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2010 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting
The USCI listing includes China-focused presentations and panels at the 2010 AAS annual meeting.
When:
March 25, 2010 12:00am to March 28, 2010 12:00am
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
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
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, GreensboroPolitical Policy and Cultural Representation in Ming-Mac Relations
Kathlene Baldanza, University of PennsylvaniaDiscussant:
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, GreensboroNature and Emotion in Nineteenth-Century Tibetan Lyric
Kurtis R. Schaeffer, University of Virginia
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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 ScholarFrom SE Asia to SW China: Models of Inter-Ethnic Relations in the Upland BOrderlands
Ann Maxwell Hill, Dickinson CollegeGeneologies of Nurture: Of Pots and Professors
Penelope van Esterik, York UniversityDiscussant:
Charles F. Keyes, University of Washington
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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 UniversityImage of a Chinese Gentleman: Considering Xie An's Reputation in the Shishuo Xinyu
Jack Chen, University of California, Los AngelesScandalous Writing: Gossip as Productive Narrative Form in Jin Ping Mei and Xu Jin Ping Mei
Paize Keulemans, Yale UniversityWho's Who in the Capital? Innuendo, Gossip, and Networking in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Beijing
Andrea S. Goldman, University of California, Los AngelesDiscussant:
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 ArizonaMiddle Classes or House Slaves? Identities and Social Tension in China's Property Culture
Samuel Y. Liang, University of ManchesterArticulating 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 CollegeDiscussant:
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 UniversityBreaking the Law: Children as Subjects of Moral Concern in Wartime China, 1937-1945
Lily Chang, University of OxfordDiscussant:
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, CharlotteFrom "Little Fatty" to the "Grass Mud Horse": User-Generated Content as Parody and Protest on the Chinese Internet
Cara Wallis, Texas A&M UniversityTraditional Journalism and Citizen Journalism in China: Toward a Symbiotic Relationship
Johan Lagerkvist, Swedish Institute of International AffairsDiscussant:
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 HillAppropriating Antiquity in Song Tombs and Caches
Yun-Chiahn C. Sena, University of Texas, AustinArchaistic Elegance: Excavated Gold and Silver Objects in Song China
Dongfang Qi, Peking UniversityDiscussant:
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 UniversityChina’s Trade and Investment in the Americas
Matthew G. Ferchen, Tsinghua UniversityCrossing 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 TorontoChina’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, WilmingtonThe “Peasant” Identities of Senior Chinese Medicine Practitioners in the PRC: Remembering the Maoist Past
Lena Springer, University of ViennaStory of a Blood-Seller: Peasants, AIDS Villages, and the Representation of Suffering
Ying Qian, Harvard UniversitySexing the Bodies of the Peasant Worker in China’s Cities: Dangerous Sexual Desires of the “Other”
Felix Wemheuer, University of ViennaDiscussant:
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 HistoricaA Nation-Rescuing Mission: An Investigation of Modernity, Nationalism, and Confucianism in the Critical Discourse of American Films in 1920s China
Qian Zhang, University of PittsburghThe Great Exodus: Lives and Travels of Chinese Mainlanders in Early Postwar Taiwan, 1948-1960
Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, University of British ColumbiaMuslim 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 UniversityLocalized Colonialism and Local Politics: Local Vegetarian Cult and Catholicism in Zhejiang, China, 1850-1900
Shih-chieh Lo, Brown UniversityHow 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 AlabamaHanging Identities: Hindus and Hindu Religions in Sindh (Pakistan) in Post-Colonial Context
Sadia Mahmood, Arizona State UniversityThe 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 UniversityBonding with Foreigners in Late Qing China, 1900-1911
