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Session 13. Wu Family Altars and Shrines: Han Dynasty Art and Architecture

Architectural Reconfiguration of the Wu Family Altars and Shrine, Cary Y. Liu

The Inconography of the Wu Family Altars, Michael Nylan

Private Luxury Workshops during the Han Period, Anthony Barbieri-Low

Money Trees of the Eastern Han, Klaas Ruitenbeek


Session 14. People and Environment on the Northern Chinese Frontiers

Environmental Change on the Northern Chinese Frontiers: A Geographical Perspective, Shouchun Wang

The Guifang: Environmental Change and Subsistence Systems in Northern Shaanxi and Shanxi during the Shang and Zhou Periods, Xiaofeng Tang

Tongwan: an Analysis of Urban Form and Environmental Change in the Inner Mongolian Maowusu Desert, Hu Deng

Hohhot: Environmental Impacts of Urban Development on the Mongolian Frontier (1557–1911), Piper Gaubatz


Session 16. "Cold War" with China? Culture and Diplomacy Reexamined

The American Open Door and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War with China, Charles W. Hayford

Cultural Categories, Moral Perimeters, and Ideological Rhetoric in Sino-American Interactions in the Mid-1950s, Simei Qing

Other and Self: Chinese Intellectuals’ Discourse on the United States in the 1990s, Jing Li

Culture Clash or New Cold War? Apologies East and West in 2001, Peter Gries


Session 17. Sentiments and Desires in Ming-Ch’ing China: A Multifaceted Investigation

Unlike Mothers, Unlike Daughters: Ming-Ch’ing Men’s Inscription of their Genealogy at Heart, Ping-chen Hsiung

Ritual Learning, Evidential Studies, and the Reconstruction of Ritualism in Late Imperial China, So-an Chang

How Dangerous Can the Peony Be? Textual Space, Caizi Mudanting, and Naturalizing the Erotic, Hua Wei


Session 18. Daoist Inner Alchemy and Life Philosophy

How Did the Life Philosophy Form? Dahua Li

Inner Alchemy and Dynastic Life-Philosophy: Some Examples from the Late Yuan and Early Ming, Lowell Skar

The Symbol Metaphor of Long Life and Golden Elixir, Shichuang Zhan


Session 19. Ceci N’est Pas UNE CHINE: The Treachery of Images in Chinese Civic Political Communication

Consumer Citizenship, Spiritual Consumerism: Privatizing Propaganda and Commercial Advertising in the People’s Republic of China, Steven W. Lewis

Propaganda Posters in the Reform Era: Promoting Patriotism or Providing Public Information? Stefan Landsberger

Icon of Power: The Little Red Book, Robert Benewick

The Role of Language in Political Communication, Maurizio Marinelli

Hong Kong: Virtual Tourism and Political Transition, Stephanie Donald


Session 20. Politics in the Crafting of Market Institutions: New Evidence on the Pathologies of Chinese Economic Reform

The Political Logic of Laying off Workers in China’s State Owned Enterprises, William Hurst

Between Socialist Relics and National Champions: Limits in Statist Manipulation of Organizational Behaviors in the Chinese Oil and Petrochemical Industries, Kun-Chin Lin

The Politics of Marketizing Capital: Institutional Legacies and the Development of China’s Securities Market, Matthew Rudolph

Questionable Reforms: Political Obstacles to the Commercialization of State Banks in China, Victor Shih


Session 21. Of Other Places: Space, Desire, and Identity in China

Secret Gardens: Polysemantic Spaces in Qing Women’s Tanci Narratives, Siao-chen Hu

Remapping Borders: Ren Bonian’s Frontier Paintings and Late-Nineteenth-Century Shanghai, Yu-chih Lai

Dreamscapes: The Vertical Horizons of Late Qing Fiction, Paola Zamperini


Session 35. Warlords Revisited: Rethinking Nation and Revolution in Frontier China

A Double Virtue: The Islamic and Nationalist Agendas of Ma Fuxiang, Jonathan N. Lipman

An Yi Patriotic Warlord: Long Yun’s Ethnic, Provincial and National Politics, Jiao Pan

Recycling a Warlord: Liu Wenhui’s Provincialism in Xikang, Wenbin Peng

Remembering the Great Friendship between Fu Zuoyi and Ulanhu, or How to Write a Post-revolutionary History of Inner Mongolia? Uradyn E. Bulag


Session 36. Education, Society, and Politics in Modern China: A Panel Commemorating the Contributions of Professor Knight Biggerstaff of Cornell University

Chinese and Western Scholarship on the China Christian Colleges, 1950–2000, Jessie G. Lutz

