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Session 15, Reassessing the Rule of Law in China
Disaggregating the Rule of Law in China, Martin Dimitrov
What's Just? What's Legal? Generational Effects on Legal Mobilization in China, Mary E. Gallagher
Administrative Law and Political Transition in China, Neysun Mahboubi
Markets and Civil Justice in China, Margaret Woo
Session 16, Understanding Chinese Prime-Time Television Drama: Narrative Forms and Social Agencies
Remaking "Red Classics" in Chinese Television Series, Qian Gong
Chronicling the Personal: Narrative Forms and Social Agencies in Chinese Prime-Time TV Drama, Shuyu Kong
Dealing with Official Corruption on Primetime Television: A Study of Lu Tianming’s Three Anti-Corruption Dramas, Ruoyun Bai
The Maid in the City: Televisual Representation of Domestic Workers in Contemporary China, Wanning Sun
Building China’s Telecommunications Network: Market Competition and Technology Transfer, Eric Harwit
Is China Emerging as a High Tech Standards Maker: Government Policy and Institutional Restructuring, Alex Zixiang Tan
Between Bureaucrats and Markets: China's Frustrating Involvement in Standards Wars, Scott Kennedy
Session 18, Political Theory and Political Theorists in Early Republican China
Unity, Representation and Accountability, Don C. Price
Tang Qunying and Her Sisters: Women’s Rights in the First Year of the Chinese Republic, David Strand
Re-casting Liberalism: ‘Rule by Man’ versus ‘Rule by Law’ in Early Republican China, Leigh Kathryn Jenco
"Culture" in Chinese Political Discourse: Then and Now, Theresa Lee
Session 19, Changes in the Pattern of Women’s Lives in Contemporary China
"To Return or Not to Return Home?" New Dilemmas and Opportunities Facing the Young Female Migrant Workers, Hong Zhang
Economic Reforms, Gender, and Changing Patterns of Labor Force Participation in Urban and Rural China, Margaret Maurer-Fazio
Turning Discourse into Practice: Rural Women’s Pathways in Urban China, Nancy E. Riley
The Effect of Chinese Women’s Migration on their Fertility and other Reproductive Health, Rachel Connelly
Session 20, Understanding Chinese Liberalism and Marxism in the 1930s
New Enlightenment Movement (1936), Chen Boda, and Political Reform in China Today, Shiping Hua
Enlightenment and National Salvation: The Politics of Lu Xun, Hu Shi and Lin Yutang in the 1930s, Qian Suoqiao
An Alternative Approach to Marxism in the 1930s: Feng Youlan and the Search for "Society", Xiaoqing Diana Lin
Session 21, Ideas as Power: Language, Thought, and Memory in Maoist and Post-Maoist China
Yi shi xing tai: How an Anti-Marxist Concept Became State Policy with the Rise of the PRC, Josef Gregory Mahoney
The Pen and the Gun: Mao in the Power Struggle of the Great Cultural Revolution, 1966–1976, Jing Li
Maoist Style and New Chinese Culture, Jin Wu
Old Photos and the Popular Memory of the Cultural Revolution, Li Zeng
Session 38, The Sensory Landscape of the Nineteenth-Century Chinese City
Visuality and Street Spectacle in Early 20th-Century Beijing, James A. Flath
Scents and Sensibility: Perceiving Fragrance (Xiang) in Nineteenth-Century Chengdu, Alexander des Forges
Reading the Acoustic Landscape of Late-Imperial Beijing: Vendor Calls and Storyteller Voices in Nineteenth-Century Martial-Arts Novels and Drumsongs, Paize Keulemans
The Taste of Peaches: The "Water Honey" Variety and the Politics and Poetics of Place in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai, Mark S. Swislocki
Session 39, Modern Chinese Drama and Its Japanese Other
"Civilized Drama" (Wenmingxi) Reconsidered: The Birth of Sino-Japanese Tragedies in Late Qing China, Natascha Vittinghoff-Gentz
Five Faces of Salome: Theatrical Metamorphoses from Tokyo, Shanghai, to Beijing, 1920s–1950s, Liang Luo
The Vision of a Transnational Theater: On the Production of Roar, China! in Japan and China, Xiaobing Tang
Six Taiping Uprising Tragedies as War Dramas: Japanese Invaders and Their Historical Competitors, Xiaomei Chen
