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Strange Tales of Two Cities: The Movement of Populations and Memories between Kaifeng and Hangzhou, Benjamin Ridgway
Dancing with the Dead: The Morbid Genealogy of Early Medieval Chinese Festivals, Ian Chapman
Strange Tales of Death and Marriage in Late Medieval China, Jiun-Chyi Jessey Choo
Death and Non-human History in Medieval Dunhuang, Lewis Mayo
Views from the Central Plain: The Ming As Seen in the Histories of Three City Walls., Roger V. Des Forges
Building Histories around Ming Hangzhou: A Case of Two Heroes, Desmond Cheung
Creating and Re-Creating Local Histories in Ming Dynasty Border Regions, Joseph R. Dennis
"Our Identity Unchanged for Millennia": Wang Ao and the Ming Dynasty Reinterpretation of Suzhou, Olivia Milburn
Session 18, Elite Networking in Late Qing and Republican China
Culture from Connections: Guanxi Networks that Shaped the Kaiming Press, 1925-1930, Ling Arey Shiao
Local Charities That Shook the World: Transnational Merchant Networks and Famine Relief in Guangzhou, 1907-1927, Seung-joon Lee
Native-place Ties in the Making of Lu Xun, 1902-1938, John Danis
The Young China Association and the Benefit the Masses Book Society: The Dialectics of May Fourth Social Networking, Shakhar Rahav
Between Forgetting and the Repetitions of Memory: Gazing at Ruins in Springtime in a Small Town, Carolyn FitzGerald
The "Common" Affect: Zhang Henshui, Manei, and the "East Asian" Identity, Gang Xu
Silence of the Lamb: Minnie Vautrin’s Accounts of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, Jin Feng
Session 20, Authority Structures in Amdo/Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan: Conflict and Compromise
A Mellifluous Voice: The Life Work of Alag Tsetan Zhabdrung Jigmé Rigpé Lodrö, Nicole Willock
The Lifanyuan and the Qing Administration in Amdo: Xining, Qinghai, Ning Chia
Amdo Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries as Political Centers in the Qing, Gray Tuttle
Tibetan Buddhist Authority Structures in Amdo, Paul Nietupski
Session 21, Identifying Realities and Setting Priorities: State Control in Imperial China
Claiming the Maritime Border: Qing Integration of Taiwan, Jennifer Rudolph
Smooth and Comfortable Transitions: Song Regulations Governing Official Travelers, Cong Zhang
The Road to a Sound Fiscal State: Warfare, Taxes and Power in a Period of Turmoil, 900-1000, Guanglin Liu
The Rise of zuji Identity: Translocal practice and the State in Ming and Qing China, Yongtao Du
Sino-Japanese Encounters, Naoko Kato
Mushakôji Saneatsu, Zhou Zuoren, and the utopian village Atarashikimura, Angela Yiu
Prelude to the New Culture Movement: Chen Duxiu’s Transnational Revolutionary Networks, Anne S. Chao
From the "Western Learning" to the Western Canon: How to do Transcultural Political Theory, Leigh K. Jenco
Session 36, Design and Practice of China’s Regulatory Regime
Regulating China’s Media, Doris Fischer
Anti-money Laundering Regulation in the People’s Republic of China: National and International Influences on the Establishment of a Legal and Institutional Anti-money Laundering Framework, Nicole Schulte-Kulkmann
Creating a Regulatory State within Leninist Authoritarianism: Financial Market Reforms in the PR China, Svenja Schlichting
Local States and the Building of a Regulatory State: Implementing Reforms in China’s Cotton Sector, Bjorn Alpermann
Definitions, Policies, Questions: Establishing the Links between Educational Rights and Quality, Heidi A. Ross
Private Higher Education in China: Expanding the Right to Education for Public or Private Good?, Jing Lin
