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From the Director Greetings from another acting (and former) director. Bill Tsutsui and I have taken turns filling in for Elaine Gerbert,while she completes a research project begun last year with the support of an NEH Faculty Research Fellowship. Elainewill return to the Center next fall. Bill, author of Godzilla on My Mind and authority on radioactively generatedmonsters, took the helm fall 2004 as Godzilla stomped through Lawrence, rising (inflating) spectacularly over LibertyHall, terrorizing movie viewers, inspiring conference papers, and winning CEAS international news coverage. Billreports in this issue on the array of events that he and Michiko Ito organized to celebrate our favorite green monster’s50th birthday. I came on board last January, just in time for the CEAS Lunar New Years party. Under the expert leadership ofCEAS office manager Jun Fu, teams of students and other guests at this annual event learned the craft of Chinesedumpling making and fed over 200 guests. The inclusion of both Chinese and Korean food, customs, and entertainmentmade for a wonderfully renao (Chinese: “hot & noisy,” i.e. “lively, cheery”) party. Korea was the focus of the Center’s major spring 2005 events. We presented a pair of conferences, “Korea Today”and “The Korean War in Historical Perspective,” in conjunction with the dedication of KU’s handsome new KoreanWar Memorial (cover photograph). I was pleased to work with the Office of International Programs in planning theseevents, which featured visiting experts on Korean politics and the history of the Korean War and showcased thegrowing number of CEAS faculty with expertise in Korean history, society, and culture. CEAS welcomed more new faculty this year, particularly in EALC: Crispin Williams joined the Chinese languageteam, replacing Shengli Feng; Maija Devine began teaching advanced Korean; Mahire Yakup came from Xinjiang toteach Uyghur; and Champa Lhunpo launched Tibetan. You will meet our new faculty on pp. 4-5. Amidst all of this activity, we submitted a Title VI grant proposal to the Department of Education in a bid to retain ourstatus as an Undergraduate National Resource Center. We thank the many CEAS members who helped us plan andgather information for the proposal. The Center’s formidable outreach team—LeaMarie Herron, Randi Hacker, Nancy Hope and Sheree Willis—kept upa steady drumbeat of KU, K-12, and community outreach activities. The Kansas Asia Scholars program and theKansas Consortium for Teaching about Asia had another banner year, and our new public radio spots, “Postcards fromAsia,” air twice a week on KANU. One of the year’s major outreach stories is still unfolding: the establishment of a Confucius Institute for KU on theEdwards Campus. This fall, in Beijing, KU Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor David Shulenburger and the DeputyDirector-General of the National Office of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language signed a memorandum ofunderstanding calling for the creation of this nonprofit educational institute. An abridged version of the official pressrelease appears on p. 7, and an interview with Sheree Willis, who traveled with the delegation as an interpreter andrepresentative of KU, is reprinted from the Oread on p. 11. As always, this newsletter includes updates on faculty, student, and alumni activities. However, to do a better job ofhelping you stay in touch with us and each other, we have developed an interactive alumni webpage on the CEASwebsite. Please log on at www.ceas.ku.edu/alumni and catch up with old friends. On behalf of the CEAS staff, I wish you a peaceful and prosperous “Year of the Dog”!

Marsha Haufler (Weidner)On the cover: On the cover: On the cover: On the cover: On the cover: KU’s new Korean War Memorial. Honoring 44 members of the university community who died inthat conflict, the memorial was dedicated April 16, 2005. The brick and stone terrace overlooks Potter Lake west ofthe campanile. The focal point of the memorial is “Korean Cranes Rising,” a 7-foot copper sculpture of fourentwined cranes designed by Professor Jon Havener; the cranes, ancient symbols of peace in the Korean culture,represent the four nations in conflict—the United States, China, North Korea and South Korea. Universityarchitectural services designed the monument. Funding came from alumni and foundations in Korea and the U.S.

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Table of ContentsFrom the Director..................................... 2New CEAS Faculty .................................. 4Key Leaders Tour China.......................... 6Kansas/Asia Community Connections .. 6Confucius Institute planned for KU ........ 7A week of Korea programs ..................... 8Chancellor tours East Asia ...................... 8Godzilla strikes Lawrence ...................... 9Kansas/Asia Scholars tour Asia ............ 10Q & A with Sheree Willis ...................... 11Year of the Rooster Exhibit .................... 12Bilingual Story Hours ........................... 12Aichi Expo Visit ..................................... 13Faculty News ............................................ 14Obituaries ................................................ 16Alumni News ............................................ 17Student Awards ........................................ 22Giving to the Center ................................ 23KU FLAS Recipients ............................... 24

The Annual Report is a publication of theCenter for East Asian Studiesat the University of Kansas1440 Jayhawk Blvd. #201Lawrence, KS 66045Tel: 785-864-3849Fax: 785-864-5034Email: ceas@ku.eduWebsite: www.ceas.ku.eduOur faculty list and mission statement areavailable on our website.Cover photograph and design by Tatyana Wilds,International Oureach Coordinator.

CEAS StaffDirectorElaine Gerbert

Acting Director (Jan. 2005 - Aug. 2006)Marsha Haufler

Director, Kansas Consortium for Teachingabout Asia (KCTA), Kansas Asia Scholars(KAS) and Kansas Asia CommunityConnection (KACC)William M. Tsutsui

Associate Director, KCTA, KAS and KACCNancy Hope

K-12 Outreach CoordinatorRandi Hacker

Post-secondary Outreach and CommunityRelations CoordinatorLeaMarie Bistak Herron

Kansas/Asia Scholars China ProgramDirector and KACC Assistant DirectorSheree Welch Willis

Kansas/Asia Scholars Japan ProgramDirectorPatricia Graham

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CEAS publishes electronic and printed newsletters that provideup-to-date information on CEAS events and news.EACommunity E-Newsletter: Weekly information about EastAsia-related events at KU and throughout the greater KansasCity area.East Asia Info: Weekly information for undergraduates onevents, scholarships, study abroad and jobs.Graduate Weekly Updates: Information for graduate studentsand recent graduates on events, scholarship opportunities,fellowships, postdocs, conferences, and job postings.To receive any of these electronic newsletters, emaillherron@ku.edu.Outreach Notes: A semi-monthly e-newsletter for K-12 teachers,featuring news, web resources, events for teachers, andcurriculum ideas about China, Japan, and Korea. To subscribe,email rhacker@ku.edu.CEAS NewsNotes: A print newsletter produced monthly duringthe academic year. To subscribe, contact the Center atceas@ku.edu or 785-864-3849.

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CEAS Welcomes New Faculty Members

Woochan Shim, Social Welfare

Alison Gabriele, Linguistics

Crispin Williams, East Asian Languages & Cultures Crispin Williams, who joins EALC as an AssistantProfessor, completed his Ph.D. in Chinese in 2004 at theUniversity of London, School of Oriental and AfricanStudies. He has also studied in Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo, andBeijing; 1994-97 he was an “Advanced Scholar” at PekingUniversity. Before coming to KU, he was a SeniorLecturer in Chinese language and literature at DartmouthCollege and Resident Director for Dartmouth’s BeijingForeign Studies Program at Beijing Normal University. AtKU, he teaches elementary and classical Chinese, as wellas modern Chinese literature. Williams’ research focuses on early Chinese excavatedtexts. He is part of a team working on an excavation report

for the Wenxian covenanttablets (stone tablets, withink inscriptions, excavated1980-81 in Wenxian,Henan), which were alsothe focus of his doctoraldissertation. He co-editedThe Guodian Laozi: Proceedings of the InternationalConference, Dartmouth College, May 1998, published in2000. He is also interested in translation from English toChinese and vice versa, and his publications include anumber of translations. In his leisure time, Williams enjoysreading and swimming.

Woochan Shim, AssistantProfessor of Social Welfare,received her Ph.D. in SocialWork from the University ofIllinois, Urbana-Champaign, aMaster’s in Social Work fromColumbia University, and B.A. inSocial Work from Catholic University in Korea. Shimpreviously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkoshand the University of Illinois. At Illinois, she was ranked an“Excellent Teacher” by students for three consecutivesemesters. Her research areas include domestic violence victims inthe child welfare system, spirituality and domestic violence,and ‘kiroki families,’ i.e. families with one parent residing in

Korea and the rest of the family in America. She has anumber of publications and conference presentations to hercredit. Her professional experience ranges beyond teachingand research to counseling and language teaching. She hasworked as an Internet cyber counselor in Korea, counselorand program director for a Korean-American FamilyService Center in New York City, and consultant for theAsian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS Inc., alsoin NYC. She has made several radio appearances in NewYork for community education on domestic violenceprevention in the Korean community. Shim enjoys horseback riding, teaching Korean (she givesinformal Korean lessons in Lawrence) and learning theJapanese martial art kendo.

Alison Gabriele, a new Assistant Professor in Linguistics,completed her Ph.D. in linguistics in 2005 at the GraduateCenter of the City University of New York. The researchfor her dissertation, “The Acquisition of Aspect in a SecondLanguage: a Bidirectional Study of Learners of Japaneseand English,” was supported by the National ScienceFoundation and the Mario Capelloni DissertationFellowship. 2000-01, Gabriele worked as an assistant Englishlanguage teacher at the elementary and junior high schoollevel in Japan under the Japan Exchange and TeachingProgram. Her experience working with native Japanesespeakers learning English played an important role in

determining her dissertationtopic. She has worked on anumber of research projectsrelated to learning and using firstand second languages, and hasmany publications to her credit. Before coming to KU, shetaught at Queens College,CUNY. She is a member of thePhi Beta Kappa Honor Society.In her free time, she likes totravel and cook.

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Maija Devine, EALC

Venerable Champa Tenzin Lhunpo, EALC

Catherine Shenoy and Jane Zhao, School of Business

Venerable Champa Lhunpo, a Lecturer in EALC, isintroducing Tibetan language instruction at KU this yearthrough a course in elementary Tibetan. He was born inTibet and, in 1959, at the age of four, fled with his family toIndia. He joined the Namgyal Monastery (the Dalai Lama’spersonal monastery) in Dharamsala, India. There, aftertwelve years of training, he earned his Master of Sutra andTantra in 1986. For many years, he traveled as part of theDalai Lama’s personal entourage, assisting him with ritualsand performing sacred dance, music, and art. He alsotutored at the Namgyal Monastery and worked with theIndian Army camp. In 1992, he moved to the U.S. to join the NamgyalInstitute of Buddhist Studies in Ithaca, New York. He has

taught Tibetan language atvarious schools and centers inthe U.S., including theUniversity of Virginia and theNamgyal Institute of BuddhistStudies in association withCornell University. He has alsodelivered lectures on “HealingViolence through Art” and facilitated classes onconcentration, discipline, self esteem, and respect for all lifefor inner city children. Most recently, he taught Tibetanlanguage and sacred art at the Rime Buddhist Center inKansas City through Ottawa University.

