Do you need money to fund this thing? I know I do.

Here are some resources to help out with funding:

FastWeb has been around forever, and has some of the most annoying advertisements on earth (make sure to click "no thanks" on all the loan consolidation and credit card offers) but continues to be good at thoroughly searching for scholarships. It brought up some Hawai'i community scholarships available to those of us who live here - yes, even if your tuition bill says "nonresident". Various deadlines.

East West Center Scholarships and Fellowships - various fall deadlines

Finally, if you're a doctoral student, Hamilton Library has a nice collection of resources for research funding called the "Foundation Collection" near the reference desk on the first floor. If you're having trouble finding it just come up and ask someone at the desk.

"The Case Study of Chujohime"

CENTER FOR JAPANESE STUDIES SEMINAR SERIES

The Crossing of Boundaries between the Religious and Social Constructions of Gender in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives: The Case Study of Ch•ujohime

By Dr. Monika Dix
Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature
EALL, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

DATE: Thursday, October 25, 2007
TIME: 3:00 - 4:30PM
PLACE: Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319)
The story of the legendary eighth-century young noblewoman, Chujohime, is one of the
extensive body of late medieval short stories - collectively called otogi zÿshi -which are preserved in written form from the Muromachi period (1392-1573) onward and are generally considered the earliest works of popular literature in Japan.

One of the key stories in the Chujohime legend is her journey to Hibariyama - a fantastic textual, physical, and spiritual transcendent travel which played a key role in the popularization of Ch•ujohime's legend and her cult from the fifteenth to seventeenth century.

This paper focuses on the significance of Chujohime's transcendent journey to Hibariyama and explores how it constitutes a crossing of boundaries between the religious and social constructions of gender in this Buddhist tale of female salvation, presenting Chujohime as religious outcast - not being able to attain enlightenment in her female body due to her sex - and as social outcast - transgressing the bounds of her role of filial daughter vis-à-vis her father.

Dr. Dix suggests that Chujohime's forced journey to Hibariyama - her exile - not only triggers her religious awakening (hosshin) but also indicates a constant renegotiation of gender-power imbalance between Pure Land Buddhist ideology and social customs which mutually influenced each other in casting transgressing women as religious outcasts in late medieval Japanese society.

East-West Center to feature traditional Japanese music

What: A program of koto and shakuhachi
Where: Imin Center at Jefferson Hall, East-West Center
When: 8 p.m. Oct.13, 4 p.m. Oct. 14

"The show, titled "Music Masters from Japan: Koto and Shakuhachi," will feature Masateru Ando, principal koto master at Tokyo University of the Arts, and his daughter, Tamaki Ando.

Christopher Yomei Blasdel, a veteran performer and teacher in Japan, will be the featured shakuhachi artist.

Tickets are $15 ($12 military, students and seniors), available at the University of Hawaii-Manoa Campus Center box office, at via the Honolulu Box Office, phone 550-8457, or online at www.honoluluboxoffice.com." - from The Advertiser

Orient Yourself: study abroad opps

The "Orient Yourself: Online Catalog of Study Abroad Opportunities in East Asia", sponsored by the United States Department of Education, is an online database to promote the learning of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

http://nealrc.osu.edu/studyineastasia/default.cfm

Chinese Studies Faculty Websites

I am in the process of assembling the links for websites published by Chinese Studies faculty since none are listed on the Chinese Studies website. Please bear with me as the list slowly develps.

Vincent K. Pollard

google calendar! & introduction

Hello everyone,

I'm Amanda, the student who no one sees because I'm just taking classes in Library and Information Science this semester. I'm in Japanese Studies also - studied abroad one year at Kansai Gaidai Univ in Hirakata, Osaka - and since I'm in LIS I'm really into technology and networking, but I'm also into getting together face to face which I hope to do with some of you all :)

I've integrated all of our events into Google Calendar. If you already have an existing Google Calendar it's great because you can just check a box and have all the Asian Studies events overlaid in your calendar - or uncheck the box and have it all disappear. If you don't have a Google Calendar it's a good time to check it out, our calendar is viewable even if you don't have an account.



I have some other nefarious plans but my mind sometimes goes faster than the time I have so that's all for now. I work at the BHSD reference desk at Hamilton, so if you see me feel free to say hi.

Formosa Betrayed

It looks as if there is a film coming out based on George Kerr's novel, "Formosa Betrayed".

Here is the link for the movie website:
http://www.formosabetrayed.com

Here is the link for a review of the film:
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/article.php?id=5031&IssueNum=87