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Session 13: Contested Claims: Religion, History, and Tourism in Contemporary China
Irrigation and Litigation: The Ebb and Flow of Contested Claims to the Mulan Irrigation System in Coastal Putian, Fujian, Kenneth Dean
Dancing the Spirits, Invoking the Ancestors: Contested Claims of Origin and Identity among Guizhou’s Tunpu People, Tim Oakes
Contesting through Narrative: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Ethnicity in Northern Sichuan, Donald S. Sutton
Temples between Religions: Redefining the Religious and Tourist Landscape on the Sino-Tibetan Border, Xiaofei Kang
History Repackaged in the Age of Print: The Sanguozhi and Sanguo Yanyi, Anne McLaren
Liu Bei in Sanguo yanyi and the Mencian View of Political Sovereignty, Liangyan Ge
Ming Artifacts of the Northern Song: Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) as a Guide to the Military Subculture of the Late Northern Song, Paul J. Smith
Facing Off: Criminals and Clerks in Late-Seventeenth-Century Pictorial Representations of Shuihu zhuan, Anne Burkus-Chasson
Cartographic and Textual Sources for the Amdo Tibetan Buddhist Monastery GIS: A Spatial Survey of New Research Findings, Karl Ryavec
The Amdo Tibetan Buddhist Monastery Database: Interpreting Geographic Information in Light of Historic Events, Gray Tuttle
The Limits of Space: Perceptions of Borders in the Labrang Monastery Community, Paul Nietupski
Between Banner and County: Mapping Intermediary Qing Administrative Forms in Inner Mongolia, Ellen McGill
Session 16: Other Effects: The Christian Impact on Late Imperial China
Hospitality: The Case of Late Ming China and the Jesuits, Dongfeng Xu
Missionary Books, Chinese Books: On Missionary Publishing in the Late Qing, Ryan Dunch
Making an "Authentic" Theatrical Copy in "The Crazy Drummer," Chun Mei
Daoist Revision: The Quest for Authenticity in Commentaries to Xiyou ji, Carl A. Robertson
The Spectral Eye and the Human Heart: Envisioning the Interior in the Eighteenth-Century Classical Tale, Rania Huntington
Dream, Drama, and Metadrama: Jiang Shiquan’s Linchuan Meng, Qiancheng Li
Reconfigured Neighborhoods and the Expansion of State Institutions: Social Structural Changes in Beijing and Their Implications, 1800s–1930s, Yamin Xu
From State to Society, and Back: An Attempted Dialogue between Government and Local Society in Sichuan during the Imperial-Republican Transition, Monica De Togni
Unsafe at Any Speed? Technological Transformation and State Mediation in Republican Fujian, Grant Alger
God and Country: Christianity and State Building in Republican Chaozhou, South China, Joseph Tse-hei Lee
Session 19: Cultural Production in the Era of Globalization
"I Thought You Were Han": Intra-Asian Racism in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Nicholas A. Kaldis
The Rural Is Real: Wang Anyi, Wushan yunyu, and the New Global Countryside, Wendy Larson
Asian Religion Drenched in Blood, Tonglin Lu
Session 20: Individual Papers: Markets and Government in Contemporary China
Clans for Markets: Social Organization of Emerging Market Relations in China’s Automobile Components Sourcing Network, Khan Pyo Lee
Housing the Transition: Liberalization and State Stability in China’s Housing Policy, Jeffrey S. Payne
From "Serving the People" to "Serving the Economy": The Co-Production of the State and Scientists in China, Wen-Ching Sung
The Tax-for-Fee Reform and Its Impact on Local Governments, Wu Zhang
Fiscal Federalism and Provincial Foreign Tax Policies in China, Yu Zheng
