2010 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting

The USCI listing includes China-focused presentations and panels at the 2010 AAS annual meeting.

The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is the largest society of its kind, with more than 7,000 members worldwide. It is a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association. It seeks through publications, meetings, and seminars to facilitate contact and an exchange of information among scholars to increase their understanding of East, South, and Southeast Asia. It counts among its members scholars, business people, diplomats, journalists, and interested lay persons.

The 2010 AAS annual meeting is at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown on March 25-28, 2010.

Sessions that are China-related include the following:

Thursday, March 25
2, 3, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26

Friday, March 26
28 , 30, 31, 32, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 83, 84, 93, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 124. 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130

Saturday, March 27
133, 134, 135, 137, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 184, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 213, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231

Sunday, March 28
235, 236, 237, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 262, 263, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282 

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Pre-Conference Events

Thursday, 9 am
AAS China & Inner Asia Council - Room 401

10:30 am
CEAL Committee on Chinese Materials - Grand Salon Ballroom A/B

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Thursday, March 25

SESSION 2, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Liberty Ballroom Salon B
Conquest by Administration: Chinese State Expansion and Contraction in the Southern Borderlands

Chaired by James A. Anderson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Where to Draw the Line? The Chinese Southern Frontier in the Six Dynasties

Using Han Ways to Rule Non-Han Peoples: Sinitic Political Culture in the Frontier Administration of the Dali and Dai Viet Kongdoms
    James A. Anderson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Political Policy and Cultural Representation in Ming-Mac Relations
    Kathlene Baldanza, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant:
    John K. Whitmore, University of Michigan

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SESSION 3, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Room 502
Reading Buddhist Poetry: Histories, Uses, Genres

Chaired by Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University

Social Acts and Emotional Outlets: Functions of Buddhist Poetry in Late Imperial China
    Beverley N. Foulks, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Nature and Emotion in Nineteenth-Century Tibetan Lyric
    Kurtis R. Schaeffer, University of Virginia

SESSION 12, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon B
Mainland Southeast Asia at the Crossroads: Reflections on the Work of F.K. Lehman (U Chit Hlaing)

Chaired by Juliane Schober, Arizona State University

Pleasing and Teasing: The Range and Richness of Expressives in the Tibeto-Burman Linguistic Area
    Juliane K. Wheatley, Independent Scholar

From SE Asia to SW China: Models of Inter-Ethnic Relations in the Upland BOrderlands
    Ann Maxwell Hill, Dickinson College

Geneologies of Nurture: Of Pots and Professors
    Penelope van Esterik, York University

Discussant:
    Charles F. Keyes, University of Washington

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SESSION 17, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Liberty Ballroom Salon C
Roundtable: Against Amnesia: History, Memory, and the Role of the Public Intellectual in 21st-Century China

Chaired by Jian Guo, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

Discussant:
    Weiping Cui, Beijing Film University
    Rowena Xiaoqing He, Harvard University
    Youqin Wang, University of Chicago
    Edward Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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SESSION 18, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon L
The Productive Uses of Gossip and Rumor in Imperial China

Chaired by Paola Zamperini, Amherst College

Oral Networks and the Order of Gentry Society
    Hajime Nakatani, McGill University

Image of a Chinese Gentleman: Considering Xie An's Reputation in the Shishuo Xinyu
    Jack Chen, University of California, Los Angeles

Scandalous Writing: Gossip as Productive Narrative Form in Jin Ping Mei and Xu Jin Ping Mei
    Paize Keulemans, Yale University

Who's Who in the Capital? Innuendo, Gossip, and Networking in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Beijing
    Andrea S. Goldman, University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant:
    Robert Hymes, Columbia University

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SESSION 19, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Room 411
Continuity, Disruption, and Subjectivity in the Culture of Urban Change in Contemporary China

24 City: Cinema, Real Estate, and Memories
    Hai Ren, University of Arizona

Middle Classes or House Slaves? Identities and Social Tension in China's Property Culture
    Samuel Y. Liang, University of Manchester

Articulating Experiences of Multiple Modernities in East Asian Cities: Narratives of Anti-Bildungsroman in Three Chinese Films

When Simulacra Penetrates Reality: The Fantasy of Urban Space in Contemporary Chinese Art
    Chang Tan, Harvey Mudd College

Discussant:
    Alexander Des Forges, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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SESSION 20, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Ruptured Childhoods: Children in Wartime East Asia

Chaired by Barak Kushner, University of Cambridge

Orphaned Emotions: Inscribing War Orphans' Losses into the Language of the Nation in Wartime Sichuan
    M. Colette Plum, Widener University

Breaking the Law: Children as Subjects of Moral Concern in Wartime China, 1937-1945
    Lily Chang, University of Oxford

Discussant:
    Barak Kushner, University of Cambridge

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SESSION 21, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Room 401
Moving Beyond the Great Firewall of China: Internet Politics in Constructing a "Harmonious Society"

Chaired by Min Jiang, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

From Authoritarian Deliberation to Collective Action: Internet Collective Incidents (Wangluo Qunti Shijian) in China
    Min Jiang, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

From "Little Fatty" to the "Grass Mud Horse": User-Generated Content as Parody and Protest on the Chinese Internet
    Cara Wallis, Texas A&M University

Traditional Journalism and Citizen Journalism in China: Toward a Symbiotic Relationship
    Johan Lagerkvist, Swedish Institute of International Affairs

Discussant:
    Howard W. French, Columbia University

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SESSION 22, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Room 305
Rethinking Underground Ritual Sites in Tang-Song China

Chaired by Yun-Chiahn C. Sena, University of Texas, Austin

Getting Physical with the Dead: Buddhist Relic Depositories and Burial Practice during the Tang Dynasty
    Wei-Cheng Lin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Appropriating Antiquity in Song Tombs and Caches
    Yun-Chiahn C. Sena, University of Texas, Austin

Archaistic Elegance: Excavated Gold and Silver Objects in Song China
    Dongfang Qi, Peking University

Discussant:
    Francois Louis, Bard College

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SESSION 23, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Liberty Ballroom Salon A
Chinese Money in the World: The Domestic and International Implications of China's Foreign Exchange Reserve

How Does China Formulate Its Exchange Rate Policies? A Fragmented Authoritarian View with Private Sector Participation
    Victor Shih, Northwestern University

China’s Trade and Investment in the Americas
    Matthew G. Ferchen, Tsinghua University

Crossing the River, Yet Again, by Feeling for Stones: The Gradual Internationalization of the RMB

A Principal-Agent Analysis of China’s Sovereign Wealth System: Byzantine by Design
    Sarah B. Eaton, University of Toronto

China’s Checkbook Energy Diplomacy

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SESSION 24, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon H
Roundtable: Politics and Thought in China: A Dialogue with Wang Hui

Chaired by David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University

Discussants:
    Prasenjit Duara, National University of Singapore
    Josephine Chiu-Duke, University of British Columbia
    Eric Hayot, Pennsylvania State University
    Theodore D. Huters, University of California, Los Angeles

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SESSION 25, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon C
Perceptions of Chinese Peasant Bodies in the PRC

Chaired by Julia C. Strauss, SOAS, University of London

Famine, Diseases, and Public Health during the Great Leap Forward
    Yixin Chen, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

The “Peasant” Identities of Senior Chinese Medicine Practitioners in the PRC: Remembering the Maoist Past
    Lena Springer, University of Vienna

Story of a Blood-Seller: Peasants, AIDS Villages, and the Representation of Suffering
    Ying Qian, Harvard University

Sexing the Bodies of the Peasant Worker in China’s Cities: Dangerous Sexual Desires of the “Other”
    Felix Wemheuer, University of Vienna

Discussant:
    Julia C. Strauss, SOAS, University of London

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SESSION 26, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Room 401
Individual Papers: Being Chinese

Chaired by James H. Carter, Saint Josephs University

Exhibiting Chineseness: The Taiwan Provincial Exposition 1948
    Wen-shuo Liao, Academia Historica

A Nation-Rescuing Mission: An Investigation of Modernity, Nationalism, and Confucianism in the Critical Discourse of American Films in 1920s China
    Qian Zhang, University of Pittsburgh

The Great Exodus: Lives and Travels of Chinese Mainlanders in Early Postwar Taiwan, 1948-1960
    Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, University of British Columbia

Muslim Sanzijings and Chinese Islam: Three Characters on the Evolving Character of Islam in China
    Roberta Tontini, University of Heidelberg

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Friday, March 26

SESSION 28, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Grand Ballroom Salon C
Conversion, Collaboration, and Conflict: Interactions between Religion and Colonialism in Asian Societies

Chaired by Kalzang D. Bhutia, University of Alabama

Colonialism, Religion, and Social Stratification in Sri Lanka
    Asoka Bandarage, Georgetown University

Localized Colonialism and Local Politics: Local Vegetarian Cult and Catholicism in Zhejiang, China, 1850-1900
    Shih-chieh Lo, Brown University

How Does a Hidden Land Fit into Empire? The Role of the Lhatsun Lineage in Sikkimese Polity as an Anti-colonial Discourse
    Kalzang D. Bhutia, University of Alabama

Hanging Identities: Hindus and Hindu Religions in Sindh (Pakistan) in Post-Colonial Context
    Sadia Mahmood, Arizona State University

The Immanence of Kamui Moshir: Ainu Shamanic Ritual and Recapturing an Indigenous Modernity in Northern Japan
    Christopher D. Loy, Binghamton University

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SESSION 30, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Liberty Ballroom Salon B
Strangers within the Gates: External Influence on Domestic Social, Economic, and Political Development

Chaired by Lynn T. White, Princeton University

Reclaiming Mines and Reforming Laws in China, 1895-1910
    Xiao Wu, Princeton University

Bonding with Foreigners in Late Qing China, 1900-1911
    Elya J. Zhang, Fordham University

How External Intervention Made the Sovereign State: Foreign Rivalries, Local Collaboration, and State Formation in China and Indonesia
    Ja Ian Chong, Hong Kong University of Science & Tech.