Maija Devine has joined EALC as a Lecturer in Korean.She holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in English, the formerfrom Sogang University in Seoul and the latter from St.Louis University. She has also done graduate work increative writing at the University of Wyoming and theUniversity of Missouri, Kansas City. Devine has explored various writing genres, includingfiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Her works have beenpublished in ByLine, The Kenyon Review, The MichiganQuarterly Review, and Northern Light. She has alsotranslated English works into Korean. She has won manyawards for her writing, such as the Blanchan Award,

Wyoming Writers’ AssociationAward, The Boulevard ShortStory Contest for EmergingWriters award, and anInternational Merit award. Shehas three works in progress, onea book-length memoir. She has taught a wide range of courses, from Englishliterature to political science. At KU, she is teaching theKorean language and Eastern Civilizations. She describesherself as passionate about teaching.

Catherine Shenoy, AssistantProfessor and Director of AppliedPortfolio Management in the School ofBusiness, is a new member of CEASbut not new to KU. She received heradvanced degrees, a Ph.D. in businessadministration and finance andM.B.A., and B.S.in accounting, fromKU. Her research interests includeportfolio analysis, investments,financial management, and statistics. She is conducting research on the state of stock marketsin China, and has visited the Shanghai and Shenzen stockexchanges. Presently she has two grants for her researchon the Chinese Stock Market. She took KU students toChina for the CIBER-sponsored study abroad program“Investing in China.” Shenoy’s pastimes are bridge, snowskiing, and gardening.

Jane Zhao joined the School ofBusiness this year as an AssistantProfessor; her academic area isstrategic management. Shecompleted her Ph.D. at the RossSchool of Business at University ofMichigan in 2005. Her dissertationwas on the Chinese automotiveindustry. She also has an M.S. inaerospace and mechanicalengineering from the University of

Oklahoma and a Bachelor of Automotive Engineering fromTsinghua University in China. Before coming to KU, she taught at the University ofMichigan and Tsinghua University. She also has experiencein the industrial sector and in consulting. She does researchon and teaches corporate strategy. Her areas of expertiseare firm capabilities, networks, modularizations, the autoindustry and China.

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CEAS takes Kansas Key Leaders to China In November 2004, twenty-seven key educators andbusiness people from Kansas and Missouri participated in a10-day trip to China led by William Tsutsui, Nancy Hope,and Sheree Willis of CEAS and funded by the FreemanFoundation of New York and Stowe, Vermont. The trip wasdesigned to provide firsthand experience with the rapidchanges underway in Chinese education, economy andsociety, to create advocates for infusing more study of EastAsia into our elementary and secondary curriculum, and tofurther develop linkages between educators and leadersfrom the business community, higher education, and stategovernment. The delegation included Sue Gamble from theKansas State Board of Education; Alexa Posny and BertSchulte, Deputy Commissioners of Education for Kansasand Missouri respectively; Sylvia Robinson, formerDirector of Educational Policy in Kansas; Jim Devine,President and CEO of the Lee’s Summit, MissouriEconomic Development Council; Brent McCune,Ambassador from the Olathe, Kansas Chamber ofCommerce; and Fred Rodriguez, Associate Dean of theKU School of Education. The group traveled to the major cities of Beijing, Kaifeng,Xian, and Shanghai. Participants were briefed oneducational reform efforts and new initiatives in Chineselanguage pedagogy at the Chinese Ministry of Education,on educational exchange programs and U.S. - Chineserelations at the American Embassy, and on provincialeducational policies by the Henan Bureau of Education.Visits to high schools in the ancient capital cities of Xianand Kaifeng laid the groundwork for school-to-schoolexchanges between these schools and four Kansas Cityarea school districts (Lansing, Olathe and Shawnee Missionin Kansas; Lee’s Summit R-7 District in Missouri); theschools will begin exchanging students and teachers nextyear and may establish longer teacher exchanges. Thegroup also visited a village school in Shaanxi province, metwith managers from Butler Manufacturing, a Kansas City-based firm with rapidly expanding operations in China, andtoured the Great Wall, Forbidden City, Terracotta Warriorsof Xian, and the Shanghai Bund. Tour participants have shared their experiences withconstituents at home through talks for local school boards,professional associations, and civic organizations, and ininterviews for local and national newspapers. Comments byBrent McCune and Bert Shulte are representative.McCune observed: “the [Chinese] economy is growing 8 to10 percent a year; construction is just exploding, and theirimports are up 40 percent....You can read all the history

books that you want. Until you see it and how it affectsyou, it’s really hard to share it and explain it to someone.”Schulte reflected: “the trip was so much richer than I hadimagined possible. I know we all grew from what we didand saw.” Connections the participants formed with eachother and their Chinese counterparts will undoubtedly leadto further opportunities for introducing Chinese languageand East Asian history and culture into Kansas andMissouri schools.

During the past year, the Kansas/Asia Community Con-nection, a Freeman Foundation funded program that looksat agricultural and rural connections between Kansas andEast Asia, has continued to provide information to thepublic on the production and consumption of wheat andother agricultural products in East Asia and Kansas, aswell as trade in these products. The KACC website atwww.asiakan.org offers a new interview series, "Authen-tic Voices: Conversations on Food and Agriculture," andinformation on KACC's collaborative projects, including aradio series produced with High Plains Public Radio.

Nancy Hope, Bill Tsutsui, and Sheree Willis in China.

Eatinghomemadewheatnoodles innorthernChina.Photo by T.Barrett.

Kansas and Asia Make Agricultural Connections

by Nancy Hope

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Establishing a Confucius Institute: a Historic Step in a Field with aLong History at KU KU and China’s Ministry of Education in Beijing havesigned a memorandum of cooperation to exploreestablishing a Confucius Institute at KU. [Formaldiscussion of the proposed institute began last summer,when Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Dean DianaCarlin visited the Ministry of Education in Beijing (see p.8).] The agreement was signed on October 24 by KUProvost and Executive Vice Chancellor DavidShulenburger, who was in China as part of GovernorKathleen Sebelius’ trade mission, and by Ma Jianfei,Deputy Director-General of the National Office ofTeaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, representing theMinistry of Education. The agreement calls for China andKU to ‘accelerate the steps’ toward creating the nonprofiteducational institute. We are “eager to have the ConfuciusInstitute to assist in offering a greater number of people inKansas the opportunity to learn about Chinese languageand culture,” Shulenburger said. The Confucius Institute at KU (CIKU) would sponsorcommunity-based Chinese language instruction, support thetraining and professional development of Chinese languageteachers, and promote outreach programs on Chineseculture. Partnering with other KU units and a variety ofpublic and private entities, CIKU will serve communities,businesses, schools, government, nonprofit organizations,and the media throughout Kansas, the region, and theUnited States. KU has a long history of contact with China and strongprograms in Chinese and East Asian studies: * The Center for East Asian Studies, founded in 1959, isthe only federally funded (Title VI) National ResourceCenter in East Asian Studies between the Mississippi Riverand California. * KU was one of the first U.S. universities to establishdirect exchange programs with universities in China, withexchanges initiated in the early 1980s with NankaiUniversity in Tianjin, Nanjing University and ZhengzhouUniversity in Henan Province. KU students also study atseveral other Chinese universities through the KU Officeof Study Abroad. Through the Kansas Asia Scholarsprogram and the School of Business, KU undergraduatesand graduate business students also travel to China onshort-term study abroad programs.

* 16 members of the KU faculty have researchspecializations in Chinese fields, and KU scholars travelfrequently to China to conduct research, give lectures, orparticipate in workshops. KU faculty members haveconducted research on rural village elections in Shaanxiprovince, archaeology in Henan province, and linguistics inQinghai province. KU faculty have joint research,conferences, and other academic projects with members ofthe Chinese Academy of Sciences, the leading schools ofengineering and business, and other academicorganizations. * The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures(EALC), founded in 1961, offers four levels of Chineselanguage instruction; currently 90 students are enrolled inChinese classes. KU students can earn EALC B.A. orM.A. degrees in either Chinese language and literature orChinese language and culture. Courses focused on Chinaare also offered in many other departments and schools,including Anthropology, Art History, Business, History,Political Science, and Religious Studies. A Ph.D. with aChinese specialization can be earned in Anthropology, ArtHistory, History, and Political Science. * The KU library has a full-time Chinese librarian and anextensive collection of Chinese-language publications andpublications about China. * More than 200 students from China are on campus thisfall [2005]. * The KU Wind Ensemble performed in May and June inBeijing, Chengdu, and Kunming at the invitation of theChinese government, and KU faculty members have beeninvited back to teach at music conservatories in thesecities. * In addition to advancing the study of China within theuniversity, CEAS has an extensive outreach program thatbrings the study of China to K-12 classrooms andcommunity organizations throughout Kansas and westernMissouri. With assistance from grants by the FreemanFoundation, the Freeman programs at CEAS offer intensiveseminars for K-12 teachers and are developing exchangepartnerships between school districts in Kansas andMissouri and schools in China. This initiative also includedthe sponsorship and organization of a delegation of Kansasand Missouri education leaders to China in November 2004(Article p. 6).

Abridged from “KU could house Confucius Institute” in the University of Kansas Oread (a publication of KUUniversity Relations), Vol. 30, No. 7 (November 21, 2005). Read the original article at: www.oread.ku.edu/

Oread05/Nov7/oread.pdf.

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Korea: A Nation Divided on the World Stage

Chancellor and Dean of the Graduate School and International Programs travel to East Asia In June, Chancellor RobertHemenway traveled to East Asia tomeet with KU alumni and to signexchange university agreements thatwill expand opportunities for KUstudents and faculty to study and doresearch abroad. He wasaccompanied by Diana Carlin, Deanof the Graduate School andInternational Programs, and JeffWeinberg, Assistant to the Chancellor. Events in China included a formalvisit to Beijing University, a dinner fora group of Jayhawks in Beijing, and

meetings with the Chinese ViceMinister of Education and the Directorof the Division of American Affairs. The Chancellor's delegation thentraveled to Korea where they attendeda dinner given by the KU KoreanAlumni Association. Several membersof this group had recently been inLawrence for the dedication of theKorean War Memorial, to which theycontributed funds. The Chancellor alsohosted a lunch for a group of Koreaneducational foundation leaders inSeoul, and spent time with his son and

daughter-in-law who live in Korea. In Taiwan, the Chancellor signedmemorandums of understandingbetween KU and the NationalChengchi University and The TaiwanForestry Research Institute, andhosted a luncheon for Mou-Hui King,a 1944 KU graduate in engineeringand Chairman emeritus of China Steelin Taiwan. Diana Carlin and Jeff Weinbergwent on to Japan, where they metwith KU alumni and students atpartner institutions.

