Home

2003 Annual Meeting

[ Back to World Area Menu | Annual Meeting Main Page ]


CHINA AND INNER ASIA SESSIONS

Pick a session number, or scroll down to browse through all the sessions.

Click on a panel title to view the abstracts for that panel.

View the Timetable of Panels

[ 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 73 | 74 | 75 ]

[ 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 ]

[ 137 | 138 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 169 | 170 | 171 | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | 177 ]

[ 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 208 | 209 | 210 | 211 | 212 | 213 | 214 | 215 ]


Session 13: Beyond Gender and Class: Ladies, Lovers, Loyalists, and the Search for Gentility

Bohemian Rhapsodies: The Quest of the Courtesan in Late Ming Jiangnan, Daria Berg

Loyalism or Longing for Ming Gentility? Nineteenth-Century Writers on Late-Ming Women, Anne T. Gerritsen

Not Their Mothers’ Gardens: How Qing Women Writers Regarded the Literary Works of Their Predecessors, Carolyn Ann Ford


Session 14: Rethinking the Daoxue Movement in the Southern Song: Its Impact on Local Elites

Disciples Make the Master: Zhu Xi’s Students Interpret Zhu, Tsuyuhiko Ichiki

Local Realities and Later Representations: Ningbo Scholars and Daoxue, Toshihiro Hayasaka

Political Persuasion and Local Shrines, Ellen Neskar


Session 15: Defining the Edges: Constructing and Crossing Borders in Taiwan, 1875–1945

From Frontier to Overseas: Taiwan and Migrants from the Mainland, 1895–1945, Joseph Wicentowski

Territoriality, Ethnicity and Colonial Governmentality: Qing and Japanese Colonization of Aboriginal Taiwan, 1875–1915, Lung-chih Chang

Defining Borders: Elite Responses to the Loss of Taiwan in 1895, Evan Nicholas Dawley


Session 16: Converging Toward Empire: The Lw-shr Chun/Chyou in the Context of Third-Century Chinese Thought

The Human Nature Argument in LSC, Dan Robins

Historical Continuity and Change in the Lüshi chunqiu, Scott Cook

Legal Ideas and Practices, Karen L. Turner

Science and Medicine, Nathan Sivin


Session 17: Hybridizing "Chineseness": Contemporary Chinese and Chinese American Poets

Historicizing the Underground Romanticism: A Shanghai Poetic Group in the 1960s, Jianhua Chen

Chinese American Poets: Elements of Engaged Enlightenment, Russell Leong

After History: Re-positioning Contemporary Chinese Poetry, Yibing Huang


Session 18: Perceiving Change and Changing Perceptions: Reconceptualizing the Transition in Contemporary Mongolia (Sponsored by the Mongolia Society)

The Rural and the Urban in Pastoral Mongolia, David Sneath

"Our Traditions are Blossoming Nicely": Music, the Rural-Urban Divide and Challenges to National Identity, Peter Marsh

Tempos of Magic, Katie Swancutt

Rights and Obligations: Changing Conceptions of Law in Mongolia, Christopher Kaplonski


Session 19: The Rise of the Regulatory State: Evolving Modes of Governance of Chinese Industry in a Global Economy

The Rise of China’s Regulatory State: Norms and Bureaucratic Interests, Margaret M. Pearson

Protectionism by the Book: How Global Regimes and Competing Interests Shape Chinese Trade Policy, Scott Kennedy

The Agency Problem and Institutional Design: Regulating Workplace Safety in China’s Coal Industry, Fubing Su

Chinese Enterprise Development and the Challenge of Global Integration, Edward S. Steinfeld


Session 20: Chinese Popular Culture: Playground for Agents of Change

Joker’s Magic Mirror: Reflected Images of Chinese Urban Youths, Kenneth Klinkner

Romance and Plebeian Culture in Postsocialist China: On Chi Li’s Novella Lailai Wangwang, Hongwei Lu

China’s Global Sports Engagements: The Case of Yao Ming, Judy Polumbaum

Understanding the "Zhao Benshan Phenomena", Aili Mu


Session 34: Telling Stories of the Gods and Immortals: Traditional Narrative Fiction and Chinese Religions (Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions)

The Hagiographic Process and Its Products in Early Medieval China, Robert F. Campany

About the Creation of Gods and Novels in China, Ursula-Angelika Cedzich

Images of Lü Dongbin in Ming Literature, Paul Katz

Han Xiangzi: A Story Without a Cult, Philip A. Clart


Session 35: Crocodiles, Puppets, Cyborgs: Fantasies of Schadenfreude

In the Company of the "Not-Human(e)": Mad Dog Yinfu and Queer Crocodiles, Naifei Ding

The Roaming Politics of Postmodernism and Cyborgs: Science Fiction and Feminist Body Discourse in Taiwan, Jen-Peng Liu

