China and Inner Asia: Table of Contents

Session 1: Managing Municipal China: Shanghai and Guangzhou Compared

Guangzhou's Strategy in Promoting Foreign Trade and Investment , Peter Tsan-Yin Cheung
Commodification of Shanghai's Housing Sector, Rebecca L. H. Chiu
Environmental Governance in China's Hypergrowth Cities: Comparing Shanghai and Guangzhou, Carlos Wing-hung Lo
From Cadre to Public Servants? The Implementation of Civil Service in Municipal China, King K. Tsao

Session 2: What Every Sinologist Needs to Know: A Report to the Field by the National Task Forces on Basic and Post-Basic Chinese

Preparing Students for Careers in the China Field: What do China Specialists Need to Learn?, Shou-hsin Teng and Vivian Ling
How Far Can You Go in Chinese Language Learning, and How Do You Get There? , Jing-heng Ma and Cornelius Kubler
Is Your Institution Ready for the Coming Generation of Chinese Studies Students?, A. Ronald Walton and Jerome L. Packard
Area Studies and Language Studies: Let's Talk, Timothy Light and Madeline Men-Li Chu

Hong Kong's China Practice: Lawyers as Cultural Brokers in a Global City, Joseph Bosco
Cultural Tourism and Hong Kong Identity, Chin-hung Cheung
Youth Culture in Hong Kong: Re-rooting of an Identity, Siumi Maria Tam
The Soft Wind from the Southern Window: Hong Kong Popular Culture in Mainland China, Yun-xiang Yan

Session 4: Prostitution in East Asia: New Perspectives

Prostitutes or Actresses: Women's Strategies Making A Living in Early 20th-Century Beijing and Tianjin, Cheng Weikun
Some Popular Attitudes Toward Prostitution in the Canton Delta, 1920's-1930's, Virgil Kit-Yiu Ho
Courtship, Sex and Money: The Economics of Courtesanship in 19th- and 20th-Century Shanghai, Christian Henriot
United States-Korean Camptown Prostitution: Women as Instruments of Foreign Policy, Katharine Moon

Session 5: ROUND TABLE-Chinese Rare Book Resources on RLIN

Session 6: The Cult of the Supreme Sage: Social, Ritual/Music, and Political Aspects of the Temple of Confucius

The Kongs of Qufu, Shandong, Abigail Lamberton
Memory and Identity: A Study of Two Kong Temples, Jun Jing
"Music! Music! Does It Mean No More Than Bells and Drums?" Theories and Practices of Confucian Ceremonial Music , Joseph S. C. Lam
Court Politics and the Confucian Temple during the Tang and Song, Ellen Neskar

Session 7: Paleographic Perspectives on Women in Early China

Out of the Stone Age: Women in the Shang Bone Inscriptions , David N. Keightley
Slaves, Wives and Queens in Zhou Period China, Constance A. Cook
The Key and the Flow: Drying Out the Wet Women of the Yijing'sXici Zhuan, Edward L. Shaughnessy
Rough Justice: Women in an Early Han Casebook, Susan Weld

Session 8: Narrating the Empire: Literature, Culture, and the Body Politic in Early Modern China

A Few Good Men: Jin Shengtan's Primer for Male Heirs to the Empire, Naifei Ding
Demarcating the Han: Cultural Identity and Canon Formation in Early Modern Zaju, Kimberly Ann Besio
Embodiments of Cultural China: Sex and Race in the Qing Novel Yesou Puyan, Maram Epstein

Session 20: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: New Work on State and Society in Late 19th- and 20th-Century China

The State and the Armed Merchants: The Tianjin Merchant Militia, 1853-1924, Xiaobo Zhang
Secret Society in Eastern Sichuan (1911-1949): The Case of Pao Ge, Maochun Yu
Collective Action, Democratization, and the State: Student Protest in China and Taiwan, Teresa Wright
Renegotiation of Private/Public Sphere: The Struggle for Professional Autonomy of Private Education in Guangdong Province , Ka-ho Mok

Session 23: Changing Concepts of "dang": Party and Polity in China's 20th Century Revolution

The Militarization of the CCP in the Early 1930s, Hans Van De Ven
Bending in the Wind: Adapting the Organization in Shanghai 1927-1941, Patricia Stranahan
The Rectified Party as a "Charismatic Impersonal Institutuion" in Yan'an, Timothy Cheek

Session 24: China's Cooperative Foreign Policy: Change in the Realist Paradigm?