Session 40, Between and Around Empires: Resolving Ideological Space within the Tang-Song Transition
"Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern": Political Geography and State Power in the Tang-Song Transition, Ruth Mostern
Loyalties in the Borderlands: Changing Masters in the Early Tenth Century, Naomi Standen
The Tang-Song Transition and the "Imagining" of Guiyi jun Dunhuang (848–1036), Lewis Mayo
Peripheral Visions: Painting in the Five Dynasties–Ten Kingdoms Period, De-nin Deanna Lee
From the "Iron Rice Bowl" to "Compassionate Relief": Towards a Residual Welfare Regime in China, Andre Laliberte
The Role of the Chinese State in Child Welfare, Catherine H. Keyser
The Struggle for Village Public Goods Provision: Informal Institutions and Accountability in Rural China, Lily Tsai
Causes of Effective Policy Implementation: China's Public Health Response to SARS, Jonathan Schwartz
Session 42, Local Visions of the Ming in the Late Qing: Sponsored by the Society for Ming Studies
The Revival of Wang Fuzhi, Stephen R. Platt
The Ming Capital, 1819–1911, Chuck Wooldridge
Pioneer, Martyr, Eccentric: Nineteenth-Century Cantonese Readings of Kuang Lu, Steven B. Miles
The Present of the Past: Different Uses of the Late-Ming in the 1911 Revolution, Tze Ki Hon
Session 43, Analyzing China's Emerging Social Forces
Migrant Labor under Differential Citizenship in China, Jieh-min Wu
Negotiating Women’s Space and Position: The NGO Discourse and Women’s Organizing in China, Yun Fan
From Entrepreneur to Rentier: The Fiscal Crisis of the Local State in Rural China, Yia-Ling Liu
How Political Reforms Respond to Social Forces in Chinese Local Politics, Szu-chien Hsu
Session 57, Social Science Legacies from the 19th Century and Sinology Today
Chinese Cosmology in Social Scientific Theories, Aihe Wang
Unilineal Evolutionism, Essentialism, and Its Sinological Alternatives, Miranda Brown
How Confucianism became a World Religion: Max Muller and the Birth of Comparative Studies of Religion, Anna Sun
Session 58, Roundtable: The Role of Period Journals in Chinese Studies
Baihua Journalism in China before 1911: A New Medium between Propaganda and Commerce, Elisabeth Kaske
Teaching Baihua: Textbook Publishing and the Standardization of China’s Vernacular Language and Literature, Robert M. Culp
Modern, Commercial Classicism: Lin Shu as Textbook Writer and Anthologist, Michael G. Hill
Vernacular Chinese and the Making of the Mass Media in 1930s China, Sei Jeong Chin
The Female Impersonator and the Image of China: Mei Lanfang’s Visit to Japan (1919), the United States (1930) and the Soviet Union (1935), Catherine V. Yeh
Male and Female Advertising: The Making and Breaking of a Tradition, Barbara Mittler
The Making of Modern Icons: The Actresses of Lianhua Film Company, Anne Kerlan-Stephens
China Floating Population Photographs: A Missionary Vision, 1930s, Christine Cornet
Session 61, Science and Power in Twentieth-Century China
Quantifying the Quality of Rice: Agricultural Science and Rice Control Policy in Guomindang, 1927–1937, Seung-joon Lee
From West to East: The Epistemological Transformation of Birth Control in China, 1920s–30s, Michelle King
The Very First Lesson: Teaching about Human Evolution in Early 1950s China, Sigrid Schmalzer
Criticizing Einstein and Relativity: Chinese Scientists and Politicians during the Cultural Revolution, Danian Hu
Reconsidering Women’s Emancipation in Maoist China as a Discourse of Global Liberation, Tina Mai Chen
Marriage Law across China's Revolutionary Century, Margaret Kuo
Where in the Liberation is Funü? The CCP's Internal Struggles to Fix the Figure of Woman and Women-Work (1929–1949), Kimberley Manning
No Change for Thirty Years, Ellen R. Judd
Session 63, Writing the Self: Tibetan Technologies of Subjectivity and Power
