AAS 2021 Guide
Columbia University at AAS 2021: A Guide
Monday March 22
10:00am-11:30am JAPAN A018: Japanese Children’s Literature and/in Translation
Japanese Children’s Literature and/in Translation Reaffirming a Masterpiece: Kawabata Yasunari’s Re-Translation of Little Lord Fauntleroy — Hyoseak Choi, Columbia University
12:30pm-2:00pm INTER-AREA/BORDER CROSSING B016: Recontextualizing East Asia in Premodern Japanese Art History
The Calligraphy of Yishan Yining and Its Historical Imagination — Xiaohan Du, Columbia University
3:00pm-4:30pm CHINA & INNER ASIA C003: China in Many Languages: Minority Literatures and the Politics of Translation
Science and the Yeti: On Döndrup Gyel’s Translation of “The Magic Flute of the Snow Mountains” — Christopher Peacock, Columbia University
3:00pm-4:30pm INTER-AREA/BORDER CROSSING C019: Transnational Asian Film Pioneers: Revolution, Gender, Race, (Re)location
Colonial War, Nationalist Revolution, and the Emergence of Documentary in China — Ying Qian, Columbia University
Tuesday March 23
8:30am-10:00am JAPAN/KOREA D008: Excavating New Insights on Early Northeast Asia: How Archaeological Research is Revolutionizing the Study of Early Japan and Korea Discussant: David B. Lurie, Columbia University
8:30am-10:00am CHINA & INNER ASIA D014: Non-Human Voices in Chinese Literature Light, Heat, Power: Futurist Poetics in Republican China — Chloe Estep, Columbia University
12:00pm-1:30pm SOUTH ASIA E015: Living Heritage & Historical Memory in Southeast Asia (II)
Stakeholders, Politics, and Ethics in the Preservation of Cultural Heritage — Nick Pozek, Columbia University
3:00pm-4:30pm SOUTH ASIA F002: “Blown Together” on the Winds of Trade: Japanese Presence in Southeast Asia Before and After World War II
Patching Together Modernity and Notions of ‘Authentic’ Tradition: Reforming Monastic Robes from Japan to Southeast Asia — Stephanie Bell, Columbia University
3:00pm-4:30pm INTER-AREA/BORDER CROSSING F012: Locality and Temporality between Qing China and Northeast Asia
Chaired by Ling-Wei Kung, Columbia University
Unpacking Qing China: Manchu Philology, Eurasian Geopolitics, and Global Knowledge in Early Modern Japan and Germany — Ling-Wei Kung, Columbia University
Wednesday March 24
12:00pm-1:30pm JAPAN H024: Writing the History of Japanese Photography: Challenges and Provocatives
Yuri Handa, Columbia University
3:00pm-4:30pm CHINA & INNER ASIA I006: Destruction as Construction: Theorizing Demolition in Premodern China
Destruction as a Way of Commemoration and Connection: A Case Study of Grave Good Destruction in Burials of Bronze Age Lower — Yangtze Shih-han Wang, Columbia University
Thursday March 25
8:30am-10:00am INTER-AREA/BORDER CROSSING J005: Framing East Asian Feminist Cinema
Discussant: Jane Gaines, Columbia University
8:30am-10:00am JAPAN J006: From Nourishing Life to National Nutrition: Diet and Health in Japanese History
From Shokuyô to Macrobiotics: Postimperial Wellness in Japan and the World — Kim Brandt, Columbia University
8:30am-10:00am INTER-AREA/BORDER CROSSING J009: Pan-Asian Modernity Beyond the Colonial Gaze: Education, Social Ethics, and Universal Religion
Chaired by Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University
8:30am-10:00am CHINA & INNER ASIA J018: Strategy and Statecraft in Imperial China
Fortifying the Coast: Naval Strategy and Maritime Geography in Late Qing China — Sau-yi Fong, Columbia University
12:00pm-1:30pm KOREA K008: Mediated Identities: Re-framing the Korean Subject Through Text, Screen, and Stage
Center as Periphery: Learned Coloniality in Chosŏn Filmmaking — Keung Yoon Bae, Columbia University
12:00pm-1:30pm INTER-AREA/BORDER CROSSING K017: Remaking the History of News in East Asia
What’s in a Column? Anecdotes and News in Early Twentieth-Century China — Nataly Shahaf, Columbia University
12:00pm-1:30pm KOREA K021: The Making of Public Memory in Contemporary South Korea: Narratives of Family and Politics
Surgeons Who Wrote: Constructing the Public Discourse of Plastic Surgery — So-Rim Lee, Columbia University
12:00pm-1:30pm INTER-AREA/BORDER CROSSING K023: Therapeutic Politics of Care: New Ethnographies of Asia
Discussants: Nicholas Bartlett, Barnard College, Columbia University
3:00pm-4:30pm SOUTH ASIA L006: Discussion of “More Than Words, Transforming Script, Agency and Collective Life in Bali” (Richard Fox 2018)
Discussants: Verena H. Meyer, Columbia University
3:00pm-4:30pm INTER-AREA/BORDER CROSSING L016: Surprised in the City: Unexpected and Unplanned Urbanism in Cities across Asia
Nick R. Smith, Barnard College, Columbia University
Friday March 26
8:30am-10:00am CHINA & INNER ASIA M018: Serving the People with Art and Propoganda in Socialist and Post-Socialist China
Serve the Tourists, Serve the People: From Revolutionary Diplomacy to Mass-Market Tourism — Gavin Healy, Columbia University
12:00pm-1:30pm JAPAN N013: Knowledge in Transit: Modern Japan in the Global History of Medicine
Beyond Chemicals and Medicines: Ishizu Pharmaceutical Company (1881‒2001) and the Modernization of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Japan — Isaac C. K. Tan, Columbia University
12:00pm-1:30pm CHINA & INNER ASIA N025: The Meaning of War in Late Imperial and Modern China Chaired by John B. Thompson, Columbia University
3:00pm-4:30pm CHINA & INNER ASIA P001: Chinese Domestic Life between State Ideologies and Family Strategies, 1800-1985
From Communism to Family Comfort: Negotiating Family Reunion in Shanghai, 1977-1985 — Yanjie Huang, Columbia University
3:00pm-4:30pm INTER-AREA/BORDER CROSSING P004: Eating Inedibles: Rethinking Foods in Asian STS
Fire Wine and Spurious Liquors: Regulating Alcohol in Republican China (1910-1932) — Tristan Revells, Columbia University
Knotty Materials: Edible Soy Proteins in the War on Hunger Eating One’s Words: Ingesting Written Oaths in Premodern Japan — Max Moerman, Barnard College, Columbia University
3:00pm-4:30pm SOUTH ASIA P014: Textuality and Sexuality: Politics and Gender in Modern South Asia
Chaired by Manpreet Kaur, Columbia University
Individual papers on demand:
W086: Precepts, Platforms, and Politics: Monastic Ordination Reform and Political Control in Eighth Century Japan — Abigail I. MacBain, Columbia University
W090: Secularized Spirituality in Modern Japanese Literary and Political Thought — Joshua Rogers, Columbia University
W095: The Foreign in the Local, the Local in the Foreign: Futabatei Shimei, Translation, and the Formation of Literary Language in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Japan — Yuki Ishida, Columbia University