Cooperative Security and the Chinese Response, Rosemary Foot
China's Cooperative Diplomacy in the Cambodian Conflict , Jianwei Wang
Opening to the North: Heilongjiang in China's Northeast Asian Economic Cooperation Policy, Gaye Christoffersen

Following the Needle of Guidance: Morality Books and the Creation of Taiwanese Identity, Paul Katz
Dajia Migrants and the Dajia Mazu Pilgrimage, Chang Hsün
Taiwanese Ma-tsu or Chinese Ma-tsu, Mei-rong Lin
Forging Identity/Formenting Conflict: Time, Space, and Word in the Process of Inter-temple Rivalry in Taiwan's Ma-tsu Temple Community, Murray A. Rubinstein

Session 26: The Reconstruction of Local Elite Identities in the Republican Period: Part One (See Session 49)

Education, Politics, and Local Elite Society in Early Twentieth-Century China, Stephen C. Averill
Occupational Horizons in Republican Sichuan: Shifts in Elite Career Choices, Kristin Stapleton
Patterns and Dynamics of Elite Collaboration with the Japanese in Occupied Shaoxing County, R. Keith Schoppa

Session 27: In Honor of James I. Crump's Contribution to the Study of Yuan Drama: Part One: Lust, Desire, and Love in Yuan Drama (See Session 53)

For Love or Money: Marriage in Three Plays by Kuan Han-ch'ing , Ching-hsi Perng
For Money or Love: Configurations of Romance in Early Drama , Cynthia Y. Ning
Keep the Door Shut: Sex, Love, and the Power to Rule, Stephen H. West
Obscene, Lewd, Lascivious, Filthy or Indecent? Song, Drama, Printing, and Discourses on Eroticism in Early Modern China, Patricia A. Sieber

Session 44: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Explorations of the Self in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Film

Journey Within: The Inward Turn of the Contemporary Chinese Novel, Susan Shuyu Kong
Gu Chen's Novel Ying'er: A Kingdom of Daughters , Xia Li
Beyond the Yellow Earth: Post-Socialist City as a Cinematic Space of Anxiety, Harry H. Kuoshu
Re-theorizing the Personal: Negotiating Self-Identity in Yu Luojin's Autobiographical Writing, Lingzhen Wang
Violence: The Aesthetics and the Politics: Towards A Reading of Yu Hua, Jianguo Chen

Session 46: Media and Urban Culture: Women in Modern Chinese Magazines, Popular Music, and Cinema

Exoticism, Eroticism, and Nationalism: Women in Early Modern Chinese Political-Detective Novels (1898-1911), Feng-Ying Ming
Contending Voices: An Alternative Look at the Formation and Promotion of a New Chinese Woman in Women's Magazines, Sylvia Li-chun Lin
Passionate Friends: Female Homosexuality in Chinese Magazines, Sexological Pamphlets, and Fiction, 1922-1932, Deborah Tze-lan Sang
Women in the Discursive and Political Economy of Shanghai Popular Music and Cinema, 1937-45, Andrew F. Jones

Session 47: Hong Kong's Imperfect Transition to 1997, Part One: The Political Transformation (See Session 71)

The Politics of Hong Kong's Transition, Ming K. Chan
Global Changes and Hong Kong's Transition, James T. H. Tang
Civil Service Systems in Transition: Hong Kong and China , John P. Burns
Party Politics and Elections in Transitional Hong Kong , Ian Scott

Session 48: Politics of Identity Construction and Deconstruction in Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China

A Sociodemographic Profile of Mongols in China, 1990, Jerry Jirimutu
Inner Mongolian Nationality Autonomy during the Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1991, Tomochelor Hao
The Cult of Ulanhu in Inner Mongolia: History, Memory, and the Making of National Heroes, Uradyn Erden Bulag
From Naadam to Nationality Sport: Inner Mongols and the Chinese Nation/State, Almaz Khan

Session 49: The Reconstruction of Local Elite Identities in the Republican Period: Part Two (See Session 26)

Imitation and Independence: Changing Relations among Different Levels of "Local" Elites in Late Qing and Republican North China, Kenneth Pomeranz
Society as the Organization of Power Networks: The Northern Henan Case, Xin Zhang
Military Office and Local Elite Power in Guomindang China , Edward A. McCord