The Evolving Concept of "Civil Society" in China, Jean-Philippe Béja
Environmental NGOs in China: Public Participation and the Paradox of Success, Jennifer L. Turner and Timothy Hildebrandt
The Informatization of NGOs in China, Guobin Yang
Chambers of Commerce in Wenzhou: A Bottom-up NGO Development Pattern, Qiusha Ma
Session 35: The Culture of Leisure in Medieval China: Sponsored by the Early Medieval China Group
A Palatial Ethics in Medieval Chinese Literature and Thought? Jack Chen
Playing the Qin in Early Medieval China, Alan Berkowitz
The Excursion and the Play of Reading in Jin Dynasty Literature, Robert Ashmore
Tao Yuanming’s Uses of Leisure, Wendy Swartz
Homecoming Diaries: Inhabiting and Dis-inhabiting the Theatrical in Postwar Shanghai Cinema, Weihong Bao
Shadowless Cinema: Early PRC Filmic Adaptations of Stage Plays, Yomi Braester
Experimental Theater and Independent Cinema (1997–2002): Critical Semblance and Aesthetic Disjuncture, Jonathan Noble
Session 37: Southern China and Southeast Asia in Archaeological Perspective
Tracking the Neolithic Interactions in Southeast China: Evidence from Stone Adze Geochemistry, Tianlong Jiao
Another Look at Bronze Age Yunnan: Who’s Buried in That Bronze Casket? Penny M. Rode
An Archaeometallurgical Investigtion of Yunnan Artifacts: China or Dongson? TzeHuey Chiou-Peng
Excavations at Go Cam, Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, 2000–2003, Ian Glover
Session 38: Rethinking Social Changes during China’s "Great" Revolutions
Beneath the Republican Revolution, beyond the Revolutionary Politics: Elite Associations and Social Transformation in Lower Yangzi Towns, 1903–1912, Zhongping Chen
Militarism and Chinese Martial Culture in the Nationalist Revolution, Colin Robert Green
The Third Path? The Rural Reconstruction Movement between Communist Revolution and Nationalist State-Making, 1927–1937, Xiaorong Han
Khams Administrative Regularization in the Last Qing Decade: Precedents, Patterns, Substance, Xiuyu Wang
The Rise to Power of Khams Chieftain Mgon po rnam rgyal in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Historical, Social and Political Factors, Yudru Tsomu
Historical Materials Related to the Establishment of the Derge Sutra Printing Academy, Cynthia Col
Session 52: Popular Culture and Political Economy in Contemporary China
The Secret of the New Rich in Contemporary China, Xiaoming Wang
Consuming Ethnic Culture and the Formation of the Chinese Middle Class, Hai Ren
Digital Army: A Necessary Invention by/for the State and Market, Aili Mu
Bronzes Zun and Lei from Sanxingdui and Their Cultural Implications, Yan Sun
Geographical Significance of Royal Hunting during the Late Shang, Ying Wang
A Case Study of the Regional Interactions in North China during the Eastern Zhou Period: Early Zhongshan Tombs, Xiaolong Wu
Cultural Interaction through Marriage Revealed by Jin Female Burials in the Zhou Period, Ying Yong
Session 55: Progress or Regress: Negotiating Gender Identity and Modernity in Contemporary China
Gender Politics in the Martial Arts Cinema, Rong Cai
Indigenizing Feminism: Gender Discourse and Women’s Studies as an Academic Discipline in China, George Wei
Women’s Literary Criticism in Contemporary China, Di Bai
Confucianism, Communism, and Commercialism and the Paucity of Women’s Rights in China, Yi Sun
Modernization and Socio-spatial Reconfiguration in Suburban Beijing, Friederike Fleischer
Migration Melodramas: Class, Housing, and Mother-in-law/Daughter-in-law Conflict in Hong Kong, Nicole D. Newendorp
Owner’s Associations in Neighborhood Shanghai, Tianshu Pan