A screening of the acclaimed Korean film Tae Guk Gi(The Brotherhood of War) kicked off “Korea Divided onthe World Stage,” a week-long program leading up to thededication of KU’s new Korean War memorial (coverphoto) on April 16, 2005. Highlights of the week were twoconferences, “Korea Today: Culture, Society, andInternational Relations” (April 9) and “The Korean War inHistorical Perspective” (April 14-15). The morning session of “Korea Today” featured CEASfaculty. Ed Canda (Social Welfare) introduced “Religions inContemporary South Korea.” Kelly Chong (Sociology)addressed “The Politics of Gender and Conversion inContemporary South Korean Evangelicalism.” Anne SoonChoi (American Studies) provided “Local Perspectives onKorean Diaspora.” Marsha Haufler (Art History) focusedon new museums in “The Changing Landscape of Art inKorea.” Yoonmi Nam and So Yeon Park (Art Department)talked about their own work in light of their training inKorea and the United States. Greg Simpson (Psychology)moderated. In the afternoon, Geoff Babb from theCommand and General Staff in College at FortLeavenworth joined Chae Jin Lee in discussing Asiansecurity issues and North Korea. Ted Wilson (History)moderated. This was a homecoming for Dr. Lee. NowBank of America Professor of Pacific Basin Studies andDirector of the Keck Center for International and StrategicStudies at Claremont McKenna College in California, hewas co-director of CEAS and co-chair of EALC at KU1976-82 and Associate Dean of CLAS 1982-86. The April 14-15 conference on the Korean War broughtfour more distinguished speakers to campus: MichaelRobinson, Professor of East Asian Studies at IndianaUniversity; James Matray, Professor of History and Chair,

California State University at Chico; Allan Millett, theRaymond Mason, Jr. Professor of Military History at OhioState University; and Kathryn Weathersby, SeniorAssociate at the Woodrow Wilson International Center forScholars in Washington, D.C. Robinson launched theconference with a talk on “Seeds of Division” in colonial-period Korea, placing the Korean war in a broad historicalcontext. Millett engaged his audience with a talk titled“Goodbye Marie, I’m off to Korea.” Weathersby usedinformation from recently opened Russian archives indiscussing “The Soviet Union and the Korean War: Origins,Armistice, and Legacy.” Matray addressed the state of thefield in his paper, “Forgotten No More: Historians and theRediscovery of the Korean War.” Ted Wilson moderatedand led the panel discussion that wrapped up the session. The week’s activities included a reception featuringKorean food and cultural events sponsored by the Office ofInternational Programs. The Kansas Union hosted a booksigning by Edward Jae-Suk Lee, author of The Good Man.Visitors to the Spencer Museum of Art saw an oil sketch ofa Korean War battle scene created as an illustration forCoronet Magazine. The sketch was displayed with a copyof the magazine in which it appeared and a note on how thewar was presented to the American people through suchimages. For Watson Library, CEAS arranged a display ofKorean War photographs and Korean cultural objects. TheDole Institute of Politics presented photographs of wartimeKorea taken by Felix Moos (Anthropology). CEAS and the Office of International Programs co-sponsored the program, with support from the InternationalStudies Program, the Political Science Department, theAmerican Studies Program, and the Truman PresidentialMuseum and Library.

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In 2004, Godzilla celebrated his fiftieth birthday and KUthrew him a major academic birthday party. Although the Godzilla movies are the world’s oldest filmfranchise and were pioneers in the postwar globalization ofJapanese popular culture, they have received little scholarlyattention in either the United States or Japan. The fiftiethanniversary of the release of the original movie Gojira in2004 seemed a perfect opportunity to reflect on the Godzillafilms, their international pop culture impact, and theirenduring worldwide popularity. “In Godzilla’s Footsteps:Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage,” ascholarly conference, film festival, and series of specialevents, was held in Lawrence on October 28-30, 2004.Organized by KU Associate Professor of Japanese historyWilliam Tsutsui and Japanese studies librarian Michiko Ito,the conference was sponsored by CEAS and funded bygenerous grants from the Japan Foundation, the TôshibaInternational Foundation, and numerous KU units. Over 100scholars and fans from around the world traveled to theacademic conference, and many thousands of people fromLawrence and the surrounding region attended publicprograms and film screenings. Among the many events organized for “In Godzilla’sFootsteps” were three special museum and libraryexhibitions which explored the cultural and scientificsignificance of the King of the Monsters. “Pop GoesGodzilla” at the Spencer Museum of Art charted the impactof Japanese pop culture icons on postwar artisticmovements; an exhibition of Godzilla toys and publishedmaterials at Watson Library traced the historical evolutionof the Godzilla film series; and installations at the Museumof Natural History used Godzilla as a means of teachingchildren about the biology of reptiles and the physiology ofdinosaurs. A special performance by English Alternative

Theatre staged seven original short plays that explored thecharacter of Godzilla and the nature of monstrosity. Threescreenings of classic Godzilla films, including the seldom-seen 1954 original Gojira, were also held at Liberty Hall indowntown Lawrence. Fans, and especially children, tookgreat pleasure in a 28-foot-tall inflatable Godzilla balloonwhich was installed on the roof of Liberty Hall. The focus of “In Godzilla’s Footsteps” was the two-dayacademic conference in which 16 scholars from the UnitedStates and Japan, representing fields as diverse as history,anthropology, film studies, and theater, presented papers onGodzilla and the monster’s cultural legacy. Plenary lectureswere delivered by Susan Napier of the University of Texas,who spoke on the global “soft power” which Japan hasaccumulated as a result of its successful pop cultureexports, and Yoshikuni Igarashi of Vanderbilt University,who explored Japanese colonial nostalgia for the SouthPacific as a significant theme in the Godzilla series. Otherspeakers explored the monster’s nuclear and folkloric roots,the “noisescapes” of the Godzilla films, and the continuitiesbetween Godzilla’s global success and the internationalappeal of more recent Japanese exports like Pokemon andHello Kitty. A panel discussed how Godzilla films and otherforms of Japanese pop culture can be used as accessibleand effective teaching tools in university and high schoolclassrooms. Not surprisingly, as the first scholarly event ever to focuson the King of the Monsters, “In Godzilla’s Footsteps”attracted international media attention. More than 200newspapers—from The New York Times to the Fairbanks,Alaska Daily Miner, from Taipei to Istanbul—carriedstories on the conference. “Godzilla vs. the Eggheads,” oneheadline proclaimed. TV stations, including CNN and localaffiliates all over the nation, made note of the event, andradio networks around the world—the BBC, NationalPublic Radio, Australian, Polish and Austrian nationalradio—all aired interviews or features. A film crew fromLos Angeles taped the entire conference to include in adocumentary being made on Godzilla and Godzilla fandomin the United States. The conference even earned amention in the “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” comic strip. Thetremendous response to “In Godzilla’s Footsteps,” as wellas the intense American interest in anime, manga, and otherJapanese creative products, suggests the remarkableinfluence which Japanese popular culture is now exertingon a global scale. Indeed, as Takao Shibata, Consul Generalof Japan at Kansas City, noted in his opening remarks at“In Godzilla’s Footsteps” (echoing a character in the filmGodzilla 2000), “there’s a little Godzilla in all of us.”

In Godzilla's Footsteps by Bill Tsutsui

Godzilla rises over downtown Lawrence.

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South KoreaSouth KoreaSouth KoreaSouth KoreaSouth Korea The KAS-Korea program held inSouth Korea May 25-June 14, 2005focused on connections betweenspiritual diversity and social welfare.Seven social work studentsparticipated. Professor Ed Canda wasthe Project Director; Hwi-Ja Canda,LSCSW, was the Project Coordinator;and Professor Seung Hee Park ofSungkyunkwan University (formerly avisiting scholar at KU) was our hostand co-teacher. Prior to departure, the students tookpart in 10 sessions introducing Koreanhistory, culture, spiritual traditions, andsocial welfare systems. Time in Korea

Kansas/Asia Scholars Visit China, Japan & Korea Summer 2005was divided between Seoul andtraveling around the country. In Seoul,we visited major historical and culturalsites and conducted brief field studiesof social welfare agencies undergovernmental, Catholic, Protestant,and Buddhist auspices. Social workstudents from SungkyunkwanUniversity met with our studentsseveral times. We observed ashamanic healing ritual and visited aConfucian studies institute. Dr. Candagave presentations at SoongshilUniversity and the Jogyejong BuddhistCollege. Travel took the group to thewestern and southwestern provincesto visit temples, museums, rural areas,

JapanJapanJapanJapanJapan Nine students visited Japan withPatricia Graham, Program Director,and John Schneiderwind, ProgramAssistant. In the spring semesterbefore the trip, we met to learn aboutJapan’s education system, memory ofWorld War II, etiquette, food, and teaceremony, and to prepare for anexchange with Japanese students onthe topic of “sustainability.” We spentour first week in Kyoto, where wevisited temples, shrines, and artmuseums, participated in a sencha teaceremony, discussed contemporaryissues with college students, and metwith a social activist organization thatopposes Japan’s development of fastbreeder nuclear reactors. A day trip toOsaka included a visit to a moderntemple and a temple-run foster home;another day trip took the group to thefantastic Miho Museum designed by I.M. Pei and an organic farm run by thereligious group that owns the museum. After Kyoto, we spent a night inMongolian tents on the Inland Seaisland of Naoshima. Our tents weresituated adjacent to a beach, with apanoramic view of the city ofTakamatsu on Shikoku Island. This

island is home to a spectacularnew contemporary art museum(Benesse House) designed byAndo Tadao, and the nearby ArtHouse Project, both of which wetoured. In Hiroshima, we touredthe Peace Memorial Museum andmet with an A-bomb survivor, andthen ferried to the island ofMiyajima to stay in a traditionalinn (ryôkan) and see the island’ssacred Itsukushima Shinto shrine.The bullet train took us toHiratsuka, Lawrence’s sister city, forthe grand celebration of the 15thanniversary of the sister city exchangeprogram, a 3-night home-stay withHiratsuka families, and a tour of thecity. We spent our last week based inTokyo to explore contemporaryJapanese urban life. We visitedmuseums, including the TokyoNational Museum, the new Mori ArtMuseum, and the Yasukuni Shrine’snew controversial museum, toured thefashionable Harajuku-Omoesandodistrict, enjoyed a private Kyôgenperformance in English by therenowned actor Don Kenney, and metwith high school students. A day trip

took us to the nearby historic city ofKamakura, where we toured restoredfarmhouses and hiked to the BigBuddha. A highlight of the Tokyo weekwas meeting with college studentsassociated with the non-profit groupJapan for Sustainability. Our meetingsincluded an afternoon of presentationsabout sustainability by both groups ofstudents held at a research institute atTokyo University’s Komaba campus. Throughout our trip, we sampled andcame to appreciate all sorts ofJapanese cuisine, from simple noodledishes to the beautifully-presentedKyoto specialty cuisine of kaiseki.

shamanic sites, and social welfareagencies. Most of the students (as well as theprogram director and coordinator)went on to Japan, where they metagain briefly in Kyoto at theSanjusangendo temple, which isfamous for its amazing 1001 images ofKannon, the Bodhisattva ofCompassion. Later in the summer, wehad a debriefing session in Lawrence.This fall, students are completingservice learning projects through theirstudent internships in agencies andoutreach to the university andcommunity.

