul National University 

How to memorize transnational activities? Bruno Taut as an architect in Berlin and Tokyo during the 1930s 

Heejung SUH, Seoul Digital University 

Panel 276 

East Timor, the Portuguese, and the Indonesian Archipelago – historical sources and methodological 

reconsiderations 

Sponsored by School of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Sweden 

Convenor: Emilie Wellfelt, School of Cultural Sciences 

Chair: Hans Erik Gustaf Hagerdal, School of Cultural Sciences 

Discussant: James Fox, The Australian National University 

Conceptions of Time in Oral Traditions (co-written with Judith Bovensiepen) 

Douglas Kammen, Department of Southeast Asian Studies 

Memories of migration and contact - East Timor origins in Alor (co-written with Antoinette Schapper) 

Emilie Wellfelt, School of Cultural Sciences 

Arbiru: history and legend of the army officer Francisco Duarte (East Timor, 1892-2012) 

Ricardo Roque, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon 

Contesting colonialisms, contesting stories: Early intrusion in East Timor through Portuguese and Dutch eyes 

Hans Erik Gustaf Hagerdal, School of Cultural Sciences

Panel 277 

Chinese Christianity III: Empowerment through Education, Healthcare, Church-State Mediation, 

and Diplomatic Outreach 


Chair: Lars Tse‐Hei Laamann, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 

Discussant: R. G. Tiedemann, Center for Boxer Movement Studies, Shandong University 

Mission Education and Local Development in Shandong Province 

John R. Stanley, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania 

The Institutionalization of the Nursing Training Program at Colonial Hong Kong’s Nethersole Hospital 

David J. Kang, Center for East Asian Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Dynamics of Institutionalization: State-Church Relationship in Contemporary Wenzhou 

Yujing Zhu, Institute of Anthropology, School of Social Development, East China Normal University 

Sino-Vatican Relations: Conflicts and Resolutions 

Cindy Yik-yi Chu, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University 

Panel 278 

Individual papers panel: Sanskrit 

Bhikkhuni ordination in Theravada, Thailand and Canada 

Jim Placzek, Center for Southeast Asian Research, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia 

Thus Have We Read: Untangling the Intertextuality in Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature 

Charles William DiSimone, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich 

Dreams in the Rigveda and the Atharvaveda 

Lola Sharon Davidson, University of Technology Sydney 

Pseudo-planets in China and their Indian antecedents 

Bill M. Mak, University of Hong Kong 

Panel 279 

Rethinking Cosmopolitics: Politicizing the Discourse of Cosmopolitanism in Philippine Studies 

Convenor: Carlos III Monteza Piocos, The University of Hong Kong 

The Spectre of the Past, The Promise of the Future: Nation, Cosmopolitanism and Utopia in Philippine Future 

Fiction 

Carlos III Monteza Piocos, The University of Hong Kong 

Optics vs. Tactics: The role of the performative and the theatrical in the analysis of “cosmopoltical” 

performance in the Philip 

Reagan Romero Maiquez, Centre for Theater and Performance, Monash University 

Topologies of Cosmopolitanism: Reconsidering Home, Home-place and Home Interiors in Migration 

Louie Tongco Navarro, Department of Humanities 

The House Opposite LVN Studio: The Rural-to-Urban-to-Overseas Migration History of a Bicolano Family 

Dada Docot, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia

Panel 280 

A Place for Interpretations: A Study of Films and Literature in Post/Colonial Hong Kong 

Sponsored by The Hong Kong Institute of Education 

Convenor: Kat Hung Dennis Cheng, The Hong Kong Institute of Education 

What Lies Within: Misrecognition and the Uncanny in Hong Kong’s Cityscape 

Bidisha Banerjee, The Hong Kong Institute of Education 

Identity and Ambivalence in Xu Xi’s History’s Fiction 

Tsung Chi Hawk Chang, The Hong Kong Institute of Education 

The Borrowed Non-place: A Study of temporality and spatiality in Hong Kong modernist fiction before 1997 

Chung To Au, The Hong Kong Institute of Education 

The Narration of “Hong Kong” in Hong Kong fiction around 2007 

Cheuk Wai Yip, The Hong Kong Institute of Education 

Political Education of “the Public” Overseas: The Mission of PRC-made Opera Films and Opera Troupes in 

Colonial Hong Kong, 1950s 

Kwok Wai Hui, 

Panel 281 

Intangible heritage and UNESCO in Southeast Asia 

Convenor: Fiona Kerlogue, Horniman Museum 

Discussant: Michael Hitchcock, Macau University of Science and Technology 

Tourism, Nationalism and Intangible Heritage in Southeast Asia 

Michael Hitchcock, Macau University of Science and Technology 

Indonesian batik: the politics of culture 

Fiona Kerlogue, Horniman Museum 

The Royal Ballet of Cambodia 

Denise Heywood, School of Oriental and African Studies, Univ of London 

Panel 282 

Individual papers panel: Chinese nation building 

Colonialism and Nationalism: An assessment of Hong Kong students’ changing perception on civic engagement 

in the past decade, 1999 to 2009. 