Diasporas vs. Multinationals: Foreign Origins of External Liberalization in China and India
    Min Ye, Boston University

Recovering Chinese Tradition from Abroad: Gu Hongming’s Reconstruction of Confucianism
    Chunmei Du, Western Kentucky University

Discussant:
Edward A. McCord, George Washington University

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SESSION 31, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Grand Ballroom Salon I
Inner Flows and Fusions: Mapping Musical Dynamism in East and Southeast Asia

Chaired by R. A. Sutton, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Multi-Ethnic and Crosscultural Fusion in Chinese Instrumental Performance
    J. Lawrence Witzleben, University of Maryland, College Park

Discussant:
    Ricardo D. Trimillos, University of Hawaii, Manoa

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SESSION 32, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 502
Illustrating Reception: Honglou meng, Genji monogatari, and Visual Culture

Chaired by Sophie Volpp, University of California, Berkeley

Baochai Chasing Butterflies: Visual Culture in Honglou Meng, Honglou Meng in Visual Culture
    Kimberly Besio, Colby College

Illustrating Honglou Meng: A History of Reception
    I-Hsien Wu, New School University

Discussant:
    Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College

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SESSION 46, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Liberty Ballroom Salon A
The Politics of Ethnicity in China

Chaired by L. Harald Bockman, University of Oslo

Rule of Law in China’s Ethnic Regions: What Happens When State and Local Laws Conflict?
    Katherine Kaup, Furman University

“We Are All Part of the Same Family”: China’s Ethnic Propaganda
    Anne-Marie Brady, University of Canterbury

From Multinationalism to Multiculturalism: New Liberal Logics and the National Regional Autonomy Framework in the PRC

Reflections on the Course of China’s Policies on Ethnicity, from 1949 to the Present Day
    Binghao Jin, Central University for Nationalities

Discussant:
    A. Tom Grunfeld, State University of New York, Empire State College

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SESSION 47, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 402/403
Empire and Space

Chaired by Kären Wigen, Stanford University

Centers in Imperial China
    Mark Edward Lewis, Stanford University

The Geography of Political Communication and the Historical Sociology of Empire
    Hilde De Weerdt, University of Oxford

Longue-durée Urbanization and Dynastic Urbanism in Late Imperial China
    Siyen Fei, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant:
    Kären Wigen, Stanford University

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SESSION 48, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Grand Ballroom Salon B
Media and Mediation: NGOs and Civic Associations in 21st-Century China

Chaired by Isabel Hilton, China Dialogue

Wokai: Social and Business Entrepreneurship and Community Building across the Pacific
    Thomas B. Gold, University of California, Berkeley

NGO 2.0: An Experiment
    Jing Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cool Mountain Education Fund: Launching an NGO in a Minority Village
    Tami Blumenfield, University of Washington
    Barbara Grub, University of Washington, Seattle

Digital Repertoires and Hybrid Forms of Civic Organizing in China
    Guobin Yang, Barnard College, Columbia University

Chinese NGOs and Environmental Education
    Rob Efird, Seattle University

Discussant:
    Isabel Hilton, China Dialogue

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SESSION 49, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 414/415
Sonic Nationalism and Collective Memory in China

Chaired by Joshua Howard, University of Mississippi

Making a National Icon: Commemorating Nie Er’s Life and Music, 1935-1949
    Joshua Howard, University of Mississippi

Anthologizing, Performing, and Narrating the Chinese National Past through Music
    Sue M. C. Tuohy, Indiana University-Bloomington

Discussant:
Frederick Lau, University of Hawaii, Manoa

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SESSION 50, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 410
Historicizing “Philosophy” in China: Transmission, Reception, and Uses of a Borrowed Category

Chaired by Joshua A. Fogel, York University

Philosophy’s Ascendancy: The Genealogy of Tetsugaku/Zhexue in Japan and China, 1870-1930
    Ori Sela, Princeton University

From the Discovery of a Discipline to the Invention of a Tradition, or: How “Chinese Logic” was Given Its History
    Joachim Kurtz, University of Heidelberg

Fu Sinian’s Views on Philosophy
    Carine Defoort, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

A Few Examples of Early Chinese “Philosophy”
    Michael J Hunter, Princeton University

Discussant:
    Joshua A. Fogel, York University

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SESSION 51, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 303/304
Exploring New Pilgrimages in China and Taiwan

Chaired by Paul Steven Sangren, Cornell University

Incense as Ethical Substance: On the Material Culture of Taiwanese Pilgrimages
    Donald John W. Hatfield, Berklee College of Music

Kam Ancestry, Pilgrimage, and Social Exchange Performance in an Age of Tourism
    Shu-jung Lin, National Tsing Hua University

Pilgrimage as Bridge: Transcending Peripheralization in Post-Militarized Islands of Taiwan
    Wei-ping Lin, National Taiwan University

Discussant:
    Paul Steven Sangren, Cornell University

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SESSION 52, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 305/306
Forgotten Arts of the Ming Dynasty

Chaired by Aida Yuen Wong, Brandeis University

Ming Dynasty Stone Sculpture
    Klaas Ruitenbeek, Museum of Asian Art, Berlin

The Ming Dynasty Tianyige Library Hall: The Building and Its Myth
    Cary Y. Liu, Princeton University

Green, Amber, and Cream: The Ceramic Workshop of the Ming Dynasty
    Eileen H. Hsu, Independent Scholar

The Cultural Meaning of Kingfisher Blue in Ming Decorations
    Aida Yuen Wong, Brandeis University

Discussant:
    David A. Sensabaugh, Yale University

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SESSION 54. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Liberty Ballroom Salon A
Roundtable: The Living Legacy of G. William Skinner - Sponsored by the China and Inner Asia Council

Chaired by Peter K. Bol, Harvard University

Discussants:
    Tsunetoshi Mizoguchi, Nagoya University
    Joseph W. Esherick, University of California, San Diego
    Susan Greenhalgh, University of California, Irvine
    Stevan Harrell, University of Washington
    William R. Lavely, University of Washington
    Daniel Little, University of Michigan, Dearborn

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SESSION 55. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon A
TOUCH: New Research Methods for Encounters with Youth Cultures in Asia

Chaired by David Leheny, Princeton University

Making Gods Cute: Intimacy and Alienation in Contemporary Taiwan
    Teri Silvio, Academia Sinica

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SESSION 56. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Room 303/304
Cultural Expressions of National Identity in Contemporary Asian Literature, Film, and Television

Chaired by Rachel DiNitto, College of William & Mary

Imagining Chinese Ethnic Minority in “Tuya’s Marriage”
    Xin Yang, Macalester College

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SESSION 72. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon L
China’s Long March Towards Musical Modernity in the 20th Century: Network, Ideologies, and Changes

Chaired by Joys H. Cheung, City University of Hong Kong

Musical Network and Creativity in Chinese Modernity: Ties and Stimulations in Colonial Shanghai (1919-1929)
    Joys H. Cheung, City University of Hong Kong

Ballads of New China: Negotiating Ideology and Traditional Aesthetics in Tanci Ballad Composition, 1949-1959
    Stephanie Webster-Cheng, University of Pittsburgh

Struggling with Typhoon: Political Upheaval of the Zheng from 1959 to 1969
    Mei Han, University of British Columbia

China’s Post-1990 Modernity: Erhu as Violin
    Shuo Zhang, University of Pittsburgh

Discussants:
    Ronald C. Egan, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Lei Ouyang Bryant, Skidmore College

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SESSION 74. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Independence Ballroom Salon I
State-Sponsorship in Modern Chinese Literature

Chaired by Daniel A. Fried, University of Alberta

“Transforming the Boundaries of Human Souls”: Zhou Libo and the Creation of Chinese Socialist Realism
    Richard King, University of Victoria

“New Democratic Culture,” “National Form,” and Socialist Realism: A Case Study of Zhao Shuli
    Xiaoping Wang, University of Texas, Austin

The Economics of Cultural Reform, Chen Yun, and Pingtan Storytelling, 1960s-1990s
    Qiliang He, University of South Carolina, Upstate

Common Soldiers through Post-Mao Army-Writer Fiction
    Hua Li, Montana State University

Discussant:
    Philip F. Williams, University of Montana

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SESSION 75. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Room 411/412
Jingdezhen’s China: New Approaches to the Material Culture of Ceramics

Chaired by Anne T. Gerritsen, University of Warwick

Putting Jingdezhen Porcelain in Its Domestic Context
    Susan Naquin, Princeton University

Jingdezhen Artisans and the Late-Ming Literary World
    Stephen McDowall, University of Warwick

The Shaping of Time: History and Art in The Records of Jingdezhen Ceramics (1815)
    Ellen C. Huang, University of California, Berkeley

Porcelain and Value: Debates and Practices from Contemporary Jingdezhen
    Maris Gillette, Haverford College

Discussant:
    Robert M. Mintz, Walters Art Museum

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SESSION 76. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon K
Local/Global Encounters: Transnational Social Movements in China

Chaired by Leslie K. Wang, University of California, Berkeley

Towards a Global Civil Society? Transnational Corporate Social Responsibility in Post-Socialist China
    Chris King-Chi Chan, City University of Hong Kong

A Transnational Social Movement? The Construction of Political Actorhood in AIDS Activism in China
    Yan Long, University of Michigan

Children First: Global Humanitarianism and Orphanage Care in China
    Leslie K. Wang, University of California, Berkeley