The KAS Japan Group at a Heian Shrine.

by Ed Canda

by Pat Graham

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ChinaChinaChinaChinaChina What do Lycra, asphalt, and steelvalves have in common? They wereall part of the 2005 KAS China studytour. Nine undergraduates and theirCEAS mentors, Sheree Willis and JunFu, saw manufacturing in action thissummer when they visited the Chinafacilities of several Kansas companies,including Invista, Koch Materials, andABZ Valves. They not only touredfacilities, but also heard management’sstrategy for competing in the Chinesemarket. Koch asphalt, used to buildsmoother and more durable highwaysin China, was definitely appreciatedwhen the group’s bus traveled overthe new Koch-built road to the ThreeGorges dam. Before their trip, the students haddiscussed how China’s manufacturingboom has changed its financial sector.Once in China, they took a closer look

at banking by stepping back in time atthe Rishengchang Remittance BankMuseum in Pingyao, the bankingcenter of China during the QingDynasty (1644-1911). They purchasedreplica “checks” that entitled thebearer to thousands of Qing Dynastyyuan. They next visited two banks inWuhan to see how Chinese financialinstitutions serve their customerstoday. The KAS group alsocompeted with bank staffers inusing the abacus. Needless tosay, the students did not win, butthe Chinese were impressed attheir attempts. Although the KAS China studytour had a business focus, thegroup also explored historic andcultural sites. On Wutaishan, at atemple to Manjusri, Bodhisattvaof Wisdom, where mothers prayfor their children’s academic

success, the students expressed hopefor successful futures. In Wuhan, theymade friends with students at CentralChina Normal University who werestudying English with KU alums. InShanghai, they had a calligraphylesson. Other highlights of the tripincluded lots of delicious Chinese food,and even bowling!

KAS China group on Wutaishan.

Campus Q & AFrom the University of Kansas Oread (a

publication of KU University Relations)Vol. 30, No. 7 (November 21, 2005).From: www.oread.ku.edu/Oread05/Nov21/campus_q_a.shtml.Sheree Willis is the Kansas AsiaScholars China program director andassistant director of Kansas AsiaCommunity Connection.Years at current job: About three anda half.Job duties: I manage the China groupof the Kansas Asia Scholars program.This includes working with the studentsto prepare them for the trip, designingand leading the study tour, and guidingstudents on their service learningprojects after we return. For the KansasAsia Community Connection, I gatherinformation on the agricultural and ruraldimensions of the linkages betweenKansas and East Asia (China, Japan andKorea) and present that information tothe public on our Web site atAsiaKan.org, printed publications, and

through projects jointly sponsored withother organizations. I also work on aproject we have launched to set upexchanges between high schools in ourregion and schools in China.What’s the biggest challenge facingyour department right now? Keepingup with the huge public and studentinterest in East Asia, particularly inChina.Other professional experience: I wasa Foreign Service Officer for the U.S.Department of State for eight years andserved in Tunis, Shanghai, Beijing andKuala Lumpur. I also worked as afreelance Mandarin/English interpreterand consultant for over a decade.How was the trip to China (in whichKU signed a memorandum ofcooperation to develop the country’sthird Confucius Institute)? The tripwas very productive. KU is developinga range of linkages in China that willprovide greater opportunities for ourfaculty and students.Did you work as a translator on the

trip or more as a representative ofKU? I participated in the Governor’smission as a representative of KU, and Ialso interpreted for the provost and forthe governor, including her remarks at abanquet she hosted in Beijing.What issues do you deal with most?My focus is on helping othersunderstand East Asia, especially China.What aspects of your job mightothers not realize you’re involvedwith? In addition to working with KUstudents, an activity that I enjoy verymuch, I also frequently work onhelping others develop relationships inChina that will become mutuallybeneficial partnerships.What do you think a ConfuciusInstitute should mean to KU? AConfucius Institute at KU, as one ofonly a handful of Confucius Institutesin the United States, would beprestigious and would enhance KU’scapacity to bring training in Chineselanguage and culture to communitiesbeyond the university.

by Sheree Willis

Page 12Art of the Zodiac: Celebrating the Yeo the RCEAS Offers EAST(East Asian Stor Tm) What do the words rainbow fish in Korean, frog and toad in Chinee ancommon? They are just a few of the words that students at Quail Run, LangoSchools learned as a result of their participation in a pilot of the bilingual Edeveloped and presented by CEAS. This programintroduuhlanguages: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Using famliar stories — a chapter fromFrog and Toad All Year in Chinese, Where Are You Going? ToSee MFendJapanese, and The Rainbow Fish in Korean — in conjunion whsply designlanguage activities structured to reinforce vocabulary learning, bilingual story timcombines fun and foreign language in one neat package. Each story is read, page by page, in English and in the target language, andaccompanied by a hands-on vocabulary activity. For examthe interactivecomponent of Japanese story time featured five cards, each onpanimal with its name in English and Japanese (with transliteration), and speechballoons with the sound that the animal makes, e.g. meow meow oooh, also in both languages. Students are challenged to match the sounds whthanimals. These cards were constructed for 100% suwcutoreinforce the words and sounds. The children were amusedanhanimals speak differently in different countries. One small boy told us that when he went homJapanese to his own dog! Teacher and librarian reactions to the pilot presentationwreally enjoyed the story and activity. It was one of the day’s highighs,” said Jane ImLElementary School, which hosted the Korean story time. CEASha signeduescharouother parts of Kansas for the ’05-’06 academic year. By the way, the words for “rainbow fish” in Korean are Mgmchan chu; and cock-a-doodle-doo in Japanese is Kei kei kei keiko.

By the Chinese lunar calendar, 2005was the Year of the Rooster. Incelebration, the Taipei Economic andCultural Office (TECO) of KansasCity, CEAS, and the WatkinsCommunity Museum of History inLawrence co-sponsored a rooster-theme exhibition. The exhibition,shownMarch 11-April 30 attheWatkinsMuseum,was partof "TheArt of theZodiacseries"organized by the Taiwan Ministry ofCulture. The series has been travelingto major cities in the Uothaseveral years. 55 Taiwansts created therepresentations of roosters in a widerange of materials: paper woodporcelain, glass, stone, m leatheand bambTms andcolors reflected the rich variety ofTaiwanecu picuarly folkculture. Each work possessed aninherent beauty and conveyedthedowntoeath chae of wanrural life, with its daily challengefamily relations, cultural roots, andresponses to a changing wold TECO hosted a reception on March11 at the museum. TLeuenanGovernor of Kansas, KU andthe directors of the Watkins Museumand CEA JohnKennedy, Aistant Professor ofPolitical Science, gave a talkKU

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Visiting the Aichi Expo in June 2005 by Elaine Gerbert Expo 2005, “Learning from Nature’sWisdom,” was held in AichiPrefecture, Japan, from March 25through September 2005. In spite oftwo leafy mascots (a hoary forestgrandfather and his sapling grandchild)that appeared ubiquitously on posters,pin badges, T-shirts, and mugs, andnostalgic wooded nature trails in the“Forest Nature School” and the“Village Nature School,” the emphasisof this international expo wasdefinitely on technology. Corporatepavilions featured robots; hydrogenpowered buses transported visitorsbetween sites; and electricity wasproduced by a wind power generatorand methane fermentation fuel cellsfed by raw garbage from the Exporestaurants. The innovativeengineering that has made Japan thehome of some of the world’s mostenergy efficient technology waseverywhere on display. Under the giant cocoon of itsmassive, bamboo, basket-like exterior,the interior of the Japan Pavilion at theNagakute site was kept cool by ahydrophilic photo-catalytic steel roofcleaned with ozone-treated, recycledwastewater that lowered the ambienttemperature. The pavilion’sbiodegradable plastic wall producedfrom starch and food scraps, its pavingmaterials made of bricks baked at alow temperatures that would

eventually be re-assimilated by thesoil, and its completely metal-freebamboo connectors were all designedfor ease in recycling, in keeping withthe Expo themes ofrenew and recycle.Inside the Japanpavilion,nanotechnologywas at work in afish tank in whichfresh water fishswam alongsideocean fish. One of the mostpleasing attractionswas the biolung, amassive 150 meteralleyway with 15meter high walls planted from bottomto top with plants and flowersdesigned to absorb carbon dioxide,supply oxygen, and cool the area onhot, muggy summer days. Tentingmaterial made of kenaf and coatedwith a photocatalyst on both sides of agiant screen formed the wall, withpockets in the tenting material inwhich flowers and greenery wereplanted. Ionized water passing througha ceramic filter misted and sprinkledthe greenery wall and lowered thetemperature of the surrounding air. The sense of belonging to a “globalvillage” was enhanced by the giantelevated, 21-meter wide “global loop”boardwalk that encircled a goodportion of the Expo site, linking 80national pavilions clustered in sixglobal commons: Continental Asia, theAmericas, Mediterranean Europe,Northern Europe, Africa, Oceania, andSoutheast Asia. Constructed ofdiscarded timber, discarded plastic,and eucalyptus wood, rather thanasphalt, the 2.6 kilometer walkwaywas easy on the feet, and its heightoffered visitors a clear view of the

Expo attractions and the surroundingcountryside. Our visit to the Expo was facilitatedby the kindness of Naoto Kato,

Deputy Director of Public Relations,who arranged for passes and guidesand a comfortable resting place in theair conditioned VIP visitors lounge.Our thanks to Mr. Kato, and to KUEast Asian Studies graduate studentChris Mayo, who was one of thehundreds of individuals involved inpreparing for the Expo and whointroduced me to Mr. Kato. Judgingfrom the many official visitors fromChina that Mr. Kato hosted, work hasalready begun on Expo 2010,scheduled to take place in Shanghai. While in Nagoya, I also visitedChukyo University, where KUstudents can study Japanese throughthe International Student ExchangeProgram (ISEP). From Chukyo’s ISEPcoordinator, Tatsuo Kanazawa, Ilearned about the important roleplayed by the Toyota Corporation inthe economic prosperity of the region.Students studying at Chukyo’s urbancampus located in eastern Nagoya canalso take courses at the university’ssecond campus in nearby Toyota City,named after the founder of the autocompany.

The indoor courtyard at Chukyo University.

Biolung wall at the Aichi Expo.

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Faculty UpdatesMichael Baskett’s book chapter “AllBeautiful Fascists? Axis Film Culture inImperial Japan” will appear in AlanTansman ed., The Culture of JapaneseFascism (Duke, 2006). Baskett also pub-lished several review articles, presented atthe International Association of AsianHistorians Conference and the Conferenceof the International Association for Mediaand History, and was the plenary speakerfor the “Race, Nation, and the Humani-ties” conference at Austin College inSherman, Texas. He is completing a bookmanuscript entitled “The Attractive Em-pire—Making Imperial Subjects in Japan’sGreater East Asian Film Sphere.” He isalso the Film/DVD editor of the journalThe Moving Image. Baskett received the2005 CEAS Faculty service award.

