China and Inner Asia

Table of Contents:

Session 1: Sense Discrimination in Ancient China

• Body, Mind and Senses in Ancient Chinese Thought, Jane Geaney
• Virtuous Reality: Sense Discrimination in Xunzi, Lisa Raphals
• Sense Discrimination in the Mencius, Paul Kjellberg

Session 2: The Qing Romance: Tradition and Variation

• The Evolution of the Talented Man in Caizi-jiaren Romances, Jian-yu Zhou
• The Domestication of the Lady Knight in the Tangles of the Romance, Roland Altenburger
• Love Knows No Bounds: Genre Hybridization in Lü Mudan, Margaret Baptist Wan
• The Supernatural Romance in the Context of Human Romances, Rania Huntington

Session 3: Making Places Meaningful: Representations of Travel and Tourism in Late Imperial China

• To Hear with the Ears is not as Good as to See with the Eyes: Travel Painting as an Expression of Empiricism in the Late Ming and Early Qing, Kenneth Ganza
• Marvelous Places and Categories of Knowledge in the 1606 Printed Book Chengshi Moyuan, Tamara Heimarck
• Mapping Land and History: Qing Depictions of Xinjiang/the Western Regions, James Millward
• Re-creation and Recreation: Tourism and the Renovation of Scenic Sites in Sevententh-Century Yangzhou, Tobie Meyer-Fong

Session 4: ROUNDTABLE: Hong Kong Becoming China: The Final Countdown and the Challenges Ahead

Session 5: Equality and Opportunity in Post-Communist Mongolia (Sponsored by the Mongolia Society)

• For Richer or For Poorer: The Impact of Social and Economic Transition in a Rural Mongolian Community, Sherylyn H. Briller
• Women and National Politics in Post-Socialist Mongolia, Christopher Kaplonski
• Who Are Mongolia's Entrepreneurs? What Determines Success in a Post-Socialist Economy, Alicia Campi

Session 6: Reworking Identities in Reform-Era China 9

• What Can A Woman Do? Expert Knowledges About Women and Female Labor in Reform-era Beijing, Vera Leigh Fennell
• Local Administrative Identities in the Transition from Plan to Market Stephen B. Herschler
• Remodeling Model Railroad Workers Lida Junghans

Session 7: Notions of Nation in the Chinese City: Urban Voluntarism and Nation-Building in Fuzhou and Harbin,1906-1920s

• Citizenship and Service in the Early Republican City: The YMCA in Fuzhou, 1907-1922 Ryan Dunch
• Permeable Boundaries: The Fuzhou Anti-Opium Society and China's Public Sphere, 1906-1921, Joyce A. Madancy
• Building Modern China, Claiming Modern Harbin, James H. Carter

Session 21: Individual Papers: Images and Interpretations: New Approaches in Chinese Art History

• Illusion of Space: Representations of Cosmology in Chinese Daoist Sculpture of the Sixth Century, Yang Liu
• Gu Kaizhi's Treatises on Painting and Wang Bi's Discourse on "Substance/Function" (Ti/Yong), Edmond Chang
• The Reception and Use of Antique Paintings in the Early Yuan Dynasty Ankeney Weitz
• Appropriating the Moon: A Carved Rock Crystal and the Qianlong Emperor Adriana Proser

Session 22: Individual Papers: Studies of Contemporary Chinese Fiction: Discourses in Opposition

• Against the Grain: Discursive Dissonance in Post-Mao Chinese Fiction, Mary Jacob
• Woman at the Rural-Urban Crossroad: Gender, Subjectivity, and Opposition in Tie Ning's Fiction, Ming-yan Lai
• Appropriation and the Crisis of Representativity in Jia Pingwa's Ruined Capital, Cai Rong
• Decoding the Invention of the Nation's History: Wang Shuo's Never Take Me for Human, Huazhi Wang

Session 23: The Voices of the Law: Alternative Perspectives on Early Chinese Legal Texts from the Western Zhou Through the Han

• The Nature of Legal Deonticism in the Western Zhou, Laura A. Skosey
• "The Wise Ruler Disciplines His Officials, Not the People", Shikai Hu
• Popular Attitudes Toward State Law in Early China, Karen Turner
• The Han Casebooks from Jiangling, Susan R. Weld

Session 24: Cultural Histories of Science and Medicine in Early Modern China

• The Role of Natural Sciences in Ming Civil Examination Policy Questions, Benjamin Elman
• Knowledge and Experience in Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Question of Sanshi, Yuan-ling Chao
• Proof, Propaganda and Patronage: The Dissemination of Western Studies in 17th-Century China, Roger P. Hart