The Cultural Politics of Local Education in Early-Twentieth-Century China, Stephen C. Averill

Ambivalent Images of National Community in Chinese Secondary School Geography Textbooks, 1912–1937, Robert M. Culp


Session 37. Borderland Elites, Imperial Contexts

Songyun and the Tibet Question, Johan Elverskog

A Tibetan Aristocratic Family in 18th-Century Tibet: A Study of Qing-Tibetan Contact, Ruohong Li

Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted: Defining the Banner in Ordos, Ellen McGill

Tibetan Buddhist Intermediaries between the Qing Court and the Tibetan Government, Gray Tuttle


Session 38. Lineage in Chinese Buddhism of the Tang and Song

Local Lineage, Local Practice: A Critical Look at the Biographies of the Eighteen Eminent Monks of Nanyue (Nanyue shiba gaoseng zhuan), James Robson

The Functions and Meanings of Lineage in Song-Dynasty Buddhism, Morten Schlutter

The Logic and Limits of the Genealogical Model for Chan History, Elizabeth Morrison


Session 39. Crisis and Transformation in China’s Hong Kong since 1997

Comprador for "One Country"? A Role for China’s Hong Kong, Christine Loh

Trans-Border Crime in Hong Kong and South China: The Dark Side of Regional Reintegration, Shiu Hing Lo

Transforming the Post-1997 Hong Kong Civil Service: Reconfiguring the Mandarinate and the Rise of a Political Class, Anthony B. L. Cheung

Crisis and Transformation in the HKSAR: Toward Soft Authoritarian Developmentalism? Alvin Yiu-Cheong So and Ming K. Chan


Session 40. The Medium’s Impact on the Message: Journalism in Republican China

The Politics of Journalistic Knowledge Creation, Timothy B. Weston

Journalism, Intellectuals, and Economics in 1930s China, Rebecca E. Karl

The Communist Press and Workers in Wartime Chongqing: The Case of Xinhua ribao, Joshua Howard


Session 41. The Identity of Female "Writing" and the Question of Desire in Contemporary China

Female Desire and the Masculine Other: Contemporary Chinese Women Writers’ Representations of Chinese Women and Western Males, Xueping Zhong

From Feminism to Matriarchy: National Narration and Goddess Nüwa by Xu Kun, Yiyan Wang

www.huazhao.com: Women Writing on the Web, Di Bai

Women Writing with the "Kino Eye" in the Era of "Zhuanxing" (Transformation), Zhen Zhang


Session 41.5 Reading Tombs: Mortuary Texts and Burial Contexts in Early China

Reading Eastern Zhou Burial Spaces, Joy Beckman

Early Chinese Textual Burial as Perceived through Documents on Ancestral Veneration, K. E. Brashier

Social Pretensions or Agents of Moral Transformation? Later Han Funerary Inscriptions, Miranda Brown

Where Have all the Grave Goods Gone? Tomb Inventories and Warring States Conceptions of the Afterlife, Guolong Lai


Session 55. Taxation and Resistance in Twentieth-Century China

Taxing Prostitution in Republican Guangzhou, Elizabeth J. Remick

Tax Protest as the Foremost Expression of Peasant Resistance: China, 1900–1949, Lucien Bianco

Explaining Rural Tax Protest in Contemporary China: The Interplay between Central, Local Governments, and Peasants, Thomas P. Bernstein

Comrades and Collectives in Arms: Tax Resistance, Evasion, and Avoidance Strategies in the Post-Mao era, Patricia Thornton


Session 56. Late Ming Confucianism: Regions and Schools (Hsüeh-P’ai)

The Predicament of Wang Scholars in Late Ming Chiang-nan, Jie Zhao

Local Identity and Learning in the Late Ming Yang-ming School of Chiang-yu, Miaw-fen Lu

The T’ai-chou School and the Popularization of Liang chih (Innate Knowledge), Yu-Yin Cheng


Session 57. Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Divination and the New/Old Guicang Manual

The Structure and Schools of the Guicang, Xing Wen

Some Observations on Early Milfoil Divination, Stephen Lee Field

From Bone to Bamboo: Sacrificial Vessels and the Divination Event, Constance A. Cook

Dicing and Divination in Early China, Mark Edward Lewis


Session 58. In the Service of the Nation: Changing Views on History, Music, and Family in Late Imperial and Early Modern China

Fengjian, Feudalism, and the Construction of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, Viren Murthy

Between Sentiment and Coercion: Wu Yu (1872–1949) on the Chinese Family System, Kristin Stapleton