An Imagined Discourse—To Come Out or Not? Grassroots Organizations for Lesbian Rights in China

Discussants:
    Suowei Xiao, Beijing Normal University
    Sarah C. Swider, University of Akron

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SESSION 77. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Liberty Ballroom Salon C
Chinese Foreign Policy: Changes and Continuities

Chaired by Zhiqun Zhu, Bucknell University

The Spirit of Bandung Lives Forever! The New Strategic Partnership of Sino-Afro Political Solidarity
    Vera L. Fennell, Lehigh University

Chinese Investment and Aid in Southeast Asia: The Case of Cambodia
    Michael L. Sullivan, Center for Khmer Studies

The PRC’s Foreign Propaganda Apparatus during the Cold War: Challenges and Setbacks
    Cagdas Ungor, Marmara University

The Rhetoric of Chinese Diplomacy as a Soft Power Tool
    Dominik Mierzejewski, University of Lodz

Discussant:
    Zhiqun Zhu, Bucknell University

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SESSION 78. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Room 410
Individual Papers: Contemporary Chinese Politics and Society I

Chaired by Vivienne Shue, University of Oxford

When a Son is Born: The Impact of Fertility Patterns on Family Finance in Rural China
    Weili Ding, Queens University

“Guard Against Fire, Theft, and Journalists:” The Political Consequences of Chinese Media Corruption
    Jonathan Hassid, University of California, Berkeley

Protestors, Petitioners, and Plaintiffs: Disputing Property Rights in Rural and Urban China
    Christopher Heurlin, University of Washington

Managing the Managers: The Marketization of Cadre Education in Reform-Era China
    Charlotte Lee, Stanford University

The Colonized Chinese Rural Communities: The Story of Drinking Water in a North China Village

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SESSION 80. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Independence Ballroom Salon I
Globalization of Marriage and Family in Asia

Chaired by Rebecca Forgash, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Authority versus Autonomy in the Family?
    Qiong Xu, University of London

Trapped in Globalization? “New Immigrant Women” in Taiwan
    Catherine Chia-Lan Chang, Skidmore College

Victims of Human Trafficking or Suspects of Fraudulent Marriage? Knowledge Production of “Runaway Brides” in the Sex-Related Industry of Taiwan
    Hsun-Hui Tseng, University of Washington, Seattle

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SESSION 83. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Liberty Ballroom Salon A
Roundtable: G. William Skinner’s Data and New Quantitative Approaches - Sponsored by the China and Inner Asia Council

Chaired by Ruth Mostern, University of California, Merced

Discussants:
    Merrick Lex Berman, Harvard University
    Fabian Drixler, Yale University
    Mark G. Henderson, Mills College
    Yongxi Wu, University of Washington
    Yangfang Hou, Fudan University

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SESSION 84. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Liberty Ballroom Salon B
National Identities and East Asian International Relations

Chaired by Ming Wan, George Mason University

National Identities and Sino-Japanese Relations
    Ming Wan, George Mason University

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SESSION 93. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Room 414/415
Japanese Visual and Material Culture in Transnational Contexts: Shifting Ideas of “China” in Edo and Meiji Japan - Sponsored by the Japan Art History Forum

Chaired by Keiko Suzuki, Ritsumeikan University

Reconstructing China on the Kabuki Stage
    Ryoko Matsuba, Ritsumeikan University

Blurred Definitions of “Tojin” and “Tobutsu”: Downplaying the Cultural Authority of “Chinese People” and “Chinese Goods” in Late Edo Japan
    Keiko Suzuki, Ritsumeikan University

Copies or Inspired Originals? Production of Chinese-Style Porcelain in Meiji Japan
    Shinya Maezaki, SOAS, University of London

Defining the “Chinese School”: William Anderson’s Classification of Japanese Art
    Princess Akiko of Mikasa, University of Oxford

Discussant:
    John T. Carpenter, SOAS, University of London

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SESSION 97. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Room 305/306
Zhai: The Meanings of Periodic Abstinence in Early Medieval China - Sponsored by the Society for Study of Chinese Religions

Chaired by Robert F. Campany, University of Southern California

What’s Behind the Word Zhai? A Case Study in Cross-Cultural Adaptation
    Sylvie Hureau, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

The Meanings of Zhai in Early Medieval Chinese Buddhist Narratives
   Robert F. Campany, University of Southern California

Gesture, Word, and Intention: The Early 5th-Century Lingbao Zhai
    Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Arizona State University

Discussant:
    Michael Puett, Harvard University

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SESSION 98. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Room 402/403
Legalizing Ethnicity in Late Imperial China

Chaired by Edward L. Farmer, University of Minnesota

Constructing Han Legal Identity in Yuan, Ming, and Qing China
    Yonglin Jiang, Bryn Mawr College

Translating Mongolian Law in Qing China
    Frederic Constant, Université de Paris X-Nanterre

Imperial Subjecthood under the Qing: The Case of the Manchus
    Par K. Cassel, University of Michigan

Stereotyping Muslims, Misunderstanding Islam: Qing Officials and the Huihui
    Jonathan N. Lipman, Mount Holyoke College

Discussant:
    Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania

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SESSION 99. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon L
The Spatiality of Sympathy: Theatricality of Gender, Religion, and the State in Seventeenth- to Twentieth-Century China

Chaired by Haiyan Lee, Stanford University

In Other Cases: Theatrical Spectatorship and the Vicarious Politics in Seventeenth-Century China
    Ling Hon Lam, Vanderbilt University

Theatricality and the Politics of Religion and Gender: Liang Qichao, Zhang Taiyan, and He Zhen
    Viren V. Murthy, University of Ottawa

Melodrama and Politics of Sympathy in Fin-De-Siècle Tanci: On A Histoire of Heroic Women and Men (1905)
    Li Guo , University of Iowa

Discussants:
    Haiyan Lee, Stanford University
    William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University

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SESSION 100. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Room 408/409
Worrying About Workers and Peasants: China’s New Left Literature

Chaired by Jie Lu, University of the Pacific

Foregrounding Ideology in Literature: The Case Zuo’an Wenhua Wang”
    Xueping Zhong, Tufts University

Different Social Ideals: China’s New Left versus the Peasant Intellectuals

Issues and Challenges in Contemporary Chinese New Leftist Literary Criticism
    Jie Lu, University of the Pacific

From the “Red Classics” to the “New Left”: Performing Socialist Democracy”
    Xiaomei Chen, University of California, Davis

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SESSION 101. 1:00pm-3:00pm
Room 501
Out of a Double Blind Spot: Studies in Chinese Buddhist Historiography

Chaired by Albert Welter, University of Winnipeg

The Use of Sources in Chinese Buddhist Historiography
    John Kieschnick, University of Bristol

The Place of Geography in Chinese Buddhist Historiography
    James Robson, Harvard University

A Buddhist Monk Beside Confucian Statesmen: Expanding the Picture of Eleventh-Century Chinese Historiography
    Elizabeth Morrison, Middlebury College

When Monks Became Historians: The Compilation of Chan Histories in the Seventeenth Century
    Jiang Wu, University of Arizona

Discussant:
    Robert H. Sharf, University of California, Berkeley

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SESSION 102. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Independence Ballroom Salon II
‘Reconstructing’ Religion: Modernization and Tibetan Buddhism in Sino-Tibetan Areas during the Republican Period

Chaired by Andres Rodriguez, University of Southampton

Horizons of Scientia: Tibetan Buddhist Scholars on Sciences in the Republican Era
    Nicole Willock, Indiana University

Xuan Xiafu: A Chinese for the Tibetans
    Paul K Nietupski, John Carroll University

“Reconstructing” Tibetan Buddhism: Li Anzhai and the Development of Modern Education in Labrang Monastery
    Andres Rodriguez, University of Southampton

Discussant:
    Gray Tuttle, Columbia University

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SESSION 103. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Independence Ballroom Salon III
Writing China’s Modern History in Contemporary Greater China

Chaired by William Kirby, Harvard University

Reshaping the History of China: Disciplinary Approaches and the Writing of Specialized History (zhuanshi)
    Qing Zhang, Fudan University

Recent Research on Republican Chinese History in China
    Chaoguang Wang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Rediscovering Twentieth-Century China in Taiwanese Historical Study
    Li Chang, Academia Sinica

Discussants:
    Chongji Jin, Party History Archives
    Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California, Berkeley
    Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, University of Vienna

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SESSION 104. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon J
Complexities of Global Civil Society-NGO-State Relations in China

Chaired by Scott Wilson, University of the South

The Global Women’s Movement and Chinese Women’s Rights
    Joan Kaufman, Brandeis University

Development and Division: The Role of Global Civil Society and Funding within China’s LGBT Activist Community
    Timothy R. Hildebrandt, University of Louisville

State and Transnational Advocacy: A Tale of Three International Non-State Organizations in Preventing AIDS in China
    Fengshi Wu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Running on Hope: International Soft Support for Chinese Environmental Litigation
    Rachel Stern, Harvard University

Seeking One’s Day in Court: Chinese Regime Responsiveness to International Legal Norms on AIDS Carriers’ and Pollution Victims’ Rights
    Scott Wilson, University of the South

Discussant:
    Yiyi Lu, University of Nottingham

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SESSION 105. 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon H
Roundtable: China’s Rise in Historical Perspective

Chaired by Lowell Dittmer, University of California, Berkeley

Discussants:
    Michael Swaine, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
    Barry Naughton, University of California, San Diego
    R. Keith Schoppa, Loyola College in Maryland

 

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SESSION 107. 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Room 305/306
Ethnic Politics on the Northern Borderlands in Imperial China

