Horse Years, or so the +IBw-Chinese Zodiac+IB0- on Yahoo tells us, promise to race gracefully to their destination.  +IBw-But beware,+IB0- we are warned +IBw-the skittish horse is known to veer sharply when startled!+IB0- This year, more than others, the East Asian Studies Program at Washington University has seen and will continue to see a variety of changes+IBQ-as the impetuous horse dashes ahead.  We will say goodbye, in this year, to wonderful colleagues +IBQ-some will leave us only briefly, others have left forever.  And we will welcome as many new members.  This year will also be a year that initiates programmatic changes.  The undergraduate major, for example,  will be incorporated this fall into the International and Area Studies Program.  The fall will also witness the inauguration of the new Visiting East Asian Professionals Program.  And finally, the directorship of the East Asian Studies Program will undergo a transition.  After four years as director, I will hand over the reins to my colleague Elizabeth Tsunoda.  Dr. Tsunoda has been an influential member of the East Asian Studies Program since she joined the university in 1993.  A historian, with particular expertise in the Japanese political economy, Dr. Tsunoda has taught the surveys of Japanese history in addition to seminars on foreign policy and political economy.  Important to our graduate students has been her Core Seminar in East Asian Studies+IBQ-the course most agree is crucial to defining the direction of their subsequent studies in the Program.  In addition to directing the East Asian Studies, Dr. Tsunoda will also be a significant member of the International and Area Studies Program.
 
 

     A number of East Asian Studies students will be graduating this spring.  Our thirteen majors and minors are: Laurel Aschoff, Kenneth Baughman, Joseph Congdon, Charles Cummins, Lester Fahrner, Dorothy Hoffman, James Hsiau, Nicholas Kamuda, Elisa Kong, Sara Krenning, Dennis Lee, Nikki Stromberg, and Carl Toborowsky.  Candi-dates for the MA degree in East Asian Studies are: Lane J. Harris, Suzanne Kauer, Leonard Liaw, Kryst+AOk-l Mowery, Shiyang Tang Paskowitz, and Xin Xu.  JD/MA graduate, Paul Saulski successfully completed his MA December 2001.  Sad to see these students leave, we celebrate their new milestone.  And we are pleased that so many new students will be joining the program in the fall.  Although an exact headcount is not yet possible, we anticipate seven new MA students; and, five new JD/MA students (four of whom have already completed their first year of Law School). These new faces will join the five MA and four JD/MA students who will remain in the program.  Additionally, we will welcome one ex-change student from Tsukuba University in Japan.  Finally, we are pleased to note that the number of EAS majors and minors has swelled over the last year, nearly doubling past figures.  At present we have 44 majors and 9 minors.  The Year of the Horse kicks!
 

We are also delighted to welcome new faculty members. In the fall, Hiroo Aridome (MA, University of Minnesota, 2002) will join the department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures as a Japanese language lecturer. Gwen Bennett (Art History and Archeology, Ph.D., UCLA, 2002) will be appointed to the Art His-tory and Archeology Department as an assistant professor.  Dr. Bennett+IBk-s research area  is the ar-chaeology of China and Northeast
Asia, with particular emphasis on the late Neolithic period of north-ern China Chinese, and in addition to teaching the mammoth Intro-duction to Asian Art survey for undergraduates, she offers courses on Chinese art and archeology.  The History Department has re-cently appointed Gardner Bovingdon to a two-year post-doctorate position.  Bovingdon received his Ph.D. from Cornell last fall and in addition to teaching courses on nationalism in East Asia, conducts research on the Uyghurs in China.  Last fall Tho-mas DuBois (History, Ph.D. UCLA, 2001) joined the faculty as a Mellon Post-doctorate in Relig-ious Studies. DuBois+IBk- courses on East Asian Religions were wildly popular, with enrollments topping 100 students.  Women+IBk-s Studies and Anthropology welcomed Sara Friedman (Ph.D. Cornell, 2000), whose research focus on gender and other issues in Fujian China makes her an invaluable member of the EAS team. And the Political Sciences department made a joint appointment with International and Area Studies to hire Andrew Mer-tha (Ph.D. Michigan, 2001), who works on intellectual property and trademark laws in China and who is responsible for teaching one of the core +IBw-Borders Crossing+IB0- courses for the new International and Area Studies major.

Of course, new hires often presage the loss of those who have grown familiar and dear.  Masayuki Ito-mitsu, lecturer of Japanese lan-guage, and Chiang Tz+IBk-u, senior lecture in Chinese language, will be leaving Washington University at the end of the spring semester.

Masayuki Itomitsu taught in the Japanese Section for six years.  He was also influential in developing an online kana project, the Japan Section web page, and other tech-nological improvements.  Itomi-tsu+IBk-s students found him to be both dedicated and good-humored.  Suzanne Kauer, for example, notes of her time in his classes: +IBw-Itomitsu Sensei was always ear-nest and +IBg-in character+IBk- for our little role plays and very enthusiastic about the exercises.  He was such a wonderful instructor.  It will be hard to imagine classes without him!+IB0-  Itomitsu will be leaving to pursue his Ph.D. in Japanese Lan-guage Pedagogy at The Ohio State University.

Chiang Tz+IBk-u joined the Chinese Section in 1999. A native of Tai-wan, Chiang was an important contributor to the International Chinese Language Program at Na-tional Taiwan University (formerly known as the Inter-University Pro-gram, IUP).  Although her time in the program was brief, she clearly made an impression on her stu-dents.  For example, Erin Kilgore, states: +IBw-I can honestly say that she was the nicest teacher I+IBk-ve ever had!  She made us want to learn because class was fun.+IB0-  Rumyana Cholakova reiterated Erin+IBk-s positve feelings, +IBw-She is an ex-tremely capable and careful teacher, and I will miss her very much.+IB0-

Elizabeth Oyler, Assistant Profes-sor of Japanese Language and Lit-erature, will take a sabbatical to work on a book-length manuscript and other publications.  In her ab-sence ANELL will welcome Mat-thew K+APY-nigsberg as a Visiting Associate Professor.  K+APY-nigsberg will teach classical literary Japa-nese language, among other courses.  Beata Grant, Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Literature and Chair of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, will return after a year of research leave at Harvard Uni-versity.

It was with great sorrow that the East Asian Studies Program learned of the death of one of its most beloved members.  Nelson Ikon Wu, internationally recog-nized scholar of Asian art and ar-chitecture, died March 19, 2002 of cancer at the Beth Israel Deacon-ess Medical Center in Brookline, Mass.  He was 82.  Although Pro-fessor Wu will be dearly missed, his legacy will live on in the an-nual Nelson Wu Lecture Series, and through the many books he donated to the East Asian Library.
Wu, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguisehd University Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and Chinese Culture in Arts & Sci-ences, came to the University in 1965, becoming a key figure for the promotion of Asian art in St. Louis and, in 1971, a founder of the Asian Art Society. He was named Professor Emeritus in 1984.

Writing under the pen name Lu Ch+IBk-iao, Wu was a best-selling author in China and Taiwan.  His novel Song Never to End (1958), about the friendships between four young people during the Second Sino-Japanese War, has sold more than 500,000 copies and in 1991 was voted most influential book of the 1950s by readers of the Tai-wan-based newspaper China Times, the nation+IBk-s largest daily.

