Fw: H-ASIA: RESOURCE Introducing Asia Pacific Memo, an E-publication by the University of British Columbia

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Subject: H-ASIA: RESOURCE Introducing Asia Pacific Memo, an E-publication by
the University of British Columbia

> H-ASIA
> April 13, 2011
>
> RESOURCE: Introducing Asia Pacific Memo, an E-publication by
> the University of British Columbia
> ***************************************************************
> From: Howard Tsang <htsang@exchange.ubc.ca>
>
> Dear Colleagues:
>
> Knowing of your interest in current issues in Asia and across
> the Pacific, this is to invite you to look at the Asia Pacific
> Memo series. APM is distributed twice-weekly and presents
> short essays (maximum 350 words) or video interviews that
> address a compelling issue framed by accessible academic
> research.
>
> Produced by the Institute of Asian Research at the University
> of British Columbia, recent entries have focused on: The
> Japan crisis (video interview) - http://bit.ly/fDOLJM;
> Internet control in Singapore - http://bit.ly/gSQXcu;
> The prospects for democracy in China - http://bit.ly/fVZ6Ij;
> and Whether Islam iscompatible with Capitalism - http://bit.ly/igimTB
>
> Subscriptions are free of charge and come without advertising.
> And they can be cancelled at any point.
>
> To subscribe, enter your email address -
> http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/subscribe
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> We'd appreciate any suggestions or questions sent to h.tsang@ubc.ca
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>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
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> Managing Editor, Asia Pacific Memo
> Institute of Asian Research
> The University of British Columbia
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Fw: H-ASIA: Painting Query: Power of Scriptures (2 responses)

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Subject: H-ASIA: Painting Query: Power of Scriptures (2 responses)

> H-ASIA
> April 13, 2011
>
> Painting Query: Power of Scriptures (2 responses)
> ******************************************************************
> From: Uta Lauer <uta.lauer@orient.su.se>
>
> a painting with a similar content was recently shown at the Met in the big
> Yuan exhibition (autumn 2010). The painting is attributed to Yan Hui (act.
> 1270-after 1324), "The Immortal Yunfang Initiating Lü Chunyang into the
> Secret of Immortality", hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 108.6x48.9
> cm, MOA Museum of Art, Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Uta Lauer
> Professor of East Asian Art History, Stockholm University
> uta.lauer@orient.su.se
>
> --------------
>
> From: De-nin Lee <dlee@bowdoin.edu>
>
> I believe that the image may be Zhou Jichang's Lohan Demonstrating the
> power of the Buddhist sutras to Daoists, ca. 1178. In the Boston Museum of
> Fine Arts.
> Here's URL:
> http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/lohan-demonstrating-the-power-of-the-buddhist-sutras-to-daoists-24231
>
> De-nin Lee
> dlee@bowdoin.edu
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: AAS Honors Professor Sumit Sarkar for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studes

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Subject: H-ASIA: AAS Honors Professor Sumit Sarkar for Distinguished
Contributions to Asian Studes

> H-ASIA
> April 13, 2011
>
> Professor Sumit Sarkar Honored by Association for Asian
> Studies at Honolulu Conference for Distinguished Contributions
> to Asian Studies
> *****************************************************
> Ed. note: On Friday, April 1, at the Honolulu Convention Center
> the Association for Asian Studies presented a number of awards
> to scholars. Michael Paschal, Executive Secretary of the AAS
> has kindly shared with me the texts of the citations of these
> awards. Because of time contraints (I am transiting London on
> my way home from the BASAS conference in Southampton), I shall
> post the remainder of the AAS citations on April 15. In the
> meantime, congratulations to Professor Sumit Sarkar for the
> following award, which was presented by the AAS President,
> Professor K. Sivaramakrishnan. FFC
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> From: Frank Conlon
>
> AAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies
>
>
>
> Sumit Sarkar
>
>
>
> Sumit Sarkar, Professor Emeritus of Modern Indian
> History in Delhi University, India, began his distinguished
> research career with The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal that,
> several reprints later, continues to be reissued. His
> continuing work on nationalist politics made him a leading
> authority in the study of anti-colonial nationalism. Later,
> his exemplary immersion in vernacular sources led him to
> pioneer the field of social history in India in the
> collection published as Writing Social History (Oxford,
> Delhi, 1997). Having begun his career studying varieties
> of nationalism in India, he ended it with a call to look
> beyond the horizons of the nation-state. In yet another
> provocative collection of essays titled Beyond Nationalist
> Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History
> (Permanent Black and Indiana University Press, 2002) Sumit
> Sarkar's treatment of the historical growth of the Right-
> wing in Indian politics led him to locate it as a vibrant
> and growing force in conditions of economic globalization.
>
> Having been spurred to study the historical
> antecedents of South Asian ethnocentrism and militarism,
> Sarkar pushed his own limits by studying the ways in which
> gender entered into and inflected these various brands of
> parochialism in a volume he co-edited with Tanika Sarkar,
> Women and Social Reform in Modern India (2008).
>
> Professor Sarkar began his teaching career at Burdwan
> and Kolkata Universities in Bengal. With the exception of
> short-term teaching assignments at the Universities of
> Oxford, Cambridge, and Sussex, he devoted the majority of
> his time to mentoring and teaching at the Department of
> History in Delhi University from 1976 till 2009.
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Fw: H-ASIA: New online content at The Asia-Pacific Journal