Chaired by John Herman, Virginia Commonwealth University

Rewriting the Political Landscape: The Han Empire and Its Neighbors
    Meiyu Hsieh, Stanford University

A Shadow State in Northeast Asia: Persistence and Eclipse of the “Bohai” Ethnicity, 1115-1260
    Jesse D. Sloane, Princeton University

East Tartary, the Willow Palisade, Whose Homeland Is It? Exiled Han Chinese in Early Qing Manchuria
    Hsueh-Yi Lin, Princeton University

Discussant:
    Mark C. Elliott, Harvard University

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SESSION 124. 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Disease Control and National (Re)construction: Tuberculosis, Schistosomiasis, and Malaria in Maoist China

Chaired by Marta E. Hanson, Johns Hopkins University

From the Red Chamber to the Red Factory: TB Control and Mass Mobilization in the Shanghai Workplace
    Rachel S. Core, Johns Hopkins University

Chasing Snails: Anti-Schistosomiasis Campaigns in the People’s Republic of China
    Miriam D. Gross, University of California, San Diego

Anti-Malaria Campaigns and Socialist Reconstruction in China: 1950-1980
    Liping Bu, Alma College

Discussant:
    Yuehtsen Juliette Chung, National Tsing Hua University

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SESSION 125. 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon J
Empire and the Local in Ming China - Sponsored by the Society for Ming Studies

Chaired by Antonia Finnane, University of Melbourne

Local Officials, Examinations, and Cantonese Migration in the West River Basin, 1550s-1750s
    Steven B. Miles, Washington University, St. Louis

Simplifying the Local: Wang Yangming’s Policies as Grand Coordinator and Supreme Commander in China’s Southern Provinces
    Larry Israel, Macon State College

Struggling for Balances: A Case Study of County Finance in Late Ming
    Zhaohui He, Shandong University

Inside the Notion of Local Distinctiveness: A Case of Huizhou
    Yongtao Du, Oklahoma State University

Discussant:
    Antonia Finnane, University of Melbourne

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SESSION 126. 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Room 501
The “New Woman’s” Other: Poetess, Woman Warrior, Paragon of Virtue, and Maternal Tutoress in Late Qing and Republican China

Chaired by Lingzhen Wang, Brown University

Women’s Vision of Late Qing Poetics: Min Poetesses’ Historical Construction of the Min Poetic School
    Nanxiu Qian, Rice University

Virtue as “Tearful” Fetish: Pathetic Heroines in Early Republican “New Drama”
    Li Jin, Oberlin College

Warrior Women: Modernizing a Traditional Trope and Traditionalizing a Modern Trope
    Louise Edwards, University of Hong Kong

Constructing a Female Lineage of Learning: The Case of Chen Hengzhe’s Autobiography of a Chinese Young Girl (1935)
    Tieniu Cheng, University of California, Irvine

Discussant:
    Lingzhen Wang, Brown University

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SESSION 127. 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon A
States of Marginality: Statehood, Sovereignty, and the Person among Tibetans in the PRC and Beyond

Chaired by Charlene E. Makley, Reed College

Imperial Borderland/Socialist State: Authority, Sovereignty, and the Closing of the Frontier in 1950s Northeastern Amdo
    Benno Weiner, Columbia University

Sovereignty and Citizenship in Exile: An Ethnography of the Tibetan Refugee State

House-building, Development, and Sovereignty in Tibet
    Emily Yeh, University of Colorado, Boulder

The Abstract State: Dilemmas of Sovereignty and Scale among Tibetans in China
    Charlene E. Makley, Reed College

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SESSION 128. 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Room 411/412
For Modernizations: Reconsidering the Post-Mao Moment in the Arts

Chaired by Robin L. Visser, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Uncanny Realism, or How to Read a Chinese Picture
    Yun Peng, University of Pittsburgh

Divorcing the Rural, Returning to the City: A Critical Re-Visit to the 1980s
    Hui Faye Xiao, University of Kansas

The Language of Modernizing Film Language: Cinematic Discourse in the Early Deng Era
    Jason McGrath, University of Minnesota

Modernizing Dramatic Theory: Theatrical Interculturalism in Post-Mao China
    Brittany Wellner, University of Cambridge

Discussants:
    Robin L. Visser, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Krista Van Fleit Hang, University of South Carolina

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SESSION 129. 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon I
Record Production in Republican Shanghai: Musical Culture between Entertainment and Politics, 1911-1949

Chaired by Andreas Steen, Aarhus University

New Media, New Habits: Beijing Opera and Record Catalogues in Republican Shanghai, 1928-1932
    Andreas Steen, Aarhus University

Popular Music in Old Shanghai: A Resistance for Identification
    Fang-yi Hung, National Chiao Tung University

The Censorship of Record Production in Shanghai during the Republican Period
    Tao Ge, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

Delivering ‘Sounds of Decadence’ in Up-Market Venues: Chinese Pop Concerts in 1944-1945
    Szu-Wei Chen, National Taiwan University

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SESSION 130. 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Liberty Ballroom Salon B
The Social Art of Poetry in Medieval China

Chaired by David R. Knechtges, University of Washington

The Emperor’s Borrowed Voice: Group Poetry Written to Imperial Command
    Meow Hui Goh, Ohio State University

Celebration, Death, and Nature in the “Orchid Pavilion Poems”
    Wendy Swartz, Columbia University

Group Poetry Composition and the Mid-Tang Literati Community
    Anna M. Shields, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Poems by Things: Riddling Poetic Exchanges in Tang Narratives
    Sarah M. Allen, Wellesley College

Discussant:
    Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Saturday, March 27

SESSION 133. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Liberty Ballroom Salon B
Japan-Taiwan Relations Before Empire

Chaired by Adam Clulow, Monash University

Fake Embassies, the Lord of Taiwan, and the Tokugawa Diplomatic Order
 Adam Clulow, Monash University

In the Shadow of Zheng Power: Taiwan on the International Stage in Seventeenth-Century East Asia
 Patrizia Carioti, University of Naples

Taiwan and the Crafting of Tokugawa Maritime Defense, 1660-1690
 Noell Howell Wilson, University of Mississippi

Sovereignty Debates, Territorial Projects, and Ethnic Identity: Re-Examining the 1874 Taiwan Incident
 Lung-chih Chang, Academia Sinica

Discussant:
 Paul D. Barclay, Lafayette College

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SESSION 134. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 408/409
Filling in the Map: Processes of Exchange and the Production of Geographical Knowledge in East Asia and the Middle East

Chaired by Kaveh Hemmat, University of Chicago

Traces in Ancient Maps: Exchange of Geographical Knowledge between China and the Islamic World during the Mongol Period
 Hyunhee Park, City University of New York, John Jay College

Modes of Representing the Yangzi River in 13th- and 14th-Century China
 Julia Orell, University of Chicago

China in the Imaginary Geography of the Post-Mongol Islamic World: “Chinese” Styles in Timurid Imperial Image-Making
 Kaveh Hemmat, University of Chicago

Discussant:
 Tsing Yuan, Wright State University

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SESSION 135. 8:30am-10:30am
Room 414/415
Modernizing Reproduction in Asia

Chaired by Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz

Ideology, Medical Knowledge, and Practices of Wutong Fenmian in 1950s China
 Byungil Ahn, Saginaw Valley State University

Delivering the Nation: Modern Childbirth in Republican China
 Tina Phillips Johnson, Saint Vincent College

Discussant:
 Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz

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SESSION 137. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 402/403
Brave New Asia: The Age of Asian Mega-Projects

Chaired by Xiangming Chen, Trinity College

If You Build It, They May Not Come Now: The Global Economic Crisis and the New Townships around Indian and Chinese Megacities
 Xiangming Chen, Trinity College

Discussant:
 Robert Cowherd, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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SESSION 149. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 303/304
Culture, Memory, and Politics in East Asia

Chaired by William A. Callahan, University of Manchester
Is China the Pessoptimist Nation? Memory, Culture, and Politics in the PRC
 William A. Callahan, University of Manchester

The Politics of Memory in Taiwan: Comfort Women and Restitution Campaigns Historical Memory as a Constitutive Norm: Jiang Zemin’s “Patriotic Turn”
 Zheng Wang, Seton Hall University

Reconstructing the Past to Legitimate the Future in China
 Daniel C. Lynch, University of Southern California

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SESSION 150. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Liberty Ballroom Salon C
Emerging Welfare State in China: Global, National, and Local Connections

Chaired by Xinru Liu, College of New Jersey

Negotiating Global Ideologies: Governance of Education in the People’s Republic of China
 Barbara Schulte, Lund University

Interactive Diffusion and China’s Social Security Reform: Towards a Global Historical Perspective
 Aiqun Hu, Arkansas State University

Catastrophic Medical Insurance and State-Society Relations in Rural China: Explaining Variation in Implementation of the New Cooperative Medical System
 Kerry E. Ratigan, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Globalization or Deindustrialization: Explaining the Changes in Welfare States in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan
 Dong Kyun Im, Harvard University

Discussant:
 Thomas G. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh

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SESSION 151. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Liberty Ballroom Salon A
Roundtable: Gender and Cultural Production: A New Approach to Chinese Women’s Journals in the Early 20th Century

Chaired by Joan Judge, York University

Discussants:
 Barbara Mittler, University of Heidelberg
 Grace S. Fong, McGill University
 Michel Hockx, SOAS, University of London

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SESSION 152. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Reevaluating the 1940s: Myth and Memory of the Nationalist-Communist Transition - Sponsored by the Chinese Military History Society

Chaired by Christopher Lew, University of Pennsylvania

A War within the War: The Road to the New Fourth Army Incident (January 1941)
 Xiaogang Lai, Queens University

The Battle of Siping (1946), George Marshall, and the Myth of Chiang Kai-shek’s “Last Chance” in Manchuria
 Harold M. Tanner, University of North Texas

