CHINA AND INNER ASIA

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Session 1. DECADENCE AND REVOLUTION: A NEGLECTED DIALECTIC OF TWENTIETH CENTURY CHINESE LITERATURE

• Demimondaine Becomes National Heroine: The Myth of Sai Jinhua in Late Qing Fiction, by David D W Wang
• Utopian Vision or Prurience? Zhang Jingsheng's Sexual Revolution, by Hsiao-yen Peng
• Engagement and Detachment in the Writing Lives of Ding Ling and Zhang Ailing, by Karen Kingsbury
• Decadence and Indeterminacy in the Work of Su Tong, by (Deirdre) Sabina Knight

Session 2. ROUND TABLE: CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA

Session 3. THE GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEM OF THE MONGOLIAN STEPPE

• Man and Nature in the West Liao River Basin During the Past Ten Thousand Years, by James Reardon-Anderson
• Continuity and Transformation in the Mongolian Pastoral Economy in the Twentieth Century, by Jeremy Swift
• Grassland Enclosures: The Devil's Hatband in Inner Mongolia, by Dee Williams
• "Fences Don't Make Grass Grow": Herders Perceptions of Pasture Resources, by Maria Fernandez-Gimenez
• Economic Policy to Reduce Eastern Inner Mongolian Grassland Degradation, by Albert Keidel

Session 4. STATE, MODERN INSTITUTIONS AND URBAN SOCIETY IN EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINA

• Corporate Interest or Public Good: Public Utility Companies of Early Twentieth Century Beijing, by Mingzheng Shi
• Collective Action and State Sanction: Chinese Native Physicians' Fight for Legitimacy, 1912-37 Xiaoqun Xu

Session 5. ROUND TABLE: ONE HUNDRED CHILDREN AT PLAY: CHILDHOOD IN CHINESE ART AND SOCIETY

Session 6. SEX AND SENTIMENT: INSCRIPTIONS AND RE-INSCRIPTIONS IN MING-QING LITERATURE

• Inscriptions of Desire on Women's Bodies, by Maram Epstein
• Tears of Resentment: Reading Zhang Zhupo Reading Jin Ping Mei, by Naifei Ding
• The Fantastic Journey of an Ugly Boy, by Giovanni Vitiello
• Boy Actors and Literati Libertines, by Sophie Volpp

Session 7. FAMILY AND GOVERNMENT IN YUAN CHINA: FOREIGN INNOVATION AND INDIGENOUS TRANSFORMATION

• Localization of Institutional Systems under the Mongol-Yuan Dynasty, byYao Dali
• Women, Marriage, and Property in the Early Yuan: Alien Ethics and Native Change, by Bettine Birge
• Uxorilocal Vexations During the Yuan: Kong Qi's "Straight-speaking Memoirs of the Zhizheng Era" (1341-1368) and Wu Hanchen's "An Heir in Old Age," by Paul J Smith

Session 8. ORALITY AND LITERACY: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CLASSICAL CHINESE POETRY AND POETICS

• Orality and Literacy: Rethinking the Oral Origin and Significance of Early Chinese Poetry-Shih-as a Genre, by Gloria Shen
• Reflections on the Classification of Han Yueh-fu, by Zong-qi Cai
• Public vs. Private Poetry: Colloquial and Literary Styles of Six Dynasties Pentasyllabic Quatrains, by Charles H Egan

Session 18. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: RELIGION IN HAN AND MEDIEVAL CHINA

• The Flourishing of Chinese Buddhist Steles in the Early Sixth Century: A Legacy of the Late Northern Wei Period (494-534), by Dorothy Ching-Fun Wong
• An Iconographic Study of Xi Wang Mu (the Queen Mother of the West) in Han Art, by Gu Sen
• Bowing and Hierarchy in Medieval China: Daoxuan's Buddhist Rites of Obeisance, by Eric Reinders
• The Truth Behind the Banning: The Belief in Prophecy in Early Medieval China (220-618 A.D.), by Zongli Lu