The Value of the Tangible Asset: Private Housing Property and the Domestic Relationship in an SOE Dormitory Neighborhood in Tianjin, Danning Wang
Is There a Mongolian Buddhist Architecture? The Authors of Inner Mongolian Monasteries, Isabelle Charleux
The Meeting of Courtyard and Street: Mapping Residential and Commercial Spaces in the Lilong, Shanghai, 1870–1896, Samuel Xunxiang Liang
Dwelling on the Edge of Empires: Habitation in Guangzhou’s Western Neighborhoods, Jonathan Andrew Farris
Architectural Expression in Rural China in the Early Twentieth Century, Puay-peng Ho
The Foundation of Liu Xie’s Literary Thought, Jingsong Ma
Genre and the Study of Tang Writing, Alexei Ditter
The Making of Romance and the Remaking of History: "Chang hen ge zhuan" (An Account of "The Song of Eternal Sorrow"), Manling Luo
Restoration Aesthetics: The Reception of Su Shi’s Song Lyrics by Early Southern Song Literati, Benjamin Ridgway
Striving for Perfection: Model Building and Method Seeking in the Literary Culture of Late Eleventh Century Song China, Yugen Wang
Session 72: Late-Ming Courtesans and Afterlives: Transaction, Transmission, Transfiguration
The Female Body as Agency for Romance and Interiority: A Study of Qian Qianyi and Liu Rushi’s Exchanged Poems in the Late Ming, Lawrence C. H. Yim
National Crisis and the Femme Fatale in the Meicun Style of Poetry, Hongyu Huang
The Heart in Suspense: A Portrait of an Untalented Ghost Courtesan in Seventeenth-Century China, Ling Hon Lam
Pu Songling and the Ontology of the Feminine, Keith McMahon
Session 73: Formal Contents: High Cultural Borrowings in and of Popular Chinese Cinemas
Pop Art Conscience? Middle-Brow Aesthetics in the Film/Novel Cell Phone, Robin Visser
The New Formalism: Mainland Chinese Cinema at the Turn of the Century, Jason C. McGrath
Can Dialectics Break Bricks? Robert Chi
Session 74: Constructing Contending National Identities on Taiwan
The Nationalists Define China: The Anti-Communist League and the Taiwanese, Steven Phillips
Historical Narrative and the Construction of Taiwan as China: The State-Sponsored Historical Enterprise in Taiwan, Megan Greene
A Marriage of Equals? Mainland Spouses and the Problem of Taiwan’s National Status, Sara Friedman
Session 75: Challenges of Chinese Foreign Relations in the New Millennium
China and the Two Koreas: A Delicate Balancing Act, Jongsoo James Lee
Challenges in Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations: An Analysis, Victor Teo
Between Negotiation and Confrontation: Explaining China’s Taiwan Policy Redirections after the Cold War, Shang-chih Chen
Sino-U.S. Relations: A Case Study of U.S. Antidumping Legislation and Measures against China, Shaofeng Chen
Session 76: Conflict and Resistance in Housing Reform in Urban China
Autonomous Spaces, Autonomous Action: Perspectives on Middle-Class-Driven Housing Conflicts in Urban China, Luigi Tomba
Using the Red Flag: The Dispossessed Fight Back, Qin Shao
What's in an Old House? The Issue of Preservation in Shanghai, Weihang Lin
Forced out of Home: Property Rights, New Activism, and the Politics of Relocation in Urban China, Li Zhang
Session 77: Modern Institutions of Art in Republican China
The Institutionalization of Oil Painting as a Chinese Art, 1920–1935, Ruilin Chen and Tongyun Yin
The Theoretical Transformation of Ink Painting into China’s National Art in the 1920s and 1930s, Kuiyi Shen
Bringing Folk In: Audience and Display in the Folk Picture Exhibition of 1937, Felicity Lufkin
