Program
15th Biennial Conference of the ASAA

• Runaway Brides: Trafficked Filipina Entertainers Anxieties of Identity in South Korea (Sallie Yea, RMIT University)
• Trafficking in Burmese Women and Children (Khin Mar Mar Kyi, Australian National University)
• Trafficking in women (Kathleen Maltzahn, Project Respect, Melbourne)

• From Cambridge to Tokyo: Soeda Juuichi (1864-1929) (Katalin Ferber, Waseda University)
• Theorizing Local Administration: Ohmori Shoichi (1856-1927) and the adoption of Western Administrative Theory in Meiji Japan (Koichiro Matsuda, Rikkyo University)

• Millennialism, Media, and Moral Panic after Aum Shinrikyo, (Benjamin Dorman, Nanzan University, Nagoya)
• Writing a History of the Falun Gong (Benjamin Penny, Australian National University)
• Sawerigading vs Syariah: Pre-Islamic religion and local values (Kathryn Robinson, Australian National University)

• Australian Publishing on Southeast Asia, 1979-2004 (Howard Dick University of Melbourne).

Anthony Reid (National University of Singapore), Wang Gungwu (National University of Singapore), Andrew MacIntyre (Australian National University), Virginia Hooker (Australian National University)

• Queering sex tourism in South-East Asia: Male and transgender sex work in Phuket, Thailand (Rory Gallagher, Cambridge University)
• Beauty and Power: Transsexual Beauty Contests in Thailand (Wong Ying Wuen, National University of Singapore)
• Making Gender in Siam (Peter A. Jackson, Australian National University) Chair: James Welker (Nanzan University)

• Inviting Chinese-Australian Stories? (Tseen Khoo, Monash University)
• 'Neither Here Nor There': Degrees of Chineseness in Diaspora (Regina Lee, Murdoch University)
• Senator Jerome Kingston Bakhap: A Self-proclaimed Chinese-Australian and his views on 'The Chinese Question' (Adrienne Petty-Gao, University of Tasmania)

• Gendered Exclusion: Women's Experiences of Internal Displacement in West Bengal and Cross-Border Forced Migration from Bangladesh (Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, University of Wollongong)
• Politics, Uneven Development and Liberalisation: The Limits to Poverty Alleviation in West Bengal (Douglas Hill, University of Wollongong)
• Beyond the boundary: Middle class women in income generating activities in West Bengal, India (Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Australian National University and Pallabi Sil, Chatra Ramai Pandit Mahavidyalaya, Bankura, West Bengal)

• India's population - the past' (Tim Dyson, London School of Economics)
• Historical demography of Java: basis for a new research agenda (Radin Fernando, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• Towards a better understanding of past fertility regimes: Ideas and practice of limiting family size in Chinese history (Zhongwei Zhao, Australian National University)

• (Mis)Communicating mental health: the discursive form of Chinese-language psychoeducational literature (Guy Ramsay, University of Queensland)
• Korean ethnopsychology: Understanding it through a cultural concept maum (mind, heart) (Kyung-Joo Yoon, University of New England)
• Hansen's Disease Literature - Voices from Isolation (Jennifer Scott, Shujitsu University)

• Contemporary Poetry from West Java - the Bandung poets, 1998-2003 (Ian Campbell, University of Sydney)
• Is it a dream, a poem, or a painting? New trends in contemporary Taiwanese poetry (Sophia Katz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Yang Wanli: Prefaces and essays on poetry; with letter (Colin Jeffcott, Australian National University)

• The Keiretsu Fable - Where does the Truth Lie? (Evelyn Anderson, Australian Catholic University)
• Japan's Interventionist State: Bringing Agriculture back in (Aurelia George Mulgan, University of NSW@ADFA)
• Japanese companies beyond 1990s - Introduction of Western management style and its contribution to financial performance (Hodaka Imanishi, Macquarie University)

• The Perils and Possibilities of Border Crossing: Sawung Jabo's Transition from Indonesian Rock Superstar to Australian Multicultural Artist (Aline Scott-Maxwell, Monash University)
• Investigating the Consumption of 'Asianness' in Australian Society: Culture, Capital and Class (Naomi Smith, University of Melbourne)
• 'Lost in Translation' or Gained in Creation: Classical Chinese Poetry Re-Created as English Poetry (Roslyn Ricci, University of Adelaide)
• Translation in the East Asian Cultural Sphere - Shared Roots, Divergent Paths? (Judy Wakabayashi, Kent State University)

• Internet and Democratisation in Indonesia (David Hill, Murdoch University)
• Controlling the Internet: The use of legislation and its effectiveness in Singapore (Terry Johal, RMIT University)
• Internet, democracy and oppositional politics in Singapore (Marika Vicziany, Monash University)

• A Listian Perspective upon Economic and Political Development in the Netherlands East Indies (Simon Ridings, Queensland University of Technology)
• Business, Stakeholders and Strategic Responses in Pakistan (Imran Ali, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)
• 'Springboard' into the ASEAN for the Australasian Businesses (Siva Muthaly, University of Newcastle)
• Convergence, Income Growth and Analyzing the Evolution of Regional Income Distribution over time and Space (Nematollah Akbari and Shekoofeh Farahmand, University of Isfahan)

• Visions of the Nation in 1950s Japan (Sandra Wilson, Murdoch University)
• Post-War Repatriation and Visions of the Nation in 1950s Japan (Beatrice Trefalt, University of Newcastle)
• A Nation in Need of Better Nutrition: The Imagined Dietary Threat to the 1950s Reconstruction of Japan (David Kelly, University of Western Sydney)

• Japanese New Religious Movements Abroad: The Formation of Tenrikyo in Australia (Saburo Morishita, Tenri University, Nara)
• The Trouble with Charisma: Religious Ecstasy in Cheondogyo (Kirsten Bell, Macquarie University)
• Ritual Change in the Tanghak and Cheondogyo Religions of Korea (Carl Young, SOAS, University of London)
• Religious Adaptability - The example of Jizo Bosatsu (Karl Kampmark, James Cook University)

Getting published - advice from publishers and editors (Howard Dick, University of Melbourne)

