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An Ontology of Literary Ghosts
Virtual Paper Presenter: Bo A. Sørensen – University of Copenhagen
China and Inner Asia
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Hegemony and the Micropolitical Dynamics of the Late Shang Dynasty
Virtual Paper Presenter: Andrew E. MacIver – University of California, Los Angeles
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Beyond Curios: The Formation of the Bishop White Collection and the Making of Chinese Studies in Canada
Virtual Paper Presenter: Kara Kaifang Ma – University of Toronto
China and Inner Asia
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Compressed Home and Spatial Strategies: Doing Family in a Cubicle Apartment
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ruby Lai – Lingnan University
China and Inner Asia
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Hui Literary Networks: Publishers Enabling Literary Exchanges across China, Central Asia, and the Middle East
Virtual Paper Presenter: Mario De Grandis – University College Dublin
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Immortals in Text, Meditative Monks in Image: Appropriating the Vessantara/Sudāna Jātaka in Early Medieval China
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jinchao Zhao – New York University Shanghai
China and Inner Asia
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Local Councils as Resistance: Anti-Extradition Movement, State Repression, and Grassroots Participation in Hong Kong
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ngok Ma – Chinese University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
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The Rifts and Purges within the Feminist Community in China: How, Why, and Its Implications
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jue Jiang – Newcastle University
China and Inner Asia
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Untouchable: On the Cultural Politics of Hands in Yan Lianke’s Dream of Ding Village
Virtual Paper Presenter: Elise Huerta – Stanford University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

A-V1: (De)Revolutionizing Information: Information Control and Media Politics in Communist China (1945-1976)

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Mian Chen – Northwestern University
Virtual Organizer: Hongyi Yu – Columbia University
Virtual Chair: Fei-hsien Wang – Indiana University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Hongyi Yu – Columbia University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Sei Jeong Chin – Ewha Womans University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jie Li – Harvard University
Virtual Discussant: Fei-hsien Wang – Indiana University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

2: Identifying and Dispelling "Disinformation:" The Politics of Rumormongering in Early Maoist China (1949–1954)
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Hongyi Yu – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

3: The Anti-rightist Campaign as Media Event: Media, Censorship, and the Making of Dissent in 1950s China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Sei Jeong Chin – Ewha Womans University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

4: Listening to Enemy Radio in the Socialist Media Ecology
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jie Li – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

A-V2: Exploring Textual Media in Early Modern China and Korea

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Yihui Sheng – University of Michigan
Virtual Organizer: Xin Yu – Washington University in St Louis
Virtual Chair: Kai-wing Chow – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jamie Jungmin Yoo – Yonsei University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Hanping Li – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yihui Sheng – University of Michigan
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xin Yu – Washington University in St Louis
Virtual Discussant: Hwisang Cho – Emory University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

1: Subversive Eyes: Relocating World Literature and the Networks of Interpretation in a 17th-Century Encyclopedia from Chosŏn
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jamie Jungmin Yoo – Yonsei University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

2: Jokes as Social Knowledge: The Paratextual Analysis of Jokes in Late Ming Daily-Use Encyclopedias
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Hanping Li – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

3: Across Page and Stage: Excavating New Theatrical Experiences of Selected Scenes in Late Ming China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yihui Sheng – University of Michigan
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

4: Literature and Lineage: The Social Life and Impact of Commissioned Writings in Ming China, 1450-1644
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xin Yu – Washington University in St Louis
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

A-V3: In-between Media: The Culture of Interface from Early Modern to Contemporary China

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Jiayi Chen – University of Chicago
Virtual Organizer: Pai Wang – University of California, San Diego
Virtual Chair: Yomi Braester – University of Washington, Seattle
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jiayi Chen – University of Chicago
Virtual Paper Presenter: John A. Crespi – Colgate University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Anne E. Rebull – University of Michigan
Virtual Paper Presenter: Pai Wang – University of California, San Diego
Virtual Discussant: Yomi Braester – University of Washington, Seattle
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

1: Weaving Reading Interfaces: Xi'nang cunjin and the Possibilities of Literary Creation
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jiayi Chen – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

2: From Mass Culture to Culture of the Masses: Seriality and Manhua Monthly, 1950-1952
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: John A. Crespi – Colgate University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

3: Objects of Resistance: Performing Arts Programs in the PRC
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Anne E. Rebull – University of Michigan
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

4: Camera, Body, and Viewfinder: Vlogging the Multifaceted Interfaces in Contemporary China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Pai Wang – University of California, San Diego
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

A-V4: Knowledge, Information, and Perception Across the Hong Kong-China Border

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Denise Y. Ho – Yale University
Virtual Chair: Laikwan Pang – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Virtual Paper Presenter: Denise Y. Ho – Yale University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yi Lu – Oxford University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Peter Hamilton – Lingnan University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Sebastian Veg – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Virtual Discussant: Timothy Cheek – University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

1: Views Across the Shenzhen River: Portraying Hong Kong in Shenzhen's Special Economic Zone
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Denise Y. Ho – Yale University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

2: Spies and Scholars: Hong Kong and the Study of Contemporary China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yi Lu – Oxford University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

3: Efficiency as Weapon: 'Scientific' Management in Early Cold War Hong Kong
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Peter Hamilton – Lingnan University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

4: Cross-border Discussions About Hong Kong's (and China's) Future: Political Reforms, “Democratic Reunification,” and the Role of Civil Society
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Sebastian Veg – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

A-V5: Pushing the Boundaries: Transnational and Transmedial Movement in Chinese Visual Culture, 1930s-1960s

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Elizabeth Emrich-Rouge
Virtual Chair: Julia F. Andrews – The Ohio State University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Elizabeth Emrich-Rouge
Virtual Paper Presenter: Amanda Wangwright – University of South Carolina
Virtual Paper Presenter: Asia Adomanis – The Ohio State University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiaojian Yin – University of California, San Diego
Virtual Discussant: Kuiyi Shen – University of California, San Diego
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

1: Compelling Issues: Transnational Socialist Aesthetics in Chinese Printmaking, 1931-1937
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Elizabeth Emrich-Rouge
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

2: Media Migration and Visual Warfare: Cross-disciplinary Experimentation in the Arts during the First Half of the Second Sino-Japanese War (c. 1937-1941)
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Amanda Wangwright – University of South Carolina
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

3: Primitivism and Resistance: Miguel Covarrubias' Influence in Shanghai
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Asia Adomanis – The Ohio State University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 24
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

4: Zhang Guangyu's Ethnographic Illustrations in 1950s China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiaojian Yin – University of California, San Diego
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

B-V32: Beyond Moral Critique: Broadening Concepts of Humor in Song, Yuan, and Ming

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Karin Myhre – University of Georgia
Virtual Chair: Xiaorong Li – University of California, Santa Barbara
Virtual Paper Presenter: Karin Myhre – University of Georgia
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yung-chang Tung – Academia Sinica
Virtual Paper Presenter: Antonio Leggieri – Università del Salento
Virtual Discussant: Xiaorong Li – University of California, Santa Barbara
Virtual Discussant: Regina Llamas – IE University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

1: The Opacity of Humor: Du Renjie's Expressing Feelings
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Karin Myhre – University of Georgia
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

2: The Politics of Humor in Middle Period China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yung-chang Tung – Academia Sinica
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

3: Humour in the Huaben Novellas: The Guzhang juechen in Context
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Antonio Leggieri – Università del Salento
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

B02: Contemplating the Void in Chinese Poetry
Location: Conv. Center, Room 312
Organizer: Christopher Lupke – University of Alberta
Chair: Paul Manfredi – Pacific Lutheran University
Paper Presenter: Yiyi Luo – Capital Normal University
Paper Presenter: Tyler Feezell – Arizona State University
Paper Presenter: Yanning Wang – Florida State University
Paper Presenter: Christopher Lupke – University of Alberta
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

1: “Pacing the Void” Songs in Light of Early Medieval Daoist Eschatology
Location: Conv. Center, Room 312
Paper Presenter: Yiyi Luo – Capital Normal University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

2: Sounds and Silence: Tang Poetic Visions of the Cosmological Void
Location: Conv. Center, Room 312
Paper Presenter: Tyler Feezell – Arizona State University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

3: Qing Woman Writer Xu Xishen's Taichang Butterfly and the Poetics of Loss
Location: Conv. Center, Room 312
Paper Presenter: Yanning Wang – Florida State University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

4: It's Really Nothing: Absurdity, Abyss, and Absence in Contemporary Sinophone Poetry
Location: Conv. Center, Room 312
Paper Presenter: Christopher Lupke – University of Alberta
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

B-V36: Different Scripts? Comparing China and Russia as Regional Actors

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Elizabeth Wishnick – Montclair State University
Virtual Chair: Elizabeth Wishnick – Montclair State University
Virtual Discussant: Elizabeth Wishnick – Montclair State University
Virtual Discussant: Gaye Christoffersen – Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
Virtual Discussant: Natasha Kuhrt – Kings College, London
Virtual Discussant: David Lewis – University of Exeter
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

B-V53: Literary Celebrities and Media Ecologies in Modern China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Renren Yang – University of British Columbia
Virtual Chair: Michel Hockx – University of Notre Dame
Virtual Paper Presenter: Eileen Cheng-yin Chow – Duke University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Renren Yang – University of British Columbia
Virtual Paper Presenter: Shaohua Guo – Carleton College
Virtual Paper Presenter: Sabina Knight – Smith College
Virtual Discussant: Michel Hockx – University of Notre Dame
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

1: Mediated Intimacies: “My True Friend” Zhang Henshui
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Eileen Cheng-yin Chow – Duke University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

2: Emulative Performance and Precarious Fame: The Socialist Literary Model of Zhao Shuli
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Renren Yang – University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

3: Writing in the Age of WeChat: A Case Study of Huang Tongtong
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Shaohua Guo – Carleton College
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

4: Noisy Fame and the Dynamics of Art and Power
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Sabina Knight – Smith College
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

B06: Making Global China Visible
Location: Conv. Center, Room 323A
Organizer: Maria Repnikova – Georgia State University
Chair: Andrew Mertha – Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
Discussant: Nicholas Loubere – Lund University
Discussant: Ho-Fung Hung – Johns Hopkins University
Discussant: Hong Zhang – Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
Discussant: Maria Repnikova – Georgia State University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

B-V33: Maternal Bodies, Hearts, and Minds: Family Reform in the PRC, 1949-2021

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Kimberley Manning – Concordia University
Virtual Chair: Kimberley Manning – Concordia University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Di Yang – Nanjing Normal University
Virtual Co-Author: Yi-hong Jin – Nanjing Normal University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Kimberley Manning – Concordia University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Manon Laurent – University of Paris
Virtual Paper Presenter: Qiu Jifang – Nanjing Medical University
Virtual Discussant: Harriet Evans – University of Westminster
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

1: From "Working Body" to "Mother Body": (1958-1979): The Iron Girl Movement
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Di Yang – Nanjing Normal University
Virtual Co-Author: Yi-hong Jin – Nanjing Normal University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

2: Ideological Intimacies: Local Women's Leadership and the One Child Policy
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Kimberley Manning – Concordia University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

3: Making Family Care Legible: The Chinese 2020-Family Education Law
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Manon Laurent – University of Paris
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

4: Maternal Body, Age, and Risk: Problematizing Advanced Maternal Age in China since 1949
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Qiu Jifang – Nanjing Medical University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

B-V34: Narrativizing Nature: Writing Environmental Histories of China

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Victor Seow – Harvard University
Virtual Chair: Micah Muscolino – University of California, San Diego
Virtual Discussant: Chris Courtney – Durham University
Virtual Discussant: Ruth Rogaski – Vanderbilt University
Virtual Discussant: Victor Seow – Harvard University
Virtual Discussant: Ling Zhang – Boston College
Virtual Discussant: Micah Muscolino – University of California, San Diego
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

B05: Negotiating Tradition and Modernity: East-West Understandings of East Asian Languages
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313C
Organizer: Rui Li – Guangdong University of Finance and Economics
Organizer: Jonathan Puntervold – Aarhus University
Chair: Annette Hansen – Aarhus University
Co-Author: Annette Hansen – Aarhus University
Paper Presenter: Rui Li – Guangdong University of Finance and Economics
Paper Presenter: Daniele Caccin – University of Verona
Paper Presenter: Jonathan Puntervold – Aarhus University
Discussant: Annette Hansen – Aarhus University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

1: Tracing References: Re-dating and Interpreting Abel-Rémusat's Chinese-French Dictionary Manuscript Dictionnaire Chinois
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313C
Paper Presenter: Rui Li – Guangdong University of Finance and Economics
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

2: Transformations in the Qing Vernacular Lexicographic Practices
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313C
Paper Presenter: Daniele Caccin – University of Verona
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

3: Unexpected Universality: Yamada Yoshio's Japanese "Sentence"
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313C
Paper Presenter: Jonathan Puntervold – Aarhus University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

B-V35: Nourishing the People: Nutrition Science, Dietary Practices, and Food Resilience in Modern China

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Chen Huang – City University of Hong Kong
Virtual Chair: Paul U. Unschuld – Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Virtual Paper Presenter: Hilary A. Smith – University of Denver
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chen Huang – City University of Hong Kong
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xun Zhou – University of Essex
Virtual Discussant: Paul U. Unschuld – Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

1: Sick of Rice: The Cultural Roots of Nutritional Doubts about Rice in Modern China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Hilary A. Smith – University of Denver
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

2: Survival Manuals: Knowledge of Nutrition and Toxicity in the Great Chinese Famine
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chen Huang – City University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

3: Coping Mechanisms and Food Insecurity: A Historical Approach to Health in Extremis
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xun Zhou – University of Essex
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