Session 25: Image and Text in Chinese Buddhist Patronage

• Yiyi Buddhist Devotional Societies of the Northern Dynasties, Dorothy C. Wong
• Reading Portraiture onto Patronage: Empress Wu and the Context of Self-Representation at Longmen, Amy McNair
• The Patron's Place: Imperial Tangut Painting at Yulin, Rob Linrothe
• Miracles in Nanjing: An Imperial Record of the Fifth Karmapa's Visit to the Chinese Captial, Patricia Berger

Session 26: Nationalism and Internationalism in the Evolution of a Chinese Research Academy: Investigations in the History of Academia Sinica

• Politics and the Founding of Academia Sinica in 1927, Shiwei Chen
• Building a China Study Base in Taiwan: Ford Grant to the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, 1962-1971, P'eng-yuan Chang
• Taiwan Studies and Contemporary Taiwan Politics: The Case of the Taiwan Research Institute of Academia Sinica, Jacqueline Megan Greene

Session 27: Perspectives on United States-China Relations

• Hong Kong in United States-China Relations, James T. H. Tang
• The Impact of Post-Cold War Sino-American Relations on Northeast Asia, Yan Wang
• The United States and Economic Interdependence Between Taiwan and China, Tse-kang Leng

Session 28: New Print Forms and the "New Woman": Refiguring Femininity in the Late Qing

• Citizens or Mothers of Citizens? Reimagining Femininity in Late Qing Women's Textbooks, Joan Judge
• Schooling the New Woman in the Late Qing: The Novel Approach, Ying Hu
• Circumscribing the Reader: Depiction and Prescription of a "New" Female Audience in Late Qing Newspapers and Magazines, Barbara Mittler
• "But I Never Learned to Waltz": The Real and Imagined Education of Courtesans in the Late Qing, Paola Zamperini

Session 29: Commercial Art and the Publishing Industry in Old Shanghai

• Judging a book by Its Cover: Book Cover Design in Shanghai, Julia F. Andrews
• Comics, Illustrations, and the Cartoonist in Republican Shanghai, Kuiyi Shen
• Commodification of Art Through Exhibition and Advertisement, Ellen Johnston Laing
• Money and Fiction in Shanghai, 1900-1920, Perry Link

Session 40: Individual Papers: New Work on Literature and Culture, from Yuan to Qing

• Prologue and Prolepsis: The Opening Strategy in Traditional Chinese Novels, Hua Laura Wu
• Milk and Scent: Women Shih-shuo, Nanxiu Qian
• Plum Craze in Late Ming and Early Qing Literature, Zuyan Zhou
• The Way of Health Preservation with Diet in Yuan Dynasty, Wei Ming Chen

Session 41: Individual Papers: Processes of Cultural Adaptation and Assimilation: Insights and Examples from China's Twentieth Century

• The Politics of Taiwan Aboriginal Origins, Michael Stainton
• Insight and Innovation: The Birth of a Critical Anthropology in Republican China (1912-1949), Constantine Hriskos
• Cultural Adaptation and Assimilation: The Origin of the "Indigenous Style" in Contemporary Chinese Architecture, Jin Feng
• From Religious to Commodity Fetish: Dongba Art in the Time of Deng, Maria Mussler

Session 45: The State of Ming Studies, Part One: Change and Periodization Examined (Sponsored by CIAC): (See Session 66)

• Why Study the Ming as a Dynasty, Edward L. Farmer
• Ming Social History, John W. Dardess
• The Study of the Ming Economy, Martin J. Heijdra
• Gendering Ming History, Ann Waltner

Session 46: Anthology and Authorship in Han China

• The Chuci and the Origins of Authorship, Mark Edward Lewis
• System and Differences in the Shiji, Wai-Yee Li
• The Unreliable Anthologists: Liu Xiang and Liu Xin, Haun Saussy

Session 47: Wives and Widows in the Eight Banners 31

• Banner-Commoner Intermarriage, Yizhuang Ding.
• Widows and Widow Chastity in the Eight Banners, Mark Elliott
• Nuptiality Among the Qing Nobility, James Lee

Session 48: Drama and Reality: Transformations and Politics of Yuan Zaju

• Commercialization and Subject Matter in Yuan Drama, Qing Ping Wang
• From Stage to Page: Moments in the Textual Reproduction of Two Yuan Plays, Kimberly Besio
• Historicity and Contemporaneity: Adaptations of Yuan Plays in the 1990s, Wenwei Du
• The Cultural Fashioning of Filial Piety: A Reading of the Yuan Play "Little Butcher Zhang (Xiao Zhangtu)", Hongchu Fu

Session 49: Documenting the History of Twentieth-Century Architecture in China

• Building in Republican China: 1987 Audio Tapes a Decade Later, Jeff Cody
• The Use of Oral History as Text in Architecture, Frank Chi-hsien Sun
• The Chinese Grand Tradition in Architecture and Taiwan Architects, Chao-Ching Fu
• "Liberating" Chinese Cities: In Search of the Moscow Line, Kerrie L. MacPherson

