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Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

A002: Bordering China, Bordering Reform (Part 1): China's Hong Kong Border
Organizer: Denise Y. Ho – Yale University
Organizer: Taomo Zhou – Nanyang Technological University
Chair: Helen Siu – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Bixiao He – Sun Yat-Sen University
Paper Presenter: Angelina Y. Chin – Pomona College
Paper Presenter: Denise Y. Ho – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Taomo Zhou – Nanyang Technological University
Discussant: Michael Szonyi – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

1: Hong Kong in China's Information Nexus: Building a CCP Network in the Early Cold War
Paper Presenter: Bixiao He – Sun Yat-Sen University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

2: From Guangdong to Taiwan: The Political Journeys of Two Anti-communist Heroes (Fangongyishi) Who Came to Love the CCP Keywords: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Refugees, Diaspora, KMT
Paper Presenter: Angelina Y. Chin – Pomona College
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

3: Oysterman, Refugee, Coast Guard: Hong Kong and China Between the Tides, 1949-1997
Paper Presenter: Denise Y. Ho – Yale University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

4: Leveraging Liminality: The Border Town of Baoan and the Origins of China's Reform and Opening
Paper Presenter: Taomo Zhou – Nanyang Technological University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

A005: Constructing Memories: The Making of Song Historical Sources
Organizer: Hiu Yu Cheung – Chinese University of Hong Kong
Organizer: Ming-kin Chu – University of Hong Kong
Chair: Charles Hartman – University at Albany, SUNY
Paper Presenter: Hiu Yu Cheung – Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Ming-kin Chu – University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Jaeyoon Song – McMaster University
Paper Presenter: Zoe Lin – Ithaca College
Discussant: Ari Daniel Levine – University of Georgia
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

1: The “Black Sheep” of the Early Daoxue Community: Testimonies and Archived Memories Surrounding Xing Shu’s 邢恕 Historical Image
Paper Presenter: Hiu Yu Cheung – Chinese University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

2: From Communicative Memories to Canonized Historical Accounts: A Study of the Memories of Li Gang and Wang Boyan regarding the Southern Song Restoration
Paper Presenter: Ming-kin Chu – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

3: History as Statecraft: Lü Zhong’s 吕中 (fl. 1240s) Critique of State Activism
Paper Presenter: Jaeyoon Song – McMaster University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

4: Carved in Stone: Stele Building, Public Memories, and Local Politics in Southern Song China
Paper Presenter: Zoe Lin – Ithaca College
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

A008: Cultural Genocide, Global Discourses of Terrorism and China’s Bid to Remake the World Order
Organizer: Joanne Smith Finley – Newcastle University
Chair: Dru Gladney – Pomona College
Paper Presenter: Sean Roberts – George Washington University
Paper Presenter: David Brophy – University of Sydney
Paper Presenter: David Tobin – University of Manchester
Discussant: Dru Gladney – Pomona College
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

1: Cultural Genocide as the Logical Conclusion to the Bio-politics of China’s War on Terror
Paper Presenter: Sean Roberts – George Washington University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

2: De-radicalisation, State Islamology and China’s War on Terror
Paper Presenter: David Brophy – University of Sydney
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

3: The Great Revival of the “Chinese Race” in an Age of Postcolonial Anxiety
Paper Presenter: David Tobin – University of Manchester
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

A016: Hidden Structures: Data, Social Networks and Politics in Early and Medieval China
Organizer: Yunxin Li – Stanford University
Chair: Thomas J. Mazanec – University of California, Santa Barbara
Paper Presenter: Yunxin Li – Stanford University
Paper Presenter: Liang Cai – University of Notre Dame
Paper Presenter: Jack W. Chen – University of Virginia
Paper Presenter: Nicolas Tackett – University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Thomas J. Mazanec – University of California, Santa Barbara
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

1: Elite Social Networks and Politics at the Han Court
Paper Presenter: Yunxin Li – Stanford University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

2: Teachers to the Throne: Social Network and Political Power in the Western Han China (202 BC E–9 C.E)
Paper Presenter: Liang Cai – University of Notre Dame
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

3: Six Degrees of Separation in the Shishuo xinyu
Paper Presenter: Jack W. Chen – University of Virginia
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

4: New Networks, New Societies, and New Political Ideals during the Tang-Song Interregnum
Paper Presenter: Nicolas Tackett – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

A023: New Approaches to the Historiography of East Asian Art in the Twentieth Century
Organizer: Fletcher Coleman – University of Texas, Arlington
Chair: Wei-cheng Lin – University of Chicago
Paper Presenter: Stephanie Su – University of Colorado, Boulder
Paper Presenter: Seung Yeon Sang – Autonomous University of Barcelona
Paper Presenter: Fletcher Coleman – University of Texas, Arlington
Paper Presenter: Noelle Giuffrida – Ball State University
Discussant: Wei-cheng Lin – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

1: Locating the Origin of East Asian Art: Art Historical Canons in Early Twentieth Century Japanese Newspaper Illustrations
Paper Presenter: Stephanie Su – University of Colorado, Boulder
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

2: Japanese Folk Art in the United States: Yanagi Muneyoshi in Boston (1929-30)
Paper Presenter: Seung Yeon Sang – Autonomous University of Barcelona
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

3: Building the Discipline: Rubbings, Removal, and Restoration in the Early American Study of East Asian Art
Paper Presenter: Fletcher Coleman – University of Texas, Arlington
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

4: Surveying the Arts of China in Postwar America
Paper Presenter: Noelle Giuffrida – Ball State University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

A028: Rethinking Disease in Asia after COVID-19
Organizer: Rachel S. Core – Stetson University
Chair: William Johnston – Wesleyan University
Paper Presenter: Rachel S. Core – Stetson University
Paper Presenter: Xiaoping Fang – Nanyang Technological University
Paper Presenter: Yang Li – Princeton University
Discussant: Zhou Xun – University of Essex
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

1: Creating a New Health Image: Public Health Posters and Control of Respiratory Disease in China
Paper Presenter: Rachel S. Core – Stetson University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

2: China and the Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring the Society under Mao
Paper Presenter: Xiaoping Fang – Nanyang Technological University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

3: Barefoot Doctor's Magic Bullet: Mass Production of Antibiotics and China's Healthcare System in the Global Cold War
Paper Presenter: Yang Li – Princeton University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

A030: The Afterlives of Maxim Gorky in China
Organizer: Keru Cai – University of Oxford
Chair: Wendy A. Larson – University of Oregon
Paper Presenter: Keru Cai – University of Oxford
Paper Presenter: Wendy A. Larson – University of Oregon
Paper Presenter: Nicolai Volland – Pennsylvania State University
Paper Presenter: Lihua Zhang – Peking University
Discussant: Pu Wang – Brandeis University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

1: 1920s Reception and Early-1930s Literary Appropriation of Maxim Gorky in China
Paper Presenter: Keru Cai – University of Oxford
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

2: Literature in Front of Reality: Gorky and the Chinese Debate on Typicality
Paper Presenter: Wendy A. Larson – University of Oregon
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

3: Visualizing Gorky in Socialist China
Paper Presenter: Nicolai Volland – Pennsylvania State University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

4: The Mirror Image of the "New Culture": Rereading Lu Xun's "The Venerable Schoolmaster Gao"
Paper Presenter: Lihua Zhang – Peking University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

A032: Trajectories of Multilingualism and Translation in (Early) Modern East Asia
Organizer: Johannes S. Lotze – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Chair: Johannes S. Lotze – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Paper Presenter: Michael Hoeckelmann – Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Nuremberg
Paper Presenter: Qiao Yang – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Paper Presenter: Thea Karagialidis – Durham University
Paper Presenter: Johannes S. Lotze – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

1: Chen Yinke, Multilingualism, and the Republican Discovery of Medieval China
Paper Presenter: Michael Hoeckelmann – Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Nuremberg
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

2: Islamicate Astronomy and the Politics of Translation in the Yuan-Ming Transition
Paper Presenter: Qiao Yang – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

3: Dutch Studies and Translation Discourse in Late Tokugawa Japan
Paper Presenter: Thea Karagialidis – Durham University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

4: Multilingual Empires: The Yuan-Ming-Qing Transition
Paper Presenter: Johannes S. Lotze – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

B008: Harbor from the Holocaust: Engaging Multiple Stakeholders in Curriculum and Project Development
Organizer: Michele Ferrier – University of Pittsburgh
Chair: Michele Ferrier – University of Pittsburgh
Presenter: Michele Ferrier – University of Pittsburgh
Presenter: Emily Rook-Koepsel – University of Pittsburgh
Presenter: Tina Phillips Johnson – St. Vincent College
Presenter: Darryl Ford Williams – WQED Public Television
Presenter: Lynne Squilla – Freelance Writer & Producer
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

B010: Making Space in Song China
Organizer: Xiuyuan Mi – University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Stephen H. West – University of California, Berkeley
Paper Presenter: Cong E. Zhang – University of Virginia
Paper Presenter: Jeffrey Moser – Brown University
Paper Presenter: Xiuyuan Mi – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Wanmeng Li – University of California, Los Angeles
Discussant: Stephen H. West – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

1: Building and Representing the Government Office Compound in Northern Song China: Han Qi in Xiangzhou
Paper Presenter: Cong E. Zhang – University of Virginia
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

2: Visual Kinetics in the Qingming Handscroll
Paper Presenter: Jeffrey Moser – Brown University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

3: Poetic Geography: Building Literary Space in Song Local Gazetteers
Paper Presenter: Xiuyuan Mi – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

4: Grotto-heaven as Corporeal Cauldron: Inner Alchemical Mountainscape in Song Literati Poetry
Paper Presenter: Wanmeng Li – University of California, Los Angeles
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

B018: Rethinking “Sinicization” of Religions: New Perspectives from Late-Imperial to Contemporary China
Organizer: Wei Wu – Emory University
Chair: Wei Wu – Emory University
Paper Presenter: Wei Wu – Emory University
Paper Presenter: Shaodan Zhang – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paper Presenter: Xiaoxuan Wang – Independent Scholar
Paper Presenter: Kuei-min Chang – National Taiwan University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

1: Transmission and Transformation: Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism in Early Twentieth-Century China
Paper Presenter: Wei Wu – Emory University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

2: Muslim Printing and Sinicization of Islamic Knowledge in Late Imperial China
Paper Presenter: Shaodan Zhang – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

3: Standardization, Bureaucratization and Convergence: The Transformation of Governance of Religion in Urbanizing China
Paper Presenter: Xiaoxuan Wang – Independent Scholar
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

4: Different but Same: Modalities of Sinicization and Religious Control in China
Paper Presenter: Kuei-min Chang – National Taiwan University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

B019: Rethinking Things and "Thingness" in Modern Chinese Culture
Organizer: Anatoly Detwyler – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Organizer: Renren Yang – The University of British Columbia
Chair: Andrew Jones – University of California, Berkeley
Paper Presenter: Anatoly Detwyler – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paper Presenter: Laurence Coderre – New York University
Paper Presenter: Paola Iovene – University of Chicago
Paper Presenter: Renren Yang – The University of British Columbia
Discussant: Andrew Jones – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

1: The Literary Handicraft: On the Politics and Mediology of “Thing” in the Work of Shen Congwen
Paper Presenter: Anatoly Detwyler – University of Wisconsin-Madison
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

2: The Revolution Will Be Mediated: On Newborn Socialist Things
Paper Presenter: Laurence Coderre – New York University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

3: Cinema and Petrochemicals in 1970s China
Paper Presenter: Paola Iovene – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

4: For a (Democratic) Holding Cyberspace: Chivalric Hacking and Computerized Things in Early Chinese Web Novels
Paper Presenter: Renren Yang – The University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

B023: Technologized Vision in Modern China
Organizer: Chenshu Zhou – University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Margaret Hillenbrand – University of Oxford
Paper Presenter: Panpan Yang – University of Chicago
Paper Presenter: Chenshu Zhou – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Yomi Braester – University of Washington
Paper Presenter: Weixian Pan – New York University Shanghai
Discussant: Margaret Hillenbrand – University of Oxford
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

1: Ghost in the Machine, or the “Trick” Beginning of Chinese Animation History
Paper Presenter: Panpan Yang – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