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Subject: H-ASIA: New online content at The Asia-Pacific Journal

> H-ASIA
> April 12, 2011
>
> New online content at The Asia-Pacific Journal (formerly Japan Focus)
> ************************************************************************
> From: "The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus" <info@japanfocus.org>
>
> Newsletter No. 145. 2011, April 11, 2011
>
> New Articles Posted In This Issue, at http://japanfocus.org/
>
> Oe Kenzaburo,
> The Man Who Continues to Speak about Experiencing the H-Bomb --
> Exposed Clearly: the Deception that is Deterrence
>
> Onuki Satoko
> Former Fukushima Governor Sato Eisaku Blasts METI-TEPCO Alliance:
> "Government must accept responsibility for defrauding the people."
>
> Adam Lebowitz,
> Blackout Nippon: Notes from 03/2011
>
> Arjun Makhijani,
> Fukushima Fallout Monitoring Needed
>
> Leuren Moret,
> Japan's Deadly Game of Nuclear Roulette
>
> David McNeill,
> Back from the Brink
>
> Matthew Penney,
> Unease or Untruth? - The Removal of Nakamura Koichiro
>
> Karel van Wolferen,
> Japan, Europe and The Dangerous Fantasy of American Leadership
>
> Asia-Pacific Journal,
> "Unforgivable" - TEPCO's Plan to Add Reactors in Fukushima
>
> Roger Pulvers,
> The Dream of Lafcadio Hearn
>
> This is the Third issue centered around the catastrophic earthquake
> and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, with many new articles in
> the present issue illuminating the quake, its aftermath and its
> implications for Japan's future. They include contributions by
> former Governor of Fukushima Sato Eisaku, Oe Kenzaburo, and a diary
> from quake-shaken Tsukuba by our associate, the poet Adam Lebowitz,
> as well as David McNeill's report from devastated Minami-Soma and
> physicist Arjun Makhijani's call for comprehensive and timely
> monitoring of fallout.
>
> This is also the last chance readers will have to contribute to our
> fund forwarded to the Japanese Red Cross for Fukushima relief. We
> will forward the balance of the fund to Japan this week.
>
> See http://japanfocus.org/
>
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Member pub Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society

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Subject: H-ASIA: Member pub Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and
Society

> H-ASIA
> April 12, 2011
>
> Member publication -- Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society
> ************************************************************************
> From: Ted Bestor <ted_bestor@harvard.edu>
>
> Dear Colleagues
>
> We are very pleased to announce the publication of the Routledge Handbook
> of Japanese Culture and Society, edited by Victoria Lyon Bestor and
> Theodore C. Bestor, with Akiko Yamagata. (Routledge, London and New York,
> hardback; ISBN 978-0-415-43649-6)
>
> The book is intended to be a general reference book for non-specialists,
> college students, and others seeking succinct overviews of various realms
> of contemporary Japan, in line with the general format of Routledge
> Handbooks for other parts of the world.
>
> The book is currently available in hardback, but Routledge plans to
> publish an electronic version shortly, and may at that time make
> individual chapters available on-line for classroom use.
>
> Chapters (and contributors) include:
>
> Introduction -- Victoria Lyon Bestor, Theodore C. Bestor, and Akiko
> Yamagata
> Showa-Era Japan and Beyond: From Imperial Japan to Japan Inc. -- Peter
> Duus
> Four Cultures of Japanese Politics -- David Leheny
> The Cultures and Politics of Language in Japan Today -- Nanette Gottleib
> Japanese Education and Education Reform -- Roger Goodman
> Religion in Contemporary Japanese Lives -- Mark R. Mullins
> Law and Society in Japan -- Lawrence Repeta
> The Urbanization of the Japanese Landscape -- Paul Waley
> Social Class and Social Identity in Postwar Japan -- David Slater
> The Politics of Gender in Japan -- Robin M. LeBlanc
> Change and Diversity in the Japanese Family -- Merry White
> Japan's Queer Cultures -- Mark McClelland
> Race, Ethnicity, and Minorities in Japan -- Richard Siddle
> Life on the Margins in Japan: Homeless, Migrant Day Laborers, and People
> with Disabilities -- Carolyn S. Stevens
> Aging and Social Welfare in Japan -- Leng Leng Thang
> The New Prominence of the Civil Sector in Japan -- Akihiro Ogawa
> Contemporary Architecture in Japan -- William H. Coaldrake
> Japanese Film and Television -- Aaron Gerow
> Manga and Anime: Entertainment, Big Business, and Art in Japan -- Susan
> Napier
> Popular Music in Japan -- Ian Condry
> The Sportscape of Contemporary Japan -- William Kelly
> Cultural Flows: Japan and East Asia -- Koichi Iwabuchi
> Cuisine and Identity in Contemporary Japan -- Theodore C. Bestor
>
> We, the editors, express our great appreciation for the hard work that our
> contributors have put into this volume, and hope that their contributions
> will be welcomed by a wide audience.
>
> With best wishes
>
> Vickey, Ted, and Akiko
>
> Ted Bestor
> Harvard University
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Health Implications in the Aftermath of Japan's Crisis