Session 50: From British Colony to China's Special Administrative Region: The Metamorphosis of Hong Kong

• Law and the Legal System, Daniel Fung
• Politics and the Legislative Council, Christine Loh
• Society and Changing Identities Gerard Postiglione

Session 51: Alternative Narratives of Chinese Modernity

• Prostitute, Procuress or Protectress of the Nation? Fan Zengxiang's Caiyun qu and the Popular Legend of Sai Jinhua, Jon Eugene von Kowallis
• Refiguration of Literary Modernity: Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies Magazine Banyue and Urban Shanghai in the Early 1920s, Jianhua Chen
• Voices, Identities, and Self-Promotion: Literary Modernity in
• Women's Essay Writing of 1940s Shanghai, Nicole Huang
• The Unredeemed Half of Modernity: Where is Human Agency in
• 20th-Century Chinese Literature?, Deirdre Sabina Knight
• Mapping the Discourse of Modernity in Contemporary China, Sheldon H. Lu

Session 52: Who is the REAL Taiwanese?: The Politics of Identity Representation in Post-Martial Law Taiwan

• The China That Is No Longer China: The Dilemma of Second Generation Wai-sheng Writers in Taiwan, Hsien-hao Sebastian Liao
• Toward a New Identity: Nativism and Popular Music in Post-Martial Law Taiwan, Sylvia Li-chun Lin
• The Sign of "China" in Taiwanese Historical Films of the Post-Martial Law Era, Wen-chi Lin
• The Ah-mei: A Challenge to "Taiwanese" Identity, Yu-chun Ku

Session 53: The City and Its People: Intellectuals, Reformers, and Sojourners in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing

• Remaking Beijing: Urban Reformers in the Early Twentieth Century, Mingzheng Shi
• Sojourners and Huiguan in Early Twentieth Century Beijing, Richard Belsky
• Intellectuals in a Fading Capital: Living and Writing in Republican Beijing, Timothy Weston

Session 64: Individual Papers: Charting China's Development Under Deng: Global Opportunities, Domestic Realities, and Scenarios for a Democratic Transition

• Polarized Perspectives: American Sinologists on China's Future, Harvey Nelsen
• The Global Logic of China's Open Policy: Economic Globalization, Regional Integration in East Asia, and Post-Mao Reform, Thomas Moore
• Institutional Change and the Modes of State Involvement in China's Foreign Investment Policies, Szu-chien Yau
• Implementing Policies of Industrial Finance Toward State-Owned Enterprises in China's Coastal Cities: A Comparison Between Shanghai and Guangzhou, 1987-1995, Szue-Chin Philip Hsu
• Beyond Confining Conditions: The Xinhai Revolution, Taiwan's Political Miracle, and External Factors on Democratization, David J. Longenecker

Session 66: The State of Ming Studies, Part Two: Viewed from Various Disciplines (Sponsored by CIAC): (See Session 45)

• Ming Music and Ming History, Joseph S. C. Lam
• Ming Thought, Willard Peterson
• The Study of Ming Literature, David T. Roy
• A Decade of Writing on Ming Art History, Marsha Weidner

Session 67: Female Homoeroticism in Modern and Late-Imperial Chinese Literature

• Yinfu to Enu or the Open Secret, Naifei Ding
• The Death of a Lesbian Author, Deborah Tze-lan Sang
• Constructing Economies of the Erotic, Patricia Sieber
• Self-Portraiture and Self-Love, Sophie Volpp

Session 68: Ethnic Identity in Ancient China

• The Ancient Chinese Encounter with Foreigners, Mu-chou Poo
• The Ch'iang: A Drifting Ethnic Boundary of the Ancient Chinese, Michael Ming-ke Wang
• In Search of Grass and Water: The Ethnography of the Northern Nomads in Han Historical Sources, Nicola Di Cosmo
• Barbarians and the Dao: Ethnic and Religious Identity in Traditional China, Terry Kleeman

Session 69: Linguistic and Philosophical Analysis of Pre-Qin Texts

• A New Interpretation About Laozi's Dao: Its Philosophical Function and Modern Significance, Xiaogan Liu
• A Textual Approach to the Concept of Yi in the Four Books, Hongyin Tao
• Isomorphism or Causality? A Critique of Confucius' Concept of Language, Zhiming Bao
• The Diachronic Grammar of Early Confucian Concepts: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Min Zhang

Session 70: The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A Retrospective View

• "New Trends of Thought" Among Radical Groups, Shaoguang Wang
• China's Public Security Forces During the Cultural Revolution, Michael Schoenhals
• Anatomy of an Inquisition: Cleansing the Class Ranks, 1968-1971, Andrew G. Walder
• Student Attacks Against Teachers: The Revolution of 1966, Youqin Wang

Session 71: A Century of Psychiatry in China: Perspectives on Practice and Context

