RMMLA (Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association) Annual Convention 2007 in Calgary, Alberta
October 4-6, 2007

Program in Asian Studies

1. Chinese Literature and Film since 1900 - I Historical Reflection in Chinese Film
Chair: Géraldine A. Fiss, Harvard University
Alternate Chair: Andrea Lingenfelter, Independent Scholar
Presenters:
Sylvia Li-Chun Lin, University of Notre Dame. "History vs. Memory: Documentary Films on Atrocity in Taiwan."
Claire Huot, University of Calgary. "Yellow Earth and Still Life: China's National Cinema Lives On."
J. Colleen Berry, University of North Dakota. "What's So Funny about Crazy Stone? Societal Ills and Comedy in Ning Hao's Hit Movie."
Rujie Wang, College of Wooster. "Films, Projections, and Shadows."

2. Chinese Literature and Film since 1900 - II
Articulating Experiences of the Margins: Tibet, Taiwan and Hong Kong in Chinese-Language Literature
Chair: Géraldine A. Fiss, Harvard University
Alternate Chair: Andrea Lingenfelter, Independent Scholar Presenters:
Andrea Lingenfelter, Independent Scholar. "Margin as Sanctuary in Annie Baobei's Padma." Daniel Alan Fried, University of Alberta. "Nationalism, Nostalgia and Necrology in the Taiwanese Poetics of Wang Song." Wei Yang, Yale University. "Body, Race, and Gender: Forms of Identity in Shi Shuqing's Hong Kong Trilogy." Terence C. Russell, University of Manitoba. "Traditional Culture and Contemporary Performance: Adaw Palaf's The Great Flood."

3. Modern Chinese Literature
Three Moments in Time: Texts from the Late Qing, Cultural Revolution and the Present
Chair: Géraldine A. Fiss, Harvard University
Alternate Chair: Andrea Lingenfelter, Independent Scholar
Presenters:
Guo-ou Zhuang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "New Mission of an Old Genre: The Rise of Late Qing Fiction and Chinese Nation-Building."
Frederik H. Green, Yale University. "From Europe with Love: Xu Xu's Early Travel Writing and the Aesthetics of Foreign Encounter." Ka F. Wong, University of Hawai'i, Manoa. "Desiring Revolution and Revolutionary Desire: Gender, Sexuality and Politics in Three Cultural Revolution Memoirs."
Hua Li, University of Manitoba. "A Myth of Tears: A Representative Reading of Su Tong's Binu."

4. Late Qing and Early Republican Chinese Literature and Thought Innovation, Transformation and Emancipation in Late Qing Fiction
Chair: Géraldine A. Fiss, Harvard University
Alternate Chair: Steve Riep, Brigham Young University
Presenters:
Anne L. Xu, Austin College. "Returning the Gaze: Lu Xun and the Gawking Crowd."
Steve Riep, Brigham Young University. "Letting Women Live: Religion and Women's Emancipation in the Short Fiction of Xu Dishan."
Sufen S. Lai, Grand Valley State University. "An Unfulfilled Vision of Woman's Kingdom in Full Bloom: Flowers in the Mirror as an Encyclopedic Novel."
Honghong Ma, University of California, Los Angeles. "A Deceptive Theory in Action: Late Qing Novel Typology, Tropology, and Teleology."

5. Modern Chinese Poetry - I
Modern Chinese-Language Poetry and Its Contexts
Chair: Andrea Lingenfelter, Independent Scholar
Alternate Chair: Paul Manfredi, Pacific Lutheran University
Presenters:
Jennifer L. Feeley, Yale University. "From the Boudoir to the Nation: Poetic In(ter)ventions of Gender, Space, and Modernity in the Women's Press.."
Lucas R. Klein, Yale University. "Discerning the Soil: Bian Zhilin, Context, and Modern Chinese Poetry as Translation.."
Winnie Lai Man Yee, University of Hong Kong. "Transfiguring the Female Body: The Women Figures in Dai Wangshu, Li Kuang, and Ng Mei-kwan.."
Dian Li, University of Arizona. "The Poet in the News: Celebrity Culture and Poetry Writing in Contemporary China.."

6. Modern Chinese Poetry - II
Contemporary Poetry in Chinese: Fringe, Avant-garde, and Virtual
Chair: Andrea Lingenfelter, Independent Scholar
Presenters:
Barbara Jenni, University of Zurich. "Ganga as a Key Metaphor in Xi Chuan's Oeuvre of the 1990s.."
Yi-Ping Tsou, National Central University. "Rub:Ineffable: Making Sense of Hsia Yü's Transgressive Poetics."
Paul Manfredi, Pacific Lutheran University. "Modernism in Contemporary Chinese Poetry.."
Michael Martin Day, National University. "On Paper or Online, or Both?."
7. Asian Comparative Literature and Film - I Interpreting Sex and Violence in China, Taiwan and Japan

Chair: David C. Stahl, Binghamton University, SUNY
Alternate Chair: Sylvia Li-Chun Lin, University of Notre Dame
Presenters:
Carlos Prado-Fonts, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. "From the Avant-Garde to Grotesque Neorealism: Su Tong’s Rice and the Representations of Violence.."
Claire Huot, University of Calgary. "Tsai Ming-Liang’s Cinema of Cruelty: Excruciating Time-images of Bodily Gestures.."
Justin Jesty, University of Chicago. "Purge: Revolution and Repetition in Postwar Japan.."

8. Asian Comparative Literature and Film- II
Interpreting Sex and Violence in Postwar Japan
Chair: David C. Stahl, Binghamton University, SUNY
Presenters:
Masashi Ichiki, Chikushi Jogakuen University. "De-mystifying the War: Reading Japanese Yakuza Films.."
David C. Stahl, Binghamton University, SUNY. "Sins of the Father, Sins of the Son: Transgenerational Transgression in Imamura Shôhei’s Vengeance is Mine.."
Kate Elizabeth Taylor, University of Bangor. "Legacy of a Violent Man: Chi to Hone and the Trauma of Korean-Japanese Existence.."