Abstracts of the 1998 AAS Annual Meeting
March 26-29, 1998, Washington, DC
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CHINA & INNER ASIA
- Training Patriotic Citizens and Social Reformers: Zhang
Boling’s Educational Philosphy and Extracurricular
Activities at Nankai Middle School, 1910s–1920s, Sarah
Coles McElroy
- A Call to Arms as a Call to Order: High School Military
Training in Post-Martial-law Taiwan, Perri Strawn
- Nationalism and the Education Policies of the Chinese
Nationalist Party (Kuomintang), 1925–1950, Hongming
Liang
- Rewriting China: Society and Subjectivity in Republican
Period Civics Texts, Robert J. Culp
- Economic Reform and Erosion of the Budget in China: What
is Left of the Budgeting Process at the Ministry of
Finance?, Christine P. W. Wong
- Fiscal Autonomy and Local Initiatives: Unequal Capacity
Across Levels of Government in China, Loraine A. West
- All in the Family: Intra-governmental Conflicts over
Off-budget Revenues, Susan H. Whiting
- Education and Empowerment in the Cultural Revolution
Decade, 1966–76, Dongping Han
- The Changing Role of the Party Secretary as an Agent of
State and Society, Ignatius W. Wibisono
- The Power of the Black Market Peasantry under
Collectivization, and the Continuing Popular Struggle for
the Market in the Era of Post-Mao-Deng Reform, Ralph
A. Thaxton Jr.
- Genuine Brandy or Shaoxing jiu? The Debate
Between Lu Xun and Shi Zhecun, 1933–36, Ann Huss
- Consuming "Revolution Plus Love": A Neglected
Aspect of 1930s High/Low Literature, Jianmei Liu
- "The China Critic": Hybrid Culture and the
Modernist Essay, Shuang Shen
- Urban Ambivalence: Writing the City in 1990s Shanghai, Robin
Visser
- International Norms, Boundary Demarcation, and the
Assertion of a Chinese National Territory in the Late
Nineteenth Century, Richard S. Horowitz
- Cultural Imperialism and the Modernizing State:
Re-viewing Rural China, 1861–1911, Roger
Thompson
- Between Nationalism and Collaborationism: The GMD Left,
Japan, and National Reconstruction, Margherita Zanasi
- Authenticity and the Local in Seventeenth-Century Suzhou
Writings, Kathryn Lowry
- Cultural Access and the Seventeenth-Century Chinese City,
Nancy Norton Tomasko
- Representations of Red Bridge: Creating Cultural
Significance in Late Seventeenth-Century Yangzhou, Tobie
Meyer-Fong
- Clean Body—Pure Mind: Physical Cleanliness as
Spiritual Purity in Daoist Monasticism, Livia Kohn
- Scrubbing the Dirt from Chinese Buddhism: On the Proper
Maintenance of the Bowl, Robe, Body, and Buddha, Eric
Reinders
- Ritualization of the Other: Chinese Taoist Monasteries
and Their Ways of Embracing Guests, Thomas H. Hahn
- To Bow or Not to Bow: Greeting Rituals as a Contest
Between the Sangha and State in Traditional and Modern
China, Tanya Storch
- Exceeding the Rites: Mourning Motifs in Chinese Tales of
Filial Sons, Keith Nathaniel Knapp
- The Xiaonanhai Cave Chapel: Cultivation of the
Mahasattva’s Compassion, Eileen Hsiang-ling Hsü
- Tsong Khapa’s Views on the Relation of Sutra and
Tantra in the Context of His Interpretation of
Madhyamaka, Laura Smith
- The Muslim "Other" in Medieval Chinese
Historiographic Writings: A Case of Chinese
"Occidentalism", Yuan-lin Tsai
- The Origins of Confucian and Islamic Education in
Southwest China: Yunnan in the Yuan Period, Jacqueline
Armijo-Hussein
- Desperately Leapfrogging Modernity: Why Postmodernism is
a Conformist Theory in China, Henry Y. H. Zhao
- Whence and Whither the Postmodern/Post-Mao-Deng:
Historical Trauma and National Subjectivity, Xiaobin Yang
- The Contradictory Legacy of Postmodernism in China, Ben
Xu
- 1989: The Postmodernist Awakening and the Cultural
Revolution Complex, Jian Guo
- Factories in the Countryside: The Industrial Workforce
and Social Division in Nantong Xian, 1895–1937, Elisabeth
Koll
- "Jumping the Dragon Gate": Storytellers and the
