Abstracts of the 1999 AAS Annual
Meeting
March 11-14, 1999, Boston, MA
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CHINA & INNER ASIA
- How to Do Things with Poetry: Poetic Praxis
in Tang Anecdotal Narratives, Graham Sanders
- On the Paradox of "Hermetic
Display" in Ninth-Century Erotic Verse, Robert Ashmore
- Chen Zi’ang’s Gan yu:
Questions on the Formation of a Poetic Genre, Tim Wai-keung Chan
- History of an Obsession: Li Bai and Yellow
Crane Tower, Wei Shang
- Barbarians at the Gates? The Tang Frontier
Military and the An Lushan Rebellion, Jonathan K. Skaff
- Whose Dynasty Is It Anyway? The Northern
Song Military Aristocracy and the Royal Family, Peter Lorge
- Civil-Military Coordination in the Bozhou
Campaign of the Wanli Era, Kenneth M. Swope
- To Nourish a Strong Military—On
Kangxi’s Innovative Treatment of His Military Officials, Yingcong Dai
- Hongloumeng and the Nameless Empire, Tina
Lu
- Hongloumeng as Open Fiction: For an Open
Paradigm of Redology, Ming Dong Gu
- The Visual World of The Story of the
Stone, Dore J. Levy
- The Echo of Stones, Liangyan Ge
- The Impossibility of the Given: A Look at
Chinese Buddhist Donor Inscriptions of the 6th–8th Centuries, Wendi Leigh Adamek
- The Journey Remembered, the Self
Reconstructed, Sarah E. Fraser
- Recollections of Performance, Karin Myhre
- Who Keeps the Center?: The Meaning of the
Guodian Laozi Parallels, Harold D. Roth
- Benevolence Rightly Understood, Mark
Csikszentmihalyi
- The Emergence of Cosmological Thought in the
Fourth Century B.C., Michael Puett
- Mencius as Philospher of History, David
S. Nivison
- Pilgrimage to City: "Amateur
Peasants" and Rural Identity in Contemporary China, Liping Wang
- Rural Taste, Urban Fashions: Cultural
Politics of Rural/Urban Difference, Lei Guang
- The New Rural-Urban Divide and Pitfalls for
the Chinese Economy, Qunjian Tian
- Crossing the Rural/Urban Boundary: Peasant
Migration as Resistance, Dongxiao Liu
- Submission and Subversion: Global Economy,
Family, and Women’s Struggle in the Taiwan Context, Anru Lee
- Wives, Mothers, and Workers: Women’s
Lives in the Dalian Economic Zone, Nancy Riley
- The Woman Without a Daughter-in-Law: A New
Balance of Power Within Rural Chinese Families?, Ellen Oxfeld
- Non-musical Information in Chinese and
Korean Musical Documents, Robert C. Provine
- From Folk Music to Art Music: The Many Faces
of the Solo Dizi Tradition, Frederick Lau
- Cultural Negotiation in the Televised
Musical Shows Celebrating the 1997 Reunion of Hong Kong and China, Siu-wah Yu
- Hearing History: Ethnic Interactions in
Musical Performance, Helen Rees
- Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial
Policies in China: A Sectoral Analysis of State Intervention, Szuchien Yau
- Internationalization and Domestic Politics:
The Case of Financial Reform in Transitional China, Yifeng Tao
- International Linkages and China’s
Environmental Policy, Szu-chien Hsu
- Local Institutions and Foreign Capital:
Regional Variations in Chinese Rural Reforms, Chih-Jou Jay Chen
- Something Old, Something New, Something
Borrowed, Something Blue: The Marriage of Flavors in Duan Chengshi’s Youyang zazu,
Carrie E. Reed
- The Cultural Uses of the Ming Erotic
Novella, Richard G. Wang
- A Garden of Cleverness and a Box of Swords:
Qian Xiyan’s World in wenyan xiaoshuo, Rania Huntington
- A Tale and its Tellers: The Case of the
Stolen Silver, Allan Barr
- Wife-Selling Contracts in Qing China: The
Customary Enforcement of Illegal Transactions, Matthew H. Sommer
- Village Custom and the Regulation of
Property Rights in Qing Manchuria, Christopher M. Isett
- The Narrative Construction of Testimony in
Qing Legal Case Records, Yasuhiko Karasawa
- Between Corruption and Statute: Informal
Administrative Practice in Late Qing Sichuan, Bradly W. Reed
- The Impact of Traditional Chinese Thinking
on Chengguan’s Philosphy, Imre Hamar