Cherry Wai Chun AU, Hong Kong Institute of Education 

The Early PRC Press and the Constructions of A Multi-ethnic National Imaginary: 1950-1959 

Mi Zhou, La Trobe University 

Diplomatic Relations: Sino-British Miscues and Missteps During Twenty Years of Negotiations over Terms of 

Full Recognition 

Tracy Steele, Sam Houston State University - Department of History 

Beyond East and West – A Re-examination of the Needham Question 

Xi XU, Macau University of Science and Technology

Panel 283 

Individual papers panel: Education II 

Should Ability Grouping be Continued in Our Education System 

Joseph Wu, City University of Hong Kong 

Debates on Women’s education in nineteenth century Bengal: Its form and content 

Rachana Chakraborty, UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA, WEST BENGAL, INDIA 

Politics of women's education in late colonial India 

Aishwarya Singh, School of Oriental and African Studies 

ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES IN MULTICULTURAL TEACHING IN THE MUSICS OF ASIA 

Ramon Pagayon Santos, UP Center for Ethnomusicology 

Panel 284 

Globalization, Coloniality, and the “Asian Century” 

Convenor: Hongling LIANG, Hong Kong Advanced Institute of Cross-Disciplinary Studies, City University of Hong 

Kong 

Chair: Walter Mignolo, Duke University 

Lyon Sino-French Institute: A Forgotten Episode in the History of Western Medicine Education in China 

Hongling LIANG, Hong Kong Advanced Institute of Cross-Disciplinary Studies, City University of Hong Kong 

Migrants on Screen: Chinese cinema in the age of global dislocation 

Vivian Lee, Department of Chinese, Translation, and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong 

The 'Not-Yet' in Indian Politics: Language, Epistemology and Coloniality   

Meera Ashar, School of Culture, History and Language College of Asia and the Pacific The Australian National 

University 

A Decolonial Project: The Evolution of Ann Hui’s Female Characters 

Enoch Tam, Hong Kong Advanced Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Studies, City University of Hong Kong 

Panel 285 

State Governance and Local Societies 

Sponsored by Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica 

Convenor: Shu-Yuan Yang, Institute of Ethnology, Academia sinica 

Folk Religion and Cultural Industry: A Case Study of Xingang, Taiwan 

Hsun Chang, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica 

From “Tribe” to “Nationality”: The State and Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan 

Wen-Te Chen, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica 

Political Engagement on a Philippine Frontier 

Shu-Yuan Yang, Institute of Ethnology, Academia sinica

Panel 286 

Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines: Understanding the Dumagats 

Sponsored by Research and Publications Center, Lyceum of the Philippines University - Manila 

Convenor: Victorina Hermoso Zosa, RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS CENTER, LYCEUM OF THE 

PHILIPPINES UNIVERSITY - MANILA 

“Closing the gap towards achieving equality for indigenous peoples through instruction, research and extension 

programs”. 

MARILYN LINGGON NGALES, Community Outreach and Service Learning, Lyceum of the Philippines University 

- Manila 

PAGMAMAMAN: A DUMAGAT LIFESTYLE AND WORLD CULTURE EXPERIENCE 

GLADYS PAGLINAWAN NALANGAN, RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS CENTER, LYCEUM OF THE 


ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: AGTA/DUMAGAT WOMEN’S SURVIVAL STORIES 

Leonora Hernandez Astete, COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND SERVICE LEARNING, LYCEUM OF THE 


Panel 287 

Individual papers panel: Internet cultures 

Field and habitus: ethnography on the practice of China Internet DIY Celebrity 

LIN Zhongxuan, University of Macau 

The Internet in China: An Expanding Research Field 

Gabriele de Seta, HK Polytechnic University 

Death and the Internet in Contemporary Vietnam 

Anthony Heathcote, The University of Adelaide 

Diaosi and Beyond: Self Image, Social Stratification and Social Tension in Mainland China 

guohua zeng, University of Amsterdam 

Panel 288 

Individual papers panel: State censorship in Asian cinema 

Contesting the Popular: The State's Role in Popular Chinese Films 

Wing Shan Ho, University of Oregon 

Collaboration and Conflict: Film Censorship in Hong Kong and Singapore, 1940s to 1950s 

Zardas Lee, Department of History, The University of Hong Kong 

Crisis of Cantophone Cinema in Postwar Hong Kong 

Kenny K.K. NG, Div of Humanities, HK Univ of Science and Technology 

The Wicked and the Sacred in Popular Culture: Cinematic Memory in between Religion and National Identity 

in Bangladesh 

Zakir Hossain Raju, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)

Panel 289 

Mastering Minds of Madness: An Interdisciplinary Look at Perceptions of and Approaches to Mental 

