47 Years of Asian Studies in the Humanities

Arash Khazeni, Pomona College

Chair, Madeline Hsu, University of Maryland

Jonathan Skaff, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, “Slavery on the Silk Road of the Tang Empire”

Mark McNally, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, "Studies on Japan, Okinawa, Okinawan Diaspora"

Elena Shih, Brown University, and Jeannie Kenmotsu, Portland Art Museum, “Asian Traditions in Contemporary Focus”

Chair, Lissa Wadewitz, University of Oregon

Catherine Choy, University of California, Berkeley, “‘Banana Ketchup Stories’: The Filipino American Legacy of Food Scientist Maria Ylagan Orosa”

Patricia Yu, Scripps College, "Replication Nation: Imperial Microcosms in the Theme Park"

Yuang Marcus Liu, King’s College London, "Early Twentieth Century Chinese Perceptions of Jewish Immigrants in America"

Tamara Ho, University of California, Riverside, "BurmAmerica: Myanmar Diasporas, Resettlement, and US Foodways"

Chair, Angelina Chin, Pomona College

Madeline Hsu, University of Maryland, "Immigration and Citizenship Regulation in Decolonizing Singapore”

Ruiyi Zhu, King’s College, University of Cambridge, "Unfaithful Interpreters: Perilous Translation and Contested Hybridity at a Chinese Mine in Mongolia"

Hongdeng Gao, Williams College, "Conditional Inclusion During the Cold War: How Chinese Foreign Medical Graduates Became a Structural Part of American Medicine"

Andrew Chittick, Eckerd College, "Early Sino-Southeast Asian Trade in Aromatics and Medicines"

Sam Yamashita, Pomona College, Reminiscences