Paul Kratoska (Singapore University Press), Gerald Jackson (NIAS Press), Jon Unger (Australian National University), Triena Ong (ISEAS)

• From the Well of Loneliness to the akarui rezubian: Western Translations and Japanese Lesbian Identities (Beverley Curran and James Welker, Nanzan University)
• From sailor suits to sadism: representations of "Lesbos love" in Japan's postwar perverse press (Mark McLelland, University of Queensland)
• Becoming a Woman: Yukio Mishima's re-defined notion of the feminine which is not one (Rio Otomo, La Trobe University) Chair: Tomoko Aoyama, University of Queensland

• Subjectivity in Japanese Pictorial Re-Versions of Miyazawa Kenji's 'Donguri to Yamaneko' (Wildcat and the Acorns) (Helen Kilpatrick, University of Wollongong)
• The Couple: Depictions of Sexuality in South and Southeast Asian Art (Jim Masselos, University of Sydney, and Menzies¸ Jackie, Art Gallery of NSW)
• Digital Calligraphy in Asia: New Approaches to Traditional Art (Yuan Hsun Chuang, University of Technology, Sydney)

• Videogames, Trans-Asian Cultural Flows and Hybrid Cultural Citizenship (Dean Chan, Edith Cowan University)
• Look Who's Morphing: Popular Culture, Asian Identities and New Possibilities for Fiction (Natasha Cho, Deakin University)
• Augmenting Power through Representation: A Case Study into Anti-Chinese Representations and Governance in Queensland (Jen Tsen Kwok, University of Queensland)

• Liberalizing Bengal: Middle Class Experiences and Interpretations of Workplace Change in West Bengal (Tim Scrase, University of Wollongong)
• Denying Social Justice: The Problem of Inequality in Bangladeshi Laws (Shaikhul Islam, University of Wollongong)

• Japanese Language Instruction in a Multicultural Context: Promoting Citizenship and Interculturality (Yuko Ramzan, University of Wollongong)
• Negotiating with Gender Identity and Gender Norms in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (Yuriko Nagata, Univesity of Queensland)
• Teaching and Learning Japanese Language in an Australian University: the Role of Internet Chat (Ritsuko Saito, University of Wollongong)

• Shiotaka's Space: Social and Musical Interaction in a Tokyo Live House (Marika Leininger-Ogawa, University of Adelaide)
• Japanization of Cantonese Pop Music in Hong Kong (Benjamin Ng Wai-Ming, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Localist and Globalist Music-Making as Social Capital among Street Workers in a Jogjakartan Budget-Tourist Quarter (Max [Martin] Richter, La Trobe University)

• The 1928 Indonesian Women's Congress Revisited (Susan Blackburn, Monash University)
• The Origins of Nasyiatul Aisyiyah: Organizing for Articulating Religious-based Womanhood in Pre-Independent Indonesia (Siti Syamsiyatun, Monash University)
• The Making of Political Women: Mahila Samiti (Women's Association) in the Chittagong Hill Tracts movement (Eshani Chakraborty, Monash University)

• South Sulawesi before 1600 (Campbell Macknight, Australian National University)
• Bali and the World: Three early Balinese 'modern' texts (Helen Creese, University of Queensland)
• The fall of the indigo jackal: the discourse of division in Purnabhadra's Pancatantra (McComas Taylor, Australian National University)

• Arab Democracy, Education, and the West: An Arab-American Point of View (Nijmeh Hajjar, Australian National University)
• Foreign Study Tours: Linking Learning Outcomes with Cultural Immersion (Pamela Jackson, QConcepts, Brisbane, and Rob McEllister, Queensland University of Technology)
• The Asia-literate Professional: Curtin's Double Degree experience (Neville Saunders, Curtin University of Technology)

A major event during the Conference will be a lunchtime address to the National Press Club (NPC) on 30 June by Dr John Yu, Chancellor of the University of NSW, Sydney.

Dr Yu will speak on the topic Knowing Asia: Australia's Future. He will join an extraordinary group of Australian and international speakers to have addressed the NPC. The list includes the Dalai Lama, Indira Gandhi, Desmond Tutu, Sir Peter Ustinov, Victoria de los Angeles, Barry Humphries and every Australian Prime Minister since 1963, the year the club was formed.

Dr Yu had a distinguished medical career prior to taking up his current appointment in January 2000. He was Chief Executive of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children from 1978 to 1997 and before then Head of Medicine at the hospital. His other wide-ranging activities have included membership of the Australia-China Council of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, of which he was appointed Chair in 2000; Chair of VisAsia, an organisation promoting interaction and exchange in the visual arts of Asia; membership of the Board of Trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW; and service on the National Boards of Musica Viva and the Starlight Foundation. Dr Yu was appointed to the National Australia Day Council in 1996, the same year he was named Australian of the Year.

This event offers an all-too-rare opportunity to focus national attention on the state of knowledge of Asia in Australia. This is especially so as Dr Yu's address will be broadcast live by ABC-TV. ASAA members are urged to support Dr Yu, and the cause of Asian studies, by booking early for this important occasion.

For more information or to make bookings contact The Registration Coordinator (asaa[use "@"]ausconvservices.com.au) at the Conference Secretariat, or the NPC at www.npc.org.au

• Metaphors in political debates: negotiating democracy in Hong Kong (Wai-Ling Yeung, Curtin University of Technology)
• Taiwan's Future Directions (Andrew Papadimos, Australian Catholic University)
• Between Blood and Bread: Chinese dissidents' e-debate on the Taiwan Issue: 2000-2004 (Mobo Gao, University of Tasmania)
• Hong Kong Religious Identity in a Time of Foreboding (Edward Irons, Hong Kong Institute for Culture, Commerce and Religion)

• The place of desire: Gender, modernity and place in the narratives of rural migrant women in urban China (Tamara Jacka, Australian National University)
• Cultures of circulation: Filipina migration for domestic work in Asia (and beyond) (Deirdre McKay Australian National University)
• Crossing the gendered threshold of home: Eastern Indonesian female migrants and mobile subjectivity (Catharina Purwani Williams, Australian National University)