The Medical Autobiography of a Scholar-Statesman in Central Tibet, 1703, Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Self as a Faithful Public Servant: Secular Autobiography in Eighteenth-Century Tibet, Lauran R. Hartley
Boiling Water for Tea: Life History and Testimony in the Tibetan Refugee Community, Carole McGranahan
From Tibet to Exile, and Back to China, Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy
Late Qing Incorporation of Northern Kham, Xiuyu Wang
Consolidating the Empire in Its Last Years: The New Ideology of Late Qing Reforms in Xinjiang, James Millward
Governing Beyond the Pass: Shanxi and Southwestern Mongolia in the Late Qing, Justin Tighe
China’s Multilateral Diplomacy toward Asian Financial Cooperation, Injoo Sohn
Women as Entrepreneurs: A Case Study of the Woman’s Commercial and Savings Bank (1924–1955), Yi Lo
Scars of Development: Natural Resources, Development, and War in Sichuan, 1920–45, Jack Hayes
Holding Half the Sky in Chinese Politics? Empirical Findings from Provincial Elites, Fubing Su
The Last State-run Enterprises: Reforms and Regresses in Chinese Universities, Qian Forrest Zhang
Fortress in the Air: The Organizational Model of Taiwanese Export Manufacturing Factories in China, Ming-chi Chen
Forging Social Capital in the Alien Motherland: Taiwanese Business Associations in China, Chih-jou Jay Chen
Foreign Direct Investment, Institutional Innovation and Local Economic Development in China: The Pathway of Kunshan, Sue-Ching Jou
Banking Reforms and the Intensification of FDI-Led Growth in Coastal China, Yifeng Tao
Session 83, Political Reform and Regime Continuity in China: The CCP's Strategy for Survival
What Kind of Party Is This? Joseph Fewsmith
The Lessons of Collapse: CCP Assessments of the Soviet and East European Implosions, David Shambaugh
Turning Wealth into Power? The Evolving Political Influence of "Red Capitalists", Bruce J. Dickson
Official Candidate Losses and Communist Party Gains? Electorates, Selectorates, and Delegates in Mainland China, Melanie Manion
Session 84, Before China Studies: Amateurs, Profession Builders, and the Revolution Paradigm
Anson Burlingame and China’s First Embassy to the United States, John Schrecker
To Educate China in the Humanities and Produce China Knowledge in the United States: The Harvard-Yenching Institute (1924–1928), Shuhua Fan
Snow, White, and the Wartime China Reporters’ Books: Adventures in the Revolution Paradigm, Charles W. Hayford
Jesuit Confusionism: Persistence of Vision in American Cold War Constructs, Martin Powers
The Polygynous Politics of the Modern Chinese Man, Keith McMahon
Concubinage: Institutions and Imaginaries, Naifei Ding
Back to the Future: Nostalgia and Prostitution in China and Beyond, Paola Zamperini
Prostitution, State Feminism and "Sage-Queen" Sexual Order in Taiwan: A Queer Intervention, Hans Huang
Session 86, What is a Commentary before Eastern Han?
Interpreting "Mourning Garments": Commentarial Forms and Content in Relation to the Mourning Rites, with a Focus on the "Sangfu zhuan", Joachim Gentz
Yang Xiong's Fayan as Commentary on the Analects, Michael Nylan
A Reading of Master Fu’s Great Commentary to the Shang shu, Griet M. Vankeerberghen
Session 87, Entangled Rhetorics: Taiwan, Coloniality, and Literary Modernity
Origins of the Modern Novel in Colonial Taiwan, Huei-chu Chu
Entertaining the Greater East Asia: Popular Fiction in Colonial Taiwan during the War Time, Chun-yu Lu
Ode to the Island of Glory: Nishikawa Mitsuru, Exoticism, and Taiwan, Chien-Hsin Tsai
(Re)Mapping Taiwan: Metamorphoses of an Island in Public Discourses and Literature 1945–2005, Shr-tzung Shie
Session 88, Empires and Frontiers
Text and Textile: Han Brocade in the Western Regions, Lillian Lan-ying Tseng
O Pioneers! The Birth of the "Frontier" in Early Medieval China, Xiaofei Tian
The Spread and Use of Chinese Bronze Mirrors in Early Korean Society, Charlotte Horlyck
The "Middle Kingdom" that was India: Discourses on Indian Culture in Medieval China, Yang Lu