Creation of the Shanghai Identity, 1849–1949, Laura
A. McDaniel
- The City and the Metropolis: Defining Urbanness in
Wartime Chongqing, M. Lee McIsaac
- Self-Narratives of Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, Angelina
Chun-Chu Yee
- Don’t Go Gentle into that Night: The New Cultural
Discourses of the Taiwan Aborigines, Sebastian
Hsien-hao Liao
- Colonialism, Nationalism, and Identity in Pre-1949 Hong
Kong, John M. Carroll
- Transnationalization of the Local in Hong Kong Cinema of
the 1990s, Kwai-Cheung Lo
- Background to the Study of the Luohan Statues from
Yizhou, Paul Rakita Goldin
- Luohandong, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
- Chinese Luohan Portraits: Supernatural Beings or Ordinary
Monks?, Janet Baker
- The Rise of the Courtesan Novel in Nineteenth-Century
China, Patrick Hanan
- Jinghua yuan: Where the Late Late-Ming Meets the
Early Late-Qing, Ellen Widmer
- The Journey to the West and the Journey to the
West, David Der-wei Wang
- Mass Print and the Construction of the Everyday World:
Late Ming, Late Qing, and Beyond, Wei Shang
- Female Conduct, Feminine Etiquette, and Chinese
Womanhood: An Introduction to the Four Books for
Women, Heying Jenny Zhan
- Local Religion and the State: Evidence from Five Authors
in the Song-Ming Transition, Anne T. Gerritsen
- Wanting In and Wanting Out: Qing Dynasty Palace Eunuchs, Melissa
S. Dale
- The Expansion of Education and the Surplus of the Student
Population in Qing Sichuan, Yu Li
- The Problematics of Memoirs: Personal Accounts of
Cultural Revolution in English, Shuyu Kong
- Records of Shame, Records of Grievances, C. D. Alison
Bailey
- Anguish to Elegy: Educated Youth at Middle Age, Richard
King
- Revisiting the Model Settlement: Shanghai,
1842–1943, Robert Bickers
- Empires of Appearance and Disappearance: The Politics of
Hair and Wear in Modern China, 1890–1930, Karl
Gerth
- From Tianxia to Diguo: Collaboration,
Imperialism, and Modernity in Northeast China,
1931–33, Rana Mitter
- Empire and Transgression: Representations of
Sino-Japanese Collaboration in North China, 1933–37,
Marjorie Dryburgh
- The Political Economy of Agrarian China in the 18th and
19th Centuries, R. Bin Wong
- Malthusian Mythologies and Chinese Realities: The
Population History of One-Quarter of Humanity,
1700–2000, James Z. Lee and Wang Feng
- Constructing Property Rights and Influencing Economic
Growth in China and the West, Peter C. Perdue
- Eighteenth-Century Economic Development, Yeh-chien
Wang and Ramon H. Myers
- Forty Views of the Yuanming Yuan, John R. Finlay
- Architects and Builders of the Yuanming Yuan, Cary Y.
Liu
- The Yuanming Yuan in Photography, Régine Thiriez
- The Development of the Genealogical Tradition in Minnan
in the 10th–11th Centuries, Hugh R. Clark
- The Development of the Minbei Xu Brothers Cult in the
Middle Period, Edward L. Davis
- Bosses and Workers: The Song-Yuan Ceramic Industry of
Southern Fujian, Chuimei Ho
- Local Control Networks in Minbei (Northern Fujian) in the
Later Song, Lucille Chia
- Popular and Learned in Chinese Dialects, Jerry Norman
- An Etymological Model in Chinese, David Prager
Branner
- You Are What You Speak: Minnan Dialect Use, Gender, and
Local Identity in Huian County, Fujian, Sara Friedman
- Jintarn, a Town of Two Dialects, Richard VanNess
Simmons
- The Fine-thread Lane and Other Stories of People and
Places in the City of Beijing, Liang Tao
- Rendering China’s Past: The Unequal Treaties,
Propaganda War, and Political Discourse, 1925–1928, Dong
Wang
- Communal Organizations and Agrarian Revolutions in South
China, Baohui Zhang
- Capital Formation and the Social Embeddedness of the
Chinese "Company", Wai-keung Chung
- Development of Institutions of Social Service and
Industrial Welfare in State Enterprises in China:
1937–1945, Morris Linan Bian
- County Administration and Party Control in Contemporary