The Modern Print Society and Institutionalization of the Woodblock Print in 1930s China, Julia F. Andrews
The Many Faces of the Hanjian: Collaborators in Zhejiang Localities, 1937–1945, R. Keith Schoppa
Frontier Identities: Competing Political Loyalties among Educated Youth in Late Republican Bathang, William M. Coleman IV
The Dialectics of Mengjian and Hanjian on the Frontier, Uradyn E. Bulag
Blurred Boundaries: Shifting Notions of Hanjian-ism in Nineteenth-Century Yunnan, David G. Atwill
Session 91: The Body and Social Identity in Ming China
Legal Construction of the Body and Social Identity in Ming China, Yonglin Jiang
Northern Purgatives, Southern Restoratives: Medical Regionalism and Regional Identity during the Ming Dynasty, Marta E. Hanson
Aspiring for the Autonomy over a Female Body: Construction of Gender and Identity in Late Ming Literature, Zuyan Zhou
Session 92: China’s Peripheral Political Problems
Beijing’s Dilemma with Taiwan, Quansheng Zhao
China’s (and the Dalai Lama’s) Tibet Problem, Barry Sautman
China’s Security Problem in Xinjiang, June Teufel Dreyer
Democratization and Challenges to the "One Country, Two Systems" Model, Joseph Yu Shek Cheng
C. C. Wang as Collector and Connoisseur, Joseph Chang
Asian Art Collections and the Quest for American Cultural Identity, Constance J. S. Chen
The Chicago Connection: Lucy Driscoll’s Creative Approach to Chinese Art and Her Chinese Contacts from the 1910s to 1950s, Zaixin Hong
Archaeology, Aesthetics, and Authority: Early Chinese Art in Britain, Judith Green
Session 94: The Uses of Manuscript Culture
Why Did Sages Write Texts? Commentarial Strategies during the Wei Dynasty, Michael Puett
Pu Songling’s Liaozhai zhiyi in Manuscript and Print, Wilt L. Idema
Tales Told at Night: A Study of the Cultural Revolution Manuscripts, Dong Liu
How to Choose the Author for a Poem: A Case in Writing Literary History, Xiaofei Tian
Session 95: From Leftism to Aestheticism: Literature of Colonial Taiwan
Negotiating Colonialism: The Writing of Lai He and Lü Heruo, Rosemary Haddon
A Colonial Writer and His Stylistic Reorientation: A Case Study of Zhang Wenhuan, Chie Tarumi-Yomata
The Imagined/Created Colony: Yang Kui and Zhang Hezhou, Yamaguchi Mamoru
Beyond Realism: The Avant-Garde Writing of Yang Chichang and Weng Nao, Pei-Yin Lin
Erlitou and Erligang: Towards a Cultural Hegemony, Sarah Allan
Reading through Graphs: Textual Structure and Divinatory Schools in Early China, Wen Xing
Law in the Making of the Empire: Evidence from the Newly Discovered Qin Slips from Liye, Hunan, Robin D. S. Yates
Session 97: Individual Papers: Cities and Urban Culture in Modern China
Growing from the Outside: The Path of Urbanization of Late Imperial Jining and Its Modern Setback, Jinghao Sun
An Urbanized Gentleman: Zheng Guanying and His Shanghai, Guo Wu
The Circulation of English in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai: Language Transformation and Its Historical Stimuli to New Local Ideology, Jane Jia Si
Carving a Gendered Public Space: Chinese Women’s Print Media in the 1930s, Yuxin Ma
Governing Social Space in Urban China: Courtyards, Compounds, Danweis, and Gated Communities, David Bray
The China Factor in Taiwan’s Quest for a New Identity, Chien-min Chao
Democracy Postponed: Hong Kong as a Political Threat to Beijing? Shiu Hing Lo
Formal and Informal Policies in Macau Special Administrative Region Elections, Eilo Wing-yat Yu
Identity, Sovereignty, and Institutional Change: Beijing’s Responses to Offshore Chinese Democracies, Guogang Wu
Session 112: Global Tibet: Political Action and Cultural Strategy beyond Shangri-La
