Panels by World Area

Border Crossing & Interearea | South Asia | Southeast Asia | Japan | Korea | China & Inner Asia

The AAS Program Committee has prepared the following list of panels and roundtables for the 2012 Annual Conference in Toronto. Titles may change slightly, however the hourly schedule will remain constant.

Participants registerd by December 1, 2011 (students participants registered by November 18, 2011) will be listed in the printed Conference Program.

Full panel details with paper titles will appear in the Official Conference Program Book Panel schedule details and abstracts will be posted online in February 2012.

* Panels 279 and 283 have been reassigned to Saturday at
8:00am and 10:15am respectively (see full program schedule).

1. Patterns of Trans-Asian Integration: Diasporas and Hegemonies in Maritime Eurasia from the 13th to the 19th Centuries
2. Re-Examining the Singapore Developmental State: Historical, Theoretical, and Comparative Perspectives. Sponsored by the Malaysia, Singapore Brunei Studies Group
3. Prostitution Regulation in China, Vietnam, and Japan: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Power in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
4. Body, Gender, and the Making of (Trans)national Identity in the Pacific Rim
5. The Construction of Religions Between China and Japan, 1860s - 1930s
6. Smuggling and State Formation in East Asia Since the Late Ming
7. Writings on Modern Design Histories for the Global World: Issues and Perspectives from Modern Design Histories in East Asia
8. Towns on the Border: Monocultural and Transcultural Factors in Constructing Urban Spaces in Harbin and Vladivostok
9. Time and Transnational Asians: Temporal and Spatial Dimensions of Community Making
10. New Voices in Asian Studies: Selected Graduate Student Papers from AAS Regional Conferences. Sponsored by the the Council of Conferences (COC)
11. Literatures of Human Rights in Asia and Asian Diaspora
12 Individual Papers: Social Media
13. Individual Papers: Cultural Images & National Symbols
29. Education for Sustainable Development Across India, China, Japan: Are Competitive Schooling and Environmental Education Compatible?
30. Contested Spaces: Women, Religion, and Agency in South and Southeast Asia. Sponsored by the Indonesia and East Timor Stuides Committee (IETSC)
31. Children in Wartime East Asia, 1931-1945
32. Movement, Life Course, and Temporalities: Migrant Lives Across Time and Space
33. Sociological Processes and Regional Community Formation Incorporating South Korea. Sponsored by Korea Economic Institute
34. Gender Theory and Modern East Asian History
35. Representing Faith for Empire: Rethinking the Relationship Between Religion, Nationalism, and Imperialism in Modern Japan
36. The Release and Rehabilitation of Japanese b/c War Criminals, 1951-1958
57. Security Challenges and the Changing Balance on the Korean Peninsula. Sponsored by Korea Economic Institute
58. Tagore, Okuma Shigenobu, and Chen Duxiu: Some Ironies in Asian Claims for National Identity in the Early Twentieth Century
59. Wielding Weapons of the Strong in the Japanese Empire and Aftermath
60. Visualizing East Asian Consumption
61. A Chinese Reformer in Exile: Kang Youwei and the Baohuanghui as Transnational Chinese History
62. Gendered Flows: Transnational and Inter-Imperial Circuits of Exchange in Activist Women's Writings of the Early Twentieth-Century
63. Translation, Transmedia, and Transcultural Migration of Anime and Manga from Japan: Intersections Between Culture and Cultural Commodities Across Borders and Media
64. Individual Papers: Family Relationships in Asia
65. Individual Papers: Economic Development Issues
84. Colonialism and the Negotiation of Cultural Identities: Music in Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong
85. The Transmission, Translation, and Transformation of Islam – An Asian Dialogue
86. Perspectives and Issues of Multiculturalism in Northeast Asia
87. The Visual Politics of Asia: Lens-Based Images in the Modern World
88. JAS at AAS: Sexuality and the State in Asia. Sponsored by the Journal of Asian Studies
89. Rights, Sovereignty, and Contestations of Political Modernity in South and Southeast Asia: Political Theory in Action