Reporting from Yan’an: Equating the “Dixie Mission” and CCP Propaganda Themes
 Marcus Sgro, Institute of World Politics

Carry the Revolution to the End: Policy, Strategy, and Decision in the Third Revolutionary Chinese Civil War, 1947-49
 Christopher Lew, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant:
 Xiaobing Li, University of Central Oklahoma

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SESSION 153. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 305/306
Political Fragmentation in the Chinese State

Chaired by Sida Liu, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Who Has the Right to Make “Law” in China? Populism and Professionalism in China’s Legal Realms
 Mary E. Gallagher, University of Michigan

The City as a Fragmented Polity: Urban Preservation in Beijing
 Yue Zhang, University of Illinois, Chicago

The Logic of Fragmentation: Boundary-Work and Exchange in the Formation of the Chinese Legal Services Market
 Sida Liu, University of Wisconsin, Madison

SESSION 154. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 502
Reconfiguring Sovereignty: The Significance of the Qianlong-Jiaqing Transition in Qing History

Chaired by William T. Rowe, Johns Hopkins University

Literati Protest and Ascendant Literati Political Activism in Early Nineteenth-Century China
 Seunghyun Han, Academia Sinica

Three Rebellions, Three Resolutions: The Evolution of State/Sect/Society Relations in Qing China, 1774-1813
 Cecily McCaffrey, Willamette University

The Frontier Comes to China: The Changing Place of Frontier Studies in the Qianlong-Jiaqing Transition
 Matthew W. Mosca, University of Hong Kong

Social Crisis and “Inner State Building” during the Qianlong-Jiaqing Transition
 Wensheng Wang, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Discussant:
 William T. Rowe, Johns Hopkins University

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SESSION 155. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 411/412
Reframing Rurality in Contemporary China

Chaired by Eileen Rose Walsh, University of Oxford

Negotiating Class and Cultural Identity in Longquan Village
 Sydney D. White, Temple University

Living with Pollution: New Forms of Rurality in Yunnan Province
 Anna Lora-Wainwright, University of Oxford

Mobile Livelihoods, Practices of Parenthood, and the Well-Being of Children Left Behind in Rural China
 Rachel A. Murphy, University of Oxford

The New House: Livelihood, Debt, and Identity in the Changing Rural Landscape of Sichuan
 Pamela Leonard, Independent Scholar

Peasant Hosts: Modern Traditionals in Rural China
 Eileen Rose Walsh, University of Oxford

Imagining the Future: Evolving Perspectives of Rural Children
 Emily Hannum, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant:
 Ellen R. Judd, University of Manitoba

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SESSION 156. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 410
Individual Papers: Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

Chaired by Xiaobing Tang, University of Michigan

In the Name of the Child: Interiority, Landscape, and Sickness in Bing Xin’s Letters to Little Readers (1923-1926)
 Lanjun Xu, National University of Singapore

Imperial Visual Politics and the Cold War: Censorship Policies in British Hong Kong
 Jing Jing Chang, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign

Life as a Beautiful Trajectory: The Moment of Self-Revelation in Feng Zhi’s Wu Zixu
 Yanhong Zhu, Washington & Lee University

Visualizing the “Invisible” Through Socio-Spatial Distinctions of the Everyday: Rereading of Yuan Muzhi’s Street Angel in the Context of Postsocialist  Shanghai
 Lei Ping, New York University

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SESSION 157. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Class and Democracy in Asia

Chaired by K. S. Jomo, The United Nations

Unraveling the Riddle of China’s Missing Push for Democracy: The “Thick Embeddedness” of China’s “New Social Stratum”
 Christopher A. McNally, East-West Center

Comparative Asian Middle Class Research and its Dialogue with the West
 Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Academia Sinica

Discussants:
 John Gershman, New York University
 K. S. Jomo, The United Nations

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SESSION 158. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon H
The Economic-Security Nexus in Northeast Asia

Chaired by Meredith Woo, University of Virginia

The East Asian Economics-Security Nexus Revisited: From Securitization to Resecuritization?
 Min Gyo Koo, Yonsei University

Economics, Security, and Technology in Northeast Asia: Manuerving between Techno-Nationalist and Techno-Globalist Winds
 Tai Ming Cheung, University of California, San Diego

Drinking Poison to Quench a Thirst? The Security Consequences of China-Taiwan Economic Integration
 Scott Kastner, University of Maryland, College Park

The Economic Security Nexus in Northeast Asia
 T. J. Pempel, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant:
 Meredith Woo, University of Virginia

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SESSION 159. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Room 410
Administrative Law and Political Transformation in Asian States

Chaired by David Law, Washington University, St. Louis

Controlling the State after Transition: Explaining Choice Mechanisms for State Accountability in East Asia
 Jeeyang Rhee Baum, John F. Kennedy School of Government

The Cobweb of Economic Miracles: Administrative Decision-Making in Taiwan
 Cheng-Yi Huang, Academia Sinica

Exporting the APA: Lessons from the Chinese Example
 Neysun Mahboubi, University of Connecticut

Discussant:
 David Law, Washington University, St. Louis

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SESSION 160. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Room 303/304
China and Japan in War and Peace

Chaired by Parks M. Coble, University of Nebraska

Medicine, Philanthropy, and Imperialism: The Dojinkai in China, ca. 1902-1945
 Chieko Nakajima, Assumption College

The South Manchurian Railway Company and the Making of Japan’s Official “Jewish Policy” in Occupied China
 Bei Gao, College of Charleston

National Father and Pan-Asian Brother: The Sun Yatsen Mausoleum during the Japanese Occupation of Nanjing, 1937-1945
 Charles Musgrove, St. Marys College of Maryland

The Issue of the Comfort Women
 Jianyue Chen, Northeast Lakeview College

Remembering and Forgetting the War of Resistance: Japanese Veterans and War Criminals in China, 1950-1958
 Adam Cathcart, Pacific Lutheran University

Discussants:
 Parks M. Coble, University of Nebraska
 Daqing Yang, George Washington University

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SESSION 161, 10:45-12:45 pm
Room 411-412
Roundtable: Media in Teaching Asia -- Present Realities and Future Possibilities

Sponsored by the Committee for Teaching about Asia
Chaired by Anne Prescott, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Clayton Dube, University of Southern California
Robert Fish, Japan Society
Roberta Martin, Columbia University
Ritu Saksena, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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SESSION 174. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon C
A Marginality Debate: Regional Formation and Transhistorical Perspectives on South China and the Pearl River Delta

Chaired by John E. Wills Jr., University of Southern California

Canton Days and Canton Ways: The Canton System in Its Regional Context
 John M. Carroll, University of Hong Kong

Regional Governmentalities in China and the Pearl River Delta
 Carolyn L. Cartier, University of Technology, Sydney

Hong Kong, China, and the Pearl River Delta Region: Recollecting and Forgetting
 Angelina Chin, Pomona College

Region at Sea: Hydrographic Perspectives on Regional Evolution in the Pearl River Delta
 Charles J. Wheeler, University of Hong Kong

Discussants:
 John E. Wills, Jr., University of Southern California
 David S. G. Goodman, University of Sydney

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SESSION 175. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Room 404
Old Classics, New Women: Three Rewritten Tales of Female Empowerment in Modern China

Chaired by Jianmei Liu, University of Maryland

The Female Cross-Dresser and the Wartime Activist: Ouyang Yuqian’s Mulan Congjun
 Carolyn M. FitzGerald, Auburn University

A Feminist Wu Zetian? Tian Han’s Rewriting of Wu Zetian and the Quest for New National Drama
 Jing Jiang, Reed College

From “Slave Mother” to “Princess Warrior”: Rewriting Gender in Web-Based Popular Chinese Romance
 Jin Feng, Grinnell College

Discussant:
 Jianmei Liu, University of Maryland

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SESSION 176. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon L
The Return of the Repressed: Aspects of the Confucian Revival in Contemporary Chinese Society

Chaired by Kenneth J. Hammond, New Mexico State University

The Tenacious Persistence of Confucianism in Modern Japan and China
 Robert W. Foster, Berea College

Scientism and Modern Confucianism
 Jennifer Oldstone-Moore, Wittenberg University

Jackie Chan As Confucian Critic: Contemporary Popular Confucianism in China
 Jeffrey L. Richey, Berea College

Negotiating and Intellectual Revival: The Return of Traditional Values in Post-Socialist China
 Anthony A. DeBlasi, State University of New York, Albany

New Leftists and “Left” Confucians in Contemporary China
 Kenneth J. Hammond, New Mexico State University

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SESSION 177. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon B
Roundtable: “Memory of the Past, Capital of the Present”: Red Legacy in China

Chaired by Carma Hinton, George Mason University

Discussants:
 Michael R. Dutton, University of London
 Harriet Evans, University of Westminster
 Peter R. Button, New York University
 Enhua Zhang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
 Jie Li, Harvard University

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SESSION 178. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Room 305/306
Reassessing the Chinese Corporatist State: Sixty Years Onwards

Chaired by Jennifer Hsu, University of Cambridge

Discursive Politics of State Making and Knowledge Production
 Ping-Chun Hsiung, University of Toronto

Chinese NGOs and the Rise of the Local Corporatist State
 Reza Hasmath, University of Toronto
 Jennifer Hsu, University of Cambridge

Fragmented Corporatism: The Case of Chinese Industry Associations
 Heike Holbig, German Institute of Global and Area Studies

Unitarism and Corporatism: Collective Bargaining in China
 Xian Huang, Columbia University

Discussant:
 Robert P. Weller, Boston University

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SESSION 179. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Liberty Ballroom Salon B
Mutual Adaptations of the State and Religion in China