Elya J. Zhang, Fordham UniversityHow 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 UniversityRecovering Chinese Tradition from Abroad: Gu Hongming’s Reconstruction of Confucianism
Chunmei Du, Western Kentucky UniversityDiscussant:
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 ParkDiscussant:
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 CollegeIllustrating Honglou Meng: A History of Reception
I-Hsien Wu, New School UniversityDiscussant:
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 CanterburyFrom 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 NationalitiesDiscussant:
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 UniversityThe Geography of Political Communication and the Historical Sociology of Empire
Hilde De Weerdt, University of OxfordLongue-durée Urbanization and Dynastic Urbanism in Late Imperial China
Siyen Fei, University of PennsylvaniaDiscussant:
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, BerkeleyNGO 2.0: An Experiment
Jing Wang, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCool Mountain Education Fund: Launching an NGO in a Minority Village
Tami Blumenfield, University of Washington
Barbara Grub, University of Washington, SeattleDigital Repertoires and Hybrid Forms of Civic Organizing in China
Guobin Yang, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityChinese NGOs and Environmental Education
Rob Efird, Seattle UniversityDiscussant:
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 MississippiAnthologizing, Performing, and Narrating the Chinese National Past through Music
Sue M. C. Tuohy, Indiana University-BloomingtonDiscussant:
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 UniversityFrom the Discovery of a Discipline to the Invention of a Tradition, or: How “Chinese Logic” was Given Its History
Joachim Kurtz, University of HeidelbergFu Sinian’s Views on Philosophy
Carine Defoort, Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenA Few Examples of Early Chinese “Philosophy”
Michael J Hunter, Princeton UniversityDiscussant:
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 MusicKam Ancestry, Pilgrimage, and Social Exchange Performance in an Age of Tourism
Shu-jung Lin, National Tsing Hua UniversityPilgrimage as Bridge: Transcending Peripheralization in Post-Militarized Islands of Taiwan
Wei-ping Lin, National Taiwan UniversityDiscussant:
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, BerlinThe Ming Dynasty Tianyige Library Hall: The Building and Its Myth
Cary Y. Liu, Princeton UniversityGreen, Amber, and Cream: The Ceramic Workshop of the Ming Dynasty
Eileen H. Hsu, Independent ScholarThe Cultural Meaning of Kingfisher Blue in Ming Decorations
Aida Yuen Wong, Brandeis UniversityDiscussant:
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 KongBallads of New China: Negotiating Ideology and Traditional Aesthetics in Tanci Ballad Composition, 1949-1959
Stephanie Webster-Cheng, University of PittsburghStruggling with Typhoon: Political Upheaval of the Zheng from 1959 to 1969
Mei Han, University of British ColumbiaChina’s Post-1990 Modernity: Erhu as Violin
Shuo Zhang, University of PittsburghDiscussants:
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, AustinThe Economics of Cultural Reform, Chen Yun, and Pingtan Storytelling, 1960s-1990s
Qiliang He, University of South Carolina, UpstateCommon Soldiers through Post-Mao Army-Writer Fiction
Hua Li, Montana State UniversityDiscussant:
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 UniversityJingdezhen Artisans and the Late-Ming Literary World
Stephen McDowall, University of WarwickThe Shaping of Time: History and Art in The Records of Jingdezhen Ceramics (1815)
Ellen C. Huang, University of California, BerkeleyPorcelain and Value: Debates and Practices from Contemporary Jingdezhen
Maris Gillette, Haverford CollegeDiscussant:
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 KongA Transnational Social Movement? The Construction of Political Actorhood in AIDS Activism in China
Yan Long, University of MichiganChildren First: Global Humanitarianism and Orphanage Care in China
Leslie K. Wang, University of California, BerkeleyAn 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 UniversityChinese Investment and Aid in Southeast Asia: The Case of Cambodia
Michael L. Sullivan, Center for Khmer StudiesThe PRC’s Foreign Propaganda Apparatus during the Cold War: Challenges and Setbacks
Cagdas Ungor, Marmara UniversityThe Rhetoric of Chinese Diplomacy as a Soft Power Tool