Session 50: Centrifugal Confucianism and Travel Abroad in the Late Imperial Era

China in the Face of Civilized Barbarians: A Reading of the Chaoxian fu, Anthony St George
The Other as Figure from Antiquity: Indigenous People in the Late Imperial Travel Literature of Taiwan, Jinhua Emma Teng
Discovered Other, Recovered Self: Layers of Representation in an Early Travelogue on the West (Xihai jiyoucao) , Marion Eggert
Foreign Travel Through a Woman's Eyes: Shan Shili's Voyageof 1903 (Guimao lüxing), Ellen Widmer

Session 51: Contrasting Cosmologies: The Search for a Coherent World View

Speculations on the Existence of Primitive Geomancy: Was there Fengsui before Wuxing? Stephen Field
The Role of Tian as Sky and Heaven: Conceptual Implications , Sarah Allan
Methods of Divining Human Nature in the Third Century BCE , Gillian Simpson

Session 52: The Martial Arts in China: Imaginative Practice and Social Performance

On the Watery Edges of Order: Jianghu in the Fictional Imagination, John Christopher Hamm
Magic Warfare in Nineteenth-Century Fiction and History: The Armor of the Golden Bell, Meir Shahar
Feigned Madness (Yangkuang) and Martial Opera in Early Twentieth- Century China, Hugh L. Shapiro

Session 53: In Honor of James I. Crump's Contribution to the Study of Yuan Drama: Part Two: Lust, Desire, and Love (See Session 27)

Rites of Performance: Ghosts in Dreams in Yuan zaju , Karin Myhre
The Taishan Pilgrimage in Yuan-time Drama, Wilt L. Idema
Proper Naming Practice as a Key to Maintaining Familial and Social Order in the Hanshan ji, Andrea Goldman

Session 54: Self, History, and Memory in Early Qing Poetry

Layered History in Wu Weiye's (1609-1672) Four Yangzhou Poems, Yuanfang Tong
Between Recollection and Anticipation: An Analysis of Wu Weiye's (1609-1672) Play Tongtian tai, Dietrich Tschanz
Cao Zhenji's (1634-1698) Lyrics Considering Men of the Past, Carol R. Kaufmann

Session 71: Hong Kong's Imperfect Transition to 1997, Part Two: The Social and Institutional Transformation (See Session 47)

Legal Issues in Transitional Hong Kong, Alison W. Conner
The Press in Transitional Hong Kong, Chin-Chuan Lee
Hong Kong Higher Education and Professionalism Toward 1997 , Gerard A. Postiglione
Migration and Hong Kong's Future, Janet Salaff

Session 72: Chinese Business Enterprises in Four Coastal CitiesDuring the Late Qing and Early Republican Period (Sponsored by the Chinese History Research Group)

Families and Friends: Business Networks in Hong Kong During the 1940s and their Relevance to Post-war Industrialization, Wai-keung Chung and Gary G. Hamilton
The Making of Modern Chinese Financial Entrepreneurship: The Case of Chen Guangfu, Pui-tak Lee
Strange Bedfellows: Warlords, Warlord Capital and Professional Bankers During the Rise of Modern Banking in Tianjin, 1916-1925 , Brett G. Sheehan
From Family to Professional Management: Zhang Jian (1853-1926) and the Development of Modern Business in Nantong, Elisabeth Köll

Session 73: Chinese Grassroots Institutions in Flux: Problems and Implications

Elections in Rural China, Tianjian Shi
Chinese Rural Enterprises: Changing Political Economies, Changing Institutions, Michelle S. Mood
Policy-based Resistance and Institutional Change in the Chinese Countryside, Kevin O'Brien and Lianjiang Li

Session 74: Other Pieties: Reconsidering Filial Devotion (Xiao) from the Perspective of the Relationship Between Mother and Son

Buddhist Filial Piety in the Tang: The Mother and Son Romance , Alan Cole
Filial Piety and Value in the Ritual Production of Family Relations, P. Steven Sangren
Constructing Emotions: The Bond Between Mothers and Sons in Late Imperial China, Ping-chen Hsiung
Men as Mothers: Economies of Virtue, Sophie Volpp

Session 89: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Writers and Writing in Ming-Qing China