Edward Canda directed the Kansas/AsiaScholars Social Work Program on Koreafor the third time, and was also a VisitingProfessor at Ritsumeikan University inKyoto last summer. He is co-author ofContemporary Human Behavior Theory:A Critical Perspective for Social Work,second edition (Boston: Pearson Allyn &Bacon, 2006), has a number of book chap-ters and articles in press, and edited Spiri-tual Diversity in Social Work—SpecialIssue, Reflections: Narratives of Profes-sional Helping. He is currently workingwith a KU Visiting Scholar, ProfessorHyuk Koo Lee, from Sungkyunkwan Uni-versity in Korea.

Maggie Childs presented “CoerciveCourtship Strategies in Japanese CourtLiterature” at the Midwest Japan Seminarand at Yale University last fall; a Japaneseversion of this paper was published inLiterature in Culture, Culture in Litera-ture: Proceedings of the 28th Interna-tional Conference on Japanese Litera-ture at the National Institute of JapaneseLiterature (2005). She has also taken overdirection of the heavily subscribed, inter-disciplinary Eastern Civilizations course.

Mary Dusenbury, Acting Curator of AsianArt at the Spencer Museum, has pub-lished “The Kusabusa no Some Yodo: ATenth Century Manual for Court Dyers inJapan” in Bulletin du CIETA (Centre Inter-national D’Etude des Textiles Anciens,Lyons) and Flowers, Dragons and PineTrees: Asian Textiles in the Spencer Mu-

seum of Art (Hudson Hills Press), both in2004. The book title is also the title of herexhibition at Spencer Museum January 28-May 28, 2006.

Sherry Fowler’s Muroji: Rearranging Artand History at a Japanese BuddhistTemple was published by University ofHawai’i Press in 2005. Supported bygrants from the Metropolitan Center forFar Eastern Art Studies and the FreemanUndergraduate Asian Studies InitiativeResearch Grant, she spent six weeks inJapan launching a new research project on“accounts and images of the Six Kannoncult in Japan.” She also gave presenta-tions at the University of Pennsylvania,Stanford University, and Sophia Univer-sity on prints of Japanese temple andshrine precincts from the eighteenth andnineteenth centuries.

Pat Graham’s Faith and Power in Japa-nese Buddhist Art, 1600-2005, has beenaccepted by the University of Hawai’iPress. Her recent publications include“Naritasan Shinshôji and Commoner Pa-tronage During the Edo Period,” in EarlyModern Japan (Fall-Winter 2004) and areview of Burglind Jungmann’s Paintersas Envoys (August 2005). Graham pre-sented a paper at the conference Perspec-tives on Chinese Art (see p. 20). As aparticipant in an NEH-sponsored panel atthe annual meeting of the American His-torical Association (Seattle, Jan. 8, 2005),she talked about the theoretical ap-proaches she used in her new book. Shealso lectured on “The Exquisite Crafts-manship of Japanese Arts” with a benefitsale to support the Nelson-Atkins Mu-seum.

Jie Han is working on the organization ofthe GeoShanghai International Conferenceto be held June 6-8, 2006 in Shanghai; heis one of the two coordinators and the co-chair of the technical committee. Theconference will be hosted by Tongji Uni-versity in Shanghai in cooperation withthe ASCE, the University of Kansas, andseveral other organizations. He publishedfour peer-reviewed journal papers and hasfour more in press.

Marsha Haufler took part in the annualKorea Foundation Workshop for KoreanArt Curators, which met in October inGyeongju and Seoul to study Koreanarchitecture. From Seoul, she went to

Beijing to collect material on Ming Bud-dhist art and give a talk at the CentralAcademy of Fine Arts. She published“Two Ming Ritual Scrolls as Harbingers ofNew Directions in the Study of ChinesePainting,” Orientations (Jan./Feb. 2005)and “Images of the Nine-LotusBodhisattva and the Wanli EmpressDowager,” Chungguksa yongu (Journal ofChinese Historical Researches) (April 30,2005). In April, she spoke at the Seattle ArtMuseum on “Art in the Abbot’s Quarters:Picturing Monks as Collectors and Con-noisseurs” and at the University of Wash-ington on “The Wanli Empress Dowagerand the Nine-Lotus Bodhisattva.” Shecontinues as Chair of the Editorial Boardof Archives of Asian Art.

John Head had two books published in2005, Law Codes in Dynastic China: ASynopsis of Chinese Legal History in theThirty Centuries from Zhou to Qing andThe Future of the Global Economic Orga-nizations: An Evaluation of CriticismsLeveled at the IMF, the Multilateral De-velopment Banks, and the WTO. Head’sessay “Agriculture, Free Trade, and Glo-bal Development: Some Personal Obser-vations,” appeared in The Kansas Journalof Law and Public Policy. He taught inthe KU Law School’s Istanbul SummerStudy Program in July 2005.

John Kennedy and Hong Chung Zhang’sdaughter Rose (pictured below) was bornOctober 3, 2005. John presented “Death ofa Township: Impact of the 2002 Tax-For-Fee Reform in Northwest China” at theAssociation of Chinese Political Studies18th Annual Conference held July 30-31 inSan Francisco; his paper was selected asthe “Best Paper” at the conference. He iscurrently co-director of the NorthwestSocio-Economic Development ResearchCenter (NSDRC), Xian, China. The centertrains Chinese graduate students at five

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northwest universities in social scienceresearch methods.

William Lindsey remains in Japan on atwo-year grant from the Japan Society forthe Promotion of Science. He is a researchfellow at the Institute for the Study ofCultural History of Everyday Life in Japan(Nihon Jomin Bunka Kenkyu-jo) atKanagawa University in Yokohama. Re-cently, he delivered two public papers on“visualizing the womb in the Tokugawaperiod.” He also accompanied Dr. SanoKenji of Kanagawa University on a fact-gathering tour of museum studies pro-grams in the U.S. in preparation for thedevelopment of a Ph.D. program in mu-seum studies at Kanagawa.

Keith McMahon’s book chapter, “Eliminat-ing Traumatic Antinomies: Sequels toHonglou meng,” appears in MartinHuang, ed., Snakes’ Legs: Sequels, Con-tinuations, Rewritings, and ChineseFiction, University of Hawai'i Press.McMahon also published “Opium Smok-ing and Modern Subjectivity,” inPostcolonial Studies: Culture, Politics,Economy, and “Cultural Destiny andPolygynous Love in Zou Tao’s ShanghaiDust,” in CLEAR 27 (2005). He presentedpapers at AAS, the University of Heidel-berg, Harvard University, Shanghai Uni-versity, and at the conferences “CanonTransformation and Narrative Literature inthe Ming and Qing Dynasties” and “NewGender Constructs in Literature, the Visualand the Performing Arts of Modern Chinaand Japan.”

Amy McNair (on leave fall 05) has a con-tract with the University of Hawai’i Pressfor the publication of her book Donors ofLongmen. She was awarded a 2005 WilliamT. Kemper Fellowship for OutstandingTeaching. She has also received an NEHresearch grant for next year.

Yoonmi Nam received artist-in-residenceawards, one from the Nagasawa Art Parkto live and work in Awaji Shima, Japan for2 months to learn and make prints usingtraditional Japanese Woodblock print-making techniques, and another from theVermont Studio Center. She was awarded aLawrence Art Guild Professional Develop-ment Grant in 2005 and a KU GeneralResearch Fund grant to research andteach traditional Asian woodblockprintmaking techniques and history. Her

work was included in the Nagasawa ArtPark Artist-in-Residence Report book,Nagasawa Art Park Pilot Project Commit-tee, and in the Catalogue 13th Interna-tional Print Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria 2005.She had exhibitions at the Graphic ArtGallery (Bulgaria-Juried), Vermont StudioCenter, BadDog Gallery (Illinois), and Art& Design Gallery (Kansas).

Eric C. Rath presented a paper on urbanfarming in modern Kyoto at the annualmeeting of the American Society for Envi-ronmental History in March 2005. Thesame month, he presented “Warrior Noh:Konparu Zenpô and the Ritual Perfor-mance of Shura Plays” at WashingtonUniversity, St. Louis, for the conference“Translations and Transformations: TheHeike monogatari in Noh.” This paper hasbeen accepted for publication in JapanForum. He won a Japan Foundation Fel-lowship and a Hall Center Research Fel-lowship to conduct research in 2006 for abook manuscript “Culinary Fantasies inEarly Modern Japan.” A paperback editionof his Ethos of Noh: Actors and Their Art(Harvard University Asia Center Press,2004) is due out soon. He has been pro-moted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Dale Slusser continues to teach the Japa-nese tradition of Tea to groups of privatestudents from his home in Lawrence aswell as offer public demonstrations andlectures to the wider community.

Bill Tsutsui’s book Godzilla on MyMind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters,described as a “cult classic” by the NewYork Times, was one of three finalists forthe 2005 William Rockhill Nelson Award innon-fiction. A Japanese translation, en-titled Gojira to Amerika no hanseiki, waspublished by Chûô Kôron Shinsha inOctober. He presented invited lectures atOhio State, UCLA, Middlebury, KansasState, and Gordon College. He also deliv-ered a plenary address on the 100th anni-versary of the Russo-Japanese War at theNational Council for History Educationannual meeting.

Akira Yamamoto continues to work onendangered language documentation andrevitalization projects. He recently co-authored two chapters, “EndangeredLanguage Communities and Linguists:Listening to the Voices of the IndigenousPeoples and Working Toward a

Linguistics of Revitalization” and “TheSouthwest United States,” that will appearin Vanishing Languages of the Pacific,Osahito Miyaoka, Osamu Sakiyama, andMichael Krauss, eds. (Oxford UniversityPress). This work resulted from theJapanese government-supported projectto document endangered languages of thePacific Rim.

Fiona Yap published Political Economy,Citizen Power, and the “Asian Miracle”:Reassessing the Dynamics (Lynne RiennerPublishers) and three articles: “Politicsand Government Spending in Asia: Evi-dence from South Korea and Taiwan” inJournal of East Asian Studies, vol. 6, no1, 2005; “A New Social Contract of Ac-countability? Lessons from Citizens’ Re-sponse to the Asian Financial Crisis inTaiwan, South Korea, Singapore, andMalaysia,” in the Whitehead Journal ofDiplomacy and International Relations,2005, and “Bargaining in the Less-Demo-cratic NICs: Model and Evidence fromSouth Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, andMalaysia,” in the Journal of TheoreticalPolitics, vol. 17, no 3 (lead article). Shealso presented a paper at the MidwestPolitical Science Association conferenceand received grants from the Center forEntrepreneurial Research (KaufmannFoundation) and the Chiang-Ching KuoFoundation. Yap has been promoted toAssociate Professor with tenure.