Dominik Mierzejewski, University of LodzDiscussant:
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, BerkeleyProtestors, Petitioners, and Plaintiffs: Disputing Property Rights in Rural and Urban China
Christopher Heurlin, University of WashingtonManaging the Managers: The Marketization of Cadre Education in Reform-Era China
Charlotte Lee, Stanford UniversityThe 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 LondonTrapped in Globalization? “New Immigrant Women” in Taiwan
Catherine Chia-Lan Chang, Skidmore CollegeVictims 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 UniversityBlurred Definitions of “Tojin” and “Tobutsu”: Downplaying the Cultural Authority of “Chinese People” and “Chinese Goods” in Late Edo Japan
Keiko Suzuki, Ritsumeikan UniversityCopies or Inspired Originals? Production of Chinese-Style Porcelain in Meiji Japan
Shinya Maezaki, SOAS, University of LondonDefining the “Chinese School”: William Anderson’s Classification of Japanese Art
Princess Akiko of Mikasa, University of OxfordDiscussant:
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 EtudesThe 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 UniversityDiscussant:
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 CollegeTranslating Mongolian Law in Qing China
Frederic Constant, Université de Paris X-NanterreImperial Subjecthood under the Qing: The Case of the Manchus
Par K. Cassel, University of MichiganStereotyping Muslims, Misunderstanding Islam: Qing Officials and the Huihui
Jonathan N. Lipman, Mount Holyoke CollegeDiscussant:
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 UniversityTheatricality and the Politics of Religion and Gender: Liang Qichao, Zhang Taiyan, and He Zhen
Viren V. Murthy, University of OttawaMelodrama and Politics of Sympathy in Fin-De-Siècle Tanci: On A Histoire of Heroic Women and Men (1905)
Li Guo , University of IowaDiscussants:
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 UniversityDifferent 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 PacificFrom 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 BristolThe Place of Geography in Chinese Buddhist Historiography
James Robson, Harvard UniversityA Buddhist Monk Beside Confucian Statesmen: Expanding the Picture of Eleventh-Century Chinese Historiography
Elizabeth Morrison, Middlebury CollegeWhen Monks Became Historians: The Compilation of Chan Histories in the Seventeenth Century
Jiang Wu, University of ArizonaDiscussant:
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 UniversityXuan 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 SouthamptonDiscussant:
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 UniversityRecent Research on Republican Chinese History in China
Chaoguang Wang, Chinese Academy of Social SciencesRediscovering Twentieth-Century China in Taiwanese Historical Study
Li Chang, Academia SinicaDiscussants:
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 UniversityDevelopment and Division: The Role of Global Civil Society and Funding within China’s LGBT Activist Community
Timothy R. Hildebrandt, University of LouisvilleState and Transnational Advocacy: A Tale of Three International Non-State Organizations in Preventing AIDS in China
Fengshi Wu, Chinese University of Hong KongRunning on Hope: International Soft Support for Chinese Environmental Litigation
Rachel Stern, Harvard UniversitySeeking One’s Day in Court: Chinese Regime Responsiveness to International Legal Norms on AIDS Carriers’ and Pollution Victims’ Rights
Scott Wilson, University of the SouthDiscussant:
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 UniversityA Shadow State in Northeast Asia: Persistence and Eclipse of the “Bohai” Ethnicity, 1115-1260
Jesse D. Sloane, Princeton UniversityEast Tartary, the Willow Palisade, Whose Homeland Is It? Exiled Han Chinese in Early Qing Manchuria
Hsueh-Yi Lin, Princeton UniversityDiscussant:
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 UniversityChasing Snails: Anti-Schistosomiasis Campaigns in the People’s Republic of China
Miriam D. Gross, University of California, San DiegoAnti-Malaria Campaigns and Socialist Reconstruction in China: 1950-1980
Liping Bu, Alma CollegeDiscussant:
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. LouisSimplifying the Local: Wang Yangming’s Policies as Grand Coordinator and Supreme Commander in China’s Southern Provinces
Larry Israel, Macon State CollegeStruggling for Balances: A Case Study of County Finance in Late Ming