Session 19. WOMEN IN THE NEW TAIWAN: ROLE MODELS, ROLES, AND PERCEPTIONS (Sponsored by the Taiwan Studies Group)

• The Women-centered Movements Gender and Social Activism in the Taiwan of the 1980's and 1990's, by Chen Wen-Chien
• Gender and Pay in Taiwan: Men's Attitudes in 1963 and 1991, by Robert M Marsh
• Women, Wages, and the Politics of Resistance in Rural Taiwan, by Rita S Gallin
• Lu Hsiu-lien and the Struggle for Taiwanese Self-hood, by Murray A Rubinstein

Session 20. BREAKING THE 1949 BARRIER: CCP POLICY IN THE BORDER REGIONS 1945-1955

• Breaking Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Tibet: Three Paths to Peaceful Liberation, Chinese Communist Style, byJustin Rudelson
• The Japanese Roots of The Communist Autonomy Policy in Inner Mongolia, by Christopher Atwood
• Liberating Xinjiang from the Rhetoric of Peaceful Liberation, by Linda Benson

Session 21. WATCHING ELECTRIC SHADOWS: CINEMA AND URBAN CULTURE IN REPUBLICAN CHINA, Part One (See Session 44)

• Yingtan, the Altar of Images, by Randolph Trumbull
• Framing History: Popular Film Culture in Wartime Shanghai, by Poshek Fu

Session 22. ROUND TABLE: THE CHENGDE PROJECT: REPORT FROM THE 1994 NEH SUMMER INSTITUTE

Session 23. ETHNICITY AND EXPANSION IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA

• Miao Albums: The Ethnography of Expansion in Eighteenth-century Guizhou, by Laura Hostetler
• Tribalizing the Frontier: Boundary Formation in South China During the Ming, by Leo K Shin
• Ethnicity and Han Expansion on the Qing Southern Frontier: Ethnic Conflict and the State in Hainan Island in the Eighteenth Century, by Anne Csete

Session 24. STEPPING OUT: TEXTUAL USES OF TRANSGRESSION BY WOMEN IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA

• Women's Texts and Virtual Boundaries, by Maureen Robertson
• Stepping Out: Female Transgression in Nushu Narrative, by Cathy Silber
• The Nun Who Wouldn't Be: Representations of Female Desire in Sifan, by Andrea Goldman
• The Courtesan's New Clothes: Fu Caiyun's Journey in Niehaihua, by Paola Zamperini

Session 25. THE PRACTICE OF SCRIPTURAL COMMENTARY IN MEDIEVAL CHINESE BUDDHISM

• Patterns of Commentary: Five Chinese Readings of the Diamond Sutra, by Alexander Mayer
• Tsung-mi's Commentaries to the Scripture of Perfect Enlightenment, by Peter Gregory
• Sutra Commentary as Textual/Scriptural Interpretation in T'ang Buddhism: Wonchuwk's Commentary on the Heart Sutra, by Cuong Tu Nguyen
• Constructing the Flower Garland Scripture: Four T'ang Communities on the Hua-yen ching, by Robert M Gimello

Session 36. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: STATECRAFT, AUTHORITY, LOYALTY IN MIDDLE PERIOD CHINA

• Meritorious Cannibal: Chang Hsun's Defense of Sui-yang (757) and the Exaltation of Loyalty in an Age of Rebellion, by David A Graff
• Fan Tsu-yu's Ti-hsueh (Learning of the Emperors): Learning and Imperial Authority at the Classics Mat in Northern Sung China (960-1126), by Marie Guarino
• Violent Men and Ming Officials, by David Robinson
• Chinese Economic Statecraft and Economic Ideas in the Sung Period (960-1279), by Zhihong L Oberst

Session 40. IMAGES OF WOMEN AND CHINESE MEDIA

• Images of Women in Nuxing Yanjiu (Women's Studies) Magazine, by Yuanxi Ma
• Tackling the Dual Task of Mobilization and Representation: A Study of Zhongguo Funu, by Naihua Zhang
• Seize the Day: The Value of Feminine Youth and the Anxiety of Time in Contemporary Chinese Urban Sexual Economy, by Zhen Zhang
• Images of Women in Beijing Ren Zai Niuyue: Representation or Fantasy? by Xueping Zhong