Illness in China 

Convenor: Birgit Linder, City University of Hong Kong 

Containing Madness in Eighteenth-Century China: The Qing Official Fear of Insane Violence and Symbolic 

Subversion 

Fabien Simonis, University of Hong Kong 

Masterminds of Madness: Representations of Mental Illness and their Treatment in Chinese Fiction 

Birgit Linder, City University of Hong Kong 

Panel 290 

Individual papers panel: Economics, environment and space in India 

Pattern of Urbanization and Contribution of Migration in Urban Growth in India 

Ram B Bhagat, International Institute for Population Sciences 

Continuity and change in India's development path 

Diego Maiorano, University of Liege, Belgium 

Hydropower Development and the Lepchas-A case studyof the Dzongu in Sikkim, India 

Subrata Purkayastha, North eastern hill university 

Panel 291 

Language, culture and interaction: a socio-discursive approach to analyze Chinese sociolinguistic 

contexts 

Convenor: Roberval TEIXEIRA-E-SILVA, University of Macau 

Discussant: Roberval TEIXEIRA-E-SILVA, University of Macau 

Positioning and classroom discourse 

Ricardo MOUTINHO, UNIVERSITY OF MACAU 

Intercultural interactions: meeting East and East within Chinese classroom 

Yan Qiarong, Communication University of China & University of Macau 

The role of the Portuguese language in the construction of Macanese youth's identity 

Xiaoheng Pan, UNIVERSITY OF MACAU 

Panel 292 

Individual papers panel: Economic relations between Japan and China 

The political Economy of FDI into ASEAN 

Ignacio Jose Miñambres Garcia, Graduate School of Political Economy, Cheng Kung University (Taiwan - R.O.C.) 

China and Japan’s Economic Cooperation in Southeast Asia 

Dennis D. Trinidad, International Studies Department, De La Salle University 

JAPAN'S OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO CHINA 

Chitta Ranjan Malik, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, NEW DELHI, INDIA

Panel 293 

The dynamics of the China’s frontiers in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong 

Convenor: Bill Chou, University of Macau 

Discussant: Herbert Yee, University of St Joseph 

Xinjiang in China’s Foreign Relations: Part of a New Silk Road or Central Asian Zone of Conflict? 

Colin Mackerras, Griffith University 

From Multinationalism to Multiculturalism: New Liberal Logics and the National Regional Autonomy 

Framework in the PRC 

Tashi Rabgey, George Washington University 

Xinjiang's Development as a part of The People's Republic of China's Strategy in Central and South Asia 

Sean Roberts, George Washington University 

Cross border trade at the Northwestern frontier zone of China 

Ayxem Eli, University of New South Wales 

External Relations of Hong Kong in Comparative Perspective 

Simon Shen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Panel 294 

Peace and Conflict Trends in East Asia and the World: A Quantitative-Qualitative Exchange 

Convenor: Stein Tønnesson, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), and Department of Peace and Conflict Research, 

Uppsala University 

Chair: Stein Tønnesson, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), and Department of Peace and Conflict Research, 


Discussant: Stein Tønnesson, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), and Department of Peace and Conflict Research, 


Michael Montesano, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 

What Is Special about the East Asian Peace? Comparing the East Asian Region to Other Regions of the World 

Using Quantitative Methods 

Erik Melander, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University 

co author of Erik Melander 

Isak Svensson, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University 

An East Asian Difference? Are patterns of inter-state conflict in East Asia statistically distinct from those in 

other global regions, or could the post-1980 East Asian peace be a statistical anomaly? 

Benjamin E. Goldsmith, University of Sydney 

The Effect of Hegemonic Competition on the East Asian Peace: A Quantitative Appraisal 

Chih-Mao Tang, 

A Model of Peace: Political Institutions, Elite Characteristics and the Outbreak of Nonconflict in East Asia 

(and Beyond) 

Joakim Kreutz, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University

Panel 295 

Changing "Chineseness" and Varieties of Chinese Descendants in Southeast Asian Countries 

Convenor: Su-mei Lo, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University 

The Imagined Center-building of Transnational Community: Ethnic Formulation and Change among 

Burmese-Chinese Immigrants in Macau 

Chen-hsiao Chai, National Museum of History 

National Integration of the Yunnanese Chinese in Northern Thailand 

Lin-hui Yang, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University 

Chinese Religion or Reformist Thai Buddhism? : A Preliminary Study on Development of I-Kuan Tao in 

Thailand 

Yu-Sheng Lin, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University 

Toward a Theory of Competitive –Cooperative Model in Ethnic Mosaic Situation:on Formulation of “Hakkaness” 

among Malaysian Chinese in Sabah 

Jui-chao Liu, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University 

Ethnicity, Culture and the discussion of "Chineseness": Different Types of Balinese Chinese in Indonesia 

Su-mei Lo, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University

wednesday 26 june 2013 - International Convention of Asia Scholars

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