Guerrilla Art: An Illustrated History of the Tibet-China Conflict, Carole McGranahan
Taiwan’s Shifting Tibet Policy: The Changing Role of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission, Abraham Zablocki
The Global Politics of Taming: Domesticating Tibetans at the Beijing Minzu Park, Charlene Makley
Transnational Tibet: Activism, Affect, and the Politics of Solidarity, Meg McLagan
Session 113: Power and Revolutionary Discourse in Mao’s China: Representation or Mystification
The Long March Unveiled: Epic, Myth, and Beyond, Enhua Zhang
From the Mass Line to the Mao Cult: The Production of Legitimacy in Revolutionary China, Yu Liu
Remembering the Revolutionary Past: Schizophrenia and the Memory of Absence, Kaming Wu
Session 114: Medium and Materiality in Premodern China
Women’s Things in China, Dorothy Ko
Medium and Materiality in Carved Pictorial Lacquer, Catherine Stuer
The Cultural Biography of a Thing: "Little Thunderclap" as Musical Instrument, Antique, Stage Prop, and Relic, Judith T. Zeitlin
Materiality and the Lyric Aesthetic in Honglou meng, Sophie Volpp
Ethics and Theater: The Staging of Jingchai ji in Bimuyu, Jing Shen
The Cognoscente, the Catamite, and the Cad: Self and Others in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Texts of Theatrical Connoisseurship, Andrea S. Goldman
Self-Reflexivity and Prescriptive Roles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Folk Drama, Margaret Baptist Wan
Writing with a Borrowed Pen: Self-Reflexivity in the Zidishu Adaptations of Honglou meng, Ying Bao
Session 116: Medicine and Social Transformation in Early-Twentieth-Century China
Habituate Individuality: Framing of Tuberculosis and Its Material Solutions in Republican China, Sean Hsiang-lin Lei
The Place of Chinese Dietetics in an American Hospital in China, Michelle Renshaw
Epistemology and Etiquette: Bargaining, Self-Disclosure, and the Struggle to Define the Patient Role at PUMC Hospital, 1921–1941, Stefani Pfeiffer
The Professionalization of Midwives in Early-Twentieth-Century China, Tina Phillips
Session 129: Reading Tombs: A Liao Dynasty Family Cemetery at Xuanhua
Cultivating the Body for Afterlife, Hsueh-man Shen
Preparing Sutra and Tea: Interpreting Liao Dynasty Tomb Murals at Xuanhua, Qingquan Li
A Cemetery of Iconoclash: Revisiting the Liao Tombs at Xuanhua, Hebei, Hsingyuan Tsao
Individual Tomb or Family Cemetery: How to Best Read the Xuanhua Tombs? Nancy S. Steinhardt
Beyond the Job Market: Women’s Livelihoods in Early-Twentieth-Century Beijing, Weikun Cheng
Protecting or Prohibiting Prostitution? Police-Run Brothels in Republican Kunming, Elizabeth J. Remick
All Consuming Passions: Women and Consumption in Liangyou huabao (Young Companion), Eileen J. Cheng
A Notorious Cityscape: Nuzhaodai Serving and Eroticizing Nationalist Beiping (1928–1937), Rachel Hui-chi Hsu
The Pride and Humility of Tech Transfer: Confrontation and Cooperation in Mainland China and Taiwan, Dimitri Kessler
Hybrid Firms and Technological Upgrading in China’s IT Industry, Douglas Fuller
From Hsinchu to Shanghai: The Governing of Cross-Strait Production Networks in Taiwan’s High Technology Industry, You-ren Yang
Session 132: The Daoist Priesthood and Secular Society in Traditional and Modern China
The Life Experiences of Daoist Priestesses during the Thirteenth Century, Shin-yi Chao
Abbot Gao and the Quanzhen Daoist Expansion in Late Qing Beijing, Xun Liu
Daoist Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan, Wan-Li Ho
Session 133: The Problem of North and South in Middle and Late Imperial Chinese Politics