B-V54: Politics and Culture in Contemporary China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Chair: Liang Luo – University of Kentucky
Virtual Paper Presenter: Kristen Hopewell – University of British Columbia
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yushu Zhu – Simon Fraser University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Min Wang – Washington University in St Louis
Virtual Paper Presenter: Lei Dou – University of California, Santa Barbara
Virtual Paper Presenter: Weifeng Zhong – Mercatus Center at George Mason University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

2: Words Speak Louder Than Numbers: Estimating China’s COVID-19 Severity with Deep Learning
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Weifeng Zhong – Mercatus Center at George Mason University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

1: Balancing, Threats & Wedges in International Political Economy: The Origins and Impact of the Sino-Indian Alliance at the WTO
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Kristen Hopewell – University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

4: Inference and Simulation: From Early 20th-century Chinese Detective Fiction to Contemporary Chinese Murder Mystery Game Shows
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Min Wang – Washington University in St Louis
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

5: Itemized Burial Goods and Assigned Social Identities: “Mortuary Inventories” in Ancient China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Lei Dou – University of California, Santa Barbara
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

B08: Religion and Spirituality in Modern China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316C
Chair: Beverley F. McGuire – University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ruby M. MacDougall – University of Michigan
Paper Presenter: Nan Ouyang – Ghent University
Paper Presenter: Xingyi Wang – University of California, Berkeley
Paper Presenter: Guangshuo Yang – Northwestern University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

Joy of Honey: Religion in Contemporary Chinese BL Literature
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316C
Paper Presenter: Xingyi Wang – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

Choreographies of Friendship: Dance, Protestantism, and Ethnic Understanding at Ginling Women's College and the YWCA, 1939-1949
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ruby M. MacDougall – University of Michigan
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

Converting Buddhists for Socialism: Buddhism on Mt. Jiuhua in the Mao Era (1949–1976)
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316C
Paper Presenter: Nan Ouyang – Ghent University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

On Whose Behalf? Animal Protectionism and the Quest for Peace during the Second Sino-Japanese War
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316C
Paper Presenter: Guangshuo Yang – Northwestern University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

B-V49: Rivers of Empire, Trees of Nation: Environment and State in China’s Inner Asian Frontiers
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Yuan Gao – Georgetown University
Virtual Chair: Jonathan Schlesinger – Indiana University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Anne-Sophie Pratte – University of Montreal
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xue Zhang – Tel Aviv University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yuan Gao – Georgetown University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Larissa Pitts – Quinnipiac University
Virtual Discussant: Jonathan Schlesinger – Indiana University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

1: Mapping Steppe and Rivers in Qing Mongolia
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Anne-Sophie Pratte – University of Montreal
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

2: Water Matters: The Forming of a Fiscal Vision of Southern Xinjiang from the 1820s to the 1840s
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xue Zhang – Tel Aviv University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

3: Water on Sand: Building Irrigation in Early Republican Xinjiang
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yuan Gao – Georgetown University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

4: Planting National Trees in the Borderlands: The Ecological Impact of Republican National Forest Policy on Jilin Province
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Larissa Pitts – Quinnipiac University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

B03: The End of an Era, Seen Through Many Eyes: Eurasian Dimensions of the Great Chinggisid Crisis
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Organizer: Johannes S. Lotze – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Chair: Qiao Yang – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Paper Presenter: Qiao Yang – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Paper Presenter: Ishayahu Landa – University of Bonn
Paper Presenter: Xiaobai Hu – Nanjing University
Paper Presenter: Johannes S. Lotze – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Discussant: Eiren Shea – Grinnell College
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

1: Diviners in Dynastic Transitions
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Qiao Yang – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

2: When the Chinggisids Were (Almost) No More: The Yuan and the Ilkhanid Military during the Fourteenth-Century Crisis
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Ishayahu Landa – University of Bonn
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

3: Taming the Horses in a Non-Mongol Way: Horse Policies and Social Relations at China's Northwest Frontier in the Fourteenth Century
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Xiaobai Hu – Nanjing University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

4: Chinggisid Reverberations: Language Contact and Conflict in the Yuan-Ming Transition
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Johannes S. Lotze – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

B04: The Pragmatic Craft of Governance: Alternative Strategies of Chinese Medieval Rulership (Sponsored by the T’ang Studies Society)
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Organizer: Debby Chih-Yen Huang – Academia Sinica
Organizer: Soojung Han – Princeton University
Chair: Scott Pearce – Western Washington University
Paper Presenter: Jonathan Skaff – Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Debby Chih-Yen Huang – Academia Sinica
Paper Presenter: Soojung Han – Princeton University
Paper Presenter: Hilde De Weerdt – Leiden University
Discussant: Scott Pearce – Western Washington University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

1: It Was Not Easy Being a Prince: Violence at Six Dynasties, Sui and Tang Courts
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Paper Presenter: Jonathan Skaff – Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

2: The Gesture of Closeness: Revisiting Courtier-ship and Factionalism in Early Tang
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Paper Presenter: Debby Chih-Yen Huang – Academia Sinica
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

3: Tipping the Scales: The Rise and Fall of Empress-ship in Tang
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Paper Presenter: Soojung Han – Princeton University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

4: Modeling Taizong's Art of Governance in the Eighteenth-Century German-speaking World
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Paper Presenter: Hilde De Weerdt – Leiden University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

B-V47: Understanding Authenticity in China’s Cultural Heritage
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Christopher Foster – School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Virtual Organizer: Anke Hein – University of Oxford
Virtual Chair: William R. Chapman – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Virtual Paper Presenter: Anke Hein – University of Oxford
Virtual Paper Presenter: Birgitta Augustin – Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Virtual Paper Presenter: Weitian Yan – University of Kansas
Virtual Paper Presenter: Patrycja Pendrakowska – Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Virtual Discussant: Stephen L. Little – Los Angeles County Museum of Art
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

1: Modern Majiayao: Recreation, Imitation, Forgeries?
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Anke Hein – University of Oxford
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

2: Authentic Ni Zan: Snow, Bamboo, the Moon and Sages from the Past
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Birgitta Augustin – Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

3: Conceptions of Historicity in Qing Calligraphy
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Weitian Yan – University of Kansas
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
9:30am – 11:00am EST

4: Can a Copy Deliver an Authentic Experience? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Fieldwork Conducted in Southeast China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Patrycja Pendrakowska – Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

C-V58: An Early Modern Epistemological Turn? Natural Knowledge Production in the East Asian Cultural Sphere
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Arina Mikhalevskaya – Yale University
Virtual Chair: Arina Mikhalevskaya – Yale University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Arina Mikhalevskaya – Yale University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Mårten Söderblom Saarela – Academia Sinica
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yu-chih Lai – Academia Sinica
Virtual Paper Presenter: Hieu Phung – University of Michigan
Virtual Discussant: Stephen H. Whiteman – Courtauld Institute of Art
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

1: Sacred Trees and Heavenly Horses: Natural Knowledge Production in the Eighteenth-Century Chinese Court
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Arina Mikhalevskaya – Yale University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

2: On the Establishment of the Chinese Terminology for Plants and Animals as a Byproduct of the Qianlong Emperor's Manchu Language Reform
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Mårten Söderblom Saarela – Academia Sinica
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

3: Encountering Ecology with Philology: The Production of the Album of Birds and Qianlong's Language Reform
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yu-chih Lai – Academia Sinica
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

4: Translating Rice: Scholarly Efforts to Merge Vietnamese Natural Knowledge with Early Modern Science in East Asia
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Hieu Phung – University of Michigan
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

C-V36: Death Mirrors Life: Cross-Cultural Interactions, Elite Networks, and Diplomacy in Early Medieval China and Inner and Central Asia

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Mao Sun – Indiana University-Bloomington
Virtual Chair: Mandy Jui-man Wu – Hanover College
Virtual Paper Presenter: Mao Sun – Indiana University-Bloomington
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chun-I Lin – Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Virtual Paper Presenter: Shujing Wang – Zhejiang University
Virtual Discussant: Katheryn Linduff – University of Pittsburgh
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

1: Integration of Inner Asian and Chinese Mortuary Traditions and the Function of Architectural Models in Tombs of Inner Asian Elites of the Sixteen Kingdoms Period
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Mao Sun – Indiana University-Bloomington
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

2: Tomb Figurines in the Tuyuhun Royal Family Tombs, Gansu Province, China: Murong Zhi's Tomb as a Case Study
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chun-I Lin – Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

3: A Preliminary Study on the Coins Found in the Early Medieval Burials in Turfan
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Shujing Wang – Zhejiang University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

C-V37: Giving Voice(s) to Plurality: Translating Sinophone Southeast Asia

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Rebecca Ehrenwirth – University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich
Virtual Chair: Rebecca Ehrenwirth – University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich
Virtual Paper Presenter: Simona Gallo – University of Bergamo
Virtual Paper Presenter: Paul Giang
Virtual Paper Presenter: Rebecca Ehrenwirth – University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

1: A Quest for Polyphony: Coding and Decoding the "Hybrid" Multilingualism in Wu Ming-yi's Fuyan ren
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Simona Gallo – University of Bergamo
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

2: Wherever the Wind Goes: Translating Local and Diasporic Hoa Literature from the Fengti Poetic Club
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Paul Giang
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

3: When Teochew is Chinese and Mandarin a "Foreign Language": Topolects in Sinophone Literature from Thailand
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Rebecca Ehrenwirth – University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

C-V53: Historicizing China’s 1980s Reforms and the Neoliberal Moment

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Andrew B. Liu – Villanova University
Virtual Chair: Elizabeth J. Perry – Harvard University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiaohong Xu – University of Michigan
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yige Dong – State University of New York, Buffalo
Virtual Paper Presenter: Andrew B. Liu – Villanova University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Isabella Weber – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Virtual Discussant: Patricia Thornton – Oxford University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

1: The Great Separation: The Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Birth of Ordoeconomism
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiaohong Xu – University of Michigan
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

2: The Social Reproduction Question: A Reinterpretation of China's Early Reform
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yige Dong – State University of New York, Buffalo
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

3: The Big Tiger? Historicizing China's 1980s Coastal Development Strategy and the Asia-Pacific
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Andrew B. Liu – Villanova University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

4: The Economics of China's Reform: Academic Discipline versus Policy Practice
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Isabella Weber – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

C07: Narrating Miracles, Salvation, and Community: The Worlds of Proselytizing Storytellers in Premodern China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 315
Organizer: Manling Luo – Indiana University
Chair: Anna Shields – Princeton University
Paper Presenter: Jonathan Pettit – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Paper Presenter: Manling Luo – Indiana University
Paper Presenter: Jessey Choo – Rutgers University
Paper Presenter: Gang Song – University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Robert Campany – Vanderbilt University
Discussant: Robert Hymes – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

1: A Maidservant or a Daoist Master: Difference and Divergence in Medieval Daoist Hagiographies
Location: Conv. Center, Room 315
Paper Presenter: Jonathan Pettit – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

2: The Proselytizing Storyteller and His Social Networks in Tang Buddhist Miracle Tales
Location: Conv. Center, Room 315
Paper Presenter: Manling Luo – Indiana University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

3: Narrating Salvation in Medieval Chinese Entombed Epitaph Inscriptions for Lay Buddhists
Location: Conv. Center, Room 315
Paper Presenter: Jessey Choo – Rutgers University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

4: A Mirror of Magic and Spiritual Power: Christian Stories in Late Ming Fujian
Location: Conv. Center, Room 315
Paper Presenter: Gang Song – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

C03: New Perspectives on Taiwan's Defense and Foreign Policy Challenges
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Organizer: Julia Famularo – INDOPACOM JIOC
Chair: Bradley Murg – Paragon International University
Paper Presenter: Bradley Murg – Paragon International University
Paper Presenter: Daniel Tobin – National Intelligence University
Paper Presenter: Julia Famularo – INDOPACOM JIOC
Discussant: Shirley Kan – Global Taiwan Institute (GTI), Advisory Board
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

1: Taiwan in Cambodia: Taipei's Engagement with China's Closest Southeast Asian Ally
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Bradley Murg – Paragon International University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

2: Locating Taiwan in Beijing's Vision for Global Leadership
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Daniel Tobin – National Intelligence University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

3: Buttressing Taiwan's "Will to Resist"
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Julia Famularo – INDOPACOM JIOC
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

C06: Resounding Taiwan (II): Sound and Political Subjectivities
Location: Conv. Center, Room 311
Organizer: DJ Hatfield – National Taiwan University
Chair: Nancy Guy – University of California, San Diego
Paper Presenter: Nancy Guy – University of California, San Diego
Paper Presenter: Jennifer C. Hsieh – University of Michigan
Paper Presenter: Meredith Schweig – Emory University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

1: Legacy, Agency, and the Voice(s) of Teresa Teng
Location: Conv. Center, Room 311
Paper Presenter: Meredith Schweig – Emory University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

2: Taiwanese Garbage Truck Melodies and the Formation of Environmental Subjectivities
Location: Conv. Center, Room 311
Paper Presenter: Nancy Guy – University of California, San Diego
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
11:30am – 1:00pm EST

3: From Festival to Decibel: Contestations of Renao and Zaoyin in Taiwan's Noise Control System
Location: Conv. Center, Room 311
Paper Presenter: Jennifer C. Hsieh – University of Michigan
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

D-V56: Competing Representations of Modernity and Revolution in Late Imperial and Modern China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Chair: Liang Luo – University of Kentucky
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ros Holmes – University of St. Andrews
Virtual Paper Presenter: Cassandra Xin X. Guan – Brown University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Emily Lu – Florida State University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yuqing Liu – University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

Pidgin Poetics: Writing Pidgin English in the 19th Century Chinese Poetry
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yuqing Liu – University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

"A Revolution is not a Pajama Party": Art and Insomnia in the Cultural Revolution
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ros Holmes – University of St. Andrews
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

Atomic Light and Ludic Sovereignty: "Havoc in Heaven," Circa 1964
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Cassandra Xin X. Guan – Brown University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