• Swallowing Needles, Swallowing Gold: Female Madness as Self-Mutilation and Protest in Early Twentieth-Century China, Hugh L. Shapiro
• Diagnosis Postponed: Shenjing Shuairuo and the Transformation of Psychiatry in Contemporary China, Sing Lee
• The Influence of Social, Political, and Economic Factors on the Evolution of Mental Health Services in China, Michael R. Phillips

Session 72: Structural Change in China's Reform Economy

• The Export Performance of Township-Village Enterprises: An Examination of Regional and Industrial Variations, Mita Aggarwal
• Co-growth of State and Non-State Sectors in China: A Case of Industrialization Big Push, Wei Li
• Structural Change in China's Labor Markets: Evidence from the Gender-Wage Gap 1988-1994, Margaret Maurer-Fazio
• The Impact of Mercantilism on the Evolution of Firms and Government Institutions: A Lesson for China or an Opportunity Lost?, J. Ray Bowen II

Session 73: Between Professionalism and Politics: The Role(s) of Chinese Professionals in the Republican Era

• The Meaning of State, Society, and Profession to Twentieth-Century Chinese Scholars, Xiaoqing C. Lin
• An Interrupted Past: The End of Scientific History in Republican China, Q. Edward Wang
• To Be Professional or To Be Political? The Shanghai Bar Association in Republican China, 1912-1937, Xiaoqun Xu
• Professions, The Chinese Nation, and Populism: Changing Valences of an Idea, Charles W. Hayford

Session 74: Language, Culture, Identity: The Poet in Exile: A Discussion with Bei Dao

• Cultural Identity and Modern Chinese Poetry: The Case of Bei Dao, Michelle Yeh
• Through the Prism: Translation and Translatability of Bei Dao's Poetry Dian Li
• Word and Soul: Language Transformation in Bei Dao's Recent Writing, Ouyang Jianghe

Session 85: Individual Papers: China and the Larger World in the 19th & 20th Centuries

• Photographic Portraits from Nineteenth-Century China, Régine Thiriez
• E.C. Bridgman and the Coming of the Millennium: The Theological Roots of American Sinology, Michael Lazich
• The Transfer of Telegraph Technology to China in the Nineteenth Century: Cultural Tensions and Assimilation, Erik Baark
• Visuality, Flux and Effacement: Remapping the Tender-Hearted Journey of the Modern Chinese Subject, Xinmin Liu
• Consuming the Other: Representations of Western Women in Chinese Advertising, Perry Johansson

Session 88: Who is it That Rouses Them Forth? Mysticism, Perspectivism, and Illumination in Zhuang Zi's "Qiwulun"

• Harmony and Cacophony in the Panpipes of Heaven, Scott Cook
• To Use or Not to Use: The Idea of Ming in the Zhuang Zi, Yuet-Keung Lo
• Bimodal Mystical Experience in Chuang Tzu's "Essay on Equalizing Things", Harold D. Roth
• How Many Are the Ten Thousand Things and I? The Performative Truth of Zhuang Zi's Radical Relativism, Brook Ziporyn

Session 89: Alternative Narratives of Identity and Loyalty in Tan Through Early Ming China

• The Trials of the An Lushan Collaborators: Loyalty and Identity in Theory and Practice Naomi Standen
• Power and Ethnicity in North China in the Early Twelfth Century, Paul C. Forage
• Conflicts of Loyalty in Twelfth-Century China: The Multiple Narratives of Cai Wenji, Irene S. Leung
• Construction of Identity Among Central Asian Elites in Yuan and Early Ming China, Michael C. Brose

Session 90: Images of the Frontier: Travel Writings from the Late Imperial Period

• The Culture of Travel Writings in Late Ming China Leo K. Shin
• The Cant of Conquest: Creating "Barbarians" and "Chinese" in the Southwest, John Herman
• Xinjiang: The Literary Conquest, Laura Newby
• The Nature of the Nation: Northwest China Through Chinese Eyes, Jonathan Lipman

Session 91: Commercializing Communism: The Political Economy of Evolving Markets in Rural China, Part One (See Session 114)

• The Unfloating Population: Chain Migration, Commuting, and Rural-to-Rural Labor Flows in Reform China, Scott Rozelle
• Democracy and Markets: The Links Between Participatory Governance and Development in China's Villages, Jean Chun Oi
• Giving Credit Where Credit is Due: The Evolution of Rural Financial Institutions in China, Albert Park

Session 92: The Impact of Reform on the State-Society Interface in Contemporary China

• The Problem with Peasants, Leslyn Hall
• The Market is the Message: Thought Work Transformation in Reformed China, Daniel Lynch
• The Dialectic Evolution of Contract Law Reform and Legal Norms in the PRC, Daniel Rubenstein
• The Abusive State: Reform and the Breakdown of Cadre Discipline in China, Andrew Wedeman

