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Searching In The Dark - Han Learning And The Controversy Of 1799 Metropolitan Exam, Shiu On Chu

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

This paper investigates the introduction of Han Learning (hanxue 漢學) in Qing civil examinations from an institutional perspective. Focusing on the controversy over the 1799 metropolitan examination, I argue that hanxue was resisted not only by the intellectual orthodoxy Cheng-Zhu learning, but also a concept of “proper advancement” (zhengtu 正途) from examination.

The 1799 metropolitan examination was often seen as a triumph of Han Learning because the chief examiners Zhu Gui (朱珪1731-1806) and Ruan Yuan (阮元1764-1849), who were famous patrons of Han scholarship, awarded degrees to a number of established Han scholars. Contemporaries attributed this high rate of …

A Different Approach On Gaining Practical Experience By Acting As An (Open) Innovator At Industrial Design Engineering, Lenny Van Onselen, Rianne C. Valkenburg

Learn X Design Conference Series

At Industrial Design Engineering we aspire to provide contemporary education, both in the content of the program as well as the way in which we teach. We aim to facilitate our students to become responsible entrepreneurs of their own learning experience. At the start of the second year we challenge students to initiate, organise and execute individual, international research abroad for 3 months. Students have to choose a research topic, initiate contact with companies and set-up a project. This ambitious setup at first creates confusion and excitement among the students. However, facilitated by a step-by-step approach, students arrive to inspiring …

Teaching Pride And Prejudice: A Pedagogy, Jodi Wyett, Laura Gray, Lisa Ottum, Crystal B. Lake, Cynthia D. Richards, Sally Lamping

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

This informal round-table discussion focuses on the different strategies for teaching Jane Austen from educators across Southwestern Ohio.

English Tea Service With Mr. And Mrs. Darcy Mystery Series Author, Carrie Bebris, Carrie Bebris

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

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Navigating 18th Century Haiku: Translating The Poetry Of Yosa Buson, Allan Persinger

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

One of the difficulties in translating the poetry of Yosa Buson, an 18th century Japanese poet and painter is negotiating the cultural differences between time and place, and still writing a translation that moves the audience within the limits of a haiku without doing any violence to the original text. My presentation is on the difficulties in translating a literary master from the Edo Era, Yosa Buson, especially when the poems contain embedded cultural references that the average American reader would not be familiar with as it is important to convey all of the information in a meaningful way and …

Turning Into A Shadow: Textual Management Of Sexual Violence In Taketori Monogatari, Otilia C. Milutin

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

This paper is an integral part of an ongoing doctoral research which examines the varied textual representations of sexual violence in Heian and Kamakura monogatari. The first part of this dissertation, opening with the section presented here, addresses the three mid-ninth to mid-tenth century texts, Taketori, Utsuho and Ochikubo monogatari, whose representations or misrepresentations of sexual violence shaped Murasaki Shikibu’s own, in the eleventh century Genji monogatari.

The present study focuses on the Taketori text and its management of sexual violence; it traces the work’s textual lineage and underlines the consistent and sustained attempts to sanitize its content …

Is Mr. Darcy A Virgin?: Masculine Sexuality In Pride And Prejudice, Robert Markley

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

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Teaching In China: Reflections On Higher Education, Student Learning, And Teacher Training, Wing-Kai To, John Marvelle, Ryan Labrozzi, Chien Wen Yu

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

In spring and summer 2013, four faculty members from Bridgewater State University taught courses on history, business, education, American studies, and second language acquisition in several universities in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, and a workshop for teachers in an international school in Xiamen. These opportunities offer our faculty new perspectives on the current state of higher education, student learning, and teacher training in China and Hong Kong. Wing-kai To taught history, culture, immigration, and ethnicity to graduate students and undergraduate students in the spring semester at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Hong Kong and in a …

Jane Austen In The Twenty-First Century, Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer, Andrea Coldwell Cabus, Karen C. Hadley, Cheryl Comparativo

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

In this session Phyllis Bottomer, Andrea Coldwell Cabus, and Lori Halvorsen Zerne presented the following papers:

• “Social Awkwardness: Viewing Some of Austen’s Characters Through the Lens of Twenty-First Century Knowledge of Autistic Spectrum Disorders” - Phyllis Bottomer
• “Imagining Future Janeites: YA Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice” - Andrea Coldwell Cabus
• “Jane Austen, Regency Zombies, and the ‘Monstrous Future’ of Capitalism” - Karen C. Hadley
• “The Austen Obsession: Jane’s Continuing Relevance and Cultural Power in the Twenty-First Century” - Cheryl Comparativo

At the end of the session the presenters answered questions from the audience.

Pride And Prejudice Goes Interactive: "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries", Marilyn Francus

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

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Jane Austen In The Information Age, Sean Silver

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

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The Emergence Of Singlehood In The 20th And Early 21st Century: Hong Kong, Japan, And Taiwan, Joanna Kang

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

In East Asia, Confucian philosophy is the dominant value system, especially its prominent doctrine of filial piety. Filial piety is a requirement of life, and being filial is an essential approach to acquire public recognition as an individual with integrity. The most unfilial and unforgivable behavior is being unmarried or sonless.[1] However, there are more and more Asian women who are immersed in this social milieu yet are choosing to embrace their singlehood. The liberation of Asian women is one of the momentous outcomes of Western modernization. This is also a trans-cultural trend that spans nations, societies, and ideologies. What …

Pride, Prejudice, And Parsons, Carol Herringer

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

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Human-Centered Design In Primary Schools: A Method To Develop Empathy With And Knowledge Of The Needs Of Elderly, Fenne Van Doorn, Remke Klapwijk

Learn X Design Conference Series

Human-Centered Design is of growing importance for professional designers and in the past two decades a series of techniques for designers to develop understanding of and empathy with a diversity of users has been developed within this field. In the second half of the 20th century, intended users were involved late in the design process, i.e. during the testing of products or prototypes. More recently, the user is involved in the early phases, when the direction is set. Users have rich local contextual knowledge and can work together with professional designers. Although these techniques are now entering mainstream design education …

New Undergraduate Research On Jane Austen, Katherine Mullins, Victoria Lane, Heather Weis

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

In this session Wright State University Undergraduates presented the following papers:

• “‘Practise Very Constantly:’ The Politics of Accomplishment in Pride and Prejudice” - Katie Mullins
• “Order in the Courtship: 200 Years of Assigning Meaning to the Courtship Practices in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice" - Tori Lane
• “Dreaming of War: The Culture of War as Entertainment in Pride and Prejudice” - Heather Weis

At the end of the presentations the students answered questions from the audience.

Mail-Order Brides: Austen’S Contemporaries Portray Love And Marriage In Calcutta, James Mulholland

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

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Postcolonial Austen: Reconciling 21st-Century Globalism And The 19th-Century Novel In Bride And Prejudice, Lisa Tyler

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

Producer and director Gurinder Chadha’s 2004 film Bride and Prejudice is an oddly seamless postmodern melding of 21^st-century globalism and the 19^th-century British novel upon which it is loosely based. Its globalism is reflected in the film’s decidedly multinational cast, including Indians, Britons, Americans, a Kenya-born Mr. Kohli (AKA Mr. Collins), and an ostensibly American Mr. Darcy who is actually from New Zealand. In many respects the film marvelously preserves the sensibilities of Jane Austen’s novel, as for example when the feckless Wickham becomes a rootless, wandering backpacker living on a houseboat. But the film also …

The War Of 1812, Noeleen Mcilvenna

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

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The Piano In The World Of Jane Austen, Laura Vorachek

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

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What Does It Mean To Be A “Materially Attuned” Practitioner?, Maiko Tsutsumi

Learn X Design Conference Series

This paper reports on research in progress that explores the potential role the materiality of things plays as a tool for the critical understanding of the human relationship with man-made objects. The paper argues that many designers habitually engage with production and consumption of meanings more through the materiality of things than words and symbols. It proposes a hypothesis that materiality is a key to understanding the context, knowledge and information the man-made objects may “embody”. Through the case study of an exhibition, the paper examines the ways in which this embodiment may be facilitated. Referring to Heidegger’s notion of …

Toeing The Line: The Morality Of Dancing Pride And Prejudice And Regency Culture, Laura Gray

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

Many of the social interactions in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice are reliant upon decidedly ambiguous rules. The characters in the novel are constantly toeing a line between trying to express their feelings in a forthright manner and restricting themselves in order to maintain propriety. No one knows how to maintain a balance between these two actions, as a result, true feelings are hardly ever properly expressed, and their ability to form connections suffers. All of the characters endure this unfortunate phenomenon.

Just What A Young Man Ought To Be: Politeness And Easy Manners As The Infallible Passport In Austen's Pride And Prejudice, Ethan Baumgartner

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

Among the misinterpreted ideas about the Regency era is the concept that women were more confined to etiquette than men. However, upon closer inspection, it's clear that this quality of being 'amiable' (likable, friendly, sensitive, even lovable) in the Regency culture was crucial to almost every person of any status or social position regardless of gender.

A Game Of Chance: Obligation And Card Games In Jane Austen’S Pride And Prejudice, Tyler Ozborn

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author discusses the role the game Whist plays in Pride and Prejudice and some history of the game as well. The author includes instructions for how to play the game as well.

"Brighton Possesses All The Requisites ... For Either Amusement Or Dissipation": Frivolity In Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice, Heather Weis

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice describes the city of Brighton cursorily, but it is a subject well worth investigating, as it is the setting for an important plot point and prospects of a trip to the city create such a furor among the inhabitants of the Bennet house.

"The Vicious Propensities": The Impact Of Gambling In Pride And Prejudice, Chelcie Hinders

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author discusses the impact of gambling in Pride and Prejudice by focusing on the gambling habits of Mr. Wickham. The author compares the character of Mr. Wickham to "Hazard," another gambler who is down "stripped...of his last half-crown," in Laurie and Whittle's poem Speculation; or A New Way of Saving a Thousand Pounds.

Rules Of Engagement: Mr. Darcy's Courtship In Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice, Victoria Lane

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) is most commonly regarded as a story of love. The narrative does indeed follow a marriage plot line, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet do fall in love and get married, but where within the narrative do we see any true sentiment revealed? The linear plot stretches from beginning to end; from their first meeting to their inevitable marriage. The space between must then be filled with the act of courting; each party's attempt at establishing a connection. However, the majority of the development of the relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy is devoid of …

Drinks And Refreshments Sign, Celia

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

Sign for Drinks and Refreshments at the Pride and Prejudice Bicentennial Conference held at Wright State University.

Coat Room Sign, Celia

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

Sign for the Coat Room at the Pride and Prejudice Bicentennial Conference held at Wright State University.

Upper Level: Bar And Exhibits Sign, Celia

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

Sign advertising the Upper Level Bar and Exhibits Area at the Pride and Prejudice Bicentennial Conference held at Wright State University in October of 2013.

Whist Room Sign, Celia

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

Sign advertising the Whist Room at the Pride and Prejudice Bicentennial Conference held at Wright State University.