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Program Number: 3-148
Type: Session
Session Title: UNTYING THOUGHT KNOTS: POLITICS, CULTURE AND MENTAL HEALTH IN EAST ASIA
Session Sponsor: Society for East Asian Anthropology
Session Date/Time: Sat., 1:45 PM-5:30 PM
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Organizer(s): JANICE MATSUMURA (Simon Fraser University), JIE YANG (Simon Fraser University ) 
Chair(s): JIE YANG (Simon Fraser University ), JANICE MATSUMURA (Simon Fraser University) 
Participants:  
1:45 PM: INTRODUCTION: JIE YANG (Simon Fraser University )  
2:00 PM: SUNG KIL MIN (Yonsei University ) -- Divided Countries, Divided Mind: Psycho-social Issues in Adaptation Problems of North Korean Defectors  
2:15 PM: TERESA KUAN (Whittier College) -- Why Did Ma Jiajue Kill?: Psychologizing the Social in China  
2:30 PM: XIN CHAI (University of Chicago) -- Moral Solidification through Public Discussions of Suicide: A Case in Contemporary China  
2:45 PM: JIE YANG (Simon Fraser University ) -- From Ideological Orientation to Psychological Counseling: Governing the Unemployed and the Urban Poor in Post-Mao China  
3:00 PM: DISCUSSANT: JESOOK SONG (Univ of Toronto)  
3:15 PM: BREAK  
3:30 PM: MIEKE MATTHYSSEN -- Nande Hutu “It’s not easy to be muddleheaded”: a ‘strategy’ for promoting the harmonious society  
3:45 PM: HYEON JUNG LEE (Washington University in St. Louis) -- Resistance or Reinforcement: The State and an NGO’s Discourse on Female Suicide in Rural China  
4:00 PM: JANICE MATSUMURA (Simon Fraser University) -- “All Equal under the Emperor”? Studies of psychiatric disorders in the Japanese colonies  
4:15 PM: AKIHITO SUZUKI (Keio University) -- Tropical Neurasthenia and Immigration Policy in Imperial Japan 1935-45  
4:30 PM: DISCUSSANT: ROY GRINKER (George Washington U)  
4:45 PM: DISCUSSION  
5:00 PM: DISCUSSION  
5:15 PM: DISCUSSION  
5:30 PM: End of Session
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