2: The Attractions of “tu-cinema”: Slide Projection at Mao-era Film Screenings
Paper Presenter: Chenshu Zhou – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

3: The Magic of the Disappearing Wall: The Post-Cinematic Aesthetics of Architectural Models in the PRC
Paper Presenter: Yomi Braester – University of Washington
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

4: Island Fever: Signal Sovereignty and Visual Fields of Disputed Ocean
Paper Presenter: Weixian Pan – New York University Shanghai
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

C002: Branching Out: Studying Social Networks in Chosŏn Korea and Qing China
Organizer: Lawrence L. Zhang – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Chair: Lawrence L. Zhang – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Paper Presenter: Lawrence L. Zhang – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Paper Presenter: Javier Cha – Seoul National University
Paper Presenter: Jing Hu – Leiden University
Paper Presenter: Shengyu Yang – Princeton University
Discussant: Steven Miles – Washington University, St. Louis
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: We are All a Family: Elite Marriages in the Late Qing
Paper Presenter: Lawrence L. Zhang – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Network Cohesion and Localized Yangban Assemblages in Early Modern Korea
Paper Presenter: Javier Cha – Seoul National University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: The Genealogical Networks of the Group of Chungin in Chosŏn Korea
Paper Presenter: Jing Hu – Leiden University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: Managing Family from Afar: Gu Wenbin’s Manuals of Eternal Success
Paper Presenter: Shengyu Yang – Princeton University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

C003: China in Many Languages: Minority Literatures and the Politics of Translation
Organizer: Joshua L. Freeman – Princeton Society of Fellows
Organizer: Christopher Peacock – Columbia University
Chair: Thomas Hare – Princeton University
Paper Presenter: Sarah Bramao-Ramos – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Joshua L. Freeman – Princeton Society of Fellows
Paper Presenter: Christopher Peacock – Columbia University
Paper Presenter: Mutallip Anwar – Stanford University
Discussant: Gina Anne Tam – Trinity University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Strange Tales from Manchu Studios: Manchu Language Translations of Liaozhai Zhiyi
Paper Presenter: Sarah Bramao-Ramos – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: When Poets Conquered the Bureaucracy: Uyghur-Chinese Translators in Maoist Xinjiang
Paper Presenter: Joshua L. Freeman – Princeton Society of Fellows
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Science and the Yeti: On Döndrup Gyel's Translation of "The Magic Flute of the Snow Mountains"
Paper Presenter: Christopher Peacock – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: Translating the People's War on Terror: (Re)Construction of the Narrative of a Violent Incident by Journalist-Translators in Chinese, Uyghur, and English
Paper Presenter: Mutallip Anwar – Stanford University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

C004: DNA Evidence and China Studies
Organizer: Patricia Ebrey – University of Washington
Chair: Patricia Ebrey – University of Washington
Paper Presenter: Jade D. Guedes – University of California San Diego
Paper Presenter: Katherine Brunson – Wesleyan University
Paper Presenter: Ryan Nichols – California State University, Fullerton
Paper Presenter: Yinghong Cheng – Delaware State University
Discussant: Melinda Yang – University of Richmond
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Genetics, Linguistics, Colonization, and the Deep Tibetan Past
Paper Presenter: Jade D. Guedes – University of California San Diego
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: The Future of Ancient DNA Research on Animal Domestication in China
Paper Presenter: Katherine Brunson – Wesleyan University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Likely Selective Forces in the Continental East Asian Paleolithic/Neolithic Transition
Paper Presenter: Ryan Nichols – California State University, Fullerton
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: Taiwanese DNA and Chinese DNA: Genetic Nationalism in Taiwan and China
Paper Presenter: Yinghong Cheng – Delaware State University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

C008: Life-Writing Projects in Modern Chinese and Vietnamese Cultural History
Organizer: Lang Wang – Purdue University
Chair: Lang Wang – Purdue University
Paper Presenter: Lang Wang – Purdue University
Paper Presenter: Da Zheng – Suffolk University
Paper Presenter: Karen S. Kingsbury – Chatham University
Paper Presenter: Van Thu Phan – Ho Chi Minh City University of Education
Discussant: Tonglu Li – Iowa State University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Qiu Jin and the Birth of Chinese Feminism
Paper Presenter: Lang Wang – Purdue University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Performing China on the World Stage: Writing Shih-I Hsiung
Paper Presenter: Da Zheng – Suffolk University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: "New England Is China": Eileen Chang's Memoir Essay for WOMAN'S DAY
Paper Presenter: Karen S. Kingsbury – Chatham University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: Phan Boi Chau and the Transformation of Vietnamese Intellectual Mindset in the Early Twentieth Century
Paper Presenter: Van Thu Phan – Ho Chi Minh City University of Education
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

C011: Materializing Religion as Medicine in Premodern China
Organizer: H.S. Sum Cheuk Shing – University of Chicago
Chair: James Benn – McMaster University
Paper Presenter: H.S. Sum Cheuk Shing – University of Chicago
Paper Presenter: Hsiao-wen Cheng – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Simona Lazzerini – Stanford University
Paper Presenter: Dominic Steavu – University of California, Santa Barbara
Discussant: TJ Hinrichs – Cornell University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Eliminating Hunger and Thirst with Medicine: Buddhist and Daoist Recipes from Medieval China
Paper Presenter: H.S. Sum Cheuk Shing – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Drug Market, Environment, and Healing Culture in Song China: A Case Study of Cangzhu (Black Atractylodes Rhizome)
Paper Presenter: Hsiao-wen Cheng – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: “Hārītī Will Always Protect You:” Healing and Cursing Practices in Two Amoghavajra Texts
Paper Presenter: Simona Lazzerini – Stanford University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

C014: Reading and Writing Early Socialism in China: Challenges in an Unstable Cultural Field
Organizer: Lara Y. Yang – University of Freiburg
Chair: Christopher Reed – The Ohio State University
Paper Presenter: Robert Culp – Bard College
Paper Presenter: Sisi Dong – Minnan Normal University
Paper Presenter: Haiyan Zhou – Nanjing University
Paper Presenter: Lara Y. Yang – University of Freiburg
Discussant: Joan Judge – York University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: "Patriotic Young Classmates . . . !" Young Readers as Authors and the Politics of Self-Mobilization through Shanghai's Youth League Publications
Paper Presenter: Robert Culp – Bard College
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Learning Chairman Mao's Works In Rural Eastern Fujian
Paper Presenter: Sisi Dong – Minnan Normal University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Labor Hero Propaganda as Ritual: A Case Study of Li Shunda
Paper Presenter: Haiyan Zhou – Nanjing University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: Reading Dust from the Past: Second-hand Book-reading Culture in 1950s China
Paper Presenter: Lara Y. Yang – University of Freiburg
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

C023: Writing the Other: Narratives of China’s Borderlands
Organizer: Masha Kobzeva – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair: Victor Mair – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Masha Kobzeva – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paper Presenter: Fanghan Wang – New York University
Paper Presenter: Charles Sanft – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper Presenter: Tineke D'Haeseleer – Muhlenberg College
Discussant: Victor Mair – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Hierarchy of the Other: Writing East in Early Medieval China
Paper Presenter: Masha Kobzeva – University of Wisconsin-Madison
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Stereotyped Perception: Subsistence of Xiongnu Revisited
Paper Presenter: Fanghan Wang – New York University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: Tang Scholar-officials' View on the "Eastern Barbarians"
Paper Presenter: Tineke D'Haeseleer – Muhlenberg College
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

D001: China's Transition to the Reform Era (Part 2 of
Organizer: Denise Y. Ho – Yale University
Organizer: Taomo Zhou – Nanyang Technological University
Chair: Wen-hsin Yeh – University of California, Berkeley
Paper Presenter: Michelle M. Chang – Stanford University
Paper Presenter: Andrew B. Liu – Villanova University
Paper Presenter: Cole Roskam – University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Yu Zhang – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Discussant: Charlotte Ikels – Case Western Reserve University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: The Business of Living: Transforming the Command Economy and the Making of Markets in Guangzhou, 1978-1985
Paper Presenter: Michelle M. Chang – Stanford University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: The Factories Behind the Storefront: The Four Guangdong Tigers and Diasporic Chinese Capital during China’s Early Reform Period
Paper Presenter: Andrew B. Liu – Villanova University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: The Architecture of Reform: Buildings and Finance on the Hong Kong-China Border, 1978-1984
Paper Presenter: Cole Roskam – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: The Socialist/Neoliberal Labor Hero in the Risky World of Finance: Leung Fung-Yee Fever, the Financialization of Everyday Life, and the Formation of Entrepreneurial Subjectivity
Paper Presenter: Yu Zhang – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

D009: Frontier Encounters and Knowledge Production in Qing Inner Asia: Competing Narratives between the Qing State and Travellers to Frontiers
Organizer: Anne-Sophie Pratte – Harvard University
Chair: Mark C. Elliott – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Kaijun Chen – Brown University
Paper Presenter: Lei Lin – Duke Kunshan University
Paper Presenter: Huiying Chen – University of Illinois, Chicago
Paper Presenter: Anne-Sophie Pratte – Harvard University
Discussant: Matthew W. Mosca – University of Washington
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: What Were They Doing There: Mandarin Travel Logs on Mongolia
Paper Presenter: Kaijun Chen – Brown University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: Borderland Territorial Bureaucracy, Official Crimes, and the Qing State Capacity in Tibet in the Late 18th Century
Paper Presenter: Lei Lin – Duke Kunshan University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: Travels and Frontier in Eighteenth-century China
Paper Presenter: Huiying Chen – University of Illinois, Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: Negotiating Geography in 19th Century Qing Mongolia
Paper Presenter: Anne-Sophie Pratte – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

D012: Laughing with Fetters: Satire and Humor in Postsocialist China
Organizer: Hongjian Wang – Purdue University
Organizer: Xi Tian – Bucknell University
Chair: Hongjian Wang – Purdue University
Paper Presenter: Hongjian Wang – Purdue University
Paper Presenter: Yiwen Wang – University of California, San Diego
Paper Presenter: Xi Tian – Bucknell University
Discussant: Paul Pickowicz – University of California, San Diego
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: The Laugh of the Postsocialist Medusa: Female Comedians in the Satiric Skits on CCTV Spring Festival Gala (1983–2020)
Paper Presenter: Hongjian Wang – Purdue University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: Cynical Laugh of the Paratext: A Case Study of Daguguguji’s Microblog
Paper Presenter: Yiwen Wang – University of California, San Diego
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: Faking Conformity: Online Literature’s Satirical Negotiation with Government Censorship in China
Paper Presenter: Xi Tian – Bucknell University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

D014: Non-Human Voices in Chinese Literature
Organizer: Thomas Kelly – Harvard University
Organizer: Yiren Zheng – University of Chicago
Chair: Paula M. Varsano – University of California, Berkeley
Paper Presenter: Thomas Kelly – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Yiren Zheng – University of Chicago
Paper Presenter: Li Wei – Purdue University
Paper Presenter: Chloe Estep – Columbia University
Discussant: Paula M. Varsano – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: Zhang Dai and the Voice of the Remnant Thing
Paper Presenter: Thomas Kelly – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: When a Bird Speaks
Paper Presenter: Yiren Zheng – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: Invented Illness and Diseased Body: Chinese Classical Tales after the Late Nineteenth Century Civil Wars
Paper Presenter: Li Wei – Purdue University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: Light, Heat, Power: Futurist Poetics in Republican China
Paper Presenter: Chloe Estep – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

D016: Patterns of Patronage in Qing Beijing: Decentering Chinese Art History in the Long Eighteenth Century
Organizer: Michele Matteini – New York University
Chair: Stephen H. Whiteman – The Courtauld Institute of Art
Discussant: Michele Matteini – New York University
Paper Presenter: Nixi Cura – The University of Glasgow
Paper Presenter: Ke Xu – Peking University
Paper Presenter: Henning von Mirbach – University of California, Santa Barbara
Paper Presenter: Joseph Scheier-Dolberg – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: After the Fall: Remembering Han-martial Culture in the Late Eighteenth Century
Paper Presenter: Nixi Cura – The University of Glasgow
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: Fashishan’s Art World：A Glimpse of Private Patronage in Qing Beijing
Paper Presenter: Ke Xu – Peking University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: Seeking Distance from the Throne: Archaizing Calligraphy and Identity in Early Qing Beijing
Paper Presenter: Henning von Mirbach – University of California, Santa Barbara
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: Toward an Artist-Centered Model of Patronage: the Case of Yu Zhiding
Paper Presenter: Joseph Scheier-Dolberg – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