Session 104, Studies of Chinese Politics in Asia: A Comparative Perspective
Japan's Chinese Political Studies and Comparative Perspectives, Go Ito
Studies of Contemporary Chinese Politics in Korea, Jae Ho Chung
Chinese Political Studies in Singapore, Hongyi Lai
Politics of China Studies in Taiwan, Tse-Kang Leng
Modernity Remembered: Shi Zhecun’s Century of Writing, Ann L. Huss
Yu Dafu and the Path away from Revolutionary Literature, Charles A. Laughlin
Mang Ke's Wild Things: Flattening the Revolutionary Past, Wendy Larson
Master of the Web: Chen Cun’s Continuous Avant-Garde, Michel Hockx
Session 106, The Elusive Realm of the Real: Historiographies of Chinese Cinematic Realism
Dialectics of Development: Realism and the Chinese Screen in 1933, Andrew Fredrick Jones
Duck and Bicycle Modernity: Taiwan’s Healthy Realism 1965–80, or Nationalism Caught between Shanghai’s Leftist Film and Italian Neorealism, Guo-Juin Hong
Hou, Kiarostami, Panahi, and the Realist Elusion, Jason McGrath
The Modern Text of the Bamboo Annals: A Review of the Major Scholarship and Recent Debates, Dongfang Shao
Recovery of the Bamboo Annals Strip Texts for Shang and Western Zhou, David S. Nivison
One Annals or Two? The Case of the Bamboo Annals, Edward L. Shaughnessy
Session 108: Roundtable: China Studies 40 Years after the Cultural Revolution
Session 109, Equality and Its Discontents in Late Qing China
The Rhetoric of Pingdeng in Transition: From Religious to Political "Equality", Hsi-yuan Chen
Friendship and Equality in Tan Sitong’s Concept of Equality, Jeng-Guo Chen
Zhang Taiyan ’s Vision of "Equality", Viren Murthy
Fear and Loathing: Anti-Egalitarianism in the Late Qing, Peter G. Zarrow
Session 110, Individual Papers: Gender Issues in China Studies
The Significance of Blood Disembodied: Female Body in Medieval Chinese Soteriology, Jiun-Chyi Jessey Choo
The Bed-Sharing Friend: Friendship in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Fiction, Jie Guo
Lin Daiyu's Bildung: Gendered Reception of the Poetics of Reclusion, Luying Chen
A Cage of Voices: Producing the Dagongmei in Modern China, Diana Fu
Bringing Beauty to China's Countryside: Gendered Labor Value and Postsocialist Rural Development, Eileen M. Otis
The Temples of Yunnan: Literati Travel Writing during the Jiajing Reign (1522–1567), Ihor Pidhainy
Sight-Seers, Free-Thinkers and Ascetics: The Many Shapes and Sizes of Travel in Late Imperial Yunnan, Julian Ward
Nodes of Cultural Production: Chinese Local Gazetteers, Travelers, and Travel Writing in Ming China, Joseph R. Dennis
Homeland Faraway: Sojourning and the Reinterpretation of the Native Place, Yongtao Du
Session 127, Political Change in China: Perspectives on Recent Developments
Governance-Driven Democratization? An Exploration into Recent Administrative Reform Initiatives in China, Kenneth W. Foster
Deliberative Institutions and Urban Governance in China, Baogang He
Property Rights, Community Building, and the Democratization of the Urban Planning Profession in China, Dan Abramson
Shaped by Social Protest: Evolution of the Letters and Visits System in Contemporary China, Xi Chen
Session 128, Male Friendship in Ming China
Friendship through Fourteenth-Century Fissures: Dai Liang, Wu Sidao and Ding Henian, Anne T. Gerritsen
Friendship and Jiangxue (Philosophical Debates) in Sixteenth-Century China, Martin W. Huang
Music and Male Bonding in Ming China, Joseph S. C. Lam
Dreams of Friendship: Fan Juqing and Zhang Yuanbo in the Ming Dynasty, Kimberly Besio
Session 129, New Identities, Different Memories: Women in the War of Resistance against Japan
"I'm Also Human": Experiences and Activism among Wartime Chongqing's Women Workers, Joshua Howard
Gender and Remembering the War: Negotiating Gender Identity in Public and Private Memories of the Anti-Japanese War in Chongqing, Danke Li
Their Own Voices: Communist Women in the War of Resistance against Japan, Yihong Pan
Zheng Chouyu and the Search for a Poetic Voice in Modern China, Christopher Lupke