"I Love You, but That Has Nothing at All to Do with You": Gothic Sexuality and the Sci-fi Imaginary in Taiwan, Amie Parry

Animating Globalization: The Pleasures of Media Overload in Television Puppet Serials, Teri Silvio


Session 36: Local Cultures and Literati Activism in Early Nineteenth-Century China

The Cult of Local Worthies in Early Nineteenth-Century Suzhou: Shrines, Images and Power, Seunghyun Han

The Yuelu Academy and Activist Identity in Early Nineteenth-Century Hunan, Daniel M. McMahon

Before the Xuehaitang: Northern Patrons and Southern Poets in Early Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou, Steven B. Miles


Session 37: Individuals, Texts, and Film as Transnational History: New Perspectives on the Soviet Influence on Chinese Socialism

Soviet Film, Chinese Political Culture, and Everyday Internationalism in the 1950s, Tina Mai Chen

Stalin’s Short Course, Mao, and China’s Socialist Economic Transformation in the Early 1950s, Hua-Yu Li

On the Role of Personality in History: Stalin’s Impact on the PRC Leadership, Alexander V. Pantsov


Session 38: Imagining Nanjing: Socio-Cultural Transformations of a Chinese City, 1500–1937

Society on Display: Imagining Ideal Residents for an Ideal Capital, Zwia Lipkin

Sun Said So: Myth Making, Regionalism, and Ideology in the Debate over China’s National Capital, 1927–1928, Charles Musgrove

Nanjing in the Eyes of Neighbors: Late Ming City Wall Building in Southern Nanjing, Si-yen Fei

The Taiping Rebellion and the Transformation of State Ritual in Nanjing, William Wooldridge


Session 39: Modernizing Visual Presentation in Chinese Painting: Chinese-Japanese Artistic Exchange from the 19th to the 20th Century

The Reformer-Calligrapher Kang Youwei (1858–1927) and the Revolutionary-Painter Gao Jianfu (1879–1951): The Origins and Embodiments of their Advocacy of Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting, Chak-Kwong Lau

Feng Zikai and Li Shutong’s Alternate of Modernity: A Case Study of the Sino-Japanese Relationship in Republican China, Su-hsing Lin

Artistic Responses to Foreign Stimuli and Early Western Art Education in Late Qing Shanghai, Chia-Ling Yang

Collecting Culture and Wu Changshuo’s Fame in Japan, Aida-Yuen Wong


Session 40: Individual Papers: Innovation, Media, and Global Networks

Capitalizing on "Main Melody": China’s TV Drama Industry since the 1990s, Ruoyun Bai

Country, City and Borderline Crossing: A Case Study of Two Left-Wing Chinese Films of the 1930s, Vivian Shen

Between Entering the International Stage and Serving Local Markets: Chinese Cinema(s) from the PRC, Hong Kong, and Taiwan from 1979 to 1999, Martin Gieselmann

A New Stage in Global Innovation Networks? Why Multinational Corporations Locate Advanced Global Innovation Centers in Beijing and Shanghai, Yun-Chung Chen


Session 53: Mighty Real: Realisms in Chinese Cinema

Postsocialist Realism: A Genealogy of Jishizhuyi in the Chinese Cinema, Chris Berry

Postsocialist Realism in Sixth-Generation Chinese Cinema, Jason C. McGrath

Stealing the Real: On Realism in Urban Cinema, Yiman Wang

From the Founding Ceremony to The Founding Ceremony: Tiananmen in Documentary, Docudrama, and Fictional Films, Yomi Braester


Session 54: The Circulation and Consumption of Texts in Late Imperial China

Borrowing Books: The Formation of a "Learned Public" in Late Imperial China, Joseph P. McDermott

Book Markets and the Circulation of Texts in Rural China, 17th–19th Centuries, Cynthia J. Brokaw

"Studying the Book" and "Stirring the Reader": Discourses on Reading and Readers in Late Imperial China, Anne McLaren


Session 55: Roundtable: The AIDS Epidemic in China: Points of Vulnerability


Session 56: Local Legal Order in Late Ming China: New Perspectives (Sponsored by the Society for Ming Studies)

Finding Sources to Promote Justice: What Made Local Magistrates Judge Law Cases in Late Ming China? Yonglin Jiang

Striking, Banishing, and Shaming: Meting Out Punishments on "Doing What Ought Not to Be Done" at Local Courts in Late Ming China, Yanhong Wu

The Role of the Prefectural Judge in Local and Legal Administration in Ming China, Thomas G. Nimick

Between Ritual and Law: Ming Clothing Regulation and Local Practice, Zujie Yuan


Session 57: The Ambivalent Qing: The Politics and Ethics of Translating Emotion in Early Republican China

