ASCJ 2015 Accepted Individual Papers

Abele, Michael

From

Bakuro

to

Butchers:

An

Osaka

Outcaste

Community in Japans Long Nineteenth Century

Alexander, Jeffrey

Alcohol Damage! Advertising Campaigns for Liver

Medicines and Hangover Drugs in Postwar Japan

Andall, Jacqueline

Migration dynamics and Blackness in Japan: West

Africans in Tokyo

Aoki, Arisa

The Dawn of the Self-Sacrificing Stepmother: Breaking

Down One Archetype to Create Another in Chikamatsus
Plays

Benesch, Oleg

The Search for Patriotic Legitimacy and the Birth of the

Zen Warrior in Modern Japan

Bradley, Joff

On the "destruction of every reason to hope" in Japan

Brau, Lorie

Grasping for the Ungraspable in a Food Manga:

Oishinbos True Story of Post- 3.11 Fukushima

Buxton, Carly,

Two-Way Passage: The Nisei of SCAP

Cabell, Charles

Kawabata Yasunari and the Return of Empire under US

Hegemony: Japanese Literature, National Identity and
Postwar Forgetting

Cao, Ye

The Modern Transformation of a Traditional Benevolent

Institution: The Case of Foundling Hospital in Shaoxing
Prefecture in Late Qing Dynasty (1820s-1900s)

Chang, Cheng-Chieh

Identity, Sexuality and Mobility in Zenkyoto Fiction:

Representation of Student Movement in late 60s in
Taiwanese Wu Chi-wens Galaxy in Ecstasies

Chen, Jue

The Visualization of Literary Memory and the Poetic

Transition between Tang and Song

Chesters, Robert

Uncovering

North

Korean

Resource

History:

Mineralogical Narratives of the Captured Documents

Collection
Citko, Malgorzala

Ritual as a means of establishing power: ritualistic

character of the Rokujo and Mikohidari poetic schools
practices

Feng, Jiren

The 8th-Century Building Code Yingshanling and Its

Place in Chinese Architectural Literature

Gong, Chenzhuo

Analyzing Reports of People's Daily on Japan During the

Second Term of Abe Cabinet, A Framing Approach

Guarini, Letizia

The Father/Daughter Relationship in Kakuta Mitsuyo and

Yu Miri's Works

Hansen, Kelly

The Language of Women in Natsume Soseki's Meian

Hansen, Wilburn

Jindai Moji Discourse: 'Aliterate" Literacy

Hayashi, Akiko

Learning Embodied Culture

Hovhannisyan, Astghik

War and Eyesight: Ophthalmological Research in Prewar

and Wartime Japan

Iles, Timothy

Kawase Naomi and the Sympathetic Gaze

Joo, Woojeong

An Audio-Vision of Peripheral Territory: Imperial Gaze

in the Early Japanese Talkie Documentaries of the 1930s

Kang, Inhye

Adopting the Visual Techniques of Displaying 'Others'

Kato, Daniela

Geopolitical imaginings and idioms for tumultuous times:

new trends in women's travel writing on Northeast Asia

Kiyama, Lori

How Japanese Adoption Mediators Envision the Future of

Social Welfare in Japan

Knezevic, Julija

In House Interpreter: 'Office Flower' of 'Gender

Escalator'?

Lagos, Concepcion

Working Selves for Shoes: Meaning-making in the

Informal Economy and the Global Footwear Market

Lee, Eugene

The Female Other: Images of Qing Women in

18th-Century Yŏnhaengnok

Lee, Jae-yon

Are We Talking about Yi Kwangsu as a Writer or a

Critic?: A Network Analysis of Emergent Literary Critics
in 1920s Korea

Lee, Sangjoon

The Asia Foundations Motion Picture Project in Cold

War Asia: FPA, Japan, and the South Korean Film
Industry in the 1950s

Lee, Seok

Colonial Korea's First Participation in the Olympic

Games (1932)

Lee, Wai shing

Honkon Nippō (Hong Kong News) and Japans

Southward Advance (1909-1945): A New Understanding
on Hong Kong-Japan Relationship