Yan Bing Zhang is teaching interculturalcommunication, quantitative researchmethods and East Asian communication.She has two co-authored articles in press:“Perceptions of Conflict ManagementStyles in Chinese Intergene-rational Dy-ads” in Communication Monographs,and “Harmony, Hierarchy and Conserva-tism: A Cross-cultural Comparison ofConfucian values among China, Korea,Japan, and Taiwan” in CommunicationResearch Report. She is vice chair andprogram planner for the Communicationand Aging division of the National Com-munication Association. She receiveda KU New Faculty Research Fund.

Mary Zimmerman is co-author of GlobalDimensions of Gender and Carework,forthcoming from Stanford UniversityPress in early 2006.

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Carl LandeCarl Lande died on May 22, 2005. He was a member of CEAS for several decades, and is survived by his wife,Nobleza Asuncion-Lande, a Professor of Communication Studies and also a long-term CEAS member. Thistribute was provided by his colleague Grant Goodman, Professor Emeritus of History at KU.

Carl Lande was born of German immigrant parents in Columbus, Ohio. His motherwas a physician, and his father was a physicist on the faculty of Ohio State University.Carl received his Ph.D. degree in political science from Harvard University and joinedthe KU faculty, after teaching at Yale and at the Ateneo de Manila University in thePhilippines. He was the Southeast Asia specialist for the Political ScienceDepartment, and his major research interest was in the Philippines for which hesustained an unrequited affection throughout his life. His magisterial work on thepatron-client relationships in the Philippines became the standard interpretation for allsubsequent researchers in both the Philippines and abroad. Carl was an extremelyserious scholar and a kind and generous teacher. His presence at KU will be sorelymissed.

In Memoriam

Joseph Kuo We report with sadness that Joseph Cheng Kuo, Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Cultures, died onOctober 29, 2005. At a memorial service in November, Professor Kuo was remembered as a patient teacher, loyalfriend, and devoted father. Before accepting a position at KU in 1966, Professor Kuo taught at Yale University, Washington University in St.Louis, the University of Texas, and the Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois. He retired from KU in 1992. He publishedthe textbook series Radio Broadcasts from China, co-authored the SpeakMandarin Workbook, and contributed to the Dictionary of Spoken Chinese.In addition to spending over four decades training students in Chinese, he wasalso a mentor to several figures in American diplomatic and foreign policycircles, including John Holdredge, one of the architects of the ShanghaiCommunique leading to the normalization of relations between the U.S. andChina. Joseph Cheng Kuo was born February 2, 1921 in Beijing, China, the son ofChungfa and Chengshi Guo (Simon and Maria Kuo). He graduated from ChinaUniversity in Beijing. He was a member of St. John the Evangelist CatholicChurch. Joseph married Mary H.Y. Kuo on September 17, 1948, in Shanghai.She preceded him in death in 1998. Survivors include a daughter, Rose Kuo ofLos Angeles, CA; three sons, John Kuo of Chicago, IL, Simon Kuo ofOverland Park, KS, and David Kuo of Salt Lake City, UT; a sister, Guo Yanjinof Jinan, China; and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by onebrother and six sisters. The family suggests memorial contributions to the Joseph and Mary KuoScholarship Fund of the KU Endowment Association.

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Alumni NewsDarrell Allen, Ph.D., History (J), 2004,is teaching at Seattle Pacific University.

Alan Atkinson, Ph.D., Art History (C),1997, is a lecturer at the University ofOklahoma.

Ellen Averill, M.A., Art History (C),1983, is Chief Curator and Curator ofAsian Art at the Herbert F. JohnsonMuseum of Art at Cornell University.

Janet Baker, Ph.D., Art History (C),1991, is Curator of Asian Art at thePhoenix Art Museum.

Michael Bass, M.A., Art History, 1998,works for the Chinese art departmentof Christie’s New York, RockefellerCenter.

Sarah Blick, Ph.D., Art History,(Western medieval art), 1994, isAssistant Professor at Kenyon College,teaching Chinese and Japanese arthistory as well as medieval art.

Karen Brock, M.A., Art History (J),1974, (Ph.D. Princeton University) isProfessor Emerita at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis.

Claudia Brown, Ph.D., Art History (C),1985, is Associate Professor of ArtHistory at Arizona State University.

Robin Burlingham, M.A., Art History(C), 1993, is the Asian art cataloger atthe Herbet F. Johnson Museum of Artat Cornell University.

Joy Callahan, M.A., Political Science(J), 2004, is teaching English in Japan.

Margaret Carney (Xie), Ph.D., ArtHistory (C), 1989, is director and chiefcurator of the Ross C. Purdy Museumof Ceramics in Bowling Green, Ohio,and past director and curator of theSchein-Joseph International Museum ofCeramic Art at Alfred University, NewYork.

Janet Carpenter, Ph.D., Art History (C),1994, is a lecturer at San Jose StateUniversity and the City College of SanFrancisco.

Jaekwon Cha, Ph.D., Political Science,2004, serves as the Deputy Director atthe Korean Institute of PublicAdministration in the office of theKorean Prime Minister.

Frank Chance, M.A., Art History (J),1976, (Ph.D. University ofWashington), is Associate Director ofthe Center for East Asian Studies at theUniversity of Pennsylvania.

Tsenti (Joseph) Chang, Ph.D., ArtHistory (C), 1995, is Associate Curatorof Chinese art at the Freer and SacklerGalleries of the Smithsonian Institution,Washington D.C.

Qing Chang, Ph.D., Art History (C),2005, holds a post-doctoral fellowshipat the Metropolitan Museum of Art inNew York City.

Insoo Cho, Ph.D., Art History (C/K),2002, is Assistant Professor of ArtHistory at the Korean NationalUniversity of Arts, a new institute inSeoul established by the KoreanMinistry of Culture.

Diana Y. Chou, Ph.D., Art History (C),2001, is Assistant Professor of ArtHistory and Humanities at John CarrollUniversity in Cleveland.

Christina Chu, Ph.D., Art History (C),1990, is Chief Curator at the HongKong City Museum

Brian Cleveland, M.A., EALC, 2003, isteaching English in Japan.

Dolinich: See Hope.

David Dunfield, M.A., Art History (J),1976, is a practicing architect inLawrence, Kansas.

Paul Dunscombe, Ph.D., History (J),2001, is Assistant Professor of Historyat the University of Alaska inAnchorage.

Mary Dusenbury, Ph.D., Art History(J), 1999, is Acting Curator of Asian artin the Spencer Museum of Art at KU.

Hollis Goodall, M.A., Art History (J),1980, is Curator at the Pavilion forJapanese Art, Los Angeles CountyMuseum of Art.

Robin L. Faulk, M.A. in InternationalStudies (J), 2004, is working for GE asthe Senior Learning & DevelopmentManager in Kansas City.

Patricia J. Fister, Ph.D., Art History (J),1983, is Associate Professor at theInternational Research Center forJapanese Studies in Kyoto.

Karen Gerhart, Ph.D., Art History (J),1992, is Associate Professor of ArtHistory at the University of Pittsburgh.

Patricia Graham, Ph.D., Art History (J),1983, works as a free-lance curator andAsian art appraiser. Her recent researchand publications have focused onsencha. See also pp. 10 & 20.

Marilyn Gridley, Ph.D., Art History (C),1985, has retired from the University ofMissouri, Kansas City, and continuesher research on the art of the Liao. Shecontributed “Liao Painting and theNorthern Grasslands School” to theforthcoming festschrift for Dr. Chu-tsing Li. See p. 20.

Please visit our new alumni webpage at www.ceas.ku.edu/alumni and add or update your entry.

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Kevin Greenwood, a doctoral candidatein art history (C), is teaching atWillamette University in Salem, Oregon.Kevin and his wife, Jill Vessely, are theproud parents of Max Jon EdwardGreenwood born Oct. 6, 2005.

Junghee Han, Ph.D. Art History (C),1988, is Professor of Art History atHongik University in Seoul, Korea.

Sarah Handler, Ph.D. Art History (C),1983, is a free-lance curator based inCalifornia. She does research andpublishes on Chinese furniture.

Nancy (Dolinich) Hope, M.A., ArtHistory (J), 1992, is AssociateDirector of the Kansas Consortiumfor Teaching about Asia based inCEAS at KU. See also p. 6.

Hsieh Shih-ying, M.A., Art History(C), 1993, (Ph.D. University of NewSouth Wales) is a curator at theNational History Museum in Taipei.

Brenda Jordon, Ph.D., Art History(J), 1993, is Assistant Director ofEducational Outreach, Japan StudiesCoordinator, and Adjunct AssistantProfessor, History of Art andArchitecture at the University ofPittsburgh. She coordinates the K-16Educational Outreach program forthe Asian Studies Center, includingprofessional development workshopsfor teachers, early childhood learningprograms, and educational programsand events. She also serves as theprogram manager for the Japaneseinternship program, as part of herduties as Japan studies coordinator.She is an avid gardener, in her sparetime, and enjoys spending time withher husband and adoptive Chinesedaughter, Erika (age 5).

Jane C. Ju, Ph.D., Art History (C),1989, teaches at National ChengchiUniversity in Taipei, Taiwan.

Arthur Mu-sen Kao (C), Ph.D., ArtHistory, 1980, is Associate Professor ofArt History at San Jose State University.

Hong-nam Kim, M.A., Art History (C),1976, (Ph.D., Yale) is Director of theKorean National Folk Museum andProfessor at Ewha University in Seoul,Korea.

Sung-lim Kim, M.A., Art History (C),2000, is a curatorial assistant at theAsian Art Museum of San Franciscoand finishing her Ph.D. at the Universityof California, Berkeley.

Elizabeth Kindall, M.A., Art History (C),1995 and Ph.D. candidate, is VisitingAssistant Professor of Art History at theUniversity of Utah.

Yuko Koike, Ph.D., Linguistics (J),2002, is Visiting Instructor in Japaneseat Colby College.

The next generation:“Young Designs”By: KAREN GADIEL, www.Ithacatimes.com, 06/08/2005 Inspiration is all around - and the glass artists at the Corning Museum of Glass(CMOG) are finding new design sources every day. They even encouragechildren to draw pictures of what they’d like to see made of glass. Thesepreviously unknown art prodigies work with marker and crayon, producing aseemingly limitless array of colorful ideas. “It’s a very simple program, but very great,” says Yvette Sterbenk,communications manager at CMOG about the “You Design It, We Make It”program. The child-inspired pieces range from animals, to vessels, even a glasssword. The finished piece is given to the kid whose picture was chosen - but theglass has to anneal or cool slowly overnight in a special kiln, so it can’t be takenhome until the following day. When 5-year-old Julian Pan visited the museum with his parents, the familyleft early because they didn’t think his picture would be chosen. “Some kidswere doing extremely intricate cartoon characters like Disney characters andWinnie-the-Pooh,” says his mother, Robin Burlingham [M.A., Art History, 1993].“Julian being the freeform child that he is decided to do an abstract scribble. Hedid a series of very spontaneous and energetic spirals.” She asked her son,“What were you thinking about, Julian?” “Fireworks!” he answered, without hesitation. “They were light green and light blue,” she continued. “Then we moved onand did other things.” “It was two days later that the museum called us,” said Julian’s father, An-YiPan [Ph.D., Art History, 1997]. “We were totally surprised because his picturewas very abstract. They made a vase, pale green with light blue trim. It’s quitebeautiful.” The museum can hold the finished glasswork for pick-up or mail the glass toits new owner. Julian’s parents chose to return the next weekend becausepicking it up would be more fun, they decided. To their amazement, the vasewas true to the original drawing, and came to them with the drawing rolled upinside. Julian’s father thinks the vase will look wonderful with bright flowersinside. And Julian says he might just continue his artistic career.