90. The Margins at the Center: Ethnohistorical Perspectives on Livelihoods and Agency in Zomia
91. Agricultural Sciences in Modern East Asia
92. Religion and Concepts of Health in Asia
93. Between Town and Country: Re-Thinking the Rural-Urban Divide in the Histories of China and Southeast Asia
94. "Early Modern" East Asia: A Defense
113. On Writing Literary History Across Asia
115. Handmade Futures: Design, Labor, and Identity in Asian Craftwork
116. “Change or Die”: Immigrants, Foreigners and the Future of Human Capital Development and International Relations in the Japanese Political Economy
117. The Korean Chinese Diaspora and Its Homeland(s)
118. World War II and War Crimes in the Pacific Region: Law, History, and Diplomacy
119. Democracy in Eastern Asia
120. Water, Colonialism, and Modernity in Asia
142. The Secular in the Sacred: Imagining the Japanese Emperor in Japan and Colonial Korea
143. In/Secure Intimacies: Inter-Asian Migrations in the Shadow of the State
145. Simas: Discourses, Practices, Histories
146. Brothers-in-Arms or Pragmatic Partners? Sino-Cambodian Interactions, Past and Present, and Broader Applications for the Rest of the World. Sponsored by the Thailand-Laos-Cambodia Studies Group
147. Alternative Spaces and Livelihoods: Japan, China, and Taiwan
148. The University in the 21st Century: Vision and Challenges
149. (Re)Framing “Asia: Literary and Visual Images of “Asia” Produced in Modern East Asia and the West
168. Shamanism, Divination, and the State: Spiritual Practices and the Political Economies of Post-Socialist Mongolia, Colonial Korea, and Contemporary South Korea
169. Local Engagement in the Politics of Sustainable Development: Five Case Studies
170. On Being “Normal”: Gender, Health, and the Politics of Care in Early Twentieth-Century Japan and Korea
171. Representations of Avalokiteshvara Across Asia and Genres
172. Science, Technology, Medicine, and Public Health in East Asia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
173. Asianizing a Wary Russia: The Upside Down World of Labor Migration from Central Asia and China
174. Engaging Pacific War Memories: The New Face of War Narratives in the United States, Japan, Korea, and Australia
197. Constituting the Feminine in Asian Photographies
198. A New Look on Japanese Migrant and Immigrant Lives in the Pacific World
199. Big Empires, Small Empires: Commercial Networks and Socio-Economic Structures of Polities in Early Modern Northeast and Southeast Asia
200. People Disappeared out of the “Record” on the Modern Road of Japan and Korea
201. The Arts of Death in Asia
202. A Look at Canine-Human Relationships in East Asia: Past, Present, and Future
203. Institutional Voids in Asian Development
204. Individual Papers: Literature
224. Presidential Panel: The Persistence of the Peasant
226. Rupture and Continuity: NE Asia, Technological Ambition, and Challenging the 1945 Divide
227. Global Science, Technology, and Medicine in Wartime East Asia
228. Political Change in 2010-12 and Regional Cooperation Centered on the Korean Peninsula. Sponsored by the Korea Economic Institute
229. Japan and its Neighbors: Contemporary and Transnational Memorial Perspectives
230. Chinese in Cambodia, 1962-2012: A Panel in Honor of William Willmott. Sponsored by the Thai, Laos Cambodia Committee
231. The Institution of Modern “Literature” in East Asian Societies
232. Certifying Asian Food: International Expectations, Domestic Priorities, Nationalist Discourses
253. A Voyage into Memory: East Asian Remembrances of the Two World Wars
254. The Han Empire at the Periphery and Beyond: Perspectives from Archaeology and History
255. Religious Identity, Nationalism, and Conflict
256. Trade and Political Violence in the Yunnan-Burma Borderlands
257. Climate Change, Toxic Spills, and Eco-Cities: Japanese and American Responses to Environmental Crisis. Sponsored by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership
258. Conquering the World: Asia in World History and Other “World” Courses. Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching about Asia
259. Beriberi: Kakke and Jiaoqi, Conceptualizations of One Disease in Two Countries