Exercising Women’s Rights, Denise Gimpel

Nationalizing Sound in the Age of Modernity, Frederick Lau


Session 59. Reevaluating Reform: Rhetoric, Politics, and the Personal in Shaping Republican China

Writing Politics Back into the Historical Narrative of the Bank of China in the Beiyang Period, Georgia A. Mickey

Private Vocational Secondary Schools in Shanghai, 1932–1937, Hongming Liang

The Features of the Modernization of Nanjing City, Ling Luo

The Uses of Superstition: Religion and the Nationalist Campaign to Reform Chinese Society, Rebecca Nedostup


Session 60. Chinese Cyberspaces: Technological Changes and Political Responses

Political Implications and Social Impact of the Internet in China, Eric Harwit

Political Control and Political Use: Local E-Government in China, Nina Hachigian

Building Infrastructure for Chinese Cyberspaces: Government Policy and Institutional Reform, Tan Zixiang

Economic Effects and Beneficiaries: An Outline of E-Commerce Perspectives in China, Simona Thomas


Session 61. Individual Papers: Agents of Change and Tricks of Memory in the Modern Chinese City

Huang Yanpei’s Vision of Modern China, Thomas D. Curran

God’s New Medium: Radio and the Experience of Christian Conversion in 1930s Shanghai, Carlton Benson

How to Train and Control a Banker? The Corruption Cases of the Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank, 1920s–1930s, Pui-Tak Lee

"Shanghai Nostalgia": The Colonial Past as the Prologue for Change? Tianshu Pan


Session 75. Beijing on and off Center: Imagination and Construction in a Transnational Capital

Emerging from Beijing: Transnational Professionals and Local Communities, Ju-chen Chen

Virtual Motherhood: Parenting Discussion Groups on the Internet in China, Gan Wang

Departure Beijing: Trafficking in Contemporary Chinese Art, Sasha Su-Ling Welland

Imagining the Nation, Imagining the Capital, Terry Woronov


Session 76. Lost Voices in Language Reform and Chinese Literature in Modern China

From Writing for God to Writing for the Nation: Writing Reform in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period, Kai-wing Chow

Lu Xun: China’s First Proto-Modernist, Lung-kee Sun

The "Linguistic Turn" and the Butterfly Authors’ Resistance: The Literary Controversy between the New and Old Writers in 1920s Shanghai, Jianhua Chen

Rethinking Cultural and Literary History: Wu Mi’s Theories of Culture and Literature, Zong-qi Cai


Session 77. Wings of Belief: Modern Chinese Religious Transnationalism

Sacred or Profane? Ciji (Tzu Chi) Transnationalism, C. Julia Huang

Religious Institutions as Norm Entrepreneurs? The Tzu Chi Foundation and Cross-Strait Relations, André Laliberté

Transnational Christian Proselytism among New Migrants from the PRC: Introductory Thoughts, Pál Daniel Nyíri

The Falungong in the New World, David Ownby


Session 78. Creative Ecology: Nature Writing in Contemporary Taiwan

Untamed Ideals: Concepts of "Wilderness" in Contemporary Taiwanese Nature Writing, I-Ming Chien

Saving Nature but Losing Tradition: The Frustrations of a Nature Writer in Contemporary Taiwan, Ke Hsiang Liu

Making up Lost Ground: Discourse and Praxis in the Study of Nature Writing, Nicholas A. Kaldis


Session 79. The Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project: Defense and Criticism

The Xia, Shang, and Zhou Chronology Project: Methodology and Results, Xueqin Li

A Study of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou Astronomical Information from Classical Literature, Peiyu Zhang

The Three Dynasties Chronology Project: Two Approaches to Dating, David S. Nivison

Controversy on the "Modern Text" Bamboo Annals and Its Relation to the Sandai Chronology, Dongfang Shao

The Predynastic Zhou Culture in Fengxi, Changshou Zhang

Radiocarbon Dating and the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronological Table, Shihua Qiu


Session 80. Making Art: The Material and Textual Production of Images and Objects in Tang to Yuan China

Textual Authority in Chinese Painting History, Oliver Moore

Bronze in Song Literary and Material Culture, Ankeney Weitz

Images of Li Qingzhao (1084–ca. 1151), Uta Lauer

Special Practices: Textual Construction of Local Painting Modes in Song-Yuan China, Jennifer G. Purtle


Session 81. Law Becomes Fiction: Narrating Crime and Punishment in the Qing

Unrequited: Undoing the Moral Universe in Jianghu lilan dupian xinshu, Daniel M. Youd