Solving a Puzzle: The Division between Nanxi and Chuanqi, Mei Sun
Reconstructing Courtesans in the Late Ming: An Examination of Two Plays by the Literati and One Fragement by a Courtesan , Anne-Marie Hsiung
Activities of the Ta-hsia: A Window on Late Ming Political Culture, Jie Zhao
Exemplary Sodomites: Gender and Moral Hybridism in Bianer chai, Giovanni Vitiello
Dating and Authorship of Chinese Fiction: On Stylistic Method, Qing Ping Wang

Session 90: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Deviance, Decorum, and Power in T'ang-Sung Poetry

Poems of Deviant Forms: Literature as Entertainment, Yang Ye
"Joy Without Wantonness Sorrow Without Rancor": Decorum, Canonicity, and the Reception of Tang Poetry, Mark E. Francis
Power of the Poem: The Role of Poetry in a Ninth Century Collection of Anecdotes, Graham Sanders
Hanging by a Thread: The Deviant Closures of Li He, David McCraw
"Tough" Solution Out of "Soft" Tradition: "Heroic" Tz'u as Defined by Tz'u Decorum , Xinda Lian

Session 93: Women and Development in Rural China

Rural Women and Market Transition in China, Kate Xiao Zhou
A Strategy for Economic Development for Rural Women in China in the 1990s, Ellen R. Judd
Education and Gender Disparities in Rural Jiangsu Province , George P. Brown

Session 94: Ideology, Organization, and State-building in China During the Sino-Japanese War: Nationalist, Communist and Collaborationist Perspectives

Wartime Stress and Guomindang Response: Xunlian as a Means to State-building, 1938-45, Julia C. Strauss
State-building and War in the Shandong Communist Base Area, 1940-46, Elise Devido
State Creation in an Ideological Vacuum: The Wang Jingwei Regime in Nanjing, 1940-45, David P. Barrett

Session 95: The Politics of Reform and Revolution: China and Taiwan in the 1950s

Revolutionizing Love: Politics and Lust in Urban and Rural China, 1950-1959, Neil J. Diamant
The Party Reform of the Kuomintang Regime, 1950-52, Chia-yin Shih
The Social and Political Construction of "Peasant Education," 1949-1959, Glen Peterson

Session 96: After the Rebellion: Rethinking Social and Institutional Changes in Mid and Late T'ang China

The Legacy of the Yüan-ho Era (805-820): A Re-examination of the Political Structure of the Late T'ang Court, Yang Lu
Notes on the Cultural Conditions of Late T'ang Aristocratic Families, Jo-shui Chen
The Sword and the Brush: Specialization and Career Patterns in the T'ang Military, David A. Graff
Reorganization of the Realm: Spatial Dimensions of State Policy in Mid and Late T'ang, Tatsuhiko Seo

Session 97: Medium and Message in Late Qing Treaty Ports

Making the Chinese State Go Public: Peking Gazette (Jingbao) Reprints in the Shenbao (1872-1912) , Barbara Mittler
Wang Tao (1828-1897): Pioneering the Hong Kong Newspaper Business, Natascha Vittinghoff
Commercializing Chinese Culture: Ernest Major in Shanghai , Rudolf G. Wagner

Session 98: Language and Power in Early China

Rhetoric and Historical Interpretation in the TsoChuan , Wai-yee Li
The Exercise of Discourse: Qin Popular Culture and the Qin State, Robin Yates
Legitimation and the Writings of Sima Qian, Paula Varsano
Incorporating the Filial: Language, Politics, and the Genesis of an Institution, Deborah Porter

Session 99: ROUND TABLE: Sinology By Computer?

Session 100: Literati, Literature, and Political Culture in Ming Dynasty China

The Hanlin Academy and Cultural Authority in the Early Fifteenth Century, Peter Ditmanson
The Decadent Chalice: Wang Shizhen's Critique of Ming Political Culture, Kenneth J. Hammond
Weighty Matters, Weightless Form: Politics and the Ming Xiaopin Writer, Philip Kafalas

Session 113: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: China's Changing Borders and Contested Frontiers

China's Neglect of Taiwan: From Shimonoseki Treaty to Cairo Declaration, Edward I-Te Chen
Living at the Edge: China's Ethnic Minorities, Shelly K. Habel
Environmental Symbolism and Contemporary Policy in North China, Dee Mack Williams
One Country, Two Legal Cultures: The Difficulties in Creating a Coherent, Unitary Legal System in Post-1997 Hong Kong, Ann Jordan