D020: Science and China's Foreign Relations, from 1945 to the Deng Era
Organizer: Pete Millwood – University of Hong Kong
Chair: Zuoyue Wang – California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Paper Presenter: J. Megan Greene – University of Kansas
Paper Presenter: Gordon Barrett – University of Oxford
Paper Presenter: Pete Millwood – University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Chenxi Xiong – East China Normal University
Discussant: Zuoyue Wang – California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: Post-war Sino-American Technical Cooperation and its Legacies
Paper Presenter: J. Megan Greene – University of Kansas
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: Science Diplomacy, Propaganda, and Exchange: Scientists and China’s Foreign Affairs Infrastructure (1949-1972)
Paper Presenter: Gordon Barrett – University of Oxford
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: A Source of Vernacular Knowledge or a Final Frontier for Globalized Science? American and Chinese Discourses on Science in the People’s Republic of China, 1971–1978
Paper Presenter: Pete Millwood – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: Deng Xiaoping’s Views on Science and Technology: Origins of the Sino-U.S. Science and Technology Cooperation, 1977-1979
Paper Presenter: Chenxi Xiong – East China Normal University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

D022: Word, Image, Studio, Water: Remembrance of Place in Premodern China
Organizer: Yunshuang Zhang – Wayne State University
Chair: Ronald Egan – Stanford University
Paper Presenter: Xiaolin Duan – North Carolina State University
Paper Presenter: Graham Chamness – Kalamazoo College
Paper Presenter: Yunshuang Zhang – Wayne State University
Paper Presenter: Einor K. Cervone – Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Discussant: Ronald Egan – Stanford University
Discussant: Peter Sturman – University of California, Santa Barbara
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: Remembering West Lake: Place, Mobility, and Geographical Knowledge from the Southern Song to the Ming
Paper Presenter: Xiaolin Duan – North Carolina State University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: From "Orchid Pavilion" to "Rain-Altar Song Pavilion": The Social Memory of Eastern Jin Poetry in the Late Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Paper Presenter: Graham Chamness – Kalamazoo College
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: The Rebuilt and the Unbuilt: Publicizing a Private Studio in Song Literary Culture
Paper Presenter: Yunshuang Zhang – Wayne State University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: A Place to Forget: Courtesan Boats and the Waterscape as Liminal Space in Late Imperial China
Paper Presenter: Einor K. Cervone – Los Angeles County Museum of Art
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

E001: Alternative Visions of Children and Childhood: Citizenship, Morality, and Social Responsibility in Mid-Twentieth Century China
Organizer: Kyle David – University of California, Irvine
Chair: Ping-chen Hsiung – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Margaret Mih Tillman – Purdue University
Paper Presenter: Jing Xu – University of Washington
Paper Presenter: Zhenyu Gao – Hangzhou Normal University
Discussant: Ping-chen Hsiung – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: Children's Education in the Jiangxi Soviet
Paper Presenter: Margaret Mih Tillman – Purdue University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: Learning morality with siblings: The untold tale of a mid-20th century Taiwanese family
Paper Presenter: Jing Xu – University of Washington
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: Building Active Citizens through Pupil Self-Government: Learning from Chinese Schools in the Republican Period, 1912-1949
Paper Presenter: Zhenyu Gao – Hangzhou Normal University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

E007: Chinese Feminisms as Transnational Feminisms
Organizer: Sharon R. Wesoky – Allegheny College
Chair: Sharon R. Wesoky – Allegheny College
Paper Presenter: Jiling Duan – Indiana University Bloomington
Paper Presenter: Xin Huang – University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Paper Presenter: Dian Dian – Emory University
Paper Presenter: Orna Naftali – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Discussant: Sharon R. Wesoky – Allegheny College
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: Maneuvering Within and Without: Chinese Feminisms in Transnational Flows and State Domination, 1995-2020
Paper Presenter: Jiling Duan – Indiana University Bloomington
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: Writing With An Accent: "Xenophone" Scholarship and Feminist Knowledge
Paper Presenter: Xin Huang – University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: Sinophone Queer Feminism: The Transnational Activist Practice of Chinese Lala Alliance
Paper Presenter: Dian Dian – Emory University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: China's "Gender Equality Education" Program: Local Contestations & Transnational Interactions
Paper Presenter: Orna Naftali – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

E010: Ethnocultural Violence and Historical Memory on the Inner Asian Frontiers of the PRC
Organizer: Benno Weiner – Carnegie Mellon University
Chair: Jonathan Lipman – Mount Holyoke College
Paper Presenter: Benno Weiner – Carnegie Mellon University
Paper Presenter: Guldana Salimjan – Simon Fraser University
Paper Presenter: William Jankowiak – University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Paper Presenter: Jing Wang – NYU Shanghai
Discussant: Jonathan Lipman – Mount Holyoke College
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: Reaching the Sky in a Single Step: The Amdo Rebellion, State Violence, and Post-Mao Narratives of Nationality Unity
Paper Presenter: Benno Weiner – Carnegie Mellon University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: State Violence, Pastoral Romanticism, and Kazakh Historical Memory in Post-Mao Xinjiang
Paper Presenter: Guldana Salimjan – Simon Fraser University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: Re-evaluating the Impact of the Cultural Revolution on Reshaping Minority Relations and Policy in Inner Mongolia
Paper Presenter: William Jankowiak – University of Nevada, Las Vegas
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: Revolutionaries or Terrorists: Remembering Hui Rebellion in Contemporary China
Paper Presenter: Jing Wang – NYU Shanghai
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

E011: Fathoming and Fixing Minds: China in the World of Psy Sciences
Organizer: Victor Seow – Harvard University
Chair: Shellen Wu – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper Presenter: Victor Seow – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Zhipeng Gao – Simon Fraser University
Paper Presenter: Zhuyun Lin – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Paper Presenter: Howard Chiang – University of California, Davis
Discussant: Shellen Wu – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: Industrial Psychology for an Industrializing China
Paper Presenter: Victor Seow – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: Between Agency and Nature: Psychosomatic Healthcare in Socialist China, 1949-1965
Paper Presenter: Zhipeng Gao – Simon Fraser University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: For the Patient? Building a Proletarian Psychiatric Hospital in China, 1958-1969
Paper Presenter: Zhuyun Lin – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: Psychoanalysis Meets Confucianism and Daoism: In the Life and Work of Dai Bingham
Paper Presenter: Howard Chiang – University of California, Davis
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

E023: Rural Transformation and Governance in China
Organizer: Kristen E. Looney – Georgetown University
Chair: Kristen E. Looney – Georgetown University
Paper Presenter: Karita Kan – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Paper Presenter: Jesse Rodenbiker – Cornell University
Paper Presenter: Jesper W. Zeuthen – Aalborg University
Co-Author: Qiuyu Jiang – IT University of Copenhagen
Paper Presenter: Julia Chuang – Boston College
Discussant: Kristen E. Looney – Georgetown University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: Capital Goes to the Countryside: How Rural Land Transfer Affects Grassroots Governance in China
Paper Presenter: Karita Kan – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: Welfare Redistribution, Political Containment and Land Reform in Rural China’s Contentious Politics
Paper Presenter: Julia Chuang – Boston College
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: Rural Redux: Aesthetic Differentiation in China's Urbanizing Villages
Paper Presenter: Jesse Rodenbiker – Cornell University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: Trusting Chinese Nannies in the Digital Era
Paper Presenter: Jesper W. Zeuthen – Aalborg University
Co-Author: Qiuyu Jiang – IT University of Copenhagen
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

E027: Whimsical Fauna: Animals as Agents in Early and Medieval China and Inner Asia
Organizer: Petya Andreeva – Parsons School of Design, The New School
Chair: Keith N. Knapp – The Citadel
Paper Presenter: Petya Andreeva – Parsons School of Design, The New School
Paper Presenter: Leslie Wallace – Coastal Carolina University
Paper Presenter: Benjamin Daniels – University of California, Berkeley
Paper Presenter: Rohan Sikri – University of Georgia
Discussant: Keith N. Knapp – The Citadel
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: The Social Lives of Composite Creatures : On the Making of Monsters and Monstrous Anatomies in North China and Inner Asia
Paper Presenter: Petya Andreeva – Parsons School of Design, The New School
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: Animals in the Tomb of Crown Prince Yide (706 CE)
Paper Presenter: Leslie Wallace – Coastal Carolina University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: Dragons in Early China: The Ecology of an Imaginary Animal
Paper Presenter: Benjamin Daniels – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: Becoming an Animal: Perspectives on Species Difference in Chinese Philosophy
Paper Presenter: Rohan Sikri – University of Georgia
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

F001: A Cultural Study of "Shame" in Late Imperial and Modern China
Organizer: Peijie Mao – ShanghaiTech University
Chair: Peijie Mao – ShanghaiTech University
Paper Presenter: En Li – Drake University
Paper Presenter: Aubrey Tang – Chapman University
Paper Presenter: Peijie Mao – ShanghaiTech University
Paper Presenter: Lu Liu – Georgia Institute of Technology
Discussant: Amanda Weiss – Georgia Institute of Technology
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: From Shame to Strategy: Gambling on the Civil Service Examinations in Nineteenth-Century Guangdong
Paper Presenter: En Li – Drake University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Blindness in Cantonese Operatic Culture
Paper Presenter: Aubrey Tang – Chapman University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Representing "National Humiliation" in Early 20th Century Chinese Print Media
Paper Presenter: Peijie Mao – ShanghaiTech University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: Skinning the Gang of Four: Minor Trials in the Post-Mao Visual Cultures
Paper Presenter: Lu Liu – Georgia Institute of Technology
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

F004: Between Evolving Standards and Persistent Diversity: Manuscripts and Inscriptions in Pre-Imperial and Early Imperial China
Organizer: Thies Staack – University of Hamburg, CSMC
Chair: Enno Giele – University of Heidelberg
Paper Presenter: Ondrej Skrabal – University of Hamburg
Paper Presenter: Olivier Venture – École Pratique des Hautes Études
Paper Presenter: Yunxiao Xiao – Princeton University
Paper Presenter: Thies Staack – University of Hamburg, CSMC
Discussant: Enno Giele – University of Heidelberg
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Inscribing to Standardize: The Agency of Workshops in the Evolution of Quality Control Inscriptions in the Warring States Period
Paper Presenter: Ondrej Skrabal – University of Hamburg
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Standards and Variants in Warring States Seals
Paper Presenter: Olivier Venture – École Pratique des Hautes Études
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Personal Habit or Shared Standard? Observations on Punctuation Marks in Warring States Manuscripts
Paper Presenter: Yunxiao Xiao – Princeton University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: The Pragmatics of Standardization: Document Norms and their Implementation in Early Imperial Administration
Paper Presenter: Thies Staack – University of Hamburg, CSMC
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

F005: Chinese Television in the Postsocialist Era: A Modern Medium for Everyday Life
Organizer: Dylan Suher – University of Hong Kong
Chair: Dylan Suher – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Julia Keblinska – University of California, Berkeley
Paper Presenter: Dylan Suher – University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Andy Rodekohr – Wake Forest University
Paper Presenter: Jingling Chen – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: The Story of the Monitor: Dream of the Red Chamber and New Era Materialities
Paper Presenter: Julia Keblinska – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Chinese Television at Midnight: Triumphant Return at Midnight and the Birth of the Shineiju
Paper Presenter: Dylan Suher – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: “China’s Game of Thrones": Historical Fantasy and the Spectacularization of Culture in Contemporary Chinese Television
Paper Presenter: Andy Rodekohr – Wake Forest University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: Falling in Love with Krishna—and India: A Case Study of Chinese Underground Subtitle Teams, Their Fans, and Barrage Culture
Paper Presenter: Jingling Chen – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