Wang Xiaobo: An Existential Poet in Disguise, Yibing Huang
Laws of Nature: Yan Li and the Natural Environment, Paul Manfredi
Session 131, Faith on Display: Tourism, Pilgrimage, and the State in Contemporary China
Spirit Money: Tourism on the Sacred Slopes of Mount Tai, Brian R. Dott
Pilgrimage Tourism and Existing Problems among the Uyghurs, Reyila Dawuti
Red or Green: The Transformation of Revolutionary Sacred Sites in China, Yu Luo
Rhetorics of Development and the Politics of Exchange among Tibetans in Qinghai Province, Charlene Makley
Migrant Farming, Urbanization, and Idioms of Development in Lhasa, Tibet, Emily T. Yeh
Modernity, Religion and Urban Space in Contemporary Lhasa, Robert Barnett
Tibetan Unicode becomes "Duo-code": Social and Technical Pressures of Minority Language Computing in China, Christopher E. Walker
Session 133, The Spatial Analysis of Chinese History and Society
Spatial Ontologies in China's History: Points, Polygons, and Networks, Peter K. Bol
Reconstructing Past River Courses with Remote Sensing and Ancient Sources, Zhimin Man
Migration in North China, 1985–2000: Insights from the Hierarchical Regional Space Model, Mark G. Henderson
Child Sex Ratios in Jurong Xian, 1933–2000: A GIS-based Longitudinal Analysis, William R. Lavely
The "Shanghai Way": Xia Yan and the Post-Revolutionary Politics of Left-Wing Cinema, 1949–1995, Matthew D. Johnson
"Qing" as Social Relations, "Qing" as Social Action: Lin Shu, the Politics of Feeling and Translating Fiction, 1897–1908, Ellen Huang
The Making of Lu Xun: Patronage, Publishing, and Cultural Production in China, 1918–1938, John Danis
Session 149, The Politics of Female Virtue in China: Eighth to Mid-Twentieth Centuries
The Controversy of Virtue: The Case of Building Daoist Convents for Tang Princesses Jinxian and Yuzhen, Ping Yao
Rethinking Male Loyalty and Female Fidelity: Gendered Virtues? Weijing Lu
The Politics of Female Virtue in Turn-of-the-20th–Century-China: The Case of Tongzhou, Joan Judge
The Changing Context of Female Virtue in Republican Shanghai: Controversy over an Opera Star’s Suicide, Jin Jiang
From Namu to Najie: Tourism, Titillation and the Reshaping of Mosuo Identity, Eileen Rose Walsh
"Chaos (luan)" and "Order": Tourism Enterprise, Social Status, and the Multiple Narratives of Kinship in a Dai Village, Jing Li
Cosmopolitanism and Gender Performance among Sani Yi and Bai Women in Yunnan, Margaret Byrne Swain
Sustainable Tourism, Community Participation, and Ethnic Voices: Why Always A Muddy Pool, Fuquan Yang
Session 151, The Material of Tang Literature
Becoming Material: From Story to Object, Sarah M. Allen
Variations in Dunhuang Poetic Manuscripts, Christopher Nugent
The Idea of Writing as Demonstrated in the Technical Poetics of the Tang and Five Dynasties, Yugen Wang
Word Markets: Producing, Purchasing, and Marketing Literature in the Tang Dynasty, Alexei Ditter
Session 152, Micromanaging Authoritarianism: Party, Local Interests, and Policy Outcomes
Rightful Resistance in the Chinese Countryside: Opportunities and Perceptions, Kevin J. O'Brien
Inner Party Democracy? An Exploration of Three Townships in Sichuan, Victor Shih
Knowledgeable Citizens, Informed Community and Democratic Practices in Rural China, John Kennedy
Local State Capacity and Expenditure on Education in China, Gang Guo
Session 153, Transmuting Trauma: Representations of Twentieth-Century History in Chinese Literature
Loss beyond Telling: Chinese Lyric Poetry in 1900, Shengqing Wu
Writing the Nanjing Massacre between New Culture and New Life: Ah Long's Nanjing, Michael S. Berry
From Traumatic History to Everyday Life: Constructing the Mundane "Realities" of the Cultural Revolution in the Fictions of Yu Hua and Wang Anyi, Yue Ma
A Personal Matter: The New Century's Poetic Response to the Tiananmen Tragedy, Chaohua Wang
Session 154, Individual Papers: Issues of Local Governance in Contemporary China