Session 41. POLITICAL ATTITUDES AND REGIME TRANSITION IN TAIWAN AND HONG KONG

• The Attentative Spectators: Political Participation in Hong Kong, by Hsin-chin Kuan and Siu-kai Lau
• Neo-traditionalism in a Modernizing Confucian Society: Value Change in Taiwan, by Huo-yan Shyu and Ming-tong Chen
• Neo-Authoritarianism in a Newly Democratizing Society: Regime Transition in Taiwan, by Yun-han Chu and Fu Hu

Session 42. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION IN CHINA (Sponsored by the Committee on Asian Law)

• Tasselled Loafers for Barefoot Lawyers: Transformation and Tensions in the World of Chinese Lawyers, by William P Alford
• The Hong Kong Legal Profession and 1997, by Alison W Conner
• China's First Lawyers: The Origins of China's Legal Profession in the Ming, Qing and Republican Periods, by Tahirih V Lee
• Legitimacy, Liberalization and the Legal Profession in Taiwan, by Jane K Winn

Session 43. RESISTANCE AND REPOSITIONING IN POST-1949 CHINA

• Peasants, Harvests, and Local Power from the Great Leap Forward to the Cultural Revolution: Chi Qing and the Inflection of State Appropriation, with Special Reference to Some Hebei Villages, by Ralph A Thaxton Jr
• Temporary and Contract Workers' Movement During the Cultural Revolution, with Special Reference to Hunan Province, by Xiaoxia Gong
• The Cultural Revolution in the Countryside: A View from the Villages, with Special Reference to Rural Shandong, by Dongping Han

Session 44. WATCHING ELECTRIC SHADOWS: CINEMA AND URBAN CULTURE IN REPUBLICAN CHINA, Part Two (See Session 21)

• Metropolitan Sound: Film Music of the 1930's, by Sue M C Tuohy
• The Ill-Reputed and Ill-Fated: Prostitution and Urban Imagination in Chinese Films of the 1930s, by Yingjin Zhang
• Unpacking China's Wartime Baggage: The Early Postwar Films of Shi Dongshan, Cai Chusheng, and Zheng Junli, by Paul G Pickowicz

Session 45. ON SACRED GROUNDS: THE MATERIAL CULTURE AND RITUAL FORMATION OF THE CONFUCIAN TEMPLE IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA

• Contending Constructions of the Lineages of the Sage's Descendants, by Thomas A Wilson
• Spirit and Image in the Iconography of Confucius, by Deborah A Sommer
• The Temple of Confucius and Pictorial Biographies of the Sage, by Julia Killin Murray
• Confucian Architecture as a Paradigm: A Building Tradition beyond Qufu, by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt

Session 46. RETHINKING TRIBUTE: CONCEPT AND PRACTICE, Part One (See Session 65)

• Tribute, Frontier, and Manchu State-Remaking: Mongol Tribute in 17th- and 18th-Century China, by Chia Ning
• How We Got Obsessed with the "Tribute System" and Why It's Time to Get Over It, by John E Wills Jr.

Session 56. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: APPROACHES TO CHINESE LITERATURE

• From Hua-yi to Shi-qing: The Interartistic Poetics of Chinese Ti-hua-shi, byDa'an Pan
• Interest in the Ti: Hu Yinglin's Generic Study of the Xiaoshuo, by Hua Laura Wu

Session 60. STATE BUILDING AND SOCIAL INITIATIVE IN REPUBLICAN CHINA

• The Changing Nature of Chinese Philanthropy in Late Qing and Republican China, by Caroline Reeves
• Spreading the Revolution Beyond Politics: Queue Cutting, Calendar Reform and the Revolution of 1911, by Henrietta Harrison
• Playing with Fire: The Nanjing Government and Popular Anti-Opium Agitation in 1928, by Alan Baumler