F006: Counter-Terrorism vs. State (?) Terrorism in the Uyghur region
Organizer: Joanne Smith Finley – Newcastle University
Chair: James Millward – Georgetown University
Paper Presenter: Joanne Smith Finley – Newcastle University
Paper Presenter: Michael Clarke – Australian National University
Paper Presenter: Pablo A. Rodríguez-Merino – Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Discussant: James Millward – Georgetown University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Has China’s Counter-Terrorism Policy in Xinjiang Evolved into State Terror? Evidence from the Uyghur Region, the Uyghur Diaspora and the “Leaked Papers”
Paper Presenter: Joanne Smith Finley – Newcastle University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China: Toward an Intermestic Understanding of the “Security State” in Xinjiang?
Paper Presenter: Michael Clarke – Australian National University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Does (Did) China Have a ‘Terrorism Problem’? Analyzing Uyghur-related Violent Conflict in the Light of Scholarly Definitions of Terrorism
Paper Presenter: Pablo A. Rodríguez-Merino – Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

F011: Justice Through the Looking Glass: Fiction, Technology, and Law in Late Imperial and Modern China
Organizer: Mengdie Zhao – Harvard University
Chair: Ellen Widmer – Wellesley College
Paper Presenter: Mengdie Zhao – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Tony D. Qian – Seoul National University
Paper Presenter: Guojun Wang – Vanderbilt University
Paper Presenter: Wei Peng – New York University Shanghai
Discussant: Janet M. Theiss – University of Utah
Discussant: Ellen Widmer – Wellesley College
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Bad Romance: Moral Imagination and Judicial Dilemmas in Late Ming Court Case Stories
Paper Presenter: Mengdie Zhao – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Law's Literary Pronouncements: The Role of Rhetorical Embellishments in Ming Judgments
Paper Presenter: Tony D. Qian – Seoul National University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: The Gender of Knowledge in Forensic Drama of Late Imperial China
Paper Presenter: Guojun Wang – Vanderbilt University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: Examining the Dead Body: The Fantasy of Forensic Science in Detective Fiction of the Republican Period
Paper Presenter: Wei Peng – New York University Shanghai
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

F015: New Qing History Meets the Sea? A Roundtable Discussion
Organizer: Chris PC Chung – University of Toronto
Chair: Chris PC Chung – University of Toronto
Discussant: Chris PC Chung – University of Toronto
Discussant: Laura Hostetler – University of Illinois, Chicago
Discussant: Xing Hang – Brandeis University
Discussant: Robert J. Antony – Shandong University
Discussant: Sunkyu Lee – University of California, Los Angeles
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

F017: Panel: Discourses of Chastity in Early Modern Vernacular Literature and Culture
Organizer: Li Guo – Utah State University
Chair: Katherine Alexander – University of Colorado, Boulder
Paper Presenter: Zeyuan Wu
Paper Presenter: Li Guo – Utah State University
Paper Presenter: Xiaosu Sun – Nanjing Normal University
Paper Presenter: Katherine Alexander – University of Colorado, Boulder
Discussant: Weijing Lu – University of California, San Diego
Discussant: Katherine Carlitz – University of Pittsburgh
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Widow Chastity and Beyond: Queen Zhao's Qin Song and Moral Exemplarity
Paper Presenter: Zeyuan Wu
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Gender, Syncretism, and Moral Self-Imagination: Jin Fangquan's tanci work A Tale of Exceptional Chastity
Paper Presenter: Li Guo – Utah State University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Chastity and Female Sainthood in Religious Vernacular Literature
Paper Presenter: Xiaosu Sun – Nanjing Normal University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: The Chaste Concubine: Women's Conflict and Cooperation in Xiunü baojuan
Paper Presenter: Katherine Alexander – University of Colorado, Boulder
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

F018: Sino-Soviet Relations in the post-Stalin Era: 1956-1969, New Perspectives
Organizer: Hua-Yu Li – Oregon State University
Organizer: Deborah Kaple – Princeton University
Chair: Steve Levine – University of Montana
Paper Presenter: Hua-Yu Li – Oregon State University
Paper Presenter: Deborah Kaple – Princeton University
Paper Presenter: Yinan He – Lehigh University
Paper Presenter: Joseph Torigian – American University
Discussant: Steve Levine – University of Montana
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Stalin’s Dogmas and Mao’s Cultural Revolution
Paper Presenter: Hua-Yu Li – Oregon State University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: The Stalinist Roots of Mao’s Great Leap Forward
Paper Presenter: Deborah Kaple – Princeton University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Mao’s Two-Front War: Anti-Soviet Polemics and the Domestic Battle against Revisionism, 1959-1965
Paper Presenter: Yinan He – Lehigh University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: Sino-Soviet Boarder Collisions: Crisis in 1969 and its Implications
Paper Presenter: Joseph Torigian – American University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

G001: "A Rhyme for a Reason": Conceptualizing Euphony and Other Mnemonic Strategies in Pre-Modern Chinese Didactic Texts
Organizer: Federico E.F Valenti – Liceo Linguistico Guglielmo Marconi - Parma
Chair: Sarah Allan – Dartmouth College
Paper Presenter: Federico E.F Valenti – Liceo Linguistico Guglielmo Marconi - Parma
Paper Presenter: Anne Behnke Kinney – University of Virginia
Paper Presenter: Christopher Nugent – Williams College
Paper Presenter: Christopher J. Foster – SOAS, University of London
Discussant: Matthias L. Richter – University of Colorado, Boulder
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: Alliterations, Rhymes and Paronomasia in the Erya
Paper Presenter: Federico E.F Valenti – Liceo Linguistico Guglielmo Marconi - Parma
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: Rhyme and Reason in the Lienüzhuan
Paper Presenter: Anne Behnke Kinney – University of Virginia
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: Pedagogical Pairings in a Dunhuang Text
Paper Presenter: Christopher Nugent – Williams College
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: Mnemonic Strategies in Scribal Primers: A Case Study of the Cang Jie pian
Paper Presenter: Christopher J. Foster – SOAS, University of London
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

G007: Gender and Theatre: Portrayals of Women Characters on the Chinese Stage
Organizer: Shiao-ling Yu – Oregon State University
Chair: Shiao-ling Yu – Oregon State University
Paper Presenter: Shiao-ling Yu – Oregon State University
Paper Presenter: Yuwen Zhu – Nanjing Normal University
Paper Presenter: Donghui He – Whitman College
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: The Left-Behind Women of Chinese Women's Liberation: A Portrait of Lu Xun's Invisible Wife
Paper Presenter: Shiao-ling Yu – Oregon State University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: The Interweaving of Dependence and Independence: The Emergence and Social Implication of Middle-Class Intellectual Women in China
Paper Presenter: Yuwen Zhu – Nanjing Normal University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: Embodying the Public Sphere: Critiquing the Gendered Obligations in Youth-Centered Urban Theatre in Contemporary China
Paper Presenter: Donghui He – Whitman College
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

G010: Local Histories of the Yellow River
Organizer: Daniel Knorr – University of Cambridge
Chair: David Pietz – University of Arizona
Paper Presenter: Ruth Mostern – University of Pittsburgh
Paper Presenter: Yuan Chen – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Daniel Knorr – University of Cambridge
Paper Presenter: Micah Muscolino – UC San Diego
Discussant: David Pietz – University of Arizona
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: Rethinking the "China's Sorrow" Paradigm of Yellow River History
Paper Presenter: Ruth Mostern – University of Pittsburgh
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: The Yellow River, the Bian Canal, and Kaifeng under Jurchen Rule
Paper Presenter: Yuan Chen – Yale University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: Beyond Hydraulic Failure: River, State, and City in Late Qing Jinan
Paper Presenter: Daniel Knorr – University of Cambridge
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: Fighting Erosion, Creating Famine: Water and Soil Conservation during the Great Leap Forward
Paper Presenter: Micah Muscolino – UC San Diego
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

G012: New Views on the "Conquest Dynasties"
Organizer: Wonhee Cho – Academy of Korean Studies
Chair: Valerie Hansen – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Valerie Hansen – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Wonhee Cho – Academy of Korean Studies
Paper Presenter: Roslyn L. Hammers – University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Karl Debreczeny – Rubin Museum of Art
Discussant: Johan Elverskog – Southern Methodist University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: Rethinking the label "Conquest Dynasties"
Paper Presenter: Valerie Hansen – Yale University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: Beyond the "Conquerors" and "Conquered" Dichotomy: A Social Network Analysis of the Yuan Dynasty Officials
Paper Presenter: Wonhee Cho – Academy of Korean Studies
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: Assimilating the Classics: The Qing Imperium's Reworking of Cotton Textile Production
Paper Presenter: Roslyn L. Hammers – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: Faith and Conquest: Tibetan Buddhism, Power, and the Right to Rule
Paper Presenter: Karl Debreczeny – Rubin Museum of Art
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

G013: Not Just for Art's Sake: Race, Culture, and Production in 20th Century Sino-Afro Exchanges
Organizer: Ling Zhang – SUNY Purchase
Chair: Keisha A. Brown – Tennessee State University
Paper Presenter: Keisha A. Brown – Tennessee State University
Paper Presenter: Ling Zhang – SUNY Purchase
Paper Presenter: Ye Liu – The New School
Paper Presenter: Quincy Ngan – Yale University
Discussant: Robeson Taj Frazier – University of Southern California
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: Pentatonic Internationalism: Paul Robeson, “March of the Volunteers,” and Its Afterlife in the PRC
Paper Presenter: Ling Zhang – SUNY Purchase
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: Expressive Sounds: Music and Performativity within Sino-African American Relations
Paper Presenter: Keisha A. Brown – Tennessee State University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: A Socialist Tropical Somatosensory Technique: Chinese Architectural Projects in Africa, 1960s-70s
Paper Presenter: Ye Liu – The New School
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: “We Are the World”: The Politics of Skin Colors Around Contemporary Chinese Painting
Paper Presenter: Quincy Ngan – Yale University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

G028: What’s on the Chinese Internet? Moving from Grassroots Expression to Institutional Content Provision
Organizer: Angela X. Wu – New York University
Chair: Guobin Yang – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Angela X. Wu – New York University
Paper Presenter: Rongbin Han – University of Georgia
Paper Presenter: Kecheng Fang – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Hong Shen – Carnegie Mellon University
Co-Author: Nina L. Li – Monash University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: China's Provincial Web: A History of Content Regionalization Online
Paper Presenter: Angela X. Wu – New York University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: Fantasizing Chinese Dreams: Alter-history Novels as Commodified, Personal, and Political Expression
Paper Presenter: Rongbin Han – University of Georgia
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: What is zimeiti?: The Commercial Logic of Content Provision on China's Social Media Platforms
Paper Presenter: Kecheng Fang – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: The Rise of China's Internet Industry: A History
Paper Presenter: Hong Shen – Carnegie Mellon University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

H011: Position-Takings in Chinese Ethnic Spheres: Minority Aesthetics, Agency, and Politics
Organizer: Mario De Grandis – The Ohio State University
Chair: Yanshuo Zhang – University of Michigan
Paper Presenter: Emily Wilcox – University of Michigan
Paper Presenter: Robin Visser – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Paper Presenter: Yanshuo Zhang – University of Michigan
Paper Presenter: Mario De Grandis – The Ohio State University
Discussant: Timothy Thurston – University of Leeds
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: Ethnic Presence and Ethnic Absence: Qemberxanim's Bodily Discourse and the Making of 'Uyghur Dance'
Paper Presenter: Emily Wilcox – University of Michigan
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: Cosmologies in Tibetan Eco-Literature
Paper Presenter: Robin Visser – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: Indigenous Articulations: Probing the Multimedia 'Mother Tongue Movement' of the Qiang People of China
Paper Presenter: Yanshuo Zhang – University of Michigan
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: Publishers' Framings: Publication Trajectories of
Paper Presenter: Mario De Grandis – The Ohio State University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

H014: Race, Racialization, and Antiracism I: Reimagining the Study of Global Asias
Organizer: Neelima Jeychandran – Pennsylvania State University
Chair: Neelima Jeychandran – Pennsylvania State University
Discussant: Chenrui Zhao – State University of New York, Binghamton
Discussant: Khatija Khader – Islamic University of Science and Technology
Discussant: Derek Sheridan – Academia Sinica
Discussant: Christine Vicera – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

