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Session 14
Roundtable: New Dimensions in China Watching: Internet Forums and the Study of Contemporary China

Session 15
Opportunities and Obstacles: Lives of Tibetan Women

Hybrid Female Representations in Tibetan Music, Anne-Laure Cromphout
Tibetan Female Adepts: Sakya Jetsunmas, Elisabeth Benard
From Subject Matter to Autonomous Subjects Who Matter: The Rise of Women on Today's Tibetan Literary Scene, Françoise Robin
Women in Tibetan Medical Education: Notes on the Shifting Roles of Women in Tibetan Medical Education, Sienna R. Craig

Session 16
Global Capitalism, Nationalist Modernity, and Intellectuals in Transition: China’s Literati after Empir
e

Publishing Circles and Elite Professionalization in Late Qing and Republican China, Robert J. Culp
Straddling Worlds: Newspaper Magnates as Intellectuals and Businessmen, Timothy B. Weston
The Emergence of New Professional Intellectuals: A Social Study of Journal of National Essence, Tze Ki Hon
From Old Literati to Modern Educators: Teachers’ Schools and Professionalization of Education in Early 20th-Century China, Xiaoping Cong

Session 17
Shadows of Revolution: Reminiscences and Critiques of the Maoist Legacy

Old Ghost: From Morning Sun to Blood Red Sunset, Enhua Zhang
A Woman Martyr's Legend: The Heresy and Apotheosis of Lin Zhao, Jie Li
Communist China's Penetration of Latin America from 1956-1971: A Propaganda War, Miaowei Weng
How the Steel Was Tempered: The Rebirth of Pawel Korchagin in Contemporary Chinese Media, Mingwei Song

Session 18
From the Dynastic to the Local: Anthologies of Women’s Writings during the Qing and Republican Periods

Guangdong’s Talented Women of the Eighteenth-Century and Provincial Anthologies, Ellen Widmer
Saving the Legacy of “Our Localities”: Literary Anthologies of Southern Fujian and Eastern Guangdong, 1840s – 1950s, Guotong Li
Local Anthologies of Women’s Poetry in the Post-Zhengshi ji Era (1831-1936), Xiaorong Li

Session 19
Bringing Chinese Art to the West: Duanfang and an Early 20th-Century Network of Dealers, Collectors, and Scholars

Bronze Diplomacy: Duanfang as an Imperial Commissioner in Europe and America, 1905-1906, Elya J. Zhang
A Collection with Lasting Impressions: Duanfang, Chinese Art, and Publicity, Jason Mark Steuber
Fascination, Profit, and Preservation: Ferguson and the Duanfang Collection, 1900-1940, Lara Netting
Love and Hate Triangle: The Network of Chinese Antique/Dealers, Collectors, and Curators/Scholars in America, 1915-1950, Yiyou Wang

Session 20
Of Use to Whom? New Conceptions and Constructions of Disability in Transnational China

Disability and Market Fundamentalism inRecent Chinese and Russian Fiction, D. Sabina Knight
The Politics of Constructing Disability in Post-1949 Taiwan, Heng-hao Chang
Whose Life Is It Anyway? Disabled Life Stories in Post-reform China, Sarah Dauncey
Beyond Fortune-telling and Massage Therapy: Rethinking Visual Disabilities in Contemporary Chinese Cinema, Steven L. Riep

Session 36
Who’s Afraid of China’s Tibet?: Imagining Tibet’s Future in a Changing World

Envisioning a Tibet Outside Tibet, P. Christiaan Klieger
From Tsampa Eaters to Political Symbol: Evolution of Tibetan Identity in Tibet and Outside, Bhuchung K. Tsering
The Limited Wor(l)d: Tibet and the "Sovereignty" Problematic, Dibyesh Anand
Negotiating with Care: Roadblocks to a Political Solution Acceptable to China and the Tibetan Peoples, Lobsang Sangay

Session 37
Sanctioning “Magic” in Imperial China - Sponsored by SSRC

Occult Ritual Specialists in the Middle Imperial Chinese Military, M. A. Butler
The Contested Boundaries of Medicine and Ritual Healing in the Song Period (960-1279 C.E.), T. J. Hinrichs
Inscribing Heaven, Earth, and Human: Chinese Notions of Efficacy and Power, Gil Raz
Mastering Magic: The Confucianization of a Nineteenth-Century Rainmaking Ritual, Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke

Session 38
Environmental Governance in China

Sustainable Development as a Frame: The Redefinition of China’s Energy Policy, Christian Constantin
NGOs, Green Community Construction, and Grassroots Democracy in China: The Cases of Global Village of Beijing (GVB) and Green Cross of Beijing (GCB), Kai Xu
Administrative Campaigns and Environmental Governance in Contemporary China, Kenneth W. Foster
Administrative Campaigns and Environmental Governance in Contemporary China, Li Guo
Violence in the Marsh: Enclosure, Community Development, and Changing Patterns of Resistance around Caohai Nature Reserve, Melinda Herrold-Menzies

Session 39
Paratexts in Late Imperial Chinese Book Culture

Reading Para-Scriptural Texts in Nineteenth Century China, Chloe Starr
Framing Western Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century China: Rhetorical Strategies in Jesuit Paratexts, Joachim Kurtz
Colophon-Paintings as Paratexts, Nixi Cura
The Relevance of Being Redundant: Civil Examination Records and Their Paratexts, Rui P. Magone

Session 40
Roundtable: Chinese Women and Gender Studies from Multidisciplinary and Global Perspectives: Where Are We Going?

Session 55
Material and Political Cultures of the High Qing Court: Three Cases from the 17th and 18th
Centuries - Sponsored by Qing Studies

Qing Court Display in Duobaoge ("Cabinets of Many Treasures"), Erica Yao
A Finger in Every Pie: Competitive Cuisine in the Qianlong Reign, Joanna Waley-Cohen
The Give and Take of Qing Rule: Local Tribute & Imperial Gifts on Kangxi's Southern Tours, Michael G. Chang

Session 56
Cultivating Law-Abiding Citizens: Legal Reform and Media Change in China

"Advertising Politics": Campaigning, Media Commercialization, and Legal Reform in Contemporary China, Daniela Stockmann
Media and the Judicial System under Soft Authoritarianism, Honggang Tan
Media and the Judicial System under Soft Authoritarianism, Hongying Wang
With or Without the Law: The Changing Meaning of Ordinary Legal Work in China, 1979-2003, Sida Liu

Session 57
Patronage and Community Building in Early Medieval China - Sponsored by Early Medieval China Group

Competitive Spectacle and the Patronage of Local Communities, Andrew Chittick
The Social Hierarchy of Patronage in an Eastern Wei Yi-society, Kate A. Lingley
Voluntary Obligations: The Client Relations of Guli and Mensheng in Early Medieval China, Keith N. Knapp

Session 58
The Contours of Tibetan Auto/biography

Liberation or Deliberation? The Form of the Content in Doring Tenzin Paljor’s Autobiography, Andrew H. Quintman
The Style of Pema Trinle’s Life, Benjamin Bogin
Autobiographical Style and Social Life in Degé, Jann Ronis
Charting Tibetan Auto/biography, Kurtis R. Schaeffer

Session 59
Remainders and Reminders: Figures of History in Modern Chinese Literature and Film

Between the Past and the Future: Documenting the 2/28 Incident on Films, Sylvia Li-chun Lin
The Suffering Self: Representing Japanese Atrocity in Recent Chinese Fiction and Film, Margaret Hillenbrand
The End of History and Its Remains: Signifiers of Pre-History in the Work of Wu He and Gao Xingjian, Andrea S. Bachner
On Jiang Wenye: Cinema, Poetry, and Historical Representation, Chien-Hsin Tsai

Session 60
Marriage, Familial Relations, and Status in Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) China

Negative Role Models: Song (960-1279) Anecdotal Writing on Unfilial Offspring, Cong Zhang
Local Gods and Family Shrines: How a tudi shen became a tutelary god, Hugh R. Clark
Wives and Family Preservation in Tang China (618-907 CE), Josephine Chiu-Duke
The Dynamics of Cross Cousin Marriage in Tang (618-907) China, Ping Yao

Session 61
Individual Papers - China

Building a Temple Inside the Mind: Ignatian-Confucian Spirituality in Mid-17th-Century Fujian, Gang Song
The Trope of Intertextual Doubling in Chinese Narrative Poetry, Hongyu Huang
She Manages Household with Poetry: Qu Bingyun (1767-1810) and Her Domestic Poems, Liuxi Meng
Ban Gu’s Treatment of Outlaws in Hanshu 92 and His Underlying Vision of Social Order, Nicolae C. Statu

Session 77
Society and Economy in Early Imperial China: New Insights from Recently Excavated Qin and Han Legal Manuscripts

The Role of Food Resources in the Qin and Han Laws, Moonsil L. Kim
The Status of Slaves in Early Imperial China in the Light of Recently Discovered Legal, Administrative, and Economic Documents, Robin D. S. Yates
The Private Exploitation of Imperially Owned Natural Resources as Seen through the Legal Texts from Zhangjiashan, Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
The Qin Legal Texts from Longgang and Royal Hunting Parks in Early China, Leslie Wallace

Session 78
Displacement and Belonging: Experiences of War in China, 1937-1949

Keeping Company with Ghosts: Refugees in Shanghai, 1945-1949, Janet Y. Chen
Soy Milk and Biscuits: Nutrition Activists in Wartime, 1937-1945, Jia-Chen Fu
Displacement Under Fire: Chinese Journalists in Wartime, 1937-1945, Parks M. Coble
New Roles for Women in Beijing, 1937-1945, Sophia Lee

Session 79
Roundtable: Integrating Chinese Historical Databases: Issues, Challenges, and Directions

Session 80
Roundtable: Tibetan Studies in the Undergraduate Curriculum: Programs, Resources, and Requirements

Session 81
Cultures of Reconstruction: Loss and Recovery after the Taiping Rebellion

The Posthumous Life of Governor General Ma Xinyi, Chuck Wooldridge
Repudiating Memory: Painting in Shanghai after the Taiping Rebellion, Roberta May-Hwa Wue
Personal Pain/Public Honors: The Culture of Commemoration in Post-Taiping Jiangnan, Tobie Meyer-Fong
Opera after the War: The Cultural Valence of Style at Court and at Large in the Post-Taiping Era, Andrea S. Goldman

Session 82
The Legacy of Lu Xun and the Conundrums of Chinese Modernity

What is the Novel’s Time? Lu Xun Contra Benedict Anderson, Hui Jiang
Class and National Character in Post-cultural Revolution Lu Xun Studies, Saul T. Thomas
Resistance to Modernity and Self-Negation: Takeuchi Yoshimi and Wang Hui on Lu Xun, Viren V Murthy

Session 96
Writing Emotions: Loving Parents, Spouses, and Lovers in Qing and Republican China

A Family Romance: The Mother, The Son, The Daughter, His Wives, and Her Lovers, Paola Zamperini
What’s Love Got to Do with It? Getting Passionate about Mourning in Qing China, Maram Epstein
Love Letters and Blood Letters: Petty Urbanites Write Emotion in Republican China, Bryna Goodman
What's the Difference Between a Husband and a Lover? Passion and Other Intimacies in 18th-Century China, Janet M. Theiss

Session 97
Challenges to Civic Responsibility and Community Engagement for Rural and Minority Secondary School Students and Their Schools in China

Remaking China's Tibetans for Civic Roles in a Harmonious Society, Gerard Postiglione
The Geospatial Relocation of Rural Students and Schools as a Challenge to Community and Civic Engagement, Jingjing Lou
The Making of the “High Quality“ Model Citizen in Chinese Education: Policy Change from 1985-2005, Tanja Carmel Sargent

Session 98
Representing and Practicing Class: Mao’s China and Beyond

“Mass Supervision” in Factories: Problematizing and Transforming Class Relations in Chinese Socialism, Joel Andreas
Whose Class? Class as a Grab Bag Ideology in Mao’s China, Robert K. Cliver
The Stubbornness of Class: Workers’ Resistance and China’s Transition from State Socialism, Stephen E. Philion
From the Entrails of the Old: Rethinking Cultural Revolution Politics and Ideology of Class, Yiching Wu

Session 99
War of Words: Ideas, Media, and China's Struggles in the Korean War

Nationalism and Resistance in the Sino-Korean Border Region, Adam Cathcart
"Revenge for Our Children!"The Stigmatization of Christian-Controlled Orphanages in the Early 1950s in China, Fang Qin
Who Are We? The Analysis of “Resist/American and Aid/Korea War” Reports in the Guangming Daily, Hailong Jiang
Whispering Gallery: Domestic Politics, Popular Sentiments, and China's Strategy toward the Korean War, 1950, Hajimu Masuda

Session 100
The Interpretation and Use of the Shijing in the Han Dynasty

The Formation of a Shijing Poem and Transformation of Its Interpretations: A Case Study of “Han guang” (Mao 9), Qiulei Hu
The Interpretation of “Kai feng” (Mao 32) in the Han Stele Inscription and Other Genres, Suh-Jen Yang
Lost Melody: The Transmission of the Musical Aspects of the Shi Jing during the Han Dynasty, Zhi Chen
The Use of the Shijing in the Jiaoshi yilin, a Han Dynasty Divination Text, David Zeb Raft

Session 101
Roundtable: China’s Move into the Global Spotlight: Implications for Scholars

Session 102
Reality Check: What Holds for NGOs and Civil Society Development in China?

The Ebb and Flow of Civil Society in China: A Time for Sombre Reflection? Jude Howell
On the Expansion and Retreat of Civil Society in China, Nicholas Young
Reform China: From Missionaries to the Foreign NGOs, Qiusha Ma
The Role of Domestic Grassroots NGOs in China's Evolving Environmental Governance, Thomas Johnson

Session 117
Circumstantial Evidence: “Living Law” in Ming and Early Qing China

“Living Law” and Changing Times: Wang Mingde’s (fl. 1674) Meditations on the Law, C. D. Alison Bailey
Striving for Justice: Law and Sentiment in Late Ming Local Adjudication, Yanhong Wu
Writing on Their Own Terms: How Late Ming Commercial and Official Practices Shaped Litigation-Master Handbooks, Pengsheng Chiu
Taming the Waters: Mid-Ming "Environmental Jurisdiction" within the Yellow River Flood Plain, Timothy R. Sedo

Session 118
Who Goes There? Stories and Studies of Travel in the People’s Republic of China

You Can Go Anywhere as a Migrant, but as a Tourist You Need Money: Stories of Travel by Residents of Chinese Tourism Villages, Jenny Chio
Experiencing Life in the Countryside: Travel and Sichuan Printmaking in the Early People’s Republic of China, Sonja Kelley
See the World: Suzhi Jiaoyu and the Significance of Experience and Travel in Post-Mao China, Teresa Kuan

Session 119
Novel Maladies: Ethnographies of Emerging Diseases in Asia

The Poisoned Body: Arsenicosis in Rural Bangladesh , Saiful Islam
Preventing SARS: Official Intervention and Civic Self-Protection in a North China Village, Zongze Hu
Of Birds and Men: Understandings of Pandemic Risk in Hong Kong-SAR, Emilio Dirlikov
Global Civets: Building Hygienic Appetites in South China after SARS, Katherine Mason

Session 120
Chiang Kai-shek: The Unknown Story

The Military Strategist: How Chiang Shaped the War against Japan, 1937-1938, Xiaogang Lai
"Qu Jiang hua": Re-appraising Debates about Disposing of the Remnants of Chiang Kai-shek’s Reign in Taiwan, Jeremy E. Taylor
The Nationalist: How Chiang Kai-shek Mobilized Shame to Sustain his Leadership, 1928–1934, Grace C. Huang
The Negotiator: How Chiang Kaishek Regained the Southwest and Retained the North, 1935-1937, Emily M. Hill

Session 121
Was Ming China Multi-ethnic? - Sponsored by the Society for Ming Studies

Ming China’s Multiethnic Southwest, John Herman
How “Multi-ethnic” was the Ming? Leo K. Shin
Hezhou: A Multiethnic Community in the Ming Empire, Xinfeng Li
The "South Great Wall": Materializing the Boundary Line between “Zhongguo” and "Barbarian" Areas, Yonglin Jiang

Session 122
Roundtable: Public Intellectuals: Old Hands and the New Generation in China Studies

Session 136
Connected: The New Media and Cultural Politics in Contemporary China

Carnivalesque Pleasure: The Audio-Visual Market and Consumption of TV Drama, Rong Cai
Guilty but Glamorous: How the Logic of Capitalism Transforms the Meaning of Corruption on Chinese Primetime Television, Ruoyun Bai
The Local Identity of the Chinese Urban Youth in the Age of the Internet: A Case Study of Shanghai Rap and SHN website, Jin Liu
Romancing the Phone: Beijing Cellphone Notes, Grant Kien

Session 137
The Official and the Private: The Uses of Anomalies and Marvels in Classical Chinese Literature

Messages from the Dead in “Nanke Taishou Zhuan”, Carrie E. Reed
Female Informants in Qing Zhiguai, Rania Huntington
The Official and the Private: the Uses of Anomalies and Marvels in Chinese Literature, Sing-chen L. Chiang
Guai Accounts in the Shiji and Their Impact on Later Zhiguai Literature, Alister D. Inglis

Session 138
When the Ethnic Goes Popular: Celebrity, Authenticity, and Visions of Ethnicity from Yunnan

In Praise of the Post-Authentic? Chinese Performing Arts Troupes in New England, Beth E. Notar
Making Waves with the Indigenous Wind: Yunnan Ethnic Pop Stars and the Performing of Ethnicity, Jing Li
Staging Ethnicity: When Identity Is Marketed, Eileen Rose Walsh
Scandalous Feminism: Yang Erche Namu and the Making of Mosuo Ethnicity in China and Beyond, Christine Mathieu

Session 139
Redefining the Individual Body in Republican China

Individual Habit, Social Vice: Anti-Cigarette Campaign during the New Life Movement in Zhejiang, 1934-35, Wennan Liu
From Private Lives to Public Knowledge: Statistical Analysis of Health and Death in Beijing, 1920s-1930s, Liping Bu
Political Control, Public Health, and the New Life Movement in Jiangxi Province, 1934-1935, Federica Ferlanti
Healthful Goods: Health, Hygiene, and Commercial Culture in Shanghai, Chieko Nakajima

Session 140
Spaces of Hope: Culture, Economy, and Politics in Post-democracy Taiwan

Trading Japan: "Idol Shops” and Transnational Popular Culture in Taiwan, Ching-wen Hsu
Urbanization of Earth God: Transubstantiation of Ritual Symbols, and Transformation of Social Form, Hsiu-Hsin Lin
Economy of Hope: Community Cultural Industry in Taiwan, Hsin-yi Lu

Session 141
Inventing National Childhoods: Children and Childhood in Republican China

Lost Childhoods: Child-Citizen-Workers at War, 1937-1945, M. Colette Plum
Utopian Nostalgia: Constructing Childhood in May 4th Literature, Mark N. Levine
Rehabilitating Deprived and Displaced Youths: Child Relief in Republican Shanghai, 1912-1949, Norman D. Apter
Raising the Ideal Chinese Child: Family Education and Gendered Responsibilities in Republican China, Helen Schneider

Session 142
Chinese Monetary History and the Perils of Conventional Monetary Theory

Emancipating Chinese Monetary History from Aristotelian Postulates, Akinobu Kuroda
Monetary Arrangement in Sichuan in the Late Qing and Republican Periods: A View from Zigong Contracts, Madeleine Zelin
Salt Money in Yunnan: Marco Polo Went to China, Hans Ulrich Vogel
A Reassessment of the Role of Silver in the Multiple Currency System of the Southern Song, Richard von Glahn
Monetary Arrangement in Sichuan in the Late Qing and Republican Periods: A View from Zigong Contracts, David Weiman

Session 157
Crime, Law, and Global Integration in 19th-Century China

Small Time Crooks: Crime and Migration in China, 1819-1860, Melissa A. Macauley
Rethinking Extraterritoriality in China: In the Crucible of Personal and Territorial Jurisdiction, Par K. Cassel
Protégé Problems: Extraterritoriality and Global Integration in 19th-Century China, Richard S. Horowitz

Session 158
China's New Rural Reconstruction Movement: Global Networks, Chinese Roots

Alternative Globalization and China’s New Rural Reconstruction Movement, Matthew A. Hale
Intellectual Politics and the New Rural Reconstruction Movement, Alexander F. Day
Reading Texts, Reading Traditions, Reading the Nation: Literacy and Modernization in the Republican Era Rural Reconstruction Movement, Kathryn Merkel-Hess

Session 159
From Chiefs to Ancestors: Village Deities and Rituals in the Borderland of South China

Layered Statehood: The Incorporation of Indigenous Society in Southwestern China and the Transformation of Politics into Religion, David W Faure
Surviving Conquest in Dali: Chiefs, Deities, and Ancestors, Jui-Chih Lien
The Past Tells it Differently: The Myth of Native Subjection in the Creation of Lineage Society in South China, Xi He
Chief, National Hero, or God? Representing Nong Zhigao in Chinese Ethnic Minority Society, Ya-Ning Kao

Session 160
State-Muslim Relations in China: Three Case Studies

“Chinese Islamic Progressive Association” and Muslim Political Activism in Republican China, Yufeng Mao
The Institution of Ahun and Qing-Muslim Relations, Haiyun Ma
Debates over Islamic Feminism and Empowerment in Contemporary China, Masumi Matsumoto

Session 161
Words Changing Hands: Translation and Cultural Circulation in Late Qing and Republican China

Alleyway Etymology: Illustrated Shanghai Slang Dictionaries as Education and Entertainment, Christopher G Rea
A Useful “Failure”: The Zhou Brothers’ Stories from Abroad, John Danis
Fraud and Fiction: On Free Marriage (Ziyou jiehun) and Late Qing Translation, Michael G Hill
Translating Romance: Zhou Shoujuan’s “Alas!” (Yi), Shaw-Yu Pan

Session 162
The Material of The Stone: New Approaches to Honglou meng

The Acoustics of Fictional Space: Listening in on Honglou meng and Ernü yingxiong zhuan, Paize Keulemans
Stone as Prop, Tina Lu
Written on Stone? Honglou meng as a Text in Flux, I-Hsien Wu
Diseases, Doctors, and the Curative Properties of Honglou meng, Andrew Schonebaum

Session 163
Individual Papers: The Marginal, the Vanishing, and the Lyrical: Perspectives on Modern Chinese Culture

Folk Paper-Cutting and the Question of Chinese Culture in Contemporary China: Mysterious Appearance, Heritage Disappearance, and Global Simulacra, Ka-ming Wu
Whose National Treasures? Hui-chun Yu
Accidental Loyalism: Yu Dafu's Poetic Response to Chinese Modernity, Haosheng Yang
Images Past and Present: The Figure of the “Gay” in Contemporary Chinese Cinema, Jie Guo

Session 164
China's Modernised Propaganda

From Control to Management: The CCP’s “Reforms of the Cultural Structure", Nicolai Volland
Harmony and the use of Confucian Concepts in China’s Foreign Policy, Valerie Niquet
Sexcrime, Wheels of Law, and Song Zuying, Or, Managing ICT in China, Anne-Marie Brady
Propaganda in Chinese Newspapers, Ashley W. Esarey

Session 178
Roundtable: Reconsidering Christianity in China: The China Inland Mission (CIM) and the Mission Enterprise

Session 179
Cyberspace, Consumerism, and Cultural Creativity in Twenty-First-Century China

Egao: Visual Carnival and Iconoclasm in Chinese Cyberspace, Yongming Zhou
Virtual Transgressions into Print Culture: A Sociological Analysis of the Rise and Impact of Internet Literature in China, Guobin Yang
Muzi Mei, Sister Hibiscus, and the Alternative Discourse of Linglei Cyberculture in Twenty-First-Century China, Daria Berg
Social Space, New Media, and Chinese Modernity, Boxu Yang

Session 180
Historical, Rhetorical, and Linguistic Constructions of Identity Along China’s Early Frontiers

The Pre-Qin Precursors to the Han Dynasty Vocabulary of Identity: From "Belligerent Others" to "Cultural Others", Uffe Bergeton
Before Ethnography: Re-reading Sima Qian’s “Account of the Xiongnu”, Tamara Chin
The Creation of Localized, Hybridized “Han” and “Yue” Identities in South China, ~202– 50 B. C., Erica Brindley

Session 181
Reinventing Places: Contesting Images of Tradition and Modernity in China and Taiwan

The Rise of "Precious Fengshui Land": Migration and Place-Making in Taiwan, Wei-ping Lin
Constructing Cultural Images and Restructuring Regional Spaces: Tourism and Development among the Kam of Guizhou, China, Shu-jung Lin
"Ancient Town": Memory, Commodity, and the Contested Enchantment of Place in Western Sichuan, John M. Flower

Session 182
The Multifarious Chinese Modern Girl

Modern Mulans, Kristine Marie Harris
Failed Modern Girls, Tze-lan D. Sang
Beiping Modern: Women Service Workers Modernizing Beijing during the Nanjing Decade, Rachel Hui-chi Hsu
Making Virgin and Vampire in Modern China, Liang Luo

Session 183
Individual Papers: Zones, Spaces, Structures, and Shadows: Architectural and Visual Approaches to China

National Buildings, Global Visions: Exporting Chinese Architecture to the Third World, Duanfang Lu
Politics of Space in a Multinational Factory in China: Maintaining Labor Discipline and Creating New Imaginations of Nationality and Ethnicity, Jaesok Kim
Interplaying Forces? Scholars, Craftsmen, and Architectural Knowledge in Premodern China, Jiren Feng
The Jacquinot Zone in Shanghai: A New Concept of Refugee Protection during Wartime, Marcia R. Ristaino
Lei Feng's Lingering Shadows: An Exploration of the Changing Ideology in Contemporary Chinese Visual Media, Zuyan Zhou

Session 198
Early Modern Chinese Encyclopaedia (1870s-1920s): Changing Chinese Ways of Thought

Building up a New Business: Encyclopaedists in Late Qing China, Hsiao-t'i Li
The Apex of Early Modern Chinese Encyclopedia (1907-1911), Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova
Encyclopaedic Internationale? World, Source, Reader, and Reality in an Early Modern Chinese Encyclopaedia, Barbara Mittler
From News (xinwen) to New Knowledge (xinxue): Newspapers as Sources for Early Modern Encyclopaedias, Natascha Gentz

Session 199
New Directions in Fieldwork on Chinese Buddhism: Comparing Approaches from Religious Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology

Diverse Forms of Buddhism in a Zhejiang County: A Multi-sited Approach to Contemporary Chinese Buddhism, Yanfei Sun
Wandering Souls in Chaotic Courtyards: Toward a Person-centered Approach to the Study of Chinese Buddhism, Gareth J. Fisher
Religionizing Chinese Buddhism? Questioning the Discipline, Reconstructing the Path, Stefania Travagnin

Session 200
Rich, (Un)Healthy, and Immortal: Habit, Morality, and the Affect of Power in Contemporary China

Healthy Bodies, Unhealthy Social Bodies, and Secrets in a Chinese Martial Arts Association, Adam D. Frank
Health Care with Chinese Characteristics: Medical Entrepreneurs and the Marketing of Hope, Priscilla Song
Habitus and Dirt: Everyday Hygiene in Rural Henan, Lili Lai
Necessary Evil? Development, Morality, and Cancer Aetiology in a Chinese Village, Anna Lora-Wainwright

Session 201
Rural Politics in Transitional China - Sponsored by United Societies of China Studies

Village Governance in China: Institutional Effects of Village Elections and Oversight Agencies, Xinsong Wang
Economic Reform and the Reinvigoration of Village Council, Xiaojun Yan
Beyond Elections: Leadership and Mass-Elite Linkages in the Chinese Countryside, Wei Shan

Session 202
The Sensuous Realms of Chinese Erotic Writing from the Ming

Space and Sound in Ruyijun zhuan and Chipozi zhuan, Mark Stevenson
Music and Lust in Late Ming Texts, Joseph S. C. Lam
Intimacy and the Sensual Body in the Song Collections of Feng Menglong, Cuncun Wu

Session 203
Images of Rowdy Gods: Interpreting Daoist Martial Deities since the Song Dynasty

The Function and Status of Images in Contemporary Daoism, with Emphasis on Thunder Deities in Tainan Ritual, Poul Andersen
Images of Identity: Martial Deities and Lineage Identity in Contemporary Hunan, David Mozina
Images of Deified Demons in Vernacular Fiction and Daoist Ritual, Mark Meulenbeld
Trial by Power: On the Judicial Role of Daoist Martial Deities, Paul Katz

Session 218
Building, Greening, and Beautifying Beijing: Beyond the Olympic Image

Commodification and Gentrification: Hutongs of "Old Beijing", Melissa Y. Rock
“Dancing Beijing:” an Olympic Competition, Caroline Chen
The Role of Contemporary Art in “New Beijing”, Ling-Yun Tang

Session 219
Familial and Cultural Circuits of Chinese Literary Identities

Individual and Collective Subjectivity in Qian Zhongshu and Lao She, Alexander Huang
Language and Identity in Modern Chinese Literature, Christopher Lupke
In the Mood for Love and “Literature Art Film”, Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
Bai Xianyong's Youyuan jingmeng, Cultural Memory, and Kunqu, Liana Chen

Session 220
Thinking in/Thinking from Modern China: Local Discourses, Global Theories

S. Wells Williams and the Decoding of the Middle Kingdom, Wah K. Cheng
The Concept of the “State” in Late Qing and Republican China, Peter G. Zarrow
Interpreting Culture, Not History: The Contribution of “Zhong ti Xi yong” to the Theorization of Cross-cultural Exchange, Leigh K. Jenco

Session 221
Telling War Stories: Reclaiming the Study of Rebellion and Revolution in East Asia

Popular Action, Local Administration, and Imperial Authority during the White Lotus Rebellion, Cecily McCaffrey
International Dimensions of Chinese Rebellion: The Red Turbans Wars of the Mid-fourteenth Century, David Robinson
Political and Cultural Legacies of the 1911 Revolution in Sichuan, Xiaowei Zheng

Session 222
Screening Pathology: Uncanny Modernity, Body Politics, and New Chinese Cinema

Monster Boys as Extraordinary Figures: Romanticized Violence and Morbid Heroism in Contemporary Chinese Youth Cinema, Lanjun Xu
Organ Economics: Autologous Desire in Fruit Chan’s “Made in Hong Kong” and the Pang Brothers’ “The Eye”, Larissa Heinrich
The Inarticulate Tongue: Disembodied Vocality and Invocatory Discontent of Chinese New Wave Cinema, Jiayan Mi
Politics of Nostalgia: Psychopathology and Uncanny Memory in Post-1997 Hong Kong Cinema, Esther M.K. Cheung

Session 223
Financing China’s Unequal Growth: Fiscal Capacities and Capital Markets

Formal and Informal Institutions, Infrastructure Financing, and the Regional Distribution of Roads, Kun-Chin Lin
Governance with Chinese Characteristics? The Political Economy of Financial Services Regulation in China, Joern Gottwald
The Nexus between Politics and Finance: The Implications of Local Government Mobilization of Financial Resources for Local Government Fiscal Health, Lynette H. Ong
Authoritarian Politics and the Evolution of Financial Markets in China and Taiwan, Mary Comerford Cooper