Affective Reconfiguration and Moral Sentiment in Lin Shu’s Translations, Li Li

The Tears that Crumbled the Great Wall: Gu Jiegang’sSentimental Translation of a Classical Tale, Haiyan Lee

Edifying Romance: Zhang Henshui’s Translation of a Modern Visuality, Gary Xu


Session 58: Setting the Right Price: Interests, Institutions, and Price Formation in China’s Marketization

Pricing on the Chinese Stock Exchanges, Mary Comerford Cooper

The State as the Market Surrogate: Pricing Goods and Services for Oil and Petrochemical Production in China, Kun-Chin Lin

Explaining Stagnation in Interest Rate Liberalization, Victor Shih

Markets for the Environment in China: Assessing the Prospects for Emissions Trading, Eric Thun


Session 59: Is There a Thing Called "Chinese Sexuality"? A Travel through History

On the Mountain of Female Immortals: The Revival of Bedchamber Arts in Post Socialist China, Everett Yuehong Zhang

Aphrodisiacs, Philters, and Sexual Cultivation in Ancient and Medieval China, Donald Harper

Pain Relief? Sex in Medical Discourse on Menstruation in Early Imperial China, Jen-Der Lee

Numinous Father and Holy Mother: The Ethos of Late Ming Paired Cultivation Practice, Xun Liu


Session 60: Patronage and Image-Making in Chinese Buddhist Art

The Problem of Reading, Stanley K. Abe

Robing the Avamtasaka Universe: Images of Buddha Vairocana of the Northern Qi, Puay-peng Ho

The Making of the "Puti Ruixiang Image" and Governor Bi Chonghua of Lizhou in the Tang Dynasty, Luo Shiping

Visual Politics in the Frontier of the Great Tang Empire: Empress Wu and the Dunhuang Caves, Qiang Ning


Session 73: Local Cultures Across Time, Space, and Class: New Japanese and American Approaches to the Study of Song History

Villages and Communities in the Yellow River Basin as Seen through Newly Unearthed Materials, Hiroshi Ihara

Structures of Regional Society and Multiple Discourses as Revealed in the Records of Ritual Halls and Temples, Takashi Sue

Capital, Court, and City: The Center as Local, Stephen H. West


Session 74: Written Texts in Oral Contexts: Memorization, Performance and Transmission in Early China

Speaking of Documents: Shu Citations in Warring States Texts, David C. Schaberg

The Chants Encounter: Evaluating Recitation Skills in the Western Han Dynasty, K. E. Brashier

Performance Venues in Han, Michael Nylan

Song Culture in the Western Han, Martin Kern


Session 75: On the Move: Women in Rural-Urban Migration in Contemporary China

Migration and the Identity of Dagongmei in Reform-Era Beijing, Arianne M. Gaetano

Rural Migrant Bar Hostesses in Post-Mao Dalian, Tiantian Zheng

Dilemmas of the Heart: Rural Working Women and Their Hopes for the Future, Louise Beynon

Out to the City and Back to the Village: The Experiences and Contributions of Rural Women Migrating from Sichuan and Anhui, Cindy Fan


Session 76: Competition and Conflict in Chinese Religion: From Anticlericalism to Anti-Superstition (14th to 20th Centuries)

Local Drought Crises and Charismatic Competition among Clerical and Extra-Clerical Ritualists in Ming China, Donald S. Sutton

Tibeto-Mongol Buddhists and the Chinese Anticlerical Discourse, Isabelle Charleux

Anticlerical Saints and Alternative Clerics in Chinese Novels from the Late Ming to the Mid-Qing, Vincent Durand-Dastes

Did a Break Occur in 1898 in Chinese Antireligious Thinking? From Nineteenth-Century Anticlericalism to Twentieth-Century Antireligious Policies, Vincent Goossaert


Session 77: Museums and Public Memory in Post-Mao China

Museums and Historic Buildings as Sites of Patriotic Education in the People’s Republic of China, Marina Svensson

Chinese Museums and the Problem of Representing Colonial Modernity, Ren Hai

Re-Presenting the "Century of Humiliation": The Dagu and Yuanmingyuan Museums, James L. Hevia


Session 78: Texts and Strategies: Some Current German Scholarship on Late Imperial Chinese Texts

Publishing Strategies in the Early 14th Century: Thoughts on Editions of Wang Yinglin’s Kunxue jiwen, Christian Soffel

Censorship and the Texts Copied from the Yongle dadian into the Siku quanshu, Hans van Ess

A Critical Edition of Feng Guifen’s Jiao Bin lu kangyi, Kai Vogelsang


Session 79: Conservation and Contestation: Nature Reserves in Western China

Reserving Nature for Communist Conservation, Elena Songster

The Lhalu Nature Reserve: Environmental Protection and Resource Management in Tibet, Emily Yeh

Cranes and Conflicts: NGO’s and People-Park Relations at Caohai, Guizhou, Melinda Herrold