Changing Legal Constructions of the Right to Education and Students’ Rights Consciousness in China, Ran Zhang
Is Quality Education a Right for Village Girls?, Vilma Seeberg
Session 38, Citation, Allusion and Intertexuality in Medieval Chinese Literature
Do You See What I See? Intertextual Landscape and the Formation of the Tang Lyric Subject, Paula Varsano
Authority and Performance: The Qin Cao Tradition, Robert Ashmore
Tao Yuanming’s Citations of the Zhuangzi in Context, Wendy Swartz
Session 39, Women in Chinese Visual Culture as Directors and Actress-scriptwriters
Enunciating Difference in Making Socialist Mainstream Films: A Critical Re-viewing of Dong Kena’s Small Grass on the Kunlun Mountains, Lingzhen Wang
Writing Women on the Silent Screen: 1920s to 30s Shanghai Actress-Writers and the Death of "New Woman", Yiman Wang
Rethinking Women's Films in Contemporary China, Shuqin Cui
From Army Nurse to "Emperor Dramas": Gender, Cultural, and Political Implications of a Woman Director’s Career, Xueping Zhong
Session 40, Plebeian Power: Rethinking the Politics of the Masses in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
The Shanghai Workers’ Movement during the Cultural Revolution: Conjoining Structural and Processual Perspectives, Jun Konno
The Continuous Revolution in Action and its Limits: A Comparative Study of the Cultural Revolution in Ningxia and Guangdong, Lili Wu
Anomie and Resistance among the Educated Youth, 1966-1980: The Contradictions in Creating the New Man in Mao’s China, Michel Bonnin
Revolution is Dead, Long Live the Revolution: The Radicalization of the Cultural Revolution from Below in Hunan, Yiching Wu
Session 41, Interlinking the Community, Nation, and World
Global-Local Nexus: the Steamboat Scenario, Xin Zhang
From "Don’t Talk about National Affairs" to "Teahouse Politicians": Teahouses and Political Culture in Wartime, Di Wang
A Community of the Dispersed: The Culture of Neighborhood Stock Market in Shanghai, Qin Shao
Session 42, Individual Papers on China
The Philosophical Significance of Ocular Metaphors in Ancient Chinese Thought, Anna Ghiglione
The Legitimacy of Race as an Analytical Category in Chinese Studies, Jing Jiang
Portrait of a (Foreign) Lady: Chinese and Japanese Portrayals of Wang Zhaojun , Leo Shingchi Yip
Literature, the Market, and the Culture of Cynicism: On "Linglei" Writings of the "Post-80", Yunshan Ye
The Prominence of the Se-Zither in Early Chinese Musical Practice: A Reanalysis of Zhou and Han Archaeological and Historical Evidence, Ingrid M. Furniss
Session 59, Animal and the Human Other in Contemporary Asian Media and Literature
Ecovisions: Documenting Animals in Recent Ethnographic Film, Anat Pick
Woman-animal Trope in Contemporary Fiction and Film across the Taiwan Strait, Chia-ju Chang
Bugs from the Nether World: Animals in Three Contemporary Chinese Stories, Hua Li
Farmwife, Paper-cut, and Wolf: An Ecofeminist Reading of Jia Pingwa's Ku Mairong, Qingqi Wei
The Making of Cultural Memory in Contemporary China: Looking Beyond the Writing of Suffering, Lingchei Chen
Fashioning History in the Mnemonic Ruins of Post-socialist China, Xiaojue Wang
Whose Cultural Revolution? The Multiple Voices in Wang Anyi’s Individualistic Writing, Chao-mei Tu
Experimenting with Social Realism: Crossing Historical Chronotopes in Uncle Doggie’s Nirvana, Yuwen Hsiung
Letters from China: Chinese female converts and their foreign missionary, Ji Li
A Girl Without Talent is Therefore Virtuous: Girls' Schools and the Ethnic Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore, 1850s-1940s, Karen May-Shen Teoh
Cultural and Gender Hybrids? European Religious Celibates in China, Melissa Dale