279. From the Mind of Ravana to the Neighborhood Ramlila: Ramayana as a Transnational Language of Politics
280. Business as Usual!? War and Economic Modernity in East Asia, 1937-1952
281. Refiguring the Buddha in Tibet
282. Reading Between the (Color) Lines: Translation, Traveling Texts, and African American-Japanese Cultural Exchange
283. The Global in Local: Diasporic Chinese Professionals and Community Building
284. Space Matters: Spatial Practices In Times Of Crises Across Asia
299. Militarized Ecologies of East Asia
301. Migration and Multiculturalism: Political and Cultural Belongings of Asian Migrants
302. Nontraditional Security Issues in Asia
303. Sermons Within the Theravadin Tradition: Tai and Sinhalese Perspectives
304. Nuclear Energy After Fukushima: Japan, China, and India
305. Expanding Empires in East Asia as an Educational Intersection
306. Modernity and Its Discontents: Representations of Madness and Mental Illness in Asia
307 Individual Papers: Translation
326. Comparative Studies on Family Planning in Late Twentieth-Century Asia: Politics of Reproductive Health and Rights
327. Reassessing Buddhism and State in Pre-Modern East Asia: New Approaches
328. Cultural Consumption and Commodification in Asian Contexts
329. Human Trafficking and Gendered Mobilities in the Japanese and French Empires in East Asia
330. Power and Influence in Medieval Eastern Eurasia: Patron-Client Bonds
331. Practices and Development of Critical Qualitative Research in East Asia
332. “Travel” of People and Texts in East Asia and Beyond
333. Empire and Science Fiction in Asia
334. Solidarity and Trespasses: Cultural Formations of Cold War Cosmopolitanism in East Asia
335. Alternate Ethnographies: Historical-Anthropological Perspectives on ‘Civilizing Missions’ in Asian Contexts
336. NGOs and State Interactions Across Asia: Establishing Legitimacy and Securing Resources
337. Asian Responses to Climate Change: Comparing Debates and Protagonists
338. Individual Papers: Religion
354. Locating Citizenship: Analyzing Asian Practice in Light of the “Spatial Turn”
355. Jesuits in Asia: New Historical Perspectives
356. An Ascendant China and Its Environs – Assessing Cross-Regional Variations in Chinese Influence
357. Kingship, Flaming Triangles, Envoys, and Buddhist Deva Guardians on the Silk Road
358. Education and Intangible Heritage: Transmission and Reception in East Asia
359. Cultural and Linguistic Translations: Chinese, Tibetan, and Japanese
360. Reconstruction of Intimate and Public Spheres in Asia: Circumstantial Nexuses of People with Child Birth and Child Care in Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam
361. Sino-Japanese Intellectual Interactions in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Sponsored by the Sino-Japanese Studies Committee

37. And the Telling of Tales: History and Cultural Memory in Pakistan. Sponsored by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies
38. ‘Superheroes’ and Statism: Imaginings of Everyday State in South Asia
39. Indo-Persian Power: Practice and Dynamics in the Mughal Empire
66. Festivals and Folklore: Legacy, Locality, and Identity in Eastern Bhutan
67. The Child, the Nation, and Citizenship in Colonial India
68. Sacred Biography and the Legitimization of Religious Identity
95. Aligning International Education with U.S. and the World: U.S. Bilateral Comprehensive Partnerships with India and
Indonesia. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education
96. Poets, Princes, and Holy Men in 16th-17th c. Lahore: Perspectives on a Mughal Ecumene
97. The Power of Transformation and Transformative Power: Geography and Ideology in South Asia
121. South Indian Art and Literature in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: New Centers of Power, New Sites of Production, New Horizons of Possibility
122. Margin Speaks: Intersections of Caste, Gender, and Nation in South Asian Life Narratives
123. Enacted Space: New Meanings from Built Environments in Transforming Cities
150. Coomaraswamy Prize Panel: Reading F.B. Flood's Objects of Translation. Sponsored by the AAS South Asia Council (SAC)
151. Weddings and Worldviews: Marriage in 21st-Century South Asia
152. Shaping the City from 'Below': Identity, Labor, and the Remaking of Cities