Zhaohui He, Shandong UniversityInside the Notion of Local Distinctiveness: A Case of Huizhou
Yongtao Du, Oklahoma State UniversityDiscussant:
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 UniversityVirtue as “Tearful” Fetish: Pathetic Heroines in Early Republican “New Drama”
Li Jin, Oberlin CollegeWarrior Women: Modernizing a Traditional Trope and Traditionalizing a Modern Trope
Louise Edwards, University of Hong KongConstructing a Female Lineage of Learning: The Case of Chen Hengzhe’s Autobiography of a Chinese Young Girl (1935)
Tieniu Cheng, University of California, IrvineDiscussant:
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 UniversitySovereignty and Citizenship in Exile: An Ethnography of the Tibetan Refugee State
House-building, Development, and Sovereignty in Tibet
Emily Yeh, University of Colorado, BoulderThe 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 PittsburghDivorcing the Rural, Returning to the City: A Critical Re-Visit to the 1980s
Hui Faye Xiao, University of KansasThe Language of Modernizing Film Language: Cinematic Discourse in the Early Deng Era
Jason McGrath, University of MinnesotaModernizing Dramatic Theory: Theatrical Interculturalism in Post-Mao China
Brittany Wellner, University of CambridgeDiscussants:
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 UniversityPopular Music in Old Shanghai: A Resistance for Identification
Fang-yi Hung, National Chiao Tung UniversityThe Censorship of Record Production in Shanghai during the Republican Period
Tao Ge, Shanghai Academy of Social SciencesDelivering ‘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 UniversityCelebration, Death, and Nature in the “Orchid Pavilion Poems”
Wendy Swartz, Columbia UniversityGroup Poetry Composition and the Mid-Tang Literati Community
Anna M. Shields, University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyPoems by Things: Riddling Poetic Exchanges in Tang Narratives
Sarah M. Allen, Wellesley CollegeDiscussant:
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 UniversityIn the Shadow of Zheng Power: Taiwan on the International Stage in Seventeenth-Century East Asia
Patrizia Carioti, University of NaplesTaiwan and the Crafting of Tokugawa Maritime Defense, 1660-1690
Noell Howell Wilson, University of MississippiSovereignty Debates, Territorial Projects, and Ethnic Identity: Re-Examining the 1874 Taiwan Incident
Lung-chih Chang, Academia SinicaDiscussant:
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 CollegeModes of Representing the Yangzi River in 13th- and 14th-Century China
Julia Orell, University of ChicagoChina in the Imaginary Geography of the Post-Mongol Islamic World: “Chinese” Styles in Timurid Imperial Image-Making
Kaveh Hemmat, University of ChicagoDiscussant:
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 UniversityDelivering the Nation: Modern Childbirth in Republican China
Tina Phillips Johnson, Saint Vincent CollegeDiscussant:
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 CollegeDiscussant:
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 ManchesterThe 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 UniversityReconstructing 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 UniversityInteractive Diffusion and China’s Social Security Reform: Towards a Global Historical Perspective
Aiqun Hu, Arkansas State UniversityCatastrophic 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, MadisonGlobalization or Deindustrialization: Explaining the Changes in Welfare States in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan
Dong Kyun Im, Harvard UniversityDiscussant:
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 UniversityThe Battle of Siping (1946), George Marshall, and the Myth of Chiang Kai-shek’s “Last Chance” in Manchuria
Harold M. Tanner, University of North TexasReporting from Yan’an: Equating the “Dixie Mission” and CCP Propaganda Themes
Marcus Sgro, Institute of World PoliticsCarry the Revolution to the End: Policy, Strategy, and Decision in the Third Revolutionary Chinese Civil War, 1947-49
Christopher Lew, University of PennsylvaniaDiscussant:
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 MichiganThe City as a Fragmented Polity: Urban Preservation in Beijing
Yue Zhang, University of Illinois, ChicagoThe 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 SinicaThree Rebellions, Three Resolutions: The Evolution of State/Sect/Society Relations in Qing China, 1774-1813