Session 117: ROUND TABLE: Discussion of Study Abroad in China and Taiwan: Changes and Challenges

Session 118: Repairing Holes in China's Safety Nets: The Social Costs of Economic Development

Social Welfare as Inhibitor of Economic Growth? A Multivariate Analysis of the Relationship between Economic Growth and Social Spending of Hong Kong, Kwong-leung Tang
Indigenization and Private Initiatives of Welfare in China , Nelson Chow

Session 119: Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in Comparison

Making the Cut: Educational Attainment in Urban China and Taiwan, C. Montgomery Broaded
Religion and Society in Taiwan and the Mainland, Wenfang Tang
The Transformation of Civic Culture in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, Yun-han Chu
Coping with Socio-Political Change: A Comparison of the Media in China and Taiwan, Ran Wei
States, Markets and Industry: State Enterprise Reform in Taiwan and China, Elizabeth M. Freund

Session 120: Re-Assessing China's Minority Policies and Social Relations in the 1990s, Part One: Evaluating Local Implementation of Minority Policies (See Session 141)

Continuity and Change in China's Minority Policies Toward Tibet: 1949-1996, Melvyn C. Goldstein
The Texture of Tongues: Languages and Power in China, Arienne M. Dwyer
Between Da Hanzu Zhuyi and Difang Minzu Zhuyi: PRC Policies and the Politics of Identity in the Lijiang Naxi People's Autonomous Country, Sydney D. White
The Impact of "Affirmative Action" on Han-Minority Relations in the PRC: The Case of Xinjiang, Barry Sautman

Session 121: Labor Market Developments in the People's Republic of China: Rural Sector Mobility, Part One (See Session 142)

Efficiency Considerations of Out Migration from Rural China , Denise Hare
Market Transition, Household Labor Allocation and Incomes in Rural China, Sarah Cook
Economic Reforms, Sectoral Labor Mobility, and Welfare Changes in China, Dennis Tao Yang

Session 122: ROUND TABLE: The Three Gorges Dam: Local and Global Perspectives (Sponsored by CIAC)

Session 123: Taoism and Narrative

The Quest of the Hero and the Conversion of the Barbarians , Livia Kohn
Two Important Narratives in the Chuang Tzu , Harold D. Roth
Saved by the Tao: Early Medieval Taoist Narratives of Disaster and Renewal, Peter Nickerson

Session 124: Tourist Guides and Urban Identity in Modern China

Defining Paradise: Conflicting Representations of the Entertainment Industry in Late Qing Shanghai, Catherine Vance Yeh
Guidebooks and Peking Identity, Susan Naquin
Living in Guangzhou: Written Guides, David Faure

Session 125: The "Inner" and the "Outer" in Early Confucian Thought

Li and Jen in the Analectsand the Inner-Outer Dichotomy, Kim-chong Chong
The Early Confucian Attitude Toward Ming, Kwong-loi Shun
Populist Government of Familial Empathy in the Mencius , Chun-chieh Huang
Duty and Consequence Orientations and the Internal-External Distinction, Cedric Pan

Session 140: Corruption in Contemporary China

Education, Corruption, Cellularism and Guanxiwang: A View from within a Chinese Educational Danwei, Michael Agelasto
Corruption and Flexibility in Legal Interpretation in China , Julia Kwong
Calling Out the Law? The Moral and Political Economy of Corruption in China, Carol A. G. Jones

Session 141: Reassessing China's Minority Policies and Social Relations in the 1990s, Part Two: Theorizing Actual Minority-Majority Social Relations (See Session 120 )

Mongol-Han Relations in a New Configuration of Social Evolution , Naran Bilik
Being Poor, Peripheral, Outnumbered, and Han, Stevan Harrell
Han-Muslim and Intra-Muslim Social Relations in Northwest China, Colin Mackerras
Unforgiven and Remembered: The Impact of Ethnic Conflicts in Everyday Muslin-Han Social Relations in Hainan Island, Keng-Fong Pang

Session 142: Labor Market Developments in the People's Republicof China: Urban-Sector Transitions, Part Two: Urban-SectorTransitions (See Session 121)

Pension Reform in China: Implications for Labor Markets , Loraine A. West
Earnings and Education in China's Transition to a Market Economy, Margaret Maurer-Fazio
The Internal Labor Market in Chinese Enterprises: Evidence From Survey Data, Elizabeth Li