Wu is survived by his wife, Mu-lien, and four children +IBM- daughter Chao-ting and sons Chao-ming, Chao-ping and Chao-ying.  Memo-rial contributions may be made to the Washington University East Asian Library Nelson I. Wu Me-morial Book Fund, Campus Box 1061.
 
 

The Joint Center for East Asian Studies, inaugurated in 1991, com-bines the resources and strengths of Washington University with those of the University of Mis-souri-St. Louis (UM-St. Louis). The JCEAS not only provides EAS students on WU+IBk-s campus with access to UM-St. Louis+IBk- distinguished faculty, many of whom specialize in areas that are under-developed on the WU campus, the agreement also allows both univer-sities to co-sponsor a number of events as described below.

To mark the Tenth Anniversary of our collaboration, we inaugurated a special series of symposia +IBM- one in the fall semester (September 22) and the second in the spring (Feb-ruary 9).

As professional academics, we struggle with the question of how to represent East Asia to our stu-dents through our lectures and to a wider audience through our writ-ings.  But the average American develops an image of East Asia through popular film and literature.  East Asian Studies and the Popu-lar Imagination, held on Saturday, September 22, 1:00-5:00, provided a forum for the discussion of non-academic representations of East Asia and featured Kyoko Mori and Chen-yi Chang.

Kyoko Mori, novelist, poet, and essayist, currently teaches at Har-vard University as the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in creative writing.   Born and raised in Japan, Mori+IBk-s writings are imbued with the struggle inherent in negotiating cultures.  Chen-yi Chang is one of the animators for the Disney fea-ture +IBw-Mulan.+IB0-  Taiwanese-born Chang, like Mori, received higher education in the U.S. and has worked for Disney +IBM- a corporation which is commonly said to be dis-tinctly +IBw-American.+IB0-   As such, he has also been positioned as a me-diator between East Asian and American culture.

In order to encourage greater inter-action between audience members and our guest speakers, partici-pants were recommended to read the following in advance of the Symposium.

For Kyoko Mori+IBk-s presentation: The Dream of Water (Fawcett Books, 1996) and Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures (Fawcett Books, 1999).  For Chen-yi Chang+IBk-s presentation: The Art of Mulan by Jeff Kurtti (Hyperion Books, 1998); +IBw-From Cross-Dressing Daughter to Lady Knight-Errant: The Origin and Evolution of Chinese Women Warriors+IB0- by Sufen Sophia Lai in Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition, edited by Sherry J. Mou (St. Martin+IBk-s Press, 1999); +IBw-Mulan Disney, It+IBk-s Like, Re-Orients: Consuming China and Animating Teen Dreams,+IB0- in Sheng-mei Ma, The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity (Uni-versity of Minnesota Press, 2000).
Each speaker was introduced by a JCEAS member.  Dr. Marvin Marcus, Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at Washington University was the facilitator for Kyoko Mori+IBk-s pres-entation.

Chen-yi Chang+IBk-s work was intro-duced by Dr. Susan Brownell, Associate Professor of Anthropol-ogy at UM-St. Louis.

The main theme for the second event in the Joint Center+IBk-s 2001-02 special symposium series was a reflective one: To what extent have East Asian studies programs in the U.S. made (or failed to make) an impact on US policies toward East Asia?

Held on Saturday, February 9, 1:00-5:00 p.m., East Asian Studies and Public Policy featured the in-ternationally renowned scholars +IBM- Akira Iriye, Charles Warren Pro-fessor of American History at Har-vard University, and Tu Wei-ming, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies.

Tu Wei-ming has devoted his ca-reer to reconfiguring a contempo-rary, critical version of Confucian humanism for this period, which he has called Confucianism+IBk-s +IBw-third epoch.+IB0-  His books include Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation and Confucianism and Human Rights.

Akira Iriye is one of America+IBk-s foremost interpreters of U.S.-Japan relations with a focus on global-ization which he believes is driv-ing an increasingly nationalistic response worldwide.  His books include China and Japan in the Global Context; The Globalizing of America; and World Order and Partnership: The United States and Japan, 1951-2001, co-edited with Robert A. Wampler.

For Tu Wei-ming+IBk-s presentation, participants were advised to read: +IBw-Implications for the Rise of +IBg-Con-fucian+IBk- East Asia,+IB0- Daedalus, vol. 129, no. 1 (Winter 2000); and two unpublished papers.  Dr. Tu+IBk-s presentation was facilitated by Dr. Andrew Mertha, Assistant Pro-fessor of Political Science and In-ternational and Area Studies at Washington University; and Dr. Chikako Usui, Associate Profes-sor of Sociology at UM-St. Louis, discussed Dr. Iriye+IBk-s work.  Par-ticipants read chapters 1, 11, 12, and 14 from Iriye+IBk-s above-cited Partnership: The United Sates and Japan, 1951-2001, co-edited with Robert A. Wampler.

On Wednesday, October 3, 2001, The Tonda Traditional Japanese Bunraku Puppet Troupe, desig-nated an Intangible Cultural Property in Japan, conducted a special workshop on the Washington University campus in Rebstock 215 from 2:30-4:00, sponsored by East Asian Studies and the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures.  Later that evening the troupe offered a public performance at the J.C. Penney Theater on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus under the sponsorship of the JCEAS.

At the afternoon workshop, the troupe demonstrated various puppetry techniques +IBM- such as the way to express different emotions and movements according to class and gender.  After the demonstration, students were invited to try their hands at the puppets.

The formal performance at UM-St. Louis began with the celebratory puppet dance +IBw-Sanbas+APQ-,+IB0- which was followed by the long and dramatic +IBw-pilgrimage scene+IB0- from the tragic piece +IBw-Keisei Awa no Naruto.+IB0-  After a brief interlude during which troupe manager Hidehiko Abe demonstrated puppetry techniques and conventions, the program concluded with the thrilling +IBw-Ferry Crossing Scene+IB0- from +IBw-Hidakagawa Iriai-zakura.+IB0-  Assistance in creating the liner notes for the evening performance was provided by Sarah Clayton, Mark Woolsey, and Joseph Dreher, all graduate students in Dr. Elizabeth Oyler+IBk-s Proseminar class at Washington University.  For more information about the Tonda Puppets: http://www.berea. edu/IC/tonda/tonda.htm

In addition to cooperating on events such as these, the JCEAS allows for exchange of faculty.  This year WU students benefited from the expertise of Dr. Chikako Usui, Associate Professor of Soci-ology.  Dr. Usui, whose research concerns comparative social wel-fare policy and U.S.-Japan indus-trial organizations, offered a semi-nar on +IBw-The Society and Economy of Japan.+IB0-  In the spring, Dr. Su-san Brownell, Associate Professor of Anthropology, taught a seminar on +IBw-The Body in East Asian Cul-ture.+IB0-  Dr. Brownell has published numerous studies on images of the body in East Asia, Chinese Fem-ininities/Chinese Masculinities, which she edited with Jeffrey Wasserstrom has recently been published by the University of California Press.  This fall we are delighted to welcome Dr. Richard Mitchell back to our campus for a seminar on the development of the criminal justice system in Japan.  This seminar follows closely on the heels of Dr. Mitchell+IBk-s most recent publication, Justice in Ja-pan: The Notorious Teijin Scandal (University of Hawai+IBg-i Press).