Getting published - Journals (Campbell Macknight, Australian National University)

Triena Ong (ISEAS), Paul Kratoska (Singapore University Press), Jon Unger (Australian National University), Gerald Jackson (NIAS Press)

• Trade and Traders in the Malay Archipelago, 1620s-1820s (Radin Fernando, Nanyang Technological Institute, Singapore)
• Chinese Traders in the Malay Archipelago, 1780s-1820s (Geoffrey Wade, National University of Singapore)
• Traders as agents of colonial rule: the ambiguous role of English country traders in the Malay Archipelago, 1770-1820 (George Miller, Australian National University)

• Playing With Compulsory Heterosexuality: Queering 'Husband-hood' and Fatherhood in Japan (Romit Dasgupta, University of Western Australia)
• "Sexuality" Politics in Contemporary Japanese Society in relation to Anglo-American Queer Globalisation (Katsuhiko Suganuma, State University of New York at Albany)
• Queerness has a Comic Book Heroine (Mary Ellen Gidah, Universiti Malaysia Sabah)

• TV literacy and the niche consumer communities of globalizing late 20th century Asia (Saya S. Shiraishi, University of Tokyo)
• Print literacy and new knowledge in the late 19th century Sundanese language community of the Dutch East Indies (Mikihiro Moriyama, Nanzan University, Nagoya)

• Nineteenth century Guidebooks to India (Peter Friedlander, La Trobe University)
• Tourist-Hosts Transactions: The Boatmen of Varanasi as Cultural Brokers (Assa Doron, La Trobe University)
• The Metaphor of Nar & Narayan: Authority, Contention & Mass Pilgrimage at Badrinath in the Indian Himalayas (Kevin Mayo, Australian National University)

• Minorities in Asia Pacific Museums: Cases from China and Japan (Caroline Turner, Australian National University)
• Representing Asian Minorities in Museums: Cases from India, Vietnam and the Netherlands (Amareswar Galla, Australian National University)

• A Forgotten Hero: Kawahara Misako and Japanese-Mongolian Relations during the Meiji Period (James Boyd, Murdoch University)
• Mapping the frontier and Securing the border: The Japanese intelligence in Mongolia and Manchuria (Li Narangoa, Australian National University)
• Colonialism and Geography Textbooks in Taiwan under Japanese rule (Chienwei Yeh, Ibaraki University)

• Politics of Shareholding System: China and Vietnam (Young Ju Kwon, University of Sydney)
• Public Private Partnerships to Create a more Conducive Entrepreneurial Environment in Asia (Chris Hall and Yuan Fang, Macquarie University)
• Southeast Asia and ASEAN: Economic Growth Prospects and Challenges (Teofilo Daquila, National University of Singapore)

• Governing the Trade in Power and Sex: Debating the Legal Regulation of Sex-Related Bribery/Corruption in China (Elaine Jeffreys, University of Technology, Sydney)
• Gender politics in Chinese anti-corruption television drama series (Qian Gong, Curtin University of Technology)
• A feminist psychoanalytic reading of the portrayal of female sexuality in four contemporary Chinese films (Lara Vanderstaay, University of Queensland)

• Coming down in the world: Wuyuan county and the ghost of Zhu Xi (Josephine Fox, Australian National University)
• The May Fourth New Culture Movement and the Emergence of Social Democracy in China (Chongyi Feng, University of Technology, Sydney)

• Alternative Concepts of Modernity in Twentieth Century Urban Design (Hugh O'Neill, University of Melbourne)
• Colonial Designs: Thomas Karsten and the planning of urban Indonesia (Joost Cote, Deakin University)
• Architectural Education in Indonesia: History, Challenge and Prospect (Wahyu Dewanto, University of Tasmania)

• Mobility, Labour Mobilisation and Border Controls: Indonesian Labour Migration to Malaysia Since 1900 (Amarjit Kaur, UNE)
• Invisible Immigrants: Undocumented Migration and Border Controls in Japan 1946-1980 (Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Australian National University)
• Border in our mind: Border control at a cognitive level (Yasuko Kobayashi, Australian National University)
• A grass-roots domestic purification/border control movement in a local city of Japan: The case of the Okayama Guardians (Kohei Kawabata, Australian National University)

• If ajeg is the answer, then what is the question? (Pam Allen and Carmencita Palermo, University of Tasmania)
• Aman or anarchy: Contested expressions of Javanese cultural identity (Barbara Hatley, University of Tasmania)

• The English Craze: Today's Korean "Goose Daddy" Phenomenon (Hyung-a Kim, University of Wollongong)
• Appropriating English: The Global Business of Teaching English (Peter Kell, University of Wollongong)
• The Hegemony of English in India (Tim Scrase, University of Wollongong)
• The proliferation of self-described 'international' schools' in Sri Lanka: Language-driven Reform? (Kathy Jenkins, Jeanette Berman & Bert Jenkins, University of New England)

• Hindu and Islam Youth (Pam Nilan, University of Newcastle)
• Bali as a risk society after 12th October (Linda Connor, University of Newcastle)

• Romancing Singapore: Economies of Love in a Shrinking Population (Chris Hudson, RMIT University)
• Single - and loving it (Firdaus, Flinders University)
• Ambivalent Adolescents: Young Minangkabau Women (Lyn Parker, University of Western Australia)

• Korean Culture in Language Textbooks (Isaac Lee, University of Queensland)
• New Language for New Times: Developments in the Chinese language as manifest in Chinese television sitcoms (Yanyan Wang, Australian National University)
• Teaching Japanese Culture and Language (Shun Ikeda, Australian National University)

• Naturalization in Japan: Present and future prospect (Asakawa Akihiro, Osaka University)
• Neo-Nationalism in Japan (Mai Wakisaka, University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
• 'For Good or for Evil': Australia, Labour Reform and the Military Occupation of Japan (Christine De Matos, University of Western Sydney)
• Continuity between pre-war and post-war education in Japan seen in the Popular Education Research Movement (PERM) (Elena Kolesova, UNITEC Institute of Technology, New Zealand)