- Sinicization Out of China: The Case of the
Western Liao (Qara Khitai) 1132–1211, Michal Biran
- The Traveler as Host: Chinese Cultural
Imperialism in The Three-Treasure Eunuch’s Travels to the Western Ocean, Dongfeng
Xu
- A Fly Crushed Between Stallions: Uyghur
History on the Margins of Empire, Nathan Light
- In the Name of God: Taiping Hostility to the
Imperial Title, Tom Reilly
- Chen Lifu’s Vitalism: A Guomindang
Vision of Modernity circa 1934, Terry D. Bodenhorn
- The Bifurcated Nation: Guomindang Use of
Agitation and Accomodation Against Missionary Education During the Mid-1920s, Michael
G. Murdock
- Science as a Nation-Building Building Block:
Guomindang Approaches to Science and Modernization, 1927–1980, Jacqueline Megan
Greene
- Propagating the National Trust: Image and
Ideology in Chinese Paper Money, 1935–1949, Beth Notar
- Wheels and Deals: The Political Economy of
China’s Automobile Industry, Walter Arnold
- Whither China’s Special Economic Areas?
A Political Economic Perspective, Pang-kwong Li
- Interdependence or Dependence: The Political
Economy of Sino-South Korean Economic Relations, Hieyeon Keum
- Growing Pains, Growing Ties: The Development
of Economic Relations Between China and the Newly-Independent States of Central Asia, Bakhtior
Islamov
- Cultural Dimensions of Comparative Poetics, Eugene
Eoyang
- Looking Backward: Reception of Edward
Bellamy’s Utopian Vision in the Chinese Context, James Chang-fang Chen
- Limits of Translation and Their Cultural
Implications: The Case of Translating Classical Chinese Poetry into English, Cecile
Chu-Chin Sun
- Commercialism and Nationalism: Chinese
Cinema’s First Wave of Entertainment Films, Ying Zhu
- Rumor, Legend, Fiction, History: The Story
of Lu Siniang, Assassin of the Yongzheng-Emperor, Roland Altenburger
- Women’s Yue Opera and the Culture of
Republican Shanghai, Jin Jiang
- The Making and Unmaking of the Leftist Woman
in Chinese Cinema, Vivian Shen
- Keeping Desire in Order: Qing and Yu in Two
Eighteenth-Century Chinese Erotic Novels, Martin W. Huang
- A Fantasy of Perfect Order and Success: The
Case of Ruyijun zhuan, Hua Laura Wu
- Wild Justice? Revenge in Literature and the
Law in Late Imperial China, C. D. Alison Bailey
- Signifying Bodies: Self-Inscriptions and the
Female Embodiment of Violence, Grace S. Fong
- Body Matters: Appearance, Virtue, and Career
in Medieval China (200–900), Yang Lu
- Why Were the Sages so Ugly?, Pingyi Zhu
- Deep Eyes and High Noses: Physiognomy and
the Depiction of "Barbarians" in Tang China (618–907), Marc Abramson
- On the Textuality of Sacred Sites in Early
Modern China: A Case Study of the Palace of Eternal Joy, Paul Katz
- "She" Altars and Local Cults:
Official and Popular Religious Organization in Fujian, Michael Szonyi
- Shaping One’s Place: Ji’an
Inscriptions and Images of Local Community, Anne T. Gerritsen
- Putting Perfection in Place: Projections of
Golden Elixir Alchemy in Society from Song to Ming Times, Lowell Skar
- Lured into Tao Qian’s Villages:
Representations of Farm Life in the Works of Tao Qian, Pauline Lin
- Yanzi Jian: A Comparative Study of
Its Drama Version and Its Novel Version, Jianyu Zhou
- Conscience (liangxin) and Love (qing):
A New Interpretation of Tang Xianzu’s Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting), Yu-Yin
Cheng
- Lyric Complex in the Early Qing
Scholar-Beauty Romance, Chi Xiao
- Rules to Bank On: Coercion, Negotiation and
the Decline of Guanxi: Relations Between Tianjin Bankers and Warlord Government in
Republican China, Brett G. Sheehan
- The Supreme Court of Peking (Daliyuan) and
the New Rules of the Game, Mary Buck
- International Organizations and Normative
Institutions: The Case of the Chinese Red Cross, Caroline Reeves
- Contract Labor in pre-1949 China: The
Changing Role of the gongtou in the Textile Industry, Elisabeth Koll
- The baogongtou: A Productive or Destructive