Session 80: Individual Papers: Law, Policy, and Identity in Modern China

Japanese Imperialism and the Shaping of Chinese-Muslim Minority Nationalism in Republican China, Zvi Ben-Dor

Financial Liberalization and State Autonomy in Taiwan, I-Ru Chen

Aspects of Social Security in Rural China: Local Governments and Philanthropic Organizations, Andre Laliberté

Toward a Legal Anthropology of Taiwan: The Case of the 9/21 Chi-Chi Earthquake, Shaw-wu Jung

Local Enforcement of Environmental Protection in China: A Role for Civil Society? Jonathan Schwartz


Session 94: Information Technology, Globalization, and Chinese Politics (Sponsored by the Journal of Contemporary China)

Leadership and the Politics of Internet Diffusion in China’s Civil Society, Ernest J. Wilson III and Duan Qing

local.gov.cn: The Local State and the Internet in the Yangzi Delta Region, Kathleen Hartford

The Digital Divide of Internet Use in China, Eric Harwit

Expanding Space under Refined Control: Party-State, Intellectuals and Cyberspace in Contemporary China, Yongming Zhou

The Internet, International Public Sphere, and China’s Environmental Discourse, Craig Calhoun and Guobin Yang


Session 95: Sino-Western Enclaves in Historical and Comparative Perspective

Canton Co-Hongs and Factories in Late Imperial Sino-Western Interface, May-bo Ching, Chunsheng Chen, and Zhiwei Liu

Irritating Pearls of the Orient: The Curiously linked Enclaves of Shamian Island and the Kowloon Walled City, Seth Harter

Sovereignty Disputes over Enclaves: The Cases of Hong Kong, Macau, Gibraltar, Ceuta, and the Falklands, Shiu Hing Lo

Transnational Mediation of Enclave Culture: Chinatown Theater in San Francisco and Vancouver before the Pacific War, Wing Chung Ng


Session 96: Chinese Law in Practice: Recent Developments

Dissent and Transparency in Recently Published Chinese Court Judgments, Colin Hawes

China’s Changing Approach to Criminal Justice and the Struggle for the Rule of Law, Ronald C. Keith

Individual Case Supervision in the Chinese Court System, Randall Peerenboom

Access to Justice and Chinese Legal Reforms, Margaret Woo


Session 97: Religious Syncretism and Cliff Sculpture at Dazu, Sichuan during the Song Dynasty

The Ancient Grotto of the Three Pure Ones: A Song Daoist Cave at Nanshan, Dazu, Anning Jing

Open Secrets: Esoteric Buddhist Themes at Baodingshan, Dazu, Rob Linrothe

How Art Met Doctrine at Baodingshan, Dazu, Angela Howard


Session 98: Inborn Virtues? The Cosmic Grounds for Ethics in Premodern China

The Feminine and Beastly Nature of Filial Feeding, Jane Geaney

The Naturalness of Filial Piety: A Study of Tales of Filial Animals, Keith Knapp

All Natural Buddhas: The Rhetoric of Nature in Early Chan Literature, Alan Cole

The Moral Aspect of Qing Fox Spirits, Charles Hammond


Session 99: China on the Move: Transportation and Communication in 20th-Century Chinese History

Steamship, Semi-Colony, and Nation: The Politics of the Steamship in Qing and Republican China, 1860–1937, Anne Reinhardt

Cycles of Cathay: The Bicycle in Twentieth-Century China, Edward J. M. Rhoads

Modernization on Track: Social Mobility and Economic Development along the Tianjin-Pukou Line in Republican China, Elisabeth Köll

Fragmentation vs. Integration: Telecommunications in Occupied China, 1931–1945, Daqing Yang


Session 100: Inventing Chineseness

Hybridity vs. Purity: Expressing Chineseness in Singapore and Malaysia, Alison M. Groppe

"Long Time No See, Coolie": Passing as Chinese through Translation, James G. St. André

Chinatown and Occidental Imagination in Hong Kong Cinema, Daisy S. Y. Ng


Session 114: Rereading a Revolutionary Icon: Qiu Jin through Texts, Images, and Gestures

Three Images of Qiu Jin: Reassessing a Cultural Icon in Light of Japanese Sources, Joan Judge

The Menacing Public Body: Qiu Jin’s Troubling Gender, Eileen J. Cheng

Herself Multiplied: Qiu Jin in Different Genres, Ying Hu

Woman, Writing and National Embodiment: A Study of Qiu Jin’s Life and Autobiographical Writing, Lingzhen Wang


Session 115: These Were Different Times: Representing the Past in Chinese Cinemas

Jailhouse ROC: Edward Yang and the Mimesis of America in Martial Law Taiwan, Christopher Lupke

Noble Sufferings? Probing the "End" in Memorializing the Cultural Revolution, Xinmin Liu