• The Cultural Fabric of Identity: The Case of Cheok Hong Cheong, 1851-1928 (Ian Welch, Australian National University)
• Seeking first the kingdom of God: the contributions of Chinese business Christians in proclaiming the message of Christianity (Denise Austin, University of Queensland)
• The Predecessor of INGOs?: Christian Missionaries in Ethnic Minority Regions in China (Miwa Hirono, Australian National University)

• Traditionalism or Modernism: Examining the Asian Origins of Cai Yuanpei's (1868-1940) Ideas on Women/Feminism (Yuen Ting Lee, SOAS University of London)
• Fathers and daughters in Chinese Women's Autobiographical Writing (Penny Herbert, independent scholar)
• One small step for Ang Duong, a giant leap backward for Cambodian women: Legacies of nineteenth-century misogyny (Trudy Jacobsen, University of Queensland)

• Aboriginal Culture in Contemporary Japanese Literature (Yasuko Claremont, University of Sydney)
• Dying Alone: The Theme of Alienation in Selected Hindi and English Short Stories of Dr Krishna Baldev Vaid (Rosalyn Matthews, Australian National University)
• The Decline of Vernacular Narrative in Religious Gatherings; The Case of Bandung, West Java (Julian Millie, University of Leiden)

• News agencies and imperial rule in India (Chandrika Kaul, St Andrew's University, Scotland)
• Media in the Gujarat riots of 2002 (Nalin Mehta, La Trobe University
• Print and the 'Kerala model' (Robin Jeffrey, La Trobe University)

• Satirising the state: Political cartoons and Pojok in Indonesia's student press (Elisabeth Jackson, Australian National University)
• Penggusuran or eviction in Jakarta (Triatno Yudo Harjoko, University of Indonesia)
• The Politics of Conglomerates in Democratising Indonesia: New Patronages and Old Actors (Ludiro Madu, University of Melbourne)

• Back to the big sand: Return migration, temporary widows, and economic disparity in an eastern Indonesian village (Blair Palmer, Australian National University)
• Recovering the Voice of Poor Rural Women in Indonesia (Rasita Ekawati Purba, University of Western Australia)

• Sukarno and Bandung (Jamie Mackie, Australian National University)
• The Asia Socialist Conference in 1953 as a precursor to the Bandung Conference in 1955 (Kyaw Zaw Win University of Wollongong)
• "The Compelling Dialogue of Freedom": The Struggle for Independence and the Struggle for Human Rights at the Bandung Conference, 1955 (Roland Burke, University of Melbourne)

• Gendered Diaspora: Japanese Women Working in Singapore (Leng Leng Thang, National University of Singapore)
• Rethinking Multiculturalism from the Perspective of Middle Class Immigrants: A Sociological Study on Japanese Residents in Sydney (Yoshikazu Shiobara, University of Sydney)
• Regaining 'Japaneseness': Identity Politics of the Philippine Nikkeijin (Shun Ono, Australian National University):

• Violence in the Indian Ocean: micro and macro aspects (Michael Pearson, University of Technology, Sydney and University of New South Wales)
• Colonial Fishers and Fisheries in the Indian Ocean: An Historical Perspective from South Asian Waters (Peter Reeves, National University of Singapore)
• Natural Logics of the Indian Ocean (Devleena Ghosh and Stephen Muecke, University of Technology, Sydney)

• The Classics in Indonesian Studies (Adrian Vickers, University of Wollongong)
• Hans Bielenstein: Founder of the Canberra School of Oriental Studies in the 1950s (Susan Davies, University of New England)

• Community (Craig J. Reynolds, Australian National University)
• "For care and protection, wherever they are": reconsidering community, cooperation and place in Lowland Lao buta worship (Holly High, Australian National University
• Thai Border Subversions: A Critical Examination of "Tai Communities" (Nich Farrelly, Australian National University)

• Outside the Moral Economy? Single Bangladeshi Female Migrants (Santi Rozario, University of Newcastle)
• Unliveable Embodiment: From Less-than-Woman to Other-than-Woman, Rural women in Tamil Nadu (Kalpana Ram, Macquarie University)
• The Reversible World of Japanese coalmining women (Sachiko Sone, University of Western Australia)

• Changing Trade Relations between Europe and Asia at the Turn of Late Middle Ages to Early Modern Times: How does Japan by this way come into European sight? (Mireta von Gerlach, Karl-Eberhard-Universität Tübingen)
• From Tadri to Basra: The journey of Khwaja Abdul Qadir as recounted in the Waqai-i Manazil-i Rum (Kate Brittlebank, University of Tasmania)
• Fleet and Wall 1405-1449: the Zheng He expeditions and Ming policy (Hung-Te Hsiao, Australian National University)

• Contesting the Nation through a Genealogy of Girl Consciousness (Barbara Hartley, University of Auckland)
• A Poor Girl: Senuma Kayo's Translation from Dostoevsky's Poor Folk (Hiroko Cockerill, University of Queensland)
• What Did Japanese Girls Read? (Akiko Uchiyama, University of Queensland)

• Boundaries and Transformations: Religion, Art and Society: A Fresh Approach to the Study of the Buddhist and Hindu Monasteries (Nalini Rao Soka, University of America)
• The Monastic Career of the Early Silla (Korean) Monk Chajang, 7th Century (Pankaj Mohan, University of Sydney)
• Yet Another English Gift: The Role of English Bhikkhus in Indian Dalit Buddhist Conversions (1970-2000) (Debjani Ganguly, Australian National University)

• Oxford University Diary: Perceptions of England by a Burmese 'Brown Gentleman' (Yuri Takahashi, University of Sydney)
• The Colour of Fraternity: Citizenship, Race and Domicile in French India (Adrian Carton, Macquarie University)
• From Raj to Republican Raj: Issues of Indian Elite Identities, 1931-1952 (Nayantara Pothen, University of Sydney)

• The emergence of a ruling party: Congress in post-independence West Bengal, 1947-52 (Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Victoria University of Wellington)
• Searching for split publics through time: Four Chief Ministers in a North Indian State (Maxine Loynd, La Trobe University)
• The Making of a 'Regional' Post-Colonial Polity: Uttar Pradesh, 1947-1952 (Gyanesh Kudaisya, National University of Singapore)