Making Convincing Arguments in Legal Cases, Robert E. Hegel

Gender and the Construction of Character in Qing Criminal Cases and Fiction, Janet M. Theiss


Session 95. Colonial Encounters on an East Asian Frontier: States, Borderland Societies, and World Systems in the Making of Modern Taiwan

The Company’s Chinese Colony: Fujianese Settlers and the Dutch East India Company in Taiwan, 1623–1662, Tonio Andrade

Colonial State and Local Society in Southern Taiwan: The Background and Impact of the Ta-pa-ni Incident of 1915, Paul Katz

Camphor Capitalists, Indigenes, and the State in Nanzhuang (Nanshô), Taiwan, 1886–1903, Antonio C. Tavares

The Taiwanese Banfu in Imperial Japan: Bicultural Interpreters, Marriage Alliances, and Sexual Slavery in the Tribal Zone, Paul Barclay


Session 96. Amdo-Gansu in China’s Political Imaginaries

Annexing Amdo in the Late Northern Song, Paul J. Smith

Discovering "Kansu": The Documentary Record of Frederick R. Wulsin, 1923, Maris Gillette

Gu Jiegang and "Developing China’s Northwest," Haiyun Ma

Poverty Reduction or Population Transfer? Competing Interpretations of a China-Tibet Resettlement Project, Ann Frechette


Session 97. Twice-Told Tales: Alternative Sources and Paradigms for Studies in Premodern China

Myths and Methods: Writing the History of Early Chinese Philosophy, David C. Schaberg

On the Very Idea of Religions in Early Medieval China, Robert F. Campany

Alternative Sources for Assessing the Scope of Chinese Philosophical Concerns, Frances Gudaitis


Session 98. Bodies of Learning and Scholarly Communities in Medieval China: The Buddhist Case

The Quest for Knowledge: Travel and Learning in Medieval Chinese Buddhism, Yang Lu

Neixue: The "Profession" of Sacred Learning in Medieval Chinese Buddhism, Robert M. Gimello

Bodies of Learning and Scholarly Communities in the Mid-Seventh-Century Tang Capital, Alexander Mayer

The Lay Buddhist and the Appropriation of Pure Land Scriptures in the Song: The Case of Wang Rixiu, Chi-Chiang Huang


Session 99. Roundtable: Narratives East and West: Internationalization and Indigenization in the Socioeconomic History of China


Session 100. The Rule of Law and Enterprise Reform in China

Corporate Governance, Business Forms, and Investors’ Rights in China, Donald Clarke

Takeovers through Agreement of Listed Companies in Mainland China, Tang Xin

Enterprise Reform and the Generation and Resolution of Labor Disputes in China, Susan H. Whiting


Session 101. Individual Papers: Female and Minority Stalwarts in Chinese Literature since the Late Qing

Female Heroes (nu haojie): The New Woman in Late Qing Intellectual and Literary Discourse, Rui Shen

Qiu Jin and Lu Xun, Eileen J. Cheng

Zhang Chengzhi: Ethnic Consciousness and Maoist Legacy, Jin Wu

Historical Alternatives for China: Tibet in Contemporary Fiction by Tashi Dawa, Alai, and Ge Fei, Howard Y. F. Choy


Session 116. Art in Daily Doses: Authorship and Fiction Serialization in Twentieth-Century China

Wild Chickens, Professional Anxiety, and the Problem of Desire: 1909 to 1924, Alexander Des Forges.

The Real and Fake Zhang Henshuis: Copyrights and Afterlives, or the Author in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Eileen Cheng-yin Chow

Serialization, Addiction, and the Impossibility of Art: Liu Yichang’s The Drunkard, John Christopher Hamm


Session 117. Cultivating Perfection: Women’s Religious Practices in Traditional China

Leaving Home and Wandering Unrestrained: Chan Master Jizong Xingche (b. 1606), Beata Grant

Women’s Religious Practice during the Tang Period, Suzanne E. Cahill

Repelling Illnesses: Women’s Meditative Healing Practices in the Late Ming, Xun Liu

Composing Transcendence: Women’s Spiritual Practice Poems of the Late Qing Period, Elena Valussi


Session 118. Wicked People and the Chinese State: Common Transgressions and Political Control from Qing to Republic

Growers, Smokers, and the Limits of State Authority: Nationalist Opium Suppression in Town and Country, Alan Baumler

Bandits, Private Security Forces, and Officials: The Ambiguity of Authority in Qing and Republican China, James McGough

Presumptuous Commoners and the Vulnerable State: Forgery and Impersonation in Eighteenth-Century China, Mark McNicholas