The Northern Homeland in Southern Song News and Publication Policies, Hilde De Weerdt
Ambiguous Victory: Southern Responses to the Adoption of Daoxue Neo-Confucianism at the Yuan Capital at Beijing, Peter Ditmanson
The "Problematic" Jiangnan in Ming Political Discourse, Chang Woei Ong
"Unavoidably of the Suzhou Clique": The Politics of North and South in the Mid-Qing Central Bureaucracy, Seunghyun Han
Comparative Development of the Internet in China and Japan, Eric Harwit
Circular Telegraph and Online Politics in Late Qing China, Youngming Zhou
Can the Internet Improve Human Rights in China? Bobson Wong
Stories from the Wilderness: Unofficial Histories of the Qing, Madeleine Yue Dong
Luo Zhenyu in Manchuria, 1932–1940: History and Historiography, Shana J. Brown
The Past Is Myself: Revisionist Historiography of the War of Resistance to Japan and the Reformation of Personal Identity in Contemporary China, Rana Mitter
Describing Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece, Mark Edward Lewis
Speech Genres and the Rise of Literary Taxonomy, David C. Schaberg
Public Good and Partisan Gain: Political Languages of Faction in Northern Song China and Hanoverian Britain, Ari Daniel Levine
Tradutore, Traditore: Christianity, Science, and Translation in Seventeenth-Century China, Benjamin Elman
The Ritual of the Twelve Hundred Officials and Its Gods, Ursula-Angelika Cedzich
Early Daoist Precepts and the Daoist Community, Terry F. Kleeman
The Ways of the Celestial Masters: Revisiting the Daoist Traditions in Early Medieval China, Gil Raz
The Protocol Masters of the Commentary to the Scripture of the Golden Chains and Streaming Pearls, Julius N. Tsai
Resource Wars, Economic Dukedoms, and Price Wars: The Rise and Fall of Local Protectionism, Andrew H. Wedeman
Domestic Price Integration and Economic Performance in China, Sandra Poncet
Capital Flows and Domestic Market Integration in China, Li Qi
Between Rhetoric and Reality: The Political Uses of Local Protectionism to Effect Institutional Change in China, 1998–2004, Andrew C. Mertha
Session 153: Pride and Prejudice: Women and Money in China
Best/Selling the Private World: Body Writing in Contemporary China, Daria Berg
Does Money Open All Doors? Nightmares, Dreams, and Realities for New Women in Republican and Contemporary China, Barbara Mittler
Forbidden Games: Women and Gambling in Shanghai, Paola Zamperini
From Myths to Jokes: Political Parodies in Post-Mao China, Howard Y. F. Choy
The Catastrophe Remembered by the Non-Traumatic: Counter Narratives on the Cultural Revolution in Chinese Literature of the 1990s, Yue Ma
Feng Xiaogang’s Films and Contemporary Chinese Art, Rui Zhang
Screening Gay Sovereignty: Politics of Homo-Economic Libidinale and Heterotopic Polity in Contemporary Chinese Queer Cinema, Jiayan Mi
Interculturalism in Zhang Yimou’s Stage Productions, Siyuan Liu
Indigenizing the "Confucian Civilizing Project" in Ming Southwest China: The Development of a Yi Epistemology and Educational Philosophy in the Canon of Yi and Han Teachings, Jacob T. Whittaker
Fostering a Culture of Resistance: Local Reactions to the Qing Civilizing Project in Eighteenth-Century Guizhou, Jodi L. Weinstein
The Hei Miao, the Hua Miao, and the Protestant "Civilizing Project" in Early-Twentieth-Century Guizhou, Daniel W. Crofts
"Chinese-Muslim" Agency in Confucian Structure: A Hui Civilizing Project Situated, Kevin Caffrey
From Thunder Writs to Thunder Scriptures: Marshaling Thunder and Imagining Justice in Late Imperial China, Lowell Skar