Li, He

Neo-authoritarianism and the Political Reform in the Xi

Jinping Era

Liu, Chen

Compiling

Poetry

Correspondences:

Anthologies
A

Study

through
of

Epistolary

Harvard-Yenching

Librarys Fang Yongbin Manuscript Letter Collection

Luk, Gary Chi-hung

The British Expedition to China and the Chinese Junk

Trade during the Opium War, 1840-42

Lusk, Jeniece

Assessment and Evaluation of the Effect of Family and

Labor Reform in Japan on Fertility Rates and Attitudes
Towards Childbearing

McCaffrey, Cecily

Geographies and place-based identities in the history of

the White Lotus Uprising

Nandi, Sugata

Politics of a Miracle: Gandhi in Calcutta, 1947

Ohsawa, Yuki

Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Japanese Cyborg

Animations

Ordaniel, Jeffrey

US-Japan Balancing Acts in the South China Sea:

Multilateralism, International Law and the Maintenance
of Status-Quo

Pi, Chenmying

From Dashu (Charming Uncle) to Xiao Xianrou (Little

Fresh Flesh): The Masculine Mystique and Womens
Desires in Contemporary China

Rands, David

Varying Attractions: Function-Based Spatiality and the

Migration of Koreans to Japan and Japanese to the

United States
Rodao. Florentino

The Anti-Comintern Pact and bilateral relations

Seo, Akwi

We Are Voters!: Political Representation of Marriage

Migrants in Korea

Santos, Kristine

Girls and Amateur Comics: The Creation of the Japans

Delusional Imagined Community

Schlachet, Joshua

Social Ills and Poison Foods: The Culture of Productive

Digestion in Late-Tokugawa Japan

Schley, Daniel

Power Relations and Transfer of Historical Knowledge in

Early 13th Century Japan. The Case of Akikane no
Minamotos Kojidan

Shan, Lianying

Representation of Foreign Cultures in Kirino Natsuos

Fiction

Shen, Chiasan

The Fluctuation of Immunology Experts in 1895-1945

Japan

Shen, Ruihua

The Women's Voice: How Web-feminism Has Changed

Gender Discourse in China

Shih, Ashanti

Capturing the Invisible: Photographic Depictions of

Mercury Pollution at Minamata Bay, 1950s-1970s

Sohn, Heejeong

Photography and Kojong's Body Politics

Sprague, David and Nobuyuki Iwasaki

New meanings for old places for all to see:

Japanese historical maps in the age of the

Internet
Stanislaus, Warren

Laughing at Japanese History: Satire and Laughter in

Late Nineteenth Century

Sturiano, Joanna

Hirabayashi Taikos Gangster Fiction and the Limits of

Modern Japanese Womens Literature

Sutt, Caremon

The Rules and Realities of Inheritance in Hungary and

Kamakura Japan

Swain, John

Deconstructing the Okinawan 'Diaspora(s)'

Takama, Saori

The Conditions for the Use of Hospitals as Nursing

Homes in Postwar Japan

Textor, Cindi

Queer(ing) Language in Yi Kwangsu's Mujong

Wang, Yuanfei

Japanese Images in late Ming Fiction and Drama

Wilkinson, Greg

Ritual Processes and Material Exchange in Modern

Shingon Pilgrimages

Wong, Yee Lam Elim

Overseas Chinese Women and Education: A Case Study

of an Overseas Chinese Womens Association in
Yokohama Chinatown

Xu, Stella

From A Marxist Universal History to an Ultra-Nationalist

Approach--Studies on Ancient History in North Korea
(1950s-2010)

Xue, Yingie

The Roles of Monks in the Construction of Masculinity in

Late-Ming Fiction

Yan Du, Daisy

From Monkey King to Astro Boy: The Roles of Chinese

Animation in Tezuka Osamus Manga and Anime

Yin, Yanfei

Paintings by One Artist, Agendas of Two Countries:

Exhibitions of Sesshu Toyo in Japan and China in 1956

Zabrovskaia, Larisa

New trends in the ROKs and the DPRKs gender policy:

a comparative analysis

Zhang, Yao

The Cultural Transformation in Chinese Literature in the

1990's

Zhou, Gang

Translations of Marco Polo: From Europe to Asia