Lei Feng in the Postmodern Age: He Yi’s The Postman, Wendy Larson

Orientalism against Itself? Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Flowers of Shanghai, Nicholas A. Kaldis


Session 116: Four Key Commodities: Issues of Development, Distribution, and International Market Integration in Late Qing and Republican China

Chinese Responses to the Globalization of Tea Production, 1865–1930, David D. Buck

High Tariffs and Illicit Imports of Sugar in North and South China, 1933–1937, Emily M. Hill

Global Society and Local Society: Development and Underdevelopment of Native Opium Cultivation in Late-Nineteenth-Century China, Man-houng Lin

Imports and Industrialization: China’s "War" with American Flour, 1870–1910, Daniel James Meissner


Session 117: Virgin Bodies: Virginity, Chastity, and the Body in Late Imperial China

Virginity and the Body of Law in the Qing, Janet M. Theiss

Bloody Virgins: Sex and Violence in Qing Fiction, Paola Zamperini

Child Bodies, Blessed Bodies: The Contest between Confucian Chastity and Christian Virginity, Eugenio Menegon


Session 118: Center and Beyond: China in the Bronze Age

Shang and Its Northwest Relative: A Comparison of the Carved Bone Spatulas of Qijia and Anyang, Ying Wang

Adoption, Rejection, and Manipulation: Local Strategies on the Interaction with the Shang, Yan Sun

"Barbarians" and Literacy: Evidence of Cultural Exchange from Western Zhou Bronze Inscriptions, Feng Li

Notes on the Collared Disk-Ring from Bronze Sites in Yunnan, TzeHuey Chiou-Peng


Session 119: The Functions of Malfunction: Modalities of Corruption in Qing Bureaucratic Culture

Corruption and Its "Enemies": The Political Implications of Corruption in 19th-Century China, Luca Gabbiani

The Corruption That Wasn’t There: Fraud Prevention and Its Limits in Qing Civil Examinations, Rui P. Magone

The Rules of the Game: The Bureaucratic Theory and Political Practice of Impeachment during the Qing Dynasty, John Williams


Session 132: Ecological Modernization and Its Discontents: Green Development in China

Valued Garbage, Disposable Citizens: Beijing’s Trash-pickers and the Economics of Recycling in an Olympic City, Joshua L. Goldstein

Environmental Transitions: Market Reforms and the Fluid Nature of Urbanization in China, Alana Boland

China’s Logging Ban: Environmental Narratives and Policy Impacts, Justin Zackey

"Green Agriculture" and "Green Trade Barriers": WTO Benefits to the Chinese Countryside Reconsidered, Abigail R. Jahiel


Session 133: The Family in Han China

Law and the Family in the Early Han, Robin D. S. Yates

Embryos, Emperors, and Empires, Anne Behnke Kinney

Household and Lineage in Han China, Mark Edward Lewis


Session 134: Historicizing the Body in Modern China: Understanding Social Transformation through Illness and Hygiene

Lingnan’s Medical Geographies: Why Miasmas, Once Feared, No Longer Matter in Modern Chinese Medicine, Marta E. Hanson

What Changes When Words Change: Nervousness in Modern China, Hugh L. Shapiro

Kitchen as a Family Pharmacy: Exploring a Space of Alternative Medicine in Contemporary Taiwan, Sean Hsiang-lin Lei

Crafting Experience after Mao: Life Cultivation Practices in Contemporary Beijing, Judith Farquhar


Session 135: Shades of Sovereignty, Instruments of Integration: Tibet’s China Predicament in Historical and Comparative Perspective

Sovereign Self-Determination: China’s Approach to ‘Tibetan’ Sovereignty during the 1980s and 1990s, Allen Carlson

China as Empire: A Colonial Studies Perspective on Tibet, Carole McGranahan

Taiwan and Tibet: National Narratives, Political Subjectivity and the Tibetan Question in the Republic of China, Tashi Rabgey

Securing the Periphery: Tibet, Kashmir, and the Construction of Chinese and Indian State Ideologies of Incorporation, Matthew Rudolph


Session 136: Envisioning Spectacle/Spectacular Visions: Interactions between Late Ming Drama and the Visual Arts (Sponsored by the Society for Ming Studies)

"Writing Poetry on a Leaf" as a Theme in Ming Drama and Visual Art, Kimberly Besio

Imprinting Self: Artistic Identities in Mudan Ting, Christine Tan

Scopic Frames: Proto-Cinematic Visuality and Late Ming Illustrated Drama, Jennifer G. Purtle

A World on Puppet Strings: Performance, Illustration and Metaphysics in the Late Ming Period, Li-Ling Hsiao


Session 137: Attachment to Difference: The Use and Abuse of Qing in Neo-Confucianism, Daoism and Catholicism in Late Imperial China