Session 93: Writing Culture: Religion, Gender, and Identity in Modern South China

• Travel, Literacy, and Folklore: The Invention of Religious Cultures in Modern Guangdong, Wing-kai To
• Writing Women's Words: Language and Politics in Cantonese Bridal and Funerary Songs, Wing-hoi Chan
• Guangdong Culture in China, or Chinese Culture in Guangdong: The Interplay of State and Local Identities in Modern China, May-bo Ching

Session 94: Patronage, Censorship, Geopolitics, and Campaigns: The Chinese Literary Scene, 1930-1945

• In Defense of the Censor: State Authority and Literary Autonomy in China 1930-1936, Michel Hockx
• Gender Geopolitics: Social Space and Volatile Bodies During 1937-1945, Jianmei Liu
• What Did Literary Patronage Mean to an Individual Writer in the 1930s: The Case of Duanmu Hongliang, Haili Kong
• Marshalling the Facts: Chinese Literary Mobilization During the War Years, Charles A. Laughlin

Session 95: Eugenics and Disability in Twentieth-Century China

• Chinese Police Campaigns Against Persons with Leprosy, 1934-37, Carol Benedict
• In Search of Quality: Population Policy and Eugenics in China, Veronica Pearson
• Damaged Bodies and Nation Building: Objectifying Disabled People in Modern China, Matthew Kohrman

Session 107: Individual Papers: Chinese Poetry, Politics, and Wit

• Competing with Creative Transformation: Wit in the Poetry of Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072), Colin Hawes
• From Object to Symbol: The Evolution of Yongwu shi (Poetry on Object) from Southern Dynasties to Tang Periods, Fusheng Wu
• Two Authorial Rhetorics of Li Yu's Works: Inversion and Auto-Communication, Ying Wang
• An Insubordinate Heart: Dynastic Legitimacy and the Problem of Huan Wen, Andrew Chittick

Session 110: The Ethnic Other in Ethnographic Narration: Part One, Han Perspectives (See Session 131)

• Bottle Gourd and Dog Ancestor Myths of Origin in Ethnic Perspective, Victor Mair
• "I Have Heard Said": Travelers' Tales and the Qing Colonial Discourse on the Taiwan Indigenes, Jinhua Emma Teng
• Creating Polyethnicity: Rival Origin Myths of Local Gods in the Miao Frontier, Donald Sutton
• Tales from the Fields of Yunnan: Listening to Han Stories, Susan Blum

Session 111: Celestial Master Taoism: Its Ritual Practice and Continuity of Social Impact

• A Study of the Religious Ritual of Repentance (Shou-kuo) in the Way of Celestial Masters and its Relationship to the T'ai-p'ing Ching, Chi-tim Lai
• Metaphysics and Practice in the Xiang er Commentary to the Lao Zi, Allen Singleton
• Questing for the Dao: A Comparison of Three Forms of Late Han Daoist Meditation, Thomas Michael
• Celestial Master Incursions in the South: The Case of the Du Family, Thomas Peterson
• The Taoist Ritual Reflected in the Chin P'ing Mei, Richard G. Wang

Session 112: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man: Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Su Shi

• "An Old Man Like Me": Du Fu on Himself, Shan Chou
• Money Matters: Poetic Image and Domestic Discourse in Bai Juyi's Last Five Years, Xiaoshan Yang
• "A Country for Old Men": Su Shi South of the Mountains Alice Wen-Chuen Cheang

Session 113: Precepts and Practices in Women's Lives in Late Imperial China

• Of Monks and Menstruation: The Bamboo Grove Monastery and Gynecological Self-Help Books in Nineteenth-Century China Yi-Li Wu
• Piety vs. Propriety: The Dilemma of Female Pilgrimage to Mount Tai Brian R. Dott
• Boundaries of Body and Mind: The Meanings of Violation in Law, Ethics, and Experience Janet M. Theiss

Session 114: Commercializing Communism: The Political Economy of Evoling Markets in Rural China, Part Two (See Session 91)

• Emerging Markets for Land: Tenure Relations, Rental Transactions, and the Management of Rural China's Scarest Factor, Loren Brandt
• Increasing Periodicity, Rising Density, and the Expansion of Rural Markets in China, Jikun Huang
• Doing Business in a Legal Desert: The Role of Reputation in Enforcing Contracts Between Township and Village Enterprises and Their Suppliers and Buyers, Minggao Shen
• The Battle for Surplus Grain and Scarce Fertilizer: Private Trading, the Commercialization of State Trade, and Marketing Patterns in Rural China, Li Guo

Session 115: Historical Memory and Visions of China: Chinese Historiography in the Twentieth Century

• General History for the New Century: Heritage for the Chinese Nation, Mary G. Mazur
• Chinggis Khan and the Aporias of Inner Mongolia's Modern History, Christopher Atwood
• Matching the Foreign yong with the Chinese ti: Chen Yinke's Studies of the Tang Dynasty, Tze-Ki Hon

