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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


Session 14: History and Historical Fiction: New Studies of Sanguo Yanyi ("Romance of the Three Kingdoms") and Shuihu zhuan ("Water Margin")

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


Session 15: Mapping Indigenous Inner Asian Cultures in the Qing Period China Historical Geographic Information System

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


Session 17: Approaching Authenticity: Expressions of the Genuine in Drama and Narrative of Late Imperial China

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


Session 18: In Search of New Agents of Mediation and Control in Changing Local Societies: Late Qing and Early Republican China in Transition

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


Session 34: A New Civil Society since the 1990s? Opportunities and Challenges Facing Non-Governmental Organizations in China

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


Session 36: The Shadowy Theater of Chinese Cinema: Traversing the Boundaries between Twentieth-Century Chinese Cinema and Drama

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


Session 39: Bureaucratic Incorporation, the Rise of a Local Star, and Buddhist Scriptures Printing: Vicissitudes of Qing-Tibetan Relations in Khams (Eastern Tibet)

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


Session 53: Regions and Interactions: Different Levels of Inter-relationships amongst the Bronze Cultures of China

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 54: Roundtable: A Reign of Great Significance: Recasting Wanli and His Era from an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Sponsored by the Society for Ming Studies


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


Session 56: Tensions in Urban China: Transformed Relations and Reconfigured Spaces among Families and Communities

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


Session 57: Imperial Forces, Local Voices: The Symbolic and Social Significance of Architecture on the Chinese Mainland

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


Session 58: Individual Papers: Literary Theory, Aesthetics, and Poetics in Medieval and Early Modern China

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


Session 78: Ambiguous Allegiances: Traitors, Loyalists, Collaborators, and the Boundaries of Hanjian-ism

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


Session 93: China through Its Art: Collecting and Scholarship in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States and Britain

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


Session 96: New Insights from the Yellow Earth: Re-interpreting Early China through Recent Archaeological Discoveries: Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Early China

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


Session 111: Democracy in Offshore Chinese Societies under Beijing’s Shadow: Elections and Realpolitik in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, 2003–04

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


Session 115: Perspectives on Performance: Self-Referentiality and Late Imperial Chinese Drama: Sponsored by CHINOPERL

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


Session 130: Consuming and Producing Women: Gender, Work, and Consumption in Republican China’s Urban Space

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


Session 131: The Political Economy of Technological Transformation: The Emergence of China as a Technological Power

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


Session 134: Contextualizing Chinese Cyberspace: The Politics of the Internet through the Triangular Prism

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


Session 135: How to Remember? The Qing, the Japanese, and Historical Studies in Twentieth-Century China

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


Session 149: Encompassing Comparisons and Parallel Discourses: New Approaches to Comparative Intellectual History

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


Session 150: Roundtable: Chinese Immigration History: Role and Future of Ethnic-Specific Museums in the Americas


Session 151: Reflections on the History of Celestial Masters Daoism: Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions

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


Session 152: Economic Warlordism, Internal Trade Discrimination, and Localism: Local Protectionism in China’s Economic and Administrative Reform

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


Session 154: Individual Papers: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Internationalism in Contemporary Chinese Cultural Production

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


Session 168: Civilizing Projects in Late Imperial and Contemporary Southwest China: Responses to Confucianism, Christianity, and Islam in Yunnan and Guizhou

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


Session 169: Marshaling the Powers of Thunder: Violent Designs and Bureaucratic Forms in Daoist Exorcism since the Song Dynasty: Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions

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


Session 187: Ecological Migration: Environment, Ethnicity, and Human Rights in Inner Mongolia: Sponsored by the Mongolia Society

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


Session 189: Constructing Hierarchies of Place: Three Studies of Late Imperial Chinese Travel Writing

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


Session 191: The Meanings of Nonsense: Imagining Linguistic and Social Disorder in Chinese Literary and Visual Culture

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


Session 193: Cinema in the Chinese Language Classroom: Sponsored by the Chinese Language Teachers' Association

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


Session 211: Resistance as Everyday Life: Gendering "Continuity and Change" in China’s Twentieth-Century Political Transitions

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


Session 212: Between the Local and the National: Negotiating One’s Place in Jinhua Prefecture and Jiangxi Province

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