Session 61. THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF CULTURE AND MASS MEDIA IN 1990'S CHINA

• Mocking the Hand that Feeds: Chinese "Mini-Drama" (Xiaopin) as Creature and Critic of Commercialism, by Wenwei Du
• Writing, Commodity Culture and Literary Entrepreneurship: China's "Wang Shuo Phenomenon," by Huazhi Wang
• The Marketplace for News in China's Evolving Commodity Economy, by Sun Xupei
• Yellow Journalism and Green Journalism in the People's Republic of China, by Judy Polumbaum

Session 62. RURAL RESISTANCE IN POST-1949 CHINA

• Rural Resistance to the One-Child Family Policy, by Kate Xiao Zhou
• Villages Submerged, Villages Remembered, by Jun Jing
• State Dominance and Peasant Resistance in Post-1949 South China, by I Yuan
• The "Tree Stealers" in Central Shaanxi During the Cultural Revolution, by Dachang Cong

Session 63. FEMINIST UTOPIAN DISCOURSE IN QING VERNACULAR LITERATURE

• Transvestism, Lesbian Desire, and Utopian Polygamy in Women's Tanci Fiction, by Qingyun Wu
• Ideal Coupling: Utopian Fantasies in Caizi Jiaren Fiction, by Zuoya Cao
• Male Writer and the Female Other: On "Nüxian waishi" and "Jinghua yuan," by Hsin-sheng C. Kao

Session 64. CHANGE AND AUTHORITY IN HAN CHINA

• The Sage as Master of Change, by Mark Edward Lewis
• Metamorphosis in Early China, by Roel Sterckx
• Death as Controlled Transformation, by Ken Brashier

Session 65. RETHINKING TRIBUTE: CONCEPT AND PRACTICE, Part Two (See Session 46)

• Courting the Begs: Tribute and Qing Empire in Xinjiang, by James Millward
• Western Tribute and the Transformation of Chinese Glassmaking, by Claudia Brown
• Tribute and Official Corruption in 18th-Century China, by Nancy Park
• Inner and Outer Tributes in Xinjiang under Qing Rule, by Nicola Di Cosmo

Session 76. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: CHINA

• Chinese Entrepreneur in Global Perspective, by John Kao and Anchi Lin
• State, Market, and Institutional Influences Shaping Labor Reforms in China's State Enterprises, by Julia Sensenbrenner
• To Create a "Chinese Style" Market: The Role of Societal Forces, by Fei-ling Wang
• The Cash Nexus and Social Networks: Mutual Aid in Contemporary Shanghai Villages, by Scott Wilson

Session 80. ESSENTIALISMS IN CHINESE HISTORY AND CULTURAL POLITICS

• The Limits of Essentialism: Matteo Ricci, Hu Shi, and Ecumenical Nativism, by Lionel M Jensen
• Symbolic Morality: Official and Elite Musings on China's Essence, by Susan D Blum
• The Ambiguity of Cultural Identity: Gu Jiegang and the Rethinking of the Chinese Tradition, by Zhang Longxi
• The Mind Has No Sex? Essentializing Gendered Intelligence, by Lisa Ann Raphals

Session 81. PRODUCING TODAY'S CHINA: USES OF POPULAR MEDIA

• Private Memoirs and Public Memoirs: What Are They Telling the World About China? by King-Fai Tam
• Auto-ethnography and the Fifth Generation, by Ying Hu
• Fashionable Females and Native Beauty: Xie Fei and Zhang Yimou, by Wendy Larson

Session 82. PROVINCIAL STRATEGIES OF ECONOMIC REFORM IN POST-MAO CHINA: THE CASES OF FUJIAN, GUANGDONG, SHANDONG, AND SHANGHAI

• Shanghai's Adjustment in Resources Allocation Since 1978, by Zhimin Lin
• Guangdong's Policy Toward Resources Allocation Since 1978, by Peter Tsan-Yin Cheung
• Shangdong's Strategies of Reform and Opening, by Jae Ho Chung