In exchange for the professional expertise received from UM-St. Louis professors, who also work with EAS students on exit exams and other projects, WU instructors teach two levels of modern Chi-nese language on the UM-St. Louis campus.  This academic year, graduate students Zhang Jing, Luo Manling, and Ethan Yiting Zheng, Ph.D. students in the Chi-nese-Comparative Literature Pro-gram, each spent over 5 hours a week teaching Chinese language to 20-25 undergraduate students.

Visiting East Asian
Professionals Program
 

The Freeman Foundation of New York has awarded Arts & Sciences a four-year, $1,342,500 grant as part of the Freeman Foundation Undergraduate Asian Studies Ini-tiative.

This is the largest single founda-tion grant for the promotion of Asian studies that the University has ever received.  The grant will allow for the establishment of in-novative programs in keeping with the spirit of the new undergraduate Arts & Sciences curriculum. Re-becca Copeland, Associate Pro-fessor of Japanese Language and Literature, will direct the new pro-gram.  Other members of the Aca-demic Advisory Committee in charge of implementing the grant are: Sara Friedman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies; John O. Haley, Wiley B. Rutledge Pro-fessor of Law; Robert Hegel, Pro-fessor of Chinese Language and Literature; Andrew Mertha, As-sistant Professor of Political Sci-ence and International and Area Studies; and Elizabeth Tsunoda, Senior Lecturer in History and Acting Director of International and Area Studies.

Under the auspices of the grant, the University will invite East Asian professionals to engage in short-term collaborative research and teaching, lead workshops, per-formances and symposia, and par-ticipate in diverse outreach activi-ties with host faculty members and interdisciplinary academic pro-grams.

These professionals, drawn from such disparate fields as business, law, and the arts, will complement the strengths of the 29 existing faculty and staff members whose major teaching and research en-deavors lie in the study of East Asia.

+IBw-I am absolutely delighted that East Asian Studies in Arts & Sci-ences will be enhanced by this generous grant to one of our key areas in the humanities,+IB0- said Ed-ward S. Macias, Ph.D., Executive Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Arts & Sciences. +IBw-The presence on campus of distinguished visitors will bring an exciting new dimen-sion to the study of East Asia for both faculty and students, and the interdisciplinary nature of the en-terprise should generate some terri-fic new ideas.+IB0-

The first visitors invited to the campus will include journalists from three East Asian countries whose expertise involves issues of finance, public policy, and con-temporary politics.  In addition, the grant provides enhancement for library development, undergradu-ate-student internships in East Asia, and graduate-student re-search positions.

SPECIAL LECTURES

Robert D. Mowry
Presents the Fourth Annual
Nelson I. Wu Lecture on Asian Art and Culture

Co-Sponsored by the Saint Louis Art Museum
and East Asian Studies

On the evening of November 8, 2001, Robert D. Mowry, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art at the Harvard Univer-sity Art Museums, presented the Fourth Annual Nelson I. Wu Lec-ture on Asian Art and Culture +IBw-Ce-ramics of the Koryo Dynasty+IB0- at the Saint Louis Art Museum.  His lecture, as visually stunning as it was informative, introduced audi-ence members to the important character of Korean ceramics.
Robert Mowry has published widely in the field of Korean and Chinese art.  First Under Heaven, his exhibition of Korean ceramics from the Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Henderson Collection +IBM- which was acquired by the Harvard University Art Museums in 1991 +IBM- opened at Harvard+IBk-s Arthur M. Sackler Mu-seum in late 1992. Most recently, he wrote and published the cata-logue for Worlds Within Worlds: The Richard Rosenblum Collection of Chinese Scholars+IBk- Rocks (Har-vard University Art Museums, 1997), an exhibition that he or-ganized.

On Friday, November 9, 2001, Professor Mowry met with Wash-ington University graduate stu-dents to discuss careers and ad-ventures in Asian art.  This +IBw-In-formal Discussion+IB0- was organized by Dr. Gwen Bennett of Art His-tory and Archeology.

A Visit with
Keido Fukushima Roshi

Keido Fukushima Roshi, Zen Master of the Tofukuji Monastery and Head Abbot of the Tofukuji sect, returned to St. Louis March 14 and 15, 2002, in a visit spon-sored by the Saint Louis Art Mu-seum, the Department of Art His-tory and Archeology, the East Asian Studies Program, and the Religious Studies Program of Washington University.  On March 14, Abbot Fukushima presented a demonstration of calligraphy at the Saint Louis Art Museum.  Inter-spersing his calligraphic perform-ances with brief discourses on Zen philosophy and personal vignettes that ranged from an encounter with a hippie to an evening concert by Joan Baez, Abbot Fukushima mesmerized his audience with his wise perceptiveness and earthy humor.

On March 15 Keido Fukushima Roshi met with Washington Uni-versity students and faculty to dis-cuss the importance of Zen Koans.  His presentation, delivered in a near meditative style, lapsed into a gentle tirade against the distortion American practitioners of Zen have brought to the religion, before looming into hopeful revery for universal understanding and peace.  Abbot Fukushima enjoyed lunch with a number of WU students and faculty +IBM- and was so impressed with his gift of a WU baseball cap +IBM- that he entertained those present with the saucy recollection of his first visit to a hot spring town in Arkansas.  What happened when his burly masseuse commanded him to +IBw-roll over+IB0- (sans towel)?  Abbot Fukushima promises to re-veal the +IBw-rest of the story+IB0- when he returns to St. Louis, hopefully next spring.
 
 

Having first visited the U.S. in 1969 with his Master, Shibayama Roshi, Abbot Fukushima has been visiting colleges and universities in the U.S. annually and has made a commitment to visit the U.S., in-cluding Arkansas, at least once a year to lecture on Zen Buddhism and to teach Zen meditation.

Donald Keene
Presents the Ninth Annual
Stanley Spector Memorial
Lecture  on East Asian
History and Civilization

Dr. Donald Keene, University Pro-fessor Emeritus and Shincho Pro-fessor Emeritus, Columbia Univer-sity, presented the Ninth Annual Stanley Spector Memorial Lecture on East Asian History and Civili-zation, Friday, April 12, 2002.   Speaking on +IBw-Emperor Meiji and Foreign Visitors,+IB0- Keene provided  a delightful overview of his latest study +IBM- a biography of the Em-peror Meiji.  Considered by many to be the first +IBw-modern+IB0- emperor of Japan, the young monarch had to learn, as Keene illustrated, not only how to be +IBw-modern+IB0- but how to interact with Western guests.  The learning process +IBM- amusing at times +IBM- revealed the Meiji Em-peror to be extremely diligent and thoughtful in his responsibilities.  Keene+IBk-s biography of Emperor Meiji was first published in two volumes in Japanese by Shin-chosha in early November 2001+IBQ-timed to coincide with Meiji+IBk-s birthday. The English text, Em-peror of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912, has recently been published by Columbia Uni-versity Press.  Dr. Keene gener-ously autographed copies of this book during the reception that followed his lecture.
 
 
 
 

Recipient of numerous awards and accolades for his accomplishments in bringing Japanese literature and culture to the Western world, Pro-fessor Keene has published ap-proximately 25 books in English, consisting of studies of Japanese literature and culture, translations of Japanese works of both classical and modern literature, and edited works.