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Karil Kucera, Ph.D., Art History (C),2002, is Luce Assistant Professor ofEast Asian Visual Culture in thedepartments of Asian Studies and Art &Art History at St. Olaf College inNorthfield, Minnesota.

Thomas Kurata, B.A., EALC, 1975, is aChief Representative of OSIsoft, Inc. inShanghai.

Lai Hsiang-ling, M.A., Art History (C),1987, is Executive Director, DimensionFoundation for Art Education, Taipei.

He Li, M.A., Art History (C), 1990, isAssociate Curator of Chinese Art at theAsian Art Museum of San Francisco.

Ling-en Lu, M.A., Art History (C),1995, and Ph.D. candidate, is AssistantCurator of Chinese Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City.

Kazumi Maniwa, M.A., Linguistics,2002 (former EALC GTA) is teachingat Carnegie Mellon.

Hui Wang Martin, M.A., Art History(C), 1999,and a Ph.D.candidate,and herhusbandBrian, are theproudparents ofWilliam BrianEn-hongMartin, bornOct. 1,2004.

Adam Stuart McIver, M.A., EALC(2003) is currently working for theFederal Government.

Eric McNeal, M.A., Art History (J),2002, is a museum preparator at theBirmingham Museum of Art inBirmingham, AL.

Dianne Morton, Ph.D., Art History (C),

2001, is teaching at Oklahoma StateUniversity.

Robert Mowry, M.A., Art History (C),1974, is Alan J. Dworsky Curator ofChinese Art and Head of theDepartment of Asian Art at the HarvardUniversity Art Museums.

Midori Oka, M.A., Art History (J),1995, is Museum Educator for AsianCollections at the Peabody EssexMuseum in Salem, Massachusetts.

An-yi Pan, Ph.D., Art History (C),1997, has been promoted to AssociateProfessor with tenure at CornellUniversity. He and Robin Burlingham(M.A., Art History), have two sons,Julian and Aidan. See story on p. 18.

Charles Sidney Ray Pine, M.A. EALC(C), 2004, has moved to China to teachintercultural communications.

Yumi Saito, M.A., Linguistics (J), 2004(and former EALC GTA), is workingfor Cisco Inc. in Tokyo and teachingJapanese to international businesspeople.

Audrey Seo, Ph.D., Art History (J),1997, is Assistant Professor of ArtHistory at Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, Richmond, Virginia.

Shimizu Yoshiaiki, M.A., Art History,1968, (Ph.D. Princeton University) isMarquand Professor of Japanese Art atPrinceton University.

Jason Steuber, B.A. EALC 1993, M.A.EALC 1997 (C), is working as anassistant curator of Chinese art at theNelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas Cityand pursuing a Ph.D. at the Universityof Missouri, Kansas City.

Yuichi Tamura, Ph.D., Sociology, 2002,is teaching at SUNY Geneseo.

Diana Tenckhoff, Ph.D., Art History(C), 2002, is Assistant Professor of ArtHistory at Southwestern University inGeorgetown, Texas.

Robert L. Thorp, Ph.D., Art History(C), 1980, is Professor Emeritus atWashington University in St. Louis.

Hsing-li Tsai, Ph.D., Art History (C) ,1997, is an independent scholar living inVancouver, Canada.

Hui Wang, see Martin.

Wan Qingli, Ph.D., Art History, 1991, isProfessor of Art History at theUniversity of Hong Kong.

Ankeney Weitz, Ph.D., Art History (C),1994, was promoted to AssociateProfessor with tenure at Colby College.

Matthew Welch, Ph.D., Art History (J),1995, is Curator of Korean andJapanese Art at Minneapolis Institute ofArt. Read an interview with Matthewon the topic of the museum’s teahouseat: www.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/architecture/japanese-teahouse-interview.cfm

Sandra Jean Wetzel, Ph.D., Art History(C), 1991, is Assistant Professor of ArtHistory, California Polytechnic StateUniversity, San Luis Obispo. Shecontinues to research courtesanpainters in Ming China.

Richard L. Wilson, Ph.D., Art History(J), 1985, is Professor of Art andArcheology as well as Director of JapanStudies at International ChristianUniversity in Tokyo. His researchincludes Japanese archaeology,especially of the early modern period;painting, ceramics, lacquerware, andpublishing of the Rimpa school ofJapanese art; and Japanese teaceremony. Read an interview withWilson on “Looking for the RealKenzan,” at: www.e-yakimono.net/html/wilson-richard-interview.html.

Donald Wood, Ph.D., Art History (J),1985, is Chief Curator at theBirmingham Museum of Art inBirmingham, Alabama.

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Brian and William inTianjin, fall 2005.

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Many KU alumni and current students joined friends of Dr.Chu-tsing Li in presenting papers at a conference in hishonor, “Perspectives on Chinese Art: New Approaches andReflections on Forty Years of Scholarship,” held at ArizonaState University in Tempe and the Phoenix Art Museum,November 4-5, 2005.

Speakers and topics:Speakers and topics:Speakers and topics:Speakers and topics:Speakers and topics:- Ling-en Lu: “Painting for Temple Community: A MingDynasty Case Study”- Youmi Kim Efurd, “Shifting Categories: The Identificationof Daoist Paintings in Texts from Pre-Modern China”- Patricia J. Graham, “Connoisseurs of Chinese Art in LateEdo and Meiji Japan”- Jane Ju, “The Palace Museum and the Telling of LiteratiNarratives”- Jason Steuber, “Reconsidering the 1935-36 InternationalExhibition of Chinese Art in London”- Ankeney Weitz, “Zhao Mengfu and his Atelier”- Diana Y. Chou, “Who is Song Tian/Yong Tian/Ge Shuyin?A Microscopic View within a Macroscopic Issue of Artisticand Cultural Exchange between China and Japan in the14th Century”- Claudia Brown (Arizona State University), “Brush onClay: Pictorial Imagery in Contemporary Ceramics inTaiwan”- Janet Baker, “Dunhuang Cave 427: Evidence of ImperialIconography”

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Philip Wu, Ph.D., Art History (C) 2002,is Associate Professor in theDepartment of Fine Arts at TunghaiUniversity in Taiwan.

Siliang Yang, Ph.D., Art History (C)1996, is Regional Managing Director atPROS Revenue Management inHouston. On June 14, 2005 PROSRevenue Management announced thesuccessful completion of the first all-China Revenue Management Workshop,which was held in the Zhejiang XiziGovernment Guest House in Hangzhou,China. Yang chaired the workshop. Healso remains engaged withcontemporary Chinese painting. The

range of his interests is suggested bytwo online articles: “Yu Chunming’sPaintings of Chinese houses” at http://chunmingarts.org/article.htm and“E-Commerce in the Airline Business”(http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/unpan001219.pdf).

Jeong-Kweow Yi, M.A., AmericanStudies, 2002 (former EALC GTA),works at the Korean BuddhistAssociation of New York in Flushing.

Yen-chuan (Grace) Ying, M.A., ArtHistory (C), 1979 (Ph.D. HarvardUniversity), ia a member of AcademiaSinica in Taipei and the GraduateInstitute of Art History of NationalTaiwan University.

Fangfang Yu, Ph.D., Geography, 2002,is a Lecturer in Environmental Studiesat Albright College in Bern, PA.

Qiuxia Zhang, M.A., Political Science,2002, is teaching at Lanzhou Universityin China.

Yan Bing Zhang, Ph.D., CommunicationStudies (C), 2002, is AssistantProfessor at KU.

Honoring PHonoring PHonoring PHonoring PHonoring Prrrrrofessor Emeritus of Art Historofessor Emeritus of Art Historofessor Emeritus of Art Historofessor Emeritus of Art Historofessor Emeritus of Art History Chu-tsing Liy Chu-tsing Liy Chu-tsing Liy Chu-tsing Liy Chu-tsing Li- Marilyn Gridley, “What do Tenth-century Paintings andSculpture of Guanyin with Luohans Reveal about theOrigins of the Theme?”- An-yi Pan, “Buddhist Themes in Song Literati Paintings”- Emily Hsing-li Tsai, “To See or Not to See: The BuddhistConcept of Nonduality Embodied through Gestures in ChenHongshou’s Painting”- Jean Wetzel, Cal Poly State University, “The ExpandingDefinition of Literati Painting: Courtesans and Art in MingDynasty China”- Philip Wu, “Zhao Zhiqian (1829-1884) and Huang Yi(1744-1802): Visual Representation and the EpigraphicSchool”- Janet Carpenter, “Re-energizing Yangzhou: Wang Jun(1816-after 1883) and the Jinshi Movement”

Conference Report:Conference Report:Conference Report:Conference Report:Conference Report: On November 4-5, 2005, more than forty art historiansgathered in Phoenix, Arizona, for “Perspectives on ChineseArt: New Approaches and Reflections on Forty Years ofScholarship, a Conference in Honor of Dr. Chu-tsing Li.”The conference was attended by artists and friends ofChu-tsing Li as well as by the presenting scholars, whocame from various parts of the U.S. as well as fromTaiwan. The organizers, Janet Baker, An-yi Pan, andmyself, joined with Ju-hsi Chou (Professor Emeritus,Arizona State University, and Emeritus Curator of ChineseArt, Cleveland Museum of Art), Joseph Chang, and Susan

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Tai (Curator of Asian Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art),to chair six major panels of art-historical papers on Chinesepainting, Buddhist art, museums and collecting and modernand contemporary Chinese art. Professors Jane Ju andPhilip Wu came from Taiwan to present papers, and Hsing-li Emily Tsai came from Canada. Others presentersincluded Katherine Burnett, Janet Carpenter, Lisa Claypool,Youmi Kim Efurd, Patricia Graham, Marilyn Gridley, CurtHansman, Arthur Mu-sen Kao, Chun-yi Lee, Chen CynthiaLiu, Ling-en Lu, Karyn Murphy, Jason Steuber, DianaTenckhoff, Ying Wang, Jean Wetzel and Suzanne Wright.Also in attendance were Robert Mowry, Arthur M. SacklerMuseum, Harvard University; Julie Yuan, University ofMissouri, St. Louis; artist Hung Hsien, Houston, Texas; andart collector James Kemper, Kansas City. Anotherdistinguished guest was Jerome Silbergeld, P.Y. andKinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History,Princeton University. During the conference, special exhibitions were mountedat Arizona State University, including From Brush toBooks: Celebrating Dr. Chu-tsing Li’s Forty Years ofScholarship and his Influences on ContemporaryArtists, at Hayden Library. On view at Phoenix ArtMuseum were three Chinese exhibitions, including LaterTwentieth Century Chinese Landscape Paintings fromthe Chu-tsing Li Collection. Sherrie Schmidt, Dean of the Libraries at Arizona StateUniversity, presided over a special presentation toacknowledge Chu-tsing Li’s recent donation of more than10,000 volumes from his personal library. At a special

banquet, the inaugural copy of the newly releasedfestschrift volume, Tradition and Transformation:Studies in Chinese Art in Honor of Chu-tsing Li, editedby Judith G. Smith and published by the Spencer Museumof Art, University of Kansas with the University ofWashington Press, was presented to Professor Li. At the conclusion of the conference, the audience wasrichly rewarded with a commentary by Chu-tsing Li, whoat the age of eighty-five recently published his major workon Zhao Mengfu in a new Chinese-language edition, and isstill a mentor to his fifty-plus M.A. students, his twenty-fiveor so Ph.D. students, as well as a younger generation of arthistory students now in graduate school.