Element in Today’s Chinese Labor Markets?, Leila Fernandez-Stembridge
- Chinese Urban Labor Markets in the 1990s:
How Much Do Labor Contracts Matter?, Rebecca Matthews
- The Melancholic Urban Subject: Chen
Ran’s Private Life, Robin Visser
- Nostalgia and Urban Displacement: Questions
of Cultural Identity in Zhu Tianxin’s Ancient Capital, Lingchei Letty Chen
- Loss in The Floating Life, David
L. Eng
- Trends in College Student Demographics and
China’s Social Transition, Vilma Seeberg
- Comparing Mass Public and Political Elite
Subjective Orientations in Urban China, Jie Chen
- The Rewriting of Local History: From Class
Exploitation to Entrepreneur Endeavor, Feng Xu
- The China Market and the U.S. Trade Deficit:
An Historical Overview, Xin-Zhu J. Chen
- One Voice among Many: The New China Lobby
and Sino-U.S. Relations in the 1990s, Jing Zhong
- Miraculous Birth in the Han Texts, Zongli
Lu
- Chinese Myth in the Early Empire, William
G. Boltz
- Competing Myths: The First Emperor’s
Ritual Self-Representation and Early Han Counter-Narratives, Martin Kern
- Textualization in Han Times, Michael
Nylan
- Mapping Authority: Politics, Territory, and
Frontier Administration in Early Song Guangxi, Ruth Mostern
- The Poetry of Diplomacy: Viet Assertions of
Autonomy in a Yue Cultural Discourse, James A. Anderson
- Geography is Not Destiny: Historical
Contingency and the Making of Lingnan, Robert B. Marks
- In Praise of Yue: "Localist"
Poetry Exercises at the Xuehaitang and the Literary Agenda of Ruan Yuan, Steven B.
Miles
- Dissent in Disguise: The Politics of Film
Culture in Occupied Shanghai, Poshek Fu
- Autonomous or Not? Historian and Official in
Pre-Cultural Revolution Public Space, Mary G. Mazur
- Authenticity Within a Constrained Public
Space: Published Writings about Art and Life by Feng Zikai Prior to the Cultural
Revolution, Shelley Drake Hawks
- The Political Logic of Urban Cooperative
Finance, Kaja Sehrt
- Reform, Competition, and TVE Financing by
China’s Rural Financial Institutions, Minggao Shen
- Financing and the Growth of Township and
Village Enterprises in China, Carsten Holz
- Private Entrepreneurs and Informal Finance
in China, Kellee S. Tsai
- Local Popular Culture and Revolution in the
Chongqing Region: 1900–1920s, Danke Li
- Why Baihua became Guoyu: The
Struggles for the Chinese National Language on the Eve of May Fourth, Boris P. Morosoli
- The Conflict between Mao Zedong and the
"28 Bolsheviks", Thomas Kampen
- Struggle for Survival: Sino-Japanese War
Fought in a Local Arena, Zouping, 1937–45, Zhijia Shen
- A Gendered Window on the Social History of
Medicine in Yuan China: The Case of Yuan Jue, Reiko Shinno
- Flowery Rhymes and Medical Prescriptions: Gu
Dehua and Upper-Class Female Healers in Qing China, Yi-Li Wu
- Medicine, Law and Propriety in the Forensic
Examination of Women in 18th-Century China, Janet M. Theiss
- Invoking a Woman’s Identity: Naming
Practices in Tang China, Ping Yao
- Ancestral Portraits in Northern Song China, Helga
Stahl
- Buddhist Laywomen and Their Eulogists in the
Sung Dynasty, Mark Halperin
- Re-dating Tang Hou’s Biography
(1260s–mid 1310s) and His Huajian (Critical Notes on Paintings and Painters), Yeongchau
Chou
- The Politics of Female Virtue: The Case of
the Neixun, Mayumi Yoshida
- Mass Marketing Medicine in China Before
1949, Sherman G. Cochran
- Regulating Drugs in China in the 1990s: The
Struggle for Authority over the Medical Market, Gail E. Henderson
- Marketing Prozac in China and Other Tales of
Consumption, Nancy N. Chen
- Old Formula in New Bottles: Marketing
Nutritional Drinks and Infant Formula in a Beijing Hospital, Suzanne K. Gottschang
- A Whore is Born: The Transgenderal Odyssey
of a Courtesan-To-Be, Paola Zamperini
- Passing as Dai-Lue: Han Prostitutes and the
Performance of Ethnicity in Contemporary Jinghong, Sandra Hyde
- Engendering China: Prostitution, Taxation,