H017: Seeking Truth from Facts: Information Politics in Modern China
Organizer: Yi Lu – Harvard University
Chair: Glenn Tiffert – Hoover Institution
Paper Presenter: Yi Lu – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Daniel Leese – University of Freiburg
Paper Presenter: Riley Brett-Roche – Stanford University
Paper Presenter: Julia Strauss – SOAS, University of London
Discussant: Jeremy Wallace – Cornell University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: Managing Misinformation: Grassroots Reporting In Mao's China
Paper Presenter: Yi Lu – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: Secrecy and International Thought Trends in the Early People's Republic of China: From Doctor Zhivago to Norbert Wiener
Paper Presenter: Daniel Leese – University of Freiburg
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: Collecting ‘Living Documents’: Establishing Provincial Archives in the PRC, 1950s-1980s
Paper Presenter: Riley Brett-Roche – Stanford University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: Archival Politics on the Two Sides of the Taiwan Strait: Imagining and Creating the State
Paper Presenter: Julia Strauss – SOAS, University of London
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

H023: Women Writing Art: Feminist Approaches in Chinese Women’s Art Writing, Cartoons, and Self-portrayals in the Early Republican Period
Organizer: Doris Sung – The University of Alabama
Chair: Doris Sung – The University of Alabama
Paper Presenter: Doris Sung – The University of Alabama
Paper Presenter: Amanda Wangwright – University of South Carolina
Paper Presenter: Gary Wang – University of Toronto
Paper Presenter: Martina Caschera – University of Chieti-Pescara
Discussant: Ying Hu – University of California, Irvine
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: 'Who Would Understand the Joy of the Fish?': Jin Taotao's Painting Treatise and Gender Repositioning in the Elite Art World
Paper Presenter: Doris Sung – The University of Alabama
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: Woman Has an Extraordinary Instinct for Art: Celebrity Artists, Social Reform, and Women Writing about Women in the Arts
Paper Presenter: Amanda Wangwright – University of South Carolina
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: Art, Mass Media and the Fashioning of Female Selves, Circa 1934
Paper Presenter: Gary Wang – University of Toronto
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: Women's Body and Wit in Early Republican China: Liang Baibo's Comic strips and Personal Correspondence
Paper Presenter: Martina Caschera – University of Chieti-Pescara
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

I003: China’s Long Arm: China’s Extradition Push and International Law and Politics
Organizer: Thomas E. Kellogg – Georgetown University Law Center
Chair: Jerome Cohen – New York University Law School
Discussant: Thomas E. Kellogg – Georgetown University Law Center
Discussant: Yu-Jie Chen – Academia Sinica
Discussant: Margaret K. Lewis – Seton Hall University Law School
Discussant: Eva Pils – King's College London
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

I004: Chinese Language Pedagogy Workshop: The Performed Culture Approach
Organizer: Li Yu – Williams College
Chair: Li Yu – Williams College
Presenter: Li Yu – Williams College
Presenter: Galal Walker – The Ohio State University
Presenter: Mari Noda – The Ohio State University
Presenter: Nan Meng – University of Connecticut
Presenter: Donglin Chai – University of Maryland, Baltimore County
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

I005: Creating Emergent Futures in Chinese Communities
Organizer: Xiaobo Yuan – Whitman College
Organizer: Shiqi Lin – University of California, Irvine
Chair: Xiaobo Yuan – Whitman College
Paper Presenter: Xiaobo Yuan – Whitman College
Paper Presenter: Shiqi Lin – University of California, Irvine
Paper Presenter: Laikwan Pang – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Tzu-Chi Ou – International College of Innovation, National Chengchi University
Discussant: Joshua Neves – Concordia University
Discussant: Jenny Chio – University of Southern California
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: "When the Police Come Knocking": Chinese Christianity and the Futurity of Conversion
Paper Presenter: Xiaobo Yuan – Whitman College
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: "The World Is Gone, I Must Carry You": The Dongbei Renaissance and Ruinated Futurity
Paper Presenter: Shiqi Lin – University of California, Irvine
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Polarity, Plurality, and Abjection: The Monsters in Hong Kong and Pak Sheung Chuen's "Nightmare Wallpaper"
Paper Presenter: Laikwan Pang – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: In Search of Community on Beijing's Urban Fringes
Paper Presenter: Tzu-Chi Ou – International College of Innovation, National Chengchi University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

I006: Destruction as Construction: Theorizing Demolition in Premodern China
Organizer: Shih-han Wang – Columbia University
Chair: Zeb Raft – Academia Sinica
Paper Presenter: Shih-han Wang – Columbia University
Paper Presenter: Ming Tak Ted Hui – University of Oxford
Paper Presenter: Hsien-min Chu – National Taiwan University
Discussant: Zeb Raft – Academia Sinica
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Destruction as a Way of Connection: A Case Study of Intentional Fragmentation in Burials of Bronze Age Lower Yangtze (ca. 1000 - 400 BCE)
Paper Presenter: Shih-han Wang – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Emblem of the Past: The Destruction of the Thatched Cottage of the Jade Mountain
Paper Presenter: Ming Tak Ted Hui – University of Oxford
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Beyond a Ruling Guide: The Aesthetic Effect of Ruins in Shuijin Zhu
Paper Presenter: Hsien-min Chu – National Taiwan University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

I008: Genres and Modes of Performance in Premodern China
Chair: Erica Brindley – Pennsylvania State University
Paper Presenter: Yung-chang Tung – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Yun Bai – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Karin Myhre – University of Georgia
Paper Presenter: Jing Zhou – Sun Yat-sen University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Asides in Late Imperial Chinese Drama: A Digital Approach
Paper Presenter: Yun Bai – Yale University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Different Dualisms: body and soul in Yuan and Ming performance
Paper Presenter: Karin Myhre – University of Georgia
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Problematic Laughter: Jokes, Anecdotes, and the Production of Notebooks in Middle-Period China
Paper Presenter: Yung-chang Tung – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

The Methodology of Approaching Medieval Chinese Music: A Case Study on the Functions of Two Court Ensembles in the Tang Dynasty
Paper Presenter: Jing Zhou – Sun Yat-sen University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

I010: Materials Movements and Knowledge Transmissions in Qing China
Organizer: Yulian Wu – Michigan State University
Chair: Anne Gerritsen – University of Warwick
Paper Presenter: Wen-shing Chou – Hunter College, City University of New York
Paper Presenter: Ellen Huang – ArtCenter College of Design
Paper Presenter: Yulian Wu – Michigan State University
Discussant: Anne Gerritsen – University of Warwick
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Gift of Past Lives: Tracing the Rebirth Lineage of the Qianlong Emperor
Paper Presenter: Wen-shing Chou – Hunter College, City University of New York
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: The Blue Road in 18th Century Qing Porcelain
Paper Presenter: Ellen Huang – ArtCenter College of Design
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Centralizing Skills: Imperial Networks and Knowledge Circulation in Qing Jade Production
Paper Presenter: Yulian Wu – Michigan State University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

I018: Socialism at the Margins: Politics, Identity, and Revolution on the Ethnic Frontiers of Mao-era China
Organizer: Xiaoshun Zeng – University of Washington
Chair: Stevan Harrell – University of Washington
Paper Presenter: Xiaoshun Zeng – University of Washington
Paper Presenter: Dáša Mortensen – Davidson College
Paper Presenter: Ute Wallenböck – Palacký University Olomouc
Paper Presenter: Dong Jo Shin – College of Saint Rose
Discussant: Stevan Harrell – University of Washington
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: The Gift of Good Health: The Ethnic Health Project and the Communist Revolution in Southwestern China, 1951-1953
Paper Presenter: Xiaoshun Zeng – University of Washington
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: How Tibetan Merchants Helped Establish Chinese Communist Party Rule in Eastern Tibet
Paper Presenter: Dáša Mortensen – Davidson College
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: The Tibet-Mongols at the Margins of the New Chinese Communist State
Paper Presenter: Ute Wallenböck – Palacký University Olomouc
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: Extreme Politics: The Dynamic Relationship Between Maoism and Nationalism on the Sino-korean Borderland in the Late 1950s and 1960s
Paper Presenter: Dong Jo Shin – College of Saint Rose
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

I021: Unfurled and Unfolded: East Asian Buddhist Manuscript Cultures
Organizer: April Hughes – Boston University
Chair: April Hughes – Boston University
Paper Presenter: April Hughes – Boston University
Paper Presenter: Asuka Sango – Carleton College
Paper Presenter: Rae Dachille – The University of Arizona
Discussant: Michelle Wang – Georgetown University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Depravities and Atonement: The Function of a Dunhuang Manuscript Booklet
Paper Presenter: April Hughes – Boston University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Buddhist Manuscript as a Way of Worldmaking in Early Medieval Japan
Paper Presenter: Asuka Sango – Carleton College
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Translating Bodies, Scripts, and Material Practice: Nuancing Appropriation and Soft Power in an Eighteenth-century Cultural Miscellany
Paper Presenter: Rae Dachille – The University of Arizona
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

J011: Performative Texts: Early and Early Medieval Chinese Perspectives on Intertextuality
Organizer: Tobias B. Zuern – Washington University in St. Louis
Chair: Wendy Swartz – Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Paper Presenter: Hsiang-Lin Shih – St. Olaf College
Paper Presenter: Tsung Kei Wong – Princeton University
Paper Presenter: Tobias B. Zuern – Washington University in St. Louis
Paper Presenter: Nicholas Williams – University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Wendy Swartz – Rutgers University-New Brunswick
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: Across the Gateless Barriers: Hyperlinked Farming Poetry in the Shi jing
Paper Presenter: Hsiang-Lin Shih – St. Olaf College
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: Reading Huainanzi, Becoming Xunzi: Reading, Intertextuality, and Praxis in Early China
Paper Presenter: Tsung Kei Wong – Princeton University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: Writing as Weaving: Intertextuality and the Huainanzi’s Self-Fashioning as a Powerful Embodiment of the Way
Paper Presenter: Tobias B. Zuern – Washington University in St. Louis
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: Chinese Intertextuality in Light of Lu Ji’s “Wen fu”
Paper Presenter: Nicholas Williams – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

J012: Performing Connoisseurship in Early Modern Chinese Drama
Organizer: Yinghui Wu – University of California, Los Angeles
Organizer: Allison Bernard – Yale University
Chair: Judith Zeitlin – University of Chicago
Paper Presenter: Yinghui Wu – University of California, Los Angeles
Paper Presenter: Allison Bernard – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Casey Schoenberger – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Paper Presenter: Yanbing Tan – The University of the South
Discussant: Judith Zeitlin – University of Chicago
Discussant: Patricia Sieber – The Ohio State University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

The Irony of Misreading: Ruan Dacheng’s “Aesthetic of Mistakes” in Yanzi jiand
Paper Presenter: Yanbing Tan – The University of the South
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: Reading Drama as Qu: Rethinking Late Ming Drama Criticism through the Lens of Qu Connoisseurship
Paper Presenter: Yinghui Wu – University of California, Los Angeles
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: Playwright-Historian and Connoisseur: Kong Shangren and “Collecting the Past”
Paper Presenter: Allison Bernard – Yale University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: National Opera, Regional Flavour, and Memory: The “Tang-Shen Debate” Reconsidered
Paper Presenter: Casey Schoenberger – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

J014: Politics and State Building at the Grassroots: County Governance Practices in the 1950s
Organizer: Wankun Li – University of Strathclyde
Chair: Wankun Li – University of Strathclyde
Paper Presenter: Shigu Liu – Xiamen University
Paper Presenter: Brian DeMare – Tulane University
Paper Presenter: Man Zhang – University of Freiburg
Paper Presenter: Juan Wang – McGill University
Discussant: Shuji Cao – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: Factional Politics: The Organizational Structure and Interpersonal Networks of Kuomintang’s Grassroots Regime, 1926-1949
Paper Presenter: Shigu Liu – Xiamen University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: Northern Interrogators, Local Suspects: Language and Place in the Archives
Paper Presenter: Brian DeMare – Tulane University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: Rape, Law, and Politics in Early 1950s China
Paper Presenter: Man Zhang – University of Freiburg
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: State Building, the Political Economy of Punishment, and the Institution of Mass-Line Policing in Communist China (1950-1962)
Paper Presenter: Juan Wang – McGill University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