Music of an Era: Western Music, Social Struggles in Shanghai International Settlement
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Emily Lu – Florida State University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

D02: Decolonizing Chinese History in and Beyond the Academy
Location: Conv. Center, Room 301B
Organizer: Gina A. Tam – Trinity University
Organizer: Catherine Chou – Grinnell College
Chair: Catherine Chou – Grinnell College
Discussant: Gina A. Tam – Trinity University
Discussant: Catherine Chou – Grinnell College
Discussant: James Gethyn Evans – Harvard University
Discussant: James Millward – Georgetown University
Discussant: Taomo Zhou – Nanyang Technological University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

D-V34: Deconstructing the Geopolitics Behind Social Infrastructures in China and Colonial Hong Kong

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Florence Mok – Nanyang Technological University
Virtual Chair: Yun Zhang – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Florence Mok – Nanyang Technological University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Adonis Li – University of Hong Kong
Virtual Paper Presenter: Edward Vickers – Kyushu University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Tony Wing Kin Chui – National University of Singapore
Virtual Discussant: Yun Zhang – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

1: Mitigating Water Emergency in Colonial Hong Kong, 1963-64
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Florence Mok – Nanyang Technological University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

2: "A Springboard for Securing Business in China": British Involvement in the Electrification of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, 1976-1985
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Adonis Li – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

3: School Curricula and Changing Approaches to the Socialization of Hong Kong Youth
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Edward Vickers – Kyushu University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

4: A Badly-needed New Airport Shelved: Infrastructure Development in Hong Kong under Changing China-Hong Kong-United Kingdom Relations, 1975-83
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Tony Wing Kin Chui – National University of Singapore
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

D-V35: Eileen Chang @102: New Perspectives on an Iconic Writer

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Tze-lan Sang – Michigan State University
Virtual Chair: Tze-lan Sang – Michigan State University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiaojue Wang – Rutgers University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Shuang Shen – Penn State University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Nicole X. Huang – University of Hong Kong
Virtual Discussant: Tze-lan Sang – Michigan State University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

1: Cold War Cosmopolitans Onscreen: Eileen Chang and the Golden Age of Hong Kong's Mandarin Cinema
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiaojue Wang – Rutgers University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

2: Eileen Chang's “Voyage in/out” toward Topolect Literature
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Shuang Shen – Penn State University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

3: “Worlds Within Worlds”: From Stella Benson to Eileen Chang
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Nicole X. Huang – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

D03: Empire-Building on China's Frontiers: Reclamation, Religion, and Rebellion, 1644-1911
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313C
Organizer: YuanChong Wang – University of Delaware
Chair: Laura Hostetler – University of Illinois Chicago
Paper Presenter: YuanChong Wang – University of Delaware
Paper Presenter: Shuang Chen – University of Iowa
Paper Presenter: Ji Li – University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Yang Zhang – American University
Discussant: Laura Hostetler – University of Illinois Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

1: Sino-Korean Cross-border Trade and the Construction of China's Eastern Frontier, 1644-1910
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313C
Paper Presenter: YuanChong Wang – University of Delaware
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

2: Empire Building from the Ground Up: Local Governance and Social Transformation in Manchuria, 1880-1911
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313C
Paper Presenter: Shuang Chen – University of Iowa
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

3: Constructing God's Empire in China's Frontier
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313C
Paper Presenter: Ji Li – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

4: Rhythms of Revolt: Religion, Ethnicity, and Rebellions in the Qing Empire, 1850-1873
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313C
Paper Presenter: Yang Zhang – American University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

D-V33: Mediating Between the Global and the Regional: Knowledge Production, Science, and Practices in Modern China

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Jinghong Zhang – University of California, Santa Cruz
Virtual Chair: Liping Bu – Alma College
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jinghong Zhang – University of California, Santa Cruz
Virtual Paper Presenter: Shihan Zheng – University of Connecticut, Storrs
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiaomeng Liu – Fudan University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Zhongxian Xiao – Georgia Institute Technology
Virtual Discussant: Jia-Chen Fu – Emory University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

1: Constructing Chinese Dentistry: The Encounter Between Western Dentistry and Traditional Chinese Dental Knowledge in Early Twentieth-Century China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jinghong Zhang – University of California, Santa Cruz
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

2: The Discourse of Opium Addiction in China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Shihan Zheng – University of Connecticut, Storrs
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

3: Making Knowledge in Marketplaces and Fields: Zhao Yuhuang and the Birth of a New Materia Medica in Modern China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiaomeng Liu – Fudan University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

4: Transplanting Justice and Modernity: Medico-Legal Evidence of Sino-British Homicide Cases in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Zhongxian Xiao – Georgia Institute Technology
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

D01: Negotiating Borderlands: Contested Legal Orders in Ming-Qing Miao Territories
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Organizer: Yonglin Jiang – Bryn Mawr College
Chair: Yonglin Jiang – Bryn Mawr College
Paper Presenter: Yonglin Jiang – Bryn Mawr College
Paper Presenter: Xiaohui Xie – Sun Yat-Sen University
Paper Presenter: Xiaoguang Xu – Jiangsu Normal University
Co-Author: Bin Xu – Guizhou Normal University
Paper Presenter: Laure Zhang – University of Geneva
Discussant: Paul Katz – Academia Sinica
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

1: Localization of the Imperial Law: The Creation and Adaptation of the Ming Military Law in the Miao Territory
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Yonglin Jiang – Bryn Mawr College
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

2: "Returning Bone Seed": Marriage and Social Mobilization of Western Hunan Before and After the Replacement of Native Chieftains with Government Officials
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Xiaohui Xie – Sun Yat-Sen University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

3: The Application of the "Buried Rock" (maiyan) Practice in the Moon Mountain Area and the Formation of the "Customary Law of the Miao Territory"
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Xiaoguang Xu – Jiangsu Normal University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

4: Between "Customary Rules of the Miao” and “Imperial Laws on the Miao”: The Case of the War against Human Trafficking in 18th c. Guizhou
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Laure Zhang – University of Geneva
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

D28: Project Himalayan Art: Developing Resources for Integrating Himalayan Culture into Teaching on Asia
Location: Conv. Center, Room 323A
Organizer: Karl Debreczeny – Rubin Museum of Art
Chair: Gray Tuttle – Columbia University
Discussant: Karl Debreczeny – Rubin Museum of Art
Discussant: Elena Pakhoutova – Rubin Museum of Art
Discussant: Annabella Pitkin – Lehigh University
Discussant: Wen-Shing Chou – Hunter College, CUNY
Discussant: Andrew Quintman – Wesleyan University
South Asia
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

Ageing and Familial Support: A Three-Generation Portrait from Urban China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 315
Paper Presenter: Jieyu Liu – SOAS University of London
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

Race and Racism in the time of COVID-19: Media Representations of Asians
Location: Conv. Center, Room 315
Paper Presenter: Jennifer Huynh – University of Notre Dame
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

Emotional Debt: Unearthing Female Voices Amid Local Credit Crises in Southeast Coastal China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 315
Paper Presenter: Qiuyang Chen – University of Warwick
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

Class-based Divisions in the LGBT Movement in Hong Kong
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: See Pok Loa – University of Oxford
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

D-V36: State Building in a Multipolar World: Financial History and the Making of the Modern Chinese State in the Early Twentieth Century

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Jiajia Liu – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Virtual Organizer: Christoph Hess – University of Cambridge
Virtual Chair: Hans van de Ven – University of Cambridge
Virtual Paper Presenter: Meng Wu – University of Manchester
Virtual Co-Author: Xin Dong – University of Liaoning
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jiajia Liu – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Virtual Paper Presenter: Christoph Hess – University of Cambridge
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ghassan Moazzin – University of Hong Kong
Virtual Discussant: Hans van de Ven – University of Cambridge
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

1: Adjustments and Vicissitudes: The Indirect Banknote Issuance in Republican China, 1915-1949
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Meng Wu – University of Manchester
Virtual Co-Author: Xin Dong – University of Liaoning
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

2: The Shanghai Rubber Stock Market Crisis
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jiajia Liu – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

3: Globalized Tradition: Customary Law and Financial Development in Qing and Republican China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Christoph Hess – University of Cambridge
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

4: International Banking in Modern East Asia: Comparing the Development of Foreign Banks in China and Japan before 1914
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ghassan Moazzin – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

D04: Toward a Theory of Late Imperial Chinese Media: Paper-Money-Body-Internet
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316A
Organizer: Ariel Fox – University of Chicago
Organizer: S.E. Kile – University of Michigan
Chair: Ling Hon Lam – University of California, Berkeley
Paper Presenter: Thomas Kelly – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Ariel Fox – University of Chicago
Paper Presenter: S.E. Kile – University of Michigan
Paper Presenter: Tina Lu – Yale University
Discussant: Ling Hon Lam – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

1: Paperware: Fang Yongbin's (1542-1608) Ephemera
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316A
Paper Presenter: Thomas Kelly – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

2: The Noisy Bill: Modern Money as Late Imperial Text
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316A
Paper Presenter: Ariel Fox – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

3: Our Primary Medium: Li Yu's (1611-1680) Remodeling of the Body
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316A
Paper Presenter: S.E. Kile – University of Michigan
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
1:30pm – 3:00pm EST

4: The Vernacular Story as Internet Literature
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316A
Paper Presenter: Tina Lu – Yale University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

Lives in the Short-term: On temporality, precarity, and anticipatory politics in China (CANCELLED)
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

E-V34: Becoming and Unbecoming Manchu: Revisiting the Role of the State in Manchu Identity Formation During and After the Qing

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Chenxi Luo – Washington University in St Louis
Virtual Chair: Yuanyuan Qiu – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chenxi Luo – Washington University in St Louis
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chengyi Zhou – University of Hong Kong
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiao Chen – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Virtual Paper Presenter: Kin-ian (Monica) Chang – University of Hong Kong
Virtual Discussant: Lars Laamann – SOAS University of London
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

1: Only A Temporary Home: Runaway Manchu Bondservants in the Early Qing Period
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chenxi Luo – Washington University in St Louis
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

2: Onomastics and Gender: The Making of Manchu Women through Chinese Language in Official and Private Texts
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chengyi Zhou – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

3: Manchu Identity and Realigning Manchu Legal Privileges in the 18th-Century Qing Empire
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiao Chen – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

4: Massacres of the Manchus in 1911: Ethno-racialization of Manchu Identity by Late Qing Revolutionaries
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Kin-ian (Monica) Chang – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

E01: Buddhist Healing Beyond the Modern: Circulation, Authenticity, and the Contested Territories of the Body-Mind
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313C
Organizer: Matthew W. King – University of California, Riverside
Chair: Kin Cheung – Moravian University
Paper Presenter: Matthew W. King – University of California, Riverside
Paper Presenter: Amy Langenberg – Eckerd College
Paper Presenter: Melissa Curley – Ohio State University
Paper Presenter: Justin Stein – Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Discussant: Ira Helderman – Vanderbilt University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

1: On the Fallacy of Thinking Atoms: Map and Territory in Late 20th Century Tibetan Monastic Rejections of the Biomedical Mind
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313C
Paper Presenter: Matthew W. King – University of California, Riverside
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

2: Erotic Mindfulness in American Buddhism: Dynamics of Authenticity and Harm
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313C
Paper Presenter: Amy Langenberg – Eckerd College
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

3: Buddhism and Stress in Modern Japan: Health as Circulation
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313C
Paper Presenter: Melissa Curley – Ohio State University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

4: Buddhism as Resource for Reiki Healers
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313C
Paper Presenter: Justin Stein – Kwantlen Polytechnic University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

E-V56: Connecting Mobilities in Late Imperial China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Chris PC Chung – University of Toronto
Virtual Chair: Chris PC Chung – University of Toronto
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chris PC Chung – University of Toronto
Virtual Paper Presenter: Guotong Li – California State University, Long Beach
Virtual Paper Presenter: Steven B. Miles – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Virtual Paper Presenter: Huiying Chen – University of Illinois Chicago
Virtual Discussant: Michael A. Szonyi – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

1: "Crafty Villains": Political Morality and Maritime Mobility in Late Qing China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chris PC Chung – University of Toronto
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

2: From Margin to Center: Chinese Muslims in Early Modern Maritime Asia
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Guotong Li – California State University, Long Beach
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

3: Commerce, Conquest, and Quotas: Migrants and the State in Nineteenth-Century South China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Steven B. Miles – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

4: Travelers Exempted: Legal Responses to the Changing Realities of Travel in Eighteenth-Century China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Huiying Chen – University of Illinois Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

E-V35: Gendering the Nation and Nationalizing Gender/Sexuality in Contemporary China

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Shuting Zhuang – University of Chicago
Virtual Organizer: Jinxian Wu – Lancaster University
Virtual Chair: Xiao Ke – University of Pennsylvania
Virtual Paper Presenter: Shuting Zhuang – University of Chicago
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiao Ke – University of Pennsylvania
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jay Ke-Schutte – Zhejiang University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jinxian Wu – Lancaster University
Virtual Discussant: Jamie J Zhao – NingboTech University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

1: "Boxers Made-in China": Patriotism, Androphobia, and Pink Feminism of an Online Community
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Shuting Zhuang – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

2: Love Envy in a Chinese Trope of Homosexuality Tolerance
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiao Ke – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

3: Gender, History, and Nation: The Three-Body Problem in Liu Cixin's Love-Murder Complex
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jay Ke-Schutte – Zhejiang University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

4: Feminist Imagination: "Popular Feminism" in the Context in Contemporary China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jinxian Wu – Lancaster University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

E03: Hong Kong Unraveled: Historicizing Current Crisis and Imagining Possible Futures
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Organizer: Ching Kwan Lee – University of California, Los Angeles
Chair: Ching Kwan Lee – University of California, Los Angeles
Paper Presenter: John M. Carroll – University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Tak Wing Ngo – University of Macau
Paper Presenter: Eliza W.Y. Lee – University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Wing-sang Law – Independent Scholars of Asia
Discussant: Carol Jones – University of Birmingham
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