NOTEWORTHY

Faculty Awards

This year we were again able to showcase the great faculty in East Asian Studies.  Drs. Robert Hegel and Marvin Marcus were recog-nized at the Faculty Mentor Awards held the first week in April.  Drs. Hegel and Marcus were given special recognition for extraordinary efforts in helping students.  This is the second con-secutive year that Marcus was honored with this award and the third for Hegel, showing their con-tinued commitment to the better-ment of students.

Andrew Mertha, Assistant Pro-fessor of Political Science and In-ternational and Area Studies, re-ceived the +IBw-Faculty Recognition Award+IB0- from the Arts and Sci-ences Council at Washington Uni-versity.  Driven by an undergradu-ate student vote, the award honors  Arts and Sciences faculty and ad-ministrators who make a difference in the lives of students on campus.  This was Dr. Mertha+IBk-s first year on campus.

Rebecca L. Copeland, Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature and EAS Director, received the Sixteenth Annual Ethel Fortner Writer & Commu-nity Award, December 10, 2001 from her alma mater St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina.  The award recog-nizes commitment to and sponsor-ship of excellence in writing.

Graduate Student Awards

The +IBw-Dean+IBk-s Award for Teaching Excellence for 2001-2002+IB0- was given to Lane J. Harris (MA +IBk-02).  This award acknowledges superb performance by a graduate teach-ing assistant in the instruction of Arts and Sciences undergraduates.  Lane was the TA for +IBw-Chinese Civilization+IB0- in the spring semes-ter, assisting Dr. Robert Hegel.  This was the second time that Lane served as TA for Dr. Hegel+IBk-s Chi-nese Civilization course.  In addi-tion to grading papers, Lane also led weekly discussion sections.  Lane joins a distinguished cast of past recipients, including William Collazo (MA +IBk-00) and Kryst+AOk-l Mowery (MA +IBk-02).

Undergraduate Notables

Charles Cummins (BA +IBk-02) has been selected as a delegate for the Harvard Project for Asian and In-ternational Relations to be held in Sydney, Australia, this fall.

Patrick McKenzie (BA +IBk-04) is the recipient of the National Security Education Program David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarship.

Stanley Spector Paper Awards

Each year a competition is held in honor of Dr. Stanley Spector (1925-1999).  The contest recog-nizes one graduate and one under-graduate paper that epitomize the high scholastic standards set by Dr. Spector and is open to anyone who has written a paper related to East Asian literature, history, or culture.  This year the awards committee was pleased to recognize Mei Chun and Christoper Fields for their excellent papers.

Mei Chun, Ph.D. student in Chi-nese and Comparative Literature, +IBw-Reading Commentaries on Fic-tion: The Politics of Pleasure and Anxiety in Seventeenth Century China.+IB0-

Looking at commentarial editions of fiction, Mei argues that we can understand how social energy was circulated through commentated editions of fiction by grasping the pleasure and anxiety encoded therein.  Reading for pleasure is understood as +IBw-hedonistic+IB0- be-cause it demarcates reading for official examinations.  Mei under-stands +IBw-anxiety+IB0- as the commen-tators efforts to raising fiction (lit-erally +IBw-trivial sayings+IB0-) to a level of respectability and, in so doing, transform the pleasurable activity of reading into a pedagogical one by deriving moral messages from the fiction.
 
 

Christopher Fields (BA +IBk-04) +IBw-Yellow Man+IBk-s Burden: Ainu Subjugation and the Development of Racist Ideology in Japan During the mid-19th century.+IB0-

In order to justify the concept of +IBw-race,+IB0- scientific communities in the West came to embrace the ever-growing scientific literature of social darwinism.  Japan+IBk-s con-current efforts at +IBw-modernization+IB0- poised itself for adopting this highly popular form of scientific racism.  To prove their own bio-logical superiority, the Ainu of Japan were assigned the status of biological inferiority: a hierarchy that troubled many westerners, Ainu being Caucasoid in appear-ance.

Graduates in the News

Walter Hutchens (JD/MA +IBk-99) currently an associate in the China practice of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, & Garrison and soon to be an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, was quoted in a Dow Jones wire serv-ice story on Chinese securities law developments. The story concerns an investor+IBk-s private suit against a PRC issuer for disclosure fraud, the first such case, apparently, that has been accepted by a people+IBk-s court since the Supreme People+IBk-s Court rescinded its earlier ban on such suits.  The new laws have +IBw-incredibly little bite, if plaintiffs have to wait for the CSRC to make its administrative decision first,+IB0- Hutchens states in the article.  +IBw-It seems the difficulty of enforcing shareholder rights in China...is largely a ramification of China+IBk-s original decision to use capital markets for limited SOE reform rather than for privatization or as a participant-neutral framework for transactions between any investors and any issuers,+IB0- Hutchens notes in reference to state-owned enter-prises. +IBw-I suppose creating this very small window for civil claims is better than no window,+IB0- he added. +IBw-It+IBk-ll be interesting to see what happens with the case.+IB0-

Occasional Papers Series

This spring the sixth issue of the East Asian Studies Program+IBk-s Oc-casional Papers Series will be go-ing to print after a one year hiatus.  The Series was started to showcase the scholarly writing of graduate students, and occasionally under-graduates, in East Asian-related programs at Washington Univer-sity.  The papers in this series cross the spectrum of our graduate pro-grams +IBM- the regular MA in East Asian Studies, the joint JD/MA and MBA/MA programs, and the BA, MA, and Ph.D. programs of-fered through the Department on Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures (ANELL).  This year we will be publishing the following articles: +IBw-The Return of the Strange: Women and Urban Exoticism in Shi Zhecun+IBk-s Fic-tion,+IB0- by Zhang Jing, a doctoral student; +IBw-Tao Qian+IBk-s Farming Po-etry: The Recordings of a Re-cluse,+IB0- by Ingrid M. Furniss (MA +IBk-98), at present a doctoral student at Princeton; +IBw-There+IBk-s No Place Like Home: The Theme of Exile in The Tale of the Heike, by Tom Paskowitz (BA +IBk-01), a recent graduate of the Japanese under-graduate major; +IBw-Notes from the Indian Jotter+IB0- by Rumyana Cho-lakova (MA +IBk-03); and, +IBwgGA-Recy-cling+IBk- the Baojia in Republican China: A Study of the Baojia un-der the Guomindang, 1927-1949,+IB0- by Lane J. Harris (MA +IBk-02), and editor of the sixth volume.  Any-one interested in receiving a copy of this or any back issue may do so by contacting the EAS Office.

FEATURED PUBLICATIONS

East Asian Studies faculty mem-bers distinguish themselves in the classroom, as evidenced by the number of teaching awards they have garnered.  They are equally active in research, conference par-ticipation, and publication.  The following highlights a few of the recent publications by EAS fac-ulty.

The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father

Editors:  Rebecca L. Copeland
and Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen
University of Hawai+IBg-i Press,  2001
 

This provocative collection of es-says, edited by two leading schol-ars in the field of women+IBk-s studies, is a comprehensive study of the +IBw-father-daughter dynamic+IB0- in Japanese female literary experi-ence.  Its contributors examine the ways in which women have been placed politically, ideologically, and symbolically as +IBw-daughters+IB0- in a culture that venerates +IBw-the fa-ther.+IB0-  They weigh the impact that this daughterly position has had on both the performance and produc-tion of women's writing from the classical period to the present.