New Women in the Contact Zones: American Women's Educational Enterprises in National Revolution Period China, Motoe Sasaki
Staking an Ethical Imperative: the Emotive Bent in Chinese "Ecocinema", Xinmin Liu
A City of Disappearance, Jing Nie
Post-natural Ruins: Public Space and Jia Zhangke’s Cinematic Discontents in the Age of Globalization, Hongbing Zhang
Framing Ambient Umheimliche: Ecoggedon and Water Pathology in New Chinese Cinema, Jiayan Mi
Session 78, Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China
China's Sandwich Media: A Blend of Politics, the Market and Professionalism, Handong Wang
Propaganda in China: Role, Content, Organization, and Working Mechanisms, Juntao Wang
The Re-Birth of the Propaganda State: China’s Modernized Propaganda System, Anne-Marie Brady
Maintaining the Progressiveness of Languages: Linguistic Engineering in China from Mao Zedong to Hu Jintao, Ji Fengyuan
Poetry and Power in the Late Qing Elite Society: Zhang Zhidong’s Secretaries’ Fascination with the High Tang Lyrics, Seungjoo Yoon
Unsustainable Narratives: Developmental Discourse in Late Qing Fiction, Andrew Fredrick Jones
Textual Travels and Traveling Texts: Tracing Aesthetics of the Modern Fantastic in Late Qing Science Fiction, Geraldine A. Schneider
Wu Jianren’s New Story of the Stone and the Ideology of the New Fiction, Luying Chen
Session 80, Capitalism and Religious Change in Taiwan
A Collective Trance Movement in Taiwan, "Converging with the Spirit-Mountain": Transformation and Re-embedding of Folk Religion
Temple Development in Taiwan: Deity’s Efficacy, Migration, and Entrepreneurial Management, Wei-ping Lin
Marketing Ritual: The Changing Relations of Production in Taiwanese Popular Religion, 1990-2005, Avron A. Boretz
Copper, Commerce, and Empire in Qing China’s Southwest, C. Pat Giersch
Imperial Integration: Reconstruction in the Southern Shaanxi Highlands, 1799-1820, Daniel M. McMahon
Seeing Like an Empire: The Qianlong Emperor, Regional Officials and the Suppression of the Miao Revolt, 1795-97, Donald S. Sutton
State Pressure and Local Fissure: How Dege Fell to Qing Incorporation in the 1900s, Xiuyu Wang
Session 82, The Dao that can be Spoken of: Rereading the Laozi
Laozi as A Military Strategy Book – An Alternative Tradition, Ping Zhang
Anaphors or Cataphors? A Discussion of the Two Qi’ Graphs, Gil Raz
Is the Laozi a Daoist Text? Exploring the Notion of School Affiliation through Qing Period Commentaries, Ori Sela
Linguistic Assimilation and Conceptual Focusing: Textual Transformation of the Laozi in Two Millennia, Xiaogan Liu
Dependency vs. Autonomy: Melodramatic Films as Women’s Mobility Narratives in the 1950’s Hong Kong, Shuang Shen
The Persistence of Memory: Wong Kar-Wai’s Imagination of the ‘60s, Sheung-yeun D. Ng
The Figure of the Orphan in Postwar Chinese-Language Cinemas, Zhen Zhang
Session 84, Exercises in Historiography: Approaches to the Study and Collecting of Chinese Art
James Cahill: The Making of a Postwar American Scholars of Chinese Painting, Jason Kuo
Orvar Karlbeck and the Karlbeck Syndicate: 1930-35, Valerie Jurgens
Enchanted by Lohans in Boston: A Turning Point in Osvald Sirén’s Career, Minna Torma
The Season of Jades and Bronzes: New York Chinese Art Exhibitions from 1937-39, Jenny Chao Hui Liu
Session 85, Literati Culture and Professionalism in Modern China
The Cult of "Small Things": The Wenren Tradition and Xiaoshuo Yuebao (Short Story Magazine) in the 1910s, Siao-chen Hu
Wenhua and Chahua: The Development of Illustration in the Early Republican Period, Su-Hsing Lin
Selling the Wenren: Self-Promotion, Shenbao, and the Nineteenth-Century Shanghai Artist, Roberta May-Hwa Wue