and the State in Republican Guangdong, Elizabeth Remick
- Private Entrepreneurs and Political Change
in China, Bruce Dickson
- Seeking Justice through Formal Channels in
Rural China, Leslyn Hall
- Grassroots Democratization and Political
Efficacy in China, Melanie Manion
- Explaining Change in Chinese History and the
Expectations of Social Theory, R. Bin Wong
- Modernization Theory, Public Sphere Debate,
and the Western Dilemma in Studying China, Xin Zhang
- Trends in Contemporary Chinese
Historiography: Reconstructing the Past and Challenging Conventional Wisdom, Joseph
Fewsmith
- Opium Suppression and Ethnic Minorities in
Southwest China: 1950s and 1990s, Yongming Zhou
- The Yi of Liangshan: From "Independent
Lolos" to "Liberated Slaves", Peng Wenbin
- Nushu: An Endangered System of Women’s
Writing in Hunan, China, Orie Endo
- "Rely on the Meaning!" Localized
Conceptions of Knowledge and Authority in the PRC’s Tibetan Language Textbooks, Janet
L. Upton
- Sacred Turf: Temples, Transcendence, and
Territoriality in Trans-Urban Taiwan, Avron A. Boretz
- Commercialization and Law Enforcement in a
Late Ming Northern Community, Yonglin Jiang
- Scholars in the Marketplace: Temptations and
Misgivings, Jie Zhao
- Commercialization and Consumption in Ming
Jiangnan, Ming-Te Pan
- Selling Reading to Late-Ming Audiences, Kathryn
Lowry
- Chu Hsi and Buddhism, Julia Ching
- The Interpenetration of Stillness and
Activity in Chu Hsi’s Appropriation of Chou Tun-i, Joseph Adler
- Zhu Xi and the Spirits, Hoyt Cleveland
Tillman
- Chu Hsi as Fung-shui Master: The
Secret History of Neo-Confucianism, Ron-Guey Chu
- What Price History? Chinese Oracle Bone
Research, 1899–1928, Shana J. Brown
- Digging Up China: Nationalism, Politics and
the Yinxu Excavation, 1928–1937, Guolong Lai
- The Science of the Folk: Negotiating
Representations of Sexuality and Science in Folklore Studies, 1918–1929, Ann
Pedone
- Military Atrocities and Public Opinion in
Warlord China, Edward A. McCord
- The Phenomenon of Collaboration: Wartime
Relations between Gongxian Citizens and Their Japanese Occupiers, Odoric Y. K. Wou
- Civil-Military Relations in the Post-Deng
Era, James Mulvenon
- Women in China’s Changing Military
Ethic, Susan M. Rigdon
- Learning on the Job: China in a
Regionalizing/Globalizing World Economy, Thomas G. Moore
- Supping with a Long Spoon: Dependence and
Interdependence in Sino-U.S. Relations, Phillip Saunders
- China’s Thirst for Oil: Energy Security
and Interdependence, Erica Strecker Downs
- China’s Changing Attitude Toward
International Non-Proliferation Regimes, Roger Cliff
- Controlled "Freedom of
Expression": The Rise and Fall of the Red Guard Newspapers, Yuan Zhou
- Contradictory Images from Diverse Sources:
The Role of Zhou Enlai in the Cultural Revolution, Yong Yi Song
- Organizations of the "Old" Red
Guard and Their Relations to the Top Leadership: The Case of the "West City District
Picket" and "United Action Committee", Hongbiao Yin
- The Wuxing Pian and the Confucian Road to
Virtuosity, Scott Cook
- The Oldest Chinese Water Cosmogony: The
Bamboo-Slip Manuscript Taiyi Sheng Shui (Taiyi Generates Water), Donald
Harper
- On Softness and Hardness in the Mawangdui Yi
zhi yi, Bent Nielsen
- Divination Songs and the Text of the Yi
jing, David Schaberg
- Robert M. Harwell’s Chinese Medieval
Studies Software, Peter Bol
- Underworld of Han: A GIS Approach, I-chun
Fan
- Mapping Chinese Sacred Sites: On the
Integration of Different Material Types, Thomas Hahn
- Not Following a Leader: The Uyghur
Separatist Movement in International Context, Hui King Fai
- Globalization and Xinjiang Separatism, Thomas
Kostrzewa
- The Not-So-silent Majority: Everyday
Resistance among the Uyghurs, Gardner Bovingdon
- Economic Reform and Erosion of the Budget in
China: What is Left of the Budgeting Process at the Ministry of Finance, Christine P.