1: The Politics of Hong Kong History
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: John M. Carroll – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

2: The Rise and Fall of Comprador Politics
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Tak Wing Ngo – University of Macau
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

3: Modernization, Decolonization and Democratization in Hong Kong
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Eliza W.Y. Lee – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

4: "The Second Return": Identity Politics of Decolonization in Hong Kong
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Wing-sang Law – Independent Scholars of Asia
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

E-V53: Imaging Native Landscape: Leftist Poetry, New Drama, and Photographic Vision in Taiwanese Literature during the 1930s-1940s
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Cheng-chieh Chang – Soochow University (Taiwan)
Virtual Chair: Faye Kleeman – University of Colorado Boulder
Virtual Paper Presenter: Cheng-chieh Chang – Soochow University (Taiwan)
Virtual Paper Presenter: Shih-chin Chang – National Chengchi University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Peichen Wu – National Chengchi University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Wendy Wang – University of California, Berkeley
Virtual Discussant: Faye Kleeman – University of Colorado Boulder
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

1: Poetizing Homeland Revolutionarily: Taiwanese Student Networks and Cultural Activities with Chinese Left-Wing Writers and the Japanese New Drama Group in Early 1930s Tokyo
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Cheng-chieh Chang – Soochow University (Taiwan)
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

2: The Image of Taiwan in Left-Wing Poems in 1930s Taiwan
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Shih-chin Chang – National Chengchi University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

3: The Formation of 'Homeland' in Modern Taiwanese Literature in the 1930s
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Peichen Wu – National Chengchi University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

4: Photography and Historiography in Japanese Colonial Taiwan in the 1940s
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Wendy Wang – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

E-V52: Inquiries of “Home” in Modern and Contemporary East Asia
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Lang Wang – Beijing Institute of Technology
Virtual Organizer: Alice Yu – The University of Arizona
Virtual Chair: Hua Li – Montana State University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Tonglu Li – Iowa State University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Alice Yu – The University of Arizona
Virtual Paper Presenter: Qiufan Chen – Independent Scholars of Asia
Virtual Paper Presenter: Hyungji Park – Yonsei University
Virtual Discussant: Ban Wang – Stanford University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

1: Shi Tiesheng and the Imagination of a Spiritual Home
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Tonglu Li – Iowa State University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

2: In Searching of “Home”: Memory, Fantasy, and Nostalgia of China's Educated Youth in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Alice Yu – The University of Arizona
Virtual Co-Author: Lang Wang – Beijing Institute of Technology
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

3: The Nostalgic Narrative of Waste Tide in the Posthuman Era
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Qiufan Chen – Independent Scholars of Asia
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

4: Home, Flanerie, and Mapping the Topography of Seoul in Please Look After Mom
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Hyungji Park – Yonsei University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

E-V41: Leisure, Hobbies, and the State in Socialist China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Xian Wang – University of Notre Dame
Virtual Chair: Paola Iovene – University of Chicago
Virtual Paper Presenter: Wendy Larson – University of Oregon
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xian Wang – University of Notre Dame
Virtual Paper Presenter: Daisy Yan Du – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yifan Shi – East China Normal University
Virtual Discussant: Charles A. Laughlin – University of Virginia
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

1: Philately Under Socialism: Stamp Collecting in 1950s China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Wendy Larson – University of Oregon
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

2: Labor and Leisure: Chess and Card Playing in Chinese Socialist Literature
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xian Wang – University of Notre Dame
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

3: Chinese Animation and Socialist Epistolary Fandom
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Daisy Yan Du – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

4: A Happy New World: The Communist Takeover of Leisure
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yifan Shi – East China Normal University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

E07: Materializing Martial Gods: Thunder Ritual, Material Culture, and the Story of Daoism in Ming China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316B
Organizer: Michael E. Naparstek – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Organizer: Aaron K. Reich – Saint Joseph’s University
Chair: Sarah Schneewind – University of California, San Diego
Paper Presenter: Zhenpeng Zhan – Sun Yat-Sen University
Paper Presenter: Michael E. Naparstek – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper Presenter: Noelle Giuffrida – Ball State University
Paper Presenter: Aaron K. Reich – Saint Joseph’s University
Discussant: Richard Wang – University of Florida
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

1: Straddling Realms Sacred and Secular: The Visualization and Reception of Martial Gods in Wu Wei's Picture of Quelling Demons
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316B
Paper Presenter: Zhenpeng Zhan – Sun Yat-Sen University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

2: Thunder in the Bedroom: Imperial Consorts, Ritual Scrolls, and Daoist Demonifuges at Jiajing's Court
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316B
Paper Presenter: Michael E. Naparstek – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

3: Materializing Daoist Thunder in Priestly Ritual Vestments of the Late Ming
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316B
Paper Presenter: Noelle Giuffrida – Ball State University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

4: I Want You for the Militia of Spirits: The Canonization of Local Gods and the Department of Thunder in Ming Daoism
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316B
Paper Presenter: Aaron K. Reich – Saint Joseph’s University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

E-V37: The Military and/in/as Modern Chinese Culture

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Angie Baecker – The University of Hong Kong
Virtual Chair: Xiaomei Chen – University of California, Davis
Virtual Paper Presenter: Angie Baecker – The University of Hong Kong
Virtual Paper Presenter: Dylan Suher – The University of Hong Kong
Virtual Paper Presenter: Belinda Qian He – University of Oklahoma
Virtual Paper Presenter: Lawrence Zi-Qiao Yang – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Virtual Discussant: Xiaomei Chen – University of California, Davis
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

1: Soldier Sentimentality: Production and Military Social Relations in Socialist Amateur Art Practice
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Angie Baecker – The University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

2: Green Blood: The Artistic Regime of the PLA in Yan Geling's “Female Soldier Trilogy”
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Dylan Suher – The University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

3: Shooting Enemies on Location: Cine-photographic Policing and Media Militarism in Wartime China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Belinda Qian He – University of Oklahoma
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

4: Ducking Under the Communist Cloud: The KMT's Civil Defense Media and the Atmospheric A-bomb in Postwar Taiwan
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Lawrence Zi-Qiao Yang – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

E04: The Outsiders Within: Contesting Majority and Minority Peoplehood in Modern and Contemporary China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Organizer: Jeffrey Weng – National Taiwan University
Chair: Jeffrey Weng – National Taiwan University
Paper Presenter: Jeffrey Weng – National Taiwan University
Paper Presenter: Benno Weiner – Carnegie Mellon University
Paper Presenter: Kevin Carrico – Monash University
Discussant: Dru Gladney – Pomona College
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

2: Hiding in Plain Sight: Language and the Construction of China's Ethnoracial Majority
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Paper Presenter: Jeffrey Weng – National Taiwan University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

3: Grassland Feuds and Making Minzu on the Tibetan Borderlands of Early Maoist China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Paper Presenter: Benno Weiner – Carnegie Mellon University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

4: Embodying the Great Traditions of the Chinese Nation: Dressing Uyghurs in Han Clothing
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Paper Presenter: Kevin Carrico – Monash University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

E-V36: The Pain That Connects: A New Perspective on the Chinese Health Humanities

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Keren He – Dickinson College
Virtual Chair: Carlos Rojas – Duke University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Roy Chan – University of Oregon
Virtual Paper Presenter: Keren He – Dickinson College
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chris Berry – King's College London
Virtual Paper Presenter: Belinda Kong – Bowdoin College
Virtual Discussant: Ari L. Heinrich – Australian National University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

1: Tempering Steel, Forging Gender: Spiritual Transfiguration in the Socialist Bildungsromans of Nikolai Ostrovsky, Yang Mo, and Leslie Feinberg
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Roy Chan – University of Oregon
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

2: Precarious Encounters: Aging, Cancer, and Displacement in Wang Zhenhe's Late Writing
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Keren He – Dickinson College
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

3: Hu Bo's an Elephant Sitting Still (2018) as a Health Humanities Text: Depression as Theme and Cinematic Form
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chris Berry – King's College London
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm EST

4: Pandemic Prosociality and Viral Affects: The Case of the San Francisco Chinese Granny
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Belinda Kong – Bowdoin College
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

F-V56: "Reformation" Beyond the Gate: State Power and the Making of Bare Life in the Xinjiang Uyghur Region

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Lauren F. Restrepo – Bryn Mawr College
Virtual Chair: Joanne Smith Finley – Newcastle University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Darren Byler – Simon Fraser University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Aynur Kadir – The University of British Columbia
Virtual Paper Presenter: Lauren F. Restrepo – Bryn Mawr College
Virtual Paper Presenter: Timothy Grose – Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Virtual Discussant: Sam Tynan – Czech Academy of Sciences
Virtual Discussant: Elise Anderson – Uyghur Human Rights Project
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

1: Life after the Camp: Cruel Trustworthiness and the Narrative Effects of the Crime that Never Was
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Darren Byler – Simon Fraser University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

2: Modernity and Dispossession: Rise and Fall of the Uyghur Intellectual Elites
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Aynur Kadir – The University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

3: Toward a Totalitarian Politics of Land In Kashgar
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Lauren F. Restrepo – Bryn Mawr College
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

4: "Change Old Habits; Change Old Perspectives": State-Imposed Housing Reform and Dispossession in the Uyghur Homeland
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Timothy Grose – Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

F07: Art and Politics in the Sinosphere
Location: Conv. Center, Room 308B
Chair: Kristina Kleutghen – Washington University in St Louis
Paper Presenter: Chang Tan – Pennsylvania State University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Sisi Sung – University of Erfurt
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

Lust for the Other: Ecological Sensibility in Sinophone Art
Location: Conv. Center, Room 308B
Paper Presenter: Chang Tan – Pennsylvania State University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

Work, Family, or Both? Women’s Managerial Careers in Modern China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 308B
Virtual Paper Presenter: Sisi Sung – University of Erfurt
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

F-V50: Decaying and Deifying: Female Body, Death, and Religious Representations in East Asia
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Xu Ma – Lafayette College
Virtual Discussant: Xiaoqiao Ling – Arizona State University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Guojun Wang – Vanderbilt University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Zhaokun Xin – University of British Columbia
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xu Ma – Lafayette College
Virtual Paper Presenter: Elizabeth Tinsley – University of California, Irvine
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

1: The Unwitnessed Female Suicides in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Guojun Wang – Vanderbilt University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

2: Tracing Her Body: Daoist Ritual Elements in Hong Sheng's (1645-1740) Changsheng dian
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Zhaokun Xin – University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

3: Displaying Her Decaying Body: Embodied Exemplarity of Women in the Qing Biographies
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xu Ma – Lafayette College
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

4: Contemplating, Mourning, Peeping, Punishing: The Female Body in Ito Seiu's Mid-Twentieth Century Religious Art
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Elizabeth Tinsley – University of California, Irvine
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

F01: Forbidden Fruit: Plundering the Meanings of Melons in Modern China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 303B
Organizer: Christopher G. Rea – University of British Columbia
Organizer: Nicolai Volland – The Pennsylvania State University
Chair: Xuelei Huang – University of Edinburgh
Paper Presenter: Christopher G. Rea – University of British Columbia
Paper Presenter: Nicolai Volland – The Pennsylvania State University
Paper Presenter: Geremie R. Barme – Asia Society
Paper Presenter: Shaoling Ma – Yale-NUS College
Discussant: Xuelei Huang – University of Edinburgh
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

1: Seed, Vine, Flesh, Peel, Globe: Melon as a Time Metaphor in Modern China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 303B
Paper Presenter: Christopher G. Rea – University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

2: Watermelon Lovers Unite! Xigua and Sociality in Republican China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 303B
Paper Presenter: Nicolai Volland – The Pennsylvania State University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

3: Imperial Melons & Garlic Chives
Location: Conv. Center, Room 303B
Paper Presenter: Geremie R. Barme – Asia Society
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

4: Once Bitten, Twice Mediated: Gua Aesthetics on China's iXigua Platform
Location: Conv. Center, Room 303B
Paper Presenter: Shaoling Ma – Yale-NUS College
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

F06: Hidden Spaces of Conflict and Contention in Today’s China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 308A
Organizer: Suzanne Scoggins – Clark University
Chair: Neil J. Diamant – Dickinson College
Discussant: William Hurst – University of Cambridge
Paper Presenter: Alexsia Chan – Hamilton College
Paper Presenter: Kerry Ratigan – Amherst College
Paper Presenter: Suzanne Scoggins – Clark University
Paper Presenter: Qingyan Wang – University of Georgia
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

1: Inequality after Eviction: Pliable Citizenship on China's Urban Fringe
Location: Conv. Center, Room 308A
Paper Presenter: Alexsia Chan – Hamilton College
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

2: Critical Vanguards? The Gap between Village Leaders and Villagers in China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 308A
Paper Presenter: Kerry Ratigan – Amherst College
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

3: Everyday Violence in China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 308A
Paper Presenter: Suzanne Scoggins – Clark University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

4: Strong State, Smart Courts: Strategic Ambiguity in the Chinese Judicial System
Location: Conv. Center, Room 308A
Paper Presenter: Qingyan Wang – University of Georgia
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

F02: Indigeneity and Identity Formation in Colonial Taiwan
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Organizer: Ashley Liu – University of Maryland, College Park
Chair: Evan Dawley – Goucher College
Paper Presenter: Ashley Liu – University of Maryland, College Park
Paper Presenter: Paul Barclay – Lafayette College
Paper Presenter: Lisa Yoshikawa – Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Paper Presenter: Mark Dodge – Buffalo Board of Education
Discussant: Evan Dawley – Goucher College
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

1: Resisting Assimilation Under the Empire's Moral Authority: Self-Indigenization and Native Tongue Activism in Japan-Occupied Taiwan
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Paper Presenter: Ashley Liu – University of Maryland, College Park
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