In Search of a New Professional Identity: Chen Yan (1856-1937) and His Literary Career After 1912, Shengqing Wu
Ethnic Memory and Space: the Legend of Zhuge Liang on Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, Wenbin Peng
Drung, Nung, and Northwest Yunnan as a Regional System (19th - 20th centuries)., Stephane Gros
Generals, Lamas, and Chieftains: Flawed Attempts at Bureaucratising Sichuan Khams in the Late Qing and Early Republican Periods, Scott Relyea
Ethnic Corridors and Sino-Tibetan Relations: Interpretative Frameworks of 19th Century Kham, David G. Atwill
Session 99, China in Transition: Geopolitics, Literature, and Cinema
A Realism Between Nanjing and Wuhan, Ta-wei Chi
Ah Q Revisited: Jia Zhangke's Xiao Wu and the Postsocialist Reinvention of China's Antihero, Michael S. Berry
Gu Hongming and Chen Jitong: Two Late-Qing Intellectuals and Their Non-Chinese Writings, Chien-Hsin Tsai
Jocular Consumption as Popular Revolution: Political Jokes and Satirical Cartoons in Postcolonial Hong Kong, Howard Y. F. Choy
Messages on Misses, Mistresses and Men in the Mass Media: Comments on Some Popular Verses, Helen X. Wu
Ordinary Life and Melodramatic Imagination, Dongming Zhang
From Bad Girls to Super Girls: Femininity, Individuality, and Democracy, Shelley Wing Chan
Session 101, The Cold War through the Prism of Hong Kong
How Much Can It Propagate in Hong Kong? Mainland-Leaning Media in the Cold War and Beyond, Yan Lu
Contested Colony: Hong Kong in the Cold War, John M. Carroll
Hong Kong and Post-war Colonialism, Prasenjit Duara
The Origins of Public Housing in Hong Kong: Cold War Geopolitics and the Limits of Colonial Power, Alan Smart
Session 102, Gossip, Transformation, and Culture in the Chinese Medieval Tale
Transformation in "Du Zichun": Parallel Universes, Stretched Time, and Illusory Reality, Carrie E. Reed
The Gossiping Communities: Medieval Anecdotes about Men of Letters, Manling Luo
Does Chuanqi Exist? Literary Time and the Case of Yingying, Shun-Chang Kevin Tsai
Poetry and Personality in Tang Fiction, Sing-chen Lydia Chiang
Session 103, Digitalized China: Internet Politics through Multidisciplinary Perspectives
The Significance of the Form of Blog, Zhuo Liu
The Quest to Construct a Harmonious Society, Chiang Chang
Chinese Personality and Online Gaming, Vincent Wei-Feng Ni
Narrating Female Bodies in the Blog, Xin Yang
Session 104, Individual Papers: Class and Development in Contemporary China
The Three Represents and the Four Noble Truths: a Dai Buddhist Faith-based Organization and the Struggle Against HIV/AIDS, Susan McCarthy
Provincial Development Strategy Selection, History, Class and the State: A Study of Two Puzzling Chinese Provinces, John A. Donaldson
The Middle Class and its Ideological Formation in Contemporary China, Jinzhao Li
Undermining State Capacity: Vertical and Horizontal Diffusions of Fiscal Power in China, Jing Vivian Zhan
"Mi-rTag-Pa" through an Ethnography of Development in Eastern Tibet, Gillian G. Tan
China's Divergent Roles in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and ASEAN Regional Forum, Chien-peng Chung
Session 121, Democracy and China's Political Future
Legislating Harmony: Legal Development and Interest Representation in Authoritarian China, Mary E. Gallagher
The Chinese Blogosphere: A Contested Space, Qiang Xiao
Envisioning China's Political Future, Daniel C. Lynch
Legitimacy and China's Future, Bruce Gilley
Session 122, Intersections of Buddhist Practice, Art, and Culture in Tang China
Monks’ Practice in Relation to Buddhist Art, Seventh and Eight Centuries, Dorothy Wong
Patterns of Engagement with Chan Teachings among the Tang Literati, Mario Poceski