Emotional (In)Difference, or, How Chinese Culture Became Nondualistic, Ling Hon Lam

An Erotic Immortal: The Double Desire in a Ming Novella, Richard G. Wang

A Brotherhood Under/With God and Difference: The Jesuit Writings on Friendship in Late Imperial China, Dongfeng Xu


Session 138: Chinese Cinemas and "the Ruin"

Ruin and the Real: A Certain Aesthetic in Chinese Cinema, Leo Chanjen Chen

Shadow Citizens of the Cold War Cinema Screen, Esther Yau

Slicing, Street-Mapping, and Fractured Reality: From the Nation-State to Screen Citizenship, Linda Chiu-Han Lai


Session 153: View Manchu: Visual Culture and the New Qing History

Manchu Imperial Tombs: Inter-Changes in Iconography and Belief, Nixi Cura

The Western Perspectives of the Qianlong Emperor, John R. Finlay

Mongol Culture in the Visual Narrative, Johan Elverskog


Session 154: Law, Mobilization, and Justice in the PRC

Hollow Glory: The Administration and Conceptualization of Justice for PRC Veterans, 1949–1969, Neil Diamant

"Use the Law as Your Weapon": Legal Development and Labor Conflict in the PRC, Mary E. Gallagher

"Going Native": Chinese Bureaucracies, Foreign Actors, and the Evolution of China’s Anti-Counterfeiting Enforcement Regime, Andrew C. Mertha

Suing the Local State: Administrative Litigation in Rural China, Kevin J. O’Brien and Lianjiang Li


Session 155: Transforming Culture, Reforming Society: Socialist Shanghai in the 1950s

Neighborhood Committees and Grassroots Political Mobilization in Shanghai in the Early 1950s, Jishun Zhang

Women-Work and Social Reorganization in the 1950s, Zheng Wang

"Serve the People": Restaurants, History, and the State in 1950s Shanghai, Mark Swislocki

The Social Engineering of Cultural Transformation in the Early PRC, Jin Jiang


Session 156: Cultural Crossings along the Silk Routes, Past and Present (Sponsored by the China and Inner Asia Council)

Astrology Along the Silk Road, Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis

Music on the Ancient Silk Road, Bo Lawergren

Overtone Singing in Central Eurasia, Mark C. van Tongeren

The Silk Road Dilemma and the Construction and Control of Uyghur Music, James A. Millward


Session 157: Print Culture in Modern China

Transforming Texts: Nie Qijie and Morality Book Publication in Republican China, Jan Francis Kiely

Conflict in Cultural Commerce: Shanghai Publishers and the Textbook Wars, 1904–1928, Christopher A. Reed

Mediating Modernity: Textbook Publishing and the Spread of Ideas in Republican China, Robert M. Culp

Bridging Influence and Income: May Fourth Intellectuals’ Approaches to Cultural Economy in the Post-May Fourth Era, Ling Arey Shiao


Session 158: Individual Papers: Textual Practice and Political Authority

Evidence Matters: Textual Authority and Lineage Dispute in Seventeenth-Century Chan/Zen Buddhism (with special reference to the founding of the Japanese Obaku School), Jiang Wu

Engendering Heroism: Ming-Qing Women’s Song Lyrics to the Tune Man Jiang Hong, Xiaorong Li

Eat, Drink, and Talk Politics—Poetry and Politics at Wine Parties in Late Qing China, Seungjoo Yoon

Allegory and the Yijian Zhi: Should the Yijian Zhi be Read Allegorically? Alister David Inglis

Ghost Talk Lined Up: Travesty of Fictional Discourse in He Dian, Roland Altenburger


Session 169: Encounters with Alien Cultures in Pre-Qing China

Warring States (453–221 B.C.) and Han (206 B.C.–A.D. 220) Writings about Customs and Habits, Miranda Brown

Myth of the Wanton Female: Gender, Sex, and Conceptions of "Civilization" in Ethnographic Writings on the Yueh Peoples, Erica Brindley

Realism and Idealism in Yuan Dynasty Ethnography, Michael C. Brose


Session 170: The Logic of Labor: Ethnographies of Chinese Workers and Workplaces

Reworking Networks, Refashioning Labor, Daniel Buck

The Force of Law and Migrant Labor Politics, Ching Kwan Lee

Working for Pride vs. Working for Money: Comparing the Labor Management of Insurance Agents in Foreign and Domestic Firms, Cheris Shun-ching Chan

Paternalism: Despotic or Benevolent—Chinese Labor Relations on the Shopfloor in the Reform Era, Xiaodan Zhang


Session 171: Money and Democracy in Early Twentieth-Century China

Village Level Attitudes towards the National Assembly Elections of 1915 in Shanxi, Henrietta Harrison

Money vs. Conscience: The 1921 Election of the Jiangsu Provincial Assembly, Qin Shao

