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Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

China's Hong Kong Border (Part 1 of
Organizer: Denise Y. Ho – Yale University
Organizer: Taomo Zhou – Nanyang Technological University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(1) Hong Kong in China's Information Nexus: Building a CCP Network in the Early Cold War
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(2) From Guangdong to Taiwan: The Political Journeys of Two Anti-communist Heroes (Fangongyishi) Who Came to Love the CCP Keywords: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Refugees, Diaspora, KMT
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(3) Oysterman, Refugee, Coast Guard: Hong Kong and China Between the Tides, 1949-1997
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(4) Leveraging Liminality: The Border Town of Baoan and the Origins of China's Reform and Opening
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

Constructing Memories: The Making of Song Historical Sources
Organizer: Hiu Yu Cheung – Chinese University of Hong Kong
Organizer: Ming-kin Chu – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(1) The “Black Sheep” of the Early Daoxue Community: Testimonies and Archived Memories Surrounding Xing Shu’s 邢恕 Historical Image
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(2) From Communicative Memories to Canonized Historical Accounts: A Study of the Memories of Li Gang and Wang Boyan regarding the Southern Song Restoration
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(3) Smuggling Histories: Asymmetry in historical knowledge between Traditional China and Korea
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(4) Carved in Stone: Stele Building, Public Memories, and Local Politics in Southern Song China
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

Cultural Genocide, Global Discourses of Terrorism and China’s Bid to Remake the World Order
Organizer: Joanne Smith Finley – Newcastle University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(1) Cultural Genocide as the Logical Conclusion to the Bio-politics of China’s War on Terror
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(2) De-radicalisation, State Islamology and China’s War on Terror
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(3) The Great Revival of the “Chinese Race” in an Age of Postcolonial Anxiety
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

Hidden Structures: Data, Social Networks and Politics in Early and Medieval China
Organizer: Yunxin Li – Stanford University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(1) Elite Social Networks and Politics at the Han Court
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(2) Teachers to the Throne: Social Network and Political Power in the Western Han China (202 BC E–9 C.E)
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(3) Six Degrees of Separation in the Shishuo xinyu
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(4) New Networks, New Societies, and New Political Ideals during the Tang-Song Interregnum
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

New Approaches to the Historiography of East Asian Art in the Twentieth Century
Organizer: Fletcher Coleman – University of Texas, Arlington
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(1) Locating the Origin of East Asian Art: Art Historical Canons in Early Twentieth Century Japanese Newspaper Illustrations
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(2) Japanese Folk Art in the United States: Yanagi Muneyoshi in Boston (1929-30)
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(3) Building the Discipline: Rubbings, Removal, and Restoration in the Early American Study of East Asian Art
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(4) Surveying the Arts of China in Postwar America
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

Rethinking Disease in Asia after COVID-19
Organizer: Rachel S. Core – Stetson University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(1) Creating a New Health Image: Public Health Posters and Control of Respiratory Disease in China
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(2) China and the Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring the Society under Mao
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(3) Barefoot Doctor's Magic Bullet: Mass Production of Antibiotics and China's Healthcare System in the Global Cold War
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

The Afterlives of Maxim Gorky in China
Organizer: Keru Cai – University of Oxford
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(1) The Early Reception of Maxim Gorky in China
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(2) Literature in Front of Reality: Gorky and the Chinese Debate on Typicality
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(3) Visualizing Gorky in Socialist China
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(4) The Mirror Image of the "New Culture": Rereading Lu Xun's "The Venerable Schoolmaster Gao"
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

Trajectories of Multilingualism and Translation in (Early) Modern East Asia
Organizer: Johannes S. Lotze – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(1) Chen Yinke, Multilingualism, and the Republican Discovery of Medieval China
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(2) Islamicate Astronomy and the Politics of Translation in the Yuan-Ming Transition
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(3) Dutch Studies and Translation Discourse in Late Tokugawa Japan
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
10:00am – 11:30am EDT

(4) Multilingual Empires: The Yuan-Ming-Qing Transition
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

Harbor from the Holocaust: Engaging Multiple Stakeholders in Curriculum and Project Development
Organizer: Michele Ferrier – University of Pittsburgh
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

Making Space in Song China
Organizer: Xiuyuan Mi – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(1) Building and Representing the Government Office Compound in Northern Song China: Han Qi in Xiangzhou
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(2) Visual Kinetics in the Qingming Handscroll
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(3) Poetic Geography: Building Literary Space in Song Local Gazetteers
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(4) Mountain as Corporeal Caldron: Inner Alchemical Mountainscape in Song Literati Poetry
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

Politics and State Building at the Grassroots: County Governance Practices in the 1950s
Organizer: Wankun Li – University of Strathclyde
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(1) Factional Politics: The Organizational Structure and Interpersonal Networks of Kuomintang’s Grassroots Regime, 1926-1949
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(2) Northern Interrogators, Local Suspects: Language and Place in the Archives
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(3) Rape, Law, and Politics in Early 1950s China
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(4) State Building, the Political Economy of Punishment, and the Institution of Mass-Line Policing in Communist China (1950-1962)
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

Rethinking “Sinicization” of Religions: New Perspectives from Late-Imperial to Contemporary China
Organizer: Wei Wu – Emory University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(1) Transmission and Transformation: Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism in Early Twentieth-Century China
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(2) Muslim Printing and Sinicization of Islamic Knowledge in Late Imperial China
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(3) Standardization, Bureaucratization and Convergence: The Transformation of Governance of Religion in Urbanizing China
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(4) Different but Same: Modalities of Sinicization and Religious Control in China
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

Rethinking Things and “Thingness” in Modern Chinese Culture
Organizer: Anatoly Detwyler – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Organizer: Renren Yang – The University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(1) The Literary Handicraft: On the Politics and Mediology of “Thing” in the Work of Shen Congwen
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(2) The Revolution Will Be Mediated: On Newborn Socialist Things
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(3) Is “Wenti” a Thing? Revisiting the 1980s Debate on the Style of Fiction
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(4) For a (Democratic) Holding Cyberspace: Chivalric Hacking and Informatic Control in Early Chinese Web Novels
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

Technologized Vision in Modern China
Organizer: Chenshu Zhou – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(1) Ghost in the Machine, or the “Trick” Beginning of Chinese Animation History
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(2) The Attractions of “tu-cinema”: Slide Projection at Mao-era Film Screenings
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(3) The Magic of the Disappearing Wall: The Post-Cinematic Aesthetics of Architectural Models in the PRC
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT

(4) Island Fever: Signal Sovereignty and Visual Fields of Disputed Ocean
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Branching Out: Studying Social Networks in Chosŏn Korea and Qing China
Organizer: Lawrence L. Zhang – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) We are All a Family: Elite Marriages in the Late Qing
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Network Cohesion and Localized Yangban Assemblages in Early Modern Korea
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) The Genealogical Networks of the Group of Chungin in Chosŏn Korea
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) Managing Family from Afar: Gu Wenbin’s Manuals of Eternal Success, 1871-1875.
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

China in Many Languages: Minority Literatures and the Politics of Translation
Organizer: Joshua Freeman – Princeton University
Organizer: Christopher Peacock – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Strange Tales from Manchu Studios: Manchu Language Translations of Liaozhai Zhiyi
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) When Poets Conquered the Bureaucracy: Uyghur-Chinese Translators in Maoist Xinjiang
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Science and the Yeti: On Döndrup Gyel's Translation of "The Magic Flute of the Snow Mountains"
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) Translating the People's War on Terror: (Re)Construction of the Narrative of a Violent Incident by Journalist-Translators in Chinese, Uyghur, and English
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

DNA Evidence and China Studies
Organizer: Patricia Ebrey – University of Washington
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Genetics, Linguistics, Colonization, and the Deep Tibetan Past
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) The Future of Ancient DNA Research on Animal Domestication in China
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Likely Selective Forces in the Continental East Asian Paleolithic/Neolithic Transition
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) Taiwanese DNA and Chinese DNA: Genetic Nationalism in Taiwan and China
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Life-Writing Projects in Modern Chinese and Vietnamese Cultural History
Organizer: Lang Wang – Purdue University
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Qiu Jin and the Birth of Chinese Feminism
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Performing China on the World Stage: Writing Shih-I Hsiung
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) "New England Is China": Eileen Chang's Memoir Essay for WOMAN'S DAY
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) Phan Boi Chau and the Transformation of Vietnamese Intellectual Mindset in the Early Twentieth Century
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Materializing Religion as Medicine in Premodern China
Organizer: H.S. Sum Cheuk Shing – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Eliminating Hunger and Thirst with Medicine: Buddhist and Daoist Recipes from Medieval China
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Drug Market, Environment, and Healing Culture in Song China: A Case Study of Cangzhu (Black Atractylodes Rhizome)
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) “Hārītī Will Always Protect You:” Healing and Cursing Practices in Two Amoghavajra Texts
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Reading and Writing Early Socialism in China: Challenges in an Unstable Cultural Field
Organizer: Lara Y. Yang – University of Freiburg
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) "Patriotic Young Classmates . . . !" Young Readers as Authors and the Politics of Self-Mobilization through Shanghai's Youth League Publications
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Learning Chairman Mao's Works In Rural Eastern Fujian
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Labor Hero Propaganda as Ritual: A Case Study of Li Shunda
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) Reading Dust from the Past: Second-hand Book-reading Culture in 1950s China
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Writing the Other: Narratives of China’s Borderlands
Organizer: Masha Kobzeva – University of Wisconsin-Madison
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Hierarchy of the Other: Writing East in Early Medieval China
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Stereotyped Perception: Subsistence of Xiongnu Revisited
China and Inner Asia
Monday, Mar 22
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) Tang Scholar-officials' View on the "Eastern Barbarians"
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Frontier Encounters and Knowledge Production in Qing Inner Asia: Competing Narratives between the Qing State and Travellers to Frontiers
Organizer: Anne-Sophie Pratte – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) What Were They Doing There: Mandarin Travel Logs on Mongolia
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) Borderland Territorial Bureaucracy, Official Crimes, and the Qing State Capacity in Tibet in the Late 18th Century
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) Travels and Frontier in Eighteenth-century China
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) Negotiating Geography in 19th Century Qing Mongolia
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Laughing with Fetters: Satire and Humor in Postsocialist China
Organizer: Hongjian Wang – Purdue University
Organizer: Xi Tian – Bucknell University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) The Laugh of the Postsocialist Medusa: Female Comedians in the Satiric Skits on CCTV Spring Festival Gala (1983–2020)
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) Cynical Laugh of the Paratext: A Case Study of Daguguguji’s Microblog
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) Faking Conformity: Online Literature’s Satirical Negotiation with Government Censorship in China
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Non-Human Voices in Chinese Literature
Organizer: Thomas Kelly – Harvard University
Organizer: Yiren Zheng – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) Zhang Dai and the Voice of the Remnant Thing
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) When Birds Speak
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) Invented Illness and Diseased Body: Chinese Classical Tales after the Late Nineteenth Century Civil Wars
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) Light, Heat, Power: Futurist Poetics in Republican China
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Patterns of Patronage in Qing Beijing: Decentering Chinese Art History in the Long Eighteenth Century
Organizer: Michele Matteini – New York University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) After the Fall: Remembering Han-martial Culture in the Late Eighteenth Century
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) Fashishan’s Art World：A Glimpse of Private Patronage in Qing Beijing
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) Seeking Distance from the Throne: Archaizing Calligraphy and Identity in Early Qing Beijing
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) Toward an Artist-Centered Model of Patronage: the Case of Yu Zhiding
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Science and China's Foreign Relations, from 1945 to the Deng Era
Organizer: Pete Millwood – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) Post-war Sino-American Technical Cooperation and its Legacies
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) Science Diplomacy, Propaganda, and Exchange: Scientists and China’s Foreign Affairs Infrastructure (1949-1972)
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) A Source of Vernacular Knowledge or a Final Frontier for Globalized Science? American and Chinese Discourses on Science in the People’s Republic of China, 1971–1978
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) Deng Xiaoping’s Views on Science and Technology: Origins of the Sino-U.S. Science and Technology Cooperation, 1977-1979
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

The Meaning of War in Late Imperial and Modern China
Organizer: John B. Thompson – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Word, Image, Studio, Water: Remembrance of Place in Premodern China
Organizer: Yunshuang Zhang – Wayne State University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) Remembering West Lake: Place, Mobility, and Geographical Knowledge from the Southern Song to the Ming
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) From "Orchid Pavilion" to "Rain-Altar Song Pavilion": The Social Memory of Eastern Jin Poetry in the Late Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) The Rebuilt and the Unbuilt: Publicizing a Private Studio in Song Literary Culture
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) A Place to Forget: Courtesan Boats and the Waterscape as Liminal Space in Late Imperial China
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Alternative Visions of Children and Childhood: Citizenship, Morality, and Social Responsibility in Mid-Twentieth Century China
Organizer: Kyle David – University of California, Irvine
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) Conceiving the Chinese Communist Child: The Discursive Gestation of an Ideal-Type, 1922-1936
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) Children's Education in the Jiangxi Soviet
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) A Tale of Two Siblings: Re-examining Precious Fieldnotes on Childhood in Mid-Twentieth Century Taiwan with a New Framework
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) Building Active Citizens through Pupil Self-Government: Learning from Chinese Schools in the Republican Period, 1912-1949
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Chinese Feminisms as Transnational Feminisms
Organizer: Sharon R. Wesoky – Allegheny College
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) Maneuvering Within and Without: Chinese Feminisms in Transnational Flows and State Domination, 1995-2020
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) Writing With An Accent: "Xenophone" Scholarship and Feminist Knowledge
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) Sinophone Queer Feminism: The Transnational Activist Practice of Chinese Lala Alliance
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) China's "Gender Equality Education" Program: Local Contestations & Transnational Interactions
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Ethnocultural Violence and Historical Memory on the Inner Asian Frontiers of the PRC
Organizer: Benno Weiner – Carnegie Mellon University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) Reaching the Sky in a Single Step: The Amdo Rebellion, State Violence, and Post-Mao Narratives of Nationality Unity
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) State Violence, Pastoral Romanticism, and Kazakh Historical Memory in Post-Mao Xinjiang
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) Re-evaluating the Impact of the Cultural Revolution on Reshaping Minority Relations and Policy in Inner Mongolia
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) Revolutionaries or Terrorists: Remembering Hui Rebellion in Contemporary China
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Fathoming and Fixing Minds: China in the World of Psy Sciences
Organizer: Victor Seow – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) Industrial Psychology for an Industrializing China
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) Between Agency and Nature: Psychosomatic Healthcare in Socialist China, 1949-1965
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) For the Patient? Building a Proletarian Psychiatric Hospital in China, 1958-1969
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) Psychoanalysis Meets Confucianism and Daoism: In the Life and Work of Dai Bingham
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Rural Transformation and Governance in China
Organizer: Kristen E. Looney – Georgetown University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) Capital Goes to the Countryside: How Rural Land Transfer Affects Grassroots Governance in China
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) Rural Governance Reform in China: College Graduate-Village Officials
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) Rural Redux: Aesthetic Differentiation in China's Urbanizing Villages
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) Trusting Chinese Nannies in the Digital Era
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Whimsical Fauna: Animals as Agents in Early and Medieval China and Inner Asia
Organizer: Petya Andreeva – Parsons School of Design, The New School
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) The Social Lives of Composite Creatures : On the Making of Monsters and Monstrous Anatomies in North China and Inner Asia
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) Animals in the Tomb of Crown Prince Yide (706 CE)
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) Dragons in Early China: The Ecology of an Imaginary Animal
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) Becoming an Animal: Perspectives on Species Difference in Chinese Philosophy
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

A Cultural Study of "Shame" in Late Imperial and Modern China
Organizer: Peijie Mao – ShanghaiTech University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) From Shame to Strategy: Gambling on the Civil Service Examinations in Nineteenth-Century Guangdong
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) From Sight to Sound: Blindness in Cantonese Operatic Culture
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Representing "National Humiliation" in Early 20th Century Chinese Print Media
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) Skinning the Gang of Four: Minor Trials in the Post-Mao Visual Cultures
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Between Evolving Standards and Persistent Diversity: Manuscripts and Inscriptions in Pre-Imperial and Early Imperial China
Organizer: Thies Staack – University of Hamburg, CSMC
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Inscribing to Standardize: The Agency of Workshops in the Evolution of Quality Control Inscriptions from the Warring States to Western Han
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Standards and Variants in Warring States Seals
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Personal Habit or Shared Standard? Observations on Punctuation Marks in Warring States Manuscripts
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) The Pragmatics of Standardization: Document Norms and their Implementation in Early Imperial Administration
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Chinese Television in the Postsocialist Era: A Modern Medium for Everyday Life
Organizer: Dylan Suher – University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) The Story of the Monitor: Dream of the Red Chamber and New Era Materialities
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Chinese Television at Midnight: Triumphant Return at Midnight and the Birth of the Shineiju
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) “China’s Game of Thrones": Historical Fantasy and the Spectacularization of Culture in Contemporary Chinese Television
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) Falling in Love with Krishna—and India: A Case Study of Chinese Underground Subtitle Teams, Their Fans, and Barrage Culture
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Counter-Terrorism vs. State (?) Terrorism in the Uyghur region
Organizer: Joanne Smith Finley – Newcastle University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Has China’s Counter-Terrorism Policy in Xinjiang Evolved into State Terror? Evidence from the Uyghur Region, the Uyghur Diaspora and the “Leaked Papers”
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China: Toward an Intermestic Understanding of the “Security State” in Xinjiang?
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Does (Did) China Have a ‘Terrorism Problem’? Analyzing Uyghur-related Violent Conflict in the Light of Scholarly Definitions of Terrorism
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Justice Through the Looking Glass: Fiction, Technology, and Law in Late Imperial and Modern China
Organizer: Mengdie Zhao – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Bad Romance: Moral Imagination and Judicial Dilemmas in Late Ming Court Case Stories
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Law's Literary Pronouncements: The Role of Rhetorical Embellishments in Ming Judgments
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) The Gender of Knowledge in Forensic Drama of Late Imperial China
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) Examining the Dead Body: The Fantasy of Forensic Science in Detective Fiction of the Republican Period
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

New Qing History Meets the Sea? A Roundtable Discussion
Organizer: Chris PC Chung – University of Toronto
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Panel: Discourses of Chastity in Early Modern Vernacular Literature and Culture
Organizer: Li Guo – Utah State University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Widow Chastity and Beyond: Queen Zhao's Qin Song and Moral Exemplarity
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Gender, Syncretism, and Moral Self-Imagination: Jin Fangquan's tanci work A Tale of Exceptional Chastity
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Chastity and Female Sainthood in Religious Vernacular Literature
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) The Chaste Concubine: Women's Conflict and Cooperation in Xiunü baojuan
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Sino-Soviet Relations in the post-Stalin Era: 1956-1969, New Perspectives
Organizer: Hua-Yu Li – Oregon State University
Organizer: Deborah Kaple – Princeton University
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Stalin’s Dogmas and Mao’s Cultural Revolution
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) The Stalinist Roots of Mao’s Great Leap Forward
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Mao’s Two-Front War: Anti-Soviet Polemics and the Domestic Battle against Revisionism, 1959-1965
China and Inner Asia
Tuesday, Mar 23
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) Sino-Soviet Boarder Collisions: Crisis in 1969 and its Implications
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

“A Rhyme for a Reason”: Conceptualizing Euphony and Other Mnemonic Strategies in Pre-Modern Chinese Didactic Texts
Organizer: Federico E.F Valenti – Liceo Linguistico Guglielmo Marconi - Parma
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) Alliterations, Rhymes and Paronomasia in the Erya
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) Rhyme and Reason in the Lienüzhuan
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) Pedagogical Pairings in a Dunhuang Text
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) Mnemonic Strategies in Scribal Primers: A Case Study of the Cang Jie pian
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Gender and Theatre: Portrayals of Women Characters on the Chinese Stage
Organizer: Shiao-ling Yu – Oregon State University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) The Left-Behind Women of Chinese Women's Liberation: A Portrait of Lu Xun's Invisible Wife
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) The Interweaving of Dependence and Independence: The Emergence and Social Implication of Middle-Class Intellectual Women in China
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) Embodying the Public Sphere: Critiquing the Gendered Obligations in Youth-Centered Urban Theatre in Contemporary China
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Local Histories of the Yellow River
Organizer: Daniel Knorr – University of Cambridge
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) Rethinking the "China's Sorrow" Paradigm of Yellow River History
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) The Yellow River, the Bian Canal, and Kaifeng under Jurchen Rule
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) Beyond Hydraulic Failure: River, State, and City in Late Qing Jinan
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) Fighting Erosion, Creating Famine: Water and Soil Conservation during the Great Leap Forward
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

New Views on the “Conquest Dynasties”
Organizer: Wonhee Cho – Academy of Korean Studies
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) Rethinking the label "Conquest Dynasties"
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) Beyond the "Conquerors" and "Conquered" Dichotomy: A Social Network Analysis of the Yuan Dynasty Officials
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) Assimilating the Classics: The Qing Imperium's Reworking of Cotton Textile Production
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) Tantric Means to Conquest: Tibetan Buddhism, Art, and Power
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Not Just for Art's Sake: Race, Culture, and Production in 20th Century Sino-Afro Exchanges
Organizer: Ling Zhang – SUNY Purchase
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) Pentatonic Internationalism: Paul Robeson, “March of the Volunteers,” and Its Afterlife in the PRC
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) Expressive Sounds: Music and Performativity within Sino-African American Relations
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) Pentatonic Internationalism: Paul Robeson, “March of the Volunteers,” and Its Afterlife in the PRC
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) A Socialist Tropical Somatosensory Technique: Chinese Architectural Projects in Africa, 1960s-70s
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(5) “We Are the World”: The Politics of Skin Colors Around Contemporary Chinese Painting
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

What’s on the Chinese Internet? Moving from Grassroots Expression to Institutional Content Provision
Organizer: Angela X. Wu – New York University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) China's Provincial Web: A History of Content Regionalization Online
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) Fantasizing Chinese Dreams: Alter-history Novels as Commodified, Personal, and Political Expression
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) What is zimeiti?: The Commercial Logic of Content Provision on China's Social Media Platforms
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) The Rise of China's Internet Industry: A History
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Position-Takings in Chinese Ethnic Spheres: Minority Aesthetics, Agency, and Politics
Organizer: Mario De Grandis – The Ohio State University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) Ethnic Presence and Ethnic Absence: Qemberxanim's Bodily Discourse and the Making of 'Uyghur Dance'
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) Cosmologies in Tibetan Eco-Literature
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) Indigenous Articulations: Probing the Multimedia 'Mother Tongue Movement' of the Qiang People of China
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) Publishers' Framings: Publication Trajectories of "The Grey Robe" in Mandarin and Arabic
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Race, Racialization, and Antiracism I: Reimagining the Study of Global Asias
Organizer: Neelima Jeychandran – Pennsylvania State University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

“Seeking truth from facts”: Information Politics in Modern China
Organizer: Yi Lu – Harvard University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) Managing Misinformation: Grassroots Reporting In Mao's China
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) Secrecy and International Thought Trends in the Early People's Republic of China: From Doctor Zhivago to Norbert Wiener
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) Collecting ‘Living Documents’: Establishing Provincial Archives in the PRC, 1950s-1980s
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) Archival Politics on the Two Sides of the Taiwan Strait: Imagining and Creating the State
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Women Writing Art: Feminist Approaches in Chinese Women’s Art Writing, Cartoons, and Self-portrayals in the Early Republican Period
Organizer: Doris Sung – The University of Alabama
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) 'Who Would Understand the Joy of the Fish?': Jin Taotao's Painting Treatise and Gender Repositioning in the Elite Art World
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) Woman Has an Extraordinary Instinct for Art: Celebrity Artists, Social Reform, and Women Writing about Women in the Arts
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) Art, Mass Media and the Fashioning of Female Selves, Circa 1934
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) Women's Body and Wit in Early Republican China: Liang Baibo's Cartoons and Personal Correspondence
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

China's Transition to the Reform Era (Part 2 of "Bordering China, Bordering Reform" Double Panel)
Organizer: Denise Y. Ho – Yale University
Organizer: Taomo Zhou – Nanyang Technological University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) The Business of Living: Transforming the Command Economy and the Making of Markets in Guangzhou, 1978-1985
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) The Factories Behind the Storefront: The Four Guangdong Tigers and Diasporic Chinese Capital during China’s Early Reform Period
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) The Architecture of Reform: Buildings and Finance on the Hong Kong-China Border, 1978-1984
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) The Socialist/Neoliberal Labor Hero in the Risky World of Finance: Leung Fung-Yee Fever, the Financialization of Everyday Life, and the Formation of Entrepreneurial Subjectivity
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

China’s Long Arm: China’s Extradition Push and International Law and Politics
Organizer: Thomas E. Kellogg – Georgetown University Law Center
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Chinese Language Pedagogy Workshop: The Performed Culture Approach
Organizer: Li Yu – Williams College
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Creating Emergent Futures in Chinese Communities
Organizer: Xiaobo Yuan – Whitman College
Organizer: Shiqi Lin – University of California, Irvine
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Conversion as Speculation: Chinese Christianity and the Production of Futurity
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) "The World Is Gone, I Must Carry You": The Dongbei Renaissance and Ruinated Futurity
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Polarity, Plurality, and Abjection: The Monsters in Hong Kong and Pak Sheung Chuen's "Nightmare Wallpaper"
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) In Search of Community on Beijing's Urban Fringes
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Destruction as Construction: Theorizing Demolition in Premodern China
Organizer: Shih-han Wang – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Destruction as a Way of Commemoration and Connection: A Case Study of Grave Good Destruction in Burials of Bronze Age Lower Yangtze
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Emblem of the Past: The Destruction of the Thatched Cottage of the Jade Mountain
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Beyond a Ruling Guide: The Aesthetic Effect of Ruins in Shuijin Zhu
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Asides in Late Imperial Chinese Drama: A Digital Approach
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Different Dualisms: body and soul in Yuan and Ming performance
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Genres and Modes of Performance in Premodern China
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Political Dissent and Restoration of Cultural Legacy in Early Southern Song China: A Case Study of Yuefu and Lyrics in the High Style (Yuefuyaci 樂府雅詞)
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Problematic Laughter: Jokes, Anecdotes, and the Production of Notebooks in Middle-Period China
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

The Methodology of Approaching Medieval Chinese Music: A Case Study on the Functions of Two Court Ensembles in the Tang Dynasty
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Materials Movements and Knowledge Transmissions in Qing China
Organizer: Yulian Wu – Michigan State University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Gift of Past Lives: Tracing the Rebirth Lineage of the Qianlong Emperor
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) The Blue Road in 18th Century Qing Porcelain
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Centralizing Skills: Imperial Networks and Knowledge Circulation in Qing Jade Production
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Socialism at the Margins: Politics, Identity, and Revolution on the Ethnic Frontiers of Mao-era China
Organizer: Xiaoshun Zeng – University of Washington
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) The Gift of Good Health: The Ethnic Health Project and the Communist Revolution in Southwestern China, 1951-1953
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) How Tibetan Merchants Helped Establish Chinese Communist Party Rule in Eastern Tibet
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) The Tibet-Mongols at the Margins of the New Chinese Communist State
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) Extreme Politics: The Dynamic Relationship Between Maoism and Nationalism on the Sino-korean Borderland in the Late 1950s and 1960s
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Unfurled and Unfolded: East Asian Buddhist Manuscript Cultures
Organizer: April Hughes – Boston University
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Depravities and Atonement: The Function of a Dunhuang Manuscript Booklet
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Buddhist Manuscript as a Way of Worldmaking in Early Medieval Japan
China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, Mar 24
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Translating Bodies, Scripts, and Material Practice: Nuancing Appropriation and Soft Power in an Eighteenth-century Cultural Miscellany
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Performative Texts: Early and Early Medieval Chinese Perspectives on Intertextuality
Organizer: Tobias B. Zuern – Washington University in St. Louis
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) Across the Gateless Barriers: Hyperlinked Farming Poetry in the Shi jing
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) Reading Huainanzi, Becoming Xunzi: Reading, Intertextuality, and Praxis in Early China
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) Writing as Weaving: Intertextuality and the Huainanzi’s Self-Fashioning as a Powerful Embodiment of the Way
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) Chinese Intertextuality in Light of Lu Ji’s “Wen fu”
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Performing Connoisseurship in Early Modern Chinese Drama
Organizer: Yinghui Wu – University of California, Los Angeles
Organizer: Allison Bernard – Yale University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) Reading Drama as Qu: Rethinking Late Ming Drama Criticism through the Lens of Qu Connoisseurship
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) Media of Critical Judgement: Musical and Theatrical Connoisseurship in The Peach Blossom Fan
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) National Opera, Regional Flavour, and Memory: The “Tang-Shen Debate” Reconsidered
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Reading From Below: Alternative Literacies, Citizenship, and Community in Modern China
Organizer: Chao Wang – University of Chicago
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) Reading By Hand and Heart: Literacy Ideologies for the Blind in Twentieth-century China
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) Reading for the Nation: The CC Clique’s Nationwide Reading Campaign in 1930s China
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) From Peasants to Working People: A New Reading of Revolutionary Experiences in Rural China, 1944- 1945
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) Unimagined Community: The Alternative Authority of Dujing (Reading Classics) in Contemporary Chinese Societies
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Storytelling of the Personal and the Historical: Modern Sinophone Cultural Production
Organizer: Chialan Wang – Oberlin College
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) Storytelling in a Long Take: Jia Zhangke’s Ash Is Purest White
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) Equivocal Contrast: Eileen Chang's Self-Writing
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) No Country for Old Men: Contesting Hanjian in Wartime Spy Thrillers
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) Fetish in Storytelling: Affect Archives in Wu Mingyi’s The Stolen Bicycle
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Death and the Imagination of the Qing Monarchy: The Suicides of Chinese Royalists 1870s-1920s
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Fortifying the Coast: Naval Strategy and Maritime Geography in Late Qing China
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Ideas Behind Literati Activism in the Qianlong-Jiaqing Transition: Zhang Xuecheng (1738-1801) and The Statist Re-orientation of Confucian Scholarship
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Ritual Borderlands Between Southern Song China and Jurchen Jin: Reconsidering the Twelfth-Century East Asian World Order
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Strategy and Statecraft in Imperial China
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

The Familial Is Political
Organizer: Ke Li – John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) Disputation as a State Enterprise in Contemporary China
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) Adjudicating Filial Piety: Law, Legitimacy, and Moral Authority in the PRC
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) Neo-Familialism in Xi’s China: Population, Gender, and Governmentality
Co-author: Angela X. Wu – New York University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) From Familial State to Familial Society: Family Metaphors in Hong Kong’s 2019-2020 Protests
Co-author: Lake Lui – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

The Politics of History: PRC at 70 - In Memory of Roderick MacFarquhar
Organizer: Rowena X. He – Chinese University of Hong Kong
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Chineseness in Motion: Rethinking the Field in Global Persepctives
Organizer: Kyle D. Shernuk – Yale University
Organizer: Hangping Xu – University of California, Santa Barbara
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) Toward a Sino-Islamic Cosmopolitanism: Religion, Revolution, and the Republication of Zhang Chengzhi’s History of the Soul
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) Chinese Literature as Oceanic Heterotopia: Yang Lian as Exile Writer
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) Tracing the History of Chinese Cubans in Havana through the lens of film and literature
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) Memory, Metafictionality and 'Malaysian Chineseness’ in the Fiction of Li Zishu
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

From Given Discourse to Dynamic Space: The City, County and Village in China
Organizer: Yu Gao – University of Technology Sydney
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) Guangzhou Shi during the Republican Era: We Have Never Been Modern
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) The Open and Shut Model? Reconsidering Village Boundary and Territoriality from Rural History to Contemporary City
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) The New Urban System in China: Administrative Divisions and City-Town Relations in Chongqing
Co-author: De Hu – East China Normal University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) "City of Districts" as State Project: Contested Power Relations in Establishing Qijiang District in Chongqing
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Medical Emergencies and Epistemological Ruptures: Epidemics and Their Cultural Legacies in China in the 20th and 21st Century
Organizer: Victoria O. Lupascu – University of Montreal
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) Understandings of Place and Underclasses: Shaping Actual and Imagined Transmission of HIV in China
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) The State-Sponsored Epidemic: AIDS Narrated by a Chinese Novelist
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) Narrating Infectious Diseases: Story-telling in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) Networked Ruptures During the SARS Epidemic in China: Negotiating the Maoist Cultural Legacy in an Emergency
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Negotiating Ethnicity and Gender on Imperial Frontiers: A Multidisciplinary Lens on Intersectionalities in Tang China
Organizer: Baoli Yang – Brown University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) A Herstory at the Frontier: Wang Zhaojun in the Dunhuang Prosimetric Text and the Han Chinese Isomorphism of Family and State
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) Under the Shadow of Patriarchy: Reassessing Dunhuang Female Associations (Nürenshe)
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) Man Men: Nanzhao Masculinities in the Stele of Transforming Virtue and Illustrated History
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) The Animal-riding Lute Players: A Lens on Gender, Ethnicity, and "Us vs. Them" in Tang Art and Texts
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Revisiting the Revolution: Engaging Chinese Scholarship through Collaborative Translations
Organizer: Timothy C. Cheek – University of British Columbia
Organizer: Nathan Gan – University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

The Six Dynasties–Tang Transition
Organizer: Lucas R. Bender – Yale University
Organizer: Xiaojing Miao – University of Colorado, Boulder
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) Wen and Dao in the Early Tang
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) Days Gone By: Showing Selves in Early Tang Autobiographical Shi-Poetry
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) Negotiating Truthfulness: Liu Zhiji and New Historical Consciousness in the Early Tang
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) Evolution, Classicism, and Practicality: Reflections on the Early Tang State
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Cities of Nomads in Premodern Northeast Asia
Organizer: Naomi Standen – University of Birmingham
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Urban Life in Liao, on the Eve of the Jurchen Conquest
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) A Tale of Two Cities in Mongolia – Mongol Period Karakorum and Khar Khul Khaany Balgas
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Urban Centers and Concepts of Space in the Early Empires of Inner Asia
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) The Local and Regional Context of Eurasian Cities: Forms, Fabrics and Hinterlands
Co-author: Naomi Standen – University of Birmingham
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Creating the Past: Memory, Writing and Nostalgia in Medieval China
Organizer: Qiulei Hu – City University of New York
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) The Power of Nostalgia: Memory, Identity and Authority in the Shishuo xinyu
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Approaches to the Past in Poems on History in Early Medieval China
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) What Makes a Memory: Reflections on the Commemoration of Liu Zongyuan
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) Nostalgic Writing after the Fall of the Tang Dynasty: A Case Study of Han Wo’s (c.a. 842-923) Xianglian ji
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Local Realities of the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy in China
Organizer: Anna S. Hauser – China Business and Economics, University of Wuerzburg
Organizer: Doris Fischer – China Business and Economics, University of Wuerzburg
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) The Role of Local Communities in China's Photovoltaic Poverty Alleviation Programme
Co-author: Doris Fischer – China Business and Economics, University of Wuerzburg
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) The False Promise of Poverty Reduction Through Investment-led Growth: A Study of Guizhou province
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Authoritarian Consolidation: Managing First Party Secretaries (diyi shuji) in the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy
Co-author: Daohong Xiong – Academy of CCP Party History and Literature
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) Why Similar Counties Experience Different Poverty Outcomes: Bureaucratic integration, Policy Process and Poverty Reduction
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Race, Racialization, and Antiracism II: Theorizing Blackness in Asian Studies
Organizer: Neelima Jeychandran – Pennsylvania State University
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Reexamining the Literary Left in Taiwan
Organizer: Christopher Lupke – University of Alberta
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Bifurcation of The Masses: Marx Boy and Engels Girl in Liu Na'ou's Short Story "Flux"
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Yang Kui’s Leftist Practice in Postwar Taiwan: Inheritance or Rapture?
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) The Commodification of Imagination and its Utopian Transcendence in Chen Yingzhen’s Narratives of Corporate Culture
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Tracing Faith, Making History: Materializing Transnational Christianities in Modern China and Taiwan
Organizer: Joseph W. Ho – Albion College
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Oppositional Art: Chinese Christian Propaganda Posters
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Crafting Voices in a Chinese Village: Faith and Privacy in Early Twentieth-Century Manchuria
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Reframing Community: Photographic Imaginations of Christian Diaspora in Cold War China and Taiwan
China and Inner Asia
Thursday, Mar 25
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) A "Foreign Religion" on Display: Exhibiting Christian History in Chinese Museums
Co-author: Marina Xiaojing Wang – VID Specialized University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

After the Heavenly Qaghans: Multi-ethnic Approaches to the Tang-Song Transition
Organizer: Soojung Han – Princeton University
Organizer: Shao-yun Yang – Denison University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) The Making of the Shatuo: Military Leadership and Border Unrest in North China (808-880)
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) A Brotherhood Sharing All Under Heaven: The Diplomatic Dynamics between the Five Dynasties and Liao
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) The Political Legacy of Wu in the Tenth-Century Southern Kingdoms
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) Unauthorized Exchanges: Restrictions on Foreign Trade and Intermarriage in the Tang and Northern Song Empires
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Ecological Civilization and Its Discontents: China and Environmental Challenges in Global Asia
Organizer: Joseph S. Alter – University of Pittsburgh
Organizer: Ruth Mostern – University of Pittsburgh
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

New Approaches in China India Studies: China and India in the Age of Decolonization: Analyzing the Nehru Papers, 1947-1964
Organizer: Gal Gvili – McGill University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Building Inter-Asia New Age Networks: Oneness University and Chinese Spiritual Tourism to India
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

From Fertility to Identity: Women’s Participation in Medicine Buddha Worship in Tang China
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

New Topics in Religious Studies: China and Inner Asia
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Some Buddhist and Taoist Paintings from Persian Albums : Guanyin, Lohan, Hai-ch’an and Tieguai
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

The Individual and the Universal: Blind Faith as a Protest Against the Violence of Modernity
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Art for the New Masses: Social Engagement, and the Aesthetics of Identity in Post-socialist China
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Great-Leap Forwarding the Great Leap Forward: The Institutional Change of the Propaganda Machines in Socialist China (1957-1960)
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Revisited Histories and Remodeled Operas: The Many Lives of the Eight Model Works
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Serve the Tourists, Serve the People: From Revolutionary Diplomacy to Mass-market Tourism
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Serving the People with Art and Propaganda in Socialist and Post-Socialist China
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

Taiwan in the World: Subnational and Supranational Perspectives
Organizer: Sara A. Newland – Smith College
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(1) The Viral Connection: The COVID-19 Pandemic, Taiwan, and the World Health Organization
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(2) Paradiplomacy as a Response to International Isolation: The Case of Taiwan
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(3) Taiwanese People's Cold War: Diaspora Groups, Transnational Advocacy Networks, and the Struggle to Redefine US-Taiwan Relations, 1977-1987
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
8:30am – 10:00am EDT

(4) Mobilizing Friendship: Social networks, overseas Taiwanese activism, and the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Breaking the Sound Barrier: Examining China's Sonic Cultures Across the 1949 Divide
Organizer: Dayton Lekner – University of British Columbia
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) Tinker, Tuner, Amateur, Spy? Radio Hobbyists in Republican China
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) Reverberations of Collaborative Violence: The Harmonica Society in Japanese-Occupied China
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) Socialist Hot Noise: The Sound and Fury of Maoist Campaigns
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) One China – Two Speakers: Hearing Yourself and Your Enemy in Cold War China.
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Communities at Work: Reappraisals of Local Autonomy in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Organizer: Sarah X. Yu – University of Pennsylvania
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) From Righteous Burial Ground (yizhong) to Public Property (gongchan): Conflicts over Collective Cemeteries in Late Qing Shanghai
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) Town (zhen) or Township (xiang)?: Merchants, Commercial Tax, and Local Self-Government in Late Qing Jiangnan
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) Shanxi's "Story of the Plague": Global-Local Collaborations for Provincial Public Health, 1917-1928
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) Sanctioned Violence and Local Power: Private Gun Ownership in Early Republican Guangdong
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

Law, Justice, Society at the Margins of Asian States
Organizer: Tri Phuong – Yale University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) Dangerous Play: Sensors, Censors, and the Poetics of Subversion in Postwar Vietnam
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) China and Transnational Labor Law under State Capitalism 4.0
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) Mr. Pan Versus the Tsar: How a Manchurian Peasant Made (up) Asian International Law, 1908-1921
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) Dissolution of Article 370: A New Beginning of Settler Colonialism in Kashmir
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

New Perspectives on the Wang Jingwei
Organizer: Jeremy E. Taylor – University of Nottingham
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(1) Democracy through Collaboration? Constitutional Mirage and Party Hegemony in the Wang Jingwei Regime
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(2) Beyond "Enslavement": Education under the Wang Jingwei regime
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(3) Speaking of the Ambivalent: Zhou Zuoren -- A doggerel poet in occupied Beiping
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

(4) "Cleansing the Countryside": Rural Pacification as Cultural Project in Wang Jingwei's China, 1941-1944
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT

The 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill protests and the Past, Present, and Future of Hong Kong
Organizer: Gina A. Tam – Trinity University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Chinese Domestic Life between State Ideologies and Family Strategies, 1800-1985
Organizer: Yue Du – Cornell University
Organizer: Yanjie Huang – Columbia University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Matches Made in Consultation with Heaven: Legal Uses of Divination Records in Qing Marriage Cases
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) “Unlimited Debt to Father and Mother:” Engendering State-Sponsored Generational Hierarchies in Late Imperial China
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Landlords, Model Workers, and Matchmakers: Family and Marriage Reform in 1950s Chinese Films
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) From Communism to Family Comfort: Negotiating Family Reunion in Shanghai, 1977-1985
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Edit Cooperative Prospects: A Scholar-Librarian Dialogue on Contemporary Chinese Village Data (CCVD) and Beyond
Organizer: Haihui Zhang – University of Pittsburgh
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Politics, Historiography, and Cultural Memory – the Production of Knowledge and the Re-writing of History in the Early Chinese Empire
Organizer: Lisa Indraccolo – University of Zurich
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Cultural Memory, a Black Box Explanatory Model?
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Norms of Historical Representation in Yantielun
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Imagining Beginnings in Shiji (Records of the Historian)
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) The Civil and the Martial - Reconceptualizing Rulership and Kingly Virtue in Early Chinese Historical Narratives
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

The Business of Chinese Science: Global Engagement and Nationalist Imaginaries
Organizer: Abigail Coplin – Vassar College
Organizer: Covell F. Meyskens – Naval Postgraduate School
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Symbiotic Imbroglios: State-Firm Alliances in China’s Biotechnology Industry
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) Coca-Cola Science and the Dangers of “Business as Usual”
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) Beijing Jeep, Tsingtao Beer: Market Exploration, Technology Transfer, and the Re-making of US-China Economic Relations in the 1980s
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) The High-tech Dreams and Hybrid Realities of the Butterfly Tail: Genetics and Production of Goldfish Varieties in China since the 1980s
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Toward a Contestation? The Rise of China and Global Economic Governance
Organizer: Muyang Chen – Peking University
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(1) Infrastructure Finance, Late Development, and China's Reshaping of International Credit Governance
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(2) The Rise of Sino-Capitalism and Ideational Change in the Global Political Economy
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(3) The China Paradox: What Trade Rules for a (Developing) Economic Powerhouse?
China and Inner Asia
Friday, Mar 26
3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

(4) Liberal Institutions in Illiberal Regimes
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

“One Opera, Two Nationalisms”: Negotiating Hong Kong Identity and Chinese Nationalism in Cantonese Opera
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Affective Foundations: The Emergence of the Western Zhou Dynasty in Ancient China
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Boarding Singleness: Women’s Hostels in Shanghai (1932–1941)
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

(De)constructing A Revolution: Infrastructural Construction and Speculation in Mao's China
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Central European Refugee Diasporas in Republican China: The Shanghai Hungarian Relief Fund And The Roots Of The Jewish Refugee Assistance (1924-1940)
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Collaborating for Grand Peace: Farmers and Water Governance in Early Modern Jiangnan (1653-1821)
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Confronting the Past: Rewriting Chinese History through Confucian and Legalist Conflicts in Mao’s China, 1973 – 1976
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Constructing Wu Topolect as the Language of Female Courtesans and the Entertainment World in Shanghai
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Controlling Public Dissent Through Media Coverage on Administrative Lawsuits in China
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Cultivating Kin and Kind in the Chinese Food Movement
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Does the Suo Dan Laozi Look Older Than It Is?
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Flood Victims, Self-Aid Production, and the Transformation of Disaster-Stricken Society in Early Communist China
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

From Cyberpunk to Cramped Dweller: The Peculiar History of Hong Kong ‘Heterotopias’
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

How Taiwan Lost Africa and What the Future Holds for the Last Standing Alliance
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

“Improvised Intimacy”: Female Sex Workers (xiaojie) in Post-Socialist China
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Law, Gender, and Public Opinions of a Post-World War Ⅱ Conundrum: “Resistance-war Wives” in Court and in Newspapers
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Literature in #MeToo Movement: Literary Violence and Agency in Fang Si-chi’s First Love Paradise
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Meaning through Omission: The Impact of David Pollard’s Translation Choices on Zhang Ailing’s "The Religion of the Chinese People"
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Normalizing Renyao in the Late Ming: Forty-three Images of Human-Derived Medicines and Their Challenge to Prevailing Medical Ethics
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

On the (Mis)Use of Criticality in the Production and Reception of China’s “Experimental Architecture”
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Public Secrecy: The Qing Emperor’s Deceptive Art
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Purified Strokes: The Influence of Calligraphy on Huang Binhong’s Landscape Paintings
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Recasting Red Scientists: Intellectual-themed Reportage in Post-Mao China
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Reconstructing the Visual Reality of Dunhuang with Photography: The James and Lucy Lo’s Archive and its Afterlife in Taiwan in the 1950s-1960s
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

The Feeling of Ling (the Numinous): Human-Animal Relations in Three Stories from Sinophone Literature
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

The Manchu Voices: A Linguistic Method on Zidishu's Authorship Attribution
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

The Queering of the Master-Disciple Relationship in Chinese Martial Arts Narratives
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

The Weak Gangster and His Deadly Moll: Taiwan Gangster Films of the 1980s and 1990s
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Thinking Taiwanese, Speaking Japanese: Plurilingualism and Taiwan’s 20th century nontranslation history
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Time Travel in Contemporary Chinese Fiction: Chuanyue vs. Time Machine Stories
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

To Win the Super-Rich Over: How Does the CCP Incorporate Its Private Business Elites?
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Using the Past to Plan the Future: Historical Repetition and Erasure in Shanghai’s Master Plans
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

When the Black Meets East: Women's Jobs and Local Female Workers' Experiences in a Chinese Mine in Papua New Guinea
China and Inner Asia
On-Demand

Wives at Men’s Parties: Gender Ethics and Expressions of Closeness
China and Inner Asia