Three Primary Cultures of Northeast Asia

China
Japan
Korea

ICAS – International Convention of Asia Scholars – Where the topics about the marginalized Asian Voice
was originally presented

Susan Lee – Compared the cultures of Choson period of Korean (1392-1910) and Edo period of
Japanese (1600-1868). Also the one to reveal that there is an idealized image of the “talented women”
that was constructed on the basis of such portraiture in genre paintings.

Daniel J. Sullivan – A focus on fiction was brought after he made an analysis of a seminal nineteenth-
century work of historical fiction, entitled “Musashino”, written by Japanese novelist Yamada Bimyo.

PRC – People’s Republic of China –

Other Motifs of China – Love, and Eroticism

“Bad Girl” Writers/Writing – Famous or notorious on-line bloggers, photo essayist, and their traditional
counterparts from printing, whom publishes novels or short-story collections.

Mao Chen – Examined Bing Xin through a contemporary perspective.

Bing Xin – A major female short story writer and essayist in China. She uses male liberals as naratorrs in
her stories, as well as the type of feminism that she exemplified.

Georg Lehner – Focused on tracing the development of Chinese studies or sinology in Europe.

Izabella Labedzka – Provided an in-depth exploration of both representative examples of PRC

experimental plays as well as the body of theoretical and critical commentary that supported such plays
and thrived in their midst.

Andre Malraux – Wrote his novel La Condition Humaine in a Western literary sensibility’s attempt to fit
within a Chinese setting.

William D. Melaney - Whom revealed the many irony including how supposedly the Europeans and
non-Chinese revolutionaries were in control of the revolution, when infact, it was the indigenous
Chinese people that were reason of their own revolution. Melaney demonstrates the importance of
giving this novel a critical or “double” reading that recovers or at least acknowledges representative
Chinese voices who have remained silent or marginalized within this novel.

Gisors – The Protagonists of La Condition Humaine.

Sohyeon Park – His investigation involves the dynamism of a pre-modern female Asian readership can
be underestimated by a largely male group of scholars. He also deftly brings together multiple strands of
the complex story of how women became the dominant readership of Korean translations of Chinese
vernacular fiction – as well as what this meant to their patterns of social networking and its role in the
development of indigenous Korean literary forms such as Kasa poetry.
Supriya Banik Pal – Brought together and compared various poems in India which reveal a range of
remarkable poetic sensibilities and evocative imagery.