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Saturday, November 6
Session 3 (2:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m.)
Panel 13: Does the Economic History of South Asia Have a Future? Alternative Narratives of Economic Change, Part I
Location: Rockefeller 1
Chair: Chitralekha Zutshi, College of William and Mary
Prasannan Parthasarathi, Boston College
"Economic Theory, Social Theory, and the Writing of South Asian History"
Tirthankar Roy, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics
"Obscure Accounts of Economic Change in India"
David Ludden, University of Pennsylvania
"Can Economic History Survive Late Capitalism?"
Discussant: Steven Ericson, Dartmouth College
Panel 14: War, Diplomacy, and the State in Early China
Location: Rockefeller 2
Chair: Ralph D. Sawyer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
E. Bruce Brooks, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"The Gwan Jung Myth"
A. Taeko Brooks, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"The League of the North in Spring and Autumn"
Ralph D. Sawyer
"Irregular and Unexpected: Early Unorthodox Warfare"
* Abstracts of these papers are available at http://www.umass.edu/wsp/conferences/aas/2004/war/index.html
Panel 15: Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Time in Asia, Part I
Location: Carson L01
Chair and Discussant: Peter Button, McGill University
Thomas Lornsen, McGill University
"The Change of Gender Roles in the Jewish Refugee Community in Shanghai in 1938-1945"
Sean MacDonald, McGill University
"Realism, Modernism and War"
Grace Fong, McGill University
"Contesting Cosmopolitanism: Lü Bicheng's Writings in Shanghai (1911-26)"
Panel 16: "Everything Old Is New Again": Traditional Culture in Japan's Modern Age
Location: Carson L02
Chair: Mark Stought, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Fumiko Brown, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"An Unbroken Lineage? Tracing Japanese Illustrated Fiction from kibyôshi to manga"
Hiromi Kubota, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"Paradise Regained? Watanabe Jun'ichi and Contemporary Shinjû Narratives"
Mark Stought
"Bakin's Hakkenden and Its Place in Modern Japan"
Discussant: Amanda Seaman, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Panel 17: Anthropological Approaches to Leisure, Hardship, and Migration in East Asian Societies, Part I
Location: Carson 60
Chair: Joanne Cullinane, Dartmouth College
Joseph W. Corda, China Institute in America
"The Labor of Leisure: China's Nightlife Through the Eyes of Its Promoters"
Danning Wang, Dowling College
"Class, Gender, Lifecycle, and the Inheritance of Parents' Employments in Urban China"
Jiang Chuanhe, Richard Tessler, and Junpen Li, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"The Quality of Life of Older Persons in the Chinese Countryside"
Xi Zhang, Universit y of Pittsburgh
"Migration, the Household Registration System, and Urbanization"
Discussant: Robert Welsch, Dartmouth College
Roundtable 2: Using "Monkey" to Teach Religions of China in Middle and High Schools
Location: Class of 1930 Room, Rockefeller Center
Chair: Kathleen Woods Masalski, Five College Center for East Asian Studies
Ryan Bradeen, Bangor High School
Jean Johnson, World History Association
Gail Wang, Peabody Essex Museum
Javanese Gamelan Workshop
Jody Diamond, Dartmouth College
Hinman Forum, Rockefeller Center, 3:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
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