175. Comparative Histories of Feminist Art in India and China
176. Problematising Time and Text: Devotionalism, Polemics, Poetry, and Historiography in South Asian Islamic Literary Traditions
205. Ethical Self-Fashioning and the Politics of Religious Modernity in India
206. Brothering, Othering, and Managing: South Asian Articulations and Practices of Race from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
207. The Politics of Social Rights in Contemporary Indian Democracy
233. Crossroads or Limits? Recognition, Camouflage, and Friendship as Articulations of the Border in South Asia
234. Women, Religion, and the "Modern" in South Asia
260. A "New" Intellectual History for South Asia: Debating History, Politics, and Method. Sponsored by the South Asia Council (SAC)
261. Crime, Culture, Conduct, and Conjugality: Gender and the Politics of Adjudication in Family and Criminal Laws in India
285. Individual Papers: Models of Rural Development in Kerela
308. The Everyday in Eighteenth-Century Hindustan
309. Circulation, the State, and Labor in and Beyond South Asia, 1800 to the Present
310. Individual Papers: Militant Movements & State Politics: Afghanistan
339 . Individual Papers: Borderlands, Citizenship & History: Bangladesh, India & Pakistan
363. The Security State in Colonial/Postcolonial India
364 Individual Papers: Reimagining the past in Post Colonial Present

14. Leading ‘Beyond Translation’: A.L. Becker and the Interpretation of Southeast Asian Literature and Performance. Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Council (SEAC)
15. Decline, Golden Age, or Transition? Medical, Literary and Political Aspects of the Tu Duc Era (1847-1883). Sponsored by the Vietnam Studies Group
40. Cham, Chinese, and Islamic Influences on the Cultural History of South-Central Vietnam
41. Making Sense of Physical Culture: Sport, Ritual, and Identity in Mainland Southeast Asia
50. Reflection on Foreign Contacts with Siam: Studies of Temple Murals
69. Press Landscape and Intellectual Production in the Republic of Vietnam, 1955-1975
70. The Unretractability of State Violence in Thailand: Past, Present, and Future
98. Environment, Livelihoods, and Development in Southeast Asia
99. Democracy and Society in Southeast Asia
124. Understanding Vietnamese Politics: Fresh Approaches and Issues from the Field
125. Islam and Sexuality in Southeast Asia
153. Indonesian Politics by Other Means: The Distribution and Manipulation of Power Outside Elections. Sponsored by the Indonesia and East Timor Studies Committee
154. Individual Papers: Power & Politics in Southeast Asia
178. Performance, Popular Culture, and Piety in Southeast Asia. Sponsored by the Indonesia and East Timor Studies Committee
179. Political Parties and Party System Institutionalization in Indonesia
196. Vote-Buying, Money Politics, and Clientelism in Southeast Asia
208. Narratives of Reconciliation: The Vietnamese Case
235. Appraising Recent Developments in Myanmar
236. In the Line of Fire:Civilian Experiences of Violence During the Indochina War (1945-75)
262. Ambiguous Avant-Gardes: Southeast Asian Artists at the Forefront of Modernity. Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Council (SEAC)
263. Ideologies of Development in Southeast Asia in the 21st Century
286. Filipino Bodies; Philippine Masculinities: Public Performance of pagkalalake Masculinity
287. Religious Freedom and Intolerance in Indonesia. Sponsored by Indonesia and East Timor Studies Committee
300. Agrarian Change and its Discontents: 20 Years After Vietnam’s 1993 Land Law
311. Power Downloaded: Social Media and Democratic Politics in Southeast Asia
340. New Interpretations of Collaboration and Resistance in South Vietnam: Exploring Fresh Evidence on Nation-Building dDuring the Vietnam Crisis, 1950-1975
341. Aphrodisiacs and Metaphors: Food and Sexuality in Southeast Asia. Sponsored by COTSEAL
366. Reconsidering Violence: The Engagement, Disengagement, and Reintegration of Militants in Indonesia

16. The Earthquake Tsunami Meltdown and Japan’s Future: An interdisciplinary roundtable discussion of post-3.11 Japan
17. Chinese Learning and Japanese Power: Rationalism, Knowledge and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan.