ARTICLES OF NOTE

Gardner Bovingdon, Post-doctoral Lecturer in Political Sci-ence, published +IBw-The Not-So-Silent Majority: Uyghur Resis-tance to Han Rule in Xinjiang,+IB0- Modern China 28: 1 (January 2002): 39-78.

Ling-chei Letty Chen, Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Lan-guage and Literature, published +IBw-Rising from the Ashes: Identity and the Aesthetics of Hybridity in Zhu Tianwen+IBk-s Notes of a Deso-late Man,+IB0- Journal of Modern Chinese Literature in Chinese 4: 1 (July 2000): 101-138.

Mary-Jean Cowell, Associate Professor of Dance, published +IBw-Michio Ito in Hollywood: Modes and Ironies of Ethnicity+IB0- in Dance Chronicle.

Frances Foster, Professor of Law, published +IBw-The Family Paradigm of Inheritance Law+IB0- in the North Carolina Law Review.

John O. Haley, Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law, +IBw-Litigation in Japan: A New Look at Old Prob-lems,+IB0- in the Willamette Law Re-view; and +IBw-Competition Law for the Asia-Pacific Economic Coop-eration Community: Designing Shoes for Many Sizes,+IB0- in the Washington University Global Studies Law Review.

IN PRESS

Laurence Schneider, Professor of History, Crossing Over: The Transfer of Genetics & Evolution-ary Theory To Modern China, 1920-2000 (Cambridge University Press).

Sara Friedman, Assistant Profes-sor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies, +IBw-Civilizing the Masses: The Productive Power of Cultural Reform Efforts in Late Republican-Era Fujian,+IB0- in Defin-ing Modernity: Guomindang Rhetorics of a New China, 1920-1970 (Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan).

EAST ASIAN LIBRARY

The East Asian Library, located on the second floor of January Hall, now accommodates over 125,000 volumes in Chinese, and Japanese, and a modest, but growing, hold-ing in Korean.

The Chinese Collection
Tony Chang, Head Librarian

The East Asian Library recently acquired an electronic version of Si ku quan shu (Wenyuange edition), which includes 153 CD-ROMs.  It was originally compiled during 1773-1782 and contains 3,460 works with a total of more than 36,000 volumes.  The library also acquired a complete set of Guben xiaoshuo jicheng, which includes 530 titles of Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing dynasty fiction in 693 vol-umes.  These acquisitions and oth-ers will benefit our faculty and students in their teaching, study, and research.

Pinyin Conversion Project: The library signed a contract with OCLC to convert all our Chinese bibliographic records from the Wade-Giles transliteration system to pinyin.  Providing access to Chinese language materials in pin-yin will make it easier for our users to locate materials.  In order to improve our service to library us-ers, the library has also updated Chinese personal and place names to pinyin in authority files that rep-resent headings used in Chinese, English, Japanese, and other bib-liographic records.

The Japanese Collection
Haruko Nakamura
Japanese subject librarian and cataloguer

The library is undergoing a project to create analytical bibliographic records for several large Japanese multi-volume sets.  The library holds many multi-volume sets of Japanese books that are cataloged only as a set, such as Nihon bun-gaku zenshu (Collection of Japa-nese Literature), without specific reference to the individual titles or authors within the sets.  This past winter, we cataloged over 550 ti-tles from these sets.

Nichigai Japanese Journal In-dex: Starting on May 1, 2002, the Nichigai Japanese Journal Index will be changing.  Currently, the library has a corporate license for the database, meaning that we may have only one designated computer to access the database in the East Asian Library.  The library is changing this corporate license to a site license.  The site license will still allow access to the databases to only one computer at a time, but users can use the database from anywhere within a six-mile radius of campus.  The library will pro-vide a workshop for the database upon request.

Report on the Graduate Student Senate (GSS) and Graduate and Professional Council (GPC)

Suzanne Kauer, MA +IBk-02

Over the past two years, I have had the privilege of working with two student government organizations: as vice-president of the Graduate Student Senate (which represents students in Arts and Sciences) and as a representative to the Graduate and Professional Council (which represents students in all eight schools at WU).  The level of co-operation we have received from the faculty and administration has impressed me.  Everyone seems very anxious to make our experi-ence at Washington University the best it can be.

I recommend that you watch next year for information on the fol-lowing activities: Fall Orienta-tion:  food, info, and a good chance to network; the Graduate Research Symposium: a spring event that includes cash prizes for poster presentations of your work; the Faculty Mentor Awards: nominate the best of the best from among your professors for special recognition; Career Center work-shops:  I headed a committee this year that worked to ensure gradu-ate student needs are met.  Watch for informative (and free) classes on everything from networking to interviewing to curriculum vitae and resume construction.

Being involved in GSS is a great way to meet people from other departments and to help make a difference in the quality of life we enjoy at WU.  I encourage anyone interested to become involved +IBM- you won+IBk-t regret it!

THE FACULTY

Rebecca Copeland, Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature and EAS Director, continues to travel.  Last summer Copeland traveled to Berlin, Ger-many for the International Confer-ence of Asian Scholars, where she presented the paper +IBw-Imperiled by Fashion: Miyake Kaho and the Meiji School Girl.+IB0-  Then it was off to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for a conference on Japanese Women Writers at the University of Alberta.  This summer Copeland will travel to Tasmania, Australia to attend the Asian Studies Con-ference 2002, where she will pres-ent the paper +IBw-Inquiring Minds: Kirino Natsuo and Mysterious Masculinities,+IB0- if she+IBk-s not done in first by a raging herd (?) of Tas-manian devils.

Mary-Jean Cowell, Associate Professor of Dance, performed at the Saint Louis University Mu-seum of Contemporary Religious Art in January.  The performance, included colleagues David Mar-chant and Cecil Slaughter, along with local dancer/choreographer Gwi Janet Park, and was set in the installation of Andy Warhol+IBk-s floating +IBw-Silver Clouds.+IB0-

Thomas DuBois, Mellon Lecturer in Religious Studies, presented a paper entitled,  +IBw-Sectarian Net-works in Local Society: The Heaven and Earth and Most Su-preme Teachings in Cangzhou, Hebei+IB0- at the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Washington D.C.  DuBois+IBk- manu-script, The Sacred World of the Chinese Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China During the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, is under review by the University of Ha-wai+IBg-i Press.  This summer DuBois will begin research on religious and social networks in late Qing Rehe (Chengde) and will be speaking about his research at the Tokyo University Institute of East Asian Studies in June.

Frances H. Foster, Professor of Law, has been continuing research on U.S. and Chinese inheritance law issues.  She spent the spring semester on research leave in Los Angeles conducting research on China+IBk-s new Trust Law.  The pre-liminary results of that study will appear this fall in an article entitled +IBw-The Dark Side of Trusts: Chal-lenges to Chinese Inheritance Law.+IB0-  From August to December 2002, Foster will be teaching Chi-nese Law and Trusts and Estates as a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.

Sara Friedman, Assistant Profes-sor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies, presented +IBw-People with Bones: Reflections on Kinship, Wealth, and Political Legitimacy in Late-Socialist Rural China+IB0- last December at the American Anthropological Asso-ciation meetings in Washington, D.C.  This summer Friedman will travel to Fujian and Taiwan on a WU Grimm Fellowship to conduct research on viewer interpretations of female sexuality in film.  The project focuses on the film +IBw-Twin Bracelets+IB0- which depicts the lives of women in the area of Fujian where Friedman has done field-work since 1993.