• The Guiding Hand: The Role of the CCP Propaganda Department in the Current Era (Anne-Marie Brady, University of Canterbury)
• Neo-liberal Reform and Party Self-Reinvention in China (Leong Liew, Griffith University)
• Evolution of the Residential Registration Regime in Modern China (Tiejun Yang, Australian National University)

• What is in an election? A local perspective on Indonesia's 2004 representative elections (Jim Schiller, Flinders University)
• Democracy, authoritarianism and local elections in Tegal municipality 1999-2004 (Anton Lucas, Flinders University)
• Reassessing the role of Islam in Indonesian politics in the wake of the 2004 elections (Greg Barton, Deakin University)

• Transforming colonial nationalists into democratic leaders: reflecting on Jawaharlal Nehru (Judith Brown, Oxford University)

• Negotiating the Bandung Spirit in Postwar Japan, (Kristine Dennehy, California State University, Fullerton)
• Impact of the Bandung Conference on Sino-Arab Relations (Yufeng Mao, George Washington University, USA)
• Zhou Enlai in Bandung: the Official Story with Commentary (Antonia Finnane, University of Melbourne)

• The Malaysian strategy for e-learning: progress and pitfalls (Marlia Puteh, Monash University)
• IT alternatives in remote Indian villages: can IT educate and create new jobs? (Marika Vicziany, Monash University)
• Who's 'Pie in the Sky'? Public and Establishment Perceptions of Distance Education at Changji RTVU (Rowan Michael, UQ)

• Research Ethics and Ethical Clearance Procedures: what is to be done? (Robert Cribb, Australian National University)

Hilary Charlesworth, Australian National University; Robert Cribb, Australian National University

• The Wilson Administration and Japan's Racial Equality Proposal (Shusuke Takahara, Doshisha University, Japan)
• Intelligence and Decision Making: Japan's Diplomatic Sigint Operations and Togo's Decision for War (Tosh Minohara, Kobe University)
• Setting History Straight: Bonner Fellers, the MacArthur History Project and the Emperor's Monologue, 1945-52 (Haruo Iguchi, Nagoya University)

• Women and the change of household pattern in Minangkabau Society (Mina Elfira, University of Melbourne)
• Institutionalisation of women workers' demands: possibilities and limitations in Thailand and Indonesia (Annemarie Reerink, Australian National University)

• Challenging the Fellowship of the Ring: Women in Amateur Sumo (Howard Gilbert University of Auckland)
• Sexy Mothers in Asia: the case of migrant Filipino women in Sabah (Anne-Marie Hilsdon University of Wollongong
• Outside the Box: Contesting Female Femininity in Sulawesi, Indonesia (Sharyn Graham Auckland University of Technology)

• The Problem of Territory in Republican China: The emergence of the sub-provincial district (diqu) in peripheral Guangdong (John Fitzgerald, La Trobe University)
• Xikang: Power Politics and National Minority Policy along the Western Frontiers of Republican China (Jim Leibold, University of Melbourne)
• The Starting Point for One Hundred Things: Land Reclamation and the Making of Republican Suiyuan (Justin Tighe, University of Melbourne)

• Girls and Dolls (Alison Tokita, Monash University)
• Versions and functions of the shojo in Miyazaki's anime (Freda Freiberg, Monash University)
• The Viewing Girl in Momojiri musume and Indian Summer (Tomoko Aoyama, University of Queensland)

• Ghost or Gossip: The Picture of the Indonesian Television Industry in the 2000s (Rachmah Ida, Curtin University of Technology)
• From state monopoly to corporatisation: Media reforms in post-market socialism China (Chengju Huang, RMIT University)
• The 'Wang Shuo Phenomenon' and Emergent Popular Culture in Post-Mao China (Yongli Su, Australian National University

• Political culture and economic reform in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Martin Stuart-Fox, University of Queensland)
• Economic Crisis and Civil Society in Thailand (Bruce Missingham, Monash University)
• Citizenship, Migration and Labour in Thailand (Robin Hamilton-Coates, Australian National University)

• Islamic militancy and Uzbekistan's foreign policy (Elena Mogilevski Monash University)
• A Pan-Islamist Response? Al-Muhajiroun and The Palestinian Question (Kylie Baxter, Monash University)
• Civil War, Islamic Politics, and Conflict Resolution in the Arab World (Benjamin MacQueen, Deakin University)

• The PRC's People-to-People Diplomacy in Context (Alistair Shaw, Victoria University of Wellington)
• An analysis of an 'intercultural exchange' program: The Ship for World Youth (Hiroko Hashimoto, Monash University)

• Filming the gods: religion and Hindi film (Rachel Dwyer, University of London)

• Security of energy supplies: Chinese and Japanese approaches towards Central Asia and the Middle East (Kurt W. Radtke, Waseda University)

• Labour control in the rubber industry of colonial Vietnam (Andrew Wells, University of Wollongong)
• Labour control in the cattle industry of northern Australia (Jim Hagan, University of Wollongong) Papers available: http://www.capstrans.edu.au/resources/papers/
• Violence and Labour Control in the Katunayake Free Trade Zone, Sri Lanka (Samanthi Gunawardana, University of Melbourne) check with chair

• Expressions used by Snack Vendors in Malang: A Pragmatic Analysis (Raras Kusumarasdyati, Monash University)
• Speech-acts, values and cultural scripts: a study in Malay ethnopragmatics (Cliff Goddard, University of New England)

• On the future of India (Tim Dyson, London School of Economics)
  Chair: Professor Jack Caldwell

• Autonomy in the space within? A spatial perspective on governing Beijing's gated communities (Luigi Tomba, Australian National University)
• The resisting space of Chinese peasants (Him Chung, Hong Kong Baptist University)

• Trafficking in Asian Women (Jean Enrica Erinquez-Rosalez)

• A Recalcitrant Interest: Studying Malaysia (Professor Clive Kessler, University of New South Wales)

• The Place of the Founder in Japanese Religiosity (Robert Kisala, Nanzan University, Nagoya)

4.45-5.30 Lecture:

• A 'notified' future for Delhi's past (Narayani Gupta, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi)

Individual paper

• Changing Research Spaces: Doing human geography fieldwork in Viet Nam (Kate Lloyd, Macquarie University, Fiona Miller, Macquarie University/Stockholm Environment Institute, Steffanie Scott, University of Waterloo)

• Labour Standards and Employment Relations in Industrialising South-East Asia (Amarjit Kaur, University of New England)
• Protective Repression, International Pressure, and Institutional Design: Explaining Labor Reform in Indonesia (Teri Caraway, University of Minnesota, USA)
• Legislating for Labour Protection: Betting on the Weak or the Strong? Chris Manning, Australian National University)

• Gender, Nation and the Politics of Dress in Twentieth Century Philippines (Mina Roces University of New South Wales)
• Dressing the Chinese woman politician (Louise Edwards Australian National University)
• Nation versus Islam: A Conflict/Dialogue on Women's Dress (Jean Gelman Taylor, University of New South Wales)
• Reading the Kebaya (Victoria Cattoni, Charles Darwin University)

• Terror and violence: atrocious tragedy of war depicted in Japanese literature; Militerrorism: Accounts of war experience of a ghost soldier in Abe Kobo's 'Records of Transformation' (Ghosh Dastidar Debashrita, Tsukuba University)
• Japanese Internet Poetry on Terror (Maria Flutsch, University of Tasmania)
• North Korean critics as political executioners: the case of An Ham Kwan (Tatiana Gabroussenko, Australian National University)

• Minority Entrepreneurship in Western China: The Case of the Uygurs (Marika Vicziany and Guibin Zhang, Monash University)
• Education among the Uygurs in urban Qashgar(Aysha Eli, University of Melbourne)
• China's Strategy in Xinjiang and Central Asia Post-11 September 2001: The Dynamics of Reinforced Integration(Michael Clarke)
• Effects of interdependency in the Xinjiang-Central Asian Region (Ann McMillan, Griffith University)

• The Water Frontier: An Introduction (Li Tana, Australian National University)
• The Straits, Saigon and China: Teasing out the 19th Century Hokkien Network (Carl Trocki Queensland University of Technology)

The Future of Asian Studies: Institutional Choices and Strategies (Peter Drysdale, Australian National University)

Peter Drysdale (Australian National University, Robin Jeffrey (La Trobe University), John Ingleson (University of New South Wales)

• Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and Land Disputes in Indonesia (Daryono Daryono, Australian National University)
• Democracy and Human Rights - A Case Study: Timor-Leste (Peter Dudy, Amani Research & Consulting Institute, Germany)
• The organisation and operation of administrative courts in Vietnam (Quang Nguyen, La Trobe University)

• Scapegoaters, Avengers and Executioners: Oral History and the Kalimantan Riots (Christian Oesterheld, University of London)
• Does religion play a role in anti-Chinese violence in Indonesia? (Jemma Purdey, University of Melbourne)
• Women and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66: Gender Variables and Possible Directions for Research (Annie Pohlman, University of Queensland)

• Globalisation and the Islamic Economy (Greg Fealy, Australian National University)
• Liberal Islamic NGOs (Greg Barton, Deakin University)
• Jemaah Tarbiyah and Campus Predication (Yon Machmudi, Australian National University)
• Intellectual Trends within Nahdlatul Ulama (Ahmad Zaeni Dahlan, Australian National University)

• A Railway Working Class Movement in India (1927) and the Labour Organisations of Europe - A Critical Appraisal (Shyamapada Bhowmik,
• Cross-cultural Educational Chatter: How the state made and unmade education in the Raj, 1800-1919 (Tim Allender, University of Sydney)

• The Transformation of the Legal Education System in Japan: Speculating about Its Cause and Effect (Atsushi Bushimata, Fukuoka University)
• Reform of Professional Legal Education at the University of Hong Kong (Richard W. S. Wu University of Hong Kong)
• The Challenge Faced by Lawyers in Japan and Hong Kong: A Comparative Analysis (Kay-Wah Chan, Macquarie University)

• Exhibiting and Selling Images of Asian Women by an Asian Woman Artist: Is this Reverse Orientalism? (En Young Ahn, Australian National University)
• The new 'Living-room Wars': Media representations of Falungong and Trans-(national) cultural translations of modernity (Haiqing Yu, University of Melbourne)
• The Homogeneity of Japanese Editorials (Keizo Nanri, University of Sydney)
• Cross Cultural Ghosts and their echoes: Australia, Malaysia and the media (Irene Twombly, University of South Australia)

• Analysing the Phenomenon of Change in Foreign Policy: India and the Major Powers (Kripa Sridharan, National University of Singapore)
• Indonesia and the Balance of Power in Southeast Asia: the 'China Threat' versus the 'U.S. Threat' (Daniel Novotny, University of New South Wales)
• External supports for liberation movements in Aceh and Papua (Baiq Wardhani,, Monash University)

• Seeing Women in Indonesian Films: New Angles after the New Order? (Krishna Sen, Curtin University of Technology)
• Love, Loss and Licentiousness: Gender and Sexuality in Hussain Haniff's film Korban Kasih (Benjamin McKay, Charles Darwin University)
• Trauma, memory and the troubled semiology of nuclear nationalism in Anand Patwardhan's War and Peace (Jennifer McDonell, University of New England)
• Hindi Cinema's New Adventurers: Cultural Entrepreneurs and the New, 'New Wave' (Leila Jordan, University Of Warwick)

• Militancy and Power in the Cambodian Trade Union Movement (Caroline Hughes, University of Nottingham)
• Labour and Politics in Thailand (Andrew Brown, Australian National University)
• A Spent Force? Indonesia's Labour NGOs Six Years after Reformasi (Michele Ford, Flinders University)
• The Political Economy of Forced Labor in Burma (Curt Lambrecht, Yale University)

• The Archives' Tales: Gender, class and colonial migration practices in Vietnam, 1863-1920 (Anne-Marie Medcalf, Murdoch University)
• The Artist as Historian? Pierre Schoendoerffer and the Wars in Vietnam, 1945-1975 (Katharine Thornton, University of Adelaide)
• Eurasian/ Amerasian Perspectives: Kim Lefèvre's Métisse blanche and Kieu Nguyen's The Unwanted (Nathalie Nguyen, University of Newcastle)