2: The Warrior Ethos and Indigenous Identity in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Paper Presenter: Paul Barclay – Lafayette College
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

3: What Makes an Animal Taiwanese?: Natural Monuments and Endemism in Colonial Taiwan
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Paper Presenter: Lisa Yoshikawa – Hobart and William Smith Colleges
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

4: Christianizing the Taiwanese Hinterland and Indigenous People, 1884-1914
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Paper Presenter: Mark Dodge – Buffalo Board of Education
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

F03: Inner Mongolia: The Origin and Destiny of Its Autonomy
Location: Conv. Center, Room 314
Organizer: Anran Wang – Cornell University
Chair: Christopher P. Atwood – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Daigengna Duoer – University of California, Santa Barbara
Paper Presenter: Anran Wang – Cornell University
Paper Presenter: Sansar Tsakhirmaa – Sun Yat-Sen University
Paper Presenter: Gegentuul Baioud – Uppsala University
Discussant: Christopher P. Atwood – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

1: Solving the “Ethno-Religious Issue” on the “Frontier” for the Nation, the Empire, and the Party: Regulations of Buddhism in Twentieth-Century Inner Mongolia
Location: Conv. Center, Room 314
Paper Presenter: Daigengna Duoer – University of California, Santa Barbara
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

2: Socialism with Inner Mongolian Characteristics: The Peaceful Transformation of Landlord, Herdlord, and Monastic Economies
Location: Conv. Center, Room 314
Paper Presenter: Anran Wang – Cornell University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

3: Comparative Ethnic Territorially-based Autonomy in Three Ethno-regions of China, with a Focus on Inner Mongolia
Location: Conv. Center, Room 314
Paper Presenter: Sansar Tsakhirmaa – Sun Yat-Sen University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

4: Inner Mongolian Women with Fake Eyelashes and Men with Sport Cars: Stancetaking and Stylization in Multilingual Songs
Location: Conv. Center, Room 314
Paper Presenter: Gegentuul Baioud – Uppsala University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

F-V33: On and Through the Cameras: Negotiating Gender and Media in Contemporary China

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Tingting Hu – University of South Carolina
Virtual Chair: Tingting Hu – University of South Carolina
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xin Huang – University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yawen Li – National University of Singapore
Virtual Paper Presenter: Geraldine A. Fiss – University of California, San Diego
Virtual Paper Presenter: Tingting Hu – University of South Carolina
Virtual Discussant: Ping Zhu – University of Oklahoma
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

1: Coloring Women in Photo-Crafted Lives
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xin Huang – University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

2: The Politics of Mourning in Post-One-Child China: Why is the Loss of Sibling (Possibility) Ungrievable?
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yawen Li – National University of Singapore
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

3: The Authentic Self as Method: Trauma, Memory, and Resistance in Jinyan Zeng's Documentary Films
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Geraldine A. Fiss – University of California, San Diego
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

4: The Grassroots Women's Voices in an Age of Short-Video Narratives
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Tingting Hu – University of South Carolina
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

F04: Pathologizing China: Duality in Illness and Cure of China’s Modernity
Location: Conv. Center, Room 315
Organizer: Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai – The Citadel
Chair: Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai – The Citadel
Paper Presenter: Lu Liu – Georgia Institute of Technology
Paper Presenter: Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai – The Citadel
Paper Presenter: Cara Healey – Wabash College
Discussant: Michael Berry – University of California, Los Angeles
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

1: Organic Body, Split Medicine: Phage Therapy in the Great Leap Forward
Location: Conv. Center, Room 315
Paper Presenter: Lu Liu – Georgia Institute of Technology
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

2: The Duality of Cannibalism in The Day the Sun Died: A Cure or a Pathology?
Location: Conv. Center, Room 315
Paper Presenter: Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai – The Citadel
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

Collective Amnesia and Mental Illness in Chinese Science Fiction
Location: Conv. Center, Room 315
Paper Presenter: Cara Healey – Wabash College
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

F-V54: Spatial Reorganization and Distributions of Life in China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Eli Friedman – Cornell University
Virtual Chair: Eli Friedman – Cornell University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jia-Ching Chen – University of California, Santa Barbara
Virtual Paper Presenter: Rui Jie Peng – University of Texas, Austin
Virtual Paper Presenter: Amy Zhang – New York University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yao Li – University of Florida
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

1: Time, Urbanization and the Distribution of Life: Rebalancing Ecological Civilization
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jia-Ching Chen – University of California, Santa Barbara
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

2: Juggling Intensive Farm Labor and Childcare Work: How Older Qiang Women Maintain the Social Reproduction in Migrant-sending Households
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Rui Jie Peng – University of Texas, Austin
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

3: Alternative Circuits: The Space-time of Waste Labor in Urban China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Amy Zhang – New York University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

4: Incineration Boom Despite Rising Protests in China: A Reconsideration of Environmental Pluralism and Environmental Authoritarianism
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yao Li – University of Florida
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

F-V34: The Many Trans-Formations of Female Identity: Gender and Genres in Early Modern China

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Wenting Ji – Duke Kunshan University
Virtual Chair: Yu Zhang – Loyola University, Maryland
Virtual Paper Presenter: Katherine Alexander – University of Colorado Boulder
Virtual Paper Presenter: Teresa Görtz – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Virtual Paper Presenter: Wenting Ji – Duke Kunshan University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yang Zhao – University of California, Santa Barbara
Virtual Discussant: Yu Zhang – Loyola University, Maryland
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

1: Competing Demands: Challenging and Resolving Identity in Xiunü baojuan
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Katherine Alexander – University of Colorado Boulder
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

2: Empowered by Transformation: Bodies and Gender in Yuan Mei's Zibuyu
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Teresa Görtz – University of Wisconsin-Madison
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

3: The (Un)seen Suffering Feet: Rethinking Female Identity in Destiny of Rebirth
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Wenting Ji – Duke Kunshan University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

4: Gendered Transformation of Poetics: Gu Taiqing's (1799-1877) Painting-Poetry (tihua shi) in the Late Qing
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yang Zhao – University of California, Santa Barbara
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

F-V48: The Stakes of Engagement: Borders and Exchanges in Late Imperial and Modern China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Chair: Leigh Jenco
Virtual Paper Presenter: Pete Millwood – University of Hong Kong
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yanhua Zhou – Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
Virtual Paper Presenter: Cheng-heng Lu – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiuyu Wang – Washington State University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

The Governmental Discourse of Rural Reconstruction and the “Grey Areas”: The Self-Institutionalized Qingtian Plan
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yanhua Zhou – Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

Thirst for Security: Tea Economy and Borderland Defense in Western Sichuan
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiuyu Wang – Washington State University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

Opening and Reform before 1978? The Hua Guofeng Transition and China’s Scientific Opening to the United States
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Pete Millwood – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

The Making of the Manchu Maritime World: Beiyang Hai’an Tu and the Qing’s Knowledge about Maritime Borderlands
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Cheng-heng Lu – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

F-V49: Theorizing “Empire” and World Order in the Ethnography of China’s Geopolitical Edges [Part 1]
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Derek Sheridan – Academia Sinica
Virtual Chair: Louisa Schein – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jing Wang – Annenberg School of Communication / UPenn
Virtual Paper Presenter: Brendan A. Galipeau – National Tsing Hua University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Louisa Schein – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Virtual Co-Author: Fan Yang – University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Virtual Discussant: Carolyn Cartier – University of Technology Sydney
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

1: Performing the Empires: On the Use of Cultural Heritage in a Northwestern Chinese City
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jing Wang – Annenberg School of Communication / UPenn
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

2: Imperialist Tendencies and Encounters in a Former French Catholic Apostolic in Tibetan Southwest China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Brendan A. Galipeau – National Tsing Hua University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
10:30am – 12:00pm EST

3: Staying True to Both Decolonizing Practice and China's Epistemic Alterity?
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Louisa Schein – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Virtual Co-Author: Fan Yang – University of Maryland, Baltimore County
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

G06: Buddhist Mediations of Feeling in Early Modern China and Japan
Location: Conv. Center, Room 312
Organizer: Alia B. Goehr – University of Chicago
Chair: Jiang Wu – University of Arizona
Paper Presenter: Alia B. Goehr – University of Chicago
Discussant: Jiang Wu – University of Arizona
Paper Presenter: Beverley F. McGuire – University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Paper Presenter: Haifeng Aaron Shang – The Education University of Hong Kong
Paper Presenter: Corey L. Bell – Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

1: Feeling Emptiness: Jin Shengtan's Commentaries on Water Margin and Romance of the Western Chamber
Location: Conv. Center, Room 312
Paper Presenter: Alia B. Goehr – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

2: Ouyi's Fears of Filial Failure
Location: Conv. Center, Room 312
Paper Presenter: Beverley F. McGuire – University of North Carolina, Wilmington
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

3: Attaining the Way at Snowy Mountains:Tathāgatagarbha Thought and Catharsis in Su Shi's Exile
Location: Conv. Center, Room 312
Paper Presenter: Haifeng Aaron Shang – The Education University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

4: Indignant but not Resentful: Politics and Emotion in Seventeenth-Century Chan Buddhism
Location: Conv. Center, Room 312
Paper Presenter: Corey L. Bell – Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

G02: c. 1200: Art & Architecture in and around the Song
Location: Conv. Center, Room 307B
Chair: Kristina Kleutghen – Washington University in St Louis
Paper Presenter: Lucien Sun – University of Chicago
Paper Presenter: Cathy Zhu – Columbia University
Paper Presenter: Xiuyuan Mi – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Siyin Zhao – Rochester Institute of Technology
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

Flipping Over and Stretching Out: Viewing an Accordion-Fold Painting from the Dali Kingdom
Location: Conv. Center, Room 307B
Paper Presenter: Lucien Sun – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

Poetry from Potteries: The Crafting of Atemporal Worlds in North China, 1100–1400
Location: Conv. Center, Room 307B
Paper Presenter: Xiuyuan Mi – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

Not Merely a Picture: Authorship and Viewing of a Southern Song Painting
Location: Conv. Center, Room 307B
Paper Presenter: Cathy Zhu – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

The Collapse of the Dual Palaces: Ritual Failure, Public Opinions, and the End of the Twelfth-Century Dynastic Revival of Song China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 307B
Paper Presenter: Siyin Zhao – Rochester Institute of Technology
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

G-V35: Chinese Infrastructure and Mobility

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Meng Li – Loyola Marymount University
Virtual Organizer: Dylan Brady – National University of Singapore
Virtual Chair: Dylan Brady – National University of Singapore
Virtual Paper Presenter: Meng Li – Loyola Marymount University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Dylan Brady – National University of Singapore
Virtual Paper Presenter: Verena La Mela – University of Fribourg
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yi Yu – Sun Yat-Sen University
Virtual Discussant: Galen Murton – James Madison University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

1: Infrastructure and Mobility Management: Facilitating and Regulating Extraordinary Population Flow During the Spring Festival Travel Rush
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Meng Li – Loyola Marymount University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

2: Maps and Flows: Mobility Infrastructure and the Interiority of the Nation
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Dylan Brady – National University of Singapore
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

3: Bounded Mobilities in Khorgos
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Verena La Mela – University of Fribourg
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

4: Circulatory Panopticon: Health QR Codes in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yi Yu – Sun Yat-Sen University
Virtual Co-Author: Dylan Brady – National University of Singapore
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

G-V36: Chinese Theatre in Transformation: Architecture, Places, Infrastructure

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Anna Stecher – LMU Munich
Virtual Chair: Anna Stecher – LMU Munich
Virtual Paper Presenter: Deljana Iossifova – University of Manchester
Virtual Paper Presenter: Raimund Rosarius – LMU Munich / University of Salzburg
Virtual Paper Presenter: Anna Stecher – LMU Munich
Virtual Co-Author: Jian Xu – Literary Gazette, Beijing
Virtual Discussant: Josh Stenberg – University of Sydney
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

1: Chinese Theatre and the Mundane: Infrastructural Intersections
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Deljana Iossifova – University of Manchester
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

2: The Corporeal Impact of Theatrical Architecture on Receptive Societies: The Wuzhen Grand Theatre as a Case Study of Chinese Architecture for Notional Live Arts
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Raimund Rosarius – LMU Munich / University of Salzburg
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

3: Building Biographies: Towards an Alternative History of Chinese Theatre and Beyond
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Anna Stecher – LMU Munich
Virtual Co-Author: Jian Xu – Literary Gazette, Beijing
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

G-V64: Crime, Eros, and Intellect: The 1970s and the Making of Modern Hong Kong in Film
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Kristof Van den Troost – Chinese University of Hong Kong
Virtual Chair: Kristof Van den Troost – Chinese University of Hong Kong
Virtual Paper Presenter: Kristof Van den Troost – Chinese University of Hong Kong
Virtual Paper Presenter: Timmy Chih-Ting Chen – Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Emilie Sin-yi Choi – City University of Hong Kong
Virtual Paper Presenter: Tom Cunliffe – University College London
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

1: Criminal Realism: Hong Kong Crime Film, Censorship and Society in the 1960s and 1970s
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Kristof Van den Troost – Chinese University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

2: The Emergence of the Erotic Genre in Hong Kong Cinema of the 1970s
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Timmy Chih-Ting Chen – Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

3: A 1970s Film Collective: Phoenix Cine Club and the Experimental Cinema of Hong Kong
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Emilie Sin-yi Choi – City University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

4: Film Criticism in the Hong Kong Magazine 70's Biweekly
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Tom Cunliffe – University College London
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