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Subject: H-ASIA: Health Implications in the Aftermath of Japan's Crisis

> H-ASIA
> April 12, 2011
>
> Health Implications in the Aftermath of Japan's Crisis
> ************************************************************************
> From: "Tracy Timmons-Gray" <ttimmonsgray@nbr.org>
>
> Dear H-Asia members,
>
> NBR's Center for Health and Aging recently sat down for a Q&A with Dr.
> Francesco Checchi (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) about
> the health implications that Japan faces from the recent tsunami and the
> ongoing nuclear crisis in Fukushima. Dr. Checchi is an expert on
> infectious disease surveillance and control in crisis-affected
> populations.
>
> In the interview, Dr. Checchi explains that Japan is much better placed
> to respond to this disaster than other countries that have endured
> similar crises, but health concerns are still prevalent, with one of the
> most urgent being to monitor the mental health and stress levels of the
> survivors.
>
> Questions Dr. Checchi discusses include Japan's most urgent health
> concerns following the quake, the long and short-term risks associated
> with radiation exposure, and what measures should Japan take to
> facilitate physical and mental health wellness for those affected by the
> tragedy. Links to the full interview are below:
>
> "Health Implications in the Aftermath of Japan's Crisis: Mental Health,
> Radiation Risks, and the Importance of Continued Surveillance"
>
> An interview with Dr. Francesco Checchi, London School of Hygiene &
> Tropical Medicine
>
> Link: http://www.nbr.org/research/activity.aspx?id=129
>
> Related Resources on Japan's Quake Relief and Recovery
>
> "The Military Foundations of U.S. Disaster Assistance in Japan," - An
> interview with Admiral Thomas B. Fargo, former commander of U.S. Pacific
> Command
> http://www.nbr.org/research/activity.aspx?id=127
>
> "Japan's Post-Quake Economic Outlook" - An Interview with William W.
> Grimes, National Asia Research Associate
> http://www.nbr.org/research/activity.aspx?id=126
>
> "After the Quake: Implications for Japan's Political Future" - An
> Interview with Daniel Sneider, National Asia Research Associate
> http://www.nbr.org/research/activity.aspx?id=124
>
> Chronology of Operation Tomodachi - Read a full account of Operation
> Tomodachi, the U.S. Armed Forces operation currently supporting disaster
> relief efforts in Japan, including PACOM Commander Admiral Robert
> Willard's trip to Japan.
> http://www.nbr.org/research/activity.aspx?id=121
>
>
> Recent NBR research on Japan (Free to access through April 15, 2011)
>
> "A New Stage for the U.S.-Japan Alliance?" by Kenneth B. Pyle, Michael
> Finnegan, Michael J. Green, Kent E. Calder, Andrew L. Oros and Yuki
> Tatsumi
> Link: http://www.nbr.org/publications/element.aspx?id=447
>
> "Managing Unmet Expectations in the U.S.-Japan Alliance" by Michael
> Finnegan
> Link: http://www.nbr.org/publications/element.aspx?id=405
>
> "Updating the U.S.-Japan Alliance," an interview with Mike Finnegan,
> Richard Lawless, and Jim Thomas
> Link: http://www.nbr.org/research/activity.aspx?id=77
>
> Tracy Timmons-Gray
> The National Bureau of Asian Research
> Seattle, Washington
>
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: FUTH 2011 Application Deadline IMMINENT (April 14)