Cecily McCaffrey, Willamette UniversityThe Frontier Comes to China: The Changing Place of Frontier Studies in the Qianlong-Jiaqing Transition
Matthew W. Mosca, University of Hong KongSocial Crisis and “Inner State Building” during the Qianlong-Jiaqing Transition
Wensheng Wang, University of Hawaii, ManoaDiscussant:
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 UniversityLiving with Pollution: New Forms of Rurality in Yunnan Province
Anna Lora-Wainwright, University of OxfordMobile Livelihoods, Practices of Parenthood, and the Well-Being of Children Left Behind in Rural China
Rachel A. Murphy, University of OxfordThe New House: Livelihood, Debt, and Identity in the Changing Rural Landscape of Sichuan
Pamela Leonard, Independent ScholarPeasant Hosts: Modern Traditionals in Rural China
Eileen Rose Walsh, University of OxfordImagining the Future: Evolving Perspectives of Rural Children
Emily Hannum, University of PennsylvaniaDiscussant:
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 SingaporeImperial Visual Politics and the Cold War: Censorship Policies in British Hong Kong
Jing Jing Chang, University of Illinois, Urbana- ChampaignLife as a Beautiful Trajectory: The Moment of Self-Revelation in Feng Zhi’s Wu Zixu
Yanhong Zhu, Washington & Lee UniversityVisualizing 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 CenterComparative Asian Middle Class Research and its Dialogue with the West
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Academia SinicaDiscussants:
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 UniversityEconomics, Security, and Technology in Northeast Asia: Manuerving between Techno-Nationalist and Techno-Globalist Winds
Tai Ming Cheung, University of California, San DiegoDrinking Poison to Quench a Thirst? The Security Consequences of China-Taiwan Economic Integration
Scott Kastner, University of Maryland, College ParkThe Economic Security Nexus in Northeast Asia
T. J. Pempel, University of California, BerkeleyDiscussant:
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 GovernmentThe Cobweb of Economic Miracles: Administrative Decision-Making in Taiwan
Cheng-Yi Huang, Academia SinicaExporting the APA: Lessons from the Chinese Example
Neysun Mahboubi, University of ConnecticutDiscussant:
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 CollegeThe South Manchurian Railway Company and the Making of Japan’s Official “Jewish Policy” in Occupied China
Bei Gao, College of CharlestonNational Father and Pan-Asian Brother: The Sun Yatsen Mausoleum during the Japanese Occupation of Nanjing, 1937-1945
Charles Musgrove, St. Marys College of MarylandThe Issue of the Comfort Women
Jianyue Chen, Northeast Lakeview CollegeRemembering and Forgetting the War of Resistance: Japanese Veterans and War Criminals in China, 1950-1958
Adam Cathcart, Pacific Lutheran UniversityDiscussants:
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-ChampaignClayton 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 KongRegional Governmentalities in China and the Pearl River Delta
Carolyn L. Cartier, University of Technology, SydneyHong Kong, China, and the Pearl River Delta Region: Recollecting and Forgetting
Angelina Chin, Pomona CollegeRegion at Sea: Hydrographic Perspectives on Regional Evolution in the Pearl River Delta
Charles J. Wheeler, University of Hong KongDiscussants:
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 UniversityA Feminist Wu Zetian? Tian Han’s Rewriting of Wu Zetian and the Quest for New National Drama
Jing Jiang, Reed CollegeFrom “Slave Mother” to “Princess Warrior”: Rewriting Gender in Web-Based Popular Chinese Romance
Jin Feng, Grinnell CollegeDiscussant:
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 CollegeScientism and Modern Confucianism
Jennifer Oldstone-Moore, Wittenberg UniversityJackie Chan As Confucian Critic: Contemporary Popular Confucianism in China
Jeffrey L. Richey, Berea CollegeNegotiating and Intellectual Revival: The Return of Traditional Values in Post-Socialist China
Anthony A. DeBlasi, State University of New York, AlbanyNew 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 TorontoChinese NGOs and the Rise of the Local Corporatist State
Reza Hasmath, University of Toronto
Jennifer Hsu, University of CambridgeFragmented Corporatism: The Case of Chinese Industry Associations
Heike Holbig, German Institute of Global and Area StudiesUnitarism and Corporatism: Collective Bargaining in China