Session 143: The Cultivation and Reception of Chinese and Japanese Art Collecting in Early Twentieth-Century America

Pang Yuanji Charles Lang Freer and the Shaping of Chinese Art Collections and Scholarship in America, Katharine Burnett
Forging New Directions in Art Collecting and Research: Berthold Laufer's Expeditions to China, Susan N. Erickson
Selling Japanese Art in America: The Nihon Bijutsu-in, Morotai and Issues of Cultural Identity, Victoria Weston

Session 144: Lexicography, Language Planning, and the Computerization of Chinese, Part One (See Session 167)

Chinese Lexicography at the Crossroads, John DeFrancis
The "Z. T." Experiment in the PRC, John S. Rohsenow
Issues in Language Planning in the PRC, Jialu Xu

Session 145: How To Do Things With Poems: Chinese Texts and Contexts

The Political Philosophy of the Li Sao, Gopal Sukhu
Verses from the Muddy Wei: Eroticism, Play, and Male Bonding in Palace Poetry, Paul F. Rouzer
Poetry Decentered: The Weight of Philosophy in the Writings of Liu Kezhuang, Michael A. Fuller
A Defense of Poetry: Lu Xun's Classical-Style Poetry and the Question of "Occasional" Verse, Jon Kowallis

Session 146: Manchu Colonialism? Perspectives on Qing Policies in Mongolia, Tibet, and Xinjiang

Qing Expansion in Inner Asia in the Age of Colonial Empires , Nicola Di Cosmo
Dga'-bzhi Bstan-'dzindpal -'byor-A Tibetan Aristocrat at the Court of Qianlong , Elliot Sperling
Qing Legislation for the Mongols: Reorganizing Jurisdiction in Mongolia in the 17th and 18th Century, Dorothea Heuschert
The Economics of Qing Empire in Xinjiang, James Millward

Session 164: ROUND TABLE: New Perspectives on the History of Chinese Foreign Relations

Session 165: The Political Consequences of Corruption in Contemporary China

Booty Socialism, Bureau-preneuers, and Economic Development in China, Xiaobo Lu
Booty Socialism, Bureau-preneuers, and Economic Development in China, Sun Yan
Soldiers of Fortune: Military Corruption in Post-Mao China , James Mulvenon
Stealing from the Peasants: The Political Economy of the Misappropriation of Agricultural Purchase Funds in China, Andrew Wedeman
Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Hong Kong, Melanie Manion

Session 166: Bridging the Gap: State Prerogatives and Local Politics in Republican and Post-Mao China

With Special Reference to Guangdong, 1916-1919, Allen Y. Fung
Co-opting the State: Philanthropy and Local Government in Republican China, Caroline Reeves
Cadres, Clerks and Tax Farmers: Building County-level Taxation and Public Finance Institutions in Nanjing-decade and Post-Mao China, Elizabeth J. Remick
Raiding the Nest: State-county Relations in a Socialist Market Economy, Stephen B. Herschler

Session 167: Lexicography, Language Planning, and the Computerization of Chinese, Part Two: (See Session 144)

Advances in the Computerization of Chinese, James E. Dew
Taking Digraphia Seriously: Future Software for East Asia , J. Marshall Unger
Computerization of Chinese: The State of the Field in the People's Republic of China, Yonghe Fu

Session 168: Martyr, Savior and Saint: Women in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Fiction and History

Du Wei and Her Successors in the Classical Chinese Tale , Allan Barr
Visions of the Great Mother: Madame Chao in the Novel MarriageDestinies that will Bring Societyto its Senses (Xingshi yinyuanzhuan ), Daria Berg

Session 169: The Meaning and Relevance of Rhetoric in Relation to Ancient Chinese Texts

Light and the Mirror: Elements of Comparative Metaphorology , Jean-Paul Reding
The Rhetorical Power of How to Call Things: Discussions of "Regicide," Carine Defoort
The Power of Suggestion: Rhetorical Strategies in Early Han Political Persuasion, Griet Vankeerberghen

Session 170: Shrines in the Confucian Tradition in the Song-Ming Period

Shrines at Southern Song Academies, Linda Walton
The Range of Ru Thinking in the Ming Transformation of Three Song Dynasty Shrines, Katherine Carlitz
Shrines to Wang Yangming, Kandice J. Hauf