Chaired by Andre Laliberte, University of Ottawa

Buddhist Revival and the Resilience of Authoritarianism
 Andre Laliberte, University of Ottawa

“Some Learn, Some Adapt”: Sino-Vatican Relations and the Fate of Chinese Catholics
 Lawrence C. Reardon, Durham University

Institutional Choices of Church-State Relations in China
 Cheng-tian Kuo, National Chengchi University

Religion, Civility, and the State in Chinese Society: Taiwan and the PRC Compared
 David C. Schak, Griffith University

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SESSION 180. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Room 402/403
Labor Flexibility and Regulation in Chinese Industries

Chaired by Mark W. Frazier, University of Oklahoma

Toward Labor Flexibility with Chinese Characteristics? The Case of the Chinese Construction Machinery Industry
 Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University

Formalization of Informal Employment: The Untended Effects of Labor Contract Law on Labor Dispatching—New Evidence from China’s Automobile Industry
 Lu Zhang, Indiana University

Employment Relations in the Chinese Logistics Industry
 Jun Xiong, Renmin University of China

Private Labor Regulation of Electronics Facilities in China and Mexico: Hewlett-Packard’s Social and Environmental Responsibility Program
 Gregory Distelhorst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
 Xiaodan Zhang, City University of New York, York College

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SESSION 181. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Room 408/409
“All in the Family”: Hereditary Power in the Qing Government

Chaired by Michael G. Chang, George Mason University

Special Imperial Favor: The Inheritance of Manchu Hereditary Peerages and Official Positions, 1644-1912
 Haihong Li, Harvard University

Inheriting Wealth and Status: Sale of Offices and Elite Families in Qing China
 Lawrence L. Zhang, Bowdoin College

Fishing for Favors: Kinship, Tribute, and the Heje Tribes of Heilongjiang
 Loretta E. Kim, State University of New York, Albany

Discussant:
 Michael G. Chang, George Mason University

SESSION 182. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Room 401
Individual Papers: Contemporary Chinese Politics and Society II

Chaired by Elizabeth J. Remick, Tufts University

Building Modern Cities: The Politics of Spatial Control in Urban China
 Meg E. Rithmire, Harvard University

Lines of Injury in Contemporary China
 Trang X. Ta, University of Washington

Education, Militancy, and Success: Explaining the Outcomes of Peasant Protest in China
 Wu Zhang, Union College

China’s Cultural Policy toward Global Hollywood and Transnational Partnerships between 2001 and 2008
 Wendy Su, University of California, Riverside

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SESSION 184. 2:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Liberty Ballroom Salon A
Chairman Mao’s Invisible Hand: Revolutionary Legacies and Adaptive Authoritarianism

Chaired by Dali Yang, University of Chicago

Policymaking through Experimentation: The Formation of a Distinctive Policy Process
 Sebastian Heilmann, Trier University

From Mass Campaigns to Managed Campaigns: Constructing a New Socialist Countryside
 Elizabeth J. Perry, Harvard University

Governing Civil Society: The Role of Revolutionary Methods of Control in Contemporary China
 Nara Dillon, Harvard University

A Return to Populist Legality? Historical Legacies and Legal Reform
 Benjamin L. Liebman, Columbia University

Discussants:
 Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine
 Mark Selden, Cornell University

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SESSION 202. 2:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Room 410
The Local Power Nexus

Informal Networks and Local Upgrading Strategies: The Case of Nanjing

Local and Informal Institutions in China’s Market Transition

Factions and Spoils in China’s Local State

De Facto Decentralised Regulation with Formally Unitary Tax Law

Emerging Trends Within Central China’s Party/State Nexus
 Graeme Smith, University of Technology, Sydney

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SESSION 203. 2:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Liberty Ballroom Salon B
Democratizing Democracy: Politics of Social Movements in Contemporary Taiwan

Chaired by Jacques deLisle, University of Pennsylvania

State Transformation and the Development of the Disability Rights Movement in Taiwan
 Heng-hao Chang, National Taipei University

My Body, My Rights, My Autonomy: The Feminist Pro Abortion-Access Movement in Taiwan
 Hsiaowei Kuan, National Cheng Kung University

Prosecutorial Reform and Insurance Theory: The Case of Taiwan
 Chin-shou Wang, National Cheng Kung University

When Can Female Ghosts Become Goddesses? An Exploration of the Predicaments of Feminist Movements in Contemporary Taiwan
 Anru Lee, City University of New York, John Jay College

Humanizing Nature or Conserving Nature: Taiwan’s Wilderness Crusades and Their Lack of Resonance
 Ming-sho Ho, National Taiwan University

Discussant:
 Margaret K. Lewis, Seton Hall University

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SESSION 204. 2:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Room 305/306
Desire and Anxiety: The Portrayal of Women in Chinese Literature and Culture

Chaired by Stephen Owen, Harvard University

Allure beyond the Grave: Beauty and Death in Early China
 Sheri A. Lullo, University of Pittsburgh

From Desire to Sympathy: Poetic Representations of Women through the Third Century
 Qiulei Hu, Harvard University

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SESSION 205. 2:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Room 402/403
From Old Mission to New Enterprise: Cultural and Religious Positioning of Christian Missionaries in China

Chaired by D. E. Mungello, Baylor University

Richard Wilhelm (1872-1930): Accommodating Christianity into a Confucian Model
 Lydia Gerber, Washington State University

Vacillating between the Secular and the Religious: Image of Christianity and the Semantics of Jiao

Science and the Devil in the Early Jesuit and Chinese Christian Crusade against Heterodoxy
 Qiong Zhang, Wake Forest University

Aristotelianism in the Visual Discourse of the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit China Missions
 Hui-hung Chen, National Taiwan University

Discussant:
 Jessie G. Lutz, Rutgers University

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SESSION 206. 2:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon I
Boundary Reconstruction in China’s Expanding Urban Spaces: Comparative Perspectives on Governance, Citizenship, and Social Stratification

Chaired by Sally Sargeson, Australian National University

Awaiting Urbanization: Shequ Construction in Urban Village Redevelopment
 Leslie Shieh, University of British Columbia

Differentiating Women’s Citizenship Entitlements in China’s Peri-Urban Spaces
 Sally Sargeson, Australian National University

Urban Growth, Budget Constraints, and Their Effect on Provision and Access to Education in a Small Town
 Beatriz Carrillo Garcia, University of Technology, Sydney

The Housing Effect: Identity, Autonomy, and Social Stratification in the Age of Private Housing in China
 Luigi Tomba, Australian National University

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SESSION 207. 2:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Moving Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries: New Options for Advanced Learners of Chinese - Sponsored by Chinese Language Teachers

Chaired by Madeline K. Spring, Arizona State University

Content-Based Chinese Learning in the University of Oregon’s Language Flagship
 Maram Epstein, University of Oregon

Defining Cultural Literacy in ASU’s Chinese Flagship Program
 Madeline K. Spring, Arizona State University

Business Curriculum on Demand

Discussant:
 Scott McGinnis, Defense Language Institute

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SESSION 208. 2:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Room 408/409
Tradition and Renewal in Chinese Medical History

Chaired by Yi-Li Wu, Albion College

“You Wouldn’t Know”: Xu Shuwei’s Use of the Discourse on Cold Damage to Redefine Medicine as a Literati Pursuit
 Stephen Boyanton, Columbia University

Learning from Multiple Masters: Tradition and Practice in Late Yuan Medicine
 Daniel M. Trambaiolo, Princeton University

The Growing Importance of the Stomach in the Qing Wenbing School: Ye Gui and His Theory of Weiyin
 Yuan-Ling Chao, Middle Tennessee State University
 Zhang Ji (Zhang Zhongjing) and Medical Modernity in China
 Bridie J. Andrews Minehan, Bentley College

Discussant:
 Yi-Li Wu, Albion College

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SESSION 209. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon C
Enough Said? The Persistence of Orientalism in a Post-Orientalist World

Chaired by Thomas S. Mullaney, Stanford University

“Ten Characters Per Minute”: The Discourse of the Chinese Typewriter and the Persistence of Orientalist Thought
 Thomas S. Mullaney, Stanford University

Cold War Orientalism? The Case of the Hiroshima Maidens
 Kim Brandt, Columbia University

Time, Orients, Orient
 Stefan Tanaka, University of California, San Diego

“Overseas Chinese” and Orientalism
 Michael T. Tsin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Discussant:
 Lydia H. Liu, Columbia University

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SESSION 210. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Liberty Ballroom Salon B
Who Owns the Past? Views on the Koguryo History Dispute in East Asia

Chaired by Mark E. Byington, Harvard University

China’s Northeast Project and Trends in the Study of Koguryo History
 HoKyu Yeo, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Chinese History Textbook Disputes on Korean History
 Jeong Hyun Kim, Northeast Asian History Foundation

Exploring Identities through Histories of the Koguryo Kingdom’s Origin
 Mingke Wang, Academia Sinica

Koguryo History Research and “National History”
 Naoki Inoue, Kyoto Prefectural University

Discussant:
 Byung-joon Kim, Hallym University

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SESSION 213. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Room 303/304
Rethinking the Chinese World: Beyond National Boundaries, 1840-1970

Chaired by Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania

He Baoren (Ho Pao Jin): From the May Fourth Movement to the Coronation of George VI (Shanghai 1919–Malacca 1937)
 J. P. Dennerline, Amherst College

Transnationalism in Modern Chinese Politics: Young China in Europe, 1919-1923
 Nagatomi Hirayama, University of Pennsylvania

Agents and Connections: Trade and Migration in Treaty Port Xiamen, 1840s-1930s
 Soon Keong Ong, University of Missouri, Columbia