Session 83. ROUND TABLE: TOWARDS THE 1995 WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN IN BEIJING (Sponsored by the Chinese Society for Women's Studies)

Session 84. HUMOR IN REPUBLICAN CHINA

• Figures for Derision: Shanghai Types in Storytelling Songs on 1930's Radio, by Carlton Benson
• Thick-Black Studies and Bamboo-branch Poetry in Republican-era Chengdu, by Kristin Stapleton
• The Gentle Art of Fengci: Irony, Sarcasm, and Savage Ridicule in the Early Twentieth Century, by Peter Zarrow

Session 85. ASTROLOGY AND CHRONOLOGY IN SHANG AND ZHOU: COMMEMORATING THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF EARLY CHINA (Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Early China)

• On Conjunctions, Calendars and Cyclical Time: The Uses of Astrological History, by David W Pankenier
• Shaughnessy's Slip, by David S Nivison
• The Date of the Qiu Wei Gui and Reign Titles of the Zhou Kings, by Edward L Shaughnessy

Session 86. CHANGING PATTERNS OF FAMINE RELIEF IN MING-QING CHINA

• Famine Policy and Ideas about Famine in the Mid Ming, by Jennifer E Downs
• Changing Patterns of Famine Relief in North China: Bureaucrats, Patriots, and Do-Gooders, by Lillian M Li

Session 98. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: CHINA

• From Poetic Realm to Fictional World: Chinese Theory of Fictional Ontology, 1900-1916, by Lijun Fu
• Engendering Identity: Female Impersonation in Farewell My Concubine, by Shuqin Cui
• The Present Past: The Use of Memory in the Saga Fiction by Chinese Contemporary Avant-garde Writers, by Jie Lu
• Li Zehou and the Aesthetic Education of Sense and Sensibility, by Ban Wang

Session 102. CHINA IN THE WORLD ECONOMIC ORDER (Sponsored by the Committee on Asian Law)

• Round Pegs and Square Holes: The Challenge of Fitting China into the World Trade Organization, by Donald C Clarke
• Intellectual Property: Hot Potato in China Trade, by Ya Qin
• Implications of China's Emerging Industrial Policy for China's Participation in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization, by Nicholas Lardy

Session 103: ROUND TABLE: CHINA CONTESTED: ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES IN RECENT SCHOLARSHIP, Part One (See Session 124) (Sponsored by the China and Inner Asia Council)

Session 104. "HAN THINKERS ON THEIR OWN TRADITION": A PANEL IN HONOR OF MICHAEL LOEWE

• Intellectual Self-awareness in Han Times: What Did the Han Thinkers Think of Themselves? by Anne Cheng
• Objections and Questions in the Lunheng, by Agnes Chalier
• The Classical Tradition in Han, by Michael Nylan

Session 105. CARTOGRAPHY AND IMPERIAL SPACE IN QING INNER ASIA

• Mapping the Empire's Future: The Qing Definition of Maps as Prognostic Material, by Philippe Forêt
• The Early Russian Exploration and Mapping of the Chinese Frontier, by Marina Tolmacheva
• Mapping the Qing State: All Under Heaven? by Mark Elliott

Session 106. TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL CHINESE BUDDHIST HAGIOGRAPHY

• Monument and Hagiography: Master Senglang and the Historical Flux of Architectural Significance, by Eugene Wang
• The Symbolics of Power in Daoxuan's Continued Lives of Eminent Monks, by Robin C Wagner
• Transmission of the Robe in the "Lidai fabao ji," a Chan Text from Dunhuang, by Wendi Leigh Adamek
• The Wine-drinking Meat-eating Monks of Medieval Chinese Hagiography, by John Kieschnick