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Subject: H-ASIA: FUTH 2011 Application Deadline IMMINENT (April 14)

> H-ASIA
> April 12, 2011
>
> FUTH 2011 Application Deadline IMMINENT (April 14)
> ************************************************************************
> From: RICH HK <hk.transnational.02@gmail.com>
>
> Only 2 days left until application deadline!
>
> The 2nd Flying University of Transnational Humanities
> A Summer School for Graduate Students and Young Scholars
>
> The Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH) is an annual
> summer school and year-round online forum for researchers and graduate
> students interested in the transnational paradigm of humanistic inquiry.
>
> FUTH takes its name and immediate inspiration from Poland's Flying
> University, an underground institution which offered an alternative
> education outside the remit of state control and government censorship.
> FUTH is particularly concerned with developing critical understandings
> that are resistant to the ideological and ideational hegemony of the
> nation-state and the epistemological and hermeneutic conventions that
> support it. This does not mean that FUTH seeks to dispense with the
> "national" and construct a reified "transnational" to replace it or to
> foster "transnationalism" as an ideological alternative to "nationalism".
> FUTH aims to free our imaginations from the regime of the nation-state and
> to offer new ways of thinking about the political, social and cultural
> order of the world, both past and present.
>
> The Flying University of Transnational Humanities is "in session" once per
> year for one week, and will normally be held during summer vacation. The
> host site changes on an annual or bi-annual basis and rotates between
> partner institutions. FUTH online runs year-round: through its dedicated
> website, a permanent online space will be provided for interactive
> discussions. All institutions, departments, and scholars are welcome to
> participate both offline and online.
>
> Each year, FUTH will have a different cross-disciplinary theme around
> which the sessions will be organized. Renowned scholars from partner and
> other institutions will be invited to share their ideas in lectures and
> discussions. The FUTH steering and advisory committees, in conjunction
> with faculty members of partner institutions and other specialists, will
> prepare lecture syllabi and reading lists. Student participants are
> expected to study the readings in advance of each lecture and seminar
> discussion. A selected number of participants will also have an
> opportunity to present their ongoing research. All lectures, seminars
> and presentations will be held in English, in principle, while the
> possibility of translingual practices will be explored.
>
> The 2nd FUTH will take place at the Research Institute of Comparative
> History and Culture, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, June 25-29, 2011.
> Under the subheading of "Border-crossing Self", we hope to gather diverse
> research and knowledge on border-related (cross-border or bordering)
> issues such as migration, ethnicity, language, citizenship and gender and
> open up a forum for discussions on the (un)making of the trans/national
> self.
>
> FUTH 2011
> Date: June 25 ­ 29, 2011
> Venue: International Conference Room, Paiknam Library & Academic
> Information Center, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
> Hosted by: Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, Hanyang
> University
> Sponsored by: National Research Foundation of Korea
> Theme: Border-crossing Self
>
> Application deadline: April 14, 2011
>
> Eligibility: Graduate students as well as recent PhDs are welcome to
> participate.
>
> To apply: Please fill out and send as attachment via email the application
> form on our website
> <http://www.rich.ac/eng/fly/apply.php?pageNum=5&subNum=3>http://www.rich.ac/eng/fly/apply.php?pageNum=5&subNum=3
> to hk.transnational@gmail.com.
>
> Registration fee: There is no registration fee.
>
> Accommodation and travel: Accommodation will be provided for all
> participants. However, participants are expected to arrange their own
> funding for travel and daily living expenses. After a review by the
> organizing committee of the academic statement and the presentation
> proposal, partial travel grants may be awarded to a limited number of
> applicants who are not able to raise the necessary funds.
>
> Presentation: Qualified graduate students and young scholars may give a
> presentation on their ongoing research in a graduate session where
> lecturers will participate as commentators. We encourage all applicants to
> submit a proposal for presentation. Those interested in presenting their
> research should apply with their curriculum vitae, academic statement and
> an abstract of their proposed presentation. All applications are subject
> to review by the FUTH organizing committee.
>
> Website:
> <http://rich.ac/eng/fly/introduction.php?pageNum=5&subNum=1>http://rich.ac/eng/fly/introduction.php?pageNum=5&subNum=1
>
> Contact: hk.transnational@gmail.com
>
> [Ed. note: the full program has been omitted for space reasons, but
> interested readers may refer to the website or contact the email above.
> RD]
>
>
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