Wicked Citizens and the Social Origins of China’s Modern Authoritarian State: Civil Strife and State Control in Republican Beijing, 1928–1937, Yamin Xu


Session 119. Roundtable: New and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Civil Society


Session 120. "We Are Old Friends": China’s Cooperative Bilateral Relations with Burma, North Korea, Pakistan, and Thailand

The China-Pakistan "Special Relationship," Devin T. Hagerty

"The Chinese and the Thais Are Brothers": The Evolution of the Sino-Thai Friendship, Michael R. Chambers

Too Close for Comfort? A Half Century of Beijing-Pyongyang Cooperation, Andrew Scobell

Chinthei (Lion) and the Naga (Dragon): A Special Relationship? Tin Maung Maung Than


Session 121. Engaging Confucian Traditions in the Early Yuan: Chinese Literati in North and South China (Sponsored by the Society for Sung, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies)

Northern Interpretations of Daoxue in the Early Yuan Period, Peter Ditmanson

Negotiating Poverty and Integrity among the Hangzhou and Mingzhou Literati of Early Yuan, Jennifer Jay

Academies and the Southern Chinese Elite in the Early Yuan, Linda Walton


Session 122. Language Policy in China: Theory and Practice in Minority Communities

Minority Language Classification in China: The Case of the Mongolic Languages, Arienne M. Dwyer

Writing System Reform for Minority Languages: An Assessment of Issues, Policies, and Practice, Hongkai Sun

Minority Language Policy in China: Equality in Theory and Inequality in Practice, Minglang Zhou


Session 136. Split Screen Connections: Rethinking Chinese Cinemas through Transnationality

Real to Real: Long Shot Aesthetics in Chinese New Wave Cinemas, Christopher A. Berry

Family Resemblance and Sibling Conflict: Rethinking Chinese Cinema, Yiman Wang

An Exilic Phantasmagoria on the Screenscape: Floating in Between, Ping Fu

The Representation of Colonial Time in Shanghai ’30s and Taiwan ’80s, Guo-Juin Hong


Session 137. Narcotic Culture: A Social History of Drugs in Modern China

Opium as Pleasure and Cure in Late Imperial China, Lars Laamann

A History of Narcotic Consumption in Modern China, Xun Zhou

A Cultural History of the Syringe, Frank Dikötter


Session 138. Perspectives and Problematics in Chinese Theories of Reading

The Trouble with Reading: Sima Qian’s Jing Ke, Stephen Owen

Early Chinese Theories of Reading: A Conceptual Inquiry, Ming Dong Gu

The Problematic Self-Commentary: Gong Zizhen and His Love Poetry, Kang-I Sun Chang

Vignettism in Chinese Poetics, Dore Levy


Session 139. Rural Migration, Rural Labor, and the Evolution of Rural Society in China

The Role of China’s Youngest Cohort in the Transformation of China’s Rural Labor Markets, Linxiu Zhang

The Impact of Women’s Migration on Women’s Status and Reproductive Health in Rural Sichuan and Anhui, China, Rachel Connelly

Returning to the Farm: The Dynamics of the Reverse Migration in Rural China, Alan de Brauw

Working and Retiring in Rural China: A Labor Supply Study of the Elderly, Lihua Pang


Session 140. Women and Power in Imperial China: Issues in Perception and Historiography

Emperors’ Lady Ghostwriters in Song Dynasty China, Hui-shu Lee

A Woman Warrior in Thirteenth-Century China, Pei-Yi Wu

The Empress’s New Clothes: A Daoist Ordination Scroll and the Projection of Female Authority in the Ming Period, Lydia Thompson

Much Maligned and Never Loved? A Powerful Lady’s Negative Press: The Empress Dowager Cixi, Barbara Mittler


Session 141. "The Mind of Modern China": Liang Qichao’s Historiography in Historical Perspective

Liang Qichao’s Early Historiography and the Dilemmas of Universalism, Peter Zarrow

World History and the Problem of Historical Relativism: The Development of Liang Qichao’s Historiography after 1919, Axel Schneider

Anything Goes? PRC Historiography on Liang Qichao, Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik


Session 142. Language Policy in China: Theory and Practice in Chinese Dialect Communities

Tacit Support for Additive Bilingualism: Minority Languages as Models for Chinese Dialect Bilingualism, Mary Erbaugh

The Value Orientation of the Policy of the Popularization of Putonghua in Current China, Longsheng Guo

Putonghua Education and Language Policy in Postcolonial Hong Kong, Bennan Zhang

On the Promotion of Mandarin Chinese in China: How a Standard Language Becomes a Vernacular, Claire Saillard