Xian Huang, Columbia UniversityDiscussant:
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 UniversityInstitutional Choices of Church-State Relations in China
Cheng-tian Kuo, National Chengchi UniversityReligion, 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 UniversityFormalization of Informal Employment: The Untended Effects of Labor Contract Law on Labor Dispatching—New Evidence from China’s Automobile Industry
Lu Zhang, Indiana UniversityEmployment Relations in the Chinese Logistics Industry
Jun Xiong, Renmin University of ChinaPrivate Labor Regulation of Electronics Facilities in China and Mexico: Hewlett-Packard’s Social and Environmental Responsibility Program
Gregory Distelhorst, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDiscussant:
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 UniversityInheriting Wealth and Status: Sale of Offices and Elite Families in Qing China
Lawrence L. Zhang, Bowdoin CollegeFishing for Favors: Kinship, Tribute, and the Heje Tribes of Heilongjiang
Loretta E. Kim, State University of New York, AlbanyDiscussant:
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 UniversityLines of Injury in Contemporary China
Trang X. Ta, University of WashingtonEducation, Militancy, and Success: Explaining the Outcomes of Peasant Protest in China
Wu Zhang, Union CollegeChina’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 UniversityFrom Mass Campaigns to Managed Campaigns: Constructing a New Socialist Countryside
Elizabeth J. Perry, Harvard UniversityGoverning Civil Society: The Role of Revolutionary Methods of Control in Contemporary China
Nara Dillon, Harvard UniversityA Return to Populist Legality? Historical Legacies and Legal Reform
Benjamin L. Liebman, Columbia UniversityDiscussants:
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 UniversityMy Body, My Rights, My Autonomy: The Feminist Pro Abortion-Access Movement in Taiwan
Hsiaowei Kuan, National Cheng Kung UniversityProsecutorial Reform and Insurance Theory: The Case of Taiwan
Chin-shou Wang, National Cheng Kung UniversityWhen 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 CollegeHumanizing Nature or Conserving Nature: Taiwan’s Wilderness Crusades and Their Lack of Resonance
Ming-sho Ho, National Taiwan UniversityDiscussant:
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 PittsburghFrom 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 UniversityVacillating 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 UniversityAristotelianism in the Visual Discourse of the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit China Missions
Hui-hung Chen, National Taiwan UniversityDiscussant:
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 ColumbiaDifferentiating Women’s Citizenship Entitlements in China’s Peri-Urban Spaces
Sally Sargeson, Australian National UniversityUrban Growth, Budget Constraints, and Their Effect on Provision and Access to Education in a Small Town
Beatriz Carrillo Garcia, University of Technology, SydneyThe 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 OregonDefining Cultural Literacy in ASU’s Chinese Flagship Program
Madeline K. Spring, Arizona State UniversityBusiness 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 UniversityLearning from Multiple Masters: Tradition and Practice in Late Yuan Medicine
Daniel M. Trambaiolo, Princeton UniversityThe 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 CollegeDiscussant:
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 UniversityCold War Orientalism? The Case of the Hiroshima Maidens
Kim Brandt, Columbia UniversityTime, Orients, Orient
Stefan Tanaka, University of California, San Diego“Overseas Chinese” and Orientalism
Michael T. Tsin, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillDiscussant:
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 StudiesChinese History Textbook Disputes on Korean History
Jeong Hyun Kim, Northeast Asian History FoundationExploring Identities through Histories of the Koguryo Kingdom’s Origin
Mingke Wang, Academia SinicaKoguryo History Research and “National History”
Naoki Inoue, Kyoto Prefectural UniversityDiscussant:
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 CollegeTransnationalism in Modern Chinese Politics: Young China in Europe, 1919-1923
Nagatomi Hirayama, University of PennsylvaniaAgents and Connections: Trade and Migration in Treaty Port Xiamen, 1840s-1930s