J015: Reading From Below: Alternative Literacies, Citizenship, and Community in Modern China
Organizer: Chao Wang – University of Chicago
Chair: Janet Y. Chen – Princeton University
Paper Presenter: Chao Wang – University of Chicago
Paper Presenter: Miao Feng – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Paper Presenter: Di Luo – University of Alabama
Paper Presenter: Yukun Zeng – University of Chicago
Discussant: Charles W. Hayford
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: Reading By Hand and Heart: Literacy Ideologies for the Blind in Twentieth-century China
Paper Presenter: Chao Wang – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: Reading for the Nation: The CC Clique’s Nationwide Reading Campaign in 1930s China
Paper Presenter: Miao Feng – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: From Peasants to Working People: A New Reading of Revolutionary Experiences in Rural China, 1944- 1945
Paper Presenter: Di Luo – University of Alabama
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: Unimagined Community: The Alternative Authority of Dujing (Reading Classics) in Contemporary Chinese Societies
Paper Presenter: Yukun Zeng – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

J017: Storytelling of the Personal and the Historical: Modern Sinophone Cultural Production
Organizer: Chialan Wang – Oberlin College
Chair: Chialan Wang – Oberlin College
Paper Presenter: Hsiu-Chuang Deppman – Oberlin College
Paper Presenter: Jessica Tsui-yan Li – York University
Paper Presenter: Keren He – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Chialan Wang – Oberlin College
Discussant: Mingwei Song – Wellesley College
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: Storytelling in a Long Take: Jia Zhangke’s Ash Is Purest White
Paper Presenter: Hsiu-Chuang Deppman – Oberlin College
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: Equivocal Contrast: Eileen Chang's Self-Writing
Paper Presenter: Jessica Tsui-yan Li – York University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: Aging into Posthumans
Paper Presenter: Keren He – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: In the Name of Love: Female Impasses within Capitalist Logic in Lou Ye’s Shadow Play
Paper Presenter: Chialan Wang – Oberlin College
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

J018: Strategy and Statecraft in Imperial China
Chair: Leigh K. Jenco – London School of Economics and Political Science
Paper Presenter: Junda Lu – SOAS, University of London
Paper Presenter: Sau-yi Fong – Columbia University
Paper Presenter: Zhixin Luo – Binghamton University
Paper Presenter: Siyin Zhao – Rochester Institute of Technology
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Death and the Imagination of the Qing Monarchy: The Suicides of Chinese Royalists 1870s-1920s
Paper Presenter: Zhixin Luo – Binghamton University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Fortifying the Coast: Naval Strategy and Maritime Geography in Late Qing China
Paper Presenter: Sau-yi Fong – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Ideas Behind Literati Activism in the Qianlong-Jiaqing Transition: Zhang Xuecheng (1738-1801) and The Statist Re-orientation of Confucian Scholarship
Paper Presenter: Junda Lu – SOAS, University of London
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Ritual Borderlands Between Southern Song China and Jurchen Jin: Reconsidering the Twelfth-Century East Asian World Order
Paper Presenter: Siyin Zhao – Rochester Institute of Technology
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

J021: The Familial Is Political
Organizer: Ke Li – John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York
Chair: Mary Gallagher – University of Michigan
Paper Presenter: Ke Li – John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York
Paper Presenter: Kristin M. Sangren – University of California, Berkeley
Paper Presenter: Yige Dong – State University of New York, Buffalo
Co-Author: Angela X. Wu – New York University
Paper Presenter: Xiaohong Xu – University of Michigan
Co-Author: Lake Lui – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Discussant: Mary Gallagher – University of Michigan
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: Disputation as a State Enterprise in Contemporary China
Paper Presenter: Ke Li – John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: Adjudicating Filial Piety: Law, Legitimacy, and Moral Authority in the PRC
Paper Presenter: Kristin M. Sangren – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: Neo-Familialism in Xi’s China: Population, Gender, and Governmentality
Paper Presenter: Yige Dong – State University of New York, Buffalo
Co-author: Angela X. Wu – New York University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: From Familial State to Familial Society: Family Metaphors in Hong Kong’s 2019-2020 Protests
Paper Presenter: Xiaohong Xu – University of Michigan
Co-author: Lake Lui – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

J022: The Politics of History: PRC at 70 - In Memory of Roderick MacFarquhar
Organizer: Rowena Xiaoqing He – Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chair: Vera Schwarcz – Wesleyan University
Discussant: Rowena Xiaoqing He – Chinese University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Jian Guo – University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Discussant: Yongyi Song – California State University, Los Angeles
Discussant: Adi Ignatius – Harvard Business Review
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

K002: Chineseness in Motion: Rethinking the Field in Global Persepctives
Organizer: Kyle D. Shernuk – Yale University
Organizer: Hangping Xu – University of California, Santa Barbara
Chair: Alison Groppe – University of Oregon
Paper Presenter: Kyle D. Shernuk – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Hangping Xu – University of California, Santa Barbara
Paper Presenter: Yunwen Gao – Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Alison Groppe – University of Oregon
Discussant: Cathryn Clayton – University of Hawaii at Manoa
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: Toward a Sino-Islamic Cosmopolitanism: Religion, Revolution, and the Republication of Zhang Chengzhi’s History of the Soul
Paper Presenter: Kyle D. Shernuk – Yale University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: Chinese Literature as Oceanic Heterotopia: Yang Lian as Exile Writer
Paper Presenter: Hangping Xu – University of California, Santa Barbara
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: Tracing the History of Chinese Cubans in Havana through the lens of film and literature
Paper Presenter: Yunwen Gao – Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: Memory, Metafictionality and 'Malaysian Chineseness’ in the Fiction of Li Zishu
Paper Presenter: Alison Groppe – University of Oregon
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

K007: From Given Discourse to Dynamic Space: The City, County and Village in China
Organizer: Yu Gao – University of Technology Sydney
Chair: Carolyn Cartier – University of Technology Sydney
Paper Presenter: Wing-Shing Tang – Hong Kong Baptist University
Paper Presenter: Yu Gao – University of Technology Sydney
Paper Presenter: Carolyn Cartier – University of Technology Sydney
Co-Author: De Hu – East China Normal University
Paper Presenter: Miguel H. Martinez – Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Discussant: Kam Wing Chan – University of Washington
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: Guangzhou Shi during the Republican Era: We Have Never Been Modern
Paper Presenter: Wing-Shing Tang – Hong Kong Baptist University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: The Open and Shut Model? Reconsidering Village Boundary and Territoriality from Rural History to Contemporary City
Paper Presenter: Yu Gao – University of Technology Sydney
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: Administrative Divisions and City-Town Relations in Chongqing: Old Markets and New Geographies in Urbanizing Tongliang
Paper Presenter: Carolyn Cartier – University of Technology Sydney
Co-author: De Hu – East China Normal University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: "City of Districts" as State Project: Contested Power Relations in Establishing Qijiang District in Chongqing
Paper Presenter: Miguel H. Martinez – Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

K009: Medical Emergencies and Epistemological Ruptures: Epidemics and Their Cultural Legacies in China in the 20th and 21st Century
Organizer: Victoria O. Lupascu – University of Montreal
Chair: Johanna Hood – University of New South Wales, Australia
Paper Presenter: Johanna Hood – University of New South Wales, Australia
Paper Presenter: Shelley Chan – Wittenberg University
Paper Presenter: Rong Huang – Peking University
Paper Presenter: Victoria O. Lupascu – University of Montreal
Discussant: Katherine Mason – Brown University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: Understandings of Place and Underclasses: Shaping Actual and Imagined Transmission of HIV in China
Paper Presenter: Johanna Hood – University of New South Wales, Australia
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: The State-Sponsored Epidemic: AIDS Narrated by a Chinese Novelist
Paper Presenter: Shelley Chan – Wittenberg University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: Narrating Infectious Diseases: Story-telling in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Paper Presenter: Rong Huang – Peking University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: Networked Ruptures During the SARS Epidemic in China: Negotiating the Maoist Cultural Legacy in an Emergency
Paper Presenter: Victoria O. Lupascu – University of Montreal
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

K011: Negotiating Ethnicity and Gender on Imperial Frontiers: A Multidisciplinary Lens on Intersectionalities in Tang China
Organizer: Baoli Yang – Brown University
Chair: Norman Rothschild – University of North Florida
Paper Presenter: Baoli Yang – Brown University
Paper Presenter: Ping Yao – California State University, Los Angeles
Paper Presenter: Megan Bryson – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper Presenter: Ingrid M. Furniss – Lafayette College
Discussant: Dore Levy – Brown University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: A Herstory at the Frontier: Wang Zhaojun in the Dunhuang Prosimetric Text and the Han Chinese Isomorphism of Family and State
Paper Presenter: Baoli Yang – Brown University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: Under the Shadow of Patriarchy: Reassessing Dunhuang Female Associations (Nürenshe)
Paper Presenter: Ping Yao – California State University, Los Angeles
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: Man Men: Nanzhao Masculinities in the Stele of Transforming Virtue and Illustrated History
Paper Presenter: Megan Bryson – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: The Animal-riding Lute Players: A Lens on Gender, Ethnicity, and "Us vs. Them" in Tang Art and Texts
Paper Presenter: Ingrid M. Furniss – Lafayette College
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

K018: Revisiting the Revolution: Engaging Chinese Scholarship through Collaborative Translations
Organizer: Timothy C. Cheek – University of British Columbia
Organizer: Nathan Gan – University of British Columbia
Chair: Aminda Smith – Michigan State University
Discussant: Nathan Gan – University of British Columbia
Discussant: Nan Ma 马楠 – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Discussant: Yifan Shi – Simon Fraser University
Discussant: Wenjie Weng – University of British Columbia
Discussant: Sean James – University of British Columbia
Discussant: Jiaqi Yao – University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

K022: The Six Dynasties–Tang Transition
Organizer: Lucas R. Bender – Yale University
Organizer: Xiaojing Miao – University of Colorado, Boulder
Chair: Xiaofei Tian – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Lucas R. Bender – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Xiaojing Miao – University of Colorado, Boulder
Paper Presenter: Lu Kou – Bard College
Paper Presenter: Anthony DeBlasi – University at Albany, SUNY
Discussant: Xiaofei Tian – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: Wen and Dao in the Early Tang
Paper Presenter: Lucas R. Bender – Yale University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: Days Gone By: Showing Selves in Early Tang Autobiographical Shi-Poetry
Paper Presenter: Xiaojing Miao – University of Colorado, Boulder
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: Negotiating Truthfulness: Liu Zhiji and New Historical Consciousness in the Early Tang
Paper Presenter: Lu Kou – Bard College
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: Evolution, Classicism, and Practicality: Reflections on the Early Tang State
Paper Presenter: Anthony DeBlasi – University at Albany, SUNY
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

L001: Cities of Nomads in Premodern Northeast Asia
Organizer: Naomi Standen – University of Birmingham
Chair: Naomi Standen – University of Birmingham
Paper Presenter: Lance Pursey – University of Birmingham, University of Aberdeen
Paper Presenter: Susanne Reichert – University of Bonn
Paper Presenter: J. Daniel Rogers – Smithsonian Institution
Co-Author: Naomi Standen – University of Birmingham
Paper Presenter: Josh Wright – University of Aberdeen
Discussant: Piper Gaubatz – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Urban Life in Liao, on the Eve of the Jurchen Conquest
Paper Presenter: Lance Pursey – University of Birmingham, University of Aberdeen
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: A Tale of Two Cities in Mongolia – Mongol Period Karakorum and Khar Khul Khaany Balgas
Paper Presenter: Susanne Reichert – University of Bonn
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Urban Centers and Concepts of Space in the Early Empires of Inner Asia
Paper Presenter: J. Daniel Rogers – Smithsonian Institution
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: The Local and Regional Context of Eurasian Cities: Forms, Fabrics and Hinterlands
Paper Presenter: Josh Wright – University of Aberdeen
Co-author: Naomi Standen – University of Birmingham
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