China, Pierre-Francois Landry
- A Gendered Political Space: Politicians in Brothels in
Early Republican Beijing, Madeleine Yue Dong
- Tempest over Teapots: The Marginalization of Teahouse
Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Nantong, Qin Shao
- The Meanings of Chunxi Road: Street Culture in Republican
Chengdu, Kristin Stapleton
- Mobilizing Women’s Virtue: Discourses and Practices
of Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Stability in Late
Twentieth-Century Shanghai, Kathleen Erwin
- The Mother Figure in Twentieth-Century Chinese
Women’s Literature, Yanmei Wei
- Construction of Gender Differences in Chinese, Carol
C. Fan
- Excavating Shanghai: Shi Zhecun’s Fictions of the
Past, William Schaefer
- Divining the Domestic: Rhetorics of Career and
Domesticity in the Star System of Occupied Shanghai, Shelley
Stephenson
- The Community of Love: Sentimentalism and the Public
Sphere in Early Republican Shanghai, Haiyan Lee
- Ming in the Zhuangzi and Xunzi, Lisa Raphals
- Living off the Books: Fifty Ways to Dodge Ming
in the Fourth Century C.E.., Robert F. Campany
- Simple Twists of Fate, Stephen R. Bokenkamp
- Fate in the Rhetoric of Ritual, P. Steven Sangren
- Early Esoteric Forms of Guanyin in China, Patricia
Karetzky
- Diplomatic Icons: The Social/Political Meanings of the
Khotanese Images in Dunhuang Cave 220, Ning Qiang
- The Production and Reception of Sacred Art: A Case Study
of the Pictorial Hagiography of Lü Dongbin at the Palace
of Eternal Joy, Paul R. Katz
- Relevance of the Irrelevant: Self-Projection of the
Critic in Jin Shengtan’s (1610–1661) Shuihu
chuan Commentary, Hua Laura Wu
- Moving Across Textual Boundaries: The Emergence of the
Self in Jin Shengtan’s Commentary on the Xixiangji,
Sally K. Church
- From Intrusion to Self-Representation: The Authorial
Persona in Li Yu’s (1611–1680) Fiction, Ying
Wang
- Writing Self and Writing Lives: Shen Shanbao’s
(1807–1862) Gendered Excesses, Grace S. Fong
- Huizhou Mulian Ritual Opera and the Rise of Popular
Confucianism in Sixteenth-Century China, Qitao Guo
- Ranking the Plays: Chuanqi Drama Criticism in Late Ming
China, Jing Shen
- The Motif of the Displaced Musician in Three Major Plays
of the Early Qing, Dietrich Tschanz
- The Circulation of the Tongsu Leishu: A Case
Study of Ming Publishing and the Print Culture, Richard
G. Wang
- Reopening the Grand Debate on China’s Rural Economy,
Lynda S. Bell
- Semicolonial Capitalisms and Rural Politics, Kathy
Walker
- Modernity and the Chinese Countryside, Catherine
Lynch
- The Material School: The Making of Social and Educational
Stratification in Eastern China, Heidi Ross
- Fen Liu: Streaming through High School in Urban
China, C. Montgomery Broaded
- State Schooling and Ethnic Stratification in China, Gerard
A. Postiglione
- Myth and Reality in the Portrayal of the Buddhist Layman
Liu Benzun in Sichuan, Angela F. Howard
- Patronage, Audience, and Presentation at Kaihuasi and
Yanshansi, Susan Bush
- Ming Images of Divine Females in the Mural Paintings at
the Jiyi Temple, Ling-en Lu
- Mazu, the Patroness of Sailors, in Fujian Temple Murals, Klaas
Ruitenbeek
- Authorship, Agency, and Fate in Xixiang ji-Related Texts,
Patricia Sieber
- Gendered Fate, Deirdre Sabina Knight
- Divi/Nation: The Tactics of Narrating Ming in
Fiction from China and Taiwan, Christopher Lupke
- Women’s Fate, Patricia Ebrey
- Transgression and Transformation: Theme Parks and the
Exchange Value of the Chinese Nation, Hai Ren
- Dancing in the Streets and the Limits of Public Assembly
in Beijing, Susan E. Brownell
- "Friends Eating Together": Banqueting and
Networking for Entrepreneurs in Shenzhen, Gan Wang
- The Difference in Woman: Gender and the Formation of Jindai/Late
Qing Studies, Hu Ying
- Jindai wenxue: A Field under Construction, Alexander
Des Forges
- Writing Histories of Chinese Modernity, Peter J.