Home Is That Which I Adore: Identity Choices and the Remigration of Overseas Chinese Women, 1940s-1960s
 Karen M. Teoh, Bowdoin College

Nationalism, Print Capitalism, and the Overseas Chinese in Japan, 1895-1910
 David Kenley, Elizabethtown College

Saving Chinese Virginities: The Japanese Respecting Chastity School in China, 1921-1945
 Sidney Xu Lu, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant:
 Leander Seah, University of Pennsylvania

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SESSION 226. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Liberty Ballroom Salon A
Institutional Change and Interest Representation in Contemporary China

Chaired by Bruce Dickson, George Washington University

Generating Popular Support in China: Public Goods and Cultural Values
 Bruce Dickson, George Washington University

Congresses with Constituents, Constituents without Congresses in Mainland China
 Melanie Manion, University of Wisconsin, Madison

The Impact of Local Government Commitments on Popular Support for Legal Institutions in China
 Pierre F. Landry, Yale University

Institutionalizing Property Rights and the Real Estate Market in Urban China: The Local State, Entrepreneurs, and Consumers
 Yousun Chung, Academia Sinica

Discussant:
 Benjamin L. Read, University of California, Santa Cruz

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SESSION 227. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Reading between the Fine Lines: Non-Visual Meaning in Song and Ming Paintings (A Panel in Honor of Professor Emerita Ellen Johnston Laing)

Chaired by Susan N. Erickson, University of Michigan, Dearborn

Agency under the Skin: Song Bird and Flower Painting Revisited
 Maggie Bickford, Brown University

Cui Bo’s “Magpies and Hare”: A Contextual Reading
 Alfreda Murck, Palace Museum, Beijing

Claiming Virtue: Filial Themes in Bird Paintings by Shen Zhou (1427-1509)
 Ann Wetherell, University of Oregon

Prosperous Secondary Capital: A Cityscape Scroll of Ming Nanjing
 Ina Asim, University of Oregon

Discussant:
 Julia K. Murray, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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SESSION 228. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Room 411/412
The Cultural Politics of Marriage in the Contemporary PRC and Taiwan: Tradition and Change

Chaired by C. Julia Huang, National Tsing Hua University

Daughterhood, Marriage, and Filiality in a Changing Rural China
 Fei-Wen Liu, Academia Sinica

“Leaving Home”: Narratives of Marriage Resistance among Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns
 Hillary Crane, Linfield College

In Another Lifetime: Buddhist Laywomen’s Perspectives on Marriage Failure in Contemporary Beijing
 Gareth J. Fisher, Syracuse University

The Cultural Politics of Marriage in Post-War Taiwan
 Linda Learman, Independent Scholar

Cross-Straits Marriage in Mainland China: Politics, Social Mobility, and Gender
 Joseph L. Cichosz, University of Pittsburgh

Discussant:              
 C. Julia Huang, National Tsing Hua University

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SESSION 229. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Room 408/409
The National and Transnational in Chinese Literary Studies

Chaired by Ning Ma, Tufts University

“The Age of World Literature is Near”: Zheng Zhenduo and Wenxue dagang
 Mary E. Scott, San Francisco State University

Primitivism or Enlightenment: The Spirit of Greek Tragedy in Cao Yu and New Drama Movement
 Liang Lu, Purdue University

Historicizing the History of Chinese Literature
 David L. Porter, University of Michigan

Constructing Literary Networks: A Model for Post-Disciplinary Literary Scholarship
 Daniel Dooghan, University of Minnesota

Beyond the Nation: From Linear to Horizontal Literary History
 Ning Ma, Tufts University

Discussant:
 Patricia A. Sieber, Ohio State University

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SESSION 230. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Independence Ballroom Salon II
Roundtable: The Environmental History of the Qing - Sponsored by the Society for Qing Studies

Chaired by Micah Muscolino, Georgetown University

Discussants:
 Peter C. Perdue, Yale University
 Robert B. Marks, Whittier College
 David Bello, Washington & Lee University

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SESSION 231. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Independence Ballroom Salon III
Reading Feng Menglong’s Sanyan Collections of Vernacular Fiction

Chaired by Robert E. Hegel, Washington University, St. Louis

Beyond Qing: Angry Words in Sanyan
 C. D. Alison Bailey, University of British Columbia

Feng Menglong and Rewriting Friendship in the Late Ming

Feng Menglong and Courtesan Stories in Sanyan
 Sufeng Xu, Lafayette College

Rewriting Dreams in Xingshi hengyan
 Jing Zhang, New College of Florida

Discussant:
 Robert E. Hegel, Washington University, St. Louis

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Sunday, March 28

SESSION 235. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Grand Ballroom Salon C
Globalization and State Power: China, Japan, and Taiwan

Chaired by Merritt T. (Terry) Cooke, Foreign Policy Research Institute

Globalization, Developmental State, and Cross-Straits Relations
 Tse-Kang Leng, Academia Sinica

The Impact of FDI on the Local Investment Environment: The Case of Kunshan in China
 Chinien Wang, Chinese Culture University

Export Credit and Financial Statecraft in Japan: Focusing on Security and Aid Diplomacy
 A. Maria Toyoda, Villanova University

Impacts of Globalization on Trade Policy: Changes in Export Promotion Agencies in Japan and Taiwan
 Chao-Chi Lin, National Chengchi University

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SESSION 236. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Grand Ballroom Salon I
Picturing the Foreign: Images of East and West in Visual and Literary Culture from 1400 to Present

Chaired by Xiaoling Shi, Rhodes College

Getting in Touch: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Late Medieval French Manuscripts
 Anja Eisenbeiss, Heidelberg University

Sharing Knowledge about the Unknown: Visual Representations of China in German and Dutch Pre-1800 Accounts
 Monika Lehner, University of Vienna

Painted Europe: Image and Imagination in Qing Paintings of the West
 Kristina Kleutghen, Harvard University

A Chinese Look on “The Great Smoke”: London in Lao She’s The Two Mas
 Xiaoling Shi, Rhodes College

Discussant:
 Phillip Bloom, Harvard University

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SESSION 237. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Independence Ballroom Salon I
Global Shakespeare and East Asia

Chaired by Robert Tierney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Shakespearean Theatres and Colonial Taiwan
 Peichen Wu, Chengchi University

Discussant:
 Alexander Huang, Pennsylvania State University

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SESSION 251. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 305/306
New Light on Old Ideas: Bamboo Slip Manuscripts from the Warring States Period - Sponsored by the Study of Early China

Chaired by Sarah Allan, Dartmouth College

The Relationship between the Shang and Zhou during the Time of King Wen As Reflected in the Tsinghua Bamboo-Slip Manuscript, “Bao xun?”
 Guozhong Liu, Tsinghua University

The Division into Sections and Interpretation of the Chu Script Bamboo Slip Manuscript, Hengxian? “Ante-eternity”
 Wen Xing, Dartmouth College

The Namboo-Slip Manuscript Rongchengshi and the “Beginning of History” in Ancient China
 Sarah Allan, Dartmouth College

Discussant:
 Robin D. S. Yates, McGill University

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SESSION 252. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 414/415
The Rules of Attraction: Explorations in the Cultural and Erotic Dimensions of Chinese Identity

Chaired by Robert L. Cagle, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Chinese “Reproductive Futurism” or Inserting Queerness in Wayne Wang’s The Princess of Nebraska
 Kenneth Chan, University of Northern Colorado

Growing a Different Species in Chinese Language Cinema: Mutating Female Subjectivity in Dai Sijie’s The Chinese Botanist’s Daughter
 Eng Kiong Tan, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Exploiting the Scandinavian Invasion: The Shaw Brothers’ Sexy Girls of Denmark (1973)
 Jeffery Tan, University of Cambridge

With Sex You Get Eggroll: Negotiations of Identity and Desire in the Videos of Wayne Yung
 Robert L. Cagle, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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SESSION 253. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 411/ 412
Speaking of Sex: Issues of Sexuality in Intellectual Debate, Government Regulations, and Popular Storytelling from Song to Contemporary China

Chaired by Tani E. Barlow, Rice University

Encountering the Sexy Supernatural: Sexuality, Storytelling, and Visual Culture in Song China
 Hsiao-wen Cheng, University of Washington

Sexuality and Religion in the Late-Ming Dramatist Xu Wei’s “Chan Master Yu”
 Liyan Shen, Emory University

Exceptional Virtue: Ethnicity and Female Sexuality on the Qing Frontier
 Megan Bryson, Stanford University

Discussants:
 Rania Huntington, University of Wisconsin, Madison
 Tani E. Barlow, Rice University

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SESSION 254. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 408/409
Agricultural Expansion and Ecological Crisis in the Late Qing

Chaired by Peter Lavelle, Cornell University

Militarizing Water: The Moral Economy in the Jianghan Plain in Late Nineteenth-Century China
 Yan Gao, Carnegie Mellon University

Fire and Qing Agricultural Borderlands: Chinese, Tibetan, and Hui Cultural Landscapes
 Jack P. Hayes, Norwich University

A Singular Reconstruction: Post-Taiping Zhejiang Province and Imperial Regulations for Agricultural Revival
 Peter Lavelle, Cornell University

“Rice Paddies Like in the South:” Late Qing Attempts at Agriculture in Kham Tibet
 Xiuyu Wang, Washington State University

Discussant:
 Anne R. Osborne, Rider University

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SESSION 255. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Grand Ballroom Salon J
Christian Activism and Resistance Strategies in Maoist China

Chaired by Sue Gronewold, Kean University

Accumulating Religious Leadership Capital: Lessons from 1950s Resistance by Protestant Fundamentalist Wang Mingdao
 Carsten T. Vala, Loyola University Maryland