L004: Creating the Past: Memory, Writing and Nostalgia in Medieval China
Organizer: Qiulei Hu – City University of New York
Chair: Meow Hui Goh – The Ohio State University
Paper Presenter: Qiulei Hu – City University of New York
Paper Presenter: Yue Zhang – University of Macau
Paper Presenter: Alexei Ditter – Reed College
Paper Presenter: Yue Hong – Renmin University of China
Discussant: Meow Hui Goh – The Ohio State University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: The Power of Nostalgia: Memory, Identity and Authority in the Shishuo xinyu
Paper Presenter: Qiulei Hu – City University of New York
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Approaches to the Past in Poems on History in Early Medieval China
Paper Presenter: Yue Zhang – University of Macau
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: What Makes a Memory: Reflections on the Commemoration of Liu Zongyuan
Paper Presenter: Alexei Ditter – Reed College
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: Nostalgic Writing after the Fall of the Tang Dynasty: A Case Study of Han Wo’s (c.a. 842-923) Xianglian ji
Paper Presenter: Yue Hong – Renmin University of China
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

L009: Local Realities of the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy in China
Organizer: Anna S. Hauser – China Business and Economics, University of Wuerzburg
Organizer: Doris Fischer – China Business and Economics, University of Wuerzburg
Chair: Doris Fischer – China Business and Economics, University of Wuerzburg
Paper Presenter: Anna S. Hauser – China Business and Economics, University of Wuerzburg
Co-Author: Doris Fischer – China Business and Economics, University of Wuerzburg
Paper Presenter: John A. Donaldson – Singapore Management University
Paper Presenter: Xuelian Chen – Academy of CCP Party History and Literature
Co-Author: Daohong Xiong – Academy of CCP Party History and Literature
Paper Presenter: Lu Liu – National University of Singapore
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: The Role of Local Communities in China's Photovoltaic Poverty Alleviation Programme
Paper Presenter: Anna S. Hauser – China Business and Economics, University of Wuerzburg
Co-author: Doris Fischer – China Business and Economics, University of Wuerzburg
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: The False Promise of Poverty Reduction Through Investment-led Growth: A Study of Guizhou province
Paper Presenter: John A. Donaldson – Singapore Management University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Authoritarian Consolidation: Managing First Party Secretaries (diyi shuji) in the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy
Paper Presenter: Xuelian Chen – Academy of CCP Party History and Literature
Co-author: Daohong Xiong – Academy of CCP Party History and Literature
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: Why Similar Counties Experience Different Poverty Outcomes: Bureaucratic integration, Policy Process and Poverty Reduction
Paper Presenter: Lu Liu – National University of Singapore
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

L013: Race, Racialization, and Antiracism II: Theorizing Blackness in Asian Studies
Organizer: Neelima Jeychandran – Pennsylvania State University
Chair: Nadine Attewell – Simon Fraser University
Discussant: Nadine Attewell – Simon Fraser University
Discussant: Joseph (Jae) Johnson – University of Southern California
Discussant: Kun Huang – Cornell University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

L014: Reexamining the Literary Left in Taiwan
Organizer: Christopher Lupke – University of Alberta
Chair: Chien-hsin Tsai – City University of Seattle
Paper Presenter: Mei Mingxue Nan – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Pei-yin Lin – University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Christopher Lupke – University of Alberta
Discussant: Chien-hsin Tsai – City University of Seattle
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Bifurcation of The Masses: Marx Boy and Engels Girl in Liu Na'ou's Short Story "Flux"
Paper Presenter: Mei Mingxue Nan – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Yang Kui’s Leftist Practice in Postwar Taiwan: Inheritance or Rapture?
Paper Presenter: Pei-yin Lin – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: The Commodification of Imagination and its Utopian Transcendence in Chen Yingzhen’s Narratives of Corporate Culture
Paper Presenter: Christopher Lupke – University of Alberta
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

L020: Tracing Faith, Making History: Materializing Transnational Christianities in Modern China and Taiwan
Organizer: Joseph W. Ho – Albion College
Chair: Xiaoxin Wu – University of San Francisco
Paper Presenter: Daryl Ireland – Boston University
Paper Presenter: Ji Li – University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Joseph W. Ho – Albion College
Paper Presenter: Chris White – Purdue University
Co-Author: Marina Xiaojing Wang – VID Specialized University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Oppositional Art: Chinese Christian Propaganda Posters
Paper Presenter: Daryl Ireland – Boston University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Crafting Voices in a Chinese Village: Faith and Privacy in Early Twentieth-Century Manchuria
Paper Presenter: Ji Li – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Reframing Community: Photographic Imaginations of Christian Diaspora in Cold War China and Taiwan
Paper Presenter: Joseph W. Ho – Albion College
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: Christianity on Display: Projecting Christian History in Chinese Museums
Paper Presenter: Chris White – Purdue University
Co-author: Marina Xiaojing Wang – VID Specialized University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

M001: After the Heavenly Qaghans: Multi-ethnic Approaches to the Tang-Song Transition
Organizer: Soojung Han – Princeton University
Organizer: Shao-yun Yang – Denison University
Chair: Xin Luo – Peking University
Paper Presenter: Maddalena Barenghi – Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Paper Presenter: Soojung Han – Princeton University
Paper Presenter: Andrew Chittick – Eckerd College
Paper Presenter: Shao-yun Yang – Denison University
Discussant: Xin Luo – Peking University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: The Making of the Shatuo: Military Leadership and Border Unrest in North China (808-880)
Paper Presenter: Maddalena Barenghi – Ca' Foscari University of Venice
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: A Brotherhood Sharing All Under Heaven: The Diplomatic Dynamics between the Five Dynasties and Liao
Paper Presenter: Soojung Han – Princeton University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: The Political Legacy of Wu in the Tenth-Century Southern Kingdoms
Paper Presenter: Andrew Chittick – Eckerd College
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: Unauthorized Exchanges: Restrictions on Foreign Trade and Intermarriage in the Tang and Northern Song Empires
Paper Presenter: Shao-yun Yang – Denison University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

M005: Ecological Civilization and Its Discontents: China and Environmental Challenges in Global Asia
Organizer: Joseph S. Alter – University of Pittsburgh
Organizer: Ruth Mostern – University of Pittsburgh
Chair: Joseph S. Alter – University of Pittsburgh
Discussant: Prasenjit Duara – Duke University
Discussant: Weila Gong – Technical University of Munich
Discussant: Yu Luo – City University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Jeffrey Nicolaisen – Duke Kunshan University
Discussant: Meng Zhang – Loyola Marymount University
Discussant: Mette Hansen – University of Oslo
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

M011: New Approaches in China India Studies: China and India in the Age of Decolonization: Analyzing the Nehru Papers, 1947-1964
Organizer: Gal Gvili – McGill University
Chair: Tansen Sen – New York University Shanghai
Discussant: Yin Cao – Tsinghua University
Discussant: He Yuan – New York University Shanghai
Discussant: Ke Zhang – Fudan University
Discussant: Adhira Mangalagiri – Queen Mary University of London
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

M012: New Topics in Religious Studies: China and Inner Asia
Chair: Natasha Heller – University of Virginia
Paper Presenter: Miki Homma – Waseda University
Paper Presenter: Anna Iskra – The University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Dixuan Yujing Chen – Grinnell College
Paper Presenter: Kati Fitzgerald – Saint Joseph's University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Building Inter-Asia New Age Networks: Oneness University and Chinese Spiritual Tourism to India
Paper Presenter: Anna Iskra – The University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

From Fertility to Identity: Women’s Participation in Medicine Buddha Worship in Tang China
Paper Presenter: Dixuan Yujing Chen – Grinnell College
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Some Buddhist and Taoist Paintings from Persian Albums : Guanyin, Lohan, Hai-ch’an and Tieguai
Paper Presenter: Miki Homma – Waseda University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

The Individual and the Universal: Blind Faith as a Protest Against the Violence of Modernity
Paper Presenter: Kati Fitzgerald – Saint Joseph's University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

M018: Serving the People with Art and Propaganda in Socialist and Post-Socialist China
Chair: Liang Luo – University of Kentucky
Paper Presenter: Mian Chen – Northwestern University
Paper Presenter: Gavin Healy – Columbia University
Paper Presenter: Lauren Parker – Colby College
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Great-Leap Forwarding the Great Leap Forward: The Institutional Change of the Propaganda Machines in Socialist China (1957-1960)
Paper Presenter: Mian Chen – Northwestern University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Revisited Histories and Remodeled Operas: The Many Lives of the Eight Model Works
Paper Presenter: Lauren Parker – Colby College
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Serve the Tourists, Serve the People: From Revolutionary Diplomacy to Mass-market Tourism
Paper Presenter: Gavin Healy – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

M021: Taiwan in the World: Subnational and Supranational Perspectives
Organizer: Sara A. Newland – Smith College
Chair: Hsiao-ting Lin – Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Paper Presenter: Wei-chin Lee – Wake Forest University
Paper Presenter: Sara A. Newland – Smith College
Paper Presenter: Chichi Peng – University of California, Santa Barbara
Paper Presenter: Justin Wu – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Yao-yuan Yeh – University of St. Thomas, Houston
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

1: The Viral Connection: The COVID-19 Pandemic, Taiwan, and the World Health Organization
Paper Presenter: Wei-chin Lee – Wake Forest University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

2: Paradiplomacy as a Response to International Isolation: The Case of Taiwan
Paper Presenter: Sara A. Newland – Smith College
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

3: Taiwanese People's Cold War: Diaspora Groups, Transnational Advocacy Networks, and the Struggle to Redefine US-Taiwan Relations, 1977-1987
Paper Presenter: Chichi Peng – University of California, Santa Barbara
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

4: Mobilizing Friendship: Social networks, overseas Taiwanese activism, and the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute
Paper Presenter: Justin Wu – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

N005: Breaking the Sound Barrier: Examining China's Sonic Cultures Across the 1949 Divide
Organizer: Dayton Lekner – University of British Columbia
Chair: Laura De Giorgi – Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Paper Presenter: M. Paulina Hartono – University of California, Berkeley
Paper Presenter: Odila Schröder – University of Nottingham
Paper Presenter: Jie Li – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Dayton Lekner – University of British Columbia
Discussant: Wei Lei – Southern University of Science and Technology
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: Tinker, Tuner, Amateur, Spy? Radio Hobbyists in Republican China
Paper Presenter: M. Paulina Hartono – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: Reverberations of Collaborative Violence: The Harmonica Society in Japanese-Occupied China
Paper Presenter: Odila Schröder – University of Nottingham
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: Socialist Hot Noise: The Sound and Fury of Maoist Campaigns
Paper Presenter: Jie Li – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: One China – Two Speakers: Hearing Yourself and Your Enemy in Cold War China.
Paper Presenter: Dayton Lekner – University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

N006: Communities at Work: Reappraisals of Local Autonomy in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Organizer: Sarah X. Yu – University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Caroline Reeves – Harvard University Fairbank Center
Paper Presenter: Joohee Suh – Xavier University
Paper Presenter: Ruochen Chen – Washington University in St. Louis
Paper Presenter: Sarah X. Yu – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Lei Duan – Arizona State University
Discussant: Caroline Reeves – Harvard University Fairbank Center
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: From Righteous Burial Ground (yizhong) to Public Property (gongchan): Conflicts over Collective Cemeteries in Late Qing Shanghai
Paper Presenter: Joohee Suh – Xavier University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: Town (zhen) or Township (xiang)?: Merchants, Commercial Tax, and Local Self-Government in Late Qing Jiangnan
Paper Presenter: Ruochen Chen – Washington University in St. Louis
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: From Plague Control to Provincial Public Health – Global-Local Collaborations in Shanxi, 1917—1928
Paper Presenter: Sarah X. Yu – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: Sanctioned Violence and Local Power: Private Gun Ownership in Early Republican Guangdong
Paper Presenter: Lei Duan – Arizona State University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