G-V60: Digital Technologies and the Recalibration of State-Society Relations under Xi Jinping: Shifting Spaces in China’s Environmental Arena
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Maria Bondes – Freie Universität Berlin
Virtual Organizer: Genia Kostka – Freie Universität Berlin
Virtual Chair: Ran Ran – Renmin University of China
Virtual Paper Presenter: Maria Bondes – Freie Universität Berlin
Virtual Co-Author: Genia Kostka – Freie Universität Berlin
Virtual Co-Author: Wiebke Rabe – Freie Universität Berlin
Virtual Paper Presenter: Angel Hsu – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Virtual Paper Presenter: Fengshi Wu – University of New South Wales
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yifei Li – New York University
Virtual Discussant: Kyoung Shin – National Tsing Hua University
Virtual Discussant: Sarah Eaton – Humboldt University Berlin
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

1: Digital Participation and Environmental Governance in China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Maria Bondes – Freie Universität Berlin
Virtual Co-Author: Genia Kostka – Freie Universität Berlin
Virtual Co-Author: Wiebke Rabe – Freie Universität Berlin
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

2: Peaking Pioneers in China's Low-Carbon "Robot Revolution"
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Angel Hsu – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

3: Climate Activism in China: What's New and What's Still Missing
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Fengshi Wu – University of New South Wales
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

4: The 'Green' Belts, Roads, and Initiatives: Global China's Pluralist Authoritarian Challenge
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yifei Li – New York University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

G-V37: Experiential Possibilities of the Material Book in Late Imperial China

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Bryce Heatherly – University of Pennsylvania
Virtual Organizer: Mo D. Zhang – University of Pennsylvania
Virtual Chair: Katharine P. Burnett – University of California, Davis
Virtual Paper Presenter: Bryce Heatherly – University of Pennsylvania
Virtual Paper Presenter: Soohyun Yoon – Duke University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Mo D. Zhang – University of Pennsylvania
Virtual Paper Presenter: Michael J. Hatch – Miami University, Ohio
Virtual Discussant: Katharine P. Burnett – University of California, Davis
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

1: Images of Readers in an Early-Ming Illuminated Diamond Sutra
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Bryce Heatherly – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

2: Tangible Bodhisattvas in Books: Reading and Re-creating of Albums by Women Buddhists in 16th- and 17th-Century China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Soohyun Yoon – Duke University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

3: Turning the Leaves: Embodied Experiences of Albums in Ming China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Mo D. Zhang – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

4: Material Anxieties: Stone Books in Late Eighteenth-century China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Michael J. Hatch – Miami University, Ohio
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

G08: Multi-Species Poetics in Modern Sinophone Literature and Media
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316C
Organizer: Dingru Huang – Harvard University
Organizer: Chuxu Lu – New York University
Chair: Haiyan Lee – Stanford University
Paper Presenter: Haiyan Lee – Stanford University
Paper Presenter: Dingru Huang – Harvard University
Paper Presenter: Chuxu Lu – New York University
Discussant: Todd Foley – New York University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

1: Multispecies Fiction, Mixed Community: The Deliverance of Animals in The Stolen Bicycle and A Grassland Zoo
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316C
Paper Presenter: Haiyan Lee – Stanford University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

2: An Elephant Capture: "War Against Nature," Multi-Ethnic Nationalism, and Animals in Socialist China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316C
Paper Presenter: Dingru Huang – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

3: Felinity and Femininity: Gendered Humanimal in City of Cats as a Way of Seeing
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316C
Paper Presenter: Chuxu Lu – New York University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

G-V38: New Approaches to the History of Chinese Borderlands in the Twentieth Century

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Steven Pieragastini
Virtual Chair: Xiaofei Kang – George Washington University
Virtual Discussant: Jack Hayes – Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Virtual Discussant: Guldana Salimjan – Simon Fraser University
Virtual Discussant: Jeremy Tai – McGill University
Virtual Discussant: Xiaoshun Zeng – University of Washington
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

G-V61: Theorizing “Empire” and World Order in the Ethnography of China’s Geopolitical Edges [Part 2]
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Derek Sheridan – Academia Sinica
Virtual Chair: Gordon Mathews – Chinese University of Hong Kong
Virtual Paper Presenter: Hao-Tzu Ho – National Chengchi University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chu-Wen Hsieh – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Virtual Paper Presenter: Di Wu – University of Oxford
Virtual Paper Presenter: Derek Sheridan – Academia Sinica
Virtual Discussant: Gordon Mathews – Chinese University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

1: Situating Vernacular Cosmopolitanism among Young Farmers in Post-colonial Hong Kong
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Hao-Tzu Ho – National Chengchi University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

2: Extra-ordinary Everyday Life and the Bases of Empire in Japan
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chu-Wen Hsieh – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

3: An Invisible Triangle: The Impact of Post-Colonialism on Mutual Perceptions Between Chinese Migrants and Zambian Hosts
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Di Wu – University of Oxford
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

4: The Discourse of Empire as Moral Critique: Unpacking a Controversial Theoretical Object in China-Africa Studies
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Derek Sheridan – Academia Sinica
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

G-V58: Who Belongs in the Empire? Culture, Race, and Malleable Identities in East and Southeast Asian Port Cities, 1840-1900
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Thomas M. Larkin – University of Bristol
Virtual Chair: Catherine Ladds – Hong Kong Baptist University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Thomas M. Larkin – University of Bristol
Virtual Paper Presenter: Catherine Chan – University of Macau
Virtual Paper Presenter: Bernard Keo – La Trobe University
Virtual Discussant: Catherine Ladds – Hong Kong Baptist University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

1: 'Whiteness,' Racism, and the Consolidation of an Anglo-American Elite in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Thomas M. Larkin – University of Bristol
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

2: Pulling Imperial Strings: Rivalry between 'Portuguese' Communities in Modern East Asia
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Catherine Chan – University of Macau
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

3: British Subjects by Birth, Imperial Citizens by Choice: The Straits Chinese and Cultural Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Malaya
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Bernard Keo – La Trobe University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

G05: Working with Absence in 20th Century China: Gaps, Ellipses, Silences, and How They Shape History
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Organizer: Dayton Lekner – University of British Columbia
Chair: Andrew G. Walder – Stanford University
Paper Presenter: Lena Henningsen – University of Freiburg
Paper Presenter: Dayton Lekner – University of British Columbia
Paper Presenter: Zhuoyi Wang – Hamilton College
Paper Presenter: Fei Yan – Tsinghua University
Discussant: Yuyu (Lara) Yang – University of Freiburg
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

1: Handwritten Entertainment Fiction from the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Torn Manuscripts, Literary Creativity, and the Rise of Secondary Authors
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Lena Henningsen – University of Freiburg
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

2: Aural History: Re-sounding China's 20th Century
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Dayton Lekner – University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

3: Materials as Interchanges Between Historical and Textual Studies: Studying Key Cases in Chinese Revolutionary Cinema
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Zhuoyi Wang – Hamilton College
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
12:30pm – 2:00pm EST

4: Manufacturing History: Local County Gazetteers in Communist China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313A
Paper Presenter: Fei Yan – Tsinghua University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

H-V58: Building Infrastructure in the Time of Transition: Politics and Technology from the ROC to the Early PRC
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Yujie Li – University of Chicago
Virtual Chair: Arunabh Ghosh – Harvard University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ruisheng Zhang – Beijing Normal University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiangli Ding – Rhode Island School of Design
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yujie Li – University of Chicago
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yue Liang – State University of New York, Binghamton
Virtual Discussant: Arunabh Ghosh – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

1: The Introduction of Agricultural Engineering to China: A Research on the Cooperation between the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the International Harvester Company (1945-1948)
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ruisheng Zhang – Beijing Normal University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

2: "Experts from The Old Society": The Experience of Hydropower Engineers Across 1949
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiangli Ding – Rhode Island School of Design
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

3: Earthwork Methods on Huai River: Engineering the Waterscape and the Rise of a New Labor Regime
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yujie Li – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

4: The 1954 Flood, Sanitation Campaign, and the Re-Making of Medical Infrastructure in Early Communist China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yue Liang – State University of New York, Binghamton
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

H07: Chineseness in Question: Connecting and Comparing the Historiographies of the Chinese in the Americas and Southeast Asia
Location: Conv. Center, Room 301B
Organizer: Chien-Wen Kung – National University of Singapore
Chair: Madeline Y. Hsu – University of Texas, Austin
Discussant: Chien-Wen Kung – National University of Singapore
Discussant: Madeline Y. Hsu – University of Texas, Austin
Discussant: Sandy F. Chang – University of Florida
Discussant: Fredy González – University of Illinois Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

H-V37: Ethnographies of Social Reproduction: Labor, Precarity, and Affect

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Yingyi Wang – University of Washington, Seattle
Virtual Chair: Wei Yang – Nanyang Technological University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yingyi Wang – University of Washington, Seattle
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ian Liujia Tian – University of Toronto
Virtual Paper Presenter: Siyu Chen – Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
Virtual Paper Presenter: Wei Yang – Nanyang Technological University
Virtual Discussant: Jesook Song – University of Toronto
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

1: Disengaging Affect and the Limitation of the Politics of Care: A Case of Chinese Gender Equality and LGBT Rights NGOs Workers
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yingyi Wang – University of Washington, Seattle
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

2: The Affective Commons: Social Reproduction and Mediated Life
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ian Liujia Tian – University of Toronto
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

3: Play, Creating, and Waiting — Everyday Practices of Hope as a Means of Social Reproduction
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Siyu Chen – Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

4: “Temporary Couples” among Chinese Migrant Workers in Singapore
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Wei Yang – Nanyang Technological University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

H-V57: Grassroots Sino-American Engagements and the Making of the Cold War Pacific World
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Zach S. Fredman – Duke Kunshan University
Virtual Chair: Wen-hsin Yeh – University of California, Berkeley
Virtual Paper Presenter: Zach S. Fredman – Duke Kunshan University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chunmei Du – Lingnan University
Virtual Paper Presenter: David Chang – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Virtual Paper Presenter: Judd Kinzley – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Virtual Discussant: Wen-hsin Yeh – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

1: The Poisoned Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Zach S. Fredman – Duke Kunshan University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

2: Rape in Peking: Reexamining the “Injured Woman” of the Infamous 1946 Case
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chunmei Du – Lingnan University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

3: Return to China, Go to Taiwan, or Stay in America?: China's WWII Interpreters in the United States and Their Divergent Choices, 1945–1956
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: David Chang – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

4: American Corporate Aid to Wartime China and the Birth of the Cold War Pacific
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Judd Kinzley – University of Wisconsin-Madison
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

H02: Hong Kong’s National Security Law: Public Security or Political Repression?
Location: Conv. Center, Room 301A
Organizer: Thomas E. Kellogg – Georgetown University
Chair: Thomas E. Kellogg – Georgetown University
Discussant: Thomas E. Kellogg – Georgetown University
Discussant: Alison Sile Chen – University of California, San Diego
Discussant: Yan-ho Lai – Georgetown University
Discussant: David S. Law – University of Virginia
Discussant: Shui-yin Sharon Yam – University of Kentucky
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

H-V36: Macau and Hong Kong as Method: New Perspectives on the Cold War

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Cathryn H. Clayton – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Virtual Organizer: Angelina Chin – Pomona College
Virtual Chair: Priscilla Tse – Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Virtual Discussant: Cathryn H. Clayton – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Virtual Discussant: Angelina Chin – Pomona College
Virtual Discussant: Kenneth Kai-chung Yung – Hong Kong University Press
Virtual Discussant: Fred Lau – Chinese University of Hong Kong
Virtual Discussant: Ana Catarina Leite – National University of Singapore
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

H-V39: Staging Socialist Internationalism: New Roles for Audio and Visual Media in the CCP’s Global Propaganda Network (1940s-70s)

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Sabrina Yunzhu Tao – University of Oregon
Virtual Organizer: Bixiao He – Sichuan University
Virtual Chair: Marilyn Levine – Central Washington University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Sabrina Yunzhu Tao – University of Oregon
Virtual Paper Presenter: Bixiao He – Sichuan University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Edward Tyerman – University of California, Berkeley
Virtual Discussant: Yan Li – Oakland University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

1: Chineseness as Self-Exhibition: Regional Landscape and Folklore in PRC-Hong Kong Coproduced Documentaries in the Cold War Era (1950s-70s)
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Sabrina Yunzhu Tao – University of Oregon
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

2: Yelling at the Masses: How the CCP Took Center Stage in Internationalizing the Revolution from Yan'an
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Bixiao He – Sichuan University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

3: Performing Internationalism in Xinjiang: Sino-Soviet Cinematic Collaboration and the Socialist Silk Road on the Eve of the Sino-Soviet Split
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Edward Tyerman – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

H01: Taiwan in New Perspectives: History, Humor, Sound
Location: Conv. Center, Room 311
Chair: Nancy Guy – University of California, San Diego
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chijui Hu – National Changhua University of Education
Paper Presenter: Sarah Plovnick – University of California, Berkeley
Paper Presenter: Yu Liang – Cornell University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

Listening Through the Firewall: A Sonic Narrative of Communication Between Taiwan and China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 311
Paper Presenter: Sarah Plovnick – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

Building A Digital Humanities Database by Yourself: A Case Study of Mackay's Diary
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chijui Hu – National Changhua University of Education
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

Apologetic Justice: Morality of Reconciliation and Identity Politics in Settler Colonial Taiwan
Location: Conv. Center, Room 311
Paper Presenter: Yu Liang – Cornell University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

H-V53: The Family in Qing Personal Narratives
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Clara Wing-chung Ho – Hong Kong Baptist University
Virtual Organizer: Binbin Yang – University of Hong Kong
Virtual Chair: Robin D. S. Yates – McGill University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Weijing Lu – University of California, San Diego
Virtual Paper Presenter: Huan Jin – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Virtual Paper Presenter: Clara Wing-chung Ho – Hong Kong Baptist University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Binbin Yang – University of Hong Kong
Virtual Discussant: Robin D. S. Yates – McGill University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

1: Unveiling Sentiments: “Yunzhen's Letter to Her Husband”
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Weijing Lu – University of California, San Diego
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