18. Visual/Textual Appropriation and Trans-Creation in Early Modern Kusazoshi
19. Japan and the United States in South and Central Asia: Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of a Rising China
42. Kyoto's Modern Revolution
43. Translation and Cross-Cultural Literary Production in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
44. Japan's International Risk Management: Dealing with Non-Traditional Security Threats
45. Political Power and the Relationship Between Gods and Buddhas in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Japan
46. Japanese Music, Japanese Sound, Japanese Noise
71. Women’s Bodies and the Nation in 1930s-40s Japanese Narratives
72. In the Wake of the Tsunami: Perspectives on Religious Responses to the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
73. Murayama Statement: Its Contemporary and Future Implication for the Reconciliation in Asia
74. Culture and Time: The Art of Historical Imagination in the 17th-Century Kyoto Renaissance
100. Ethnographies of “New” Grassroots Racism and Xenophobia in Japan
101. Old Capital, New City: Art and Design in Twentieth-Century Kyoto
102. The Spaces of Democracy in Postwar Japan
103 Individual Papers: Legal, Culinary & National Environment in Japan
112. Innovation or Immobilism? Japan’s Political Economy One Year After the Earthquake
126. The Meaning of Health: The Spread of Discourses on Life and Well-Being in Early 20th-Century Japan
127. Performing Feminist Cultural Politics in Japan from the 1970s to the Present
128. Japan’s Development Visions and Projects in Asia from the Imperial to Post-War Era
155. “It’s Not a Religion”: Negotiating Religiosity in Modern Japan
156. Consumption and Economic Development in Modern Japan
157. Post-Earthquake Ethics and Methodologies: The Impact of Environmental Crises on Japanese Studies
158. "Tokyo Boogie Woogie" Crosses the Pacific
180. Temporality and Constructions of the Self in East Asia
181. The Movement of People and ‘Japan’ - Mobility, Migration, and Place
182. No Ideas But in Things: Material Culture as Common Ground in Contemporary Japanese Cultural Studies
183. Roundtable: Archiving Disaster in the Digital Age: Japan Since March 11
209. The Romance of Japanese Manhood: Traces of the Old Manly Man in the “New” Japanese Masculinity
210. Women in Noh
211. Geographies of Childhood: Japanese Negotiations of Global Children's Culture
212 Individual Papers: Conflict in and Around Japan
225. The Politics of Information Governance in Japan, the Asia-Pacific, and Beyond
237. Coherent Connections in Japanese Language Education: The J-GAP Multi-Country Articulation Project
238. Being and Becoming Middle Class in Modern Japan
239. Print, Poetry, and Prestige: Kanshibun and Media in Nineteenth-Century Japan
240. Narrating the Past in Premodern Japan: The Flexibility of the Yuisho (Historical Genealogy) and the Rewriting of the Past 264. The DPJ: Assessing the First Two Years in Theory and Practice
265. Atoms for Peace and War: The Role of Science and Scientists in Japan’s Nuclear Past
266. Loss and Recovery in/and Modern Japanese Literature
267. Rethinking the Kyoto School in Relation to Capitalist Modernity
268. Cultural Politics of Taiwan Daily News Published in Japanese in Taiwan Under Japanese Rule
288. Creative Industries and Cultural Action in Japan
289. Rethinking Political Theory in Postwar Japan: The Legacy of Heterodox Marxism
290. Nature's Laboratory: Science, Technology, and Environmental Resources in Japanese Manchuria
291. New Perspectives on Heian Culture
312. Reconsidering Liberalism in Wartime Japan
313. Problematizing the Funny Business of Rakugo: Discourse, Gender, and Identity in Tokyo and Osaka
314. Marginality and Eccentricity in Meiji Japan
315. Capturing Contemporary Japan
342. Post-Occupation Culture in 1950s Japan
343. Out of the Rubble: Resilience and Recovery After Disaster
344. "Post-Bubble" Contemporary Art in Japan: Toward an Art History of the 1990s and After
345. Researching Early Modern and Modern History of Japan with Shashi (Company Histories)
367. New Approaches to Sex Work in Modern Japan
368. Tradition in the Service of Modern Identities in Japanese Pre-War Literature
369. Reactions and Protests from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Comparing Media and Cultural Perspectives of Japan and the World
370. Readers and Visuality: Literary and Artistic Modes in 19th- and 20th-Century Japan
371. The Politics of Japanese National Symbols

20. Traditional Families and Domesticated Women in Korea’s Modernization
21. Seoul I -- Transforming the City: Governmentality, Urban Planning and Social Movements. Sponsored by the Committee on Korean Studies
47. Individual Papers: National Symbols Through Post-War Korea
48. Seoul II -- City Montage in Art, Architecture, and Moving Images. Sponsored by the Committee on Korean Studies
75. Other Images of North Korea: Realism, Indexicality, Spectatorship. Sponsored by Northeast Asia Council
76. Law and Society in Late Chosôn Korea: Rereading Korean Case Literature
104. Fresh Archaeological Insights into the Ancient Korean Past
129. TPP or ASEAN+3: Alternative Plans for Asian Regionalism and Free Trade Pacts. Sponsored by Korea Economic Institute
130. The Narrative Dialectic of Origin and Dissemination: Multifaceted Expressions of North Korean Culture Policy
140. The Aging Tiger: Retirement Policies in Korea
159. Revisiting Colonial Modernity in Korea: Gender, Image, Body
184. Beyond Death: The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korean History
185. South Korean Social Movements and Civil Society
213. Transforming from Within: Rethinking the Qing China–Choson Korea Relationship, 1610s–1890s
214. Snapshots of a Korean Past: Capturing Time and Space in Monuments, Memorials, and Museums
241. Envisioning a Multicultural Korea: History, Institution, Practice, and Cultural Imagination
242. Individual Papers” Bodies & History
269. Meanings and Practices of the Body in Contemporary South Korea
270. Korean Studies in Japan Today: Sociology, Political Science, and North Korean Studies
292. The Politics of Emotion in Choson Korea
293. Everyday Life in North Korea: Socialism and Mass Utopia. Sponsored by the University of Toronto, The Centre for the Study of Korea
316. The Historical Landscape of North Korea Through Cultural History. Sponsored by The Centre for the Study of Korea, University of Toronto
317. Executive-Legislative-Voter Relations Under Regionalism in South Korea
346. Between Artistic Imagination and Historical Truth: Cultural Representations of History in South and North Korea
347. Feminist Films in Post-Democratic Korea
372. North Korea: Religion, Diplomacy, and Political Actors
373. An Junggeun and Peace in the East: Past, Present, and Future

22. Foreign Bodies: Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China
23. Urbanization, Urbanism and Tibetan Civilization
24. Constructing Spatial Knowledge in Modern China: Geography, Law, and Literature
25. Chinese ‘Reform and Opening’ Part 2: Social Reform, 'Domestification' and Innovation, a View from the Bottom'
26. “Progress" Revisited: China in the 1950s
27. So How Bad Was It? Comparative Decadence of the Jiajing and Wanli Eras. Sponsored by the Society for Ming Studies
28. Wood to Stone and Beyond - Chinese Architecture Through the Materials Microscope
49. Trying Experiences: Empirical Claims, Practical Experiments, and Authenticating Knowledge in Modern China
51. The Courtroom of History: Truth, Justice, and Narrative in Modern China
52. What is a Socialist Legal System with Chinese Characteristics?
53. On Uncharted Paths: Commerce, Networks, and Moral Strategies in Early Modern China. Sponsored by the Society for Ming Studies
54. The Wisdom in the Memories of the Great Famine's Survivors: Oral History Testimonies on the Origins and Development of
the Great Leap Forward Famine in Rural China, with Special Reference to Narratives of Survival and Devastation in Anhui Province
55. Seeing Through Chinese Costume and Textiles
56. New Poetic Voices in an Old Tradition: Classical Chinese Poetry at the Turn of the Age (The 19th Century to the Early Republican China)
77. A Quarter Century of Fieldwork in Tibet: A Panel in Honor of Melvyn Goldstein. Sponsored by China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC)
78. Innovations and Diversification in China's Local Environmental Politics
79. Seeing is (Dis)believing: Visuality, Truth Claims, and Representation in Modern China
80. Domination, Accommodation, and Conflict: Reconsidering the Narrative of Semi-Colonialism in Modern China. Sponsored by the Historical Society for Twentieth Century China
81. Treasure Hunt: New Primary Sources and New Scholarship on Chinese Catholicism in Modern Chinese History
82. Place, Memory, and Visuality in Chinese Painting
83. Ritual Anomalies: New Perspectives of Death Ritual in Imperial China
105. Dong nan xi bei: Chinese Cultural Production and Its Transnational Contexts
106. Ethnicity and State Power in China’s Western Borderlands: The Early People's Republic
107. Generations of Wild Grass: Lu Xun's Ye Cao and Contemporary Chinese Literature
108. The Indigenization of Higher Education in Republican China’s Christian Colleges
109. New Perspectives on Language in Relation to Religious Experience in Chan’s Gongan Discourse
110. Men in Mourning: Bereavement, Memory, and Gender in Late Imperial. Sponsored by the Society for Ming Studies
111. Individual Papers: Cultural Revolutions
131. The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Performing Politics in (Post) Cold War China
132. Workforce: Representations of Labour
133. Transforming the Canon: The Reconstruction of Modern Chinese Literature
134. Contesting Marginality: Visions of Nationhood, Modernity, and Sexuality in the Literature and Films of Republican China
135. Muslim Elites in Republican China: Modernity and Identity. Sponsored by the China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC)
136. The Many Lives Of a New Canon: Performance Genres, Print Culture, and Social Reproduction in Qing China
137. Self-Censorship in Women’s Writing
138. Edges of the Mongol-Yuan World: Situating the Yuan Dynasty in New Spatial and Temporal Contexts
139. Word and Image--Medieval Art of China
160. Beyond Chineseness: Space, Identity, and Politics in the 'Margins'
161. Dynamics of Evolving State-Society Relations in Contemporary China: Historical, Political, and Social Perspectives
162. What Worked and What Didn’t: Wartime Mobilization Across Social Strata
163. Memory, Narrative, Community: Reinventing the Past in Tibetan Art and Text
164. How to Flourish and Prosper: Geographic Mobility and Family Strategies in Pre-20th Century China
165. To and From Beijing: Mobile Painting in 18th-Century China
166. Contested Space: New Research on the Tombs of China's Ruling Elite
167. Reading Genres of Discontinuous Narratives: Fragments and the Literati Culture in Traditional Chinese Texts
186. Liberal Democratization in East Asia? Local and National Perspectives
187. The Urban Imaginary: A Space for Struggle, Status, and the Transformation of Chinese Migrant Workers
188. Editors as Cultural Producers in Republican China
189. Community, Genre, and Power in Web-Based Popular Chinese Fiction
190. Gender and Identity Among Uyghur Youth