N015: Law, Justice, Society at the Margins of Asian States
Organizer: Tri Phuong – Yale University
Chair: Tyrell Haberkorn – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paper Presenter: Tri Phuong – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Mimi Zou – Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford
Paper Presenter: Rui Hua – Yale University
Paper Presenter: Adeela Firdous – Independent Scholar, Kashmir
Discussant: Jennifer L. Gaynor – State University of New York, Buffalo
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: Dangerous Play: Sensors, Censors, and the Poetics of Subversion in Postwar Vietnam
Paper Presenter: Tri Phuong – Yale University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: China and Transnational Labor Law under State Capitalism 4.0
Paper Presenter: Mimi Zou – Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: Mr. Pan Versus the Tsar: How a Manchurian Peasant Made (up) Asian International Law, 1908-1921
Paper Presenter: Rui Hua – Yale University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: Dissolution of Article 370: A New Beginning of Settler Colonialism in Kashmir
Paper Presenter: Adeela Firdous – Independent Scholar, Kashmir
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

N017: New Perspectives on the Wang Jingwei "Collaborationist" Regime (1940-1945) and Its Significance: Politics, Culture, Literature, and Education
Organizer: Jeremy E. Taylor – University of Nottingham
Chair: Sophia Lee – California State University, East Bay
Paper Presenter: David Serfass – Inalco-IFRAE (Paris)
Paper Presenter: Jonathan Henshaw – University of British Columbia
Paper Presenter: Zhiyi Yang – Goethe University
Paper Presenter: Jeremy E. Taylor – University of Nottingham
Discussant: Sophia Lee – California State University, East Bay
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

1: Democracy through Collaboration? Constitutional Mirage and Party Hegemony in the Wang Jingwei Regime
Paper Presenter: David Serfass – Inalco-IFRAE (Paris)
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

2: Beyond "Enslavement": Education under the Wang Jingwei regime
Paper Presenter: Jonathan Henshaw – University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

3: An Alternative Lyric Modernity? Modern Classicism and Zhou Zuoren's Wartime Doggerels
Paper Presenter: Zhiyi Yang – Goethe University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

4: "Cleansing the Countryside": Rural Pacification as Cultural Project in Wang Jingwei's China, 1941-1944
Paper Presenter: Jeremy E. Taylor – University of Nottingham
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

N022: The 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill protests and the Past, Present, and Future of Hong Kong
Organizer: Gina A. Tam – Trinity University
Chair: Gina A. Tam – Trinity University
Discussant: John M. Carroll – University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Ting Guo – University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Jeffrey Ngo – Georgetown University
Discussant: Ray Yep – City University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

N025: The Meaning of War in Late Imperial and Modern China
Organizer: John B. Thompson – Columbia University
Chair: John B. Thompson – Columbia University
Discussant: Tobie Meyer-Fong – Johns Hopkins University
Discussant: Nicole E. Barnes – Duke University
Discussant: Zhao Ma – Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant: Covell F. Meyskens – Naval Postgraduate School
Discussant: John B. Thompson – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

P001: Chinese Domestic Life between State Ideologies and Family Strategies, 1800-1985
Organizer: Yue Du – Cornell University
Organizer: Yanjie Huang – Columbia University
Chair: Lillian M. Li – Swarthmore College
Paper Presenter: Tristan Brown – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paper Presenter: Yue Du – Cornell University
Paper Presenter: Xian Wang – University of Notre Dame
Paper Presenter: Yanjie Huang – Columbia University
Discussant: Margaret Kuo – California State University, Long Beach
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Matches Made in Consultation with Heaven: Legal Uses of Divination Records in Qing Marriage Cases
Paper Presenter: Tristan Brown – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: “Unlimited Debt to Father and Mother:” Engendering State-Sponsored Generational Hierarchies in Late Imperial China
Paper Presenter: Yue Du – Cornell University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Landlords, Model Workers, and Matchmakers: Family and Marriage Reform in 1950s Chinese Films
Paper Presenter: Xian Wang – University of Notre Dame
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: From Communism to Family Comfort: Negotiating Family Reunion in Shanghai, 1977-1985
Paper Presenter: Yanjie Huang – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

P002: Cooperative Prospects: A Scholar-Librarian Dialogue on Contemporary Chinese Village Gazetteer Data (CCVG Data) and Beyond
Organizer: Haihui Zhang – University of Pittsburgh
Chair: Kornelia Tancheva – University of Pittsburgh
Discussant: Thomas Rawski – University of Pittsburgh
Discussant: Pierre Landry – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Huaiyin Li – University of Texas at Austin
Discussant: Minhua Ling – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Rongqian Ma – University of Pittsburgh
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

P007: Politics, Historiography, and Cultural Memory – the Production of Knowledge and the Re-writing of History in the Early Chinese Empire
Organizer: Lisa Indraccolo – Tallinn University
Chair: Stephen W. Durrant – University of Oregon (Retired)
Paper Presenter: Michael Nylan – University of California, Berkeley
Paper Presenter: David Schaberg – University of California, Los Angeles
Paper Presenter: Wai-yee Li – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Lisa Indraccolo – Tallinn University
Discussant: Vincent S. Leung – Lingnan University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Cultural Memory, a Black Box Explanatory Model?
Paper Presenter: Michael Nylan – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Norms of Historical Representation in Yantielun
Paper Presenter: David Schaberg – University of California, Los Angeles
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Imagining Beginnings in Shiji (Records of the Historian)
Paper Presenter: Wai-yee Li – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: The Civil and the Martial - Reconceptualizing Rulership and Kingly Virtue in Early Chinese Historical Narratives
Paper Presenter: Lisa Indraccolo – Tallinn University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

P016: The Business of Chinese Science: Global Engagement and Nationalist Imaginaries
Organizer: Abigail Coplin – Vassar College
Organizer: Covell F. Meyskens – Naval Postgraduate School
Chair: Susan Greenhalgh – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Abigail Coplin – Vassar College
Paper Presenter: Susan Greenhalgh – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Zhaojin Zeng – Duke Kunshan University
Paper Presenter: Lijing Jiang – Colby College
Discussant: Julian Gewirtz – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Symbiotic Imbroglios: State-Firm Alliances in China’s Biotechnology Industry
Paper Presenter: Abigail Coplin – Vassar College
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: Coca-Cola Science and the Dangers of “Business as Usual”
Paper Presenter: Susan Greenhalgh – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: Beijing Jeep, Tsingtao Beer: Market Exploration, Technology Transfer, and the Re-making of US-China Economic Relations in the 1980s
Paper Presenter: Zhaojin Zeng – Duke Kunshan University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: The High-tech Dreams and Hybrid Realities of the Butterfly Tail: Genetics and Production of Goldfish Varieties in China since the 1980s
Paper Presenter: Lijing Jiang – Colby College
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

P019: Toward a Contestation? The Rise of China and Global Economic Governance
Organizer: Muyang Chen – Peking University
Chair: David Bachman – University of Washington
Paper Presenter: Muyang Chen – Peking University
Paper Presenter: Christopher McNally – Chaminade University of Honolulu
Paper Presenter: Kristen Hopewell – University of British Columbia
Paper Presenter: Weiwen Yin – Texas A&M University
Discussant: David Bachman – University of Washington
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

1: Infrastructure Finance, Late Development, and China's Reshaping of International Credit Governance
Paper Presenter: Muyang Chen – Peking University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

2: The Rise of Sino-Capitalism and Ideational Change in the Global Political Economy
Paper Presenter: Christopher McNally – Chaminade University of Honolulu
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

3: The China Paradox: What Trade Rules for a (Developing) Economic Powerhouse?
Paper Presenter: Kristen Hopewell – University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

4: Liberal Institutions in Illiberal Regimes
Paper Presenter: Weiwen Yin – Texas A&M University
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

(De)constructing A Revolution: Infrastructural Construction and Speculation in Mao's China
Individual Paper Presenter: Zixian Liu – University of Toronto
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

A Long Way Home
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

A Woman Who Paints Thangkas
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

“Improvised Intimacy”: Female Sex Workers (xiaojie) in Post-Socialist China
Individual Paper Presenter: Yeon Jung Yu – Western Washington University
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

“One Opera, Two Nationalisms”: Negotiating Hong Kong Identity and Chinese Nationalism in Cantonese Opera
Individual Paper Presenter: Priscilla Tse – Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Affective Foundations: The Emergence of the Western Zhou Dynasty in Ancient China
Individual Paper Presenter: Andrew MacIver – University of California, Los Angeles
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Boarding Singleness: Women’s Hostels in Shanghai (1932–1941)
Individual Paper Presenter: Chang Liu – The Chinese Universities of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Broken Harmony: China’s Dissidents
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Central European Refugee Diasporas in Republican China: The Shanghai Hungarian Relief Fund And The Roots Of The Jewish Refugee Assistance (1924-1940)
Individual Paper Presenter: Matyas Mervay – New York University
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Collaborating for Grand Peace: Farmers and Water Governance in Early Modern Jiangnan (1653-1821)
Individual Paper Presenter: You Wang – University of California, Los Angeles
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Confronting the Past: Rewriting Chinese History through Confucian and Legalist Conflicts in Mao’s China, 1973 – 1976
Individual Paper Presenter: Yaowen Dong – University of Wisconsin-Madison
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Controlling Public Dissent Through Media Coverage on Administrative Lawsuits in China
Individual Paper Presenter: Jongyoon Baik – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Cultivating Kin and Kind in the Chinese Food Movement
Individual Paper Presenter: Caroline G. Merrifield – Independent Scholar
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Denise Ho - Becoming the Song
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Finding Yingying
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Flood "Victims", Self-Aid Production, and the Transformation of Disaster-Stricken Society in Early Communist China
Individual Paper Presenter: Yue Liang – State University of New York, Binghamton
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

From Cyberpunk to Cramped Dweller: The Peculiar History of Hong Kong ‘Heterotopias’
Individual Paper Presenter: Daniel McCoy – Northern Illinois University
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Law, Gender, and Public Opinions of a Post-World War Ⅱ Conundrum: “Resistance-war Wives” in Court and in Newspapers
Individual Paper Presenter: Chuning Xie – Binghamton University
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Meaning through Omission: The Impact of David Pollard’s Translation Choices on Zhang Ailing’s "The Religion of the Chinese People"
Individual Paper Presenter: Gina Elia – Broward College
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Mountain Medicines: The Cultural Context of Chinese Wild Animal and Herbal Healing Materia Medica
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Normalizing Renyao in the Late Ming: Forty-three Images of Human-Derived Medicines and Their Challenge to Prevailing Medical Ethics
Individual Paper Presenter: Erqi Cheng – Syracuse University
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

On the (Mis)Use of Criticality in the Production and Reception of China’s “Experimental Architecture”
Individual Paper Presenter: Dijia Chen – University of Virginia
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Public Secrecy: The Qing Emperor’s Deceptive Art
Individual Paper Presenter: Chih-En Chen – SOAS, University of London
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Purified Strokes: Huang Binhong's Abstract Landscapes
Individual Paper Presenter: Wan Kong – Los Angeles County Museum of Art
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Recasting Red Scientists: Intellectual-themed Reportage in Post-Mao China
Individual Paper Presenter: Yinyin Xue – Rhodes College
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Reconstructing the Visual Reality of Dunhuang with Photography: The James and Lucy Lo’s Archive and its Afterlife in Taiwan in the 1950s-1960s
Individual Paper Presenter: Shasha Liu – University of Toronto
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

The Feeling of Ling (the Numinous): Human-Animal Relations in Three Stories from Sinophone Literature
Individual Paper Presenter: Jizhou Chen – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

The Manchu Voices: A Linguistic Method on Zidishu's Authorship Attribution
Individual Paper Presenter: Yuanyuan Su – University of Oxford
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

The Revolution They Remember - Part 1
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

The Revolution They Remember - Part 2
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

The Weak Gangster and His Deadly Moll: Taiwan Gangster Films of the 1980s and 1990s
Individual Paper Presenter: Mei-Hsuan Chiang – Taipei National University of the Arts
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Thinking Taiwanese, Speaking Japanese: Plurilingualism and Taiwan’s 20th century nontranslation history
Individual Paper Presenter: Aoife Cantrill – University of Oxford
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Time Travel in Contemporary Chinese Fiction: Chuanyue vs. Time Machine Stories
Individual Paper Presenter: Fontaine Lien – Valparaiso University
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Wives at Men’s Parties: Gender Ethics and Expressions of Closeness
Individual Paper Presenter: Chih-Yen Huang – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia