Asian Studies News
Mitch Numark, Ph.D., History Professor - Recent Articles
Professor Numark's article "Hebrew School in Nineteenth-Century Bombay: Protestant Missionaries, Cochin Jews, and the Hebraization of India's Bene Israel Community" was published in Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press, March 12, 2012. View the abstract here.
His article "Translating Dharma: Scottish Missionary-Orientalists and the Politics of Religious Understanding in Nineteenth-Century Bombay" was published in The Journal of Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press, May 2011. Read the article here.
Making Merit for the Southeast Asian New Year:
Offering of Sand Stupas
See the video by Professor Jeffrey Dym showing Sac State students and Professor Pat Chirapravati creating the sand stupa installation in the Else Gallery.
Devin Stagg and Chong Lo, Fall 2011 Asian Studies Graduates
Pattaratorn Chirapravati, Ph.D., Asian Studies Chair, Art History Professor
Professor Chirapravati received the Prix du livre-coffret. Her book Divination au royaume de Siam: Le corps, la guerre, le destin (the Thai Bodmer Divination Manuscript: War, Wealth and Destiny), 2011, published by Presses universitaires de France, has received the Prix du livre-coffret at the Nuit de Livre in Paris. Visit the website here.
Professor Chirapravati is the winner of the 2012 Faculty Senate Outstanding Scholarly and Creative Activities Award for Arts and Letters.
Michael Vann, Ph.D., History Professor
Professor Vann's book The Colonial Good Life, A Commentary on Andre Joyeux's Vision of French Indochina is on display at the Siem Reap International Airport in Cambodia.
Jeffrey Dym and Michael Vann, History Department
Professors Dym and Vann have received a grant for $7,000 to make a short film in Cambodia. This project is part of a larger project on colonial cities in Southeast Asia, to be completed over the next three to five years.
Jeffrey Dym, Ph.D., History Professor
Professor Dym has created 3 videos on Kamishibai, or Japanese paper theater.
An examination of Japanese World War II propaganda kamishibai. Unlike American wartime propaganda that focused on killing the enemy, Japanese wartime propaganda emphasized dying for the nation.
A brief introduction to this Japanese narrative art.
A guide to how teachers can incorporate kamishibai into effective pedagogical exercises in their classroom.
Michael Vann, Ph.D., History Professor
Professor Vann's article "Fear and Loathing in French Hanoi: Colonial White Images and Imaginings of 'Native' Violence" is included in The French Colonial Mind, Volume 2: Violence, Military Encounters and Colonialism, edited by Martin Thomas and published by University of Nebraska Press. The second of two linked volumes, this book brings together prominent scholars of French colonial history to explore the many ways in which brutality and killing became central to the French experience and management of empire.
Kazue Masuyama, Ph.D., Japanese Professor
Kazue Masuyama, Foreign Languages, published a book, Learning Language Through Literature 1: Manga ‘Botchan’ (2011). The book is a re-creation of Natsume Sosaki’s Botchan (1906), one of the most popular novels in Japan, for Japanese language and literature education. For more information on the book, visit yumani.co.jp/Botchan-en/.
Masuyama also co-authored a chapter, “U.S. strategies to increase the number of participants in study abroad program” (pp. 87-124), with Misako Takeuchi, and wrote another chapter, “Importance of Japanese language and culture learning overseas: A suggested model based on the U.S. case studies” (pp. 125-142), in Nihon to EU shokoku ni okeru tankiryugaku no tokuchou to koutou kyouiku no kokusaika ni hatasu yakuwari no hikaku kankyu (Comparative Study on Short-term Study Abroad Program and Its Impact on Higher Education in Japan and EU Countries) by Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2011. This project was funded by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research of Japan in 2008-2010.
Pattaratorn Chirapravati, Ph.D., Art History Professor
Asian Studies Program Director Pattaratorn Chirapravati had her book Divination au royaume de Siam: Le corps, la guerre, le destin (The Thai Bodmer Divination Manuscript: War, Wealth, and Destiny) published by Presses universitaires de France. The book will be published in both English and French.
Read the review in the Nov/Dec issue of Le Point References.
Sac State Signs Pact With Top Korean Campus
Sacramento State and Chinju National University of Education (CUE) in South Korea signed an agreement Tuesday to cultivate new international academic opportunities, and to explore partnerships with the TESOL program at the College of Arts and Letters and the English Language Institute at the College of Continuing Education. To read more, click here.
Taiwan's Tamking University Visits Sac State
Sacramento State welcomed a delegation from Taiwan’s Tamkang University on Monday, May 23, 2011. The two universities have partnered on student exchanges. To see a photo album of the visit, click here.
Summer 2012 Paid Internships with INROADS
The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
Promoting Understanding and Cooperation in U.S.-Asia Relations since 1983
The Mansfield Foundation offers full- and part-time unpaid internships for those interested in Asia-related issues or studies in Washington D.C., as well as in Tokyo. See the website here.
Asian Studies Program at Preview Day, October 1, 2011
