Presenters:
Gillen Wood (Department of English, University of Illinois)
The Seven Sorrows of Yunnan: Translating Famine Poetry of the Late Qing Dynasty
Tami Blumenfield (Department of Anthropology, University of Washington)
Na Ethnic Associations and the Culture Industry on the Yunnan-Sichuan Border
Robbie Barnett (Modern Tibetan Studies Program, Columbia University)
Imprinting the State on Architecture: The Question of "Nationality Characteristics" and Urban Modernization in Lhasa
Dan Shao (Department of History, University of Illinois)
Remote Homeland, Contested Borderland: Territoriality, Identity, and Manchus' Manchuria
Wei Zhao (School of Architecture, University of Illinois)
Local versus National Interests in the Promotion and Management of a Heritage Site
Tzu-kai Liu (Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois)
Re-constructing Cultural Heritage, Imagining Wa Primitiveness: State-Promoted Ethnic Tourism and the Vernacular Built Environment in the China/Myanmar Borderlands
Yongming Zhou (Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin)
Road Building, Spatial Reconfigurations and Cultural Branding in Yunnan, Southwest China
Jeffrey Adams (Global Heritage Fund)
Underwater Archaeology and Its Cultural Heritage Implications