Emi Fujiwara, Senior Lecturer in Japanese, taught Levels 4 and 5 and a Level 2 Reading and Writing class this year.  This summer Fu-jiwara will return to Tokyo for a visit and then teach Japanese at Middlebury College where she is looking forward to living in the beautiful Vermont countryside.

John O. Haley, Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law, has had a busy year lecturing and writing both at home and abroad.  Haley+IBk-s publi-cations include: +IBw-Administrative Law,+IB0- in David S. Clark and Tu-rul Ansay, eds., Introduction to the Law of the United States; and +IBw-The Adjudicatory Jurisdiction of Japa-nese Courts in Transnational Liti-gation,+IB0- in J. Nafziger ed., Fest-schrift for Arthur T. von Mehren. Haley presented a paper entitled, +IBw-Japanese Law in Transition?+IB0- at the Symposium on Change, Conti-nuity and Context: Japanese Law in the 21st Century at the Univer-sity of Michigan.  In addition to serving as a discussant at several conferences and lecturing on law at Aoyama Gakuin, Haley also gave talks on +IBw-New Developments in Legal Education in Japan,+IB0- at the American Bar Association Section on Legal Education at the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco; and, +IBw-Power, Authority, Law and the New Pax Americana,+IB0- at The Eliot Society in Los Ange-les.

Robert E. Hegel, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature and Chair of Comparative Litera-ture, was involved in two panels at the annual Association for Asian Studies conference in Washington, D.C. on April 5-6.  In one, +IBw-Law Becomes Fiction:  Narrating Crime and Punishment in the Qing Pe-riod,+IB0- he delivered the paper +IBw-Making Convincing Arguments in Legal Cases.+IB0-  He also chaired a second panel in which papers compared presentations of legal case materials in Chinese and Japanese writings of the 19th and 20th centuries.  Hegel delivered a paper entitled +IBwgGA-Real+IBk- versus +IBg-Imagined+IBk- Violence in Fiction and Legal Case Reports+IB0- at a confer-ence held at the University of Illi-nois.  In addition, Hegel wrote an essay for a volume on late seven-teenth-century literary responses to the fall of the Ming entitled +IBw-Dreaming the Past: Memory and Continuity Beyond the Ming Fall.+IB0-   This summer Hegel will direct a Mellon Dissertation Seminar in Literature and History, +IBw-The Study of Elite and Popular Cultures in Early Modern East Asia.+IB0-  Partici-pants will come from several mid-western universities in addition to Washington University.

Masayuki Itomitsu, Lecturer in Japanese, taught 1 & 3 this year.  He also conducted a workshop with Dr. Mari Noda, Virginia Mar-cus, and Misako Suzuki at NECTFL in April, 2002, in New York.  Itomitsu has decided to pur-sue a doctoral degree at The Ohio State University.  He had this to say about his time at WU: +IBw-I en-joyed my position here for the last six years +IBM- I am fortunate and privileged to have been a part of +IBg-the team+IBk- at WU.  My sincere thanks to my impeccable col-leagues, staff, and most of all, the hard-working students. Best wishes to all +IBM- please keep in touch!  O-genki de...+IB0-

Marvin Marcus, Associate Pro-fessor of Japanese Language and Literature, has had a busy year as Acting Chair of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures in Beata Grant+IBk-s absence.  Last fall Marcus taught the second install-ment of the undergraduate Images of East Asia course entitled, +IBw-Chronicling the Japan Experi-ence,+IB0- which was a survey of over a century of writing by foreigners who have had noteworthy en-counters with Japan.  Over the past year, Marcus presented papers at several conferences on the two writers who have been the focus of his recent research: Natsume S+APQ-seki and Shimazaki T+APQ-son.  He has also published essays and arti-cles on these and other writers and continues to work on two book manuscripts.

Virginia Marcus, Senior Lecturer in Japanese and Coordinator of the Japanese Language Program, trav-eled extensively during the spring semester and also taught Levels 1, 2, & 3 language classes.  During spring break, she visited our study abroad programs in Japan +IBM- Waseda University and the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies.  Mar-cus also participated in a confer-ence on +IBw-Maximizing Study Abroad+IB0- sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research on Lan-guage Acquisition at the Univer-sity of Minnesota.  For the summer of 2002 she was invited to teach at Middlebury College and Bryn Mawr College and she will serve as Senior Advisor in The Ohio State University+IBk-s Summer Pro-gram East Asian Concentration.   This was her last year of a three-year term on the Executive Board of the Association of Teachers of Japanese.

As Coordinator of the Japanese Language Program, Ms. Marcus filed this report: The Japanese lan-guage courses continue to attract a diverse group of students.  We had the largest Fifth-level course ever with nine students enrolled in the fall semester.  Our study abroad programs are also thriving +IBM- five of our students spent their junior year at the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies.

Our Third Annual Japanese Sec-tion Party was a huge success with plenty of sushi for all, a great per-formance by the St. Louis Suwa Taiko Drummers, and our ever-popular +IBw-Core-Conversation Con-test.+IB0-   Party photos can be viewed on-line at http://www.artsci. wustl.edu/+AH4-japanese/party/index.html

Andrew Mertha, Assistant Pro-fessor of Political Science and In-ternational and Area Studies, gave a variety of invited talks this year including: +IBw-Restructuring the Chicken to Frighten the Monkey: China+IBk-s Recent Experiment in Administrative Recentralization, 1998-2001+IB0- at the University of Michigan; and +IBw-Bureaucratic Brand Loyalty: Competition and the Political Enforcement Market,+IB0- at the University of Southern Cali-fornia.  Mertha served as a dis-cussant for +IBw-The Flow of Capital and the Making of Global Cities+IB0- panel at the Sixth Annual Confer-ence on the History and Culture of Taiwan, held at Washington Uni-versity.  At the International Stud-ies Association 43rd Annual Con-vention held in New Orleans, Mertha chaired a panel and  pre-sented a paper entitled: +IBw-Deterring the Trade Warriors: U.S.-China Trade Policy and Two-Level Games.+IB0-

Judy Mu, Lecturer in Chinese, has been encouraged by the increase in students attending her Level 4 class this year.  +IBw-I am glad to see that more and more students are continuing after their intermediate level study.+IB0-  This coming sum-mer, Mu will take 35 Duke and Washington University study abroad students to Beijing and serve as the director of the Duke-WU summer language program.  In June she will present a paper on the study of student errors in learning Chinese at the Princeton-Beijing Normal University Con-ference on Chinese Instruction in Beijing.

Elizabeth Oyler, Assistant Profes-sor of Japanese Language and Lit-erature, gave invited talks on vari-ous aspects of samurai culture at Southwest Missouri State Univer-sity and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  She also served as an instructor for an Edu-cational Outreach program at the Japan Society in New York, where she led a session on medieval Japanese literature for teachers in the New York public school sys-tem.  In June, she will participate in +IBw-Patterning Authority: Court Ritual and Ceremony in Premod-ern Japanese Literature,+IB0- a work-shop hosted by the Reischauer In-stitute at Harvard.  She will also present a paper on Daimokutate, a narrative performance tradition connected with her work on The Tale of the Heike, at the Sixth An-nual Asian Studies Japan Confer-ence.  Oyler with be on leave for the 2002-2003 academic year to work on her manuscript entitled, +IBw-Swords, Oaths and Prophetic Vi-sions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan.+IB0-  She will divide her time between the Kyoto City University for the Arts and the Li-brary of Congress, thanks to gen-erous grants from the Japan Foun-dation and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Laurence Schneider, Professor of History, is looking forward to the publication of his book Crossing Over: The Transfer of Genetics & Evolutionary Theory To Modern China, 1920-2000, with Cam-bridge University Press.  Schneider is also looking forward to retire-ment from WU at the end of next academic year, 2003.