Carroll
- Jindai Texts in Comparative Perspective, Robert
Chi
- Poetry Matters in the Life and Work of Qu You
(1347–1433), Graham Sanders
- Playing with the Popular: Theatricality and Authorship in
Late Ming Literature, Sophie Volpp
- Literary Critical Writings of Huang Zunxian in Japan
(1877–1882), Richard J. Lynn
- "Other" Women: Toward the Images of Buddhist
Nuns in Early Postwar Taiwan, Meei-Hwa Chern
- Gender Inequality in Pre- and Post-Reform China:
Assessing the Trends, Maria Rost Rublee
- Women Migrant Workers’ Everyday Experience of Social
Control and Their Resistance Tactics, Feng Xu
- Where Do Labor Markets Come From? The Emergence of Urban
Labor Markets in the People’s Republic of China, Rebecca
Matthews
- Global Civil Society/Local Civil Disobedience? Social
Movement Forms and Nondemocratic Contexts: The Case of
the Beijing Women’s Movement, Sharon R. Wesoky
- Rules to Bank On: Coercion, Negotiation, and the Decline
of Guanxi Relations Between Tianjin Bankers and
Warlord Governments in Republican China, Brett
Sheehan
- The Supreme Court of Peking (Daliyuan) and the New Rules
of the Game, Mary Buck
- International Organizations and Normative Institutions:
The Case of the Chinese Red Cross Society, Caroline
Reeves
- Cooking, Cleaning, Caring: To Be or Not to Be a "New
Woman" in Women’s Magazines of the Later Qing, Barbara
Mittler
- The Health of the Body Politic: Jiating Weisheng,
Household Sanitation, and Family Hygiene, Constance
Orliski
- Fashioning Public Intellectuals: Popular Journals for
Women in War-Time Occupied Shanghai (1941–45), Nicole
Huang
- Women’s Friend?: A Chinese Women’s Magazine
Caught Between Fulian and Consumer Culture, Perry
Johansson
- The Sung-Liao Border: Demarcations and Considerations, David
Wright
- "Using the Prefectures to Regulate the People":
Politics and Territory in Song China, Ruth Mostern
- Placing the Name and Naming the Place: Changes in Diming
During the Song Dynasty (960–1276), James M.
Hargett
- Viewing Landscape Metaphorically, Alfreda Murck
- Going Down to the Backward Frontier: Time and Space in
the Recreation of a Frontier Town in Northwest China, Charlene
E. Makley
- Imaginary Homeland and Rival Center: Mongolia’s
Impact on Inner Mongol Identity and Subjectivity, Almaz
Khan
- The Making of Sikang, Lawrence Epstein and Peng
Wenbin
- Li Qingzhao and the Women in the World of Shishuo
xinyu, Dali Tan
- Fox’s Progress: The Ascension of Fox Fairies in Liaozhai
zhiyi, Daniel Hsieh
- Women Initiated Love Relations in Ming and Qing Novels
and Its Historical Significance, Sun Qiuqiu
- "Sent-Down" Youth and Popular Protest in the
Reform Era, Xiaoxia Gong
- China’s Gay Rights Movements in the Era of HIV/AIDS,
Yanhai Wan
- "Water Refugees" and Rural Discontent, Jun
Jing
- Protests by Chinese Prisoners, James D. Seymour
- Editorialists of the China Progress (Shiwubao)
in Discord, Seungjoo Yoon
- Zhang Zhidong’s Proposal for Reform: A New Reading
of the Quan xue pian, Tze Hon
- The Reform Movement and the Monarchy, Peter Zarrow
- Re-Forming the Feminine: The Legacy of 1898, Joan
Judge
- The Abandoned Woman in Early Ci (Song Lyric)
Poetry: Person, Place, or Thing?, Maija Bell Samei
- De-allegorizing the Fair Lady in the Southern Dynasties
Palace Style Poetry, Xiaofei Tian
- Frivolous, Shallow, Bombastic, and Impetuous:
Contemporaneous Comments on the ‘Four Elites of the
Early Tang’, Tim Wai-keung Chan