Session 116: Aspects of Religious Change in Post-War Taiwan (Sponsored by the Taiwan Studies Group)

• Stability and Change in Taiwan's Religious Culture, Julian F. Pas
• Religious Change in Taiwan: The Confucian Tradition, Christian Jochim
• Morality Books as Social Commentary and Critique, Philip Clart
• The KMT and the Sangha in Taiwan: From Corporatist Regulation to Pluralism, André Laliberté

Session 117: Conservative Strategies for the Post-Deng Era

Is There a Coherent "Neoconservative" Agenda in China? An Analysis of the Views of Suspected Participants, Stanley Rosen

• The Social Legacy of Reform: How Fertile is the Ground for Neoconservatism, Joseph Fewsmith
• Conservative Reform and China's Human Rights Policy in the 1990s, Michael J. Sullivan
• Conservatism and Neoconservatism: Contemporary Intellectual Trends in Historical and Compartive Perspective, Matei-Petru Mihalc

Session 127: Individual Papers: Borderlands, Buddhists, and Proselytizers in China

• Mahayana and Hinayana in Central Asian Buddhist History: The Nature of Buddhism in Chinese Turkestan, Mariko Namba Walter
• With Bridle, Reins, and Halter: Tang Attempts to Locally Administer the Nomadic Tribes on its Northwestern Frontier During the Reign of Xuanzong, Jonathan K. Skaff
• Revisiting the Laughing Buddha: A Study of the Metamorphosis of Maitreya in China, Wen-jie Qin
• T'ai-chou School and the Popularization of Tao-hsueh: A Religious Perspective, Yu-Yin Cheng
• Gesar of Ling: Tibetan Epic and the Panditry of the People, Robin Kornman

Session 128: Individual Papers: Reconsiderations of Late-Qing and Early Republican Literature

• "Social Fiction" in the Late Qing: 1900-1910, Jeffrey M. Loree
• Between Facts and Fiction: The 1905 Anti-American Boycott Through Novels, Guanhua Wang
• The Merging of the Classical Language with the Vernacular in the Short Stories of the Early Republic, Xu Xueqing
• Talking Poetry: Articulating the Essential Nation in Theories of May Fourth Vernacular Verse, John A. Crespi
• Disciplining Masculinity in Literary Historiography: Yu Dafu and Guo Muoro, Jing Tsu

Session 131: The Ethnic Other in Ethnographic Narration: Part Two, Non-Han Perspectives (See Session 110)

• The "Li Mother Mountain" Legends of Hainan, Anne Csete
• Enmeshed Civilizations? Chinese and Islamic Creation Myths among the Hui Muslim Chinese, Dru Gladney
• The Left-Handed Kotow: Naxi Mythic Versions of Naxi-Han-Tibetan-Mongol Relations, Charles McKhann
• Contemporary Chinese-Speaking Muslims (Hui) Remember Ethnic Conflict: Stories of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hui Uprising from Xi'an, Maris Gillette

Session 132: Against the Tide: Chinese Feminism and Mainstream Ideologies in Twentieth-Century China (Sponsored by the Chinese Society for Women's Studies)

• Fractured Female Consciousness: A Feminist Deconstructive Rereading of Ding Ling and Xiao Hong, Dali Tan
• The Feminist Utopia-The Cultural Revolution Model Theater Revisited, Di Bai
• Feminist Disilluisonment or Confucian Comeback? From The Women Trilogy to Anticipation, Hongjin Kang

Session 133: Consumer Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Cities: Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing

• Tourism and Consumer Culture in Republican Hangzhou, Liping Wang
• Pronouncing the Dangers of Vainglory in 1930s Shanghai: The Storytelling Adaptation of Fate in Tears and Laughter, Carlton Benson
• Organized Consumption: The Formation of a New Market System in Republican Beijing, Madeleine Yue Dong

Session 134: The Dynamics of the Cross-Strait Relations (Sponsored by the Taiwan Studies Group)

• Making Sense of Taiwan's Mainland Policy: A Political Economic Perspective, Yun-han Chu
• Changing Relations Across the Straits: Beijing's Perceptions, Suisheng Zhao
• Channels Across the Straits: The Political Preferences and Activities of Taiwan Investors in China, Elizabeth Henderson
• "Guanxi" and Government-Business Interaction Across the Taiwan Strait, Jieh-min Wu

Session 135: Dilemmas of Social Order, Public Security, and Policing in Reform-Era China

• China's Post-Deng Social Order Challenges: Competing Leadership and Bureaucratic Views, Murray Scot Tanner
• The People's Police: Law and Order in China, Richard Ward
• The Chinese People's Armed Police: The "Militarization" of the Police, and the "Police-ization" of the Military, James Mulvenon and Michael Swaine
• The Changing Role of the Public Security Bureau Under the New Criminal Procedure Law Louisa Coan