A Reading of Thunder Gods: Pantheons as Maps to Daoist History, Mark R. E. Meulenbeld
Wielding the Breath of the Nine Heavens: The Iconography of Leisheng puhua tianzun, Poul Andersen
How to Call a Celestial Marshal: The Banner-Writing Invocation of Marshal Yin in Contemporary South-Central China, David Mozina
Session 170: Patterns of Power and State Development in Contemporary China
Reconfiguring the Chinese State, Dali Yang
The Politics of Selective Centralization and Decentralization in China: Evidence from Intellectual Property Rights, Environmental Protection, and Securities Regulation, Martin Dimitrov
Local Governance, State Power, and Informal Institutions in Rural China, Lily Tsai
Session 171: The Virtues of Spontaneity: New Perspectives on Spontaneity in Early China
Qing and Spontaneity in the Pre-Qin Period, Ying Li
Is Spontaneity a Gendered Ideal in Early Chinese Philosophy? Yiqun Zhou
Spontaneity and Language in the Zhuangzi, Jie Chai
Spontaneity and Strategy: Modes of Divination and Prediction in Early Chinese Military Works, Lisa Raphals
Session 172: Before Reunification: Military and Socio-Political Aspects of Sixth-Century China
The Role of the Tuoba Kingdoms of North China in the Imperial State Formation of the Early Türks, Michael R. Drompp
Li Jing’s Antecedents: Continuity and Change in the Pragmatics of Medieval Chinese Warfare, David A. Graff
A Blurring of the Borders: Interstate Mobility in Sixth-Century China, Charles W. Holcombe
The Way of the Warrior of the Northern Dynasties, Scott Pearce
Session 173: Women and Cognitive Transformation in Late Qing China
Twelve World Heroines: Western Exemplars, Japanese Mediations, and Chinese Appropriations at the Turn of the 20th Century, Joan Judge
The Rightful Heir: Wu Zhiying and the Tongcheng Tradition, Ying Hu
Borrowing Mirrors and Candles, from Where? Ideological and Cultural Resources for Late Qing Women Reformers, Nanxiu Qian
State-Sponsored Resettlement in Inner Mongolia: A Case Study in Environmental Forced Migration, Jeannine W. Brown
Ecological Migration as a Human Rights Issue, Enhebatu Togochog
Pastoral Development, Ecological Construction, and Grassland Degradation in the Ordos Plateau, Western Inner Mongolia, Hong Jiang
Land Reclamation in the Chakhar Region and Environmental Transformation, S. Sodbilig
Session 188: Representing China: Interpreters, Translators, Ambassadors, or Cultural Compradors?
Who Represents China? Lin Yutang vs. the New American Experts of the 1930s and 1940s, Qian Suoqiao
Feng Youlan, Derk Bodde, and A History of Chinese Philosophy, Xiaoqing Diana Lin
Doctoring China: The United States and China and The United States and China (1948), Charles W. Hayford
The Politics and Poetics of Imperial Sightseeing: The Qianlong Emperor’s Southern Tours, 1751–1784, Michael G. Chang
A Translocal Lineage and the Romance of Homeland Attachment: The Pans of Suzhou in Qing China, Yongtao Du
Kuang Lu’s Chiya and the Cantonese Literary Construction of Guangxi, Steven B. Miles
Session 190: Rhetoric and Canonization: Valorizing Women’s Writing in Late Imperial China
Deriving Authority from Patriarchy: The Textual Politics of the Qing Women’s Anthology Zhengshi ji, Xiaorong Li
The Rhetoric of Legitimation: Prefaces to Women’s Poetry Collections from the Song to the Ming, Sufeng Xu
The Rhetoric of Valorization: Women’s Moral Authority in Ming-Qing China and Victorian England, Binbin Yang
Getting It Wrong: Ditties of the Alleyway and the Divergence of Scholar-Courtesan Life in Sun Qi’s Beilizhi, Linda Rui Feng