- "Clouds and Rain": Some Modes of Li
Shangyin’s Allusiveness, Li Zeng
- Petromania in Tang-Song Poetry: Aesthetic Fetishism and
Moral Anxiety, Xiaoshan Yang
- Competing Institutions: Community Schools and
"Improper Shrines" in Sixteenth-Century China, Sarah
Schneewind
- Non-Official Institutions and Dynastic Authority: The
Academy and the Community Compact in Chiang-hsüeh, Jaret
Weisfogel
- The Placement of Local Magistrates in Ming China, Thomas
Nimick
- Building a Local Society on the Basis of Dynastic Rules:
The Casebook of a Late Ming Magistrate, Yonglin Jiang
- The Fox (hu) and the Barbarian
(hu): Unraveling the Supernaturals in Tang
Tales, Xiaofei Kang
- The Alien Among Us: Foxes in Qing Homes and Society, Rania
Huntington
- Doubling the Marginalization, Doubling the Pleasure:
Bestializing Barbarians in Chinese Local Drama at the
Turn of the Twentieth Century, Daphne Pi-Wei Lei
- The Shanghai Capitalists and the Japanese: Collaboration
and Resistance, 1941–1945, Parks M. Coble
- Hangzhou, 1937–1945: The Changing Faces of
Collaboration, R. Keith Schoppa
- The Color of Money: Monetary Battles Between China and
Japan, 1934–1941, Lincoln Li
- Resistance is State-Building: GMD Attempts at Political
Consolidation in Zhejiang, 1937–1945, F. Garvin
Davenport
- Slaves, Gender and Nationalist Discourse in the Global
Context of China’s Turn of the Century, Rebecca
E. Karl
- From Intellectual Teaching to Mass Religion: 1898 and the
Confucian Movement, Hsi-yuan Chen
- Woman, Writing and National Embodiment: A Study of Qiu
Jin’s Autobiographical Writing at the Turn of the
Century, Lingzhen Wang
- Creating Lu Xun and His Audience, 1917–1927, Ling
Xiao
- The Critical Response by the School of Xue Heng
(Critical Review) to the May 4th Movement, Xueqing
Xu
- Reconfiguring Stardom: The Suicides of Two Actresses in
Shanghai in the 1930s, Laikwan Pang
- The First Person Narrator as an Anachronic Storyteller in
Chinese Fiction in 1980s and 90s, Evelynne Xiaoping
Song
- Central Time, Local Time: Ritual Persistance as
Resistance in Dali, Yunnan, Beth Notar
- "Your Ghost King Lives in Beijing": Exorcism
and Geographical Imagination in a Yi Community, Erik
Mueggler
- Remapping China’s Southwest: Regionalism and
Cultural Practices in the Post-Mao Era, Peng Wenbin
- Yunnan Looking to the South: Local Identities and
Transnational Linkages, Margaret Byrne Swain
- Tianjin’s New Factory Régime, Marc Blecher
- State-Owned Enterprise Industrial Relations in
Comparative Ownership Perspective: The Case of the
Footwear Industry, Anita Chan
- Market, Commitment, and Authority: Labor Relations in
Shenzhen, Lin Yimin
- Labor, Production, and Competition Between Court and
Literati in Song Painting, Martin Powers
- Competition in Southern Song Examination Preparation: The
Adaptation of Daoxue, Hilde de Weerdt
- Economies of Cultural Capital in a Southern Song Manual
for Wedding Correspondence, Christian de Pee
- Inclusion and Exclusion in Neo-Confucianism, or: Biting
the Hand That Feeds, Peter K. Bol
- Legislating a Family of Nations: Missionary Translations
of International Law in East Asia, Lydia Liu
- "Christian Civilization" or "Cultural
Expansion"?: The German Missionary Enterprise in
China, 1882–1919, R. G. Tiedemann
- Monuments and Memory: Memorials to Missionary
"Martyrs" of the Boxer Uprising, James
Hevia
- How to Do Things with Worlds: Incommensurability,