Submitted by Claudia Brown

KU East Asian Studies Alumnipursuing additional degrees

Melissa Stroud Abe, M.A., Art History,1996: doctoral program, StanfordUniversity.

Khisu Beom, M.A., CommunicationsStudies, 2002: doctoral program, KU.

Walter Davis, M.A., Art History,1998: doctoral program, Ohio StateUniversity.

Christopher Burr Dewell, M.A., EALC,2003: doctoral program, University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara.

Yoohyang Do, M.A. 1996: doctoralprogram, Institute of Fine Arts, New

FFFFFestschrift for Chu-tsing Li:estschrift for Chu-tsing Li:estschrift for Chu-tsing Li:estschrift for Chu-tsing Li:estschrift for Chu-tsing Li:Many of the conference participants also contributedto Tradition and Transformation: Studies inChinese Art in Honor of Chu-Tsing Li (forthcomingFebruary 2006). The volume includes essays by KUalumni Joseph Chang, Marilyn Gridley, An-Yi Pan,Janet Louise Carpenter, Ankeney Weitz, Hsing-LiTsai, Jean Wetzel, Alan G. Atkinson, Junghee Han,Claudia Brown, Philip C. J. Wu, Wan Qingli, Jane C.Ju, Siliang Yang, Sarah Blick, Donald A. Wood,Thomas Lawton, and Richard L. Wilson

York University.

Marie Adams Dolembo, M.A., EALC,2004: doctoral program, University ofCalifornia, Irvine.

Owen Andrew Grieb, M.A., EALC,2005: KU Law School.

Yi Fang Ko, Master of Music, 2004:doctoral program, University ofMaryland.

Brian Lagotte, M.A. Anthropology,2004: doctoral program, University ofWisconsin.

Yuwen Lai, M.A., Linguistics, 2004:doctoral program, KU.

Sohyun Lee, M.A., Theatre & Film,

2004: doctoral program, KU.

Kate Mulvehill, M.A., 1998, Art History:doctoral program, Princeton University

Mark Allen Scroggins, M.A. (English),2003; currently working on an M.A. inEducation Policy and Leadership andChinese.

Stroud: see Abe

Michele Wang, M.A., Art History, 1997:doctoral program, Harvard University.

Kyung Min Yoo, M.A., PoliticalScience, 2002: doctoral program, KU.

Jimmy Youfeng Yu, M.A., ReligiousStudies, 2002: doctoral program,Princeton University.

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East Asian Languages & CulturesAwards and Scholarships

Niswander Dictionary Awards. TheNiswander awards were established by Rex Niswanderand his wife, Mrs. Sonoko Niswander, in honor of hisfather, John Niswander. The award recognizesoutstanding student achievement in three Asian languages.The winners this year were Trenton Wilson for Chinese,Cathy Ko for Korean, and David Biller and VincentBuhr for Japanese.

Mary Kuo Scholarship. The Mary and JosephKuo Scholarship for outstanding work in the Chineselanguage is given annually in memory of Mary Kuo, aformer member of the Life Span Institute. This year’srecipient was Donna Bryant.

Grace Wan Chinese Language Award.This award for outstanding work in the Chinese languageis given annually in memory of Grace Wan, a formerProfessor of Chinese at KU. The award this year went toAndrew Kauffman.

The Higuchi Japanese Language Award isgiven to the best Japanese language student each year inmemory of the late Professor Takeru Higuchi, Regents’Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. The recipients ofthe award this year were Luis C. Vargas and GregHazelbeck.

CEAS Okubo Award WinnersThe Okubo Award, given for best essay on asubject related to Japan, honors Genji Okubo, along-time supporter of East Asian Studies at KU.Papers are nominated each year by instructors.This year, the award was presented to:

Chikako Mochizukifor

"The Historical and the Modern Abe noSeimei in the Onmyoji Boom Today"

Honorable Mention was awarded to:

Neil Dunavinfor

"The Morbid and the Beautiful inKawabata's Aestheticism"

Scholarships AbroadScholarships AbroadScholarships AbroadScholarships AbroadScholarships AbroadAAAAAcademic Ycademic Ycademic Ycademic Ycademic Year 2005-06ear 2005-06ear 2005-06ear 2005-06ear 2005-06

Freeman Scholarship:Jonathan Evenson, Yonsei University, S. KoreaJohn O'Donnell, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong

JASSO Scholarship:Brendan Hubbs, Obirin, Japan

Bridging Scholarship:Brendan Hubbs, Obirin, Japan

NSEP Boren Scholarship:Jay M. Kimmel, ACTR-Dushanbe, Tajikistan

The 7th Annual Mid-AmericaJapanese Language Contest

KU undergraduate Rick Winfrey won both theKanji Bee and the Japanese Essay Contest.

Awards and Scholarships

CEAS Faculty Service Award

The second annualFaculty Service Award recipient was:

Michael Baskett

Assistant Professor, Theatre & Film

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Why give to the Center for East Asian Studies?By giving to CEAS, you contribute to East Asian academic activities, special events, research, and student scholarshipslike those described in preceding pages.

CEAS supports the development of new courses, faculty and student research travel, student scholarships for study ofEast Asian languages, and the East Asian Library.

CEAS promotes knowledge of East Asia through academic conferences, lecture series and special lectures, filmfestivals, exhibits, recitals, and festival celebrations.

CEAS outreach programs serve K-12 and post-secondary schools throughout the Great Plains region.

The Center is funded by the university, foundations, and the Department of Education (Title VI National ResourceCenter grant), and we actively continue to pursue such support. However, contributions from individual donors areessential not only to underwrite activities not covered by other sources, but also to demonstrate to corporate sponsorsand foundations the value our alumni and members attach to the Center and its mission.

You may donate to an unrestricted fund and allow the Center to decide where your contribution can be used mosteffectively, or you can direct your donation to a particular area or activity, such as:

• Undergraduate or graduate scholarships or prizes• Research or conference travel for students and faculty• Public programs (conferences, lectures, film festivals, and performances)• Curriculum development• East Asian Library acquisitions• The Annual Newsletter

Please send your donations, clearly marked “for the Center for East Asian Studies,” to:Lisa Jackson, Development Officer—College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, KU Endowment, P.O. Box 928, Lawrence,KS 66044-0928

We have enclosed a card and envelope for your convenience.

Thank you to our Donors!Your generosity helps bring East Asia to KU and to the entire community.

(Gifts received in 2004-2005)

Robert BasowRobert S. & Susan Bond

Geoffrey BuechlerLeonard H. Carter, Jr.

Robert J. ChudyScott Colby

Grant GoodmanMary Hanover

The Japan FoundationJill Kleinberg

Thomas M. KurataSteve T. Lopes

Keith McMahonJoe L.R. Morrison

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Our 2005-2006 FLAS RecipientsCEAS continues to provide federally fundedacademic scholarships to graduate studentsfrom across campus who are studying EastAsian languages. This year, we awarded fouracademic year scholarships for ForeignLanguage and Area Studies Fellowships, andfive 2005 summer FLAS fellowships.

Thomas William Barker, an M.A. student inHistory, is using his academic year FLAS toenhance his knowledge of the Japaneselanguage and to continue his research on Japan,especially pre-modern Japanese history. He isparticularly interested in the history of tradein Japan. Mr. Barker is from California.

Eric Eickhorst, an M.A. student in EastAsian Languages and Cultures, used hissummer FLAS to improve his Japaneselanguage skills at the Waseda Oregon SummerJapanese Program. He is interested inJapanese journalism and the Japaneseresponse to the current Iraq war. Mr.Eickhorst is from Lenexa, Kansas.

Julia Hopkins, an M.A. student inInternational Studies, studied Chinese at KUduring the summer. She intends to use herlanguage skills to enhance her research inpolitical science. Ms. Hopkins is fromHoisington, Kansas, and hopes to study for anacademic year in China starting Fall 2006.

Carrie Janiga, an M.A. student in ArtHistory, continued working toward her degreein Chinese art history by using her FLAS tostudy Chinese at the University of Michiganduring the summer and 3rd year Chinese at theUniversity of Kansas during the academicyear. She intends to specialize in the historyof Buddhist sculpture. Ms. Janiga is fromWashington, Michigan.

Kuoray Mao, an M.A. student in Sociology,is currently using his academic year FLAS tostudy the Uyghur language at the Universityof Kansas. He intends to use his languageskills to research the sociology of ethnicityand politics in the northwestern Chineseprovince of Xinjiang. Mr. Mao was born inTaiwan, but later moved to California.

Christopher Mayo, an M.A. student in EastAsian Languages and Cultures, used hissummer FLAS to study Chinese language atthe University of Kansas. He intends to usehis knowledge of Chinese to understand thehistory of the Japanese language and cultureand especially to pursue his passion for kanji.Mr. Mayo is from Lotawana, Missouri, buthas lived in Japan for the last nine years.

Hillary Pedersen, a Ph.D. student in ArtHistory, is using her academic year FLAS tostudy Chinese language at the University ofKansas. She is studying the Chinese languageas a second research languageto be used in herwork on Japanese art history. She isparticularly interested in Japanese EsotericBuddhist art, early Chinese Buddhist Art, andthe art of the tea ceremony. Ms. Pedersen isfrom Seattle, Washington.

Michael Ward, an M.A. student in EastAsian Languages and Cultures, recentlycompleted his degree in Japanese Languageand Literature and used his summer FLAS tostudy Chinese at the University of Hawai’i.Mr. Ward is from Thomaston, Georgia.

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