Session 184: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Identity and Religious Belief in China

The Accumulation of Merit in a Taiwanese Spirit-Writing Cult, Philip Clart
Labrang Monastery: Ethnic Identity and Political Authority, 1900-1949, Paul Nietupski
Identity Negotiated Between Allah and Chinese Modernity: The History of Women, Women's Mosques, and Women Imams in China's Islam, Maria H. A. Jaschok
Christianity and the Chinese Mind, John S. Peale

Session 187: Rescue and Philanthropy for Chinese Women in Shanghai,Taipei, and San Francisco, 1850-1977

The Door of Hope Mission 1900s and 1940s: Western Philanthropy and Chinese Benevolence, Sue Gronewold
The Door of Hope Rescue Mission in Taipei, 1953-1977: Case Studies of Chinese Women and Mission Philanthropy, Samuel H. Chao
San Francisco's Presbyterian Mission Home: Impact and Influence, 1850-1977, Sarah Mason
Works of Mercy of Catholic Mission Groups in South China, 1901-1950, John Kaserow

Session 188: Local Elites and New Organizations in China, 1898-1911

Jiangsu Local Elites and New County Schools, 1898-1911 , Barry Keenan
The Jiangsu Provincial Education Association in Late Qing China, Ernst Schwintzer
China's Local Councils in the Age of Constitutional Reform, 1905-1911, Roger Thompson

Session 189: The Geopolitics of Modern Chinese Literature

The Construction of A Geomoral Landscape: Shen Congwen and his "Regional" Writings, Sheng-Tai Chang
Haipai and Chinese Nationalism: Reconsidering Shanghai as a Cultural Space, Shao-yi Sun
The Mystical Against the Mythical: Tibetan Fiction of Tashi Dawa and Ma Yuan, Xiaobin Yang
Fantasy and Tragedy in Exile: Jia Pingwa's The DecadentCapital and Gu Cheng's Ying'er, Jianhua Chen

Session 190: State and Entrepreneurship in China: Policy and Practice in High Technology

High Technology Development in Post-Deng China: An Overview of the Policy Issues, Richard P. Suttmeier
China's High Tech Zones in Historical Perspective, Erik Baark
Commercialization Without Privatization: Government Spin-offs in China's High-Tech Sector, Corinna-Barbara Francis
Between Devil and Deep Blue Sea: State Enterprises' Race for Survival in China's Computer Sector, Kathleen Hartford

Session 191: Archival Studies of Law, Society, and Culture in Late Imperial China, Part One: Law, The State, and Local Society (See Session 214)

Bribery in Imperial China, Nancy Elizabeth Park
Tax Men, Tax Farmers: Yamen Runners in Late Imperial Sichuan , Bradly W. Reed
Theory and Practice: Liu Heng as Ba County Magistrate, 1825-1827, Mark A. Allee
Two Patterns in the Qing Civil Adjudicatory System, Philip C. C. Huang

Session 192: Windows on Chinese Buddhist Culture, 1200-1912

Zhang Jizhi's Transcriptions of the Diamond Sutra and the Critical Response to Buddhist Calligraphy, Amy McNair
Mountaintops and Dungeons: Borrowings from Buddhism in Precious Scrolls, Janet Lynn Kerr
A Late-Ming Pictorial Manifesto of Pure Land Buddhism: Chen Hungshou's Literary Gathering, Hsing-li Tsai
Embroidered Words: Religion and Poetry in the Lives of Eighteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen, Beata Grant

Session 193: Rethinking Xiaoshuo on its Own Terms

The Xiaoshuo Tradition and Modern Entertainment Fiction, Timothy C. Wong
The Xingshi yinyuan zhuan on its Own Terms: Disappointment and Disjunction for Readers Past and Present , Peter H. Rushton
Xiaoshuo as Jiaxun (Household Instructions): The Pedagogy of the Eighteenth-Century Chinese Fiction Qiludeng , Martin Huang
Jinghua yuan, Lu mudan, and the Evolution of the Literati Novel during the Nineteenth Century, Stephen Roddy

Session 210: Indigenous Peoples in the PRC: Constructing Local Identities in the Chinese Nation-State