Misako Suzuki,Lecturer in Japa-nese, taught Level 2 this year and team-taught Level 3 with Masa-yuki Itomitsu.  Suzuki attended the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages where she led a workshop on oral interview testing with her col-leagues Virginia Marcus, Masa-yuki Itomitsu, and Dr. Mari Noda from The Ohio State University.  She notes: +IBw-We were so glad that we received very good evaluations on the workshop from all the par-ticipants.+IB0-  This summer Suzuki will return to Ohio to teach Japa-nese and a Teacher Training work-shop for the SPEAC Program at The Ohio State University and will also assume the position of the Assistant Director of the SPEAC Japanese Program.
 
 

Fengtao (Fred) Wu, Lecturer in Chinese, will teach Level 4 Chi-nese at Middlebury College this summer.  Wu will again be lead teacher in his fifth year teaching at Middlebury.
 

GRADUATE STUDENTS

David Anderson (MA +IBk-03) will return to Kumamoto, Japan, with his family for about three weeks this summer to visit relatives and friends.  David will spend the rest of the summer in St. Louis and plans to begin looking for a job while finishing his studies.

Rumyana Cholakova (MA +IBk-03) notes: +IBw- my first year in St. Louis was a wonderful adventure.  The campus is very beautiful and, what is most important, both professors and students are kind and helpful. Thanks to the generous support of the American Association of Uni-versity Women Educational Foun-dation from whom I received an international fellowship, I will not only be able to finish my first year but also to prepare for an addi-tional summer semester at Middle-bury College intensively studying Chinese.  I am also in love with the libraries on the WU campus and am going to ask for a political ref-uge in Olin library.  Or it may be better to say +IBg-emotional refuge.+IBk- I really fell happy sitting and read-ing there.+IB0-

Lane J. Harris (MA +IBk-02) will spend the summer researching the history of Guomindang radio broadcasting in Shanghai during the Republican period.  This past year Lane had five book reviews published in the British Columbia Asian Review; is editing the East Asian Studies Program+IBk-s Occa-sional Papers series in which he will publish his study, +IBwgGA-Recy-cling+IBk- the Baojia in Republican China: A Study of the Baojia un-der the Guomindang, 1927-1949;+IB0- was awarded the +IBw-Dean+IBk-s Award for Teaching Excellence+IB0- for TA work in Chinese Civilization; and is again serving as editor for the East Asian Studies Program Newsletter.  This fall, Lane will enter the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign to pursue a Ph.D. in Republican Chinese his-tory.

Suzanne Kauer (MA +IBk-02) will leave the St. Louis heat behind for the mountains of Idaho this sum-mer.  In the fall, Suzanne will be-gin working towards her Ph.D. in Teacher Education at Michigan State University in East Lansing, focusing on teacher preparation in the United States and Japan.

Erin Kilgore (MA +IBk-03) will be working full-time in St. Louis this summer.  While she regrets not being able to enjoy a summer va-cation, Erin still hopes to take a summer class and work on her Chinese language skills.

Kryst+AOk-l Mowery (MA +IBk-02) spent six months studying at Tsukuba University under the auspices of the university exchange program.  During her time in Japan, Kryst+AOk-l attended Japanese folklore classes, traveled to Nara to visit the Shoso-in+IBk-s yearly Fall exhibit, spent time in Kyoto wandering around tem-ples off the beaten path, and ex-ploring Tokyo+IBk-s vast wealth of art museums.  Upon returning in March, Kryst+AOk-l assumed the posi-tion of Program Assistant for the newly-inaugurated Visiting East Asian Professionals (VEAP) pro-gram.

Shiyang Tang Paskowitz (MA+IBk-02) was married to Tom Paskowitz (BA +IBk-01), a Japan ma-jor alumni late last year.  Many EAS faculty and students attended Tom and Shiyang+IBk-s beautiful wed-ding.  More recently, Shiyang and Tom finished a joint translation of an article by Wakakuwa Midori, +IBw-The Gender System of the Impe-rial State+IB0- for the U.S.-Japan Woman's Journal.  Shiyang vaca-tioned in Paris at the end of March and plans to work this summer as a research assistant in the Political Science Department before mov-ing to New York City where her husband will study law at Colum-bia University.  Best wishes to Tom and Shiyang on a long and happy marriage!

Daniel Shapiro (JD/MA +IBk-02) will be a summer associate in the New York office of the law firm of Davis, Polk, & Wardwell.

Susan J. Taylor (MA +IBk-02) will be attending a Taiwanese university in the fall for intensive language study on a Ministry of Education Scholarship.

Xu Xin (MA +IBk-02) will attend the Washington University Law School this fall.  Xu Xin had this to say about her time in the East Asian Studies Program: +IBw-My two years have been among the happi-est experiences in my life.  I have learned so much and met such wonderful people.  EAS has fur-ther broadened my perspective and taught me real critical thinking methods.+IB0-
 

UNDERGRADUTES

Kenneth W. Baughman (BA +IBk-02) was accepted by the Business for Arts, Sciences, and Engineering (BASE) Program at the University of California-Berkeley, which is a summer program geared toward providing arts and sciences stu-dents with the fundamentals of business.

Chris Berresford (BA +IBk-03) spent the fall semester in Beijing at Capital Normal University re-searching contemporary Chinese art while improving his language skills.  Chris will graduate next year and hopes to pursue a career in international marketing.

Dorothy Hoffman (BA +IBk-02) has been accepted by the Central In-stitute for the Deaf in St. Louis for graduate work that will lead to a career teaching the deaf.  Although her graduate field is not related to East Asia, she says: +IBw-who knows when my undergraduate study may come in handy?+IB0-

Patrick McKenzie (BA +IBk-04) will be studying in the fall at the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies after being awarded the NSEP David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarship and other generous support from WU.

ALUMNI SIGHTINGS

Kent Anderson (JD/MA +IBk-96) moved from Hokkaido to Canberra in October 2001, where he joined the Australian National University law school as senior lecturer with a joint posting as research fellow with the Japan Research Centre.  In American academic titles this is a tenure-track associate professor-ship with 50% research responsi-bilities.  He teaches Japanese law, commercial law, and private inter-national law.  At the Research Centre he will work on Japanese commercial and private interna-tional law.

Sarah Cao (MA +IBk-00) and her hus-band Lizhong celebrated the birth of their first child Madorie Meiyun on March 5, 2002.  Sarah and family live in Beverly, MA.

William Collazo (MA +IBk-00) is liv-ing in Florida with his wife Lori and their baby daughter Isabela.  William is teaching Japanese and Theory of Knowledge at an Inter-national Baccalaureate school in Deerfield Beach (north of Ft. Lau-derdale).  While the teaching is very enjoyable, the re-certification process is laborious.  William also teaches karate and is still training in kendo.  He achieved a san-dan ranking from the All U.S. Kendo Federation in April 2001.  The WU Kendo Club, which William es-tablished, is still thriving.