W. Wong
- Fiscal Autonomy and Local Initiatives:
Unequal Capacity Across Levels of Government in China, Loraine West
- All in the Family: Intra-governmental
Conflicts over Off-Budget Revenues, Susan Whiting
- National Development and Individual Trauma:
"Wushan Yunyu" (Wu Mountain Clouds and Rain), Nick Kaldis
- The River Runs Dry: Negotiating Water
Scarcity and Systemic Reforms
- in the Yellow River Basin, Eric Zusman
- Reform, State, and Healthcare Provision in
Rural China, Yanzhong Huang
- The Mixed Blessings of Filial Sons:
China’s Rural Elders, Eric Miller
- Praying Together: Practicing Catholicism in
Postsocialist Rural China, Eriberto P. Lozada Jr
- The Image of the Heavenly King in Chinese
Tombs and Temples, Janet Baker
- Bezeklik and Early Esoteric Buddhism, Denise
Patry Leidy
- The Religious-Funerary Complex at Beiting, Nancy
Shatzman Steinhardt
- The Humble Challenger: "Peach Blossom
Spring" Poets in the Tang and Song Dynasties, Minru Li
- Daemonizing Li Bo: Li He’s
Counter-Sublime, Mark Francis
- Rhyme, Reason, and Revival: Ouyang
Xiu’s Witty Appropriation of Han Yu, Colin Hawes
- The Anxiety of Influence and the Problem of Zhi:
Fantastic Lyricism in Yueweicaotang biji, Sing-chen Lydia Francis
- Trading with the Gold Mountain:
Jinshanzhuang and Networks of Kinship and Native Place, 1848–1949, Madeline Hsu
- Currents of Education and Identity: Overseas
Chinese and Minnan Schools, 1912–1937, James A. Cook
- Southeast Asia in a Greater Chinese Sporting
Community, 1920–1948, Andrew Morris
- Selective Memory and the Chinese Cultural
Revolution (1966–1976), Youqin Wang
- Memory, Forgetting, and New Cultural
Conservatism, Ben Xu
- Sentimental Nationalism: Its Uses and Abuses
and Mnemonic Disquiet, Toming Jun Liu
- The Wound of Memory, Historical Amnesia, and
the Carnivalization of the Cultural Revolution, Jian Guo
- Telecommunications in Shanghai:
Contributions of Communications Technology to Economic and Community Growth, Eric
Harwit
- Creating Contenders: State and Entrepreneurs
in China’s Globalizing Information Technology Sector, Kathleen Hartford
- Internet Development in China: Economic and
Technological Imperatives vs. Political and Social Caution, Alex Zixiang Tan
- Envisioning the Emergence of Pastoralism and
Nomadism in the Mongolian Altay: Scenes from a Distant Past, Esther Jacobson
- The Mongol Fragments of Qaraqota in St.