Translation, and Problems of Existence in China, Roger
Hart
- Competing Images of Lingnan Culture: Scholarship and
Printing in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou Prefecture, Steven
Miles
- The Golden Age of the Cantonese Opera: The Sheng-Gang
(Guangzhou-Hong Kong) Troupes at Home and Their Overseas
Circuitry in the 1920s and 1930s, Wing Chung Ng
- Guangzhou’s Reluctant Proletariat and the Failure of
Socialist Factory Management in the 1950s, Mark
Frazier
- Now and Then: The Loss of Coevalness Between Hong Kong
and Guangdong, Seth Harter
- Which Half of the Sky?: Women, Bodies and Spaces in
Cultural Revolution Posters, Harriet Evans
- Presentations of Progress in PRC Primers and Pictorial
Histories, or What do "Modern" Cities and
Citizens Look Like?, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
- The Aesthetic of Dissent in Chinese Cinema: Choosing
Shots to Say What Words Do Not, Paola Voci
- Posters, Film and Visions of an Infantile Present Text:
Children as Political Messengers, Stephanie Donald
- The Development of Buddhism in Chang’an During the
Fifth and Sixth Centuries, Liu Shufen
- The City and the Country: Metropolitan Styles and Local
Paradigms, Stanley K. Abe
- Patterns of Patronage: The Social and Religious
Dimensions of Artistic Production, Dorothy Wong
- Creating a Community: Chang’an in the Sixth Century,
Scott Pearce
- Three Questions About the Couplet: Whence? How? When?, Haun
Saussy
- Bei—The Sense of the Tragic in the Poetic Works of
the Three Cao’s, Longxi Zhang
- Indeterminacy in Poetic Chinese, Stephen Owen
- Xiangyang Provincial Society under the Liu-Song Regime, Andrew
Chittick
- Local Cults and Regional Hegemony in the Southern
Dynasties, Peter Nickerson
- Ritual Aspects of Hsieh T’iao’s Wardenship of
Hsuan-ch’eng Commandery (495–496), Richard
B. Mather
- Cave Temple Fever and Its Southern Manifestations, Audrey
Spiro
- Identity and Cultural Pluralism: Confucius in Early
Narratives, Kai-wing Chow
- The Figural Kongzi: From Fertility Cult to Philospher, Lionel
M. Jensen
- Constructing ‘Little Queli’ in the South:
Confucius and the ‘Kong Residence’ at Qingpu,
Songjiang, Julia K. Murray
- Ritualizing Confucius (Kongzi), Thomas A. Wilson
- Divergent Paths of Marketization: Labor Relations in
State Enterprises, Kunming, China, He Gaochao
- Emerging Labor Markets and Social Inequality: Industrial
Workers in Mudanjiang, Gao Wang
- Structural Change in the Context of Slow Economic Growth:
Labour Market Reform in the Interior Provinces, Andrew
Watson
- The Formation of Internal Alchemy in Tang Theoretical
Alchemy Texts, Fabrizio Pregadio
- Bai Yuchan and the Transformation of Golden Elixir
Alchemy in Southern Song China, Lowell Skar
- History and Controversy in the Formation of the Longmen
(Dragon Gate) Inner Alchemy Heritage in Ming-Qing Times, Monica
Esposito
- Modern Publishing and the Transformation of Republican
Period Inner Alchemy in Shanghai, Liu Xun
- "New School" Martial Arts Fiction and Post-War
Hong Kong, John Christopher Hamm
- In Search of Home: Serialized Fiction and the Chinese
Press in Post-War Hong Kong, Karen K. L. Chan
- Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong, Daisy Sheung-yuen Ng
- Hong Kong/Shanghai: Consuming Nostalgia, or the Uses of
the Cinematic Past, Eileen Cheng-yin Chow
- Mapped and Re-mapped: Chinese Representations of the
Shuixi Region during the Seventeenth Century, John E.