The Illegible Truth: Reading Ancient Scripts in the Late Ming, Bruce Rusk
Lost in Translation: Tibetan Inscriptions in the Tomb of the Qianlong Emperor, Nixi Cura
Secret Codes and Nefarious Plots: The Use of Thieves Cant (Jianghu Heihua) in Nineteenth-Century Marital Arts Fiction, Paize Keulemans
Session 192: Negotiating Legal Boundaries: The Politics of Trials in Qing and Modern China
Chinese by Definition: The Making and Practice of Nationality Law, 1909–1980, Dan Shao
Punishment, Pathos, and Imperial Prerogative: Rhetoric and Representation in Capital Case Records, Thomas Buoye
Politics and Principle in the Conduct of a Mid-Qing Slander Case, Janet M. Theiss
Media on Trial: The New Life Case in Shanghai, 1935, Sei Jeong Chin
Listening to Chinese Cinema: Film Clips for Elementary Chinese Listening Comprehension, Stephanie Hoare
The Role of Film in Enhancing Cultural Literacy, Madeline K. Spring
Pop Goes the Film: Toward a Pedagogy of Idiomatic Chinese, Shelley Wing Chan
Developing Advanced Language Competence through Film, Jianhua Bai
Session 208: Reexamining the Social Experiments of the Mao Zedong Era
Minzhu guanli: The "Democratization" of Factory Management in the Chinese Revolution, Robert K. Cliver
Social Capital in a Socialist Context: Creating a New Elite at Chinese People’s University, Douglas A. Stiffler
The Cultural Revolution and Democratic Participation in Rural China, Dongping Han
"Mass Recommendation" of "Worker-Peasant-Soldier" Students during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Joel Andreas
Session 209: Westerners in China’s Borderlands and Beyond
Gilmour of Mongolia: The Missionary without a Convert, Kathleen L. Lodwick
Owen Lattimore’s Empathy with Mongolia, Temule
Female Roles in Flux: Maryknoll Sisters and Hakka Women in Republican China, M. Theresa Kelleher
Western China through Western Eyes, Linda Benson
Session 210: Technologies of Memory and the Politics of Value in Contemporary China
The Rubbish Heap of History: Valuing the Past in the Museum of Macau, Cathryn H. Clayton
Reading Old Photographs in Contemporary China, Eileen Chow
Reclaiming Authority: The Politics of Lost Privilege in Contemporary China, Jennifer Hubbert
School Commemoration, Local Identity, and the Politics of Forgetting in Contemporary Jiangnan, Robert M. Culp
Voices Out of Time: Dual Resistance in Discourses on Women’s Suicide in Rural China, Sharon R. Wesoky
How Women Fought the War: CCP Mobilization of Shanghai Women for Wartime Resistance, 1937–1945, Allison Rottmann
"Forced to Sell Our Liberty": The Struggle between Feminism and Patriotism in China’s War of Resistance, 1937–1945, Susan Glosser
Hybridity in Hong Kong: Localization as Resistance to Globalization among Women’s NGOs, Lisa Fischler
The Rise of Localism? The Construction of a "Wu Tradition" in the Yuan Dynasty, Wenyi Chen
Locality and Belonging in Ji’an during the Song-Ming Transition, Anne T. Gerritsen
The Distinction between "Local Fishery" and "State-Owned Rivers": Evidence from Newly Uncovered Documents, Hongsheng Liang
Session 213: Printing and Religion in Late Imperial China
Religion and Printing in Nineteenth-Century Sichuan: A Case Study, Elena Valussi
Printing and Religions in Competition: Protestant Missionaries’ Encounters with Indigenous Religions in South China, Kai-wing Chow
Printing, Evangelism, and Sinology: A Historical Appraisal of the Sinological Publications by Protestant Missionaries in South China, Timothy Man Kong Wong
Printing the Dharma: Buddhist Publishing Activities in the Late Qing Period, Francesca Tarocco