Accountability and Corruption in China's Village Elections, Hiroki Takeuchi
Korea Town in Beijing: Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Class in a Globalized China, Kwang-Kyoon Yeo
Gender Differences within the Danwei System: Intimacy, Women's Work and Family life in Urban China, Jieyu Liu
The Role of the Government in Voluntary Environmental Scheme: The Case of ISO 14001 in China, Sangbum Shin
Identifying the Economic Governance in China: The Case of Automobile Industry, Yukyung Yeo
Session 169, Revisiting Imperialism in China: New Light from the Chinese Maritime Customs Archives
The Ambiguities of an Imperial Institution: Crisis and Transition in the Chinese Maritime Customs, 1899–1911, Richard S. Horowitz
The Chinese Maritime Customs Service and the Chinese Native Customs, 1901–1931, Weipin Tsai
"Disparate Things into a Whole": Shipping Rights Recovery on the Upper Yangzi River, 1929–1935, Anne Reinhardt
The American I.G.: L.K. Little and the End of the Foreign Inspectorate, 1943–50, Robert A. Bickers
Session 170, Local Knowledge and the State in Chinese Inner Asia
Water and Irrigation in the Oasis of the Tarim Basin: A Preliminary Study of History and Current Situation, Yasin Ashuri
Religion, Culture, and Uyghur Personal Names, Mahire Yakup
"Words of the Ancestors": Cultural Heritage and Modernity in a Lost Wedding Tradition of the Salars, Arienne M. Dwyer
Words Have Memories: Semantic Identity and Conflict in Mongolian and Chinese, Naran Bilik
Flowing Water and the Qin Music in Ouyang Xiu's (1007–72) Chuzhou Poetry, Sujane Wu
Shao Yong's (1011–77) "Great Chant on Observing Weiqi": An Archetype of Neo-Confucian Poetry, Zu-yan Chen
Creative Verve in Su Shi’s (1037–1101) Calligraphy and Ci Poetry, Madeline Men-Li Chu
Poet-Painters and Poetic Paintings in the Northern Song, Elizabeth Brotherton
Session 172, Forty Years After: The Cultural Revolution through Multidisciplinary Perspectives
The Fall of Liu Shaoqi in the Cultural Revolution, Yongyi Song
Mao Zedong, Althusser, and the Cultural Revolution, Jian Guo
Ideology and Cosmology: Maoist Discussions on Physics and the Cultural Revolution, Yinghong Cheng
Session 173: Roundtable: Historians of China as World History Authors
Techniques of Poetic Expression in The Story of the Stone, Dore Levy
Hongloumeng: A Portrait of the Novelist as a Young Man, Liangyan Ge
Illustrating the Strange in the Era of Lithography: Wang Tao’s Hou Liaozhai zhiyi in the Dianshizhai huabao, Ling Hon Lam
The Aesthetic Turn in Xiaoshuo: Poeticization of Fiction in Chinese Tradition, Ming Dong Gu
Session 175, Re-inscriptions: Poetic Engagement and Late Socialist Cultural Identity
Online Poetry and New Cultural Populism in Contemporary China, Michael Day
Exile, Audience, and Aura: Contemporary Chinese Poetry and the Place of Translation, Lucas Klein
"Erotic Photos" and "The Obsession of Refusal": Repositioning Chinese Women Poets at the Turn of the New Century, Rui Shen
Rewinding the Lines: Lyric Minoritarianism and Depoeticization in New Chinese Cinema of Poetry, Jiayan Mi
Session 176, Shaping the Literary World: Li Kaixian's (1502–1568) Songs, Plays, and Biographies
Li Kaixian (1502–1568) and the Gaiding Yuanxian chuanqi (Changed and Edited Plays by Yuan-Dynasty Masters), Wilt L. Idema
Li Kaixian, Early Song Drama, and Discourses on Dynastic Legitimacy, Patricia A. Sieber
The Making of a Master in Drama and Sanqu in the Mid Ming: Li Kaixian's Role, Influence, and Self-Fashioning, Tian Yuan Tan
"So then He Sez to Me, He Sez": Li K’ai-hsien as Biographer, Daniel Bryant
Session 192, Chinese Chuanqi Drama in the Qing Dynasty: Evolution and Naturalization
Can Tears Suffice? Meng Chengshun (1599–ca.1684) Responds to the Fall of the Ming, Katherine Carlitz
The Onstage Life of Two Politically Sensitive Plays by the Suzhou Playwright Li Yu (c. 1591–1671), Catherine Swatek
Theatricality, Historicity, and the Interplay of Text and Commentary in Taohua shan, Lei Chen