Petersburg, Gyorgy Kara
- Two Sino-Tibetan Royal Marriages in Sayan
Sechen’s Chronicle, Yuan-Chu Ruby Lam
- Mongolia’s Twentieth Century of
Revolution, Alicia Campi
- Do or Die: Filial Piety and the Law, Anne
Behnke Kinney
- Creeping Absolutism: Parental Authority as
Seen in Tales of Filial Sons, Keith Nathaniel Knapp
- The Demon Child, Mark Edward Lewis
- Modernity Without Reform: Painting at the
Chinese Court, 1796–1911, Claudia Brown
- Patronage and the Beginning of a Modern Art
World in Late Qing Shanghai, Kuiyi Shen
- The Ambiguous Origins of Modern Consumer
Patronage: Publishers and Readers in Late 19th & Early 20th Century China, Christopher
A. Reed
- Strange Sights and Happenings Along the Road
in Xing shi yinyuan zhuan, Maggie Chiang
- Geographies of Success and Failure in Li
Luyuan’s (1707–90) Qilu deng, Daniel M. Youd
- Tying Up Loose Ends: The Reconfiguration of
the Moral Order in Jie Shuihu zhuan, Stephen J. Roddy
- Mapping the Structure of the
Nineteenth-Century Urban Novel, Alexander Des Forges
- Calendar Girls: The Chinese Adverstising
Poster, 1914–1939, Martha E. Huang
- Refashioning Suzhou: Dress as a Marker of
Local and National Civilization in Republican Suzhou, Peter J. Carroll
- Dressing for the Party: Model Workers,
Clothing, and Socialist Modernity in Mao’s China, Tina Mai Chen
- The Myth of Suzie Wong: Chinese Fashion in
the Western Mind, Patricia Mears
- Xinjiang: Internal Colonialism or Ethnic
Regional Autonomy?, Barry Sautman
- Xinjiang and the Chinese State, Felix
Chang
- From an "Imperial Model" to a New
"Assimilationist Model" of Colonization in Xinjiang: New Patterns and Mediums of
Xinjiang’s Integration by the Centre, Nicholas Becquelin
- Xinjiang Han Identity and Ethnic
Integration, Ren Hong
- The "New Drama" Before the New
Drama: Chinese Drama Reform Before the May Fourth Movement, Dietrich Tschanz
- On the Reform of Xiqu (Traditional
Chinese Theater) in the 1950s, Mei Sun
- Chinese Street Opera and the Concept of
Culture in Singapore, Tong Soon Lee
- Contemporary "Reform" at the
Shanghai Jingju Company, Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak
- Etienne Fourmont (1683–1745): The
Chinese Language, "The Painting of Sounds and the Language for the Eyes", Cecile
Leung
- The First Grammars of the Chinese Language:
Early Notions of Chinese in the Context of Missionary Studies and Modern Linguistics, Sandra
Breitenbach
- Encounters with Chinese: The Western
Missionary and Cantonese Grammar, Stephen Matthews
- Public Speaking in Meiji Japan: Early
Perceptions of Western Rhetoric through the Journal Yuben, Massimiliano Tomasi
- Gentrifying Exorcism: Popular Wuchang
Symbolism in Late Imperial Huizhou, Qitao Guo
- Did Shaolin Monks Imitate Lu Da?: Buddhist
Staff-Fighting Methods in Fiction and Practice During the Late Imperial Period, Meir
Shahar
- A Sojourner’s Play-Watching Journal:
Reconstructing Opera Performance and Audience Taste in Beijing, 1770–1820, Andrea
S. Goldman
- From Personal to Public: Genre and Audience
of Nushu Texts, Cathy Silber
- Fighting for the Nation, Fighting Against
the Nation: Literary and Cinematic Representation of Sport in Post-Mao China, Huazhi
Wang
- Locating Violence in Chinese Society: From
Lu Xun to Yu Hua, James Keefer
- Cinematic Historiography: Mapping the
Feminine Space in Hong Kong Cinema in the 80s and 90s, Vivian Lee
- Publicizing Private Life: Representation of
Female Sexuality in Women’s Autobiographical Novels, Shuyu Kong
- Risk Taking and Profit Making: The
Jen-chi-ho Insurance Company, Chi-Kong Lai
- Networking, Representation, and Marketing:
The Jiuda-Yongli Conglomerate in Business, 1914–1937, Man Bun Kwan
- Risk and Uncertainty in Modern Banking: The
Bank of Communication in Republican China, Po-yin Chung
- Multiple Nationality as a Means for Early
Twentieth-Century Overseas Chinese Merchants’ Risk Taking, Man-houng Lin
- Text as Space: The Reworking of Sexuality
into Textuality in The Autobiography of Lu Yin, Jing Wang
- The Bare Truth: Nudes, Sex, and the
Modernization Project in Shanghai Pictorials, Carrie Waara
- "Wanting Art? Wanting Love?":
Rhetorics of Romance in Occupied Shanghai’s Film Fan Press, Shelley Stephenson
- Selling Sexuality: Profits and Politics in
Women’s Magazines in Republican China, Ling Xiao
- Chinese Americans and U.S.-China Relations:
Domestic Politics and Transnational Projects, Peter Koehn
- Chinese Americans in Philanthropy and
Foundations: The Image and the Reality, John Deeney
- Chinese Americans in Mass Media, James Lu
- Chinese/American?: The Misreception of Pearl
S. Buck and Lin Yutang, Suoqiao Qian
- "Before the Empty Eon" vs. "A
Dog has No Buddha-Nature": Competition and Fission in Sung Dynasty Ch’an, Morten
Schlutter
- The Structure and Function of Kung-an
Language, T. Griffith Foulk
- Giving Voice to the Silent Transmission: The
Politics of Ch’an as a "Special Transmission Outside the Teaching", Albert
F. Welter
- Vision, Division, Revision: The Encounter
between Iconoclasm and Supernaturalism in Kung-an Cases about Mt. Wu-t’ai, Steven
Heine
- Audible and Visible Body in Ancient China, Jane
Geaney
- The Meaning of Forms: The Contingency of
Human Appearance in Qing Physiognomics, Hajime Nakatani
- Palpability, Visibility, and the Revaluation
of Bodily Capacity in Ming-Qing China, Angela Zito
- When Words Lost Their Referents: Scientizing
Chinese Medicine in Early Twentieth-Century China, Sean Hsiang-lin Lei
- Hsueh-tou Ch’ung-hsien (980–1052)
and the Use of Poetry in Ch’an Literature, Ding-hwa E. Hsieh
- Wine and Women in the Song: Poetry and
Identity in Song Dynasty China, Beverly Bossler
- The Significance of Shihua in Song Dynasty
Poetics, Ronald C. Egan
- Why is Mei Yao-ch’en (1002–1060) a
Sung Poet?, Hyong Gyu Rhew
- Empire and Eros in Hongli ji (The
Red Pear Blossom), George R. Krompacky Jr
- Cheap Rhymes for Troubled Times: Kong
Shangren’s Tao hua shan, Sophie Volpp
- From Systematic Treatise to Hybrid Text: Xianqing
ouji (1671) and the Undoing of Chinese Drama Theory, Patricia A. Sieber
- Wang Guowei and the Construction of Modern
Drama Studies, Yuming He
- Taking the "Heat" Out of a
Problem: Remembering Traumatic Experiences in 20th Century Chinese History, Susanne
Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
- "Sun Yat-Sen’s
Dream—China’s Reality": Creating a New Historical Memory for China, Margherita
Zanasi
- Bridging the Gap: Attempts at Constructing a
"New" Historical-Cultural Identity in the PRC, Axel Schneider
- Qingchun Wansui and Its Ironies: Youth,
Gender, and Chinese Films of the 1950s–60s, Zhong Xueping
- Call Me Qingnian but Not Funu: Gender
Implications of the Construction of Maoist Youth, Wang Zheng
- Contesting Sites: Social Construction of
Youth in the 1990s, Wang Lihua
- The Rhythm of the City: Folk Poetry and
Public Life in Late-Qing Chengdu, Di Wang
- Teaching and Learning in Public: Girls’
Schools in Late Qing Beijing, Wei-kun Cheng
- Zhang Yimou: Making a National/Chinese Art
International, S. Louisa Wei
- Image and Word: Zhang Yimou’s
Indebtedness to Chinese Literature, Hua-Yuan L. Mowry
- Screen Versus Text: Filmic Transformations, Qing-Yun
Wu
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