Session 136: Wen Tianxiang's Literary Achievements

• Writing Poetry as Diary: Wen Tianxiang's Poem Series, Yuan-fang Tung
• "Writ in Blood": Wen Tianxiang's Lyric Songs, Yang Ye
• Intelletual and Aesthetic Contexts for Wen Tianxiang's Poetry, Michael A. Fuller

Session 137: Infestatious Diseases in Chinese Medicine

• Infestatious Diseases in the Han Dynasty, Elisabeth Hsu
• The Gu, the Doctor, and the Judge, Frederic Obringer
• The Reworking of Infestation and Contagion in the Song Period, T. J. Hinrichs
• Worms or Germs? The Multiple Meanings of "Consumption" in Republican China, Bridie Andrews

Session 138: The Transformation of Binary Opposites in Ritua and Narrative Space

• Narrative Strategies in Murals of the Magic Competition Between Raudraksha and Sariputra, Sarah E. Fraser
• The Eater and the Eaten: Theatrical and Ritual Perspectives on Exorcism and Entertainment, Karin Myhre
• The Inner and the Outer: Negotiating Space in the Zhou, Constance A. Cook

Session 139: From Ming to Ming: Changes from the Early to Late Ming in Literary and Artistic Production

• Commercial Publishing in the Ming: New Developments in a Very Old Industry, Lucille Chia
• Examination Essays: Timely and Indispensable Reading for Students in the Ming, Hsiang-kwang Liu
• The Ruyi jun zhuan and the Origins of the Chinese Erotic Novel, Charles Stone
• The Eunuchs and the Ming Painting Academy, Ju-Yu Scarlett Jang

Session 148: Individual Papers: Chinese Family Matters

• Of Baskets and Steamed Buns: Family and Gender in Contemporary

  Rural Shandong Birth Rituals, Kimberly Charlesworth Falk

• Female Literature (Nüshu) and Women's Dilemma in Transforming Identity, Fei-wen Liu
• China's Population Control and Its Impact on Newly Emerging Marriage Patterns in Contemporary Rural China, Hong Zhang
• "Save Money, Time, and Bother! Enjoy Family Harmony and Bigger Harvests!" Marriage Law Propaganda in the Early Years of the PRC, Susan Glosser

Session 152: Foreign Influences and State Power in Qing China

• War and Religion in Eighteenth-Century China, Joanna Waley-Cohen
• The Persistence of the Panna: Qing Imperialism Confronts Tai-Lue Culture and the Southern Yunnan Climate, 1765-1777, C. Patterson Giersch
• Guns and Money: Customs Revenue, Foreign Loans, and the Late Qing State, Richard S. Horowitz

Session 153: Writing, Reading, and Constructing the Everyday World: Studies of Late Ming and Early Qing Reading Materials

• Literary Miscellanies, Household Encyclopedias and the Jin Ping Mei, Wei Shang
• Writing and Reading Personal Letters in the Late Ming, Kathryn Lowry
• Indiscriminate Duplication of Calligraphy, Pictures and Texts in Late Ming and Early Qing, Qianshen Bai
• Authority and the Problem of Personal Identity in Early Qing Texts, Tina Lu

Session 154: Zhou Dynasty Bronze Inscriptions: New Discoveries, New Interpretations

• "Offices" in Bronze Inscriptions and Western Zhou Government Administration, Feng Li
• The Early Development of the State of Jin, Jae-hoon Shim
• The Language of the Zhongshan Bronze Inscriptions, Ken-ichi Takashima

Session 155: Twentieth-Century Rural Reforms: Ideals and Unintended Consequences

• Republican Era Reforms of Jiangnan Seri-Culture, Julie Broadwin
• Han Village Settlements in Republican Suiyuan, Joshua Goldstein
• Donkey Cadres: The Marriage Law, Sexual Corruption and Political Critique in Rural China, 1950-1968, Neil Diamant
• Early Communist Policy, Village Development and Path-Dependence in Jinghai County, Tamara Perkins

Session 156: ROUNDTABLE: Religious Freedom in China: Problems and Prospect (Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions)

Session 157: Emergent Sexual and Social Identities in 1990s Taiwan

• Between Filial Daughter and Loyal Sister: The Politics of Gender in Taiwan's Small-Scale Industry, Anru Lee
• Labor-Bodies in the Neon Cage: A Study of Cosmetics Department-Store Saleswomen in Contemporary Taiwan, Pei-chia Lan
• The Rise of Gay and Lesbian Discourse in Contemporary Taiwan, Chong Kee Tan
• Re-imaging the Confucian Family for the Modern World: Food, Family, and the Performance of "Chineseness" in Ang Lee's Father Knows Best Trilogy, Eileen Chow