Ritual into Play: The Theatricality and Social Functions of Qing Court Pageantry, Liana Chen
Session 193, The Chinese City: A Critical Multidisciplinary Assessment of Recent Research
From the Mountains and Fields: Urban Transition in the Anthropology in China, Li Zhang
The Great Disconnect: Is History Relevant in Chinese Urban Studies? Kristin Stapleton
The "Third Spring" of Urban Planning in China: Resurrecting Professional Planning in the Post-Mao Era, Michael Leaf
Urbanization, Urbanism and Urbanity in China: A Critical Assessment of the Literature in Geography, Laurence J. C. Ma
Political Participation in Chinese Villages: The Impact of Micro-Communities on Individual Behavior, Pierre-Francois Landry
"Peasants' Burdens" and State Response: Explaining the Causes and Predicting the Consequences of State Concession to Popular Tax Resistance in Rural China, Ethan Michelson
Grassroots Governance, Rural Tax-For-Fee Reform and Public Goods Provision in Rural China, Scott Rozelle
Session 195, Knowledge, Power, and Practice in Qing Scientific and Medical Illustrations
Cultivating Auspiciousness, Curing Gentlemen: Daoist Iconography in the Golden Mirror of Medical Learning (Yi zong jin jian , 1742), Yi-Li Wu
Illustration and Authority in late Qing Missionary Publications, Ryan Dunch
Diagrams, Charts, and Symbolic Representation in Late-Qing Textbooks on Logic, Joachim Kurtz
Session 196, East-Asianism in Chinese Mass Media
Japan in Chinese Language Films Financed by Japanese, Tonglin Lu
Chinese Television and "Chinese Revitalization", Kang Liu
Initial D as an "East Asian" Film, Gary Xu
Prosodically Motivated Genre Evolution of Sao and Fu, Shengli Feng
The Prosody and Its Poetic Effect in the Han Trisyllabic Lines, Suh-Jen Yang
Poem or Essay? The Poetic View of the Inscription and Its Significance for the History of Chinese Poetry, Zhangcan Cheng
The Consistency of Shen Yue's Poetic Metrical Theory and Poem Composition: A Linguistic Perspective, Hongming Zhang
Session 198, Environmental Governance and State Capacity in China
Public Participation and Environmental Policymaking in China, Timothy Hildebrandt and Jennifer L. Turner
The Problems with Regulatory Innovation in China, Ruth Greenspan Bell
Public Participation in China’s Environmental Enforcement: A Cash Reward Informant Program, Xuehua Zhang
Translating Regulatory Promise into Environmental Progress: Institutional Capacity and Environmental Regulation in China, Wanxin Li
Session 203, Individual Papers: Reflections on Religion: Buddhism, Shamanism, and Protestantism
Eroticized Gender Relations among Shamans and Deities in the Jiu Ge (Nine Elegies) of Early China, Thomas Michael
Bringing the Kingdom to the Southwest: The Consonance of Theology and Scientific Border Research at Chengdu’s West China Union University, 1920s–1940s, Jeff McClain
When the Buddha was a Woman: Innovation in the Theravada, Karen Derris
Bhutapratyavaksa: A New Basis for the Hinayana-Mahayana Distinction? Martin Adam
Session 216, Commodification and Social Activism: Cases from Mainland China and Taiwan
Commodification and Worker Protests in China, Ching Kwan Lee
Commodification of Farmland in China, Youtien Hsing
When Labor and Nature Strike Back: A Double Movement Saga from the Industrialization of Postwar Taiwan, Hwa Jen Liu
Cooperating with the Central, Confronting at the Local: How Chinese Environmental Movements Flourished in the Early 2000s, Jun Jin
Of Revolution and Reform: Two Faces of Environmental Activism in China, Guobin Yang
Session 217, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Republican Legal System in Transition
Minor Wife and Household Member: The Concubine’s Dual Identity in Republican China, Lisa Tran
Custom and Adjudication in an Early Republican Rural Court, Qin Zhang
Suing the State: The Pingzhengyuan Administrative Court in Early Republican China, Danny Hsu
Coming to Blows: Killing in an Affray and the Intent to Harm in Republican Law, Jennifer Neighbors