Soon Keong Ong, University of Missouri, ColumbiaHome Is That Which I Adore: Identity Choices and the Remigration of Overseas Chinese Women, 1940s-1960s
Karen M. Teoh, Bowdoin CollegeNationalism, Print Capitalism, and the Overseas Chinese in Japan, 1895-1910
David Kenley, Elizabethtown CollegeSaving Chinese Virginities: The Japanese Respecting Chastity School in China, 1921-1945
Sidney Xu Lu, University of PennsylvaniaDiscussant:
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 UniversityCongresses with Constituents, Constituents without Congresses in Mainland China
Melanie Manion, University of Wisconsin, MadisonThe Impact of Local Government Commitments on Popular Support for Legal Institutions in China
Pierre F. Landry, Yale UniversityInstitutionalizing Property Rights and the Real Estate Market in Urban China: The Local State, Entrepreneurs, and Consumers
Yousun Chung, Academia SinicaDiscussant:
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 UniversityCui Bo’s “Magpies and Hare”: A Contextual Reading
Alfreda Murck, Palace Museum, BeijingClaiming Virtue: Filial Themes in Bird Paintings by Shen Zhou (1427-1509)
Ann Wetherell, University of OregonProsperous Secondary Capital: A Cityscape Scroll of Ming Nanjing
Ina Asim, University of OregonDiscussant:
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 CollegeIn Another Lifetime: Buddhist Laywomen’s Perspectives on Marriage Failure in Contemporary Beijing
Gareth J. Fisher, Syracuse UniversityThe Cultural Politics of Marriage in Post-War Taiwan
Linda Learman, Independent ScholarCross-Straits Marriage in Mainland China: Politics, Social Mobility, and Gender
Joseph L. Cichosz, University of PittsburghDiscussant:
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 UniversityPrimitivism or Enlightenment: The Spirit of Greek Tragedy in Cao Yu and New Drama Movement
Liang Lu, Purdue UniversityHistoricizing the History of Chinese Literature
David L. Porter, University of MichiganConstructing Literary Networks: A Model for Post-Disciplinary Literary Scholarship
Daniel Dooghan, University of MinnesotaBeyond the Nation: From Linear to Horizontal Literary History
Ning Ma, Tufts UniversityDiscussant:
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 ColumbiaFeng Menglong and Rewriting Friendship in the Late Ming
Feng Menglong and Courtesan Stories in Sanyan
Sufeng Xu, Lafayette CollegeRewriting Dreams in Xingshi hengyan
Jing Zhang, New College of FloridaDiscussant:
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 SinicaThe Impact of FDI on the Local Investment Environment: The Case of Kunshan in China
Chinien Wang, Chinese Culture UniversityExport Credit and Financial Statecraft in Japan: Focusing on Security and Aid Diplomacy
A. Maria Toyoda, Villanova UniversityImpacts 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 UniversitySharing Knowledge about the Unknown: Visual Representations of China in German and Dutch Pre-1800 Accounts
Monika Lehner, University of ViennaPainted Europe: Image and Imagination in Qing Paintings of the West
Kristina Kleutghen, Harvard UniversityA Chinese Look on “The Great Smoke”: London in Lao She’s The Two Mas
Xiaoling Shi, Rhodes CollegeDiscussant:
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 UniversityDiscussant:
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 UniversityThe Division into Sections and Interpretation of the Chu Script Bamboo Slip Manuscript, Hengxian? “Ante-eternity”
Wen Xing, Dartmouth CollegeThe Namboo-Slip Manuscript Rongchengshi and the “Beginning of History” in Ancient China
Sarah Allan, Dartmouth CollegeDiscussant:
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 ColoradoGrowing 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 BrookExploiting the Scandinavian Invasion: The Shaw Brothers’ Sexy Girls of Denmark (1973)
Jeffery Tan, University of CambridgeWith 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 WashingtonSexuality and Religion in the Late-Ming Dramatist Xu Wei’s “Chan Master Yu”
Liyan Shen, Emory UniversityExceptional Virtue: Ethnicity and Female Sexuality on the Qing Frontier
Megan Bryson, Stanford UniversityDiscussants:
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 UniversityFire and Qing Agricultural Borderlands: Chinese, Tibetan, and Hui Cultural Landscapes
Jack P. Hayes, Norwich UniversityA 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 UniversityDiscussant:
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 MarylandCo-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 UniversityDiscussant:
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 UniversityAdvertising 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 UniversityScholarship and the “New Left”
Rebecca E. Karl, New York UniversityThe Geopolitics of the New Left in China
Lisa B. Rofel, University of California, Santa CruzDefending Mao: History, Politics, and Chinese Modernity
Fangchun Li, University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleDiscussant:
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 UniversityMiddle Eastern Studies in China: The State of the Field
I-wei Jennifer Chang, University of MarylandThe Strait of Hormuz: A Barometer in the Emerging U.S.-Gulf-China Triangular Relationship
Shuang Wen, Georgetown UniversityStrengthening 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 AngelesCrossing the Transitional Realm: Image, Ritual, and Memory in Early Chinese Funerary Shrines
Jie Shi, University of ChicagoDiscussant:
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 CollegeImperial 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, IrvineDiscussants:
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 CollegeChina’s S&T Policy, Foreign-Trained Scientists, and the Cultural Revolution
Chunjuan Nancy Wei, University of BridgeportReexamining the Origins of the Criticism of Relativity in China
Danian Hu, City University of New York, City CollegeThe Forgotten Tale of “Two Beijings”: How Architectural Wisdom Met Its Demise under Maoist Science
Haixia Wang, University of PittsburghDiscussant:
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 HawaiiPaper Offerings for the Worship of Tin Hau
Janet Lee Scott, Harvard UniversityMoney to Burn: Dollars, Debt, and the Im/materiality of Value in Fuzhou, China
Julie Y. Chu, University of ChicagoThe Ethics of Asian Spirit Money
Heonik Kwon, London School of EconomicsRitual 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 UniversityA 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 UniversityWet T-Shirt Contests and Butt-Bumping Wedding Ceremonies in the Dai Park: Han Chinese Fetishism of Indigenous Dai Traditions
Monica Cable, Franklin & Marshall CollegeDiscussant:
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 UniversityFrom Farm to Fabric: Agricultural Commodities, Industrial Sectors, Global Integration, and the Politics of Regulatory Reform in China
Mark Dallas, University of California, BerkeleyEffect of Fragmented Bureaucracy on Air Quality Management in the Road Transport Sector in China
Eri Saikawa, Princeton UniversitySex 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 UniversityDiscussants:
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 UniversityLove en route to the Monastery: An Account of Polhane’s Trip to Mindrolling
Dominique Townsend, Columbia UniversityLove and Longing in the Auto/biographies of the Tantric Couple Sera Khandro (1892-1940) and Drimé Özer (1881-1924)
Sarah H. Jacoby, Northwestern UniversityGreat Expectations? Love in Contemporary Tibetan Women’s Poetry
Robin Francoise, INALCODiscussant:
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 GlasgowThe 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 UniversityProviding Health Care for Kazak Herders: The Pastoral Clinic in Xinjiang
Sascha Klotzbuecher, University of ViennaFinancing for Maternal and Child Health Care in Undeveloped Rural Areas in China: The Case of Yunnan Province
Qu Wang, University of ViennaDiscussant:
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 CollegeTranslating “Sociology” in the Late Qing
Max K. W. Huang, Academia SinicaSelf, Nation-State, and Laissez-Faire Capitalism: The Liberal Democracy of Liu Shipei and Zhang Taiyan
Tze Ki Hon, State University of New York, GeneseoSelective Othering: The Formation of Chinese National Identity and Attitudes to the External World
Yinan He, Seton Hall UniversityDiscussant:
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 UniversityHow the Perfect Warrior was Won: The Growth of the Sectarian Pantheon through Baojuan
Shin-yi Chao, Rutgers UniversityThe Interplay of Written and Oral Aspects in Scripture Telling of Zhangjiagang (Jiangsu, China)
Rostislav Berezkin, University of PennsylvaniaDiscussants:
Daniel L. Overmyer, University of British Columbia
Philip A. Clart, University of Leipzig
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