Refiguring Tibetan Indigeneity: Self, Space, and Law, Rebecca R. French
The Role of Education in the Construction and Indigenization of the Kazakh and Xibe in Xinjiang: A Comparative Perspective , Koichi Maruyama
The Business with the Jingpho Manau, Ts'ui-p'ing Ho
Local and Muslim in China: The Making of Indigenous Identities among the Uygur and Hui, Qicheng Ma and Dru C Gladney

Session 211: Ideologies of Law in Post-Deng China (Sponsored by the Committee on Asian Law)

The Post-Deng National People's Congress: How Much Change? How Fast? Murray Scot Tanner
Law and Social Control in Post-Deng China, Sarah Biddulph
Antithesis within Post-Deng Jurisprudence, Ronald C. Keith
Foundations of Elite Legal Culture in the PRC: The Influence of Peng Zhen, Pitman B. Potter

Session 212: Paradoxes of Modernity: Gender, Morality and Health in Republican China

Illness and Gender in the Fiction of Lu Xun, Larissa Heinrich
"Superior Birth": Pan Guangdan and Eugenics as Confucian Family Values, Cheryl Barkey
Morality, Modernity, and the Female Body: The Rise of Modern Actresses in Republican Shanghai, Jiang Jin

Session 213: The Common People, Emotion, and Intellectualism: (Re-) Contextualizing Ming-Ch'ing Literary Criticism

Authenticity and the Common People: Literary Criticism and the Imperial State in Late Ming China, Kai Wing Chow
The Rethinking of Emotion: The Transformation of Traditional Chinese Poetics in the Late Ch'ing Era, Zong-qi Cai
Poet's Poetry and Scholar's Poetry: An Aesthetic Question in Late Ch'ing Poetics, Hyong Gyu Rhew

Session 214: Archival Studies of Law, Society, and Culture in Late Imperial China, Part Two: Law, Women, and Culture (See Session 191)

Prostitution in Late Imperial China: From Social Identity to "Illicit Sex," Matthew H. Sommer
Widows, Succession, and Inheritance in Late Imperial China , Kathryn Bernhardt
Narrative and Action: A Study of Qing Case Reports and Reviews, Guangyuan Zhou
Clichés, Plot, and Written Culture: Composing Plaints in Qing Legal Case Records, Yasuhiko Karasawa

Session 215: Constructing Boundaries: The Historiography of Frontiers from Tang to Song

The Historiography of Du You (735-816) and Ma Duanlin (1254-1325) on the Frontier, Jennifer W. Jay
Frontiers Without Maps: Loyalty and Historiography in the Life of a Chinese Governor, Naomi Standen
The Changing Frontiers of Buddhism in the Late Tang and Song, Susan Whitfield
Calculated Anachronism: Frontiers Between the Historical and the Fictional World in Tang Chuanqi, Jue Chen

Session 228: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Grappling with Moral Crisis in Contemporary China

Wining and Dining at Public Expense in Perspective through Sayings, Helen X. Wu
Love, Sex and New Social Forms: Producing Identity and Organization in Contemporary Beijing, Virginia Cornue
How Do We Write Zawen? Mary Scoggin
Contemporary Chinese Drama as Religious Experience: The Sacred and the Profane, Michelle DiBello
From Sentimental Trilogy to Gangster Trilogy: Moral Dilemmas in a Cultural Crisis, Han Chen

Session 229: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Topics in Chinese Philosophy and Religion

The Completion of an Ideal World: The Formation of Human Ghost in Early Medieval China, Mu-Chou Poo
Taoism and the Chen-kuan Government: A Study of the Political Influence of Taoism, Lily Hwa
The Beginnings of Pure Land Imagery in China, A Reconsideration , Dorothy C. Wong
The Natural Equality of All Things, Ewing Y. Chinn
Precious Volumes: An Introduction to Chinese Sectarian Scriptures from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Daniel L. Overmyer

Session 230: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Rulers and Rules in China

The Qian Zuo Du: A Late Han Dynasty Study of the Bookof Changes (Yi Jing), Bent Nielsen
Purity and Power: The Uses and Misuses of Female Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China, Janet M. Theiss
Gravity: Confucian Politics of Appearances, Weihe Xu
"The Wise Ruler Disciplines His Officials, Not His People": The Treatment of Official Malfeasance in Early Chinese Law, Shikai Hu
The "Uncrowned King" Reconsidered: Variations on a Theme of Qing and Han Scholars, Hans van Ess

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