2: The Death of My Talented Sister: Family Loss in Personal Accounts during the Taiping Civil War (1851–1864)
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Huan Jin – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

3: Age-associated Complaints about Physical Changing Appearance: Personal Narratives of Men and Women Writers in Qing China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Clara Wing-chung Ho – Hong Kong Baptist University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

4: “History” in Landscape: The Bao Family (18c.-19c.) of Dantu and the Making of Family and Local Histories
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Binbin Yang – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

H09: Transforming Chinese Villages into Cities: Power-Capital Coalition, Central Control, and Rural-Urban Land Conversion
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Organizer: Lynette H. Ong – University of Toronto
Chair: Kevin O'Brien – University of California, Berkeley
Paper Presenter: Lynette H. Ong – University of Toronto
Co-Author: Zhouyang Zhao – China National Academy of Governance
Paper Presenter: Kristen Looney – Georgetown University
Paper Presenter: Susan Whiting – University of Washington
Co-Author: Tan Zhao – University of Washington
Discussant: Kevin O'Brien – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

1: Re-envisioning State Power
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Paper Presenter: Lynette H. Ong – University of Toronto
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

2: Rural Governance Reform in China: College Graduate-Village Officials
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Paper Presenter: Kristen Looney – Georgetown University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

3: Policy Experimentation and the Revision of the Land Management Law: A Case Study
Location: Conv. Center, Room 313B
Paper Presenter: Susan Whiting – University of Washington
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

H-V40: Where the Land Meets the Sea: Mapping Perceptions of the Maritime World of Lingnan in Literary and Historical Discourses from the Song to Qing Dynasties

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Benjamin B. Ridgway – Swarthmore College
Virtual Chair: John Chaffee – State University of New York, Binghamton
Virtual Paper Presenter: Benjamin B. Ridgway – Swarthmore College
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ruth Yun-ju Chen – Academia Sinica
Virtual Paper Presenter: Joe Shutz – State University of New York, Binghamton
Virtual Paper Presenter: Elke Papelitzky – KU Leuven
Virtual Discussant: John Chaffee – State University of New York, Binghamton
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

1: Through Continental Eyes: Textual Verification and (Mis)perceptions of Guangzhou in Fang Xinru's One Hundred Poems on the Southern Sea
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Benjamin B. Ridgway – Swarthmore College
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

2: The Material and Sensory Dimensions of Aromatic Drugs in Song China (960–1279)
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ruth Yun-ju Chen – Academia Sinica
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

3: Visualizing the Offshore Islands of Lingnan: Ming-Qing Perceptions of Nan'ao Island
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Joe Shutz – State University of New York, Binghamton
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

4: Looking Abroad: Guangdong and the Geography of the Non-Chinese Maritime World
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Elke Papelitzky – KU Leuven
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

J01: China’s Urbanization from the Inside Out: New Research from Inland Regions
Location: Conv. Center, Room 301B
Organizer: Kyle Jaros – University of Notre Dame
Organizer: Nick R. Smith – Barnard College
Chair: Jean Oi – Stanford University
Discussant: Piper Gaubatz – University of Massachusetts Amherst
Discussant: Julia Chuang – University of Maryland
Discussant: Kyle Jaros – University of Notre Dame
Discussant: Nick R. Smith – Barnard College
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

J-V52: Developmental Aesthetics: Representing Railways and Extraction in Modern China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Nathaniel K. Isaacson – North Carolina State University
Virtual Chair: Nathaniel K. Isaacson – North Carolina State University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Nathaniel K. Isaacson – North Carolina State University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Aolan Mi – Indiana University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Bingbing Shi – University of Cambridge
Virtual Paper Presenter: Siyi Li – Chinese University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

1: Shiyou Wenxue: Chinese Petro-literature and "Iron Men"
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Nathaniel K. Isaacson – North Carolina State University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

2: Her Locomotive: Tian Guiying and the Making of the First Female Train Driver in Socialist China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Aolan Mi – Indiana University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

3: Railway Guerilla and Second World War Stories in China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Bingbing Shi – University of Cambridge
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

4: Poverty as Landscape: On Qu Qiubai's and Xu Zhimo's Railway Journeys to Soviet Russia in the 1920s
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Siyi Li – Chinese University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

J-V35: Engendering Social Networks: Women's Writing, Publications, and Professional Engagement in Modern China

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Ling-ling Lien – Academia Sinica
Virtual Chair: Christian Henriot – Aix-Marseille University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Grace Fong – McGill University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ling-ling Lien – Academia Sinica
Virtual Co-Author: Wei-Chun Yeh – Academia Sinica
Virtual Paper Presenter: Henrike Rudolph – University of Göttingen
Virtual Discussant: Christian Henriot – Aix-Marseille University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

1: Whose Social Networks? Framing Qing and Republican Women's Literary Collections
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Grace Fong – McGill University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

2: Transformations of Talented Women's Social Networks from the Late Qing to the Republican Era
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ling-ling Lien – Academia Sinica
Virtual Co-Author: Wei-Chun Yeh – Academia Sinica
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

3: Ms. Science and Ms. Democracy? Women's Networks in the Jiusan Study Society (1940s-1990s)
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Henrike Rudolph – University of Göttingen
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

J05: From Minguore to Mao-merobilia: The Politics and Mechanics of Nostalgia in Modern China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 311
Organizer: Matthew D. Galway – Australian National University
Chair: Enhua Zhang – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Paper Presenter: Enhua Zhang – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Paper Presenter: Ruiyi Zhu – University of Cambridge
Paper Presenter: Emily Williams – Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Paper Presenter: Lisheng Zhang – Peking University
Discussant: Matthew D. Galway – Australian National University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

1: Immersive Nostalgia in China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 311
Paper Presenter: Enhua Zhang – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

2: Homo Fluorsparsus: Insoluble Connection and Unreliable Nostalgia between Socialist and Post-Socialist Mining Zones
Location: Conv. Center, Room 311
Paper Presenter: Ruiyi Zhu – University of Cambridge
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

3: From Grassroots Nostalgia to Official Memory: Red Relics in Contemporary China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 311
Paper Presenter: Emily Williams – Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

4: Ambivalent Nostalgia: Commemorating Zhiqing in the Jianchuan Museum Complex
Location: Conv. Center, Room 311
Paper Presenter: Lisheng Zhang – Peking University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

J07: Law and Community in Early Imperial China: Historiographical Rhetoric and Social Practice
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316B
Organizer: Filippo Marsili – Saint Louis University
Chair: Erica Brindley – Pennsylvania State University
Paper Presenter: Filippo Marsili – Saint Louis University
Paper Presenter: Rebecca Robinson – Hong Kong Baptist University
Paper Presenter: Hsinning Liu – Academia Sinica
Paper Presenter: Yifei You – National Chung Hsing University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

1: The Harmonization of Li 禮 and Fa 法 under the Han: Ritual, Myth, and Historiography
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316B
Paper Presenter: Filippo Marsili – Saint Louis University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

2: Individual Responsibility in the Qin and Early Han Empires
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316B
Paper Presenter: Rebecca Robinson – Hong Kong Baptist University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

3: Rethinking “Contracts” during the Qin-Han Period
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316B
Paper Presenter: Hsinning Liu – Academia Sinica
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

4: The Central Government and the Six Eastern States: A New Perspective from the Qin Qianling Slips
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316B
Paper Presenter: Yifei You – National Chung Hsing University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

J-V36: Manchu Pedagogy and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the 21st Century: A Roundtable to Honor Dr. Gertraude Roth-Li

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: He Bian – Princeton University
Virtual Organizer: David C. Porter – McGill University
Virtual Chair: He Bian – Princeton University
Virtual Discussant: Mark Elliott – Harvard University
Virtual Discussant: Loretta E. Kim – The University of Hong Kong
Virtual Discussant: Ning Chia – Central College
Virtual Discussant: Kicengge FNU – Otemon Gakuin University
Virtual Discussant: Shih-hsuan Lin – National Taipei University
Virtual Discussant: David C. Porter – McGill University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

J06: Regional Responses to China's Geopolitical Assertiveness in Asia
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316C
Organizer: Christopher Carothers – University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Jacques deLisle – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Ja Ian Chong – National University of Singapore
Paper Presenter: Lami Kim – US Army War College
Paper Presenter: Christopher Carothers – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Ayumi Teraoka – Princeton University
Co-Author: James W. F. Huang – Academia Sinica
Co-Author: Wen-Chin Wu – Academia Sinica
Discussant: Jacques deLisle – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

1: Stand up like a Taiwanese! PRC Coercion and Public Preferences for Resistance
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316C
Paper Presenter: Ja Ian Chong – National University of Singapore
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

2: Made in 2025: China's Ambitions for Global Dominance in High-Tech Industries
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316C
Paper Presenter: Lami Kim – US Army War College
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

3: Does External Threat Unify? Chinese Pressure and Domestic Politics in Taiwan and South Korea
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316C
Paper Presenter: Christopher Carothers – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

4: Preservation of Autonomy: Diplomatic Procedures, Alliance Politics, U.S.-China Competition
Location: Conv. Center, Room 316C
Paper Presenter: Ayumi Teraoka – Princeton University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

J08: Remapping Inner Asia and the Himalayas through Buddhist Networks (16th to 19th centuries): Possibilities and Challenges
Location: Conv. Center, Room 323B
Organizer: Sam H. Bass – Indiana University-Bloomington
Organizer: Sangseraima Ujeed – University of Michigan
Chair: Brenton Sullivan – Colgate University
Discussant: Sam H. Bass – Indiana University-Bloomington
Discussant: Sangseraima Ujeed – University of Michigan
Discussant: "Baatra" ErdeneBaatar Erdene-Ochir – University of California, Santa Barbara
Discussant: Uranchimeg Ujeed – University of Cambridge
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

J-V51: Resounding Taiwan (I): Musical Articulations Beyond Identity
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: DJ Hatfield – National Taiwan University
Virtual Chair: Ming-yen Lee – Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chun-Bin Chen – Taipei National University of the Arts
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ming-yen Lee – Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Virtual Paper Presenter: DJ Hatfield – National Taiwan University
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

1: Highway Nine Musical Stories: Musicking of Taiwanese Indigenous People at Home and in the National Concert Hall
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chun-Bin Chen – Taipei National University of the Arts
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

2: A Quest for Taiwan Guoyue: The Taipei Chinese Orchestra and the Making of Taiwanese Musical Identity
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ming-yen Lee – Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
China and Inner Asia
Saturday, Mar 26
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST

3: Voice and Dissensus in Taiwanese Indigenous Contemporary Art
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: DJ Hatfield – National Taiwan University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

K-V35: A Quantitative Economic and Social History of Ming-Qing China: Manchus, Mongols, and the Han Chinese

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Lars Laamann – SOAS University of London
Virtual Chair: Yitong Qiu – London School of Economics and Political Science
Virtual Discussant: Stephen R. Platt – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yitong Qiu – London School of Economics and Political Science
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jianyuan Sun – University of Washington, Seattle
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ziang Liu – London School of Economics and Political Science
Virtual Paper Presenter: Sijie Hu – Renmin University of China
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

1: Power and Identity of Manchu and Mongol Bannermen in the Qing Era: A Study of Household Economies by Means of Confiscation Inventory Lists
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yitong Qiu – London School of Economics and Political Science
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

2: Of Dutch traders, Russian Informants and the Manchu Emperor's Jesuit Servants: The Birth of Europe's First Map of Manchuria
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jianyuan Sun – University of Washington, Seattle
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

3: Numbers, Fiscal Capacity, and Capacity-Building in Ming Qing China, 1500-1800
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ziang Liu – London School of Economics and Political Science
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

4: The Missing Daughters in Imperial China: Re-estimating the Survival of Daughters, 1350-1900
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Sijie Hu – Renmin University of China
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

K06: Architectural Simulacra: Translation in Space, Time, and Medium
Location: Conv. Center, Room 323A
Organizer: Patricia J. Yu – Kenyon College
Chair: Vimalin Rujivacharakul – University of Delaware
Discussant: Vimalin Rujivacharakul – University of Delaware
Paper Presenter: Aurelia Campbell – Boston College
Paper Presenter: Yifan Li – Ohio State University
Paper Presenter: Patricia J. Yu – Kenyon College
Paper Presenter: Jun Hu – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

1: The Material Turn and Shifting Conceptions of the Afterlife in Ming Tombs
Location: Conv. Center, Room 323A
Paper Presenter: Aurelia Campbell – Boston College
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

2: The New Architectural Wonder: Reproducing the Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge in Mao-era China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 323A
Paper Presenter: Yifan Li – Ohio State University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

3: From Imperial Ruins to National Futures: Reproducing the Yuanming Yuan as Theme Parks
Location: Conv. Center, Room 323A
Paper Presenter: Patricia J. Yu – Kenyon College
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

4: Picturing the City of Others: Chinatown as Architecture of Displacement
Location: Conv. Center, Room 323A
Paper Presenter: Jun Hu – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

K10: Class as Classification in the People’s Republic of China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 308A
Organizer: Mark Czellér – University of Oxford
Organizer: Puck Engman – University of California, Berkeley
Chair: Yiching Wu – University of Toronto
Paper Presenter: Mark Czellér – University of Oxford
Paper Presenter: Puck Engman – University of California, Berkeley
Paper Presenter: Aminda Smith – Michigan State University
Paper Presenter: Wankun Li – University of Strathclyde
Discussant: Yiching Wu – University of Toronto
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

1: Class Enemies into People: The Discourse and Practice of Reforming "Landlords" and "Rich Peasants"
Location: Conv. Center, Room 308A
Paper Presenter: Mark Czellér – University of Oxford
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

2: A Matter That Cannot Be Solved By Statistics: Class Investigation in Socialist Enterprises
Location: Conv. Center, Room 308A
Paper Presenter: Puck Engman – University of California, Berkeley
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