Jane Chen (BA +IBk-99) works for the International Executive Service Corps in Washington D.C. as an International Trade Analyst.  She is in charge of the Asia and Near East Regions, specifically Indone-sia, Lebanon, Mongolia, the Phil-ippines, and Tunisia.  She just re-turned from a business trip to Lebanon reporting: +IBw-it was one of the most magnificent cities I+IBk-ve ever seen.  There are very, very few Asians in Beirut +IBM- I was fre-quently stopped on the street and asked where I came from.  A tour-ist driven economy, Beirut mainly attracts tourists from the Euopean, Australian, and Middle East re-gions.  When the crisis in the Mid-dle East settles down, I definitely encourage Americans to travel to  the +IBg-Paris of the Middle East.+IBkgHQ-

Michael Dankert (MA +IBk-94), a Ph.D. student at UCLA, is cur-rently in Kyoto working at a local university as a lecturer to exchange students while completing his dis-sertation on Gozan poetry.

Heather Eaton (JD/MA +IBk-00) is working at Stanford University for an affiliate non-profit organization called Volunteers in Asia.  Her division, Stanford Programs, coor-dinates short-term intercultural exchange programs for university students on the Stanford University campus.  Heather also notes that her organization is hiring if anyone is interested, www.viaprograms.-org.  Heather recently passed the Foreign Service Exam and is awaiting assignment in Asia, not-ing: +IBw-The wait is usually 2 years, so I have to be patient, but I am very excited by the prospect of working in the American embassy in Japan!+IB0-

Patricia Ginsberg (JD/MA +IBk-98) is  working for the American law firm, Jones Day, where she focuses on corporate matters (mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, etc.) and project finance (leveraged leasing and others).  Patricia is also active in volunteering.  Her latest project with the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees) involves the re-organization of Japan+IBk-s Immigra-tion Control and Refugee Recog-nition Act.

Cara Hamaguchi (BA +IBk-01), who became a Second Lieutenant on May 17, 2001, is now stationed in Korea.  +IBw-I am currently an Area Node Platoon Leader for A Com-pany, 304th Signal Brigade at Camp Humphreys, Korea.  My platoon consists of 28 American Soldiers and 2 Korean National Soldiers, and we provide penin-sula-wide tactical signal support.  Korea has proven to be a very in-teresting country with lots to do.  When I am not in the field, I+IBk-ve had the opportunity to go hiking, shopping, touring, and of course, eating (my favorite!).  I am here until January 2003, and I definitely plan on making the most of my time here.+IB0-

Walter Hutchens (JD/MA +IBk-99), after practicing law for a year in New York and a year and a half in Beijing, will move back to the U.S. in 2002 to become an academic.  Walter accepted a position as As-sistant Professor in the business school of the University of Mary-land. Walter+IBk-s research will focus on the development of PRC corpo-rate and securities law, particularly on how law is influencing the de-velopment of capital markets, venture capital, and technological innovation in China.  +IBw-Working in China was a dream come true in many ways,+IB0- Walter said, +IBw-but I+IBk-d like to spend more time with my family, and the prospect of sum-mers off and more control over my research agenda made it an easy call!+IB0-  Walter plans to relocate to the D.C. area around July with Xiaohong and their daughter Helen, and welcomes contact at:
walterhutches@hotmail.com.

Susan Jones (MA +IBk-96) worked for Yomiuri TV for three years fol-lowing two years at Kyoto Univer-sity, on the Mombusho scholar-ship.  Since September 2001, Su-san has been working for Yukari Media, Inc. in advertising sales and public relations consulting.  Susan is also the editor of the FEW (Foreign Executive Women) monthly newsletter.  Most happily, Susan was married in January 2001 to Toshikazu Sugae making her a stepmother to his two chil-dren.

Scott Markowitz (MA +IBk-00) is completing the MBA program at the University of Rochester.  After graduating in June, Scott will be-gin work as an associate at The Bank of New York in New York City.  Scott will be working in the Asia-Pacific Division of the bank+IBk-s International Banking Group and is very excited to be embarking on a Japan/Asia-related career path.  +IBw-I have no doubt that the knowledge and experience gained at WU was an important factor in my obtain-ing this particular job.  I will be in New York for 2-3 years, and after that, there is a likelihood that I will be transferred to the bank+IBk-s Tokyo office.+IB0-

Jennifer Milman (BA +IBk-99) is working for the Affiliate Sales/Finance Department of Dis-covery Communications.  The company owns 12 networks, in-cluding the Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, and Ani-mal Planet.   In her spare time, Jennifer is the captain for the WAKA Association+IBk-s Washington D.C. Adam+IBk-s Morgan division kickball team.  She also volunteers by helping to feed the hungry at the D.C. Jewish Community Cen-ter.

Melissa Parrish (BA +IBk-99) has moved from Arizona to Boulder, Colorado, and is enjoying life while learning to sail.  Melissa has formed Raspberry Marketing, a marketing consultancy.  Lisa notes that +IBw-entrepreneuship is a blast!+IB0-  She would love to assist EAS fac-ulty, students, and alumni with collateral development, website managing, internet marketing, etc.  If interested, visit her website: www.raspberrymarketing.com

Paul Saulski (JD/MA +IBk-01) ac-cepted a position as an associate attorney at the Tokyo office of White & Case LLP, a New York based international law firm.  This position will enable Paul to work in transnational corporate and se-curities law in East Asia with some of the top people in the field.

Bert Scruggs (MA +IBk-96) continues to work on his Ph.D. at Penn which concerns free will and cul-tural identity in Taiwanese colonial literature.  In April he presented the paper +IBw-Deck Hands, Paper-boys, and Capitalists: Early Twen-tieth-Century Proletarian Literature in Taiwan and Japan+IB0- at the Asso-ciation for Asian Studies meeting in Washington, D. C.  He spent the year in Taiwan and Japan doing research.  Bert also happily re-ported that last July he and his wife Jean had a baby girl Kenda Wisteria, who joins older brother Pilan.  Congratulations to the Scruggs family!

Emi Suzuki (MA +IBk-01) has been doing some traveling in the Northwest, but continues to work in Springfield, MO.  Emi is cur-rently teaching Japanese at South-west Missouri State and taking part in a variety of extracurricular ac-tivities.  She was the event planner for +IBw-Life Uncommon, Women+IBk-s Day 2002,+IB0- where she performed a koto concert.  Emi also reports: +IBw-The church I came to in Spring-field after graduating from WU is growing.+IB0-

Kristen Wanner (MA +IBk-00) at-tended the Association of Asian Studies Meeting in Washington D.C. this April as a representative of Cheng and Tsui Company.  Kristen has been working for C & T since January 2001.  Located in Boston, Cheng & Tsui is an inde-pendent publisher and distributor of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian language learning materials, as well as books about Asian art, history, literature, and culture.

Jia Wu (MA +IBk-00) is at the end of the second year of a Ph.D. program at Rutgers and will soon take qualifying exams.  Jia Wu is working with professors from the Political Science and Information Technology Departments on a joint project on +IBw-E-business solutions for border controls.+IB0-  The objective of the project is to utilize the power of information technology to fight terrorism, drug trafficking and human smuggling at U.S. bor-ders.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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