Session 143. Individual Papers: China

Writings on the Wall: Graffiti at Inns in the Song Dynasty, Cong Zhang

The Keys to the Emancipation of Chinese Women under the Communist Regime, Jinghao Zhou

Whistling in Early Medieval China, Ziye Fan

Chinese Perceptions of Buddhist Nuns since the Sung (960–1279), Ding-hwa E. Hsieh

Encountering Evil: Ghosts and Demonic Forces in the Lives of the Song Elite, Hsien-huei Liao


Session 159. Struggle for Survival: Beggars and Urban Life in Modern China

A Class for Itself: Beggars’ Guilds in Modern China, Hanchao Lu

Of Beggar Kings and Gangs: Tianjin’s Public Sphere in Late Imperial China, Man Bun Kwan

Strategies of Survival: Beggars’ Street Life and Urban Reform in Early-Twentieth-Century Chengdu, Di Wang

Modern Dilemmas: Dealing with Nanjing’s Beggars, 1927–1937, Zwia Lipkin


Session 160. Photography’s Places in Modern Chinese Culture

"China through the Stereoscope" and Other Nineteenth-Century Technologies, Andrew F. Jones

Re-orienting Images: Writing, Photography, and Landscape, S. William Schaefer

Reading Family Albums from Mid-1970s China, Nicole Huang


Session 161. Roundtable: Political Power and the Environment in China, Pre-imperial Times to the Present


Session 162. Jin: Art and Culture in Search of Identity

Jin Sculpture from Shanxi: Motifs and Motives, Marilyn Gridley

Women as Protagonists in Jin Paintings, Susan Bush

One Size for All: Uses of "Lady Wenji Returns to Han" as a Subject in Southern Song and Jin Painting, Tsao Hsing-Yuan

The Main Hall of Jingtusi: A Mirror of Jin Cultural Identity through Architecture, Nancy S. Steinhardt


Session 163. Gender and Colonialism: Reexamining Colonialism through the Question of Mui Tsai (Female Bondservants)

The Protection of Women under Colonialism: The Case of Early Colonial Hong Kong, Hon-Ming Yip

Knowledge Formation: Social Forces around the Question of Mui Tsai, Ka-Ming Wu

The Management of Women’s Bodies: Regulating Mui Tsai and Prostitutes in Hong Kong under Colonial Rule 1841–1935, Angelina Chin


Session 164. Not Made in China: Diasporic Literature Crossing Time and Place

Ming Loyalist Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam, Carsey Yee

Mapping the Chinese Diaspora: The Case of S. I. Hsiung, Shuang Shen

Writing Chinese Literature in Multilingual Malaysia, Alison M. Groppe

Rethinking Chineseness: The Theater of Gao Xingjian, John B. Weinstein


Session 165. Individual Papers: China

Lawyers and Clients in China: The Power of a Powerless Profession, Ethan Michelson

From 400 to 55 in under Forty Years: Towards a History of China’s Ethnic Identification Project (Minzushibie): The Kangzhan Period, Thomas Shawn Mullaney

Worker Protests in China: Toward a New Public Management of Social Conflicts, Antoine Kernen

WTO and Chinese Agriculture, John Qunjian Tian


Session 180. Can Capitalists Serve the People and the Nation? The Party-State and Private Enterprise in the Twentieth Century

Commodifying Chinese Anti-Imperialism: Wu Yunchu and the Flavor of Patriotic Production, Karl Gerth

National Salvation Intellectuals and Chinese Capitalists during the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance, Parks M. Coble

In Search of China’s "National Bourgeoisie": Hu Juewen and the China Democratic National Construction Association, Thomas D. Lutze

From Cooperation to Confrontation: Shanghai’s Textile Industrialists and the Guomindang Government’s Economic Policy in the Postwar Period (1945–1949), Ju Wang


Session 181. Masculinity in China: Issues of Gender and Power

The Stigma of Emasculation, Melissa S. Dale

Men Beyond: Male Feminism and Paternal Obsession in May Fourth Melodrama, John Yu Zou

Modernity, Nationalism, and the Complex of Impotence in China, Everett Yuehong Zhang


Session 182. The Lessons of Defeat: Transforming the Qing State after the Boxer War

Breaking the Bonds of Precendent: The 1905–06 Government Reform Commission and the Remaking of the Qing State, Richard S. Horowitz

Abolishing "Cruel Punishments": A Reappraisal of the Chinese Roots and Long-Term Efficiency of the Xinzheng Legal Reforms, Jérôme Bourgon

"The Redemption of the Rascals": The Xinzheng Reforms and the Transformation of the Status of Lower Level Central Adminstration Personnel, Luca Gabbiani