Session 122. THE POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY

• The 1966-79 "Case Investigation" Xitong: A Secret Party Organization and Its Operating Procedures, by Michael Schoenhals
• Changes in Party Recruitment, 1949-1985: An Analysis of County-level Data, by Bruce Dickson
• The Party's Legacy in the Chinese Industrial Workplace: Processes and Outcomes of Reform, by Corinna-Barbara Francis
• Ousting the Party Secretary: The Politics of Lodging Complaints in Chinese Villages, by Lianjiang Li and Kevin O'Brien

Session 123. THE HAN, REGIONALISM, AND CHINESE ETHNICITY

• The Structuring of New Hainan-ren/Dalu-ren Ethnic Boundaries in Hainan Special Economic Zone, by Keng-Fong Pang
• Regionalism, Nationalism and Han Identity in Taiwan, by Joseph Bosco
• The Waishengren are Coming: Ethnicity and Migration in Guangdong, by Gregory E Guldin
• To Be or Not to be Chinese: Contradictions of Ethnicity in Postwar Hong Kong, by Allen Chun

Session 124. ROUND TABLE: CHINA CONTESTED: ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES IN RECENT SCHOLARSHIP, Part Two (See Session 103) (Sponsored by the China and Inner Asia Council)

Session 125. CANNIBALISM IN CHINESE LITERATURE AND CULTURE

• Filial Piety, Iatric Cannibalism and the Cult of Kuan-yin, by Chun-Fang Yu
• Seduction of the Cannibal: From Lu Xun to Amy Tan, by Gang Yue

Session 126. XING AND HUMAN PERSON IN CONFUCIAN AND NEO-CONFUCIAN TRADITIONS

• Social Reality and Lu Jiuyuan, by Anne D Birdwhistell
• On Theory of Xing in Song-Ming Neo-Confucian Philosophy: A Critical Reinterpretation, by Chung-Ying Cheng

Session 139. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: 20TH CENTURY CHINESE ART & SOCIETY

• Wine, Women, and Especially Song: Karaoke and Machismo in Taiwan, by Avron A Boretz
• Women's Literature (Nushu) and Images of Widowhood in China, by Fei-Wen Liu
• A Debate on Traditional Chinese Painting during the 1920s and 1930s, by Kuiyi Shen

Session 141. RELIGIOUS CONTINUITY AND REVIVAL IN CONTEMPORARY TIBET (Sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Development Committee)

• Religious Transformation and Continuity in the Tibet Autonomous Region: Two Perspectives, by Melvyn C Goldstein
• The Nyingma Revival of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Nature, Significance and Obstacles Under PRC Rule, by David Germano
• Ritual, Ethnicity and Generational Conflict, by Lawrence Epstein
• A Festival of Rebirth Reborn: The 1992 Drigung Phowa Chenmo, by Matthew Kapstein

Session 142. ROUND TABLE: CAPITALIST SPROUTS, SOCIALIST TAILS AND CULTURAL REVOLUTION NOSTALGIA

Session 143. ASSESSING CHINA'S WAR ON POVERTY

• Non-Regional Rural Poverty in China, by Carl Riskin
• Distributional Consequences of Reforming Local Finance in China: Evidence From Shaanxi, by Scott Rozelle
• Are China's Poverty Investment Programs Working? Albert Park
• Property Rights, Resource Management and Poverty in China, by Nick Menzies

Session 144. THE SINO-AMERICAN RAJ IN CHINA: TRANSPLANT OR HYBRID?

• Sub-State Sino-American Relations: The Uses of Extraterritoriality, by Eileen Scully
• SACO: An Ambivalent Experience of United States-China Wartime Cooperation, by Yu Shen
• Obervations on the War in China, 1942-1946, by Rhoads Murphey
• The Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction on the Mainland: Cultural Hybrid, Political Orphan, by Charles W Hayford

Session 145. ICONOCLASTIC APPROACHES TO ZHUANGZI

• Is Anything Left of Lao-Zhuang Daoism? Chad Hansen
• Zhuangzi's Negative Project, by Paul Kjellberg
• I and Dao: A Buberian Reading of Zhuangzi, by Jonathan R Herman
• Zhuangzi the Irenic, Ironic Iconoclast, by Kuang-ming Wu