• Text, gender, body and nation: loss and displacement in inter-war Japan (Barbara Hartley, University of Auckland)
• Deterritorialised identities in the age of global diaspora (Rumi Sakamoto, University of Auckland)
• Ghosts: The Auckland exile of Yang Lian and Gu Cheng (Hilary Chung, University of Auckland)

• Global Initiatives in Scholarly Electronic Publishing (Colin Steele, ANU)
• E-Press and E-Prints: Electronic Publishing at ANU (Lorena Kanellopoulus, ANU E-Press)
• Trends in e-Publishing in China (Wan Wong, National Library of Australia)
• Copyright Issues for e-Publishers and Authors (Colette Ormonde, Australian Library and Information Association)

• The Junk Trade and Sino-Vietnamese Commodity Production in Eastern Cambodia, 1850s-1880s (Nola Cooke Australian National University)
• The Ruler is not Siamese, but Songkhlanese': Beyond Siamese and Malay in the Central Malay Peninsula (Phil King University of Wollongong)
• Trafficking in Women and Children: French Reports on Chinese Activities in Haiphong, 1880s-1930s (Julia Martinez University of Wollongong)

• The re-examination of temporal change in intergenerational occupational mobility in Japan, 1955-1995 (Hirohisa Takenoshita, Keio University)
• Korean migrant market gardeners in the Post-Soviet Era: The case of ethnic Korean watermelon growers in Kherson (Song Changzoo, University of Auckland)
• Murakami Haruki's Cooking Recipes (Atsuko Handa, Monash University/ Tokyo Gakugei University)

• Indonesian and Bosnian Islam (Mersija Maglajilc, Australian National University)
• Intra-ethnic Conflict and the Hmong in Australia and Thailand (Scott Downman, Griffith University)
• Singapore and the Internet: an extra-terrestrial discursive arena and its relationship to terrestrial media (Terry Johal, RMIT University)

• Kali for Women: Indian Feminism and the Dark Goddess (Christian Coseru, Australian National University)
• Socially-Engaged Buddhism' in Taiwan: Origins and futures (Scott Thomas Pacey, Australian National University)
• Hero worship versus spirit possession: the dilemma of the state's religious policy in Vietnam (Pham Quynh Phuong, La Trobe University)

• US Policy-Making on Insular Southeast Asia - let the Archives Speak! (Michael Leigh, University of Melbourne)
• J Krishnamurti: Crossing cultural borders or ignoring their existence? (Christine Williams)

In view of the fact that the deadline for rejoinders to ARC assessors' reports falls just after the conference, provisional plans are being made for a workshop to advise grant applicants on the preparation of their responses. See main noticeboard for further details

• There's a Hole in the Bucket: Training Asian Language Teachers (Neville Saunders, Curtin University of Technology)
• Education of Chinese Students: Dynamics of Demand (Glen Stafford, University of Adelaide)

• Guanxi Matters a Lot: An Analysis of Women Entrepreneurs; Family Ties in Jiaocheng, China (Minglu Chen, University of Technology, Sydney)
• Female entrepreneurs in Transitional Economies: a comparison of India and China (Beverley Kitching, QUT and Mishra, Rashmi, NKC Institute of Development Studies)

• Cross-border Urban Growth in China: the Case of Jiangyin Economic Development Zone in Jingjiang (Luo Xiaolong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shen Jianfa, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Decentralization and local processes of social development: rural migrants experience in a Shanxi town (Beatriz Carrillo Garcia, University of Technology, Sydney)
• Urban Competitiveness in China: A Review (Jiang Yihong, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

• Recent Trends in Chinese Labour Issues (Anita Chan, Australian National University)
• Changing Trends of Work in South Korea: The Dominance of Irregular Work and Job Insecurity (Andrew Eungi Kim, Korea University)
• Gender Dimensions of Recession and Neo-liberal Structural Adjustment: focusing on gender-differentiated employment changes in post-1997 South Korea (Kyoung-Hee Moon, Australian National University)
• Hiroshima's Hidden History: Workers and Political Repression during Wartime and the Occupation (David Palmer

• Showing its 'face' or creating a challenge? : Japan's new foreign aid strategy (Akiko Nanami, University of Canterbury)
• Japanese Foreign Aid Policy to China (Tsukasa Takamine, University of Auckland)
• The Prospect of Northeast Asian Energy Cooperation (Pak Lee, Open University of Hong Kong)
• Chinese and Japanese Softpower? (Gerry Groot, University of Adelaide)

• Over the Top: Writing Australia into South East Asia (Paul Battersby, RMIT University)
• Natsume Soseki and Andrew Lang on the supernatural (Orie Muta, Gifu University)
• The Travails of the Cross-Border Traveller: Ouyang Yu's The Eastern Slope Chronicle (Kam Louie, Australian National University)

• Old Wine in New Bottle? Domestic and International Dimensions of China's Counter-Terrorism Strategy (Ka Po Ng, Aichi Bunkyo University)
• The rise of terrorism and importance of Central Asia: Its implication for US military presence in the region (Enayatollah Yazdani, Australian National University)
• Laying Siege to Shangri-La? The Struggle for Nepal (Drew Cottle, University of Western Sydney)
• Terrorism in the Southern Philippines: Evaluating the Authenticity of the Abu Sayyaf Group as an Islamist Secessionist Organisation (Charles Donnelly, University of Tasmania)

• 'Ruralism' in China: Reinterpretation of Post-Collective Development (Chang Kyung-Sup, University of Wollongong/Seoul National University)
• Financial Constraint on China's Rural Enterprises: Causes and Cures (Charles C. L. Kwong, Open University of Hong Kong)
• On the limit to Land Productivity: Towards an Improved Malthusian Theory with Regard to Equal Distribution of Land in China (Pei Xiaolin, Leiden University)