Session 218, Integrating Content and Skills: Curricula and Resources
Curriculum Development for Training Advanced CFL Learners: Rationales, Resources, and Possibilities, Chuanren Ke
Moving toward the Superior Level through Chinese Filmic Comedy, Cynthia Y. Ning
On Teaching Traditional Chinese Opera in Chinese Culture Courses, Marjorie K. M. Chan
Web Resources for Contents and Skills: How do We Find and Use Them? Tianwei [Tim] Xie
Male Patronage and Cultural Exchanges: Ling Shuhua's Literary Transactions, Eileen J. Cheng
With this Lingo, I Thee Wed: Language and Marriage in Yang Buwei's Autobiography of a Chinese Woman, Jin Feng
Chinese Women's Autobiographical Storytelling Abroad, Jing M. Wang
Autobiographical Mode of Cinematic Representation: A Study of Contemporary Chinese Women Directors, Lingzhen Wang
Session 233, News, Rumors, and Hearsay in Imperial China: Three Cases from Song, Ming, & Qing
"Court Gazettes" and "Short Reports": The Blurry Boundaries between Official News and Rumor, Hilde De Weerdt
The Perception of Late Ming Nanjing, Siyen Fei
Rumors, Hearsay and the Qianlong Emperor's Southern Tours, Michael G. Chang
Session 234, Western Influence on Chinese Mass Media in the Republican Era
Way Down East, Way Down West: Hollywood Films in 1920s China, Qiliang He
The Impact of the Foreign Press on Modern Chinese Literature, Jue Wang-Rice
American Impact on the Professionalization of Chinese Journalism, 1910s–1930s, Yong Volz
Representations of Place and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Commercial Art, Warner Brown
Session 235, Popular Urban Culture and Sexuality in Republican China: A Comparative Study
Shanghai Dance Halls and China's Sexual Revolution in the 1930s, Andrew Field
Construction and Identity: Ta Kung Pa: Family and Women, and Urban Women’s Culture, Jie Hou
Urban Consumption and Sexuality in Beiping during the Nanjing Decade (1928–1937), Rachel Hui-chi Hsu
Writing for Entertainment in 1920s Guangzhou and Hong Kong, Angelina Chin
Quantitative and Qualitative Nationalisms: History Education and the Limits of Chineseness in the People’s Republic of China, Alisa Jones
History Education, Museums and the Drive to Promote "National" Consciousness in Post-1997 Hong Kong, Edward Vickers
A Dualistic Self: Taiwanese History Teachers’ Perceptions of how Ethno-National Consciousness is Taught through "National" History, Stephane Bruno Corcuff
History and National Education in Singapore, Chor Boon Goh
The Great Downsizing of 1961–1963 and Rural-Urban Relations in the Tianjin Region, Jeremy Brown
Native-Place Organization in Urban China: A Conduit for Migrants’ Demands? Erik Mobrand
Settling into Uncertainty: Migrants in Suburban Beijing, Friederike Fleischer
The Rural-Urban Divide and the Politics of Labor Market (Trans)formation in China, Guang Lei
Session 238, China in the Developing World
China's Growing Interest in Latin America and Its Implications, He Li
China and Africa: Lodestone of the Beijing Consensus, Barry Sautman
Marginality Transformed: The Political Economy of China's Relations with the Middle East, Yitzhak Schichor
China's Changing Political Economy with Southeast Asia, Samuel C. Y. Ku
Forging a Path through the "Thicket of Sayings", Scott B. Cook
Divination, Sacrifice and Knowledge in Warring States China, Mark Csikszentmihalyi
The Embodied Mind: Self and Self-Cultivation in the Guodian Texts, Edward G. Slingerland
Session 240, Zones of Contact: Identity and Cultural Practice in Modern Inner Asian Borderlands
A Chinese yinyang in Ordos, Ellen McGill
Borderlanders in Empire and Nation: Banner People, Manzu, and Manchuria (1909–1985), Dan Shao
Whose is the Dominant Culture? Han Chinese Parishioners of Tibetan Buddhist Temples, Gray Tuttle
The "Middle Ground" in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland of Eastern Tibet: Indigenes, the Qing Empire and the Republic of China, Yudru Tsomu