Session 146. IMAGINING BOUNDARIES: REDEFINING CONFUCIAN DOCTRINES, TEXTS, AND PRACTICES IN MING-CH'ING CHINA, Part One (See Session 161)

• Neo-Confucian Heresiography in the Late Ming and Early Ch'ing, by John B Henderson
• Identifying Confucian Texts: Confucian Hermeneutics and The Great Learning in the Late Ming and Early Ch'ing, by Kai Wing Chow
• Drawing the Line: Ming-Qing Cheng-Zhu School's Quest for Truth within the Hermeneutic Bounds, by On-cho Ng

Session 155. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: WRITING AND GENDER IN CHINA

• Male and Female Attitudes Toward Women in "The Travels of Laocan," by Joyce Xun-Yu Wang
• Colonization, Writing and Gender: An Inquiry into the Origin of Dongba Sacred Script (China), by Dominique Ryon
• Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence in Pu Songling's "Feng Sanniang," by Tze-Lan Deborah Sang

Session 156. LANGUAGE SHIFT, "FACE", AND GENDERED SUBJECTIVITIES: CHINESE LANGUAGES IN SOCIOCULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS

• Language Shift in Taiwan: Social and Political Determinants, by Hui-chen Chan
• Face and Pronouns in Chinese, by Lu Ming Mao
• The Leading Edge: Peer Leaders in the Discursive Production of Gender in a Taiwanese Preschool, by Catherine S Farris

Session 157. IS ECONOMIC REFORM UNIFYING OR FRAGMENTING CHINA

• Forces Impinging on Convergence and Divergence in China's Regional Economic Growth, by Jian Chen and Belton M. Fleisher
• Rural Industry and Regional Development Policy, by Dali Yang
• Macroeconomic Management and Intergovernmental Relations in China, by Jun Ma

Session 158. POWER, SEXUALITY, AND CONSTRAINT: LIFE OF WOMEN IN THE T'ANG DYNASTY

• Imagining Matriarchy: Constructing Kingdoms of Women in the T'ang, by Jennifer Jay
• Female Entertainers Under the T'ang, by Victor Cunrui Xiong
• From The Classic of Female Filial Piety to The Female Analects: A Study of the Changing Perceptions on T'ang Female Education, by Lily Hwa

Session 159. ETHNICITY UNBOUNDED: SINICIZING AND SIGNIFYING AT THE FRONTIER

• The Yao Wars and the Rise of Orthodoxy from the Mid-Ming to the Early Qing, by David W Faure
• Drawing Ethnic Boundaries in the Mountainous Niche: The Case of the She and the Hakka, by Wing-hoi Chan
• Ethnicity Defined, Contested and Transformed in the Miao Frontier During the Qing, by Donald S Sutton
• Lineage, Market, and Being Dan in the Pearl River Delta, by Helen F Siu

Session 160. CULTURE, STATE, AND PERSON IN THE MAKING OF EMPERORSHIP

• Identity and Authority: The Dragon, Qi and Pre-Imperial Discourses of Power, by Martin Powers
• The Way of De: Charisma in Early Chinese Conceptions of Sovereignty, by Gopal Sukhu
• Chinese Literature and Popular Culture: Despotic Desire and Ritualized Bodies, by Kenneth Dean
• Cosmology, Emperorship, and the Han Empire, by Aihe Wang

Session 161. IMAGINING BOUNDARIES: REDEFINING CONFUCIAN DOCTRINES, TEXTS, AND PRACTICES IN MING-CH'ING CHINA, Part Two (See Session 146)

• Goodness Unbound: Education According to Wang Yang-ming, by Kandice J Hauf
• Lo Ju-fang (1515-1588) and Confucian Evangelism in Late Ming China, by Yu-Yin Cheng
• Restoration as Re-invention: Ku Yen-wu's Ideal Confucianism, by Wei-ying Ku
• Treading a Weedy Path: Tang Chen's (1630-1704) Struggle with the Confucian Heritage, by Ping-Chen Hsiung

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