• Changing Perception of Japan towards the Bilateral Trade Agreements in Southeast Asia (Aysun Uyar, Yamaguchi University)
• Rich Fish: Southern Bluefin Tuna Fisheries in Australia and Japan (Kate Barclay, University of Technology, Sydney)
• Comparing Environmentally Friendly Auto Technology Policies: Coordinated Japan and the Entrepreneurial US (Shiu-Fai Wong, University of Sydney)

• In defence of 'Marsinah': Indonesian nationalism and gender politics in colonial East Sumatra (Karen Entwistle, University of Western Sydney)
• Gender as metaphor: the case of 'Salah Asuhan' (Keith Foulcher, University of Sydney)
• Challenging Adam : new gender imagery in contemporary Indonesian theatre (Barbara Hatley, University of Tasmania)

• From crocodiles and cocks: the djago of colonial Java (Kees Van Dijk, KITLV, Leiden)
• Crime, Police, and Politics in Interwar Shanghai: The Nakayama Affair, 1935-37 (Andrew Field, University of New South Wales)

• The Domestication of Catholicism in 17th and 18th Century Nguy_n Cochinchina (Nola Cooke, Australian National University)
• Recovering a Lost Mission: Catholicism and Conversion in 16th- and 17th Century Maluku (Brett Baker, Australian National University)
• Vietnamese Priests and French Missionaries in late pre-colonial Cochinchina (Jacob Ramsay, Australian National University)

• Revolutionaries and politics of conspiracy in a district of India, Midnapore (Shyamapada Bhowmik)
• The Rise and Fall of the Oriental Bank in India in the Nineteenth Century: A Victim of Changes in the World Economy or a Product of Its Own Mismanagement (John McGuire, Curtin University of Technology)
• Trends of Real Income in South India: Tiruchirapalli and the upper Kaveri Delta, 1819-1980 (Peter Mayer, University of Adelaide)

• Gender and Nomenclature: name change practices under the Japanese rule in Taiwan, 1895-1945 (Cheng-Yuan Liu, Australian National University)
• Lineage Making in Southern China since 1980s (Ping Shu, HKUST)

• The state, regulation and the private health care sector in Bangladesh (Redwanur Rahman, La Trobe University)
• Revising Social Policy in Singapore: From 'Nanny State' to 'Self-Reliance' (Stephen Dobbs, University of Western Australia)
• Reining in Professional Power: The State and Medical Professionals in China (Jingqing Yang, University of Technology, Sydney)
• Financing Old Age Insurance: A Political Approach (Hongxia Li, National University of Singapore)

• Human Insecurity in Twenty-First Century China: HIV/AIDS and its impact on Women (Anna Hayes, University of Southern Queensland)
• Society, Sorrow and Success: social interaction between men and women reflected in Chinese written characters (Lin Zheng, University of Tasmania)

• Organizing for Domestic Worker Rights in Southeast Asia: Feminist Responses to Globalisation (Lenore Lyons, University of Wollongong)
• Sexuality and Work: A History of Migrant Women in Malaysia (Vicki Crinis, University of Wollongong)
• Notes on women outworkers: reflections on industrialization and flexible production in Chiang Mai, Thailand (Saowalak Chaytaweep, La Trobe University)
• On a Wing and a Prayer: Making the Transition from Rural Village to the Foreign Labour Market (Caroline Campbell, University of Newcastle)

• Feminist Activism by the Chinese State in the Era of the Internet (Anne McLaren, University of Melbourne)
• Virtual Spaces of Chinese Women (Ting Liu, Australian National University)
• Western Inscription on Indonesian Bodies: Representation of Adolescents in Indonesian Female Teen Magazines (Suzie Handajani, University of Western Australia)

• Assimilation as multiracialism: The management of ethnicity in Singapore (Michael Barr, University of Queensland)
• Sport, Politics and Ethnicity: Playing badminton for Indonesia (Colin Brown, Curtin University of Technology)
• Austronesians in Linguistic disguise: Fataluku society in East Timor (Andrew McWilliam, Australian National University)

• Abortion in Buddhist Asia: religious politics and state legitimation (Andrea Whittaker, Melbourne University)
• Kabir and Kunley, from shock to shanti (Annette van der Hoek, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
• The Multiple Theologies of Local Pilgrimage in Java and Madura (George Quinn, Australian National University)

• Crime, Policy and Punishment in China (Sue Trevaskes, Griffith University)
• Policing in the PRC in socio-historical perspective (Raymond Lau, Open University of Hong Kong)
• Zhou Yongkang, Sun Zhigang and the New Police in China (Fu Hualing, University of Hong Kong)

• Development or Alienation: A Case of Economic Reforms in India (Bhabani Shankar Nayak, University of Sussex, UK)
• How can the establishment of preferential trade agreement (PTA) between Iran and Australia affect their Intra-Industry Trade (IIT) (Seyed Komail Tayyebi and Mozhgan Moallemi, University of Isfahan)
• Technology Cooperation for Commercialisation in the ICT sector between Australia and Korea (Hyung-Min Kim, Monash University)

• 'Pacific Rim', 'Pacific Era', and Interdependence: China's Nationalist Rimspeak (Guo Yingjie, University of Technology, Sydney)
• Multilateralism in Chinese foreign policy: a case study of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (Jian Zhang, University of New South Wales@Australian Defence Force Academy)
• China's Foreign Economic Policymaking and Cooperation with ASEAN: A Case Study of CAFTA (Yang Jiang, National University of Singapore)

• Human Rights: Ideas between Universality and Relativism (Peter Dudy, Amani Research & Consulting Institute)
• The Non-profit Sector in Transitional Asian Economies: The case of Cambodia (Melissa Curley, University of Hong Kong)

• Does the behaviour of people reflect their stated attitudes to conservation? An empirical case study case study in Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal (Lai-Ming Lam, University of Adelaide)
• Sustainable Forest Management Policy 1997 in Sabah: Agenda Setting and Implementation (Haijon Gunggut,
• Can Indonesia's complex agroforests survive globalisation and decentralisation? (Lesley Potter, Australian National University)

• Border Crossings: Rethinking Women and Forced Migration in postcolonial states of Asia (Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Tamara Gulic, University of Wollongong)