Herman
- Representation and Empire: Mapping the Qing as a Colonial
Enterprise, Laura Hostetler
- Mapping Emptiness: Visual and Literary Representations of
Taiwan’s Wilderness, Emma Teng
- Mapping an Imperial Frontier into "National
Territory": How Qing Officials Demarcated the
Yunnan-Burma Frontier and Helped Produce a Small Corner
of China, C. Patterson Giersch
- Savior of the People: Mao Zedong Temples in North
Shaanxi, John Kennedy and Weijing Lu
- "Playing" at the Minzucun: Minority
Representations and Narratives of Nostalgia, Modernity,
and Capitalism in 1994 Kunming, Sydney D. White
- Tourism and the Many Tibets, Mary Cingcade
- Marriage, Divorce, and the State’s Pursuit of Gender
Equality: Encounters with the PRC’s Marriage Law
Among the Han and the Lahu, Shanshan Du
- Explaining Social Policy in Taiwan Since 1949: State,
Politics, and Gender, Wen-hui Tang
- The Manchu Rule in Early Modern Mongolia: Religious or
Secular?, Chia Ning
- The Dual Sacrality of the Qoyar Yosu, Johan Elverskog
- Grace, Guilt, and Striving in the Mongolian Language of
Loyalty, Christopher Atwood
- Orality and Literacy in the "Wen" of Wenxin
Dialong, Zong-qi Cai
- From Ritual Music to Genres of Literature: Historical
Shifts of the Notion of wen from Eastern Zhou
through Han China, Martin Kern
- Wen as a Semiotic Function in Early Chinese
Literary Thought, Ming Dong Gu
- Issues Concerning Popular Religion in the Six Dynasties
Period, Mu-chou Poo
- The Idea of Immortality in the
T’ai-p’ing-ching, Fu-shih Lin
- Buddhism and the History of the Chair in Early Medieval
China, John Kieschnick
- The Religious Life of the Church of Celestial Masters in
the Six Dynasties, Chi-tim Lai
- Technologies of Expansion on China’s Northern
Frontier, 1644–1949, James Reardon-Anderson
- Knowing Manchuria: Science and the Case of Germ Warfare
in the Korean War, 1952–53, Ruth Rogaski
- The Rediscovery of Western Science and Technology and the
Definition of China’s Foreign Policy,
1972–1982, James Zheng Gao
- Bridging City and Country: Narratives of Migration Among
Shenzhen Sojourners, Constance Clark
- Renegotiating Identities through Place-Making in
Guangdong, China, Andrea Louie
- City as Market, City as Gold: Social Imagination and
Mobility Strategies among China’s "Floating
Population", Li Zhang
- Exoticizing Place: Xishuangbanna in the Han Chinese Male
Imagination, Sandra Teresa Hyde
- Siren Songs and Celestial Songsters: Musings on Critical
Terms in Popular Culture Studies, Sue Tuohy
- Chinese Cinema and Transnational Cultural Politics: Film
Production, Film Festivals, Film Studies, Yingjin
Zhang
- Chinese Soap Opera: The Transnational Politics of
Visuality, Sexuality, and Masculinity, Sheldon H. Lu
- The Flow of Transnational Cultural Capital: Chinese
Diasporas’ Memoirs and Neo-American Nationalism, Xiaomei
Chen
- "Cut off the Roots and Plug up the Source":
Qing Opium Policy from 1729–1911, Paul Howard
- Negotiating Purity: The Chinese People and Opium Under
the Republic, Alan Baumler
- Talking About Drugs: Anti-Drug Discourses in Contemporary
China, Zhou Yongming
- The Development of the Yangming Fellowship in Jiangxi, Kandice
Hauf
- Wang Shizhen’s Garden Essays: Narrating the Literati
Landscape, Kenneth J. Hammond
- The "Flavors of Jiangnan": The Painting of Xu
Wei as Local Product, Kathleen Ryor
- The Dramatic Oeuvre of Li Yu: A Playwright for Suzhou?, Catherine
Swatek
- Anti-Contagionism and the Demarcating of Medical
Orthodoxy in the Song (960–1279 A.D.), T. J.
Hinrichs
- Configuration, Contamination, and Predisposition:
Cosmological Criticism and Explanations of Disease at the
End of the Ming Dynasty, Marta E. Hanson
- Contagion and Nationalism in Early Twentieth Century
China, B. J. Andrews
- Mediating Institutional Memory: Perspectives on Zhang
Chengzhi’s Historical Narrative History of the
Soul, Xinmin Liu
- A Trope of Representation: The Use of Memory in
Contemporary Historical Fiction, Jie Lu
- Negotiating "Historical" Experience and Private
Time: Zhang Xianliang’s My Bodhi Tree, Yomi
Braester
- Memory, History, and the Poetics of Desolation in Eileen
Chang, Jianhua Chen
- The Concept of Tu (Diagram) in Early Chinese
Magico-religious Thought, Donald Harper
- Picturing or Diagramming the Universe, Hung Wu
- What is tu (Chart/Picture)?: Or What Became of tu
in Medieval China?, Eugene Y. Wang
- Diagrams as an Architecture by Means of Words: The
Visualization of Some Key Passages from the Chinese
Classics in Sung and Yuan Times, Michael Lackner
- "Getting Down Off a Tiger Isn’t Easy":
Editing Wuxia Fiction, 1870–1900, James St.
André
- Embodiment of Excess?: The Proliferation of the
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