3: Telling the Truth about Class
Location: Conv. Center, Room 308A
Paper Presenter: Aminda Smith – Michigan State University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

4: "The Iron Man" and "The Painless Hospital": Class Education in Mao-era Operation Theatres
Location: Conv. Center, Room 308A
Paper Presenter: Wankun Li – University of Strathclyde
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

K-V59: Contested Classicism in Modern Transitions: Chinese Classic-Style Poetry after 1917
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Huanyu Yue – Washington University in St Louis
Virtual Chair: Ao Wang – Wesleyan University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Huanyu Yue – Washington University in St Louis
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chloe Estep – Columbia University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yueling Ji – University of Chicago
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ying Xiong – Shanghai Normal University
Virtual Discussant: Haosheng Yang – Miami University, Ohio
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

1: Sedimentary Pathos and Elaborate Classicism: On Chen Yinke's “The Elegy of Mr Wang Guantang with a Preface”
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Huanyu Yue – Washington University in St Louis
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

2: The Global (Un)Making of Socialist Classicism
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Chloe Estep – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

3: Classical Poetics in Mao Zedong's Yan'an Talks
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yueling Ji – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

4: Revisiting Classical Lyricism in Lu Xun's Xiangling Poems
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Ying Xiong – Shanghai Normal University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

K08: Empires and Criminals: Can Convict Politics in the Past Shed Light on the Present?
Location: Conv. Center, Room 322B
Organizer: Liang Cai – University of Notre Dame
Paper Presenter: Liang Cai – University of Notre Dame
Paper Presenter: Yunxin Li – Stanford University
Paper Presenter: Ying Zhang – Ohio State University
Paper Presenter: Marcus Folch – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

1: Criminalizing the Bureaucrats: Performance Legitimacy and Collective Lies in Early Imperial China (221BCE-25 CE)
Location: Conv. Center, Room 322B
Paper Presenter: Liang Cai – University of Notre Dame
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

2: Adultery Laws and Biopolitics in the Early Chinese and Roman Empires
Location: Conv. Center, Room 322B
Paper Presenter: Yunxin Li – Stanford University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

3: Parallel Worlds: Alternative Narratives of Imprisoned Officials in Ming China (1368-1644)
Location: Conv. Center, Room 322B
Paper Presenter: Ying Zhang – Ohio State University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

4: Greek Prisons in the Roman Empire: Law, Space, and Imperial Interaction in the Eastern Mediterranean (First and Second Century CE)
Location: Conv. Center, Room 322B
Paper Presenter: Marcus Folch – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

K-V36: Laity and Lay Organizations in Chinese Religions: New Perspectives from Late Imperial and Modern China

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Wei Wu – Emory University
Virtual Chair: Wei Wu – Emory University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Daniel Burton-Rose – Wake Forest University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jiechen Hu – Hunan University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Shaodan Zhang – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Virtual Paper Presenter: Wei Wu – Emory University
Virtual Discussant: Elena Valussi – Loyola University Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

1: Elders of the Jade Altar: Peng Shaosheng (1740–96) as Historian of Suzhou's Spirit-Writing Altars
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Daniel Burton-Rose – Wake Forest University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

2: The Confucian Altars in Late Qing Southwest China: Jin Bencun (fl.1727–1745) and His Religious Legacies
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jiechen Hu – Hunan University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

3: Islam in the Chinese Religious Landscape: Emergence of Lay Muslim Organizations and Secularization of Mosque Leadership in Late Imperial China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Shaodan Zhang – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

4: Lay Buddhist Societies and the Rise of Esoteric Buddhism in Modern China
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Wei Wu – Emory University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

K-V58: New Perspectives on the Shanxi Merchants: Locating Histories of Capitalism along the Sino-Inner Asian Frontier
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Zhijian Qiao – Amherst College
Virtual Organizer: Matthew Lowenstein – Hoover Institution
Virtual Chair: Kenneth Pomeranz – University of Chicago
Virtual Paper Presenter: Zhijian Qiao – Amherst College
Virtual Paper Presenter: Matthew Lowenstein – Hoover Institution
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yi Wang – Binghamton University SUNY
Virtual Paper Presenter: Luman Wang – University of Massachusetts Boston
Virtual Discussant: Kenneth Pomeranz – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

1: Shanxi Merchants across the Ming-Qing Transition
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Zhijian Qiao – Amherst College
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

2: Shanxi Finance at the Grassroots: Chinese Rotating Savings And Credit Associations (Roscas) In Historical Perspective
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Matthew Lowenstein – Hoover Institution
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

3: The Rise of Baotou in Qing Inner Mongolia: Long-distance Trade, Banking, and Urbanization
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Yi Wang – Binghamton University SUNY
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

4: Education and Lifeworld in the Post-piaohao Era: The Histories of Three Private Academies of Merchant-banker Families in Central Shanxi Province, 1895-1937
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Luman Wang – University of Massachusetts Boston
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

K07: Social Insurance in China: New Insights, New Questions
Location: Conv. Center, Room 322A
Organizer: Wei Cui – University of British Columbia
Chair: Jie Cheng – University of British Columbia
Discussant: Xian Huang – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Discussant: Jiwei Qian – National University of Singapore
Discussant: Wei Cui – University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

K03: Stories of Stones in Middle Period China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 301A
Organizer: Xin Wen – Princeton University
Chair: Jinping Wang – National University of Singapore
Paper Presenter: Xin Wen – Princeton University
Paper Presenter: Zoe Shan Lin – Ithaca College
Discussant: Jinping Wang – National University of Singapore
Paper Presenter: Jeffrey Moser – Brown University
Paper Presenter: Ping Yao – California State University, Los Angeles
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

1: Stone Stele as Time Capsule: The Afterlife of a Tang Stele in the Jin Dynasty
Location: Conv. Center, Room 301A
Paper Presenter: Xin Wen – Princeton University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

2: Engraving Financial Negotiations on Temple Stelae in Southern Song China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 301A
Paper Presenter: Zoe Shan Lin – Ithaca College
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

3: Antiquarian Inscription in Northern Song China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 301A
Paper Presenter: Jeffrey Moser – Brown University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

4: Tang Parents Mourning their Children: A Case Study of "Epitaph for Zhongshang Daughter Guangniangzi"
Location: Conv. Center, Room 301A
Paper Presenter: Ping Yao – California State University, Los Angeles
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

K05: The Northern Wei Dynasty as Cosmopolitan Empire
Location: Conv. Center, Room 323C
Organizer: Stephanie Balkwill – University of California, Los Angeles
Chair: Andrew Chittick – Eckerd College
Paper Presenter: Stephanie Balkwill – University of California, Los Angeles
Paper Presenter: Gil Raz – Dartmouth College
Paper Presenter: Shen-chih Lin – Academia Sinica
Paper Presenter: Jin Xu – Vassar College
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

1: Changing Notions of Gender in the Context of Sixth-century Cosmopolitanism
Location: Conv. Center, Room 323C
Paper Presenter: Stephanie Balkwill – University of California, Los Angeles
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

2: The Emperor, His Grandmother, and the Architect: The Stele at the Temple of Radiant Blessings
Location: Conv. Center, Room 323C
Paper Presenter: Gil Raz – Dartmouth College
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

3: Rethinking the Buddhist Elements in the Tombs of Northern Wei
Location: Conv. Center, Room 323C
Paper Presenter: Shen-chih Lin – Academia Sinica
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

4: Life of the Sogdians in the Late Northern Wei: A Study Based on Sixth-Century Stone Carvings
Location: Conv. Center, Room 323C
Paper Presenter: Jin Xu – Vassar College
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
9:00am – 10:30am EST

K01: The State of Academic Freedom and Censorship in Asia
Location: Conv. Center, Room 301B
Organizer: Dimitar D. Gueorguiev – Syracuse University
Chair: Dimitar D. Gueorguiev – Syracuse University
Discussant: Stefani Nugroho – Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia
Discussant: Jeffrey Kingston – Temple University Japan
Discussant: Paul Schuler – University of Arizona
Discussant: Sirmed Marvi
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

L09: China and the Global South: Conceptual Geographies in History, Literature, and Urban Studies
Location: Conv. Center, Room 306A
Organizer: Kristin Stapleton – University at Buffalo, SUNY
Chair: Kristin Stapleton – University at Buffalo, SUNY
Paper Presenter: Covell F. Meyskens – Naval Postgraduate School
Paper Presenter: Gal Gvili – McGill University
Paper Presenter: Emily Wilcox – William & Mary
Paper Presenter: Kristin Stapleton – University at Buffalo, SUNY
Discussant: Xuefei Ren – Michigan State University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

1: Rethinking the Historiography of Cold War China through the Lens of Decolonization
Location: Conv. Center, Room 306A
Paper Presenter: Covell F. Meyskens – Naval Postgraduate School
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

2: The Shadow of English in the Global South: Muhammad Iqbal in China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 306A
Paper Presenter: Gal Gvili – McGill University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

3: Dongfang as a Geopolitical Concept: PRC Internationalism and China's Third World
Location: Conv. Center, Room 306A
Paper Presenter: Emily Wilcox – William & Mary
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

4: The Global South and its Fragments: Reflections on Urban and Regional Chinese History in the Context of World History
Location: Conv. Center, Room 306A
Paper Presenter: Kristin Stapleton – University at Buffalo, SUNY
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

L01: Consummate Communications: Writing, Reading, Singing, and Dancing in Yuan and Ming China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 323B
Organizer: Joseph Lam – University of Michigan
Chair: Joseph Lam – University of Michigan
Discussant: Joseph Lam – University of Michigan
Discussant: Patricia Sieber – Ohio State University
Discussant: Wenbo Chang – Georgia Institute of Technology
Discussant: Casey Schoenberger – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

L-V53: Entangled Empires, Divided Interests: Chinese and European Networks on and Beyond the China Coast, 1800s–1940s
Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Nicholas McGee – University of Toronto
Virtual Organizer: Helena Lopes – University of Bristol
Virtual Chair: Nicholas McGee – University of Toronto
Virtual Paper Presenter: Kaori Abe – University of Hull
Virtual Paper Presenter: Nicholas McGee – University of Toronto
Virtual Paper Presenter: Michael Yeo – Nanyang Technological University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Helena Lopes – University of Bristol
Virtual Discussant: Lane Harris – Furman University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

1: Creating Safety Networks: Marine Insurance Business in the Pearl River Delta, 1800s–1820s
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Kaori Abe – University of Hull
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

2: Liberal Freedoms and Chinese Mobilities: The British Empire Encounters Chinese Migrations, 1800-1860
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Nicholas McGee – University of Toronto
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

3: Chinese Capitalists on the Sabah Frontier, 1870s–1930s
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Michael Yeo – Nanyang Technological University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

4: A Time of Transition: South China and European Colonialism in the Late 1940s
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Helena Lopes – University of Bristol
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

L08: Gender, Ethnicity, and Empire in Late Imperial and Republican China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 322B
Organizer: Yulian Wu – Michigan State University
Chair: Ellen Widmer – Wellesley College
Co-Author: Yulian Wu – Michigan State University
Discussant: Ellen Widmer – Wellesley College
Discussant: Siyen Fei – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Presenter: Lex Jing Lu – Clark University
Paper Presenter: Yizhuang Ding – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Paper Presenter: Jie Guo – University of South Carolina
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

1: Curating the Manchu Ideal: Masculinity, Power, and Personnel at the Yongzheng Court
Location: Conv. Center, Room 322B
Paper Presenter: Lex Jing Lu – Clark University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

2: "Not Dreaming of Saddle and Horses, But Yearning for Beautiful Essays": The Writing and Identity of Manchu-Mongol Female Poet Naxun Lanbao
Location: Conv. Center, Room 322B
Paper Presenter: Yizhuang Ding – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Co-author: Yulian Wu – Michigan State University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

3: The Image of Burmese Women in Late Imperial and Republican Chinese Representations
Location: Conv. Center, Room 322B
Paper Presenter: Jie Guo – University of South Carolina
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

L-V35: Humor in Middle Period Chinese Literature

Location: Virtual
Virtual Organizer: Xiaojing Miao – University of Oxford
Virtual Organizer: Xiao Rao – University of North Carolina Greensboro
Virtual Chair: Ronald Egan – Stanford University
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jack W. Chen – University of Virginia
Virtual Paper Presenter: Alexei Ditter – Reed College
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiaojing Miao – University of Oxford
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiao Rao – University of North Carolina Greensboro
Virtual Discussant: Ronald Egan – Stanford University
Virtual Discussant: Giulia Baccini – Ca' Foscari University of Venice
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

1: A Funny Ghost Story, a Not-So-Funny Ghost Story, and a Funny Ghost Story
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Jack W. Chen – University of Virginia
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

2: Making Fun of Others: Humor and Representation of the "Other" in the Qiyan lu
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Alexei Ditter – Reed College
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

3: Humor, Self-Representation, and Tang Poetry
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiaojing Miao – University of Oxford
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

4: Buddhism and the Emergence of Su Shi's Humorous Image on Stage
Location: Virtual
Virtual Paper Presenter: Xiao Rao – University of North Carolina Greensboro
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

L05: Muslims and Mao’s China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 303A
Organizer: Joshua Freeman – Princeton University
Chair: Rian Thum – University of Manchester
Discussant: Kelly Hammond – University of Arkansas
Paper Presenter: Hale Eroglu – Bogazici University
Paper Presenter: Joshua Freeman – Princeton University
Paper Presenter: Janice Jeong – University of Gottingen
Paper Presenter: David Atwill – Pennsylvania State University
China and Inner Asia
Sunday, Mar 27
10:45am – 12:15pm EST

1: Chen Keli: An Islamist in Maoist China
Location: Conv. Center, Room 303A
Paper Presenter: Hale Eroglu – Bogazici University