191. The Teaching and Acquisition of Chinese Vocabulary and Characters – Discussions in a Modern Context. Sponsored by the Chinese Language Teachers Association
192. The Politics of China’s Expanding Role in Africa: International Implications, Domestic Dynamics, and Local Policy
193. Gender Paradigms Before and After the Scholarship of Susan Mann
194. Stage, Space, and Page in Early Modern China, 1100-1900
195. Individual Papers: The Marginalized Past of the 1940's -1950's China: Collaborators, Prisoners, Prostitutes and Soviet Movies
215. Mobility, Agency, and Interconnections in Rural China
216. Modern Media, Material Pasts: Photography and the 'Object of Culture' in Early 20th-Century China
217. The Nation-State and the Remaking of Urban Social Space
218. Representing Intercultural Transposition in Buddhist Mongolia
219. Methods of Writing History Before and After the Scholarship of Susan Mann
220. Spatial Studies of Chinese Religions and Society
221. The Origins and Nature of Militarized Societies in Early Medieval China
222. Rhetorics of Eroticism in Chinese Art and Literature, Song to Ming
223. Individual Papers: Ethnic Frontiers
243. From Marginality to Liminality: Culture, Geography, and Identity Formation in Taiwan
244. In the Market for a State: Economy and State-Building on the Chinese Peripheries
245. Production of Femininity in Chinese Contemporary Visual Arts: Presentation, Contestation, and Exploitation
246. Localism in Modern Chinese History: Sichuan in the Republican Era
247. Globalizing Media and Soft Power – The Case of China
248. New Applications of Regional Systems Analysis in Chinese History
249. Clash of Empires at the Margins: Late Qing State-Building and Imperialist Competition in the Southwest and Inner Asian Border Regions
250. Art and Agency of the Qianlong Court
251. Icons, Charts, and Talismanic Scripts: Text and Image in Daoist Visual Culture
252. Issues Facing At-Risk and Institutionalized Youth in Contemporary China
271. The Politics of Regulation in China’s Strategic Industries
272. Is Knowledge Power?: The Information Order in Late Imperial China
273. Governance, National Identities, and Economic Strategies of Post-Colonial Singapore and Macao
274. Suspect Loyalties: Negotiating Community and Nation in Wartime China
275. Making 'Minzu': Music, Dance, and the Multi-Ethnic Chinese Nation
276. Citizen Participation and Political Change in Contemporary China
277. Reconceptualizing Virtue and Beauty in Unconventional Genres: The Exemplary Women in Late Imperial and Early Republican China
278. Individual Papers: The Embodiment of Medieval Chinese Religions Traditions
294. How Can China Studies Contribute to the General Study of Society and Politics?
295. Flesh for Fantasy: Performing the Chinese Past in the Age of Digital Photography
296. Religion and the State in Modern China
297. Emperors and Ministers During the Ming – a Re-Evaluation of the Dynamics of Power in Late Imperial China
298. Seeing Double? Paired Imagery in Buddhist Art in China
318. Development with Tibetan Characteristics in Contemporary China
319. Revenue, Democratic Institutions, and Authoritarian Rule In China
320. Grassroots Governing Networks and Institutional Accountability in China
321. The YMCA in China as Transnational History
322. The Dis/Appearance of the Political Mass in Contemporary China
323. Gender and Transnationalism in China
324. Making Shanghai One's Own: The British, the Qing Loyalists, and the Communists
325. Revisiting the “Liberated Woman” -- Women’s Liberation in 20th-Century China
348. Rethinking the Mao Era from the Ground Up: Revisionist Approaches
349. China in World Politics and Global Governance
350. Domestic Politics and External Links in China’s Macao Transformed
351. Cries in the Wilderness: Green Cultural Production in Local Cross-Strait Contexts
352. Legal Knowledge, Popular Culture, and Politics of Judicial Reform and Continuity in Qing China, 1651-1911. Sponsored by the Society for Qing Studies
353. Classical Daoism and Ethics: A Critical Dialogue
374. China By Numbers: Quantification and Its Consequences
375. Transnational Flow & Hybridity: Contemporary Art, Design, and Home in Hong Kong
376. The Unfolding Dynamics of Identity, Education, and Heritage in Post-Colonial Macao
377. Reinventing Commercial Culture in China: from Late Qing to the Early People’s Republic
378. Chinese Buddhist Perspectives on Education: Transmission of Tradition and the Challenges of the Modernizing State
379. Resilient Authoritarianism Revisited
380. From Here to There: Destinations and Experiences of Chinese Migrants