Session 158: Creeping Proletarianisation in China in the 1990s?: The Effects of Market Reform and State Decentralisation on Employment and Social Security

• Work and Welfare in Rural China, or, How the Rural Reforms Have Changed Employment and Social Welfare Conditions in Four Areas in Eastern China, Michelle S. Mood and George P. Brown
• Rising Inequality and Declining Living Standards in China Since 1983, Marion E. Jones
• Decentralisation and Entrepreneurialism in China's Urban Welfare Provision, Jane Duckett
• A World to Lose: Workers, Managers, and the State in the Retrenchment of Social and Employment Guarantees, Marc Blecher

Session 159: Between Film and Print Cultures: Circulating Fan Magazines in Shanghai, 1920s-1940s

• Visual and Other Pleasures: The Dilated Movie-Going Experience in China, 1920s-1930s, Zhen Zhang
• Subject, Narrative, Audience: Dancing Girls as Media Icons in Republican Shanghai, Andrew Field
• The Corporeality of Erotic Imagination: A Study of Shanghai Pictorials and Fan Magazines of the 1930s, Yingjin Zhang
• Towards an Informed Spectatorship: Fan Magazines in Occupation-Era Shanghai, Shelley Stephenson

Session 171: A Question of Technique: The Formation and Dissemination of Technical Knowledge in Han Dynasty China

• Jia Yi's (200-168 B.C.E.) "Techniques of the Dao" and the Han Confucian Appropriation of Technical Discourse, Mark Csikszentmihalyi
• Tung Chung-shu on the Technique of Non-Action, Sarah A. Queen
• Cosmology and Control: The Debate over Techniques and Formulas in Early China, Michael Puett

Session 172: Imperial Decree, Codified Statute and Bureaucratic Enforcement in Traditional Chinese Family Law

• Ties That Bind: The Codification of the Marital Relationship and Social Control in Early Ming China, Anita M. Andrew and Jiang Yonglin
• Sexual Incrimination as a Tool of Social Control: A Comparison of the Treatment of Incest and Rape in the Tang Code, Peter Lake
• Perception of Marriage and Women in Bo Juyi's Judgement (pan) Writings, Ping Yao

Session 173: The Changing Face of Nationalism and Moral Sensibility in Film, Literature, and Mass Mobilization Efforts During the Sino-Japanese War

• The Begonia: Love and Loyalty in Occupied Shanghai, Poshek Fu
• Reading Zhang Ailing's Wartime Writings: Chuan qi and the Aesthetics of Every Day Life Ming-Bao Yue
• Peasant Nationalism and Participation in the Resistance War Odoric Y. K. Wou
• Wartime Mobilization of Students and Youth at Wuhan in 1938, Stephen Mackinnon

Session 174: Hong Kong, 1997: Civil Society on the Eve of the Handover

Whistling in the Dark: Statist Self-Encouragement and Civil Society in Hong Kong, Fred Yen-liang Chiu

• Heunggongyahn: On the Past, Present, and Future of Hong Kong Identity, Gordon Mathews
• Big Words and Micro-Practices: Hong Kong Student Activists Confront 1997, Sze-ping Lo and Jane Margold
• Managerializing Colonialism, Wing-sang Law

Session 175: Aspects of Cultural Transformation in Late-Qing China: Tanci, Wu Dialect Novels, Popular Science, and Commercial Culture

• National Crisis Feminized: Heroism, Sexuality, and Domesticity in the Late-Qing Tanci by Women, Siao-chen Hu
• Writing in Tongues: The Wu Dialect Novels in Turn-of-the-Century Shanghai, Alexander Des Forges
• Representing Late-Qing, Re-Presenting the Past: A Case Study of Late-Qing Writer, Enterpreneur, and Popular Scientist, Chen Diexian, Feng-Ying Ming
• Amateur Sciences, Marginal Industry, and a Culture of Modern Commerce: Jiangnan Arsenal and the Rise of Advertisement in China, Meng Yue

Session 176: Writing Chinese Culture: Ethnographic Imaginations of Post-Mao Society

• Host and Hostage: Fieldwork in an Uncommon Place, Xin Liu
• The Politics of the Fragment: Writing Ethnography in Post-Mao China, Ralph Litzinger
• Elusive Xiajia Village in the Post-Mao Era, Yunxiang Yan
• Embodiment, Detachment, and an American's Experience of Chinese Discipline, Susan Brownell

Session 188: Individual Papers: State Building, Exploitation, and Peasant Protest: Rethinking China's 20th-Century Experience

• A Gendered Modern State: Taxes on Prostitution and the Creation of Local State Institutions in Republican China, Elizabeth Remick
• Reinventing Mao's Peasant Revolution Theory: Agrarian Structure and Peasant Power in Pre-1949 South China, I. Yuan
• Selective Policy Implementation in Rural China, Lianjiang Li