Creating "Virtuous and Talented" Officials for the Twentieth Century: Discourse and Practice in Xinzheng China, Julia C. Strauss


Session 183. Reconstructing a New Cultural Identity in Ming China

Re-creating the Han-Chinese Cultural Identity in Early Ming Legislation, Yonglin Jiang

Ancient Music, Present-Day Musics, and Ming Dynasty Rulers and Scholar-Officials, Joseph S. C. Lam

Literary Archaism and Literati Pluralism in the Ming Dynasty, Kenneth J. Hammond

Restoring Antiquity in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century China, Yun-Chiahn Chen


Session 184. The Cuisine of Sacrifice in Ancient China

The Status of Food and Drink in Sacrificial Ceremonies during the Shang and Zhou Priods, Gilles Boileau

The Red Ox in Shang and Zhou Rituals, Wang Tao

Sages and Flavors in Warring States China, Roel Sterckx


Session 185. Ethnic Conflict and Cooperation on the Frontiers of the Chinese Middle Period

Loyalties Divided: The Question of Ethnicity in the Tang-Turgish Conflict of 708–09, Jonathan K. Skaff

Tempting "Treacherous Factions": The Manipulation of Frontier Alliances in the Breakdown of Sino-Vietnamese Relations on the Eve of 1075 Border War, James A. Anderson

Porous Boundaries: Uyghurs and Social Change in China’s Northern Frontier Zone, Michael C. Brose


Session 186. A Contending Voice from the Far South: Lingnan Poetry in Seventeenth-Century China

"National," Local, and Personal Memories in Qu Dajun’s "Poems on Objects," Lawrence C. H. Yim

Place, Memory, and the Ming-Qing Transition in the Writings of Chen Gongyin, Steven B. Miles

Liang Peilan and the Poetics of the Three Great Masters of Lingnan, David B. Honey


Session 200. Media and Performance in Contemporary Taiwan

Identity Formation in Contemporary Taiwanese Drama: Towards an Anthropological Theatre, Craig Quintero

In Search of History Point Zero: Taiwan Drama at the Turn of the Century, Yomi Braester

On the Margins of the Margins: Contemporary Taiwanese Documentary Films, Robert Chi

"Waiting for the World to Prove I’m Right": Taipei Lesbian Youth Cultures and the Alternative Music of BBM, Amie Parry


Session 201. Alternative Voices: Modes of Literary Deviation in Modern Chinese Wartime Literature (1937–1949)

A Literature of Listening: Aurality and Ideology during the War of Resistance, John A. Crespi

Gujin and the Literature of Leisure: The Modern Chinese Essay under Japanese Occupation, Charles A. Laughlin

Ba Jin and His Three Novellas of "Little People, Little Events," Haili Kong

Wartime Literary Negotiations and the Aesthetics of Dissolution: Formal Innovations in Shi Tuo’s Wartime Writings, Steven P. Day


Session 202. The Cultures of Political Legitimacy in Tenth-Century China

Cultural Innovation and the Politics of Secession in Shu, Franciscus Verellen

Establishing an Orthodox Dynasty: The Problems of Legitimacy in the Later Liang, Cheng-Hua Fang

The Limits of Assimilation in Tenth-Century China: The Shatuo Rulers of the Later Tang, Richard Lee Davis

The Winner Takes All: Southern Tang Contributions to the Early Northern Song, Johannes L. Kurz


Session 203. Re/constructing Women’s Discourse Communities in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China

Fiction’s Female Audience in Nineteenth-Century China, Ellen Widmer

Real and Imagined Communities: Shen Shanbao’s (1808–1862) Critical Discourse on Women’s Poetry, Grace S. Fong

Women’s Discourse Community: Yuan Mei’s Female Disciples and Their Interactions, Liuxi Meng


Session 204. Christianity as a Chinese Religion

"Religion of the Europeans or ‘Teachings of the Lord of Heaven’?" Christianity in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries as a Chinese Religion: Historiographical and Historical Dimensions, Eugenio Menegon

Sectarian Conspiracy in the Taiping Rebellion, Thomas H. Reilly

The Bible and the Gun: Christianity and Intragroup Violence in Late-Nineteenth-Century Chaozhou, Southern China, Joseph Tse-hei Lee

Is Catholicism a Chinese Religion? Eriberto P. Lozada, Jr


Session 205. Social Inequality and Education in Rural China

Gender and Access to Schooling in Rural China, Danke Li

Families, Classrooms, and Educational Engagement in Rural Gansu, China, Emily Hannum