Money and Policy: Feng Guozhang and the Opium Combine Case, Alan Baumler


Session 172: State Building and the Public’s Health in Modern China

Early Qing Tobacco Prohibitions and the Construction of Empire, Carol Benedict

Public Health and Nation Building in Early-20th-Century China, Liping Bu


Session 173: Evidence, Precedent, and Legal Reasoning: Creating Justice in Qing China

The Place of Forensic Examination in the Judicial Procedure during the Qing Period, Pierre-Etienne Will

Confucian Justice and Capital Crime: Cases and Rules in Qing Legal Reasoning, Thomas Buoye

Patterning Justice: How Abstract Cases Prepared Qing Magistrates to Adjudicate Concrete Situations, Jérôme Bourgon

Refining Legal Reasoning from Precedents: Economic Crimes and Rhetoric in Ming-Qing Casebooks, Peng-sheng Chiu


Session 174: Taipei in the 1930s: Modernity and Urban Culture in Hypercolonial East Asia

The Colonial Cityscape: Taipei, Taiwan, Joseph R. Allen

Tokyo and Taipei: The Proletarian Cultural Movement and the Café, Chie Tarumi

The Citizen Cinema Movement in Colonial Cities: The Taipei Cinema League in the 1930s, Shozo Fujii

Between Literature and Film: A Re-situation of Liu Na’ou’s Film Criticism in Pre-War Modernism, Mary Shuk-han Wong


Session 175: Grammatologies of Chinese Script: Japanese, European, and Chinese Perspectives

Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphs of China, Christopher I. Lehrich

Calligraphy, Chinese Empire and Heian Japan, Thomas Lamarre

Xu Bing and the Graphic Regime, Hajime Nakatani

Making a Mark: How the Early Graphs Worked, David N. Keightley


Session 176: Representation and Reproduction of Uyghur National Identity in Popular Culture and Everyday Discourse

Barren Chickens, Stray Dogs, Fake Immortals, and Thieves: Colonizer and Collaborator in Popular Uyghur Song and the Quest for National Unity, Joanne N. Smith

Mother’s White Milk: Gender and Nation in Uyghur Pop Songs, Rachel Harris

"We are People from Taklimakan": Popular Representations of Uyghur Identity in Orally Transmitted Histories, Gardner Bovingdon

Inverted Exile: Uyghur Writers, Artists, Entrepreneurs, and Students in Beijing and Their Role in the Negotiation of Uyghur Identity, Nimrod Baranovitch


Session 177: The Complete Picture: Poetry and Painting in Late Ming China (Sponsored by the Society for Ming Studies)

Sheng Maoye and Jiju hua (Collected Lines Painting) in Late Ming Suzhou, Richard A. Pegg

The Concept of Northern and Southern Schools in Ming Era Poetics and Painting Theory, Richard John Lynn

Tasks of Translation: Chen Hongshou and Late Ming Poetics, Anne Burkus-Chasson

Prospect and Poetry in Wen Zhengming’s Garden of the Unsuccessful Politician Album of 1551, Lauren Nemroff


Session 191: Structuring Space at the Cultural Crossroads

Early Chinese Landscape Painting Reconsidered, Annette L. Juliano

Regarding Space on the Funerary Furnishings Made for Foreigners from a Western Viewpoint, Judith A. Lerner

Structuring Architecture at the Cultural Crossroads, Nancy S. Steinhardt

The Pictorial Afterlife of Stone Chinese Mortuary Furniture in the Iranian World, Eleanor Sims


Session 192: Good Wives, Bad Wives: Family Ideology in Republican China

Homemaking as Resistance in Occupied Shanghai, 1937–1941, Susan L. Glosser

Litigious Husbands and Runaway Wives: Cohabitation Suits in Republican China, Margaret Kuo

Old Wine in a New Bottle? Constructing the "Good Wife and Wise Mother" in Republican China, Ling-ling Lien

Experimenting with the Family: Family Education during the Sino-Japanese War, Helen Schneider


Session 193: Cultures, Texts, and Speech Genres in Asia

"After Innocence": Hybridity, Crossover, and the Negotiation of Power in Taiwanese Aboriginal Music, Chun-Bin Chen

Imagined Tension Between Romantic Love and Marriage: Performing "Miao Cultural Individualism" through the Poetics and Politics of Love Songs in Upland Miao Society, Mei-ling Chien

Buddhist Chanting and Cultural Intimacy: The Making of Wa Minority Identities through Textual Performance, Tzu-Kai Liu

The Art of Citation in Jinghpo Writing, Chung-yu Shih


Session 194: Designing Art under the Tang Dynasty

Craftsmen and Scholars: Makers of Imperial Tombs in the Early Tang Period, Jenny Chao-hui Liu