Easing the Way to Enlightenment: Rituals of Confession at Chinese Buddhist Cave Temples during the Sixth to Eighth Centuries, Petra Roesch
The Antiquarian Connection: Han Stelae and the Song Discovery of Localism, Miranda Brown
Localism and the New State: Temple Reconstruction in North China after the Jurchen Invasion, Jesse D. Sloane
Power in the Provinces: Local Elites and the State in Late Tang, Nicolas Tackett
Session 125, Science, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life in Late Qing and Republican China
Surface Matters: Skin and Beauty in Modern Chinese Science and Consumer Culture, Eugenia Y. Lean
Embryos, Ideals, and Humanism in Early Twentieth Century China, Jing Tsu
Telegraph, Mechanical Printing, and the Question of Written Chinese at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Yue Meng
Paying for Education, Rachel Murphy
Who Receives Subsidies?, Victor Shih
Has China Reached the Top of the Kuznets Curve?, Carl Riskin
Can the Retreat from Equality be Reversed?, Christine Wong
Session 142, Power and Knowledge in the Making of Sino-Western Relations, 1784-1917
To Arm China: German Military Instructors in China 1871-1914, Cord Eberspaecher
Cosmopolitanism in Crisis? Britain and Germany in the Foreign Staff of the Chinese Customs Service, 1854-1917, Catherine F. Ladds
Strategies, Conflicts and the Beginning of German-Chinese Diplomatic Relations (1859-1866), Andreas Steen
Power and Knowledge of Justice: Sino-British Legal Disputes in Canton, 1784-1839, Li Chen
Session 143, Economic Reforms and Regional Income Inequality in China
Spatial Analysis of City Income Distribution Dynamics in China, Dan Li
Gravitation at Home and Abroad: Regional Distribution of FDI in China, Guangzhou Hu
Technological Catch-up and Capital Deepening in China: A Production-Frontier Analysis of Growth and Convergence, Kiril Tochkov
Economic Reform, Growth, and Convergence in China, Le Wang
Session 145, A New Way to Imagine the Order of the World: Chinese Pictorials of the 1920s and 30s
Creating a New Visual Culture: Shanghai Huabao in the 1920s and 1930s, Julia F. Andrews
Recasting Depravity as the Icon of the Modern: Femme Fatale, Female Impersonator and Female Nude in The Young Companion and The Pei-Yang Pictorial News, Catherine V. Yeh
Visions of the Movie World, Visions of the World in a Chinese Cinematographic Pictorial: The Lianhua Pictorial (Lianhua huabao), Anne Kerlan-Stephens
A Modern Showcase: Shidai (Modern Miscellany) in 1930s Shanghai, Kuiyi Shen
Session 146, Individual Papers on China
Legalism and the Rule of Law in China, Carl Minzner
Class and Marriage in Rural China in the Mao Era, Weiguo Zhang
Zhengfa: The Amalgamation of Politics and Law and its Place in the Making of a Chinese Legal Culture, Agnes Schick-Chen
Written Shamanism of the Yi and Processes of Change in China : Political Subversion and Identity Claims, Aurelie Nevot
Seeking Pleasure and Letting off Steam: The Politics of Older People's Activities in Beijing, Anna Boermel
Choosing Law or Resistance: Strengthening Minority Rights Protection in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Katherine Kaup
Promoting "The China’s Lesson for Cuba": The Chinese Leaders and the Sino-Cuban Relations since 1989, Yinghong Cheng
Ideology and Policies: The Impact of the Cultural Revolution on Hu Jintao Leadership, Yongyi Song
The Legitimacy Crisis of the Post-Mao Regime and the Rise of Chinese Nationalism, Jian Guo
Between Democratic Ideals and Patriotic Values: A Narrative Inquiry into the Education of the Tiananmen Generation, Rowena Xiaoqing He
Network, Word, Image: Mechanized Printing and the Spatial Imagination in Early Twentieth-century China, Robert M. Culp
Sovereignty and Space: The Steamship in Qing China, 1860-1911, Anne Reinhardt
No Place for Train Spotters: Railroads and the Changing Spatial Imagination in Republican China, Elisabeth Koll
Buddhism, Rock, and "Righteous Power" in Contemporary Tibetan Music, Stacey Van Vleet
From Local to Global? Folklore, Patrimony and Authenticity in Tibetan Opera, Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy
Revolutionary Music in Tibet: Identity, Ideology, and Integration, Julia Famularo
Kunqu After UNESCO: A Tale of Three Cities, Isabel K. F. Wong
Session 163, Misplaced and Displaced: Searching the Lost Libraries of Medieval China
Lost and "Found": The Rhyme Dictionaries of Early Medieval China, Meow Hui Goh
Misplaced: Three Qing Manuscripts of A Medieval Poet, Xiaofei Tian
Missing Poems from an Early Medieval Anthology: The Case of He Xun (469-519), Ping Wang
Beyond the Mao Odes: Shijing Reception in Early Medieval China, Martin Kern
Session 164, The Other Chinese Architecture: Historic Structures as Cultural History
The Jincheng Temple of the Two Transcendents: The Implications of Trans-local Influences on Local Style, Tracy G. Miller
The Anji Bridge: Monks and Magistrates in the Building of the World's First Segmental Stone Arch Structure, Ronald Knapp
China's Most Important Yuan Buildings, Nancy S. Steinhardt
Why the Denigration of Pagoda in the Northern Song Landscape?, Eugene Yuejin Wang
Jade, Silks and Satins: Material Culture of the Northwest in the Eighteenth Century Qing Dynasty, Elif Akcetin
Imperial Glories: Qianlong’s Bronzes from Frontiers, Hui-chun Yu
International Politics and Geography in Qing China: The Long Journey of a Place Name, Matthew W. Mosca
Session 166, Making Light of the Modern: Hoaxes and Jokes in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
Can Humor (or Huaji) Save China? Laughter Polemics in the Republican Era, Christopher G. Rea
The Ancient Art of Falling Down: The Physical Trajectories of Jackie Chan’s Kungfu Slapstick, Paize Keulemans
Comedy and Cinematic Modernity: Gadgets, Spectacles, and Trick Photography in Laborer’s Love, Xinyu Dong
How to Make Enemies and Influence People: New Youth and the Wang Jingxuan Hoax, Michael G. Hill
Session 167, Dynastic Decline Revisited: New Work on Early Nineteenth-century Chinese History
Views of the Realm in Crisis: The Conversations of Jiang Jixing with his Emperors (1834-59), Pierre-Etienne Will
Money, Economy, and Polity in the Daoguang-Era Paper Currency Debates, William T. Rowe
The White Lotus War: A War Fought on the Terms of the Qing Military, Yingcong Dai
Session 168, State and the Making of Socialist Rent in China’s Urbanization
Embeddedness or Autonomy? Environmental NGOs in Transforming China: The Bureaucratic Competitive Model, Hsin Hsien Wang
Migrants Tactics of Claiming Citizen Rights in Urban China, Jieh-min Wu
Extensive and Intensive Rent-Seeking Relations in China's Private Sector, David L. Wank
Windfall or Disaster? The Rise of Socialist Rentier Class in Urbanization of Rural China, Yia-Ling Liu
A Buried Past: Tomb Inscriptions (muzhiming) on Stone and on Paper, Angela Schottenhammer
Fragments of a Global Past: Local Sources in Jingdezhen, Anne T. Gerritsen
A Vanished Landscape: Local Texts and Historical Space in Song-dynasty Luoyang, Christian de Pee
Revelations of a Missing Paragraph: Zhu Changwen and the Compilation of Local Gazetteers in the Northern Song, Takashi Sue
Session 183, China in the World of Things: Making Connections, Writing Histories
Writing Trade History as if Connections Mattered: Cosmopolitan Tastes in Qing China Before the Opium War, Sucheta Mazumdar
Writing Commodity History as if Connections Mattered: Mappiong the Cosmologies of Capitalism from Business Handbooks in Lare Imperial China, Pengsheng Chiu
Writing Consumption History as if Connections Mattered: Shops and Shopping in Qing China, Antonia Finnane
Writing Stories when Connections (and Money) Matter: Cricket Culture, Gambling and Consumption in Qing Fiction, Paola Zamperini
Living Anarchism in Early Republican China: Gender, Education and Money, Gotelind Mueller-Saini
Free Love, Non-Love and New Sexual Morality: the Struggle between Anarchism and Liberal Reformism in Xin Nuxing (New Women,1926-1929), Rachel Hui-chi Hsu
Discovering Gender in Society: The Woman Question in the Late Qing Anarchist Vision of Total Revolution, Fang-yen Yang
Updating State-managed Publishing in China: Ancient Texts, Qing History and Current Gazetteers, Chengzhi Wang
Approaching Pre-modern China through the Computer: the Benefits and Risks of Using Electronic Resources in Sinological Research, Jidong Yang
An Overview of Trends in Developing and Accessing Chinese Scholarly Resources, Li Wang
Open Mind, Open Access: The New Development of Resource Sharing in China, Shuyong Jiang
Session 186, Campaigns, Crises and Traumas: Rethinking Post-1949 PRC History
Intellectual Dissent and Peasant Resistance, Felix Wemheuer
The Cultural Revolution as a Trauma, Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
China Between 1960 to 1962: The Campaign to Resolve the Food Crisis of the Great Leap, Ralph A. Thaxton Jr.
Rethinking the Role of Campaigns in Regime Consolidation: Land Reform in Jiangnan and Taiwan, Julia C. Strauss
Official Rainmaking and the Vagaries of Ritual Power in Late Imperial China, Jeffrey Snyder
Imperial Cults in the War Against the Taipings, Chuck Wooldridge
Emperor as Ritualist: Early Ming Buddhist Ceremonies for the Dead, Natasha Heller
Imperial and Ancestral Sacrifices to Confucius, Thomas A. Wilson
Session 202, Cultural Brokerage on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier
Go East Young Lama: Lhasa and the Creation of New Monastic Polities in Kham in the 17th Century, Jann Ronis
Circulating Buddhist Narratives in Eighteenth-century Tibet, Nancy Grace Lin
Buildings and Canons on the Move: The Derge Parkhang as Culture Broker, Cynthia Col
Traders as Cultural Brokers on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier, Yudru Tsomu
Session 203, Say it with Stone: The Origins of Early Commemorative Epigraphy
The Genesis of the Entombed Epitaph as a Literary Genre and Its Relationship With the Great Clans of the Six Dynasties, Zhangcan Cheng
"My Daddy’s Older than Your Daddy": On Whether Stelae Replaced the Codified "Popular Ranks" (minjue) in the Han Dynasty, K. E. Brashier
Descriptive, Prescriptive and Narrative Rhetoric in the Eastern Han Stele Inscription, Suh-Jen Yang
Between the Canonical and the Common: The Religious Significance of Early Entombed Epitaph Inscriptions (Muzhiming), Timothy M. Davis
Session 204, Buddhists in the Making of Twentieth-century Chinese Histories
Buddhist Publishing Activities in Republican China, Francesca Tarocco
Buddhism in China During the Korean War, 1951-1953, Xue Yu
Eminent Buddhist Practitioners in 20th -century Chinese "History": Whose Histories, What Histories?, Raoul Birnbaum
A Modern Buddhist Charismatic Movement & Chinese Modernity: Master Yinguang and his Followers, 1912-1940, Jan Kiely
Session 205, Co-production of Modern Culture: Missionary Terms and Chinese Words, 1850s-1920s
Re-imagining Confucianism in the Late Qing, Ya-pei Kuo
Locating China in the World: Space and Time in Late Qing Protestant Missionary Texts, Ryan Dunch
Medicine and the Cultures of Modernity in Late Qing and Early Republican China, Bridie J. Andrews Minehan
The Circulation of Land Use Rights In Rural China: A Preliminary Analysis, Lai To Lee
Politics of Highway Construction in Rural China: A Case of Mismatching Central-local Interests, Kun-Chin Lin
Who Govern in the Chinese Countryside? Findings on the Change in Power Structures in China's Rural Villages, An Chen
Reframing the "Athletic Movie Star" in China’s "National Crisis" from 1931 to 1945, Yunxiang Gao
Rethinking Domesticity: Women’s Physical Culture in Late Imperial China, Danke Li
Educating the Body Modern: Sino-Western Institutions and Women’s Tiyu in Pre-War Republican China, Elizabeth Littell-Lamb
Early Modern Chinese Imagery
More Than a Simple Country Lifestyle: Decoding Song Paintings of Happy Villagers, Wen-chien Cheng
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Desire and Politics in Huizong’s Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk, Lara C. W. Blanchard
Negotiating Taste: Popular Culture, Originality, and Late Ming Painting Manuals (1550-1644), J. P. Park
Cold Sparrow, Independent Scholars: Political Criticism in Song Poetry and Painting, Bo Liu
Session 223, Old Leftovers: Qing Yilao and Traditional Culture in the Chinese Modern
The Image of the Qing Loyalists and Their Cultural Productions in the Early Republican Era, Cheng-hua Wang
Traitors and Thieves: Qing Imperial Family Artists and Collectors, 1915-1945, Nixi Cura
Popular Antiques Collecting in Republican Period, Shana J. Brown
Session 224, Across Invisible Divides in Chinese Fiction Studies
Shaping the Provincial Identity with Films: Zhang Yimou's Geographical Imagination, Yuan Gao
Placing the "Popular" Novel in the Qing, Margaret Baptist Wan
Lu Xun’s Old Tales Retold: Modernist Experiments with Border Crossing, Ming Dong Gu
The Chinese Fictional Canon Reconsidered: The View from European Book Acquisitions, 1720-1860p, Patricia A. Sieber
Shaping the Provincial Identity with Films: Zhang Yimou’s Geographical Imagination, Yuan Gao
Session 225, Rule by Mosaic: Regional and Region-based Frontier Politics in Qing China
Friction on the Fringes: Criminal Behavior Involving Oroquens (Elunchun), 1684-1761, Loretta E. Kim
The Kings of Xinjiang: Muslim Elites and the Qing Empire, David Brophy
Tibetan Regulations and Salar Rebellion: Manchu New Territories and Muslim New Teachings in Eighteenth-century Gansu, Haiyun Ma
The Society will not be Made Better by Novels?:Bao Tainxiao’s Novels, Connoisseurship, and Contradictions, Feng-ying Ming
Inscription and Reinscription of Heroic Subjectivity in Su Manshu's Fiction, Makiko Mori
Excessive Feelings and Making of Sentimental Power in Lin Shu’s Translation of Novel of Sentiment, Li Li
Gender and Politics in Utopian Narrative from the Late Qing to the Early Republic, Lianfen Yang
Session 227, Chinese Business in the Twentieth Century
Accounting and Accountants in Twentieth-century China: Law, Business Practice and the Establishment of a Profession, David W. Faure
Chinese Banking Reforms: Old Issues in New Guises, Georgia A. Mickey
Crossing the 1949 "Divide:" Continuity and Change in a Chinese Textile Company, Juanjuan Peng
Celluloid Persuasion: Producing and Consuming Wartime Realities in North and Northeast China, Matthew D. Johnson
The Phantom of the Cultural Revolution Haunting China, Enhua Zhang
The Folk and the Avant-Garde in the Making of "Popular Propaganda" in Wartime China, Liang Luo
Tradition Transformed: National Forms in Zhao Shuli’s Early Fiction, G. Andrew Stuckey