Co-opting the Church: The Seventh-Day Adventist Movement in Maoist China
 Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Pace University

“The Enemy has a Lot of Struggle Experience”: Catholic Resistance in Communist Shanghai
 Paul Mariani, Santa Clara University

Discussant:
 Sue Gronewold, Kean University

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SESSION 256. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Room 402/403
State-Society Relations and Public Opinion in China

Preemptive Authoritarian Power: Preventing Potential and Actual Dissent in Village Elections in China

Media Exposure and Political Trust in Urban China
 Jie Lu, American University

Advertising Chinese Politics: The Effects of Public Service Announcements in Urban China
 Daniela Stockmann, Leiden University

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SESSION 257. 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Liberty Ballroom Salon A
Neoliberal Globalization and China’s New Left

Chaired by Ban Wang, Stanford University

The Specter of the Chinese Revolution in Neoliberal Development
 Ban Wang, Stanford University

Scholarship and the “New Left”
 Rebecca E. Karl, New York University

The Geopolitics of the New Left in China
 Lisa B. Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz

Defending Mao: History, Politics, and Chinese Modernity
 Fangchun Li, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Discussant:
 Tina Mai Chen, University of Manitoba

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SESSION 258. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Liberty Ballroom Salon C
China and the Gulf: The Economic, Strategic, Political, and Cultural Implications of a Revival of the Silk Road

Chaired by Jacqueline Armijo, Zayed University

The Return of “Foreign Guests” to China: Arab Merchants in Chinese Coastal Cities from the Tang Dynasty to the Present
 Qiang Ma, Shaanxi Normal University

Middle Eastern Studies in China: The State of the Field
 I-wei Jennifer Chang, University of Maryland

The Strait of Hormuz: A Barometer in the Emerging U.S.-Gulf-China Triangular Relationship
 Shuang Wen, Georgetown University

Strengthening China-UAE Ties through Education: Abu Dhabi Chinese Language Primary School
 Osha Nahyan Al Nahyan, Zayed University

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SESSION 259. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon J
Lieux de Mémoire in Asian Art

Chaired by Yui Suzuki, University of Maryland, College Park

Revisiting Sites, Localizing Memory: Hua Yan’s (1682-1756) Landscape Paintings
 Kristen E. Loring, University of California, Los Angeles

Crossing the Transitional Realm: Image, Ritual, and Memory in Early Chinese Funerary Shrines
 Jie Shi, University of Chicago

Discussant:
 Melia R. Belli, Washington University, St. Louis

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SESSION 262. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon K
A Millennium of Medicine and Empire in East Asia

Chaired by Hilary A. Smith, Meredith College

Disease between Paradigms in Late 19th-Century Japan and China
 Hilary A. Smith, Meredith College

Imperial Encounters: The Misunderstood Relationship of Two Medical Systems in Republican China
 Eric I. Karchmer, University of Westminster

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SESSION 263. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon L
Experiencing the Illustrated Book in East Asia

Chaired by Miriam Wattles, University of California, Santa Barbara

Renzhai’s Painting Legacy, 1876: The Book as Artist in Shanghai
 Roberta Wue, University of California, Irvine

Discussants:
 Anne Burkus-Chasson, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign
 Miriam Wattles, University of California, Santa Barbara

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SESSION 274. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Independence Ballroom Salon III
Mr. Science and the Mass Line: Reassessing Science and Policy of the Cultural Revolution

Chaired by Darryl E. Brock, Fordham University

Did the Maoist “Mass Line” Contribute Anything to China’s Technological and Economic Success?
 Rudi Volti, Pitzer College

China’s S&T Policy, Foreign-Trained Scientists, and the Cultural Revolution
 Chunjuan Nancy Wei, University of Bridgeport

Reexamining the Origins of the Criticism of Relativity in China
 Danian Hu, City University of New York, City College

The Forgotten Tale of “Two Beijings”: How Architectural Wisdom Met Its Demise under Maoist Science
 Haixia Wang, University of Pittsburgh

Discussant:
 Grace Y. Shen, York University

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SESSION 275. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon A
Perspectives on Contemporary Spirit-Money Offering Rituals

Chaired by Elana Chipman, State University of New York, Binghamton

Consumer Culture in Chinese Death Ritual Consumption
 Russell Belk, York University
 Xin Zhao, University of Hawaii

Paper Offerings for the Worship of Tin Hau
 Janet Lee Scott, Harvard University

Money to Burn: Dollars, Debt, and the Im/materiality of Value in Fuzhou, China
 Julie Y. Chu, University of Chicago

The Ethics of Asian Spirit Money
 Heonik Kwon, London School of Economics

Ritual Sacrifices and Changing Environmental Consciousness in Taiwan
 Elana Chipman, State University of New York, Binghamton

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SESSION 276. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Liberty Ballroom Salon B
Roundtable: China’s New Arrival in World Politics: A Reappraisal

Chaired by Yong Deng, U. S. Naval Academy

Discussants:
 Brantly Womack, University of Virginia
 Robert G. Sutter, Georgetown University
 David M. Lampton, Johns Hopkins University

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SESSION 277. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Room 411/412
Knowledge, Institutions, and Representations: Indigeneity on China’s Frontiers

Chaired by Shanshan Du, Tulane University

The Value of the Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Miao People in the Control of Mountain Desertification
 Kanglong Luo, Jishou University

A Wa Li: The Indigenous Social Control Mechanism of the Wa People
 Rui Guo, Independent Scholar

“Male-Female Masters”: The Revived Indigenous Leadership in a Lahu Shi Community
 Shanshan Du, Tulane University

Wet T-Shirt Contests and Butt-Bumping Wedding Ceremonies in the Dai Park: Han Chinese Fetishism of Indigenous Dai Traditions
 Monica Cable, Franklin & Marshall College

Discussant:
 Louisa Schein, Rutgers University

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SESSION 278. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Independence Ballroom Salon II
China’s New Regulatory State: Social and Economic Regulation Considered

Chaired by Roselyn Y. Hsueh, Temple University

Understanding Sectoral Reregulation in China’s New Regulatory State
 Roselyn Y. Hsueh, Temple University

From Farm to Fabric: Agricultural Commodities, Industrial Sectors, Global Integration, and the Politics of Regulatory Reform in China
 Mark Dallas, University of California, Berkeley

Effect of Fragmented Bureaucracy on Air Quality Management in the Road Transport Sector in China
 Eri Saikawa, Princeton University

Sex in the Post-Communist City: The Local Enforcement of Prostitution Regulations in China

Controlling the Sniffles after SARS: The Regulation of People and Microbes in Shenzhen, China
 Katherine A. Mason, Harvard University

Discussants:
 Andrew C. Mertha, Cornell University
 Tyrene White, Swarthmore College

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SESSION 279. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Room 502
Love in Tibetan Literature

Chaired by Lauran R. Hartley, Columbia University

The Love of His Life: The Gungtang Princess and Yolmo Tendzin Norbu
 Benjamin Bogin, Georgetown University

Love en route to the Monastery: An Account of Polhane’s Trip to Mindrolling
 Dominique Townsend, Columbia University

Love and Longing in the Auto/biographies of the Tantric Couple Sera Khandro (1892-1940) and Drimé Özer (1881-1924)
 Sarah H. Jacoby, Northwestern University

Great Expectations? Love in Contemporary Tibetan Women’s Poetry
 Robin Francoise, INALCO

Discussant:
 Eugenia Y. Lean, Columbia University

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SESSION 280. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon I
Bringing Health Care Services to Vulnerable and Marginalized Groups in China: Perspectives and Evidence from Minorities in Xinjiang, Women and Elderly People

Chaired by Minquan Liu, Peking University

Health Policy, Vulnerability and Marginalization: A Political Analysis
 Jane Duckett, University of Glasgow

The Aging’s Health Care and Insurance in China: A Pilot Study of Chinese Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in Zhejiang and Gansu Province
 Li Yang, Peking University

Providing Health Care for Kazak Herders: The Pastoral Clinic in Xinjiang
 Sascha Klotzbuecher, University of Vienna

Financing for Maternal and Child Health Care in Undeveloped Rural Areas in China: The Case of Yunnan Province
 Qu Wang, University of Vienna

Discussant:
 Minquan Liu, Peking University

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SESSION 281. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Grand Ballroom Salon C
Weathering the European Wind and the American Rain: New Perspectives on the Modern Chinese Response to Western Learning

Chaired by Hung-Yok Ip, Oregon State University

Aliens in Their Homeland: Yung Wing and the Returned Students of the Chinese Educational Mission to the United States
 Xi Lian, Hanover College

Translating “Sociology” in the Late Qing
 Max K. W. Huang, Academia Sinica

Self, Nation-State, and Laissez-Faire Capitalism: The Liberal Democracy of Liu Shipei and Zhang Taiyan
 Tze Ki Hon, State University of New York, Geneseo

Selective Othering: The Formation of Chinese National Identity and Attitudes to the External World
 Yinan He, Seton Hall University

Discussant:
 Peter G. Zarrow, Academia Sinica

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SESSION 282. 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Room 414/415
Functioning of Baojuan Texts in Chinese Popular Religion

Chaired by James A. Benn, McMaster University

Reassessing the Origins of Baojuan: The Efficacity of Materiality
 David Neil Schmid, North Carolina State University

How the Perfect Warrior was Won: The Growth of the Sectarian Pantheon through Baojuan
 Shin-yi Chao, Rutgers University

The Interplay of Written and Oral Aspects in Scripture Telling of Zhangjiagang (Jiangsu, China)
 Rostislav Berezkin, University of Pennsylvania

Discussants:
 Daniel L. Overmyer, University of British Columbia
 Philip A. Clart, University of Leipzig