The Fengxiansi Vairocana Shrine at the Longmen Grottoes: A Tale of Two Cities, Amy McNair

Archaisms and Antiquities in Tang Material Culture, François Louis


Session 195: Metaphor and Morals in Traditional China

Beauty is as Beauty Does: Karmic Aesthetics in Chinese Medieval Literature, Neil Schmid

One Root, One Source: Conceptual Blending in the Mencius, Edward Slingerland

Sound as Knowing and Being for Ouyang Xiu, Karin Myhre


Session 196: Performing Dissent in Contemporary China: Images and Sounds of Resistance

Resenting "Dissent": Zhang Peili’s Video Art or How Not to Be a "Dissent", Francesca Dal Lago

"Popular Dissent" or Mainstream Culture? Reflections on the Business with "New Sounds" in China, Andreas Steen

Exposing Contradictions, Exhibiting the Other China: Documentary Videomaking and Visual Dissent, Paola Voci

The Art of the Everyday, Michael Dutton


Session 208: Reconfigurations of Social Landscapes: Questions of Subject Formation and Spatiality in Contemporary China

Mirage of Modernity: pas de deux of Consumption and Production, Hairong Yan

Globalization, the Re-figuring of Urban Spaces and the Making of Post-Mao Professional Subjects, Lisa M. Hoffman

Mimesis and Authenticity in Chinese Tourism, Tim Oakes

The Spatialization of Class in China’s New Housing Regime, Li Zhang


Session 209: Shifting Places, Shifting Meanings: Chinese Identity Politics through Image Construction

A Famous Site in the Making: Huangzhou after Su Shi’s Time, Cong Zhang

The Southern Identity of a Northern City: The Making of Late Imperial Jining, Jinghao Sun

Creating Expectations: Manipulating Images of Qing Taiwan, Jennifer Rudolph

Everybody’s Icon: The Many Faces of Lin Zexu from Late Qing to the Present, Joyce A. Madancy


Session 210: Education, Stratification and Social Change in China

Gender Stratification and State Schooling, Heidi Ross

Stratification of Educational Opportunities: The New Middle Class in China and Their Impact on Education, Jing Lin

Education and Ethnic Stratification, Gerard Postiglione

Food for Thought: Poverty, Family Nutritional Environment and Children’s Educational Performance in Rural China, Emily Hannum and Shengchao Yu


Session 211: Flexibility in Chinese Business Practices

Testing the Limits of Flexibility in Chinese Business Practice: The Role of Guaranteeship, Wellington Chan

Cartel, Market-Sharing, and Patriotic Capitalism: The Yong-Jiu-Huang Group, 1914–1937, Man Bun Kwan

Flexible Capital Accumulation at Song Feiqing’s Dongya Corporation, Brett G. Sheehan


Session 212: Transforming the Divine: Evolving Traditions in Six Dynasties Daoism

Practices of Immortality and Cults of Immortals, Gil Raz

Virtual Images/Real Shadows: The Transposition of the Myths and Cults of Lady Wei, James Robson

The Transformation of Myths Concerning Yu the Great into Daoist Narrative and Ritual, Julius N. Tsai


Session 213: Native Officials, Indigenous Peoples, and the Confucian State: Perspectives on Ethnicity and Frontier Governance in Late Imperial Southwest China

Miscreants, Miao, and Miasma: Local Challenges to Qing Governance in Eighteenth-Century Guizhou, Jodi L. Weinstein

The Feng Family Native Prefects, Elite Biculturalism, and Cultural Change among the Luowu Yi People of North-Central Yunnan, 1450–1550, Jacob T. Whittaker

A Tusi’s Perspective on Relations with Ming China, John Herman


Session 214: Accommodating the Provocative Others: Knowledge Re-Production in Late Qing China

The Sum of All Variants: Cosmopolitan Confucianism of Qing Exegesis of Classics (Huang Qing Jingjie), Minghui Hu

Making of a Modern Educator: Cai Yuanpei in 1901–1904, Chaohua Wang

Classical Chinese Prose Writing as a Translingual Practice in Lin Shu’s Case, Lei Chen

Modern Song-Style Experimentalism: Chen Sanli’s Poetic Response to Cultural Crisis, Shengqing Wu


Session 215: Individual Papers: Women, Work, and Society in China

Maid in China: From Baomu to the Domestic Worker, Wanning Sun

Pain and Illness in the Gelongma Palmo Biographies, Ivette Vargas

Market Economy, Regression of Gender Equality, and Changing Forms of Family in PRC (1978–2001), Huiying Wei-Arthus

Sewing Up the Market: Gender, Entrepreneurship, and Micro-Enterprises in the Creation of China’s Domestic Ready-to-Wear Clothing Market, Vera Leigh Fennell

In the Name of the Mother: The Development of Women’s Education in Early Twentieth-Century Northeast China, Elizabeth VanderVen