School Inequity in Rural China, Albert Park

Urban-Rural Disparities in the Financing of Compulsory Education in China, Yanqing Ding


Session 206. Global Knowledge, Local Power: Returned Students in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century China

Returned Students and the Internationalization of Knowledge Production in Nineteenth-Century China, Natascha Vittinghoff-Gentz

New Lin Daiyus: Female Overseas Students in Japan in the Early Twentieth Century, Joan Judge

"Russian Returned Students" and the CCP Leadership, Thomas Kampen


Session 207. The Chinese Communist Party in the Post-Communist Era

The Party and Cadre Management, Kjeld Erik Broedsgaard

Political Leaders, Private Entrepreneurs, and Party Transformation in China, Zheng Yongnian

The New Pattern of Recruitment of the CCP, Ignatius Wibowo


Session 220. Local Cults and Local Practices: Religion and Identity in China from Song to Modern Times

National and Local Identity in the "Transforming" of Customs in the Song Period, T. J. Hinrichs

Localizing State Religion: A Case Study of the Cult of Zhenwu in Foshan Township, Guangdong Province, during the Ming Dynasty, Shin-yi Chao

In the Name of Buddha: Local Pride and Religious Practice at a Sacred Site in Contemporary Rural China, Xiaofei Kang

Sectarian Networks in Local Society: The Heaven and Earth and Laozi Teachings in Cangzhou, Hebei, Thomas DuBois


Session 221. Narrating the Nation: Education and Memory Transmission in Modern China

Constructing Chinese Nationhood: History Textbooks in the Late Qing Period, Au Chi-Kin

The State and the Transmission of National Memory: School History Textbooks in Republican China, 1911–1949, Wai-keung Chan

Modernity and Memory: The New Confucians’ Teaching of Historical Narrative, Grace Ai-Ling Chou

Experiencing, Remembering, and Reinventing the Past: The History of Christian Higher Education Reconstructed, Phillip Yuen-sang Leung


Session 222. The Living Past: Identity through Place and History in the People’s Republic of China

Upholding Chinese Characteristics by Selling Hangzhou Culture? Liping Wang

Sites of National History/World Heritage in Suzhou, Peter J. Carroll

Signifying Mount Tai: Modern Meanings of an Ancient Site, Brian R. Dott


Session 223. Transforming the State: Bureaucratic Structures and Governance in Contemporary China

From Player to Referee: The Changing Role of the State and the Bureaucracy in China, Xiaobo Lu

Replacing Government Agencies with Associations: Administrative Restructuring in China, Kenneth W. Foster

A Culture of Gradualism: State Restructuring and the Making and Implementation of Social Policy, Jane Duckett

Market Transition and Modes of Governance: Housing Privatization and Forced Consumer Spending Campaigns, Corinna-Barbara Francis


Session 224. The Sorting That Puzzles Things Out: New Perspectives on the Text and Context of the Zhuangzi

On the Trail of Robber Zhi: An Intra-and Intertextual Reading of Zhuangzi, Andrew Meyer

The Jwangdž Inner Chapters, Taeko Brooks

Distinguishing the "Rational" from the "Irrational" in the Early Chuang Tzu Lineage, Brian Hoffert

From Fear to Loathing: Utopia and Violence in the Primitivist Documents, Hagop Sarkissian


Session 225. What Is So Different about the Eighteenth-Century Chinese Novel?

Confucian Imagination and Self-Reflexivity: Rulin waishi as an Intellectual Novel, Wei Shang

Ritual in the Eighteenth-Century Novel Qilu Deng, Maram Epstein

Coincidence and Infinitude in Honglou Meng, Tina Lu

Reconstructing Confucian Masculinity in Yesou puyan, Martin W. Huang


Session 226. Roundtable: The Cultural Revolution Museum: Virtual, Textual, or Architectural?


Session 227. Meanings of Gender in Modern China

Communes, Canteens, and Crèches: Rethinking Gender and Resistance in State-Society Politics, Kim Manning

The Gender Angle in Women’s Hotline Counseling, Le Ping

Creating "Gender" in Chinese Women’s Studies, Zhang Jin


Session 228. Individual Papers: China

Tao Yuanming’s Early Reception: A Comparative Study of His Biographies, Wendy Swartz

Dismantling Unity: Wang Tingxiang’s (1474–1544) Critique of Neo-Confucianism, Youngmin Kim

Paleography and Archaic Scripts in Sixteenth-Century China, Bruce Rusk

Can We Trust the Qing Commentaries When Studying a Late-Thirteenth-Century Text by Wang Yinglin? Christian Soffel